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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85738	Royalty and loyalty or A short survey of the power of kings over their subjects: and the duty of subjects to their kings. Abstracted out of ancient and later writers, for the better composeing of these present distempers: and humbly presented to ye consideration of his Ma.tie. and both Howses of Parliament, for the more speedy effecting of a pacification / by Ro: Grosse dd: 1647	Grosse, Robert, D.D.	1647 (1647)	Wing G2078; Thomason E397_3; ESTC R201664	38,810	64

knowledge as zeale had thought it lawfull either for the Pope or the People or any other men to regulate their Princes as they thought fit without all question they would never have suffered themselves and the whole Church of God to bee so cruelly oppressed by those wicked Emperours But as they did most freely reprehend their vices so they would at least have admonished them of their office if they had beene wanting to it But when they knew that Kings as have beene formerly not onely touched but oftentimes urged have onely God to be their judge and their avenger hence it is that they did only flee to him and piously and happily implore his aid These things saith Nazianzen did Julian meditate and deliberate as those that were witnesses and co-partners of his secrets have imparted and divulged to the world yet hee was restrained by the Ordinance of God and the teares of Christians which were then many and shed by many seeing they had no other remedie against their persecutors The like may be said of divers other wicked Princes who have either beene taken away by the singular providence of God or at length reduced to a better minde for God who is the Father and Judge of all alike doth oftentimes most justly send ungodly Princes unto a people for the punishment of their sins although they minding nothing lesse than the justice or purpose of Gods wil doe most unjustly Shall there be any evill in the City saith God by the Prophet Amos which the Lord hath not done But no sooner doe Subjects repent them of their sins and depart from their evil courses but God In whose hands the heart of Kings is and which way soever it pleaseth him as the rivers of waters he doth incline it according to his great goodnesse and singular mercie wherewith he is affected towards afflicted Penitents makes those wicked princes either cease to be or to bee tyrants Vengeance is mine saith the Lord I wil repay it This is the onely fort and sure defence against all injuries of wicked Kings they are the weapons that are to be taken up against ungodly Princes and this lastly is the most expedite way to pessundate all Tyranny But then you will say If the King should make aprey of his Subjects and impose greater taxes on them and exact more grievous Tributes and Customs on them oppressing all and every one of them with his Tyrannicall power shall we not in this Case resist and oppose him For answer of this I must tell you if we will be as we professe our selves to bee Christs Disciples and obey his word which we desire at least pretend above all things to be sincerely preached unto us wee must not resist him Now what saith Christ But I say unto you that yee resist not evill c. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ being King of Kings and Lord of Lords as he is stiled in holy Scripture yea and the sonne of Kings according to the flesh being of the seede of David yet lest he should give offence though he were free payed Tribute to Caesar For so wee finde him discoursing with Peter The Kings of the Earth of whom doe they take Custome or Tribute of their owne Children or of Strangers Peter saith unto him of Strangers Jesus saith unto him then are the Children free Notwithstanding lest we should offend them goe thou to the Sea and cast an booke and take up the fish that first cometh up and when thou hast opened his mouth thou shalt finde a peece of money that take and give for thee mee Hereupon Bernard to Henry then Arch-bishop of the Senones thus elegantly writeth Let every Soule bee subject to the higher Powers If every Soule then yours who doth except you from the universality If any endeavor to deceive you hearken not to their Councols who seeming to be Christians hold it yet a disparagement to them to follow the Deedes or observe the Words of Christ their Master And a little after These things saith he doe they but Christ he did both bid otherwise and did otherwise Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods What he spake with his tongue hee performed with his hand as he taught so hee wrought The maker of Caesar did not deny to pay tribute to Caesar for he gave an example to you that you should also doe the like And a little farther he saith to this purpose Doe you contemne the saecular power None was more saecular then Pilat before whom our Lord stood to be adjudged Thou couldst have no power saith hee over me if it were not g●ven thee from above even then did he speake by himself and in himselfe shew what afterwards he did by his Apostles in his Church That there is no power but of God and that hee that resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God Before Bernard St. Ambrose wrote to the same purpose If the Emperor demands tribute we doe not deny it the lands of our Church do pay him tribute If he requires our fields he hath power to lay claim unto them none of us doe interpose or withstand him The Collation of the people may redound to the poore let them not conceive displeasure about our fields let them have them if they like them I doe neither give them the Emperor nor deny them And againe I was commanded by the Court officers and tribunes to make a speedy surrender of the Church they alleaging that the Emperor doth but use his right in demanding it for as much as all things are in his power I made this answer that if hee did require of me what was mine owne to give viz. my ground or my goods or any thing of the like nature this my right I would not deny him although even those things of mine are the poores also Very excellently St. Ang. But whereas the Apostle saith Wherefore yee must needes bee subject it is as much as if hee should have said there is a necessity for this life that we be subject not resisting if they will take any thing away from us in that they have power given them over our temporall things Now then if it were not lawfull for subjects without sin to resist their kings when they did exact unjust tributes of them and by violence take away their estates from them much lesse may we deny to Princes just tributes other things of the like nature which are requisite and necessary for the safety of the Common-wealth and cannot bee denied without its certaine ruine and the great hazard of the whole Christian Policie In the law of Moses we reade that the Man that would doe presumptuously and would not hearken to the Priest that stood to Minister before the Lord or unto the Judge even that man was to be put to death And since by the Lawes of men they have

proceeded no lesse severely against Rebels But most strict is that Law of God promulged by the mouth of the Apostle Therefore whosoever resisteth the Power c. resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation that is as all Divines expound it temporall here and without repentance eternall hereafter And as for those that doe calumniate and derogate from the Power c. of Princes here by their seditious words and scandalous writings although perhaps they may escape the hands of men yet they shall never avoid the judgements of God from whose all-seeing eye of Providence nothing can bee hid against whose omnipotent Power nothing can resist and by whose most just judgements no wickednesse can goe unpunished No lesse wittily then pithily St. Ang. For whereas the doctrine of the Apostle doth make mention of these earthly powers he doth insinuate into our apprehensions even the parts of the heavenly judgement For whenas hee doth enjoyne us to obey the Lawes of the world hee doth necessarily admonish us to take heed of the world to come If thou wilt not saith he feare the Powers doe that which is good which is as much to say If thou wilt not fear the judgement to come then eschew evill and doe good whilest thou art here Therfore we ought to take heed performe the first forme of this Constitution which wants the lawes of this life that we may exclude keep from us that fore-judgement of eternall death in the other life because those whom this temporall punishment doth not take hold of here there that eternall punishment wil follow with insufferable torment hereafter Amongst other examples of the judgements of God upon rebellious gainsaying and disobedient Persons we have that dreadfull and horrible example of Corah Dathan and Abiram in the holy Scriptures which the Spirit of God sets downe as a warning to us that we fall not into the like contradiction lest wee fall into the like condemnation Of whom Optatus Milevitanus writing against the Donatists who did refuse to obey their Magistrates as too many of the Smectymnuan rout Antipodian state doe now amongst us thus delivers himselfe Schisma summum c. That Schisme is a great evill you your selves cannot deny and yet without the least feare you doe imitate your most desperate Ring-leaders Corah Dathan and Abiram nor will you set before your eyes or once take it into your hearts that this evill is both prohibited by the word of God and revenged with a most grievous judgement And a little after The Congregation of Ministers and the Sacrilegious multitude that was soon to bee confounded did stand with their inter dicted and forbidden Sacrifices time for repentance was denied and withheld from them because their fault was such as it deserved no pardon A command of hunger was laid upon the earth which presently opened her greedy jawes upon them that caused division amongst the people and with an insatiable mouth did swallow up the contemners of Gods word In a moments space the earth clave asunder to deuoure those fore-named separatists it did swallow them up then was closed againe upon them And lest they should seeme to receive a courtesie by their soddain death as they were not worthy to live so they were not vouchsafed to die Upon a suddaine they were cast into the prison of Hell and so buried before they were dead St. Aug. having occasion to speake of the same Separates cap. 29. of the wonders of the holy Scripture speaks to the same purpose cap. 30. of the same book he doth thus enlarge his Meditations Again the next day the whol multitude gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron as guilty of blood and would have slain them in revenge of those that were killed But here both Moses and Aaron come before the Tabernacle of the Congregation and again the wrath of the Lord went forth and raged amongst the rebellious people And againe Aaron at the command of Moses filling his Censer with fire from off the Altar ran into the midst of the Congregation and standing between the living and the dead the plague was stayed A just judgement inflicted on both that they who did inwardly burne with the fire of Anger against their lawfull Princes should now outwardly perish with the burning flame of most deserved vengeance he that in his heart had forgiven the offence of his brethren by his footsteps others being defended the fire from Heaven durst not consume But they that died of the plague that day were 1400. whom the wrath of the Lord consumed Wherefore to draw to a conclusion as the Apostle admonisheth and comandeth We must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for Conscience Because as S. Peter saith this is the will of God that with well doing wee may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men as free not using our Liberty for a cloake of maliciousnesse but as the servants of God For although as S. Aug. hath it we are called to that kingdom where there shall be no such powers yet while wee live here in our journey thither untill such time as wee shall come to that Age where there shall be an annihilation ceasing of all Principalitie and Power let us cheerefully and willingly undergoe our condition according to the order of humane things not dealing feignedly and hypocritically and so doing we shall not so much obey man under whose command we are as God who doth command us to be obedient to them Therefore to use S. Peters words He that will love life and see good daies let him refraine his tongue from evill and his lips that they speake no guile let him eschew evill and doe good let him seeke Peace and ensue it Let him beare in mind that commandement of God Thou shalt not revile the Gods nor curse the Ruler of thy people And not forget the councell of the Preacher Curse not the King no not in thy thought for a bird of the ayre shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter But let him embrace the councell of king Solomon not only the wisest of Kings but of all other men My son saith he feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change for it is our Saviours saying who is truth it selfe and ought to be beleeved before all our pretended Reformadoes whosoever shall take up the Sword especially against Gods annoynted contrary to the word of God shall perish with the Sword And thus having gathered certaine flowers out of the garden of Divinity Philosophy History and Policy to make a Crowne for Royalty and a nosegay for Loyalty there wants nothing now but that same thread of Charity which the Apostle casseth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the bond of perfection to constringe and binde