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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63550	The True loyalist wherein is discovered, First, the falsehood and deceipt of the solemn league and covenant, Secondly, that there is no salvation out of Christ, Thirdly, that the pope is the Anti-Christ, the man of sin, or the son of perdition, cum multis alias, &c. / by a true loyalist.	True loyalist.	1683 (1683)	Wing T2756; ESTC R31985	66,689	159

THE True Loyalist Wherein is Discovered First The falshood and deceipt of the Solemn League and Covenant Secondly That there is no Salvation out of Christ Thirdly That the Pope is the Anti-Christ the Man of Sin or the Son of Perdition Cum multis aliis c. By a True Loyalist 1 Pet. 2.17 Fear God and Honour the King 1 Sam. 8.8 12.18 Quisquis Deum timet etiam Regibus honorem habebit Calvin LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be Sold by John Crump at the Three Bibles at the Little North-door in St. Paul's Church-yard MDCLXXXIII THE True Loyalist PROV XXIV 21. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King And meddle not with * Heb. Changers them that are given to change KING Solomon the Wise having by woeful experience seen much folly and vanity in all the passages of this life even in humane wisdom it self a Eccles 1. is thought most fit by the Holy Ghost to become our Master of defence and instructer therein to arm us against all their assaults with many wise Counsels and wholesom instructions in three Books gradually This his Proverbs his Ecclesiastes and his Canticles answerable to the three remarkable Periods of mans Age his Youth his Manhood and his Old age 1. In his Proverbs or wise sayings he hath given us many bitter pills to purge out our amorous and youthful lusts and many love-potions too to allure us unto good works by that Beauty and Lustre that is in vertue and from the reward of well-doing That our new Vessels being seasoned with Wisdom when we are Ephebi and Young may not taste of the cask of folly when we are old b Prov. 22.6 2. In his Ecclesiastes or book of the Preacher he hath discovered the perilous and painted Beauty of the world the deceitfulness and sophistry of Riches and Honour and all things therein together with the brevity uncertainty and evil of a mans days that when we are adulti more mature and confirmed in years we may be moved thereby to despise and repudiate the one for its deformity and insufficiency and get the more solidity by a serious reflection upon the vanity of the other 3. In his Canticles Epithalamium or mystical Love-song betwixt Christ and the Church from the consideration of natural and earthly things he ascends to the speculation and contemplation of things Supernatural and Divine That when we are Old Aged and well stricken in years we may not grow the more earthly the more we grow to the earth but have our minds there in a special manner possessed with Metaphysical and Heavenly meditations and fixed upon God and Christ where the Soul like Noahs Dove can only find rest and tranquillity For as St. * Bernard in Canticis Bernard hath taught us in primo pellitur superfluus amor Sui in secundo vanus amor mundi in tertio praescribitur castus amor Dei The Proverbs disswade us from Philautia the foolish and superfluous love of our selves The Ecclesiastes disswades the vain worthless love of the Vicious World The Canticles perswade the pure chast and perfect love of God So that these Books of Solomon being adapted to the three grand periods of mans age none may think themselves unconcerned and plead want of direction But all even from the days of their youth may remember their Creator c Eccles 12.1 and as they grow in years grow in grace always ascending up higher and higher upon Jacobs Ladder 2 Pet. 1. from one vertue to another till they come to glory And accordingly the Wise man hath directed this Proverb to all both young and old to instruct the one and remind the other of their duty of subjection and obedience to the Lord Analogia numeri the singular number for the Plural by a Synecdoche membri and the King under a sweet compellation but indefinite title fili mi my Son whereby are meant all the Sons and Daughters of Adam without discrimination And Secondly as this Proverb is universal in its direction so it containeth a duty no less necessary to be performed by all For it is observable that our Master useth this familiar and insinuating title fili mi my Son only here and two and twenty times besides in all his Proverbs to shew that though his other Proverbs which only suppose this title are in their proper Spheres very excellent for Wisdom and instruction yet those Proverbs that are inforced immediately with this winning and alluring compellation fili mi My Son are of nearer concern and more important Lessons for us to learn in his School of Wisdom or Righteousness And I may add too that this Proverb which we are now upon doth seem in regard of its great comprehensiveness to have an eminency above them all as including in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ecclesiastes 12.13 by way of excellency the whole Duty of Man all the ingredients of a Christian to constitute the Essence or Being of a true Loyalist This will most clearly appear in the opening of its parts which are these two in general 1. A Precept My Son fear thou the Lord and the King 2. A Caution and meddle not with them that are given to change 1. For the Precept My Son fear thou the Lord and the King And therein two things are very worthy our consideration 1. A Conjunction of the Lord and the King 2. An Injunction of fear to them both In the handling of which order requires me that I first speak of the Conjunction of the Lord and the King And they are very fitly and wisely joyned together in three things 1. In regard of their Headship and Soveraignty for Deus magnus immortalis est Rex Rex parvus mortalis est Deus God is a great and immortal King and a King is a little and mortal God d Ps 82.6 Monarchy is Gods own Government he hath his Throne in the Heavens and his Kingdom ruleth over all the Kingdoms of the World e Ps 103.19 Isa 66.1 where he hath ordained terrene Monarchs for his Deputies and Viceroys to rule his Church externally in his stead as he himself rules it internally by his Holy Spirit And from hence he is emphatically styled the King of kings and Lord of lords f 1 Tim. 6.15 And Kings nursing Fathers and Queens nursing Mothers to his Church g Isa 49.23 2. In regard of the Prerogatives which are annexed to their Headship and Soveraignty The first whereof is Power and Authority God in proportion to his Grandeur and Headship over all the World hath absolute and Independent power in himself In which respect he is here called by his proper name Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Original the name of his Essence and Majesty deduced ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fuit as being a Being before and the Original of all Beings The same with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ero qui ero