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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25563	An answer to Mr. Stephens's sermon preach'd before the Honorable House of Commons at St. Margaret's Church in Westminster, January the 30th 1699/1700 by a gentleman who took the said sermon in short-hand.	Gentleman who took the said sermon in short-hand.	1700 (1700)	Wing A3370A; ESTC R24707	9,520	17

against it T is true the Words were abused in the late Reign and is at all times when employ'd to countenance an Insupportable Tyranny and that has made the Words generally distastsal to English Men since the Revolution which all Antimonatchists being sensible of when they have a mind to inveigh against Obedience to Authority 't is but Tacking the Word Passive to Obedience and their Work is d●ne For it creates an Aversion in unthinking People who cannot distinguish between the ●●e and the Abuse of things and because 't was once appled to ill Purposes run away with that mistaken ad infinitem and think the Men that inveigh against Passive Obedience are the only Asserters of true English Liberty Which is a grand mistake and instead of lulling Men asleep in an Error so pernicious to the Peace of the Kingdom ought to Allarm this Stupid Humour into a sense of Danger or the Folly will be as unaccountable as the Mischiefs will be insuportable if ever this Seditious Hot-headed Crew of Republicans be once more suffered to have the Steerage of Publick Affairs who are a Proud and Ambitious sort of People only valuable in their Conceits and now Herd with the Jacobits only to reduce us into a State of Anarcy Some Men through Ignorance might imbibe Notions of Disobedience as others think it lawful upon extraordinary Occasions where Sic Volo sic Juber is a Law and the King's Will is made the Political Standard but for a man of mr Stephens's Learning to Preach up the Doctrine of Resistance in a time of Peace when there is no occasion to blow the Coals when we have a King of our own choice whom the Nation intirely Love and Honour as being a Valiant and Brave Prince undoubtedly the greatest Heroe of his Age and has a Soul large enough to Animate more than theree Kingdoms was such an Ungenerous Dastardly and creeping Innuendo against him and carried such a rude threatning of His Majesty if he should happen to disoblige the Faction that the Preacher ought to be treated with a Scorn and Contempt answerable to the Baseness of the Enterprize Since he cannot but know that the Doctrines of Passive Obedience and Non Resistance in their just Latitude and Evangelical Importance are Truths as Sacred as any other Humane Duty in the Bible and without the Belief and Practice of it the World will be no better than a Savage Wilderness and a Habitation of Wolves and Tygers in Humane Shape Rending and Devouri●●●ne another To accomplish this wicked End must needs be the great Design of our Popular Orator for tho' he so fluently harangu'd about the tremendous Consequences of Passive Obedience he studiously conceal'd the fatal Consequences of Rebellion which will be ever found to be more Duraable and mischievous This St. Paul well knew and therefore founded this important and Inviolable Duty upon Reasons that are perpetual and unalterable as namely that the Supream Magistrate is the Ordinance of God His Power is ordain'd of God He is the Minister of the great Immutable God and not of the Giddy and Capricious Multitude Now these Reasons hold good equally at all times subsist under all the Alterations of the World are the same now in England that they were heretofore at Rome and consequently the Duty of Obedience must be the same Yesterday to Day and for ever And yet what pains has mr Stephens taken to lessen if not incourage by slant Strokes the Crying and Diabolical Sin of Reb●l●ion which is so Dangerous and infinitely encroaching that if it be not stifled in its Seed and Principle it will when kindled bid defiance to all Controul and run along like an irresistible Conflagration And tho' the Preacher employ'd all his Art in Mi●cing and Palliating the Matter 't will be found a Maxime of Eternal Varity that whosoever gives Power to any Subjects to rise up against a Good King or Preach it up as lawful so to do gives License to others to re-act the same doleful Tragedy which the whole Land mourns for every Thirtieth of January The Preachers next Design was to assert the Liberty of the Subjects an excellent thing when Honestly used and Peaceably intended but to what purpose he insisted upon that Topick now when blessed be God we have a Prince that neither does nor intends to infringe our Privileges or Deprive us of our Rights but has given us all the Legal Securities a Parliament could ask for our future Peace and Happiness When there are no Complaints that our Rights are Invaded our Properties Usurped or our Liberties Infringed and the whole Nation sit under their own Vines in Peace and Tranquility I cannot imagine unless he intended to Introduce a Belluine Liberty for Men to say and do what they please A Liberty of affronting the Government 〈◊〉 of improving and practising upon invented Fears and Possibilities 〈◊〉 ●●ey have brought us into Vassalage to their own Party Now to Antidote this Venome and to shield our selves from the Danger and Delusion so artificially Insinuated by our Bisarious Predicator is to judge of the Designs by the Men that promotes them for all the Arts imployed by our Enemies tho' never so cunningly disguised are but the Sly Impositions of Cunning Knaves to advance their own Party And therefore when we see ill Men take up a fit of pretended Zeal and Kindness for their Country and appear better Natured than consists with their Principles and avowed Interests 't is time to suspect a Fraud and weigh their Words with their Practices before we believe them further than consists with the safety of the Government for the Men and their Designs can never be parted Liberty is the greatest Glory of a People yet if it be not bounded by the Laws of Reasons and Religion 't is the greatest Makebate in the World and tends directly to the Ruine of every Community by the known Rule That the best things corrupted become the morst Liberty perverted into Contention for Superiority is but Trapanning and Deluding Men into Slavery Catching them with Words and decoying them into Nets and Snates 'T was the Affectation of this that made our first Parents Rebel against God and prompted Seditious Men to Rebel against his Vicegerents on Earth 'T was a Sin of this Complection that occasion'd the Unparallel'd Murther of Charles ' the First for which our Land mourns at this very Day and which feems like the first Transgression to continue a lasting Curse and Debt upon Posterity Another Obliging Instance of his Dear Respects to Monarchy was Investing the Sovereign and Supream Power in the People and how that consists with his Duty as a Subject or with his Repeated Oaths as a Clergyman I leave him to Consider and Repent of least he falls under an Ecclesiastical Censure also Sure Mr. Stephens when he was advancing the Imaginary Power of the People thought he was Preaching at Wootton-Under-Edge in Gloucestershire where he us'd to Vend these Popular Notions by