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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52340	A sermon preached in the cathedral church of Carlisle, on Sunday Feb. 15, 1684/5 being the next day after our Soveraign Lord James the Second, was proclaim'd King in that city. / by Will. Nicolson ...	Nicolson, William, 1655-1727.	1685 (1685)	Wing N1149; ESTC R17490	9,256	29

For he that fears not the King whom he has seen will never fear God whom he has not seen And the latter Verse is yet more apposite than the former And this Commandment have we from him that he that fears God should fear his King also I have now done with the Former Part of the Text having shown you the reasonableness of joyning the fear of the Lord with the fear of the King But to reduce this Doctrine the better into Practice 't will be extreamly convenient to take along with us In the Second place King Solomon's negative precept or Caution against a dangerous failure mentioned in the Words following Meddle not thou with those c. By Men given to change some Interpreters would have us to understand iterantes peccata suck luke-warm Converts as for a while to secure their Interest and the main Stake put on an outside Colour of Loyalty but upon the least Prospect of Advantage re-assume their beloved Principles of Faction and Sedition 'T is underlyably true that there have always bin and to the end of the World always will be a numberless Company of such Pharisaical Loyalists as these who fear the King as the Indians worship the Devil to prevent his hurting of them and not out of any Right and Sincerity of their Duty And 't is as certain that these fellows are a most pernicious Race of People and utter strangers to God and Religion So that if we are wise we should no more meddle with them than we would bear company with a man infected with the Plague or sojourn in a Pest-Pouse But these men are not properly geven to change because of their returning thus with the Dog to his Vomit and with the Sow that was wash'd to her wallowing in the mire No. They are rather to be ranked among such as the Scripture tells us are setled on their Lees and can no more alter their Rebellious Opinions than the Ethiop can change his Skin or the Leopard his Spots Others again will have the wise Man's Inhibition levelled at such sickle and unconstant Souls as have ever their thoughts gadding after this and the other new Toy and are ever satisfied with the present juncture of Affairs how happy and prosperous soever We are all of us God knows to be liable to transgressions of this Nature and are seldom if ever pleased with our own Lot and Station in the World Ambition Envy Pride or some such unlucky passion or other is alwaies a hurrying us on to some new project either out of a design of gratifying a revengful humour or out of a fail Prospect of advancing our Fortunes This Weathercock Temper may indeed be most justly and modestly reckoned a being given to change and 't will become a man of Prudence first to endeavour to cure himself of this Natural and Epedimic Distemper and then to have a care not to meddle with such as are over-grown in it However since King Solomons Caution in the Text against medling with such as are given to change is annexed to his command of fearing the King it seems most agreeable to Reason that we should here think our selves forbidden to associate with those that have a Pique at Monarchy and are always pressing for a Change of that into some other new Model of Government We may every where meet with too many sad instances of this kind Men that have accustomed themselves to confound Liberty with Licentiousness and Freedom with Power and therefore they are very apt or very desirous at least to think their Propreties invaded if they may not be permitted to share the Scepter with their Soveraign By these Blessed Informers we are taught to look upon our selves Free-born Subjects Men fairly entituled to Liberty and Property and a People that by the fundamental Laws of our Land have a right to prescribe Rules to our Prince and to sit as Fellow-Companions with him on his Throne Any other kind of subjection then this is to be interpreted Slavery and we may not for shame tender any other Obedience than what will just serve to create a distinction betwixt Prince and People Now whereever we meet with any of these preposterous Politicians that are for fixing the Head of Justice in the Heels and fag-end of the Nation we are to betake our selves to the Advice the Text gives us and to be industriously careful not to meddle with them We are not by any means to suffer our selves to be wheadled into their Councels and Cabals or ever to indulge our selves the Curiosity of prying into their Secrets And we ought the rather to be on our Guard the more prone we are to be tempted into this sort of miscarriage 'T is a mighty tickling piece of Honour to be reputed a Man of Intrigue and a Person well vers'd in the Mysteries of State to be admir'd and cried up for one of a politick Pate and a shrewd Commonwealth-Man These are the Glittering Temptations which usually betray Men into an acquaintance and intimacy with such as are given to change Till experience in the end convinces them of their Folly and shows that those edge-tools are not to be medled with by every forward Child and Stripling Statesman And therefore any man of common dirscretion that observes a Bait of this Nature laid for him ought to arm himself with Old Israels Ejaculation O my Soul come not thou into their Secret unto their Assembly mine Honour be thou not united But yet farther we are not only to avoid the being drawn into the secret Leagues and Associations of these Men But we are withal to shun and fly their Company as much as we would a common Infection Evil Communication the Apostle has forewarned us will corrupt good Manners and the best of us will be sure to bring away some tincture of the ill Habits of those with whom we converse Besides Rebellion we are told is as the sin of Witchcraft 't is a virulent and incurable Distemper not to be wrought on nor removed by any Application whatever Nay and 't is such awkard and unaccountable sort of Witchcraft as by a strange and unusual kind of philtre makes us in Love with Ugliness and Deformity A Passion every way as unnatural as for a Man to dote upon a Spirit or Hobgoblin Some of us here present may have cause to remember the time when the Fear of the Lord and the Fear of the King were banished the Land together and when the vanity of being given to change was an Humour that generally prevailed And we cannot surely have forgotten the ghastly Face of Affairs in those days when every man was permitted to do what was right in his own Eyes or to speak in the Language of the Times as the Spirit moved him A Spirit of that infernal Hue that Hell it self is hardly able to give us a prospect of more Horror and Amazement than Liberty of Conscience which is only another Name for License to Sin had then brought