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A47772	The blessing of Iudah explained, and applied to the present times, in a sermon preached at S. Maries, Oxford, March 27, 1644 : being the anniversary of His Majesties inauguration to his crowne ... : wherein by Henry Leslie ...	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1644 (1644)	Wing L1161; ESTC R21216	30,794	49

was given him from above but if he had received his power from the people Christ should have said De subter not De super The judgement which they execute is Gods saith Moses Deut. 1.17 and they iudge not for man but for the Lord that is in the Lords place saith Iehosaphat 2 Chron. 19.6 They are Gods Ministers even 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.4 which is a name peculiar to Church-Officers so termed because they are Gods Deputies or Lieutenants upon earth appointed to procure not onely the temporall but also the eternall happinesse of the People by planting and preserving the true service of God This was acknowledged by Popes in ancient times for Pope Eleutherius writing to Lucius the first Christian King in Britaine termed him Gods Vicar within his Kingdome so did Pope Anastasius stile Anastasius Caesar but it is not my purpose at this time to speake of the Kings Power in Causes Ecclesiasticall but onely to prove that they are advanced by God and receive their power from him for which I have yet a cloud of witnesses to produce The making of a King is ascribed to God 1 Kings 3.7 And now O Lord my God saith Solomon thou hast made thy servant King instead of David my father The providing of a King is ascribed unto God 1 Sam. 16.1 For I have provided me a King The setting up of a King belongeth unto God for this Moses prayed before his death Numb 27.16 Let the Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation where we shall do well to marke the stile which is given to God The God of the spirits of all flesh as he is the God of the spirits of all flesh that is of the soules of all men so is he the God who sets a man over the Congregation now God is the Authour of the soule of man immediately by creation and infusion albeit an humane act do intervene so is he the Authour of regall power immediately though some humane acts do intervene to the investing of the King with that power So God after Moses death set Ioshua over the Congregation and all that succeeded him in that charge Samuel said of Saul Behold the Lord hath set a king over you 1. Sam. 12.13 where he useth the same phrase which is used of Christ and of his kingdome Psal 2.6 I have set my king upon my holy hill of Sion We know that no man had a hand in constituting Christ King over his Church so the advancement of Saul was not from men but from God And least you should thinke that this was peculiar unto the Kings of the Iewes who were Gods owne People and he their King in a speciall manner I must shew unto you that all other Kings as well as they are advanced by God He anointed Hazael to be King over Syria 1 Kings 19.15 He gave unto Cyrus all the kingdomes of the earth as he himselfe confesseth 2. Chron. 36.23 Ezra 1.2 As God gave these kingdomes to Cyrus so before he had given them unto Nebuchadnezzar as the Lord himselfe testifieth Ier. 27.6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar c. And Ezech. 29.19 Behold I will give the land of Aegypt unto Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar not knowing s● 〈◊〉 was ●●●ed to converse with beasts untill he 〈…〉 this lesson that he had received the kingdome dominion and power from God Dan. 4. Kings in Scripture are called Gods Kings and the Lord 's Anointed Christi Domini and Christi eius above twenty times but we no where reade Christi Populi nor Christi Pontificis to shew that they are dependent from none but from God onely and that stile is given unto Heathen Kings as well as to the Kings of Iudah as namely unto Cyrus Isay 45.1 Yea that all Kings are advanced by God and receive their power from him is fully declared by God in that message which he sent to the Kings of Edom Moab Ammon Tyrus and Zidon by the hand of the messengers Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel thus shall yee say unto your Masters I have made the earth the man and the beast that are upon the ground by my great power and by my out-stretched arme and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me Ier. 27. vers 3 4 5. The son of Syrach speaketh universally of all Kings Ecclus. 17.17 In the division of the Nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every People He saith nor that he set Rulers but a Ruler for God did not institute a Democracy nor Aristocracy but a Monarchy and it was not the People who set a Ruler over them but God set a Ruler over the People and this was universall over every People in the division of the Nations of the whole earth onely Israel is excepted whom God reserved to be under his own immediate command as it followeth in that Text But Israel is the Lords portion In a word it is God that giveth Kings that chooseth them that anoints them that adopts them that exalts them we have them all in the Psalme 89. And therefore Solomons wisedome exhorts Kings after this manner Chap. 6.1 Heare O yee Kings understand yee that be Iudges of the ends of the earth give eare you that rule the People for power is given you of the Lord and Soveraignty from the highest By all these testimonies which I have produced it will appeare that there is no truth more fully more clearly revealed in Scripture then this that Kings are from God receive their power from him and neither from the Pope nor from the People This was the Divinity of the Primitive Church for at least eight hundred yeares Tertullian saith In Apologetico Inde est imperator unde homo antequam imperator inde potestas illi unde spiritus And before him Irenaus Lib. 5. adver Haeres Cujus jussu homines nascuntur hujus jussu Reges constituuntur Now it is certaine that Kings as men are created by God receive their breath from him neither from the Pope nor from the People as by Gods appointment they are borne so by his appointment they raigne St Austin speaketh fully to this purpose in many places so doth St Gregorie and the rest of the Fathers Let this suffice that it was never heard of in the Church of Christ that the people had any power to dispose of the Kings Crowne before Pope Zacharie Eginhart in Princie histori when the French were resolved to dethrone Childericke and to set up Pipin in his place they sent to the Pope to be resolved touching the lawfulnesse of that act and he like a bad Divine gave them an advice to their owne mind that they might doe it for that the People have power to make him King who manageth the affaires of the Kingdome Such a Papall determination and a worse too is given by Buquanan Populo