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A07368	Religion and alegiance [sic] in two sermons preached before the Kings Maiestie, the one on the fourth of Iuly, anno 1627. at Oatlands, the other on the 29. of Iuly the same yeere, at Alderton / by Roger Maynwaring ... ; by His Maiesties speciall command.	Maynwaring, Roger, 1590-1653.	1627 (1627)	STC 17751.5; ESTC S123212	43,779	94

It offers vp Praise and Thanksgiuing Obserues daies assigned honours Places consecrated to his Seruice and desiring to yeeld no Reuerence to any false Deitie doth thereby shun the one Extreme of Superstition and labouring to giue all Reuerence to the True and Liuing God doth hereby also bawke the common Roade of Prophanation With most willing and deuout Obedience paies Shee Vowes to God Tithes to the Tribe of his Inheritance and Tribute to his anointed Kings labouring euer by most dutifull Obedience to submit wherein it is commanded and by sorrowfull Repentance to satisfie wherein it hath offended And all this in that most deere affection with that most sweet Deuotion in that most pure Intention and humble Adoration of that God whose it is and whom it desires to Obey For euen as the vertue of Obedience euer eyes the Precept or Command So Religion teaches to refer Obedience to the honour glory of that high God who giues the Precept To conclude then this first Point Religion is our Vow It is the Tye and Bond that doth knit our Soules to God and the Mistresse that learnes vs to refer all our Actions to his Glory Without Religion therefore and without God Take away Religion faith Lactantius and men haue no more to doe with Heauen If therefore we had no faith toward God No feare of the holy One No loue of things not seene but eternall in the Heauens No taste of the Powers of the Life to come No expectance of a Resurrection nor hope of that Reward laid vp for righteous soules but liued without all hope and without God in the world then were we not only of all Men but euen of all Creatures the most miserable and so much the more by how much God hath giuen vs more Vnderstanding then the Beasts of the Field and made vs wiser then the Fowles of the Aire whereby we become able to Reflect vpon our owne wretchednesse which to doe the Beasts of the Field are in no wise able The second Circumstance is What force Religion hath to winne Obedience to the God of Heauen and to all that is called God on Earth And that appeares by This That the Wisest of Men perswades to Obedience by it And yet farther then this The Power of Religion is seene by her Property This Property is a Passion This Passion is Loue and that kinde of Loue which by the Diuines is called Appretiatiue the Loue of singular esteeme regard and honour which true Religion euer beares to Powers and Persons Royall And this affection of Religion is expressed in this That Regall Sublimity is by her Command placed so neere the Presence of the Deitie For as the Honour and Reuerence which is due to God and the King doe both in some manner appertaine to one Table so is it for the most part conioyned in one Text thorowout the Scriptures My Sonne feare God and the King Giue to Caesar the Things that are Caesars and to God the Things that are Gods Feare God Honour the King Keepe the Kings Commandement And that in regard of the Oath of God So that if it speake of Feare or Reuerence of Supply or Maintenance of Honour or Obedience Religion is the Reason to perswade All Because It hath the Affection and Perswades because It Loues and nothing is more dutifull then Loue that beareth all things Now if we demand the Reason why Religion doth thus associate God and the King It may be conceiued to be from three Causes Either from the Communion of Names For God is not onely said to be Standing in Synagôga Deorum in the Assembly of Princes as One of them But doth also vouchsafe them the Participation of his owne most blessed Name A Priuilege which He neuer did impart to any Creature but onely vnto such as are most neere and deare vnto him namely to Kings Angels and Priests whom alone the Scriptures honour with that high and noble Grace to be called Gods Or else from the Propinquitie and neere-bordering of such Offences as reflect vpon God and his anointed King That the Sinne of the next affinity vnto Sacrilege is Disloyalty vnto Princes was the Rule of Vlpian The highest Crime saith he that can reflect vpon heauenly Maiesty is Sacrilege the next doore to This is Rebellion and Disobedience vnto Kings And hence it comes to passe from this N●erenesse that Sacrilegious Persons who are not afraid to rob God of his Tithes and Christ of his Patrimony the onely Tribute which the World must for euer owe and pay to God for his Vniuersall Dominion and Prouidence ouer the World fall incontinently vpon Kings and make no bones to tie their hands or clip their wings or depresse that Regale Culmen vnto which God hath aduanced them with his owne immediate hand Or else from that Paritie of Beneficence which Men enioy from God and sacred Kings Impossible it is for any Creature in the world to answer or proportion diuine Beneficence My Goodnesse extendeth not vnto thee saith Dauid Nor likewise can a King receiue ought from the People that may consist in that Indiuisibility of Iustice or haue that Condignity as to Merit or Recompence in rigour Imperiall Excellence in it selfe or Regall Prouidence ouer the World For there is no way as yet in the world found out for Men to Recompence God or Children to requite their Parents much lesse Him who is Pater Patriae and hath the Care of all and is as ● may terme him a generall Parent Now as Iustice properly so called intercedes not betweene God and Man nor betweene the Prince being a Father and the People as Children for Iustice is betweene Equals So cannot Iustice●e ●e any Rule or Medium whereby to giue God or the King his Right Those Parts of Iustice therefore which the Diuines call Potentiall as Religion Pietie Deuotion Gratitude and most dutifull and submisse Obedience all which respect not Equals but Superiours are chosen and assigned to pay God and the King their right in some proportion For though the Acts of these Vertues haue not any exact definition of or hold any equall proportion with Iustice yet some semblance they may bee said to haue therewith forasmuch as the affections of these Graces are of great extent and largenesse and are euer labouring most durifully to Submit in what they are inioyned and most abundantly to Satisfie and make amends wherein they haue Transgressed And how farre a Religiously-affected Mind a pious and deuout Affection the Impression of true Thankfulnesse will reach and extend it selfe towards God may easily be discerned by Maries Oile and Martha's Toile to entertaine their Lord by Zacheu's halfe and Peters All left for their Lords sake by those willing Hearts and ready hands to pull out of their heads so many Eies to please their deare Apostle by that world of Treasures poured out vpon

RELIGION AND ALEGIANCE IN TVVO SERMONS Preached before the KINGS MAIESTIE The one on the fourth of Iuly Anno 1627. At OATLANDS The other on the 29. of Iuly the same yeere At ALDERTON By ROGER MAYNVVARING Doctor in Diuinitie one of his Majesties Chaplaines in Ordinarie and then in his Month of Attendance By His MAIESTIES Speciall Command LONDON Printed by I. H. for RICHARD BADGER 1627. THE FIRST SERMON Preached before the KINGS Majestie at Oatlands on the fourth day of Iuly 1627. ECCLESIASTES 8. 2. I counsell thee to keepe the Kings commandement and that in regard of the oath of God VNity is the foundation of all difference and Distinction Distinction the mother of Multitude Multitude and number inferre Relation which is the knot and confederation of things different by reason of some Respect they beare vnto each other These Reltions and Respects challenge Duties correspondent according as they stand in distance or deerenesse afarre off or neere conioyn'd Of all Relations the first and most originall is that betweene the Creator and the Creature whereby that which is made depends vpon the Maker thereof both in Constitution and Preseruation for which the Creature doth euer owe to the Creator the actuall perpetuall performance of that which to yts Nature is most agreeable which duty is called Naturall And sometimes also is the Creature bound to submit in those things that are quite and cleane against the naturall both inclination and operation thereof if the Creators pleasure be so to command it which dutifull submission is called by the Diuines an Obedientiall capacity in that which is made by all meanes to doe homage to him that made it of meere nothing The next is that betweene Husband and Spouse a respect which euen Ethnick Antiquity call'd and accounted Sacred the foule violation of which sacred Bed and bond of Matrimony was euer counted hainous and iustly recompenced with that wound and dishonour that could neuer bee blotted out Vpon this followed that third bond of reference which is betweene Parents and Children where if dutifull obedience be not performed by them that receiued to them that gaue their being the malediction is no lesse then this that their light shall be put out in obscure darkenesse the Rauens of the valleyes to picke out their eyes and the young Eagles to eate them vp In the fourth place did likewise accrew that necessary dependance of the Seruant on his Lord God hauing so ordained that the eyes of Seruants should looke vnto the hand of their Masters and the eyes of the Hand-maid vnto the hand of her Mistresse From all which forenam'd Respects there did arise that most high sacred and transcendent Relation which naturally growes betweene The Lords Anointed and their loyall Subiects to and ouer whom their lawfull Soueraignes are no lesse then Fathers Lords Kings and Gods on earth Now as the Duties comporting with all these seuerall Relations if they shall be answerably done are the cause of all the prosperity happinesse and felicity which doth befall them in their seuerall stations so is it in the world the onely cause of all tranquillity peace and order and those things which distinction number and disparitie of Condition haue made Different it most effectually reduceth to Vnion that as of One there arose many so by this means doe Multitudes become to bee made One againe Which happy Re-union Nature doth by all meanes much affect but the effecting thereof is the maine and most gratious worke of Religion Which the wisedome of Salomon well seeing and the Spirit that was in him well searching into hee sends forth the sententious dictates of his diuine and Royall wisedome fenced with no lesse reason then the fortresse of Religion in these words following I counselthee to keepe the Kings commandement and that in regard of the oath of God This is Gods Text and the Kings and for the sake of all Kings was it written And as the King is the sacred supreme Head of two Bodies the one Spirituall the other Secular so this high and royall Text containes in it two parts correspondent The one Ciuill which is a Counsell of State or a politique caution I counsell thee to keepe the Kings commandement the other Spirituall which is a deuout or religious reason And that in regard of the oath of God The First part is founded vpon the Second the Second is the ground of the First Religion the stay of Politie which if it be truly taught deuoutly followed sincerely practised is the roote of all virtues the foundation of all well-ordered Commonweales and the well-head from whence all euen temporall felicity doth flow The zeale and feruor of which Religion if at any time it fall into a wane or declination contempt or derision portends euermore the Ruine and desolation of that State and Kingdome where the seruice and worship of him who sits in heauen is set at naught and fills the world with terrible examples of Gods reuenging Iustice and most irefull indignation Now in the first part doe lie these particulars First there is Rex a King Secondly Mandatum Regis the Commandement of a King Then Custodia Mandati the Keeping of and obedience to this Commandement After this Consilium Counsell to pursue and practise this obedience And lastly the Counsellor who giues this most diuine and Royall Counsell which is no lesse then Salomon who as wee all know was 1. A King and the Sonne of a King 2. A King and the wisest of all Kings 3. A King and a Preaching King 4. A King and a very Faire if not the Fairest and clearest Type of him who was the King of Kings and Lord of Lords To ingeminate againe the parts of the Text 1. Rex a King and what is higher in heauen or earth then a King God onely excepted who is excelso excelsior higher then the highest 2. Mandatum Regis and what is stronger then it For ver 4. Sermo eius potestate plenus 3. Obedience to this Commandement and what more rightfull iust and equall with men what with God more acceptable 4. Counsell to follow this what more needfull wise or gratious 5. And all this from such a Counsellor then which none euer greater but he alone of whom it was said Ecce plus quàm Salomon hîc Be●old a greater then Salomon is here A King This is the Suppositum or Person on whose behalfe this Counsell is giuen and it is a Rule of that Science whose Maximes are priuiledged from errour that Actiones sunt suppositorum Indiuidualls challenge all actiuity as peculiar vnto them Now all things that worke and haue any operation must of necessity worke by some Power or ability which is in them All Power is either such as is Created and deriued from some higher Cause or such as is Vncreated and Independent Of this last kinde is that Power which is in God alone who

should bee glorious from East to West Secondly They did obiect That Christian Religion was the Mother of Impurities And for This they may thanke a certaine Sect of foule and Nasty Hereticks who stil'd themselues by the name of Gnosticks from the skill they● did professe as the onely knowing men aliue There was saith Epiphanius in the Liues and Mysteries of these Monsters who did notwithstanding arrogate vnto themselues the Christian Name such vnspeakeable wickednesse as did send forth that noisome Sauour which did Inuolue the whole Christian Name in Infamy Tertullian calls them the Ouerthrowers of Candlesticks and thereupon committing in the darke most detestable and vnspeakeable Polutions which in their Putride Language they termed The Paying of that due debt they owed vnto the flesh which common Modesty can find no Art to expresse without doing violence to Chaste and Christian Eares Of this foule Staine caused by these odious Hereticks to the Professors of the Gospell the Authors speake in effect thus much The Flagitious and hainous Liues of such Miscreants masking vnder the Christian Name did open the petulant and vnbridled mouthes of Heathen men to stampe the note of perpetuall shame vpon the Christian Religion and to make the world beleeue as if She had beene the Mother of incomparable and vnspeakable Impurities Which vgly blot once laid vpon the Christian Name soone fled both farre and wide Till at last the splendor of the Christian Liues and inuincible verity of their Doctrine did so preuaile and triumph so victoriously ouer the Liues and Tongues of all her Enemies that no man ever after durst so much as barke or hisse at our Profession The third Imputation That Christan Religion was a seditious Doctrine and did containe dangerous Principles and such as were aduerse to the Imperiall Crownes and dignities of Kings and Princes And this the Deuill did Intending thereby to defeat that famous Prophesie of Esay where it is said Kings shall be thy Nursing-Fathers and Queenes thy Nursing-Mothers And also to Incense and Irritate that Power which is best able to Suppresse or to aduance it knowing right well himselfe being a Prince of the Aire and a King ouer all the Children of Pride the iust and naturall Ielousie that is in Earthly Potentates ouer their Roiall Dignities and Prerogatiues and that their Sacred Spirits are auer ready to be raised against al that shall lift it selfe vp against their Irresistable Power This weapon was first framed and sharpned too against the Lord himselfe Him haue we found say the Iewes subuerting the Nation and forbidding to pay Tribute to Caesar And likewise in that Intangling Question and Tempting Probleme Is it lawfull to pay Tribute to Caesar But Hee cleered the Point and that most fully with his owne Deed and Doctrine both By his Doctrine when he said Reddite quae Caesaris Caesari For by naturall Iustice hath Caesar a Right vnto and a Portion in that which beares his Image and Superscription and which from his Authority alone receiues Price and Valuation So by his owne Deed when he sent the Apostle Saint Peter to the Sea to fetch Money by Miracle out of the Mint of the Fishes mouth rather then He would giue offence or let Caesar bee scanted of his Right And this our Blessed Lord did with that Readinesse not expecting any Parliament at Rome or in Iudea to bee first assembled Nor had Caesar at this time any Warres in hand the whole world being then at Peace Remarkeable it is That Christ Iesus our Lord who might and that iustly haue arraied himselfe with the Glory of all the Kingdoms in the world Taken all thei● did nor would doe The habit of all Regency was in him the Exercise hee would not haue So vnmeet a thing He thought it was for Him who came to this end to bestow vpon them heauenly to take from Kings their earthly Crownes Tribute therefore receiue He would not but Pay he would And no sooner was He demanded but to make himselfe exemplary to all his Race Pay hee did And for denying so to doe his pleasure cleerely was That neither Himselfe nor His should euer suffer And therefore Pay it he saith for Me and Thee Briefly then to finish this Point we may resolue That Christian Religion was neuer the cause of any dangerous Sequale Crosse or Calamitie to any Common-wealth nor was it euer preiudiciall but aduantageous to all States and Kingdomes while it had all due Reuerence done vnto it But if the Arke be irreuerently handled it may bring a Plague vpon the Philistims Christian Religion neuer taught any Vntruth or perswaded any Impuritie or vncleane thing but the Contrary For by it are Men called not to Vncleanesse but to Holinesse And that Grace which came downe from heauen teacheth to deny all Vngodlinesse and worldly Lusts and to keepe themselues vnspotted of the world and that vnder the Paine of that eternall Losse of Heauen and of that intollerable Sense of Hell-fire For no Whore monger nor Adulterer nor any vncleane person shall haue any Inheritance in the Kingdome of God or of Christ For without shall be Dogges and Sorcerers and Idolaters and whatsoeuer loueth or maketh a Lye Nor did Christian Religion euer teach Men to bee Wolues within and Sheepe without to be Deuils within and Angels without Noe to Hypocrisie it giues a Portion where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth To Vaine-glory no better Recompence then the Praise of Men for Amen dico vobis saith our Lord They haue their Reward All they shall haue they haue alreadie It is that they Loued and looked for they haue it and though it be as much as nothing yet let them expect no other Christian Religion neuer taught any Soule that thought it selfe tied by This Oath of God to deny Subiection or Obedience to any lawfull Soueraine But euen to the most Impious Infidell and Idola●rous Princes such as were Nero Iulian Dioclesian yea to such as pursued as well their Persons as Profession with implacable Rage and intolerable Torments Christian Religion euer taught Christian men euer performed and beleeued themselues euer tyed by this Oath of God so to doe most willing Obedience notwithstanding all the bitter and Inuectiue Eloquence of her most learned and subtile Enemies to perswade the contrary For this learned they from Christ the head of their Race who taught it with his owne Mouth Did it his in owne Person when he said Giue that for Mee and Thee Thus did his Followers as they had learned of him and so they Taught Saint Peter that was sent to teach the Iewes 1 Pet. 2. 13. Saint Paul who was inioyned to preach vnto the Gentiles Rom. 13 not only preacheth this Point but presseth it with Arguments fetch'd from Gods Ordinance from Mans Conscience from Imperiall Wrath Vengeance from that