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A43193 A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Treby at the Assizes held at Horsham in the County of Sussex, on the 23d day of March, 1696[/]7. By Peter Heald, A.M. and prebendary in the Cathedral Church of Chichester. Heald, Peter, d. 1728. 1697 (1697) Wing H1300A; ESTC R216620 11,478 30

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A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lord Chief Justice TREBY A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lord Chief Justice TREBY AT THE ASSIZES Held at Horsham in the County of SVSSEX on the 23d Day of March 1696 7. By PETER HEALD A. M. And Prebendary in the Cathedral Church of CHICHESTER LONDON Printed for Elizabeth Janeway Bookseller in Chichester and are to be Sold by Eben Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-bridge 1697. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL RICHARD FARINGTON Esq High-Sheriff And One of His Majesty's Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace for the County of Sussex SIR THis Sermon Preached before so Learned and Excellent a Judge as all Just Men who have the Honour to know him must own my Lord Chief Justice TREBY to be I now Publish as you very well know Sir at the Request of many Worthy Gentlemen for whom I shall always preserve an unfeigned Esteem as for many other Virtues so particularly for their Generous Love to their Countrey in Dangerous Trying Times I have no Apology to make for the Discourse it self but that I think it Loyal and Orthodox and I am sure is well intended which I hope will atone for the many Imperfections of it I thought fittest upon that Publick Occasion to press the Duty of Subjection and Obedience to Our Gracious King WILLIAM which all the Clergy in Subscribing their Address to His Majesty Obliged themselves to do and in that I only made more Publick what upon many Particular Opportunities I have according to my Poor Capacity endeavour'd to perswade People to ever since His Majesty's Happy Accession to the Throne which I have found by Experience some Persons have not been well pleas'd at I know the Enemies to the Government will not like this Discourse but I shall regard their Censures as little as they do their Duty so long as I have the Approbation of Wiser and Better Men who are Friends to the Government to which I here publickly Profess my self a Friend and at the same time Sir with all due Respect and Gratitude for your many Favours Your Most Humble Obedient Servant Peter Heald A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lord Chief Justice TREBY Titus III. 1. Put them in mind to be Subject to Principalities and Powers to Obey Magistrates THE Apostle in this Epistle gives Instructions to Titus what Doctrines he should principally insist upon in Preaching to the People of Crete amongst whom there were some Unruly 1.10 Men that were Wilful and Obstinate in their own way who would not submit to Peace and Order Others were Vain Talkers and Deceivers who vented their own Idle Fancies with such Sly Insinuations that they Corrupted others into the Belief of them By their False but Plausible Pretences they Seduced whole Families into their Pernicious Opinions Ver. 11. when their Real Design was their own Advantage Others were Notorious Liars such as would affirm a Falshood with the same Confidence as an Honest Man would assert a Truth or to give it a more Advantageous Grace paint it over with a Counterfeit Modesty a Studied Gravity and Affected Seriousness Others were Contentious and Troublesom who regarded more the Malice and Cunning of their Words and Actions than the Justice and Morality of them were perpetually busie in sowing the Seeds of Discord possessing Men with Unjust Prejudices and hatching some Mischief or other against their more Innocent and Quieter Neighbours Some were Factious and Seditious always complaining against the Government and what they did in Obedience to it seem'd to be against their Wills with Wrath or Grudging or some evident Mark of Ill-will and Discontent Which Unditiful Carriage made them justly looked upon as Enemies to the Government whereby they brought a Scandal upon the Christian Religion and sometimes Persecution upon the Best Christians By reason of their Pernicious Ways 2 Pet. 2.2 the Way of Truth was evil-spoken of Now to take off the Dishonour which these Men's Ill Practices had brought upon Christianity and to save the good Christians from Suffering by their Provocations and Immoralities the Apostle thought it necessary their Mouths should be stopt Tit. 1.11 that they should be rebuked sharply Ver. 13. and with all Authority that they might either be Reformed or Disabled from doing any more Mischief And there was good Reason for it for they were indeed Hypocrites who Practic'd upon the Weak and the Credulous by pretending they knew more of God and his Religion than other Men but yet their Actions were contrary to true Piety for altho' in Words they profest that they knew God 1.16 in Works they deny'd him being abominable and disobedient And to let the World see that Christianity was Calumniated when represented as an Enemy to Civil Government for the Best Christians were the Best Friends of it the most Peaceable Quiet and Obedient and Taught so to be by the Principles of their Religion he enjoins Titus the Metropolitan of Crete to put the Christians under his Care and Charge in mind to be Subject to Principalities and Powers to Obey Magistrates 'T is imply'd they knew this to be their Duty before but to ground them the more firmly in it engage them the more strictly to the practice of it and thereby to baffle the Objections of their Enemies St. Paul thought it necessary that they should be put in mind of this considerable part of the Christian Religion that none might plead Ignorance or Forgetfulness or be able to make any Pretence to Excuse the Non-performance of it Now in Compliance with this Apostolical Precept which gives a Commission to all Ministers to inculcate the same Doctrine for the same good Purposes I intreat your Patience and Attention while I put you in mind of these Three Things I. Of the Necessity of Government II. Of the Necessity of Governours III. Of our Duty of Subjection and Obedience to them The two first being imply'd and the last plainly contain'd in the words of the Text. I. The Necessity of Government is Confirm'd by the Practice of all Nations the Barbarous and the Infidel as well as the Civiliz'd and the Christian have all used the same Means of Common Safety Several indeed under different Forms of Government but all have consented in the Necessity of some Herein all Countreys of different Climates and contrary Tempers Dispositions and Complexions jointly agree Whence we may conclude Government as Natural as Self-preservation and the same God that planted the one in the Minds of Men appointed the other who supposes Humane Laws to make Property before the Eighth Commandment is capable of being broken Now Government is made Necessary because of the Errours of Men which proceed from Ignorance and Vice 1. From Ignorance Although Men least complain of want of Knowledge of any one thing yet 't is certain the want of it has made many to be the Authors of great Confusion and Disorder in the World Ignorance