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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43763	A looking-glass for loyalty, or, The subjects duty to his soveraign being the substance of several sermons preached by a person who always looked upon his allegiance as incorporated into his religion ...	Higham, John, 17th cent.	1675 (1675)	Wing H1966; ESTC R19006	105,066	207

this one circumstance falls short that those that were the Contrivers and Promoters of his death never did But in one circumstance falls short and that a very material one too nor never would from first to last own him for their King but when Pilate asked that question Shall I crucifie your King they returned this answer We have no King but Caesar and when he had caused this Superscription to be written in three several Languages which sounds thus much in ours Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews they abhorring to own the crucifying him under that title desire him to alter it Joh. 19.19 20 21. Write not the King of the Jews but that he said I am the King of the Jews Obj. The greatest part of the Nation plead Not Guilty to the Indictment It may be some will object in the words of the Disciples to the Woman in the Gospel pouring that costly ointment upon our Saviours head What needed this waste of words sith the greatest part of the Kingdom had neither hands nor hearts engaged in it Sol. Those were guilty that ingaged not for him though not in so high a degree as they that fought against him Hinc illae lachrymae He that fights against him with his purse if a Volunteer is as bad as he that fights against him Our Laws say Rex non moritur which is always true quoad jus not so always quoad potestatem exemplified in our late Interregnum To these I have to answer that David was at a great distance from Vriah when he received his deaths wound and yet he prays apparently in reference unto that Deliver me from bloud-guiltiness O God Whence I infer that a man may be guilty of anothers bloud never shed if so though but few principals in the shedding of this there were very many accessaries either by actually opposing or not personally assisting him according to our bounden duty either by their persons or by their purses Moneys are the sinews of War and had not they so readily sacrificed their Wealth to the pleasure of their Grandees their design must have been nipt in the Bud and proved rotten ere it had been ripe This this is that that suborned the Witnesses that feed the Counsel that bribed the Judge that paid the Executioner for striking that fatal stroke which made the body both of our King and Kingdom headless All this that I have said to aggravate the crime The Authors Apology for his severe application is not God knows out of any delight I take to rake in those rotten Ulcers and festered Sores but in order to that which follows and which our sin calls upon us loudly for out great humiliation To which purpose our Anniversary Fast enacted on that sad occasion renews the memory of our guilt Infandum jubes renovare dolorem and directs us with renewed Repentance to deprecate the punishment lest we forgeting it to God God should remember it to us in such a way as we would not willingly hear of it The Prophet Jeremiah hath written a whole Book of Lamentations for the death of good Josiah Judah had great reason to lament the loss of their good Josiah but we greater for the death of ours which was the fore-runner of those many miseries to the Jewish Church and his Subjects expressed the sense of their loss by his fall so deeply and pathetically that it was made for an Ordinance unto Israel and proposed as a Pattern for future times in their most important occasions Zech. 12.11 In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon Surely it behoves us in our mourning if possible to exceed them Their King Josiahs fall was an effect of his own rashness and folly but the fall of ours was both by and for our sins This in short I commend as reflecting upon what is past Wholsome advice and propose this as a proper expedient for the time to come to break off our Sins by Righteousness our former Rebellion by our future Fidelity And sith all our tears were every one of our Eyes Fountains would prove ineffectual to restore to life him whom some have been so eminently instrumental and all have been one way or other accessary to bring him to his end what we fell short in duty to the dead Father let us make up in love and loyalty to his living Son his rightful Heir and Successor whose unparallel'd act of Grace when we lay under the danger of so great a forfeiture cannot but indear him to all his rational Subjects The benefit whereof I envy to none but do heartily wish that some would study better to deserve it And so I pass from this fear here strictly taken as it signifies a particular duty which every individual Subject ows to his Prince and come to consider it in its latitude as more comprehensive including all other duties payable to him upon the same account It is not unknown to any that study the Sense as well as the Letter of the Scripture that Fear Fear a very comprehensive Duty when it relates to God as its Object as it doth here in the first place oftentimes signifies his whole Worship Deut. 6.13 Psal 112.1 128.1 Acts 10.35 Qui timet Deum nihil negligit timere Deum est nulla quae facienda sunt bona praeterire Greg. Moral as it doth in all those places in the Margine The Fear of the Lord makes a man very diligent and careful that he leaves no good duty undone which God would have him do and it is as common in the Scripture when he intends to press the whole duty of Inferiors to their Superiors to name onely some one leading duty which being expressed the rest which are as it were under its command must be understood as honour to Parents submission to Husbands obedience to Masters as here Fear to Kings and Princes This whether ye refer it to God or the King is to all other Duties It is like the Heart as the Heart is to all the other parts of a man and when God calls for that Prov. 23.26 My Son give me thine heart he leaves not the rest to our own disposing He made man that is the whole man and every part of man for himself 1 Cor. 6.20 and purchased both body and Soul at a price there is great reason that the Workmanship should serve to the use of the Workman and that which was bought at so dear a rate should be serviceable to him that bought it in calling for that he calls for all and he that in answer to that call of his presents him with that gift he together with that gives him all Like the Centurion in the Gospel Like the Centurion Matth. 8.8 it is in great Authority it hath all the rest as Servants at its beck it saith to one go and it goes to

do what they list without any regard to what their Superiours command them making it only a matter of complement and no concern at all of Conscience Rom. 13.5 though afterward urged by the same Apostolical Authority upon that very account How loth are some to stoop to Authority Applicat 1. Non est vilis abjecti animi indicium sed generosi à lege Creatoris non deviantis promptè lubenti animo subjici melioribus B. Davenant in Coloss 3. and to submit to the practice of so indispensable a duty As it it were in it self a thing too much beneath a free and ingenious spirit Whereas in truth it is rather an argument of a generous mind not deviating from the Law of Creation willingly to subject it self to its betters Insomuch that the very Heathens could say Facile imperium in bonos pessimus quisque asperime rectorem patitur It is an easie matter to govern such as are good but a difficult task to govern such as are bad who account submission a yoak too strait and uneasie for their stiffned necks 2. Non-conformists apparently defective in this duty Others who seem willing to comply with the commands of their Superiours in matters of civil concernment yet fain would be their own carvers and be left to their own liberty in Ecclesiasticals especially in those things which are adiaphorous i. e. of a middle and indifferent nature as if that God who is the God of Order and both commands and approves of it in all other Societies of men would allow of or excuse confusion in his own House In what the power of Kings chiefly consists The power of Kings consists chiefly in things of that quality which if they are abridged of they are in effect but meerly titular and signifie as little as so many Cyphers without a figure Whatsoever comes within the compass of the Moral Law either as a Duty to be done or as a Vice to be eschewed the one must be done and the other left undone whether or no the Magistrate second it with his command or prohibition What needed then that Precept of obeying Magistrates he that will not obey God will not obey Man commanding the same thing with God freely and willingly and he that obeys what God commands being awed thereunto by the Precepts of men Isa 29.13 the Prophet hath left us ground enough to judge by what approbation or acceptation that obedience is like to find at the hands of God Every Duty which falls under a Moral Precept Circumstances as inseperably linked to Duty as those accidents so called are to their subjects which cannot be parted without the apparent destruction of both exemplified in the gesture of Prayer hath some Ceremony or other necessarily accompanying it as the Shadow doth the Substance in the clearest day I instance in a mans gesture in Prayer whether it be standing walking leaning kneeling lying either upon the back sides or prostrate or any other way if there can be any other as we read of several men that have used several of these which the Scripture rather describes then prescribes and it is impossible he should do it but in some of these or such like but in which of these he shall pray there is not one word of command for this or that or any yet notwithstanding it is very requisite that they which meet together in the same place to serve the same God should be both unanimous and uniform joyn together in the same mind and in the same form as it is noted in the people in Ezra's time when he opened the Books to read Nehem. 5.6 all stood up but when they praised the Lord The ill consequences of leaving every man to his liberty they all bowed themselves Diversities of gestures cause distinction and hinder devotion being usually attended with preposterous censuring one of another to prevent which the Apostle hath left a standing rule to order all things of this nature by Let all things be done decently and in order A general Apostolical rule for ordering things of this nature by And the next best rule that we can observe to uphold and maintain that order is to comply with that Church wherein we live and whereof we are members in such commendable gestures as she prescribes and practiseth It cannot but be looked upon as a thing very indecent and disorderly when in compliance with that Catholick and Apostolick Constitution Who have power to regulate those things the Governours of our Church among whom we acknowledge the King next under Christ to be Supream have ordered this or that for private men in their practices to control their publick judgment Besides what it argues of pride and singularity from which their own fairest pretences cannot clear them nor the greatest charity of others excuse them So heinous a thing in the judgment of that very Apostle was Violation of Church Orders that Contumacy therein deserved a censure little less then Excommunication commanding to withdraw from every brother that walketh disorderly 2 Thess 3.6 and not after the instructions which they had received What hath been said of Gestures in Prayer Vestures in the publick Administration under the same rule might have been said of Vestures in the publick Administration which come under the same consideration and belong to the same general Rule But what if a lawful Power command an unlawful thing Quest what must the Subject do in such a case Answ The Question carries its answer within it self the Command is unlawful therefore it must not be obeyed i. e. actively the Power commanding it is lawful therefore must not be resisted The common Case falling under this Head resolved Princes have not an absolute and unlimited Authority over their Subjects neither must they give an absolute and universal obedience unto their Princes We are bound to obey those that are set over us by the Lord only in the Lord. He that made such a one a King Propter quod unumquodque est tale idipsum est magis tale Aristotel Acts 4.29 is more a King himself then he is whom he made so being King of Kings and Lord of Lords therefore when he shall command contrary things Whether it be right in the sight of God to obey man rather then God judge ye Surely as Peter and others of the Apostles said in such a case We ought rather to obey God then men Acts 5.29 Ex quo docemur quatenus se extendit officium Magistratus deinde quanta obedientia est à nobis colendus idque loco Dei. Denique quando licitum ab eo discedere Aretius in Act. Apost Absolute obedience not safe either in Kings commanding From whence we may learn how far the Office of the Magistrate doth extend what respect we ought to shew towards him as being in Gods stead and how far we must follow his Command with our