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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10242	The heart of the king, and the king of the heart, or, A briefe vnfolding of that remarkable proverbe of the royall preacher ... written in the time of His Maiesties abode at Plimmouth, and preferred vnto him in his returne from thence, anno 1625 : together with a short meditation vpon 2. Sam. 24.15., preached at a weekely lecture in Deuon, in those fearefull times of mortalitie / by J.P. Master of Arts and minister of the gospell.	Pyne, John.; J. P.	1628 (1628)	STC 20521.8; ESTC S4427	27,924	64

breatheth out nothing but Murthers biddeth them ayme at nothing so much as at the heads of the Lords Anointed So was the Assyrian King Isa 10.5 And that bloudie Scythian of later times Punientur iudicio Dei Lactant. Diu. Infi lib 5. cap. vlt. But wee are to learne hence a lesson of Prayer and Supplication for Kings and those which are in authoritie And of Patience and sufferance vnder the yoke of tyrannie If our Kings tyrannize they are the scourge of God as was Antiochus They are in the Lords hand to punish vs and wee must leaue and referre their punishment to the same hand And certainely his hand shall finde out all his enemies Psal 21.8 When God openeth his hand and layeth it graciously on those who are our heads then hee falleth to blessing of vs when he shutteth it and layeth it grieuously about our Heads then hee falleth to buffetting of vs. Wherefore bee our Kings good they are the Ministers of God for our good Bee they euill Indignationis aduersus nos diuinae quasi ministri sunt Lactant. diuin Instit lib 5. cap. vlt. saith Lactantius Good Kings are like fire to comfort and enlighten Bad Kings are as fire to consume and deuoure It is not good medling with or laying hands on either What if Nabuchadnezzars heart bee lifted vp must a sentence of Depriuation bee giuen to despoile him of his throne Dan. 5.20 21. No Gods hand with the turne of an hand must turne him a grazing and make his Heart like the Beasts Dan. 5.23 Let Belshazzar lift vp himselfe against the Lord of Heauen must a censure of Excommunication bee hung vp at his gate No the finger of the Lords hand must write against the wall of his Palace that hand must number his time and finish it Dan. 5.24 weigh him in the ballance and finde him wanting diuide his Kingdome and giue it to the Medes and Persians If the foule mouth of Herod breathe out from a corrupt and cruell heart threatnings against Gods Church must a Chastell therefore strike at his throat or a Rauilliacke stab at his heart No the Lord must lay his hand vpon him his Angels must smite him * Horat. Regum timendorum in proprios greges Reges in ipsos imperium est Dei. The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the Riuers of water Wee must consider that God withholdeth the waters and they drye vp also he sendeth them out and they ouerturne the Earth Iob 12.15 See also Esa 8.7 Hee can cut off the spirit of Princes Psal 76.12 Hee can change the hearts of Kings who are set to doe euill Hee can exchange Kings whom hee hath set as the hearts in the midst of the Bodies politicke Hee can alter and subuert the estates of Kingdomes though they bee set and as it were setled in the very heart of the Earth like that of the Iewes Ezek. 5.5 Hee taketh away Kings Hee ruleth ouer the Kingdomes of men and giueth them to whomsoeuer hee will Magna Magnus disponit Deus So that wee must leaue those things with all our hearts to the disposall of Gods Almightie hand When the righteous are in authoritie the people reioyce saith Salomon Prou. 29.2 When the wicked beare rule what then must the people rebell No as it there followeth then the people mourne They change their note and tune it to lachrymae Riuers of waters runne downe their eyes Psal 119.136 because of those Princes who keepe not Gods Law Bee our Kings then good or euill God hath set them as the tree of good and euill in the midst of the Garden It is not for man to touch them least hee dye Nemo potentes aggredi tutus potest Seneca English it in the words of holy Scripture Who can lay hands vpon the Lords anointed and bee guiltlesse 1. Sam. 26. A thought against the sacred head of Soueraigntie is an attempt against thine owne Scelus in autorem redit like an arrow shot against heauen it commeth downe with a vengeance vpon the Shooters owne head It is like that enuenomed cup of the Monke of Swinsteed which as some write destroyed himselfe together with his Soueraigne Or like that sword wherewith Cassius strooke Caesar Plut. in vit Iulii Caesaris which as Plutarch storieth did afterward slay Cassius himselfe See Psal 37.15 The thoughts and the dreames of some haue beene treasonable But who would haue thought that their owne confession should make them plead guiltie who would haue dream't that their fancie should bee punisht as a fact Si nemo fuerit accusator ipsi narrabunt The Lord hath bound euery heart and hand with such a tye of inuiolable obedience to their Kings that who so prouoketh them to Anger is said to sinne against his owne soule Prou. 20.2 The Lord is so tender ouer them that hee will not haue them touched Touch not mine Anointed Psal 105.15 Hee telleth vs that if the King bee cursed in our thought or in our Bed chamber a Bird of the Ayre shall carrie the voice that which hath wings shall tell the matter Eccles 10.20 When by Gowries Plot our late Lord the King was brought euen to the Chambers of death who would haue imagined that the tongue scarce at libertie should haue discouered that the head was in danger In the Powder-plot when all things were carried in secrecie when those bloud-suckers sealed their cruell resolutions with receit of the Sacrament therein mingling bloud with their sacrifices who would haue thought that that which had wings should haue told the matter that a Quil that a Letter like that Anser Capitolinus should haue bewrayed the capitall danger likely to fall vpon the whole Land It was the hand of the Lord that enlarged the heart of the King to conceiue the intricate meaning of an obscure Riddle It was his hand that discouered deepe things out of darkenesse and brought to light the shaddow of Death Iob 12.22 So the Catesbeian Conspiracie was disclosed much like the Catilinarian of whose discouerie Plutarch reporteth thus Plut. in vit Ciceronis At night after supper and not long before the Massacre should haue beene committed Crassus his seruant brought him a packet of letters deliuered him by a stranger vnknowne was amongst which one hauing no name subscribed was directed to Crassus the effect of which was that there should bee a great slaughter committed in Rome by Catiline and therefore prayed him to forbeare the Citie Crassus therefore went to Cicero partly for feare of the danger and partly to cleare himselfe from the suspition of any league betweene him and the Conspirators Cicero conuented the Senate and caused the said letters to bee read publickly and so those letters bewrayed the Conspiracie Let vs now change but a few names with heathenish Rome and wee shall find but small difference in the reuealing of these two Romish and hellish Conspiracies namely if we put Catesby for Catiline