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A54714	God and the King. Gods strength the Kings salvation A sermon preached at Aylesham in the county of Norfolk, upon the 29 day of May 1661, being the anniversary day of thanksgiving, for the thrice happy and glorious restauration of our most Gracious Soveraign King Charles the second, to the royal government of all his Majesties kingdoms and dominions. By John Philips, B.D. sometime fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge, and vicar of Aylesham in Norfolk.	Philips, John, vicar of Aylesham, Norfolk.	1661 (1661)	Wing P2031B; ESTC R218926	24,258	38

King to which Petitions they had not Loyaltie enough to say Amen as his Majesty of ever blessed Memory among the Righteous hath observed in his sacred Portracture never to be parallel'd and God grant it never may Now the Church in the words of the Text begins her praises for the Kings Salvation In which you have these two parts The Division First God's Mercy for his Strength in the Kings Salvation Secondly The Kings or the Church's for that Salvation In the former you have these three particulars First The Blessings for which the King or the Church for him praiseth God and they are two 1. Strength 2. Salvation Secondly The Author from whom these blessings are acknowledged to be received and that is the Lord therefore here called his Strength and his Salvation Thirdly The Person for whom this Strength is put forth and this Salvation wrought and that is the King He shall rejoyce he shall be glad In the latter you have these two particulars First The manner or quality of the Church her Thanksgiving and that is 1. Inward He shall rejoyce 2. Outward He shall be glad For so Expositors interpret the words laetabitur exultabit the one of inward the other of outward joy Secondly The measure of this Joy in the word Exceeding or how greatly as the other Translation reads it that is so greatly the King shall rejoyce as it cannot well in words be exprest Let the first part of the Text be the Doctrine the second the Application The Doctrine then is this The Lord is the Strength and Salvation of Kings of all Kings for there is no power but is ordained of God Rom. 13. 1. But of good Kings such as David was and such as blessed be God ours is after his own heart as well as by his own designment he is not only the Author of their Strength and Salvation but their Preserver and Blesser They are both the saved of the Lord and to the Lord of his Mercy and to his Glory Hear David himself speak this Truth Ps. 18. 2. Ps. 62. 1. 2. vers Ps. 27. 1. and to name no more Ps. 140. vers 7. O God the Lord the Strength of my Salvation And if we consider these Blessings severally it will more clearly appear they are from the Lord. First The King's Strength is from the Lord and this David acknowledges as in the former places so 2. Sam. 22. 1. That in the day of his deliverance from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul The Lord was his strength and his power and Moses who was also King in Jesurun Deut. 33. 5. sings to the same tune Exod. 15. 2. The Lord is my Strength and is become my Salvation Now Strength is either 1 Inward 2 Outward Inward Strength that also is double first the strength of Grace and secondly as I may have leave to expresse my self the Grace of Strength and these are both from the Lord. First strength of Grace and in this sense it is taken 1. Pet. 5. 10. The God of all grace strengthen you and we are exhorted to be strong in the Lord Eph. 6. 10. So David in his sufferings is said to Encourage himself in the Lord his God And certainly our David under all his trials was upheld by this Strength of the Lord. He was never without Gods Armour on though it may be sometime without his own The Lord alwayes girded him with Truth breasted him with Righteousness shod his feet with the preparation of the Gospel of peace shielded him with Faith covered his anointed before it was anointed head with the Helmet of Salvation and his Royal hand and heart was never without the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of God witnesse those fiery darts he resisted those menaces and threats he set at nought those promises and profers he refused those sollicitations and allurements he withstood those disputes and conferences he managed alwayes with the advantage to truth of which the World may take notice So that through the strength of the Grace of God his Majesty may be justly numbred among those worthies Hebr. 11. 33 34. Who by faith subdued Kingdoms wrought righteousnesse obtained promises stopped the mouths of Lions quenched the violence of fire out of weaknesse were made strong waxed valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the Aliens Appearing herein heir apparent of his Royal Fathers graces as well as Kingdoms of whom for piety wisdom mercy justice constancy in the truth and all other Princely grace when he was barbarously murdered we might sadly pronounce Ichabod Who was delicium humani generis as it was said of Titus the best of Kings as Augustus was stiled of Emperors the meekest of men as Moses after Gods own heart as David yet he that did good to all was hated to death he that never denied just liberty to any could not have liberty to live But I have no warrant to search into the inscrutable dispensation of the Almighty I say my hand therefore upon my mouth with that of the Apostle Hebr. 11. 38. Of whom the World was not worthy And also manifesting himself to be of his Royal Grand-Father King James his spirit who said That the best title of a King was to be the servant of God and that all the Crowns and Kingdoms in the World should not induce him to change on jot of his profession And this his strength is from above for the Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord. Prov. 21. 1. Secondly the Grace of Strength in Kings is from the Lord by which I do not mean power and ability of body and mind only that may be in another but a supernatural and celestial spirit of rule and government proper to Kings It is said of Saul though a bad King that God gave him another heart 1. Sam. 10. 9. And as soon as Samuel had anointed David the spirit of the Lord came upon him from that day forward 1. Sam. 16. 13. Which was not the spirit of sanctification for that he had before and therefore must be the spirit of wisdom resolution justice mercy and other Princely graces which God had induced him withall as a King for the right management of so great a trust For this his majesties Strength it is a subject for a History not a Sermon for others tongues and pens not mine Yet I account it my duty to speak what I believe he was never so low as to be less than a King The Lion abates nothing of his Majestick deportment whatsoever his condition be the King of fears never affrighted the hight of his spirit nor did any desponding thoughts ever break thorow his Sacred lips The Lord so tempered his Royal heart with a supernatural magnanimous resolution that both feriendo and ferendo in adventuring and bearing he cut thorow all difficulties with an edge of undaunted courage and with a back of invincible patience for God was the Strength of his heart

King and therefore let us be exceeding glad A King constant in the Profession of the Truth in which he is the deeper rooted the more he hath been shaken Coelum non animum he often changed his air the greater is their sin that would neither give him nor sell him a liberty to breath in their Climate but never his heart he was not e salice as that Politician said he was being ask'd why he changed his Religion so oft but quercu ortus not made of willowes that will bend every way but of heart of Oak that will not bow to the boysterous winds And his Majesties Love and Pains for the settling of the true Religion shews him to be Defender of the Faith as well by Truth as Title and as much by desert as by descent And when he lost all he lost nothing of the Truth nor wheresover he went did he leave his God behind him but brought them with him into his Kingdom who had well nigh lost both 3 The Lord hath restored unto us our Peace-making King so meek as if with Moses he had known only the name of Passion not the thing beati pacifici is not only his Motto but Blessing while other Kings make or should make Peace he is made of Peace How wonderfully under God hath he preserved the Ark of this Church ready to sink What Rages hath he appeased What stormes hath he calmed among the spirits of men What gracious and sweet Concessions flow from his native Goodnesse How doth he burn in love towards those whose affections it is to be feared are but cold towards him He first passed an act of pious and fervent Devotion in Heaven for his enemies with Father forgive them before he passed and confirmed his Act of Pardon on earth and remembred the awful Counsel if not Charge of his Royal Father which was much like that of Phocion to his Sonn mando ut hujus pot us obliviscaris I charge you never to revenge my death And O let all his Subjects make a better use of all his gracious Favours than which formerly have been done to be more unreasonable in their demands and spend all their lives in thankfulnesse to God for the salvation of so merciful pious and peaceable a Prince Direct And for our Direction especially these two ways 1 First by a true fear of God that so we may better honour our King God hath often joyned them together in his Word let us never put them asunder It hath been the policy of Satan and his instruments to scandalize Religion to be the occasion of Rebellion but the Fathers well discovered that fallacy by retorting and demanding what was the cause of sedition in Rome before Christianity was in it But the Disciple is not above his Master Christ himself was accused for a pestilent fellow and a denyer of Tribute to Caesar though indeed none was so forward in it as he profering it when he might have been free without enquiring whether Caesar stood need of it or no being then at peace with all the world not yet expecting the assembling of Judea together It cannot be denyed and the story is too sad to remember but that Religion hath been made a Cloke and that a long one for Rebellion but this hath been through the pride ambition covetousnesse envy malice and other lusts of men for otherwise Religion and Loyalty not only may consist together but do best establish one another Let Philosophers and Statists dispute as long as they will whether a bad man may not be a good subject to be sure a good man cannot be a bad one upon which ground King James told the King of France that the Protestants were as good Subjects as any he had Spiritual liberty agrees best with Civil subjection for though we cannot serve God and Mammon yet we may very well serve God and man together nay how can we serve or Love God whom we have not seen if we do not serve and obey our King whom we have seen John 1. 4 20. who is a Brother and more It is better indeed to obey God than man but best to obey both which we may do either by Active or Passive obedience Hearken then ye prophane scoffers at Religion You foul-mouth swearers you beastly drunkards you debauched miscreants and all the black-guard of ungodlinesse and impiety can you that are evil speak well of Dignities Do men gather grapes of Thornes or figs of Thistles How can you fight cordially for your King that carry Traytors in your bosomes Whatsoever you are I am sure your sins are enemies to his Crown and Dignity Let us then in a holy rejoycing raise up our Bells but not with the cords of iniquity lest we pull down the Judgements of God upon us Kindle we our Bone-fires but take we heed we incense not the Wrath of God against us who is a consuming fire Be we merry in the Lord but feast we not the Devil Daemonum cibus ebrietas Let our Cups be the Cups of salvation And let it be our prayers to God That as his Majesty hath zealously declamed and proclamed against all vitiousness debauchedness and prophaueness so the High and Honourable Houses of Parliament would vote against them that the R. Reverend and awful Convocation would let their sacred Decrees Canons and Censures fly out against them that it may appear Christs Keys are not lost though they have layn rusty too long a time That the pious and resolute Magistrates of the Land would remember that they are sent of the King for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well 1 Pet. 2. 14. That all the Orthodoxal painful and faithfull Ministers of the Gospel may be Sons of Thunder and rattle out the Judgements of God against all ungodliness that they would out-pray out-live out-preach out-countenance all impiety And you of this Congregation whose faces have cause to discover your congratulation of the happinesse of this Day whose credit it is yet boast not of it it was no more than your duty that you were the first in your County I mean some of you and I believe the only Town not incorporate that ever appeared in Armes for your King and stood too against an Army and were so resolute that it was evident you valued not your Lives for the service of your Soveraign and have suffered in your Liberties and Estates O be you as forward for Piety and Religion as ever you were to Loyalty and Obedience And though you have lyen and yet do among the pots in obscurity and darkness yet in due time ye shall be as the wings of a Dove covered with silver and her Feathers with yellow Gold Ps. 68. 14. post tenebras spero lucem as Jobs comfort let it be yours after darkness look for light Secondly Shew your joy and gladness as in walking in the fear of God so in honouring the King and that 1 In a high and supereminent