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A43673 A sermon preached at the Cathedral Church of Worcester on the 29th of May, 1684 being the anniversary day of His Majesty's birth, and happy restauration / by George Hickes ... Hickes, George, 1642-1715. 1684 (1684) Wing H1867; ESTC R20005 24,972 46

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A SERMON Preached at the Cathedral Church OF WORCESTER On the 29th of May 1684. Being the ANNIVERSARY DAY OF HIS MAJESTY'S Birth and Happy Restauration By George Hickes D. D. Dean of Worcester and Chaplain in Ordinary to 〈◊〉 MAJESTY Published at the Joint and Earnest Request of the MAYOR and ALDERMEN of Worcester LONDON Printed by R. E. for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard and John Jones Bookseller in Worcester 1684. To the Right Worshipful FRANCIS HAINES Esq MAYOR And to the Worshipful the ALDERMEN Of the City of Worcester Gentlemen THE style of the Paper in which you sent me your joint and earnest Request to publish this Discourse was so respectful and obliging that I could not deny it without incurring the imputation of Rudeness especially seing it was the first Request of any Kind that you ever desired of me I need not tell the world how Loyal you are nor how Active some of you have been in Reforming this City the very Approving of this Sermon which all the Enemies of the Government will be sure to Condemn is a sufficient Testification that you are some of those Worthy Citizens who in the late distinguishing Times were too honest and too wise to be misled by those subtle and malicious Enemies of the Monarchy who are generally known by this Character that they are for the King against his Evil Counsellors and for the Protestant Religion against the Church I was very much pleased as well as surprized to find at my arrival on the Evening of the Anniversary Day of our most Gracious Soveraigns Birth and happy Return that this City now restored to its self had prepared to celebrate that Auspicious day in a most Solemn and Festival manner and I must bear you and your Loyal Citizens witness that I never saw more Conduct and Order in any Publick Procession more Gravity in any Publick Joy or more universal Temperance and Sobriety at any Publick Feasting among all Sorts of Persons exactly agreeable to that seasonable Exhortation with which I concluded this Sermon which now is no longer mine but Yours I am very sensible it deserves not half of that great Opinion which you have expressed of it and if it answer those Ends but in any tolerable and competent measure for which you desired me to make it publick especially among the People of this City to whom I am bound to have a particular regard I shall think my pains well spent and rejoyce that I was so happy as to testify in a way so serviceable to the Publick that I am Gentlemen Your most Affectionate and Faithful Friend and humble Servant George Hickes Psalm Psalm XIV v. 7. When the Lord bringeth back the Captivity of his People Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad The whole Verse runs thus O that the Salvation of Israel were come out of Sion when the Lord bringeth back c. THIS and the foregoing Psalm were composed by David in the Rebellion of Absalom when the People of Israel had Universally revolted from the Allegiance which they owed to him and the Duty which they owed to God In the first Verse he gives us an account of the Authors and Ring leaders of this general Apostacy and Rebellion They were it seems an Association of Impudent and Atheistical Men who tho' they durst not openly deny the God of Israel with their Mouths yet they denied his Being and Providence or at least doubted of them in their hearts The Fool hath said in his Heart there is no God meaning most likely the Fool Achitophel or perhaps the Raw and Younger Fool Absolom And then for those that were of their Party they are saith he corrupt they have done abominable works there is none that doth good And then in the third Verse to shew how the Generality of the Nation had in a manner lost all Sense of their Duty they are all saith he gone aside they are all together become filthy or putrid there is none that doth good no not one In the fourth Verse He expresses his astonishment at the stupidity and blindness of the Conspirators that they should go on without any Sense or remorse in their Atheistical Practices of Rebellion and be so unjust and irreligious Have all the workers of Iniquity no Knowledge who eat up my People as they eat Bread and call not upon the Lord. In the fifth Verse he tells us that the Generality of the People were moved with fear to joyn with them but that it was a causeless mistrust and fear for want of considering That God will protect Righteous men and Causes There were they in great fear He addeth in a Parallel place Psal 53.5 where no fear was for God is in the Generation of the Righteous i. e. they were in a great fear fearing men more than God who taketh part with the Righteous aginst the Wicked In the sixth Verse he shews how the Conspirators laughed at the small Loyal Party which preferring their Duty before their Interest and trusting in the Protection of Heaven adhered to the King You have shamed the Counsel of the Poor because the Lord is his Refuge i. e. you have mocked and jeered the Poor Despicable Loyal Party because they make the Lord their Refuge And then in the last Verse he expresseth a great and longing desire for that happy time when God who dwelt in Sion would arise and shew himself in the Deliverance of him and his People O that the Salvation or Saviour of Israel were come out of Sion When the Lord bringeth back the Captivity of his People Jacob shall or ought to rejoyce and Israel shall or ought to be glad According to this which is the most genuine Explication of the Psalm I may without the least Violence to the Sense of the Royal Psalmist make these three Observations upon my Text which will be suitable to the Solemnity of this day 1. That the People in a State of prevailing or successful Rebellion are in a State of Slavery and Captivity This Observation I ground upon that remarkable Expression the Captivity of his People 2. That a People cannot be brought out of such a State of Slavery and Captivity without the special Providence and Assistance of God As it is written when the LORD bringeth back the Captivity of his People 3. That it is the Duty of a People so brought back out of Captivity to render Praise and Thanksgivings unto God When the Lord bringeth back the Captivity of his People Jacob ought to rejoyce and Israel ought to be glad First that a People in a State of prevaling and Successful Rebellion are in a State of Slavery and Captivity for a State of Slavery and Captivity consists in being obnoxious to the will and pleasure of an Unlimited Absolute and Arbitrary Power such as was the Power of the Ancient Roman Emperors of whom as our Learned Lawyer Fortescue observes out of Justinians Institutions the Civil Law saith