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A10242	The heart of the king, and the king of the heart, or, A briefe vnfolding of that remarkable proverbe of the royall preacher ... written in the time of His Maiesties abode at Plimmouth, and preferred vnto him in his returne from thence, anno 1625 : together with a short meditation vpon 2. Sam. 24.15., preached at a weekely lecture in Deuon, in those fearefull times of mortalitie / by J.P. Master of Arts and minister of the gospell.	Pyne, John.; J. P.	1628 (1628)	STC 20521.8; ESTC S4427	27,924	64

Monteagle for Crassus our Cecil for her Cicero our late Soueraigne for her whole Senat. Thus the Lords mightie hand hath done for vs great things and holy is his name It hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their owne hearts and holpen our Israel in remembrance of his mercie To contract and conclude all and therewithall in a neerer application of this Text to apply our selues vnto thankes Deut. 32.3 Let vs publish the name and the hand of our Lord Ascribe ye greatnesse vnto our God Deut. 32.9 The Lords portion is his people and Iacobs off-spring the Lot of his Inheritance As for his People with his owne right hand hath hee gotten the victorie ouer the strong holdes of their crooked and stubborne hearts It was his onely hand that pierced that filme which inuolueth their hearts making it to send forth that cordiall water of compunction the shedding whereof mortifieth Nature and irrigateth the grace of their Conuersion Deut. 32.10.12 And as for Iacobs off-spring the Lords hand brought him backe not long since from a desert Land He led him about he instructed him hee kept him as the apple of his eye The Lord alone did lead him and there was no strange God with him that I may so apply those passages in Moses his Song Deut. 32. The Lords hand fortified his Royall heart against all danger both of soule and bodie so that the Idolatrous Nation could neither detayne his person nor obtayne their purposes Their loose Religion did knit him faster to his Lord and Sauiour and their superstitious shewes and seruices did the more confirme his sacred resolution of persisting with sinceritie of heart in the Orthodoxe and Apostolicall Faith Yea the same hand did in some sort reuerse the purposes of our Soueraigne himselfe to reserue him for the accomplishment of Gods owne diuine purposes Cant. 2.1 Hee who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lilly of the Valleyes brought backe our Soueraigne Rose from that barren soyle in whose Plot hee could neuer haue prospered the ground thereof being so deceitfull And now hee hath bedded it with the Royall Lilly in his owne fruitfull Land O let the Almightie Hand knit vp their hearts both together as one Poesie in the bundle of life making him alway a fragrant Rose of a sweet smelling sauour before God And her the turnd Lilly vnto the Lord bearing vp both of them that they may not dash the foot of their affections against the stone and stumbling blocke of Idolatry but rather may dash that in pieces against the Rocke Christ Iesus In the next place consider wee how graciously the Royall Protector of the Soueraigne heart hath enclined the royall heart of our gracious Soueraigne to be the Protector and Auenger of his distressed Sister and Nephewes in the Netherlands whose Land Strangers haue deuoured and in whose low estate the heart of Religion hath long layen vpon bleeding Finally let Leuies Tribe gratefully consider and remember how the Lord enlarged the other day the heart of our graciously enclined Soueraigne for the enlarging of Leuies portion many of whose Tribe want the corporall bread while they prepare the spirituall food As soone as our Lord the King had notice from his loyall Subiects that there was in many barren places of his Maiesties large Dominions a Famine by so much greater then that in Samaria 2. Kings 6. by how much the Soule is better then the Bodie And that in those places it fared with his people as it did with those Samaritans in the 25. Verse of the forementioned Chapter Sacrilegious Simonyaks obtruding to them by way of sale an Asses head to feed their hunger-starued soules yea an Head possessed with a dumbe spirit whose jaw-bone euen while it wanteth motion may bee said to slay as many Soules as Samson did Bodies with his Iaw-bone of an Asse Iudges 15. heapes vpon heapes as it is in the 16. Verse of the Chapter Hauing graciously laid to heart that this was the Kings Euill and by him only to bee cured vnder God and that therefore his Subiects did cry like her in Samaria 2. Kings 6.26 Helpe our Lord O King He soone returned a more comfortable answer then she receiued there namely that the Parliament assembled at that time should take speciall care that for the better propagating of the Gospell in prouiding able Pastors prouision should bee made that aswell the owners of Parsonages Impropriate as the Inhabitants of Parishes vntaught should allow competent maintenance for sufficient Ministers in those Churches whose Cures did neerely concerne themselues in particular Thus the Lord hath highly enriched our Soueraigne with the blessings of Salomon so that hee is wise in his youth and as a Floud filled with vnderstanding His Name is gone farre Ecclus 47.14 16. and for the peace and prosperitie which he wisheth vnto Sion he is highly beloued and renowned And as for the Iles vnder him the Lord hath blessed them with the blessings of the Gentiles in the last Chapter of Isaiah Esay 66. cap. vers 12.14 Hee hath extended peace like a Riuer our hearts reioyce and our bones flourish like an hearbe and the hand of the Lord is knowne towards vs. Now the same Almightie hand of the euerliuing God who hath placed and planted our Soueraigne as the Heart in the bodie of this Triangled Iland reserue euer to it selfe only that little Triangle of his heart giue him an heart to loue and dread the Lord and diligently to liue and rule according to his Commandements that so when hee shall haue finished his course kept the Faith and giuen vp the Account of his high Stewardship hee may heare that comfortable and heart-reioycing voyce pronounced vnto him Math. 25. ●1 Well done thou good and faithfull seruant thou hast beene faithfull ouer a few things I will make thee ruler ouer many things Enter thou into the Ioy of thy Lord. A BRIEFE MEDITATION VPON THE FIFTEENTH VERSE OF the twenty fourth Chapter of the second Booke of Samuel Deliuered at a vveekly Lecture in Deuon Anno 1625. By J. P. THOV SHALT LABOR FOR PEACE PLENTIE LONDON Printed by William Stansby 1626. 2. SAM 24.15 So the Lord sent a Pestilence vpon Israel from the morning euen vnto the time appointed and there dyed of the people euen from Dan to Beersheba seuenty thousand men YEE see euen at the first sight that this Text affoordeth fit matter for the taking vp of our Meditations in these times It maketh report of a great Pestilence spreading it selfe in Israel in the time and specially for the sinne of King Dauid Dauids heart is lifted vp in the number of his people The Lord lifteth vp his hand to cut it off He pricketh that swelling bladder of vaine and carnall confidence with a sharpe and grieuous sicknesse I note in the Text these seuerall particulars First The Author or Inflicter of this mortalitie The Lord. Secondly The Nature of it It was a

lumpes of dead flesh Christ Iesus that good Samaritan came by and powred in Oyle and Wine the Oyle of his mercie and the red Wine that came from no other Vine besides his owne veines T was only the bloud of that Scape-goate who tooke our nature vpon him that could mollifie our Adamantine hearts We did no way preuent his absolute worke of conuersion by our owne wils preparation or naturall inclination But as Augustine said of the Soule That it was created together with the infusing of it and infused into vs together with the creating of it so must we of our will that God in conuerting our hearts maketh them to will their conuersion and in making our hearts to will their conuersion doth conuert them And thus much of the Heart with reference to men in generall Now as all Clay is in the hand of the Potter and yet he is most carefull of that Clay which he reserueth for vessels which shall serue for the best vses and which hee will set at the highest rate so God fashioneth all hearts alike as the Psalmist noteth yet he is most intentiue to the hearts of Kings And good reason The spirits hearts of priuate men moue their priuate bodies The spirits hearts of Princely and Publick persons moue multitudes euen the whole bodie Politicke Therefore God inspireth the hearts of supreame Gouernours with heroicall gifts and supereminent graces filleth them with fortitude and magnanimitie and frameth and fitteth them for the managing of the weightiest affaires The hearts of priuate men are in the hands of the Lord as the Wels of water their motions are confined within their owne compasse The heart of the King like the riuers of water as yee may see in the words following the Text from him there is to be deriued the whole Weale publicke The Spirit of God mooueth principally on those waters As when the Riuer Nilus in his inundation riseth some Cubits higher then his vsuall limits it is said to bee a certaine presage of a future Dearth and Famine in Aegypt so when the Kings heart swelleth aboue the Lords hand it will fill heauie on the whole Land And now from that which hath beene taught touching the Lords hand both Kings and Subiects may learne to humble themselues vnder Gods mightie hand and to present them hearts vnto him with an Ecce Ancillam Behold thine Hand-maide Those Kings may take correction at Gods hand who as though God had no interest in their principall part pay the vse of it to their owne pleasures who liue rather like such as thinke Gods heart to bee in their hand then those who consider that theirs is in his who direct not any Prayers vnto him pray not vnto him for any directions but making Idols of themselues cry Fiat voluntas nostra let our wils be done It is true indeed that the Priuiledges of Kings are exceeding great They are in a great measure like vnto God himselfe For such maiestie he giueth them that all people nations and languages tremble and feare before them whom they will they slay whom they will they keep aliue whom they will they set vp and whom they will they put downe Dan. 5.19 Their hearts are vnsearchable Prou. 25.3 Their power is in some sort like vnto his Prou. 30.31 Against him there is no rising vp And like him they are not bound to giue men an account of their actions For as none can stay the Lords hand and say vnto him what doest thou Dan. 4. So who shall say to the King what dost thou Yet for all this the same mouth that pronounceth them Gods telleth them that they shall dye like men They may be as Gods to their subiects yet must they bee subiect to God As his hand hath aduanced them so must they exalt him This shall they doe when Maximus and Optimus goe hand in hand Virtus summa potestas Cum cocant When in their Kingdomes they thinke of Gods Kingdome Although Caput Imperij seeme to be the more glorious Title yet Membrum Ecclesiae is the more gracious Name Gratius nomen pietatis quam potestatis sayth Tertullian Apologet. cap. 34 And to speake truly Goodnesse is the onely true Greatnesse They are great who are great in Gods fauour So Moses and Ioseph were great Isidores Etymologie may serue to this purpose Reges à rectè agendo saith hee as if Regere were nought else but rectè agere with him agreeth Hugo Cardinalis in his Comment if wee apply those words to Kings in particular which he vseth in the generall Cor Regale est quod excussit à se iugum seruitutis malae nec alicui seruit nisi Deo cui seruire regnare est Hee that ruleth ouer men must bee iust ruling in the feare of God 2. Sam. 23 3. Rex eri● dum benè regis quod nisi feceris nomen Regis in te non constabit so wrote Eleutherius to King Lucius Againe the Lords hand in this Text may serue to checke those Court-palmisters who thinke that they haue found the line of their preferment in their owne hands saying in their hearts Our hand is high and the LORD hath not done all this Deuteronomy 32.27 By the strength of our hand we haue done it and by our wisdome for wee are prudent Esay 10.13 O they should thinke of an higher hand and consider that as they rule by Kings so Kings raigne by God Prou. 8. Therefore when they are exalted they should extoll Gods hand and lift vp their owne onely in prayse to him They should remember that promotion commeth vnto them at the second hand For Promotion commeth neither from the East nor from the West nor from the South But God is the Iudge hee putteth downe one and setteth vp another Psal 75. Therefore that should be their acknowledgement and resolution which was Kings Dauids 1. Chron. 29.12 Both riches and honour saith he come of thee and thou raignest ouer all and in thine hand is power and might and in thine hand it is to make great c. Now therefore our God wee thanke thee and praise thy glorious name Lastly let the same hand serue to beat downe those presumptious miscreants who durst to lay violent hands on the Lords anointed seruants It is fabled of the Bird Amphibia that when the King of Fowles demanded tribute of her shee tooke wing and betooke her selfe to the Sea and liued among the fi●hes c. Birds of this feather are our English Fugitiues the Popes Birds who haue forsaken our Land and betaken themselues to the Sea of Rome breaking asunder the bonds of their Allegiance and Religion Their adulterous Mother-Church saith vnto them concerning Christs pretended Vicar that which Christs Virgin-Mother said concerning Christ to the seruants at the marriage in Cana Whatsoeuer he saith vnto you doe it And hee being like the off spring of Herodias before instructed by the cursed doctrine of that bloudie Mother Mat. 14.8