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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63923	Two sermons the first preached upon January the 29, 1687/8, upon occasion of Her Majesties happy conception : the second, June the 17th, 1688, upon the birth of the prince / by John Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1688 (1688)	Wing T3320; ESTC R10476	14,023	38

TWO SERMONS The FIRST preached upon JANUARY the 29th 1687 / 8. Upon Occasion of Her Majesties HAPPY CONCEPTION The SECOND JUNE the 17th 1688. UPON THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE By John Turner Hospitaller of St. Thomas Southwark Licensed June the 19th 1688. London Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall MDCLXXXVIII To the KING SIR THese Discourses which were uttered in Obedience to Your Majesties Command and out of a Principle of Zeal and Loyalty to Your Sacred Person and Heroic Line are now humbly prostrate at Your Royal Feet as a small but hearty and sincere Testimony of the Duty and Gratitude of their Author God grant we may have more occasion for Solemnities of this kind and that Your Majesty may live to see a numerous Issue that may establish and assure the Throne and carry down the Image of Your Princely Virtues to the latest Posterity of Times to come May it please Your most Sacred and Serene Majesty Your Majesties most Humble Dutiful and Obedient Subject and Servant JOHN TURNER ADVERTISEMENT THE Second Sermon as may be seen by the Close of the First and by its own Beginning was designed only to be a Continuation of the First in which the Miseries of Anarchy are displayed as in the other the Blessings of Government are represented but being with very little Alteration and Addition applicable to the Sacred and Auspicious Birth upon which it was delivered instead of being preparatory as it was first designed it is now humbly dedicated to the Service and Solemnity of that happy Day that gave us so delightful and so sweet a Prospect of the continuance of those Joys and Blessings that are the glorious Theme and Subject of it ERRATA IN the first Sermon Pag. 30. l. 10. Read Expresly Second Sermon p. 2. l. 10. r. so particularly p. 5. l. 7. for and r. as l. 8. for as r. met A SERMON Preached upon JANUARY the 29th 1688. Upon Occasion of Her Majesties HAPPY CONCEPTION JUDG 17. 6. In those Days there was no King in Israel but every Man did that which was right in his own Eyes BEing unhappily prevented by Indisposition upon the Day appointed for this City and Suburbs and the Parts adjacent to express their Thankfulness to Almighty God for the Hopes he hath given us of ascertaining the Succession of the Royal Line and establishing the Throne for ever in a regular and peaceable Descent by a new Prospect of Majestic Issue from the Loyns of our Sovereign and his Royal Consort I hope I shall be easily excused if rather than be wholly wanting in my Duty upon so great and solemn an Occasion I have taken hold of this other Opportunity to offer up my worthless but sincere Oblation at a time when the whole Nation is beleaguering Heaven and laying siege to the Divine Goodness for an happy and succesful End of such fair auspicious and promising Beginnings and the Shout of a King is among them Besides when I consider how unfit I am to bear any part in so glorious a Scene I ought to chuse rather to appear in such a numerous Multitude of Votaries as may at once conceal and drown my Imperfections in a Cloud of Incense and supply my Poverty Infirmity and Weakness by its united and confederate Strength Let us therefore if you please that we may take the truer Estimate and have the more just and worthy Apprehensions of that Extraordinary Blessing which God in his Mercy seems to have designed us if our Sins or our Ingratitude do not disappoint it begin at the Tragedies of Anarchy and Confusion or at that wretched and calamitous Condition of a miserable People which resembles that of the Israelites after the Death of Sampson When there was no King in Israel but every Man did that which was right in his own Eyes The Consequence of which was First the Destruction of the National Religion of the Jews and the crumbling it into numberless Parties and Distinctions as appears immediately by the the Story of Micah who consecrated and set a part a proper and peculiar Levite for himself and Family in the twelfth and thirteenth Verses of this Chapter And Micah consecrated the Levite and the young Man became his Priest and was in the House of Micah then said Micah now know I that the Lord will do me good seeing I have a Levite to my Priest And as he had a Levite so also a Religion peculiar to himself and that Religion was no other than downright Idolatry under pretence of Purity and Reformation For in the fourteenth Verse of the next Chapter we find mention of his Ephod and his Teraphim his graven and his molten Image and this is very certain by a long Course of Experience that where there is not a common Band of Unity in the Civil Government there can be much less any face of Uniformity in Religious Worship but Religion will naturally degenerate for the most part from the Particular Fancies and Inclinations of Men left at random to determine for themselves either into Idolatry or Superstition on the one hand or into Prophaneness and Atheism on the other but more especially into the latter of these because where Property is destroy'd as it is in such a State where there is no King no Form of Government no Law-making Wisdom no Executing Power Necessity makes every thing become just and lawful and the Judge of that Necessity is every Man 's private Breast so that Rapine puts on an Heroic Shape and Violence when successful hath the outward Semblance of a noble Magnanimity and commendable Courage It is the Law only that first determines Property and then secures it when it is determined and where there is no Property there must be endless Confusion by every Man 's raking and scrambling for himself so that every Man in such a State as this is in apparent danger of immediate Ruine it being impossible that either Strength or Counsel should be of much avail in such a Lawless and Arbitrary Posture of Affairs but of all Men they that are the most exposed are First the Infirm and Helpless Secondly the Rash and Inconsiderate that apprehend the least of any Calamity likely to befall them and Thirdly and lastly the Virtuous and Innocent such as are naturally inclined to Peace and would fain be upon Terms of mutual Accommodation and cannot think of continuing such Hostilities as these without Regret from within as well as Terror from without till at length it comes to pass that Barbarity and Cruelty and Treachery and Injustice growing epidemical and familiar things and it seeming by that universal Misery and Confusion in which Mankind is so desperately involved as if all things were govern'd by Mis-rule and by Chance and as if the Divinity took no manner of Care of the Peace Welfare and Happiness of Men this naturally issues in at least an Indifference for neglected Virtue when it appears to have so small a share in the Favor and Patronage of