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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94767	Obedience perpetually due to kings, because the kingly power is inseparable from the one kings person. Delivered in a sermon to Mr. Peter Gunning's congregation in Exeter Chappel, near the Savoy, on the appointed Thanksgiving-day, June 28. 1660. By William Towers, Batchelor in Divinity, and curate at Upton near Northampton.	Towers, William, 1617?-1666.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1960; Thomason E1040_6; ESTC R207897	13,616	23

designe to exasperate my King in whom as in my God I most of all love the Prerogative of mercy the Kinglynesse and eminency of that over and above all his other workes and Titles against any of my deare Countreymen but to undeceive all of these that in the words of our Royall Sovereigne no such mistakes and misunderstandings misunderstandings even of Scripture it self may at any time hereafter produce and contribute to such miserable inconveniencies which were not intended heretofore that there may not any more be pilaminantia pilis the very same pila to the very same pilis my purpose of inoffensivenesse and charity makes me the lesse to dread the preparing of any of them to a litigious way against me to whom I speake of peace and for peace upon whom But I must not forget to attempt Scriptural reasons too for the individuality of the Rule from the Ruler of the regall Power from the King What else is there that essentiates a King into the very being of a King but Power to protect innocence to c●astise offences without which power he is no longer a King but reduced into a private Person so that of necessity a King must have this power whilst he is a King that is so long as he lives Besides this As in hereditary Kingdoms nothing can possibly pretend to a regall Power without a King unlesse perhaps with some Calvinisticall some fortasse-colour the Inferior Magistrates or most certainely with no colour at all unlesse a bloody one the longest and sharpest Sword to void that best apparence of Title so far as it belongs to a Clergy-cognizance by the word of God And miserable were it for us 1 Cor. 9.16 if as there is a woe upon us if we do not Preach the Gospell a woe from God so there shall be a woe from man upon us if we do preach this part of the Gospel if when God shall say to any of us Church-men when I say to the wicked thou shalt surely dye as he hath said unto us Rom. 13. The wicked resister shall dye and dye again dye the second death dye and be damned 't is a fearefull saying but 't is God's own and thou givest him not warning to save his life he shall dye in his iniquity but his blood will I require at thy hands Ezek. 3.18 If God hath not enough furnishr us in his word to know what that wickednesse is which kils a wicked man what that resistance is which damnes a resister since in his word he commands us to warne them of it and threatens to require their blood of us if notwithstanding all this man shall forbid us to warn him and threaten to require our own blood at our hands at our necks at least the blood of our livelyhood for having warned him I must say it againe we churchmen are in this life of all men most miserable I say to void that fairest colour that best pretence that likest unlike face to the Kings I would argue thus I would assigne the greatest honour imaginable to the rise and origination of the just Authority of those inferior Magistrates I would own their power transmitted to them not only from their King but from his King too I would obey and preach obedience to their lawfull commands not only in the King's name but in God's name too I would give them Scripture for all I say that of the Holy Ghost by S. Peter 1.2.13 submit your selves to every Ordinance of man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the Lords sake I would presume every Christian subordinate Governour would put up his claime so high and wave any inferior priviledge which mans law can ascribe unto him in compare with so Heavenly a title since by the other his authority will onely reach to those two things which came out of the earth body and estate thin dust and thick clay but the Soule will escape all his Jurisdicttion by this he confines the minde he ties he bindes up he obliges the very Conscience and is not this a much nobler Domination over Immortals than that which like the brutish soveraignity of the Lion over beastes and the Eagle over birds and the Dolphin over fishes is only conversant about a rheumatick body a heape crowded together of skin and flesh and blood and bones When he hath thus viewed how glorious his sway is and taken pleasure in the Heavenlynesse of his Title I would next request him to search through to the bottome of that verse and to the first halfe of the next submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to King as Supreame or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him I would now aske if it can be presumed in reason that any one would send and Authorize another to do prejudice and unkindenesse to himself I would crave leave to aske on whether any Governour is in the Scripture sense presumed to be sent by the King to such a purpose when the Governour indeed saies I and the King himselfe saies no O let us not nodum in scirpo enigmatize the simplicity of the Gospel make plaine and evident Scripture difficult to be understood I would lastly beseech him not to chang that safest Title to his Authority which God gives for a Humane one because God's Title places him beneath a King and considers him in that Formality as below him nor to exceed that Title by a humane one nor to be angry at these instructions drawne out of Holy writ and set before him out of my tender regard to the undamnation to the safety of his Soule that he would not indanger my body because I take care what lies in my slender skill and large affection not to hazard his Soule liberare animam liherare animas to free both his Soul and mine conscionably to free my own soule and both Religiously and Respectfully his that he and all of them would be what they are in the highest of their delegated Authority highly loyall to that Supremacy which is higher than they that they would do what they have promised increase the honour and greatness of that Supremacy moved thereunto because which is the next point the King is invested with that Supremacy by God The King's Power is from God All power is so Rom. 13.1 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all lawfull Power not all not any instrusion into the chaire of State Vsurpation of the Princely Throne he that layes violent hands upon a Scepter that with a stiffe necke thrusts his proud head undera Diadem that girds his own side with his Royall master's Sword though he hath much strength he hath no power or if a power of force none at all of Authority and if all lawfull though inferiour Power is from God the Regall much more inferiour Power is subordinate to the King 's it comes from God and from man Kingly Power is derived from God onely how will it mis-beseem any people's