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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61112	The righteous ruler a sermon preached at St Maries in Cambridge, June 28, 1660 / by John Spencer, B.D., fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Cambridge.	Spencer, John, 1630-1693.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4952; ESTC R37586	37,324	64

righteous King to be our Ruler Our Elder is now like those which stood about the throne Rev. 4. 9. who were clothed in white garments and had crowns on their heads We have a King who is legally righteous one born our King invading no mans right standing upon no mens skulls to be higher then his brethren He sits upon the throne of his Fathers upon a throne that the law makes his when God would prescribe the laws of the King who should be over his own people He first provides for the legality of his title Deut. 17. 15. Thou shalt in any wise set him over thee whom the Lord thy God shall choose Now this is matter of joy to a nation because it rolls away one of the greatest reproaches from it the having of a fellow subject to usurp the throne of Majesty The nation before was under the curse of Cham Gen. 9. 25. being a servant of servants the Church of God in Captivity Grace doth not take away sense of honour thus characters of the misery of her Captivity Lament 5. 8. Servants have ruled over us the crown is fallen from our heads It is a shame for a nation to sit under the shelter of a gourd which came up in a night of war and confusion when a King is taken like Saul from among the stuff the common sort of people Majesty loseth its reverence 1 Sam. 10. 27. and a people their safety Zach. 9. 6. Then again a small measure of charity will warrant us to stile his Majestie religiously righteous For that may be said of him which can of no Prince in the world besides that he hath had evils enough to discover and improve his virtues and enemies under freedome and malice too much to report and greaten his vices if he had been chargeable with any His Majestie in his late Proclamation hath made a practical commentary on those words of Solomon Prov. 14. 35. The Kings favour is toward a wise servant but his wrath is against him that causeth shame Who observeth not his constancy in religion All His injuries from enemies could not conquer his charity all the difficulties He beheld between Himself and his throne tire out his hope nor yet any temptations from Rome stagger his faith What a Christian spirit doth He discover in endeavouring so many ways the union of his people the law of love is once more become {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a royall law Jam. 2. 8. His Majesties declarations assure us that He would not have us like lines running all to one and the same centre the King yet never touching one another in any hearty love and affection And certainly it is high time for us to think of joyning hearts and hands We well agree in the main religion and loyaltie why should we fall out about mint and cummin It hath alway been the Devils policy to set the people of God at variance about circumstances how hot were the disputes and contentions in the Apostles times about meats and drinks how high the animosities in after ages about the time of the observation of Easter the precedence of their Bishops c. and in our own times about matters which in themselves considered commend no man to God The Devil hath alway endeavoured to choke the Church of God like Adrian with gnats and flies disputes about matters of small moment in religion oh how are we benighted that seem yet ignorant of Satans devices It was the infant state of the Church in which men were set at distance by circumstances Words that stand in regimine in the Hebrew tongue lose a letter or two and yet no breach is made in the sense truly there is no thinking we shall stand long peaceably in regimine in government and order if superiours and inferiors be loth to part with some punctilio's and circumstances in their opinions and practises which may be done without any breach made upon the sense of Creed or Scripture The noble large and ingenuous spirit of the Gospel will accept men every where as God doth Acts 10. 35. for righteousness and innocence sake Admirable is that rule of the Apostle in matters of indifferency Rom. 14. 3. That the strong do not despise the weak nor the weak judge and condemn the strong But to return this consideration also is a matter of very great joy to a people to sit under the wing of so virtuous a Prince When Rulers and Kings rise up and worship the Lord then sing O heavens and be joyfull O earth break forth into singing O mountains Isa. 49. 7 13. God hath not done thus to every nation few virtuous men but fewer virtuous Princes many righteous persons in sheep-skins and goat-skins but few in Ermines And here give me leave to pause a little and to take notice of a considerable because so rare a circumstance in the happiness of his late Majesty of blessed memory even the transmitting to posterity so much of his wisdome and virtue surviving in his issue A great part of that stock of honour many an eminent Monarch hath died possest of his unworthy son who succeeded him hath embezelled Rehoboam the imprudent son of wise Solomon Domitian of Vespasian Commodus of Antoninus Bassianus of Severus Instances in this kinde are so familiar that an historian notes Neminem propè magnorum virorum optimum utilem filium reliquisse denique aut sine liberis eos interiisse aut filios habuisse ut melius fuerit de rebus humanis sine posteritate discedere and that judicious Historian notes it as one reason why the fame and memorie of that eminent Prince Iohn Duke of Saxony continued not so fresh and precious after his death as his virtue discovered in doing and suffering so much did merit quia filios reliquit sui dissimilimos because He left sons which gave the world no assurance that they were his genuine off-spring and Scripture notes it as one special reason why Samuel was rejected of the Israelites because his sons walked not in his ways 1 Sam. 8. 5. But to proceed Fourthly His Majesty is more then a Ruler He is a deliverer to us from the several evils the nation groaned under evils sufficient for a history the nation seemed like that roll Ezek. 2. 10. Written within and without with lamentations and mourning and wo What invasions upon our rights civil and sacred did we long stand sad spectatours of We have seen arms the iron-mole that stained our religion and eat out order and law Astronomy shews us the Dragons Tayl placed as near as may be to Charles-wayn and we beheld the Embleme too plainly expounded in our own nation those which should have been the tayl and not the head to use the Scripture phrase Deut. 28. 13. invading the throne of Sovereignty throwing down the stars the Nobles and Senatours to the ground putting dishonourable abatements into the fairest coats of arms we beheld every common