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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28223	Prosecution no persecution, or, The difference between suffering for disobedience and faction, and suffering for righteousness and Christ's sake truly discussed and stated in a sermon upon Phil. I. 29, preached at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk on the 22th of March, 1681, being the time of the general assizes there held / by Nath. Bisbie ...	Bisbie, Nathaniel, 1635-1695.	1682 (1682)	Wing B2983; ESTC R18612	20,745	38

nay Si fractus illabatur orbis Though they should murther their King again and pull the Foundations of the earth about your ears yet hold your own and let it be said of you in the Transcript as of the Philippians in the Original That to you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe in him but also to suffer for his sake My second advice is Secondly To add Obedience to your Faith that especially which is due to your King the Defender of your Faith It is observed of the defection made by the ten Tribes from the two whereby Judah and Israel came to be two Kingdoms that all the Levites all the Land over as also all the well-affected and good men who were not for the High places and for the Devils and for the Calves which Jeroboam the Rebellious and Factious Usurper had set up clove to the House of David and to Rehoboam their Natural and Lawfull Prince 2 Chron. 11. 13. And it may be observed further to the eternal Honour of their Loyalty that small or no interruptions were made by them or by their Posterity as to the Lineal descent of their Kings so long as they remained a Nation though in Israel seldom above three of the same Stock continued in a direct Succession Nay further Judah had but two Tribes to ten for the support of their King and Government and yet Israel that were ten to two were long destroyed and captivated before them Loyalty being certainly a most sure and lasting Bulwark against all Desolations And in good sooth if any thing keeps up our Religion so that Jeroboam his High places his Devils and his Calves do not utterly devour us it must be our Integrity and Loyalty to our King Loyalty the unquestionable duty of all good Subjects and of all the sincere Worshippers of the true God Loyalty the fondling and darling of Princes which will make us be beloved and defended by our Kings and at last will prove the surest Preservative to our Church against Confusion and the likeliest Remedy to restore it and give it a Resurrection if it should ever happen to be overlaid It is always prosperous and victorious it hath the favour of Kings here and the reward of the King of Kings hereafter It gives us Crowns because we love the Crown and it will make us Kings in another World for being good Subjects in this Think not then that Loyalty will hurt you or that your being and continuing faithful to your King and his rightful Successors shall ever endammage your Religion A Religion so eminent for its Allegiance and so hitherto unattainted that God's Vicegerents as long as they love their Regality cannot will not suffer it to be oppress'd If you aim at a Scotish Presbytery saith King James it agreeth as well with Monarchy as God and the Devil then Jack and Tom and Will and Dick shall meet and censure Me and my Council I may thank you my Bishops that these men plead for my Supremacy But if once you were out and they in I know not what would become of my Supremacy for NO BISHOP NO KING One of the greatest faults some men found with the COMMON-PRAYER BOOK saith King Charles the Martyr was this that it taught them to pray so oft for Me to which Petitions they had not Loyalty enough to say Amen No Church in the World saith our present Sovereign hath Taught and Practised LOYALTY so Conscientiously as the Church of England hath done Experience hath shewn saith the present Heir the only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Bugbear to a sort of Mungrel Protestants That the Members of the Church of England are the best Supporters of the Crown insomuch that if it fall to Him to be concerned he will ever countenance and preserve Them and It. Wherefore let remoter Fears keep remoter off and as we are bound by the 37th Article of our Religion to give that Prerogative to our King which was given to the Godly Princes in Scripture Let us likewise give the same Loyalty as they did such I mean as Judah and her Brethren gave to their Kings and Princes and I doubt not but by so doing if ever we go into Captivity our King must with us And so I have finished the first branch of their commendation viz. their Faith Pass we Secondly To the other part thereof and that is their Fortitude their disposition and resolution to suffer the worst of Evils for this so well-grounded and established Faith To you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake We live in an Age that talks much of Suffering and with this noise and clamor the Jesuite and Enthusiast the one on the behalf of his devout Catholicks the other on the behalf of his Schismatical Anticatholicks endeavour to run down the Church of England making the truly Orthodox and Loyal Members thereof the only Opposers of Christ and themselves the only Confessors Us the Martyrers and them the Martyrs But all Sufferings neither give Commendation nor Consolation to them that Suffer neither do all that Complain really and truly Suffer for Christ's sake There is a difference between Punishment and Persecution That an act of Justice This of Malice That for our Ill deeds This for our Good It is not what we Suffer but why that will justifie our Sufferings not the Blood but the Cause that will make a Martyr For were it otherwise Then would Cromwel and his bloody Myrmidons Bradshaw and his band of Halberdiers notwithstanding their Bodies have been mangled and quartered for their Bloodshed and Villany be found still Riding in the Host of Heaven and admitted once again to be Judges and Sentencers of Kings Then would Clement the Monk who stab'd Henry the Third and Ravilliac who did the like to Henry the Fourth instead of being justly punished for their Murdering Tucks be rewarded with Triumphant Palms Then would Heaven above as well as Earth below be fill'd with Regicides Traytors Covenanters Associators and little or no room left in that Glorious Palace for the Honest Peaceable and Loyal good man Wherefore upon this account it will be fully requisite to describe the true Nature of those Sufferings that are the good Will and Gift of God unto his Church and thereby distinguish them from those other Sufferings that are the due Retributions and just Punishments of Faction and Sin And the only Sufferings that are justifiable must be either First For Righteousness or Secondly For Christ's sake First For Righteousness sake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for being Righteous and Just that is for not Violating either the Laws of God or of Man the Eternal and Natural Laws of the one the Prudential and Alterable yet Just Laws of the other And such Sufferers as these our blessed Saviour afore ever he discovered the Necessity of Suffering for his sake pronounceth Blessed Blessed are they which are persecuted for