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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37274	Sermons preached upon severall occasions by Lancelot Dawes ...; Sermons. Selections	Dawes, Lancelot, 1580-1653.	1653 (1653)	Wing D450; ESTC R16688	281,488	345

said of Melchisedec without Father without Mother without Kindred or as Moses saith of Levi Deut. 33. Who said to his father and mother I have not seen them neither knew he his brethren nor his own children Father and Mother and Brother and Sister and Wife and Children and Kindred and Servants and Favourites if they be as dear to thee as thine own eye or right hand erue abscinde cut them off cast them from thee part with them rather then they shall part thee and justice A worthy example we have in the Romane story Junius Brutus first Consull of Rome a Heathen man yet indeed divers of the Heathen have out-stripped Christians in the practise of morall duties though through want of faith their best works were but splendida peccata when sundry young Nobles had conspired to reduce Tarquin after his banishment he proceeded with to lesse severity against his owne and Brothers sonne being of the conspiracy then against the rest which were nothing allied unto him The like authority did Titus Maulius use against his son when he had offended the Law Histories are full of the like one of our own shall suffice for all About the beginning of Edward the sixth his Reign when in stead of Romish Superstition and Idolatry the Gospel of Christ began to be planted in England Clarles the Emperour made request to the King and his Councell in behalf of the Lady Marie the Kings sister that she might have Masse in her house without prejudice of Law the Councell amongst other matters of policy consulting about this sent unto the King Arch-Bishop Cranmer and Ridley then Bishop of London to intreat for the same who coming before him alleadged the best reasons they could to accomplish it which reasons he so pithily answered and confuted out of Scripture that they were forced to confess his Replication to be true Then they set on him another way alleadging Civill and Politick reasons her neerness unto him in blood the dangers the denial thereof might bring to the Realm the breach of Amity on the Emperours part the troubles and rebellions the deniall thereof might renew at home to which he replyed that all those reasons should never move him to yeeld to that he knew unlawfull and that he was ready to part with Goods and Kingdome and life and whatsoever he had rather then to yeild to that which he knew certainly to be against the Truth When all this would not move him but they set on him a fresh and would have no deniall he burst into sobs and teares and desired to desist from further molesting him in that matter which made the Arch-Bishop when they were gone to say to the other Bishop that the King had more Religion in his little Finger then they had in their whole Bodies If this resolution was seated in the hearts of all to whom the Lord hath committed the Sword of Justice then should we not have so many Jethroes that dare not strike when God bids them so many Ananiasses that give command to smite when God forbids them then should not the person of the mighty be so much honoured nor Kindred so much respected nor friends and followers so much favoured nor should the Dorick Pipe seem so sweet Musick in many of our Courts nor should the Lawes cry out that they are sometime smothered in their Beds like the Harlots Childe and sometime stretched like a Traytor on the Rack nor should truth renew her old Complaint out of Tertullian that she wanders up and down like a stranger in the World and cannot finde Entertainment with some that professe it nor should Justice exclaim that she is sometimes shouldered out of her Predicament of Quality and inforced to take a room in Relation to become a meer respective thing which hath no entity of it selfe without relation to some other thing I have perswaded my selfe far better things of you R. J. who as you have a long time already given sufficient demonstration of your learning and abilities for those high places wherein God hath set you so have you also of your care and zeale for executing of righteous Judgment Now as Plutarch writes of Rue and Garlick that being planted beside Roses they make them smell the sweeter So the corruption of evill Magistrates set by the vertues of the good make them more pleasant in the nostrils of all good men I doubt not but you may say with Samuel whose Oxe have we taken or to whom have we willingly done wrong or at whose hand have we received any Bribe to blinde our Eies therewith Onely for conclusion because you are men and therefore cannot challenge unto your selves any immunity or priviledge from falling let me beseech you that the Doctrines already proposed and proved may serve as Rules to keep you in an even course let the feare of God be upon you take heed and do it To this purpose first remember that God hath set you in his own room and stiled you with his own name it s the chiefe study of a Poet that every speech and action and gesture be sutable to the person he brings upon the Stage Si● Medea ferox invictaque flebilis Ino Perfidiu●●xion Io●vaga tristis Or●stes You are upon the Stage and you act Gods part with whom there is no iniquity nor respect of persons nor receiving of reward 2 Chron. 19. 2. think that God is present with you God standeth in the Congregation of Gods he is a Judge among Gods he notes your Actions he heares your words he pries into your hearts and spels every syllable of your conceits the Almighty cannot be more fully expressed to the eye then by that old Hieroglyphick of an eye upon the top of a Staff an eye upon the top of a Staff looks every way a Staff is not onely a prop to support him that leanes upon it but it is a weapon both of defence and offence God is an Eye do what yee will he sees you he is a sure staff if yee lean unto him he will support you if yee do well he will defend you if amisse he will beat you Wherefore now let the feare of God be upon you take heed what yee doe for yee execute not the judgments of man but of the Lord let not reward blind you nor friends sway you nor intreaty move you nor might terrifie you nor one thing nor other draw you aside from that which is right honour the mighty pitty the poore respect friends and favourites love kindred but still Salva pietate justitia preferr truth and a good conscience before them all These God and the King and the Laws and the Countrey and all good men expect at your hands and if yee doe them the evill shall dread you the good shall pray for you the Heavens shall applaud you the Angels shall rejoyce at you God shall blesse you with his best blessings and yee shall not need to be ashamed when you shall speak with

is naught in respect of that which followeth For whereas God challengeth this as a prerogative unto himself to bestow kingdomes on whomsoever he wil and placeth the Princes of the earth in authority next unto himselfe this they have perforce taken from God and bestowed it upon him that sitteth in the temple of God and advanceth himself above all that are called Gods It is he to whom if ye will believe him and his parasites all power is committed both in heaven and in earth He is that King of Kings and Lord of Lords by whom Princes rule and on whom the right of Kings dependeth all nations must fall down before him and all kingdomes must do him homage The greatest Monarch of the earth must prostrat himselfe before him and kisse his holy feet The Emperour if he be present when he taketh horse must hold the bridle when he lighteth he must hold the right stirrup when he walketh he must bear up his train when he washeth he must hold the bason when he would be born he must be one of the four that must carry him upon their shoulders in a golden chair 7. And as he takes upon him to give kingdomes to whomsoever he will like the Devil who told our Saviour Christ that all the kingdomes of the world were his and he gave them to whomsoever he would whereupon saith an ancient father mentitur diabolus quia cujus jussu homines creantur hujus jussu reges constituuntur the devil is a liar for by whose authority men were created by his are kings appointed as he takes upon him I say to give kingdomes at his pleasure so will he take them away when he listeth So farre is he from that obedience and reverence which every soul should give to the higher power Who knoweth not that Leo Isaurus for putting in execution a decree of a Councill held at Constantinople in his time touching the taking away of Images was first excommunicated and then deprived of all his revenues in Italy That Pope Zacharie deposed Childerick the French king that he might gratifie Carolus Mertellus and his son Pipin That the proud Venetian pedler Paul the second by a publike edict deprived of crown and kingdome George the king of Bohemia because he was an H●ssite and stirred up Mathias the king of Hungary his son in law to warre against him What shall I tell you of the indignities offered in our own land against Henry the second and John king of England or of the buls of Pius Quintus sent against Queen Elizabeth of never dying memory whereby he hath excommunicated her absolved her subjects from their oaths of allegiance stirred up rebellions in these middle parts of Britain and taken upon him to bestow the regal diademe upon strangers God be thanked he that dwels in heaven and of right challengeth the authority of disposing the kingdomes of this world to himselfe laughed all their devises to scorn So that his Canons though they made a terrible noise yet no bullet was felt And his Buls which sometimes had such a terrible aspect that a whole provincial Synod durst scarse venture to bait them proved such cowardly dastards that every single adversary hath been ready to tugge them Much resembling the counterfeit shews of Semiramis when she warred against the king of India which a farre off seemed to be Elephants and Dromedaries but when they were throughly tried proved nothing but Oxen hides stuffed with straw Even so Lord God Almighty true and righteous are thy judgements That I may cut off this first branch of my Text my third and last inference shall concerne you R. H. whom the Lord hath placed at the seate of judgement Have Magistrates their authothority from God this concerns you in your places as well as the greatest potentate of the earth And therefore as on the one side it should be incouragement unto you to hold on in all godly courses ye have begun so on the other side it should worke in you an humble and thankfull acknowledgment of so rare a benefit Say not then within your selves that it was not your owne deserts the excellency of your wits the ripenesse of your judgements of so rare a benefit Say not then within your selves that it was your own deserts the excellency of your wits the ripeness of your judgements the deepnesse of your knowledge in the lawes the integrity of your persons that did advance you unto those roomes If these were meanes of your preferment yet have yee nothing whereof ye can justly boast because ye have all from him For Dei dona sunt quaecunque bona sunt Use then your places as received from him acknowledge God to be authour of your advancement and say with Mary in her Song he that is mighty hath done great things for us and holy is his name And so much of the first proposition The second followeth Magistrates are Gods Deputies 8 God as he is jealous of his honour so is he of his name too He will not give it unto any other but only so far as hath he some resemblance with him I find onely three in Gods booke to say nothing of that eternall essence to which it principally agreeth which have this name given them The first is Satan who by reason of his great and almost unlimited power which he hath for a time here on earth by ruling raigning in the hearts of the children of disobedience is called a God The God of this world 2 Cor. 2. 4. The second are the blessed Angels those yeomen of the guard in the Court of Heaven which wait about the throne of God These by reason of their supereminent offices are called Gods Thou hast made him a little inferiour to the Gods Psalm 8. 5. which the Apostle following the Septuagint trans●●teth Angels Heb. 2. 7 The third is the Magistrate who both in this Psalm and sundry other places of Scripture is called a God His master shall bring him to the Gods Exod. 21. 6. Thou shalt not rayle upon the Gods Exod. 22. 28. that is the Judges implying thus much that as they have a commandment and authority from God so they have in some sense the authority of God and do supply his room Therefore said Moses unto the Judges which he appointed in every city ye shall not fear the face of man for the judgement is Gods And Jehosaphat to those Judges which which he had set in the strong cities of Judah take heed what you do for ye execute not the judgement of man but of the Lord. 9. Now then if Magistrates be Gods deputies what reverence it behoveth each private person to exhibit unto them I appeal to the conscience of every particular There be many at this day who howsoever in common civility they will seem to give an outward reverence unto the Magistrate yet in heart they scorn and contemn sundry of them as perchance