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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61112	The righteous ruler a sermon preached at St Maries in Cambridge, June 28, 1660 / by John Spencer, B.D., fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Cambridge.	Spencer, John, 1630-1693.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4952; ESTC R37586	37,324	64

merit of the persons if frequent upon the Princes disposition then which nothing renders him more ungratefull man being naturally a compassionate creature But it is not mercy alone will establish a throne there must be truth too fidelity open-heartedness He must not be made up totus ex artibus Princes which like-Absalom kiss all men alike seldom succeed happily because they occasion the disappointment of so many which a man cannot so well bear as an expected injury Cruelty and Treachery have gotten many a Throne but they have establisht none Now both these meet most eminently in our Sovereign Mercy though provoked more then ever Prince was he was not in natali imperii born like Esau all over red with the bloud of those who had forfeited their lives to his justice but his first and great I may now add frequentest request to the Houses was that the Act of Indemnity might be as speedily and as comprehensively drawn up as might be His Majestie contents himself with the submission of his adversaries Poenaeque genus vidisse precantes The fears and jealousies of guilty minds no question represented His Majestie as vapours do the rising Sun of a bloudy colour and disposition but he hath defeated not only the hopes but the fears of his adversaries by shewing his greatness as God whose Viceroy he is even by pardoning and forgiving offences And His Majesties whole demeanour assures us that this clemencie is virtus Personae not virtus temporis only and in observance of the old rule mitissima sors est Regnorum sub Rege novo And as eminent is He for Truth no King might as Christ doth write Teste meipso with better confidence then He. Hear what that valiant Scotch Marquess said of him when ready to die and the words of dying especially understanding men I value next to the Scripture For His Majestie now living I believe never people might be more happy in a King his commands to me were most just in nothing that he promiseth will he fail he deals justly with all men I shall close this fifth particular by superadding this one observation It is Gods usual method to suppress and expel a power or people guiltie of such or such a vice by persons eminent for the contrary vertue Thus Salvian takes notice how God punisht the Spaniards a lascivious people by the Vandals a Nation eminent for their chastity and temperance so the Persians a luxurious and riotous generation He overthrew by the Macedonians eminent at that time for their abstinence and moderation in diet and thus God now useth his Majesty to succeed and suppress persons lately in power highly challengeable for the want of Mercy and Truth Mercy we might be well assured they were never designed to build Gods Temple there was such a noise of fatal Axes continually heard in the Nation Truth breaking all the bands like the possest man of Oaths and Covenants wherewithall they had been bound the character of England at that time we might finde in Isa. 59. 14. Iudgement was turned away backward and Justice stood afar off Truth was fallen in the streets and Equity could not enter Sixthly Another token for good is this After great distractions and confusions long in a nation God usually sets upon the throne Princes eminent for success wisdome and courage When a nation is full of distraction and confusion God generally takes one of these three courses with it 1. He sometimes leavs it in confusion suffers the people to be without any settled form of government and to hold up one another till he corrects all thus he dealt with the Israelites Judges 21. 25. When there was no King in Israel but every man was a law to himself God sometimes deals by a nation as they did by the ship Acts 27. 15. cuts the cables and anchours that held it and lets it drive Or 2. He sometimes sets a Tyrant over it as it is an hundred to one but when the ill humours are in motion they gather to an head at last Thus we read in the Iudges he dealt with his own people Or 3. He raiseth up some eminent person whom he qualifies with all Princely dispositions for so great a work as the healing of the breaches in a nation Thus we finde him raising up Moses after the Egyptian oppression Gideon after the Midianitish slavery David after Sauls injustice and Nehemiah and Zorobabel after the Babilonish captivity to become healers to Israel Thus Iulius and Augustus Cesar in the Romane Empire were raised up by God to be repairers of the breaches in that government under which Christ was to be born and afterward Constantine as a shadow from the heat of the ten Persecutions and Charles the great in the West and Queen Elizabeth after many changes both in Church and State and Henry the 7th before her happily curing the issue of bloud the nation had so long laboured under Great and many are the evils which England hath languished under these many years now to use the word of Mordecai to Esther Esther 4. 14. Who knows but his Majesty is come to the Kingdome for such a time as this God hath taken all the forementioned courses with our discomposed nation 1. We were left to the unconstant counsels and giddy determinations of those who stiled themselves Custodes libertatis it would pose a wise man to tell who they were sometimes this party sometime another pretended to the title of the supreme authority of the nation 2. Then he set over us a person that like Adonijah got him chariots and horsmen and said I will reign but now we hope God hath set him over us whom he will make a great blessing to this great people when a nation hath been under many Rulers Solomon tells us how the state thereof must be prolonged Prov. 38. 2. even by the advancement of a man of understanding which we hope God according to the method of his providence hath now blest us withall even a man who shall restore again the Kingdome to its ancient dignity and liberty and the Church to its due honour and discipline If we now lay all these particulars together we shall easily I think see what great cause we have to shout and rejoyce and cry God save the King I have hitherto indeavoured to be the helper of your joy give me leave in a few words to be the directour of it and so conclude Let us take care that our joy be seasoned with sobriety with trembling and with religion With sobriety This passion of joy doth very much expose the soul to indecencies and therefore the greater need of vigilance let us not so dance before the ark as to discover our nakedness so as to allow our selves in any intemperate and unwarrantable transports It had been high indiscretion in Noah and his family when in the ark and perceiving the Dove approaching with an alive branch to have made such a