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A47487	Vivat Rex a sermon preached before the Right Worshipful the Mayor, aldermen, council and citizens of Bristol : upon the discovery of the late treasonable phanatick plot : at St. James's Church, July 25, 1683 being Sunday in the Fair-week / by R. Kingston ...	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1683 (1683)	Wing K617; ESTC R17184	23,808	48

our Sins And again pag. 53. says that the reasons that moved the Pope to despose Kings was good and just and meet to be received and Executed by the body of every Common wealth Apel. Pag. 26. Knox the Scottish Presbyter says it is blasphemy to say we must obey Kings whether they be good or evil And asserts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 26. Buchanan in his Book de jure Regni apud Scotos among other things of dangerous consequence to crowned heads says populus rege est prastantior melior Pag. 38. The People are more excellent than the King And this he avoucheth with the greatest confidence imaginable though the Holy Scripture says plainly that the King is worth ten thousand of the people The same Author says that the People have the same power over the King that the King hath over any one man and that Ministers may Excommunicate him and then draws this damnable conclusion that he who by Excommnication is cast into hell is not worthy to live upon earth Thus hath the Scotch Rebell like that Italian Tyrant taught Sbjects how at one blow they may kill both the Body and Soul of their Prince But as if this were not bad enough yet Pag● 40. the wretched Presbyter adds that it were very good that rewards were appointed by the people for such as should kill Tyrants and such they account all those Kings that will not submit their necks to the yoke of their discipline as there be sallaries allowed for those qui lupos aut ursos occiderunt aut catulos eorum deprehenderunt Who have killed Wolves or Bears or have destroyed their brood And who that hears these Doctrines more bloody than Popery or Paganism will doubt that 't is the leaders of these people that dipping their pens in Gall make way for the sword to glut it self with the Blood of Kings Nor were our English Presbyters and Independents much behind their holy brethren the Scots in wicked confederacy and against their King and like the Priests and Praeco's of Mars in scattering Fire-brands through the Nation Book of the Covenant in Evangel Armat pag. 42. Mr. Case calls the late Rebellion the Holy War the Cause of God and Saints all that ingaged in it the Scotch Covenant he calls Christs marriage-contract and says to act against it was to despight the Holy Ghost Zach. Crofton's Answ to Bp. Gauden Edit 3. Pag. 22. Crofton says that all Acts of Parliament made against it were damnable and that Parents ought to baptize their Children into the Scotch Covenant Spirit of Popery 7. 26. 42. Calamy's Ser. before the Lords Dec. 25. 1644. Jenkin's Humble Pet. Oct. 15. 1657. Mr. Calamy and Mr. Jenkins said that the Parliament without the King were the Supreme power of the Nation and that they were assisted by the speciall direction of God And that none could do such things viz Rebelling against the King and Butchering his Subjects except God were with them Mr. Love in his Sermon at the Treaty at Vxbridge Says that the Sword not Arguments must end that Controversy Evangel Armat vid. First Second Part of the History of Separation Mr. Baxter hath said enough in his Holy Common-wealth and other writings to prove him the Bell-weather of Sedition and a man of blood and he that would see further let him view the first and second part of the Dissenters sayings collected from their works and besides this Rebellion against and deposing of Princes is warranted in above twenty places in the Assemblies Annotations and of the same Complexion is Mr. Pool's Criticks Vid. Hist Athaliah Thus have you seen the Devil of Rebellion transforming himself into an Angel of Reformation Icon Bisil and those that should have been Embassadours of Peace the fomenters of an unnatural and bloody War And all under the pretence of Religion The true Religion prevailed upon the world by Purity of Doctrine and Innocency of Life but these mens principles having in this particular a nearer affinity to the Laws of the Impostor Mahomet pudet haec opprobr a nobis dici potuisle non potuisle refelli than the precepts of the Holy Jesus a took the same method for the Establishment thereof as he did who injoyn'd his worshipers by a Law Alcor pag. 125. to persevere in Killing Christians till they was rooted out of the earth So that if Rebellion be Religion then the Papists Mahumetans and Presbyterians are the only true Protestants in the world if the Second murther of a King and utter ex●irpa●ion of the Royall Family the way to promote Gods Glory then are Dissenters the only Champion for the Government and to say worse of them than that they are Seditious and Rebellious upon the accompt of their Religious Principles were to cast I●k upon the face of an Ethiopian You have now heard some of those Monstrous Doctrines that in defiance to the Laws of God and Man encourage the Resistance and consequently the ruin of Kings But that they are as opposite to truth as Light is to Darkness is the next particular wherewith I shall Exercise your patience and this I will do by proving that Religion doth not exempt us from the Authority and Power of Kings and rulers though they be infidels and Heathens and not only strangers but Enemies to true Religion and the professors of it It is not objecting Enormities in the Religion Life or Government of a King that can absolve their subjects from Obedience for the tyes and bonds of duty and subjection to them are Sacred and inviolable Dominion and soveraignty are the Ordinances of God not as he is the Author of grace and redeemer of his Church But as he is the Author of mankind and Governour of the world Dominium temporale non fundatur in gratia Supernatural grace is not that which constitutes Kingdoms nor is the calling of Magistrates a Mistery of the Gospel but an appointment of God by his universall providence The duty of Children to Parents of Servants to Masters of Subjects to Princes is not a consequence of Christianity but a principle of Nature and unalterable by Religon a Christian Child cannot abandon his duty to his Parents tho they be Heathens or Infidels a Christian Servant cannot shake off the yoke of Subjection because his Master is an Vnbeliever 1 Tim. vi 1. nor Christian Subjects deny their allegiance to their Lawful Sovereign tho Heathen and Infidells And he must be a stranger to the Sacred records and the practice of good men in all ages that asserts the contrary But that I may give you one Example for all in a case that directly agrees with all that the Enemies of Monarchy can object against our obedience see it in the Prophet Daniels behaviour towards King Darius Now this Darius was a Heathen Prince one that kept the Church and people of God in cruel bondage and captivity Dan. iii.

VIVAT REX A SERMON Preached before the Right Worshipful THE MAYOR ALDERMEN Council and Citizens of BRISTOL Upon the Discovery of the Late Treasonable Phanatick Plot. At St. James's Church July 25. 1683. being Sunday in the Fair-Week By R. KINGSTON M.A. One of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary 1 Sam. xv 23. Rebellion is as the Sin of Witchcraft and Stubbornness is as Iniquity and Idolatry LONDON Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh Bookseller to his Royal Highness at the Black Bull in Corn-Hill against the Royal-Exchange 1683. To the Right Worshipful THOMAS ESTON Esq Mayor And to the Right and Worshipful Sir Robert Ganne Knight and Baronet Sir Robert Yeomans Knight and Baronet Sir Richard Crump Knight Sir John Knight jun. Knight John Lawford Esq John Hicks Esq Ralph Olliffe Esq Aldermen To Mr. George Hart and Mr. John Combes Sheriffs And to all the rest of the Loyal Aldermen Common-Council and Citizens of BRISTOL Right Worshipful THO' I am too conscious of my own weakness and inability to perform any thing worthy of your Acceptance who are bless'd with many Learned and Loyal Clergy-men that entertain you with more polite Discourses yet I dare not say but that I did most chearfully comply with the Commands of many Considerable Persons for publishing this Discourse not only because it will be a Testimony of your Respects to so mean an Orator but because it will be an Evidence of this Cities Duty and Affection to the King of which no City in England hath given more chearful and ample demonstrations It is but a while since as your Worships all sorrowfully remember that Loyal and Conscientious Subjects had like to have been overborn by the inundation of Popular Clamours and the rancorous breaths of the Factious Mobile but tho' this Disease had spread its Contagion into too many great Bodies of this Kingdom and the Tyde of Rebellion grew very high and threatning in this City also yet did your Extraordinary Care and Vigilance Antitode the Infection Stem the impetuous Torrent and maugre all the Designs of an Antimonarchical Faction preserve this City in Loyalty and Obedience Which that you may always do to the Honour of God that Commands it to the Safety of the King that Deserves it and your own Eternal Felicity that Endeavour it is the Prayer of Right Worshipful Your most humble Servant Richard Kingston July 26. 1683. A SERMON ON 1 SAM X. 24. And all the People shouted and said God Save the King WHen the dumb Son of Craesus saw an Assassin about to Murther his Father tho' he never spake before opened his Mouth with this passionate Expression 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O wretched Man do not Kill my Father Now if the Murther of a Natural Parent was a Crime of that horrid nature and strange resentment as to work a Miracle for its prevention then certainly the Murther of a King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who is Pater Patriae a the Father of his Countrey hath so much of Horror and Villany in it that if we should hold our Tongues from a detestation of the Impious Fact and imploring the Aid of Heaven for our Sovereign's Preservation the stones of the Street would cry out against such an Irreligious Silence Tim. iii. 1 3 4. St. Paul tells us that in the last days perilous times should come the men whose indeavours should contribute to make them such were persons whose character was made up of the following vices viz lovers of themselves covetous proud boasters blasphemers without natural affection truce breakers false accusers dispisers of those that are good traytors heady high minded c. and if our lot be fallen in an Age which exactly agrees with the Character of the last we must make no disingenious reflections on the providence of God but lay it at their dores who by copying out the faults of the worst men provoke the Almighty to make their lives somewhat more then the transcript of their miseries And that we do live in such days and among such persons as trully deserves the aggravating Epithits of unnatural heady high minded Traytors needs no further proofe than the discovery of the late damnable and hellish Plot aginst the life of our Soveraign the subversion of our Laws and the destruction of Loyal Subjects A Plot that would have extinguish'd the light of our Israel Stopt the breath of our Nostrils murdered the Lords Anoynted and given a bloody Bill of Exclusion to both root and branch of a glorious Monarchy a Plot that would have turn'd our Streets into shambles and fill'd our houses with Bloody Tragedies a Plot wherein transcendent villany hath left no room for pardon but cries aloud to heaven for Vengance and calls his Majesties Loyal Subjects to fall on their Knees in prayer Saying God save the King And Since I am for many weighty reasons confirm'd in my belief that no sort of people question the truth of this damnable conspiracy but such whose interests obliges them to stifle it or want demonstration from the accursed deed from which good Lord deliver us and that the great discourse is what should cause such men from whom all the world might expect better to conspire against the Life of their Sovereign and to involve the Kingdom in blood and ruine I hope it will be thought no impertinent digression to assign three things as the cause thereof The first of which is that men of unstable heads but strong passions are subject to believe that a good End doth legitimate and sanctify the worst means and now being secured of the goodness and worthiness of their End their thoughts are always in such a hurry about it their minds so intent upon it and they are so violently hot and eager in the prosecution of it that they will not allow themselves leisure and patience to consider the Lawfulness and Expediency of the means they use for the compassing of it and by this means court their own Ruine and by doing Evil that Good may come thereby assert the justice of their condemnation 1 Sam. xv 22. Or else it is for that reason given by the Prophet Samuel That Rebellion is as the Sin of Witchcraft as well in its facination as in its guilt for none but men under the power of so great a delusion could be guilty of so barbarous an impiety unless men had offered violence to themselves martyr'd their own Consciences chased all remains of honesty and compassion out of their own breasts they could not have entred into such an Hellish Conspiracy and cease wholly to be Men that they might commence Devils hence then I say is the cause of this infatuation that men lying under the Inchantment of Rebellion want the genuine exercise of their Reason and must return to their Allegiance and so be converted from Beasts to Men before they can be Masters of their Wit and Senses And if these will not be allowed the cause of such inhuman miscarriages I know not

first of all Supplications and Prayers be made for all men for Kings and all that are in Authority and however the Author of the Life of Julian raking up some passionate Expressions in one of the Fathers hath falsly maliciously and scandalously represented the whole this is agreeable to the Practice of the Primitive Christians as we may read in Tertullian Oramus pro omnibus Imperatoribus vitam illis prolixam Imperium securum domum tutam exercitus fortes Senatum fidelem populum probum orbem quietum quaecunque hominis Caesaris vota sunt We pray for a long Life for our Emperours a secure Empire a safe House valiant Armies a faithful Senate a good People a quiet World and whatsoever Caesar or any man can wish for or desire Thus have I shew'd you that it is the duty of all good Christians and all good Subjects to Pray for the Safety and Preservation of the King I come to the reasons inforcing this duty and the first is we have need to pray for the King 1. Because his Safety is fiercely opposed and his Life in danger upon the account of Policy and under the pretence of Religion Upon the account of Policy Monarchy it self is undermined by the Republicans to lay a foundation for such an Anarchy as they are pleased to call a Common-Wealth but this being wholly out of my Sphere I shall not invade the States-man's Province any further than to tell you besides being Subjects to the King in our Parents Loins and so under Obligations to Obedience by the Law of Nature we are in the bonds of Religion and Conscience tyed to Subjection by many solemn Oaths wherein we have lifted up our hands to the most high and sworn not to indeavour any alteration and change in the Government And I hope we are none of us so fond of a Common Woe as to go to the Devil by wilful Perjury to set up the Tyranny of our Fellow-Subjects and for your fuller Satisfaction give me leave to repeat the words of the Learned Bishop Sanderson whose single judgement is of greater value than the whole rout of those that would unhinge our Government Lib. de Oblig Consc p. 350. I think saith he an Hereditary Kingdom may not lawfully be changed for an Elective nor for any other sort of Government either by the People alone nor by the People and Nobles joyntly nor by the whole Body of the People in their greatest latitude that is the People Nobles and the King consenting together unless perhaps the whole Royal Progeny should so totally fail that there is not one surviving who may claim it as his due by Right of Inheritance all which considered it amounts to this That unless we will violate the Law of Nature and Religion and incur the heavy guilt of Perjury we must behave our selves like dutiful and obedient Subjects praying always God Save the King Again the Safety of Kings is impugned under the pretence of Religion by the several sorts of Dissenters whom I cannot being under one denomination unless it be in calling them all Amalekites and truly it will concern them to consider if they do not deserve the Name and I pray God give them grace to consider whether the Curse of Amaleck be not justly their portion I say this Truth is opposed by the Rebellious and Bloody Tenents of the Jesuits Anabaptists and Presbyterians I rank them all together for tho' like Sampson's Foxes their heads part yet their tails are joyned to put the Kingdom in a Combustion It is the constant Tenent of the Jesuits that King-killing is not only Lawfull but Meritorious if he be an Heretical King that is to say if he be not a Roman-Catholick And to this devilish Doctrine are they so wedded however some of their Church are pleased to obscure it that they leave no ways unattempted to put 'em into practice as the woful Tragedies they have Acted on the Theatre of the World is too sad a proof And that these are their Principles I refer you to Azor Bellarmine and Mariana who have wrote printed and published to the world Tracts of the Lawfulness of Regicide of whom I shall add no more here Cause and Cure of Scandal Pag. 11. having done it fully in another Treatise The Safety of Kings is opposed by the bloody principles of the Independents Anabaptists and Fift-Monarchists for what else were the publick Preachments of all these men in our late days of Rebellion but what tended to the ruine of our Monarchy Evangelium Armatum pag. 26. as you may read in the Parliamentary Sermons of Burton Marshal Nye Caryl Bridges Saltmarsh c. And of the same stamp were the harangues of Muncer in Germany as you may read at large in the first of Sleidan's Commentaries God that cannot lye saith he hath warn'd me face to face to attempt the Change of the Government by killing the Magistrates and Phipher his Brother in Iniquity did but dream of Killing Rats and Mice and Expounds his Dream of Murthering the Nobles and did not those Fift-Monarchists the English Rebels in Venner's Rebellion having laid their Accursed Designs the Sunday before in their Conventicle in Coleman-street proceed in the same manner and justifie their Principles with their Arms till the hand of Justice overtook them It was an Observation of old Regnabit Sanguine multo Ad Regnum quisquis venit ab Exilio The King that returns after Exile will Reign for the future in Blood and Revenge but our Gracious Sovereign resembling God in one of his noblest Attributes that of his Mercy had at the same instant given Life to them who were indeavouring to take away his Odiorum causae acriores quia iniquiores Their Hatred was the sharper because it was the unjuster and so stain'd themselves with the black Guilt not only of Rebellion but of an ungrateful Rebellion whereas an ordinary stock of Ingenuity and Religion upon the receipt of so great a Mercy as Pardon and Property would have silenced their Murmurings and made them loud in Applauses and Thanks for the felicity of his Reign but on the contrary we see that when men are inclin'd to Mischief upon the account of their Religion they prove the greatest Villains in the world and notwithstanding all obligations that Heaven and Earth can bestow upon them Hell gets the upper hand Nor have the Sons of the Presbyterian Kirk less opposed the safety and wellfare of Kings by those dangerous positions they have published to the world Doctrines that will make you blush sweat and tremble if you have any fear of God or any honour for the King And that I may not be supposed to do them wrong I will Cite their Names and Books from whence I have collected them Pag. 30. Goodman saith in his Book of Obedience That it is unlawful in any case to resist the Superior pnwers is a dangerous Doctrine taught by some by the Permission of God for