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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47366	A sermon preached before the Kings Most Excellent Majesty at Oxford by H.K., D.D.	Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.; King, Henry, 1592-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing K445; Wing K503_CANCELLED; ESTC R18028	11,120	24

cover their shame withall But David to avoid the like both sinne and punishment also thereof protesteth here that he will sing the mercie of God I say the mercy of God toward him and not his owne merits And here upon it was that being hardly beset and greatly distressed and perplexed in the daies of Saul while his hope of the Kingdome was suspended he maketh his prayer in these termes Shew thy marvellous mercies thou that art the Saviour of them that trust in thee from such as resist thy right hand And he hopeth one day to come into the house of God in the multitude of his mercie looke back to former ages and you shall find Iacob at his return from Mesopotamia homeward in the way to Canaan being greatly enriched after the service of almost three apprentiships under Laban framing his prayer of thanksgiving in this wise O Lord I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies and all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant for with my staffe came I over this Iordan and now have I gotten two hands And I conceive assured hope that by this example my gracious Soveraigne doth often meditate upon the mercy of God toward himself in respect of the great increase of temporall blessings which he hath found and felt And as for us beloved all of us which be ranged in the number of subjects considering on the one side the manifold and heinous sinnes which have formerly reigned amongst us both unpunished and unrepented of and on the other side the fearfull dangers that we have escaped I can say nothing but that which Ieremie spake in his lamentations long ago It is the mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed because his compassions faile not Pray we therefore on the behalfe of our King that it would please Almighty God to pronounce of him as he spake in elder time by Nathan of Salomon I will be his father and he shall be my son and if he sin I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the plagues of the children of men but my mercy shall not depart away from him Pray we likewise for this Church of England Scotland and Ireland that God would vouchsafe to hallow it with that blessed promise which in Isay was uttered over the whole church of Christ militant by the spirit of prophesie thus The mountaines shall remove and the hills shall fall downe but my mercie shall not depart from thee neither shall the covenant of my peacefull away saith the Lord that hath compassion on thee This done then may both King and Subjects even every of us utter with joyfull chear that which we reade in the Psalm I will sing the mercies of the Lord for ever Thus David having already sung the mercy of God toward himself he will sing also the judgement of God toward his enemies And to begin with his grand and capitall enemie King Saul after that he had been wounded by the archers of the Philistines fearing left the uncircumcised should have come and thrust him thorow and have mocked him he took a sword and fell upon it himself and so a cruell life had a desperate end And as for Davids chief enemies in the Court among Sauls favourites namely Chush and Doeg we read the ruine of them both For Chush travailed with mischief and brought forth a lie he made a pit and digged it and fell into it himself his mischief returned upon his own head and his cruelty fell upon his own pate And after that Doeg had for a space boasted himself in his wickednesse that being a man of power he could doe mischiefe at the length God plucked him out of his tabernacle and rooted him out of the land of the living Beside these particulars God gave unto David the necks of his enemies in generall and he did beat them as small as the dust before the wind and he did tread them flat as the clay in the streets Thus let thine enemies perish O Lord and the King enemies likewise but let him be as the Sunne when he riseth in his might Now the good that may enfue by the consideration of the fall of Gods the Churches enemies is of two sorts First God is thereby magnified as may appear in the person of Pharaoh whom God appointed for this cause to shew his power in him and to declare his name throughout all the world And in the destruction of the Babilonians the earth was filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea Secondly men if they have grace may thereby be edified according to the confession of the faithfull in Isai saying We O Lord have waited for thee in the way of thy judgements for seeing thy judgements are in the earth the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousnesse Hitherto David hath sung mercy and judgement in respect of the time past by way of praise and thanks-giving Now he proceedeth to sing the same song in regard of the time to come touching the administration of his Kingdom by way of practice knowing that the duty of Princes and publick Magistrates is to be the Ministers of God for the wealth of them that do well by the exercise of godlinesse and honesty and to take vengeance on them that doe evill committing impiety and iniquity And these two mercy and judgement must go hand in hand being in association combined together lest if they were altogether and utterly severed then mercie without judgement might turne into foolish pity and judgement without any temper of mercie might become extreme cruelty And first to speak of Mercie happy is that Prince who hath the wisedome and the will to be mercifull to whom and when and where it is expedient For such mercie and truth preserveth the King and his throne shall be established with mercie Moreover happy is that countrey where mercie and truth meet together and so righteousnesse and peace kisse one another and worldly happy are those subjects to whom the prince vouchsafeth to shew mercie and loving kindnesse For the Kings wrath is like the roaring of a Lion and as messengers of death but in the light of his countenance is life and his favour is as a cloud of the latter raine and like the dew upon the grasse And David well knowing how laudable and honourable it was to be mercifull with discretion being established in his Kingdome he made enquiry if there remained yet alive any of the house of Saul in whom he might shew the mercie of God that is such mercie as is acceptable to God for his old deare friend Ionathans sake And we find it to be a laudable custome of Princes that I may speak it the Scripture phrase in the Psalmes by hearing the mourning of the prisoners and delivering the children of death And in Isay by loosing the bands