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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

way to all Kingly wisdome Therefore Davids prayer went up first for Iustice because without that there is no wisdome There may be wilinesse if you will to resemble wisdome but there was never any wise King that was not just And that policie will be found weak in the end that perswades any King against Iustice and Iudgement And as before it was not Iudgement alone that David desired for himselfe but it must be Tuam thy Iudgements So Righteousnesse alone doth not content him for his Son but it must be Tuam too Thy righteousnesse And indeed morall Iustice alone cannot possible be enough for a Christian King Religious pious Iustice must come in too He must take care for the souls as wel as for the body and goods of his people Therefore one of the Churches prayers is that the King may study to preserve the people not in wealth only and in peace but in Godlinesse too He must so give the people their own that is Iustice as that he command the people to give God his own that is Iustice with Religion And there is no King nor no Kings Son can possibly doe this unlesse God give them the spirit of Iudgement and Iustice God must first give it the King before the King give it the people And it is Give Lord For as Moral Iustice only will not serve so neither will Theological but only quae dat as it is given For as it is aquasita as it is learned by study be it by study or practise so it is speculative or operative by rule that is the most but as it is given so it is at the heart so the King is not only active by rule but it makes the King and the Kings Son to be in love and to joy in the judgement that they are to put in execution Then the King is fitted indeed for government when there is the love of Iustice and truth in the inward parts psa. 51 For then they cannot but practise what they love I and then that Iustice which is within at the heart is vera tua truly Gods Righteousnesse and for this Iustice and Iudgement I shall therefore continue Davids prayer and go on Give Lord thy Iudgement to the King● and thy righteousnesse to the Kings son For if God doe not give it is not possible for Iustice and Iudgement any other way to descend into the heart of the King and the Kings Son None but God can see to drop Iustice and Iudgement into the deepe heart of the King none but only pater luminae the Father of Lights that stand over and sees how to doe it And yet I must tell you here that while he prayes for Gods Iustice and Iudgement for himselfe and his Son it must bee understood with a great deale of difference and that in two respects First because Gods Iudgement as it is in ●od is substantiall It is so in God as it is his essence himselfe This way no King is capable of Gods Iustice because it is his essence But Iustice as it is given to the King is a quality an accident and that is separable if God either leave to give or desist from preserving that that he hath given Therefore Kings have great need to pray for this Iustice because they can neither have it nor keepe it without him Secondly because Iustice as it is in God is Luminae all light so bright that even impious men themselves cannot but acknowledge it even when they are condemned by it So cleare that no intangled cause can cloud it no corner sinne can avoid it And this way againe no King is capable of Gods Light because that is a thing incommunicable as his substance as essentiall as he But Iustice as it is given to a King is but Lucerna but a candle light an imparted light a light that is kindled and set up in a materiall substance and so darkned with dregs yet even this light Kings must pray for and it is but need they should for if God give not even this light it is impossible the King should see how to doe Iustice or that hee should discerne how to execu●e those judgements that God hath given him Therefore the lighting up of this Candle in the heart of the K●ng the light of Iustice and Iudgement is a marvellous blessing and God himselfe accounts it so and it appears First because am●ng the many and great threatnings that he thunders out against rebellious people this is one that he will take from ●h●m the light of a Candle I●r 25 he wil not leave them so much light and it was so for Gods judgement departed away from the King the King lost the Kingdome and the people were lead● away in darknesse to captivity So you may see what it is to want this light of judgement in a King Secondly it appears to be great by the promises of God for among the many profe●sions that he makes to this glorious King David this was one that he had ordained a light for him psal. 132. So then you see by the presence of this light what the benefit is to have it But then still Kings themselves and the people must remember it is bnt Lucerna but a Candle li●hted at that great light the Lampe of God And being but a Candle light it is easily blowen out if God keepe not his Light about the King to renew it and if God provide n●t a fence for this Light of Iustice aga●nst the winds of temptation that bluster about it Therefore our o●d English Translation reade that place in the Psalme happily I have provided saith that Translat●on not only a light but a Lanthorn for mine Annointed to carry this Lig●t And this improves the blessing a great deale further for there is no carrying of this Light without the Lanthorne of Gods own ordaining the temptations that beset the King are so many and so strong that except this Lan●horne defend the light all the light of Iustice and Iudgement will out And this Lanthorne is so hard to make ●hat God himselfe must ordaine it or else the King cannot have it for who can fence and keepe in Gods blessings but himselfe Therefore David here went very right in his prayer maruellous right bo●h for himselfe for his Son da Domine Give Lord not the light of thy judgement and just●ce only but give the Lan●horne too for thine Annoyn●ed ●hat he may be able with honour to carry thorow ●his Light of Iustice and Iudgement before his people And let me tell you one thing more that filius regis the Kings Son here is not only a fit object of his Fa●hers prayers but of yours too for the peoples praiers as well as the Kings for filius regis is filius regni too the Son of the King is the Son o● the Kingdome his Fa●hers Son by nature but the Kingdoms Son by right all the subjects having equall interrest in the Iustice and Iudgement