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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29910	A sermon preach'd on the coronation day of K. Charles I March 27, 1644, in S. Mary's in Cambridge / by Bishop Brownrigg when he was vice-chancellor of the vniversity, for which he was cast into prison.	Brownrig, Ralph, 1592-1659.	1661 (1661)	Wing B5210; ESTC R36388	14,727	32

Palace were not imposed on the Israelites but the Strangers among them The Spirit that is within us lusteth after envy and sheweth it no where more then toward our Superiours We should consider their temptations and allurements and compassionate them and pitty their failings and weaknesses and pray for their proceedings and acknowledge the benefits we receive by them They may sometimes overcharge us but are alwaies a shield and defence unto us Tully telleth us of those Sicilians that because of the great benefit they enjoyed by the Roman Government would not quarrel with them for some few trivial matters So should we do here 4. Exclusivè Zerubbabel is Gods Servant This interest cutteth off all other ministrations that can be laid on him The King's service is the Supream dignity He findeth no equal on Earth much less Superiour Dominion is the image of God not of the Pope This Signet is not annulus piscatoris the ring of Peter or his feigned Successor the Pope I'ts true when the Imperial Power turned Vassal to the See of Rome the Scripture calleth it the Image of the Beast But a lawful Supremacy is a most legible impression of the image of God There is a service in Government and that an hard one too so that the Subjects Duty is the easier of the too Diis minoribus in unum Iowem conversis veritas nominum est salus proprietatum facilius est imperantibus obedire quàm obedientibus imperare It 's a more easy thing to obey than to govern or rule so Hug on the hard taske of Government Kings are serviceable to the good of the People but not unto their Power not like to the Pope that can hear his Cardinal Sing Ecclesia data est Papae The Church is brought in by a Father saying I am not thine but thou art mine and all things else This sheweth how Kings may be said to be servants He is properly a servant that is so in respect of his imployments for another and from another The Supream power hath imployment of God and his authority and so his servant But respectu finis their end is to the great good of others St. Paul determines it Rom. 13. The Servant of God for our good So then this truth that Kings and Princes are servants of God must be unto them monitorium officii it should put them in mind their duty so to govern as to remember they are under government I know it a preposterous Solecisme to preach unto the people the duty of their Kings or unto Kings the duty of their people It was the method of the Pharisees when they found fault with Christ or his Disciples they would complain of Christ to his Disciples why eateth your Master with Sinners and of the Disciples to Christ why do not thy Disciples fast Just the spirit of the Pharisees to beget jealousies and for dissention to tell the King that his Subjects are false and the People that the King usurpeth This is not to give every one his true portion every truth is not for every person This here that Kings and Princes are Gods servants secureth their persons sealeth upon them a charter of a protection Princes in point of honour are bound to safeguard their servants David pleadeth for this priviledge in his danger Undertake for thy servant for good Psal. 11.8 King Hezekiah prayed Lord I am oppressed undertake for me David prefixeth this title unto his Psalm of thanksgiving A Psalm of David the Servant of the Lord. Likewise it must bind us to our obedience and not onely manacle our hands and pinion our arms not to offer violence but bridle our tongues from speaking any unreverent speech How dare you speak against my servant Moses It was the check that God gave not to the common murmurers but unto those that were sombody in the congregatiō even Princes And Gods calling of him Servant was not to teach Aaron to call him fellow servant but my Lord as it followeth This affordeth us three great excellencies in the governing of Gods people 1. In his person Monarchy 2. In his stock and original Nobility 3. In his descent a lineal succession in the Royal Family Three great excellencies in this Government 1. In the Person Monarchy The Supream Authority sealed in Monarchy hath this priviledge and advancement above other formes of Government that it carrieth a more ample stampe of Gods institution We condemne not other formes of Government they are not aberrations but justly praise the form which God chuleth for his own The Israelites for a time were under Judges but the setling of the Government was to be in Kings It s true the first King was extorted by the People but that hindreth not that the office of Kings was by Divine intendment It was promised to Abraham Kings shall be born of thee This Royal Charter was drawn up before Sauls time That which blemished Saul's setting up was the peoples overhasty desire to enjoy a King Saul the King and Saul the Apostle were both born out of time the one too soon the other too late but both their functions were of Divine Institution 2. In his stock and original nobility the son of Shealtiel God taketh notice of his nobility and dignity and putteth honour on it It 's an ill Symptome of the worst of times quae non instant sed extant when the vile shall rise up and behave themselves irreverently against the Nobles especially the Nobility out of which God raiseth the Princes of his people Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the son of Nobles Queen Elizabeth when they inquired of her whom she would have to succeed after her answered My Throne is the Throne of Kings No mean person must be my successor The precepts of Philosophy tell us that Nobility is in a great capacity for rule and authority Every shoobuckle will not make a signet or bramble a King 3. As he establisheth Monarchy and raiseth it out of Nobility so he preserves it in a constant descent from David This is that which David calls the establishment of his throne Lord thou hast spoken that of thy servants house there shall sit a man for ever on his Throne Rather then this course should be interrupted God taketh such care to fulfil this succession that he will set Ioas a young child on his Throne It was the exception made against Herod Quod nec nascendo nec vivendo Rex suit He was neither a King by birth nor by life This hereditary succession preventeth much inconveniency which would fall out by reason of a vacuum A vacuum is of a strange nature which makes things of a low condition to ascend higher 3. The Author of this advancement 'T is no other then God himselfe I will take thee I will make thee I have chosen thee God is the fountain of all lawful authority unto him the shields of the Earth belong supremacy and soveraignty which are the beams of Majesty Promotion comes

Eliah Anoint him not for the Lord hath refused him Though all Israel set their faces towards Adonijah to make him King yet Solomon shall have the Crown Let others be what they will be either for parts power or favour it is not the mettal if the ingraving stamp of God be wanting 3. Ex electione cum dilectione Election cometh from dilection The delight which God taketh in the prosperity of his people putteth him on to place a Lord over them Should we expostulate with God as they did Wherein hast thou loved us This would be a clear evidence of it The Queen of Sheba taketh notice of the happiness of Israel in this Blessed be the Lord thy God that taketh delight in thee to place on his Throne so wise a King Because the Lord loved Israel to establish them for ever therefore he gave them such a King If we pass by this token of Gods love the Queen of the South will rise up in judgement against us her speech will condemne us 4. Ex electione cum deliberatione Election proceeds from deliberation It implies study and search and great consultation We must understand it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 leave out all ill circumstances and take in all its perfections God doth it exactly out of the full depth of his Counsels and forecast of his providence all things being considered The setting up of Magistracy over us is a work of consultation God pitcheth on Zerubb as Pharaoh on Ioseph Can we finde out such a man This work is one of the chiefest pieces of Gods providence in the World not any one that comes next to hand can serve the turn no God maketh searchings and inquiries and then concludes I have forund me out a man 5. Electio personalis The election it 's personated it 's fixed on a person Election is not a meer description of a form of a power but carrieth the designation of the person it doth not onely frame a model and constitute an Office or ordain a place but chooseth out a man God sendeth not qualities or notions or formes setteth not up Platonical Ideas But consecrates a person For conformation of all these is that great ratification at the end of all He hath spoken and will make it good he that saith it is the Lord of Hosts This promise is not like a Papal grant which disposeth of Kingdomes but affordeth no help or assistance to those unto whom it giveth them Let them fight for them if they will have them The Lord of Hosts will make them good It 's observed that the Prophets after the Captivity never almost named God but with this title The Lord of Hosts When Zerubb and his people are at the weakest God affords himself strongest This title is Zerubbabels lifeguard it standeth round about in the front as in the foreward in the close of the Text as in the rereward it speaks unto him as the Prince of the host of God These heavenly Auxiliaries these Chariots and Horses of fire shall resume him from all the Chariots and Horses of the Heathen th●se being with Zerubb no matter who oppose him by faith in his name shall be discomfit them all Let us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apply this Text unto our selves let us see the blessing we enjoy let this put us in mind to stand on these termes with God if the promises of his people may be made good unto us it is not for every Nation to do so onely for the people in Covenant with God It is a comfort to us to have a Zerubbabel to be a Prince and Leader to this people of God Zerubbabel some give it a stranger from Babel one that renounceth communication with the Whore of Rome Zerubb is one appointed by God to fan out the chaff from the Wheat This our Governour shall be as a Torch of fire amidst the heap of Chaff and all their Superstition as stubble before him Is it not a comfort to us that a son of Shealtiel is a Prince over us one of the Royal Race no stranger or servant no Assyrian or Philistim but an issue of Royal Progenitours designed to his Throne by God himself from the birth Womb and conception Is it not a great favour unto us that our Zerubbabel is counted a servant of God and that not onely by place but by piety not onely High Steward of his House and so servant by office but by devotion What a mercy this is we may acknowledge if we remember the imprecation of David set an ungodly man to rule over them or the commination of the Prophet A Leopard shall rule over them Let us now acknowledge our happiness who have no Pharaoh for our King one that knoweth not God and feareth to know the Lord but one that religiously both knoweth and feareth God Did England ever know a Prince more frequent constant and attentive in the service of God It 's a commendable thing in a private person how much more in a King to keep his dayly and constant houres of prayer to bring his children up in the Worship of God to teach them betimes to know the God of their Fathers He is the servant of the Lord and all these pretious titles which God laies upon his servants belong to him servus quem elegit quem comprobavit quem sustentavit filius ancillae He is his choice Servant in whom his Soul delighteth his servant whom his hand upholdeth his servant and the son of his handmaid and a true Member of the true Church of Christ. Lastly so we pray and hope and trust he is a servant of his whom he will use as a blessed instrument of his glory he is a servant of his own on whom his stamp is Clemen Alex. forbids four sorts of Characters to be on any Signet The contrary are not to be found in him 1. The stamp of an Idol our Zerubbabel is free from this Character He neither nameth knoweth nor worshippeth any God but the God of Israel 2. No instrument of cruelty to be engraven on it Our Zerubb is free from this he beareth the signature of clemency on him and this is a Royal virtue Kings must sing the song both of Mercy and judgement but the sweetest song is that of mercy Do justice and love mercy he both doth it and delighteth in it 3. No Embleme of Intemperance This Royal signet which we behold beareth sobriety It 's a confessed virtue emninent in him He hath learned that it is not for Kings to drink wine He is far from the Disease which the Prophet complains of in the Kings of his time he doth eat and drink for strength and not for intemperance 4. No wanton or Luxurious stamp Our Royal Signet beareth the seal of Chastity What Virgin hath he deflowred Whose bed hath he defiled Whose Virginity hath he assaulted Bishop Latimer presented a great person with an Handkerchief this written on it whoremongers and adulterers God will judge this is his Motto Survey the World and see how many such Princes your thought can present you with Surely their names may be written in a small compass We may and should boast of Gods mercy All Christendome cannot afford such another FINIS