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A49126 The original of war, or, The causes of rebellion a sermon preached in the castle of Exon on the 15th of January, 1683, before the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Exon, and other His Majesties justices of the peace for the county of Devon / by Tho. Long ... Long, Thomas, 1621-1707. 1684 (1684) Wing L2978; ESTC R3712 28,102 44

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of Heaven which are infinite always protect our Religious and Gracious KING his Dearest BROTHER and every Branc of that ROYAL FAMILY and may all the Treasonable Conspiracies of those Rebellious Schischmaticks be always thus happily prevented That the continued Care of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of DEVON for the Safety of His Majesties Sacred Person the preservation of the Publick Peace and advancement of true Religion may be fuller known and have a better Effect I do hereby Order and Require all the CLERGY of my Diocess within the County of Devon deliberately to publish this Order the next Sunday after it shall be tendred to them THO. EXON Hugo Vaughan Cler. Pacis Com praed My LORD GENTLEMEN YOu have taken the right measure for securing our Peace and rendring unto Caesar the things that are Caesars by rendring unto God the things that are Gods in the first place We all owe it to your Piety R. R. Father who have loved our Nation and built us another Synagogue which with all thankfulness we acknowledge and may it ever re-remain a House of Prayer for those ends to which you have designed and reconsecrated it by your presence and Devotion When I saw the Heads of our County following the Guide of their Souls and like Moses and Aaron on the Mount stretching out their hands with their hearts unto God in Prayer it seemed to me a good Omen of Success and Victory against those Amalekites that are still conspiring against us in the Vallies For such as you who make it your business to serve God and the King are the Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof In you we may see Righteousness and Peace embracing and kissing each other and may they never prosper that attempt to put them or you asunder And now I beseech you R. R. Father and worthy Gentlemen suffer a word of Exhortation which is that you would bend your united Force against that Profaneness and Debauchery which as it is an effect of our former Divisions and War so it will be the cause of new Confusions and drawing down the Wrath of God on the Land For if such men of Belial as are still fighting against God blaspheming his Holy Name by accursed Oaths and damnable Imprecations that own no other Deity but the Lusts of their upper nether bellies and sacrifice more of their time and Estates to Bacchus and Venus than to their God and Saviour and Leviathan like sport themselves n the waters of the Sanctuary scoffing at all things that are Sacred and think themselves so great that no man durst put a hook in their nostrils or reprove them though never so friendly and in the Name of God be permitted to riot it in the day-time we may expect an approaching night of as much blackness and darkness as violent storms and tempests as hitherto God be thanked hath past over our heads And because Tipling and Brothel-houses and the Nurseries of these mischievous vices where men sacrifice more of their time and Estates to their ungodly Lusts than to their God and Saviour let those Nests and Receptacles of unclean Locusts and devouring Caterpillars which do even cover the Land and though they have the faces of men yet under them they carry the hearts of beasts and the stings of fiery Serpents be suppressed I know there may be some Silver-smiths that will plead for these Shrines of the great Goddess Diana which bring no small gain to the Crafts-men But certainly if the time and Treasure which is spent and spilt by these Debaucheries in Idleness and upon their Lusts were employed in their dayly Labours and honest Callings the King would have a far greater as well as a better Revenue and Aid than from all those Augean Stables These are those Devils Chappels which in many places he set up for himself at the very entrance into God's House where his Chaplains daily attend his Service but especially on those Holy-days which are set apart for God's Worship and from hence there are as many Oaths and Imprecations for Vengeance and Damnation sent up against Heaven as there are Prayers and Supplications for Pardon and Salvation in the Churches of God And how great Provocations these are to our Holy God your own experience of the great and dayly trouble occasioned by such Riots may inform you for from hence proceed Thefts Whoredoms Bastardies Brauls and Quarrels which are prosecuted by expensive and ruining Law-suits maiming of Limbs and shedding of innocent Bloud These are the Sanctuaries of Vagabonds and Robbers the Hospitals of incurable Fools and Madmen where men are besotted bereaved of reason and strength and made uncapable of any good Employment The very Pesthouses of the Nation where Diseases are propagated and Infirmities intailed on succeeding Generations By these Circean Cups men are transformed into beasts and by their looks and their language you may know them for Vix hominem sonant These were the Apollyons that destroyed the late Kings Armies his Forts and Garrisons and reduced him to more straights than the Armies of his Adversaries who when they should be fighting against the Kings Enemies were fighting against God and discharging Vollies of Oaths against Heaven when they should have been praying for mercy and forgiveness from thence These hardned the hearts of the Kings Enemies and alienated the affections of his Subjects as if the Cause could not be good that was defended by such Instruments for they brought an evil Report on a righteous Cause as if their Prince were like that Party or Gallio like cared for none of those things It was doubtless by and for the wickedness of these men that so good a Prince and so just a Cause was overthrown and if we still do wickedly though as yet we have no visible Enemies the Mouth of the Lord which is able to do it hath said Ye shall be destroyed both you and your King Wherefore I beseech you who have Power and Authority from God and the King vigorously and unanimously to endeavour the Suppression of those Seminaries of sin and uncleanness which provoke God and bring the Government into Contempt and then we may hope that God will still suppress our Enemies and establish us on the sure Foundations of Peace and Righteousness which is and shall be the hearty Prayer of Exon Jan. 21. 1683. My Lord and Gentlemen Your most humble and hearty Servant for God his Church and the King THO. LONG St. JAMES 4.1 From whence come wars and fightings among you come they not hence even from your lusts which war in your members BEing to speak to so solemn an Audience I could not think of a more seasonable and proper Subject than to commend unto you especially R. R. Father in God and worthy Gentlemen who are in Commission for the PEACE and Enquiry into the Causes of WAR And the Text seems to be a Writ of Enquiry From whence come wars In the due execution whereof