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A61246 A sermon preach'd in the cathedral church of St. Peter in York, on the 6th of February 1685/6 being the day on which His Majesty began his happy reign / by William Stainforth. Stainforth, William, d. 1713. 1686 (1686) Wing S5171; ESTC R28875 16,207 33

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A SERMON Preach'd in the Cathedral Church OF St. Peter in York On the 6th of February 1685 6. Being the Day on which His MAJESTY began his Happy Reign By WILLIAM STAINFORTH Residentiary Canon of YORK Imprimatur Ro. Altham Rmo P. Dno Johan Archiep. Ebor. à sacris Domesticis YORK Printed by Jo. White for FRANCIS HILDYARD Bookseller at the Bible in Stonegate Anno Dom. M. DC LXXXVI To the Honourable SIR THOMAS SLINGSBY BARONET Sir I Humbly Present you with a Sermon which when it was preach'd met with such a favourable reception and kind entertainment from some of the Loyal and Judicious Auditors that they look'd upon the Printing it to be of public Vse and Advantage because it might as they thought in some measure at least contribute to the Reduction of such of His Majesty's Subjects as have been misled into seditious Practices and prevent others from falling into the snares of the same accursed Seduction and accordingly they importun'd me to make it as Publick as now it appears And tho' I took some time to consider before I would yield to their Requests yet when I had once resolved to comply with them I found no place for Deliberation to whom I should Dedicate it or whose Name I should borrow to give countenance and protection to it For the Design of this Sermon being to promote an holy Fear of God and a loyal Fear of the King no Person did or indeed could occur to my thoughts whose Patronage could be more proper or useful to a Discourse of this nature than your own because You Sir are so great an Example of those two necessary and indispensible Duties which are here recommended Your holy fear of God has been made visible to all who know you in your constant unalterable Perseverance in the Communion of the Reformed Church of England and in your zealous Concernment which upon all just Occasions you express for its true Interests and unalienable Privileges notwithstanding all the Temptations you may have met with either at Home or Abroad to corrupt your holy Faith and misguide your devout Affections Your loyal fear of the King has been as evident as the former throughout the whole course of your Conversation and most vigorously exerted and discover'd it self in sutable Effects and a Loyal Behaviour under the most frightful Posture and discouraging Circumstances of public Affairs when some were driven from their Duty and Allegiance by dismal Stories and factious Amusements and others were wheadl'd out of it by popular Addresses and smooth and crafty Insinuations And therefore you justly enjoy not only the Estate and Honourable Titles which belong'd to your Ancestors but also all that public Esteem and Reputation with your Prince and Country which their fam'd and celebrated Loyalty procur'd for them I need go no higher for a Proof of this than to your immediat Progenitor and Honourable Father Sir HENRY SLINGSBY who persever'd in his Allegiance to his Prince to such a degree of Faithfulness as made him Resist even unto Bloud not in a Fanatical but Christian sence and lay down his Life for his Natural tho' banished Soveraign whom no Terrours or Allurements of a remorseless and crafty Vsurper could oblige him to renounce So that Loyalty seems entail'd upon your Family and looks as if it were your Inheritance as well as your Choice convey'd in your Bloud as well as infus'd at your Baptism and descended upon you by your natural as well as spiritual Birth But however it is impossible that you should ever depart from your self or your Duty while you live in the Communion of the Church of England and make her Rules the Measures of your Subjection for she teacheth a perfect absolute unlimited Subjection by teaching all her Members to Obey all the just and lawful Commands of their King and with patience and resignation to suffer his Censures and Punishments where they cannot obey And I do not doubt but one great Reason among all the rest why you value and live in the Church of England rather than in any other Christian Society whatsover is because her Doctrine and Practices in point of civil Subjection are so conformable to those of our Blessed Saviour and his holy Apostles who died rather than they would resist those Soveraign Powers they liv'd under and who have forbidden all Resistance under the pain of eternal Damnation And may you long live in the Communion of this Holy Church to do Honour to God and Service to your Prince upon Earth and God out of his infinit Mercy in his due time receive you into the Church Triumphant in Heaven This is and shall be the constant daily Prayer of SIR Your most obliged and most humble Servant WILLIAM STAINFORTH Prov. 24. 21. My son fear thou the Lord and the King and medle not with them that are given to change CIvil Government is the great Comprehensive Wordly blessing for it is the Foundation of Peace and Quiet the Spring and Fountain of all those Inestimable Advantages which adorn and felicitate Humane Societies For without Government there would be nothing but Wildnes and Confusion Rapine and Violence and all the bloody Outrages of a barbarous and Merciles Inhumanity And therefore God who design'd the Happiness of man in his Creation not only implanted in his Nature strong and powerful Instincts after Society but also took care that he might Enjoy all the intended Blessings and design'd advantages of Society by instituting Government for its Support and preservation This is plain from that Authority and Dominion which God gave Adam over his Wife and all his Natural Descendents by vertue of which every man who was born into the World was born in a State of subjection and Ow'd Duty and Obedience to him from whom under God he derived his Natural Being So that Government began by the Divine Ordination as soon as there were any capable Objects for its Exercise and administration it being founded in Paternal Authority which as Families increased and multiplied grew up to the height and largenes of Imperial and Political Power Now of all the Kinds and Forms of Government Monarchy is not only the most Primitive and Natural but the most Compleat and Perfect for as it is most Conformable to the Heavenly Pattern and nearliest resembleth the Government of God So it is most Conducive to all those Useful and Beneficial purposes for which men enter into Societies and for which Government was instituted This might be prov'd by shewing that Monarchy has all those real advantages which any other Forms of Government can pretend unto without being subject to many of those Numerous Inconveniences and Mischiefs which inseparably attend them And of Monarchies that which is limited and Hereditary deserves the preference for its singular Value Usefulnes Now by a Limited Monarchy I mean such an One where the Supream and Unaccountable Power of the Prince as to its exercise and administration is under the direction of stated