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B10212	The remonstrance from the Reverend Father in God, Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, and several others, the most eminent divines of the Church of England, against the proceedings of the P: O. and the lords spiritual and temporal, that invited him. Being an adress [sic], from the pulpit to the King, in fifteen sermons; denouncing damnation, &c. to the abdicators of God's annoynted, and abettors of this rebellion.	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3279; ESTC R185788	60,696	114

King's Son hid in the house of the Lord for six years space is brought forth by the loyal Jehojada the High Priest and proclaimed King and the Traytoress Athaliah is justly slain And in our English Annals we may find Examples enough of this kind Let John usurp the Throne due to Arthur his elder Brother's Son he taught but his Subjects to rebel against him and after he had numbred as many troubles as days of his Reign he is thought to end his life by poyson Edward the Third tho otherwise a brave Prince yet because he Dispossessed his Father of the Crown shall rue it in his Grandson his immediate Successor whom H. 4 another Usurper bereaves first of his Throne and a little after of his life too But Divine v●ngeance meets with him likewise in his Posterity for H. 6. his Grandson tho as innocent and harmless a Prince as ever before him that enjoyed the Imperial Crown of England hath his own Son stabb'd before his face and himself some time after butcher'd by the same hand● Let Rich. 3. murder his innocent Nephews in the Tower let him poyson his own Wife that so he might marry his Neece the only Heiress to the Throne yet God blasts his designs and blesseth this Nation both with his death and the happy Union of the York and Lancaster Families in the persons of Eliz and Henry the Seventh Which Contest had cost more Blood than twice Conquer'd France Which One would think should make all true Englishmen pray for the Succession of the Crown in a true lineal descent From these let us come some what nearer and behold Edward the 6th upon his death bed whom Northumberland works and imposeth to declare the Lady Jane Gray his Successor The secu●ity of the Protestant Religion was then as now pretended To which They knew Mary was averse And so soon as the King was Dead the Lady Gray against her own will is proclaimed Queen in London and her Ambitious Father in Law Northumberland thinks all safe as having nothing to oppose him but a Naked and defenceless Tho a true Title when no sooner Mary tho' a Papist asserts her Right to the Crown but her Subjects tho' they were Protestants as one man rise up in Arms to Defend not to oppose or invade the Succession They knew how many thousand lives the dispute about the Crown had cost but a little before Neither could they finde any motive then no more than We can now in the Church of England That gave any Encouragement against the Lawfull Heire P●●secution they might dread but they would commit that Cause to God and they had rather undergo the flames of Martyrdom than be stigmatiz'd with the brand of Rebellion Upon this the Conspirators were defeated and that without a Battle taken and Executed I might tell you of Wyat's Conspiracy in the same Queens time and of many others in Her Sisters Reign And as we often see Treason Severely punished in this World so it is much more dangerous to the Actors thereof in the World to come I am sure St. Paul tells Us so Rom 13. 2. They that Resist shall Receive to Themselves Damnation a very small Encouragement God knows for Conspirator and Usurpers to rise up against and Dethrone a Lawfull King Fortho ' we should grant which seldom happens that many Traytors might so far prosper here as to secure themselves from the hands of Justice yet there is a King of Kings from whom no power can shelter Conspirators or such whether they be Lords Spiritual or Temporal that shall any ways Invite or encourage an Invader against their Lawfull Soveraign And this Damnation in the close of all will prove a sad Prize of the most Fortunate or Succesfull Treason whatsoever And in the 49 verse of this Chapter we may find no less than 14700 destroy'd because they maliciously cryed our against Moses and Aaron that they had killed the People of the Lord And what People were they why even the Blessed Conspirators Corah and his Accomplices Good God! that any should be so bold or Foolish to call those whom the Holy Ghost in my Text brands with the character of wicked Men The People of the Lord No! No! They never were nor can be the People of the Lord who Resist Lawfull Authority London Printed for James Norris at the Kings-Arms without Temple Bar A SERMON Preached at Petworth in Sussex by John Price D. D. 1 Corinth 10 10. Neither Murmer Ye as some of them also Murmured and were destroyed of the Destroyer NEither the sense of a natural allegiance nor the Sacred Tyes of Oaths nor Preferments nor Honours nor Riches could keep Some men in the dutifull station of Subjects St. Paul would have the Corinthians take warning from the Israelites whose Murmurings and discontents are recorded in Scripture and recorded there not only To ubraid their ingratitude but as the Appostle speaks verse 11. These things happened to them for Examples and they are written for Our admonition upon whom the Ends of the World are come Solomon gives a Caveat Say not thou what is the cause that the former dayes were better than These For thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this matter The Murmuring Questionists of his Age had the like before them and they have been since and ever will be so long as time is men will complain of the times and the little portion of Happiness that God gives Us in this life is di●●urbed by our own Restless and Repining nature any little petry accident at present doth more disturb Us than a load that is past and gon off our shoulders Israel was under the Miraculous protection and deliverance of Heaven but wants some little convenience and presently we read of a loud and clamarous Murmuring would to God We had dyed in Egypt The hard Bondage they had felt was gon off now and the want but of a meals meat in the Wilderne●s put them to Murmur against God and their Gover●ors As if it were not enough that man was born to labour as the sparks fly upward but we ad sparks to the fire when we are Children and under the disciplin of the Rod we complain that we were not born sooner and past the Correction of our Master and when we are Old we think we ware never so happy as when we were Children indeed we are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Those phansies that pleas'd Us we are soon weary of and seek for new somthing it is that would please Us better but what it is we know not Nev●bus atque Quadrigis petimus bene Vivere c. To Represent unto you the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Murmurer first he is an Heretick St. Inde speaking of false Teachers says that they are Murmurers Complainers c. Iquietoe Hereticorum Curiositates says Tertulian They are always Restless and always Prying Creep into Houses and then into affections till their Murmuring discontents at last break out into open Factions Secondly

put to the Sword and the People were carried Captives into that same Babylon that heathenish Countrey which they so justly abhorred Again the same tu●bulent and restless People being after many ages in some degree re-established by the valour of the Maccabees had made an intire and necessary surrender of themselves to the Romans as to their Lords and Masters For fear of giving umbrage to the Romans of any other pretender to the Crown but Cesar their cursed Polititian Caiaphas was for putting our Blessed Lord to death These two words Venient Romani the Romans will come and take away both our place and Nation were effectual Incentives to stir up the People to cry Crucify him Crucify him As now to cry loud enough Popery will come in and swallow Us up serves all the turns of any great Incendiaries to b●e●k through all Humane and Divine Laws What else could they intend speaking of the Phanatick Plot in King Charles the Second's time but a Massacre What other thing could they wish What other cause of acting so detestable a Treason For to take off a most merciful King and his next Successor Who next to him hath shewed himself of a most reconcilable Temper Complying men such as can sit still and be quiet under any Usurpations care not What In●erest prevails and laugh at the notion of being State Martyrs But I wish this sort of men who please themselves w●●h being so Passive in so Active times as these would consider what kind of censure or sentence rather an Heathenish Legislator hath pass'd upon them Amongst the Laws of Solon says Plutarch Writer of his Life that is very peculiar and surprizing which makes all Those infamous who stand Neuters in a Sedition for it seems he would not have any One insensible and regardless of the Publick and securing his Private affairs glory that he had not any feeling of the Distempers of his Country but Presently joyn with Those that have the Right upon their side assist and venture with Them rather than shift out of Harms-way These are the words of the wise man stating and declaring the concern that every private man ought to shew when his Prince in respect to Rebellion or his Country by Invasion is in danger And David being yet a Subject tells the people plainly as the Lord liveth says he Ye are worthy to dye Because Ye have not kept your Master the Lord 's Annoynted Awake then You that together with the Land which the Lord gave to your Forefathers inherit their virtue too the old English Loyalty and Courage Lay out your thoughts upon some thing more worthy of your selves than are thoughts only of your own security Let every one in his station do his duty fearlesly And they that doe soe prove for the most part the wisest aswell as the most Consciencious the safest aswell as the noblest and best Patriots Let Us set it down to our selves that Honesty is the true Policy and let none make that cursed conversion of the proposition as if Policy were the true Honesty unless they mean to Revive that old abominable Gnostick principle of Compliance with any Usurpations or Impositions for fear of sufferings for fear of that which a Christian would rather wish for his own sake could it be without other mens guilt i. e. the Crown of Martyrdom The Church the Feild of God has been manur'd and enriched with the noblest compost in the world the blood of Martyrs The times and Seasons of the year are bounded out and Signalized by the dying days of Martyrs The Christian Temples are dedicated to the Memorials of the Martyrs And Miracles were undeniably wrought at the Monuments of the blessed Martyrs After all this men of soft and smooth-Insinuations would introduce a Principle of self-preservation as they call it as if it were unworthy as if it were unlawfull to suffer any thing like Martyrdom Nay as if it were more Christian like to be Rebels and Regicides than to be so much as Confessors in the cause of Christ I hope now many of the Kings Enemies will change their note and sing Our new Song But then let it come from the ground of the heart And upon these terms They are welcome not only to Our Communion to our Church She never takes the Sword against her lawfull Soveraign but to that of the Angels in Heaven for there is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over one Sinner that repenteth then much more joy over many repenting Sinners What a noble change or rather what a Glorious transfiguration would be wrought upon These men that were lately Instruments of miscief would They now turn Saviours in their kind such as the Prophet gives God thanks for Thou gavest them Saviours who saved them out of the hands of their Enemies Nehem 9. 27. I will not say the third part of the Stars are smitten down as they were in St. Iohn's vision yet now so many who shin'd heretofore in their proper Orbs are fallen And yet the greatest Courage in the World may finde Room enough to exercise and shew it self in a Thorough Penitent as t is excellently argued by St. Chrysostom That David shew'd a more undaunted greatness of mind in daring to think of Surmounting the Sin and the Shame and to set up again for a Saint after his Foul Treacherous and Bloody offence in the matter of Vriah than he had shewn in his Single Combat with Goliah of Gath. LONDON Printed for Benjamin Took at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard The Religious Rebel A SERMON Preach'd at South-Marston in Wiltshire by Charles Powel M. A. Psal 10 10. He falleth down and humbleth himself that the Congregation of the Poor may fall into the hands of his Captains REbellion says Samuel is as the sin of Witchcraft Satan first Rebelled against the great Monarch of the World and tho his Ambition tumbled him down from the bright Regions of Bliss into eternall Chains of Darkness yet his instruments carry on the same Rebellion still tho' the scene be changed and the Plot carried on at a distance the design is still the same only that Our earthly Rebels are in this the worse Devils that They dare Rebell against God and the King too This Psalm in general is a pathetical complaint of David to Almighty God of the Pride Treachery Malice and Cruelty of wicked men who as Solomon says seek only Rebellion and These wicked men expositors tell us are Those whom he had maintain'd and preferr'd in his own Court and were therefore the more wicked and the more dangerous of which very persons he says It is not an open Enemy that hath don me this dishonour c. Divisions are of late soe dangerous that I shall not dare soe much as to divide my Text but will only raise from it this proposition That it is no● new thing for the worst of men to make use of the sacred name of Religion to palliate the most abominable

undertakings Bloodshed the Murtherer of the Fathers and Defenders of Religion Pious Kings and Princes destruction and Massac●e of their Fellow Subjects pulling down and overturning of all polity in the World must be all usher'd in as We see it this day with the Lamb-like harmless voice of Religion And tho' in these Glorious times of the Ghospel they cannot possibly think so yet They will pretend that in all this They do God good Service so true is that of our Saviour They come to Us in Sheeps Cloathing but inwardly They are Ravening Wolves My proposition has been so often and soe sadly proved even Among Our selves that to go about to confirm it by Arguments or precedents were to light you with a Lanthorne in the Sun-shine or to perswade you that you are wounded when you are now Roaring under the smart and anguish of the Blow An evil man says Solomon seeks only Rebellion therefore a cruel Messenger shall be sent against him Prov 17 11. We must have a care how we hearken to Those men that make the greatest noise about Religion which is not a thing of Talk and Noise and Tumult but a Quiet Calm Peaceable thing The Author of it was the Lamb of God who neither stirred up the Jews to Rebell against the Roman Heatken C●sar nor did he ever make use of any Sinister or Violent meanes to escape the hands of his bloody Persecutors and Crucifiers who envied him for nothing more than his Religion which he came on purpose to plant among them and which was to be water'd with his own Blood and brought to perfection by his own Death In all his Actions in the whole course of his Life he was a Pattern to them of Meekness Gentleness Peaceableness and Sub●ection And truly I am affraid Those men who make such an Hurry and Clutter about Religion are not his Disciples nor did They ever learn it from the Prince of Peace especiall when They make Relligion the Argument of Publick Commotions and Disturbances Let me now give you this Seasonable Caution Doth any one come to you in Samuel's Mantle in the Garb and Posture of a Prophet and in that Sacred Disguise falsy whisper to you what that Aparition said truly to Saul That God is departed from the King and become his Enemy for such Sprights also there are now abroad in the World and Those in Black too Have a care now and stand upon your Guard Look Diligently about you are you not got into Endore e're you are aware Is not the Witch and the Devil at work now instead of Samuel tempting You to ill thoughts of him whom that more sure word if Prophecy the word of God tells you ye shall not dare so much as to think Irreverently of Remember that Apparition was an Extraordinary thing never permitted but once a thing that Frighted the Witch herself and not like to be repeated again for every Fantastick mans ●ake that would pretend to Inspiration 'T is true indeed there are ●●ch Spirits in the World but they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cademons or Wicked Spirits Spirits of Rebellion and Mischief and Murder as St. Paul Prophecies of 2 Tim 3 4. Trayterous Heady High-minded Lovers of pleasure more than Lovers of God such as St. Iude describes who Despise Dominion speak evil of Dignities And these St. Paul tells ●s have a form of Godliness They appear like Lucifer himself when ●e is Transform'd into an Angel of Light all Clad with the bright and Glorious Rays of pretended Sanctity as if they were Sons of the Morn●ng some of the Corps du Guard to the great King of Heaven But then ●ave a care Mulier formosa superne De●init in Piscem Beware of the Clo●en Foot under the Robes of light for tho' they have the form of God●iness yet you may be sure they deny the Power of it who endeavour to ●essen and vilify those persons in your opinion who bear the Image and ●amp of Him from whom they derive their Authority By Me Kings Reign And while they Command nothing but what is in their Com●●●ssion are no less to be obey'd than he that sent Them and set them o●er us however They are not In any Case to be Resisted for Who●●ever Resist shall Receive to Themselves Damnation Rom ●3 2. And when his Majesty was Restored in meer Mercy to Us for I can ●●arce call it any to him who seem'd to be brought back only to new afflictions by the Ingratitude and Repeated Rebellions and Conspira●●es of a Stiff-necked and Hypocritical Generation who have Repayd ●ll those Blessings that by Him were conveyed to Us not only by Re●roachfull and Contumelious language which Moses calls Reviling of ●●e Gods Exod 22 28. But by atheistically Sacrilegiously and Re●●lliously Plotting and Contriving his death to whose Mercy now ●nd to his Brothers God-like Act of Oblivion so many among Us owe ●hose lives which We are now Sacrificing to the God of Rebellion a●ainst him A King so dear to Heaven that it has shewn as many Mi●acles in his preservation as Hell hath produced Plots even to a Miracle for his destruction I need not refresh your Memories which the wonderfull Acts of Heaven in his whole life which has had its black lines of affliction more perhaps than any other King we read of in the Murther of that glorious Saint his Royal Father the several Exiles of himself and the Royal Family and the present Calamnities which now attend him in all which he hath suffer'd and doth still continue to suffer more than I can relate or he could bear were he not sustain'd by the right hand of the most High while he not only was but now is again what St. Paul says of himself ●n Iournying often in Perils of Waters in Perils of Robbers in Perils by his own Country-men in Perils among False Bretheren Treacherous Favourites in Weariness in Painfulness c. And now let Us pray to God that he would move Us all to walk more uprightly and more sincerely before him And that the same God would make Us for the future more Loyal to our King that We may not any longer deal Hypocritically with the one or Rebelliously with the other That God may once more speak Peace to his People LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops Head in St. Paul's Church-yard A Sermon Preach'd in the Cathedral Church of Norwich By William Smith Prebend there Psal 107. 8. O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness And declare the wonders he doth for the children of men HAth the Nation scarcely wip'd Their Eyes dry for the Blood of the Incomparable Father but must it be drown'd again in Tears for the murther of his succeeding Sons And that in a scene of cruelty more inhumane and with a malice more infatiable than the former And may I now say as this juncture stands being from Men that were once the least to be suspected The rage of the