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A44244	Against disloyalty fower sermons preach'd in the times of the late troubles / by Barten Holyday., D.D., Arch=deacon of Oxford, and chaplain to His late Majesty, Charles the First, of blessed memory.	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2530; ESTC R43257	56,607	145

last made but the Appurtenances of Empires and more usually draind then defended What were the Greekes though once they flourished in Wealth and Wit Though they withstood the Persians Insolence yet were they subdued by the Roman Wisdome and quite enslaved by the Turkish Fury But were they not divided before they were destroyed Did not their Distractions unite their enimies to Art and Victory Let them remember the designe of Unity in the Conveniency of defence Let the Roman Provinces be a witnesse which though at first they did a little struggle for mistaken Liberty yet did not usually their subjection become their purchase Feare was before still at the doore and afterwards Safety their terrour a Potent enimy by a rare felicity being turnd to their defence Let them remember the blessings of our Canaan would they see Solomon's days in his Peace in his Wisdome can they behold it more eminently then in his Temple and his Fleete And may they not see here high degrees of such Devotion and Wisdome for God's glory and our Country's safety And is it not the first if not the greatest Act of Wisdome to preserve it selfe Let no Sonne then become so unwise so unhallowed so unnaturall as to ●●t up the hand against his Father When Kings are likened unto God is it not occasionally as well for their justice as for their mercy They beare not the Sword in vaine And if God's wrath as his mercy should be a patterne for Kings had not all need to remember with what exaltation of phrase the Almighty has express'd the exaltation of his wrath If I whet my glittering Sword and my hand take hold on Judgement I will render vengeance to my adversaries and will reward them that hate mee I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my Sword shall devoure flesh But Oh let the softnesse of nature the justice of Duty the Promise of this Commandement which is the first Commandement with promise Ephes 6.2 bend the heart and knee of every Israëlite unto their Lord their Soveraigne Lord their Soveraigne Father That so they may enjoy the Commandement in the Promise by living long in the Land which the Lord their God has given them And let the Annointed of the Lord the Father of our Israel march with the thousands of his people and with the protection of our God Let him be clad with the whole armour of God Let his Loines be girt about with Truth having on the breast-plate of Righteousnesse Let his feet be shod with the preparation of the Ghospell of peace Let him take the shield of Faith wherewith to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked Let him take the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of God's Spirit Let him march clad with the prayers of his People and let all his enimies perish O Lord. But let thine Annointed returne in Safety in Peace in Honour to the Honour of thy Name and the Peace of this thy Israel Amen Amen Of Vnitie A SERMON Preached before KING CHARLES the FIRST At Christ-Church in Oxford on Whit-Sunday May 21. 1643. By BARTEN HOLYDAY D. D. Arch-deacon of Oxford and one of His Majesties Chaplaines OXFORD Printed by W. H. for S. Pocock 1661. Ephes 4.3 Endeavouring to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace NO Times have more then These Pretended the Unity of the Spirit no Times have more then these violated the unity of the Spirit Which Spirit as on this day vouchsafing to descend to us we may by the figure and neernesse not unhappily understand it and most happily keep it We may by the Art of this daies Miracle see this Spirit though a Spirit the vertue of it whiles the resemblance of it A Resemblance not presented to the mistake of Sleep or Phansie but to the Inquisition and Loyalty of the Fye Was not the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace when this blessed Spirit did abide in the Society of the Apostles And may not such a blessing win us to an endeavour and such an Endeavour advantage us to keep such a Blessing That therefore we may perfect This Taske and by this Our selves we may with as much Hope as Desire of successe behold this Vnity a better then that of the Soule and body a Unity of Spirits the Spirits of Men united by the Spirit of God We may behold this Spirit which though it informes not the Body informes the Soule not by Nature but by Holinesse We may behold this Peace whose perfection passes all understanding whose comfort yet is in part apprehended by the Sense Wee may behold this Bond which does not Gird though Encompasse us nay whiles it Binds us gives us perfect Freedome We may behold the blessing of keeping this blessing both being receiv'd from the Love and Instruction of this Spirit We may lastly behold this Endeavour a greater Wisdome then a Labour and be allwaies found either Rejoycing or Endeavouring to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace The Highest Vnity is Gods property Inferiour Unity is his work a work of wisdome being a Unity in a Multitude a work of goodnesse being the preservation of a Multitude Which blessing yet is more frequently found in the inferiour creatures then in Man through the defection of the Will from the Understanding as afterwards through the defection of both from God Which degree of Disunion being once made Unity which should have been a comfort to man became his Taske so that now he must endeavour to be what he should be and what he was at Unity as a Creature with the Creator and with the Creatures In which worke he may Learne Unity from the Creatures they being unto him alwaies instruction and sometimes shame so wisely preserving themselves into flocks and heards as if they would advance the Unity of Instinct above the Unity of Reason He may learne it from the Body whose severall parts unite and submit their services to the Safety and Majesty of the Head He may learne it from the first Integrity and Abilities of his own Soul whose severall powers of Motion Sense Appetite and Will were so united in their obedience to Reason that they seem'd to improve themselves from the servants into the Associats of it To attain which Unity as it is Happinesse so to Desire it is Wisdome the way to Happinesse And to attaine it Nature raises Families Families Citties Citties Kingdomes as Faith erects the Church and all these make up the World Take Unity then out of the World and it dissolves into a Chaös in which Nature it selfe can not find it selfe whiles it can find neither End nor Way Yet even this Chaös will be worse then the first there being in that the materialls of a World but in this the Ruines That was God's worke but This Man's Take Unity out of the Church and Religion becomes Schisme excluding Love and so leaving the Deity without a Sacrifice which since mans creation being relatives as