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A89085	Curse not the King. A sermon preached at St. Martin's in the Fields, on the 30th of January, 1660. Being the anniversary day of humiliation for the horrid murder of our late gracious soveraign Charles the I. By John Meriton, M.A. rector of the church of St. Nicholas Acons, London, and lecturer to that congregation.	Meriton, John, 1636-1704.	1661 (1661)	Wing M1817; Thomason E1084_7; ESTC R202914	21,267	35

flesh Jude 8. Now Kings and Magistrates bearing the Sword to regulate and correct such exorbitant impurities They despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities Libertines vent their foolish and froward discontent at Kings as the mad Dogge bites the Chain that tyes him to a post And the Sea with its salt and foaming waves undermines and washes away those banks that bound its rage And so I pass on from the First to the Second Observation viz. That God alloweth not in Subjects distoyal dishonourable Obser●●t 2. thoughts of Princes This Text alone were sufficient proof but I shall further evidence the evil of Cursing the King in thought in four Particulars 1. It is a ●in against a Divine Ordinance By him Kings Prov. 8. 15. Reign and Princes decree Justice Whosoever resisteth the Rom. 13. 12. Power resisteth the Ordinance of God saith the Apostle And again He is the Minister of God and again They are Gods Ministers the Kings Coronation is on earth his Commission from Heaven It is true had man stood fast in his primitive integrity there had been no Superiority or subjection among the sons of men no distinction Conditio Servitutis intelligitur imposita peccatori proinde nusquam Scripturarum Legimus servum antequam peecatum filii Noe justus vindicaret Nomen itaque istud culpa meruit non Natura Aug. de Civit. Del lib. 19. cap. 15. between Prince and people then alone would the now absurd levelling Principles of some have taken place without incongruity Man was to have ruled over the Creatures which God had put under his feet but one man was not to have ruled over another but in our lapsed Apostate condition every sinner being a Master of mis-rule God hath set up Rulers to regulate restrain amend correct and keep in compass those exorbitant passions and unbridled brutish affections that would 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Agapetus Justini●no otherwise suddenly set all on fire and as it were throw the world out at the windows Kings and Princes are Constituted and Commissioned the Vice-gerents and Lord D●putics of Jesus Christ who hath taken the Government upon his Shoulder and to whom all power is given in Heaven and in earth He saith they are Gods though Isai 9. 6. they dye like men though they are flesh and blood and Matth. ●8 18. their bodies are from earth and therefore mortal their Psal 82. 6. Power Dignity and Authority is from Heaven and Inde est imperator Unde homo antequam imperator inde p●testas illi unde spiritus Tertul. Apol. Cujus jussu ho mines ejus jussu Reges Irenaeus therefore the Persons vested with that Power are to be Reverenced as Representatives of Divine Majesty The Rain bow is as to the matter of it but an ordinary Vapour a common Cloud but being gilded and enamel'd by the Sun-beams it is more beautiful and glorious then any other part of the Heavens Kingly Dignity is a Ray and bright reflection of Gods Sovereign Authority and therefore disloyal and undutiful projections are an affront to God in Effig●e a contempt of an higher Majesty then theirs And as under the Law God forbad cruelty to beasts viz. not to destroy the dam from the young nor Deut. 22. 6. seeth a Kid in the mothers milk that such inhibitions might Exod. 23. 19. be as a sence and rail about the life of man so hath he ordered respect to Magistracy as a kind of fence about his own Dignity and Divine Glory In Adonijah's asking 1 King 2. 23. Abishag the Kings Concubine Solomon smelt out Treason against himself A contempt of Princes that have so immediate relation to and dependance upon God can be interpreted no other then a Project and Designe against his Crown and Dignity When Adam had tasted the Tree of Knowledge God turned him out of Gen. 3. 12. Paradise to keep his itching fingers from plucking the Tree of Life A disdain of Dominion and Royal Dignity is as it were an Allarm to God to secure and guard his own Throne 2. Cursing the King in thought is a sin against a mans own welfare He is saith the Apostle the Minister of God Rom. 13. 4. Faciet nos mitiores si cogitaverimus quid nobis prefuerit ille cui irascimur meritis offensam redemerit Seneca to thee for good shewing at once the original and end of his Authority It s original Gods Minister Its end thy good And were but men content with a quiet comfortable enjoyment of their liberties peace and priviledges it would much abate and take down the swelling of the spleen against Authority It is prophesied of the last times that men shall be disobedient to Parents unthankfull 2. Tim. 2. 3. two evils that were they alone were enough to make perilous times and disobedience is therefore worse because rooted in ingratitude and men being insensible of the real benefit by Governors have too quick a sense of supposed mischiefs Men possibly fancy to themselves great good by a removal of Kings and Magistrates alas it is as the silly child desires the death of his Father that it may have a new pair of gloves at his Funeral This Solomon sets out very elegantly in this Chapter He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and who so breaketh an Hedge a Serpent shall bite him who so removeth stones shall be hurt Eccles 10. ●8 9. therewith and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby as if he had said a desire and endeavour to see Princes go as servants a foot and to set servants on horse back is like a mans digging a pit for his own grave or breaking an hedge to be stung with a snake that lurks at the bottom of it like a mans removing of stones to be crush'd with their weight or cut with their sharpness or the cleaving of wood to be wounded with the splinters That passenger in a ship that wisheth the Pilot cast over-board seeks not the preservation of his own Cabin An evil man Prov. 17. 11. seeketh only Rebellion therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him It is observed that they whom the Scripture hath stigmatized as opposers of Magistrates have still been punished with a violent and untimely death as Corah and his confederates Athaliah Zimri Joab Shimei Adonijah Absalom whose Mule going from under 2 Sam. 18. 9. him hung him up in the Oak as a Traytor the beast would be laden with such a beast no longer but left him hanging as a publique spectacle of a treacherous and unnatural disloyalty And to omit forrain Histories our own English Chronicles give abundant evidence That pursuing vengeance hath still been at the heels of the rebellious Who hath not heard of Becket Moniford Mortimer Wyat Cade Tyler Warbeck and the Powder Traytors Nay in this very Parish you had a late memorable instance God allowed them not the respit and