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A07368	Religion and alegiance [sic] in two sermons preached before the Kings Maiestie, the one on the fourth of Iuly, anno 1627. at Oatlands, the other on the 29. of Iuly the same yeere, at Alderton / by Roger Maynwaring ... ; by His Maiesties speciall command.	Maynwaring, Roger, 1590-1653.	1627 (1627)	STC 17751.5; ESTC S123212	43,779	94

Christ his Seruice while the world was in loue with Religion And to the King how farre the like Affections will goe may be seene by that Vnanimous Acclamation of those right-loyall and well-affected People to their Prince All that thou commandest vs will we doe and whithersoeuer thou sendest vs will we goe And further for a more full inlightning of our minds in this Point what force Religion hath to worke Obedience We must know that it is a Maxime Solemne with the Schoolemen That the Vertue of Religion is not onely a Transcendent amongst the other Vertues as well Diuine as Morall But that She doth also sit as Queene and Empresse of them all at who●e Soueraigne Command those sacred Habits of acquired and infused Graces are sent forth about the exercise of their seuerall Acts Saying to Faith Beleeue to Hope Relie to Loue Adhere to Prudence aduise well to Iustice diuide aright to Fortitude endure with Patience and doe valiantly to Temperance Abstaine to Repentance grieue for Sinne and to Obedience whatsoever thine hand findeth to doe doe it with thy might To draw then to a Conclusion of this Point As Men rule Beasts so Passions rule Men and Vertues command Passions and so God hath made Religion to command Vertues and to set them to and see them bestirre themselues about their seuerall Workes Religion therefore as Solomon saith of Wisdome hath built her selfe a House and therein a glorious Throne and sate Her down thereon with the Diuine Graces on her right hand on her left hand the Vertues morall Before her Throne Deuotion and Adoration Behind her Chaire of State Humility Repentance and Obedience And all These come to Her as did the People and the Publicans to Saint Iohn the Baptist to receiue their Charge Saying each One And what shall we doe If Men therfore are made as Philo saith to rule Beasts Let not rebellious and vnruly Passions ouer-rule vs Let Vertues sway our Passions and Religion command our Vertues both Diuine and Morall both toward God and his anointed King for both must goe together as in Gods Command and Solomons Counsell so in Mans Obedience And That which God hath ioyned Let no man dare to seuer And if we be Rationals let Reason guide vs if Morall men let Vertues rule vs if Christian men let Religion sway vs for this is Gods Reason Naturall Reason may be reasoned with cauill'd at and be it neuer so conuincing disputed against Religion may not What art thou O Man saith that great Apostle For so doth He rebate the Insolency of such as dare dispute with God Religiō perswades Angels makes Deuils tremble Good men it ouercomes and from the worst of Men it drawes some Good Great is the Power of true Religion and it preuailes All things in Heauen and Earth doe Her homage the greatest as feeling her Power the least as not exemp●ed from her Care And indeed of Her we can confesse no lesse then ●hi● That her Words are Oracles her Sayings are Sentences her Rules Irr●uocable Truths her Reasons Demonstrations her Certainties Syllogismes her Counsels peremptory Commands her Waies are Peace and the fruit of her Workes is Immortality Now for the third Point Most true it is as Tertullian saith That Christian Religion not being a home-borne but a Pilgrim here on earth most easie it is for Her in this case to finde few Friends and many Enemies For no sooner did the Feathers of this true Religion beginne to grow and Shee able to flie abroad into the world but presently the mortall Enemy coin'd This as a Rasor to clip her wings and cause her to fall downe into the Clutches of those Birds of Prey that were euerready to deuoure her Namely That Christian Religion was a fatall Superstition and the Professors thereof as Sueton calls them the Authors of new and scandalous Incantations Which misconceiued Enmity against the Gospell while the Truth and Goodnesse thereof was vnto the world vtterly vnknowne was in cause wherefore the Professors thereof were so cruelly hated condemned and persecuted for the space of 300. yeeres duting which time The Heathen raged and the People imagined a vaine thing The Kings of the Earth stood vp and the Rulers tooke Counsell against the Lord and against his Christ. For first They did quarrell the Christians as the cause of all those Troubles and calamities which at any time befell the Roman Common-weale which as Tertullian saith was but a Maske or Vaile for their Malice and as Saint Augustine obserues a ready way to create Mischiefe to the harmelesse Christians from such as had not Iudgement to weigh the cause If therefore any Fire or Combus●ion had fallen vpon any Towne or City if any fearefull Earthquake had shaken or swallowed vp as sometimes it did any City Towne or Territorie If any Goth Vandall or other barbarous Natian had made any Inrodes vpon the Bounds of the Roman Empire If Tybers swelling waues did but strike the walls of Rome and threaten Inundation If Nilus flowed not on the Fields to make them fertile If th● Heauens did at any time become Brasse and the Earth Iron If any Plague Famine or publike Calamity had wasted the People all was laid vpon the late Inchanting Superstition as they termed it of Christian Religion The Fathers therefore to purge the Christian Faith of such causelesse Imputations did by way of Retortion cause the edge of these Obiections to recoile vpon the Heathen What sore Calamities saith Tertullian befell those most famous and fortunate Islands Hierapolis Delos Rbodes and Choos Who in cause That the Atlantique Sea swallowed vp so vast a portion of the African and Asian Continents What in cause That Carthage gaue Rome such a defeat as that a whole Bushell was filled with the Rings that were taken from the fingers of the Slaine Where could they lay the fault when the Senones tooke the Capitoll All this being long before the Name of Christ or any of his Race was knowne or heard of in the world When thou hearest saith S. Cyprian such Complaints made by the Heathen of so often Warres Plagues and Famines and that all is cast vpon the Christians answer thus That as the Rebellious Iewes did impute it to Moses their Prince that so many Murmurers of Core and his Company were in a moment swallowed vp which indeed was for their Sinne of Murmuring against God and their King Euen so doe yee Heathen impute those things to Christ and his Followers which God most instly inflicts on you for your horrible Impieties And call to mind sa it Saint Augustine how Rome while the world was Heathen hath beene scourged and if any Plagues at this time light vpon the world it is for resisting that Gospell which God hath decreed to be preached to all Nations and for their hatefull endeuour to Suppresse that Church which God hath foretold