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A64681	The rights of primogeniture, or, The excellency of royall authority in a sermon preached before His Majesty in the Isle of Wight, upon the anniversary of his birth-day / by James, L. Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1648 (1648)	Wing U221; ESTC R24650	6,297	14

a Prince And as the Prince ought to have this in his owne Person and his Attendants so all Dignity and Glory rests in him as in the Fountaine and all Titles of Dignity are in him also Even as ye see in the Firmament 1 Cor. 15. There is one Glory of the Sunne another of the Moone and one Starre excelleth another in Glory In the Common-wealth there are some Knights some Lords some Earles c. but all these differences come from one Sun one Head the Prince There is no light in the Moone but what is derived from the Sunne even here is borrowed the Starres light is borrowed also and when the Sonne appeares they cease to shine The Starres at this time shine as much as at Midnight but that the Light of the Sunne doth darken them Even so in the presence of Majesty those other Excellent Dignities doe not shine at all 2. To come to the Eminency of Power For a King to have great State and to have no Power he were then but a poore King A Duke of Venice is served in as Great State as can be but he hath no Power at all There is a Subordination of Power in all Government which because it cannot go ad infinitum it must needs rest somewhere and that is in the King Let every Soule be subject to the Higher powers And the Apostle in 1 Pet. 2. 13. distinguisheth Whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by God for the punishment of evill doers c. and he adds that by so doing the Ignorance of foolish men may be put to silence If any Professour of Religion doe Rebell against the King this is a scandall to Religion Now the Apostle did foresee that such there would be and therefore Commands that they be put in mind to be Subject c. But if any that professe Religion doe Rebell as I said before it is the fault of the Professour and not of the Profession for the Church of England doth teach the Contrary But when men shall not onely practice but teach Rebellion for by their fruits ye shal know them this amounts to a very high Crime indeed The King as Saint Peter saith hath the Excellency of Power as sent by God But what need I say any more We all sweare that the King is the onely Supreame Governour in his Dominions A man would think that that word onely might be spared since nothing can be above a Supream but it is put there by way of Eminency There can be no Dominion in the World unlesse there be an Eminency of power in some one or other If a man be wronged in any Court he may lawfully appeale higher but then Appeales must not be Infinite there must be a supremacy of power somewhere to rest in The Philosopher saith it must be either in one or in all Where the Eminency of power is in one it is called a Monarchy The King must onely have the Supreme power for if any be joyned with him then it is no Monarchy If the Power be in a certaine number it is called an Aristocracy If the Power be in all a Democracy and all Power then is derived from the Body of the People and where you say so you destroy the Monarchy and erect a Democracy The Duke of Venice hath as I said before a marveilous great State and yet the State of Venice is no Monarchy because the Supremacy of power is not in him He cannot receive a Letter nor make an Edict without the States allowance Nay he may be called to accompt by them I read in Josephus that Herod having offended Cleopatra she be sought Antony who did not use to deny her any thing to call him to accompt but Antony refused so to doe Then saith he He will be no King Look upon the Common-wealth of Lacedemon They had Kings lineally descended from the race of Hercules but shall we say they had Regall power nothing lesse because there were Ephori in that State A certaine power in the People to call their Kings to accompt the Supremacy of power there was not in the Prince In Switzerland there is a Democracy and the onely Democraticall Government I know of They have their Magistrates that governe the people And yet though there be many Magistrates that governe in those Cantons this is no Aristocracy for at the Magistrates in Switzerland are accomptable to the people and all their power is limited by them The Supremacy of power is in the people there and thence it comes to be a Democracy Eminency of Power In the word of a King there is Power saith the Preacher Eccles. 8. 4. It was wont to be so and by the word of God you see it ought to be so But I will not enlarge upon this It may be some Ears will not indure sound Doctrine But the King we see must be acknowledged to be Supreame and no Superior to the King Farre be it from me being in Gods place to flatter any man I thanke God I fear no flesh but do deliver the truth Having now spoken of the two branches of Majesty Dignity and Power We shall speake of a Birth-right that descends to Kings It should have been Reulien's right here if God had not taken it from him for a fault This day is the Birth-day of our Soveraigne Lord Birth-dayes of Kings have been usually celebrated with great solemnity in former times Herod's Birth-day was celebrated many years after his death and the Herodians for the many mighty workes that Herod did bleeeved him to be the Messiah It pleaseth God that this day begins the 49. year of His life and let me call it the year of Jubile to His Majestie The Jewes had a custome that in the 49. year of any mans life he should be at liberty what ever his sufferings were before It must be the desire and prayer of every loyall heart that the King may have a Jubile indeed This is that which Loyalty bids us doe I will not stand too much upon this particular But this I will say O that we knew our happinesse To have a King that is the son of Nobles A King that is not a Child A King that is at full age to Governe by Wisdome and Prudence And truely as God gives us this blessing so he expects we should acknowledge it thankefully Eccles. 10 16. Woe be to thee O Land saith the Preacher when thy King is a Child And Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the son of Nobles that hath his breeding answerable To have him when his experience both riverted in him sound judgement and ability to governe The Lord threatned Jerusalem in Esay 3. 4. I will give Children to be their Princes and Babes shall rule over them Those that would have their owne wils could I warrant you be content that the youngest should Raigne To have a base man exalted is one of the things that

the Earth cannot bear But some body must have the Government it doth not belong to all You see here is by Birth one that hath a right unto it When Jehosaphat distributed his Estate 2 Chron 21. he gave gifts to his other sons but the Kingdome unto Jehoram because he was his First-borne A Kingdome is not a thing dividable So the King of Edom 2 King 3. 27. though he tooke and offered his Eldest Sonne that should have reigned in his stead as an offering yet in the propheste of Amos he is called the King of Edom because he had it in view Now to come to Christians We are Kings in our sort we are Primogeniti we are the Israel of God When God sent Moses to deliver his People he bids him deliver this Message to Pharaoh Exod. 4. 22. Thou shalt say to Pharaoh Thus saith the Lord Israel is my Sonne even my First-borne Here is our priviledge though God hath many Sonnes yet being found in Christ we are all First-borne And so the Children of God are called Heb. 12. The Congregation of the First-borne Every one that is a Member of Christ hath the Priviledge of a First-borne They are all Heires In the same relation that Christ is by nature we are by Grace and Adoption And being so we have the Excellency of Dignity and the Excellency of Power We do not speak of the Power of this World Christ said My Kingdome is not of this World They that preach The Saints shall reign upon the Earth did not learne it from God For our Kingdome is not of this world There is not that Excellency to be found in any of the Sonnes of men as is to be found in one poore Child of God Will you see David a King when he comes with a pious Eye Psal. 15. 4. see who are there the most worshipfull persons In whose eyes a vile person is contemned but honours them that feare the Lord When he sees Gods Image in any soule he honours him and if he be a wicked man a Child of the Devill he is a vile person in his eyes A Sinner though otherwise never so Noble is a very vile person Psal 16. My goodnesse saith David doth not extend to thee but unto the Saints upon the Earth The Apostle Saint John 1 Joh. 3. Behold saith he what manner of love the Father bestowed upon us that we should be called the sonnes of God and therefore the world doth not know us c. But if they be so Excellent How come they to be so despised in the World the Reason is because the World doth not know them to be such The world doth not know Christs Children more then they know Christ himself I have often thought that when His Majesty was in France where He was not knowne a Neglect put upon Him there would not have been in any proportion so bad as the like must needs be amongst His owne Subjects And so it is with us We are Spirituall Kings a Royall Priesthood If the world did know us to be such they would deale with us otherwise then they doe but our Life is hid with Christ in God and one day it shall appeare and then shall the Righteous shine in the Kingdome of their Father Beloved hereupon it is that the Children of God have their Guard of Angels The King hath a choice Guard to attend him but if ye did see what attendance the Children of God have you would admire The Angels of God do pitch their Tents about them In the Cantioles the State of Solomons Bed is described with Threescore valiant men about it for a Guard What is this but a Type of the Angels of God guarding his owne people the Militia of Heaven But I perceive the time is past therefore will end here The End