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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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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
A SERMON Preached at the ASSIZES AT LANCASTER On SUNDAY March 19. 1675 6. BY H. PIGOTT B. D. LONDON Printed by T. Milbourn for W. Cademan at the Popes Head in the Lower Walk of the New and Midle Exchange in the Strand 1676. Imprimater April 28th 1676. G. JANE To the HONOURABLE Sr. TIMOTHY LITTLETON Kt. AND VERE BERTY Esq Chief Justices of Assize for the Northern Circuit My Lords Your Lordship Candour and the Sleightings of others have by a strange Concurrence begot and strengthned this Resolution that this Discourse shall appear in Publick Be it as Those say which yet I hope will never be true that 't is a tottering Church which I labour to Support so much more Cause is there I should set to my Shoulder and be full as Kind to my Dear Mother as that Ludian Prince to his Father let the appearance of Her Danger unty mine and All Her true sons Tongues to Plead for Her Though Her foundations will I doubt not approve themselves more firm than to be shaken with One Blast however Impetuous For my self I am so farre a Charitable and Chatholick Christian as to wish with that great Prelate Who acquits Our Church from Criminal Schism that Such termes of Communion might be pitcht upon as might bring the Whole Christian World into One. And therefore I strike not at the Tenets of any Society further than they direct their Style or Designes against Vs And here if I shew that We strive as much as any to give Glory to GOD and to settle on Earth Peace and Good Will amongst Men I hope I make it appear We have found the Way to the True Church And therefore Trouble none for Comming thither or Continuing there And withal that No Kingdom should be Jealous of Such a CHVRCH within it that gives to Each their Due to God His to Caesar His. Kings Prerogatives We stickle for and amongst these That they have a Right to be both Fathers and Sons to the CHVRCH For those of Bishops also But not to Exalt 'em Over those who are in most particular manner Gods Anoynted We would neither lift up the Chair at Canterbury above the Throne at White-Hall putting KINGS to Sweat for it that they might procure a Good Arch-Bishop who would be their Quiet Neighbour a passage which our British Antiquities has sufficiently observed Nor would we bring in anew those described in Lysimachus Nicanor to Act old Tragedies over again in any Dress And if it be Agreed upon by All that when All Estates have a Due share in the Government there is the Best Crasis that suits directly with that Christian Communion and Communication of all Church Members which we Preach and so will upon Good Principles Restrain Inferiour Degrees from Enchroaching upon Superiour and Superiours from Preying upon them This I know to be Your Lordships business God bless You in your Good Endeavours So Prayes My LORDS Your Lordships most Obliged and Faithful Servant H. PIGOT ACTS 17.6 These that have Turned the World Vpside Down are come Hither also A Hard Charge if it were True for there is Innovation and Sedition in it consequently would be found against the publick Peace and several Constitutions in that case provided What are they then Hear the Evidence in the next Verse and you would conclude 'em of the Busiest sort of Jesuists or most phanatick 5th Monarchy-Men such a Bussle they are averred to make about King JESUS Nor do the Prosecutors know by what Style or Titles to Endite ' em But if they must give in their Condition as they can they are late of Philippi c. 16. v. 12. or by the same right of Galatia Phrygia Lystra or Derbe For such a Circuit had they come And at the last place they came from they had been Whipped v. 22. Wonder not if their Accusers give in their names Indefinitely yea as Individua vaga These Let us then see if we can sift out their Quality If they had their Papers about 'em wherein one writes to their consorts at Corinth 1 Ep. 6. they pretend to be Judges We have the word used or repeated once twice or thrice in every verse for four together And we find how they lay their claim Mat. 19.28 This JESUS had made 'em a promise to be the Twelve for all the Circuit of Israel But look again Act. 16.10 or 2d of this and you find 'em a fort of Preachers so that if Judges they were it should seem they were some High-bearing Ecclesiastiques for in that place of the Epistle cited c. 6.4 they imagine and aver that the least esteemed among 'em is fit for a Justice or Judge And as if they had a peak at the Lawyers fore-warn all in v. 6 7. that they come not at ' em As if these two jurisdictions had ever enterfeared and emulated each other But that the words Vnjust v. 1. and Vnbelievers v. 6. mollifie the matter It should seem if their Proselites could find Lawyers that were not unjust or Infidels they might address to ' em But let 's hear the Prosecutors they say these do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turn the world upside down 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put men into a state of disorder or Anarchy Whereas the great design of all the best Moralists is to make men to each other and much more to themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 untroubled and settled Now if the Preachers who should press Peace Peace to him that is afar off and to him that is near If these be not accidentally but intentionally not for Peace but the Sword If these instead of blessing with their cup of blessing we have blest you in the name of the Lord are for Cursing and that bitterly Meroz because they come not to help against the Mighty And if the Judges who should see that each hath his own and thereby compel to a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and honesty If these become Evening Wolves gnawing the bones on the Morrow while the Prophets as light Treacherous persons pollute the Sanctuary doing Violence to the Law Zeph. 3.3 4 5. If the one make their Statutes coercive power and the other their Scriptures and Canons Noses of Wax to ply to perverse purposes 'T is then time for the Lord to do the Mornings work himself that is to judge instead of them nay to judge them themselves first and so from Morning to Morning to bring it to light Else the one not judging the cause the Cause of the Fatherless nor the Right of the Needy Jer. 5.28 And the other Prophesying falsely and getting the rule by that means 't will soon come to Jeremies hard question v. 31. Quid fiet in no vissimo what will they do in the end thereof But let 's hear the Defendants 'T is true they were ill used at Philippi c. 16. but they parted fairly v. 39. And not long to you shall find a good sober Recorder pass a fair and