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A07454	A sermon preached before the Generall Assembly at Glascoe in the kingdome of Scotland, the tenth day of Iune, 1610. By George Meriton Doctor of Diuinitie, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines	Meriton, George, d. 1624.	1611 (1611)	STC 17840; ESTC S112673	19,738	40

profitable to our selues who enioy the good of gouernment by it And therefore necessitate finis praecepti both in respect of end and of command it is necessary we should obey Our Sauiour Christ by his precept and by his practise sheweth that we owe subiection howsoeuer some would exempt themselues Christus aliter iussit aliter gessit as S. Bernard Luke 20. 25. speaketh He taught otherwise Giue vnto John 19. 11. Caesar that which is Caesars He wrought otherwise for he submitted himselfe vnto the Roman Magistrate His Apostles did treade in their Masters steps Acts 25. Paul appealed vnto Caesar and appeared before Caesar Jude 8. as his lawfull Gouernour S. Iude detested them as false Prophets who despised gouernment and 1. Peter 2. 13. spake euill of those that were in authority S. Peter exhorteth all to submit themselues to all manner ordinance of man for the Lords sake In the dayes of the Apostles Kings and Gouernours were worshippers of Diuels and most cruell persecutors of the Christian faith O how are we bound then to honour a religious King which is a defendor of the faith and a nursing Father vnto the Church of God How needfull a thing is it that his will should be done who commandeth for the truth non tam de nobis quam à nobis and done I say not so much on vs as of vs If we must yeeld to the sroward 1 Peter 2. 13. with what gladuesse of heart should we expresse our obedience to the good and courteous now as Scripture prescribeth this so doth danger plead for it Rex est in medio Inimicorum Though thousands of faithfull Subiects stand round about him yet many a false hearted Papist presseth neare vnto him The Protestants are not more ready to defend him then the Popish sort are to write against him Thone side labour not more to preserue then the other to disturbe and ouerthrow his Kingdomes Their bloudy practises both at home and abroad hath stamped them for King-Killers and made them odious to the world Now my beloued the Preacher Ecclesiast 4. 12. tels vs that a three-fold corde is not easily broken Here is Nature Scripture Danger to binde vs in obedience But alas these are like Sampsons cords Iudges 15. 14. but as flaxe that is burnt with the fire vnto some fiery and surious spirits Who when they are in strongest opposition to their King deem themselues to be in deepest denotion to their God then most couragious when they are most factious and stoutest Champions for Christ when they most cōtend with his annointed scorning men of an obedient would as if they were but dull and drowsie fellowes What my Brethren shall nature call vpon vs and Scripture command vs and shall we stoppe our eares shall the King be next the fire it is your owne phrase I haue learned it from your selues and will you thrust him in will you giue him cause to say vnto you as Christ to his Apostles Will you also forsake me Hath he not a rabble of rebellious Popists to withstand him but will his Protestants also resist him Will you gainsay the godliest the wisest the louingest King that euer you enioyed no you will not for howsoeuer an erronious conscience may make no conscience of disloyaltie yet your holy Consent in this publique businesse declares your consciences to be better informed Fourthly There is almost no greater slauerie then to yeeld Subiection to the Pope who is a Clogmaker for Conscience and whose rules are Snares to the Soules of men who albeit he calles himselfe the Seruant of the Seruants of God yet as Austin saith of Antichrist Let vs obserue ad quid v●●it non quid sonat what his deedes are not what are his Iob 41. words and we shall finde him as Iob speaketh of the Leuiathan the King of the children of pride and therefore the Master seruant of the seruants of the Diuell The power which he now challengeth is most extravagant they call him Dominum montium Dominum vallium the Lord of the Mountaines and the Lord of the valleyes and S. Peters Keyes are so improued as piscatores hominum are become piscatores imperiorum Fishers of men fishers of Monarchies That ruffling Priest of Rome dares now be bolde cum Leonibus tanquam cum Agnis Ludere to depriue Kings of their States to discharge subiects from their obedience to incroch vpon Quarters which neyther belong to Church nor Church-yard swimming in his Sea with the bladders of Ambition drowning the Church in her owne bloud and turning Hierusalem the Citie of peace into Acheldama the field of bloud Will you endure to heare what this man can do He is able iudicially to pardon sinnes and to retaine them at his pleasure to binde and vnbind to play fast and loose like a Iugler to dispence with an Oath if neede require and for a good childe at a pinch with Gods commandements What can he not doe if you will beleeue him Pleaseth it you to know what his Holiship hath done ex vngue Leonem from a few thing esteeme of the rest Hee made the Emperor Fredericke to hold his stirrup Lodowicke to take his Crowne and possessions at his hands Otho the first Henry the sift Sigismonde and Charles the first to kisse his feete Inuenit aliquid infra genua quo libertatem detruderet as Seneca speaketh of Caligula He excommunicated Otho the fourth Henry the fourth Philip and the Fredericks first and second His Bulles haue come bellowing and his Breues blustering against the person of a late Noble Queene and against the purposes of our Royall King VVill you heare what he is He is the Sonne vpon the Earth the Prince of the world and so is the Diuell too an Vniuersall Bishop not a meere man but a God hauing plenitudinem potestatis for these are titles giuen him by his Canonists Time will not suffer me to describe him as I would Enough hath becne spoken to shew you that English Ministers are no Popish Priests who hold him no better then Meridianus Daemon as Bernard cals Antichrist then that noone Diuell who from the hill of pride hath deceiued the world blinded the people corrupted the faith peruerted the Scriptures confounded Diuine and humane Lawes And yet beholde once againe my beloued whither a blinde zeale of a bad conscience doth carry many men Are not diuers as fast tyed to this man of Sinne as the eare of a Slaue was wont to be nayled to the threshold of his Master If he saith come they come if goe they go if poyson if murther if practise Treason if stabbe Kings and Princes if runne to the Diuell they are ready for to doe it yeelding their absolute obedience without making question O the admirable force of Conscience vehemens est in vtranque partem which way soeuer it taketh it is puissant and powerfull If it be not well grounded it preferreth parity before Order discord before peace disloyalty before obedience slauerie before freedome and as it dealeth in these so according to the testimony true or false doth it make or marre all our actions and fill vs with a true or counterfeit ioy Let it be our care therfore I beseech you now and euer to looke vnto our testimonies And the God of wisdome guid vs with his spirit and giue vs knowledge in his word that hauing our vnderstandings illuminated and our Consciences sanctified wee may doe those things which are pleasing in his sight that our hearts abounding with true ioy in this life we may enter into our Masters ioy in the life to come Heare vs deere Father God of all ioy and comfort euen for Christes sake to whom with thee and the holy Spirit be all praise power and dominion now and for euer AMEN FJNJS