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A sermon preach'd at the assizes at Hertford, July 10th, 1684 by Miles Barne.
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Barne, Miles, d. 1709?
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A SERMON Preach'd at the Assizes AT HERTFORD July 10 th 1684. By MILES BARNE D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY and Fellow of S t Peters College in Cambridge Tu nè cede Malis CAMBRIDGE Printed by J. Hayes Printer to the University for R. Green Bookseller in Cambridge 1684. And are to be sold by Walt. Davis at Amen-corner in LONDON To the Right Worshipfull S t THOMAS FIELD High SHERIFF and one of His MAJESTIES Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace for the County of Hertford AND To all the rest of His MAJESTIES LOYAL Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace for the said County GENTLEMEN THis Sermon which was first Preach'd at the Desire of M t High Sheriff being now made Publick in complyance with His and Your unanimous Request Sues to You for Your acceptance and challengeth Your Protection Not that the Author is conscious to Himself of speaking falsehood but because He hath written too Bold Truths for some tender Ears The Men of Moderation will accuse Him of Intemperate Zeal The downright Fanatick of Popery In Their abusive sense of the words He owns both parts of the Accusation By Intemperate Zeal understanding a Constant Hearty and unreserv'd Affection for the KING and Government and by Popery a stedfast unfeigned adhesion to the Church of England in all Her Heights and under the greatest Discouragements which He thanks God He always hath and ever will be Guilty of He hath already tasted of Their civility in several Scurrilous threatning Anonymous Notes for His Thanksgiving Sermon on the 9 th of September which nevertheless in spight of Envy and Obloquy shall stand a lasting Record of a most Hellish Fanatick Conspiracy And when Authority shall think fit the 9 th of September may become a day of Anniversary Thanksgiving as well as the 5 th of November since the Deliverance of our Present Sovereign from the Rye Assassination must be acknowledged as Great and Miraculous as that of His ROYAL Grandfather was from the Gunpowder Treason What entertainment this is like to meet with from them he knows not neither doth he much care being well assur'd could he either have digested the gainfull Art of Trimming or Debauch'd himself into a Fanatick He might then have Commenc'd either a Moderate man or a Gifted brother And consequently thriv'n as well as some of them have done but He chose rather to enjoy His Intemperate Zeal knowing it hath been serviceable to the Publick in an humble contented State than Rise to great Preferments with a Guilty Conscience or Shipwrack'd Reputation yet He wishes this may prove as successfull as the other did That having undeceived very many who were misled in the simplicity of their Hearts and He hath received their Gratefull acknowledgements the best Reward He could expect But Gentlemen I must not turn a Dedication into a Preface and represent my own case when I should be reciting Your Merits which are so great and well known that His MAJESTY takes Notice of You in a particular manner and therefore 't would be a diminution of Your worth for me to panegyrize on Your constant unwearied endeavours for the Service of your KING and Country Happy KING in such Subjects whom Loyalty has united into an Entire Friendship and Conformity to the Church made unanimous which I could not but take notice of then and now Publish to the World for an Example to others Whatever be the Fate of this Sermon I can willingly undergo it since 't was the occasion of bringing Me into the knowledge of so many Loyal Gentlemen for whom I shall always preserve an unfeigned Esteem and Veneration and account it an Honour to subscribe My self GENTLEMEN Your most Obedient servant MILES BARNE 2 Cor. 7. 2. Receive us we have wronged no man we have corrupted no man we have defrauded no man AMongst several other excellencies which did at first recommend Christianity to the unconverted world these Three at least may challenge our approbation the purity and simplicity of its Doctrines the integrity and sincerity of those who first deliver'd them and their exact complyance with all the conveniences and necessities of humane affairs As for their purity they flowed from the fountain of all truth and therefore without any the least mixture of fraud or falsehood they were neither season'd with secular interest leaven'd with the vanity of Philosophical pride nor in the least to be suspected of any mean design of gaining popular applause or praise amongst men As for the integrity of the first Deliverers I need say no more than that they were persons so mean and despicable in the esteem of the world so altogether incapacitated both by birth and education that though they had had a mind yet they could not either have altered the Doctrines which they had receiv'd or invented new for the world was scarce ever yet so credulous as to be impos'd upon especially in affairs of the greatest importance by any but those whose acquired abilities reputation and success gave them great advantages over the rest of mankind In the propagation of the Gospel they were as far from corrupting the pure word of Truth as they were from defrauding those whom they had made proselytes to it that which they chiefly aim'd at was the imprinting upon mens minds a lively hope of a resurrection to bliss and immortality and the convincing them there was no way of coming to the fruition of their Hopes but by conforming their lives to the purity of the Gospel In order to this end they did indeed in some sense become all things to all men but 't was still out of a generous design to gain the more In reference to the Jews they cryed up Abraham for the Father of the Faithfull that so they might make his infidel children believe in the onely begotten Son of God they extolled Moses and the Prophets that they might the better recommend Christ and his Apostles they approved whatsoever was excellent in their Law that they might with more ease win them into a complyance with the Gospel In reference to the Gentiles they laid upon them no other burthen than was necessary and were so far from siding with those troublesome Pharisees who would needs have had them circumcis'd and brought under that heavy Yoke which neither they nor their Fathers were able to bear that after the most mature deliberation they onely commanded them to abstain from gross pollutions so far from any rigorous impositions that they studied to bring them over by the most sutable and endearing methods Witness that sermon which S t Paul preach'd to them at Athens where finding an Altar dedicated to the unknown God from this their sottish superstition he presently takes occasion to instruct them in the knowledge and worship of the True From the confession of one of their own Poets that they were all his Offspring He demonstrates how unreasonable it was for them to imagine that the Great Creatour of