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B02744	Rebellion arraign'd a sermon preach'd before their Majesties in their chappel at Whitehall, upon the 30th of January 1687. The anniversary and humiliation-day, in abhorrency of the sacrilegious murder of our gracious sovereign Charles I. / By the reverend father John Dormor, of the Society of Jesus.	J. D. (John Dormer), 1636-1700.	1688 (1688)	Wing D1926A; ESTC R174707	10,612	31

the like This is the method observ'd by Preachers in order to other Sins and I have no cause to desert it in order to Rebellion of sins the greatest Forgive and forget is a maxime of Christian Charity in so much as I find Acts of Pardon and Indempnity stiled Acts of Oblivion and yet I reflect that as pardoning is a property of Goodness and Magnanimity so to forget argues a carelessness or weakness of mind God forgives but cannot forget and England on this day will not have forgotten what your Royal Brother and your Sacred Majesty have so Generously forgiven You have forgiven but England will not forgive her self and with the noblest of Dispositions doth Pennance for a Crime which was not hers So Christ an Innocent humbled himself for the sins of his People even to Death Him we are to imitate by so doing England endeavours to make her Loyalty vye with your Clemency and by not forgiving her self for having been the Mother of a few Vipers cannot but confirm and encrease that tender Love shown in all Time even with the evident and many hazards of your Sacred Persons in Defence of her Rights and Honour True it is there is a forgetfulness ever joyn'd with forgiving for albeit one remember a Displeasure yet in case he pardons it he forgets the main resentment due unto it God cannot but remember sin yet forgiving it forgets as it were to inflict the Punishment of Hell due unto it This is what the Royal Prophet Psal 78. and the Prophet Isa c. 64. both v. 8. crave at the hands of God Ne memineris Iniquitatum nostrarum Remember not our Iniquities and in conformity with this it is that we are ordered to implore the Mercy of God That neither the guilt of that Sacred Innocent Blood nor those other sins by which God was provok'd to deliver us and our King into the hands of Cruel and Unreasonable Men may at any time be visited upon us and our Posterity Thus the Act of Parliament expresses it self where we are at once reminded of the worst effect of Rebellion and to Pray God to forget the resenting it Having laid the subject of Humiliation before your Eyes I come in my second point to Arraign Rebellion Rebellion The Daughter of audacious Pride Rebellion Mother of the basest Treacheries Rebellion nurse of private Discontents Rebellion sower of Jealousies and Fears Rebellion the disturber of peaceable Minds Rebellion the distroyer of true Liberty and Religion Rebellion the bain of humane Commerce Rebellion the destroyer of Wealth Happiness Birth-right and Life it self Rebellion the open enemy to Order Government and God Rebellion blazing in Fire and wallowing in Blood. This is the Monster of Monsters disguis'd in all shapes to compass her ends her Name I tell you is Rebellion and from her Name I begin her Arraignment Rebellion Thou art convicted of being a restless Spirit Nothing in heaven no State no place no Condition can possibly content thee Happiness swells thee Misery enrages thee Piety cannot mollify thee thou art ever for Reform of Religion and Government whereas True Religion alone can reform thee Heaven could not keep thee in peace all the delicious Fruits of the Garden of Eden could not satisfy thy disordered Palate the Church has felt the smart of thy Divisions thou hast over-run the Earth with Calamities in Hell alone if thou art quiet it is because tam'd by punishment Restless thou art the World thy old Acquaintance comes in Evidence of it by imposing the Name of Rebellion upon the from Re. and Bello I War again Rebellion's stomach turns at the sweets of quiet Unfeign'd Hydra in the Fens and Bogs of Discontents she breeds Is one head cut off Without fable another shoots up Is she beaten to the ground She renews her Forces She 's ever beginning ever Warring Has she no Sword to manage She Wars with her Tongue she Wars with her Pen. If daring neither she Wars with her Thoughts she lays her Designes she expects her Time she 's ever Rebellion warring again a restless Spirit by Deeds answering her Name And from her Name I pass to her Deeds Rebellion Thou art brought in Guilty of being wilfully void of Reason A Rebel in the first place wages war against himself by opposing the Law of Nature which is his own Reason Reason promotes a friendly Intercourse between Men to their reciprocal Help and Comfort Rebellion obstructs it In order to this amicable Society Reason prescribes a Supreme Power to end strifes when arising to provide against Invaders of the common safety Rebellion will be Arbitrary will stand to no Authority will her self invade Reason teaches us to Sacrifice a Private Interest Disgust or Wrong to the Publick Tranquility Rebellion will have the Publick Welfare to truckle to Private Passion Reason's Decision is that a patient Sufferance is preferable to a successful Rebellion Rebellion feignes causes of Sufferance where there 's none In all her Proceedings unreasonable But more Rebellion The foulest Ingratitude is Charged upon thee Nothing works so forcibly upon the generous Heart of Man as to see himself lov'd But Rebellion of a Man thou leav'st no more than a Figure Love by thee is slighted Thou devidest Friends thou Arm'st Patriot against Patriot thou stirrest up Relation against Relation Brother against Brother Son against Father the Love of thy Prince is requited with Hatred and Disdain No tye which thou dost not unloose no knot which thou dost not untye or cut Country King God cannot win thee with Kindness I 'll only give a glance at some particulars too well known to dwell long on them Heaven is the seat of Felicity the center of Bliss Lucifer vouchsafe to be at rest submit and it is thine No where canst thou be more at ease Rebellion has stopt his Ears and he 's unquiet Reason tells thee it 's a madness to Rise against thy Maker Where Rebellion has got in Reason's not heard God has conferr'd the Noblest of Beings upon thee what more endearing But endearments loose their Vertue with Rebellion Adam let this Example be a warning to Thee and Terror I come too late Neither the fortunate state of Paradice nor his own Reason excelling all other nor the Demonstrations of Gods singular favour could allay the Spirit of Rebellion that had enter'd his Heart when that Eritis sicut Dii You shall be like Gods had enter'd his Ears What shall I say to the contumacious Children of Israel What to the unnatural Absalom No Content no Reason no Kindness could abate their Seditious Fury and to advance to the subject I now am on England was an Earthly Heaven a worldly Paradice The Liberty of the Subject with a grateful acknowledgement Reverenced the Royal Prerogative Law ran in its natural Channel each one sat under his own Vine fed of his own Grape ever ready to lay down Life and Fortune for his Princes Honour and Safety when Rebellion stomaching at so much Prosperity

God has plac'd in his Vicars Supreme Governours To be a Rule it must not deflect from the first Rule of the Divine Will and Command it must stand with Reason and Justice the Peace and Good of the Publick must be its end And to be for the common good Law cannot be a weapon of private Passion No Law then can uphold this Court of thine O Rebellion Thy ends are Private Thou reced'st from the first Rule by usurping Gods Prerogative who alone is the King and Judge of Kings It is against Reason to claim Power over a Supreme it is Unjust to Arraign thy Judge Law then opposes thy Pretentions to Law and the Dignity of a King wholly defeats them Will'st thou once learn what a King is Give Ear. God is the King of Kings 1 Tim. 6.15 And Kings are as it were the Gods of their People Kings cannot be Gods Judge nor can the People be their Kings Who is the Supreme Who the Judge without Appeal but the King To whom do inferior Judges own their Authority but to the King From who do Courts receive their Power but from the King In whose Name are Impeachments drawn up but in the Kings Acts of Parliament by who are they Enacted but by the King And by consequence the final Legislative Power in who doth it reside but in the King. By the undoubted fundamental Laws of this Kingdom neither the Peers of this Realm nor the Commons nor both together in Parliament nor the People Collectively or representatively nor any other Persons whatsoever ever had have or ought to have any Co-ercive Power over the Persons of the Kings of this Realm It is the Parliament which speaks and yet Rebellion against The undoubted and Fundamental Laws dar'd Erect a High Court of Justice against her Sovereign and what dares not Rebellion do She is too well vers'd in Holy Writ not to know That to resist Kings is to resist God Rom. 13. What shall it be to Process to Condemn to murder one But by who is he to be Try'd Commons are Try'd by Commons Peers by Peers have you a Jury of Kings And had you there 's no Judge left to give the Sentence but God And Woe to Rebellion when God's to Sentence More yet in case you Condemn him according to your execrable Formality of pretended Law may he not grant himself a Reprive He can bestow it upon the meanest and most guilty Subject shall he not be able to confer it upon himself he can give it another even when the Sentence is most Just and shall he not enjoy his own Prerogative against the most unjust of Sentences Ah! To what end do I tyre my self and you Our Renowned Prince plac'd by God above Law without Law and against Law must fall a Victim to the highest Injustice Rebellion has got the Sword and the Sword without the Ballance is the Type of Cruelty to Cruelty Majesty is forc'd to bend and Sacrilegious Rebellion never appear'd with so ghast a Countenance as imbru'd in his Royal Blood. That Blood will ever set her out to the detestation and horror of the World. That Blood will blaze her to all Ages for what she is That Blood will speak aloud and say Fly Rebellion she 'll never spare Subject that durst Process Condemn and by Name of High Justice Murder the Meekest of Monarchs No more no more of what without Affliction and Tears I cannot call to mind His last Thoughts were his Peoples Welfare his Kingdoms Peace his Nations Happiness he died undaunted like himself like a King forgiving what the World will never forget so Sacrilegious a Murder That Pardon that Innocent Blood crys yet for Revenge against Rebellion and upon Rebellion let it fall let Rebellion die never more to rise let it die by the hand of Humiliation The subject of my third point with which I conclude Humiliamini c. Be ye humbled under the powerful Hand of God that he may exalt you in time of Visitation In my preceding Discourse you have seen at Leisure Rebellion Arraign'd Process'd and Convicted of the most detestable of Crimes and by consequence Guilty of the worst of Punishments And as her Sins surmounts all others so would I have her Chastisement proportionable The subject is of a large extent but not to transgress I will close it in little Men that die for Offences will rise again Rebellion I would have her die so as never to revive Let Rebellion then die but how Sub potenti manu Dei Under the Powerful Hand of God by an humble Obedience For what end That God may exalt us in time of Visitation God has his different Visitations as you 'l find in Holy Writ Visitations of Anger Visitations of Love Visitations of Mercy Visitations of Revenge Visitations of Humbling Visitations of Exalting His Visits of Humbling Anger and Revenge lay grievous upon us by the Scourge of Rebellion a Road grown on our own Soil This seems a time of a Visitation of his Love Mercy and Exalation upon us But Humiliamini Humiliamini Be ye humbled We may humble our selves and we may be humbled by another to be humbled by another is commonly a Chastisement to humble our selves is now and then a satisfaction in order to Rebellion it is a Pevention so that our humbling our selves is at once a satisfaction for Rebellion that 's pass'd and prevention of Rebellion that might come and behold the desir'd Execution done by Obedience upon Rebellion greater revenge cannot be taken Satisfaction destroys it and puts it as I may say to Death Prevention hinders it from reviving so that Humiliation Tryumphs in the utter ruine of Rebellion And had I not Reason in the beginning of my Discourse to term it England's standing Peace more glorious than any victory in War So it is If Obedience stands Rebellion must fall And by this Humiliation Day our Obedience being perpetuated Rebellion must down for ever Be ye then humbled under the Powerful hand of God. The Powerful hand of God I interpret to be Kings in their Scepter they sway Gods Power in their Sword his Justice and so by Obedience to our Prince we are Humbled under the Powerful hand of God to the total extirpation of Rebellion The best of satisfactions we can give to the Royal Father is to annihilate Rebellion by a true Allegiance to his great Son Fasting's good Prayer yet more excellent by them the Rebellion of the flesh is tam'd the Rebellion of the Spirit by sole Obedience The ever hard neck'd Children of Israel They Fasted Isaiah 5.8 v. 3. Wherefore have we Fasted and thou seest not wherefore have we afflicted our Soul and thou takest not knowledge Rebellion can Fast and none invoke the Lord with longer breath than Rebels But their Fast and Prayers are not acceptable to the most High They 'r Disobedient their Humiliation is Hypocrisy it enters not the heart Hear what the Lord Answers to the complaint of those pretenders to Prayers and Fasts Behold in the day of your Fasting your own Will is found A Rebel will ever have his own will and refusing to submit his Will to God gives out Gods Will to be his and so makes God as it were a Subject and himself a God. From Obedience then our Humiliation is to derive its whole Worth and Valour and that it may be eternal to the eternal destruction of Rebellion O that England would learn to know the voice of the Serpent Would learn no more to be deluded by those canting Charms of Liberty Property and Religion Remember that even Satan the Prince of Darkness 2 Cor. c. 11. v. 14. read the place it is much to our purpose transfigures himself into an Angel of Light. And so doth his first Child Rebellion No pretence whatsoever can Justify Rebellion You have a Prince whose Wisdom and Experience makes him know your true Good and Happiness I may confidently say better than you know it your selves Trust him who God has Intrusted with you With the free use of your Religion your Bodies and Minds he has both eas'd He has vindicated your Properties Invaded by false Zealots but real Persecution His indefatigable Concern for the publick Honour and Welfare of his Kingdom you cannot but own but you must inviolably own your Duty to him Rebellion's to be kept down by his Wisdom Courage and Power but by a generous and ready complyance in you No Army ever gain'd Victory without Obedience and no Kingdom without Obedience shall ever reap Glory Humiliamini c. Be ye then humbled to be exalted Vir Obediens loquetur Victoriam Prov. 21. v. 28. The Obedient Man shall speak Victory We are to be Men Stout Rational but Obedient to be Victorious both of our Earthly and Spiritual Foes Let Jealousies be laid aside and you 'l improve your Sovereign's Love Appease Animosities Chase away Fears and you 'l produce and nourish a mutual Confidence in each other to your own Quiet and Comfort to the Terror of your Enemies and to your King and Countreyes Renown Thus in Spight of Rebellion by Obedience to the Son you 'l compleat the Wishes of his Dying Father You 'l make an Atonement for that Sacrilegious Murder Obedient England will be more Glorious than ever she was Disgrac'd in the Ignominy put upon her by a few Unnatural Rebels and so enjoying the Fruits of a Peaceable Conscience the Sweets of a setled Tranquility in this Life she 'l be dispos'd to be Crown'd with Eternal Reward in the next Which God of his Infinite Goodness grant us all In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen FINIS