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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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