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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76116	The civil magistrates coercive power in religious matters asserted, in a sermon [on Matt. vii. 12] preached at the assizes at Hertford, March the 7th, 1683/4 by Ralph Battel ...	Battell, Ralph, 1649-1713.	1684 (1684)	Wing B1148A; ESTC R209185	11,968	32

in Prudence might desire to be done by when he applies the most Proper Remedy to the Distemper for many will hearken to the Rod that would not have listned to the Instruction although seven wise men should have render'd a Reason Especially such as act out of Interest more than Conscience and there has been we all know I wish I could say that there were not still a Party in the Land that carry on their Designs by Masks of Piety and Shews of Religion a forni of godliness without the power Grace without Morality or at best a zeal without knowledge Let not us imitate them in these but if we are Wise let us learn Diligence from them in our Honest Undertakings Alas must I say it we want Activity we want Zeal we trust a Cause and we trust a Religion that God will defend his Church and preserve our King and truly so he has hitherto done by Miracle but we must take heed how we tempt Providence by the neglect of ordinary means lest if Industry forsake us success do also fail for usually those two go together And 't is pity it should always be seen that the Children of this World are Wiser in their Generation than the Children of Light I speak not this with the least thought of a reflection upon the Honourable Judges or other Subordinate Ministers of Justice here present whose endeavours have been constant and uninterrupted in the Service of their King and Country but I speak to excite others to become Imitators of their Steddiness and in their several capacities to be Active and Faithful true to the King true to the Laws true to their Oaths and true to their own Consciences and if all men in any Publick Employ would be but thus far careful it would by the Grace of God put an end at length to such Boutefeus in Church and State as turn Religion into Rebellion and Faith into Faction which have now for above these Hundred Years some or more of them infested this Realm that what neither the length of time or the indulgence of our Kings or the industry of the Regular Pastors has been able to bring to pass the wholsom Execution of Laws might perfect and consummate 'T is not the Punishment that makes the Martyr but the Cause was long ago truly said and no man is now required by the Law to deny God to Burn his Bible or to do Sacrifice to Idols as in the Primitive Persecutions And the Government may truly wash it's Hands and say with St. Peter who is he that will harm you if you be followers of that which is good But if any man will suffer as an evil doer or as a busy body in other mens matters who will have Reason to pity him Much less since the late Horrid Fanatical Conspiracy has surely opened every Eye that was not before wilfully closed so as to make it see the danger of tolerating any such Religion in the State whose very Principles do abet and encourage Rebellion as I am sure the greatest Part of our Protestant Recusants if not all of them do as much as those of the Jesuited Romanists But can that be True Religion that teaches Resistance to Lawful Powers no it is as impossible as it would have been for Christ who was all Suffering to have held Communion with Belial who is so called because he would be without Yoak Consider then Gentlemen this Rule in the Text and apply it to all it 's due applications 't is a large and an extensive Rule it takes in all Orders and Degrees of Men yea it concerns not only time present but it has an Eye to Generations yet to come Consider and let it make you first to do by the King as Reason will tell you every good Subject ought to do assist to the uttermost in the Execution of his Laws and in the Defence of his Majesties Person and all his Just Prerogatives against the Turbulent and Seditious Let it make you do by your Country what is the Part of true Patriots and not of Popular pretending ones study to quiet and appease the least Fermentations in the minds of the Heady People and quash the first tendencies to Faction but not stand at the Helm and Steer or give Aim as it were to them who of themselves are already too much given to Change Let it make you do by your selves according to the Prime Law of Nature endeavour by your Vigilance and Prudence to preserve those Lives which his Majesty in his Declaration tells you were not long since designed for a Massacre Let it make you do by Posterity what they may also justly claim transmit to them the Rights and Libertys of English Free-born Subjects which Rebellion has ever invaded when it most pretended to assert And the soberly Reformed Protestant Religion which the Schism has ever dishonour'd when it most pretended to Profess But this indeed is Gods Work yours only the endeavour Let us therefore Pray unto him that he will preserve our Church and King that the Gates of Hell may never prevail against the one And that neither the Counsels of any State Achitophel or the Rebellion of an Absalom or the Maledictions of a Shimei may ever prosper against the other Which God of his Infinite Mercy grant through the Merits of his Son Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and Holy Spirit be ascribed all Honour and Glory now and for ever Amen FINIS