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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43563	The character of a rebel a sermon preached at Market Harborow, on the 26th of July, 1685, being the day of thanksgiving appointed for His Majesties victory over the rebels / by Thomas Heyricke.	Heyrick, Thomas, d. 1694.	1685 (1685)	Wing H1752; ESTC R10745	14,677	38

the end many mischiefs proceeding from despicable causes one little breach in a Sea-bank being enough to drown a Country It is scarce credible in two Lines drawn from the same Center how the distance between them increases the farther they go and were they drawn out to infinity they would still be wider Fourthly Let us take heed how we be induced to sin upon any design or pretence or for any reward the world hath been too long imposed upon and made to believe that some unlawful things at some times may lawfully be done and that even Rebellion in some cases is meritorious and this men were chiefly perswaded to by having a good name put upon an odious thing evil men being glad of any pretence to sin thus fighting against the King was fighting the Lords Battles Plundring the Royalists was spoiling the Egyptians Sequestring mens Estates was doing themselves Justice they being Saints and the Earth belonging to them and many other such abominable Tenets But surely if sin be of that virulent and poisonous nature that nothing could attone for it but the Bloud of Christ not Rivers of Oyl or thousands of Bullocks or Rams could qualifie it surely no design can hallow it no pretence can take away its nature though it may be colour'd and palliated the essence of it remains still the Poison is Poison though took in a Cordial and since Kingdoms cannot buy off Iniquity nor Empires be a Sacrifice for Transgression surely the argument is very strong that then sin should not be committed for the greatest gain for the highest interest For what doth it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul Sure then Rebellion a sin of an high nature should not be entred into though the pretence was saving a Kingdom though our Property our Liberty our Lives our Religion lay at stake Fifthly If none of the former considerations can avail I would desire factious Spirits to consider the end of Rebellion which as it is founded on the ruines of Piety and Religion so it ends in infamy death and destruction which the late blessings of God to this Land do evidently demonstrate The Devil was the first Rebel and it cost him dear his Heaven and happiness and there is little hope any Rebel should enter that blessed place when the first Rebel after he was so was not suffered to stay one moment in it and though God sometimes for the sins of a Nation doth suffer Rebellion a while to prosper and makes evil instruments his rod of Correction as the Jews Gods own people were punished by the Idolatrous Philistines and Chaldeans yet when God by them had brought his sacred purposes to pass he swept even them away too with the Besom of destruction So though God for the manifold provocations of this Land gave up a pious King the Mirrour of Princes to the fury and unparallel'd villany of Miscreants and Regicides as he did his beloved Son to the Jews yet there seems to be as visible a Curse on those Regicides and their Posterity as there was on that cursed Nation that cried His bloud be upon us and on our children both of them abhorr'd of God and men And as the greatest of Judgements both seem to be given up to Impenitency and hardness of heart for as the Jews that murdered our Saviour do yet continue to blaspheme him so those that murdered the Father as if they had no sense of the sin have since attempted on one Son by private Conspiracy and the other by open force so that it may appear no needless piece of charity to pray for them in that Collect of our Church for the conversion of Jews Turks and Infidels to be read on Good Friday if yet there be a door open for Repentance Having thus considered the branches of my Text the mercies we have received at the hand of God cry aloud to us for Thanksgiving and that we may rise to a due pitch it would be needful for us to look back upon those dangers we have escaped But what mind is there so piercing or fancy so luxuriant that can possibly number those Devastations Ruines Massacres the desolations of Houses Families and Cities that would have followed What pity could have been expected from that rude Multitude the worst of men of whom the Rebels Army consisted natural enemies to Nobility and greatness Eminence and Excellence too visible enemies to the Church and mortal foes of Decency and Order How would all the true Sons of the Church of England for their Loyalty to their Prince have been branded with the Imputation of Papists and kill'd tumultuously by a Vote of the Commons And who can sum up those Hydra's heads of Schism and Faction those nests of Vermine that would have overspread our Israel those innumerable Sects a worse plague than the Egyptians felt under their Frogs or Lice what praise can be enough to God for our deliverance from all these And that the Rebels themselves may not complain that they want their share in this days Solemnity I entreat all those that were either publickly or privately so to consider that had God given Victory to their unlawful Arms they would have miss'd those advantages they expected and they have reason to praise God for their disappointment For what concord could there have been among that disorderly Rabble the sink of so many Sects in Church and Designs in State which no sooner was their common Enemy the Church of England destroy'd but they would have crumbled into innumerable Sects and Factions and been like the armed Brothers sprung of Cadmus Serpents teeth What settlement in Church or State when one party in the West of England was for Monarchy those in Scotland for Aristocracy and no doubt the Rabble for Democracy What rule what safety could there be for the Subject and how miserable a life would that Prince have led that was to humour so many Factions All must have been confusion and who knows where the uncertain Ball of Contention would have rested tost from one Sect to another to the utter ruine of a flourishing Kingdom And let me in the Name of God desire all those whose Hearts were with the Rebels and we have too much reason to believe many were by that visible Joy that was in their faces upon any of their Successes Let me intreat all such to bless God that delivered them from their unlawful desires and wishes let them bless God who kept them safe against their wills that gave them not opportunity means or power when they had given themselves will to be Traitors and Rebels And may the miserable fall of their Brethren be a lasting Memorial for them may it learn them more Piety and Wisdom than to meddle with those that are given to Change And may they repenting of their sins and acknowledging them to God and man by future Loyalty agree with us though they will else in nothing in offering up Praise and Thanksgiving to God for delivering us from them and them from themselves FINIS