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A36435	The form and order of the coronation of Charles the Second, King of Scotland, England, France and Ireland as it was acted and done at Scoone, the first day of Ianuarie, 1651.	Douglas, Robert, 1594-1674.	1651 (1651)	Wing D2026; ESTC R25004	36,684	56

who sayeth of them Is 62. 3. Thou shalt bee a Crowne of glorie in the hand of the LORD and a Royall Diademe in the hand of thy GOD CHRIST accounteth His people his Crowne and Diademe So should a king esteeme the people of the LORD over whom hee ruleth to bee his Crowne and Diademe Take away the people and a Crowne is but an emptie symbole 3. A king when hee getteth his crowne on his head should thinke at the best it is but a fading crowne All the crownes of kinges are but fading crownes Therefore they should have an eye upon that Crowne of glorie that fadeth not away 1. Pet. 5. 4. And upon a Kingdome that cannot bee shaken Hebr. 12. 28. That crowne and kingdome belongeth not to kinges as kinges but unto believers and a believing king hath this comfort that when hee hath endured a whyle and been tryed hee shall receave the Crowne of Lyfe which the LORD hath promised to them that love Him The second thing in this Solemnity is the Testimonie by this is meant the Law of GOD so called because it testifieth of the Mynde and Will of GOD It was commanded Deut. 17. 18. 19. When the king shall sit upon the Throne of his kingdome hee shall wryte him a copie of the Book of the Law and it shall bee with him that hee may reade therein all the dayes of his lyfe The king should have the TESTIMONIE for these three maine uses 1. For his information in the wayes of GOD Deut. 17. 19. This use of the kinges having the Book of the Law is expressed that hee may lèarne to feare the LORD his GOD The reading of other books may doe a king good for governement but no book will teach him the way to salvation but the Booke of GOD CHRIST biddeth Search the Scriptures for in thom yee thinke to have aeternall lyfe and they testifie of Mee John 5. 39. Hee is a Blessed man who meditateth in the Law of the LORD day and night Psal. 1. 1. 2. King DAVID was well acquainted here-with as appeareth Ps. 119. Kinges should bee well exercised in Scripture It is reported of Alphonsus king of Arragon that hee did reade the BIBLE fourteene tymes with glosses there-upon I recommend to the king to take some houres for reading holie Scripture It will bee a good meane to make him acquaynt with GODS Mynd and with CHRIST a Saviour 2. For his direction in governement kinges reade bookes that they may learne to governe well which I condemne not but all the bookes a king can reade will not make him governe to please GOD as this Booke I know nothing that is good in governement but a king may learne it out of the Booke of GOD For this cause IOSHUA is commanded IOS. 1. 8. That the Booke of the Law shall not depart out of his mouth and hee is commanded to Doe according to all that is written there-in Hee should not onlie doe himselfe that which is written in it but doe and governe his people according to all that is written in it King DAVID knew this use of the Testimonie who sayd Psal. 119. 24. Thy Testimonies are my delight and my Counsellours The best Counsells that ever a king getteth are in the Booke of GOD Yea the Testimonies are the best surest Counsellours Because although a kinges Counsellours bee never so wyse and trustie yet they use not to bee so free with a king as they ought But the Scriptures will tell kinges verie freelie both their sinne and their duetie 3. For preservation and custodie The king is Custos vtriusque Tabulae The keeper of both Tables Not that hee should take upon him the power either to dispense the Word of GOD or to dispense with it But that hee should preserve the Word of GOD and true Religion according to the Word of GOD pure intier and uncorrupted within his Dominions and transmit them so to posteritie And also bee carefull to see his Subjectes observe both Tables and to punish the transgressours of the same The third thing in this Solemnitie is the anoynting of the king The anoynting of kings was not absolutelie necessarie under the Old Testament for wee reade not that all the kinges of IUDAH and ISRAEL were anoynted The HEBREWES observe that anoynting of kinges was used in three cases 1. When the first of a Familie was made king as SAUL DAVID 2. When there was a question for the Crowne as in the case of SOLOMON and ADONI●AH 3. When there was an interruption of the lawfull succession by usurpation as in the case of IOASH there is an interruption by the usurpation of ATHALIAH therefore hee is anoynted If this Observation holde as it is probable then it was not absolutelie necessarie under the OLD TESTAMENT and therefore farre lesse under the NEW Because it may bee sayd That in our case there is an interruption by usurpation Let it bee considered That the Anoynting under the OLD TESTAMENT was typicall Although all kinges were not types of CHRIST yet the Anoynting of kinges Priests and Prophets was typicall of CHRIST and His Offices But CHRIST being now come all these Ceremonies ceasse And therefore the Anoynting of kinges ought not to bee used in the NEW TESTAMENT If it bee sayd Anoynting of kinges hath been in use amongst Christians not onlie Papistes but PROTESTANTS as in the kingdome of ENGLAND and our late king was anoynted withoyle It may bee replyed They who used it under the NEW TESTAMENT tooke it from the Jewes without warrand It was most in use with the Bishops of Rome who to keepe Kinges and Emperoures subject to themselves did sweare them to the Pope when they were anoynted and yet the Jewish priests did never sweare kinges to themselves As for ENGLAND although the Pope was casten off yet the subjection of kings to Bishops was still retayned for they anoynted the king and sware him to the mayntenance of their praelaticall dignitie They are here who were witnesses at the CORONATION of the late king The Bishops behoved to performe that rite and the king behoved to bee sworne to them But now by the Blessing of GOD Poperie and Praelacie are removed The Bishops as limmes of Antichrist are put to the doore Let the Anoynting of kinges with oyle goe to the doore with them and let them never come in agayne The anoynting with materiall oyle maketh not a king the Anoynted of the LORD for hee is so without it Hee is the ANOYNTED of the LORD who by Divine Ordinance and appoyntment is a King Is 45. 1. GOD calleth CYRUS His anoynted yet wee reade not that hee was anoynted with oyle Kinges are the Anoynted of the LORD because by the Ordinance of the LORD their authoritie is sacred and inviolable It is enough for us to have the thing though wee want the Ceremonie which being layd asyde I will give some Observations of the thing 1. A King being the LORDS anoynted should bee thinking upon a better

pleaseth without controlement There is no man able alone to governe all The kingdome should not lay that upon one man who may easilie miscarrie The Estates of the Land are bound in this Contract to beare a burthen with him These men who have flattered kinges to take unto themselves an absolute power to doe what they please have wronged kinges and kingdomes It had been good that kinges of late had carried themselves so as this question of kings power might never have come in debate For they have been great loosers thereby Kings are verie desyrous to have thinges spoken and written to holde up their Arbitrarie and unlimited power but that way doeth exceedinglie wrong them There is one a learned man I confesse who hath written a booke for the mayntenance of the absolute power of kinges called DEFENSIO REGIA whereby hee hath wronged himselfe in his reputation and the king in his government As for the fact in taking away the lyfe of the late King what ever was GODS justice in it I doe agree with him to condemne it as a most injust and horrid fact upon their part who did it But when hee commeth to speake of the power of kinges in giving unto them an absolute and illimited power urging the damnable Maxime QUOD LIBET LICET hee will have a king to doe what he pleaseth impunè and without controlement In this I can not but dislent from him In regard of Subordination some say That a king is comptable to none but GOD Doe what hee will let GOD take order with it this leadeth kinges to Atheisme let them doe what they please and take GOD in their owne hand In regard of Lawes they teach nothing to kinges but Tyrannie And in regard of governement they teach a king to take an Arbitrarie power to himselfe to doe what hee pleaseth without controlement How dangerous this hath been to kinges is cleare by sad experience Abuse of Power and Arbitrarie Governement hath been one of GODS Great Controversies with our Kinges Praedecessoures GOD in His justice because Power hath been abused hath throwne it out of their handes And I may confidentlie say That GODS Controversie with the kinges of the earth is for their Arbitrarie and Tyrannicall Governement It is good for our King to learne to bee wyse in tyme and know that hee receaveth this day a power to governe but a power limited by contract and these conditions hee is bound by Oath to stand to Kinges are deceaved who thinke that the people are ordayned for the king and not the king for the people The SCRIPTURE showeth the contrarie ROM. 13. 4. The King is the MINISTER OF GOD FOR THE PEOPLES good GOD will not have a king in an arbitrarie way to encroach upon the possessions of Subjects EZEH 45. 7. 8. A portion is appoynted for the Prince And it is sayd My Princes shall no more oppresse my people and the rest of the Land shall hee give vnto the house of Israell according to their Tribes The king hath his distinct Possessiions and Revenewes from the people hee must not oppresse and doe what hee pleaseth there must bee no Tyrannie upon the Throne I desyre not to speake much of this subject Men have been verie tender in medling with the power of kinges yet seeing these dayes have brought forth debates concerning the power of kinges it will bee necessarie to bee cleare in the matter Extremities would bee shunned A King should keepe within the boundes of the Covenant made with the people in the exercyse of his power And Subjectes would keepe within the bounds of this Covenant in regulating that power Concerning the last I shall propound these three to your consideration 1. A King abusing his power to the over-throw of Religion Lawes and Liberties which are the verie Fundamentalls of this Contract and Covenant may bee controled and opposed And if hee set himselfe to over-throw all these by Armes then they who have power as the Estates of a Land may and ought to resist by Armes Because hee doeth by that opposition breake the verie bondes and over-throweth all the essentialls of this Contract and Covenant This may serve to justifie the proceedinges of this kingdome agaynst the late King who in an Hostile way set himselfe to over-throw Religion Parliaments Lawes and Liberties 2. Everie breach of Covenant wherein a king falleth after hee hath entered in Covenant doeth not dissolve the bond of the Covenant Neither should Subjectes lay asyde a king for everie breach except the breaches bee such as over-throw the fundamentalls of the Covenant with the people Manie exemples of this may bee brought from Scripture I shall give but one King ASA entered solemnelie in Covenant with GOD and the people 2. CHRON. 15. After that hee falleth in grosse transgressions and breaches 2. CHRON. 16. Hee associate himselfe and entered in League with Benhadad king of Syria an Idolater Hee imprisoned HANANI the LORDS Prophet who reproved him threatened judgement agaynst that association And at that same tyme hee oppressed some of the people And yet for all this they neither lay him asyde nor compt him an hypocrite 3. Private persons should bee verie circumspect about that which they doe in relation to the authoritie of kinges It is very dangerous for private men to meddle with the power of kinges and the suspending of them from the exercyse thereof I doe ingenuouslie confesse that I fynd no exemple of it The Prophets taught not such doctrine to their people Nor the Apostles Nor the Reformed Kirkes Have ever private men Pastoures or Professoures given in to the Estates of a Land as their judgement unto which they resolve to adhere That a king should bee suspended from the exercise of his power And if wee looke upon those godlie Pastoures who lived in KING IAMES his tyme of whom one may truelie say more faythfull Men lived not in these last tymes For they spared not to tell the king his Faultes to his face Yea some of them suffered persecution for their honestie and feeedome Yet wee never read nor have heard that anie of these godlie Pastoures joyned with other private men did ever remonstrate to Parliament or Estate as their judgement That the king should bee suspended from the exercyse of his Royall power II. It is cleare from this COVENANT That people should obey their King in the LORD For as the King is bound by the COVENANT to make use of his power to their good So they are bound to obey him in the LORD in the exercyse of that power About the peoples duetie to the king take these foure Observations 1. That the obedience of the people is in subordination to GOD For the COVENANT is first with GOD and then with the King If a King command anie thing contrarie to the will of GOD in this case PETER sayeth It is better to obey GOD then man There is a lyne drawne from GOD to the people they are lowest the lyne