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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51355	A sermon preach'd at the cathedral church of St.Paul's on May 29, 1699, before the right honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and citizens	Morer, Thomas, 1651-1715.	1699 (1699)	Wing M2723; ESTC R43468	20,595	31

resists in any of those places he resists the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation But as to what concerns our selves we have that Form and that Happiness the Text speaks of and the Argument for it is the Prophet's Original Constitution having our Judges as at the first and our Counsellors as at the beginning So that Prescription gives it the right and 't is the Blessing of the Day to have it restored and be put in the possession of it again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was the wholesom Advice of the Council of Nice to compose the Church of God Conc. Ni-Cen Can. 6. Custom is a solid Plea a thing for the most part very Venerable and Sacred or at least esteemed so We see the force of it in very trivial Instances I will not say seemingly Ridiculous tho' possibly were our Fathers alive to give the reason of 'em we might discover 'em to be the Fruits of good Contrivance and Wisdom and as foolish as they appear it might be in many cases more folly to reject ' em We hold our Monarchy by this Tenure and whether we take our selves for Aborigines or Cadmean born whether descended from Phaenicia or Troy Rome or Germany or whatever other birth the Histories or Fancies of Men give us whether Saxons Danes Normans or Scots whether before under or after the Heptarchy whether of the Line of Lancaster or York whether before or after the Vnion of this Island into the one Name of Great Britain Fix us where you will we can find nothing but Monarchy among us with those Helps and Assistants of it the Text mentions and we now enjoy and tho' we lose our selves in point of Pedegree yet the Evidence of this Government is so clear and strong that I may honestly apply what Isaiah saith That our Governours are as at the first and our Counsellors as at the beginning I confess our late unhappy Times have left a Proof of the Uncertainty of Humane Affairs and told us That there is nothing so Ancient or so well Setled but what is expos'd to Change and Violence But to be silent in the Novelty of such a bold Attempt to disturb the Throne and Out Him who had it in possession what were the Effects of this Reformation What were the fruits of those things whereof we are now ashamed The Monarchy expiring in how many Shapes by a kind of a Pythagorean Conveyance was the Government seen and after that Doctrine suited to the Nature of the Animal it appear'd in Sometimes a Body with many Heads and sometimes with none and which was Unnatural too one while the Eye would say to the Hand I have no need of thee and the Head to the Feet I have no need of you 1 Cor. 12.21 23. And herein alone they closed with St. Paul's Allusion That those Members of the Body which were less honourable upon these they bestow'd more abundant Honour and the uncomely parts had more abundant comeliness The first Innovation was to Vote the Bishops an Vseless nay Dangerous part of the Vpper House And not long after all the Lords became as Vseless and Dangerous as they Nor did the Lower House stop here for they were not pleas'd with their own Members but Secluded many of them and after a while were all of 'em requited in Specie and sent home as a pack of Men so it was told 'em who had arrogated to themselves their Friends and Dependants all the Honours Commands and gainful Imployments of the Kingdom This was done by the Army and 't was fair enough the Wheel should move on and since what the Parliament did was by their Swords it was highly reasonable that in their turns they should have some share in the common Prey And as their Mace outweigh'd the Scepter so the Sword had the advantage of being sharper and their Darling at length could not endure that the Fools Bauble as he call'd the Speaker's Mace should pretend to stand in Competition with it This was a sure Testimony of the Divine Vengeance to pay 'em in their own Coin and let their Slaves serve them as they had served their Sovereign Master And now at last we are come to the sad Objection against Monarchy I mean Despotick or Absolute Power when the Will is Law and the Sword Executioner An Event not depending on Imagination and Fancy but what was our real Condition and how many were forced to weep it in Tears and Blood The common Complaints were Sequestrations Free-quarter Sacrilege Consiscations Imprisonments Executions and other Instances of Oppression as numberless as their ways of Government their Council of State Council of War High Courts of Justice Protectorship Committee of Safety Rump or Junto with other Forms under other Names What could be expected from this variety of Interests but that the Nation must suffer to gratifie their several Affections and Desires And how could it be thought that an Vsurper should thrust himself into Power and not be a Tyrant to be able to maintain it And where can Tyranny be but Misery will follow And What was both the reproach and aggravation of this Misery those Flies that sucked us were but the offspring of Dirt and Dunghils Our Plague was like that of Egypt the very Dust of the Earth crawled upon us The meanest of the People were our Rulers and out of those Brambles proceeded a Fire that consumed the Cedars of Lebanon Thus as to the State and for the Church it was rent in pieces by manifold Errors Schisms and Heresies not only tolerated but embraced defended and imposed to sink our Consciences as low as our Fortunes and make our Condition every way deplorable Catalogus Errorum Haresium Blasphemiarum in Anglia ab Ann 1640. Arndii Lex I blush to think of the Number But a Foreigner has publish'd it A Catalogue of Errors Heresies and Blasphemies in England 1640 He reckons up no less then one hundred and fourscore Heterodoxies in those days when Holiness walk'd the Streets with so much noise and the Reformers made a shew of making a glorious Religion as indeed they did the same way as they made the Defender of it a Glorious King by sending both to Heaven I am sorry a Protestant should have any just Reason to write this Account and that a Papist should be able to argue from it to disgrace the best constituted Church on the face of the Earth which was then under a severe Persecution and gave no colour for any uncharitable Reflection But I take no delight in rubbing these Sores which the Clemency of the Government would heal for the future And I am so far from Malice or revenging these Wrongs that I read of Thrasybulus's Amnesty at Athens with high degrees of Satisfaction and think David never did a more generous Act then when he pardon'd Shimei at his Restauration after the Rebellion of Absalom An Act of Indemnity and Oblivion is somewhat