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A36371 The honour due to the civil magistrate stated and urg'd in a sermon compos'd for the day of thanksgiving for the happy discovery of the late horrid and execrable conspiracy against His Majesties sacred person and government / by Theophilus Dorrington. Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715. 1696 (1696) Wing D1942; ESTC R14688 25,086 35

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distrest till it pleased God to raise up some such Person to Deliver them And we may justly believe it was for greater safety and strength that the World so soon left off the narrow small Governments of particular Families and by uniting several of them into one Body did set up larger and National Governments When the Governor has at his command the Strength the Wealth the Industry the Skill of a great multitude of People the Community is so much the stronger against any Enemy Their union and subjection to him is as the string which binds together a bundle of Arrows So long as that keeps them together no strength can break them but if that bond be taken away and the strict Union dissolv'd it will be easie to do it because they may be separated What every one is able to do being united in the Prince as in a common Center redounds to the Advantage of the Whole This matter has so much Truth in it that our own Nation has within the compass of a few Years seen even a Lawless Usurping Tyrant making himself and the Nation more Formidable abroad and giving it more Force and Impression upon its Neighbours than ev●● a Just and Lawful Prince can do Which is evidently come to pass by this means He violently made himself be Obeyed by the force of Arms Govern'd by his absolute Will and commanded the Assistance and Strength of the Nation to his own time and measure And so he united the Strength of it better than it will now be united by Consent He Commanded and Forced that Assistance which a Just and Good Prince will and does only Ask for and waits to have it given him and to come as it will according to the prescrib'd Method of our Law and Constitution Great and many are the Advantages of Government And this being so we are bound in Gratitude to honour that which is the Cause of so much good Even the Self-love in Mankind might reasonably induce them to this in Acknowledgment of the Benefits which every particular enjoys from that common Prosperity and Tranquility which is procur'd and maintain'd by a good Government To be sure a publick Spirit and one that is duly concern'd for the Welfare of his Country such an one must be well disposed to the Performance of this Duty The Prince that sets himself according to the Ends of Government to promote the Happiness of his People or as our Church speaks studies to preserve those committed to his Charge in Wealth Peace and Godliness deserves the Honour of the whole Community And when his Undertakings accordingly are for the publick Welfare it were the greatest Injustice to him and indeed a manifest Token of the Want of a true Love to our Country to deny him the utmost publick Assistance that can be afforded This brings me to the last Argument I shall urge to enforce this Precept 4. Let us all conspire to pay all due Honour to the King because without doing so the Benefits of Government can never be attained This is of absolute Necessity to the rendring it so useful and beneficial as it may be and is design'd by Almighty God to be I do not doubt the Truth of that Maxim in Politicks Salus Populi est suprema Lex It must be true because the Good and Welfare of the People is the very End of Government it is appointed of God for good But then it must be understood of the Community not of any private Person or particular Party of Men who have perversly so order'd their Interests that they are inconsistent with those of the rest of the Community And we must needs allow this to be true too That Salus Honor Principis necessaria est subditorum saluti A steady Reverence and Subjection of the People to the Prince and their ready Assistance is absolutely necessary to the Happiness of the People What can he do for us if we do not assist him He must help us by our own Wealth and Strength if it be done at all As the Governour must indeed be wise just and good and rule according to good Laws So the People must be patient of Government and must readily obey the Prince according to those Laws or else they can never be happy By maintaining and allowing his Interest we maintain our own and our Duty well paid to him will redound to our own Advantage If the Head be sick the Heart must be faint and the whole Body out of Order And if in the natural Body the finest Blood and Spirits be not sent up to the Head that cannot diffuse Life Sense and Vigour so as it should do to the other Members So if the Governour wants his due from the People they must needs want that Benefit and Assistance which otherwise they might have from him Whoever then robs the Governour robs the People by Consequence And they that are Enemies to him are Enemies to their Country For so far as they can lessen him and diminish his Authority so far they deprive the People of the Advantage which they might have by his Government The weaker he is the less Effect and Influence he must needs have towards the Ends and Advantages of Government And hence it is that the Enemies of their Country and those pretended Lovers of it who set themselves against the Interest of the King can for the most part very readily concur in the same Actions and pursue the same Projects and Designs They both tend whether thinkingly or unthinkingly to the same publick Mischief and like Lines from different Parts of the Circumference meet in the Center It is a false Notion and the most unhappy one that a Nation can possibly fall into to imagine that the Interest of the People is one thing and that of the Prince another To think that these two are like the two Ends of a Ballance and therefore as one rises the other must needs be depress'd We must know there is not two but only one Interest between the Prince and the People The Welfare of the Head is the Advantage of the whole Body And if there be any such Division among the Members as that any one would draw more to its self than is due or would withold from another what is due to that this cannot be without some Prejudice to the whole Among the Members indeed some are much more important than others and to with-hold from them threatens the Destruction of the Body such Parts are the Head and other Vitals Such is the Prince in the Body Politick he is a vital and important Part and not only necessary to the well-being but even to the being of the whole Body Who cannot therefore be hurt but the Dissolution of the Community is endanger'd nor can he be taken away but the Ruin of the whole is likely to ensue As therefore a just and good Prince will often say to his People our Interests are inseparable and does always think it So