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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62305	Catholick loyalty upon the subject of government and obedience : delivered in a sermon before the King and Queen in His Majesties Chappel-Royal at White-Hall on the thirtieth of January, 1687 / by the Reverend Father Edward Scarisbrike ...	Scarisbrike, Edward, 1639-1709.	1688 (1688)	Wing S824; ESTC R15096	12,794	30

You have here before you the fruit of a Rebellion that perfected the Ruine of Three Kingdoms in the Murder of their Sovereign The Common People felt on 't too and by contending for an unnatural Freedom became the most wretched and contemptible of Slaves I shall not need to run into History and rifle the Journals of those days for instances of Merciless and of Inexorable Cruelties The Havock that was made upon the Subjects Liberties and Properties the Depredations upon the Revenues of the Crowns the Oppressions of Widows and Orphans the Sacrilegious abuse of Holy Places and Holy things the concurring eviednces of the numerous Train of crying sins which were cast in to enflame the Reckoning This was our miserable condition This and as much worse as it is possible for any man to imagine And how could it well be otherwise so long as the Laws were either silenced or turned like Guns against their Master and all Controversies left to the Decision of the Sword What have I to do now beloved Christians but to beseech you to ponder well these things and by a close and affectionate application of matters to see what good may be drawn out of evil Here was Resistance with a Vengeance A Resistance attended with all sorts of Sins to draw on all sorts of Calamities and the Punishment still treading upon heel of the wickedness I would beg of you as you love God and your Sovereign your Souls Bodies Liberties and Estates as you tender your Religion your Country Peace of Conscience and a Good Name do but look back now into the leading causes to these dismal effects Consider the Reasonable Tendency and Operation of them and how naturally one thing passes into another through the whole series of this History from first to last You will find upon the scrutiny that this Bloody Rebellion began in Thought Thoughts broke into hard Words and those Words were followed with Blowes They began first with Jelousies Fears Misunderstandings Misinformations Invidious Reflections False Reports False Appearances of things and from thence sprung impotent Passions Provoking Language Bold and Intemperate Words Audacious Prints and Discourses in diminution of the Royal Dignity Character and Administration for the making of the Prince Cheap and Contemptible And at the same time Clamorous Remonstrances and Complaints were blown about to render him as Odious to the Common People while the multitude in the mean while were misled by false Doctrines about the Original and Sacredness of Power by false Notions of qualifying Conditions cases of Government mis-stated false Descants upon the Lawes and the Liberties of the Subject set above the Prerogative of the Prince These were the intoxicating Amusements that poysoned the Understandings of the Ignorant this was that Licence that put things to extremities and without consideration either of Heaven or Hell hurried us into those barbarous confusions that brought Charles the First of happy memory to the Scaffold This was the Root of all our Woes and from hence we may gather the necessity of setting a Guard upon our Actions our Lips and our very Thoughts Upon our Thoughts not only by the exclusion of rash Censures but with a regard to the reverence of Imperial Edicts and Commands And so upon our words for the Reviling of a Prince is a foul step towards the Beheading of him The wounding of him in his Honour is only a slyer way of striking him to the Heart But pray take notice I do not speak of Words only of Outrage and Disrespect for the sins of Omission are sins of Commission in this case the want of Love and Affection is a grand failure in Duty Neuters are lost to the ends and service of Government and men grow cold by example The ways of Flattery and Reproach are in some sort somewhat akin That 's the most dangerous flattery that is covered under an artificial appearance of Reproof and that the most Popular and Operative Calumny that is couched under the countenance of Good Faith Compassion and Respect with the sting of a But in the tail of it We are not only to Obey Kings but to Please them also in all things not repugnant to the will and commands of a just and a gracious God. Nay we do but discharge our souls towards God himself in so doing Let me add that Obedience at last is not so much the Ornament of a Christian as a peremptory Obligation upon him a Duty that he is bound to upon a Penalty But to perfect the Character there must be certain free-will offerings over and above There must be a study to please and industry to find out what will please a Joy in the Discovery of it and Cheerfulness in the Performance Lord cries out a Pagan upon this Topique If I had known thy Will my Obedience should have prevented thy Command Shall the Feet presume to direct the Head or the Animal Nature take upon it self to give Laws to the Reasonable Such as the Soul is to the Body such is the Ruler to those that God's Wisdom hath placed in a state of Subjection 'T is the Office of the One to Direct and of the Other to Excuse without the Indisputable Authority of the One the Obedience of the Other is but Precarious and it is left at the choice of the Multitude whether they shall think fit to be Above or Below what Government to Resolve upon or whether there shall be any Government or no. My words are too scant for my affections and my Time for my Matter But before I Conclude I beseech you turn your Eyes yet once back again upon the Judicial Tragedy that hath occasioned this Anniversary Be not imposed upon hereafter by false Maxims and Rumors let us be Wise though at the cost upon Miserable Experiment of Royal Blood and Three desolated Kingdoms Beware of Wolves in Sheeps clothing May God open your Eyes that you may see and discern the Blessings which you do this day enjoy and grant that the calamities of the last Age may be documental to the present and those Ages that are yet to come In a word I shall commend to every one this General Rule to walk by Where ever you find private Medlers in Politicks commenting upon the Kings Prerogatives or haranguing to the People upon the subject of Male-Administration know it to be a seditious Post and Practice that they have taken up for the undermining of the Grown and that there is most certainly a Snake under that Leaf These are not Liberties to be either given or taken for when men are once possest with cross Principles so as to set up Conscience against Duty to make God and the King Plaintiff and Defendant the Honester the men are the more desperate is the Conspiracy I am not unmindful that I have passed my measures but it is the goodness of Gods Providence many times to turn Mourning into Rejoycing and to improve our deepest Humiliations into an occasion of Thansgiving We have proceeded thus far in a dutiful and a sorrowful reflection upon the most execrable Murder of one of the best of Princes whose Memory ought to be for ever tender and dear to us not only for the sake of his Royal Blood Function and Qualities but as he was moreover the Instrument of Divine Providence in transmitting unto us the Blessings in Compensation of so inestimable a Loss which through God's Mercy we at this day enjoy in the Life Vertues and Government of our most Gracious Sovereign whom God long preserve A Prince in short of Piety Tenderness and Justice to the Perfect wish of all Good Men and to the uttermost possibility of flesh and blood May the Spirit of Grace and Wisdom rest upon his Sacred Head. May his Life be long and his Reign happy happy in Himself in His Illustrious Consort and in a never-failing Succession to inherit the Vertues as well as the Crown of their Royal Progenitors And it is finally our fault beloved Christians if we do not contribute all that 's possible by a cheerful and an Indispensable Resignation and Obedience to the further comfort and satisfaction of a Prince whom God in a manner miraculously hath placed over us For a conclusion I wish the words of my Text Per me Reges Regnant By me Kings Reign which have been so often in my mouth were deeply writ in your hearts that so having discharged our Duty in this Life towards God and our King we may come all in the next to Reign for ever with the King of Kings which God of his infinit goodness grant us In Nomine Patris c. FINIS