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<P>The Loyal Prophet: A SERMON Preached in St. <HI>Peters</HI> in <HI>York,</HI> upon Monday the 13. of <HI>July,</HI> at the Summers A&s;&s;izes, <HI>Anno</HI> 1668.</P>
<P>By <HI>William Bramhall</HI> Rector of <HI>Gold&s;|brough,</HI> and one of his Maje&s;ties Chaplains.</P>
<Q><P>The King by Judgement e&s;tabli&s;heth the Land,</P> <BIBL><HI>Prov. 29.4.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<Q><P>God &s;tandeth in the Congregation of the mighty, he judgeth among the gods,</P> <BIBL><HI>P&s;alm 82.1.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<P>Imprimatur.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Ioh. Garthwait,</HI> Reverendi&s;&s;imo in Chri&s;to patri, ac Dom. Dom. <HI>Richardo,</HI> Archie|pi&s;copo Eboracen&s;i, &agrave; &s;acris Dome&s;tic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>Iuly 29. 1668.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Printed at York, Anno Dom.</HI> 1668.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable Baron <HI>Turner</HI> and Baron <HI>Rainsfordes;</HI> The Right Wor&s;hipful Sir <HI>Richard Mauleverer</HI> Knight and Baronet, High Sheriffe of the County of <HI>YORK; Richard Hutton</HI> E&s;q; of <HI>Goldsbrough,</HI> my honoured Patron, Safety here, and Salvation hereafter.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Honourable and Worthy,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>THE</HI> De&s;ign of the Preacher in committing that to the <HI>Pre&s;s</HI> in this cen&s;orious and critical age, under your Patronage and Protection, which was delivered before you from the Pulpit, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s not out of any crafty or undermining Po|licy, for &s;elf ends and Intere&s;ts, but meerly upon the account of hone&s;ty and loyalty,
<PB REF="3"> for the common and publique good, for the advancing the honour and glory of the King of Kings, the promoting the &s;afety of our Soveraign and his Kingdomes, the pre&s;erving of the honour and credit of our Religion, as it is profe&s;&s;ed and practi&s;ed in this Church of <HI>England,</HI> and the perpetuating the memory of your great Fames and good Names to &s;ucceeding A|ges and Generations. This, this is the de&s;ign of him, who is and &s;hall ever be</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Honours and Wor&s;hips faithful &s;er|vant in all Chri&s;tian Ob&s;ervance <HI>WILLIAM BRAMHALL.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<Q><BIBL>Daniel VI.XXI.</BIBL>
<P>O King, live for ever.</P></Q>
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<P>NEver did that Prophet &s;anctified in his mothers Womb, more plead his weakne&s;s and in&s;ufficiency, for the Di&s;charge of that weighty work and imployment whereunto God called him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 1.5, 6.</NOTE> as wanting both gravity &amp; ability, then I have done mine, for the declining of this duty and &s;ervice; but at la&s;t their importunity prevail|ing, who&s;e Authority might have com|manded me, it was no &s;mall trouble to me to pitch upon a Subject every wayes &s;uitable and fit, for &s;uch an Honourable, Reverend, Learned and Religious A&s;&s;embly, till at la&s;t my divi|ded &amp; almo&s;t <HI>di&s;tracted thoughts</HI> like the
<PB N="2" REF="4"> weary Dove, fell and &s;etled upon this Ark of &s;afety and &s;acred ground in this Text. For when I con&s;idered that happy Government under which we live, a Monarchy, and &s;uch a Monarchy, who&s;e Royal Prerogative doth not enterfear with, or entrench upon the liberty and priviledge of the Subject, nor yet the liberty and privi|ledge of the Subject, doth in the lea&s;t cloud or eclip&s;e the Beams and lu&s;tre of the Royal Prerogative. When I con&s;idered the Kings &s;everal Coun|&s;es:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cokes</HI> In|&s;titutions lib. 1. pag. 110.</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Commune Concilium regni,</HI> the Court of Parliament.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Magnum Concilium Regis,</HI> the Peers of the Realm, either in or out of Parliament.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Privatum Concilium Regis,</HI> the Kings Privy Coun&s;el.</P>
<P>And if I may give a name to the fourth, <HI>Regium Concilium Legis,</HI> the Kings learned Coun&s;el of the Law, the Judges,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 15.22</NOTE> <HI>Surely in the multitude of the&s;e Coun&s;els and Coun&s;ellers, the king|dome is e&s;tabli&s;hed.</HI></P>
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<P>Again, When I con&s;idered our Courts of Judicature, &s;upreme and &s;ubordinate, &s;uperior and inferior, of Equity and of Law, and all our whole&s;ome Laws and Statutes; which indeed in compari&s;on of the Laws of other Nations, de&s;erves that Cha|racter (which a learned and hone&s;t Judge of this Countrey, Sir <HI>Richard Hutton</HI> of precious Memory) hath ob&s;erved out of a Dialogue and Di&s;|cour&s;e that pa&s;&s;ed betwixt that fa|mous Sir <HI>John Forte&s;cue</HI> Serjeant at the Law, and Lord Chancellour of <HI>En|gland,</HI> and that unfortunate Prince <HI>Edward,</HI> the only Son and Heir of good <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;ixth, in the time of their exile in <HI>France:</HI> The Prince being too much addicted to Martial Affairs, was by the Chancellour per&s;waded to the &s;tudy of the&s;e excellent Laws, and was brought to this Re&s;olution and com|mendation of them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Forte&s;. Dial</NOTE> <HI>Lex i&s;ta mihi &s;em|per peculiaris erit inter caeteras leges orbis,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">pag. 132</NOTE> <HI>inter quas ip&s;am lucere con&s;picio, ut Lu|cifer inter minores &s;tellas,</HI> This Law &s;hall be ever peculiar unto me, above
<PB N="4" REF="5"> all the Laws of the World, among&s;t the which, I &s;ee it &s;hine, as Luciter the bright morning Star, among&s;t the &s;tars of a le&s;&s;er Magnitude, of which Laws, if I now &s;hould pre&s;ume to &s;hew the Antiquity and Excellency of them before the&s;e learned Sages and Students of the &s;ame, I might ju&s;tly be taxed of the like indi&s;cretion and folly, which &s;ometimes we read the Philo&s;opher <HI>Phormio</HI> at <HI>Ephe&s;us</HI> was,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Plutarch.</NOTE> when the great famous Cap|tain and <HI>Carthaginian</HI> General came in|to his School with King <HI>Antiochus</HI> of <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> who leaving off his Lecture of Philo&s;ophy, began a Di&s;cour&s;e <HI>De Arte militari,</HI> who&s;e pre&s;umption re|ceived no &s;mall check from that expe|rienced Commander <HI>Hannibal,</HI> in an elegant Oration concerning the &s;ame, wherein he made it appear, that the Di&s;cour&s;e had better be&s;eem'd him who had brandi&s;hed his bloody &s;word in the high places of the field, then an ob&s;cure Philo&s;opher, that only flouri&s;hed with his pen in the Schools: Yet give me leave, to remember you
<PB N="5" REF="5"> of a double benefit, that this daye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pro&s;pect pre&s;ents before you.</P>
<P N="1">1. When you view the&s;e honou|rable Brethren and noble Barons, you may conceit you &s;ee &s;o many <HI>Daniels</HI> prefer'd to the places and &s;eats of Ju|dicature, becau&s;e an excellent &s;pirit was found in them;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 6.3.</NOTE> again&s;t whom their Enemies could never yet find any oc|ca&s;ion, as matter of accu&s;ation, they being famous for their ob&s;ervation of the Law of their God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ver&s;e 4.</NOTE> as for their Admini&s;tration of Ju&s;tice, according to the Laws of their King: nay more you may conceit, you &s;ee <HI>Samuelem redivivum,</HI> not one but two aged <HI>Sa|muels</HI> going their Circuit, to <HI>Bethel,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 7.16.</NOTE> and <HI>Gilgal,</HI> and <HI>Mizpeh,</HI> to judge this <HI>Northren</HI> part of our I&s;rael.</P>
<P N="2">2. When you view the &s;everal Tribes here a&s;&s;embled, the Nobility and Gentry, the Clergy and Com|monalty of the&s;e parts; you may conceit you &s;ee them enjoying tho&s;e benefits and priviledges which &s;ome|times Gods antient people the Jews en|joyed, who were the fir&s;t people of
<PB N="6" REF="6"> the world, to whom any written <HI>Law</HI> was given, who&s;e Judges &s;at in the gates of their Cities, where they did pronounce their Judgements, equally and impartially admini&s;tring Ju&s;tice unto all, to the end that both all men might &s;ee the indifferency of their Proceedings, and that no man &s;hould need to go out of his way to &s;eek ju&s;tice: This is the happine&s;s of our condition at this time, <HI>Foelices nimium bona &s;i &s;ua,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>O happy England,</HI> if thou knew'&s;t thine own happine&s;s? we cannot but proclaim it, and in way of gratitude ingenuou&s;ly confe&s;s, <HI>That we have greater cau&s;e to pray for our Briti&s;h, then ever</HI> Daniel <HI>had for the</HI> Median <HI>and</HI> Per&s;ian <HI>Monarch.</HI></P>
<Q>O King, live for ever.</Q>
<P>But becau&s;e it is not only the cu&s;tome, but al&s;o ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary for the Preacher to implore the di|vine A&s;&s;i&s;tance; and long Prayers be|ing di&s;plea&s;ing to &s;ome, and &s;hort Prayers offen&s;ive to others: That I
<PB N="7" REF="6"> may not offend either, <HI>O Lord open thou my lips, and my mouth &s;hall &s;hew forth thy prai&s;e: Lord hear our Prayers, and let our cry come unto thee,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Dan. 6.21.</HI></BIBL> O King, live for ever.</Q>
<P><HI>Darius</HI> was king of the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> upon that &s;acrilegious Princes Fall, (who carou&s;ed his drunken healths in the &s;acred Plate of the Sanctuary) he is advanced to the kingdom of the <HI>Caldeans</HI> too:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 5.2.30.31.</NOTE> Upon his advancement he prefers <HI>Daniel,</HI> above all his Pre&s;idents and Princes, becau&s;e <HI>an excellent &s;pirit was found in him.</HI> And happy is that Kingdom, ble&s;&s;ed is that Church, where pre|ferments are confer'd, according to mens Worth, Parts and De&s;erts. The Princes and Nobles of <HI>Babylon</HI> en|vying <HI>Daniels</HI> honour, maliciou&s;ly confederate and con&s;pire to work his Ruine, in his Tru&s;t and Charge, in his Life and Manners, they could fa&s;ten nothing upon him, or object any thing again&s;t him: In his Religion,
<PB N="8" REF="7"> (&amp; e&s;pecially that <HI>part</HI> thereof, his <HI>de|votion</HI>) they thought they &s;hould, <HI>know|ing</HI> that <HI>Daniel</HI> would lo&s;e Honours, Offices, and Life al&s;o, rather then tran&s;gre&s;s the Law of his God: Now by their fraudulent and crafty under|mining policy, they procure from the King an unju&s;t Decree, injurious both to the King of Kings, and King <HI>Da|rius</HI> him&s;elf: Hereby Gods holy Pro|phet is en&s;nared, and his life expo&s;ed as a prey to the cruel paws, and hun|gry, and devouring Jaws of the Lyons: Here was a malicious and mi&s;chievous combination; but &s;ee the i&s;&s;ue and event of it, in a miraculous pre&s;er|vation, <HI>God was with his</HI> Prophet <HI>in the Den,</HI> re&s;trained the fiercene&s;s and fury of tho&s;e Creatures, &s;hut the Ly|ons mouths,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 6.22.</NOTE> that &s;o they could not fa&s;ten upon his Anointed, upon his holy Prophet; And here you have the thankful acknowledgement of Gods pre&s;ervation of him, and it is to the King, who had too ra&s;hly conde&s;cend|ed (being circumvented by his Court-Para&s;ites) to that wicked Decree, and
<PB N="9" REF="7"> by who&s;e &s;entence he was unju&s;tly condemned, <HI>Then &s;aid</HI> Daniel <HI>unto the King, O King, live for ever;</HI> which is a religious and loyal &s;alutation and &s;upplication for the Kings &s;afety, <HI>Live<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> for his &s;alvation hereafter, <HI>Live for ever:</HI> In which, (as in all &s;alutations) we may ob&s;erve, 1. The per&s;on &s;a|luted. 2. Saluting. 3. The Salu|tation it &s;elf.</P>
<P N="1">1. The Per&s;on &s;aluted; <HI>Darius,</HI> a great King of three Kingdoms; <HI>Media, Per&s;ia</HI> and <HI>Chaldea.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. The Per&s;on &s;aluting, <HI>Daniel,</HI> a great Prophet, famous for his wi&s;|dom, piety and devotion.</P>
<P N="3">3. The &s;alutation, a loyal prayer for his Soveraigns &s;afety and pro&s;perity here; a religious one, for his &s;alva|tion, con&s;i&s;ting in the enjoyment of an happy Eternity hereafter: <HI>Live for ever.</HI></P>
<P>From the&s;e three parts ari&s;es three poynts:</P>
<P N="1">1. All Kings mu&s;t be honoured by all their Subjects, by the be&s;t and ho|lie&s;t, as well as the greate&s;t &amp; meane&s;t</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="10" REF="8">2. Gods be&s;t Saints, &s;hould be the Kings mo&s;t faithful Subjects.</P>
<P N="3">3. He is a faithful Subject, whom in his prayers de&s;ires, and in his acti|ons endeavours, the &s;afety of his So|veraign here, and his &s;alvation here|after.</P>
<P>For the&s;e three points, there are the&s;e three Rea&s;ons.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>In&s;titutio divina.</HI> 2. <HI>Religio Chri&s;tiana.</HI> And, 3. <HI>Gratitudo huma|na:</HI> The Ordinance of God, the ho|nour of our Religion, and the duty of Gratitude, under the Kings go|vernment we enjoy &s;afely, and the means of Salvation; &s;o that we re|ceiving by him what we de&s;ire, &s;hould return unto him what we owe, our prayers and endeavours for his &s;afety here, and &s;alvation hereafter, giving all his kingdomes cau&s;e unanimou&s;ly to joyn with us, in this loyal and religi|ous Supplication, <HI>O King, live for ever.</HI></P>
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<HEAD><HI>OBSERVATION</HI> I.</HEAD>
<P>All Kings mu&s;t be honoured by all
<PB N="11" REF="8"> their Subjects, by the be&s;t and holie&s;t, as well as the greate&s;t and meane&s;t; by Gods choice Saints and holy Prophets, as well as by their Nobles and Princes, and common Subjects: &s;o did good <HI>Da|niel</HI> here great <HI>Darius;</HI> O King! a &s;peech of affection, of honour natu|ral and civil,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 2.4.</NOTE> not only u&s;ed by hea|thens, but al&s;o by the people of God. Thus the greate&s;t, the Queen her &s;elf honoured King <HI>David,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Kings 1.31.</NOTE> bowed with her face to the earth, and did reve|rence to him and &s;aid, <HI>Let my Lord king David live for ever:</HI> She addre&s;&s;ed her|&s;elf to him as a loving wife, and as an obedient &s;ubject; and no le&s;s re&s;pect &s;hew'd &s;he (when Queen-mother) to her &s;on <HI>Solomon,</HI> when advanc'd to the Throne of his father.</P>
<P>Thus did <HI>Nathan</HI> the Prophet,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Kings 1.23.</NOTE> <HI>bow|ing him&s;elf before the King with his face to the ground:</HI> Not the neare&s;t Conju|gal, or maternal Relation, not the Prophetical function, exempts any from civil &s;ubjection.</P>
<P>Thus did good <HI>Nehemiah,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Nehe. 2.3.</NOTE> when he de&s;ired only to promote the good of
<PB N="12" REF="9"> Gods people; he gave evidence of that great re&s;pect and honour he had for King <HI>Artaxerxes</HI> his Ma&s;ter. And I &s;aid unto the King, <HI>Let the King live for ever.</HI></P>
<P>Thus doth the greate&s;t Commander, as well as the meane&s;t Souldier: <HI>All the Congregation bowed down their heads,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cron. 29 20</NOTE> <HI>and wor&s;hipped the Lord and the King:</HI> The &s;ame word is attributed to God and the King, yet in a different re&s;pect, God with a religious and divine ho|nour, the King with a civil reverence and wor&s;hip: So when <HI>Solom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> &s;at on his royal Throne, called <HI>The Throne of the Lord,</HI> becau&s;e all Kings bear the Image of the Lord, by whom they rule.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cron. 29 24.</NOTE> It is &s;aid, <HI>That all I&s;rael obeyed him,</HI> even all the Princes and and mighty men, (that is, all that had Command of Souldiers, all that were eminent for Honour and Wealth) and all the &s;ons likewi&s;e of King <HI>Da|vid</HI> &s;ubmitted them&s;elves unto him, though born of royal mothers, yielded to the Will of God therein by &s;ome external rite, as <HI>bowing the head,</HI> or
<PB N="13" REF="9"> <HI>ki&s;&s;ing the hand,</HI> gave &s;ignal te&s;timonies of their Fealty and Subjection to him. And thus did good <HI>Jehoiada:</HI> The Le|vites and all Judah, the Captains of Hundreds; and all the people pray at the Coronation of King <HI>Joa&s;h,</HI> who had been detained from his Right by the u&s;urpation of <HI>Athaliah,</HI> and who only of the &s;eed Royal had been mira|culou&s;ly &s;aved from her rage and cru|elty: <HI>They clap'd their hands;</HI> A vi&s;i|ble expre&s;&s;ion of their great joy, and &s;aid, <HI>God &s;ave the King.</HI> Heb.<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chro. 23.9, 10, 11.</NOTE> <HI>Let the King live,</HI> an u&s;ual acclamation at the Coronation of Kings.</P>
<P>But what honour is due to them by the new Te&s;tament? The Apo&s;tle in one place prophe&s;ies of <HI>Perillous times,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3.4</NOTE> and that which made them &s;o, was, That among&s;t other &s;ins, there &s;hould be &s;inners of the greate&s;t magnitude, <GAP DESC="foreign">, that is, <HI>Traytors, Heady:</HI> And &s;peaking of tho&s;e in ano|ther place,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iude v. 8.</NOTE> <GAP DESC="foreign">. They do di&s;pi&s;e domini|ons, &s;peak evil of Dignities, reject not only the Governours, but the go|vernment,
<PB N="14" REF="10"> revile and reproach Magi|&s;trates,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 2.10</NOTE> even &s;ubordinate and &s;upreme too, who are dignities, Per&s;ons of Honour, aod &s;o ought to be e&s;teemed: Therefore in their Epi&s;tles, they do put them in mind of that, which they are too apt to forget: <HI>Put them in mind to be &s;ubject to Principalities and Powers:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Titus 3.1.</NOTE> under which words are comprehended all civil Powers. And who mu&s;t be remembred of their Duty? the &s;ame Apo&s;tle tells you, <HI>Every &s;oul: Let every &s;oul be &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ject,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 13.1.</NOTE> the holie&s;t, the greate&s;t; as <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> de&s;cants, though an Apo&s;tle, though an Evan|geli&s;t, though a Prophet: The Pope too, (as one &s;aid well) except he will be excluded out of the number of all &s;ouls.</P>
<P>But who are the&s;e higher Powers to whom they mu&s;t be &s;ubject? <HI>Kings, and all that are in Authority:</HI> &s;ays St. <HI>Paul,</HI> that is,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 2.2.</NOTE> <HI>The &s;upreme and &s;ubordinate Magi|&s;trate.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2.13</NOTE> &s;ays St. <HI>Peter,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">, To the King, who is the high, the ex|cellent Authority, and to Governours that are &s;ent by him.</P>
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<P>As in nature the Sun is Commander in chief among the Planets, who&s;e light is communicated to them from that body: Thus in body Politick, God hath &s;et Kings, Nobles, Judges, &s;till in a de&s;cent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> <HI>and tho&s;e powers are of God;</HI> &s;o that if there be any fear of God, there will be an honouring of the King, and of tho&s;e that are &s;ent by him.</P>
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<HEAD>REASON <HI>I.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>IN<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">titutio divina;</HI> It is Gods In&s;ti|tution, he requires it; Monarchy is the vent to Theocracy, and God him&s;elf never in&s;tituted any other form then Monarchical. He him&s;elf vouch&s;afed to be King of his people, and gave them fir&s;t <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> as his Viceroy, for he was King in <HI>Je&s;&s;urun;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 33.5.</NOTE> and when the people multiplied, and the burden of Government was too heavy for his Shoulders, according to his Father-in-law (<HI>Jethro's</HI> advice) he provided able men, &s;uch as feared God, men of truth, hating covetou&s;|ne&s;s,
<PB N="16" REF="11"> to be his A&s;&s;i&s;tants,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 18.22.</NOTE> (as our Judges are the Kings learned Councel) to judge the people at all &s;ea&s;ons, and God him&s;elf avowed his authority, in the ju&s;t and miraculous puni&s;hment of tho&s;e pre&s;umptuous Rebels; &s;o that when the Government was Paternal,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Num. 16.32.</NOTE> Patriarchal under a General, their valiant and victorious <HI>Jo&s;hua,</HI> yea Judi|cial under tho&s;e famous Judges, it was &s;till Monarchical; and therefore in that acterregnum you have declar|ed the mi&s;erable condition of a State, and People, who live in an Anarchy, every one doing that which was good in their own eyes, <HI>becau&s;e there was no King in I&s;rael;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iud. 17.6.</NOTE> then mu&s;t every <HI>Mi|cah</HI> have his Idol, and his Prie&s;t too: then &s;hall the mo&s;t notorious unclean|ne&s;s and Sodomitical filthine&s;s, be not only committed, but countenanced by a whole Tribe, But afterwards God gave them a radicated &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of <HI>Kings,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 17.14, 15.</NOTE> according to his promi&s;e; <HI>So that the Scepter departed not from Judah until Shiloh came,</HI> according to that ancient Prophecy; and when he did come,
<PB N="17" REF="11"> he him&s;elf was the King of the Jewes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 49.20</NOTE> <HI>(though his kingdom was not of this world)</HI> for he owned <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> in working a mi|racle to pay him Tribute, and his An|&s;wer to the captious Que&s;tion was, <HI>To maintain the civil power,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 22.21</NOTE> <HI>as well as Re|ligion, to render unto Cae&s;ar the things that are Cae&s;ars, as unto God the things that are Gods;</HI> And his Apo&s;tle ad|vi&s;es all believing Chri&s;tians,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 13.5</NOTE> <HI>to be &s;ubject for con&s;cience &s;ake, and for the Lords &s;ake;</HI> &s;o that it mu&s;t needs be <GAP DESC="foreign">, a divine Order or in&s;titution.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2.13</NOTE> Though &s;ome object, that St. <HI>Peter</HI> calls it, <GAP DESC="foreign">, an Ordinance of man; as if the Magi&s;trate was an humane Creature, and as a King cre|ated by man; yet the ready An&s;wer is, Monarchy is <GAP DESC="foreign">, <HI>&s;ecundum &s;ub|&s;tantiam:</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>&s;ecundum modum &amp; finem;</HI> call'd there an humane Ordi|nance, not becau&s;e it was invented by, or hath its Original from men, but be|cau&s;e man was the &s;ubject of it, hu|mane Affairs the Object, and God as the Author and Efficient, in&s;tituted it for the good of mankind; For as our
<PB N="18" REF="12"> natural Parents bear the image of Gods power, who are the in&s;truments of our being, &amp; beget us; and our &s;pi|ritual and eccle&s;ia&s;tical Parents, bear the image of Gods wi&s;dom and know|ledge, who are the in&s;truments of our &s;piritual and wel-being, to teach and in&s;truct us: So our civil Parents, who bear the image of Gods power and authority, are Gods in&s;truments for our civil being, to govern and protect us. In them Gods Soveraign Maje&s;ty &s;hineth brightly, in their Crowns and Scepters, the beams of his favour are mo&s;t apparent; for he inve&s;teth them with his robes of Maje&s;ty, armeth them with his own &s;word of Ju&s;tice, adorneth them with his own Diadem of royal dignity, &amp; graceth them with his own &s;tyle of Deity: <HI>I have &s;aid, ye are gods, and all of you children of the mo&s;t high;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">p 82.6</NOTE> above all others therefore, we owe duty and rerpect unto Kings; as here <HI>Danil</HI> did to <HI>Darius.</HI></P>
<DIV4 TYPE="application">
<PB N="19" REF="12">
<HEAD>USE.</HEAD>
<P>NAy we have more cau&s;e to do it, if we con&s;ider what <HI>Darius</HI> was, <HI>Eccle&s;iae inimicus, Author perditionis:</HI> He was an heathen Prince, an enemy to Gods I&s;rael, Church and people, he kept the &s;ervants of God in capti|vity: he a&s;&s;um'd unto him&s;elf religi|ous Wor&s;hip, he was the Author (in humane probability) of <HI>Daniels</HI> De|&s;truction, though his Lord advi&s;ed him to it, yet it was his Law en&s;nared him, his power condem'd him, his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ommand ca&s;t him into the Den, his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ignet &s;ealed the &s;tone, and yet <HI>Daniel</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">onours him, prayes for his pro&s;pe|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ity here, and eternity of life here|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fter.</P>
<P>Religion doth not exempt us from honouring our Superious, though they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e enemies to the Church. Dominion <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and Soveraignty are the ordinances of God, in&s;tituted upon earth by him, as he is the Author of mankind, not as the God and Author of Grace; for
<PB N="20" REF="13"> <HI>Cyrus</HI> is Gods anointed; even <HI>Pilate</HI> him&s;elf hath his power from above:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 22.21</NOTE> no wrong, no injury can exempt or ex|cu&s;e us from honouring them.</P>
<P><HI>Daniel</HI> was injured, was wronged &s;ufficiently, and yet how re&s;pective? Infer we then, and conclude hence our Duty, What honour is due to good Kings? If to a heathen, what is due to a Chri&s;tian King? If to an Enemy of the Church, what to a nur&s;ing fatherr of the Church? If to one who a&s;&s;umes religious wor&s;hip to him&s;elf, What to him who is a true Wor&s;hipper of God him&s;elf? and enjoynes us to wor&s;hip the God of our Fathers. If to him who is an in|&s;trument of our death, what to him who is under God, the greate&s;t Pro|tector of our lives and liberties? un|der who&s;e government we duly fre|quent Gods hou&s;e, and quietly enjoy our own: &s;o that this Scripture is an Argument of no &s;mall force, to re|&s;olve the con&s;ciences of tho&s;e, that doubt in the&s;e dayes, Wether a law|ful Soveraign may be honoured and
<PB N="21" REF="13"> obeyed, if he be an Heretick, (as they call tho&s;e that are of another opinion) He may, he mu&s;t, though he be of a fal&s;e Religion; How much more, when he is of the true, and the King; Our King commands no fal&s;e Wor&s;hip, as <HI>Darius</HI> did,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 6.26.</NOTE> <HI>but the Wor&s;hip of the God of</HI> Daniel, and en|joynes no other wor&s;hip, then accor|ding to his own Laws, the undoubted Regi&s;ter whereof is the &s;acred word: This honour God him&s;elf requires in his Law, Chri&s;t in his, the Law of Grace.</P>
<P>Let us &s;ee what the Laws of the Land &s;ays to it? Mr. <HI>Henry Bracton,</HI> who lived in the time of King <HI>Henry</HI> the third, &s;aith, <HI>Rex &s;icut Dei Vicarius &amp; Mini&s;ter in terr&acirc; pote&s;tatem juris ha|bens,</HI> The King is Gods Vice-gerent,<NOTE PLACE="marg">9. &amp; 10 chap.</NOTE> and Mini&s;ter upon earth, having pow|er of the Laws. <HI>Henry</HI> the Lord <HI>Beaumont</HI> was for his unreverent <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">peeches to King <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;econd, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ommanded out of the Councel hou&s;e, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hough it be &s;aid therewithal, that he was <HI>juratus de magno &amp; &s;ecreto Con&s;ilio
<PB N="22" REF="14"> Regis,</HI> &s;worn of the great and privy Councel of the King; and our fa|mous Sir <HI>Edward Coke</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 lib. In&s;tit. pag. 7.</NOTE> our Kings were honoured with the &s;tiles, <HI>Of So|veraign Lord, Leige Lord, Highne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Kingly Highne&s;s,</HI> that Grace was attributed to King <HI>Henry</HI> the fourth; <HI>Excellent Grace,</HI> to King <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;ixth: <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> to King <HI>Henry</HI> the 8th. and &s;ince that, the King and Queens <HI>Mo&s;t Excellent Naje&s;ty;</HI> &s;o that now for tho&s;e that canonize them&s;elves for Saints, and pretend to have a more excellent &s;pirit then <HI>Daniel,</HI> as attain|ed already to a higher degree and pitch of &s;anctity and Piety, and yet do &s;peak evil of dignities,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iude 8</NOTE> revile the Rulers of the people, do prove them|&s;elves to be the &s;pawn of tho&s;e filthy Dreamers and Bla&s;phemers, having only <GAP DESC="foreign">,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 3.2 5</NOTE> a mask and vi|zor of godline&s;s for their true piety and fidelity to God, ought to be evi|denced by their loyalty and honour of their Soveraign, as holy <HI>Daniel</HI> was here, which brings me from the per|&s;on &s;aluted, to the &s;econd part.</P>
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</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="observation">
<PB N="23" REF="14">
<HEAD><HI>OBSERVATION</HI> II.</HEAD>
<P N="2">2. <HI>The Per&s;on &s;aluting, Daniel;</HI> and then, <HI>Gods be&s;ts Saints &s;hould be the Kings mo&s;t faithful Subjects. Daniel</HI> was a per&s;on of no ordinary rank and quality, of no ordinary &s;ize or pitch of Piety; he was prefer'd by three great Monarchs, by <HI>Nebuchadnezzar, Bel&s;hazzar,</HI> and la&s;tly by <HI>Darius.</HI> He was chief of the <HI>Trium viri</HI> or Pre|&s;idents; Thus &s;till is unity &s;ought af|ter, as be&s;t for Peace in State and Church; and Parity avoided, as tend|ing to Di&s;order and Confu&s;ion in the one, and Schi&s;m and Divi&s;ion in the other. <HI>Daniel</HI> was a rare per&s;on, fa|mous, 1. For his Wi&s;dom by a com|mon proverb, <HI>He was &s;et as a pattern thereof in Babylon:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek 28.3.</NOTE> The King of <HI>Tyre</HI> who thought him&s;elf &s;o wi&s;e above others, is taunted, <HI>Behold thou art wi&s;er then Daniel.</HI> 2. He was fa|mous for Prayer and Sanctity, and joyned therefore as a fit interce&s;&s;our with two Worthyes, to divert Gods
<PB N="24" REF="15"> wrath;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 14.14.20</NOTE> <HI>Noah a ju&s;t man and perfect: Job a man perfect and upright, that fear|ed God and e&s;chewed evil: He was great|ly beloved of the Lord,</HI> as the Angel <HI>Gabriel</HI> told him; <HI>and unto him did G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d make known his Will.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 9.23.</NOTE> 3. He was fa|mous too for his Fidelity and Loyal|ty; even his enemies gave thi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> te&s;ti|mony of him, That though they &s;ought to find occa&s;ion again&s;t him, yet they could find none, no &s;ubject matter of accu&s;ation, no colour or &s;u&s;pition of negligence or unfaithful|ne&s;s in him, or his doings. He was faithful to the King in the Affairs of the Kingdom, as he was al&s;o to his God: So that per&s;ons eminent for their Piety and Holine&s;s, ought to be eminent al&s;o for their Loyalty and Faithfulne&s;s: <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> had Saints in his hou&s;hold, who was obedient to him, &amp; to God too, otherwi&s;e the great A|po&s;tle would not have &s;o lovingly &s;a|luted them.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 1. 26</NOTE> <HI>Obadiah</HI> was a faithful Courtier to wicked King <HI>Ahab,</HI> and yet true to his God, as appears by his affection to the Lords Prophets
<PB N="25" REF="15"> <HI>Nehemiah</HI> was faithful to his God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nehem. 2.1.</NOTE> and yet an obedient &s;ervant to his ma&s;ter, when Cup-bearer to the great King <HI>Artaxerxes:</HI> So was <HI>Daniel</HI> here in the acknowledgement of Gods miracu|lous delivery of him, he pleads his own innocency, <HI>Before thee, O King, I have done no hurt.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 6.22.</NOTE> Gods deare&s;t Saint and &s;ervant proves here the be&s;t and mo&s;t faithful Subject.</P>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="reason">
<HEAD><HI>REASON</HI> II.</HEAD>
<P><HI>CHri&s;tiana Religio;</HI> the Honour, the Credit of our Religion en|joynes it; for our honouring of Ma|gi&s;trates, and obedience to them, mu&s;t be out of obedience to God, and Con&s;cience of Duty, who hath or|dained civil Magi&s;tracy, and enjoyn|ed &s;ubjection unto it; for &s;o is the Will of God, that Chri&s;tians &s;hould &s;top the mouths of Unbelievers,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Titus 3.1.</NOTE> which are opened again&s;t our Religi|on, becau&s;e of the Profe&s;&s;ors di&s;obe|dience to their Rulers. He that tru|ly fears God, the great King of hea|ven,
<PB N="26" REF="16"> will cordially and con&s;cionably &s;erve the&s;e earthly gods, Kings of the earth; for Con&s;cience (that poor neglected thing) is the &s;tronge&s;t tye of Subjects hearts unto their Sove|raign, which neither man nor devil is able to di&s;&s;olve, and will &s;upport all loyal hearts erect and un&s;haken in the greate&s;t &s;torms and confu&s;ions: Now the honour of Religion &s;hould be very dear to one that feareth God. Let the world &s;ay what it will, Reli|gion is a friend to Magi&s;tracy, com|manding civil Duty by a &s;acred bond and obligation.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;. 8.2.</NOTE> <HI>I coun&s;el thee to keep the Kings Commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God;</HI> not only out of fear to them, becau&s;e of their &s;word, but <HI>becau&s;e of Con&s;cience to|wards God,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 13.5</NOTE> and of tho&s;e vows that are upon us, which obliges to faith|fulne&s;s. <HI>Tho&s;e that are faithful to God, I &s;hall expect them to be faithful to me,</HI> &s;aid the father of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the great: Certainly none ought to live &s;o &s;weet|ly under the &s;ame government,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eu&s;eb. lib. 2. <HI>de vita Con&s;tan.</HI></NOTE> as tho&s;e that are united in the &s;ame faith,
<PB N="27" REF="16"> and cemented together with the &s;ame blood of Chri&s;t. The Prote&s;tant<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Doctrine alwayes taught, <HI>That Reli|gion was an enemy to Rebellion;</HI> always cry'd down, (&s;aith <HI>Hugo Grotius) Ar|matum Evangelium;</HI> alwayes cry'd up, <HI>Obedience, Honour and Reverence due to them;</HI> teaching good Magi&s;trates mu&s;t be obey'd as God, tho&s;e that are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ad for God.</P>
<DIV4 TYPE="application">
<HEAD>USE.</HEAD>
<P>AND if at this Touch-&s;tone we try tho&s;e that would have been accounted our modern Saints, by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">heir Loyalty and fidelity, we &s;hall not find this vertue in them: They could not be <HI>religious</HI> unle&s;s they were <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ebellious; They could not fear God, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nle&s;s they di&s;honoured their King: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or obey their heavenly father, unle&s;s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hey di&s;obey'd their earthly: That <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uch counterfeit Saints there was and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s: <HI>That &s;uch a generation,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">prov. 30.12</NOTE> <HI>pure in their own eyes,</HI> &amp;c. Such &s;pirits that will be under no other Law or Rule, but their
<PB N="28" REF="17"> own lu&s;ts and intere&s;ts: That it hath been and is &s;till on working, none can be &s;uch a &s;tranger in our I&s;rael as not to know. That roaring and thun|dring (not only crying) &s;in, the murder of our late dear and dread Soveraign, had been the greate&s;t Scandal and di&s;honour to our Religion, had not that glorious Martyr by his royal pen da&s;h'd it out; when he writ, That &s;carce any one who had been a Begin|ner, or an active Pro&s;ecutor of the late Ware again&s;t the Church, the Laws and his royal per&s;on, either was or is a true Lover, and Embracer, or Pra|cti&s;er of the Prote&s;tant Religion, as it is e&s;tabli&s;hed in <HI>England;</HI> which nei|ther gives &s;uch Rules, or ever before &s;et &s;uch Examples. Had not our gracious Soveraign, who now is, in his royal Proclamation declar'd, Tho&s;e that had a hand in that unpara|lel'd &s;in of the greate&s;t magnitude, That they were as far from being good Prote&s;tants, as they were from being good Subjects: Thanks to the roy|al Pen! True it is, our Adver&s;aries
<PB N="29" REF="17"> in both extreams do clip the wings of Monarchy: The one denying the Kings Supremacy in Cau&s;es Eccle&s;i|a&s;tical: The other (if their power were equal to their Wills) compel|ling the royal golden Scepter to bow down to the <HI>Scepter of Chri&s;t,</HI> and good rea&s;on if it were &s;o) as they are pleas'd to call their cla&s;&s;ical Con&s;i&s;torian, Power and Authority: Of which di|&s;cipline one prophe&s;ied not ami&s;s, when it was newly broach'd in the Church, and was commended to the liking of another Nation, <HI>Timetur al|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">era Tyrannis. Novus Pontificatus,</HI> a new Popedome was the judgement of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nother; but who&s;oever peru&s;eth the Doctrine of the Church of <HI>England,,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s it is expre&s;&s;ed in the 39, Articles,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 37.</NOTE> and her Di&s;cipline as contained in the Cannons and Con&s;titutions, may with|out partiality, conclude,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Can. 1.2.</NOTE> The Pro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ors thereof are the true&s;t, fa&s;te&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">riends to Monarchy; among&s;t whom God hath his faithful &s;ervants, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he King his mo&s;t loyal Subjects; <HI>They <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eeping the good old way;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 6.1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> the golden
<PB N="30" REF="18"> mean betwixt Tyranny on the one hand, and Popularity and Parity on the other. True it is, &s;ometimes confcionable Chri&s;tians have been fal&s;ly accu&s;ed, as <HI>Daniel</HI> here, for not keeping the Kings Laws, Chri&s;t was accounted an enemy to Cae&s;ar, and &s;o his &s;ervant <HI>Jeremy</HI> a &s;eeds-man of &s;e|dition: <HI>Luther</HI> a Trumpet of rebelli|on: So <HI>Francis</HI> King of <HI>France</HI> de&s;iring to excu&s;e to the Prote&s;tant Princes of <HI>Germany,</HI> his cruel per&s;ecution of the <HI>Lutherans</HI> in his Kingdom, wrote to them, <HI>That he looked upon them all, as Anabapti&s;ts and Enemies to civil govern|ment, and therefore u&s;ed &s;uch &s;everity a|gain&s;t them.</HI> This cau&s;ed <HI>Calvin</HI> to write his In&s;titutions, and elegantly in his Preface to it,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> repeats the objections, <HI>Sceptra Regum &egrave; manibus extorquent, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">unalia judicia&abque; omnia precipitant, &s;ubvertunt ordines omnes &amp; politias, pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">em &amp; quietem populi perturbant, leges <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mnes a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rogant,</HI> They wre&s;t the Scep|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">r out of the Kings hand, they over|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">urn all Tribunals and Courts of Ju|dicature, confound all humane orders
<PB N="31" REF="18"> and Societies, di&s;turb the Peace and Quiet of the People, and aboli&s;h and abrogate all Laws. By the &s;pirit of Propaccy calculated for our <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Sectaries, but no wayes true of the <HI>Gallicane Hugenots.</HI> And &s;ure I am, they cannot be accounted or e&s;teem'd true Chri&s;tians, who are for &s;uch a li|berty, as owes no &s;ubjection to Magi|&s;trates; We may &s;ay to &s;uch as St. <HI>Barnard</HI> hath done before us, <HI>Ubi ti|mor mentis, rubor frontis?</HI> Where is either Con&s;cience towards God, or reverence to his Anointed? <HI>Tertulli|ans</HI> Apology for the Chri&s;tians in the time of the heatheni&s;h per&s;ecuting Emperors, was, <HI>Nos non &s;umus Ni|griani, nec Ca&s;&s;iani,</HI> We are no Tray|tors, no Rebels, we fill all your Ci|ties, I&s;lands, Towns, yea your Pa|lace and Senate: What were we not able to do? If it were not more a|greeable to our Religion to be killed, then upon any pretence to kill: And if the&s;e Saints were good Subjects to bad Princes, &s;urely it concerns us Chri&s;tians, to &s;hew our Religion to
<PB N="32" REF="19"> God, by our Loyalty to our Soveraign, who is <HI>Nutritius Eccle&s;iae,</HI> Defender of the Faith, the Pre&s;erver of our Peace, who delights in our pro&s;perity, and therefore we &s;hould pray for his Saf<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ty, as <HI>Daniel</HI> doth for <HI>Darius, O King live for ever:</HI> which brings me to the third Salutation it &s;elf:</P>
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</DIV3>
</DIV2>
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<HEAD><HI>OBSERVATION</HI> III.</HEAD>
<P>IT is the duty of a good Subject in his Prayers to de&s;ire, and in hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> actions to endeavour the &s;afety of the King here, and his Salvation hereaf|ter; his temporal pro&s;perity here, and a happy Eternity hereafter: Thus did <HI>Daniel,</HI> here was the tryal of his Wor&s;hip; he was thought to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> factious man, &s;editious, but here he &s;hew'd him&s;elf a faithful Subject in his Prayers to God for him. The I&s;rae|lites expre&s;&s;ed their affection to <HI>David</HI> their King, in that unnatural rebellion of <HI>Ab&s;olons,</HI> they prefer'd his &s;afety before their own,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 18.3</NOTE> <HI>Thou &s;halt not g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> forth,</HI> and gives the rea&s;on, <HI>Thou ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="33" REF="19"> worth ten thou&s;and of us,</HI> better it were that many of us &s;hould mi&s;carry, then that the light of I&s;rael &s;hould be ex|tingui&s;hed, thou that the lea&s;t hurt &s;hould befall him, who was the &s;tay of them all, in who&s;e &s;afety con&s;i&s;ted their &s;afety; For as Kings are called <HI>The Anointed of the Lord,</HI> &s;o the <HI>breath of our no&s;trils:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Lam. 4.20.</NOTE> Breath is nece&s;&s;ary to our being and life, &s;o is a King to our well-being and pre&s;ervation of that life. It mu&s;t be acknowledged, that the Original of all our happine&s;s is from heaven, yet it mu&s;t be confe&s;t withal, that the golden pipes through which ble&s;&s;ings are convey'd to a Na|tion or a people, is the &s;upreme Ma|gi&s;trates Government, our peace is from his Wi&s;dom, our Plenty from our Peace, our Pro&s;perity from our Plenty; Our Safety, our very lives are by Gods providence wrapt up in his welfare; who&s;e precious life, (as the Orator &s;peaks) is <HI>Vita quaedam publica:</HI> Why &s;hould there be any murmuring or complain|ing in our &s;treets for tho&s;e nece&s;&s;ary
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<PB N="34" REF="21"> Taxes, to &s;upport his Government, which &s;upports us all, therefore are Kings called <HI>the foundation of the earth,</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>qua&s;i</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign">,<NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al. 82.5</NOTE> a phra&s;e borrowed from a building, whereun|to the Kingdom is compared; for the body Politick is like the body natural, the foundation of it &s;tands upermo&s;t. The Prince &s;eems to re&s;t upon the people as the head on the body; but indeed the people do re&s;t upon him, and if it were not for the influence of the Soveraign heads Government, the members of the body politick could not &s;u&s;tain them&s;elves: To conclude this point, The benefit and u&s;e of Mo|narchy and Magi&s;tracy, is hyerogliphy|cally and excellently &s;et forth by the Tree that <HI>Nebuchadnezz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r</HI> &s;aw in his Vi&s;ion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 4.10, 12.</NOTE> <HI>Under which the bea&s;ts of the field had &s;hadow, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all fle&s;h was fed of it;</HI> &s;ignifying unto us, the dignity of a King, whom God ordains to be a defence to all kind of men,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 6. 24.</NOTE> and who&s;e &s;tate is profitable to mankind. <HI>A wi&s;e King is the uphold|ing
<PB N="35" REF="21"> of the people,</HI> and therefore a wi&s;e people will uphold the King. It is recorded in Apocryphal, but the &s;en&s;e thereof often taught in canonical Scripture: The Rea&s;on, <HI>Gratitude humana,</HI> the Duty of Gratitude per|&s;wades unto it; For what is Loyalty? but gratitude to Princes, as Religion is gratitude to God: it concerns us to defend them, who are the Defenders of the Faith; to &s;ave them, who are the breath of &s;o many thou&s;and no&s;trils: This is but gratitude; we re&s;t &s;ecure from birds of prey, under the Eagles wings, we are kept from heats and &s;torms under the &s;hadow of the&s;e trees; defended from oppre&s;&s;i|ons at home, from inva&s;ions abroad;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prov. 29.4.</NOTE> <HI>The King by judgement e&s;tabli&s;heth the Land:</HI> Why &s;hould not the Land e&s;tabli&s;h his Throne? O let us not be like the ungrateful, the murmuring I&s;raelites, <HI>Quid nobis cum Davide?</HI> What have we to do with this &s;on of <HI>Je&s;&s;e?</HI> That even when God him&s;elf was pleas'd to order their civil affairs, repined and were not contented even
<PB N="36" REF="22"> when they had Manna as when they wanted it; But I hope we are Chri|&s;tians of a better alloy: It be&s;eems not us of all others to be &s;o injurious to God, who hath &s;elected us out to be a happy people: It be&s;eems us not to be unthankful to our Soveraign, un|der whom we enjoy tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ings: There is a civil ambition and cove|tou&s;ne&s;s in the members of every Kingdom, and each man would de|vour his brother; <HI>Ephraim</HI> again&s;t <HI>Mana&s;&s;es</HI> and <HI>Mana&s;&s;es</HI> again&s;t <HI>Ephraim,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ay 9.21.</NOTE> and both again&s;t <HI>Judah,</HI> until the king|dom of I&s;rael be laid wa&s;te: for in every &s;tate there are powerful and poor, the wolf and the &s;heep, the Lyon and the Lamb, cunning and &s;imple, &s;trong and weak: That the powerful do not oppre&s;s the poor, that the crafty do not circumvent the &s;imple,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g 17.16</NOTE> that the &s;trong doth not offer violence to the weak: The rea&s;on is, <HI>There is a King, otherwi&s;e every man would be his own judge, and do that which was right in his own eyes.</HI> What then remains, but that our gratitude
<PB N="37" REF="22"> &s;hould re&s;ult from all to make our happine&s;s compleat: his &s;afety &s;hall be dear to us, under whom we en|joy Safety: nay more his &s;alvation too, under whom we enjoy the means of &s;alvation: let us pray then, that he may live for ever, have a long and pro&s;perous Reign upon earth, a ble&s;&s;ed end and life everla&s;ting: It was the Motto of the Emperour, when he had one Crown on the &s;word, and ano|ther Crown upon his head: <HI>Tertiam in caelis:</HI> the third he had in heaven: and the famous Dr. <HI>Rodley</HI> the great Benefactor to the Univer&s;ity of <HI>Oxford,</HI> gave for his Armes three Crownes with this motto. <HI>Quarta perennis erit:</HI> the fourth &s;hall be Eternal. God hath honoured our Gracious Soveraign with three Crowns here, when God is plea&s;ed to take off the&s;e from his Royal head, let us pray that God would &s;et on a fourth: (a Crown is the Emblem of eternity) a Crown of life, an immarce&s;&s;ible, an immortal Crown, that he may goe from one kingdome to another, from a king|dome
<PB N="38" REF="23"> on earth, that hath been ofte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;haken, to a kingdome in Heaven, that cannot be &s;haken, that he may be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal Diadem in the hand of our God, <HI>and &s;oe Live for ever.</HI></P>
<P>In a word, to conclude this poynt I hope we need not much per&s;wa&s;ions to the performance of our duty, if we either re&s;pect Gods in&s;titution or ordinance, the honour and credit of our Religion, or the duty of grati|tude for our own &s;afety and pre&s;erva|tion:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;a. 4<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.23.</NOTE> It was Gods promi&s;e. <HI>Kings &s;hould be nur&s;ing Fathers to the Church,</HI> and the Poets calls them, <GAP DESC="foreign"> the Shepherds of the people. How &s;hould the impotent Child live without a Nur&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> The &s;heep would be a prey to Wolves and Foxes, to Heretickes and Schi&s;matickes, were it not for the Shepherd. That we may fit under the &s;hadow of peace and teach our Children to know the Lord, that the l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mps of our lives be not &s;nuf|fed out with violence, that our devoti|on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> be not mol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ted with &s;chi&s;mes and
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<P>And now I have done, with this <HI>Loyal Salutation</HI> and <HI>Religious Suplica|tion,</HI> yet &s;omething by way of ap|plication mu&s;t be added, that &s;o this Text may be fitted to the bu&s;ines in hand. <HI>Daniels</HI> cour&s;e in the fir&s;t place is comme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ded to you (right honour|able) or rather you are to be com|mended for walking in <HI>Daniels</HI> &s;teps and following his Cour&s;e: He was a Deputy under King <HI>Dari<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> to the Jewes, &s;oe are you under <HI>Carolus &s;e|cuudus</HI> our Gracious Soveraign in the&s;e parts. He in his deputation was faith|ful to God and his Prince too: and let me &s;peak it before <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll (and with|out flattery) I never heard you ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed by any (Nobles or Commons) for un|faithfulne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, either to your God or to your Soveraign. I &s;hall fir&s;t there|for<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> drop down the oyle of my Ex|hortation
<PB N="40" REF="24"> upon your Reverent and antient heads, and then upon the skirt of your cloathing, all that have any thing to doe in the weighty affairs of this grand A&s;&s;ize, for thou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h all be not <HI>Daniels,</HI> prefer'd to the &s;eats of Judicature, to &s;it upon the Bench to judge, yet ought they all unani|mou&s;ly to concurre, for the producti|on and bringing forth of the &s;acred act and child of ju&s;tice, <HI>that judgement may run down as a &s;tream, and righ|teou&s;nes as a mighty water.</HI> I &s;hall give therefore a word of Exhortation, and a word of Caution</P>
<P N="1">1. A word of Exhortation, to you (right Honourable) I need not &s;et <HI>Daniel</HI> the Pre&s;ede<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t as a pattern be|fore you,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ruth 4.11.</NOTE> bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> your &s;elves to your &s;elves: &s;o do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> at this A&s;&s;izes, as you have done formerly, to doe wotthily &s;till in this our <HI>Ephratah.</HI> And to that end give me leave to u&s;e to you tho&s;e lofty and &s;ublime expre&s;&s;ions, which concern indeed Chri&s;t mi&s;tically and principally (as all Interpreters agree) but King <HI>Solomon</HI> and his Judges, and
<PB N="41" REF="24"> inferiour Magi&s;trates literally being compo&s;ed as an <HI>Epithalamium,</HI> at the celebration of the Nuptials, betwixt him and <HI>Pharaohs</HI> daughter. <HI>Gird your &s;word upon your thigh:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al. 45.3, 4.</NOTE> <HI>ride pro&s;perou&s;ly becau&s;e of truth, meeknes and righteou&s;|nes and your right hand &s;hall teach you terrible things; for the Scepter of this kingdome is a right Scepter.</HI> The quiet &s;tate of a kingdome &s;tandeth not in worldly pomp and vanity, but in truth meeknes and ju&s;tice; but oftentime<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> truth &amp; meeknes would be oppre&s;&s;ed if the &s;word of ju&s;tice, was not &s;ome|times drawn out for their releif, as the King therefore hath girded it upon your thighs, yet let me tell (your honours) the iniquity of the times, calls for the un&s;heathing of it; when Gods lawes writ at the fir&s;t upon Ta|bles of &s;tone, are quite ra&s;'d out of the fle&s;hly tables of Mens hearts, and the lives and conver&s;ations of men are nothing, but one continued act of re|bellion again&s;t God, and our duty to him, contained in the fir&s;t Table, again&s;t man, and our duty to him,
<PB N="42" REF="25"> expre&s;t in the &s;econd Table, it is high time for you that are keepers of both, to be&s;tirre your &s;elves: Up and be doeing as God tould <HI>Jo&s;hua,</HI> when <HI>I&s;rael</HI> had &s;inned. The more &s;inners; the more &s;peed mu&s;t the Magi&s;trate make, with his &s;word of ju&s;tice, to ent off <HI>immedicabilia vulnera,</HI> tho&s;e gangred members of the &s;tate, that could not or would not be cured with|out it; upon which &s;word methinkes I read the Motto, which was engraven upon the &s;word of <HI>Charles</HI> the great <HI>Utriu&s;que tabulae c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Carolus. Charles</HI> is Lord Keeper of both Table<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">: and it is my duty at this time to &s;et an edge on it, that it may be like that, <HI>Romphae<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> bis acuta, non &s;olum ictu &s;ed tactu penetrans,</HI> like that two edged &s;word of the &s;pirit which will pierce, not only with a &s;troke, but a touch, and how can I better doe it, then by &s;hewing how both tables are broken: <MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Com."> The fir&s;t Table by damned Athei&s;me, de&s;perate unbeliefe, by the de&s;pi&s;ers of God and his word, re&s;i&s;ting his &s;pi|rit, neglecting his wor&s;hip and &s;ervice
<PB N="43" REF="25"> by vain immagination, and heretical opinions, <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="Com."> by the omi&s;&s;ion of Gods true wor&s;hip, by the invention of fal&s;e wor&s;hip. <MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="Com."> By profanation of Gods ever ble&s;&s;ed name, titles and atri|butes, <MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="Com."> By perjury, vain ra&s;h mali|cious and fal&s;e &s;wearing: By profa|nation of the Lords Day, by for&s;ak|ing and neglecting the a&s;&s;emblies, by frequenting unlawful meetings and Conventicles, which are again&s;t Law, denyes the King to be the de|fender of the faith. <HI>Unlawful</HI> we may call them, the per&s;ons frequenting them, and even when we are per|forming the great act of charity for them, <HI>that God would be plea&s;ed to bring into the way of truth all &s;uch as have erred and are deceived,</HI> di&s;charging their vollies of bitter malice again&s;t us, bla&s;pheming God and their King, revileing all Rulers Civil and Eccle|&s;ia&s;tical, all Pa&s;tors and Teachers, as the grande&s;t Cheaters and Impo&s;ers: <HI>Pudet haec opprobia nobis, et dici potui&s;&s;e, et non potui&s;&s;e refelli:</HI> Other profane per&s;ons there are in another extream,
<PB N="44" REF="26"> converting or rather perverting,<NOTE PLACE="marg">B. Andrews</NOTE> <HI>Sab|batum domini, in Sabbatum a&s;ini, vituli, aut Dialoli,</HI> &s;pending the day either idly, or wantonly, eating and drink|ing and ri&s;ing up to play, or lewdly in gaming, rioting and drunkenne&s;s, whereby as one &s;ayes well, <HI>God is more di&s;honoured, and the devil better &s;erved, then on all the &s;ix dayes be&s;ides.</HI> <MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="Com."> The &s;econd table, By &s;ubjects di&s;o|bedience to the Lawes and Magi|&s;trates, By &s;ervants unfaithfulne&s;s to their Ma&s;ters, <MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="Com."> By the peoples ingra|titude to their Pa&s;tors, and by Chil|dren di&s;honouring their Parents: By murder of the heart, envy, hatred and malice; of the tongue, by maledicti|on, commination and detraction; Of the hand, by Man&s;laughter, wilful Murders, Trea&s;ons and Abortions; <MILESTONE N="7" UNIT="Com."> By Uncleane&s;s of heart, &s;peeches and ge&s;tures, By lightne&s;s, painted faces curling and cri&s;ping, wanton ge&s;tures and da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">liances, By Fornication, Adul|tery, Ince&s;t, and unnatural lu&s;ts: <MILESTONE N="8" UNIT="Com."> By &s;acriledge and inward theft of the heart, By Roberry and Stealing the
<PB N="45" REF="26"> open The&s;e of the hand: <MILESTONE N="9" UNIT="Com."> By lies and equivocations; by fal&s;e Rumors and unju&s;t Accu&s;ations; by Lie-tellers and truth-Concealers; by tho&s;e that plead in bad cau&s;es, regi&s;ter fal&s;e Acts, and &s;uborn fal&s;e Witne&s;&s;es; <MILESTONE N="10" UNIT="Com."> by the di&s;|conted and coveting others E&s;tates and Goods; by tho&s;e Stallions that the Prophet &s;peaketh of, <HI>who are alwayes neighing after their neighbours wives,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 8 5</NOTE>
<Q>Humano capiti cervicem jungere equum.</Q> by tho&s;e &s;inful <HI>Ahabs</HI> who are &s;ick for their Neighbours Vineyard, hou&s;e or lands: &s;o that con&s;idering all tho&s;e trangre&s;&s;ions of the Law, we have ju&s;t cau&s;e to renew the complaint, <HI>Help Lord, for the goldly cea&s;eth, the faithful fail from among the children of men:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al 12 1</NOTE> we need not wonder for &s;ome years pa&s;t, great <HI>Britain</HI> hath been all in black, when tho&s;e grand Scourges was up|on us at one time, the de&s;troying An|gel with his &s;word cutting down old and young in our great and famous Cities, the tender mother with the
<PB N="46" REF="27"> Sucking infant,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 6.5</NOTE> and the &s;word of an enraged enemy threatning of us at our ports: We have &s;een the pale and the red hor&s;e and their Riders; God grant (for our ingratitude and repining at our plenty, who is now as <HI>Canaan</HI> for fruitfulne&s;s; &amp; now &s;or our murmuring at Magi&s;tracy when we are as <HI>Salem&punc;</HI> for peace, we do not &s;ee the black hor&s;e with his Rider, and &s;o have our judgement compleated, as &s;ometimes God did upon <HI>Samaria</HI> and <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> which the Prophet <HI>Jeremy</HI> mo&s;t pa&s;&s;ionately lamented: To pre|vent which,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lam. 4</NOTE> you (right honourable) like <HI>Noah, Job</HI> and <HI>Daniel,</HI> mu&s;t &s;tand in the gap, to divert &s;o great wrath: for when mens affections run wilfully in a cour&s;e of &s;in, <HI>as the hor&s;e ru&s;heth into the battle,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ier. 8.6.</NOTE> they ought to be held to their duty by the bridle of the law, which is <GAP DESC="foreign">, the Judge<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> power and authority, being to &s;ettle every man in his regular cour&s;e of life, and &s;o you become in&s;truments of the King and Kingdomes &s;afety: The famous Chancellor <HI>Forte&s;cue</HI> in
<PB N="47" REF="27"> that excellent Dialogue, informing us, <HI>Imperatoriam ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;tatem non &s;olum armis decoratam, &s;ed &amp; legibus oportet e&s;&s;e armatam;</HI> That it concerneth the Imperial Maje&s;ty, not only to be guarded with arms, but to be armed with Laws: intimating, that Judges are the Kings guard in times of peace, as Souldiers are in time of Warre; Though we mu&s;t confe&s;s, all &s;orts of <HI>Togati</HI> (as well as the long Robe) mu&s;t and are bound in duty, to be his guard, and of the life guard in time of Rebellion, according to that,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tertul.</NOTE> <HI>In lae&s;ae Maje&s;tatis reos omnis homo miles e&s;t:</HI> But in times of Peace Judges are e&s;pecially; <HI>If they do Ju&s;tice and judge|ment, it &s;hall be well with him,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chron. 7.17, 18</NOTE> <HI>and with his Kingdom too, For by them his throne is e&s;tabli&s;hed.</HI> To all of us it is &s;afety, and to your &s;elves &s;alvation: for where Ju&s;tice and Judgement is kept,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;a. 56.1.</NOTE> Gods &s;alvation is near: And Ju&s;tice as it mu&s;t be executed, &s;o it mu&s;t be &s;pee|dily, again&s;t tho&s;e that will not do (ob&s;tinate &s;inners,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezra 7.26</NOTE> not weak offenders) <HI>the Law of the Lord, thy God and the
<PB N="48" REF="28"> King,</HI> then Judgement mu&s;t be execut|ed without delay: Impunity makes &s;uch men grow &s;en&s;le&s;s and &s;hamele&s;s, con|nivency is a bad and cruel nur&s;e, it nouri&s;hes up &s;in from a brat to a mon|&s;ter, till it be as &s;trong as Leviathan, that it breaks all hooks of Law, all bonds and cords of Ju&s;tice, and &s;o brings nothing but a Chaos of di&s;order and confu&s;ion into the Church and Kingdom; therefore it is very dange|rous to be prodigal of mercy: a little &s;everity in time, prevents the letting of a greater quantity of blood. And as Ju&s;tice mu&s;t be executed &s;peedily, &s;o impartially; <HI>There mu&s;t be no re&s;pect of per&s;ons in judgement:</HI> There is but one Law <HI>pro parvo &amp; magno:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 1.17</NOTE> The precept and example of him who is both our Saviour and our Judge mu&s;t be followed. <HI>Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judge|ment, and this will be accounted unto you for righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn 7 24</NOTE> <HI>and to your &s;eed after you.</HI></P>
<P>But whil&s;t I plead for ju&s;tice, do not judge or cen&s;er me, as though I were again&s;t
<PB N="49" REF="28"> Mercy. O Mercy, mercy! the choi&s;e&s;t Attribute (in re&s;pect of us) in the King of Kings, and the mo&s;t re|&s;plendent vertue in his Vicegerents upon earth: <HI>And let mercy and truth</HI> (as well as ju&s;tice) <HI>alwayes pre&s;erve our King, and all in authority under him;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">prov 20&punc; 28</NOTE> <HI>for by it his Throne is upholden.</HI> The merciful Judge is of Chancellors <HI>For|te&s;cues</HI> opinion, who confe&s;&s;ed, <HI>Mallem rever&acirc; viginta facinoro&s;os mortem eva|dere,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Forte. Dial pag 62.</NOTE> <HI>quam ju&s;tum unum inju&s;te condem|nari:</HI> I had rather twenty guilty per|&s;ons &s;hould e&s;cape the &s;troke of Ju|&s;tice, then one innocent &s;hould fall by it. And among&s;t guilty per&s;ons, it mu&s;t be the Judges di&s;cretion, to di&s;|cern who they are that de&s;erve the &s;troke of Ju&s;tice:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dallin A|phor</NOTE> The State Apho|ri&s;m is to puni&s;h rather the motion of the head, then the actions of the hand or foot; the Seducer rather then the &s;educed; <HI>Plus peccat Author quam Actor.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Fleta&punc;</NOTE> To &s;pare the &s;illy &s;heep is Mercy, but to &s;pare the Wolfe, (though he be in &s;heeps clothing) is cruelty: Judgement and Mercy
<PB N="50" REF="29"> mu&s;t be rightly tempered, yet &s;o, that Mercy do not hinder Judgement, and yet that of the two, Mercy re|joyce again&s;t Judgement. And now I have done with the word of exhor|tation, I proceed to a word of Cauti|on:<NOTE PLACE="marg">U&s;e of Caution</NOTE></P>
<P N="1">1. To the Lawyers, <HI>Take heed of Envy and Injury,</HI> which commonly go together: 1. Envy at your Superiors, Gods <HI>Daniels,</HI> who are prefer'd to places of dignity befor you, a dange|rous &s;in. It was Envy that threw <HI>Daniel</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 6.4</NOTE> into the den of Lyons: The Pre&s;idents and Princes, out of ambiti|on, could not brook the preferment of &s;uch a &s;tranger: <HI>The wicked cannot abide the graces of God in others,</HI> and therefore maliciou&s;ly &s;lander him with great ingratitude, as if for his Ho|nours confer'd upon him, he returned Contempt and Rebellion. It was Envy in the &s;ons of the Patriarch,<NOTE PLACE="marg">ver&s;e 13</NOTE> that made them &s;o unnatural to their bro|ther: When men are conceited of them&s;elves,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 37.4.</NOTE> they &s;torm that others are prefer'd before them, whereas
<PB N="51" REF="29"> we &s;hould conder, that God is the great Ma&s;ter of the Scenes, that pre|&s;ents the world with a new Stage of Acts and Actors:<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2.7, 8</NOTE> <HI>The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich, he bringeth low, and lifteth up:</HI> He is no Leveller, he will have &s;ome upon the Throne and Seats of Judgement, and we mu&s;t &s;ub|mit to his over-ruling Providence: The Planets and Stars in the heavens, the bruit bea&s;t on the earth, and Fi&s;hes in the &s;ea, continue all in the &s;ame e&s;tate wherein they were fir&s;t created, not complaining again&s;t, or envying one the other: Why &s;hould man in honour have no under&s;tanding,<NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al 49.20</NOTE> and be not only like, <HI>but wor&s;e then the bruits that peri&s;h.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Take heed of Injury: for my &s;elf, <HI>Nemo ve&s;tr&ucirc;m mihi injuria cogni|tus,</HI> I know no hurt by any of your Profe&s;&s;ion: I know many worthy per|&s;ons that are grave, hone&s;t, learned and religious men, and I hope and pray, that the re&s;t of that noble pro|fe&s;&s;ion may be &s;o: The way to pre|&s;erve the decency and gravity of the
<PB N="52" REF="30"> Law, is to do nothing of partiality, to proceed not according to opinion or appearance,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod 23.2, 3</NOTE> but according to Right and Ju&s;tice; in Charity to have re|&s;pect unto a poor mans nece&s;&s;ity, but in point of Ju&s;tice and Equity, to re|gard neither the Power and Autho|rity of the rich, nor the mi&s;ery or Penury of the Poor, but his Right only. A good <HI>Lawyer</HI> mu&s;t have an heart without affection, an eye with|out lu&s;t, and a mind without <HI>pa&s;&s;ion,</HI> otherwi&s;e wrong and wre&s;ted Judge|ment may proceede to the Prejudice of the mo&s;t righteous Cau&s;e: And if wrong Judgement do proceed through your means, <HI>you have cau&s;e to fear the Lyons.</HI> But what Lyons?</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>The Kings Throne, like Solomons, is &s;upported with Lyons, men of courage, who will not be afraid to puni&s;h wrong doers; and the Kings wrath is as the roaring of a Lyon,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">prov 19 12</NOTE> <HI>a Me&s;&s;enger of death.</HI> But i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> you e&s;cape the&s;e, there are others you cannot: The Lyon of the Tribe of <HI>Judah,</HI> who though at his fir&s;t coming was a Lamb, at his &s;econd
<PB N="53" REF="30"> will be a Lyon, a ju&s;t Judge, who at the general and great A&s;&s;izes, will &s;it upon his Throne of Judicature, <HI>where the Charge &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e read,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al 50 21</NOTE> <HI>and &s;in &s;et in order before you;</HI> and if you be there found guilty, and have the &s;en|tence pa&s;&s;ed on you, <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e maledicti,</HI> de|livered up to the Executioner, <HI>Car|nifex irae divinae,</HI> that <HI>roaring lyon, that goes about here dayly &s;eeking whom he may devour,</HI> but there &s;hall actu|ally devour, but not ab&s;olutely de|&s;troy to all eternity. If there by any that forget God, or his Ju&s;tice, let them con&s;ider this, <HI>Le&s;t he tear them in pieces, when there is none to deliver them.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. To the <HI>Jurors: Take heed of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i|merity or partiality:</HI> The lives and goods of men are refer'd to your di&s;|cretion and hone&s;ty. <HI>Darius</HI> was much to blame, for ra&s;hly conde|&s;cending to <HI>Daniels</HI> De&s;truction: <HI>Da|vid</HI> was to ha&s;ty to give <HI>Mephilo&s;heths</HI> goods upon his &s;ervant <HI>Ziba's</HI> forged and fal&s;e accu&s;ations; you bind your &s;elves to God by an oath,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Sam 16.4</NOTE> and there|fore
<PB N="54" REF="31"> you mu&s;t deal as in his &s;ight; you have a Rule to walk by, <HI>Mutum Ma|gi&s;tratum,</HI> the Laws of the Land: you have the Interpreters of the&s;e Laws, <HI>Leges loquentes,</HI> the honoura|ble Judges and learned Coun&s;ellers, to direct you in this way; you can|not plead <HI>ignorantiam juris,</HI> the igno|rance of the Law for an excu&s;e; and if you remember your oath, and &s;et <HI>the fear of God before your eyes, it will make you bold as a Lyon to do ju&s;tly.</HI> I have read in <HI>Cokes</HI> In&s;titutes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lib. 3.</NOTE> <HI>That none &s;hould be returned as Jurors, but hone&s;t and good men, of good degree and quality, &s;ub&s;tantial per&s;ons for E&s;tates and Ability, &s;uch as need not be afraid to &s;peak their con&s;cience and do ju&s;tice, nor yet to &s;tand in need to be brib'd, to wrong their con&s;cience and pervert Ju&s;tice:</HI> which crooked paths that you may decline, weigh all things with judge|ment and deliberation <HI>in &s;tatera legis, &amp; trutina con&s;cientiae, linguae calamum in corde tingentes,</HI> in the ballance of the Law, Scales of the Sanctuary, and the Court of your own con&s;cience:
<PB N="55" REF="31"> Let not the pen of your tongue utter any thing, before it hath been dipt in the ink of your heart. The puni&s;h|ment of Perjury in Jurors for a fal&s;e V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rdict, (if it be inflicted) is &s;evere by the common Law, but the puni&s;h|ment due to it by Gods Law, is far greater, <HI>Pejurii poena humana dedecus, divina exitium;</HI> with man it is u&s;ual|ly di&s;grace, but with God de&s;truction and everla&s;ting confu&s;ion of face, &s;uch an expectation mu&s;t be, as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <GAP DESC="foreign">, a fearful expectation of Judgement:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 10.27 21</NOTE> I be&s;eech you therefore in the fear of God, to con&s;ider, that &s;incerity is the Attribute of the oath of God; Re|member his eye (<GAP DESC="foreign">) is up|on you; an Act of Ju&s;tice is a &s;ervice acceptable unto him; Do your parts, God will not be wanting in his: when the great A&s;&s;izes of the world &s;hall be kept, <HI>That which you have done in &s;ecret for him,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mar. 6.6.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hall be rewarded open|ly.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. To <HI>Accu&s;ers and Witne&s;&s;es,</HI> to joyn you both together, <HI>Take heed of
<PB N="56" REF="32"> Perjury,</HI> Remember <HI>Daniels</HI> fal&s;e ac|cu&s;ers e&s;caped not the puni&s;hment: The Lyons mouths that God &s;hut for the pre&s;ervation of his innocent &s;er|vant, he opened for the de&s;truction of his malicious enemies:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 6 24.</NOTE> Here was <HI>Lex talionis</HI> on Gods part: <HI>Thus did their mi&s;chief return upon their own pate, they &s;unk down in the pit that they had made: The Lord is known by the judgement which he executeth,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">p&s;al 7 15 &amp; 9.15, 16</NOTE> <HI>when the wicked is &s;nared in the work of their own hands.</HI> Thus are all Gods Creatures his hoa&s;t to do his Will for reward or puni&s;h|ment: Innocency finds protection with &s;avage Lyons, when the guilty find their ruine and de&s;truction. I might give you many examples of this nature, I &s;hall but mention one.</P>
<P><HI>Narci&s;&s;us</HI> that famous Bi&s;hop of <HI>Je|ru&s;alem,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eu&s;eb. Eccl hi&s;tor.</NOTE> who was an au&s;tere man, and of upright life and conver&s;ation, was fal&s;ely accu&s;ed by three debauched per&s;ons (that feared to &s;uffer ju&s;tly for their mi&s;demeanors by his autho|rity) to be guilty of &s;ome great crime notorious and capital; and to per|&s;wade
<PB N="57" REF="32"> the people (who had a great re&s;pect for the good Bi&s;hop) the &s;oon|er to believe it, they endeavoured to confirm their forged accu&s;ation with oaths and &s;trange imprecations upon them&s;elves. The fir&s;t, <HI>If I lye, let me burn to A&s;hes.</HI> The &s;econd, <HI>If I report not the truth, let me be tormented and pine away with &s;ome lingring di&s;ea&s;e.</HI> The third, <HI>If I bear fal&s;e witne&s;s, let me be &s;mitten with blindne&s;s.</HI> The good man was &s;ore troubled at this a&s;per&s;i|on unju&s;tly ca&s;t upon him, that he re|tired him&s;elf, and liv'd ob&s;curely for many years. But ob&s;erve how God clear'd the innocency of his faithful &s;ervant, and catch'd tho&s;e Con&s;pira|tors, bringing the &s;ame cur&s;es upon them that they had imprecated upon them&s;elves: A &s;mall &s;park fell in the night upon the hou&s;e of the fir&s;t, which broke out into &s;uch a fearful flame and fire, as con&s;um'd him&s;elf, hou&s;e and family to a&s;hes. A mo&s;t filthy di&s;ea&s;e ceas'd upon the body of the &s;econd, which mi&s;erably torment|ed him, and put a period to his mi&s;e|rable
<PB N="58" REF="33"> and wrethed life: The third &s;eeing the terrible end of the two for|mer his lewd companions, and being convinced of the &s;in, freely confe&s;&s;ed unto all their compacted combination and con&s;piracy again&s;t that holy man, and did &s;oe afflict him&s;elfe with pene|tential &s;orrow, and &s;hed &s;uch rivers of tears, that he lo&s;t his &s;ight, and &s;oe in mercy e&s;cap'd eternal, though not temperal judgement; was judged <HI>Cha&s;tned here of the Lord, that he might not be condemned with the world, exemple tri&s;tia &s;ed &s;alubria:</HI> &s;ad examples, yet very u&s;eful and in&s;tructive.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Cor 11.32.</NOTE> The&s;e may a&s;toni&s;h all fal&s;e accu&s;ers, and witne&s;&s;es, perjured per&s;ons, The&s;e may&punc; &s;trike with terrour the profan|e&s;t &s;inner, &s;uborners, Knights of the po&s;t, (as they call them) and like the body of <HI>Ama&s;a</HI> wallowing in his blood, make them &s;tand &s;till at the&s;e ga&s;hly &s;ights in the midway, and &s;top them in their cour&s;e of &s;in; you know the fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e by Gods law, is to be puni&s;hed <HI>lege talionis.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 19.16</NOTE> <HI>Thou &s;halt do to him as he thought to have done to his
<PB N="59" REF="33"> brother.</HI> By mans Law, before the conque&s;t, it was puni&s;hed &s;ometimes by death, &s;ometimes by bani&s;hment, and &s;ometimes by corporal puni&s;h|ment.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cokes: Ju&s;tic: lib. 3: c: 74:</NOTE> Afterward it came to fine and ran&s;ome, and never after to bear t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;timony. <HI>Atrox injuria e&s;t quae om|nium nobilium ami&s;&s;ionem confert.</HI> An hainous offence certainly that was pu|ni&s;hed with the lo&s;s of all moveables.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fleta. lib. 2: cap: 1:</NOTE> It is good to remember mans, but much more Gods judgement; for as the Apo&s;tle &s;peaketh, <HI>Knowing the&s;e terrours of the Lord, we &s;eek to per&s;wade men.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Cor: 5.11</NOTE></P>
<P N="4">4. And la&s;tly, To all in general: As we tender the &s;afety of our King, and the pro&s;perity of the kingdome, Let us all take heed of Iniquity, e&s;pe|cially of tho&s;e crying &s;ins which of late years have reigned in this land, damn'd Athei&s;m prodigious intempe|rance, notorious uncleanne&s;s, Luci|ferian pride, bloody oaths, and trea|cherous combination and con&s;piracy, not only again&s;t the &s;upreme Magi|&s;trate, but the &s;ubordinate, &s;uch as
<PB N="60" REF="34"> <HI>Daniel,</HI> for which God hath had a controver&s;ie with this land, and hath already &s;mitten us: The &s;ins of the body of the people hath an influence of the Soveraign head: <HI>For the tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ions of the Land many are the Prin|ces thereof.</HI> Good King <HI>Jo&s;iah</HI> died in peace with God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">pro: 28.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> tho &s;lain by the &s;word of an enemy in the bloody field of <HI>Vegiddo, and then was lamentation made for his fall, by vertue of an ordinance in I&s;rael.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chro 35.25.</NOTE> And &s;ure I am, we have great cau&s;e annually to renew our &s;ad lamentation for the untimely fall of our good <HI>Jo&s;iah,</HI> not only our Pro|phets and our Prie&s;ts, but our &s;inging men and &s;inging women, (tho&s;e who are mo&s;t addicted to mirth and mu|&s;ick) <HI>With a Woe unto us that we have &s;inned.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Lam: 5.16.</NOTE> But it concerns us now to ble&s;s God for his mercy re&s;tored unto us, that Wi&s;dom and the true Religion, (yea Ju&s;tice and Judgement) doth now again cry in the chief places of concour&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pro: 1.21:</NOTE> <HI>in the opening of the gates, that in the City &s;he utters her words,</HI> Let us ble&s;s him likewi&s;e for his govern|ment
<PB N="61" REF="34"> who upholds it, and to our <HI>Hallelujah's,</HI> to matter of gratulation and rejoycing, let us all joyn Ho&s;an|na's, matter of &s;upplication<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and prayer for our dear and dread Sove|r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ign, as here <HI>Daniel</HI> did for the great <HI>Darius:</HI> &s;o &s;hall we end as we begun &s;hall we pray as the <HI>Syrick</HI> Poet? for his <HI>Macenas</HI> the great <HI>Augu&s;tus. S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">us in coelum redeas Carole, diuque laetus in|tar&s;is populo Britannico.</HI> Give him a long life here O Lord, to reign over his Briti&s;h Subjects, before thou giv|e&s;t him everla&s;ting life, to reign here|after with thy glorious Saints. Or &s;hall we offer our united devotions, as <HI>Tertullian</HI> in his apology informs us, the Primitive Chri&s;tians did for the <HI>Roman</HI> Emperours: that God would give him: <HI>Regnum tutum, vitam pro|lixam, Senatum fidelem, exercitum for|tem, populum probum &amp; orbem quietum&punc;</HI> a &s;afe Empire, a long Life, a fai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h|ful Councel, valiant Armies, an o|bedient People and a quiet world: nay more; Give me leave to turn an antient prophecy into a Prayer. The
<PB N="62" REF="35"> Prophecy was. <HI>The Scepter &s;hould not depart from Judah, until Shiloh came,</HI> and the Prayer is: <HI>Lord (if it be thy ble&s;&s;ed will) let not the Scepter of the&s;e Kingdomes depart from our gracious So|veraign and his Line, till Shiloh come again: And now Lord e&s;tabli&s;h his throne by righteou&s;nes here, Exalt his Crown with honour, his Scepter with power, pre&s;erve his per&s;on that he may live in &s;afety here, and crown him with thy &s;alvation hereafter, that &s;o he may live for ever.</HI> And Let all the people &s;ay: <HI>Amen, Amen.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Pro captu Lectoris habent &s;uafata libelli.</HI></P>
<P>I had no &s;ooner <HI>(in vita Minerva)</HI> appear'd in the Pulpit, and the Ser|mon after that de&s;ired to be publi&s;hed, but &s;ome of my good friends infor|med me of &s;ome learned Cen&s;ors, who pre&s;ently judged me <HI>Oriontalium linguarum rudem:</HI> To whom I reply, with the great Doctor of the Gentiles, <HI>We know but in part,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor: 12.9.</NOTE> &amp;c. and in the Church had rather &s;peak five words, with my under&s;tanding, that by my voice I may teach others al&s;o, than ten thou&s;and words al&s;o in an unknown tongue:<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor 14.19.</NOTE> Give me leave therefore to propound three Quaeries to the <HI>Super|cilious Ari&s;tarchus,</HI> the conceited Gno|&s;tick, and backbiting Zoilus.</P>
<P N="1">1. Whether, this Salvation, <HI>O King live for ever,</HI> and that, <HI>God &s;ave the King,</HI> be not Synonima's?</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether our Engli&s;h Tran&s;la|tion be not authentick, and according
<PB N="64" REF="36"> to the Septuagint<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, and the learned Doctor <HI>Wallons</HI> (our la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>Che&s;ter</HI>) <GAP DESC="foreign"> The Syriack, Chaldea, and Hebrew tongues bea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ing the &s;ame &s;en&s;e with it. <HI>O King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ve for ever.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Whether <HI>Daniel</HI> wrote the book part of it in the Syriack, another part that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">cean'd the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ffair<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that fell under the Chaldean Monarchy in the Chaldee tongue, and the third part, which concerned the Jewes in his own <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">tive tongue, the Hebrew?</P>
<Q><L>Dic mihi q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> ling<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ori<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>mihi magnus Apollo.</L></Q>
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