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A42126 Loyalty essential to Christianity being a sermon preached the thirtieth of June, 1685 upon the occasion of the news of the damnable rebellion in the west and in the course of the constant lecture in the parish church of Dedham in Essex / by Thomas Grey. Grey, Thomas. 1685 (1685) Wing G1971; ESTC R23956 18,382 32

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all that I have offered you by it in the following Inferences And First It appears from this whole Discourse what sort of men those are that make Religion a pretext for Rebellion When yet it does altogether and upon unalterable foundations condemn it and by all its Powers fortifie Princes in their Governments over their Subjects And has made a better provision for the true performance of all Allegiance and Homage to Princes than any other Religion has offered or can ever furnish the World withall For Christianity has Adopted the Dnties of Subjects to their Sovereigns as also those of all other Relations among men and made them part of itself and has charged all that Profess it upon the same Penalties which are the threats of an endless misery in a future state with which it establishes all its other Doctrines and which no other Religion in the World can justly awe the minds of its Followers with to see to the Pious and Sincere performance of all the Duties they owe one to another and to those above them in the several capacities they are considered in in the World So that Loyalty to our Prince stands upon the same bottom in our Religion with Piety to God nay God Almighty has declared he will never accept any pretended Worship to himself from such as are unfaithful in the Duties of their Relations to men For our hands must be lifted up in Prayer to God without wrath 1 Tim. 2. 8. And if we have any prejudice or discontented malicious or furious thoughts the sources of all Rebellion against any man much more if they be against God's Vice-gerent on Earth we must not come near his Altar and if we do 't is upon our utmost peril for we have reason to expect nothing but a Curse How wretchedly wicked then are those that Preface their Rebellions with that Glorious Name that condemns them to Hell and how wilfully blind must they be that believe them For can we think that the Devils Instruments will ever help to maintain God's Kingdom or that that Religion can be protected by Impiety and Disorder whose Principles Proclaim the strictest Holiness and most entire Peace Is Divine Power so weak that it must call in the Foreign supplies of the Kingdom of Darkness to maintain its own Gospel Or shall any of us be so gull'd as to take part with or wish well to those that pretend indeed the safety of our Religion but in good earnest design only the gratifying of their own Ambitious and Discontented Humours though it be in the ruin of all that should be dear to us No! Let us oppose to all the false Colours with which they would Honest their wicked Actions That they that do evil that good may come their damnation is just Secondly This Gospel Doctrine of submission to Princes proves to us that a Rebel to his King and Sovereign can never be a good Christian towards God Sedition is one of the fruits of the flesh and lodges where the Spirit of Jesus enters not What fellowship has Light with Darkness Christ with Belial or Religion with Rebellion 'T is the evil and foul Spirit that foments such a temper as this comes from in the minds of men to disturb and ruin Goodness and Piety under the name of Protecting it For most certainly he that nourishes Hatred or Cruelty Rancour or Revenge in his heart against man but especially against his Sovereign never felt to be sure never complyed with the motions of the Soft and Charitable Humble and Holy Spirit of Jesus He that despises his Duty to man can never value his Obligations to God for so one of the Holy and Infallible Writers has proved by undeniable Argument as well as determined by unerring Authority 1 John 4. 20 That he who loveth not his Brother whom he has seen i. e. He that does not with Charity and Sincerity carefully perform all the Duties required of him For Love is the fulfilling of the Law to his Brother i. e. to his Superiors Inferiors of Equals whom he has seen i. e. with whom he is conversant in the World and to whom he is bound by so many sensible Obligations which are most like to prevail upon men How can he Love i. e. be Dutiful and Obedient to God whom he has not seen with whom he is not conversant or acquainted And the whole force of the Argument is this That he that is not lead by the motives of his Interest for this World and the opportunities of constant conversation and experience of the benefits of it to do his Duty to man will never be influenced by the motives of another World which address only Faith and Reason and to sence appear at a great distance and to have but little or no force to move him to be truly Obedient to God a Being that he never said his eyes upon and has but very small and imperfect notices of And so that I may apply it to my present scope 't is evident that he that has seen and conversed with his Prince and beheld his Glory and Power and those emanations of Mercy and Justice that flow from his Throne and has had the opportunities of sharing in the Honours and Advantages that attend such as are near it and yet has so little sence of all as to be a Traytor to him must needs have less Reason and Faith in which only the force of Religious Obligation do consist and so must unavoidably be false to his Religion and his God whom he never saw and whose Glory and Majesty fall not within his consideration Thirdly I gather hence that Preaching of Loyalty to our King is Soul-saving Doctrine for not to say that Rebellion is as damnable a sin as Witchcraft and stubbornness as Idolatry That Sedition does as certainly lead to Hell as any other of the Works of the Flesh that are ranked with it Gal. 5. I thus make it appear that Disloyal and Trayterous Practises are one of the shortest cuts to an Eternal Misery For It will be allowed me that Traytors seldom live long they are those bloody and deceitful men that shall not live out half their days Psal 55. 23. They do rarely escape the hands of Justice and when they are in them it is not fit they should long be there to occasion any further Convulsions in the Body Politick now when a vicious and a bad life towards God ends in a Rebellion against his Prince and the Traytor is blasted in his Designs and the Law has seized him and within a few days he must conclude his miserable life in a more miserable death Must we not all acknowledg that 't is mercy miraculous in the proper sense of that word that shall receive a few Prayers in lieu of the Obedience of a whole Life and that shall consign him to a happy Eternity that perseveres in his sin 'till he comes to dye for it Since then resisting of Government does so apparently hazard