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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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