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A35080 A sermon preached to the gentlemen of Yorkshire at Bow-Church in London, the 24th of June, 1684, being the day of their yearly feast by Tho. Cartwright ... Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689. 1684 (1684) Wing C705; ESTC R4837 24,490 43

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of the Puritanical Assembly or Classis which puts the People between God and the King and therefore I call the one a Papal and the other a Phanatical Jesuite for I believe them both to be Roman Pensioners two Parties commanded by one General because in all times when the Government hath been charging one of them in the front the other hath always treacherously attack'd it in the rear and as much of late as ever and both prov'd themselves in the end Abhorrers of Monarchy under-hand Contrivers and restless Opposers of it as they always pretend for Conscience sake out of a joynt design to make the King a Property and his Government Precarious Their Names are different but their Nature is the same in point of Disobedience And the third viz. The Prophane Liver who pretends to Loyalty by making no Conscience of his Duty towards God is also a false Traytor to the King notwithstanding the many good words he gives him and the great Honour he vainly boasts in all Companies to bear towards Him 1. Give me leave to set first to the Bar the Papal Jesuite who is all for the fear of God the Propagation of the Catholick Religion and of the Apostolical See of Rome but tell him of the fear of the King and then he leaves you as if the Pope and He were the Real Defenders of the Faith and the King only the Nominal and Titular one and accordingly he teaches his Profelytes to weigh out their Obedience to him by Drams and Scruples in a Pair of Jesuitical Scales makes the Prince stand to the Popes Allowance for Authority and take● his leavings who of course exempts all the Clergy from their Obedience to their Natural Sovereign and makes them pay their Suit and Service to him as their Lord Paramount as if his Tribunal and Gods were but one and the Civil Magistrate by becoming the Son of the Church had lost his Secular Power An excellent Doctrine to convert Pagan Princes to the Christian Religion or Protestants to the Popish The fatal and pernicious Consequences of which Popish Principles our Parliaments have in all Ages as well before the Reformation as since expressed their just detestation of as appears by the Statute of Carlisle made 35 Edw. 1. and by that of Proviso's made 25 Edw. 3. and by many more in King Henry the Eighth's Reign who was both Parliamentarily and Synodically invested with the Supremacy in all Causes as well Spiritual as Temporal which was legally and essentially inherent in the Crown before the King of England being Supreme Ordinary by the Antient Common Law of this Kingdom of which those Statutes were not Introductory but Declarative And 't is a great wonder to me that every Prince in Christendom is not as much possess'd with an Anti-Papal Spirit at this day as ever King Henry the Eighth was considering what an Implacable Enemy the Pope hath been to the Dignity and Security to the Powers and Lives of all Princes especially such as he calls Heretical ones 2. The Protestant or Fanatical Jesuites if they would be content to be civil Subjects yet they will be Ecclesiastical Superiors they would have a King under them not over them The King must Command as they will have him or he is no King for them nor will they fear him but make him fear them if they can compass their ends He must do things against his Conscience Oath and Honour against the Fundamental Laws of the Land and the very being of the Government or else though they speak him as fair as they did his Roayl Father of blessed memory in the Covenant and so hide the Cloven Foot for a while with their broad Pharisaical Phylacteries and intrench themselves in the sure retreat of those popular and plausible Pretences of preserving His Majesties Person and the Protestant Religion yet they watch but for a fair opportunity to put off their Hypocritical Vizards and to make him feel the smart effects of their Implacable Enmity against him and let him see by woful experience how little they do either love or fear him as they did his Royal Father before him David was a Man after Gods own heart and had a Conscience truly tender I would to God all that are call'd so in our days were like it which made him so sensible of his fault in snipping off a small shred of the Skirt of Saul's Coat But our Dissenters Itching Fingers long to be tampering with the Prerogative and will cut off as much as they can get into their hands and throw it to the People as the Men of God did in the late ●● Rebellion for so the deluded Multitude call'd them though they prov'd Men of War fir'd with Phanatical Zeal against the Most Christian Magistrate in the World our Martyr'd Sovereign The Black Coats of their Schism in stead of being Messengers of Peace sounded the Treasonable Alarms from such places as these though the Red Coats fought the Battles they taught their Congregations to construe the Singulis Major and Vniversis Minor after Buchanan's Translation and made them believe That the People which begins to be as fashionable a word now as it was Forty years since were as much above the King as the King is above the meanest of his Subjects The King say they and other Magistrates are but our Servants to protect us from Violence and Mene Tekel pag. 41. Oppression and if they break their Trust the Law of God and Nature allows us to call our Servants to account and to punish them according to their Demerits and to turn them out of our Service In good time and out of the World too as they did the Hist of In dep Part 2. Sect. 80 81 82. Royal Martyr as a Traytor to the Sovereignty of the People as that Insolent Judge Bradshaw then Impudently styl'd it which corrupt and false Principle of placing the Original of Government in our Sovereign Lords the People is not only derogatory to God whose Written Word it gives the lye to but is also destructive to the very being of Humane Society For if the Power be radically in them and only pass'd over by the Conveyance of a Common Consent with a Power of Revocation upon equitable Conditions express'd or imply'd of which the People shall be Judges it is but their recalling of that Power to which the Vnwary Mobile may be easily tempted for 't is Neutrum modo mas modo Vulgus and the Government is dissolv'd and so all our Happiness lies at the Mercy and Will of the Crowd which will make us a reproach to our Neighbours and Psal 79. 4. a scorn and derision as it hath already done in a great measure to all that are round about us We live in an Age wherein Men seem to call themselves Protestants not from that solemn and Honourable Protestation which was made by several Princes against the Errours and Superstitions of Rome and an Edict made in prejudice of
graciously accepted and honour'd them by making the Prince of Wales our present Gracious Sovereign whom God long preserve the Captain of it The then Loyal City of York receiv'd his Sacred Majesty when he was driven out of This by Seditious Tumults and thither did he assemble his great Council And if I had not trespass'd already too much upon your Patience or did in the least suspect that you needed more Motives to Loyalty than those which this Text and my Discourse on it hath already afforded you I should descend to some Local and Personal Obligations which lie more upon You than other Men to engage you to it I could easily reckon up many Towns and Fields in your County besides your Metropolis in which your Loyal Ancestors did sacrifice their Lives for his Service especially at the fatal Battel of Marston-More Nor can I forget those who died Martyrs for their Loyalty on Tower-Hill whose Loyal Blood runs still in the Veins of their Children I dare not be so uncharitable as suspect that you Inherit the Estates of your Loyal Ancestors without their Virtues and I hope you will convince the World that Yorkshire Men are born in too free an Air to have their Spirits tainted with Schism or Sedition which are the most pernicious Pests and Plagues of any County where they reign for which things sake the Wrath of God comes upon the Children of Disobedience There never was such a Superfoetation of those Brats in any Age as in this to our shame be it spoken wherein Men lately acted as if they design'd to put Loyalty out of Countenance and ridicule it out of the Kindgdom If any of You were unhappily seduced into such Disloyal Conspiracies I hope you have ask'd God and the King Pardon for it and that you will always do as much as in you lies to shew your selves thankful for their Mercies I know how ill it becomes me to give my Betters that which I need too much my self and therefore I shall refer you to the Counsel of a Great Country-man of your own who is now plac'd above censure and being dead does yet speak Sir John Packering Lord Chancellor of England in Queen Elizabeth's Reign that which he then gave the Parliament in that Glorious Age of Reformation I hope I may without offence to all good Men repeat to you whose Advice was this Listen not to the wearisom Sollicitations of the new-fangled Refiners commonly called Puritans who disturb the good Repose of Church and Common-wealth whom you will find more dangerous than the Jesuites in poysoning the Hearts of good Subjects under Pretence of Conscience to withdraw them from their Obedience with whom though in other Points they pretend to differ yet do they joyn and concur with them in separation of themselves from the Vnity of their fellow Subjects and in abasing the sacred Authority and Majesty of their Prince which 't is the Common Interest and Advantage of Mankind to uphold and honour I am sure 't is both our Duty and Interest to hazard our Lives in his Majesties Service against all Rebellious Opposers whatsoever before they be tamely taken from us as we know whose were by Usurping Insolent Traytors We shall have liv'd too long if we out-live the Loyalty of English-men which is the Priviledge and Glory of free-born Subjects and should be the Security of our Gracious Sovereign in his Just Prerogatives Nature teaches all Men to guard the Head even with the hazard of the other Members and can we so easily forget how soundly we were fleec'd by Vsurping Tyrants that we will twice in an Age listen to those Country-men of Publick Spirits as they did then and do still call themselves who shall tempt us to refuse what is just and necessary for the support of the Government under a lawful Prince who requires less than every good Subject is cordially willing to contribute upon such Honourable Emergencies They who will not part with half so much for a Common Good as they will prodigally spend upon a Boon Companion or a Common Miss do neither fear God nor the King as they ought to do If there be any thing in Fame worthy of your Ambition True Piety and Loyalty the Methods prescrib'd you in my Text are the shortest and surest way to it for Posterity will reflect upon your Actions without Prejudice or Interest and Canonize the best Christians and Subjects for the Greatest Men of the Age This is the Beauty of that Image in which we were made the fairest Vestment that our Souls can be adorn'd with till they are Cloath'd with Immortality and if you wear this Livery the King of Heaven will make you free of a better City than this One not made with Hands free Denizons of the New Jerusalem As therefore you tender the Glory of God the Credit and Increase of your Religion by Law established your own Temporal and Spiritual Happiness here and your Eternal hereafter withdraw your selves from the Society of Men of Rebellious Principles whether they bring them from Rome or Geneva from the Conclave or a Conventicle and be as active to maintain the King in his Just Rights and Royalties as the Roman or Republican Agitators have been to undermine them and unless you are Sick of your Religion Laws and Liberties and I pray God we prove not so beyond all hopes of recovery let us all shew as much Zeal in defending them against the Kings and Gods Enemies as they do Earnestness in assaulting them and him through their sides If not for Honour and Loyalty sake as we desire to hear in other Nations and After-Ages if not for Wrath and fear of ruine to our selves and Families yet for our Oaths and Gods sake for the Churches Conscience Posterity and Peace sake let us sincerely practise Subjection to God and the King as becomes good Christians and Subjects for our Blessed Saviours sake that Great Patron and Pattern of Obedience and pray unto him that he would scatter all His and the Kings cruel Enemies that delight in Blood Infatuate the Counsels of their Achitophels and root out all those Babylonian Antichristian and Anti-Monarchical Rebels who have decreed in their Hearts and Cabals against our Gracious Sovereign as the Aramites did against the King of Israel Fight neither against small nor 1 King 22. 31 great but only against the King of Great Britain and said of our Jerusalem the Church of England Pull down the Fences of it rase it even to the Ground that the Confusions of Babel may be heard no more among us but we become like Jerusalem a City at Vnity within it self Let this thine Almightly Work O King of Kings and only Ruler of Princes appear unto thy Servants and the Glory of it to their Children So we thy People will give thee thanks for ever and will be always shewing forth thy Praise from Generation to Generation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen FINIS