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A28855	Gods goodnesse in crowning the King declared in a sermon in the church of Kingston upon Hull, on the happy day of the coronation of His Sacred Majesty Charls the Second, April the 23d, 1661 / by Edward Boteler ...	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing B3801; ESTC R19494	30,533	78

in more sober times was never an exemption from obedience Nay the Canonists go further Excommunicatio Domini non liberat vassalum à Sacramento Ministers may excommunicate Princes Buchanan de jur Reg. p. 70. The Excommunication of a King if such could be and it is too well known whose fingers itch to have such a power in their hands doth not free a Subject from his Oath and obedience It matters not what Sanders a ranting Romanist asserts An heretical King is no King Nor do we value that venemous Quacunque arte of Mariana it is lawful sayes he but it is but he that sayes it by any artifice trick or cunning to remove Kings that stand in the way Compare Knox and Buchan with Card. Bel. Emon Sa. Petra Sancta and other Jesuites And I know not whether our Schismatiques come in as seconds or do not rather out-do all in their damnable positions witness Muncer that notorious and incomparable Impostor who pretended to a conference with God and a Commission from him to kill Kings destroy the wicked such as his sense makes so and begin a new world of Saints Eph. 4.20 But we have not so learned Christ An unchristian'd Greek was better taught than so who calls a King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the lively image of God the Preserver of all things And Tertullian sayes so much for the very Gentiles Caesarem majori formidine observatum à Gentilibus quàm ipsum de Olympo Jovem They looked on Caesar with greater reverence than Jupiter To shorten this Our histories tell us that Eleutherius wrote to King Lucius by whose means the heavenly light and brightness of Christianity first shone upon this Island Camd. Brit p. 67. as saith our Antiquary Vos estis Dei Vicarius You are God's Vicegerent in your Kingdom Kings are all so They are his Representatives here below He communicates his own name and stile to them that men may know they are anointed with the Oyle of gladness above their fellows and learn to look on Majesty as a very transcript of Divinity This Crown of pure gold commends the King's Dignity That 's first 2. It commands the Subjects Duty The Crown layes claim to our obedience And though the Donatists of old whom a peevish Canne in his V●trom the Temple that Vox praeterea nihil and impertinent Trifle of the late mad world was not ashamed to call honest and our Donatists under new names would fain find out some subterfuges and plead an exemption yet they run full upon the mouth of that Canon of the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.1 Let every soul be subject E●●ad E●●sc Senond Every soul without exception Qui tentat excipere tentat decipere So Saint Bernard concludes He that would except would deceive He that with the sons of Belial dares ask 1 Sam. 10. What is Saul that he should reign over us will not stick in time Job 21.15 to question with the Atheist in Job What is the Almighty that we should serve him Our own late experiences evince this abundantly and are a sad proof of it These are those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The blots and blemishes the Scab and scandal to all Religion Such unruly principles and practices have made Christianity suffer opening the mouths of Julian and Porphyrie and such like scoffers to declaim against it as an enemy to all order and government It was the commendation of the Christians good subjects to Antonine no very good Emperor that they did Inservire laeti they did him cheerful service how much more then shall the best of Kings command ready obedience even from the worst of Subjects I hope I may save the labour of an exhortation in this place K. Charles the first before the Gates of Hull on St. George's day 1642. if I do but call to your remembrance who it was which this day nineteen years stood before your gates Much good may the meditation do you thoughts of it had need make you more than penitents Nor will I draw Arguments of obedience to you from the King or his Crown the name of your Town dedicates you to him Kingston super Hull and the very Arms of your Corporation are Monitors of your loyalty where lest one should not serve you have no less than three Crowns to put you in mind of your duty The Crown commands duty And be that enough for the second particular in this latter general part of the Text. The Crown on the King's head of pure gold Come we now to the third and last The hand of God setting that Crown of pure gold upon the head of the King Thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head Thou Dan. 5.21 And who could do it but he He is the most high and ruleth in the kingdom of men Ch. 2.37 and appointeth over it whomsoever he will The God of Heaven hath given thee a kingdom power and strength and glory sayes Daniel who was Privy-Counsellor to two Monarchies and Principal Secretary to four Kings and so had the advantage to observe their successions alterations and disposals God is the great Moderator of Heaven and Earth the Original of Dominion is in him he is the only arbitrary and indisputable disposer of all the Diadems of the world He setteth on the Crown By me Kings reign Prov. 8.15 Psal 89.39 and Princes decree justice He taketh off the Crown Thou hast prophaned his Crown by casting it to the ground Thou settest it on by thy Commissive and Ordinative he sets it not on himself by thy permissive Will He takes it fairly from thy hand does not seize it by any hand of craft or cruelty It is the happiness of a people when their King hath a Crown of God's setting on Usurpers are their grievance make them complain as the Romans of Pompey the great Miseria nostra Magnus est Thou settest it on And who hath such cause to say so as we Men and Brethren let me speak freely unto you if ever Crown was set on by the immediate hand of God it is that upon the King's head this day Isa 52.10 Never did the Lord so make bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the Nation never did this end of the earth see such salvation of our God I appeal to his most inveterate Oppugners who were wont to argue the righteousness of their cause from the Topick of their success and victories Deut. 32.31 Ch. 4.32 whether their Rock be as our Rock even our enemies themselves being judges For ask now of the dayes that are past which were before us since the day that God created man upon the earth and ask from one side of Heaven unto the other whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is or hath been heard like i● When they were as numerous and as haughty as Senacherib vaunting that they were enow with the

2.10 That his Adversaries may be broken in pieces and that he will thunder out of Heaven upon them That he will give strength to the King and exalt the horn of his anointed that so the King may yet joy in his strength Psal 84 9● and greatly rejoice in his salvation Behold O God our shield and look upon the face of thine anointed The children of Edom are waiting for another day of Hierusalem and as smooth as they look and speak with Jael's butter and milk Judg. 4.18 and a Turn in my Lord turn in to us and fear not it is to be feared they have a nail for those temples which God of his preventing goodness keep out of their hands Let my Lord the King live and this fear be to his enemies And so I shall ha' done with the first general part of the Text The Conservation of the King Thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness Come we now to the Second that which we are come with this great and unusual pomp to solemnize The Coronation of the King Thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head And here that we may make this second part match and run a paralel with the first we shall take notice of three expressions which heighten the mercy of his Coronation as those other did of his Conservation 1. The King's head crowned 2. The crown upon that head gold pure gold 3. The hand of God setting that crown of gold upon that head Thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head 1. Upon his head Not upon any one member no nor upon any five members neither no nor yet upon the whole body For by the undoubted fundamental Laws of this Kingdom neither the Peers of the Realm nor the Commons nor both together in Parliament nor the people collectively or representatively nor any other persons whatsoever ever had hath or ought to have any coercive power over the persons of the Kings of this Realm Dated J●● 25. 1660. As the Royal pen informs us in a late Proclamation and hath enacted it also at the request of the late Parliament that our heels may no more stand where our head should be Upon his head as fittest for Vision Provision 1. The head is fittest for Vision Eccles 2.14 A wise man's eyes are in his head And well had it been for us if ours had been believed to be there when time was probably we had not seen the miseries and direful effects of the late Warres We were so sagacious and quick-sighted we could see things before they were in their causes our members would needs see more than our head and so we ran blind-folded into confusion The eyes of a people are in their King as in their head and they that are without him witness our late selves are but like Sampson without his eyes fit for nothing but to make the Philistines sport Judg. 16.25 It is a sign their brains are scarce in their heads that think their eyes would do well any where else Upon his head for Vision 2. Upon his head for Provision The head is Providore and Purveyor for the whole body The welfare of the body depends mostly upon the Wisdom and Council upon the dictates and directions of the head The body supports the head by its strength and the head supplyes the body by its providence A Church or State without this head is like an Orphan or fatherless Infants So that promise intimates Erunt Reges nutricij hij And Kings shall be thy Nursing Fathers Isa 49.23 and their Queens thy Nursing Mothers Oeconomi tui as some render it making the Church and Common-wealth the Family of the Prince upon whom lies the whole care and governance of it to order it and provide for it Upon his head as fittest for provision That 's a second Upon his head This being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both for Order and for honor's sake Or if you please Upon his head Imports The heighth of his place and The weight of his employment 1. The heighth of his place Head denotes chiefdom and pre-eminence The chief of their Tribes and Families which the Vulgar Latin all along calls Principes our Translation renders Heads Princes are Heads Mic. 3.1 Hear O Heads of Jacob and ye Princes of the house of Israel It may be said of Saul in his place as well as his person that he is Altior universo populo ab humero sursum Higher by the head than all the people Rex omnibus major Deo solo minor was good divinity in Tertullian's dayes though the iniquity of ours had almost dasht it out of countenance with that ridiculous Maxim of our new Statists Confuted by Bodin●s de Repub. l. 1. cap. 8. Major singulis minor universis The King is above all and under God only He is Homo Deo secundus in the same Father's phrase A man second to God Nay be it spoken with reverence He is a God of the second sort 1 Tim 1.17 Psal 82.6 Deus est immortalis Rex Rex mortalis Deus God is an immortal King and the King is a mortal God This is Scripture language and I hope we may speak it without suspicion of flattery The height of the King's place that 's the first import of his head 2. The weight of his employment The trouble of Government lies most in the head Others may have their hands but the King commonly hath his head full This made Antigonus say to his son Regnum nostrumest servitus splendida A Kingdom is but a glorious servitude A finer kind of trouble No wonder if Saul hid himself among the stuff 1 Sam. 10 2● and chose rather to obscure his head among the baggage than offer it to the Crown of Israel if he foresaw the burden of business and incumbrance which he was like to put on with it Indeed could that Bellua multorum capitum be tamed and all Wood made Mercury Would the Rout be refined and ingenuity be found among the Rabble Were there hopes to meet with a Nation as tractable as David found his countreymen of Judah Whose hearts he bowed 2 Sam. 19.14 even as the heart of one man Then Facile est imperium in bones Pla●t as the Comedian Good men are easily governed But the depravity of nature the pride avarice and ambition of men hath made them so mutinous and unruly that government is become a weight big enough for head and shoulders and all Isa 9.6 Therefore that Principatus super humerum in the Prophet The Government shall be upon his shoulder does not only allude to the Scepter and Sword and other symbols of Authority Praeto●ibus a●te ibant ●●c●ores cum f●scibas Cic. carried upon the shoulder as the Romane Fasces were before the Magistrate but speaks government it self to be a weight requiring more than an ordinary strength to undergo it