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A66470	Religion exprest by loyalty in a sermon preach'd before the right worshipful Samuel Swift Esq., Mayor of the ancient, honourable and loyal city of Worcester, the first Sunday after his inauguration or instalment, being the 19th day of October, in the year of our redemption 1684, at the parish church of St. Swithin, upon a text selected by William Swift, Esq. (his truly loyal father) being the 21st. & 22d. verses of the 24th chapter of Solomons Proverbs, in these following expressions / by Will. Williams ...	Williams, William, Inferior Brother to the venerable and orthodox clergy.; Swift, William.	1685 (1685)	Wing W2790; ESTC R12293	14,287	42

·DIEV · ET · MON · DROIT · God save the KING Published at the Request of the MAYOR ALDERMEN and other noted Persons of the City of WORCESTER RELIGION EXPREST BY LOYALTY IN A SERMON Preach'd before the RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Samuel Swift Esq MAYOR of the Antient Honourable and Loyal City of Worcester The first Sunday after his Inauguration or Instalment being the 19th day of October in the year of our Redemption 1684. At the Parish Church of St. Swithin upon a Tex Selected by William Swift Esq his truly Loyal Father being the 21st 22d Verses of the 24th Chapter of Solomons Proverbs in these following expressions My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruin of them both By Will Williams an inferior Brother to the venerable and Orthodox Clergy LONDON Printed for the Author by T. Braddyll and are to be sold by Walter Davies Publisher in Amen Corner and by most Book-sellers in London and Worcester 1685. To the Right Worshipful Samuel Swift Esq Mayor and also to the Worshipful Aldermen together with all other worthy Members of the Common-Council pertaining to the City of WORCESTER Loving and Loyal Gentlemen IT is very observable that most of you to whom this Epistle is Dedicated were personally present at the delivery of the following Sermon which discourse I found to be complyable with your Loyal dispositions otherwise I had not been solicited by so many of its Auditors to publish the same in Print And tho I was much importun'd thereunto yet I durst not presume upon such an enterprize until I had taken the wary advice of much more discreet and better judgments The Text was recommended to my management by a well-wisher and good benefactor both to the Church of England and the Common-weal namely Wi. Swift Esq and it is an undoubted Testimonial not only of his Religious Principles but also of his Loyal Practices whose longing desire is to see Uniformity flourishing both in Church and State the which happiness would much redound to the satisfaction of all such Persons as have true affection to the present Government for if we take a serious prospect of the Primitive times nothing more prejudic'd the Christian Religion than the irregular discords of disaffected People as appears in the Faction of the Church of Corinth where one said I am of Paul another I am of Apollo a third I am of Cephas and a fourth I am of Christ as if Paul Apollo Peter and Christ had various Professions of the same universal or Catholick Doctrine which was so far repugnant with the uniformal practice of the Apostles that St. Paul sharply reprehended such conceited Parties for their inordinate and self-will'd distinctions as if thereby they contracted the guilt of Saducaean error i. e. in denying the Resurrection of Christ from the dead as appears in his 1 Epist Cor. Chap. 15. Vers 12. This Capital default was attended with many other Criminous or Enormous mistakes by reason of their incongruous Practices and Contentious Customs which were the perfidious and unsufferable Causes that brought Faith into Faction and Religion into Rebellion like our giddy Dissenters from the Church of England who contrary to the course of the Learned and Holy-men have imagin'd and fram'd strange conclusions in Divinity as alledging the Choice of Ministers to stand upon the approbation of the People and that they are all of equal authority also they affirm the Church of Englands Government to be unlawful and Anti-Christian and that the Lords Prayer commanded by our Saviour must not be used no Holy-day observ'd but the Sabbath no Primitive Father scited in the Pulpit the Book of Common-Prayer or Divine Service must be abolished all Ceremonies of our Church swept away as Popish that the calling of Bishops is an Anti-christian Hierarchy that Reformation of Religion belongs to the Commonalty that the People are better than the King and of greater Authority that the Presbitery and not the Prince should bear the Supream Government in matters Ecclesiastical These and such like Novelties are their seditious and confused Tenets the reason of all which mistakes as St. Peter remarks in his 2d Epist the 2d Chap. Verse 10 is because they are presumptuous self-will'd despising Government and speaking evil of Dignities tho the same Apostle obliges them by the express Rule of Scripture To fear God and honour their King but they by the Magick of their Seperation divide that Text of Scripture asunder which Christ and his Apostle have joyned together yea it visibly appears that though they pretended to fear God yet they so far dishonored their King as to occasion the death of the Lord 's Anointed to wit our late Royal Martyr and it is too apparent that the like mischief was lately hatcht in order to depose the Regal Person of our present Soveraign had not God preserved him by a miracle of unparalelled Mercy but to prevent such Schism Treason and Rebellion I shall conclude this Epistle with St. Paul's rule of Conformity in his 1 Epist Cor. Chap. 1 Verse 10. where he speaks these expressions to the Seditious Corinthians Now I beseech you Brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same Judgment Which Loyal Gentlemen Shall be the constant Prayer of your faithful Friend and Humble Servant whilst WILLIAM WILLIAMS Prov. 24. Chap. 21 22. Vers My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both THIS Portion of Scripture is so elegantly Emphatical in its important expressions that without controversie Soveraign Kings and Princes are the true Types or resemblances of Gods Supreme Majesty and such a one was the most Majestick and Magnificent Solomon who in reference to his abundant Wisdom did more represent his Heavenly Maker than any other Terrestrial Monarch whether preceding or succeeding his Regal dignity for he was so highly in favour with the Highest as to be called Lemuel a King belonging to the Lord also Jedidiah a King beloved of the Lord and likewise Shelemo which implies a peaceable and a quiet King These signal appellations are the sacred stamps wherewith God Almighty imprints his own Image upon the Persons of pious Princes that he may ranck them in the first and most principal Hierarchy of Magistratical Men where by a Deifi'd dignity his Holiness stiles them Gods and Children of the most high as appears in the 82d Psal at the 1st and the 6th Verses Also Moses saith in the 22d of Exod. at the 28th Vers Thou shalt not revile the Gods nor curse the Ruler of they People By which supernal Prerogative they are priviledg'd to exercise the greater

Authority yet are they so limmited by the restriction of Divine Precepts that they ought not to act any thing contradictory either to sound justice or judgment because the Soveraign duty of these Monarchs chiefly consists in matters of Religion that is in establishing the Faith secundum verbum Dei according to the word of God and to take care when it is so establish'd that it be reverently esteem'd and practiced both by themselves and their Subjects Also the Law of God and nature duly observed mildness and meekness used towards the vertuous likewise correction and instruction to those that are vitious in order to reclaim them unto a sober and Godly Conversation But in every respect justice and impartiality ought to be used towards all manner of Persons be they of what Nature Degree or Quality soever And as these forementioned particulars are the incumbent duties of superior Powers imposed upon them for the Glory of God the good of his Church and the wel-fare of Kingdoms and Common-weals So likewise every inferior Person through the vast Circumference of the whole Universe is obliged both by the Laws of God and Nature to pay unto his Governor whether Statesman Prince King or Emperor such respect love obedience dues and customs as shall accrue Tributary to that Potentate or Plenipotentiary according to the precepts and injunctions of those practicable and penal Laws For we may discern by the light of reason in case any subject being capable will refractorily omit to support his Prince in time of necessity when occasion calls for the assistance of his Purse or Person that at such an opportunity the Prince may justly refuse to own or protect him as his Subject But to prevent such miscarriages the wisest of Temporal Kings even Solomon himself has left us many presidential Precepts to create mutual respects between the one and the other so that we need not have recourse to the Athenian Schools nor consult the writings of Philosophers for they are so near unto us as to be found in the Oracles of God where as so many Golden Rules they direct and stir us up to tender our Allegiance unto Supremacy And this is clearly evidenc'd in the Foundation of my present Discourse where a King prescribing to his Subject the Law of Loyalty confers upon him the Title of a Son that he might become obedient by the advice of his Father as observing that a Father will give no ill Council to the Son unless when deceiv'd in his own judgment And such a Father was indulgent Solomon King of Israel for when he Reigned in his unparrallel'd pomp and Grandeur at Jerusalem he was Pater Patriae to the Israelites a Father that gave them good and wholesom instructions as apparently appears by the arguments he made use of to make a son born in his Kingdom become a Loyal Subject to his Prince perswading him in the first place to fear God and the King Secondly not to meddle with them that are given to change Thirdly to beware of their sudden Calamities Fourthly to eschew the ruine of such disorderly Dissenters All which cautions are compendiously comprehended in the words of my present Text where King Solomon gives this prudent admonition in the Person of one to all other subjects saying to each of them My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both In which words we may take notice of four remarkable particulars First Solomons Exhortation unto every rational Person to Fear Honour and Obey both God and his Legal Soveraign as appears in the former clause of the first Verse in my Text where he saith My Son fear thou the Lord and the King Secondly His dehortation to disswade or withdraw a Subject from adhering to such People as change their principles and practices from Regal Government manifested by these words of the latter clause in my first Verse And meddle not with them that are given to change Thirdly His demonstration of sudden and certain Calamities that by the Hand of Divine Justice are recompensible upon such Schismatical Dissenters And this is urg'd from the first branch of the second Verse in my Text where Solomon affirms That their Calamity shall rise suddenly Fourthly The destruction of that Empire Kingdom or Principality wherein the Subjects are Arbitrarily divided both among and against themselves which also is inferred from the last branch in my Text where Solomon propounds this Ominous Interrogatory And who knoweth the ruine of them both I shall Counterpoise these four particulars with four other pertinent propositions arising naturally from the words of the Text where in the first place I will assert that it is the incumbent duty of every rational Person to Fear God and Honour his King 2dly I shall affirm that he who fears God ought in such a manner to Honour his King as not to side with those that would alter or change his Government 3dly I will prove by express Testimonies of Scripture that sudden Calamities have ensued upon the Rebellion of Schismatical and Factious People 4thly I shall maintain that in whatever Nation the People are Arbitrarily divided in opposition to the Government such enterprizes portend those parties ruine 5thly and Lastly I will infer the application both from the Premises and the Conclusion of my Text. These are the points which with God's Assistance I design to insist upon in order whereunto I shall begin with the foremost Namely to Assert That it is the incumbent duty of every rational Person to Fear God and Honour his King as being suitable with the first clause in my Text where Solomon saith My Son fear thou the Lord and the King The Omnipotent and Eternal Jehovah being the Supreme Monarch of Heaven and Earth stil'd The King of Kings and Lord of Lords ought to be feared honoured and obeyed before any other Potentate whatsoever forasmuch as he is their Creator and Governor bearing rule over all the world and therefore to be feared as the King of Nations according to the observation of the Prophet Jeremiah in the 10 Chap. of his Prophecy Vers 7. Where he saith Who will not fear thee O King of Nations Where King of Nations is Gods own Prerogative although he hath given the Earth to the Children of Men as appears in the 115 Psal Vers 16. And it is divided into Portions among Princes even such as are Gods Vicegerents to whom next God we must also render our fear and obedience because they are Commissionated by him to bear the Sword of Justice and that both for the punishment of evil doers and the encouragement of them that do well that is for the encouragement of those who Fear God and Honour their Lawful Soveraign living in Peace and Unity among themselves which is the duty that Solomon enjoyns in the first Clause of my Text where he saith to every Subject