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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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of Civil Society require of us and they who have taken the Oath to His Present Majesty and yet are Enemies to the Government I suppose expect not to be reputed Men of Integrity because they themselves thereby declare how much indeed they desire yet how little they deserve to be Trusted But if we regard the Honour of our Holy Religion which by the Providence of God is most likely to prosper by the sincere Obedience of the Professors of it and to suffer Reproach with many Inconveniences by the Seditious Practices of the Disobedient as Christianity at first did by the Factious Behaviour of some pretended Christians who made their Religion a Cloak for their Maliciousness If we have any Love to our Native Countrey and they are Unnaturally Barbarous who have not and may learn to Correct their Impiety of the Ancient Pagan Romans who would have stigmatiz'd such as Diseases of the Community and proscribed them as unworthy to Preathe in the common Air of their Country who had Rejoiced at any Mischief or Misfortune that had befallen it If we have any Value for our Laws and Liberties which were so Dear to our Wise Ancestors that sooner than part with them they would have parted with their Lives And may they never want Due Honours to be paid to their Memories for their Publick-spirited Generous Care of their Posterity nor we the Virtue to deserve as well of ours If we have any Sense of the Restless Designs of our Common Enemies who by open Force and secret Fraud by making fomenting inflaming Divisions among us setting on one part of the Nation to provoke disable destroy another by turns thereby to wear off the Scandal and Odium of their Cruelties by our upbraiding one another with our own by all possible insnaring intriguing Policies have endeavour'd to Rob us of these Blessings and if we are willing still to be deceiv'd would make us do their Work for them and Barbarously become Instruments of our own Ruin But should we so far oblige our Enemies who have been too much and for many Years obliged already we should be thought deservedly to suffer all Scorn and Misery with the Just tho' severe Censures of Posterity without Pity from any Mortal If we would avoid the Reproach of being an inconstant fickle ungrateful People who in time of Danger wish for a Deliverance and when we have it know not how to Value it but are ready to wish for our Danger again and too many to give their Help to bring it back again upon us tho' with greater Violence if not certain Destruction to our Religion Laws Liberties and all that is Dear to us If there be any Love if there be any Fear if we have any Regard to things of the greatest Concernment to us let us not Undervalue our Blessings which will be best preserv'd nor Court our Slavery which is most likely to be prevented by Unity among our selves in a hearty Obedience to our Governours And I hope these Considerations will be looked upon by all Sober Men who are Protestants as so many Obligations and Motives to it II. Let us call to mind the Advantages we receive by the Government which are more and in many respects greater than other Nations Enjoy We are Guarded in our Civil Rights by many favourable Laws which give us Relief against all Injuries either of Force or Falshood We are Protected in our Liberties which is a great Encouragement to Labour and Improvements when we consider that what is descended to us from our Ancestors or gotten by our Honest Industry we are secur'd in the Legal Possession and Disposal of against all Arbitrary Attempts or Injurious Pretensions And above all we have an Excellent Religion the true Worship of God Establisht among us and nothing is wanting that is helpful to forward the Salvation of our Souls unless it be that which is in our power to amend the Conformity of our Practice to the Rules of our Profession And these Temporal and Spiritual Blessings we have Enjoy'd for several Years since our last great Danger of losing them and have reason to hope for the Continuance of them since our Gracious King has no Secret Ingagements or Sinister Designs no Ends to serve but those Glorious Ones of Promoting the Publick Good of these Kingdoms Preserving the Protestant Religion at Home and Abroad and Recovering the Just Liberties of the Suffering part of Europe So that methinks it will be our own Fault Negligence Carelesness or something worse if we receive not many lasting future Blessings as well as the present by his Auspicious Reign But some are apt to set the Decay and Loss of Trade and the great Taxes which lye heavy upon them against this Account In time of War there are Common Accidents which will unavoidably happen to some People's Loss in one Nation as well as another and therefore are not to be reckoned only on one side 'T is not reasonable to expect the same Conveniences in all Respects as in Times of Peace any more than to desire that bitter tho' wholesom Medicines should be as Pleasant as a Recover'd State of Health And if Taxes are great the Necessity is great also They are indeed sensibly the heavier by the Hellish Arts of Wicked Men who for several Years have been Maliciously breaking our Strength at Home in Clipping and Debasing the Coin and thereby have done more Injury to our Nation than the Successive Thieves and Robbers of many Ages But this we hope will be Repair'd by the Wisdom of our Governours and that in the Issue we shall be all Recompenced for what we suffer by it by more Prosperous Events We are Ingaged in War against an Enemy whose Greatness we have long dreaded like a direful Comet of Malignant Influence portending some great Calamity and if it had been begun sooner it would doubtless have been shorter and will be so still if we are as Unanimous and Hearty in the Cause as our King is Brave and Valiant in the Defence of it The Success that cannot be obtain'd against a Powerful Enemy on a sudden may be procur'd in time by Courage and Patience and Perseverance which Virtues we had much better use with a doubled Resolution than Relapse into our former Distractions or submit our selves to Slavery and be expos'd to the Mercy of French Dragoons which can have no more Friends in England than there are Enemies to our Religion and Laws It is the nature of weak and impotent Minds when under any uneasiness presently upon any Terms to desire to get rid of it without considering the Dangerous Consequences of their unadvised Impatience whether they will not put them into Ten times a worse Condition and irrecoverably so than they are at present in We find in Scripture the People were called upon in time of Difficulty and Danger 2 Sam. 10.12 to be of good Courage and to play the Men as the Apostle exhorts the Corinthians 1 Cor.