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A25563 An answer to Mr. Stephens's sermon preach'd before the Honorable House of Commons at St. Margaret's Church in Westminster, January the 30th 1699/1700 by a gentleman who took the said sermon in short-hand. Gentleman who took the said sermon in short-hand. 1700 (1700) Wing A3370A; ESTC R24707 9,520 17

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Wholesale with now and then a Gird at the Establish'd Church to make his Discourse more Palatable to the Carders and Spiners and not in St. Margaret 's Church at Westminster whose Auditors were not accustomed to such Disloyal and Republican Discourses till their Ears were Violated by this Imposter who could design nothing but mischeif by it for in a Monarchical Government God's Vicegerency ought not to be delegated to any other Head but what is Anointed nor unaccountably scattered among the Multitude For as Dividing a Power which is only safe by being Intire derogates from the King's Supremacy so it is destructive to the Peoples Liberty as it Intoxicates them and makes them stagger from one Form of Government to another till their Divisions as a Punishment for their Fickleness sinks them at last ●nder an Absolute Monarchy This Pretence of Exalting a Popular Power could have no other Aim in the Preacher than to create Jealousies between the King and his People For as they cannot allay the false ●ears they are decoyed ●nto without Undutiful Resentments So the King cannot brook Competitors in Power and Prerogative and therefore the Preacher in paying the Inserior Members against the Head could have no design but the Destruction of the whole Body For this is an Infalliable Maxime That they who endeavour to submit Kings rather than themselves are laying the Foundation of Slavery and Confusion One Argument our Case-harden'd Predicant made use of to prove the Power was in the People was from Jethro's Advising Moses to Ease himself by appointing Inferiour Magistrates to Hear and Determine lesser Differences among the People Which is such a positive Contradiction to what he was adva●●●ng that in the whole Book of God he could not have found an Instance more directly Opposite to his Notion than the Absolute Authority that Moses exercis'd over the Tribes of Israel And at this no wise Man will wonder for Scripture is so much out of our Preachers way as he never Blunders more as when he thinks to support his sinking cause from those Sacred Oracles so that unless he acquit himself better for time to come than he either did at St. Mary le Bow Jan 30. 1693. or at St. Margaret's Westminster Jan. 30. 1699. he will scarce be capable of any better Preferment han Chaplain in Ordinary to the Galves-Head Club that Feast and Rejoice in Memory of the most Barbarous Murder that the Sun ever saw or Men or Devils were capable of committing Sermons generally beget or lose their Esteem by their being suted or running Counter to the Occasion for which they were intended how our Preacher acquitted himself in this particular is apparent It was a Day of Humiliation for the Murder of a King by Rebellious Subjects instead of humbly perswading his Auditors to be Zealous in the Discharge of that Duty he Preaches up the exploded Opinions that were the Occasions of that Bloody Tragedy a Lawless Liberty and the pretended Power of the People began the War Murdered the King and brought the Nation under a Cruel and Barbarous Vassalage to the Meanest of their Fellow Subjects and his knowing the same Causes will for ever produce the same Effects made these the main things he insisted upon on the Thirtieth of January whereon nothing like a Christian or indeed a Man besides his wretched self could have plaid the Buffoon and Incendiary at so malicious a rate upon so Solemn and Sad an Occasion as brought together that August Assembly before whom he Preach'd tho' as another Specimen of his Defence he was pleased for Reasons best known to himself to omit praying for the Parliament and every Branch of the Royal Family which I believe was scarce omited upon that Day by any Preacher in England besides himself But it seems our Preacher's great Design was to Preach down the Observation of the Day and therefore instead of Declaiming against those Black Counsels and Accursed Practices which finish'd the last part of this Blessed Monarchi's Tragedy and humbly perswading his Illustrious Auditory as the Representatives of the Nation to be most Industrously Watchful that the same Chimerical Designs and Antomonarchical Principles which then Inspired so many Ill Men Misled so many Good Men and cost a Good King so Dear might once more Rivive and Insinuate themselves again under the same or Newer and Craftier Disguises and find an opportunity to attempt the like Mischiefs he would have perswaded his Honourable Auditors That the Observation of this Fast which has always been Religiously observed by all Parliaments should be utterly Aholished and Raced out of the English Calender A Bold Presumptious Undertaking to Dictate to that Wise and Honourable Assembly and whilst he was performing his part of the Office appointed for the Day to declaim against the Observation of it Least Guilty Consciences should be disturb'd by the Remembrance of this Eternal Reproach which though an Indempnity has Pardoned no Oblivion will ever be able to Deface is so unaccountable that none but himself can assign a Reason for What could Mr. Stephens read in the Faces of these Wise and Loyal Senators that could tempt him to such an Extravagant Conceit that they would harken to such an Infamous Proposal What one thing have they ever done that might Countenance such a Presumption that none but a Man of Mr. Stephens's Forehead durst have offer'd to a Parliament without expecting to be made an Example to Posterity Had our Presumptuous and saucy Holder-Forth but consulted with our English History he might have found that a Parliament had the Memory of Charles the First in such a great Esteem that they Voted Seventy Thousand Pound to build him a Monument and to pay the Charge of Removing his Body from Windsor to Westminster * Vid. just Defence p. 202. by which it appears that the whole Kingdom thought nothing too much for expiating the Guilt and Honouring the Memory of that ●xcellent Prince which had been so Barbarously treated And tho' the Bill did not pass for the Monument yet the same Parliament had done another thing before which in spight of all Mr. Stephens's Arguments against it may out-last all of that Kind in Westminster or elsewhere in the whole Nation viz. Enated That the Day of that horrid Particide be observed as a solenm Fast through the whole Kingdom for ever And doubtless could they have foreseen that any Person would have taken the Confidence to Asperse his Memory or to have given Reasons for the Non Observance of this Fast it would have been Voted no less Treasonable that his Murder But let us hear Mr. Stephens's Reasons for its Abolition And the first was Because it creates Animosities among the People which is a very weak Argument since the very Abolition of the Fast would have furnish'd them with a Subject to keep up the Popular Animosities greater than ever the Observation of the Day can pretend to In which no question but Mr. Stephens will