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A36371 The honour due to the civil magistrate stated and urg'd in a sermon compos'd for the day of thanksgiving for the happy discovery of the late horrid and execrable conspiracy against His Majesties sacred person and government / by Theophilus Dorrington. Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715. 1696 (1696) Wing D1942; ESTC R14688 25,086 35

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THE HONOUR Due to the Civil Magistrate Stated and Urg'd IN A SERMON Compos'd for the Day of Thanksgiving For the happy Discovery of the Late Horrid and Execrable Conspiracy AGAINST His Majesties Sacred Person and Government By THEOPHILVS DORRINGTON London Printed for John Wyat at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1696. ADVERTISEMENT THE materials of the following Discourse are Thoughts which have a long time taken possession of my Mind upon a good consideration of the Duty therein urg'd and of the Behaviour of the World with Relation to it The Occasion of putting them now together was The Happy Discovery of the late Wicked and Detestible Conspiracy against the Life of Our KING whom may it please God long to preserve and by consequence against our Peace Liberty and Religion and the Welfare of Europe It was at first design'd for a Sermon and in particular for the Day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God for that Discovery to which I intended it should have been somewhat more expresly accomodated in an Application at the End To be sure the best way of expressing our Thankfulness to Almighty God for having so wonderfully again preserved our Good KING is to study and practice all that Duty which God requires we should pay to the KING But having had no opportunity to use the Discourse in that way by reason of my uncertain Circumstances at present I have resolv'd thus to Publish it Thus it came to pass that it is in such a Method And the Duty is here Stated and Vrg'd as becomes a Sermon from the Intimations of Holy Scripture concerning it and the whole Discourse is chiesly grounded upon Principles of Religion Being then after this manner at first composed I was willing to let it go with this Character Because the greatest Reverence and Regard is certainly due to Religion and to what is firmly and necessarily connected with the Principles and Precepts of it All That therefore may with great Reason have a mighty force and power upon Men. I heartily pray that this Discourse may as much as is necessary revive this Happy and Important Instance of Religious Practice amongst us to the Honour of our Holy Religion the Obtaining the Divine Favour and Blessings upon the Nation and the Promoting the Tranquillity and Prosperity of our Good KING and his People To which Ends I am sure this Practice will mightily conduce THE HONOUR Due to the Civil Magistrate 1 Pet. 2. 17. later part Honour the King ALL the Rules of Religion are design'd to promote the Happiness of Mankind and this we may very reasonably believe of them since they were all contriv'd by that Good and Just and Wise Being who created us Those Laws which tend to form us into orderly Societies and direct the Behaviour of Men towards one another if they were universally observ'd would certainly produce all that Advantage and Happiness which can be deriv'd from Society and Communion with one another While we perform what is made our Duty towards other Men this is not only for their Good and Advantage but tends to our own too As it is for the benefit of the World that the Great Universal Governour the Lord of Hosts has appointed Governments among Men and this as the Apostle says is an Ordinance of God for Good so 't is for the Benefit of the World that those Governments be duly Honour'd and Obey'd This is not only to the Advantage of those that govern but also to theirs who are govern'd And most certainly a Man may out of Love to his Country and from a hearty Concern for the Welfare even of the People urge them as the Apostle in our Text. does to Honour the King I shall therefore in this Discourse propose what Honour must be paid to the King and offer those Arguments which ought to induce us to it We have in this Text an evident and express Comand to Honour the King By the King is meant the Person or Persons who bear and execute the supream governing Authority of whatever Nation The Precept here supposes a single Person because the People whom the Apostle wrote to were under such a sort of Government but it does not at all oblige or require that all Government should be manag'd by a single Person The Duty of Subjects to the King or Governour is comprehended here under the same Word which directs the Behaviour of Children towards their Parents in the fifth Commandment Of which Command this Precept in our Text is a Branch The Septuagint translate the Hebrew Word in that Command by the same Greek Word which the Apostle uses here And the Apostle Paul expresses that which is required by the Fifth Command by the same Word which the Septuagint use in Eph. 6. 2. From what is requir'd then in several Places of Scripture to be paid by Children to their Parents we may learn how the Civil Magistrate is to be Honour'd And as Children must reverence and respect must love and obey must assist and cherish their Parents as there is occasion so must Subjects demean themselves towards their Prince It seems very well said by some Learned Men That there is a peculiar Fitness and Propriety of Speech in using the Word Honour in that Command rather than Love or Fear though our Parents are to be lov'd and also reverenced or feared Because say they He that Loves does not always reverence and observe And he that Fears does not always Love but he that Honours doth both Reverence and Love It is the best general Account then that we can give of the Meaning and Extent of this Precept to say It includes all that which a reverential respectful Love or a kind and loving Reverence does require and would exercise it self by This I shall now represent as well as I can so briefly do it in the following Particulars 1 The Subjects must acknowledge and allow all that Authority and Power in the Prince which of Right belongs to him This I think is of it self very evident to be included in the Command to Honour the King And that it does belong to it Solomon intimates in those Words My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Prov. 24. 21. We must neither in Principle deny nor in Practice oppose or contradict nor any ways endeavour to undermine or lessen the Authority which belongs to the Governour We must treat him with Respect as a Superiour and prefer him and his Interests before our selves and our own Every Subject must esteem him superiour to himself therefore all must esteem him superiour to all If he be higher than every Part of the Community beside himself he is higher than the whole It is a dishonourable Opinion of the Governour to account him a Servant of the People Though a good Prince will as we to our Comfort find at present entirely give up himself to promote the Happiness of the People under him as if he