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A28212 A sermon preached before his Majestie at Christ-Church in Oxford on the 3. of Novemb. 1644. after his returne from Cornwall. By John Berkenhead, fellow of All-Soules Colledge. Birkenhead, John, Sir, 1616-1679. 1644 (1644) Wing B2971; ESTC R210016 19,101 26

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nor Armies so that men might provoke and contemne his power in respect of punishment must we not presume to neglect him any more then if we did see Armes and Armies Racks and Gibbets and all engines for execution prepared before us Quia nisi omnino subjiciamini Principi polluta esset conscientia vestra obvians divinae ordinationi Bruno Because unlesse we be absolutely subject to our Prince pretend what purity we will our conscience isdefiled and every step wee march against him we set our selves in battell array against the Ordinance of God And indeede I cannot but wonder what hard hearts and cauterized consciences those men have who doe not presently smite themselves and their hearts die within them like Nabals when they find themselves guilty of subtracting subjection from their Prince a greater ingratitude then which cannot be excogitated and ingratitude is one of the greatest sinnes for Subjects are obliged 1. By the rule of right Reason to obey him without whom we cannot be safe but without the King the Common-weale cannot bee safe nomore then a ship without a Pilot in a stormy Ocean And therefore by the rule of right reason we must obey him 2. By naturall equity which bindes to do good to them which do good to us but Kings and Princes do good to us for by their meanes we obtaine great quietnesse and by their providence many worthy things are done to our Nation By them we receive honour enjoy riches peace plenty and freely professe and practice piety and therefore even for naturall equity We must needs be subject which is the least good we can doe to them 3. By morall civility we are bound to be subject to him who protects us But Kings and Princes protect us from evill doers who would violently take away our lives insolently usurpe our lands prodigally mispend our goods laciviously deflowr and ravish our wives mercilesly slave our children yea they are the Protectors and defenders of our faith and therefore we are bound at least not to rebell sithence all these mischiefes have been are will be the effects of such disobedience from which Good Lord deliver us 4. By Christian Religion and conscience which enjoyns that we must not resist the Ordinance of God but Kings and Princes are the Ordinance of God and therefore we must not resist them vers. 1 2. And doe 1. Right reason 2. Naturall equity 3. Morall civility 4. Christian Religion and conscience oblige us to subjection Oh then take heed and never trust any though never so faire Professors who pretend conscience to countenance disobedience at least to cast off subjection as it is hard to disobey and not to rebel Yet such alwayes have been the faire pretence of the foulest practises Thus the colour of the common good to free the people from Subsidies Taxes and Oppressions which then seemed by their Governours to lye upon them led the people of the Iews yea and some Romans too to follow Theudas Iudas of Galile Catiline and their companions Thus the Rebels of elder times in this Island christned their Insurrections the Army of God the holy Church making Religion the Patronesse of their impiety Iack Straw Iack Cade Wat Tyler Fryer Ball alias Wall and such others made 1. The oppression of the Commons 2. The insolencie of the Nobility 3. The covetousnesse of the Priests and the inequality of men of equall merit the vail of all their violence and villany Thus the Rebellion in the North Lincolnshire and Norfolke were raised under pretence of 1. Reforming Religion 2. Freedome of Conscience and 3. Bettering the Common-weale yea and they are alwayes masked under the vizard of 1. Pro Lege 2. Pro Grege 3. Pro Rege whereas indeed they are against the King break the Laws and make spoile of the people as Iosephus relates the story of the Rebellious Iews pretending onely against Florus harsh unjust and cruell usage and not against the Romanes But as King Agrippa cleares it by his Remonstrance They did but onely say so for their actions were such as worse could not have beene done by the greatest Enemies of the Romane Empire for they sacked the Townes robbed the Treasuries burnt the Houses wasted the Fields neither were they the Townes the Treasuries the Houses the Fields of Florus but of the Roman Empire I will not make Application but sithence these things have ever beene so I will onely conclude with Solomons Admonition My son feare God and the King and meddle not with them that are seditious for suddenly shall their destruction come and who knoweth the ruine of them Yet certaine it is that ruined they shall be and perhaps when themselves least suspect it suddenly as with the Arrow of Lightning shot from the Bow of God which may serve as a Corollary to our Apostles premises to inforce this conclusion Wherefore ye must needs be subject not onely for wrath but even for conscience sake Which God grant us all grace to be for Jesus Christs sake the Patterne and Patron of perfect obedience to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour glory power might majesty and dominion from this time forth for evermore Amen FINIS Eccle. 5. 1. Olympio dor in loc. His Majesties large Declaration p. 12. 13. 225. 256. 257. c. Aquin. Lyr. Calv. Bez. Marlor Rolloc Jo. 19. 20. Matth. 27. 26. August de Civitat Dei l. 5. c. 21. Jer. 33. 5 6. Hos. 13. 11. Act. 5. 39. Citat Gal. 1. 1. Boet. de unit uno Apoc. 4. 11. Rom. 11. 36. Theophil l. 2. Chrysost. Hon. 34. in 1 Cor. Apoc. 12. Theophil Chrysost. ubi supr. Gen 10. 9 10. Dan. Aphorif Polit. p. 402. 24. Marth. 6. 10. 1 Sam. 8. Judg. c. 10 c. 15. Judg. 19 20. 2 Sam. 8. 5 Josh. 12. Speed H. 3. p. 635. ex Mat. westmonast. Martin H. 3. p. 66 67 70 71 73 74. Vpon the Lords Prayer Mat. 12. 25. Esay 49. 23. 2 Tim. 4. 17. 3. Ephes. 4. 11 12. 1 Pet. 2. 13. ver. 14. Exod. 40. 15. Heb. 7. 8. Polit. l. 1. c. 3. 4. 1 Cor. 14. 12. to 31. 1 Pet. 2. 13. to 17. Mat. 20. 14 Deut. 17. 9. to 13. Ambros. Aug. l. 2● cont. Faust c. 75. His Majesties Proclamation and Declaration c. 4. Larger Declaration p. 25. 405. Ps. 69. 12. Prov. 10. 7 Ps. 41. 8. Ps. 109. 6. Ps. 1. 15. Ps. 82. 1. Vers 8. Ps 50. 21. Ps. 55. 16. Matth. 27. 3 4 5. Esay 66. 24. Matth. 20. 27 28. Philip 2. 4 Vers 5. to 9. Rom. 12. 10. Matth. 18. 2. 1 1 1. Hab. 1. 13. 14. 1. Tim. 6. 3 4 5. Scorpiae Act. 4. 19. Gloss interlin Tertul. ubi supr. His Majesties Declaration ubi supra In Matth. 22. 21. Ephes. 6. 1. Rom. 14. Ambros. To 3. Epis. l. 5. Orat. Li. Tit. 3. 1 2. Citat Josh. 1. 16 17. Apoc. 13. 10. Calv. in ver. 6. 2 Sam. 8. 11 12. Et 10. 26. 2 Sam. 2. 2 Sam. 11. 11. Matth. 21. 3. Luke 10. 42. Dion Carth Calv. Inst. ● 4. c. 20. Buchan Theophylact Lombard Lib. 1. Parmon c. 7. Prov. 20. 2. Amos 3. 8. Ambros. Theophylact Calv. 1 Sam. 25. 37. Act. 24. 2. Iosep Antiq. Iudai l. 18. c. 1. l. 20. c 6. Salust conjurat Catilin Speed Hollinshed Rich. 2. p. 429. Grafton p. 330 331. L. 2. de Bello Iudaic c. 16. Naucler Prov. 24. 21 22.