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A31832	A sermon preached at St. Lawrence-Jury, London, upon the 9th of September being the day of thanksgiving for the deliverance of the King & kingdom from the late treasonable conspiracy / by Benjamin Calamy ...	Calamy, Benjamin, 1642-1686.	1683 (1683)	Wing C217; ESTC R5418	15,786	42

Superiours at length plain accusing their Proceedings till by such undutiful 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 3. Let us all be warned to have a great care ofreading Factious Seditious Libels or of imbibing Antimonarchical Principles many of which have strangely prevailed these last years amongst us as that the Supream Power is always in the People in the Kingonly in Trust And that the People may resume that Power whenever they Please and call their King to an account for his Execution of it that here in England the Soveraignty is not by Law compleatly and absolutely in the King That he is but one of the three Estates of the Kingdom And especially one very ill Antichristian Principle which hath done an infinite deal of Mischief amongst us and perhaps hath brought more into this Plot than any one thing else I mean that it is lawful in some Cases by Force and Violence to resist the Supreme Authority especially in defence of the True Religion particularly if the King or those Commissionated by him use illegal Force to bring in another Religion or to Persecute the Professors of the True Religion All such Principles as these and many more might be named are directly fitted and calculated for such a Conspiracy and Association as this lately discovered amongst us Let us all have a care therefore of the books wherein such poysonous Doctrines are taught or of the Company of those who profess to believe them lest before we are aware they insinuate themselves into us and so betray us into infinite mischiefs 4. And lastly What a fit opportunity is this for all those that are Honest and Sincere amongst the Dissenters to lay aside their Prejudices and little Sngularities and Affectations and as one man to unite with the Church And this would be the greatest means to preserve the Civil State in peace for as long as there remain these Divisions in Religion these several Sects and Parties amongst us we shall always be in danger of Plots and Conspiracies against the Government These Parties will be always matter for Ambitious Discontented Persons to work upon and to sow the Seeds of Sedition and Rebellion amongst them All the Malecontents in the Kingdom fly to these Dissenters and to the Separate Meetings for refuge and there herd and shelter themselves This therefore is the time for those amongst them who heartily love the King and their Country as many of them profess to do publickly to disclaim and declare their utter Detestation of all such Principles and Practices which have given occasion and encouragement to these late Horrid Conspiracies against the Kings Person and Government with Sorrow to acknowledge how much they have been abused and deceived by the plausible pretences of Wicked Men to become ashamed and weary of Schism and Fanaticism since by this late Discovery they cannot but plainly see whither it tends how troublesome and dangerous it is to the Publick Peace what a Bloody Devillish Spirit it possesses men with al lastly as an Evidence of their sincerity in all this to return into the Bosom of the Church This indeed would be a most happy Fruit of this Conspiracy if all men would now be perswaded how much it is their Interest and Security to unite in the Publick and Legal Establishment which under God can be the only probable way of preserving the Peace Happiness and Religion of our Nation The Lord grant that we may all in this our day mind the things that belong to our Peace before they are hid from our Eyes FINIS

publickly appeared This betrays the Folly as well as the Wickedness of all those who are ingaged in such Caballings and Plottings that they vye Power with God himself and resolve to destroy him whom by such a series of miraculous Providences God hath shewn himself resolved to save and protect Alas they are not only the Guards whom they must seize upon and master In vain are all their Meetings and Consultations about the feasibleness of such a Design unless they can find out a way to escape God's knowledge or could be too hard for the Almighty who hath undertaken to guard and secure our King and will see that no Weapon formed against him shall prosper Was it not by God's wonderful Providence that he was preserved from the Fury and Rage of those who embrued their Savage hands in his Fathers Sacred Blood Was it not the same good Providence that continually compassed him as with a Shield when his own Subjects in Arms against him sought his Death and Destruction Was it not the same Providence that for a long time hid and concealed him from the most diligent search of Blood-thirsty Rebels though so many Conscious yet none tempted by great Rewards and more powerful Fears to betray him and at last after a miraculous manner provided an escape for him and through innumerable dangers conveighed hime safe to a strange Land Was it not the same God who defended and supported him during a long and most unjust Banishment and at length by his own right Hand and outstretched Arm brought him safe again to his People and gloriously restored him to his three Kingdoms Hath he not since been graciously pleased in time to discover all the evil Designs of Wicked men against his Person and Government or hath prevented those which were never discovered Hath he not saved him from the Popish Plot And are we not this present day met together to bless God for his deliverance from a Fanatick one And after all have we not vast Reason from such large Experience of God's infinite kindness towards our most Gracious Soveraign and in him to us his People yet to hope that he will still preserve him and continue his Life amongst us to be every day a greater Blessing to these Kingdoms Give me leave therefore in this Case to apply the Words of the Psalmist in the beginning of the Second Psalm Why do the Papists rage and the Fanaticks imagine a vain thing What madness is this that thus possesses them to unite and associate together The heads of the several Parties and Factions set themselves and take Counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed King saying Let us break their Bands asunder and cast away their cords from us Let us not be tyed up any longer by that slavish Principle of Obedience to Authority for Conscience sake but rather like free born People throw off the Yoke which the King and his Ministers would impose upon us He that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision The Almighty Soveraign by whose Commission and Authority our King Reigns shall despise all these foolish Attempts and will expose these presumptuous Rebels to the Scorn and Contempt of every man Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure Even then when they think they have effected their Design and made all sure God shall suddenly disappoint and confound them so that all men shall observe the tokens of the Divine Vengeance against them Yet have I set my King upon my Holy Hill of Sion See how madly they have Plotted against themselves For our King and his Government is not only yet preserved but we hope Strengthened and Established by their impious Conspiracy against it But more particularly we are now assembled to make due acknowledgments of God's wonderful Providence and Mercy in Discovering and Defeating the late Treasonable Conspiracy against his Sacred Majesties Person and Government In speaking of which I shall first of all briefly set before you the Horridness of the Conspiracy it self then the Greatness of the Deliverance we now bless God for and lastly add some few plain Advices suitable to this occasion I. The Horridness of this late Conspiracy will sufficiently appear if we consider only these three things 1. The Actors or Persons ingaged in it 2. The Motives from which they acted 3. The Mischiefs that would inevitably have followed had not God's Providence made timely Discovery of it and under these heads I shall only hint at some few things 1. As to the Persons that were ingaged in this Plot they may be considered under several Circumstances which do all highly aggravate their Crime and Guilt As that they were Protestants nay the most Zealous Protestants who would hardly allow any others to be such besides themselves Hence on all occasions they would appear most vigorous and active for the Prosecution and Suppression of Papists and counted all that were not so fierce and violent as themselves to be Popishly affected and ready upon any turn of the times to leave their Religion All this Zeal against the Papists they professed to proceed from a just Hatred of their Disloyal Principles which were inconsistent with the Civil-Government and dangerous to the Monarchy and the Kings Person as if they had a mind to save the Government from the Papists only that themselves might have the Honour of Subverting it They liked the thing well enough it was a glorious work but only they did not approve of the Instruments And if these must be called Protestants who can joyn in such Villanous Designs I shall only say that then I know some Protestants who are every jot as bad and as little to be trusted as any Papists We indeed of the Church of England for this one thing were not a little beholden to these Conspirators viz. That they were so careful to distinguish themselves from us and were for a finer and purer Communion than that Established by Law A Protestant is a word at large and may signifie any thing and comprehends all that are not Papists whatever they are for But the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England we all know what it is it is Stated and Defined and we are sure that it condemns all Disloyal Seditious Practices on any pretence whatever And therefore they who were ingaged in this Wicked Conspiracy however some of them might sometimes be seen in our Churches yet they were forced to find fault with our Establishment to decry our Bishops and Ministers and weaken their Authority to endeavour by all means to prejudice the People against our Church and to lessen its Interest which they knew stood in the way of their Designs And have not these Men now bravely provided for the Credit and Honour of the Protestant Religion Had these great haters of Popery gone to School to the Jesuits could they possibly have been taught a more compendious way to