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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

Question is resolved by that Reverned Person But blessed be God there is no reason to ask this Question calculated onely for the Meridian of a bloudy Antichristian Covenant or Association It is a Question as unseasonable now as it is at all times improper for a Disciple of the Son of God who never needs the Arm of flesh to defend his cause But because the evil of punishment is usually the surest conviction of the evil of sin to satisfie you fully of the wickedness of Treason and Rebellion upon all Accounts whatsoever I shall here take leave to observe a while their direfull and tremendous consequences or the signal punishments that have attended them recorded both in sacred and civil Story for our Admonition Many of the Instances of sacred Story are collected to our hands by Sir Edw. Short View of late Troub p. 650. Coke And I will give you them in that order as they are lately recited from him by Sir William Dugdale It appears saith he in the Holy Scriptures that Traitours never prospered what good soever they pretended but were most severely and exemplarily punished as Corah Dathan and Abiram by miracle The ground clave asunder that was under them Num. 16.31 32.27.3 and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses and all the men that appertained unto Corah and all their goods they and all that appertained to them went down alive into the Pit and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the Congregation Athaliah the Daughter of Amri who Massacred all the seed Royal of Judah except 2 Kin. 11.16 one Infant which was conceal'd from her and so for seven years usurp'd the Crown was at length slain by the sword Bigthan and Terish Esth 2.23 who sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus were both hanged on a Tree Absalom 2 Sam. 18.9.14 in Rebellion against his Father David was hanged in an Oak and Joab took three darts in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the Oak Achitophel the promoter of that Rebellion hanged himself and died 2 Sam. 17.23 Abiathar the High Priest 1 King 2.26 27. who had been Traiterous against King Solomon was thrust out from being Priest unto the Lord though he had his life indeed granted him because he had bore the Ark before David and had been afflicted in all wherein David was afflicted Shimei who had curs'd and cast stones at David 1 King 2.46 was slain at last by the hands of Benaiah at the command of Solomon Zimri 1 King 16.18 that kill'd Elah his King and Master and all the House of Baasha that he might Reign securely after seven days Reign to save himself from the hands of Omri was forced to burn the Palace over his own head and there perish'd in the flames Theudas a Mutineer in Israel Act. 5.36 37. boasting himself to be some body to whom a number of men about four hundred joyned themselves was slain and all as many as obeyed him were scattered and brought to nought And Judas of Galilee who rose up after him in the days of Taxing and drew away much people after him he also perished and all even as many as obeyed him were dispersed These examples we have in sacred Scripture of the disastrous events which have attended Rebels and Regicides Other History is as full of them For as men of such profligate spirits have never been wanting in the World so God hath never been wanting to make examples of them The Plotters and Actours of the Assassination of Julius Caesar Sueton. vit Juli Caesar though they escap'd the legal punishment which the Senate condemn'd them to yet being pursued by Divine Nemesis died all immature and unnatural deaths some of them stabbing themselves with the same Dagger they had stab'd Caesar Pope Gregory VII Otho Frising Chr. l. 6. c. 35. the first Pope that took the impudence to excommunicate and depose Kings having stirr'd up the Princes of Germany against the Emperour Henry IV. and by them endeavouring his utter Ruine was during the Contest by the consent of his own people turn'd out of the Papacy and at length by a sense of his own miseries upon his death-bed forced to confess and lament his crime Sigeb Ann. 1084. imputing it to the instigation of the Devil This we may believe from the Relation which Sigebert gives of it Ibid. Ann. 1085. who lived at that time though Bellarmin many years after charges him with a lie Bell. de Scrp. Eccl. p. 215. for no other reason but because he was Loyal to the Emperour Radolph Duke of Suevia Vespergens Ann. 1080. the great instrument of that Pope in the War against the Emperour lost his Right Hand and received some other mortal wounds of which being ready to die he bitterly bewail'd his wickedness and sighing observ'd to the by-standers that he had lost that Hand in the Rebellion against his Sovereign with which he had sworn Allegiance to him I might produce many other instances from Foreign Histories but I chuse here to divert to a few Observations which the aforesaid English Authour makes upon some Traitours of our own Countrey because they probably will the most affect you Montfort Earl of Leicester saith he the principal Actour in the great Rebellion against Henry III. Short View of late the Trou p. 599. with his Eldest Son Henry was slain at the Fight near Evesham his head hands and feet were cut off by the fury of the Souldiers and though his body through the charity of others was buried in the Abbey the common people out of high indignation towards him who had been the chief instrument of misery to the whole Realm dig'd it up and carried it to a more remote place esteeming it unworthy of Christan Burial by reason it had been so much infected with the Leprosie of Rebellion Neither did the judgment for his iniquities terminate here but pursued his two other Sons Guy and Simon who being escap'd out of Prison got into France and there endeavouring to bring in Foreign Forces ended their days in misery As for his Complices most of them perished in that Battel at Evesham and the rest excepting one were taken prisoners and disherited But afterwards through the King 's special favour restored to their Lands upon several Fines according to the measure of their offences And that which he relateth also of Oliver Cromwell that Arch-Traitour against Charles I. is as remarkably judicial Immediately upon Cromwell's Murthering the Reverend Dr. Huit p. 456. his Beloved Daughter Claypole was perplext with such an excessive Grief of mind that falling into a sharp fit of sickness wherein crying out against her Father for Dr. Huit's death she died with the most bitter torments imaginable Which death of hers was the forerunner to that of this wicked Tyrants for soon after

in a little than whom we cannot expect we cannot wish we cannot pray for a better And I question not but his Memory will be ever pretious with us and we shall never mention him now dead but with that respect and honour that we serv'd him when alive Onely here I would advise that we reflect not on him as men without hope but as we look with an eye of sorrow back upon him so that with an eye of joy we would look forward upon his Successour our present King James II. by a true Lineal descent seated upon the Throne of his Fathers that we would hope from him all the generous Actions of his Ancestours We shall be very ungratefull and unworthy if we doe otherwise For this most Serene Prince hath more than once expos'd his Life to the mouth of the devouring Cannon and the as merciless Sea for our preservation And since the Death of his Royal Brother hath been pleas'd to give his Royal Word to preserve this Government both in Church and State as 't is now by Law Established A distrust of that would be an odious suspicion of his want of the sense of Conscience and Honour It would be likewise an impious distrust of God's Good Providence over us For we are told by Solomon Prov. 21.1 The King's Heart is in the Hand of the Lord as the Rivers of Water He turneth it whethersoever he will So much to our first Inference Secondly Kings having their Being and Authority from God are to be obey'd So St. Paul argues in this first verse of his 13th Chap. to the Romans Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers for there is not Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God And the like at the 4th verse c. He is the Minister of God a Revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil wherefore ye must needs be subject not onely for wrath but also for Conscience sake For for this cause pay ye Tribute also for they are God's Ministers attending continually on this very thing Render therefore to all their Dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custome to whom Custome Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour So then every subject is to pay Obedience to his Prince as being the Minister of God No man no order of men can plead exemption or dispensation from it For the words are general and indefinite and being of a moral nature comprehend all Potentates and all Subjects in all times and places This is the sense of the most ancient and learned Commentatours upon the place And according to them that of St. Peter in his 1 Epistle and 2 Chap. Hath the same extent and meaning where he bids Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that doe well For so is the will of God that with well-doeing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men But these Apostolical precepts must be understood to extend no farther than to things warrantable by a previous Law of God For if a King command or enact any thing that is contrary to what God hath already declar'd to be his will therein the Subject is to not yield obedience to him The reason of it is because God is Superiour to the King and all the Authority the King hath he hath received from God And therefore no good Christian will nor ought to obey his Prince any farther than it may be consistent with his primary duty to God And the Apostolical practice herein is a good comment upon the Doctrine When some of the Apostles were commanded by the Sanhedrim of the Jews not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus Act. 4.19 they gave this Answer Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye for we cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard And afterward when they charged them with neglect and disregard of their commands saying did we not straitly command you that you should not teach in this name Act. 5.29 and Behold you have fill'd Jerusalem with your Doctrine they answer'd and said We ought to obey God rather than men The like to which had been done before by some holy men of God under the old Testament When King Nebuchandnezzar had set up a Golden Image and had made a decree that every person under his Government should fall down and worship it Dan. 3.18 and that he that deny'd it should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace Shadrach Meshach and Abednego would not regard his Decree and told him they would not serve his Gods nor worship the Golden Image which he had set up And when King Darius had Dan. 6.7 10. Established a Royal Statute that whosoever should ask a Perition of any God or Man for thirty days save of himself he should be cast into a den of Lyons The Prophet Daniel when he knew the King had sign'd this writing went into his house and his window being open in his chamber he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks unto his God as he did aforetime From all which it is evident that the Commands of a King are obligatory to every Subject except where they cantradict the Commands of God and then the Subject may lawfully deny the performance of them But then he ought to be well satisfyed by serious and deliberate examination of the matter that what he so refuseth bears a real contrariety to the Commands of God For a Conscience not thus rectify'd cannot justifie any such refusal These Holy Men indeed now mention'd deny'd obedience to the commands of their Governours but First they were truly satisfied that in performing of them they should directly violate the Laws of God And after all if a man cannot with any satisfaction to his soul to give an Active Obedience to the Laws of his Prince yet he must yield a Passive Obedience i.e. if he cannot with a good Conscience doe the Law he must quietly suffer the penalty of it he must not refist his Prince with force or violence but patiently submit to the punishments he shall inflict upon him This is a Doctrine that is harsh to flesh and bloud and so indeed are most of the Doctrines of the Gospel but is as clearly the Christian's duty as any other there revealed St. Paul is as urgent for this Passive Obedience as for the Active in the verse following the Text. Whosoever therefore saith he resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation And so is St. Peter in the words following those afore-cited from him Servants be subject to your Masters with all fear not onely to the good and