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A53752 A plain sermon preached to a country congregation in the beginning of the late rebellion in the west published for the instruction of country people in their duty to the King, and the refutation of some slanderous reports raised upon the preacher / by Vin. Owen. Owen, Vin. 1685 (1685) Wing O832A; ESTC R20886 19,128 36

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they have their Authority from God and are his Ministers And if this be his meaning have we not good reason to believe that if we dispise them we despise God if we reproach and speak evil of them we reproach and blaspheme God if we disobey their just Laws we disobey God if we murmur resist rebel against the King we murmur and rebel against God And can we think that they can escape the Judgment of God who do so Can we have such thoughts of God as to imagine that he is not concerned in a special manner for the safety the Rights and Interests of his own Vicegerents and the Defence and Maintenance of his own Authority in them for the Government of the world Are we yet to learn what the miserable Ends of Seditious trayterous and Rebellious Persons usually are Has Liberty Peace and Plenty made us so wanton for I am sure we yet have suffered no Oppression to make us mad nor any want but what our own Prodigality idleness and viciousness have brought upon us that we care not what we do to bring confusion upon us Are we such Sots and Fools as to listen to the cursed whisperings of every Achitophel and to dance after the Pipe of every Shebah that shall be so mad as to blow a Trumpet in Israel and say we have no part in David nor Inheritance in the Son of Jesse Can we propose any thing so good to our selves by overturning the Present Goverment as to resolve to endure all the miseries of War and to march through a Sea of Blood for the compassing of it Are not all our Interests more safe and secure in the bosom of the Divine Providence whilst we continue quiet in our several Places and study to do our own Business then they would be under the Shields and Bucklers of the most famous Warriors in the ways of Treason and Rebellion Is the Author and Protector of our most holy Religion become so careless of it or so weak and feeble that we must needs sly to the Devil to support it shall we turn the Religion of the Cross in to a Religion of the Sword and change our Bibles for the Alchoran Were all the holy men of old who could not fight for their Religion even when they might have overcome so great were their numbers and their Resolution but could dye for it such fools that we think it madness to follow their Example Have we been reproaching the Church of Rome for so many years and that justly with their Trayterous and Rebellious Principles and Practises and shall we now lick up their Vomit and justify all their Treasons and Rebellions by treading in their steps Is it the way to render our Profession lovely in the eyes of the world and to endear to it our Governors to do thus And can we hope to engage Almighty God to take care of its preservation by the worst practises we dare be Guilty of against his Vicegerent In one word can we take it to be the way to Heaven to break the Order of the Divine Providence in the Government of the World to set at naught so many plain and express Commands from Christ and dispising all the Blessings of Peace to endeavour all the ways we can after confusion and destruction we cannot surely be so unreasonable Let us therefore I beseech you shew our selves Men and Christians Christians of the Communion of the best Church in the World a Church built upon a Rock that can never fall if we do not overthrow it our selves by our abuse of the Gospel and all those Excellent means of Piety and Vertue which we pertake of in it Let us fear the Lord and the King and not meddle with them that are given to change And being stedfastly perswaded that Almighty God is King over all that He standeth in the Congregation of the Mighty and is Judg among the Gods that he will not only execute Judgment in another world but doth Govern this and consequently will either Protect us from Violence and Persecution or crown our Patience and avenge our Cause let us always shew our selves good Christians by being Loyal Subjects And to the constant Practise of all that hath been now taught let us add our dayly Prayers to God in the behalf of our present Sovereign That it may please God so to bless and preserve him that he may rule over us many years in the Fear of God the constant exercise of Piety Justice and Mercy and in Prosperity and Peace That he may continue to deserve the Hearts of all his Subjects and ever have them That he may never give them any just cause for Jealousys and Suspicions and they never entertain any without Cause That he may be happy by our constant Practise of true Christian Loyalty and we be so likewise by his constant and effectual Care to maintain and promote the true Profession and Practise of Religion and the welfare of the Church of God Amen FINIS