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A55721	Hadadrimmon, sive, Threnodia anglicana ob regicidium a sermon on Davids humiliation for cutting off the royal robe, and detestation of cutting off the royal head of the Lords anointed : preached Jan. 30, 1660, being a solemn fast for the horrid murther of King Charles I of glorious memory, at Westbury, in the county of Wilts. / by John Paradise ...	Paradise, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing P327; ESTC R13634	47,214	58

Permission but also by the Commission of God 2. By the sacred nature of the persons of Kings I understand their separation from the common condition of other men and their designation unto a peculiar office as Aaron and his sons and the vessels of the Sanctuary with all the utensils of the Temple were set apart from a common and consecrated unto an holy use What an horrid abomination would it have been in the Jews to have filled the Golden vessels of the Sanctuary with dirt and what a vile sin was it in Ahaz to cut them in pieces So what an hainous contempt of God is it to destroy the sacred lives or reproach the sacred names of Kings seeing they are the Lords Anointed This was the reason that caused David to detest the murder of Saul to disswade Abishai from it 2 Sam. 1.14 15 16. 2 Sam. 1.7 8 9. and to execute the Amalekite for it notwithstanding he slew him at his own request after he was mortally wounded out of compassion toward him to put an end to his anguish and misery As the Lord avenged the abuse of his Anointed Mediator Psal 2. 1 King 13.4 2 King 2.23 24. Numb 19. Dan. 5.3 4 5 Psal 72.7 8. Dan. 2.21 37. Of his Anointed Prophets Of his Anointed Priests Of the anointed Vessels of his Sanctuary So will he certainly avenge all injuries offered unto his Anointed Kings on the heads of all Traytors Now the Divine Original of the Office of Kings is written with a Sun-beam throughout the Scripture Promotion cometh not from the East nor from the West God is Judge But Rom 13.1 3 3 4. is instur omnium where the Divine institution of Magistracy is no lesse then seven times asserted in six verses Twice in the first Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers for there is no power but of God The Powers that be are ordained of God Again v. 2. Whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God and shall receive to themselves damnation Thrice more in v. 4 6. The Magistrate is called the Minister of God And v. 5. we are injoyned to be subject not for wrath but for conscience sake Obedience to the Magistrates authority for conscience sake doth suppose it to be bottomed and founded on a divine grant for otherwise it could not oblige the conscience The Apostle inculcated this doctrine on the Romans because there were some turbulent spirits among them who insisted so much on their Christian liberty that they thought subjection to secular powers inconsistent therewith But these Anti-magistratical Libertines are in this Chapter fully confuted and the Authority of Heathen Emperours under whom the Romans to whom Saint Paul wrote this Epistle then lived is clearly evinced to be an emanation from the Almighty God who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Excellently doth Saint Augustine speak to this purpose De Civ Dei li. 5. c. 21. That God who gave the regiment of a Commonwealth to Caius Cesar a mild and gentle Prince gave it also to Marius a bloody Consul He that gave it to Augustus a mirrour of humanity gave it unto Nero a monster of cruelty He that gave it unto Vespatian gave it unto Domitiar He that gave it unto Constantine a Religious defender of Christianity gave it also unto Iulian an Author of Apostasie Jesus Christ the essential wisdom of the Father Pro. 8.15 16. is represented to speak under the name of Wisdom And what doth he speak Why this By me Kings reign and Princes decree justice By me Princes rule even Nobles and all the Iudges of the earth By me i.e. by my Approbation by my Commission by my Protection and by my Direction and benediction Kings reign God was displeased with Israel for asking a King Object 1. Sol. 1 Sam. 8.7 The Lords displeasure against Israel for their request did not arise from his improbation of Monarchical Government but from Israels contempt of Theocratical Government for from the time of Moses untill the daies of Samuel they lived under a Theocrasie God did exert his power in an extraordinary and miraculous manner in raising up Judges to deliver them out of the hands of their enemies but they being grown weak in faith and weary of this immediate dependance on God and trusting too much on an arm of flesh cry out for a King wherewith God is indeed displeased because of their audacious presumption in limiting and prescribing unto him because of the itch and pride of their hearts in desiring to be conformed unto other Nations and because of their despising of God himself ● Sam. 8.7 that he should not reign over them but not by reason of any distaste against the Office of a King which he afterward blessed for the protection of his people Israel Though the Office of Saul Object 2. it being immediatly by God himself conferred on him was Divine and his person therefore sacred yet Kings now wanting this immediate election cannot claim the like Prerogatives The Texts before quoted do sufficiently confute this Objection Sol. to wit Matth. 22.21 Dan. 2.37 Prov. 8.15 16. Rom. 13.1 2. However I shall add these three things 1. That many Kings of Israel whose persons were no lesse sacred then the others were neither extraordinarily elected nor consecrated but took possession of the Kingdom by hereditary succession For all Kings were not anointed but only those in whom the Royal line began or was broken Only the first of a Family was anointed except in the case of dissention where was required a renewed unction 2. Cyrus an Heathen King is called the Lords anointed Isa 45.1 Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed to Cyrus 3. As the Office of Ministers is sacred notwithstanding they want that immediate Call which the Prophets and Apostles had so likewise is the Office of Kings notwithstanding they want such an immediatly divine inauguration as Saul and David had The Donatists Libertines Object 3. Anabaptists and Millenaries have laid the Ax to the very root of civil Magistracy holding that though God allotted Kings and Rulers unto the Jews while the Church was in its infancy minority and nonage yet now such servile subjection doth not beseem that perfection and liberty which the Gospel hath introduced John 8.32 Gal. 5.1 You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free Whereunto shall I liken this generation Sol. They are like unto water in a Pot which boyleth over much runneth into the fire which being quenched therewith the remainder of the water boyleth not at all So these affecting greater wisdom perfection and liberty then is meet became very fools and bondslaves to their lusts Those texts Joh. 8.32 Gal. 5.1 speak of the freedom of Christians from the reign of sin power of the Law and dominion of the devil and the yoke of Jewish ceremonies not of exemption from obedience to the civil Magistrate Christian liberty and civil subjection are not inconsistent Psal 2. but sweetly meet and kisse each other The Psalmist speaking of the times of the Gospel doth not exhort Kings to pull off their Crowns and to lay down their Scepters but only to manage their Government in the fear of God and to do homage unto Christ v. 11 12. Magistracy is as necessary for the preservation of humane society as Air ●ater or any of the four elements for the sustentation of our natural lives And as the Gospel doth not abolish civil Government so neither doth it translate it from men and devolve it on Jesus Christ It was the stumbling block of the Jews that they expected a temporal Kingdom by the coming of the Messiah a manumission out of their bondage to the Romans and a restauration of the Kingdom of Israel unto that primitive glory and splendour wherein it flourished under David and Solomon Let not that Government be affixed to Christ which he himself disclaims John 18.36 My Kingdom is not of this world that is not an earthly Kingdom nor the Administrations thereof conversant about external affairs neither civil nor criminal Not Civil for when a man desired him to divide an inheritance between him and his brother he sharply rebukes him saying Man who made me a Judge or divider between you Luke 12.14 Neither would he intermeddle in criminal matters but refused to pronounce sentence on the woman taken in Adultery John 8.11 The Apostle reprehendeth the Divisions of the Church of Corinth Every one of you saith I am for Paul 2 Cor. 1.12 I am for Apollo I am for C●phas and I am of Christ These last sort are blamed because out of an irregular zeal to advance the honour of Christ they decried his Ministers In like manner may the State-divisions of England be reprehended One saith I am for a Commonwealth another I am for a Committee of Safety another I am for a Protector and a fourth sort I am for Christ All these deserve sharp reproof even the Fifth Monarchy assertors also notwithstanding they cry out for Christ because by reason of their rash zeal or rather wild sire they take an inordinate course to advance Christ namely by footing out the civil Magistrate who is a Minister of God for our good Rom. 13.4 How was this desperatly bloodily yea blasphemously but blessed be God successelesly attempted in England by persons that would have entitled Jesus Christ to their murders as if he that did shed his own blood for our sakes delighted in shedding our blood These under a pretence of fighting for King Jesus did indeed fight for King Beelzebub The light of Nature confuteth this Antimagistratical opinion As there is no Nation so barbarous as to acknowledge no God so neither as to acknowledge no Magistrate Many irrational creatures seem by a natural instinct to have the shadow of Government amongst them There is a Master Bee Had Adam continued in innocency superiority and inferiority among mankind would have continued with him Yea there seems to be an order among the very Angels themselves for we read of an Archangel Jude v. 9. 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