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A85798	A sermon appointed for Saint Pauls Crosse, but preached in Saint Pauls Church, on the day of His Maiesties happy inavgvration. March 27. 1642. By Richard Gardyner, D.D. and Canon of Christ-Church, Oxon.	Gardiner, Richard, 1591-1670.	1642 (1642)	Wing G231; Thomason E141_29; ESTC R16286	13,868	41

booke that the piety of such holy persons and sacred acts which are expressed by those visible objects ought to be imitated in their lives and deaths But such a fober construction hits not the scope of their meaning for they instruct the people downe-right to Idolize them Bellarmine the Atlas of their predominant Hierarchy doth not tremble terminis terminantibus in expresse termes to averre that the Images of Christ De Imagin Sancto l. 2. c. 21. and the Saints are to be worshipped not onely improperly but properly and by themselves so that they terminate the worship presented to them For my owne part as I will not contend with shadowes so I shall never any way strive for shadowes being resolved to approve no further these externall decorements and other circumstantials in Gods house then the Policy of the Land wherein I live shall thinke good to support And this I suppose is to keepe within the compasse of leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty which is the close of my Text and the totall summe of Christianity The heathen Orator could say Tull. l. 1. de Offic Inter bonos benè agere oportet among good and honest men must be good and honest dealing much more they who professe themselves Christians should be thus affected For since man is a sociable Creature every one owes that naturally to another by which humane society is conserved But men cannot live and converse if they may not beleeve and trust one another in godlinesse and honesty For this seeming zeale this formall honesty is like the Trojan horse in Virgil which was pretended the gift of Minerva but proved the ruine of Troy So that godlinesse and honesty faith and good workes must not be set at oddes but connexed and linked in our peaceable life as the cause and the effect the Sunne and the light For peace without godlinesse is a prophane unhallowed peace and peace without honesty is an adulterate a counterfeit peace it turnes the grace of God into wantonnes In godlinesse otherwise our peaceable life is no better then consenting in a faction in a combination for there 's Concors Odium unity in hatred when men make a league against a common good Jn honesty that you doe not by holy pretenses swallow widowes houses and by colour of distributing to pious uses scrape together what is not your owne build an Hospitall for a few and purloyne from many Such a liberality being no better then bountifull cruelty But our lives must be lead in all godlinesse and honesty squaring our drifts by our religion and not our religion by our drifts as the Ephesians did who cry'd up Diana Diana but gaine was in it they had learn'd to varnish their filthy lucre with devotion and to make their godlinesse yea their goddesse the handmaid the Stalking horse to their owne private Interest We are to pray for such a peace as Christ gave to his Disciples a peace knit together in all godlinesse and honesty I will follow my Apostle and end as I beganne exhorting all in their supplications prayers Intercessions and thanksgivings to magnify the Almighty by the providence of whose goodnesse we have a renowned King who is an indulgent carefull Father of the Church and Common-wealth a constant Exemplary Encourager and Advancer of all godlinesse and honesty Some Kings have beene so compos'd that Jngentes Virtutes ingentia vitia eminent vices no lesse then eminent vertues held a joynt concurrence in them as we see the drosse runnes with the metall but his gratious Majesty is of so refin'd so sanctified a temper that envy it selfe cannot find the least tracke of a raigning vice in him Who see 's not hee is Rex Mitioris Jngenij His clemency and moderation Proclaime him a King of his passions as well as of Nations And therefore Continue him O Lord long long continue him unto us Protect him against inbred and forraine Adversaries against the Foxe at home and ravening wolves abroad Let his enemies bescattered and those slaine that hate him Make his seed to endure for ever and his throne as the dayes of heaven Establish so firme an unity with the Head and the whole Body of the Kingdome that there ever be an happy entercourse of Love and Protection obedience and service Let no cunning of Satan nor any machination of his adherents be able to withdraw them from leading quiet and peaceable lives in all godlinesse and honesty through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS

and obedience to the Magistrate were incompatible and in themselves repugnant If they would reflect on the ● to the Corinthians and the 15. the same Apostle would warrant them that rule and authority must hold till the last day of Iudgement when the Kingdome is delivered up to God the Father If sicknesse be here it is expedient that here we should have Physicke and if we be subject to transgresse there must be government to suppresse and censure But if they bee so pure that they cannot quench the Spirit of Grace then Kings are advanc'd to erect for them Trophes and Monuments of glory For if you doe well you shall have praise of authority 1 Epist of Saint Peter chap 2. Good God! what doe these men conceive of Christ of the Apostles and blessed Martyrs Did not the Apostles yeeld allegeance to barbarous Infidels Dare they say our Saviour did temporize when he paid tribute to Caesar Or will they condemne the Primitive times of pusillanimity in that they patiently hugg'd their death yeelded their limbes to be torne and rent asunder by the cruelty of Tyrants The people of Israel exhibited obedience to the Kings of Babylon of Egypt of Persia Those three famous Jewes in the third of Daniel were so trusty to Nebuchadnezzar that he made them universall Governors over all his dominions Julian was an unbeleeving Emperour was he not an Apostata an oppressor an Idolater and yet In Psal 124. saith Saint Austin Christian souldiers did serve that unbeleeving Emperour When they came to the cause of Christ they would acknowledge no Lord but him which is in heaven when hee would have them sacrifice and worship Idols they preferred God before him But when he said Goe forth to fight invade such a Nation they presently obeyed they distinguished their eternall Lord from their temporall and yet were they subject to their temporall Lord for his sake that was their eternall Lord and Master This should schoole unyoked stubbornnesse and make each necke plyable unto all manner of Ordinances of man for the Lords sake for so is the Will of God 1 Pet. 2.13 14. For seeing all Kings without distinction or restriction are Gods Vice-gerents profound King James in his booke of the true Law of free Monarchy largely proves that submission is to be rendered to them whether just or unjust not so much as they are Men but as they are the Deputies of God bearing a kind of Divinity about them which makes their persons and power alwaies Sacred and inviolable If their iniunctions doe not contradict the greatest King we are to be nimble by an active obedience in performing what they will If they cleerely oppugne the Law of God in case we cannot well fly from their fury we must be content by our passive obedience to yeeld our selves to be executed rather than to execute them Bonus si fuerit qui tibi praeest nutritor tuus est malus fi fuerit tentator tuus est is Saint Austins Doctrine Kings if they be good are our Protectors if bad they are Gods Instruments to prove our Loyaltie They are stiled the Rod of his fury a sword to punish sinners Ashur the rod of my wrath I will send him to a dissembling Nation and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath Esai 10. The Prophet Jeremy cals that Ethnick Emperor Nebuchadnezzar the servant of God Ier. 34. And Saint Paul termes the tyrant Nero in his time the Minister of God Rom. 13. Conci 1. cont Auxent de basilic Tradit This made Saint Ambrose confesse that teares were his weapons against the armes and Souldiers of the Emperour that he neither could nor ought resist For since as Tertullian speakes Ad Scap. they receive from God whatsoever they are and are only lesse than God it is not for us vindictively to meddle with them For who can lay hands on Gods Anointed and be innocent 1 Sam. 24. It was spoken of King Saul who contrary to all Law equity and Religion had causelesly slaine the Priests of the Lord. But though Saint Ambrose in Apologia David tels us Nullis vocatur ad poenam legibus tutus Imperii Maiestate yet Kings are not to thinke they are exempted from the direction of their Lawes and from conforming their actions thereunto Indeed a Tyrant makes his will a Law because what hee wils he will have to be a Law but a good King makes the Law his will because he wills that which the Law wils and therefore voluntarily imposeth upon himselfe a necessity of keeping it that thereby he may set a keener edge upon his Subjects to observe it For the light of Governours good example like the rising of the Sunne will passe into all the Corners of their Dominions Besides the very name Rex comming à Regendo from ruling doth include that with their Regall dignity there is a mutuall duty which they are to discharge to their Subiects for their service As to defend Religion and the Law of God to maintaine the Fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome as his Majesty declares he doth and will doe to provide by all possible endeavours for the safety and peace of the Common wealth In which if they shall faile the most High God whose eyes are alwayes on them to see what they doe will to the terrour of their soules stretch his arme at last to give them the sorer stroke For to them who walke not worthy of the rich blessings they have received the greatnesse of their Prerogatives and exemptions here in this life will be the augmentation of their plagues and punishments hereafter in the world to come Thus I have endeavoured to make my speech like a Bell right and fully rung to strike on both sides clearely sounding the Due and duty of the Ruler no lesse than of those who are under Rule and Government For as I abominate those odious dispiriting relations of Tyrant and Slave with which God be blessed we are not enthralled so I shall ever study to cherish the sprightfull exhilarating dependances betwixt King and Subject Againe in regard the King is the safeguard of the People reason good the People should yeeld all subsidiary helpes that tend to the advancement of the honour and glory of the King For when the Soveraigne is insufficient by his owne stocke to provide for the Publique good or his owne Dignity whereupon the Publique depends it is naturall that supply be administred to him from inferiour members and it is profitable for the members freely to yeeld a fitting support since if the Head continue drooping the members will likewise languish in a consumption And now let me entreate that none impose a meaning farre wide from my drift It was never in my heart or tongue any way to infringe the proper rights liberties and proprieties of the people I move only for a voluntary free aide or assistance It were a great dis-service to the King to inflame his Prerogative to the