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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89448	Monarchiæ encomium est sceptrum sive solium justitiâ stabilitum; or a congratulation of the kings coronation, shewing withall, the right way of setling and establishing the kings throne, and causing his crown to flourish upon his head. By way of explication of the first five verses of the 25 chapter of the Proverbs of Solomon, with an application of them to the occurrences of these times, / published by Tho. Malpas preacher of the Gospel at Pedmore in Worcester-shire.	Malpas, Thomas.	1661 (1661)	Wing M341; Thomason E1856_5; ESTC R210373	32,700	77

inrighteousnesse and this is also likened to a fit vessel for the Finer Take away the drosse from the silver and there shall come forth a vessel for the Finer So take away the wicked c. First by drosse is here signified and represented unto us the wicked in general i. e. all ungracious unregenerate and ungodly men whatsoever all the Sons of Belial as they are stiled in the old Testament all the Children of Disobedience as they are so called in the new especially all perfidious Servants to their Master all treacherous and rebellious Subjects to their Prince that either secretly revolt and subtilly withdraw their hearts from or openly lift up their hands against the Lord Anointed against their Liege and lawful King and Soveraign And touching this crimen capitale this crimen laesae Majestatis this hainous and capital sin of Treason the Wise man both warily and worthily admonisheth saying Eccles 10.20 Curse not the King no not in thy thought neither curse the rich in thy Bed-chamber for a bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall declare the matter these then with all other Mutherers Malefactors all Mischievous and Blood-thirsty persons must be abolished abandoned and taken away from before the King for they are but drosse so likewise David compareth them Psal 119.119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like drosse therefore I love thy testimonies Note here that some of these notes were preached in the late Kings time even in the beginning of that fatal and fearful and disasterous Insurrection some wondring at it how I durst Preach so when for the divisions of Reuben there were such great thoughts of heart But not to insist upon generalities for the times and the iniquity of the times requires us to instance in some sorts and kinds of wicked men though not to nominate or name the persons and patties for that is extra lineam praedicamentalem that are here compared to drosse as you know they are elsewhere compared to chaffe Psal 1.5 for David having spoken before of the blessed and prosperous estate of the godly man in the 5th verse he saith non sic Impijs non sic as for the ungodly it is not so with them but they are like the chaffe which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth more particularly then false prophets in the first place may fitly be compared to drosse who are described in the 13th of Deut. to have this odious and damnable quality namely to draw and intice us to Idolatry and to go after other Gods or to worship the true ever-living God in a false erroneous idolatrous and superstitious way By the Law of Moses such as these were to be stoned to death and good reason because saith he they have sought to thrust thee away from the Lord the God which brought thee out of the land of Aegypt from the house of Bondage and all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more any such wickednesse as this is among you Secondly covetous and unjust Judges may likewise here be resembled to drosse with all corrupt bribe-taking Lawyers and inferiour Officers that are under them or any way depend upon them for these are like the Image which Nebuchadnezar saw in his dream whose head was of gold Deut. 2.31 his breasts and his arms of silver his belly and his thighs of brasse his legs of iron his feet part of iron and part of clay and so the lower you descend the more vile and corrupt and degenerate are they In the third place we may esteem wicked and seducing Counsellors no better than drosse and therefore are to be carefully sequestred weeded out removed and taken away from the King lest they should infect and poyson and possess his heart with base Tyrannical principles and Machiavilian pollicies Fourthly all fawning Sycophants and Parasites I mean all proud ambitious flattering and aspiring Courtiers therefore as Hamons face was covered when that great Monarch was offended and displeased with him Hest 7.8 so let these or such as these not have so much privilege or favour to behold the Kings face for they are no true friends of his I dare say it no good Sub●ects to the State they eat like mothes into liberal mens coats they are the very bane and consumption of greatnesse they rob many a great man of his goodness and make him rob and deprive the Common-wealth of her happiness therefore let us banish and abandon them and away with them from before the King Fifthly all male-contented Humorists all factious and fanatick Sectaries Seditious Scismaticks and all hypocritical dissembling Professors whatsoever I mean those who dispise all kind of Ecclesiastical Discipline and Church Government and account our Liturgy to be meat Popery for never was any poor book so vilified and reviled as the book of Common-prayer hath been of late years and yet those milites emeriti that noble Army of Martyrs that composed it suffered death in Queen Maries dayes they dyed with it in their Arms and both loved and honored it and highly esteemed it some of them commending it as the best token of their loves to their dearest Wives and that late Reverend and Renowned Prideaux Bishop of this Diocess Dr. Boys in his Epistle Dedicatory to K. James before his exposition of the proper Psalms cum multis aliis commended it as a Legacy to his two Daughters and all antient Orthodoxal Ministers have ever priz'd it and prais'd it as a second Bible Sixthly all cruel treacherous and bloody-minded Papists and Anabaptists who speak evil of Dignities and do obstinately refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance who if they cannot prevail to bring their purpose to pass by secret Plots and Conspiracies they will not stick like the other to attempt it by open Hostility and Rebellion for these two the Catholick and the Scismatick are much alike in their faction howsoever they be different and disparent in their Faith they hold as the Jesuites do that fides hereticis non est servanda which is a strange Thesis and a dangerous opinion the hatcher and harbourer of Treason the fosterer and fomentor of Rebellion for as one saith ingeniously every Pope is an open Scismatick and every Scismatick a secret Pope these Foxes as Luther tells us in his Preface to his Comentary upon The Epistle to the Galathians are tyed together by the tayl though by their heads they seem to be contrary and what have they else in their tayls but fire-brands like Sampsons Foxes Judg. 15. ready to set the shocks of Corn yea the whole fields of Corn on fire and without some prudent and timely prevention to bring the whole Christian World into a most facal and final Combustion and Confusion Seventhly all politick subtle-headed Projectors insatiable greedy-minded Monopolists unreasonable and unconscionable Patentees for these have been proved sufficiently by woful experience to be meer Harpyes to the State