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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33094	A sermon preacht at Selkirk upon the 29th of May, 1685 being the anniversary of the restoration of the royal family to the throne of these kingdoms / by James Canaries ...	Canaries, James.	1685 (1685)	Wing C422; ESTC R35840	16,519	23

ambitious of the most Diametrical Opposition to Rome that the common notion of Christianity to both could allow yet it stuck not to borrow from thence a policy which had for a long time prov'd so very successful there 'T is true our modern Papists especially in Britain and France are asham'd now to own what brought their Holy Father to the highest top of such a Pinacle of Grandure being in that but too openly ungrateful to what has serv'd them so abundantly or rather prodigiously well But pretend what they will I know that things go otherwise at Rome where the Inquisition were as inevitable ●or one who would but smatter out any thing to the contrary as it would be enrag'd against him were he once but within its Clutches And tho I made it greatly my business when I was there to learn out what was the opinion of the place concerning such a Doctrine yet I can avowedly say that of all I spoke with anent it I never fell upon one who either did not frankly acknowledge to me that it was de fide there that Heretick Kings ought to be Excommunicated and expell'd their Thrones or else did not decline the giving his judgement in an Affair which he was sensible was so vastly ticklish and nice to be medled with thereby insinuating as much as that he durst not utter any thing contrary to the Court verdict But what can be more clear than their Writings against Barclay and Widringtoun and their kindest hugging of Marriana and Sanctarella at Rome to evidence what I am alledging And so while our Rebels and Fanaticks make such a clutter upon pretence of keeping out Popery they are as great Papists themselves and sure as dangerous too as those whom they are so eager against at least in one no less essential a point than the Infallibility or Transubstantiation it self Thus leaving them to themselves as it seems God hath done already let me now in one word address my self to you who are present beseeching you that as you value the credit and glory of our Nation and as you tender your own interest and felicity you would seriously lay to heart what I have been discoursing unto you And methinks I may say in Moses his words Deut. 30 15 and 19. See I have set before you this day life and good and death and evil I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore choose life that both ye and your seed may live I have set before you the miserable and wretched estate wherein these poor Nations were involv'd during the late Rebellion and I have likewise set before you what has been the vast and inestimable advantages of the Restoration of the Royal Family and especially what are our happiest blessings in our present Great King and if neither the formidable Aspect which appears on the one hand can fright you nor the beautiful and ravishing countenance of things on the other can allure you but that in spight of both you will choose cursing and death and ruine then you 'l have only your selves to thank for the event of the preference and I have discharged my Soul from the guilt of your Blood Alas shall any be so madly infatuated as so soon after our late Troubles to run again into the like destruction when to all the other miseries of it there would this one be added too that there were not even that of an excuse for it which was before because now the sad and fatal consequences of Rebellion are so manifestly known and so fresh and recent in our memories likewise Let us therefore be so considerate of every thing that can make us to be so and so sensible of the present happy estate wherewith God Almighty has to the wonder and envy of the whole earth most graciously blest us as thorow the fullest transports of resentment to shout aloud in the words of my Text and in the highest raptures of gratitude cry out We will rejoyce in thy salvation And indeed it is the Salvation of God his Providence having all along appear'd so signally in the management of it that had there not been any other argument to evince the Beeing of such a Supream Government over all the Actions and Destinies of Men yet it would have sufficiently done it It is therefore unto God especially that we should be thankful it is to his Infinite Goodness and Mercy that we should acknowledge the Debt of such Blessings and so we should improve them every one at that rate as may best serve to advance his Glory and those great Designs and Ends which he propos'd to himself in the bestowal of them which undoubtedly were that we might be dutiful and loyal to his Vicegerent whom he has so visibly set over us and lead a quiet and peaceable life under him in all Godliness and Honesty that being Good and Obedient here we may be eternally Happy and Blessed hereafter Now unto the great King of kings and Lord of lords God the Father Son and Holy Ghost be all praise power honour glory and dominion now and for evermore Amen FINIS