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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40759	A sermon preached upon the 29th of May, in the parish-church of St. Margaret in Lyn-Regis in Norfolk, in a great presence by Tho. Fysh ...	Fysh, Thomas.	1685 (1685)	Wing F2569; ESTC R17652	17,320	47

Powers do represent that it is by the Beams of his Majesty they shine that He has said They are Gods that he puts the Sword of Justice in their Hands that 't is his Throne they fill and that Obedience to them is enforc'd upon their Subjects by virtue of a Divine Authority and Command And the Skilful in our Laws say That the Common Law by way of Similitude attributes to the King a Shadow of Divine Excellencies because he represents the Person of God and bears his Image As for instance Soveraignty all Lands being held of him Power he commanding his Subjects to go out of the Realm to War or making Foreign Coin Current by his Proclamation Majesty he neither taking nor parting with any Thing without Matter of Record except Chattels or such like below the Regard of Law Infiniteness after a certain manner being present in all his Courts and as it were in all places of his Dominions Perpetuity having perpetual Succession and being not subject to dye Perfection for no Laches Folly Infancy or Corruption of Blood can be judged in him Truth he cannot be estopped Justice He cannot be a Disseizor or do any Wrong These things I find vouch'd from such Authorities as that they seem to me to be Essential to our Constitution and to be as good a Comment as one would wish on that Branch of the Text now under Consideration that The House of David should be as God intimating many high and excellent Prerogatives they were invested in and encircled withal But I must confine my Discourse to narrower Bounds and therefore shall insist only on these two things 1. That in the Monarchy resembling God the Persons in Power were truly Supream 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unaccountable to any as God can be compelled by none nor be made accountable to them 2. That they resembled him in a kind of Immortality The King never died the Monarchy was Successive and Hereditary 1. They resemble God in being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 truly Supream and Unaccountable Some learned Men will have this to have been the main difference betwixt the Judges that governed Israel and the Kings of the House of David That the former were to render an Account to the State of the Administration of their Government which the latter were not to do but to God only The very nature of the thing indeed proves it self sufficiently For wherever Soveraign Power is once lodged because for the Spartan Shadows of a King and the Dukes of Venice I am not concerned to account here there is evidently vested a Freedom from all forcible Controll or Coertion And if David and his Race were Kings over all Israel they had the eminent controlling Authority over the scattered or united Power of the Body-Politick and so no Sanhedrim no Assembly no Consent of the People no Officers of State can be above them in the way of proper Rule or Jurisdiction and violently to touch them in the very Skirts of their Mantle is hugely culpable and criminal On the account of this Eminence they are fenced and immured by the Laws both of Earth and Heaven from the undutiful Thought and the sawcy Tongue as well as the rebellious and assassinating Hand We are not to curse the King so much as in Thought and we are not to revile the Gods or speak Evil of the Rulers of the People And blaspheming God and the King were Crimes that went coupled and hand in hand and St. Paul recanted a rash Word spoken against a Person in Power though horribly abusing it And 't is supposed that the old War of the Giants against the Gods meant no more than Insurrections of mighty Subjects against their Kings Sure we are that in a Divine Sense 't is no less than Resisting the Ordinance of God to resist them and They that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation And the Christian Duty of Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance has unshaken Foundations and inviolable Grounds in the Eternal Laws of Nature and Equity in the Essential Frame and Subordination of Politick Societies to some Supream in the Inspired Writings of the Old and New Testament in the Examples of the Holy Jesus and his meek Disciples in the Canons of the Church and the Statutes of the Realm in the Monuments of Primitive Christianity and the Sufferings of the most celebrated Martyrs As to this last I confess some have gone about to blast the Martyrs Lawrels and represent them to have undergone their Sufferings because they were weak in their Force or in their Understandings and so they foolishly or helplesly submitted to what could not be redrest And thus their Memories are Martyr'd as their Bodies were before and those illustrious passive Graces of Meekness and Resignation of Christian Patience and Taking up the Cross which are the bright Enamel of their Heavenly Crowns which are the just Imitation of our Suffering Lord which are the Eternal Theme of our Wonder and our Praise which in the Opinion of truly Good Men do embalm their Names below and which above have preferred them to the highest Seats in the Church Triumphant These I say are made to dwindle into mere politick Compliance with a helpless Necessity or are arraigned as Arguments of the Weakness of their Party or their Ignorance of their Rights and Privileges which Modern Professors it seems pretend now far better to understand in these Days of New-Light and by those extraordinary late Discoveries that have been made to the Kingdom of the Saints Suffice it us that we know the ancient Channel wherein Christianity ran how it was propagated and prevailed in the World when it went forth conquering and to conquer and yet knew nothing of making its Way by Violence or Armies by deposing of Kings or fighting for Privileges by Alterations of Governments or Dis-inherison of Princes that is in plain English when it was not acquainted with advancing Christ's Cause by reproaching his Religion or breaking any of his Commandments As for us who adhere to the Establishment in the Church of England It has hitherto been our just Glory of which none hereafter I hope shall deprive us that like the Wisdom from above our Doctrines are pure and our Principles and Practices peaceable opposite to Idolatry against God and Sedition against the King And as this Church has hitherto been so may it for ever stand the just Dread and Envy of our Enemies on either hand and be a lasting Monument of the true Temper and Genius of the Christian Religion till Time shall be no more But now because we have exempted Soveraigns from being justly obnoxious to Outward Force or Violence have we therefore cancell'd all Obligations upon them Have we made mere Power to be Right or Passion to be Law or left Appetite to range without either Rule or Bounds and so put them into such a State as is proper to none but the Great Leviathan who with full and Arbitrary Liberty rowls and sports himself