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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67269	A sermon preached at Great St. Marie's church in Cambridge before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief-Justice Holt, at the assizes held there, August 1, 1693 / by Tho. Walker ...	Walker, Thomas, 1658 or 9-1716.	1693 (1693)	Wing W416; ESTC R4995	18,815	38

Octob. 20. 1693. Imprimatur Geo. Oxenden Procan Jo. Beaumont S. Th. Pr. Jo. Mountagu Coll. Trin. Magister Ja. Johnson Coll. Sid. Magister A SERMON Preached at Great St MARIE'S Church IN CAMBRIDGE Before the Right Honourable The Lord Chief-Justice HOLT AT THE ASSIZES Held there August 1. 1693. By THO. WALKER B. D. Fellow of Sidney-Sussex Coll. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristoph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 CAMBRIDGE Printed by John Hayes Printer to the University For William Graves Bookseller there 1693. To the Right Honourable Sr JOHN HOLT Lord Chief-Justice OF THE KING'S BENCH And One of Their MAJESTIES Most Honourable PRIVY COUNCIL My LORD WHen I lately had the Honour and Happiness of waiting upon Your Lordship You were pleas'd to Encourage the Publication of this Discourse in such Obliging Terms as I cannot here in Modesty relate Your Lordship 's Repeated Requests which to me are Equivalent to Commands and Your Generous Proffer of giving these Papers Protection being such Powerfull Arguments to me as I could not in Duty withstand have usher'd them into the Publick Light This is a sufficient Apology to excuse me from Arrogance and Presumption if there had been no other Reason for my appearing in Print But whilst I was in the Country I was not only surpriz'd with a Letter sent me by an Vnknown Hand misrepresenting my Sermon but soon after I came to the College I was Allarm'd with the Noise which some Men had made about it and not a little Concern'd at the Invidious misconstructions which they had put upon it And therefore as well in my own Vindication as in Obedience to Your Lordship's Command I submit it to a more Publick Censure than it has already undergone All Men who are Just and Impartial have so High a Value for Your Lordship's Judgement and so Great an Opinion of Your Candour and Integrity that seeing Your Lordship has been pleas'd to cast a Favourable Aspect upon this Discourse it raises some hopes in me that how contemptible soever it may seem in the Eyes of some Persons yet it may meet with a Candid Reception amongst others of Your Lordship's Character who are Hearty Lovers of the Church of England of their Majesties and this Nation As for those who are not as I neither expect their Favour so neither do I much regard their Displeasure If any are offended with my Sermon it is their own fault and not mine I am perswaded no Honest Man will Vindicate the Characters of those whom I undertake to expose As I have said nothing but what I really believe to be true so I hope my Sincerity may Atone for the meanness of my Performance and Your Lordship 's Kind Acceptance of it will in my Esteem overballance the Sleights and Reproaches of those who vilifie and condemn it May your Lordship live many Happy Years to Adorn the Station You deservedly Possess to do Justice and Promote the Publick Good and after You have long been a Blessing to this Kingdom may You be receiv'd into that of Eternal Glory which is the Vnfeigned Prayer of My LORD Your Honour 's Most Obedient Obliged and Very Humble Servant THO. WALKER Prov. xii V. 26. The Righteous is more Excellent than his Neighbour THAT there is a real Distinction between Good and Evil Virtue and Vice which was so antecedently to all positive Laws whether Human or Divine and that the natural Deformity and innate Turpitude of the one and the amiable Agreeableness and inherent Rectitude of the other do not barely depend upon the arbitrary Sanctions of those who have enacted Laws concerning them is a Truth so obvious and manifest to any one who duly considers the Nature of things and soberly attends to the reasonings and reflections of his own Mind that one may justly admire how it comes to pass that the dull and exploded Notions of a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diegen Laert. in Vita Aristip p. 134. ed. Amstel Aristippus b V. Lactant. l. 5. de Justitia Carneades and other Philosophers of old concerning these matters should be again with Confidence enough reviv'd especially in this Thinking and Philosophical Age by Mr. Hobbs and his Followers who pretend to a more than ordinary smartness and sagacity in Reasoning and Speculation Thus He who whilst he lived was the Greatest wonder of the Peak in the Preface to his Book de Cive huggs and applauds himself for having found out the great and infallible Medicine for Wounded Consciences and troubled Minds by dispelling those mists of Error as he calls them in which Men before this Phosphorus arose were involv'd concerning Just and Unjust Good and Evil in having clearly demonstrated by solid Reasons as he vainly insinuates that there are no Doctrines Authentick concerning them beside the Laws and Constitutions of each particular City And in his Book de Corpore Politico he boldly and in plain terms asserts that a C. 1. p. 5. Jus Vtile right and profit is the same thing So that according to this Doctrine if it should happen that two or more Cities or Nations should have contrary Apprehensions and different Sentiments concerning Good and Evil Just and Unjust that then these Creatures of Civil Power must submit to new Names and change their Liveries as often as they change their Masters But I can never believe that theft and cruelty injustice and oppression deceit and treachery should become good and laudable Qualities by what Laws soever they were enacted or by what Authority soever they should be confirmed or that amongst Wise and sober Men they should be reputed more excellent and praise-worthy than Honesty and Clemency than Justice and Integrity than Sincerity and Fair-Dealing in all the mutual transactions of our Affairs Certainly the Foundations upon which the laws and principles of Justice and Equity are built are as unchangeable and immovable as the Will of God whereby he establishes the immutable Decrees of his Wisdom and Goodness and that we may as well suppose Men able to change the Nature of things to turn a Spirit into a Body or a Body into a Spirit as that they should be able to alter and unfix those steady Rules whereby we take our measures concerning Good or Evil. The laws of the invisible and immaterial World are no less stable and certain than those are by which we observe this visible Frame of things to be guided in the production of their necessary Effects and in their stated and constant courses and periodical Revolutions 'T is as unnatural and irrational to say or make a law that God is not to be worshipped to affirm that 't is wickedness and impiety to render to every one their due or that it is sin and folly to live soberly righteously and Godly as it would be for a Man to attempt to make fire and water lose their innate Qualities of heat and coldness by commanding them to do so and that