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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31404	King David's deliverance, and thanksgiving applied to the case of our King and nation, in two sermons, the one preached on the second, the other on the ninth of September, 1683 / by John Cave ...	Cave, John, d. 1690.	1683 (1683)	Wing C1584; ESTC R17525	31,577	69

King and People It entitles as well to Temporal as to Spiritual and Eternal Blessings Isa 1.19 If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the Good of the Land Let it therefore be our common Care as it is our joint Interest to forsake those Sins of ours which weaken our Government and waste our Land which sap the Foundation and shake the Fabrick of Church and State more than any other Underminers and Conspirators Let us endeavour in our several Places and Capacities to shew forth that exemplary Piety and uniform Obedience which becometh the Gospel which is the Strength and Ornament of the Protestant Cause our Sanctuary in Trouble and the Glory of our Prosperity Yea let our honouring of the King proceed from our fear of God Our Loyalty be the genuine Fruit of our Religion and the Conscience of God's Ordinance and Command be the Promoter and Guide of our subjection to the Civil Power And considering that our Obedience to our Superiors who are God's Vicegerents and Ministers is an eminent instance of our true Obedience to God himself it will not be amiss nay certainly it will be most seasonable at this time to give it its due place in my Exhortation to that Holiness and Righteousness of Life which is the best expression of our Thanks The Excellent Photius in his Notes upon the 13th to the Romans presseth subjection to Governors as a proper way of glorifying God Thou gainest by being a Subject Apud Oecumenium not only because thou fulfillest the Command 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because thou dost honour God in the honouring the Power ordained by him I might forbear me-thinks to put you in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates whilst you have before you so many plain Scriptures and so many exemplary Providences preaching and pressing that Doctrine The Deliverance we celebrate the Discovery and Punishment of the Traytors as well as the Lessons of the Day tell us aloud that God justifies and abets Rule and Soveraignty and requireth subjection thereunto We are taught this I say by the Word of God which engageth us to this Obedience by as obliging Principles as it doth to any part of Religion And we are taught it too in The Second place by the Works of God 1. By the eminent Judgments that have pursued and seized notorious Rebels 2. By the admirable Preservations and Protections of Soveraign Princes 1. By the final Judgments of God upon Rebels and Traitors We find many of them in the Scripture History and we find there too that none of them went to their Graves in peace Achitophel Absolom Sheba Abner Abiathar Joab Athaliah Zimri Adoniah They all paid dearly for the Mischief they did and ended their days in dishonour and left nothing behind them but the Memory of their Sin and the Record of their Curse Yea if we examine other Chronicles we shall find Instances of the same nature Suetonius in the Life of Julius Caesar observed that there was hardly one of his Murthers though a Heathen and an Arbitrary Prince that survived the Wickedness three Years Vid. Isaac Casaub Not. neque sua morte defunctus est all dying violent Deaths some by Shipwrack some in Battel some by the Hand of Justice others by their own And Marcellinus relates it of the Conspirators against Gordianus the Younger Quod velut clarescente justitiâ cruciabilibus interiere suppliciis That they died with exquisite Tortures that Justice might become more conspicuous in their Sufferings All Stories are full of Examples of this kind and no wonder seeing it was a Truth known to a Proverb in Solomon's time Prov. 24.22 My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruin of them both Whoso breaketh a Hedg a Serpent shall bite him whose removeth Foundation-stones Eccl. 10.8 9. shall be hurt therewith Those that break the Laws which are the Fence and Security of a Nation expose themselves to certain Ruin Those Turbulent and Seditions Persons among the Jews who assumed to themselves the blazing Title of Zealots who yet had more Heat and Passion than Judgment or Religion being prone to Mutiny and Faction and ready to pretend Conscience even for Rebellion it self though they brought Desolation upon their own City 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jos l. 7. c. 30. Ruin upon their Nation they brought withall the severity of God's Judgments upon themselves For as many punishments as it is possible for Man's Nature to endure were heaped upon them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as long as any breath of Life remained St. Jude making mention of such as did despise and speak evil of Dignities vers 8 11. says That they perished in the gain-saying of Core This Core or Korah was a Levite who by his Office was to have taught Jacob God's Judgments and Israel his Law but he being one of those who corrupted the Covenant of Levi and did things very unbecoming his Character drew three principal Men of the Tribe of Reuben and then two hundred and fifty Princes of the Assembly famous in the Congregation Men of Renown popular Persons and great Patriots into his Confederacy and having gathered his Associats together against Moses and Aaron they stuck not to affront them and throw dirt into their Faces But by these Mens strange perishing in this gain-saying of theirs the very Women who usually make a part in such Factions were convinced that by this way of opposing Moses and Aaron they opposed God himself the Ordainer and Abetter of their Authority for the Daughters of Zelophehad could say Our Father died in the Wilderness Numb 27.3 and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah Nay the very words of the Spirit of God concerning Dathan and Abiram Numb 26.9 10. are express to this purpose These were famous in the Congregation the great Independents of those Times who strove against Moses and against Aaron when they strove against the Lord and the Earth opened her Mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when that Company died what time the Fire devoured two hundred and fifty Men and they became a Sign A dreadful Sign indeed unto all them who afterward should follow their steps to whom St. Jude saith is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever For what better end may they expect that dare adventure upon the like Turbulent and Seditious Courses The Levite begun the Faction there and if he was not the beginner we are assured by his Majesty's Declaration that he was the chief Promoter and Manager of our no less Damnable Conspiracy Our Fergusson as their Korah by the like false Persuasions draweth the Nobles after him and no doubt made use of the same Motive viz. the Ruler's assuming too much to himself and his invading the