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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55776	A sermon preached at Petworth in Sussex, September 9, 1683 being a day of solemn thanksgiving for the gracious and wonderful deliverance of the King, his royal brother, and the government from the late barbarous conspiracy, as trayterous / by John Price ...	Price, John, 1625?-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing P3337; ESTC R9268	13,896	27

They dyed of the Plague before the Lord and the Carcases of those Murmurers fell and never entred the Land of promise Numb 14. But Chap. the 16. Corah and his Complices enter into an open Conspiracy against Moses and Aaron they perish in an Earthquake and two hundred and fifty by fire from Heaven who offered up strange fire The people cryed and fled lest they also should perish You would think that their mouths were shut up from murmuring any more as the earth had shut up those Rebels in her Womb. No they had but slept upon the judgment and they had forgot it as a Dream On the morrow all the Congregation murmur against Moses and Aaron saying Ye have killed the Lords people Belike Moses and Aaron were none the Prince and the Priest because they were not of their Faction God appears and bids Moses and Aaron withdraw that he might consume the Congregation in a moment It was commanded so before in the case of Corah but there Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces and said O God the God of the Spirits of all flesh shall one man sin and wilt thou be angry with the whole Congregation they had then something to plead they had nothing now but fell upon their faces and by a silent prostration deprecated the justice of the vengeance it was a more universal Mutiny of the people against their Leaders and there dyed of them as in the twinkling of an eye fourteen thousand and seven hundred of the Plague and had it not been for the hasty charity of Aaron's Censer interposing between the living and the dead they had all perished If they who did but whet their tongues against their Governours fell thus what do they deserve who badthed their Swords in the bloud of our late King a Murder by the mockery of Justice never to be forgot yet never to be mentioned without horrour and detestation But what do they deserve who would have justified that fatal murder by the assassinating of our present Soveraign and his Royal Brother as if the murthering of Kings by these Casuists was excepted from the sixth Commandment When froward men do take a liberty to speak Write and Print what they please and all with designes against the Government they live under 't is plain that they would be Governours themselves and when they have whet their tongues and sharpned their pens they are not far off from drawing their Swords then the mischief is compleated the Sin is fulfilled and it brings forth death and none knows how long it will reign I shall stop here either to any farther instances of Israels sin or punishment But before I proceed to the 4th part of the Text let me try to inform my self and you why this sin hath this punishment The Murmurer is said to be destroyed of the Destroyer that is by some more remarkable and immediate hand of vengeance and why so 1. Because by what appears this Sin of murmuring doth more immediately strike at Gods Government of the World that peevish and froward men as Israel in the example will not allow God to do as he pleaseth no not to do them good for if all will take upon them to be Governours they must always be exercised in a state of War and Confusion St. Peter speaks of wicked men who made pretenses to Godliness that they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 could not see a far off forgot they were purged from their old sins by Baptism which also did engage them to give all diligence to make their calling and election sure and that by addding to their Faith Virtue c. an holy Life to an holy Profession Israel was brought out of Bondage from Egypt by mighty signs and miracles they had forgot that and that God had engaged himself by solemn promises to bring them to a Land flowing with Milk and Honey but because they were in the Wilderness and in a marching condition which sometimes as all marches have their straights they presently forgot what God had done for them and what more he had promised Such were those ill Christians in Saint Peter who were weary of their profession because it did enjoyn too strict a Life or was attended with some pressures and affliction and such are all ill Subjects who forget the benefits they receive from the Government under which they live and will be always making attempts to mend it though they do not foresee the mischiefs that their own designs would ensnare them into Froward men disturb Gods method of mercy and make it miscarry in the Womb. He intended quietly and safely to lead Israel out of Egypt into Canaan and the march of so many years might have been accomplished in so many days but they stood in their own light and stopped the way against themselves They tempted God very oft and so oft that a patient and longsuffering God at last Sware in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest The murmuring discontents of Israel were not recorded by Moses onely for their sakes St. Paul apply's it in the Text to the froward Corinthians and it ought to be a warning to all Male-contents especially to those who are always complaining of their Governours 2. This Sin of murmuring is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an ill habit of the stomach that corrupts the best meat we murmur at mercys as Israel did at Manna Certainly to all wise and unprejudiced men the Restauration of the King and so of the Church Anno 1660. was a mighty mercy and I may say almost or altogether equal with any that Israel had for it secured to us all our Libertys as Subjects which before were but precarious for the Governments we lived under were Arbitrary and themselves were uncertain still upon the wheel of Motion as Factions could supplant each other and the Restauration of the Church that is of our National as established by Law hath best secured to us the Protestant Religion I speak to them who are the lovers of it for though the Factions that have been rampant were very zealous against Popery yet they might in time have been betrayed into it for the Basis on which those usurped and still changeable Governments were founded was Liberty of Conscience and so soon as they could see themselves secure against the claims of the Royal Family Popery also might have had it's share in the Toleration for it was the interest of the Usurpers to do it and in doing of it to strengthen themselves against the Common enemy the King and his Party as they were then called For they are much mistaken who think that the Pope loves Kings more than Demagogues the Directors of popular Governments For this let an enquiry be made what Monarchys have been abased by the Papal power And if Popery could have once come to have as free toleration as the then Factions had in some few years it would have swallowed them up as Moses's Rod did the Magicians