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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02672	[A sermon preached at Hitchin in ...] 1587. the 17.day of Nouember [...]	Harris, Edward, fl. 1587-1590.	1590 (1590)	STC 12804; ESTC S112492	25,711	84

is behinde and the more blessings or prouocations to the feare of God they haue receiued the lesse mercie shall they finde because they abused them to strengthen their heartes in contempte of the Lord. These are the chiefe things which cause men to reiect the feare of the almightie these are the stones whereat they stumble and the rockes against which they make shipwrack which euerie one must take heed of that is desirous to walk in the obedience of this commandement and to feare God as S. Peter counselleth him to doe Thus haue ye heard vpon occasion of Saint Peters words exhorting vs to feare God both how yee may knowe when ye feare him aright what may serue to inflame you with an earnest desire to feare him truelie and what causeth men not to feare the Lord. Let vs now learne other lessons ministred to vs in the same precept Whereas the feare of God which is not in the profession of the mouth but in the inward affection and feeling of the heart is here by Saint Peter commanded to those which before hee calleth apeople set at libertie to shevv forth the vertues of him which hath called the out of darknes into his meruailous light that is to saie vnto the professors of christianitie we must make our reckoning that would gladly be taken for christians howe it is enough for vs to speake talke of the maiestie goodnes prouidence power other vertuous attributes ascribed to God but especiallie it is required that we be inwardlie touched in our soules with a feare and reuerence of him yea and verily they which can only say well of God and are not endued with a true feare of him are no better christians in comparison than that christian man which the painter painteth vppon a cloth or wal For the painters christian is soberly apparelled and made to loke after the saddest manner moreouer he hath a scrowle comming out of his mouth wherein is written some goodly sentence of the Scripture speaking of God and yet for all this he is no true christian because he lacketh that which the painter can not giue him that is to say the true feare of God and so these brethren which make an outward faire shew speake well of God are not true christians if they waÌ„t the true feare of God which is grafted in the heart and is a speciall thing required in a true christian man as by the precept of saint Peter giuen to christian men appeareth Besides this lesson there are other profitable instructions which are offered vnto vs out of the order of this precept Feare God compared with that which followeth honor the king As first of all saint Peter setteth this precept before Feare God and the other after honor the king where by he insinuateth giueth vs to vnderstand how the feare obedience of God is to be preferred to the honour and obedieÌ„ce of princes the very same rule lesson which S. Peter S. Iohn togither teach vs Act. 4.19 namely That it is right in the sight of God to obey him rather thaÌ„ maÌ„ as coÌ„moÌ„ reson also maketh vs to know coÌ„fesse For the souerain must be obeied before the lieutenant the L. of the house before the steward of it the maister before the seruaunt and thÃ©rfore God before all princes and rather than all princes and potentates in the worlde because God is the soueraine king and they are his Lieutenants God is the maister they are his seruantes which admonisheth vs to attempt nothing for any prince vnder the same which ouerthroweth impaireth or vndermineth the flourishing estate of the true feare of God either in our selues or in any other least we bee called into iudgement for seruing the creature with contempt of the creator and preferring man before God An other lesson is taught vs in this order of preceptes deliuered by saint Peter in this place For by setting Feare God before honour the king he insinuateth vnto vs howe that if princes will looke to haue true and faithfull subiects such as will haue care from the verie bottome of their hearts to yeelde them that due honor which is to them belonging them must they first prouide that they be trained vp in the true feare of the almightie for it is hard to say that he which feareth not God aright will or can euer honor his prince truly 1 For why First of all that which especiallie mooueth men so to honour their prince is the commandement feare of God as saint Peter saith before in this chapter they doe it for the Lordes sake whereupon it followeth that if a man haue not the feare of God him selfe which is the cause of his faithfull obedience to his prince it can not well be that he should vnfainedlie and trulie honour his soueraine which is an effect of that feare of God 2 Our soueraine Christ in the parable of the wicked iudge noting the summe of his vngratiousnes vttereth it in this manner he neither saith he feared God nor reuerenced man Luke 18.2 as noting the same lesson which I haue said vnto vs. 3 That is most plaine which we read lerem 32. where the holie GhoÌ„st who is best acquainted with our nature doth shew and declare howe we are of such a condition that vnlesse we be retained and kept in order and awe by the feare of God we will fall away euen from God him selfe For thus the spirt of God by the prophet saith I will put feare in their heartes that they shall not depart from me as if he said I know that men will not faithfully continue no not in my seruice which am their God and creator vnlesse they be indued with my true feare and shall we then thinke brethren that men which haue not the true feare of God planted in their hearts can euer faithfully and truly honor their prince 4 It is not to be looked for derely beloued that he wil regard the blasing of a candle which is not moued with the most glorious brightnesse of the sunne It is not for anie to perswade men that he will euer regarde the value of a pennie which despiseth the full storehouse of all riche things c. no more is it likely that he which feareth not the God of vnspeakeable glory will giue any vnfained honor to his prince c. the summe is it is hard to deeme otherwise but that he which is destitute of the fear of God whether by meanes of ignorance or conteÌ„ptuousnes can or wil euer honor his prince truly I deny not but the Lord so restraineth oftentimes many godles persons with the bridle of a certaine feare that they breake not forth into outragious rebellioÌ„ against their prince but rather stand stoutly vnto him euen vnto the death which is nothing against that I say for I shew what nature being not tilled with this true feare of God ordinarily yeeldeth not what God against the force of nature many times

worketh Againe I speake of that honouring of the prince which is a christian vertue and a worke of the spirit of sanctification not of that seruice whereunto many are brought by the spirit as they tearme it repressing vices They that are gentlemen by reason of their calling haue necessarily to retaine manie in their seruice to waite vpon them let them consider this well that I say If they feede and cloth their seruants well but teach them not the feare of God out of question they do nothing else but harten men and make them strong to rebell against their Prince Yee that are ministers also consider this well and let it make you diligent to instruct your flockes in the true feare of God Alas brethren are they not too many alredie which in hellish madnesse without all feare of God go about to bereaue out gracious soueraine of her life the whole realme of peace the gospel of passage Alas than why should ye also sinne against God and against your owne soules by increasing the number of rebellious and disloyal persons Ye will say peraduenture we do it not yes verely if yee teach not your people diligently the fear of the Lord. For vnlesse men haue their hearts possessed with the true feare of God they will not honor their Prince truely Honor the king Ye haue hither to heard me patientlie concerning the feare of God heare me nowe I beseech you concerning our dutie toward the king Saint Peters commandement is that kings and princes shoulde be honoured which that it maie be more forcible both to teach vs and also to win vs I thinke it needefull at this season after my rude and disordered maner to deliuer vnto you these foure especiall points 1 What it is to honor the king 2 Which are the partes of this honor 3 Of whom this honor is to be rendred 4 For what causes men are to yeld the same Honor in this place in the Greeke called TimÃ¨ is a godly acknowleging and regarding of princes as the chiefest and chosen instruments of God for the maintenance as well of ciuill as of ecclesiasticall society Consider what I say To honour the king is first to acknowledge him for the annointed of the Lord and also for our annointed neither that by wordes alone but by such other meanes also as we are able accordingly as we read of the people of Israel in their receuing of Saul For they did not only showre altogether saying God sane the king but moreouer all the godlie despoled browght him presentes 1. Sam. 10.24 27. and they which did not so are noted by the spirit of God for wicked meÌ„ are held guilty of despising him before the iudgement seat of the almightie Moreouer we must make suchaccounte of them that we set not them a footestoole here in earth and other a throne to sit ouer them as the Papists make the King the vassal of their pope but we must vnfeinedly confesse them with S. Peter the chiefest persons to them giue the soueraigntie and preheminence here in this worlde assuring our selues that he is Antechrist which exalteth himself aboue them 2. Thess 2.4 To conclude we must not looke vpon them as vpon disguised Kinges browght forth on a stage or theater which beside their gaie garments and great wordes haue nothing in them aboue the common sorte but we must receaue them as the chiefest highest Ambassadours of God sent among vs with largest and most ample power and authoritie yea and suche power and authoritie as whereof the best the wisest the richest the godliest shall haue neede to maintaine them in outward societies whether ciuill or ecclesiasticall considering they are thereunto sanctified and sent of the Lorde whose onely blessing enableth euerie man to worke the good of his people 2. The partes of his honour which here is commanded by Saint Peter to be done vnto the Kinge are three to wit Reuerence Obedience and Paying of such tribute or other dewes or renenewes as belong to a person of that calling and dignitie Vnder the name of reuerencing the prince we vnderstande that men ought both to thinke honourablie of the prince to pray for him as also to frame and dispose all their outward gestures and speech in such sort that it may carrie with it and in it a signe of their vnfained subiection to such persons Of mens reuerend thinking of such we reade in the booke of the preacher chap. 10. where the wisedome of God in SolomoÌ„ giueth charge on this wife Curse not saith he the king no not in thy thought For the bridling of our toong from all vnreuerende woordes against such Moses giueth a commandement Exod. 22.28 on this manner Thou shalt not saith he curse the ruler of thy people Whereunto adde that saint Peter 2. Epist 2.2.10.11 and saint Iude also do account them to be vngodly persons and bringers in of damnable heresie which speake ouil of those which are in dignity yea they account them as presumptuous persons daring to speake that in contempt of princes princely gouernement which the angels durst not speake against the verie deuill him selfe Of mans duty praying for princes we reade 1. Tim. 2. Of the reuerend gesture which we are to vse towards such persons we haue exÃ¡ple in Nathan the prophet who made obeisance before king Dauid vppon his face vnto the grounde 1. Reg. 1.23 These are continuall and ordinarie rules and examples for the gouerning directing of our behauiour toward persons of that authority Some will say if it be so then did Elisha offende in calling Ichoram the murtherers sonne 2. Reg. 6.32 and our Sauiour him selfe in calling Herode a fox Luke 13.32 then also did the aforesaid Elisha breake the coÌ„mandement of God in demeaning him selfe so towarde the said Ichoram that hee would not once haue looked vpoÌ„ him had it not bin for regard that he had to the presence of Ichosaphat 2. Re. 3. the was Michaiah to be reproued for speking in manner of derision to Ahab 2. Chron. 18. Hereunto I answer how the precepts examples before set down bind vs and not the Lorde who maie sharpely controll the princes of this world for their misdoings also may vse the seruice of whome it pleaseth him in that behalse neither shall he sinne that hauing the extraordinarie commandement of the Lord speaketh so vnto them in Gods name which yet is no common rule for euerie bodie neither yet for him at all seasons For more cuidence herein I vse this familiar similitude if some great monarch hauing vnder him manie prouinces ech it own king as his lieutenant make it a common lawe that no person of what degree socuer within his dominion shall behaue himself vnreuerently in worde or decde against anie his lieutenants this letteth not but that the afore said monarch hauing knowledge and intelligence of anie his lieutenantes vngodly practises may him selfe commande whome hee thinkes good as Ambassadour

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