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conscience_n	david_n	heart_n	smite_v	1,341	5	9.6931	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89550	Rebellion unmasked or A sermon preached at Poplar in the parish of Stepney (in the new chappel there lately erected by the Honourable Society of the East-Indie-Company) upon occasion of the late rebellious insurrection in London. Wherein is opened the resemblances between rebellion and the sins of witchcraft and idolatry, as also the pretences for rebellion answered. By Thomas Marriot, M.A. of Kath. H. in Cambridge, and chaplain to the East-Indie-Company.	Mariott, Thomas, d. 1708?	1661 (1661)	Wing M717; Thomason E1055_21; ESTC R208031	23,841	39

the heart it is uncharitable for to judge upon light grounds any man to be wicked much more his King 2. As to what some would be surmizing and whispering as to his Majesties introducing of Popery if they were not wilfully blind his Majesties standing fast to the Protestant Religion when under so great Temptations to the contrary is sufficient evidence rationally to clear him of that nor can it rationally or honestly be in the least suspected by any that he should be Popish whom the greatest and strongest temptations could never shake 3. Me thinks the extraordinary workings of God for his Majesty the many Miraculous deliverances wrought for him Gods Miraculous Restauration of him should be some ground to think that God would scarce have wrought so Miraculously for one whose heart is not right towards him God doth not usually such great things nor is at the expence of such strange deliverances for those who have not some more then ordinary Relation to himself 4. If the tree be known by its fruits methinks his Majesties Christian care of Religion since his Restauration his faithfulness in keeping promise his Integrity in governing by Lawes and Councels his incomparable meekness and gentleness to the worst of his Enemies his unparalleld Charity towards those that have most provoked him his readiness to forgive and pardon so many thousands sometime desperately ingaged against him against whom he had so strong an advantage these visible fruits might be sufficient evidences of the goodnesse of the Tree that bears them had we but eyes to see them and were not above measure censorious and uncharitable 5. Suppose indeed a King were never so wicked as Rebels will be ready to pretend what then must we therfore Rebell against him and swim through a Sea of Blood to dethrone him must we take Gods work out of his hand is it not a work peculiar to God I say peculiar to God and God alone to set up or cast down from the Throne I am sure the Scripture gives it to God as his speciall Prerogative Know therefore least any of you should be deluded that it is unlawfull for any subjects to Rebell against their King under pretence or surmize that he is a wicked Governour Should he be wicked Pray for him as a Christian subject Rebell not against him that 's the Devils work That is a considerable expression of David Psal 119. v. 161. Ps 119. v. 161. Note Princes have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth in awe of thy word Mark what he saith Princes have persecuted without cause Saul to whom this speach of David very likely doth relate he did persecute David to the high he hunted him up and down as a Patridge upon the mountains he sought all wayes to ruine him and this without cause too David never gave him any just occasion so to doe what then doth David say Saulis a wicked King and therefore I will make a party and rebell against him and dethrone him It is not fit for such a wicked man to reigne or be in such a place doe you ever hear any words of this nature fall from Davids mouth nay though he was himself by extraordinary commission from the Lord anointed to be King yet not such a word no no David renders not evil for evil but overcomes evil with good when he had Saul in his power and might have slain him Nay and was thereunto instigated by his servants yet he would not he detested he abhorred it when he had but cut off the lapp of his Garment Oh how did his conscience smite him What a Hell then may we imagine would David have had in his conscience had he cut of his head No God forbid that I should touch the Lords anointed Davids heart stood in awe of Gods word which told him as he answered his men That it was not lawfull for him to touch the Lords anointed What saith Daniel to that wicked Idolatrous King Darius 6. Dan. 21. Oh King live for ever 6. Dan. 21. Note though a wicked King yet Oh King live for ever though an Idolatrous King yet O King live for ever Though one that forced others to Idolatry yet O King live for ever Though one that had unjustly cast him into the Lyons Den and offered him personall injury yet O King live for ever He did not therefore make a party to Rebell against him because he was thus nor did he seek to throw him out of his Throne what was Casar but a wicked King an Idolatrous King nor yet doth King Iesus instigate or stirre up any to Rebell against him So that you see that pretence of the wickednesse of a King or Supreme Magistrate is not a sufficient ground of Rebellion which Pretence yet we have great cause to conclude is desperately wicked and false as to our perticular case And as to our Ecclestastical Governours The Bishops whereas the pretence of their wickedness must be a cloke for Rebellion the like might be said to these as to the former it is highly uncharitable to judge those of them to be so whom we know not nor never so much as saw their faces most of us and as to some of them I shall be bold to say that it is most notoriously false nor dare I believe other but that some of them are of such eminent Piety and integrity that the very Devil himself cannot have the impudence to call them wicked But if they were yet the impersection of the person destroyes not the sunction nor is it any just cause wherefore any should raise Sedition and Rebellion and such will do well to consider who are over free in words of this nature for many will presume to lash their Ecclesiastical Governours who will scarce dare to do the same to their Civil Governour that it is no small sin to revile a private Christian but much more to revile Gods Ministers the Shepherds of our souls A second Pretence of some for Rebellion is the business of Ceremonies 2. Pretence Introduding of Ceremonies c. Common-Prayer and way of worship which some count and call Popish and hence take occasion to inveagle silly people to sedition and Rebellion against their Governours God hath set over them and the Government they ought to subject themselves unto under the notion of throwing down these at least the Reformation of them too great pretence is made for Rebellion Answer To this pretence I answer first I must needs confesse if it be my ignorance the Lord inlighten me It remaines yet to be proved for ought I can understand that the Ceremonies of the Church of England or the form of publick Prayer are contrary to the Scriptures that some of them being used in the Church of Rome should undeniably prove them Popish is an Argument so weak that it needs no answer the rule we are to go by is to find whither there be any thing in the word of God against them