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A42096	The resigned & resolved Christian, and faithful & undaunted royalist in tvvo plaine farevvell-sermons, & a loyal farevvell-visitation-speech, both deliver'd amidst the lamentable confusions occasioned by the late forreign invasion & home-defection of His Majesties subjects in England / by Denis Granville, D.D., deane & archdeacon of Durham, (now in exile) chaplaine in ordinary to His Majestie ; whereunto are added certaine letters to his relations & freinds [sic] in England shewing the reasons and manner of his withdrawing out of the kingdom ...	Grenville, Denis, 1637-1703.	1689 (1689)	Wing G1940; ESTC R41659	109,381	177

their Function having allvvayes made it mine That the Curate shall consider frequently at least once a quarter vvhat Rubricks or Canons be most neglected contemn'd by the parishoners and that he doth besides the ordinary explanation of the service once a year in obedience to his Majestie 's Directions to Prearchers read at convenient times the said Rubricks to the people that is to say betvveen the frist service Litany or betvven Litany second Service or before or after sermon omitting if occasion require the psalm then usually sung that he shall Zealously but mildly stirr up the people to the better observation of the same that vvhen he discovers these publick admonitions ineffectuall that he make it part of his labour in private vvith personnall applications to reforme such irregularitys And that he shall as frequently as he can vvhen presentments are to be made make such applications publick private as shall appear most convenient to the offenders in order to the prevention of their shame expence vvhich I desire alvvayes may be done vvithout further prosecution unless the thing cannot othervvise be reform'd That such discourses as he makes about the Rubricks Constitutions may be usually out of the Desk or if occasion require in the pulpit after the sermon vvhich I vvould not have burthen'd often vvith these smaller matters relating only to good order but reserv'd for more substantial essential truths as the Doctrins of Faith Repentance Love Obedience Temperance c. That he doth not take notice of the People's breach of Rubricks or such disorders in publick vvhen he can reforme the same easily in private unless they are notorious scandalous in vvhich case he is sometimes to give particular persons even publick reproofs in the very Congregation That vvhen there is ground of suspition that the Church-VVardens vvill not faithfully do their dutys in searching the Alehouses c that he go out of the Church sometimes vvith them for the more effectual prevention of disorder That hee cause the Clarck to inquire vvhen notice is given of Baptisme vvhether the vvitnesses have all receiv'd the Sacrament also to informe the Parson if the Church-vvardens do not vvhen any excommunicat'd persons enter the Church or Church-yard to vvhich end purpose there shall be a list kept in the Vestry of all persons excommunicated DENIS GRANVILLE IN REFERENCE TO THE FORE-GOING DIRECTIONS Letters Discourses the Reader is desired to note those matters follovving FIRST that here were intermingled with the abovesaid Directions for the Curates sundry advices for the Church-wardens Parish-Clarks not judged so necessary to be printed These being sufficient to accomplish the fore-mentioned end of their printing p. 39. and convince those Clergy and others who would not allow the authour to bee worthy of his station when he was admitted into his Deanery that he did notwithsstanding the great power of their evill example whose semiconformity first poison'd the nation at least endeavour to be what hee all along cheifly aimed at that is to say a Diligent COUNTRY-PARSON if not good Archdeacon He taking effectuall Care and with no ill success that these his Rules should be as they were better obser'd by his Curates then the Church-Cannons or Rubricks were by them the generality of the Clergy of the nation and consequently in due time might have become a tollerable Deane by Gods blessing if the CITTY-REBELS Joyning with the Invaders had not driven him with his master out of England SECONDLY the Reader is desird to take further notice that this last ●etter to wit to his Curates was not printed when the others were as first intended and mentioned in the Title-Page in the yeare 1689 but was for certain reasons underwritten deferr'd to be put into the Press till the month yeare mark'd in the conclusion of the said letter to wit Oct 1691 some months after the Dean's Deprivation Which delay among other things hinder'd the more speedy Publication of all the other papers and was occasiond upon the three ensuing accounts 〈…〉 First the Deane imagined on second thoughts 〈…〉 that so plaine a Rebuke as the faithfull discharge of his 〈…〉 Conscience in the delivery of the Discourses hee hath printed the penning of the fore-going letters hee hath publish'd in his own name did by reflection cast on many considerable Spirituall Temporall Supporters of the Usurped Authority in Churc● State was an Underaking too mighty for him who never delighted to expose or reproach his Superiours in any manner nor should have dared thus to have done it at this time had not too many of them manefestly departed from and contradicted the very Doctrine of the Church of England which they as well as hee had sworne to maintaine Secondly He long expected that some eminent person in England better qualified would have saved him the labour of such an application as he hath here in print made to the people under his authority by publishing ere this some substantiall work that should have strenuously asserted the Cause of King James the 2 that Church of England whereof he is supreme Governour by unmasking the wickedness injustice and ingratitude nay unnaturallness of Dethroning their lawfull Soveraign and under a religious pretence usurp his Crowne The afore-said Person not sticking to set his name thereto tho it might have cost him his life to proclaime undeniably to the World that what hee writ hee beleived to be such truth of God as hee did dare seale with his Bloud Which desireable peice of Charity to the soules of the poor people who were unhappily drawn into Perjury by the powerfull Example of their leaders the authour hath not yet discover'd to be done by any tho he thinks ought to have been performed long ago what ever had been the issue to have given right measures to the People of the Land while they were staggerring not quite fallen into the abominable sins of Perjury and Renouncing their Allegiance Which Christian work if it had been acted in due season would among other good effects have edified also the Dean's Flocks and render'd unnecessary what hee hath said to keep those steddy who stand to restore those who are fallen for want of timely under-propping The authour's earnest longing and waiting with great impa●ience to have seen such desireable fruit of Primitive zeale did detaine him a while from plunging himselfe over head ears tho hee made many offers so to do into that Deluge which did over-spred the land thinking himselfe a bad swinmer in such Troubled waters moreover like Elihu Job 32. 4. being very unwilling to speake out thus boldly shame the silence of his Elders till hee had given them all sufficient opportunity to speak and write Tho his boldness zeale as may be observ'd by the way is before noted was not levell'd directly to any but those under his own Charge Care or nearly related to him to whom

so beaten a Road as the Topiek of adversity nor yet by your favour conclude my discourse There is nothing which can bee more plaine obvious to a Christian than the Benefitt of Affliction a truth Conspicuous out of the writings of the very Heathens I commend unto your Review at this Instant Plutarchs excellent treatise to that purpose I shall therefore have regard to the Times as well as my text consider some of those very afflictions hanging over our heads which must exercise these our Resignations which will prove christianly submitted unto thus beneficiall to us That it is our Duty faithfully chearefully to submitt unto Gods vvill in all times of Adversity with Faith Feare and that all truly Christian submissions will in the end bee highly Advantagious hath been the subject of my two last discourses in this Pulpit IF the Dayes of Adversity Affliction Brethren be such a hopefull seeds-time wee in our present Circumstances are like if wee sovv in pious Teares to have a plentifull crop Many a Heavy Judgement are allready fallen upon us for our past fins against God and in a more particular manner wee have too just reason to suspect for our secure carnall Confidence our Trusting in the Arme of Flesh as well as our unpardonable Disobedience to vile contempt of Gods Vice-Gerent the King. And many greater for our stupid impenitency will fall wee have also too Just cause to feare God hath moved the Land Divided it and if his Allmighty most Mercifull hand doth not prevent it must shake nay totter into Ruine Destruction The SWORD is drawn in the Midst of the Nation God grant it may not bee too soon sheathed in one anothers bowells nor VVhet by the present Cessation Insomuch that what party soever gaine the victory both must certainly some way or other in the Conclusion bee Considerable Loosers It is a sad thing that subjects to the same Prince should in Words many times profess pretend the same thing and yet all the while fight against one another to Destruction One Party among other matters declares for the Protestant Religion in generall another for the Church of England as by Lavv Establisht This cannot bee other with honest meaning than the very same cause for the Church of England is undoubtedly a Protestant Church and the best Protestant Religion notwithstanding all aspersions is professed in that Church yet in all probability here is in the Nation a Quarrel begun God forgive the Authours which is not like to bee determined without the Shedding of much Christian Bloud Or else againe One Party declares for the King also as the Lords at York as well as the Protestant Religion together with the Liberties and Properties of the Subject Another for the King Antient Lavves Governement in the Church State. This likewise without mentall reservation is no other than the former yet both Parties you see enter into a dismall bloudy War to decide the Controversy T is certaine that our antient Lavves Government so much depending on Monarchy cannot be preserved by the Destruction of the Prince and true Liberty Property can never be secured by the Destruct on of the Antient Governement no more can the right Protestant Religion Come BRETHREN let us all be well-advised before wee imbrue our hands deeply in one anothers Bloud such like Pretences Beginnings had once no better consequence Behold I say two Parties of the Kings subjects making the same Protestation and yet all the while fight with one another so that one of them cannot bee sincere If two Persons declare for the King yet fall to Blows one of them pretend what hee will must certainly be a Rebell in fighting against the King. I would in Charity thinke that you all conclude Rebellion a most odious thing and that few will I am sure no good man would dip themselves in so hainous a crime knowingly and willfully The danger is that many worthy Honest Gentlemen as heretofore and now in our Present Iuncture may be insnared before they are aware into this foule Offence so farre that they cannot tell how to gett back againe or if they do themselves cannot hinder ill men from proceeding on effecting their ends by vertue of the Reputation which they have given to an ill cause I will therefore cease to contend in this place who is the best subject or veriest Rebell Whether I that declare my selfe for the King the Protestant Religion or hee that declares himselfe for the Protestant Religion the King is the most Loyal the best Protestant I have here openly frequently enough discoverd my Principles concerning Subjection I am Brethren of the same minde I ever was so resolved by Gods Grace to live dye Instead of such disputes I 'le endeavour to paint sett before your Eyes this abominable sin that neither party wil owne And without telling you any more who are Rebbells I 'le plainly shew you what is Rebellion and what it is to be Rebellious In prosecution whereof I 'le keep precisely as well as I am able to the very Termes Wordes of the Church of England in her Printed Sermons or Homilies Published by Royall authourity Rebellion then you must know is there esteemd by the Church of England whereever it is found either among Papists or Protestants either on the 5 of Nov. or on the 30. of Jan. the worst as it was the first of sins In the first of her Homilies against Rebellion it is stiled the Root of all vices the Mother of all Mischeifs and in the second part the vvorst of all vices the Greatest of all Mischeifs at the Breaking in vvhereof all sins Miseries did flovv in over-vvhelme the vvorld The Authour of that accursed sin of Disobedience vvhich brings in all other at its heeles being no other than LUCIFER himselfe vvho of the Brightest most Glorious Angell for this very sin of Disobedience Rebellion against his King became the Blackest foulest Fiend and from the Height of Heaven fell into the Bottome of Hell. As our Church expresseth it in the afore said Homily Rebellion in another place speedily after is stiled the Foulest of all sins being as it vvere the Source Originall of all other and inseparable from the Highest Pride Contempt of God. Hee that nameth Rebellion saith our Church nameth not a single or one onely sin as is Theft Murder Robbery such like but to speake in the old language of the Homily the vvhole Puddle Sinke of all sins against God man against his Prince his Country his Countrymen his Parents his Children his Kinsfolkes his Freinds against all men universally All sins saith the very same Homily nameth hee that nameth Rebellion every Comandement being violated thereby pag. 360. Yea that all the seaven deadly sins are contained in Rebellion you will finde asserted

Wait on his Lordhip hee in his Lords name confined mee to my House during his stay in that Citty On Thursday follovving the Lord Lumly vvithout any Opposition read the Prince of Oranges declaration at the Castle in the Presence of most of the Deputy Lieutenants Justices Gentry vvho flock'd into his Lordship and by their Compliance encouraged him to send to the Magistrates of Nevvcastle to demand Reception there but being refused Admittance the Saturday after hastily vvith some precipitation returned hee and his Company to Yorke after having read Publickly at the Market Crosse the Prince of Oranges declaration attended on by a great Number of Gentry the Country Troop but I thanke God there were no horses nor men of mine tho the Deane at other times sent four to encrease the number honour that Cerimony vvhich hinderd severall of the Clergy at that tyme to send in theirs to the lessenning of the Appearance Hereupon I did Judge it meet the next day after being sunday to Preach againe tho I had done it lately in my ovvne Proper Person in the Cathedrall Pulpit à seasonable Loyall Sermon sutable to my past life and Actions in that Country to persvvade the members of that Church all the Auditory to stand firme to their Allegiance in that day of Temptation never to Joyne in the least vvayes vvith that Horrid Rebellion vvhich vvas at that tyme Set on foot in the Nation Which Sermons I have Printed to Justifye mee to all the vvorld if the publication of these do not do it from being accessary to the Defection vvhich then began to the Intollerable vexation of my mind in that Conformable County vvhich had till the Summer past by it 's forvvard Obedience Dutifull Respects stuck so close to the Crovvne that his late Majestie vvas vvont to stile it his Loyall County of Durham Thus was God pleased to assist a Poor vveak inconsiderable member Exalted beyond his merit to a high Station of the Church of England vvith fidelity Courage to maintaine his Post against the Abettors of that unnaturall Invasion vvhich it vvas Easy to foresee vvould bee as it hath been attended on by an intollerable Usurpation of the Crovvne violation of the Lavves and finally if God should not of his Mercy by some kind of miracle Prevent by the utter Ruine of the Church of England and consequently of those vvho had at first invited the svvord into the Land betook themselves to a desperate Remedy a thousand times vvorse than the Disease Complained off And here before I proceed in my intended Relation of some other passages I desire permission to insert a fevv lines to Obviate some censures vvhich I Expect to meet vvith To such there fore as shall endeavour to destroy the Reputation of my sincerity zeale in sticking to the Cause of a Roman Catholick Soveraigne by the Greatness of the Example of those who have deserted it in complying with the Prince of Orange alledging that it is not likely that the single Deane of Durham should bee in the right so many Eminent Persons of Greater Learning Wisdome Piety in the Wrong who have given notable Testimonies of their Loyalty by their Sufferings Confessions in the Great Rebellion of England During the Banishment of King Ch. 2. To such I declare that I have nothing to say for my selfe but must returne with a non nobis Domine all the Glory to God who is some times pleased to make use of the vveake things of the vvorld to confound the Things vvhich are Mighty to Revcale unto Babes vvhat hee hid●s from the VVise Prudent assisting with in Tymes of Persecution poor Illiterate Men Women when many Great Phylosophers mighty Clerks have quitted a Righteous Cause and shamefully deserted the Truth I do with all humility acknoledge it to be purely the Grace of God the wind of whose Spirit Blo●eth where it listeth which hath supported and carryed mee through all those Blasts of temptation which have Thrown downe divers strong Pillars of the Temple Preserving mee from the Contagion of the Age the Spirit of Popularity Republicanisme Whereby Sathan transforming himselfe into an Angell of Light hath tainted the Generality of the English nation of all sorts Degrées which hath in the Upshot as is too visible to all the World proved their Overthrow the Fall never enough to bee lamented of many Noble Personages who had as well as their Ancestors suck'd in Loyalty with their Milk shed their Bloud to uphold the Monarchy seemed to bee the surest supporters of the crowne And thus much I have been obliged to insert here tho I could more willingly have left it unsaid if it had not been forced from mee by the Malitious Objections of my Enimies Common Justice to my selfe the cause I maintaine It being impossible for mee to persevere in the Kings Quarrell which I have espowsed without holding fast with great Resolution my Integrity Bearing witness to the Truth Besides I am not ashamed nay thinke it my Duty to owne that I am firmely strongly perswaded without doubt or scruple that my present Principles Practices of Loyalty to my Soveraigne Past Obedience to the Church of Englands Rules how singular soever by some menit may howe been termed thought are sound Orthodox being founded upon so cleare Scripture Reason as sets a man in this particular aboue any Example upon Earth Nay I am not afraid to proclame to all the World that I Dare Rebuke by my Actions tho not other wise the Greatest Man alive who Dares transgress those plaine precepts of God which I shall ever deeme à great sin to separate to wit. FEARE GOD HONOUR the KING Tho I have so great veneration Respect for hundreds of Eminent Persons spirituall temporall who have to the admiration of all men lately been imposed on by what kind of Magick it is hard to understand to Court Complement their owne Misery that in Dubious matters I am not so bold as to Resist the Power of their Examples which in such things I ackowledge a conductor safe enough to guide their inferiours who ought to suspect their own Judgements sentiments when they have no cleare lightto lead them rather than those of their Governous in Church state whom they owne to bee Wiser Better men But to stick close to the service Interest of my Lawfull Soveraigne who is a Soveraigne never the lesse lawfull for his Afflictions or for his Religion and to OBEY him too as I am resolved in all things which are not Malum in se if hee absolutely requires it what ever may bee the Consequences is a POINT wherein I am so wel satisfied that I am ambitious to be instrumental in Convincing all who depend on mee or my Jurisdictions if I cannot Others of a Truth so necessary seasonable for the consideration of Subjects in a

awhile here at Roüen I did presume to informe his Majestie by a Packet I sent into Ireland to my Lord Melford of my Arrivall in France the manner of my escape with an Assurance of my unalterable Loyalty and that I should espouse his service with the same zeale during his Exile adversity as when hee was on the Throne I did also according to the Duty of a Loyall subject pay to the Queen Prince all those respects which I could at a Distance informing her also by the assistance of my Lord Waldegrave of my Arrival with assurances that I should never faile to render her Majestie the Prince all the duties which were incumbent on a subject of the King of England And that since I had not the felicity which I came for of being neare his Majestie I was in the next place desirous to bee neare her● and accordingly would hasten to St. Germaines as soon as the indisposition of my Body would permit Taking a great Delight to bee nigh the Royall Famliy when I cannot Otherwise serve them never thinking my selfe any wayes absolved from the observance I owed my Soveraigne her Majestie all the bloud Royall by the difference of Religion HAving Sr thus given you the Trouble of so particular an account of my selfe deportment from the time that wee were first allarumm'd with the news of the wicked intentions of the Dutch to invade vs home to this present day I thinke my selfe no lesse obliged to give you some Information Concerning my present Temper of mind future Intentions And which I am the more willing to embrace this Opportunity of doing by Reason my infirmities of Body do in such sort increase that I have small reason to immagine that I shall bee a long lived man they administring to mee too many Grounds of Feare if I were to undergo no other hazard that I may scarce live to see my Freinds in England any more unlesse the air of France motion bee by Gods Blessing a meanes of my Recouery Cure of that disease which I have contracted by à sedentary life since my Installation into the Deanery of Durham And here I do in the first place declare with all sincerity that I am resolued by Gods Grace to live dye a true son of the Church of England Whereof King Charles was King Iames 2. not the Prince of Orange is under God supream Head Governour beleiving her to bee for the Purity of her Doctrine the decent Regularity of her worship the wholesomnesse of her Discipline well executed the best and most Approaching to the Primitive Times of any Church in Reformed Christiendome And I do openly affirme to all the World that however her children or rather those who have pretended to bee soe have behaved themselves Either heretofore or of late to the scandall of the world Reproach of her Constitution I am assured she will bee found upon thorough and serious Examination A Church which doth not Countenance Rebellion or indeed any sin or wickednesse whatsoever I have given no just reason I thanke God to any to thinke mee of another Opinion And if some men have been soe uncharitable as to Censure mee for ever deviating from her it hath been only for such Carriage of mine as may best demonstrate that I am A right Genuine thorough paced tho very feeble Member of Her I meane for my Exact Conformity to constant Observation of the Excellent Rules of her Incomparable Liturgy without any variation and my Constant zeale in asserting the Kings Prerogative and her Excellent Doctrine of non-Resistance Subjection to Authority in both which perohance I have been thought sometimes a litle singular But if I have been soe I am sorry for it I meane that I should want company in so laudable Christian a Cause Practice For I must still affirme that the first is the Indispensable Duty of Every Church man and best meanes to preserve her the last which way soever it fled at the Prince of Oranges Invading England the very Flour and Glory of our Ch which neither losse of Estate nor life shall by the assistance of the Almighty cause mee to Renounce I do therefore humbly intreat your selfe and all my Relations no wise to suspect mee as if Wavering from my Obedience to my Mother the Church for my immoveable Adherence to the cause interest of the Father of our Country and my innate Abhorrence of Disputing Contesting or rudely Capitulating with my Prince even-then when hee commanded things very contrary to my sentiments which I did Judge not only inexpedient but prejudiciall to the Flourishing condition of our Church Had I fail'd as too many did in that Iuncture or in paying the very same duties ef Allegiance Honour to my Present Soueraigne When hee came to the Crowne as I had performed to the late King his Royall Brother my Gratious Master of Blessed memory because his present Majestie declared himselfe of the R. Cath. Religion I might indeed have been lyable to Censure for that was a bad mark of a son of the Church of England But God having enabled mee to Resist this Temptation which hath so mightily prevailed in the Nation I would not have you Feare that I shall bee Ouerthrowne by any other I am I confesse fled out of the Nation to assert the Cause of a R. Cath. Prince I live at present in à R. Cath. Country But sure I am that the right-Church of England Religion doth not only injoyne mee to do the first but considering the circumstances of England the neighbouring Protestant Countries at present to do the later And why I other loyall subjects should choose France rather than any other Nation to Reside in may quickly bee put out of dispute if our Censurers would bee pleased to consider how kindly the most Christian King received his Majesty of England and doth still entertaine those who have Evidenced their Fidelity to him as also reflect on the innate Civilily Hospitality of the French Nation towards strangers never more Visible than in this time of Distress when all are Wellcome espetially English men unlesse they are conceived to bee Spyes or Creatures of the Prince of Orange or other their Enimies As for my own particular Common Justice doth Oblige mee to acknowledge that I meet whith as much Curtisy now in France among the R. Catholicks as I have done heretofore among the Protestants And am permitted to live as quietly and securely tho I do no wayes di●o●ne my Religion as any of their own Nation THis breif declaration I have made will suffice I hope to assure all my Freinds in England of my stedfastnesse in the Excellent Religion of my Fore-Fathers The next duty incumbent on mee will be to give my Family you our Cheif some fresh assurance that I am by the Grace of God Resolued to endeavour for the future as I have begun