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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36929	Three sermons preached in St. Maries Church in Cambridg, upon the three anniversaries of the martyrdom of Charles I, Jan. 30, birth and return of Charles II, May 29, gun-powder treason, Novemb. 5 by James Duport ...	Duport, James, 1606-1679.	1676 (1676)	Wing D2655; ESTC R14797	53,659	86

mouth i' the dust and take the shame and guilt of his Sins to himself and say God be merciful to me a sinner and deliver me from blood-guiltiness O God and Lord lay not this sin to my charge Thus we shu'd do and O that we cu'd do it with that brokeness of heart and contrition o' spirit with that true godly sorrow and remorse o' Conscience that God may hear in Heaven and have mercy and forgive and pardon that so no one drop of that Royal blood may ever be upon the head of any one of us in this Congregation and much less upon the whole Kingdom and Nation O gracious God when thou makest inquisition for blood lay not the guilt of this innocent blood the shedding whereof nothing but the blood of thy Son can expiate lay it not to the charge of the people of this land nor let it ever be requir'd of us or our posterity Be merciful be merciful unto thy people whom thou hast redeemed and be not angry with us for ever but pardon us for thy mercie 's sake through the merits of thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen A SERMON Preached upon the Anniversary of the Birth and happy Return of King CHARLES the Second 1 S. Pet. 2. 17. Fear God Honour the King FEw words but full and pregnant and big with variety of matter Two short Sentences but long and large in sense and signification Two breif compendious Precepts but of a huge diffusive and comprehensive reach Two short Lessons but of so grand importance and so vast a latitude that it will take up a man's whole life to learn them the first of them especially Fear God which the Royal Preacher in the close of his Sermon makes the Totum hominis the whole duty of man And if so we need learn no more but put a stop at Fear God and go no further For if that be the whole duty of man then Honour the King will fall under it as included and comprehended in it and so he that hath learn't to fear God hath learn't also to honour the King And though the latter of these Duties be not so comprehensive as the former as to the direct and immediate import of it in regard of the object yet take it in its full extent and latitude and in all the due qualifications of it as to the act prescribed and enjoyn'd together with the grounds and reasons of it and then it implys and presupposes the other And so he that hath learn't to honour the King hath learn't also to fear God And this shall be my task at this time to shew the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the mutual coherence and connexion of these two Precepts the reciprocal clasping and concatenation of these two Duties together Well then Fear God is a large Theme and would afford matter for many Sermons and so would Honour the King too if one should discourse of them severally and apart as simply and absolutely in themselves consider'd but I shall not do so but twist them both together and so handle them joyntly as they have a mutual 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and reference one to another and a mutual dependance each upon other Juncta juvant And so I shall speak to these two Aphorisms or Propositions 1. No man can truly honour the King but he that fears God 2. No man can truly fear God but he that honours the King So that here in this Text St. Peter reads two Lessons or Lectures one to the prophane ranting Royalist the other to the fanatic hypocritical Rebel 1. No man can truly honour the King but he that fears God Loyalty and subjection to the Higher Powers is a fruit and consequent of the fear of God where there is not this root in the heart there can be none of that fruit in the life 'T is nothing but Conscience and Religion and the fear of God that can aw the spirits of men into a sense of their duty and keep 'um within the bounds of loyalty and allegiance Let every soul be subject to the Higher Powers saith St. Paul Rom. 13. but how can he be subject indeed to the Higher Powers in obeying their Laws that is not first subject to the most High in keeping his Commandments Can I think that man religiously observes the fifth Commandment that makes no conscience of keeping the other nine and so pays God but the tithe of the obedience due unto him He that would truly honour the King and give due obedience to him and his Laws must do it for conscience sake saith the Apostle but without the fear of God where is conscience if it be any where it 's asleep to be sure for the fear of God will rouz it up and awaken it There is no power but of God saith the same Apostle in the same place the powers that be are ordain'd of God and so the Supreme Power Soveraignty or Supremacy is the Ordinance of God and upon that account it challenges our dutiful submission and subjection to it Now how can he that fears not God truly submit to the Ordinance of God and consequently how can he truly honour the King Again the King is God's Lieutenant as I may say upon earth his Vicegerent and Deputy how then can he truly honour the King that dishonours God whose Person the King represents The Judge in the Gospel neither fear'd God nor regarded man and he was not asham'd to say so himself Indeed if he fear'd not God no marvel he regarded not any man in the world so as to give him any due honour respect or reverence though never so much his Superiour Abraham to be sure was in the right when he made the want of the fear of God the root of all evil the Parent and Nurs of all Sin and Wickedness Adultery and Murther and the like Gen. 20. 17 Surely the fear of God is not in this place and they will slay me for my wives sake either to kill him or abuse his Wife he thought they would make no bones of either as long as the fear of God was not among them And 't is likely our Common Law borrows that phrase in her form of Inditement viz. of a Malefactor's not having the fear of God before his eyes either from that speech of Abraham or else from that of the Psalmist The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart that there is no fear of God before his eyes And from thence he knew it was viz. from the want of this fear that all his wickedness did proceed For 't is the fear of God that keeps all in aw and in order and where that is wanting nothing is safe nor secure neither Money in the Chest nor Wife in the Chamber nor Man in his House nor King in his Throne It is that great wheel in the clock that sets all the other o' going it makes a man move orderly and regularly in all his relations