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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80874	A sermon preached July 17. 1676. in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in York, before the Right Honourable Sir Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; and the Honourable Vere Bertie Esquire, one of the barons of the Exchequer; His Majesties judges of assize for the Northern Circuit By Thomas Cartwright D.D. and Dean of Ripon, chaplain in ordiary to His Majesty.	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1676 (1676)	Wing C703A; ESTC R231183	17,951	45

Munster The Popes of Rome for all their Age and Holiness have more than once attempted to commit a Rape upon the Crown and Church of England and we have also smartly felt how hard the Hearts and Hands of those Tender Consciences were which were Nurs'd up at Geneva The Foxes did then as they do now look several ways but we find our Fields wasted and can hardly tell which were the greater Trespassers and God forbid that either of their Dominions should ever be founded in His MAJESTIES Grace I hope this Nation lies under no Disloyal Temptations to a Second Holy War because we cannot yet have forgot what a vast Expence of Blood and Treasure the First cost us I doubt not but our former Experience will Discipline us into an abhorrency of all those Vnnatural Methods which may infer the like Catastrophe It is not long since the Lord turned again the Captivity of our Sion and are we already so sick of our Liberty and so fond to go back as if with the male-content Israelites our Delight were in Egypt and we long'd to be Dancing after the Phrygian Musick of Drums and Trumpets What is it that you want to compleat your Happiness unless it be to understand it better and to be more thankful for it Will not the Miracle of the Kings and Churches Restauration rise up in Judgment against us if we so soon grow a weary of our Deliverance as to blaspheme GOD and the KING and deflower the Beauty of his Crown with Satyrical Invectives and gratifie his Enemies with Libels against his Person and Government The very Heathens themselves had Divinity enough to pay Devotion to their Princes Imperatori tanquam praesenti corporali Deo Fidelis est praestanda devotioo and if our Religion do not improve our Loyalty beyond theirs it is not from above and we shall be found Rebels against Heaven as well as Him For they who do not obey the King who is a Visible God will never obey God who is an Invisible King If therefore you desire to approve your selves good Subjects and Christians invent not any Evil Stories of Him whom God hath set over you falsly believe them not easily report them not disloyally aggravate them not spitefully scatter them not industriously but apprehend such Disloyal Thiefs whom you take a Pillaging your Princes Good Name the forward Receiver of any evil report being as bad as he that brings it And remember that Railing against Kings was a Capital Crime in David's Judgment who commanded Solomon to put 1 Kin. 2. 9 Shimei to death for it Let all your things be done with Charity but let that Charity begin at home and let the Father of your Country and your Mother Church taste the first fruits of it As many as are acted by calm and peaceable Principles have as much Liberty by Law as they can desire and much good it may do them For those who are otherwise minded it were an unpardonable Diminution of the Wisdom and Authority of the King and Parliament to say they deserv'd it Unless there be five or more assembled together over and besides those of the same Houshold where their Conventicle or Assembly is the Law made Ann. 22 CAROLI Secundi for the Prevention and Suppression of Seditious Conventicles takes no Cognizance of them and yet still they complain of Want of Liberty Now it cannot be a Liberty of Serving God which they want for he hath promised that Wheresoever two or three are met together in his Name he will be in the midst of them and the Law allows them this and as much more but it must be a Liberty of increasing their Factions till their Numbers may come to give Laws to the Government His MAJESTY hath done nothing to impose upon their Consciences I wish I could also as truly say that they had done nothing to oppose his Authority for the Benefits whereof that we may bless God as becomes us and pray the more heartily for its continuance I shall descant in the close of my Discourse upon 3 Our Happiness under a Monarchical Government which hath this prescription and advantage above all other forms that it carries a more evident stamp of Divine Institution than any other and is the more likely to avoid or put an end to all Divisions whatsoever For where there are many Governours there must needs be Differences where there are few there easily may be where there is but one there cannot the intermediate Officers having their Subordination either to other and all to him who as God said to Moses hath need of such Vnder-Officers Numb 11. 17. because he is not able to bear the burden alone We have a KING after Gods and our own Heart may his Reign be long and prosperous He is Gods High Steward and Minister and You My Lords are His from whom you derive your Authority for the punishment of Evil-doers that we may lead a peaceable Life in all Godliness and Honesty If therefore any have done what is right in their own Eyes but not in those of the Law I doubt not but that you will let them know that There is a King in Israel by bringing them to suffer what is right in yours that whosoever will not do the Laws of our God and the King may have Judgment Ezra 7. 26 executed speedily upon them whether it be death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment Which benefit whilst the Country reaps by the execution of your Trust who are the Kings best Life-guard in times of Peace the very feet of those who bring tydings of your coming will be beautiful on the Mountains and your Honours will be received with the greatest alacrity and demonstrations of Joy imaginable as Good Angels of God and the King to whom we are in such deep Arrears of Duty and Allegiance that we can never pay him the Interest of our Obligations Nemo Patri Patriae parem refert gratiam etiamsi vitam impendat No Man can be grateful enough to his Prince though he sacrifice his Life to his Service Indeed we are blind to our own Interest if we do not tender him as the Apple of our Eye Submit both our Persons and Estates to be commanded at his pleasure in as much as all our private Concerns are imbark'd in that Publick Bottom whose Exigencies must be supplied with Men and Money according to the Kings Discretion who with the Advice and Assistance of his great Council the Parliament is the best Judge of Publick Necessity As we are all comprehended in so are we obliged to the good of the Nation upon which whatsoever we bestow returns to our selves the King having no more than the serious care of a Publick Guardian to lay out our Services and some part of our Estates for our own good of which no Revenue remains to himself but care and trouble If Men did bear true Faith and Allegiance to God and the King and would stick to the plain Principles of the Gospel and of a Vertuous Life their very Souls would be subject to the Higher Powers and Disobedience would be to them as it is to God as hateful as the Sin of Witchcraft and contempt of Authority though in the smallest matters would appear to deserve the greatest punishment and they would then take better care to secure their own Consciences and the Publick Peace than to arraign the Prudence of Authority and the Justice of Laws at the Bar of their private Discretion by the odious Name of Persecution in so licentious a manner as they now generally do and controul the Wisdom of their Superiours because they have little or none themselves Then would they also perceive how just and necessary it is that since Men have not all one Reason in them they should at least have one Power over them to render such Acts ineffectual by the due execution of Impartial Justice which might be done by any to the disturbance of the Community When there was No King or Judge in Israel Religion first then all went to rack But God having now blessed us with a King and his Judges thanks be to him we have no need to fear the return of such Disorders neither Micha for all his Wealth nor Dan for all his Forces nor Gibeah for all their Multitude no discontented Persons or Parties of what Faith or Faction soever may do what is right in their own Eyes unless they mean to suffer what is right in yours who are as much bound in Conscience to execute the Laws as they would make us believe they were to break them Nor will you be the worse beloved of God or good Men for preserving an opinion of your Justice and Severity but be highly applauded here and rewarded hereafter Hereby may you promise your selves our bended Knees at the Throne of Grace for your long Lives and endless Happiness You will be feared of the Kings and your Enemies and be beloved of his and your Friends Your Mother Church will bless you and God for you and your Father which is in Heaven will bestow upon you a Crown of Eternal Glory saying Well done good and faithful Servants enter into the Joy of your Master where you shall be eternally blessed with what we now desire to ascribe to the Great Judge of Heaven and Earth all Honour Power and Glory AMEN FINIS