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A40476 The wickedness and punishment of rebellion a sermon preach'd the 26. July S.V. 1685 (being the day of thanksgiveing appointedby His Majestie for the defeat of the rebels) before the right worshipfull the Fellowship of Merchants Adventurers of England residing at Dordrecht / by Aug. Frezer, M.A. of St. Edmunds Hall in Oxford ... Frezer, Augustine, b. 1649 or 50. 1686 (1686) Wing F2204; ESTC R42039 21,832 42

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THE WICKEDNESS and PUNISHMENT OF REBELLION A SERMON Preach'd the 26. July S. V. 1685. Being the Day of Thanksgiveing appointed by his Majestie for the DEFEAT of the REBELS before the Right Worshipfull the FELLOWSHIP OF MERCHANTS ADVENTURERS OF ENGLAND resideing at DORDRECHT By AUG FREZER M. A. of St. Edmunds Hall in Oxford Preacher to the said Societie 2 King 9 31. Had Zimri Peace Rom. 13 2. They that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation ROTTERDAM Printed by REINIER LEERS M.DC.LXXXVI To the Honourable BEVIL SKELTON Esquire Envoy Extraordinary from the most Mighty and Victorious PRINCE JAMES II. King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. to the STATES GENERAL of the United Provinces HONOURABLE SIR TO still the rageing of the sea and the madness of the People is observ'd by the Royal Prophet to be the Work of God and the Effect of an Almighty Power which never appear'd more visibly than in favour of his Majestie for these several years past First by a miraculous revolution of Affaires to make way for his Accession to the Crown some time before the death of the late King of blessed memory then by his peaceable and quiet entrance upon his Government and lastly by the sudden dissipation of the late Rebellion contrary to all humane Appearance and Expectation Never was any people since the time of Pontius Pilate arrived to that height of unaccountable Madness against a Prince who had often ventur'd his life for their defence and preservation and had never given them any provocation that like the Jewes against our Saviour nothing would serve their turnes but Crucifie him Crucifie him and when they were asked why what evill hath he don They cryed out the more Let him be Crucified A Bill is drawn up passes the House of Commons and all sorts of endeavours us'd to extort the Royal assent to get it passed into a Law for the Exclusion of the right Heir for casting him out of his Inheritance and for putting him to death too as a Traitour and Common Enemie if he offer'd to return from his Banishment and did not patiently submit to the Iniquity of their sentence And this Fit of Madness after id had bin a little quieted by a Dissolution and Change of air is reviv'd again by the VOX POPULI or a Cry of importunate and unmannerly Petitioners from almost all parts of the Nation for another Excludeing House of Commons which is succeeded by another who are Resolved not to be satisfied with the most Gracious Offers that were ever made by any Prince to any People but only at the expence of the Justice Honour and Conscience of their Soveraigne till they had renderd themselves useless and dangerous and the Leading Men among them against the Duke of York are found guilty by a Cloud of Witnesses and their own Confession of a Conspiracy against the King whereof part are brought to condign Punishment and the rest forced to save themselves by flight from the hands of Justice that it was now high time for the Government to consider of some more effectual Remedy than had formerly bin us'd to cure the People of their Frenzie and to keep them whether they will or no from undoing themselves in makeing choice of such Patriots as under the pretence of secureing their Religion and Propertie by excludeing the Duke of York from his Right of succession would have infaillibly destroyed both In order whereunto an enquiry is made whether such Corporations as had shewed themselves most factious and disaffected to the Government had not abused the Royal Bounty by which they held their Charters are found to have incurr'd a forfieture so partly by due Course of Law partlie by voluntarie resignations such Elections are regulated and care taken that only persons of known Loyaltie well affected to the Government both in Church and State as by Law established should be capable to serve in Parliament In the mean time the Fever begins to abate and the People to recover their right senses again The Duke is sent for Scotland and by the way suffers Shipwrack and by a wonderfull Providence escapes and now instead of Crucifie him Away vvith him there is nothing but Hosannas joyfull Acclamations from all Parts and Quarters of the Kingdom for his happy Escape and Deliverance together with Protestations offers of Lives Fortunes to live and die in defence of the King and his Lawfull Successours Thus did God by a series of Miracles both preserve our present Soveraign prepare his way to the Throne by turning the hearts stilling the madnesse of the people that there was not a sword drawn nor the least Opposition made to hinder or so much as question his Rightfull Succession to the Government upon the Decease of his dear most entirely beloved Brother Which whoever duly considers will be forced to confesse that it was the hand of the Lord only that could bring such mighty things to passe That be stone which the Builders refused should become the headstone in the Corner this was certainly the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our Eyes The late Rebellion may be said to be some remainder or dregs of the former fit of Madnesse which by the Blessing of God upon his Majesties Armes is so totally extinguishd that so long as it shall please God to continue his happy Raign over us we have no reason to fear any disturbance for the future For which unspeakable mercy every true English man that loves his King or has any kindnesse for his native Country ought to have kept a day of solemne Thanksgiveing if there had bin none appointed by Authority which has bin the Occasion of preaching the following Sermon and which I have made publick for the sake of such of my Countrymen in these Provinces especially as lie under the Imputation and guilt of assisting the late Rebels and of contributeing to the carrying on of so impious and diabolical a designe Of whom I do not altogether despair but that by their own and other mens Misfortunes they may be perswaded at length to see and to acknowledg their Errour and not any longer suffer themselves to be deceived to their eternal as well as temporal Ruine and Destruction Haveing resolv'd to appear a second time in defence of the Royal Cause I have presumed Honourable Sir to put my self under your Honours Patronage and Protection and so guarded I shall not be afraid to bid defiance to all Traitours and Parricides whatsoever who are confounded with terrour when they hear your very name nor shall I need to value any mans Censure which I never thought so considerable as to come in competition with the service of my King or the interest of my Country which next to the Glory of God being the sole ends both of preaching and publishing this discourse I hope may make some Compensation for the defects that may be in it and in some measure excuse this