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A86930	The magistrates charge, for the peoples safetie. Laid open in a sermon, preached before the right Honorable House of Peeres, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, at their late solemne monthly fast, May 26. 1647. / By William Hussey, Minister at Chesilhurst in Kent.	Hussey, William, minister of Chiselhurst.	1647 (1647)	Wing H3818; Thomason E389_7; ESTC R201521	33,273	53

Parliament but that time is past many things have beene done by prerogative above Law I will not say any thing hath beene consulted by King Lords and Commons against Christ I feare some things have beene done with or without publique consent that should not I judge by the event as every good Christian should when God is displeased Yet now if King and Lords would be wise and learned yee might turne away the wrath of God and keeping off the iron rod from da shing you all in perces if not it is to be feared the iron rod is in the fire to take a new hardning The division that hath been hitherto hath on both parts been grounded on verum and veri simile the King on the one part the Parliament on the other one for prerogative the other for right and interest both pleading Law the King pretending all ought to follow him the Parliament them and all by Lawes take heed of a subdivision among you where no party doth or can pretend Law for by the same reason God may justly bring a subdivision among you untill yee come to utter destruction for let any wise man consider when wars will cease if the victorious party shall set up new Principles and make new Quarrells you have fought for liberty and common right according to the Lawes of the Kingdome if your victories set you upon higher points and yee will have all the Lawes of the Kingdome altered pro Imperio while the sword is in your hand this is certainly a new cause and if it should breed a new quarrell which God forbid remember I pray you the iron rod is in the hand of Christ and not yours God is the Lord of Hosts and you shall see it if yee have much experience in war that God which hath owned your cause that was without controversie just if yee raise a new quarrell upon a new cause upon grounds not knowne and stated in the world may desert you in your new cause it was not the wisdome of the Parliament but the justice of the cause and the hand of God that hath helped you hitherto you know not what helpe the colour and opinion of law did you in your cause if once a war should arise without any colour of Law if Machievills principle concerning the power of Kings should be drawne downe to the people that they had power without Law that as it were lesse regular so it would be more cruell neither the Authority of the King nor of the Parliament would shelter any but all would be dashed in peeces with this iron rod Be wise now therefore O yee Kings be learned yee that be judges of the earth wisdome is of speciall use in consultations for Kings and Lords the greatest honour to them in the world is so to deliberate in their publique meetings that they may have cause to rejoyce in the wisedome and justice of their consultations to vote one thing to day another thing to morrow is an argument of the greatest weakenesse in the world yet if the weakenes be in the former it must be amended by a wiser better to be wise now then never I will not lay the supposition of my Text upon your Lordships I will not say yee have consulted any thing against Christ but the counsell of my Text I will and that in the words of Fabritins and Musoulus * Fabritius si sorce quid finistre tentaverint adver sus Christum Regnum ejus patient●r tunc se evecari ab errore pirversis institutu s●● paulo ante sibi caveam a temerariis consiliis mo ititionibus contra Christum Regnumejus ut eruditio●em cast gationem admittant ex verbo Dei. Musculus in locam nunc inquit cum Regnum Chris●● ad hunc modum comparatum sit nt non solum impossibtle sit quod conamim sed vobit exittosum etiamsihactenus desipuisti tamen vel nune taadem nisi perirejuvat mutata sententia rescipiscite c. Nam alioqui quod putatu vos reguis vestris per id consulere quod Christo domino repubnatis owniu●● est stule●ssimum If Kings and Judges of the earth at any time have attempted any thing against God and Christ they would suffer themselves to be called back from their errour and perverse purposes and before that they would take care of rash Counsells and endeavours against Christ and his Kingdome that ye admit of instruction and reproofe from the word of God Musculus And seeing the Kingdome of Christ is so ordered that it is not only unpossible that yee intend against it but it is deadly to your selves although you have hitherto beene unwise yet now at last repent unlesse you will perish for it is the foolishest thing in the world to thinke yee shall settle your owne Kingdomes by destroying his But lest some may raise a ground for inconstancy or departing from deliberative consultations which in plaine termes is to vote one thing and doe another or to be unconstant in your votes● because the Psalmist doth charge Kings and Judges to be wise now after they had voted and consulted Kings Nobles and People and were all agreed My Text affordeth no further warrant for change but when yee have voted against God and Christ then indeed it is high time to unvote that againe the Holy Ghost doth not call upon them after consultation to be wise without cause and so I come to the second circumstance therefore certainely it is an unwise thing to change a vote without cause my Text which is the Commission by which I preach at this time doth require you to be wise after consultation when yee have consulted any thing against Christ therfore because it is against Christ ye may have other causes to alter a vote sometime but I have Commission from God to charge you with alteration in this case And let me tell you to alter any thing is a weakenesse either in the act of alteration or in the thing that is amended if without cause it is folly if for a wicked cause it is abominable If ye have at any time voted any thing for Gods glory and publique good to alter that for a friend is abominable I have yet another use of information for your Lordships whi ch is personal therfore belonging to this point That even Kings Princes Kings Judges of the earth in the places of Kings Judges of the earth must be under the bounds and rules of Christs Kingdome or otherwise why should the Psalmist have an especiall eye on thē in the establishing of Christs Kingdom you see God doth call upon Kings and Judges of the earth and that because he hath set up the Kingdome of Christ upon Mount Sion some refer all this honour required to the Kingdome of Christ unto the times after the calling of the Jewes I willingly grant that the glory of Christs Kingdome shall be more conspicuous after that then before

honour Christ and endeavour so to receive and embrace the government of Christ as to frame the hearts of their Subjects to the knowledge and obedience of the Gospel of Christ ea respublica est faelix ubiregit Philosophia saith the Philosopher That Kingdome and Nation that will not serve thee Isay 60.12 saith the Prophet shall perish Exhortation to Kings and those that by the duty of their places ought to advise the King for his honour to labour that his Majesty may act according to these principles that he might convert those undeniable truths of Gods word which they cannot deny unto the ends of his actions wee ought all of us to looke on the publique actions of the King as such in which all our good is much concerned and heere I shall crave leave to involve the acceptation of and politique use that was m●de of Christian Religion in later times within the miscariages of the Kings and Princes and shew that the contempt that Court and Countrey had of Religion and Christ was the cause of this iron rod that is heere among us that in consideration thereof the like may be avoyded for the time to come The rise and fountaine of all hypocrisie is when Principles of Christian Religion are pretended but they are not made the ends of their actions that did pretend them There was great pretence of honour done to the Clergy in the Court of England 2 Thes 5.13 were the Bishops so much honoured at Court that Christ might be honoured in them that Religion might be advanced by them no such matter but that they might be popular Orators to draw over the people to put on the yoke of slavery and that hath drawne so much envy of the people on them The Principle notwithstanding that was pretended was a good Principle 1 Ti● 5. ●● That he that laboured in the Word and Doctrine is worthy of double honour but the honour must be joyned to the worke that the worke may be done certainely it is the duty of Christian Kings and Princes to use all meanes that come to their hands to incourage the choice of men for parts and education to become Ministers to make such publique provision for Ministers that men may by that obtaine more honour more maintenance by it then by any other publique profession for my part I cannot prescribe rules to the wisdome of a State if Christ be an absolute King his Lawes must be obeyed that place of honour in Timothy mentioned to be given to them that labour in the word is to be understood of maintenance as appeareth by the argument of the place thou shalt not muzzell the mouth of the Oxe that treadeth out the corne Such private persons as did receive the Gospel in primitive times must make them that teach them partakers of all their goods Gal. 6 6● all good things such Nations as have received Christ have made large and honourable provision for the propogation of the Gospel besides that of Tythes alwayes accounting that too little God in the old Law provided publique maintenance for his Priests Cityes and Suburbs and Sacrifices and Oblations besides the Tythes and hath commanded maintenance to be given to the Ministers of the Gospel under the name of honour honour is a publique reward and can have no publique being without honourable maintenance the Gospel is sent to Nations and Nations must receive it and honour the bringers of it in a nationall way as for that distinction of civill and religions honour that is a phansie only to elude the authority of this Text it is true there is civill and morall honour but that is nothing but publique and private honour the King and State must give publique and civill honour or none at all so that Kings and States cannot receive the Gospel unlesse they honour the messengers of Christ according to the command of Christ not as beggers and private men give honour with cap and knee but with honourable maintenance and command that honour be given them from private Subjects That honour is due to the worthy is the Law of nature who are worthy amongst Christians the Holy Ghost doth declare they that labour in the word and doctrine but note that those which have this honour must be so imployed about the worke that the honour may redound to Christ they must not seeke themselves in it But see were the Scriptures searched into were they interpreted was the knowledge of God advanced in the the Land if that maintainance that was bestowed on Bishops and spent rather in the port of a Gentleman or Nobleman had been imployed on Schooles of Divinity wee need not be beholding to Jesuits for Comments on the Scriptures who among many good things whereby they sweeten their mischiefe take all occasions to supplant the truth But did those Bishops advance learning and study of Scriptures I know I shall be cryed downe they did and outfaced that learning did flourish to the highest degree that diligence can bring it And therefore now no more care to be taken for learning seeing no better successe of it but havocke may justly be made of all the provision that our Ancestors have made to encourage Ministers to follow their bookes this is the common cry of the multitude yee may see what good learning did in the Bishops time wee must never looke for better from it therefore downe with it yet this I say that if the value of but one Bishopricke were bestowed on seaven honest and able Divines that might maintaine a Schoole of Divinity and the Scriptures interpreted by them according to the best improvement of humane skill such satisfaction would be given that the mouthes of those that fill the world with new fancies would be stopped the hard places of Scripture made plaine unity and piety much advanced which no one mans skill will ever be able to bring to passe that would make more for the safety of the Kingdome then all the forces and power of the sword But let it further be examined whether ever Ministers of the Gospel were received by the State so as they were sent from Christ whether opportunity were given them of free meeting and communicating their doctrines one ta another and that the Doctrine that was agreed on were obedientially received by the State So Christ sent out his Disciples to teach the Commands of Christ which Commission must last to the end of the world giving them this badge that they should love one another sending them out with his owne authority Luk. 10.16 were any Ministers received into this State as Commissioners to preach the Gospel ought have any sort of Ministers beene received as Ambassadors from a King to his owne Subjects were not those Bishops that were honoured by this State first sized to the Princes humour and good experience had of their servile condition then sent out to stop the mouthes of all that were not fitted to the same last not