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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70253	A sermon preached before the honourable judges of assize, at the cathedral in Lincoln, July 21. 1673 Sir William Humble Baronet, being high sheriff of the county. By Richard Hollingworth, minister of God's Word at West-ham near London.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2504A; ESTC R38793	13,623	37

A SERMON Preached before the HONOVRABLE Judges of Assize AT THE Cathedral in Lincoln July 21. 1673. Sir William Humble Baronet BEING HIGH SHERIFF of the County By Richard Hollingworth Minister of God's Word at West-ham near London London Printed for Robert Boulter at the Turks-Head in Cornhil over against the Royal Exchange 1673. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND Father in God WILLIAM Lord Bishop of Lincoln My Lord WHen I had the honour last to wait upon your Lorship in your own Palace at Lincoln you was pleased to signifie such an approbation of this Discourse as to command from me a Copy of it which when understood by some other Persons of no small acount I was vigorously press'd by them to make it Publick they hoping thereby some good might accrew to that Church in the Government of which your Lordship bears so considerable a share to so good purposes And being not willing to shun any opportunity whereby I might serve the Publick obey your Lordship and give contentment to my Friends I buckled my self presently to a transcribing of it in order to the Press And now such as it is I present to your Lordship desiring that as it derived the boldness of appearing abroad from your Lordships good liking of it so it may receive Protection from your Lordships Power and Authority For Discourses of this nature if they be not well fortified your Lordship knows are quickly blasted by soul Reproaches and unworthy Reflections either upon the Authors or the Principles and what men want in Argument and Proof they usually make up in Slander and unjust Imputations And truly had I not had a greater value for Truth for the Peace and Settlement of the Kingdom for the prosperous and quiet Reign of our Great Master the King then I have for mine own Esteem and Reputation among some sorts of people I would never have made my first Essay in Publick of so ungrateful a nature as I know this must needs be to many men But we are to consider we were not born for our selves and so that the Cause of God may be carried on the Interest of the Protestant Religion maintained I think every man ought to make a venture of all that is near and dear to him and think himself very happy if with the loss of all he can be serviceable to so great and good Purposes A thing which we whose years have not been multiplied to the number of your Lordships have very great encouragement to do both from your Lordships Example and many other worthy Persons in the late bad Times who to defend the Principles stated and recommended in this Discourse suffered you Selves to be stript of all those external Comforts which Philosophers tell us have a very great share in contributing to our happiness while we are here But now as God hath been pleased to restore the Church to its ancient Constitution and your Lordship and many other eminent Sufferers not onely to its Wealth and Revenue but its Defence and Support so I pray God it may continue with the advantage of such Lights as long as the Sun and Moon endure For 't is plain take away the Church and destroy the Principles by which it is setled and we introduce all disorder and confusion into the World immediately and every man turns Reformer and every week presents us with a new Model vainly boasting it self fetched out of the Old Gospel which of how dismal consequence to Religion and to civil Societies is no difficult thing to judge But that such a Desolation may never overtake the Church again thanks be to God hath been the care of this present Parliament in several Acts framed on purpose is the endeavour and care of your Lordship and several others of great worth and moment and shall I assure you be the daily Prayer as indeed it ought to be of every good man of him Who is your Lordships humble and faithful Servant to Command Richard Hollingworth Westham Aug. 7. TO THE HONOVRABLE Sir William Humble Baronet High Sheriff of the County of Lincoln SIR IT was a very wise return that a Reverend Divine now in being made when the Act of Uniformity was framing Who being asked What he intended to do Answered That if the Act was tolerable he would comply and the reason was because he dreaded Faction not knowing when once he got into it how far it would drive him meaning I suppose that when men once come to think themselves hardly and unkindly treated by their Governors and see the Encouragements of the Nation disposed of to others whom they think not so truly worthy as themselves this works such a discontent in them as disposes them to any Action or Opinion whereby they may keep at the greatest distance from the Commands of Governors and express their hatred both to their Persons and Authority And truly Sir we have sadly seen this thing that be feared of himself come to pass in many others and those who some years agone contested with the spirit of Separation and both preached and wrote vigorously against the Principle from whence it took its birth and being and denounced the heaviest Curses both of Heaven and Earth against all those who were Fautors and Promotors of it and now I am afraid too much thorough a spirit of discontent and anger at the Government under which they live baptized into the same Principles and become Examples of the same Separation which they condemned so violently and with so great an heat in others and cannot be content onely to meet and gather people from the several Quarters both of City and Countrey but they must choose the same time with those who are the onely legally constituted Preachers and that is not all but they pitch in those places and plant themselves in those streets where they acknowledge the Parish Minister is worthy and laborious and where they know there is Love and Vnity betwixt both the Pastor and his People And what this looks like but revenge against the Government and an obstinate resolution to do what in them lies to undermine the present Ministry I cannot tell a thing which I am sure the Puritans of old whom they pretend to be followers of would have disowned and vehemently declaimed against Sir The sad and serious consideration of this was one occasion of bending my thoughts upon the following Subject after you had been pleased to give me an invitation to appear in so honourable and judicious an Assembly And in earnest he that considers well what must needs be the Consequences of all this hereafter be must necessarily vindicate any honest-hearted and true English-man that stands up and according to the power he is invested with endeavours to put a stop to these irregular proceedings And those men who notwithstanding all that can be said or urged to them from their former professed and avowed Practices and Principles will yet so far countenance their rage and prejudice as to continue in this