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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40476	The wickedness and punishment of rebellion a sermon preach'd the 26. July S.V. 1685 (being the day of thanksgiveing appointedby His Majestie for the defeat of the rebels) before the right worshipfull the Fellowship of Merchants Adventurers of England residing at Dordrecht / by Aug. Frezer, M.A. of St. Edmunds Hall in Oxford ...	Frezer, Augustine, b. 1649 or 50.	1686 (1686)	Wing F2204; ESTC R42039	21,832	42

offend God in breaking any one of his comandments tho he keeps all the rest cannot be supposed to keep the rest out of any principle of conscience or the fear of God but for some other consideration and will make no conscience to break all the rest whenever he shall have the same occasion or temptation to break them that he has for the breaking of any one Now it is notoriously known to any one that has read the scripture that nothing is or can be more expresly commanded by God than the Honour obedience and subjection which is due to Kings And all this is not only comprehended in the fifth commandment by the honour due to parents but there are several other more particular commands about it to teach us how we are to regulate our very thoughts our words our actions and our whole deportment towards them We must not entertain a dishonourable thought of our Prince implyed in the prohibition a not to curse the King in our thought b We must not revile him or speak evill of him c We must not lift up a hand against him or resist him d We must behave our selves reverently in his presence We must obey his commands and give him that tribute or custome which belongs to him which is necessary for the support of his rule and dignity and which is but a small recompence for the benefits we receive by his Government And all this is no more than what is particularly commanded by God in the old Testament and by our saviour and his Apostles in the new and has bin taught and practiced by holy men and by the church of God in all ages which is all comprehended under the word fear or honour which is so often mention'd and commanded with relation to Kings as their Right and Due and which cannot be denyed them without sacriledge disobedience to God himself Render therefore to all their Due Tribute to whom tribute is due custome to whom custome fear to whom fear and honour to whom honour But not to insist at present any further upon other particulars of the duty which subjects ow their King I shall only speak a few words concerning resistance and the nature or quality of our obedience the wilfull misunderstanding whereof is the cause of all our troubles and of all our divisions 1. Concerning the lawfullnesse of resistance which some of our late Rebels have been so far deserted by God as to assert not only in words and with their pens but with their blood and their last breath there need no other arguments be used to confute it and for ever to stop the mouths of all rebellious gainsayers if any thing could convince them than the Testimonies of David and St. Paul whose authority I am sure is indisputable and not to be question'd by any that own the scriptures to be the word of God VVho can stretch forth his haud against the Lords anointed and be guiltlesse was the Amulet or charm if I may so call it which the man after God's own heart had bin taught by the spirit of God to make use of upon any occasion or temptation that he had to revenge himself of his greatest enemie to curb his own passion and to restrain others from offering the least violence to their lawfull soveraigne The other Testimonie is of St. Paul Ro. 13. 5. VVherefore you must needs be subject not only for wrath but conscience sake In the former passage David laies it down as a principle of the law of nature acknowledged by all the world that it is impossible for any man that is a subject to resist his prince and be Innocent VVho can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Annointed and be guiltlesse In the latter the Apostle asserts the necessity of subjection in opposition to resistance which is forbidden condemn'd threatned with damnation Rom. 13. 1. 2. upon the score of conscience that if there were no other reasons to oblige men to be subject drawn from hope of reward or fear of punishment yet they were bound to be so out of conscience and they might with as safe a conscience break any of the Comands of God as resist Which two testimonies against the lawfulnesse of resistance will never be answerd or evaded by those who are so audacious and impious as to speak or write in favour of such as take up armes against their lawfull Prince upon the account of conscience and Religion as is pretended who may as well hope to reconcile light and darknesse or God and Belial as the principles and practices of such Persons with the scriptures and the fear of God 2. Concerning the nature or quality of that obedience which is due to Kings We must obey them in all things except where a superiour command has already engaged our obedience to the contrary The commands of a superiour are still to be obeyd before the commands of an Inferiour and therefore if the King who is only God's Vicegerent or deputy shall command any thing that is contrary to what God has commanded us before in all such cases the Rule of the Apostles is to take place that it is better to obey God than man Acts. 4. 19. In all other things which are left undetermind by God and are not contrary to his will when they ar commanded by those who are set in authority over us our obedience is necessary and indispensable And therefore to secure us from transgressing our duty to God and our superiours we must endeavour to acquaint our selves with the whole will of God reveald to us in scripture that so we may know wherein it is lawfull for us to obey our superiours and wherein we may lawfully refuse to comply with them Where our obedience is lawfull it is alwaies necessary and it is alwaies lawfull where the thing commanded us is not forbidden by God tho it may happen to be contrary to our interests or Inclinations We must be subject and obedient as well to froward and severe Masters as to the good and gentle for this is thanks worthy if a man for conscience towards God endure grief suffering wrongfully And from hence I shall take the liberty to inferre that where the matter of the Command is of a doubtfull nature or when we doubt of the lawfulness of it our obedience is stil necessary because the thing commanded is not for bidden by God at least not directly or expressly forbidden for if it were there could be no doubt of the unlawfulneste of it and if it be doubtfull we have as much reason to think it may be lawfull as unlawfull and the presumption of its lawfullnesse ought to be for the Magistrate who is suppos'd to be better able as haveing greater helps to judge of what is agreable to the will of God and then besides all this we have the Commands of our superiours and the necessity of our obedience if the thing we are