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A27165	No treason to say, Kings are Gods subjects, or, The supremacy of God, opened, asserted, applyed in some sermons preached at Lugarshal in Sussex by N.B. then rector there, accused of treason by James Thompson, Vicar of Shalford in Surry, and the author ejected out of the said rectory for preaching them : with a preface apologetical, vindicating the author and sermons from that false accusation, relating the manner of his ejection, and fully answering the narrative of the said Vicar, now also parson of Lurgarshal / by Nehemiah Beaton ...	Beaton, Nehemiah, d. 1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B1568; ESTC R17272	43,029	53

It is indeed a very stately and lofty expression of the greatness of God and vastness of his power that he hath gathered the wind in his fist Prov. 30. 4. And that is yet higher Isa 40. 12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out the heaven with a span But methinks this exceeds them all that he holds the hearts of Kings in his hand and turneth them c. 2. As this should raise our apprehensions and esteem of God so should it teach us not to think of men no not of Kings more highly than we ought to think How commonly doth the outward splendour Majesty and glory of Kings and earthly Po●entates so dazle the eyes of poor Mortals that they mistake them for Deities and seeing them so high conclude there is nothing above them If Herod arrayed in Royal apparel sit upon his Throne and make an Oration to the people they are ready presently to cry out It is the voice of a God and not of a man Acts 12. 21 22. Well but now this Text and Doctrine understood believed and seriously weighed by us will prevent such horrid blasphemies and convince us that beside desperate wickedness there is sottish ignorance and much childish folly bound up in the heart of such sins For if the hearts of Kings even at that time when their glory and greatness do most amaze us be in the hand of the Lord alas how weak and contemptible then are they in comparison of Him They are not Masters of their own hearts they know not what they shall purpose think resolve or do the next moment as shadows they have no motion of their own Compare them indeed with men how great are they Whom they will they can slay and whom they will they can keep alive whom they will they set up and whom they will they put down Dan. 5. 19. All under them must obey them and comply with them But now compare them with God and they that thus command others are commanded by another what he willeth and determines that must they do yea when they transgress His Precepts they do but fulfill His purposes what therefore the Prophet saith to shame men out of the bruitish sin of Idolatry may we apply to this purpose He tells them that the best of their Idolls after it is most curiously carved and when they have lavish'd never so much Silver and Gold upon them yet even then are they not able to stir themselves They must needs be born because they cannot go Jer. 10. 5. The very same I say may we affirm of the mightiest Monarch in the World when he seemeth most formidable even such an Idoll is he compared with God not able to stir or move hand or heart of himself but must needs be born which way God will carry him that way must he needs go though therefore we must honour fear and reverence Kings as they are Gods Delegates as they bear the Sword from him for him yet must we still remember they are but men and if they command that which crosseth the command of God or if the consideration or fear of their greatness be like to draw us from our allegiance and obedience to the great God let us then call to mind and meditate on this truth and what we have heard this day and if they or any other shall say are not your Lives Estates and all outward enjoyments in the Kings hand Then let us consider and say yet is not my heart in the Kings hand and so he cannot force me to sin unless I will but the Kings heart is in the Lords hand and therefore he cannot cause me to suffer unless the Lord will 3. Is the Kings heart in the Lords hand then learn hence to whom the glory and praise of all the good that is in the heart of any King and of all that good that his hand findeth to do to whom I say the glory of it is due and to whom to pay it even to that God that thus gives him both to will and to do of his own good pleasure For though we must not defraud or rob the King of the honour and praise of his Graces Virtues or virtuous Actions as they are his as a second inferiour yet true cause of them yet must we be sure to give God the whole glory as the principal and first moving cause He is that Sun and Father of Lights from whom these glorious Stars receive and borrow all that light and good which they communicate to us And this brings me to the Occasion of this daies meeting and to move you to the great duty of the day The Reasons declared by Parliament for setting this day apart as a day of solemn thanksgiving are these That it hath pleased the King graciously to declare his firm adherence to the Protestant Religion his tender love and regard to the Civill Liberties of these Nations his great esteem of and affection to Parliaments his gracious Pardon to all those that have in any kind offended him his declining Forraign assistance together with many other gracious and excellent expressions which his Majesties Declaration and Letter are full of Now as we must give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars have grateful dutiful and loyal apprehensions of his Princely goodness and have our affections raised and hearts engaged by it so must we be sure this day to give unto God the things that are Gods by looking farther and higher than the King even to the King of Kings that hath put this into his heart who could have so infatuated his understanding and hardened his heart that he should have been quite deaf to all moderate Councils and taken such rash and violent Courses as would have proved destructive to himself and these Nations O let us see and acknowledge the finger and hand of the Lord in all this and in the words and with the spirit of holy Ezra let us say Blessed be the Lord that hath put such things as these into the Kings heart Blessed be the Lord that hath so wonderfully exercised his dominion not only over his heart but on the hearts of Parliament Army and Navy to joyn as one man in bringing this about He that should this day twelvemonth have said that what we now behold should have been and that without the effusion of the least drop of bloud would not have gained credit in any place That an Army engaged by Oath and Interest against it an Army whose valour and success had quite dispirited the Nation should have their hearts so awed and their hands so held that either they will not or dare not interpose O this is the Lord 's doing and it should be marvellous in our eyes Well then let us not rob God of the glory of these mercies yea let him alone be exalted by us We should not defraud the King General Council or Parliament of that honour and praise they have severally deserved

but yet we should look on God as the Primum Mobile and his hand as turning these Wheels about All this while he hath had and held all their hearts in his hand Come therefore let us rejoyce in him this day and glory in the God of our salvation and beware that we make not this a day of wickedness and provocation instead of a day of thanksgiving and praise To prevent this 1. Let us see acknowledge and be sensible of every one of us his own and the whole Nations sinfulness and great unworthiness of such a mercy Alas if we consider what wickedness is amongst us how by all sorts and kinds of sins we have provoked the Lord we may wonder that instead of the voice of joy that we hear this day the Lord had not caused us to hear the voice of weeping the confused noyse of War and to have seen Garments rolled in bloud 2. Let us give the glory to God we are so apt to fail herein and 't is a sin that the jealous God is so highly provoked by that although I have already much pressed it I cannot but once more urge it upon you God will let no creature share with him if he have not all the honour he reckons he hath none yea he counts himself highly dishonoured 3. Let us prize this mercy according to its worth and let us not because we have not all we look for over-look all that we have Consider how unlikely it was not long since that we should have been in so good a condition as now we are Certainly whatever any of us may think now we should have thought this a great mercy if the Army and late usurping Power had gone a little farther Truly God hath exceeded our hopes in this mercy 4. Let us beware of provoking God now he is coming towards this Nation in a way of mercy to stop and turn from us and do us hurt after he hath done us good 5. Lastly If there be in us any fear of God any love to the King let not any of us dare this day to call or count that an expression of joy and thanksgiving which is a breach of Gods Law or that tends to his dishonour Thus far on day of Thanksgiving Afterwards upon the coming forth of the Kings Proclamation against Prophanness I resumed this Texton June 10. having read the Proclamation and repeated the foregoing use I added to it as followeth Let us bless God for this most seasonable Proclamation and for all those pious and gracions expressions in it To what a height of impudence in sin were some graceless wretches grown amongst us Drunkenness Swearing Cursing and reviling those that refused to run into the same excess of riot with themselves these were and yet are the dayly practices of many in all places and of some in this place and though by this their wickedness they only prov'd themselves subjects and vassals to the Prince of darkness yet they cloaked over their abominable villany with pretences of loyalty and affection to the King and this their prophaneness they dar'd to call and expect that others should count a testimony thereof In the mean time those that had any fear of God and true affection to the King were grieved at the very soul at this horrible wickedness knowing it did highly offend and provoke God dishonour yea and endanger the Kings Majesty and therefore they earnestly besought the Lord that he would put it into his heart to discountenance and give some check to this growing will by declaring his detestation and abhorrency of these their lewd courses And the Lord hath heard them and given them the very desire of their hearts For how fully and excellently hath his Majesty declared himself So fully that we may say What can the man say that comes after the King Hear again his Majesties words Pulchra sunt his dicenda and so I again repeated his Majesties Declaration to them And here because one of those hath openly affirmed some few daies since that this was not nor could not be the Kings Declaration but was put out by some Rogues in his Name I shall propound and answer that Objection Object How do we know that this is the Kings own Declaration Answ 1. Let us inquire whence it is that these Objectors are thus doubtful 2. Let us consider how offensive these words are 1. For the first 'T is because it so extreamly disappoints and crosses their hopes and expectations men are alwaies very backward to believe what they passionately desire should be false Had it been a Proclamation for the encouragement of Vice and Wickedness you should never have heard any one of these made any question of the truth of it 2. Take notice of the great offence these Objectors are guilty of 1. This their doubting and these their words are full of reproach and very injurious to the Kings Majesty their words betray them you may see by this what thoughts these men have had and still have of the King They thought him altogether such a one as themselves a lover and encourager of Prophaneness else what mean they when they say this cannot be the Kings Declaration Now what can be more dishonourable to the King 2. Their words shew you what that love and affection to the King of which they boast was grounded on viz. a hope and perswasion that he would not cross them in their sinful courses 3. These words are guilty of Rebellion they open a gap to all disobedience it seems if any Laws and Proclamations come out which cross our desires we may decline obedience and say they are none of the Kings Laws none of his Proclamations But to leave these and conclude this Use Let all of us bless God for this mercy this is the way to have more mercies in this kind God can make him yet a farther and greater blessing to these Nations and let every one of us in our place observe and obey this Proclamation and bring to punishment those that will not 4. This Doctrine informs which is the readiest and only sure way to obtain any good for our selves or the Church of God from the King for if God have his heart in his hand can we but make sure of God if we wrestle with him by Prayer and prevail with him the business is done he can command the heart of the King and cause it to meet with our desires Solomon discovers and secretly checks the folly of those that neglect this course Prov. 29. 26. Many seek the Rulers favour but every mans judgement cometh from the Lord. As if he should say Men that desire to obtain any thing of Princes they presently run to him but alas they begin at the wrong end would they begin at God though that seem the farthest way about 't is the nearest way to speed for every mans judgement is from the Lord. As if he had said The Prince of himself cannot dispose of his own favour

after waited on the Lord Montague at Cowdry who after the reading of them told me he would shortly give an answer to them but he must first speak with his Servant Turner Mr. Yalden Senior who had then the power of presentation knew of my application to the Lord Montague to whom at the same time by his Son Mr. William Yalden he sent to signifie his willingness and desire to present me and after he had heard this answer of the Lord Montagues told me he was resolved to present me and no other only he would waite the Lord Montagues answer whose consent though not necessary he desired All which when I had communicated to Sir Richard Onslow he advised me by all means to stay for the Lord Montagues consent which accordingly I did but with no great exercise of patience for within a week or two the Lord Montague sent Mr Turner his servant to Mr Yalden to desire him to sign a Presentation of me to the foresaid Rectory which he the said Mr. Turner drew up and delivered into my hands For which favour of the Lord Montagues unto me when shortly after Sir Richard Onslow meeting him returned him his thanks the Lord Montague not only professed he had presented me for Sir Richards sake but he added he thought he owed many thanks to Sir Richard for presenting such a person to him Now Reader judge whether Sir Richard sought to find out another Doner than the Lord Montague who when the power to present appeared and was by the Lord Montague confessed to be in another though the right originally in himself yet was so tender of that right that he would have nothing done without that Lords consent To procure which he wrote a most civil Letter to the Lord Montague in which for as is most usual in such cases I had a sight of it there were these words There shall be all possible care used to preserve your right and corroborate it also as your Council shal advise Secondly If he were thus far from seeking another Doner how far was he from seeking one by Calumniations Thirdly If the Lord Montague himself by his Trustee filled the Rectory of Lurgarshal and his Presentee was alive when Thompson was presented what is it to affirm the Rectory void by death at the time of his Presentation Fourthly was N. B. illegally possest of it who was presented by the Lord Montagues Trustee not only with the connivance but explicite consent and express desire of that Lord who Mr Thompson saith is undoubted Patron of that Rectory Thus Reader I have satisfied thee that I came fairly into the Rectory of Lurgarshal and was legally possessed of it Thou shalt next hear how I came out James Thompson Who did in or about April last 1660. preach these words in his Pulpit in the forenoon concerning the death of his late Majesty and the occasion thereof You say these and these were the Kings Enemies nay quoth he but I will tell you who were the Kings Enemies viz. those that caused him to marry with that harlot and adulterous woman For in marrying with that Papist Queen he did adulterate his whole Generation and did make it a National sin and the whole Nation must suffer for it and we have suffered for it all this time Which being proved by the oaths of five credible Witnesses and five and twenty more being ready if required to depose the same before nine of his Majesties Justices of the Peace at Midhurst on the nineteenth day of December last though three of the said Justices viz. Mr Shirly Mr Henry Onslow Mr Lee took little notice of it and refused subscription a judgment was ordered to be drawn up and signed by the other six Justices That the said N. B. had maliciously preached against his sacred Majesty that now is his right and succession to the Crowns of these Realms and that he ought not to be confirmed into the Rectory into which he had intruded N. Beaton It is a received Rule in the Civil Law Mendax semel mendax semper praesumitur He that hath been taken once in a lye is not afterwards to be credited May it not then be supposed that he that hath told so many Thompsonisms about my coming in may be guilty of far more in this his far larger relation of my Ejection If Isidore may be credited it cannot be otherwise He that in the beginning swerveth from the truth will in his proceedings roll farther away from it and end at last with some foul or shameful Catastrophe or other Sure I am if this his general rule have any exceptions this my Adversary is none of them For to his whole Charge I may truly reply in the very words of that holy Writer whose name I bear Nehem. 6. 8. There were no such things done as thou saiest but thou feignest them out of thine own heart And although I have alwaies suspected and detested unnecessary protestations and appeals yet against such a Charge and under such a Condemnation I think no man will judge it needless or unlawful I do therefore solemnly as in the presence of that Great God at whose judgment seat I expect shortly to stand protest and declare That I never did in any Sermon on any Text whatsoever utter those words of which I am accused nor any other words of such a sense Which protestation I make without any equivocation or mental reservation and should most willingly renew it and confirm it by Oath if I were lawfully required though I knew certainly I should the very next moment pass into Eternity From my Accuser and Judges do I therefore appeal to that Righteous Judge of all the world before whom not only nondum judicata but male judicata shall be tried knowing that when that bright and blessed morning comes in which the righteous shall have dominion over his most insulting oppressors He will bring forth my righteousness as the light and my judgment as the noon day In the mean time though it be not possible unless by the repentance and confession of the contrivers c. fully to disclose all the secrets and circumstances of this mystery of iniquity yet such a discovery I shall make that when the Reader hath heedfully observed and weighed it unless he be corrupted by malice or interest I dare challenge him to believe or suspect me guilty if he can And first I must inform him for my Adversary wisely concealed it who was the person that exhibited this Charge against me No worse Man I assure thee than this James Thompson that now publisheth it A man whose face till I was forced to confront him as my accuser I never to my best remembrance had seen and who as himself confessed was as much a stranger to me How then came he to be my ●ccuser Nay Reader thou shalt answer thy self and I think thou wilt not complain that I have put a hard task upon thee when I have farther informed thee of

returned into the Crown-office and upon the motion of Sir William Wild in the publick Court of the Kings Bench at Westminster upon reading the Record confirmed by my Lord Chief Justice and three more of his Majesties most reverend Judges upon the eleventh day of February last N. Beaton To what purpose are the Kings Bench the Crown Office Sr William Wild the Lord Chief Justice the most Reverend Judges mentioned unless to perswade the Reader that I had a second hearing But this he durst not affirm it would have been too gross Let the Reader then know that though I therefore obtained a Writ of Certiorari because I was informed it would produce a second hearing yet I found my self wholly deceived for no Witness was examined pro or con nor enquiry made into the truth of any matter of fact or the merits of the Cause c. What advantage then is this to his Cause now managing against my Reputation What if the Judgment had been thus confirmed a thousand times is it any proof of my guilt But Reader we have both now appealed he by printing his Charge I by publishing my defence to a Court of Equity thy Conscience and here sure the reading of the Judgment or his suggestions will not without more ado produce a confirmation But thou wilt hear and weigh both parties and then though my Adversary being first in his own tale might seem righteous yet when thou hast considered how I have come after and searched him I am as certain I shall by thy justice be absolved as Mr. Thompson is I was by the Justices condemned Which absolution of all sober unbyassed persons though it leave me as far from my Living as before yet would I not exchange for more than my Adversary enjoyeth by my condemnation For though a good name be not as precious as it is to be named with a good conscience yet it is to be prized above a good yea the best Living But if it should be the lot of these Papers to fall into the hands of persons whom malice prejudice or interest will not suffer to receive satisfaction or at least will cause still to pretend they are unsatissied As I regard not their censures so can I easily foresee and could as easily obviate and answer all their cavils and objections but shall take notice only of one for the sake of some honest but very weak persons whom they may think to startle with it Object But can any man imagine that such a Charge could be forged or framed without any ground That five men would have sworn it that c. Answ Consider Reader whom these Objectors wound whilst they thus strike at me They not only offend and accuse the whole Generation of the righteous but do Crucifie again the Lord of Glory and put him to open shame For if a man must needs be guilty because condemned Then what an Impostor and Malefactor must he be who is holy harmless separate from sinners For he was accused of blasphemy condemned as a Traytor and enemy to Caesar his prosecutors Priests the Witnesses many and of considerable quality And if they thus called and condemned the Master of the house is it any wonder that they deal thus with those of his houshold Mat. 10. 25. I am accused for calling the Queen Harlot Adulteress Why with the very same train did the devil blow up the Ministry of that holy Father and faithful servant of Christ Chrysostome Adversus Joannem calumnias struunt Sermones ipsius quosdam assumentes ut dictos in probrum Reginae invidiose divulgantes They forged calumnies against him taking hold of some speeches of his and maliciously spreading and divulging them as spoken in disgrace and reproach of the Queen But what stirred up his Accusers Why he had so freely and sharply reproved their wickedness and prophaneness that they resolve some way or other to rid themselves of such a burden and this was the likeliest way What if I never spake against his Majesties right of Succession Yet I had spoken against some mens Swearing Cursing Debauchery c and that was not put into the Act for confirming of Ministers as a cause why they should not be confirmed and the other was I shall conclude with the words of the learned Bishop Sanderson for they are as his use to be worth the transcribing That there should be mighty ones sick with longing after their meaner neighbours vineyards that there should be crafty heads to contrive for greedy great ones what they unjustly desire that there should be officious instruments to do a piece of legal injustice upon a great mans Letter that there should be Knights of the Post to depose any thing though never so false in any cause though never so bad against any person though never so innocent that an honest man cannot be secure of his life so long as he hath any thing else worth the losing Of all this saith he here is an instance in my Text. He doth not say that of all this my Case is an instance nor will I now but when any man goes about to shew wherein the parallel failes he may know more of my mind till then no more as to my own vindication But though I began with my own vindication and have hitherto solely attended it yet shall I not conclude till I have also vindicated that noble Knight Sir Richard Onslow from those ealumnies and slanders which in this sheet he hath published against him for he hath done me the honour to abuse me with that worthy and honour able person With whose vindication I should have begun as the more considerable and noble subject had not I considered that till I had cleared my self I should but sully another by undertaking his defence And here though I shall not set down his words at length as before yet shall I not do him the least wrong but give thee the substance such as they have of them Only first I must acquaint thee with the occasion of this his Schedule Some malicious persons had published several Libels against Sir Richard Onslow for the smoak of envy and detraction will alwaies pursue the fairest in which they accused him to be the great enemy and ejector of many learned loyal and Orthodox Divines That is they accused Moecenas to be a hater of Poets and Alexander an enemy to valour Well against these Libellers Collonel Gardiner sends out a hue and cry in which he discovers the folly and falshood of that accusation and names many learned loyal Orthodox Divines whom Sir Richard was a refuge to in the late storms and amongst others his only mistake reckons up this James Thompson Which I call a mistake not that Sir Richard had never done him a Curtesie but because he reckons him amongst Learned Orthodox Divines Now in answer to this hue and cry of Collonel Gardiners comes forth this narrative A great part of which he spends in telling his Reader