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A35517	A discourse shewing that kings have their being and authority from God that therefore good kings when dead are lamented, that all while living are to be obeyed, and that treason and rebellion are punishable both in this and the next world : preached the Sunday following the news of the death of ... Charles the Second / by John Curtois ...	Curtois, John, 1650 or 51-1719.	1685 (1685)	Wing C7700; ESTC R17308	19,772	38

to the King If we look upon them in their single persons which of them can pretend equality with or superiority to his Prince Who indeed but he that is as mad as the man in Bedlam that vainly imagins himself to be a King Or look upon them Representatively in the Church or in the Parliament in both they are subject to him first in the Church The Church as humbly and as expresly as she can acknowledgeth the King's Supremacy and her own subjection In her 37th Article she saith The King's Majesty hath the chief Power in his Realm of England and other his Dominions unto whom the chief Government of all Estates of this Realm whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all Causes doth appertain and is not nor ought to be subject to any Foreign Jurisdiction To which she addeth Whereas we attribute to the King's Majesty the chief Government by which Titles we find the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended we give not to our Princes the ministering either of God's Word or of the Sacraments but that onely Prerogative which we see to have been given always to all Godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself that is that they should rule all Estates and degrees committed to their charge by God whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal and restrain with the Civil Sword the stubborn and evil doers In the 3 part of her Homilie of Obedience she saith This is God's Ordinance God's Commandments and God's Holy Will that the whole Body of every Realm and all the Members and parts of the same shall be subject to their Head their King The like is said by her in the 5th part of her Homilie against Rebellion The holy Scriptures do teach most expresly that our Saviour Christ himself and his Apostles St. Paul St. Peter with others were unto the Magistrates and Higher Powers which Rul'd upon their being upon Earth both obedient themselves and did also diligently and earnestly exhort all other Christians to the like obedience unto their Princes and Governours whereby it is evident that men of the Clergy and Ecclesiastical Ministers as their Successours ought both themselves specially and before others to be obedient unto their Princes and also to exhort all others unto the same Our Saviour Christ likewise teaching by his Doctrine that his Kingdom was not of this World did by his example in fleeing from those that would have made him King confirm the same Expresly also forbidding his Apostles and by them the whole Clergy all Princely Dominion over People and Nations and he and his holy Apostles likewise namely Peter and Paul did forbid unto all Ecclesiastical Ministers Dominion over the Church of Christ See Can. 36. So in her 55th Canon she requires her Preachers before their Sermons to pray for the King 's Most Excellent Majesty as Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governour within this Realm and all other his Dominions and Countries over all persons in all Causes as well Ecclesiastical as Civil And as this Supremacy is now acknowledged See Fulwood's Roma Ruit c. 9. so it has been granted by the Church of England to her King ever since she was a Church except for those small spaces of time that the Pope usurp'd it after the Norman Conquest But in Henry VIII Reign it was fully resum'd and with the concurrence of all the Estates in Parliament resettled in the King And upon this principle our Reformation from all the other Popish corruptions was founded viz. that the King had the Supreme Power in the Nation and by that might protest against and reform all the Papal Abuses which had corrupted the Church and Kingdom And therefore those Sects and Parties of men amongst us the Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Quakers c. are not to be accounted of our Church because they deny the King's Supremacy But are Retainers still to the Church of Rome being not yet reform'd from this Romish corruption of subjecting the King to the Church Next as the Church is subject to the King so is the Parliament The Parliament is called by the King 's Writ And when they meet they own his Supremacy and promise Allegiance to him upon Oath During their Session they can make no Laws by themselves but onely advise propound and petition what may be for the good of the Nation And therefore are called the Great Council of it consisting of Three Estates The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and The Commons the latter of which is said not to have been before the Reign of Henry III. who required their presence to Stem the Tide of his Barons Rebellion And although since through a long Tract of Time and the concessions of some Kings they have a claim to certain privileges yet sure not to that of Supremacy or Coordination with their Prince For any or all of them to say they are above or equal with him is a contradiction as well in Reason as Terms For besides what is urg'd before they may be adjourn'd remov'd prorogu'd or dissolv'd as the King pleaseth They live and die are and are not by one breath of his mouth Whence he is said to be Principium Caput Finis Parliamenti And to put all out of doubt of it several Parliaments have in several Acts and Statutes acknowledged the King's Supremacy and Sovereignty over them addressing to him under the Title of our Gratious Sovereign and our Dread Sovereign Lord the King His Most Excellent Majesty c. calling themselves his most dutifull and Loyal subjects None ever denied it but the Long Parliament under King Charles I. which was therefore since by another declared to be a Rebel Parliament Lastly the King is not subject to the Coercive Power of the Law There is no Law made but with His Royal Assent And when the Law is in force it can have no power over him because the Authority it hath it receiveth from him both as to the Being and Execution of it He can in dubious cases interpret the meaning in severe cases remit the rigour and at any time suspend the penalty of the Law All Suits all Processes at Law all judicial proceedings whatsoever are from him All other our Magistrates Act by Commission from him and when he thinks good to recall his Commissions are no more than private persons without rule without power Hence was occasioned that Loyal Motto upon the Rings of some of our Late created Serjeants at the Law A Deo Rex à Rege Lex i. e. the Power the King hath is from God the Power the Law hath is from the King All this sure speaketh him not subject to the Coercive Power of the Law And what Although it be confess'd that at his Coronation he taketh an Oath before the People to Govern by the Law Yet is he not therefore Coordinate with or inferiour to the people or the Law because it giveth him no Right or Title to the Government The Right and Title

a deep melancholy seized closely upon him in which the Guilt of so much innocent Bloud as he had spilt might perhaps somewhat touch him but without doubt that which stuck nearest to him was his real consideration that he could never ascend to such a height of Sovereignty as his ambitious desires had long gaped after And these sorrows and perplexities of his restless mind meeting with some natural infirmities of his Body struck him into a sharp and severish distemper of which in a few days notwithstanding his own and his Chaplins Revelations to the contrary he died in great discomposure upon the same day of the month whereon he had been twice wonderfully victorious After his death his Carcase though it was artificially embowelled and embalmed with Aromatick Odours wrapt also in six-fold Cerecloth and put in a sheet of Lead with a strong wooden Coffin over it yet did it in a short time so strangely ferment that it burst all in pieces and became so noisome that they were immediately necessitated to commit it to the Earth and to celebrate his Funeral with an empty Coffin And here I cannot but add that his memory will ever stink as did his Body both equally loathsome and abominable to all Good Men. Wretch that he was who to perfect the sum of all his Villanies added this as the last Figure that when he had solemnly protested to take care for the safety and welfare of his Prince he brought him to the Block and struck off his Head before his own Royal Palace in the face of the Sun and the People and even then wip'd his mouth and said he had done no wickedness But neither yet had the Divine Vengeance left him For although he had at his death usurp'd the Sepulchre as in his life the Throne of a King yet he was not suffered to remain there in peace or to mix with Royal Dust but not long after his Interrment was dig'd up and drawn thence on a hurdle to Tyburn the place which he did best deserve and become where he hung stinking in his corruptions with as much Shame and Infamy as before he had lain in State and Grandeur a reproach to all prosperous wickedness and a scare-crow to Rebellion And this reminds us also of the inglorious ends of many of his Fellow-Trytours who died about that time by the hand of the Common Hangman and whose Head and Quarters are yet standing upon the Bridge or other places of our Metropolis as lasting monuments of their villany And happy had it been for some of later date if these or any other examples could have given them warning those late Rebells against King Charles II. many of whom we all know have had the same Fate with their predecessours to suffer the legal punishment due to their crimes And one of them to avoid the Hand of publick Justice as Achitophel and Zimri fell by his own became his own shamefull Executioner Thus you have seen from the beginning of the World to our own Age the Actours of Rebellion and Treason exemplarly punished But I deny not that there have been of old and yet are some Rebels and Traitours that go to their Graves in peace like other men dying natural and easie deaths Yet this ought not to be any plea for or encouragement to their wickedness because we see God hath given example enough to the contrary in terrorem to affright others from it And however it be as to this present World we are ascertain'd he hath awarded everlasting punishment to it in the next So we hear from St. See Dr. Hammond's Ann. on that place Paul in the verse following the Text They that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation Which in its utmost extent must necessarily mean that they who by force or violence do oppose their Lawfull Sovereign in this Life shall after this Life ended be condemn'd eternally to suffer the Torments of Hell Verily there is a God that judgeth in the Earth And though some of his Acts of Providence are here unsearcheable and past finding out by the short Line of Man's finite understanding yet in the next Life he will abundantly convince the World that he will doe right Psal 58.11 that he will as he hath said render to every man according to his deeds To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality Rom. 2.6 7 8 9. eternal Life But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the Truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil Therefore Sirs if you have any regard to the Commands of God if you have any regard to your Temporal and Eternal Happiness never resist the Lord 's Anointed never privately plot or publickly fight against your King It is to be feared that our present Sovereign will have the same enemies all his Ancestours had since the Reformation I mean the Fanatical part of the Nation who have been all along declar'd enemies to the Monarchy and the Church The Jesuits those creatures of Ignatius Loyola that were created on purpose to embroil and destroy every Reform'd Regal and Ecclefiastical Government and are accordingly sworn to it first instill'd their Antimonarchical and Schismatical principles into them and still under the disguise of holy and sanctified Brethren and fine pretences of Gifts of Prayer and Gifts of Preaching and the like intoxicating whedles they nourish and maintain the same And while they are willing to be deceiv'd and run into Conventicles where these poisons are infus'd notwithstanding the many Warnings they have had from the faithfull Ministers of our Church in printed Sermons and other Treatises what hope can we have of better things from them But be not you of them partake not with them in their sins least you partake with them in their punishments Remember always and follow that pertinent Advice of St. Paul Rom. 16.17 Mark them which cause Divisions and Offences contrary to the Doctrine which you have learned and avoid them And that of Solomon Prov. 24.24 My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Finally be ever ready to aid and assist the King against all his enemies whatsoever to the utmost of your powers and capacities And be ever praying for him that Almighty God would secure his Sacred Person from the secret conspiracies and the violent outrages of seditious bloud-thirsty-men that he would strengthen his Arm and render him perpetually able to make good his most gratious Promise to preserve the Government both in Church and State as 't is now by Law Established Grant this O Lord for the sake of thy Blessed Son by the powerfull Operation of thy Holy Spirit To whom be ascribed for ever all Power and Dominion Amen FINIS