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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56751	The unlawfulness of stretching forth the hand to resist or murder princes with the principal cases about resistance, considered, in two sermons : the first preacht upon the last thirtieth of January, the other, upon the day of thanksgiving, for the deliverance of the King and kingdom from the late treasonable conspiracy / by William Payne ...	Payne, William, 1650-1696.	1683 (1683)	Wing P912; ESTC R22908	23,488	47

THE UNLAWFULNESS OF Stretching forth the Hand TO Resist or Murder PRINCES WITH THE Principal Cases about RESISTANCE CONSIDERED In Two SERMONS The First Preacht upon the Last Thirtieth of January The other upon the Day of Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of the King and Kingdom from the Late Treasonable Conspiracy By WILLIAM PAYNE Rector of St. Mary White-Chappel LONDON Printed by A. Grover for Walter Kittilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1683. TO THE HONOURABLE Sir WILLIAM SCROGGS Late Lord Chief Justice of ENGLAND My Lord I Could be very glad that I had less Reason to justifie the publishing of these Sermons and that they were altogether as unseasonable as the putting out of Bills to Cure the Plague when no Body is Sick or Dies of it but Treason is a Disease that Rages amongst us and though it be not like the Sweating-Sickness of old a Malady peculiar to English Men yet the plenty and Luxury of our Country may perhaps make us more Subject to it then others Were I able to prescribe any thing however ordinary that was likely to be either a Remedy or an Antidote against it I should think it my Duty as a Lover of the Peace and Salvation of Mankind as a Lover of my King and Country and as a Minister of that Church and Religion which has been often the Mark but never the Author of any Treason and I hope the good meaning of this Endeavour will compound for the weakness of it and its Honesty and Charity cover the Multitude of its Faults and Imperfections I thought my self more then ordinarily concerned to do this when the Infection had so largely spread at our end of the Town and in my own Parish where two of the Conspirators that are Executed and two others that are in the Proclamation had their last Abodes for though this does not like other Contagions begin in Alleys and the Out-parts among the Poor and Ordinary Persons yet the Great ones make it their Business to spread it among those and there it settles and there it generally breaks out Had these Men come to our Churches they had learnt other Principles then what I am afraid they have done elsewhere and that none may be so malitious as to think we calculate our Sermons merely for the present Circumstances as if the Pulpit were but a kind of weather-glass wherein the Doctrine of Obedience to Governours is higher or lower according to the temperature or Variation of outward Affairs I have put out a plain Sermon without any addition or alteration that was Preacht long before the Plot when I little thought of having any such occasion to make it publick I thought then and do so now that those Obvious and Familiar things which every one must use on that Subject would do good but there remained a harder part which was to keep the good Seed I had sowed clear from the Weeds that are apt to grow up and choke it for Treason has stood so long without being cut down especially in the late Times that it has run to seed and scattered its Principles that will not fail to nourish and make it grow again and I thought the only way to destroy it was to pluck up those by the Rootes I know My Lord the Subject will commend it self to your Patronage whose Loyalty to your Prince is so well known to all that as it was always your vertue so it has been sometimes your Crime and who have so well shown your Zeal and Abhorrence of all Plots and Treasons in the late Popish one where your Justice and Eloquence were too hard for the cunningest of Traitors and the Priests found your Reason out-doe their Infallibility yet I should not have presumed to offer these Discourses unto your Lordships hands who is not only so great a Judge but so great a Master of sence and of speaking but that I know your Candour and Mercy is equal to your Judgment so that what has inclined you to approve and encourage me in some other things of this nature will I question not prompt you at least to excuse me in this The Extraordinary kindness and Civility you have been pleased to show me would require a much better Testimony of my Observance and Gratitude then this which is the only one I can pay at present and therefore must beg you to accept it from My Lord Your most Obedient and most Obliged Servant William Payne A SERMON UPON THE Thirtieth of JANVARY 1683. Being the Day of the Martyrdom OF King Charles I. 1 SAM 26.9 For who can stretch forth his Hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless RELIGION as it makes Provision for us in another World and is the only Means to secure us a good State after this Life a future and eternal Happiness for our Souls so 't is that also upon which the present Welfare the Comfort and Felicity of this Life does chiefly depend 't is that which supports the World and preserves the Peace and Order the Quiet and good Settlement of it 't is that which sets a Guard about our Lives and all our Enjoyments and restrains Mankind from ravening and devouring one another 'T is that which is the main Strength the true Foundation of Government which supports the Princes Throne and Guards it like an Angel from the Sons of Violence and as it obliges us to all those Duties of Right and Justice that are necessary for the Good and Welfare of all Mankind so it especially secures and maintains the Rights of Princes and Governours which cannot be violated without the greatest Mischief and the most pernicious Consequences to the World David who was the most singular Example of all Religion and Piety to God who was the great Example and Teacher of it to the Jewish Church and who has left such Memorials and Monuments of it as make up a great part of the Devotion and Worship of all Christians Him was God pleased to make as great an Example of Loyalty to his Prince and of Duty and Obedience to his Sovereign and that purely from the same Principles of Religion and Conscience that made him so to God He had the least Reason otherwise to be so to his Prince that could be well imagined Who sought to take away his Life unjustly he hunted him as a Partridge upon the Mountains and intended to make him a Prey to his unreasonable Fury and Displeasure Who would have taken away that Right which God had expresly given him and deprived him of the Succession to the Crown which Heaven had entituled him to Who destroyed all his Friends he could light of and murdered fourscore and five of the Priests of the Lord in one day upon his account 1 Sam. 22.18 Who put a whole City to the sword Man Woman and Child v. 19. and exercised all the Acts of Cruelty and Injustice to him and all those that favoured him How much less than all this would have served some Men