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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96352	A sermon preached at Dorchester in the county of Dorcet, at the generall assizes held the 7. of March, 1632. / By John White of Dorchester, rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity.	White, John, 1575-1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing W1782; Thomason E469_6	33,644	43

A SERMON PREACHED AT DORCHESTER IN The County of Dorcet at the Generall assizes held the 7. of March 1632. By John White of Dorchester Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity Pro. 24. verse 21. My Son feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change LONDON Printed in the yeare 1648. SIR AT your last being in Dorchester you seemed to receive some addition of Confirmation of the Justice of the Parliaments cause in taking up Armes against the King from some discourse which you heard from Mr. White But I then told you that Mr. White not many years since was cleare of another Judgement not only in this point of Resistance or more properly making War but almost in the whole matter Controverted between the King and the two Houses And that some of us who were his dayly hearers were much scand●lized to see his late practise and Preaching to move Antipodes to his former Doctrine e●pecially recommending and pressing things so point blanck opposite on the consciences of his Auditors as no lesse then the truths of Jesus Christ and necessary in respect of our Obedience This I told you I could make good unto you in foure particulars First in the point of the Subjects taking up Armes against their Soveraign Secondly in that of Episcopacy Thirdly concerning the book of Common Prayer and Lastly touching the Ceremonies of the Church But your haste then going for Exter Faire and your many businesses with your other Chapmen would not dispense with you to stay the making good of my Allegation And therefore it was your earnest desire That at better Leasure I would in writing give you such satisfaction as might leave you without all scruple in these particulars which I shall now endeavour to doe as briefely as I can First for the unlawfulnesse of Subjects resistance and taking up Armes against their lawfull King or supreme Magistrate what his Judgement was in this point I must appe●le to his Sermon Preached at the Assizes held for this County The Copy of which Sermon together with the Epistle Dedicatory to the Judges of the Circuit I have here se●t unto you I would not trust to the fidelity of my Apprentices Brachigraphi who tooke this Sermon from the Pulpit when he Preached it for so the Necessity of keeping pace with the Speaker The easy mistake of those Characters and the supplements of Memory used by those that are Maste●s of that Art might render this Copy suspected But to take away all Objections I procured a more Authentique Copy from his own Originall I say no more but as our Old Schoolemaster Mr. Chick was wont to say Res ipsa loquitur Out of his owne Mouth you may Judge of him Secondly for the authority of Bishops and Thirdly for the Lawfulnesse nay Necessity and Excellency of the Booke of Common Prayer There are two other Sermons of his published not in print but in Manuscript The first asserting the Authority and calling● of Bishops to be if not Iure Divino yet are Apostolico and equalling the Authority of their Order with that of the Observation of the Lords day The second vindicating the Liturgie from the usuall cavils of Se●taries and by impregnable Arguments preferring this set forme before all Extemporary Conceptions especially for the Publicke worship of God Nay we that were his Parishioners and daily hearers in the execution of his Parochiall Exercises must testifie That he hath very frequently magnified the Booke of Common prayer justified it against all Objections and affirmed not only that it was consonant to the word of God but likewise that if the Holy Ghost had vouchsafed his immediate Assistance in composing any booke since the Bible it was in composing the Common-prayers of the Church of England But though I have laboured it yet I cannot procure these Sermons They were by Master White himselfe presented heretofore as a Testimony of his conformity to Bishop Cook late Bishop of Hereford but then Bishop of Bristoll and Master Whites Diocesan whose Executors are able to produce these undoubted Testimonies both of their Authors then Orthodox Iudgement and the truth of my 〈◊〉 Lastly for his Approbation of the Ceremonies of the Church I shall appeale First to his owne Practise in his Pastorall charge not only in my time but in my Fathers as you 〈…〉 Secondly to his frequent justification of them in the Pulpit when you see Master ●tro●g at Dunstans doe but aske him what he hath heard and seene in this particular Lastly to his serious Recommendation of Doctor Burges his Defence of Bishop Mortons Treatise of the Three Innocent Ceremonies to the Clergy of these parts exhorting them to buy them And though his meere Intimation of things to be done or not to be done had more influence on his brethren of the Ministery then the Commands of their Bishop yet to be sure to put one of those Bookes into the hands of every one of the Clergy he prevailed with Master Archdeacon Fitz●erbert to recommend the Booke to those with whom hee thought his owne perswasion had not so effectuall authority I cannot have so meane an opinion of Master White that he should thus industriously recommend this Booke to others meerely to helpe off an impression though Doctor Burges were his Wives Brother mistake me not I meane not your Paules P●rgation Burges no this Doctor Iohn Burges Pastor of Sutton Coldfield 〈◊〉 Warwick-shine was an 〈◊〉 man and a Schol●r Things God knows that Cornelius was 〈◊〉 guilty of But I beleeve he did recommend that Booke not out of my sinister or by and but purposely to propagate those Truths which were learnedly defended in is and because they were such Truths of which he himselfe stood fully convicted in conscience for had he but doubted of the lawfulnesse of those Ceremonies he was better acquainted with the regulations of a Scrupulous Conscience then to recommend that to the practise of others of whose lawfulnesse He himselfe doubted But I detain you too long Reade this Sermon and then judge of the truth of my Affirmation of the rest by what satisfaction you receive in this Particular from Your Friend and Servant W. P. Dorchester Sept 14. 1647. For my Friend Mr. G.S. at the Sign of the in Watling-street London these To the Right honourable Sir Thomas Richardson Knight Lord Chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench And Sir John Denham Knight one of the Barons of the Court of the Exchequer And to the right Worshipfull John Browne of Frampton Esquire high Sheriffe of the County of Dorcet mercy and peace from God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ RIght Honourable and Right Worshipfull howsoever your Command for the publishing of these Impolished and scarce well-digested meditations pleade my Apologie in this act both to your selves and to the whole world to your selves who cannot distike the fulfilling of your owne will and to the world whe have nothing to blame in my exposing these