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A24968	Sober and serious considerations occasioned by the death of His Most Sacred Majesty, King Charles II (of ever blessed memory), and the serious time of Lent following it together with a brief historical account of the first rise, progress, and increase of phanaticism in England and the fatal consequents thereof : now made publick in tendency to the peace of the kingdom / by a gentleman in communion with the Church of England, as now by law establish'd.	Gentleman in communion with the Church of England.; P. A.	1685 (1685)	Wing A26; ESTC R11430	26,528	49

Foundation all Natural Moral Justice and Honesty and in place thereof to set up a New Body of Carneades his Philosophy instead of the old Heathen dry Principles of Integrity and Uprightness that one Law of Interest and Passion and Self-Preservation So that as Machiavel thought Religion would emasculate and enfeeble Common-wealths We have more reason to complain saith he That it hath debauched and corrupted Lives That Christian Men are the impurest Part of the World That Sathan's after-game hath proved more lucky and prosperous to him than his first Designment did That his Night-walks hath brought him more Proselytes than his unlimited Range of going up and down to and fro over the Face of the Earth That as Sin by the Law so Sathan by the Faith of Christ hath taken occasion and so deceived and ruined us more desperately more universally than by all the National Idolatrous Customs of Heathenism he hath been able to do And let us seriously consider That all this complicated Mass of Wickedness not to be parallel'd under the Sun was committed and done in the Face of the World by those who stiled themselves and would needs be accounted the only Protestants of the Kingdom Things being brought to this Conclusion and upshot What an easie Perswasion might prevail with sober and considering Honest-hearted Men in Exile forthwith to abandon and renounce this Protestant Religion as a Religion to be abhorred by all Men as being as opposite to the true Christian Religion and what likewise in truth was professed by the Church of England as Darkness was to Light And a great part if not all this Mischief arose and was carried on as I humbly conceive with submission to better Judgments from a furious and mad Antipathy and Averseness against Popery and Papists which made them to imagine they never could run far enough from Rome until they came to Munster Where I will leave them with their Fellow Protestants if all such who are opposite to Rome must be Protestants as of late many in England would have made them and that by a Law also But Alas these abominable and horrid Impieties what honest and pious Heart can seriously consider of and not dissolve into Tears and humbly and affectionately beg of God not to lay these Sins to England's Charge but to wipe out the Guilt thereof from the Nation More especially considering what a loud Cry innocent Blood yea the Blood of The Lord 's Anointed hath to Heaven for Vengeance especially upon Fanaticks and such as retain the fore-said wicked Tenents and Principles which were productive of all the said Villainies Let them further seriously consider Mr. Baxter's own Words in his last Answer to Bagshaw pag. 30. cited by a Worthy Author Nothing saith Mr. Baxter that I know of in the World doth so strongly tempt some sober Consciencious Men to think Popery necessary for the Concord of Churches and a violent Church-Government necessary to our Peace as the woful Experience of the Errors and Schism the mad and manifold Sects that arise among those that are most against them To which purpose the Worthy Dr. Parker speaking of the Phanaticks endangering Religion several ways saith thus I know no other grounds of Fear or Danger from them unless this may prove one at last That by their wanton and unreasonable Peevishness to the Ingenious and Moderate Discipline of the Church of England they give their Governours too much Reason to suspect That they are never to be kept in order by a milder and more gentle Government than that of the Church of Rome and force them at last to scourge them into better manners with the Bryars and Thorns of their Discipline Let us further consider seriously the abounding of Debauchery and Wickedness among us at this Day which can portend nothing but Mischief to us the horrid Oaths Blasphemies and Curses that continually fly about our Ears almost in all Companies and in every Place more or less yea as we pass along the Streets enough to amaze us What abounding in Swinish Drunkenness and Excess How have our Times curiously studied to find out variety of Liquors to make an Acceptable Sacrifice thereof to Bacchus What Fulness of Bread and Idleness what Intemperance Gaming Uncleanness and Lasciviousness and the Consequents of these Quarrelling and Duelling having as it were lost the Sense of Good and Evil our very Natural Modesty and Shame we are become impudent and exquisite in Sin And which is most sad to consider these are those Rotten Bones as one hath well observed which would lie hid under the Painted Sepulchre of Honor These some would make the Accomplishments of a Gentleman The Learned Doctor Hammond observes That many irrational Sins through some Local custom have gotten the Reputation not only of sinless and lawful but of laudable also as Duelling and in favour of Sins of Uncleanness whereby it is become a more creditable thing among us To have been guilty of defiling and invading another Man's Bed than to be the Innocent Person which hath been thus robb'd by the Adulterer Now Let us consider seriously of these things as a Divine of our own hath well observed How that Atheism and Enthusiasm are apart and by themselves the most desperate and dangerous Causes of Misery and Calamity and Ruin to Mankind And that when ever they should combine Interests and joyn Forces what Government can withstand their Fury in that there is no Wickedness that is necessary to the carrying on the Cause that they will not undertake Do we not therefore stand in great need of Sober and Serious Consideration and of humbling our Souls before God in Dust and Ashes for all these before-mentioned Abominations and making our Peace with an offended Majesty and by frequent and fervent Devotions imploring his Mercies and in the Language of our Church upon Ash-Wednesday say Almighty and EverlastingGod who hatest nothing that Thou hast made and dost forgive the Sins of all them that are Penitent Create and make in us new and contrite Hearts that we worthily lamenting our Sins and acknowledging our Wretchedness may obtain of Thee the God of all Mercy perfect Remission and Forgiveness through Jesus Christ our Lord And further to enlarge our Devotions to God That He would please to bless and prosper our Gracious Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty and his Gracious Consort and all the Royal Family That He would furnish his Majesty's Royal Heart with Wisdom to go in and out before this great People committed to his Charge by the Supreme Lord of all the Kings of the Earth That God would support and strengthen him under that great Weight of Government that now lies upon his Shoulders in the Governing of a Licencious People very much tainted with with Schismatical Seditious and Wicked Principles which can be no pleasing Task for any Prince to undergo ThatGod would be pleased to direct and guide his Counsels and cloath his Enemies with Shame and Confusion and That upon his Head

Doctrine Worship and Government and so to degenerate from its primitive Purity and Integrity and was made use of as a Means and Instrument of acquiring Honor Splendor and Riches and of promoting those great Vices of Pride Covetousness Idleness and Luxury and this instead of making Men Virtuous and Good and rectifying their Lives and Directing them in the Ways of Holiness and Peace conducting them to Heaven Thus I humbly conceive from the Pope's Primacy of Order arose the Supremacy of Jurisdiction and from thence Papal Tyranny packing of General Councils corruption in Doctrine and Practice with innumerable other Mischiefs to the Church the great dividing and endangering Christendom and laying it many times in War and Blood And on the other hand how this Holy Religion of JESVS Christ hath been miserably corrupted and abased by Sectaries and Fanaticks how hath it been made absurd and ridiculous to all the World by their Pride and Folly their ignorant Confidences Peevishness and Animosities Who out of a mad blind Zeal against Popery never could think themselves safe and far enough separated from Rome until they fell into Religious Frensy yet would then notwithstanding account themselves Protestants yea the best of Protestants and what a long train of dismal Consequences there followed the same the World can witness and more especially of late Years we in England as you have heard before Oh! may I therefore exhort us again to bewail our Follies and abandon them to Renounce all Schism Contention Fanaticism that Plague of the Reformation and living vertuous and good Lives and in Conformity and Subjection to our Mother the Church of England her wholesom and Excellent Constitutions Oh! Let us learn this most commendable Duty from our Adversaries the Romanists who are very Respectful towards their Ecclesiastical Governors and very Conformable to the Constitutions of their Church and abhor to do any thing that may prejudice the Order Peace and Welfare of the same in any kind for which I cannot but have a great respect for them and in which I shall endeavour to follow their Example in the Church of England wherein I was born and for so doing they cannot I hope justly blame me And although they are possibly led by a blind Obedience or Impicit Faith as we call it and are thereby many times misled yet their fault arising from a diffidence of themselves and obedience to their Superiors will be very pardonable especially of such as are born and bred in that Communion it being a fault on the Right-hand and far less than what our Fanaticks and Sectaries are guilty of who out of Pride Ignorance and Presumption refuse Subjection to the Spiritual Governors which God hath set over them and thereby break the Unity and Peace of the Church Let us therefore heartily pray as our Mother the Church teaches us Almighty God who shewest to them that be in Error the Light of thy Truth to the intent that they must return into the Way of Righteousness Grant unto all them that are admitted into the Fellowship of Christs Religion that they may eschew those things that are contrary to their profession and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen I shall conclude and say sufficit tentasse Let it suffice I have done my Endeavour in a good Cause For certainly if the Promotion of the Honour of God the Advancement of True Religion and Vertue if the Promoting of Loyalty and Fidelity the Honour and Happiness of my Gracious Sovereign if the Detestation of Errours of Atheism and Prophaneness Vice and Wickedness of Fanaticism Hypocrisie Schism and Rebellion and representing them in their proper colours if promoting the Peace and Happiness of the Church of England as now by Law Establish'd the best Christian Church in the World of Piety and Unity amongst all her Members if promoting the Peace of Christendom and more especially the Honour Happiness and Prosperity of this Nation yea of all his Majesties Dominions I say if the honest endeavours of the same be a commendable and worthy Design it is all I intend in the Writing and now making Publick these although sudden yet serious Thoughts Therefore I hope I may meet with a pardon for the meanness and unworthiness of the performance to so good an end And as for any one that shall find fault with my weak and unworthy management of so worthy so good a Cause it is no more than what I do my self Let him but be pleased to undertake the Cause and manage it better and I assure him I shall be so far from being offended with him That I shall be infinitely well pleased and rejoyce therein and return him my thanks And it is yet my Hopes this Essay may animate and encourage eminent and able Champions in so worthy a Cause which without doubt is the most excellent most honourable most worthy the best in the World and merits the assistance of the ablest Heads Pens and Tongues that are extant among us FINIS Books Printed for and Sold by Luke Meredith at the King's Head at the West End of St. Paul's Church-Yard AN Introduction to the Old English History comprehended in Three several Tracts The First An Answer to Mr. Petyt's Rights of the Commons Asserted and to a Book Entituled Jani Anglorum Facies Nova The Second Edition very much enlarged The Second An Answer to a Book Entituled Argumentum Antinormanicum much upon the same Subject Never before Published The Third The Exact History of the Succession of the Crown of England The Second Edition also very much enlarged Together with an Appendix containing several Records and a Series of Great Councils and Parliaments Before and After the Conquest unto the End of the Reign of Henry the Third And a Glossary expounding many Words used frequently in our Antient Records Laws and Historians Published for the Vindication of Truth and the Assistance of such as desire with Satisfaction to read and truly understand the Antient English Historians and other Pieces of Antiquity By Robert Brady Doctor in Physick A Loyal Tear dropt on the Vault of the High and Mighty Prince Charles the Second of Gorious and Happy Memory By Henry Anderson M. A. Vicar of Kingsumborne in Hampshire The Songs of Moses and Deborah Paraphras'd with Poems on several Occasions Never before Published To which is added A Pindarick on Mr. L'Estrange A Dialogue between a Pastor and his Parishioner touching the Lord's Supper Wherein the most material Doubts and Scruples about Receiving that Holy Sacrament are removed and the Way thereto discovered to be both plain and pleasant Very useful for Private Christians in these scrupulous Times By Michael Altham The Second Edition To which is added Some short Prayers fitted for that Occasion and a Morning and Evening Prayer for the Use of Private Families Two Treatises The First Concerning Reproaching and Censure The Second An Answer to Mr. Serjeant's Sure-Footing To which are annexed Three Sermons Preached upon several Occasions and very useful for these Times By the late Learned and Reverend William Faulkner D. D. Rhetoricae Libri Duo Quorum Prior de Tropis Figuris Posterior de Voce Gestu praecipit In usum Scholarum postremo recogniti infinitisque poene mendis expurgati Autore Carolo Butlero Magd. Artium Magistro Sir Edwin Sands in his Europae Speculum