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A43062	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir James Edwards, Lord Mayor, in St. Lawrence Church on the feast of St. Michael, 1679, at the election of Sir Robert Clayton to be Lord Mayor for the ensuing year by Greg. Hascard ...	Hascard, Gregory.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1114; ESTC R12242	12,709	35

mirum id fecisse Carpocratianos qui leges avitas omnes pro nihilo ducerent Grot. in Judam v. 8. and scorn'd all Authority and if the Magistrate endeavour'd to correct them his Power must be grim'd for Tyranny and his Authority call'd Usurpation 'T is no wonder the brute acts like himself sometimes biting the Chain and sometimes barking at the Whip that is held for his correction To the vicious the Magistrate appears an Executioner and ⋆ Rom. 13.3 a Minister of wrath but his Vice drew him in those black colours But to the good he is a Guardian-Angel He that will sacrifice all to Self-love and Passion and would have all Enclosures pull'd up ruat Coelum c. that he might walk up and down like a Beast of Lust and Prey with his lawless Passion 't is no wonder that he grows angry with his Governour that bounds him and saith to his froth and madness as Providence to the Waves ⋆ v. 13. so these are called Hitherto shall you go and no further Fond and dissolute men propose to themselves days of Paradise could they but tumble down their Governours and break their bonds in sunder yet after a surfeit in Vice and weary with Ruine and Disorder they would either step into the Chair themselves or beg of some more prudent to take the reins concluding that the rods of Tyrants are milder far than the blinde state of Nature and Confusion The Extravagant know very well that Governours are design'd for Champions of Religion and Virtue the common Patrons of all good Men the terrour of the bad and the scourge of Vice and his Love can be but a slavish Fear at best that they might not hurt him As Vice doth grow so much is Government contemn'd while Vice discourag'd is Virtues Triumph and the support of Government Such ill conceptions have men of Vice to conclude there is no Liberty because there is a Law and they are in Bondage because they cannot be Licentious Whereas good Laws are the security of our just Freedoms and truest Interest and he that Governs and Commands us onely to be happy and truely Men we ought not to look upon as the Jaylor of our Liberties the great Retrencher of our Freedoms to bespatter and despise but our Friend and Benefactor to admire and love 2. From a silly Opinion that all Dominion is founded in Grace there was a sort of Christians who bestow'd upon themselves alone the fine names of Elect and Gracious and upon this title challeng'd Empire and all Governours not so qualified they cry'd down for Tyrants and Usurpers And because by Grace they expected Heaven they thought themselves the only fit persons to govern Earth Point-blank against the Invisible Kingdome and Spiritual Designe of Christ For if upon the score of Saintship a Right to rule the world is derived our Saviour's Kingdome notwithstanding his declaration before Pontius Pilate is of this world by a new Title which he brought down with him And if you be once a sound believer and a sincere convert to the Christian Faith you have a better Title to a Scepter than Succession or Election or any Temporal right can give and to be Orthodox is a nearer step to a Throne than Birth and all the Voices of a Nation A way to Government unknown to the world before and is onely a new priviledge of Christ's Subjects to be Christians that they might be Kings and the liberty of his Religion should free Servants and Sons and other Relatives from Duty and Obedience These are the men indeed that have turn'd the world and Christian Religion upside down which Christ gave to Mankind to reform their manners and to save them to confirm good orders and rules and leave the world to the freedom of civil rights and conveyances as he found them which are plain and visible and fall under a sensible cognisance but whose Grace is genuine and true may not be known till this world with all its principalities and powers shall be no more As though Christianity came to procure rewards for Hypocrites who by their gay pretences and gilded zeal can impose upon the less-discerning world and his seeming Piety join'd with ill-nature and impudence to call all above him Reprobates must be made the most specious right unto an Empire and because what is onely fancy and fondness passion and effeminacy whimsey and Enthusiasin is call'd by the name of Grace all these will set up their Standards for the Empire too and lay all the blood and confusion following from these several Titles at the door of Grace And because the world hath torn in pieces and confounded Christianity and call'd their own Faction and profit Fundamentals in Christ's Kingdom and split it into numerous parties and divisions and each confines Christ and all his priviledges to themselves and they are the onely gracious persons and will be sav'd they have confounded Temporal Government all these different perswasions pretending to rule because their Christ and Grace are true and all besides are false Poor Wicliff was condemned by a Popish Council ⋆ Concil Tom. 12. p. 46. Artic 15. Nullus est Dominus civilis nullus est Paraelatus nullus est Episcopus dum est in peccato mortali that of Constants and one of his criminal perswasions was this that Dominion was founded in grace But the Pope his Judge hath baptized himself into the Heresie of his Malefactor and upon account of Christian Religion and Grace committed to him to manage ought to be the onely Universal Monarch And whereas the design of Christianity was to take men off from earth and make this world onely a step to another State this is the way to make men earthly and sensual and to be Religious onely because ambitious and proud to sway the world by this new Title which they say Christ gave to be as bountiful to Christians as ever Mahomet to his Disciples Religion that fixes the Crowns of Kings faster upon their Heads by these designing men must be wrested to disturb the peace of Kingdoms and to settle licentiousness or freedome from Temporal Laws by a pretended Spiritual one That onely Saints have a right to rule and possess the Earth This makes Christianity but a quaint device to divert mens eyes and affections from earth that they might have the fairer opportunity to secure it These men in effect say their Saviour was too modest in refusing to be Crown'd a King ⋆ 2 Kings 5.20 and like Gehazi when his Master had refus'd the Present run after and cry he denyed his own rights and if he will not yet they purely upon account of secret characters of Spirit and Grace ought to be heads of Dominion and rule the World This stops the conquest of Religion when the Pagan King must change his Religion and may loose his Diadem whenever Baptiz'd because of others that may be elder and better Saints the he for who knows where such freaks

Gods their Inauguration is solemn and grave all circumstances are high and venerable and are stiled God's Anointed their judgment and decisions are God's Rebellion is branded by the name of Witchcraft an Apostacy from God or his Authority and an eternal doom for its reward ⋆ Rom. 13.2 shall receive to themselves damnation When we despise Dominion therefore we spit at Heaven and appear in Hostility and fight against God and as much as in us lies like unconverted Saul we persecute him and the blow toucheth his Throne and for as much as we do it to one of his Governours as well as Saints we do it unto him yet to keep them humble they must dye like men and to guard their actions they must be responsible at an higher Bar and by reason of their Male-Administration have the Crimes of Cities and Countries laid unto their charge and the punishment is as great to the bad as rewards to the good And St. Peter to strike an awe upon mens minds towards their Governours tells them 't was the aggravation of these Carpocratians and their followers Crime ⋆ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 2 Pet. 2.10 That they were bold and contumacious men and did not tremble when they blasphemed Dignities And this Apostle to set them an excellent President of Honour and Respect to Governours tells them that when the mighty Archangel Michael whose Feast the Church this day celebrates when contending with the Devil and disputing about the body of Moses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 9. would not give him any contumelious words because he had some power given him or permitted by God and was the Prince of the air or god of this World 2. Let us consider what benefit we receive by them if ease and quiet property and security be the mighty blessings of the world we owe this to the Magistrates care and resolution in the execution of Laws without which they would be but imaginary guards and formality For such are the degenerate minds of men that the natural love of God and Virtue and the Laws of Christianity though very apt and fit in themselves have not that force as gently to perswade men unto Duty and Obedience but Swords of Justice and Temporal punishment must keep the world in awe and what a strange monster this world would be if either no Laws no Pale of Government was set or else for want of guards and keepers every man might pluck up or leap over at pleasure it would be but a second Chaos or greater Robbery like the state of the wild Arabs or the Banditi and every one would prey upon his fellow-being So that the Magistrate gives life to the dead letter of the Law and in that gives the shadow and fruit to our Vines Titles to our Possessions security to our Lives and is the Castle against our fears and jealousies Which calls for instead of Contempt and Scorn the highest Esteem and Veneration First from these things consider'd let us here lay a particular Charge against the Church of Rome who doth most eminently despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities who challengeth a right not onely to Excommunicate Depose and Kill the Persons of Princes and Absolve their Subjects from their Duty and Allegiance but allows her Champions to rail at and vilifie the Persons and Powers of Princes in a most ignominious way because they will not pay an absolute Obedience and submit their Authority to hers the constitution of that Church being to put down all Authority and Power to Rival Kings to advance her Priesthood and make her Bishop a Mighty Prince who they say like his Lord is invested with all Power both in Heaven and in Earth and is constituted to root up and to plant to put on and kick off the Crowns of Princes to dispose of their Royalties and Dominions to tread upon their Necks and lash their Backs to proclaim their Wars and conclude their Peace to contract or dissolve their Mariages to press the Prince and the People to Holy Wars or his private Quarrels to play the Herald and give mighty Titles and adjust Precedencies to Levy Texas and exempt his Clergy to interdict a Land and legitimate Rebellion and spurious Children to dispatch or bind their Kings in chains and their Nobles in fetters of Iron in plain to shew a great deal of Pride and earthliness disguised by Spiritual Names and Titles to advance the Kingdom of Christ which he hathh made as Temporal as any For though his Master Jesus was humble and mortifi'd and refused and Earthly Kingdom offered to him by the Devil and the Jews yet this frugal servant of his tells him he understood not his own Merit and Title and he ought to look after his Masters Rights and not onely from the donation of Constantine and the bounty of Princes and such low Titles but from a power deriv'd to him from that Universal Monarch King Jesus must govern Christendom Christendom Christ told indeed Pontius Pilate the Procurator of Judea that his Kingdom was not of this world but he had a prudent reservation in the case so as not to tell them because they could not bear it then and make good use of it his Religion was but in its Non-age or Minority but his Successor should come and lead them into this mighty Truth display his Banner and tell the World and its petty Princes that now the Kingdom of God and his Christ was come with power In those early days of Christ and his Apostles Loyalty and Obedience were mightly Duties to Temporal Princes but then Christian were few and weak to this purpose their two Cardinals Bellarmine and Allen have spoke but the case is alter'd they are now more numerous and strong and the time is come when the fifth Monarchy surpassing the Graecian and others must be set up at Rome Blessed Jesus when thou told'st the Judge and the Jews this truth thou didst it with the greatest sincerity in the plainest terms ⋆ John 18. 36. that thy Kingdom was not of this World and would not clash with Secular Princes and this was thy open will and pleasure but thy Infallible Vicar tells us of a secret will and private Instructions given to thy Apostles thy Privy Councel and thy Successor that when all things were ripe and the World better Disciplin'd and Tutor'd they should set forth their Title and write over the Bishop of Rome's Head This is the mighty King of the Christians and make the sturdy Monarchs submit their Necks unto him by kissing his feet holding his stirrup waiting at his Gates and other slavish acknowledgments For when he pretends to all the fore-mentioned power what is it but to be the onely Absolute Monarch on Earth though he wears the Robes of another World For the humble and Spiritual Names of Bishop and Pastor Servant of Servants Silver and Gold have I none the Seal of the Fisherman in Lead and the like turn all