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A96624	The thrice welcome, and happy inauguration of our most gracious, and religious sovereign, King Charles II. To the crown and kingdoms of Great-Brittain and Ireland. Containing, in the first place, the authors most humble supplication to the King's most excellent Majesty, in order to the reformation of religion, in six particulars. In the second part, the subjects duty to their sovereign, in sundry heads, and divers particulars very usefull for these times: together with a recommendation of the work to the Kings Majesties subjects. By Geo. Willington, of the city of Bristoll.	Willington, George.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2803; Thomason E1030_1; ESTC R208910	29,981	46

* Mr. Lyford's Principles pag. 158. No in no case (a) 1 Sam 24.6 No Supream power whatsoever or wheresoever residing ought to be resisted by those that are under them (b) Note Eze. 17.15 16. Judg. 9.19 20 24 45 56 57. especially if they have sworn Allegiance unto them There is no power but of (c) Rom. 13.1 Psal 82.6 God the powers are not from beneath but (d) Joh. 19.11 from above he is (e) Rom. 13.4 the Minister of God God is the Soveraign Lord of the whole earth and Kings are his Deputies and Vice-gerents in them God is resisted whosoever resisteth the Power resisteth (f) Ro. 13.2 the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation We read Prov. 30. v. 31. That against a King there should be no rising up If we cannot with good conscience obey them yet we must be subject and submit unto them 1 Pet. 2.13 14. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supream or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by * Mark that him c. 2. Object May not Subjects resist their King in any case though he be an Heretick an Apostate or a Tyrant No in no case Nebuchadonosor was a wicked and ungodly Prince yet was Zedekiah grievously punished Jerusalem sacked Israel miserably afflicted for rebelling against him Object 3. But if the Prince being ungodly command me to do that which is wicked and ungodly must I herein obey him Answ Such an objection as this might be suspended living under so pious a Prince and Religious a Sovereign as we do But secondly A Caveat in such a case be sure that you be not misled either by those whom S. Paul (g) 2 Tim. 3.6 or S. Jude descrides (h) Jude v. 19 nor to such to whom Christ himself doth denounce a woe (i) Mat 23.15 and hereof being truly assured by the constant harmony not private interpretation (k) 2 Pet. 1.20 of that which thou oughtest to account a Lanthern unto thy (l) Psal 119.105 feet and a light unto thy Pathes resolve with S. Peter (m) Act. 5.29 we ought to obey God rather then men 4. Object But if the King be such a one and intends the destruction of the People what remedy have the Subjects Answ Prayers and tears as appears 1 Sam. 8.10 18. Let the King be never so bad they may not use other weapons against their King then Prayers and Tears as learned Mr. Perkins hath it though punishment be wrongfully and most unjustly imposed by Rulers yet it must be born without resistance til we can have our * Read consider 1 Sam. 24.3 to 16. 26.11 16 23. 2 Sam. c. 1. throughout Ps 105.15 remedy 1 Pet. 2.19 So much as to certain Objections which seditious Persons have forged in their disloyal breasts to this particular The fourth thing to be demonstrated are the plagues and punishments that do attend and follow Rebels and Traytors in this life and something of the plagues and torments that are reserved for them and which without timely repentance they shall eternally suffer in the life to come And that I might avoid prolixity I shall but touch and passe They that are Traytors to their Sovereign Lord and King are punished externally internally and without Gods great mercy and their own repentance they shall be punished eternally with the Divel and his Angels First externally And that sometimes in House Esther 8.2 2. In Lands 2 Sam. 16.4 3. In Offices 1 Kings 2.26 27. 4. By extraordinary death as hanging drawing and quartering 5. In burial with the burial of an Asse Jer. 22.18 19. 6. In good * Prov. 22.1 Eccles 7.1 name The name of the wicked shall rot Prou. 10.16 Yea the name of Traytors and Rebels shall ‖ Gen. 34.30 stink What more odious smell to all true English hearts than the unhappy memory of Cade Straw Ket Parry and the Powder Traytors Temporal judgements Sword Famine and Pestilence Read and consider well Jer. 27.8 Numb 16.30 31 32 35 39 45 46 47. 2 Sam. 18.9 c. Secondly they are plagued internally with the terrors of an evil conscience with the flashes an earnest and sad omen of the flames of Hell fire Wisd 17.3 4. These be those Furies the Poets speak of those accusing thoughts whereof * Rom. 2.15 the Apostle speaks and that never dying worm spoken of by the ‖ Isa 66.24 Mar. 9.44 45 46. Prophet and our blessed Savior Read Levit. 26. v. 36. Prov. 28.1 Dan. 5.5 6. Gen. 4.13 Math. 27.3 4 5. 2 Sam. 16.23 and 17.23 So that were there no other I might say with Juvelal Juvenal Curtamen hos tu Evasisse putes quas diri conscia facti Mens habet attomitos surdo verbere caedit Occultum quatienti animo tortore Flagellum How deem'st thou them acquite Whom guilty minde of fact so foul doth fright And scourge unseen doth beat with unbeard blow Their hang-man restlesse conscience biting so But this is not all Torments of Hell the portion of Traitors unlesse they timely repent neither doth their misery end here for thirdly without repentance and God's great mercy they shall be punished eternally with the Devil and his Angels They that resist shall receive to themselves * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Judicium the same word with that 1 Cor. 11.24 damnation Rom. 13.2 which consists in the sad deprivation of the beatifical vision ‖ Mat. 25.41 46 of God which is better than life and the pain of torment to all eternity Would you know the (a) Acerbity sharpnesse of these torments Christ telleth you they go into fire Would you know the time it doth last he calleth it (b) Eternity everlasting fire Would you know the company they shall have he telleth you the (c) Society Devil and his Angels Mat. 25.41 Would you have it further expressed assure your selves that as the (d) Unspeakable Joyes of Heaven purchased by the obedience of the Son of God for those that fear God and honour the King are such as (e) 1 Cor. 2.9 eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither can it enter into the heart of man to conceive such also assure your selves are the pains and torments prepared in Hell besides the worm of an accusing conscience here for Traytors and Rebels And I beseech ye search and see whether you can find I am sure I cannot any one example in the whole Bible of any one Rebel that everdied in the outward possibility of Salvation O consider this and tremble to rebel lest you are resolved to go to Hell Having thus briefly discovered to you the Plagues and punishments of disloyalty and rebellion Dictum sapienti sat est I shall in the next place with as much brevity as I can display the Rewards of Loyalty to the

in the motions of the heart in the feare of God faith love and obedience The Basil Confession Let every Christian Magistrate bend all his forces this way that among all that are under him Art 7. the Name of God may be honored his Kingdome propagated and his will in the rooting out of all wickedness and vice may be fulfilled this duty was ever enjoined even to the Heathen Magistrates how much more is it required of a Christian Magistrate ut vero Dei Vicario who is Gods true Vicar The Saxon Confession We teach Saxonica Conf. Art 23. That in the whole Doctrine of God delivered by the Apostles and Prophets that Civil Government is maintained and that Magistrates Laws Tribunals and the lawful Society of men sprung not up by chance but that all the good order that is left is preserved by the exceeding goodness of God for the Church's sake and so forth which I omit for brevity sake The Sueviek Confession is notable and runs thus Our Churches teach Suevica Con. Art 23. That the office of a Magistrate is most sacred and divine whence it is that they who exercise this power are in Scripture called Gods and our Preachers teach that the obedience which is to be performed to Magistrates is to be placed among good works of the first rank and that by how much a man is a more sincere and faithfull Christian the more carefull he is to observe the Laws of the State To which add the Confession of Scotland We confess and acknowledge Empires Kingdoms Scotch Conf. Dominions and Cities to be distincted and ordained by God that Powers and Authority in the same be it of Emperors in their Empires Kings in their Realms Dukes and Princes in their Dominions and of other Magistrates in their Cities to be God's holy Ordinance ordained for manifestation of his own glory and for the singular profit and commodity of Mankinde so that whosoever goeth about to take away or confound the whole estate of Civil policy now long established we affirm the same men not only to be enemies to mankinde but wickedly to fight against Gods expressed will The Confession of England The King's Majesty hath the chief power in this Realm of England and other his Dominions The English Confession Art 37. unto whom the chief government of all estates of this Realm whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all cases doth appertain and is not nor ought to be subject to any forreign jurisdiction The Laws of the Realm may punish Christian men with death for hainous and grievous offences To all which let me add the Confession of the Assembly of Divines Chap. 23. 1. God the Supream Lord and King of all the World hath ordained Civil Magistrates to be under him over the People for his own glory and the publick good and to this end hath armed them with the power of the Sword for the defence and encouragement of them that are good and for the punishment of evil doers 4. It is the duty of People to pray for Magistrates to honour their persons to pay them tribute and other dues to obey their lawfull Commands and to be subject to their Authority Note this well for Conscience sake Infidelity or difference in Religion doth not make void the Magistrates just and legal authority nor free the people from their due obedience to him from which Ecclesiastical persons are not exempted much lesse hath the Pope any power and jurisdiction over them in their Dominions or over any of their People and lest of all to deprive them of their dominions or lives if he shall judge them to be Hereticks or upon any other pretences whatsoever The sum of all is the Civil Magistrate is a Divine Ordinance and his chief care is or ought to be Religion for the defence and vindication whereof God hath put a Sword in his hand to cut off the disturbers of the peace as well in the Church as the Commonwealth and because he is the Minister * Rom. 13.4 of God for our wealth and Safety his Authority is to be obeyed by all sorts of men for conscience sake and not to be resisted upon pains of Damnation Thus I have from the melodious Harmony of all the reformed Churches proved the Authority and shewed the author and Benefit of Government and Governours but Supream and subordinate Wisdom 6.3 Power is given of the Lord and Saveraignty from the bighest See Prov. 8.15 16. Dan. 2.21 chap. 4. v. 25. 32. Rom. 13. v. 1 2 4. Job 36.7 The next thing is to shew the hainousness of disloyalty or Rebellion Rebellion hath all evil in it as said the Greek * Thucid. Historiographer in Rebellion is all kinde of evil it is as one cals it the sink of all sin and the Sea of all mischief Of Rebels and seditious persons to their Sovereign whom the God of Heaven hath made a * Psal 82.6 God on earth doth God himself say as he did of the Israelites he did to Samuel They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me 1 Sam. 8.7 that I should not reign over them Yea the Holy Ghost doth amply set forth the hainousnesse of this sin of ‖ 'T is spoken there of Rebellion against God but it will hold in this case also Rebellion when he doth by the Prophet Samuel compare it with the sin of Witchcraft or the service of the Devil 1 Sam. 15.23 Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft compared with the sin of Witchcraft as I conceive to denote the hainousnesse of it Witchcraft is such a hainous sin that the Lord gave a strict charge * Exo. 22.18 Deut. 18.10 to his ancient People saying Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live Surely so hainous is this sin of Rebellion that a Rebel against his King and Countrey is not worthy to live For instance that Norman Gentleman who confessed to a Franciscan Frier that he had a thought to kill Francis the King of France though he had changed his minde repented and asked pardon of that crime yet the Frier reporting it to the King and the King referring it to the Parliament of Paris the grave Court of that great Parliament though that King shewed himself very gracious condemned him to death Yea so great detestation is there to be had of the least shew of violence to the Prince that whereas the Law excuseth mad-men from punishment madnesse it self being so great a punishment yet when Capito a man raging mad drew his Sword upon Henry the son of King Francis he was therefore executed Thus much in brief for the second thing viz. the hainousnesse of disloyalty or rebellion The third thing is according to promise to answer some objections that may be and have been made in this particular Of all which very briefly but plainly Object Is it lawful in no case for Subjects to rise up in Arms against their lawful Sovereign Answ