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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

Government And God hath given a peculiar charge saying Touch not mine Anointed do my Prophets no harm Psal. 105.15 Kings Priests and Prophets were all anointed under the Law as typifying the triple Office of Christ the Mediator and of these consecrated ones God took a special care and gave a special charge Touch them not i. e. to offer any violence to do them any injury 3. All the people have an interest in him he is a publick yea the most publick Person in a sort the breath of the Peoples nostrils Lam. 4.20 their lives peace and welfare are much what bound up in his he cannot fall especially in a way of violence without the disturbance nay hazard and confusion of the whole Body to which he is the politick Head We have had woful experience of this in our own times in the wicked and monstrous Usupations of some who by the cutting off of the supream Magistrate under specious pretences took the reins of Government into their own hands not only to the great dissatisfaction discontent and abhorring of all loyal Subjects but to the oppressing of many and the hazard of overturning all our just Priviledges yea of the very being of the Nation if God in his mercy had not prevented 4. This our Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy do bind us to which ought to be esteemed sacred and inviolable no man can attempt any th●ng in this kind but he must dash upon the Rock of Perjury as well as Treason sins that are sufficient to split any man upon the Rocks of Death and Damnation if not repented of Rom. 13. You see how tender David was of the person of Saul though he was David's enemy one that did persecute him with deadly rage Psal. 7.4 Psal. 143.3 one that in his persecution hunted after his precious blood and ingaged all that he could to be serviceable to him in his design 1 Sam. 18.25 and 19.2 10 11 20 21. and 22.7 8. and 23.7 8. one that hated and persecuted him without a cause a man that not only had never done him h●rt but had been the choicest instrument of service for the preservation of him and his Kingdom 1 Sam. 19.4 5. Psal. 7.3 4. and 35.7 yea though he were himself anointed to be King in his room and had the prom●se of the Kingdom 1 Sam. 16.12 13. yea further though he had the opportunity and the life of Saul his bloody enemy put into his hand more then once 1 Sam. 24.4 and the 26 8 9. yet he would not he durst not put forth his hand against the Lord 's Anointed and when he had but for testimony cut off the lap of his garment he hath upon record left the account how his heart smote him for the doing of it 1 Sam. 24.1 As the rebellion of Absalom was most unnatural and accursed for which himself and his confederates were involved under the just wrath of God 2 Sam 15. and 18.6 7 8 9. so was the faithfulness of Hushai and those that went with David highly renowned you have the story of Hushai seeking to defeat the counsel of Ahitophel 2 Sam. 17. 7 8. But that which I would present you withal is the loyal and most memorable expression of the tenderness of those that adhered to David when he was deserted of other of his Subjects you have it 2 Sam. 18.2 3. I pray read it If you read the Scriptures you will be furnished with instances of Peoples readiness to go forth to enounter enemies in case of invasion to their greatest hazard 2 Chron. 14.8 ad 14. and 20.20 Iudges 4.10 and 5.9 How memorable are the names of David 1 Sam. 17.32 33. and 19.8 of Mordecai in discovering the treason against the King Esther 6.1 2. of Iohanan Ier. 40.13 14 15. you might be loaded with excellent examples from the Histories of Romans and Greci●ns running upon death themselves to rescue and preserve the lives of their famous Governours But I have said enough to shew that there lies a duty upon Subjects to stand up for the preservation and defence of the lives government and safety of their Princes And 1. this may serve to discover the degenerate state of the Church of Rome and those cursed Doctrines and Practices maintained there against this Scripture-loyalty What must we think of their Doctrines that do teach That Subjects may lawfully breake their Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy to their Natural Liege-Lord if the Pope absolve them from them 2. Of the lawfulness of Killing and Murthering Princes if their Church declare them Hereticks and it may be for the Advancement of the Catholick Cause 3. And is not the Practice every way as Damnable in giving Dispensations to Subjects from their Oathes 4. In their Jesuitical endeavours to engage Persons to this desperate employment of killing Kings and Rulers 5. Consecrating Persons Knives Pistols and other deadly Instruments for the Work 6. And what are their Prayers for success in these hellish Atchievements 7. Their Pardon 's given out to free their Assassinates from all their sins and from Purgatory it self 8. Their Canonizing of such cursed Miscreants and unnatural Monsters for Calender-Saints though Hell it self could hardly yield more wicked Imps Judge ye what the Church of Rome is come to and how far degenerate from her primitive purity when St. Paul wrote his Epistle and therein that famous Doctrine of Subjection to Rulers yea though they were then Heathens that ruled over them Oh how doth the Romish Whore stinck in the nostrils of all the Purer Churches for the bloody cruelty of her Doctrines and Practices of this kind For their Doctrine their own Books will condemn them enough of this is held forth in a Piece called The Mistery of Iesuitism And for their Practice Raviliack of France Faux and his Complices in England besides many more have given them their Brand to be Trayterous Blood-suckers and King-killers And surely i● Scripture do oblige Subjects to such a passive subjection as you have heard of and such an active defence of Princes even to the hazard and loss of life how execrable in our esteem and in the eyes of all loyal Subjects must that design and practice be accounted which we come this day to acknowledg bewail and to witness our abhorrence of yea and implore the grace of God to wash away the guilt of that it may not cleave to these Nations I mean that most horrid and almost unparallelled practice of putting to Death our late Sovereign Charles the First Father to His Majesty our now gracious King and undoubted Ruler the thing it self with its circumstances took so deep an impression upon our hearts and is to this day ●o fresh in our memories that I need not now again represent the Tragedy 1. If it be considered by whom this fact was committed His own natural Subjects 2. In what manner in a form and under a pretence of Justice Heavens blush to see a King standing at a Bar before