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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28224	Two sermons the first shewing the mischiefs of anarchy, the second the mischiefs of sedition, and both of them the mischiefs and treasons of conventicles : preached at the assizes held for the county of Suffolk, ann. 1682/3 : and published at the request of Tho. Waldegrave, Esq. ... / by Nath. Bisbie ...; Mischiefs of anarchy	Bisbie, Nathaniel, 1635-1695.	1684 (1684)	Wing B2984; ESTC R3888	38,700	75

TWO SERMONS THE FIRST Shewing the Mischiefs of ANARCHY THE SECOND The Mischiefs of SEDITION AND BOTH OF THEM The Mischiefs and Treasons OF CONVENTICLES PREACHED At the ASSIZES held for the County of SVFFOLK Ann. 1682 3. AND PVBLISHED At the request of THO. WALDEGRAVE Esq High Sheriff of the said County By NATH BISBIE D. D. LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXXXIV To the Worshipful THOMAS WALDEGRAVE Of SMALBRIDGE In the County of SVFFOLK Esq High Sheriff of the said County and one of His Majesties Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Essex and the said County of Suffolk I Read in Plutarch of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of one that was a great lover of Alexander as he was a brave accomplish'd man and of another that was a lover of him as he was his true and lawful Soveraign And without doubt to have a Prince both Good and Vertuous Heroick and Magnanimous Obliging to Subjects Dreadful to Enemies Victorious at home and abroad insomuch that by his Goodness and Vertue he deserves the Title of being Great it must be the Pride and Honour of us all But if here we stick and view not Majesty as well as goodness if we consider not his Power and his Place as well as his Merit and Desert we may be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lovers of Alexander but no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lovers of the King and in truth no more qualifi'd to be Subjects than was Phoenix and Prothytes when they would have enfranchis'd and Commonwealth'd the Thebans than Demetrius and Nicanor when they would have set up Amyntas against him than Cassander and Jolla when waiting upon his Cup they would have administred poyson to him But Sir It is Your Character Craterum cum Hephaestione so to love your King as to be an admirer and asserter both of His Person and His Power and with Heart and Hand equally to engage for both A Loyalty justly challenging aemulation as well as commendation and which in spight of all the Apostates of the age is every mans great and bounden duty as well as known to be Your firm and open practice and how far the County hath been influenc'd thereby and the tide stemm'd even when the raging flouds of a new found loyalty had almost wash'd the old away the present change of affairs may easily discover It s enough for me that honest discourses might be vented under You and not threatned with the Pillory that I could assert my Princes right and not be told that my little learning had made me mad or that my greater Loyalty which is but my just tribute had hurried me on to be a betrayer of my Religion Wherefore if what here I offer happen to be too hot for the age and therefore censur'd be pleas'd to blame Your self for calling me first to the Pulpit and now to the Press for resolv'd I was from the time you press'd me into your Service and made me one of your retinue to keep pace in daring Loyalty as near as I could unto your self and shall ever study to abound in that vertue as knowing the more Loyal the more Christian and far better qualified to be Long-Melford Suff. Sept. 9. 1683. Your truly devoted Servant and Chaplain NATH BISBIE The Mischiefs of Anarchy OR A SERMON Preached at the ASSIZES HELD AT BVRY St. EDMVNDS For the County of SUFFOLK March 13. 1682. At the request of THO. WALDEGRAVE Esq High Sheriff of the said County Mr Justice WINDHAM Being Judge there By Nath. Bisbie D. D. LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby 1684. JUDGES xvii 6. In those days there was no King in Israel but every man did that which was right in his own eyes That which brings on my Text and gives it its rise is this The man Micah had an house of Gods and made an Ephod and Teraphim and consecrated one of his Sons who became his Priest THE Jewish Rabbins long ago have observed That there were three Crowns indispensably requisite to make a Nation happy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Crown of the Judge the Crown of the Priest and the Crown of the King that of the Judge for the Peace and Happiness of the State that of the Priest for the Welfare and Establishment of the Church that of the King for the Prosperity and Flourishing both of Priest and Judge of Church and State And the Graecians have luckily lighted upon an Etymology for the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if he were the People's only basis and support pinning them up and keeping them together that they drop not into a confusion like a tottering Wall whose foundation is sunk and gone For if there be no Magistrate no King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one man will eat up another alive the rich will oppress the poor and the poor devour the rich every one bidding battle and defiance to their Neighbour till they have turned our Cities into Dens and our Villages into Forests for Wolves and Tigers to inhabit Creatures less ravenous and much more orderly in themselves than unruly Man that ravenous Creature Man when let loose into the World and without a King to govern Him This the Jews full well experienced for in those Days when there was no King in Israel and it seemeth there had been such days there as well as here every man did that which was right in his own eyes We may call this the Crown-Text a Text Royal not only tacitly adjusting the right of Kings but openly shewing the grand inconveniences and mischiefs that arise from want of their Inspection and Government We may talk of Arrows by day and of Pestilences by night of wasting and consuming judgments judgments that leave not one stone upon another but turn Cities of men into Golgothas and places of Sculls Fruitful and Pleasant Vineyards into barren and naked Wildernesses for the Ostrich and the Owl to dwell in but of all the fatal boding Calamities that ever happened to a Nation or indeed can there is not nor ever was any like that of Anarchy for if there be no King every man will play Rex and be a Lord of Misrule and do whatsoever his Lusts his Interests and Passions which are always prone to be wild and extravagant shall say will be good for him to do So that we have the Commonwealth of Israel 1. Labouring under great and manifold Disorders Every man did that which was right in his own eyes 2. We have the true Reason and Cause of those Disorders In those days there was no King in Israel Look we 1. Into the Disorders that then and at that time infected and infested the Land Every man did that which was right in his own eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what seemed right and good to him from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rectum esse vel videri To him and in his own eyes good but bad