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B02744	Rebellion arraign'd a sermon preach'd before their Majesties in their chappel at Whitehall, upon the 30th of January 1687. The anniversary and humiliation-day, in abhorrency of the sacrilegious murder of our gracious sovereign Charles I. / By the reverend father John Dormor, of the Society of Jesus.	J. D. (John Dormer), 1636-1700.	1688 (1688)	Wing D1926A; ESTC R174707	10,612	31

Rebellion Arraign'd A SERMON Preach'd before Their MAJESTIES In Their Chappel at WHITEHALL Upon the 30th of January 1687. The Anniversary and Humiliation-Day In Abhorrency of the Sacrilegious Murder Of our Gracious Sovereign CHARLES I By the Reverend Father JOHN DORMOR of the Society of Jesus Permissu Superiorum London Printed by Mary Thompson at the Entrance into Old-Spring-Garden near Charing-Cross 1688 TO THE READER READER SInce the Printing of the Pharisee's Council my Promise has been Challeng'd and I call'd upon for two more Sermons almost out of mind The First My Humiliation Sermon Preach'd the 30th of January 87. nam'd Rebellion Arraign'd The other Enituled The Law of Laws and Preach'd the 19th of September 86. If I told thee in my last The rest of my Sermons were at thy call Now I tell thee call for no more It is my design to ease thee of that Trouble by publishing them all together as soon as Leisure will give me leave In the mean time Remember what thou'lt often find in them a short Life is giving way to a long Eternity Farewell J. D. A SERMON Preach'd before Their MAJESTIES On the 30th of January 1687. 1 Pet. cap. 5. ver 6. Humiliamini sub potenti manu Dei ut vos exaltet in tempore Visitationis Be ye humbled under the Powerful Hand of God that he may exalt you in time of Visitation IF ever Nation to its Advantage and Renown comply'd with the words of my Text Dread Sovereign it is your Loyal England England by humbling her self this day in the presence of God and yours appears more Glorious than ever it did by humbling with force of Arms her most redoubted Enemies Victory in VVar is often a gift of Fortune at the best the fruit of Valorous Conduct dear bought not soon got and soon forfeited Englands Humiliation is a standing Victory of Peace it is a quelling of Rebellion it is a Vindication of her Kings Right and her own Honour Chance has no part in it Loyalty produc'd it The Wisdom of both Houses of Parliament concurr'd unto it It is not fed with Blood and Booty but Fasting and Tears with Devotion it is maintain'd and a forever settled Obedience renders it Eternal Thus England has Humbled her worst of Foes by humbling her self and by so humbling her self in this time of Visitation of Gods Mercy upon us is exalted as high as ever Rebellion had cast her low Humiliamini c. Be ye humbled under the Powerful Hand of God that he may exalt you in the time of Visitation The unnatural Enemies of their Country joy'd in her Confusion in her Disgrace they Gloried they Triumph'd in her Losses England was gaz'd at by Foreigners as a Monster to be kept up and cut off from the Commerce with the rest of the VVorld A King Arraign'd said they and with horror by who but England A King call'd to the Bar by who but England A King process'd and Condemn'd by who but England A King brought upon the Scaffold before his own Palace and People and Barbarously put to Death VVhen VVhere tell the place name the Time mention the Record by whoever but England Such were the insulting Reproaches whole England was expos'd to for the guilt of a Crew of Miscreants degenerated from the Fear of God and antient Allegiance pay'd by Dutyful England to her Kings But Silence O you Who thus impeach the whole for the Crime of a few A party of wretched men desperately Wicked and hardened in Impiety They are the words of the Act in reference to this day The King was Arraign'd The King was call'd to the Bar but England Sigh'd England Wept The King against all form of Law was Process'd and Condemned but England Agoniz'd between Grief and Horror The King was Cruelly Murdered but England Vow'd a just Revenge and since has taken it of the Regicides Rebellion in that time over-rul'd the Stage Rebellion acted the Tragedy it had contriv'd poor England disarm'd with sorrowful Eyes was forc'd to look on No House of Peers then sat no free House of Commons a Kennel of Blood-hounds a rude Expression did they not merit worse were the Assassins of our most Indulgent Monarch they were led on by the Scent of an aspiring Passion mask'd with Zeal for Religion so to delude some At Tyranny they ran with a fair show of Liberty so to entice in others Liberty indeed to debase their Equals to pull down their Betters to enslave their Countrey England groan'd under the heavy Scourge and is no sooner recover'd by the Happy and long Sigh'd for Restoration of her Natural Prince and Government but makes it her first care to vindicate her self to Posterity Sitting therefore in Parliament she declares to the World her Inexpressible Detestation and Abhorrency of that Villanous and abominable Fact and for a lasting Monument of this her Sense she beseeches the Royal Power to establish this day of Humiliation to which Piety and Loyalty oblidges us to concur Humiliamini c. Be ye humbled under the Powerful Hand of God that he may exalt you in time of Visitation In order to promote so Religious an Act my first point shall be to remind you of the subject of Humiliation which is Rebellion and since Rebellion so unhumanely Arraign'd our Gracious King. My second point shall be to Arraign Rebellion My third to see Execution done upon her and that by the hand of Humiliation But let us first implore his Divine Assistance him who made himself a Patern of Humiliation for our Sins by the Intercession of His Virgin Mother Ave Maria Humiliamini c. Be ye humbled under the Powerful Hand of God that he may exalt you in the time of Visitation THe proper subject of Humiliation is sin the greater the sin the greater ought the Humiliation to be To private Offences which prejudice the Offender alone private Humiliation is due a publick Humiliation becomes sins which influence upon the publick and no sins wound the publick so dangerously as those which are destructive to Loyalty Obedience and Government Kings bare the burden and dignity of the Publick no sin therefore requires a more signal Humiliation and Repentance than Disloyalty Rebellion and the Contempt of the Right of Kings and their Majesty nor was there ever a Disloyalty Rebellion or Contempt equaling that committed against the Sacred Person of Charles the First Humiliation then on this Anniversary-Day should exceed all others If I mistake not my Discourse holds good relying upon the just proportion to be kept between Humiliation and Sin. I could exemplify each part out of holy Writ were I not press'd between scarcity of Time and Copiousness of matter It is enough that I insist only upon Rebellion But is not that Rebellion to be blotted out of Memory and buryed in Oblivion Old Soares are not to be ript up True if perfectly Heal'd and if perfectly Healed yet their trouble and danger may be expos'd for future Safety and prevention of

the like This is the method observ'd by Preachers in order to other Sins and I have no cause to desert it in order to Rebellion of sins the greatest Forgive and forget is a maxime of Christian Charity in so much as I find Acts of Pardon and Indempnity stiled Acts of Oblivion and yet I reflect that as pardoning is a property of Goodness and Magnanimity so to forget argues a carelessness or weakness of mind God forgives but cannot forget and England on this day will not have forgotten what your Royal Brother and your Sacred Majesty have so Generously forgiven You have forgiven but England will not forgive her self and with the noblest of Dispositions doth Pennance for a Crime which was not hers So Christ an Innocent humbled himself for the sins of his People even to Death Him we are to imitate by so doing England endeavours to make her Loyalty vye with your Clemency and by not forgiving her self for having been the Mother of a few Vipers cannot but confirm and encrease that tender Love shown in all Time even with the evident and many hazards of your Sacred Persons in Defence of her Rights and Honour True it is there is a forgetfulness ever joyn'd with forgiving for albeit one remember a Displeasure yet in case he pardons it he forgets the main resentment due unto it God cannot but remember sin yet forgiving it forgets as it were to inflict the Punishment of Hell due unto it This is what the Royal Prophet Psal 78. and the Prophet Isa c. 64. both v. 8. crave at the hands of God Ne memineris Iniquitatum nostrarum Remember not our Iniquities and in conformity with this it is that we are ordered to implore the Mercy of God That neither the guilt of that Sacred Innocent Blood nor those other sins by which God was provok'd to deliver us and our King into the hands of Cruel and Unreasonable Men may at any time be visited upon us and our Posterity Thus the Act of Parliament expresses it self where we are at once reminded of the worst effect of Rebellion and to Pray God to forget the resenting it Having laid the subject of Humiliation before your Eyes I come in my second point to Arraign Rebellion Rebellion The Daughter of audacious Pride Rebellion Mother of the basest Treacheries Rebellion nurse of private Discontents Rebellion sower of Jealousies and Fears Rebellion the disturber of peaceable Minds Rebellion the distroyer of true Liberty and Religion Rebellion the bain of humane Commerce Rebellion the destroyer of Wealth Happiness Birth-right and Life it self Rebellion the open enemy to Order Government and God Rebellion blazing in Fire and wallowing in Blood. This is the Monster of Monsters disguis'd in all shapes to compass her ends her Name I tell you is Rebellion and from her Name I begin her Arraignment Rebellion Thou art convicted of being a restless Spirit Nothing in heaven no State no place no Condition can possibly content thee Happiness swells thee Misery enrages thee Piety cannot mollify thee thou art ever for Reform of Religion and Government whereas True Religion alone can reform thee Heaven could not keep thee in peace all the delicious Fruits of the Garden of Eden could not satisfy thy disordered Palate the Church has felt the smart of thy Divisions thou hast over-run the Earth with Calamities in Hell alone if thou art quiet it is because tam'd by punishment Restless thou art the World thy old Acquaintance comes in Evidence of it by imposing the Name of Rebellion upon the from Re. and Bello I War again Rebellion's stomach turns at the sweets of quiet Unfeign'd Hydra in the Fens and Bogs of Discontents she breeds Is one head cut off Without fable another shoots up Is she beaten to the ground She renews her Forces She 's ever beginning ever Warring Has she no Sword to manage She Wars with her Tongue she Wars with her Pen. If daring neither she Wars with her Thoughts she lays her Designes she expects her Time she 's ever Rebellion warring again a restless Spirit by Deeds answering her Name And from her Name I pass to her Deeds Rebellion Thou art brought in Guilty of being wilfully void of Reason A Rebel in the first place wages war against himself by opposing the Law of Nature which is his own Reason Reason promotes a friendly Intercourse between Men to their reciprocal Help and Comfort Rebellion obstructs it In order to this amicable Society Reason prescribes a Supreme Power to end strifes when arising to provide against Invaders of the common safety Rebellion will be Arbitrary will stand to no Authority will her self invade Reason teaches us to Sacrifice a Private Interest Disgust or Wrong to the Publick Tranquility Rebellion will have the Publick Welfare to truckle to Private Passion Reason's Decision is that a patient Sufferance is preferable to a successful Rebellion Rebellion feignes causes of Sufferance where there 's none In all her Proceedings unreasonable But more Rebellion The foulest Ingratitude is Charged upon thee Nothing works so forcibly upon the generous Heart of Man as to see himself lov'd But Rebellion of a Man thou leav'st no more than a Figure Love by thee is slighted Thou devidest Friends thou Arm'st Patriot against Patriot thou stirrest up Relation against Relation Brother against Brother Son against Father the Love of thy Prince is requited with Hatred and Disdain No tye which thou dost not unloose no knot which thou dost not untye or cut Country King God cannot win thee with Kindness I 'll only give a glance at some particulars too well known to dwell long on them Heaven is the seat of Felicity the center of Bliss Lucifer vouchsafe to be at rest submit and it is thine No where canst thou be more at ease Rebellion has stopt his Ears and he 's unquiet Reason tells thee it 's a madness to Rise against thy Maker Where Rebellion has got in Reason's not heard God has conferr'd the Noblest of Beings upon thee what more endearing But endearments loose their Vertue with Rebellion Adam let this Example be a warning to Thee and Terror I come too late Neither the fortunate state of Paradice nor his own Reason excelling all other nor the Demonstrations of Gods singular favour could allay the Spirit of Rebellion that had enter'd his Heart when that Eritis sicut Dii You shall be like Gods had enter'd his Ears What shall I say to the contumacious Children of Israel What to the unnatural Absalom No Content no Reason no Kindness could abate their Seditious Fury and to advance to the subject I now am on England was an Earthly Heaven a worldly Paradice The Liberty of the Subject with a grateful acknowledgement Reverenced the Royal Prerogative Law ran in its natural Channel each one sat under his own Vine fed of his own Grape ever ready to lay down Life and Fortune for his Princes Honour and Safety when Rebellion stomaching at so much Prosperity