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B10212	The remonstrance from the Reverend Father in God, Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, and several others, the most eminent divines of the Church of England, against the proceedings of the P: O. and the lords spiritual and temporal, that invited him. Being an adress [sic], from the pulpit to the King, in fifteen sermons; denouncing damnation, &c. to the abdicators of God's annoynted, and abettors of this rebellion.	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3279; ESTC R185788	60,696	114

violence to mens wills but when this wickedness is injurious to others who are the objects of his care and providence he many times interposes to prevent the mischief Who ever suspected that the Fire at New-Market was sent by God for the preservation of our King and His Royal Brother Christian Religion is the greatest security of Government both i● its precepts and examples It commands Every Soul to be subject to the higher Powers and threatens eternal damnation against Rebels it strictly enjoyns the practice of all sociable virtues and charms those boisterous passions which disturb humane conversation it requires Us to obey our Superiors in all lawful things and quietly to submit and suffor when we 〈◊〉 obey And the blessed Jesus who was the Author of our Religion 〈◊〉 our great Pattern and Example did himself practise these laws which he gave to US He liv'd in obedience to the Civil Power and though the Jewish Nation which was a free People the Lot and Inheritance of God himself were then in subjection to the Romans yet He would not give Them the least encouragement to shake off the yoke but commands them to give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's He died himself upon the Cross and made this the condition of our discipleship To take up our Cross and follow Him and thus the Apostles and Primitive Christians did they chearfully follow'd their Master to the Cross and conquered by suffering Christianity was planted in the world by no other arts but the foolishness Preaching and it defended it self Only by a resolute and patient suffering for the name of Christ This is the true temper and spirit of Christianity Under the most barbarous and persecuting Emperors no Christian ever suffer'd as a Rebel They gave no other disturbance to the Government than by confessing themselves to be Christians and suffering for it Their numbers indeed were very formidable but nothing else for in imitation of their great Master They went as lambs to the slaughter and as sheep before their shearers are dumb so they opened not their mou●hs But notwithstanding this our daily experience tells US that when Religion is divided into Factions and Parties or rather Men are divided into Factions and Parties upon account of Religion there is nothing more imbitters mens spirits against each other nor gives greater disturbance to publick Government All the Troubles and Miseries which for these late years have overwhelmed this unfortunate Island have been dooing to this cause Religion has been made either the reason or the pretence of all To deny that Prosest Protestants have ever rebell'd against their Prince is to deny that there ever was a Civil War in England And I would to God We had but one instance of this it might have left some hope still that This was not the temper nor the Principles of the Men but some unlucky ●●●cture of ●ffairs which transported Them beyond the bounds of their Duty and their own ●●ow'd Principles When Religion turns into a ●●a●e 〈◊〉 to curb and restrain and quell such pretences is not to invade the 〈◊〉 Conscience o● the ●●ber●●● of Religion but to secure the publick 〈◊〉 to prevent the occasions of new Rebellions And no sob●● man can 〈◊〉 his Prince for this tho he may Those and ought to express a just indignation against Them who forfeit this liberty by abusing it for a cloak of maliciousness A great and passionate Zeal like a distemper'd Love blinds mens eyes and makes them mistake both their Enemies and Friends It fills their heads with endless jealousies and fears and makes them start and run away from their own shadow Such a boysterous Zeal is the frenzy and Calenture of Religion which makes men uncapable of any sober counsel and all prudent Resolves and precipitates them into the most wild extravagant and irreligious attempts There is nothing more pernicious than Zeal when it gets a-head and bears down all the considerations of Reason and Religion before it When men are conscious to themselves that they are engag'd in a good cause and have honest designs it makes them more bold and venturous For tho few men da● own it yet the actions of too many sufficiently proclaim that Th●● think they may strain a Point and dispence with strict Duty when it is to serve a good cause when the Honour of God and the Interest of R●ligion is concern'd Such a Zeal does violently push Men forward but ●● does not steer well nor observe its compass and thus it is too often see● that Men who begin with a zeal for Religion insensibly slip into Stat● Factions and are engag'd vastly beyond what They first design'd L●● Us then above all things have a care of our Zeal that we may not mista●en earthly Fire which burns and consumes for that divine and harmle● Flame which is kindled at God's altar A true zeal for Religion is nothing more nor less than such an hearty love for it as makes us very diligent in the practise of it out selves and contented if God sees it fit 〈◊〉 lay down our lives for it and very industrious to promote the knowledge and practise of Religion in the World by all lawful and prude●● means A true Christian Zeal will not suffer US to transgress the stri●● bounds of our duty to God or of our duty to Men especially to King and Princes whatever Flattering Prospect of advantage it may give To lye to forswear our selves to hate and revile each other To reproach and libel Governors in Church or State to stir up or countenance with the least Thought any Plots Seditions or Rebellions again●● the King is not a Zeal for God nor for Religion for this wisdom● not from above but is earthly sensual and devillish for where strife and co●tention is there is every evil work Let Our past Experience therefore teach Us to watch over the lea●● stirrings and first appearances of a seditious and factious spirit either in our selves or others however it may be disguised with a pretence of Religion Faction like other vices has but very small beginnings but when those beginnings are indulg'd it soon improves and gets strength Omne in praecipiti vitium stetit When men once espouse a Party like those who are running down hill they cannot stop when they please Discontents and jealousies are easily fomented when We have once given admission to them and the busy Factors and Agents for Sedition when They find US never so little disposed to receive the Impression use their utmost art and skill all the methods of insinuation and address to make us Proselytes I doubt not but many Men have died Rebels and suffer'd as Traytors who at first did as much abhor the though●s of Treason and Rebellion as any of us can Thus I doubt not but it was in our late Troubles And thus I believe it is at this Day Let such Examples as these make Us wary how

acknowledge and pay Homage to it like Nibuchadnezzar to fall down and worship the Image They have made and Set up shall be cast there Some there are who have too lately made use of Their pretended Fear of God to Justle out the King's Honour their serving God to excuse these disobedience to the King their fits of Devotion Extatical Raptures their Acts of Disloyalty Their Asserting the True Religion Justifying their Rising up against his Majesty And now let every Englishman begin to examin himself whether he hath not medled with them who were given to change Have not You shew'd your selves such by siding and going along with that Faction which wrought the last dismal change or by following men who Trac'd their steps and Practic'd the same methods of Sedition which usher'd in that Rebellion did you not greedily Swallow down the Calumnies and and Slanders They F●d you with against the Government Have you their persons in the greatest Admiration who made the Biggest Noise for Religion and Liberty while Their Lives manifested they had extinguish'd the one all but the Name and Their Arbitrary proceedings that they were Resolv'd to Prostitute the other to their own Lusts such who had Scrupl'd at Order and Decency in the Church but had made none of involving three Kingdoms in Misery and Confusion strein'd at Conformity but Swallow'd down Rebellion slumbl'd at a Ceremony but leap'd over the Murther or Dethroning of Their King. And after all this did you not look upon your selves as absolv'd from the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and on them as antiquated Bonds Or were you not for expounding Them so as they might be best accommodated to Rebellion or willing Disciples of such Masters who did That they were stipulations of a Conditional Obedience Provided the King maintained your Rights and that limitted and Restrain'd to some Case only so that the King not performing the former you were not bound to the latter or Commanding something without the Verge of his Authority might be oppos'd by Arms and Forc'd within compass Or that those Sacred Tyes might be violated without Sin for promoting such great Goods as the Power of Godliness and the Freedom of the Gospell did not the Casuistical Divinity of such Rabbies please you who directed You in Order to shake the Crown from off the Monarch's head to break any Oath with the deepest sence of Religion which you before had Sworn with a Sound Conscience c. And besides the Wickedness of Breaking Through These Sacred Obligations have you not bound your selves by illegal Associations or Covenants directly opposite to these solemn engagements to labour a change So Cataline initiated his Complices to the privacy of his conspiracy by a Sacrament solemn as a Sacrifice to the Gods He drank to Them in a mingl'd bowl of man's blood and wine and made them pledge him and one another in that and so doing their mutual Faith devoting themselves with horrid execrations to suffer all Ills in case they infring'd it afore he ventur'd to acquaint them with the villany they were to be actors in And if you have in any of the forementioned respects been guilty as it is more than to be suspected you have Let me exhort you to wash away the contracted guilt with the tears of repentance c. LONDON Printed for William Nott at the Queen's Arms in the Pall Mall 1683. A Sermon Entituled Some seasonable Reflections on the Discovery of the la●e Plot By William Sherlock D. D. Psal 18. Verse 50. Great deliverance giveth he to his King and sheweth mercy to his Annointed to David and to his seed for evermore MEn of turbulent and restless spirits will be sure to find or make some pretences or occasions of quarrel under the most just and equal Government Sometimes They dispute the right of Succession but this they could not do in David's case unless they would dispute God's right to place and displace Princes For he was immediately chosen by God and annointed by his Prophet and yet this could not secure him from Conspiracies and Rebellions Others pretend great Oppression and male-administration of Government tho' Their licentious noises and clamours sufficiently confute it for men who are most opprest dare say the least of it And Others make Religion a pretence for Their Rebellion Religion the greatest and the dearest interest of all But methinks it is a dangerous way for Men to rebel to save Their Souls when God has Rom. 13. 2. threatned damnation against Those who rebel But this is a vain pretence for no man can fight for Religion who has any Religion Religion is a quiet peaceable governable thing it teaches Men to suffer patiently but never to rebel And were there any true concernment for Religion in this pretence can We imagine that the most profest Atheists the most lewd prostigate Wretches the greatest Prodigies and Monsters of wickedness should be so zealous for Religion But it 's evident it is not Religion such men are zealous for but a liberty in Religion that is that every one may have his liberty to be of any Religion or of none which serves the Atheists turn as well as th● Sectaries but is nor much for the honour or interest of true Religion I suppose no man doubts how many dangers a Prince is expos'd to who flies before an enrag'd and victorious enemy A Prince whose Father was murther'd and himself forc'd into banishment by his own Subjects Who knows not whither to go where to hide himself whom to trust Many persons who were in greatest power being concern'd for their own preservation to keep Him out while those who wish'd Hi● Return durst not whisper any thing tending to call the King back again This was the condition of our dread Soveraign who was hunted as Partridge in the mountains pursued by his own rebellious Subjects who had usurp'd his Throne and thirsted after his Blood. But then God found an hiding place for Him and delivered Him from the desire and expectation of his Enemies And as the Psalmist says This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes now know We that the Lord saveth his Annointed He will hear Him from his holy Heaven with the saving strength of his right hand Psal 65. 7. God may sometimes suffer Treason and Rebellion to be prosperous but it can never prosper but when God pleaseth and it is impossible Rebels should ever know that There is nothing more expresly contrary to the reveal'd will of God than Treasonable Plots and Conspiracies against Soveraign Princes And tho God does many times permit those things to be done which he has forbid to be done or else no man could ever be guilty of any sin yet his forbidding of it is a plain argument that he does not approve it that he will not countenance it God never indeed interposes by an irresistible power to hinder men from choosing that which is wicked for he offers no force or

undertakings Bloodshed the Murtherer of the Fathers and Defenders of Religion Pious Kings and Princes destruction and Massac●e of their Fellow Subjects pulling down and overturning of all polity in the World must be all usher'd in as We see it this day with the Lamb-like harmless voice of Religion And tho' in these Glorious times of the Ghospel they cannot possibly think so yet They will pretend that in all this They do God good Service so true is that of our Saviour They come to Us in Sheeps Cloathing but inwardly They are Ravening Wolves My proposition has been so often and soe sadly proved even Among Our selves that to go about to confirm it by Arguments or precedents were to light you with a Lanthorne in the Sun-shine or to perswade you that you are wounded when you are now Roaring under the smart and anguish of the Blow An evil man says Solomon seeks only Rebellion therefore a cruel Messenger shall be sent against him Prov 17 11. We must have a care how we hearken to Those men that make the greatest noise about Religion which is not a thing of Talk and Noise and Tumult but a Quiet Calm Peaceable thing The Author of it was the Lamb of God who neither stirred up the Jews to Rebell against the Roman Heatken C●sar nor did he ever make use of any Sinister or Violent meanes to escape the hands of his bloody Persecutors and Crucifiers who envied him for nothing more than his Religion which he came on purpose to plant among them and which was to be water'd with his own Blood and brought to perfection by his own Death In all his Actions in the whole course of his Life he was a Pattern to them of Meekness Gentleness Peaceableness and Sub●ection And truly I am affraid Those men who make such an Hurry and Clutter about Religion are not his Disciples nor did They ever learn it from the Prince of Peace especiall when They make Relligion the Argument of Publick Commotions and Disturbances Let me now give you this Seasonable Caution Doth any one come to you in Samuel's Mantle in the Garb and Posture of a Prophet and in that Sacred Disguise falsy whisper to you what that Aparition said truly to Saul That God is departed from the King and become his Enemy for such Sprights also there are now abroad in the World and Those in Black too Have a care now and stand upon your Guard Look Diligently about you are you not got into Endore e're you are aware Is not the Witch and the Devil at work now instead of Samuel tempting You to ill thoughts of him whom that more sure word if Prophecy the word of God tells you ye shall not dare so much as to think Irreverently of Remember that Apparition was an Extraordinary thing never permitted but once a thing that Frighted the Witch herself and not like to be repeated again for every Fantastick mans ●ake that would pretend to Inspiration 'T is true indeed there are ●●ch Spirits in the World but they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cademons or Wicked Spirits Spirits of Rebellion and Mischief and Murder as St. Paul Prophecies of 2 Tim 3 4. Trayterous Heady High-minded Lovers of pleasure more than Lovers of God such as St. Iude describes who Despise Dominion speak evil of Dignities And these St. Paul tells ●s have a form of Godliness They appear like Lucifer himself when ●e is Transform'd into an Angel of Light all Clad with the bright and Glorious Rays of pretended Sanctity as if they were Sons of the Morn●ng some of the Corps du Guard to the great King of Heaven But then ●ave a care Mulier formosa superne De●init in Piscem Beware of the Clo●en Foot under the Robes of light for tho' they have the form of God●iness yet you may be sure they deny the Power of it who endeavour to ●essen and vilify those persons in your opinion who bear the Image and ●amp of Him from whom they derive their Authority By Me Kings Reign And while they Command nothing but what is in their Com●●●ssion are no less to be obey'd than he that sent Them and set them o●er us however They are not In any Case to be Resisted for Who●●ever Resist shall Receive to Themselves Damnation Rom ●3 2. And when his Majesty was Restored in meer Mercy to Us for I can ●●arce call it any to him who seem'd to be brought back only to new afflictions by the Ingratitude and Repeated Rebellions and Conspira●●es of a Stiff-necked and Hypocritical Generation who have Repayd ●ll those Blessings that by Him were conveyed to Us not only by Re●roachfull and Contumelious language which Moses calls Reviling of ●●e Gods Exod 22 28. But by atheistically Sacrilegiously and Re●●lliously Plotting and Contriving his death to whose Mercy now ●nd to his Brothers God-like Act of Oblivion so many among Us owe ●hose lives which We are now Sacrificing to the God of Rebellion a●ainst him A King so dear to Heaven that it has shewn as many Mi●acles in his preservation as Hell hath produced Plots even to a Miracle for his destruction I need not refresh your Memories which the wonderfull Acts of Heaven in his whole life which has had its black lines of affliction more perhaps than any other King we read of in the Murther of that glorious Saint his Royal Father the several Exiles of himself and the Royal Family and the present Calamnities which now attend him in all which he hath suffer'd and doth still continue to suffer more than I can relate or he could bear were he not sustain'd by the right hand of the most High while he not only was but now is again what St. Paul says of himself ●n Iournying often in Perils of Waters in Perils of Robbers in Perils by his own Country-men in Perils among False Bretheren Treacherous Favourites in Weariness in Painfulness c. And now let Us pray to God that he would move Us all to walk more uprightly and more sincerely before him And that the same God would make Us for the future more Loyal to our King that We may not any longer deal Hypocritically with the one or Rebelliously with the other That God may once more speak Peace to his People LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops Head in St. Paul's Church-yard A Sermon Preach'd in the Cathedral Church of Norwich By William Smith Prebend there Psal 107. 8. O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness And declare the wonders he doth for the children of men HAth the Nation scarcely wip'd Their Eyes dry for the Blood of the Incomparable Father but must it be drown'd again in Tears for the murther of his succeeding Sons And that in a scene of cruelty more inhumane and with a malice more infatiable than the former And may I now say as this juncture stands being from Men that were once the least to be suspected The rage of the

there to assure Government and to engage all persons to Subjection upon better arguments and stronger Reasons than a●y yet were ever made use of before For here the Reason of Subjection is layd deep and charged immediatly upon the Consciences of men Resistance is 〈…〉 ‑ si●●ing the Ordinance of God and Damnation is expressly threat 〈…〉 ●gainst it And yet I must needs say to the dishonour of Some men That They have Robbed Christian Religion of this way of Defending itself and defeated the effect of this appology for it Obedience is not only recommended upon the great advantages of quietness and Peace of happiness and Order that result to the World from it nor backed with the Sanctions of Temporal Punishment to Those that Rebell but it is pressed upon Reasons of Conscience and Duty to God and the danger of incurring that Eternal Damnation that is prepared in Hell for the Lawless and Disobedient Kings will be better pleased and satisfied with the quiet and peaceable Lives of their Subjects their chearful obedience to their Laws and Their ready complyance with their pleasure than with all the formal Caresses and Protestations of Loyalty and Love. And I wish Some men of late had not given Them too great cause to conclude that Mens Practices and Prof●ssions doe not always go together The good Christians of Old were in all cases peaceable and submissive They readily obeyed and heartily pray'd for their Governors Even when mos● Barbarously and unjustly provoked to the contrary so that not one Christian dyed as a Rebel or a Traytor in all the Early Persecutions of Christianity nor for several Centuries And you may challenge any of our modern Factors for Treason to instance in One. Nay it is well known that even Julian the Apostate acquits Them from this aspe●sion and upbraids his Heathen Subjects with the Obedience and Loyalty of the Galileans as he scornfully calls them which is the more remarkable testimony for coming from the mouth of the Bitterest Enemy that Christiani●y ever had And now alas amongst all the sad Circumstances of Our late Treasons and Rebellion there are none ●e ought more to be concerned for than the Impiety and Guilt of the Conspirators and the advantage that some men will take hence to Reproach the Protestant Religion Oh! Cursed Impi●ty and Hypocricy are these things becoming True ●rotestants Is this the effect of all your Starch'd and formal Godliness Doe all your Oaths and Vows of Loyalty and service to Your King Do all Your appeals to God for the sincerity of your Intentions Do all your Solmn Protestations of care and concern for his safty come at last to this good God! that Plots and Conspiracys against the King Nay ●●●n Rebellion it self should shelter themselves under the Gospell And Religion ●e 〈◊〉 to Colour that which almost above all things it abhors What shall we say of such men who can help U● to Names and Characters bad enough for Them who have put off not only Religion but Humanity and are Actualy commenced Devils LONDON Printed for Henry Bonnick at the Lyon near St. Paul's A SERMON Preach'd by John Harrison D. D. 2 Sam 18. 28. And Ahimaaz called and said unto the King all is well And he fell down to the Earth upon his Face before the King and said blessed be the Lord thy God which hath Delivered up the Men that lift up their hand against my Lord the King. THe Rebellion that was to begin at Heb●on did happen under the pretence of paying a vow unto the Lord that is under the Veil or Disguise of Religion Absolom said to the King Let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed unto the Lord in Hebron 2 Sam 15. 7. Nothing more usual than to give out For the cause of Christ whilst under that vizor They Act parts quite contrary to his Holy Doctrine and Blessed Example And this is ever observable in a well formed Conspiracy if a Conspiracy can in any sence be so expressed First To settle it self Under some Chief Leader that by Popular Arts hath insinuated Himself into the Multitude Giving Himself out to be some mighty one And what he wants of a just Title as that ought ever to be maintain'd in an Hereditary Kingdom He will make good in his defence of the Peoples Religion Estates Lives and Fortunes The late Lord Russel encouraged by this Scotch Doctrine That it is Lawful to defend a mans Conscience by open Force against any Authority whatsoever did dare adventure his Body Yea I ●remble his very Soul on this false bottom so his Execreable paper seems to import But instead of a Faithful I fear he met with a Faithless Confessor B●rne● For who that is not resolved to quit humanity will believe that to be Religion which is Maintain'd with Treasons and Murders of the most Purple Dye And here we may observe of what Mischievous Consequence any Combination is whether influenced by self-Interest Pride Ambition Spight or Malice When We are once lead out of the Kings High-way of Honnour and Honesty into any By-paths of our own We soon fall into the Broad road of Rebellion Having taken a Survey of This Hellish Conspiracy a suddain Horrour here Seifeth my trembling heart at the sad apprehensions of what hath already or may still most justly befall Us The dismal consequences of a Bloody War c. The face and voice of an Angel which hitherto hath been for Religion Estates Lives and Liberties is now like to be changed into the hands of a Devil who may rend those dearest Interests into a thousand pieces And the bleeding marks of the Last Rebellions being Scarse out of our sides We are now again like to be turned into avery Shambles But surely We that have been so many years a Lasting mark of Infamy over the habitable Earth for Murdering King Charles the First of Blessed Memory and Betraying his present Majesty as Judas did his Saviour can no longer delight in a continuance of such disgrace as wants a Parallel Have We forgot our Oaths of Allegiance Have We cast behind Us all past favours from the Crown to Betray our Trust to lift up our hands against God's Annoynted sure there are Some the better they be dealt with the worse still ye shall find them And of These constan●ly David was most in danger LONDON Printed for William Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar A Sermon Preached on the Thanksgiving day c. by Edward Pelling Chaplin to the Duke of Somersett Psal 34 19. Many are the Afflictions of the Righteous But the Lord delivereth Him out of them all THe special Providence of God is seen in nothing more than in watching over Princes in preserving Them and their Kingdoms and in supporting their Government For the hearts of Men are naturally so impatient of Subjection and so greedy of Power their particular interests are so divided their designs are so various their Passions are so violent their