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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61112	The righteous ruler a sermon preached at St Maries in Cambridge, June 28, 1660 / by John Spencer, B.D., fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Cambridge.	Spencer, John, 1630-1693.	1660 (1660)	Wing S4952; ESTC R37586	37,324	64

in Erasmus when he saw the stirs and commotions in Germany occasioned thereupon to the grief of all good men thus exprest himself Annon haec mea fuit vox ad primum gustum libellorum Lutheri res redibit ad seditionem and one well notes that however the Rulers of this World have been very jealous of the strength of the Church and very careful to keep that under hatches yet they have suffered Babylon to be built in its full strength though Romes profest principles lead to removal of Magistracy and State commotions Now these jealousies and reproaches might be occasioned two ways 1 By the spiritual pride of professors thinking that the Gospel jubilee freed all servants from obedience to Masters and Subjects from obedience to Princes especially if in the state of Gentilism an opinion which the Devil no doubt leavened the minds of men withall as a learned man speaks Ut inde in odium vocaret Christianam religionem apud Ethnicos quasi ordinis perturbatricem to bring Christianity into disgrace as if a disturber of the peace and order of a Nation 2 From the misapprehended honour of appearing in Religions defence deluded people apprehend they may fight for Religion and cannot die they thinke with greater assurance of honour here and heaven hereafter then when they fall like Zechariah between the Temple and the Altar People like the Turks will receive this Jewish practice of opposing Moses and Aaron into favour when Polititians have once christned it with the name of Zeal for Religion and Liberty But Religion may say as Elizabeth God hath rolled away my reproach for howsoever politick pretenders to Religion that stand by the Altar but to warm their own hands have upon every slight ground opposed lawful Authority and thrown dirt in the face of Governours yet the doctrine of the Gospel warrants no such thing The Pulpit was never intended to be a Circle in which to raise up the evil spirits of sedition and state commotions No Religion in the doctrine of it so greatly secures the power of Kings and the peace of States as the Christian doth We are bidden by the Gospel to be obedient {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1 Pet. 2. 18. to the crookedst and frowardst Masters God sets over us so that Religion can never be pretended against Loyalty And therefore when I take a sad review of the evil of our late disturbances I take not so much notice of the loss of King Liberty Property Parliaments Bloud though very great as of the impairing so far the credit of Religion in the violences offered to the person of His sacred Majesty and that by persons so highly pretending to it I am sorry the Papists seem to have now a 30th of Ianuary to return us for a 5th of November But blessed be God who put it into the heart of the Parliament to begin their work at the removal of this stain and blot from Religion not suffering the bloud of a Prince to lie any longer like aquafortis upon Religions credit to corode and eat thereinto We finde their practice justified by the holy Ghost who having told us of King Iehoash being murdered by his servants out of hand tells us who they were that did it 2 Chron. 24. 26. to wit none of the professours of the true Religion none of the Israelites but Zabad the Ammonite and Iehozabad the Moabite that so the honour of Religion might not suffer for a moment in the breast of the Reader and thus our Senatours tell the World as soon as God favours them with an opportunity that it was not Law but Violence not Religion but Pretences not the Nation but a Faction that attempted so unparallell'd a wickedness Secondly This doctrine may serve to give a check to all traiterous attempts against Majesty and Authority There is a threefold treason that falls here under challenge that of the heart of the tongue and of the hand 1 That of the heart of which those were guilty Jude v. 8. who despise dominions and those men of Belial 1 Sam. 10. 21. who despised Saul in their hearts Owl-ey'd creatures that can see nothing in a King but flesh bloud and a little state like children that can see nothing in the rainbow but onely a few fine colours Oh methinks those words by me Kings reign Prov. 8. should strike reverence and religion into every Atheist against those whom the Scripture stiles Gods among men Let us not think slightly of a King when God hath enjoined reverence to himself and him both in a breath in the Old Testament Prov. 24. 21. in the New 1 Pet. 2. 17. Fear God honour the King The murder of common and ordinary men we observe that God makes use of the very birds and beasts to discover but a very thought that impeacheth Majesty that doth not cut off but soil the skirt of a King the Scripture tells us a bird of the air shall discover it Eccl. 10. 20. God at one time or other suffers this sower leaven to breath forth in words or actions to the persons ruine 2 This may give a check to the treason of the tongue to those who speak evill of dignities Jude v. 8. when a King hath given a title of honour to a person all the Subjects must own it and honour him accordingly how much more when God hath given such eminent titles to Kings should we look upon our selves as bound so to do Scripture stiles it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} an accusation of blasphemie when evil language is used against these Gods upon earth Jud. v. 8. So 1 King 21. 13. he blasphemed God and the King No reason is there as some have done to reckon those titles of Highness Majesty and Lordship given to men in power and place inter soloecismos barbarismos aulicos amongst Court soloecisms and barbarisms which the Scripture useth Psal. 21. 5. The Kings glory is great in thy salvation Honour and Majesty hast thou laid upon him The Jews have a wise proverb Migrandum est ex eo loco in quo Rex non timetur we must go out of that place speedily where the King is not reverenced for we shall generally finde scorn and contempt thrown upon Kings and men in authority either a sad forerunner of some heavy judgement upon the people or else of the removal of the power it self so scorned and therefore these two things Job 12. 21. Gods pouring contempt upon Princes and weakning of their strength and power are joined together and we have seen in our times one of them a constant fore-runer of the other Fear a power is more safe under then contempt 3 This doctrine checks the treason of the hand most of all whether it be the hand of Zimri that of a private person or the hand of Joab that of a multitude in a way of force under one Captain 1 Then let no