as obedient to his Commands as Israel was to Solomon's Whose Excellent President I have chosen to set before you to Copy after A Text which you must needs by this time see to be proper and pertinent and such as by the Blessing of God is made very seasonable and suitable to this Day 's Solemnity Which if it had fall'n into the hands of one whom better Parts and more Leisure had fitted for this Service might have afforded you a Discourse not Inferiour to what this great and first Anniversary Solemnity might teach you to expect But the happy Occasion of our meeting and your own obvious Meditations upon it will easily draw out the Paralel between this People in my Text and your selves without the help of a Preacher The main Ingredients which concur to the completing the happiness of any Kingdom you will find to meet here in my Text A Wise and devout King a Loyal and Religious People and a good understanding between them Solomon takes care to build and adorn the Temple of God and the People contribute freely and largely to it He brings the Ark of the Covenant into the City of David they attended it with all due Solemnity he establish'd Religion by a Law and the People take special notice of the Honour and Welfare of Religion under his Government Vers 11. of the Glory of the Lord filling the House of the Lord as a testimony of his owning what the King and they had done Vers 30. and of God's hearkning to the King 's and their Prayers in the House which he in their sight had newly Dedicated to him Prov. iij. 9. He honoured God with his substance and with the first-Fruits of his Increase he Sacrific'd Two and twenty thousand Vers 63. Oxen and an Hundred and twenty thousand Sheep They were well pleased with his Royal and Religious Performances and his Peace-Offering to the Lord this was the Joy of their hearts and they feasted themselves with the Remembrance of it to see Holiness and Happiness meet together Piety and Prosperity kiss each other Vers 65. Solomon held a Feast and all Israel with him a great Congregation Seven days and Seven days and on the Eighth day he sent the people away and they Blessed the King and went unto their Tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his Servant and for Israel his people God hath blessed us with a Prince at this time not inferiour to him in my Text for his Knowledge and Conduct in Government one who hath been brought up most part of his Life in the School of Affliction which hath wrought Patience and Patience such Experience in him such knowledge of Men and Business that if he do not by Judgment Establish this Kingdom the fault will not be his but our own For we cannot expect either from God or the King to be made happy whether we will or no we may pull down Destruction upon our selves and our Posterity by the very same methods that we did in his Father's time we may be Destroyers of our selves and the establish'd Religion and make our selves Examples of God's and the King's Justice But if we will take Example of this people in my Text the Sons of Zerviah shall never be too hard for our David nor will he ever be out of love with us or our Religion Loyalty is the King's Joy the Kingdoms Happiness and the Subjects Glory and if all people would be Loyal no Kingdom could be miserable I am sure not ours All the ties of Duty and Gratitude do at this time indispensably oblige us to it and to give his Sacred Majesty the best assurance we can that we know our Duty and that we are firmly resolv'd to act according to it as did this people in my Text On the Eighth day he sent the people away and they blessed the King and went unto their Tents joyful and glad of heart for all the Goodness that the Lord had done for David his Servant and for Israel his People In which words there are Five Particulars observable I. Regia populi Dismissio the Royal Dismission of the People On the Eighth day he sent the People away II. Populi Benedictio Votiva the People's dutiful Valediction They blessed the King at parting III. Populi Submissio the Peoples ready Submission They went unto their Tents IV. Populi Exultatio the People's Satisfaction and Triumph They were joyful and glad of heart V. Exultationis ratio the good Ground and just Reason of their Triumph 'T was for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his Servant and for Israel his People I shall endeavour to Explain and Apply each of these Particulars in its order The first whereof is I. Regia Populi Dismissio the Dismission of the People when and by whom it was made Arab. Octavo a septem postremis post solennitatem die On the Eighth from the latter Seven days Solemnity of the Dedication or Encoenia such as our Wake-Days and Church-Feasts are for in both Solemnities there were Fourteen Days Seven for the Dedication and the other Seven for the Feast of Tabernacles which began on the Fifteenth of September After the exact Termination whereof Solomon informed the People then Assembled from the Eastern to the Western-borders of his Dominions of their Duty to God and the King and having made a Collection among them to defray the charge of the Sacrifices which had been offer'd when they had done the business for and unto which he call'd them he lets them know That he was not willing to detain them any longer from their private Employments and that he dispensed with their farther Attendance and gave them leave to depart on the morrow Which they accordingly did on the 23. of September with their Hearts as light as their Purses they carried away little Money but much Mirth along with them into the Country and were so far from grudging what they had so piously spent in God's and the King's Service that they gloried in its Acceptance and thought their Moneys well bestow'd and their Journey well paid for The Subjection of the People to their Prince was then thought as natural as that of Children to their Parents they never dream't of a State of natural Freedom When he call'd them they came and when he dismissed them they went away I wish the same Prudence Temper and Moderation had always been in all our fellow Subjects then would not that wild Notion and seditious Opinion ever have been broached among us That the King cannot Prorogue or Dissolve his Parliaments in which his People are Representatively Assembled till their Petitions be answer'd and their Grievances redressed or that they may tarry till they dismiss themselves and not depart when the King thinks fit and convenient as Solomon's People in my Text did with great Submission and Satisfaction which they intimated to the King when it was
A SERMON PREACHED upon the Anniversary Solemnity OF THE Happy Inauguration OF Our Dread Soveraign LORD King JAMES II. In the Collegiate Church of Ripon February the 6 th 1685 6 By THOMAS CARTWRIGHT D.D. Dean of Ripon and Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed by J. Leake and are to be Sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner MDCLXXXVI To my LORD THE Lord HENRY EARL of PETERBOROW Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to His MAJESTY one of the Lords of the Honourable Privy-Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER My LORD HOmilies are by our Rubrick and the Statute to give place to Sermons where they may be had and therefore the Minister who Officiates on the King's-Day is obliged rather to Preach a Sermon of his own Composing upon the same Argument than to Read the Homily concerning Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates This I doubt not was chearfully done by Persons and in Places of the greatest Eminency and we in the Country thought our selves bound to be as Dutiful as those in higher places as Affectionate to his Majesty's Service tho' not so Eloquent And tho' many of Richer Parts have of their Abundance cast much more into this Treasury yet Men of Meanest need not despair of His Majesty's Gracious Acceptance Mar. xij 42. whilst like the poor Widow in the Gospel they come to Express their Pious Officiousness to Support his Crown by their Oblations tho' they betray their Poverty by the Meanness of them and shew how much greater their Zeal is than their Abilities to serve Him This I did as well as I could in His Majesty's Collegiate Church of Ripon nor is it Ostentation that makes me Preach it over again from the Press but pure Charity towards the Cure of the Leprosie of those Rebellious Principles which every Priest must needs see tokens enough to discern to be that Plague in the Head which renders too many among our People so utterly unclean as that they are only fit to dwell alone and without the Camp of Israel Lev. xiij 44. ves 46. And as the Priest under the Law who attempted the Cure of any other Leper was by God's Direction to begin at the Right Ear xiv 14. and from thence to proceed to his Right Hand so I thought my self obliged to Print what I had Preach'd that they might Handle what they had heard and be the more perfectly Convinc'd how much it concerns us to Endeavour their Cure and them to join with us in our Prayers to God for the Perfecting it The Subject Convinces me how ready some will be to take Offence at the Author and Argument of this Sermon and tho' I neither fear the Censure nor court the Favour of Men so disaffected to the Government yet I thought my self obliged to make Choice of such a Patron as had been a Pattern of Loyalty to others and was Himself Able and Willing to Protect both and to Maintain that Truth which hath been the Rule of Your Life Your Lordships Devotion to Your Prince and Zeal for His Service being as well known as Your Person And tho' there be little in this Discourse Worthy of Your Judicious Eye or Owning Yet the Cause which it Pleads being That for which Your Honour hath always Expressed so Great a Concern as to venture Your Life and Estate in it makes me not Despair of its Acceptance And Your Eminent and Vndeserved Goodness of which I have had so long Experience secures my Pardon for Prefixing Your Name to it If my Abilities had born Proportion to my Will it should have been as far beyond as it now will fall short of Your Lordships Expectations But my Comfort is That as it gives me an Happy Opportunity to Testifie my Gratitude for Your former Favours so there will be a Power in Your Acceptance to make Plainness an Ornament and to Oblige others to think well of the mean but sincere Performances of him who accounts himself obliged to be as well as to subscribe himself My Lord Your Lordship's In all humble Duty and Unfeigned Observance THOMAS CARTWRIGHT 1 KINGS viij 66. On the Eighth day he sent the People away and they Blessed the King and went unto their Tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his Servant and for Israel his People WE are now happily Assembled in the Collegiate Church of Ripon endowed and conferr'd upon us by the Bounty of our Royal Founder King JAMES the First of ever blessed Memory in the Second Year of his Reign to Celebrate Aug. 2. 1604. according to the Laudable and Religions Practice of good Subjects in former Ages the Joyful Inauguration of his Grandson our Gracious Soveraign Lord King JAMES the Second on the First Day of the Second Year of his Reign And we may now remember with Comfort and Satisfaction to our Consciences how the Men of Ripon or our Friends of Ripon as they Ironically call'd us were singled out and traduced not many Years since by Julian Johnson Ferguson and other hot-spurs of the same Faction and Sedition who were then carrying on an Accursed Conspiracy against the Crown and Church of England and Exposed to the Madness of the People to be Ridicul'd and Revil'd for our early and then unfashionable Loyalty expressed in our Address in hopes that they might either have Laugh'd or Frighted us out of our Duty and Religion Now that we may testifie to the World our unmoveable Steadiness and the renewed Evidence of our Fidelity to the Crown in all unshaken Principles and Practises of Loyalty let us do the proper Work of the King's Day in its season Let us Bless God for the miraculous Disappointments of all the malicious Hopes and infernal Designs of those Blood-thirsty Men being not only agreeable to their Anti-Monarchical and Anti-Episcopal Principles but in truth inseparable from them Let us be joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord hath done for David his Servant and for Israel his People Shew your Love to his Person and your Zeal for his Government resign up your selves as you have done your Charter to Him not doubting of a proportionable Favour and Encouragement and as you have stood to your Prince in his severest Tryals according to your bounden Duty so let it not be in the power of any Discontented Persons whatsoever to Taint you with the least blemish of Disloyalty We want nothing blessed be God and the King as to our External State but what to wish for Do we not enjoy Peace Plenty and Liberty nay and the Best Religion in the World and why then should we disquiet our selves or others with the fanciful Imaginations and unreasonable Fears of future Evils for which in reality there appears no Foundation but in our own distemper'd Brains Let us do our Duty and the King his Pleasure let us not prevaricate with God or him but be
but what every Man himself pleas'd or that none should be pressed to fight against a Common Enemy this would look like a Glorious State of Liberty indeed through a pair of Popular Spectacles But if the King who is the best Judge of publick Necessity should see this would presently ruine his Kingdom he were not true to his Trust which God hath reposed in him if he should suffer them to keep their Money for his and their Enemies to make merry with and not call them both in their Purses and Persons to defend him and themselves against such Invasions So that the King may it seems make use of his Prerogative as God does of his Omnipotence upon some extraordinary Occasions For as my Lord Hobart well observes Colt and Glover against the Bp. of Litchfield The Statute Laws are made to ease him of his Labour not to deprive him of his Power and that he may make a Grant with a Non obstante to them And indeed the Power of Dispensing with particular Laws in some Emergencies is such a Lex Coronae such a Prerogative without which no Kingdom can be well Govern'd but Justice will be turn'd into Wormwood For there never was yet nor ever will be any humane Law fram'd with such exact Skill and Policy that it might not on some occasion or other be burdensom to the Subject and obstructive to the publick Good of the Common-Wealth There being particular Cases and Exigencies so infinitely various that 't is impossible for the Wit of Man to foresee or prevent them And therefore in all Government there must be a power Paramount to the written Law and we have good reason to bless God that this is lodg'd but in one and in him whom he hath set over us to be his Vicegerent by whose Authority they who break the Letter of the Law in pure Zeal and Loyalty to serve the ends of Government and to uphold the Crown on the right Head that does and ought to wear it may be releiv'd and pardon'd and rewarded too Suppose a Statute-Law made in Heat when the Nation was in a great Fright and Ferment and upon the false Suggestions and Depositions of them who were afterwards judicially convicted of being Perjur'd Villains should happen to run the Kingdom into one Mischief out of pure Zeal to avoid another Or suppose it should rob the King of his Rights of Government or his Subjects of their Birth-right or incapacitate them to serve him as by Oath and Duty bound even to the Quelling of an Invasion or open Rebellion which he could not do without their help Must the Kingdom be consum'd in a general Conflagration as the greatest City of it once was by Law If Contra Hostem Publicum quilibet Homo Miles be as true as it is a Common Maxime That every Man is in Commission to suppress a publick Rebellion then why such an Out-cry as if we were all undone or might be so by force of Popish Arms Why should Protestants only be at liberty to spend their Blood for the King and Kingdom 's Safety and the Papists sit still and look on Or why may not the King suspend such a Law when there is Hannibal ad portas as the Diseases of State and the various Exigences and posture of Affairs require and his own Prudence and Discretion shall direct him or invite him to it I do not see what irregularities might not be fairly excused in such Exigences by that Supreme Law of Necessity which bears down all Transgressions The King hath indeed promised to Govern by Law but the safety of the People is an Exception implied in every Monarchical Promise Nor must Policy or Popularity prevail against Piety And I am afraid that some of them who object this so smartly against the King have forgot how many Statute-Laws they themselves have broken and never yet call'd to account for them For which they have reason to bless God and the King and to be so very well pleased with his Clemency to them as not to grudge others to be sharers with them in the like Indulgencies We enjoy enough and we have no reason to desire that Men of as unquestionable Loyalty as our selves should be starved because they are not of our Religion when we neither deny them to be God's Israel nor the King's People We do not say That the Church of Rome is not a True Church tho' we affirm it to be a Corrupt one we like their Body well but not their Vlcers nor have we left Them but their Errors 'T is the same Naaman and he a Syrian still but Leprous with them and Cleansed with us Which we speak not out of censure but grief for we pity their Errors pray for their Conversion and long for a Re-union upon Terms of Faith Truth and Charity Nor indeed were we Catholicks or Christians if we did not And that the King may be convinc'd that we do it from the bottom of our Hearts Let him see that we envy none of his Perswasion any Expressions or Marks of his Royal Favour which he thinks fit to confer upon them and that our Eye is not Evil because he is Good We live I know in an unhappy Age wherein every Man is made to pass for a Romanist in Masquerade who will not be a bore-fac'd Rebel He must break all the Ties of Faith Truth and Justice and tamely subject all the Laws of God and the King to the imperious Dictates of some sly popular Incendiaries or else he is condemn'd without Mercy for a Betrayer of his Country and one who is willing to part with his Birth-right Priviledges and Religion But I have not so learned Christ nor am I afraid or ashamed of any Nick-Names that shall be given me for doing my Duty A good Conscience never wants courage nor does the Owner of it care more what Men say than what they dream of him when he discharges it And my Prayer to God shall always be That the People of England those especially committed to my charge may prove themselves as Loyal as did the People in my Text Who left the Government of the Kingdom to Solomon and went unto their Tents joyful and glad of heart which is the Fourth part of my Text to wit IV. Populi Exultatio the People's Triumph They were joyful and glad of heart The Wise-man tells us That there is a time to Weep for the sins and sufferings of our selves and others and such was that which we celebrated on Saturday last and a time to Rejoyce for the light of God's Countenace lifted upon us and our Relations For this we never had a more seasonable time than that which gives a Being and Authority to our present meeting Which affords us as much reason to rejoyce as the People in my Text had Joy being an Eccho a Religious Repercussion arising from the enjoyment of God's Mercy and a fulness of joy a dutiful Correspondence to the fulness of God's
Mercy Our returns must be answerable to our receipts Nor will true Gratitude be either sullen or silent If God gives us an Harvest of Mercy he expects a Tithe of Joy The People in my Text thought themselves infinitely happy that they had been any ways serviceable to their Soveraign's satisfaction And his gracious acceptance of their performances fill'd their Hearts so brim-full of Joy that it ran over at their Mouths as it is expressed in the Fifth part of my Text To wit V. Exultationis Ratio The just Cause of their Triumph which is also the cause of our present Assembly All the Goodness which the Lord hath done for David his Servant and for Israel his People God's Goodness is never entertain'd as it ought to be if not with Joy and Gladness of Heart the very end at which his Benefits aim being to make glad the Hearts of Men. And if such strong Cordials as these which are now Administred to us will not revive our drooping Spirits and make the Life of Joy return into our Hearts 't is because we are dead in Trespasses and Sins Either we are not sensible of his Favours or think them not worth our Regarding if we strive to smother them and will not give our hearts leave to inlarge upon them as the Jews here did who were truly sensible of what great things the Lord had done for their Nation and how little they deserved them 1. Regi The first thing at which they seem'd so transported is for the Mercies of God shewn to David in Himself and in his Posterity to Him and to his Son Solomon who succeeded him to whom he had given such an extraordinary Gift of Wisdom and Vnderstanding as no meer mortal Man could plausibly pretend to For which his People do not force a smile in their Faces but their Joy was Real and Cordial it kept their residence in their Hearts Not like some in this Kingdom who were never more merry then at his Majesties Afflictions and yet now upon the Turning of the times fashion themselves to shew a Mirth as well as they can from their Teeth outwards and pretend to be affected with Joy for that which if their former Words and Actions are to be credited is their greatest Grief that they are not able to hinder They are now Joyful as they were before Loyal only in Hypocrisy But tho' the King and his People may God is not to be deceived he searches the secret Corners of your Hearts and if this Days Joy be not rooted there he will never accept it As your Satisfaction is so will your Rejoycing be Joy being but an Expression of that Pleasure which we take in the Enjoyment of what we intimately wish'd for And if we understood either our Duty or our Interest our Necessities or Convenience must needs concentre in the happiness of our Gracious Soveraign which is Essential to our own For unless God's Goodness be shewn to David his Servant Israel his People must never expect it And therefore when they alledg'd the Cause of their Joy they give the King's Happiness the Pre-eminence which it ought to have and assign that for the First and Greatest It is now seasonable for us to consider how Gracious God hath been to that Glorious Martyr King Charles the First in preserving and recalling his Posterity to their own People and Inheritance in setting his Two Sons upon his Throne Those Stones which the Builders rejected have since been made the Head of the Corner This is the Lord 's doing and it ought to be marvellous in our Eyes and matter of Joy to our Hearts His late Majesty of Blessed Memory knew full well that he was oblig'd by all the Ties of Honour Justice and Conscience to maintain the Crown in its due and Legal course of Descent as he did against that Traiterous Bill of Exclusion which some restless Men would have Intruded upon him who used all the Black Arts of Hell to rob his present Majesty of his Birth-right and Succession and would have perverted the universal Principle of all Nations and acted contrary to the express Word of God to compass his Ruine as if any unnatural Injury might have been done that good might have come of it Tantum Religio potuit suadere Malorum Not considering that the securing of Religion could not have been that way attempted but with open Violation to it self and Justice But Liberty and Religion are two such powerful Words of Enchantment that the very noise of them produces real effects in the World and terrible ones too For the unthinking and easily-deluded Multitude are by the sound of these made Instruments to destroy the things themselves which they so eagerly contended for and cheated of all their golden Expectations at last of which they dream'd at first Next to this we are oblig'd to bless God for the many perils which his Majesty hath escaped by Sea Ps cxxiv 4. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side the waters had over-whelmed him and the streams had gone over his soul For his last miraculous Deliverance from the sinking Gloucester-Frigat that he did not then lose his Life with his Ship whilst a great part of his Retinue perished in his sight But that the God of our salvation who shews his wonders in the deep saved him out of many waters for our preservation and this days solemnity We are likewise to bless Almighty God for snatching him out of the Jaws of Destruction by delivering him miraculously from that Vnnatural and Hellish Conspiracy and Rebellion which was the natural Product of their Black Bill of Exclusion For they who would have Excluded the present King confessed with their last Breaths That they would have Murder'd the former as well as him From whence God's almighty Arm did rescue them and us even because he had a favour unto us The Enemies of our Soveraign Lord the King are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright Nor shall any Weapon which is formed against the Lord 's Anointed prosper Lastly We are to bless God for his deliverance from Two Rebellions in the First and his Peaceable entrance on the Second Year of his Reign to whom next to God and his good Angels we are most beholden for our national Happiness for all those miraculous Concurrences of his Providence which gave the Consecration to this glorious Day All which comprehensive Mercies call aloud upon us to sacrifice our unfeigned hearty Publick Thanks with one Heart and Voice to God for his transcendent Favours to David our King and Israel his People 2. Populo To Israel his people who by Solomon's means were freed from their Enemies and Bondage and kept in Peace and Safety Great is the goodness of God to the Land of our Nativity He hath made it both the envy and glory of the World Never had any Nation greater Evidences of his loving Kindness than we have had nor more at any time
than this Conceal them we must not Repeat them we cannot they are so many in number Forget them we dare not Disown them we will not God hath made us the very Darlings of Heaven and Happiness and courted us to Obedience by all the fair means imaginable and as if he meant to make us a president of Mercy to Posterity like Gideon's Fleece we have been full of the Divine Bounty when all the World besides was dry in comparison of us We came into no misfortunes like other Folks nor have we been plagued like other Men round about us Our Mess hath been like Benjamin's Five times bigger than the rest of our Brethren and we have plenty of all things richly to enjoy He hath not dealt with us after our Sins nor rewarded us according to our Iniquities and therefore let the unspeakable Goodness of our God lead us to Repentance or else the more he hath indulg'd us hitherto the greater reason have we to expect his severity for the time to come Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised when all the Malice and Power of Hell was raised to destroy him for keeping our gracious Soveraign under the shadow of his Wing to this day in assisting him by extraordinary Supplies of his Grace to undergo not only with Patience but Chearfulness the many Indignities they cast upon him and the Extremities to which they drove him and in giving him now at last the hearts of his Loyal Subjects and the necks of his Enemies Which I therefore mention under this Head because it is a Mercy to us as well as to him who are necessary Sharers in it And we were the most ungrateful Monsters in the World if we should not remember it and consider seriously how happy the People are who are in such a case yea how blessed are that People whose God is the Lord. Let us hang up our Votive Tables and manifest our publick and chearful Sense of these Mercies on this solemn Festivity and lest the more God in Mercy remembers us the sooner we forget both him and our selves let the rejoycing of our Lips be seconded with the reformation of our Lives 1 Sam. xij 25. For if we still do wickedly we shall be consumed both we and our King Let us love God and one another from this day forward more than ever we did for the King's sake The better Christians we become the better Subjects we shall be and the better Neigbours too Let us therefore forsake all those wasting sins which rob us of our Peace and Joy and remember that all outward formalities of Rejoycing are but insignificant Ceremonies if not accompanied with innocence and integrity To what purpose do we Ring our Bells Isai v. 18. if we resolve to draw Iniquity with Cords of Vanity and Sin as if it were with a Cart-rope till we pull down God's Judgments upon the King 's and our Heads To what end shall we kindle Bone-fires if we resolve to enkindle the Flames of God's displeasure by our provoking Sins to devour us into whose Hands it will be a fearful thing to fall for our God is a consuming Fire Heb. x. 31. Heb. xij 29. To what purpose do we please our selves if we resolve likewise to gratifie the King's and our Enemies nay and the Enemies of God and all goodness too For God's sake for the King's sake for the Church of England 's sake be dutiful Subjects to the King of Heaven in the first place and next under him to the King of Great Britain that God may never repent of his loving Kindness to him or us The Lord of Hosts who hath kept him in the day of trouble of his Infinite Mercy to him and us preserve him from it for the time to come the Lord help him from his Sanctuary and strengthen him out of Sion Let the Ark of his Presence be always precious to him and let the Presence of that Ark evermore preserve Him Let thy Hand O Lord be upon the Man of thy Right Hand Make him a constant Patron of thy Church and Truth Protect his Person and prosper his Government Bless him with wise and safe Councils and give him courage and constancy to pursue them Bless him in his Royal Consort our gracious Queen MARY the partner of his Afflictions as well as of his Glories and in that good time which shall be best for her and us fulfil her Joys and make her a fruitful Mother of many and happy Children and the King a Father of a numerous Posterity to Rule these Nations after him by Succession in all Ages and Generations O Lord Grant the King a long Life give him his Hearts desire and fulfil all his mind that we his Subjects under thee may see with joy and gladness of Heart That thou of thine infinite Goodness dost help thine Anointed and that thou wilt hear him from thy Holy Heaven and continue thy Loving Kindness to our David thy Servant and Israel thy People AMEN FINIS ADVERTISEMENT AT the Instance of many Eminent Persons of both Churches Superiours are consenting that of the English Sermons Preach'd before Their Majesties since the First Sunday of October last some be made Publick And because that which open'd the Preaching at Windsor has been much desir'd and the longest expected I Present the Reader with it in the First place The Author bids me Apologize for it as a slight Thing run up in haste But since it was well receiv'd it would be to question the Judgment of that most Honorable and most Learned Auditory to make any Excuse or to give it you with any Alterations or Amendment You have it therefore as it was spoke and will be follow'd by others of the same Hand he hopes more Correct