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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30218	A sermon preached at the anniversary meeting of the natives of St. Martins in the Fields, at their own parochial church, on May 29, 1684 by Richard Burd, A.M., chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord President, and lecturer of St. Mary Aldermanbury ; published at the request of the stewards.	Burd, Richard.	1684 (1684)	Wing B5616; ESTC R34772	15,233	51

their dues tribute to whom tribute is due Custom to whom Custom Fear to whom fear Honour to whom Honour and a little higher he assigns the reason why they must pay them Tribute because they are Gods Ministersattending continually upon this very thing i. e. for the safegard and welfare of his people God hath set them a part as his Vicegerents for the good of the people and 't is highly reasonable they should be maintained and supported by them And indeed when it is considered what are the cares and troubles of that high calling How many thorns are platted in every Crown We shall have but little cause to envy them or retrench their dues Men generally admire the soveraign power and authority of Princes the high honours and dignities the vast revenues and exchequers but never consider the insuperable hazards and perils and what abundance of plots and conspiracies rolling hastily like the Waves of the Sea one upon the neck of another which are continually devised against them They look upon one side of the Medal and there see a fair Image and inscription but ne're turn the reverse and behold the crosses and bars that are on the other Tully somewhere in his Offices tells us when Democles the great Parasite was arrayed like a Prince and sat at a Table where there was a rich banquet provided for him as soon as ever he saw the naked sword with the point downward hanging just over his head he could not for his life taste of his entertainment or take any comfort in the Royal attendance he had By which ingenious emblem Cicero shews that the life of a King in the midst of all his pomp and grandeur is in continual fear of Death Wherefore let no man deny him his just tribute or subsidy since he earns it dear enough in all conscience when we reflect upon the many eares and disquietudes the sudden frights and dangers his Sacred person is daily exposed to Thirdly another branch of our duty to Governours is this we must daily put up our prayers to God for them This also is laid down by the Apostle Tim. 2.1 2 3. I exhort therefore first of all that supplications and Prayers and intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for Kings and all that are in authority under them that we may all lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty and the prayers which are thus put up for the preservation of the King and all that are in commission under him will wheel about and soon recoil into our own bosoms because the blessings which they receive from God and which we ought constantly to pray for tends to the good of the people that every man may happily enjoy himself and eat the fruit of his Labour under his own Vine and under his own Fig-tree Wherefore if we had no Love for our Governours or our Country yet for our own sakes and the interest of our several friends and relations it concerns us to supplicate heaven in their behalf that they may be our strength and fortress our defence and Buckler in time of need that God would so rule their hearts and strengthen their hands that they may neither want will nor power to punish wickedness and vice and to maintain Gods true Religion and virtue that they may all give us wise and wholsom Laws for the retrenching our exorbitances and the government of our lives for the bridling our unruly wills and affections and to get the mastery over our passions and to fright us by severe penalties from the perpetration of every thing that is evil and sinful And sure I am that many of us are beholding more to the good government we live under then to our own principles for being such as we are for if the Laws of the Land did not tye men up and make it death to commit Murder rapin or Robbery I am confident men would as frequently be found culpable herein as in Swearing Drunkenness Fornication Prophaning the Sabbath and the like And therefore we have all great reason to uphold the Government and to pray for our Senators and to bless and praise God night and day for putting it into their hearts for providing thus for our Souls as well as our bodies for publishing such gracious edicts and constituting such easie and gentle Laws Which ought to be the pride and glory of the English subject It is storied of the people in China that if any of them have a mind to travel abroad and set but one foot out of their own Country they must never return home again and was there not great policy in the Magistrates for promulgating such a decree for if once the Chinesses should venture to go out and behold what great liberty other Countries enjoy above what they do in their own there would quickly be not a man left for the Governours to rule over But thanks be to God our case is widely distant from other Countries and no people ever enjoyed a more relax and gentle Government where the reins are in a manner flung upon the necks of the Subjects and all its laws are calculated solely for the pleasure and ease for the interest and profit for the safegard of our souls as well as our bodies and never earth bore a more gracious Prince a more indulgent and merciful Soveraign than weilds the Scepter in these Kingdoms and therefore we have all the reason in the world to supplicate and interceed with God for the preservation of his Majesties most Sacred person and the Government as it is by Law established But fourthly the last branch of our duty to Governours is this entirely to resign our selves into their hands and submit to their good will and pleasure in all things Now because this part of our duty is most scrupled at and a great deal worse practiced by us I shall therefore carefully consider it by it self and with that freedom and plainness as becomes the place where I now stand and use but these three arguments to engage your performance of it And afterwards I will hasten to a conclusion of the whole My first Topick is this obedience and subjection to Magistrates is one of the essential marks of our Christian profession A Primitive Saint in the infancy of the Church was alwaies better known by his Catholick charity and patient submission to persecuting Emperors than by all the other graces in the whole Systom of Divinity It was the undoubted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and best distinguishing note whereby you might judge infallibly of the professours of christianity from any others whatever because no other religion enjoyns such an exact observance of the commands of our governours this is strictly charged by saint Peter Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supream or unto Governours as those that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the

the vilest and most profligate among his people who though he had been long discarded and lain aside yet you see God on this day sat him on the Royal throne of his Fathers and so the words of my Text are again made out That very stone which the builders rejected the same now blessed be God is head over England The sin which the Builders here in the Text were guilty of was open Rebellion and disloyalty to our blessed Saviour resolving that he should have no rule or Kingship over them and that made them discard and lay him aside Now this is still the same reigning iniquity that was the occasion and commencement of our late unhappy broils and which broke up the sluces and caused all the forementioned and much worse evils to gush in upon us And therefore that I may keep close to my Text and answer the end for which I am appointed and seeing the day also does so necessarily determine me to it give me leave to shew you first the duty of Subjects to their Governours to tell you wherein it consists Secondly I will use two or three arguments to press you to a consciencious discharge of it that we may all practice it better for the time to come and study no more to reject and throw aside the head stone of the corner Than thirdly and lastly I will give some modest and short reflexions upon the day and so conclude Begin we now with the first to show you wherein the duty of subjects to their governours consists And among several branches that might be named I shall at present only speak to these four following The first branch of our duty to Governours is to honour and reverence their sacred Persons Sayes the Apostle fear God 1 Pet. 2.17 honour the King He gives us our duty to both in the same breath and the reason why such great obeysance and humility ought to be paid to the person of the King is because he is Gods representative upon Earth So that Kings and Princes must be lookt upon as upon them on whom God hath stampt much of his own power and Authority and therefore we ought to pay all honour and esteem never daring upon any pretence whatsoever to speak evil of the ruler of our people Acts 23.5 Nay they that despise and set light by Princes refusing the homage that is due unto them expresly sin against the fifth Commandment which obliges us to honour our parents And the Magistrate is the Civil parent of all those that are under his dominion and Royalty And the name is well deserved because he takes care of our lives defends us from all dangers watches and superintends over us for our good and so makes his Government a publick and universal blessing to the Nation And those which refuse to honour the Civil Parent do openly confront and violate one of the precepts of the second table Add to this the base ingratitude that such men must needs be guilty of that can find in their hearts thus to slight and contemn them after all the care and pains they have taken for their security and well-being Lycurgus the great Law-maker when he had allotted punishments to most vices was asked why he had made no Law against the sin of ingratitude and his answer was that 's res prodigiosa a thing so monstrously wicked and absurd that no body in his wits can be guilty of it And surely it must be ingratitude with a witness to deny honour and deference to those by whose wise conduct and Government we owe e'ne our lives fortunes liberties Religion and what not Let us all then like dutyful and Loyal subjects pay obeysance unto our Governours and have a profound and awful reverence for their Personages and esteem them sacred in as much as they are Gods Deputies and Viceroys whom next under himself he hath intrusted with the care and administration of his people Should an Ambassadour as soon as he is come ashore be abused and set at nought the indignity does not terminate here but lies upon the Prince which sent him and who no doubt will avenge the wrong that is done him in the person of his Minister or suppose a man should have his Picture stabbed through with a Sword or a limb of it cut off has he not great reason to resent the injury as done to his own person and study a punishment accordingly Why thus will God do to all those that affront the Supream Powers they being his Ambassadours and Delegates and serve as so many pictures and images to represent Gods great power and Soveraignty over his people Nay God has given to Kings and Princes his own August and venerable name I have said ye are Gods And in the 1 Chron. Psal 82.6 the Throne which they sat upon is styled Gods throne wherefore seeing God himself has so highly Dignified them as to set them on his Throne and to call them after his own name it is much more becoming all their subjects to keep their distance and pay homage before them and to have an inward worship and esteem for them which must be expressed by our outward mean and deportment by humble and lowly prostrations by a chearful and ready compliance with their Commands and that constantly and unfeignedly without partiality or hypochrisie having no by or sinister ends of our own but doing it in great sincerity and truth What a reverend Authorquotes and applies upon another occasion I may with small alteration use to this Saith he 'T is a remarkable passage that Aelian the Historian gives of a proud man who being to go into the presence of the Persian King before whom he must make such adoration as he had no mind to give he therefore let fall his Ring at his entrance into the presence-Chamber and his stooping to take that up passed for a worship of that great Majesty So many persons seem outwardly to worship their Prince and make very humble and lowly addresses unto him when indeed they do but stoop to their own interest and are but taking up some Court preferment which they have more mind to than to be humble and Loyal Secondly another branch of our duty to Governours is custome and tribute We must pay them tribute And this we are obliged to perform by the example of our blessed Saviour who when the Pharisees and Herodians asked him whether it was lawful to pay Tribute or not he answer'd their Captious question as his usual manner was by putting another saying whose Image and superscription is this Why Caesars Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesars And at another time when Christ was taxed and no Money to pay rather then he would be thought refractory he wrought a Miracle to pay his assessment Nay Mat. 17.28 the Apostles afterwards whose Epistles are only a comment upon our Savious sayings acknowledges this And St. Paul especially counsels the Romans to render to all