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A40759 A sermon preached upon the 29th of May, in the parish-church of St. Margaret in Lyn-Regis in Norfolk, in a great presence by Tho. Fysh ... Fysh, Thomas. 1685 (1685) Wing F2569; ESTC R17652 17,320 47

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the Instigation of any number of Fellow-Members of the same Society against the Band of Union or Government which secures the Whole 't is plain all Original Conventions or Rights are laid by as Insignificant and Invalid and then Matters come to Force and the Hostilities of Anarchy and Conscience and Moral Honesty will be lost as well as Order and publick Peace To obviate if possible this intolerable Evil Oaths of Succession and sacred Tyes of Allegiance have been imposed upon Subjects to Kings and their Heirs and then all Lawful Rights and Titles are adopted into a Religious Sacredness and Obligation and the Duty is then enforced by a Supervening Awe and Dread of the Avenging Justice of that God who would have Caesar's Rights rendred to Caesar as well as his own to himself But to conclude this Point If we would find sure Expedients to engage the Divine Favour let us not grow distrustful of his Providence nor run counter to his Will and because we apprehend the Ark of God does totter or threaten to fall in a rash unwarrantable Zeal stretch out our bold unconsecrated Hands upon the visible Symbol of the Divine Presence And so I go to The Fourth and Last Observable in the Words The happy Influences this Government should have upon the Subjects of it and this illustrated by the Gracious Conduct of the Angel of Old that went before the Camp of Israel which is called The Angel of the Divine Presence and which conducted the Israelites out of Egypt into the Promised Land This hovered over and overshadowed them like a Tent Sometimes it appeared as a Pillar of a Cloud for it was dusky and dark when master'd and out-shined by the Sun 's more powerful Rays and sometimes as a Pillar of Fire when like the Stars it recover'd its Light in the Absence of the Sun The Angel that was in this Cloud was their Guide to lead them in the tedious Wandrings of their Way and was their Guard against the Dangers that might annoy or infest them God's Name was upon it and it moved by his Authority and was a Symbol and Visible Means as well as a Representment of his constant Watchfulness and Care over them By its Coolness and Shade they were shelter'd from the scorching Heats of the Arabian Deserts and by its environing them round they were secured from the Pursuits of the enraged Egyptians and the Annoyance of all other Enemies whatsoever I must leave your own Thoughts and Experiences to accommodate all this to the kindly Influences of that Government under which we live under whose Protection and comfortable Shade we sit safe and easie and enjoy every thing that can sweeten our Passage through the Wilderness of this or open us a hopeful Prospect into the other World by which we have a blessed Opportunity if we will gratefully improve it to lead peaceable and quiet Lives in all Godliness and Honesty For though it be true in the General that since God left off to converse with Men by the visible Intercourse of Angels there can be no fitter Representment of his constant Presence than by a Soveraign Magistrate by whom God rules though in more Humane Ways and who is the Ordinary Means of conveying many of his publick Blessings to this lower World Yet this We of this Nation have special Obligations to appropriate to our selves and to esteem him that now fills the Throne as the Angel or Minister of God to us for Good We shall grow unworthy of Blessings which we refuse to own and in vain do we expect that Heaven should smile on us afresh if we continue Clouded under sullen and ungrateful Passions Remember we that the murmuring and discontented Israelites did blast their own growing Happiness and their mutinous Designs of chusing new Captains cut them short of their Happiness in the Promised Land Let Israel then rejoyce in Him that made Him and let the Children of Sion be joyful in their King A Prince who is Great and Free as ever Monarch on the English Throne but yet Great and Free as those good Angels are that preside over Humane Affairs who cannot bend their Power to do Mischief or Annoy A Prince so far from affecting Arbitrary Power that He is just beyond the Impeachment of Malice and merciful beyond either Merit or Example and who out-does the Excellency and Goodness of the English Constitution by His singular Temper in the Administration of it A Prince who like an Angel of God is wise to discern between Good and Evil and can judge truly what Intrigues or Designs are carried on by demure Pretenders to an Oak of Reformation a Pilgrimage of Grace or a True Protestant League or Association Who distinguishes easily and exactly between the Sacred and Genuine Gospel of Christ and the Evangelium Armatum of the Jesuits the Republicans or the Leviathan and whose Senses are so well exercised in the Manage of His Authority as to tell with wonderful Sagacity when Tenderness of Conscience is a pityable Infirmity and when it is a stubborn and naughty Disease A Prince Who is Patient almost beyond Provocation and Generous beyond Desert and Who can deny us nothing but a Liberty to undo our selves and Who seems resolved that even in spite of our selves He will make us Happy A Prince Who like Moses was preserved amidst wondrous Providences to rescue us from the Slavery and Misery under which we groan'd and Who like him too is as meek as any upon Earth And when He returned from Exile to Empire happily defeated an old Prophecy of bad Portent Regnabit Sanguine multo Ad Regnum quisquis venit ab Exilio And did neither enter nor reign in Blood Such is the Prince whom God This Day first brought into the World and This Day brought back to His own and His Father's Throne and such it was fit That Prince should be Who was sent and designed by God to calm a stormy World and to restore Peace and Plenty Laws and Religion to these distracted Nations Talem esse oportuit Quem non Bella Civilia non Armis oppressa Respublica sed Pax Adoptatio tandem exorata terris numina dedissent Such it was fit He should be Whom not the fatal Skirmishes of Civil War not a Mutinous and Fanatick Army not popular Violence or partial Election but Peace and Justice and Sacred Inherent Right and the Mercies of Heaven at length listning to its pious Votaries on Earth did advance to a Throne And what now remains but That we all bless the Lord and walk so worthy of his Divine Favour and Love that he may still rejoyce over us to do us good And That for the sake and according to the Precepts of that God we obey and heartily reverence the King and That in warm Duty and Gratitude to the Crown we chearfully come in and zealously take part with it against all Hands that would shake its Stability or Tongues that would darken or diminish its Lustre That we be forward and ready upon all occasions not only to support and guard but to ease and oblige the Throne and to sweeten what we may the Burden of that Royal and Gracious Government under whose Shadow we rejoyce And Thou O Father of Lights Grant that as this Day twice eminently did so this and all his Days for long and many Years may rise prosperous and happy to our David and his House that He and They and We all may gratefully rehearse thy Mercy and declare thy Goodness and ever rejoyce in thy Salvation Amen FINIS Act. 12. 9. Ch. 6. 13. Ch. 3. 5. Ch. 8. 12. Ch. 8. 19. Ch. 4. 6. Jud. 9. 23. Prov. 30. 21 22. 2 Sam. 7. per tot Zech. 9. 5 6. Judg. 9. 19 20. Vide Dr. Hammond in 1 Cor. 10. 1. Vide Sueton in Tiberio Casaubon in locum p. 404. Plin. in Pan.