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A67235	The duty of honouring the King and the obligations we have thereto delivered in a sermon preached at Richmond in York-shire, on the 6th of February, 1685/6 being the day on which His Majesty began His happy reign : at a general assembly of the loyal gentry of those parts, held there on purpose to celebrate the King's quiet and peaceable succession to the throne of his ancestors / by Christopher Wyvil ...	Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing W3786; ESTC R9015	18,499	36

much greater Honour doth there then belong to the King himself who is the Publick Minister of God and his immediate Vicegerent 2. Another Obligation to this Duty may be taken from the Advantages that accrue to us through his Government for he is set over us for our good and makes it his business to take care of us and protect us And therefore to do him honour is but a just Retribution for the Benefits we receive by him 3. To which thirdly and lastly we are obliged from the Principles of our Holy Catholick Religion as it is derived throughout all Ages from Christ himself and as it now stands planted and reform'd in the Church of England Which Church as it teacheth us all true Faith towards God so it obligeth us to all true Loyalty to the King Nor can we any longer be good Members of this Church nor consequently good Christians then whilst we remain firmly Loyal The King hath often Declared himself well satisfied with the Principles of our Church as they are for Monarchy and Loyalty and if we would not have our actions contradict our Principles if we would have them still preserved in that good Opinion he hath of them we must honour him in all those particulars which I have mention'd to belong to this Duty which whosoever doth not conscientiously observe cannot be a truly Loyal Man nor doth he well deserve to be accounted as by being Members of this Church we all justly profess our selves to be a Member of the Catholick Church My Friends and Gentlemen I am very sensible that I have detained you very long But the Subject I have handled is Great and Noble Copious and Seasonable nor could I have in any tollerable degree discharged my Duty had I said less of it tho' I could say much more But I will make no Apology for the tediousness of this Discourse well knowing that a Congregation that Loves and Honours the King such as I believe this to be cannot be displeased tho' it may be tired with Exhortations to Loyalty Nor shall I detain you any longer then till I have Concluded with that short but comprehensive Form of Blessing the KING or wishing well unto Him which was so frequently made use of in Times of Old which is so suitable to the Day and my Text and wherein I doubt not but I shall have your hearty Consent and that is God save the KING Amen FINIS Ioh. 18. 36. Eph. 6. 15. Acts 24. 5. Acts 17. 6. Mat. 22. 21. Mar. 12. 17 c. Luke 20. 25. Iohn 17. 11. Rom. 13. 1 7. Tit. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 1. 1 2 13 14. 1 Pet. 2. 16 17. Suet. in vita Claudii cap. 34. Rom. 13. 5. Lament 4. 20. Eccles. 8. 3. 1 Sam. 15. 17. 1 Pet. 2. 13. 2 Sam 3. 27. 2 Sam 20. 10. Eccles 10. 20. 1 Sam. 24. 8. 26. 19. 29. 8. 2 Sam 9. 11 13 33 14. 15 17 18 28. Ier. 38. 9. Esther 1. 4. Acts 23. 5. Iude 8. Mat. 17. 27. Mat. 22. 21. Mark 12. 17. Luke 20. 25. Mat. 12. 25. Mar. 3. 24. Luk. 11. 17. Declaration of the late Conspiracy published by his late Majesty's Order Pag. 9. Declaration of the late Conspiracy Pag. 69. Rom. 13. 3. 1 Thess. 4. 11. 1 Tim. 2 1. 2. 1 Tim. 2. 2 Tert Apol cap. 30. Psal 33. 16. Psal 127. 1 Mat. 7. 1 Luk. 6. 37 Rom. 14. 10 13. Mat. 8. 9. Acts 4. 19. 5 29 Prov. 8. 15 16. Isa. 45. 1 Psal. 12. 16. 1 Cor. 8. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 13. 2 Sam. 16. 16. 2 King 11. 12. 2 Chr. 23. 11.

THE DUTY OF Honouring the King And The Obligations we have thereto Delivered in a SERMON Preached at RICHMOND in York-shire on the 6th of February 1685 6. Being the Day on which His MAIESTY began His happy Reign At a general Assembly of the Loyal Gentry of those Parts held there on purpose to celebrate the KING 's quiet and peaceable Succession to the Throne of His Ancestors By Christopher Wyvil M. A. Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Ormond Printed at the request of the Gentlemen that heard it Imprimatur Ro. Altham R mo P. D no. Iohan. Archiep. Ebor. à sacris Domesticis YORK Printed by Io. White for Richard Lambert Bookseller at the Crown within the Minster-Gates Anno Dom. M. DC LXXXVI To the Right Honourable CONYERS Earl of HOLDERNESS Lord DARCY and MEINIL My Lord THe only Reason that obtain'd my consent to the publishing of the ensuing Discourse was the Opinion they had who heard it that it might be serviceable to his Majesty by reducing some of His misguided Subjects into a right sence and practice of their Allegiance towards Him to which end I beseech our good God to give it his blessing And the Honour I have to be related to your Lordships truly Loyal and Religious Family obligeth me to Dedicate it to your Lordship most humbly begging your Lordship's acceptance of it as a Testimony of the Duty owing to your Lordship from My LORD Your Lordship 's Most obedient Grandson and Most humble Servant Chris. Wyvil THE DUTY OF HONOURING THE KING 1 Pet. 2. 17. Honour the King THat which in the Primitive Age of the Church raised many Enemies to the Christian Faith and induced the Potentates of the Earth to endeavour its extirpation was a groundless Suspition of its inconsistency with Civil Powers a Calumny invented no doubt and spread abroad by the Devil and his Agents on purpose to alienate the minds of men from making profession of it and to bring it into the contempt and hatred of Kings and Princes they being thereby perswaded that the Kingdom of Christ howsoever it was taught not to consist of this world was an encroachment upon their Dominions that the preaching of the Gospel howsoever it was said to be the Gospel of Peace carried nothing else with it but Fire and Sword wheresoever it was planted that Faction and Sedition Conspiracies and Rebellion were the only product of its Doctrine and that they who Taught and embraced it were no better then common Incendiaries Subverters of the public Peace and quietness Seducers of the People where they came and even turned the world upside down But the vanity and the falshood of this Suggestion both by the Practice of Christ and of the Writings of his Apostles doth sufficiently appear For our Saviour did not only give Commandment to his Followers to render unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's as well as unto God the things which be God's but that he might confirm his Doctrine by his own Example he patiently submitted himself to the Jurisdiction of an Heathen Governour freely owning the Power and Authority he had over him Nor were his Disciples less careful to imprint the same Doctrine in the minds of their Proselytes strictly charging them as to live in unity and concord one with another so more particularly to be obedient to Government and Governours and to pay a just deference to the Civil Magistrat St. Paul exhorteth every soul to be subject to the higher Powers and to pay tribute to whom tribute custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour is due And he chargeth Titus to put the People in mind of being subject to Principalities and Powers and to obey Magistrates Which Subject is also prosecuted by St. Peter in this Chapter of my Text where he exhorteth his own Countrymen the Iews that were dispersed here and there throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia to submit themselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him And he had some special Reason for so doing for there was then as there is now a Generation of men that under a pretence of Christian Liberty thought themselves under no obligation to temporal Princes denying to pay them even civil Respect esteeming all men as equal and vainly imagining that no mortal man ought to be accounted a Prince or a Lord over them It was therefore but necessary for our Apostle to put these men in mind of their Duty and to require them so to be free as not to use their Liberty for a cloak of maliciousness but as the servants of God and to fear God yet so as to Honour the King also And it is very considerable that the Persons to whom he directs this Epistle were at that time under the Supreme Government of the Emperour Claudius a prophane Infidel and a cruel Tyrant a worshipper of the Heathen Idols according to the custom of the ancient Romans a Man naturally merciless and given to bloudshed and yet such an unbelieving and bloudy Oppressor this blessed Apostle doth exhort the believing Iews to honour Now if such deference was to be paid to him how much more reasonably is it due to a Christian King And with what alacrity should we be ready to yield it to our present Sovereign who hath not only shewn himself merciful already to a great degree in Pardoning the Lives of some of those Men whose hands were unnaturally lift up to take away his but by his Sacred Word which was wont to be more unalterable then any of the Laws of the Medes and Persians and by his repeated promises which he hath made unconstrain'd unaskt unsought for God Almighty bless his Royal heart for it hath given us sufficient assuranccs that he will support and defend our Church It is one great excellency of our Holy Faith that as it is very consistent with order and civil Society and fitted for the prosperity and Happiness of men of all degrees So the just Rights and Priviledges of temporal Princes cannot be better secured then by the rules of its Doctrine all persons by the Christian Religion being enjoyned obedience to those in Authority not only for wrath but also for Conscience sake every man as he is bound to fear God being also obliged to honour the King And we cannot but admire and adore the Wisdom and goodness of God that when for the preservation of Order and Government in the World he did ordain that Power and Authority by which Kings do reign and Princes decree justice he did at the sametime determine to provide for the support of it and took great care for the securing of their Persons from violence and their Crowns from contempt as by many good Laws and precepts so more especially by that