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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59269	A sermon preach'd at the chappel royal in the Tower upon the death of Her Sacred Majesty, our Late Gracious Queen Mary / by a true lover of the church, the King, and his country.	True lover of the church, the King, and His country.	1695 (1695)	Wing S2632; ESTC R19634	24,464	39

Edward III. in right of his Mother claimed the Kingdom of France that they made their Salick Law which could however bar only for the future and not for the time past and therefore the King invaded France and was very successful in all the Battels he sought but by reason of several Diversions at home this Success was not pursued by his immediate Successors yet Henry V. a Prince of a Warlike Temper coming to the Crown and considering that not only Normandy Guien Aquitain and A●j●u were the rightful Inheritances of the Kings of England but also his just Title to the whole Kingdom of France derived from Isabella aforesaid after he had first by Ambassadors set forth and demanded his Right he with an English Army invades France and having won several Battels was at last married to Katherine Daughter of Charles VI. and thereupon declared and crowned King of France in Reversion Charles and Isabella his Queen to reign during their Lives and Isabella surviving Charles at her Death made a Will declaring her Son-in-Law Henry V. Heir to all her Goods and to the Crown which gives the Kings of England a farther Right to the Kingdom of France And I am perswaded if the French King had half so much Right to England as the King of England hath to France we should be pestered with his Manifesto's and Scribles alledging his just Pretensions as he calls all that he makes conquered by us and has had such fatal Proofs of the English Valour that she would be sure to take care never more to stand in fear of her Antient Enemies And upon these Grounds we are to expect no Mercy at her Hands but the worst of an Hostile Fury and nothing less perhaps than our total Subversion would serve their turn Nay when we consider how barbarously they use the People whom they subdue tho of their own Religion without regard to Churches or Religious Houses or the very Sepulchres of the Dead tho of Princes themselves we may believe our English Papists hower they may flatter themselves would meet with no better Quarter than others But for those Protestants who tho at ease in their Fortunes and enjoying all the Privileges of their Fellow-Subjects are yet restless and dissatisfied and weary of a Government that 's the only Security of their Religion and Estates surely as they will be the easiest so they will be the most despised Prey of their Enemies who if they have any Manhood or any thing that 's great in them will shew more Favour to the brave Defenders of their Country than to those who have so basely and treacherously deserted and betrayed it But I know if I should discourse at this rate out of this place or where I might expect an Answer I should presently be told that I had used a great many words to little purpose and had run on all along upon a false Ground for that the great King of France hath nothing of Self in all this nor is he further concerned than out of a Principle of Honour and Generosity to espouse an Oppressed and to restore an Exil'd Prince That he was neither opprest nor banished is plain enough and on whose side the Oppression lay we all know and yet we will allow them that that Monarch may seemingly with much Gallantry espouse his Cause till he see a fair opportunity of setting up his Own but to be sure no longer Or suppose he should not do this can we however think that he would not demand so great a Charge as the whole Wealth of the Nation would be too little to answer And were it not better Policy in us tho we had no other Inducement to supply him even to a Moiety of what we have who will preserve the rest by keeping such Enemies out and by cherishing and protecting us in our Religion and other Rights To be sparing in a case of such Necessity is to be wanting and indeed cruel to our selves and our Posterity like the fatal Parsimony of the People of Constantinople who refused to supply their own Emperor tho by way of Loan with a thirtieth part of that Money which the Turkish Emperor depriv'd them of together with the Lives of the Wealthiest of them Whereas by that seasonable Supply they might in all likelihood have preserved their City and their Lives too 'T were easy to shew what a poor thing Money is in respect of our Religion our Lives our Laws and our Liberties and it 's not yet seven Years since all considerate Men and good Protestants amongst us would have given more than this War will cost us to have been under the Circumstances we now are But God be thanked there 's no need to insist upon this Those worthy Patriots who so freely and chearfully find out Ways and Means to support the War are highly sensible of it And all I have to offer upon their Accounts is to pray as David when the People even beyond what he expected offer'd so willingly towards a Publick Good O Lord God of Abraham of Isaac and of Israel our Fathers 2 Chron. 29.18 keep this for ever in the Imagination of the Thoughts of the Heart of thy People But to return that I may leave nothing unsaid to open the Eyes of those who are not wilfully blind I will for their satisfaction suppose that this extravagantly ambitious King upon whom they so much depend had no private Design but would only clear the Way to the Throne and then fairly draw off without any other Consideration than the Satisfaction of his own haughty and ambitious Humour Let us I say suppose this tho indeed it's next to impossible yet even in this Case might not the Prince whom he left repossest I only presume to ask the Question justly write himself James the Conqueror And tho I am not to determine how mercifully he might use us if left to his own Conduct tho we must believe him more than a Saint to forget what is past yet considering how he has been influenced and considering his Princicles how he still must be if ever Divine Judgment as a Punishment for our Sins should suffer this to come to pass The very Thoughts of what we might expect are so full of Horror that I chuse rather to draw a Vail over it and pass it in silence than go about to display it and if any Man be so weak or so short-sighted as to wish or desire it I am perswaded that a short Change with a Subject of France would very effectually cure him of his Malady and Folly too And yet our Case might be much more desperate than some of theirs and no better to be sure than that of the Protestant Subjects under that Crown and how it should be worse is not easy to imagine And now Since those very Men amongst us who seem most fond of the late King's Return do yet pretend they would by no means have him come with a French Power as being aware

Temper and it would ill become this Place to offer any thing against it and I doubt not but Heaven it self will take care to avenge such monstrous Ingratitude I could further shew you with what Wisdom He unites and keeps together the Confederates against the Disturber of the Peace of Christendom for which we are next after our Deliverance it self as much beholden to Him as for any one thing whatsoever For by this means the War is kept at a distance and we live free from all Disturbance without which what could England hope for but to be a Field of Blood It had long since been so had not his Majesty interposed we were ready to sheath our Swords in one another's Bowels while a third Party under the Pretence of Assisting one was gaping for an Opportunity to devour both Nay it had been so notwithstanding this Interposition were not the Enemy kept at a Distance by continuing Flanders the Seat of the War and after all our Noise all that 's done to support our Allies is no less than necessary to support our Selves it 's to find the Enemy work on that side that we may live in quiet at Home No common Blessing if we consider what our Neighbours both in Flanders and Germany and elsewhere suffer by the Scourge of War And notwithstanding the malicious and unreasonable Suggestions of some who cry out tho with no other Design than to foment our Animosities and Divisions that we are at the vast Expence of a needless War to maintain the Dominions of a Foreign Prince Yet all Men of Sense know that the Preservation of Flanders is as much nay more for the Interest of England than of Spain If that should once fall a Victim to France we need not sure be told at this time of Day what would soon follow And therefore since we have no other Choice than to fight for Flanders or for England in Flanders or in England there 's none but Men besides themselves or otherwise notoriously biast that would chuse the latter But I need insist no longer upon this It 's but too plain we ought to value and admire Him for his own Sake Let us now see what Obligations lie upon us to do it for our Own And what can in this case be less expected from a grateful and a brave People to so generous so deserving a Prince But that we contribute our Endeavours that we may neither be wanting to our selves nor in Duty and Affection to him but that we share in his Dangers and promote his Designs and do all that in every one of us lies to keep him in a Capacity of meeting his Enemies with equal Numbers whom they dare never attack but with unreasonable odds This indeed is but what we owe to our selves to our Country our Families our Posterity and beyond all to our Religion for all these are at stake and they are let some pretend what they will the very things we contend for in the present War with France which is endeavouring to get not only our Houses but the Houses of God into their Possession and how they will use both them and us they have given us more than a Specimen by what they have done at home in their own Country where within a few Years there were more than a thousand places of God's Publick Worship where some hundred thousands of Protestants served God religiously and truly and yet the French at least the Popish Fury hath turn'd all those Churches into ruinous Heaps and treated the poor Owners of them tho their Country-men their Neighbours their Friends and Relations with more Scorn and Contempt more Barbarity and Cruelty than has been heard among Turks and Infidels So that it 's every Man's Interest to engage in this Quarrel and were it not only so yet a due sense of Honour might excite all Persons of Character and Reputation to follow the Example of their KING who hath so often exposed himself for us and who is still ready to sacrifice his Life for our Safety I am sure there 's no Man can tell me what it was for almost this Age past we desired more than such a King what it was we long'd for more than a Prince without any private Designs and beyond all suspicion firm in the Nation 's Interest and Quarrel against France This very Qualification had aton'd for all other Failings and the want of it for ought I know hath been in a great measure the Source of all our Miscarriages and not only mischievous to us but fatal to all Europe And now that that God who brings Good out of Evil hath as it were mercifully comply'd with our Desires and blest us with a Prince who besides his other Endowments is of all other the best qualified this way a Prince whom that Monarch always fear'd and has now more reason to fear than ever Shall we not lay hold of the Opportunity and push on the present War with the utmost Vigor Believe it to talk or think of restoring the late King without a French Army as some of our disaffected Scriblers would seem to impose upon us or to think that such an Army if they could restore him would then only take their leave and ●e gone as others of them would perswade us is a ●anity ● Madness that may require our Pity but seems to be past our Cure And therefore to Cabal or Plot Censure or Murmur or if we arrive not to this height of Undutifulness and Folly but only remain unconcern'd or stand only gazing and looking on as if it were no great matter how the War succeeded must needs be because we will not exercise so much Fore-thought as to consider the dreadful Consequences of miscarrying in it All wise Men will tell you we had better be subdued by any Nation under Heaven than the French for besides that no other considering our Situation as one hath lately observ'd hath Naval Forces enough to secure such a Conquest so no other would insult and inslave us at the rate they would If the Turk should subdue us he would saith the same Author miserably Tyrannize but yet for a small Yearly Tribute he would allow us the Exercise of our Religion If other Nations either their Distance would slacken our Bonds or their Weakness would press us more lightly But France is our next Neighbour very powerful by Sea and Land able to load us with heavy Chains and to rivet them upon us Besides she hath found us capable of being a Rival to her Glory and we know who it is at this minute that stops her Conquests who gives Check to all her aspiring Designs nay she has felt the Power of our Arms in her Bowels and has been * This Conquest was undertaken upon just Grounds Edward II. King of England having married Isabella Daughter to Philip the Fair of France whose three Sons dying without Issue the Crown descended to the Heirs of Isabella and then it was when