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A41745 Three sermons preached at the cathedral in Norwich, and a fourth at a parochial church in Norfolk humbly recommending I. True reformation of our selves, II. Pious reverence toward God and the King, III. Just abhorrence of usurping republicans, and, IV. Due affection to the monarchy / by John Graile ... Graile, John. 1685 (1685) Wing G1479; ESTC R38763 64,056 194

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THREE SERMONS Preached at the CATHEDRAL IN NORWICH And a Fourth at a Parochial Church in Norfolk Humbly Recommending I. True Reformation of our Selves II. Pious Reverence towards God and the King III. Just Abhorrence of Usurping Republicans And IV. Due Affection to the Monarchy By John Graile Rector of Blickling in Norfolk LONDON Printed for W. Kettilby at the Bishops Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1685. To the Most High Puissant and Noble Prince HENRY Duke of Norfolk Earl Marshal of England Earl of Arundel Surry Norfolk and Norwich Lord Howard Mowbray Segrave Brews of Gower Fitz-Alan Warren Clun Oswaldestre Matravers Scales Graystock Furnedal of Sheffeild and Howard of Castle-Rising Constable and Governour of His Majesties Royal Castle and Honour of Windsor Lord Warden of the Forrest of Windsor Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk Surry and Berks and of the City and County of the City of Norwich c. May it please Your Grace AS there is a small Annual Rent payable to one of your Norfolk Mannors from that little Spot of ground which I possess so there is a great and perpetual Tribute of Honour due to your Grace from the Possessor of it And as the holding that Land gives me the Priviledge to be one of the Tenants of a most Just and Generous Lord so the Tenure of my Reason while I shall be Master of any will make it my Duty to be one of the most Humble most Awful and most Obsequious Admirers of such a truly Noble and Puissant Prince as Personal Virtue would have made your Grace if Glory of Ancestors had not This I have been ambitious publickly to acknowledge and I kneel to your Clemency for a Pardon of the bold Product of that Ambition the almost unpardonable Confidence of a Dedicatory Address from so mean to so great a Person and the presuming to offer such imperfect Discourses as these Sermons to your most piercing and discerning Judgment But whatever Defects they may labour under they were Preached with an Honest Design of doing God and the King the most seasonable Service I could in these Licentious and Seditious Times And they are now Published with an encouraging Hope as well as with an humble Desire of receiving the best Advantage they are capable of towards the promoting their well chosen Design if they may be sheltered under the auspicious and favourable Protection of such an Illustrious Patron of Pious Loyalty as the First and Highest Duke in England next to those of the Blood Royal manifesty is I had almost said necessarily must be Your Grace well knoweth that Loyalty is a considerable Part of Christian Religion and that it is no where more strenuously asserted than in the Church of England a Church signally Eminent as upon all other Accounts so particularly for requiring of all her Members the most faithful Allegiance and Subjection to their Lawful Soveraign his Heirs and Successors Hence it was that although the present Age hath afforded but few Proselytes from the Church of Rome to us and too many from us to them neither the Corruption of the Times nor the prejudices of Education nor the powerful Influence of the Neerest and Noblest Relations nor any of those tempting Considerations which bear so great a sway with other Men could keep Your Grace from the Communion of our Church a thing very memorable and worthy to be known by all Posterity both to our Churches eternal Honour and to Your Graces immortal Renown My Lord The very Height of your Dignity inferior only to Sacred Majesty and Royal Highness doth hardly equal the transcendent Height of your Great and Noble Spirit which makes it a Province worthy of an Angel to give a just Character of Your Grace and forbids my weak Pen to attempt it lest I should affront Your Heroick Virtue with a dissonant and deformed Panegyrick But yet as an Echo of publick Fame I shall adventure to repeat what with an unanimous Voice is generally said of Your Grace That none ever more deservedly enjoyed the Favour of his Prince or the love of his Country And long may your Grace live to enjoy more and more of both until you be at last translated from this great Happiness to a far Greater So prays My Lord Your Graces most humbly devoted Servant John Graile An Advertisement THE Author of these Sermons being induced to publish the three former by the Desires and Approbation of some considerable Persons who heard them preached hath chosen himself to add the fourth in which he hath endeavoured to finish what he began in the third He knows they are sent forth into a Learned and Critical and which is more discouraging into a Contentious and Censorious World But he is willing to sacrifice his Name and Reputation and whatever he accounts dear or pretious to the Cause of God and the King and to the Interests of Peace and Truth and Justice He is content to pass thorow evil Report or good Report if by the Divine Favour and Blessing these plain Discourses may be any way beneficial even to the meanest Readers by convincing them whom they are to Reform and whom they are to Obey and how impossible it is to be good Christians if they be not good Subjects that being preserved from the pernicious contagion of Seditious Principles and having a due sense of and a grateful Affection unto the most Ancient and Excellent Constitution of Government which God hath placed over us they may lead under it a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and Honesty THE CONTENTS SERMON I. OF true Repentance and Reformation of our Selves our universal Obligation to it the Divine Assistance we may expect therein and the present necessity of it not admitting any delays Preached Jan. 13. 16 77 78. On Jer. 35. 15 Return ye now every man from his evil way and amend your doings SERMON II. Of the Duties of Revering and Honouring God and the King and the danger of Associating with Seditious Innovators Preached Feb. 4. 16 82 83. On Prov. 24. 21 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both SERMON III. Of the Inconvenience of Polyarchy and Popular Soveraignty the Plagues and Mischiefs of Vsurpations and the true cause from whence they spring Preached Jan. 30. 16 83 84. On Prov. 28. the former part of the 2 Verse For the Transgression of a Land many are the Princes thereof but by a man c. SERMON IV. Of the Excellency of Monarchy and the great Blessing of a Wise Monarch Preached May 29. 1684. On Prov. 28. the latter part of 2. Verse But by a man of understanding and knowledge the State thereof shall be prolonged TRUE REFORMATION OF Our Selves SERMON I Preached Jan. 13. 16 77 78. Jer. XXXV 15. Return ye now every man from his evil way and amend your doings THIS Admonition how plainly soever it may sound