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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45168	A sermon preach'd before the House of Lords, at the abbey-church of St. Peter's Westminster, on Thursday, the 30th of January, 1695/6 being the martyrdom of K. Charles I / by the right reverend Father in God, Humphrey, Lord Bishop of Bangor.	Humphreys, Humphrey, 1648-1712.	1696 (1696)	Wing H3721; ESTC R43273	16,128	29

Lusts to be meek and peaceable Nothing can make such Men peaceable but what can mortifie their Lusts and cure their Passions and nothing can do that but the Spirit of God that Dove-like Spirit which dwells in those Temples which are dedicated to him by Religion The result of all that I have said upon these two last general Heads in brief is this that as no Government can subsist without Religion nor continue long if the Subjects of it have not the fear of God so on the other hand no Government can obtain its end either in promoting Virtue maintaining Justice or preserving the Peace and Prosperity of a Nation without the assistance of Religion And the Conclusion which naturally follows from these two things is this That therefore it is the interest as well as the Duty of Kings and Princes and of all the Ministers of Government as they desire their own pres ervation and the continuance of their Authority and Hope to do any good in their Stations to make it their chief care and business to suppress all Irreligion and Vice and to promote Religion and the Fear of God among their Subjects without which in a word they themselves can never be safe nor their People happy And now to apply what hath been said with respect to the present occasion all that has been said of the Blessings a Nation enjoyeth in having a Government over it especially such a Government in the Person of a King that makes it his business to do God's work in the World in restraining men from sin and promoting Religion and Virtue All this these Kingdoms had in the most eminent Degrees in the Person and Governmentof King Charles I. of glorious Memory He was a shining Example of Religion and Virtue there were all the Motives to it in his Government both in punishing of Vice and Encouraging of Virtue And tho 't is true there were Complaints of Grievances and Oppressions in his time as perhaps there will be in all Governments yet whatsoever ground there was for them it is certain there were such Riches and Wealth in his Reign as never were known in England before The Wealth and Plenty and Prosperity of England was then the wonder and Envy of all our Neighbours And for Arts and Learning the attendants of Peace and Plenty we then surpass'd all other Nations in the World And yet from the beginning to the end of his Reign still there were those Complaints which I less wonder at since there were as I have shewn the like among God's chosen People and that even under Moses's Government and in the time of David's Reign But as this insensibleness of God's Blessings could not hinder his People from feeling the want of them when by the loss of those Excellent Governours they could better judge what a Blessing they enjoyed in their continuance with them Even so it happened among us when our King was taken away Then there was a general lamentation not only his Friends but some that had bin his Enemies joined in it There was indeed such a general lamentation in this Kingdom at first when the matter was fresh that the like has been never known nor heard upon any occasion It was much aggravated and heighten'd by a Sense of the manner of his being taken from us If the Lord had smitten him or his day had come that he should die or if he had descended into Battle and perished in all this there had been nothing extraordinary or singular but that it was the loss of an excellent King And that was no more than what Judah suffer'd in the death of their good King Josiah And yet we see what a sad lamentation they made upon that occasion 2 Chron. 35.25 But there was this extraordinary in our Case it was that which would astonish one to think of it that such a blessing should be thrown away with our own hands that such an excellent King should be murdered by his own Subjects and that with such unparallel'd Circumstances at the Door of his own Royal Palace with the Pageantry and Forms of Law a scornful Mockery of all Earthly Justice and the boldest Defiance of the Justice of Heaven This was horrour to all good Men that saw or heard of it it broke the Hearts of not a few at that time and even now all good Men have that sense of it which they want words to express Indeed it is hard to get over this Subject it is hard to speak of this blessed King's Murder without a just detestation of them that were the Authors of it But that is not my business at this time I am now to consider this matter as it stands between God and this whole Nation It was certainly a dreadful and almost an unexampled Judgment of God a Judgment that went very near being fatal to us it was the great Mercy of God it had not ended in our Ruine We may therefore be sure there were great National Sins sins as great and extraordinary as the Judgment by which we drew it upon our selves I do not mean only those particular sins which immediately produc'd this doleful effect and which were personal to the Actors in it but I mean those publick and National sins in which all had their share and which first set the other on Work They were these that depriv'd us first of the Protection of our God and then made him pour down his Judgment upon us and deprive us of our King To name nothing more at present but that which was the Fountain of all our Misery it is certain if we may believe them that liv'd in those days there was a very great neglect of Religion at that time in this Nation I do not mean of the outward Form and Profession of Religion perhaps that was never more in request on both sides among them that were Contending about it but the great defect was in the Life and Power of Religion This appear'd too much on both sides On one side we must confess among them who adher'd to the Principles of Loyalty and true Religion there appear'd too great a neglect of the Life and Power of it in them which gave occasion for some to say that their looseness and Irreligion was the Ruine of the King 's most Righteous Cause But on the other hand this appear'd most manifestly in them who notwithstanding all their great and specious Profession of Religion and all their Pretences to tender Consciences yet had no sense and made no Conscience of their sin in running out into that Rebellion and into all those Rapines Sacrileges and Murders which they committed in the Profecution of it This great want of the true Power and Spirit of Religion was the unhappy Fountain from whence all those other sins issued forth that made up the measure of our Iniquity and drew down that dismal Judgment upon us which we lament on this day What then remains but that we still humble our selves under