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A42126 Loyalty essential to Christianity being a sermon preached the thirtieth of June, 1685 upon the occasion of the news of the damnable rebellion in the west and in the course of the constant lecture in the parish church of Dedham in Essex / by Thomas Grey. Grey, Thomas. 1685 (1685) Wing G1971; ESTC R23956 18,382 32

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next door to the pulling him out of Heaven That Contentment then and Resignation of ourselves to the Conduct of Divine Providence is a necessary part of practical Religion is allowed me and I need say no more to prove how well resisting of Sovereign Powers agree with that Seventhly And to conclude this whole matter I have to prove that Obedience and Subjection to Magistrates is a necessary part of Christian Religion the example of Jesus and his Apostles and of the Martyrs and Confessors of old The Doctrine of the Messiah I have accounted for before and now I super-add that he did further explain and enforce that by his example How willingly he yielded himself to those that accompanied the Traytor that delivered him How meekly he behaved himself when before their Judicatures How evidently he declared when he told Pilate My Kingdom is not of this World that nothing of that Power he then managed himself and had delegated it to others to do it after him should ever Interfere with or tend to lessen the Authority that was derived to him from Caesar or that of any other publick Magistrate to the end of the World How calmly he received the Sentence of Death the most Vnjust that ever was Pronounced How patiently he resigned himself to the Execution the most Barbarous that ever was Perpetrated And this sure was not through any deficiency of Power in him to have delivered himself or confounded those that so maliciously treated him for though there have been found that have impudently enough Blasphemed the patience of Martyrs and Confessors with this false and malicious suggestion yet here I hope they will be silent Neither can they sure be so Atheistical as to pretend this Example of the meek Lamb of God inimitable and that all the reason of his submission was the fulfilling of the Scriptures and the capacitating himself for that great Work of Expiation and Attoning Divine Displeasure if they do but remember that we are commanded by the Spirit of Jesus speaking in one of his Apostles Heb. 12. 2 ● To look unto Jesus the Author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame And to consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest we should be wearied and faint in our minds And moreover when we consider all the Glorious Patterns of an Illustrious Patience set before us by men of like Passions with our selves the Holy Martyrs of Antient times who amidst all the severities of an enraged Power Heb. 11. 36 37 38. They had Tryals of cruel mockings and scourgings yea moreover of Bonds and Imprisonments they were stoned they were sawn asunder were tempted i. e. to Apostatize by flatteries and promises which the Apostle justly reckons among the severest of their sufferings were slain with the sword they wandred about in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins being destitute afflicted tormented of whom the World was not worthy and yet took all this joyfully never tumultuously resisted the Powers that thus cruelly and unreasonably persecuted them and if it had been only for want of Power Why did the Inspired Pen-man of this Epistle attribute it to and commend it as an effect of their Faith and Hope I say when we consider all these Examples we may I think believe that the force of them would have passed into a Law if there had been none in explicite terms Recorded in the Christian Institutes but when the Laws are plainly delivered and backed by these Examples none but a Prodigious Impiety would go about to baffle this Glorious Principle of our Religion which at once gives us the opportunity of Publishing to the World the Highest Testimonies of our true and unfeigned Love to God even of suffering for his sake which is indeed the Complement and fulfilling of all that God has enjoyned us as the Conditions of our Eternal Happiness and also is the great recommendation of it to all the Powers upon Earth Having in these particulars fully asserted and I hope to your satisfactions the Doctrine of Loyalty and Submission to Kings and Rulers as a Fundamental Portion of our Religion I pass now to the second part of my Discourse which I shall briefly touch viz. II. That all the Ministers of the Evangelick Dispensation are strictly obliged by it to exhort their Hearers to the careful and conscionable Practise of this part of their Religion as their just and necessary Duty This is evident alone from this Apostolical Injunction to him whom St. Paul had placed in the next Degree of Authority to himself and he speaks it as a thing that they all both Preachers and Hearers knew and understood and so it needed only to put them in mind to be subject and 't is plain enough without this particular Command that we that are Preachers of the Gospel being bound to declare the whole Counsel of God that we might escape the Penalties that justly belong to those that handle the Word of God deceitfully and that we might be clear from the Blood of all men could never with safety to ourselves silently permit men to be mistaken in or ignorant of so necessary a part of their Christian Duty But this particular Command to us was super-added with a particular respect to the Hereticks that then were and such as should afterwards arise Preaching another Doctrine and also to give still more publick security to all Powers in every place where the Gospel came that the Religion established by it was so far from making any Invasion upon their Rights that it did oblige all its Followers upon stricter grounds than any other Institution in the World to be Obedient to their Authority And because perhaps there are some here that have heard another Doctrine taught from this very place I will therefore Appeal to themselves whether it does not much better become a Minister of the Gospel of Peace in speeding his Commission from the God and Prince of Peace to Preach this Doctrine of Peace Meekness and Obedience to Magistrates than to hear them not only vary from but act quite contrary to their Instructions in thundring out the furious and extravagant noises of Curse you Meroz And of fighting the Lords Battels In Elijah's Vision 1 Kings 19. 11 The Lord was not in the Earth-quake nor in the Fire nor in the strong Wind that rent the Rocks but in the still small Voice God was not here when Drums were beaten and Trumpets sounded from the Pulpit but we may believe him here and expect his blessing upon us here when we cheerfully hearken to his Ministers that come unto us Preaching Peace by Jesus Christ. I am persuaded there are none here but are satisfied of the mischief of all such Principles as tend to Rebellion And therefore am under no fear of displeasing any of you by this necessary freedom I have nothing now to detain me from finishing this Discourse but only to report the force of