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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30057	A sermon preached at the Cathedral-Church of Hereford on May the 29th, 1684 being the anniversary day of His late Majesties birth and happy restauration, at a feast then first instituted by some of the loyal inhabitants of that country / by Richard Bulkeley ...	Bulkeley, Richard, 1657 or 8-1702.	1685 (1685)	Wing B5406; ESTC R3336	17,961	32

as if there could be any such when they sin only against God may be deprived Psal That the People taken collectively are better than the King and of greater Authority That they may Arraign their Prince and they might with as much Justice and Equity on their sides have said Murder'd him too as they once did that it is not sufficient for Subjects not to obey the wicked Commandments of their Prince which we are like to have none of but they must resest them also and deliver the Children of God which by a strange kind of Baptism they Christen themselves from the hands of their Enemies as we would deliver a Sheep that is in danger to be devoured by a Wolf Which wicked and damnable Doctrines with many more of the same leven and stamp which for the imbittered poyson they carry along with them I shall forbear to mention and are at large recited out of Knox and Buchanan two factious and rebellious Teachers Book 1. Ch. 4. by Bishop Bancroft in his most useful Book of dangerous Positions Now I say if we have a hearty and sincere joy and rejoycing that the King and in him Monarchy is restored we must abhor dread and abominate these and such like pernicious Principles which have seduc'd men from their bounden Duty and Deference to their Prince by which they have endeavoured though with all the Wit and Malice they had they never could to justifie and maintain their rebellious Commotions against him otherwise we can have no share or partnership no communion or fellowship with those that offer up their Hosannas and Hallelujahs to him that sitteth in the Heavens laughs our Enemies to scorn and protects us and our Anointed Next Let this our just Joy suggest unto us an important Duty incumbent upon all good Christians and good Subjects which shall be this Not only to offer up unto God our devoutest Praises for this and all other his Benefits conferred upon us but our earnest our incessant Prayers also that He for unless God keep the City the Watchman waketh but in vain would continue his hedge of Protection about us and defend us and our Religion the best and purest in the World from all the continued Assaults and Batteries that are made and raised against us and this not only by his Universal Power as the common Preserver of men but also by his more immediate and especial Care but by his particular Providence without which like disagreeing Elements we shall prey upon and devour each other Farther let us beseech Almighty God for there never was more need that He would depute a Guard of Holy Angels those ministring Spirits to defend our King and his Royal Brother from all the Plots and Machinations not only that are but also that shall ever be formed or managed against them that he would scatter all their Enemies that delight in Blood as Dust and Chaff before the Wind that he would confound their Counsels and defeat their Stratagems that like the untimely fruit of the Womb they might prove abortive and never see the Sun never behold the Light and in fine that he will suffer no Weapon forged against them to prosper though never so often consecrated to such impious and unhallowed purposes Last of all After we have unanimously sent up our Petitions with all the Purity we are able to Almighty God who is a Defender of All them who repose their trust and confidence in him let us also add our own earnest and honest Endeavours to suppress all malevolent and disaffected Persons and Parties and so bring as much as in us lies all sactious disturbers of the Peace and fomenters of Discord to their condign and deserved punishment let us suffer no reproach we can prevent to befall no Dirt to be cast upon the Government let us suppress all Conventicles and Meeting-houses the very Nurseries and Seminaries of Rebellion and in a word let us put all the wholsom Penal Laws in Execution for nothing less will prevail upon our obstinate Dissenters whose pernicious Doctrines and impious Positions whose Midnight Plots and Noon-tide Contrivances we have good reason not only to dread and fear but also as much as by Law and Honesty we can to provide against especially since we see by their late that they do not repent them of their former Practises especially since we see they are so inured to so fond of their old Forty Eight Republican Principles that we find by their often tho not successful Attempts thanks to Heaven alone not to them for it that no Indulgences will win them nor a thousand Acts of Oblivion make them forget their Villany Villany that caus'd all that did but dare to be more honest than their wicked selves to live such Lives and be subject to such Tyranny that like some of the persecuted Christians of old they would have embraced Death as a kind and friendly deliverer that they complained of Life because of its trouble Ch. 3. v. 10. and might have cried out with Job Wherefore is light given to us that are in misery and life unto the bitter in soul But because by the blessing of God and the endeavours of honest men things are brought to a more promising Crisis and favourable prospect I shall insist no longer on this point but shall conclude it with the ingenious Prefacer to the excellent Treatise of Toleration and Comprehension discussed That it is too sadly apparent from the late Books and Pamphlets of these kind of men speaking of the Dissenters and against the Church and State of England that they endeavour to do that work which Jesuits and Jesuited Papists do most heartily wish were accomplished And I will add that if ever Popery breaks in upon us as a severe Scourge and Judgment for our sins which God avert that notwithstanding their outcries and clamours against it yet they will be in all humane probability the unhappy Instruments to introduce it which I wish they may seriously and in time consider and by an honest Conformity to our Church for there is no other way endeavour to prevent and remedy that our Land may not again be overwhelmed with Cruelty that our Church now purified and refined may not once more be run over with Idolatry and Superstition that our Souls may not be enslaved and our Consciences enthralled and that we may not be brought to this sad Dilemma either to dye barbarously or to live wickedly either to resign up our Lives which is a hard case or else that which is far harder yet to worship a true living God after a dead and false manner which Considerations I leave to them with all the earnestness imaginable begging them to look into the causless grounds of their Separation from us and so weigh these and such like consequences which may fatally ensue and to repent and amend before it be too late which if they will not let me tell them this and many more Discourses extant in