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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

King in the House of Millo as appears in the Twelfth Chapter of the second Book of the Kings Verse 20. But in the 14. Chapter of the same Book Verse 5. It is said That as soon as Amaziah his Son had the Kingdom Confirmed in his hand he slew his Servants who had slain the King his Father There is also a very remarkable passage in the 21. Chapter of the 2d Book of the Kings at the 23 and 24 Verses where it is said That the Servants of Ammon Conspired against him and slew the King in his own House and the People of the Land slew all them that had Conspir'd against King Ammon And the People of the Land made Josiah his Son King in his stead A Parrallel of this example we had in the Martyrdom of our Late King and the Restauration of our present Soveraign for his own Subjects conspired against him and slew the King at his own House and the People of the Land by putting the Laws in Execution did cut off some of those that Conspired the death of their Royal Master And again Josiah-like the people of this Land by the wonderful Providence of God did place his Princely Son to rule the Realm in his Fathers stead To whose gracious Person may God grant a long and a prosperous Reign over us I shall cite Two or Three Examples from the New Testament and so put a Period to this noted Point Joseph and Mary the Parents or our Lord and Saviour willing to shew their Loyalty and Obedience upon the command of Augustus Caesar went up unto their own City to be taxed as appears in the 2d Chap. of St. Luke's Gospel Ver. the 4th Christ himself paid Tribute to Caesar and submitted to the judgment of Pilate tho he could easily have delivered himself from the same As appears in the 17 Chapter of St. Matthew at the 27. Verse We read in the 5. Chapter of the Acts Verse 37. That one Judas of Galilee councelled the Jews that by no means they should pay Tribute unto Caesar but to maintain their ancient Priviledges and Customs and so drew away much People after him but he perished and all as many as obeyed him were dispersed St. Paul submitted to and pleaded his cause before Felix the Roman Governour as appears Acts the 24th at the 10th Verse The like he did before Festus who came in the room of Felix and afterwards he appealed unto Caesar's Judgment-seat as it is very observable in the 25. Chap. of the Acts at the 8. 11. ver Now it plainly appears that Joseph and Mary and Jesus and Paul were obedient to civil Magistrates and Governors But such as were disobedient and rebellious they were rewarded according to their due deserts as I have sufficiently demonstrated from the third Proposition Whence I proved by express Testimonies of Scripture that sudden Calamities have ensued upon the Rebellion of Schismatical and Factious People as agreeable with the first Branch of the 2d ver in my Text Where Solomon affirms That their Calamity shall rise suddenly From which I pass to the Fourth Proposition Namely to maintain That in whatever Nation the People are arbitrarily divided in opposition to the Government such Enterprizes portend those Parties ruine which also is correspondent with the last Branch of my Text where Solomon propounds this ominous Interrogatory And who knoweth th ruine of them both It is to be observed in the course of all Ages that the most flourishing Kingdoms of the World never received such fearful downfalls from open and forreign Enemies as they have done by secret Innovations and Domestick conspiracies The destruction of Jerusalem that Metropolis of earthly Cities began by the civil or rather uncivil discords of Simon and Eleazar but when Vespatian the Emperor and his Son Titus came against it with an Army they found the whole Nation of the Jews divided into three factions each or them ready to undo the other Whereupon followed the overthrow of that Kingdom and rasing of Jerusalem even level with the ground for then there were slain of the Jews being Men Women and Children as the learned Josephus writes who at that time was Captain in the field no less than Eleven hundred Thousand It is apparently demonstrable that every Schism proceeds from it's first Point to the full Period of a plain Heresie of one small spark is kindled a great fire Arrius's Heresie was but a spark at the beginning yet this spark did set all Affrica and Europe on the furious fire of Contention that hitherto the Church militant recover'd not its former esteem and purity Also Mahomet that Antichristian Infidel began with a very few of his Sect but in a short time he over-ran Asia and did so deface the beauty of the Eastern Churches that to this day he continues a Scourge to all Christendom And it is observ'd by woful experience That the Anabaptists of late years kindled such a Spark of Error in Germany as grew into such a combustible flame that many Cities Towns and Temples were set on fire whereupon issued a bloody Massacre of many thousand People But we need not go so far as Jerusalem Turky or Germany for Examples This Kingdom of ours could never be invaded nor conquered till such time as the people were at variance within themselves then was Julius Caesar with a small Army the Saxons Danes and Normans able to possess and suppress our Country The like Surprizal happened in the time of our late Rebellion when England was deposed of its Princely Patron-ship to be in subjection to an Usurping Protector-ship It is the opinion of Herodian an old Writer that as much as War is worse than peace so much civil Sedition is worse than war And Titus Livius saith that it is dissention which causeth the ruine of great Empire I am sure this our Kingdom has sufficiently shared in such Calamities and had not God interven'd his good Providence the horrible designs which were contriv'd not long since might have brought it to utter ruine For as our Saviour saith in the 12. Chap. of St. Matthew Verse 25 Every Kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and every City or House divided against it self shall not stand And thus much briefly must suffice in reference to the ruine of that Kingdom and its Subjects which is undermined by seditious People for these might in a tumultuous way be so destructive to each other and also to the Nation as to weaken the power of their Prince to wage War with a Forreign enemy so that this point complies with my fourth and last proposition From which I briefly maintained That in whatever Nation the People are arbitrarily divided in opposition to the Government such Enterprizes portend those Parties ruine which fitly corresponds with the last branch in my Text where Solomon propounds this ominous Interrogatory And who knoweth the ruine of them both Which guides me to the Fifth and last Point relating to my present

My Son fear thou the Lord and the King Whatever Laws or Edicts are established by a King either Concordant or not contradictory to the word of God It is the duty of every sober Subject to have as much regard to their tendency as if they were immediately deliver'd by the Mouth of God himself for every Prince is conditionally Gods Pleni-potentiary unto whom he gives tolleration to enact such useful Laws as may be requisite towards the support and preservation of his Government from which Laws all subordinate Magistrates derive Power to punish such offenders as wilfully violate or contemn the same according to the merit of the offence committed An incomparable instance whereof we have in a gracious Commission which Princely Artaxerxes the Persian King granted to Priestly Ezra a famous Scribe in the Law of Moses as appears in the 7th Chap. of the Book of Ezra at the 25 and 26 Verses where Artaxerxes delivered his Commission unto him in these very words And thou Ezra after the wisdom of thy God which is in thine hand set Magistrates and Judges which may judge all the People that are beyond the River all such as know the Laws of thy God and teach ye them which know them not And whosoever will not do the Law of thy God and the Law of the King let judgment be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment These are the Legal Penalties to be inflicted upon all those that despise the Injunctions of God and the King to make such mutinies and insurrections in a Realm as might be detrimental to the form of Government which must needs be a great aggravation to the Supream Majesty of Heaven who in the eighth Chapter of Solomons Proverbs at the fifteenth and sixteenth Verses speaks thus of Superior Powers By me Kings Reign and Princes decree Justice By me Princes Rule and Nobles even all the Judges of the Earth Seeing therefore that all Kings Princes Nobles and Judges of the Earth have their Regallity Decrees and Ordinances from God then must it be the duty of all their inferiors to tender their obedience unto such Decrees Acts or Ordinances as they by Commission from God shall impose upon the Subjects And this is the Apostolical advice of St. Peter in his 1st Epistle Chapter the second at the thirteenth and fourteenth Verses Where to the Strangers scattered throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bythinia he spake these expressions Submit your selves to every ordinance of Man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well From whence we may observe that every Magistrate acting for the glory of God and the good of his King ought for their sakes to be reverently esteemed and obeyed I might alledge several Testimonies of Scripture in the proof of this point As Genesis the 41th and 40th Where Pharaoh said unto Joseph Thou shalt be over my House and according to thy Word shall all my People be rul'd And in the sixteenth Chapter of Exodus Verse the eighth we read how the Israelites in murmuring against Moses their Chief Prince and Aaron their Chief Priest did more abundantly murmur in their Hearts against God For saith the Text The Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him And what are we Your murmurings are not against us but against the Lord. Also in the 17th Chapter of Deuteronomy the 10th 11th and 12th Verses Moses being the Chief Magistrate of the Israelites spake unto them these words And thou shalt do according to the Sentence which they of that place which the Lord shall chuse shall shew thee and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee According to the Sentence of the Law which they shall teach thee and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee thou shalt do Thou shalt not decline from the Sentence which they shall shew thee to the right hand nor to the left And the Man that will do presumptuously and will not hearken unto the Judge even that Man shall die and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel The like Testimony we find in the First Chapter of Joshua at the 16th 17. and 18th Verses Where the Hebrews spake thus to their Champion Joshua All that thou commandest us we will do and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things so will we hearken unto thee Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy Commandment and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him he shall be put to death Whatever Precepts in the Old Testament require our obedience to Superior Powers we find such Precepts fully confirmed in the New as appears in the 22d Chap. of St. Matthew's Gospel at the 21st Verse Where our Saviour said unto Simon Peter Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods To render God and Caesar their dues was the godly practice of the Apostles and therefore both St. Paul and St. Peter have left us sufficient rules to imitate their Religious and Loyal Conversation as it is apparent in the 13th Chap. of the Epistle to the Romans at the 1st and 2d Verses Where St. Paul saith Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers For there is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation St. Peter also hath the like rule in his first Epistle 2d Chap. at the 17th Verse where he saith Honour all Men love the Brotherhood fear God honour the King Thus much shall suffice in reference to the first proposition from which I asserted that it is the incumbent duty of every rational Person to Fear God and Honour his King as being suitable with the first clause in my Text where Solomon saith My Son fear thou the Lord and the King From whence I proceed to handle the 2d proposition namely to affirm 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 as answerable to these words of the second clause in my first Verse And meddle not with them that are given to change It is very remarkable that by the discord of the Arians Multitudes of People fell away from Christianity to Gentilism and Infidelity so likewise by our late Animosities in this Kingdom many chang'd their Opinions and Practises to Rantism Atheism and Impiety in King James his days of blessed memory several Persons began to cry for the Geneva Discipline and Scottish Reformation in the Church whereupon the ignorant multitude was so stirred up that like an Aegyptian Plague