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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85710	A sermon preached in the Citie of London by a lover of truth. Touching the power of a king, and proving out of the word of God, that the authoritie of a king is onely from God and not of man.	Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665.	1643 (1643)	Wing G2017; Thomason E104_17; ESTC R22414	21,757	29

their kingdomes by their subjects Pharoah suffered ten plagues for his tyrannie God suffers not rebellion to be one but Frogs Locust Caterpillars Famine sc Herod is destroyed not by subjects but by Lice It seemes God would not doe them the honour as to perish by the hands of men not by women Abimelechs feare not by enemies Sauls feare much lesse by subjects but in simili as they lived like beasts so must they be consumed Rebell not then doe not Tyrants that to much honour expect a while Gods potent and just revenge he is best skild how to suit and proportion punishments to the persons of Kings hee can take them away by some contumelious death and can send Arm es of Locusts Frogs and such base Vermin to destroy them You see how easie it is for God to take vengeance of his owne Kings No neede of deepe plots of many yeares contrivance no neede of hearing of incumbrance and distractions of your owne making and the wrath of God to the rest when Flies and Lice and Frogges in Pharaohs Chamber may serve the turne When as God not the people saith Calvin may turne Nebuchadnezzar to grasse among the beasts or the fielde And also that if notwithstanding this you will destroy your Kings remember whose places you supply of the most contemptible vermin living you who remaining in obedience are men not Iewes but Christians one day not men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kings in Gods owne kingdome by rebellion yee make your selves not Angels not Christians not Iewes no not men no not beasts of the better sort but Locusts but Frogs but starved Kine and Lice Nay yee shall bee as the dust of which God made the Lice and the Angell of the Lord scattering you It was an evill custome among the Goths to destroy their Kings upon any small displeasure and Barclay tells us of a custome in Burguney if they yeare brought forth no Corne they removed their King contrary to the proverb In Tacitus malum regem ster●lem annum aequo feramus Kings ruled with Burgandians by a prophetique Almanacke I pray God we in this Land prove not Burgundians If our luxurious and earthly pleasures and profits be crossd by the doctrines of the learned and pious Clergie or by the commands of the King though for our owne securitie and peace if we misse any of our former delights then Burgundian like Terra non peperit hoc anno nos ilaque pariamus what novum clerum novum Kegem noves leges new nothing but new confusion new distractions new schismes new incests new for number adulteries and when after lamentable experience you shall compare the old and new government together ye will say as our Saviour did of wine no man drinketh new Wine but faith the old is better I doe not here reprehend the whole people I have learned more Rhetorick from Quintili●n I know many went along with Absalon to the paying of his vow who were not in the rebellion many both menand women are like the Disciples going to Emaus whose hearts are warme within zealous for the truth but their eyes are holden by the seditious ignorant Ministers of the times that they cannot see the true face of Christianitie No I speake not to these but I speake to Burgundian Subjects Almanacke subjects who would faine change their King with their Religion and that once a yeare at least I speake to men ingaged to this earth to their covetousnesse to their lusts drunkennesse swearing gluttonie not in the Vniversitie onely but in the Towne and Country where not who when any rate or subsedie for the publike good either curb their customes in expensive v●ces or crosse their tenacious humours then Burgundian like Terra non poperit hoc anno Etevestigio there arise under thoughts of the King they expound his actions with disadvantage to his honour at length come up to him boldly to him with impudent questions Quid agis why are wee governed otherwise then we have a mind to be governd our selves Hard to hard is the condition of Kings if so much libertie be allowed to the Subjects if they at their unbounded pleasure may report a religious King to be superstitious a devout King a hypocrite if grave and serious austere and sullen if pleasant dissolute if mercifull to be defective in spirit and valour if severe against rebellion tyrannicall if bountifull though in policie profuse if provident for his Royal posteritie covetous if such insolent disgraces may passe uncensurd on the persons of Kings then actum est de regibus down with Kings and kingdomes Church and State and all union among the sons of men Fourthly May we not by natures principles question and remove evill Kings from us as wee doe evill beasts for the securitie of our estates and lives An answer from nature shal consure the question Drinke naturally quencheth thirst but if you take it in a feaver it will more inflame you then you may not consult with the inferiour appetite but with reason let bloud purge and potion directed by the direction of the Physitian not your own sense so in a Common-wealth diseased by Tyrannie the people may not use the inferiour right of private nature for in a Common-wealth private persons have given up their private right of punishing they cannot punish a private person for certaine not the King to whom their right is resignd what then if the disease be hot upon us we wee must be let bloud purge our luxuriant passions our inflamed rebellious humour remove each man his particular sinnes consult with the Physition of States by prayers and teares beseech the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who hath the hearts of Kings in his own hand and can upon submission to himselfe and his King either remove him or amend him Haec est expedissima via reprimendi tyrannidem saith Salibur Peccata enim delinquentium sunt vires tyrannorum Fifthly may not the people say unto the King what dost thou Or what art thou without the people Are not we the strength of a King Did not Pyrrhus say to his Souldiers they were his wings and he but the body I desire no greater honour to be given to the King then to be thought the body to a paire of wings goe see if he can flye without that body so it may be said next unto God in the King your body yee live and move and have your being and for your strength it is true yee have enough but for what even to eate up one another alive as it is in the Jewish proverb Sixthly But if the people have not those rights and priviledges which they enjoyd under his predecessors may they not come then to him with quid agis First all Kings in an elective kingdome by successionare pares they enter naturally upon jus integrum so that if any rights have passed from former Kings pejudiciall to the Crowne jure regni they returne againe yet Secondly if any right