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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

home from the bloody Fields of Battel the same fortunate Trophies of our Victory namely more Taxes than any Nation under the Heavens and all the Religions of the World besides And so in the second place I come to shew 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 Our Fathers like the plagued Egyptians described in the Book of Wisdom were shut up in Wisd 17. 2. their own Houses and confined by their usurping Governors from maintaining the sweetest comfort of Humane Life Society with their Friends being made Prisoners of Darkness fettered with the Bonds of a long Night Whilst they could be permitted See the Act Anno 1649. Chap. 72. on the Week-day to travel but little further than the Jewish Sabbath days Journey But now praised be God the day is broke and those black affrighting shadows are fled away The most illustrious day now shines upon us our Calendars ever yet recorded A Day at first graced by the sacred light of a Noon-tide Star added to that of the Sun A Day which the Lord himself has made marvellous in our eyes for the most auspicious Birth and Return of his Gracious Majesty the Breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord. A Lam. 4. 20. Day that next to the Nativity of our blessed Saviour ought in all Ages to be solemnized with the most gratefull Doxologies of Glory to God in the highest for so miraculously sending Peace on this our share of the Earth and so graciously shewing his good Will towards us a lost ruined part of Mankind For so mercifully compassing us about with Songs of Deliverance For so compassionately vouchsafing us a second inferior sort of Redemption from our temporal and spiritual Thraldom a second lower kind of Restauration unto all our forfeited through Sin humane and divine happiness For how does Judgment now run down as Waters Amos 5. 24. and Righteousness as a mighty Stream Pure and undisturbed as that flowing River which gushed forth from the twice smitten Rock opened by the divine hand of Moses Num. 20. 11. Now the sincere and upright Judges of our Land impartially render to all their dues to Caesar the things that are Caesar's with an undaunted Loyalty to God and his Holy Church the things that are God's with pure Religion to all the King's Subjects the things that belong to them with an even indifferency We now again walk in the House of God as Friends which not long since had been made a graceless Den of Thieves whilst it was defiled with Horses and polluted with those far uncleaner Beasts their Riders who plainly and without a Metaphor made the Church of Christ here on earth to be truly Militant and terrible as an Army Cant. 6. 4. with Banners forgetting that meekness of Wisdom which guided our first Reformers in setling that pure peaceable Protestant Religion which this day happily has restored to us In our Cathedral Service whether in the Body or out of the Body we cannot tell being caught up 2 Cor. 12. 2. as it were with S. Paul to the third Heaven we now joyn with those ten thousand times ten thousand Rev. 5. 11 13. and thousands of thousands of Angelical ministring Spirits in a full Chorus to sing Psalms and Hymns of Blessing and Honour and Glory and Power unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever But to advance yet farther to that most holy ground where the Communion Table is by publick Authority most properly placed and here no Protestant Spectator unless falsly so called but but must from the bottom of his heart acknowledge that we alone give unto the Lord the Glory Psal 29. 2. due unto his Name and worship the Lord in the right beauty of Holiness Whilst we alike decline the Whorish Gawdry of Babylon the Idolatrous Pageantry of the Church of Rome on the one hand and the slovenly clownish and in truth irreverent behaviour of the Phanatick Dissenters on the other We enjoy the most absolute form of the Hierarchy to be found upon earth a Monarchical Government of Bishops in our Church where our lawful Soveraign the only true Vicegerent of Jesus Christ that supreme Bishop of our Souls presides over us in all sacred spiritual matters And by the gracious encouragement of this our King the Churches Royal nursing Father it comes to pass that many of those who serve at her Altars are the Sons of Nobles most of them at least descended from reputable Parentage We have publick set Forms of Prayer to the end that neither Priest nor People should be rash with their mouths or let their hearts be hasty to utter any unpremeditated thing before God The modest Compilers of our Liturgy having minded us that God is in Heaven and Omniscient vain Man upon Earth and born ignorant of the ways of the Lord and unskilful in the word of Righteousness and therefore prudently direct us to let our words be few and chosen It is our Church alone which holds no pious Frauds maintains no holy Cheats It is she alone that can defie all the studied wit and malice of her Adversaries to shew any political Article or Canon of her Establishment whereby it may be proved that any of her true Sons can cry out with Demetrius and say Sirs ye know that by Act. 19. 25 28. this craft we have our Wealth therefore Great is Diana of the Ephesians No it is only her Teachers when they instruct their respective Congregations who cannot be persuaded to suppose that Gain is Godliness but with an ardent Zeal demonstrate that they seek not theirs but them that they covet not their Possessions but their Salvation She obliges her Proselites to stand to no Principles but those which in express words are manifest in the Scriptures or else by undeniable consequence may be deduced thence The unfained meaning of which Texts she most candidly refers to those impartial Commentators those greatest Lovers and most competent Judges of the Divine Truth namely the uncorrupted Councils and genuine Works of those ancient Fathers who came nearest our Blessed Saviour the first Author and last Finisher of our Faith as well in Holiness as time She most indulgently and like a true Mother obliges her Children to the performance of no Duty which has not the power of God's Law in the first place and of the King's Law in the second a Divine as well as Humane Sanction to enforce the practice thereof Her Discipline in short is most sincerely Primitive and her Doctrine most truly Apostolical 'T is she alone that compleatly answers the description made in the Canticles of the Spouse of Christ She is all fair there is no spot in her Cant. 4. 7. Thus hath God been pleased to look upon his

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