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A65921	The dreadfulness of the sin of despising dominion and speaking evil of dignities represented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen, at the Guild-Hall chappel, July 30, 1682 / by John Whitfeld ...	Whitfield, John, 1630 or 31-1705.	1682 (1682)	Wing W2004; ESTC R8955	26,492	56

for ever and let this impression if we be not as flint to receive or water to retain none be made upon them in such indelible Characters as never to be obliterate stampt with the point of a Diamond Not to despise Soveraign Dominion sacred Dignities The Scripture is so far from allowing that it does perfectly abhor all such deportment amongst men Jude v. 9,10 worse than Michael the Arch-Angel would treat the Devil withal in his contest with him Angels that are greater infinitely far greater in power and might than the greatest of men 2 Pet. 2.10,11 bring not railing accusations as do these that despise Government Presumpruous are they and self-will'd most prodigiously so Nay not afraid to speak evil of Dignities which the Apostle makes such a very fearful sin past all sort of Parallel whatever For thus St. Peter falls in which our Apostle here is as copious also as St. Paul in this great and necessary argument spends whole Chapters 1 Pet. 2. 2 Pet. 2. the second of both his Epistles upon it to press obedience to Governours supreme and subordinate to every Ordinance of man for God's sake To the King therefore call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by an Etymology as true as it is trite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because he is the foundation upon which his Subjects are fixt for their Lives Estates Laws Liberties Religion the grand supporter of them all Prov. 29.4 And by Wisdome it self the wise King is call'd stabilimentum Populi the Peoples settlement most satisfactorily and compleatly so To the King as supreme so that the Apostle you see does solemnly assert the Kings Supremacy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and makes it to be originally of Divine Right Hard case then if we cannot afford it to be so when so it is the Will of God that it should be as there himself expresly has declar'd it that we should all of us duly and devoutly pay that Allegiance which we owe to the King as he is supreme Esa 45.1 Rom. 13.4 And seeing all Kings without distinction or restriction are Gods Vice-gerents we should without exception yield obedience to them whom by his Prophets he has so significantly stil'd his anointed and that Cyrus himself and by his Apostle Nero and Tiberius if not both the Ministers of God which is worthy of our observation What then will our Despisers and Defamers say to this do they nay do they not know these Scriptures or rather do they not wish them * I have seen those Chapters of St. Paul and St. Peter which press obedience to our Governours torn out of the Quakers Bibles and an impression of their own wherein they are wholly left out Rom. 13.5 out of their Bibles as they are with some and were out of the Churches in the Usurpation where I have seen Fear God left though but dimly so and Honour the King quite expung'd Well let the vilest of men say what they will do what they can against them these are great and fundamental Principles of Faith as well as Doctrine and Practice standing stable Truths First of Piety towards God and next of Honour Devoir and Duty towards the King whom next and immediately under God we all stand everlastingly oblig'd in Conscience to and for God to obey And 't is not a passive without active obedience that will serve to bear us out now or another day Though as to true conscientious and to give it the Kings own Epithete stedfast Loyalty well grounded thus fixt upon the Scriptures a little of that God knows goes a great way as the World has too long gone with us Yet sure I am the Apostle makes it a main Master-piece of Christianity when he joyns 1 Pet. 2.17 Fear God and honour the King so indivisibly together The greater their guilt that formerly and lately have attempted to make the separation of what God has made so inseparable Where there is the one there will be the other and without the one there can be nothing of the other He that is not a good Subject cannot be a good Christian a Rebel can never commence Saint though their Holy Father dubbs them so This the Scripture does avouch Isa 40.6 1 Pet. 1.25 and this we do and dare abide by being as sure as the word of our God which endureth for ever Thus we stand but thus they fall into errour willingly and wilfully so not knowing that is not regarding the holy Scriptures but still suppressing the Truth in unrighteousness Rom. 1.18 the Law of God Gospel of Christ Laws of the Land those of more antique and fresher Date by one of which it stands enacted to this purpose that whosoever shall defame the Kings Government in Church as well as State the Doctrine and Discipline by Law established shall thereby incur the severest of Penalties that can be inflicted Not knowing or at least not considering the Law of Nature and that of Nations though indeed the Civil Law which is hugely copious as to all other rights is more contract in that of Soveraignty as taking it for granted that none should dare to contradict it in the least That leaves Monarchs free to make their Subjects so more or less according to their own pleasure to which that has resign'd all as the Scripture does Not knowing the Laws of common humanity and Civility which would have taught them better words and things than such as these 2 Pet. 2.12 Jud. v. 10. But as meer Natural brute Beasts made to be taken and destroyed they speak evil of the things and Persons that they know not And what they know naturally in these things they continue to corrupt themselves and others so long till at last without Repentance and 't is not an ordinary share will serve their turn they shall utterly perish in their own corruptions wherewith they so deeply have contaminated themselves and the unfortunate age they live in They know not the Scriptures of former ages the Writings of the Holy Fathers next to the Holy Writ to be had in perpetual Veneration nor the Practice of the Primitive times how the good Christians then did honour and revere and only not adore their Kings and Emperours next and immediately after God they that were in those devouter ages next and immediately after Christ As they in their great and learned Apologies have registred and vouched to all the World instances from whom if I should once begin I should not know when or where to end How the Christian Church offered up their daily Devotions for Heathen Emperours the manner as well as matter of whose Prayers for them is recorded in the greatest of solemnity Manibus expansis quia innocuis capite nudo quia erubescimus precantes sumus semper pro omnibus Imperatoribus orbem quietum vitam longam Tertul. Apol. Whom in their Prayers and by their Practices they ever own'd as God does to be his anointed let their