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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42096	The resigned & resolved Christian, and faithful & undaunted royalist in tvvo plaine farevvell-sermons, & a loyal farevvell-visitation-speech, both deliver'd amidst the lamentable confusions occasioned by the late forreign invasion & home-defection of His Majesties subjects in England / by Denis Granville, D.D., deane & archdeacon of Durham, (now in exile) chaplaine in ordinary to His Majestie ; whereunto are added certaine letters to his relations & freinds [sic] in England shewing the reasons and manner of his withdrawing out of the kingdom ...	Grenville, Denis, 1637-1703.	1689 (1689)	Wing G1940; ESTC R41659	109,381	177

vvhich could not refrain from the highest of Affronts stabbing in Effigie Judging him unvvorthy of the respect due to a Kings Brother tho a Turk or Pagan not remembring him for a vvhile somuch as in their Prayers or Cups Which spleen Contempt of his sacred person increased to so high a Pitch I then observed that many of all degrees Quallities setting themselves against him vvould bee satisfied vvith nothing lesse than à barbarous Exclusion of him from the Imperiall Crovvne vvhereto Allmighty God in spite of Men Divells has brought him vvith great Honour to our Comfort God in vvhose Governance are the Hearts of Kings putting it into his Royall mind to dispell the Fears Jealousies of his people by the first Act hee did in Councell before hee had vviped the Tears from his Eyes for his beloved Brother And aftervvards making him a Blessed Instrument of suppressing that first Dutch Rebellion vvhich I dare so to stile since it vvas formed in Holland the Comon Receptacle of Christendom for Rebells Traytors and so successefull a Forge for Treasonable practices that tvvo proscribed Ministers fitter to be Smiths than Divines have there hammer'd out a second more Divellish Conspiracy Such Goodness of God to our Royall Family not leaving it destitute of a Prince of the right line but settling upon the Throne so accomplish'd an one in all respects that if hee had been of our Ovvn Religion vvee should have thought our selves loaded vvith more Happiness than vvee had been able to beare This Mercy Isay in raising a Gratious Princs tho of a different Faith to be the Defender of ours in crushing a Rebellion like a Cockatrice in the shell which aimed more at the destruction of the Church than the Crowne is so unparallell'd a Blessing as deservs Everlasting Praise and an eternall obligation to conforme our lives to the Will Commands of our Earthly as vvell as our Heavenly King. Which vvee cannot do give mee leave on such occasions allvvaies to be your monitor till nee do approve our selves truly Genuine obedient sons of the Church as vvell as Dutifull Complying subjects I knovv no difference in those tvvo Epithets of Obedient Complying tho the last hath been turn'd into a reproach in all things vvhich are not Contrary to the Clear Word of God. But I vvill for a vvhile stop such inlargements as vvell as set a Period to my promised repetition of the most important Heads of the first of my four Visitation-Discourses propounded to be brought to your Vievv Which I have inlarged by unavoidable digressions Occasion'd by the present vvicked and treacherous Invasion I shall sooner passe through the Heads of the second remaining ones without such additionary Reflections and bring all I trust with in the compasse of lesse time than what is allowed for both Sermon and speech at a Visitation SPEECH II. THe cheife points of my second discourse which I shall lay before you are as followeth First our present Kings further Expression of his Gratious Good nesse and Condescension in the seasonable happy Renevvall of those vvholesome Ecexllent Directions to Preachers vvhich vvere publish'd by his martyr'd Father and set forth a second time by his Royall Brother K. Charles the 2. in the yeare 1662. Injoining such a Regulation of the Pulpit out of which have issued our former and our present Flames ready to devour us such Exact conformity to our Rubrick such frequent Publication in all parochiall Churchs of the Doctine and discipline of our Church such respect to the Lords day and cheifly such a Training up of the Youth Catechising them in the Book of Common Prayer as was the most likely meanes valuable infinitely beyond all our Disputes Harangues from Either Pulpit or Presse to preserve the Church of England And which wee Clergy had greedily embraced God forgive us that fatall Error of Neglecting them had wee not laboured under some kind of Infatuation Secondly that bitter Invectives a gainst the Pope of Rome vvhilst vvee live under a Prince of the Roman Communion omitting the more sure vvayes to preserve our Religion allovved by this and the last Good King as vvell as biting declamations against the non-Conformists in the late Kings Reign by those vvho vvere themselves but semi-Conformists vvere an Effect of very blameable dangerous Zeale and had mightily increased our schisme and vveakened our Church It being not Satyricall Harangues in the dayes of K. Ch. the 2. as I then told you still thinke seasonable to repeat against the Fanatiks which did without a Compleat Conformity to our Rules signalize a Right Church-of-England-Divine No more than furious Railing or hot Disputing against the Pope or Church of Rome in the present Reign of K. James 2. Can give an undeniable Demonstration that wee are Good Subjects or firme Protestants Neither of which can evidence us God knowes to be the legitimate Jssue of that Church vvhich vvas never guilty of Boisterous and unmannerly Zeale but allvvayes profest and taught not only a deep veneration for Majesty but Christ like Meeknesse and Moderation Exhorting her Children to Honour the King as vvel as Feare God and to be just to all even to the vvorst most implacable of her Enimies or Impugners Thirdly I shevv'd the indispensable Duty of every one of us to betake our selves to a more indubitable Course than the former of maintaining our Religion by those lavvfull meanes and much more effectuall than the other vvbich vvere allovved by the King as vvell as our Church to save our soules that is by living according to our Doctrine rather than by Talking for it most particularly by studying and practising our Common Prayer Book not Spending our Povvder Ball in needlesse and impertinent pickarings but laying up a store of Ammunition furnishing our selves by the foresaid prescribed Courses vvith Courage Magnanimity against a Day of Battell The fourth last Point recommended to your Considetation then at that Juncture of Affaires and is still vvorthy to be thought of vvas vvhether that Subtile Malicious spirit vvho often transforms himselfe into an Angell of Light effecting his vvorst Designs under the disguise of Holiness dot not vse pretended Zeale against as vvell as Fears Iealousies of Popery as the most likely and successe full strategem to bring it in I vvas then and am still of that Opinion And for Gods sake do not despise this honest Caution SPEECH III. THUS having dispatch'd the things most vvorthy of notice contained in my second discourse as vvell as the first I shall attempt to bring to your vievv the most significant Heads of the third And here Waving sundry Arguments then laid before you to submit to your Soveraigns Will and Pleasure even in the most uninntelligible of all his Acts of Mercy J meane that Including the Fanaticks in his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience Excess of Favour liberty granted to his ovvn as vvell as our Churches