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A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, January the xxxth, 1691/2 by William Sherlock ...
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Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
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Grievances and I pray God I may never live to see these Grievances removed may the Throne always support the Church and the Church the Throne for neither of them can long subsist apart A fondness for Parity will soon affect the State as well as the Church for Parity is parity still whether in Church or State and most of the Arguments for it will do equal Execution both ways To conclude If ever we desire to see a flourishing Church and Kingdom again let us learn Wisdom from the Example of this day for he being dead yet speaketh and warneth us all to have a care of a blind Zeal and Faction not to lissen to designing and discontented Spirits who to gratifie their own private Passions and Resentments will Revenge themselves upon the publick Peace not to be imposed on again by the glorious Names of Religion and the Cause of Christ not to help such Men to begin a Quarrel who will end it without us and which we shall then in vain repent that ever we began but these Cautions are needless in such a Wise and Honourable Assembly God grant we may all mind the things that make for Peace and those things whereby we may edify one another To God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost be Honour Glory and Power now and for ever Amen FINIS BOOKS Published by the Reverend Dr. Sherlock Dean of St. Paul ' s Master of the Temple and Chaplain in Ordinany to Their Majesties AN Answer to a Discourse Entituled Papists Protesting against Protestant Popery Second Edition 4 o An Answer to the Amicable Accommodation of the Differences between the Representer and the Answerer 4o A Sermon at the Funeral of the Reverend Benjamin Calamy D. D. 4 o A Vindication of some Protestant Principles of Church-Unity and Catholick-Communion from the Charge of Agreement with the Church of Rome 4 o A Preservative against Popery Being some plain Directions to unlearned Protestants how to Dispute with Romish Priests First Part. Fifth Edition 4 o A Second Part of the Preservative against Popery Second Edition 4 o A Vindication of both Parts of the Preservative against Popery in Answer to the Cavils of Lewâ—s Sabran Jesuit 4 o A Discourse concerning the Nature Unity and Communion of the Catholick Church First Part. 4 o A Sermon Preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London on Sunday Novemb. 4. 1688. 4 o A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever-Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God Occasioned by the Brief Notes of the Creed of St. Athanasius and the Brief History of the Unitarians or Socinians and containing an Answer to both The Second Edition 4 o The Case of the Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers stated and resolved according to Scripture and Reason and the Principles of the Church of England with a more particular Respect to the Oath lately enjoyned of Allegiance to their present Majesties King William and Queen Mary Sixth Edition 4 o A Vindication of the Case of Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers In Reply to an Answer to a late Pamphlet Entituled Obedience and Submission to the present Government demonstrated from Bishop Overal ' s Convocation-Book with a Postscript in Answer to Dr. Sherlock ' s Case of Allegiance 4 o A Sermon Preached at White-Hall before the Queen on the 17th of June 1691. being the Fast-day 4 o A Practical Discourse concerning Death The Fifth Edition 8 o A Practical Discourse concerning a Future Judgment Second Edition 8 o. Printed for W. Rogers BOOKS lately Printed for W. Rogers A Sermon Preached at White-Hall before the Queen on the Monthly-Fast-Day September 16th 1691. 4 o A Persuasive to Freqâ—â—nt Communion in the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper The Eighth Edition 12 o Both by the most Reverend Father in God John Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury A Sermon Preached on the 28th of June at St. Andrew's Holbourn By the Right Reverend Father in God John Lord Bishop of Norwich A Sermon Preached on the 28th of June at St. Mary le Bow on Sunday the Fifth of July 1691. at the Consecration of the most Reverend Father in God John Lord Arch-Bishop of York and the Right Reverend Fathers in God John Lord Bishop of Norwich Richard Lord Bishop of Peterborough and Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester By Joshua Clark Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God the Bishop of Norwich 4 o The Necessity of Serious Consideration and speedy Repentance as the only way to be safe both living and dying 8 o The Lambs of Christ fed with the sincere Milk of the Word of God in a short Scripture Catechism 12 o The Folly of Atheism demonstrated to the Capacity of the most unlearned Reader 8 o These Three by the Reverend Mr. Clement Eâ—â—s Rector of Kirby in Nothinghamshire Reflections upon two Books one Entituled The Case of Allegiance to a King in Possession The other An Answer to Dr. Sherlock ' s Case of Allegiance to Sovereign Powers in Possession on those parts especially wherein the Author endeavours to shew his Opinion to be agreeable to the Laws of this Land In a Letter to a Friend 4 o
against each other the one to secure his Crown the other their Liberties An unhappy state which must needs make all Publick Affairs move slowly and lamely and create many Inconveniences to a Kingdom both at home and abroad This temps Princes to affect Arbitrary Power when they feel their Crowns sit tottering upon their Heads and see themselves check'd at every turn and it may be finally stopt in the most generous Designs to advance the Glory Safety Riches and Power of their Nation nay find themselves too weak to secure their Government from Foreign Powers or from Home-bred Factions without it I believe no considering man doubts but that the late Attempts to introduce Arbitrary Power in form of Law were principally owing to the Tragedy of this Day And if it were possible any thing could excuse such Attempts this would have done it However we ought to acknowledge that those Difficulties we so lately strugled under and from which the good Providence of God has delivered us were the just punishment because the just desert and the unavoidable effect of our Sin While this is the state of things without setting up the Royal Standard or levying Forces Prince and Subjects however the matter may be dissembled are at War with each other and how uneasy a state this is and how much the Publick suffers by it our late Experience will tell us or nothing will Arbitrary Power and Popery were the two great Pretences to justify the War against King Charles I. Now whatever appearances there might be of the first through mistake and ill Councel and the necessity of Affairs which might misguide an Excellent Prince there was little pretence for the second besides a Fanatical Imputation of Popery to the Church of England of which that Prince was so zealous a Patron The Church of England I say the great Bulwark against Popery whose first Reformers sealed their Testimony against Popery with their Blood and whose many Learned Pens have defended the Protestant Cause to the great satisfaction of all the Protestant Churches and to the Confusion of their Popish Adversaries and that even in the late Reign when few other Pens durst engage in the Quarrel But observe now as Adonibezeck does how God has required us To prevent the vain Fears of Popery Protestants take Arms against their King barbarously murder him and drive their Princes to seek their Bread and to secure their Lives in Foreign Countries There one of them learns the Religion of those Countries which is a very convenient Religion for a Prince who affects to be Absolute And this brought our Fears upon us we saw a Zealous Popish Prince and Popish Bishops and such bold steps made to set up Popery as made us all tremble Righteous are thou O Lord and just are thy judgments On the other hand this makes Subjects very jealous of the Power of their Prince and ready to take all Advantages to lessen it which in time may prove very dangerous to Government at least will insensibly alter the Constitution For too little Power is as fatal to Government as too much nay in some junctures it is the most dangerous Extream of the two for what we call too much Power may be well used when in the Hand of a wise and good Prince And then the more the Power is the stronger and more flourishing must the Government and Nation be but too little Power can never Govern well when the Government is so weak that it can neither defend it self nor its Subjects and therefore the just Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown and the necessary Powers and Authority for Government ought to be as dear to Subjects as their own Rights and Liberties are It is certain Power will be somewhere if the Prince loose it the People will get it and when once the People gain such a Power as to top their Prince there is an end of Monarchy As absolute Power changes the Constitution of a Legal and Limited Monarchy into an Arbitrary Government so a precarious depending Power changes the Monarchy it self into a Venetian State Both which Extreams wise Men who love the English Government would by all means avoid and it is a very great mischief when Princes or Subjects are violently Tempted to either of the Extreams and this we owe also to the Sin of this Day Another very lasting and fatal Evil of such Examples as that of this day is that it infects Mens minds with loose Notions of Government and Obedience which are at first invented to justifie such Actions and which People are sooner taught then untaught As that all Power is radically in the People and therefore but a trust which a Prince must give an account of which he may be deprived of for the Abuse of which he may be Punished even with Death by his own Subjects Nay there are some among us who charge all Men who deny this with being Enemies to the Constitution and with reproaching the Wisdom and Justice of the Nation in the late happy Revolution which they think can be defended upon no other Principles But as wise Men and as hearty Friends to the present Government think otherwise and I am sure it would be no Service to the Government to perswade all who cannot own these Principles to disown and renounce all that has been done But how does it appear that the late Revolution turned upon these Principles The Undertaking of the Prince of Orange now our Gracious King needed none of these Principles to justify it He was no Subject of England but an Independent Prince and so nearly related to the Crown that he was concerned to see the Succession secured and the Government kept upon its ancient Bottom which was thought so just and honourable and necessary an Undertaking that Men of all Principles seemed very well satisfied with it even those who think the Matter carried so far that they cannot now comply with the present Government in so much that some who are the greatest Sufferers at present by their Non-compliance could not be perswaded at that time to declare their abhorrence of it The great Body of the Nation stood still and looked on wished well to the Prince without wishing ill to the King's Person or to the just Exercise of his Authority And I am verily perswaded there were very few even among those who were more active who at that time while the King continued with us ever thought of more then to obtain a free parliament by whose mature Counsels the Law might be restored to its due Course and the Religion and Liberties of England secured But the King would not stand this Tryal but disbands his Army withdraws his Person without leaving any Authority behind him to administer the Government No body ever thought that this was a perfectly free and voluntary Act but however gone he was and had left no body behind him to govern by his Authority and then the Government was either dissolved or the Power