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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16148	A sermon preached at Westminster before the King and Queenes Maiesties, at their coronations on Saint Iames his day, being the 28. of Iuly. 1603. By the Reuerend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Winchester	Bilson, Thomas, 1546 or 7-1616.	1603 (1603)	STC 3068; ESTC S101957	14,111	50

we haue done our most and best seruice to them For which cause our power failing vs to requite them as wee ought wee must pray to the God of all power for the safetie peace and prosperitie of Princes that our prayers may testifie the zeale of our hearts and desire of our willes to obtaine from God farre greater recompence for them then wee can any way render them Yet may we not slacke to do them all the honor we can aswell with humilitie of the outwarde Man as with fidelitie of the inward When S. Peter saith Honour the King we must not thence exclude bodily honour which is sensible to others and restraine it to the honour of the minde which neither wee can shew nor they can see but by externall signes The Commaundements of God binde the whole Man no part is exempted where Submission is required And because it is growen a great fashion in needelesse curtesie to bow and touch the anckle and in necessarie duetie to stand starke and stiffe let vs see in a word or two whether the Custome of this Countrie in kneeling to their Princes bee seruilitie or flatterie as some reckon it or a parte of their due honour and dignitie Ioseph suffered his Brethren to bow downe to the ground before him as hee dreamt and saide they should and yet was Ioseph but the next person to King Pharaoh and his vicegerent This dreame and deed were both of God when Iacob would foreshew his sonne Iudah that the Scepter should not depart from his Linage hee saide Thy Fathers Sonnes shall bow downe vnto thee and heerein Iacob was a Prophet and spake by the Spirite of God Dauid after he was Annoynted to succeed Saul in the Kingdome bowed himselfe with his face to the Earth before Saul and when he was King he receiued the like homage from Mephibosheth the sonne of Ionathan from Ioab his sisters son from Absolon his owne sonne from Arannah the Iebusite of whome hee bought the threshing floore all these bowing themselues vpon seuerall occasions with their faces on the ground before King Dauid and yet was Dauid farre from yeelding or accepting more then his due Nathan the Prophet of whom can be no suspition that he vsed flatterie or was ignorant of his duety bowed himselfe saieth the Scripture to King Dauid with his face on the ground when hee asked him who should sit on his Throne after him God neuer alloweth the outward Man to dissent from the inward in any kinde of dutie the mouth blesseth where the heart loueth and the bodie stoopeth when the minde honoureth The third point which belongeth to Princely dignitie is that which the Apostle calleth Custome and Tribute I call Recompence The dutie may not be denied howsoeuer the reason thereof may be somewhat varied Therefore pay ye also Tribute saith the Apostle If wee referre this to the former words you must be subiect for therefore pay ye tribute then is Tribute a signe or sequele of our subiection For since wee our selues must be subiect all that is ours both goods and lands must needes be vnder the same condition More worthy are our bodies then our goods and our liues then our lands If the Principall be not exempted from Subiection how should the Accessarie If we refer it to the words following for this cause pay we Tribute for they are Gods Ministers attending their charge the Reason is very sound and dependeth on the maine proportion of Gods Iustice and prouidence Parents must be requited because they cared for vs when wee could not help our selues Preachers must be maintained because they labor in the Word and Doctrine generally God would haue no man attend any office by which he shuld not liue How euident a Right then is it that Princes supplying Gods place and applying themselues wholy to the preseruation of their People and safegard of the Commonwealth should haue their paines recompenced with all honour and aboundance and their Affaires both of peace and warre supported by the goods and lands of their Subiects Our Sauior when it was asked whether it were lawfull to pay Tribute vnto Caesar giueth a farther reason in saying Render vnto Caesar the things that are Caesars in effect Restore him his own A double right hath Caesar to the things which we thinke and call ours one by donation another by preseruation for if we looke to the first subduing of all countries by the Sword and the first endewing of each place and person by the Prince and the strengthening and setling thereof by the Law so long as men obey we shall finde that temporall things in euery Kingdome as they were first receiued from Caesar and haue beene continued by Caesar so they are still enioyed vnder Caesar and must in cases of disobedience by Law returne to Caesar and when neede requireth by parts be refunded to Caesars vse By preseruation not onely our goods and our lands but our bodies and liues are Caesars though he neuer gaue them yet because they are kept and garded by his power and care that they might bee ours Otherwise we should enioy them but a while if euery man might freely haue his forth execute his fury without restraint or feare of Reuenge malice mischiefe would so fast multiply There is therefore a Tribute or Due to Caesar as well of our labours and liues as of our goods and lands all which being preserued by Caesars Sworde and Scepter must be employed and expended in Caesars Seruice Whether therefore Tribute and Custome be a seale of our Subiection or a debt of Compensation or a part of Restitution it is plainly Gods ordinance and a manifest consequent Argument or monument of our obedience to Princes Howbeit to lighten the burthen procure the welfare and retaine the loue of their subiects both Heathen and Christian Princes that haue beene wise and moderate haue rather eased then fleeced their People and hauing Lands and Reuenewes sufficient of their owne to maintaine their Royall estate haue not imposed nor expected Taxes oftner nor greater then their needefull occasions required Tiberius the Romane Emperour was wont to say Shepheards do sheere not flea their sheepe and Princes be Shepheards of their People as God said to Cyrus thou art my Shepheard Feare is added by the Apostle as incident to Princes power not properly but conditionally when wee doe euill Wilt thou be without feare of the power saith he Doe well so shalt thou haue praise of the same but if thou do euill feare he is Gods Minister to take vengeance on him that doth euill Feare of vengeance is a medicine prouided to preuent sinne Praise is Prize appoynted to prouoke vertue The King as a Father should cherish the good with fauour and encouragement as a Lord hee should represse the badde with feare and punishment The righteous are the sonnes of God and worthie to receiue consolation The wicked are the seruants of sin