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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23640	Of perjury a sermon preach'd at the assizes held at Chester, April the 4th, 1682 / by John Allen, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge ...	Allen, John, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge.	1682 (1682)	Wing A1034; ESTC R8027	18,954	36

fixedness of Intention and Fervency with as much Faith and Humility as any other part of God's Worship And therefore it were to be wish't that the Oaths in our Courts were administred with more Leisure and Gravity with more State and Solemnity with more Emphatical Rites and Ceremonies than are commonly used to strike an awe and terrour into the minds of our People and make them more serious and attentive or at least that They were constantly admonish't to compose themselves into a Religious temper of mind when they come to Swear and also were frequently advis'd to remember the Tenour or Purport of their Oaths For I fear our People especially the meaner sort are apt to be amus'd and abash't when they are call'd into the Court and appear in that Reverend Assembly They cannot easily recollect themselves and take off their thoughts from the variety of amazing objects or they are framing their Evidence into method or dressing up their testimony in fine words and handsome phrases or thinking of any thing sooner than what they should do 2. I do advise and exhort them to observe their Oaths carefully to speak and act according to the tenour and obligation of them To set God before their Eyes and a Watch before the door of their Lips and to place his Fear in their hearts To give in their Testimony or their Verdict not out of Love or Malice Fear or Favour or hope of Reward c. but out of Conscience and full Conviction and with a sincere respect to truth and justice 2. To All that are Faithful and Loyal to their Prince I apply the advice of Solomon Ecclesiast 8.2 I counsel you to keep the King's Commandment and that in regard of the Oath of God Numb 30.2 By this your Souls are bound with a Bond as God speaks your hearts are knit to your Soveraign in Faith and Allegiance No power on Earth can dispense with your Oath No pretence can justifie the breach of your promise and sworn duty You cannot you must not go from your word upon any account whatever Let us therefore be as careful to keep our Oaths as the Factious designers are to break them Let us be as zealous and couragious and industrious too to support and preserve the Government both in Church and State as they are stubbornly bent and furiously acted to demolish and destroy it While we have good Laws for God's sake let us live and act according to them and let them have their course upon All those that do violate affront and defie them Those that pretend to complain of Arbitrary power they methinks ought to have Law enough their belly full that they may complain for something if they deserve it It is recorded of that stiff-neck't Judges 11.7.10 11. and murmuring people of Israel that They serv'd the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the Elders that out-liv'd Joshua who had seen all the great works of the Lord that he had done for Israel though the next generation that knew not the Lord nor the works that He had done for their Fathers forso●k the Lord and serv'd Baal and Ashtaroth Let us then for God's sake be as ingenuous and grateful at least as They were Let us that have seen all the great works of the Lord in his wonderful deliverance from our Aegyptian bondage in the miraculous Restauration of our Soveraign and Religion Let us serve the Lord and the King too all the days of our lives and not be so foolishly mad and so desperately wicked as to relapse and return to our former frensy in this Age. Methinks one Rebellion were sufficient for one Generation and it were too much to be twice chous'd by the same-Men upon the same Pretences by the same Artifices and Methods We were not used so kindly by our late Taskmasters as to be sond and dote upon a second Slavery The Nobility the Gentry the Freeholders in general may remember how much they suffered respectively in their Honcurs or Estates in their Liberties and Properties by Popular fury and Military insolence and therefore ought to look forward too and consider what they must expect if the Faction should prevail if the Menarchy be destroy'd if the worst of our fellow Subiects should once more enslave us It highly concerns us All therefore both in Duty and Interest to continue sirmly Loyal to the King and true to the Monarchy to keep our old lawful Oaths and to abhor all illegal and new ones to be honest and faithful and peaceable and obedient to the Government It is ou● Duty to beg of God to preserve us from Wicked and Deceitful Men from the Perfidious and the Perjur'd from bare Pretenders to Religion and Reformation from false Friends and false Brethren to beg of God to preserve our King in Peace and fafety the Monarchy in its full strength and just rights the Church in purity and the Laws in vigour and due execution And let All that wish well to our Sion say Amen FINIS