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A30420 A sermon preached before the Aldermen of the city of London, at St. Lawrence-church, Jan 30. 1680/1 being the day of the martyrdome of K. Charles I. / by Gilbert Burnet ... Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1681 (1681) Wing B5875; ESTC R14664 19,574 37

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a fatal series in some distractions one step not only makes way for another but makes it in some sort necessary for their security that have gone too far In the end all were losers and the Nation was like to be ruined Those of the Church not only lost all that they enjoyed their Goods and their Benefices and Dignities but they lost him who was their Head on Earth who was and still must be one of the greatest Glories of this Church Those of the separation were not gainers by it a new party not thought of at first rose up and took the game out of their hands and when they had forced the Parliament and killed the King they entitled the rest to all they had done and pretended they had gone on truly according to the principles upon which they had set out at first And though they were gentler to these of the Division than to those of the Church yet they were to have been devoured at last if a happy revolution had not taken the Nation out of their hands Upon such a sad experiment especially seconded with those dreadful hazards to which we see our selves now exposed it might be expected that men of all sides should grow wiser and more temperate and that many that are for the Church should abate of their stiffness in things not Essential and that they on the other hand that insist on some indifferent matters would consider things better without any heat and animosity And thus if we come to love the Truth and Peace that is to secure the Protestant Religion against those enemies of Truth and Peace at Rome and unite at home all that are capable of it by adjusting matters among our selves and those that cannot come into that Union being at least inoffensive to them that do and so all living in Love and Peace one with another then we may hope to see that accomplished in our case which is in my Text promised to the Iews the third thing I proposed to speak to 3. That all the sad effects of that for which we now mourn shall be then entirely removed that our days of Fasting shall be turned into solemn and chearful Feasts then should our twenty ninth of May swallow up the remembrance of the thirtieth of Ianuary or perhaps as the Prophet foretold such happy deliverances should come to the Jews as should make even that out of Egypt be forgotten so we might hope for such days as should out-shine and darken the very twenty ninth of May. Then might we hope to see Halcyon days or to speak in an English phrase Queen Elizabeth days again If we were delivered from the fears of Popery and an end were put to our contests at home if King and People if City and Country if Conformists and Dissenters all would happily conspire in the duties proposed in my Text of loving Truth and Peace Then should all our drooping Hearts revive again all the mists that now environ us should vanish all our fears and jealousies should fall off and we being of one Heart and Mind should be the Paradise and Joy of the whole Earth and the Glory and Bulwark of the Reformed Religion and this great City should be a City wherein Righteousness should dwell Then should we lie down and rise in Peace Allarms and Distractions should cease Peace should be within your Gates and Prosperity within your Houses or rather Palaces for such many of them are Oh may we ever hope to see such days and such a time If we come to love the Truth and Peace then shall even this Fast of the tenth month according to the Jewish account be to us Joy and Gladness and a chearful Feast The God of Truth and Peace give us Grace to set about it sincerely To him be all Honour and Glory both now and evermore FINIS Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswell Guillim's Display of Herauldry with large Additions Folio Dr. Burnet's History of the Reformation of the Church of England The first Part. Fol. His second Part compleating the said History is now in the Press His Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England Oct. His Relation of the Massacre of the Protestants in France 4to His Sermon before the L. Mayor upon the Fast for the Fire 4to His Account of Eve Cohan a Person of Quality of the Jewish Religion lately converted to Christianity 4to Some Passages of the Lite and Death of the Right Honorable Iohn late Earl of Rochester written by his Lordship 's own direction on his Death Bed by the said Gilbert Burnet D. D. Octo. Dr. Burlace's History of the Irish Rebellion Fol. Herodoti Historia Gr. Lat. Fol. Mr. Williams Sermon before the Lord Mayor Octob. 12. 1679. His impartial Examination of the Speeches of the five Jesuits lately executed for Treason Fol. His History of the Powder Plot with a Vindication of the proceedings and Matters relating thereunto from the Exceptions made against it by the Author of the Catholick Apology To which is added A Parallel betwixt that and the present Plot. 4to Mr. Ia. Brome's two Fast Sermons 1679. Dr. Iane's Fast Sermon before the House of Commons Apr. 11. 79. 4to Mr. Iohn Iames Visitation Sermon 4to Mr. Iohn Cave's Fast Sermon Ian. 30. 79. 4to His Assise Sermon at Leicester Iuly 31. 79. Dr. William Cavt's Sermon before the L. Mayor Novemb. 5. 1680. Dr. Puller's Discourse of the Moderation of the Church of England Octo. Dr. Saywell's Original of all the Plots in Christendom Octo. Sir Iohn Manson's Discourse of Supream Power and Common Right Octo. Dr. Edw. Bagshaw's Discourses on several Select Texts Octo. Speculum Baxterianum or Baxter against Baxter 4to Mr. Rushworth's Historical Collections the 2d Vol. in two Parts Fol. His large and exact Account of the Earl of Strafford's Tryal Fol. The Country Man's Physician An Apology for a Treatise of Humane Reason By Matth. Clifford Esq 125. The Laws against Jesuits Seminary Priests c. explained by divers Judgments and Resolutions of the Judges and other Observations thereupon By Will. Cawley Esq Fol. Fowiis's History of Romish Conspiracies Treasons and Usurpation Fol. Rob. Seller's Remarques on the State of the Church of the 3 first Centuries Oct. ●p Sanderson's Sermons Fol. Dr. Hurnet's Fast Sermon before the House of Commons Decemb. 22. 1680. His Translation of the Decree made at Rome March 22. 1679. condemning some Opinion of the Jesuits and other Casuists 4to
be managed by the better part that is the stronger the Army who assumed to themselves the name of the better and sounder part for I am sure I speak within bounds if I say it was not the Twentieth man and I do not exceed if I say it was not the hundreth man of England that approved of it It is therefore a most unjust blemish cast on the Protestant Religion or the English Nation to accuse either the one or the other for that which was but the crime of a few hot headed Enthusiasts or ambitious Souldiers and those who suffer themselves to be wrought on by so ill grounded a prejudice and to be so far carried by it as to renounce our Communion and go over to the Church of Rome discover plainly that they neither understand their principles nor ours We detest and condemn it and they encourage and approve the like practices and they may as justly accuse the Protestant Religion of Adultery and Theft because some among us have been avowedly guilty of these sins The Church of England hath ever witnessed her detestation of these practices and principles and shared deeply in the sufferings of their King The whole Nation by their Representatives in Parliament has condemned it and appointed this solemn humiliation for expiating the guilt of it And many of the most considerable Dissenters did even then when it was not so safe to do it as it is now openly declare against it both in their Sermons and Writings This is what in Justice cannot be denied them and many of them were no less active and industrious and were indeed highly instrumental in the bringing home of his Majesty that now Reigns If some few have justified the shedding of this blood as their number hath been but inconsiderable so their Maxims have been chiefly borrowed from Popish Writers One great instance of this appeared in many speeches that were printed at that time and were said to be delivered in their Junto which were almost word for word taken out of a book that had been often condemned and was strictly prohibited that went under the name of Dolman but was believed to be written by Parsons the Jesuit who was perhaps one of the greatest men that that order has produced so manifestly did they copy from the Jesuites School and by that great impiety then acted by them they have given some seeming but very false colours for taxing the Reformed Religion by which Popery has had such footing among us By these things it may appear that we are yet under the ill effects of the guilt of this day both in the strength that Atheism received by it and the advantages which the Papists have taken from it The other reason of continuing publick mournings is when we are warned by any sad symptoms to fear the return of the like or of new calamities and that this still presses on us to repeat our solemn humiliations is so evident that I need not stand long to make it out We have been long under fears that it might happen to us as it did to the Jewish Church when it was her lamentation The anointed of the Lord who was Lament 4. 20. the breath of our Nostrils is fallen into their pits Our King is more to us in our circumstances than theirs was to them and we have had more cause to fear that he should fall by the hand of a Clement or a Ravilliac and then what a black prospect have we of most terrible confusions to follow on such a fatal blow or if even that sacred life should in a natural way expire what can we see beyond it but fatal and gloomy days Or if the disorders among our selves should burst out into blood what distractions and miseries are like to follow It is not to be conceived that among them who are so zealous in the opposing of a Plot against His Majesties Person our holy Religion and the peace and safety of the Nation there can be any that dares mock God and Man so audaciously as to be designing any such thing at the same time that they are accusing others for it To suppose it otherwise were to give credit to the false suggestions and base contrivances of those who design nothing more than to take us off from watching over their motions by engaging us one against another and infusing such Jealousies as may effectually divide us among our selves the only way that is now left without a forreign power first to break and then to conquer those in separated parties whose united strength they know they cannot resist I shall therefore rather encourage you to continue in this duty than endeavour to perswade you to it Let us remember that we are commanded to Fear God and next to Honour the King and by well doing to put to silence the 1 Pet. 2. 17 ignorance of foolish men and that every soul ought to be subject to the higher powers for the powers that are are of Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4 5. God and whoso resists them resists the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation for they are the Ministers of God wherefore we must needs be subject not only for wrath but for Conscience sake Christ himself taught us to render to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods Math. 22. 27. and he being in his state of humiliation but a private subject would not suffer the Sword to be drawn in his Math. 26. 52. defence and expresly said that though he was a King yet his Kingdom was not of this world else his servants Joh. 18. 36 would have fought for him These things are plain and clear and need no Commentary His Apostles also charged those whom they employed in setling the Churches to put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Titus 3. 1. Powers to obey Magistrates and to pray for Kings and all that are in Authority that under them we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and Honesty 1 Tim. 2. 2 And if it is ever seasonable to enlarge on these duties it is most necessary on such a day and that 's a principal reason for the continuance of this Anniversary And thus I hope I have sufficiently vindicated the continuance of our publick humiliation on this and such like solemn days 2. The next thing I proposed to speak to was the duties that belong to such solemn Mournings Great and extream sorrow cannot be expected when so few that were concerned in it are alive or if they are I cannot believe that any such are here in this place And for them that were not so concerned a bare horror at the fact with prayers for averting the Judgments that may be consequent to it is too slight a thing My Text directs us to things of more value and importance We are to love the Truth and Peace By Truth is either to