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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23679	A sermon preacht in Bridgewater, the next day after the election of burgesses, February 27, 1680/1 by William Allen, B.D., and Vicar of Bridgewater, Somerset.	Allen, William, fl. 1681-1697.	1681 (1681)	Wing A1079; ESTC R9086	9,674	20

according to their Works And every mans own Conscience tells him though none else is conscious of it that God to him is just and righteous in all his dealings But though God be Judge and that eminently so and the righteous Judge yet hath he deputed Men as his Substitutes the King as Supreme under him and other Magistrates as ordained by the King Magistracy which is but a Power over others for a common Good is a pious and primitive Institution derivative from God the great and sole Monarch of the World First founded in the Paternal Relation and that afterward expanded but as Families increas'd And Honour thy Father and thy Mother which is the first Commandment with promise engageth us equally if not more to Obedience to the Pater Patriae to Kings and Queens as Nursing-Fathers and Nursing-Mothers as to our proximate or dearest Relatives And therefore the Hypothesis of Hobbes and Calvin are as absurd as mischievous in making Kings and Magistrates the creatures of the People Justin the Heathen tells us Principio rerum Gentium Nationumque Imperium penes Reges erat That in the beginning of time the Government of the World in all the Kingdoms of it was managed by Kings and Monarchs I say both profane and Scripture-History assure us that Kingly Government was the first Establishment And though the Mosaical Government be urged as a refutation of this proposal yet it is rejoyned that that was a Theocrasie nay and as humane it was Monarchical too Deut. 33.5 for Moses is said to be King in Jesurun And it is evident from Josephus and the Machabees and other Writers that when that people fell under the Government of a Sanhedrim that is a Presbytery they soon fell into ruine and became not a people But not to animadvert upon their Misfortunes nor to make that an Argument of the Justice or Injustice of any particular Polity It is very clear from the Records of the first Times that the Government of a Commonwealth is but an Apostacy from if not a Rebellion against the first Model And as Christ said of Polygamy that from the beginning it was not so the like may we affirm of the whoredom of Republicks And as the one was but permitted the Jews so the other at this day is but permitted of God for the hardness of mens hearts Having thus by the way adjusted the Right of Monarchical Government and withal shewed you that that Government more than any is from God and that persons entrusted with it bear his Authority and as they are his Vicegerents they are to do his work and to personate a Righteous God which Righteousness they are to display in the vindication of Gods Honour in the defence of Gods Laws in the protection of Gods people in the punishment of Gods enemies and this must be done with respect to God as the chief Judge to the common good as the subordinate end and that for the discharge of their own Consciences as they will give an account of their Stewardship at the great Day of Judgment So likewise Under-Magistrates are the Kings Vicegerents and their Righteousness consists in this not only in being true to their God but faithful to their King In preserving his Prerogatives in defending his Person in promoting his Honour in executing his Laws and every way in their places securing the present Establishment Which brings me to the Second Particular general Secondly The peoples Security and Satisfaction in such Governours or Rulers They will do Judgment and therefore all Good and Loyal men will bless God for such a Prince and such Magistrates because they are at once assured of God's protection and their King 's and those that are employ'd and authoris'd by both now if ever shall they lead their lives in all Godliness Peaceableness and Honesty Blessed certainly are the people that are in such a case For as Children are often blessed for the Piety of their Parents and according to God's own promise it is to descend to many generations So for the sake of David a Prince and Ruler after God's own heart Judah shall be blessed And though indeed for his sins the Land did mourn yet upon his Repentance they and he were restored to God's favour And why may I not make this Remark by the way that for the sake of our late English David for the Piety and Constancy of Charles the First the Defender of the Faith yea of that Faith once delivered to the Saints and that even to the Death God in mercy remembred the sinful People of this Land and knock'd off those Chains we enthrall'd our selves in and brought us out of the Land of Egypt out of the house of Bondage and disabled our many Pharaohs and their Hosts from making us a continued prey Why may we not impute the Blessings we now enjoy in the many years of our now lawful Prince and those to the Prayers and Piety of that Glorious Martyr whose Memory ought to be dear and precious to us And would to God that all the Subordinate Magistrates of this Realm who hold their Power by Patent-Royal would defend the same Faith as he and his Successour do and worship God faithfully in the same way and plead for and Christianly and courageously appear for that Righteousness which is established by a Law then might we the people of this Realm confidently hope Isa 48.18 that our Peace should be as a River and our Righteousness as the waves of the Sea For this satisfaction would farther insue that the Inhabitants of the Land and every distinct Corporation and every Member of the same that they might sit peaceably under their own Vines and eat the Fruit of their Labours And that satisfaction shall arise not only from God's promise given to a people so * Isai 1.19 governed but from the confidence we shall have in such Governours For they that will not act contrary to God's Law nor to Magna Charta that will not be imposed upon against the Law of the Nation and the Religion establish'd by Law they will be a terrour to Evil-doers and a praise to them that do well And when we are thus guarded by God's Blessing and the Magistrates Power a wall of Brass or of Fire cannot be more our Security than this double Bulwark of Defence Besides this Security and in it this satisfaction from such just Rulers would arise that the Hypocrites in Sion would tremble and be afraid The resolved and exemplary Loyalty both to God and the King in such men would awe the most impudent and daring Delinquents into a sneakiness of temper and into an external thô not a real compliance The same Bravery and Goodness of Minde in a private person we by experience finde puts oftentimes a check upon the most dissolute and disaffected Naked and unarmed Virtue is too powerful for the powers of Darkness and a little light will dispel the shades below But when the Righteousness of the