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A sermon preached at the assizes at Lancaster, on Sunday, March 19, 1675/6 by H. Pigott.
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Pigott, H.
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1676
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Wing P2219; ESTC R33409
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Tongues end when they are most Angry who made thee a Ruler or a Judge This Fellow came to sojourn and will needs be a Judge Leave it to the Gaole or to him that holds by a force or has broke the close and they would save you a labour of sitting Have Charity for us if Schismatique Papist or Atheist envy our promotions or possessions Let Moses and Aaron be kind to each other for there will never want enough to murmur against 'em both The Tabernacle was pitcht at Shilo where Joshua dwelt and the Temple founded on one of the two tops of Sion where the Kings House was upon the other that they might be ready to exchange protection and direction Samuel entertained Saul with an Emblematique Banquet the Shoulder the Priests Portion intimating he was to have a share in Church-cares And the very Ronanists at a Kings Coronation mind him quod per hanc ministerij nostri te esse participem non ignores King Jehosaphat would that his Judges should know that they judged not for man but for the Lord. And the design why you begin Assizes with a Sermon and why we Preach is that all may know that 't is from God that you exercise a coercive power where we perswade but to keep Church and State in honour and safety and to compel to good Morality those who else would turn all up-side down whilst yet they clamour upon us or you And this consideration brings us to answer the last enquiry what shall be resolved on or done against this clamour We Resolve all this Advice into three short Lessons 1. Learn Consistency of Spirit Despond not for the noyse Good men and Great are most abused An Eliab will berate a David who will dare to do what he dares not to think of You have heard that Calumny stops not at the Priest it will reach the Magistrate yea the King Bene agere male audire Regium est If he will not Vnyoak the Sons of Belial that they may do what is good in their own eyes he shall be censured as a trouble to ' em Yet as none should cease to govern because some count it a Yoak So should they not make their rule precavious by truckling to unworthy terms whereby to confirm themfelves 'T is indeed to be expected that Riotous persons disrelish those that run not with them to excess as for them that love not Truth to dislike those that bring it to light But if these be the causes be why they quarrel at us they do us that advantage that we hereby become more like to our Great Master 2dly Nay learn to go on more vigorously The more the World rageth and makes a murmur the greater need is there of a Reformation of it Those parts are soar indeed which cause the Patient to cry out if they be but touched And that Physitian were but an ill Friend who would give over all Essays to Cure because of those blasts of breath 3dly Labour still to give no just cause of clamour against us If our principles be good there is a good hope all will be well Though yet for lack of doing well we may damn our selves while we save others as Brands snatcht out of the Fire Some Divines do observe that there never yet fell Storm upon the Church the Vapours whereof were not first noted to arise from coldness of affection and backwardness in duties of Service towards God If so there is a probability for every Mincah that is disgorged upon us and if there be no smoak of a hard Character but where there is some fire of ill deserving we may thank our selves if our Reputation be incommodated The Apostles lived innocently And for Doctrin they but vindicated old Truths wrapt up in the Scriptures and darkned by the bad glosses of Jewish Doctors And if any discovery was new their Miracles attested the Truth of the Revelation If you stick to your old King Edwards Laws Magna Charta several other good Statutes and the common Law We to our one Canon two Testaments three Creeds the four first Councels and five first Centuries as fixing the rule of our Religion we satisfie our selves and those guided by us and stop the mouth of those who tell us of turning all up-side down we may encourage the people to their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if any would draw 'em off Soft a little may they say though you call it Heresie or others Rags of Popery we see yet no cause but why we may continue in this way to worship the God of our Fathers If any go about to force us off are not they as obnoxious to the Rigour of Justice as those who do but nibble at our goods by petty Larceny or Fellony In such a case our Apostle spoke of in the Text though the most charitable man alive wishes they were cut off as we pre-alledged it He a Clergy-man could only wish it Joshua goes further than a wish and tells such plainly c. 7.25 Why hast thou troubled us the Lord shall trouble thee and verifies his word by proceeding to Execution after Judgment FINIS ERRATA In the Epistle Page 2. line 1. read Lydian In the Book Page 3. read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 9. r. our Reformed Church p. 12. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 13. r. recriminates line 11. r. whether p. 14. l. r. which p. 15. l. 6. r. Smiths p. 20. l. 3. instead of viz. a Comma after short as indeed in many places more 't is mis-pointed the fault being perhaps the Authors who never Transcribed it because not designed for the Press when writ Sermons lately Printed for William Cademan at the Popes-Head in the New-Exchange in the Strand A Warning-piece for the Unruly in two Visitation-Sermons Preached before the Arch-bishop of YORK by Seth Bushel D. D. The great Efficacy and necessity of good Examples especially in the Clergy in a Visitation-Sermon Preached at Guilford by Thomas Duncumb D. D. A Sermon Preached before the King at White-Hall Octob. 17. 1675. by Miles Barne Fellow at St. Peter's in Cambridge and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty