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A25359 A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester the xxix of May MDCLXXXI, being Trinity Sunday, and the day of His Majesties happy birth and restauration by Henry Anderson ... Anderson, Henry, b. 1651 or 2. 1681 (1681) Wing A3093; ESTC R16092 19,305 35

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Secondly The Princes Prerogative whose Office is to Protect and Punish Rewards to Vertue and Merit as well as Punishment to Sin and Vice are dispensed A Terrour to evil doers saith the Text and a Praise to them that do well Therefore Honour the King Secondly As the Goodness of Heaven shines in the Preservation of our Royal Sovereign from the Usurpation of cruel Enemies at Home so likewise Divine Providence has guarded him from Foreign Attempts of unreasonabble Men Abroad and made the Plots and Conspiracies of these worse than Heathens of none Effect and deliver'd our King and our Princes our Nobles and the Heads of our Tribes the Governours of our Church and Judges of our Land nay the whole Commons of this Realm from a fearful Destruction that would have swallowed them up For when the Ax is laid to the Root of the Tree to cut off Sovereignty and destroy the Lord 's Anointed the rest of the People who are the Branches must expect lopping The restless Emissaries of the Church of Rome whe●her Priests Jesuits or Colledge of Cardinals give daily Proof of their inveterate Malice against the King the Government and Protestant Religion thinking that New Massacres are the most effectual course to stop the Cry of the Old and that the readiest way to silence their Adversaries is to make them Instances of the Truth of the Accusation If the Great God of Heaven who refrains the Spirits of Men that delight in Blood had not been gracious to our King and Kingdom you had not this Day been Auditors nor I Speaker of this Theme but all of us miserable Spectatours of the contrary And the Pope's Triple Crown would have been set with many Red-Roses of great Triumphs in Protestant Blood But Heaven hath preserved our Church from Ruin and Confusion from the spreadings and prevailings of Errours Heresies and Schisms Superstition and Idolatry which strive to oppress us and to eclipse the Truth and Purity of Doctrine which is our Churches Glory Lastly As Divine Providence and Goodness did this Day bring into the World our gracious Sovereign and hath hitherto preserv'd Him from all Enemies Domestick and Foreign So the same special Grace and Favour of God did this Day bring home and restore to us our King a Prince of so much Clemency and Mercy that He is inferiour to none that sways a Scepter or sits upon a Throne His Restauration was wonderful without any Effusion of Blood The Voice of War is changed into Proclamations of Peace the Clattering of Swords and Spears is turned into the sweet Melody of Harps and the harsh Tones of Death into a Psalm of Thanksgiving O Lord thou art become gracious unto thy Land and hast turn'd away the Captivity of Jacob Praise therefore waits on Thee in Zion and unto Thee shall the Vow be perform'd in Jerusalem We celebrate the Memory of this thy Mercy in restoring our King and with Him the free Profession of true Religion and Worship What doth God require now both from Prince and People but the Acknowledgment of his Favour He that will not glorifie God as the Father of Mercies in the Rigour of Justice God may glorifie Himself in his eternal Ruin If we prove not the Heralds of his Glory Examples shall we be of his Just Indignation All tasting Mercy all should be Thankful and though all have not Frankincense yet every one may have praise Te Deum laudamus we praise thee O God our Souls do magnifie the Lord. We praise God in his Sanctuary and in the Firmament of his Power for his mighty Acts and according to his excellent Greatness Praise him with the Sound of the Trumpet with Psaltery and Harp with stringed Instruments and Organs shew your selves joyful before the Lord the King Let every thing that hath Breath praise the Lord. Let us now direct our Prayers and Supplications to the Glorious and Eternal Trinity that all Blessings Divine and Human Spiritual and Temporal like the precious Ointment of Aaron's may be pour'd out on the Head of our Royal Sovereign Length of Days on his Right Hand on his Left Riches and Honour That his Reign may be Glorious and his Regal Virtues after this Life crowned with Immortal Glory And We with the Residue of God's holy Church may rise to that incomprehensible endless Felicity where the Blessings of the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity will gloriously shine upon our Souls for evermore Now unto the King Eternal Immortal Invisible and only Wise God be ascribed all Honour and Glory for ever and ever AMEN * Psal 1. 32. 14. * Psal 4 6. 1 Epist 5. Ch. 7. ver * Psal 90. 12. ‖ 2 Cor. 5. 1. * Mens deficit vox silet non mea tantùm sed Angelorum St. Ambrose * Ephes 1 4 5. * Vnitas divinitatis Person arum pluralitate multiplex St. Austin ‖ Psal 8. vers 3. * Joh. 16. ver 22. * Deut. 6. 4. 1 Cor. 8. 6. * 1 Chron. 16. 22. * 1 Kings 13. 33. * Judg. 5. 23. * Lam. 4. 20. * Judg. 17. 6. * 2 Cor. 10. 4. ‖ Rom. 1● 1 2. * Exod. 22. 28. ‖ Titus 3. 1. * 1 Pet. 2. 13. ‖ 1 Sam. 15. 23. * Prov. 8. 15. * Psal 93. 5. ‖ 1 Pet. 1. 15. * Rom. 6. 22. ‖ Rom. 12 19. * 1 Pet. 2. 14.