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Certaine observations upon some texts of Scripture gathered together for the setting forth the Kings avthority and the peoples dvty.
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CERTAINE OBSERVATIONS UPON Some Texts of SCRIPTURE GATHERED TOGETHER FOR THE SETTING FORTH THE KINGS AVTHORITY AND THE PEOPLES DVTY Col. 3.16 And now brethren let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdome teaching and admonishing one another John 5.39 Search the Scriptures for in them ye thinke ye have eternall life and they are they that testifie these things Printed in the year 1648. To the READER GEntle Reader J finding the worke hereof to be very beneficiall for the publike it being a publike worke durst not wrong mine owne conscience so much as to conceal it for mine owne use wrap up my talent in a napkin without imparting it to the good of others J desire therefore nothing more then your Christian patience because you must not expect the ensuing matter as a discourse from the learned but accept of it as a poor gift freely bestowed upon the Kingdome from a weake Lay-man who had rather speake five words with understanding then ten thousand in an unknown tongue And whose wisedome was not able to dive into any further discourse but to take up and gather together severall Scriptures and from thence plain truths as are revealed in the Scriptures by the Prophets and Apostles in the Old and New Testament that so they may be more fully made known to this end that we may all in this Kingdome more speedily put them into practice which is the prayer and desire of Your friend and servant T. M. IF there be any that be desirous with Enoch to walk with God and to please him Or with Abraham the father of the faithfull to walk before God and to be upright Or with Zacharias and Elizabeth the righteous servants of the Lord to walk in the Commandements and ordinances of the Lord blamelesse Then with the Prophet Micah 4.2 Let them go to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach them of his wayes if they will walk in his paths And with the Prophet Jeremiah 6.16 Let them stand in the way and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and they shall find rest for their souls And as many as walke according to this rule peace be upon them and mercy and upon the Israel of God Gal. 6.16 And let us now hear what God the Lord speaks Psal 85.8 As by the mouth of all his holy Prophets which have been since the world began Luke 1.70 For if they will not beleeve Moses and the Prophets neither will they beleeve though one arose from the dead Luk. 16.31 And first what they speake for The Kings AUTHORITY ANd let us now begin our work in the name of the Lord and intreat his blessing upon it and hear what the Lord God himself saith who is the God of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob the God of our fathers Numb 12.8 Wherefore then were ye not afraid Aaron and Miriam to speak against my servant Moses marrying an Ethiopian woman vers 10. Miriam became Leprous white as snow 1. Observation That neither high nor low ought to speak against Supreame Authority no not Aaron though the high Priest Eccles 8.4 Who may say unto him what dost thou They are the Lords servants 2. Obs That a Leprosie or some other judgement shall befall them that speak against supream authority though in marriage S. Jude cals them filthy dreamers that despise dominion and speak evill of dignities v. 8. Judges 17.5 Micah had an house of gods and consecrated one of his sons to be his priest And in those dayes there was no King in Israel but every man did that which was right in his own eyes 1. Obs That where no King is to rule a Nation that Nation and people is ready to consecrate priests to themselves Heb. 4.5 No man ought to take this honour to himself but he that is called of God as was Aaron to be an high priest 2. Obs That where there is no King in a Nation though Gods own people Israel yet Israel walks according to their own wayes and contrary to the wayes of God Lev. 26.21 If ye walk contrary unto me I will walk contrary unto you and bring seven more judgements upon you for my wayes are not your wayes nor my thoughts your thoughts saith the Lord. Isay 55.8 1 Sam. 8.4 When the Elders of Israel perceived that the sons of Samuel though Judges walked not aright but followed lucre and perverted judgement They came to Samuel and said unto him make us a King to judge us like all the Nations 1. Obs That the Elders and rulers the heads of the Tribes of Israel desire to have a King for to rule them and judge them 2. Obs That no Elder or ruler ought to dis-throne a King from ruling or judging 1 Sam. 10.24 And Samuel said unto the Elders and to all the people See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen that there is none like him amongst the people And all the people shouted and said God save the King 1. Obs That Kings have their originall choice from the Lord. 2. Obs That no man ought to be compared to the King 3. Obs That no man ought to think slightly of the King but to rejoyce in their King 4. Obs That its the peoples duty to pray for the King God save the King 2 Sam. 16.16 Hushai being sent from David said unto Absolon God save the King God save the King 1. Obs That dissimulation hath a cloak for every action 2. Obs That prayer is made a cloak for dissimulation 3. Obs That fair speeches and the stronger party is made a maine cloak for dissemblers 18.19 1. Kings 1.39 And Zadok the priest Anointed Solomon King and they blew the trumpet and all the people said God save King Solomon 1. Obs That Kings are the Lords Anointed 2. Obs That great triumph ought to be made at the Anointing of Kings 3. Obs That its the peoples duty to pray for their King by name King Solomon King Charls 1 Kings 20.31 And Benadads servants said the Kings of the house of Israel are mercifull Kings let us put sackcloth on our loyns and ropes upon our heads and go out to the King of Israel peradventure he will save our lives 1. Obs That the councell of servants ought not to be rejected 2. Obs That Kings ought to be mercifull 3. Obs That its the duty of the people to be humbled and submit their lives to the Kings mercy 4. Obs That where there is no humiliation there ought to be no mercy 5. Obs That Kings have power in themselves to pardon great offenders 1 Kings 21.13 Children of Belial witnessed against Naboth Naboth did blaspheme God and the King And they stoned him with stones that he died 1. Obs That blasphemers of God and the King ought to suffer death 2. Obs That we ought not to have an evil thought of the King Eccles 10.20 Curse not the King no not in
Deut. 9.25 Shall we fall downe on our knees and pray unto the Lord and say Oh Lord God destroy not this Kingdome this people thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed through thy greatnesse and brought out of Egypts darknesse with a mighty hand and an out-stretched arme Remember thy servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob and look not upon the stubbornnesse of this people nor to their sin Shall we follow the example of Joshuah a Ruler full of the spirit of wisdome Ioshua 7.10 Unto whom the Lord said Get thee up wherefore lyest thou thus upon thy face Israel hath sinned and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them for they have even taken of the accursed thing and they have also stolne and dissembled also and they have put it even among their own stuffe A goodly Babylonish garment two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight A goodly thing to destroy the soule England be warned by this for what will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his owne soule Shall we follow the example of David a man after Gods own heart who exhorts us Psal 95.6 O come let us worship and bow downe and kneele before the Lord our Maker lest he be grieved with us forty yeeres as he was with that generation and sware unto us in his wrath we should not enter into his rest Shall we follow the example of Solomon who 1 Kings 8.22 stood before the Altar of the Lord and kneeled upon his knees and spread forth his hands towards heaven and said If Israel sinned if England and they would turne againe and confesse their sin and make supplication then he would heare in heaven and forgive their sin and heale the Land Shall we follow the example of Daniel Dan. 9.3 who set his face unto the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes and prayed unto the Lord and made confession saying We have sinned and have committed iniquity and have rebelled and departed from thy precepts and from thy judgements And have not harkned to thy servants the Prophets which spake in thy name to our Kings our Princes and our fathers and to all the people of the land Hearken now and be no more rebellious Shall we now take the example of all examples and follow Jesus Christ who in Mat. 26.39 fell on his face and prayed Mar. 1.35 Who departed into a solitary place and there prayed Luke 22.41 Who withdrew himself from them about a stones cast and kneeled down and prayed Joh. 17.1 Who lift up his eyes to heaven and said Heb. 5.7 Who in the dayes of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and teares unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard in that he feared And withall take a caveat here with you not to follow the example of the hypocrites who Mat. 6.5 love to pray standing in the Synagoges and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men And Mat. 23.14 Who devour widdowes houses and for a pretence make long prayers but these shall receive greater damnation Having thus finished our course and now brethren being thus compassed about with such a cloud of examples of witnesses that shall all in the last day rise up in judgement against us for heaven and earth shall passe away but not one tittle of the word of God shall faile Let us follow Jesus preaching and saying Repent for the kingdome of heaven is at hand Mat. 4.17 And Luk. 13.3 Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish And Luke 21.36 Watch ye therefore and pray alwayes that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all those things that shall come to passe and to stand before the Son of man And let us follow S. Peters rule 1 Pet. 5.8 Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the divel as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour And with the author to the Heb. 12.1 let us now look about us Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us We have a good example Looking up unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the crosse despised the shame and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God from whence he shall come in the glory of his father with all his holy Angels and he shall reward every man according to his works according to that he hath done in his body whether it be good or bad no shifting from him in that day For before him all nations shall be gathered together and he shall separate them one from another as a sheepheard divideth the sheep from the goates Mat. 25.32 And he shall set the sheepe on his right hand but the goates on the left Then shall the king say unto them on the right hand Come ye blessed of my father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world For ye are they that have obeyed my word my servant Moses my holy Prophets and Apostles and have obeyed the Kings AUTHORITY delivered by them But unto the goates on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels for ye are they that are disobedient and rebellious against the word of the Lord against the holy Prophets and holy Apostles and against the example and commands of Jesus Christ himself who commands obedience to Caesar Submission to the Kings Supreame AUTHORITY Now these things have I written unto you according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification 2 Cor. 13.10 In hopes the better learned will amend it And brethren be perfect be of good comfort be of one mind fear God honour the King Live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you And the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the holy Ghost be with you all Amen The End