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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62420	A sermon preached in the cathedral church of Bristol, June xxi, MDCLXXXV before his grace Henry, Duke of Beavfort, His Majesties lord lieutenant for that city and county / by Ric. Thompson ...	Thompson, Richard, 1647 or 8-1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing T1007; ESTC R8948	13,010	38

A SERMON Preached in the Cathedral Church OF BRISTOL JUNE xxi MDCLXXXV Before His GRACE HENRY DUKE of BEAVFORT His MAJESTIE's Lord Lieutenant for that City and County By RIC. THOMPSON D. D. Dean of Bristol and Chaplain in Ordinary to his late Majesty LONDON Printed for Luke Meredith at the King's Head at the West End of St Paul's Church-yard 1685. To His Grace HENRY Duke of BEAVFORT Marquess and Earl of Worcester Baron Herbert of Chepstow Ragland and Gower Lord President and Lord Lieutenant of Wales and the Marches Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Gloucester Hereford and Monmouth and of the City and County of Bristol Lord Warden of His Majesty's Forest of Dean and Constable of the Castle of St Briavells Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter Gentleman of His Majesty's Bed-Chamber and one of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council May it please Your GRACE I Was far from making the same Estimate of this Discourse which was put upon it by the Generality of Your Grace's Souldiers who heard it preach'd But since Your Grace hath had the Charity to think it worthy Theirs and other Peoples Reading I am resolved not to dispute Your Grace's Great Judgment and so do most readily submit it to the Press regardless of other mens Censures whilst Your Grace is pleased to look on it as a Dutiful and well-meant Performance Henceforward if any ask What is in this Discourse that should move Your Grace to Order its being thus publick I answer It was design'd to promote Loyalty the same Loyalty which now stands the Top and Comble of Your Grace's most Illustrious Titles and Characters which render'd You all along a Great Favourite of our late deceased Sovereign and makes You most Dear unto his present Majesty which prevail'd with Your Grace in the very worst of Times to assert his Majestie 's Interests in Contempt of all Your Own in defiance of the Excluding Bill and all the Trayterous Votes and Designs of the Associated Commoners who promoted it In short which brought Your Grace now down to Bristol by Your Vigilance and Resolution to secure this City for his Majestie 's Service at a Time when the Mock-King of Lyme had assured his Adherents That this City was most certainly his own But Your Grace hath so effectually suceeded in Your Vndertaking that the Daring Rebels had only so much Courage as to look upon the City at four Miles distance and wish it theirs The only Assault which they made upon Your Grace was a Volly of Lyes For having scarce laid it they raised their Siege with many bitter Cursings and Execrations of Your Wise Conduct at Midnight cowardly running away No wonder then that All honest and Loyal hearts within this City are now blessing God for Your Grace and celebrating Your deserved Praises as the only visible Means under Him that hath secur'd to them their Estates their Liberties and their very Lives As for my self the remembrance of my own Escape shall always live fresh in my mind and I shall not fail to owne it to Your Grace upon all Occasions as becometh May it please Your Grace Your Grace's most Humble and most obliged Servant Richard Thompson TITUS iii. v. 1. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates and to be ready to every Good Work THESE Words are part of those Instructions which St. Paul gave to Titus touching those Matters of Doctrine which he would have him vigorously to insist on in his Course of Preaching among the people of Crete They enjoin a peaceable and submissive behaviour in all Christians towards the Government under which they live Government being so great a Blessing to Mankind that without it the World would be no better than a savage Wilderness and an Habitation of Wolves and Tygers in humane shape rending and devouring one another Wherefore Christ when he came into the World though he resolved to set up a New Religion in it and knew that the present Powers would Oppose and Persecute the Professors of it to Death yet did he take care withal to counsel his Disciples and Followers patiently to suffer their utmost rage and cruelty rather than there should be any violent Alterations made in the Kingdoms of the Earth upon the very score of his Religion He would not have Princes turn'd out of their Temporal Jurisdictions nor the Sword wrested out of their Hands in order to the Establishment of his Own Throne neither would he that his Kingdom should go up with the Noises of Axes and Hammers If the Rulers of the World would keep up their old Religion and oppose his he would not have Fire to come down from Heaven to consume them nor Fire from Hell to blow them up but that all that were his Servants indeed should overcome with Patience and Meekness and shine in the whiteness of Innocency and not look dreadful with Garments roll'd in Blood And therefore he hath given it in charge to all the Ministers of his Gospel To put all the Professors of his Religion in mind To be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates and to be ready to every Good Work In which words Two things are observable I. What the Duty of all Christians is who live under Government viz. To be subject c. II. What the Duty of all the Ministers of Christ's Gospel is viz. To put the people in mind to be so I shall only be able to speak to the First of these at this time viz. The Duty that God hath bound upon all Christians that live under Government viz. To be subject to those Principalities and Powers under which they live Where my work will be to shew Two things I. Wherein the Practise of this Duty doth consist 2. The Extent of it I. I shall shew wherein the Practise of this Duty of Subjection doth consist Now the Practise of this Duty of Subjection consists in Three things First In paying an Active Obedience to all our Prince's Just Commands Secondly In suffering patiently in case they should oppress and punish us for not observing even their Vnlawful Commands Thirdly In honoring the Persons of the Princes under whom we live First This Duty of Subjection it requires we should give an Active Obedience unto all our Prince's just Commands i. e. We are to own their Authority in all things that are not sinful for us to do For in such cases we may not satisfie our selves that we are ready to undergo the penalties of Laws For the Design of the Law is to have Men Obey not to have them Punished And Men ought in those cases to be subject not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake i. e. for the Lord Christ's sake by whom our Consciences are obliged It is said of Aristippus That being asked what he had benefited by Philosophy he Answered To live uprightly and justly although there were no Laws to compel or Gods to punish him And if