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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

his Crown may flourish And in the next place abhorring that which is evil let us cleave to that which is Good for I hope we need not be exhorted not to be again Authors of our own Ruin And that as we cannot be so senseless but abominate the horrid Crimes afore-mentioned and earnestly desire our own Welfare and Happiness so to lay aside all Murmuring and Discontent all Schism and Faction all Sedition and Rebellion to yield all Loyal and Faithful Subjection to Our Gracious Sovereign the Lord 's Annoynted according to the Pure and Sound Doctrine and Principles of Christianity of our Mother the Church of England whose true Sons have as one speaks been ever found by Experience to be Cordial Friends to the Crown of England and which Church is the greatest Example of Loyalty that perhaps ever appeared in the Christian World unto whom let us submit our selves as the worthy Dr. Hammond admonishes us His words are these Uniform Obedience is due from us to the Commands of that Church wherein we were born the Church of England which of all others in the Christian world hath most adhered to the universal Church of the first and purest Ages Let us Conform our selves therefore to this best Constituted Church in the World who hath kept to that Excellent Rule Quod semper quod ubique quod ab omnibus receptum fuit and adhered to the Scriptures and true Antiquity Let us live peaceable and quiet Lives in all Godliness and Honesty and adhere to our Holy Christian Religion in all things and make our Religion the great Business of our Lives For Inter Christianos Gentiles non tantum fides debet sed etiam vita distinguere we ought to be distinguisht by our Lives and Conversations as well as by our Faith and Profession For this is most certain That true Piety Vertue and Goodness Integrity Humility Loyalty and Peaceableness are the most proper Fruits and Effects of a well-instructed pure Religion of a sound Faith and Perswasion As it is therefore doubtless the Great Interest of Princes to Protect Countenance and Support the true Religion of Jesus Christ which is repleat with nothing but Humility Fidelity Justice Wisdom Moderation Temperance Sobriety Subjection Loyalty Peaceableness Unity Love and Charity So also it is their great Interest to take care to propagate among their Subjects good and sound Principles of Religion Subjection and Loyalty and to that end That there be a total Suppression of all erroneous and seditious Books and Discourses and that together with the Sacred Scriptures and good Catechisms there might be permitted none but sound Tracts of Practical Divinity well and wisely composed to come into the Hands of their Subjects according to which there should also be constant Means of instructing all Men by Preaching but more especially the Youth and younger sort by frequently Catechising them This being well secured it were no matter what became of a many Tracts of Religion currant amongst us if they were committed to the Flames which do but distract and disturb many of them mislead if not poyson Peoples Minds with bad Principles and by those means in time there might be made a happy Reformation of Men's Minds and Manners Let us in the next place consider That it is the great Interest of Subjects to Copy out the Holy Christian Religion in their Lives and Conversations and then most of our great Complaints would without question cease all Disorder and Confusions be no more heard of in the World If Men whom the Most High hath differenced from Beasts by Rational and Immortal Souls would not lay aside their Manhood their Reason and degenerate into Beasts and be led and hurried by their Senses Appetites and Passions They might therefore easily be perswaded to entertain what would certainy promote their True Happiness and Interest the Excellent Religion of the Holy JESVS it being the great Design of God in sending his Son into the World to promote the Welfare and Happiness of Mankind throughout the whole World And can any one not void of all common Reason or Sense think that ever God gave us Wise and Understanding Vigorous and Active Souls merely to animate Human Bodies to Eat and Drink and Sleep to gratifie our Senses our brutal Parts to provide only for our Bodies to be mere Sensualists and Epicures and to acquire and heap up Riches Doubtless our Noble Excellent and Immortal Souls were given us for more noble and excellent Employment and End to be raised up above these things to be busied and taken up with the Contemplation of God of our Glorious Creator his Excellencies and Perfections and all his wonderful Works to Adore Love and Honor Him in all that we are or have That whether we Eat or Drink or whatsoever we do in Word or Deed we should do all the Praise and Glory of God and in all things to be regulated by his Laws Now shall we forget God and be more degenerate than the Beasts which Perish For the Ox knoweth his Owner and the Ass his Master's Crib To come more close to us We that own our selves Christians do we believe the Religion we Profess If we do why doth it signifie so little to us as it doth Why do we not live somewhat answerable to it Or if we do not believe it Why do we own the Profession Either we must be guilty of abominable Hypocrisy or of Atheism and Irreligion And once take away Religion and the Sense of God out of the World you do as it were take the Sun out of the Firmament you take away the Distinctions of Good and Evil bring your selves to be Beasts wallowing in all manner of Filthiness and Sensuality You reduce the World into its first Chaos of Confusion destroy the Happiness of Man overthrow all Rule Order Government and Peace in the World It hath been found by universal Experience in all Ages of the World the great Peace Happiness and Prosperity which hath always risen to the World from Religion and the true lively affecting Sense of God and Obedience to his Laws from the Exercise of Vertue and true Goodness And that on the contrary when Atheism and Prophaneness prevailed that Mens Lusts and Passions quickly disturbed the World and overthrew the publick Peace of States and Kingdoms brought in War Mischief Blood and Ruine turning a Fruitful Land into a Barren Wilderness For how is it possible that such men as are unfaithful to God should be True and Loyal to their Sovereign his Vicegerent upon Earth That such as are men of no Religion men of no Principles and walk by no Rule but are Slaves and Drudges to their Appetites and Lusts should ever in time of Danger and Tryal stick fast to the Crown and Government and perform the Duties of Loyal and Obedient Subjects and dye for their Prince And as for such among us as have been led away by the specious Pretences of Fanaticks in the simplicity and honesty