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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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Wing B134; Thomason E114_16; ESTC R9675
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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 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