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A sovereign balson to cure the languishing diseases of this corrupt age By C. Pora a well-wisher to all persons.
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Pora, Charles.
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Wing P2966A; ESTC R233075
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in the Law and more will to do Justice and Judge according to Equity in all Causes than his Father saying thus 2 Reg. 15. v. 4. Quis me constituat judicem c. O that some Body would make me Judge over the Land that all might come to me me that have any Law-business and I might to do them Justice seeing there is none appointed by the King to do it Thus he insinuated himself into the affections of the People and by little and little stole away their hearts from his Father insomuch that afterwards he openly rebelled raising an Army against his own Father and to make himself irreconcileably odious abusing his Fathers Concubines in the sight of all Israel Chap. 16. 2. This was his Sin but he prospered not long in it For in the first Battle that he Fought against his Father his Army was overthrown and himself in great confusion flying from his Pursuers was in a Woody Place caught by the Hair of his Head in the thick Boughs of a Tree and his Mule going from under him was there hang'd alive between Heaven and Earth by the Bushy Hair of his Head till Joab the General of the King His Fathers Army finding him thrust him with three Arrows to the Heart and so he perished Thus Genes 39. 19. we read of the Sons of Jacob how they envied and bore ill-will to their Brother Joseph because his Father loved him and because that he happened upon a time innocently and without intending any harm or offence to them in his Fathers hearing to tell them certain Dreams he had had whereof they making an ill construction conceived so much hatred and ill will against him that they resolved to kill him outright saying to themselves at the sight of him Behold the Dreamer comes yonder let us put him to Death and then it will appear what his Dreams profit him But being prevented of this evil purpose Almighty God having otherwise decreed concerning him they finally sold him to the Ishmaelites who carried him down into Egypt But for this their wickedness and unkind usage of their Brother many afflictions came upon them with sorrows and distresses to their Families which forced them after some years through extremity and great want of necessaries to go themselves down into Egypt to buy Corn where necessity constrain'd them to humble themselves with all submission before their Brother Joseph though they knew it not and to adore him in the Person of the Governour of that Land until he was pleased to make himself known to them and to forgive them the injury that they had done him All which may be read more at large Genes chap. 37. 42 43 44 c. So true it is that to despise or be unnaturally unkind to those of our own Blood or near Relation is a cursed thing and ever attended first or last with due vengeance from God Sect. 3. Malediction upon those that Contemn their Kings and Princes Kings are the Common Fathers of their Countries and of the People that live under their Dominion and therefore even by the Law of Nature and Common Humanity deserve that their Persons should be had in all due Regard and Honour and their Commands Obeyed how much more when the Law of God seconds the Law of Nature and imposes a further Obligation upon us as it doth in very express manner Fear God and Honour the King saith the Apostle 1 Pet. 2. v. 17. My Son Fear God and the King saith Solomot Prov. 24. v. 21. cum detractoribus non commiscearis Meddle not with those that detract from him that speak irreverently and undutifully of him we must have nothing to do with such Do I say we must not speak evil of them that we must refrain our Tongues and not vilifie them with unseemly and contumelious Words That 's not all We must not so much as think ill of them In cogitatione tua ne detrahas regi We must not detract from him no not in our thought and if we do we do it at our Peril God who is the Great Guardian of Kings and solicitous for their Honour no less than his own will find a means to bring thy ill thoughts to light and thy self to condign punishment Aves coeli portabunt vocem tuam c. rather than fail The Birds of Heaven shall betray thy wicked mind and that which hath wings shall tell what thou sayest And yet notwithstanding that the wisdom of God doth take such order and provides so well for the Honour of his Vicegerents Deputies and Lieutenants upon Earth such as all Kings are yet how great is the number of Detractors how frequent and bold are they that dare despise Kings and detract from them not in thoughts only and the secret imaginations of their evil hearts but in open words proclaiming as it were their contempt and disaffection at once yea even their own Domestiques oft-times are found most injurious and blameable in this kind Witness the practice of that petulant Michol Wife to King David but a Daughter of Saul of whom in the Book of Kings Chap. 6. the Scripture makes mention that when King David her Husband with all the People of Israel brought up thâ— Ark of the Lord to Hierusalem with Shouting and Sound of Trompet in great Solemnity and that the King out of Devotion and Joy Danced before it girded with a Linnen Ephod she looking thorow a Window and seeing him despised him in her heart for so doing and when he was returning home to his own House she had the boldness to meet him and profess her contempt and despising of him in these scornful words Quam gloriosus fuit hodie Rex Israel c. Oh how Glorious was the King of Israel to day how well did he behave himself being uncovered and as it were naked in the eyes or before so many Handmaids of his Servants even as some Ribauld or Vain Fellow would uncover himself For which the King rebuked her in such manner as was most meet saying unto her Ante Dominum qui me elegit c. It was before the Lord and in honour to him that I thus appeared who chose me before thy Father to be King and to Rule over the Lords People and for this reason I will not forbear to Dance before the Lord and if this be to be vile I will be more vile in my own Eyes and of the Handmaids of which you speak I shall be had in more Honour And though the Kings reproof went no farther than this yet God was so displeased at what she had done that he permitted not that any Children should be born of her to her dying day She both liv'd and dyed under the Malediction of a Barren Womb esteem'd not without cause by all the People of the Jews a great infelicity Another Example of disrespect shewn to Kings in the Person of this good King David we read in the First Book of Kings Chap. 5. where it is