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A35183	A sermon preached upon April xxiii. MDCLXXX. in the cathedral church of Bristol, before the gentlemen of the artillery-company, newly raised in that city. By Samuel Crossman, B.D.	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.	1680 (1680)	Wing C7270A; ESTC R214386	13,922	42

far different Genius serene and regular deliberately issuing out a legal Commission of Array for the just defence of King and Kingdom The truest Patriot to his Country bears as true Allegiance to his Prince what God and right reason have so nearly joined together he dares not morosely put asunder He understands not how bad measures toward the Pilot can ever become good offices to the Ship The Relate and Correlate in all true Polity as well as Nature either live or dye together God save both King and Kingdom 2. We have the Conjuncture of time when this great transaction happened upon a most welcom restauration The Case was briefly this Athaliah the Daughter of Ahab becomes married to Jehoram King of Judah upon his death Ahaziah his Son succeedeth in the Throne He being slain by Jehu Athaliah his Mother an ambitious idolatrous Woman destroys all the Seed Royal that She could any way come at and for several years usurps the Crown Most unnaturally verifying that of the Poet Saevus Amor docuit natorum sanguine matres Commaculare manus Whether it were by Sword or Poyson or by what other means this wretched woman procur'd the death of these Children many of them her Nephews and near Relations is not express'd but plain it is 't was most impiously and inhumanely done Per fas per nefas is the great Maxime of State whereever Ambition reigns While the rightful Prince chuseth to proceed by methods of clemency and gentleness the Tyrant or Usurper swims commonly through Seas of Blood to his desparate Designs Athaliah's aim was to cut off the right Line of the House of David More particularly all that descended from that pious good Prince Jehosaphat her own Husbands Father whose Reformation She had so highly stomach'd and now thrown down Never did the most vindicable Reformation want its Enemies or the most treasonable enterprize some Bigotted Zealot some blind Devoto to engage in it But behold after she has waded thus far in blood she begins now like Pharaoh and his Chariots to sink in this Red Sea Never did Treason thrive long with the Traitor The rightful Heir is still safe survives the attempts of malice and is brought with triumph to enjoy his own Jehoshebah the daughter of king Joram sister of Ahaziah took Joash the Son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the kings-sons which were slain so that he was not slain There is a God in Heaven that takes care of Princes here on Earth The rage and imaginations of the people against him and his Anointed they are but vain successess things Pharaoh may give strict charge to destroy the Children of Israel but Gods Moses is even miraculously preserved that he might be King in Jesurun Herod may murther the Infants in Bethlehem but the Lords Christ escapes his bloody hands The Text exemplifies the Case with a living Joash England illustrates it with a living Charles after all the various snares of death so often contriv'd and laid for both And now the day dawns apace the Restauration becomes conspicuous They brought forth the kings son they put the Crown upon him and they made him King The Archers shoot sore yet the royal Bow abides still in strength Thus signally does the Providence of God baffle and triumph over the Conspiracies of men We might modestly challenge the treasonable Plottings of most Ages in the language of the Prophet Surely this turning of things upside down is but in vain The Stone which the Builders refused becomes nevertheless the head of the Corner At this posture were the present Affairs of Judah Joash far beyond all humane expectations brought as another Isaac in a Figure from the Dead restored with Honour to the Throne of his Forefathers All their former confusions now fairly ended the Land orderly settled the people clapping their hands and saying God save the King And so we come to the third The person chiefly instrumental in bringing about this eminent this desired revolution 'T is pity that good actions should stick in the birth for want of some willing hands to assist and facilitate their being brought forth No doubt there were many Worthies in Israel heroically appearing in so just so generous so publick a concern The Agent we find chiefly mentioned in the History is Jehojadah the High Priest Jehoshebah she has the honour of sheltering the King under his first and most imminent dangers That God that has the whole world at his command chuses what instruments he will please to work by A weak woman as you have already heard acts so noble a part towards the preservation of the whole Kingdom She was both Daughter and Sister to a King and now Wife to this Jehojadah the High Priest which gives us occasion of calling to mind that passage of Pharaoh when in token of further favour he would chuse a Wife for Joseph his prime Minister of State he gives him Asenath the Daughter of Potipherah Priest of On supposing as it seems a Match into such a Family no disgrace to the greatest Peer in his whole Kingdom Such was Jehojadah venerable in his Function and as honourable in his Relation Uncle to the present King Brother to the former an eminent pillar both in Church and State all his days He lived in this unspotted piety an hundred and thirty years and died as he lived still laden with fresh honours For the sake of this and many other his great services to the Publick he was solemnly interred amongst the Royal Sepulchers of the Kings of Judah And they buried him in the City of David among the Kings because he had done good in Israel both towards God and towards his House Men and Brethren would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly and indeed bear with me if I say The Priesthood has been as you see highly esteemed in elder times how contemptible soever it may seem to many in these late disingenuous days Sacred and prophane History are both unanimous in this Our reverence to God will manifest it self in our respects to his Ministers He that truly loves the Master will not be very forward to despise his Servant We find Jehojadah Privy-Counsellour to Joash Nor was it amiss either for King or Kingdom If he had a potent hand he had also a successful hand in the administration of Affairs which the holy Ghost is pleased to take a particular notice of to the honour of those happy times and so to leave it upon record for the instruction of future Ages And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his days wherein Jehojadah the High Priest instructed him Now if Princes out of reverence to such ancient Scripture-Precedents no bad Copies for any to write after if they have seen meet in these later days to continue somewhat of this practice in their Councils here seemeth no matter of grievance or offence given to any Nor needeth our eye

easily concluded the Eclipse of this Sun in their Horizon would be darkness to all Israel The smiting this Shepherd would be no less than the scattering of the Flock In this respect his most religious faithful Subjects thought it no flattery to tell him elsewhere Thou art worth ten thousand of us In a theological sence the meanest of David's Servants had a heaven-born immortal Soul as well as David and therein of the same equal price and value in the sight of God But in a political sence David's single life weighs more than many thousands of theirs The Person of our Sovereign must be sacred with us Gentlemen I shall not now affect to exercise you with any further discourse in military language from the Pulpit There is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a decency proper to the Church a decency proper to the Field All things are most beautiful in their own places Neither shall I Classicum canere 'T was but ill with England when our Pulpits sounded at that thundring rate Curse ye Meroz By such specious fallacies the poor unstable multitude were conjur'd up into an open Rebellion against their lawful Prince By such Bellows were the flames of our bloody wars too much blown up The Christian Ministers work is more gentle the preaching up of peace the sweetning the minds of all one towards another That all meekness may be shewed towards all men especially towards those whom God hath set over us Others may be for fierceness unadvisedly calling for fire from Heaven but nil nisi mite suadet Evangelium the Gospel pleads for a more sedate calmness and candour of spirit I confess as one well observes Expert Souldiers and good Armes they are in Pace Decus in Bello Praesidium our Ornaments in Peace our Safety in War But still the Christian Souldier looks upon War as the means Peace as the more desired end War though in some cases both needful and lawful 't is yet to him as so much Physick always sharp he esteems Peace as health of a far sweeter relish and much more welcome to all He wants not valour When ever just occasion calls for it he could cheerfully say to his Prince as David to Saul I will go and fight with this Philistine and yet so mild in his own habitual temper that the same David's Motto is as truly his I am for peace Your appearance here upon this auspicious Day as it is by virtue of Royal Authority and with your voluntary avowing all faithful Allegiance so is it in it self highly honourable the fair expression of a generous Loyalty in this great City The more valuable because so eminently seasonable While we hear of Plottings against the Government and dangers to his Majesties Sacred Person it well becomes every true-hearted Subject by a noble antiperistasis to shew the greater zeal for both And I hope your regular forwardness herein may prove a happy Precedent to other Parts That it may be said of the King of Great Britain He is King of hearts as well as King of persons Or as of Solomon Behold the valiant men of Israel are about his Throne they all hold Swords being expert in War every man hath his Sword upon his thigh that the Government might be at the better safety from all danger And now Men and Brethren while we occasionally thus name the word we must become afresh in love with the thing it self Oh the happiness of England's Government Here if any where upon the face of the Earth here 's the easie yoke the light burthen A Government of that rare ballance and temperament in the State that Prerogative and Property even kiss each other Altius egressus coelestia tecta cremabis Inferius terras Loe here one of the fortunate Islands indeed a temperate benign Climate most comfortably habitable fairly situate under the true Aequator at just distance both from the torrid and frigid Zone While the Sovereign sits upon his Throne in the brightness of Imperial Majesty the meanest Subject may as truly sit under his Vine and Fig-tree enjoying his own with security peace and plenty A Government of so impartial Reformation in the Church that it dares owne the venerable Antiquities of primitive and purer Times and yet as zealously reject the absurd inchroachments and corruptions of later Ages A Reformation so clearly subservient to all good ends so careful to nourish us up with wholesome food the words of sound Doctrine so ready to furnish us with the means of Grace soberly and truly so call'd that if our design by Religion be what it ought to be nakedly to save our Souls we may then in all quiet Communion with the Church of England pass fairly to Heaven as the Traveller who goes his whole journey in a pleasant sun-shine day God hath not dealt so with other Nations neither have they such confortable freedome in Gods ways Your selves who have many of you travell'd into Foreign Parts and have seen the sad circumstances of poor Peasants there your selves right well know it And we may all of us gratefully sing as David The lines are fallen to us in pleasant places and we have through the Divine Providence a goodly heritage I could not but offer you this memorial for your encouragement from the excellency of the Government A Government most highly priz'd by others abroad O let it not be as unworthily despised by us at home I might as pathetically adjure you from the common miseries scarce ever to be forgotten under our late want of it A Subject fitter for tears than words The desire of all good men that it might for ever sleep in the deepest silence did not the noise of our present distempers and dangers awake it that it might fairly give warning to all Then was that Scripture-Lamentation so mournfully reviv'd Wo is us the Crown is fallen from us Then were the barbarous assaults against sacred Majesty so common and daring in almost all places First in Effigie At one place the eyes in the Statue of King Edward VI. insolently plucked out with this absurd villanous taunt All this mischief came from him in his establishing the Book of Common Prayer At another place the Crown upon the Statue of our late Sovereign contumeliously mangled by the rude Souldiers Swords Then the Regalia which had been laid up with all care and safety through the successive Reigns of so many Kings The Royal Crown wherewith our Kings were usually crown'd the Robes the Sword the Scepter of King Edward the Confessor all forcibly plucked out from their repository by a pretended order and after many most unworthy and unmanly abuses far beneath humanity as well as loyalty offered to those ancient I might almost say awful Ensigns of Sovereignty this base Sarcasm was thrown out in way of scorn There would be no further use of these toys and trifles After these ominous Praeludia in Effigie then follows Quis temperet à lachrymis then follows

the real Murther and Martyrdom of our Sovereign himself in his own Person with whom fell likewise this ancient and flourishing Government Then was the Royal Family it self proscrib'd and scatter'd Our Nobles who had been brought up in Scarlet many of them forced then to embrace the Dunghil Then were the Fields and Scaffolds so often stain'd with noble and loyal bloud Then were heard those heart-breaking groans of so many ruined Families the deep sighings of poor Widows and Orphans bewailing the loss of their dear Husbands and Fathers destroyed and cut off for no greater crime than paying their just duty to God and their King Property the choicest flower in the Subjects Garden was then violently torn up Antient and indefeasible Estates arbitrarily taken away and sold. The whole course of the Law and Magna Charta it self forced to strike sail to the boundless power and pleasure of some new-rais'd Committee En quò discordia Cives See see what Iliads of misery our discords and tumults brought in upon us We would needs then violently remove our ancient Land-marks and we became thenceforth inevitably expos'd to all this series of common calamity Nor was the Church less tragically passive on her part Our Books of publick Liturgy compil'd with so much decent gravity adapted with so much care and prudence to general edification confirm'd and recommended so often by supreme Authority became nevertheless the common subject of prophane sport and disdain to the Genius of those licentious times The blessed Sacraments the very seals of the Covenant of Grace the richest treasures in all Christian Religion fell then under a supine neglect and contempt These fair Temples dedicated to the highest ends and uses that such Structures are capable of the Service and Worship of Almighty God his Bethels his peculiar Houses here on Earth the Tabernacles of solemn meeting between him and his people were then nevertheless in a kind of rage and phrensie more wretchedly defaced within the space of very few months than many years are or will be yet able to repair Our Cathedrals in some places to the great affront even of Religion it self turn'd into beastly Stables In other places into Gaols for poor cold starving loyal prisoners and no fewel allow'd them so long as the curious carved Wainscoat of the Choir afforded any The Statue of our Saviour in stone being espied at one Cathedral no fewer than forty Musquet-shot were discharged at it and high triumphing who could hit the head or face The Ornaments costly Vessels and Plate of the Church sacrilegiously ravaged and torn away At another Cathedral the Chalice for the holy Eucharist being snatcht up as spoil of more than ordinary prize some entreaties were modestly made that it might have been spared and restored for that sacred use but they received no better than this churlish answer They might serve that turn in a wooden dish Neither might the holy Table it self where the Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is administred escape its share in these indignities although for modesty sake that I may not contaminate any civil ears I must forbear the relating of them But alas what are these Buildings of stone these dead though curious Fabricks in comparison of the Living Temples the Ministers of God 'T was they who drank so deeply of this bitter Cup and might now weep upon an unexpected account between the Porch and the Altar The great City of London and the lines of that Communication may be too true a witness in this unwelcome Case where in a short space of time far above an hundred reverend learned Divines the flower of England's Clergy were most illegally and unworthily turn'd out of their Ministry and lawful possessions they and their families to irreparable ruine Then followed that numerous sequestring of the Clergy in almost all Parts the ejecting and silencing such vast multitudes of worthy able Ministers A Case that even astonish'd many Churches abroad what England was then a doing how these violences against Religion and the Ministers of it could possibly agree with what was so much then pretended the promoting of the Gospel Your selves may possible remember this place was not without some deep sufferers in that kind One instance adjoining to our very walls offers it self too appositely to this sad Subject I am almost at a loss whether to suppress or relate so woful a story Bishop Howell a Person to whose memory all good men who had any knowledge of him will ever pay a very high respect and honour he being in the time of our late Wars Bishop here his Episcopal and Personal Estate both taken from him himself with his Wife and a numerous Family of nine or ten Children in the Palace She lies in but those who had pretendedly bought the House to make sale of the Leads uncover the room wherein She lay in Child-bed So that the rain and weather beating in and it may be a mixture of grief together with both She becomes carried from her Child-bed to her Bed of Clay Nor might this suffice affliction is further added to the afflicted The distressed disconsolate good man must next be dragg'd forth He catches hold upon the Staple of the Door loth as it seems to lodge in the Fields and scarce knowing how or where to shelter his now poor motherless family With this struggling he lingers some few days in the house and in less than a fortnights space overwhelmed with these indignities and sorrows he dies also and so retires to God and Heaven as his truest asylum his safest retreat from all these oppressions So far were the very rights of humanity as well as the ancient laws of the Land and which is far more than either the sacred Precepts of Christian Religion abandoned by the phrensies which we were then distemper'd withal Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum 'T was grown with some almost a Point of Religion to be in these Cases inhumane and irreligious Scarce any thing but might be then allowed save only what the Law it self required what our just duty to Gods Anointed and his Church obliged us to perform But I must break off though never so abruptly from this unpleasing Theme Far be it be from us to take pleasure in exposing the wretched miscarriages of those joyless times The remembrance of them may be instruction to all delight to none He that is truly sensible of his deviations then will modestly say as in Job I have done iniquity but will offend no more The only end why these things have been thus mentioned is nakedly this That we might hear and fear and do no more so wickedly Small rushings against Government may by degrees bring on far greater and sorer evils than we can at first foresee That may be the unhappy end of the action which was not the real intention of the Agent No doubt in our late confusions many abhorred at first what was yet done at