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A97115	God save the King, or A sermon of thanksgiving, for His Majesties happy return to his throne. Together with a character of his sacred person. Preached in the parish-church of East Coker in the county of Sommerset, May 24. 1660. By William Walwyn B.D. and sometimes fellow of St. Johns College in Oxon.	Walwyn, William, 1614-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing W696B; Thomason E1033_10; ESTC R203977	18,961	42

Rebellions of the French Subjects against their King Fomented and Backt by the Prince of Conde Though indeed he was most unworthily requited for that grand piece of Service by the French King his nearest Relative Witnesse his Gallantry and Fortitude in bearing up his Royal Spirit from dejection though pressed with the grand injuries and indignities of a 12. years Banishment and upwards from his native Soyle Court Throne and Dignity Witnesse his patience and tolerancie under his almost insufferable afflictions and contumelies who having the free profer of Forein Princes Ayd and Assistance for his Restitution He chose rather to want his Crowns than to Swim to his Throne in the Blood of his Subjects desiring rather to be received with our Condui●s running with Wine than with our Channels running with Blood and with Bonfires in our Streets than with the Conflagrations of our Towns and Cities Witnesse his faith hope and firm dependency upon his God under his tedious and Long-lived sufferings Witnesse his Zeal and Constancy in adhering to his Principles in his profession of the true Protestant Religion notwithstanding all Tamperings with Him and Arguments used to enforce or perswade Him to turn an Apostate from his dear mother the Church of England commended to his tender Tuition by his dying Father as Christ commended the care of his mother the Virgin Mary to his Beloved Disciple John the Evangelist Witnesse I say His constant adherency to that Church to the Infamous shame both of those Clergie and Laymen who in these times of our Distractions have so often turned their Goats Surely had not His Sacred Majestie been as immovable as a Rock he was Battered with Arguments enough to have made Him made Shipwrack of his Faith Arguments inforced 1. By our grievious Distractions in our Religion here at home 2ly By the Scandal of our latter time 3ly By the Exigency of his Majesties then present Affairs 4ly By the uncertainty of his future Livelihood 5ly By the Injustice of his Subjects which might well have prompted his Courage and Revenge to have said what the King in the Gospel said concerning his Servants that had abused him since mine Enemies will not that I should reign over them bring them hither and slay them before me Luke 19. 27. 6ly By the Tediousnesse of his Banishment And 7ly By His irrecoverable restauration as to all humane Judgements and Opinions without his gratifying Popish Princes by his perversion to the Romish Church But the grace of God had taught him as well to want as to wear a Crown which is not worth the taking up upon Sordid Dishonourable and Irreligious termes as His most incomparable Father in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath admirably admonished him And what can we now expect but happy times under so Gratious a Prince wherin by our miseries we have I hope sufficiently Learned what our late Martyr'd King before hand had foretold that our Religion towards our God and our Loyalty toward our King cannot possibly be parted without both our Sin and our Infelicity and I pray God we may learn and remember this that it may deter and Affright us from ever returning again to our former Follies and Rebellions since the taking off the Head from the Body Politick and such is the King is if we rationally consider it but a mad way to cure the distemperatures of the Inferiour parts For who would not account him a Bloody Murtherer and not a skilfull Physician who should order his Chirurgions to cut off the Head of his Patient to cure the Surfet in His Stomach or the Gout in his Feet The King is the Head of his people So Samuel calls him 1 Sam. 15. 17. so doth Isaiah 74 and so doth Hosea 1. 11. but especially so Daniel in expresse terms Dan. 2. 38. Tu es caput Aurcum speaking to the King Thou art the head of Gold and the Persians by the light of nature called their King Assuerosh that is Soveraign head now as Philosophy and experience both demonstate unto us from the head we derive motion sense and life for at the head we take in the breath we live by and in the head are seated the animal spirits from whence we receive sense and motion and we experimentally see that the head is no sooner taken off but the body streight falls and tumbles to the ground struggle indeed for some short space of time it may but live long it cannot without its head We have Buzzed and Turned and Turned and Buzzed like a flesh fly without his head i. e. we have kept a great stir and pudder and made a great noyse a while in the world and have tried all the wayes we could imagine to live without our head but we found that we could not long subsist in this condition Our State like a carcasse that had been long without an head began even to stink in the Nostrils of all the Nations round about us our Church was cut into so many Shreds by so many Fanatique Sects and Schisms that we could very scarcely perceive that there was any Religion visible amongst us Our Trade and Commerce was quite decayed and now perceiving well that we could not live any longer Acephali a people without an head we would fain try whether we could live Pseudocephali a people with a False head Having therefore first taken off the head of Jupiter we set the head of a Caligula in the place thereof and was not the matter well amended trow ye when thus like Horace his Painter we fixed upon the shoulders of a man the head of a beast And that not as he did the head of an horse an harmlesse and usefull Creature but of a venemous and subtil Serpent rather which like the Viper eat through the very bowels of the Church his Mother that bred him and instead of Protecting the State under his shelter like the Bramble-King in the book of the Judges scratcht it to the very bones till at length God in mercy to the poor Church and State took Him off And now Exit Protector the Scene is changed yet being wantonly Rebellious seeing we could no longer subsist Acephali without an Head over us or Pseudocephali with a false head or an Head that was not rightly and properly our own we were ●●solved to try whether we could better our condition by being Polycepholi i. e. by putting an whole Consistory of heads over us as many heads as the Scarlet-coloured beast had that carried the Whore of Babylon upon his back Rev. 17. 3. or as many heads as the monstrous Hydra is famed to have in the Poet or rather as many heads as stood heretofore upon London Bridge But alasse we found that our case now waxed from bad to worse for now we found that those many Heads like the heads of those children that have the Rickets began to suck and attract wholly to themselves all the juice and Radical moisture from the rest of their inferior parts and

Solaecismos Aulicos the Barbarisms and Solaecisms of the Court and that he might make a King to be but Good-man King at the best he would have Kings content themselves with lesse Revenues and fewer Attendants commending highly the Discipline of Laconia where it is strange to have one man pluck off anothers socks when he goes to bed and very much extols the example of Pelagius who first Discomfited the Saracens in Spain for that he had his house without any stately Rooms in it and was contented Good man with one and the same place for himself his fire his friends and his Cattel and thus like the Souldiers that Spit upon Christ These Sons of Beliab have Bespawled the face of Majestie * See more in Archbishop Bancroft Dangposit Nor of late years have the men of our times been more moderate than they for have not our Presses sweat and our Pulpits groaned under the very same pernicious Doctrins nay insteed of making them Mont Gerizims or Monts of Blessing have not too many of the Ministry made them Mont Eballs or Monts of Cursing when insteed of putting up their Supplications to God for their King they have not trembled to spend even in their Pulpits their direfull Curses and Imprecations against the Lords Anointed to the Eternal shame and Obloquy of our Church and the Protestant Religion which we professe As if they had laboured to the very utmost of their power to Wash and Rub off from the face of Moses that shining which God had more immediately imprinted upon it And so much be said for the Dignity of a King as it is first drawn ab Authore from the Author or Institutor of it and that is God but 2ly The Excellency of a King will appear in this That even God himself hath amongst his own honorary titles assumed unto Himself the name of a King for his stile as you have heard before runs thus King of Kings and Lord of Lords and his Government of the whole world is Monarchical for though there be three Persons in the Sacred Trinity yet there is but one God and consequently but one King everlasting Let then those Scribblers and Pamphleteers who of late with their Paper Squibs have so Oppugned and Dishonored Monarchical Government tremble to consider how through the sides of Princes they have struck at Gods own Monarchy over the whole world as far as their goose-quills could reach But 3ly The Excellency of Kingly Dignity shines in their Supremacy which is the most expresse Character of Himself which God can put upon a man and such a Supremacy St. Peter tells us is only in God and the King 1 Pet. 2. 13. for God is the Supreme Ruler of Kings and Kings are the Supreme Rulers of Men and in this very regard God himself the better to oblige our obedience to them as well as to himself stiles them Gods they have his Ip'se dixit to shew for it I have said ye are Gods saith God himself of Kings Psal 82. 7. It is very true that God hath said this of all Inferiour Magistrates as well as of Kings but yet Kings in regard of their Supremacy bear a more full and expresse Character of God than they Inferiour Magistrates according to the greater or the lesser Authority they bear in the Commonwealth have the Image of God drawn upon them like half Pictures of which some are drawn down to the girdle and some again but to the neck and shoulders but the Supreme Magistrate who is above all the rest and onely inferior to God himself hath the image of God upon him drawn to the full length and proportion as far as he is capable to receive it like those pictures which are drawn from head to foot and therefore with the greater Emphasis may God stile them gods And truly this very Appellation of gods may God well seem to have given them as well to mind Kings themselves of their Duty as to mind the people of their Dignity which brings me to the second thing considerable in this Word Rex the King and that is his Duty For since Princes and Magistrates are called by God himself GODS they should thence learn to behave themselves towards their inferiors like gods indeed and as they bear Gods name stand in Gods place and represent Gods person so they should imitate Gods properties and attributes And 1. They should imitate the Supreme God whose image they bear in commanding their Subjects nothing but what is holy and just for to threaten terrifie or intice men unto unholy and unrighteous actions Diaboli●est non Dei is the part of a Devil and not of a God 2. These Inferior gods should imitate the Supreme God in his sustaining and conserving power Now as God in heaven orders and disposes all things to the best and cherishes what is good and curbs what is bad by his providence continually preserves the world in general and every one in particular So these gods on earth must look to it not only Ne quid detrimenti Respublica capiat that the Common weal be not prejudiced but that also no one single man that is a Member thereof be oppressed it must be their care and providence to reward and incourage the good and to curb yea if need be to cut off the wicked And hence therefore in the Scriptures they are called Nursing Fathers Isa 49. 23. to expresse their tendernesse and indulgency towards their Subjects whom they are to look upon as their children as did Augustus Caesar of whom Macrobius writes Saturn l. 1. c. 5. that he carried such an intire and fatherly affection to the Common-wealth that he was wont to call it ●iliam suam his daughter and chose rather to be stiled Pater Patriae the Father of his Countrey than Dominus the Lord and Master of it because he endeavoured to govern it rather by love than fear 2. In the Scriptures Kings and governors are called Shepherds to mind them that they should be watchfull to keep out the Wolf that is to say whatsoever may be destructive to the Sheep committed to their charge for Princes are not to be like sharp-pointed Pyramids which are raised on high but support nothing but they must be like pillars seeing they are erected by God to sustain and uphold the whole frame and fabrick of the Church and State from Ruine and so these gods as God himself stiles them shall shew themselve rightly to be Dii averrunci Tutelares as so many Tutelar gods to the Nations and people over whom they reign for indeed Kings and Potentates are set over the people not as Comets to pour forth nothing but plagues upon those below them but as benign stars to cast down upon their inferiors Light Heat and Life 3. These mortal gods must imitate the immortal God as in the Dispensations of his providence so likewise in the Administrations of his Justice for the impartial and equal execution of Justice is the

members the poor Commonalty that so they might swell themselves to an exorbitant greatnesse This this was our sad and wofull case and yet far worse than this it had been with us had not the King of Kings put into his own place again the Stone which the Builders refused and made Him the Head of the Corner This doubtlesse was the Lords doing and it ought to be marvellous in our eyes and we are all this day met to acknowledge Gods Power and goodnesse in bringing this mighty work to passe Wherefore for this let us now render unto God all possible praise and thanks Shouting aloud with the people in my Text and saying God save the King Here is yet one thing further observable in this acclamation in my Text and that 's the universality of it for All the people shouted and said God save the King and truly Vox populi Vox Dei the voice of the people whilst they thus pray is the voyce of God for God would have all the people thus to pray and that with an Imprimis for I exhort saith his Apostle That first of all Supplications Prayers and intercessions and Thanksgivings be made for all men for Kings especially and all that be in Authority that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all Godlinesse and Honesty for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2. cap. 1 2 3 verses Montague in his Essayes tells us that some of the Town of Arras at what time Lewis the 11th of France took it chose rather to be hang'd than to say God save the King and if there be any of such Obstinate Malignant and disloyal Spirits amongst us it mattered not if they had their choice such strings as will not be unison with the rest of their fellows deserve fairly to be broken and thrown aside for when ought our acclamations of joy to be universal if not now since we have obtained again of God 1. Regem a King that we might not any longer be an headlesse people 2. Regem unum one King and so are no longer Ta●quam Bellua multorum capitum as a monstrous Beast with many heads and surely to have a King and but one King and not many Kings over us is promised as a very great blessing to Gods people Ezech 37. 22. 3. Regem Talem such a King as hath no Qualem no Peer to match Him being 1. Talis Such a King who as far surpasses any of the people in the eminencies of his vertues and graces as ever Saul did surpasse all the people in the tallnesse of his stature verse 24. of this Chapter 2. Talis Such a King as by his own sufferings must needs be more sensible than other Kings of the sufferings of His Subjects for as to your comfort as you are Christians the Author to the Hebrews tells us Heb. 4 15. That we have not an High Priest which cannot be touch'd with the feeling of our infirmities because in all points he was tempted like as we are so to your comfort as you are Sujects I may tell you likewise that you now have not a Soveraign that cannot have a fellow-feeling of your Oppressions since Himself hath been brought up in the School of affliction 3. And Lustly Talis such a King as had an indubitable Right to the Crowns of these Realms and therefore to have detain'd Him longer from them must necessarily have brought one time or other some dreadfull Judgement upon the Land for our Injustice You then who desire the Restauration of your Religion Laws and Liberties You that pray for the Peace of the Church and the Prosperity of the State You that would freely enjoy a comfortable assurance of your lives and estates You that hope for better Trading and Commerce You that would be happy under a Religious Peaceable wise just and mercifull King and finally You that would choose to have one King rather than an whole Committee of Tyrants over you Joyn now unanimously your prayers with all the people and cry God save the King Amen FINIS A Catalogue of some Books printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-Lane THe Aliance of Divine Offices exhibiting all the Liturgies of the Church of England since the Reformation by Hamon L'estrange Esquire The Souls Conflict being 8. Sermons preacht at Oxford and so much recommened by the late Dr. Hewyt Dr. Browns Sepulchral Urns and Garden of Cyrus Two Essayes of Love and Mariage The Queens Exchange by Mr. R. Brome Five New Playes by Mr. R. Brome never before printed Adam out of Eden by Mr. Speed Poems on several Persons and occasions by No body must know whom Crums of Comfort Most of Mr. Prynnes Books Shepheards Duty of Constables St. Bonaventures Soliloquies Healths Improvement in 4to Mr. Baxters Treatise of Conversion That long-expected piece The Survey of the Law containing directions how to prosecute or defend Actions brought at Common law by William Glisson Esq A Second Ternary of Sermons by the Learned Dr. Stewart The Elements of Water drawing in 40. Mr. Sprat's Plague of Athens in 4to Jews in America by Mr. Thorowgood The Royal Buckler in 80. A Collection of all Songs and Ballads made upon the Rump