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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66470	Religion exprest by loyalty in a sermon preach'd before the right worshipful Samuel Swift Esq., Mayor of the ancient, honourable and loyal city of Worcester, the first Sunday after his inauguration or instalment, being the 19th day of October, in the year of our redemption 1684, at the parish church of St. Swithin, upon a text selected by William Swift, Esq. (his truly loyal father) being the 21st. & 22d. verses of the 24th chapter of Solomons Proverbs, in these following expressions / by Will. Williams ...	Williams, William, Inferior Brother to the venerable and orthodox clergy.; Swift, William.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2790; ESTC R12293	14,287	42

the whole Land was infested with Sects and Tumults in so much that the State was troubled the King disobeyed good Laws neglected violence and villany offered to all that were possessed with Loyalty and Allegiance towards their Soveraign this brought the Kingdom into such a confused Distraction that much People grew obstinate and disloyal some pleading for Liberty of Conscience and under that Nicety forsaking Communion with the Church Catholick to flock with seditious Multitudes either to Mountains Woods Barns or Stables any where rather than the Place of Holy Convocation though consecrated for the Worship and Honour of God in allusion unto the Temple of Solomon whereof David said In his Temple shall every Man speak of his honor But wilfully forsaking their Mother Church they suddenly fell to Sedition from Sedition to privy Conspiracy against the Government from Conspiracy to Rebellion from Rebellion to false Doctrine from false Doctrine to Heresie from Heresie to Schism from Schism to hardness of heart and from hardness of heart to contempt of Gods Word and Commandment like unto those filthy Dreamers who despise Regal Dominion and speak evil of secular and civil Dignities as St. Jude remarks in the 8. vers of his Epistle These are the Gradations of a profest Schismatick and Schism is as antient as the Devil himself for he was the first Inventer of it as appears by the Dissention which he made amongst the Caelestial Angels until he and they became Apostates for which presumption he was cast under the Name of Lucifer into the depth of Hell as appears in the 14. Chap. of the Prophesie of Isaiah at the 14 and 15. verses In the second Place after he had put the Angels at variance one with another and both himself and them in opposition to God he proceeds to set man at difference with his Maker and that in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve consenting to his Serpentine Temptation became guilty of sin and eternal death Thirdly assoon as this diabolical Schismatick had set man at odds with his Maker he did set one man to destroy another as appears in the 4. Chap. of Genesis v. 8. where by his evil means Cain rose up against Abel his Brother and slew him From hence it may be observed that where-ever Satan sows his seeds of sedition there others may reap the fruit of Murder and Confusion This Truth might be witnessed in the Kingdom of England by an inhumane and unparallel'd Experience namely the Assassination or Murder of our late King being the odium of all Christendom occasioned by the disturbance of our home-bred divisions which created contention and debate amongst us being the malignant Marks of Satans Synagogue and directly opposite to the badges of Christs Church which are Unity Peace and Concord for as St. Paul saith in his 1st Epistle to the Corinths the 11. Chap. ver 16. If any man seemeth to be contentious we have no such custom neither the Churches of God Seing therefore that the Church of God admits of no contentious Customs let all of us that own our selves profest Members thereof joyn together in one harmonious consent to hold the Faith in Unity of Spirit in the Bond of Peace and in righteousness of life Acknowledging the Truth of my second Proposition That he who fears God ought in such a manner to honour his King as not to side with those that would alter or change his Government and this also is answerable to these words of the latter Clause in my first Verse And meddle not with them that are given to change Which ushers me to the management of the Third Proposition Namely to prove by express Testimonies of Scripture That sudden Calamities have ensued upon the Rebellion of Schismatical and Factious People Which also is agreable with the first branch of the second ver in my Text where Solomon affirms That their Calamity shall rise suddenly My first Evidence in this respect shall be alledged from the 16. Chap. of Numbers at the 31 32 33 34. verses where it is recorded That Korah Dathan and Abiram rebelled against Moses and refused to obey him whereupon fire came from the Lord and consumed Korah and his Company And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up Dathan and Abiram with their Houses and all the men that appertained to them and all their goods and they perished from among the Congregation And again when the Congregation of Israel murmured against Moses the Lord sent a Plague amongst them whereof there suddenly dyed Fourteen thousand and seven hundred besides them that dyed about the matter of Korah as appears in the 49. v. of the same Chap. Another Instance we have in the 21. Chap. of Numbers at the 5 6. v. where it is said That the Lord sent fiery Serpents amongst the Israelites and they bit the people and much People of Israel dyed for their murmuring against Moses who in those days was their chief Magistrate Likewise Absolom rebelled against King David Lord and Father but his great Army was overthrown and Twenty Thousand af them were slain and himself hanged by the head forsaken by his Mule and with three Darts thrust through the heart by Joab and Ten young men that bare Joab's Armour compassed him about and slew him as you may read in the 18. Chap. of the second Book of Samuel at the 7.14 15. ver Also Sheba the Son of Bichri rebelled against King David and blew a Trumpet and said we have no part in David neither have we Inheritance in the Son of Jesse and every man of Israel went up from after David and followed Sheba but shortly after Sheba being besieged by Joab in Abel had his head stricken off and thrown over the Wall to Joab as it is recorded in the 20. Chap. of the second of Samuel at the 1 2 21 22. verses Baasha the Son of Ahijah conspired against Nadab his Lord and King and slew him as appears in the 15. Ch. of the first Book of Reg. ver the 27. But in the 16. Chap. of the same Book at the 1 2 3. v. Jehu the Son of Hanani prophesy'd against him saying from God I will take away the Posterity of Baasha and will make thy House like the House of Jeroboam the Son of Nebat him that dieth of Baasha in the City shall the Dogs eat and him that dyeth of his in the fields shall the Fowls of the air eat Zimri a servant to Elah King of Israel conspired against his Master and slew him but within seven days Omri whom the People made King came and besieged him in Tirzah and it came to pass when Zimri saw the City was taken that he went into the Palace of the King and burnt the Kings house over his head and dyed as it is apparent in the 16th Chapter of the First Book of the Kings from the 9th to the 19th Verse The Servants of Joash King of Juda conspired against him and slew the