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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.

condition above all others may be seen First The Creation of Kings is from God they are a special sort of Men raised up in a peculiar manner to their places by God vvho pleads it as his glory that Kings reign by him Prov. 8. and Rom. 13.1 The Powers that be are ordained of God 2. God hath communicated to Kings the Image of his ovvn Majesty and printed in the natures of men a natural form of Kings as Vice-gerents to God himself 3. A Divine Sentence is in the mouth of the King as Solomon saith Prov. 16.10 their Judgment is Gods Judgment and God vvould have the People to believe that vvhat they say in Judgment God himself saith it 4. They take account of all other men but are countable to none but to God 5. They are the Original and Fountaine of all Honour from them all the Honour which any of the Subjects have flows and so do all Offices of Honour and Government in their Dominions 6. They are the Basis or the Foundation or Stay of all their Subjects who are maintained in Religion Justice and Peace by their means 7. God himself was a King and is delighted to rank himself amongst men of that degree and as he takes to himself the name of a King so Kings hath his Name again put upon them for their greater Honour I said ye are Gods Psalm 82.6 to wit Gods by Office for they are Gods Deputies and Vice-gerents here upon Earth Lastly They have a power above all other men therefore is that Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul be subject unto the Higher Powers the words imports that the King is Superiour to all he is Supreame as Peter calls him vers 13. of this Chapter the word signifies one that hath above the havings of other men and so the King hath more then all his Subjects not only in matter of mantenance but also in matter of Authority and Supremacy That the King is Supreame is so manifest that it needs no poof Princes therefore in the Old Testamant are called Heads of the Tribes or of the People to signifie that they were not only higher in place but had a Soveraigne and a Supreame Authority over all the People and therefore this Supremacy of Kings gives them Authority in all causes as well Ecclesiastical as Civil I do not say that the King by vertue of his Supremacy may determine of matters of Faith and Doctrine this is meerly Ecclesiastical and belongs only to Ecclesiastical Persons nor do I say that the King may set up a Ministry in the Church that for the substance of the calling was not institute by Christ from whom only all the Ministers of the Gospel have their mission as is clear from Ephes 4.11 12. Nor yet do I say that Kings by vertue of their Supremacy may take upon them to execute the Office of a Church Minister he may not Preach nor administer the Sacraments nor execute Church-Censurs This was the presumption of Uzzias and therefore was justly punished and far lesse hath he power to bring in Idolatrous Service into the Church as a part of Gods Worship and therefore was Jeroboam condemned for the Calves and Ahab for Baal and Ahaz for the Altar at Damascus and all the Kings for the High-places Neverthelesse it is evident that the Kings Authority may and ought to be extended in Spiritual things for the good of the Subject and therefore in respect of Religion they are said to be Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers The Apostle Rom. 13.5 sayes of the Magistrate he is the Minister of God for thy good Now the good of the Subject is not onely a Civil but a Spiritual good which is the greatest and therefore to be most sought for by the Prince Now then the Kings Authority and Supremacy in things Ecclesiastical may be so far extended First He may by his Laws enjoyn the Profession of the true Religion and the Confession of Faith according to the Word of God 2. He may provide according to his power that the Churches be furnished with able Ministers and that they likewise have power to call and ordain other Ministers to dispose or depose as may be most for the good of the Church 3. He may provide by his Laws that the Word of God may be sincerely and purely taught and the Sacraments rightly administred and the Censures of the Church executed according to the Word 4. He may forbid by his Laws and accordingly punish Blasphemies Heresies Idolatrie Sacriledge and the like 5. He may appoint and determine the Circumstances of Gods Worship which are not determined in the Word as he may appoint the time place and outward form of Prayer Administration of the Sacraments Fasting Alms or the like For in reference to the External Regiment of the Church the Supreame Gubernative Power is in the Supreame Magistrate These things must not be done tumultuously or confusedly but in order and that order the Magistrate may prescribe And as the Kings Authority and Supremacy is thus so far extended in Ecclesiastical thing so also over Ecclesiastical Persons Every Soul must be subject to the Higher Powers and therefore if Church-men have Souls they must be subject also We find that Princes have executed their Authoritie over Church-men Examples whereof we have in the Word as David appointed the Order and Offices of the Levites Solomon put down Abiather from the Priesthood Josias burned the very bones of the Priests upon the Altar and so purged the Temple and restored the Passover Christ himself was subject to the Authoritie of Princes and appeared at their Tribunal Paul was subject and appeared before the Magistrates and used their power when he appealed to Caesar For if Church-men be Citizens or Members of the Commonwealth then they must be subject to the Rulers and Laws of the Commonwealth To this also is the Doctrine of the purest times since the Apostles agreeable for Chrysostome upon Rom. 13. sayes that all Church-men yea Apostles Euangelists and Prophets must be subject to the Secular Power And Bernard reasons out of that place thus If every soul must be subject then yours also that are Church-men who hath excepted you from this all If any man goes about to except you he goes about to deceive you Thus then in regard of all these whereby the King Excellency eminently appears we are to honour him and whosoever will refuse this it is an evident token that the Devil who is the author of Confusion and the Prince of Darkness hath his chief residence and dwelling in him I come now in the last place to give the Uses of this Doctrine which I shall perform with as great brevity as may be Use 1. And first must we honour the King as you have heard then this serves to fetter the Romish Colt which kicks at Princes with his heel who will depose Kings and dispose of their Kingdoms as he thinks good and lifts up himself so high as that he may command over