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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33293	A sermon preached to a country auditory upon the eleventh of November being the day appointed for a solemn Thanksgiving for a late victory at sea, and His Majesty's safe return out of Flanders / by Samuel Clerke ...	Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701.	1693 (1693)	Wing C4497; ESTC R39372	17,355	33

Salvation of the Lord be not The Birds of the Air sing no other Note the Beasts in the Field give no other Voice than Salvation is the Lord's Which leads me to the Second Gradation He is the Saviour and that so great is his Pity and Compassion both of Man and Beast Psal 36.6 the Beast as well as Man but Man before or rather above the Beast Now that Man is more in the Eye or Care of Divine Providence than the Brutes is clear in this That the very Brutes are made for Man and much more the Creatures below them For Man doth the Day break and the Sun shine and the Rain fall and the Waters flow and the Grass grow and all the Herbs of the Field spring up and flourish after their several kinds For him are the Fields crowned with Corn and the Vallies laden with Grass For Him are the Hills lifted up and the Cattel made that feed upon the Hills For the feeding of him do the Herds feed and for his sake are the Flocks themselves clothed with Wooll for him doth the Horse were his hoof and the Oxe yield his neck unto the yoke and before him doth the Camel kneel to receive the burthen upon his back Now since God made man the end of other creatures and them a mean to his content and preservation and since the end is always valued more then the mean is we must needs conclude that God is more concern'd for man for whom all things were made then those very things which were made for him Hence that of St. Paul's double Expostulation 1 Cor. 9.9 10. Doth God take care for Oxen Gr saith he it altogether for our sake For our Sakes no doubt this is written That he that Ploweth should plow in hope he that Thresheth in hope should be Partaker of his hope As much as to say the Care of Beasts is not to be taken before that of Men We are God's chief Care wherefore Job gives God this Title as peculiar to him Job 7.20 I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou Preserver of men He it is that Giveth Salvation unto men But 3ly To Kings chiefly above the rest of Men μάλιςα διο●πρερέων βασιλέων as the Poet not impertinently Above all the Race of Mankind Kings go nearest the Heart of God and are his prime Care Great deliverance giveth he unto them Psa 18. ult He is their Tower of Salvation saith Samuel and Psal 28.8 The Lord is their strength and he is the saving strength of his Anointed In all Things God is wonderful but of all in the Preservation of crowned heads in none more in none equal thereunto What can be more evident now than that God giveth Salvation unto Kings To Kings I say in general for of Kings as they are God's Servants I shall speak more at large in its proper place He giveth Salvation what Salvation giveth Be it of whatsoever kind it will it is from him whether it be that of the physician a sound and healthy body against Diseases as they are mortal men For as it was pointed out to us by Daniel's Image Dan. 2.33 whose Leggs were of Iron his feet part of clay and part of Iron Thus Kings are the Peopl's Treasures but yet treasures in earthen Vessels they have need therefore of God's help and salvation 'T is true if we should understand it in this sense this God gives but this is not the genuine meaning of the place For this salvation here spoken of is from the Sword not from sickness from evil Manners nor ill humours from external Force not internal Dyscrasie God gives Salvation this salvation gives he unto Kings and to Kings above others I might argue à fortiori If God takes care of that which is less worthy and becoming his care much more will he do so of that which is more worth Therefore since even the beasts and other inferiour creatures are cared for by God much more must Men the highest of creatures in the world and Kings the highest of Men be under the same Watch. It is he that giveth Salvation unto Kings Here it may not be amiss to enquire a little into the Reasons of this God's Care and Protection of Kings and examine what probably may be the Causes why God is pleased to give Salvation to them above all others The Reasons I shall offer are Three The First taken from God The Second from Kings themselves The Third from the People 1. God giveth Salvation unto Kings because by him they are raised up and dignified By me Kings reign and Princes decree Justice Prov. 8.15 And as representing him they are called Gods Psal 82.6 I have said Ye are Gods I have said it who then dare gain-say it Ye are Gods that is in God's stead set in his Room invested with his Power and Authority his Vicegerents his Representatives his chief Ministers Does not St. Paul speaking of the Supream Magistrate tell us That he is the Minister of God Rom. 3.4 We are not capable of immediate Converse with God therefore he Rules us by Men like our selves he Governs Men by Man and so puts Man into his own Place There is hereupon a necessity of God's Protecting them as his Delegates Among Foreigners such as the Ambassadors of Kings as also their Representatives at home those that Impower them and whom they Represent are careful of their Preservation and to vindicate them from Contempt the Honour of the Ambassador is the Honour of him that sends him and the Disgrace of the Representative redounds to him whose Representative he is our David himself when his Embassadors were ill used whom he sent to the King of Ammon after his Fathers Death he took it as done to himself 2 Sam. 10.4 He thence severely revenged the Injury as his own Cap. 4. The great God of Heaven does he not the 〈◊〉 same His Honour cannot be intire and full unless theirs be so who are his Substitutes for his Honours sake he will procure their Salvation By him they are Ordain'd by 〈…〉 what they are Rom. 13.2 Hitherto is to be 〈◊〉 whatever belongeth to God as he is interested for them being their Founder and Preserver their Preserver so far forth that they be not Wronged and their Reven●●● if they be so 〈◊〉 Therefore God giveth Salvation unto Kings and taketh care of Princes above all others because they are exposed to greater Dangers than other Men. Certainly they must needs be in greater Danger in that the Devil that envious one maligns them most he aims at their Destruction above all others and no better can be expected from him whose Name in the Hebrew is Abaddon in the Greek Apollyon and in our English Destroyer a name diametrically opposite to that of God who is the Preserver and of the Holy Jesus his Son who is a Saviour that 's the import of his Name Matth. 1.21 For he shall save his people from their sins To destroy all is the

Devil 's whole Employ whereas God preserves and saves both man and beast as before yet above all men Kings and above all Kings such pious Ones as our David was All Kings are hateful to the Prince of Darkness even an Ahasuerus an Ethnic King Esth. 2.21 He will cut him off if possible by his own Eunuchs but a David how oft shall he be set upon It is his own observation Psal 118 1● Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the Lord 〈◊〉 ●●lped me It is altogether needfull ther● should be One to save Sin●● there is one nay many to destro● But why is the Devil set so u●●● the destruction of Kings No doubt it is because Kings are Mortal Enemies to ●im By their Authority and Power it comes to pass that Sir is restrained and his Kingdom weakned Ye shall n●● a● after all those things we do here this day every Man wh●● is right in his own Eyes Deut. 12.8 To do what ever a Man co●●● or would without Impunity is that wicked One's desire 〈…〉 cause it is for the advancement of his Kingdom to have it so Now when is it so but when there is no King When the Author of the Book of Judges would pourtraict to the life the sad and pitiable estate of Israel in the Intervals of Government he ascribes this as the main Reason for the Commission of their execrable Enormities That there was no King in Israel and by consequence no Peace no Justice no Religion For then every Micah will have his Closet of Idols and will worship as himself thinks fit Truly without Magistracy not only whatever is Sacred would be usurped abused destroyed but also there would be no such thing as Liberty and Property in this or any other Kingdom which the Generality make such a Clamour a Noise about Therefore if Men would not have ●hese entrenched upon and abridg'd no better way to se●ure them than by the preservation of their Governours more especially their Kings For these these are they that prevent such Enormities What the Soul is to the Body such is the King to the ●ingdom the Principle of Life the Spring of M●●ion the Vital Fountain of all Power and Activity Give me leave to speak once more and add That he is the Heir of Restraint Invested with the Sword Which he bears not in vain The Devil knows this to his Cost who is above all things for Anarchy and Confusion As God is for Decency and Order which if he cannot bring about then must Kings one after another be cut off and brought to utter destruction We see the Reason plain and obvious How the Devil does prosecute the ruine of Kings may not be amiss likewise by the bye to enquire briefly into We have his Emissaries set forth to the life Rev. 9.2 3. And he opened the bottomless Pit and there arose smoak out of the Pit as the smoak of a great Furnace and the Sun and the Air were darkned by reason of the smoak of the Pit And there came out of the smoak Locusts upon the Earth And to them was given power as Scorpions of the Earth have power These are the Emissaries of that Infernal Monarch sworn Enemies as himself to Kings But what are these Locusts the Monks Fryars and Jesuits saith an Expositor upon the place are most fitly called so for their Numerosity and Voracity These like Locusts are great Wasters and Devourers and in other respects peculiarly like them which having no king go out by bands Prov. 30.27 Those whom our Psalmi● twice in this Psalm calls Strange Children these St. Joh● styles Locusts here a Generation would I could not say● better known to us than to David of which we have h●● Swarms in our Age. Strange Children indeed a Generation of Men tha● term themselves of the Society of Jesus But was n●● Jesus a Saviour If they bear his Name why then according to the import thereof do they not give Salvation I 'm sure to our cost we experience the quite contrary than these who worse spoken of and that not undeservedly For as Satan's Emissaries are they not Traytors to Kings and Betrayers of Kingdoms wheresoever they get footing I leave it to all the World to judge whether they be not strange Children who under the pretence of the Name of a false Jesus act quite opposite to the Nature of the true One. Destructions Treasons Seditions are they not their main Employ Have not we to our cost found it so We may truly comply with our Psalmist here That his strange Children and they are of the very same Progeny they are of one Stock and Lineage their marks correspond in all things These strange Children we have it twice repeated in this Psalm that it might not escape our Note see Verse 8.11 Their mouth speaketh vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falshood Are not our Locusts in all things like to these How dextrous are they at Lying What are their Equivocations better Do they not speak one thing and think another And that their right hand is a right hand of falshood whether they give it upon a Civil or Religious account their Faith or Oath is nothing worth their right hand is false ●nd deceitful both Mouth and Hand are alienated from ●heir Heart and Mind as that is from God I mean from ●he God of Truth for the Devil the God of this World is well pleased with it It is he that maketh use of these under ●hat Notion you please● That of St. John's Locusts or David's strange Children these he makes use of to sharpen the hurtful Sword mix the Poysons and set on fire the Powder with which their King Apollyon gives diligent Command to his Agents as the King of Assyria did to his Captains 1 Kings 21.31 Fight not with small or great save only the King Him cut off any ways so you do it some ways by Sword Fire Carbine Cannon 'T is no matter which way so it be done This is their charge the King their Aim Concerns it not us now fervently to pray That there may be one to save since there is such a Legion to destroy that there may be one to cover the King with his Shield and Buckler since there are many to stretch out their hurtfull Swords against him Oh! let there be a Jesus to save while there is a Jesuit a Devil to destroy The reason why and manner how Kings are maligned and their ruin sought after you can be no longer ignorant of As long as there is a Devil in Hell who delights in and will be contriving the Misery and Confusion of Men So long will they be standing at the hands of Kings and endeavouring to stir up evil men against them And so long as Pride and Ambition Covetousness and Discontent find places to harbour in there will not wan● Traytors and Rebels Now the more dangerous and hazardous the condition of Kings is the more doth