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A47487	Vivat Rex a sermon preached before the Right Worshipful the Mayor, aldermen, council and citizens of Bristol : upon the discovery of the late treasonable phanatick plot : at St. James's Church, July 25, 1683 being Sunday in the Fair-week / by R. Kingston ...	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1683 (1683)	Wing K617; ESTC R17184	23,808	48

our Sins And again pag. 53. says that the reasons that moved the Pope to despose Kings was good and just and meet to be received and Executed by the body of every Common wealth Apel. Pag. 26. Knox the Scottish Presbyter says it is blasphemy to say we must obey Kings whether they be good or evil And asserts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pag. 26. Buchanan in his Book de jure Regni apud Scotos among other things of dangerous consequence to crowned heads says populus rege est prastantior melior Pag. 38. The People are more excellent than the King And this he avoucheth with the greatest confidence imaginable though the Holy Scripture says plainly that the King is worth ten thousand of the people The same Author says that the People have the same power over the King that the King hath over any one man and that Ministers may Excommunicate him and then draws this damnable conclusion that he who by Excommnication is cast into hell is not worthy to live upon earth Thus hath the Scotch Rebell like that Italian Tyrant taught Sbjects how at one blow they may kill both the Body and Soul of their Prince But as if this were not bad enough yet Pag● 40. the wretched Presbyter adds that it were very good that rewards were appointed by the people for such as should kill Tyrants and such they account all those Kings that will not submit their necks to the yoke of their discipline as there be sallaries allowed for those qui lupos aut ursos occiderunt aut catulos eorum deprehenderunt Who have killed Wolves or Bears or have destroyed their brood And who that hears these Doctrines more bloody than Popery or Paganism will doubt that 't is the leaders of these people that dipping their pens in Gall make way for the sword to glut it self with the Blood of Kings Nor were our English Presbyters and Independents much behind their holy brethren the Scots in wicked confederacy and against their King and like the Priests and Praeco's of Mars in scattering Fire-brands through the Nation Book of the Covenant in Evangel Armat pag. 42. Mr. Case calls the late Rebellion the Holy War the Cause of God and Saints all that ingaged in it the Scotch Covenant he calls Christs marriage-contract and says to act against it was to despight the Holy Ghost Zach. Crofton's Answ to Bp. Gauden Edit 3. Pag. 22. Crofton says that all Acts of Parliament made against it were damnable and that Parents ought to baptize their Children into the Scotch Covenant Spirit of Popery 7. 26. 42. Calamy's Ser. before the Lords Dec. 25. 1644. Jenkin's Humble Pet. Oct. 15. 1657. Mr. Calamy and Mr. Jenkins said that the Parliament without the King were the Supreme power of the Nation and that they were assisted by the speciall direction of God And that none could do such things viz Rebelling against the King and Butchering his Subjects except God were with them Mr. Love in his Sermon at the Treaty at Vxbridge Says that the Sword not Arguments must end that Controversy Evangel Armat vid. First Second Part of the History of Separation Mr. Baxter hath said enough in his Holy Common-wealth and other writings to prove him the Bell-weather of Sedition and a man of blood and he that would see further let him view the first and second part of the Dissenters sayings collected from their works and besides this Rebellion against and deposing of Princes is warranted in above twenty places in the Assemblies Annotations and of the same Complexion is Mr. Pool's Criticks Vid. Hist Athaliah Thus have you seen the Devil of Rebellion transforming himself into an Angel of Reformation Icon Bisil and those that should have been Embassadours of Peace the fomenters of an unnatural and bloody War And all under the pretence of Religion The true Religion prevailed upon the world by Purity of Doctrine and Innocency of Life but these mens principles having in this particular a nearer affinity to the Laws of the Impostor Mahomet pudet haec opprobr a nobis dici potuisle non potuisle refelli than the precepts of the Holy Jesus a took the same method for the Establishment thereof as he did who injoyn'd his worshipers by a Law Alcor pag. 125. to persevere in Killing Christians till they was rooted out of the earth So that if Rebellion be Religion then the Papists Mahumetans and Presbyterians are the only true Protestants in the world if the Second murther of a King and utter ex●irpa●ion of the Royall Family the way to promote Gods Glory then are Dissenters the only Champion for the Government and to say worse of them than that they are Seditious and Rebellious upon the accompt of their Religious Principles were to cast I●k upon the face of an Ethiopian You have now heard some of those Monstrous Doctrines that in defiance to the Laws of God and Man encourage the Resistance and consequently the ruin of Kings But that they are as opposite to truth as Light is to Darkness is the next particular wherewith I shall Exercise your patience and this I will do by proving that Religion doth not exempt us from the Authority and Power of Kings and rulers though they be infidels and Heathens and not only strangers but Enemies to true Religion and the professors of it It is not objecting Enormities in the Religion Life or Government of a King that can absolve their subjects from Obedience for the tyes and bonds of duty and subjection to them are Sacred and inviolable Dominion and soveraignty are the Ordinances of God not as he is the Author of grace and redeemer of his Church But as he is the Author of mankind and Governour of the world Dominium temporale non fundatur in gratia Supernatural grace is not that which constitutes Kingdoms nor is the calling of Magistrates a Mistery of the Gospel but an appointment of God by his universall providence The duty of Children to Parents of Servants to Masters of Subjects to Princes is not a consequence of Christianity but a principle of Nature and unalterable by Religon a Christian Child cannot abandon his duty to his Parents tho they be Heathens or Infidels a Christian Servant cannot shake off the yoke of Subjection because his Master is an Vnbeliever 1 Tim. vi 1. nor Christian Subjects deny their allegiance to their Lawful Sovereign tho Heathen and Infidells And he must be a stranger to the Sacred records and the practice of good men in all ages that asserts the contrary But that I may give you one Example for all in a case that directly agrees with all that the Enemies of Monarchy can object against our obedience see it in the Prophet Daniels behaviour towards King Darius Now this Darius was a Heathen Prince one that kept the Church and people of God in cruel bondage and captivity Dan. iii.

one that by cruel artifices pr●●o●ed Idolatry and persecuted the people of God with the Fiery furnace and Sentenced the Prophet Daniel to be Devoured of Lyons And yet we find the good Prophet so far from upbraiding him with Tyranny or threatning him with vengeance and Judgments from God that he owns his Sovereignty and Rightfull Power over him and prays for his Health Prosperity and Eternal felicity in these words O King live for ever Dan. vi 21. The next Example I shall urge is that of the Holy and blessed Jesus John xix ●● who acknowledges Subjection to Pilate and that his power over him was from Heaven Gloriosum est sequi dominum and tho' he had the whole host of Angells at his command neither made Resistance himself nor would permit it in his followers And St. Paul also who lived in the times of Heathen persecutors enjoyns every Soul to be subject to them though they were Heathens For Christianity is so far from giving immunity from Obedience that it inforceth the duty from our Obligations to God whose Authority they bare and from which divine commission it is directly consequent that he makes any violent Resistance or opposition to the supreme Magistrate to be an affront offered to God himself In talibus non obedientes mortaliter peccant nisi foret illud quod praecipitur contra praeceptum dei vel in Salutis dispendium Angel Sum. verb. obed for which they shall receive that punishment which belongs to so Sacrilegious a contumacy Eternal Damnation St. Peter likewise preaches the same Doctrine and urgeth our Obedience to Claudius or Nero upon the account of giving Credit and Reputation to our Religion Obedience to Authority being one of the prime characteristicks whereby a Christian is to be known and when Subjects are Rebellious although they are so to Heathen Magistrates they draw disgrace upon the Gospel and tempt the Infidels to believe that men are the worse for being Christians that the Doctrine of Christ is corruptive of Principles as well as Manners and Christian Liberty but a Cloak for Rebellious Practices Now to Antidote this Venom and to wipe off this Disparagement St. Peter Commands us to submit to every Ordinance of man for the Lords Sake 1 Pet. ii 13. for so is the will of God that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of foolish men And having thus from plain Scripture shewed that no pretence whatsoever can warrant disobedience to our Lawful Sovereign it will necessarily follow that either the Texts alledged are not Scripture or the men that taught the contrary are not Christians but such a generation of men Non opus vos habere civem qui parere nesciret Marc. Cur. as give the Princes of the world a just occasion to be jealous of them and to root those Principles out of their Dominions for what Prince can be Safe whilst such men abide and multiply in their Territories that profess it to be a Principle of their Religion to make Resistance against them And agreeable to this Doctrine of the Blessed Jesus which secured Obedience to the worst of Kings was the Practice of the Primitive Christians towards their Persecuting Emperours Propter dominum aeternum domino temporali Serviebant Aug. Psal cxxiv that spilt their Blood and made havock of them for tho' they were able to wage War with their Emperors yet Conscience and Christianity forbad them to resist but commanded them to Pray for them And since thanks be to God our Case is otherwise and we have a Merciful and Gracious King Animatam Dei ●maginem Cypr who is our lawful natural liege Lord a just possessor of his Crown a worshipper of the Living God a defender of the true Antient Catholick and Apostolick Faith a maker of good Laws and an Executor of the same I hope all true Israelites in whose mouths are no Guile in whose hearts is no Privy Conspiracy nor in whose hands there is no Rebellion will never forget in their publick and private Devotion to say God save the King And for vindicating our holy and excellent Religion from any imputation of being accessary to Treasonable conspiracies I shall most readily grant that were it any way chargeable with these practices there needed no other thing to be pleaded against it this alone would bar all its pretences of being Christians for ever and therefore there cannot be a greater mischief done to it than to give any just cause to suspect it for it must then never expect Kings to be its Nursing fathers more but rather that they should all combine to banish it out of the world now as they did to prevent its coming into it at first upon the same prejudice But it always was the honour of Christian Religion that it clear'd it self fully of all these unjust imputations and commended it self to Kings and became dear to them was nursed in their royal breasts and was adopted into their laws as being the greatest security of their Government and of Subjection to them and what ever Religion doth contrary to this is by that only argument detected to be perfectly Anti-Christian I confess that few Rebellions have been raised but by the warmth of a pretended zeal for Religion which Fears and Jealousies have animated and given growth and strength to but it was only the Pretence Religion was made a mask to hide the ugly face of Rebellion which without so fine a Cover would have affrighted those deluded souls that were cheated with the beautifull paint that was laid over horrid designs consider beloved what hath Religion to do in designs of this black nature Religion is made up of purity piety peace and holyness and there is nothing of these in cruel treacheries in bloody Massacres and tragicall murthers What Religion can there be in mens pursuing violent paths on the pretence of Gods glory in a direct opposition to his holy Laws if the Ark of the Lord be shaken and our Religion in danger yet we must not support it by forbiden methods for it never proves well when men forsake Gods directions to follow their own devices Religion desires none to be its Champions till first they are its disciples Let us therefore study to be quiet and do our own business practise the duties of Religion and God Almighty will assert its interest 'T is not Religion then is the cause of these bloody attempts but the men whose preaching is of Cursing and lies to whom we owe all our miseries in this kind and indeed what else can be expected but that such as have cast off obedience to Laws should put themselves under the Devils yoke And if their former actions are the best interpreters of their present designs what can we expect from these Amalekites but ruine and Confusion look backwards as far as the days of their first entrance among us and you will find them to be men made up of the worst of