20.6 Now know that the Lord saveth his annoynted he will heare him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand Psa 21.3 Thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse thou settest a crown of pure gold upon his head V. 5. Honour and Majesty hast thou laid upon him V. 6. For thou hast made him blessed for ever thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance Psal 61.6 Thou wilt prolong the Kings life and his yeares as many generations V. 7. He shall abide before God for ever The punishment of his Adversaries 1 SAm 11.12 And the people said unto Samuel who is he that said shall Saul raigne over us bring the men that we may put them to death Jos 1.18 Whosoever he be that doth rebell against thy commandement and will not hearken unto thy words in all things that thou commandest him he shall be put to death Psa 45.5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the Kings enemies whereby the people fall under thee Psa 89.23 I will beat down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him Psa 132 18. His enemies wil I cloth with shame but upon himself shal his crown flourish His Triumph and Thanksgiving PSal 144.1 Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight V. 2. My goodnesse and my fortresse my high tower and my deliverer my shield and he in whom I trust who subdued my people under me V. 10. It is he that giveth salvation to Kings who delivereth David his servant from the hurtfull sword Psa 21.2 Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not witholden the request of his lips 1 Sam. 2.10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces out of heaven shall be thunder upon them The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth he shall give strength unto his K. exalt the horn of his Annointed 2 Sam. 22.40 Thou hast guided me with strength to battle them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me V. 44. Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of my people V. 47. The Lord liveth and blessed be my rock and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation V. 48. It is God that avengeth me and that bringeth down the people under me V. 49. Thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me thou hast delivered me from the violent man V. 50. Therefore will I give thanks to theee O Lord among the heather and will sing prayses unto thy Name Exhortation to Odedience 1 PEt. 2.13 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supreame V. 14. O unto Governors as unto them as are sent by him V. 17. Feare God honor the King Tit. 3.1 Put them in mind to be subject unto the higher powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good work Rom. 13.1 Let every soule be subject unto the higher powers for there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God V. 2. Whosoever therfore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation V. 5. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience sake V. 6. For this cause pay you tribut also for they are Gods Ministers attending continually upon this very thing V. 7. Render therfore to all their dues tribut to whom tribut is due custome to whom custom feare to whom feare honor to whom honor Mark 12.17 Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods Eccles 8.2 I counsell thee to keep the Kings command and that in regard of the oath of God Pray for the King 1 Tim. 2.1 I exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men V. 2. For Kings and all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty V. 3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour A Prayer for the King GIve the King thy Iudgements O God and thy righteousnesse unto the Kings son Psal 72.1.4 That he may judge the poore of the people and save the children of the needy and break in pieces the oppressor Prov. 25.5 Take away the wicked O God from before the King that his throne may be established in righteousnesse Psal 89.44 But O Lord how hast thou made his glory to cease and cast his throne down to the ground Prov. 28.2 Even for the transgression of our land many are the Princes thereof It is for our manifold sins and offences O God that Psal 89.38 thou hast cast off and abhorred that thou hast been wroth with thine annoynted V. 42. Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries thou hast made all his enemies to rejoyce Lam. 3.14 He hath been a derision to all his people and their song all the day Ezek. 7.27 ô God thou hast caused the King to mourn and the Prince hast thou clothed with desolation the hands of the people of the land are troubled 2 Sam. 3.39 He is now weak ô Lord though annointed King and these men the sons of Zerviah be too hard for him thou ô Lord shall reward the doers of evill according to their wickednesse Eze. 11.2 These ô Lord are the men that devise mischiefe and give wicked councell in this City Eccles 10.7 O God we have seen servants upon horses and I rinces walking as servants upon the earth Lam. 5.8 Servants have ruled over us ô Lord and there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand Cha. 4.20 The annoynted of thee ô Lord hath beene taken in their pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall live among the heathen Chro. 21.17 Even we it is that have sinned and done evill indeed but as for thine annoynted what hath he done Lot thine hand we pray thee ô Lord our God be on us but not on thine annoynted that he should be plagued 2 Sam. 18 3. for he is worth ten thousand of us Psal 89.46 Lord how long wilt thou hide thy selfe for ever shall thy wrath burn like fire V. 50. Remember Lord the reproach of thy servant how he doth beare in his bosome the reproach of all the mighty people V. 51. Wherewith thine enemies have reproached ô Lord wherewith they have reproached the foot-steps of thine annoynted 2 Sam. 20.21 If there be any son of Bichri that shall lift up his hand against the King Deliver him ô Lord and let the people cut off his head that the trumpet may sound a retreat of peace in our land Numb 16.32 Thou that didest cause the earth to swallow up the congregation of Korah V. 35. and consâ—…medst with sire those 250 Princes of the Assembly that were famous in the Congregaâ—ion for
rebelling agaist Moses V. 5. Protect and defend him ô Lord whom thou hast chosen from the outrage of his people and cause him to come neere unto thee Chap. 17.10 and let his rod bud and blossome to be kept for a taken against those Rebels that rise up against him 1 Sam. 24.8 and let them stoup with their face to the earth and bow themselves before thine annoynted V 10. Let their eyes spare him ô Lord and let not them put forth their hand against our Lord the King for hee is thine annoynted V. 5. Let their hearts mite them yea do thou smite those ô Lord that shall cut off his skirt or dâ—vest him of his Royall roab and authority Chap. 26 9. And let none that stretch forth their hands against thine annoynted be guiltlesse Iudges 17.6 Let us not see such dayes ô God as when there was no King in Israel lest every man do that which is right in his own eyes V. 5. and make himselfe Gods and consecrate his sons for his priests or take to himselfe Priests without consecration O Lord God put an end to these dayes of trouble and confusion and thou having given us a just King not in thine anger but in thy mercy give us joy of our King and Psalme 63.11 let the King rejoyce in thee ô God and let the mouth of those that speake lyes be stopped V. 9. and those that seeke his soule to destroy it let them go into the lower parts of the earth Vers 10. and let them fall by the sword and be a portion for Foxes Psal 18 47 â—â—de thou ô God his avenger and subdue the people under him Isaiah 45.1 Thou ô Lord God that didst annoynt Cyrus whose hand thou didst strengthen to subdue Nations before him before whom thou didst open the two leaved gates Verse â— bâ—fore whom thou didst go to make the crooked places straight and to breake in pieces the gates of brasse V. 3. To whom thou gavest the hidden riches of secret places V. 4 that didst call him by his name though he knew thee not Verse 5. That didst gird him though thou wert unkown unto him preserve thou thy servant our gracious King and 2 Sam. 22.40 gird him ô Lord with strength in battle thâ—â— those that rise against him may be subdued under him Ver. 44. and deliver him ô God from the strivings of his people Let the servants of our Lord the King be no longer a reproach and a by-word let them not be called evill counsellors and enemies to the state that endeavour to do him service Proverbs 19.6 But let many entreat the favour of our good Prince Chap. 16.15 and in the light of the Kings countenance let there be life and let his favour be as a cloud of the latter raine Ester 6.7 And for the man whom the King delighteth to honour V. 9. let him be clothed in Royall apparell and let him be brought on horseback through the City and proclaimed before him thus shall it be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honour and we beseech thee ô God Isaiah 33.17 Let our eyes see the King in his beauty and Psalm 28.8 be thou his strength ô Lord and the wholesome defence of his annoynted Psalme 21.1 Let the King joy in thy strength ô Lord and in thy salvation let him greatly rejoyce Verse 2. Give him his hearts desire and withold not the request of his lips V. 7. Let the King trust in thee ô Lord through the mercy of thou the most highest let him not be moved V. 5. Let his glory be great in thy salvation Psalme 89.26 Let him cry unto thee thou art his Father his God and the Rock of his Salvation Psal 61.6 O prolong thou the Kings life and his yeares as many generations V. 7. Let him abide before thee ô God for ever O prepare mercy and truth which may preserve him 2 Sam. 18.32 And let the enemies of our Lord the King and all that rise up against him be as was that young man Absolom Chap. 7.29 Therefore now Lord let it please thee to blesse the houses of thine annoynted that it may continue for ever before thee For thou ô Lord God hast spoken it and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever And this for the merits of Jesus Christ our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen FINIS
Rules for Kings AND Good Counsell for Subjects Being a collection of certaine places of holy Scripture directing the one to Governe and the other to obey Most necessary for all men that are desirous to square their actions according to the Rule of God's Law Whereunto is added a Prayer for the KING In these times of Contradictions LONDON Printed for T. Paibody and E. Dobson and are to be sold in Queens-head-Alley in Pater noster-row 1642. To the Reader IN a time when humane learning and the discipline and precepts of men are so much despised as in these our days I thought it not labour lost to spend some minutes in collecting a few Texts of Scripture which may be supposed the men of this age have either never read or totally forgotten To which short sentence I have added none of myne own lest to the Zealots it should appeare Apocryphall or my selfe seem to arrogate the wisdom of the son of Sirach But according to the times with as little learning and discretion as may be I have in a very disorderly order patch them up under severall heads The first two being of commands that we should reverence our Prince which I hope will be obeyed though he were a Tyrant For the third that the King loveth Iudgement Those that thinke he fulfils not the Scripture in that let them fulfill it themselves in praying for him which if done in faith no doubt they shall obtaine that blessing and according to the two next points will follow Gods care of his annoynted and a punishment on his advarsaries that we may receive him again with triumph and thanksgiving Lastly if it be acknowledged to be an office Jure Divine by all good Christians I am sure it is the last point an exhortation to obedience will not be unseasonable concluding with a Prayer that under him we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty and that we may so do God of his Mercy grant us for his son Christ Jesus sake our Saviour and Redeemer Thine E. B. Rules for Kings and good Counsell for Subjects Speake not evill of the King ACts 23.5 Thou shalt not speak evill of the Ruler of thy people Eccles 10.20 Curse not the King no not in thy thought for a bird of the ayre shall carry the voyce and that which hath wings shall carry the matter Prov. 30.32 If thou hast thought evill of the King Iay thine hand upon thy mouth Jude 8. These filthy dreamers despise dominion speak evil of dignities V. 10. But these speake evill of those things which they know not but what they know naturally V. 11. Not unto them for they shall perish in the gainsaying of Core 2 Pet. 2.9 The Lord knoweth how to reserve the unjust to the day of Iudgement to be punished V. 10. But chiefly them that despise government presumptions are they selfe willed they are not afraid to speak evill of dignities V. 12. But these are naturall bruit beasts made to be taken and destroyed speake evill of the things that they understand not and shall utterly perish in their own corruption V. 13. And shall receive the reward of righteousnesse 2 Sam. 19.21 Shall not Shemei be put to death for this because he cursed the Lords annoynted 1 King 2.9 Now therefore hold him not guiltlesse for thou art a wise man and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him but his hoare head bring thou down to the grave with bloud Exod. 22.28 Thou shalt not revile the Iudges not curse the Ruler of thy people Exalt not thy selfe against the King ECcles 8.3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight stand not in an evill thing for he doth whatsoever pleaseth him V. 4. Where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him what doest thou Prov. 16.14 The wrath of a King is as messengers of death but a wise man will pacifie it Chap. 19.12 The Kings wrath is as the roaring of a Lyon but his favour is as dew upon the grasse V. 10. Delight is not seemely for a foole much lesse for a servant to have rule over Princes Cha. 17.26 To punish the Iust is not good not to strick Princes for equity Cha. 25.6 Put not forth thy selfe in the presence of the King and stand not in the place of great men V. 7. For better is it that it be said unto thee come up hither than that thou should'st be put lower in the preseÌ„ce of the Prince whoÌ„ thine eyes have seen Cha. 30.31 Against a King there is no rising up V. 32. If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thy selfe lay thine hand upon thy mouth Cha. 20.2 The feare of a King is as the roaring of a Lyon who so provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soule The King loveth Iudgement Prov. 16.10 A Divine sentence is in the lips of the King his mouth transgresseth not in Iudgement V. 12. It is an abomination to Kings to commit wickednesse for the throne is established by righteousnesse V. 13. Righteous lips are the delight of Kings and they love him that speaketh right Cha. 20 8. A King that sitteth in the throne of judgement scattereth away all evill with his eyes V. 20. A wise King scattereth the wicked and bringeth the wheele over them V. 28. Mercy and truth preserve the King and his throne is upholden by mercy Cha. 22.11 He that loveth purenesse of heart for the grace of his lipps the King shall be his friend V. 29. Seest thou a man diligent in his businesse he shall stand before Kings he shall not stand before meane men Cha. 29 4. The King by judgement established the land V. 14. The King that faithfully judgeth the poore his throne shall be established for ever Rom. 13.3 Rulers are not a terror to good works but to the evill wilt thou then not be afraid of the power do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same V. 4. For he is the Minister of God to thee for good but if thou do that which is evill be afraid For he beareth not the sword in vaine â—or he is the Minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evill Psa 72 4. The King shall judge the poore of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppressor 1 Pet. 2.14 He is sent for the punishment of evill doers and for the prayse of them that do well Gods care of his Annoynted PSal 105.15 Touch not mine Annoynted and do my Prophets no harme 2 Sam. 22.49 It is God that bringeth me forth from mine enemies thou hast delivered me from the violent man V. 51. He is the tower of Salvation for his King and sheweth mercy to his Annoynted Psa 18.50 Great deliverance giveth he to his King and sheweth mercy to his annoynted Psa 28.8 The Lord is his strength he is the saving streÌ„gth of his anointed Psa