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A44244	Against disloyalty fower sermons preach'd in the times of the late troubles / by Barten Holyday., D.D., Arch=deacon of Oxford, and chaplain to His late Majesty, Charles the First, of blessed memory.	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2530; ESTC R43257	56,607	145

sometimes lesse obedient to the Edge and Wisdome of the chizell and sometimes unhappily ready to cracke-off in the working yet conformity of the parts is still in it self the Art and Improvement of Perfection If we behold the Church of Rome shall we deny in it wit and Successe When as though it has almost been utterly disolved by some tedious Schismes the meer recovery to a Union and continuance has made it become Famous and seem Happy O then let us learn that Special wisdome which is to learn wisdome of an Adversary Let us diligently Imitate yet wisely Inverte the Roman Practice Let us become happy and seem Famous yea let us become happy though we seem not Famous And seing that in a private estate the best purchase is of Fee simple whereby one does at once with the best skill of Thrift both get and keep Let the Art of Unity be made the Study of Conscience Indeed without Study this Art is not attaind not fit to be attaind Whiles then the Apostle moves us to Unity and moves us also to an Endeavour to it he bestowes upon us as well a Discovery as an Exhortation shewing us not onely the End but also the means Endeavour then is that without which Unity is rather Desird then Attaind And therefore the Grecians to shew their wisdome in their Endeavour bound themselves to true Unity to concord by an Oath and bound themselves to such an Oath by a Law endevouring to preserve Peace by a double bond upon the Soul and upon the Body The Romans us'd a like wise Endeavour and whiles in a Higher in a wiser strain making Concord a Deity thus seeking Peace not by an Oath but by Prayer an Oath importing their Own best strength but Prayer implying the Aide of Heaven And even thus wise that is thus peaceable were very Heathen thus peaceable among themselves though without grace thus peaceable by wise Nature very like grace striving to make their Peace and their Country of a like circuite Who then would not study the nature of Endeavour Who would not study the Art of Endeavour Diligence there must be as in a Right Archer that makes his arrow as intentive as his eye Strength there must be either of Love or Warre even such contrary wayes leading to the same Unity which though in it self impli s Love yet in the attaining of it is especially like Heaven which is sometimes taken by violence Speed there must be when the Bond of Peace is in danger to slippe what hand will not be quick what hand can be too quick to repair it Skill there must bee a reciprocall skill 'T is not enough felicity for the most wise hand to direct the ball if by the hand that should receive it it be either neglected or diverted That therefore Diligence strength speed and skill may prosper the Roman deity must be rectified into Truth concord into God whose goodnesse is ready to make an exchange with us to give us Peace for Prayer The Sabine Women arm'd only with Love and Intercession conquer'd two armies getting a Victory more famous then the Sword can win and more sure then any but the Victory of Prayer Pray then we must for Peace peace to Advantage Prayer not corrupt it peace no lesse holy then firme nor more attended with gladnesse then with Innocence Which if our first parents had not lost they had rightly Dress'd and so kept their Paradise nor had that instant terrour expression of warre a fiery sword driven Man from God! Indeed the mercy of the Judgment drove him to the Fear of God whiles from the Fruition of him and so at last drove him from Paradise to God! But the Divine mercy preserve us from this way of mercy from this way of Unity by preserving us in our Paradise and in a Unity with God and our selves Preserve us in the Spirit by which whiles we cry Abba Father we may remember to make Brotherly Love a part of our Care as it is of our Inheritance Preserve us in peace so preserve us in peace that warre may be alwayes more Odious to us then Necessary Preserve us in the Bond of Peace a bond that may holily encompasse both Priest and people a bond that may happily encompasse and Vnite Nations Preserve us in the wisdome of keeping Vnity that neither desperate malignity may precipitate any nor mistaking devotion slide any into destruction Preserve us in the Endeavour of this wisdome the wisdome of preserving our British Vnion which being the happiest Bridge that was ever raisd over Tweede so may it prove as perpetual as the streame which it embraces And that this our Endeavour may prosper let it Employ and Improve it self by Imitation Let us either imitate the blessed tongues which as on this day appear'd by a holy Silence for they were not heard to speake any thing though the tongues of Others spake by Them or let us imitate the tongues of the Aposiles by holy Languague Let the Light of these wonderfull tongues teach us to speak with knowledge remembring that though Joel foretold that in the later dayes the Spirit should be pour'd upon all flesh Saint Peter in the Story of the Apostles Acts has told us it was perform'd in This day's wonder so that now the ability of instruction is not to be expected from Miracle but from Industry Let the fire likewise of these tongues teach us Charity and therefore that we never Preach Libel insteed of Reformation More especially in Peace let every one for his proportion practice a good Imitation of the good Constantine who cast the hand-writings of Complaints into the fire quenching so with natural flames the unnatural flames of contentions In Warre let the Loyall Example of our Forefathers goe forth with all our Forces Providence being the Bight Wing the left Power and Vnity the Body of the Army So shall Treachery the false Son of Zeal be as shamefull in its Fall as in its Rise and so shall Loyalty the true Sonne of Zeal at last Triumph in the just defence of the just Defender of the Faith Which grant we beseech thee O Lord of Hosts for thy Sonne 's sake the Prince of Peace and effect it by the power and Vnity of Thy Spirit To which Blessed and Eternal Trinity in Unity the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost be for ever ascribed the Glory Comfort of Victory and Peace OF Rebellion A SERMON Preached before the Right-Honourable the Members of Parliament assembled at Oxford At Saint Macis's May 19. 1644. By BARTEN HOLYDAY D. D. Arch-deacon of Oxford and one of His Majesties Chaplaines OXFORD Printed by W. H. for S. Pocock 1661. 1 Sam 15.23 Rebellion is as the Sinne of Witch-craft IT was no lesse Truth then phancy in the Philosopher that said could vertue be seen it would Beget Love and Advance it not only into Admiration but Rapture as if for a time it would deprive the soul of its Happinesse by transporting

they can not be divided without the injury of the Spirit so can they not be join'd without the Unity of it Take Unity out of a Kingdome and it remains a Body rather large then sound nay which sometimes falls into such a diseas'd state that the unwilling Soveraigne cure as the Chymiques prescribe is a mummy made of its own tainted blood Take Unity out of a City and it is sooner conquerd then beseeg'd the surest and first triumph being not over the walls but the men T is discord makes the Battery the Canon but reports it and easily must they fall by an Enemy that fall without him Take Unity out of a Family and Divorce soon enters which is the unhappy palsy of marriadge deading the one side and grieving the other Unity then is that which should be kept yet as we must keep it so we must not mistake it the only Unity which we must keep being the only Unity the Unity of the Spirit There is a Spirit that rules in the aire but this Spirit is but an unruly one onely working an unhappy Obedience in the Children of Disobedience And sometimes it so works that it may rather seeme Flesh then Spirit swelling man into a tympany of Ambition which at last discovers it self to be not fruitfulnesse but disease Sometimes it works by such potent suggestions that as if it disdaign'd to informe a single natural body it dares venter to animate a People a whole body politique unnaturally striving to make it an unnatural body a body either without a head or weary of it Sometimes This Spirit works most potently by possession as it dealt with the madman in the Gospel that toar off his clothes and lay amongst the tombes a madman indeed that cast away so much as a winding sheet being so neer a grave And yet may there be no other Found as unhappy if not more unhappy who though they tear not their rayment yet esteem not a whole skin calling danger glory and peace sloath But unhappy Spirits they are that are more the Enemies then the companions of their own bodies as if they gave them life only to lead them to more infamy of death Unhappy Spirits that would leave no body behind them to remember them or not so much to remember them as to disclaim them Unhappy Spirits whose union is conspiracy and whose strength is Outrage As then the unity of the Spirit must be kept so must it be a true unity of Spirit and therefore of the true Spirit that is the unity of the Spirit of unity This is that Spirit whose wisdome teaches us that though we can not decide many things we must not differ in many things nay because we cannot decide them that therefore we must not differ not differ beyond opinion the difference being but from opinion This is that Spirit whose perfection teaches us that we can heere no more attain to a perfection of knowledge then of Holinesse that some ignorance in the arguments of Religion implies not an imperfection in Religion but a perfection in God that the Divine Law has indeed God for the Authour yet various man will be an outward Interpreter This is that Spirit whose providence teaches us that the Government of the World is like the structure of it it being founded upon imparities the naturall creatures having a Locall subordination the rational having a politicall and sometimes a sacred which differences as it it the Divine will to appoint so is it the Divine power to Compose This is that Spirit whose love teaches us that though he once appeared in the likenesse of firy Tongues yet that th●y took not their flame from the fire of Hell but of Charity that though they were divided it was not to Preach division but a Gospel that love is the soul of the soul uniting though not the parts of the naturall body yet the many bodies as so many parts of the mysticall body of the Church If then we would find the true subject of this Spirit we must seeke the true nature of this Spirit Where then we find wisdome withdrawing the will from the quarrels of the understanding and more esteeming of Peace then of opinion there is this Spirit where we find perfection rather Endeavourd then pretended and the Divine Law unanimously expounded not by Children but by Fathers there is this Spirit Where we find providence that does as willingly maintain as easily distinguish just imparities not more readily acknowledging a diversity in the Lights of Heaven then in the lights of the Church and making those differ in honour whom God has made to differ in gifts there is this Spirit Where we find love more tender then the eye it sees with looking upon Wife and Children as on the Instructive and deputy pledges of God himself looking on its Country as on a feat though not as pleasant yet as dear as Paradise being a place not of choyse but lot and so made sweet by the hand of the Patrone looking upon the Church as on the type of Heaven and studying the Peace of the Citty of God the God of Peace there is this Spirit there is the Unity of this Spirit This Unity then of the Spirit can not be preserv'd with a violation of the Spirit the Unity of the Spirit must not be preserv'd with the breach of Peace We may not doe evil though good might come there 〈◊〉 may not do evil that good may 〈◊〉 there of Not only carnal good from evil does not justify but no good no not a purpos'd good can make evil good Royalty then must not down for the advancement of Religion Nay the violation of that is alwayes the violation of this in being not glory but blasphemy for a Rebel to enstyle himself Defender of the Faith The old truth was object ingratitude and ye object all crimes and is it not as old a truth is it not a higher truth object Rebellion and ye object all crimes It being in effect neerer to a flout then a truth to call a Rebel a Christian Is not Christ our Lord the Prince of Peace And can men of blood the Children of Disobedience be the Subjects of that Prince Shall Christ give the Name and Mariana the Heart Shall Christ Character the forehead and Junius Brutus the Brain He is of a bad profession and so but a bad Professour whose profession is Disobedience The Pharisie was the precisest Artist in the Devotion of the Jews his pretence was the mastering of his passion his practice was the mastering of his Prince Let Saint Paul describe such he will call them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a most exact sect such a sect as made Paul a Sectary nay a Persecuutor till he was Persecuted Let Hegesippus describe them and he will call them a sort of Men zealous subtle busy covetous Let their wise Josephus describe them and he will tell us that their authority with the people was so great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉