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God save the King A sermon preached in St. Pauls Church the 27th. of March 1639. Being the day of his Maiesties most happy inauguration, and of his northerne expedition. By Henry Valentine, D.D.
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Valentine, Henry, d. 1643.
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God save the King A SERMON PREACHED IN St. PAVLS CHVRCH the 27th of March 1639. BEING THE DAY OF HIS MAIESTIES MOST happy Inauguration and of His Northerne Expedition BY HENRY VALENTINE D.D. LONDON Printed by M. F. for JOHN MARRIOTT and are to be sold at his Shop in St. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-streete 1639. God save the King 1 SAM 10.24 And all the people shouted and said God save the King THe Text is verbum diei in die sue and a word spoken in due season is like apples of gold in pictures of silver This is the Kings Day and this is the Kings Text and I will use the words of a King for my Introduction My heart hath indited a good matter and I will speake of the things which I have made touching the King God make my tongue the pen of a ready writer and tune your tongues to the Duty of the Day and Ditty of the Text which is God save the King And all the people shouted and said God save the King The Text presents you with two faire pieces First the Acclamation of the people And all the people shouted and this I call Vox populi the Voice of the people Secondly the Apprecation of the people it was not Vox praeterea nihil voice and nothing else as we say of the Nightingale but as they shouted so they said something and what was it God save the King and this I call Votum populi the Vote of the people In the first of these three things are observable 1. The ground and occasion of their joy They had a King that was one and such a King as the like was not among the people that was another Both expressed in the beginning of the Verse 2. The greatnesse and vehemency of their joy They did not gaudere in sinu their breasts were too narrow to containe it but like Iordan in the time of Harvest it overflowes the bankes and breakes out at their lips so that heaven and earth rings and resounds with the ecchoes of it for they shouted 3. The generality and universality of their joy The young men did not shout and the old men weep as at the building of the second Temple but all the people shouted the Quire is full the joy universall In the second that is the Apprecation of the people two things are considerable 1. Their Faâ—… they prayed for the King For as he that prayeth not at all cannot be a good man so he that prayeth not for the King cannot be a good Subject 2. Their Forme of prayer God save the King For they knew that if God did not save their King their King could not save them out of the hands of their enemies These are the severall parts of the Text wherein at this time I shall exercise your patience and attention and first of the grounds and occasions of their joy They had a King and such a King as the like was not among all the people and hence their shouting and ovations And all the people shouted and said God save the King The first ground of their joy was that they had a King Governours they had Captaines they had Iudges they had but a King they had not till now and now they have him they rejoyce in him for they shouted Shouting is an expression of joy and joy is a passion and affection of the mind arifing from the sense and presence of some good And that Kings are to be ranked in this Predicament and inrolled in the number of Good Things is most manifest from that promise which God made unto Abraham I will sayes God make thee exceeding fruitfull Genes 17.6 I will make Nations of thee and Kings shall come out of thee In which promise you may observe as it were three degrees of Comparison First God promises that he should be a Father then that he should be a Father of Nations then a Father of Kings which is the superlative Blessing and the very Crowne and Crest of the Promise Againe God is good and so are all things that come from him now there is no power but of God sayes the Apostle and how is it of him not by way of permission but of commission not by way of Deficiency but of Efficiency not by way of sufferance Rom 13.1 but of ordinance for the powers that are are ordained of God and whosoever resisteth the power Inde illis potestas unde spiritus Tertul. Apol. 30 Cujus jussu nascuntur homines ejus jussu constituuntur Principes Iren. resisteth the Ordinance of God Thence have they their power from whence they have their spirit sayes Tertul. And he that made them men makes them Princes and that after the same manner sayes Irenaeus Hence is it that their Crowne is said to be Gods their Scepter Gods their Throne Gods their anointing Gods for he is the Master of the substance whosoever be the Master of the Ceremony I confesse that the children of Israel are charged by Samuel to have committed grande malum 1 Sam. 12.17 a great evill in asking a King and God attested it by thunder from heaven The truth is they did not aske malum a thing in its selfe and simply evill but they asked Bonum malè a good thing in an ill manner For they asked a King to the prejudice and apparent injurie of Father Samuel they asked him out of wantonnesse and pride of heart that they might be like unto other Nations and they were resolved to have a King whether God and his Prophet would or no. Vide Abulens in locum Et Latimers 5. Serm. before K. Edw. Nay say they but we will have a King Now if malum be ex quolibet defectu this must needs be grande malum that had so many defects in it though the thing they asked was Grande bonum a great blessing and a precious treasure as Latimer calls it and it will appeare by these particulars to be so 1. A King is Decus Israelis the Beauty and Ornament of Israel when Saul was slain 2 Sam. 1.19 David lamented over him with this Lamentation The Beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places For the King is the Fountain of Government Government of Order and Order of Beauty so that a King governing his people with good and just Lawes makes the Common-wealth a Naomi and the excellency of Beauty which otherwise would be but rudis indigestaque moles monstrum informe A masse of confusion and ugly and deformed Monster 2. A King is Lucerna Israelis the Light and Lamp of Israel 2 Sam. 21.17 David being rescued from a great danger the people swore that he should goe no more out with them to battle lest the Light of Israel should bee quenched The King by his Lawes as the Sun by his Beames dispels and scatters those deeds of Darknesse which otherwise would cover the face of the Common-wealth so that his subjects live in Goshen and have