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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53971	A sermon preacht on January 30th, 1683 in Westminster-Abby before the reverend and honourable, the Kings judges, and printed at their request by Edw. Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1684 (1684)	Wing P1096; ESTC R23221	19,302	48

A SERMON PREACHT On January 30th 1683. IN Westminster-Abby Before the REVEREND and HONOURABLE the KINGS JUDGES and Printed at their Request By Edw. Pelling Praebendary of Westminster and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Somerset Omnis quidem sub Rege ipse sub nulló sed tantùm sub Deo non est inferior sibi Subjectis non parem habet in Regno Bracton l 1. c. 8. A Deo Rex à Rege Lex LONDON Printed by H. Hills Jun. for William Abington next Door to the Wonder Tavern in Ludgate-Street 1684. To the Right Honourable Sir George Jefferyes Knt. and Bar. Lord Chief Justice of England and one of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy-Council My Lord I Do heartily wish that your Lordships desires had not been so Earnest and Pressing as they were to have this Discourse made Publick which I assure Your Lordship was not in the least by me designed to be sent abroad into the World Your Lordship knew those Obligations I lye under to Your Lordship as my Kind and Noble Friend and the Principle I go upon of submitting to Authority so that Your Lordship had me under a double tye both of Gratitude and Obedience I expect to bear a great many more hard Censures and Invectives for this though I have done no more then what I think was my bounden Duty to do But those things I have been so accustomed to hear that I am now Clamour-proof I had almost said that mine Ears are somewhat like a Traytors Conscience past all feeling But if I may have leave to express my Real thoughts I cannot but pitty Your Lordship and your Reverend Brethren for Causing this Sermon to be Printed because hereby you have made it your own and are Oblig'd in Honour to undertake for it and to be my Defendants if ever I should be Threatned to be brought upon my Knees or to ho●● up my hand at the Bar for this as I have been threatned formerly for things of the like Nature And this I may think to be Security good enough But the mischief is that if ever tho●● Canicular days should come again Your Lordships will be in greater Jeopardy then my self and then God help my Advocates as well 〈◊〉 Your Client Let times be as it shall please God It is my Lord your Honour that you are true to you● Duty and it is my satisfaction that I can in any thing Obey your Commands And I do it with the more readiness because it is observed how ready your Lordship and the rest of the Judges are to stand by the Interest of the Church and upon all Occasions publickly to Vindicate the Honour and Integrity of the Conformable and Loyal Clergy That the God of peace for whom you Judge will Vouchsafe to preserve you in your Great and Honourable Station and support your Courage and Bless your Labours in the Ministration of Justice and Eternally Reward your Faithfulness to the King to the Church and to the whole Nation is My Lord the hearty Prayer of Your Lordships most Obliged and Obedient Servant Edw. Pelling Rom. 13. 2. Whosoever therefore Resisteth the Power Resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that Resist shall receive to themselves Damnation WHen the Christian Religion began to be planted in the World there were four very Evil Men which in their turns Succeeded Augustus in the Roman Empire Tiberius Caligula Claudius and Nero the latter of whom was the Man that raised the first Persecution against Christians I do not know but the Providence of God might order it thus that all men might have the most early notices of their Duty to Princes and that together with the true Faith they might receive the necessary Doctrines of due Obedience and Subjection to their Lawful Governours whether good or bad It was under Tiberius that Christ the Great Bishop of all our Souls gave that Command of rendering to Caesar the things that were Caesar's Matth. 22. 21. It was under Claudius that St. Peter the Great Apostle of the Jews taught the dispersed Converts to submit themselves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake whether to the King as Supream or unto Governours sent by him c. 1 Pet. 2. And as 't is generally conceived it was under Nero that St. Paul the great Apostle of the Gentiles gave this so strict a charge Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers Because there is no Power but of God Had not this thing been a prime part of the Christian Religion we cannot conceive why such great care should have been taken to inform the whole World of it especially in times which afforded not any common encouragements thereunto Were it not a sad Truth that some will believe no more of the Scriptures then what serves their present Turn we might wonder how 't is possible for a Christian to be an Undutiful Subject For as that great Christian and Divine the Learned and Incomparable Dr. Hammond hath Of Resisting the Lawful Magistrate rightly observed In the New Testament especially in the Epistles of the Apostles which were all Written in time of the Reign of Wicked Heathen Bloody Adversaries of Christianity and can refer to none but those there is no one Christian Virtue or Article of Faith more clearly delivered more effectually inforced upon our Understandings and Affections to be acknowledged by the one and submitted to by the other then that of Obedience unto Kings So that it is not either Ignorance that can excuse or any allowable principle of Christianity that can encourage Resistance nor is it Zeal or Conscience that doth it though that has been pretended by some puling and ill natur'd Hypocrites but 't is either an haughty and unmanageable Spirit or an hankering after Spoyl or an Aking Tooth after Government or a Furious Rage for disappointments or Personal Spight or hopes of Revenge or the fear of Justice or a Restless Factious Humour or direct Devillishness and Atheism under the Bonnet of Religion some or all these things have ever been the true causes of those Riots which have been so Vexatious so Fatal to Soveraign Powers It being otherwise impossible that Men whose Consciences are so Enlightned by Gods own Word should be so Blind Wicked and Fool-hardy as to Rise up against their Prince at the manifest hazard of the Greatest and most Intolerable of all Evils For that is the Rebels portion if St. Paul may be credited That they who resist shall receive to themselves Damnation Yet I do not intend to declaim though the World might well bear with me and with all others should our mouths be full of the very Quintessence of bitterness especially when we reflect upon that most Horrid and Execrable Murder which was acted about this time upon the person of that Great Monarch and Martyr of whom the World was not worthy and perhaps will hardly ever see the like of him again It would be a pittiful and woful thing indeed should not