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A35517	A discourse shewing that kings have their being and authority from God that therefore good kings when dead are lamented, that all while living are to be obeyed, and that treason and rebellion are punishable both in this and the next world : preached the Sunday following the news of the death of ... Charles the Second / by John Curtois ...	Curtois, John, 1650 or 51-1719.	1685 (1685)	Wing C7700; ESTC R17308	19,772	38

Lord loved Israel for ever therefore made he thee King to doe Judgment and Justice The Romans in their Lex Julia adjudged the same punishment to Treason as to Sacrilege Vlpian l. 7. De Off. Procons in l. 1. ff ad Leg. Jul. maj as looking upon an injury done to their Prince to be an injury also to Gods Hist Hea. Gods l. 3. p. 187. whose place of power upon Earth the Prince supplied The Kings of Egypt had Asps usually represented upon their Crowns to express the Holyness of their persons whom none ought to dishonour or injure without a signal punishment as being the most Sacred Images and Lieutenants of God upon Earth So firmly did the better sort of Heathens who believed an invisible over-ruling Being believe likewise the power of Kings to be derived from it Now it does not invalidate this Truth 1. That some Princes exercise their power Tyrannically and Rule wickedly oppressing and murthering their Subjects For the power is nevertheless of God though it be abused and perverted by men As it is in the case of Episcopacy the spiritual power by which the Bishops govern the Church must be acknowledged to be received from Christ though the Bishop of Rome Tyrannize in the exercise of it So it is in the case of Kingship and Regality God must be own'd to have conveyed and consigned over the Temporal Power to all Princes though the Grand Seigniour of the Turks and others play the Tyrants within their Dominions And yet we may not here conceive God to be Authour of the wickedness as of the Power for it is the Power onely not the abuse of it that is from God The latter proceeds from the Prince's evil heart alone God maketh him a Prince and he through the corruption of his Nature and the malitious Temptation of the Devil finds out many inventions to doe wickedly The Kingly Power as other good and perfect Gifts do descendeth from God although they may be all some time or other abus'd by evil instruments and to evil ends and purposes Our Saviour intimated this in granting Pilate's power to be from Heaven by whom he knew he should be sentenced to dye as a Malefactour St. Paul did the same speaking the Text in the days of Claudius or Nero two of the worst of men and the greatest Tyrants that ever were Neither 2. doth it invalidate this Truth that some Princes come to this Power by Conquest some by Election and others by Inheritance For these are but several ways and means of Conveyance and Investiture they are but as Conduit Pipes to carry the Water from the Fountain to separate places Still the Power is deriv'd from God to the Prince by which soever of these means he be invested with it 1. Although he fight for it and by the Sword maketh his way to the Throne yet when he is placed there he sitteth as God's Vicegerent having no Superintendent but God The People are all subjected to him by right of Conquest Or say it be 2. By Election by the Votes and Consent of the People that he is seated on the Throne yet being once there he becomes their Sovereign Lord Ruling by a Power Superiour to theirs For the Power is God's not the Peoples They are onely God's instruments in conferring the Regalia's and when the Ceremony is over have no more to doe but to obey And if it hold true in Conquer'd and Elective Kingdoms then how much rather 3. Deut. 21.15 In all those Nations where the Crowns are Hereditary the way which God appointed in Israel before their settlement in Canaan and after it did so signally bless in a numerous Succession of Heirs In all Hereditary Kingdoms the people have nothing to doe but upon the Death of their King immediately to obey the next Heir Apparent and humbly to recognize him for their Sovereign Their Approbation or Consent here is of no signification for he is born to Reign over them and whether they will or no doth rightfully inherit that Power which God hath entailed upon his Family And to speak something here particularly of our own Nation thus it is thanks be to God in the Kingdom of England And we have reason to thank God for it because we are hereby free from many mischiefs which unavoidably attend the change of Kings upon Conquests or Popular Elections Here God hath for many Ages past by wonderfull Providences made known the Family that is to Govern us so certainly and so apparently that none but he that desires to be a Rebel to God and the King will ever dispute the Title Whence it is become a Maxime in our Law that the King never dieth And that nothing is to be assented to in Parliament which tendeth to the disinherison of the Crown Hence also we find it ever subscribed to those Ensigns of Royalty which descend perpetually with the Crown Dieu Et Mon Droit God and my Right So in all publick Edicts we find this inserted Dei Gratiâ Rex By the Grace of God King of England And upon Twelve several Festival days in the year our King offereth upon the Altar a sum of Gold to God in signum specialis Dominii as a publick Acknowledgement That by his Grace alone he is King And this every man of us solemnly assenteth to that taketh the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy In the Oath of Allegiance we promise to bear Faith and True Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successours In the Oath of Supremacy we first utterly testifie and declare that the King's Highness is the onely Supreme Governour in this Realm And do therefore promise that we will bear Faith and True Allegiance to the King's Highness his Heirs and Lawfull Successours and will to our power assist and defend all Jurisdictions Privileges Preheminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the King's Highness his Heirs and Successours or united and annext to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So that by the way we may wonder at the great impiety of our late pretending Patriots who with so much heat and boidness Voted the Exclusion of the Rightfull Heir in plam contradiction not onely to their Natural Allegiance but also to their Promises and Declarations solemnly made by these Oaths They ought I think to seek God and the King's Pardon or a publick Repentance And when they are so ingenuous and not before we may in Charity hope that they will be better Christians and better Subjects for the future But to convince you more fully that our King by the unalterable Right of Inheritance Succeeding to the Crown Raigneth by God and him onely let us a little distinctly consider that there is neither person or thing within his Dominions but what are subject to him as by the ordinance of God and right reason so likewise by our own publick concessions The People are all so and so are the Laws The People of this Nation whether singly or Representatively considered are subject

A DISCOURSE SHEWING That KINGS have their Being and Authority from GOD That therefore Good KINGS when Dead are lamented That all while Living are to be Obeyed AND That Treason and Rebellion are punishable both in this and the next World Preached the Sunday following the news of the Death of our late King of Blessed Memory Charles the Second By JOHN CVRTOIS Rector of Branston near Lincoln LONDON Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh at the Golden Ball against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1685. TO Sir HVMPHREY WINCH BARONET Honoured Sir I Present here a Discourse to you which I preach'd to my Parish the Sunday after we had heard of the Death of our late Sovereign By which you may see how faithfull I am to my Trust in instructing them to give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's as unto God the things that are God's And I think it was receiv'd by them with that respect and affection that is due from all honest and good men to a Discourse of this nature A while after I had the opportunity to Preach it in the Cathedral at Lincoln where it was kindly resented by many Loyal persons of whom the number is very great in that City But there were a few Heterogeneous men crept in among them that were as much disgusted at it and no sooner out of the Church but they fell to calumniate and belye me perverting my intentions and laying to my charge things that I never said So that to vindicate my self from the Aspersions of these men I have made the Sermon publick as you see it after the same Copy by which I spoke it It will I presume endure such a publick Test For upon a strict review I find nothing there but what is agreeable to the Doctrine of our Church and the late General acknowledgments of our Loyal Nobility Gentry and Clergy in their Addresses to His Sacred Majesty And therefore I question not your Favourable acceptance of it in particular As it hath so it needs nothing else to commend it to you but the Loyalty of it which it is Argument enough that you approve of in all its Appearances because at the Critical time of Trial you abhor'd and withstood the Vnnatural and Vnchristian Bill of Exclusion and the same Party which in those days of iniquity would have Excluded His Sacred Majesty from his three Kingdoms would have also excluded you from the Parliament That all future Parliaments may consist of such worthy Members as you such as will distinguish betwixt Religion and faction legality and injustice such as will be as True to the Church and State as the King is pleased to be Gratious to them is the earnest prayer of Honoured Sir Your most obliged and most humble Servant JOHN CURTOIS ROM XIII 1. There is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God HAVING receiv'd the sad tidings of the Death of our most Gratious Sovereign Charles the Second I think it requisite to say something as early as I can that will be suitable to it And therefore I pitch upon this Subject as proper and seasonable to exercise your Devotions at this time In these words Saint Paul plainly teacheth this Doctrine That all Kings or Supreme Governours of Nations are Constituted of Almighty God and Rule solely by his Divine pleasure and Authority I shall clear this unto you and then draw an inference or two from it First This was eminently true of the several Governours of the Jews They had all particular and apparent Signatures and Impresses of the Image and Authority of God upon them For when from all the Nations of the World God had set apart the Jews to be the Object of his more immediate care he is said to have sent Moses to be a Ruler and Deliverer unto them by the hand of the Angel which appeared to him in the Bush By reason of which power so signally conferr'd by God he was intituled King in Jeshurun when the Heads of the People and the Tribes of Israel were gather'd together And when God was pleased to remove his servant Moses to a Crown of Glory in Heaven he nominated Joshuah to succeed him in the same Authority And after the removal of Joshuah he raised up Judges to them men of absolute and uncontrollable power for the time they continued inferiour to Kings onely in the title And lastly to oblige them with variety of dispensations at their own desire and according to a former promise of making them every way as Glorious as the Nations round about them he gave them many Governours with the Title of Kings too to go out before them and fight their battels But although the Kingdom of Israel might seem here to have had a more signal designation and her Governours a more particular commission from God than any other yet Secondly the Gentile Rulers were as truly the Ministers and Vicegerents of God in their respective Dominions though not so remarkably Thus Syracides saith Eccl. 17.17 in the division of the Nations of the whole Earth God set a Ruler over every people but Israel is the Lord's portion And the same is signified by the men whom we are certain God inspir'd to reveal the truth The Prophet David speaking of Rulers in General calleth them Gods and the children of the most High Psal 82.6 And that of Solomon is as General Prov. 8.15 16. By me Kings Reign and Princes decree Justice By me Princes Rule and Nobles even all the Judges of the Earth And particularly in the Prophecy of Isaiah Isa 44.28 45 1. Cyrus the King of Persia is styled the Shepherd and the Anointed of the Lord. And in the Prophecy of Jeremiah Nebuchadnezzar Jer. 27.6 King of Babylon is styled his Servant And the Prophet Daniel telleth that King expresly Dan. 2.37 The God of Heaven hath given thee a Kingdom Power and Strength and Glory The Son of God himself said as much John 19.11 when he confessed that Power by which Pilate acted under the Roman Emperour to be given him from above And so his Apostle in the Text in the Reign of a Heathen saith There is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God Accordingly the first Christians taught L. 5. Contr. Har. Irenaeus saith that by whose appointment men are born by his appointment Princes are constituted Apol. c. 30. Tertullian saith that they have their Power thence whence they have their Spirit So Optatus lib. 3. There is no person Superiour to the Emperour but God onely who ordained the Emperour Nay the wiser Heathens that had any sense of Religion had the same sentiments of the Divinity of Regal Power This is the meaning of that Benediction of the Queen of Sheba when she was full of Admiration at the Wisedom of Solomon 1 King 10.9 Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighted in thee to set thee on the Throne of Israel because the