in their Misfortunes and thereby to demonstrate that my poor distressed Mother in the greatest and most generall defection as this seemes to be that ever vvas among any King of Englands subjects vvill never vvant some to bear testimony to the truth of her Doctrine vvho according to the Exemple of Christ and his Apostles doth maintaine the practice of Allegiance and intire submission and subjection to all Lavvfull supreme povvers deputed by God as his Vice-Gerents to Governe the vvorld Hovv great a contradiction hereof soever the last years transactions in England have proved vvhich hath given the greatest vvound that vvas ever yet given to our Church the Doctrine of Non-resistance Remaines on such authentick Record in the Church of Englands Printed Homilies against Rebellion vvhich I have in some sort Epitomised in the conclusion of my discourse that your Majesty as vvell as the King vvil I hope bee pleased to continue your Charitie to our Ecclesiastick Constitution vvith liberty to its members to Exercise their Religion and thinke no vvorse of the Parent for the disobedience of the Children but render that Iustice to the Church of England vvhich is due to all Churches to vvit to bee Iudged by her Doctrine Discipline and Order vvhich I am sure never did carry a long vvith them any Rebellion and not by the practice or Conversation of its Members VVhereby if the vvhole Christian Church vvas to bee Iudged it vvould in many things appeare more vile then some parts of the vvorld overrun vvith Turcisme and Paganisme Offerring to God my most fervent devotions for the preservation and Restoration of the King the Life and Happinesse of the Prince and out of Gratitude to Heaven in a most particular manner for your Majesty vvho have been Instrumentall to the Greatest blessing vvhich hath been these many yeares conferred on the Kingdom in bearing and bringing forth an Heir male for the support of the Monarchy I do vvith all humility implore yours together vvith his Majesties Patronage as vvell as beg Pardon for this Presumption and vvith the most profound respect imaginable subscribe my selfe YOUR MAJESTIES MOST DUTIFULL EVER FAITHFUL SERVANT SUBIECT DENIS GRANVILLE A DISCOURSE CONCERNINC CHRISTIAN RESIGNATION AND RESOLUTION WITH SOME LOYALL REFLECTIONS ON THE DUTCH INVASION Preached in the Cathedrall Church of Durham on the 1. Wensday in Advent the sunday follovving being the 5. 9. of December 1688. By DENIS GRANVILLE D. D. Deane Archdeacon of Durham novv in Exile Chaplaine in Ordinary to his Majestie TWO SERMONS CONCERNING CHRISTIAN RESOLUTION And Humble Submission to the VVill of God in Tymes of Distresse on the Holy Patriarch Iacobs Farevvell VVords to his sons at Parting IF I BE BEREAVED OF MY CHILDREN I AM BEREAVED Gen. ch 43. v. 14. FOR the better Understanding of the Story it Will be requisire to reade the precedent Words from the 11. verse to the text v. 11. If it must be so novv do this take of the best fruites of the Land in your Vessels and carry dovvn the man a Present a little balme a little honey spices mirrhe nuts almonds v. 12. And take double money in your hands and the money vvhich vvas brought againe in the mouth of your sacks carry it againe in your hand peradventure it vvas an Oversight v. 13. Take also your Brother and arise go againe unto the man. v. 14. And God Almicghty give you Mercy before the Man that hee may send avvay your other Brother Benjamin IF I BE BEREAVED OF MY CHILDREN I AM BEREAVED THe Approaching Holy Feast of CHRISTS NATIVITY or Coming in the Flesh doth Every yeare require a Solemne preparatory time of Devotion And that it may not want such due respect the Church takes care in its preceding Exercises Every Sunday service during ADVENT hath an Eye to that pious End purpose In pursuance whereof wee have in this Cathedrall revived an Antient Religious Custome Two dayes of every week throughout this season to wit wednesdays fridays are Sermon Dayes dedicated to Prayer Fasting to accompany those Exercises of Repentance which are allwayes thought a necessary part of out Preparation But Gods Impending Iudgements for our sins which at this time threaten Bloud Confusion do summon us to add to those exercises and by some voluntary impositions of Dayly Devotion Mortification to turne this Advent in to A little Lent giving up our selves wholy to the Exercise of Piety Prayer beseeching God that hee will not Enter into Iudgement vvith us and for our provocations give us up as a Prey unto our Enimies making us a scorne derision to them that are round about us It is lawfull nay Religious by Devout Prayer to Use Violence to the Kingdom of Heaven and if wee did in this our Distresse betake our selves to so sure a Refuge making use of the Holy Weapons of the Antient Christians PRAYERS TEARES crowding up to the horns of the Altar rendring all our Devotions more prevalent by the vveekly Reception of the Lords Supper wee that meet in Gods House if we came with that spirit Which wee ought might do our King and Country better service than those who fight for him in the Field What hath been said I premise in regard to the present Season of ADVENT and the Ensuing Feastivall of CHRISTMAS by reason my text doth not respect Either of them so particularly as the Storme Danger Which is imminent doth loudly call for the Holy Resolution asvvell as submission of Pious Jacob. And having so done I shall before I enter on the Words Move you to Pray according to the Canonicall Exhortation of the Church Yee shall pray for the Holy Catholieck Church of Christ that is for the vvhole Congregation of Christian people dispersed throughout the VVorld more espetially for the Churches of Great Britaine Ireland And here in I am to require you more particularly to pray for our Dread Soudraigne Lord Iames by the Grace of God King of England c. Yee shall likevvise pray for our Gratious Queen Mary Katherine the Queen dovvager his Royall Higness the Prince of VVales c. Concluding your Devotions allwayes with the Lords Prayer Our Father c. THe PATRIARCHS were now returned from their first journey Sermon I into Egypt and as they little thought from full-filling their Brother Iosephs dreame They had Bovved to him whom they thought they had Robbed of all Honour and been Fed by him whom they once conspired to Starve So inviolable is Gods purpose in things to man impossible OLD JACOB here at first with greatest Joy wellcomes home his weary sons but excesse of gladnesse is commonly attended on with Greife the end of Ioy is Mourning Whiles hee is yet congratulating their good successe in their Journey the sad newes of Simeons Imprisonment silenceth his mirth Which Greife too is attended on by a greater the necessity of his Deare Benjamins going into Egypt Crosses in
DIONYSIUS GRANVILLE DECANUS DUNELMENSIS AET. SVAE 54 Beaupoille pinxit G. F. Edelinck Sculp Jâ—peâ—sis Thomâ—â— Hacquet 〈◊〉 hâ—s pitis sui anno Dom. 1693. Serenissimum Dominum Jacobum Secundum Magnoe Britanioe Regem secutus est in Galliam Anno 1688. Propter fidelitatem Suam Domino Regi Principe Arausiacensi Coronam Anglioe Vsurpante deprivaÌ„tus fuit anno 1691. THE RESIGNED RESOLVED CHRISTIAN AND FAITHFUL UNDAUNTED ROYALIST In tvvo Plaine Farevvell-Sermons a Loyal Farevvell-Visitation-Speech Both deliver'd amidst the Lamentable Confusions occasioned by the Late FORREIGN INVASION HOME-DEFECTION of his Majesties Subjects in England By DENIS GRANVILLE D. D. Deane Archdeacon of Durham novv in Exile Chaplaine in Ordinary to his Majestie Whereunto are added Certaine Letters to his Relations Freinds in England shewing the Reasons and manner of his withdrawing out of the Kingdom VIZ A LETTER TO HIS BROTHER THE EARLE OF BATHE A LETTER TO HIS BISHOP THE BISHOP OF DURHAM A LETTER TO HIS BRETHREN THE PREBENDARIES A LETTER TO THE CLERGY OF HIS ARCHDEACONRY A LETTER TO HIS CURATS AT EASINGTON ET SEDGEFEILD Printed at Roüen by WILLIAM MACHUEL ruë S. Lo neare the Palace for JOHN BAPTISTE BESONGNE ruë Escuyer at the Royall sun and are to be sold by AUGUSTIN BESONGNE in the Great Hall of the Palace at Paris In the yeare of our Lord God M. DC LXXXIX TO THE READER THE Subject-matter of these ensuing sheets concerning Christian Resolution Humble Submission to the will of God in times of distresse according to the example of the holy Patriach Jacob Hearty subjection to the King according to the Doctrine of the Church of England our many Indispensable tyes of Conscience will with all those few who truly Feare God Honour the King sufficiently a pologize I hope for the publication of them in a Juncture an Age advanced to the highest contempt defiance both of Loyalty and Religion That Incensed God who hath for our manifold provocations and more particularly wee have reason to believe for our Carnall Confidence in the Arme of Flesh Disobedience to Gods Vice-Gerent powred out the vialls of his wrath on three Kingdoms is not like to be appeased without the serious practice of the contrary Graces in a manner as Universall and generall as hath been our late notorious Defection towards the King by an abhorr'd detestable Violation of the many sacred often repeated Oaths whereby all subjccts were obliged to support his Crowne Dignity Such is my sense of what is past Dread of Allmighty Gods future Indignation when I consider that I am how weak and unworthy soever advanced to a publick station in the Church of England that I cannot satisfy my selfe with mourning in secret but conceive it my indispensable duty to proclame after such a Stupendious Revolution as soon as well as I am able to all persons in the Kingdom my unfeigned Resolution to adhere to my Soveraigne in his distresse least I may by silence contribute to the increase of that dangerous Lethargy which hath seized on the People of England who by Resisting at length Deserting their Prince have Apostatized from their Religion I have helped possibly as litle as any one of my Brethren or fellow-subjects in the Nation to the first growth of this disease having for six tuentie years together openned my mouth widely on Topicks which would have prevented had they met vvith due regard our present misery for the truth whereof I appeale to the whole Jurisdiction whereto I have long related But however I cannot think my-selfe perfectly disengaged to ioyn in attempting the Cure or at least to help on vvhat is God bee thanked in some sort begun vvhereto the contradictory preposterous proceedings of the Kings enimies have assisted I mean to the oppenning the eyes of thousands in England to see already the madness of their Change the Errors of their late method to redresse Grievances by labouring to bring their Soveraigne to Termes all that vvas aimed at I do in Charity beleive by the Church of Englands fallen sons and to deliver the Nation from Domestick Evills by calling for Forreigne Assistance § The number of souls committed to my charge in the Cathedrall in my Archdeaconry in the Peculiar Jurisdiction depending on the Church of Durham are too many too considerable to be forgotten or neglected by me now incapacitated othervvise to Preach to them Therefore in this low Ebb of Loyalty vvhen Instances of firme fidelity to ones Prince are so rare the Dean of Durham it is hoped vvill be pardonned if he sets so much value on his ovvn Example as to make use of it as vvell as his vvords vvritings tovvards the Extricating the People vvith vvhose soules hee hath been Intrusted out of the Labyrinth vvhereinto they are Run by Non-Compliance vvith their Lavvfull Gratious Soveraigne ready Concurrence vvith a Forreign Usurper or at least tovvards the Hindring them from Running farther yet into it remaining stupidly in so sinfull and deplorable a state condition This induces me to vvish that I could bring the last vvords I spoke to the Clergy Ecclesiastick Officers of my Archdeaconry to the Members of the Cathedrall and Citty of Durham contained in the ensuing Discourses to the vievv and consideration of the vvhole County Diocesse that those vvho vvere absent vvhen I utterd them may as vvell as those present partake of my poor zeale and endeavours for their spirituall Advantage vvhich is all the Returne I can at present make for the temporall Benefits I have reaped in that country during my injoyment of sundry considerable Preferments among them If such Communication of my Papers cannot be so soon so successefully effected as I would by reason all Intercourse betwixt the Kingdom of England this wherein I reside is stop'd I am willing in the meane while to let the world see that I am not Idle or Unconcerned but do all that in me lyes towards this honest End whereby if no proffit accrews to them or others I shall ease my mind deliver my soule If any are pleased to censure contemn or reject my writings because they find nothing in them Learned or Elaborate ot where of the Age is over-fond Controversial I desire them to consider that Polemik Learning Divinity are things I never did nor shall pretend to And that in the month of November 88. when I spake to the Clergy in the first week of December following when I preached in the Abby at Durham as ill as things did portend I little dreamt that my Soveraigne or selfe should be put under an unavoidable necessity to fly in to an other Kingdome or that I should be obliged to make use of such meanes methods to Evidence my sincerity in my Religion the first thing I should strive to Evince to all those to whose spiritual Assistance I administer otherwise
more 〈◊〉 Regard would had been had to the Penning Composure But since I am reduced to such hard circumstances whereto in conformity to my own Doctrine I Heartily submit that the ensuing Discourses how sleight soever little worth in themselves are abundantly sufficient to demonstrate that both my Religion Loyaâ—â—y are not of the New Cutt but of the old Royall stamp carry whith them I trust the true Touch of the Tower Providence invites me to exposes them to publick view being ambitious of nothing in â—â—e world more than to approve my selfe in this Day of Rebuke to my Soveraigne his rigth Loyal subjects for one who thinks that hee obliged to be as Faithfull to a Roman-Catholick as a Protestant Prince as true to him in Adversity as Prosperity As far any Censures of vanity arising from my Title-Page as if I did there set forth my selfe à Patterne of humility Loyalty they ought not to sway with me so farre as to stop me in my Endeavours to be so or to perswade others to become such since thereto Heaven at this tyme loudly summons all the Nation This I can truly say without Pride or Boasting that I have labour'd to practise what I have preached to others that I was never more than at this very instant aspiring towards those Excellent but rare vertues mentionned in the following discourses which I commend to Gods Blessing the Candid Readers Charity desiring all persons in England who have labour'd either by Kind Invitations or Threats of deprivation to prevaile with mâ— to returne submit to the new Government to receive this as my finall Ansver TO WIT If I be DEPRIVED I am DEPRIVED or to approach a little neaver to the Phrase of Good Father Jacob. 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Dearn's for Dean's l. 18. the for he The smaller faults vvith may occur they Reader may easily correct in reading FINIS TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY ALLMIGHTY GOD having enabled mee by his grace to resist those temptations which have overcome the greatest number of the members of my own Church and Country and being now incapacitated here a bread to render my Soveraigne and your Majesty better service than to owne your Righteous Cause I think my selfe obliged to give the world a more than ordinary Testimony of my sincere Loyalty and Resolution in all times and Changes to adhere unalterably to the Crowne Having therefore allready sacrificed my Revenue by quitting the Nation rather than submit to the Vsurpation and exposed my selfe to Censure and Obloquy in that part of England wherein I have Lived by Refusing to Head or Ioine with those my dependants there Ecclesiasticall and Secular who have departed from their Allegiance I know of no better and more Convincing Instance yet remaining to bee given by mee of my stedfastness to stick to and serve the Royall familie than to proclame that I dare speake truth here a broad from the Presse as well as from the Pulpit at home tho every one must fore-know that such an honest Boldness will unavoidably render mee uncapable of the favour and good opinion of all those persons in the Nation High and Low Spirituall and Temporal who have Shipwrackt their Faith and Consciences by ceasing to yeild after often swearing Allegiance and Fidelity to their Soveraigne And it is easy to fore-see that the Printing these and some other Papers at this time in mine ovvn name will thus render mee obnoxious as I am Contented to bee to all those Builders who imploy themselves in Erecting a New Monarchy and Church in England But the Aspersions of them that forsake their Religion as far as they desert their Lavvfull Liege Lord as I hope the follovving sheets will evidence vvill bee no intolerable Load to mee who desire no greater Honour and satisfaction than to share with my King Queen and hope-full young Prince
to proceed in imitation of their Loyalty and according to their examples in all times of Warre Trouble heretofore to stick close to the Crown Not one of them that I could ever Read or heare of having been in the least manner dipt in Rebellion or sided with any Usurper Indeed their Fidelity to their Soueraigne for which your House God bee Praised hath been ever noted none Sir hath better copied out then your selfe whose Name is on that account already Recorded in our English Chronicle The Secrecy Successefulnesse of that Negotiation of yours in your Master the late Kings behalfe with General Monk will not easily bee forgotten among loyall men And I must confesse to all the world that that notable Example Pattern which you have set all your House by your services endeavours in the Worst of Tymes for King Charles the 2. hath had great force on mee been mighty prevalent in inspiring mee with some more than ordinary Resolution for his Royall Brother his lawfull successour and our vndoubted Soueraigne at my first Entrance on my Deanery which did oblige mee to Appeare Act in à more Pnblick Poste than before And doth still animate mee wherefore whatever measures you are pleased to take at present I hope Sir you will not blame mee in my present zeale endeavours Since which time I can say it without Boasting tho if I did Boast a litle this Conjuncture my Circustances would Beare it that I have never strayed in my affection from his Majestie nor failed in paying him all the Honour Duty Respect which I should have renderd to my deceased Master of ever Blessed Memory had the Naiion been longer blest with his Reigne But instead thereof I do not Blush to let all the world know that I have been somewhat more Officious and thought it Every ones Duty so to be in his Service than I had been in his Brothers in consideration of a Roman Catholick Kings Grace Goodness towards us of the Church of England in reference to the free exercise of our Religion Hee granting us the liberty of A Religion contrary to his ovn and making it his Care at his first Appearence in Councell to secure to his Protestant Subjects of the Ch. of England so unvaluable à Blessing neither of which if hee had done could wee have told how to helpe our selves or been absolved from our Obedience which my litle Divinity hath euer told mee I hope euer will is as due to à Roman Cath. Soueraigne as to a Protestant one The Consideration where of hath by the Blessing of God kept mee Vntainted Vnstained throughout the whole transactions of the last 5. yeares I meane from the 6. of Feb. 84. when his Majestie mounted the Throne to the 10. of Dec. 88. when the same Sacred Majestie was disgracefully Driven to the Everlasting Reproach of the English Nation from his own Palace of Whitehall No Feares or Iealousies of Religion Liberties or Lavves dîd ever tempt mee I Blesse God to any undue courses of Resistance Opposition or somuch as Unseemly Capitulation with Gods Vicegerent to preserve them Tho I love them all soe well Dearely that I can bee contented to dye for them in any Place or Manner vnlesse it bee with à sword in my hand lifted vp against my Prince And I dare Challenge not only my Censurers but all the World a state of Hostility will admit of such language to discover any One Act of mine whereby I have sided with or abetted their Enimies in any Endeavours to destroy or Weaken them that I have I say ever either in the capacity of a Private Minister or Publick Magistrate Ecclesiasticall or Civill in the West my first or North of England my last station ceased to practise and Exact a strict Conformity to the Rules of our Religion or to promote an Impartiall Execution of law as long as the lawes were in Force both against Recusant Dissenter Or that lastly I did ever Countenance such Omission of Duty in Others Clergy or layety under my Authority All Places wherein I have Resided will I make no question testifye for mee that I have been how weake unsuccessefull soever zealous diligent faithfull in these particulars And did never in any Revolution Put on the Vizard of A TRIMMER having had allwayes from my Cradle a certaine Antipathy against such Indifferency Hyppocrisy Neutrality as doe constitute that Amphibious Creature which by the assistance of Neighbours which it is hard to tell whether they live more vpon the land or in the water hath given a kind of Mortall Wound to the Church Monarehy of England By such Principles Practices I have God bee thanked demonstrated my selfe A legitimate son of my ever Honoured Deare Father Sir Bevill Granville whom I may I hope in à letter to à Brother bee permitted for my Consolation in so melancholyck a state of Affaires a litle to Glory in sinee his Valour Loyalty sealed at Lansdown with his Bloud is set aboue the spleen censure of the most Malitious Tongues Forasmuch as the University of Oxford one of the most famous Universityes in the VVorld hath vouchsafed to celebrate them whith an Epicedium of their choicest VVits A respect which hath not as the Ingenious Reprinter of the late Edition of those Poems doth in his dedicatory Epistle well note been vsually paid to any but the Royal Family And in the same Temper much heightned strengthend by the serious frequent pervsall of those Iugenious Verses which bring dayly to my consideration my loyall Fathers Example which I carry constantly about mee both to inspire conduct mee I hope by Gods Grace to Breathe out my soule without making any difference in Matter of Obedience betwixt à Papist a Protestant Prince A Christian or à Heathen I am without any scruple assured so is all the World that my Soueraigne King Iames the 2. is a lawfull King hath an undoubted Title which is all a good subject ought to enquire into If soe I am as much assured that noe Power vpon Earth can absolve mee from my sworne Obedience to him what ever wee are told to the contrary in certaine Enquiries into the Measures of Submission to Supreme Authority the Grounds vpon vvhich it may bee lavvfull or necessary as ◠the Title phraseth it for subjects to defend their Religion liberties lavves I wish the Doctor had been pleased to speake out plainly according to his thoughts and I am perswaded hee would haue sayd The Grounds vvhereon it is Lavvfull to Rebell But I shall give you noe more Trouble by way of Information concerning my selfe I shall rather crave liberty to convey to my Younger Relations since they are numerous by your favour and meanes is you please some wholesome Advice for their Edification to establish those who are not Tainted and to restore those who are with the false
accepted thereof at the very first offer of the People Secondly The Exercise of the Kings Prerogative in dispensing with some Lawes on Extraordinary Emergencyes was thought a Burden Intollerable But it hath been no Crime since in the Subject to dispense with all They having got as they thinke what they have long Contended for the Supremacy in their own hands Thirdly The Introducing of Arbitrary Power was the Dread of most men now they are contented to enjoy nothing else Fourthly It was Judged unpardonable Tyranny in our Soveraigne to touch the meanest of his subjects in Point of Property but it is a laudable vertue in the Subject to usurp upon nay dispose of the Crowne Fiftly The English were Overwhelmed with Jealousies of introducing Popery promoting the Intrest of France And all the while have gone the direct way to bring the worst of their Feares on themselves by Driving the King Prince out of the Kingdome Sixtly In a word Sundry other Things which were deemed nnsufferable in a lawfull Prince of Gods Ordaining are now Practised without disgust by an Usurper King of the Peoples making Hee that is not yet perfectly Convinced of the Hypocrisy of these Pretences Procedings which I hope the most Eminent of our Clergy Nobility by this time are seemes to have neither Eyes to see Eares to heare nor Heart nor Head to consider Understand I shall conclude with A Memorable Saying of our Royall Martyr King Charles the 1. on his Observation of a like spirit of Delusion which in his dayes possessed the generality of the People of the same Kingdomes in Dethroning nay Murthering their Lawfull King one of the Best of Princes at his owne doores Soe easy is that Leger de main which serves to delude the Vulgar That the Almighty Wise God who in his just displeasure for our sins ingratitude to Himselfe his Vicegerent hath for the present made the Chutch Monarchy of England A Notable Monument of his Wrath would bring all High Low who have contributed to soe Heinous a Guilt in his due tyme to such a sight sense of their Crimes that they may give to the world an undeniable Demonstration of the Truth of their Repentance labouring with all their Might to redresse the Scandalls they have given by an unparalelled Apostacy from the Principles of our Church an abhorred Defection in point of Loyalty is the hearty humble Prayer of Ever Honour'd and Deare Sir Your Lordships most humble Servant Affectionate Brother DENIS GRANVILLE Rouen Aprill 24. 1689. POSTSCRIPT THat the Printing of this letter with the following Address Queres may not appear to your selfe as I fore-see they will to all Zealous Contrivers Supporters of the Usutpation in England an act of not only deplorable Folly but downe right Frenzy I humbly Crave your permission to insert a few lines by way of Postscript I am not ignorant but that this attempt may render me absolutely incapà ble of all the favour you have shew'd me since my Flight into France in your voluntary kind interposition to secure my Revenu that it must also expose me for a subject of Common Talk Censure thoughout the Nation But since an un blemis'd Loyalty is infinitely mote valuable than the Possessions of this world that I was persvaded that the Course which I did by Gods grace Steer was the most effectual way to secure that the very Reputation whereof I esteem far beyond the Rents I had at Durham Easington Sedgefeild nay moreover since that my past Life last Deportment in England had not been all of a piece if I had not done as I did You will not I trust condemn my Cariage however contrary to the Maxims Temper of the Reigning Generation as unworthy of your House Family What I have done I have perform'd thanks be to the Almighty in the Integrity of my Heart Innocency of my hands the sence Consideration here of the Issue of things exery day more more convincing me that I was in the Right doth afford unspeakable Comfort to my soule My Feeding of some Friends in my voyage from Scotland hither with Expectation of an Inter-view in Kent talk of a Passport the fitst of which I did not intend the last if I could get away without it I did not desire is a crime I do assure my selfe of Gods pardon for of those friends likewise whom I deluded disapointed when God shall be pleas'd to send us a happy meeting As for that more unpardonable sin where with some do reproach me whereof I cannot so well clear my selfe before the World but is the only one thanks be to God that the World can accuse me of I meâ—n my Ignorance Imbecility to fill my Coffers Pockets so ful as some more frugall crafty than my selfe have done in less time with a smaller Estate or Revenu I am like to do a sad Pennance for it here abroad in a Forreigne Kingdome And the Friends Relations I leave at home will not I hope add affliction to affliction if they will not help me with their Purses by loading me with their Censures especially considering two last Acts of mine to demonstrate the sincerity of my Repentance for it First that I did voluntarily diminish my Revenu very considerably by Rent-Charges to satisfy my own just Debts Secondly that I look'd on my long Neglect to practize Frugality as so great a sin that I did as voluntarily put my selfe into a kind of white sheet to atone fot the same by confessing it to God the world in a small Peice I printed in the year 85. This is my Comfort that no person in England is like to loose by me unless by his own proper Choice if one man doth so he must thank himselfe rather than blame me If I suffer Deprivation to his loss he must quarrell with God the King whose Commands have unavoidably oblig'd me to hold fast my Religion Loyalty And if the Sacrificing of both or either of them was in my Judgement too dear a purchace of my Revenu for my selfe no one could reasonably expect that I should undergo it for an other Hoping that these few Hints may give some satisfaction to all but the Malitious Authors of our present Misery I shall not enlarge this Postscript farther than to acknowledge with all thankfullness the kindness which you have shew'd me in procuring A Dispensation for mee notwithstanding I have contradicted your Example which I esteem thegreater Obligation at those friends hands who were instrumentall therein since they did it without my Privity or Motion BY the Publication of the following ADDRESS QUERES it may appear tha the Author is not affraid notwithstanding the Obloquy he did a while undergo in the yeat 88 for his dutifull compliance with the King to owne those notions of Loyalty which he did endeavour
their Function having allvvayes made it mine That the Curate shall consider frequently at least once a quarter vvhat Rubricks or Canons be most neglected contemn'd by the parishoners and that he doth besides the ordinary explanation of the service once a year in obedience to his Majestie 's Directions to Prearchers read at convenient times the said Rubricks to the people that is to say betvveen the frist service Litany or betvven Litany second Service or before or after sermon omitting if occasion require the psalm then usually sung that he shall Zealously but mildly stirr up the people to the better observation of the same that vvhen he discovers these publick admonitions ineffectuall that he make it part of his labour in private vvith personnall applications to reforme such irregularitys And that he shall as frequently as he can vvhen presentments are to be made make such applications publick private as shall appear most convenient to the offenders in order to the prevention of their shame expence vvhich I desire alvvayes may be done vvithout further prosecution unless the thing cannot othervvise be reform'd That such discourses as he makes about the Rubricks Constitutions may be usually out of the Desk or if occasion require in the pulpit after the sermon vvhich I vvould not have burthen'd often vvith these smaller matters relating only to good order but reserv'd for more substantial essential truths as the Doctrins of Faith Repentance Love Obedience Temperance c. That he doth not take notice of the People's breach of Rubricks or such disorders in publick vvhen he can reforme the same easily in private unless they are notorious scandalous in vvhich case he is sometimes to give particular persons even publick reproofs in the very Congregation That vvhen there is ground of suspition that the Church-VVardens vvill not faithfully do their dutys in searching the Alehouses c that he go out of the Church sometimes vvith them for the more effectual prevention of disorder That hee cause the Clarck to inquire vvhen notice is given of Baptisme vvhether the vvitnesses have all receiv'd the Sacrament also to informe the Parson if the Church-vvardens do not vvhen any excommunicat'd persons enter the Church or Church-yard to vvhich end purpose there shall be a list kept in the Vestry of all persons excommunicated DENIS GRANVILLE IN REFERENCE TO THE FORE-GOING DIRECTIONS Letters Discourses the Reader is desired to note those matters follovving FIRST that here were intermingled with the abovesaid Directions for the Curates sundry advices for the Church-wardens Parish-Clarks not judged so necessary to be printed These being sufficient to accomplish the fore-mentioned end of their printing p. 39. and convince those Clergy and others who would not allow the authour to bee worthy of his station when he was admitted into his Deanery that he did notwithsstanding the great power of their evill example whose semiconformity first poison'd the nation at least endeavour to be what hee all along cheifly aimed at that is to say a Diligent COUNTRY-PARSON if not good Archdeacon He taking effectuall Care and with no ill success that these his Rules should be as they were better obser'd by his Curates then the Church-Cannons or Rubricks were by them the generality of the Clergy of the nation and consequently in due time might have become a tollerable Deane by Gods blessing if the CITTY-REBELS Joyning with the Invaders had not driven him with his master out of England SECONDLY the Reader is desird to take further notice that this last â—etter to wit to his Curates was not printed when the others were as first intended and mentioned in the Title-Page in the yeare 1689 but was for certain reasons underwritten deferr'd to be put into the Press till the month yeare mark'd in the conclusion of the said letter to wit Oct 1691 some months after the Dean's Deprivation Which delay among other things hinder'd the more speedy Publication of all the other papers and was occasiond upon the three ensuing accounts 〈…〉 First the Deane imagined on second thoughts 〈…〉 that so plaine a Rebuke as the faithfull discharge of his 〈…〉 Conscience in the delivery of the Discourses hee hath printed the penning of the fore-going letters hee hath publish'd in his own name did by reflection cast on many considerable Spirituall Temporall Supporters of the Usurped Authority in Churcâ— State was an Underaking too mighty for him who never delighted to expose or reproach his Superiours in any manner nor should have dared thus to have done it at this time had not too many of them manefestly departed from and contradicted the very Doctrine of the Church of England which they as well as hee had sworne to maintaine Secondly He long expected that some eminent person in England better qualified would have saved him the labour of such an application as he hath here in print made to the people under his authority by publishing ere this some substantiall work that should have strenuously asserted the Cause of King James the 2 that Church of England whereof he is supreme Governour by unmasking the wickedness injustice and ingratitude nay unnaturallness of Dethroning their lawfull Soveraign and under a religious pretence usurp his Crowne The afore-said Person not sticking to set his name thereto tho it might have cost him his life to proclaime undeniably to the World that what hee writ hee beleived to be such truth of God as hee did dare seale with his Bloud Which desireable peice of Charity to the soules of the poor people who were unhappily drawn into Perjury by the powerfull Example of their leaders the authour hath not yet discover'd to be done by any tho he thinks ought to have been performed long ago what ever had been the issue to have given right measures to the People of the Land while they were staggerring not quite fallen into the abominable sins of Perjury and Renouncing their Allegiance Which Christian work if it had been acted in due season would among other good effects have edified also the Dean's Flocks and render'd unnecessary what hee hath said to keep those steddy who stand to restore those who are fallen for want of timely under-propping The authour's earnest longing and waiting with great impaâ—ience to have seen such desireable fruit of Primitive zeale did detaine him a while from plunging himselfe over head ears tho hee made many offers so to do into that Deluge which did over-spred the land thinking himselfe a bad swinmer in such Troubled waters moreover like Elihu Job 32. 4. being very unwilling to speake out thus boldly shame the silence of his Elders till hee had given them all sufficient opportunity to speak and write Tho his boldness zeale as may be observ'd by the way is before noted was not levell'd directly to any but those under his own Charge Care or nearly related to him to whom