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A funeral sermon on the occasion of the death of Algernon Sidney, Esq. Who was beheaded on Tower-Hill, on December the seventh 1683. for high-treason
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Wing F2539A; ESTC R214649
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Churches were built for them which prosperity being abused by the Bishops and the Clergy and other Christians unto Pride and Idleness strife and Contention It moved the Lord to scourge them with another See the tenth Persecution which began in the nineteenth year of the Emperour Dioclestan which raged very sore and extended unto this Island which was then under the goverment of the Romans Korah Dathan and Abiram though they had a Preheminence above many others yet the Pride of their Spirits causeth them to swell against Moses and Aaron Humility of Spirit is a special means to keep the heart in peace with God and from breaking out into irregular motions An humble man blesseth God that he hath raised him above any others and is not troubled that others are raised higher than himself Jacob confesseth himself to be less than the least of all God's Mercies Some think others too high who think themselves not high enough Plenty Riches and Prosperity do usually puff men up with Pride and Pride ingendereth strife and contention He that is of a Proud Heart stireth up Strife Prov. 28. 25. Some men are contentious to shew that they are men of Spirit Proud and Haughty Scorner is his name who dealeth in Proud Wrath. Prov. 21. 24. Some men are violent and wrathful meerly out of Pride that others may know they are men of mettle This is proud Wrath as the wise Man termeth it Ambition Pride and immoderate desire of greatness moved Alexandria the Great to wage War with Darius King of Persia This was the Cause of the Civil war between Caesar and Pompey Sylla and Marius Anthony and Augustus Pride hath been the cause of many Schisms and Divisions in the Church Hence the Corinthians ran into Schisms and Parties one was for Paul another was for Apollos a third was for Caephas a fourth above all Ministers and Ordinances he is for Christ alone Whence arose the strife between Basil and Eusebius Bishop of Caesarea and between Origen and Demetrius Bishop of Alexandria whence arose the stirs that Montanus Demetrius and Arrius made in the Epiphan lib. 2. Theodoret lib. 1. cap. 8. Sozom. lib. 2. cap. 18. Church whence were the contentions between Paulinus and Flavianus Lucifer and Eusebius the Meletians and Eustathians all at the beginning good Christians and embracing true Doctrine yet at last so divided they were that the one Excommunicated the other whence was the strife between Chrysostom of the one part and Cyril Theophilus and Epiphanius of the other about the Burning of Origens Books did not all these contentions spring from Pride whence were the contentions among certain Popes and Popish Bishops was it not from Pride was it not about the Supremacy which ambitious Popes have proudly challenged Humility is a low Postern at which the Proud man will not stoop Heaven is an High City yet hath but a low Gate as St. Augustine saith Peace is humble Pride quite overlooks her The safest way to keep fire is to rake it up in Embers and the best way to preserve Peace is in Humility Observation IV. That near Neighbourhood between men of corrupt Principles and working Spirits is very dangerous to the publick Korah with the Kohathites and Dathan and Abiram with the Reubenites were quartered on the South side of the Tabernacle This near Situation gave them opportunities of frequent coming together whereby they had an advantage of hatching this wicked PLOT against MOSES and AARON Confederacy in Evil is strong in Operation God complaineth Ezek. 22. 25. of the Prophets of Jerusalem thus There is a Conspiracy of her Prophets in the midst thereof The Hebrew for Conspiracy is from a root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est ligare colligare Metaphorice dicitur de animorum colligatione conjurare facere ligam or word which signifies to bind to tye together as Jeremiah 51. 63. Isaiah 49. 16. and metaphorically is referred to the minds of men combining together as 2 Sam. 25. 31. It is said that Ahitophel is among the Conspirators with Absalom Backsherim in Conspirationibus his mind with others of his Associates was United in a Conspiracy against David So 2 Kings 12. 20. Jehoash his Servants arose and made a Conspiracy It is in the Original they conspired a Conspiracy they were all of one heart and mind and it was to kill their Master Being fellow Servants and dwelling together they had the more opportunities of meeting together to Plot the Destruction of their Master So the evil Prophets had a Conspiracy they met in Jerusalem they consulted and agreed together to Prophecy the same things that none should Prophecy otherwise they made a Conspiracy against the true Prophets and those that were truly Religious opposing God and Godliness Ye may read how they set themselves against Jeremiah Chap. 26. 8. and stired up the Princes and People against him verse 13. How they Prophecied the same things Jerem. 23. 17. Such was the Counsel of Trent a meer Conspiracy did they not agree together that whoever Preached against their Canons and Articles should be Anathematized did they not stir up the Princes and Powers of the world to punish those they Judged Schismaticks and Hereticks Observation V. That outward blessings bestowed upon evil men do commonly become snares to themselves and sometimes hurtful and prejudicial to the Common-Wealth These Conspiratours were Princess of the Assembly famous in the Congregation men of Name or Renown Their dignity put them upon this mutiny with hope of success Poyson given in Wine worketh strongly Sin meeting with outward advantages is the more mischievous when evil men come to places of Eminency they vent the Corruptions that lay hid in them before they make Progress in Wickedness and nothing restrains them we are ready to think that great men that have had good Education are well natured will prove admirable Instruments of God's glory and the publick good but we deceive our selves in some when they come to high and publick places their evil natures do appear and they grow worse and worse Nero at first for five years carried himself well like a Lamb but he was a Lion and his Lionish disposition shewed it self to the full These Princes of the Assembly perverted the end for which they were ordained of God and set up by men in Micahs days the heads of the house of Jacob and the Princes of the House of Israel abhorred Judgment and perverted all equity They build up Sion with Blood and Jerusalem with Iniquity and for their sins and sakes was Sion Plowed as a Field and Jerusalem made heaps The Venetian History informs us that in a time when the Common-Wealth of Venice was much afflicted Baimonti Tepulo who issued from a noble family but bearing a Devilish hatred to his Country with divers others of the same quality and means conspired against it divers of the common people being in pay with the Conspirators who in the midst of a horrible tempest intermingled with