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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66470	Religion exprest by loyalty in a sermon preach'd before the right worshipful Samuel Swift Esq., Mayor of the ancient, honourable and loyal city of Worcester, the first Sunday after his inauguration or instalment, being the 19th day of October, in the year of our redemption 1684, at the parish church of St. Swithin, upon a text selected by William Swift, Esq. (his truly loyal father) being the 21st. & 22d. verses of the 24th chapter of Solomons Proverbs, in these following expressions / by Will. Williams ...	Williams, William, Inferior Brother to the venerable and orthodox clergy.; Swift, William.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2790; ESTC R12293	14,287	42

My Son fear thou the Lord and the King Whatever Laws or Edicts are established by a King either Concordant or not contradictory to the word of God It is the duty of every sober Subject to have as much regard to their tendency as if they were immediately deliver'd by the Mouth of God himself for every Prince is conditionally Gods Pleni-potentiary unto whom he gives tolleration to enact such useful Laws as may be requisite towards the support and preservation of his Government from which Laws all subordinate Magistrates derive Power to punish such offenders as wilfully violate or contemn the same according to the merit of the offence committed An incomparable instance whereof we have in a gracious Commission which Princely Artaxerxes the Persian King granted to Priestly Ezra a famous Scribe in the Law of Moses as appears in the 7th Chap. of the Book of Ezra at the 25 and 26 Verses where Artaxerxes delivered his Commission unto him in these very words And thou Ezra after the wisdom of thy God which is in thine hand set Magistrates and Judges which may judge all the People that are beyond the River all such as know the Laws of thy God and teach ye them which know them not And whosoever will not do the Law of thy God and the Law of the King let judgment be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment These are the Legal Penalties to be inflicted upon all those that despise the Injunctions of God and the King to make such mutinies and insurrections in a Realm as might be detrimental to the form of Government which must needs be a great aggravation to the Supream Majesty of Heaven who in the eighth Chapter of Solomons Proverbs at the fifteenth and sixteenth Verses speaks thus of Superior Powers By me Kings Reign and Princes decree Justice By me Princes Rule and Nobles even all the Judges of the Earth Seeing therefore that all Kings Princes Nobles and Judges of the Earth have their Regallity Decrees and Ordinances from God then must it be the duty of all their inferiors to tender their obedience unto such Decrees Acts or Ordinances as they by Commission from God shall impose upon the Subjects And this is the Apostolical advice of St. Peter in his 1st Epistle Chapter the second at the thirteenth and fourteenth Verses Where to the Strangers scattered throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bythinia he spake these expressions Submit your selves to every ordinance of Man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well From whence we may observe that every Magistrate acting for the glory of God and the good of his King ought for their sakes to be reverently esteemed and obeyed I might alledge several Testimonies of Scripture in the proof of this point As Genesis the 41th and 40th Where Pharaoh said unto Joseph Thou shalt be over my House and according to thy Word shall all my People be rul'd And in the sixteenth Chapter of Exodus Verse the eighth we read how the Israelites in murmuring against Moses their Chief Prince and Aaron their Chief Priest did more abundantly murmur in their Hearts against God For saith the Text The Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him And what are we Your murmurings are not against us but against the Lord. Also in the 17th Chapter of Deuteronomy the 10th 11th and 12th Verses Moses being the Chief Magistrate of the Israelites spake unto them these words And thou shalt do according to the Sentence which they of that place which the Lord shall chuse shall shew thee and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee According to the Sentence of the Law which they shall teach thee and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee thou shalt do Thou shalt not decline from the Sentence which they shall shew thee to the right hand nor to the left And the Man that will do presumptuously and will not hearken unto the Judge even that Man shall die and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel The like Testimony we find in the First Chapter of Joshua at the 16th 17. and 18th Verses Where the Hebrews spake thus to their Champion Joshua All that thou commandest us we will do and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things so will we hearken unto thee Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy Commandment and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him he shall be put to death Whatever Precepts in the Old Testament require our obedience to Superior Powers we find such Precepts fully confirmed in the New as appears in the 22d Chap. of St. Matthew's Gospel at the 21st Verse Where our Saviour said unto Simon Peter Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods To render God and Caesar their dues was the godly practice of the Apostles and therefore both St. Paul and St. Peter have left us sufficient rules to imitate their Religious and Loyal Conversation as it is apparent in the 13th Chap. of the Epistle to the Romans at the 1st and 2d Verses Where St. Paul saith Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers For there is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation St. Peter also hath the like rule in his first Epistle 2d Chap. at the 17th Verse where he saith Honour all Men love the Brotherhood fear God honour the King Thus much shall suffice in reference to the first proposition from which I asserted that it is the incumbent duty of every rational Person to Fear God and Honour his King as being suitable with the first clause in my Text where Solomon saith My Son fear thou the Lord and the King From whence I proceed to handle the 2d proposition namely to affirm that he who fears God ought in such a manner to honour his King as not to side with those that would alter or change his Government as answerable to these words of the second clause in my first Verse And meddle not with them that are given to change It is very remarkable that by the discord of the Arians Multitudes of People fell away from Christianity to Gentilism and Infidelity so likewise by our late Animosities in this Kingdom many chang'd their Opinions and Practises to Rantism Atheism and Impiety in King James his days of blessed memory several Persons began to cry for the Geneva Discipline and Scottish Reformation in the Church whereupon the ignorant multitude was so stirred up that like an Aegyptian Plague