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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90689	Englands season for reformation of life. A sermon delivered in St. Paul's Church, London. On the Sunday next following His Sacred Majesties restauration. By Tho. Pierce, rector of Brington.	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2183; Thomason E1027_17; ESTC R203182	21,118	38

to the eighth verse of this Chapter you will see the great fitness of all I say and that my Text cannot be satisfied unless I say it For he that saith in this place by the Spirit of God Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers doth also say by the same Spirit Obey them that have the Rule over you who have spoken to you the word of God and who do watch for your souls as those that must render an Accompt And the Interest of the former is so entwisted with the later That untill our Bishops receive their Right though we are glad to have our King we may rationally fear we shall not hold him For ask I beseech you of the dayes that are past and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other if ever there were any such thing as This that a King could be happy without a Bishop Lord What an Epocha will it make in our future Kalendars when men shall reckon from this Year as from the signal Year of Restitution But then like that which Saint Peter mentions Acts 3. 21. The Restitution is to be general as well to God as to the People And you will find in Magna Charta which doth deserve to be imprinted in all your memories That all the Rights of the Church were entirely granted unto God They were granted unto God and that for ever Now of so sacred a force is the word For ever That if a Statute shall be made against the Liberties of the Church The Law of the Land hath provided against That Statute And by an Anticipation declares it Null Shall I guesse at the cause of so great a Caution It seems to be as for other Reasons so in Particular for This Because to alter that Government was as well against the Kings Oath as against the Oathes of both Houses which swore the Right of his Supremacy as well in all Ecclesiastical as Civil causes Besides that in the Judgement of the most eminent in the world for depth of knowledge in holy things The order of Bishops is by Divine Institution And if it is so in good earnest it will be dangerous to deal with the Laws of Christ as we reade * Agesilaus once dealt with those of Lacedaemon which he pretended onely to abrogate that he might not break them But whether so or not so a thing in Being and debate is to pass for good untill the Dispute shall be fairly ended And if an Errour must be adventur'd on either hand Religion tells us it ought to be upon the Right Would any know why I insist upon such a subject in such a place my Reasons for it are plainly These First I insist upon such a subject because my Text as I said doth exact it of me And because 't is my duty at least to wish That the day breaking forth may be full and lasting That the Repentance of the Nation may be impartiall and so to our SOVERAIGNS RETURN there may be added his continuance in Peace and safety I say in safety not more to his Person then his Posterity Not insafety for a season so long as men are well humoured but so long as the Sun or the Moon endureth And then for you of this Place who are an honourable part of the English Nation that which I take to be your Duty I think is your interest to endeavour The most I am pressing on you is this That you will labour for the means of your being happy If you think you cannot be happy with the establishment of the Prelacy I shall pray you may be happy at least without it and also wish I may be able to pray with Faith too Onely as often as I reflect on King JAMES his motto No Bishop no King and withall do consider its having been verified once and before our eyes I think it my duty to desire it may not be verified any more But that it may rather be here applyed what was spoken heretofore of the Spartan Lawes ut semper esse possent aliquando non fuerunt They onely ceased for a Time that they might continue to all eternity These are sincerely the very Reasons for which I insist upon such a subject Secondly I do it in such a place because I look upon This Assembly as on the Head and the Heart of the Royall City I look on the City as on a Sea into which the main stream of the nation runns Even the Parliament it self hath such a respect unto the City that if you plead for God's Spouse as you have done for his Anointed for which your names will be pretious with late posterity if you shall supplicate for a Discipline which is as old in this land as Christianity it self and stands established in Law by thirty two Acts of Parliament and without which you cannot live unless by living under the breach of your greatest charter they will not only be apt to grant but to thank you also for your Petition Having gone thus far in prosecution of the Advertisment That the Night of our suffring is fairly spent and that the day of our injoyment begins to dawn And having directed unto the means with submission be it spoken to all Superiours by which our Day is to be lengthned not only into a year but into an Age of Jubilee to be made a kind of perpetuall Sabbath a Day of Rest from those works which either wanted Light or were ashamed of it which either borrowed Darkness for their Cover or else which owned it for their Cause I humbly leave what I have said to his acceptance and disposall in the Hand of whose Counsell are all your Hearts T is more then time that I proceed to the general use of this advertisment to which I am prompted by the word Therefore as 't is a word of connexion betwixt the duty and the deliverance Our Apostle does not thus argue Because the Night of Oppression is now farr spent and the day of deliverance is hard at hand Let us therefore injoy the good things that are present let us stretch our selves upon beds of Ivory let us crown our selves with Rose-buds let us drink wine in bowles and let us dance to the sound of the viol let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every street let none of us go without his share of voluptuousness for this is our portion our lot is this I say he doth not thus reason like the swaggerers and Hectors in the second chapt. of Wisdom and in the sixt of the Prophet Amos but on the contrary That 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