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A95627	A sermon preached at the primary visitation of the Most Reverend Father in God Michael Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland, and lord high chancellor of the same. Held at Drogheda, August 20. 1679. / by Rich. Tenison ...	Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.; Boyle, Michael, 1609?-1702.	1679 (1679)	Wing T683; ESTC R184950	25,194	36

A SERMON Preached at the Primary Visitation OF THE Most Reverend FATHER in GOD MICHAEL Lord Arch-Bishop of ARMAGH PRIMATE and METROPOLITAN OF ALL IRELAND AND Lord High Chancellor of the Same Held at Drogheda August 20. 1679. By RICH. TENISON Dean of Clogher DVBLIN Printed by Benjamin Took and John Crook Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty and are to be sold at His Majesties Printing-House in Skinner-Row 1679. To the most Reverend Father in God Michael Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland and Lord High Chancellor of the same May it please your Grace SO great and high are your Graces zealous Affections and just Veneration for the best of Kings that no Sermon which is perswasive to Allegiance can pass unregarded by you but receives incouragement beyond its merit of which observed truth your Commands for this mean Discourse are an evident Demonstration I little thought having so happily escaped your learned Ear to undergo the Test of your most piercing Eye but having then preached Obedience to others I must practise it my self and submit to the kind Injunctions of so great a Superior 't is therefore laid at your Graces feet hoping my Loyalty will attone its many imperfections and the dayly fears of our Soveraigns Assassination may justifie its zeal and warmth For what tongue can be silent to see the Father of our Countrey assaulted with such variety of Deaths To see the Ponyard at his sacred Breast the fatal Dose preparing and the Gun ready to fire must fill every true Subject with horrour and resolution He is the Head of the Body Politick and as in the Natural all the Members strive to defend the Head and share in its pain so should it be in this the bloody hand which is lift up against him must wound all loyal souls the cursed Sword which strikes at him must pierce their hearts they must value the Life of their Prince infinitely above their own and run through the greatest difficulties to preserve him and if they dye in his defence they perpetuate their Name on Earth and receive the Reward of their Fidelity in Heaven which true Protestant Principle made many thousands in the late times leap into the midst of dangers and run through the armed Troops of their too potent Enemies their greatest force could not make them yield but they covered that Post with their Bodies which they could not maintain with their Arms and willingly died martyrs for their King their Religion and Country This my Lord many places can witness but none more in this Kingdom than this Loyal Town in defence of which your Graces valiant Brother famous for Courage and Conduct and many hundreds more did triumphantly lose their lives their blood ran in streams through our streets and like the brave Leonidas in the Straits of Thermopyle they with a small number opposed an Army and no doubt but there are vast multitudes in each of these Kingdoms who will imitate those Heroick spirits and cheerfully fall for the King and the Church And if ever good Subjects should demonstrate their Courage it is now if ever Protestants should love honour and obey their King it is now when the cruel Jesuits are plotting and consulting to murther him and subvert our Religion in this they are closely combined this they hold lawful and just as I have proved out of many of their Books besides Mariana though a Jesuit lately executed would confess none else of that Judgment But alas instead of uniting against them we bandy into Sects and Factions we run into Schisms and Divisions and make way for them to destroy us we forget how the Civil Discords of our Ancestours brought our King and Countrey under the Subjection of the Roman Emperour and I wish our violent heats about Religion do not at last bring our Church under the vassalage of the Roman Bishop and our State into some imminent danger for without an agreement in that our Kingdoms cannot flourish Where men differ in Ecclesiasticks they usually clash in Politicks and have their own intrigues and designs to promote their Opinions they are jealous and doubtful one of another and like the several Factions in Rome and Carthage while they pretend the good of the Commonwealth they destroy it Of this our late bloody and tragical Devastations are an undeniable Evidence and that we are falling into the same miseries again is more than probable for seditious and fiery spirits do now as formerly fill the floating heads of the vulgar with causless fears and jealousies and make the King and his greatest Ministers the common Subject of their Discourse and if all things be not done and timed according to their humour as if they knew all Reasons of State and had Intelligence from all parts of the world then do they calumniate and slander the Government and asperse those most who have ever been most eminent for their Loyalty to the King and the Church and would now die in their defence and thus are the people deluded and made subservient to some aspiring male-contents who by their Agents and Emissaries do in all places reflect on the Management of Affairs and make them Patrons of Popery who have ever abhorred it and were lately for their aversion to it to be cruelly murthered as is constantly affirmed by * Dr Oats's Nar. p. 16. 23 25. those on whose Evidence most of our late Discoveries depend But your Grace well remembers this was their method in the beginning of our late troubles they according to Machiavals Advice did boldly libel and calumniate and to destroy both Church and State they subverted their strongest Pillars under the pretence of being corrupted and rotten with Popery and by clamour and noise made all Papists who were not as rash furious and disloyal as themselves Nay those holy Prelates whose most learned Works will be eternal Armeries and most impregnable Fortresses against the whole power of Rome were most unjustly and ingratefully branded with the same Character and such are now their Designs and Practices They would perswade the people to have an ill opinion of our Governours that they might the more securely carry on their own Designs But I hope God will infuse a spirit of Discerning into our King our Parliaments and Counsellors and that all who are in any Authority will fix one Eye on those subtile Vnderminers both of Church and State that while they are most zealous and intent and blessed be God they are so on the suppression of Popery our rigid Sectaries may not grow too numerous and formidable for when greedy and voracious flames seize on both ends of a Ship the middle part is like to perish and we know Diseases long neglected may prove destructive In the beginning of the Reformation the Genevian Infection did spread it self and the good Queen could not easily prevent it her Thoughts being chiefly employed in the Extirpation of Popery which dangerous Evil the wise King James

did soon perceive and resolve to redress as appears by his Proclamations against them and his first Speech to his Parliament in which speaking of the Sectaries and Novelists he says They are ever discontented with the present Government and impatient to suffer any Superiority which makes their Sect unable to be suffered in any well governed Commonwealth yet he did not do it for the Gunpowder Plot turned his Eyes wholly on the Papists and so had the Separatists an opportunity to increase to such prodigious number as proved destructive to his Son the Church and these Kingdoms Which with the two late Rebellions in Scotland may move our Governours to look back sometimes and watch the motions of the Kirk But I presume too far and must beg your Graces pardon for the loss of your minutes in viewing this rude Address so low a Style is no way fit for your Graces view who are as was said of Clem. Alex Inter Doctos summè Eloquens inter Eloquentes summè Doctus In you the Piety and Zeal the Wisdom and Courage and other justly admired Accomplishments of your Graces late great Predecessors are most happily met You every way fill and adorn your Chair in which that your Grace may long sit and continue what you are one of the greatest Pillars both of Church and State is the Prayer of May it please your Grace Your Graces most Humble and Obedient Servant RICH. TENISON 1 Pet. 2.17 Honour the King AMong the Plots and Conspiracies of the Conclave and the Consistory amidst the unjust Pretensions of the Roman Bishop and the Presbyterian Kirk to a Superiority over Monarchs This Apostolical Canon may not unseasonably be discoursed on for when the Papists have besides all their former bloody Treasons now lately contrived the Murther of our Sovereign and our disloyal Separatists in Scotland have run again into Rebellion and published a trayterous Declaration denying his Supremacy and calling his Government an Usurping Power though their own Chronicles witness him to be the Hundred and Tenth King of his Line 't is high time for all Orthodox and Loyal Clergy men to declare their Detestation and Abhorrency of such unchristian Tenets and Practices which are so directly opposite to this Injunction of St. Peter whose Successours the Popes desire and glory to be esteemed and whose peculiar Followers our fiery Zealots do no less proudly boast themselves But I shall quote him against them and from him prove them great Enemies to Princes and Invaders of the Rights of Kings for in this Epistle v. 13. he more than once commands Obedience to be given unto them and that in most general terms Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut ostendat non Qualitates Personarum sed Officium hic respici debere Magistracy whether in Jew or Gentile Christian or Infidel was then to be regarded none did presume to absolve Subjects from their Allegiance neither was Dominion then founded in Grace nor the Qualifications of Kings to be judged by the People but according to the preceptive Will of God the very Throne and Seat of Judicature did exact Obedience Which least they being Christians should refuse the Pagan Monarch who then reigned who was so cruel and outragious against them least they should fail in their Duty to him deny to pay him Tribute as other subjects did or take up Arms in defence of their Lives he twice minds them of their Allegiance charges them to submit unto him and all his Prefects and Governours in their several Provinces and not only and barely to submit to live peaceably and quietly under him but which was more to honour him Honour the King in discoursing of which I shall shew First The meaning of the words the Duty which arises from them and wherein it consists Secondly Who are the great Violators of it and their unjust Pretences Thirdly Who are the best Observers of it and consequently the best Christians and the truest Subjects First The meaning of the Words and the Duty c Honor est clara cum laude Notitia or Testificatio de Excellentiâ 't is that esteem and respect which is paid to a man in regard of the Place he is in or the Excellency he is endowed with 't is a deserved Fame Advancement and Exaltation above others an Acknowledgment of their worth and merit and a suitable Reverence and Observance paid unto it By the King is understood the Emperour and all his Lieutenants and Vicegerents so that he requires them to give all due submission and veneration to the Supream Magistrate and to all who were in Authority under him to shew them all just honour and regard in the Observation of their Laws and the payment of their Tribute Imperatori summos exhibete honores quos capit humana natura Gro. Observatione Legum Proestatione Tributorum Esti And the Prince to whom this duty was to be paid was that Portentum hominis as Suetonius calls him the inhuman Nero who thirsted after their Blood and put them to the most exquisite Torments he could invent for he wrapt them in the skins of beasts and let the dogs devour them he burnt them in pitched coats and made them serve for Torches in the night Even to him was this great Honour to be given and the Primitive Fathers do largely witness all his Cruelty did never make them fail therein From which you may soon note That it is the Duty of all Subjects to honour the King be he good or Evil. No sooner had Almighty God made Moses his Vicegerent and setled him in the Government of his People but he made Laws for them to walk by and wrote them in Tables of Stone to denote their perpetuity and duration and no sooner had he secured his own Worship in the first Table but he fixes Honour and Obedience to Magistrates in the front of the second and made it the first of those Laws which relate to humane Society because a man can't perform Acts of Justice to his Inferiours and Equals who is unnatural and disobedient to his Superiours And for the same reason in the Roman Laws are the Crimes against Magistrates and their several Punishments first reckoned up it being impossible for any to be good Members of a Commonwealth who do not first learn and practice Obedience to Governours The Laws will never be well observed where men don't honour the Magistrate Fear may make us go but it s the true Honour we have for our Superiours which adds wings to our loyal inclinations and makes us cheerfully perform their Commands The word is very comprehensive and takes in all that Loyalty and Fidelity that Reverence and Duty which we owe to those above us and by consequence shews them their Duty to us so that this short Precept is the great Ligament of human Society and the very Foundation of all Obedience for while we reserve that honour for the Magistrate