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A27115	The royal charter granted unto kings, by God himself and collected out of his Holy Word, in both Testaments / by T.B. ... ; whereunto is added by the same author, a short treatise, wherein Episcopacy is proved to be jure divino.	Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1649 (1649)	Wing B1514; ESTC R17476	64,496	181

will be sure to be the uppermost the three first ceremonies make him but high and mighty and puissant but the last only makes him sared and therefore some have maintained that a King is mixta persona cum Sacerdote whether he be so or no I will not here insist but sure I am that their is much divinity in the very name and essence of Kings which duly considered and believed that Kings are thus sacred as we ought and Gods word informs us we would take heed how we touch take warning how he tear and rend in peeces as much as in us lies with those leaden Messengers of death with their gunpowder commissions to fetch the higher to the lower powers and make the King a Subject to the Subjects wils the sacred person of so great a Majesty whereas the cutting off but a piece of the lappe of Sauls garment hath checkt a greater spirit then the proudest riser up against his Soveraign We would not speak so despicably of the Lords anointed what is the King he is but a man he is but one he hath a soule to be saved as well as others for though all this be true yet the end for which all this is said is most false and abhominable for though it be true that the King is but a man yet it is also true that that man is the light of Israel 2 Kings 8.19 wee must take heed how we put it out And though it be true that such a piece of silver is but a piece of silver yet as it bears Caesars image and superscription upon it it is more significant if thou either pare or impare it a jot if thou art found either clipping or diminishing of it in the least degree ●hou dost it to the preiudice of thine own life so though a King be but a man ●s in himself yet as he ●ears the representation of God and hath his character stamp'd upon him he is some-what more if you will believe him that said ●e are Gods Psalm 82.6 and therefore we must take heed how we debase or detract ●rom them who represent so great a Dei●y who by reason of their proximity ●nd neernes unto God in some respects ●re most commonly of more discerning spirits then ordinary men for Mephi●osheth when his servant had so grievivously slandred him to David he makes but a short complaint My servant hath ●landred me but as if he should say I need not tell thee much thou hast wisdome enough to find it out My Lord the King is as an Angell of God doe therefore what is good in thine own eies Therefore because thou art as an Angell of God and thy selfe art a good intelligence as all Angels are doe what is good in thine own eie as if he should have said if thou doest onely that which seemeth to be good in other mens eies it may be they will perswade thee that the thing was true wherein my servant slandred thy servant poor Mephibosheth and he suffer wrongfully I am of opinion that God gives to every King to whom he communicates his name and authority this extraordinary gift of discerning but because they do not some times make use of it to the end it was bestowed upon them viz. the better government of their severall Dominions but are contented to see and discerne with other mens eyes and to have false spectacles put upon their noses whereby many a good man suffers God in his justice gives them over that in their own particular and wherein their own greatest good is chiefly concerned they shall make least use of their own judgements and advise and wholly give themselves to be over-swayed by the advise of those whose judgements perhaps is not so good as their own and whose intentions it may be are no better then they should be It is written that the hearts of Kings are in the hands of the Lord and he disposeth them as seemeth best to his heavenly wisdome certainly I would ●ake a little advice from that heart ●hat is so directed by that hand the Kings head never plotted Treason a●ainst the Crown and no man can wish ●etter to His Majesty then the King I ●peak not this in derogation either of the Great or Privie Councell for it is ●ritten in the multitude of Councellors there 〈◊〉 safety but in defence only of these ●ons of Oyle who are supreme in both And as it is true that the King is but ●ne man so it is also true that one man ●s worth ten thousand of the people ●hou art woth ten thousands of us though all ●is worthies were in place 2 Sam. 18.3 ●nd though it be true that the King ●ath a soul to be saved as well as others ●et it is also true that he should have ●o body to be crucified by his Subjects ●nd out of his dis-esteem of the person the ceremonies of State as Anointing ●itting in Thrones holding of Scepters ●nd Coronation it selfe being to be ●xploded now a daies and who look'd ●or it otherwise when the lawfull and ●ecent Ceremonies of the Church were ●alled reliques of Popery and raggs of the Whore of Babilon was it otherwise ●o be expected but that they would call these ceremonies of State Theatrica pompa Stage-plaies toyes Tush say they what need all these● fopperies a Kings Throne is his Justice his Crown his Honour his Scepter and cheifest strength the peoples hearts his holy Oyle is his Religion and zeal to Gods glory and so it is what then may we not have the signes and the things signified also because the true receiving of the Communion is the receiving of the Body and Bloud of Christ by faith therefore shall we have no bread and wine or because that true Baptisme is the washing away of originall sin with the laver of regeneration therefore shall we have no water powred on the Child we have Scripture for these ceremonies and I am sure we have no Scripture for the abolishing of them but rather Scripture for their continuation for ever Reges in solio collocat in perpetuum God establishes Kings upon their Thrones for ever Job 36.7 CHAP. IV. Why they are called the Lords Anointed THe Lords Anointed is as much as to say the Lords Christ and Christi signifieth Anointed ones In the Hebrew you shall read it who shall ●ay his hand upon the Lords Messiah for the Lords Anointed 1 Sam. 26.9 in the Greek who can lay his hand upon the ●ords Christ Kings are taken into the ●●ociety of Gods name Dixi dii estis I ●ave said ye are gods and here into the society of Christs name and all to ●errefie subjects from lifting up their ●ands against the Lords Anointed as ●uch as if he were God or Christ him●elfe Againe Kings are not termed uncti ●omini for that were no prerogative to ●hem at all but Christi Domini for not ●nly persons but things also were A●ointed under the Law not only Kings ●ut Priests and

they admit of many being there is b●● one This I speak in reference to the Country not to particular men Neither is there a sort of Christians in the world who are less servants unto Christ if it be enough to make them so to be the greatest prophaners of his day for the Sabbath day is only distinguished from other daies by a Sermon in the Church and the Alehouse being full of Mechannicks drinking and carousing from morning untill night the shops are open and buying and selling all the day long excepting halfe the window which is to distinguish the day but the door is open to let in the buyers and the other halfe of the window is open to let in the light and wonderfully strange it is and remarkable to consider how these people who shook off their allegiance to their Prince upon pretences of Reformation should be so besotted as to fall into such a strange and unheard heard of prophanenesse of him and the day whereon Christ himself is to be worshipped as in their Metropolis or chief City to have a dog ●arket kept to the utter scandall of ●●ue Religion and Christianity it selfe ●●is is no more then what I have seen ●●d if it were not true it were easily re●●rned upon my self as the greatest im●●udence that could be imagined but O ●●e partiality of the picture-drawer ●hen he receives large wages for a si●ilitude he insults over his own work ●nly because it is like when the face it ●elf is most abhominable Now for their freedome from Ty●anny and oppression if the Turkes or Tartars had conquered them they never would nor never did where ever they extended their dominions impose such taxes and rates as they have imposed on one another incredible even to the full value of the severall commodities which run through their natives hands but you will aske me how it is possible they should live then to which I answer you by sharking and cosening of strangers Let any forraigners come there and ask for a dinner and for such a dinner as they may well afford for eight pence a piece they will ask you five shillings a man find but the least fault with them and they will demand twelve pence a piece more for fouling of linnen and if you seem angry at that you shall mend your self with the payment of six pence a piece over and above for fouling the roome and seeke a remedy and you shall be told the Prince of Orange himself if he were there could not help it altom all is all the reason they will give you if in sadnesse you shall complaine of such abuses to indifferent Judges they will tell you that the States do lay such heavy taxes upon the Inhabitants that they are faine to fly to such shifts for their subsistance thus men pleased with the itch of Innovation are contented to scratch the bloud out of their own bodies till they feel the greatest smart rather then their Physitian should let out a little spare bloud to cure the disease and preserve them in good health but you will say that for all this they thrive and prosper abundantly so do the Argiers men but with what credit and reputation in the eye of the world I believe both alike It was not their strength or policy which brought them to this height and flourishing condition but it was our policy of State in ●●mulation to other Princes which hel●ed these calfes to Lions hearts teeth ●nd clawes untill the high and mighty ●utter-boxes stood in competition with the Crowne and I am afraid the siding with such Rebels hath turned Rebel●ion into our own bosomes as a just ●udgement from that God who is a re●enger of all such iniquities they may call it the Schoole of War whilst wanting a good cause it could be no otherwise then the Christians shambles I should be sorry that Holland should be the English-mans Looking-glasse a spur for his feet or a copy for his hand I hope the hand of providence will cure us like the Physitian who cur'd his patient by improving his disease from a gentle Ague to a high Feaver that he might the better help him CHAP. XV That Episcopacy is Jure Divino IN this discourse I shall not trouble my selfe nor you with Titles Names and words of Apostles Evangelists Arch-Bishops Bishops Patriarchs Presbyters Ministers Angels of Churches c. which were all from the highest to the lowest but tearmes reciprocal and were often taken in the Church of God and in the Scripture it self for one and the same for if any man though never so meane a Minister of the Gospel converted any Nation the Church ever called him the Apostle of that Country as Austin though but a Monke was every where tearmed the Apostle of England and Saint Paul being an Apostle stiles himselfe a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ Paul bids Timothy being a Bishop to do the work of an Evangelist and therefore no wonder if Bishops and Presbyters be ●ften mentioned for one and the same ●ut it is a great wonder that any man●er of men should make this a ground ●or any argument against Episcopacy ●hese kind of arguments instead of stri●ing fire that should light the candle ●hey do but pin napkins over our eyes ●nd turne us round untill we know ●ot where we are and then we grope ●or we know not who and lay hold ●f we know not what he that will ●ut down this over-grown up-start tree ●f errour must first clear his way to the ●oot and brush away all those bram●les and briers which grow about it ●e must not leave any thing standing ●hat may lay hold of the hatchet and ●eviate the stroke turning the same ●dge upon the feller that was intended ●or the tree if we should insist upon ●ames and titles we should make but a ●onfounded piece of worke and run our ●elves into a most inextricable labourinth and Mazes of errour Where we might run and go forwards and backwards and round about and nere the near Christs are Kings Kings are Gods God is Christ and Christ is Bi●hop of our souls Bishops are Presbyters Presbyters are Ministers a Minister is an Apostle an Apostle is a Minister and so if you will quite back againe I must put off these as David threw away Sauls Armour non possum incedere cum iis I love to knock down this monstrum informe ingens in lumen ademptum with a blunt stone taken out of a clear River which with the sling of application may serve well enough to slay this erroneous Philistine though he were far greater then he is In the first place therefore let as understand what is meant by Jus Divinum if any man meanes that Episcopacy is so Jure Divino that it is unalterable and must continue at all times and in all places so that where it is left off there can be no Church he meanes to give much offence and little reason for there