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A sermon preached at VVhite-hall, on the 24. of March, 1621 Beeing the day of the beginning of his Maiesties most gracious reigne. By the Bishop of S. Dauids.
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Laud, William, 1573-1645.
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the third person as of another King mee thinkes the prophecie is worth the bringing home to our most gracious Soueraigne For his constancie in Religion is knowen to the world And the freedome of his life argues his trust in the Lord And the assurance of his Hope shall not vanish For let him keepe to the mercy of the Highest and there hee shall not miscarry And giue mee leaue to speake a little out of my Spes in Domino my trust in the Lord mee thinkes I see Non commouebitur Hee shall not miscarrie three wayes doubling vpon him First for his Priuate I haue two great inducements among many in another Kingdome to thinke that hee is so firme in the mercies of God that hee cannot miscarry The one is as old as Nouemb 5. 1605. The powder was ready then but the Fire could not kindle The other is as young as Ianuary last the 9. The water was too ready then and hee fell into it Neither of these Elements haue any mercy but the mercy of the Highest was His Acquittance from both In the first hee learned that when desperate men haue sacramented themselues to destroy God can preuent and deliuer Act. 24. In the second he learn'd that a Horse is but a vaine thing to saue a man but God can take vp take out and deliuer And in the very Psalmes for that day Morning prayer thus I reade Psal. 46. God is our helpe and strength a very present helpe in trouble And I know not what better vse hee can make of this then that which followes in the next verse I will not feare nor distrust God though the earth be mooued Next me thinkes I haue a Non commouebitur hee shall not miscarry for or in his publike affaires Prophet I am none but my Heart is full that the mercy of the Highest which hath preserued Him in great sickenesses and from great dangers hath more worke for him yet to doe the Peace of Christendome is yet to settle Will God honour this Iland in him and by his wisedome to order the Peace and settle the distracted State of Christendome and edge the sword vpon the common Enemie of Christ Why should there not be trust in God that in the mercy of the Highest he shall not miscarry Thirdly For that which is greater then both these to him the Eternall safetie of his Soule here is a Non commouebitur hee shall not miscarry for this neither For so some read and some expound the word of my Text Thou shalt giue him Euerlasting felicitie Therefore let him be strong and of a good courage for in the mercy of the most High there is no miscarrying Thus you haue seene the Kings blessing the Kings Ioy the Kings Hope and the Kings Assurance In the first you haue seene that the King is a Blessing to his People that a gracious King such as God hath giuen vs is a Blessing for Euer That he is so Quia tu dedisti because God hath giuen and set him to bee so from Blessing to Ioy. And there you haue seene that the Ioy which followes a Blessed gouerment is a great Ioy a true and a permanent Ioy a Ioy that is either first or chiefest in the King Now Blessing and Ioy are both grounded vpon Hope this Hope in the Lord this Hope includes Faith and Religion and so this Hope stands amidst the foundations of Kings The Successe assured vnto him is Non commouebitur hee shall not miscary not so long as hee rests on Mercie that Mercie of the Highest Non commouebitur driue wind and tide he shall not miscarry Shall not what is it absolute then for Dauid or for any King No I say not so neither There is a double condition in the Text if Dauid will not miscary the one is Ex parte Dauidis on Dauids side and that is at Sperat a religious heart to God that cannot but trust in him The other is Ex parte Dei on Gods side and that is at Misericordia a mercifull prouidence ouer the King which knowes not how to forsake till it be forsaken if it doe then Let vs call in the Prophet for witnesse Psal. 94. When I said My foot hath slipped thy mercie O Lord held mee vp Now the foote of a man slips from the condition from the trust as Cassian obserues Mobilitate Arbitrij by the changings of the will which is too free to sinne and breach of trust the Holder vp in the slip is Mercie therefore it is safest relying vpon the condition which is on Gods side that is Mercy for that holds firme when men breake And marke my Text Hope goes before and Non commouebitur hee shall not miscary followes after but yet it followes not till the Mercy of the Highest bee come in betweene And indeed to speake properly all those things which the Scripture attributes to the Faith and Hope of man are due onely Misericordiae Altissimi to the Mercy of the Highest which both giues and rewards them And yet for all this the Hope of the Beleeuer and the mercie of God in whom hee trust's are happily ioyned in my Text. Because the Hope of Faith can obtaine nothing without the Mercie of the Highest And that Mercie goodnes will not profit any man that doth not beleeue trust in it And Hope and Mercie are not better fitted to secure Dauid then Mercie and the Highest are to make him apprehensiue of his assurance For Goodnesse and Mercie are inualid without Power Now that is supplied by Altissimus the Highest And power is full of terrour when it stands apart from goodnesse and that is supplied by Mercie When both meete the Hope of man is full So Dauid cannot but see all firme on Gods side And sure hee is not to miscarry if hee looke to performance of his owne And though it be safestelying vpon God yet it is neuer safe to disioyne them whom God hath put together And therefore as hee is mercifull so man must bee faithfull Hee must trust And now to end at home Dauid is gone long since to his Hope the Mercy of the Highest But a King a gracious King is liuing ouer vs in Peace and Happinesse as our eyes see this day I know Hee remembers why God set Him ouer this great and numerous people that is in Benedictionem euen to blesse them And that he hath beene a Blessing vnto them malice it selfe cannot deny And I make no question but hee will goe on with the Text and be Blessings to them for euer For euer through his whole time and for euer in his generous Posteritie Tu dedisti Gods gift is through all this and I will euer pray that it may neuer faile He hath giuen this people all His time the Blessing of Peace And the sweete Peace of the people is Praeconium Regnantium the Glory of Kings And Gods gift is in this too For though it be the King