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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57126	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Denzell Lord Holles ... by Samuel Rayner ...	Reyner, Samuel, b. 1622 or 3.	1680 (1680)	Wing R1233; ESTC R15340	10,925	32

God Psa 144.12 13 14 15. When God threatens that he would stretch out that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Line of Confusion and those stones of emptiness upon Jerusalem he tells us withal how he would bring that evil upon them and it is thus The Nobles should be called to the Kingdom and there should be none there and all her Princes should be nothing That is there should be no Princes or Nobles left that should be fit to take the Rule and Government of the State upon them And then he tells them not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sarim but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sirim not Princes but thorns should come up in her Palaces not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chorim but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chochim not Nobles but Brambles in the Fortresses thereof and it should be an habitation for Dragons and a Court for Owls Isai 34.11 12. When the Church makes that sad complaint Lam. 2.1 2. that the Lord had to vered the Daughter of Zion with a Cloud and that he had cast down from heaven to the Earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Beauty of Israel in the sixth Verse the Prophet tells us when all this misery did commence viz. when God had despised in the indignation of his anger both the King and the Priest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Prince God is the God of Order and not of Confusion and when he intends to preserve the Beauty and Order and Ornament of any Nation he will then with his own right hand sustain those Pillars of it that are its Ornament But then as I said Great men in high places especially if good men too they are the strength and stability the stay and support of the Church and State wherein they are What the Poets feigned of their Atlas that he sustained the Heavens upon his shoulders is in a sober sense true of the Great and Noble men of the Earth supposing them Religious withal that are in place of Power They under God do sustain the World The Burthen of Church and State lies upon their Shoulders and like the strong Pillars of an House they keep up all from Ruine And when God in his righteous judgment suffers such Pillars once to be pulled down it is not long before all things in Church and State will run to Confusion as we lately found in this poor Kingdom by sad Experience When there was no King in Israel then every one did that which was right in his own Eyes Marvail not then Judg. 17.5 6. if you find some Micah or other even with an whole House full of Gods when once the Buttresses of Church and State are pulled down men grow wondrously religious then presently Then if there be any need of any you may find Priests in every Corner Or if not yet every one hath the power of Ordination in his own hands Any of his Sons or Servants may be consecrate to that office when he pleaseth And none shall be found so vile but he shall be accounted worthy enough to discharge the most sacred services of the Sanctuary When there is once no King in Israel Judg. 18.17 18. Judg. 18.27 Judg. 19.24 25. no marvail then to hear of many Micahs Houses robbed many Laishes plundered and undone many Wives and Daughters ravished many great and mighty Families like that of Benjamin Judg. 20.48 brought to ruine All these things were once done in Israel when there was no King there but every one did that which was Right in his own Eyes That Right was summum jus no doubt And all these things were once done in England too God grant they may never be done so again when there was no King nor Nobles left to sit at the Stern but all those Pillars of Church and State were pulled down which should have kept up both from such Confusions Indeed every way great is the blessing and benefit of good men in great Places For First Such will be careful even out of Conscience to preserve the just Rights and Liberties of those that are of inferiour Quality and to break the Teeth of Oppressors And there is nothing in the World that hath a more Natural Tendency towards the general Ruine of any Nation than the Invasion of the just Rights and Liberties of the Populacy and when Oppressors can without fear of Punishment grind the faces of those that are of inferiour rank For this naturally begets Hatred and Revenge in those that suffer wrong against those that do it Besides this naturally begets murmuring and Repining against the Higher Powers and men look upon them no longer as the Protectors and Defenders of their Rights and Liberties as by the Laws of God and man they ought to be but as so many Favourers or Abettors at least if not the Authors and Contrivers of their miseries And these Discontents now are nothing else but the Seeds of Sedition sowen in mens minds which when they have been once sufficiently heated by mutual complaints there wants nothing but opportunity to chip them and then immediately they spring up into open Rebellion which puts all to the utmost Hazzard But now when good men stand at the Princes Elbow ready to receive the complaints of the oppressed and to do them right and to brow-beat and if that will not do to break the teeth and arms of such sons of violence this both prevents that wrong and injury that would otherwise be done conserves peace and friendship between man and man and both conciliates and confirms that Love and honour that fear and Reverence that is due from the Subject to the Soveraign Powers Secondly Good men in great places they do as much good by their Example as they do by their Power and Interest Vertue and Vice the one is the Preservative the other is the Bane and Destruction of States and Kingdoms And every one knows that the one of these Vertue is encouraged the other Vice is discouraged and dash'd out of countenance much more by the Example of those that are in power than by all the wholsome Laws that the wit of man can devise to make Non sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent ut Vita Regentûm In all Ages of the World the Rationes boni mali have been the same Ever since Moses's time to this moment the Decalogue hath been the constant standing rule of our Obedience and those Laws have the same Authority and the same Sanction now that they had at first But in all Ages you may observe that mens carriage and deportment towards them have been different according to the Example that hath been given them by those that were in the highest places If the Kings of Israel and Judah would be Idolaters why so would the most of their Subjects be too But if they were careful to walk before the Lord in their integrity their People then would keep some tolerable decorum in their manners also