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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26837	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir Francis Chaplin, Lord Mayor of London at Gvild-Hall Chapell, November the 18th, 1677 by William Battie ...	Battie, William, 1634 or 5-1706.	1678 (1678)	Wing B1160; ESTC R15807	20,451	40

IMPRIMATUR Haec Concio in 1 Pet. 2. 15. Guil. Sill R. P. D. Henr. Episc. Lond. à Sacris Dom. Ian. 28. 1677 8. Pag. 1. the last line but one for earnestly read earnest A SERMON PREACHED Before the Right Honourable Sir FRANCIS CHAPLIN Lord Mayor OF LONDON AT GVILD-HALL Chapell November the 18th 1677. By WILLIAM BATTIE Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty LONDON Printed by E. Flesher for R. Royston Bookseller to His most Sacred MAJESTY at the Angel in Amen-Corner 1678. TO THE Right Reverend Father in God ANTHONY By Divine Providence LORD BISHOP Of the Diocese of NORWICH My LORD THis Sermon had never been more publick then the Preaching of it made it had it not been complained of and represented by some of the Governours of the City of London for a Sermon that deserved to be Censured as reflecting upon the Government of the City Your Lordship being my Diocesan I have here presented your Lordship with the whole of what was preached humbly submitting my self and my Sermon to your Lordship's Censure It may be suspected that I have suppressed in the printing something that was preached which I have not done something may be added but nothing is diminished so that if there be no Reflexions upon the Government of the City in my Sermon now there were none then My Discourse as my Text did direct me was wholly to the Governed Directions to Governours as Governours from me would have been presumptuous and therefore I used none There is one Expression indeed in my Sermon to this purpose That were Laws duly executed men durst not despise and affront the Government so as they doe which Expression if it reflect any thing it is Praise and Applause to the Government and the Laws we are governed by and onely wisheth that the Mean whereby Government attains its End were sometimes looked a little better after Reflexions either upon the Government or Governours I ever thought improper for the Pulpit Nay I have ever hated them from the time that Pulpits were turned by such doings into Drums to beat up for Sedition and Rebellion remembring what the dismal Consequences of them have been to this Church and State I am so unwilling to reflect upon any that I am not pleased that the Vindication I have made of my self by the printing of my Sermon will reflect as it will upon the Misrepresenters of it accusing them except my pressing Subjection to Governours be reflecting upon the Government of the breach of the Ninth Commandment But the Slander I had not at all weighed but that it reflects upon the Government my sly Accusers seem so tender of For the Government will be suspected to be in evil Circumstances if it shall be found inconvenient to press due Subjection unto Governours and men will be made to fear that we are in such Times again as we were in about the time of the Scotch Invasion when they who appeared for the Government by adhering to their lawfull Governours were accounted the Delinquents whilst others were accounted the best Subjects as it is observed by him that hath lately writ the Life of Archbishop Bramhall when their Swords were drawn against him who could onely grant them Commissions and their Scabbards thrown away My Lord my appealing to your Lordship is in a right line and my presenting your Lordship thus publickly with my Sermon for as much as I doe it in my own Defence it will I hope in part excuse the Defects of it of which I am so Conscious that the Requests I had of Friends had not prevailed with me to publish it if I had not had this Provocation For the thing that I believe gave Offence my declaring that the Execution of the Laws is the best Expedient to preserve them from Contempt my Opinion herein I shall never retract and your Lordship's Government from the time of your Lordship's Translation to the Diocese of Norwich hath very much confirmed me and others in it And the Experience the Clergy have that it is not Preaching and Writing will so preserve the Peace as the Governours interposing himself to see the Laws observed doth oblige the whole Body of the Clergy to desire heartily the long continuance of your Lordship's Government over us and particularly Your most obedient Servant William Battie A SERMON Preached before the Lord MAYOR Novemb. 18. 1677. 1 S. PETER II. 15. For so is the Will of God that with Well-doing ye may put to silence the Ignorance of Foolish men WE do not in any of the Apostles Epistles meet with any particular Addresses to the Magistrates of the Age they lived in yet the Duty of Subjection unto Magistrates is frequently enjoyned all Christians whatsoever Husbands and Wives Parents and Children Masters and Servants have all the special Duties of their several Callings taught them in the Apostles Writings but for Magistrates though their Office is no-where so vindicated as by the Apostles yet the Persons under Subjection are the persons onely who are taught their Duty which is Subjection A Duty our Apostle as also the Apostle S. Paul is very earnest in the pressing upon the Christians of that Age and the more earnestly as is thought for these two Reasons 1. To prevent the Danger the new-converted Gentiles might be in of being leavened with the old Leaven of the Iews viz. a perverse and froward Disposition unto Magistracy A Leaven that had so soured that Nation that in the vogue of the world they were accounted for no better then Pests of Nations and Enemies of Mankind because they were stubborn and stiff-necked to Authority as Moses long before had found them 2. Again the Apostles are thought to be the more earnest in the pressing of this Duty writing in the Reign of the Emperour Nero whose many monstrous Wickednesses and particular Malice against Christians were likely to endanger the ensnaring of them into Temptations to despise and oppose his Authority and that to the great Scandal of their Religion the Devil needing nothing more to nip the Christian Religion in the bud then to get it voiced in the world for a Licencer of Sedition and Rebellion in case the Supreme Governour be vicious For this allowed who is so short-sighted as not to foresee that in succeeding Ages the Heads of Factions have nothing more to doe to promote their Treasonous Designs but to get the Supreme Governour represented to the People for an Idolater or a Tyrant And if then by Arms or Money they can get him in their power if they cut him off it is but writing over his Statue Exit Tyrannus and all is salved Well the Apostles to let the World know the Gospel allows no Disobedience upon any such account do the more earnestly press Subjection to Authority at the time the Roman Empire had as wicked a Governour as ever before or since And in the Verses before my Text he calls for this Subjection to Authority of whatsoever Rank or Degree whether