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A85584	Great Britans [sic] vote: or, God save King Charles. A treatise seasonably published this 27th. day of March, the happy inauguration of his sacred (though now despised and imprisoned) Maiesty. Wherein is proved by many plaine texts of Scripture, that the resisting, imprisoning, or deposing our King, under what specious pretences soever couched, is not onely unlawfull but damnable.		1648 (1648)	Wing G1670; Thomason E431_26; ESTC R202345	36,900	55

GREAT Britans Vote OR God save King Charles A TREATISE Seasonably published this 27 th day of March the happy Inauguration of His Sacred though now despised and imprisoned MAIESTY WHEREIN Is proved by many plaine Texts of Scripture That the Resisting Imprisoning or Deposing our King under what specious pretences soever couched is not onely unlawfull but damnable LONDON Printed for G. M. and W. H. MDCXLVIII Great BRITANS Vote OR God save King CHARLES CHAP. I. THE outward expressions of a man declare the inward affections of his soule at the first appearance of a thing whether good or bad if good our hearts are affected with joy which our tongues will soone declare if bad they are possest with griefe which our dejected countenance will soone discover The dayes of the Inauguration or crowning of Kings hath in the purest times and by the godliest Christians beene as a superlative good to a nation celebrated with great solemnity their persons being accounted sacred and their Government the joy of each good mans heart however in these last and worst times the scorne and contempt of Rebells Sectaries and Levellers whose hatred to our Gracious Soveraigne the more it manifests it self in them should the more inflame our soules with love to him and breake forth into as loud acclamations of all Loyall hearted Subjects acknowledging him their Soveraigne with joy in his Crowne as the Rebells and Schismaticks Declarations against him to depose him from his Throne and when can we better doe this than on the day of his Coronation a neglect might justly deserve a sharpe reprehension That our King is worthy of our love and his Coronation of our solemne observation and joyfull acknowledgements I am confident all but Traitors and Levellers will confesse and shall wee passe over so much good with neglect silence in this matter is sinne and worthy of reproofe and here it is which I beseech God may pierce deep into the soules of all that read or heare it as it is in these two Texts of Scripture delivered This is the day of our King Hosea 7.5 Wee doe not well then this day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace 2 Kings 7.9 CHAP. II. IOash the sonne of Ahaziah being hid by Iehosheba the Daughter of King Ioram six a 2 Kings 11.3 yeares in the house of the Lord because bloudy Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah whom b 2 Chron. 22.9 10 11. Iehu killed had destroyed all the Kings seed of the house of Iuda excepting onely Ioash whom Ioh●sheba the wife of Jehoiadah the Priest had preserved In the c 2 King 11.4 seventh year Iehoiadah the Priest seeing Athaliah to usurp the Crowne calls forth the Captaines and gathers the Levites out of all the Cities of Iudah and the chiefe Fathers of Israel to d 2 Chr. 23.2 Ierusalem and having first bound them with an e 2 Kings 11.4 oath of Allegiance presents unto them the sacred spectacle of their Regall Soveraigne f 2 Chr. 23.3 Behold the Kings Sonne must reigne He sets a g 1 Kin. 11.6.11 watch and h 2 Chr. 23.11 guard to secure and safe-guard him Loc how dangerous is the chair of State all like officious Subjects stand to withstand the treachery of Traitors Then in a regall solemnity they bring forth the Kings Sonne the joy and Iubilie of their hearts the wished and welcome Progeny of Jehoshaphat descended of an ancient line of Princedome they put the Crowne upon his head they give him the testimony they i 2 Kin. 11.12 make him King Iehoiadah and his sonnes anoint him they all clapt their hands for joy and with their hands their hearts and with their hearts their tongues till their many yet united voices even reverberate the aire with this heaven-piercing Eccho this Eucharistique gratulation God save the King So when the dayes of that admired Queene Queene * B●z● Epigr. in class hisp Anno 1588. Elizabeth of most famous and blessed memorie were on earth concluded then the Foxes of Babilon who had laine in holes forty foure yeares began to threaten as Esau did his Brother a Gen. 27.41 The dayes of mourning for my Father will come shortly then will I slay my Brother Iacob the day of her death the dawning of their desire for then they thought like Bustards in a Fallow field to raise up themselves by the violence of the multitude the Papists hoped then to have raised their Religion by a whirle-winde of Rebellion but our blessed Peace-maker frustrated their bloudy hopes and as Paterculus saith of the Roman Empire after Augustus death that there was great expectation of much troubles but there was so great a Majesty in one man that there was no use of Armes for good men or against bad men So the great Majesty of our succeeding Soveraigne King Iames as learned vertuous and religious a Prince as any under the roofe of heaven calmed all the stormes and imaginory tempests which were feared and expected so that the world did see our Sunne did set and yet no night did follow the enemies of England saw it then to their griefe who hoped that when the Sunne went downe some erraticall starre should shine but still the Planet kept its course Phoenix-like a new and yet the same renewed for the Augustus of this latter world Iames came to the Crowne a King not onely virorum but sacrorum a defender of men and Defender of the Faith Which indeed he did performe with such wisedome and discretion that he not only totally silenc'd the open threats conspiracies of his forraign adversaries and discontented Subjects of the Romish party but also slumbred the stormes threatned from the then beginning swellings against Monarchy of those little Foxes of Sectaries and Schismaticks whom he kept under all his days dyed was not murdered though of late falsely and maliciously insinuated and left a religious and both in Church and State well-govern'd Kingdome to his Sonne our present religious and Gracious King Charles A Prince in whom all graces both Divine and Morall were and are as apparent as the Sunne in the Firmament among all which glorious Starres none was more p●rspicuous than that of his Clemency even to the bitterest of his Adversaries at the luster of which oh nefandum dici the Sectaries and Schismaticks lighted there before extinct Tapers of Rebellion Licentiousnesse and Liberty which is now heightned to that flame which you behold it at at the light whereof the world may behold a most Religious Conscientious King imprison'd the heir apparent of the Crown banished with his Royal Mother that fruitfull Vine of so many fair now clouded separated clusters a free born nation slaved unto slaves ambitious Traytors and bloudy Rebels under the notion of that deluding good of our Nation a Parliament who sit and vote and declare they wil fight against him whom at their first calling together they swore to fight for as having

their life their King being safe they are all at unity So long as their King is well they follow their worke but being lost they leave and loath their Honey-combes and when their King waxes old and cannot flye they carry him on their wings and if he dye they dye with him as some write f Hieron ep●st ad Rusticam Behold how nature hath stamped obedience by instinct to Bees to be subject to a superiour in their kinde g Pet. Chry. in Policrat lib. 7. how much more should Nature Reason and Grace stampe obedience in the heart of Christians knowing that without a Kingly Government Kingdomes are thraldomes h Aug de civit dei lib. 4 c. 4. Take away Iustice and what are Kingdomes but Dens of Theeves Take away obedience to Government and that were to make earth and hell all one but onely in name There is not wanting divine Precepts or divine Patterns to allure loyall obedience take two in stead of many the first and best of all our Saviour Christ i Matth. 3.17 in whom God is well pleased and the second David k 1 Sam. 13.14 a man after Gods owne heart Our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ yet God and man in the dayes of his flesh disdained not to obey such as were in authority l Matth. 22.21 commanding to give unto Caesar that which is Caesars and paying m Matth. 17.27 tribute to Caesar for himselfe and and Peter by the hands of Peter though Peters supposed Successors and they that pretend to Peters inspiration will pay none And though our Saviour Christ received manifold injuries and indignities from unjust and faithless Governours yet he never moved rebellion or resistance but digested all with patience and obedience knowing that the powers that be are ordained of God telling Pilate that unjust Iudge that his power was given him from above for the rule is given of the Lord and the power of the most high And by mee Kings raigne saith hee that had the wisdome of God given unto him Prov. 8 15. And saith another Pis●●t anal in M●● 22 2● God is to be obeyed for himself being cheif Lord the Magistrate is to bee obeyed for God as being Gods Minister or deputy So that the pattern of Christs obedience to temporall powers must bee the platforme of instruction in the duty of obedience 2. Davids obedience to King Saul is very commendable and remarkable Saul was a a A Tyrant by abuse of power not by usurpation Tyrant and sought without cause or colour to kill David yet David often hazarded his life and limbs against Sauls enemies the Philistins evermore testifying his prompt obedience and service to his Soveraign and when this K. Saul like that other b Acts 9.1 Saul breathing out threatnings and slaughter against David followed him to the wildernesse of Engedi where David used pia fallacia hid himselfe in a c 1 Sam. 24.4 Cave and had opportunity to cut off Sauls head as well as the lappe d 5 of his garment or if he were timerous to dip his hand in blood as once Gregory e Greg. lib 7. epist. 1. willed Sabinian to tell the Empe●or exciting him against the Lombards I feare God and am afraid to have any hand in blood if David I say had such a qualm of fear come over his heart lo the f 1 Sam. 24 8. hands of his servants ready to have done it and scarce could be kept from it only David doth terrifie them from doing it g 7 The Lord keep me from doing that thing unto my Master the Lords Anointed Dum timuit ol●um servavit inimicum as excellently h Lib 2. advers parmenianum Optatus in fearing the anointing he preserved his enemy In a word David might have killed Saul sleeping or if he would not himselfe do it i 8 Abishai offered his service I pray thee let me smite him once with a spear to the earth and I will smite him no more but still see how obedience holds his hands and moves his tongue Destroy * 9 him not f●r who can lay his hand on the Lords anointed and be guiltlesse And afterward Saul being slaine and a certaine Amalekite hoping to have bin a happy Post in telling k 2 Sam. 1.4 David Saul is dead and shewing David that hee hasted l 10 Sauls death though m 1 Sam. 31.4 Saul himselfe had acted the Prologue of his own death this made the Epilogue of his life and brought the Crown in his hand a tempting baite to get praise or pardon yet all in vain how wast thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy the anointed of the Lord s●i●h n 2 Sam. 1 14 15. David and commands his servant to give him legem talionis to kill this King-killer though by consent and intreaty Sic pereant qui moliri talia pergunt Good God thou King of Kings so let them perish Who ' gainst thy Charles such bloody deeds do cherish And now what doe all these particulars summed up together inferre but this Ecce o Iohn 1.47 Behold a true Israelite in whom is no guile behold a good subject indeed in whom is no treason behold a man after Gods owne heart who from his soule hateth and abhorreth the very name and thought of Rebellion his heart p 1 Sam. 24 6. smiting of him but for cutting of the lap of Saules garment after whose heart then those men are who now a dayes cut off from a David all Regall ornaments devest him of all ensignes of Royall Majesty and cloath him with nothing but the foule garments of reproach and slander I leave to all the world to judge How unlike are the wayes of this sonne of God to those who would bee thought the sonnes of God in these dayes Popish Iesuits of the Sea of Rome and oh wonder those Lord and Commons who call themselves the Parliament of England David labours to speake his mind to Saul these labour to hinder David to speake his mind to them David manifested himself upon all occasions obedient and loyall to his Soveraigne though wicked that so evinced thereby hee might become good these upon all opportunities declare their disobedience and disloyalty to their Soveraigne though good and to colour their Rebellions would fame make the people beleeve that he is wicked and should be if they could make him so either by flattery or force David desired nothing more than to come to a q 1 S●● 24 9. 26.14 Personall Treaty that so the truth might appear and the innocent be acquitted These abhor the thought of a Personall Treaty and Vote it treason for any man to speak from or to him least their ambitious villanies should be detected and our poore oppressed Kings wronged innocence manifested and honour vindicated Lastly David in all his consultations and actions did endeavour to evidence himselfe faithfull