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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

Reprobates Rebels and Devils Fithly Initiall which respects sinne and is in all good Christians and loyall subjects Sixthly Filiall which respects God and is in all noble Martyrs and glorious Saints You may contract these six into two Viz. Filiall and Servile because under Servile may bee comprised Humane and Worldly and under Filiall Initiall and Naturall Filiall feare lookes upon God as a Father and honours him and is resolved to honour him though there were neither Heaven nor Hell no Heaven to reward him no Hell to torment him Servile feare lookes upon God as a Judge and shuns him if now and then in a fit he yeelds him any obedience it is Formidine paenae onely to avoide the punishment due to the disobedience Filiall feare is an ornament and vertue of the Soule servile feare is a passion and distresse of the Soule filiall is a chaste feare servile an adulterate servile fear is in the reprobate both here and in Hell Filiall feare is in the Regenerate both in the Church militant and tryumphant but not here as there but in severall confiderations here by two actions Fugiendo malum Faciendo bonum by eschewing evill and doing good there onely by doing good Perficietur in patriâ non abolebitur reverentia timoris non minuitur sed augetur sayes Saint Austin Reverentiall feare shall not bee diminished in Heaven but increased It shall not bee abolished but perfected Servile feare is not in them not in them at all so farre as they are Regenerate as men they may feare their lives as covetous they may feare their estates as carnall they may feare their liberties but hee that feares the losse of either Liberty Estate or Life can never bee good Soldier or loyall subject can never be good Christian or Gods servant he may feare God as God is just and so feare is a passion and distresse of the soule he does not feare God as God is good for so feare is a grace and ornament of the soule As feare is a passion of the soule you may understand that speech of Saint John Joh. 12.42 Many of the Rulers beleeved in Christ but for feare of the Jewes they did not confesse him lest they should be put out of the Synagogue for they loved the praise of men more then the praise of God I may add They feared the injustice and punishment of men more then the justice and chastisement of God and therfore sayes Christ Matth. 10.28 fear not them which kil the Body but are not able to kill the soule but rather feare him who is able to destroy both soule and body in hell The words in the Originall are worth your observation Feare not them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that doe kill the body It is not sayd Them that can but them that doe they may do such a thing by a permissive power they cannot doe it by any inherent any native or natural power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but the soule they may not they cannot they neither may nor can kill the soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but rather feare him who hath power to destroy both soule and body in Hell I wish the Renegado's of this age seriously to consider these Texts those men I meane who served the King and tarryed with him so long as the sun shined and the weather was calme but so soone as ever the raine began to fall and the windes to blow they presently run away to compound save something a little wealth and some few dayes but they forget God can and will destroy both soule and body in Hell Yes He both can and will without a great deale of repentance for their sinne is farre more desperate then the first Rebels they ran into the sinne out of rashnesse and inconsiderately but these men have put God into one scale and the World into another and therefore to them belongs that miserable Doome Apoc. 21. The fearefull shall be cast out i. e. Such men as feare the losse of their Estates more then the losse of Gods favour and the losse of their momentany life more then the losse of their eternall life they have forsaken Gods Annointed and God will forsake them Whatsoever other men thinke of this policy and commend it this is my Piety God give mee grace to live a Christian and dye a Romane to continue Loyall and not feare man who can but kill my body and dye couragiously in the feare of God so I shall not feare any evill tydings Pars. 2. It is my second Consideration Quid non timet timens Dominum what he that feares God feares not Hee feares not ab auditione mala or ab auditu malo non timet He is not afraid or he shall not be afraid of any evill tydings At first sight againe This object increases my wonder He feares not any evill tydings Prov. why the Kings wrath is evill tydings for it is the messenger of death and shall I not feare him Solomon sayes Prov. Feare God and the King Saint Peter is at the same 1. Pet. 2. Feare God and honour the King Saint Paul is at it for conscience sake Rom. 13.5 Bee subject to the higher powers not onely for wrath but conscience sake And is the sonne of David against it there Feare not them that kill the body and is the Father of Christ against it here Feare not any evil tydings not the wrath of Kings No at no hand This is no absolute no generall prohibition but onely a limitted and comparative God is to be feared and the King is to be feared where their commands are not in opposition Feare belongs to them both both naturall feare and filiall feare But when they stand in competition where my obeying the King will dishonour my God where my fearing the King will displease my God where sinne is the subject of a Tyrants command and Gods Law must thereby be transgressed I am then at the Apostles resolution Act. Whether it be fit to obey God or man judge you I am then at King Davids blessed man I feare God I feare not any evill tydings This will bee more evident and appeare more lucidly if wee looke into the diverse acceptions of Auditus malus and see what is the true meaning and right construction of evill tydings 1. It signifies sometimes Calumnies contumelies checks taunts and reproaches wherewith they that feare the Lord are slaundered Thus gluttony blasphemy and sedition were objected to Christ and now his servants and the Kings liege people are called I should have sayd Miscalled Malignants Delinquents Evill Counsellers Papists Enemies of the Church and troublers of the State Haec autem perferre difficile and this is a very heavy burthen to beare Generosis enim animis Cruciatus corporis quam jacturam famae facilius est perferre A noble minde had rather have his body bruised then his Credit blasted yet he that is truely noble Et sola virtus