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A43460	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London at the Church of St. Mary le Bow, on September the 9th being the day of thanksgiving for the discovery of the late treasonable conspiracy against His Majesties person and government / by H. Hesketh ...	Hesketh, Henry, 1637?-1710.	1684 (1684)	Wing H1619; ESTC R12083	19,863	38

as well as Popish and those that have as exactly Transcribed these Doctrines as if they had Learned them at the Feet of Mariana But the Saints you know may Borrow of the Aegytians and perhaps you may never hear of any Suit Commenced against them if they Restore not again I have not time to Instance in those Systematical Doctors that are as Text to our Dissenters and as concluding with them as the Man of Geneva there is one among our selves that supercedes all need of looking further The unhappy Author of the Life of Julian with his Borish Sayings do plainly Assert this Monstrous Truth I wish Men were mistaken in thinking that this Book was prepared as an Encouragement and Prologue to the tended Tragedy against the very time of which it seems a Vindication was prepared but that Providence and the Defeat have taught the Author a little more Prudence then to Publish it But I must return to my purpose by this short Account you may see upon what reasons St. Peter recommends this way of Silencing this Aspersion upon Christian Religion before any other viz. Because it is the most plain palpable Conviction that this is unjustly Objected against it I only add That the good Christians of Old took care to use this Method and could not by any Severity and ill Usage be ever Tempted to the contrary they were Peaceable and Submissive they readily Obeyed and heartily Prayed for their Governours even when most Barbarously and Unjustly provoked to the contrary so that not one Christian Died as a Rebel or a Traytor in all the Early Persecutions of Christianity nor for several Centuries and you may challenge any of these Factours for Treason to Instance in one Nay it is well known that Julian himself Acquits them from this Aspersion and Upbraids his Heathen Subjects with the Obedience and Loyalty of the Galileans as he Scornfully calls them which is the more remarkable Testimony for coming from the Mouth of the bitterest Enemy that Christianity ever had I cannot think this passage unknown to the Writer of his Life and had he had the Grace or Honesty not to conceal it it might have been Antidote against the Infection of his Pamphlet Thirdly And now how much it concerns us to Imitate these Brave Men in this is the Third thing Observed out of the Text This is the Will of God i. e. This is the plain Command and Law of God by which His Will is made known to us and we are directed what to do in this Case I stay not to Improve this Argument and shew how Cogent it ought to be with all Men. We have a greater Sense I hope of God's Power and Soveraignty over us His Right to Command and Govern us Our own great Obligations to Him and the Infinite Danger of Offending Him then to need a further pressing of this upon us These things are the very Reasons and Foundations of our Religion and therefore are not now to be Learned by such Grave Professors of it What I purpose therefore further upon this shall be to venture at giving some Account of this Will and Command of God and Intimate some of those great Reasons that it relies upon I shall only name Three and very little more then name them First This is His Will because He knows this to be so very much for the Good and Happiness of the World It is most certain next to Mens Being their Orderly and Peaceable Living in the World is the greatest and most valuable Blessing of this Life A State of War and Confusion of Jealousie and Danger is scarce Preferable unto Death it self And he that contends this was the State of Nature yet makes it so Calamitous and Dismal that Men would rather part with their Dear Liberties and intrust the Conduct of themselves and all their Interests to one only Person then to Live in such an uneasie Condition wherein themselves and all they had were Expos'd to the Violence and Pleasure of every one The Reasoning of this Man is True and Good though the Foundation of it be utterly False for there cannot be a greater Unhappiness then to Live without Government in continual Jealousie and Fear Exposed to the Will of every Man whose ill Nature and Interest should prompt him to Anoy us This makes Government so absolutely necessary for the Happiness of the World and God out of His Immense Wisdom and Goodness and Care for the good of Mankind lays this Command upon Men to be careful in this Instance of Well-doing to be Obedient and Subject to Government without which it could not be preserv'd but Confusion and Disorder and that Shoal of Mischiefs that always follow them would break in upon Men. Secondly And that Hints to us the Second Reason upon which I found this Will and Command of God I mean the supporting and maintaining His own Appointment and Institution I cannot stay now to reflect upon those unworthy Atheistical Accounts that have been given of Government in this unhappy Age the Great and Prime Author hath long before this given Account of them to his God though I cannot but drop a Tear as I pass to consider with what Eagerness they have been Imbib'd by the Men of this Unruly Generation and what Mischievous Consequences they have been Impron'd into The great Principle is what I hinted before That Men by Nature were in a State of War against each other that to remedy the Inconvenience of that State they chose to cast themselves into Government The Consequences deduced hence are such as these that therefore all Government is Founded upon mutual Compact and a consent of the People That all Government is Originally in them That Kings c. are only their Trustees and Creatures of their making That upon Male-Administration they may call them to Account Depose them if they see cause Resume their Power into their own Hands or Intrust it to any other whom they please These are the Blessed Principles that the Godly and the Sober the Saints and True Protestants have Barter'd with an Atheist for and he doubtless with the Devil It is pity we have not time to reflect upon them with the sharpness that they justly deserve but I take the want of this somewhat the better because I speak to them who know and believe the Scriptures and by them are sufficiently Antidoted against such Hellish Infections which are enough to undoe the World and bring Confusion and all manner of Mischief upon it The Holy Scriptures give us quite contrary accounts they let us know how Mankind enter'd into the World and that Men did not spring up out of the Earth like Mushrooms altogether they let us see how Men were Born into Government and found themselves under the Anticipations of it they call God the King of Kings and Him by whom Kings Reign they tell us that Government is His immediate Ordinance and that the Powers that be are set over us by God It

cannot therefore but be thought that Obedience and Subjection unto Government should be His Will since otherwise He would not have contrived sufficiently for the maintenance and support of it We cannot think that God would Institute Government and then leave Men at liberty whether they would Obey and Submit to it or not And Thirdly He hath made this His Will and our Duty for the credit of His Holy Religion As there cannot be a greater dishonour to Religion than its inconsistancy with Government as hath been hinted already so there can scarce any thing more Endear it to the World and gain Credit and Reputation to it then to see its Principles Assert and its Professors Practice a Hearty Regular Subjection and Obedience thereto Men will by this see that it Designs the present as well as future Great Happiness of all and be convinced that God hath no other Design in it then the Universal Good of all Mankind Kings will become its Nursing Fathers and be tender of it as that which Secures their Crowns Establishes their Thrones and is the surest Firmament of their Soveraignty and Power And all Wise Men will Admire and Adore the Goodness of God in it and become Votaries to that upon which they see the Peace and Happiness of the World so very much to depend and according to the Text by this means it will Triumph over this worst Objection against it and put to Silence the Ignorance of Foolish-Men Fourthly And now I proceed to make some Inferences from these things by way of Application which was the last thing proposed And First I take occasion hence to Infer Who only are true Christians in this Case of Subjection and who are not and with respect to our selves who are Truly Protestants and who only pretend themselves such I have Intimated already how strictly Christianity engageth all Men to be Subject to Government and that it is a Reproach and Scandal to it to be thought otherwise I further now add that the Church of England Asserts the same and that upon the same Principles too that the Reformation as to this was only paring off the Excresscencies and Usurpations of the Papal Supremacy over the Regal Power and Prerogative in this Kingdom and that as it was managed not by Tumult and Popular Noise and Fury but by the Royal Power and Favour so it supports it self only by the same and owns that Dependence upon it and enjoins that Subjection to it that it is most certain Christian Religion did own and did pay in all the Primitive and Purest Times of it This is the temper of our Reformation and these are the Principles upon which it was managed and by this we may learn to Determine who are Truly Friends to it and in the Modern Phrase who are the True Protestants and who are not so We have been slinging Names at one another a great while and a great Contest there hath been who stick closest to the Interest of Protestant Religion and to the Reformation the Church of England and Her Sons or the Variety of Dissenters from Her we are all at one stroak Discarded from being Protestants and must pass for Papists in Masquerade and Popishly affected and some Hot Men will undertake to shew you step by step our Advances towards Popery But all Ranks of our Dissenters must be allowed the Name of True Protestants yea although some have neither Church nor Priests nor Sacraments nor any thing like Christian Religion but only the Name and the Confidence to call themselves so We have often told our Hot Brethren of their Symbolizing with Rome both in their Principles and Practices in the Case of Subjection to Government we are ready at any time to Justifie one part of the Charge and to draw a Parallel between them and they are pleased it seems to Justifie our Charge and save us any pains in the Second The late Horrid ●ebellion and Murthering one of the best of Kings because He was not for their Turn their Ungovernable Temper and Attempts of Rebellion since the Restauration and this Conspiracy against the Life of the King upon the very same Reasons for which they Barbarously Murther'd the Father will be Evidences clear enough to let all the World see who have Transcribed the Doctrines of the Papists who Practice upon their Principles and that if we must pass for Papists in Masquerade we know well enough who are Protestants only in Masquerade There hath been a great deal of Artifice used of late to wash the Guilt of the late Rebellion and the Bloody Consequences of it off themselves and to fix it upon Papists and all the stories possible have been Muster'd up to shew their Influence upon all those things they have been contented to have been reputed their Tools and would choose to be called Fools it seems rather then Knaves Were the present Age so Silly and Credulous as to be Imposed upon by this pretence which all the World knows to be False and only an Act of present Pageantry and Fraud yet I do not see how it would much advantage the Cause of these Men. It plainly acknowledges what their Principles and Inclinations are and what they are ready prepared to do when cunning Men offer them an occasion and manage them there is no competition here between these Two Parties about Honesty only which is the more Subtil and Cunning though for my part I think they might as easily compremise this Dispute as the other It is in this Case just as it is with the Faulkonor and his Hawk the Inclination of the one makes it as ready to Kill the poor Partridg as the other Desires it should only perhaps he can advantage this Inclination and direct it better to compass the Design and were this a Crime I do not see what great need there were to contend about the Guilt of it if I do that which my own Will Nature strongly incline me to I know not that I am e're the less Guilty because I have Accomplices or Directors in it no Man could ever manage a Hawk to such a purpose were not his Nature bent that way and all the Art and Pains in the World shall never make a Pidgeon to do it But did their Arts of Colour and Extenuation c. signifie any thing to clear them in that I would fain know how they think to be cleared from the Guilt of pursueing the same Methods unto and Conspiring the Execution of the same thing again now Unless this also be another Popish Design If Men had been so weak as to be Cajowl'd by their Artful Pretences and Pallations for what hath been yet what Artifice shall be used now by this repeated Instance of their Principle and Temper they preclude all ways to their Vindication all Men see now what the Beast is notwithstanding his Visor or his pretended alteration of Nature the Lady shews herself a Cat when the Mouse appears the Royal Hart it seems