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A86216 A changling no company for lovers of loyaltie, or The subjects lesson in poynt of sacred submission to, and humble complyance with God and the King; wherein confusion is reduced to order, misery to mercy; reproach and shame to freedom and honour. W. H. 1660 (1660) Wing H150; Thomason E1021_4; ESTC R208372 35,158 56

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former the Apostle calls it Godly Feare God is the Author of it I will put my feare in their hearts The end of it Esa 32.40 and the object of it first and immediatly and man onely so far as God hath communicated something of himself as his Majestie wisdome authoritie power to him Feare the Lord and the King Observe first the Method The Lord Then the King The feare of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdome the beginning of wisdome is the feare of the Lord. A man may be witty but not wise without it he may be as subtle as the serpent but cannot be as innocent as the dove Jacob covenanting with Laban calls to witnesse the Feare of his Father Isaac Gen. 31.53 i. e. That God that Isaac his Father feared David doth not onely explaine this duty what it is but press it upon us why it is to be done with prevalent arguments Come let us worship and fall downe and kneel before the Lord our maker for he is the Lord our God he hath made us c. This is a duty confess'd by all though practised by few The fool indeed saith in his heart there is no God in his heart i. e. in his secret thoughts as rather desiring that it was so then concluding that it is so in his heart not with his lips in articulate words He is afraid either that the Echo of his own expression should give him the lye or that for Atheisme and blasphemy openly profes●'d he should strike him with death who first breath'd into him the breath of life But to leave such speculative and practicall Atheists either in mercy to be converted or in terror to be confounded What strange spectacle is this that I see Professors pious and precious souls such as seeme not without the power of godlinesse and yet want the forme no outward posture of the body that may expresse the reverence of the soule No sacred esteem of times places or things separated to holy use who to avoyd superstitious vowing exclude all formalities of worship deny God those external Civilities of his worship that they will scarcely deny their equalls and dare not deny their superiors The servant as though he was free from his Master sits in the Congregation with his hat on and that not in winter onely but in summer not upon any account of infirmitie but I feare presumption for heate and sweat will make him lay it by What will Turkes Jewes and Pagans think of us who in the externalls of their worship do far outstrip us and perhaps in their zeale also though it be not according to knowledge What will the holy men of God The noble army of Martyrs The glorious Societie of Saints and Angels who not onely kneel but fall flat on their faces not onely uncover their heads Rev. 4.10 but cast their Crowns downe to the earth before him What will they say to David or rather what will David say to them who while they boast of his Spirit deny his practise in every letter and whereas they would be thought to be men after Gods own heart they seeme to proclaime it that they thinke him like themselves See what David did and do the like I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercies and in thy feare will I worship towards thy holy Temple Psal 5.7 This feare of God then is an awfull apprehension of the sacred Majestie of Almightie God proceeding from a loving and a loyall heart binding over the soule to all services of love with a voluntary resignation of our selves our profits pleasures preferments and what is ours to his will and pleasure This is not only The whole duty of man to feare God and keepe his Commandments but his chiefest dignitie which not onely preserves the soule here in grace but also Crowns it with glory hereafter My son feare thou the Lord. The other object of our feare is The King It is our Saviours order and Command To give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods The Apostle appoynts that tribute be payd to whom it belongs and Honour to whom honour is due Come forth ye sons and daughters of Jerusalem see the Regalia that Throne of Majestie which God himselfe hath set up for him and that Crowne of honour wherewith God himselfe hath Crown'd him in the day of his espousalls He hath joyn'd him with himselfe in the same expression Cloathed him with the Robes of his own honour mounted him in royall equipage with himselfe and causing it be proclaim'd by Solomon no meaner a person then the greatest of Princes is his Herauld Thus shall it be done to that man that the Lord will honour Feare the Lord and the King The Act is the same Feare Feare The Lord. The King Of the first I have treated already now of the second and next immediate object of our Feare The King i. e. A single person cloth'd with authoritie chosen of God and of the people sitted for called to and setled in power and dignitie is to be fear'd i. e. with a loyall and loving heart reverenced and obey'd next and immediately unto the Lord in the Lord and for the Lord. Neither was this any Nationall or legall command onely impos'd upon the Israelites but see also the very same made by the Apostle Peter 2 Pet. 2.17 Feare God Honour the King Evangelicall Morall universall and perpetuall Where let me first congratulate the word honour by way of explanation which takes off the edge of admiration from subjects and of ambition from Princes It includes not onely reverence obedience and care of or for but also Recompence Reward Maintenance Kings themselves are servants design'd to defend preserve keep safe as a Shepherd his flock the people committed to their charge Our bare heads our bended knees all our salutations and signes of reverence our honour and feare are indeed a tribute due unto God but payd to the King as his Stuard commissioned by him to require and receive them of us Wonder not then that God should thus guild an earthen pot and lay up the treasure even of divine honour in an earthen vessell It is the Lord He may do what he will and the Honour is his he may doe with his owne what he pleaseth Two things lye plaine before us First That kingly government is of divine institution and approbation commanded and commended by God himself All other governments and governors are appoynted by the King and in subordination to him The text is plain 1 Pet. 2.13 14. Submit your selves to every ordinance or law of man for the Lords sake whether to the King as supream or to Governors sent i. e. authorized commissioned appoynted by him Thus Daniel was by the King made a great man and a Governor and he that raigned over one hundred twenty and seven Provinces Est 1.1 appoynted Governors over every Province v. 14. But to cleare this