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soul_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	4,907	5	10.4011	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60704	A sermon preached upon the thirtieth of January, 1694/5, in the parish of S. in the county of Norfolk by Samuel Snowden ...	Iraeneus, junior.	1695 (1695)	Wing S4397; ESTC R38262	21,975	34

help those to right who suffer wrong 1st The Authority by which they act is vested in them from above They have their Credentials from Heaven and their Commissions are sealed there from which topick St. Paul argues and proves our submission to their Commands Rom. 13.1 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 resists the power resisteth the Ordinance of God Seeing then this Cedar is a Tree of the Lord 's planting why may we not sit under the shadow of it with delight And if any shall say how shall this Man save us or any Prince who is the Son of Man help us we may reply that he is God's Vicegerent and Deputy designed not only to be a terrour to evil doers but a praise and encouragement to them that do well The Lord hath caused these gourds to spring up to shroud and shelter them And then why may we not with Jonah be exceeding glad and so far trust in them as God hath made them usefull to secure and defend us from the heat and burthen of the day Princes and Magistrates as they are Men be made of the same metal with the rest of Mankind subject to the same infirmities with others of a lower rank and more debased Station but whilst they bear the Superscription and Image of the Divine Authority stamp'd upon them they are not only of more value by virtue of that Impression but may challenge the greater awe and veneration from us Which may also excuse us from the imputation of vain considence whilst we shroud our selves under the lee of their Protection and Government 2ly From the Wisdom of their Counsels This is another sinew and ligament of Civil Government 2 Kings 18.20 Thou say'st I have counsel and strength for the War That sometimes out-does force is more than its match and carries it headlong avoiding its strongest attempts baffling and defeating the most powerful essays it can make to our destruction This you may see verified in Eccl. 9.14 There was a little City and few Men within it and there came a great King against it and besieged it and built great Bulwarks against it and there was found in it a poor wise Man who by his Wisdom delivered the City then said I Wisdom is better than strength Obj. But you will say Princes are not always Wise nor great Men always Good The Lord sometimes gives a People Children to be their Princes They err in Vision they stumble in Judgment Isai 28.7 and Babes to rule over them and carries their Counsel headlong Job 5.13 This was no small Plague upon Egypt When the Princes of Zoan were Fools and the Counsel of the Wise Counsellors of Pharaoh was become brutish From hence it was that Egypt erred in every Work thereof as a drunken Man staggereth in his Vomit And so may we reel too and fro if we put our trust in them or in the Wisdom of their Counsels Resp This is but an accidental punishment of a wicked People whom the Lord designs to destroy and so he makes their infatuation not only a Presage and Preface but cause of their ruine Quos perdere vult dementat prius Thus when the Lord designed to punish Ahab and that he might sall a prey at Ramoth Gilead 1 King 12.15 he put a lying Spirit into the mouths of his Prophets and Counsellors So did the Lord hide counsel from Rehoboam nor did he hearken to the counsel of the Old Men for the cause was from the Lord that he might rend the Kingdom out of the hand of Solomon as he spake by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam 1 Kings 11.31 So far was the heart of Pharaoh hard'ned that he would not believe nor be advised by Moses God having purposed his ruine in the Red Sea for that despite perhaps which he had shown to his peculiar People that were Pilgrims with him in a strange Land But the ordinary end of God's setting Rulers over his People is that they may be his Ministers to them for good that they may be a shelter to them from the storm and keep them quiet from the fear of evil To this end he gives them wise and understanding Hearts that they may be able to go in and out before the People and that they may find pasture to refresh them Hence it is Ps 105.22 that the Lord counsels our Counsellors and teacheth our Senators Wisdom putting this eye into their Heads by which they see the things which concern the Peace and Welfare of their Subjects guiding their hands in managing the Helm and sleering the Vessel or Ship of the Common-wealth through a troublesome Sea into a safe and secure Harbour Now though we know that he who gathers the Winds in his Fist and binds the Waters in a Garment He whom the Seas obey is the supreme Pilot Prov. 30.4 yet it cannot but calm the Minds of the Passengers in the midst of those storms they meet with that he hath deputed one whom he ordinarily endues with a Spirit of Government on whom next to himself they trust and rely upon for help though he be but the Son of Man 3ly The Power of the Sword which he bears not in vain for he is by that a terrour to evil doers but a praise and defence to those that do well By this as it were with a trident he stills the raging of the Sea I mean quiets the madness of the People Whether we take this for the civil or military Sword they have either of them power and edge enough to out in pieces and hamstring a mutinous and rebellious People to charm or awe the unpeaceable and otherwise ungovernable tempers of turbulent and unruly Men that we may lead a peaceable and quiet life in godliness and honesty They have a power to turn and brandish these every way as the Angel his flaming Sword over the Tree of Life that none of our Enemies at home or Foes abroad may prevail against us or approach to hurt us And may we not brood and shelter our selves under the Wings of that Government which God hath impowered to shelter us from the talons of those Hawks which else would prey upon us May we not with due regard to the Divine Providence trust to the Wisdom and Conduct of him whom God hath set over us and whom he hath taught to manage both those Weapons I mean his civil and military Power whom God hath enabled to defend the innocent from those who smite with the Fist of wickedness We have found one that seeks judgment and relieves the oppressed who judgeth the Fatherless and pleads for the Widow One who hath broach'd that Fountain whose Waters make glad the City of God I mean judgment which runs down as water and righteousness as a mighty stream Time was that instead of well set hair we had baldness instead of a girdle