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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47366	A sermon preached before the Kings Most Excellent Majesty at Oxford by H.K., D.D.	Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.; King, Henry, 1592-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing K445; Wing K503_CANCELLED; ESTC R18028	11,120	24

CHARLES BY THE GRACE OF GOD King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith c. A SERMON PREACHED Before the KINGS Most Excellent Majesty at OXFORD By H. K. D. D. OXFORD Printed for W. Web 1643. To the CHRISTIAN Reader FOr somuch as I was at this Sermon among other auditours who judged it very divine like for the matter and the manner of handling of it and afterward understood that divers which heard it preached and more which did onely heare of it by the report of others were very desirous to have the view either written or rather printed therefore having obtained a copy of it for mine own use I thought it expedient to commit it to the presse for the publick good of all such as will vouchsafe to read it with patiencee and judge of it by the rule of charity A Sermon preached at Oxford before the Kings Most Excellent Majesty Psal. 101. 1. I will sing mercy and judgement to thee O Lord will I sing IN this Psalm the Kingly Prophet David declareth how he will behave himselfe in his Kingdome first touching his own person and afterward touching his subjects both in the Coutrt and in the Countrey In this first verse of the Psalme he undertaketh or promiseth to sing the dittie of the song is mercy and judgement The person to whom he singeth is expressed in these words to thee O Lord will I sing In that he assumeth to sing the matter which he hath in hand it implyeth that he will doe it with joy with a loud voice and with his full power It argueth joy For is any man among you afflicted let him pray is any merry let him sing And how should the children of the Captivity sing one of the longs of Zion in a strange land when they sit mourning and weeping by the Rivers of Babell where they hung up their harps upon the willows that grow thereby And as a pleasant song requireth a merrie heart so doth it also a stretched out voice with great strength put thereunto So then by this example of David we are taught in the meditations of our heart the words of our tongue and the actions of our life tending to godlinesse justice to do all with chearfullnes fervency and to the utmost of our power For example in the case of our inward affection toward God our duty is To love the Lord our God with all our heart with all our soule and with all our strength In the matter of Gods worship joyned with the advācing of his glory the furtherance of our salvation behold David danceth before the Ark with all his might Of the Kingdome of Christ it is prophesied thus by the Psalmist Thy people shall come willingly at the time of assembling thine army in holy beautie The zeal of Gods house did eat up the Princely prophet And from the time of Iohn the Baptist hitherto The Kingdome of heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force If Paul come to Athens and see the Citie subject to Idolatrie his spirit will be stirred within him and if he and Barnab●being as Lystra perceive the people to sacrifice and there by the names of Iupiter and Mercurie then they will 〈…〉 in signe of d●●asting 〈…〉 ring it If Moses when he cometh down from the Mount understand that the people in his absence have the Calfe he burneth it in the fire and grindeth it to powder and streweth it upon the water and maketh the children of Israel to drink of it to despite them of their Idolatrie If we speake of charitable almes then by S. Pauls rule The Lord loveth a chearfull giver If execution must be done upon the enemies of God and his holy Church then Ieremie pronounceth him cursed that doth the worke of the Lord negligently We should by Pauls advice to the Romanes be servent in spirit And by this admonition given in the Epistle to Titus we ought to be zealous of good works And surely if any doe frame themselves after the pattern of the Laodiceans who were luke warm neither hot nor cold it will come to passe that God shall spew them out of his mouth To prevent which inconvenience David here affirmeth that he will sing this heavenly ditie of mercy and judgement the which words may be construed two wayes the Analogie of faith preserved First in respect of the time past by way of praise for Gods mercy toward himself and Gods judgements against his enemies Secondly in regard of the time to come touching the government of the Kingdom by way of practice of mercy toward the good and of judgement against the bad The first interpretation yeeldeth unto us this doctrine in generall that we should shew our selves thankfull unto almighty God for all his benefits bestowed upon us according to the commandement of God joyned with a comfortable Call upon me in the day of trouble and so will I deli●● thee and thou shalt glorifie mee And after the example of the Psalmist saying Open thou my lips O Lord that is give me occasion to praise thee and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise And if God vouchsafe to deliver Davids desolate soule from the sword and the power of the dog from the lions mouth and the hornes of the Unicornes then will David declare his name unto his brethren and praise him in the midst of the congregation But alas if a view be taken of us upon whom the ends of the world be come it is to be feared that we shall be found no better in this case then they were in the daies of our Saviour Christ when as of ten lepers that were cleansed onely one returned to give thanks And verily so have worldly minded men been usually accustomed to mistake the originall and spring-head of the temporall benefits which they receive that the Nimrods of the earth which lived in the dayes of Habbacud when as they took up all with the angle and catched it in their net land gathered it in this yearn whereof they rejoyced and were glad thee they sacrificed to their net and burnt incense to their yearne because in their falso imagination by them their portion became fat and their mea● plenteous that is they flattered themselves and gloried in their own wit force and power as though there by they had gotten all their victories with increase of wealth and honour and so robbed God of his glory In revenge of such kind of unthankfulnesse when as superstitious people in the time of Hosea ascribed unto their lovers that is to their Idols the gift of their bread and wine corne and oyle wooll and flax silver and Gold then Almighty God returned in his high displeasure and took away his corn in the time thereof and his wine in the season thereof and he recovered his wooll and his flax which he had lent unto them for a time to