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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43651	A discourse of the soveraign power in a sermon preached at St. Mary Le Bow, Nov. 28, 1682, before the Artillery Company of London, and now published at their desire / by George Hickes ...	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1845; ESTC R2173	18,621	42

A DISCOURSE OF THE Souveraign Power IN A SERMON PREACHED AT St. Mary Le Bow Nov. 28. 1682. Before the Artillery Company OF LONDON And now Published at their Desire By GEORGE HICKES D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed for John Baker Printer to the Honourable Society at the Three Pigeons in St. Paul's Church-yard 1682. To the Right Honourable Sir William Pritchard Lord Mayor of the City of LONDON And President of the Artillery COMPANY To the Honourable Sir James Smith Knight and Alderman Vice-President To the Right Worshipful Sir Matthew Andrews Treasurer As also to the Right Honourable Duke of Albermarle Earl of Oxford Earl of Arundel Lord Falkland To the Honourable and Right Worshipful STEWARDS Henry Guy Esq William Legg Esq Sir William Dodson Kt. Charles Duncomb Esq And to the whole Court of Assistants Field-Officers Captains and Gentlemen Professing and Exercising Arms in that Renowned and Honourable Society Right Honourable IN Obedience to your Desire I have Published this Discourse which I Preached before you on your late Anniversary Solemnity and if it may contribute to the further Satisfaction of any who are already Loyal or the Conviction and Reformation of such as are not truly so I shall be thankful to God for Blessing so mean a Performance with such happy success The Subject I am sure is suitable to the Occasion upon which it was Preach'd and very necessary for the Times but yet I fore-see it will displease some Men whose Displeasure indeed I do not value because their Favour is not to be obtained by any Minister of the Church of England who will not be false to his own Profession and utterly decline the Preaching upon these Doctrines and Duties which I have here plainly Taught But you have not so Learned Christ as appears by the Entertainment which this unpolished Sermon hath found among you meerly for the Truths sake Your Approbation will be Protection sufficient both to it and the Author who Presents it unto you with all due Observance wishing a daily increase of such Obedient and Dutiful Subjects to His Majesty as you are to whose firm and active Loyalty next unto God's and our Governours Vigilant Care and Providence we owe our present Order and Peace I am Right Honourable Your most Obedient Servant George Hickes A SERMON Preached before The Artillery Company Rom. 13.4 He beareth not the Sword in Vain for he is the Minister of God The context before and after is this Wilt thou then not be afraid of the Power do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same For he is the Minister of God to thee for good But if thou do that which is evil be afraid for he beareth not the Sword in Vain for he is the Minister of God a Revenger to Execute wrath upon him that doth evil ALtho there now are and have been for above Two thousand years many Forms of Civil Government in the World yet all Historians Scared or Civil that write of the times near unto the Flood assure us that Monarchies were every where erected in those Ages and that Kings were then the Soveraigns of the Earth Popular Governments whether by the whole body of the People as in Democracies or in a Select number of the Chief as in Aristocracies were then in the Wombs of their special causes being afterwards introduced either by the compact and agreement of Men free to choose their own Government as in new Colonies and Dispersions or else by Rebellion as in the famous Commonwealth of Rome which at first was Governed by † Urbem Romam à principio reges habuere Tacit. Kings after the most Primitive Form and then after the Rebellion of Brutus Valerius and Collatinus by the ★ S. P. Q. R. four great Letters the Senat and People of Rome and at last again by Kings upon whom first under the name of ★ Nomine principis sub imperium accepit Tacit. Prince and then under the Titles of Emperor and Augustus the Senat and People not able to secure the publick Peace without a Soveraign Head conferred all their Power and as the Greek and Latin Historians observe really made them Kings altho to prevent offence on both sides they must not forsooth be so called It was under Claudius the 5th or Nero the Sixth of these Emperours that St. Paul wrote this Epistle unto the Romans in which it is to be observed that he asserts the Roman Emperor to be the Minister of God altho he was chosen by the Army or the People or sometimes by both for even in Elective Monarchies where the People choose the Soveraign he hath not his Authority from his Electors but from God as in Oeconomical Government the Prince of the Family if I may so speak hath not his Autority as an Husband from the Wife who chose him for her Husband nor the Autority of a Master from the Servant who chose him for his Master But his Conjugal and Despotical Autority are both from God who hath made the Husband the head of his Wife as Christ is the head of the Church and the Master Lord and Commander over his Servants whom they are to count worthy of all Honour and be Obedient unto them as unto Christ The choice indeed of the Husband and Master is from the Wife and Servant but the Power of them both is from God they were free as to their choice but aster it they are not free as to their subjection nor can they disobey them without disobeying God Just so is it in Elective Monarchies the People or their Deputies may choose the Man whom they will have for their Prince but they do not give him his Autority that he hath from God upon their Election which made Valentinian when the Army that chose him Emperor cry'd out that he should take a partner in the Government answer them upon this principle thus † Sozom. L. 6. C. 6. It was in your Power Souldiers to choose me for your Emperor but now you have chosen me that which you demand is not in your Power but mine you ought to be quiet as Subjects and I as an Emperor to consider what is fit to be done And accordingly the Apostle here in my text asserts Claudius or as it is more likely Nero the Emperor who was chosen by the Army and Senat not to be their Minister or to have any Ministerial or Fiduciary Power under them but to be the Minister of God over them and as such to have the Power of the Sword He beareth not the Sword in Vain for he is the Minister of God According to which explication of the words I shall undertake to prove two propositions First That Soveraign Princes are Gods Ministers and Vice-Gerents and Reign by his special ordinance and appointment and Secondly That as such they have and exercise the Supream Power and particularly the Power of the Sword And these two Propositions being proved