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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59072	God, the king, and the church (to wit) government both civil and sacred together instituted ... and throughout all, the Church of England ... vindicated : being the subject of eight sermons, preached ... / and now published by George Seignior ...	Seignior, George, d. 1678.	1670 (1670)	Wing S2417; ESTC R19835	158,466	284

GOD THE KING AND THE Church TO WIT Government both Civil and Sacred together Instituted Publique Solemnities in Consecrated Places from the beginning Celebrated True Zeal in opposition to Lukewarmness consistent with Moderation Stated And throughout all the Church of England in the Strictness of its Vniformity against both false Accusers and false Brethren Vindicated Being the Subject of Eight Sermons Preached in several places and now published by George Seignior Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge and Domestick Chaplain to the Right Honorable the Earl of Burlington Obsequium amicos Veritas odium parit Terent. We can do nothing against the Truth but for the Truth 2 Cor. 13.8 LONDON Printed for Christopher Wilkinson at the Black Boy against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1670. To the Right Honorable RICHARD BOYLE Baron of Clifford Youghall and Bandon Viscount of Kynalmeakie and Dungarvan Earle of Burlington and Corke Lord High Treasurer and a Privy Counseller of his Majesties Kingdome of Ireland My Lord THe utmost of my Ambition in this Dedication is with an humble request of its acceptance a grateful acknowledgment of your Lordships many undeserved favours of which I am every day sensible being confident that however weak these my endeavours are now made publick they shall not want both incouragement and protection from One whose constant piety it has been to receive a Prophet and a Prophet's Message though there might be no other reaeson yet for this that it came in the name of a Prophet Some of these Discourses have already had the honour of your Lordships Ear but I must confess more seasonable to the times we live in then suitable to that Auditory amongst whom God is praised in the Beauties of his Holiness and it is a joy as well as Comeliness to behold our Order the August Solemnities of an Holy Worship there celebrated are of themselves a Continued Praedication of the Subject Matter here treated on should I be silent and were these lines with their Author buried in Obscurity However amidst the the daily violences offered to God and his Service from wicked and unreasonable Men it may seem requisite that there be these more open Attestations unto Truth that so a froward and peevish Generation may hence be rendred the more inexcusable in that they do not perish without warning Whatever was the Motive to this Publication from a private person in my circumstances God knows and your Lordship may safely honor me with this Defence that I seek no great things for my self and I humbly conceive that the Discourses themselves if candidly perused will intimate as much all that is here performed or designed is only a Mite or two out of a small stock a mean and an unworthy but an hearty addition to what others have very happily cast in out of their abundance into the Treasuries of God towards the building and maintaining of our Church in its wonted Strength and Beauty And as I am not nor need be much sollicitous what entertainment these writings meet with abroad being conscious to my self of my own integrity so I hope it is far from flattery since a real truth in that I have no other Apology to make then to crave your Lordships pardon whilst I must acknowledge these Discourses to be but a ruae and unpolished Comment on your own daily more pious and severer Practises so that there may be this satisfaction at lest to your Honor in the perusal if for the Author little for your Self more at the same time a favourable coustruction for him but a comfortable and more just reflection upon your self in the consideration of that reward which is consequential to well ordered conversation And here though it be some trespass upon modesty yet to provoke the imitation of others in this licentious Age I must bear witness to the world of a most excellently well Go●erned Family the constant returns of Holy Offices the great care which both by your Lordships example and command is taken that the Meaneft Person in it be instructed in those wholesome Principles of our Church Catechisme a piece of Discipline upon Youth so sadly neglected in the management of all which if I am an unworthy instrument I must own the success of all my undertakings of this Nature more to your Lordships favour and countenance then to any thing of skill or ability in my own performances And now having put Your Honor to this unexpected trouble I most humbly crave leave for one Short Intimation which will save the tedium of a Preface and it is this That Some of the ensuing Discourses are presented to your Lordship with relation to the occasion of their first composure in the Discharge of my Duty in a small Cure which I once had in the University where it was my custome as often as I could to give the Lesson provided to my hands out of the Churches service not at all regarding that coffing imputation of being styled a Postillar ●ut rather endeavouring to inculcate upon the People that they should consider how suitable many times and seasonable even in contingent circumstances is the Message delivered to them from God in the Voice of his Church and for this reason I have industriously published what was at first so occasionally Penned and Preached being sorry that by reason of our continued Factions and Divisions notwithstanding an Act for Uniformity it still is so much every day a word in season No more but what is my daily Duty shall be here an hearty and sincere acknowledgment to wit my uncessant Prayers for your Lordships health and happiness and for the most Religious and Vertuous Lady your Honorable Consort God of his infinite Mercy every day more and more Remember You and Yours concerning this for Good and He forget not but may the blessing be on You and Your Family the many Kindnesses You have done for the House of Our God and the Offices thereof I make bold with submission craving your Honorable Protection both of the Author and his Work to subscribe my self Your Lordships most Obedient and Faithful Servant and Chaplain Geo Seignior MOSES and AARON A SERMON Preached before the KING at Saxham in the County of Suffolk April 17. 1670. Exodus 4.16 And he shall by thy Spokesman to the people and he shall be even he shall be to thee instead of a Mouth and thou shalt be to him instead of God UPon the first view of the Text and context we find Moses the Servant of the Lord and Aaron the man of God joined together in one and the same commission both set over a Captived people to deliver them unto a more glorious liberty and both sent unto an oppressing hard-hearted Tyrant to demand a speedy restitution from slavery and to require satisfaction for injuries done unto the Son of God ver 22. Israel is my Son even my First-born he is now also to be called the Redeemed of the Lord Let my Son go that he may

request laying that and my self at the feet of Majesty in the behalf of the place from whence I came and for which I now serve Let not us the little children of the Prophets in the very Schools of the Prophets be exposed to the obstinate perverseness of ignorance and sedition Aaron's Mouth is opened for Moses to the People to declare his Authority as from God to be Sacred and Inviolable that he is not subject to Man nor the sons of men for any of his actions but to his own Master he must stand or fall even to God alone who hath appointed him it is yet open for Moses at the Mercy-seat before the holy Altar that he may be filled with Grace Wisdom and Vnderstanding in the execution of Justice and the maintenance of Truth And what may Aaron humbly expect in return from Moses nay what does the Lord God require of him but that Moses should be as God to secure unto God his Oblation the Morning and the Evening Sacrifice never to cease And is not all this for the Lord's sake for the Lord who hath preserved the Rod of Moses in strength and honour who hath confirmed his Blessing upon Aaron in that his Rod also hath budded and bloomed Blossoms and brought forth Almonds the fruits of Joy and Peace God hath as we do every day thankfully Commemorate it made the Horn of David though once cut down to flourish and sprout forth again he hath ordained a Lamp and a Light for his Anointed a Lamp from out of the Sanctuary to guide him in the ways of Peace and Truth that so he dash not his foot against any stone of stumbling which Schism and Rebellion may lay in his way he hath restored Majesty the Excellency of Majesty to his Prince He hath renewed Beauty the Beauties of Holiness to his Priests and we hope and pray that he hath given and will continue security the Certainty of Defence unto Both Oh that the people therefore would in the fear of God Honour the King and Reverence his Priests that so there may be a further lengthning of our tranquillity neither shall our iniquity our froward peevish iniquity be our utter ruine in vain shall we pretend Loyalty to Moses the Servant of the Lord if we vex Aaron the Saint of God What shall we quarrel at those who bring and at that Administration which doth dispence the Gospel of everlasting Peace How can we thus expect to be at peace amongst our selves May then the Throne be established in Righteousness even upon the Mount of God and may the Mount of God be guarded by the glorious and sure defence of Angels because of the Throne of him who is as God which is upon it thus as upon a Rock the Rock of Ages shall Church and Kingdom be built * nec Portae Gehennae nec Genevae as once by a happy mistake out of the vulgar that Text was read neither the Gates of Hell nor the Dark close designs of Schism and Sedition shall ever be able to prevail against them * In Gebennico lacu Mendum Typographi esi in Gehennico lacu Namque à Gehenna quid Gebenna dissidet Pia Hilaria Angel Gaz. impres Lond. pag. 68. I conclude all with those Pathetical Petitions which our holy Church hath put into our Mouths for better I cannot use and God accept them from the bottom of all our hearts O Lord Save the King And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee Endue thy Ministers whether of Justice in the State or Holiness in the Church with Righteousness And so shalt thou make thy chosen people joyful Da pacem in diebus nostris Give Peace in our time O Lord For whether it be against open violence and force offered from abroad or against secret Treachery and privy Conspiracy fomented at home whether against professed Enemies or meerly pretending Friends the worst of Enemies there is no other fighteth for us but only Thou O God To this onely wise God who is alone able to make us understand our own happiness by keeping us in the strict and solemn observance of Vniformity at Vnity amongst our selves that so to Prince Priests and People there may be but One heart and One mind in the Fear of him in Love and Duty to one another To the Author of our Peace and of every good and perfect gift amongst us To Father Son and Holy Ghost Three Persons and One God be ascribed of us of all Angels and all men The Kingdom the Power and the Glory Dominion and Adoration World without end Amen SOLOMONS PORCH frequented by the APOSTLES Act. 5. part of the 12 13 14. verses being a part of the Epistle for St. Bortholomew's day 12. And by the hands of the Apostles were many signes and wonders wrought among the people and they were all with one accord in Solomon's Porch 13. And of the rest durst no man joyn himself to them but the people magnified them 14. And Believers were the more added to the Lord multitudes both of men and women OF St. Bartholomew the Apostle at this ●ime to be commemorated St. Mat. 10.3 St. Mar. 3.18 St. Luk. 6.14 we read but little in holy Scripture only his name three or four times mentioned to wit that he was numbered with the twelve Apostles and so ordained by Christ himself to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom even Repentance and Remission of sins in the name of Jesus unto all nations beginning at Jerusalem Accordingly we find Him with the rest Act. 1.13 taking his part of that Ministry and Apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell concontinuing with them in prayer and supplication and with them also waiting for the Promise of the Father till they should be endued with farther power from on high and so upon the whole it is on all hands believed that this Apostle was unto the last a faithful witness of Jesus and of his Resurrection Upon the consideration of all which our Holy Mother the Church of England in this Festival has little or no regard to Legendary Fictions what might be guessed either of this Apostles person or of his conversation from his Name Whither he were not of noble extraction the Son of Ptolemy or as some will have it like Moses of old a Prophet so he an Apostle Filius aquae ductus sive aquae suspensae taken up and drawn out of the waters into which being cast the stream retired and gave back nec potuit extingui quin amnem repressit as the Historian Lucius Florus writes of Romulus he could not be drowned for he did as it were force the waters from him nec adiri usque ad justi cursum poterat amnis neither at this time could the flowing stream reach unto its wonted height Also what might be said of his success in his Ministery where and unto whom he preached the Gospel quae regio in terris For what nation under heaven was he reserved to be from