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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35183	A sermon preached upon April xxiii. MDCLXXX. in the cathedral church of Bristol, before the gentlemen of the artillery-company, newly raised in that city. By Samuel Crossman, B.D.	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.	1680 (1680)	Wing C7270A; ESTC R214386	13,922	42

easily concluded the Eclipse of this Sun in their Horizon would be darkness to all Israel The smiting this Shepherd would be no less than the scattering of the Flock In this respect his most religious faithful Subjects thought it no flattery to tell him elsewhere Thou art worth ten thousand of us In a theological sence the meanest of David's Servants had a heaven-born immortal Soul as well as David and therein of the same equal price and value in the sight of God But in a political sence David's single life weighs more than many thousands of theirs The Person of our Sovereign must be sacred with us Gentlemen I shall not now affect to exercise you with any further discourse in military language from the Pulpit There is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a decency proper to the Church a decency proper to the Field All things are most beautiful in their own places Neither shall I Classicum canere 'T was but ill with England when our Pulpits sounded at that thundring rate Curse ye Meroz By such specious fallacies the poor unstable multitude were conjur'd up into an open Rebellion against their lawful Prince By such Bellows were the flames of our bloody wars too much blown up The Christian Ministers work is more gentle the preaching up of peace the sweetning the minds of all one towards another That all meekness may be shewed towards all men especially towards those whom God hath set over us Others may be for fierceness unadvisedly calling for fire from Heaven but nil nisi mite suadet Evangelium the Gospel pleads for a more sedate calmness and candour of spirit I confess as one well observes Expert Souldiers and good Armes they are in Pace Decus in Bello Praesidium our Ornaments in Peace our Safety in War But still the Christian Souldier looks upon War as the means Peace as the more desired end War though in some cases both needful and lawful 't is yet to him as so much Physick always sharp he esteems Peace as health of a far sweeter relish and much more welcome to all He wants not valour When ever just occasion calls for it he could cheerfully say to his Prince as David to Saul I will go and fight with this Philistine and yet so mild in his own habitual temper that the same David's Motto is as truly his I am for peace Your appearance here upon this auspicious Day as it is by virtue of Royal Authority and with your voluntary avowing all faithful Allegiance so is it in it self highly honourable the fair expression of a generous Loyalty in this great City The more valuable because so eminently seasonable While we hear of Plottings against the Government and dangers to his Majesties Sacred Person it well becomes every true-hearted Subject by a noble antiperistasis to shew the greater zeal for both And I hope your regular forwardness herein may prove a happy Precedent to other Parts That it may be said of the King of Great Britain He is King of hearts as well as King of persons Or as of Solomon Behold the valiant men of Israel are about his Throne they all hold Swords being expert in War every man hath his Sword upon his thigh that the Government might be at the better safety from all danger And now Men and Brethren while we occasionally thus name the word we must become afresh in love with the thing it self Oh the happiness of England's Government Here if any where upon the face of the Earth here 's the easie yoke the light burthen A Government of that rare ballance and temperament in the State that Prerogative and Property even kiss each other Altius egressus coelestia tecta cremabis Inferius terras Loe here one of the fortunate Islands indeed a temperate benign Climate most comfortably habitable fairly situate under the true Aequator at just distance both from the torrid and frigid Zone While the Sovereign sits upon his Throne in the brightness of Imperial Majesty the meanest Subject may as truly sit under his Vine and Fig-tree enjoying his own with security peace and plenty A Government of so impartial Reformation in the Church that it dares owne the venerable Antiquities of primitive and purer Times and yet as zealously reject the absurd inchroachments and corruptions of later Ages A Reformation so clearly subservient to all good ends so careful to nourish us up with wholesome food the words of sound Doctrine so ready to furnish us with the means of Grace soberly and truly so call'd that if our design by Religion be what it ought to be nakedly to save our Souls we may then in all quiet Communion with the Church of England pass fairly to Heaven as the Traveller who goes his whole journey in a pleasant sun-shine day God hath not dealt so with other Nations neither have they such confortable freedome in Gods ways Your selves who have many of you travell'd into Foreign Parts and have seen the sad circumstances of poor Peasants there your selves right well know it And we may all of us gratefully sing as David The lines are fallen to us in pleasant places and we have through the Divine Providence a goodly heritage I could not but offer you this memorial for your encouragement from the excellency of the Government A Government most highly priz'd by others abroad O let it not be as unworthily despised by us at home I might as pathetically adjure you from the common miseries scarce ever to be forgotten under our late want of it A Subject fitter for tears than words The desire of all good men that it might for ever sleep in the deepest silence did not the noise of our present distempers and dangers awake it that it might fairly give warning to all Then was that Scripture-Lamentation so mournfully reviv'd Wo is us the Crown is fallen from us Then were the barbarous assaults against sacred Majesty so common and daring in almost all places First in Effigie At one place the eyes in the Statue of King Edward VI. insolently plucked out with this absurd villanous taunt All this mischief came from him in his establishing the Book of Common Prayer At another place the Crown upon the Statue of our late Sovereign contumeliously mangled by the rude Souldiers Swords Then the Regalia which had been laid up with all care and safety through the successive Reigns of so many Kings The Royal Crown wherewith our Kings were usually crown'd the Robes the Sword the Scepter of King Edward the Confessor all forcibly plucked out from their repository by a pretended order and after many most unworthy and unmanly abuses far beneath humanity as well as loyalty offered to those ancient I might almost say awful Ensigns of Sovereignty this base Sarcasm was thrown out in way of scorn There would be no further use of these toys and trifles After these ominous Praeludia in Effigie then follows Quis temperet à lachrymis then follows