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A80874	A sermon preached July 17. 1676. in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in York, before the Right Honourable Sir Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; and the Honourable Vere Bertie Esquire, one of the barons of the Exchequer; His Majesties judges of assize for the Northern Circuit By Thomas Cartwright D.D. and Dean of Ripon, chaplain in ordiary to His Majesty.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1676 (1676)	Wing C703A; ESTC R231183	17,951	45

Disorder and Dissolution 1. When there was no King in Israel who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the living Image of God the Tribe of Dan will have a dead Idol they break into Micha's House rob him of his Priest and and consecrated things and if you inquire how such Sacriledge Idolatry Felony and Burglary could escape their deserved punishment 'T is fully answered that there was no King in Judg. 18. 1 Israel no Heir of Restraint for so the King is called Vers 7. of that Chapter because He by his Inheritance is obliged to curb and restrain all headstrong Impieties and to cast up Boundaries against such overflowing Iniquities 2. At another time we read of an horrible Rape committed a Woman violently and shamefully abused by the extravagant Lust of barbarous Ruffians and the Spirit of God renders this also for the reason of that violent Vncleanness of Gibeah That there was no King in Israel 3. Lastly The Men of Benjamin became the bold Champions of Gibeah's Lewdness and being flesh'd with the double success of their evil cause they persisted in their Villany till all but six hundred were destroyed These surprized the Virgins dancing at Shiloth ravish'd them away by violence from their Parents and enforced them to Marriage of which Rape and Riot the reason rendred is the same as it was of the former In those days there was no King in Judg. 21. 23 25. Israel So that my Text you see is no single instance no particular strange casual or accidental Emergence but as it was in the beginning so it hath been ever since and will be undoubtedly to the Worlds end Where there is no King Gen. 36. 3. Deut. 33. 5 that is no ordinary Judge or Governour as the word is elsewhere taken every one will do that which is right in his own eyes My Text is made up of Confusion Anarchy and the sad Effects of it divide it and the World nor can you expect any perfect Method in the prosecution of such Disorders wherein we are concerned to take notice of these three Particulars I. The Tragical Antecedent wherein the great cause of Israels Miseries and from what remarkably fatal time they bore date is recorded In those days there was no King in Israel II. The Terrible Consequent or Israels dismal condition without their King Every one did that which was right in their own Eyes III. The Infallible Connexion between that Cause and this Effect the one is so intail'd upon the other that there is but an intermediate Comma hardly a breathing space between the loss of a King and Licentiousness Which makes the words by a clear Epiphonema to declare the great Benefit of a Legitimate King in Israel the Necessity of Laws and the Happiness of those People who live under such a Government as takes an impartial care of their execution which will bring the Text home from the Jews to the Gentiles from those in Israel to us in England Now the worst beginning that any Men living ever made was when we of this Nation began to be a weary of our Late Martyr'd Sovereign that being the fatal time from whence we may experimentally derive the Original Cause of all ours as the Holy Spirit hath here done of Israels Miseries which I therefore term 1. The Tragical Antecedent In those days there was no King in Israel After Sampson's death there was an Inter-regnum not under Othoniel but between Sampson's and Eli's Government to which Drusius and Tremellius think this instance relates Others say there was no Supream and continual ordinary Magistrate over the whole body of the People for the Judges were extraordinary raised at Gods pleasure over a part of the People and without absolute Authority and therefore the People Judg. 2. 17 would not hearken unto them because their Power was only of Direction not of Dominion they could counsel but not correct them There were at that time many Task-masters over Israel but no King in it Now the King is of as publick and universal Influence in his Dominions as is the Sun in the Firmament He being the Publick Ballancer of each Private Interest with which he is intrusted as the proper Guardian of Equity and Justice Custos utriusque Tabulae to whose Sacred Custody God hath committed the Two Tables of the Law and intrusted Him to see that we live soberly among our selves religiously towards God and righteously towards our Neighbours Rerum prima Salus una Caesar. Martial l. 8. Epigr. 65. He is the principal Pillar upon which the Stress of his Kingdom lies and as the King doth not live Sibi sed Populo so neither doth He die to his own but to their disadvantage and though ten thousand others might steal out of the World and no body mind or miss them yet the Loss of Him will be as soon felt as the plucking up of a substantial Stake out of a rotten Hedge or the removal of a Buttress from a declining Wall And when this Tutelar Angel of a Kingdom is recall'd 't is time for the Inhabitants to tremble for fear of the Destroying Angel's coming among them A King will be suddenly and soundly miss'd not only in Edom but in Israel which will quickly turn to a Babel without him in as much as that very Law by which we hold our Lives and Liberties will be but a Dead Letter unless it have his Authority to actuate and enliven it For let the Rule be never so strait and perfect it measureth nothing out of his Hand who hath skill to use it and when the Law hath defined what is Right or Wrong there will want a Judge to sentence for the Plaintiff or Defendant and let the Directive Power of the Law be never so good it must of necessity fall to the ground if there be not a co-active to assist it Libertas Libertate Perit to live as we please would be the ready way to lose our Liberty and undo our selves Tyranny it self were infinitely more tolerable than such an unbridled Liberty For that like a Tempest might throw down here and there a fruitful Tree but this like a Deluge would sweep away all before it and Confusion hath ever been found so much worse than the hardest Subjection and even the most corrupt Government so much better than a Civil War that it was over-ruled in Nerva's time by Fronto the Consul Melius est sub his Cardan Encom Neron c. 5 esse sub quibus nihil licet quam sub quibus omnia That it is better to live under the severest Prince where every Suspicion is made a Crime and every Crime Capital than to have none at all but a lawless Anarchy And therefore the want of a King of which Israel so much complains is a complicated Mischief involving many thousand Evils in it and such as are not to be calculated by any single person but we must all lay our heads together to sum them up which