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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

enimies as allso passing over the Characters of a right Loyall and unalterably Obedient Subject to the King and of a true right bred son of our Church together vvith that Man of Indifference that pretends to be both yet is neither vvhich I did then very largely set before you as vvell as the motives to become the tvvo first that is Good subjects Good Christians Waving I say these and some other matters that time vvill not permitt mee to reflect on I shall only exercise your ears at present vvith hearing four Cautions or Directions vhich I recommended to my Auditory in the Conclusion of that Charge to the Clergy to vvit First that that just reasonable and moderate Ground of Feare vvhich every VVise man ought to have in our Circumstances might drive u● more close home to the Throne of Grace and Gods Altar and make us all acquaint our selves better than ever heretofore vvith our Hearts Consciences taking such care of the internall exercise of Grace vertue in the soule vvherein cheifly is the Kingdom of God living in such Obedience both to God the King as become the best Christians Subjects least that our Mercifull God Gratious Prince on vvhose Grace f●avour our Felicity did then greatly depend should for our past or future provocations be incensed and deprive us of the Liberty vvee injoyed in the Exercise of our Establish'd Religion The second Direction vvas to take care of the young Generation and never to suffer any Youth to depart from the parishes or families or approach to the LORDS SVPPER vvith out due Instruction and a sufficient degree of knovvledge and Devotion Hic labor hoc opus est And if you vvere for any vvorks of supererogation I prayed you to practise them in this course permitted to us Blessed be GOD his VICE-GERENT nay required of us by his Majestie in his pious DIRECTIONS to PREACHERS as before mention'd vvhereto vvee all ought as I then Caution'd you to keep close and the neglect vvhereof hath much contributed vvithout dispute to our present misery A Third Advice vvas to bevvare least a Vulgar notion of Loyalty obedience to your Superiours in Church State might debauch y ur Vnderstanding and make you more suspitious of your Governours Inchroaement on the Peoples priviledges than of the Peoples Sacrilegious Invasion on the Prerogative of GODS VICE GERENT When vvee cannot discover in England espetially in the family of the Stuarts any One Instance of the f●irst but may every day find out lamentable Examples of the latter And that you vvould remember be assured that the Religion of your Soveraign did not one jot either lessen or somuch as restrain the Authority or Povver vvhich hee received from GOD and not from his subjects as also be more afraid of and averse to Popular Tiranny than the Abuses of Government in a Monarch vvho may be supposed to have as vvell as his subjects knovledge Grace Conscience of Duty to his Soveraign in Heaven to restrain him from an extravagant exercise of his Povver and to informe him that his Account to God vvill be more heavy than that of his subjects in case of Male-Administration My fourth last Counsell vvas to be just to all men both to the Romanist and Dissenter That your Aversion to the Doctrine of any Party tho never so Contrary to your ovvn should not in any manner exceed your Love Concerne for the Religion you profess'd and tempt you to encourage barefaced Violations of Truth Justice vvhen it is in the Concerne of an Enimy or Adversary to your Opinions SPEECH IV. THERE remaines novv only the last of my foure Addresses to be brought to your vievv before I ingage in my Conclusive Reflections vvhich consisted of three heads vvherein I spoke by vvay of Caution I desire you to remember rather than accusation Three things I did advise and beseech you in a particular manner to take heed and be vvare of And so I shall in the name of God as long as I have the Honour to be your Archdeacon Things vvhich really portend much vvotfe than most grounds usually assigned in this suspitious Age for Fears Jealousies The first vvas A preposterous zeale against our Adversaries accompained too often vvith a spirit of Contradiction And vvhich distills more aversion into us and disgust against our Adversaries Person than Principles Inclining us to Oppose confute him right or vvrong Concluding all to bee evill in our Antagonists tho oftentimes very Commendable and fondly Over-vveening all to be Good tho some times very unchristian in our selves and others of our Persvvasion A mallady vvhich hath been long the Disease of our Nation Our Poor Church ever since the Puritan Faction began labouring under the same in such degree that a Spirit of Contradiction hath been Commonly made the Cheife standard measure of many mens Religion Devotion and the distance they kept from the vvays Sentiments of their Opposers look'd on as an infallible Mark of the vertue of their ovvn Persons and Truth of their profession Which Opinion and Judgement of matters tho never so popular are very false Weights Measures By reason at this rate the vvorst men must allvvayes be the greatest saints since in them dvvdls most Hatred animosity bitter Aversion to all that is not their ovvne Horrid vices are usually the Parents of this spirit vvhich I set before you desire you may all Loathe The second thing I caution'd you against vvas mens Declining in Loyalty Love to their Prince on account of his Religion Which doth not in any manner dissolve or abate the Bonds of Duty Respect in the subject But on the Contrary Favours received from such a Prince such as vve have received as I shevved then more largely oblige subjects to some more officious respects than are to be paid to a kind Prince of our ovvn Persvvasion The third thing vvhereof I told you that vvee ought to bevvare vvas Ingratitude to both God the King for those spetiall Mercies and Acts of Grace vvhich vvee receive from one and the Other even during our Murmurrings and Complaints Ingratitude to the King I then informed you vvas inseparable from Ingratitude to God A Good Gratious Prince being a Choice Gift of Heaven one of the greatest blessings vvhich a Nation can enjoy And hee that vvill not from the Bottome of his Heart returne his thanks Praise for so inestimable a Jevvel is a mounster of Unthankfullness to the Common Governour of the Universe the Greatest of Benefactors Reflections on some of the points repeated the circumstances of the Nation at the time of the delivery of this speech in reference to the Invasion AND novv Reverend Brethren I have by the assistance of God finish'd the Task vvhich I propos'd to vvit of Refreshing your memory vvith the recitall of the most important matters vvhich I recommended to your

Passing a Bill of Attainder in the first place against the Arch Rebell Head of that Republican Crevv vvho vvere Wafted hither from the Lovv-Countryes and then after vvards assisting their Soveraign vvith their Purses Persons to the utmost of their Povver till by the Blessing of God hee had vvholly suppress't a Dreadfull Rebellion vvhich hovvever small it might be in the beginning might have prov'd fatall to the vvhole Church as vvell as Kingdom On vvhich Wicked Bloody Designe vve may novv make the more severe Reflections as things have fallen out since that vile Rebellion after it vvas hatch'd in Hell had been harbour'd in Holland among our Neigbours vvho make a bad complement to England for raising them from a poor distressed state in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth to so High and mighty a Republick as to give chec to the most potent Crovvned Heads even to the greatest of their Benefactors and from disputing in the dayes of Charles 2 for the Soveraignty of the seas an act insolent enough to contend in the dayes of King Iames 2 for the Soveraignty of the Land and to fight for the Imperiall Crovvn of this Kingdome if not to vvear it on their heads vvhich it vvould badly become to trample it under their Feet vvhich vvould be the undoubted Issue of a Flemmish zeale mixt vvith Gunpovvder Brandy tho never somuch varnish'd over vvith Pretences of Liberty Religion Wee may learne the Favour of the Hollander in the stories of Amboina Bantam From Dutch Acts of Mercy tho some I do behold vvould not be convinced a fevv dayes ago that if the Dutch should land they intended us any harme the Lord deliver mee and all the Kings Obedient Subjects And let those vvho abound vvith so unaccountable absurd a sort of Charity only feel experiment their Compassion And novv from this seasonable and pertinent digression I am led to my third particular of that Visitation-Speech vvhich I am Epitomizing To vvit The unspeakable undeserved Mercy of Allmighty God in the blessed suppression of that Diabolick Rebellion vvhere vvith the Enimies of our King Church vvel-com'd our Soveraign to the Crovvne A sad vvelcome for a poor Weather-beaten Prince nevvly come into the Haven after a long terrible Storme lately banisht from Kingdome to Kingdome and vvhich hee had reason to thinke none of the least penances vvhich Heaven had imposed upon him driven into Holland among the Ducth vvho it is a Wonder did not use Violence to him since they did immediately upon his Coming to the Crovvne countenance support those Rebellious misereants that sought his Royall Life And vvhose good vvill vvell-vvishes to those unfortunate Rebells vvho landed in the vvest may novv Clearly be discover'd by the preparations vvhich they have been making ever since the Victory given by God to our Soveraign at King-Sedgemoor Which disappointment it is plaine greived them since they are at this very instant maintaining the same Quarrell publishing a no lesse Wicked Manifesto or Declaration only vvith this difference that these treacherous Enimies vvhich in this juncture of Affaires have impudently invaded us seem a little more angry than those traytors vvhich landed at lime vvith the God of Heaven for postponing their Stateholders pretences to the Crovvne by the Blessed Birth of a hopefull Prince vvhom God preserve To vvhom the Barbarous Dutch and some more barbarous among our selves have been more cruell than Bloody Herod in killing the Children by endeavouring to prove him illegitimate disinheriting him vvhich Providence the Kings vvisedome Care seems to have put out of dispute thereby destroying the Hopes felicity of three Kingdoms in depriving them of so unvaluable a Blessing as an heir Male to succeed to support the Monarchy But to returne the Remarkable Justice Vengeance of God in cutting of vvith great speed those Traytors last spoken of vvhich they had fostered in their Bosome and assisted vvith vessells and armes to land and begin a Rebellion in England and Scotland together vvith the many signall Providences of Heaven in frustrating all their Wicked designes bringing to nought all their mischeivous attempts and making that Rebellion intended for the Ruine of Church state a meanes as rightly improv'd it might have been the longer to uphold both should Convince I say even the most stupid Dutch Understanding of the heavy displeasure of God against such hatefull Hypocrisy as the Colouring over secular unjust nay treasonable bloody Machinations vvith the profession of Piety One of the Motto's vvhich they at present beare in some of their Flags as reported being pro libertate Religione for the Preservation of liberty and Religion That our Neighbours the Dutch of all others are become thus zealous devout concern'd for the liberties and Religion of England as they vvould have us imagine is some vvhat unintelligible Bibit Flander editque benè hath been by vvise men heretofore assigned for the Flemmins Character and I never since heard of his Reformation Such SAVIOURS OF OUR CHURCH God blesse her vvould be as bad as the late SAVIOURS OF OUR NATION If Heaven vvere incensed against us in such a degree as to put us under a necessity of such miserable Comforters and freinds to support us it vvould be hard to knovv vvhich to choose A Saviour from Amsterdam or Sala-Manca All I shall farther say before I proceed to the next particular is that as I do vvith all my soule thank blesse Heaven for Saving the Nation from one of these Saviours so I pray vvith most fervent Zeale in conjunction vvith all truly loyall subjects that vvee may in due time be saved from the Other Trusting in God nay resting vvell assured that vvee shall have a gratious Returne of our Prayers if our sins prevent not And so I ingage in my last particular of my first discourse namely Our indispensable Obligation both to God the King to live suitably to such unexpected Blessings of Heaven unmerited kindness of an indulgent Prince The mercy of God you were then told had been Wonderfull beyond expression to our Gratious Soveraign in first restoring him with his Royall Brothers after innumerable difficulties attending the Great Long Rebellion aftervvards preserving him from the danger of many Bloody Battells in defence of this nation against those very enraged Enimies vvhich would notwithstanding vvee feele their Malice make the vvorld beleive and some I find are easy enough to beleive it that they are our kinde nay Religious Freinds In the next place delivering him from that never to be forgotten danger of the Deep vvhen the GLOCESTER perish'd on the Lemon Oare vvhere God many vvayes manifested that hee vvas a Prince vvhich Heaven took into it's spetiall Extraordinary Protection Then rescuing him from a greater than any of the former danger even from the Madness of the People from the fury of the Rabble from the Rage of the incens'd Multitude