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A42096	The resigned & resolved Christian, and faithful & undaunted royalist in tvvo plaine farevvell-sermons, & a loyal farevvell-visitation-speech, both deliver'd amidst the lamentable confusions occasioned by the late forreign invasion & home-defection of His Majesties subjects in England / by Denis Granville, D.D., deane & archdeacon of Durham, (now in exile) chaplaine in ordinary to His Majestie ; whereunto are added certaine letters to his relations & freinds [sic] in England shewing the reasons and manner of his withdrawing out of the kingdom ...	Grenville, Denis, 1637-1703.	1689 (1689)	Wing G1940; ESTC R41659	109,381	177

vvretched requitalls that vvee have made for the Mercy Bounty of our Father in Heaven his Deputy on Earth I shall not omitt the repetition there of tho late carriages transactions persuade mee it vvill be unpleasant to some of your ears since out of Gods Rods vvee may at this very instant pluck a fescue to teach us our lesson Wee have impudently defied HEAVEN by all imaginable Provocations but by nothing more I am not afraid nor ashamed yet to harp upon my old string than by our contempt of it in making bold vvith it's VICE-GERENT Tho God hath bless'd us English vvith a more happy Race of Kings than any Nation in the World can boast of yet it is notorious that no people under the sun have transgress'd more egregiously by murmuring Complaints or that hath Copied out vvith more exactness the unthankfullnesse Infidelity Distrust of the Impenitent hard-hearted Ievves Both in reference to God himselfe in Heaven and their Conductors MOSES AARON here on Earth If God in his vvrath had sent us a vvicked Heathnish Persecutour a Nero a Caligula or Dioclesian to Reigne over us vvee must vvith Confusion have confess'd that it had been much lesse than vvee deserv'd And yet vvee the most incorrigible people I thinke under Heaven are so squeamish that vvee cannot digest a Christian Monarch Gratious mercifull even to Wonder A Prince vvho hath demonstrated himselfe beyond all gainsaying to be a true son of K. Charles the Martyr vvho vvas A King I am persvvaded of the greatest clemency that ever vvas upon the face of the Earth cannot digest I say a Soveraign endovved vvith all these Graces and a multitude of other Kingly Qualyties relating to War Government merely because hee is not of our opinion in point of Religion tho hee gives us no other disturbance in the exercise of ours than to desire liberty for himselfe party to enjoy their ovvn Since vvee have thus Ungodlily Brovv-beaten Strugled vvith and in a manner Disclaimed if not rejected such a Christian Prince God in his Justice threatens to give us up a Prey to our Enimies the vvorst Masters upon the face of the Earth Our abhorr'd Ingratitude to his Royall Brother selfe vvithout putting in to the scales our other innumerable sins impieties may give us just ground to feare that our incens'd God may designe to teach us submission and subjection by so severe a Method as to make us vvho have been yet one of the freest and most happy Nations of Europe TRUCKLE to an Upstart-Commonvvealth to an Antimonarchicall Generation vho by their continuall shelt'ring encouraging and assisting of Traytors proclame their Emnity to the very name of King and that they vvould not leave if they could have their vvill one Crovvn'd Head in Christendom But let us not be discouraged or despond over much Our condition Blessed be God is far from desperate England cannot be destroyed unlesse it destroy it selfe If vvee vvill in this our day but forsake our sins and stoop first to the God of Heaven and aftervvards to his Anointed servant our Indulgent Soveraign as far as hee hath for this last month past condescended to the requests of his People flinging the vvorst of Traytours our sins out of our Bosomes and I do not doubt but that vvee shall soon drive the Dutch victoriously out of the Land. TO CONCLUDE IT May perchance Brethren seem a little out of the road to employ in this my sole Charge to the Cergy as I have done the whole time alloted both for Sermon the other ordinary Application But I pray consider that I speake to you in avery extraordinary Time vvhich requires every one of us Publick Persons to do if hee can something extraordinary in the discharge of his Duty And besides t is a time of danger and vvar vvhich may be attended on if God in his mercy doth not prevent vvith Blood Confusion So that I cannot assure my selfe t'vvould be a sin not to feare vvhen God threatens that I may live to speak to you in this Place any more Anceps fortuna belli tho I declare I have not such dreadfull Apprehensions as some may have of this unnaturall War but support my selfe vvith a good measure of Confidence that God vvill give the King speedily the necks of his Enimies since hee hath by his late Gratious Condescensions and assurances regained I am vvilling to hope the Hearts of his Freinds Which desireable issue nothing can vvithold Heaven from bestovving upon us but Impenitency more particularly the vvant of Humility to Confesse the Errours vvhich vvee the Leaders of our flocks have been guilty of to ovvne the false steps vvee have made to the Misguiding of our People I do as vvell as the King next under God rely on the brave antient valour of the English Nation English men fighting vvith svvords vvhile their Enimies put their Trust cheifly in Lyes Libells When our Royall Puissant Soveraign appears in the head of his Troops His Example sure must needs animate and create Valour in the most dispirited Covvard And had I not indispensably devoted my selfe to serve my King by serving our Church and obliged my selfe to pray rather than fight for his Grovvn I vvould be the first man that should run to the Royal Standard and please my self to thinke that in defence of my King Country I should have the Honour of some of my Ancestors to fall in the Feild or be buried in thé Deep Let not my Earnestnesse Brethren make you Conceit that I suspect your Loyalty Allegiance vvhich I hope desire you vvill all speedily manifest by a loyall Addresse to his Majesty to shevv your Abhorrence of the Injustice and Unnaturallness of the Invasion and that you vvill ever in remembrance of your Oathes stand by him serve himto the Uttermost vvith your Lives Fortunes It is the indispensable Duty of a faithfull Visitor to quicken his Clergy in such an Exigent And vvith Integrity of Heart I novv do it that I may give you true Measures vvhereby you may set right your People I do acknovvledge my selfe a very feeble tho I hope honest supporter of the Church Crovvn of England But hovvever I have not so bad an Opinion of my selfe God be praised as to be ashamed here among you either of my Life or Doctrine And to evince that I am not I have this day repeated the substance or Cheif Heads of vvhat I have l'ayd before you during the last foure yeares of my Office vvhich none can deny hath been a time of great temptation triall I COMMEND YOV TO GODS BLESSING and Direction I 'LE say but one vvord more and God knovves vvhether it may not be the last I may ever say in this place and it shall be this CONTEND AND FIGHT AS WELL AS PRAY AS HEARTILY AS YOU PLEASE AGAINST OUR INSOLENT NEIGHBOURS THE DUTCH BUT CEASE TO DISPUTE WITH YOUR

and truest Protestant Princes on the Face of the vvhole Earth They then dreaded TYRANNY ARBITRARY POWER as they pretended tho they lived under a Meek Gratious Prince vvhose Clemency proved his Ruine They Loudly Exclaimed against EVILL COUNCELLOURS but vvere not satisfied till they vvere flesh'd vvith the Bloud of LAUD and STRAFFORD and had over-throwne under that populour colour disguise the most Considerable Pillars of Church and State. They complained of Greivances with no lesse noise in those dayes than Male-Contents in these and also Unmannerly press'd for Condescentions but when they had Extorted them from that Good Prince who was tender of his People even to Excesse they were not contented till hee had condescended his Royall Head to the Block and that by one fatall Blow three Kingdoms were involved in Bloud Confusion Gods-solemne VVorship Service turned quite of doores the Fathers and dignified Clergy of the Church aswell as the right-Loyall Nobility Gentry of the Land Vilely trampelled on by the Meanest of the Vulgar and at last the Crovvne Church-Revenue the Purchase cheifly armed at seiz'd on imployed to maintaine support FANATICISME USURPATION Why Rebellion Sedition or any rude Treatment of Majesty should novv portend better in 88 than it did 48 yeares ago I cannot discover And that Rebells Traytors sted into the Lovv-Countryes should bee purified by the Air Conversation of Holland I can as little Conceive No more can I conceit how the inticing and ensnaring away of the Kings subjects as at present to fight against their Liege Lord Soveraigne nay to deliver him up into the hands of his Enimies should be a specimen infallible Mark of kindnesse to the Church of-England-Protestant-Religion Which will not permit upon any pretences vvhatsoever to take up Arms against a Lavvful King nor assist aid or abet those vvho doe no not somuch as to vvish ill to the Lords Anointed in the very Bottome of our Hearts For the Love of God Brethren let us leave those fond immaginations discourses and practices vvhich have set the vvhole Land into a Combustion let us bee ashamed of those Vnreasonable Delusions Methods of Delivery vvhich bring those very Feares or vvorse Evills on us vvhich vvee endeavour to Avoid Such Infatuation is a sad Prognostication Quos perdere vult Iupiter hos dementat Wee have in this Iuncture I confesse just ground of Feare Ieasousy I vvho have hitherto Opposed Feares Iealousies do novv advise the preaching on those Topieks to vvitt That they vvho dare unjustly to invade us intend if they can pretend vvhat they please to Conquer us and in plaine termes in the conclusion to enslave us I dare not in such a Time of difficulty but declare clearely my Mind Conscience If the Trumpet novv should give an uncertaine Sound it might bee of lamentable consequence I never did yet I thanke God nor ever vvill play my Game so as if I intended only to save my Stake It is your infelicity Dear Beloved Brethren at this instant to have no Person in Circumstances Superiour to mee in the Country to give you right measures VVhich vvhen I have honestly and faithfully done as I have endeavoured this day if you vvill not take them the Guilt must lye at your ovvn doors I never yet vvas nor ever shall be I trust ashamed in the Pulpit to ovvn my duty to my Soveraigne And if I should be silent novv vvhen there is more need than ever for Preachers faithfully to Open their Mouthes to prevent the Seducing of VVell-Meaning People I should conclude myselfe accessary to the Rebellion The God of Heaven by his Holy Spirit the most Infallible Guide direct us all into the faithfull discharge of our respective duties to our Sovereign from which vve can never deviate I am sure vvithout deviating from the Church of England To God the Father c. FINIS THE CHEIFEST MATTERS CONTAINED IN SUNDRY DISCOURSES MADE TO THE CLERGY OF THE ARCHDEACONRY of DURHAM SINCE HIS MAJESTIES COMING TO THE CROVVN Summed up and seasonably brought againe to their vievv in a Loyall Farevvell-Visitation-Speech on the 15. of November last 88. being ten dayes after the Landing of the Prince of Orange By DENIS GRANVILLE D. D. Deane Archdeacon of Durham novv in Exile Chaplaine in Ordinary to his Majesty Printed at Roüen by WILLIAM MACHUEL ruë S. Lo neare the Palace for JOHN BAPTISTE BESONGNE ruë Escuyer at the Royall sun and are to be sold by AUGUSTIN BESONGNE in the Great Hall of the Palace at Paris In the yeare of our Lord God M. DC LXXXIX TO THE READER THE same necessity vvhich drove mee from my Home at the very time vvhich my Soveraigne vvas forced to vvithdravv from his ovvne Palace compells mee to send these as vvell as my other Papers to the Press to shevv the manner hovv I parted vvith my Freinds Flocks in the Bishoprick of Durham and that the last Discharge of my Archidiaconall Office in a Tyme of trouble vvas suitable to my past life Acttings during more than tvventy yeares in a time of Peace Hovv imperfect insufficient soever both have been I never vvanted through Gods Grace Resolution all a long to Oppose the Subjects in croaching on the Prerogative of their King as heartily as I have vvith-stood the Dutch their Invading of the Land. It vvill be no great ground of Admiration then to all vvho throughly knovv mee that at such a Iuncture I did dare speake plaine English to fortify my Brethren against Temptations and encourage them as I have done in their Duty to God the King. And I Blesse Gods most holy name that hee hath been pleased to bestovv on mee for the supply of my manifold Defects allvvayes Christian Confidence in the Pulpit vvho have not injoyed much of it any vvhere else By vvhat God gave mee boldness at that time to speak in the ears of a large Publick Auditory of Clergy Layity not rashly but vvith the most mature consideration that I utter'd any thing in my vvhole life they might perceive I did not intend to stay at Durham if my Soveraigne should bee Banish'd from his Kingdom As by committing the same discourse to the Press after more serious thoughts greater deliberation all men vvill bee easily Convinced that till my Soveraigne be restored vvhich I do heartily pray for I have no thoughts to returne Tho I found it very easy intelligible hovv to behave my selfe under a Roman Catholick Prince in the discharge of all Duties incumbent on mee as a Right Church-of-England-Subject or Christian yet must acknovvledge that I am void of Logick other Learning to supply mee vvith distinctions and furniture necessary to live under an Vsurper And therefore if the Reader discover the vvhole course of my life as vvell as my vvritings destitute of Craft to transforme my selfe into any shape and change vvith the Government let him not be astonish'd or