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A43551	A sermon preached in the collegiate church of St. Peter in Westminster, on Wednesday May 29th, 1661 being the anniversary of His Majesties most joyful restitution to the crown of England / by Peter Heylyn ...	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing H1734; ESTC R12653	26,908	49

in the first of Chro. ch 26. So far was David from conceiving that sacred Orders were a super-sedeas to all civill prudence and that he might not lawfully make use of the abilities of any of his Subjects of what sort soever as Councellours Iudges Officers or what else he pleased 41. Thus David did and thus our David hath done also He made it his first act to close the breaches in this Church both in Doctrine and Discipline and to restore the antient government of Bishops according to Gods words and the primitive practice He takes care that Divine service be officiated with as much solemnity as in the best and happiest times of his predecessors adorns his Chappel in a costly and magnificent manner gathereth together the best voices in his whole dominions and intermingleth them with Musical Instruments which seem to carry a resemblance to that heavenly Harmony which some ascribe unto the Spheres A form of service highly magnyfied by the primitive Christian and such as gained exceedingly upon mens affections St. Austin when an Heathen or at best a Manich●e found two temptations to invite him to the Christian Churches that is to say to hear the eloquence of St. Ambrose when he was in the Pulpit and the H●rmonious Melody which was made in the Quire And it is hard to say which of the two prevailed most towards his Conversion The musick of the Church so mollified his stony heart that it drew tears from his eys ut flevi ad cantus Ecclesiae tuae and thereby made him apter for all such impressions of the Holy Spirit as afterwards advanced him highly in the favour both of God and Men Retained on this account as he after tells us in all the Churches of those times both Greek and Latin Ut per oblectamenta aurium in firmior assurgat animus in pietatis affectum because it did compose mens thoughts and calm their passions and fit them to the serious and the grave performance of religious Offices Which makes it seem the greater wonder that any man preferred and dignified in the Church of England should in a Sermon preached and printed and exposed to sale compare the heavenly musick in Cathedral Churches to that confused medley of the Flute the Sackbut and the Harp the Psaltery the Cornet and the Dulcimer which played before the Golden Image advanced by Nebucadnezzar in the fields of Babylon But he hath-long since smarted for his folly and so let him go 42. Our English David stays not here but looks upon the services and the sufferings of the Regular Clergy some of which he restoreth to their former fortunes and raises others unto greater then they had before All the Episcopal Sees but one are filled with Learned and Religious Prelates of whom the tongue of envy hatred malice and uncharitableness can speak no reproach And as the Sees are filled with Learned and Religious Prelates so is it to be hoped that by the Piety of these times those Prelates shall be re-established in those Powers and Priviledges which the Iniquity of the last Times hath taken from them Without which they must pass for Cyphers in the Church-Arithmetick disabled from proceeding in the work of God of less esteem amongst their friends and a scorn to their adversaries The State was never better served then when the Messengers of Peace were the Ministers of it when Kings asked Counsel of the Priests and that the Priests were Counsellors Officers and Judges in their several times Which David must needs know as well as any being a Prince replenished with the Spirit of God or else he had not called them to those imployments which the Scripture speaks of 43. Thus hath the King performed his duty we must next do ours and pay our thankfulness to God on the knees of our hearts for the advancement of our David to the Throne of his Fathers and thereby giving us such a fair and blessed Sun-shine after a long Egyptian darkness and so miraculous a calm upon the back of that most dreadful intermixture of Thunder and Lightning the roaring of the Cannons and the burning of Towns which was never equalled in this Nation Which as it ought to be our duty to the last day of our lives so more particularly of this day which by the Piety of the State hath been set apart for the Celebration for the commemorating of that kindness that marvellous great kindness which he hath shewed to us and to his Anointed in the chief City of our Nation the abstract or Epitomie of the whole as before was said Such Festivals as these come not within the censure of our nicer spirits Those which have quarrelled at the rest the Festivals of Christ and his Apostles and his Virgin Mother do yet allow of Feriae repentinae ex re nata institutae as they please to phrase it Such as are instituted and ordained upon new Emergencies If any thing displease them in it it is the setling of it by a Law to be made perpetual to be a day of Thankfulness and Commemoration to succeeding Ages Which being the adding of a new to the ancient Festivals may spur on those which are in eminent place and power to rejoyn the old Festivals to the new and cause them both to be observed with such Christian Piety that all men laying aside their Trades and profane Imployments may diligently repair to their Parish Churches to set forth God's most worthy praise to hear his most holy Word and to ask those things which be requisite and necessary both for the body and the Soul according to the Laws and Statutes in that case provided But as for this particular day it is to be observed as our Feast of Purim in memory of our deliverance from the hands of Haman and Haman's being hanged upon the Gallouse of his own preparing together with his ten sons mark the number well all executed by the Common Hang-man on the same account A day of praising God in our Publique Churches of Feasting and Rejoycing in our private Houses of Joy and Triumphs in our Streets A day to be observed with all due Solemnity as being the Birth-day of the King and the Kingdom too 44. And so it cannot choose but do if we look back upon the miseries of the former Tyranny as well in our Spiritual Concernments as our Civil Rights And then reflect upon this Day as it was celebrated by all sorts of People at the King's Reduction And first if we take notice of the miseries of the times preceding in reference to Spiritual matters we may observe our Publique Liturgie disgraced and at last discharged to make way for the rash seditious and inconsiderate evaporations of those turbulent spirits whose very Prayers in fine were turned into Sin The Pulpits every where left open to all sorts of Mechanicks and either no Priests made at all or none but such as were of Ieroboam's making Priests of the lowest of the People abhorring