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A67014	The great duty of love and faithfulness to our native country occasion'd by the coolness of some in its necessary defence, and the forwardness of others, in pushing on its ruine / deliver'd in a sermon at the Chappel of Popler, December 3, 1693, by Josiah Woodward ...	Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.	1694 (1694)	Wing W3518; ESTC R38760	16,712	33

Reason will soon agree with that advice of the Holy Scripture 1 Cor. 7. 21. If thou mayest be free choose it rather than to live a Bond-slave So then the Love of my Country is as natural as Self-love and this as natural as our Breath or Pulse And all sober Heathens have ever been true to this Principle of Nature insomuch that we hardly find any Maxime so Celebrated amongst them as that Epidemical one Dulce est pro Patriâ mori That is It is a sweet thing to Dye for ones Country Nothing is more Common than such expressions in Cicero Seneca and all their Philosophers And nothing more frequent than instances of it in Livy Tacitus and all their Historians When it was told the Romans by their Augures that their State would never flourish till some Roman of Noble Blood leapt into the great Chasm at Rome with what Chearfulness and Bravery did the Noble Curtius mount his Steed and leap down the precipice When Attilius Regulus was taken Prisoner by the publick Enemy and by them permitted to return to Rome upon his parole of Honour and there perceiv'd that the State could not condescend to their demands for His Ransome without their prejudice He not only disswaded the Senate from procuring his Liberty at such a Rate but secretly went and offerd himself to his Enemies and there underwent a most painful and lingering Death rather than be an occasion of any detriment to his Country by his Life And these Illustrious Instances of Zeal for the common Good were not so much gazed at in those dayes as we do now in the History of them because they were then common and every Body thought it their bounden Duty For their usual discourse was Nemo sibi nascitur Partem Patria partem Parentes partem Amici postulant That is None of us is born for himself Our Country and our Parents and Friends may so duly challenge a part of us that we cannot look on our selves as at our own disposal but as consecrated to the common Good So that these honest Heathens following the Light of Nature and the Psalmist in the text guided by revelation followed the same Leader that is God and in Obedience to the King of Nations they pray'd for fought for and dy'd for their Country For my Brethren and Companions sake I will say that is I will pray that Peace that is all manner of Blessings may be within thee O my desirable Country Peace be within thy Walls and Prosperity within thy Pallaces ver 7. may they Prosper that love thee ver 6. But let them all be Confounded in their Designes and turn'd back that hate Zion Let them be as Grass upon the House tops which withereth before it groweth up Psal 129. 5 6. Nothing can be more exasperating to human Bowels than to see our Parents or Brethren or Wives or Children slayn before our Eyes To see them welter in their precious blood which by sympathy of Nature we look on as our own To see our Houses plunder'd and afterwards burnt To behold licentious Soldiers treating Age with Scorn and Youth with shame O dreadful What sensible Soul can lend a hand to draw on such a heavy Chain of Miseries which we nor our Posterity are able to bear Yet further there is in men a sort of natural tenderness for the Rest of the bones and dust of their deceased Ancestors How can I choose but be sad sayd Nehemia when the Place of my Fathers Sepulchres lyeth waste Neh. 2. 3. There is also a natural Love to our Posterity which is very forcible And nothing can touch a Parents Heart with more horror and Regret than to behold the symptoms of the Miseries of their Posterity And Christianity Cherishes and Enforces all these honest Instincts of Nature For our blessed Saviour came not to destroy these Laws but to perfect and sublimate them And his Gospel declares those worse than Infidels that provide not for those of their own House 1 Tim. 5. 8. So that we have Super-abundant obligations to be fathful to our Countries Interests Now without all controversie we have manifest reason to expect the greatest Violences in all these respects from our Enemies of France if they prevail over us which God of his infinite goodness avert They waste with Fire and Sword the most Famous and Antient Cities and their Inhabitants As in the Palatinate and other Countries They pull the very bones of Princes out of their Sepulchres and will not suffer their Dust to rest As in the Case of the Electoral Princes buryed at Hydelberg They take little Children from their natural Parents to breed them up in their own Superstitions as they have dealt by many Protestant Families in France So that there can hardly be imagined any Plague so universally calamitous to the present and succeding Ages as a French Conquest would be nor can people act more inhumanly and unchristianly than in helping on such a Calamity And this barbarity of deserting and betraying our Country will be further aggravated if we consider That as the undutifulness of a child to a Parent is mightily blacken'd by the Consideration of the extraordinary goodness and indulgence of the Parent so is the un-natural Treachery of English-men to their Mother Country in that they Betray a good Land abounding with all usefull accomodations and with peculiar Liberty and Light of God's Word which are the sweetest enjoyments of humane Life in which the happiness of no people upon Earth is parallel to ours O sad Do the Miseries of such a Land and the Loss of such enjoyments deserve the Grinning Laughter of any amongst us Can there be found in a Christian Land such a seed of Nero as can rake in the Bowels of such a Mother with delight Surely Nature and humane Bowels are perisht in such Breasts We must take Leave to speak plain to these things since for ought we know we speak our last For these Treacheries have helpt to cast us on the very brink of Ruine Vse Now the Inference that is naturally drawn from this first Position is That such as any way Contribute to weaken the Defence of their Country must needs be condemn'd by themselves and all the World Jews Turks and Pagans have ever lookt upon such as the worst of men bereaved of all notion of Good and sence of Honour Yea what ever the Government or Governours be the case is nothing alter'd Treason against the State and a Man 's own Land is ever horrid and abominable and the very horror of it has made many a man run mad * As in the Case of one Mr. C. a skilful Shipwright sent into France in the Reign of King Charles II. to instruct them in the building of Ships who as he was returning home had such Terrors on his Conscience that he pistoled himself and never set foot on his Native Land again to whose interests he had been so false As an Eye-witness now living testifies Such