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A95627	A sermon preached at the primary visitation of the Most Reverend Father in God Michael Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland, and lord high chancellor of the same. Held at Drogheda, August 20. 1679. / by Rich. Tenison ...	Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.; Boyle, Michael, 1609?-1702.	1679 (1679)	Wing T683; ESTC R184950	25,194	36

when he would have dissolved them they have proclaimed openly that their Assembly was the Supream Judicatory in all Causes Ecclesiastical and that it was their antient Grievance that his Majesty took upon him spiritual Authority and therefore they instigated the Commons to rebel for to give him power in Spirituals was to erect a Popedom in his Person Nay in the year 1582 when K. James did Ass at St. And. by his Royal Letter by express Messengers by his Master of Requests and Herald at Arms prohibit their Assembly they slighted all and did proceed then and afterward they would allow of no Appeals to the King but punished those who did so Print 47. Decret Syn. though Paul was permitted to appeal unto Cesar In their Theorems they say no Power on earth can challenge Command or Dominion upon the Church but that all Estates within that Realm 1 Book Disc 7. Head as well Rulers as others must be subject to the Discipline So that you see the most learned of their Writers their most admired Preachers their General Assemblies which are the Representative Body of the Kirk rob the King of the honour and authority which belong to him diminish his Power and with the Pope raise themselves above all that is called God which the Apostle makes a Mark of Antichrist and they justly urge it so against him but what will they say if he retort it upon the Kirk 2. Bork Disc C. 12. seeing they say their jurisdiction is independent and that all men as well Magistrates as others are subject to their Judgment What dos the Pope say more They both have deposed Princes for not owning this Doctrine and by these fiery Principles have set the world in a flame How miserable then are those Monarchs whose Crown life depend on the pleasure of such men What Protestant King and Country can be long quiet where they are All our late Troubles sprung from these sanguinary Doctrines they ruined both Church State made these three Kingdoms one great Akeldama while there is the same cause may we not fear the same effects What has either party Printed in detestation of these ungodly Tenets Practices which may awaken the Government to fixt their Eyes upon both for tho their Heads look several ways like those of a Spread Eagle yet are they united in heart with their sharp Claws are still grasping to pull down the most Apostolical Church under Heaven Let them for shame renounce these Rebellious opinions be no longer the great violators of this Apostalical Canon let them become good Christians and good Subjects and unite themselves to the true old Protestants who are free from the blood of Kings who have ever been the best observers of this Text and consequently the best Subjects which is the last thing to be discoursed on 3dly And very justly may I call them the best Subjects it being against the Doctrine of our Church any way to dishonour the King she enjoyns obedience to him in spiritual as well as temporal things and gives him the same authority which Godly Kings had among the Jews and Christian Emperours in the primitive Church her Liturgy her Homilies her Canons her Articles do all own his Supremacy while both Papists and Fanaticks deny it pretend a Superiority over him and that by Divine right Where by the way I may note the great Partiality and Injustice of our Separatists who when they exalted their new Discipline above all other Forms of Church Government call it the Scepter of Christs Kingdom and exact obedience from all Monarchs to it enter into a rebellious Covenant to defend it and murther thousands who opposed it even then did they cry out against Episcopacy as intolerable intrenching on the Kings Prerogative and taking away his Power because some had learnedly defended the Order to be Apostolical Divine How great was this Injustice to abolish Episcopacy which had flourished in all ages and all places of the world even in Aethiopia and India where the Popes Supremacy is disowned from the very Apostles days for pretending to stand by the same Authority which their upstart Model had against Scripture and Antiquity most illegally usurped How highly did these men sin against this Text abuse and dishonour the King in urging him with Force and Arms to pull down that holy Order which he and his Ancestors were at their Coronation most solemnly sworn to preserve and which with all the Priviledges and Liberties of the Church more than thirty Parliaments had wisely and maturely confirmed And have they not again attempted by the Sword their only powerful Argument to compel our present Soveraign contrary to all Rules of Justice and Providence to alter that Government which has ever been obedient to him for that which always rebelled against him and turn out a Clergy who would vindicate his Prerogative and seal their Allegiance with their blood and place those in their Seats who were ever disloyal and yet claim Authority over him to whom as his martyred Father said of them nothing will give content but the alteration of the whole frame of the Government and the total overthrow of Royal Authority Decl. after the Pacif. at Ber. or as his Royal Grandfather wrot of them who will judge and give Law to their King but be controul'd by none whom no deserts can oblige neither Oaths nor Promises bind breathing nothing but Sedition and Calumnies Bas Dor. and aspiring without measure c. This and much more was the Character that wise King who had a long and sad experience of them left to his Son and their many Rebellions ever since shew it not only true of them who vexed his righteous Soul but a Prediction of others who would afterward strictly adhere to their Principles and in bloody Letters have they in most places since recorded themselves the great violaters of this Text. But blessed be God the true Episcopal Protestants have always observed it and most conscientiously honoured their King they have adhered to him in the worst of times and have been the greatest presidents of Fidelity in the world they have cheerfully suffered plundering and sequestration imprisonment and exile some were Martyrs at Home and others were Confessors abroad neither Chains nor Gibbets could terrifie them from their Allegiance their Religion and Loyalty were grounded on the same Foundation and they could not be Sons of the Church and Traytors to the King they must lay down old Protestancy when they lift up a hand against the Lords Anointed For their Principles are the same with those of the Primitive Christians and they will on no pretence whatsoever rebel against their Prince though he were a Presbyterian both in Opinion and Government they durst not dishonour or disobey him but would with those of old flere mori weep and dye and never draw a Sword against him They would imitate the Thebean Legion under Maximianus submit to a second Decimation and be cut in pieces before they would strike at their lawful Soveraign This was and is still the Doctrine of our Church in which she may justly triumph over all the World which we should at this juncture of time frequently preach and defend with all true Protestant Courage and Resolution Let us with the brave Mauricius and Exuperius who commanded that Loyal Army call to our Parishioners Mori magis quàm vincere rather to dye and fall innocently than live victorious Rebels let us often shew them the eternal Rewards of Fidelity and the dreadful Punishments of Disobedience 3. Ser. against Rebel let us convince them as 't is in our Homilies which also shews the Doctrine of our Church that as Heaven is the place of good obedient Subjects so is Hell the Prison and Dungeon of Rebels against God and their Prince c. By which allowed President let us with Loyal and Religious Zeal cry aloud against the Breakers of this Text let us assert the Supremacy of Princes in their own Territories against all the Delusions and Impostures of Rome and Geneva let us privately discourse them and publickly preach them into a devout Reverence and Loyal Admiration of the present Government which for the security of Religion and Property is most certainly the best under Heaven t is easie and gentle not Arbitrary and Tyrannical and gives the Subject all the Priviledges he can rationally desire no Sequestrators or Committy-men are seen among us the Cry of Widdows and Orphans is not heard in our streets the Peasant does not groan under Taxes but every man enjoys his own and is protected by the Laws from the Oppressions and Injuries of others for which and all other Blessings we here enjoy perswade we our Auditors to be truly thankful to God and the King and to express it in all Godliness and Honesty in all Loyalty and Affection in unity and uniformity and let us in all respects be burning and shining Lights unto them In a word let us in our Lives and Actions contribute all we can to the Honour of our King who is a most tender indulgent and nursing Father to our Church Let us shew it in our exact Conformity to the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws in our great Honour and Obedience to those whom he hath set over us in Church and State and especially to him who for his vast abilities his great Sufferings and untainted Loyalty is now most deservedly set in the ancient Throne of this Diocess let his Comfort in his Clergy increase with his Honour and let us by the Holiness of our Lives our Constancy in Preaching and other Ministerial Duties on which I have formerly on the like occasion discoursed shew our Obedience to our Metropolitan our Fear to God and Honour to the King FINIS

A SERMON Preached at the Primary Visitation OF THE Most Reverend FATHER in GOD MICHAEL Lord Arch-Bishop of ARMAGH PRIMATE and METROPOLITAN OF ALL IRELAND AND Lord High Chancellor of the Same Held at Drogheda August 20. 1679. By RICH. TENISON Dean of Clogher DVBLIN Printed by Benjamin Took and John Crook Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty and are to be sold at His Majesties Printing-House in Skinner-Row 1679. To the most Reverend Father in God Michael Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland and Lord High Chancellor of the same May it please your Grace SO great and high are your Graces zealous Affections and just Veneration for the best of Kings that no Sermon which is perswasive to Allegiance can pass unregarded by you but receives incouragement beyond its merit of which observed truth your Commands for this mean Discourse are an evident Demonstration I little thought having so happily escaped your learned Ear to undergo the Test of your most piercing Eye but having then preached Obedience to others I must practise it my self and submit to the kind Injunctions of so great a Superior 't is therefore laid at your Graces feet hoping my Loyalty will attone its many imperfections and the dayly fears of our Soveraigns Assassination may justifie its zeal and warmth For what tongue can be silent to see the Father of our Countrey assaulted with such variety of Deaths To see the Ponyard at his sacred Breast the fatal Dose preparing and the Gun ready to fire must fill every true Subject with horrour and resolution He is the Head of the Body Politick and as in the Natural all the Members strive to defend the Head and share in its pain so should it be in this the bloody hand which is lift up against him must wound all loyal souls the cursed Sword which strikes at him must pierce their hearts they must value the Life of their Prince infinitely above their own and run through the greatest difficulties to preserve him and if they dye in his defence they perpetuate their Name on Earth and receive the Reward of their Fidelity in Heaven which true Protestant Principle made many thousands in the late times leap into the midst of dangers and run through the armed Troops of their too potent Enemies their greatest force could not make them yield but they covered that Post with their Bodies which they could not maintain with their Arms and willingly died martyrs for their King their Religion and Country This my Lord many places can witness but none more in this Kingdom than this Loyal Town in defence of which your Graces valiant Brother famous for Courage and Conduct and many hundreds more did triumphantly lose their lives their blood ran in streams through our streets and like the brave Leonidas in the Straits of Thermopyle they with a small number opposed an Army and no doubt but there are vast multitudes in each of these Kingdoms who will imitate those Heroick spirits and cheerfully fall for the King and the Church And if ever good Subjects should demonstrate their Courage it is now if ever Protestants should love honour and obey their King it is now when the cruel Jesuits are plotting and consulting to murther him and subvert our Religion in this they are closely combined this they hold lawful and just as I have proved out of many of their Books besides Mariana though a Jesuit lately executed would confess none else of that Judgment But alas instead of uniting against them we bandy into Sects and Factions we run into Schisms and Divisions and make way for them to destroy us we forget how the Civil Discords of our Ancestours brought our King and Countrey under the Subjection of the Roman Emperour and I wish our violent heats about Religion do not at last bring our Church under the vassalage of the Roman Bishop and our State into some imminent danger for without an agreement in that our Kingdoms cannot flourish Where men differ in Ecclesiasticks they usually clash in Politicks and have their own intrigues and designs to promote their Opinions they are jealous and doubtful one of another and like the several Factions in Rome and Carthage while they pretend the good of the Commonwealth they destroy it Of this our late bloody and tragical Devastations are an undeniable Evidence and that we are falling into the same miseries again is more than probable for seditious and fiery spirits do now as formerly fill the floating heads of the vulgar with causless fears and jealousies and make the King and his greatest Ministers the common Subject of their Discourse and if all things be not done and timed according to their humour as if they knew all Reasons of State and had Intelligence from all parts of the world then do they calumniate and slander the Government and asperse those most who have ever been most eminent for their Loyalty to the King and the Church and would now die in their defence and thus are the people deluded and made subservient to some aspiring male-contents who by their Agents and Emissaries do in all places reflect on the Management of Affairs and make them Patrons of Popery who have ever abhorred it and were lately for their aversion to it to be cruelly murthered as is constantly affirmed by * Dr Oats's Nar. p. 16. 23 25. those on whose Evidence most of our late Discoveries depend But your Grace well remembers this was their method in the beginning of our late troubles they according to Machiavals Advice did boldly libel and calumniate and to destroy both Church and State they subverted their strongest Pillars under the pretence of being corrupted and rotten with Popery and by clamour and noise made all Papists who were not as rash furious and disloyal as themselves Nay those holy Prelates whose most learned Works will be eternal Armeries and most impregnable Fortresses against the whole power of Rome were most unjustly and ingratefully branded with the same Character and such are now their Designs and Practices They would perswade the people to have an ill opinion of our Governours that they might the more securely carry on their own Designs But I hope God will infuse a spirit of Discerning into our King our Parliaments and Counsellors and that all who are in any Authority will fix one Eye on those subtile Vnderminers both of Church and State that while they are most zealous and intent and blessed be God they are so on the suppression of Popery our rigid Sectaries may not grow too numerous and formidable for when greedy and voracious flames seize on both ends of a Ship the middle part is like to perish and we know Diseases long neglected may prove destructive In the beginning of the Reformation the Genevian Infection did spread it self and the good Queen could not easily prevent it her Thoughts being chiefly employed in the Extirpation of Popery which dangerous Evil the wise King James