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A19548	A sermon at the solemnizing of the happie inauguration of our most gracious and religious soueraigne King Iames wherein is manifestly proued, that the soueraignty of kings is immediatly from God, and second to no authority on earth whatsoeuer : preached at Paules Crosse, the 24. of March last 1608 / by Richard Crakanthorpe ...	Crakanthorpe, Richard, 1567-1624.	1609 (1609)	STC 5979; ESTC S308	49,514	56

wantes and necessities of these Kingdomes Of these and such like particulars I will not now intreat though I could commend them by more then ordinary and vulgar report vnto you But that happinesse which I mentioned is an happie and glorious worke indeede of planting among those poore and sauage and to be pittied Virginians not onely humanitie instead of brutish inciuility but Religion also Piety the true knowledge and sincere worship of GOD where his name is not heard off and reducing those to Faith and saluation by Christ who as yet in the blindnesse of their Infidelity and superstition doe offer Sacrifice yea euen themselues vnto the Diuell This being the Religious and honourable intendment of this enterprise what glory shall heereby redound vnto God What Honour to our Soueraigne What comfort to those his Subiects who shall be the meanes or furtherers of so happy a worke not only to see a new BRITTAINE in another world but to heare also those as yet Heathen Barbarous and Brutish people together with our English to learne the speech and language of Canaan and next after their Hymnes and Alleluia●…es vnto God to sound forth the honour and happinesse of our Soueraigne not onely saying with this Queene of Sheba Happy are thy people and thy Subiects but happy are wee and others that were strangers to you yea strangers and aliants to God happy are we by thee and by thy wisedome And this be spoken of the second generall point which concernes the people and their happinesse by hauing Salomon a wise and prudent King to rule ouer them The third generall point concernes almighty God and containes a thankesgiuing to him for setting Salomon a wise King to rule ouer his people Blessed bee the Lorde thy God which set thee on his Throne The acknowledgement in this Queene of the true God of Israel of his Diuine prouidence and omnipotent power in placing Salomon in his owne Throne of his goodnesse and loue to Israel whom hee would establish for euer of his righteousnesse in that hee would haue his people gouerned by Iustice and Iudgement specially this her Religious thankesgiuing vnto God for this blessing bestowed on his people all these are so many euident demonstrations of her true knowledge of God of her loue to God and Gods Children of her sincere Piety and Religious seruing of God that though by Nature she was a Gentile and aliant from God yet was she by his speciall grace one of those Primitiae gentium which were ingrafted into the true Oliue and made pertakers of the fatnesse thereof and of those heauenly blessings stored vp in Iesus Christ. But I purposely omit all these particulers The onely point which I would now commend vnto you is what a motiue and prouocation this ought to bee for vs all to laud and magnifie the Lord for placing so wise and Religious a King ouer vs and all these kingdomes King Salomon was but a stranger to this Queene who yet as you see is so thankfull to God He so farre from being a stranger to vs that we may say as did the Tribes of Israel to King Dauid 2. Sam. 5 1. We are thy bones and thy flesh She being but a soiourner for a very short time in that kingdome could not long pertake the benefit of his instructions nor of peace and protection by his Iustice and Iudgement But we from our SALOMON receiue continuall influence of his Diuine both Sacred and Politicall Wisedome continuall protection vnder his sacred shield continuall tranqu●…lity vnder his most iust equall and wholsome Lawes both Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill How much more then should our mouths be filled with praises and blessings vnto the Lord our God And how Religiously should we say as she did Blessed be the Lord thy GOD which loued thee to set thee on his Throne I doubt not but for these blessings of the Lord often times in your priuate houses and Chambers ye sing Hymnes and Psalmes with a grace in your heartes vnto the Lord. But because for these publicke and extraordinary blessinges GOD lookes for publicke and extraordinary praises at our hands because we are now assembled in this place as at the Temple of Ierusalem of purpose to offer the sweet Sacrifice and Incense of our lippes vnto God and this day both before men and Angels to testifie our thanksgiuing vnto God our loue and loyaltie to our Soueraigne Let euery one of you prouoke stirre vp another and suffer me as one of the Trumpeters of the Lord to excite vs all and stirre vp your prepared hearts and Religious affections for all and euery of these blessings to laud and magnifie the glorious name of God and if it be possible by some extraordinary straine of our vnited thankes to pierce the very skies and giue an eccho to those Celestiall Quires singing Halleluiah Halleluiah honour and praise and glory be vnto God to the Lamb for euermore First for that aboundance of our continued and happy peace let vs say with the Prophet Praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Sion for he hath made fast the barres of thy gates and blessed thy children within thee He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the flower of Wheat For establishing togither with this peace his holy Temple and Sanctuary among vs and in it the true and sincere worship of his holy name O that wee could expresse the like ioy as did the Israelites for their Temple which Salomon built and established among them All the congregation assembled therein the Leuites and singers of all sortes of Asaph Heman and Ieduthun being clad in fine Linnen stood with Cimbals with Vyols with Harpes at the East end of the Altar and with them an hundered and twenty Priests blowing with Trumpets they were all but as one man and made but one sound to be heard in praising the Lorde 2. Chron. 5 12 13. But because the pompe and beauty of the second Temple is euen as nothing to the first let vs yet with the best Trumpets of our hearts and tongues and with all our most solemne Instruments of musick sing that Psalme of Thanksgiuing which they then did vnto God Praise the Lord for he is good and his mercy indureth for euer Praise the Lord. Like ioy and thankesgiuing let vs all shew for the Arke of the Lord which by the meanes of our SALOMON according to Gods owne ordinance is established on those holy Mountaines of Sion of which the Lord hath saide Heere will I dwell for I haue a delight therein Yea let vs for these blessings not onely sing and reioyce but with the Kingly Prophet euen shoute and daunce with all our might before the Lorde For which howsoeuer some Michols of Babylon or of the house of Saule shall scoffe and scorne and tauntingly say vnto vs. O how glorious are you for the Temple and for the Arke this day yet this is our comfort and shall for

hath his Soule What could be spoken more diuinely What more eloquently What more effectually for the imperiall authority of Kinges immediatly and onely deriued from God immediatly depending of God and of God alone And all this was spoken in those ancient and primitiue dayes of the Gospell not in the person of Tertullian onely but as the iudgement and iust defence of all the Christians and of the Church as at that time yea euen of the whole Church of R●…me it selfe then Catholike and Apostolicall where Tertullian liued and writ this though the very same Doctrine in the present Apostaticall Antichristian and Babylonish Rome bee made a very iest and accounted as you haue heard a most ridiculous matter It was sacred to Optatus Bishop of Meliuis who in his 3. Booke against Permenian most diuinely saith Super Imperatorē non est nisi Deus solus qui s●…cit Impera●…orē there is none at all aboue the Emperor but God onely who made the Emperour Sacred to S. Chrysostome who speaking of Theodosius the great in his 2. Homilie ad Pop. Antioch saith of him Parem non habet vllum super terram summitas caput omnium super terrā hominū The Emperor hath not his Peere or equal vpon earth he is the highest and head of al men vpon earth Sacred to Saint Ambrose who in his Apologie of Dauid saith that Kings are not subiect nor obnoxious to any humaine Lawes Tuti Imperij potestate beeing freed by the highnesse of their Imperiall authority but yet they are subiect to God vnto whom King Dauid said To thee only haue I sinned Sacred to S. Austen who often saith that it is God who giues earthly Kingdomes whether to good or bad and when kings command that which is good Per illos non iubet nisi Christus none commaunds by them but onely Christ. Epist. 166. and yet had Kinges depended on any superior power their commaunds should haue beene both Christs and his also to whom they had beene subiect Sacred to their owne Pope Gregory the first great I confesse for learning but in acknowledgement of this truth which is now at Rome so ridiculous farre greater In his 2. Book of Epist. ca. 100. He thus writes of Mauritius the Emperor Potestas super omnes homines dominorum meorum pietati caelitus data est First he cals the Emperor his Lord then he faith power and authority is giuen vnto him but from whom Caelitus euen from GOD and from Heauen I but perhaps with a subordination or mediation of some other No saith Pope Gregory it is giuen him aboue and ouer all other persons whatsoeuer and therefore without any dependance of men who are all inferiors to him so immediately depending and deriued from God who alone as this Pope truely saith is aboue the Emperour Omitting the succession of other ages let me adioyn to these two other most memorable examples and of far later times the one in the Roman which is electiue the other in our English which is an hereditary Kingdome About 300. yeares since when some depressed the imperial authority as depending on some other besides God Lewes of Bauare then Emperor not onely by his edict declared and proued that the Empire was held à solo Deo et immeditate à Deo From God alone immediately from God which out of their owne Canon Law hee further proueth as may be seene in the history of Nauclerus vpon the yeare 1338. But further Legem sanciuit the Emperour made and published a law that most deliberately Omni ambiguitate per sacra●…um literarum Antistites maturè solerterque discussa all doubts and ambiguities beeing leisurably and soundly discussed some part of which imperial law being worthy not the reading onely or hearing but ingrauing in golden letters vpon the wals of our houses posts of our doores I haue thought requisite to recite vnto you De consi●…io et consensu By the counsell and consent of the Electors and other Princes we declare Imperialem dignitatē et potestatem à solo D●…o pendere That the Imperiall dignity authority depends only of God And whosoeuer shall presume to affirme or consent to others affirming ought against this decree we depriue them and hereby do decree them iure et facto both in right and indeed to be depriued of al their freeholds or farmes of all their priuileges which they hold of the Empire Et insuper eos crim●…n laesa Mai●…statis incurrisse And further wee decree and declare such to haue incurred the crime of high Treason and to be subiect to all those punishments which are infflicted vpon traitors These are the very words of that imperiall Law as you may see them set downe and much more to this purpose In Hieron Balbus one of their owne Popish Bishops in his Booke De Coronatione dedicated vnto Charles the fift the Emperor Pag. 39. and 40. of that Booke The other Testimony is an Authenticall record also of no lesse moment and somewhat of a later time A statute made in the 16. yeare of King Richard 2. Cap. 5. of purpose to keepe sacred and inuiolable the Soueraignety and Regality of this Kingdome It was therein declared that the Crowne of England hath beene so free at all times not then onely but which is specially to bee remembered at all times that it hath beene in subiection to no Realme but Immediately subiect to GOD and to none other in all thinges touching the Regalty of the same These are the words in that statute besides diuers other tending hereunto In defence of which statute they in the Parliament then assembled promised to liue and die as it is there noted By al which it is euident that this doctrine which now at Rome is counted most ridiculous is in it self most sacred as being grounded on the scriptures of God and as most sacred hath bin embraced by all the Christians in the primitiue Church taught and maintained with a generall consent by the ancient and godly fathers in their seuerall ages and successions constantly defended by whole kingdoms and Empires and that vnder paine of high Treason to the gainesayers thereof euen in those later times also when superstition had dimd I cōfesse but not quite extinguished and put out the truth and which is far worse the loue of the truth as it may iustly be feared it hath done at this day in Rome and in those of their sect who to error and heresie haue added not onely obstinacy but blasphemy like new Lucians scoffing the sacred truth of God accounting it a most a ridiculous matter May I with your patience proceed a litle further in this argument to consider which is in truth worthy your consideration seeing these men will not allow Kinges and Emperours to hold immediately from God which being the most Honourable is most fit to bee a Regall Tenure to whom else they would haue them bee beholden