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Some discourses upon Dr. Burnet and Dr. Tillotson occasioned by the late funeral sermon of the former upon the later.
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Hickes, George, 1642-1715.
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which I commiserate from my heart but am much more concerned that you do not leave the World in a Delusion and false Peace to the hindrance of your Eternal Happiness I heartily Pray for you and beseech your Lordship to believe that I am with the greatest Sincerity and Compassion in the World My Lord Your Lordships most Faithful and Afflicted Servant J. Tillotson Printed for R. Baldwin 1683. No. IV. To the KING' 's most Excellent Majesty James the Second c. The Humble Address of the Bishops and Clergy of the City of London WE your Majesties most humble and Dutiful Subjects do heartily condole your Majestie 's loss of so dear a Brother of Blessed Memory And do thankfully adore that Divine Providence which hath so Peaceably setled your Majesty our Rightful Sovereign Lord upon the Throne of your Ancestors to the joy of all your Majesties good Subjects And as the Principles of our Church have taught us our Duty to our Prince so we most humbly thank your Majesty for making our Duty so Easie and pleasant by your gracious assurance to defend our Religion established by Law which is dearer to us than our Lives In a deep sence whereof we acknowledg our selves for ever bound not only in Duty but gratitude to contribute all we can by our Prayers our Doctrine and Example to your Majesties happy and prosperous Reign And with our most sincere promises of all Faith and Allegiance do humbly implore the Divine goodness to preserve your Majesties Person and to establish your Throne in this World and when he shall be pleased to Translate you hence to bestow on you an Eternal Crown of Life and Glory No. V. IN the Name of God Amen Before the Lord Jesus Christ Judge of the Quick and Dead We long since became bound by Oath upon the sacred Evangelical Book unto our Sovereign Lord Richard late King of England That we as long as we lived shall bear true Allegiance and fidelity towards him and his Heirs succeeding him in the Kingdom by just Title Right and Line according to the Statutes and Custom of this Realm have here taken unto us certain Articles subscribed in form following to be proponed heard and tryed before the just Judge Christ Jesus and the whole World But if which God forbid by force Fear or violence of wicked Persons we shall be cast in Prison or by violent Death be prevented so as in this world we shall not be able to prove the said Articles as we wish Then we do appeal to the high Celestial Judge that he may judge and discern the same in the day of his supream Judgment First we depose say and except and intend to prove against Henry Darby commonly called King of England himself pretending the same but without all Right and Title thereunto and against his adherents fautors Complices that they have ever been are and will be Traytors Invaders and Destroyers of God's Church and of our Sovereign Lord Richard late King of England his heirs his Kingdom and Common-wealth as shall hereafter manifestly appear In the Second Article they declare him Forsworn Prejured and Excommunicate for that he conspired against his Sovereign Lord King Richard In the Fourth they recite by what wrong illegall and false means he exalted himselfe into the Throne of of the Kingdom and then describing the miserable State of the Nation which followed after his Usurpation they again pronounce him Perjured and Excommunicate In the Fifth Article they set forth in what a Barbarous and inhuman manner Henry and his Accomplices Imprisoned and Murthered K. Richard and then cry out wherefore O England arise stand up and avenge the Cause the Death and injury of thy King and Prince If thou do not take this for certain that the Righteous God will Destroy thee by strange Invasions and foreign Power and avenge himself on thee for this so horrible an Act. In The Seventh they depose against him for putting to Death not only Lords Spiritual and other Religious Men but also divers of the Lords Temporal there Named for which they pronounce him Excommunicate In the Ninth they say and depose that the Realm of England never Flourished nor Prospered after he Tyrannically took upon him the Government of it And in the Last they Depose and protest for themselves and K. Richard and his Heirs the Clergy and Commonwealth of the whole Realm that they intended neither in word nor deed to offend any State of men in the Realm but to prevent the approaching Destruction of it and beseeching all men to favour them and their designs whereof the First was to Exalt to the Kingdom the true and lawful Heir and him to Crown in Kingly Throne with the Diadem of England No. VI. THat all Parliaments and Ambitious selfe seekers in them who under pretence of publick Reformation Liberty the Peoples ease or welfare have by indirect Surmise Policies Practices Force and new Devices most Usurped upon the Prerogatives of their Kings or the Persons Lives Offices or Estates of such Nobles great Officers and other Persons of a contrary Party whom they most dreaded maligned and which have imposed new Oaths upon the Members to secure perpetuate and make irrevocable their own Acts Judgments and unrighteous Proceedings have always proved most abortive successless pernicious to themselves and the activest Instruments in them The Parliaments themselves being commonly totally repealed null'd and the Grandees in them suppressed impeached condemned destroyed as Traytors and Enemies to the Publick in the very next succeeding Parliaments or not very long after That Kings Created and set up meerly by Parliaments and their own Power in them without any true Hereditary Title have seldom answer'd the Lords and Commons Expectations in the Preservation of their just Laws Liberties and Answers to their Petitions yea themselves at last branded for Tyrants Traytors Murderers Usurpers Their Posterities impeached of High-Treason and disinherited of the Crown by succeeding Kings and Parliaments of c. From these Three last Observations we may learn that as Parliaments are the best of all Courts and Councils when duly Summoned Convened Constituted Ordered and kept within their Legal Bounds So they become the greatest Mischiefs and Grievances to the Kingdom when like the Ocean they overflow their banks or degenerate and become through Sedition Malice Fear or Infatuation by Divine Justice promoters of corrupt sinister Ends or Accomplishers of the private Designs and ambitious Interests of particular Persons under the disguise of Publick Reformation Liberty Safety and Settlement No. VII ALtho' it can no way be doubted but that His Majesty's Right and Title to these Crowns and Kingdoms is and was every way Compleat by the Death of His most Royal Father of Glorious Memory without the Ceremony and Solemnity of a Proclamation Yet since Proclamations in such Cases have been always used to the end that all good Subjects might upon this Occasion testify their Duty and Respect And since the Armed Violence and
not who thought Dr. Tillotson deserved the Praises he has given him I should be sorry that an Apostate and an Apostate by his own Confession should be his Encomiast and transmit his Memory to Posterity For Divines that contradict themselves and their most serious Doctrines which they pressed upon the Consciences of Men as he hath done are always to be Suspected and as for himself he above all others hath brought upon himself the Fate of Cassandra and is not to be believ'd when he speaks Truth upon his own Authority And if what I have hitherto said will not justifie the Severity of this Censure I hope what I am going to write will In his first Letter to my Lord Middleton bearing Date the 27th of May 1687. he tells his Lordship That few have preacht more than himself against all sorts of Treasonable Doctrines and Practices and particularly against the Lawfulness of rising in Arms upon account of Religion I have preacht a whole Sermon at the Hague saith he against all Treasonable Doctrines and Practices and in particular against the Lawfulness of Subjects rising in Arms against their Sovereigns upon the account of Religion and I have maintained this both in Publick and Private so that I could if I thought it convenient give Proofs of it that would make all my Enemies ashamed As often as I have talked with Sir John Cochran I took occasion to repeat my Opinion of the Duty of Subjects to submit and bear all the ill Administration that might be in the Government but never to rise in Arms upon that Account And in his third Letter to his Lordship bearing Date Hague 27. June 1687. he concludes with these Words But to the last Moment of my Life I will pay all Duty and Fidelity to his Majesty And yet before the Date of these Letters wherein he makes such high and solemn Professions of his Principles of Loyalty and of his Duty to the King he was engaged in one of the Deepest and most Heinous Treasons that Subject was ever engaged in against his Sovereign I mean in perswading the Princess of Orange to Consent to the unnatural Invasion of her Father's Kingdom by the Prince which then was resolv'd upon and with him to take his Crown if the Invasion should succeed This he thought so meritorious and honourable a Piece of Service that soon after he came to London he could not deny himself the Satisfaction of telling some Friends That he was the Man pitcht upon to break the Design of deposing the King her Father to her Royal Highness Two Years before the Revolution and that he gained her Consent upon Condition that the Prince might assume the Royal Power with her and be Crowned before her He told it to this purpose in the Deanry-house of St. Pauls and for the Truth of it I appeal to the then Dean of that Church Dr. Stillingfleet and to the worthy Bishop of Peterborough I mean Dr. White who was present when he spoke to that Effect and I make bold to mention his good Name because he hath spoken of it in many Places and to this Authority I could add that of a Right honourable Person of great Esteem in whose Hearing he spake in another Place to the same purpose Let this be written upon his Monument and embalm his Memory to Posterity That he was the Man who perswaded the yet innocent Daughter Absalon like to conspire the Destruction of her Father and to seize his Throne This he did against a King who according to his own Expression of the King his Father was by a (a) Serm. on the 30 of January 1674. p. 7. Tract of undisputed Succession what Saul was by immediate Revelation God's Anointed And after he had done it he again promised Fidelity to him to the last Moment of his Life and after that again invaded his Kingdom and used him the worst of all his Enemies I have been told that he was a Year in overcoming that unhappy Princess into this unnatural Resolution and if any one desire to know what Arguments and of what Sort he used to pervert her I am of Opinion he may find them in a French Book called Le Salut de la France which was written by Mounsieur Jurieu a French Minister to perswade the Dauphin of France to whom it is addressed to dethrone his Father They were both great Acquaintance one with the other both lived together in Holland both great Enthusiasts both acted with the utmost Revenge against their respective Sovereigns both engaged in the Interests of the Confederacy and it would be very strange if two such Wits and Incendiaries so agreeing in their Temper Design and their way of Writing should not jump in their Arguments on this Subject At the same time he was at work with the Princess he wrote many Seditious Libels to disaffect the People of these Kingdoms against the King contrary not only to his professed Fidelity but to the Respect he had before pretended was due to Crown'd Heads In his (b) P. 6. Reflections on Varillas he pretends That the sublime Character of a Crowned Head laid a restraint on those Groans which he would otherwise vent in behalf of the French Refugees And in his Letter to Mounsieur Thavenot he is very severe upon M. le Grand for speaking hardly of our Henry VIII telling him That there is a Reverence due to the Ashes of Kings which ought to make us speak of their Faults in the safest Words and avoid such reproachful ones as Lying and Imposture To which M. le Grand cries out in his Note upon that Passage Behold this Man who fills England and France with the most Seditious and Outragious Libels that were ever made against any Prince speaking at this rate And I say behold this Man with all his Fidelity to his own King and all the Respect he had professed to Crown'd Heads treating his own Sovereign as if he had not been anointed with Oyl At Exeter he would not let them say the Morning and Evening Prayer for the King's Majesty at Salisbury he sat down when it was said and at another Place in their March when a Noble Lord out of Respect to his Master 's Crown'd and Hoary Head asked him this Question with disdain What then must we do with the King He presently answered He must be deposed He must be deposed At St. James's he took upon him to require Mr. West whom I ought to mention with Honour to leave off praying for him and the Prince of Wales (a) See Tempora Mutantur p. 5. for whom though he had often prayed by Name in the Chapel Royal at the Hague yet in his Measures of Submission and Obedience he calls him a base Imposture for which if Men do not God in his appointed time will call him unto Judgment In his (b) P. 167. History of the Rights of Princes he calls the War which the Children of King Lewis began against their