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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31024	Demetrius and the crafts-men a sermon preach'd at the Berkshire assizes held in Abingdon, August the 7th, 1683 / by William Baron ...	Baron, William, b. 1636.	1683 (1683)	Wing B894; ESTC R7334	13,488	28

run willfully into the same noose and even force Authority to do them reason at last Nay further our condition was for so●● time the more desperate because our very Representatives as they made themselves which should have quench'd the fire blew the coals by a strange Hysteron proteron of Policy would preserve the Government by countenancing none but those that acted against the establish'd Laws suppress Popery by setting up an Inquisition of their own and prevent Arbitrary Proceedings by making all honest men their Slaves Now what is this but for our Physicians to become our Disease they that should preserve the just rights of a well order'd State understood so little to hold the Rains that had they continu'd much longer in the Seat Jove himself could not have repair'd the ruines so dreadful a conflagration would have made Inter utrumque tene was part of Apollo's advice to the rash Youth and whoever thinks to preserve peace by letting every man have his humour or suppress the growth of a superstitious Worship by a licentious freedom will find each Family in a State of War and to prevent a bad Religion have none at all Thirdly My third and last Inference is That nothing preserves the Peace and welfare of mankind so much as a regular obedience unto Laws and a due execution of them upon such as will not yield obedience Which St. Peter makes the two main branches of every Magistrates Duty and for the greater encouragement assures them of a Divine Commission being sent from God for the punishment of evil-doers on the one side and praise of them that do well on the other 1 Pet. 2.14 Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power Ro. 13.3 do that which is good otherwise it bears not the Sword in vain And 't is not only a great but dangerous mistake of some men to think that Laws and Liberty are inconsistent Fallitur egregio quisquis sub Principe credit Servitium nunquam libertas gratior extat c. True freedom never appears so graceful as when it understands its duty regularly moves in its proper sphere as providence and Authority hath order'd But for some to dispute whether they shall obey or not and others dispute whether they shall not let them alone is to suffer the Ship both of Church and State to drive at the mercy of wind and Tide whilst neither Pilot nor Mariners attend their business 'T is what the Spirit of God severely reflects upon in a Heathen Magistrate and therefore strange if we have any Gallios under the Christian Oeconomy who can see the grossest violations before their eyes and yet Act. 18.17 care for none of these things Whereas to resume our former metaphor of this we must needs be convinc'd that 't is more reasonable to expect our safety from an unanimous endeavour to keep the Vessel above water then the fond hopes of an escape when ever she comes to sink And withall there is this great inducement to quicken us for if they who once had us under Hatches whether Papist or Puritan get us the second time into their power we can expect nothing less then the utmost extremity their little Finger were it possible should prove heavier than their Loins before To be sure instead of Rods they would be all Scorpion And yet how soon this may be God of his infinite wisdom only knows But doubtless it cannot be too much our endevour under his Blessing to prevent which for the close of all I am sure there are none here present but one way or other are qualified to do some by their Power others by their perswasion but all by their Prayers unfeignedly imploring that great and good God who is a God of Order to discountenance confusion to set bounds to mens Passions by Reason to Error by Truth to Sedition by Laws to Schisme by Charity and so fix us upon those lasting Pillars of Purity and Truth that being all of one heart and one mind we may make it our joynt endeavour to propagate the Gospel of his Son and serve him in the Eph. 4.3 unity of the Spirit and the bond of Peace FINIS

Demetrius and the Crafts-men A SERMON Preach'd at the Berkshire Assizes HELD IN ABINGDON August the 7 th 1683. By William Baron Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty and Rector of Hampstead-Marshal Enborne in the County of Berks. LONDON Printed for William Cademan at the Popes-head in the New-Exchange in the Strand MDCLXXXIII To the Right Worshipful JOHN WHITWICK Esq High-Seriff of BERKS With all the Loyal Addressors at the last Assizes whether of the Grand-Jury or other Deputy-Leivtenants Justices of the Peace c. Gentlemen I Must beg your justification of this pedant and Common-place Apology wherewith I am oblig'd to Preface my self to the Reader viz. that you not only earnestly requested but even forc'd a promise from me of putting this discourse in Print which I mention not so much in acknowledgment of that undeserved respect you were pleas'd to shew me although I should be the worst of men not to own so great an obligation nor to beg your protection against the malice and calumnies of the many inveterate Factions for I know 't is more than you can do for your selves But to declare the aversion I have ever had to appear in this kind with the loss of that freedom I have formerly taken in censuring other mens too great forwardness herein for I ever commiserated the poor burthen'd Press and amongst Friends frequently reflected upon our many self-admiring Authors with those little tricks and Artifices which of my knowledge are used to get abroad by publick order or especial command Besides as I was engag'd to serve Mr. High-Sheriff in this way of my profession as you Sir can testify before this last Hellish Conspiracy was discover●d so would I not be thought to have the more freely express●d my self upon the Discovery for I bless God I never believ●d better of the Party than they have now approv'd themselves and therefore left to my own choice should think it too late to express my resentments when by the infinite mercy of Heaven they are as despicable as they were sometimes dangerous But since I am thus put upon unbosoming my thoughts give me leave further to declare a suspicion that our prudential Politicians with their Trimming Moderation who now indeed cry peccavi with a non putaram truly I could not have thought that any English Spirit had been of such a temper are Hypocrites rather than Fools and I am still afraid that many who now kiss the hand wish'd well to the enterprise in their hearts and despair not of a better opportunity to cut the throat whilst that malicious monkish wit upon the great Erasmus hanging between Heaven and Hell may be apply'd to many of our Wise Discreet Men who take care to keep themselves equally pois'd between Monarchy and Commonwealth Had the Design indeed newly drop'd out of the Clouds from the Prince of the Air or been some antiquated project of Machiavel or Borgia a sober well meaning intention might have been impos'd upon by those many fair Glosses which are never wanting upon such occasions but when 't is one continued Scene of villany carry'd on for Forty I may say for Fourscore years together and now begun to be acted over again by many of the same persons all upon the same principles nay so dull is their invention by the same method too by the same improbable Stories false suggestions and most scandalous reproaches upon all men that stand up for Peace and Truth Religion or Loyalty How can any man of sence debauch his Reason or Charity so far as to believe that such Vipers have all on a suddain lost their Stings or that they will not naturally produce a Generation of the same kind especially when we find them equally impenitent for the mischiefs they have formerly done and partial in their present Judgment and representation of things Thus the 5th of November was a Hellish Bloody Plot but the 30th of January's Parricide must not be call'd to remembrance the Court must be arraign'd of Arbitrary Designs but not one single Member suspected of Commonwealthism and therefore whilst our Demagogues were in being to defend the establish'd Church was nothing less than Popery and to compare Eighty with Forty One the direct way into T ms Inquisition as if no man living could remember the Arbitrary arrogance of a Republican Junto with our twenty years Captivity under a Rebel Sword or to speak of our Religious concerns as if Ignatius Loyola and John Calvin had not both set up about the same time or our poor Church and Nation suffer'd as much from the Presbyterians as Jesuits But in this Gentlemen as well as in the following discourse I present you with nothing but your own thoughts which as they are much better express'd in your Loyal Address to His Majesty so do you still more effectually declare them in a continued steady vigour for His Service and Preservation E. of Craven And as there is one Great GoodMan to whose Bounty and Favour I must under God solely attribute whatever relates to my well being in this life so I esteem it no mean part of my happiness that He and Providence hath fix'd me amongst a company of worthy Persons who will set a value upon a man though be hath nothing more to recommend him than an unfeigned Zeal for the Church and State King and Government but so good a Principle will buoy up any ordinary parts and alone enable its votaries to laugh at and defie the froppishness and falshood of a gain-saying disobedient People whom I should not despair shortly to see of another temper had you Gentlemen the same influence upon our little Commonwealth Corporations as you have upon the out-lying Factions But since it is the will of Heaven that these Canaanites should be continued in the Land doubtless it will now on all hands be thought requisite to have such an eye upon them that it may not be in their power to quench the light of our Israel or disturb the Peace of Sion And if by this means we can at last be throughly awakened into a sence of danger it will be such light out of darkness such an unexpected good from so Hellish an intended Evil as those malevolent Spirits whom the disappointments cannot convert the envy must necessarily confound whilst our repeated deliverances having wearied the malice of their attempts we may by Gods blessing arrive in the end at that happy settlement which you and all good men endeavour and that your endeavours may fully take effect amongst many thousand others more worthy to prevail shall never want the incessant Prayers of Honoured Sirs Your most Unfeigned Faithful Servant WILL. BARON Acts 19.38 Wherefore if Demetrius and the Crafts-men which are with him have a matter against any man the Law is open and there are Deputies let them implead one another THere is such a mutual correspondence between our publick and private wel-fare every mans perticular interest so unavoidably depends upon the common