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A85584	Great Britans [sic] vote: or, God save King Charles. A treatise seasonably published this 27th. day of March, the happy inauguration of his sacred (though now despised and imprisoned) Maiesty. Wherein is proved by many plaine texts of Scripture, that the resisting, imprisoning, or deposing our King, under what specious pretences soever couched, is not onely unlawfull but damnable.		1648 (1648)	Wing G1670; Thomason E431_26; ESTC R202345	36,900	55

wherein his glory hath not habitation and they say we must praise a King as we honour God and herein such plenty of praise is offered that Inopem me copia fecit Xenophon might see that in our vertuous King Charles which he wished in his King Cyrus O fortunates Anglos bona si sua norint Oh happy had we been had we been but sensible of and thankfull for our happinesse and nothing can restore happinesse to us but his being restored to his former Honour and Glory that hee and his for the future may shine in their pristine lustre And lot all faithfull Subjects pray long may CHARLES the glorious Candle of this our Israel last who as upon this day was proclaimed with infinite joy received with peaceable entry enthroned with glorious investure But converted or confounded be all those his Subjects that refuse to pray for him obey him and honour him as well in deeds as words hearts as tongues saying and praying God save the King CHAP. VII THe fourth duty of Subjects to be duly rendred and tendered to their anointed Soveraignes is Loyall and faithfull service thinking themselves as Tiberius said of his people Homines ad sorvitutem nati Men borne to doe them service All true Subjects are bound by the Lawes of God and men to be faithfull servants to their Soveraignes and if they neglect or reject this duty I may say to them as a 1 Sam. 26.15 16. Da●id did to Abner Ye be worthy to die because ye have not kept your Master the Lords Anointed because you have not been faithfull Servants to your Anointed Soveraignes If any b Est 2.21.22 Bigchan or Teresh seek to lay hands on our gracious Sov●raigne with faithfull Mordecai and Ester speedily prevent it by revealing it if any King of c 2 Kin. 6.12 Aram takes counsell with his Servants against the King of Israel with faithfull Elisha reveale it to your Caesar even the words he speakes in his Privy Chamber nay not only reveale it but revenge it Jn reos Majestates publicos Hostes omnis homo miles est saith d Ter. Apo. c. 2. Tertullian against traytors and publike enemies every man is a Souldier yea in this kind and sence we may and must with e 1 Kin. 22.11 Zedekiah make hornes of iron to push these treacherous Aramites untill wee have consumed them give couragious resistance to treacherous violence untill they have received deserved doome by Iustice And for the performance of this Loyall service to their appointed Soveraignes no conditions of men under the Sun can plead immunity neither Popes Priests nor people yea a Parliament much lesse a part of a part of a Parliament cannot pretend to this Priviledge how ever that Claw-backe Sycophant the Author of the Vindicia contra●●ty cannot by those his specious pretences but most false and Rebellion-countenancing principles would seem to insinuate such a priviledge their propriety like a right Machievell preparing the people by those gilded Pills to swallow those poysonous principles of treason and rebellion according to w his Masters have and if God prevent them not intend to act No no say hee and others what they will none upon what pretences soever can plead an exemption from performance of this duty Lords or Commons Popes or Cardinalls Preists or People their freedome from faithfull service to the King hath no warrant except from the Prince of the Aire to whom they may be justly said to dedicate their Scepter and service who deny their service to the King and therefore to him I leave such to receive their deserved wages But the servants of the King of Kings know they owe their service and allegiance to his Vicegerents Kings on earth and that this loyall service of the members unto the royall and Princely Head ought to be dutifull faithfull and perpetuall that is the happy service which comes from an hearty obedience for many things may seem so in apparence which are not so in essence 't is the practise and very prayers of the wicked to cry thus Hor. 1. Epist. 16. Da mihi fallere da justum sanctumque videri Noctem peccatis fraudibus objice nubem If they seem trusty in shew though treasonable in heart they care not like bad servants not in singlenesse of heart but with service to the eye as men-pleasers obey they their regall Masters This Age is full of such treacherous hearts as deceitefull f 2 Sam. 3.27 as Ioab to Amasa who tooke him aside to speak with him peaceably and smote him under the fift rib that he dyed or like g Macchab 16. Dalilah to Sampson with faire words and weeping to betray him to the Philistines No treason but in trust The faigned voice of Fowlers catch the Partridges and Plovers The Mother of Error puts on her maske to be taken for the daughter of Time truth The Wolfe in sheeps cloathing scarce known from the sheepheards dogge h Iudges 16.18 Ptolomie the sonne of Abusus under a faire vizzard of love and kindnesse feasting Simeon and his two sonnes kills them in his banquetting house a M●● h. 2 8. Herod when he would play the Wolfe he counterfeited a a Foxe a Ma● h. 2 8. Goe and search diligently for the Babe and when yee have found him bring mee word that I may worship him his meaning was to worry him So b Ma● 26 4● Iudas comes with his Ave Rabbi Haile Master betraying him with a kisse So many a perfidious Traitor will cry Ave Caesar God save the King but it is with such an affection as Autoninus Caracalla said of his brother Geta Sit divus modo non vivus Let him be a Saint or a King in heaven so he bee not a King on earth Many such Iudases and Caracallaes there are in these dayes two Houses cannot scarce containe them yet there they sit and having first put out Sampsons eyes blinded the peoples understanding with glorious termes as We your Majesties faithfull Servants and Loyall Subjects and will make you the most glorious King in Christendome make the misery of both King and people their sport and past time Hee that foure yeare agoe should have said they had intended to set forth such a Declaration as their last is had runne the hazard of a Prison if he had scap'd the Halter as a false accuser and foule abuser of the Simeon and Levi of these dayes those two holy Brethren the Loyall Lords and Commons dissembling at Westminster Doe you not remember what was urged unto his Majesty at the beginning of this Parliament as an Argument to induce him to passe the Bill against the Bishops that their sawcy as they tearm'd it inference No Bishops no King and pray most Loyall Subjects as you are what is it come to now Oh my deare Countrey-men will you still be guld by such grosse and palpable Dissemblers Parasites and Equivocaters Beware I beseech you in time of those

Christ● 205. some write yet teacheth that all subjects should both Bene velle bene dicere bene facere wish well speak well and do well for the Emperor the which threefold Bene comprehends all loyall dutyes The first Ad Co● 2. Ad Linguam 3 Ad opus as the * Iansen c. 40. Concord Jesuite rightly 〈◊〉 in thought word and deed to be obedient So Iustin * Apolo 2 ad Anton Imperat. Martyr in the name of all Christians speaks to the Emperor Antoninus an infidel and a persecutor d Bellar. in Chronol in these words Wee worship onely God and in other matters are joyfull to serve you So Saint e Ambros Epist lib. 5. Epist 33. Ambrose would not wish the people of Millan to disobey the Emperour Valentinian yet a favourer and a follower of the Arrian Heresy If the Emperor saith he abuse his imperiall authority to tyrannize thereby here I am ready to suffer death we as humble suppliants flye to supplication if my patrimony be your mark enter upon it if my body I will meet my torments shall I bee dragged to prison or death I will take delight in both Oh Theologicall voice Oh Episcopall obedience These were the voices of the holy Fathers in the ancient times I but will the Adversaryes to the regall supremacy reply the times must be considered the people wanted power to resist No no that was not the matter when Iulian did dominere who was an Apostate and an Idolater as f August in Ps 124. Austine yet his souldiers who were for the most part Christians did obey him without resistance in all military matters and publique services yet they then had power to have resisted him for most of Julian Army did consi t of Christians as their voices to Io●inian his Successor declare g R●ff lib hist c. 1. Ruffinus records that with a generall voice they all confessed themselv●s Christians So C●ustantius and Valens wicked Emperours and favourers of the Arrian Heresie yet wee do not read of any of the Orthodox Christians that disobeyed them by rebellion or resistance Then Bellarmines h Bellar. lib. 5 de Rom. Pon. c. 7. doct●ine was not in date It is not lawfull for Christians to tollerate an hereticall King Nor were those reasons for the Commons deposing their King at their pleasure so much as thought on then though of late published by the scribling creatures of this Parliament and borrowed from that their fellow rebellion fomenting Cardinal the people may at their pleasure depose their K. b●cau e Reges coronas sceptra ab hominibus recipiunt ad corum placita tenent Kings doe receive their Crownes and Scepters from men Ego unxite in regem super Israel and hold them at their pleasures Strange stuffe for Kings receive their Crownes from God as Psal ●0 3 And are enthroned by God By me Kings raigne Pro 8.15 They receive their throne from God as Queen i 2 Sam. 12.7 Sheba tells Salomon Diadema regis in manu Dei ● 2 Chro 9.8 Esay 62 3. Sedebat Salomon in throno Dei 1 Chron 29 23. Reges in s●lio c●llocat in perpetuum Iob 36 7. the anointing is Gods With my holy oyle have I anointed him Psal 89.20 The Crowne the Scepter the Throne their annointing all from God stiled by God Vncti Dei Gods annointed Where is the Popes or peoples claime what interest have any except God in Kings Crownes who can remove whom God appoints who can deprive whom God approves yet these absurd errors the corrupt leaven of Romes Pharisees and Westminsters Parasites are moulded out by the mouthes of Cardinals and Iesuites and tasted by the Sectaries and Levellers of this Island by their pens republished both being indeed agreed in this to become Trumpeters to the world and sound forth false alarms of disobedience to encourage peoples rebellion But leaving them let us listen to Solomon who was wis●r then them both whose rule is k Pro. 24.21.22 My sonne fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are seditious f●r their destruction shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the rui●e ●f them both Le● us learne this lesson from our l M●tth 22.21 Sav our to give unto Caesar that which is Caesars to give loyall obedience for it is Caesars royall due So our Saviour n Mat. 23 2 3. againe commands the multitude that they should obey the Scri●es and Pharisees who did sit in Moses c aire to observe and doe what they did command In all things not repugnant to Gods Lawes wee must and ought to obey Kings yet if they command contrary to Gods commands then we must follow the o Acts 4 1● Apostles rule and practise rather to obey God then man and to remember St. p Aug. 11. quae c. 3. Austin● counse●l It God command one thing and the Emperor another thing what judgest thou to be done Gods power is greater give leave O Emperor thou doest threaten prison but God hell God that made these Gods ought to be obeyed before them and duty bindes that God who is the King of Kings the maker and master of all Kings omnes Reges ejus pedibus subjecti all Kings subject and subjects of that great King should be obeyed by them all an● before them all Yet for all this wee must not rebell against a King Regis voluntas fiat aut a nobis aut de nobis if hee command contrary to Gods Lawes but imitate the three children Theoph. in Luc. cap 20. obey in body and resist in spirit Theophylact saith wee must prostrate our selve● to the King who hath power over our bodyes be he a King or a Tyrant for this nothing hinders us spiritually to please the God of our soules nay we cannot be truly said to obey and please God if we resist and contemn the supream Ruler the King the contempt that is off●red to them being offered to God himselfe as the Lord said to Samuel They have not cast thee away but they have rejected mee that I should not raigne over them 1 Sam. 8.7 and the Apostle saith whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinances of GOD and shall receive to himselfe damnation How long then how long oh my deare but stupified Countrey-men will you permit your selves to be deluded by a crew of ambitious covetous and yet blinde guides How long will you suffer your selves to bee gui'd out of your propriety and true liberty and lead tamely into so dangerous a sinne as King resisting How long will you flatter your selves with the hope of Liberty under the Anarchy of a pack of such matchlesse Tyrants who intend nothing more than your Vassallage and des rved slavery Will yee not yet see your owne misery Will you be fool'd out of your Religion the pure Gospell of Iesus Christ by a company of wilde headed Sectaries and factio●s Beggars under that