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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67232	An assize-sermon preached in the cathedral-church of St. Peter in York, March the 8th, 1685/6, before the Right Honourable Sir Edward Nevill and Sir Henry Bedingfield ... by Christopher Wyvill ...	Wyvill, Christopher, 1651?-1711.	1686 (1686)	Wing W3783; ESTC R15591	17,063	36

Israel for ever therefore made he thee King to do judgment and justice And if we should not be sensible of such love of God towards us if we should not bless the Lord our God for thus providing for our good the Queen of Sheba will rise up in judgment against us 2. We are in the next place obliged in point of gratitude to give the King thanks for his care over us for his kindness to us and for that justice we receive from Him which because we cannot perform immediately to himself we should therefore do it to his Deputies the Magistrates he sends amongst us by expressing all that Honour and reverence in our behaviour towards them which their Age their Gravity their Prudence and the Consideration of their Royal Master whom they represent may demand from us which being actually done to them doth virtually redound to him 3. Lastly being it hath pleased Almighty God to make us happy under a Monarchical Government it becomes our duty not only to love it to value it and to be obedient unto it but to endeavour what may be for the support for the defence for the flourishing condition of it and so to behave our selves in our lives and conversations as that the King may be happy in his Subjects and they in him to which end give me leave to propose to you the Observation of these following Rules 1. Let us quietly and contentedly suffer the King to enjoy his just and full Prerogatives which either the Word of God or the Laws of the Land do allow him to have the diminishing of which cost his Royal Father his Life and brought a Deluge of Miseries upon this Nation Unreasonable and bold Men took away his Militia and then fought Him with it they wrung the Sword out of his Hand and then made it keen against His Sacred Person they extorted from Him several of His just Rights till by degrees when they had left Him nothing else to grant they took off His Head Wherefore let our former sad experience teach us now to be sober and wise and so to rest satisfied with our own Priviledges as not to entrench and encroach upon those of the King the violation of whose Prerogatives besides the unreasonableness the injustice the iniquity of it will in time tend to his and our destruction He cannot be safe in his Throne without them nor can we at the long run be advantaged by them 2. Let us permit the King to Reign and Rule the Kingdom without our intermedling with it He knows how to govern better than we can tell him nor is it for Private men to pretend to instruct Him God hath endow'd Him with an understanding Heart and a tenderly love and affection towards all His People He hath the assistance of a wise and prudent Council and all that we have to do is to pray for a blessing upon their Consultations and humbly to beseech that great God in whose hands are the Hearts of Kings who turneth them and fashioneth them as he pleaseth to be ever with the King and to direct and aid him so as that He may do what may be for the true interest and good of his People But for us upon every occasion to be interposing to be advising to be petitioning in a tumultuous way contrary to a Statute in that case provided contrary to the King 's express command and declaration is not only rude and pragmatical and looks as if we had a mind to take the Government out of his hands but may be also of very bad consequence Such proceedings are oftentimes the fomenters of great heats and discontents and usually prove the forerunners of great evils Seldom do such clouds of disorderly actions appear but presently a storm follows 'T is insufferable for the Multitude whose duty it is to be govern'd to concern themselves in publick affairs as if they were sharers in the Government it self Let us leave the management of weighty matters to Him that sits at the Helm and suffer the skilful Pilot to guide the Ship according to his own discretion that so through God's blessing without springing a leak or splitting on a Rock it may safely arrive at the intended Port. 3. Let us not entertain any ill suspicions of the King much less foment those suspicions in the minds of others as if he had some ill design against us or would not be true to his trust nor faithful to his promises as if he had a mind to tyrannize over us or contrary to the protestations he hath given us would destroy our Church and set up a Religion contrary to that which is by Law established For such suspicions as these were the beginning of the late unhappy troubles in the life time of his Father and brought Him to an untimely death Men began at first to fancy that he would introduce Popery a certain thing that some Men make use of as a stalking-horse to Rebellion and that he would Rule by an Arbitrary power they would not trust him nor rely upon his Sacred Word and Promise to them And from This beginning they fell to action from the raising of such suspicions they raised an Army against Him and caused such a Tempest in the Nation as could not be laid but with the ruine of the Government Which things I cannot but again take notice of that for the future we may beware of what was the moving cause of that unnatural Rebellion and the subversion of the Monarchy 4. Let us not listen and give ear to any insinuation and pretence to Rebellion for there can be no pretence to it how fair and plausible soever it may seem to be The Devil is the Author of it Religion doth abhor it and the end of it without God's great mercy upon which we must not presume is utter damnation The Primitive Christians who lived under Heathen Emperours that persecuted them and endeavoured to abolish their Religion yet made it their choice rather to die and suffer the greatest torments than but once to rebel though they were numerous and strong enough to have done it and might have alledged sufficient provocations if any could have been sufficient for it From which example we may learn that there can be no just grounds for any Man's rebelling against his lawful King 5. That we may become the better Subjects to the King let us unchangeably and immoveably adhere to the Church of England the deserting of which Church besides that there is no reason in the World for it it being a true and sound part of the Catholick Church is teaching all things necessary to Salvation which either Christ or his Apostles taught it retaining nothing but what is Orthodox and Ancient besides I say all this the deserting of this Church may be very prejudicial to his Majesties interest it being the great stay and support of Monarchy of which the King is so very sensible that he relies much upon the Loyalty of those that