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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47487	Vivat Rex a sermon preached before the Right Worshipful the Mayor, aldermen, council and citizens of Bristol : upon the discovery of the late treasonable phanatick plot : at St. James's Church, July 25, 1683 being Sunday in the Fair-week / by R. Kingston ...	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1683 (1683)	Wing K617; ESTC R17184	23,808	48

VIVAT REX A SERMON Preached before the Right Worshipful THE MAYOR ALDERMEN Council and Citizens of BRISTOL Upon the Discovery of the Late Treasonable Phanatick Plot. At St. James's Church July 25. 1683. being Sunday in the Fair-Week By R. KINGSTON M.A. One of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary 1 Sam. xv 23. Rebellion is as the Sin of Witchcraft and Stubbornness is as Iniquity and Idolatry LONDON Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh Bookseller to his Royal Highness at the Black Bull in Corn-Hill against the Royal-Exchange 1683. To the Right Worshipful THOMAS ESTON Esq Mayor And to the Right and Worshipful Sir Robert Ganne Knight and Baronet Sir Robert Yeomans Knight and Baronet Sir Richard Crump Knight Sir John Knight jun. Knight John Lawford Esq John Hicks Esq Ralph Olliffe Esq Aldermen To Mr. George Hart and Mr. John Combes Sheriffs And to all the rest of the Loyal Aldermen Common-Council and Citizens of BRISTOL Right Worshipful THO' I am too conscious of my own weakness and inability to perform any thing worthy of your Acceptance who are bless'd with many Learned and Loyal Clergy-men that entertain you with more polite Discourses yet I dare not say but that I did most chearfully comply with the Commands of many Considerable Persons for publishing this Discourse not only because it will be a Testimony of your Respects to so mean an Orator but because it will be an Evidence of this Cities Duty and Affection to the King of which no City in England hath given more chearful and ample demonstrations It is but a while since as your Worships all sorrowfully remember that Loyal and Conscientious Subjects had like to have been overborn by the inundation of Popular Clamours and the rancorous breaths of the Factious Mobile but tho' this Disease had spread its Contagion into too many great Bodies of this Kingdom and the Tyde of Rebellion grew very high and threatning in this City also yet did your Extraordinary Care and Vigilance Antitode the Infection Stem the impetuous Torrent and maugre all the Designs of an Antimonarchical Faction preserve this City in Loyalty and Obedience Which that you may always do to the Honour of God that Commands it to the Safety of the King that Deserves it and your own Eternal Felicity that Endeavour it is the Prayer of Right Worshipful Your most humble Servant Richard Kingston July 26. 1683. A SERMON ON 1 SAM X. 24. And all the People shouted and said God Save the King WHen the dumb Son of Craesus saw an Assassin about to Murther his Father tho' he never spake before opened his Mouth with this passionate Expression 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O wretched Man do not Kill my Father Now if the Murther of a Natural Parent was a Crime of that horrid nature and strange resentment as to work a Miracle for its prevention then certainly the Murther of a King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who is Pater Patriae a the Father of his Countrey hath so much of Horror and Villany in it that if we should hold our Tongues from a detestation of the Impious Fact and imploring the Aid of Heaven for our Sovereign's Preservation the stones of the Street would cry out against such an Irreligious Silence Tim. iii. 1 3 4. St. Paul tells us that in the last days perilous times should come the men whose indeavours should contribute to make them such were persons whose character was made up of the following vices viz lovers of themselves covetous proud boasters blasphemers without natural affection truce breakers false accusers dispisers of those that are good traytors heady high minded c. and if our lot be fallen in an Age which exactly agrees with the Character of the last we must make no disingenious reflections on the providence of God but lay it at their dores who by copying out the faults of the worst men provoke the Almighty to make their lives somewhat more then the transcript of their miseries And that we do live in such days and among such persons as trully deserves the aggravating Epithits of unnatural heady high minded Traytors needs no further proofe than the discovery of the late damnable and hellish Plot aginst the life of our Soveraign the subversion of our Laws and the destruction of Loyal Subjects A Plot that would have extinguish'd the light of our Israel Stopt the breath of our Nostrils murdered the Lords Anoynted and given a bloody Bill of Exclusion to both root and branch of a glorious Monarchy a Plot that would have turn'd our Streets into shambles and fill'd our houses with Bloody Tragedies a Plot wherein transcendent villany hath left no room for pardon but cries aloud to heaven for Vengance and calls his Majesties Loyal Subjects to fall on their Knees in prayer Saying God save the King And Since I am for many weighty reasons confirm'd in my belief that no sort of people question the truth of this damnable conspiracy but such whose interests obliges them to stifle it or want demonstration from the accursed deed from which good Lord deliver us and that the great discourse is what should cause such men from whom all the world might expect better to conspire against the Life of their Sovereign and to involve the Kingdom in blood and ruine I hope it will be thought no impertinent digression to assign three things as the cause thereof The first of which is that men of unstable heads but strong passions are subject to believe that a good End doth legitimate and sanctify the worst means and now being secured of the goodness and worthiness of their End their thoughts are always in such a hurry about it their minds so intent upon it and they are so violently hot and eager in the prosecution of it that they will not allow themselves leisure and patience to consider the Lawfulness and Expediency of the means they use for the compassing of it and by this means court their own Ruine and by doing Evil that Good may come thereby assert the justice of their condemnation 1 Sam. xv 22. Or else it is for that reason given by the Prophet Samuel That Rebellion is as the Sin of Witchcraft as well in its facination as in its guilt for none but men under the power of so great a delusion could be guilty of so barbarous an impiety unless men had offered violence to themselves martyr'd their own Consciences chased all remains of honesty and compassion out of their own breasts they could not have entred into such an Hellish Conspiracy and cease wholly to be Men that they might commence Devils hence then I say is the cause of this infatuation that men lying under the Inchantment of Rebellion want the genuine exercise of their Reason and must return to their Allegiance and so be converted from Beasts to Men before they can be Masters of their Wit and Senses And if these will not be allowed the cause of such inhuman miscarriages I know not