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honour_n	custom_n	pay_v	tribute_n	2,271	5	11.2999	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36929	Three sermons preached in St. Maries Church in Cambridg, upon the three anniversaries of the martyrdom of Charles I, Jan. 30, birth and return of Charles II, May 29, gun-powder treason, Novemb. 5 by James Duport ...	Duport, James, 1606-1679.	1676 (1676)	Wing D2655; ESTC R14797	53,659	86

neglect of so necessary and fundamental a duty as honouring the King and yeilding obedience to his Laws That submission to lawful Autority and Obedience either active or passive is a most necessary duty no Christian can or will deny I say Obedience either active or passive active in things lawful passive in others Now if men bring themselves into danger or lie under any hardship for disobeying the King and not performing his lawful commands what joy of heart their passive obedience can be to them or what great content or comfort they can find in their sufferings I cannot conceiv but shall leavs it to all prudent and unprejudiced and impartial men to judge And here I shall only add this as to the matter of Non-conforming to the Kings Ecclesiastical Laws and so draw to a conclusion Let men diligently take heed and beware lest in stead of conscientious Non-conformists for some such I believ there are though it's pity there should be men of of such weak and tender consciences that for want of due instruction and right information they are really and truly dissatisfy'd I say let men take heed lest in stead of being such they prove as too many I fear there are pervers and stubborn and obstinate Schismatics or which is all one fanatic hypocritical Rebels And if so then as I said before to the prophane ranting Royalists That by their vicious and ungodly lives they bring a scandal and reproach upon Loyalty So I must say to these men That by their spurning at lawful Autority and their undutifulness to the Higher Powers they bring a scandal and reproach upon Christianity while they make Religion a cloak for Rebellion and pretend conscience for their disobedience I have been the longer upon this because indeed 't is Morbus Epidemicus the diseas of the times and I would fain if possible help to beat men out of this hold viz. of making the fear of God a plea for not honouring the King a pretence so directly contrary to the Doctrine of St. Peter here in the Text where he joyns these two duties together in a bond of inseparable union I say these two Duties which I have hitherto prov'd to be like Hippocrates's twins that live and dy together Fear God Honour the King so that no man can do the one and omit the other and as he that is a prophane wicked and ungodly man cannot be a true faithful and loyal subject so on the other side he that is a fals disloyal undutiful subject pretend what he will cannot be a holy good and godly Christian. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the thing I have been proving all this while viz. that No man can truly fear God but he that honours the King Now there are several ways of honouring or giving honour to any several sorts of honour I mean of honour strictly taken as here in the Text for otherwise honour is taken in a more large acception as oppos'd to contempt scorn or hatred and so in the beginning of the vers Honour all men that is have a due respect to all do not hate nor scorn despise nor contemn any But honour strictly and properly taken is only due to Superiors and so in this sens there are several sorts of honour these three especially The honour of Obedience the honour of Reverence and the honour of Maintenance and all these comprehended and included in the word honour both in the fifth commandment where we are bid to honour our Parents and also here in the Text which is a branch of that commandment where we are bid to honour the King Of the first of these I have been speaking all this while viz. of the honour of Obedience and for the two latter the honour of Reverence and the honour of Maintenance as I have now no time so no need I hope to say much of them For that both these sorts of honour are due to the King or Supreme Magistrate as well as that of Obedience is out of all question it being so consonant to the principles both of Religion and Reason and so agreeable to the rules both of Divinity and Policy So that most men yeild their assent to the truth of it as to the Theory though in the Practice sometimes they fail and fall short So then besides that of Obedience there are these two other sorts of honour more both confessedly due to Kings and Princes viz. the honour of Reverence and the honour of Maintenance the one for the safeguard and defenc of their Royal Persons the other for the support of their Regal Estate Crown and Dignity For first if their Persons be once slighted undervalu'd and disesteem'd their lives will soon be in danger and then again if their jura Regalia their Regalities or Revenues of the Crown be clipt and cut short the Reverence of their Persons will not long continue Therefore we find Honour in Scripture sometimes put for supply or maintenance or payment of rights and dues as of Tithe or Tribute and Offerings and the like Honour the Lord with thy substance and so the King too Honour widows that is maintain them by supplying their wants and necessities and to this purpose St. Paul in that 13th to the Rom. v. 7 Render therefore to all and so to Kings and Princes their dues tribute to whom tribute c. where we have tribute and custome and honour put together tribute and custome being a great part of the honour due to Kings Therefore our Saviour commends and commands it both by his precept and practice by his precept in his Reddite Caesari by his practice when he pay'd tribute himself yea and rather than not pay it he would work a miracle and fetch it out of a fishes mouth and he made St. Peter to do it which St. Peter's Successor the Fisherman of Rome I fear is not so forward to do to pay tribute I mean to Kings and Emperours but rather make them pay homage and tribute to him which if they refuse to do and so prove Heretics Rebels to the Apostolic See the Chair of Rome and the Triple Crown presently ipso facto they forfeit their own Crowns I and their Lives too away with 'um depose and kill ' um This is the Jesuits Doctrine but they learnt it not of Jesus nor Peter nor Paul nor Tertullian nor of any of the ancient Fathers What Christ and Peter and Paul have said we have already heard Let us hear now if you will what Tertullian saith for himself and the rest of the Primitive Christians of his time Colimus Imperatorem tanquam hominem à Deo secundum solo Deo minorem We honour and worship and reverence the Emperour next to God And St. Chrysostome to name no more upon that famous place to the Romans Omnis anima Let every soul be subject 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though he be an Apostle or Evangelist or Bishop or whatever he be if he come within the