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A sermon preached at White-Hall on the 29th of May being the happy day of His Majesties inauguration and birth / by Henry, L. Bp. of Chichester.
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King, Henry, 1592-1669.
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1661
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Wing K504; ESTC R4732
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Case like This The Cardinals Election of the Pope Electores non habent Authoritatem in quem eligunt Sed Authoritatem Applicandi istam Dignitatem Those who Elect have not Authority over him whom they have Elected but only an Authority to Apply that Dignity So sure and irrevocable is the Right of an Elective Prince But when the Right of Succession brings a King to his Throne This is of all others the Noblest the Firmest and Carry's the greatest mark of Gods favour both to the Present Prince and to Those from whom he was Derived Succession to the Crown of Israel is by God promised to David as one of the Richest Temporal blessings He could give He bids Nathan the Prophet tell him When thy dayes be fulfilled and Thou shalt sleep with thy Fathers I will set up Thy seed after Thee which shall proceed out of Thy bowels And I will establish his Kingdome When God is angry with a Land he cuts off the Line of Succession Write this man Childless He quencheth his Light and the Lustre of his Name sending him to his last Bed like a despised Lamp inglorious and in the Dark without any Heir to preserve either his Power or his Name When this Successive Right was interrupted though by persons of the same Regal Line what Tragedies ensued and what Blood was spilt let our own Chronicles resolve from Richard the 2. to Henry 6. It is the goodnesse of God to us that we enjoy a Successive King And it is the Kings Glory that He comes to us derived to His Crown through a Succession of Numerous Monarchs To what Votes soever Elective Rulers ow their Scepters Succession is the Vote of God who both declares the Right and then Confirms it as his Donation It follows in the last place And I will give it Crowns conferr'd by other hands sit loose and tottering upon the Head of such as wear them I will give it keeps Them fast This is the Magna Charta for Princes The Great Charter by which Kings hold the Right to their Kingdoms By Me Kings Rule It is God who sets up and pulls down Giving the Kingdome unto whom He pleaseth Tertullian said well Inde est Imperator unde Homo antequam Imperator The Emperour is made by Him who made him Man before Even Heathens joyn'd in the confession of this Truth The Greek Poet tells you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Tacitus more like a Christian than a Heathen Principes Imperium à Deo habent eosque instar Dei esse Princes receive their Ruling Power from God and are in His Stead Where are Those then who place the Right to Dispose Kingdoms in the Pope As do his Sycophants the Canonists who blush not to bestow the Style of God upon him Dominus Deus noster Papa That so He may have better colour to bestow the Other Or Those in another Extreme who entitle the People to this Power Populo jus est ut Imperium cui vult deferat A strange Prodigy in opinion not heard of until Those Men came into the World who as was falsly alleg'd of the Apostles at Thessalonica Turn'd the World upside down placing the Feet above the Head and Subjecting the Higher Powers contrary to the Rule of God to the People who by His Command ought to be subject unto Them I may apply Nazianzens question to this purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what madnesse is this to leave the Head and take Rules from the Feet He goes on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is praeposterous to the Order of Nature when the Fountain is obstructed and the Stream which borrows being from it holds full Course when the Sun loseth his luster and a dimme Star enlightned by it governs the VVorld Malè imperatur cum regit vulgus Duces cryes the Tragedian It is a pittifull Kingdom where the People Rule the Prince Chymists will tell you nothing can make Gold but the Great Elixar which Turns all it Toucheth Doubtlesse the Peoples Power is a Metall of too low and Coarse Allay to produce a Crown Thou shalt set a Crown of Pure Gold upon His Head is God's Peculiar VVhen the rebellious Israelites in Moses absence would needs make a God That is a Leader or Ruler to go before them They contributed their Earings to the carrying on that design But the Effect and Issue of that Contribution was only a Calf I beseech you remember from all our Contributary Plate from the silver Basin even to the smallest Bodkin whether we had any Productions amongst us better than This. Certainly before Knox and Buchanan and Junius Brutus These Doctrines to Diminish Princes were never broached One tells you The King hath no Propriety either in his Kingdome or His Revenue Non Proprietarius sanè nè usufructuarius Regni Another quarrels Him for the upper-hand scarcely grants him Precedence If he do 't is all And unlesse in Private will not allow Him the Better Man when he comes in Publick Populus Rege praestanâ—ior Major The People are his better and much above him Again Though the King be Greater than any Particular Subject Yet he is Lesse than the whole People Populum à quo Reges nostri habent quicquid Juris sibi vendicant Regibus esse Potentiorem Again Populus eandem Potestatem habet in Regem quam Rex in Singulum The People have the same Power over their King as the King hath over any single Man And again take him for all when the People call their King in question before them Minor ad Majorem in Jus vocatur the Lesser is Convented Arraigned Condemned by the Greater Excellent stuff From whence you may discern what hands lay'd the first foundation of our High Courts of Justice Indeed after all the Arts and Labour to assert this pretended Power of the People after all the distorted Scriptures and Miss-apply'd Texts by Those Sons of Bichri who blew the First Trumpets of Sedition in our Israel Curse ye Meroz c. And cursed be he that withholds his Sword from shedding Blood And To your Tents O Israel we have no part in the son of Jesse with many like these There was but one speeding un-controlable Text to do Their Bloudy Business This is the Heir come let us kill Him and then the Inheritance the Right to dispose the Kingdom is ours I cannot without horrour mention it And I pray God There be not too many amongst us who yet hold an Obedience not out of Conscience but Constraint or Outward Complyance because They want opportunity to Resist This is the sense of a great Leader in his time who by occasion of that Text Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities replyes It was good Politick advise St. Paul gave for that time The Christians were few and poor had no power to do otherwise Nor were Ripe for