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land_n	english_a	king_n	lord_n	1,488	5	3.5153	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59875	A sermon preached at St. Margarets VVestminster, May 29. 1685. before the Honourable House of Commons By William Sherlock, D.D. Master of the Temple, and chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty.	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1685 (1685)	Wing S3346; ESTC R220262	10,236	16

A SERMON PREACHED At St. Margarets VVestminster May 29. 1685. Before the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS By William Sherlock D. D. Master of the TEMPLE And Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY DUBLIN Reprinted by Benjamin Took Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty And are to be sold by Samuel Helsham at the Colledge-Arms in Castle-Street 1685. Sabbati 30 die Maii 1685. Ordered THat the Thanks of this House be given to Dr. Sherlock for his Excellent Sermon Yesterday Preached before this House And that he be desired by this House to Print the same And that Mr. Dolben do present him with the Thanks and acquaint him with the Desire of the House Paul Jodrel Cler. Dom. Com. 10 ECCLES 17. Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the Son of Nobles VVHen the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them that dream Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing then said they among the heathen The Lord hath done great things for them 126 Ps 1 2. Which the Psalmist spoke of the deliverance of the Jews from the Babilonish captivity but is very easily naturally applied to the occasion of this present Solemnity For I hope we have not so soon forgot with what surprizing Joy we beheld our banished Prince return again to his Throne who brought back with him our Laws our Liberties and our Religion that is brought England into England again which was banished with its Prince without changing its Place and Climate And though that beloved and admired Prince who gave the first lustre and glory to this day now sleeps with his Fathers and has only lest us the memory of his Princely Vertues to adorn the Records of Time and the Succession of English Kings yet this day ought not to be forgot which restored to us not only a Mortal Prince whom wee could not expect should live for ever but the Royal Family which we hope and pray may be Immortal Though the Great CHARLES be dead the King lives still in his Royal Brother who was the Rightful Heir of his Crown and the Partner of all his Joys and Sorrows who was banished with him and who returned with him and augmented the brightness of this day by his united Beams a Prince who equals the greatest Examples of former Kings and as we have reason to hope will leave a greater to those who follow It was not the Throngs and Crowds of People which met their returning Prince nor those loud and joyful acclamation● wh rewith they we comed him to his Country and Throne it was not the external Pomp 〈…〉 could make it nay it was not meerly the transporting sight of a prince who was now endeared by long absence and by the Oppressions and Injuries of Usurpers who after ten thousand Indignities returned with all the Expressions of a Princely Goodness and Indemnity I say though these were all very affecting Circumstances and added much to raise and heighten a present Passion yet they were not the true Glory of this day which consisted in restoring the English Monarchy in the Royal Line for this we bless God and for the continuance of this we pray this day and if we believe King Solomon there is great reason for both for it is as great a Blessing as any Nation can enjoy Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the Son of Nobles The words are so plain that I cannot think of any plainer to express their sence by and therefore not to loose time in a needless Explication there are three things observable in them 1. That Kingly Government is a great Blessing for it cannot be a blessing to have our King the Son of Nobles if it be not a Blessing to have a King 2. That the noble Decent and Extraction of a King is a great Blessing to a Nation as my Text expresly says Blessed art thou O Land c. And the natural inference from this is 3. That an Hereditary Monarchy is a great Blessing for we are secure that our Kings are the Sons of Nobles when the Son inherits the Fathers Crown 1. That Kingly Government is a great Blessing As for that dispute Whether Kingly Government be by Divine Right if by Divine Right we mean a positive Law and Institution of God that all Nations shall be governed by Kings I finde no such thing in Scripture which is the only Revelation of the Divine Will but if by Divine Right we mean only such an intimation of the will of God as we can learn from the appearances of nature and providence I dare boldly affirm that Kingly government is by Divine Right that is is most agreeable to all those notices we have of the Will of God from the original frame and constitution of Nature and from the dispensations of providence which though it be not sufficient to condemn all other Governments as unlawful yet it advances Monarchy above all other Forms of Government when it appears that God himself has at least given the preference to it The History of the Creation is a plain proof of this for God made but one Man to whom he gave the Dominion and Empire of the World who was the natural Lord as well as Father of all his posterity which 〈…〉 ●reating but one Man and one Woman is against Divorce which yet is ●ur Saviours Argument 10 Mark 7 8 9. Thus it was at the new peopling of the World after the Flood God ●eft but one Independent Head of a Family Noah who had a Paternal ●nd Regal Authority over his Sons and their Posterity So that Man●ind were born under a Monarchical Government which therefore is ●he first and the most natural Government instituted by God by the ●ery Laws of our Creation for when God made but one man who ●y the Law of Nature has a right to govern his own Children who ●hen were all Mankind he made him a natural Monarch We have no Histories of those Times to acquaint us how the Go●ernment descended but we have all the reason in the World to be●eve that as Adam and Noah govern'd by a Paternal Right so when ●ankind increased and grew too numerous to dwell together they ●ere formed into distinct Kingdoms under the Government of the ●eads and Princes of their several Families for in those days they knew ●o other right of Government but what was Natural and Paternal I urge this only to prove that Monarchy is the original form of Go●ernment instituted by God himself not that every Monarch must ●●ve the same Right to Government which Adam and Noah had for ●●en there is no Prince in the World can make good his Title to the ●rown But these are very distinct questions what is that form of Go●ernment which God appointed and by what Right a particular ●●ince can challenge this Authority In the first Ages of the World ●●hile the lineal descent of Families was known there could be no dis●●te about the