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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65994	A sermon preached at Stow, in the county of Bucks, on the ninth of September, 1683 being the day of thanksgiving appointed by the King's declaration, for acknowledging God's great mercy in discovering and defeating the late treasonable conspiracy against His Sacred Majesty's person and government / by Tho. Wagstaffe ...	Wagstaffe, Thomas, 1645-1712.	1683 (1683)	Wing W212; ESTC R1767	17,329	42

and no Duty commanded for it self These are the substantial Parts of Christianity and Zeal at the best is but the Guard of it and 't is very unreasonable that what God order'd for Defence of these things should be the greatest means of Destroying them 'T is true indeed every Man in his station is oblig'd to promote God's Glory and Christian Religion but then it is by those Ways only which Religion allows The Apostles were as Zealous for Christianity as any and Advanc'd it more than ever any since but the Ways they took were Purity and Peace Meekness and Suffering Never any Tumults and Rebellions heard of 'till Zeal became extravagant and over-grown and not only grew too strong for but swallowed up all the rest of the Vertues And if these Practices were warranted by Christianity if Men might make use of Tumultuary and Seditious Ways to secure or set up Religion what a woful Condition would a Christian Prince be in whose Kingdom was divided into Factions and where are several Parties of differing Perswasions in Religion For all think themselves in the Right and all others in the Wrong and commonly call the contrary Opinions Superstition Idolatry and Antichristianism Now if all these think their Zeal for their respective Ways obliges them to all possible Means to set them up and destroy the contrary and if they are Luke-warm if they do not do it If Papists may hire Ruffians to Pistol the KING if he do not set up Images and Transubstantiation If Presbyterians may fight against him if he do not pull down Bishops and place in their stead Classis's and Lay-Elders If Independents may cut of his Head if he do not root out the Idolatry of the Surplice and the Dagon of the Common-Prayer and enact Laws for the Congregational Way If the Quakers may deny him and testifie against him if he do not abolish all other Ways and set up Enthusiasm and New Lights In this Case what can a King do 'T is impossible to set up more than One and then all the rest are to be Troublesom and Vexatious to become his Enemies and to pursue him as an Adversary to Truth I say therefore That if Christianity did warrant such things it would be look'd upon as the Make-bate of the World It would be esteem'd what its Enemies represented it a most pestilent Heresie and all Governours would use their utmost to Root it out of their Kingdoms as utterly inconsistent with the Quiet and Peace of them Whereas in truth there is nothing more the Interest of Governours than to settle Christianity among the People because there is nothing more governable than a good Christian nothing more Orderly and Peaceable than the measures of Religion but then it is Religion not acted by furious and bitter Zeal but by its own mild and sober Principles 4. Be not over-fond and hasty of joyning with any Dissenting Party Here I must premise That I do not lay this PLOT upon any particular Party of Dissenters nor desire to insinuate that They as Dissenters are ingag'd in it God forbid that things of this Nature should be charg'd upon any but those that are found Guilty But as King JAMES Praem to Apol. speaking of the Powder Treason says That it was only plotted by Papists and They only lead thereto by a preposterous Zeal for the advancement of their Religion Upon which account the Parliament next sitting us'd all means of Trial to know if there were any more of that mind left in the Country And he saith Apol. King James 's Works pag. 265. That the Oath of Allegiance was Ordain'd for making a difference between the Civilly obedient Papists and the Perverse Disciples of the Powder Treason And thus far this is applicable That this horrid Plot was contriv'd by Men who favour'd their Way that there were no less than Three of their Teachers actually engag'd in it that the Chief and Principal Plotters had Expectations of great Strength and Supply from them Now although it is not reasonable that the Faults of some should be translated to a Whole Party yet this should make every Conscientious Man very jealous of himself carefully examine whether his Practices have any such tendency whether there hath been any just Occasion given for Contriving men to have such Expectations from them and if there hath then speedily to alter them and give such Testimonies of Loyalty as the Government may not suspect nor the Sedicious hope for any such thing from them I do not desire to reflect nor would lay an Aspersion especially upon a Whole-Party for that is to Scandalize by Whole-Sale but I hope every Good man will be careful of these following Doctrines which were broach'd by those who Dissent from the Church of England Princes for just Causes may be Depos'd Knox. Hist pag. 372. If Princes be Tyrants against God and his Truth Id. Ep. to Engl. and Scot. fo 77. their Subjects are freed from their Oaths of Obedience It is in the Power of the People to give the Dominion to whom they will Buchanan de Jure Regni p. 13. It were well if Rewards were appointed by the People for such as should kill Tyrants Ibid. p. 40. as commonly there is for those who kill Wolves or Bears or catch their Whelps The People may Arraign their Prince Ibid. p. 62. The Ministers may Excommunicate him Pag. 70. and he that by Excommunication is cast into Hell is not worthy to enjoy any Life upon Earth It is lawful to Kill wicked Kings and Tyrants Goodman p. 99. 103. alibi The Subjects did kill the Queens Highness Athaliah Jehu kill'd the Queens Majesty Jezabel Elias being no Magistrate kill'd the Queens Majesties Chaplains Baal 's Priests These Examples are left for our Instruction where this Justice is not executed the State is most Corrupt When Magistrates do cease to do their Duties Ibid. 180 184 210. alibi i. e. in Deposing and Killing Kings the People are as it were without Officers and then God giveth the Sword into their hands and he himself is become immediately their Head for to the Multitude a portion of the Sword of Justice is committed from the which no Person King Queen or Emperour being an Idolater is exempt He must dye the Death The People Numb 25. did hang up certain of their Heads and Captains Which ought to be for a perpetual Example of their Duty in the like defection from God to hang up such Rulers as shall draw them from him If neither the Inferiour Magistrates nor the greatest part of the People will do their Duties then the Minister must Excommunicate such a King any Minister may do it against the Greatest Prince God will send the rest of the People which are willing to do their Duty but not able some Moses or Othoniel If they know any Jonathan they must go to him to be their Captain and he ought not to refuse them