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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93872	A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, January 30, 1699/1700 being an anniversary sermon for the day / by William Stephens, B.D. Rector of Sutton in Surry. ; Corrected by the author.	Stephens, William, d. 1718.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5463A; ESTC R212531	13,080	32

Mr. STEPHENS's SERMON Preach'd Before the HONOURABLE House of Commons January 30th 1699 1700. Advertisement THE Honourable Auditory before whom the following Sermon was Preached having expressed their mislike I never designed to have had it Printed But since it is stolen uncorrectly into the World without my Privity I hope it will not be imputed as a Crime that I amend the Errata of the Press Will. Stephens A SERMON PREACH'D Before the HONOURABLE House of Commons January the 30th 1699 1700. Being an Anniversary SERMON for the DAY By WILLIAM STEPHENS B. D. Rector of Sutton in Surry Corrected by the Author LONDON Printed And are to be Sold by A. Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1700. THE EDITOR TO THE PREACHER SIR SINCE the Printer inform'd me that he will make a Second Impression of your Sermon I thought it might be fit to offer you some Satisfaction for Printing it without your Consent For although I was told that you were obstinate in refusing to Print it yet I thought it might be useful to the Publick and no ways disserviceable to You to Publish it Wherefore having gotten a Copy I gave it to a Printer only with this Charge that he should make the Impression as Cheap as he could for as I observ'd that the Preaching of it made you some Enemies so I concluded that the Printing of it might Gain You some Friends because the Misrepresentations which were given Abroad concerning it would vanish away And as to the Reflection which was made upon You by a Supposititious Clergyman I Appeal my Ld. A. Bp. of Canterbury if he did not receive Satisfaction from a Worthy Member of Parliament being a Man of unspotted Reputation that what was objected against You by the Reflecter as to your flying from a suspected Prosecution was wholly False and Scandalous SIR I wish you well and am Yours c. TITUS III. 1. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates and to be ready to every good Work TO understand the Reason of this and such-like Admonitions which frequently occur in the Apostle's Writings Two Things may be premised I. That about the Time of our Saviour Christ there arose one Judas of Galilee who is mention'd Acts 5.37 preaching Seditrous Doctrines to the People and teaching as St. Jerom in his Comment on my Text observes That they ought to own no Sovereign Prince but God alone And if they pay'd their Tithes to the Priest they were discharg'd from paying Tribute to the Emperor And upon this Account it was as St. Jerom believed that the Pharisees ask'd our Saviour that captious Question Is it lawful to give Tribute to Caesar or no Matth. 22.17 Now to this Account Anastasius Nicenus adds That the Followers of this Judas were very numerous and called by the Name of Gallileans and commonly looked upon as Men ill affected to the Roman Government Particularly because when they offered Sacrifice they refused to make Supplication for the Emperor and People of Rome upon which Account it is thought that Pilate the Roman Deputy of Judea came upon them whilst they were sacrificing and putting them to the sword mingled their blood with the blood of the sacrifices as you may read Luke 13.1 And from hence it was that our Saviour Christ and his Disciples were suspected of favouring Seditious Doctrines because they came out of Galilee as is observed by St. Chrisostom in his 23d Homile on the Romans wherein he saith That great Reports were spread abroad as if the Disciples were a Factious Seditious People and designing against the Government It must also be confessed that many of the Jews who were converted to the Christian Faith were not sufficiently respectful to the higher Powers which God's Providence had set over them For which Mr. Calvin gives this Reason Since the Powers that were then in Being opposed themselves to our Saviour Christ they thought them unworthy of Respect and Honour Now what hath been said concerning the Gallilean Persuasion shews the Reason why the Apostles do so frequently in their Letters direct the Christian Churches to Loyalty or a due Submission to Magistrates 1. To clear themselves from the false and scandalous Imputation of having imbib'd the Doctrine of Judas the Gallilean And 2. To undeceive all those that had been perverted by that seditious Doctrine II. The Second Thing I would premise is That about the Time when St. Paul wrote this Epistle the People of Crete which was Titus his Diocess were unruly and mutinous Grotius says That they were always a factious People and for that Reason St. Paul wrote to Titus their Bishop to put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates and to be ready to every good Work I. I shall take Occasion from hence First To make a just Comment upon the Text. II. To set forth the Reasons and Grounds upon which the Apostles founded their Doctrine of Obedience to Civil Magistrates And III. To apply these Reasons in Conjunction with the Occasion of this Day 's Humiliation And I. First It may be observ'd That St. Paul does not direct Titus to teach the Doctrine of Civil Obedience as a new Thing but only to refresh their Memories therewith to put them in mind c. For Men cannot be supposed ignorant of the absolute Necessity of Government to the Defence and Support of Society which were in effect to suppose that 't were better to lead the Lives of Beasts than Men and that the World were willing to lie under the continual Calamity of War and Opression fill'd only with a Rout of Fools and Madmen 'T were to suppose every single Person willing to expose himself to the uncontroll'd World and bid defiance to the unbounded Power Rage and Malice of Mankind We cannot but see our selves link'd together by Common Wants into Publick Societies and that these Societies cannot subsist unless they are upheld by the Power of Government whose Wisdom and Justice must appear by a due Administration of good Laws And from hence we cannot but see a Necessity of Principalities and Powers of Superior and Inferior Magistrates without whom Laws can be neither made nor executed From whence 't is very visible that Subjection to a good Government is as much our Interest as it is our Duty This was evident to the Pythagorean Sect of old who would not suffer the Blood of any Creature to be shed for their use but yet allow'd the Sword of the Magistrate to cut off Malefactors The following Words in my Text are Principalities and Powers Now the Word in the Original signifying something which is Prime and Principal must denote the Supreme Establish'd Power from whence Inferior Authorities are derived and is the same with the higher Powers mentioned Rom. 13.1 But because St. Paul speaks of Principalities and Powers in the Plural Number 't is likely that he alludes to the Distinction which was so common among the Romans of