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<P>God &s;ave the King, the Royall Progeny, and the Gentry and <HI>Com|mons</HI> of <HI>England.</HI></P>
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<P>THE ROYAL PREROGATVE; OR, SUBJECTION TO KINGS: AND THE Nece&s;&s;ity of Pa&s;&s;ive Obedi|ence in the SUBJECT.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">roved and pre&s;&s;ed, as an excellent Duty to be performed by all good Chri&s;tians; or any that would be accounted &s;o; Contrary to the Schi&s;matical and Rebellious Tenets of &s;ome in the&s;e times.</P>
<Q><P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eing al&s;o a Divine and Excellent Pre&s;ervative again&s;t Famine, Sword, and Pe&s;tilence,
<BIBL><HI>Jer.</HI> 27.8.</BIBL></P></Q>
<P>In a Sermon.</P>
<P>By <HI>ALLEN RAYNER</HI> Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for the Author, MDCLXVI.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Beloved Chri&s;tians,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THe chief cau&s;e of Old Mr. <HI>Reyners</HI> &s;etting forth this Sermon in Defence of Kingly Government, is, becau&s;e that there are &s;o many enemies to King and Church, the which will not acknowledge our Gracious Kings Maje&s;ty hath the &s;ame Au|thority in Cau&s;es Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, that the Kings had among&s;t the <HI>Jews</HI> or <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> Emperours in the Primitive Church; al|though God the Father gave the power of Monarchy to Kings which knew not God, <HI>I&s;a. 45. Jer. 27.6.</HI> and God the Son con|firmes it by his own humility, in his own obedience, <HI>Mat. 17.26.27. and 22.21.</HI> and God the Holy Gho&s;t threatneth dam|nation to all that &s;hall re&s;i&s;t them, <HI>Rom. 13.2.</HI> But in all ages there hath been Sons
<PB REF="4">of <HI>Belial,</HI> that would re&s;i&s;t the Almighty him&s;elf, <HI>Mal. 3.14.</HI> and &s;o in all ages there hath been Rebels again&s;t his Deputies, that he hath &s;et to rule over his people; and al|though, through their wickedne&s;s and di&s;|obedience, they have grievou&s;ly rebelled a|gain&s;t their heads yet they have all come to ruin: for it is clear, that the Head Gover|nor of Gods people, in all him is in the &s;tead of God, <HI>Exod. 4.16.</HI> and what is done a|gain&s;t them, is done again&s;t God him&s;elf: and the Obedience or Pre&s;ents which are offered unto King or Church, is as offered to God him&s;elf; <HI>Act. 12.5. Phil. 4.3.</HI></P>
<P>And therefore, if ever we expect for to obtain mercy from the Lord, or to have his judgments taken away thereby, either of Sword Famine, or Pe&s;tilence; it mu&s;t be by our prayers and pre&s;ents, the which mu&s;t be pre&s;ented unto them, that they may pray to God for to heal their people; and this hath been the practice of all the Saints (the which they have u&s;ed) that hath gone to heaven before us, as all the&s;e Scriptures can te&s;tifie, <HI>Exod. 8.12, 13. Numb. 21.6, 7. Jo&s;h. 10.12, 13. Judg. 4.14, 15. and 7.15,
<PB REF="4">16. 1 Sam. 3.19, 20. 2 Sam. 15.30, 31.</HI> and the Lords anger was kindled a|gain&s;t <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> not &s;o much for <HI>Davids</HI> &s;in, but for the peoples running into Rebellion after <HI>Ab&s;olom</HI> and <HI>Sheba;</HI> as may be &s;een, <HI>2 Sam. 20.1, 2.</HI> and &s;o on; and the Plague was &s;tayed when it came to <HI>Judah</HI> and <HI>Je|ru&s;alem,</HI> becau&s;e they were Loyal to their King, <HI>2 Sam. 24.16.</HI> And the Lord was &s;o angry with the &s;in of rebellion, that he would have de&s;troyed all <HI>I&s;rael</HI> in a moment, <HI>Num. 16.45.</HI> had not <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aron</HI> prayed; <HI>for the Divine Sentence is in the lips of a King,</HI> Prov. <HI>10.16. and the Prie&s;ts lip<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s pre&s;erve knowledge,</HI> Mal. <HI>1.7.</HI> And King <HI>David</HI> prayed, <HI>and the Plague was &s;tayed at the prayer of the King, 2</HI> Sam. <HI>24.1, to 25. Numb. 16.47, 48. 2 Chron. 12, to 20. Ezra 6.10, 11. and 7.10. Nehem. 2.4. and 8. E&s;th. 4.15, 16, 17. Job 42.1, to the end; P&s;a, 47.3. Prov. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.11. 1 Sam. 10.26 27. I&s;a. 1.1, to 30</HI> There is not any place in the Old and New Te&s;tament, where the godly people have not offered <HI>&s;upplica|tions and prayers, and interce&s;&s;ions, and giving of thanks for all men, for Kings
<PB REF="5">and all men in Authority, 1</HI> Tim. <HI>2.1, 2&punc;</HI></P>
<P>There be many that are enemies to Kin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Church government, that will take up|on them&s;elves tho&s;e places of Scripture, how <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> de&s;ired <HI>that all the Lords people were Prophets,</HI> Num. <HI>11.29.</HI> but they mu&s;t under&s;tand <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;pake there of meek &s;pi|rited men as him&s;elf was, <HI>the meeke&s;t man in all the earth,</HI> Numb. <HI>12.3.</HI> For <HI>Eldab</HI> and <HI>Medab,</HI> the &s;pirit of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> re&s;ted on them; for their names were written among the &s;eventy men of the Elders of the people, <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m. 11.16.</HI> So the Lord God came down and took of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> meek &s;pirit, and it re&s;ted on them, and they Prophe&s;ied, and did not cea&s;e, <HI>ver&s;e 27.</HI> and <HI>Eldab</HI> and <HI>Medab</HI> &s;tayed in the Camp to keep the people in obe|dience to the Government by <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron,</HI> the which there was great need of, for the people were always ready to follow &s;ome &s;on of <HI>Belial</HI> in Rebellion; for if they had taught Sedition, as <HI>Nadab</HI> and <HI>Abihu</HI> did, they had been devoured with fire from heaven, as they and <HI>Korah</HI> and all his com|pany, <HI>Lev. 10.1, 2. Num. 16.35.</HI> but <HI>Eldab</HI> and <HI>Medab</HI> were &s;uch meek &s;pirits, as St.
<PB REF="5"><HI>Peter</HI> and Saint <HI>John,</HI> which taught the people <HI>the fear of God, and to honour the King, and to love the Brother-hood, 1</HI> Pet. <HI>2.17.</HI> the which &s;tayed in the Camp, and converted three thou&s;and &s;ouls one day, <HI>Acts 2.40.</HI> and four or five thou&s;and at o|ther days; the which could not be done at one time, nor at one place; <HI>for they were &s;cattered, and went every where preach|ing the Word,</HI> Act. <HI>8.4, 5.</HI> and where they &s;aw great multitudes of people together, ac|cording to the will and mind of our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>Mat. 13.2.</HI> they &s;tood up and Preached to the people pa&s;&s;ive obedi|ence to Magi&s;trates, <HI>Rom. 13.1. and &s;uch meek and quiet &s;pirits, which is in the &s;ight of God of a great price, 1</HI> Pet. <HI>3.4.</HI> and the Prophets and Mini&s;ters of God mu&s;t Preach with the &s;pirit of meekne&s;s, before many people, <HI>Jer. 1.7, 8. Rev. 10.11.</HI> And for to confirm by Scripture, that the Lord God hath rai&s;ed up Kingly Power, <HI>in their &s;eed for ever, upon their Thrones to all Generations,</HI> P&s;a. <HI>89.3.4.</HI> and Je&s;us Chri&s;t hath left as an example of all means po&s;&s;ible not to offend, nor to keep any thing
<PB REF="6">that the earth, or the &s;ea will yield us, to pre|&s;ent unto them, <HI>Mat. 22.21. and 17.26, 27. For Chri&s;t Je&s;us will be always with them unto the end of the world, Amen,</HI> Mat. <HI>28.20.</HI> And this is the Doctrine which <HI>Reyner</HI> hath taught the people in all pub|lique places, and in &s;treets, fields, market|places, &amp; churches, when admittance might be had, all the time of <HI>Cromwels</HI> govern|ment; and even the next Sunday after that Fminent Martyr, Reverend Dr. <HI>Hewet</HI> was beheaded; then did old <HI>Rayner</HI> preach a Loyal Sermon in St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Church yard, in the honour of Martyrdom, for Kingly Government; for which he was haled before the Lord Mayor of <HI>London,</HI> by the Mar&s;hal and his Men, as &s;oon as he had done, be|tween one and two of the clock at noon, that Holy day, as many that &s;aw and heard him can te&s;tifie; and afterwards in all publique places within three&s;core miles and above, as he hath many Mini&s;ters hands to testifie: And was much encouraged by that Reverend and Pious Divine Dr. <HI>Wild,</HI> which is &s;ince a Reverend Bi&s;hop in <HI>Ireland;</HI> and by the mo&s;t Reverend Dr. <HI>Gunning,</HI> who with ma|ny
<PB REF="6">more, the which were valiant Champions for his Royal Maje&s;ty, and the Church of <HI>England;</HI> And &s;ince his Royal Maje&s;ties happy return, he continues in the &s;ame way of Preaching of Loyalty, although not in the &s;treets, as before, becau&s;e there is offence taken at it: though there is as much need as ever was in the time of <HI>Nehemiah,</HI> for to <HI>have Pulpits of wood for to &s;tand in to preach, to teach the people to under|&s;tand the law,</HI> Neh. <HI>8.3, to 9.</HI> And be&s;ides, it was his Royal Maje&s;ties expre&s;s command in <HI>Octob. 1660.</HI> that Orthodox Mini&s;ters &s;hould be &s;ent into all reverend Bi&s;hops Dio|ce&s;&s;es, for to Preach obedience to Monarchy: As al&s;o it was the example of all Ancient Kings in all ages, as the Holy Writ, and this Sermon doth te&s;tifie; and above all, Chri&s;t Je&s;us, the King of Kings did the like. For if there were &s;ent forth into all Bi&s;hops Dio|ce&s;&s;es but twenty meek &s;pirited mini&s;ters, it would do his Royal Maje&s;ty much &s;ervice, and the Church of <HI>England,</HI> in going into full Congregations, with a Licence for to Preach obedience to Kingly Government as ten thou&s;and men in Arms can do. Not that
<PB REF="7">his Royal Maje&s;ty &s;hould be without an Army of Hor&s;e and Foot, for it is for his Honour, in the de|fence of him and his Kingdoms, by the example of wi&s;e K. <HI>Solomon,</HI> who had forty thou&s;and Hor&s;es, and twelve thou&s;and Chariots together, with a bun|dance of Riches, as <HI>2 Chron. 9. 1 Kings 4.</HI> The which, and the like abundance of ble&s;&s;ings, God grant unto our gracious King <HI>Charls</HI> the Second, the Lords Anointed, and his Royal Queen, together with the Illu&s;trious Prince <HI>James,</HI> Duke of <HI>York,</HI> and all the Royal Family, and the Church of <HI>Eng|land&punc;</HI> Amen; And all Officers, and Seamen, and Souldiers, under his Royal Maje&s;ties Dominions and command&punc; and the Duke of <HI>York,</HI> Lord High Admiral of <HI>England,</HI> whom the Lord God defend, and give them the victory over all their enemies, <HI>Amen, Amen.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?</HI> Rom. <HI>8.31.</HI></P>
<P>Although Old Mr. <HI>Reyner</HI> hath almo&s;t lo&s;t his Sight, his Hearing, and his Teeth, yet the Lord God hath in his great mercy given his Holy Word under his Tongue, for to Preach Judgment again&s;t the great &s;in of Rebellion, <HI>Jer. 1.9. I&s;a. 1.20. though he be the chief of &s;inners, 1</HI> Tim. <HI>1.15. and the filth of the world, and the &s;couring of all things, unto this day, 1</HI> Cor. <HI>4.13.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thine in the Lord <HI>ALLEN REYNER.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE; OR, Subjection to <HI>KINGS.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>I will &s;ing of mercy and Judgment: unto thee, O Lord, will I &s;ing.</P></Q>
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<P>_HOly <HI>David,</HI> the &s;weet &s;inger of <HI>I&s;|rael,</HI> who was a Type of Chri&s;t, and his kingdom of Chri&s;ts king|dom; for when he had received the promi&s;e of the kingdom, not thinking &s;o much of the great honour that was given him of the Lord, as of the grievous burthen that &s;hould be laid upon him, he therefore would bind both him&s;elf and his po&s;terity (as it were) with a &s;olemn Vow, as be|fore God, as repre&s;enting the per&s;on of God, in the which the Office of the Deity, in the Offices of a King, is with marvelous brevity explained.</P>
<P>For fir&s;t of all, Then he bindeth the whole
<PB N="2" REF="8">Office of a King into two principal Vertues, even to <HI>Mercy</HI> and <HI>Judgment:</HI> Whereof the one cau&s;eth the King rather to be loved, then fear|ed; and that other of Judgment, as the holy Scripture declares, is the &s;everity, whereby the ob&s;tinate are bridled and kept under the order of Government and obedience to Chri&s;t, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.5. <HI>Who is the King of all Kings, and Lord of all Lords,</HI> Rev. 19.16. <HI>And &s;itteth high above all the people,</HI> P&s;al. 99.2. and P&s;al. 95.3. Holy <HI>David</HI> making a vow that he will give great care to under&s;tand that which is the right way, he be|ing mindful of the words of the Lord, doubled unto <HI>Jo&s;huah, Jo&s;h.</HI> 1.7, 8. The Lord God &s;aid unto <HI>Jo&s;huah, Only be thou &s;trong and couragious, that thou maye&s;t ob&s;erve to do according to all the Law, which</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>my &s;ervant commanded thee: Turn not from it to the right hand, or to the left, that thou maye&s;t pro&s;per whither&s;oever thou goe&s;t: This Book of the Law &s;hall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou &s;halt meditate therein day and night, that thou maye&s;t ob&s;erve to do according to all that is written therein: For then thou &s;halt make thy way pro&s;perous, and then thou &s;halt have good &s;uc|ce&s;s.</HI> So that by this right Government of his own Family, he might come to know how to ex|ecute the Office of a King, in the great Work of Mercy and Judgment.</P>
<P>Holy <HI>David</HI> being anointed King over <HI>I&s;rael</HI> by God, <HI>By whom Kings reign, and Princes de|cree
<PB N="3" REF="8">Ju&s;tice,</HI> Prov. 8.15, 16. and after &s;uch a manner of bountifulne&s;s, as never was heard of, did con&s;ecrate this <HI>P&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m</HI> of Mercy and Judg|ment; whereunto he doth bind him&s;elf before the Lord, to perform them in the Government of his Kingdome. Where,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, In this Text of holy Scripture, is to be ob&s;erved the&s;e two things, <HI>Mercy</HI> and <HI>Judgment.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t of all then, As he was &s;et over the King|dom by the Lord God, for to rule and govern for him, 1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 28.4. &s;o his Office was Mercy and Judgement, as in the context, which is from the fir&s;t <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> to the end of the <HI>P&s;alm;</HI> and his re&s;olution is, how he would behave him&s;elf, wi&s;ely in a perfect way, with a perfect heart, <HI>v.</HI> 2</P>
<P N="2">2. He will &s;et no wicked thing before his eyes, in <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 3.</P>
<P N="3">3. A froward heart &s;hall depart from him, he will not know a wicked per&s;on, <HI>v.</HI> 4.</P>
<P N="4">4. Who&s;o privily &s;tande<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eth his neighbour, him he will cut off, and he that hath an high look, and a proud heart, <HI>v.</HI> 5.</P>
<P N="5">5. His eyes &s;hould be upon the faithfull of the Land, that they may dwell with him, <HI>v.</HI> 6.</P>
<P N="6">6. He that worketh deceit, &s;hall not dwell in his hou&s;e, nor he that telleth lies, <HI>v.</HI> 7.</P>
<P N="7">7. He would cut off all wicked doers from the City of the Lord, <HI>v.</HI> 8. for the Lords mercy endureth to all generations, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 100.5.</P>
<P>Now in this Text we mu&s;t ob&s;erve the&s;e five circum&s;tances.</P>
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<P> Fir&s;t, <HI>How God is the Author of mercy, and the executor of Judgement.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>That Kings do hold their Kingdoms immediately from God,</HI> and inferiour Magi&s;trates are his Mini&s;ters of ju&s;tice, to divide the &s;ame as occa&s;ion &s;erveth, <HI>For the puni&s;hment of evil doers, and for the prai&s;e of them that do well,</HI> 1 Pet. 2.13, 14.</P>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>The offender mu&s;t be puni&s;hed in the body, That his &s;pirit may be &s;aved in the day of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> by judgment, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.5.</P>
<P>Fourthly, <HI>That the godly are exhorted unto pa|tience, to arm them&s;elves with the &s;ame mind as Chri&s;t was; for he hath &s;uffered in the fle&s;h, hath cea&s;ed from &s;in,</HI> 1 Pet. 4.1. So, <HI>&s;cil.</HI> He &s;uffered not as an evil doer, <HI>or as a bu&s;ie-body in other mens matters,</HI> 1 Pet. 4.15.</P>
<P>Fifthly and La&s;tly, <HI>How God hath puni&s;hed his deare&s;t and be&s;t beloved Saints in this world, upon offence given by occa&s;ion of &s;in.</HI></P>
<P>Of the&s;e in order beginning with the fir&s;t.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>How God is the Author of Mercy, and executor of Judgment.</HI> God is called in the Holy Scripture by the honourable Title <HI>Jehovah,</HI> God above all. The Supremacy of the Deity, pa&s;&s;eth mans utterance. Indeed we can better think then &s;peak of God, yet when we con&s;ult with our deepe&s;t thoughts, we come far &s;hort of appre|hending that incomprehen&s;ible Maje&s;ty. Out of doubt, who&s;oever &s;hall go about to &s;earch into
<PB N="5" REF="9">the &s;ecrets and e&s;&s;ences of the Will of God, <HI>Fear and &s;hame &s;hall be his covering,</HI> Prov. 25.26, 27. To &s;uch curious &s;earchers, who to get them&s;elves a name above their Neighbours, will &s;eem to be Gods Coun&s;ellors. I commend the advice of the Wi&s;e man, <HI>Seek not out things that are too hard for thee, neither &s;earch the things ra&s;hly, which are too mighty for thee; but what God hath commanded thee, think upon that with fear and reverence, and be not curious in many of his works; for it is not needful for thee to &s;ee with thy eyes the things that are &s;ecret,</HI> Eccle&s;. 3.22, 23. 2 Pet. 3.16. To &s;uch curio&s;ity, may be applyed all that in <HI>Job</HI> 36.26. <HI>Behold God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be &s;earched out.</HI> For in Coun&s;el he is mighty in works; for thine eyes are upon all the wayes of the &s;ons of men, to give every one according to the fruits of his do|ings, <HI>Iob</HI> 34.21. <HI>O the depth of the riches both of the wi&s;dome and knowledge of God? How un|&s;earchable are his judgements, and his wayes pa&s;t finding out,</HI> Rom. 11.33. Let us u&s;e our be&s;t di|ligence, to know what God hath revealed of him|&s;elf in his Word; <HI>For how&s;oever the &s;ecret things belong to the Lord our God, but tho&s;e things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our Children for ever:</HI> &s;o witne&s;&s;eth the Word of Truth, <HI>Deut.</HI> 29.29. It is revealed of God the Father, of God the Son, and of God the Holy Gho&s;t, as Saint <HI>Au&s;tine</HI> &s;tiles him <HI>(unus natura trinus in per&s;onis)</HI> a Trinity in Unity, and Unity in Tri|nity;
<PB N="6" REF="10">That he is a God of all Gods, and Lord of Lords, a God mo&s;t wonderful, very great, mighty, and terrible; a God that cannot be expre&s;&s;ed by word, nor conceived by thought; whom all the Angels in heaven do adore and fear; whom all Dominations and Thrones do adore, at who&s;e pre|&s;ence all Powers do &s;hake. A God in greatne&s;s Infinite, in goodne&s;s Sovereign, in wi&s;dom Won|derful, in power Almighty, in coun&s;els terrible, in judgements righteous, in cogitations &s;ecret, in works holy, in mercies rich, in promi&s;e true, al|ways the &s;ame, eternal, everla&s;ting, immortal, un|changeable. Thus have ye the Author of Mercy and Judgement.</P>
<P>Secondly, Kings do hold their Kingdomes immediately from God, as you &s;hall more here|after hear: As for example; For what&s;oever were written aforetime, were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope, <HI>Rom.</HI> 15.4. When God had drawn out that long and real Map of the World, and all Creatures therein, he made his Son <HI>Adam Luke</HI> 3.28. And God ha|ving made &s;o great a Prince, like him&s;elf, he gave him power for to govern all living Creatures, <HI>Gen.</HI> 2.19, 20. And &s;o from <HI>Adam</HI> &s;ucce&s;&s;ively to <HI>Enoch,</HI> the &s;eventh from <HI>Adam, Gen.</HI> 5.22. <HI>Jude</HI> ver. 14. and from <HI>Enoch</HI> to <HI>Noah,</HI> and with <HI>Noah</HI> did God e&s;tabli&s;h his Covenant, with him and his &s;eed after him, <HI>Gen.</HI> 9.9. and from <HI>Noah</HI> to <HI>Mel|chizedek</HI> the King of <HI>Salem,</HI> and Prie&s;t of the mo&s;t
<PB N="7" REF="10">High God, <HI>Gen.</HI> 14.18. <HI>Heb.</HI> 3.1. and from <HI>Mel|chizedek</HI> to <HI>Abraham,</HI> whom God &s;aid Kings of People &s;hould he beget, <HI>Gen</HI> 17.6. <HI>Gen.</HI> 17.15, 16. and from <HI>Abraham</HI> to <HI>I&s;aac</HI> and <HI>Jacob,</HI> and he gave the Scepter to Judah; from him it &s;hould not depart, nor the Law-giver from between his feet, untill <HI>Shilo</HI> come; unto him &s;hall the gathering of the people be, to be their King, <HI>Gen.</HI> 49.10, 11. Thus you &s;ee that the Lord de|&s;ires but one King to be &s;upream Head over his People, <HI>Prov.</HI> 28.2. and 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.17. And &s;o from <HI>Judah</HI> to <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> the which for the di&s;obe|dience of the Patriarks being moved with envy, &s;old <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> into <HI>Egypt,</HI> but God was with him, <HI>Acts</HI> 7.9. And God made <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> a Father unto <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> and a Ruler over all the Land of <HI>Egypt</HI> under <HI>Pharaoh;</HI> but <HI>Pharaoh</HI> was &s;upream King, <HI>Gen.</HI> 45.8. And although afterwards the people of God were much afflicted under another King, which knew not <HI>Jo&s;eph, Acts</HI> 7.18. yet they did not rebel again&s;t him, a though they were 600000 men in number, and able to overcome <HI>Pharaoh</HI> and all his Kingdome; and had <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to be their Prince, but fled before them, from one place to another, according to the mind of God, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 24. and <HI>Matt.</HI> 8.20. but God did fight for them, <HI>Exod.</HI> 12.37. And thus may you &s;ee God &s;ent <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to acquaint <HI>Pharaoh</HI> with his Name, <HI>I am that I am,</HI> Exod. 3.14. <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> having declared in what manner the Lord permitted <HI>Pharaoh</HI> to oppre&s;s the Children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> more
<PB N="8" REF="11">and more, &s;till hardning his heart; he &s;hews the rea&s;on of it in the&s;e words: That I may multi|ply my miracles and wonders in the Land of <HI>Egypt,</HI> that I may lay my hand upon <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> and bring out my people <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> mine Armies, by great judgment, &amp; that my power may be known, and that I may declare my Name throughout all the Earth, <HI>Exod.</HI> 3.9, 10. <HI>Exod.</HI> 9.16. and <HI>Rom.</HI> 9.17. And thus you &s;ee how God had cho&s;en <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> in his &s;tead, and had given him another &s;pirit, whereby his people might be under one Goveonor, <HI>Exod.</HI> 4.12. <HI>Exod.</HI> 7. as appears after|wards, when <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;at as King in <HI>Ie&s;urun,</HI> Deut. 33.5. For God called <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> unto him out of the mid&s;t of the Bu&s;h, that him&s;elf was in, which burned with fire, and was not con&s;umed, and gave him his Charge of Supremacy, <HI>Exod.</HI> 3.2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. and &s;o on. And after the Lord had governed his people by Judges three hundred years &amp; upwards, when they came unto the Land which the Lord God had gave them, then he com|manded them in any wi&s;e to &s;et a King over them, <HI>Whom the Lord thy God &s;hall chu&s;e from among thy brethren,</HI> Deut. 17.15. And after the people had cho&s;en <HI>Saul</HI> for to be their King, the Lord called <HI>Samuel</HI> to anoint him Captain or Prince over his Inheritance, as he calls it in 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10.1. And becau&s;e he rejected the Word of the Lord, the Lord rejected him from being King, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15.23. and after found out a man after his own heart, to whom the Lord gave great pro&s;perity
<PB N="9" REF="11">unto his Anointed, and his Seed for evermore, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 18.51. And after the Lord had governed his people by Kings three or four hundred years, in delivering them from one generation to ano|ther, that is the greate&s;t we read of, in <HI>Jeho&s;haphats</HI> the King of <HI>Judah,</HI> when that multitude of <HI>Ammo|nites</HI> and <HI>Meabites</HI> came to war again&s;t him and the Children of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> intending to ca&s;t them out of the Lords Inheritance (as the enemies to Mo|narchy did to our Gracious King here in <HI>England</HI>) and utterly to de&s;troy them, to the di&s;honour of the Lord God; then the Lord by delivering them from that &s;ore affliction, gained to him&s;elf &s;uch honour and glory, that the fear of the Lord God was upon all the Kingdoms of the Earth.</P>
<P>When the Lord had fought again&s;t the enemies of the King and his people the Children of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> as in 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 20.29. the judgement was upon &s;ome, but the fear came upon all the Kingdoms of the earth (&s;aith the Text.) It was but a few mens lo&s;&s;es, but it was all mens warning: and yet they were three days gathering the &s;poil, as you may &s;ee in the following ver&s;es, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 20.25, 30. Now all the&s;e things hapned unto them for exam|ples to us, <HI>and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come,</HI> 1 Cor. 10.10, 11, 12. And afterwards, when the Lord brought back again his people out of Captivi|ty, by the hand of <HI>Zerubbabel</HI> their Prince; when the Church had been among the Heathen, the Lord had done great things for them, <HI>P&s;al.</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="12">126.12. So our gracious King and the Church of <HI>England</HI> may &s;ay, when he came back again from his long affliction, and now &s;etled in his Royal Throne, and the Church in their Ancient Order: We may all &s;ay, that the Lord hath done great things for us all; for our gracious Kings life from the 10th. year to the 30th. year of his age, hath been a weary Pilgrimage, a Sojourners condition, from one Kingdom to another People, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 105.13. For the Battel he was in at <HI>Wor|ce&s;ter,</HI> his Adver&s;aries had the day for a time, but not the Victory; the Place, but not the Per&s;on. Gods mercy and our Kings e&s;cape, are as Twins of wonder; which makes good the Text, of Mer|cy and Judgment to be joyned together. For God hath, as you hear, in all Ages, provided mighty Adver&s;aries again&s;t his King and Church, that their humiliation may be the greater in &s;u&s;tain|ing, and his glory may be the greater in his deli|verance; yea, though there be legions of Devils, and every one &s;tronger then many legions, and they more millions then &s;trong, yet our gracious King and Church doth pro&s;per, which makes ex|ceedingly for Gods Mercy as well as Judgment.</P>
<P>Now there be many that would fain wring out of the Kings hand the Sword of Ju&s;tice; and others are of an error, that they are always as the Jews, <HI>Ob&s;tinate, &s;tiff-necked, always re&s;i&s;ting the holy Gho&s;t,</HI> Acts 7.51. The one is again&s;t Piety, and the other again&s;t Policy; but their error again&s;t Policy is mo&s;t politickly devi&s;ed by the enemies
<PB N="11" REF="12">to Monarchy, there being but the&s;e two that any need to fear, Piety and Policy. And if they could keep them&s;elves out of the reach of the Civil Sword, then they might every where &s;e|curely both vent their errors, and practi&s;e their &s;chi&s;m: For an Heretick doth corrupt the &s;ince|rity of faith and doctrine of the holy Apo&s;tles, by d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">awing men back from faith, <HI>Heb.</HI> 10.38. And a Schi&s;matick, although he &s;in not again&s;t the pure Doctrine of the &s;incere faith, yet he ra&s;hly &s;epa|rateth him&s;elf from the Church, he breaking the bands of unity, as the Angels did, that were ca&s;t into hell fire, for not being obedient to the order, 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.4. And <HI>Korah</HI> and his Company, <HI>Num.</HI> 16. for not being obedient to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron,</HI> the ground clave a&s;under, and devoured them all. For Schi&s;me is Rebellion, and Rebellion is as the &s;in of Witchcraft; <HI>And &s;tubbornne&s;s is as iniquity and idolatry,</HI> 1 Sam. 15.23. <HI>O &s;tand fa&s;t in one &s;pirit, with one mind, &s;triving together for the faith of the Go&s;pel: And in nothing terrified by your adver|&s;aries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of &s;alvation, and that of God. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Chri&s;t, not only to be|lieve on him, but to &s;uffer for his &s;ake,</HI> Phil. 1.27, 28, 29. Now the rea&s;on why Hereticks and con|tentious people do &s;o vehemently contend, that Kingly Power can in no ways con&s;i&s;t with Chri|&s;tian perfection of Chri&s;tianity; although that Power is an Ordinance of God, which the Ho|ly Gho&s;t commands not to re&s;i&s;t, upon the pain
<PB N="12" REF="13">of damnation, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.2. And Gods command &s;hould be a &s;ufficient argument; but when he adds a rea&s;on too, he an&s;wers all objections: but when he threatens puni&s;hments, no le&s;s then dam|nation, upon the re&s;i&s;tance thereof, he u&s;ed all means to per&s;wade a nece&s;&s;ity of obedience; For let every &s;oul be &s;ubject to their King, in things lawful actively, in things unlawful pa&s;&s;ively. If a good King, a good Power; if an evil King, an evil Power: Therefore he that re&s;i&s;ts the Power, whether good or evil (for all Power is of God) he re&s;i&s;teth an Ordinance of God; and Ordinances of men are not re&s;i&s;ted without ruine; and who|&s;oever re&s;i&s;teth the Ordinance of God, &s;hall re|ceive damnation to them&s;elves. Now compare this place with 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.29. <HI>He that &s;hall eat this Bread, and drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily, eateth and drinketh his own damnation.</HI> If then there be a proportion betwixt the &s;in and the puni&s;h|ment, you may hereby gather the hainou&s;ne&s;s of di&s;obedience, the puni&s;hment whereof is the very &s;ame; which, in that he is guilty of the body and blood of Je&s;us Chri&s;t; to the one, for not di&s;cerning the Lords Body; and to the other, for not di&s;cerning the Lords Anointed. For Kings in all Ages, and in all Generations over Gods people, are and have been Gods Anointed, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 1.10. 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 26.9. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 45.4, 5. 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 10.31, 32. And as God hath Monarchy in Heaven, &s;o will he have Monarchy on Earth; and to that end did he anoint <HI>Cyrus</HI> King of <HI>Per&s;ia,</HI> over all the kingdoms
<PB N="13" REF="13">of the earth, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 36.23. For the holy Apo|&s;tle &s;hews a rea&s;on in <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.4. <HI>For the Magi|&s;trate beareth not the Sword in vain, for he is the Mini&s;ter of God, a Revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil:</HI> For the Sword is given the Magi&s;trate to root out here&s;ie and vice; for if Magi&s;tracy do not root out here&s;ie and vice, con|tentions and here&s;ies, vice will root out Magi&s;tra|cy: But before I cut off this here&s;ie again&s;t the material &s;word, <HI>with the &s;word of the Spirit, which is the Word of God,</HI> Ephe&s;. 6.17. I &s;hall pre&s;ent unto the enemies of Monarchy a gla&s;s, wherein they may &s;ee their own faces drawn to the life, and that in Saint <HI>Peter</HI> and Saint <HI>Iude,</HI> who were both holy Apo&s;tles of Chri&s;ts, and both lived and preached up Kingly Power, and both &s;uffered Martyrdom under Monarchy; and both preached again&s;t fal&s;e Prophets and de&s;pi&s;ers of Monar|chy, that all men may plainly &s;ee who were the Grand-fathers of the&s;e Hereticks, that trouble both King and Church at this day. <HI>They walkt</HI> (&s;aith Saint <HI>Peter</HI>) <HI>after the fle&s;h, in the lu&s;t of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ncleanne&s;s, and de&s;pi&s;e government; and pre&s;umptu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us are they, &s;elf-willed: yea, they are not afraid to &s;peak evil of dignities; whereas Angels, which are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reater in power, and might, they dare not bring any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ai&s;ing accu&s;ation again&s;t them before the Lord. But <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he&s;e, as natural brute bea&s;ts, made to be taken and le&s;troyed by judgement, for &s;peaking evil of things <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hey under&s;tand not, and they &s;hall utterly peri&s;h in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">heir own corruption,</HI> 2 Pet. 2.10, 11, 12. and
<PB N="14" REF="14"><HI>Jude</HI> 8.9. to the 14. <HI>Enoch</HI> the &s;eventh from <HI>Ada<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> prophe&s;ied of the&s;e, &s;aying, <HI>Behold, the Lord come<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> with ten thou&s;ands of his Saints, to execute judge|ment upon them all,</HI> ver&s;e 14.15. Now belove<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chri&s;tians, I be&s;eech you to take &s;pecial notice<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the&s;e words of the&s;e two great Apo&s;tles, whi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fall out &s;o pat upon the Hereticks of our times, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> if the Apo&s;tles had particularly aimed at the er|rors that &s;hould come in the&s;e our days; as Sai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Paul</HI> prophe&s;ied of, <HI>That in the la&s;t days perillo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> times &s;hall come; for men &s;hall be lovers of the own &s;elves, covetous, boa&s;ters, proud, bla&s;phemous, di&s;|obedient to Parents, unthankful, unholy, without natur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> affection, truce-breakers in for&s;wearing them&s;elv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and fal&s;e accu&s;ers, incontinent, fierce de&s;pi&s;ers <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tho&s;e that are good, traitors, heady, high-minde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> lovers of plea&s;are, more then lovers of God, hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a form of godline&s;s, but denying the power thereo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> from &s;uch turn away. Ever learning, and never a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to come to the knowledge of the truth. As</HI> Jann<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>and</HI> Jambres <HI>with&s;tood</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>&s;o do the&s;e re&s;i&s;t t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> truth,</HI> 2 Tim. 3.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8. in their re|&s;i&s;ting King and Church. For the Office <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a King, or any Magi&s;trate &s;ent by him, is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Office appointed by God for the admini&s;trati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of ju&s;tice, and executing judgment, and pre&s;erv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|tion of peace both in Church and Kingdom, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the&s;e Scriptures te&s;tifie, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.3, 4.5. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 13.14. <HI>Exod.</HI> 18.20, 21. <HI>Prov.</HI> 16.10. And as t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lord God &s;pake unto <HI>Mo&s;es, And thou &s;halt te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> this people Ordinances and Laws,</HI> Exod. 18.20. <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="15" REF="14">&s;halt &s;hew them the way wherein they mu&s;t walk, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e work that they mu&s;t do.</HI> God commands <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r to provide out of all the people able men, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch as fear God, and hating covetou&s;ne&s;s; and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> place none but &s;uch over the Land to be Ru|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ers of thou&s;ands, and Rulers of hundreds, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ulers of fifties, and Rulers of tens, and let <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">em judge the people at all &s;ea&s;ons; but every <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reater matter they &s;hould bring to <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">au&s;e he was &s;upream Judge, and was as King in <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;urun,</HI> Deut. 35.3. And this Coun&s;ell of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ethro</HI> the Prie&s;t of <HI>Midian, Mo&s;es</HI> Father-in-law, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">as greatly approved of God, <HI>Num.</HI> 11.16, 17. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the Lord God &s;aid unto</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>gather unto me <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">venty men of the Elders of I&s;rael, whom thou know|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t to be Elders of the people, and Officers over them; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d bring them to the Tabernacle of the Congregati|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, that they may &s;tand there with thee; and I will <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me down and talk with thee there; and I will take <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the &s;pirit that is upon thee, and will put it upon them, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d they &s;hall bear it, not thy &s;elf alone.</HI> And the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">reate&s;t matters were to be brought to <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ou heard before in <HI>Exod.</HI> 18.20, 21. <HI>Deut.</HI> 33.5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the voice of Wi&s;dom cryes aloud, <HI>By me <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ings reign and Princes decree ju&s;tice; by me Prin|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s rule, and Nobles, even all the Judges of the Earth,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rov. 8.15, 16. <HI>For to execute ju&s;tice upon him that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oth evil,</HI> Rom. 13.4. <HI>And for the prai&s;e of them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at do well,</HI> 1 Pet. 2.14. So you may &s;ee by all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;e Te&s;timonies of holy Scriptures, that the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ice of a King may be with a good con&s;cience
<PB N="16" REF="15">executed by a Chri&s;tian; for there is as mu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> nece&s;&s;ity of the Office of a King or Judge u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|der the Go&s;pel, as under the Law. For t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Scriptures out of the New Te&s;tament confir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> it, that the twelve Apo&s;tles called the multitud<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Di&s;ciples, and &s;ought out men of hone&s;t re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> port, and full of the Holy Gho&s;t and wi&s;dom, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;erve and govern the people; and the greate<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> matters were to be brought to the twelve Apo|&s;tles, that &s;tayed &s;till at <HI>Ieru&s;alem, Acts</HI> 6.1, 2, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and in <HI>Acts</HI> 8.1. And Saint <HI>Iames</HI> was Bi&s;ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>when</HI> Herod <HI>the King &s;tretched forth his hand to v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> certain of the Church, and he killed Saint</HI> James <HI>t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Brother of Saint</HI> John <HI>with the &s;word,</HI> Acts 12.1, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> And he &s;ought for Saint <HI>Peter</HI> for to &s;lay hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> al&s;o, but Saint <HI>Peter</HI> got out of his hands; the the faithful were fain oft-times for to a&s;&s;emb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> them&s;elves into the Fields for to pray &amp; prea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> unto the people, <HI>Acts</HI> 16.13. And <HI>Tertullian</HI> i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Apology, <HI>Chap.</HI> 39. affirmeth, That in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a&s;&s;embling the Chri&s;tians together in tho&s;e day<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> was to pray for their Emperours, and Kings, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Magi&s;trates, and their Officers, and Servant<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and for all E&s;tates of the world, and to pray fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> their peace, and to preach out of the Divin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Scriptures; and they did feed and nouri&s;h th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Faith with their voice, and the Holy Word o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> God, and did travel here and there much t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> preach the Word, <HI>Acts</HI> 8.4, 5. and to imprint in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to the hearts of the people the di&s;cipline of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Church, the Creed, and Lords Prayer, and Te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="17" REF="15">Commandments: And <HI>Tertullian</HI> &s;aith, <HI>We <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hri&s;tians have our eyes elevated unto Heaven, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd our hands &s;tretched out, becau&s;e of their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nocence; and the head uncovered, becau&s;e we <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">are not hear the Word, but with fear and reverence,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ccle&s;. 5.1.</P>
<P>And we are not a&s;hamed, and we do pray al|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ays with all our hearts for Emperors, Kings and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rinces, that God would give them long life, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd an a&s;&s;ured Empire, and a tru&s;ty and &s;ure <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ou&s;e, mighty in Battel, a faithful Council, a good <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd loyal people, a quiet World, and all that Man <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the Emperour can de&s;ire: And all this and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uch more did the Chri&s;tians in the Primitive <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me, both fight for them in battel, and pray to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">teat God of Heaven and Earth, for the Empe|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ours and the Kings of the Earth, as in <HI>Mat.</HI> 17.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">6.17. 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.1, 2, 3. <HI>Tit.</HI> 3.12. <HI>Dan.</HI> 9. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om 3. to 22. <HI>Ezra</HI> 8.10.11. and yet were <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ey killed for their doctrine and di&s;cipline. And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Apo&s;tle tells them that de&s;pi&s;e Governours, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat they are enemies of the Cro&s;s of Chri&s;t, who&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">od is their belly, and who&s;e glory is their &s;hame, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at mind earthly things, and will not have their con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er&s;ation in Heaven, from whence we look for the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> Phil 3.18, 19, 20. <HI>Who is the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pream King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and &s;it|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th above all people,</HI> P&s;al. 99.2. <HI>Rev.</HI> 19.16. And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> was the Prayer the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t taught <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is Di&s;ciples, that as it is in Heaven, it &s;hould be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n Earth, <HI>Luke</HI> 11.2, 3. That as he was and is
<PB N="18" REF="16">Monarch in Heaven, &s;o would he have a Monar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in Earth; or el&s;e Chri&s;t Je&s;us would not have &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his greate&s;t Apo&s;tle Saint <HI>Simon Peter</HI> to the S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for to ca&s;t an hook, and take up the Fi&s;h that fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cometh up, and find money in his mouth to gi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> unto Kings, becau&s;e he would not give them a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> occa&s;ion of offence, <HI>Matt.</HI> 17.26.27. And th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> is to &s;hew that honour, dignity, and power is m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> holy and ju&s;t; and holy and religious men ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in all Ages been inve&s;ted with honour, dignit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and power of Maje&s;ty as well as others: Nam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ly, <HI>Melchi&s;edec</HI> was both King of <HI>Salem, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Prie&s;t of the mo&s;t High God,</HI> Heb. 7.1.2, 3. le&s;t a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;hould argue and &s;ay, he had his Kingdom fro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> men, and is &s;aid to have his Kingdom from <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> eternity, <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 22. And <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> was a Father un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Pharaoh, and Ruler over all the Land of</HI> Egyp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Gen.</HI> 41.43. <HI>For to teach his Princes wi&s;dom, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Senators under&s;tanding,</HI> P&s;al. 105.22. And <HI>J<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> was a King in the Land of <HI>Uz, Job</HI> 1. till th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> had &s;tript him of his glory, and taken his Cro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> from his head, <HI>Job</HI> 19.9. For there was Kings <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Edom,</HI> before any Kings in <HI>Judah</HI> or <HI>I&s;rael</HI> ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> years, <HI>Gen.</HI> 36.31. And then <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Io&s;hu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> and <HI>David</HI> and <HI>Solomon,</HI> and <HI>Hezekiah,</HI> and <HI>Ieho&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> phat</HI> and <HI>Io&s;iah,</HI> after whom the Holy Gho&s;t &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> this te&s;timony, <HI>Like unto them were no Kings bef<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> them, that turned to the Lord with all their heart a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> all their &s;oul, according to all the Law of Mo&s;es; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> after them aro&s;e any the like unto them,</HI> the like f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to do mercy and ju&s;tice, 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 23.25. To ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="19" REF="16">mercy on the poor, and judgment on the wicked. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd again, it was foretold and promi&s;ed for a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gular ble&s;&s;ing to the Chri&s;tian Church in the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ys, and cannot be repugnant to the rules of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;pel; For the Government and Protection of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ings, and their &s;upporting and maintaining the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;pel, was foretold and promi&s;ed as a &s;ingular <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ing to the Chri&s;tian Churches in the&s;e days, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;al.</HI> 68.29. <HI>Kings &s;hall bring pre&s;ents unto thee;</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 72.9, 10, 11. <HI>They that dwell in the Wil|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rne&s;s &s;hall bow before thee, and his enemies &s;hall lick <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e du&s;t, and the Kings of</HI> Tar&s;hi&s;h, <HI>and of the I&s;les, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">all bring pre&s;ents,</HI> P&s;al. 72.9, 10, 11. <HI>And Kings <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">all be their Nur&s;ing Fathers, and their Queens <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eir Nur&s;ing Mothers,</HI> I&s;a. 49.23. <HI>For to have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ercy on the poor, that their Throne may be e&s;tabli&s;h|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for ever,</HI> Prov. 29.14. <HI>with mercy and judgment.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r God hath required of a good Magi&s;trate ten <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">incipal Vertues:
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<ITEM>Fir&s;t, To be a Father of his People,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Secondly, Skilful in the Scriptures,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thirdly, A Divider of Offices.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fourthly, And Encourager of the Fearful.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fifthly, A Defender of the Oppre&s;&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sixthly, An Helper of the Needy.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Seventhly, A De&s;pi&s;er of the Proud.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Eighthly, A Governour of his People.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ninthly, An Exalter of the Humble.</ITEM>
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<P>Tenthly, A Puni&s;her of the Offenders with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gment, <HI>that their &s;pirit may be &s;aved in the day <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> the Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> 1 Cor. 5.5. As holy <HI>Iob</HI>
<PB N="20" REF="17">&s;aith, <HI>The Magi&s;trate is Eyes to the Blind, Feet to the Lame, Father to the Poor, and Watchman to his whole Commonwealth,</HI> Job 29.15. and a ble&s;&s;ing to all his people. <HI>For in</HI> Judah <HI>the hand of God was to give the people one heart, to do the Kings Com|mandment, and the Commandment of the Princes, by the Word of the Lord,</HI> 2 Chron. 30.12. For the which the King prayed for his people when they were afflicted by judgment, and &s;aid, <HI>The Lord pardon every one,</HI> 2 Sam. 24.25. and the Lords mercy healed the people at the prayer of the King, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 30.18, 19, 20. And Scriptures teacheth, <HI>That a Divine Sentence is in the mouth of the King, and his lips &s;hall not tran&s;gre&s;s in judgment,</HI> Prov. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">6.19. Therefore it is that no godly per|&s;on dares &s;ay to Kings, <HI>You are wicked; nor to un|godly Princes, you are ungodly,</HI> Job 34.18. For al|though the Lord &s;uffered his Anointed (King <HI>Charles</HI> of Ble&s;&s;ed Memory) to fall by judgment under the hands of his Enemies; yet the Lords mercy hath &s;aved his Son to &s;it on the Royal Throne of his Royal Father, as he did holy King <HI>David,</HI> his Anointed, <HI>from the hurtful and crue<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;word,</HI> P&s;al. 144.10. For although God him&s;elf be the King of Kings, yet is <HI>Nebuchadnezzar</HI> by the Spirit of God &s;tiled a King of Kings; &s;o the God of Heaven had given him a Kingdome, power, and &s;trength, and glory, <HI>Dan.</HI> 2.37. And the Lord God &s;aith, <HI>They that &s;erve not th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> King, and they that will not put their Necks under his Yoke, them I will peni&s;h with the Sword, Fa|mine,
<PB N="21" REF="17">and the Pe&s;tilence, till I have con&s;umed them; and therefore hearken not to your Diviners, and Prophets, that &s;ay unto you, you &s;hall not &s;erve the King; for they prophe&s;ie a lye unto you: But that Nation that &s;hall &s;erve the King, and bring their Necks under his Yoke, tho&s;e will I let remain in their own Land, &s;aith the Lord God, and they &s;hall till it, and dwell therein,</HI> Jer. 27.6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Can there be a &s;tricter Precept? or could there be a more impious Prince? and yet this Pre|cept, and yet this Prince mu&s;t be obeyed; nay, <HI>&s;ub poena,</HI> too, upon the pain of Gods high wrath, fully expre&s;t in three great judgments, in Fa|mine, Sword, and Pe&s;tilence; not only upon the People, but upon the Prie&s;ts al&s;o, that &s;hall per|&s;wade them unto di&s;obedience: For the Lord God hath &s;uch a love unto Monarchy, that as he anointed <HI>Cyrus</HI> over all the Kingdomes of the Earth; yet it plea&s;ed his Divine Maje&s;ty, yet for to divide the Kingdoms of the Earth &s;ince, into &s;everal Men and Nations, <HI>Deut.</HI> 2.5. <HI>Deut.</HI> 32.8. For the Lord &s;aid unto <HI>Elijah, Go anoint</HI> Hazael <HI>to be King over</HI> Syria, <HI>and</HI> Jehu <HI>the Son of</HI> Nim&s;hi <HI>&s;halt thou anoint to be King over</HI> I&s;rael, 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 19.15, 16. So then, our Gracious King, and Gods Deputy, having more Kingdoms under him then one, two, or three, may &s;ub&s;titute un|der him&s;elf Viceroys, Dukes, Nobles, and Judges, as helpers to bear the burden of Go|vernment under him; and as well Right Reve|rend Arch Bi&s;hops, and Reverend Bi&s;hops for
<PB N="22" REF="18">Sacred matters, according to the example of <HI>Mo&s;es, Jo&s;huah, David, Solomon,</HI> and <HI>Jeho&s;aphat,</HI> who &s;et Judges in the I and; throughout all the fen|ced Cities of <HI>Judah,</HI> City by City, and &s;aid to the Judges, <HI>Take heed what ye do; for ye judge not for men, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment: Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you, take heed, and do it; for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor re&s;pect of per&s;ons, nor taking of gifts: Moreover did</HI> Jeho&s;aphat <HI>&s;et of the Levites, and of the Prie&s;ts, and of the chief of the Fathers of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>for judgement of the Lord, and for to end con|trover&s;ies, when they returned to</HI> Jeru&s;alem, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 19.5, 6, 7, 8. And hearken unto <HI>Jeho&s;aphats</HI> en|couragement, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 19.9, 10, 11. Deal cou|ragiou&s;ly, and the Lord God &s;hall be with the good. And hearken unto Gods encouragement, <HI>Chap.</HI> 20. And in <HI>Jo&s;hua, If thou obey, to do accord|ing to the Law which</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>my &s;ervant command|ed, then thou &s;halt have good &s;ucce&s;s,</HI> Jo&s;h. 1.7, 8. And hearken unto Chri&s;ts commandment, unto all his Kings, <HI>Teaching them to ob&s;erve all things what|&s;oever I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the worlds end, Amen,</HI> Matt. 28.20. For it is the Lord God that made Kings and Prie&s;ts for to reign on the earth, for God the Fa|ther, and his Son Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever, Amen,</HI> Rev. 1.5, 7. For the Lord made a Covenant with his cho&s;en, and had &s;worn unto his &s;eed unto <HI>David</HI> his Ser|vant, <HI>Thy &s;eed will I e&s;tabli&s;h for ever, and build up
<PB N="23" REF="18">his Throne to all generations,</HI> P&s;al. 89.3, 4. Thus have I &s;hewed you how the Lord is the Author of Mercy and Judgment.</P>
<P>Secondly, Kings are to divide it as occa&s;ion &s;erveth, for the puni&s;hment of evil doers, and for the prai&s;e of them that do well; and the ne|ce&s;&s;ity of our obedience unto Kingly govern|ment to be from the Lord.</P>
<P>Thirdly, The godly are to arm them&s;elves to be like minded as Chri&s;t was; <HI>For he that hath &s;uffered in the fle&s;h, hath cea&s;ed from &s;in,</HI> 1 Pet. 4.1. But many will rather have the mind of Satan, and be an offence unto Chri&s;t Je&s;us, <HI>and &s;avour the things of men, and not tho&s;e things that be of God, Matt.</HI> 16.23. and will not take the pains to think of Gods judgments; they have a &s;horter way for all, a way which &s;eems to them more plea&s;ing, and &s;o lay the whole matter upon the back of Chri&s;t him&s;elf; as the <HI>Jews</HI> did concerning <HI>Abra|ham,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>That they were</HI> Abraham<HI>'s Children, and had but one Father, even God;</HI> and they never did the works of <HI>Abraham,</HI> nor do the&s;e people obey Je&s;us Chri&s;t; and therefore &s;aith Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Lord, <HI>They have no cloak for their &s;in,</HI> John 15.22. But an&s;wer what&s;oever you can &s;ay again&s;t them, they will an&s;wer you with this holy &s;entence, <HI>God is merciful.</HI> Of the&s;e men may Chri&s;t complain with the Prophet, &s;aying, Sinners have built upon my back, they have prolonged their iniquity, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 129.3. By which words we may account our &s;elves charged, that prolonging
<PB N="24" REF="19">of iniquity, in hope of Gods mercy without judgement, is to build all our &s;ins on his back: But will God bear it? no verily will he not; for in <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 4. is ju&s;tice; for there it is &s;aid God is ju&s;t, he will cut in &s;under the neck of &s;inners. Now here are two Cooling Cards for the two warm imaginations before; for why &s;hould man prolong his iniquity, becau&s;e God is merciful: Let them know &s;aith the Prophet, <HI>that he is ju&s;t.</HI> Are ye gotten upon the back of God, to make your Ne&s;t of &s;in? then take heed, for he will fetch you down again, and break &s;inners necks downward, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 129.5. except they repent, <HI>Luke</HI> 13.3. and 5. <HI>Shall we continue in &s;in, that grace may aboand? God forbid,</HI> Rom. 6.1. Indeed there is no one thing which may be &s;o injurious to God, &s;o as to make him the foundation of our &s;inful tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing this Commandment, in not obeying Chri&s;t, who lo&s;t his own life for the ex|tingui&s;hing of the Sin of Rebellion, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15.20, 21, 22. 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4.1. I pray was not Chri&s;t the great Reformer, when his weapon is a Trumpet to lift up his voice, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 58.1. and his way to Reformation, were they not his own words, <HI>He that taketh up the &s;word, &s;hall peri&s;h by the &s;word,</HI> Matth. 26.52. Nor was it for want of &s;trength; for he could command more then twelve Legions of Angels, in <HI>v.</HI> 53. or had he plea&s;ed to u&s;e the arm of fle&s;h, I hope he that rai&s;ed the dead, <HI>John</HI> 11.44. if he had plea&s;ed, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ld have rai&s;ed a con&s;iderable Army: When
<PB N="25" REF="19">he cau&s;ed his be&s;t Apo&s;tle Saint <HI>Peter</HI> for to catch a Fi&s;h to bring money in his mouth, for to pay to Kings, becau&s;e he would not offend them, <HI>Matt.</HI> 17, 26, 27. and Saint <HI>John</HI> and Saint <HI>Peter,</HI> who converted three thou&s;and in one day, and four or five in another day, <HI>Acts</HI> 2.40. <HI>Acts</HI> 4.5, 6. he might have rai&s;ed a mighty Army in a little time: And Saint <HI>Paul,</HI> and the twelve Apo&s;tles and Di&s;ciples, might have proved as &s;tout Collonels and Captains to lead them, as any in <HI>England;</HI> but they all know that there was &s;uch a nece&s;&s;ity of pa&s;&s;ive obedience, for the godly to arm them|&s;elves to be like minded as was Chri&s;t, to &s;uffer in the fle&s;h, that they may cea&s;e from &s;in, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4.1. and Chri&s;t left him&s;elf to be &s;uch a pat|tern of obedience, <HI>that we mu&s;t follow his &s;teps,</HI> 1 Pet. 2.21. But as our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour Chri&s;t &s;aith, if he had not &s;poken unto them for to be obedient unto Magi&s;trates, it might have been born withall; <HI>But now they have no cloak for their &s;ins,</HI> John 15.22. The holy Pro|phet <HI>Daniel</HI> faith, <HI>The M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t High ruleth in the Kingdoms, and giveth them to whom&s;oever he will,</HI> Dan. 4.25. to 32. And Saint <HI>Au&s;tine</HI> is bold to &s;ay, <HI>That the &s;ame God, who &s;et the Crown upon</HI> Con&s;tantine (the Chri&s;tians head Em|perour) <HI>the &s;ame God gave the Empire of the world unto</HI> Julian <HI>the Apo&s;tate; becau&s;e he would have his Saints to &s;uffer in the fle&s;h, that they might cea&s;e from &s;in:</HI> And Chri&s;t him&s;elf paid tribute to <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> and acknowledged earthly
<PB N="26" REF="20">things to be <HI>Cae&s;ars,</HI> Mat. 22.21. And that <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> he &s;pake of was <HI>Tyberius,</HI> an enemy to all godli|ne&s;s, and a kind of mon&s;ter among men; yea, the Lord God anointed <HI>Cyrus</HI> to &s;ubdue Nations before him, for <HI>Jacob</HI> his Servants &s;ake, and <HI>I&s;rael</HI> his Elect, and called him by Name, <HI>and yet he hath not known me,</HI> I&s;a. 45.12. becau&s;e he would have <HI>Jacob</HI> &s;uffer in the fle&s;h, and <HI>I&s;rael</HI> to cea&s;e from &s;in; and therefore he commanded his Preachers for to cry aloud, and &s;pare not, to lift up their voice like a Trumpet, <HI>and &s;hew the people their tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, and the hou&s;e of</HI> Jacob <HI>their &s;ins,</HI> I&s;a. 58.1. But you will &s;ay, And is not God merciful? that we mu&s;t &s;uffer under cruel Kings; yea, beloved Chri&s;tians, he is mo&s;t merciful, and there is neither end nor mea&s;ure of his mercy; he is even mercy it &s;elf, it is his Nature and E&s;|&s;en&s;e, and he can no more leave to be merciful, then he can leave to be God; but as the Pro|phet here &s;aith in the Text, he is judgement al&s;o; we mu&s;t not &s;o remember his mercy, as to forget his ju&s;tice: For example, <HI>Nebuchadnezzar</HI> the King of <HI>Babylon,</HI> &s;et up a golden Image, <HI>Shadrech, Me&s;hach,</HI> and <HI>Abednego,</HI> were commanded to fall down and wor&s;hip it. The King, a known Pagan, commands a gro&s;s Idolatry; did the&s;e men con|&s;pire? no, by no means, they did not, although they were Rulers of the Provinces, and could have rai&s;ed above a hundred thou&s;and Souldi|ers if they had plea&s;ed, neither did they invite the Jews into a rebellion; no, being called by
<PB N="27" REF="20">their King they came, and being commanded to give actual obedience to his unlawful commands, I be&s;eech you ob&s;erve the mode&s;ty of their fir&s;t an&s;wer, <HI>Dan.</HI> 3.16. <HI>We are not careful to an&s;wer thee in this matter;</HI> and being urged, mark their pious re&s;olution in the 18 ver&s;e; <HI>Be it known, O King, we will not &s;erve thy god, nor wor&s;hip the golden image thou ha&s;t &s;et up:</HI> The King threatens the Furnace, they yield their bodies up to it, and &s;ay, <HI>Our God, whom we &s;erve, will in mercy deliver us from out of thy hands of judgment:</HI> They expect deliverance rather in the r pa&s;&s;ive obedience, then in their actual re&s;i&s;tance; <HI>For the Lord is upright and &s;weet,</HI> &s;aith holy <HI>David,</HI> P&s;al. 25. <HI>All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth,</HI> ver&s;e 9. which words holy Saint <HI>Bernard</HI> expounding in a Sermon of his, &s;aith, <HI>There be two feet of the Lords, when he walketh in his ways;</HI> that is, Mercy and Ju&s;tice, and God fa&s;teneth both the&s;e feet upon the hearts of them which turn unto him; and every &s;inner which truly is converted to him, mu&s;t lay hands on both the&s;e feet; for if he &s;hould lay hands on Mercy, and let pa&s;s Judge|ment, he would peri&s;h by pre&s;umption: and on the other &s;ide, if he &s;hould apprehend Ju&s;tice only without Mercy, he would peri&s;h by de&s;pe|ration. To the end therefore that we may be &s;a|ved, we mu&s;t humbly fall down and ki&s;s both the&s;e feet, as <HI>Mary Magdalen</HI> did the feet of Je&s;us, <HI>Luke</HI> 13.8. &s;o that in re&s;pect of Gods Ju|&s;tice we may retain fear, and in re&s;pect of his
<PB N="28" REF="21">Mercy we may receive hope; and happy is that &s;oul upon whom our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t hath pla|ced both the&s;e feet. I will not &s;ing unto thee of Judgement alone my God, nor yet of Mercy alone my God; but I will with the Prophet in the Text &s;ing of Mercy and Judgement joyned together. Again,</P>
<P>Fourthly, I pray mark another rea&s;on of this Mercy and gentlene&s;s of our God; Let us mark I &s;ay, and fear al&s;o his Judgements; for as the Propher &s;aith, That God is both &s;weet and ju&s;t too: Do&s;t thou love that he is &s;weet? then fear that he is ju&s;t: For I pray mark the words of God, as a &s;weet Lord he &s;aid, <HI>I have held my peace at your &s;ins of di&s;obedience,</HI> P&s;al. 10.11, 12, 13. but as a ju&s;t Lord he added in the 15. <HI>ver&s;e</HI> of that <HI>P&s;alm, And thinke&s;t thou that I will hold my peace &s;till? No, he will break the arm of the wicked and evil man.</HI> God is merciful, and full of mercies &s;ay you: It is mo&s;t certain; yea, adde unto it that he beareth long, but fear that which cometh at the end of the <HI>P&s;alm, Et verax,</HI> he is ju&s;t and true.</P>
<P>There be two things whereby di&s;obedient &s;inners do &s;tand in danger.</P>
<P>The one, hoping too much, which is pre&s;um|ption; the other in hoping too little, which is de&s;peration.</P>
<P>Who are they that are deceived by hoping too much? He which &s;aith unto him&s;elf, well, God is a good God, a merciful God, and therefore I
<PB N="29" REF="21">will do this or that, what be&s;t plea&s;eth my judge|ment; and why &s;o? becau&s;e God is a merciful God, a good God, a gentle God: This is mo&s;t true; but the&s;e men run into danger, by hoping too much.</P>
<P>Now who are in danger by de&s;pair, even tho&s;e who &s;eeing their &s;ins to be grievous, and think within them&s;elves it is to be pardoned impo&s;&s;i|ble, &s;aying within them&s;elves, well we are once to be damned; why do not we what&s;oever plea&s;eth us be&s;t? in this like evil communica|tion corrupts good manners, <HI>Come let us eat and drink, for to morrow we &s;hall die,</HI> I&s;a. 21.13. 1 Cor. 15.32, 33. the&s;e men are murdered by de&s;peration, and the other by hoping too much; what therefore doth God for gaining of both the&s;e &s;orts of people unto him&s;elf again. To him which is in danger by hoping too much, he &s;aith, Do not &s;ay within thy &s;elf the mercy of God is great, he will be merciful unto the multi|tude of my &s;ins; but I mu&s;t be revenged for &s;uch or &s;uch wrongs: I mu&s;t tell you, <HI>That the face of the Lord is again&s;t &s;uch &s;inners,</HI> Eccle&s;. 5.6. <HI>For if you do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in Heaven forgive your tre&s;pa&s;&s;es,</HI> Mark 11.25, 26. And to him that is in dan|ger by de&s;peration, God &s;aith, <HI>I have no plea&s;ure in the death of him that dieth, &s;aith the Lord God: wherefore turn your &s;elves and live,</HI> Ezek. 18.32. And much more may be &s;poken in the &s;ame place, touching the great peril and folly of tho&s;e
<PB N="30" REF="22">which upon vain hope of Gods mercy without judgment, (<HI>although we are &s;aved by hope,</HI> Rom. 8.14.) to per&s;evere in their evil life of di&s;obe|dience and hope of mercy without it. As there is mercy, &s;o there is judgment too; and there|fore it is a very evil con&s;equent, and a mo&s;t un|ju&s;t kind of rea&s;oning, to &s;ay that for &s;o much as God is merciful and long-&s;uffering; and there|fore I will abu&s;e his mercy, and continue in my wickedne&s;s: But the Scripture teacheth us not to rea&s;on &s;o, but rather quite contrary; for God is merciful and expecteth my conver&s;ion. The longer he expecteth, the more grievous will be his puni&s;hment when it cometh, if we neglect this his patience; and therefore we ought pre|&s;ently to accept of his mercy; &s;o rea&s;oneth Saint <HI>Paul,</HI> who &s;aith, Do&s;t thou contemn the riches of the long-&s;uffering, and gentlene&s;s of the Lord? Do&s;t thou not know that the patience of God to|wards thee, is u&s;ed to bring thee to repentance? but thou through the hardne&s;s of thy heart and impenitency, do&s;t heap up to thy &s;elf wrath a|gain&s;t the day of vengeance, at the revelation of Gods ju&s;t judgment, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2.5. 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 1.7, 8, 9 in which words Saint <HI>Paul</HI> &s;ignifieth, that th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> longer God &s;uffereth us with patience in ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> wickedne&s;s, the greater heaps of vengeance doth he gather again&s;t us, if we per&s;i&s;t in ob&s;ti|nacy and di&s;obedience.</P>
<P>Fifthly, Another con&s;ideration of no le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> great dread and fear is, That if he offer the
<PB N="31" REF="22">grace to day, thou knowe&s;t not whether he will do it to morrow; or as Saint <HI>James</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Who knows whether we &s;hall live while to morrow,</HI> James 4.14. And if he give us life and memo|ry this Week, we know not whether we &s;hall enjoy it the next Week or no.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>We mu&s;t not cur&s;e the King, no not in our thoughts,</HI> Heb. 10.28. <HI>Nor think evil of any Su|periour,</HI> Job 34.18. Exod. 22.28. <HI>Nor of the Church,</HI> Act. 23.5. Num. 16.11.</NOTE> So the holy Prophet &s;aith in <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 66.5. <HI>God is terrible in his doings towards the children of men.</HI> And in ver&s;e 16. There the Lord calls upon all that fear God, and declareth what he hath done for our &s;ouls; but it is unto all &s;uch as are of a clean heart: For if we regard iniquity in our heart, the Lord will not hear our prayers, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 66.18. wherein the holy Prophet &s;heweth the heavy ju&s;tice of God towards the wicked, even when <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e giveth them pro&s;perity, and worldly wealth unlawfully gotten. His words are the&s;e, <HI>Behold,</HI> O <HI>Lord, they &s;hall peri&s;h which depart from thee, for God is terrible out of his Holy Place, even the God of I&s;rael,</HI> P&s;al. 68.35. By which words the holy Prophet &s;ignifieth, That how good &s;oever God be unto them that fear him, yet that per|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aineth nothing to the relief of the di&s;obedient, who are to receive ju&s;t vengeance at his hands, mid&s;t the greate&s;t mercies be&s;towed upon the obedient, <HI>even to eat the good things of the land;</HI>
<PB N="32" REF="23">and to tho&s;e that refu&s;e and rebel, nothing but &s;word or other judgment; <HI>For the mouth of the Lord hath &s;poken it,</HI> I&s;a. 1.19, 20. <HI>But behold the eyes of the Lord is upon them that are ju&s;t, and his ears are open to hear their prayers,</HI> Luke 1.56. and P&s;al. 145.9. and Gen. 18.17, 18, 19. <HI>But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil to de&s;troy them, and their memory from out of the earth,</HI> P&s;al. 34.16. For the Text is Mer|cy and Judgement too. It was the pra|cti&s;e of the deceiving Prophers in all Ages, which have been re&s;i&s;ted &s;trongly by the Pro|phets of God) to cry, Peace, Peace: <HI>For, &s;aith the Lord, they have healed al&s;o the hurt of the Daughters of my people &s;leightly, &s;aying, Peace, Peace, when there was no peace.</HI> Jer. 6.14. And mark, I pray you, what the true Pro|phet &s;aith in the 15. ver&s;e, <HI>Were they a&s;hamed, when they had committed abomination; nay, they were not at all a&s;hamed, neither could they blu&s;h; therefore they &s;hall fall by judgement, among them that fall at the time that I will vi&s;it, &s;aith the Lord God,</HI> Jer. 6. from the 15. to the end. So you &s;ee by the true Prophets, there was nothing to the ob&s;tinate but danger, &s;word, and de&s;truction, as the true Prophets did fore|tel, and as the event proved after, as you may &s;ee <HI>Ezek.</HI> 13.1. to 12. 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 17.21. to the end, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 36.11. to the end, <HI>Jer.</HI> 3.10. Ho|ly <HI>David</HI> giveth a notable and &s;ure rule to go|vern our hope and confidence withall, <HI>Do you &s;a|crifice
<PB N="33" REF="23">unto God even the &s;acrifice of righteou&s;ne&s;s, and tru&s;t in the Lord,</HI> P&s;al. 36.5. wherein Saint <HI>John</HI> agreeth, when he &s;aith, <HI>That which we have &s;een, and heard, declare we unto you, that ye may have fellow&s;hip with us; and truly our fellow&s;hip is with the Father, and his Son Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> 1 John 1, 2, 3. but if our Con&s;cience be guilty of lewdne&s;s and di&s;obedience, and re&s;olve to continue therein, in vain have we confidence in the mercies of God, unto who&s;e ju&s;t judgement we &s;tand &s;ubject for di&s;obedience, for my Text is Mercy and Judgment too. So much for the fourth Part.</P>
<P>Now I come to the fifth Part of my Text, that is, for to &s;hew how God hath u&s;ed him&s;elf towards his be&s;t beloved Saints in this World, by offence given him, by occa&s;ion of &s;in of di&s;obedience, how &s;oon he hath broken friend|&s;hip, how &s;trictly he hath taken account, and how &s;everely he hath puni&s;hed the Angels that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e created with &s;o great care and love, and to whom he imparted &s;o &s;ingular priviledges of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll kind of perfections, as he made them al|mo&s;t very Gods in a certain manner; onely <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;et his own dearly beloved Son Chri&s;t Je&s;us above them all, and commanded all the Angels <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o wor&s;hip him, <HI>Heb.</HI> 1.5, 6. That was, they mu&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ollow his direction; but they &s;eeing them&s;elves <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ade in &s;uch perfection of knowledge, were &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fted up in pride, that they refu&s;ed a Director, &amp;
<PB N="34" REF="24">would &s;erve him after their own under&s;tanding, as too many people in our Nation do, who with|out repentance are wandring Stars; <HI>To whom i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> re&s;crved the blackne&s;s of darkne&s;s for ever,</HI> Jude 13<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> as the Lord God did the Angels for that &s;in of di&s;obedience: You &s;ee pre&s;ently all good will and favour was changed into judgement in dark|ne&s;s of the great day, and to be chained for ever, to abide the rage of Hell fire, and intol|lerable judgement, without remembrance of mercy, among the damned; as you may &s;ee i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 14.14. 2 <HI>Pet</HI> 2.3, 4. <HI>Jude Ephe&s;.</HI> 9.10, 11, 12, 13, 14.</P>
<P>Secondly, God made him&s;elf another new friend of fle&s;h and blood; which was Father <HI>Adam</HI> in Paradi&s;e, where God conver&s;ed with him &s;o friendly and familiarly, as is mo&s;t won|derful to con&s;ider: He called him, he talked with him, he made all his Creatures in the world &s;ubject unto him, he brought them before him to the end that he, and not God, &s;hould give the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> their Names; he made a Mate and Companio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for him, he ble&s;&s;ed them both, and finally, &s;hew|ed all po&s;&s;ible tokens of love that might be What en&s;ued? <HI>Adam</HI> committed but one &s;in o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;obedience, and that at the enticement of ano|ther, and that al&s;o a &s;in not of very great im|portance, as it may be &s;een to mans natural rea|&s;on, <HI>which receiveth not the things of the Spiri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of God,</HI> 1 Cor. 2.14. but to a Spiritual mans un|der&s;tanding, it was the greate&s;t that was com|mitted
<PB N="35" REF="24">in all the earth, in the latitude and extent; for none ever made all the world guilty of &s;in, but he: It was for eating of the Tree of Know|ledge, forbidden. The matter was no &s;ooner done, but all friend&s;hip was broken between God and them, and they were thru&s;t out of Paradi&s;e, condemned to a world of mi&s;ery, and all his &s;eed to great judgment, together with him&s;elf, for hiding his &s;in, as <HI>Job</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Job</HI> 31.34. yet he afterwards repented; and how &s;everely this grievous &s;entence is executed, may &s;ufficiently appear by this, <HI>that infinite millions, even almost the whole race of mankind,</HI> as the Prophet <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Chap.</HI> 1.9. The Lord re&s;erved even a &s;mall remnant, even tho&s;e few that &s;ince are ran&s;om|ed by the coming down of Gods own Son, the &s;econd Per&s;on in the Trinity, into fle&s;h, and by his intollerable &s;ufferings, and in mercy to take the Government upon his &s;houlders, for his Name is called, <HI>Wonderful Coun&s;ellor, the Mighty God, Everla&s;ting Father, the Prince of Peace;</HI> for of the increa&s;e of his Government and Peace there &s;hall be no end, upon the Throne of <HI>David</HI> and his Kingdom, to order it, and to e&s;tabli&s;h it with ju&s;tice and judgement, <HI>from henceforth even for evermore; for the zeal of the Lord will perform this,</HI> I&s;a. 9.6, 7. And &s;o if the Lord had not re|&s;erved unto him&s;elf a &s;mall remnant, <HI>we had been like unto</HI> Sodom, <HI>and like unto</HI> Gomorrah, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.9. Thus you &s;ee God is Mercy and Judge|ment.</P>
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<P> Thirdly, The two Miracles of the World, <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron,</HI> were of &s;ingular authority and favour with God, in&s;omuch as they could obtain great things at Gods hands for other men; as for <HI>Pharach</HI> and the <HI>I&s;raelites, and the Lord did according to the word of</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>Exod.</HI> 13.21, 31. and yet they offended God once them|&s;elves, at the Waters of Contradiction, in the De&s;art of &s;in, <HI>Numb.</HI> 20.10, 11, 12. and hear the words of the Lord which he &s;pake unto <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron</HI> in the 12. <HI>ver&s;e, Becau&s;e ye be|lieved me not, to &s;anctifie me in the eyes of the chil|dren of</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>therefore ye &s;hall not bring this Con|gregation into the Land which I have given them;</HI> and <HI>Aaron</HI> was &s;tripped of his holy Garments; and died there in the top of the Mount (at the 28. <HI>ver&s;e</HI>) and <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> died in the Mount <HI>Nebo,</HI> in the Land of <HI>Moab,</HI> Deut. 32.49, 50, 51. for that they doubted &s;omewhat of the miracle pro|mi&s;ed to them from the Lord God, and thereby did di&s;honour his Divine Maje&s;ty, before the people, as you heard before: They were rebu|ked mo&s;t &s;harply, as you heard in the Text, for the &s;ame; and though they repented heartily for that offence, and &s;o by repentance obtained remi&s;&s;ion of the fault or guilt, &s;o that their &s;ouls were &s;aved, yet there was laid upon them a grievous cha&s;ti&s;ement for the &s;ame, and that was they &s;hould not enter them&s;elves into the Land of Promi&s;e, but &s;hould die when they came into the &s;ight thereof, the which mu&s;t needs be a grea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="37" REF="25">grief to them both; albeit, they intreated God mo&s;t earne&s;tly for the relea&s;e of this penance, yet could they never obtain the &s;ame at his hands; but a ways the Lord an&s;wered them, Seeing ye have di&s;honoured me before the peo|ple, ye &s;hall die for it, and &s;hall not enter into the Land of Promi&s;e, <HI>Numb.</HI> 20.12. <HI>Deut.</HI> 32.50. And although Chri&s;t be the Saviour of the World, <HI>Yet he that is a&s;hamed of me,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>before men, of him will I be a&s;hamed of before my Father which is in Heaven,</HI> Luke 9.20. Luke 12.9. to preach his Word any where, openly in the World, <HI>John</HI> 10.20. and <HI>Acts</HI> 8.5.</P>
<P>Fourthly, In what &s;pecial great favour was King <HI>Saul</HI> with God, when he cho&s;e him to be a King, and the fir&s;t King of the people of God; and cau&s;ed <HI>Samuel</HI> the Prophet &s;o much to ho|nour him, and to anoint him Prince upon Gods own Inheritance, as he calleth it, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10. when he commended him &s;o much, and took &s;uch tender care over him: And the people &s;o ho|noured him, and feared him &s;o much, as is mo&s;t wonderful for to con&s;ider the love of God, and the obedience of the people to their Prince, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 14. and yet afterward, for that he brake Gods Commandment in re&s;cuing certain Spoils of War, which he &s;hould have de&s;troyed, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15.10. yea, though he re&s;erved them to honour God withal, as he pretended, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15. yet you may &s;ee his heart was not upright, as he pretend|ed;
<PB N="38" REF="26">yet he was ca&s;t off by the Lord God, and degraded of his Dignity, and given over into the hands of an evil Spirit, and brought to infi|nite mi&s;eries; though he &s;hifted him&s;elf out for a time, yet he was finally &s;o for&s;aken and abandoned by God, as he &s;lew him&s;elf, his Sons were crucified or hanged on a Cro&s;s by his Ene|mies, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 31. and all his Family and Linage extingui&s;hed for ever, from having to do to reign over <HI>I&s;rael</HI> any more, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 21, 6, 7, 8, 9. Thus you &s;ee that the &s;acrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he bring|eth it with a wicked mind? <HI>Prov.</HI> 21.27. and <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 11. <HI>Mich.</HI> 1.7. The Lord loveth him that doth ju&s;tly, and loveth mercy, and to walk humbly with God, in <HI>Mich.</HI> 6.8. And, for as the Text is, Mercy and Judgement too. <HI>Happy is the man that feareth always; but he that hardneth his heart &s;hall fall into mi&s;chief,</HI> Prov. 28.14. O what a boundle&s;s abundance in all Ages have fallen into mi&s;chief thorow a hard heart! As fir&s;t, <HI>Cain</HI> having &s;lain his righteous Brother <HI>Abel,</HI> and had committed &s;uch a horrible murder: Did <HI>Cains</HI> heart relent into obedience? No: Did he confe&s;s and &s;ay, I have &s;inned? No &s;uch mat|ter; but fir&s;t, he an&s;wered God with a foul word, I cannot tell, or I know not where he is: He de&s;pi&s;ed the Lord to his face; as if he &s;hould &s;ay, You may go look him, <HI>Am I my Brothers Keeper?</HI> Gen 4.9. I pray but mark this an&s;wer
<PB N="39" REF="26">of <HI>Cain,</HI> and his carriage therein, and you need no other example of di&s;obedience; when nei|ther affection in Kindred could touch him, nor &s;hame of the World check him, nor the blood of his &s;lain Brother move him, nor the glorions pre&s;ence of the Lord a&s;toni&s;h him, nor the guilt of his own thoughts rai&s;e him, nor the quicken|ing Word of God, which is powerful to rai&s;e the very dead, none of the&s;e could move him into obedience and repentance, as <HI>David</HI> did, as you heard: And the Publican cried, <HI>Lord be mer|ciful to me a &s;inner,</HI> Luke 13.18. For although the godly &s;uffer in this life, that they may cea&s;e from &s;in; yet the wicked will be puni&s;hed with the &s;econd death, as <HI>Saul</HI> which per&s;ecuted <HI>David,</HI> and <HI>Achitophel</HI> hanged him&s;elf, for teach|ing <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> to be a Rebel; and <HI>Judas</HI> that be|trayed his Ma&s;ter, hanged him&s;elf, <HI>and bur&s;t a&s;un|der in the middle,</HI> Acts 1.18. and <HI>Antioch</HI> and <HI>Herod,</HI> for killing Saint <HI>James,</HI> Acts 12.2. <HI>was eaten of worms, and gave up the Gho&s;t,</HI> at the 14. <HI>ver&s;e.</HI> God will not leave the wicked un|puni&s;hed, as appeareth of <HI>Ahab</HI> and his &s;eventy Sons, that <HI>Jehu</HI> &s;lew for their tyranny upon the Children of God, and for their di&s;obedience again&s;t God, 2 <HI>Kings.</HI> And <HI>Senacherib</HI> &s;ent to re|proach the Living God, and the Angel of the Lord went forth in defence of <HI>Hezekiah</HI> King of <HI>Judah,</HI> and by his prayer to the Lord, &s;mote in the Camp of the <HI>A&s;&s;yrians,</HI> an hundred four|&s;core
<PB N="40" REF="27">and five thou&s;and, all dead corp&s;es, &s;lain, and him&s;elf put to death by the hands of his Sons, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 27.38. So let the Lord &s;erve all the Enemies of our gracious King.</P>
<P>Fifthly, <HI>David</HI> was the cho&s;en and Friend of God, and honoured with the Title of one that was according to Gods own heart, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 13.14. 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15.2. 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 7, 8. but as &s;oon as he had &s;inned, the Prophet <HI>Nathan</HI> was &s;ent unto him, to denounce Gods heavy di&s;plea&s;ure and puni&s;h|ment upon him: For although <HI>Nathan</HI> was the Lords Prophet, yet he was <HI>Davids</HI> Subject, and dur&s;t not come unto the King, but with all humi|lity, as holy <HI>Daniel, O King, live for ever:</HI> And he told the King of two men in one City, of one rich, and the other poor; and how the rich man had taken the poor mans Lamb, to &s;ave his own flock, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 1.2, 3, 4. When the King heard thereof, he was the more ready to give judge|ment &s;aying, <HI>As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing &s;hal &s;urely die, v.</HI> 5. Then had the Pro|phet an opportunity to &s;trike him to the heart, with the Sentence of his own mouth, <HI>Thou art the man, thus and thus ha&s;t thou done.</HI> Notwith|&s;tanding that he &s;orrowed and humbled him&s;elf &s;o much as he did, for the &s;in that he had done, as may appear by his fa&s;ting, prayers, weeping, wearing of &s;ackcloth, and eating of a&s;hes, his tears came &s;o fa&s;t from him, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 102.9. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 42.2, 3. by which it is evident, that how great
<PB N="41" REF="27">Gods mercy is to them that fear him, &s;o great is his judgement to them that offend him.</P>
<P>The Scriptures have infinite examples of this nature, as the rejecting of <HI>Cain, Gen.</HI> 4.8. and all his Seed, <HI>Gen.</HI> 7.22. and the pitiful drowing of the whole world, in the time of <HI>Noah,</HI> except eight per&s;ons, <HI>Gen.</HI> 8. and the dreadful con&s;u|ming of <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah</HI> with fire, with the Cities about it, <HI>Gen.</HI> 10. and the &s;aving of <HI>Lot;</HI> who&s;e righteous &s;oul was grieved at their &s;ins, and hunted after as a prey to their ungodly rage, becau&s;e he would have hindred them from Re|bellion, when all their Cities were con&s;umed with fire from Heaven; and the &s;ending down quick to Hell of <HI>Korah, Dathan,</HI> and <HI>Abiram,</HI> with the &s;laughter of two hundred and fifty Princes of their Adherents, and many thou|&s;ands of the people be&s;ides, for Rebellion again&s;t <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron,</HI> who was their King and Prie&s;t, <HI>Numb.</HI> 16.5. to the 38. <HI>ver&s;e.</HI> God &s;aith that they de&s;troyed their own &s;ouls, <HI>Numb.</HI> 16.38. And the &s;udden killing of <HI>Nadab</HI> and <HI>Abihu,</HI> Sons of <HI>Aaron,</HI> and cho&s;en Prie&s;ts, for once offering of other fire on the Altar, then was appointed them in Scripture, as <HI>Levit.</HI> 10.1. And the mo&s;t terrible &s;triking dead of <HI>Ananias</HI> and <HI>Saphira,</HI> for retaining &s;ome part of their own goods by deceit from the holy Apo&s;tles, the which they &s;hould not have done, <HI>Acts</HI> 5.1. to 10. with many more &s;uch examples as before
<PB N="42" REF="28" MS="y">alledged. And the holy Scriptures do tell <HI>the&s;e things happened unto them for examples to us, upon whom the ends of the world are come, and they are written for our admonition,</HI> 1 Cor. 10.11. And who will not confe&s;s with <HI>Mo&s;es, That the Lord our God is a God of gods, a Lord of Lords, a great God, a mighty and a terrible God, which regardeth not per|&s;ons, nor taketh rewards: He doth execute judgment for the Fatherle&s;s and the Widow, and loveth the Stranger,</HI> Deut. 10.17, 18. Heb. 13.2. And therefore it is a horrible thing to fall into the hand of the Living God, <HI>who is a con&s;uming fire</HI> to all Rebels, <HI>Heb.</HI> 12.29. <HI>Numb.</HI> 16.15. And who will not &s;ay with holy <HI>David, I have feared and trembled at thy judgements?</HI> P&s;al. 120.1. For my Text is of Mercy and Judgement.</P>
<P>O beloved Chri&s;tians, If God would not &s;pare the de&s;troying of a whole Tribe almo&s;t for one &s;in onely (the which is remarkable, which I &s;hall by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance repeat out of the holy Scri|ptures, the which is expre&s;&s;ed in a wonderful manner in the Tribe of <HI>Benjamin:</HI> Among al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Twelve Sons of <HI>Jacob, Benjamin</HI> was th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> deare&s;t to his Father, as appeareth in <HI>Gen.</HI> 42.34. and therefore al&s;o greatly re&s;pected o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> God; and this Tribe was placed in the be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> part of all the Land of Promi&s;e, upon the Di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vi&s;ion thereof, <HI>Jo&s;h.</HI> 18.11. having <HI>Jericho</HI> an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> other of the be&s;t Cities within it; yet notwith|&s;tanping for one onely &s;in committed by certai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="43" REF="28">private men in the City, Sons of <HI>Belial,</HI> or Re|bels, as God calls them, <HI>Judg.</HI> 19.22. upon the Wife of a <HI>Levite,</HI> God puni&s;hed the whole Tribe in this Order that the holy Scripture re|nounceth: He cau&s;ed all the other Eleven Tribes to ri&s;e again&s;t them: And fir&s;t they mu&s;t come to the Hou&s;e of God in <HI>Shiloh,</HI> to ask Gods advice, and to follow his Direction in this War again&s;t their Brethren; and thence having by Gods appointment entred Battel twice with the Tribe of <HI>Benjamin,</HI> the third day God gave them &s;o great a Victory, as they &s;lew all the li|ving Creatures within the compa&s;s of that Tribe, except onely 600 men, that e&s;caped into the de|&s;art; all the re&s;t were &s;lain, both Men, Women, and Children, and Infants, together with all the Bea&s;ts and Cattel, and all the Cities, Villages, and Hou&s;es burnt with fire, together with above three&s;core thou&s;and valiant men, as ever drew the Sword, on both &s;ides; and all this for di&s;e|bedience in &s;tanding on the defence of one &s;in, committed onely at one time with one woman; all this you may &s;ee in <HI>Judg.</HI> 20. to the end.) What will the Lord do to tho&s;e that a&s;&s;emble them&s;elves by Troops in the Harlots hou&s;es on the Lords Day and Holy-days! Shall not the Lord be avenged on &s;uch a Nation as this? <HI>Jerem.</HI> 5.7, 8, 9. The Text is Mercy and Judgement; for all the whole Tribe of <HI>Benjamin</HI> were but 600 men that fled, and abode hid in the Rock <HI>Rimmon</HI> four Moneths in great mi&s;ery, <HI>Judg.</HI>
<PB N="44" REF="29">20.47. And thus you &s;ee my Text is Mercy and Judgement. And if God would not forgive one &s;in of Pride and Di&s;obedience unto the Angels, nor the eating of the Tree of Knowledge for|bidden unto our Father <HI>Adam,</HI> without infinite puni&s;hments; and if the Lord would not for|give <HI>E&s;au,</HI> for &s;elling his Birth-right, though af|terwards he &s;ought it with tears, <HI>Heb.</HI> 12.17. And if he would not remit the puni&s;hment of one fault to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron,</HI> though they askt it with great in&s;tance; and if the Lord God would not pa&s;s over the cup of affliction from his own Son, though he asked it three times upon his knees, with his face on the ground, and pray|ed, &s;aying, <HI>O my Father, if it be po&s;&s;ible, let this Cup pa&s;s from me; neverthele&s;s, not as I will, but as thou wilt,</HI> Matth. 26.39. to 44. What cau&s;e have any of us to induce our imaginations, that he will deal extraordinarily with us, and break the cour&s;e of his Judgements for our &s;akes? nay, are any that are alive better then tho&s;e whom I have already named? or have any men or women living <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ore pilgrimage from God above them fore-named? O beloved Chri&s;tians. Let us but con&s;ider the great and &s;trange effects of Gods Judgements, which the Rebels did in our Lands of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> for the &s;ins of her Prophets and the iniquities of her Prie&s;ts: They have &s;hed the blood of the ju&s;t One in the mid&s;t of her; for they re&s;pected not the per&s;ons
<PB N="45" REF="29" MS="y">of the Prie&s;ts, and &s;avoured not the per&s;ons of the Prie&s;ts, nor the Elders, nor the Breath of our No&s;trils; the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their Pits, of whom we &s;aid, <HI>Under his &s;hadow we &s;hall rejoyce,</HI> Lam. 4.13. to the end. Notwith&s;tanding Gods mercy in bringing us peace under the protection of our gracious King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second, yet we never read of any that &s;uffered &s;o like a Saviour, as King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t of ble&s;&s;ed Memory: For after Chri&s;t was per&s;ecuted in the Manger, <HI>Mat.</HI> 2.16. Chri&s;t was rejected of his; for example, <HI>He came to his own, and his own received him not,</HI> John 1.11. Nay, &s;o far were they from doing him good, that they denied the Holy and Ju&s;t One, and de&s;ired a Murtherer to be granted to them, <HI>Acts</HI> 3.14. And this hath been our Kings Ca&s;e; they have rejected him, even his own people, and have with open mouth cried out, <HI>We will not have this man to reign over us,</HI> John 19.14. They have preferred Murderers and Robbers before him, chu&s;ing ra|ther to live under the Iron Yoke of &s;uch, then under the gentle and ea&s;ie Government of Mo|narchy.</P>
<P>Secondly, Chri&s;t complained that <HI>Foxes had holes, and the Birds of the Air had ne&s;ts, but the Son of Man had not whereon to lay his head,</HI> Matt. 8.20. And hath not our King been &s;o &s;erved by the crafty Foxes and ambitious Kites, which had &s;eized on all his Hou&s;es, Shipping, that he
<PB N="46" REF="30" MS="y">had not where to lay his Head, untill they cut it off, as on that doleful day of <HI>January</HI> 30.</P>
<P>Thirdly, Chri&s;t was tempted in his nece&s;&s;ity to di&s;tru&s;t God, to turn &s;tones into bread for his pre&s;ent &s;u&s;tenance, <HI>Matt</HI> 4.3. and hath not our gracious King been &s;o tempted for to &s;eek for contrary means for the &s;u&s;tenance of his bo|dy, for to &s;ee who would &s;hew him any good, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 6.4.</P>
<P>Fourthly, Was not Chri&s;t accounted a De|ceiver of the people, and called a Fellow, <HI>and one that had a Devil?</HI> John. 8.48. and hath not our gracious King been &s;o called? Indeed Chri&s;t and our King have had alike conditioned enemies, great pretenders to Religion, and in that regard of great repute among the people.</P>
<P>Fifthly, Chri&s;t was oppo&s;ed by men of &s;e|veral Sects; as by <HI>Scribes</HI> and <HI>Phari&s;ees,</HI> and <HI>Sadduces,</HI> and <HI>Herod,</HI> and all his &s;piteful <HI>Jews</HI> was banded together again&s;t Chri&s;t, <HI>Acts</HI> 4.27. and all of them at odds enough among them&s;elves; &s;o hath our King been a&s;&s;au<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ted by men of &s;eve|ral opinions, <HI>Browni&s;ts, Anabapti&s;ts, Quakers, Fifth-Monarchy men,</HI> and the like, and <HI>Jews;</HI> Nay, Chri&s;ts enemies hated and abu&s;ed all that loved him, <HI>John</HI> 12.10, 11. For they con&s;ult how they might k<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l <HI>Lazarus</HI> a &s;o; becau&s;e, by rea&s;on of him, many did believe on Je&s;us. Yea, mo&s;t ur|gent were they with Chri&s;t, for to deliver his Di|&s;ciples, to betray them into their hands; but
<PB N="47" REF="30">Chri&s;t knowing their malice, by no means would do it; for his de&s;ire was, his Followers might have their lives &s;pared, &s;aying unto them, <HI>I am he, if ye &s;eek me, let the&s;e go their way,</HI> John 18.8. And &s;o did our gracious King directly parallel Chri&s;t; for all his friends were hated for his &s;ake, and all tho&s;e that were in&s;trumental of working of a good opinion towards him, were per&s;ecuted even unto death: And they would have had his Maje&s;ty to deliver up his Friends into their hands; the which our King, accord|ing to Chri&s;ts example, by no means ought to do. And when they had him in &s;o low a condi|tion, as to put him to death, he made Chri&s;ts reque&s;t, that his Friends might be &s;pared: No, it would not be granted, it was Royal Blood, and Loyal Blood, and Chri&s;tian Loyal Blood, which the&s;e bloody men thir&s;ted after; and there|fore fulfilled was the Prophe&s;ie of the Prophet <HI>Zachary, Awake, O Sword, again&s;t my Shepherd, and again&s;t the man that is my fellow, &s;aith the Lord of Ho&s;ts: Smite the Shepherd, and the Sheep &s;hall be &s;cattered, and I will turn mine hand up|on the little ones,</HI> Zech. 13.7. Matth. 23.31. For &s;ince the Reformation, in the Reign of <HI>Edward</HI> the Sixth, of ble&s;&s;ed memory, the &s;econd year, both Kings, Queens, and Prie&s;ts, and all Loyal People, have come out of great tribulation, and have wa&s;hed their Robes, and made them white in the blood of the
<PB N="48" REF="31">Lamb, <HI>Rev.</HI> 2.9, 10, 11. for the Lord hath gi|ven &s;alvation unto his King; and he hath deli|vered our gracious King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second from the Sword of &s;trange Children, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 144.10.11. which makes good the Text, of Mercy and Judgement; For the Lord &s;aith, <HI>Mi&s;ericor|diam &amp; veritatem diligit Dominus,</HI> God loveth Mercy and Truth; <HI>For mercy and truth have met together, and righteou&s;ne&s;s and peace have ki&s;&s;ed each other,</HI> P&s;al. 85.10. As the Prophet <HI>Jeremiah</HI> &s;aith, <HI>O L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rd, correct me but with judgement, not in anger, le&s;t we be con&s;umed; and becau&s;e his com|pa&s;&s;ions fail not,</HI> Jer. 10.24. <HI>And it is the Lords mercy, that we are not con&s;umed,</HI> Lam. 3.22. and therefore let us repent, <HI>and our former wickedne&s;s &s;hall be forgotten,</HI> Acts 3.19. for the Lord loves Mercy and Judgement together; that is, I will not pre&s;ume of thy me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cy, nor will I fear thy judgements, nor will I de&s;pair of thy mercy, but love thy judgements; for the fear of Gods judgements is always to be joyned with our con|fidence in Gods mercy: <HI>For he loveth righteou&s;|ne&s;s and judgement,</HI> P&s;al. 33.5. For with a Son|like fear he loveth his Saints, and his be&s;t Saints love gentle correction; <HI>for the Lord loveth whom he cha&s;ti&s;eth,</HI> Heb. 12.7, 8, 9. And therefore for to draw to a conclu&s;ion, the Scripture de&s;cri|beth them which fear God, and they will keep his Commandments; <HI>for his Commandments are not grievous,</HI> 1 John 5.3. and the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">efore God &s;aith,
<PB N="49" REF="31"><HI>My Son, fear thou the Lord, and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change; for their calamity &s;hall ri&s;e &s;uddenly, and who knows the ruine of them both?</HI> Prov. 24.21, 22. Beloved, warning is here given to every one, as well High as Low, for to love the Lord and the King; to fear and reverence him in heart, and obey him indeed, and God in him. Honour and obey the King, the chief Ruler, as the Head, next under the Lord God, together with his under Offi|cers, and meddle not with them that are given to change: Be not in company with any that va|ry from the holy Laws of God, concerning Re|ligion; or the whol&s;ome Laws of Princes, touch|ing Policy; or as &s;eek to change them, to &s;tir up Rebellion, or e&s;tabli&s;h their own fancy.</P>
<P>Again&s;t this Divine Charge or Precept, two &s;orts of people offend, who will &s;eem to be great ob&s;ervers thereof.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t are they, who will pretend to give unto <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> that which is <HI>Cae&s;ars,</HI> but give not un|to God that which is Gods: For although they pay tribute to the King, or ob&s;erve &s;ome of his po&s;itive Laws, yet they break the Laws of God in teaching fal&s;e Doctrines, as the holy Apo&s;tle calls it, <HI>The Doctrine of Devils, forbidding to marry,</HI> and the like, in 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.1, 2, 3, 4.</P>
<P>And the &s;econd are they, who, concerning the Exerci&s;es of Religion, or Sanctification of the Lords Day, will pretend they give unto God,
<PB N="50" REF="32">the things that are Gods; but withal, they give not unto <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> that which is <HI>Cae&s;ars;</HI> for they refu&s;e to pay duties to the King, and deny their Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.13. Or they take up Arms again&s;t him, and will not be &s;ubject to his good Laws, but rather &s;eek to change them.</P>
<P>But here is a Que&s;tion may be demanded: <HI>What if the King command things contrary to the Laws of God?</HI></P>
<P>The An&s;wer hereunto is, The rule of the ho|ly Apo&s;tle is to be put in practi&s;e, who teach, <HI>That it is better to obey God then man,</HI> Act. 4.29, 30. Albeit in the&s;e Ca&s;es every &s;oul is &s;o to obey God, as &s;till he mu&s;t be &s;ubject to the King, <HI>or any that are &s;ent by him, for the puni&s;hment of evil doers, or for the prai&s;e of them that do well,</HI> 1 Pet. 2.13, 14. as the honouring the Kings Maje&s;ty, the reverencing of his Officers, and the not re&s;i&s;t|ing of his Authority; the which if they do, <HI>They will receive damnation to them&s;elves,</HI> Rom. 13.2. And there is great Cau&s;e not to meddle with Rebels, &s;eeing &s;uch great judgement, without mercy from God or Man, be the end of it, al|though the Text be Mercy and Judgement. But if &s;o be you will, dearly beloved Chri&s;tians, remember the words of Saint <HI>Peter, Honour all Men, love the Brotherhood, fear God, honour the King,</HI> 1 Pet. 2.17. And he that hath this fear of, and honouring his King, will expell all &s;in;
<PB N="51" REF="32">he that hath this love of God and the King, he will neglect nothing that is good, <HI>but will do good unto all men,</HI> Gal. 6.10. and the Lord will pre|pare their hearts and &s;ouls, and &s;anctifie them, and fulfil all their de&s;ires; <HI>For he fulfils the de|&s;ires of them that fear him,</HI> P&s;al. 145.19. Luke 1.50. And this is the true de&s;cription of fearing the Lord and the King, <HI>Prov.</HI> 24.21. This is the de&s;cription of that fear which is &s;o much com|mended and commanded, in every part and par|cel of Gods holy Word; for it is the Fountain of Life, <HI>Prov.</HI> 14.27. He that hath this fear, the Scripture &s;aith is happy, <HI>Happy is the man that feareth the Lord and the King,</HI> for God cal|leth him his Son, <HI>Prov.</HI> 24.21. for he placeth his mind upon all his Commandments, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 1.12. Again, The man that feareth the Lord and the King, the Lord God hath prepared great mul|titudes of &s;weetne&s;s for them, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 125.1. God hath purcha&s;ed them an heavenly inhe|ritance, and is as mercifull to them, as a Fa|ther is to his own Children, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 1.3, 10, 11, 12, 13. This fear had holy <HI>Job,</HI> when he &s;aid to God, <HI>I fear and am afraid of all my &s;or|rowes;</HI> For he yieldeth the rea&s;on thereof, <HI>Job</HI> 9.22. and the 28. and we &s;hall all come together in judgement, in <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 30. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.10. This fear lacked the di&s;obedient, of whom the Lord is known by the judgement which he executeth on the &s;ouls of them which he
<PB N="52" REF="33">ca&s;ts into Hell for the &s;in of di&s;obedience, <HI>Mat.</HI> 10.28, 29. 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.4. for tu&s;h, &s;ay they, God will not take account of our doings. Beloved, It is a great wickedne&s;s and a great provoking o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Gods anger again&s;t them every day, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 7.11. for to take <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e half of Gods Nature from him, which is to make him merciful without Judge|ment, and for to live &s;o, as though God will no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> take account of our Life; whereas he profe&s;&s;et<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> mo&s;t earne&s;tly to the contrary, that he will hav<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> an account at the Day of Judgement for every idle word, <HI>Matth.</HI> 12.36. and then the wicked &s;hall be turned into Hell, and all the Nations that forget God, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 9.17. but the Lord hear|eth the de&s;ire of the humble, and will prepar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> their heart and his ear to hear their prayers <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 10.17. and he will &s;ay unto them, <HI>Come y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ble&s;&s;ed of my Father, inherit the Kingome prepare<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for you from the foundation of the world,</HI> Mat 25.34 for the Text is <HI>Mercy</HI> and <HI>Judgement</HI> too. An<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> thus have I pa&s;&s;ed over my five Circum&s;tance<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></P>
<P>And it is to be noted, that as often as Ma&s;ter <HI>Rayner</HI> preached this Sermon in a Church, he cau&s;ed this <HI>P&s;alm</HI> the Second Part, to be &s;ung <HI>Memento Domini,</HI> 132.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L>The Lord to <HI>David</HI> &s;wore in truth,</L>
<L>And will not &s;hrink from it:</L>
<L>Saying, the fruit of thy body</L>
<L>Upon thy &s;eat &s;hall &s;it.</L>
<PB N="53" REF="33">
<L>And if thy Sons my Covenant keep,</L>
<L>That I &s;hall learn each one:</L>
<L>Then &s;hall thy Sons for ever &s;it</L>
<L>Upon thy Princely Throne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Lord him&s;elf hath cho&s;en <HI>Sion,</HI></L>
<L>And loves therein to dwell:</L>
<L>Saying, this is my Re&s;ting place,</L>
<L>I love and like it well.</L>
<L>And I will ble&s;s with great increa&s;e,</L>
<L>Her victuals every where:</L>
<L>And I will &s;atisfie with bread,</L>
<L>The needy that be there</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yea, I will deck and clothe her Prie&s;ts</L>
<L>With my &s;alvation:</L>
<L>And all h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> Saints &s;hall &s;ing for joy</L>
<L>Of my Protection.</L>
<L>There will I &s;urely make the horn</L>
<L>Of <HI>David</HI> for to bud:</L>
<L>For there I have ordain'd for mine</L>
<L>A lantern bright and good.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As for his enemies, I will clothe</L>
<L>With &s;hame for evermore:</L>
<L>But I will cau&s;e his Crown to &s;hine</L>
<L>More fre&s;h then heretofore.</L>
</LG></Q>
<CLOSER>Amen, Amen.</CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<CLOSER>Pro nobis, Quis?</CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<PB REF="34">
<HEAD>A Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t holy and glorious Lord God, which out of thine infinite mercy and goodne&s;s, art plea&s;ed in the mid&s;t of thy Judgements, to &s;hew mercy to thy poor people, in bringing home the Lords Anointed, King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second, Son of that ble&s;&s;ed and glorious Martyr King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t, to &s;it upon his Royal Fa|thers Throne; and ha&s;t, O Lord, there|with brought back again the Captivity of <HI>Sion,</HI> and in thy great goodne&s;s re&s;tored this our afflicted Church of <HI>Great Brittain</HI> and <HI>Ireland:</HI> We be&s;eech thee merciful Father, to perfect this thy great and mar|vellous Deliveradce, hedge it about with thy continual Protection, with the Cu&s;to|dy of Angels, with the Patronage of Kings and Princes, with the hearts and hands of
<PB REF="34">Nobles, with the defence of the whole &s;ecular Arm, and with the affections of all good People: Ruinate all our remain|ing Divi&s;ions, reconcile our Differences, and change all our Spirits into a &s;weet Chri&s;tian temper of Gentlene&s;s and Peace, that with one heart and voice we may &s;erve and prai&s;e God in the Holy Church, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord and only Saviour, <HI>Amen.</HI> God &s;ave the King, and the Church of <HI>England,</HI> Amen.</P>
<PB REF="35">
<P> The Names of &s;everal places, where Ma&s;ter <HI>Rayner,</HI> out of his humble duty and earne&s;t af|fection to Monarchy, hath preached this Sermon, together with many more not named, in, and about this City of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>At <HI>Grave&s;end</HI> in <HI>Kent.</HI></P>
<P>At <HI>Croyden</HI> in <HI>Surrey.</HI></P>
<P>At <HI>Darking</HI> in <HI>Surrey.</HI></P>
<P>At <HI>Uxbridge</HI> in <HI>Middle&s;ex.</HI></P>
<P>At <HI>Wendever</HI> in <HI>Buckingham&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>At <HI>Roche&s;ter</HI> in <HI>Kent,</HI> and many other places in <HI>Kent,</HI> as the Mini&s;ters and Inhabitants can te&s;tifie.</P>
<P><HI>If I peri&s;h, I peri&s;h,</HI> E&s;th. 4.16. <HI>But I will fear God, and honour the King,</HI> 1 Pet. 2.</P>
<P><HI>An evil man &s;eeketh only Rebellion; therefore a cruel Me&s;&s;enger &s;hall be &s;ent again&s;t him,</HI> Pro. 17.11.</P>
<P><HI>What I have now done, is there not a cau&s;e?</HI> 1 Sam. 17.29. <HI>To bring pre&s;ents to the King,</HI> 1 Sam. 10.27.</P>
<P>Nam hilarem datorem diligit dominos, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 9.7.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="35">
<HEAD>The Elegie of a Obedience Unto the Oath of Allegi|ance.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>WHo is equal to the Wi&s;e man? Who but he</HI></L>
<L><HI>Can judge of things? or what their natures be.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Wi&s;dom adorns the Cheek with lovely grace,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And paints couragious boldne&s;s in the Face.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let me advi&s;e the Subjects heart to &s;tand</HI></L>
<L><HI>Devoted always to the Kings Command:</HI></L>
<L><HI>For having &s;worn Allegiance to him, both</HI></L>
<L><HI>Heaven and thy Con&s;cience do atte&s;t thy Oath.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let not thy di&s;contented ha&s;te incite</HI></L>
<L><HI>A brute departure from his awfull Sight.</HI></L>
<L><HI>If thou ha&s;t err'd, continue not in ill;</HI></L>
<L><HI>For Princes Acts are guided by their Will.</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Potent Maje&s;ty of a Princes Word</HI></L>
<L><HI>Is backt and made Authentick by the Sword.</HI></L>
<L><HI>What venturous Tongue dare que&s;tion, or demand</HI></L>
<L><HI>The lea&s;t account from his Illu&s;trious Hand;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who&s;e Loyal Brea&s;ts ob&s;erve the Laws of Kings,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Shall never know the Grief Rebellion brings.</HI></L>
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<L><HI>The Wi&s;e mans heart knows Mercy and Judgment too,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Not only when to &s;peak, but what to do:</HI></L>
<L><HI>For there's to every purpo&s;e among Wi&s;e men,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A judgement how to do, a &s;ea&s;on when,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which if mi&s;taken, or not under&s;tood,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Brings &s;o much mi&s;ery upon fle&s;h and blood.</HI></L>
<L><HI>There was a little City poorly man'd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>'Gain&s;t which a Potent King brought up a Band</HI></L>
<L><HI>of Martiall Strength; be&s;ieged it, and withall</HI></L>
<L><HI>Built mighty Bulwarks 'gain&s;t her &s;lender Wall.</HI></L>
<L><HI>In this half-conquered City there was found</HI></L>
<L><HI>A poor Wi&s;e man, who&s;e wi&s;dom did confound</HI></L>
<L><HI>Both them and all the works their &s;trength could plant,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet no Reward relieved this poor mans want.</HI></L>
<L><HI>O ble&s;&s;ed art thou, O Land, when as thy King.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Derives his Royal Blood from the Ancient Spring.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of Royal Maje&s;ty, and rules his Subjects</HI></L>
<L><HI>By Mercy and Judgement both,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And &s;endeth Rebels to the Yoke or Ro</HI>&mdash;</L>
<L><HI>Cur&s;e not the King, nor them that bear the Sword;</HI></L>
<L><HI>No, not in thought, though thought expre&s;s no word:</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Fowls of Heaven &s;hall vent &s;uch hideous things,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And Swift Report &s;hall flie with Secret Wings.</HI></L>
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