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A43763 A looking-glass for loyalty, or, The subjects duty to his soveraign being the substance of several sermons preached by a person who always looked upon his allegiance as incorporated into his religion ... Higham, John, 17th cent. 1675 (1675) Wing H1966; ESTC R19006 105,066 207

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another come and it comes to another do this and he doth it If God have the Heart the Tongue will shew forth his praise the Ear will be open to his Word the Eye will be turned away from Vanity and behold the wonderful things contained in his Law the Hand will do the thing that is good and the Feet will run the way of his Commandments Even as it is with the great Wheel of a Clock or Watch Like the great Wheel of a Clock if that be at fault the rest cannot be regular in their motion if that be right the rest will answer it so if God hath this or have it not he hath either all or none at all Its Attendants as it refers to the second of these Objects the King And so it is with this Fear of the King where this is seated in the heart all other duties will accompany it they will be subject to his Laws loyal to his Person make a charitable construction of his failings and infirmities pray for him and pay unto him what is legally charged upon them for the support of his Grandure and to defray the charges of his Government Of all which in their Order First Subjection They will submit themselves to those Governours that are set over them in the Lord and honour them by performing all dutiful obedience to them according to that general rule given by the Apostle to all that are under Government Rom. 13.1 Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers the original word signifies an orderly subjection or the placing or setting one thing under another in due order As amongst the Elements the Water under the Earth the Earth under the Air and the Air under the Element of Fire In the Body Natural the severai parts of it under the Head and each of those parts one under another In the Family the Wife under the Husband the Children under their Parents Chrysost in Polycrat Tunc totum Reipublicae corpus vigebit si singula quaeque loca teneant membra si fuerit officiorum non confusio sed distributio the Servants under their Masters In the Common-wealth which is a Body Politick the Subjects under their Princes The whole Body of that Common-wealth will then flourish when every one of its Members acts vigorously within its proper sphere when there is an orderly distribution and not a wild confusion of Offices The Seeds of which Subjection the God of Order hath sown among those Creatures which are without Reason Bees Cranes Fishes c. which have one above them under whose conduct they go forth to feed and so return And although it be no Miracle yet it is a wonder which is noted of the Pismire Prov. 6.6 Chap. 30.27 which hath no Guide nor Governour and of the Locusts which have no King and yet go forth all by Bands flying in Troops some turning one way and some another like divers Squadrons of an Army and men may be as well sent to them to learn Concord as to the Ant for Industry and discreet Providence Yet this is no disparagement to Government which the sad effects of the want of it commends and cries up for necessary and that among rational men who have Reason to guide them yea among those men which were acted by a higher principle then that Judg. 17.6 Chap. 18.1 Chap. 21.25 viz. Religion When there was no King in Israel every one did that which was good in his own eye How doth Piety and Religion languish Idolatry and Prophaneness flourish And if there be confusion as there must be when there is no order The Scripture tells us what will follow upon it every evil work God hath ordained Government and Governours as a Hedge James 3.16 Government a Hedge or Fence to keep men secure in their Religion Lives Liberties Estates and Proprieties And the blessed Apostle exhorting to pray for Kings gives this as a chief Argument to enforce it 1 Tim. 2 1 2. that under them we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godliness and honesty That pulled up all goes to ruine This Hedge being once removed all goes to rack It hath been sufficiently observed by several sad experiences where God hath suffered the Enemies of it so far to prevail and those who have designed to prey upon either or all of these have levelled their Batteries against Magistracy as the chiefest fortress of their security What a bloudy Tragoedy doth Germany and some parts of the Netherlands present us with Exemplified by the Anabaptists proceedings in Germany c. acted by the Anabaptists in their several Scenes of Mischief To which this was preached by their Ring-leaders as the most proper Prologue and that pretended as a Revelation from Heaven too that the Empire and Principalities of this World were to be extirpated and that the Sword of Gideon was put into their hands to be employed against all Tyrants for the assertion of true Liberty and the restauration of the Kingdom of Christ by whom Religion it self is brought upon the Stage in a strange disguise and made to act her part in what was most contrary to her nature J. D. his Epistle to his Apocalypsis or History of the Anabaptists imbruing her white and innocent hands in Bloud and Massacres What strange pretences are here as if those had not been Christians to whom St. Paul gave that precept yes certainly they were so and he in that doth as certainly imply they being such that nothing in Christianity ought to be pretended or made use of to give any man immunity from his obedience to the Higher Powers In the Kingdom of Christ this is wonderful Their grosse Error refuted Za●ch Misc Epist Dedic saith a learned Author that he wills and commands all Princes and Potentates to be subject to his Kingdom and yet he wills and commands likewise that his Kingdom that is the Subjects of his Kingdom be subject to the Kingdoms of the World intimating that their spirirual freedom which they have and do enjoy under him from Sin Satan and Damnation is not repugnant to the corporal subjection due to them and that the same person may be both a Christian and a Subject as well as a Christian and yet notwithstanding a Wife and must be subject to her Husband a Child and must obey his Parents a Servant and so consequently must do service to his Master Yea further Subjection an essential part of the Christian Religion Their obedience and subjection is a part of their Religion and so essential a part that he that is not a good Subject cannot be a good Christian And however all that go under that name are not subject as they should be I must tell them that neither Christ neither any good Christians can account them so but spots and blemishes of that glorious Profession exorbitant persons that make themselves a Dispensation and take liberty to