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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43651	A discourse of the soveraign power in a sermon preached at St. Mary Le Bow, Nov. 28, 1682, before the Artillery Company of London, and now published at their desire / by George Hickes ...	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1845; ESTC R2173	18,621	42

likewise are Men ordained Kings And so Tertullian after him Thence is the Emperor from whence he was a man before he was Emperor thence he hath this Autority from whence he hath his breath And again We must of necessity reverence the Emperor as one that our Lord hath chosen so that we may reasonably say that Caesar is rather ours than yours as being ordained by our God Apol. c. 30.33 and in another place a Christian is an Enemy to no man much less to the Emperor whom he knows to be appointed by God ad Scapul This was current Divinity among the Christians under the Pagan and Persecuting Emperors and what it was after they turned Christians may be seen in the Apology of St. Athanasrus unto Constanius especially from these words O Almighty Lord eternal King the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ thou by thy word hast given the Empire to thy servant Constantius It would be endless to cite more Autorities to confirm this Doctrine out of the Fathers I will rather shew how it hath been taught by our own Acts and Authors of our own Soveraigns the Kings of the English * Sir Orland Bridgmans speech to the Regicides p. 12 13 14. Empire to whom God hath given this † Granmers Letters to Qu. Mary Imperial Crown the Statute of Praemunire lb. K. 2. c. 5. declares that the Crown of England is so free that it is in no Earthly Subjection but immediately subject to God in all things touching the regality of the same And the Parliament in the 25 H. 8.21 made this recognition unto his Majesty that his Graced Realm had no Superiour under God but only his Grace and 24 H. 8. c. 12. and that next unto God they ought him a Natural and Humble Obedience And long before this our Ancient and learned Lawyer Bracton did declare that the * L. 1 de rer divis c. 2. King is the Vicar and Minister of God and Christ that he † L. 2. c. 22. hath neither equal nor Superiour and that * L. 1. de ver divis c. 8. every Soul is under him but he is under none except only God As for Ecclesiastical Autorities it would take up too much time to recite them all The * Canon 36. Art 1. Church is to admit none into holy orders but such as will first subscribe that the Kings Majesty next under God is the only Supream Governor of all his Realsm and Dominions and in the Book of † see hom about obedience part 1. and against wilful Rebell p. 1. Homilies besides the assertion of this Doctrine about Soveraign Princes in general our late Soveraign King James is acknowledged for the high gift of God To conclude this head from hence it comes to pass that our Kings as the learned * In Epistolâ ad virun Ampl. D. Morley Bochart observed are stiled by the Grace of God and that the Royal Motto is Dieu et mon Droit and accordingly this Church which is so Pure and Primitive in her Loyalty hath taught her Children to Pray Almighty God whose Kingdom is everlasting and Power infinite have mercy upon the whole Church and so rule the heart of thy Chosen Servant Charles our King and Governour that he knowing whose Minister he is may above all things seek thy Honour and Glory and that we and all his Subjects duly considering whose Autority he hath may faithfully serve honor and humbly obey him in thee and for thee according to thy blessed Word and Ordinance Yes according to the word of the Apostle in my text who saith that the beareth not te Sword in Vain because he is the Minister of God II. Having now shewed that Soveraign Princes are Gods Ministers and Vice-Gerents and Reign by his special appointment I proceed to shew in the second place that under that Character they have and exercise the Supream Power and particularly the Power of the Sword This latter Proposition is a very easy and discernable consequence from the former and may be illustrated from the nature of subordinate Magistrates who are the Kings Ministers appointed under him as he is appointed under God As for example the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is the Kings Minister and Vice-Gerent and by consequence under that character he hath and exercises the Supream Power in the Government of that Kingdom both Civil and Military both that of the Scepter and that of the Sword which the King hath committed unto him In like manner Soveraign Princes being as I have shewn Gods Lieutenants and Vice-Gerents within their several Realms and Dominions they Reign under that Sublime character and as his Representiatives have and exercise all Jurisdiction and in particular that of the Sword accordingly as the Apostle saith he beareth not the Sword in Vain for he is the Minister of God a revenger to execute wrath or punishment upon him that doth evil Were men of the temper of the Angels who obey their Superiours purely for Conscience-sake then it would be sufficient for Princes that they had the commanding without the Punishing Power but since most men are subject more for Fear than Conscience it is highly necessary that the Soveraign should be furnished with the Coercive and Vindicative Power which may be called the Sword of Justice and without which all his Laws and Orders would be vain precarious and insignificant words and writings meer Cobwebs which the Wasps and Hornets that swarm in all Governments would insultingly break through And were men also like the good Angels free from evil passions would they be quiet in the several ranks and stations in which God hath set them then Soveraign Princes like Arch-Angels who are secure from the insurrections of their Subjects would be safe without the Sword but since Pride Envy and Discontent make men envy their Superiours and strive to snatch the Crowns from off their Princes heads since there are Lucifers in all Kingdoms and the Dragon and his Angels will in all worldly Governments be still fighting with Michael and his it is absolutely necessary that the Soveraign be furnished with the Supream Command Government and Disposition of the Militia or Military Forces which may be called the Sword of War Furthermore it is necessary for the Soveraign to bear the Sword of War not only to defend himself from his own Rebellious Subjects but to defend both himself his people from the invasions of other Soveraigns for it is not upon Earth as it is in Heaven where one Principality can live without danger or jealousie of anothe but in all Earthly Kingdoms there must be military Societies Preparations ready to oppose foreign violence actual and Potential Forces some every where as the Historian speaks in equis Armis ad subita belli excubantes and if this Power of levying War and providing Arms and Forces did belong to any other person than him whom God hath appointed for Soveraign that person would be Soveraign