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A30428	A sermon preached before the House of Commons, on the 31st of January, 1688 being the thanksgiving-day for the deliverance of this kingdom from popery and arbitrary power, by His Highness the Prince of Orange's means / by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5885; ESTC R22904	17,313	44

a word when no Man was safe in his Innocence nor secure in his Property and when the owning the Concerns of the Nation in this great Body was accounted a Crime to be expiated by the best Blood that was in it when I say all these things were done then was our Fence not only broken down but as if it were not enough to pluck up Park-pales without knocking down the Owners with them so Laws Justice and Trials were become the Words of Form to be made use of for destroying us by Rule and Method and were only the Solemnities and Ceremonies of our Ruine The securing us then against such a breaking in is the explaining and determining that which lay formerly too loose in General Terms the shutting of all those Back-doors by which corrupt Men had found a way to escape from the true meaning of the Law the providing real Securities against the Returns of the like Dangers for the future and the giving Remedies to that which is reparable for what is past all this is incumbent on you that so hereafter there may be no breaking in upon us This will be so much the more easy for you to do because you have not now a misled Authority or a corrupted Party amongst you to strugle against the Methods which may be suggested For now those who are the truest Patriots and the best Friends to their Religion and their Country must reckon to be the most acceptable to the Glorious Instrument of our Deliverance who carries in his Heart the Words that he ordered to be put on his Standard The Protestant Religion and the Liberties of England And who will be the forwardest in every Proposition that may secure and establish them both To say all in a Word You see where and how we have been broke in upon and this will best direct you to secure us for the future that so hereafter there may be no more breaking in Nor going out this being the Consequence of the other it will not be necessary to dwell long upon it No stray Sheep will run out of the Fold if you secure them from the Wolf Apostates and Deserters will be no more known among us if you shelter us from the Beasts of Prey that would devour us To be led into Captivity and become Slaves is the best that we can look for when we fall into their Hands who have no pity or at least dare not shew it if any had it Of this the World has seen an Instance in France beyond all that former Ages ever knew for it was an unheard-of thing to see a Million or two of People fallen upon and either made miserable or forced to render themselves miserable by doing that for which their own Consciences must every day reproach them Multitudes thrown into Prisons and Dungeons condemned to the Gallies and by a Fury scarce known among Barbarians the very Bodies of the Dead were made Subjects on whom they exercised their Rage Common Cruelty is glutted with the Death of an Enemy but it must be whetted by the Principles of an inhuman Religion that can commit Outrages on the Carcasses of the Dead All this was acted with so high a hand that Men of Quality and Learning that had been Eminent in the former parts of their Lives for Vertue and Gentleness seem'd to put on all the Fierceness of Inquisitors and to divest themselves of all those Tendernesses which hand long even about the worst of Men. Insulting and Reproach was become the Language of the Clergy And there was so little Dissimulation in the case or shew of good Nature that the barbarous Usage of our unhappy Brethren was heightned by the Circumstances and Manner of it This was the going out or the Captivity that was to be expected by us after such a breaking in as has lately threatned us All the Happiness we could have expected was that which was the Portion of some of our persecuted Brethren that abandoning their Countrey their Estates and their Families thought themselves but too happy if they could escape with their Lives in their Hands and their Consciences undefiled But if such a Dispersion had come upon us Whither could we hope to fly The French had a great Continent which could not be so narrowly watch'd but that some passage or other was still to be found whereas we were shut up in an Island They had us to fly to and likewise those Blessed Provinces which have been the Sanctuaries of the Unhappy and the Refuge of all that were persecuted for Righteousness sake ever since they were a Free-State But to vvhom could vve have gone for as the States could not have survived our Ruine long so that vast number of Refugees whom they received with open Arms had stock'd their Countrey and exhausted their Charity A long and dangerous Navigation to the East or West-Indies was all the hope that seemed left us and even there we could not think to be long safe from an industrious Malice which persecutes at the greatest distance Another sort of going out that we were beginning to fall under was the being tempted to forsake all those Engagements that tie a Man to his Family and to his Native Country and to seek for that Ease by wandring abroad which could not be allowed us while we lived tho ever so harmless at home And tho this is not so severe a Lot as to need much patience to bear it yet it must be confessed that there is a Charm in ones Native Air in Friends and Kindred and the easiness of a setled Life which Nature cannot throw off without feeling some Repugnancies to it The setling all Matters so among us that our Country may have Security from without and Justice within so that instead of tempting the Inhabitants to wander out of it it may attract Strangers from all places to it this I say will effectually keep us from going out For an Englishman needs nothing to recommend his Countrey to him but to be set a wandring for some Years That there be no complaining in our Streets no Alarms nor Crys this will be best compassed by the giving our Enemies work abroad by supporting the persecuted Protestants and by forcing an Execution of the Edicts made in their Favours and a Reparation of the crying Injustice that has been done them and most particularly by a Perpetual and Entire Conjunction with those Provinces that have in so Noble and indeed Unparallel'd a Manner supported and assisted our Great Deliverer in so Vast an Undertaking This Nation did them great Services in the last Age when they were strugling for Liberty but it was by lending Money and sending them Troops upon the security of cautionary Towns though it was then the visible Interest of England to preserve them But they have now in a way much more frank more dangerous to themselves as well as more obliging to us without either Bargain or Security put all to hazzard because we were ready

safe in general and every one is so secure in his own particular that they need neither fear the Injustices of their Neighbours nor the Violences of their Enemies By going out may be meant the driving away the People into some Foreign Land which was the Custom of the Eastern Conquests and Empires who carried away the more considerable Men of one Country and planted them in another and then in the way of exchange brought Men from the Countries where these were put and planted them in their Seats and thus created a Misunderstanding between the Superiour and the Inferiour Orders of Men. This Policy appears evidently in the Account that we have given us of the Captivity of the Iews under the Assyrian and Babylonish Monarchies By going out may be likewise meant an abandoning the Country when the Inhabitants should find themselves so little safe within their Inclosures that they were forced to seek for that Quiet elsewhere which they could enjoy no longer at home By complaining or as the Word is strictly a Cry may be either meant that publick Howling that spreads it self abroad upon hostile Invasions and eminent Dangers or the more secret Murmurings of such as go about seeking Redress for the Injuries that are done them Streets is put for a Word of a larger signification in Hebrew and signifies all open Places and Fields and a Cry being opposed to Justice by the Prophet I looked for righteousness and behold a cry these Words may be likewise applied to the Cries of the Oppressed with which the Wise Man was so deeply affected when he heard their Groans and saw power on the side of their oppressors but that they had none to comfort them that he praised the dead more than the living so that these words of no complaining to be heard import that there should be such an equal and steady Administration of Justice that the Poor should have no cause given them to go and spread their Complaints about the Streets These words may be yet carried further that as there should be no cause given to just Complaints so the humour of murmuring and of making injust ones should cease and that as the Government should be just and equitable so the People should have a sutable sense of it And thus summing up all this together the Happiness of a People as it is here set forth amounts to this That a Government is strong and vigorous with relation to its Enemies abroad and just and equitable in its Administration at home and that the whole Society and every Member of it is safe that none are either driven out of their Country or tempted to leave it and that there is a general Serenity in all mens Tempers as well as an Equity in the Government no Complaints Murmurings nor Censures being to be heard in the ordinary places of Concourse I need not add to this Representation of the Happiness of a Nation any thing in Commendation of it this were an impertinent imposing on your Patience A man that would imploy his Rhetorick to praise Health or to speak well of the Sun would be very unwillingly hearkned to Indeed if one were to make a Panegyrick on Tyranny and on a hard and unjust Government he ought to turn over all the Common Places of VVit all the Stores of Invention and the liveliest Figures with which his Fancy could furnish him to make so odious a thing look but tollerably and by sacrificing Truth to Interest and varnishing it over with Wit and Eloquence he might shew how gracefully he could plead a very ill Cause But to commend that which I have set forth is needless where the Sense of every Man goes even before the Reflections that arise either from his own Observations or those that others may set before him and determines him to conclude that such a State is a great Felicity because he feels it to be so And indeed to see the Miseries of those Nations that have the Advantages of Sun and Soil beyond others which yet are happy under a feeble Sun and fruitless Soil is an Argument beyond all that Fancy or Eloquence can invent In short Liberty and Justice are so naturally desired by all Men and the Happiness of them is so sensibly felt that any further Discourse for setting them off is as little needful or indeed as little tolerable as it is to set forth the Advantages that a man who sees and hears has of those who are deaf and blind So you see what is meant by a People that is in such a case And I am sure you all feel somewhat within you even the Voice of Nature telling you how happy the People is that is in such a case 2. Suffer me then to go over these Particulars that in them we may have a full Prospect of all that we ought to propose to our selves in order to our temporal Happiness The first is The securing us against all breaking in which in the first Sense of the words is foreign Invasion and of this we had very lately just Apprehensions of two different sorts The one was our being again brought under that foreign Yoke out of which we had so happily escaped in the last Age and which was ready to be laid upon our Necks in this A Yoke it is God knows that leaves nothing free all other Tyranny reaches only to mens Persons and Estates but their Thoughts must be enslaved here Reason it self must be stifled and all must be taken upon Trust Nor are men's Reasons and Consciences enough for this devouring Power but their Wealth their Persons and their temporal as well as their spiritual Concerns must be fetched within this Bondage And with this difference that all men are sure that they give them their temporal and perishing VVealth but none are made sure whether they receive in exchange that which is called the Spiritual and Incorruptible Treasure we are sure that the saying of Masses brings in a great Treasure to the Church but no man can pretend to be sure that his Friends Soul is delivered out of Purgatory by them And the Shrines and Churches of the Saints are certainly enriched out of measure but none of their Benefactors is sure that they interceed for them so that upon very fallible and doubtful Assurances a vast VVealth is certainly brought into their Hand and Imprisonments Cruelties of all sorts and Death it self in its most terrible shape must be the Fate of any that but dares to think of shaking it off As this is a Yoke so it is foreign to us we owe no dependance to the See that pretends to be Mother-Church we received not the Gospel from any sent by them The Christian Religion was in this Island for several Ages before we had any Commerce with that See nor were we ever subject to it any other way than as a Prisoner is in the Power of him that took him we have all the just Titles to an entire Exemption from