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B02744	Rebellion arraign'd a sermon preach'd before their Majesties in their chappel at Whitehall, upon the 30th of January 1687. The anniversary and humiliation-day, in abhorrency of the sacrilegious murder of our gracious sovereign Charles I. / By the reverend father John Dormor, of the Society of Jesus.	J. D. (John Dormer), 1636-1700.	1688 (1688)	Wing D1926A; ESTC R174707	10,612	31

revolts against Religion resolute never to end but by making an end of Government Was there ever Sovereign who tender'd his Subjects Liberty who abhorr'd the effusion of Blood Sacred Majesty it was your Royal Parent What Clemency did he not use in putting up injuries What Advantages did he not forfeit by ketching at every overture of Peace to avoid the Miseries ensuing upon his Kingdom Peace was his Darling But Rebellion was restless Englands Happiness was ever in his Eye the object of his Wishes But Rebellion hated its Felicity and Repose The Comliness of his Person the Exquisitness of his Wit the Sweetness of his Temper the Undauntedness of his Mind shew'd in the midst of the greatest Calamities would have gain'd the Affection of any but Unreasonable and Ungrateful Rebells His only Failure was if I may be so bold That he was more covetous of his Subjects Safety than his Own more concern'd for Them than resenting their Disloyalty his Condescentions he acknowledges in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Royal Portract pass'd too far all to gain his Enemies and what in Reason could be of greater force to subdue Hearts of Men than such Paternal Proceedings But all in vain the hardship of his Fate was he had to deal with worse than Brutes he had to deal with Rebels No gaining Rebellion by Love or Reason Love is deem'd Weakness Reason is against the Liberty of the Spirit Rebellion is a pure pure Spirit but in nothing more than that pure Spirits as Divines teach us in the fall of the Angels are Incorrigible and so for the most part are Rebels Reason works not upon them Favours will not oblige them their Spirit is fix'd upon inquitude their Cause is ever for pretended Religion and Property which puts me in mind of carrying on my Process Again I find Rebellion notoriously Convicted of having invaded Property under pretext of maintaining it True regard to Property would respect the greatest of Properties The Property Kings have not only to their Revenues but much more to be Obey'd in what concerns their Government Had the least sparkle of this regard had place in the Rebels thoughts they 'd never run to such Extremities His Sacred Majesty had never intrench'd upon the Property of any Whatever he acted was with the Advice of the Judges of the Nation and well it might be and it ought to be presum'd they knew what was due to Law Property and Prerogative But grant he had taken a step too far was the Subject to rage with Rebellion to Depopulate the Nation with Sword and Flames and in room of Kings and Countrys Property bring in Tyranny These were the lamentable effects of Rebellion convicted of having invaded Property under Profession of upholding it To maintain Property Houses were Pillag'd To maintain Property Villages were Fir'd To maintain Property Townes were Beleagur'd and Batter'd To maintain Property so many Battles were Fought so many thousands and thousands of Lives cut off To maintain Property Estates of the Loyal were Confiscated the Rights of both Houses abolish'd the People burden'd with Impositions Rebellion will tell you and who 'll believe her but Rebels all was to maintain Property but the pretence of Property went not alone it joyn'd hand and hand with appearance of Religion and Rebellion appears horribly tainted with the most execrable Hypocrisy Religion was in the Case Was it so O Holy Rebellion So highly concern'd for Religion That thou art ever new modelling it The Reason may be that thy Principles and those of True Religion cannot subsist and since thou art resolute not to shape thy Principles to Religion thou 'lt cut out a Religion to thy Principles Religion is Peaceable thou Seditious Religion teaches Submission to God and his Vicars but that Lesson is not for thee Perpetual Change is thy business Innovation is thy inseparable Camerade and one Innovation is ever a precedent for an other and in all thou art the Leader Thy Spirit is a singular one it cannot away with what is common as if Religion by being the common could become the Prostitute of Babylon The Truth is Church Orders are of too great a Subjection thy Spirit will be at Freedom the Lord alone must govern it That is the Lord in the Mouth and Belzebub in the Heart Religion upon the Lips and Alteration of Government in Design Thy Religion was to change Churches into Stables Bells into Canons Leads into Bullets It was Hypocrisy not Religion And O! that here I might stop and stay thy fury which draws me on to the last Act Horror chilling my Blood at the very Thought of what I am to say Rebellion appearing convicted of being a restless Spirit of violating the Law of Nature Reason of the basest Ingratitude in abusing her Princes Love of having invaded Property of most prophane Hypocrisy That nothing should be wanting to the greatest excess of Iniquity she passes the utmost bounds of Exorbitancy and Cruelty In all she has done she pretends to Justice and Revenge and that by Law and that against her Sovereign The Design of Rebellion ever lurks in the breast of a few by her specious Cheats many are engag'd she is an Artist in contriving Property Religion Law she makes her different Scenes and turns them at her Pleasure to humour the Parts she 's resolv'd to perform Having the Sword in her Hands she pulls off her Mask and discovers her Villanous Intentions she erects a Court of High Justice and behold the Catastrophe The last Act of the dismal Tragedy She Arraigns her King. Ah Rebellion Rebellion Thy earnest Demonstrations of zeal for Property and Religion are they come to this Thy pretentions ever are Jezabels Fair in show in substance Cruel A High Court of Justice A High Court of Enormity and Treason Do'st thou know who thou Arraignest He is thy King. Do'st thou know whose Condemnation and Murder thou hast resolv'd It is thy King 's Consult the Fundamental Laws Consult What need of Consult where the Abomination so clearly discovers it self High Court of Justice If this be Justice what is Treason And if this be Treason and of Treasons the most Horrid down with the Name of High Court of Justice No Court can be held but by Power from the King and no King can lend that Power against himself But since thy vain Plea is Law and thou wilt not know what a King is It is my Duty to make thee know both what is Law And what 's a King It is not the Sword it is not the Mace it is not the Grave Attire it is not the Bar it is not the Chair it is not the rest of Formalities which constitute Law they 'r only to sustain its Dignity Rebellion may usurp them to colour Injustice but can have no Law to justify her Proceedings Law is an obliging rule of humane Actions ever order'd to the common good To be Obliging its Authority must be deriv'd from above from God and this Authority

God has plac'd in his Vicars Supreme Governours To be a Rule it must not deflect from the first Rule of the Divine Will and Command it must stand with Reason and Justice the Peace and Good of the Publick must be its end And to be for the common good Law cannot be a weapon of private Passion No Law then can uphold this Court of thine O Rebellion Thy ends are Private Thou reced'st from the first Rule by usurping Gods Prerogative who alone is the King and Judge of Kings It is against Reason to claim Power over a Supreme it is Unjust to Arraign thy Judge Law then opposes thy Pretentions to Law and the Dignity of a King wholly defeats them Will'st thou once learn what a King is Give Ear. God is the King of Kings 1 Tim. 6.15 And Kings are as it were the Gods of their People Kings cannot be Gods Judge nor can the People be their Kings Who is the Supreme Who the Judge without Appeal but the King To whom do inferior Judges own their Authority but to the King From who do Courts receive their Power but from the King In whose Name are Impeachments drawn up but in the Kings Acts of Parliament by who are they Enacted but by the King And by consequence the final Legislative Power in who doth it reside but in the King. By the undoubted fundamental Laws of this Kingdom neither the Peers of this Realm nor the Commons nor both together in Parliament nor the People Collectively or representatively nor any other Persons whatsoever ever had have or ought to have any Co-ercive Power over the Persons of the Kings of this Realm It is the Parliament which speaks and yet Rebellion against The undoubted and Fundamental Laws dar'd Erect a High Court of Justice against her Sovereign and what dares not Rebellion do She is too well vers'd in Holy Writ not to know That to resist Kings is to resist God Rom. 13. What shall it be to Process to Condemn to murder one But by who is he to be Try'd Commons are Try'd by Commons Peers by Peers have you a Jury of Kings And had you there 's no Judge left to give the Sentence but God And Woe to Rebellion when God's to Sentence More yet in case you Condemn him according to your execrable Formality of pretended Law may he not grant himself a Reprive He can bestow it upon the meanest and most guilty Subject shall he not be able to confer it upon himself he can give it another even when the Sentence is most Just and shall he not enjoy his own Prerogative against the most unjust of Sentences Ah! To what end do I tyre my self and you Our Renowned Prince plac'd by God above Law without Law and against Law must fall a Victim to the highest Injustice Rebellion has got the Sword and the Sword without the Ballance is the Type of Cruelty to Cruelty Majesty is forc'd to bend and Sacrilegious Rebellion never appear'd with so ghast a Countenance as imbru'd in his Royal Blood. That Blood will ever set her out to the detestation and horror of the World. That Blood will blaze her to all Ages for what she is That Blood will speak aloud and say Fly Rebellion she 'll never spare Subject that durst Process Condemn and by Name of High Justice Murder the Meekest of Monarchs No more no more of what without Affliction and Tears I cannot call to mind His last Thoughts were his Peoples Welfare his Kingdoms Peace his Nations Happiness he died undaunted like himself like a King forgiving what the World will never forget so Sacrilegious a Murder That Pardon that Innocent Blood crys yet for Revenge against Rebellion and upon Rebellion let it fall let Rebellion die never more to rise let it die by the hand of Humiliation The subject of my third point with which I conclude Humiliamini c. Be ye humbled under the powerful Hand of God that he may exalt you in time of Visitation In my preceding Discourse you have seen at Leisure Rebellion Arraign'd Process'd and Convicted of the most detestable of Crimes and by consequence Guilty of the worst of Punishments And as her Sins surmounts all others so would I have her Chastisement proportionable The subject is of a large extent but not to transgress I will close it in little Men that die for Offences will rise again Rebellion I would have her die so as never to revive Let Rebellion then die but how Sub potenti manu Dei Under the Powerful Hand of God by an humble Obedience For what end That God may exalt us in time of Visitation God has his different Visitations as you 'l find in Holy Writ Visitations of Anger Visitations of Love Visitations of Mercy Visitations of Revenge Visitations of Humbling Visitations of Exalting His Visits of Humbling Anger and Revenge lay grievous upon us by the Scourge of Rebellion a Road grown on our own Soil This seems a time of a Visitation of his Love Mercy and Exalation upon us But Humiliamini Humiliamini Be ye humbled We may humble our selves and we may be humbled by another to be humbled by another is commonly a Chastisement to humble our selves is now and then a satisfaction in order to Rebellion it is a Pevention so that our humbling our selves is at once a satisfaction for Rebellion that 's pass'd and prevention of Rebellion that might come and behold the desir'd Execution done by Obedience upon Rebellion greater revenge cannot be taken Satisfaction destroys it and puts it as I may say to Death Prevention hinders it from reviving so that Humiliation Tryumphs in the utter ruine of Rebellion And had I not Reason in the beginning of my Discourse to term it England's standing Peace more glorious than any victory in War So it is If Obedience stands Rebellion must fall And by this Humiliation Day our Obedience being perpetuated Rebellion must down for ever Be ye then humbled under the Powerful hand of God. The Powerful hand of God I interpret to be Kings in their Scepter they sway Gods Power in their Sword his Justice and so by Obedience to our Prince we are Humbled under the Powerful hand of God to the total extirpation of Rebellion The best of satisfactions we can give to the Royal Father is to annihilate Rebellion by a true Allegiance to his great Son Fasting's good Prayer yet more excellent by them the Rebellion of the flesh is tam'd the Rebellion of the Spirit by sole Obedience The ever hard neck'd Children of Israel They Fasted Isaiah 5.8 v. 3. Wherefore have we Fasted and thou seest not wherefore have we afflicted our Soul and thou takest not knowledge Rebellion can Fast and none invoke the Lord with longer breath than Rebels But their Fast and Prayers are not acceptable to the most High They 'r Disobedient their Humiliation is Hypocrisy it enters not the heart Hear what the Lord Answers to the complaint of those pretenders to Prayers and Fasts Behold in the day of your Fasting your own Will is found A Rebel will ever have his own will and refusing to submit his Will to God gives out Gods Will to be his and so makes God as it were a Subject and himself a God. From Obedience then our Humiliation is to derive its whole Worth and Valour and that it may be eternal to the eternal destruction of Rebellion O that England would learn to know the voice of the Serpent Would learn no more to be deluded by those canting Charms of Liberty Property and Religion Remember that even Satan the Prince of Darkness 2 Cor. c. 11. v. 14. read the place it is much to our purpose transfigures himself into an Angel of Light. And so doth his first Child Rebellion No pretence whatsoever can Justify Rebellion You have a Prince whose Wisdom and Experience makes him know your true Good and Happiness I may confidently say better than you know it your selves Trust him who God has Intrusted with you With the free use of your Religion your Bodies and Minds he has both eas'd He has vindicated your Properties Invaded by false Zealots but real Persecution His indefatigable Concern for the publick Honour and Welfare of his Kingdom you cannot but own but you must inviolably own your Duty to him Rebellion's to be kept down by his Wisdom Courage and Power but by a generous and ready complyance in you No Army ever gain'd Victory without Obedience and no Kingdom without Obedience shall ever reap Glory Humiliamini c. Be ye then humbled to be exalted Vir Obediens loquetur Victoriam Prov. 21. v. 28. The Obedient Man shall speak Victory We are to be Men Stout Rational but Obedient to be Victorious both of our Earthly and Spiritual Foes Let Jealousies be laid aside and you 'l improve your Sovereign's Love Appease Animosities Chase away Fears and you 'l produce and nourish a mutual Confidence in each other to your own Quiet and Comfort to the Terror of your Enemies and to your King and Countreyes Renown Thus in Spight of Rebellion by Obedience to the Son you 'l compleat the Wishes of his Dying Father You 'l make an Atonement for that Sacrilegious Murder Obedient England will be more Glorious than ever she was Disgrac'd in the Ignominy put upon her by a few Unnatural Rebels and so enjoying the Fruits of a Peaceable Conscience the Sweets of a setled Tranquility in this Life she 'l be dispos'd to be Crown'd with Eternal Reward in the next Which God of his Infinite Goodness grant us all In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen FINIS