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A52340	A sermon preached in the cathedral church of Carlisle, on Sunday Feb. 15, 1684/5 being the next day after our Soveraign Lord James the Second, was proclaim'd King in that city. / by Will. Nicolson ...	Nicolson, William, 1655-1727.	1685 (1685)	Wing N1149; ESTC R17490	9,256	29

together And indeed we shall not need many Instructions to find out the reasonablness of the Wise Mains Injunction if we consider that the Power of Princes owes its Original to that of an Omnipotent God and therefore if we quake and tremble at the remembrance of the one we cannot but shiver at the thoughts of the other For all supream Governours and Law-givers such only excepted as have advanced themselves to that Station by their own I reasons and Ambition have a fairer Character than ordinary of the Divine Essence stamp'd upon them They are Gods Vicegerents on Earth and act wholly by his Authority and Commission Now whether their Titles and Government have descended upon them by hereditary Right or the free Voice and the Election of their Subjects their power is still the same They are ever the Ministers of God and not of the People and therefore are to be obeyed not solely in regard or bearing the Sword and executing Justice on Offenders but because they are the Ordinance of God and Deputies to the King of Heaven To say that an Elective Prince has his Power from those that have voted him into the Throne is indeliberate and unreasonable Nonsence For since no private Man has a Legal Power over his own Life to dispatch and execute himself upon the Sence of some gross and enormous Crimes it follows that he cannot transfer any such Power to another and therefore that those that have any just power of Life and Death must necessarily borrow it of him by whom Kings Reign and Sendtours decree Justice who only has the Supream disposal of our Souls and Bodies and who can at Pleasure throw both into Hell Fires The old Testament is every where very plain in asserting this Divine Original and right of Government Always stiling Princes the Anointed of the Lord or bestowing on them such other Titles as do necessarily imply that their Deputation comes from above The Almighty himself has there declared of them that they are Gods and that they are all the Children of the most High Having nothing common with other Mortals but that they dye like Men. And if so the Fear of God and the Fear of the King are not only mutually depended the one on the other but are one and the same It can be no less than Sacriledge to rob our Princes of that Tribute of Fear and Honour which is due to them and it must be direct Blasphemy to despise their Dominions and to speak evil of their Dignities Nay and to take of all occasion of Cavil upon a Princes Mal-Administration of Affairs and falling into Irreligious practises as if these failures were enough to forfeit his Commission and supersede his Authority we find in the Language of the Holy Scriptures the very Heathen Emperors stiled God's Anointed as well as the Kings of Israel and Judah as deriving their Authority from the same Fountain of Government the great and Almighty Law-giver of the Universe Thus Nebuchadnezzar the Pagan King of Babylon is called Gods Servant Jer. 27. 5 6. I have says God there by the mouth of his Prophet made the Earth and given it to whom it seemed meet unto me And now I have given all these Lands into the Hands of Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon my Servant and all Nations shall serve him and his Son and his Sons Son And therefore the Prophet Daniel applies himself to this Tyrant in the same awful strain as he would in any other Prince appointed by him who stands in the Congregation of the Mighty and delights to be intituled a Judge among Gods Thou O King says he art a King of Kings for the God of Heaven hath given thee a Kingdom Power and Strength and Glory Dan. 2. 37. And the Doctrine of the Gospel in this particular runs exactly parallel with that of the Law Our Saviour having there in the same Sentence and breath commanded us to give to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things which are Gods Which is only another Phrase for Fear the Lord and the King And does in as express Terms command us to remember that Religion and Loyalty go hand in hand and that a firm perseverance in Religious Practises is the surest Prop that can be thought of to support the Credit and Repute the Power and Authority of a Lawful Prince 'T is true our Saviour's Enemies accus'd him of this amongst many other Capital Enormities That he was a Fellow that perverted the Nation and forbad to give Tribute to Caesar saying that he himself is a King Luke 23. 2. But had he bin as his Accusers there represent him a man of a Factious Spirit and one that loved to raise fedition he would certainly have resisted the Authority that led him to the Cross especially since upon one Prayer to his Father he could have bin furnished with more than twelve Legions of Angels to assist him Nor were his Apostles any greater Encouragers of Tumults and Rebellion than their Master St. Paul the great Doctor of the Gentiles tells his Flock that they must needs be subject to their Magistrates and pay them Tribute because they are Gods Ministers And therefore he advises them to render to all of them their dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custom to whom Custom Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour Elsewhere Rom. 13. 1 2. he requires passionately that every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers because there is no Power but of God the Powers that are are ordained of God And he there adds Whosoever resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation St. Peter's Epistles teach the same Doctrine that we ought to submit our selves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supream or unto Governours as unto those that are sent by him for so is the will of God And again This is thank-worth if a Man for Conscience sake towards God endure Grief suffering wrongfully For what Glory is it if when ye are buffeted for your Faults you take it Patiently But if when you doe well you shall take it patiently and suffer for it this is acceptable to God 1 Pet. 2. Upon the whole Matter our Duty to God and the King seem to be as inseperably linked and twisted together as the Love of God and of our Neighbours And how firmly that is done St. John will teach us 1 John 20 21. If a Man say says he I love God and hateth his Brother he is a Lyar for he that loveth not his Brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen And this Commandment have we from him that he that loveth God loveth his Brother also Which two Verses by a very small variation of the Words may be very well applyed to our present Purpose For if a Man say he fears God and yet fears not his King he is a Lyar

upon us Into how many hideous shapes within the space of twelve years was our Government changed First we had a Parliament to lead and guide us then a crazy Remnant of the House of Cmmons afterwards a Committee of safety then an Army and last of all a Protector And under all these various forms of Treason and Rebellion and Usurpation our Land lay a bleeding and wallowing in her Gore nothing out an universal Destruction and Desolation appeared in our Streets Our Young Men were slain with the Sword and there was hardly any left to make Lamentation but those Trayterous Crocodiles that had done the Murder This is the Countenance of Affairs so much admired by Rebels and the Diana that 's ador'd by men given to change But certainly the Features are not so lovely as to ensnare men of Thought and Consideration On the Contrary if we desire to have a view of the Blessings and Beauty of Monarchy we cannot furnish our selves with a fairer Draught than we meet with in the Reign of our late Soveraign A Prince so peculiarly the care of Heaven that his very Enemies would confess that God was with him of a Truth The whole Tenour of his life was a continued Series of Miracles and he was every where most visibly protected by the Arm of the Omnipotent Who less than a God of Infinite Power could have brought back that exiled Prince to his Fathers House in Triumph And that too without the expence of a drop of Bloud with the General Shout and Acclamation of his People Nor has the Glory of our Peace bin since eclypsed We have sate happyly under our own Vine and eaten of our Fig-Tree without Disturbances whilst our Neighbours round about the Generality of Europe has bin floating in a Sea of Blood Nay and he had reduced the Unity of our Church to as great a measure of perfection as that of the State Instead of our late infinity of seperated Assemblies and Congregations steered and pilotted by puny Zealots of different Notions and Interests he liv'd to settle among us an Uniform Profession of one God one Faith one Baptism And in this compleat State of Happiness when it could neither be said of us that without were quarrels nor that within were Fears it pleased the Lord to take away our Head from us to crown him with an eternal weight of Glory in the highest for the Faithful discharge of his Commission on Earth And after all these Demonstrations that the Lord careth for us shall we be afraid to make him our Confidence and our Portion for ever Doubtless the Almighty's Arm is ●ot shortned But he is still as mighty to save as ever Our Religion cannot want a Protector as long as the Crown is worn by a Son of that Royal martyr that sealed it with his Bloud The blackest of our present Soveraign's Enemies will acknowledge him to be Prince highly Generous and brave and therefore we may be well assured he will keep his Wold in following the Example of his Gracious and Merciful Brother as well in the Preservation of our Religion as in the Maintainance of our Laws The Representative of a God of Infinite Truth cannot but be Faithful when he his promised In this Assurance let us rest quiet and peaceable always remembring that we are not to say any Evil of the King so much as in our Hearts Besides if we desire that our Soveraign should make the Laws of the Land his Rule as we have no manner of Reason to doubt but he will It is very fitting that we should first make them ours And if so we shall there find that it has bin deemed Treason to think the King was of any other Co●munion then the Church of England and 〈◊〉 th●● Loyalty and Obedience to 〈◊〉 Soveraign is still consistent with the establish't Principles of that Religion which his Majesty has already engaged to defend and protect Lastly supposing that any of our Princes which in our present Circumstances cannot be imagined should so far forget his Duty to God as to transgress the Commission wherewith the Almighty had entrusted him for our good yet this cannot possibly give us any warrant to go and do likewise No. We must with all Christian Humility submit to the severest Penalties in the Ordinances of our Lawful Soveraign wh●● the Precepts of the Gospel will not allow us to pay an Active Obedience These are the true Measures of Allegiance chalked out to us in the examples of our blessed Saviour and his Apostles And if any Man teach any other Doctrine than this we have no such Custom neither the Churches of Christ Now to God the Father the Son and Holy Ghost three Persons and one God the King of Kings and Lord of Lords be ascribed all Glory Honour Praise Might Majesty and Dominion now and for ever Amen FINIS Advertisement A Plain and Profitable Exposition of and Enlargemeut upon the Church-Catechism By way of Questions and Answers For the more ample instruction of the more adult Children and other elderly Persons that need it And divided into so many Parts as there are Lords Days in each Year that it may be gone through Yearly either publicky in the Churche or privately in Families Together with the Scheme of a short Catechism annexed for the benefit of the Younger sort of Catechumens By SIMON FORD D. D. and Rector of Old-Swinford in Worcestershire And are to be sold by John Gellibrand at the Golden Ball in St. Pauls Church-Yard