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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51533	The honour of kings vindicated and asserted In a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sr. Patrick Drummond, late Conservator of the Priviledges of the Scots nation in the Netherlands, togeter [sic] with a considerable number of merchants, masters, and common sea-men from several places, the 3. of May 1661. stilo novo, being his Majesties coronation day. By Mr. Thomas Mowbray Minister of the Gospel at the Stapel-Port in Camp-veet.	Mowbray, Thomas, minister of the Gospel.	1663 (1663)	Wing M2995A; ESTC R217897	16,640	25

the greatest Princes in Christendom so far is he from giving that honour which our Text requires Use 2. Again to be condemned are the Anabaptists and generally the whole body of the Fanaticks who liking best an Anarchy like untamed Horses also lifts up their heels against Government they will acknowledge no King but King Jesus but certainly if they did acknowledge him they would also acknowledge those who are sent of him for all the Powers that he are ordained of God As upon the one hand a Popular Government which they aime at is burdensome where in stead of one King many Kings are set up which is a great Judgment and hurts the Commonwealth as when many Master-Pilots desire to hold the Rudder they hinder one another and therefore that Commonwealth where many will rule unlesse it be subordinatly one under another is like Plinies Amphisbena a Serpent which had a head at each end of her body and while both strived which should be the Master-head the body was toyled miserably and at length torn and rent loathsomly So upon the other side no King is a Judgment for when there is no King every one would be a King one cause of great confusion and disorder as we to our sad experieence have seen of late when there was no King in our Israël and therefore it may be noted as a just wonder Prov. 30. that the Grass-hoppers have no King yet they go forth by bands for the body of the Commonwealth which wants a chief Ruler is like the body of Polyphemus without an eye and in such a State Men like Fishes dovour one another But let the Anabaptists and the rest of that confused rable say and pretend what they please against Kings and chief Governours yet we see that in all their Insurrections and Rebellions popular equality hath been alwaies burdensom unto them and therefore they have alwaies appointed one to be Head over the rest who like Beelzebub amonst the Devils guids and rules all as Cromwell that notable Imposture and Arch-Traitor did of late Use 3. Thirdly Must we Honour the King Then let every one of us inforce upon our own hearts an increase of care and Conscience in acknowledging the Honour and Right of Kings and a loyal and sincere observance and obedience to their Laws I think I need not use many motives to prove this remember what I have said and you shall find them motives sufficient I shall ad a few more 1. Honour the King for the Lords sake which imports both the cause and maner of it Kings are ordainded by God and who is so blind that may not see Gods miraculous hand in setting up our King and therefore for his sake who hath thus set him up honour and obey him 2. God hath commanded that we should Honour our King therefore do it for the respect of that Duty we owe unto God 3. God hath indued him with a Soveraignty and a great Majesty he hath subdued the People wonderfully under him and that without blood except of a few who have perished in the gainsaying of Core this Soveraignty and Majesty is Gods Image this hath made him a little God upon earth therefore Honour him 4. God hath been gratious to us in restoring our King therefore for the love we bear to him who hath laid upon us this Duty let us in requital of his goodness obey him in Honouring the King 5. Gods Glory will be much advanced and our Profession well spoken off if we will Honour our King and live as loyal and obedient Christians if not we dishonour God and brings great storms of wrath upon our selves by the fury of Princes 6. We must give an account to God for our cariage towards our King as well as for our behaviour towards the Lord himself let us therefore Honour our King Lastly Our King is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh he is of the same Protestant Religion with us he hath been the greatest Sufferer of all his People this way every faithful Subject who has been a Sufferer in these times are interessed in the King but I adde he hath been a Sufferer by his own and for his own and shall we not then for all this Honour him Did he not stand immovable as a Rock against all temptations to draw him to Popery during his Exile and should we not Honour him for this Let us then indeavour by all means to give him all the Honour that is due unto him no more to rebel against him nor to assist by any meane no not by advice or counsel any of his Enemies but let us rather learn to submit our selves unto him and to obey him for that is the chiefest Honour we can give unto him 1. Let us obey him from the heart because God has an Interest in this Service 2. Let us obey him with fear because God will be an avenger of disobedience 3. Though our Obedience and Subjection should be to our loss or discredit or hurt any way yet for the Lords sake we should do it If we thus obey him we Honour him and by this means shall the Crown be long continued with him and we and our Posterity shall enjoy many good dayes under his happy Reign and Government which God grant Amen God save the King MIDDELBURGH Printed by Thomas Berry dwelling near the English Exchange 1663.