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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51394	A sermon preached at the magnificent coronation of the most high and mighty King Charles the IId King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. : at the Collegiate Church of S. Peter Westminster the 23d of April, being S. George's Day, 1661 / by George Lord Bishop of Worcester.	Morley, George, 1597-1684.	1661 (1661)	Wing M2794; ESTC R204353	35,240	71

Family if they be not Debauch'd from it even whilst the Prince is but a Child And much more if he be a Man and a Man before he is a King A man at his full Growth of Mind as well as of Body and of Body as well as of Mind even just such an one as we may imagine Adam to have been when he was newly made Monarch of the VVorld But till a King be a Man we know not what kind of Man he will be either for his Person or for his Parts whereas when we see him a Man and such a Man as we would wish to be our King though he had not been born to be so we are very unworthy of him if we be not very Thankful to God for him We know that the Comeliness and Gracefulness of a private mans person and much more of a Princes doth exceedingly either excuse the defects or set off the excellency of his parts and wonderfully indears him And whatsoever he does or says unto his people for Gratior est pulchro veniens de corpore virtus the same things said or done by a comely or uncomely by a graceful or ungraceful person have very different operations and effects in the minds of men Philip de Comines tells us that our Edward the fourth who as he saith was the goodliest Gentleman that ever he saw got twice possession of London and the Crown by the favour of the people whom the beauty and excellenlency of his shape had gain'd unto him So that it is a great felicity in a Soveraign Prince when it cannot be said of him as it was of Galba Galbae ingenium malê habitat but rather that he hath formam Principe dignam a shape worthy of a Prince such an one as Saul had then whom saith the Text there was not a goodlier person among all the children of Israel as well for the symmetry of his Limbs as the tallness of his Stature or such an one as Absalom was in whom besides his goodly Head of Hair from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head saith the Text there was no blemish And no doubt it was by this silent Rhetorick I mean the comeliness and gracefulness of his person as well as by his courteous and fair language that he stole away the hearts of the people which though it ill became a Subject yet nothing can more become a Soveraign Prince then to have it in his power to Captivate by his Looks and by his Words the hearts of his People at his pleasure without being at any Charge at all for it But if besides Comeliness and Gracefulness of shape Courtesie and Affability of Speech and behaviour together with Gravity and yet Serenity and Benigness of Aspect there be a Vigorous Manliness in his Mind and a promise of Long Life in the Healthfulness of his Constitution I know not what is to be wished for more but that he may have Mentem sanam in corpore sano that the Beauty of his Mind may be answerable to the beauty of his Body as it will be if he be a man of understanding and knowledge or such an one as understands and knows how to make Himself and his People happy And First he must be a man of Vnderstanding and then of Knowledge because if a man have not some Measure of Vnderstanding he is not capable of Knowledge as we see Natural fools and Madmen are not Again though a man have understanding to such a Degree as to make him Capable of the Knowledge of many things that are well worth the Knowing yet if he have not judgement and discretion to make use of that Knowledge or if that Knowledge make him never a whit the wiser it were as good for Himself and the World too that he knew nothing For though a man have Read never so many Books and Seen never so many Countries and Search'd never so many Languages and Gone through never so many Arts and Sciences yet if he be not naturally a man of judgement and understanding he may be a Fool for all this nay he may be a much more incurable Fool then he would be otherwise because his knowing so much makes him think himself wise when indeed he is not and this is such a Fool as Solomon saith Though you bray him in a Morter yet will not his foolishness depart from him Prov. 27.22 which makes good our English Proverb that the greatest Clerks are not alwayes the wisest men or as it is more sharply express'd in the Scotch Dialect an ounce of Mother wit is worth a pound of Clergy Again because there may be a bad as well as a good use made of a mans natural understanding and of his knowledge too therefore if a man have not such an understanding as to make a right use of his wit and of his knowledge in order to his Own and the Publick good it were better for such a man and the world too that he had no understanding nor knowledge at all for these are the men whose understanding and knowledge the Devil makes use of as he doth of his own Serpentine subtilty for the disturbing distracting and confounding of States and Kingdomes But the understanding my Text speaks of preserves and prolongs States and Kingdomes And therefore by a man of understanding in my Text is meant one that may be truly so called not in a Natural sense onely but in a Moral and Theological sense also One that hath good Morals as well as good Intellectuals one that is not Biassed by his own passions nor swayed by the flattery of others one that can and doth conform his will and affections unto his reason and his reason it self to Gods will revealed in his word as knowing his own reason may deceive him but Gods word rightly understood which is Gods Reason cannot To conclude by a man of understanding in my Text is meant one that hath an understanding heart as well as an understanding head Vir cordatus as the old Latines called a wise man And indeed generally through the whole Scripture wisdome is ascribed to the heart or seated in the heart thereby implying that True wisdome consisteth rather in practice then speculation and in doing our Duty rather then in knowing of it so that a man may be a very wise man in the sense of the world as all crafty men are though never so false and wicked and a very fool in the sense of the Scripture which calls every good man a wiseman and every wicked man a fool according to that of DAVID The fool hath said in his heart there is no God Psalm 14. and according to that of Job To fear the Lord That is wisdome and to depart from Evil That is understanding Job 28.28 And that 's indeed the understanding a Soveraign Prince ought to have in order to the making himself and his people happy but not exclusively to a good natural understanding for he must have that too