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Religion and loyalty maintained against all modern opposers in a treatise on the 29th of May 1681, being Trinity-Sunday and anniversary day of His Majesties happy birth and King and kingdoms restauration / by Henry Anderson.
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Anderson, Henry.
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our charity and unity but can't discern those greater lines of Duty Subjection and Loyalty And as the Scribes and Pharisees of old cry'd up every where The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord so we have many such now a-days who are seemingly great Champions for the Church and take great care of the Duties of the first Table and yet can freely indulge themselves in the violation of the second proving annoyances to the State by seditious Insurrections though the Christian Religion doth firmly oblige men to peace obedience and due submission unto Secular Governours there are many persons that owne that Name and yet entertain Positions wholly inconsistent with the Precepts of that Religion and the safety of Princes and their Kingdoms swallowing REBELLION * There was a time which is a precaution to posterity when men pretended a Call from God to do the work of the Devil viz. rebelling and then murdering the best of Kings erecting him a Scaffold for a Throne and for a Diadem of Gold gave him a Crown of Thorns and instead of a glorious Prince made him a glorious Martyr without regret which opens the floud-gates of impiety and lets in upon us a Chaos of Anarchy Libertinism and popular Confusion bringing a kind of present damnation on the World They that are Authors or Abetters of Sedition saith S. Chrysostome can neither avoid shame on Earth nor escape eternal Damnation Though God the great Judge do sometimes permit Rebels in his Justice to prevail against Kings for the contempt of the Law of the highest and neglect of their own duty the reward of Rebellion shall be no better than the recompence of Satan who is the Instrument of the Lords wrath for the punishment of all disobedience The Kings Power is from God and for any private person or any Club of Subjects to wrest it out is a double Usurpation First They invade Gods Soveraignty Rom. 12.19 who saith Vengeance is mine Secondly The Princes Prerogative whose Office is to protect and punish to defend the innocent and correct the Spirit of Contumacy and Rebellion relieve the oppressed and support the vertuous rewards to Merit as well as punishment to Sin and Vice are dispensed A terrour to evil doers 1 Pet. 2.14 saith the Text and praise to them that do well Therefore honour the King Secondly As the goodness of Heaven shines in the preservation of our Royal Soveraign from the Usurpation of cruel Enemies at home so likewise Divine Providence hath guarded him from Foreign Attempts of unreasonable men abroad and made the Plots and Conspiracies of these worse than Heathens of none effect and deliver'd our King and our Princes our Nobles and the Heads of our Tribes the Governours of our Church and Judges of our Land nay the whole Commons of this Realm from a fearful destruction that would have swallowed them up For when the Ax is laid to the root of the Tree to cut off Soveraignty and destroy the Lord 's Anointed the rest of the people who are the Branches must expect lopping The restless Emissaries of the Church of Rome whether Priests Jesuits or Colledge of Cardinals give daily proof of their inveterate malice against the King the Government and Protestant Religion thinking that new Massacres are the most effectual course to stop the cry of the old and that the readiest way to silence their Adversaries is to make them instances of the Truth of the Accusation If the great God of Heaven who refrains the Spirits of men that delight in Blood had not been gracious to our King and Kingdom you had not this Day been Auditors nor I Speaker of this Theme but all of us miserable Spectators of the contrary And the Pope's Triple Crown would have been set with many red Roses of great Triumphs in a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nothing less than utter extirpation of us and Memorial from under Heaven The Rivers of Rome may seem to run smooth their Sea is Blood the extracted Spirits of things work more forcibly than concrete Bodies take heed of an Elixir an Extraction of Malice sublimated spiritualized into a Religion The cruel Massacres of Primitive Christians * If we reflect on ancient times and look back to the course of the World in general in the first Monarchy we find a fiery Furnace in the second a Den of Lions in the third the madness and fury of Antiochus when to believe in one God was to be put on the Rack and to abhor Idolatry involved the Votary in cruel Tortures In the fourth Monarchy the ten Persecutions more bloody and grievous than all that went before for not to sacrifice to Idols and to offer Incense to Heathen Gods was cause enough to be torn in pieces by wild Beasts and be exposed to all manner of terrible Torments when bloody Tumults affrighted Christ's Members and chased them from their Devotions when the Priest became the Sacrifice and his Books in disdain were made a Burnt-offering will teach us the price of our own happiness and the slaughter of our Forefathers may upbraid our unthankfulness with the benefits of our peace 'T were good that we their surviving Off-spring would learn to make use of their happy Martyrdom In their crimson steps we may trace the way to our Saviour's Cross and read in the living memory of their Torments the sad Tragedy of his Sufferings The World at this day is well mended with us we know not the meaning of Rack or Faggot of Sword and Gridiron the Instruments of Romish Cruelty Let three Kingdoms therefore bow themselves as the heart of one man and praise God for his mercy unto his Servants under the Protection of our gracious and religious King Charles Heaven hath preserved our Church from ruine and confusion from the spreadings and prevailings of Errours Heresies and Schisms Superstition and Idolatry which strive to oppress us and to eclipse the truth and purity of Doctrine which is our Churche's Glory and so much offends the Eyes of Rome and makes them clip wash and new-coyn the Gold of the Sanctuary Lastly As Divine Providence and Goodness did this Day bring into the World our gracious Soveraign and hath hitherto preserv'd him from all Enemies Domestick and Foreign So the same special grace and favour of God did this Day bring home and restore to us our King a Prince of so much Clemency and Mercy that he is inferiour to none that sways a Scepter or sits upon a Throne His Restauration was wonderful without any Effusion of Blood The Voice of War is changed into Proclamations of Peace the Clattering of Swords and Spears is turned into the sweet Melody of Harps and the harsh Tones of Death into a Psalm of Thanksgiving O Lord thou art become gracious unto thy Land and hast turn'd away the Captivity of Jacob Praise therefore waits on thee in Zion and unto thee shall the Vow be perform'd in Jerusalem We celebrate the Memory of this thy Mercy in restoring our King and with him the free Profession of true Religion and Worship What doth God require now both from Prince and People but the acknowledgment of his favour He that will not glorifie God as the Father of Mercies in the rigour of Justice God may glorifie himself in his eternal ruine If we prove not the Heralds of his Glory Examples shall we be of his just indignation All tasting Mercy all should be thankful and though all have not Frankincense yet every one mâ—y have Praise Let us praise God for his miraculous preservation of our King and Kingdom Church and People and let it sound so â—oud this day as it may reach Heavens gates and meet with Hallelujahs which the bright Morning-Stars in their Orbs pay to their Creator 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Angels Liturgy is singing of Hymns of Glory And shall not the Militant Church say We praise thee O God our Souls do magnifie the Lord The Stork pays Tribute of her young the Trees of their fruits the Earth of her flowers and shall we be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without natural affection 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without God in the world not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 return blessing and praise to the Divine Majesty for his infinite Blessing unto us We praise God in his Sanctuary and in the Firmament of his Power for his mighty Acts and according to his excellent Greatness Praise him with the Sound of the Trumpet with Psaltery and Harp with stringed Instruments and Organs shew your selves joyful before the Lord the King Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Let us now direct our Prayers and Supplications to the Glorious and Eternal Trinity that all Blessings Divine and Humane Spiritual and Temporal like the precious Oyntment of Aaron's may be pour'd out on the Head of ouâ— Royal Soveraign length of days on hiâ— right hand on his left Riches and Honour that his Reign may be glorious and his Regal Vertues after this Life crowned with immortal Glory And we with the residue of God's holy Church may rise to that incomprehensible endless Felicity where the Blessings of the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity will gloriously shine upon our Souls for evermore Which God of his infinite Mercy vouchsafe unto us for the Mercies of his Eternal Son our blessed Saviour To whom with the Father and Holy Ghost three Persons one God be ascribed as most due is all Honour Glory Power Praise Might Majesty and Dominion the residue of our lives and for ever Amen FINIS ERRATA Pag. 56. line 13. for then read there p. 62. l. 10. fo Reershaba r. Beersheba p. 74. l. 16. for fair this read this fair
Purple Robe they bow their knees and cry Hail King of the Jews Joh. 19.2 3. They cut down branches and spread them in the way singing Hosanna to the Son of David when they part his garments and for his vesture cast Lots And whatever dress they put on display them to be a spurious brood within the pale but no true Sons of the Church were they so their looks would not speak smiles whilst storms did surge in their breasts who about the froth of their own brains dare rent the peace and tranquillity of it and war for the aery projections of their giddied heads as if Heaven and Earth were little enough to be mingled in the quarrel tearing the seamless Coat of the holy Jesus in pieces causing Divisions and Schisms that our holy Mother the Church is forced to utter her unwelcome voice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Caesar said to Brutus What thou my Son But we are of a strange disposition we use not to regard the Sun or Moon till we see them in Eclipse Lunâ non aspicimus nisi laborante saith Seneca And that course of Aristotle with his Auditors best suits with our Natures before we are enamour'd with this holy concord we must be acquainted with its opposite vices * It is a Rule in Logick Contraria juxta se posita magis elucescunt And a little knowledge in Judicial Astrology will serve the turn to predict the ill effects of the Serpents teeth division An easie Observation can foresee and foretel the sad Events of excentrick Motions and intestine Wars Peace and Unity like light and fruitful showres descend from above from Heaven from God but strifes and dissentions like tempestuous Vapours and fiery Exhalations come from the Earth from the devillish hearts designs and practices of men The Orator said well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Any rash hand or furious head may inflict a wound or kindle a fire but it is God alone who can heal up the breaches of a Church or State Private grudges and contentions like several Cards in a Map whose Lines are drawn infinitely crossing cut and thwart each other must needs shew us the way to publick calamity When humane Societies become Cannibals to one another the bands of love which hold Mankind together must necessarily be dissolv'd and we can't but behold a very sad Landskip of horrour and confusion because animosities and divisions feed on envy and malice so long till they break forth into a consuming fire in ruine and desolation by an open Hostility The Earth grows wild and becomes a great Forest of savage and cruel Monsters and Mankind turns Beasts of prey one towards another When our united Force should encounter Babylon the common Enemy * Cumque superba foret Babylon spolianda trophaeis Lucan we weaken our selves like those ancient Romans by mutual dissentions and perish by our own oppositions If Christians would but take the Moralists counsel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to spend and derive their malice some other way for many had rather employ their time in picking and feeding quarrels in the Church at home than advance the unity of the Faith abroad and how can any expect security from their enemies while they are at variance thus with themselves Do any hope to escape the fury of Aliens while they are ready to sheath their Swords in each others bowels Eph. 4.3 S. Paul that great Patriot of Religion and glorious Angel upon Earth perswades all to keep 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace And if he hath but reason enough to make him a man and so much Religion as will name him Christian I doubt not but he will hearken to S. Peters advice 1 Pet. 3.11 to seek peace and ensue it And will follow that which makes for peace as S. Paul would have us Rom. 14.19 for whether it be a security from open Invasions or an immunity from home-bred Oppositions it is dulce nomen pacis even to them that know no more of it besides its name The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a comprehensive term and signifies all prosperity or outward happiness in the Hebrew stile or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 peace from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to knit being as 't were the tye of mens affections in either of these respects 't is a thing delightful under any notion it is amiable and lovely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Nazianzen It is a kind of sweet divine and heavenly concent harmony or beauty of things subordinate one to another In the oeconomy of Nature unity or peace is the combination of Creatures by symbolical qualities so contempered and disposed by the will and pleasure of the All-wise Creator that all agree to a perfect harmony of the Universe to make up one intire body the World In the lesser Worlds of mixt Bodies peace or unity is the equal balance or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 due moderation and temper of humors and parts which keep their true place and proportion Quâ quodlibet corpus non minùs appetit unitatem suam quà m Entitatem therefore it preserves Unity as its Being In the Political World the State peace or unity is the setling and due ordering of things by just Laws of Government so that Laws and Government are the Charter of our Lives and Liberty the Pillar and Basis of States and Kingdoms and Cement of all Societies for the whole design of Civil Power or Authority is to procure the private and publick happiness of Mankind to preserve men in their Rights against the insolent Usurpations and Outrages of murders perjuries fraud and violence and such like misdemeanors as would invade the World with Anarchy and disorder and bring the Politick Body to confusion There is no one thing Religion excepted that more secures and adorns the State than Justice * Jus aequitas vincula civitatum Cic. Parad. doth It is both Columna Corona Reipublicae saith a Reverend Father of the Church a prop to make it subsist firm in it self Pietas justitia duo sulcra Reipub. columnae regni Vbi non est pudor nec cura juris sanctitas pietas fides instabile regnum est As is well observed by the Tragedian and as a Crown to render it glorious in the eyes of others Truth Order and Justice are the only foundations of Peace and Unity in Church and State In the rational World as men who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rational and sociable Creatures Unity is the conjunction of every mans powers and faculties in himself composing one individual inclination and then concurring to a general union of wills and affections for Truth is but one as the Center and draws all minds to an unity which tend to it In the spiritual World as Christians the Church is not a name of division but of unity and concord * Ibi non est Ecclesia ubi non est