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A discourse concerning supreme power and common right at first calculated for the year 1641, and now thought fit to be published / by a person of quality.
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Monson, John, Sir, 1600-1683.
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Wing M2462; ESTC R7043
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Passively obeying the Lawful submitting our Persons though not our Actions to the rest b Act. 5.29 to our King as he is Pater Patriae c 1 Pet. 2.17 of all others the Supreme Head for only in rebus mediis Lâ—x posita est Obedientiae because as I noted before in things necessary by any Divine Law we ought to obey though no Humane Authority command them in things unlawful we ought not to obey though commanded and are only to obey for the Commands sake not the things commanded in things indifferent which only become unlawful because forbidden and are not forbidden because unlawful For such Obedience is not only accepted with but rewarded of God as in the Recabites Jer. 35. and can only keep us in a serene and calm temper in the Body politick so as a frown will not appear in the face of that great Ocean by the raging of Waves and madness of the People nor will a wrinckle show it self to abate its beauty 2. We owe Honour to him and that as justly as Fear to God himself being commanded to pay it to God in the Man not to the Man but as he represents God And this as the Flags and main Sails of a Ship doth not only deck and adorn the Throne but makes it bear up in all Weathers nay as the Bark the Tree doth preserve it in all its other Rights For let us but once slight or contemn the Person in saying what is this Moses that takes so much upon him d Num. 9. and we shall soon despise his Power nay God himself as represented in the King or Supreme e 1 Sam. 1.8 Upon which ground it is probable that God and the King are linked together Fear God Honour the King f 1 Pet. 2.17 to teach us that their Precepts are not two but one and the same in Root though the Fruit we must pay them is different And therefore St. Paul in commanding all to submit to the higher Powers concludes to whom you owe Honour g Rom. 13.7 as to a Father or to God for Gods command h Isa 49.23 and this in our thoughts not to blaspheme them i Eccl. 10.20 in our words not to deprave them k Ex. 22.28 Acts 22.5 Jude 8. nor speak evil of them in all our Actions to reverence them as Gods upon Earth his Chair of State wherein Divinity it self is Enthroned l Ps 8â— 6 2 Sam. 14.10 Num. 12.10 16.32 though in the Person of a Wicked man For though he forfeit his claim to double Honour due to them that rule well m 1 Tim. 5. one to his Place another to his Vertues he cannot devest himself of nor justly be denyed that Honour Fear Subjection c. which Subjects as a debt and duty must everpay to his Office and Supremacy as a most learned Divine hath observed 3. We owe Tribute both of our Persons and Purses First of our Persons for the just defence of our King and his just Rights This is implyed in those words of our Saviour My Kingdom is not of this World else would my Servants fight n Joh. 18.36 1 Tim. 22. As also in respect of the Power of Life a King has over his Rebellious Subjects that would not submit to his Government o Luke 19.27 which though a Parable may from the Application inforce it And it may be further proved from his just Power of making War and Peace p Num. 10. as hath been shewed fully from Scripture and our Law-books Secondly To this we must add the Tribute of our Purses in that Money is one of the Pillars of Power and the Nerves of War Majesty without it being but the shadow of Regality and without Power but a Speculative Greatness that hath the Vision of gallant things but no means to detain them because wanting of that Soul which should animate that otherwise dead and useless thing to Action And therefore God hath provided against the Galilites and Herodians q Act. 5.37 Mark 12.17 Mat. 22.16.21 in one and the same Command resolving upon that Common Rule of Justice suum cuique for neither but against both those that would give all to God and no Tribute to Caesar or all to Caesar and nothing to God divorcing those he hath joined together by saying Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's r Mat. 22.21 Upon which ground as I conceive Dr. Reynolds still observes s Ps 110. pag. 128. Bona adespota incerti Domini vectigalia census c. Concealments Tributes Customs and the like are Testifications of Homage and Fidelity belonging to the Personal Prerogative of Princes and are as the Apostle saith due unto them t Rom. 13.6 7. Thus Solomon levyed and the Princes with whom he held Correspondence payed Tribute u 1 Kings 4.21 9.21 10.10 Deut. 20.16 Nay Christ himself paid it by his Command to Peter though he was at the cost of a Miracle for it w Mat. 17.27 even to a Tiberius a Wicked Prince though it was the only Miracle he ever wrought in money matters as peculiar to Princes whereas all his others concerned the general necessities of mankind And we may further observe the justness of it from the Latine word Reddite not Date importing that it is not only lawful to pay but unlawful to with-hold it as a due nay it should be willingly the Offering of a free-heart x 2 Cor. 9.71 So as Legal Customs y Luke 3.3 Taxes or Homage z 1 Sam. 17.25 2 Kings 15.19 20. Fines a Est 7.26 Confiscations b Ezr. 10.8 are the just Rights of our Superiours But extraordinary Impositions cannot legally be now laid upon us in any case but visible and immergent necessity without the consent of both Houses of Parliament it having been the Wisdom of our Predecessors by the Indulgence of good Kings to keep the Purse and the Power by Municipal Law divided to prevent all Tyranny and Exorbitancy in the use of either And if we owe these Assistances to our lawful Soveraign how are they guilty against God of a High Rebellion that reject and oppose him in their Superiour and do not endeavour by just duty to prop but undermine his Throne For if a Negative Obligation not to aid him be unlawful where God commands assistance what is their Crime but as the Sin of Witch-craft that enter into an Engagement against him who is to them God amongst men in the visible Character of his Power when all others are only Men before God So as he never countenanced any other Government than what was Monarchical deposited and summed up in one Person exercising the Power though not always possessing the name of King As appears by that of Judges where it is said every one did what they list when there was no King that is no supreme Judge