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A48377 A sermon preached at Whitehal upon the 29th day of May, 1670 being the day of His Majesties birth and happy restoration / by John Lake ... Lake, John, 1624-1689. 1670 (1670) Wing L197; ESTC R8143 18,867 54

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Duke of York and the rest of that Royal Family And may there never want a Man of that Race to sway the Scepter of these Kingdoms so long as the Sun and the Moon endureth Pray we for the Ministers of Gods holy Word and Sacraments for the most Reverend the Archbishops the Right Reverend the Bishops and other inferior Priests and Deacons For the Lords of His Majesties most Honorable Privy Council for the whole Nobility for the Judges and Magistracy that All and every of these in their several places and callings may serve truly and painfully to the honor and glory of God the edifying and well governing of his people committed to their charge the setling and securing the interest of his Church and the establishing of Peace with Truth and Righteousness in these Kingdoms remembring the severe accompt which they must all one day make Pray we for all Schools of Religion and good Learning for the two famous Vniversities of this Land Cambridge and Oxford For all the Commons of these Realms that they may live in the true Faith and Fear of God in humble and loyal Obedience to His Majesty and in Brotherly Love and Charity one towards another Finally Bless and Praise we God for all his Mercies and Blessings National and Personal Temporal and Spiritual for the happy Restoration of our Dread Soveraign to His Kingdoms and therein of the Kingdoms to themselves to their Religion Laws Liberties Proprieties again For all those that have departed this life in Gods holy Faith and Fear beseeching God to give us grace so to direct our life after their good example that we together with them may be made partakers of his everlasting Kingdom For these and all needful Mercies and Blessings pray and praise we God in the Name and Words of his dear Son our alone Saviour and Intercessor saying Our Father which art in Heaven c. The first Prospect of the Words is as they relate immediately to David and his advancement to the Kingdom wherein not one Iota or title of them failed And 1 For the Person exalting David to the Kingdom it was God and God with his right hand Psa lxxviii 71. He took him from following the Ews great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance Not the diffusive not the collective Body of the people could pretend an interest to whom God left nothing but to admit and accept him ● Sam. i. 10. Lest any Man of Israel should put in for a share he brought Sauls Crown and Bracelet the Ensigns of his Majesty to him by the hand of an Amalekite And as he was Gods King not theirs so of Gods making not his own He might once and again have made way for himself by dispatching Saul out of it and necessity and providence the late great pleas and pretences amongst us might seem to lead him to it as it were by the hand Yet David would neither do it himself nor suffer those whose fingers itched to be doing The Kingdom of Heaven may suffer violence from him but this earthly one never shall May Saul live long and enjoy it to himself he will be content with the reversion Then 2 For the Exaltation it self God by these steps carried him up to the height of of it First he ordained and appointed him to it when there was no intention no imagination of him otherwise Psa lxxxix 19. till God spake of it in vision to his Prophet Having thus appointed Psa lxxxix 20. God anointed him in token of it anointed him with his own holy Oyl and that far above his fellows When he had thus prevented him with the Blessings of Goodness Psal xxi 3. he at length put a Crown of pure Gold upon his head And he that had been hunted as a Partridge upon the Mountains is in the end set and settled upon Gods holy Hill of Sion Set I say and setled also as fast as Gods own hand and arm could settle him Psa lxxxix 21. and this not in his person onely but in his posterity too God as if he would exalt exaltation it self speaketh of his House for a great while to come His seed shall endure for ever and his throne as the Sun before me Psal lxxxix 36. Thus also 3 For the state of Exaltation it was that of a King A King of a rich and populous Kingdom in which above Thirty Kings were accompted at the first conquest of it Josh xii and yet this as if too little eeked out with other Nations 2 Sam. lviii 11. whom the Lord made tributary to him A King with all his Royal Complements A Throne set up over Israel and Judah 2 Sam. iii. 10. from Dan to Beersheba Psal cxxxii 18. A Crown a flourishing Crown yea 2 Sam. xii 30. Crown upon Crown that of Ammon which weighed a Talent of Gold being added to that of Israel A Sword for suppressing Rebels at home Psal xviii 39. and subduing enemies abroad even all those that rose up against him Gen. xlix 10. A Scepter which should not depart from Judah till Shiloh came In short whatever might contribute to glory or safety make him venerable at home and terrible abroad met together in him as one whom God had made his First born Psal lxxxix 27. high above the Kings of the Earth That nothing might be wanting now followeth 4 The Seat of his Kingdom Sion the Mountain of Gods Holiness or Gods holy Hill of Sion And here we have two Suns shining in one Firmament The same sphere for God and the King In that very place Psal cxxxii 13 17. which God had chosen as an habitation for himself even there he maketh the Horn of David to bud Beds and Thrones we say admit no rivals yet in Mount Sion Psal cxxii 5. where God had pitched his own Throne upon Earth there are set Thrones of Judgment the Thrones of the House of David Psal cxxxv 2. and where God keeps his Courts Psal cxxxii 14. the King keeps his also This is my rest for ever here will I dwell saith God for I have desired it Howbeit he will not dwell alone but will have his King dwell there too as if he could not rest without him And though God of old had devoted this Hill for himself to set his Name there yet he reserveth the conquest of it for David that he and his King might take possession together and become as it were Joynt-tenants to it And now they are in peaceable possession of the Seat we will leave them there and go on to the last considerable 5 The irresistible Power of God in all this who notwithstanding all the resistances that were made and rubs that were laid in the way yet setteth his King upon his holy Hill of Sion To behold David one while cooped up in such a Cave another while lurking in such a Wood anon