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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49704	A commemoration of King Charles his inauguration, or, A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse by William Laud ...	Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing L579; ESTC R200020	20,473	38

of the Kings Son Therefore while David prayes pray you also that God would give h●s judgements to the King and his righteousnesse to the King● son I an● where ever there is want for a Kings Son to succ●ed inherit his Fa●her surely it is a mark that God is somewhat angry with a people For i● God doe not sometime divert the judgment● sometime lessen hem when ther is not a Son to succeed ●hat judgement u●ually is a Fore-runner of sorrows of sorrowes so●etimes that men can nei●her see nor prevent I know they may easily foresee that troubles may follow us but of what kind they shall be to what greatnesse they shall increase how long they shall continue what trembling they may make at the v●ry foundation of a State whether it will please God to give ●hem an issue or not an issue I suppose none can tell but God himselfe There●ore still let the prayer be exprest in what person it will let it be made by the King or by the people or by both all shall goe well so we pray and give thanks heartily for the King and the Kings Son I must bteake off the rest Thus you have se●ne David praying for himselfe and his Son That it is an excellent thing to find a King at his prayers that his prayers cannot better begin then for himselfe nor better proceed then for his Son nor be piously made to any but God nor for a more necessary kingly vertue then justice and judgement nor with m●re wisdome then for the joyning of Go●s judgement to morrall justice for that will ever be the setling of the Kings ●hrone and the honour and safetie of the King himselfe This day is the day of the Ki●gs crowning many years may it ●it fast on his head and crowne all his dayes ●horow with justice and judgement and this solemnitie in observing with prayer and devotion to God the innitiall dayes of the Crowns of Kings is old as well as any other for T●rtullian tels us that it was a practise long before his time I and even they which serve no true God Infidels themselves were upon such dayes as this at their vows and prayers to such gods as ●hey had for the happinesse and safetie of their Princes and I hope we shall never fall short of Infidels in our prayers to God for the security and happinesse of the King but we shall take up the prayer here as David begins it Give ●hy judgements to the King O God and thy righteousnesse to the Kings Son And it is the best solemnity of this day to pray for the King This is the day of the Kings crowning and yet as I have not already so neither shall I now break out into any large panegericks and prayses no not of a gracious King But I come heth●r to preach a kind of Gospel to you even glad tydings● that God in the mercies of Christ whose the Gospel is ha●h given you a wife and just and religious King a King whom God hath enabled to wind up all his other vertues in patience within himselfe and clemencie towards his people A King made by God for so I hope not only to beare ●or that he hath done enough already but to master the grea● difficulties of his time at home and abroad ●hat so his people may not only be but may live and flourish in peace and plenty This is the day of the Kings crowning and though not just upon this day yet within the compasse of this year God hath crowned him againe with a Son a Crowne farre more precious then the Gold of Ophir For since children are in nature the Crowne of their parents rejoycing what joy must this needs be both to the King and to the people who haue an interrest though not alike in the Kings Son In the Kings Son and he a Son given by God after some years expectation and hee a Son given after so great a losse of a Son in the former yeare and hee a Son after so many feares that this blessing could not or not so soone come upon us So here are two great blessings that God hath given you at once the King and the Kings Son the tree and the fruit the King to be a blessing to you and the Kings Son to be a blessing for your children after you And besides all other blessings that are to come here is a double blessing rising with this Son for it dispels the mists of your fears and promiseth an influence to them that shall come after And let me put you in mind of it for it is most true whe●h●r you will beleeve it or no There are no subjects in any State I speake what I know whatsoever Christian or other that live in that plenty at that ease with those liberties and immunities that you doe There is no nation under heaven so happy if it did but know and understand its owne happinesse To these nay farre above all these you have Religion as free as may be And all this you have maintained to you by the justice and judgement that God hath given the King for your good Take heed I beseech you take he●d what returne you make to God and the King for these blessings Let not the sins of the time murmuring and disobedience possesse any They are great s●ns when ●hey are at the least but they are crying sins when they fly out against such a King as God hath filled with justice and judgement Rather set your selves to prayse God and to blesse his name and to give him thanks for his goodnesse And pray to him that he would still preserve the King and that his loving kindnesse may imbrace the Kings Son That so no cloud no confused darknesse may be spread over this kingdome that no cloud arising from your ingratitude to God may obscure the King nor no eclypse caused by popular Lunacle may befall the Kings Son For in this the Kng and the Kings Son are like the sun in the firmament seldome or never eclypsed but by that Moon that receives all her L●ght from them nor by that but when it is in the head or poysoned tayle of that great red Dragon the Devill In the multitude of people is the Kings honour Prov. 14. But in the loyaltie and love of the people is the Kings safetie and in the Kings justice and judgement is the happinesse of his people and the ready way to make a King joy in justice and judgement over his people is for people to shew their loving obedience to the King And since none of us can tell how or what to doe better let us take up the prayer here where David leaves it and proceed to pray as he did that as God hath given us a King and to that King justice and judgement so he wiil most graciously be pleased to continue these great blessings to him ●or us that the King may still receive comfort and the people from the King justice and judgement That these judgements may be many may be all which may any way fit the King or fill the people That these judgements may be Gods judgement● that is as neare the uprightnesse of Gods judgements as may be even such as may preserve Religion int●re as well as equitie And that God would graciously please not to look for pay from us but to give where we cannot merit That since he hath not only given us the King but the Kings Son he will at last double this blessing upon us and make the Queen a fruitfull Mother of more happy Children That to this Royall Prince he would give many happy dayes and a large portion of his mercie that the King and his Son and the joyfull Mother that bare him may rest in the middest of Gods blessings bo●h spirituall and temporall that we may be in the middest of Gods blessings and the Kings till the Kings Son be grown up to continue these blessings to our Generations and transmit them to them And so O Lord give and continue and strengthen and increase and multiply thy judgements to the King and thy righteousnesse to the Kings Son even so Amen Lord Iesus and doe it To whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit three Persons but one everliving God be ascribed all Might Majestie and Dominion this day for ever Amen FINIS

that God hath given him may pull out their stings that can imploy their tongues in nothing but to wound him and his government Well these must not divert me or any good subject from praying for the King and the Kings Son The Kings Son blessed name what imports then to a King surely David knew well therefore you see he leaps for joy into this prayer in the first words of the Psalme Some tell me this name imports at large the King and his posterity sons or daughters not distinct And I confesse the least is Gods great blessing upon a people For the wise Historian tels us that Plena c. The Kings house full of them is the Kings security and the kingdoms too and our Prophet proclaims as m●ch for he proclaims him blessed that hath his quiver full of them hee shall not be ashamed when he meets his enemy in the gate Psal. 112. But when I find it Fillio Regis the Kings son I think David made a difference and had a speciall eye upon Solomon that God had given him to succeed after him 1 Chron. 28. Well then be it to the Kings Son Why but then is it but to one out of doubt where there is but one there can be no question but when there is more sons then one as David had and other Kings may have there the Kings son in the text stands for that son that in the course of the kingdome is to inherit and to be King after him Not that prayer is not necessary or not to be made for Gods blessings upon them all But because in the course of time the sterne is to be held by that hand therefore the prayer is most necessary to fill that hand with justice and judgement of the Kings son and to season the Kings son with justice and judgement So then the Son in the text was Solomon not borne first for he had other brethren living but designed by God and by David himselfe to be King after him designed by David therefore he had great reason to pray● designed by God therefore David had reason to hope that God would give him a spirit of government And it was so for God gave him plenty of wisdome and store of justice 2 King 1. The Sonne with which God hath blessed our King and us as natus h●ri borne heire and I hope designed and marked out by God for long life and happinesse In all things like Solomon God make him saving in those things in which Solomou fell from these prayers of his Father Now as it was to David so it is to any King a great happinesse to have a son to pray for For ●irst there is scarce such another exercise of a Kings pietie as to pray for his son Secondly there is scarcely such another motive to make the King carefull of his sons education as this prayer is For the more David praied to God for Gods justice and judgement to descend upon his Sonne the more he seemed to see what a want it was for the sonne of a King to want j●stice and judgement and the more he sees what this want is the more undoubtedly must he indeavour by prayer to God and his own indeavour to look to it for the vertuous education of his Son For it is impossible almost that hee that prayes to God to give should not also indeavour that it may be given For when we our selves pray for any thing that prayer if it be such as it ought sets an edge on our indeavours because in a manner it assures us that God will give what we aske if we indeavour by Gods grace as wee aske And for our owne particular I doubt not but we shal see Gods grace plentifully given to the Kings Son after his pious Fathers carefull successefull indeavour in his education That his heart may be full of justice and his hand of judgement against the time come that the judiciarie power must descend upon him And if you marke it here the blessing that David desires for the Kings Son is the very selfe same that hee asks for himselfe Righteousnesse that is Iustice and Iudgement And there is great reason for it for this vertue is as necessary for the Son as for the Father The same Crown being to bee worne by both The same Scepter to be welded by both The same people to be governed by both The same Laws to be maintained by both Therfore the same vertue is necessary for both And the copulative in the text And thy Righteousnesse for the Kings son joynes David and Solomon the Father and the Son in one prayer for one blessing And this example of Davids prayer is a great leading case for Kings for this holy and pious King David this King full of experience what the greatest want of a King might be● he doth not ask at Gods hand for his Son long life an inlarged kingdome heaps of wealth though that be very necessary but the grace of judgement and righteousnesse that so he may be able to goe thorow with the office of a King that is Davids prayer And other blessings come within the adijcientur Mat. 6. they shall be cast into the lap of the King if he first seeke the Kingdome of God in the administration of Iustice and Iudgement to the people For Kings are ordained of God for the good of the people And this David understood well for himselfe acknowledgeth it psal. 78. that God therefore made him King that he might feed Iacob his people and Israel his Inheritance That he might feed them and as David knew this so he practised it too for he fed them with a faithfull and prudent heart and governed them wisely with all his power And even with this goes along the prayer of the Church for the King that he may ever and first seeke Gods honour and glory and then study to preserve the people committed to his charge to preserve them which cannot possible be without Iustice and Iudgement For as Austin proves at large there is no bond of unitie or concord that can be firm without it And I will not tell you but Solomon may what a King is that hath not the grace of Iustice prov. 28. But how ever the more are you bound to God Almighty that hath given you a King so full of Iustice and Iudgement as you have found him to be And it is worthy our consideration too how David and Solomon agree in their prayers and what a Kings Son may learne when he is exampled by such a Father For we find when Solomon came to yeers and wore the Crown hee fell to prayer too and his prayer was built upon the same foundation The prayer of David and Solomon the Son meet at once For David did not simply pray for wisdome but for that wisdome that might enable him to governe the people And indeed all the wisdome of a King especially to direct Iustice and Iudgement is the very ready