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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49241	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on the 30th of January, 1696/7 by William Lancaster ...	Lancaster, William, 1650-1717.	1697 (1697)	Wing L315; ESTC R6275	14,635	35

may be as perilous as when he storms a Castle or takes a Town We have heard of these mens Crimes and sometimes of their Absolution but not a word of any publick Repentance for publick Sins but all go out of the World with a quiet Mind or are only sorry their Attempts succeeded not Now this can proceed from no other Cause but from that sole Principle and Opinion That it is Lawful to resist and to embrew their Hands in that Sacred Blood which has been too frequently and too far exposed in our Defence I wish that sort of Men would deal fairly and instead of vending among the People those Jesuitical Notions and Speculations they would go directly to the Prince's Chambers and tell them Him and give Him timely notice to look to Himself for that they will Rebell when they please and themselves are the proper Judges of their own time This is the real truth of the matter and Men who justifie Resistance and intend to practise it do not intend to ask the King's leave when they go about it do not wait for an Order of Council or a Patent or Instrument under the Broad Seal but their Convenience is their Commission and they bear their Authority on their Sword 's point Thus I say God has given some Men over to a reprobate Sence and from Murdering one King to maintain That all others may be lawfully Murder'd This is surely the most direful Curse that ever happen'd to any People to be given over to Impenitence and a hard Heart a Man in this state is got within the confines of Hell even while he lives upon Earth and has gone so far within the Gulph that he cannot return Moses was once angry and he repented David was guilty of Murder and Adultery and with Tears he washed off the guilt of Blood and of Uncleanness S. Peter deny'd his Lord and wept bitterly Nay Judas made some sort of Confession and seemed to be sorry when he returned the Money which was the Price of Blood Judas himself never betray'd and resisted and taught others to resist so that this is one degree above his Crime and will be punished in a place below him Men of no Religion and who have written in behalf of a Liberty I had almost said in behalf of an Indifferency of all Religions yet have thought fit to own That Principles not consistent with the repose and quiet and security of Government ought not to be tolerated or endured Now Men who teach and justifie the Lawfulness of resisting Kings maintain all Principles of Confusion in one word For First It will be hard to distinguish between Resistance and Rebellion they are Twins so very like each other that without some nicety in Metaphysicks a Man would mistake them for one and the same thing Secondly If a Man may Lawfully resist no man can Lawfully hinder Him or put a stop to his Resistance for what has any man to do to hinder or molest me when I am doing a Lawful thing I am then about my Lawful Employment Thirdly If Resistance be lawfull and men doing lawfull Actions are not to be hindered or molested be sure upon that account they cannot lawfully be punished and then all Treasons may go on and prosper And now as we are bound to pray for Kings and all in Authority so it is no less our Duty to teach such Doctrines as may secure to them the Possession of that Power and Soveraignty they have over us and the Duty and Allegeance we owe them as God's Ministers for our good It is not Affection alone nor is it Principle alone that renders Kings safe in the Enjoyment of their Crown and Dignity Principle may be too weak when Affection is lost and gone and Affection for a Prince without Principle too is but mutable and uncertain our Love is apt to vary and change and Affection goes with Interest and turns with it but when Affection for a Prince and a Principle of Conscience are joyn'd and united they make a Bond that will hold a Sampson and which the strongest Man cannot break But to conclude First Our Law and our publick Prayers complain of a Murder committed as on This Day and of the shedding Royal Blood Let us mourn and sorrow for it though as to our selves we had no hand in it the Heart must grieve for what the hand does and thereby we shall testify to all the World That although there is upon our Land the Guilt of Blood yet we are not those Savages that delight in Blood Secondly God in his Justice took away Josiah and He frequently takes away good Kings when the sins of the People tempt and provoke Him to it He has hitherto been gracious to us and deliver'd our Soveraign both from hidden Conspiracies and open Violence and has been his Defence when thousands have fallen at his Right and Left Hand Let us not by our Sins tempt God to take from us that Blessing we enjoy in Him Thirdly The Jews had their Temple and City Jerusalem destroy'd and themselves carried away Captive after the Death of Josiah think you they were Sinners above others I tell you nay The same People of God the Jews for the Murder of our Saviour were above Forty years afterwards finally ruin'd they and their Children think ye they were Sinners above others I tell you nay We know what follows Here is likewise the Cry of Innocent Blood at this day and we cannot presume that we have yet shed Tears enough to wash off the stain and pollution from our Land but that Posterity and Childrens Children may mourn under the Curse and Cry of it Wo to us c. This is a proper Subject for Jeremy's Lamentation here a man might with Him wish his Head a Well of Water and his Eyes a Fountain of Tears to bewail the Miseries due to so sinfull so ungodly so ungovernable a People Remember O Lord and let not those things come upon us which our sins deserve Let not our Inheritance be turned to strangers nor our Houses to Aliens who would be Lords over us Spare us good Lord Spare thy People turn away thy Wrath from us and together with all our other Iniquities pardon the Sin of this day Thou who hast shed thine own Blood to save us from Sin and from Wrath to come FINIS