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A10113	A sermon briefly comparing the estate of King Salomon and his subiectes togither with the condition of Queene Elizabeth and her people preached in Sainct Maries in Oxford the 17. of Nouember, and now printed with some small alteration, by Iohn Prime, 1585	Prime, John, 1550-1596.	1585 (1585)	STC 20371; ESTC S115247	10,727	32

wisedom of God Kings raigne that is they beare their scepters and weare their swordes and sit in their thrones BY ME they raigne And great reason wee thus iudge of Soueraigne authoritie All thinges in the world the least the vilest the least of account the leafe of a flower the fall of a sparowe the feather of a bird the foode of rauens the fodder of oxen the brissell of a hogge as Augustine speaketh the teares of our eies and colour of our haire come all within the span and compasse of God almighties power-full doing and particular direction Nowe he that careth for litle thinges is he carelesse of the greatest He that careth for the haire he can not but care for the body and hee that careth for the bodie careth for the head and he that respecteth the bodie the head the haire the whole the parts great and lesse principall and excrementall of priuate men without all question regardeth much more the bodie politike and the heade of the common-wealth Rom. 13.1 1. Pet. 2.13 All autoritie is of God and therefore kinglie most of all euen as all the waters ishue from the Ocean but more immediatlie the great riuers This speach were vtterly needlesse were wee not fallen into the waining of the world Iude 8. wherein S. Iudes reprehension may iustly take place when men are not onely despisers of gouernours as Shimei was of Dauid 2. Sam. 16.5 but euill speakers and misconsterers of authoitrie it selfe and soueraigne gouernment in the highest degree Treason against the Prince is no sinne against God saith Euerard Hance as you may reade in the wise and True report of the Arrainment and execution of the Popish Traitor Euerard Hance alias Ducket Our present storie of the enthronizing of Salomon informeth vs better teacheth vs a contrary lesson and sheweth plainly whence princely gouernment is deriues and doth depend I know Berzabe Salomons mother Dauid his Father Nathan the Prophet Zadock the Priest were all for Salomon But Adoniah was the elder brother and Salomon the yonger Abiathar the high priest annointed Adoniah and not Salomon Salomons mother was a blemished woman and Adoniah was in a kinde of real possession of the kingdom and what humane meanes can we imagine then could hinder him and them and helpe Salomon to remedie all Ioab a great man and a mightie for valour cunning and courage would venter limme life and had set his rest vppon the cause Wherfore Bennaiah when he saw how the world went 1. Reg. 1.36 yet on the contrary side perceiuing how Dauid was resolued that Salomon for al this shold succeed wished from his heart it might be so So bee it said he not contented therewith addeth after in few but effectual words praying The Lord God of the Lord my king ratifie it As if he should haue saide Berzabe Zadocke Nathan and I yea Dauid himselfe would haue it so but God say so to For if God say no it can not be but if he say so notwithstanding all vnlikelihoods if God ratified it it shall stande and must be so A worthy and a wise and a true saying and to conclude this matter most agreeable to the Psalme Promotion commeth neither from the East nor the West No Psal 75.6 my brethren nor from the north nor south The Lord of Lordes and king of kinges and gouernour of all thinges ruleth ouerruleth al in al specially al these cases of regiment euen by his plenary power and at his owne and absolute pleasure as hath beene vouched in generall and in particular is declared that his meere loue to Prince and people it was that placed Salomon disappointed Adoniah But in sooth is it such a blessing so great a benefit proceeding all of loue to bee a king Howe saith one that the Princely cloke is lined all within with pinnes and pricking needles An other that a crown is not worth the stouping for A thirde that if profer were made necessarily to accept either present death or the Princely Diademe he would make willing choice rather to go straitway to his graue than any way to the chaire of estate And because domestical examples touch neerest affect most our soueraine careful queene the Lordes annointed ouer vs in an exhortation to her councell and iudges for a due consideration ouer her people amōg other words euer to be remēbred of their honors hath these of her selfe I care not for my selfe my life is not deere vnto me My care is for my people In. B. Iewels view of the Bull. I pray god who euer succeedeth me he as care full as I am They who might know what cares I beare would not thinke it so great a ioy to weare the crowne In the booke of Iudges the ninth chapter there is a parable and a storie to this purpose read you the story Iudges 9. I will touch onely the parable In deede the sweete figge tree the pleasant vine the fatte oliue refused preferment when it was offered But beloued figtrees vines and Oliues are geisen and rare grow not in euery ground The scratching brāble that is rife common in euery hedge redily accepteth the offer willed al the trees to come vnder his shadow without straining cursie at the matter Generally Adams children some more some lesse almost al haue some desire to ride the horse they cānot manage 2. Sam. 15. Absalō in this affectiō embezelleth the harts of the subiects from his own most louing father Hester 6.6 Aman blown vp with this winde would needes ride the kingly horse and weare the Princely robe and ring with sound of trumpet proclamation made in open sight Thus shall the man be honoured whom the king will honor Cyprian de Ten. Ierunio Yea ambition saith Cyprian sleepeth and lodgeth in the bosom of Priestes No no Cyprian lodge it may but where it lodgeth it can not sleepne maketh men wake when other mē sleepe Neither will I wander abroade for proafe hereof It caused Yorke to striue with Canterburie Cardinal Woolsey and Canterburie often to struggle with the king and Yorke againe of later yeares it made to bee against and for the Pope and lastly to the end to be Pope himselfe he would venter all England as the Pope doth alwaies al Christendome to maintaine his triple crowne Philarchie lust for honour and loue of imperie troubled not onely some single men Nazian ad Procop. but as in Nazianzens time whole councels were so sea-sick with this passiō that Nazianzenes quiet nature was fully resolued neuer to resort to such distem pered assemblies But if it be thus in the priest hood much worse it can not choose but be in their minds whose life is a worldly glory whose only desire is to be aloft to be the monarks if it bee but of a mole-hill and yet some whole dominions are to litle for some sometimes meaner men of lower lot