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B10212	The remonstrance from the Reverend Father in God, Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, and several others, the most eminent divines of the Church of England, against the proceedings of the P: O. and the lords spiritual and temporal, that invited him. Being an adress [sic], from the pulpit to the King, in fifteen sermons; denouncing damnation, &c. to the abdicators of God's annoynted, and abettors of this rebellion.	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3279; ESTC R185788	60,696	114

comparisons I will only say Do We not see a King preserved from the same implacable enemy that has pursued him above these forty years but a much more formi●able enemy since he conceal'd his enmi●y than when he declared himself openly even by setting a price upon the Most Sacred Head. And David in his refl●ctions upon the dangers or deliverances of his life looks up to Heaven he acknowledges That the Race is not to the swift nor the Battel to the strong and tho it be added by Solomon that Time and chance happen to all things his meaning was that many things ●ook indeed like Chance tho guided by a hand of Providence to most unseen which yet was most visible to King David in the whole course of his Fortunes therefore he gives the Honour to God alone He thanks him not only for his own prosperous success●s but in behalf of All the Crown'd Heads in the world It is he that giveth victory ●nto Kings To the same great God of Heaven he ascribes their Preservation from so many Horrid Cons●iraties as while there is a Devil in Hell and so many of his Agents upon Earth in England will never cease to be carried on and when they are defeated or prevented it is ●e the King of Kings that delivers his Servant David or by parity of reason any other Sovereign Prince from the hurtful Sword. Now when David says It is God that giveth victory unto Kings it is to be understood virtually and implicitly univer●al he does not say that God always gives them victory We know it has been given against the Best of Kings to the Worst and most Ungrateful of all his Subjects But the meaning is that when ever th●se sacred Princes are so delivered as to be preserved from the Sword 't is by an extraordinary vigilance of the Divine Providence over them 't is God is their Guardian and not Man. And as too late experience teacheth no King is to put his trust in the number or the fortitude of his People so neither is any People to confide in the wisdom of their Heads or in the vastness of their Body to Oppose their Lawful Prince For God in his Good Time will make it appear that He governs the World and He will make Them feel his hand that Have Wrested or think to wrest the Scepter from Himor Them that hold it for Him. Whoever They are that use indirect unlawful means to raise or establish or but to S●cure Themselves They set up as it were for themselves without God in the World They take the certain course either to miscarry with their design Or if they do gain Their Point yet their success it self is a J●dgment upon Them Proportionable to the greatness of their Sin will be Their punishment which if It comes in this World is commonly fetch'd out of the very bowels of the Sin that deserv'd it and so as the hand of God is illustriously visible in it Such as will not trust in God as a Deliverer from any Dangers They fear but will take the Sword against Their Lawful Prince upon any pretence whatsoever Their Sen●ence is read in the words of our Blessed Saviour They that take the Sword shall perish by the Sword. As an humble Confidence of God's Protection over us if We resolve to live in his most holy fear is the most infallible course We can take to continue in safety so on the other side all Policy that swerves from the strict rule of Conscience does rather procure than pr●●ent extreme danger The men of Israel said unto Gideon that was in the time of the Judges Rule Thou over us both Thou and thy Son and thy Son's Son also By which they bind themselves and their posterity to be subject to him and his But how did they keep their Faith with him Much at the same rate as the unconstant multitude are wont to keep it As soon as G●deon is dead Abimelech his Son by a Co●●bine insinuates himself into them They fur●ish him with Money under hand wherewith he hires vain and light persons to follow him Multi quibus utile Bellum And with These he assassinates all the seventy legitimate Sons of his Father upon one stone yet the People have still that wicked partiality for him as to make him their King but how did this * And so is every Traytor for the blood of all that is spilt in the Rebellion shall lye upon their heads Murdrous Traytor and his A betters prosper Jotham the youngest Son of Gideon and the only Son that surviv'd the Massacre cryes as a Prophet from God against the Usurper and denounces that Fire shall come out of ●e Bramble so in his parable he calls that Ba●e Son and that this Fire shall devour their Cedars of Libanon Their Noblemen that raised or invi●ed him And we are told afterwards that the men of Sichem dealt treacherously with Abimelech as Those that have been once F●llow Tray●ors to their lawful King do s●l●om long continue faithful to one another What ●umul●s t●ere follow'd What Insurrections How the Fields were died with Gore and how much Blood ran down the Streets of their City you may read in that noble Story And all the evil of the men of Sichem did God render upon Their own heads and upon Them came the Curse of Jotham But because this ●istrusting of God and in stead of doing that which David presses so passionately O tarty Thou the Lord's leisure being ready to say with that impious Nobleman Why ●arry We for the Lord any longer Because this fatal Impatience seems to be now one of our national Sins I shall urge against the sad effects of it some such examples as shall be national and virtually a multitude of examples Zedekiah the King of Judah having absolutely submitted to the great King of Babylon ' ●is said he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear by God Therefore by the way The ●●st●●ing a lawful Prince to whom an Oath of Obedience ha●h once been take● tho he be an Heathen Prince as Nebuchad ezxar was is 〈◊〉 better than a down-right P●●●ury A wicked Rebellion So Jeremiah the poor despised Prophet of God implies it to be throughout his Prophecy But what if these were Perjur'd Rebels yet this was always their note concerning themselves The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord are these i. e. They were the Godly they were the Saints just as the True Protestant The true Protestant is now the common Cry of Those who think that Title a good Apology a sufficient Plea to legitimate Perjury and Rebellion nay more he is sure to be call'd a Factor for Babylon as Jeremiah was that dares but call it Perjury and Rebellion But to return to my Story what became of that Rebellion I was relating That misguided easy Prince was utterly lost his very eyes were not left him but only so long as to see his Sons

King's Son hid in the house of the Lord for six years space is brought forth by the loyal Jehojada the High Priest and proclaimed King and the Traytoress Athaliah is justly slain And in our English Annals we may find Examples enough of this kind Let John usurp the Throne due to Arthur his elder Brother's Son he taught but his Subjects to rebel against him and after he had numbred as many troubles as days of his Reign he is thought to end his life by poyson Edward the Third tho otherwise a brave Prince yet because he Dispossessed his Father of the Crown shall rue it in his Grandson his immediate Successor whom H. 4 another Usurper bereaves first of his Throne and a little after of his life too But Divine v●ngeance meets with him likewise in his Posterity for H. 6. his Grandson tho as innocent and harmless a Prince as ever before him that enjoyed the Imperial Crown of England hath his own Son stabb'd before his face and himself some time after butcher'd by the same hand● Let Rich. 3. murder his innocent Nephews in the Tower let him poyson his own Wife that so he might marry his Neece the only Heiress to the Throne yet God blasts his designs and blesseth this Nation both with his death and the happy Union of the York and Lancaster Families in the persons of Eliz and Henry the Seventh Which Contest had cost more Blood than twice Conquer'd France Which One would think should make all true Englishmen pray for the Succession of the Crown in a true lineal descent From these let us come some what nearer and behold Edward the 6th upon his death bed whom Northumberland works and imposeth to declare the Lady Jane Gray his Successor The secu●ity of the Protestant Religion was then as now pretended To which They knew Mary was averse And so soon as the King was Dead the Lady Gray against her own will is proclaimed Queen in London and her Ambitious Father in Law Northumberland thinks all safe as having nothing to oppose him but a Naked and defenceless Tho a true Title when no sooner Mary tho' a Papist asserts her Right to the Crown but her Subjects tho' they were Protestants as one man rise up in Arms to Defend not to oppose or invade the Succession They knew how many thousand lives the dispute about the Crown had cost but a little before Neither could they finde any motive then no more than We can now in the Church of England That gave any Encouragement against the Lawfull Heire P●●secution they might dread but they would commit that Cause to God and they had rather undergo the flames of Martyrdom than be stigmatiz'd with the brand of Rebellion Upon this the Conspirators were defeated and that without a Battle taken and Executed I might tell you of Wyat's Conspiracy in the same Queens time and of many others in Her Sisters Reign And as we often see Treason Severely punished in this World so it is much more dangerous to the Actors thereof in the World to come I am sure St. Paul tells Us so Rom 13. 2. They that Resist shall Receive to Themselves Damnation a very small Encouragement God knows for Conspirator and Usurpers to rise up against and Dethrone a Lawfull King Fortho ' we should grant which seldom happens that many Traytors might so far prosper here as to secure themselves from the hands of Justice yet there is a King of Kings from whom no power can shelter Conspirators or such whether they be Lords Spiritual or Temporal that shall any ways Invite or encourage an Invader against their Lawfull Soveraign And this Damnation in the close of all will prove a sad Prize of the most Fortunate or Succesfull Treason whatsoever And in the 49 verse of this Chapter we may find no less than 14700 destroy'd because they maliciously cryed our against Moses and Aaron that they had killed the People of the Lord And what People were they why even the Blessed Conspirators Corah and his Accomplices Good God! that any should be so bold or Foolish to call those whom the Holy Ghost in my Text brands with the character of wicked Men The People of the Lord No! No! They never were nor can be the People of the Lord who Resist Lawfull Authority London Printed for James Norris at the Kings-Arms without Temple Bar A SERMON Preached at Petworth in Sussex by John Price D. D. 1 Corinth 10 10. Neither Murmer Ye as some of them also Murmured and were destroyed of the Destroyer NEither the sense of a natural allegiance nor the Sacred Tyes of Oaths nor Preferments nor Honours nor Riches could keep Some men in the dutifull station of Subjects St. Paul would have the Corinthians take warning from the Israelites whose Murmurings and discontents are recorded in Scripture and recorded there not only To ubraid their ingratitude but as the Appostle speaks verse 11. These things happened to them for Examples and they are written for Our admonition upon whom the Ends of the World are come Solomon gives a Caveat Say not thou what is the cause that the former dayes were better than These For thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this matter The Murmuring Questionists of his Age had the like before them and they have been since and ever will be so long as time is men will complain of the times and the little portion of Happiness that God gives Us in this life is di●●urbed by our own Restless and Repining nature any little petry accident at present doth more disturb Us than a load that is past and gon off our shoulders Israel was under the Miraculous protection and deliverance of Heaven but wants some little convenience and presently we read of a loud and clamarous Murmuring would to God We had dyed in Egypt The hard Bondage they had felt was gon off now and the want but of a meals meat in the Wilderne●s put them to Murmur against God and their Gover●ors As if it were not enough that man was born to labour as the sparks fly upward but we ad sparks to the fire when we are Children and under the disciplin of the Rod we complain that we were not born sooner and past the Correction of our Master and when we are Old we think we ware never so happy as when we were Children indeed we are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Those phansies that pleas'd Us we are soon weary of and seek for new somthing it is that would please Us better but what it is we know not Nev●bus atque Quadrigis petimus bene Vivere c. To Represent unto you the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Murmurer first he is an Heretick St. Inde speaking of false Teachers says that they are Murmurers Complainers c. Iquietoe Hereticorum Curiositates says Tertulian They are always Restless and always Prying Creep into Houses and then into affections till their Murmuring discontents at last break out into open Factions Secondly

The Murmurer is certainly the State sinner The little grudgings that begin in Princes Courts are ●oon spread into the Country and they are like the Poets F●●● Malum the further the same goes the greater it grows The Murmuring discontents in the state at last break out into open Rebellion as We now sadly see The Israelites said as for this Moses We wot not what is become of him The next thing we hear of them is They make a Motion Calf that is set up a Religion and Government of their own The Tongue is a little Member saith St. James but t is a great evil and the Murmuring Tongue sets the state still on fire and Hell Fire shall be the Portion of such Tongues Thirdly the Murmurer is ever an envious person and so an evil member of a Socie●y Murmuring is a distemper call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a complaining without cause and the envious man always doth this T is a nature that mak●s a near appreach to the Devils The prosperity of Iob is an Eye-sore Fourthly he is the Malicious man delights to do Mischief where he lives is a trouble to himself and will be so to his Neighbour and therefore no wonder if punishment doth attend him for he is ranked by Solo●on among the seaven abominable things that God hates Him that soweth discord among Brethren In short a Murmurer is he that is every thing that is Mischievous Blaspheams God the King the Church his Neibour and he is a burthen to the Earth and to himself neither good nor bad wheather pleaseth him Complains in War and yet is discontented in Peace pines away in Scarcity and yet repines at plenty when ●●s Summer he longs for Winter and when 't is Winter wisheth again for Summer neither Times nor Manners please him and could he call for them at his pleasure yet he would Murmur still of which we have a full iustance in the Text. Ill Men who have private designs of their own to carry on will be always complaining of Publick affairs and their Complaints may somtimes seem so plausible that they may gain Proselytes to their Faction * I doubt not but there were many such in England Some of whom may not Mean so ill as they do Froward Men disturb God's method of Mercy and make it ever Miscarry in the Womb. God intended quietly and safely to lead Israel out of Egypt into Canaan and the March of so many years might have been accomplished in so many days but They stood in their own light and stopp'd the way against themselves They tempted God very oft and so oft that a patient and long suffering God at last sware in his wrath that They should not enter into his Rest This Sin of Murmuring is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an ill habit of the stomach that corrupts the best meat We Murmur at Mercys as Israel did at Manna Some Casuists tells us that Habitual Sins have a guilt distinct from those Sins of which they are Habits and that they are more dangerous because the Sinner is farther off from Repentance The guilt that is contracted from those Habits doth make a Callus and fear the Conscience that the sinner little thinks on it That he is going down into the Chambers of death and he is ensnared into damnation drown'd in perdition before he says Domine miserere or asks what he has done The Habit of Murmuring is so universal Hand joyn'd to Hand Tongue to Tongue that the sence of the Guilt is lost and because 't is so 't is a distinct guilt for the greatest Sinners have repented as Murderers Adulterers yea and Idolaters too who are in a peculiar manner Guilty Loesoe Majestatis Divinae and Traytors to the God of Heaven The repentance of all habitual sinners is difficult but the repentance of an Habitual Murmurer is bes●t with more than ordinary difficulties for the Arguments that should reach the guilt are not well reducible to any single Commandment and doth scarce affect the letter of any And yet t is a sin of a complicated guilt affects both Tables and most of the Commandments of Both. Besides the Murmurer is not so soon as other Sinners convinced of his Guilt because he hath fram'd a rule of rectitude to himself and his Conscience o●ens and shuts by that Rule and so he strains at gnats and swollows Camels Nothing so much troubled the Coscience of a Neopolitan Sh●pherd when he came to Confession at Ea●ter as that he had tasted a little Cream the Lent before but he had often Robb'd and Murder'd Passengers on the Mountains and that troubled not his Conscience because his Father and Grandfather had ●on so before I believe all o● Us are ready to pass a true and just sentence here but Reflect here are some who cannot digest as●●t Form of Prayers are offended at a Surplice startle at the Cross in Baptism c. And yet can whisper against the King and whisper to be heard too talk loudly against Bishops and P●iests censure all men complain of every thing and be satisfied with nothing Remember that God passed by some of the discontents of Isr●el but when They grew Clamorous and more Combined his wrath fell in amonst them And Remember that God hath other Eyes to see Sin with than We have and hath other Scales to weigh it in than We have We our selves do not take ill Language kindly from our Neighbour and can we think that God will from Us when by our discontents We dayly Revile his Providence When froward men do take a Liberty to speak write and Print what they please and all with designs against the Government they live under 't is plain They would be Governors themselves And when They have whet their Tongues and sharpn'd their Pens They are not far off from drawing their Swords And surely without offence I may now ask if this be not the present case of England against their natural Liege Lord and King LONDON Printed for John Fish near the Fountain Taver● in the Strand A SERMON Preach'd befo●e the King at Winchester by Fra. Turner D. D. then Dean of Windsor but since Bishop of Ely. Psal 144. 9. 10. I will sing a new Song unto thee O God c. Thou hast given Victory unto Kings and hast delivered David thy Servant from the peril of the Sword. THere is no question but David in my Text had an eye to all the terrible hazards he had run before he was Crown'd when Saul and his bloody house were hunting him like a Partridge upon the mountains So that not his Own * Not our King's Palace House which should be a man's Castle and his Sanctuary not his Own † His Majesty didisturb'd at midnight Bed which was made to be quiet in not those very places whither He fl●d for Refuge were free from the peril of the Sword. ●o keep far enough off not only from cold and frivolous parallels but also from odious