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Monarchy maintained in a sermon preached at St. Anne Blackfryers / by Titus Bruce ...
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Bruce, Titus, b. 1654.
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Wing B5221; ESTC R2486
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whose very names will tell you that they have been applauded for their Piety should we blot out these from the Catalogue of the Church I fear we should have but a poor Charter for our Religion If then there be any here with whom that Sacred name of Majesty like a high Mountain at a great distance hath seem'd to vanish into the Air and seem'd a little nothing or disappear'd suffer your selves to be undeceived Search the Scriptures if you be of the Faith of your Fore-Fathers have the same Conscience David did privily cut off the skirt of Saul's Garment But his heart smote him and he never found Peace in himself till his tears had wash'd out his faults But we do not oppose the King saith the Phanatick the King is a good King a merciful King and so he is in spight of their saucy bold-fac'd Decraction But yet there is something which troubles them they are griev'd that he is not less a King or that they are not more his Masters If he be so good which nothing but impudence will presume to question why do they then not yield obedience The Reason is clear a Factious Spirit can never be long content with any Government How careful were the Loyal Israelites to preserve the Royal Person of their Prince when they exempted David from the danger of a War a War commenc'd by an annatural Son and manag'd by the advice of an ungrateful Traytor 2 Sam. 18.3 The People said thou shalt not go forth for if we flee away they will not care for us neither if half of us dye will they care for us But now thou art worth ten thousand of us Again as if the whole Kingdom at his Death were to have been intombed in a fatal and disconsolate Grave of darkness or else condemned to a perpetual night 2 Sam. 21.17 The men of David Sware unto him saying Thou shalt go no more out with us to Battel that thou quench not the light of Israel Are ye Christians or hath some new born title taken away that name If you have not renounced your Baptism but still continue what you pretend to be I know you 'l find that Damnation is the Portion of them that resist the Ordinance of God And this brings me to the third and last thing namely the Punishment of them that resist They shall receive to themselves Damnation Rebellion as the Scripture tells us is as the Sin of Witchcraft and commands likewise That we should not suffer a Witch to live These are left to the censure of the Magistrates and to the Punishment due to them by the Laws But as for incorrigible Rebels God takes them to task himself Psalm 106.17 18. The Earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the Congregation of Abiram and a fire was kindled in their company the flame burnt up the wicked St. Paul tells us that the wages of every unrepented sin is death But such a horrid crime as this Heats the Furnace seven times hotter than it was it causes the Worm that never dieth to gnaw more violently and add new Stings to the eternal Scorpions At the hour of such a Persons Death when Desperation begins to knit up all with a direful catastrophy the Pulses beating slowly the Head akeing violently Body and Soul refusing Comfort he sees the Devil ready to pay him the Wages of unrighteousness and he receives to himself Damnation But the King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord exceeding glad shall he be of thy Salvation for thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not denied him the request of his Lips thou shalt prevent him with the Blessing of goodness and hast set a Crown of pure Gold upon his Head His Honor is great in thy Salvation Glory and great Worship shalt thou lay upon him for thou shalt give him everlasting Felicity and make him glad with the joy of thy Countenance Amen FINIS