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A10657	The shieldes of the earth A sermon preached before the reverend judges, Sir Richard Hutten, and Sir George Crooke, at the assizes holden at North-hampton: February 25. 1634. By Edward Reynolds, rector of the church of Braunston in North-hampton shire.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1636 (1636)	STC 20932; Wing R1287A; ESTC S115831	19,787	53

That it was more joy to him to be a member of the Church than a Monarch of the world On which place wee finde noted the like example of Lewis the devout amongst the French Kings who professed himselfe more honour'd at the Font where he had been baptized for a Christian than in the Throne where hee was Anointed for a King Thus now wee have brought their first Dignity and their Dutie together For it is not the Honour only but the Office of the Shields to belong to God You cannot well be The Shields of the Earth except you learne of him who is the great Master of Protection And surely Religion is an excellent Schoole-master to teach us our duties in our particular callings The Prophet telleth us that the very Husbandman is taught of God how to sow and thresh Isai. 28. 26. David a great warriour where learned he his skill Thou teachest mine hands to fight Psal. 18. 34. Bezaleel an excellent work-man whose apprentice was hee God hath filled him with wisedome and understanding Exod. 35. 21. Salomon an admirable shield for Government who framed him I saith God have given thee an understanding heart 1 Reg. 3. 12. Religion makes a man redeeme the Time and Time you know is Mater artium the Mother of skill And Religion makes a man goe to God and God you know is Pater luminum the Father of every good gift Therefore the Scholer when hee prayeth studieth hard The Tradesman when he prayeth thrives apace the Judge when he prayeth executeth judgement as the mower when he whetteth cutteth down the grasse The learned have made the Observation to my hand Phineas stood up Vaiephallel and he prayed saith one Translation and hee executed judgement saith another The Originall word beares both to note that Religion doth marvellously fit a man for workes of justice If you aske me who was the best souldier in the armies of Israel against Amalek certainly not he that lifted up his sword against the enemies of Israel but Moses who lifted up his hands to the God of Israel Bee pleased ever to remember this it is Scuta Deo that makes Scuta Terrae 'T is Religion ever that holds up Justice 't is from the Temple that the two pillars of a Common-wealth strength and stabilitie doe proceed 1 Kings 7. 21. Therefore Plato would have the Palaces of Princes joyned unto Temples to note that Government and Religion Prayer and Justice the Word and the Sword should never be severed And marke it ever in the whole course of storie Vbi non est sanctitas pietas fides instabile regnum est With Religion the Arches of strength and steddinesse have beene ever endangered and the people have beene shaken like a reed in the waters 1 Reg. 14. 15. Therefore ever let the Anointed ones Zerubbabel and Ioshua the Prince and the Priest the Magistrate and the Minister stand alwayes before the Lord no where else can they receive instruction for the Government of State or Church Zach. 4. 14. And here againe the doctrine of the Iesuites deserves a brand Vt nihil scilicet Princeps de Religione statuat That matters of the Church and the worship of God should bee left onely to Saint Peters Apostolicall Successors and that Princes should in no case have power government or jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall Bellarmine undertakes it Quòd non sit Ecclesiasticum Regimen penes Principes seculares Certainely the High Priests arrogated not so much in Davids time who did himselfe order the courses and attendance of the Levites 1 Chron. 9. nor yet in Ezekiahs time who himselfe appointed the services of the Priests and Levites and gave speciall order by Royall Edict for the celebration of the great Passeover and that too at an unusuall time 2 Chron. 30. and 3● So Iehoshaphat and Iosiah did not onely make speciall provision for the service of God but gave the Priests and Levites their charge as well as the judges and people 2 Chron. 19. and 34. 35. Yea long since Saint Peters time it was a prerogative which Constantine reserved unto himselfe who yet honoured his Bishops as much as ever Prince did to purge the Church of Idolatrie and establish the worship of God by his owne Imperiall Edicts yea himselfe to appoint judges in the cause of Cecilian Bishop of Africa and to convent a whole Councell of Bishops to render an account of their proceeding against Athanasius unto him as Socrates notes So Iovinian and Theodosius by their Royall Edicts restored the Orthodox and pure Religion which Iulian and Valens had disgraced Neither did Theophilus Bishop of Alexandria demolish the monuments of Idolatrie in his owne Church till first hee had procured from the Emperour a special command so to doe And this use of their power the godly Bishops of the Church did highly honour and commend them for The Rule of Saint Augustine is generall In hoc Reges Deo serviunt● in quantum Reges In this they shew themselves Kings Quatenus ipsum in commanding good things and forbidding evill things Non solum quae pertinent ad humanam soetetutem verum etiam quae ad divinam religionem Wee know there is Ecclesiasticall Power fixed to the calling and character of Ecclesiasticall persons So the Church hath spirituall power to dispence holy things and spirituall jurisdiction by vertue of the Keyes to Censure to binde to keepe backe holy things from swine But jurisdiction coercitive or the power of the sword which under externall secular and corporall penalties maketh provision for the defence of truth worship of God and purity of Religion This belongeth only unto Princes and that independently and unsubordinately to any higher power or person save God and to those to whom from Princes it is communicated and indulged Wee see The Rulers of the earth belong unto God We the people should from thence learne our dutie of honour reverence and loyaltie towards The Shields of the Earth To honour them in our hearts as those that are worth ten thousand of us 2 Sam. 18. 3. They were sonnes of Belial that despised Saul 1 Sam. 10. 27. To honour them in our Prayers for their persons their lives their crownes their government their victories their posteritie their salvation 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. To honour them in our services and with our substance with cheerefull obedience and with willing Tribute Rom. 13. 7. 1 Pet 2. 13 14 15. Since without them one man would but be bread for another wee should be as the fishes of the sea the great would devoure the small Hab. 1. 13 14. It was the dignity and practice of the ancient Christians thus to doe as they who write their Apologies against the calumniations of Heathen adversaries doe still observe whereby they did not onely discharge the conscience of loyall and dutifull subjects to their soveraigne but also of wise and wary Christians towards their profession

THE SHIELDES OF THE EARTH A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE REVEREND Judges Sir RICHARD HUTTEN and Sir GEORGE CROOKE at the Assizes holden at North-hampton February 25. 1634. By EDWARD REYNOLDS Rector of the Church of Braunston in North-hampton Shire LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostock and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Kings-head 1636. PSAL. 47. 9. The Shields of the Earth belong unto God He is Greatly exalted THe Psalme is a Psalme of shouting and triumph at the proclaiming of a King At which solemnitie the use of the people hath beene to clap their hands to sound the trumpets and with united acclamations to professe both their joy and their subjection The Gentiles are here called upon unto this dutie and triumph of obedience vers 1. 6. and great reason for it in two respects 1. So great is the King who is here proclaimed as that he is able to make all his subjects Kings too He chooseth the excellencie of Iacob for their inheritance vers 4. And that was the Primogeniture and right of Government Gen. 49. 3 4. 10. 2. So Great a King he is besides as that he is able to subdue all the Princes of the earth to his obedience and make them gather together or resort unto him which is a phrase expressing subjection Gen. 49. 10. Hos. 1. 11. But you will say Is it then so strange a thing for one Prince to conquer another No the greatnesse of Christs Kingdome is this That Princes doe voluntarily become his Subjects not by might compelling them but by his Spirit perswading them Not by Armes but by Arguments not by Conquest but by Conviction The princes the Voluntaries of the people are gathered together that is are become obedient to the God of Abraham But how come Princes to be so flexible to termes of subjection How come they to be willing nay ambitious to stoop to another Scepter How come the Grandies of the world to be caught by fishermen and young Lions to be led by a little childe as the Prophet speakes The reason of that follows in my Text The Shields of the Earth belong to God and when he will be pleased to exalt himselfe he can easily subdue and perswade them Few there are of those whom I have looked into who retaining the original word Shields doe not understand it in the same sense with the first word of the verse Princes Calvin I confesse and from him some others though approving this exposition as consonant to the scope of the Text doe yet understand it in Abstracto The Protection of the earth is of the Lord. Or the Lord is the Shields that is the manifold Protection of the earth And so much doe I honour the judgement of that most learned Interpreter that as he acknowledgeth the other exposition to be consonant to the Text so I shall not altogether neglect his but take both the Abstract and Concrete together the Protection and the Protectors the Office and the Persons protecting the Earth belong all to God But because I finde 1. The learned Lexicographers in the Hebrew tongue Pagnin and Shindler both noting out this place in speciall where Princes and Magistrates are called Shields 2. The learned Expositors Bucer Melancthon Musculus Illyrious Tirinus Muis with the Hebrew Doctors Aben Ezra and Kimchi taking the word here to note Princes 3. Because I finde the harmonie of the Scriptures making way and giving full allowance to this exposition Hos. 4. 8. where Rulers are expresly called by the name of Shields I shall I hope with cleere satisfaction to better judgements choose chiefly to insist on that sense as being in all confessions very pertinent to the scope of the Text and most suteable to the businesse of the Time Here then we have the Rulers of the Earth set forth by a double relation The one upward they are Scuta Deo they belong to God The other downward they are Scuta Terrae the Shields of the earth and both these noting two things their Dignitie and their Dutie They belong to God it is their honour that he hath Sealed them they belong to God it is their dutie to be subject to him They are the Shields of the earth it is their Honour that they are above others they are the Shields of the Earth it is their duty to protect others And surely great reason they should doe their dutie when they have honour and dignity of their owne to incourage and to support them in it But there is a further reason than that in the Text namely the Honour of God for when the Rulers of the people doe not only by the sacrednesse of their persons but by the holinesse of their lives belong to God when they are above the people not in honor only to overtop them but in love and righteousnesse to protect them too then never more vehementer exaltatur the God of Israel is highly exalted This then is the summe of the words A twofold Dignitie a two-fold Dutie and Gods honour the end and ground of all Of all which by Gods gracious assistance with due respect to the time and your great businesse And first of their relation Vpward They belong to God their office to God their persons to God 1. Their Office the Protection of the Earth belongs to God The earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof and all the Princes in the world are but his Deputles and Vicegerents He the Supreme and the maine Protector It is not in man he that runneth nor he that willeth but mercy comes from God Rom. 9. 16. It is not in the Church he that planteth or he that watereth but the increase comes from God 1 Cor. 3. 7. It is not in the battel the horse or the rider but safetie comes from God Prov. 21. 31. It is not in the State the wise man nor the rich man nor the mighty man but iudgement and kindnesse come from God Ier. 9. 23. In matters of judicature Hee the Law-giver to rule the cause Iam. 4. 12. He the Iudge to heare it Psal. 50. 6. Hee the pleader to argue it Psal. 35. 1. Hee the witnesse to confirme it Mal. 3. 5. Hee the King to determine and over-rule it and all to the purposes of safetie and Protection The Lord is our Iudge the Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King hee will save us Isai. 33. 22. O Israel thou hast destroyed thy selfe but in me is thy helpe I will be thy King Hos. 13. 10. It is the divels stile to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Accuser it is Christs to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Advocate and Comforter It is the divels worke to be Abaddon a Destroyer it is Christs to be Goel a Redeemer When it comes to punishing and pulling downe then he calls it Opus alienum a worke strange unto him Ier. 28. 21. He is not willing to afflict it comes