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A27165	No treason to say, Kings are Gods subjects, or, The supremacy of God, opened, asserted, applyed in some sermons preached at Lugarshal in Sussex by N.B. then rector there, accused of treason by James Thompson, Vicar of Shalford in Surry, and the author ejected out of the said rectory for preaching them : with a preface apologetical, vindicating the author and sermons from that false accusation, relating the manner of his ejection, and fully answering the narrative of the said Vicar, now also parson of Lurgarshal / by Nehemiah Beaton ...	Beaton, Nehemiah, d. 1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B1568; ESTC R17272	43,029	53

the Art of Government requires much more time study and abilities to go in and out before a great People of various tempers and distempers Solomon thought it required an extraordinary measure of wisdom 1 Kings 3. 9. and what wofull work hath the want of it caused in the world Now this Wisdom and ability to govern which Princes that have had the best Education and all other advantages have not been able to acquire God can immediately and suddenly bestow and infuse He can take Saul a man of the smallest of the Tribes of Israel and of the least of all the Families of the Tribe 1 Sam. 9. 21. accustomed to mean and base imployments ver 3. and without the help of Study or Tutors all on a sudden can fill him with all that Knowledge Wisdom Skill and Prudence which is necessary to make a wise and happy Prince in a moment he shall have another heart and be turned into another man 1 Sam. 10. 6 9. 2. In a way of Judgement God exerciseth his Dominion over the Hearts and Understandings of Kings in infatuating them and spoiling them of that wisdom and discretion necessary for them yea which they seemed to have so that take a King of greatest wisdom and experience whose Policy and potent Abilities make him the wonder of the Age in which he lives God can at any time when his greatest Concernments are in greatest danger cause him to act below the discretion of a very child or ideor When Nebuchadnezzar is boasting of his Greatness and Power and glorying in that Wisdom and Policy by which he had obtained them he is immediately by this King turned into a Beast that is as himself teacheth us to interpret it deprived of the use of his understanding and reason Dan. 4. 34. Mine understanding returned to me and ver 36. my reason returned to me Take but one Instance more King Rehoboam 1 Kings 12. from v. 1. to v. 18. he was the Son of the wisest of Kings who doubtless was very exact in the education of this his only Son and left him many wise and able Counsellors yet this King shall you see when his Crown and Kingdom lay at stake play the Game like a very fool Jeroboam anointed King watcheth an opportunity to get possession of the Kingdom and now hath met with it the discontented and burdened People are gotten together Jeroboam heads them comes with them and petitioneth that their intolerable burdens may be taken off his wise Counsellors shew him his danger and a cheap and easie way to escape it 't is but to dissemble his displeasure and give the People a few good words and he may defeat Jeroboam and secure the Kingdom to himself for ever there was no more in it and yet so foolish and sottish is he that he refuseth this takes a contrary course and so loseth ten Tribes Well now he sees his error sure we shall finde him hereafter wiser the mischief he would not prevent he now seeks to cure and therefore sends one to appease the People but see here he commits a greater error than the former the People are crying out of Taxes Burdens and Tributes and he sends a Tax-gatherer Adoram one whose imployment made him most odious and hatefull to the People the sight of whom doth further enrage them they stone him with stones he 'll quench the fire with throwing on of oyle But it may be all this proceeded from the weakness of the mans parts and so nothing to our present purpose No such matter v. 15. 't is said expresly the cause was from the Lord. Secondly By the heart of the King we understand the will of the King which certainly is here principally intended for turning is properly of the Will Now this also is in Gods hand and he exerciseth dominion over it The Will is that faculty by which we imbrace or refuse any object and as it is free in its actings a self-determining power so it is commander in chief in the Soul all other powers and parts must obey it even the Understanding it self in respect of its exercise is subject to the dominion of it Well but this supreme power of the soul in all the acts of it is subject to the dominion of God 1. What he pleaseth that shall it intend and resolve though otherwise it would never have been in all their thoughts How comes Artaxerxes a Heathen to intend and resolve the re-building of Jerusalem and to grant Nehemiah all that he desir'd for the promoting of that work Neh. 2. 8. This the King granted me according to the good hand of God upon me How came it into his heart to write so gracious a Letter to give so large a Commission to Ezra alas this would have been far enough from him had not God put it into his heart Ezra 7. 21. Blessed be the Lord who hath put such a thing as this into the Kings heart to beautifie the House of the Lord. 2. As he can make them intend what otherwise they never would so when they have of themselves according to their own proper apprehensions and humours intended purposed and resolved then can he in a moment quite alter and change their determinations and cause them to intend and resolve quite contrary Instances of this we have many but shall content our selves with one famous and notable of Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther he by the suggestions and perswasions of Haman his Favourite fully resolves the destruction of the Jews to this purpose Letters are written and sealed with the Kings Ring sent out by the posts who are hastened by the Kings Commandment Esth 3. 12 13 14 15. What now shall Mordecai Esther and the poor Jews do is there any hopes that they can change the Kings Resolution No they despair of it they have but one comfort left and 't is this in my Text that God had his heart in his hand and could turn it To him therefore do they seek and wait by fasting and prayer Esth 4. 16. and with God they do prevail and immediately after by what a series of strange and wonderfull Providences doth God turn the heart of this King as you may reade at large in the fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth Chapters of that Book which I desire you to reade at leisure and you will conclude with me that though the Name of God be not found in all that Book yet the Providence of God and his Dominion over the hearts of Kings are most visible and conspicuous in it Thirdly If by the heart of the King in this place we understand the Affections and Passions of the King his Love Hatred Anger Fortitude thus also is his heart in the hand of the Lord. 1. They must love whom He will have them love and whom otherwise they would never have regarded How came Daniel a poor Captive in favour at Court Dan. 1. 9. will resolve you Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with