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A23829 A letter to a friend concerning the behaviour of Christians under the various revolutions of state-governments Allix, Pierre, 1641-1717. 1693 (1693) Wing A1225; ESTC R14319 18,890 34

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Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswell DR Patricks Parable of the Pilgrim The 6th Edition Corrected Exposition of the Ten Commandments 8vo Private Prayer to be used in difficult times Sermon before the Prince of Orange at St. James's 20th January 1688. Sermon before the Queen at Whitehall March 1. 1688. Dr. Burnets Collection of Tracts and Discourses written after the Discovery of the Popish Plot from the years 1678 to 1685. To which is added A Letter written to Dr. Burnet giving an Account of Cardinal Pools Secret Powers The History of the Powder Treason with a Vindication of the Proceedings thereupon An Impartial Consideration of the Five Jesuits Dying Speeches who were executed for the Popish Plot 1679. His Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England In which is demonstrated that all the Essentials of Ordination according to the Practice of the Primitive and Greek Churches are still retained in our Church Reflections on the Relation of the English Reformation lately Printed at Oxford In two Parts 4 to Animadversions on the Reflections upon Dr. BVRNET's Travels 8 o. Reflections on a Paper intituled his Majesties Reasons for withdrawing himself from Rochester An Enquity into the Present State of Affairs and in particular whether we owe Allegiance to the King in these Circumstances And whether we are bound to Treat with Him and call him back or no A Sermon Preached in St. James's Chappel before the Prince of Orange 23d December 1688. A Sermon Preached before the House of Commons 31. January 1688. being the Thanksgiving day for the Deliverance of this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power His Eighteen Papers relating to the Affairs of Church and State during the Reign of King James the Second Seventeen whereof were written in Holland and first Printed there the other at Exeter soon after the Prince of Orange's Landing in England A Letter to Mr. Thevenot Containing a Censure of Mr. Le Grand's History of King Henry the Eighth's Divorce To which is added a Censure of Mr. de Meaux's History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches Together with some further Reflections on Mr. Le Grand 1689. Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria a Christe nato usque ad Saeculum XIV Facili Methodo digesta Qua de Vita illorum ac Rebus gestis de Secta Dogmatibus Elogio Stylo de Scriptis genuinis dabits suppositias ineditis deperditis Fragmentis deque variis Operum Editionibus perspicue agitur Accedunt Scriptores Gentiles Christianae Religionis Oppugnatores cujusvis Saeculi Breviarium Inseruntur suis locis Veterum aliquot Opuscula Fragmenta tum Graeca tum Latina hactenus medita Praemissa denique Prolegomena quibus plurima ad Antiquitatis Ecclesiasticae studium spectantia traduntur Opus Indicibus necessariis instructum Autore GULIELMO CAVE SS Theol. Profes Canonico Windssoriensi Accedit ab Alia Manu Appendix ab incunte Saeculo XIV ad Annum usque MDXVII Fol. 1689. OF THE Behaviour of Christians UNDER Various Revolutions IMPRIMATUR April 20. 1693. R. BARKER A LETTER TO A FRIEND CONCERNING THE Behaviour of Christians UNDER THE VARIOUS REVOLUTIONS OF STATE-GOVERNMENTS LONDON Printed for Rich. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard MDCXCIII A LETTER TO A FRIEND Concerning the Behaviour of Christians under the various Revolutions of State-Governments THE Revolutions that so frequently happen in States may well engage an honest man to examine how Christians and the Church in geneneral ought to behave themselves in such kind of Revolutions I have therefore undertaken to answer your desire in as clear and perspicuous a manner as it is possible for me without making too particular a Reflection upon the present change of Government which hath put you upon proposing this question to me You desire to know of me whether it be lawful for a Christian to pray for a Prince whom he takes to be an Usurper and how the ancient Christians behaved themselves in the like Revolutions The First Point is a question of Right whether it be unlawful to pray for a Prince whom we believe to be an Usurper so as that all those who are of this Opinion are obliged to separate themselves from the Communion of those who believe him to be a lawful Prince it being impossible that those who think they ought to pray for a dispossessed Prince because they consider him as their lawful Prince should be present at the Prayers that are made for a Prince whom they consider as an Usurper The second Point is a matter of Fact which I might excuse my self from entring upon because it is certain that Christians are to order their Lives not by Examples but by Rules However for your satisfaction I will not refuse to take a a short view of the Behaviour of the Primitive Christians in such kind of Revolutions As to the first Point I answer That it is not only lawful for a Christian but that he is also obliged in Conscience to pray for those who are in possession of the Authority of the State wherein he lives if he hath a mind to obey the Apostle St. Paul and to follow the Principles of the Christian Religion I suppose that that which is the Duty of every Christian in particular is the Duty also of the Church in general forasmuch as the Church is nothing but an Assembly of Christians Take we a view therefore of the command of the Apostle St. Paul in his First Epistle to Timothy Chap. 2. v. 1 2 3 4. I exhort therefore that first of all Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving Thanks be made for all men for Kings and all that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all Godliness and Honesty For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour who will have all men to be sav'd and to come unto the Knowledge of the Truth The learned Dr. Hammond hath thus paraphrased this Precept First In the first place therefore I advise thee and all the Bishops under thy Metropolis that you have constant publick Offices of Devotion consisting First Of Supplications for the averting of all hurtful things Sins and Danger 2dly Of Prayers for the obtaining of all good things which you want 3dly Of intercession for others and 4thly Of Thanksgiving for Mercies already received and all these not only for your selves but in a greater diffusion of your Charity for all Mankind 2dly For the Emperors and Rulers of Provinces under them to whom we owe all our peaceable living in any place in the exercise of Religion and virtuous Life and therefore ought in reason to pray and give thanks for them 3dly For this God under the Gospel approves of and requires at our hands 4thly In proportion to the example which he hath given us in himself who earnestly desires the good of all Mankind and useth all powerful means to bring them to reform their former wicked Lives and now to entertain the