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A61435 Old English loyalty & policy agreeable to primitive Christianity. The first part by the author of The beginning and progress of a needfull and hopefull reformation. Stephens, Edward, d. 1706. 1695 (1695) Wing S5433; ESTC R32555 31,683 49

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Old English Loyalty Policy Agreeable to PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY The First PART By the Author of The Beginning and Progress of a Needfull and Hopefull Reformation Jer. xlviij 10. Cursed be he that doth the Work of the Lord deceitfully or negligently Pestis Patriae Pigrities LONDON Printed in the Year 1691. Published 1695. To Their Excellent Majesties King WILLIAM Queen MARY May it please Your Majesties I Presume I may say without Vanity that as no Man hath more heartily desir'd so none hath more constantly and unmoveably endeavour'd in the way which I take to be most direct and certain to promote the Honour and Prosperity of Your Majesties than my self And though to the generality of the Men of this degenerate Age I may seem to have treated you with less Respect than I ought yet to Your own Royal Judgments enlarged with a Noble sense of Piety Virtue and Generosity I cannot doubt but the following Pages will demonstrate the contrary and that I have treated you with greater Honour than their narrow Sentiments could imagine It is true I had a principal Respect to the Honor of that Transcendent Majesty to which all Creatures ought always to be ready to sacrifice their little Sparks of Honour and their Lives and Beings And to make the poor degenerate Mortals of this Age in some sort sensible of their Stupidity and great Insensibility of the Honour due to that Glorious Majesty I know not any thing that could have a more direct Tendency and Efficacy than with great Fidelity to intermix such Freedom as might excite some sense and concern for the Honour due to a much inferiour Majesty of a Mortal And from this Principle may be deduc'd an unanswerable Conviction of a double Fault in most of those who shall censure me for it 1. Of want of due and proportionable Concern for the Honour of that Supreme Majesty upon just and great occasion 2. Of want of due Concern at the Dishonour done to Your Majesties not in Words but in treacherous and unworthy Actions He who can acquit himself of the due discharge of his Duty in these respects may be allow'd to cast the first Stone of Censure at me Your Majesties have done your selves no little Honour in resenting what I have done not as some mean Souls expected and perhaps desired but so as hath confirmed the Honourable Opinion which I and many others had of your Virtues And as I much rejoyce to see it so it is matter of great pity and grief to me to see so much Virtue and so noble Vndertakings so encumber'd and pester'd with so much Sordidness Baseness and Vnfaithfulness as I cannot but observe in some who should be were they like their Ancestors the Honour and Glory of the Nation But I hope Your Virtues by the Favour and Blessing of Almighty God will spedily subdue all that Wickedness and Vnfaithfulness to God and to Your selves which you must first encounter with at home and then all Your Enemies abroad and at last obtain an Eternal Victory Which is the hearty Desire and daily Prayer of Your Majesties Humble and most faithfull Subject Old English Loyalty Policy Agreeable to PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY THE great Opposition which hath always been made by the Kingdom of Darkness against the Kingdom of Light and by the Seed of the Serpent against the Seed of the Woman may easily be perceived by any who carefully read the Sacred Scriptures or will consider the Actions of Men upon Earth form the beginning In this opposition there is nothing more admirable and amazing than to see such as may charitably be believed to belong to the Kingdom of Light notwithstanding in many things so greatly abused as to become subservient to the Designs of the Kingdom of Darkness Yet that so it often is may be plainly observed and as plainly that it always proceeds from some relicks of Carnal Affections or of Impressions of the World too easily admitted in which the Powers of Darkness preside and often prevail under some Appearance or other most commonly of Zeal for the Truth or for the Church of Prudence of Provision for Families and the like And few there are who can say The Prince of this World cometh and hath nothing in me Jo. 14.30 few to whom it may not be said How can ye believe who receive Honour one of another and seek not the Honour that cometh from God only Jo. 5.44 few that regard those important Admonitions How hard is it for a Rich Man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven or the genuine state of Christianity and few who take half so much pains to purifie their Souls by Mortification of Carnal and Worldly Affections as they do to feed and gratifie those Affections The Heroick Vertues of the antient Christians we reject as Popery and leave to the Cells or neglect as peculiar to times of Persecution Which we may again pull down upon our selves if we make it more necessary for us than our selves fit for enjoyment of such a deliverance as we formally profess to acknowledge These Affections we indulge not only in our liberal use of Necessaries but even in Superfluities in the Pomps and Vanities of the World and in insatiable pursuit thereof even often by indirect means though most solemnly renounced at our Baptism and corrupt the Sense and the most express Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture that we may do it with the more freedom Nor are these the faults of the grosly vicious and profane only but such as it is rare to find any of the best so free from but the Prince of this World may find something to take hold on and make them too often subservient to his Interest Though Pride was the occasion of the Fall of Angels and is the very Diabolism if I may so say of the Devils who being in truth dependent Beings would set up for independent Deities and be worshipped and adored and served by their fellow Creatures which was so well understood and considered by the ancient Christians that they reputed Humility one of the first most necessary fundamental Vertues and declined all worldly Honour and Applause of Men as carefully and circumspectly as we see it now studiously and earnestly pursued yet is there nothing more common among us than to see People otherwise sober of good parts and sincerely religious yet so infatuated with Vain-glory Ostentation Formality and Affectation or Conceitedness as even to render themselves ridiculous and pitied by those of whom they seek Applause or to be admired and so miserably enchanted and inslaved by this Devil that neither their own Experience nor the Admonition of faithful Friends can reclaim them But they carry their own Rod at their Backs and that as certain and smart as one would wish In others who have escaped the grosness of this Folly yet is it often manifest by their Concern for the Honor of very Trifles as some Criticism or new Discovery or Invention or other