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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33098	A sermon preached at Edinburgh, in the East-Church of St. Giles, upon the 30th of January, 1689 being the anniversary of the martyrdome of King Charles the first / by James Canaries ...	Canaries, James.	1689 (1689)	Wing C423; ESTC R20246	68,911	94

great fetch to draw in other things to those Rights than were at first presum'd to be involved in them For thus there would be upon the event as the World now goes an Arbitrary Power lodged in the Subjects whereby upon every Caprice about the Law of Nature or the true Religion the whole Settlement of the Government would be subverted since still it might be pretended that tho such and such things had been at first agreed upon at the establishing of the Constitution yet it was not in the Subjects Power to divest themselves of such a Right nor in the Soveraigns to receive it from them as was sufficiently demonstrated before in this Head upon which I now am Wherefore all the interpretative Right that Subjects have upon the account of their Constitution must only be so as it bears a full Analogy to the very Being and Nature of the Constitution it self as you see those things this Objection goes upon cannot do God therefore for the security of Government has not allowed Subjects to vindicate any other Rights than what they possess in a just conformity to the Constitution in which they are and has obliged them to suffer patiently and with a Christian Spirit when-ever they shall be persecuted by a lawful Authority tho then acting unjustly because of not complyance with those things that he has commanded the contrary of promising to all that shall do so in obedience to his will that all their light afflictions in this life that endure but for a moment shall be recompensed with an eternal weight of glory And I doubt not but all those who use seriously to think two or three consequences off will find that nothing can be a sufficient foundation for any Government but meer Force and Power unless those Principles I have been refuting be once disowned as being of the most dangerous tendency to shake all Governments loose that any can be Yet we must carefully observe That all Subjects are notwithstanding bound both by the Law of Nature and of Religion not to concurr actively with their Prince when he would be at persecuting any of his People for not doing those things that are forbidden by these Laws For in all cases whatsoever God is rather to be obeyed than Man And such an obedience to a Princes command is so far from being Legittimated by the Shroud of his Authority that it shares the Guilt betwixt him that performs it and him that enjoyn'd it However there is great circumspection to be used even as to this that a Princes Commands be not wholly frustrated by groundless pretensions of their being unjust and so that the whole end of the Government which depends entirely upon these be not evacuated and disappointed And every man is to be guided here by his Discretion and Conscience and that at his utmost hazard both as to this and the next World according to what has been said already in the foregoing Head and This. Having thus abundantly clear'd this matter about fighting merely for Religion there remains now for me only to lay the charge of the contrary rebellious Doctrine to their door to whom it does justly belong I mean those of the Church of Rome I am sensible enough how very invidious it may be thought in me to fall upon them at this time and especially for such a Tenet 'T is true I was laid aside from my Charge from February 1686 to December 1687 meerly for Preaching from this Pulpit a Sermon against Popery and how all that while I was treated the whole Nation knows And so I may be reputed to vent those resentments which before I durst not adventure upon But I bless God I can heartily forgive my greatest enemies And tho the malice of the Papists have harrass'd me as much as with any tollerable countenance they could put a face upon it Yet the utmost of my revenge goes no higher than that it may please God in his mercy to them and to me to bless my poor endeavours so far that they may prove effectual to their Conviction and so to their abandoning those Errors that must be Errors if Christianity be not one And it is my nature to hate more to insult over misfortunate Adversaries than to be oppress'd by them for a thing that becomes a man to do to owne his Religion Neither have I any design as God can bear me Witness to expose them to those severities from the Government which if they were not at the mercy of Protestants they might perhaps justly enough be afraid of It is not the person of any man I have a quarrel with And the more I labour to discover any mans mistakes the more thanks he owes me But I am not the first that has been accounted an enemy for telling the truth But in the mean time it cannot be construed impertinent to the present occasion to Stage the Popish Religion for such mischievous Principles when it is considered that it was only a Popish Interest that prevail'd for getting Du Moulin's Book suppressed and when several Memoires and Collections shall be impartially lookt into And I doubt if the Papists of that time could were they yet living cleanly wipe off the guilt of King Charles the First 's Troubles and Murder It is indeed the highest calumny to say that all of that Profession had an accession to them No certainly there was many whose Honour and Humanity was too strong for the Bigottry of their Religion and who therefore shew as redoubted a Fortitude and Honesty in their Masters behalf as they were of a Religion that in it self was base and treacherous And if any thing could justifie men against the violation of what was so Sacred as is the very Name of Religion These deserved to be Crown'd with more immortal Lawrels than ever Encircled the Heads of such as had their Religion and their Duty and Generosity of a side And this I say not to detract from their Personal Worth but only to put us in mind what bad influence so ill a Religion can have upon the best Actions when They must degenerate by their very cohabitation with That But still they were Persons of the best Quality and Rank that withstood that overcame the Dictates of Rome And we shall not need to multiply Figures for the whole Number of Priests and Jesuites that own'd any further concernment in that Royal Martyr than as the Conjunctures gave them a favourable Prospect Thus the men that had that Religion mostly for their Trade and their Temper too made the best advantage they could of all our confusions hoping in the event to manage them so that out of a blind zeal for Protestancy Popery should spring forth And upon this account neither King nor People was Sacred to them but in as much as they saw Holy Church was to result from their Ruines But still I will say with Cicero tho adding a word to him Me Natura misericordem Patria Religio severum crudelem