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A42096	The resigned & resolved Christian, and faithful & undaunted royalist in tvvo plaine farevvell-sermons, & a loyal farevvell-visitation-speech, both deliver'd amidst the lamentable confusions occasioned by the late forreign invasion & home-defection of His Majesties subjects in England / by Denis Granville, D.D., deane & archdeacon of Durham, (now in exile) chaplaine in ordinary to His Majestie ; whereunto are added certaine letters to his relations & freinds [sic] in England shewing the reasons and manner of his withdrawing out of the kingdom ...	Grenville, Denis, 1637-1703.	1689 (1689)	Wing G1940; ESTC R41659	109,381	177

of the yeare 88 that Annu● Mirabilis vvhich vvholy imployed the Head Hearts of all men And since that time my Roling Posture Change of measures Resolutions occasioned by the uncertainty Change of Affaires Persons at the Helme together vvith the crosse Accidents vvhich I have by Land sea met vvith all through vvhich God hath of his mercy vvell carryd mee vvould not permit mee to salute you vvith that formality as became mee vvherefore I have hitherto continued silent But being novv mor● fix'd and Easy and got vvhere I have been aiming Ever since I left my station on the 11. of Dec. I cannot so farre forget my selfe as longer to deferre the presentation of my humble Duty Service give you some Account of my behaviour and motions last Winter together vvith my present State Condition both as to Body Mind I have retained that honour Duty for you that I have given lesse credit than any other to vvhat I have met vvith concerning you either in vvritten or Printed Nevves vvherein I have met vvith many things vvhich have troubled mee and I hope you vvill bee pleased to have the Goodness to afford small regard to any Reports or discourses concerning mee vvhich may have 〈◊〉 to your Eares Contrary to the Tenour of vvhat I vvrite A bout the End of sept last on the first Intelligence of the Dutch Invasion I retired to my Cures in the Country First to sedgefeild then to Easington using my utmost zeale discretion in my private discourses as vvell as publick Sermons to establish my people in so sad a Day of temptation when some stars of the first magnitude fell from Heaven in the Essentiall Duties of subjection Allegiance to their Soveraign shevving that subjects vvere upon noe Consideration whatsoever nether of Religion Liberty nor life to Resist or Desert their Lavvfull Soveraigne tho hee vvere no better than such an One as S. Paul lived under vvhen hee vvrit the Epistle to the Rom. not only a Heathen but a Cruell Persecutour A Nero A Caligula or A Dioclesian And that Subjects to a Christian Prince and to a Prince soe Mercifull Gratious as ours by consequence vvould bee infinitely more Guilty if they should Rebell against or Resist him merely because hee profess'ed a Different Religion After I had endeavoured thus to approve my selfe a faithfull shepherd in taking Care of my Country Flocks I repaired to my Deanery at Durham vvith the honest Designe of demonstrating my fidelity to my Soveraigne my Mother the Ch● of England being persvvaded that their Inttests could never bee separated Wherefore I summon'd my Brethren the Prebendaries together into Our Chapter-House vvhere I propounded to them the Assisting of the King in so sad an Exigent vvith their Purses as vvell as their Prayers vvith vvhich motion all present complied giving readily their Consent vvith their voices as all absent saving one did by their letters vvhich occasion'd an Act of Chapter to the Effect follovving tovvit that the Deane should advance an hundred pound Every Prebend fifty for his Majesties Service tovvards the raising of Horse Men if occasion should require to bee disposed of to the aforesaid Ends Purposes in such manner as our Bp. should appoint And this I did not thinking it any very considerable Service to the King to give him 700 to vvhich summe it vvould amount but that this Act of ours might bee an Occasion of setting the vvheele a going and at that time t'vvas not too late through the Kingdom Conceiving it no sin in such an Extraordinary Juncture to lead the van in Point of Loyalty to my Prince since the Diocesse Archdeaconry of Durham in Particular none can deny had been all along during the Time of Bishop Consins ever since a notable Example to the vvhole Nation of Conformity to the Lavves dutyfull regard to his Majesties Honour and Intrest In the next place Remembring that I bore another Ecclesiastick Office Dignity in the Church of Durham about the beginning of Nov. I summond all the Clergy of my Archdeaconry together vvho met on the 15. labouring in the Absence of my Superiour the Bp. vvho vvas gone up to London to give them right measures in point of Church of England Loyalty Religion laying before them the Indispensable Necessity of their personall Assistance of their Soveraign as far as any vvere Obliged and Exerting their zeale to secure their Flocks that they might not be seduced from their Allegiance by the Canting Sophistry Distinctions of the Age. And tho the zeale I there Evidenced in my Visitaction Speech hath had since as formely small effect as is too visible by the Clergyes generall Compliance vvith their nevv Gevernours Government renouncing their old yet it vvill serve at all times to proclame that their Archdeacon did on that Occasion as hee had done before faithfully deliver his soule Fourthly Beleiving it might bee some Service to his Majestie for both Clergy Layity to shevv their ABHORRENCE of that unnaturall Invasion vvhich vvas then ffeared I moved first my Brethren of the Chapter aftervvards my Brethren of the Bench to Joyne vvith mee in an Addresse of that Nature to his Majestie but the first Refusing and the last all but tvvo vvaving the same I thought my selfe the most publick person in the Bishops Absence obliged to give A demonstraction of my ovvne Loyalty vvhich I vvas not afraid to do tho the Prince of Orange vvas at that tyme advanced as far as Salisbury and accordingly on Nov. 27. sent to his Majestie by the Post an Assurance thereof in an Address vvhich vvas intercepted by the Lord Danby Lord Lumly other Lords at Yorke Whereof I desire your Lordships permission to annex a true Copy to this letter to prevent the Abuses vvhich may bee occasion'd by that Paper 's falling into the hands of my Enimies Moreover Considering my selfe once more in the Capacity of a Civill Magistrate as vvell as Ecclesiasticall I did a fevv dayes after desire my Brethren Justices Deputy Lieutenants to give mee a Meeting to consult about Serving his Majestie to the Utmost of our Povvers Hearing as yet nothing from our Bishop and more particularly hovv to defend our selves against the Lords Gentlemen vvho had Seized on Yorke for the Prince of Orange vvere some of them advancing northvvards to sécure Durham and Nevvcastle But this honest Zeale of mine vvas by their shunning this Opportunity of Meeting likevvise renderd fruitless and the Lord Lumly on Wensday the fifth of Dec Surprized us enterd Durham whiles J vvas preaching in the. Pulpit of the Cathedrall in my Course it being the first Wensday in Advent with 50 Horse or thereabouts sundry Gentry of that the County of Yorkshire immediately afters his Arrivall Sending one Capt Ireton vvith ten Troopers up to my Door to seize on my Armes Horses vvhich I refusing to deliver or

awhile here at Roüen I did presume to informe his Majestie by a Packet I sent into Ireland to my Lord Melford of my Arrivall in France the manner of my escape with an Assurance of my unalterable Loyalty and that I should espouse his service with the same zeale during his Exile adversity as when hee was on the Throne I did also according to the Duty of a Loyall subject pay to the Queen Prince all those respects which I could at a Distance informing her also by the assistance of my Lord Waldegrave of my Arrival with assurances that I should never faile to render her Majestie the Prince all the duties which were incumbent on a subject of the King of England And that since I had not the felicity which I came for of being neare his Majestie I was in the next place desirous to bee neare her● and accordingly would hasten to St. Germaines as soon as the indisposition of my Body would permit Taking a great Delight to bee nigh the Royall Famliy when I cannot Otherwise serve them never thinking my selfe any wayes absolved from the observance I owed my Soveraigne her Majestie all the bloud Royall by the difference of Religion HAving Sr thus given you the Trouble of so particular an account of my selfe deportment from the time that wee were first allarumm'd with the news of the wicked intentions of the Dutch to invade vs home to this present day I thinke my selfe no lesse obliged to give you some Information Concerning my present Temper of mind future Intentions And which I am the more willing to embrace this Opportunity of doing by Reason my infirmities of Body do in such sort increase that I have small reason to immagine that I shall bee a long lived man they administring to mee too many Grounds of Feare if I were to undergo no other hazard that I may scarce live to see my Freinds in England any more unlesse the air of France motion bee by Gods Blessing a meanes of my Recouery Cure of that disease which I have contracted by à sedentary life since my Installation into the Deanery of Durham And here I do in the first place declare with all sincerity that I am resolued by Gods Grace to live dye a true son of the Church of England Whereof King Charles was King Iames 2. not the Prince of Orange is under God supream Head Governour beleiving her to bee for the Purity of her Doctrine the decent Regularity of her worship the wholesomnesse of her Discipline well executed the best and most Approaching to the Primitive Times of any Church in Reformed Christiendome And I do openly affirme to all the World that however her children or rather those who have pretended to bee soe have behaved themselves Either heretofore or of late to the scandall of the world Reproach of her Constitution I am assured she will bee found upon thorough and serious Examination A Church which doth not Countenance Rebellion or indeed any sin or wickednesse whatsoever I have given no just reason I thanke God to any to thinke mee of another Opinion And if some men have been soe uncharitable as to Censure mee for ever deviating from her it hath been only for such Carriage of mine as may best demonstrate that I am A right Genuine thorough paced tho very feeble Member of Her I meane for my Exact Conformity to constant Observation of the Excellent Rules of her Incomparable Liturgy without any variation and my Constant zeale in asserting the Kings Prerogative and her Excellent Doctrine of non-Resistance Subjection to Authority in both which perohance I have been thought sometimes a litle singular But if I have been soe I am sorry for it I meane that I should want company in so laudable Christian a Cause Practice For I must still affirme that the first is the Indispensable Duty of Every Church man and best meanes to preserve her the last which way soever it fled at the Prince of Oranges Invading England the very Flour and Glory of our Ch which neither losse of Estate nor life shall by the assistance of the Almighty cause mee to Renounce I do therefore humbly intreat your selfe and all my Relations no wise to suspect mee as if Wavering from my Obedience to my Mother the Church for my immoveable Adherence to the cause interest of the Father of our Country and my innate Abhorrence of Disputing Contesting or rudely Capitulating with my Prince even-then when hee commanded things very contrary to my sentiments which I did Judge not only inexpedient but prejudiciall to the Flourishing condition of our Church Had I fail'd as too many did in that Iuncture or in paying the very same duties ef Allegiance Honour to my Present Soueraigne When hee came to the Crowne as I had performed to the late King his Royall Brother my Gratious Master of Blessed memory because his present Majestie declared himselfe of the R. Cath. Religion I might indeed have been lyable to Censure for that was a bad mark of a son of the Church of England But God having enabled mee to Resist this Temptation which hath so mightily prevailed in the Nation I would not have you Feare that I shall bee Ouerthrowne by any other I am I confesse fled out of the Nation to assert the Cause of a R. Cath. Prince I live at present in à R. Cath. Country But sure I am that the right-Church of England Religion doth not only injoyne mee to do the first but considering the circumstances of England the neighbouring Protestant Countries at present to do the later And why I other loyall subjects should choose France rather than any other Nation to Reside in may quickly bee put out of dispute if our Censurers would bee pleased to consider how kindly the most Christian King received his Majesty of England and doth still entertaine those who have Evidenced their Fidelity to him as also reflect on the innate Civilily Hospitality of the French Nation towards strangers never more Visible than in this time of Distress when all are Wellcome espetially English men unlesse they are conceived to bee Spyes or Creatures of the Prince of Orange or other their Enimies As for my own particular Common Justice doth Oblige mee to acknowledge that I meet whith as much Curtisy now in France among the R. Catholicks as I have done heretofore among the Protestants And am permitted to live as quietly and securely tho I do no wayes di●o●ne my Religion as any of their own Nation THis breif declaration I have made will suffice I hope to assure all my Freinds in England of my stedfastnesse in the Excellent Religion of my Fore-Fathers The next duty incumbent on mee will be to give my Family you our Cheif some fresh assurance that I am by the Grace of God Resolued to endeavour for the future as I have begun

power which had been before exercised but from the utmost malice of all it 's worst Adversaries who were watching to devour her The wretched Requitall of God's mercy Love made to Heaven by the most Real I fear none can excuse themselves as well as pretended Friends of Crown Myter in repaying such unexpressible Bounty with Contempt and Ingratitude at last the most deplorable Folly Madness of the People of England in being catch'd by nay running into the very same Snares wherein they had been once before intangled by the Subtilty of the Devil almost to their utter Destruction The recalling to mind thorough Consideration I say of such the like passages should have made us methinks wise enough to have avoided in due season the same Trap which was again laid for us into which we are a second time fallén At least one would guesse or else we are become perfectly stupid insensible should awake every one to look to his After-Game for fear we may be remedilessly depriv'd of the remaining part of our Felicity which is bound up in the life of our distress'd Soveraigne his legitimate Issue by our gratious Queen-Consort who hath evidenced her selfe in these former innumerable Troubles of our afflicted thrice banisht Prince a notable Example of Submission Patience who ought to be for being made by God the happy Instrument of bringing us the Blessing of a hopefull Heir Male for ever Dear to the English Nation all faithfull Subjects to the Crown of England If such extraordinary Dealings of the God of Heaven varied to every man's capacity condition If neither God's speaking by a still voice nor in the VVhirlevvind neither by the Sunshine of mercyes nor the Thunder of his Judgements that dreadfull Clap whereinto the late black Clouds driven into England out of Holland broke very fatally to the unhinging of the whole Fabrick of our Government both in Church State will reclaime us make us sensible of our most real Interest Happyness in a most desireable wéll establisht Monarchy Episcopacy a gratious Prince according to the heart's wish of every right loyall son of the Church of England save that he doth not ptofess our Religion nor reduce us to that intire obedience submission to the King and Church which the wise dispensations of a loving long-suffering God seem above other things by many repeated Summonses loudly to call for there remains nothing but a Fearfull looking for of Iudgement I know no Salve for our sore nor can discover any thing which can mollify such stony hearts or mortify such corrupt natures that have lamentably defeated our heavenly Father in all his methods to do good unto us save us And I who have never been all that know me must confess a man of excessive fear jealousy as to the Publick must sink down into dispaire conclude that the people of England the other Day an object of envy to all the Nations round about us are signally mark'd out for God's displeasure will be made a standing Monument of his Wrath to all succeding Ages But I shall not detaine You longer with Reflections on the State of England It will be a Duty more incumbent on me to consider the Circumstances of Durham therein those of the Cathedrall Church my speciall more particular Charge wherein I have been by the Favour of my King rather than my own merit set to Preside And indeed I cannot thoroughly reflect on that Church Citty wherein I have by God's permission the Kings kindness had the honour for the last 27. years to be dignified without melting into Tears To consider that the Bishoprick Cathedrall Church of Durham which had so well approv'd themselves both to his late present Majesty usually exceeded others in expressions of Loyalty should now lye undistinguishable incorporated into the Mass of Rebellion which the wise just God is pleas'd to permit to oppress the whole Land peirces my very Soule It was one of the most painfull mortifications I ever met with the weeke before my Departure to discerne my selfe deserted by all the Citty-Clergy in my honest zeal for the righteous Cause of my Soveraigne In such sort as not to discover then on the place any one Ecclesiastick neither in the Cathedrall nor any Parochial Church or Chappell with in the Precincts of that Citty who had the courage at that juncture to own openly either in the Pulpit or in his Conversation his oppress'd Prince's Interest and Honour by shewing just Indignation against that Treasonable Attempt which was then insolently made against his Crowne Dignity in reading publickly with great formality the Rebellious paper mention'd in this former letters Tho every man who was not a mere Ideote must comprehend that that very Act countenanced was in effect the pulling up the sluce letting in a Stream of Rebellion to overflow the whole County This was I declare to me a mighty exercise of Patience did among other Pressures which possibly contributed much to my crazy condition last Winter heavily afflict me But when I look farther at this day regard the State Ecclesisiastick of the whole County discover but three of all my Brethren of the Clergy through the whole Bishoprick of Durham as I am made beleive by Report who have had either the Integrity or Courage to stand their Ground against a new unlawfull Oath of Allegiance to a Prince set up by the abhorr'd treachery unheard of Ingratitude of the People Subjects who have no authority in our anciently Hereditary Realm to dispose of the Crown I am above measure astonish'd overwhelmed with greif Which greif is unexpressibly augmented when I consider that the members of that Body or Community whereof I have the honour to be Head have incurr'd the same Guilt And those Eminent Persons which as Salt by their Examples ought to have seasoned the whole Diocess are rendred uncapable to reprove their Inferiours reprehend the sins of the Times Alas if Resistance of the higher powers be by some Moderne Divines Distinctions refin'd into a Vertue is Perjury no sin If the Sacred Authority of our Earthly God the stile in Sripture allow'd to a Lavvfull Soveraigne be fallen into such deplorable contempt among Subjects that there is little Regard given either to their Promises or Commands is the Majesty of the God of Heaven become so mean cheap that men nay Divines dare cancell the Obligation of an Oath And the calling God to witness the truth of what we promise become void of no effect as soon as our Interest tempt us to break it If so then farewell all Religion nay Conversation and Commerce among men If the Bonds of a Sacred Oath are not sufficient to hold men surely nothing can The Evills Mischiefs which must unavoidably attend a sin so universally committed through

their Function having allvvayes made it mine That the Curate shall consider frequently at least once a quarter vvhat Rubricks or Canons be most neglected contemn'd by the parishoners and that he doth besides the ordinary explanation of the service once a year in obedience to his Majestie 's Directions to Prearchers read at convenient times the said Rubricks to the people that is to say betvveen the frist service Litany or betvven Litany second Service or before or after sermon omitting if occasion require the psalm then usually sung that he shall Zealously but mildly stirr up the people to the better observation of the same that vvhen he discovers these publick admonitions ineffectuall that he make it part of his labour in private vvith personnall applications to reforme such irregularitys And that he shall as frequently as he can vvhen presentments are to be made make such applications publick private as shall appear most convenient to the offenders in order to the prevention of their shame expence vvhich I desire alvvayes may be done vvithout further prosecution unless the thing cannot othervvise be reform'd That such discourses as he makes about the Rubricks Constitutions may be usually out of the Desk or if occasion require in the pulpit after the sermon vvhich I vvould not have burthen'd often vvith these smaller matters relating only to good order but reserv'd for more substantial essential truths as the Doctrins of Faith Repentance Love Obedience Temperance c. That he doth not take notice of the People's breach of Rubricks or such disorders in publick vvhen he can reforme the same easily in private unless they are notorious scandalous in vvhich case he is sometimes to give particular persons even publick reproofs in the very Congregation That vvhen there is ground of suspition that the Church-VVardens vvill not faithfully do their dutys in searching the Alehouses c that he go out of the Church sometimes vvith them for the more effectual prevention of disorder That hee cause the Clarck to inquire vvhen notice is given of Baptisme vvhether the vvitnesses have all receiv'd the Sacrament also to informe the Parson if the Church-vvardens do not vvhen any excommunicat'd persons enter the Church or Church-yard to vvhich end purpose there shall be a list kept in the Vestry of all persons excommunicated DENIS GRANVILLE IN REFERENCE TO THE FORE-GOING DIRECTIONS Letters Discourses the Reader is desired to note those matters follovving FIRST that here were intermingled with the abovesaid Directions for the Curates sundry advices for the Church-wardens Parish-Clarks not judged so necessary to be printed These being sufficient to accomplish the fore-mentioned end of their printing p. 39. and convince those Clergy and others who would not allow the authour to bee worthy of his station when he was admitted into his Deanery that he did notwithsstanding the great power of their evill example whose semiconformity first poison'd the nation at least endeavour to be what hee all along cheifly aimed at that is to say a Diligent COUNTRY-PARSON if not good Archdeacon He taking effectuall Care and with no ill success that these his Rules should be as they were better obser'd by his Curates then the Church-Cannons or Rubricks were by them the generality of the Clergy of the nation and consequently in due time might have become a tollerable Deane by Gods blessing if the CITTY-REBELS Joyning with the Invaders had not driven him with his master out of England SECONDLY the Reader is desird to take further notice that this last ●etter to wit to his Curates was not printed when the others were as first intended and mentioned in the Title-Page in the yeare 1689 but was for certain reasons underwritten deferr'd to be put into the Press till the month yeare mark'd in the conclusion of the said letter to wit Oct 1691 some months after the Dean's Deprivation Which delay among other things hinder'd the more speedy Publication of all the other papers and was occasiond upon the three ensuing accounts 〈…〉 First the Deane imagined on second thoughts 〈…〉 that so plaine a Rebuke as the faithfull discharge of his 〈…〉 Conscience in the delivery of the Discourses hee hath printed the penning of the fore-going letters hee hath publish'd in his own name did by reflection cast on many considerable Spirituall Temporall Supporters of the Usurped Authority in Churc● State was an Underaking too mighty for him who never delighted to expose or reproach his Superiours in any manner nor should have dared thus to have done it at this time had not too many of them manefestly departed from and contradicted the very Doctrine of the Church of England which they as well as hee had sworne to maintaine Secondly He long expected that some eminent person in England better qualified would have saved him the labour of such an application as he hath here in print made to the people under his authority by publishing ere this some substantiall work that should have strenuously asserted the Cause of King James the 2 that Church of England whereof he is supreme Governour by unmasking the wickedness injustice and ingratitude nay unnaturallness of Dethroning their lawfull Soveraign and under a religious pretence usurp his Crowne The afore-said Person not sticking to set his name thereto tho it might have cost him his life to proclaime undeniably to the World that what hee writ hee beleived to be such truth of God as hee did dare seale with his Bloud Which desireable peice of Charity to the soules of the poor people who were unhappily drawn into Perjury by the powerfull Example of their leaders the authour hath not yet discover'd to be done by any tho he thinks ought to have been performed long ago what ever had been the issue to have given right measures to the People of the Land while they were staggerring not quite fallen into the abominable sins of Perjury and Renouncing their Allegiance Which Christian work if it had been acted in due season would among other good effects have edified also the Dean's Flocks and render'd unnecessary what hee hath said to keep those steddy who stand to restore those who are fallen for want of timely under-propping The authour's earnest longing and waiting with great impa●ience to have seen such desireable fruit of Primitive zeale did detaine him a while from plunging himselfe over head ears tho hee made many offers so to do into that Deluge which did over-spred the land thinking himselfe a bad swinmer in such Troubled waters moreover like Elihu Job 32. 4. being very unwilling to speake out thus boldly shame the silence of his Elders till hee had given them all sufficient opportunity to speak and write Tho his boldness zeale as may be observ'd by the way is before noted was not levell'd directly to any but those under his own Charge Care or nearly related to him to whom