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A81140	Davids prayer for Solomon, containing the proper endowments and duty royall of a king, with the consequent blessings upon a kingdome. Delivered in a sermon at Christ-Church London, before the Right Honourable the Lord Major, the right worshipfull the aldermen his bretheren, together with the worshipfull companies of the said city, upon the 27th. of March, 1643. Being the commemoration of his Majesties inauguration. By Joseph Caryl, preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolnes Inne. It is this present eight day of Aprill, anno Domini, 1643. Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this sermon intituled (Davids Prayer for Solomon, containing, the proper endowments and duty royall of a King, &c.) be printed and published. John White.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing C750; Thomason E97_12; ESTC R13263	23,752	44

We complaine that Iudgement is turned backward and that Righteousnesse cannot enter What should we doe then but pray that God would give the King his judgements and his Righteousnesse And if we cannot yet say as that Bishop resolved Austins Mother in the case of him her Sonne That a King of so many prayers as have hitherto been made cannot possibly miscarry yet let us resolve to adde and to adde so many prayers as may if it be possible put it to an impossibility that He should miscarry or that the great businesses now before him should That so His Majesty judging with Righteousnesse and his people obeying with cheerfullnesse The Mountains may bring forth peace to All and All may bring Glory to God in advancing the Kingdom of our Lord Iesus Christ I know this uses to be a day of annoynting the King with praises I beleeve we shall doe a more acceptable service both to God and His Majesty If we turne Praises into Prayers and our Encomion of him into a cry to Heaven for him he hath more of the Subject in him that commends the King to God then he that commends him among men I know likewise that this uses to be a day of Rejoycing in and for the King What shall I say May I not say as the Story tells us in Ezra 3. 12. When the foundation of the second Temple was laid The voyce of the shout could not be heard from the voyce of weeping Have we not all cause to take up a Lamentation for our King this day Ought not our Harpe this day as Iob speakes to be turned into mourning and our Organ into the voyce of them that weep Ought we not with that Mourner in the Psalm to eat ashes like bread and to mingle our drinke with teares When God makes a change in times it becomes us to make a change also The Storke in the Heavens the Turtle the Crane and the Swallow These will reprove us if we know not the judgement of the Lord Ier. 8. 7. At such a time as this we as Solomon Eccles 2. 2. may say of Laughter it is madd and of mirth what doth it Times of trouble are times of Sorrow Then there is nothing now musicall but sighes no Song in Tune but a Lamentation Yea I hope it will not be distastfull I know it is seasonable at this time to say even unto the King and unto the Queene as the Prophet Ieremiah directs in the 13. of his Prophesie 18. Say unto the King and unto the Queene sit downe humble your selves I will not adde that which followes I have no Commission for it for your Principalities shall come downe even the Crowne of your glory But thus much I may say to the King and to the Queene humble your selves sit downe for the glory and beauty of your Principalities are very much darken'd and obscur'd even the Crowne of your glory O The darknesse that is upon Ireland O the darknesse and the death that sits upon the face of this your Kingdome of England Therfore it were seasonable to say unto the King and to the Queene if present and I shall say it of them though absent Sit downe and humble your selves for your Principalities are much fallen from their former beauty yea I would say thus much more unto the King and unto the Queene humble your selves sit downe that your principalities may be restor'd to their former beauty even the Crowne of your Glory When Princes are humbled their Principalities cannot be long unsetled That which the Apostle Iames speakes concerning all is as true concerning Kings as any Humble your selves under the mighty hand of God Ye Mighty ones that Ye may be exalted in due time Let us all humble our selves under the mighty hand of God let us in stead of exulting and rejoycing tremble before God in confessing how We and our King our Princes our Nobles our Magistrates and our Prophets have all sin'd before our God and have therefore given him just cause to cast downe this whole Principalitie even the Crowne of all our glory If we shall this day throughly plow up our hearts and going forth weeping beare this precious Seed we may at the next day of this Solemnity come hither againe with joy and bring our Sheaves of Comfort with us Against that Feast I hope Christ will worke this miracle for us little lesse then a miracle can do it turne our water into wine And give us beauty for Ashes the garment of praise for this spirit of Heavinesse FINIS Errata in some Copies Pag. 5 l 12. for Suam reade Suum● Pag 14 l 30. for Blood reade Bloody

seeme to lie levell with Nature Then surely Kings must be taught of God that transcendent mistery To governe Men to manure Nations They who are borne of the most Noble Progenitours yea they who are borne of the most Holy Progenitours are borne with nothing as from nature but with cruelty in their hearts and with violence in their hands Therefore pray Give the King thy judgements O God Secondly If we consider the condition of Kings we had need to pray this prayer the estate of Magistracy is an estate full of care The Crowne of a King is set with rich stones but it is lined with cares And they who have many cares had need of many prayers prayers of their owne and prayers from others The Apostles counsell is Be carefull in nothing but in all things with prayer and supplication make your requests knowne to God as nothing that care would eate a man out quickly unlesse prayer doe preserve him There is many a man consumed with the care of a single family yea some are consumed with the care of single selfe what then thinke you may the cares of a whole Kingdome what the care of three Kingdomes doe upon one man unlesse prayer prop him up therefore pray Give the King thy judgements O God Thirdly They that are encompass'd with temptations had need be encompass'd about with prayers and intercessions To be a King is a temptation No man knowes what his heart wo●ld be if he had so much power as a King in his hand as he said once can you tell me what you would be if you were a Lyon if to be a rich man be a temptation if to have riches be a temptation then much more to be a King to be the Earthly Center of Power is a temptation To be rich is so great a temptation that Christ tells us It is a hard thing for a richman to enter into the Kingdome of Heaven harder then for a Camell to goe through the eye of a needle If baggs of money if Lands and Houses be such temptations what are Crownes and Scepters And as the very estate it selfe of a King is a temptation so there are multitudes of temptations waiting upon and hanging about that estate A King can hardly set his foot out of his Chamber-doore but he treads upon a temptation A King can hardly heare a word I was about to say a Sermon but he heares a temptation some Sermons have more temptations in them then instructions he can hardly cast an eye but he lookes upon a temptation Now seeing a King hath so many temptations about him let him have store of prayers about him Prayer is the best Antidote against temptation Especially when we pray for Him as Christ teaches every one to pray for himselfe with others Lord leade not the King into temptation Lastly The Kings heart is in the hand of God Pro. 21. 1. And the hand of God is ordinarily in the prayers of his people God moves Kings and prayer moves God A Kings heart is so high that nothing can reach it but God And God is so high that nothing can reach him but prayer When a people have lost the key of their Kings heart prayer is a golden pick-lock to open it Further prayer doth not only prevaile with God to open the lock of a Kings heart but when need is to fashion it anew The Lord saith David Psal 33. 13 14 15. looketh downe from Heaven and he beholdeth all the sonnes of men From the place of his habitation he beholdeth all the Inhabitants of the Earth he fashioneth their hearts alike Alike Not that the hearts of all men are cast in the same mould Indeed the hearts of all men by nature are cast in the same mould they are of the same Make As face answereth face in the water so doe the hearts of the children of men That is they are all sinfull But if their hearts were in all respects alike their thoughts and counsels and actions would be a like too but the truth is there is not so much difference in the faces of men as there is in the hearts of men and therefore we cannot understand the Psalme thus that God makes all mens hearts of the same likenesse But take the meaning thus when God looks from Heaven and beholds all the Inhabitants of the Earth he can fashion the heart of one alike as he fashioneth the heart of another that is looke as ●ee is able to fashion the heart of a meane man so hee is able to fashion the heart of a mighty man as hee is able to fashion the heart of a Subject so hee is able to fashion the heart of a King Thus he fashions their hearts alike when wee put the heart of a King into the hand of God to fashion wee put a curious pee●e into his hand The heart of a King is the most curious peece of worke in the world Yet God can alike namely as soone and with as much ease fashion and frame that curious peece as he doth the plainest peece in the world he fashions all their hearts alike and therefore if we would have the heart of a King fashioned we must put it out to God who only can doe it and who can easily doe it Now there is nothing can carry a Kings heart to fashioning unto God but onely Prayer therefore you see the necessity of this duty Then let the King pray this Prayer for himselfe Kings should not put all prayer-worke out to others it is better to get a Blessing then to have it Then let us pray this Prayer for the King It is a duty which we have as much need to pay unto our King as any people under Heaven Then pay this Tribute of Prayer unto the King it may be a richer revenue to him then all that he hath in the world besides This may bring him in greater honour greater glory and greater prosperity then all that ever our purses or our persons our councels or our indeavours can bring him in And me thinks we are now in a speciall manner engaged to it at this time First The whole Kingdome shakes now then surely the Throne that being the Basis of it cannot stand so fast as heretofore therefore pray thus For His Throne is established in Righteousnesse Prov. 25. 5. Iudgement and Righteousnesse are the Pillars of the State and stronger Supporters of the Kings Armes then the Lyon or the Vnicorne Secondly We who desire the fashioning of so many things both in Church and Common-wealth by the hand of our King had need pray that our Kings heart may be exactly fashioned by the hand of God Thirdly We who have complained long That the heart of our King is stollen away from us how shall wee rescue and fetch it backe againe but by prayer Though any other course should gaine his person to us yet no other course can gain his heart to us Holy Prayers will at last over-match unholy Counsels Againe