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Certaine observations upon some texts of Scripture gathered together for the setting forth the Kings avthority and the peoples dvty.
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their defence and shield and not put confidence in man 4 To make all their Lawes and decrees and ordinances according to the Lawes of God and their sentences and words to be as the Oracles of God 5 To shew a cheerfull countenance and their due respects to their good subjects And to hold forth the Attributes of God according to the word of truth and to shew mercy and to do righteous works 6 To endeavour to have all one godly Ministry one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one union in Religion and Church Government and no liberty if they walke contrary to God 7 To appoint Governours and to Authorize them to punish evill doers and to praise them that do well And let us now see the duty of Godly Rulers to their King 1 GOdly Rulers and Elders must desire to have a King to Rule them and to Govern them 2 Godly Rulers have no power to chuse a King to dis-throne a King or to imprison a King 3 Godly Rulers ought to pray for the King to pray for the long life of the King and not compare themselves to the King nor thinke slightly of the King 4 Godly Rulers ought to strive to maintain the Kings Honour the Princes innocency and not to seperate the King and the Queene 5 Godly Rulers ought to punish evill doers and to praise them that do well And here next behold the Prophets duty 1 ANd they are to Prophesie Loyalty and Obedience to the Kings commands 2 They are to offer Sacrifice to pray for the King and his Sons 3 They are to preach to the people subjection to supreame Authority And because we will have compassion on the multitude and not let them depart without a blessing we will shew them their duty And here observe now and behold the peoples duty to their King 1. THe peoples duty is to pray for wisdome and understanding for the King 2. The peoples duty is to pray for the King by his name God save King Solomon God save King Charls 3. The peoples duty is to pray for the King and his seed for evermore 4. The peoples duty is not to compare themselves to the King nor thinke slightly of the King nor curse the King 5. The peoples duty is to maintain and uphold with their lives and estates the Kings honour and to humble themselves and submit their lives to the Kings mercy 6. The peoples duty is to obey all the Laws and commands of the King 7. The peoples duty is not to provoke the King to anger nor to controle the King nor to rise up against the King by thought by word or by weapon 8. The peoples duty is to serve and obey the King lest the punishment of disloyaltie to the Kings commands befall them as sword famine pestilence 9. The peoples duty is to pay customes or tributes to their King Caesar 10. The peoples duty is to observe the duty for fear of a greater punishment damnation is the reward of all those that resist the Kings supreame AUTHORITY blessednesse is the reward of all those that submit unto and obey the Kings supreame AUTHORITY And thus having laid ten commands upon the people to which they must all submit and obey Let us againe view and behold England And here by these commands of God by his servant Moses and by all his holy Prophets by the practice of Jesus Christ and by the commands of his holy Apostles Let us now with Moses the servant of the Lord call Israel to a reckoning and with Israel England and see what God could have done more for Israel England then he hath done Deut. 10.12 And now O Israel O England What doth the Lord thy God require of thee to fear the Lord thy God to walke in all his wayes to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes and to doe that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God Deut. 12.28 for it is true which S. Luke saith Luke 12.47 He that knows his Masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes And to this Christ himselfe saith Mat. 7.21 Not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdome of heaven but he that doth the will of my father which is in heaven Therefore I shall desire you with the Noble Bereans Acts 17.11 to search the Scriptures daily whether these things be so or no that ye may beleeve and in beleeving have everlasting life But withall I must admonish you according to that of 1 Jo. 4.1 Beleeve not every spirit but trie the spirits whether they be of God or no for false Prophets are gone out into the world And behold they come unto you in sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening wolves and if it were possible they would deceive the very elect Mat. 24.24 But by their fruits you shall know them And if you desire to know them then I shall exhort you as 2 Chro. 20.20 Beleeve in the Lord your God so shall ye be established beleeve his Prophets as Jam. 5.10 that have spoken to you in the name of the Lord so shall ye prosper 1 John 3.23 And this is his commandement that we should beleeve on the name of his son Jesus Christ and love one another for there is no Name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved but the name of the Lord Jesus Acts 4.12 Thinke not to say within your selves we have Abraham to our father Mat. 3.9 or we are great or rich or have this priviledge or other God is greater and able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham But now the ax is laid to the root of the tree Therefore every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire By their fruits therefore ye shall know them for now is the time of envying strife and division 1 Cor. 3.3 Now is the time of confusion and every evil work Jam. 3.16 Now then this is the time as Jam. 5.16 That the fervent prayer of the righteous man should availe much with the Lord. And therefore shall we with Abraham the father of the faithfull shall we follow his example Gen. 18.23 stand and draw neere before the Lod and intercede for Sodom for England and pray peradventure there be fifty righteous within England wilt thou also destroy and not spare the Kingdome for the fifty righteous that are therein Shall we follow the example of Moses the servant of the Lord Exod. 32.30 Goe up unto the Lord and make an attonement for the Kingdome and say this people have sinned a great sin They have denied the Kings AUTHORITY Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin and if not blot me I pray thee out of the Book thou hast written And likewise shall we follow his example againe for a good example cannot be too much followed As
of the latter raine 1. Obs That the life of a good subject is the chearfull countenance of the King 2. Obs That the favour of the King is like the former and the latter raine upon the ground in his due season 3. Obs That Kings ought to shew their respects to their good subjects 4. Obs That no subject ought to provoke the King to make him frown Prov. 20.2 The feare of a King is as the roaring of a Lion who so provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul 1. Obs That men ought to be afraid and tremble for fear of the Kings anger 2. Obs That no man ought to vex the King or provoke him to anger 3. Obs That subject sins against his own soul that provokes the King to anger 4. Obs That we must use all our power and industry to preserve the King in his integrity Prov. 20.28 Mercy and truth preserve the King and his Throne is upholden by mercy 1. Obs That the preservation of Kings is upheld by upholding the attributes of God 2. Obs That the thrones of Kings are upholden by holding forth the word of truth and the works of mercy 3. Obs That the Kings care ought to be to shew mercy 4. Obs That Kings are made glorious both in the eies of their subjects and to other Nations by holding forth the works of mercy And here see King Charls glorious 1. In his shewing mercy to his enemies 2. In preserving the truth from errour 3. In praying for his persecutors 4. In his desiring of peace in all these wars 5. In his joy in all his afflictions 6. In his patience in the want and injoyment of his desired Consort and comforts 7. In his manifesting all the fruits of the spirit to be in him his love to God to the Kingdome to his Subjects his joy in tribulations his desire of peace his long-suffering his gentlenesse his goodnesse his faith his meekenesse his temperance these have made him glorious and this is his joy and crowne of rejoycing and by these his Crowne is upholden Prov. 24.21 My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change 1 Obs That none can fear the Lord but he that fears the King 2 Obs That unlesse we honour the King we cannot truely fear the Lord. 3 Obs That changelings are not to be trusted unto nor to have any dealing withall Prov. 30.31 And a King against whom there is no rising up 1 Obs That no man ought to rise up against the King not by thoughts to thinke evill of him not by words to curse him nor by weapons to war against him 2 Obs That we all ought to lay down our evill thoughts our wicked words our ungodly weapons and to submit unto him 3 Obs That we all ought to labour in our thoughts words and weapons to preserve and defend the King and his seed after him for evermore Eccles. 8.2 I councell thee to keep the Kings Commandement and that in regard of the oath of God 1 Obs That wherein the King Commands the people are to obey 2 Obs That the Kings Cammands ought to be according to the oath of God 3 Obs That the oath of God and the Kings Commands are to be kept Eccles. 8.4 Where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him What doest thou 1 Obs That the words of Kings ought to be powerfull words 2 Obs That no man is to controle the King nor to speake against him 3 Obs That the works of Kings ought all to be righteous works Eccles. 10.20 Curse not the King no not in thy thoughts and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber for a bird of the aire shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter 1 Obs That we ought not so much as in our thoughts to think evill or to curse the King 2 Obs That we ought with our lives and estates in our thoughts words and works to maintaine and uphold the Honour of the King 3 Obs That no man in Authority ought to be cursed 4 Obs That we ought to pray for Kings and for all in Authority 5 Obs That the Lord will reveale the secrets of mens hearts even of those that curse the King or any in Authority Isaiah 49.23 Kings shall be thy nursing fathers and Queens thy nursing mothers 1 Obs That its the duty of Kings and Queenes to be tenderly affected towards their subjects 2 Obs That its the subjects duty to preserve and maintaine their Kings and Queens with all fitting maintenance for their places 3 Obs That Kings and Queens ought to live together to be aiding and assisting one to the other As fathers and mothers Jer. 27.8 It shall come to passe that the Nation and Kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon will I punish with the sword with the famine and with the pestilence and hearken not to your Prophets for they prophesie a lye unto you bringing your neckes under the yoak of the King of Babylon and serve him and his people and live why will ye die thou and thy people by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence as the Lord hath spoken against the Nation that will not serve the King of Babylon 1 Obs That Nations and Kingdomes are to be governed by Kings 2. Obs That though a King be a wicked King yet he must be served 3. Obs That the punishment of a Nation or Kingdome whether by sword famine or pestilence follows the disloyalty to the Kings commands 4. Obs That if Prophets prophesie disloyalty to the Kings commands we are not to hearken unto them they prophesie a lie 5. Obs That its the subjects speciall duty to obey the Kings command 6. Obs That all those that disobey the Kings commands shall be punished by death with sword by famine by pestilence 7. Obs That its the Lord that brings his punishments and inflicts them upon a disloyall Nation or Kingdome where he pleaseth Jer. 30.9 But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their King whom I will raise up unto them 1. Obs That the Lord God is to be served 2. Obs That David their King is to be served 3. Obs That they are joyned together to serve the Lord God David their King so serve the Lord God Charls their King 4. Obs That the Lord raises up Kings and commands all their subjects to serve them Ezek. 37.24 David my servant shall be King over them and they all shall have one shepheard and they shall walke in my judgements and observe my statutes and do them 1. Obs That all Godly Kings are the Lords immediate servants 2. Obs That where a Godly King Rules there they have all one Godly ministry one Godly government one faith one baptisme 3. Obs That no liberty ought to be given to tender consciences to walke contrary to Gods statutes 4. Obs That the judgements and statutes