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A61335	The divine obligation of humane ordinances Delivered in a sermon upon the 26th of February, before the iudge, at St. Maries in Bury St. Edmonds, By William Starkey, D.D. Rector of Pulham in Norfolk.	Starkey, William, 1620 or 21-1684.	1668 (1668)	Wing S5294; ESTC R214022	19,168	36

THE DIVINE OBLIGATION OF HUMANE ORDINANCES Delivered in a SERMON Upon the 26th of February Before the IUDGE At St. Maries in Bury St. Edmonds BY WILLIAM STARKEY D.D. Rector of Pulham in NORFOLK CAMBRIDGE Printed by JOHN FIELD Printer to the University And are to be sold by Henry Dickinson Bookseller in the Regent Walk in Cambridge 1668. To the Honourable Sir WILLIAM MORTON One of His Majesties Justices of the Kings Bench Health and Happiness SIR NO importunity of Friends could perswade me no calumny of my worst Enemies could provoke me niether could the juncture of time when this Sermon was preach'd induce me onely the assurance of your Lordships Patronage hath prevailed with me to expose to publick view these weak Meditations without which this Scroll as worthless must have undergone the Authors doom and must have been condemned to perpetual forgetfulness And certainly my good Lord there is great necessity of your defence who have been so valiant for the Truth and feared no opposition For that Spirit of Loyalty and Obedience that runs through this whole Discourse which sure was the sole reason that moved you to like it when preach'd before you will for this reason alone make it dis-relishing amidst an unreasonable Generation which setting up a pretended Conscience above yea against a certain Law is yet desperately hurried headlong into a lawless liberty and licentiousness and into all manner of disobedience If therefore there be any thing in this Treatise that may conduce to correct these miscarriages I think I need not protest my Integrity in delivering them Malice it self will acquit me and my worst Enemies cannot entertain a suspition of my Hypocrisie in this when no former Preferments have pre-ingaged me no future Hopes can have byassed me no other Worldly Respects can have inclined me but that is done in all probability is done in simplicity out of an unfeigned love to Order and Peace To which if I may contribute any thing I have my designe and the Reader that hath any benefit will with me thank God for your Lordship and pray heartily for the continuance of your Welfare who hath been always ready to act and suffer for the preservation of the Religion the Laws and Obedience of the Nation This your care hath brought these things that follow to the light And the assurance of your Lordships perseverance constrains the Author that he can no longer forbear to vow himself Yours in all Services with all readiness to his utmost WILL. STARKEY The Divine Obligation of Humane Ordinances c. 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake AS it was with St. Paul's new-converted Gentiles even so was it with St. Peter's dispersed Hebrews to whom he chiefly directs this Epistle Either the Gnosticks or some other carnal Gospellers that made it their business to despise Dominions and speak evil of Dignities Jude 8. under a specious pretence of Liberty had miscarried the Servants so as they cast off all yokes of service and the Subjects so as they broke asunder all bonds of obedience and now the new Christians were blown up into a prejudice yea into an opposition against all Humane Government Which justly opened the mouths of the Unbelievers to brand such Christians as evil-doers and Religion was now reproached and the Name of Christ and his Gospel was every where blasphemed Upon this the Apostle in this part of the Epistle presseth the new born Babes to a greater care of a more becoming conversation that by well-doing they might put to silence the ignorance of foolish men And without doubt Piorum Apologiacertissima speciocissima si vita eos purgat non oratio as Luther upon the place Holy Men purge themselves by Demeanour better then Language and an Harmless Life is the Christians furest Apologie there being no such way for them to silence Gain-sayers to choak Detractors and disarm all Opposers as to lead lives quiet and peaceable void of offence in all godliness and honesty And this honesty of conversation is best discovered by readiness of submission to the just Commands of lawful Governours which brings our Apostle to urge this of our Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Submit c. And as it was in the Apostles even so it is in our days we have such Teachers and such Believers in the midst of us Those that think and say 'T is Reason and Religion to cast off all submission to Political either Civil or Ecclesiastical Laws especially in their Poenal determinations Pretending That meekness and mildness of disposition that is required and that liberty which is granted by the Gospel is inconsistent with that rigour and exaction that is used in the execution of those most wholsome Laws that are in force among us Glad should I be if I might undeceive any that are run into this errour in the midst of us but if I cannot undeceive others I shall satisfie my self that others shall know I am ready to give an account of my perswasion of that my yeelding subjection to Humane Ordinances even to those that may oppose themselves with mildness and godly fear And as it is reasonable for me to do it so it is seasonable for you of this solemn Assembly to receive it who are met about the execution of Laws and Penalties and urging subjection unto them And sure it cannot be improper to urge not onely the lawfulness but the necessity and profitableness of the work that so with faithfulness watchfulness and chearfulness you may go about the designed employment when the undertaking is not onely out of policy barely for peace and advantage or convenience but in piety and for conscience sake when either St. Peter was no Apostle or else this is undoubtedly the will of God That we are to submit to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake The Text is an Exhortation of St. Peters to the scattered believing Jews that they would be subject to Government And sure if it were their duty then to be subject to the Laws of Heathens it is much more ours now to be subject to the Laws of Christian Governours Be it agreed upon then 't is our concern to regard the Exhortation and then three things are observable 1. Note the condition or part or manner of Government the Apostle would have us subject to 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to every Ordinance of man 2. Observe the manner of subjection we are to pay 't is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lend an ear onely but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 submit not to be done passively onely but actively nor onely your wills but your judgements if the matter of the thing be indifferent Submit your selves 3. Observe the reason of the submission of the Christian the Obligation of Humane Ordinances the Ordinances may be Humane yet their Authority and Obligation is Divine for submission must be given to Humane Ordinances for the Lords sake We are to begin with