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A95627	A sermon preached at the primary visitation of the Most Reverend Father in God Michael Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland, and lord high chancellor of the same. Held at Drogheda, August 20. 1679. / by Rich. Tenison ...	Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.; Boyle, Michael, 1609?-1702.	1679 (1679)	Wing T683; ESTC R184950	25,194	36

A SERMON Preached at the Primary Visitation OF THE Most Reverend FATHER in GOD MICHAEL Lord Arch-Bishop of ARMAGH PRIMATE and METROPOLITAN OF ALL IRELAND AND Lord High Chancellor of the Same Held at Drogheda August 20. 1679. By RICH. TENISON Dean of Clogher DVBLIN Printed by Benjamin Took and John Crook Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty and are to be sold at His Majesties Printing-House in Skinner-Row 1679. To the most Reverend Father in God Michael Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland and Lord High Chancellor of the same May it please your Grace SO great and high are your Graces zealous Affections and just Veneration for the best of Kings that no Sermon which is perswasive to Allegiance can pass unregarded by you but receives incouragement beyond its merit of which observed truth your Commands for this mean Discourse are an evident Demonstration I little thought having so happily escaped your learned Ear to undergo the Test of your most piercing Eye but having then preached Obedience to others I must practise it my self and submit to the kind Injunctions of so great a Superior 't is therefore laid at your Graces feet hoping my Loyalty will attone its many imperfections and the dayly fears of our Soveraigns Assassination may justifie its zeal and warmth For what tongue can be silent to see the Father of our Countrey assaulted with such variety of Deaths To see the Ponyard at his sacred Breast the fatal Dose preparing and the Gun ready to fire must fill every true Subject with horrour and resolution He is the Head of the Body Politick and as in the Natural all the Members strive to defend the Head and share in its pain so should it be in this the bloody hand which is lift up against him must wound all loyal souls the cursed Sword which strikes at him must pierce their hearts they must value the Life of their Prince infinitely above their own and run through the greatest difficulties to preserve him and if they dye in his defence they perpetuate their Name on Earth and receive the Reward of their Fidelity in Heaven which true Protestant Principle made many thousands in the late times leap into the midst of dangers and run through the armed Troops of their too potent Enemies their greatest force could not make them yield but they covered that Post with their Bodies which they could not maintain with their Arms and willingly died martyrs for their King their Religion and Country This my Lord many places can witness but none more in this Kingdom than this Loyal Town in defence of which your Graces valiant Brother famous for Courage and Conduct and many hundreds more did triumphantly lose their lives their blood ran in streams through our streets and like the brave Leonidas in the Straits of Thermopyle they with a small number opposed an Army and no doubt but there are vast multitudes in each of these Kingdoms who will imitate those Heroick spirits and cheerfully fall for the King and the Church And if ever good Subjects should demonstrate their Courage it is now if ever Protestants should love honour and obey their King it is now when the cruel Jesuits are plotting and consulting to murther him and subvert our Religion in this they are closely combined this they hold lawful and just as I have proved out of many of their Books besides Mariana though a Jesuit lately executed would confess none else of that Judgment But alas instead of uniting against them we bandy into Sects and Factions we run into Schisms and Divisions and make way for them to destroy us we forget how the Civil Discords of our Ancestours brought our King and Countrey under the Subjection of the Roman Emperour and I wish our violent heats about Religion do not at last bring our Church under the vassalage of the Roman Bishop and our State into some imminent danger for without an agreement in that our Kingdoms cannot flourish Where men differ in Ecclesiasticks they usually clash in Politicks and have their own intrigues and designs to promote their Opinions they are jealous and doubtful one of another and like the several Factions in Rome and Carthage while they pretend the good of the Commonwealth they destroy it Of this our late bloody and tragical Devastations are an undeniable Evidence and that we are falling into the same miseries again is more than probable for seditious and fiery spirits do now as formerly fill the floating heads of the vulgar with causless fears and jealousies and make the King and his greatest Ministers the common Subject of their Discourse and if all things be not done and timed according to their humour as if they knew all Reasons of State and had Intelligence from all parts of the world then do they calumniate and slander the Government and asperse those most who have ever been most eminent for their Loyalty to the King and the Church and would now die in their defence and thus are the people deluded and made subservient to some aspiring male-contents who by their Agents and Emissaries do in all places reflect on the Management of Affairs and make them Patrons of Popery who have ever abhorred it and were lately for their aversion to it to be cruelly murthered as is constantly affirmed by * Dr Oats's Nar. p. 16. 23 25. those on whose Evidence most of our late Discoveries depend But your Grace well remembers this was their method in the beginning of our late troubles they according to Machiavals Advice did boldly libel and calumniate and to destroy both Church and State they subverted their strongest Pillars under the pretence of being corrupted and rotten with Popery and by clamour and noise made all Papists who were not as rash furious and disloyal as themselves Nay those holy Prelates whose most learned Works will be eternal Armeries and most impregnable Fortresses against the whole power of Rome were most unjustly and ingratefully branded with the same Character and such are now their Designs and Practices They would perswade the people to have an ill opinion of our Governours that they might the more securely carry on their own Designs But I hope God will infuse a spirit of Discerning into our King our Parliaments and Counsellors and that all who are in any Authority will fix one Eye on those subtile Vnderminers both of Church and State that while they are most zealous and intent and blessed be God they are so on the suppression of Popery our rigid Sectaries may not grow too numerous and formidable for when greedy and voracious flames seize on both ends of a Ship the middle part is like to perish and we know Diseases long neglected may prove destructive In the beginning of the Reformation the Genevian Infection did spread it self and the good Queen could not easily prevent it her Thoughts being chiefly employed in the Extirpation of Popery which dangerous Evil the wise King James