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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05168	A sermon preached before his Maiestie, on Sunday the XIX. of Iune, at White-Hall Appointed to be preached at the opening of the Parliament. By the Bishop of S. Dauids.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1625 (1625)	STC 15302; ESTC S108347	18,305	52

Shall not the Iudge of all the world doe right Yes no question And therefore euen Kings themselues and all mightie men of the Earth and Iudges of all sorts haue need to looke to then waies For God is ouer them with Ego iudicabo I will one day call for an accompt I will iudge all the Executions of Iustice with which I haue trusted them And this is the first Preuention of the melting of a kingdome the first Remedy when it begins to melt The maintenance and Execution of Iustice. The second followes and it is the establishing of the Pillars of the Earth I beare vp the Pillars of it I saith God and I saith the king Where first it is not amisse to consider what these great Pillars of the earth are The Earth it selfe that hath but one Pillar and that is the poize and aequilibre of the Center And that is borne vp by the Word and Ordinance of God Thou commandedst and it stood fast And saith S. Ambrose it needes no other thing to stay it The kingdomes of the Earth they haue more Pillars then one This one which is Gods ordinance for gouernment they haue but they haue diuers Administratours of this ordinance And these Pillars are Kings and Peeres and Iudges and Magistrates Not one of these vnder the nature of a Pillar not one but yet with a great deale of difference For though there be many Pillars yet there is but Vnus Rex one King one great and Center-pillar and all the rest in a kingdome doe but beare vp vnder and about him The Church that is not without Pillars neither No God forbid And it resembles in this the kingdomes among which it soiournes The great Master pillar Christ hee is the Foundation of all the rest and other foundation can no man lay of the Church Next to Christ the Apostles and the Disciples are Pillars too and so called Gal. 2. After these their Successours Bishops and Priests the Fathers of the Church in their seuerall ages they came to bee Pillars And shall so successiuely continue to the end of the world And so soone as Emperours and Kings were conuerted to the Faith they presently came into the nature of Pillars to the Church too If any man doubt this truth I 'le call in the Pope himselfe to witnesse it There are too great Props or Pillars of the Church saith Leo The Kings authoritie and the Priests both these And the Pope was content then to put the Kings first And Kings saith S. Augustine are indeed great Pillars of the Church especially if they vse their power ad cultum Dei dilat andum to enlarge and support the true religious worship of God You haue seene what these Pillars are Will you consider next what they haue to doe both in Church and Common-wealth The office of a Pillar is knowne well enough what it is T' is Justinere to prop and beare vp the Earth Quantum est columnarum nihil sustinentium sed in ornamentum tantum I know in luxurient buildings many Pillars stand only for ornament but beare no weight It is not so with Pillars that are crown'd Honour and ornament they haue and they deserue it but they are loaded too Kingdomes and States the greatest the strongest in the world are as mouldring Earth as men Iuda at this time was Terra liquefacta like a dissoluing Body They cannot stand sine Columnis without their pillars to beare them And therefore the king hath euer beene accounted and truely columna stare faciens terram the maine pillar and stay of the State And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the king is the pillar the foundation of the people So S. Gregory for hee beares subiectorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not onely his subiects but their burdens too The office then of the Pillars is to beare but when is there vse of them When Why continually they can bee spared at no time if they leaue bearing the State meks presently Wee reade it foure times repeated in Scripture but vpon two great occasions onely Idolatry and Abominable lust that there was no King in Israel Iudg. 17. and 19. no King And still there followed a melting and a dissoluing of the State Euery man did what seem'd good in his owne eyes and the punishment was great At this time Dauid was King of Iuda and Ishbosheth would bee King of Israel Ioab was for the one and Abnor with the other The Pillars heere in stead of bearing fell a iustling What followed Why you see Liquefacta est terra that kingdome melted The Pillars then can neuer be spared from their worke continuall vse of them but yet at one time more need then another And the time of the greatest necessitie of these Pillars is when there is any Liquefaction or weakening of the Earth And that is in the Text the Earth dissoluing and then by and by recourse to the Pillars To the Pillars and therefore they which weaken the gouernement nay which doe but offer to impaire the honour and reputation of the Gouernours are dangerous and vnworthie members of any Common-wealth For to murmure and make the people beleeue there are I know not what cracks and flawes in the Pillars to disesteeme their strength to vnderualue their bearing is to trouble the earth and the Inhabitants of it To make the people feare a melting where there 's none And what office that is you all know Continuall vse there is then of the Pillars But what then Can the Pillars beare vp the earth in a melting time by their owne strength No sure that they cannot not at any time and therefore least at a melting time But what then Why then heere 's Ego Ego I beare vp the Pillars that are about me saith Dauid and I saith God beare vp both these and Dauid too And indeed all Pillars are too weake if they bee left to themselues There must bee one to beare them or else they can neuer beare the Earth One and it can be none vnder God Ego confirmani 't is I that in all times haue borne vp the Pillars of it And it is per me by me saith God Prou. 8. that Kings reigne And per me by me is not onely by Gods ordination once set and then no more but by his preseruation his supportation too And as S. Augustine obserues Quid essent ipsae columnae What could the Pillars themselues doe if they were not borne vp by God But when it once comes to Ego confirmaui I beare vp the Pillars there 's nothing then to be feared Now these of which we speake are not stonie or insensible but liuing and vnderstanding Pillars vnderstanding therefore they feele Onus terrae the burden of the Earth which lies vpon them when the dull earth feeles not it selfe therefore as they feele so are they able to compare their strength