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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

Us as if he had said of tkis Kingdom as he did of Zion Psal 132. 14. This is my Rest for ever Here will I dwell for I have a delight therein And yet I may truly say but to our great shame that since the Creation of the Universe there never was such an Athestical Generation no not in the most dark in the most distant in the most infidel parts of the World as this Nation hath groaned under these late years And yet 't is observable tho' it be very strange that None among Us have pretended greater concernment for the Reformation than Those who have bid open defiance to all Religion whatsoever Men of the most profligate Reputation Open Drunkards profest Adul●●re●s Notorious Cheats Forsworn Rebells Impudent Lyars Persidious Hypocrites and but the other day Scoff●rs at God and at the very shew of Piety 'T is enough to move the Meekest the most Patient Man on Earth to consider what Foreheads of Steel and Adamant those Impious Wretches haue that coul● take the ●●nsidence Th●s to Gull and Impose upon the People by a seeming Zeal for Religion Especially when They are now up in Arms fighting for it in open Rebellion against the Example of our Saviour and the Precepts of the Gospell As far as I have observed the whole History of England doth not afford Us an Instance of God's Providence that can come any thing near that account which Rel●tes to our present Soveraign and his Royal Brother Deceased unless it be that single Story of King Alfred the great A Prince of that Learning Wisdom Clemency Sweetness of nature and other such excellent Virtues as really made him an honour and ornament to the Throne And yet that excellent Prince was once Reduc'd to those miserable straights partly by the Invasion of Enemies from abroad and partly through the Treachery of Rebels and Deserters at Home that he was Forc'd to put himself into the disguise once of a Common Soldier another time of an Herds-man and at last to abscond for a considerable time in the West in a poor Cottage among Woods and Moors a sad and wofull place for a Crown'd Head to Rest in And yet such was his Religious dependance upon God that tho' He was Forsaken by his Friends invioron'd with his Enemies and brought to those extreams and shameful necessities that his mother and himself were hardly able to subsist yet He doubted not but Providence w●uld one Day Restore Him to his just Grandieur And so it was that in that very mean Condition in that most obscure place he began the Recovery of his Fortunes There he began the Foundation of his Kingdom Raising it on still by degrees till in a little time he became the sole and absolute Monarch of this Nation and made it a most Flourishing Kingdom and gave many the most excellent Laws that We enjoy at this Hour or rather may so do when God shall Restore the King and we return to to Our Allegiance and Duties LONDON Printed for Samuel Keble at the Turks Head in Fleet-street Error Pag 2 line last Read their Shoulders POSTSCRIPT NOw Reader after Thou hast duly consider'd these Firm Doctrines of the Protestant Religion Tell me truly If thou canst expect ever to see One Rebel in Heaven or to meet even any of Those that do but wish prosperity to Rebellion in the Regions of Bliss Tell me if thou hast any dread of a Future Judgment If thou hast any value for thy Soul what Rewards will follow Thee what vengeance rather will pursue Thee if thou set up a God of thy own Fancy and hearken to the Oracles of Rebellion instead of Governing all thy Thoughts words and Actions by the precepts of the Gospel and after the meek example of the Blessed Jes●s Dost thou think one Murther enough to Damn an unrepenting Soul and Canst thou wish Success to those that take Arms against the King without Plunging thy self into the Guilt of every Man's Blood that is or shall be Spilt in such a Damnable Quarrel Canst thou Offer in Sacrifice thy will and affections as the Indians do their darling Children to the Devil to the Monstrous Idol of Rebellion and not be tainted with that Idolatry which will inevitably Damn thy Soul without a most speedy and the deepest Repentance Nay tell me if thou canst Repent If the Nature of thy Crime will admit of Repentance in thee when Lucifer was Damn'd because the Sin of his Rebellion was utterly incapable of that Grace which gives a true Repentance Fare-well These Sermons may be Printed Dublin Castle the 28th of July 1689. Patrick Clogher Thanksgiving Sermons Preached on the 9th of September 1683. Francis Lord Bishop of Ely pag. 37 John Fitz-william D. D. pag. 01 William Sherlock D. D. pag. 15 Paul Lathom Prebend of Sarum pag. 20 Benjamin Calamy D. D. pag. 25 William Bolton Scholmaster of the Charter-house pag. 30 John Price D. D. pag. 33 Charles Powel M. A. pag. 43 William Smith Prebend of Norwich pag. 47 Miles Barnes D. D. pag. 51 Henry Hesketh Minister of St. Hellens pag. 55 John Harrison D. D. pag. 58 Edward Pelling D. D. pag. 60 Luke Milbourne pag. 65 A Thanksgiving Sermon against Monmouth's Rebellion 29th July 1685. Edward Pelling D. D. pag. 68

Peace and Wealth The third method is Steaking through all Oaths they stand bound by of bearing True faith and Allegiance to their Gove●nours of discovering all Treasonable Designes and Practices against their Persons or Authority Oaths in which They deposited with them the Richest pawn it was possible for them to stake down and gave them the Strongest Security the others could Require of Their Fidelity and obedience viz. Their Salvation Oaths in which They call'd God's Omniscence to witness their Engagements and his Justice and Power to Revenge The breath of them And yet as if They were no more to be held by them than Samson was with green wyths or new Ropes Or as if Their Conscieuces were no more to be wounded by Perjury than the German Hard-men are by Sword and Sho● or last of all as if They had a secret Receipe of being acquainted with Conspiracies and not being infected with the Treason of them But if there were no breaking through Oaths and yet I believe there is scarce any form of Regiment in the world which takes not this kind os cautionary Bond from their Subjects they must make Their way through all Natural Obligations to come at their end for every man who is not born to Empire antecedent to all Oaths and abstracting from the Force of all Humane Laws is born with a Tye of duty and Obedience to the Government under which he was born And he can no more Disolve change or Transfer this Obligation by a subsequent Protectation of his Obedience to a Prince or State other than His Natural than he could before he came into the World choose of what Parents he would descend the Country where and the dominion under which he would make his Entrance into it And now suppose The Treason meet with all the Success the Conspirators could wish yet these Persons are oft at the long Run overtaken by vengeance and exemplary punish'd in this World. Innumerable Footsteps of this Justice are left Us standing both on Sacred and Civil Records The Earth opened her Mouth wide and swallow'd up Corah Dathan and Abiram with their Rebellious Crew in the very Act and Height of Their wickedness Abimilech Judges 9. 53. who dy'd his Princely Scarlet in the Blood of Seventy Brethren he slew that he might Rule without Controul had his Skull at the storming of Thebez broke by a stone thrown by a Womans hand on which the Historian who Relates it makes this Remark Athaliah who Murther'd all the Royal 2. Kings 11. 16. Line of Judah except an Infant He●r preserv'd by his Aunt for a more fabourable Iuncture that she might Reign and Reign without a Rival fell from her greatness by the same Bloody steps she mounted to it was slain by her Guard within the Verge of her Palace Jeroboam the grand Vsurper of the 1. Kings 15. 19. the Isralitish Crown tho'he escap'd in his person yet was punish'd in the utter Extirpation of his Posterity Nadab his Son kill'd and all his Family by the Sword of Baasha not one left alive who breath'd This Murtherer's 1. Kings 10. 12. Son Elah together with all the Male Line were destroy'd by Zimri not one left who piss'd against the 1. Kings 16 15. 18. Wall Zimri after seven days Reign lay'd hands on himself to avoid falling into Om●●'s who besieged him Burning his Palace over his own head Shallum who tooke away Z●●hariah's life and Kingdom was 1. Kings 15. 30. depriv'd of both within a Month by Menahem whose Son Pekajah had the like turn done him by Pekah the Captain of his Guard and he by Ho●hea who in the 9th year of 2 Kings 18. 9. his Vsurpation was strip'd of his Regallity and carried Captive by Salmanezer into Assiria and Media and with him expir'd that M●narchy And should I Travel out of sacred Story into Prophane for instances Time would faile me in recounting the Tragical Ends of Vsurpers or Regicides of Cyrns who Seised on his Grandfathers Kingdoms of Bessus whose Murther of Da●ius Ochus caused the Translation of the Empire from the Persian to the Greeks of ●hillip the Vsurper of the Macedonian Crown slain between his Son Alexander the great and his Son in Law Alexander of Epicus at the Espousal of his Daughter of Pisistratus who Invaded the A●henian Julius Caesar who Invaded the Roman Government The Murderers of Gordian the Emperour who fell all by Their own hands using those very Swords against their own lives which They had before Imployed to take away others And Infinite Numbers more mentioned by the Roman Byzantine and other Writers only I can't omit two Memorable Examples the one of Maximus who procur'd the Murther of Valanttnian the third Torn afterwards in Peices by the People of Rome the other of Phocas who through the Barbarous murther of his master Mauritius Ascended the Throne of Constantinople he taken by Pho●inus received a suitable Reward and had his Head Hands and Feet with his Privities cut off In these Generally speaking is that saying of our Saviour verified They who take the Sword take it against Lawfull Authority shall Perish with the Sword the Sword of Justice And of St. John he that killeth with the Sword must be killed with the Sword so David Killed the Amalekite who slew Saul at his own ●●treaty c. And can it be thought that he who Will not hold him Guiltless that taketh his name in vain should connive at the violation of all Obligations of Duty and Fidelity contracted in that name and let such escape Scot-free that rise up against them who wear his name and are clad in the Rayes of his Majestie That if men shall be in danger of Hell fire for calling their Brother Fool shall They be in none for Rayling against their Superiors invested with Authority from above and 1. Pet. 1. 2. comp with the 10. Iud. 8. comp with the 13. Acting by a Commission from heaven St. Peter and St. Iude have taught Us otherwise viz. That God Reserveth Such who speak evil of Dignities unto the day of Judgment to be punished for the Blackness of Darkness for ever If Lyars Sorcerers Whoremongers Murtherers and Idolaters shall receive their part in the Lake which Rev. 21. 8. Burneth with Fire and Brimstone as we are inform'd they shall surely such Lyars who Maliciously Slander Their prince first to weaken his Credit then his Hands such Sorcerers who with the Witchcraft of Cunning and Fair Speaking alienate the Peoples Affections from him such Whoremongers who are Guilty of and stand answerable to Justice for all the Rapes and Destorations Soldiers rais'd by Them to begin an Insurrection and make a Revolt in the heat of War and Lust commit surely then those Murtherers of their honest fellow Subjects who will not side with them in taking up Arms Then Those Idolaters who Crown'd with Success erect a False Power in opposition to the Legal One and would Compell all to

We begin to entertain or to whisper our discontents and fears how we begin to listen to be suspicious of our Prince or of his Government and to hear with pleasure any scandalous stories or reflections on either Those who can with content and pleasure hear their Prince and his Government revil'd will soon think him not fit to be Their King. And the great danger of such beginnings is that We are not apt to observe them in our selves or others when Religion is concern'd in the quarrel We think it all Zeal pure Zeal and can't suspect our selves or others to be in any danger of turning Rebels But whatever is in its own nature a degree or tendency towards Rebellion is so where-ever and in whomsoever it is found and there is always more danger that the beginnings of vice should corrupt the best temper of mind than any hope that a sound and religious disposition should correct the malign influences of such a vice Some mens Religion does as much incline them to Faction as secular interest doth other men and there is no such dangerous Faction as that which is bred and nourish'd by the corruptions of Religion The Jewish Zealots and the Christian Enthusiasts of all sorts are too plain an Example of it And therefore when men who make great pretences to Religion begin to talk or act factiously a fair opportunity is as like to make them Rebels as any other men Thus We often see it is and this is a sufficient reason to suspect all such beginnings either in our selVes or others whatever glorious pretences we may have London Printed for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleetstreet The Power of Kings from GOD. A SERMON Preach'd at Sarum By Paul Lathom Prebendary there Prov. 8. 15. By Me Kings Reign KIngs have their Authority deriv'd immediately from God whic● Authority is not confer'd on Them as a Trust by the People Let us consider first what Titles the Scriptures give to King They are called the Ministers of God therefore not of men Rom. 1 4. 6. The Powers that be are said to be Ordained of God therefore not of Men. v. i for the question concerning St. John's Baptism wa● it from Heaven or of Men seems to put this upon an Issue Besides they are call'd Elohim Earthly Gods Psal 82 6. And what Peopl● can make there own Gods without Palpable Idolatry When God first Subjected his own People Israel to the Government of Kings the People had nothing to do in conferring the Power Mos●● was made their Ruler immediately by God so Ioshuah and the Iudge● for so long the Theocracy did continue visable among them When th● People desir'd a King with formality God is not angry with them simp●● for desiring a King for he foretold their having a King and gave hi● directions for his Government Deut. 17 but for some irregularities their manner of desiring him But how was he chosen not by the People but by Lot. 1 Sam 10 20 21. the determination whereof from the Lord Prov 16. 33. no hand of the People in choosing him David was made King by God's immediate 〈◊〉 Sam 16. 1. H● the Theocracy seems to end Afterward the Government did descend by Succession And Those that pretend directions from the Scripture in every thing will be at a loss where to finde directions there for the People to take away or Confer Power upon their Prince We Challenge any man from Prophane Histories to shew Us any Footsteps of such beginings of Monarchy when the People did intrust this Power to their King If they acknowledge that their History fails them let not also reason fail them Let not Loyalty fail Them let not Conscience fail them let them have somhing more than bold Surmises or else not attempt to build a Supposition of such dangerous consequence upon the meer strength of imagination If therefore they Persist and Urge Us to shew how Monarchy first came to Subject men to Obedience I think the History of the Bible will give US light enough That Patriarchal Government or the Ruling of the Father or eldest of the Family over the Rest was the first form of Government in the World I think is generaly own'd Now when the Families increased the Subjects multiplied and by insensible degrees the Patriarchal Government seems to have setled into that Government of the Reguli or small Kings which was upon the matter the same when Ioshuah Conquered the land of Canaan which is less in extent than the Kingdom of England alone he found and Subdued 31 Kings Iosh 12 24. And it seems this was the least Jurisdiction of their Reguli For after him Iudg 1. 7. Ad●●ibezek when he was Conquer'd doth own that he kept 70 Reguli in Barbarous Servitude under him And some Hundreds of years after the King of Syria no great Prince had 32 Kings at once in his Army 1 Reg. 20. 1. so that it seems their Territories and power were then surely but an inconsiderable alteration of External Government and that which by degrees introduced greater Monarchy's If We further proceed to take a view of all the ways whereby Princes ascend to the Throne it will appear they are but few and that in none of those the People confer the power on the King first by D●scent or Succession as in England Now who can say that the People hereconfe● the Power If they ple●d that at the Kings Coronation the consent of the People is demanded it is evident that the King is King to all intents and purposes before his Coronation Besides neither are all the People Sommon'd nor any considerable part of them appear at a Coronation And if then thereshould be any su●ly Sheba that should reject his Prince that would not hinder the Coronation so that this is but barely a thing of course and doth not deside the King's Power from the People at all Secondly those that attain a Crown by conquest no man can say They expect or receive the explicit consent of the People tho' a tacit consequential consent may be argued in their yeilding him a forc'd obedience Thirdly Those that Surprise a Throne by Fraud tho' they may impose upon the People so as to gain a formal consent Yet is there no real consent in those that are thus bewitch'd or cajol'd Fourthly there are some that come to a Crown by Elcteion And here our Male-contents think they are secure that They derive their Power from the People But we must consider the great difference that is betwixt Designing the person and conferring the Power The former is from those that choose Him the latter by no meanes the Dean and Chapiter of a Cathedral by the Kings leave choose a Bishop Sede vacante this choice designs the person but doth not confer the Power which is afterwards given him in his consecration The Aldermen and Commons of a City do yearly choose their Mayor this choice doth indeed designe the person but not confer the power

always attended with Loyalty This will clear the Profession of Religion from the a●persion of ungovernableness and set Us forward to that Kingdom where He by whom Kings Reign shall rule over all and be all in all LONDON Printed for Joanna Browne at the Gun at the West-End of St. Paul's A Sermon Preached by Benjamin Calamy D. D. on the 9th Septemb. 1683. Ecclesiastes 10. Verse 20. Curse not the King no not in thy thought c. OF all Rebels they are certainly the worst that are such out of conscience and no such desperate Villains as those who think to please God by Murders and Massacres Other wicked men may be often checked are sometimes restrain'd by their consciences and dread of a future Judgment but what evils shall they ever boggle at who commit such gross wickedness out of complyance with their conscience out of obedience to God and expect to be rewarded for it in another world And is it possible by any thing We can do to bring greater dishonour to our Religion or more effectually to prejudice Rulers and Governors against it than by making it to patronize and countenance Faction and Rebellion If this were the true genious of Religion To make men Unpeaceable Turbulent Mutinous Seditious c. It would then become the great interest of Princes to guard themselves against It as the very Pest of Humane Society and dangerous to the Civil Government But thanks be to God This is not the temper of Our Christianity Our Saviour's Religion begets in men the most gentle and meek patient and Governable Spirits and is so far from being inconsistent with Loyalty to our Prince that it is th● greatest ●ye and Obligation to it in the World And there is no one can through off his Allegiance to his Earthly Soveraign but at the same time He Renounces all duty and Conscience towards God. The Doctrine and discipline of the Church of England We all know what it is It is stated and defin'd and we are sure that it condemns all disloyal Seditious practices on any pretence whatever We must not compass imagine desire or contrive Or invite any thing that tends to the damage and prejudice either of our Soveraign Lord the King or of any that are Commission'd or Authoriz'd by him Soveraign Kings and Princes are God's Deputies and Vicegerents set up by himself and They derive their Power and Authority from him alone God Almighty the maker of us all is the only absolute Lord and uncontroulable Soveraign of Men and Angels part of his own Power and Authority which he hath over his Creatures he hath Delegated and Committed to Kings who are the most Principal instruments and Ministers of his providence in the World Hence are they call'd Gods and Children of the most High Psal 82 6. God hath invested them with some part of his own Majesty stamped his own Character upon them and appointed Them in His place to perform and administer even some part of his Divine Office if I may so speak amongst men Thus constituting Them Earhly Gods as to their persons sacred and as to their Actions Accountable to None but that Supereminent Divine Authority that gave them Commission This is not any new coyned Divinity invented in favour of Arbitra●y Power but is expresly delivered in holy Scriptures was professed own'd and taught by the primitive Christians and hath been the constant Doctrine of the Reformed Church of England Nay it is agreeable to the general sence of mankind and might be made out by Rational Evidence if we had no other confirmation of it That Supreme Governours have their Power and Authority from God alone is expresly delivered in Scripture and that not only of the Kings of Israel who were evidently established by God's appointment but in general we are told Prov 8. 15. 16. By me Kings reign and Princes decree Justice By me Princes Rule and Nobles even all the Judges o● the Earth Thus Cyrus an Heathen Emperour is call'd God's Annointed Isa 45. 1. Thus saith the Lord to his Annointed to Cyrus and in the last verse of the preceding Chapter he is call'd God's Shepheard Prin ces being often by reason of the Resemblance betwixt the Pastoral Offic● and Government call'd Shepheard● I have made the Earth saith God by the Prophet Jeremiah 27 5 6. and given it to whome it seemed meet unto me And now have I given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon my servant Thus Daniel declareth that the Most High Ruleth in the Kingdoms of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will. And he tells Nebuchadnezzar Chap. 2 37. that it was the God of Heaven that had given him a Kingdom Power and Strength and Glory In the new Testament nothing can be plainer than the begining of the 13 Rom where St. Paul tells us that there is no Power but of God that the Powers that be are ordain'd of God whence in the next verse he styleth Magistracy or Government the Ordinance of God and in the 4th verse the Ruler is Called the Minister of God To execute his vengeance upon Them that do Evil. It is plain that this was always the Doctrine of the Church of England as appears from the Booke of Homilies wherein we are taught That the High Powers are set in Authority by God that they are God's Lieutenants God's Presidents God's Officers God s Commissioners God's Judges Ordain'd of God himself Nay it hath been directly asserted in our Church that the most High and Sacred Order of Kings is of Divine right being the Ordinance of God himself founded in the prime law of nature and clearly establish'd by express Texts both of the Old and New Testament Nor indeed can it be well Conceiv'd or Reasonably imagin'd from whence Kings and Soveraign Princes should have right to Govern and Command but from God alone since He is the undoubted Lord of the whole Earth and alone hath full Power and Right to Govern it I cannot see but that whoever shall goe about to Confer any Power of Government or take upon himself any such Authority over others were it not ●y God's Appointment and insti●ution he would thereby put himself upo● disposing of Gods Right without his leave or ordering so that Government or Supriority of o●e or more over others is all Tyrany and Usurpation upon God's Right or els it must be granted to be Ordain'd by God himself And whatever the form of Government may be or whatever hand the People may have in Choosing or Designing the person or persons that shall be invested with this Supreme Authority yet the Power and Authority it self is deriv'd only from God and is neither Received of the People in Trust nor is the Soveraign Power answerable to them for the Administration of it which is sometimes illustrated thus Tho' the Wife may choose what person she pleaseth to make her Husband Yet his Authority over the Wife is not owing to her nor doth

she confer it upon him but it is of Divine Appointment Whosoever R●sisteth the Power Resisteth the Ordinance of God saith St. Paul To oppose and shake off his Majesties Government To Plot and Con●pi●● against him is to Rebell against God And when We wou●d not suffer our Lawfull Soveraign whom the Divine Majesty had appointed to Rule over Us we did by just consequence and fair interpretation endeavour what we could to Dethrone God himself and proved Traytors ●ot only against our Natural Lord and King but against the Heavenly Monarch himself by whose Commission he Reigns That Wicked King Z●d●kiah of whom it is expresly said 2 Kings 24. 19. that he did that which was Evil in the sight of the Lord yet he is stile● by the Prophet Jeremy Sam. 4 20. The Breath of our Nostrils The fates of whole Kingdoms depend upon them All that live under their Government are interested in them and partake with them And a Uillanous Invitation or Treache●ous Attempt Succeeding against our Soveraign may I am afraid most justly will stab a whole Nation to the Heart and fill all Places with Blood and Confusion Is it not God's wonderfull Providence that hath hitherto preserved His most Sacred Majesty And did not the same Providence preserve his Royal Brother and himself from the Fury and Rage of those who Embrued their Salvage hands in the Sacred Blood of their Majesties Royal Father Hath not the same good Providence continually encompassed Them as with a sheild when their own Subj●cts then and now again in Arms sought both their Deaths and destructions was it not the same Providence that for a long time hid and Conceal'd Them from the most diligent Search of Blood-thirsty Rebells and at last after a Miraculous manner provided an escape for them and through Innumerable dangers conveyed them safe to a strange Land was it not the same God who deferded and supported them then and still continues so to do in the unparallel'd case of his present Majesty against the most unnatural and blackest Treacherys and Treasons that ever yet saw light till at length by His own Right hand and Ou●stretched Arm. He brought them safe again to England and Gloriously Restored the King to his three Kingdoms Tho' it were realy so that We were oppressed or treated harshly by Governors yet We are not to give vent to our passion in undecent Rayling or Inveighing against them call'd in Scripture Blaspheming or speaking Evil of Dignities Is it fit saith Elihu to Iob to say to a King thou art wicked and to Princes ye are ungodly It cannot but be observed almost by every man that many of the Heads of this late Conspiracy were persons Infamous throughout the whole Nation for their Immortallities and Debaucheries Notorious Whoremasters Adulterers Drunkards Murderers Swearers and what not Now what a Fulsome thing is it and to be abhor'd of all Honest men to hear such persons as these set up for the great Patriots of their Country and the assertors of the Peoples Rights and Conservators of their Liberties and Religion Are men of such Atheistical Principles and prostitute Consciences fit to be trusted either with Religion or our Liberties or can we desire any gr●ater Argument that they are mov'd by some other design which they make under such plausable pretences Let Us all be warn'd to have a care of Reading Factious Books and of imbibing antimonarchical principles but more especially that cursed Antichristian Principle which hath done an infinite deal of mischief amongst Us and perhaps hath brought more into This Plot than any one thing els I mean That it is Lawful in some Cases by Force and Viole●ce to Resist the Supreme Authority Especially in defence of the True Religion Particularly if the King or those commissioned by him use Illegal Force to bring in another Religion or to persecute the Professor of the true Keligion Let us have a care of the Books wherein such Poysonous Doctrines are taught or of the Company of those who profess to believe them least before we are aware they insinuate themselves into us and so betray us to infinite mischiefs Men do not become Traytors and Reb●lls in an instant But first They begin with Murmuring and Complaining then unmannerly talking of their Superiors at length plain accusing their proceedings till by such undutifull practices they become conscious to themselves that They have offended the Government at so great a rate as that they cannot be safe under it and then in their own defence they think of destroying it LONDON Printed for Walter Kittilby at the Bishops Head in St. Paul's Church yard Core Redivivus A SERMON Preach'd by William Bolton one of the Scholmasters of the Charter-House Numb 16. 26. And he spake unto the Congregation saying Depart I pray you from the Tents of These wicked Men and touch nothing of Theirs least you be consumed in all Their Sins TO oppose Our lawful Magistrate is against the sense and practice of Christ's Church in all ages even under the severest persecutions I say in all ages even under the severest Persecutiors of Heathen Emperors nay under Julian the Apostate And if We shall reflect upon the Judicial proceedings of God Almighty in this kind we shall find him so jealous of his own as not to suffer in his Deputys Honour and therefore by some secret and irresistible power He hath still countermanded the deepest projects of Traytors He hath split their Councels and struck their most refined Policies with frustration Or a Curse You have heard how Corah Dathan and Abiram who had supplanted from their loyalty no less than 250 Princes men of renown upon whom the Holy Ghost in the Text fastens no other character than that of Wicked suffer'd both in themselves and accomplices for their mutiny against Moses And let Absolom steal the hearts of Israel from David both his King and Father Let ten of the twelve Tribes proclaim him King in Hebron Let the Distressed David fly from his Royal Seat and let his ungrateful and rebellious Son possess Jerusalem London Let A●hi●ophel advise Absolo● ●o pursue David his counsel shall be turn'd into folly insomuch that he sh●●● lay violent hands upon himself and though the too indulgent Father gives command to spare his life yet rather than Absolom shall prosper in his Treason his own beloved hair shall serve for an halter to execute him 2 Sam. from chap. 15. to the 19th Let Sheba the Son of Bichri make a Party in Israel against David let him secure himself in the strong City a Woman shall perswade his own Followers to cut off his head and present it unto David's General chap. 20 If you look into 2 Kings 11. you will find the reward of Athaliah's Treason She seizeth upon the Crown of Judah and to s●cure herself in it she as she imagin'd slew all the Seed Royal After six years enjoyment of the Throne without doubt she supposed herself safe enough when behold the