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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78151	The Kings return. A sermon preached at Winchcomb in Gloucestershire upon the Kings-day, Thursday, May 24. 1660. By Clement Barksdale.	Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1660 (1660)	Wing B795; Thomason E1033_5; ESTC R208960	10,230	23

The Kings Return A SERMON PREACHED At WINCHCOMB in Gloucestershire UPON The KINGS-DAY Thursday May 24. 1660. By CLEMENT BARKSDALE SENECA Rex velit honesta nemo non eadem volet LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivye-lane 1660. The KING'S Return II. SAM XV. 25. If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again MEN are generally short-sighted they see things before their feet taking but little or obscure notice of the hand of Heaven moving and disposing the Affairs and Events of this World When Adversity befalls us we complain of our Enemies of bad Luck and Fortune and when we prosper we applaud our selves our own Wit and Diligence in both cases forgetting God for the most part or remembring him in a very cold and heartless manner Hence it is that so many are discontented and murmur when things go cross against them that so many are proud and unthankful in the time of their successes and prosperity Whereas a right looking up to God in both conditions would keep us still in a right frame and temper not suffer us to swell with pride nor sink into despair Thus it is in our private Estates and much more it is thus in the Publick in the great Affairs of Kingdoms and Common-wealths Suppose a King a religious King be forced from his Throne and live as a banished man persecuted and almost forsaken how apt are we to look only upon the rebellious cruel ambitious party that cast him out a party that pretended Godliness but shewed no Humanity and in the mean not consider at all the Providence of God who thus afflicts the King to try his Patience to exercise and improve his Graces to prepare him for the greater Glory and make him the greater blessing and more welcome to his people Again the King returns and is brought home unto the Throne of his Fathers Here also we are prone to forget God and magnifie the Valour and Prudence and Loyalty of a most Noble General and an obedient Army and to ascribe much to the wisdom and endeavours of a blessed Parliament and to commend the forwardness of a gallant Nobility and Gentry and of a Loving People Whereas God is the prime Author and Contriver and Doer of all He begins and continues and perfects this Glorious Work If the King send gracious Messages He moves the heart of the King if the Parliament return dutiful and grateful Answers He stirs up the heart of the Parliament If the General ride on prosperously He gives the General good speed If the Navy have a safe arrival He sends the favourable wind he fills the sails he is the Safe-gard he the Conductor that brings the King and the Nobles and the Captains and all the Royal Retinue to the Haven where they would be This is Opus Diei this Thankful acknowledgment of Gods wonderful Hand is the business of the day and I could not think upon a fitter Text then these words of King David David is an excellent example to teach us a right behaviour in both Conditions He is driven from Jerusalem by Conspiracy and Rebellion and afterwards returns with victory and honour and in both in his being driven out and in his bringing back he seeth Gods hand he acknowledgeth Gods providence If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again The same Lord tha thath been pleased to chastise me by the Rebellion of my seduced people can bring them to a better understanding of all things and change their hearts and turn their Affections towards me and by them restore me to Jerusalem again and to the peaceable possession of my Kingdom The words without any straining will fairly yield us these two Propositions 1. It is the Lords doing to bring the King again however under God as we shall see there are divers Means and Instruments yet certainly it is the Lords doing II. To bring the King again is a signal favour of the Lord a favour to the King and a favour to the People also When I shall have considered these two Propositions or Observations first in relation to King David and then in relation to King Charles where some of our lines will run very parallel I shall in conclusion exhort to Thankfulness not only a verbal but a real Thankfulness for this so great a work of the Lord so great a favour in the return of our most gracious Soveraign This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes I. It is the Lords doing to bring the King again The proof of this Proposition is either general or particular 1. General thus It is the Lord that as he made the world so he governs the world It did not become the Wisdom of God when he had by his infinite Power produced and built up this excellent frame of Heaven and Earth and all things contained therein to forsake the work of his hands and leave it to the blind guidance of Chance and Fortune No as he made the world by his Power and disposed it in a beautiful order so he rules it by his Wisdom and his Providence shineth forth unto us in those various strange events we behold that many times may beget in us admiration and sometimes tempt us to infidelity Afflicted Piety persecuted Innocence on the one hand Prosperous Wickedness Triumphant Injustice on the other hand hath sometimes stagger'd the faith of weak man but when we behold Innocence relieved Piety rewarded when we perceive the prosperity and success of wicked men and ungodly Usurpers to be on the sudden over thrown and themselves brought to ruine and destruction and their Names and Memories to not and perish Then absolvimus Deum we acquit God no longer suspect but magnifie his Justice and Providence Then we say Verily there is a God that judgeth the world God reignetb in the Heaven and in the Earth The Lord is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his works From this general Providence of God and his care in the Government of the world we cannot but conclude It is the Lards doing to bring the King again 2. The more special and particular proof is thus God as he hath a care of all things so more especially of men and among all men most of those that are styled Gods his Vicegerents and Deputies Kings and Princes upon Earth and among all Kings God hath a peculiar care of religious Kings such as David was such as our Soveraign is Great deliverance giveth he unto his King not deliverance alone but great deliverance And sheweth mercy to his Anointed to David and to his feed for evermore Not to David only but to his seed not for the present only but for evermore This is in the end of the 18. Psalm and in the beginning of the 21. The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoyce The strenth of the Lord and