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A42126 Loyalty essential to Christianity being a sermon preached the thirtieth of June, 1685 upon the occasion of the news of the damnable rebellion in the west and in the course of the constant lecture in the parish church of Dedham in Essex / by Thomas Grey. Grey, Thomas. 1685 (1685) Wing G1971; ESTC R23956 18,382 32

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Loyalty Essential to Christianity BEING A SERMON Preached the Thirtieth of June 1685. Upon the Occasion of the News OF THE Damnable Rebellion IN THE WEST AND In the Course of the Constant Lecture in the Parish Church of Dedham in Essex By Thomas Grey A. M. Preacher there LONDON Printed by Henry Clark and Sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner MDCLXXXV Imprimatur C. Alston R. P. D. Hen. Episc Lond. a Sacris Domesticis TO THE Right Honourable and Right Reverend FATHER in GOD HENRY Lord Bishop of LONDON One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. MY LORD I Am emboldned to hope for your pardon in offering to the world so mean a Discourse under the Patronage of your Lordships Name because I am very certain that you will never decline the owning that glorious subject it Treats of which in opposition to our Adversaries of both sides is the peculiar and unblemished Glory of our Church in which your Lordship does justly bear so great a Character The news of the horrid Rebellion broke out in the Western parts of this Kingdom shrouding it self under the wonted colours that all such Villanies assume occasioned my offering these following thoughts in the next ordinary course of my Preaching to my Country and plain Auditory of whom it pleases me to tell your Lordship that I hope and beleive they have heartily received the Doctrines of Loyalty to their Prince and Duty to the Church as a part of their Religion And concerning this mean Publication I will confess My Lord that I was not unwilling by it to let our Enemies know that even the most inconsiderable of the Clergy of our Church will yet do their utmost to assert the glorious Doctrines of it whenever bold and malicious men shall attempt the dishonoring of any of them And I hope 't is not amiss for your Lordship to receive some Testimonies to prove That those of us that judge ourselves the meanest of our Reverend Brethren among whom we are will yet never By Divine Assistance desert the great and hitherto victorious Champions of our Church and Cause But that by our Practising and Preaching the Doctrines of sound and undefiled Religion toward God and of entire and unfeigned Loyalty to our Prince we shall endeavour to Continue to After Ages the Memory and Records of what Principles our Church has taught us and what we have taught our People May it please your Lordship To forgive this whole Address and to accept the dutiful Tender of my Vowed Prayers My Lord Your Lordships Most Humble and Most Obedient Servant Tho. Grey Dedham July 8. 1685. TITUS III. 1. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good Work A Doctrine that is at all times proper and useful to be taught though it has had the misfortune that attends several other excellent parts of Christian Religion I mean to be looked upon even by the greatest pretenders to Piety as a matter of but very little consequence and if it be acknowledged to contain any thing of necessity in it yet some evil instructors of our People have taught them to clog it with so many limitations that in truth it comes but to very little with some of them But however that be yet they have effectually discovered their endeavours to remove this necessary and excellent Doctrine of our Religion as far from that as they have from their own Breasts Certain it is and our sad experience has but too too much confirmed it that in despight of all our Exhortations to the contrary they had so far insinuated their own prejudices into the minds of all that did but a little favour them that those of them that would not altogether disown the Obligations of our Religion in this particular portion of it did yet freely and openly censure our publick Discourses on that Subject as mean insipid and unedifying and hardly so good as Moral Preaching which by the way is a disgraceful lessening Phrase as they imagin which the Leaders of the Faction have invented thereby to render our Exhortations to the Performance of the very chiefest parts of Practical Religion despicable and so ineffectual to those for whose sakes we chiefly intended them and who in truth through the crafty insinuations of such designing Guides did most need them But indeed this was a necessary though a Hellish Policy for they did well enough foresee that if we could but persuade Men to the careful practise of Humility Peace and Charity among one another and of Submission and Obedience to their lawful Governours in Church and State Those Fundamentals of our Religion it would quickly and unavoidably have defeated all their Factious and Schismatical Designs which most palpably have succeeded but in the same Proportions that those lovely and happy Virtues have decayed among us It is evident then that a Discourse of this Nature could at no time be unseasonable to People in our Circumstances But I have judged it more peculiarly proper to entertain you with a plain and honest Exhortation to a firm and sincere Loyalty and from this particular Topick as 't is a Fundamental of the Religion we Profess now when there are found them among us that have entred into an open and damnable Rebellion against their Natural Prince upon that Pretext and that have the impudence to Publish the maintaining and supporting that for their design which they have already by their desperate Actions violated and dishonoured in one of its most sacred sanctions and which does particularly recommend the Care and Practise of it to the World I do not believe that you that hear me have any particular need to be now Admonished of this part of your Duty but yet to discover the steadiness of our own Principles that I might prevent any of you from being so much as alienated from your Duty in your Affections or wheadled into thinking well of such practises by the Cry of the Protestant Religion that I might lead you not only to a dislike but an utter abhorrence of such wretched Principles as can never tend to support or promote our Religion but to dishonour and ruin it and that are as contrary to your happiness in another World as they are destructive of your interest in this I have chosen to be obedient to this Apostolical Injunction Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good Work Two things I shall observe from these words which shall be the limits of my Discourse First That Subjection and Obedience to lawful Governors is strictly and necessarily enjoyned by Christian Religion Secondly That all Ministers of the Evangelick Dispensation are entirely obliged to exhort their several Hearers to the careful and conscionable Practise of this as their just and necessary Duty And First Of the first of these That subjection and obedience to Magistrates and lawful Governors is strictly