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The King on his throne: or A discourse maintaining the dignity of a king, the duty of a subject, and the unlawfulnesse of rebellion. Delivered in two sermons preached in the Cathedrall Church in York. By R.M. Master in Arts, Coll. S. Pet. Cant.
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Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.
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Wing M2862; ESTC R214245
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THE KING ON HIS THRONE OR A Discourse maintaining the Dignity of a KING the Duty of a Subject and the unlawfulnesse of Rebellion Delivered in two Sermons Preached in the Cathedrall Church in York By R. M. Master in Arts Coll. S. Fet. Cant. Printed at York by Stephen Bulkley 1642. By speciall Command To the Right Honourable HENRY Earle of Cumberland Lieutenant Generall c To the Right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Glemham Sarjeant Major Generall my much honour'd Collonel and to the rest of the Lords Knights and Gentlemen attending His Majesties Service in the City of Yorke Right Honourable and Right Worshipfull LOyalty as it is the Kings Joy the Kingdomes Happinesse So the Subjects Glory So long then as your Hearts continue Loyall your Names shall continue Glorious being hereby a meanes to restore Joy to your King and recover Happinesse to the Kingdome To you I Dedicate my Labours That as they afford a Lesson So you a Patterne both of Loyalty whereby men may be the better moved either to yeeld the one their Practise or the other their Imitation Besides Right Honourable and Right Worshipfull They who take up Armes against the King will not faile to take vp Armes against the Author and Arguments too against his Worke. Your Patronage therefore must be my Refuge and whilst you are pleased to Protect my person I feare not by Gods Assistance to maintaine the Truth Not in confidence of mine owne Ability's for they are too weake but because as Their Acclamation before Darius Magna est Veritas Praevalecit Great is Truth and it will Prevaile You have Uouchsafed these Sermons your Approbation in the Pulpit you have honoured them with your Command to the Presse and now my request is that you will be Pleased to Countenance them with your Patronage to the Publique Veiw In which I am confident nothing is delivered but what may beseeme either the Tongue or the Pen of a good Christian of a Loyall Subject And of Your most humble Servant R. MOSSOM York Novemb. 20. 1642. To the READER BEfore thou dost peruse the ensuing Discourse let me entreate thee to lay aside all Prejudice and with as much Sincerity to Reade as the Author writ and that is so is to enforme thy Judgement not to please thy Fancy to satisfie thy Cons ience not to strengthen a Faction making no better use of these Sermons then Nero did of Seneca's Instructions ad armandam malitiam by perverting the Truth to Arme thy Disloyalty Thou shalt finde here That endeavouring in some measure to doe well I have followed the best and kept my selfe to the Holy Scriptures Ancient Fathers and Orthodox Divines who I am sure would teach me true Divinity with which the Library in York so usefull and necessary did very well furnish me If then Courteous Reader thou finde here the choisest Flowers gathered out of the spacious Fields of larger Volumes bound up into a fragrant Posie of a short Discourse Kisse the Hand that presents them in courteous Acceptance defile it not with the Spittle of black-mouth'd Censure If thou finde not things handled so fully as thou desirest consider the short limits of an Houres Discourse if not so Learnedly as they might be accept them as they are and finde not fault till thou canst do better and then I shall be glad to be thy Reader let me suffer rather than Gods Truth and in that my Soveraognes Cause There are some who quarrell at the Text and will â—â—ve the Touchstone naught rather than acknowledge their 〈◊〉 Counterfeit but what is it thinkst thou Reader 〈◊〉 Object why Solomon was a King and spake in 〈◊〉 himselfe Odi profanum vulgus the Objection will tell thee who are the Objectors such as will blaspheme rather than be convinc't But what more Why there is no rising up against the King as there is no rising up against a Lyon propter terrorem least he fall upon us and rent us in pieces But what Is this the going well Is this the comelinesse in going the Wiseman speaks of vers 29 no sure The best if not all Expositors Interpret this in bonam partem and if Reader thou dost consult the Commentators and especially Salazars Exposition upon Solomons Proverbs thou shalt be fully satisfyed I will not contest about the Words of my Text I can easily chuse another if so be they will subscribe to the Truth in my Sermons with which they who have not been convinc't sure I am they have been silenc't If in perusing thou turne Criticke who like the Philomele is Vox praeterea nihil consider that these Sermons having had the Countenance of so great Nobles so worthy Knights and able Gentlemen having had the Approbation of so learned Bishops so Reverend Doctors and other Divines Quis tu Who art thou that I should feare thy supercilious look or malicious censure I shall be glad if any Man more Able will undertake the handling this Subject more fully What I have done if it may availe any thing as something I know it hath and hope will more to Gods Glory in the Advancement of my Soveraigns Cause I have my desire Farewell Thine whilst thou art thy King's R. M. A Sermon Preached in the Cathedrall Church in York on the sixth Day of November 1642. Prov. 30.31 And a King against whom there is no rising up Let the Words of my mouth and the Meditations of my Heart be now and ever acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my Redeemer TO frame a Discourse concerning the Supremacy of Kings the Allegiance of Subjects and the unlawfulnesse of Rebellion after so many Learned Tongues and Judidicious Pens is to make Iliads after Homer to doe that which hath been already so well done that it cannot be done better But fit it is the Preachers Trumpet should sound so long as the Rebels Drum doth beate fit it is to presse Loyalty to the People when the People are so much prest to Disloyalty Who that they may know they are not more willing and able to defend the King and His cause by force of Armes than the Scholler is by force of Arguments I have made choice of this Text a fit Doctrine for these Times And a King against whom there is no rising up The dependance of the Words In the handling of which Words I will first speak of their Dependance upon the former implyed in the conjunction And And a King c. to understand this aright we must look back to the 29. verse and so downewards There be three things which goe well yea foure which are comely in going A Lyon which is strongest amongst beasts and turneth not away for any a Grey-hound or rather as the Margent to which accords Junius accinctus Lumbis Equus an Horse girt in the Loynes Equus edoctus militiam an Horse trayned up for War An He-Goate also and a King against whom c. By the by Observe That the Scriptures are a rich