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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62305	Catholick loyalty upon the subject of government and obedience : delivered in a sermon before the King and Queen in His Majesties Chappel-Royal at White-Hall on the thirtieth of January, 1687 / by the Reverend Father Edward Scarisbrike ...	Scarisbrike, Edward, 1639-1709.	1688 (1688)	Wing S824; ESTC R15096	12,794	30

confess to wage War with Man then with God. But what is the difference betwixt saying to the Almighty We will have none of your Governours and we will have none of your Government Non te abjecerunt Sed me says God to Samuel They have not cast you off but in you Me they have Rejected For it is not only Per me By me But Pro me For me that Kings Govern That is to say It is in Gods stead as well as by his Divine Commission that they Reign they are covered over with the Rayes of his Glory and are the Instruments of his Wisdom as well as the Creatures of his Power Per me By me that Kings Reign is a word of Comfort to the Obedient seeing they have the Creator of Heaven and Earth for their Protector and it is a word of Terror on the other hand to the Stubborn or Rebellious when they consider that they Fight against God and have the Lord of Hosts for their Avenger And there is no place neither for doubting whether it be Per me or not for Truth it self hath made Proclamatation of it in the very Syllables of my Text. There seems to be a certain kind of Rhetoritical Dignity in the very Marshaling of the words a particular Emphasis in this same Per me that puts a little stop to a mans thought as if it were to bespeak a Reverence for that which follows the very stile imports a Declaration with a Be it known to Men and Angels to Heaven and Earth that by me Kings Reign So that as the Obedient are sure of Gods Favour and Indulgence so the Almighty takes to Himself all the Indignities that are offered to Majesty They that make no Conscience of laying Violent hands upon the Thrones or the Persons of Kings would not spare the Sovereign Lord of Heaven and Earth if they could reach him Whosoever strikes at the Divine Order of the World strikes at the Power and Wisdom that Created it Take away that Order and what 's the remaining Mass without it more than the Chymists Caput Mortuum that serves for nouse or purpose I cannot but take notice here over and above of the Indubitable Truth and Authority of the Assertion that By me Kings Reign carries a much greater weight and force with it then Kings Reign by Me the latter imports only a bare Answer to a plain Question As if a body should say By whom do Kings Reign By me says my Text. The other with a wonderful Energy determines the Question by Anticipation He goes too far that doubts The whole Scheme of Power is accurately Delineated and in the uttermost extent of it as fully comprehended in these four words The very Stamp consecrates the Matter and challenges a Resignation even before and without knowing what our Obedience is to be exercised upon For all the measures we have of Good or Evil are the proportion our Thoughts Words and Actions hold to the Holy Will and Pleasure of Our Heavenly Father It is Per me that teacheth the People their Duty sets them Right and keeps them right It prevents Mistakes clears all Cavils and answers all Pious Ends And in all cases of Difficulty Claim or Dispute whether should we fly but to the Original of Power with our last Appeals It is Per me in fine and only Per me that decides all Controversy We are now come in course to the two remaining parts of my Text Reges and Regnant Kings and Reign These words give the People to understand that their Governors are Gods Ministers and so there is no medling with them and as the Prerogatives of Government are Gods Powers so there is no controulling them It would be hard after all this yet if the Opposers of Royalty and Royal Preheminences should not find somthing at last to say for themselves in Excuse at least if not in Defence of their departure from the Doctrine of the Revealed Will of God as we read it both in his Holy Word and in the common Principles of Reason and Nature It is their way to hold their Disciples in hand that the Per me here in the Text doth not so much import an Authoritative Institution as a Permission of Government as if Order were the work of Passion Interest or Chance and an effect rather of Humane Necessity then of Divine Appointment The very fancy of such a Permission is little less then Blasphemy for it lays the Foundation of all Policy in Blood and Confusion so that out of War and from plain Cutting of Throats comes forth the Whimsey of their distinction of a Divine Permission There are others again that will allow Kings to Govern as Gods Ministers but for the behoof of the People infer a forfeiture of their Right to Govern from a violation of their Commission These People are not aware that the Character does not depend upon the Administration for whatever the Man be the King is Gods Ruler still and the People are still the Kings Subjects The Administration I say does not dissolve the Relation To summ up all in a few words Kings are Gods Deputies and the Powers of their Commission are of no less Authority than the Character of their Creation It is God that is the Author of both and the Duty of our Allegiance is of the same extraction with the function of the Government What is Reigning without Subjection What 's the Dignity of Power without the Obligation of Submission or Obedience Or what is Government it self but such a Chain of Connection as if but one Link of it be taken out the whole Frame would be in danger to fall to pieces To pass now from the Doctrine to the Application How vain how foolish and how impious is it for men to contend with an invincible and irresistible Power and to oppose false Glosses and Reasonings to the undeniable voice of Truth In a word the Foundations of Power are laid in the Decrees of God and there is no undermining of them By me Kings Reign denounces a thousand woes to the Vndutiful and Seditious Who shall dare to say they shall not Reign when God says they shall And especially upon the Terms of a Qui resistunt sibi ipsi condemnationem ferent This minds me of the Celebrity of this day a day for Sackcloath and Ashes A day of Blackness and Horror A day not to be mentioned not to be thought of but with weeping Eyes and bleeding Hearts A day of Sin and a day of Judgment meeting in the same Act as in a kind of deplorable Contention which of the two should exceed the other No Age no Story can match either the Transcendent Degree or the Daring Pomp and Ostentation of this wickedness In short behold a Great a Glorious and a Gracious Prince exposed upon a Stage as a Criminal of State Arraigned Tried and Sentenced as a Traytor to his own Subjects and his Head severed from his Body by the Common Ax under a form of Justice