"And may most seasonably be sung over again at the Inauguration of our King": the Coronation and the joy of Anglicanism's participatory vision

As we continue today in this realm to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty the King, I trust readers of laudable Practice will forgive a slightly shorter but no less joyous post, an extract from the sermon by George Morley, Bishop of Worcester, at the coronation of Charles II.

The words give expression to the deeply participatory theological vision which underpins an Anglican understanding of the gift of the polity, what John Hughes described as "a particular sensibility and piety which could be seen as characteristically Anglican: a sense of all creation being in God and God being in all creation, through Christ". 

And therefore with Angels and Archangels, and all the Host of Heaven, let us Laud and Magnifie the glorious Name of God, and joyn with the Heavenly Quire in that Heavenly Anthem, which was first sung at the Birth of our Saviour, and may most seasonably be sung over again at the Inauguration of our King, Glory be to God in the highest, on Earth Peace, Good will towards men. And may this Day be Annually and for ever repeated with the same Joy and Exultation wherewith it is now Celebrated. Let the King have alwayes more and more cause to bless God for his People, and let the People have alwayes more and more cause to bless God for their King; and let the prolonging of dayes to the one, be the prolonging of happiness to the other ... And when he hath setled Gods House, and his own, the Church and the State, and seen them both flourish, and like to continue in a flourishing condition; when he is full of dayes and Honour, and when God hath no more work for him to do here; then, and not till then, may he exchange the Crown of cares he is to put on now, for a Crown of Glory which he shall wear for ever; And let all that Love God and the King, their Countrey, and themselves, say, Amen.

God save the King.