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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25201	A sermon preached at the assizes held at Leicester for that county on the twenty third day of March, 1681/2 by Nathaniel Alsop.	Alsop, Nathaniel.	1682 (1682)	Wing A2904; ESTC R23629	20,188	36

shall find a multitude of petty Kingdoms and the Power of Governing descending for many Generations and no other account but that it ever hath been thus by a Succession whose beginning they know not which seems fairly to point up to the Original of Civil Government and to give us Cause from the Premises to Conclude that the Paternal and Regal Authority are the same in Nature not differing in Kind but in Extent only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Philo expresseth the same thing But I design no more than the opening and explaining the Notions it hath been sufficiently strengthened and guarded against all the feeble Encounters made in opposition to it by a Learned Writer of our own Sir R. Filmer in his Observations touching Forms of Government only because the best illustration of a thing is by setting to its Contraries I shall therefore beg leave to glance upon some things which are offered by those persons who are pleased not to admit of this Account of the Original of Government which in it self is so easie to be apprehended so agreeable to the nature of Things and Scripture History so honourable to God and his Providence and so conducive to the Ends of all Authority and Rule And here first I cannot but observe how patient and complying our Republicans many times are that the Epicurean Hypothesis should take place Whether Promotion comes from the East or the West or yet from the South they are content whatsoever Wind blows it so that the Lord be not in that Wind as wholly unconcerned how things go as the God of Epicurus himself as Tully jeers them of old And all is only to keep out the suspicion of a Divine Institution in the matter And indeed it seems fully as consentaneous to Reason that the Fabrick of the World should arise from the fortuitous Hit of Attoms as that Philosopher taught as that Order and Government the Strength and Beauty of the Universe should proceed from any thing but the Disposition of a most Wise Creator Can these Men believe themselves who are wont to call upon the People to follow Providence according to their serviceable Doctrine of Ownings and Outgoings when time was Or indeed do they believe any thing of Providence at all who can tell us now That God is no more a Favourer of one Family than another no more than he is a Respecter of Persons Nevertheless we trust that he is a Respecter of Causes and if the just and righteous Claim of any Family or Person shall engage his Favour at all times then how much more in the greatest and most weighty Affairs of Mankind Our Saviour hath taught us That the very Hairs of our Heads are in the Accounts of Heaven and shall the Crowns of Monarchs be neglected and forgotten If there be no Affliction upon a Person or People that may be said to rise out of the Dust then sure an unjust and cruel Ruler which is one of Gods severest Scourges is not set up by Chance or Fortune and if not an usurping Tyrant who is a common Plague then certainly no just and lawful Prince who is a publick Blessing without the Appointment of God If it be left to Men to constitute Governours it 's to be feared that Fraud or Violence will have the greatest stroke and that 's another way whereby they would have it believed that Empire and Dominion might take its rise But this sure is a very improper Ground whereon to found a just and rightful Power unless it should be industriously so contrived to leave an Original Flaw in the Conveyance to the end that Subjection shall be always precarious and when occasion serves renounced with a Justification Force or Fraud the beginning of Empires It seems so jealous are the Party we have here to deal with lest God should be thought to have any hand in the matter that they chuse rather intirely to ascribe it to the Devil for he is the original Liar and Murderer too And if the way to a Throne be to wade through Blood and make the slaughter'd Carcases of all Opposers so many Steps of Ascent to mount them unto Greatness I see not but why every such exalted Head may call him Father whose Name in the Greek Tongue is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Destroyer Rev. 9.7 And then what a hopeful Exercise of Power must attend such a Beginning The Sword must needs maintain its own Title and if the Coronation Robes be dyed in Blood any one may foretell what Complexion Justice thenceforth is like to appear in An Usurper brings along with him a necessity of renouncing all Humanity and Religion too He must hate all those whom he hath injured and must punish whatsoever his own guilty Fears present as if they were manifest Crimes he must tolerate all manner of Disorder and Confusion in the Worship of Heaven for the sake of those which himself hath brought upon the Affairs of Earth he must give up the Word of God to mercenary Tongues and unhallowed Hands to be Tentered and set upon the Rack till with the Heathen Oracles of old it can 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cant something in the favour of his Pretensions And who can be so vain as even to dream of Property or Liberty under such a State Who can hope for the enjoyment of a rightful Possession whilst the Government it self is but a splendid Robbery I shall pass over this Particular with that Observation of the wise Historian Tacitus Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit which may bear this Construction The worse the Title the more intolerable must the Tyrant be But because the Deduction of Government from its true Original makes so fair for the Natural and Divine Right of Monarchy above all other Forms or Models whatever hence the implacable Enemies thereof have another Reserve in which indeed they place their greatest Strength and Confidence and that is by a kind of aukward Courtship to the Multitude by a most fulsom Flattery of the People to insinuate into them an Opinion That all Sovereignty and Power all Honour and Authority as to the first Ownership is theirs and where they are pleased to lodge it A most pernicious Insinuation enough to prompt any People to seditious Attempts which in stead of Obedience which is the farthest thing in their thoughts only sets their Heads on work how to recover the Governing Power which they are told to be withheld violently from them Now how disagreeing this is both to the tenor of Gods Word and of his Works also we shall briefly consider 1. To the Word of God As we find mention but of One sort of Government there so we find Obedience always pressed a quite contrary way than is here supposed viz. as to an Ordinance of Heaven not a Contract on Earth as descending from above so Christ tells Pilate not arising from below the Royal Unction being in this respect like that of the