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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30919	Votum pro Caesare, or, A plea for Caesar discovering briefly the great sinfulness of opposing the authority of the higher powers : delivered in a sermon Octob. 7, 1660 / by Edm. Barker ...	Barker, Edmund, b. 1620 or 21.	1660 (1660)	Wing B767; ESTC R5334	22,992	42

Votum pro Caesare OR A PLEA FOR CAESAR Discovering briefly the great sinfulness of opposing the Authority of the higher Powers Delivered in a SERMON Octob. 7. 1660. By EDM. BARKER Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lady CAPELL Dowager 1 Sam. 26. 9. Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords anointed and be guiltless 2 Kings 14. 14. And it came to passe as soon as the Kingdome was confirmed in his hand that he slew his servants which had slain the King his Father LONDON Printed for JOHN WILLIAMS at the Crown in S. Paul 's Churchyard M D CLX To the Right Honourable The most accomplished and excellent Lady The LADY ELIZABETH CAPELL DOWAGER MADAM MAy this discourse appear as gracious in your eyes as it lately seemed pleasing and acceptable to your ear I shall not beshrew my self of my folly in letting it walk abroad giving it leave to take the fresh air Madam my obligations from you are very many the comforts which I have hither to enjoyed under you ever since I first took Sanctuary in your family not a few I have lived to see many waveings tossings in other mens fortunes and conditions whilest I my self have laid at anchor and enjoyed the sweetness of a secure retirement and have been sheltred from those storms and tempests which have lighted heavy upon many This priviledge next under God I do humbly acknowledge to be owing to your Honour and the remembrance hereof affects me with the sense of a great Obligation and this forces my modesty and puts me upon the necessity of returning though nothing proportionable yet at least somewhat in way of acknowledgement as a pledge and testimony of my thankfulnesse And to let your Honour see how ambitious I am to be accounted gratefull I have adventured to do that now against which I ever had the greatest aversation which is to appear in Print And though what I here present you with be no wayes worthy your eye yet having been lately honoured with your ear it is ever since grown proud and will needs be gadding abroad and see the fashions of the world with resolutions according as it likes it's entertainment to bring more of it's fellows after it But Madam I must remember that it is but a very small discourse which I here present you with and I must not widen the gates beyond the proportion of the Citie I doe therefore most humbly offer it into your Honours hands and if you please cast it at your feet and in case you shall think so favourably of it as to vouchsafe it now and then the Honour of your eye and admit it graciously into your presence it will reckon it self highly graced and dignified and not ambitiously desire any other patronage And howbeit I confess indeed it is not so properly calculated for your Family and relations whose Loyalty hath been abundantly tryed in the Furnace and have come forth glorious and shining yet I am proud to conceive it may be of some Use to others and if but to one it is enough And thus recommending both it to the favour of your gracious acceptance and your self and most excellent relations to the protection and blessing of God Almighty for a continuance of his comforts to you here and a full consummation of perfect joy and happiness hereafter I do humbly take my leave of you and rest MADAM Your Honour 's Most highly obliged and perfectly devoted Servant and Chaplain BARKER Luke 19. vers 27. But those mine Enemies which would not that I should reign over them bring hither and slay them before me THese words are parabolically uttered by our Saviour in the name and person of a certain Noble man as we render the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vers 12. Although it is plain by the following passages in the Parable that this Noble man was none other but a King for he took his journey to receive to himself a * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kingdom he severely destroyed and punished his rebellious Subjects in the Text for not willing that he should reign over them And this also may suite well enough with the † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for though that properly relates to nobility of Birth yet it excludes not the more excellent title and Arist lib. 1. de Anima office of Kingship which is the highest step of Honour and Nobility and from whence are derived 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as streams from their fountain or spring head all those Titles of honour and nobility which do put a difference among subjects and make some noble and honourable above others Now I confess indeed that this whole Parable is mystically and spiritually meant and to be understood of Christ viz. the institution and establishment of his Kingdom the rebellion and opposition of the Iewes and wicked men against it and then lastly Gods severe judgement and vengeance inflicted on them for their rebellion And if any shall contend this to be the onely proper and genuine scope and design of our Saviour's repeating it here to his Disciples for my part I shall not my self contend with him about it but easily and readily grant what he contends for Howbeit seeing the words without any respect to the design and scope of their direction and intention doe carry a good literal sense in themselves agreeable to the analogy of Faith and the voices of other Scriptures I shall accordingly for the present consider them altogether under this grammatical sense and construction And so they are the words of a justly enraged and provoked King taking vengeance on a company of traiterous and rebellious Subjects In them we have particularly considerable these three parts 1. The parties arraigned and condemned those mine enemies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. The ground and reason of their arraignment and condemnation No lesse then an act of the highest Treason and rebellion Who would not that I should reign over them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. The sentence determined and passed uponthem Bring hither and slay them before me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I shall begin with the first of these the parties arraigned and condemned Those mine enemies now who or what these Enemies were we have generally set down and described vers 14. they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Citizens people that had lived long and happy under the protection of his government had derived all their rights and priviledges from him had enjoyed all their freedomes and immunities under him and we will suppose too that they had sworn fealty and allegiance to him which if so brought a new accession of heinousnesse to their foul sin of ingratitude viz. breach of Oath and promise And can any punishment be too great or sentence too severe for such who have so little sense of their duty make so little conscience of their Oathes shew so