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<P>A SERMON Preached at the COLLEGIATE CHURCH AT MANCHESTER On <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> the 23. of <HI>April</HI> 1661.</P>
<P>Being the CORONATION-DAY OF HIS Royal Maje&s;tie CHARLES II.</P>
<P>By <HI>RICHARD HEYRICK</HI> Warden of the &s;aid Colledge.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for RALPH SHELMERDINE Book&s;eller in <HI>Manche&s;ter.</HI> 1661.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Reverend <HI>RICHARD HEYRICK</HI> Warden of Chri&s;ts Colledge in <HI>Manchester.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>REVEREND SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_OF tho&s;e Truths you have fre|quently delivered to us, this one, which you preached to our eares upon that happy and joy|ous day of his MAJESTIES Coronation, which is not of the &s;malle&s;t concernment, a Truth, which with the KING hath been an Exile, and bani&s;ht both the Pulpit and the Pre&s;&s;e in this Land for many yeares to|gether; but &s;ince both are returned together home; the one to the Throne, the other to the Pulpit; the one Crowned, the other preached,
<PB REF="3"> both on a day; we judged it worthy the Pre&s;s, whereby it might better manife&s;t it &s;elf to the world, that as at the Pre&s;ence and Sight of his Maie&s;ties Sacred Per&s;on, all his ene|mies flie and fall before him, &s;o at the ap|proach of this light, the gro&s;se mi&s;ts of er|rors and contrary tenents, which have po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed this I&s;land of late yeares, might be di&s;|pelled and utterly confounded. Nece&s;&s;ary al&s;o we judged it, in re&s;pect of us &s;onnes of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> to vindicate our &s;elves, that though darkne&s;s might cover the &s;urface of our Church, and &s;eize upon &s;ome per&s;ons, yet we &s;till kept this light within us unex|tinct, the doctrine of our Church we &s;till re|tain, and we who are &s;ouldiers will fight for his Maje&s;tie, in defence thereof to the la&s;t drop of our blood, nor was it fit the Herauld and Proclaimer of this doctrine &s;hould be concealed and unknown, therefore pa&s;seth it under your name, Pardon us wherein we have acted without full directions from you, it was
<PB REF="3"> our love and zeal to the Truth, and to you the Preacher of it, that cau&s;ed this forward|ne&s;&s;e in us. <HI>Sir,</HI> the Town ingeneral, we more particularly who were further Actors in the &s;olemnization of the day, are obliged to you for your great paines: And to te&s;tifie our gratitude for &s;o great a favour, thought good to &s;end them both together abroad into the World, your paines, with our unfeined thanks affixed thereto, who in the name of our &s;elves, and the re&s;t of our &s;ouldiers under our Command, do &s;ub&s;cribe our&s;elves</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED><HI>Your affectionate Neigh|bours and well-Wi&s;hers</HI>
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<ITEM><HI>John Byrom,</HI> Major of the Trained Band.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John Caw&s;ey</HI> Lieut.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Hugh John&s;on</HI> En&s;ign.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nicholas Mo&s;ley</HI> Captain of the Auxiliaries.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Heawood</HI> Lieut.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Byrom</HI> En&s;igne.</ITEM>
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<DATELINE>Manche&s;ter <DATE>May 11. 1661.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<Q><BIBL>2 KINGS 11.12.</BIBL>
<P>And he brought forth the Kings Son, and put the Crowne upon him, and gave him the te&s;timony, and they made him KING, and anointed him, and they clapt their hands, and &s;aid, God &s;ave the KING.</P></Q>
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<P>_HE that reads the Text, and knowes the occa&s;ion of this great and &s;olemn a&s;&s;embly; and he is a &s;tranger in our <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> that knowes it not, will pre&s;ently acknowledge the &s;uitablene&s;s and fitne&s;s of it. The Text &s;peaks of the Coronation of a King, of a King the Son of a King; of a Kings Son, who&s;e Father was treacherou&s;ly and trai|terou&s;ly murdered; of a King, who by force and violence was kept from the ex|erci&s;e
<PB N="2" REF="5"> of his Kingly Office, his Royaltie and Dignitie; of a King, who for &s;ever|all years lay hid in darkne&s;s and ob&s;curi|tie, yet afterward beyond all expectation, probabilitie, by divine Providence, yea, almo&s;t po&s;&s;ibilitie, re&s;tored to his Crown and Dignitie without the &s;heding of blood, but of the U&s;urper, the grand Con|&s;pirator and Traytor.</P>
<P>The Hi&s;tory is briefly thus; <HI>Ahaziah</HI> the Kings Father, King of <HI>Judah,</HI> was by the hand of <HI>Jehu</HI> a furious Zealot, yet a great Politician, a notorious clo&s;e Hypo|crite, yet a gallant Commander &s;hott to death. He being dead, <HI>Athaliah</HI> his mother like a Beare rob'd of her whelps, like a &s;hee Tyger full of rage and mad|ne&s;s, a furie and friend of hell de&s;troyed all the Seed Royal. <HI>Jeho&s;aba</HI> &s;i&s;ter to <HI>Athaliah</HI> &s;tole <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> the Son of <HI>Ahaziah</HI> from among&s;t the Kings Sons that were &s;laine, &s;he hid him in the hou&s;e of the
<PB N="3" REF="5"> Lord &s;ix years. <HI>Jehoiada</HI> in the &s;eventh year brings him forth to the people, <HI>puts the Crown upon him, gave him the te&s;timony, they made him King, and anointed him, they clapt their hands, and &s;aid, God &s;ave the KING.</HI></P>
<P>There is no difficultie in the words, he that runs may read, and he that reads will under&s;tand, there is no diver&s;ity nor va|rietie in them. In the Text there are three parties, and the parts they performed in this re&s;tauration. <HI>Jehoiada</HI> the high Prie&s;t; <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> the King; and the People. I name them not according to their excellency and worth, but as they are pre&s;ented in the Text. 1. <HI>Jehoiada</HI> he &s;hews him|&s;elf upon this great and glorious Theatre, and he acts four things, 1. <HI>He brings forth the Kings Son.</HI> 2. <HI>He puts the Crown upon him.</HI> 3. <HI>He gives him the testimony.</HI> 4. <HI>He anointed him.</HI> The &s;econd Per|&s;on is <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> the King, and the parts that
<PB N="4" REF="6"> he performes, an&s;werable to the parts of <HI>Jehoiada,</HI> are likewi&s;e four. 1. He publick|ly &s;hews him&s;elf to the people in his Roy|altie and Maje&s;tie. 2. He weares the Crown on his Head. 3. He takes the te&s;timony in his Hand. 4. He hath the &s;acred Oyle on his brea&s;t. The third partie that appears, the People; the parts that they performe are three. 1. <HI>They made him King.</HI> 2. <HI>They clapt their hands.</HI> 3. <HI>They &s;aid, God &s;ave the KING:</HI> the&s;e are the parts and parcells of the text. Of the&s;e in their order, briefly and plain|ly: and fir&s;t of the Fir&s;t;</P>
<P>Jehoiada <HI>brought forth the Kings Son.</HI></P>
<P>In the book of <HI>Judges,</HI> it is four &s;everal times recorded <HI>there was no King in I&s;rael,</HI> and it is very ob&s;ervable, that every time it is recorded, is occa&s;ioned by &s;ome notorious villany, &s;ome horrid impi|etie, that was then committed. The fir&s;t time we read the&s;e words, <HI>that there
<PB N="5" REF="6"> was no King in I&s;rael,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iudg. 17.16.</NOTE> is&mdash;<HI>Micah</HI> had a hou&s;e of gods, and made an Ephod and Teraphim, and con&s;ecrated one of his Sons to be his Prie&s;t, Idols were erected, Idolatry was committed, an abomina|tion that Gods &s;oule hateth. The &s;e|cond time we read the words is&mdash;and then we read of robing and &s;poyling,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iudg. 18.1.</NOTE> plundring and rifling of hou&s;es, murder|ing and ma&s;&s;acring man, woman and child, and burning the City. The tribe of <HI>Dan</HI> every one with their &s;word girt about them, march't to <HI>Lai&s;h</HI> unto a peo|ple that were quiet and &s;ecure, with a rage reaching up to heaven they de&s;troy|ed all before them; a wickedne&s;s not to be paralleld. The third time we read the words in&mdash;the men of <HI>Gibeon</HI> offered force and violence to a <HI>Levite</HI> a wafareing man; they ravi&s;hed his wife;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iudg. 19.1.</NOTE> they forced her to death: a greater wick|edne&s;s they attempted, a wickedne&s;s not
<PB N="6" REF="7"> once to be named.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iudg. 21.25.</NOTE> The fourth time we read the words <HI>Judg.</HI> 21.25. And there we read of an unnaturall war, a civil uncivil war, a bloody and cruel war among&s;t the Tribes them&s;elves, thou&s;ands were &s;lain, and almo&s;t a whole Tribe de&s;troyed in <HI>I&s;rael:</HI> the Book of <HI>Judges</HI> clo&s;eth it with the&s;e words, <HI>In tho&s;e daies there was no King in I&s;rael;</HI> intimating and implying, that all the impieties, the wickedne&s;&s;es, the villanies that were then committed vvas upon this account, becau&s;e <HI>there was no King in I&s;rael</HI> Alas what a woful Com|monvvealth there vvas <HI>when there was no King in I&s;rael,</HI> then Idols vvere erected, Idolatry committed, Errours, Here&s;ies, Bla&s;phemies, fal&s;e Religion, fal&s;e VVor|&s;hip connived at, tollerated: robbing, rifeling and plundering of hou&s;es, rapes and murthers, bloody and cruel vvars, all vvas out of cour&s;e, in State, in Church. <HI>Micah</HI> vvas a private man; <HI>Gibeon</HI> a Ci|ty.
<PB N="7" REF="7"> <HI>Dan</HI> a Tribe. Tribes, Cities, Fami|lies, all in di&s;order and confu&s;ion: Nor was this in &s;ecret corners, but all the Land of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> over. <HI>Micah</HI> dwelt at Mount <HI>Ephraim,</HI> in the mid&s;t of <HI>Canaan; Gibeah</HI> was at one end, <HI>Dan</HI> at the other, &s;o, in the mid&s;t and both ends, all were wrap|ed up in darkne&s;s and blackne&s;s. You &s;ee what mi&s;ery comes by want of a King, what a ma&s;&s;e of mi&s;chief, di&s;order upon di&s;order; the holy Gho&s;t doth not charge them with a flat Anarchy, that there was no E&s;tate, no kinde of Government a|mong them; there were both Prie&s;ts and Judges; there was a millitary Govern|ment, but there wanted a King; and God hath a&s;&s;igned this for the only cau&s;e, and we will not be wi&s;er then God, to &s;earch for other rea&s;ons. I could ea&s;ily paralel all that I have &s;aid in our Engli&s;h-<HI>I&s;rael;</HI> but the King and Parliament hath made it forbiden fruit, and have pa&s;&s;ed an <HI>Act
<PB N="8" REF="8"> of free and generall pardon, Indempnity and Oblivion,</HI> may God, and all the people of the Land &s;eale to it. You &s;ee what the want of a King is, and by that you will the better judg of the ble&s;&s;edne&s;s of hap|pine&s;s of that people, that have a King.</P>
<P>Kingly Government is the be&s;t Go|vernment, for order, peace, &s;trength; &s;o &s;aith the Philo&s;opher, and he proves them all one by one; the be&s;t without contro|ver&s;ie, for had there been a better, God would not at la&s;t have re&s;olved on this for his own people. This is the mo&s;t per|fect, mo&s;t like the Government of Hea|ven, God changed the Government, from <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> the Captain, to the Judges; from the Judges to <HI>Eli</HI> and <HI>Samuel,</HI> Prie&s;ts; but when he &s;et a King over his people, he changed that Government no more. <HI>Jehotada</HI> did a great and glorious vvork, <HI>when he brought forth the King,</HI> a vvork plea&s;ing to God, and acceptable to the
<PB N="9" REF="8"> people, this was the fir&s;t work <HI>Jehoiada</HI> did; <HI>He brought forth the King.</HI> 2. <HI>He put the Crown upon him,</HI> He, <HI>Jehoiada,</HI> not the people.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chr 23.11</NOTE> Con&s;ult&mdash;The Crowne doth not make the King, it &s;hews him to be King; it addes nothing to the truth and being, though much to the honour and glory: the putting the Crown upon him is an external right and ceremonie, nothing intrin&s;ecal, e&s;&s;ential to the con|&s;titution of a King. The Crown is an ornament of renown and glory, proper and peculiar to the wearing of Kings a|lone. The Crown crowns the head, the head the highe&s;t member of the body naturall; the Crown on the head of the King &s;peaks the King the highe&s;t mem|ber of the body politick; honour, glory, dignity is originally from the Crown; where there is no Crown, there honours are not confer'd, Dukes, Marque&s;&s;es, Earles, Vi&s;counts, Barons, Knights, they
<PB N="10" REF="9"> have their dignity derived from the Crown; &s;treame greater and le&s;&s;e flow|ing from this Fountaine, rivers rivolets coming from this Sea, and returning to this Sea again.</P>
<P><HI>Jehoiada he puts the Crown upon him,</HI> but it is God, that reacheth the Crown to <HI>Jehoiada,</HI> to put it upon the head of the King.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 21.3.</NOTE> <HI>Thou &s;ettest a Crown of pure gold on his head,</HI> as <HI>David</HI> acknowledgeth on the triumphant day of victory: yea, not King <HI>David</HI> only, but King Je&s;us, the King of Saints, the King of Nations, the king of kings hath &s;aid it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro. 8.15.</NOTE> <HI>by me Kings reigne:</HI> we have Gods word for it, his deed, his be&s;t deed, his guift, <HI>I have given you a King;</HI> kings are placed in their thrones by God, <HI>vested with their Robes</HI> by God, <HI>girt with their Swords</HI> by God, <HI>anointed</HI> by God, <HI>crowned</HI> by God, &s;o &s;aith the Scripture, had I time to quote the texts. God hath imparted his Name to kings, <HI>I have &s;aid
<PB N="11" REF="9"> you are Gods, Sons of the mo&s;t high; Kings</HI> have their de&s;cent from God; king of kings is upon his thigh, and <HI>Melchize|deck</HI> his fir&s;t king and his tipe, is brought in without father and mother, to &s;hew that <HI>Kings</HI> are the generation of God. This made the Emperours to &s;tamp their coyne with an hand coming out of the Cloudes, houlding a Crown, and putting it on their heads, and accordingly to &s;tile them&s;elves crowned of God.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>He gave him the testimony,</HI> a Book wherein the Law of God was regi&s;tred, the Book of <HI>Deutronomy,</HI> &s;aies the Greek; the five Books of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> &s;aies the <HI>Jewes,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 17.18.19.</NOTE> <HI>And it &s;hall be when he &s;itteth upon the Throne of his Kingdome, that he &s;hall write him a copy of this Law in a Book, out of that which is before the Priests the Levites; and it &s;hall be with him, and he &s;hall read therein all the dayes of his life, that he may learn to feare the Lord his God, to keep all the words
<PB N="10" REF="10"> of this Law, and the&s;e Statutes, to do them.</HI> The <HI>Hebrews</HI> record it thus, when the king &s;itteth upon the Throne of his king|dome, he hath a Book of the Law, that his Father had, given unto him, and he was to write with his own hand a &s;econd Book of the Law, and ever to carry this Book about with him; the original Book was kept in the Sanctuary, and out of that Book was the kings copy written, that it might be mo&s;t exact and perfect. This te&s;timony was given to him, that he might know what the Law required of him in reference to <HI>God,</HI> to <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> to <HI>his people;</HI> and what he might expect from <HI>God</HI> and the <HI>people.</HI> At this day <HI>Chri&s;tian Kings</HI> have the Bible put into their hands, which requires <HI>wi&s;edome, under&s;tanding, integrity, courage,</HI> the <HI>feare of God,</HI> love of the <HI>truth,</HI> hating of <HI>covetou&s;ne&s;s,</HI> having no re&s;pect of per&s;ons; the two la&s;t proper|ties Heathens them&s;elves required,
<PB N="15" REF="10"> whence the <HI>Thebans</HI> painted Ju&s;tice with|out hands, without eyes, to intimate they &s;hould receive no guifts, nor be &s;way'd with &s;ight of per&s;ons.</P>
<P><HI>He gave him the testimony,</HI> that he might be the <HI>keeper,</HI> the <HI>revenger</HI> of both Tables. The king is a mixt per&s;on, he hath the Crown upon his head, and the te&s;timony in his hand, which &s;peaks him in all <HI>cau&s;es,</HI> and over all <HI>per&s;ons</HI> within his Dominions <HI>&s;upreme Head</HI> and <HI>Go|vernour;</HI> they &s;teal from the kings Crown the mo&s;t precious jewel, that exempt <HI>per|&s;ons</HI> and <HI>cau&s;es</HI> from him; whil&s;t the king hath a Crown upon his head, and the te&s;timony in his hand, God and the peo|ple will love and honour him: the Crown honours him in the &s;ight of the people, and the te&s;timony in the &s;ight of God, and may the king have ever this honour and love, and let all the people &s;ay <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>He anointed him,</HI> all kings were not
<PB N="14" REF="11"> anointed; &s;uch kings as imediatly &s;uc|ceeded their parents, as Heirs apparent, their titles being no way que&s;tioned, are upon the royal Throne without any &s;uch anoynting: but &s;uch as were immediatly cho&s;en of God, as <HI>Saul, David, Jehu,</HI> were anoynted: &s;o al&s;o when the younger Brother vvas prefer'd before the elder, as <HI>Solomon</HI> and they, who vvere made kings in trouble&s;ome times, vvhen the Land vvas in great danger and fears, the former king being &s;lain, as <HI>Jehoahaz,</HI> and vvho had their right interrupted by an U&s;urp|er, as <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> in the text: kings vvere a|noynted to &s;ignify the collation of guifts and graces by the Spirit unto that place and function to vvhich God called them, as it follovved, the anoynting of <HI>Saul.</HI> Again, kings vvere anoynted to &s;et them apart, and to advance them above o|thers in authority and eminency, in which <HI>oyle</HI> hath &s;ome re&s;emblance,
<PB N="15" REF="11"> which mixeth not with other liquors, but &s;eperateth from them, and floateth above them. Once more, Kings were <HI>anointed</HI> to give evidence to the true title, and to make them depend on Gods protection and ble&s;&s;ing. La&s;tly, Kings were <HI>a|nointed,</HI> to &s;ecure them from the force and violence of men and devils.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 105.15. 1 Sam. 26.9.</NOTE> <HI>Touch not mine anointed. Who can &s;tretch forth his hand against the Lords anointed, and be guiltle&s;&s;e?</HI> Thus <HI>Jehoiada, he brought forth the King, he put the Crown upon him, gave him the te&s;timony, he anointed him;</HI> he did not one of the&s;e, but all; had he only brought him forth, and not crowned him, he had appeared as one of the people; had he crowned him, and not given him the te|&s;timony, he might have been a <HI>Pagan,</HI> a Heathen, had he brought him forth, crowned him, given him the te&s;timony, he might have been King, but not fitted, nor qualified; but being brought forth,
<PB N="14" REF="12"> crown'd, having the te&s;timony, and a|nointed, the&s;e &s;peak him a King <HI>indeed,</HI> a <HI>glorious,</HI> a <HI>religious,</HI> a King <HI>cho&s;en</HI> and given <HI>by God</HI> unto the people. He brought him forth, he, who? <HI>Jehoiada:</HI> and why <HI>Jehoiada?</HI> he was of the blood Royall, a kin&s;man to the King, he was the High Prie&s;t, the &s;econd in the kingdom, a great States-man, a prudent Councellour, a Loyall Subject, a Religious and a Holy man, who &s;o fit as <HI>Jehoiada?</HI> Princes may be Prie&s;ts, and Prie&s;ts may be Princes, <HI>Aaron</HI> and <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> joyning together make a glorious Government. And thus much for the fir&s;t partie, and the four parts performed by him.</P>
<P>The &s;econd partie that appeareth upon this publick Theatre and makes it more glorious, is <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> the King. The parts that he performes: Fir&s;t he &s;hews him|&s;elf to the people without blu&s;hing, He &s;tands upright, with boldne&s;s and confi|dence,
<PB N="17" REF="12"> <HI>innocence</HI> and <HI>ju&s;tice</HI> &s;upporting Him, not as an <HI>&V;&s;urper,</HI> not as an <HI>Intruder,</HI> not as one <HI>elected</HI> by the people; but as the <HI>next,</HI> the <HI>right,</HI> the <HI>lawful Heire</HI> to the kingdom, tacitly claiming the Royalty, the Sover|aignty as due to him: He &s;hews him&s;elfe to the people, as a Star of the fir&s;t magni|tude, as a light &s;hining out of darkne&s;s, as the Sun conquering and triumphing over mi&s;ts and cloudes, overcoming a dreadfull Eclip&s;e, that interrupted his influence.</P>
<P N="2">2. He weares the Crowne upon his Head, not becau&s;e &s;et on by <HI>Jehoiada,</HI> but becau&s;e given Him of <HI>God,</HI> the Heir and Inheritour to it: His Head fitteth the Crown, and the Crown His Head: Had any other had the Crown upon his Head, it would have been a Crown of Thorns, a vexatious Crown, a Crown, a talent of Lead, that neither he, nor his heire &s;hould have been able to beare, a Crown
<PB N="18" REF="13"> not &s;teddy, not fixt, but ever &s;hakeing and tottering, loo&s;e and burden&s;ome. It is a remarkable ob&s;ervation, that I have read in our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Hi&s;tory, though the Crowne hath been &s;ome times mi&s;placed, though &s;ometimes U&s;urped, though often inter|rupted; yet at la&s;t it returned to the right heir, and now is &s;eated upon the head of the heir of our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Kings before the Conque&s;t. <HI>Jo&s;ephus</HI> tells us of <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> when an infant, <HI>Pharaoh</HI> King of <HI>Egypt</HI> to plea&s; his daughter, who had adopted <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to be her Son, takes the Crown from his own head and &s;ets it upon the head of <HI>Mo&s;es;</HI> but he takes the Crown from his head, and throws it upon the ground. Once a Crown falling into a River, one dives for it, and having recovered it, &s;ets it upon his head and &s;wims to the Land with it: the King takes his Crowne, re|wards the man but cuts off his head. That Citizen that &s;aid he would make his Son
<PB N="19" REF="13"> heire to the Crowne, meaning his hou&s;e, that known by the Signe of the Crowne, lo&s;t his life for it. <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> weares the Crown, <HI>Athaliah</HI> is cru&s;hed to pieces by it.</P>
<P N="3">3. The King takes the <HI>te&s;timony</HI> into his hand. <HI>David</HI> accounted more of the <HI>te&s;ti|mony</HI> then of the Crown: the Crown was on <HI>David</HI>'s head, the <HI>te&s;timony</HI> was engra|ven on his <HI>heart;</HI> he found an end of crowns, but the te&s;timony was exceeding broad. <HI>Oh! how do I love thy Law. It was &s;weeter to him then the honey and the honey combe,</HI> dearer to him than <HI>thou&s;ands of gold and &s;il|ver:</HI> he made it his <HI>coun&s;ellour,</HI> his <HI>friend,</HI> his <HI>companion.</HI> Great <HI>Alexander</HI> in all his wars and travels he carried <HI>Homer</HI>'s works about with him, and lodged them in the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Cabinet. <HI>Queen Elizabeth</HI> highly prized <HI>Seneca de Clementia. Aha&s;uerus</HI> com|mauded the Books of the Records of the <HI>Chronicles</HI> to be read to him: It was not <HI>Homers</HI>'s works, no Poetical fable, no Ro|mance,
<PB N="20" REF="14"> It was not <HI>Seneca de Clementia,</HI> no moral philo&s;ophy; It was not the Hi&s;to|ry, the Annals, the Chronicles that King <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> took into his hand; it was the <HI>te&s;ti|mony,</HI> the Book of <HI>God,</HI> the <HI>royall Law;</HI> &s;o the Apo&s;tle <HI>James</HI> calls it, the <HI>royal Law,</HI> becau&s;e <HI>royally</HI> given with Maje&s;ty and power, becau&s;e a &s;tandard to all Laws, be|cau&s;e it reacheth to all times, Nations, tongues and languages, becau&s;e Kings are to keep it and protect it. It was not the <HI>Scepter</HI> that he took into his hand, the em|bleme, which &s;hews his <HI>power</HI> to give laws; but the <HI>te&s;timony,</HI> according to which he was to frame he Laws. It is a fundamen|tal Law of this Nation, that if any Law be enacted contrary to the Law of God, there needs no repeale of it, but is null of it &s;elf, and people are not bound to the obedience of it, <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> took the te&s;timony in his hand, and this was the third part he performed.</P>
<P N="4">4. He had the <HI>&s;acred,</HI> the <HI>anointing oyle</HI>
<PB N="21" REF="14"> upon him. It was not the Crown on his head, nor the <HI>te&s;timony</HI> in his hand; but this <HI>anointing</HI> that qualified and fitted him to be a King. King Je&s;us he was anointed, no King anointed as he: he had not the Spi|rit in <HI>mea&s;ure,</HI> the fulne&s;s of the Godhead dwelt bodily in him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Zach. 4.12.</NOTE> and of his fullne&s;&s;e Kings receive <HI>grace for grace.</HI> It is &s;aid of that oyle wherewith the Kings of <HI>France</HI> are anointed, that it was fir&s;t given from Heaven. In the Scripture we read of <HI>two Olive branches, which through the two golden pipes empty the golden Oyle out of them&s;elves.</HI> Some Kings were anointed with oyle out of the Violl, &s;ome out of the Cru&s;e. The Lord Je&s;us had this oyle naturally flowing from the Olive tree Tho&s;e Kings, who&s;e &s;ucce&s;&s;ion was long to continue, were a|nointed with oyle out of the Viol: tho&s;e Kings, who&s;e heirs pre&s;ently failed, were anointed out of the Cru&s;e. Kings beare this &s;acred oyle upon their brea&s;t, to &s;hew
<PB N="22" REF="15"> that they are to have grace in their hearts: While Kings have this <HI>oyle</HI> on their <HI>bre&s;ts;</HI> the <HI>te&s;timony</HI> in their <HI>hand,</HI> the <HI>Crown</HI> on their <HI>head,</HI> and live among&s;t their people, that King cannot but be <HI>glorious,</HI> that peo|ple a <HI>ble&s;&s;ed,</HI> a <HI>happy</HI> people. Once it was &s;aid to one of our Kings by a voice from Heaven, in deep thoughts, who &s;hould &s;uc|ceed him, the kingdome is the Lords and he will take care of it. <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> was <HI>anointed,</HI> and this is the &s;econd party, and the fourth and la&s;t part he performed.</P>
<P>The third partie was the <HI>people,</HI> and of them it is &s;aid, <HI>they made him King, they clapt their hands, they &s;aid, God &s;ave the King,</HI> let the King <HI>live.</HI> Fir&s;t <HI>they made him King;</HI> he was King before, but they <HI>ac|knowledg him</HI> then to be King: he had the right before, but now they give him the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion. In kingdoms where Kings are by &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, there is no Interregnum, but no &s;ooner is the King dead, but his heir
<PB N="23" REF="15"> is immediatly King, the King never dyes. The Proclamations that are proclaimed throughout the Kingdome, and the Co|ronation of him, do but publi&s;h him King, and make it known to the people. It is not the repre&s;entative of the people, not in Senates, nor Parliaments: it is not in the collective body to make Kings: <HI>Kings</HI> are <HI>Kings,</HI> though the <HI>whole</HI> people op|po&s;e it; but it adds much to the honour, to the glory, to the renowne, to the peace, to the &s;trength, to the comfort of the <HI>King,</HI> when <HI>all the people</HI> owns him, acknowledg|eth him, &s;ubmits, &s;wears obedience to him. This was the fir&s;t part, <HI>they made him King.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>They clapt their hands,</HI> this was a vi&s;i|ble expre&s;&s;ion of their great joy. See <HI>P&s;.</HI> 47.1. <HI>Oh clap your hands all ye people, &s;hout unto God with the voice of a triumph.</HI> So <HI>Ezek.</HI> 25.6 It is &s;aid of the Jews at this day, that as often as they read the Book of <HI>He&s;ter,</HI> and mention is made of <HI>Haman,</HI> his name is
<PB N="24" REF="16"> &s;o much in dete&s;tation and execration a|mong&s;t them, that they &s;uddainly &s;tart up as it were in a rage and fury, they <HI>bend their brow<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> they <HI>&s;pit on the ground,</HI> they <HI>hi&s;&s;e,</HI> they <HI>&s;tampe</HI> with their <HI>feet.</HI> Every Nation hath their &s;everal Rites and Ceremonies, their external and outward expre&s;&s;ion of joy. Yea, they did not only <HI>clap their hands,</HI> when the Crown was put upon him, they <HI>&s;ounded the Trumpets,</HI> they had <HI>&s;inging men and in&s;truments of Mu&s;ick.</HI> Con&s;ult 2 <HI>Chro.</HI> 23.13. Nor was this the act of a partie, of a faction, but of all the people of the Land. But the <HI>Captains of hundreds,</HI> the <HI>Nobles</HI> and the <HI>Governours</HI> of the people, and <HI>all</HI> the people of the Land. In <HI>Ezek.</HI> 8.14. We read of <HI>women weeping for Tam|muz.</HI> Interpreters &s;ay, by <HI>Tammuz</HI> is under&s;tood the <HI>Sun,</HI> who for &s;ome months departed from them; but when the <HI>Sun</HI> re|turned again, and they had his light, his heart, his influence, they rejoyced with
<PB N="25" REF="16"> great joy. When the wi&s;e men recover|ed the &s;ight of the Star, that they had lo&s;t before, they rejoyced with exceeding great joy. Some &s;ay it was no new Star then created, but a Star not appearing before, but then &s;hewing it &s;elf. <HI>Joa&s;h the King</HI> was as the <HI>Sun</HI> departed, as the <HI>bright</HI> morning <HI>Star</HI> eclip&s;ed and darkned, when he appear|ed, the <HI>Sun</HI> returned, the <HI>Star</HI> &s;hewed it &s;elf. The people <HI>rejoyced, they clapt their hands,</HI> this was the &s;econd thing.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>They &s;aid, God &s;ave the King</HI> In other places we read they &s;houted, they &s;houted with a great &s;hout, they &s;houted with a loud &s;hout, they &s;houted that the Earth rang again. God &s;ometimes calls upon his people to &s;hout. The Jews upon &s;e|veral occa&s;ions of joy, they expre&s;&s;ed their joy by &s;houting; but when ever they &s;houted, they gave the greate&s;t &s;hout at the Coronation of a King: hence it is &s;aid, by way of eminency, <HI>Numb.</HI> 23.21. <HI>The &s;hout
<PB N="26" REF="17"> of a King is among&s;t them;</HI> and what did they &s;hout? the&s;e words, <HI>God &s;ave the King,</HI> or as it is in the Hebrew, let <HI>the King live.</HI> As they prai&s;ed God for their King before, &s;o now they pray to God for their King: according to the Canon of Scrip|ture, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.1, 2. <HI>I exhort therefore, that fir&s;t of all, &s;upplications, prayers, interce&s;&s;ions, and giving of thanks be made for all men: for Kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a godly and peaceable life in all godline&s;&s;e and hone&s;ty.</HI> They prayed, let the King <HI>live,</HI> maugre all the oppo&s;ition and contradiction of men and divels Let the King <HI>live,</HI> that the &s;ons of <HI>violence</HI> may not prevaile again&s;t <HI>Him,</HI> that con&s;piracies, confederacies, treacheries, trea&s;ons may never <HI>pro&s;per.</HI> Let the King <HI>live</HI> in Gods love and his peoples, that he may live glo|riou&s;ly and pro&s;perou&s;ly: that he may live long here, and eternally hereafter. In their greate&s;t joy and triumph they pray|ed,
<PB N="27" REF="17"> <HI>God &s;ave the king.</HI> They do not drink healths to the life of the king, or to the confu&s;ion of his enemies. <HI>He&s;t.</HI> 1.8. Great <HI>Aha&s;uerus</HI> the Heathen king in his greate&s;t fe&s;tivalls expre&s;ly forbad it; nor hath the Church of God any &s;uch cu&s;tome; yea, they did not only pray, let the king <HI>live,</HI> but they took out of the way what might &s;horten the life of the king, that might make God an adver&s;arie to Him; they rooted out Idolatrie, they brake down the Altars and Image of <HI>Baal</HI> in pieces, they &s;lew <HI>Mattan</HI> the chief Prie&s;t of <HI>Baal;</HI> yea more, <HI>Jehoiada</HI> made a Covenant before the Lord, and the king, and the people, that they &s;hould be the Lords people, that the king &s;hould give <HI>protection</HI> to them, and they <HI>obedience</HI> to Him: I have done with the parts and parcels of the Text <HI>I</HI> have con&s;id<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">red them &s;everally by them&s;elves, they all joyne their forces together, and commend unto us this rea&s;onabe Ob&s;er|vation.
<Q><PB N="28" REF="18">The Re&s;tauration and Coronation of a king is matter of great joy and rejoycing to a Loyal and Religi|ous people.</Q> or thus, <Q>The kings Re&s;tauration and Coronati|on is the Peoples Triumph and Glory.</Q></P>
<P>I &s;hall not &s;pend time in the confirmati|on and illu&s;tration of this Doctrine, I &s;hal make &s;ome application, and that in one U&s;e of <HI>Exhortation:</HI> not to <HI>Joa&s;h</HI> the king; not to <HI>Jehoiada</HI> the Prie&s;t; but to the <HI>People:</HI> you have heard what the People did, when the king was re&s;tored and crowned, <HI>they clapt their hands, &amp; &s;aid, God &s;ave the king:</HI> be&s;ides what is &s;aid in the Text, I find two things more the people did, <HI>they prai&s;ed God for the kings Re&s;tauration and Coronation; and they prai&s;ed the king.</HI> 1. They prai&s;ed God. Be exhorted on this day of the Kings Co|ronation to <HI>prai&s;e</HI> God, to give God the <HI>honour</HI> and <HI>glory</HI> of it, 1. <HI>Ble&s;&s;e God</HI> that
<PB N="29" REF="18"> we have a <HI>king,</HI> the &s;hout of a <HI>king</HI> is a joy|full &s;hout; better any than an <HI>Anarchy,</HI> bet|ter <HI>any</HI> one a king, than <HI>every</HI> one a king, <HI>I</HI> remember the cry of the Bea&s;ts in the Fable, when they were in con&s;ultation to &s;ubmit them&s;elves to the Lyon, as to their king, &s;ome alledged, <HI>he would do what he plea&s;ed;</HI> they all cried, better <HI>one Lyon</HI> do &s;o, than <HI>all the Beares,</HI> and <HI>Wolves,</HI> and <HI>wilde Bea&s;ts</HI> of the Forre&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. Ble&s;&s;e God that our King is not by <HI>Election,</HI> but by <HI>Succe&s;&s;ion,</HI> no <HI>Invader,</HI> no <HI>&V;&s;urper,</HI> no <HI>Conquerour,</HI> no <HI>Alien</HI> or <HI>Strang|er;</HI> not one, who&s;e &s;peech we under&s;tand not; but a king <HI>lineally de&s;cended</HI> from kings of the <HI>race Royal</HI> for many hundreds of years, who hath an <HI>undoubted right</HI> to be king, <HI>Ec.</HI> 10.17 <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed art thou, O Land, when thy king is the Sonne of Nobles, the Sonne of kings.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Ble&s;&s;e God that our king is peacea|bly re&s;tored to us, that the people gene|rally
<PB N="30" REF="19"> and univer&s;ally receive him for King. There were great thoughts of heart, be|cau&s;e of the divi&s;ion of king and &s;ubjects. It was given out concerning <HI>Queen Eliza|beth,</HI> when &s;hee &s;hould die, clouds of blood did hang in the ayre; but God brought in <HI>king James</HI> peaceably, and made him a peace maker. It was above our faith, a|bove our hopes, yet in duty we praied, that our king might peaceably be re&s;tored unto us. It is ob&s;erved no le&s;&s;e then miraculous when God brought his people <HI>I&s;rael</HI> out of <HI>Egypt, that no dogg opened his mouth.</HI> It was in the dark time of night, there was great noi&s;e and tumult, yet no dogg barked. When the king was re&s;tored unto us, it was as it was in Heaven for a time, great &s;ilence, all mens mouths were &s;topped, and the king peaceably and joyfully re&s;tored.</P>
<P N="4">4. Ble&s;&s;e God that we have not only a king, but a race and &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of kings: God pre&s;erved the <HI>Royal Family,</HI> as the
<PB N="31" REF="19"> three <HI>children</HI> in the fiery fornace, &s;o that no haire of their head was &s;inged: you &s;ee what great cau&s;e we have to prai&s;e God: <HI>Not unto us O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name be the glory. Not by might, not by pow|er, but by my Spirit, &s;aith the Lord of Ho&s;ts.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. They prai&s;ed the king: give the king the prai&s;ses due unto him; prai&s;e him for his <HI>invincible patience</HI> and <HI>forbearance:</HI> prai&s;e him for his Act of <HI>Indempnity</HI> and <HI>Pardon:</HI> prai&s;e him for re&s;toring the <HI>rights,</HI> the <HI>liber|ties</HI> of the Church: prai&s;e him for e&s;tabli&s;h|ing <HI>truth</HI> and <HI>judgment:</HI> never had king greater <HI>provocation,</HI> greater <HI>temptation;</HI> yet he hath conquered <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> which is more than if with <HI>Alexander</HI> he had conquered the <HI>whole world:</HI> He is more then a con|querour, a triumpher, not over mens <HI>bo|dies,</HI> but over their <HI>hearts,</HI> their <HI>&s;oules,</HI> their <HI>&s;pirits.</HI> Shout and cry aloud, let Heaven and Earth Eccho it back again, <HI>God &s;ave the king:</HI> Let the king live: <HI>God &s;ave the
<PB N="32" REF="20"> king:</HI> they are the la&s;t words of my Text, and they &s;hall be the la&s;t of my Sermon, and let all the People &s;hout it out with a loud &s;hout, GOD SAVE THE KING.</P>
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