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A39577	Honour the king a sermon preached on the solemn fast, January 30, 1672/3 : wherein the duty of subjects to their sovereign is opened and asserted, the principles and practices inconsistent therewith are directed and condemned, and the innocent vindicated from unjust censures : at Birmingham in Warwick shire at the publick meeting-place there licensed according to His Majesties gracious declaration / by Samuel Fisher, M.A., late preacher of the word at Thornton in Cheshire.	Fisher, Samuel, 1616 or 17-1681.	1673 (1673)	Wing F1059A; Wing F1052A_CANCELLED; ESTC R32432	21,867	42

his Subjects 3. At what time after His large Concessions and the Parliaments Judgment that they were a sufficient Ground to proceed upon for a lasting Peace 4. The Execution it self with the Circumstances to be Beheaded at His own Royal Palace Gates in the highest contempt 5. The Consequents of it 1. The Dispossession and Banishment of the undoubted Heir with the Banishment of all the Royal Seed 2. The Intrusion of the Bloody Usurper 3. The Subverting of Government and Laws 4. The Confusion of the Nations Order Peace and Settlement 5. The Discontent Grief and Heart-break of all Loyal Subjects 6. The Shame of the most Glorious and Loyal People in the World 7. The greatest Scandal of the Reformed Protestant Religion that ever it endured I say if these things be considered our practice this day may very well be justified to make use of this day to confess bewail and beg pardon as for other of the crying sins of the Nation and for other blood both of Prophets and Innocents so especially for that thrice-dipt Rebellion of shedding the Blood of the Father of his Country and the politick Head of these eminent Kingdoms And the Lord give us sadly and mournfully to lay it to our hearts that the guilt of it may not lie upon our heads Fifthly Another and great duty that Subjects owe to their Rulers especially to the King as supream is their prayers and hearty desires for their universal good We are bound to pray for all 1 Tim. 2.1 yea for our very enemies Luke 6.28 how much more therefore for Princes and Governours that have rule over us by God's appointment Rom. 13. 1 2. and so great an influence upon the Subjects either for their welfare or their hurt This duty the Scripture holds forth with as clear and pregnant instances precepts and examples as any duty we owe to them 1 Tim. 2.1 here you have an express command for whom and upon what grounds we should make our prayers And it is observable that the Apostle enjoyns this to Christians when the Magistrates under whom they lived were H●athen Gen. 47 it is said twice that Iacob blessed Pharaoh vers 7 10. Hoc est saith one fausta illi prec●tus est a● seriis precibus ipsius ●c regni incolumitatem Deo commendavit Ieremiah gives this advice to the Captives in Babylon Ier. 29.7 that th●y should seek the peace of the City whither God had caused them to be carried away Captives and to pray to the Lord for it for in the peace thereof shall you have peace And in this though I cite no● Baruch because not received as Canonical where it is said they were charged to pray for the life of Nebuch●dn●zar and his So● Beltbazar ye● it mus● n●ed be understood that in praying ●or the peace of ●he City they did pray for the King under whose go●e●n●●nt and protection the City was and they in the City When Daniel spake to the King D●●ius out of the Lions Den b●ing miraculously preserv●d from ●he ●aws and teeth of those ravenous Beast● upon the King'● appro●ch to the Den Da● 6.20 ● King live for e●●r My God ●ath s●●t his Augel c. which was expression of his loyal affection and desire of all good and prosperity to the King And this was according to the custome of the Jews upon the inauguration of their Kings to cry out God save the King or Viva● Re● let the King liv● 1 Sam. 10.24 1 Kings 1.34 But most considerable is that piece of Scripture viz. Psalm 20. which contains a Prayer of the Church for the King which though it look at Christ in the managing and success of his spiritual Kingdom yet must needs take in David the type and inspired Pen-man of the Psalm the whole Psalm is a Prayer ●nd expression of confidence upon their Pray●r and this Prayer that God would hear them for the King and bear the King when he prayed for himself or them and that God would incline the heart of the King to hear them when upon occasion they should call to him in any mat●●r of conc●●nment So much you may see in the general scope and tenour of the Psalm perhaps I may make some ●●rther use of the particulars afterwards Tertullian in his Apology for the Christians who were often burthened with false Charges of Sedition and Treason said Nos pro salute Imperatorum Deum invocamus Deum aeternum Deum vivum We Christians do pray for the safety and prosperity of Emperors to the eternal God to the living God whom the Emperors themselves do desire to find propitious to them besides others and before all others And therefore we do pray for all Emperors that they may have long Life a secure Government a safe House valiant Armies a faithful Senate an honest People a quiet World quaecunque Hominis Caesaris vota sunt The Speech of Bugenhagig of Pomerania is worthy observation If we were so ready as we should be to pray for Magistrates as we are apt to murmur and detract from them it would be better with us under their government then it is Question If you ask What we should direct our prayers to God for in relation to our Princes and Governors Answer I answer in general for their universal good for all that they do or may stand in need of in every capacity as Men Christians Magistrates and all that may be useful to fit them for and make them successful in their goverment Whatsoever we read in Scripture of the duties of Princes of the qualifications of Princes for their duties of the commendable practice of Princes in any cases of promises of God made to them in reference to their persons on government if made to them as such not with any special or limited reference whatsoever we read of their sins failings miscarriages or God's ●nger and displeasure against them all that tends to their good and the good of their relations government people or the preventing or removing of ●●y evil t●reatned or in execution may very fitly be turned into prayers It i● not within my ●each to reckon up ●ll that may engage our prayers for the chief Magistrate and those that are under them there are besides ordina●y and stated cases many emergencies and extraordinary cases which may call for alterations or additions in our prayers It behoves us therefore to be acquainted with Scripture to know what is behoveful for them and to enquire after them and their government to know what is meet for us in our capacities to know of the state of their persons and affairs that we may suitably make our applications to God for them But I shall hint some particulars 1. It concerns us much to pray for the health welfare safety and preservation of the King's person that he may be kept from sickness weakness or any thing that may disable him from the free and chearful attendance upon his duty and most advantagious management of his

tribute and customes according to Law I shall neither trouble my self nor you with the etymology of the words tributum vectigal redditus nor with the several distinctions that some of the Learned do give in reference to the persons whether urbani or rustici or from the matter whence they arise whether de mobilibus or immobilibus de exportatis or importatis whether privatum or publicum ordinarium or extraordinarium I take in all the just payments due to the Magistrate of what kind soever whether hereditary or voluntary and which way soever to be raised according to Law 1. For this duty the Scripture is clear 1. We have the command of God Rom. 13.6 7. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute and custome to whom custome is due And this was the determination of the case by our Lord Iesus Christ when he was maliciously set upon by the Pharisees sending the glavering Herodians by propounding a Question to get an advantage in the Answer the Question was Whether lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not ushered in with a subtile insinuation Matth. 22 11 16 17. Christ though well aware of their wicked hypocrisie though he rebukes them sharply yet refuseth not to resolve the Question And you may see how wisely and how justly he determines the case Matth. 22.19 20 21. Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's Which is in effect let Caesar have his due but let him see he neither deny nor incroach upon God's right 2. Christ himself he might have challenged freedom yet to avoid offence did himself pay tribute the Didrachma which was of the value of fifteen pence when it was demanded as you see Matth. 17.24 25 26 27. for Peter was sent to the sea to take a Fish in whose mouth he should find a piece of Money i. e. a Stater which was half an ounce to serve for them both by which though to avoid offence he submitted to the payment of tribute yet in doing it he shewed himself a greater Lord then he was for whom tribute was required of him Lord of the Seas that could command his tribute from the irrational Fishes yet how great soever tribute he payes and in paying of it himself who might so justly have pleaded his freedom being of the Royal stock he gives us a pattern and puts it out of doubt as our duty who can pretend to no such immunity 3. The Apostle gives a special reason for this exhibition of tribute and custome because they are the Ministers of God that do continually attend upon this very thing Rom. 13.6 It is the imployment of Princes to wait upon Government as the Ministers of God and therefore since it is their work it is reason as in cases inferiour and far different they should have the recompence of their work and a recompence answerable to the dignity of their place and nobleness of their employment Shall the Ministers of Men in the lowest services be rewarded and taken care for and shall it be worse with the Ministers of God in so great a service Rom. 13.6 4. There lies a necessity upon it for the service of the Common-wealth the great things that do lie upon the hands of Kings and Princes cannot be managed without a great charge Tributa illa sunt ornamenta pacis subsidia belli nervi Reipub. And Cicero saith Impossibile est ut sacris tributis non illatis alioqui Respublica conservetur How shall the just splendor and magnificence of Princes be upheld Ministers for Embassies Negotiations Counsels Intelligence be provided for military Forces whether for Sea or Land towards the defence of Kingdoms be maintained Palaces of Princes raised or repaired besides many other Publick services nisi tributa sisco Magistratus inferantur I● is a saying of Menenius Agrippa As the whole body must needs be brought to a mouldring condition alimentis ventriculo denegatis so it m●st needs fare with the Common-we●lth if the Magistrate be not supplied by his tributes Nec quies Gentium sine armis nec arma sine stipendiis nec stipendi● sine tributis haberi possunt saith T●●i●us 5. Thus it hath been from the beginning and all Nations wh●●soever have still paid tribute and cu 〈…〉 their Lords and Rulers our Saviour takes it for gr●nted Matth. 17.25 1 Sam. 8.11 1 Kings 4.6.2 S●● 8.2 This duty takes hold not only of persons in a Civil but in an Eccle●●astical capacity as is 〈◊〉 by our Saviour's practice and the general command And therefore we cannot but explode and damn the presumptuous incroachments of the Romish Clergy in their Plea and challenge for immunity both to their Persons and Purses from the Civil Magistrates power and claim both of tribute and service from them For though it be true that some Christian Princes have indulged great Priviledges to the Churches Servants in the Ministry yet it s as true those liberties especially amongst the Romish Clergy have been abused to the contempt of Magistracy to Pride Sloth and Luxury and the great injury of the Commonwealth And it is as true that the priviledg not being of Divine right it is no less in the power of succeeding Princes to require both tribute obedience and service from them then in others to give it way especially where the abuse of a priviledg calls for the retraction and abrogation of such Indulgence And though it had a very great shew of piety and devotion in some Princes to grant such an Indulgence to the Church yet I am of the mind of Festus Hominius Serio it aque Principes Christiani cogitare tandem debent an aequum sit in tant● honorum Ecclesiasticorum affluentia istis immunitatibus tot otiosorum ventrium luxum atque ignavia● foveri atque interim reliquos subditos tanto gravioribus vectigalibus onerari Fourthly That which treads upon the heels of the former as a duty incumbent upon Subjects is not only to obey and not to resist lawful Authority but to defend the supream Magistrate and those that are lawfully deputed by him in their Persons Government and just Rights against all Invasions by forraign Enemies all usurpations of Men that ambitiously hunt after unjust Dominion all cursed As●assinations or murderous intentions against their Persons with all trayterous Conspiracies whether against their Persons or Government from any whatsoever and this they are bound to do though it be to the hazard and loss of their estates lives and whatsoever is dear unto them in a lawful way and according to their capacities 1. The ground of this is not only the general Rule of the sixth Commandment which engages every man to be his Brothers keeper and to endeavor the preservation of his Brother's person as the fifth doth his Honour the eighth his Estate 2. But because the Prince is the Lords anointed a person designed appropriated and consecrated unto the place and employment of Rule and