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A13078	A looking glasse for princes and people Delivered in a sermon of thankesgiving for the birth of the hopefull Prince Charles. And since augmented with allegations and historicall remarkes. Together with a vindication of princes from Popish tyranny. By M. William Struther preacher at Edinburgh.	Struther, William, 1578-1633.	1632 (1632)	STC 23369; ESTC S117893	241,473	318

addeth moreover an aptitude to vse his Power aright And in Subjects it looseth not the obligement of obedience but confirmes it For if any man thinke because hee is a Christian that he needes not pay tribute nor giue due honour to Superiours hee falleth in a great error And the Iewes sinned not because they said they had not a King but Caesar but because they denyed Christ. It is a singular worke of God to erect and maintaine a right Governement in the world And the Apostle hath commanded vs to render tribute to whom tribute is due custome to whom custome feare to whom feare honour to whom honour The mysticall Bodie of Christ is not a multitude of one gift one degree one office but in diversity of gifts and Operations doth respect other Preheminency in Princes Subiection in people stand well with grace the holie Spirit can direct the one in commanding the other in obeying without any disparagement of grace for hee who said By mee Kings doe reigne sayes also Let everie Soule bee subiect to the higher Powers Since grace then hath the owne order and degrees in his mysticall Body it can well agree with the order and degrees hee hath made in the civill Body of Kingdomes The like may bee seene in Heathen Princes for their jurisdiction destroyes not their humanitie but they may keepe them both it enableth Humanitie in them to curbe the inhumanitie of oppressors The heavenly City of the Church is here lodged in the earthlie Citie of worldlie Kingdomes and it were a bad requit all for that her lodging to destroy them Therefore let that heavenlie Citie obey the Lawes of that earthlie Citie so long as shee soio●●nes in it that since mortalitie is common to both Cities concord may bee keeped betweene them in things that concerne it These men doe sin against God the law of Nature the good of humane Societies for even reasonlesse creatures haue a King of their own kinde submit themselues to him It is but a fleshly licence that they seek vnder the name of a Christian liberty as was said of old to the Donatists their forefathers according to these deceitfull and vaine opinions the raines are loosed to humane licence and all sinne left vnpunisht that a boldnesse to hurt and a libertie of wantonnesse may reigne without the barre and opposition of Lawes Yea take away that which wholesome Doctrine commandeth wiselie by the holy Apostle for the health of the World Let every Soule bee subiect to the higher Powers The second is a popular errour of some who thinke that Magistrats receiue onely benefite of Subiects and giue no recompence againe But they should remember that dueties betwixt Princes and people are mutuall and their fruites also The wise governing of Kings and peace following is as great a good as people can giue to them GOD hath tyed them together by mutuall respects the more they are keeped by both the parties the more they increase and there is neither possibility nor hope of safetie to either but in their agreement The people of Rome fell in this same errour they departed from their Senate because they sate in ease while the people indured labour and lose of warre But Menenius Agrippa cured that errour by a popular comparison All the parts of the bodie said hee were angrie on a time at the Bellie because by their care and service all things were purchased for it which in the meane time had ease in the midst of the Bodie and enioyed the fruite of their labours Heerevpon they conspired against it that the hands should not beare meate to the mouth nor the mouth receiue it nor the teeth bray it But while by this anger they would dantoun the Bellie all the members of the Bodie fell in extreame consumption whereby it appeared that the service of the Bellie was not in vaine and that it was no more nourished than did nourish the bodie while it sent out prepared foode to everie part Theerfore they resolved to quyte their miscontentment and doe their wonted offices to the Bellie By this rude and populare Oration the people of Rome began to heare of concord and at once were reconciled to their Senate The Bees giue the like respect to their King hee alone among so busie labourers is exeemed from labour and yet is placed in the midst and largest roome of the throng Hyue The directions for people are to pray for Princes obey them in the Lord Gods care of Kings is both for their Place which he assigneth vnto them and for their worke to bee his Instruments for the good of mankind And therefore people are bound in the Lord to honour them for their place so farre aboue them To loue them for their worke so profitable for them And to commend them daylie to GOD that hee would hold their Heart in his hand and magnifie his ordinance in their government So Davids example in this place and the Apostle commands vs to make Supplications Prayers Intercessions for all men for Kings and for these that are in authoritie Their condition also craues this for their education is vsually in libertie without controlement and since corruption in Subjects breaketh out in great insolencies What may it doe in Kings great power without great wisedome and a speciall assistance of God is dangerous both to the possessours and those they rule Their place layes them open to many dangers and therefore a necessitie on our part to pray earnestly for them Our prayers are both for their good and our own thogh the fruit come first on Princes yet in the next roome it commeth to vs The raine that falleth on the mountaines bydeth not there but slydeth downe to the Valleyes So when servent prayers bring downe blessings on Kings the people are therein blessed also When the Apostle biddeth vs pray for Kings hee telleth that our fruite shall bee a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie and when God biddeth his people pray for the peace of the Citie where they dwell in captivitie hee promiseth that in their peace they shall haue peace The standing and falling of Princes importeth their Subiects greatlie So long as David walked in his vprightnes God blessed him his people but whē he waxed proud Satan tempted him to number them they were punished And when Rehoboam forsooke the Lord hee fell not alone but all Israel fell with him When one of the people goes wrong he alone perisheth but the error of the Prince involveth many hurteth all that hee ruleth The fall of Kings is the punishment of people for as by their vertue wee are safe so by their errour wee are in danger Therefore wee should pray to God that wee may haue a glorious and perfect King It is then most profitable that good Kings reigne long and that profite is not so

bee given to the crosse of Christ and not to him That is but a scoffing for the foote is not a place to put the crosse on and the Emperours Theodosius and Valentinian were more religious who discharged to paint the crosse on the ground least it should bee trod vpon Hee admitteth men to three kisses pedis pectoris oris of the feete the breast and his face If therefore hee would honour the Crosse why putteth hee it on his foote and not on his breast to tell his loue to it or on his face to tell his account of it And the Greeks are more religious than he for though they take not that Adoration yet they set it on their face or Breast His second reason is a mocking of men as his first is of Christ That since the Popes office is to teach the world and the feete of Preachers are beautifull they cannot beautifie them better than by put putting the crosse on them for the spirit and grace descends to the feete and to make their steppes stay in the way This is a fiction for neither hath the Pope that office of vniversal preaching neither dischargeth hee it in any one Church and the beautie of the feete of Preachers is not by the signe of the Crosse but by their heavenly commission their fruitefull discharge of it and a godly life But the secret of all this businesse is this hee is an enemie to the crosse of Christ and by that seeming honouring of it vpon his foote is tredding it vnder foote indeede But hee commeth nearer the poynt at length that whereas the Popes received white shooes from Constantine they haue taken purpour or skarlet shooes in their place And what is this but to tell the world that Rome is the scarlet coloured Beast drunke with the blood of the Saintes and this is the more because they acknowledge such kissing of his feete to come of Diocletian who thought himselfe a god craved divine honours And thogh that his wickednes was a damnable sayeth hee in craving of it yet the custome is not to bee damned that gaue it This is all one as to condemne Herod who took divine honours but not the people that gaue them Diocletian then is the father of this pride and it is worse in them than in him for hee beeing an Emperour tooke it of his Subjectes but they being Church-men exact it of Emperours They should remember their owne glosse The Pope is successour to Peter the Fisher but not to Augustus the Emperour If not to Augustus farre lesse should they succeed Diocletian Beside reason Scripture must also bee abused to colour this wickednesse that thy foote may bee dipped in blood and the tongues of thy Dogges in the same Then the feete are dipped in blood say they when they are decored with a crosse of Christ then the tongues of Dogges are dipped therein when Heretickes like dogges licke the Popes feete But Augustine exponeth that blood of Martyrs and these Dogges of painefull Pastours which pertaine nothing to the Pope for hee massacres Martyres and doeth not preach at all To this same ende they abuse that Prophecie Kings shall bee thy nourcing fathers and Queenes thy nourcing mothers they shall bow downe to thee with their faces towards the Earth and licke the dust of thy feete This Prophecie according to the Letter is fulfilled in the Emperours and Kings kissing the Popes feete with their faces toward the ground The like hath Eudaemon Ioannes the Iesuite But this is a great change and farre from that which Leo the third did after he had crowned Charles and made him Emperour hee would worship him before the people that they might know the greatnesse of the imperiall Maiestie Haymon apud Bozium de signis This is proper to Heretickes who steale the glorie of God to pervert Scripture for colouring that sacriledge But Marta helpeth him and would proue the lawfulnesse of it from the Iaylors falling downe at Paul and Silas feete and Cornelius falling downe before Peter but there is nothing for kissing of his feete in these Texts and it is a weak proofe to alledge Abdias Babylonius a fabler whom he grantes is ab Ecclesia reprobatus reiected of the Church And the antiquitie of the practice hee findeth no sooner then Pipine and Charle-maine Fables and the colour of antiquitie serue these men who are destitute of auncient truth But we shall help them in fathering of this adoration aright on Darius who called himselfe King of kings and cousing of the gods and Cleopatra who would bee called the Queene of queenes These are the parents of their pride and would bee adored Thirdlie they vse greatest degree of their prid in trodding on the neckes of Emperours as Alexander the third did to Fridricke Barbarosa at Venice That is a more commendable fact sayeth one and more iust than the trodding of Ecebolius because it was against a most cruell enemie of the Church and Alexander b did well that hee insulted with his heeles against that horrible Beast While heaven and earth are astonished at that pride they glorie in it And of this sort was that pride of Celestine the third who did cast the Crowne off the heade of Henrie the sixe with his foote as though the Crownes of Emperours served for none other vse but to bee foote-bals to Popes It is good for Kings who kisse his foote that they are able againe to rise or walke For the trees of the wood of Loretto inclined so low to welcome the Virgins Chamber comming over the Hadriaticke Sea that they neither raise againe nor inclined to the House when it was settled behind them Tyrannie in Barbarians cannot exerce greater indignities against Princes then this humilitie of the Servant of servants CHAP. V. Of their third vsurpation over Princes In their Lawes THeir third vsurpatiō over Princes is in their Lawes God hath invested Kings with a Nomo-theticke power to make lawes within their Kingdomes but the Pope taketh on him to Expone Mend Alter and Repeale them at his pleasure and that is the common doctrine of the Schoole-men As for their Execution hee may stay their vse or set it to some profitable end for the good of the Church and he power of both resideth in the Pope And for this end absolutely he taketh on him to direct and command Kings in the vse of their power against Protestants If they obey him hee casteth them in danger and hatred of their people If they disobey hee hath a cause of Censure against them to suspend or depose them for if the secular power bee denyed or neglected the Seculars may bee excommunicate This is also injoyned to their Inquisitours to compell Kings and Princes to recall their lawes that are against the Inquisition And because Eymericus is too generall in his decision therefore Pegna is more particular in his Commentar that commoun and fundamentall