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A64882 A sermon preached before His Excellency, the Lord Lieutenant and the two Houses of Parliament in Christ's-Church, Dublin when they first met there together on Sunday, October 16, 1692 / by John, Lord Archbishop of Tuam. Vesey, John, 1636-1716. 1692 (1692) Wing V285; ESTC R38005 10,950 20

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A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE HIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD LIEUTENANT AND THE Two Houses of PARLIAMENT IN christ's-CHRIST's-CHURCH DVBLIN When THEY First Met there together On Sunday October 16. 1692. By JOHN Lord Archbishop of TUAM Published by His EXCELLENCY 's Special Command DVBLIN Printed by Joseph Ray on College Green for William Norman Bookseller in Dames Street 1692. JUDG XVII 6. In those Days there was no King in Israel but every Man did that which was Right in his own Eyes THE Book of Judges contains Memorials of the State and People of the Jews from the Death of Joshua to the Time that Eli Judged Israel with whose Government the first Book of Samuel begins and carries on their History We have here an Account of many Vicissitudes of their Government and of many very Remarkable Passages concerning the Manners and Behaviour the Sufferings and Deliverances of that Stubborn and Apostatizing People From the Day that they left Egypt they were on every Turn murmuring against Moses their Deliverer all their Grievances are put to his Account If they at any Time want Flesh or Bread or Water they immediately charge him with Mis-management and wish they had still continu'd Slaves so they might have eaten Onions and Garlick and Flesh in Egypt So that God was forc'd often to stop their Mouths by Miracles and sometimes to vindicate the Authority of His Servant by extraordinary Judgments on those that Rebell'd against it So difficult a thing it was to keep them to their Duty even when Moses was King in Jesurun and was Conducting them from Bondage into Liberty But they had not long past over Jordan and Enjoy'd Rest from their Enemies before they sell to their old Trade They serv'd the Lord all the Days of Joshua and of the Elders that out-lived him but these were scarce Cold in their Graves and but just gather'd to their Fathers when there arose another Generation which knew not the Lord but did evil in his sight and follow'd other Gods insomuch that his Anger often waxed hot that they could not stand against their Enemies Nevertheless upon their Repentance God still rais'd them up Judges and Delivered them all the days of the Judge But as soon as he died they again corrupted themselves more than their Fathers and ceased not from their own doings nor from their stubborn way This is the Account we have of them in the Second Chapter which describes the Heads and Contents of the Book following which is fill'd with little else but such like various Turns of their Affairs of their Sins and their Punishments and of their Repentance and Deliverance The Text is an Historical Remark which the Collector of these Passages makes of a certain Inter-Regnum or Intercision in their Civil Government and of the Consequences that Naturally and Usually attend such a State and Frame of Things And accordingly I shall take an Occasion to offer to your Consideration the great Misery of a People when they are without Restraint from Civil Government Which I shall with all plainness endeavour to lay before you from two Heads of Discourse which are obvious in the Text. I. Here is a Vacancy in the Throne In those Days there was no King in Israel II. A General Debauchery or Universal Depravation of Manners Every Man did that which was Right in his own Eyes When we have viewed and considered these Particulars I shall in a few Practical Inferences bring them home to our own Doors and there leave their Application I. Here is a Vacancy in the Throne There was in those Days no King in Israel By the Word King in this Text we are not I conceive to understand that Form of Government only which we call a Monarchy but Civil Government in general if the Text did intend that Form Precisely and Exclusively of all others it would I confess be the strongest Argument of the Excellency and Usefulness thereof and a Reflection upon all other Models as being less sufficient for their Ends. We might from such an Exposition infer That the Monarchical Government is the most Powerful and Effectual Restraint to the Passions and Vices of Men. As if we shou'd say There were other Governours the standing Council of the Great Sanhedrim and other Inferiour Judicatories but these could not check the Insolencies of Men nor stop the Course of Impiety or Violence these could not hinder or durst not punish the Riots and Unlawful Assemblies of the Wicked and Unruly Sons of Belial There was no King and therefore every Man did as he pleas'd as if no Lord were over them But I conceive such an Exposition is too narrow and not altogether true For as Solomon observes Prov XXX 27. The Locusts who have no King yet go forth all of them by Bands So other Constitutions of Government may have Unity and Order and Strength to enforce their respective Laws and the Finger of their Discipline is found sometimes to be heavier than the Loins of Monarchy the Generosity and Clemency of Kings at least of some Kings Dispensing in some matters with a rigid Conformity to their Laws while others who affect a show of more Liberty prove generally more severe Exactors of Obedience And therefore by No King in Israel I am content you may understand a Cessation of Civil Authority in general and not of any particular Form of its Administration So that No King shall signifie No Government in Israel But then this kind of Government being here put to signifie any other we may reasonably conclude Either 1. That this viz. A Monarchy is the best of all the several kinds the most apt and sufficient for its ends Parcere Subjectis Debellare Superbos for the Terror of Evil Doers and the Praise of Them that do Well Or 2. That that Government by which God Presided over the Jews in the Times of Moses and Joshua and the Judges did more resemble that of a King than any other sort of Administration whether of Aristocracy or Democracy And therefore we may have leave to think that such a Paternal Government in a Gentle and Well-temper'd Monarchy is most like the Divine Theocracy over that Nation and consequently where-ever it obtains in any other is most Acceptable and Pleasing unto God as the nearest Approach to the Pattern in the Mount the Primitive Model and Scheme which He contriv'd for his own People And therefore if any Form of Government be of Divine Right more than another such a kind of Monarchy bids fairest for the Character as being a Copy from the Divine Original The Rays of Soveraignty did not indeed dazle the Eyes here so much as in the Tyrannies of the Nations but they were more Benign and better suited to the Nature and Genius of a Free People The Circumstances of Majesty were not so Glittering and Gaudy nor the Power so Absolute and Despotical but was sufficiently qualified to answer all the Necessities both of Prince and People Power is a Wild and often