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A85584	Great Britans [sic] vote: or, God save King Charles. A treatise seasonably published this 27th. day of March, the happy inauguration of his sacred (though now despised and imprisoned) Maiesty. Wherein is proved by many plaine texts of Scripture, that the resisting, imprisoning, or deposing our King, under what specious pretences soever couched, is not onely unlawfull but damnable.		1648 (1648)	Wing G1670; Thomason E431_26; ESTC R202345	36,900	55

GREAT Britans Vote OR God save King Charles A TREATISE Seasonably published this 27 th day of March the happy Inauguration of His Sacred though now despised and imprisoned MAIESTY WHEREIN Is proved by many plaine Texts of Scripture That the Resisting Imprisoning or Deposing our King under what specious pretences soever couched is not onely unlawfull but damnable LONDON Printed for G. M. and W. H. MDCXLVIII Great BRITANS Vote OR God save King CHARLES CHAP. I. THE outward expressions of a man declare the inward affections of his soule at the first appearance of a thing whether good or bad if good our hearts are affected with joy which our tongues will soone declare if bad they are possest with griefe which our dejected countenance will soone discover The dayes of the Inauguration or crowning of Kings hath in the purest times and by the godliest Christians beene as a superlative good to a nation celebrated with great solemnity their persons being accounted sacred and their Government the joy of each good mans heart however in these last and worst times the scorne and contempt of Rebells Sectaries and Levellers whose hatred to our Gracious Soveraigne the more it manifests it self in them should the more inflame our soules with love to him and breake forth into as loud acclamations of all Loyall hearted Subjects acknowledging him their Soveraigne with joy in his Crowne as the Rebells and Schismaticks Declarations against him to depose him from his Throne and when can we better doe this than on the day of his Coronation a neglect might justly deserve a sharpe reprehension That our King is worthy of our love and his Coronation of our solemne observation and joyfull acknowledgements I am confident all but Traitors and Levellers will confesse and shall wee passe over so much good with neglect silence in this matter is sinne and worthy of reproofe and here it is which I beseech God may pierce deep into the soules of all that read or heare it as it is in these two Texts of Scripture delivered This is the day of our King Hosea 7.5 Wee doe not well then this day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace 2 Kings 7.9 CHAP. II. IOash the sonne of Ahaziah being hid by Iehosheba the Daughter of King Ioram six a 2 Kings 11.3 yeares in the house of the Lord because bloudy Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah whom b 2 Chron. 22.9 10 11. Iehu killed had destroyed all the Kings seed of the house of Iuda excepting onely Ioash whom Ioh●sheba the wife of Jehoiadah the Priest had preserved In the c 2 King 11.4 seventh year Iehoiadah the Priest seeing Athaliah to usurp the Crowne calls forth the Captaines and gathers the Levites out of all the Cities of Iudah and the chiefe Fathers of Israel to d 2 Chr. 23.2 Ierusalem and having first bound them with an e 2 Kings 11.4 oath of Allegiance presents unto them the sacred spectacle of their Regall Soveraigne f 2 Chr. 23.3 Behold the Kings Sonne must reigne He sets a g 1 Kin. 11.6.11 watch and h 2 Chr. 23.11 guard to secure and safe-guard him Loc how dangerous is the chair of State all like officious Subjects stand to withstand the treachery of Traitors Then in a regall solemnity they bring forth the Kings Sonne the joy and Iubilie of their hearts the wished and welcome Progeny of Jehoshaphat descended of an ancient line of Princedome they put the Crowne upon his head they give him the testimony they i 2 Kin. 11.12 make him King Iehoiadah and his sonnes anoint him they all clapt their hands for joy and with their hands their hearts and with their hearts their tongues till their many yet united voices even reverberate the aire with this heaven-piercing Eccho this Eucharistique gratulation God save the King So when the dayes of that admired Queene Queene * B●z● Epigr. in class hisp Anno 1588. Elizabeth of most famous and blessed memorie were on earth concluded then the Foxes of Babilon who had laine in holes forty foure yeares began to threaten as Esau did his Brother a Gen. 27.41 The dayes of mourning for my Father will come shortly then will I slay my Brother Iacob the day of her death the dawning of their desire for then they thought like Bustards in a Fallow field to raise up themselves by the violence of the multitude the Papists hoped then to have raised their Religion by a whirle-winde of Rebellion but our blessed Peace-maker frustrated their bloudy hopes and as Paterculus saith of the Roman Empire after Augustus death that there was great expectation of much troubles but there was so great a Majesty in one man that there was no use of Armes for good men or against bad men So the great Majesty of our succeeding Soveraigne King Iames as learned vertuous and religious a Prince as any under the roofe of heaven calmed all the stormes and imaginory tempests which were feared and expected so that the world did see our Sunne did set and yet no night did follow the enemies of England saw it then to their griefe who hoped that when the Sunne went downe some erraticall starre should shine but still the Planet kept its course Phoenix-like a new and yet the same renewed for the Augustus of this latter world Iames came to the Crowne a King not onely virorum but sacrorum a defender of men and Defender of the Faith Which indeed he did performe with such wisedome and discretion that he not only totally silenc'd the open threats conspiracies of his forraign adversaries and discontented Subjects of the Romish party but also slumbred the stormes threatned from the then beginning swellings against Monarchy of those little Foxes of Sectaries and Schismaticks whom he kept under all his days dyed was not murdered though of late falsely and maliciously insinuated and left a religious and both in Church and State well-govern'd Kingdome to his Sonne our present religious and Gracious King Charles A Prince in whom all graces both Divine and Morall were and are as apparent as the Sunne in the Firmament among all which glorious Starres none was more p●rspicuous than that of his Clemency even to the bitterest of his Adversaries at the luster of which oh nefandum dici the Sectaries and Schismaticks lighted there before extinct Tapers of Rebellion Licentiousnesse and Liberty which is now heightned to that flame which you behold it at at the light whereof the world may behold a most Religious Conscientious King imprison'd the heir apparent of the Crown banished with his Royal Mother that fruitfull Vine of so many fair now clouded separated clusters a free born nation slaved unto slaves ambitious Traytors and bloudy Rebels under the notion of that deluding good of our Nation a Parliament who sit and vote and declare they wil fight against him whom at their first calling together they swore to fight for as having

who are full of such fraud believe them as the People of Rome beleeved Carbon make a Covenant never to believe them hereafter They are like to Polypus have various shapes changing themselves into Angels of Light but malus ubi se bonum simulat tunc est pessimus a bad man when he counterfetteth to be good is worst August in Psal 63. Simulata sanctitas duplex est iniquitas counterfeit holinesse being a two-fold wickednesse of which whether they who call themselves a Parliament bee not guilty I leave it to all who have eyes in their heads to judge But be they what they will Let every good Christian and Loyall Subject according to his place performe faithfull hearty and trusty Service to our dread Sveraigne and though the wicked labour to darken with a Cloud of slander our faire and faithfull Service yet at last that Eclipse of envy will vanish of it selfe and our own innocency and fidelity will animate us like that Roman Marius who being accused by the Senate of Treason in a passion teares his Garments and in sight of them all shews them his wounds received in the service and defence of the Emperor and his Countrey saying Quid opus est verbis ubi vulnera clamant What need of words our wounds declare our bloud was shed for his well-fare Faithfull service is laudable before men and acceptable before God it may bee by the wicked sometimes blamed but it cannot be shamed though it be not alwayes rewarded on earth it shall be sure to finde rewards in Heaven yea vertue is a reward to it selfe bonorum laborum gloriosus fructus the service of the * Ecclus 35.7 righteous is accepted and the remembrance thereof shall never be forgotten CHAP. VIII THe fifth duty of Subjects to be duely and truely payed and performed to their sacred and dread Soveraigns is Tribute which is as Vlpian saith Nervus reip The strong sinew of the Common-wealth without which King nor Kingdome cannot stand And therefore our Saviour first by a Christ paid Tribute to Tyberius Caesar Matth. 17.27 president paid Tribute yea rather than it should be unpaid he wrought a miracle and also by precept resolving the Disciples of the Pharisees demanding whether it was lawfull to give Tribute unto Caesar or no told them peremptorily b Mat. 22 21. that they must give unto Caesar that which was Caesars Piscator saith upon that place Tribute Honour and Obedience is to bee given to the Magistrate in all things not repugnant to the word of GOD for this cause saith c Rom. 13 4 6. Saint Paul ye pay Tribute because the King is the Minister of God d Theoph. in Lucam c. 20. The money which thou hast thou hast from him and therefore not give but pay not a gift but a debt which all subjects owe to him Beucer saith We doe not give but pay that which of duty wee owe Tributes Subsidies Taxes c. are not gifts but debts which of necessity they must and ought to pay e Verbo redden de significat dibitum quod inexcusabile subditis im●●situm est Theo●●i in 13 Rom. v. 7. Hiperius saith This doe the Scriptures allow of writing there of the payment of Tributes this doe the Civill Lawes with the common consent of all Nations accept and approve The same f Hip. in Rom 13 Hiperius saith the law and right of paying Tribute among all Nations hath ever been accustomed And therefore g In Rom. 13 6. Calvin writes wel that Tributes and Taxes are the lawfull revenewes of Princes h Calv. in instit lib. 4 c. 20. This duty of paying Tribute Subsides Taxes c. by the subjects to the Soveraigne is by the law of God and lawes of men and common customes of most nations commanded and approved and that for four principall causes First to mainetaine that royall estate which God hath given to Kings the glorious patterns of Kings magnificence may be fully seen in royall Solomon Look but upon his Throne 2 Chr. 9.17 and you may judge of all the rest of his royalty 2dly to defend the Common-wealth both from forraign invasions and home-bred rebellions which requires a great Treasury A great Bird had need of a great neast That high Head which cares for all the politicke body and night and day studyes to preserve their welfare must participate of their wealth without which the publike peace and security cannot be effected for it is Status insolidus qui caret solidis Thirdly to contestate and acknowledge their homage and subjection to their Soveraigne for say the Canonists i Extra de exact● cens c. 1. quaest 8. can Tributum To pay Tribute is to bee subject to the Emperour and a signe of servitude confessing all duty and loyalty to be due to their Soveraigne who hath power to command them their * Nehem. 9.37 goods * Nehem. 9.37 lands and lives for the service of the Kings and countries preservation Looke upon the Israelites when King Saul was dead comming to elect and anoynt David in Hebron to be King over Israel * 1 C●ro 11.1 Behold we are thy bones and thy flesh meaning as take it that their lives and all were at his service and commandement for Tribute is not only of money but sudor sanguis populi The sweat and blood of the people if such need require to defend their King and Countrey is a Tribute due from them willing and ready to adventure their lives and l●mbs to give repulse and resistance to forraigne or domesticall violence Fourthly to testifie their gratefull affections to their gracious Pri●ces in thankefullnesse for the great benefits by their prudent provident and politicke Government reaped and received So David in lamenting Sauls death remembers the benefits his subjects received by him in his life time k 2 Sam. 1.14 Yee daughters of Israel weepe for Saul which cloathed you in scarlet with pleasures and hanged ornaments of gold upon your apparel So l Lament 4.20 Jeremiah o● the good King Iosiah lamenting his death The breath of our nostrels the Anoynted of the Lord was taken in their nets of whom we said under his shadow wee shall be preserved among the Heathen A good King brings many blessings and benefits unto his people and therefore when such as are in authority be righteous the people rejoyce saith m Prov. 29.2 Solomon n 4. A King by judgement maintaines the country By a man of understanding and knowledge a Realme endureth long saith the same o Prov. 28.2 Solomon yea as wise Plato wel said Beatas fore resp cum ant Philosophentur reges aut regnent Philosophi When as Kings were Philosophers or Philosophers Kings then such Common-wealths should be happy And indeed all earthly happinesse which is derived to the members proceeds from the Head next under God the primary Author of all good things by whose direction discretion