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A description of a prerogative royal. Shevving how far a soveraigne may according to the VVord of God require service of his subjects by his prerogative. Also how far a subject is to give true obedience unto his soveraigne. By M: B. wishing happy prosperity unto the King, Parliament and kingdome.
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true Christianity And those miserable wretches being crost in their wicked designes have laboured by all meanes possible to make variance betweene the King and his Parliament and so by this consequence they raise a breach between the King and this Kingdome by their inchanting spirituall witchery flattering and dissembling and so seducing the King under pretence of honesty and plaine dealing when there is no such matter but only meere deceit and all for their owne ends But be they what they will be so long as they continue in those wicked courses and practises that make themselves instruments and slaves to their master the Divell and he will one day pay them their wages to their utter shame and confusion of soule and body for evermore except God in his mercy doe give them grace to repent The second Use is to advise them to pray unto God that he will be mercifull unto them to open the eyes of their understanding and to give them a cleare sight and feeling of their sins that they may not be blinded in them through delight or custome as reprobates are But that they may bee weary of them much grieved for them if the Lord of his mercy touch their hearts with true repentance that they bee inwardly sory for all sins not to take any delight or pleasure in any â—in but that they turne to the Lord with all their heart and seeke him while he may be found and call upon him when he is neare and whiles he offereth grace and mercie unto them before it be too late Furthermore seeing the King is subject to none but to God then here is a duty for all Christian Subjects to entreat the Lord by dayly prayer so to sanctifie and direct our Kings heart that he may raigne rule and governe us according to his blessed and sacred will revealed in his word that is to say in Truth Iudgement and Righteousnesse and that God would vouchsafe to enrich his royall heart with the manifold graces of his holy Spirit that he may be an advancement to his glory and comfort to his Church and a terror to his enemies keeping from treason and treacheriet at home and abroad and especially from the conspiracie of Romanists and from seducing deluding flatterers giving him to see what belongs to his peace and give him a heart earnestly bent to set up the practice of the same give him all grace necessary for his place and necessary for his owne salvation continue his government peaceably and prosperously amongst us and as thou hast made him the breath of our nostrills and a gracious instrument for the saving of many thousand soules So O Lord let his owne soule be saved in the day that thy Sonne Jesus Christ shall appeare and grant deare Father that wee his subjects may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty and now O Lord we beseech the strengthen his Majesty and sanctifie his royall affection that he may imitate thy good servant King David in the reformation of his house from the nearest to the furthest the highest to the lowest fix his eyes O Lord upon the faithfull of the land that they may dwell with him Psal 101. and to have respect to those that walke in the perfect way to serve him and give him O Lord a setled resolution that no deceitfull person dwell within his house and he that flattereth and telleth lies may not remaine in his sight Amen so be it So that if all faithfull subjects that are Housholders will take this for a president to receive and entertaine good and faithfull servants and to turne out all wicked and profane wretches that have no feare of God before their eyes so that when these people shall see themselves cast out of the favour of God good men and their services and pious families by reason of their wicked behaviour by this means they may be brought to see their owne misery and grosse sins they have committed and considering what vile wretched persons they have been like to the prodigall sonne spoken of in the Gospel Luke 15. thereby grace may worke upon them as to turne their wayes from evill to goodnesse and change their mindes from vice to vertue and to pray to God to give them true and hearty repentance that whereas they were before prophaners of the Lords day they may be sanctifiers of the Lords day of blasphemers and foule mouth'd swearers to become reverend speakers of proud to bee humble of damnable idolaters to bee true worshippers of God according to his Word of railers and spitefull haters of the true preachers and professors of Gods Word to be true hearted lovers of the Preachers and professors of Gods Word of ignorants of God to learne to be well acquainted with God and his word of hurtfull harmlesse of filthy whore-mongers and wantons to become chaste livers of beastly drunkards to become sober people of cheaters and theeves to hate and detest all sinne as the very hang-man or cut-throat of our soules These are some of the fruits of true repentance so that they may be regenerated faithfull and religious people to the glory of God and salvation of our own soules in Jesus Christ our onely Saviour and Redeemer But now to answer to an objection that may bee made by Papists Atheists Newters and Protestants at large Object This which you have before spoken is too much precisenesse we are not to live so precisely and none are so precise but Puritans Answ First precisenesse in matters of Religion is not only necessary but also of necessity because St. Paul doth confirme it In the time or after the way which you call heresie so worship I the God of my Fathers beleeving all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets Acts 24.14 Secondly precisenesse in Religion is of necessity else we should be ignorant of the knowledge of God and then mark what judgements of God will follow Saint Paul saith in the Romans chap. 1. vers 28. For as they regard not to know God even so God delivereth them up unto a reprobate mind to doe the things that are not convenient Againe in 2 Thess 1.8.9 And unto you that are troubled resteth us when the Lord Jesus shall shew himselfe with his mighty Angels in flaming fire rendring vengeance to them that know not God and obey not the Gospell of our Lord Jesus Christ which shall be punished with everlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power Thirdly I would willingly know what opinion Puritans as you tear me them doe hold contrary to that as every one hath promised to God in his baptisme and is bound upon pain of damnation to performe it If you can prove any thing contrary to that covenant made unto God then make it appeare and spare not But if you cannot prove any thing contrary to that we have promised and vowed in our Baptisme as indeed you cannot then take heed how you doe hate and deride the Preachers and Professors of the Gospel giving them nick-names and scoffing termes for Christ his words wil prove true that hath threatned against those railing despitefull and envious wretches that it shall be easier for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement then for such Matth. 10.15 Then being so it were good for those people that are given over to such a habit of deriding and despising Gods ordinances that they take into consideration the great danger they doe pull upon their owne soules and bodies which are judgements in this life and eternall torment in the world to come First judgements in this life as ignorants of God thereby comes blindnesse of minde Esa 6.9.10 and 59.8.9 10. Hardnesse of heart infidelity and unbeliefe Matth. 3.5 Exo. 9 34.35 Secondly eternall torments as to be separated from a good and mercifull gracious God and to burne in the lake of fire and brimstone for evermore which is the second death Rev. 21.8 Consider what is said and the Lord be with your understanding in all things 1 Tim. 2.7 FINIS
A DESCRIPTION Of a PREROGATIVE ROYAL SHEVVING How far a SOVERAIGNE may according to the VVord of God require service of his Subjects by his PREROGATIVE Also How far a Subject is to give true obedience unto his SOVERAIGNE By M. B. wishing happy prosperity unto the King Parliament and Kingdome Acts 2 17. And it shall be in the last dayes saith God I will powre out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophesiâ— and your young men shall see visions and your old man shall dreame dreams Psal 119.46 I will speake of thy testimonies also even before Kings and will not be ashamed London Printed for T. B. 1642. The description of a PREROGATIVE ROYALL WHereas it hath beene and is a great question about a Prerogative Royall and the liberties thereof by Papists Atheists Newters or men of no religion that seeke after preferment and authority by cogging flattering and lying and not by christian upright dealing and thereby do abuse the King our Soveraigne pulling and stretching out his prerogative untill it bee rejected of all true subjects and doe not onely abuse the King under pretence of his Prerogative Royall but doe thereby falsifie the truth of it for they do describe the Kings Prerogative in this manner saying That his Majesty may by his Prerogative command the goods the Chattells and the lives of any his subjects inhabiting within his kingdome and dominions and that is false which you shall see anon Now seeing that Antichrist his brood can make bold to describe a Prerogative Royall in a false maner to set the king and his subjects at variance I do thinke it not onely necessarie but also of necessity for a christian subject to describe the truth of a Prerogative Royall thereby to set peace betweene the king and his subjects so farre forth as it shall please God to give his blessing thereunto And now to the matter what the Kings Prerogative is as namely that the King is subject to none but to God So that he may have command of the subjects whatsoever things necessary and necessitie doth require so farre forth as the truth of his Prerogative doth extend Object Then the King may command or require whatsoever the malignant party aforesaid hath spoken of before Answ No for as the King is subject to none but to God so he is subject onely to God alone and for to give an account unto God for all his workes whether good or evill so that the office of a King as it is the greatest dignitie and honour in all the world so it is a heavie burden being well considered and flatterers inchanters or spirituall witches will make it more heavie if God in his mercie do not defend him from those wicked fiends But the truth is a Prerogative Royall doth stand upon three points or architects that is to say foundation supportation and obligation even so doth the Prerogative Royall stand upon the foundation of truth supportation of judgement obligation or bond of righteousnesse now if any of these three points be wanting in architect the building cannot stand Even so likewise in a Prerogative Royall it stands as aforesaid upon these three points but after a mysticall manner as first the foundation of truth secondly the suportation of judgement and thirdly the bond of righteousnesse And these three points hath God commanded the Kings Prerogative to stand upon as first in the booke of Deuteronomie the 17. chap. the 18.19 and 20. verses Giving us to understand that Kings must be godly and religious whose affections must bee still to obey the truth the will and the word of God wherby he may be a discerner of truth from falshood and and not to be carried away with every winde of false doctrine as many Kings are The second point that the Prerogative is upholden by is judgement for if a man have never so good foundation in the truth yet if he have no judgement to support the truth aright whereby doth proceed matter of true faith as good not know the truth for without truth it is impossible to please God even so the Kings prerogative must have judgement to uphold the truth for he that hath not true judgement is subject to many errors and falls into heresies and is alwaies apt and ready to be deluded and miserably deteined The third point upon which a good building doth consist is Peace Obligation and a sound Band for in Architect the foundation the supportation being never so firme to shew yet if it have not good Band to hold it outward together it will soone fall and be ruinated Even so stands the case of a Prerogative Royall if it have not truth and having truth hath not judgement and having judgement have not the bond of Righteousnesse it can be no Prerogative Royall for God hath commanded in the 22. of Jeremy the 1 2 3 4 and 5. verses So here we vulgar sort of people may see upon what ground the Kings Prerogative doth stand as namely upon Truth Judgement and Righteousnesse so as Truth and Judgement doe teach matter of Faith so Judgements and Righteousnesse doe teach manners of life and conversation So that here we may learne and observe that as it is the duty of all Kings from God to raigne to rule to governe and command in their severall Kingdomes and Dominions all the subjects according to the Prerogative afore mentioned So it is the duty of every subject from God faithfully to obey his Soveraigne Lord the King according to the same Prerogative as in Truth Judgement and Righteousnesse and this in the performance of this duty will make a good accommodation and reconciliation between King and People Soveraigne and Subject As in Joshua the first Chapter 16. and 17. verses And they answered Joshua saying All that thou hast commanded us will we doe and whithersover thou sendest us will we goe as we obeyed Moses in all things so will we obey thee onely the Lord thy God be with thee as he was with Moses Whosoever shall rebell against thy Commandements and will not obey thy words in all that thou commandest him let him be put to death only be strong and of a good courage Object Then the King may command what he please Answer As Moses and Joshua did receive Gods will by immediate meanes so the King and his People must receive the will of God by immediate meanes as namely from the written word of God This being so it is a maxime inviolable the use that wee are to make is this that it doe not onely reprove but also condemne those that doe abuse and falsifie the Kings Prerogative saying and holding that the King may command by his Prerogative the lives lands and goods and chattells of any subject or subjects when or wheresoever he pleaseth and so consequently doe make of a good King a witty tyrant not onely in matters of faith but also in manners of life wherein doe consist the mark of