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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35517	A discourse shewing that kings have their being and authority from God that therefore good kings when dead are lamented, that all while living are to be obeyed, and that treason and rebellion are punishable both in this and the next world : preached the Sunday following the news of the death of ... Charles the Second / by John Curtois ...	Curtois, John, 1650 or 51-1719.	1685 (1685)	Wing C7700; ESTC R17308	19,772	38

A DISCOURSE SHEWING That KINGS have their Being and Authority from GOD That therefore Good KINGS when Dead are lamented That all while Living are to be Obeyed AND That Treason and Rebellion are punishable both in this and the next World Preached the Sunday following the news of the Death of our late King of Blessed Memory Charles the Second By JOHN CVRTOIS Rector of Branston near Lincoln LONDON Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh at the Golden Ball against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1685. TO Sir HVMPHREY WINCH BARONET Honoured Sir I Present here a Discourse to you which I preach'd to my Parish the Sunday after we had heard of the Death of our late Sovereign By which you may see how faithfull I am to my Trust in instructing them to give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's as unto God the things that are God's And I think it was receiv'd by them with that respect and affection that is due from all honest and good men to a Discourse of this nature A while after I had the opportunity to Preach it in the Cathedral at Lincoln where it was kindly resented by many Loyal persons of whom the number is very great in that City But there were a few Heterogeneous men crept in among them that were as much disgusted at it and no sooner out of the Church but they fell to calumniate and belye me perverting my intentions and laying to my charge things that I never said So that to vindicate my self from the Aspersions of these men I have made the Sermon publick as you see it after the same Copy by which I spoke it It will I presume endure such a publick Test For upon a strict review I find nothing there but what is agreeable to the Doctrine of our Church and the late General acknowledgments of our Loyal Nobility Gentry and Clergy in their Addresses to His Sacred Majesty And therefore I question not your Favourable acceptance of it in particular As it hath so it needs nothing else to commend it to you but the Loyalty of it which it is Argument enough that you approve of in all its Appearances because at the Critical time of Trial you abhor'd and withstood the Vnnatural and Vnchristian Bill of Exclusion and the same Party which in those days of iniquity would have Excluded His Sacred Majesty from his three Kingdoms would have also excluded you from the Parliament That all future Parliaments may consist of such worthy Members as you such as will distinguish betwixt Religion and faction legality and injustice such as will be as True to the Church and State as the King is pleased to be Gratious to them is the earnest prayer of Honoured Sir Your most obliged and most humble Servant JOHN CURTOIS ROM XIII 1. There is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God HAVING receiv'd the sad tidings of the Death of our most Gratious Sovereign Charles the Second I think it requisite to say something as early as I can that will be suitable to it And therefore I pitch upon this Subject as proper and seasonable to exercise your Devotions at this time In these words Saint Paul plainly teacheth this Doctrine That all Kings or Supreme Governours of Nations are Constituted of Almighty God and Rule solely by his Divine pleasure and Authority I shall clear this unto you and then draw an inference or two from it First This was eminently true of the several Governours of the Jews They had all particular and apparent Signatures and Impresses of the Image and Authority of God upon them For when from all the Nations of the World God had set apart the Jews to be the Object of his more immediate care he is said to have sent Moses to be a Ruler and Deliverer unto them by the hand of the Angel which appeared to him in the Bush By reason of which power so signally conferr'd by God he was intituled King in Jeshurun when the Heads of the People and the Tribes of Israel were gather'd together And when God was pleased to remove his servant Moses to a Crown of Glory in Heaven he nominated Joshuah to succeed him in the same Authority And after the removal of Joshuah he raised up Judges to them men of absolute and uncontrollable power for the time they continued inferiour to Kings onely in the title And lastly to oblige them with variety of dispensations at their own desire and according to a former promise of making them every way as Glorious as the Nations round about them he gave them many Governours with the Title of Kings too to go out before them and fight their battels But although the Kingdom of Israel might seem here to have had a more signal designation and her Governours a more particular commission from God than any other yet Secondly the Gentile Rulers were as truly the Ministers and Vicegerents of God in their respective Dominions though not so remarkably Thus Syracides saith Eccl. 17.17 in the division of the Nations of the whole Earth God set a Ruler over every people but Israel is the Lord's portion And the same is signified by the men whom we are certain God inspir'd to reveal the truth The Prophet David speaking of Rulers in General calleth them Gods and the children of the most High Psal 82.6 And that of Solomon is as General Prov. 8.15 16. By me Kings Reign and Princes decree Justice By me Princes Rule and Nobles even all the Judges of the Earth And particularly in the Prophecy of Isaiah Isa 44.28 45 1. Cyrus the King of Persia is styled the Shepherd and the Anointed of the Lord. And in the Prophecy of Jeremiah Nebuchadnezzar Jer. 27.6 King of Babylon is styled his Servant And the Prophet Daniel telleth that King expresly Dan. 2.37 The God of Heaven hath given thee a Kingdom Power and Strength and Glory The Son of God himself said as much John 19.11 when he confessed that Power by which Pilate acted under the Roman Emperour to be given him from above And so his Apostle in the Text in the Reign of a Heathen saith There is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God Accordingly the first Christians taught L. 5. Contr. Har. Irenaeus saith that by whose appointment men are born by his appointment Princes are constituted Apol. c. 30. Tertullian saith that they have their Power thence whence they have their Spirit So Optatus lib. 3. There is no person Superiour to the Emperour but God onely who ordained the Emperour Nay the wiser Heathens that had any sense of Religion had the same sentiments of the Divinity of Regal Power This is the meaning of that Benediction of the Queen of Sheba when she was full of Admiration at the Wisedom of Solomon 1 King 10.9 Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighted in thee to set thee on the Throne of Israel because the