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A41745 Three sermons preached at the cathedral in Norwich, and a fourth at a parochial church in Norfolk humbly recommending I. True reformation of our selves, II. Pious reverence toward God and the King, III. Just abhorrence of usurping republicans, and, IV. Due affection to the monarchy / by John Graile ... Graile, John. 1685 (1685) Wing G1479; ESTC R38763 64,056 194

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Sins to bestow the Crown upon David and his Line who were of that Tribe making the Succession to it Hereditary in the Days of Solomon when it was in its most flourishing and glorious State And when he had thus fixed the Scepter of that Kingdom according to Jacob's Prophecy he never suffered it to depart from Judah until Shiloh came Thus we see the Government of the Jewish Nation was all along Monarchical even from the Days of Moses unto the coming of the Messias and it is not to be imagined but that God who chose them to be his peculiar People would also chuse for them the best Form of Government extant in the World If it be said that the Jewish Kings were not real Soveraigns but were as is affirmed by some of the Rabbins accountable to the Sanhedrim or Senate of Seventy one Persons and which is more might be scourged by the Sanhedrim only by the great Sanhedrim at Jerusalem say some yea say others by the less Sanhedrim of twenty three which was the Government of every particular City This as the Learned Dr. Falkner hath evidently proved is a meer Fiction of the Modern Rabbins and deserves as much to be believed as their prodigious Story in the Talmud of the number of Horses for Solomon's own Stables which are there summed up to an hundred and sixty Millions accounting a thousand thousand to a Million And although both Romish Writers and others of an Antimonarchical strain in managing their respective Designs have frequent recourse to this Plea of the Jewish Synedrial Power yet it is not therefore in any degree the more credible For those men as the Dr. observes who can believe that the Apostolical Form of Church-Government was by Lay Elders because divers late Authors but neither Scripture nor Ancient Fathers do assert it and those who can persuade themselves that our Saviour made the Bishop of Rome the Universal Monarch of the whole World and gave him a Plenitude of all Temporal and Spiritual Power because many Writers of that Communion do now assert this while what is inconsistent therewith was declared by Christ and his Apostles and the Ancient Christian Church such men have understandings of a fit size and suitable disposition to receive these Rabbinical Traditions concerning the Synedrial Authority and Supremacy Fourthly After our Saviours coming Monarchy being the Universal Government settled and established in all considerable Nations and Countries he was so far from changing and altering this most ancient and universal Polity that he required and commanded all his Disciples to live in Obedience and Subjection to it That the Jewish Monarchy was of the same Nature with the Jewish Priesthood tht Kingly Government was a Figure and a Shadow in that Oeconomy a part of the Legal Paedagogie inconsistent with Christian Liberty and consequently abolished by the coming of the Messiah is such a wild and absurd imagination as our Enthusiastick Republicans could never have entertained if they had once seriously perused either the Gospel of our Blessed Saviour or the Writings of his Apostles He who declared that his Kingdom was not of this World came not to supplant or unhinge the Kingdoms he found here He came not to extinguish the Title break the Scepters and trample upon the Crowns of Earthly Monarchs but gave a greater security and establishment to their just Dominion than ever it had before He never claimed a Power of judging censuring and deposing Soveraign Princes although some of his professed Servants in Rome in Geneva in Scotland and I wish I could not say in England have The Son of God was no Enemy to Caesar but acknowledged his Imperial Authority and commanded men to render to him all the Rights which belong to Soveraign Majesty When that ensnaring Interrogation was proposed by the Pharises Is it lawful to give Tribute unto Caesar He not only gave a distinct Answer to their particular Enquiry convincing them of their Obligation to pay Tribute but also laid down this general Rule That they ought to render to Caesar all the things that are Caesars He plainly proved to them the just Soveraignty of Caesar by his Prerogative of Coining Money and gave them an ocular Demonstration of it by shewing them the Majesty of their Governour in the Image upon their Coin and the Characters of his Authority in the Superscription And yet Caesar was at this time their Soveraign not by an ancient and hereditary Right but by the more dubious Title of a new and late Conquest Our Saviour owned the Power of Governing the World delegated by God to Emperors and Monarchs and confirmed that Delegation by his own Obedience to it As he told the Roman President that he could have no Power at all against him except it were given him from above so considering the Divine Original of that Power he meekly submitted even to the most cruel and unjust Exercise of it not denying the Authority of his Judge although his Sentence was the most wicked that was ever pronounced He who knew that Kings and Emperours should hereafter be Nursing Fathers to his Church would not now take away their Power or in the least diminish their Soveraignty or oppose them with any forcible Resistance tho' no man ever suffered under them such unjust and inhuman Usage as he met with Neither did any of his Apostles take upon them to New-model the Governments of the World but were exact Followers of their Lord and Master in a quiet and peaceable submission unto and in a just revering of all Earthly Kings and Monarchs as no other than Gods Ministers and Vicegerents The higher Powers which St. Paul in the 13th to the Romans calls the Ordinance of God and to which he exhorts every Soul to be subject upon pain of Damnation were at that time Monarchical and although the Person possessed of those Powers is generally thought to be Nero who was one of the worst Monarchs that ever Reigned yet he earnestly presseth the necessity of Subjection to him not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake Because as bad as he was he was advanced to the Empire by God he was Gods Minister and invested with his Authority It seems St. Paul was so great a Friend to Monarchical Government that he required a dutiful Subjection to it as to the Constitution and Appointment of God and would not give the least encouragement to attempt its alteration by setting up a Popular Soveraignty although the Emperor who then governed was not only a Heathen but such a prodigious Tyrant as no Prince in the Christian World ever was or is ever like to be The same Apostle also manifestly prefers Monarchs before all other Governours when he exhorts that Prayers and Supplications be made first for Kings and then for all others in Authority 1 Tim. 2. 1. And St. Peter gives an undeniable Approbation of Monarchy when he so evidently placeth the Soveraign Power in a single Person and so