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A sermon preached at Petworth in Sussex, September 9, 1683 being a day of solemn thanksgiving for the gracious and wonderful deliverance of the King, his royal brother, and the government from the late barbarous conspiracy, as trayterous / by John Price ...
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Price, John, 1625?-1691.
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Divine appointment to try them and because they were so a clamour was raised and their Governours must hear of it What shall we drink In the next Chapter they murmur for Meat as before they did for drink the whole Congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness a National sin the whole Congregation and that both against their Prince and against their Priest But because this Murmuring was more loud than the former more combined and National 't is called Gnal Adonai telunnothechem Your murmurings are against the Lord and God looked upon it as done against himself The glory of the Lord appearing in a cloud whilst they were in this contest with their Leaders determined the case The Lord spake unto Moses I have heard the murmurings of the Children of Israel And are they better yet No in the next Chapter they are at the same trade again they want Water to their Manna they had in the last The People did chide with Moses Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us out of the Land of Egypt to kill us and our Children Their murmuring now had broke out into downright and impudent revilings they chide and that to the purpose and therefore Moses called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the chiding of the children of Israel and because they tempted the Lord saying Is the Lord among us or not I will leave you to judge whether we have not thus tempted God We are querulous and complaining upon every exigencie and our Governours must hear of it with both ears Ill men who have private designs of their own to carry on will always be complaining of publick Affairs and their complaints may sometimes seem so plausible that they may gain Proselytes to their Faction some of whom may not mean so ill as they do For with what plausible pretenses did the Serpent of Discord and Rebellion beguile many thousands What more plausible indeed more honourable than to engage in a War for the defence of King and Parliament 'T is the constitution of our Government and a happy one it is if we did well understand it our Laws propounded by our selves in Parliament and ratified by our Kings are our proper freedom as English Men and the due execution of them is our safety and they are State-Malignants indeed that will not contend for this But the cunning and ambitious men that framed the platform of our following Miserys fixed that odious name of Malignants upon all those who adhered to the King and the known Laws and would not run to the same excess of Riot and Madness with themselves After the same manner now they are stigmatiz'd with the more odious name of Tory's who have signified their resolution to stand by the established Government and will not be seduced by Popish and Fanatick contrivances for their eyes are open by woful experience to know and discern the aims of Seducers But he or they who gave them the name of Torys did design their ruine by it as if they were not fit to have so much as protection from the Government For Torys are in Ireland the Out-laws as the Banditi in Italy I remember the time when Parliament-Souldiers as they would be called such did Plunder the Houses and take away the Horses of honest Country-men who lived peaceably at home because they were Malignants The name of Malignant did warrant the Plunder But the Tory deserves the Gallow's so we see what quarter we must expect from some men if they could compass their ends to unhinge the Government Government is from God and so sacred whether it be in Church or State therefore Kings and Priests who are the Ministers of it are sacred persons and were always esteemed so till the Serpent in Paradise who presented the bait of immortality to Eve ensnared us with the like viz. freedom and liberty of Conscience both which we do measure with our own Rules I need not tell you the effects of those murmurings and complaints that brought the late Civil-Wars among us about forty years since the decoy to engage many thousands was to fight for King and Parliament but it ended in the ruine of both Our Zeal now is against Popery I beseech Almighty God with all the sincere Devotions that I can send up to Heaven that an indiscreet Zeal among some too many be not the occasion to bring it in but to keep it out from re-entring as a National Church none can ever be more concern'd in interest than a King of England this is our great security so long as we can enjoy a lawful King and him in peace at home for Popery cannot enter but by strugling of Factions III. Part of the Text The severe punishment of this Sin of murmuring in the Paradigme or Example Were destroyed of the destroyer The first punishment was a fire that brake out from the Lord and consumed some of them When the people complained it displeased the Lord and the Lord heard it and his anger was kindled and the fire of the Lord burnt among them and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the Camp Bemithonnim in the very fact when they complained The occasion is concealed in the Text but it was say the Jews from the mysterious reversion of the letter Nun when they would conspire to go back to Egypt The fire fell on the uttermost parts of the Camp that is that which should have led the Van for their retreat to Egypt The fire of the Lord to speak in the Hebrew Idiom a very great fire fell not many years since upon our Metropolis if I may not say a fire from the Lord for all disastrous casualtys depend upon his Providence without which a Sparrow falls not to the ground The next punishment for Israels murmuring is for their desire after flesh The mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting and the children of Israel also wept again and said Who shall give us flesh to eat This mixt multitude were those Nations gathered up in their march as we may probably conjecture with Grotius God was oft jealous over Israel for the evils he foresaw would accrew to them from other Nations and therefore by many repeated Laws did forbid their commerce with them This mixt multitude call them Arabians for that the word imports soon drew in the whole body of Israel into the same sin the people weep throughout their Familys and call for flesh they had it but they had it with a vengeance for while the flesh was yet between their teeth ere it was chewed the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people and the Lord smote the people with a very great Plague Truly we have not asked meat for our lusts as Israel did but we have had it without asking and plenty hath oft been our complaint The next murmuring was occasioned by the Spys bringing up an evil report upon the Land of Canaan
A SERMON Preached at Petworth in Sussex September 9. 1683. Being a day of Solemn THANKSGIVING For the Gracious and Wonderful Deliverance OF THE KING His Royal Brother And the GOVERNMENT From the late Barbarous CONSPIRACY As TRAYTEROUS By IOHN PRICE D. D. Concilia callida inhonesta primâ fronte laeta tractatu dura eventu tristia Tacitus LONDON Printed for Iohn Fish near the Fountain-Tavern in the Strand 1683. TO THE Truly Noble and Virtuous Lady ELIZABETH Dutchess of Sommerset MADAM YOur Grace upon the hearing of this ensuing Discourse was pleased to do me that unexpected Honour as to desire the Publication of it which by me ought dutifully to be interpreted as a Command you judging it might be beneficial to others beyond the Walls of this Parish-Church Which if it shall prove so let God have the Glory and Your Grace the Thanks All that I desire from the Reader is Candor and Pardon Madam Your natural and acquired Accomplishments Your Hereditary Honour and Estate brought you early upon the Stage and soon after into some afflictions in which I had a share in my thoughts for You but they have been such as have rendred You Prudent beyond Your years for You are so in my esteem without Flattery Your Grace hath chosen for Your Husband a young Noble-man who is the second Peer for Dignity in the Realm excepting the Royal Line whose Loyalty is well known among us and whose influence together with Your Graces may be able in Your Stations to encourage Loyalty and to discountenance Faction which to do is not onely the duty of the Nobility and Gentry but their interest too and indeed of every man who can call an Acre of Ground his own Madam as I did always and ever shall sincerely Honour Your Grace so I beseech God to Bless You with all Spiritual Blessings and that to those for this Life he would add the Blessings of Children to inherit them Madam I ask leave to be Your Graces Most Devoted and Dutiful IOHN PRICE 1 Corinth 10.10 Neither murmur ye as some of them also murmur'd and were destroyed of the Destroyer BEcause His Majesties Declaration represents to us the Methods contrived by Malevolent men to destroy his Sacred Person and his Royal Brother and subvert his Government which of all Governments that are nigh or known unto us is the most easie to the Subject not excepting the Democratical so admired of late but falsely as factiously called Common-wealths as exclusive of Kingdoms where the Soveraigns are not the sole Proprietors And of all Soveraign Princes known to us his present Majesty hath been most kind and indulgent to his People as many of them have owned by their publick Addresses which were seasonable Remonstrances of their Loyalty Withal the Declaration notifies to us what must have been the ill consequences of the Conspiracy had it taken effect I have therefore chosen to discourse to you from this Text wherein the Apostle bids the murmuring Corinthians look back upon the murmuring Israelites in the wilderness against their Leaders who had soon forgot their long oppression and cruel bondage in Egypt and their miraculous deliverance from it by the hands of Moses and Aaron as soon as we have forgot the Calamities of a long Civil War and the heavy oppressions that we felt and complained of from usurping Governours and our deliverance from them by the most happy Restauration of our King where the hand of God was most eminently seen as eminently as any humane record can produce would I allow my self time to survey it in all it's circumstances or were it for me proper now to do it But scarce was our Soveraign restored and with him our Laws and Religion and Peace at home but we were discontented at our own happiness Neither the sense of a Natural Allegiance nor the Sacred Tyes of Oaths nor Preferments nor Honours nor Riches could keep some men in the dutiful station of Subjects who from a false esteem they had gained for their wisdom and integrity to their Countrey as Patriots of it had inveigled great Parties to tread in the same footsteps of Disloyalty and to use the same measures to disturb the Throne and so our Peace as before had been done in the late Kings days all the same with the additional contrivance of the Black Box c. which were so publickly taken notice of that the late Lord Chancellour spake to this purpose to both Houses of Parliament That he hoped they would not see Three Kingdoms twice destroyed in one Age by the same Methods Examples are cogent Arguments if men are in their wits they will not fall into the same pit into which they have seen others fall before them even beasts will not do it be the bait what it will So St. Paul would have the Corinthians take warning from the Israelites whose Murmurings and Discontents are recorded in Scripture and recorded there not only to upbraid their ingratitude but as the Apostle speaks v. 11. These things happened to them for ensamples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come Neither murmure ye as some of them c. Solomon gives a Caveat Say not thou What is the cause that the former days were better than these for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this matter The murmuring Questionists of his age had the like before them and they have been since and ever will be so long as time is men will complain of the times and the little portion of happiness that God gives us in this life is disturbed by our own restless and repining nature by comparing the present with the former and because the former is past it is therefore better Any little petty accident at present doth more disturb us than a load that is past and gone off our Shoulders Israel was under the miraculous protection and deliverance of Heaven but wants some little convenience and presently we read of a loud and clamorous murmuring Would to God we had died in Egypt The hard bondage they had felt in Egypt was gone off now and the want but of a meals meat in the wilderness put them to murmur against God and their Governours As if it were not enough that man was born to labour as the sparks fly upward but we adde sparks to the fire When we are Children and under the Discipline of the Rod we complain that we were not born sooner and past the correction of our Master and when we are old we think we were never so happy as when we were Children indeed we are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The phansies that pleased us we are soon weary of and seek for new something it is that would please us better but what it is we know not Navibus atque Quadrigis petimus benè vivere c. This is not only a froward distemper whereby we create miseries to our selves but 't is a sin too though but little taken notice