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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53738	The true way to loyalty a sermon preached by John Owen, chaplain to the Right Honourable Henry, Lord Grey of Ruthin.	Owen, John, chaplain to Lord Grey of Ruthin.	1684 (1684)	Wing O825A; ESTC R219358	19,692	36

appeal to our late Experience and the great Bustles and Stirs which some People make at present 'T is certain that the Government is always in danger from Men of ill Principles because they lye under a perpetual Temptation to rebell Now of those many Principles and Doctrines which have for some Years so mightily prevail'd and pester'd the World I shall only recount two which I think to be of as pernicious a Consequence and to have had as great an Influence in disturbing the Government as any others that can be named The Principles and Doctrines are these two That Dominion is founded in Grace and That it is lawful to fight for Religion The one takes away all consideration of Right and Justice and the other authorises and sanctifies Rebellion And tho some among us take a peculiar Pride and would be thought the more religious for clamouring against the Papists as altogether unsufferable upon account of their dangerous Principles and Practices yet I would fain know what Difference there is between these two Opinions of the Lawfulness of deposing Kings for Heresie and fighting for Religion The one is a pure Jesuitical Principle and the other a Fanatick And truly both accord and jump together in the same Sentiments and Opinions in Opposition to Government save only that the latter has the Cunningness to lick the Jesuits Principles into another Form and put them into a different Dress But this has been the Trick of all those who have had any Spleen or Design against the Government to disguise their Malice and wicked Intentions with the plausible and specious Titles and Pretences of Religion and Reformation and when they have had a mind to rebell that they might put a good Face and a fair Gloss upon the matter they begin to find Fault with their Prince for some personal Failings or Enormities of Life or not being so close a Friend to Religion nor so godly as they would have him to be or else quarrel at the Administration of Publick Affairs as wanting Conduct and Policy and not being agreeable to Honour and Justice And this we have seen practis'd all along by that Party of Men who are a continual Plague and Burthen to the Government how that they are always picking Flaws in their Prince's Religion or Government upon the account of some Defects in his Morals or some Error and Miscarriage of State and so represent him as a Person not fit or religious enough to govern for this Principle That Dominion is founded in Grace lies at the bottom and is the Foundation of all our Dissenters Rage and implacable Aversion to the King and his Government For they looking upon themselves as the Godly Party and that none love or practice Religion like themselves do thereupon think that none but the Godly have a Right to govern and though a Prince were as Holy as an Angel yet unless he be righteous in their Eyes and according to their Standard of Holiness he would be rejected as unfit to rule over ' em And hence it was that in the late Times of Usurpation this sort of Men made no Scruple to plunder and spoil others of their Estates and seat themselves in their Possessions giving out to the World That the Wicked did forfeit all Right to their Estates and that none could hold an Estate by any Tenure but that of Holiness and so made a shift under the Pretences of a singular Piety and a confident engrossing Holiness to themselves to convert the Sinners Lands as they called all Rich and Loyal Persons into the Inheritance of the Saints as they call themselves And the Truth is wherever this Principle prevails it will mightily provoke and stir up People against their Superiours in case of the least Failure in point of Morality or that which they account Religion and the only Qualification for Government And who can ever be quiet or safe in their Possessions when a Company of enthusiastick and hot-headed People as most of this Perswasion are shall take an occasion to quarrel with others for their Impieties and grow very angry with 'em for their Sins to the end they might have some colour and grounds to justifie their Plunder and Sequestration And it is certain that those who are so mightily for putting the Government altogether into the Hands of the Righteous will be very apt to strike in for their own Preferment for generally such kind of People are mightily conceited of their own worth and are always Righteous in their own Eyes But as this Doctrine has done a world of mischief in causing People narrowly to inspect and animadvert upon all the Failings and Miscarriages of their Superiours so seeking Occasions against 'em even to the despising them for some Weaknesses and Imperfections which are perhaps unavoidable in their Circumstances and no more than some sad Instances of humane Frailty so likewise that other Doctrine of the Lawfulness of fighting for Religion has equalled the former in its mischievous Effects And tho some who have dip'd their Hands in Royal and Innocent Blood and have been exercis'd in the Slaughter of the Righteous have called it fighting the Lord's Battels and assumed to themselves the Name of strict Professors and Reformers of Religion yet 't is certain that such as are so ready to fight for Religion and promote it by the Sword have no Religion at all For Religion is a peaceable quiet thing and Fighting and Quarrels are as contrary to it as are the most dissonant things in Nature as are the Lamb and the Wolf the soft Airs of Musick and that raging merciless Element the Ocean And I am verily perswaded that these Principles and Doctrines which I have now mentioned and the like to them which I have no time to recite or display in their proper Colours have been the Occasion of vast Troubles and Distractions in this Kingdom And doubtless this very Doctrine of Resistance and opposing Princes in case we do not like their Religion which was so maliciously intended and so boldly maintained by a late Mercenary Pen in a Book entituled The Life of Julian the Apostate has tended very much to dissettle some in their Loyalty and confirmed others in their Rebellious Principles And perhaps the Arguments which were there used to confirm and propagate that wicked Position might very much heat and spur on that unhappy Gentleman the late Lord Russel to those Consults and Debates which cost him his precious Life and brought him to such an inglorious end And besides all this the great Danger is That these turbulent and ill Principles may like Errors not dye with their Authors but convey themselves to Posterity and we have too plain a Demonstration in this Age that Rebellion as well as some natural Diseases runs in a Blood and propagates it self from one Generation to another The Way then to be rooted and grounded in Loyalty is to have our Minds seasoned with sound wholesome and Loyal Principles for such as