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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35184	Two sermons preached in the cathedral-church of Bristol, January the 30th 1679/80 and January the 31th 1680/81 being the days of publick humiliation for the execrable murder of King Charles the first / by Samuel Crossman ...	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing C7271; ESTC R17923	25,553	48

at last into open Battalia against the State The Walls became scal'd taken any House of Lords was voted useless a single Person that is the King was voted needless and the life of our Soveraign traiterously taken away by an infamous Conspiracy of men pretendedly stil'd an High Court of Justice Such was the Series Wild Opinions led the Van and open Rebellion brought up the Reer It may and must be a just Argument with us and our Posterity after us to be sober-minded There is a chastness and there is a wantonness of spirit in things pertaining to Religion The sober Christian chastly consists with the plain Soul-saving Truths of God The wanton Professor is fond of every strange face he sees As Sampson in his wandring Amours none of the Daughters of Israel could please him he must needs have a Dalilah from among the uncircumcis'd Philistims by which means both he and all Israel fell with him The case 't is too applicable to our selves The venerable Orders of a reformed Church the mildest Laws of a well-constituted Kingdom cannot it seems please many mens minds they must needs have some other Dalilahs of their own God forgive it And I beseech you my Brethren hold fast a form of sound words and labour to steer your whole Conversation by the Spirit of a sound mind 2. A second Caveat I must as heartily enter is against excentricalness of Carriage We are almost as many Rulers as ruled Rather Privy Counsellors and chief Ministers of State than ordinary Subjects Great Agitators exercising our selves in matters too high for us This apparently endangers the whole The Locusts mentioned in the Prophet break not their Ranks they thrust not one another they march every one in his Path but we like some bad Husbands at home spend most of our time abroad mightily taken up about the Duties of others but supinely negligent in our own These St. Peter couples with very coarse company Let none of you suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as an evil doer or as a busie-body in other men matters The Apostle shakes them all together in the same bag murderers thieves busie-bodies and evil doers as several sorts of jayl birds all of them selons and criminals against the divine Law I shall not compare these sins one with the other to extenuate here or to aggravate there The whole Assembly will rather say God of his mercy keep every honest man from falling into any of them 'T were certainly both modesty and prudence for every man to wash his hands from that pragmaticalness with which this Age is so much defiled Unless some evil Spirit troubles and haunts us which God forbid otherwise what hinders but that we might according to that Apostolical Counsel study to be quiet and to do our own business taking that good advice of learning every man his own Lesson quem te Deus esse Jussit humanae quâ parte locatus es in re When the eye the hand and the foot keep steady to their own proper offices then is the whole body most happy and like it self 3. The next thing we have as much cause to take notice of is the instilling of strange false suggestions into the minds of others Such impressions are easily made In all History the people greedily receives them but scarce ever parts with them The evil Spies were very industrious this way They buz'd such formidable stories up and down that Israel concluded themselves quite undone And all the Congregation lifted up their voice and cryed and the people wept that night But pray was there any real cause for all these panick frights and fears Surely no. Joshua tells them more comfortably The Lord is with us And Caleb to whom God himself gave this high testimony that he had followed God fully 't is said of him that he stilled the people He did a far better office in Gods account that quieted than they who thus troubled the peoples minds If evil surmisings be a fruit of the flesh we may justly suspect amusing insinuations are the cursed root from whence they grow Absalom had perfectly learned this knack of popular wheedling And Absalom said See thy matters are good and right but there is no man deputed of the King to hear thee Things it seems went very bad and were likely to grow dayly worse But is there no remedy in such a dangerous conjuncture of affairs If Absalom would but please to speak out it may be he knows of some expedient that would relieve us yes he does And rather than we shall want it he will be so kind as to expound his mystical Riddle and tell us what it is And Absalom said Oh that I were made judge in the land that every man which hath any suit or cause might come to me and I would do him justice A brave contrivance well worth his good wishes to the peoples welfare They must be courted it seems into their own ruine Lord what a religious cheat is here to steal away the hearts of the People from their lawful Prince Yet thus the Scene was laid and thus a most unnatural Rebellion was soon after rais'd only a just God brought it severely home upon the heads of the Rebels the first raisers of it David it seems neglects them Absalom is the onely man that takes care for them 't is but rising up briskly for Absalom and all is well Here 's the poyson'd Arrow that flieth by day here 's the devouring Pestilence that walketh in the darkness God preserve us from it Men and Brethren let us not deceive our selves False suggestions of this nature they are as Brutus dagger at Caesar's heart a secret stabbing of any Government But we are perswaded better things of England and such as may become that gratitude which we all owe to God and our Soveraign for that Peace and Plenty that Liberty and Property those many comforts both for Soul and Body which we so freely enjoy under his Government 4. A fourth thing as natural for us to take heed of as any of the former is a froward murmuring against those whom God hath set over us This was the great sin of Israel in the Wilderness And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron How hard is it to please some people God had brought Israel safely out of their House of Bondage with an out-stretched arm they were now travelling to the Land of Promise feasted day by day with Angels Food supplied from the Rock with streams of Living Water which followed the Camp where-ever they went directed by a Pillar of Light through their whole Journey their Cloths still fresh without any waxing old for forty years together upon their backs yet they murmur So querulous a creature is man They murmured against Moses Never had man deserved more highly of any people than Moses of them He had waved all the Honours