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A26408	A plot for a crown in a visitation-sermon, at Cricklade, May the fifteenth, 1682 : being a parallel between the heir and husband-men in the parable, and the rightful prince and his excluders in Parliament / by N. Adee ...	Adee, N. (Nicholas), d. 1701.	1685 (1685)	Wing A573; ESTC R22248	20,134	40

teaching the People herein what to do and what to eschew for he who hindereth not Sin and Sedition when he may commands it Think not that any of us who tamely sit still and suffer willingly the loss of our Right in our David shall be acquitted no more than they were who consented to the Civil War against our King as it is phrased tho the same was a Rebellion in Ireland Mat. 27.24 and with Pilate to wash our hands and to say We are not guilty of the Blood of this just man There are no Neuters in Treason as there are no luke-warm persons in Heaven we must be for God or against him So we must be for the Lord of the Vineyard and his Heir or against them As there is no device can absolve us from our Obedience to our Parents so there 's no Act can absolve us from our Allegiance to our Prince they stand both equally proped by one Command Ex. 20.12 without Dispensation or Absolution whatever the Pope the Papist and the Commons in Parliament the Presbyterian God pretend to the contrary As the King is justly defended by the Law in his Person and Prerogatives from all Invaders so is his Successor to descend unto us by the same Tenure for he will not derive his Title from Man but God as doth his Predecessor And if he or his Posterity should become evil Princes which God forbid that any of the Posterity of our Royal Martyr should be so tainted yet God can make them to become good Kings Prov. 21.1 To affirm then that an House of Husbandmen common Mechanicks or Country-Farmers who at first were called together by the Sovereign Lords of our Vineyard to consult de dubiis arduis regni who the nearer they were raised towards the Sun which exhaled them the more exorbitant and formidable they grew whether by Cunning and Policy or Might and Rebellion I shall not now determine When such as these shall form themselves into an High Court of Justice or a Grand Committee sometimes equivalent Terms for an Arbitrary Council and assume to themselves greater Authority than that paternal Power which gave them Birth and Being That is to alter the Course of Government Causa non impedientes are numbred by Philosophers among moral efficient Causes and steerage of our Obedience He who doth thereto tamely consent doth betray his Christian Trust and Courage too as well as he who doth so unjustly vote and act for our Slavery For by our silence 1. We consent that the Crown is elective and not hereditary 2. We despise God's Providence over us in forsaking his Choice for us we chuse for our selves which is in effect to do as Israel did not only to reject the lawful Heir or Successor but God too 1 Sam. 8.7 For mans Law as it ought not to add so it ought not to diminish from the Law of God These are but waste words to you of the Clergy who sufficiently know your Duty herein would to God you had all the Courage and Goodness to practice it as well To discourage us from our Duty it 's said that there is an Act made which gave to our Virgin Queen together with her Parliament the power of the Crown and that no man may since affirm that that may not be done without severe penalties therefore I shall not reply unto it either Pro or Con only this I say let us remember that we are Protestants and not a miscellany of Papists and Dissenters and let not the fear of Man raze out our Love and Duty to God and our King If such an Act should pass we cannot foresee the Evils which it would bring with it both to Church and State as before intimated But I suppose the Intent of its Promoters is to punish the true and orthodox Protestants and to promote their Adversaries to divide this our most gracious Sovereign's Inheritance between them The passing of such an Act would be like the passing-Bell which rang at the Command of Peter of Arragon in Sicily which was the Signal to the Sicilian Massacre Let all then but especially we of the Clergy set our selves against all whatsoever that shall endeavour the deposing of our good and merciful King or the Exclusion of his Heirs and Successors or the Division and Desolation of this his Inheritance our British Vineyard Let each of us with Nehemiah cast away fear Chap. 6.11 and say Should such a man as I flee or warp from Protestant Principles when the very Foundation of our Religion our Laws and our Loyalty stands at stake It is a shame for Protestant Ministers to own such exotick Principles and Practices as are now by some designing Leaders patronized who yet affect the name of Protestants notwithstanding Which principles were they examined by you you would easily find that they who defend them are of no Religion but a Gallamalfry of Popery and Presbyterism for whatever is faced with Faction is lined with Popery Do you think that such men as these owe any good Will to our Sion who durst be so impudently bold as to fly at our Sovereign Such men as these do as much good in a Parliament-House as a MONKEY in a Glass-shop who 'll never cease their setting of things in better order until they have broken all in pieces Now these are the men which I beseech you Brethren to mark Ro. 16.17 for they cause Divisions and Offences contrary to the Doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them Let not any of them either Father or Son have your Voice or Assistance to be Members of our Senates For Treason is such an hereditary Leprosie that the Royal Ocean of Mercy and Bounty can scarce purifie it for such think that it is ground enough for them irreconcileably to hate whom they have thus offended I am sorry that ever any of our Function should be so weak and pusilanimous so far to forsake their Station as to stand by those men who so far set themselves against our Sovereign Lord as to elect such men who durst oppose his Successor Don't ye dream that you shall gain any great Boon by it They may promise you Oliveyards and Vineyards greater Parsonages and a superintendant power in your respective Parishes but I doubt they 'll deceive you when they have served themselves by you for it 's a known Maxim To love the Treason but to hate the Traitor But if they chance to be condemned you may then have as many thanks as the Ladder and the Hangman and all those subservient helps which brought them to that Doom But if they should prosper and prevail in their Attempts how highly soever you are honoured by them now above your Brethren yet all the favour you may expect from them then will be Only the same Polyphemus granted to Vlysses namely That he should be devoured the last of his Companions Now I have but little to say unto you who are Church-Wardens your Faults I need not tell you for the whole Town and Country talks of them Matters would never have come to this pass had you and such as you made Conscience of your Oaths but they who make no bones of Oaths will make no scruple of Treason for by the Transactions of what is lately past one would think that the likeliest men to serve in our Parliaments would be such only as you or such who have been actually in Arms against the King or his Father My Reason is because such men seem to please the Layety best for that they will be sure if they can to vote down the Heir and all his Supporters But it is the parts and duties both of Priests and People to stop such in their Career when opportunity shall offer it self that we like Protestants should choose Protestants and not men of blended Principles and so by this means prevent their final Resolve viz. This is the Heir come let us kill him that the Inheritance may be ours From which Vote good Lord deliver us for Jesus Christ his sake to whom with the Father and Holy Ghost be ascribed all Honour c. now and evermore Amen FINIS

non crederetur nisi occisis Flav. Dom. because they were not murthered in the Conspiracy Mariners observe that greater Sholes of some † Phocenae Fish appearing portend a Storm If too many of that Leaven should resume their Seats again they 'll presage no Calm For as the Howlings of Wolves in their midnight Revels declare the draught of Blood which they hunt after so the jovial Shoutings of Malecontents at some Elections declare the teeming hopes of a Jubilee they expect from their vaunting Suffragans but as there is a greater appearance of better Stars so have we greater hopes of more Halcyon days The Odium this hath layn under together with the great diligence which hath been used to depreciate as well as suppress these Sheets hath discouraged me from imploring the Patronage of my most noble Friend the Honourable Colonel Strangways which I might have presumed to do not only on the account of his known Integrity and approved Loyalty even in the times of Tryal but on the great Experience of former Favours from his generous Ancestors as well as from himself and only Brother Wadham Strangways Esq Governour of Portland in those days when true Religion was deemed Treason and Loyalty Rebellion though there was never more need of so great a Hero to screen me from menaced dangers I am content whatever my Destiny may be that I have not prostituted the Honour of so worthy a Friend unto so bespattered a Treatise For writing of which though I have been blamed for laying aside my Policy yet I have not heard that I have been traduced for quitting my Loyalty or Integrity What I have here alledged in my Vindication I hope may be sufficient for I think it not consistent with Christian Prudence to say all that may be said though in my own Defence lest naked Truth like the bright Sun unto sore Eyes make the formal Hypocrites stare and startle who whilst cherished pass for serious Penitents but if gauled they 'll appear neither cordial Loyalists nor true Conformists LUKE 20.14 But when the Husbandmen saw him they reasoned among themselves saying This is the Heir Come let us kill him that the Inheritance may be ours AS our blessed Lord taught in the Temple the Jewish Sanhedrim came unto him insidiously questioning his Authority But he who knew their thoughts answered not their Words But confounded them with a Question concerning John's Baptism though at other times we find that he asserted his own Authority To which they after they had reasoned among themselves falsly replyed That they could not that is they would not tell him whence it was And then Jesus said unto them neither tell I you by what Authority I do these things Afterwards he was pleased in a Parable to shew unto them what he was by telling plainly what they and their Progenitors were and whereunto their Intentions did tend The Parable is of a certain Husbandman who planted a Vineyard and let it forth to Husbandmen and went into a far Country for a long time He went voluntarily he was not driven from his own forcibly as others have been At the season he sent his Servants unto them for the Fruit of the Vineyard but they beat and shamefully entreated and wounded those Servants he sent unto them and sent them away empty But then the Lord of the Vineyard said What shall I do I will send my beloved Son it may be they will reverence him But when the Husbandmen saw him they reasoned among themselves saying This is the Heir Come let us kill him that the Inheritance may be ours Our Lord was pleased to speak unto them parabolically to the end he might fulfil the Scriptures confound their Wisdom and leave them without excuse Therefore he doth here in a sublime manner declare his own Divinity by representing unto them their past Deeds and Designs to come Their Fathers impiety and their own intended cruelty So that as plainly as they saw his Humanity they might conceive of his Divinity By this Parable we understand 1. The great Love God had for the Jews who was pleased to become their Lord in chusing of them to be his Vineyard This his Vineyard he fenc'd Mat. 21.33 He digged a Wine Press and built a Tower in it He did all that could be done that he might make it fruitful But after all that expence of Toil and Treasure Isa 5.2 He looked that it should bring forth Grapes and it brought forth wild Grapes A Vineyard which was not only fruitless but expensive to the Owner fruitfully full of Thorns to crown him perfidious Friends and ungrateful Enemies which commonly are the Train of too merciful and too bountiful Princes 2. We may consider here also the irreligious ingratitude of the Jews who were so far from giving their Lord any return of Fruit according unto his Love and care of them that they consulted the contrary And that not so weakly as to Exclude him only his Lawful Birthright but to make sure work with him they Voted his Death The Text contains the manner how they resolved and the matter they resolved on This is the Heir c. It was the final Resolution of these Traiterous Politicians who were not bred so many Years in the Jews Politick School their long Parliament the Sanhedrim as to conclude on so weak a Title as by an Act of Exclusion to settle on them and theirs the Prerogatives Royal of their usurped Vineyard Knowing that such an unjust Title would not become so strong as a Weavers much less as a Gordian knot neither would it need the Sword of an Alexander to rescind it For it would unloose of its own accord For Laws that are founded on Blood Perjury Injustice Treason or Rebellion are abrogated the first day of their Promulgation For it 's not at the Peoples choice whether they will observe such Statutes or no For that Law which is contrary unto the Law of God doth tie a man only to the Penalty it binds not his Conscience at all to the Performance For the better understanding of the Text consider By Vineyard is meant the Church and State of the Jews By Lord of the Vineyard God Almighty who was pleased himself to become their Lord and King and to chuse them from among all the Nations of the Earth to become his People By Husbandmen all sorts of Men among the Jews who were bound to do their Lord Service in their respective places both in Church and State as he had placed them but more particularly the chief Priests Scribes and Elders By those his Servants which were sent unto them understand the Prophets and Messengers of God who from time to time were sent unto the Jews to call them to their own Work and the Work of their King That is to repent and practise a better Obedience and not that every Ploughman should become States-Man nor every confident Mechanick put on the Ephod nor intermeddle with the Affairs