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A43193	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Treby at the Assizes held at Horsham in the County of Sussex, on the 23d day of March, 1696[/]7. By Peter Heald, A.M. and prebendary in the Cathedral Church of Chichester.	Heald, Peter, d. 1728.	1697 (1697)	Wing H1300A; ESTC R216620	11,478	30

the People that they may not be like Sheep without a Shepherd expos'd to Ravenous Wolves and other Beasts of Prey stand more in need of a Prince to Rule and Govern them than a Prince does of the Honour with the Trouble of it It seems some People thought otherwise among the Old Persians and therefore the wiser sort to Convince the rest of their Mistake for the space of Five Days after the Death of one of their Kings permitted the People to live Lawless that after the Experience of the Slaughters Rapines and Outrages committed in that short Interval they might learn to hold their Kings in more high Esteem and be made sensible of the necessity by the want of them But how much better is it for Men to learn Wisdom by others Experience than feel the Miseries of a Trial by their own III. I proceed now in the Third place to put you in mind of the Duty of Subjection and Obedience to Governours which is to be exprest in several Instances 1 Pet. 2.17 as for Example by Honouring their Persons not only by paying outward Respects when we are in their Presence Rom. 13.7 8. but with an inward Love and Reverence by Speaking well of them with Veneration and Esteem that we be not of the number of those Sons of Belial Jude 6 7. who despise Dominions and speak evil of Dignities by Observing their Laws and doing their Just Commands with Chearfulness that we be not like them whom the Apostle calls Presumptuous and Self-will'd who either refus'd to Obey the Laws of their Governours or else did it grudgingly with great unwillingness by an humble Submission to their Reproofs Corrections and Punishments with Meekness and Patience by Paying Tribute and Legal Taxes Ordinary and Extraordinary for so we are Taught to render to all their Dues Rom. 13.7 Tribute to whom Tribute is due by Praying for them in Truth and Sincerity Abhorring to Prophane the Worship of God with such a Vile Hypocrisie as to Pray for them with our Lips when our Hearts are far from them and lastly by not resisting their Authority because they that resist Rom. 13 2 resist the Ordinance of God and shall receive to themselves Damnation And all Christians are obliged to observe these Instances of their Duty in their respective Stations according to their Abilities and Opportunities of what Condition or Order soever they be whether High or Low whether Secular or Spiritual Persons both Hearers and Teachers for they who are to put others in mind of their Duty of Obedience they especially ought to practice it themselves And our Duty in all these Particulars I hope will be the better observ'd if we consider 1. Our Obligations to the Government 2. Our Advantages by it 3. The Gratitude that is due to it 1. Let us remember our Obligations to the Government i. e. to be Subject and Obedient to our Governours And St. Paul urges the Duty of Subjection and Obedience by a Reason which will effectually operate upon the Mind of every good Man because the Powers that are Rom. 13.1 are ordained of God As his Vicegerents as his Ministers they are Invested with his Authority and Rule by his Commission are Set over us by his Appointment and Advanced by his Providence which Over-rules all Second Causes when sometimes very unlikely for such a purpose into a subserviency to promote to Empire such Persons whom he first Approves So that by this Doctrine it is as much our Duty to Obey our Governours as to Obey the Ordinance of God And therefore the Apostie goes on to teach his Christian Romans Ver. 5. That they must needs be subject not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake St. Peter also upon the same Principles teaches the same Doctrine of Obedience to the Supream Governour in the first place and in the second to all that Act by his Authority 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as Supream or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him And in the Text we are taught to Obey Principalities and Powers and Magistrates not only the Supream but the Subordinate that none may think themselves Innocent by pretending to Obey the one while they disobey the other for our Obedience is requir'd to both Ver. 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the Lord's sake and because it is the Will of God and no good Man will oppose the Will of God to follow his own He calls Obedience Emphatically well-doing in Opposition to Disobedience which is evil-doing Thus these Two Great Apostles press the Duty of Obedience upon the Consciences of Christians by the strongest Arguments with the greatest Earnestness and these Reasons will take hold of good Consciences and ingenuous Minds and God increase the number of them As for those Men who impiously despise these Arguments there are others which likely may work upon their Self-love so far as to restrain their Practice tho' they do not Reform their Minds and they are fears of Punishments With them that want Religion and Goodness to ingage them to their Duty the fear of Justice may prevail to keep them within the Bounds of it They that have not the Grace to Obey for Conscience sake may in Prudence have so much Innocence at least in outward Appearance as not to provoke the Wrath of their Governours Rulers are not a Terrour to good Works Rom. 13.3 4. but to the evil Will you not then be afraid of the Power If ye do that which is evil be afraid for he beareth not the Sword in vain He is the Minister of God a Revenger to execute Wrath upon them that do evil 1 Pet. 3.13 Who is he that will harm you if ye be followers of that which is good Against Modesty Meekness Temperance Peaceableness there is no Law No Government ever made Laws against such Virtues as are necessary to the support of it 1 Tim. 1.9 The Law is not made for a Righteous Man but for the Vngodly and for Sinners for Thieves and Murderers for the Lawless and Disobedient Against such Evil doers every Wise Government provides Penalties proportionable to their Crimes whether by Pecuniary Mulcts or Corporal Punishments Ezra 7.26 or by Confiscation of Goods Imprisonment Banishment or Death But all Temporal Punishments in this World are but little in Comparison of Eternal Damnation which St. Paul tells us the Disobedient Resisters of Authority shall receive in the next which is certainly the Merit whatever the Event may be of so great a Wickedness Besides the Doctrine of the Scriptures which will effectually ingage the Obedience of good Christians we are under the Obligation of an Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity the Greatest Security that can be given against Perfidiousness and the best Assurance of our sincere Intention to perform that Duty which indeed the Laws of Nature and the Rules