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A51533	The honour of kings vindicated and asserted In a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sr. Patrick Drummond, late Conservator of the Priviledges of the Scots nation in the Netherlands, togeter [sic] with a considerable number of merchants, masters, and common sea-men from several places, the 3. of May 1661. stilo novo, being his Majesties coronation day. By Mr. Thomas Mowbray Minister of the Gospel at the Stapel-Port in Camp-veet.	Mowbray, Thomas, minister of the Gospel.	1663 (1663)	Wing M2995A; ESTC R217897	16,640	25

wicked and to Princes ye are ungodly as Elihu said to Job Cap. 34.18 Princes may not before others be discovered to be so wicked as perhaps they be care must be had of their honour and fame saith Wise and Judicious Calvin in Job 34.18 what ever their conversation be their place requires it though their actions should not deserve it 2. We must honour the King in our words by a thankful acknowledgment of the good that is in them and we receive from them The Apostle writing to Timothy 1 Epist 2.2 setteth down the blessings which a People enjoyes by means of their good Kings which are three Peace Godliness and Honesty each of these is a great blessing First Peace if we respect deliverance from Enemies abroad is a great blessing therefore Arabia was called Foelix because the People lived in continual Peace and had their Towns unwalled how happy was the Government of Numa Pompilius when the Bees made their byves in the Souldiers Helmets ●hen men brake their Swords into Mattocks and their Spears into Plow shars but they prise the Olive-branch of Peace best who have had long experience of the scourge of Warr. Again Peace is a great blessing if we respect quiet from discords at home an intestine Warr in many respects is worse then a foraigne especially because it is betwixt Brethren and such Warr taro senecit ira fratrum acerbissima and therefore sacys Solomon Prov. 18.19 a Brother offended is harder to be won then a strong City and there contentions are like the bars of a Castle There is less hope of a composition here then if it were with strangers It was therefore good counsel which Joseph gave to his Brethren fall not out by the way and that Moses gave to the two Hebrews when they were at odds and he would have made them one again Sirs ye are Brethren why do ye wrong one to another Now this publick and private Peace we enjoy under good Kings and who doth enjoy it more then we under our own King We have been for many years whirled about with tumultuous broyles and covered with a deluge of Warr. Now the Dove hath found an Olve leaf and a resting place our Motto may be Aequova tuta filent and by whom have we this if not by next to God our King whose presence like the Sum at moon-day hath dissipated these dark and thick clouds which not long since darkened the whole Island of Britaine have we not then reason to Honour our King and that by a thankful acknowledgment that by him under God we enjoy this great quietness You merchants and Seamen and generally all of us who resids here must acknowledge our selves bound to honour our King it is scarse past twelve Moneths yet when you could not without great hazard of Pyrats and Capers pass to and fro about your business unless you had been beholden to Strangers and that at your own charge too for Convoyes Now there is none more free then you and I am sure if we will not acknowledge this as a benefit by demeaning your selves as good Subjects you will show your selves most unthankful and the very stones in the strees should cry out against you 2. The second benefit mentioned by the Apostle is Godliness A good Prince like Canutus before the Conquest makes Laws by Counsel of his Sages binding his Subjects to one Rule of Christian Religion he will have but one Christ one Creed one Religion one Faith one Baptism he will not have Diana and Paul's Preaching the Philistins Dagon and Gods Arke nor the Gospel and Popery to stand together nor will he light one candel ●o God and another to the Devil no composition no confusion of Religions as there was Languages at the building of Babel Have we not seen much of this since our Kings happy Restauration that damnable Tolleration once past in an Act hath received its deaths wounds Uniformity in the true Religion commanded and by that we have seen we have reason to expect that all shall be well and Popery as much discourted as the vvorst of the Fanaticks vvhich is the only fear novv Is it not manifest that our King hath begun his Reign well like another Josias passing Acts for the suppressing of Drunkenness and swearing and night walking the predominant sins of all Courts By which we may warrantably presume that as he increases in strength and power so the vigour and force of such Acts and many other as good shall be seen and felt to the danting and overturning of all those who presumptuously dare control them The third benefit is Honesty A good Prince hath a care that there be just and honest dealing betwixt man and man that he that hath much setting Honesty aside doth not tyrannize over him that hath little that doth not by fraud and violence holding that which is not his convert that which is anothers to his own use that People live not like beasts but Honestly and Uprightly one with another These three I say are great blessings which we enjoy under good Princes and the want of any of them is a great blemish in the Common-wealth Peace without Godlinesse is but Security and Godlinesse without Honesty is but Hypocrisie Honisty without Godlinesse is but Paganism and a glistring sin neither Godlinesse and Honesty without Peace can be well maintained Godlinesse is the sum of the first Table Honesty the sum of the second Peace a happy maner of enjoying both Thirdly we must honour the King in our vvords by praying to God for him I exhort therefore that first of all Prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men For Kings and all that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty 1 Tim. 2.1 2. Certainly if we will consider the great and weighty charge of Kings how all depends upon them we will never refuse to pay them this honour if we would consider the great commoditie and profit which we enjoy under their happy and peaceable Government as you have now heard a part of it we could not but be earnest with God in their beha●● that the Lord would give unto them the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding and of the fear of the Lord that they may know how to go out and in before us that Religion may flourish Vertue advanced and Vice may be curbed and punished this moved David Psalm 72.1.2 to pray thus in the behalf of his Son Solomon Give the King thy Judgments O God and thy righteousness unto the Kings Son He shall judge thy People with righteousness and thy poor with judgment And for this end also we must intreate God that he would remove far from him wicked base flatterers who seeks nothing but themselves that so his Throne may be established in Righteousness Prov. 25.5 fauning flatterie is an occupation fitter for a Dog then a Man and Princes have no Traitours like to flatterers if treacherie