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B10212	The remonstrance from the Reverend Father in God, Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, and several others, the most eminent divines of the Church of England, against the proceedings of the P: O. and the lords spiritual and temporal, that invited him. Being an adress [sic], from the pulpit to the King, in fifteen sermons; denouncing damnation, &c. to the abdicators of God's annoynted, and abettors of this rebellion.	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3279; ESTC R185788	60,696	114

put to the Sword and the People were carried Captives into that same Babylon that heathenish Countrey which they so justly abhorred Again the same tu●bulent and restless People being after many ages in some degree re-established by the valour of the Maccabees had made an intire and necessary surrender of themselves to the Romans as to their Lords and Masters For fear of giving umbrage to the Romans of any other pretender to the Crown but Cesar their cursed Polititian Caiaphas was for putting our Blessed Lord to death These two words Venient Romani the Romans will come and take away both our place and Nation were effectual Incentives to stir up the People to cry Crucify him Crucify him As now to cry loud enough Popery will come in and swallow Us up serves all the turns of any great Incendiaries to b●e●k through all Humane and Divine Laws What else could they intend speaking of the Phanatick Plot in King Charles the Second's time but a Massacre What other thing could they wish What other cause of acting so detestable a Treason For to take off a most merciful King and his next Successor Who next to him hath shewed himself of a most reconcilable Temper Complying men such as can sit still and be quiet under any Usurpations care not What In●erest prevails and laugh at the notion of being State Martyrs But I wish this sort of men who please themselves w●●h being so Passive in so Active times as these would consider what kind of censure or sentence rather an Heathenish Legislator hath pass'd upon them Amongst the Laws of Solon says Plutarch Writer of his Life that is very peculiar and surprizing which makes all Those infamous who stand Neuters in a Sedition for it seems he would not have any One insensible and regardless of the Publick and securing his Private affairs glory that he had not any feeling of the Distempers of his Country but Presently joyn with Those that have the Right upon their side assist and venture with Them rather than shift out of Harms-way These are the words of the wise man stating and declaring the concern that every private man ought to shew when his Prince in respect to Rebellion or his Country by Invasion is in danger And David being yet a Subject tells the people plainly as the Lord liveth says he Ye are worthy to dye Because Ye have not kept your Master the Lord 's Annoynted Awake then You that together with the Land which the Lord gave to your Forefathers inherit their virtue too the old English Loyalty and Courage Lay out your thoughts upon some thing more worthy of your selves than are thoughts only of your own security Let every one in his station do his duty fearlesly And they that doe soe prove for the most part the wisest aswell as the most Consciencious the safest aswell as the noblest and best Patriots Let Us set it down to our selves that Honesty is the true Policy and let none make that cursed conversion of the proposition as if Policy were the true Honesty unless they mean to Revive that old abominable Gnostick principle of Compliance with any Usurpations or Impositions for fear of sufferings for fear of that which a Christian would rather wish for his own sake could it be without other mens guilt i. e. the Crown of Martyrdom The Church the Feild of God has been manur'd and enriched with the noblest compost in the world the blood of Martyrs The times and Seasons of the year are bounded out and Signalized by the dying days of Martyrs The Christian Temples are dedicated to the Memorials of the Martyrs And Miracles were undeniably wrought at the Monuments of the blessed Martyrs After all this men of soft and smooth-Insinuations would introduce a Principle of self-preservation as they call it as if it were unworthy as if it were unlawfull to suffer any thing like Martyrdom Nay as if it were more Christian like to be Rebels and Regicides than to be so much as Confessors in the cause of Christ I hope now many of the Kings Enemies will change their note and sing Our new Song But then let it come from the ground of the heart And upon these terms They are welcome not only to Our Communion to our Church She never takes the Sword against her lawfull Soveraign but to that of the Angels in Heaven for there is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over one Sinner that repenteth then much more joy over many repenting Sinners What a noble change or rather what a Glorious transfiguration would be wrought upon These men that were lately Instruments of miscief would They now turn Saviours in their kind such as the Prophet gives God thanks for Thou gavest them Saviours who saved them out of the hands of their Enemies Nehem 9. 27. I will not say the third part of the Stars are smitten down as they were in St. Iohn's vision yet now so many who shin'd heretofore in their proper Orbs are fallen And yet the greatest Courage in the World may finde Room enough to exercise and shew it self in a Thorough Penitent as t is excellently argued by St. Chrysostom That David shew'd a more undaunted greatness of mind in daring to think of Surmounting the Sin and the Shame and to set up again for a Saint after his Foul Treacherous and Bloody offence in the matter of Vriah than he had shewn in his Single Combat with Goliah of Gath. LONDON Printed for Benjamin Took at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard The Religious Rebel A SERMON Preach'd at South-Marston in Wiltshire by Charles Powel M. A. Psal 10 10. He falleth down and humbleth himself that the Congregation of the Poor may fall into the hands of his Captains REbellion says Samuel is as the sin of Witchcraft Satan first Rebelled against the great Monarch of the World and tho his Ambition tumbled him down from the bright Regions of Bliss into eternall Chains of Darkness yet his instruments carry on the same Rebellion still tho' the scene be changed and the Plot carried on at a distance the design is still the same only that Our earthly Rebels are in this the worse Devils that They dare Rebell against God and the King too This Psalm in general is a pathetical complaint of David to Almighty God of the Pride Treachery Malice and Cruelty of wicked men who as Solomon says seek only Rebellion and These wicked men expositors tell us are Those whom he had maintain'd and preferr'd in his own Court and were therefore the more wicked and the more dangerous of which very persons he says It is not an open Enemy that hath don me this dishonour c. Divisions are of late soe dangerous that I shall not dare soe much as to divide my Text but will only raise from it this proposition That it is no● new thing for the worst of men to make use of the sacred name of Religion to palliate the most abominable

violence to mens wills but when this wickedness is injurious to others who are the objects of his care and providence he many times interposes to prevent the mischief Who ever suspected that the Fire at New-Market was sent by God for the preservation of our King and His Royal Brother Christian Religion is the greatest security of Government both i● its precepts and examples It commands Every Soul to be subject to the higher Powers and threatens eternal damnation against Rebels it strictly enjoyns the practice of all sociable virtues and charms those boisterous passions which disturb humane conversation it requires Us to obey our Superiors in all lawful things and quietly to submit and suffor when we 〈◊〉 obey And the blessed Jesus who was the Author of our Religion 〈◊〉 our great Pattern and Example did himself practise these laws which he gave to US He liv'd in obedience to the Civil Power and though the Jewish Nation which was a free People the Lot and Inheritance of God himself were then in subjection to the Romans yet He would not give Them the least encouragement to shake off the yoke but commands them to give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's He died himself upon the Cross and made this the condition of our discipleship To take up our Cross and follow Him and thus the Apostles and Primitive Christians did they chearfully follow'd their Master to the Cross and conquered by suffering Christianity was planted in the world by no other arts but the foolishness Preaching and it defended it self Only by a resolute and patient suffering for the name of Christ This is the true temper and spirit of Christianity Under the most barbarous and persecuting Emperors no Christian ever suffer'd as a Rebel They gave no other disturbance to the Government than by confessing themselves to be Christians and suffering for it Their numbers indeed were very formidable but nothing else for in imitation of their great Master They went as lambs to the slaughter and as sheep before their shearers are dumb so they opened not their mou●hs But notwithstanding this our daily experience tells US that when Religion is divided into Factions and Parties or rather Men are divided into Factions and Parties upon account of Religion there is nothing more imbitters mens spirits against each other nor gives greater disturbance to publick Government All the Troubles and Miseries which for these late years have overwhelmed this unfortunate Island have been dooing to this cause Religion has been made either the reason or the pretence of all To deny that Prosest Protestants have ever rebell'd against their Prince is to deny that there ever was a Civil War in England And I would to God We had but one instance of this it might have left some hope still that This was not the temper nor the Principles of the Men but some unlucky ●●●cture of ●ffairs which transported Them beyond the bounds of their Duty and their own ●●ow'd Principles When Religion turns into a ●●a●e 〈◊〉 to curb and restrain and quell such pretences is not to invade the 〈◊〉 Conscience o● the ●●ber●●● of Religion but to secure the publick 〈◊〉 to prevent the occasions of new Rebellions And no sob●● man can 〈◊〉 his Prince for this tho he may Those and ought to express a just indignation against Them who forfeit this liberty by abusing it for a cloak of maliciousness A great and passionate Zeal like a distemper'd Love blinds mens eyes and makes them mistake both their Enemies and Friends It fills their heads with endless jealousies and fears and makes them start and run away from their own shadow Such a boysterous Zeal is the frenzy and Calenture of Religion which makes men uncapable of any sober counsel and all prudent Resolves and precipitates them into the most wild extravagant and irreligious attempts There is nothing more pernicious than Zeal when it gets a-head and bears down all the considerations of Reason and Religion before it When men are conscious to themselves that they are engag'd in a good cause and have honest designs it makes them more bold and venturous For tho few men da● own it yet the actions of too many sufficiently proclaim that Th●● think they may strain a Point and dispence with strict Duty when it is to serve a good cause when the Honour of God and the Interest of R●ligion is concern'd Such a Zeal does violently push Men forward but ●● does not steer well nor observe its compass and thus it is too often see● that Men who begin with a zeal for Religion insensibly slip into Stat● Factions and are engag'd vastly beyond what They first design'd L●● Us then above all things have a care of our Zeal that we may not mista●en earthly Fire which burns and consumes for that divine and harmle● Flame which is kindled at God's altar A true zeal for Religion is nothing more nor less than such an hearty love for it as makes us very diligent in the practise of it out selves and contented if God sees it fit 〈◊〉 lay down our lives for it and very industrious to promote the knowledge and practise of Religion in the World by all lawful and prude●● means A true Christian Zeal will not suffer US to transgress the stri●● bounds of our duty to God or of our duty to Men especially to King and Princes whatever Flattering Prospect of advantage it may give To lye to forswear our selves to hate and revile each other To reproach and libel Governors in Church or State to stir up or countenance with the least Thought any Plots Seditions or Rebellions again●● the King is not a Zeal for God nor for Religion for this wisdom● not from above but is earthly sensual and devillish for where strife and co●tention is there is every evil work Let Our past Experience therefore teach Us to watch over the lea●● stirrings and first appearances of a seditious and factious spirit either in our selves or others however it may be disguised with a pretence of Religion Faction like other vices has but very small beginnings but when those beginnings are indulg'd it soon improves and gets strength Omne in praecipiti vitium stetit When men once espouse a Party like those who are running down hill they cannot stop when they please Discontents and jealousies are easily fomented when We have once given admission to them and the busy Factors and Agents for Sedition when They find US never so little disposed to receive the Impression use their utmost art and skill all the methods of insinuation and address to make us Proselytes I doubt not but many Men have died Rebels and suffer'd as Traytors who at first did as much abhor the though●s of Treason and Rebellion as any of us can Thus I doubt not but it was in our late Troubles And thus I believe it is at this Day Let such Examples as these make Us wary how

The Murmurer is certainly the State sinner The little grudgings that begin in Princes Courts are ●oon spread into the Country and they are like the Poets F●●● Malum the further the same goes the greater it grows The Murmuring discontents in the state at last break out into open Rebellion as We now sadly see The Israelites said as for this Moses We wot not what is become of him The next thing we hear of them is They make a Motion Calf that is set up a Religion and Government of their own The Tongue is a little Member saith St. James but t is a great evil and the Murmuring Tongue sets the state still on fire and Hell Fire shall be the Portion of such Tongues Thirdly the Murmurer is ever an envious person and so an evil member of a Socie●y Murmuring is a distemper call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a complaining without cause and the envious man always doth this T is a nature that mak●s a near appreach to the Devils The prosperity of Iob is an Eye-sore Fourthly he is the Malicious man delights to do Mischief where he lives is a trouble to himself and will be so to his Neighbour and therefore no wonder if punishment doth attend him for he is ranked by Solo●on among the seaven abominable things that God hates Him that soweth discord among Brethren In short a Murmurer is he that is every thing that is Mischievous Blaspheams God the King the Church his Neibour and he is a burthen to the Earth and to himself neither good nor bad wheather pleaseth him Complains in War and yet is discontented in Peace pines away in Scarcity and yet repines at plenty when ●●s Summer he longs for Winter and when 't is Winter wisheth again for Summer neither Times nor Manners please him and could he call for them at his pleasure yet he would Murmur still of which we have a full iustance in the Text. Ill Men who have private designs of their own to carry on will be always complaining of Publick affairs and their Complaints may somtimes seem so plausible that they may gain Proselytes to their Faction * I doubt not but there were many such in England Some of whom may not Mean so ill as they do Froward Men disturb God's method of Mercy and make it ever Miscarry in the Womb. God intended quietly and safely to lead Israel out of Egypt into Canaan and the March of so many years might have been accomplished in so many days but They stood in their own light and stopp'd the way against themselves They tempted God very oft and so oft that a patient and long suffering God at last sware in his wrath that They should not enter into his Rest This Sin of Murmuring is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an ill habit of the stomach that corrupts the best meat We Murmur at Mercys as Israel did at Manna Some Casuists tells us that Habitual Sins have a guilt distinct from those Sins of which they are Habits and that they are more dangerous because the Sinner is farther off from Repentance The guilt that is contracted from those Habits doth make a Callus and fear the Conscience that the sinner little thinks on it That he is going down into the Chambers of death and he is ensnared into damnation drown'd in perdition before he says Domine miserere or asks what he has done The Habit of Murmuring is so universal Hand joyn'd to Hand Tongue to Tongue that the sence of the Guilt is lost and because 't is so 't is a distinct guilt for the greatest Sinners have repented as Murderers Adulterers yea and Idolaters too who are in a peculiar manner Guilty Loesoe Majestatis Divinae and Traytors to the God of Heaven The repentance of all habitual sinners is difficult but the repentance of an Habitual Murmurer is bes●t with more than ordinary difficulties for the Arguments that should reach the guilt are not well reducible to any single Commandment and doth scarce affect the letter of any And yet t is a sin of a complicated guilt affects both Tables and most of the Commandments of Both. Besides the Murmurer is not so soon as other Sinners convinced of his Guilt because he hath fram'd a rule of rectitude to himself and his Conscience o●ens and shuts by that Rule and so he strains at gnats and swollows Camels Nothing so much troubled the Coscience of a Neopolitan Sh●pherd when he came to Confession at Ea●ter as that he had tasted a little Cream the Lent before but he had often Robb'd and Murder'd Passengers on the Mountains and that troubled not his Conscience because his Father and Grandfather had ●on so before I believe all o● Us are ready to pass a true and just sentence here but Reflect here are some who cannot digest as●●t Form of Prayers are offended at a Surplice startle at the Cross in Baptism c. And yet can whisper against the King and whisper to be heard too talk loudly against Bishops and P●iests censure all men complain of every thing and be satisfied with nothing Remember that God passed by some of the discontents of Isr●el but when They grew Clamorous and more Combined his wrath fell in amonst them And Remember that God hath other Eyes to see Sin with than We have and hath other Scales to weigh it in than We have We our selves do not take ill Language kindly from our Neighbour and can we think that God will from Us when by our discontents We dayly Revile his Providence When froward men do take a Liberty to speak write and Print what they please and all with designs against the Government they live under 't is plain They would be Governors themselves And when They have whet their Tongues and sharpn'd their Pens They are not far off from drawing their Swords And surely without offence I may now ask if this be not the present case of England against their natural Liege Lord and King LONDON Printed for John Fish near the Fountain Taver● in the Strand A SERMON Preach'd befo●e the King at Winchester by Fra. Turner D. D. then Dean of Windsor but since Bishop of Ely. Psal 144. 9. 10. I will sing a new Song unto thee O God c. Thou hast given Victory unto Kings and hast delivered David thy Servant from the peril of the Sword. THere is no question but David in my Text had an eye to all the terrible hazards he had run before he was Crown'd when Saul and his bloody house were hunting him like a Partridge upon the mountains So that not his Own * Not our King's Palace House which should be a man's Castle and his Sanctuary not his Own † His Majesty didisturb'd at midnight Bed which was made to be quiet in not those very places whither He fl●d for Refuge were free from the peril of the Sword. ●o keep far enough off not only from cold and frivolous parallels but also from odious

there to assure Government and to engage all persons to Subjection upon better arguments and stronger Reasons than a●y yet were ever made use of before For here the Reason of Subjection is layd deep and charged immediatly upon the Consciences of men Resistance is 〈…〉 ‑ si●●ing the Ordinance of God and Damnation is expressly threat 〈…〉 ●gainst it And yet I must needs say to the dishonour of Some men That They have Robbed Christian Religion of this way of Defending itself and defeated the effect of this appology for it Obedience is not only recommended upon the great advantages of quietness and Peace of happiness and Order that result to the World from it nor backed with the Sanctions of Temporal Punishment to Those that Rebell but it is pressed upon Reasons of Conscience and Duty to God and the danger of incurring that Eternal Damnation that is prepared in Hell for the Lawless and Disobedient Kings will be better pleased and satisfied with the quiet and peaceable Lives of their Subjects their chearful obedience to their Laws and Their ready complyance with their pleasure than with all the formal Caresses and Protestations of Loyalty and Love. And I wish Some men of late had not given Them too great cause to conclude that Mens Practices and Prof●ssions doe not always go together The good Christians of Old were in all cases peaceable and submissive They readily obeyed and heartily pray'd for their Governors Even when mos● Barbarously and unjustly provoked to the contrary so that not one Christian dyed as a Rebel or a Traytor in all the Early Persecutions of Christianity nor for several Centuries And you may challenge any of our modern Factors for Treason to instance in One. Nay it is well known that even Julian the Apostate acquits Them from this aspe●sion 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 Christiani●y ever had And now alas amongst all the sad Circumstances of Our late Treasons and Rebellion there are none ●e ought more to be concerned for than the Impiety and Guilt of the Conspirators and the advantage that some men will take hence to Reproach the Protestant Religion Oh! Cursed Impi●ty and Hypocricy are these things becoming True ●rotestants Is this the effect of all your Starch'd and formal Godliness Doe all your Oaths and Vows of Loyalty and service to Your King Do all Your appeals to God for the sincerity of your Intentions Do all your Solmn Protestations of care and concern for his safty come at last to this good God! that Plots and Conspiracys against the King Nay ●●●n Rebellion it self should shelter themselves under the Gospell And Religion ●e 〈◊〉 to Colour that which almost above all things it abhors What shall we say of such men who can help U● to Names and Characters bad enough for Them who have put off not only Religion but Humanity and are Actualy commenced Devils LONDON Printed for Henry Bonnick at the Lyon near St. Paul's A SERMON Preach'd by John Harrison D. D. 2 Sam 18. 28. And Ahimaaz called and said unto the King all is well And he fell down to the Earth upon his Face before the King and said blessed be the Lord thy God which hath Delivered up the Men that lift up their hand against my Lord the King. THe Rebellion that was to begin at Heb●on did happen under the pretence of paying a vow unto the Lord that is under the Veil or Disguise of Religion Absolom said to the King Let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed unto the Lord in Hebron 2 Sam 15. 7. Nothing more usual than to give out For the cause of Christ whilst under that vizor They Act parts quite contrary to his Holy Doctrine and Blessed Example And this is ever observable in a well formed Conspiracy if a Conspiracy can in any sence be so expressed First To settle it self Under some Chief Leader that by Popular Arts hath insinuated Himself into the Multitude Giving Himself out to be some mighty one And what he wants of a just Title as that ought ever to be maintain'd in an Hereditary Kingdom He will make good in his defence of the Peoples Religion Estates Lives and Fortunes The late Lord Russel encouraged by this Scotch Doctrine That it is Lawful to defend a mans Conscience by open Force against any Authority whatsoever did dare adventure his Body Yea I ●remble his very Soul on this false bottom so his Execreable paper seems to import But instead of a Faithful I fear he met with a Faithless Confessor B●rne● For who that is not resolved to quit humanity will believe that to be Religion which is Maintain'd with Treasons and Murders of the most Purple Dye And here we may observe of what Mischievous Consequence any Combination is whether influenced by self-Interest Pride Ambition Spight or Malice When We are once lead out of the Kings High-way of Honnour and Honesty into any By-paths of our own We soon fall into the Broad road of Rebellion Having taken a Survey of This Hellish Conspiracy a suddain Horrour here Seifeth my trembling heart at the sad apprehensions of what hath already or may still most justly befall Us The dismal consequences of a Bloody War c. The face and voice of an Angel which hitherto hath been for Religion Estates Lives and Liberties is now like to be changed into the hands of a Devil who may rend those dearest Interests into a thousand pieces And the bleeding marks of the Last Rebellions being Scarse out of our sides We are now again like to be turned into avery Shambles But surely We that have been so many years a Lasting mark of Infamy over the habitable Earth for Murdering King Charles the First of Blessed Memory and Betraying his present Majesty as Judas did his Saviour can no longer delight in a continuance of such disgrace as wants a Parallel Have We forgot our Oaths of Allegiance Have We cast behind Us all past favours from the Crown to Betray our Trust to lift up our hands against God's Annoynted sure there are Some the better they be dealt with the worse still ye shall find them And of These constan●ly David was most in danger LONDON Printed for William Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar A Sermon Preached on the Thanksgiving day c. by Edward Pelling Chaplin to the Duke of Somersett Psal 34 19. Many are the Afflictions of the Righteous But the Lord delivereth Him out of them all THe special Providence of God is seen in nothing more than in watching over Princes in preserving Them and their Kingdoms and in supporting their Government For the hearts of Men are naturally so impatient of Subjection and so greedy of Power their particular interests are so divided their designs are so various their Passions are so violent their

power obey it All the Commands of God must be punctually obey'd Men may not cull out this or another according to their own Fancies since the Rule is infallibly Authentick Iam. 2 10. That whosoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all The reason is because he breaks that very Foundation he builds upon viz. The confession of a God and our duty to Him The Apostle makes the inference verse the 11 For He that said do not commit Ad●l●ery said also do not Kill now if thou commit no Adultery yet if thou Kill Thou art become a ●ransgressor of the Law so then if any man pretend out of a sense of his duty to God to do one or more things and yet mindes not some other things which God has commanded aswell as those His whole Obedience is nothing and his whole pretence a Lye he really with the Fool says in his heart there is no God. But if at last we look into the word of God we shall find that as he has commanded us to abstain from all Immoralities even from whatsoever has the least appearance of Evil so he has by the Apostle enjoyn'd Us to mark to set a brand of infamy on Those which cause Divisions and Offences contrary to the Doctrine We have learned and to avoid them 1 Thes 5 22. For They that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own Belly and by good words and fair speeches Deceive the Hearts of the People Rom 16 17 18. It is not the openess of a Sin that makes it comparitively the greater Malice is as bad as Theft yet it lys close conceal'd within the dark Recesses of the heart Witchcraft is an obscure Sin few know what it is yet every one believes it worse than Drunkeness Adultery Covetuousness c. And Treason tho' it hates the light is as had as Profaness To Curse the King in Our hearts tho' never so secretly is a Damnable Sin And 't is the same To contrive Tumults and Rebellions in the State against Our Lawful Soveraign But these last admit of one particular aggrava●ion beyond all bare Immoralities whatsoever and it is this every one who pretends to Conscience acknowledges it to be his duty to abjure all Immoralities while many pretend to be active in the other only for Conscience sake And when Sin is once abetted by that which men call Conscience the mischievous effects of it know no bounds Presently after the King's Restauration before things wre fully settled Tong Phillips Stubbs Hind Sallers Gibbs all of 'Em men pretending to tender Consciences were executed at Tyburn 22 Decemb. 1662. for no meaner a design than Cutting off Root and Branch Kings Queens Dukes Bishop all were to go one way That there should be no Runing beyond Seas or parlyes there but a Total destruction of the King Lords Bishops and Gentry The Plot when effected to be Charged upon the Papists and the People to be excited to Rise in Arms under pretence of a Popish Massacre And the Godly party in the year following were Plotting again in the Northern parts to carry on the same work their Brethren had failed in before Of which Treasonable Plot His Majesty told the two Houses That it was of a large extent and very near execution had not he by God's goodness come to the knowledg of the Principal contrivers and so secured them from doing their intended mischief But still the Evil Spirit was not quite lay'd In the year 1666 the several Parties ventur'd once more upon a Plot To Murder His Majesty Overthrow the Government Surprise the Tower Kill the Lord General and to Fire the City of London which Plot was to have been executed September the third of that year Mony was distributed to the Conspirators and a Council of the Heads setled at London for the Management of affairs For which Hellish Plot Rathbone Saunders Tuck●r Flint Evans Myles Westcot and Cole were executed And tho' so many suffered yet one part of the Plot was unhappily effected in that dreadful Conflagration wherein the great Metropolis of the Kingdom was lay'd in Ashes This being disappointed the Devil of Sedition flew into Sc●tland when in the same year the Old Covenanters broke out into Rebellion at Pentland hills soon after Iames Mitchel a Covenanting Minister attempted the Assassination of Dr. Sharp the most Reverend Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews and in the attempt mortally wounded the Bishop of O●k●●y But the poor Arch-bishop escaped not so Implacable Fanatis●n pursued 'till he was effectually Murdered by some of the Crew with the most inexpressible barbarity 3d May 1679 The same month a new Rebellion under the Banner of the Covenant broke out at Bothwell Bridge where Their Powers were crush'd once again From which blow God grant They never more return But all these ill Successes have not yet It seems so tamed our numerous Sectaries and their Favourers but that Religious Treason has once more made its Entry among Us The King himself the Duke the great Officers of State the Loyal Magistrates of the City of London all doom'd to Slaughter c. No ●op●p● No Slave●y has been the Common Cry They acting therein like those Sabtle villains who when they have Killed a man themselves are the most busie to find out the Murderers Same tell us that he Members of the last Parliament at Westminster were All Church Men But what ●hey were their horrid actions declared Such Church Men the true Church of England will always disown as only fit Associats for Conspirators and Rebells Is † This the True Protestancy some have boasted so much of Or are all P●pishly aff●ted who declar can Hearty The Rebellion now on Foc● abhorrence of all such D●●ilish Principles and P●atices May We all bear that reproac●ful Character rather than for a Popular Ti●le run headlong to the Devil And let all Persons who profess Loyalty to their Soveraign be truly Loyal to that God who is the great preserver of Princes Let the world be convinced that even s●eming virtues which render Schismaticks plausible are solid and real in all Thos● who maintain God's ancient solemn r●g●lar worship Let Us Fear God and Honour and Trust our Soveraign Let no Subtle Emissarles of Faction make Us suspicious of our Superiours or of one another That so We preserving the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace and Righteousness of Life the wo●k of God may prosper in Our hands That Plots Treasons and Rebellions against Our Lawful Prince may for ever be execra●ed and accursed And all England may hear and fear And no such W●ckedness may be hea●d of among Us any more London Printed for Walter Kettilby A Sermon Preach'd at Westminster Abby on the 29th of July 1685 being the Thanksgiving day for Quelling Monmouth's Rebellion by Edward Pelling Chaplain to the Duke of Somersett Psal 124. 6. Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a Prey