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A66470	Religion exprest by loyalty in a sermon preach'd before the right worshipful Samuel Swift Esq., Mayor of the ancient, honourable and loyal city of Worcester, the first Sunday after his inauguration or instalment, being the 19th day of October, in the year of our redemption 1684, at the parish church of St. Swithin, upon a text selected by William Swift, Esq. (his truly loyal father) being the 21st. & 22d. verses of the 24th chapter of Solomons Proverbs, in these following expressions / by Will. Williams ...	Williams, William, Inferior Brother to the venerable and orthodox clergy.; Swift, William.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2790; ESTC R12293	14,287	42

Authority yet are they so limmited by the restriction of Divine Precepts that they ought not to act any thing contradictory either to sound justice or judgment because the Soveraign duty of these Monarchs chiefly consists in matters of Religion that is in establishing the Faith secundum verbum Dei according to the word of God and to take care when it is so establish'd that it be reverently esteem'd and practiced both by themselves and their Subjects Also the Law of God and nature duly observed mildness and meekness used towards the vertuous likewise correction and instruction to those that are vitious in order to reclaim them unto a sober and Godly Conversation But in every respect justice and impartiality ought to be used towards all manner of Persons be they of what Nature Degree or Quality soever And as these forementioned particulars are the incumbent duties of superior Powers imposed upon them for the Glory of God the good of his Church and the wel-fare of Kingdoms and Common-weals So likewise every inferior Person through the vast Circumference of the whole Universe is obliged both by the Laws of God and Nature to pay unto his Governor whether Statesman Prince King or Emperor such respect love obedience dues and customs as shall accrue Tributary to that Potentate or Plenipotentiary according to the precepts and injunctions of those practicable and penal Laws For we may discern by the light of reason in case any subject being capable will refractorily omit to support his Prince in time of necessity when occasion calls for the assistance of his Purse or Person that at such an opportunity the Prince may justly refuse to own or protect him as his Subject But to prevent such miscarriages the wisest of Temporal Kings even Solomon himself has left us many presidential Precepts to create mutual respects between the one and the other so that we need not have recourse to the Athenian Schools nor consult the writings of Philosophers for they are so near unto us as to be found in the Oracles of God where as so many Golden Rules they direct and stir us up to tender our Allegiance unto Supremacy And this is clearly evidenc'd in the Foundation of my present Discourse where a King prescribing to his Subject the Law of Loyalty confers upon him the Title of a Son that he might become obedient by the advice of his Father as observing that a Father will give no ill Council to the Son unless when deceiv'd in his own judgment And such a Father was indulgent Solomon King of Israel for when he Reigned in his unparrallel'd pomp and Grandeur at Jerusalem he was Pater Patriae to the Israelites a Father that gave them good and wholesom instructions as apparently appears by the arguments he made use of to make a son born in his Kingdom become a Loyal Subject to his Prince perswading him in the first place to fear God and the King Secondly not to meddle with them that are given to change Thirdly to beware of their sudden Calamities Fourthly to eschew the ruine of such disorderly Dissenters All which cautions are compendiously comprehended in the words of my present Text where King Solomon gives this prudent admonition in the Person of one to all other subjects saying to each of them My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both In which words we may take notice of four remarkable particulars First Solomons Exhortation unto every rational Person to Fear Honour and Obey both God and his Legal Soveraign as appears in the former clause of the first Verse in my Text where he saith My Son fear thou the Lord and the King Secondly His dehortation to disswade or withdraw a Subject from adhering to such People as change their principles and practices from Regal Government manifested by these words of the latter clause in my first Verse And meddle not with them that are given to change Thirdly His demonstration of sudden and certain Calamities that by the Hand of Divine Justice are recompensible upon such Schismatical Dissenters And this is urg'd from the first branch of the second Verse in my Text where Solomon affirms That their Calamity shall rise suddenly Fourthly The destruction of that Empire Kingdom or Principality wherein the Subjects are Arbitrarily divided both among and against themselves which also is inferred from the last branch in my Text where Solomon propounds this Ominous Interrogatory And who knoweth the ruine of them both I shall Counterpoise these four particulars with four other pertinent propositions arising naturally from the words of the Text where in the first place I will assert that it is the incumbent duty of every rational Person to Fear God and Honour his King 2dly I shall affirm that he who fears God ought in such a manner to Honour his King as not to side with those that would alter or change his Government 3dly I will prove by express Testimonies of Scripture that sudden Calamities have ensued upon the Rebellion of Schismatical and Factious People 4thly I shall maintain that in whatever Nation the People are Arbitrarily divided in opposition to the Government such enterprizes portend those parties ruine 5thly and Lastly I will infer the application both from the Premises and the Conclusion of my Text. These are the points which with God's Assistance I design to insist upon in order whereunto I shall begin with the foremost Namely to Assert That it is the incumbent duty of every rational Person to Fear God and Honour his King as being suitable with the first clause in my Text where Solomon saith My Son fear thou the Lord and the King The Omnipotent and Eternal Jehovah being the Supreme Monarch of Heaven and Earth stil'd The King of Kings and Lord of Lords ought to be feared honoured and obeyed before any other Potentate whatsoever forasmuch as he is their Creator and Governor bearing rule over all the world and therefore to be feared as the King of Nations according to the observation of the Prophet Jeremiah in the 10 Chap. of his Prophecy Vers 7. Where he saith Who will not fear thee O King of Nations Where King of Nations is Gods own Prerogative although he hath given the Earth to the Children of Men as appears in the 115 Psal Vers 16. And it is divided into Portions among Princes even such as are Gods Vicegerents to whom next God we must also render our fear and obedience because they are Commissionated by him to bear the Sword of Justice and that both for the punishment of evil doers and the encouragement of them that do well that is for the encouragement of those who Fear God and Honour their Lawful Soveraign living in Peace and Unity among themselves which is the duty that Solomon enjoyns in the first Clause of my Text where he saith to every Subject

My Son fear thou the Lord and the King Whatever Laws or Edicts are established by a King either Concordant or not contradictory to the word of God It is the duty of every sober Subject to have as much regard to their tendency as if they were immediately deliver'd by the Mouth of God himself for every Prince is conditionally Gods Pleni-potentiary unto whom he gives tolleration to enact such useful Laws as may be requisite towards the support and preservation of his Government from which Laws all subordinate Magistrates derive Power to punish such offenders as wilfully violate or contemn the same according to the merit of the offence committed An incomparable instance whereof we have in a gracious Commission which Princely Artaxerxes the Persian King granted to Priestly Ezra a famous Scribe in the Law of Moses as appears in the 7th Chap. of the Book of Ezra at the 25 and 26 Verses where Artaxerxes delivered his Commission unto him in these very words And thou Ezra after the wisdom of thy God which is in thine hand set Magistrates and Judges which may judge all the People that are beyond the River all such as know the Laws of thy God and teach ye them which know them not And whosoever will not do the Law of thy God and the Law of the King let judgment be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment These are the Legal Penalties to be inflicted upon all those that despise the Injunctions of God and the King to make such mutinies and insurrections in a Realm as might be detrimental to the form of Government which must needs be a great aggravation to the Supream Majesty of Heaven who in the eighth Chapter of Solomons Proverbs at the fifteenth and sixteenth Verses speaks thus of Superior Powers By me Kings Reign and Princes decree Justice By me Princes Rule and Nobles even all the Judges of the Earth Seeing therefore that all Kings Princes Nobles and Judges of the Earth have their Regallity Decrees and Ordinances from God then must it be the duty of all their inferiors to tender their obedience unto such Decrees Acts or Ordinances as they by Commission from God shall impose upon the Subjects And this is the Apostolical advice of St. Peter in his 1st Epistle Chapter the second at the thirteenth and fourteenth Verses Where to the Strangers scattered throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bythinia he spake these expressions Submit your selves to every ordinance of Man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well From whence we may observe that every Magistrate acting for the glory of God and the good of his King ought for their sakes to be reverently esteemed and obeyed I might alledge several Testimonies of Scripture in the proof of this point As Genesis the 41th and 40th Where Pharaoh said unto Joseph Thou shalt be over my House and according to thy Word shall all my People be rul'd And in the sixteenth Chapter of Exodus Verse the eighth we read how the Israelites in murmuring against Moses their Chief Prince and Aaron their Chief Priest did more abundantly murmur in their Hearts against God For saith the Text The Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him And what are we Your murmurings are not against us but against the Lord. Also in the 17th Chapter of Deuteronomy the 10th 11th and 12th Verses Moses being the Chief Magistrate of the Israelites spake unto them these words And thou shalt do according to the Sentence which they of that place which the Lord shall chuse shall shew thee and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee According to the Sentence of the Law which they shall teach thee and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee thou shalt do Thou shalt not decline from the Sentence which they shall shew thee to the right hand nor to the left And the Man that will do presumptuously and will not hearken unto the Judge even that Man shall die and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel The like Testimony we find in the First Chapter of Joshua at the 16th 17. and 18th Verses Where the Hebrews spake thus to their Champion Joshua All that thou commandest us we will do and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things so will we hearken unto thee Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy Commandment and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him he shall be put to death Whatever Precepts in the Old Testament require our obedience to Superior Powers we find such Precepts fully confirmed in the New as appears in the 22d Chap. of St. Matthew's Gospel at the 21st Verse Where our Saviour said unto Simon Peter Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods To render God and Caesar their dues was the godly practice of the Apostles and therefore both St. Paul and St. Peter have left us sufficient rules to imitate their Religious and Loyal Conversation as it is apparent in the 13th Chap. of the Epistle to the Romans at the 1st and 2d Verses Where St. Paul saith Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers For there is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation St. Peter also hath the like rule in his first Epistle 2d Chap. at the 17th Verse where he saith Honour all Men love the Brotherhood fear God honour the King Thus much shall suffice in reference to the first proposition from which I asserted that it is the incumbent duty of every rational Person to Fear God and Honour his King as being suitable with the first clause in my Text where Solomon saith My Son fear thou the Lord and the King From whence I proceed to handle the 2d proposition namely to affirm that he who fears God ought in such a manner to honour his King as not to side with those that would alter or change his Government as answerable to these words of the second clause in my first Verse And meddle not with them that are given to change It is very remarkable that by the discord of the Arians Multitudes of People fell away from Christianity to Gentilism and Infidelity so likewise by our late Animosities in this Kingdom many chang'd their Opinions and Practises to Rantism Atheism and Impiety in King James his days of blessed memory several Persons began to cry for the Geneva Discipline and Scottish Reformation in the Church whereupon the ignorant multitude was so stirred up that like an Aegyptian Plague

Subject that is to infer the Application both from the Premises and the Conclusion of my Text. Since therefore that all Persons fearing God ought to honour and obey their lawful Soveraign and not to meddle with such People as change from his Government by reason the Calamities of such shall suddenly arise yea even to ruine and destroy them in their unlawful Enterprises Then let it be our Christian care and diligence so to fear God and honour the King as to be in due subjection to all the subordinate Magistrates as those that are sent by them for the punishment of offenders more especially to the right Worshipful the present Mayor to whom God and the King have committed the Sword of Justice to execute Judgment in this City That as his name is Samuel he might therewith Samuel-like hew Disloyalty and Sedition in pieces as Agag the troubler of Israel was hew'd before the Lord in Gilgal which passage is observable in the 15. Chapter of the first of Samuel at the 33. ver But in the 22 23. ver of the same Chap. the Prophet Samuel hath an excellent Observation in reference to Obedience and Loyalty where he speaks these Expressions Behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken then the fat of rams For Rebellion is as the sin of VVitchcraft and stubborness is as Iniquity and Idolatry But to put a Period to such wilful Practices I shall insert this Christian Caution That if in case any Persons be dejected by reason of accusing Consciences for withdrawing themselves long since from the Communion of their Mother-Church or neglecting their Duty of Loyalty to the King as the Foster-Father thereof And notwithstanding all this have an earnest desire for the future of being conformable to the said Church in complyance with the Apostle's Council who would have God to be fear'd and the King honoured I do ardently intreat all such for the calming or appeasing of their Consciences to lay hold on the present opportunity that their Obedience and Gods Mercy might meet together so that Righteousness and Peace may perpetually kiss each other In the pursuit of which duty St. Paul gives us a Christian and a Catholick exhortation in his first Epistle to Timothy the 2. Chap. at the 1 2 3. ver where he delivers this Apostolical charge That first of all Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving of Thanks be made for all men For Kings and for all that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable Life in all Godliness and Honesty For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour This was the practice of the holy Apostles and also the Rule of the Primitive Fathers Imitation as appears by a certain Prayer or Collect recited by Tertullian a reverend Father of the primitive Church in behalf of the antient Emperors Worded in these Expressions God Almighty who is the Protector and Defender of Kings Grant to your Sacred Majesty a long Life a happy Reign a secure State and Habitation a strong Army a faithful Senate or Councel and a Loyal People This Prayer is very requisite to be minded by every Loyal-hearted Person both for the Good of his Soveraign and himself more especially by the Subjects of this Kingdom that God might be intreated to make our King so pious prosperous and puissant in his Princely Enterprizes as that all European Tongues may unanimously confess CAROLUS Ille MAGNUS Charles he is the Great By the blessing of God he is great in this Nation and also Good to the Nation for this Kingdom is blessed both in his Regal Descent and Royal Deportment as to his Descent he is well known to be the Son of Nobles In which respect Solomon saith in the 10th Chap. of his Ecclesiastes at the 17. ver Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the Son of Nobles Our Royal Charles is so Noble in all his Actions that I can parallel him with none but prudent and princely Solomon like unto whom in the first Place God has endued his heart with extraordinary Wisdom To go in and out before the great People of this Kingdom committed to his Princely Tuition 2. As Solomon was called Lemuel a King belonging to the Lord so also may our King For he is one belonging unto him 1st In that he is The Defender of his Holy Catholick and Apostolick Faith 2dly As Solomon was named Jedidiah a King beloved of the Lord so likewise may our Soveraign for it is certain that he was so beloved of the Lord as to be wonderfully rescued and preserved from the furious rage of his enemies not only before and at his Royal Restauration but also at sundry other times both at home and abroad 3dly As Solomon was called Shelemo a peaceable and a quiet King so may our CHARLES for he was so quiet and peaceable as not to revenge much of his Fathers Blood upon the heads of his Enemies neither fully to recompense their cruelty upon those Persons who by commixing Villany with Violence lately attempted to embrue their polluted hands in his own Royal Blood So that his Majesty might have taken up a doleful Lamentation in allusion to that of the Daughter of Sion mentioned in the 4. Chap. of Jeremiah at the 31. ver That bewaileth her self and that spreadeth her hands saying Wo is me now for my Soul is wearied because of Murtherers But may God Almighty preserve our Prince his gracious Person from all such Diabolical and Inhumane Attempts by establishing Peace within the Walls of his Three Kingdoms and Prosperity in the Palaces thereof That all his Subjects may live so peaceably and quiet under their Vines and their Fig-trees as to be free from the fear of Evil. Which that we may do Let us implore God the Father for the sake of God the Son to endue us with the Grace of God the Holy Ghost at all times in all places and upon all occasions to put in practice that Sacred Admonition of prudent Solomon the Son of David in the Words of my present Text where he saith to every Subject My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruin of them both Now to God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost a Trinity of Consubstantial Persons subsisting in the Deity of one Individual Essence be ascribed as is most due all Honour Glory Power and Praise from henceforth even for ever more AMEN FINIS