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A63889 A sermon preached before Their Majesties K. James II and Q. Mary at their coronation in Westminster-Abby, April 23, 1685 by Francis Lord Bishop of Ely ... Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700. 1680 (1680) Wing T3290; ESTC R6336 11,473 16

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Sufficient real happy proof of an Obedient People And as I must vehemently exhort you to perserverance in that which is not only your Duty but your Practice so I do in Effect commend your strict adherence to your former Protestations and to your Oaths of Allegiance Be thankfull to God then for those Blessings you have and to the King under whom they will be continued to you Be satisfied with your condition take heed of overturning or undermining the whole fabrick because you cannot have the room that you would choose in it Take heed of de●●roving your Countrey to build your own house take heed of ruining all because you cannot mend your selves in this or that Particular Destruction and Death is not all you are like to get by it Take heed of that which follows There 's another Death to come after God has warn'd you of it They that Resist shal receive to themselves Damnation As you would avoid this take heed of that which leads to it Do that which is best for you here and hereafter best for the Publick and for your Private Interests best for your selves and for you● Children as ever you desire to leave them all these Blessings And for a powerful motive to his Sacred Majesty to act well his Sovereign part for the good of this great people the place it self where he will be presented anon with all the Regalia set in the seat of Empire and made the Anointed of God the place which is the Royal Golgotha the burying place of Kings where we have lately deposited the venerable Remains of Majesty will put him in mind from the Royal Prophet Though Kings are made as Gods they shall dye like men And then I must put you all in mind from the Apostle That as it is appointed to men once to dye so after death the Judgment Mortality Behold consider and stand in awe there 's an acre of ground sown with the richest seed that ever the earth received since the first Adam's transgression occasioned the second Adam like a corn of wheat to fall into the ground and dye Think how much Royal dust and ashes is laid up in yonder Chappel there the Houses of York and Lancaster rest quietly under one roof there does Queen Mary her Sister Q. Elizabeth lye close together their ashes do not part In the story of Polinices and Eteocles two Brothers rivals for a Crown we are told their smoke divided into two Pyramids as it ascended from one Funeral Pile But here these dusts do as kindly mingle as all the old Piques and Aversions are soundly asleep with them And so shall we be ere long most of us in a meaner lodging but all of us in the dust of death A great King upon sight of a vast concourse of his Subjects wept at the very thought that in a few years there would not be left alive so much as one of them And well may we as seriously though not so sadly reflect that when this numerous glorious ass●mbly shall break up hence we may e'ne adjourn our meeting to the general resurrection But if we put into the Scale that last most weighty consideration that God shall bring every work into Judgment with every secret thing whether it 〈◊〉 good or whether it be evil Then from these Premisses that inference will be forcible indeed which Solomon makes at the end of his Ecclesiastes Let us hear says he the conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man This is all that God expects from the greatest King yet less God will not accept from the meanest Subject Let but this one thing necessary be thoroughly done then we may be able to use in our own behalf those words of a King Happy are the people that are in such a case yea blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God Then may we hope from the Divine Goodness to see with joyful eyes such a miracle of happiness in this World as here we cannot read of but with admiration that God will magnifie the King as he did Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel and bestow upon him such Royal Majesty as has not been on any King before him in Israel And may both their Majesties after the longest possession of all earthly Greatness with as lit●le uneasiness as ever any Crowns brought along with them at last see God and Reign with Christ in heavenly Serene Glory for ever and ever And let all the people say Amen FINIS