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A16562	Remaines of that reverend and famous postiller, Iohn Boys, Doctor in Divinitie, and late Deane of Canterburie Containing sundry sermons; partly, on some proper lessons vsed in our English liturgie: and partly, on other select portions of holy Scripture.	Boys, John, 1571-1625.	1631 (1631)	STC 3468; ESTC S106820	176,926	320

so for God and therefore when an earthly Prince commands against an heauenly trueth it is a Christians duty to be patient and not agent This humouring of the Chiefe Magistrate is a court sinne properly called adulatio quasi adaulatio but countrymen offend also sometimes in giuing too much vnto the subordinate magistrat giue me leaue to reprehend one fault in this kind which I haue noted in diuerse congregations among vs and that is your rising vp in the mids of your religious prayers vnto God to performe ciuill obeysance to men of worth and worship beloued there is a time for all things and a season appointed for euery purpose vnder heauen a time for your deuotions vnto God and a time for reuerence vnto men a time to fall downe before your maker and a time to bend vnto the magistrate Now what manners is it to neglect Gods owne businesse in Gods owne house to worship his Minister in our parts especially where gentlemen haue so learned Christ as that they neither expect nor respect any such vnseasonable duty from you To leaue those who giue too much vnto the Magistrate there be three sortes of people who giue too little 1. Anabaptists who deny the very calling of ciuill Magistrates 2. Papists who maintaine their calling but mangle their Iurisdiction 3. Traytors in actuall rebellion who both acknowledge their calling and Iurisdiction ouer al persons and in all causes and yet vnder pretence to reforme the Common weale with-hold their obedience Tumultuous Anabaptists affirme most absurdly that the Calling of Magistrates is vnlawfull and this they seeme to proue by Scriptures and by reasons The Scriptures wrested by them are chiefly two The first is Mat. 17. 25. Christ asked Peter of whom do●… the Kings of the earth take tribute or polle money of their children or of strangers Peter sayd vnto him of strangers then sayd Iesus vnto him the sonnes are free The second is Luke 22. 25 The Kings of the Gentiles reigne ouer them but it shall not be so among you To the first Orthodoxe Diuines answere that Christ in that place speakes of himselfe and so prooues directly that hee needed not to pay tribute for that hee was the Sonne of a King yea the Sonne of God which is the King of Kings Hee was not bound by the Law yet out of his obedience and loue that hee might not offend the receiuers of poll-money He commanded Peter to fish for a peece of twenty-pence saying that take and giue vnto them for mee and thee And it is well obserued that Christ neuer did any miracle about honour or moneys except this one in giuing tribute to Caesar and Mat 22. 21. Hee commands expresly to render vnto Caesar the things of Caesars and his Apostle S. Paul in this Chapter exhorteth vs to pay tribute to whom tribute custome to whom custome honour to whom honour is due To the second place the Kings of the nations reigne but yee not so wee say that Christ in saying so prohibited neither titles of honour nor ruling but only so ruling that is such a tyrannous kind of gouernment as the Gentile Kings vsed and that ambitious desiring of the same which reigned in them and that Christ ought to bee so construed is playne by three reasons collected out of the context it selfe 1. Hee saith Matth. 20. 25. and Matth. 10. 42. Yee know that the Kings of the Gentiles speaking of these Rulers they knew they were Tyrants and oppressours as Pontius Pilat who condemned Christ an innocent in whom he found no fault and Herod Antipas who beheaded Iohn the Baptist a lust and holy man whom hee reuerenced and in many things heard willingly at the request of his Minion and Herod the great who had butchered all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the coastes thereof from two yeeres old and vnder and out of a pretence to worship eagerly sought to worry Christ in his cradle Yee know that these kings now reigne but ye not so that is I would not haue you so to reigne 2. Catecurienemi vsed in Mat. ind Marke signifies not simply to gouerne but to tirannize so Musculus Erasmus Aretius Beza in their annotations and so the word is vsed in other places of the new Testament as namely 1. Pet. 5. 3. and Acts 19. 16. 3. Christ expoundeth himselfe thus in the words immediatly following Let the greatest among you bee as the least and the chiefe as hee that serueth As if hee should say the Kings of the natious are Tyrants in their gouernment making mischiefe their Minister and Lust their law But I would haue you to beare rule so moderatly that euen the Soueraigne may behaue himselfe as a seruant and the master as a Minister I would haue Princes among you to bee nursing Fathers vnto the Church and Prelats among you to be Pastours of my people Secondly the fond Anabaptists impugning the Magistrats authority that they might insanire cum ratione be mad as it were with reason argue 1 From examples affirming that most Princes abuse their authority to the dishonour of God and hurt of the common wealth as Nimrod Pharao Nabuchodonosor Saul Rehoboam and that after the diuision of the kingdome nothing of Israel was good Answere is made 1. That Princes are not generally bad Adam Noe Melchisedech Abraham Isaac Iacob Ioseph Moses I●…sua were men of God and good gouernours So were most of the Iudges of Israel and many Kings of Iuda Now Christ in the new Testament who chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weake things of the world to confound the mighty things and things that were no●… to bring to nought things that are suuffered his deare people to bee persecuted by cruell Emperours for the space of 300 yeeres that his Church might appeare to bee the plant of his owne hand and not the worke of man in the Primitiue times as Augustine notes Christ would haue that part of the second Psalme to be fulfilled The Kings of the earth stand vp and the rulers take counsell together against the Lord and against his anoynted But in succeeding ages another part of the same Psalme to be verified Bee wis●… now O yee Kings bee learned yee that bee Iudges of the earth for hee raysed vp Constantine Gratian Theodosius Charles the great Ludouicus pius and many moe among which I may not forget Blessed Queene Elizabeth and our renowned King Iames to bee nurses vnto his Church by which hee defended his seruants as it were with a shield Psalme 47. 9. 2. Though it should bee granted that most abuse their authority yet that abuse proues not their calling either vnlawfull or vngodly gluttons and drunkards abuse dayly meate and drinke yet both are the good creatures of God Heretikes abuse dayly the Scriptures vnto their condemnation and yet the Gospell is the power of God vnto saluation adulterers abuse marriage

openly the foxes haue holes and the birdes of heauen haue nestes but the sonne of man hath not whereon to rest his head And Martin Luther a second Elias who by fire from heauen descried and described that abomination of desolation in Gods temple writes of himselfe that of all sinnes hee was euer least subiect to couetousnesse The Papists obiect often that professours of the reformed religion are Lutherans but I would to God both we and they were true Lutherans in this point I haue read that Cardinal Burbonius should say he would not leaue his part in Paris for his part in Paradise But a man of God on the contrary must account all thinges losse that he may win Christ If euery sinne be lesse or more deformed ex parte boni cui inordinate subditur as the schoole speaks then vndoubtedly couetousnesse is a most abiect sinne because goods of the world are worse then either goods of the body or goods of the mind it is but a dirty sin to loue thick clay If we may not too solicitously care for to morrow Mat. 6. 34. Then it is the serpents head and height of impiety to carke for many morrowes building our nest on high that wee may escape the power of euill to come hording vp secret treasure not only for our children but also for our childrens children as the Lawyers speake setling inheritances and making vncertaine riches which according to Gods booke haue wings as an Eagle perpetuities for euer This insatiable both intent and extent is an euill couetousnesse in Gods eye Now concerning our neighbours auarous increasing of wealth is often reported and repeated in this Prophecie to be spoyling of other which are either superiours equalls or inferiours as for superiours euill couetousnesse denyeth vnto Caesar the things that are Caesars It with-holds tribute to whom tribute custome to whom custom honour to whom honour belongeth It renders not to minister and master and magistrate that which is due by the lawes of God and man As for equals it is euill couetousnesse that occasioneth so many quarrels in law and makes so many breaches in loue As for inferiours it is euill couetousnesse that maketh a man hard hearted and fast handed toward the poore the true character of Nabal is to get much and keepe much but to spend little and giue nothing Not to run in the field of this common place beyond the bounds of our text hee that inlargeth his desires as the hell and is as death and cannot be satisfied but gathereth vnto him all nations and heapeth vnto him all people he that buildeth his nest on high erecting it with blood and iniquity he that increaseth that which is not his owne and leaues so much hid treasure to his babes that all of them may liue like gentlemen and Idle men is an enemy to the Church and common weale loosing the one many good Pastors and the other many good professours and tradesmen If gallant vpstarts like nettles today peeping out of the ground to morrow perking to the top of the hedge had not bene left an opulent fortune they would haue got their liuing either by the sweate of their braynes or else by the sweat of their browes whereas now the state both Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill is depriued of their industry Lastly this sinne is the roote of euill vnto our selues auarus nemini bonus sibi vero pessimus A muck worme doth no good vnto any much hurt vnto himselfe he coueteth an euill couetousnesse saith our Prophet to his owne house he sinneth against his owne soule and consulteth shame to his owne posterity It is euill vnto his house for the building of it so high vpon so bad a foundation will be the ruine thereof and make it euen with the ground so Cyrillus Alexandrinus vpon the place Posuisti nidum in alto sed miser eris et repente sub pedibus inimicorum Thy stately towers and townes ouertopping the heads of thy friends shall vpon the sudden bee trampled vnder the feet of thy foes for although all men should hold their peace yet sayth our Prophet the stone shall cry out of the wall and the beame out of the tymber shall answere it the dumbe creatures answere one another as voices in the quire and their cryes as S. Iames telleth vs enter into the eares of the Lord of hostes and the Lord cryeth although thou exaltest thy selfe as an Eagle and make thy nest among the starres yet thence will I bring thee downe for as thou hast done so shall it be done to thee thy reward shall returne vpon thy head Obadia 4. and 15 verse It is euill to his posterity for vnconscionable gaine will occasion his children to be lazie lazinesse will occasion lewdnesse and lewdnesse will occasion vtter ruine for them that honour mee will I honour and they that despise mee shall bee despised sayth the Lord God of Israel 1. Samuel 2. 30 It is euill to his owne selfe for as the liberall and mercifull man rewardeth his owne soule Prouerbs 11. 17. So the cruell and couetous sinneth against his owne soule sayth our Prophet and this euill is the worse for that it growes stronger and stronger as he growes weaker and weaker omnia vitia saith Zanchius Cum senectute s●…nescunt auaritia sola iuuen●…scit other sinnes as wee grow in yeeres are lesser and lesser only couetousnesse which Abacuc telleth vs is a kind of drunkennesse reignes in old men especially an apprentise hauing serued certaine yeeres is a free-man and a scholler hauing studied at the vniuersity seauen is a master but the couetous person is neuer a free-man or a master but alwayes a seruant and a slaue to Satan and sin deficient in euery good office concerning his naturall life ciuill life spirituall life eternall life all which is included in this one word Woe wherby the Prophet doth intimate that couetousnesse is the roote of all euill which a man suffers Woe to him that coueteth an euill couetousnesse An Angel cryed Apoc. 8. 13. Woe woe woe to the inhabitants of the earth inhabitantibus non accolis as S. Ambrose distinguisheth vnto such as are not onely soiourners but setled inhabitants who so dwell on earth as that they make it their mansion and heauen and neuer looke for another city which is aboue Woe to such in their life woe to such in their death woe to such after death as the godly man whose conuersation is in heauen hath the promises of the life present and of that which is to come so the worldly man who coueteth an euill couetousnesse whose minde is set on earthly things hath the punishments of the life present and of that which is to come Woe wo woe to such a one woe to his body which is a temporall wo wo to his soule which is a spirituall woe woe to both body and soule which is an eternall woe Concerning