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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61463	A thanksgiving sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Court of Aldermen, sheriffs, and companies of the city of London at St. Mary-le-bow, April 16, 1696, upon occassion of His Majesty's deliverence from a villanous assassination in order to a French invasion by William Stephens ...	Stephens, William, d. 1718.	1696 (1696)	Wing S5465; ESTC R14197	18,938	34

And what greater affront can we offer to the high Merit of our excellent Prince who useth his just Title only to support the true old legal Monarchy of England than to pay any respect to the Title or Memory of him who Abdicated the Crown i. e. cast off the legal form of Government and ruled us by a Despotick Power was it though decent or indeed tolerable to preserve a respect for Tarquin in the Consulship of Brutus by whose Aid the People cast off the Yoke of his insupportable Tyranny but what would have been thought of those who should publickly disavow the Right of Brutus to that high Dignity which the People had vested in him out of respect to Tarquin the deposed Prince 3dly Let us bless God who brought Light out of Darkness that by the discovery of this unnatural Conspiracy he hath sprang a light whereby his sacred Majesty and those who are entrusted with any part of the Government under him may clearly discern their Friends from their Enemies and certainly know who are for and who are against the conjunct Interest of King and People so that from hence such measures may be taken which are absolutely needfull to secure our Establishment Whosoever refuseth to acknowledge the Right of William the III. does actually declare for the extinguished Right of James the II. and whosoever owns his Right must by Virtue of his Allegiance hold himself in conscience oblig'd to endeavour his Restoration Now I appeal to all the world if any such person as this can of right claim to himself so much as Protection from the present Government but on the other side every one must own that the Government in protecting them doth fully discharge the highest duty of Christian Charity which is to love our Enemies and do good to those that hate us Protection is the highest Favour which the Government can in this case bestow or which these men are fit to receive for Christ never commanded us to trust our Enemies but on the contrary to temper the Innocency of the Dove with the Wisdom of the Serpent He who thinks himself obliged in Conscience to James the II as his rightfull King if he hath not the Courage to make one in an Insurre Stion nor the hardy baseness to joyn in an Assassination yet 't is manifest that he will not oppose the former design nor reveal the latter Now altho to protect such persons be the highest degree of Christian Charity yet to admit them into the Trusts of the Nation is not the highest degree of Christian Prudence The Jesuits who were convicted of a Hellish Plot in the Reign of King Charles II. could never with all their Wit excuse or so much as extenuate their Treason and therefore they betook themselves to the last Shift or an impudent Denial But our late Convicts with greater Effrontery own and justifie their unnatural Conspiracy and die glorying in their Treason But was ever any Kingdom so fatally divided against it self that the Religion by Law established should be an open Enemy to the civil Constitution that what in the Eye of the Law is Treason should by the Church be accounted Duty that whom the Judge condemneth the Priest shall absolve at Execution for the Impenitence of the Traytors and Insolence of the Absolvers are both justifiable as they pretend from the Church of England's Doctrine concerning Passive Obedience and it must indeed be granted that if James the II. had a divine and indefeasible right to our Passive Obedience the right of King William the III. to the Crown of these Realms could not at this day have been own'd nor could the bloody Conspirators even against that Life which under God supporteth the liberty of Europe and the Christian Profession throughout the World been found guilty of Treason But do these Apostates think to impose their Passive Doctrine of blind Obedience upon the Protestant Church and Kingdom of England do they think we cannot rightly distinguish this matter as for instance Passive Obedience to the Law of the Land is the Doctrine of Jesus Passive Obedience to the will of the Prince is the Dostrine of Judas a false and trayterous Doctrine whereby all civil Governments and legal Rights are betray'd to arbitrary Power Judas betray'd the person of Christ to the High-Priest of Israel Passive Obedience to the will of the late King betrays the Body of Christ i. e. all true Christians to the Pope of Rome and therefore the Professors of this Doctrine have by the righteous Laws of this Land suffer'd that Punishment to which God in his just judgment condemned the Traytor Judas which was To be hang'd and burst in the middle But what can put a stop to the unparallell'd Insolence of this Party unless the Parliamentary Association which subjects these hardned Traytors to a just Revenge be wellcomed with the Heart and Hand of the Nation Hereby every honest Man and Lover of his Country may encourage our Confederates abroad and assure the Minds of all true Englishmen at Home and we need not doubt that God will bless these our honest Endeavours in defence of that Religion which is all Charity and Peace and of that King whose only fault perhaps it is that his own safety is not so dear to him as it is and ever ought to be to us These Cautions are absolutely needfull to preserve our Rightfull King and righteous Establishment and therefore let us joyn our Prayers to God that no false Suggestions nor vain Jealousies may prevent or frustrate these necessary Cautions which God in Mercy grant through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen FINIS