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spirit_n	good_a	heart_n	work_n	6,984	5	5.3450	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97115	God save the King, or A sermon of thanksgiving, for His Majesties happy return to his throne. Together with a character of his sacred person. Preached in the parish-church of East Coker in the county of Sommerset, May 24. 1660. By William Walwyn B.D. and sometimes fellow of St. Johns College in Oxon.	Walwyn, William, 1614-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing W696B; Thomason E1033_10; ESTC R203977	18,961	42

was the Ataxie or disorder which had crept in amongst us and therefore well may the people pray Vivat Rex ut vivat Regnum Let the King live that the Kingdom may live or God save the King that God may save the people But besides the motive the people have to pray for the King in respect of their own good they have another motive to pray for him in respect of the Kings good First In regard that although God hath made him a King yet he hath still left him but a mortal man for though God whom the Scriptures compare to a Potter hath glazed Kings and Princes and made them shine and glitter with greater Power Dignity and Majesty than meaner vessels yet they are still composed but of the same clay with other men and are as fragil and apt to be broken nay more apt than other men of low degree for they have more cares to shorten their lives and they have more enemies if God prevent them not to cut off their dayes for alasse no men have more either ghostly or bodily enemies than they and First For their ghostly enemies besides their own sins to which the Luxuries of their Courts the Luxuriancy of their prosperities the haughtinesse of their glory and the uncomptrollablenesse of their power and Soveraignty may possibly tempt and prompt them they find many times that the sins of their people also are their deadly enemies for by them God is often provoked to take off the King even the most pious Princes have suffered much for the sins of their people as the head commonly akes for the ill vapors of the stomach that is placed beneath it and thus the Psalmist tells us that when the people murmured and Rebelled against God That it went ill with Moses for their sakes Psal 106. 32. and indeed none are such bitter and pernitious enemies to a King as the sins of his people These are they that cry out against the King Crucifige crucifige Crucifie him crucifie him even whilst with their mouths the people cry Hosanna Blessed be the King that cometh in the Name of the Lord. And therefore let all faithfull and Loyal Subjects who truly love the King take heed lest by the sinfulnesse of an extravagant Joy for God his sending them their King again they provoke not God to ravish Him from us once more and so our long looked for long prayed for and long stayed for happinesse like Orpheus his Euridice give us not the slip and irrecoverably vanish away even whilst we are turning to catch and embrace it Let us O let us this day especially take heed that we impair not the Kings Health by making our selves drunk with drinking His Health But farther yet as the Kings own frailty and mortality and his sins and the sins of his Subjects may well incite us to pray God save the King 2ly So likewise may the many dangers and storms from without to which the Lords Anointed ones these full and straight Cedars are more obnoxious than the lower shrubs move every good Christian and Loyal Subject to implore Gods Protection over his King for as Brands are the more subject to catch fire by reason of their frequent imployments about the Chimney So Kings who by their places and ●●●eminences are to govern and order both Church and State and by their office must scatter the wicked and bring the Wheel over them Prov. 20. 26. are more liable ever to be traduced and scorched by Satans imps and Factors the sons of Belial than those whom Solomon calls Prov. 22. 29. Chasshukim men of mean birth and obscure places and no publick imployments Those who walk in the Sun will have alwayes a black shadow attending upon them which way soever they move and so men of the brightest Dignities and Merits shall still be sure to be haunted with the Spirits of Envy Hatred Malice or Discontent They shall ever find some labouring to overshadow or eclipse the King and if it may be possible to quite extinguish the Glories with which they be invested and arrayed and if the Report be true Some already have been plotting mischief against our Gracious Soveraign whose sore eyes could not endure the brightnesse and Splendor of our Rising Sun though blessed be God the Preserver of men and of Kings especially God hath given their bloudy Devises a miscarrying Womb and dry Paps But doubtlesse there are more such Villains yet undetected for there are now whole Swarms of Professed King killers I mean Jesuits amongst us who as they have had every finger of their hands in working our distractions will imploy both their Arms also to hinder the peace and happinesse of our Church and State and it is clear as the Sun that there are millions of Anabaptistical and fanatick Spirits who will readily joyn heads hearts hands and purses to the work there is no trusting to their crying out with the rest of the Kings good Subjects God save the King for like Rogues that are Burnt in the hand they only say so because they see they must either for fear or shame God I hope will put it into the hearts of our Patriots in Parliament to ferret these Vermine out of their holes and with a Salutary breath like that mighty strong West wind which took away the Aegyptian Locusts and cast them into the Sea Exod. 10. 19. to clear the Land of all such Malvoglio's as are displeased with the peace and felicity of it and so I passe from the Consideration of these words as they are a Supplication for the safety of the King to a review of them as they are the peoples Acclamation whereby they testifie their Gladsomnesse to God for their King for all the people shouted and said God save the King This Acclamation was made at the Inauguration of Saul as bad a King as likely could be found in the whole pack which I the rather observe that I may incite you with the more gladsome hearts and fervent prayers to receive your most Gratious Soveraign for if all Sauls people shouted which was the Signal expression of their Joyes exultancy how much more cause have we to Triumph with exceeding Joy at the Reception of our CHARLS to whom were we freely to chose a King out of the whole stock of the Kings of the Nations I am verily perswaded we should not possibly find an Equal for where oh where shall we find a mate to this Phoenix whose presence and virtues are able to make us almost forget his incomparable Father Witnesse his pure and unspotted Chastity Emblemed by the Snow-white Lillies in his Royal Armes never yet so much as tainted by the Black-parrated tongues of his most malicious detractors though being now in the Heat and Gallantry of his youth he might doubtlesse have found Temptations enough to have fired inordinate affections amidst the loosenesse and luxuries of forreign Princes Courts Witnesse his profound wisdom and prudence in his solid composing the fierce