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A short view of the most gracious providence of God in the Restoration and Succession, May 29, 1685
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Manningham, Thomas, 1651?-1722.
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truly value our Religion let us show it by our diligence by our zeal by our proficiency in all solid Virtue and by our eminency in all good examples We have sufficiently confirm'd the Loyalty of our Principles by arguments and disputes let us now especially adorn them with our practice and add the last hand to their perfection by our humble actions and behaviour God has now given us an Opportunity let us manage it with that prudent simplicity and holy VVisdom with that humble but yet immoveable integrity as may give God his Glory and put all our Enemies to confusion Remember that the perfect Subjection to Kings is the Glory of the Protestant Cause and that he that is Seditious is an Apostate to the Religion of this Kingdom be his pretences never so devout However God in his Mercy may over-rule Events and turn the hearts of Kings as it seemeth good to him yet sure 't is no such glory to the Protestant Cause and no great policy in a people that they should so contrive to have a Succession of injur'd Princes who must forgive before they govern How can such Subjects ever think to merit of their King when all their future Services can hardly expiate when they make it so difficult a matter to distinguish whether they are truly Loyal or whether they are only willing in the Day of his Power Surely our Republican Enemies might be content to be quiet after so many and so signal Demonstrations that God is with us of a truth and hath not only given us our Gospel but our Law Since he hath made it so evident not only to all haughty Vsurpers by the revolution of this Day but to all the framers of New Politicks by the perspicuous and undeniable reasons of our multiply'd Writings and Discourses that the English Monarchy is not a model of the Brain or a few consequences drawn from an affected speculation of Humane Nature but a form of Government suited to the genius of a wise and Loyal People founded on a Power deriv'd from God politically guarded by a publick successive Prudence and pronounc'd good by the experience of many Ages And shall a Constitution of such hereditary wisdom and strength be made the sport of every Demagogue that dares be eloquent against the Laws and loves to ride upon the passions of the Croud The worst I wish all such is this that it may ever be the peculiar Prerogative of this Government and Church to make even those happy that would destroy them both What shall we render unto the Lord for all his benefits what returns shall we make for his Continual protections for our Redemption on this day Had we no revelation to guide our worship and to raise our gratitude the very perusal of the History of our late times might do it We might repeat the Miracles which God hath wrought for us to quicken our obedience and Devotion for he hath not dealt so with any of the Nations which are round us neither have they had such Experience of his care But not our Arm not our power hath gotten these victories nor for our Righteousness doth this Land flourish the Lord himself hath wrought these wonders for his Name sake that it might not be polluted among the Heathen and if we our selves pollute it where shall such Sinners appear If we would have him still to be our God we must resolve to be his people to be as peculiar in our duty as he is in his blessings Otherwise his mercies are our severest Judgments and our prosperity only fits us for his final vengeance FINIS Books Printed for William Crook at the Green-Dragon nigh Devereux Court without Temple-Bar 1685. 1. AN Institution of General History or the History of the world the first and second Volum in Folio 2. The Bucaniers of America or an account of the most remarkable Assaults committed of late years on the Coasts of the West Indies by the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga both English French and Dutch the first and second Volum in Quarto price bound 10 s. 3. The Protestant Religion a Safe way to Salvation together with the Apostolical Institution of Episcopacy also nine Sermons c. by W. Chillingworth the Fifth Edition to which is now Added Mr. Chillingworths Arguments to his Friend Mr. Leiger to perswade him to return from the Church of Rome to his Mother the Church of England in Folio 4. A Discourse about Conscience relating to the present differences among us in opposition to both the extreams of Popery and Fanatism in Quarto price 6 d. 5. The Doctrine of Passive Obedience in a Sermon preach'd Jan. 30. last by J. Ellesby Vicar of Cheswick in Quarto price 6 d. 1685. 6. A Sermon preach'd at the Spittle on Easter Tuesday last before the Lord Mayor Court of Aldermen and Governours of the Hospital by Dr. Hascard Dean of Windsor 1685. 7. A Sermon preach'd at the Cathedral Church of Heresord on the 29 of May by Richard Buckely Prebendary of that Church 1685. price 6 d. 8. The grounds of Sovereignty and Greatness translated out of French into English in Quarto price 6 d. 1685. 9. A Discourse of Tangeir under the Government of the Earl of Teviot by Dr. Addison Dean of Lichfield price 6 d. 1685. 10. The manner of making of Coffee Tea and Chocolate as it is used in most parts of the VVorld with the Virtues of them both as to Diet and Physick in Twelves price bound 1 s. 1685. 11. Megalopsichy being a particular and exact account of the last seventeen years of Queen Elizabeths Reign both Millitary and Civil written by Sir William Monson one of the Queens Admirals and H. Townsend Esquire a member of her last Parliament wherein is an exact account of her seventeen years VVars with Spain also the debates and Discourses of the greatest States men in that Queens Reign being the most exact account of the proceedings of the Lords and Commons in Parliament that is yet in print in Folio price 12 s. bound 12. Compendium Geographicum being the most exact and easie piece of Geography with two Alphabetical Tables or Dictionaries the one of the antient the other of the Modern Names of all Towns Cities Countries c. in the world in Twelves price bound 1 s. 13. The Tracts of Tho. Hobs of Malmsbury being an exact account of the Civil wars of England from 1640. to 1660. and by what Councels and Artifices it was carried on printed now from the Original Manuscript with three Tracts more of the same Authors in Octavo price bound 5 s. 14. The Soules Communion with her Saviour or the History of our Lord Jesus Christ written by the four Evangelists in Devotional Meditations in Twelves price bound 1 s. 6 d. FINIS