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The magistrates concern in Christ's kingdom a sermon preached at the assizes at Winchester, July 14, 1697 / by Roger Farbrother, Vicar of Holy-Rhoods in Southampton.
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Farbrother, Roger.
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Kingdom and pervert the anger of the Son of God who has call'd him to this Trust and Dignity in his Houshold And so I proceed to my III. Enquiry how the Magistrate may most effectually secure both himself and those under his care from this particular effect of the Sons displeasure that either the Church should be remov'd from them or they seduc'd from the Church The Magistrates care to maintain Society and to promote Moral and Political Vertues is as I have shew'd a good step towards and a preparing the Soyl for Vertues that are Spiritual a disposing the Kingdoms of Men to become the Kingdoms of Christ And it is certain also that where Men live under a vigilant and regular Government are accustomed to feel the force of Laws and to pay a due deference to Temporal Powers their Minds will be less wanton and better dispos'd to submit to a Spiritual Authority This is the general part of the Magistrates Duty towards this great King But here is a more special one in which this Mediatorial King is more nearly concern'd the defence and protection of his Church That this is the thing chiefly intended in the Text no one can well doubt if he considers the Psalm how Kings and Rulers are first reprov'd for opposing this Anointed of God in the building and propagating of his Church and then after the Nature of this Church or Kingdom of the Messias and its extent are declar'd Kings and Judges of the Earth are commanded to serve in this Church with fear and to perform all loving and respectful Duty to the Son lest they perish from the way Now if the Magistrates of the Jews that threatned and persecuted those that Preached the Word and oppos'd the first Building of Christ's Church if those were of that number that set themselves against this God's Anointed Then to support and defend and in their way to propagate his Church to be nursing Fathers to it and to take all care that his Truth and Worship be cherished amongst us is here meant by Kissing the Son lest they perish from the way 'T is easie to observe that when God is provoked to punish either a Nation or particular Persons he frequently does it by themselves brings the evil he inflicts out of their own miscarriages and makes their own Sin the Instrument as all Sin is naturally fitted to be as well as the meritorious cause of their Punishment as Sloth is punished with Want Sedition threatned with the Sword c. and therefore the Magistrate is properly exhorted here to take care of the Church lest he be depriv'd of it The Magistrates neglect of the Church the withdrawing his necessary care of its protection and defence has both a Moral and Natural efficacy towards the producing this effect As the want of that regard and care for it which is due may justly be expected to provoke this great King to withdraw such a mercy where it is so little deserved and so ill treated So when the Government of a Nation neglects to restrain the oppositions that arise against the Church and to interpose their Authority in its defence and protection it is very natural in this loose Age that it should either degenerate into Profaneness or else be over-run and subverted by its Scismatical Opposers In those better times whilst Christ and that Authority he had lodged in the Church were rever'd the Censures of the Church were of themselves more sufficient for its Support and Preservation And yet those Censures even then wanted not a punitive and vindictive Power which God to supply the defect of the Christian Magistrate inflicted either immediately himself or by some invisible Ministry And as God has afforded him this precedent to direct his carriage in that vacancy as he had that of the Kings of Israel before and of the Christian Princes afterwards So 't is very certain that the greater decay there is of true Piety which in these latter days our Saviour has given us reason to expect the more need the Church has of a zealous and vigilant Magistrate for her Defence Now which amongst this great variety of Sects is the Church to which the Magistrate owes this Defence I need not to be long in telling you What Church can it be suppos'd the Magistrate should protect but the Church established by the Law Neither need I insist that the soundness of her Doctrine and the excellency of her Institutions have been allow'd by the most Learned Minister of the Foreign Reformed Churches and prov'd by those of her own I may easily take it for granted that our Magistrates believe all this who as a legal Qualification have receiv'd the Holy Sacrament when put to them as a Test to distinguish the Members of this Church from those of any other opposite Communion And 't is to be hoped we have very few that either for Honour or Preferment would prostitute their Consciences at that Holy Table Now this Church may justly expect protection from the Civil Government as being incorporated into it especially if that be true that she has reposited in the Government that Original right which she anciently and justly exercis'd of consulting and adjusting her own Affairs And this Mediatorial King does certainly expect of the Magistrate in the Churches behalf that he should with all Diligence promote her Interest and Safety enforcing her Discipline upon her own Members and being watchful over all her Enemies and Opposers But for the Magistrate to be unconcern'd in such an Affair or to be so far over-awed by that empty and popular name of Moderation as to encourage Men by impunity to Oppose and Blaspheme this Holy Institution to permit the Foundations of Christianity to be undermin'd her most venerable Articles to be disputed and ridicul'd and every carnal and wanton mind to set up a Religion for it self to let in all these Evils upon us to make the Church a Hostage for the State to slacken her defence to gratifie her Enemies and to retire from her in time of danger Whether this would be to kiss the Son lest we perish from the way or rather to betray him and pull down this judgment upon our selves I leave you to consider Whilst I heartily pray with our Church in which I know all the True Members of it will joyn with me That it may please God to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute Justice and to maintain Truth FINIS Books Printed for Will. 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Bishop King's Discourse concerning the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God the 4th Edition 8vo Mr. Clutterbuck's Vindication of the Liturgy c. 8vo Mr. Ray's Classical Nomenclator for the use of Schools 8â— Dr. Pope's Life of Bishop Ward 8vo The Anatomy of the Humane Body or a short and full view of all the Parts of the body by James Keill M. D. recommended by Dr. Edward Tyson 12mo An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth by John Keill A. M. of Baliol Colledge in Oxford 8vo Printed at the Theatre