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A85798	A sermon appointed for Saint Pauls Crosse, but preached in Saint Pauls Church, on the day of His Maiesties happy inavgvration. March 27. 1642. By Richard Gardyner, D.D. and Canon of Christ-Church, Oxon.	Gardiner, Richard, 1591-1670.	1642 (1642)	Wing G231; Thomason E141_29; ESTC R16286	13,868	41

evacuation of the Subjects Right both must be kept entire to keepe up the King and Kingdome Should Kings be without right Prerogatives some black mouth'd Rabshakehs will not spare to cry out they have nought but the Name of Kings to commend them And a people not quickned by their Originall priviledges and native liberties will prove Corpus sine pectore a heartlesse uselesse trunke portending nothing but sad events as the beasts of old were said to doe when at their sacrificing the heart was found to be consumed Such a People may fill up a number they will hardly be accounted considerable members of a Commonwealth because they have no pulse from any intrinsecall principle of their owne but like pawnes at Chesse are to be moved and removed onely by the phansie of the externall Agent It is therefore the equity and prudence of his gratious Majesty sincerely to professe that he is as tenderly affected to the Priviledges and rights of his Subjects as to the preeminence of his owne Crowne well knowing hee cannot be a puissant King of a flourishing Kingdome but by being King of a free Nation I know no stronger motive to confirme your zeale for the Kings honour then to remember you how God himselfe is so zealous of their honour that in the 16. of the Proverbs he chargeth not to detract from them so much as in our thoughts Hee knowes what vexations his chiefe Stewarts endure under him and therefore he would have their anguish sweetned with our dutifull and awfull regard But most of us admire the heighth of their exaltation few there are who sound the depth of their care We are taken with the gold and pretious stones in their Crownes we consider not how they are lined with thornes and that there are thistles in their pillowes as in their Ensignes Valer. Max. l. 7. Antigonus found it when he told an old wife that was praising unto him his happinesse in his raigne shewing his Diademe that if she knew how many evils it was stuffed with she would be loath to take it up if shee found it lying on the ground Moses was a Governour by Gods owne appointment Numb 11. yet he was so tyred out that he prayes to be rid of his life Charles the fifth after a victorious Raigne changed his Court for a Cloyster It is then the lesse wonder if in that enigmaticall parable propounded by Jotham Judges 9. where the trees went forth to anoynt a King over them the Olive would not leave his fatnesse to macerate himselfe with the cares of a Kingdome nor the Figge tree his sweetnesse to taste of the bitter sweetes of a Kingdome nor the Vine his fruitfulnesse chearing both God and Man to afflict himselfe with the barren cares of a Kingdome And thus because the Governors load is greater than their honour that they may be won to a chearefull acceptance supplications are to be made joyntly for the Supreame and for the subordinate for Kings and all that be in Authority So great is the care of the Almighty to see all things well order'd that he hath placed a threefold subordinate Authority in the World Domesticall in private Families Spirituall in the Ministeriall Keyes and Temporall in the Magistrate For one as One cannot possibly governe many though his Princely minde be accomplished with Heroique Excellencies And therefore as God suffereth his Vice-gerents to share with him in his highest Title so hath Regall Authority communicated part of its Royalty to their Substitutes that the greatnesse of their trust may put them in minde of their charge which is the conservation of the Kings honour and our peace They move like wheeles one within the other the lesser within the greater yet they all move in the strength of the King as the under wheeles in Ezekiels Vision did by the great compassing wheele which alone appeared The Head derives influence of sense and motion to all the inferior members whereby they are sustained yet doth the eye watch the eare heare and every sense is employed for the direction of the hands and feete So albeit Originally it is the King which under God upholds the people he being called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See Wisd 6.24 A wise King according to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 called stabilimentum populi the support stay or staffe of the people as it were the foundation on which his subjects rest yet he hath his eares and Intelligencers for the ordering of the Common good As therefore we owe allegeance to God through the King so we owe it to the King through his authorized Officers by whose presence and guidance it comes to passe that every man sits quietly under his owne roofe which is the end of our prayers and the Kings care that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life They breed but ill blood who hold Dominion more for the pompe of the Governor than for the benefit of the governed The Commonwealth of Rome made that a quarrell betwixt them and the Senate Menenius Agrippa compar'd it in his Apologue to the variance which the members of the body had against the stomach they objected that it devoured all and tooke no paines but lay idly and sluggishly in the midst of the body while the rest laboured full sore and so the eye would not see for it nor the hand worke for it nor the teeth chew for it but every member refused to doe its office The stomach soone after wanting meate and being empty the eye waxed dimme the hand weake the feet feeble all the body began to languish and pine away insomuch that at the last they were compelled to afford their mutuall Offices for the strength of the stomach that so themselves might be strengthened Thus it fares betweene the King and the People for subjection is more for the good of the State than for the state of the King Hereupon some vvould have Diadema compounded of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vvhich may in a Greeke conjunction of words be sometimes used for For and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the People And not onely prophane Writers but Saint Paul 1 Thes 2. makes Coronam to signify the People A faire remembrance that as the Crowne compasseth the Kings head so is he set in the middest of his Subjects to be employed for their welfare the concord and tranquillity of the Commonwealth being his greatest honour and felicity The Embleme of the Netherlands by stamping money with two earthen pots swimming in the Sea Cambdens Eliz and wittily inscribing Si collidimur frangimur if we knocke together we are broken hath a usefull Morall for these times Should we come to heare the dreadfull and confused noyse of Warre the thundring of the Ord'nances If our ploughshares should be turn●d into swords and our sithes into speares the famine of bread cleanenesse of teeth and dearth of all good things would make us fill the eares of Heaven with Orizons for Kings and all