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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33280	A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Rochester, on the 29th of May, 1684 being the anniversary of His most sacred Majesty's birth, and happy restauration to these his undoubted realms and dominions / by John Clerke ...	Clerke, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1684 (1684)	Wing C4478; ESTC R11278	12,543	30

oppressed Inhabitants of these three then wretched Kingdoms 2. That God has been pleased in a most wonderful manner to restore unto us of these ravaged Nations together with our King our Liberty and Property our Religion and Freedom of Conscience in the highest degree of perfection 3. That notwithstanding this an ungrateful murmuring against the Government is still the English as it was then the Israelitish Sin which cries aloud to Heaven for Vengeance And then 4. And Lastly I shall draw a practical Conclusion from the foregoing matter and so dismiss you Of these in their order and First That in these later times of Usurpation Liberty and Property Religion and Freedom of Conscience were most unjustly taken away from the oppressed Inhabitants of these three then wretched Kingdoms It cannot indeed be denied by any ingenuous person but that contrary to the Roman Observation Silent Leges inter arma Cic. Orat. pro Milone at the same time when the shriller sound of the Trumpet the noise of Horses and the noise of a great Host pierced our Fathers tender ears Justice however was heard to utter her still small voice in our Streets whilst in the words of the Psalmist the Throne of Iniquity which then bore Psal 94. 20. the Soveraign Sway framed all their Mischief by a Law For whosoever shall compare the Tryal of our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ before Pontius Pilate's first High Court of Justice with the Arraignment of our late most barbarously murdered King before John Bradshaw's second shall find them to differ no more than a faithful Copy from its Original The blind rage of the Populace the insufferable insolence of the Soldiery the mock-shew of Equity but especially the notorious Corruption of both their Judges in condemning two innocent Persons in whom they could find no fault in suffering them alike to be destroyed only by a pretended Law nay and by a further abetting their Deaths by an unknown Law do make their conditions exactly parallel and I had almost said alike in Sufferings alike in Innocence But to proceed As it fared with Him who sate upon the Throne even so did it fare with him Ecclus 40. 3 5. that was humbled in Earth and Ashes Wrath and Envy Trouble and Vnquietness fear of Death and Anger and Strife were made the common portion of Truth and Fidelity Whilst those partial Determiners of Causes to use the Prophets words smote the great Houses with Breaches and the little Amos 6. 11. Houses with Clefts The Princes and People the Potentates and Peasants in proportion to their respective Estates were equally damnified and oppressed Then was the time when the Loyal Party having a matter against another durst not go to Law 1 Cor. 6. 1 7. before the Vnjust Then was the Apostle's Injunction easily observed by all good men rather to take wrong rather to suffer themselves to be defrauded by their false Brethren who were for them or their traiterous Enemies who were openly against them than to bring in their legal Defence and implead them before those Heathen Tribunals Then in Short was Judgment turned into Wormwood then did they leave off righteousness in the Earth Whilst they exercised the most tyrannical high arbitrary Government over the Lives Liberties and Properties of the English Scotch and Irish Nations ever yet read or heard of amongst us Whilst Volumes will not contain the Murders Rapines Oppressions Sequestrations Decimations Imprisonments and whatsoever else can be thought of that was cruel unjust and as that great Apostle of those more modern Gentiles words it might be taken for an effect of their power Hobbs Leviat p. 56. or a cause of their pleasure But to leave this Humane Court and to enter into that Divine one the Church Where behold in our Cathedrals those places of God's standing Worship where we used to be most religiously delighted with the grateful melody and harmonious noise of Praises and Thanksgivings unto God the Fountain and Foundation of all our Bliss We then instead thereof most wretchedly heard the contrary baleful Notes the ill-boding voices of those melancholy Birds mentioned by the Prophet Isaiah The Cormorant Isa 34. 11. and the Bittern which possess'd those Places the Owl also and the Raven which alone dwelt in them Those that lifted up the Axes before upon the Psal 74. 5 6. thick Trees the Psalmist tells us were renowned as such who intended to bring a thing to an holy perfection but lo then they brake down all the carved work of the Sanctuary with Axes and Hammers It pitied us to see the Stones of our ruined Sion lying in the dust it grieved us indeed to behold this Abomination of Desolation standing where it ought not It afflicted us to view in the words of Hosea the Thorn and the Thistle coming up flourishing Hos 10. 8. and full blown upon our Altars where the Mystical Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ were usually beheld and received with a most awful Reverence If then our Emanuel our God with us had vouchsafed to have bowed the Heavens to have come down and visited that stubborn stiff-necked Generation of men which so often in their hypocritical bablings invoked him by the name of Lord Lord He would have found a much like but more unhallowed Reception upon such a second Advent than he did upon his first For those Enemies of his Cross made even his Father's House become a lively Representation of that crowded Inn where there was no room where he suffered himself at his Incarnation to be necessitated to make a Stable his consecrated Temple and a Manger his Holy of Holies wherein to lodge his shrowded Divinity They most sacrilegiously made those Church-Lands dedicated unto God for the maintenance of a religious and learned Clergy to become the Wages of their Iniquity They were then guilty of Jeroboam's evil way they made the lowest of the 1 King 13. 33. People Priests of the High Places whereupon it naturally followed that their Priest taught for Hire Mic. 3. 11. and their Prophets divined for Money From thence we had preached up unto us for sound and as the Cant then was Soul-saving Doctrine blasphemous Socinianism wild Enthusiasm disguised Popery which gave execrable Indulgences and Absolutions to men not to perform their Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy they had so often taken by virtue whereof as good Christians and Subjects they and their Posterity were obliged to bear true Faith and Trust to their lawful Soveraign and so far as in them lay to defend that Protestant Church and Faith of which our Royal Martyr died Head and most true Defender Wherefore I shall chuse to conclude this first Proposition with the Remark of a Person worthily honoured for his eminent Loyalty and Learning We like the revolting Subjects of Spain Sir Robert Filmer fought against our Liege Lord for Taxes and Religion and proved alike prosperous Rebels whilst we as they brought