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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64270	A disswasive from contention being a sermon preached and designed for the last itineration of the King's preachers in the county Palatine of Lancaster / by Zachary Taylor ...	Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705.	1683 (1683)	Wing T596; ESTC R81	21,461	36

Chair Psal 1.1 from Martin Marprelate unto Andrew Marvel Nor was there Man of what Eminence soever that did appear against them but under this Correction from Bishop Jewel down to Dr. Stillingfleet Church and State Prince and Prelate have been wounded by these Arrows their Bitter Words It is an Accusation that needs little Proof the Proclamations of our Kings and the Writings of our Bishops are full of these Complaints With these Men 't is nothing but a Rara Show to Ridicule Soverainty and by their Measures of Paying Reverence to the Lord 's Anointed one would be apt to guess that under the Gospel God had revers'd the Methods of Obedience Acts 23.5 And commanded us only to speak Evil of the Rulers of our People Caesars gracious Connivance being grown to be a Priviledge of the People In Civitate libera mentem linguam liberas esse debere no less than Parliament all Men assuming as great Freedom to their Tongue as Thought What Indulgence their Guides may give them that I cannot tell but never did I meet with a Divine of that Clann that reprov'd this Vice and what escapes without Correction hath the Countenance of Connivance or tacit Approbation Yet in pity I shall tell them what a Learned Prelate hath observed on this Piece of Prophaneness There were Times saith he when Persecutions were great in the Church even to exceed Barbarity it self Did any Martyr or Confessor in those Times Bp. Laud's Speech in Star Chamber Libel their Governours Surely no not one of them to the best of my Remembrance Yet these complain of Persecutions without all shew of Cause and in the mean time Libel and Rail without measure so little akin are they to those who suffer for Christ or the least Part of Christian Religion Nor is he alone in this his Judgment for the Apostles be of the same Mind who give this Character of Temporizing Christians That they despise Dominion speak evil of Dignities Ju. 8.9 2 Pet. 2.10 A Policy so Suspicious the Blessed Angels feared to make use of it when they truly might For Michael the Arch-Angel durst not bring against the very Devil who questionless deserved it a Railing Accusation but meekly begg'd of God that he would be pleased to rebuke him And how his Temper suits unto the Gospel which commands us To pray for our Enemies to bless them which curse us when we are reviled not to revile again when we suffer not to threaten 1 Pet. 2.23 or how it doth transcribe our Saviours Example who as the Lamb was dumb before the Shearers and opened not his mouth is not my Province to enlarge upon Only I concieve it might be some Mitigation unto Davids Affliction that they were Drunkards that made Songs upon him Psal 96.12 But that men who are sober and conscientious if we may believe them that they should suffer either Head or Hand their Tounge or Pen to touch the Lords Anointed and do his Prophets Harm Psal 105.15 is such a Device of Religion as I dare avouch the Gospel is a Stranger to But no Wonder if their Proselites forsake the Communion of such lewd men as they Decypher us and betake themselves to some more powerful meanes And this brings the Difference unto a Formal Schism They depart from us and set up Altar against Altar and Pulpit against Pulpit Doctrine against Doctrine and Worship against Worship What is wanting to the Purity of their cause they supply by the Impurity of their Lips and impute the weaknesses of mens Persons to the Disadvantage of their Principles Like the Stoick in Lucian who reduced to a Non-plus cries out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So they deal with us Base words and Popery are an Ample Confutation And when by these Artifices they have rendered the Government uneasy and the Governors odious 4. They incite and instigate unto Tumults by Turbulent Positions and Seditious Doctrines Such are these See the Judgment of the Univ. of Oxf. That Kings are but the Peoples Trustees That they are accountable for the Miscarriages of the Government with many more And how directly these tend to Sedition and Rebellion I may be excus'd the Comment For when a Prince is Dethroned in the Conscience what can follow but an Arbitrary Obedience Subjection as long and in what Instances they please if he be the Peoples Creature there needs no more to the full Process of a Deposition then the Declaration We will not have this man to reign over us Luk. 19.14 St. Paul was aware of this and therefore requires you to be subject not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake Rom. 13.5 Divinity they have no mind to be concerned with What can now remain but that the Populacy thus provok'd in a transport of Zeal do arise to destroy all the Vngodly that are in the Land that they may root out the Evil doers from the City of the Lord Psal 101.11 Force and Violence Blood-shed and Murder Plots and Conspiracies Insurrections and Rebellions are the End of these Divisions To this height hath the Quarrel about Modes and Habits Gestures and Ceremonies risen Dear God! Is the life of man right Dear in your Sight Psal 116.15 in their Eyes so cheap Do we become obnoxious to Blood-shed for enjoyning a few Innocent Rites and Primitive Ceremonies All that I shall say is this The men that do these things have either no Religion or what is next to none a Bad one And what Temptation can you find in them that you Caress them as your Countreys Patriots Were the late times of Confusion so pleasant that we should be laborious to relapse into the same Survey the misery Fines Confiscations Plunders are but the Beginning of Sorrows Banishment Imprisonment and Death succeed Or if you do survive What David of old Age may with more Dolefulness he affirm'd of that your life can be but Labour and Sorrow Psal 90.10 when your Person is impoverish'd your Souls inslav'd your Churches prophan'd your Religion gone God alone who foresees all things saw the Calamities that they were bringing on us and in Mercy and Compassion was pleased to prevent it Before I pass this Topick I must desire you to remark how they have aggravated their Opinions in the Causes of our Difference What at first were no worse than Tolerabiles ineptiae Calv. Ep. ad Protect Levities that might be tolerated the which was also spoken of Chrism and Extream Unction Rites that are now disused are now grown to be Antichristian Impositions and Prelatical Tyranny Our Liturgy which some of the Fraternity did verily believe FOX to be composed by the Assistance of the Holy Ghost is now reproached as the Rags of Popery Our Bishops whom Beza prays for a perpetual Succession of Bez. de div grad min. cont Sar. and the Repulsion of whom was Corah's Sin under the Law and Aerius under the Gospel are justled out with Ignominy as Ithacian Priests and