Davids Prayer for Solomon, Title page – Dedication
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 (D…ids Prayer for Solomon, Containing, The proper Endowments and Duty Royal… of a King, &c) be Printed and publiſhed. JOHN WHITE.
LONDON, Printed by G. M. for Giles Calvert, and are to be ſould by Chriſtopher Meredith at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard, 1643.
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE ISAAC PENNINGTON, Lord Major of the Famous City of LONDON, Together with the Right Worſhipfull the Aldermen his Bretheren.
Right Honourable and Right Worſhipfull,
THis Sermon being preach't by your joynt-motion (and Printed by more then a ſingle one) hath embolden'd me to make this joynt Dedication. Theſe words were not ſpoken in a corner, neither being ſpoken doe they ſeeke corners, unleſſe it be the corners of mens hearts, any other (Verits non quaerit) Truth ſeeks not. While I put this, but into your hands, t' other is the lodging I deſire for it. In theſe Endowments of a King, ſee what your ſelves (in your ſpheare) aught to have: In the Duty of a King here preſented, reade what your ſelves (in your ſpheare) aught to doe. Every Magistrate is a King in a ſmall Letter. You Act (on the Stage of this Ancient City) the part of a Great King; Therefore you need the Parts of a King. And though now (while you act for King and Parliament) a Cloud of miſconſtruction dwels upon ſome of your Loyallties: yet trust God (God who gathers the wind in his fiſts, and ſends it out when he pleaſeth) truſt him for the ſcattering of that Cloud; and the cauſing of your Innocency to breake forth as the light, and your juſt dealing as the Noone-day. Sow to your ſelves, Governe others in righteouſneſſe: And feare not, but your City ſhall bring forth Peace to the people, Good-will to your ſelves, or (which is farre better, then both, though alone) Glory to God on High. To the care of this High God I commit this City, your Perſons, and your Imployments, and am
SIRS Your Honours and Worſhips To ſerve you in the Goſpell of Chriſt JOSEPH CARYL