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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62010	Loyall subjects, or The blessed mans encouragement vpon the Kings retyrement from Hampton Court, November.11. Delivered in a sermon, November the 14th. 1647. By T.S. D.D.	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1647 (1647)	Wing S6221; ESTC R222129	11,055	22

vera Nobilitas the noble Christian that feareth God is so farre from being afraid of those evill tydings that hee neither forsakes the Truth nor declines his Loyalty He is not afraid of those evill tydings 2. Sometimes evill tydings signifie Famam sinistram quam improbi culpâ sua sibi contrahunt That evill report which base people deservedly bring upon themselves Thus Shemei is called a Raylor for speaking evill of the King thus Doeg is called an Accuser for belying the Lords annoynted and his Priests Thus Absolon and Achitophell are called Conspirators the one for taking Armes the other for giving counsell against their Soveraigne Thus Corah Dathan and Abiron and all their followers such as rise against their King upon pretence that hee stretches his Prerogative too high are called Rebells But they that feare God and all Loyall Subjects doe feare God feare no such aspersions If they are cast upon them by evill tongues they readily answer them as Saint Austen did Petilian upon a like scandall I know no such thing by my selfe and I thinke I know my selfe better then hee knowes me but beleeve you whom you please him or my selfe I am not afraid of these evill tydings 3. Sometimes Evill tydings signifie Dangers and Calamities Jobs messengers one tells us our Cattell are Plundered another our Houses are fired a third our Children are murthered a fourth our Soldiers are mutinied our Garrisons are betrayed our Armies are disbanded and faire quarter is denyed or if promised it is not performed Why yet Non succumbit justus non deficit justus He that feares God faints not failes not looses not his courage yea though he knowes death to be the Guerdon of his not yielding to a Conquerors pleasure hee lookes upon his Saviour and feares not him that kills the body he lookes upon King Davids blessed man and feares not any evill tydings These times offer as fit a case as this Text requires King David pronounces the man blessed that feareth God my fearing God is best evidenced to mee by my obedience to my parents for that is Gods command Exod. 20. Honour thy Father and thy Mother my great Parent is the King he is Pater patriae the Father of the Kingdome and the higher power Rom. 13.1 so Saint Paul calls him The supreame power 1. Pet. 2. so Saint Peter calls him Therefore I to be subject to him and not to resist him is Saint Pauls inference Therefore I to honour him and to feare him is Saint Peters And to take away all reply Saint Johns rule holds in this of Feare as well as in that of Love 1 Joh. 4.20 Hee that sayes he loves God whom hee hath not seene and loves not his brother whom hee hath seene is a lyer so he that sayes hee feares Gods whom he hath not seene and feares not Gods Annointed whom he hath seene speakes not true English But now there is a Pack of men met together who call themselves a Power above the King a Supremacy above the Supremacy a Sun above the Sun who command us to take part with them against the King who if we doe not threaten us with Sequestration of our Estates that is Beggery with registring our Names in their blacke Booke that is Infamie with bringing us to the Barre of Justice of their justice that is Death Wee know if wee forsake the King and side with them against the King wee sinne because we resist the higher power If weresist we incurre damnation The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let Master Marshall qualifie it as he pleases the destruction of our soules and bodyes here and for ever Now here is the tryall 2 Sam. 15.21 If we stand to the King and doe our duety if we are resolved as Ittai was wheresoever my Lord the King is whether in life or death there will thy servant also be then we feare God But if wee goe back to them that oppose the King let it be upon what considerations it may I shall leave my Wife and Children Beggers else I shall be a slave and prisoner all the dayes of my life else else I shall be hanged my selfe and these petty thoughts fright me out of my duty I have then ruin'd my Blessednesse I am not blessed I have lost my evidence I feare not God and am a witnesse against my selfe that I am afraid of evill tydings Well fare that Heathen who was resolved for all fortunes and will rise in judgement against the cowardly Christians of England his resolution was thus expressed Non fulminantis magna Jovis manus Terrebit justum And againe Etiamsi fractus illibatur orbis Impavidum ferient ruinae Let the World totter turne rnund and fall I will not be afraid But a Heathen is not fit to be our Scholemaster look wee upon the Primitive Christians and amongst them well fare old Hilarion who being in the hands and power of his Persecutors and by them demanded An non timeret If he were not afraid of those evill tydings they brought him for they came to strippe and plunder him returned them an answer as full of gallantry as mirth Nudus latrones non timet an empty Shippe feares not a Pyrate a poore man feares not Theeves They then threaten him with Terribilium terribilissima and the very Hyperbole of evill tydings Sed occidemus te we will put thee to most exquisite torments and in the end kill thee Non times mortem art thou not afraid of death and hee returnes as great an Hyperbole of Gallantry Non timeo mortem quia paratum est cor meum confidens in Jehovâ paratus sum mori No I feare not death because my heart is established beleeving in the Lord and I am prepared to dye Well fare Saint Chrysostome who being threatned with Banishment by that Empresse of a good name but a badd nature Eudoxia Et vult me Exulem Regina and will shee banish me sayd he Agat let her doe it shee cannot banish me from the presence of God Domini enim est terra for the whole earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof Another bids him hide himselfe and save his life for the Empresse would saw him to death Et me secabit secet And will shee saw mee to death content sayes he I am not afraid to follow the prophet Isaiah in his way to the Kingdome of Heaven A third bids him shift away for else the Empresse would cast him into the Sea Immerget Immergat will shee cast me into the Sea sayes he content still I doubt not but to finde as good a planke as Jonas did to save me from drowning A fourth advises him to secure himselfe for the Empresse would cast him into the Furnace of fire Iniciat sayes he as shee pleases I am not afraid of a fity Chariot the three Children will beare me company and the sonne of God will drive the Coach so fast that the flames shall neither scorch my flesh

nor singe my cloathes A fift bids him take Sanctuary for the Empresse would have him throwne into a Den of Lyons Jaciat sayes he content still I make no question but the Angels will musle them for hurting me Yet a sixt perswades him to convey himselfe aside for a little while that the Church of Christ might receive some further benefit by him else the Emprelse would have him stoned to death Fiat voluntas Dei sayes he I have alwayes prayed that the will of God might bee fulfilled and if this be his will let it bee fulfilled and Hers too I will use all lawfull meanes for my preservation being persecuted in this City I will flie into another but still with this resolution I am not afraid to follow Saint Stephen thorow a whole showre or Quarry of stones into the Kingdome of Heaven If these Examples be procul and too farre at too great a distance for us to follow looke we then upon some of our owne Country-men and amongst them upon a noble Glenham who was more conquered by an empty dish then by an insulting and increasing Foe and yet was afraid of neither but left his Garrison of Carlile with more honour then his Enemy gain'd it Looke wee upon a valiant Fawcet who was more conquered by the mutiny of his unfaithfull slaves for they are not worthy the name of Soldiers that will mutiny then his thundering enamies and yet was afraid of neither but came off with more honour then he left behinde him Looke we upon a Loyall Compton who notwithstanding the improbability of reliefe and the continuation of an hard Seige and the multiplication of a cruell Enemy was yet resolved to feare nothing but to come off with so much honour as to leave none behind him for his enemy Looke wee upon an undaunted Arundell who being summoned to deliver up the remainder in the West and allured thereunto because the Kings party was utterly defeated returned an answer as full of Resolution as Religion as full of courage as Christianity and such as became both a Soldier and a Christian I have lived untainted these threescore and seaven yeares and I have not now any minde to go a Rebell to my grave Remember if you revolt you turne Rebells and if you dye in that Apostacy you dye Rebells and leave an Odium upon your Name and a Curse upon your Estates Looke wee upon those Gentlemen but looke wee upon them with the eyes of charity and imitation who at the last of all went from Portsmouth and Exeter to Oxford what carryed them so many a weary steppe when they might have lived quietly there or have gone safely to their owne habitation but the example of a Loyall Wagstaf and the feare of being tempted into a Rebellion and a desire to live and dye in his Majesties service I could tell you of many more who have chose rather to live in Exile in Prison in Poverty then any way to comply or compound with the enemy having yet a hope above reason but not without faith that God will at last arise and acknowledge his owne cause and maintaine it and remember how the foolish man hath blasphemed him And that God may owne his cause looke wee upon his Majesty who not withstanding so many waves of the sea and so much madnesse of the people in the losse of all and above all in the unreasonablenesse of Propositions is yet so farre from being afraid of any evill tydings that he yet doubts not to recover all at least to requite all our miseries with the blessing of peace and honourable conditions And that God may blesse him in these undertakings with successe looke wee upon him with admiration for his constancy and perseverance looke wee upon him with imitation for his patience and pursuing Peace looke we upon him with sighs and teares that Hee so good a King should have so bad Subjects looke wee upon him with Loyalty and contribution and make it a case of conscience whether when he undertakes so many hazards for us as his former journey to the Scots did and his present retirement God knowes whither presents him with it be not a rising sin for us to murmure or for any of our Party to feare whether it be not a sin in every one of us to spend a penny upon our superfluities now hee wants so many for his owne and our urgent necessities but especially looke wee upon him with prayers and supplications that God would blesse his pious Oratory with a gratious peace or by an unexpected supply with a glorious victory And doubt not but that God who in a like expedition returned him safe from a Spanish Treachery and delivered him from the pawe of the Beare and Beasts of ravine will also preserve him from an English Conspiracy and deliver him from the Talon of the Eagle and Birds of Prey If he miscarry in one or both blame not the goodnesse of his Cause or Person but the badnesse of our selves the falsenesse of our hearts and the faintnesse of our Prayers Never was a better Cause since the World began No not in the Primitive Persecutions for then Heathen Emperours persecuted Christian Subjects But now Heathen Subjects under Christian names persecute the best of Christian Kings and if such a Cause perish wee must conclude our selves the worst of People since Adam begat Caine Never was a better King no not in Israel setting aside the spirit of Prophesie King David himselfe cannot outvye him for goodnesse and if hee and wee perish it is not because hee but wee have done wickedly King David was a man after Gods owne heart and is not King Charles so too The reason I am sure is alike for both Confirmatum enim est cor ejus for his heart standeth fast believing in the Lord Pars. 3. It is my third consideration Quare non timet ab auditu malo Why he that feareth God feareth not any evill tidings Paratum est cor ejus confirmatum est cor ejus stabilicamest cor ejus read it which way you please his heart stand eth fast and believeth in the Lord his heart is prepared to believe in the Lord. And heere the very object Lord is enough to make our heart to stand fast and believe Were it but El there were a Magazine of strength in that and wee shall have reliefe enough if wee believe in Him as Hee is a strong God Were it but Shaddai there is a Pana cea of sufficiency in that and wee shall have succour enough if we believe in Him as Hee is God Al-sufficient Were it but Elion there is a Mountaine of Hope in that and wee shall have supply enough if our heart standeth fast in Him as Hee is the Most high God Were it but Tsebaoth there is an Army of Protection in that and wee shall have victory enough if our heart standeth fast and believeth in Him as Hee is the Lord of Hosts Were it but Adonai there is