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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61178	A sermon preached before the Artillery Company of London at St. Mary Le Bow, April 20, 1682 by Thomas Sprat ...	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.	1682 (1682)	Wing S5058; ESTC R16434	15,174	38

Damnation to ensue upon resisting it than which what more grievous Punishment could have bin inflicted had they immediately resisted God himself And recollect I intreat you the time when this was so positively pronounc'd by St. Paul It must have bin written under the reign of Claudius or Nero. So that it is evident all that resisted them were without repentance in a damnable state Can there be then any colour so specious any cause so just in which instead of Damnation a Christian subject may justly expect to receive to himself Salvation on the account of resisting Was it then forbidden on the penalty of everlasting Death to rebel against those Emperors most cruel Tyrants most fierce Enemies to the Christian Name Monsters of Men either of no Religion or a false one and yet a disgrace to Heathenism it self if however on the most solemn obligation of Conscience they were not to be oppos'd much less destroy'd by any Christians what can be said greater or more august than this what stronger what more sacred Confirmation can be given to our conscientious ob 〈…〉 nother manner of Authority By how many more tyes Temporal and Eternal are we bound to yield a faithful subjection to a Christian King Under whose gentle Protection his Subjects prosper though some almost against their wills a King whose Power is only shewn by moderate Laws which to his mildness owe their Moderation in a word a King who is the best nursing Father of the best Church in the Christian World Against this Doctrine I know the Enemies of our Peace will be ready with their old and obsolete Objection That this is Court Flattery and a Divinity only sit for Camps and standing Armies I must tell them it had bin well for our Country if we had never heard of worse Camp-Divinity than this we had then never felt the real tyranny of a standing Army And if they would consult Scripture for other uses than to pervert it they would soon be convinc'd that this is good Evangelical Divinity Nay this Assembly gives me confidence to inform them what they will be more loath to hear that now God be prais'd this is not only good Camp but good City-Divinity too But when we teach the great Doctrine of Obedience if we must be said to flatter our comfort is we flatter in no worse company than that of the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and wellnigh of all the divinely-inspired Penmen of the Bible However when they accuse the Church of England of this kind of Flattery that is of unshaken fealty to the Crown let them consider which of the two is the more excusable Flattery to humour the uncertain populace and the unstable vulgar which to serve is the lowest Slavery or to Preach a due Submission to the Lawful establish'd Government which to obey is the safest Liberty You see My Dear Brethren the course of my Argument has brought us to such a Cause as is worthy of your Swords if need shall require Though the Ardour of your Loyal Valour must give me leave to say I hope and I verily believe there will be no such need I am persuaded and I think I may presage that this present alacrity and vigor to which you and His Majestie 's other Loyal Subjects have bin of late awaken'd this cheerful posture and prepared readiness of your Swords to be drawn will be an abundant Safety to our King and Country without once drawing them Such will be the Innocence as well as Justice of your Arms such the desperate condition of your Adversaries that whenever they draw their Swords against their Prince they must throw away the Scabbard whilest yours by God's Providence being manag'd with an ordinary watchfulness and sobriety will be sufficient to defend him without ever unsheathing them But if which God in his Infinite Mercy a●●ert if ever the same tumultuous spirit on the same groundless insinuations shall once more infatuate the corrupt part of the Nation to their own Destruction to their own certainly it will be at last if they do not again meet with the like mercy But if God in his unsearchable Judgments shall suffer our Country in the same Age to be scourg'd again the same calamitous way then what can be a more Noble or more Pious Cause wherein to employ your Arms than this of the King and his Family A Cause in which you will scarce meet with an Enemy but he or his Relations have bin already forgiven And so they will carry about with them the black guilt not only of Rebellion but of an ungrateful Rebellion after Pardon receiv'd a Sin which the Devil is not capable of committing whil'st you will have a Cause in which all your several Interests that are elsewhere scatter'd of personal Preservation of political Duty of conscientious Obedience are united In this one Cause all your Countries Blessings all your Churches Rights all your own Securities are involved in defending his Life his Throne who is the breath of our Nostrils the anointed of the Lord who has not only this common to him with other Kings that he is the Image of the Divine Power but has this peculiar to himself or communicated to him with a very few that he is the Image of the Divine Mercy of whose Abhorrence of all Illegal Oppressions or Arbitrary Proceedings if the grace of all his former Oblivions and Indemnities has not yet convinc'd a stubborn Generation of Men after they have so long injoy'd the benefits of them what need they any other new Argument than this here before me that when he has such a Nobility and Gentry such a Militia of the whole Kingdom especially yours entirely at his Service yet he is pleas'd to use your Arms no otherwise than now in the peaceful Exercises of War For such a King whilest his Goodness and Benignity gives you no occasions to fight for him what can all his Subjects do less than to love and revere him in Peace to yield him an active Obedience the more cheerfully since he has taken care we shall have no opportunities of giving him a passive Obedience not only not to hinder but to perform his just Commands to think our selves only capable of being a great People by making him greater Every Soul to be Subject to him So if we believe St. Paul there is a necessity we should be The Phrase in the Original is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies the necessity not only of a cold and forc'd and meerly just Subjection but of a regular well-disposed Submission not only to live quietly but in a quiet order nay more to live as it were in Military Order under him For the word belongs to your Profession The Rules of the warlike Art are properly call'd Tacticks and such should be our Obedience to our Soveraign so exact as that which you practice in Armies so as strictly to observe his Orders so as to be careful not to transgress his Laws for love of him more than for fear of Punishment so as to be silent from Murmurings loud only in Applauses and Thanks to Almighty God for the felicities of his Reign Happy all his Subjects if all were but sensible of their Happiness and would do their parts to perpetuate it Happy if all would remember what he has forgot and remember it not to upbraid others but to beware and grow wiser themselves for the future Happy if all were such as you So willing to obey the King in quiet times so skilful to serve him in the Administrations of his Justice so ready and able to guard him against all Confusions Such an Academy of Arts as well as Arms such a Company of Citizens such a Nursery of Commanders cannot under God but afford him a sure defence in his Wars as you do already supply him with the Riches and Ornaments of Peace Happy is the People that is in such a case Happy is the People whose God is the Lord The Lord of Hoasts who giveth Salvation to Kings who delivereth his Servant David from the hurtful Sword and arms him with the Sword of Justice which he manages by a law of Kindness and which I beseech Almighty God may flourish in his hand for many many years in his House for all Generations to come Amen FINIS 2 Cor. 10.4 Joh. 18.36 Acts 8.32 Mat. 26.53 Luke 2.14 Mat. 26.52 Calvin Grotius Dr. Hammond c. Contra Manich lib 22. Luke 6.29 Cicero Pro Milone James 4.1 Eph. 6.11 Rom. 3.8 Rom. 13.2 Rom. 13.1 Rom. 13.4 Ps. 144.