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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63881	A sermon preach'd before the King in the Cathedral Church of Winchester upon Sunday, Septemb. 9, 1683 being the day of publick thanksgiving for the deliverance of His Sacred Majesties person and government from the late treasonable conspiracy / by F. Turner ...	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1683 (1683)	Wing T3282; ESTC R1798	19,019	38

any one will not hear this certain truth That this Conspiracy was the goodly fruit of that Worthy Association the design of which was to establish their Common-Wealth in the State and to introduce a Chaos or deform'd mass of all Religions under the false Pretence and counterfeit Title of One Protestant Religion in the Church But then to bring this to pass tho' God only knows what they could have effected yet they must needs have intended to cut off immediately all men of note that had adher'd to the Crown all that had been true to the Church all that had behav'd themselves honestly in the last perplext Five years Ye had all been Popishly Affected at least and the Protestant Flails as they call 'em had flown about your Ears long ago My thoughts are lost and drown'd in the horrour of what would have follow'd I may be allowed to use that Metaphor of Drowning for David uses it here praying Almighty God to save him and deliver him out of the great waters from the hand of strange Children for a Popular Insurrection is like an inundation in the Night when the Sea beats down its walls A Tyrant makes indeed a horrible noise like Thunder but he like that does seldome destroy any great numbers but an Enthusiastick Multitude breaking loose do's like the raging waves make no distinction or stop it bears down all impetuously that stands before it I speak not only with regard to those Loyal Noblemen and principal Ministers of State and Magistrates of the great City that were marked out and condemn'd to have fallen with the King and a particular Butcher provided for each one of them But I must say it to all the worthy Patriots in this Great Assembly they ought to make a present of their Lives and give them back again to the Service of God whose Service is perfect Freedome for perhaps there is not a man among them but owes his Life to the Goodness of God in this discovery for what did not those Barbarians swallow in their own thoughts Whose Blood did not those Cannibals thirst after Upon whose Estate and Fortunes had they not fixt their envious and impudent Eyes As great a shame as it is for some profligate and desperate Wretches to have been left out of the Caballs that manag'd this Conspiracy meerly because they knew them to be made up of so much Treachery and Falseness they would not be true no not to themselves So great a Shame would it have been for any Worthy Men not to have been in their List of Men worthy It would have been a Scandal indeed for any man of Honour and of Conscience to have been suffer'd to Live by them to have surviv'd the Royal Family and so many good Subjects as would have fallen with it had the Villains prevail'd And yet perhaps they would have spar'd the Complying men as not worth their Anger such men as resolve to thrive under all Governments or can at least be well content to sit still indifferent and unconcern'd whatever Religion is uppermost in the Church they are Animals incombustible for Religion as one defines them and whatever Interest prevails in the State they laugh at the Notion of being State-Martyrs I wish this sort of men who please themselves with being so Passive in so Active times as these would consider what kind of Censure or Sentence rather an Heathen Legislator has past upon them Amongst the Laws of S●lon says Plutarch the writer of his Life that is very peculiar and surprising which makes all those Infamous who stand Neuters in a Sedition for it seems he would not have any one Insensible and Regardless of the Publick and securing his private affairs glory that he had no feeling of the Distempers of his Country but presently joyn with those that had the Right upon their side assist and venture with them rather than shift out of harms-way and watch who would get the better These are the words of that wise man stating and declaring the concern that every Private man ought to shew when his Prince or his Country are in danger But now for any of those that are in a publick trust or have a more special obligation to be upon the watch for the safety of the King and Kingdom if such men are asleep David being yet a subject tell 's them plainly as the Lord liveth says he ye are worthy to die because ye have not kept your master the Lords Anointed Awake then you that together with the land which the Lord gave to your Fathers inherit their vertue too the old English Loyalty and Courage lay out your thoughts upon somthing more worthy of your selves than are thoughts only of your own security let every one in his Station do his duty fearlessly And they that do so prove for the most part the wisest as well as the most conscientious the safest as well as the noblest and best Patriots let us set it down to our selves that Honesty is the true Policy and let none make that accursed Conversion of the Proposition as if Policy were the true Honesty unless they mean to revive that old abominable Gnostick Principle of compliance with any Vsurpations or Impositions for fear of Suffering for fear of that which a Christian would rather wish for his own sake could it be without other mens guilt i. e. the Crown of Martyrdom Ita te alius senem cum Petro cingat That was St. Hierom's good wish to Damasus then Bishop of Rome So let another hind thee when thou art old as St. Peter was bound that was to be carryed to Martyrdom This would seem but a course Complement a piece of ill Courtship now A wish says Erasmus if any now should make it in behalf of his Holiness and present it in an Epistle to him I wonder says he what Reward he would assign him Crucem opinor But let the worst come to the worst as they say if this be the worst that it shall please Christ to call any of us as the Angel from Heaven call'd St. John the Apostle come up hither shall it be enough to deter us from going thither that first he may happen to call us as he did St. Peter Follow me that is through death What a noble Army of Martyrs have followed the great Captain of our Salvation The Church the Field of God has been manured and enriched with the noblest compost in the World the Blood of Martyrs The times and seasons of the Year are bounded out and signaliz'd by the dying Days of Martyrs The Christian Temples are dedicated to the Memorials of the Martyrs and Miracles were undeniably wrought at the Monuments of the Blessed Martyrs After all this men of soft and smooth insinuations would introduce a Principle of Self-Preservation as they call it as if it were unworthy as if it were unlawful to suffer any thing like Martyrdom nay as if it were more Christian to be Rebels and Regicides than be so