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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35085	A sermon preached upon the anniversary solemnity of the happy inauguration of our dread soveraign Lord King James II in the Collegiate Church of Ripon, February the 6th. 1685/6 / by Thomas Cartwright ...	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1686 (1686)	Wing C706; ESTC R21036	21,714	46

than he has done Shall we suspect him without cause or remain dissatisfied when he hath given us the best Security that our Cause admits of Or quarrel for more when we have enough Or how can we ever hope to be the better by provoking him in whose Pleasure we are so Happy Why should we endanger the losing of those substantial blessings we have by snapping at the shadow which we can never catch and doth not belong to us if we could To suspect our Prince where we cannot help our selves is of all Fears the most unreasonable 'T is not safe by Insolence and Peevishness to provoke a meek and merciful Prince to Severity and Rigor Princes must not be upbraided with their Promises much less threatned and menac'd with audacious Expostulations if they do not perform them for their Promises are Donatives and 't is reason the Doner should have the explaining of his own mind when they to whom he promised it owe it chiefly if not only to his Grace and Favour 'T is therefore our interest as well as our duty to use our King with all the submissive Intreaties imaginable Irreverent Reproofs not becoming Subjects to their Soveraign And how can we declaim enough then against those Jugling Hypocrites among us who talk of nothing but their Zeal for Religion whilst they design nothing but Rebellion Who to get a misunderstanding between the King and his People use all the Black Art and Industry which quick-sighted Malice can teach them to Poison the unthinking People with strong Suspitions of his Majesties Truth Honour and Justice We must be wanting to our Religion King Church and State if we should tamely suffer our People to be seduc'd into such groundless Fears and Jealousies and not tell them That if these Profligate Wretches did not transgress all the bounds of Truth Reason and Modesty they could not possibly render him suspected much less odious and that if their Impudence were not equal to their Malice they could never make such false and scandalous Reflections upon his Person and Government as they daily do They would make us believe That we are upon the very brink of those Dangers which Wiser Men cannot see and complain of those Greivances which no body feels or suffers Did our Religion ever Flourish more than now Were we ever more Considerable either at Home or Abroad Would you fain see another Rebellion spring out of the Ashes of the Two last if not sit still Trust God and the King let them Govern the Kingdom and be thankful to his Majesty for keeping such Guards about him Rom. xiij 3. as may be a Terror to Evil-doers and a safeguard to them that do well Consider well Whether the greatest Sticklers for the Church of England at this time be most conformable to it themselves whether they themselves are obedient to the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws which they seem so Zealous to maintain that they fear we shall all be undone if any one of them be broken Take heed there be not Anguis in Herba Look well about you before you leap into their Snares May not a Private subject by their good leave break Twenty Laws with less Noise than their Soveraign one Do not they act like Men who have a design to beget a Misunderstanding between the King and his People and hope to gain something of both if they could inflame the Crowd into an Insurrection Do they not long to set the Kingdom on Fire to warm their own Fingers and to enrich themselves as some once did with the Spoil and Plunder of their Neighbours Will you tamely suffer them to pull down the goodly Fabrick of Church and State to mend their own Fortunes which are as desperate perhaps as their Designs And will you venture the spoiling of all in hopes of mending your selves in One Circumstance Did not God ordain Adam to rule over his Wife without giving her or her Children any Commission to limit his Power What was given to him in his Person was also given to his Posterity and the Paternal Government continued Monarchical from him to the Flood and after that to the Confusion of Babel Gen. x. 10 11. when Kingdoms were first erected and planted over the Face of the Earth And so what Right or Title the People can have or what Commission either of Limitation or Mixture to restrain that Supremacy which was as unlimited in Adam as any Act of his Will it being due to the Supreme Fatherhood or from what time it commenced the Scripture no were tells us Where is the Peoples Charter extant either in Nature or Scripture for invading the Rights of the Crown Or what Authority can they have from either to introduce their Devices of presiding over Him whom God and Nature hath set over them Nay how vain and void of Sense are all these Popular Projects Who can set such bounds to his Prerogative as to impose Penalties on him if he exceed or put those Conditional Limitations in Execution Nor can the King himself divest himself of his Supremacy or discharge his Subjects of their Allegiance And if any Monarch will be so free-hearted as to lay down his Lawful Power at his Subjects Feet if he will throw up that Commission which he had from God independant of any other and take a New one from his Subjects as some Inferiour Magistrates do from him quam diu se bene gesserit or durante beneplacito populi during the Pleasure of our Sovereign Lords the People he forgets that it was a Divine Hand coming out of the Clouds which set the Crown on his Head and that when there was but One good King upon the Face of the Earth only Solomon their Original was deriv'd from God above and not from the People beneath For 't was God himself who best knew it that said By me Kings Reign Prov. viij 15. Be their Religion and Administration of their Office what pleases them they are of God's making and must not be of the People's marring Our King comes to his Crown by Lineal Descent from the Loins of our David He is no Alien or Stranger to the Royal Race nor does his Promotion come either from the East or from the West But 't is God who hath set him over us with his holy Oyl hath he anointed him and set him on his Father's Throne 'T is to God's Grace alone that we owe our King and by the Royal Concessions of him and his Ancestors do we enjoy our Liberties and Properties And the Duty of Subjects to their Princes of Servants to their Masters and of Children to their Parents is obliging to them tho' they never swore to do it for 't is not the Result of Christianity or Policy but a principle of Nature which Religion doth not alter but establish Tho' Darius were an Alien and an Enemy to his Religion compelling to Idolatry and kept the People of God in Captivity as Slaves yet Daniel paid him