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A sermon preached at the assizes at Lancaster, on Sunday, March 19, 1675/6 by H. Pigott.
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Pigott, H.
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Wing P2219; ESTC R33409
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A SERMON Preached at the ASSIZES AT LANCASTER On SUNDAY March 19. 1675 6. BY H. PIGOTT B. D. LONDON Printed by T. Milbourn for W. Cademan at the Popes Head in the Lower Walk of the New and Midle Exchange in the Strand 1676. Imprimater April 28th 1676. G. JANE To the HONOURABLE Sr. TIMOTHY LITTLETON Kt. AND VERE BERTY Esq Chief Justices of Assize for the Northern Circuit My Lords Your Lordship Candour and the Sleightings of others have by a strange Concurrence begot and strengthned this Resolution that this Discourse shall appear in Publick Be it as Those say which yet I hope will never be true that 't is a tottering Church which I labour to Support so much more Cause is there I should set to my Shoulder and be full as Kind to my Dear Mother as that Ludian Prince to his Father let the appearance of Her Danger unty mine and All Her true sons Tongues to Plead for Her Though Her foundations will I doubt not approve themselves more firm than to be shaken with One Blast however Impetuous For my self I am so farre a Charitable and Chatholick Christian as to wish with that great Prelate Who acquits Our Church from Criminal Schism that Such termes of Communion might be pitcht upon as might bring the Whole Christian World into One. And therefore I strike not at the Tenets of any Society further than they direct their Style or Designes against Vs And here if I shew that We strive as much as any to give Glory to GOD and to settle on Earth Peace and Good Will amongst Men I hope I make it appear We have found the Way to the True Church And therefore Trouble none for Comming thither or Continuing there And withal that No Kingdom should be Jealous of Such a CHVRCH within it that gives to Each their Due to God His to Caesar His. Kings Prerogatives We stickle for and amongst these That they have a Right to be both Fathers and Sons to the CHVRCH For those of Bishops also But not to Exalt 'em Over those who are in most particular manner Gods Anoynted We would neither lift up the Chair at Canterbury above the Throne at White-Hall putting KINGS to Sweat for it that they might procure a Good Arch-Bishop who would be their Quiet Neighbour a passage which our British Antiquities has sufficiently observed Nor would we bring in anew those described in Lysimachus Nicanor to Act old Tragedies over again in any Dress And if it be Agreed upon by All that when All Estates have a Due share in the Government there is the Best Crasis that suits directly with that Christian Communion and Communication of all Church Members which we Preach and so will upon Good Principles Restrain Inferiour Degrees from Enchroaching upon Superiour and Superiours from Preying upon them This I know to be Your Lordships business God bless You in your Good Endeavours So Prayes My LORDS Your Lordships most Obliged and Faithful Servant H. PIGOT ACTS 17.6 These that have Turned the World Vpside Down are come Hither also A Hard Charge if it were True for there is Innovation and Sedition in it consequently would be found against the publick Peace and several Constitutions in that case provided What are they then Hear the Evidence in the next Verse and you would conclude 'em of the Busiest sort of Jesuists or most phanatick 5th Monarchy-Men such a Bussle they are averred to make about King JESUS Nor do the Prosecutors know by what Style or Titles to Endite ' em But if they must give in their Condition as they can they are late of Philippi c. 16. v. 12. or by the same right of Galatia Phrygia Lystra or Derbe For such a Circuit had they come And at the last place they came from they had been Whipped v. 22. Wonder not if their Accusers give in their names Indefinitely yea as Individua vaga These Let us then see if we can sift out their Quality If they had their Papers about 'em wherein one writes to their consorts at Corinth 1 Ep. 6. they pretend to be Judges We have the word used or repeated once twice or thrice in every verse for four together And we find how they lay their claim Mat. 19.28 This JESUS had made 'em a promise to be the Twelve for all the Circuit of Israel But look again Act. 16.10 or 2d of this and you find 'em a fort of Preachers so that if Judges they were it should seem they were some High-bearing Ecclesiastiques for in that place of the Epistle cited c. 6.4 they imagine and aver that the least esteemed among 'em is fit for a Justice or Judge And as if they had a peak at the Lawyers fore-warn all in v. 6 7. that they come not at ' em As if these two jurisdictions had ever enterfeared and emulated each other But that the words Vnjust v. 1. and Vnbelievers v. 6. mollifie the matter It should seem if their Proselites could find Lawyers that were not unjust or Infidels they might address to ' em But let 's hear the Prosecutors they say these do 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 turn the world upside down 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put men into a state of disorder or Anarchy Whereas the great design of all the best Moralists is to make men to each other and much more to themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 untroubled and settled Now if the Preachers who should press Peace Peace to him that is afar off and to him that is near If these be not accidentally but intentionally not for Peace but the Sword If these instead of blessing with their cup of blessing we have blest you in the name of the Lord are for Cursing and that bitterly Meroz because they come not to help against the Mighty And if the Judges who should see that each hath his own and thereby compel to a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and honesty If these become Evening Wolves gnawing the bones on the Morrow while the Prophets as light Treacherous persons pollute the Sanctuary doing Violence to the Law Zeph. 3.3 4 5. If the one make their Statutes coercive power and the other their Scriptures and Canons Noses of Wax to ply to perverse purposes 'T is then time for the Lord to do the Mornings work himself that is to judge instead of them nay to judge them themselves first and so from Morning to Morning to bring it to light Else the one not judging the cause the Cause of the Fatherless nor the Right of the Needy Jer. 5.28 And the other Prophesying falsely and getting the rule by that means 't will soon come to Jeremies hard question v. 31. Quid fiet in no vissimo what will they do in the end thereof But let 's hear the Defendants 'T is true they were ill used at Philippi c. 16. but they parted fairly v. 39. And not long to you shall find a good sober Recorder pass a fair and