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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14262	God save the King A sermon preached in St. Pauls Church the 27th. of March 1639. Being the day of his Maiesties most happy inauguration, and of his northerne expedition. By Henry Valentine, D.D.	Valentine, Henry, d. 1643.	1639 (1639)	STC 24575; ESTC S103273	20,360	44

sets up an Idoll and consecrates a Priest Gibeah a City ravishes a woman to death Dan a Tribe fals to robbing of houses cutting of Throates Families Cities and Tribes all out of course and no soundnesse at all in the body politique The cause of all which disorder was the want of some body Not of a Priest to teach them but of a King to governe them A Priest there was in Israel but a King there was not and hence it was that every one did that which was right in his owne eyes and no body did that which was right in Gods eyes God be thanked a bad King is a Thing which the oldest man here cannot remember yet let me tell you that Tyranny is rather to be chosen then Anarchie and praestat sub malo principe esse quam nullo better a bad King then no King at all sayes Tacitus Better it is to feare one then many better one Lion then all the Beares and Bores and wilde beasts of the Forrest If the Trees cannot prevaile with the Vine or Olive to be their King yet a King they will have though it be but the Bramble I gave them sayes God a King in my anger and tooke him away in my wrath A bad King is the testimony of Gods anger but no King at all an argument of his wrath and indignation and wrath is the dregs and lees of the cup anger but the top of it So then the greatnesse of the evill which redounds to a Nation by the want of a King sufficiently commends the greatnesse of the blessing and great blessings must be entertained with sutable affections It was truly said of Balaam a false Prophet that the shout of a King was amongst them for all other expressions are too low and flat for it But these latter times have produced a generation of Vipers called Anabaptists who instead of rejoycing in their King raile at him and their devise is only how they may cast him downe whom God hath exalted for they affirme as impudently as ignorantly that Christian liberty makes the office of a Magistrate utterly unlawfull and Euangelicall perfection makes it altogether uselesse and superfluous and if it be unlawfull it is not a blessing but a curse if uselesse not a benefit but a burthen There is I confesse a glorious priviledge purchased for us by the death of Christ which wee call Christian liberty but it consists only in a freedome from the ceremonies the curse and rigour of the Law the power of Satan and dominion of sin not in a freedome from the Doctrine and Obedience of the Morall Law or the yoke of lawfull authority Civill or Ecclesiasticall For they that so understand it and apply it sayes S. Peter use their liberty for a cloake of maliciousnesse And S. Paul tels us that though we be called to liberty Gol. 5.13 yet we must not use our liberty for an occasion to the flesh As for Evangelicall perfection in their sense it is but an Idea a dreame a meere chimaera For good and bad wheate and chaffe are mingled together in the floore and sic fuit ab initio thus it was from the beginning and thus it will be unto the end till Christ come with his fan in his hand and thorowly purge his floore They that are good are but imperfectly good and so long as the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the law of the members fights against the law of the minde offences must needs come and Christians may do things punishable by the civill Magistrate Moses the Magistrate of Gods owne people had need have a rod in his hand and he shall meete with those in the congregation that deserve to be beat with it Else S. Paul had said in vaine writing to Christians si male egeris if thou doest that which is evill be afraid And S. Peters exhortation had been to no purpose 1. Pet. 4.17 Let none of you suffer as a murtherer or as a thiefe or as an evill doer or as a busie-body in other mens matters Sergius Paulus when he was converted to the Faith did not abjure his authority as a thing Antichristian Cornelius was made a Christian yet ceased not to be a Centurion The Eunuch was baptized yet did not relinquish his office and authority under the Queen of the Aethiopians Christ and Caesar may dwell together we may give unto God the things that are Gods and yet give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars we may feare God and yet honour the King and as they sinned that said we will have no King but Caesar so doe they also that say we will have no King but Christ no law but that of the Spirit And therefore S. Peter hath marked those out to be chiefly reserved to the day of Judgement to be punished 1 Pet. 2.10 who despise so great a blessing as Government For Non minor est usus Magistratus quàm panis aquae solis aeris Magistracy is no lesse needfull and necessary amongst men then bread and water the sun and the ayre sayes M. Calvin Inst l. 4. c. 20. All which are blessings so great and generall that men cannot live without them but by Miracle which brings me to the third circumstance the generality and universality of their joy All shouted 3. Fit it was that an universall benefit should be entertained with an universall joy A King is commune bonum a common good and good the more common it is the better it is and the better it is the more joy it occasions The Magistrate sayes S. Paul is the Minister of God to thee for good to thee whosoever thou art To thee Nobleman to thee Churchman to thee Gentleman to thee Tradesman to thee Husbandman to thee Merchant to thee Mariner Seneca tels Nero Anima Reipublicae tu es Lib. 1. de Clem. illa corpus tuum thou art the soule of the Common-wealth and the Commonwealth is thy Body Now the soule is tota in toto tota in qualibet parte whole in the whole body and whole in every part of it Even so the King inanimates and informes the whole collective body of the people and every particular man of it of what degree quality or profession soever so that to say wee have no part in David is the voice of a rebell for yong men and maids old men and children have all a part in him and profit by him Againe as a King is the soule so also he is the Sun of the Common-wealth according to that of the Psalmist Psal 89.36 His Throne shall be as the Sun The Sun is Sponsus naturae the beauty and Bridegroom of Nature appointed by God to rule the Day and it runs from one end of the Heavens unto the other so that nothing is hid from the heate and light of it but every creature from the Cedar to the Shrub receives benigne and propitious influences from it so a King as before I