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A23717	Forty sermons whereof twenty one are now first publish'd, the greatest part preach'd before the King and on solemn occasions / by Richard Allestree ... ; to these is prefixt an account of the author's life.; Sermons. Selections	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Fell, John, 1625-1686.	1684 (1684)	Wing A1114; ESTC R503	688,324	600

in He becomes something without a body and above the Earth who for a preparative must be taken up to Paradise and call'd from all commerce and all intelligence with his own body Saint Paul was call'd from Heaven to preach the Gospel but he was call'd to Heaven to qualifie him for this higher separation to an Apostle and Church-Governour And now you see your calling Holy Fathers And to pass by such obvious unconcerning observations as at first sight follow that those who are not qualified are not call'd I shall only take notice hence of the counter-part of this call the charge God takes upon him when he calls to this charge and that is he owns and will protect whom himself calls 'T was that he promised to the Founder and God of your Order I the Lord have call'd thee and I will hold thine hand and I will keep thee Isai. 42. 6. And when he said of Cyrus I have call'd him he said also be shall make his way prosperous Isai. 48. 15. And so he shall be the way what it will for thus he said to Jacob I have called thee when thou goest through the Water I am with thee and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee Isai. 43. 1 2. There was Experience of all this in one of the chief Princes of your Order when the Apostles were scarce safe within their Ship they were so toss'd with waves and fears yet if our Lord will call him Peter is confident he shall be safe even in the Sea Lord if it be thou bid me come unto thee on the Water saith he and the Lord did but call him and he went down and walked on the water safely As if the swelling billows did only lift themselves to meet his steps and raise him up from sinking And when his own doubts which alone could were neer drowning him and he but call'd the Lord immediately he stretched out his hand and caught him He answers his call if we answer ours if we obey when he says come then will he come and save when we call to him And so Peter receiv'd no hurt but a rebuke O thou of little faith why didst thou doubt couldst thou imagin I would not sustein thee in the doing what I bid thee do In answering my call But why seek we experience of so old a date There is a more encouraging miracle in these late calls themselves Had God sustein'd the Order in its Offices and dignities amidst those waves that rack'd the Church of late it had been prodigy of undeserved Compassion to our Nation But whenas all was sunk to bid the Sea give up what it had swallowed and consumed this is more than to catch a sinking Peter or to save a falling Church The work of Resurrection is emphatically call'd the working of God's mighty power and does out-sound that of his ordinary conservation And truly 't was almost as easie to imagination how the scattered Atomes of mens dust should order themselves and reunite and close into one flesh as that the parcels of our Discipline and Service that were lost in such a wild confusion and the Offices buried in the rubbish of the demolisht Churches should rise again in so much order and beauty Stantia non poterant tect a probare Deum This calling of the Spirit is like that when the Spirit moved upon the face of the abyss and call'd all things out of their no-seeds there or like the call of the last Trump Thus by the miraculous mercies of these calls God hath provided for our hopes and warranted our faith of his protections yet he hath also sent us more security hath given us a Constantine if his own be not a greater Name and more deserving of the Church for which it is well known to some he did contrive and order when he could neither plot nor hope for his own Kingdom and did with passion labour a succession in your Order when he did not know how to lay designs for the Succession of himself or any of his Fathers house to his own Crown and Dignity Nor is the secular arm all your security God himself hath set yet more guards about his consecrated ones he hath severe things for the violaters of them Moses the meekest man upon the Earth that in his life was never angry but once at the rebellious seems very passionate in calling Vengeance on those that stir against these holy Offices Smite through the loins of all that rise against them and of them that hate them that they rise not again The loins we know are the nest of posterity so that strike through the loins is stab the succession destroy at once all the posterity of them that would cut off this Tribe and hinder its Succession Nor was this Legal Spirit Gospel is as severe Those in Saint Jude that despise these Governours that do as Corah and his Complices did who gathered themselves against Moses and Aaron and said You take too much upon you ye Sons of Levi since all the Congregation is holy every one of them and the Lord is among them wherefore then lift you up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord words these that we are well acquainted with and which it seems St. Jude looks on as sins under the Gospel these perish in the gainsaying of Core whom God would not prepare for punishment by death but he and his accomplices went quick into it He would not let them stay to dye but the Lord made a new thing to shew his detestation of this sin and the Earth swallow'd it in the Commission and all that were alli'd and appertain'd to them that had an hand in it And truly they may well expect strange recompences who do attempt so strange a Sacrilege as to pull stars out of Christ's own right hand From whence we have his word that no man shall be able to pluck any but if they shine thence on their Orbs below and convert many to righteousness their light shall blaze out into glory and they shall ever dwell at his right hand To which right hand He that brought again from the dead the Lord Jesus that great Shepherd and Bishop of the Sheep and set him there He also bring you our Pastors and us your flock with you and set us with his sheep on his right hand To whom with the same Jesus and the Holy Ghost be ascribed all blessing honour glory and power from henceforth for ever Amen A SERMON PREACHED AT HAMPTON-COURT ON The Twenty Ninth of May 1662. Being the Anniversary of His Sacred Majesties Most happy Return BY RICHARD ALLESTRY D. D. and Chaplain to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed by John Playford in the Year 1683. TO THE Right Honourable EDWARD Earl of CLARENDEN Lord high Chancellour of England and Chancellour of the University of Oxford My LORD TO vouch your Lordships commands for the publishing this Discourse I might

them was rais'd who serv'd as Voluntiers without any pay or reward and perform'd all duties not only in the Garrison and sallies for the defence of it in case of attacques and sieges but were also commanded upon parties abroad and endur'd the fatigue of marches and ill treatment of mean quarters differing in nothing from the poor mercenary Soldier besides their civility and justice to the country people while they staid with them and paying them at departure things so unusual that when at their going off from quarters they offer'd their Landlords mony they imagin'd it don in jest and abuse and at last by finding it left with them were convinc'd that it was don in earnest In this Regiment Mr. Allestree tho a Master of Arts and fellow of the College thought it no disgrace to carry a musket and perform all duties of a common Soldier forward upon all occasions to put himself into action And in this service he continued till the unhappy end of the war gaining still what time was left from military duties to the prosecution of his studies nay joining both together frequently holding his musket in one hand and book in the other and making the watchings of a Soldier the lucubrations of a Student But then when carnal weapons prov'd frustrate and Divine Providence call'd his servants to the more Christian exercises of praiers and tears for the defence of the King and the Church Mr. Allestree wholy betook himself to these and put himself into that warfare to which his former education had design'd him entring into Holy Orders at a time when there was no prospect of temporal advantage and his being in the service of God threatned no less danger than his having bin in the service of his Prince In that little interval of safety which the Articles of Oxford gave and was for some time continued while the two factions of the Rebels were in contest who should divide the spoil of the Nation and enjoy the price of bloud Mr. Allestree with great sedulity addicted himself unto his studies and became a Tutor of many young Gentlemen and other Students which trust he discharg'd with great sufficiency as he did also the office of Censor in the College moreover he bore a part in the signal test of the Loialty of the Vniversity of Oxford possibly the greatest that has bin given by any society of men I mean the passing of the solemn Decree and Judgement of theirs against the Covenant and Rebellion enflamed and fomented by it perform'd in Convocation when the City was held by a Garrison of the Rebels whose swords were at the throats of those Confessors and yet the decree was carried by a most unanimous suffrage of the whole body there being but one dissenter in that numerous Senate and he a person who had absented himself from the Vniversity during the war and taken part with the Rebels Soon after which great performance the Visitors of the pretended Parliament being at last come with a second Commission to kill and take possession having lost their first by outstaying in a long praier and sermon the time assign'd for the opening of it began their enquiry and did it not as one would have expected from men of Zeal and Godliness with an inspection into vice and immorality but set their whole affair upon the short issue of submitting to the Authority of the pretended Parliament and they who could prostitute their allegeance to their Prince and oaths to the Vniversity and their local Visitors and comply with the lust of these Vsurpers tho never so flagitious were immediatly receiv'd to favor all others however meriting were without farther regard proscrib'd the method whereof was to write the names of as many as they thought fit to sacrifice at once in paper and affix it upon the door of St. Maries Church wherein 't was signified that the persons there nam'd were by the Authority of the Visitors banisht the Vniversity and requir'd to depart the precincts thereof within three daies upon pain of being taken for spies of war and accordingly proceeded against By which practice often repeted the men of greatest hopes and merit in the Vniversity were spoil'd of all things and not suffer'd to breath the common air so that within the compass of few weeks an almost general riddance was made of the loial Vniversity of Oxford in whose room succeeded an illiterate rabble swept up from the plough tail from shops and grammar Scholes and the dregs of the neighbor Vniversity Tho in that scandalous number some few there were who notwithstanding they had parts and learning were prefer'd upon the account of their Relations who merited a better title to the places they possest and have since prov'd useful men in the Church and State Those of the ancient stock who were spar'd upon this trial were afterwards cast off upon the second test of the engagement till in the end there were left very few legitimate members in any of the Colleges In this diffusive ruin Mr. Allestree had an early share being proscrib'd about the middle of July in the year 1648. And tho he had the care of several persons of quality his Pupils and accounts of his own and theirs to make up he with difficulty obtain'd from the Governor of the town Lieut. Coll. Kelsey a little respit for his settling his affairs and doing justice to those for whom he was concern'd the Visitors utterly refusing his request for this reason as Dr. Rogers one of their number was pleas'd to word it because he was an eminent man Mr. Allestree being thus driven from Oxford retir'd into Shropshire and was entertain'd as Chaplain to the Honorable Francis Newport Esquire now Viscount Newport where he continu'd till such time as Richard Lord Newport the father died in France whither he had some time before retir'd to avoid the insolence of the conquering Rebels On this occasion Mr. Allestree was sent over to clear accounts and see if any thing could be preserv'd from the inhospitable pretence of the droit d'Aubeine which pillages those Strangers who happen to die in the French Dominions Mr. Allestree having dispatcht this affair with good success came back to his emploiment and continued in it till his Majesties march into England with the Scotch Army and his miraculous escape at Worcester at which time the Managers of the King's affairs wanting an intelligent and faithful person to send over to his Majesty desir'd Mr. Allestree to undertake the journey which accordingly he did and having attended the King at Roan and receiv'd his dispatches he came back into England At his return he found his friends Mr. Dolben and Mr. Fell the present Archbishop of York and Bishop of Oxford who had likewise bin banisht the Vniversity adventuring to sojourn privatly there and serve the uses of those who adher'd to the Church of England in performing Religious offices according to the order of the Church whereupon he join'd himself to