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A26157	The grand charter of Christian feasts, with the right way of keeping them in a sermon preach'd at a meeting of several of the natives and inhabitants of the county of Buckingham, in the Church of St. Mary Le-Bow, Nov. 30, 1685 / by Lewis Atterbury ...	Atterbury, Lewis, d. 1693.	1686 (1686)	Wing A4156; ESTC R8396	17,372	36

man did what was good in his own sight That Anarchy and those Confusions under which this Nation of ours hath groan'd for several years have given too much opportunity to the evil Willers of our Sion to unsettle divide distract and corrupt several of its Members And therefore First 1. We are to beware of the Leaven of Atheism It 's scarce credible in such a Land as ours amongst us who have had the Noon-day-light of the Gospel as well as all other advantages for the improvement of our natural Light and acquired Knowledge that any should dare to question so clear and undeniable a Truth the Heavens and the Earth may be astonished at this The Heavens declare the Glory of God and the Firmament shews his handy work Psal 19.1 The invisible things of God from the Creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal Power and Godhead so that they are without excuse Rom. 1.20 We have in our selves a demonstration quaelibet herba Denm the most minute Creature speaks a Deity much more the frame of man who is fearfully and wonderfully made Psal 139.14 And yet besides practical Atheists which all sinners are Psal 36.2 there are in our days to be met with those that set their mouths against Heaven and their tongue walketh thorough the Earth How say they doth God know and is there knowledge in the most High Psal 73.9 11. What Luther abhorr'd himself for thinking we have Monsters belch out Horribilia de Deo terribilia de Fide Davids Fool or wicked man was modest in respect of the Atheists of our days he whispered to himself said in his heart There is no God but these avow it in their Principles All such are indeed without hope and without the true God to serve him and depend upon him but are slaves to a false one the Devil call'd the God of this World the Prince of the power of the Air the Spirit that works in the children of disobedience and hath blinded their minds lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine in unto them Such shall find God hereafter in his Justice when there will be no place for Repentance It will be then in vain to call to the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the wrath of the Lamb it will be bootless to plead they are the workmanship of his hands They are a people of no understanding those that live and die in such an open defiance of God and their duty he that made them will not have mercy on them and he that formed them will shew them no favour Isa 27.11 When men of such Principles fall in our way we must do more then shun them our selves we must be zealous in so great a matter withstand them to the face Gal. 2.11 write a cross on their doors and set a mark on their persons that others may avoid them If the Leprosie was in an house none were to sleep in it and if in garments they were to be burnt with fire 2. The Leaven of Rebellion and 't is no wonder when men have cast off the fear of God they should prove false to their Prince Tears and Prayers are the right Weapons of the Church That thundring Legion that storm'd Heaven with their Prayers and rose not from their knees until God gave them rain laid down their Arms and offered their lives to death rather then they would oppose their Prince or deny the True God and worship Idols And it is the glory of our Religion and the Church of England in an especial manner that it gives not the least countenance to Disloyalty and admits of no colour or pretence of resistance whatsoever The Scriptures we owne are as plain and full as words can express every Soul is to be subject to the higher Powers for Gods sake and for Conscience sake and those that resist resist the Ordinance of God and shall receive damnation to themselves Rom. 13.1 2. Tit. 3.1 and 2 Pet. 2.13 Davids heart smote him for the cutting off the lap of Sauls garment and we are advised in prudence as well as confcience not to curse the King no not in our thoughts for God hath the Sacred persons of Kings so much under his protection that he often goeth out of the ordinary way of his Providence and works a Miracle rather then Treachery against them should presper Eccles 10 20. A bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter These filthy Dreamers that despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities they are spots in all Feasts as well as those of Charity Jude 12 13. Clouds they are without water carried about with wind trees whose fruit is withered twice dead plucked up by the roots raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame wandring stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darknoss for ever 3. The Leaven of Herod or the Leaven of Faction Fox like Subtleties or contagious Principles Herod was a subtle Fox as our Saviour calls him Go tell that Fox a Slave to Ambition and Lust and a Creature to Coesar on whose pleasure he held his Dignity He heard John Baptist and pretended to hearken to him Mark 6.20 but sacrificed him to the jealousie of Herodias He desired to see Christ possibly to satisfie his curiosity or to have been magnified by some Miracle he hoped to have done him or rather to dispatch him as we find it suggested to our Saviour Herod seeks to kill thee a Coppy Herod his Predecessor had set him He tamper'd with the Magi Matt. 2. that he might find out him that was born King of the Jews on a pretence to worship him but how he would have made him a Deity appears by his butchering afterwards for his sake about fourteen thousand all the children of that age about two years old and under in Bethlehem The Herodians were Parasites in their Courts that varied their Religion with them made one of the Herods a God and kept his Birth-day heard our Saviour and proposed ensnaring questions to entrap him And such are our Seekers in Discipline Abetters of Faction those who fit up Religion after mens Humours to serve a turn mould up Gods Worship with Herods and Jeroboams ends and watch for our halting Herod would be exalted arrays himself in costly Apparel gets into the Throne courts the Applause of the Rabble and is pleased to be the Idol of the People though he dies their Martyr and is eaten up of worms Acts 12.20 Like Saul to Samuel come what will yet honour me before the Elders of Israel Jeroboam must have his Conventicles and sets up his Calfes in Dan and Bethel makes a rent in the Church to patch up the slaws of his Title to the ten Tribes Korah Dathan and Abiram were too proud to obey Moses and Aaron and would set up Independency