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A35085	A sermon preached upon the anniversary solemnity of the happy inauguration of our dread soveraign Lord King James II in the Collegiate Church of Ripon, February the 6th. 1685/6 / by Thomas Cartwright ...	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1686 (1686)	Wing C706; ESTC R21036	21,714	46

A SERMON PREACHED upon the Anniversary Solemnity OF THE Happy Inauguration OF Our Dread Soveraign LORD King JAMES II. In the Collegiate Church of Ripon February the 6 th 1685 6 By THOMAS CARTWRIGHT D.D. Dean of Ripon and Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed by J. Leake and are to be Sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner MDCLXXXVI To my LORD THE Lord HENRY EARL of PETERBOROW Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to His MAJESTY one of the Lords of the Honourable Privy-Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER My LORD HOmilies are by our Rubrick and the Statute to give place to Sermons where they may be had and therefore the Minister who Officiates on the King's-Day is obliged rather to Preach a Sermon of his own Composing upon the same Argument than to Read the Homily concerning Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates This I doubt not was chearfully done by Persons and in Places of the greatest Eminency and we in the Country thought our selves bound to be as Dutiful as those in higher places as Affectionate to his Majesty's Service tho' not so Eloquent And tho' many of Richer Parts have of their Abundance cast much more into this Treasury yet Men of Meanest need not despair of His Majesty's Gracious Acceptance Mar. xij 42. whilst like the poor Widow in the Gospel they come to Express their Pious Officiousness to Support his Crown by their Oblations tho' they betray their Poverty by the Meanness of them and shew how much greater their Zeal is than their Abilities to serve Him This I did as well as I could in His Majesty's Collegiate Church of Ripon nor is it Ostentation that makes me Preach it over again from the Press but pure Charity towards the Cure of the Leprosie of those Rebellious Principles which every Priest must needs see tokens enough to discern to be that Plague in the Head which renders too many among our People so utterly unclean as that they are only fit to dwell alone and without the Camp of Israel Lev. xiij 44. ves 46. And as the Priest under the Law who attempted the Cure of any other Leper was by God's Direction to begin at the Right Ear xiv 14. and from thence to proceed to his Right Hand so I thought my self obliged to Print what I had Preach'd that they might Handle what they had heard and be the more perfectly Convinc'd how much it concerns us to Endeavour their Cure and them to join with us in our Prayers to God for the Perfecting it The Subject Convinces me how ready some will be to take Offence at the Author and Argument of this Sermon and tho' I neither fear the Censure nor court the Favour of Men so disaffected to the Government yet I thought my self obliged to make Choice of such a Patron as had been a Pattern of Loyalty to others and was Himself Able and Willing to Protect both and to Maintain that Truth which hath been the Rule of Your Life Your Lordships Devotion to Your Prince and Zeal for His Service being as well known as Your Person And tho' there be little in this Discourse Worthy of Your Judicious Eye or Owning Yet the Cause which it Pleads being That for which Your Honour hath always Expressed so Great a Concern as to venture Your Life and Estate in it makes me not Despair of its Acceptance And Your Eminent and Vndeserved Goodness of which I have had so long Experience secures my Pardon for Prefixing Your Name to it If my Abilities had born Proportion to my Will it should have been as far beyond as it now will fall short of Your Lordships Expectations But my Comfort is That as it gives me an Happy Opportunity to Testifie my Gratitude for Your former Favours so there will be a Power in Your Acceptance to make Plainness an Ornament and to Oblige others to think well of the mean but sincere Performances of him who accounts himself obliged to be as well as to subscribe himself My Lord Your Lordship's In all humble Duty and Unfeigned Observance THOMAS CARTWRIGHT 1 KINGS viij 66. On the Eighth day he sent the People away and they Blessed the King and went unto their Tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his Servant and for Israel his People WE are now happily Assembled in the Collegiate Church of Ripon endowed and conferr'd upon us by the Bounty of our Royal Founder King JAMES the First of ever blessed Memory in the Second Year of his Reign to Celebrate Aug. 2. 1604. according to the Laudable and Religions Practice of good Subjects in former Ages the Joyful Inauguration of his Grandson our Gracious Soveraign Lord King JAMES the Second on the First Day of the Second Year of his Reign And we may now remember with Comfort and Satisfaction to our Consciences how the Men of Ripon or our Friends of Ripon as they Ironically call'd us were singled out and traduced not many Years since by Julian Johnson Ferguson and other hot-spurs of the same Faction and Sedition who were then carrying on an Accursed Conspiracy against the Crown and Church of England and Exposed to the Madness of the People to be Ridicul'd and Revil'd for our early and then unfashionable Loyalty expressed in our Address in hopes that they might either have Laugh'd or Frighted us out of our Duty and Religion Now that we may testifie to the World our unmoveable Steadiness and the renewed Evidence of our Fidelity to the Crown in all unshaken Principles and Practises of Loyalty let us do the proper Work of the King's Day in its season Let us Bless God for the miraculous Disappointments of all the malicious Hopes and infernal Designs of those Blood-thirsty Men being not only agreeable to their Anti-Monarchical and Anti-Episcopal Principles but in truth inseparable from them Let us be joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord hath done for David his Servant and for Israel his People Shew your Love to his Person and your Zeal for his Government resign up your selves as you have done your Charter to Him not doubting of a proportionable Favour and Encouragement and as you have stood to your Prince in his severest Tryals according to your bounden Duty so let it not be in the power of any Discontented Persons whatsoever to Taint you with the least blemish of Disloyalty We want nothing blessed be God and the King as to our External State but what to wish for Do we not enjoy Peace Plenty and Liberty nay and the Best Religion in the World and why then should we disquiet our selves or others with the fanciful Imaginations and unreasonable Fears of future Evils for which in reality there appears no Foundation but in our own distemper'd Brains Let us do our Duty and the King his Pleasure let us not prevaricate with God or him but be

but what every Man himself pleas'd or that none should be pressed to fight against a Common Enemy this would look like a Glorious State of Liberty indeed through a pair of Popular Spectacles But if the King who is the best Judge of publick Necessity should see this would presently ruine his Kingdom he were not true to his Trust which God hath reposed in him if he should suffer them to keep their Money for his and their Enemies to make merry with and not call them both in their Purses and Persons to defend him and themselves against such Invasions So that the King may it seems make use of his Prerogative as God does of his Omnipotence upon some extraordinary Occasions For as my Lord Hobart well observes Colt and Glover against the Bp. of Litchfield The Statute Laws are made to ease him of his Labour not to deprive him of his Power and that he may make a Grant with a Non obstante to them And indeed the Power of Dispensing with particular Laws in some Emergencies is such a Lex Coronae such a Prerogative without which no Kingdom can be well Govern'd but Justice will be turn'd into Wormwood For there never was yet nor ever will be any humane Law fram'd with such exact Skill and Policy that it might not on some occasion or other be burdensom to the Subject and obstructive to the publick Good of the Common-Wealth There being particular Cases and Exigencies so infinitely various that 't is impossible for the Wit of Man to foresee or prevent them And therefore in all Government there must be a power Paramount to the written Law and we have good reason to bless God that this is lodg'd but in one and in him whom he hath set over us to be his Vicegerent by whose Authority they who break the Letter of the Law in pure Zeal and Loyalty to serve the ends of Government and to uphold the Crown on the right Head that does and ought to wear it may be releiv'd and pardon'd and rewarded too Suppose a Statute-Law made in Heat when the Nation was in a great Fright and Ferment and upon the false Suggestions and Depositions of them who were afterwards judicially convicted of being Perjur'd Villains should happen to run the Kingdom into one Mischief out of pure Zeal to avoid another Or suppose it should rob the King of his Rights of Government or his Subjects of their Birth-right or incapacitate them to serve him as by Oath and Duty bound even to the Quelling of an Invasion or open Rebellion which he could not do without their help Must the Kingdom be consum'd in a general Conflagration as the greatest City of it once was by Law If Contra Hostem Publicum quilibet Homo Miles be as true as it is a Common Maxime That every Man is in Commission to suppress a publick Rebellion then why such an Out-cry as if we were all undone or might be so by force of Popish Arms Why should Protestants only be at liberty to spend their Blood for the King and Kingdom 's Safety and the Papists sit still and look on Or why may not the King suspend such a Law when there is Hannibal ad portas as the Diseases of State and the various Exigences and posture of Affairs require and his own Prudence and Discretion shall direct him or invite him to it I do not see what irregularities might not be fairly excused in such Exigences by that Supreme Law of Necessity which bears down all Transgressions The King hath indeed promised to Govern by Law but the safety of the People is an Exception implied in every Monarchical Promise Nor must Policy or Popularity prevail against Piety And I am afraid that some of them who object this so smartly against the King have forgot how many Statute-Laws they themselves have broken and never yet call'd to account for them For which they have reason to bless God and the King and to be so very well pleased with his Clemency to them as not to grudge others to be sharers with them in the like Indulgencies We enjoy enough and we have no reason to desire that Men of as unquestionable Loyalty as our selves should be starved because they are not of our Religion when we neither deny them to be God's Israel nor the King's People We do not say That the Church of Rome is not a True Church tho' we affirm it to be a Corrupt one we like their Body well but not their Vlcers nor have we left Them but their Errors 'T is the same Naaman and he a Syrian still but Leprous with them and Cleansed with us Which we speak not out of censure but grief for we pity their Errors pray for their Conversion and long for a Re-union upon Terms of Faith Truth and Charity Nor indeed were we Catholicks or Christians if we did not And that the King may be convinc'd that we do it from the bottom of our Hearts Let him see that we envy none of his Perswasion any Expressions or Marks of his Royal Favour which he thinks fit to confer upon them and that our Eye is not Evil because he is Good We live I know in an unhappy Age wherein every Man is made to pass for a Romanist in Masquerade who will not be a bore-fac'd Rebel He must break all the Ties of Faith Truth and Justice and tamely subject all the Laws of God and the King to the imperious Dictates of some sly popular Incendiaries or else he is condemn'd without Mercy for a Betrayer of his Country and one who is willing to part with his Birth-right Priviledges and Religion But I have not so learned Christ nor am I afraid or ashamed of any Nick-Names that shall be given me for doing my Duty A good Conscience never wants courage nor does the Owner of it care more what Men say than what they dream of him when he discharges it And my Prayer to God shall always be That the People of England those especially committed to my charge may prove themselves as Loyal as did the People in my Text Who left the Government of the Kingdom to Solomon and went unto their Tents joyful and glad of heart which is the Fourth part of my Text to wit IV. Populi Exultatio the People's Triumph They were joyful and glad of heart The Wise-man tells us That there is a time to Weep for the sins and sufferings of our selves and others and such was that which we celebrated on Saturday last and a time to Rejoyce for the light of God's Countenace lifted upon us and our Relations For this we never had a more seasonable time than that which gives a Being and Authority to our present meeting Which affords us as much reason to rejoyce as the People in my Text had Joy being an Eccho a Religious Repercussion arising from the enjoyment of God's Mercy and a fulness of joy a dutiful Correspondence to the fulness of God's