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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04838	A sermon preached at St. Pauls March 27. 1640 Being the anniversary of his Majesties happy inauguration to his crowne. By Henry King, Deane of Rochester, and residentiary of St. Pauls: one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinary	King, Henry, 1592-1669.	1640 (1640)	STC 14970; ESTC S108029	21,721	64

in Himself and longer in His Posterity even whilst the Sunne and Moon in the Firmament continue their Motion and Light That so this Hodiè in my Text may beare towards Him some part of that signification which it doth to Christ his Master whose yesterday and to day is for ever This day hath God set Him up and Over Nations and Kingdomes literally so Those who are well read in the Schoole of Honour and have taken the Altitude of Princes Titles define foure Dukedomes to the making of a Kingdome and foure Earledomes to each of them How God hath magnified that sacred Person whom He hath set over you may be discerned in the number of His Realmes Under His Scepter are Severall Kingdomes and shall I say different Nations or rather what more commends the skill and confirmes the greatnesse of the Builder Two of Them by Union made One According to that of the Prophet Faciam eos in gentem unam I will make them one Nation How that Cement which combin'd them is now grown loose or that distance appeares to make them look like Two againe becomes not me to dispute I will rather pray that He who is the Great Peace-maker may in his good time close the rupture and as our Gracious Soveraigne hath by all meanes endeavoured their Re-uniting in this according to the Text truely Cementarius So in the returne to their Obedience unto Him They may be rendred One with Us againe Onely this with much joy I must take leave to say That what ever else occasions the difference Religion cannot be the Cause It was blasphemously spoken by Rabshakeh Let not thy God deceiv● thee in whom thou trustest In all Christian modesty I say to you Let not any on whose trust you relie Those who undertake to speak from God deceive you by perswading This to be the Cause I appeale to their own Conscience if they dare be tryed by truth whether in any One Fundamentall point our Church hath shrunk from the Orthodox Faith or fallen neerer to Popery Now then at the first Reformation Our Sacraments as then so now administred that no jealousie of Romish Superstition or slighting profanation can taint either Him that Gives or those that Receive Our Ceremonies the same and Those much praised and indeed admired by learned Bucer in his Censure passed upon the English Liturgy at the request of Archbishop Cranmer Egi gratias Deo qui dedisset vobis has Caeremonias eo puritatis reformare nec enim quicquam in illis deprehendi quod non sit ex verbo Dei desumptum aut saltem ei non adversetur commodè acceptum And by Calvin earnestly commended to those English who fled to Frankeford whom he exhorts to Conform And as he perswades them to be lesse Rigid Vos ultra modum rigidos esse nolim so He professeth that himself would become more moderate and if ever he lived to Print his works anew correct those asperities which gave offence Hoc quoque non gravatim agnosco Nos si quandò recudantur opera nostra quae rudiora erant expolire mitigare quae asperius dicta c. Denique in quibus offensionis periculum veremur moderari etiam mitigare Lastly our Book of Common Prayer whose Forme for the generall is according to Mr. Calvins own Rule in his Epistle to the L. Protector of England Setled and Constant whose particular Matter by Bucer Peter Martyr and other learned Divines who lived in the Time of the Reformation was approved as a work beyond Exception every way consonant to the Word of God * In descriptione Communionis Quotidianarum Precum nihil video in Libro esse descriptum quod non sit ex Divinis Literis desumptum si non ad verbum ut Psalmi Lectiones tamen sensu ut Collectae For which cause he exhorts that with all religious care it should be retained and vindicated from neglect Religione igitur summâ retinenda erit vindicanda haec ceremonia This I say continues not varied from the second Service Book of King Edward VI but in some Two Circumstances One in the Litany where somewhat is left out the Other in the Communion where somewhat is added as the Act before our own declares And therein Those very words whose omission in the last Printed Service Books occasioned so much Cavill are justly the same with King Edward the Sixths Service Book of the first Edition If any doubt the truth of what I deliver let their own Eye resolve them It was St. Pauls commendation of the Berans that they took not things upon trust but themselves searched to see if they were so indeed I would faine commend their Example to you who if you can be content so to do you wil neither be misperswaded by any who for their own ends suggest apparant falshoods nor prejudicate those who contradict them You see the Latitude of the Kings Domination considered in the Subjects Nations and Kingdomes Will you see in what manner He hath exercised His Power over Them And here I appeale to all Under what Kings Scepter hath been greater care taken to prevent Divisions and weed Faction out of the Church Witnesse that Declaration of his Majesty which banish'd those abstruse controversies concerning Gods Decrees of Election or Reprobation from the Pulpit Themes which onely filled the Hearers with scruples and sent them home with feares Teaching by it busie men to preach Christ as they ought not Themselves by venting their dangerous wit or Spleen Or when hath more sedulitie been used to remove all scandalous Rubbish out of the State which ill morality or lawlesse abuse of locall custome had contracted When held Distributive Justice which Plato terms {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Prop of Kingdomes a more equall Ballance to give every man his owne Or when hath Criminall Iustice been tempered with more Mercy It was a just complaint of Draco'es Laws in Lacedaemonia that their Execution was as bloody as their Character for they were written in Bloody Letters And the Romans lamented the cruelty of those Tribunals where the cheape Proscription of Lives made the Judgment Seate little differ from a Shambles Poore men sould for shoos so the Prophet Or as the Turks to this day sell heads so many for an Asper If there be as I would hope otherwise any such amongst us who make such low account of mens lives that they destroy where they might Build hopes of amendment or Pluck up by the Root where they need but pare the Leafe If there be any who in discharge of such places are governed more by Custome then Conscience who take dark Circumstance and lame surmise for Evidence rashly giving Sentence and as precipitately proceeding to Execution Let their own Soules runne the fearefull hazzard of this Account They learne it not from Him who placed them on the Tribunall whose