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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49562	The death of Charles the First lamented, with the restauration of Charles the Second congratulated delivered in a speech at the ploclaming [sic] of our gratious King, at his town of Wellington, May 17, 1660 : to which are added short reflections of government, governours, and persons governed, the duty of kings and subjects, the unlawfulness of resistance, with other things of moment, and worthy consideration / by William Langley ...	Langley, William, b. 1609 or 10.	1660 (1660)	Wing L406; ESTC R7376	37,260	124

durable that is purchast with villany nor any power lasting founded in Atheisme and irreligion your fall was forseene without consulting with Starrs and Planets Your acting so long of a pleasing Commedy might tell you there would follow a wofull tragedy God I say is the Fountaine of all Power let every Soule be subject to the higher Power Rom. 13.1 for there is no Power but of God the powers that be are ordain'd of God Gualter in loc Not every Soule to shew that we must obey not onely outwardly but really and in truth ommis anima quoniam ex animo and the reason is drawn from the threefold good 1. Ab honesto Ab honesto which the Apostle shews A bonitate Ordinantis There is no power but of God Ordinationis The powers are ordained or ordered 2. Ab utili Ab utili to resist is evil Malum Culpae Whosoever resisteth resisteth the Ordinance of God Penae They that resist shall receive damnation 3. Ab jucundo Ab jucundo to submit is good because the Magistrate is the Minister of God for our good the good of peace protection justice Religion and the like we must obey for conscience unto the disobedient is a perpetuall hell v. 5 unto such as obey a continuall feast the powers then are ordained of God and there is no power but of God Aust sive jubente sive sinente either by Gods commission or permission the persons sometimes are intruders as in case of usurpation sometime abusers of their authority as when they tyrannize so that the potens the ruler is not always of God Hos 8.4 they have set up Kings but not by me they have made Princes and I knew it not and the manner of getting kingdoms is not alwayes of God Alexander the sixth obtain'd the Popedom Balaus in vita Alex. 6. by giving himself to the Devil Phocas by blood and sedition Tileman in Rom. 13. got his Empire Richard the third came to the Crown of England Pol. Virg. hist Ang. l. 25. by butchering his Nephew and others of the royall blood yet the power is ever of God By me Kings reign Prov. 8.15 Thou couldst have no power saith Christ to Pilate except it had been given thee from above Joh. 19.11 2. Besides this honourable title of Gods they are call'd shields Hos 4.18 her shields Shields love to say with shame give ye i.e. her Rulers love brihes Almighty God hath ordained higher Powers to defend his Church on earth as it were with a shield being scuta Christianorum the bucklers of Gods people as Fabius Maximus is call'd by Plutarch scutum Romanorum the target of the Romans Constantine Arcadius Theodosius John Frederick Duke of Soxony and many others have been shields to the Church of God A Tyrant is a butcher to his people but a good King is a buckler a defender he that rebelleth against his Soveraign hacketh and heweth as it were his own buckler of defence 3. The name Kings Rex à regendo from governing shews their duty Kings or Shepherds and it is usuall among the Prophets and poets for regere and pascere to signifie the same thing Homer Virgil and David put no difference betwixt reges and pastores Kings and Shepherds see more of this in Chap. 2. This was the end why they were made choyce of for common good and administration of Justice to be as watchfull over their people and as solicitous for their good A publike and common Sheepherd as a father of his children or a Shepherd of his sheep Princeps est pastor publicus communis 4. They are often term'd patres reipublicae fathers of their country the Sichemites call'd their King Abimelech which is as much as to say Fathers my father and Antiquity when it was willing to throw its greatest honour upon an Emperor it call'd him The father of the Commonwealth which was more then Caesar or Augustus Titus Vespasianus had the gentle and affectionate Epethite of Deliciae humani generis Justinian the Magnifique title of Pius Faelix inclytus victor ac triumphator Theodosius of Vestra aeternitas vestrum numen vestra clementia vestrum aeternitatis numen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Valerian the elder of King of kings divers other Emperors of Optimus Maximus Divus and the like but that which they esteem'd their greatest honour was The publike and common father of the Commonwealth Plato stiles a King Pater familias a father of a family and Zenophon Bonus Princeps nihil differt à bono patre the onely difference is this that the one hath fewer the other more under his command In a word reigning or bearing rule is nothing else but a paternall government many a care attends on greatness Christ's Crown was all thorns no crown without some thorns If private persons should not mis-imploy their talents What is expected from Kings what shall we say of publike persons who are advanced to the Throne they are obliged to cause their vertues to appear and be more eminent in all good acts the rank they are in sufficiently shews what they ought to be and what manner of persons they ought to appear Peter Martyr Allegorizing on the seat of Solomon saith that the height the gold the Ivory of the seat must put the Magistrate in mind of his eminency purity and innocency The celestiall bodies raised on high above the rest as upon the fane or pinacle of this beautifull temple of the world have more splendor then all other bodies among the elementary bodies that which holdeth the highest place is most pure in the body of man the head is most eminent more adorn'd more animated all which are secret instructions from nature What is learned from their title of Gods that those who hold the highest dignities should shine forth in the greatest vertues and grace more particularly 1. To acknowlodge him more especially 1. Duty being oblig'd by a more particular tye then the generality of men all waters come from the Sea and returne thither so all all Power comes from God and should returne from them to God by homage 2. To be more humble gratefull and religious then others the higher a tree shoots up his branches towards Heaven the lower it sinks its root into the Earth its depth supports its hight and the hight would become its ruine were not the depth its firmest solidity if humility be not the foundation and support of greatness their hight of Pride will be their destruction and God will debase them as he did Nebuchadnezzar and others They who lay the foundation of their greatness in Atheisme and irreligion shall in the end see they build Towers of Babel and will leave markes of follyes in their confusions and of his wrath in his revenge and just punishment 3. They stand more in neede and therefore should be more earnest to God in Prayer for his