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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96682	God save the King: or Pious and loyal joy, the subjects duty, for their soveraign's safety. Opened in a sermon at Aldermanbury, upon the 30 of May, being the day after his Majesties most happy, joyfull and triumphant entrance into London. By Anthony Walker, minister of the Gospell at Fyfield in Essex.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1660 (1660)	Wing W303; Thomason E1030_5; ESTC R203980	25,087	44

thou laid upon him for thou hast made him most blessed c. And that you may be the more excited thus to pray for him consider your own interest ingages you hereto for the good and prosperity of King and People are involved and wrapt up in one another these are those twins which must live or die together it cannot be well with head or members severally or distinct from each other but they flourish or wither both or neither there cannot be a glorious King over a dispirited and despicable discontented people neither can there be a renowned and a flourishing people under a mean an inglorious Head Now when you pray that your King may live a prosperous life as a King you pray for a confluence of those blessings which may render King and people jointly and mutually happy in and with each other Now the happiness of Kings as such consists 1. In the multitude of his people Prov 14.28 In the multitude of people is the Kings honour but in the want of people is the destruction of the Prince 2. In the peaceable subjection of his people one of the most comely sights in Solomons opinion is a King against whom there is no rising up Prov. 30.31.3 In the prosperity wealth plenty honour of his people 4. In the presence of God with his people that true Religion be loved and practised in the midst of them that God own them for his people this was the honour of Solomon 1 Kings 3.8 To be King of a people whom God had chosen for his own a great people to which the Lord was nigh Then the happinesse of a people in their King consists in this First That he be a wise prudent Prince knowing how to go in and out before them and to judge them This was Solomons petition 1 Kings 3.9 and this was his people happinesse and glory to be ruled by such an one Secondly That he be a just and righteous and a merciful Prince executing judgement and doing justice and relieving the oppressed 2 Sam. 23.3 He that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God and he shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth even a morning without clouds as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after raine 3. That he be a man of courage valiant and publick spirited that dare look danger in the face and expose himself to hazards for his peoples safety when great necessity requires it Lastly That he be a lover of good men one in whose dayes the righteous may flourish Ps 72.7 See the character of an excellent King in the beginning of that Psalm where you find David begging of God to make Solomon such in a word pray that the King may live a wise a just a valiant and religious King over a numerous a Loyal a loving a wealthy and religious people and let him be saved by the Lord from what ever may hinder King or People from being such God save him from true enemies and from false friends from real adversaries and from pretended lovers God save him from the hurtful sword of forraine enemies that either he may have none such or they may only be the matter of his victory and triumph And God save him from domestick and intestine seditions rebellions insurrections that there be no strife amongst his Subjects but to out-vy each other in pious Loyalty and just allegiance that the hearts of his people may be his Throne and the heads of his enemies may be his footstool God save him from false friends which should either betray his good councils or suggest evil councils to him from such as Joash met with in the 2 Chron. 24.17 After the death of Jehojedah came the Princes of Judah and made obeisance to the King and the King hearkned to them and they left the house of the Lord God of their Fathers and served groves and idolls 'T is not said what the Princes spake but it was cursed council which brought the wrath of God upon them and ingaged the King in a great additionall sin even to command him to be stoned who was both the Lords messenger and the son of them by whose loving and prudent fidelity his life had been preserved and his Kingdome recovered The Lord preserve our King from all such and let the wicked be kept from about him that his Throne may be established in righteousness Prov. 25.5 and let that be his character Pro 14. ult which will be his perpetual honour That his favour may be to a wise servant and his wrath against them which cause shame Take the sum of what we are to pray for in this second branch excellently laid down by the Pen of holy David Psal 144.10 11 c. where we have the King praying for himself and people what we are to pray for our King and selves having in the 10th verse fitted himself to pray and strengthned his faith by putting upon God a sutable Title He that giveth salvation unto Kings and by experience of former mercy 't is he that hath already delivered David his servant from the hurtful sword then he proceeds to pray to be rid and delivered from the hand of strange children whose mouth speaketh vanity that is who vainly boast and threaten great things and them whose right hand is falshood that is who satisfie their faith which they have sworn by lifting up their hand for that was the forme of swearing amongst the Hebrews Gen. 14.22 I have lifted up my hand unto the Lord I have sworn as we swear by laying the hand upon the Book v. 12. That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth that our daughters may be as corner stones polished after the similitude of a Pallace ver 13. That our garners may be full affording all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets that our Oxen may be strong to labor that there be no breaking in nor going out that there be no complaining in our streets happy is the people that is in such a case yea happy is that people whose God is the Lord. This is to live like a King indeed to live and rule a people compassed about with so sweet a confluence of all good things and all those crowned with the presence of God and the flourishing condition of true religion all which Hezekiah epitomizes not insignificatively in two words truth and peace in his dayes and this is what we do pray and ought to pray in the second respect Let the King live a prosperous and happy life as a King God save the King from those civil publick evils which are evil to him as a King Thirdly Let the King live a holy gracious Godly life or God save the King from those spiritual evils which are evil to him as a Christian and 't is very requisite that we in this respect cry heartily God save the King