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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55782	Four sermons preached in Oxford by John Price.	Price, John, Master of arts.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3352; ESTC R25593	64,575	154

governed by a wise just and merciful King God punisheth the wicked spares the good so doth the King the King is as it were a God on Earth I have said ye are Gods there is so neare a relation between God and the King that a Man cannot injure the one without offering an injury to the other he that touches the Lords annointed doth as it were touch God he that strikes at the King doth at the same blow to his power strike at God himself 3. Monarchy is the most ancient and universal Government and therefore likeliest to render a Nation happy As ancient Apostolicke truths make the Church so ancient Governments make the State happy innovations being equally dangerous in both As old truths are most wholesome for the Church so old Governments are most wholesome for the State That Monarchy is the most ancient Government in the World is indisputable it being as old as Adam whom God constituted Monarch of the World as we read in Genesis of the antiquity of this Government humane writings sufciently tell us and as it is the most ancient so it is the most universally received Government almost all the Nations in the World either have been or are governed by it Surely had not they found the happynesse of it above other Goverments they would not have so long acquiesced in it That which the General practise of the World the unanimous consent of all Nations tell us to be true we cannot rationally doubt of 4. My fourth argument is drawn from those appellations that the Philosopher gives a good King he styles him a Father a Physician a Shepheard all these termes bespeak a happinesse a blessing to the Common-wealth Augustus was termed pater patriae the Father of his Countrey Homer calls Agamemnon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the like was said of Moses Now if a good King be a Father sure it is to be careful over his Children if a Physitian it is to heal them if a Shepheard it is to feed them and surely that Nation cannot but be happy that hath a Father to provide for it a Physitian to heal it and a Shepheard to feed it 5. My fifth argument is drawn a Minori ad majus from the lesser to the greater if it be requisite that in a single house in a family for the happynesse thereof there should be a Governour a ruler a Master of it how much more in the great family of the Common-wealth If it be requisite for the welfare thereof that there shou'd be a chief Magistrate in the City how much more in a Kingdome the affairs of the one being far more urgent and important then those of the other a City may better subsist without a Major an University without a Vicechancellour then a Kingdome without a King A Kingdome without a King is like a body without a soul a good King is as were the soul of the body of the Commonwealth 6. Let us listen to the voice of instructing nature let us look into the Universe and there we shall find nothing but Kingdomes and Kings Nature it self prompts us to Monarchy Oh what beauty and order is there in the Commonwealth of bees Oh how obsequiously doe all the rest follow the Master beee Oh how do they mourn at his Funeral and when he is dead constitute another is not the Sunne King of Luminaries Prince of Planets doe not the Cranes follow their leader Is not the Whale King of Fishes The Eagle King of birds Is not the Lyon King of beasts Shall these irrational creatures acquiesce in Monarchy as most suitable to their nature condition and shall not we shall we be worse then Bruits shall they have more knowledge then wee go to the Ant thou sluggard saith Solomon as the Ant may teach us prudence and providence so these may teach us loyalty and as it is requisite to the happynesse of a Nation that it have a King or that he b● the Son of Nobles one of Noble extraction one of the blood Royal this is the onely way to prevent divisions and to secure the peace of a Nation When it is otherwise every new Governour may be the cause of a new war In Government it is requisite that there should be some standard somewhat indubitable unquestionable besides a Person of Noble extraction is more apt to command obedience more likely to win upō the hearts of the people They look upon such as men designed for Government as men born to rule There is somewhat of Soveraignty and Majesty enstamped upon them people abhorre to be ruled either by inferiours or equals for the meanest of the people their brows were never made for Diadems neither have they those endowments and qualilifications which may be speak them fit for Empires They were born to Obey not to command So much may suffice for the second thing I proceed in the third place to shew you that it is the happynesse of our Nation in particular For the demonstration of this let us compare our former Estate under no King with our present Estate under a King let us look upon the miseries of the one and the felicities of the other and doubtlesse it will appear that it is our happynesse to be ruled by a good Prince contraries doe illustrate one another the ruder blasts of Winter make us more in love with the beauties of Summer No Musick more pleasing to the eare then when the sweetness of a concord takes away the harshnesse of a discord A Man that is upon the Land and hath escaped Shipwrack may look with pleasure upon the swelling heaven-threatning seas In the 2. of judges we read of the destruction of the whole tribe of Benjamin and many calamities that had befallen the Israelites would you know the reason of this the Holy Ghost tells us verse 25. In those dayes there was no King in Israel every man did that which was right in his own eyes If any one should aske me what was the occasion of all our misenies and distractions in England it was the losse of our gracious and merciful Soveraigne in those dayes there was no King in our Israel every man did that which was right in his own eyes that deep-dyed hainious scarlet sin was not the least cause of all our miseries that blow that stuck him made three Nations reele like a drunken man it was not he only that dyed but our happinesse also dyed with him Our miseries like the waves of the Sea or like Ioh's sad messengers came crowding in upon us they did as it were strive which should be for most they may be reduced to these principally 1. Warre or want of Peace Warre is one of Gods scourges with which he whips a Nation for rebellion and treason it was but just with God to punish us with a Warre because we knew not how to value the blessings of Peace Jessurun-like we waxed fat and kicked with the heel we forgat to fear God and to honour