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A42043	David's returne from his banishment set forth in a thanks-giving sermon for the returne of His Sacred Majesty Charles the II, and preached at St. Maries in Oxon, May 27, 1660 / by Francis Gregory ...	Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707.	1660 (1660)	Wing G1888; ESTC R13480	29,954	42

that I should stretch forth mine hand against the Lords anointed David had 1 Sam. 24. 6. now King Saul in his power but yet he spareth him and why so alas if David had killed Saul being his enemy it had been cruelty and yet that David spar●d him being the King it was not mercy but Loyalty and Iustice The text tells us that when David cut off the skirt of his Soveraigne's garment his heart smote him you will say why then did he do it Surely to evidence that although King Saul was a persecutour indeed yet Subiect David would be no Trayt●ur sure it is when David cut off Saul's skirt he might as easily have cut off his head as we have done but the Lord forbid saith David if David took up armes he used them not to destroy the life of his Prince but to defend his own David well understood that for him to murder Saul would be a Treason against his Soveraign a sin against his God a wound to his own soul 2. Use of Exhortation Is there indeed a great respect reverence honour due to Kings Princes is it that which God himself requires O then be exhorted 1. To mourn over and beg pardon for the sad miscarriages of England towards the Lords anointed ones We are bound to honour our Kings and Princes well and how have we done it Murder the Father banish the Son is this the honour we owe them are our solemne oaths and covenants come to this we sware to preserve his Majesties Sacred person and yet we have killed him when we sware to make him a Glorious Prince did we intend to make him a Glorious Martyr too surely Martyrd●m it was upon his account though murder upon Ours Alas to bring a Prince from a Palace to a scaffold from a Throne to a block is this the duty that God requires from Subiects shall I shew you the foulnesse of that act in 4 Particulars 1. T was an act of high Iniustice You will say against whom I answer against God and Man 1. Against God Kings are Gods Deputies and is it just with man to remove them Kings are God's Vice-ger●nts and is it just for man to pull them down O surely Kings are accountable to none but God who gives them their commission Reges in ipsos Imperium est Iovis saith H●race that God alone who exalts the Prince hath power to degrade him for men to depose and execute Princes is boldly to invade the right of God the Prerogative of Heaven 2. Against man I mean both King and Subiect 1. T was an act of high Injustice against the King himselfe Alas our King lost his pretious bloud as no Subject can ordinarily lose a penny what a subject loseth he loseth by law he must lose by the judgment of his Peers well and by what law did our King lose his life not by the law of heaven that commands an honour not by the law of England that requires obedience well but was he judged by his Peeres surely Kings have no Peeres at all but however was he judged by his Nobles surely no of all the Nobles Barons Earles Marquesses Dukes of England I think there was not so much as one among the Iudges of the King O no those stars hid their faces and would not see their Sun eclypsed It was the Shrub that pull'd our C●dar down they were but whelps that tore out our Lyons throat it was the dirty foot that kickt off England's royall head Our Gracious Prince that died without a law without a Legall Iury died with as much injustice as innocence 2. T was an act of high injustice against the Subiect when England lost her King subiects as children lost their father wee have smarted under the lash of step fathers ever since when England lost her Prince subiects as sheep lost their sheepheard and have not the wolves devoured us ever since when England lost her Soveraigne subiects as members lost their head well suppose England deserved this losse yet what have our n●ighbour-nations done had it been just for English men to kill the King of England yet was it iust for us to kill the King of Ireland the King of Scotland too if we must needs behead our selves yet must we behead our neighb●urs too O dismall stroke O act of injustice an act that renders three nations fatherlesse at one blow But 2. T was an act of the greatest cruelty imaginable Had the death of the King been just yet it had been cruell too indeed Judges must be just but still Judges must not be cruell as to the act it selfe Iustice was but pretended but as to the circumstances of the act the Cruelty was Reall t is resolved the King must die but when and where 1. Wh●n must he dy why the third day after his sentence A short time you will say for a King to set his house in order to dispose of three Kingdomes but as to that his enemies resolve to do it for him hee needs no longer time on that account well but the King must die the third day alas a short time of repentance for so notori●us a sinner as his enemies made him had not the Kings innocence been greater then the mercy of Rebels they took the speediest course to turne his body into the Grave and his soul into Hell the same moment tell me what though Iustice must be done ●● the body yet is there no charity to be shewed the soul if the King be unfit for earth yet let him have a little longer time to prepare for Heaven O no there is no reprieve no not for a day though the Saints of God beg'd it with Teares But blessed be God our King was fit to die and upon that account had no more need to desire then his enemies had will to grant the least delay 2. Where must he dye alas at his own door When he was dead he might not be buried in his own proper grave but when he is to dy that is to be done at his own gate Poor Prince the place of his Royalty must be the place of his Execution Well and was there no place could serve but this Surely t is that which must needs imbitt●r his death the more at one view he is forced to behold his f●rmer Glory and his present Calamity did not the very place minister an occasion to the King of such thoughts as these alas I was once a King there stands my Palace I am now a condemned prisoner lo here is my Scaffold I ●nce lived as a Prince yonder is my Throne I must now die as a Malefact●ur lo here is my bl●ck I once lived as Englands lawfull Sov●raigne yonder my N●bles were then about me I must now dye like a Tyrant behold my Executi●ner Alas Poor Prince but O cruell Subiects before he shall dy he must be minded in what P●mp ●e had lived at ●nce he must see the axe and the Scepter to make him a

the thoughts of Princes be not as high as their Condition they have need of something to keep them humble 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 remember that thou art a Man Philip a King is yet but Philip a Man if Philip the King be proud yet let Philip the man be humble Agathocles once a Potter becomes a King upó his cup-board he hath his vessels of Silver and vessels of Earth the vessels of Silver speak a King the vessels of Earth speak a Potter his vessels of Silver mind him that Agathocles now a King must be noble his vessels of Earth mind him that Agathocles once a Potter must not be proud Doubtlesse Kings and Princes need some Memento or other the finest of Metall stands most in need of some allay to temper it God seeth fit that in the Diadems of Princes there should be Thornes as well as Iewels Thornes to prick their veines as well as Iewels to make them swell God seeth fit that in the Crownes of Kings there should be a weight as well as a Lustre the head must ake as well as shine But now if lesser afflictions will not Humble greater shall if rods will not serve Sc●rpions shall when God will humble a King if the crosse of his Crown will not do it the l●sse of it shall that Prince must part with his kingdome rather then keep his sin and may not this be our case this day God hath dealt severely with our Gracious Prince and why so we trust to make him Humble 5 Banisht Princes if once restored may likewise prove Great and Glorious Princes you know if men build high they lay their foundation low 't is thus with God Ioseph must be made the Second man in Pharaoh's Kingdom yea but Joseph must first ly a Prisoner in the Gaol Daniel must be made Ruler over all the province of Babylon yea but Daniel must be made a Captive first Christ Iesus ascends into the highest heavens yea but first hee must down into the lowest hell 'T is said Hee that humbleth himselfe shall be exalted wee may also say hee whom God humbleth shall be exalted Mat. 23. 12. it is God's usuall Method whom he intends to advance he first degrades as for sinners that of the Poet is true tolluntur in altum Vt lapsu graviore ruant God mounts them upon high that their fall may be the greater but as for Saints God layeth them low that their rise may be the higher Well and who can tell but this may be God's design this day in England who knoweth but God hath kept our Gracious Soveraigne low on purpose to mount him higher It 's true it may be our Prince till now was not fit for his Throne yea and it may be till now his Throne was not fit for him Some persons in their Minority grow but little yet afterwards they shoot up apace our King in his Minority hath been at a stand but now who can tell but God intends to adde many cubits to his stature Diam●nds soundly rub'd shine the brighter Spices soundly bruised and pounded smell the sweeter never doth the Sun seem more glorious then after an Eclypse and who can tell but God hath kept England's Sun under clouds of obscurity that at length his beames may breake out with greater lustre what Israel's David saith of himselfe wee trust may be said of Englands David too Great is his glory in thy salvation The greater his sufferings were once the greater his Honour now the heavier his Ps 21. ● crosse the brighter his Crowne 6. Banisht Princes when once restored will likely prove beloved Princes Never did David see more of his peoples affection then at his returne from his banishment David was now the more in the heart of his Subjects because he had been out of their eye That of the Roman Oratour is usually true carendo magis quàm fruendo bona intelligimus wee see and prize the goodnesse of things rather in their want then in their Enjoyment never did that woman so highly rejoyce over her little piece of Silver till it came to this I have sound the piece which I had lost Never did that Luk. 15. 9 Father so much rejoyce over his Prodigall son as when it came to this This my son was lost and is found things of any value if once Luk. 15. 24. lost are valued higher upon a recovery to want their possession is the best way to raise their Price Well and hath not God raised the Price of Kings this day in England I am perswaded our Gracious Prince is not more welcome to the house of the King then to the hearts of his Subjects do not ours soules stand as wide open to receive him as his own Gates possibly can do God hath given him the command not of our purses onely but of our affections too tell me who can whether England hath shed more Teares of sorrow for the losse of the Fath●r or Teares of joy for the restitution of the Son Surely never did any King of England die more lamented then the father never did any King of England come in more desired then the Son and why so alas England hath sorely wanted her King Sometimes Anarchy hath been our Grievance and what wonder then if Monarchy prove our joy we have sometimes groaned under the Tyranny of a Common-wealth and what wonder then if wee rejoyce under the Government of a King I am perswaded if God had not removed our King wee had prized and loved him lesse the Advantage is his as wel as ours what by his Banishment he hath l●st in his Revenu●s by his returne he hath gain●d in the affections of his people Now the result of all is this when God banisheth a King he may intend him mercy and consequently a Kings banishment can be no Argument that God disowneth him 2. God hath remarkably owned our Gracious King in the dispensations of his Providence indeed it is no easy matter to understand the voice of God speaking by his Providence yet so far as man can rationally become Gods interpreter this voyce of his Providence seems to whisper this language Namely that the King of England is a King in favour with God see how God seemes to own him in two Particulars 1. God seems remarkably to own our Gracious King in the preservation of his lif● Surely when God is pleased wonderfully to interpose for the preservation of a Person it looks like an an Argument that God hath something more then Ordinary to doe for and with that Man Now that this is our Kings case I shall evidence by these two Particulars 1. God did Wonderfully preserve the life of our King in the day of battel But you will say for a person to escape in a battel is that a Won●er I answer our Kings escape that day was more then Ordinary for 1. The Army that pursue● and sought the King I mean at Worcester was much more numerous and stronger then