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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55721	Hadadrimmon, sive, Threnodia anglicana ob regicidium a sermon on Davids humiliation for cutting off the royal robe, and detestation of cutting off the royal head of the Lords anointed : preached Jan. 30, 1660, being a solemn fast for the horrid murther of King Charles I of glorious memory, at Westbury, in the county of Wilts. / by John Paradise ...	Paradise, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing P327; ESTC R13634	47,214	58

Princes to the Church in protecting the Ministry from the fury of grossely prophane and giddy Fanatick people to whom it is an eye-sore in supplying the Church with maintenance in order to the carrying on the Worship of God in providing Universities and Colledges to be Seminaries of Learning in backing the Laws of God with their secular Authority doth lay strong Obligations on Ministers to make their Churches Schools as of Piety toward God so of Loyalty toward their King What horrid ingratitude would Ministers be guilty of by proving fire-brands of Sedition Trumpeters of Rebellion and by making their Sermons an Alarm unto war It would be to rip up the bowels of their Nursing Fathers and to cut off the Breasts of their Nursing Mothers Furthermore as Simeon and Levi made the Name of their Father Jacob to stink Gen. 34.30 Num. 13.32 by their perfidious Murder of the Shechemites as the Spies brought an evil report on the Land of Canaan and as Judas delivered his Master unto the Scoffes of his enemies so disloyalty in Ecclesiastical persons scandalizeth Religion The sins of Elies Sons caused the Sacrifices of the Lord to be abhorred 1 Sam. 2.17 The Prophet Davids Adultery with Bathsheba and Murder of Uriah Rom. 2.17 to 25. gave great occasion to the enemies of God to blaspheme For Ministers to prostitute their Sacred Function unto Ambition and Rebellion is a great provocation unto Magistrates to root them out of their Kingdoms yea to put them to death as Saul did Ahimelech and the Priests of the Lord of whom he slew fourscore and five persons upon Doegs false and malicious information that they conspired with David 1 Sa. 22.18 Let Sermons be Exclamations against sins not against Kings against the Prince of the power of the Air not against the Princes of the earth The Lord teach the Clergy of England not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they may neither procure the accusation of disloyalty to themselves nor derive any scandal unto Religion Let no man be lifted up with pride by reason of the dignity of his Office Judas cast Devils out of others Luke 22.3 but could not keep the Devil out of himself Then Satan entred into Judas and so as Luther saith there was one Devil in another As water cleanseth other things and then is crst into the sink as many who laboured in building Noahs Ark were drowned in the Floud so a Minister may teach others and yet be himself a cast-away without true Piety which is inconsistent with disloyalty The Scripture hath linked them both together My Son fear thou God and the King It was the honour of Zadok and Abiathar Prov. 24. that they turned not aside unto Absalom but faithfully cleaved unto David their rightful Soveraign 2. David was anointed to the Office of a King The Lord said unto Samuel how long wilt thou mourn for Saul 1 Sam. 16.1 seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel Fill thine Horn with Oyl and go I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite for I have provided me a King among his Sons 1. David by vertue of this Unction had a plausible Argument to have justified the Murder of Saul being rejected by God and himself elected in his room and to have represented such an act as the execution of Justice as Jehu did the destruction of Ahabt posterity But David abhorred this obvious plece of Policy 2 Kin. 10.10 because it would have been a breach of Piety Forasmuch as Comminations are no Commissions Gen. 4.15 Whosoever shall slay accursed Cain vengeince shall be taken on him seven fold So the bloud of rejected Saul would have brought down vengeance on the head of David if he had shed it The crucifying of Christ was an Act of Glorious Mercy in God but of barbarous Cruelty in the Jews Joseph tels his Brethren that it was not they but God that sent him into Egypt and yet they were guilty of the most unbrotherly act next to actual Fratricide that ever was committed Gen. 45.8 One and the same action may be righteous as it proceedeth from the first cause and unrighteous in respect of the Second Gods bidding Shimei to curse David 2 Sam. 12.11 12. and permission of Absalom to ravish his Fathers Concubines were acts of Justice in God but acts of Treason and Incest in Shimel and Absalom Wherefore let such be accounted Instruments of the Devil Ch. 16.10 who dare offer violence to Kings under pretence of being Instruments to execute divine Justice 2. David by vertue of his Unction might have produced a specious Title unto the Kingdom of Israel if he had been of an ambitious spirit but he knew that he was anointed only to the reversion of the Kingdom and that as a last Will and Testament is of no force until the death of the Testator So his Unction was of no force until the death of Saul A Loyal Subject will wave obvious Pleas for his Right unto a Kingdom 3. David being anointed to the reversion of the Kingdom by the death of Saul might have took Livery and Seisin of it But as Moses cast the Kingdom of Egypt with all the Honours and Treasures thereof at his heels chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season Heb. 11. So David preserred the prolongation of his undeserved persecution before the unjust acceleration of the day of his Inauguration unto the Office of a King he esteemed a Turfe in the wilderness with a clear Conscience a better seat than a Throne in a Palace with a Conscience laden with Royal Blood-guiltiness he accounted it a greater honour to be a Loyal Subject than an unlawful King Crowns Scepters and Kingdoms are cogent Temptations Caesar said If Justice may be broken in any case it is regnandi causa Mat. 21.38 The Husbandmen cry out This is the Heir come let us kill him and the Inheritance will be ours But David abhorred to swim unto a Throne through the Blood of his Master having taken the resolution of Ferdinand the first Emperor of Germany Fiat Justitia pereat mundus Let Right be done and come what will of it The gain of a Kingdom will not countervail the loss of a good Conscience What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Or what will be given in exchange for the Soul There is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the words What will it profit i. e. What an hard bargain will it be What infinite Damage and Detriment shall a man sustain thereby For put the whole world into one ballance and the Soul into another and this little spark of Divinity will out-weigh the whole Globe of the Earth the vast Fabrick of the Creation It is far better to be upbraided as Balaam was by Balak The Lord hath kept thee

back from Honour Num. 24.11 than to be told at the day of Judgment That Honour hath kept us back from the Lord from Heaven and everlasting Happiness A Crown is not worth the taking up on sordid much less on sinful terms It is enough for a bloudy Phocas to slay his Master Mauritius that he might obtain the Succession in the Empire For Pagan Emperors and Antichristian Popes to poyson one another as Hildebrand poysoned 7 Popes to get into the Papal Chair for their own advancement Godly David valued his Conscience and the glory of God at a greater price than to wound them for any temporal Emolument Even as Jonathan did before him who being Heir apparent to the Kingdom of Israel and knowing that David was appointed to set him besides the Throne as appeareth by his Fathers Information 1 Sa. 20.30 31. Thou hast chosen the Son of Jesse to thy own Confusion for as long as he liveth thou shalt not be established nor thy Kingdom And by his own Confession 1 Sam. 23.17 Yet would not conspire with Saul against Davids Life but contracteth close friendship with him loveth him as his own Soul giveth him intelligence of his Fathers designes pleadeth his cause vindicateth his Innocency proclaimeth his Merits and saveth his life 1 Sa. 20.33 by the hazard of his own and by the loss of his Kingdom O bravely acted Noble Jonathan How doth thy Heroical Self-denial condemn all those who lay wait for bloud and lurk privily for the Innocent without a cause and swallow them up alive as the grave and whole as those that go down into the pir that they may find all precious substance and fill their Houses with Treasure Especially Pr. 1.11 12 13. those bloudy and ambitious men who cut off the head of their Soveraign for the sake of his Royal Crown upon it even as a man breaketh a Branch from a Tree for the sake of the Fruit which groweth thereon Oh the cursed Idolatry of Jeroboam who to establish his own Throne set up another for the Devil by erecting Calves at Dan and Bethel Oh the barbarous cruelty of Herod and of Pharaoh Mat. 2. Exod. 1. who for their own Security massacred so many innocent Infants that knew not their right hand from their left Oh England How barren hast thou been of Self-denying Jonathans and Davids these late years And how hast thou exceeded Affrica in the ingendring of Monsters Monsters like unto Ahab and Jezebel who for an Acre or two of ground shed the Blood of Naboth 1 Kings 21. And like unto Judas who for Thirty Pieces of Silver sold our Saviours Body and his own Soul Yea such Monsters whose Actions would almost make us believe that they had compacted with the Devil for the Kingdoms of the world upon those terms which he proposed to Jesus Christ And whose Rage Mat. 4. Ambition and Cruelty did speak aloud that to gain a Kingdom they regarded not though the Streets did run with Bloud in stead of the Conduits with Wine at the Coronation 4. The Fourth General Head observed in the Analysis of Davids Oration containeth the Reasons of his detestation of cutting off the Royal Head of King Saul which are drawn from Sauls Relation 1. To himself My Master This word denotes that chief power which men have over their Servants Observe Observ That Kings are invested with Supreme Power and Soveraign Authority over their Subjects They are called gods to shew their preheminence over their Subjects who ought to account of them as pleni-potentiary Ambassadots of the Supream Jehovah 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether unto the King as Suprems Where the word of a King is Eccles 8.4 there is power and who may say unto him what dost thou This power of Kings is both Legislative and Executive 1. Legislative or Nomothetical The Laws of Kings oblige the Consciences of Subjects Rom. 13.5 Ye must be subject not only for wrath but for Conscience-sake And be ye subject to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake 1 Pet. 2.13 2. Executive As Swords are worn both for Ornament and defence So the execution of Laws is both the priviledge and the duty of Princes Good Laws not duly executed are to no more purpose than a rusty Sword that cannot be drawn out of the Scabbard Now this Legislative and executive Authority of Kings extendeth not only to Civil Matters as the decision of Controversies arising between man and man and criminal as the punishment of Malefactors even with Capital punishment but also to Ecclesiastical Affairs Thus the Regal Authority of David Asa Jehosaphat Hezekiah and Josiah was exerted in the extirpation of Idolatry establishment of the true Worship of God compulsion of the Priests and People to discharge their mutual duties and in the Convocation of Synods with other Acts of Jurisdiction A King without Supreme Power is but magni nominis umbra and his Office but a Titular dignity but the Feathers of Authority The Usurpation of a Tyrant who assumeth unto himself power without a Title is fatal to a Kingdom And the Government of a King who hath a Title without power to defend it is fatal to himself As Might without Right is Tyranny so Right without Might is Pageantry but the Picture of a King A King manacled and fettered if I may so speak cannot protect himself much less his Subjects His Person will be exposed to violence his Government to contempt and the Execution of Laws the Nerves and Ligaments of a Realm obstructed His Throne would be invaded by every insolent Rebel and himself deposed by every Popular Traytor For as a Scabbard without a Sword and a Gun charged with Powder without a Bullet which may give a great Report but will do no Execution Such is Royal dignity without Soveraign Authority Shall a Paterfamilias claim a despotical power over his Family and shall the great Pater patriae have his Regal Power clipt and abridged God forbid With whom can Power be more safely intrusted than with a just and prudent Prince Surely not with the Common People where it will prove as dangerous as a knife in a Childs and a Sword in a mad mans hand which will be used only to do mischief Our late Distractions have sufficiently taught us that Democratical Government is a Solecisme in Polity and that Democracy and Anarchy are equipollent terms Wherefore we conclude that a King ought to be acknowledged Supreme in all his Dominions according to the Apostle our oaths of Allegiance c. And all that have taken the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance must subscribe to this Doctrine or else contract the guilt of Perjury The Texts of Scripture alledged against this Truth are grossely perverted we may say with Solomon that as the wringing of the Nose bringeth forth blood so the wresting of Scripture bringeth forth bloudy Tenents The Lord saith