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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49704	A commemoration of King Charles his inauguration, or, A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse by William Laud ...	Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing L579; ESTC R200020	20,473	38

No thou canst not for no man can give himselfe that that he hath not and that that he hath already he needs not This our Prophet tels us plainly for though the King love judgement yet it is God that prepares Equity and Righteousnesse in Iacob O blessed are all they that waite for him For if they waite he will give and that no lesse then Iudgement his judgements to the King One circumstance behind yet is that the words are properly a prayer in th most native sense of prayer Not a thanksgiving only that God had given him his judgements For though God had given David his judgements and hee was thankfull for such a gift as this yet thinks here is not his proper work but humiliation and supplication And it is an excellent thing to see a King at his prayers for then you see two Kings at once a greater and a lesser King God and the King And though wee cannot see God as we see the King yet when wee see Majestie humbled and in the posture of a Supplicant we cannot in a sort but see that infinite unspeakable Majestie of that God whom even Kings adore and are made farre greater by their humblest adoration For when I pray you was Solomon the Son of this King at his greatest glory Surely you shall find him at his greatest then immediatly upon the finishing of the Temple And how doe you find Solomon there just at his Fathers worke he was there at his prayers upon his knees saith the text 1 King 8. upon his knees whereas now many meane unworthy men are loath to bow their knees or stoope in prayer to God Now this prayer was a prayer indeed for prayer is apt to beg not to buy he that pleads desert challengeth reward of dutie but hee that praieth relies upon the mercie and goodnesse of the Giver And this is the way that David comes to God both for himselfe and for his Son And I pray marke it David here the great example of a praying King hee saith not retribua domine Lord repay me for the paines of my government for my service of the people or for my worship to thy selfe there is none of this but da domine Give Lord that thou art able to doe by thy power that thou art ready to doe by thy goodnesse O Lord let not mine or my peoples unworthinesse hinder that Let not their murmuring and disobedience be hard so far as to thee but Lord give the King thy j●dgements and then I will execute them to thine honour and their good This was Davids way and it was prevalent And out of question be he King or Subject he that asks no more at Gods hands then either of both asks and shall have too little But God gives much to humble Sutors Iudgements and his judgements And neither the Prophet did ask nor God did give the earnest and pledge of this judgement only but judgement it selfe to the King And certainly the King had need to pray thus And so had the people as great need as the King for if this prayer be not made what assurance have you that God will give and if God will not give the King cannot have and if the King cannot receive justice and judgement hee cannot distribute it to the people v. 2. And if judgement be not distributed to the people there will be no peace vers. 3. And wher the people doe not receive judgement from the King and peace from themselves what are they Nothing but a heap of most infirm miserable creatures which you can never be as long as God gives his Iudgements to the King and his Righteousnesse to the Kings sonne● I have now done with the first generall part of the text and it is time to descend from the King to his Son the second part of the Fathers Prayer And thy Righteousnesse to the Kings son give Lord Where first thoug● it be not exprest in the text it may easily bee conceiv●d that such a King as David prayed for a Son before he prayed for Righteousnesse to be given him and though David had divers sons before yet in some respect or other they were all to David as no sons therefore there is no question to bee made but he prayed for him I and therefore too when God had given him Solomon hee cals him not bare his son but his only son Chro. 29. And no marvell since he was that son that God himselfe appointed to succeed in the kingdome for David 1 Chron. 28. and such a son is alway worth the praying for Well but what then when God had given David Solomon when God hath given any other King a son as hee hath given our gracious King Gods name be ever blessed what then is the Kings prayers then or the peoples at an end No nothing lesse nay there is more need a great deale both for the King and for the people to goe on in their prayers as David did that the same God that hath given his judgements to the King will proceed and Give his Righteousnesse to the Kings son For it is a greater blessing to the King when God gives his righteousnesse to his son then when he gives him a son For if Solomon succeed not David in his love to the Temple as well as the Throne if he inherit not the truth of his fathers Religion as well as the right of his Crown if he follow not his Fathers devotion and pray for Iustice and Iudgement to be given him as well as other temporarie blessings the very blessings of the Son would end in bitterness and be the discomfort and dishonour of the Father But it is the wise and prudent son that is the Fathers Crown and the Mothers joy Prov. 10 And then the blessing of a son is a blessing indeed David saw this therfore he continued his prayers And it is more then fit for other Kings to doe so too Thy Iudgements Lord give the King and thy Righteousnesse to the Kings son And for the people they have great need not only to say Amen to the prayers of the King but to repeate the prayer and with fervencie to drive it in at the ears of God that so their children after them may bee as happy under the son as they themselves were under the Father while God gives both the Father and the Son zeale to his truth and judgement over his people And here I should take occasion to tell you of the care and devotion of our David in his dayes and of his prayers both for himselfe his Son but that the age is so bad that they will not beleeve that hee is so good beyond them And some for they are but some are so waspishly set to sting that nothing can please their ears unless it sharpen their edge against autho●ity But take heed for if this fa●lt be not amended Justice may seize upon them that are guilty God knows how soone and the Kings Iudgement