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A44134 The peoples happinesse a sermon preached in St. Maries in Cambridge, upon Sunday the 27 of March, being the day of His Majesties happy inauguration / by Ri. Holdsworth ... Holdsworth, Richard, 1590-1649. 1642 (1642) Wing H2396; ESTC R22516 27,766 54

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them in all their conflicts to supply them with all those graces needfull to their sick and weak estate Mitigate their pains asswage their grievances make those bones which thou hast broken to rejoyce Work in them true remorse of conscience for their sinnes and seal unto them the pardon of them in Jesus Christ that from thence may arise that peace of conscience and that joy in the Holy Ghost which is so unspeakable and glorious If it be thy blessed will thou canst restore them to their former health that they may praise thy name among much people if otherwise thou hast disposed of any of them prepare and preserve them to thy heavenly Kingdome that they may have a peaceable passage out of these earthly tabernacles into those heavenly mansions which thou hast prepared for those that love thy appearing And give us grace all of us that are here present before thee this day to be warned by the many examples of our mortality that thou dayly settest before our eyes to prepare for the day of ourvisitation whensoever thou shalt send it sooner or later that we may have oyl in our lamps and our lamps always burning and the door of our hearts alwayes open to let thee the King of glory in whensoever thou shalt knock Last of all let thine illuminating and sanctifying spirit descend down upon all congregations assembled as this day in thy fear in particular upon this congregation here present that thy word that is to be sowen among them by me thy unworthy seruant though in great weaknesse by thine enabling Grace may prove thy strong arme of power to salvation to the enlightening of their understandings the sanctifying of their affections the amendment of their lives the comfort of their souls in this world and the salvation of them in the day of the Lord. Annoint our eyes with the blessed eye salve of thy Holy Spirit that the scales and mists of ignorance being removed we may clearly see the wonders of thy law prepare our hearts for the receiving of it set an edge upon our affections that we may hunger and thirst after this heavenly Manna and be alwayes gathering some an Omer some an Ephah every one some and that for his sake who is the Manna that came down from Heaven the eternal Word with thee from the beginning thy Christ our Jesus in whose holy Name we pray unto thee further as he himself hath taught us saying Our Father c. FINIS PSALME 144.15 Happy is that people that is in such a case yea happy is that people whose God is the LORD THe Genius of this Scripture as it is very gracefull and pleasing in it self so it is also very suitable to the respects of this day on which we are met together It presents unto us what we all partake of if we be so well disposed as to see it Felicitie or Happinesse And if a single happinesse be too little behold it is conveyed in two streams the silver stream and the golden It is reached forth as it were in both the hands of Providence There is the happinesse of the left hand which is Civill in the first clause of the words and the happinesse of the right which is Divine and Religious in the second Answerable to these are the two welcome aspects of this day the Civill aspect or reference which ariseth from the annuall revolution as it is Dies Principis a day of solemnitie for the honour of the King and the Religious aspect from the weekly revolution as it is Dies Dominica a day of devotion for the worship of God In these there is so evident a correspondence that I cannot but congratulate both the day to the text and the text to the day in regard of their mutuall complications For we have on the one side both clauses of the text in the day and on the other both references of the day in the text Happinesse is the language of all and that which addes to the contentment it is Happinesse with an Echo or ingemination Happy and Happy From this ingemination arise the parts of the text the same which are the parts both of the greater world and the lesse As the heaven and earth in the one and the body and the soul in the other so are the passages of this Scripture in the two veins of Happinesse We may range them as Isaac doth the two parts of his blessing Gen. 27. The vein of civill happinesse Gen. 27.28 in the fatnesse of the earth and the vein of Divine happinesse in the dew of heaven Or if you will have it out of the Gospel here 's Marthaes portion in the many things of the body Luke 10.41 42. and Maries better part in the Vnum necessarium of the soul To give it yet more concisely here 's the path of Prosperity in Outward comforts Happy is the people that is in such a case and the path of Piety in comforts Spirituall Yea happy is that people which have the LORD for their God In the handling of the first without any further subdivision I will onely shew what it is the Psalmist treats of and that shall be by way of Gradation in these three particulars It is De FELICITATE De Felicitate POPULI De HAC felicitate populi Of happinesse Of the peoples happinesse Of the peoples happinesse as in such a case Happinesse is the generall and the first a noble argument and worthy of an inspired pen especially the Psalmists Of all other there can be none better to speak of popular happinesse then such a King nor of celestiall then such a Prophet Yet I mean not to discourse of it in the full latitude but only as it hath a peculiar positure in this Psalme very various and different from the order of other psalmes In this Psalme it is reserved to the end as the close of the foregoing meditations In other Psalmes it is set in the front or first place of all as in the 32 in the 112 in the 119 and in the 128. Again in this the Psalmist ends with our blessednesse and begins with God's BLESSED BE THE LORD MY STRENGTH In the 41 Psalme contrary he makes his exordium from mans BLESSED IS HE THAT CONSIDERETH THE POOR his conclusion with God's BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL I therefore observe these variations because they are helpfull to the understanding both of the essence and splendour of true happinesse To the knowledge of the essence they help because they demonstrate how our own happinesse is enfolded in the glory of God and subordinate unto it As we cannot begin with Beatus unlesse we end with Benedictus so we must begin with Benedictus that we may end with Beatus The reason is this Because the glory of God it is as well the consummation as the introduction to a Christians happinesse Therefore as in the other Psalm he begins below and ends upwards so in this having begun from above with that which