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A61267 A sermon preached at the Assizes at Hertford, March the 9th, 1682/3 by John Standish ... Standish, John, d. 1686. 1683 (1683) Wing S5217; ESTC R13596 14,535 38

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the World to judge Mean while one might in reason think that the consideration of those former black Examples should deter the most profligate Wretches from laying Traines for future Disturbances and turning the passive obedience of the first Christians into active disobedience For why should they court their own Ruine Why should they force Man to condemn their Bodies and God to damn their Souls rather than part with a pievish Spirit of Contradiction rather then study to be quiet 1 Thes 4.11 and to do their own business And yet after all our Arguments and Instances there are and will be still some amongst us of that Devilish Spirit that they are desperately in Love with that sin of Witchcraft as the Prophet calls Rebellion they long for nothing more than Changes in Church and State 1 Sam. 15.23 and are as it were with Child of some new Seditious Birth These deas Adders will not hear the Church and therefore we must turn them over to the secular Arme St. Mat. 18.17 in the Second and Last Place by applying the Text to this Solemn Occasion For we may preach our hearts out to convince Them that Loyalty is good Gospel but all in vain unless the Magistrate will lay the Law home to them also by giving them a word of Reproof in due season and letting them know that He beareth not the Sword in vain ●om 13.4 As for our Gracious KING He is so far from the least Arbitrary thought or setting up his own Will for the standard of all Justice as these sinners against their own Souls would have us suspect that he hath been most graciously pleased to Declare to all the World Numb 16.38 that He will Govern according to Law Blessed be God for putting so Wise Just and Seasonable a Thought into His Royal Heart May it be as unchangeable as any Decree of the old Medes and Persians Dan. 6.8 And give me leave to recommend this Sacred Resolution of your Royal Master to you His Honourable Judges and other his Ministers of Justice as the best Expedient to preserve and secure our Peace in this critical minute Sad Experience should inform us that the Multitude is an unruly-head-strong Beast they are ever and anon for making themselves Rings as the Israelites once did GODS to go before Them Exod. 32.23 and they must be curbed and managed by a strait Rein or they will kick and sling and attempt to throw their Rider They are like the raging Sea which requires a great deal of Power and Providence to keep it within due Bankes and Bounds or it over-runs and sweeps away all before it It is the safest way to crush the Cockatrice of Rebellion in the Egg and ten times easier to prevent a Feaver in the Body Politick then it is to cure it by the wisest methods when once all in a flame To this end the Magistrate should have a watchful eye over all those who make it their business to sow the seeds of Sedition in vulgar minds who having imbibed Anti-Monarchical Principles from Republican Authors think they are not compleat Ciceronians till they can declaim loudly and make long-winded Speeches against the Monarchy who are never well but when they are lampooning and libelling all that is Sacred to render it odious and seduce the people from their Duty and Allegiance Amongst these I must name the Roman Priests and the Protestant Jesuites as the most dangerous Enemies of the Government Indeed the latter are found to be onely the Tooles of the former and it seems morally impossible ever to bring Popery into England but by Indulging Dissenters and giving Toleration to those several Factions which are agreed upon nothing but to oppose the KING and CHURCH as their common Enemies Whatever Conventicles then are suffered against Law as they are at the best but Religious Tumults Holy Riots Spiritual fits of Spleen and Frenzy and Schisms in State as well as Church so they are Destructive of the Peace of Both and down they must go in good earnest or else the Government it self that thinks it stands Cor. 10.12 must take heed least it fall for thus saith the Lord a House Church Mat. 12.25 or Knigdome divided within it self connot stand To Conclude then Let me beseech you All whom in any degree it doth concern as ye tender the glory of GOD the KINGS Honour the Prosperity of the Church and Kingdom the comfort of your own Consciences and Salvation of your Souls that Ye also in your several Spheres will Govern according to Law and make it your care that our wholesome Laws be vigorously and impartially executed and chiefly those that are designed signed to fence and support the Government against all such as are given to Change or invade it whether they be of the Popish or of the Popular Faction For Execution ye know is the very Life and Soul of the Law without that the best Laws are no better than a cancelled Deed or a dead Letter By this one happy Measure as we have it from a very Authentick Hand the Kingdom of Scotland is already reduced to such a peaceable State the Kings Enemies are so confounded and their devices so broken that it is scarce possible for any save eye-witnesses to believe it And why may We not hope ere long to see the same effect thereof in England also To see the known Friends of the Government encouraged To see all Nurseries of Faction suppressed All breaches in Faith or Charity cemented and healed up That as we have but one God and one Lord Iesus Christ so we may all content our selves with one Ring one Church one Faith one Baptism and that there be no more Division or Strife among us unless it be this Who should be most Zealous to promote the Peace and Unity of Church and State Who most forward and conscientious to fear the LORD first and then the KING and not meddle with them that are given to Change Now to the KING Immortal 1 Tim. 1.17 Father Son and Holy Ghost Three Persons One onely Wise Vnchangeable GOD be Glory and Majesty Dominion and Power now and ever Amen FINIS