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parliament_n	burgess_n	king_n	knight_n	3,853	5	7.2952	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86504	A sermon, preached before the Right Honourable, Thomas Foote, Lord Maior, and the right worshipfull the aldermen, sheriffs, and severall companies of the City of London. Vpon the generall day of thanksgiving, October the 8. 1650. at Christ-Church, London. / By Doctor Nathanael Homes, teacher of the Church at Mary Staynings, London.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1650 (1650)	Wing H2576; Thomason E614_4; ESTC R202565	34,476	51

disputed touching the typicalness of deliverances and the successive performance of promises But how stands affected the other Ministers and ancient Professors The Text tels you plainly But MANY of the PREISTS and LEVITES and chiefe of the FATHERS who were ANCIENT MEN that had seen the first house when the foundation of this house was layd afore their eyes WEPT WITH A LOUD VOICE These learned Ministers and ancient Professors have also some shew of reason for their mourning some semblance of affection and Zeale to the common good namely because it did seem by the platform layd their condition as in regard of magnificence was like to be meaner something then formerly This they thought because they carnally looked upon the outside of things and not to what spiritual glory God might cast upon this second though lesser Temple by sending the Messias to preach in it This Hag. chap. 2. v. 3. c. doth intimate And further they imprudently judged the utmost events of their present mercies by the small beginnings of things Because the foundation of their Temple was less therefore they conclude all things should be from time to time diminished and lessened a most false ground of right judging and determinations These Mal-contents doubt not but that presently and publikely they may prudently enough declare their discontent upon the publike and solemn day of joy and praise By which disjuncture and contrariety of their spirits and manifested acts much people are much amused and amazed So plainly this text of Ezra The Priests and Levites and chief of the fathers that wept wept with aloud voice and many shouted aloud for joy so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the PEOPLE But notwithstanding all these things to impede and prejudice this day of mercy and praise at the foundation of the Temple God reserves and raiseth the hearts of a remnant nay a great party to praise who are in this 3 of EZra and Hag. 1.2 encouraged and commended and the non-praisers disgraced there upon record We see by this that whiles men are mistaken in their judgements and distempered in their spirits a great matter will not make them praise But as it runs in the Head we are upon the duty lies upon the HOLY PEOPLE Which is not onely a word of distinction and obligation as we have heard but 3. A word of Notion or Formal consideration under which the Saints must praise Namely 1. Spiritually considered as Holy No distinction of Sects as good men are oft reproached no variety of judgements in non-Fundamentals no differences of forms of Discipline that are not opposite to the Word of God no discriminations of Presbyteries and Congregations so as they be all Saints holy persons should much less shall for future come into consideration to hinder praise All that are holy do must shall and will praise God for mercies All that own Saintship must own their God own their mercies and both in a day of praise lest they forfeit their recognizance of Saintship 2. Civilly considered as people in opposite distinction to Kings Monarchie being turned into Democracie Kingdoms into Commonweals My heart trembles to think of a popular parity a levilling Anarchie to which these times to my terrour much incline among the multitude Histories and ancient examples warn us of such as an immediate precipitation to ruine But a regular Democracie assisted with an occasional Aristocracie in Trust is most safe as some experience may be seen in SwitZerland Venice Low-countries and New-England and most anciently among the Iews in the time of the Judges or something afore Moses being but a Prophet to direct what was the minde and Laws of God and Ioshua but their General in case of War as were after their Iudges Under which notion onely were Kings chosen whiles kept to their proper duty Of degenerated Kings of which Iustin speaks Arbitrium principis erat pro Legibus the Will of the Prince was the Law Nimrod was the first we read of whom the Scripture brands with the disgraceful title of a Mighty-Hunter that is a Man-Hunter a Tyrant Gen. 10.8 The next were the nine Heathen Kings Gen. 14. whiles the holy people kept their Government within the bounds of Families Ibid. in the same 14 Chapter of Genesis And next to them the Kings of wicked Edom that is Esau Gen. 36. The Israelites after desiring of a King in the time of Samuel the Prophet God is displeased at it 1 Sam. 8.5 6 7 8. and gave them a king in his wrath * Hosea 13.11 who proved a great plague to them as God fotetold them 1 Sam. 8. And after how did most of the Kings of Israel and Iudah prove bad and since Christ till now what hath the generality of them done for Christ but much against Christ and true Christians yea and have been the grand oppressors of the world dashing millions of men to pieces in bloody wars to satiate the thirst of their own ambition and enlargement of Dominions No wonder therefore if the world in many ages have declined from Monarchie as in the time of the Maechabees and the Romane State and inclined to a Democracie as among the Athenians of old and Helvetians of late c. Look narrowly unto it and we shall finde that the lowest foundation of the Government of England and some monuments of its superstructure testifie in the behalf of a Democracie amongst us What mean else our Iuries in most Courts our determining things by Vote in other Courts or assemblies of suffrage our Representatives in Parliament our choice of Burgesses of Towns and Knights of the Shire to sit in Parliament our consent asked at the Coronation of our former Kings Will you have this man to be your King our receiving of him with condition to rule according to our Laws our swearing him to that our requiring him to pass in Parliament all the Laws quas populus eligeret that should be agreed by our Representatives in Parliament Yea before the Conquest our Chronicles make mention of several Kings deposed by the people of England judicially Stowes Chron. of Archigallo Merianus c. some for drunkenness and wickedness of life others for laying too heavie Taxes on the Nation And there is a Divine reason above all that Nations should incline to a Democratical Government because God did not onely create us people not Kings but also he hath setled his Decree against Monarchie Dan. 2. where the Image of four metals of Monarchy 't is not said of Antichrist shall be broken to pieces Three are gone the Assyrio-Chaldean the Medo-Persian and the Grecian the feet legs and toes of Iron and of Clay of the Romane to be crumbled and now comes on the tragical stage to that end And all this to be done to make way for Christs visible kingdom on earth Dan. 7.14 compared with our Text and the Revelations thorowout Monarchie hath been