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A47310	The religious loyalist, or, A good Christian taught how to be a faithful servant both to God and the King in a visitation-sermon preached at Coles-hill in Warwick-shire, Aug. 28, 1685 : at the triennial visitation of my Lords Grace of Canterbury, during the suspension of the Bp. of Litchfield and Coventry / by John Kettlewell ...	Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.	1686 (1686)	Wing K381; ESTC R16674	14,027	40

inconsiderable things as are unworthy of any Wise mans Notice which needless Scrupulosity of Mind will not onely prove a Snare to themselves but inevitably render them troublesome to their Governours and very detrimental to the Publick Peace And when they are thus rightly instructed in Religion and made true to Almighty God be diligent to weed out all Seditious Principles to make Civil Subjection as necessary a part of their Religion and as much a Point of Conscience as Prayers and Gods immediate Service In a word to let them see the Necessity the Duty and the Benefit of being inviolably Loyal and true to the King too I know the Judgements of great numbers are preposessed on the wrong side and leavened with ill Principles instilled by cunning Seducers into many well-meaning but unwary Minds both about the things of God and of the King too For as for the things of the King through an habitual and indulged License many are come without regret to question any thing that is in favour of their Governours to put remote and Imaginary Cases in Bar of present real and unquestionable Duties to Cavil and Dispute Power when they should be shewing Obedience nay to avow such Principles as inevitably unsettle any State and authorize the most bare-faced Rebellions as God knows we have newly felt by sad Experience which would have been much sadder still had not the Wisdom and Goodness of God confounded the Craft and defeated the mischievousness of men in our late happy speedy and in appearance intire Deliverance from them And then as for Religion great numbers of those who are concerned for it either place it in trifling Truths or in grounless and untrue Opinions and where they are most mistaken they are usually most confident and concerned and shew more Zeal for those empty and unprofitable Nothings where they think wrong than for all the grand and importan Truths of their Religion where they believe right These ill Weeds have in too many marr'd the Soyl which I am entreating you to cultivate And what pains it may have cost others to sow these evil Seeds and give them root I know not But now they are in posession and are rivited in the Minds of Men I know it will cost you much Pains and Patience too to pluck them out But this my Reverend Brethren though it will exercise your care yet must not discourage it Let not us shew less diligence to cure Mens Minds than others have done to corrupt them Let not the goodness of our Cause suffer through our remisness and want of care in managing it Substantial Religion and Loyalty are true and mighty and will prevail at last But without your care and pains who are appointed Advocates for them and are of all men as most concerned so best sitted to uphold them they will not be prevalent May the Almighty God daily increase your Zeal and both direct your Labours and prosper them in so good a Work That you may not onely be rewarded for the honesty of your Endeavours when Jesus Christ the Chief Shepherd and Bishop of the Church as St. Peter styles him shall come at last but may at present see the Fruit and rejoyce in the Success of them too Amen FINIS Books lately Printed for Robert Kettlewell at the Hand and Scepter in Fleet-street THE Measures of Christian Obedience Or a Discourse shewing what Obedience is indispensably necessary to a Regenerate state and what Defects are consistent with it for the promotion of Piety and the peace of troubled Consciences By John Kettlewell Vicar of Coles-hill in Warwick-shire the second Edition corrected In Quarto price bound 8 s. 2. An Help and Exhortation to Worthy Communicating Or a Treatise describing the Meaning worthy Reception Duty and Benefits of the Holy Sacrament and answering the Doubts of Conscience and other Reasons which most generally detain men from it together with suitable Devotions added By John Kettlewel Vicar of Coles-hill in Warwick-shire In Twelves price bound 3 s. 3. A Journey into Greece by Sir George Wheeler in company of Dr. Spon of Lyons in six Books Containing 1. A Voyage from Venice to Constantinople 2. An Account of Constantinople and the adjacent Places 3. A Voyage through the Lesser Asia 4. A Voyage from Zant through several parts of Greece to Athens 5. An Account of Athens 6. Several Journeys from Athens into Attica Corinth Boeotia c. With variety of Sculptures In Folio price bound 15 s. 4. A Vindication of the Primitive Christians in point of Obedience to their Prince against the Calumnies of a Book entituled The Life of Julian written by Ecebolius the Sophist As also The Doctrine of Passive Obedience cleared in defence of Dr. Hicks Together with an Appendix being a more full and distinct Answer to Mr. Thomas Hunt's Preface and Post script Unto all which is added the Life of Julian enlarged In Octavo price bound 2 s. 6 d. 5. The Paradoxal Discourses of F. M. Van Helmont concerning the Macrocosm and Microcosm of the Greater and Lesser World and their Union Set down in Writing by J. B. and now published In Octavo price bound 3 s. 6 d. * Antiqu. l. 18. c. 2. * Ibid. * Acts 22. 25. c. 16. 37. * Tacit. Annal 15. Suet. in Vita Ner. * Rom. 13. 4. * 2 Cor. 1. 24. * 1 Cor. 4. 1. 9. 17. * Matth. 28. 19 20. * Rev. 3. 16. * 1 Pet. 5. 4. 1 Pet. 2. 25.