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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
A68300	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Nouember. 1621 Vpon occasion of that false and scandalous report (lately printed) touching the supposed apostasie of the right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn King, late Lord Bishop of London. By Henry King, his eldest sonne. Whereunto is annexed the examination, and answere of Thomas Preston, p. taken before my Lords Grace of Canterbury, touching this scandall. Published by authority.	King, Henry, 1592-1669.; Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 14969.5; ESTC S108024	33,075	94

operatiue then another like a Mare mortuum stupid to all motion would the World be and Nature so be calm'd that the seasons of the yeere would bee lost Heate should not name the Summer nor Cold the Winter instead of VVinter and Summer a blended mixture of the qualities a lazy luke-warme season would last all the yeere Vnisons yeeld no Musicke for Harmony consists of variety in stops higher and lower and equality amongst men would breed nought but confusion Siquidem aqualia non habent per se ordinem Looke vp to heauen and reade ouer that bright booke you shall see an inequality of light in those celestiall bodies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One starre differeth from another in glory so was it allowed by God who at the reuiew of his worke found all to be valde bona very good And one man differeth from another in glory in honour in riches in abilities of the minde which Disparit as perfectionis magis ornat vniuersum disparity in worth makes the world more beautifull All were not borne to be rich nor all to be wise nor all to teach nor all to rule but some for Disciples some for Masters some for the Throne some for the Mill some for Seruants some for Lords Which distinction we owe vnto these two Relata disquiparantiae as Logicians terme them Dominus and Seruus These were the two differences which in the Heraldry of Nature were first put to blazon the coates of all mortality and make a distinction betwixt the elder and younger house the Inferiour and Superiour for saith Saint Augustine Domini serui diuersa sunt nomina sed Homines homines paria sunt nomina As men all are alike but these respects of Lord and Seruant make a difference amongst them To make it more plaine looke once more backe and see the host of heauen gouerned by these rules of subiection and superiority fecit Deus duo luminaria magna God made two great lights vnto which the lesser are seruants and tributaries borrowing their lustre from them And as in heauen so in earth hath he ordained Luminaria magna greater lights and higher powers to goe before his people Though I am not of opinion with that insolent Spaniard Juan Puente that Gods meaning or the Text is to be restrained to those two Catholique Lights set vp by him in the front of his booke in which hee hath taken vpon him to adde new deuices and Mottoes to the Shields and Scutchions of them both vnder one the word Luminare maius vt praesit vrbi dominetur Orbi vnder the other Luminare minus vt subdatur vrbi dominetur Orbi But let him passe for a profound Sycophant I hope the Kings of the earth shall neuer come to that nonage to make them Guardians of their Crownes Those lights are well where they are and best shine in their owne Orbes I feare they will bee too dim to giue light to al the nations of the world I am sure too hot and scorching for our Climate Thankes be to God wee need no addition wee haue one Luminaria magna of Religion and State shining like Lampes in the great assembly of Parliament and a Julium sydus an imperiall Starre whose peacefull influence hath many yeeres blest our Land May it bee long ere this Sunne goe downe or by his set leaue vs in darknesse and mourning Nor may there want a succeeding Ray a Beame of that light to shine in the circle of this Throne so long as those Duo luminaria magna in Heauen the Sunne and the Moone shall runne their course Since then it is established per leges vniuersitatis by the law of God and Nations that the Lord must rule and the seruant obey it were preposterous nay monstrous that the seruant should bee greater then his Lord. Let no man whom Fortune hath subiected and made a seruant be grieued at his lot or thinke too meanely of that vocation To serue is no base office nor is slauery the badge of seruants but obedience Seruants obey your Masters It is no neglected title of drudgery that alters man from his creation but a title of dependance that still referres to a superiour and as man should doe lookes vpwards Men and seruants are names neere a kin There was but one Authour that made Man and the same made Seruants euen God himselfe whose decree was That euery soule should bee subiect to the higher power He then that is stubborn resists notmans but Gods ordinance Serui are not slaues but humiles amici inferiour friends Ye are my friends saith Christ to his Disciples they are Fellowes Immo conserut si cogitauerts tantundem in vtrosque licere fortunae nay they are Brethren Non dedignetur fratrem habere seruum suum Dominus eius quem fratrem voluit habere Dominus Christus There are no slaues but such as serue either their owne or other mens crimes Serui nomen culpa meruit sinne brought in the first thraldome but since the glad tidings of liberty release was brought by Christ who cancelled the Chirographum lethale the deadly Indenture that none may thinke it an abiect duty to serue he the Lord hath dignified the calling by taking vpon himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the forme of a Seruant Againe let not the Lords of the earth whom soueraignty hath lifted aboue the common ranke of men thinke so highly of themselues that they contemne all below them since that Lord or Master are not onely stiles of preeminence but of care For this cause a Master is called the Father of his family and the King is Pater Patriae the father of his Countrey In the Prophet you shall finde Dominus and Pater ioyned If I be a father where is my honour if a Master where is my feare Let them remember that as they haue many below them so they haue one that is farre aboue them a Master and Lord Paramount euen Dominus dominantium that though they be gods on earth dixi quod diiestis yet still but men and breathe one common aire that though fashioned ex meliore luto of better clay yet lutum still but clay and are eiusdem farinae of the selfe same grane though sifted by birth and fortune from the branne of vulgar men For when all the sheafes in the field did homage to Josephs sheafe all were but sheafes linkt in one band of brotherhood from earth and from the wombe But whither doe I presse this poynt My Text is no plea of Iurisdiction no Charter to proue only the Masters prerogatiue aboue the seruant which though it naturally arise from hence yet is not this all That is a granted Maxime our Sauiours meaning is larger and implies that his Disciples being but seruants must not expect better measure at the hands of men then their Lord had found Non potest placere seruus cui displicet Dominus