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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62266	A sermon preached at the assizes in St. Maries Church in request of George Ashby Esq., High-Sheriff of the said county by Thomas Sawbridge, Vicar of Harstone, July the 25th, 1689.	Sawbridge, Thomas, Vicar of Harstone.	1689 (1689)	Wing S782; ESTC R37193	14,262	37

and to live in Communion with it yet assure your selves ye shall do eminent Service to God to their Majestys to the whole Nation and in a great measure contribute to her Peace and Safety if ye in your several Stations by your Grave Speeches and Pious Example shall in public and when occasion is offered make it your business earnestly to recommend the Wellfare Order and Constitution of this Church as that which is agreeable to the Scripture and the Practices of the purest Ages in the Christian Church as that which has been look'd upon and has proved the main Bulwark of the Reformation against Popery in all Ages and therefore is that against which Rome hath ever so bitterly inveigh'd and by Power and Fraud laboured to overthrow as that which best suits with the Civil Government neither encroaching upon the Kings Prerogative nor the Peoples Liberty as happens both from the Popes Supremacy and the Kirks Independency no Cannon can be made in England but by the Consent and Authority of the King nor any so made is of force if contrary to the Laws of the Land as that Constitution which is most agreeable to the Genius of the Nation and Temper of Englishmen there being no other sort of Church Government so well pleasing to the generality of the People as this for whatever Constitution of all the contending Parties of this Nation should chance to get uppermost it would have more Enemies then this has and so unless we would have none and nothing but Confusion we ought in Point of Prudence to stick to this for tho it hath had and Oh! still hath many and great Opposers yet hath it kept its ground nor could all the Force and Fraud of Rome quite overpower her For this Church which regularly shoke off the Roman Yoak watering the infant Plant with he Blood hath for above a hundred Year been upheld by the unwearied Pains and great Learning of the Prelatic Party nor can the World shew such strength of Argument and Solid Confutation of the Church of Rome's Works as in the Writings of the Church of England Men again that 't is a Constitution capable of preserving it self not pragmatical like the Conclave or Consistory to Arraign Kings and States and make the Assembly or Conclave above the Parliament Yet her Superiors have by Law an undoubted Right to be present at those Debates and the making those Laws which concern the good of the People and so in a great measure able to provide against any that attempt her Ruin again as that Constitution which is not only good at home but prais'd and admired by all Foreign Churches abroad as the Honour as well as Defence of the whole Reformation And Lastly as that which hath secured to us our Laws Liberties and Lives these being the Men who dared to oppose tho modestly the Dispensing Power and would not yield with the Trimmer nor be wheadled with the Dissenter to set up Popery and Arbitrary Power and therefore I hope every good Magistrate and considerate English-man tho they bear with the Infirmities of the weak where such are will yet have an Eye to all those who have any ill will at Sion and such as watch to break down all our Carved Work with Axes and Hammers that labour with might and main to render the Church of England odious in the Eye of the People and with both hands cast Fire into the Sanctuary endeavouring by ill and untoward Speeches to alienate the Hearts and Affections of the People from the Church of England and to raise Scandals upon all that at this day shall speak or write in Her just Defence loading the Conformable Clergy with Contempt and as far as they dare exposing them in all Companies as well knowing if they can but eject the Shepherd or dress him up in a Wolves Skin the task is not great the whole Flock being then an easiy Prey but I hope we have Judges as at the first and the King will have Counsellors as at the beginning then who will say that we want any ordinary and legal Security to make us Happy Oh! may all our Magistrates prove such and may we all act and live as they direct us Then may this Nation again take root downward and bear fruit upwards then may Ireland be reduc'd and the Monsieur tremble and we be happy at home and feared abroad Oh! may we thus live under the Protection of a Wise and Just Government eating the Fruit of our Labour Oh! well are we and happy shall we be yea happy are the People that are in such a Case To that end and for the continuance of these his Mercies let us in the words of our Church in the Homily for Obedience heartily thank God for his great and excellent Benefit and Providence concerning Kings let us pray for them that they may have Gods Favour and Protection that they may ever in all things have God to be their Guide let us pray that they may have Wisdom Justice Strength Clemency and Zeal to Gods Glory the Good of Christian Souls and the Commonwealth let us pray they may rightly use their Sword and Authority for the Maintenance and Defence of the Catholic Faith and of their good and honest Subjects and let us pray for our selves that we may be godly in Holy and Christian Conversation and so shall we have God on our side and then let us not fear what Man can do unto us so shall we live in Obedience both to our most Merciful King in Heaven and to our most Christian King on Earth so shall we please God have Peace of Consclence Rest and Quiet here and Eternal Bliss hereafter Which he grant us all who was delivered to death for us and is now set down at the Right hand of God in Heaven FINIS