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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 Prince of the Eunuchs 2. He can cause them mortally to hate whom they have before most loved and do●ed upon Whom over night they feasted as special Favourites the next morning they shall adjudge to the gallows Esth. 7. What a strict League and Friendship was between Abimelech and the Schechemites they help him to his Kingdom and are therefore the onely men with him but God will break the League and turn this Kings love into hatred Judg. 9. 23. Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem 3. Their Courage and Valour without which however otherwise furnished they are altogether unmeet for the Regal Office this God can furnish them with or deprive them of He can make the feeblest King as David and the House of David as the Angel of the Lord Zech. 12. 8. On the other side He can cause the heart of the King to perish and the heart of the Princes Jer. 4. 9. And cause the heart of these mighty ones to be as the heart of a woman in her pangs Jer. 49. 22. I have but one thing more to do e're I come to Application to give you the Reasons and Grounds of this Point which are four 1. God hath a most absolute Dominion over Kings yea the hearts of Kings For even they as well as any others are his Creatures and nothing can be more ridiculous and absurd than to imagine that the Creator should not be able to rule his Creature that he should make a Creature which he cannot master Kings and rich men as well as Subjects and poor men are Gods Creatures The poor and rich meet together and the Lord is the Maker of them both Prov. 22. 2. Yea the hearts of Kings Psal 33. 15. He fashioneth their hearts alike No wonder then that they can do nothing without God who were made out of nothing by God 2. Kings are preserved and upheld by God and can do nothing without his concourse 't is in him they live move and have their beings Acts 17. 28. They cannot move or act according to those Natures and Properties bestowed on them in Creation without Gods immediate concourse so that every action of theirs is from God as the first and themselves as the second Cause Must not He then be able to govern them and their hearts in all their Motions and Operations seeing they cannot move or stir but as moved and acted by him Suppose an Artist should make a Clock and not by weights but with his own hand should turn the wheels about is not he able to make it move more fast or slowly or hinder its motion by taking off his hand God fashioneth the heart and with his own hand causeth and ruleth its motion Certainly then it cannot think or purpose any thing without him 3. The truth of this Doctrine may be demonstrated from the Omnipotency of God Were the heart of any Prince or Monarch too subtle stiff or stubborn for him to turn or rule here were something he could not do and so we might say of his Power Hitherto it can reach but this it cannot do Matth. 19. 26. is notable to this purpose With man this is impossible but with God all things are possible The occasion of those words briefly was this Christ had affirmed it impossible for a rich man to be sav'd v. 24. which exceedingly amazeth the Disciples v. 25. and they cry out Who then can be saved Why saith Christ with man this is impossible that is if men have riches left to themselves they will certainly love and set their hearts upon them and the heart thus set cannot by all the power of men be taken off and turned to God so that with men this is impossible that such an one should ever be saved but with God all things are possible that is he is able to turn their hearts from Riches to himself 4. Were not God able to turn and rule the hearts of Kings how could he know and reveal what they will do before they have any thoughts or purposes of doing any such things yea long before they have a being God tells Moses before hand what entertainment his Message will finde and what Pharaoh will certainly do Exod. 4. 21. He revealeth what a good King Josiah shall be how zealous against Idolatry before Josiah was born 1 Kings 13. 2. 1. Learn hence to admire and adore this glorious Power of the great Jehovah When the Mariners saw Christ command and govern the Winds and Sea they cannot but worship him and wonder at his mighty power that was able to master and rule such ●oysterous and unruly things and cry out with admiration What manner of man is this Matth. 8. 26 27. Behold here a greater wonder the heart of a King much deeper and more hardly fathom'd than that great Deep the Will and Resolutions of that Heart more heady and hard to be turned than the swiftest course of the mightiest waters the Affections and Passions of a King more furious and boysterous than the highest and fiercest winds searched and sounded turned and changed quieted and allayed without the least labour and toyle by the great God of Heaven This is one of the greatest discoveries of the great and infinite power of the most high God and therefore requires our most heedfull observation and highest admiration For though as S. James saith of the Tongue it be but a little Member though the Heart seem but a small and contemptible part yet is it more hardly rul'd than any other part of man or creature whatsoever You may far more easily hold the hand tame the tongue stop the foot and govern all other parts than this Sooner may the least child conquer the fiercest Lion and strongest Goliah than the greatest King yea the mightiest Angel turn the heart of the weakest woman The arm of a Sampson may serve to rend a Lion but it requires the Almighty Arm of an Infinite God to rend the heart of man When you hear therefore God in Scripture saying I will make them a new heart I will give them another heart Can you forbear wondring at this power It is observable that that proud and haughty King Nebuchadnezzar who had seen the wisdom of God in revealing his secrets to him Dan. 2. 47. who had observed the mighty power of God in preserving his Servants in the midst of the fire which greatly astonisheth him Dan. 3. 29. yet neither of these raise him to so high a pitch of admiration as when he saw and felt God exercising this power and dominion over his heart What humble Confessions what notable expressions doth this extort from him Dan. 4. throughout especially v. 3. How great are his signs How mighty are his wonders His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom c. Let us give then unto God the glory of this his mighty power and look upon this as indeed it is one of the most glorious discoveries of that power