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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28855	Gods goodnesse in crowning the King declared in a sermon in the church of Kingston upon Hull, on the happy day of the coronation of His Sacred Majesty Charls the Second, April the 23d, 1661 / by Edward Boteler ...	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing B3801; ESTC R19494	30,533	78

as if they could not embelish and set it out with terms significative enough Posuisti in capite ejus Coronam de lapide pretioso Thou settest a Crown of precious stones on his head so the Vulgar Latin And Bruno the Carthusian from Josephus tells us Cicero In Psal it was Corona cum Sardonyche in medio gemmarum A Crown that had a Sardonyx set in it in the midst of other Jewels The Sardonyx signifieth Zeal for the Faith and a readiness to die for it A stone that would stand well in the Diadem of this Realm as well becoming him who is Defender of the Faith and renewing the precious memory of that Royal Martyr K. Charls 1. who sealed his love to it with his blood Rev. 12.11 and loved not his life unto the death I am not so much a Lapidary as to give you in all these Crown-Jewels and their Tropological imports I shall only tell you the Topaz was one that Lapis auri aemulus so called for the golden colour of it Corn. ●ap Com. n●●od p. 554. l D. signifying Animum caelestem ad omnia infractum a gallant soul one that dares invite danger and shrinks in at no apprehensions of fear And to this also the Head to be Crowned this day hath a good title as his actions both at home and abroad can witness But time is more precious than these stones and therefore I shall spend no more of it upon them Enough of that reading A Crown of precious stones on his head Saint Hierom reads it Ex obryzo of tried gold Auri purgatissimi Optimi Those are other readings speaking the same sense of the Text and therefore I shall keep to that A Crown of pure gold I shall not digress into a discourse of the several acceptations of the word Crown in Scripture Sometimes speaking excellence Prev 12.4 A vertuous woman is the Crown of her husband Sometimes abundance Ps 65.11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness and thy clouds drop fatness Sometimes recompence Rev. 3.11 Hold fast that which thou hast that no man take thy Crown I shall make quicker work if I only observe to you That Crown speaks Majesty Gold perpetuity Pure simplicity 1. Crown There 's Majesty Liv. The Historian calls this Insigne Regium this especially it is the first highest greatest and most inseparable 2 King 11.12 Esth ● 17 When Joash was made King Jehoiada put the Crown upon him And when Esther was made Queen the Crown of the Kingdom was set upon her head In familiar discourse Crown speaks as much as Kingdom A Crown is so expressive of Majesty that it gives us in some and those the sublimest apprehensions of the life to come and all those glorious retributions of the Saints It was the highest notion under which St. Paul could conceive of the bliss of Heaven Henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day A Crown There 's Majesty 2. Gold There 's perpetuity Let the Isthmian Gamesters wear their Garlands whose names were as fading as their flowers Gold that immortal mettal is only fit for his head who is immortal and that Rex nunquam moritur makes the King so And so does that In pactum salis 2 Chron. 13.5 of Abijah The Lord hath given the Kingdom over Israel to David for ever even to him and to his sons by a Covenant of Salt And so does that promise made to David in faithfulness Ps 89.29 His seed will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the dayes of heaven Nulla te terris rapiet vetustas Senec. Tu comes Phoebo comes ibis astris Gold there 's perpetuity I willingly omit some other designations of Gold Prudence it notes wisdom as Lead doth hebetude and folly Opulence it is the riches of a people Gen. 2.11 Havilah is commended because there is gold Supremacy it is the first of Mettals and the King first of men Tranquility Times of peace before Warre and Bloodshed broke into the world are by the Poets called the Golden Age. Mollia securae peragebant otia gentes Ovid. 3. Pure There 's simplicity It speaks the King simple in opposition to mixture 1. In his rule It is not a Miscellany an every-thing-nothing a mingled a Mungrel Government It is not sophisticated with any Plebeian ingredients not an Aristocratical composition much less an Anarchical confusion but it is the pure gold of Monarchy 2. In his Title Which is clear Like him who would devise the pedigree of O. Williams alias Cromwel from Ow … and fair he needs no mercenary pen to lead him a new way into antiquity He doth not cut out his way to it with the sword swim to it through a Sea of innocent blood break into it through repealed Oaths and Obligations He doth not tread down Law and Right stride over honor and honesty prostitute conscience and whatever the civilized world calls Sacred Briefly He does not weave a Cloak of Religion to steal a Crown withal but his right is indubitate his Title clear it is a Crown of pure gold This Crown of pure gold commends the King's dignity commands our duty 1. Commends the King's dignity Not as if he needed any mutuatitious worth or had little but what he was beholden to his Crown for I think enemies themselves if so gracious a Prince can have any must needs say that he is even with his Crown and brings as much lustre to his Crown as his Crown to him but because the Crown upon the right head though he should be otherwise unworthy makes a Dignity Which made it a pardonable and no unhandsome piece of Zeal in a noble person of this Nation Thomas Earl of Surrey to Hen 7. that if the Crown were set upon a stake he would fight for it It is a truth that Nero as King is exalted as much above the common rate of men and hath as much right to obedience from his Subjects as Augustus Domitian as Vespasian Julian as Constantine And if they that dote so upon Mr. Calvin's Discipline will but allow of his Doctrine he tells us Calv. in Ro. 13. Etiamsi non rarò degenerant qui Principatum tenent nihilominus deferenda est eis obedientia quae Principibus debetur Though Princes should not be good men yet they have the right of good Princes to the subjection of their people Nulla ergo Tyrannis esse potest Ibidem sayes the same Calvin and I instance in it on purpose because he sayes so quae non aliqua ex parte subsidio sit ad tuendam hominum societatem No Tyranny can be which may not in some measure tend to advance the Weal-publick Pet. Mart. in Ro. 13. And Peter Martyr speaking of Nero saith that Cum ipse imperio suo opprimeret Orbem terrarum tamenjus dicebatur Tyranny then