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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42432	A sermon preached upon the first occasion after the death of His Grace John Duke of Lauderdale, in the chappel at Ham by John Gaskarth ...	Gaskarth, John, d. 1732.	1683 (1683)	Wing G289; ESTC R543	31,206	52

things and not the Persons that are concerned in them that they deal impartially among the People without any sinister design or byass upon them and neither favour the great Ones for fear of their greatness nor crush and oppress the mean Man because he can make no resistance against them but that they administer true Judgment and see that Right prevail and determine in all Cases without any regard or prejudice to Persons That they defend the Poor and Fatherless do Justice to the afflicted and needy and deliver them from the hand of the wicked ver 3 4. And this Important Counsel is founded upon two Reasons First Because God himself supervises over them and inspects into all their Management God standeth in the Congregation of Princes He is a Judge among Gods ver 1. And what a terrible reflection is it to consider that the Righteous Judge of all the World a Being of that invariable Justice that cannot endure the least Iniquity and one that is so mighty to punish all those that are Guilty of it that he looks upon all their Proceedings and can when he pleases if they be not such as answers the Rectitude of his Nature exact Vengeance upon the unjust Deputies of his Soveraign Power and Authority in this lower World This is the first Motive that he sets down for Princes to observe Justice The second is That this Rule and Eminency of theirs is but a short-liv'd thing they can have no lasting enjoyment of it all this State and Greatness cannot secure them from the Common condition of Men but they must submit to the irreversable Decree of Humane Nature and die and lye down in the Dust in the same manner with their meanest Brethren And therefore what folly is it ever to be transported with worldly glory to be proud and lofty upon this false occasion to make this a ground of triumphing and Lording it over others which lasts but for a moment and then leaves us undistinguished in the common Mass and Circumstance of Mankind I have said yee are Gods c. From which Words we shall discourse of these Particulars First To give the Reason of their being stil'd by this Name Secondly From hence to show the manner and Plat-form of their Government how they ought to deport themselves in the management of it And Lastly from these words That they must die like Men we shall deduce some Inferences relating to our own Practice And First To give the Reason of their being stil'd by this Name of Gods and this may be first because of their Power in general Dan. 5.19 For Majesty is given them that the People should tremble and fear before them whom they will they slay and whom they will they keep alive whom they will they set up and whom they will they put down which is true in some degree of all Princes and Governours whatsoever But then Secondly and principally the Reason of their being stil'd by this Name is because their power has this particular respect in it that it is derived from God they have a Beam of Supreme Majesty reflected upon them God is the true Fountain of all Rule and Dominion and the exercise thereof does solely belong to his own self all other Beings of what degree and order soever whether Angels or Men are his Creatures and the work of his hands upon which Relation he has an absolute Right to govern and dispose of them as he pleases He may do what he will in the Army of Heaven and among the Inhabitants of the Earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him what doest thou Dan. 4.35 But there is no Soveraign Power in Man but only what is communicated from God Indeed Men are so equal both by their Nature and in their Original that there is nothing in any of them to found an Authority upon over their Brethren The larger Gifts of Mind and Fortune can give no sufficient title to Soveraignty indeed great Parts and Wisdom do dispose one for high Places and Government but they do not actually entail it upon one or confer a just Right to the exercise of it None can invade the Life or Fortunes of another although he be never so criminal or deserving to forfeit them without bringing the guilt of Murder or Rapine upon himself unless he be commissioned from Heaven and have a Divine Patent for that Action God alone is the Lord of Life and Death and none can assume or exercise this Power without a kind of Sacriledge upon God unless he either by his permissive Will in an ordinary course of things or by his Immediate hand in a miraculous proceeding instate him in that Eminency and therefore the Apostle says There is no power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Soveraign power but of God Rom. 13.1 And in the Book that is stil'd by the Name of The Wisdom of Solomon Chap. 6. where that Excellent Writer speaking of Rulers and Magistrates has these Words ver 3. For Power is given you of the Lord and Soveraignty from the highest And then afterwards he calls them Ministers of God's Kingdom and Prov. 10.16 By me Princes rule and Nobles even all Judges of the Earth that is they have a Communicated Ray of Divine Authority upon them as well as the Special Wisdom of God to influence and direct them in their great Office which also is intimated in these words the Subject of this Chapter being Wisdom But the first Explication is Fundamental and gives the reason of the Second And the Prophet Daniel when he declares the strange Punishment of Nebuchadnezzar how that he was degraded from the Humane Nature and the Spirit and sence of a Beast was put into him sets forth this Account of the matter That he might thereby know that the Most High ruleth in the Kingdom of Men and giveth it to whomsoever he will Chap. 4.32 So that all that Power with which Princes are invested and shine in the World and which tends so mightily to the benefit of it descends from above and is a Beam of Majesty from the Supream Governour of Heaven and Earth deriv'd upon them All that the People can pretend to for Soveraign Power they have none Inherent in them is only in a Free State where there is no Precedent Right or Property to any to Assign and Nominate the governing Person As for the Power it self that proceeds from another Original Nay as to the Individual Person that is to sway the Government the Providence of God does over-rule and determine as the fore-mentioned place of Daniel does plainly manifest He ruleth in the Kingdom of Men and giveth it to whomsoever he will And may also be made farther appear from many other Testimonies of Scripture Ezra 1.3 Jerem. 27.5 6. Dan. 2.37 He so concurs with the Will of Man as both to leave that to its natural freedom and also bring his own Council to pass according to the present Exigence and Occasion of