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A64681	The rights of primogeniture, or, The excellency of royall authority in a sermon preached before His Majesty in the Isle of Wight, upon the anniversary of his birth-day / by James, L. Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1648 (1648)	Wing U221; ESTC R24650	6,297	14

THE Rights of Primogeniture OR THE EXCELLENCY OF ROYALL AUTHORITY IN A SERMON Preached before His MAJESTY in the Isle of Wight upon the Anniversary of His BIRTH-DAY By the R. R. Father in God JAMES L. Bishop of Armagh and Primate of IRELAND Nunquam libertas gratior extat Quam sub Rege pio LONDON Printed for R. LOWNDES 1648. THE RIGHTS OF PRIMOGENITURE c. GEN 49. 3. Reuben thou art my first borne my might and the beginning of my strength THis is the beginning of Jacobs blessing his Children which was an act and a principall act of his Faith as it is Heb. 11. 20. And in this we may see a difference betwixt the death of Jacob and his Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob were famous in their Generations God is not ashamed to be called their God And if we consider their lives and deaths we shall find this difference Abraham in his life was most glorious his Faith famous witnesse his offering his onely son to God with that strength of Faith that although he verily beleeved that in Jacob all the Nations of the Earth should be blessed yet was his Faith so strong as to be content to offer him up being perswaded that God was able to raise him from the dead Now although his life was thus glorious when ye come to his death This is all that is said of him Then Abraham gave up the ghost and died in a good old age and was gathered unto his Fathers Commonly great things are expected from holy men at their death yet ye see Abraham was but ordinary in his death Concerning Isaac's life the Scripture saith but little and the selfe same words are used of him at his death as was at the death of Abraham Jacob as ordinary in his life as ye shall meet withall But his death was a Prophecy of Christ's comming into the World He begins with Reuben to whom though he had no mind at all to blesse him he gives his due shewes him that the right of Primogeniture belonged unto him if he had not forfeited it Thou art my first borne my might the beginning of my strength For this reason God commands that the first borne should have a double portion And so Reuben should have received but that he forfeited it Therefore saith he because thou art unstable as Water c. thy excellency is departed from thee and so he gave it to Joseph In repeating the Genealogie of Jacobs sonnes 1 Chron. 5. 1 2. Now saith the Text the sons of Reuben the first borne of Israel for he was the first borne but forasmuch as he defiled his Fathers bed his Birth-right was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel and the Genealogie is not to be reckoned after the Birth-right c. Ye see though he had forfeited his Birth-right he could not forfeit his Primogeniture but there was an escheate thereof to Joseph All the rest had a single Tribe set out to them but Joseph had two Tribes and so the right that should have gone to Reuben fell to Joseph Besides this had not Reuben forfeited his Birth-right he should have had more then this double portion for there was a promise made that Kings should proceed from him Now as in the former Joseph succeeded him so in this of Eminency and Power it fell to Judah for so it followes in 1 Chron. 5. before named Now to Explicate this The Regall power which comes by discent is described by a double Eminency The excellency of Dignity and the excellency of Power By Dignity you understand all outward glory by Power all Dominion and these are the two branches of Majesty The Greekes do therefore expresse it in the abstract In respect of Dignity the Supreame Magistrate is called Glory In respect of Soveraignty he is called Lordship The King is not only Glorious but Glory Not only Powerfull but Power Let every soule be subject to the higher powers Both are joyned in the Epistle to Jude and in the 8. Verse there is a wicked sort described that despise dominion and speake evill of Dignities They despise Dominion that make no conscience to blaspheme the foot-steps of the Lords Anointed These men dare do what Michael durst not doe Verse 9. He durst not bring against the Devill a railing accusation but these dare speake evill of Dignities And what is their Censure Verse 13. To whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever We use to say that those that have Gods Tokens upon them are past hopes of like Here ye may plainly see Gods Tokens upon these men they are reserved to Everlasting Damnation Well let us now come to unfold these two parts of Majesty Dignity and Dominion The excellency of Dignity and the excellency of Power By Dignity is meant the outward Pompe and Glory annexed to the Scepter For it is Gods ordinance that there should be an extraordinary splendour in Majesty more then in any other And therefore the Scripture doth often describe the Courts of Princes their Splendour at home and in their Progresse abroad with dignity and state Acts 25. 23. When King Agrippa and Bernice went to heare Paul the Text saith They removed with great Pompe It was a thing beseemed the Regall power so to doe 1 King 10. 2. The Queen of Sheba came to Jerusalem to see Solomen with a great Traine but she came to a farre greater Court then her owne And this State in Courts is not Pride but it is a thing allowed by Gods ordinance as Christ saith Those that weare soft rayment are in Kings Courts And speaking of the Lillies of the Field I say to you saith he that Solomon in all his Glory was not like one of these If you see a man though in Russet attended upon by others in rich Clothes you will conclude that man though in Russet to be some great Personage The Queen of Sheba was astonished at what she saw in Solomon's Court for when she beheld the Meat of his Table he must not be served as other men the sitting of his Servants the attendance of his Ministers and his Cup-bearer c. the Text saith There was no more spirit in her She was as a man may say besides her self to see this State And so stately it was that Psal. 45. it is brought in as an Allegoricall description of the Glory of Christ and his Church I need not go to forraigne Princes to prove this the Scripture doth sufficiently evidence it In Ester 1. there is a description of Ahasuerus and his Feast the like to which you will not read of in any other Story it lasted one hundred and fourscore daies which was a full half yeare and with the greatest Glory that could be ver. 4. When he shewed the riches of his glorious Kingdome and the honour of his excellent Majesty c. So then this is the first part of Majesty namely outward Splendour which is lawfull and requisite to maintaine the dignity of