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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55538	The religious rebel a sermon preach'd at South-Marston near Hyworth in Wiltshire, on the ninth of September, being the day of publick thanksgiving for the deliverance of His Majesty's sacred person, his royal brother, and the government from the late hellish fanatick conspiracy / by Charles Powell.	Powell, Charles, b. 1644 or 5-1685 or 6.	1683 (1683)	Wing P3046; ESTC R3301	12,130	32

The Religious Rebel A SERMON PREACH'D AT SOUTH-MARSTON NEAR HYWORTH IN WILTSHIRE On the Ninth of September BEING The Day of Publick Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of His Majesty's Sacred Person His Royal Brother and the Government from the late Hellish Fanatick Conspiracy By CHARLES POWELL M.A. Sometime Student of Christ-Church in Oxford LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1683. TO THE GENEROUS AND PIOUS ASSERTOR OF LOYALTY And the True PROTESTANT RELIGION THE HONOURABLE Sir THOMAS CVTLER One of his Majesty's Deputy Lieutenants Justice of the Peace and Quorum for the County of Gloucester and Captain in his Majesty's Royal Cittadel at PLYMOVTH c. Honoured Sir WHat You have so often fought for and the Church of England has so long pray'd for it has pleased the great King of Kings in Mercy at last to bring to pass the discovery and thereby the disappointment of the Enemies of this Church and State For which as we are all bound to render our unfeigned Thanks to the Almighty who alone gives Victory to Kings and has once more preserved our Royal David from the hands of Blood-thirsty and deceitful Men. So have none more reason to rejoyce before the Lord than those that serve at his Altar and were designed to be Sacrificed upon it And among those none more than your poor Servant whose unfeigned though useless Loyalty has been so long counted his Crime that it can scarce yet render him acceptable to those men who say to the Ministers of the Gospel as the Rebellious Jews did to the Prophets of old Speak unto us smooth things Prophecy deceits Get you out of the way turn aside out of the path cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from us But blessed be God who has preserved the Clergy of the Church of England from the Superstition of Popery and the Atheistcal Hipocrisy of Fanaticism To both which as the whole World can witness your Loyal and Zealous Aversion so am I bound in Gratitude to acknowledge the great Encouragements I have always received from your Generous Bounty in that narrow Sphere wherein I move For which I can onely offer up my Prayers to the Great God of Recompences That be would still continue you in that true Religion which you have received from so many Noble so many Honourable Ancestors in the deserved Favour of the best of Princes and the best Judge of Worthy Persons and in the due Respect and Honour of all Loyal Men among whom be pleas'd to admit of the most humble most gratefull Acknowledgments of Sir Your much Obliged and very Faithful Servant C. P. PSAL. X. 10. He falleth down and humbleth himself that the Congregation of the Poor may fall into the hands of his Captains REbellion says Samuel is as the Sin of Witchcrast Nor need we seek far for proof of his Assertion since they both betray themselves to be the Offspring of the same Father Satan first rebelled against the great Monarch of the whole World and though his Ambition tumbled him down from the bright Regions of Bliss into eternal Chains of Darkeness yet his Instruments carry on the same Rebellion still though the Scene be changed and the Plot carried on at a distance the Design is still the same onely that our earthly Rebels are in this the worse Devils that they dare rebel against God and the King too Nor do they in any thing more resemble the first Founder of their Society and the perpetual President of their Dark Cabal than that all their unsuccessfulness doth rather enhance than abate their Malice onely drive them the more desperately on though they are convinced that Heaven it self and all that is called God be arm'd against them and all the Powers of Hell and Darkeness not able to protect them from that Fate which they seem to hug because they cannot avoid To search the Records of all backward Ages of the World and shew you this black Spirit working in the Sons of Perdition ever since there was a Monarchy on Earth which I am sure is the Ancientest and consequently the best Government in the World instituted by God himself the great King of Kings by whom all Kings reign and from whom alone they derive their Power as being the onely Representatives of the Celestiall Polity for in Heaven there 's no Republick This would be as far from the business of the Text as it is from my Intentions let it suffice that I have chosen an instance in the Reign of him who was not only Anointed by Gods immediate command but in a more especiall manner a Type of Gods Anointed Christ the Lord persecuted and harassed by that very Brood whose unhappy Off-spring crucifi'd the King of Glory Holy David we all know had troubles more than enough and the more because he was Holy all that will live godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer Persecution whose whole life though it were but one continued Scene of Afflictions yet we find his Cross doubled when he came to the Crown The outward splendor of which though it be admired by all yet is it's intrinsick Weight and Burthen understood by few but those that bear it But of all the Troubles which like Thornes stuffd his Diadem and peirc'd his Sacred Temples we find none strike so deep as that which occasion'd this Psalm and Text Viz. a Rebellious Son and a Perfidious Favorite The one of whom as he might reasonably have expected to be the Staff of his Age so might he justly have hoped that the other by his Wisdom and Counsel should have guarded his Crown and Dignity who was exalted to so great Eminency in the State and admitted to such an Intimacy with his Prince But alas we see and I wish we had never seen it that the best of Princes cannot transmit Vertue with their Blood nor infuse Gratitude where they bestow their greatest Favors Let Absolom be never so dearly beloved and caress'd by a tender David yet a little Popular Air shall stifle his Duty to him who gave him Life Let Achitophel be raised never so high by the Beams of Majesty yet the next blazing Comet shall make him forget the benign Influences of that Sun that exalted him from the Dunghill to set him among the Princes of the People I hope you do not suspect that I am going about to draw that Parallel which is so obvious to every eye and has already been the task of so many Satyrical Pens I remember I am this day to Preach and 't is below the Sacred business of the Pulpit to stab with Goose Quills or execute Malefactors with Invectives David tell us Psal 45.5 that Gods Arrows are sharp in the hearts of the Kings Enemies and we need not add sharpness there where Conscience daily sets the Edge Eccles 2 1. yet since Solomon tells us that To every thing there is a Season and he that would be accounted a Faithful Steward in Christs