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A35183	A sermon preached upon April xxiii. MDCLXXX. in the cathedral church of Bristol, before the gentlemen of the artillery-company, newly raised in that city. By Samuel Crossman, B.D.	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.	1680 (1680)	Wing C7270A; ESTC R214386	13,922	42

last But those ill actions being once set on foot could not be so easily stopt they ran on to those fatal mischievous consequences which became an astonishment to all I confess we are easily flatter'd into irregularities by fond presumptions that we could presently make all things much better Our project forsooth if we might but try it would infallibly heal all But such counsels prove commonly as the Historian has observed to our hand Primâ specie laeta tractatu dura eventu tristia They may seem to begin briskly but soon after they drive on as Pharaoh's Chariots more heavily and they always end most miserably Thus Absalom in his hot-brain'd insurrection mended the matter very fairly by ruining both himself and multitudes with him Whence it is that the wisdome of God tells us The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water We open Pandora's Box. We let loose an unruly Element Whereas our care should rather be not to stir those floodgates lest we be drowned in the torrent God hath graciously spoken peace to us O let not us return any more to such folly It were a noble posture for every man wisely to stand upon his own guard and not to suffer himself to be weakly impos'd upon or speciously drawn aside from his just duty toward God or man There are divers opinions and courses which upon sad observation are found to breed much fond conceitedness of our selves an unchacharitable disesteem of others a morose sowrness of Nature a rash cenforiousness of Superiours and a dangerous pragmaticalness in all our ways For Gods sake even for Gods sake let not any of your Souls come into those Secrets imbibe not such feral opinions They are as Circe's Cup and will intoxicate The Distemper once flown up into the head will certainly produce irregularities in the life I must conclude Gentlemen You have willingly offered your selves to serve the Government You cannot but have a deep sense of the manifold blessings we all enjoy under it the woful distractions we were all exposed to by the late violences offered to it In Gods name stand by this Government 'T is well worthy your highest valour well worthy your truest fidelity Modesty it self may say as that pious man long since Haec tibi sola salus ejus servare salutem Our welfare is apparently bound up in the welfare of the Government There needs no more under God to make us a happy people than honest endeavours every one in his proper place for the faithful administration of it whether in Church or State This may our Divisions hinder This might our love and harmony promote We need not then fear what Superstition could do against us on the one hand or Faction on the other He that fixeth uprightly with his duty may safely bid defiance to all the attempts of Men and Devils Put on I beseech you as good Christians and good Englishmen a generous largeness of spirit 'T is a counsel no way to be despised Alteri vivas oportet si vis tibi vivere We must comport in a vertuous nobleness with the publick if ever we desire it should be truly well with our selves in private 'T is the excellency of humane life says the Royal Philosopher when man has learned a real dexterity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 When we have learn'd our true postures of conversation so that we dash sullenly against none but demean our selves with amiable and just observances towards all Rendering to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's And this might be honourably done non amittendo fidem sed oftendendo pietatem Such a well tempered carriage would be no betraying our Religion but a fair approving our selves to be what we profess persons truly religious We are not less thine O Lord for being faithful Subjects to thy Vicegerent or dutiful Children to our Mother thy Church Long may the Crown of David flourish long may the Rod of Aaron blossom May those that have ill will at Zion be as the grass upon the house tops which withereth before it groweth up But let all those that love thee O Lord and thine Anointed whom thou hast set over us let them be as the Sun when he goeth forth in his might and the whole Land blessed with peace and rest to all Generations Now unto him that is the Lord of Hosts and yet King of Peace be Glory in the Church through all Ages Amen FINIS Max. Tyrivs Eccl. 7. 29. Jam. 3. 7 8. 1 Cor. 14. 33. Plutarch Danaeus 〈◊〉 3. 5. Jud. 17. 6. Lam. 4. 20. Plato Psal. 75. 3. 2 Kin. 11. 2. 2 Kin. 11. 12. vers 12. 2 Chron. 24. 16. 2 Kin. 12. 2 Orat. ad Pontif. Deut. 21. 5. 2 Chron. 23. 18. 2 Chron. 23. 21. 2 Kin. 1● 12 1● 2 Kin 11 10. Peter Martyr 2 Sam. 21. 17. 2 Sam. 18. 3. Tacitus Psa. 120. 7. The Kings Coronation-Day Psal. 16. 6. Livius Prov. 17. 14. Nic. de Clema●g Seneca Antoni● St. Gregor