will remain Sacred and Venerable whatever I have proved him to be nor lose any more of the respect which is due to it because he is a Bishop than human Nature can lose of the Honour and Dignity which is due to it because he is a Man Though Bishops turn Rebels and make Rebels and Outlaws Bishops yet I must reverence the Function by reason I think it of Divine Institution But notwithstanding all my Reverence for it I think it ought not to be a Cover and Protection for ill Men who pervert whole Nations and Churches especially for insolent and cruel Men who persecute their Brethren for no other Reason but because they profess and practise the same Doctrines which they themselves formerly taught the People and because they have endeavoured to convince the World by their Books That these Men are Apostates and have done both our Church and Religion much more harm than they can do it good These are the Traytors to that very Order which some of them have Usurped and seem ready to give up the uninterrupted Succession upon which the Priesthood depends if they may but by gaining one Sort of Dissenters better secure their Baronies and Revenues which they mind more than the Honour of their Order or the Catholick Rights of the Church What else means their Courting at such a fulsom Rate those in one Kingdom who have destroyed it in another Why else are they so ready to treat it away under a Pretence of Union with Dissenters and in Complement to Foreign Churches Why contrary to former Times do they suffer some French Ministers who have not had Episcopal Ordination to Preach and Administer the Sacraments at the Church in the Savoy and its Dependences which by the Act of Uniformity is a Member of the Church of England What means this new Discovery of Comprehension in so many of the late Funeral Sermons which the Convocation rejected Why do they exhort Lay-men to support and Clergy-men to comply with Presbytery in Scotland as I have shewed our Preacher and his Heroe did Or lastly What means the new Hypothesis of * See the Book of the Revelation paraphrased with Annotations on each Chapter Lond. printed by Rich. Wellington at the Lute in St. Paul's Churchyard 1694. Witnessing Churches That because the Churches in Savoy and France which have no Bishops have born their Testimony against Popery therefore Bishops by uninterrupted Succession and Priests of Episcopal Ordination which have been the signal Blessing of the Church of England are not necessary to the Church At the Rate that Annotator writes in very many Places of his Book and Preface we must blend our pure Orders and Priesthood not only with Ministers who derive their Mission from Presbyters but with Ministers who derive them ultimately from meer Lay-men as many of the first Reformers both in France and Savoy were Nay at this rate of talking I know not what is necessary to Christianity either as a Sect professing Doctrines or a Society which Antiquity so much undervalued by him called the Catholick Church For Anabaptists Quakers and Socinians have born their Testimony against Popery and will bear it and therefore in his wild way of Writing not only Bishops but Priests nor Episcopal Orders only but all Orders with Infant Baptism and the Lord's Supper may be parted with as Temporary Ordinances for comprehension of all Sects that pretend to be Christian and witnesses against the Church of Rome Nay this dangerous Hypothesis of the witnessing Churches may for any Thing I see to the contrary be improved to the Advantage of the Jews to prove them to be the Church of God For they have born and will bear their Testimony against Popery and great Numbers of them have died Martyrs against it in the Inquisition I need but mention the Mahumetans who abhor Popery for its Image-Worship and the Invocation of Saints as much as the Witnessing Churches And therefore it is a mad way of arguing to cure us of our Fondness as he is pleased to call it for our uninterrupted Episcopal Succession because the Witnessing Churches have the Misfortune to want it This is the Argument of the Fox in the Fable who had lost his Tail and had Men argued in this manner in the Primitive Times they might have laid aside both the Sacraments in the Church because great Numbers of Catechumens died Martyrs or Witnesses against the Idolatry of Rome Pagan which notwithstanding all the Comments and Annotations of some Men I believe was much more Abominable than that of the modern Papal Rome This Annotator I take to be one of those Men who drive on for Comprehension and with those Latitudinarians it was and more particularly Dr. Tillotson that Dr. Sherlock (a) Temple Serm. upon the Death of the Queen p. 16 17. saith Their Majesties and more particularly the Queen who had more leisure for such Thoughts were inspired with great and pious Designs to serve the Church of England whatever some Men might suspect though it may be not perfectly in their own way But why does he not tell us what this way was And whether it was consistent with his Queries his Book of Union and Communion and his Defence of Dr. Stillingfleet's unreasonableness of Separation from the Church of England Dr. Bates the Non-conformist tells us (b) Sermon upon the Death of the Queen p. 20. It was to unite Christians in Things essential to Christianity but he doth not tell us what those Essential Things were or whether they were Things Essential to Christianity as a Society as well as a Sect. But I desire plainly to know what those Things were which they thought Essential to Christianity and in which they were to be United For I am afraid they had a Design to form an Union against the Catholick Church and in order to it give up some Things as not Essential which many as learned and good Men as Dr. T. and these Doctors would have thought Essential to Christianity and that their parting with them would have involved in it a parting with the Lord's Day and Infant Baptism nay all Baptism and the Lord's Supper with the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity and have done no good Office to the Power of the Keys nor to the Divine Authority of the holy Scriptures which depends so much upon Tradition That they themselves alone are not alone sufficient to prove it without the Testimony of the Church It was my Design in writing these Discourses to aim at all the Men of this broad Way of Union as well as against those Two whom I have detected and thereby to warn the rest of the Clergy against them For God be thanked the main Body of our Clergy are Men of quite different Spirits they do not persecute their old Brethren for their strict Doctrines but pity and help to support them They know by Experience how hard it was for Conscience to overcome the Difficulties of the new Oath and therefore
estimated and carried by the major Vote which as it can be an Argument to none but Fools so I dare say no honest and wise Man ever made use of it for the solid Proof of the Truth and Goodness of any Church or Religion If Multitude be an Argument that Men are in the Right in vain then hath the Scripture said Thou shalt not follow a Multitude to do Evil for if this Argument be of any force the greater Number never go wrong I have cited this as I have done all other Passages faithfully out of the Works of these two Authors in the following Discourses and whether the Reflections and Applications I have made upon them be just and right and the Consequences I have drawn from them upon themselves be true must be left to the Reader to judge betwixt me and them THE INTRODUCTION AS nothing of late hath more Entertain'd the World than Funeral Sermons So none of them hath had a more General Reception among Men of all Sorts than that preacht at the Funeral of the late Dean of Canterbury whom the Preacher stiles By Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Primate and Metropolitan of all England It was sent abroad with its Fiocco by the R. R. Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum and Men were curious to see what he would say upon an Occasion so inviting to a Fruitful Invention while his Censors of the House were a Sitting I hapned to make a Visit to a Place where I found one Gentleman reading of it to three more who were very attentive to it I came in almost at the Beginning and having only beg'd the Favour of the Text made no other Interruption But though I said nothing upon hearing the Words I marvelled at his Choice of them That he should pitch upon a Place so emphatical for Suffering at the Funeral of a Man who never Suffered nor loved Sufferings but who on the contrary was of a Temper and Constitution that loved Ease and Indolency of which the Apostle enjoy'd little or nothing in the whole Course of his Apostleship But as he taught so was he always practising the Evangelical Doctrine of Sufferings of which he hath left us several short Accounts in his Epistles and sam'd them all up In fighting the good fight of Faith a little before his final Martyrdom when he was ready to be offered and the time of his Passion was at hand At the End of this private Lecture the Gentleman who read first began to Censure Saith he The little Knowledge I had of Dr. Tillotson makes it not proper for me to judge whether or no he deserv'd so great a Character as this Panegyrist hath given him but if he did it was very unfortunate for his Memory that he should have Bishop Burnet for his Funeral Orator A Man that how much soever he may think himself possessed of the Esteem of the World is very much lost in it both at Home and Abroad and upon whose Authority very few Men will believe Things that are true to be so without other very good proof Saith another I am well acquainted with the Writings of Dr. Tillotson and am not a perfect Stranger to his Conversation and I am sure the Character this Bishop has given him is much above his Merit Fy Fy That Men of this Order should so flatter in the Pulpit where Flattering is so abominable He was not (a) Serm. p. 2.28 an Example of Heroick Piety and Vertue his Life was not free from Blemishes and some great ones too and this the Panegyrist knows very well A third then began to argue against some particular Passages in his Sermon particularly against the Truth of what he (b) P. 22. saith of some of our Suffering Bishops and the Authority that displaced them which I shall hereafter recite And then the fourth after a little Silence said with a Critical Authority That his Sermon was a Boyish Piece of Rhetorick more becoming a Declamer than a Preacher and fitter for a Sophister's Desk than a Bishops Pulpit having too much the Air of a young Student's Declamation and also seem'd in some parts of it to have too much of Common Place in it and in others too much Art to be true Nay saith he his own (c) P. 10. 11. 60. Reflexions on Varillas are here true upon himself His Sermon hath too much the Air of a Romance 't is too Fine to be true He seems to write his own Inventions and sets abundance of Whipt Cream before his Reader And then he told us a Story of a bâ—ind Gentleman but a good natural Critick whose Custom was to repair very early to St. Martin's Church and to ask who preacht Saith he he hapned once to ask me the Question and when I told him Dr. Burnet was to preach then in truth saith he we shall have a Whipt Sillibub And I think said he Smiling Dr. Burnet's whipt Sillibub is as far from the Nature of strong and manly Meat as Monsieur Varillas's whipt Cream A Preacher especially at Funerals ought to avoid Strains and when he speaks of the Defunct to speak more like an Historian than an Orator But this Man's Eloquence to use his own Words of (a) Pref. to Lactantius Lactantius carries him often into Strains that become a young Orator better than an Historian for he hath a heat of Stile that ought not to be imitated by one that would write truth but it may be saith he Smiling again in his Words of Lactantius He design'd his Sermon for a mixt sort of Writing between a Declamation and a Funeral Sermon and so may think that the Figures which agree not to the one may be allow'd in the other (b) P. 1. WHILE NATURE FEELS SO GREAT A LOSS AND SINKS UNDER IT This and some more are the Figures of a young Declamer and the Super sublime of our Lawn-sleeve Orator who should not have been transported with the Heats of a vitious Rhetorick Send him to School to Longinus and Rapine to learn the Rules of true and manly Eloquence They will both tell him That what is not Just is not true Eloquence and that a Stile not fit for the Occasion or the Subject in hand always argues defect of Judgment and that no Speech or Treatise which sticks not with the Hearers after it is read though it tickle never so much in Reading can be a Piece of true Eloquence And speak Gentlemen saith he you have all heard this Panegyrick very many fine Things and Generals are said in it but after all I can scarce tell for what he commends his Metropolitan All his pompous Figures have raised in me no great Idea of the Man for after all my Attention I find very little Sticks behind nor do I think this Performance will do his Memory much Service or transmit it with Advantage to Posterity CHAP. I. THis is the Short of what passed in this little Court of Censure upon this Bishop's
other the Calamities of many Years last past have hitherto deprived us of any opportunity wherein we might express our Loyalty and Allegiance to His Majesty We therefore the Lords and Commons now Assembled in Parliament together with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council-Men of the City of London and other Free-Men of this Kingdom now present do according to our Duty and Allegiance heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and proclaim that immediately upon the Decease of our late Sovereign King Charles I. the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by inherent Birth-Right and lawful undoubted Succession descend and come to His most Excellent Majesty King Charles II as being lineally justly and lawfully next of the Blood-Royal of this Realm and that by the Goodness and Providence of Almighty God He is of England Scotland and Ireland the most Potent Mighty and Undoubted King And thereunto We most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our selves our Heirs and Posterities for ever No. VIII An Account of several Considerable Services that have been done to the Government by vertue of the Powers given by the Act for Printing since the last Continuation thereof Feb. 13. 1692 shewing That there have been Five Private Presses and many Treasonable Pamphlets and Libels discover'd and seiz'd within less than Two Years viz. OCtober 29. 1692. Discover'd and Seiz'd a Private Press with a Libel near the Greek Church by So-Ho The Persons employ'd made their Escape May 2. 1693. Discover'd and Seiz'd another Private Press in S. James's street with 34 several Treasonable Pamphlets and Libels the Titles of which are as follow An Historical Romance of the War The Jacobites Principles vindicated A Vindication of the deprived Bishops Two Letters to the Author of Solomon and Abiathar A Vindication of some among our selves Eucharisticon or a Comment upon the Fast. The Humble petition of the Common People of England to the Parliament The Auction or Catalogue of Books A Letter to Mr. Samuel Johnson His Majesty's Speech with Reflections The Resolution of a Case of Conscience The People of England's Grievances A Specimen of the State of the Nation New Court-Contrivances or more Sham-plots A Bob for the Seamen An Answer to Dr. King 's Book A Dialogue between Sophronius and Philo-Belgius A Letter to Dr. Tillotson A French Conquest neither desirable nor practicable Lex Ignea or the Justice of the House of Commons for advancing a Title to the Crown by Conquest A second Letter to the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry occasion'd by a Letter to him from the Bishop of Sarum A New Song with Musical Notes The Sea-Martyrs A New Scotch Whim. A List of Ships lost or damag'd since 1688. His Majesty's Speech November the 4th with Explications The Bell-man of Piccadilly to the Princess of Denmark The Earl of Pembroke 's Speech about the Lords in the Tower Some Paradoxes presented for a New-Years-Gift from the Old Orthodox to the New serving for an Index to the Revolution Remarks upon the present Confederacy King William 's Speech to the Cabinet-Council Considerations upon the second Canon June 1693. Another Private Press seiz'd in Westminster with the late King James's Declaration and several other Libels About the same time another Private Press seiz'd in Long-Acre Jan. 17 1695. Discover'd and Seiz'd another Private Press in Peticoat-Lane in Spittle-Fields with the several Seditious and Treasonable Pamphlets following viz. A Ballad entitled The Belgic Boor. A Parallel between O. P. and P. O. Reflections on a Letter from S. Germains The humble Address to both Houses of Parliament Remarks on a Paper to restore the late King James Happy be Lucky or a Catalogue of Books c. Delenda Carthago or the true Interest of England c. A Dialogue between A. and B. two plain Country Gentlemen concerning the Times A Petition of the Prisoners in the Savoy shewing them to be neither Traytors nor Pyrates A Persuasive to Consideration and one Form of a Letter to Sir John Trenchard All which were found in the Custody of one James Dover a Printer committed to Newgate for the same Besides the above-recited Libels against the State many Heretical and Socinian Books have been seized and stopt particularly one Entitled A brief and clear Confutation of the Trinity which was publickly burnt by Order of both Houses of Parliament and the Author prosecuted And one other is lately taken with its Author call'd A designed End to the Socinian Controversie or a Rational and plain Discourse to prove That no other Person but the Father of Christ is God most High There have been Three Persons found guilty of High-Treason that were the Printers at some of the Private Presses above-mention'd one of which named William Anderton was Condemned and Executed There are Three Presses at least known to be lately remov'd from Public Printing-Houses in London into Private One from the House of one Bonny another from from one Astwood and another from one Andrew Sowle all Printers If the Design of these Persons who mannage these Presses were to do Lawful Work they may do that openly at home without Hazard or Disturbance It must therefore be concluded that they are gone into Private to Libel the Government Now Considering how absolutely necessary this Act for Printing hath been and is for the Security of the Common Peace and Good of the Nation It is hoped That this Honourable House will continue the same till they shall have leisure to take into their Consideration the Reasonableness of the Objections that may be made against the present Act or any Clause therein contain'd For should this be discontinu'd and the Press be but for a while without Restraint His Majestie 's Government would be left Defenceless against His Secret Adversaries at Home whilst he is hazarding His Royal Person Abroad against the Common Enemy the Consequences of which may prove so Fatal as not to admit of a Future Remedy No. IX A Catalogue of Books not yet Answer'd VIndiciae Juris Regii Being an Answer to the Enquiry into the Measures of Submission and Obedience c. A Discourse of the Sense of the Word Allegiance A Defence of the Vindication of the Lord Bishop of Chichester's Declaration An Answer to the Bishop of Sarum's Pastoral Letter which was burnt by the hands of the common Hangman An Answer to the Letter to a Bishop An Answer to the Historical Part of the Unreasonableness of a New-Separation Christianity a Doctrin of the Cross An Answer to Dr. Sharp's Funeral Sermon at S. Giles's A Vindication of some among our selves c. The Loyal Martyr Vindicated An Answer to Dr. King's Book An Answer to a late Pamphlet Entitled Obedience and Submission to the present Go-Government demonstrated from Bishop Overal 's Convocation-Book with a Postscript An Answer to Dr. Sherlock's Vindication of Allegiance due to Sovereign Princes An Answer to a Letter to Dr. Sherlock written in Vindication of that part of Josephus his History which gives the Account of Jaddus's Submission to Alexander against An Answer to the Vindication of the Divines of the Church of England who have taken the Oaths from the charge of Rebellion and Pruerjy An Answer to a Piece Entituled Obedience and Submission to the present Government The Title of an Vsurper after a thorough Settlement examined In Answer to Dr. Sherlock's Case of Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers The Duty of Allegiance setled upon its true Grounds according to Scripture Reason and the Opinion of the Church In Answer to a late Book of Dr. William Sherlock Entitled The Case of Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers c. 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