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A65994	A sermon preached at Stow, in the county of Bucks, on the ninth of September, 1683 being the day of thanksgiving appointed by the King's declaration, for acknowledging God's great mercy in discovering and defeating the late treasonable conspiracy against His Sacred Majesty's person and government / by Tho. Wagstaffe ...	Wagstaffe, Thomas, 1645-1712.	1683 (1683)	Wing W212; ESTC R1767	17,329	42

If Magistrates without fear transgress Gods Law Goodman pag. 139. and command others to do the same they have lost that Honour and Obedience which otherwise their Subjects ow'd them and ought no more to be taken for Magistrates but to be examin'd accus'd condemn'd and punish'd as private Transgressors By the Word of God when others will not do it a Private man having some special inward Call Obed. p. 110. Quoted by Bishop Bancroft in Dangerous Positiens may kill a Tyrant as Moses did the Egyptian as Phineahs the Leacherous as Ahud did King Eglon or otherwise a Private man may do so if he be commanded or permitted by the Common-wealth Perhaps by this time you may think I am quoting the Jesuits and picking King-killing Principles out of their Books and indeed the Doctrines are so very like they cannot easily be distinguished But these are the Positions of Knox Buchanan Goodman Famous Leaders and Setters up of the Presbyterian Discipline and a man would imagine the present Plot was fetch'd from these Authors the Doctrine and the Practice do so exactly agree and many Doctrines of the same Nature were publish'd and practis'd in the late Times It is to be hoped that many of our present Dissenters do not arise to the height of these Opinions however this Doctrine and this Behaviour too coming from men of their Way would make every good Man very well consider before he assembles with them And in truth All Dissenters of every kind as might easily be made appear when they come to state the measures of Obedience are very loose and slippery very Injurious to Princes and such as diminish the Rights of Government And therefore 5. Be Constant and Devout in the Communion of the Church of England as it is establish'd by Law It is the peculiar glory of this Church that it never hath either by Doctrine or Practice in the least encourag'd or countenanc'd any thing tending to Treason Sedition or Rebellion Men of this Communion have been eminent Sufferers for but never Opposers of Lawful Authority Here Obedience to Government is taught by the same Measures it was by our Saviour by his Apostles and by the Primitive Christians And this is so very obvious that the worst of her Enemies who have loaded her with other Contumelies could never yet have the face to charge her with Rebellion and Resistance of Authority Here therefore let us fasten our selves and we are secure from all Temptations of this kind and it is impossible that any Man so long as he continues in the Communion of the Church of England should be a Mutineer or a Traytor Let us consult both the former and the modern Arts of Disturbance and we shall find that Ambitious men never thought to make a Game here they always look'd upon it as a fruitless Attempt to practise upon Men of these Principles but the ways have been first to divide the Church to withdraw Men from her Communion and then they hop'd in time to work them to their Purposes and to bring them to make Head against the Government Were Men but united in this Communion there would be no room left for Rebellion no Instruments for Designing Men to work upon All the Pleas of fighting for Religion of resisting the Magistrate under the cover of Conscience would soon be at an end Let us all therefore heartily embrace this Let us be uniform to the Tenents and Doctrines as well as to the external Administration of the Church of England Let us as well be the Sons of it in mind as in outward Conformity And there cannot in humane measures be a better Expedient to preserve us from all Turbulent and Seditious Enticements 6. Let us be sincere in the performance of the purposes of this Day Let us heartily give Thanks to Almighty GOD for this Deliverance of our Gracious Soveraign His Royal Brother His Loyal Subjects and His Kingdoms from the horrid Attempts and Conspiracies of Wicked Men And this if we do it Conscientiously will certainly rescue us from all kind of Disloyal Thoughts He that as he should thanks God for the KING's Deliverance cannot himself administer to his Disturbance except he prays like a Pharisee with a devouring mind What greater Hypocrisie than to pour out our Thanksgiving to God for discovering the Contrivances against the Government and at the same time to have mutinous and ungovernable Inclinations This is to mock God and we pray for one thing and wish for another Let our Minds therefore go with our Prayers and if it doth not find us it will make us Faithful to the Government for Prayer is of a transforming nature and if we are just to God and our selves in it it will make us of the same Nature and Complexion our Prayers will slide into our Practices and we shall live as we pray Let us all therefore as we have the greatest Reason from the bottom of our Hearts return our Thankfullest Acknowledgments to Almighty GOD for his Infinite Goodness that by his good Providence hath kept our KING His Royal Brother and our Nation from becoming a Prey to Bloody and Ravenous Men. Let us do this in the sincerity of our Souls and then as for the present it winds up our Thoughts in contemplation of the Divine Mercy so it will for the future influence our Lives As it now frames us to be Thankful to GOD so if we are not Hypocrites it will make us Loyal to the KING SERMONS lately printed for Walter Kettilby 1. A Discourse to prove the strongest Temptations conquerable by Christians in a Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor Jan. 14. 1676 7. 2. The Spirit of Enthusiasm exorcis'd in a Sermon preached before the University of Oxford on Act Saturday July 11. 1680. 3. Peculium Dei A Discourse about the Jews as the Peculiar People of God in a Sermon preached before the Aldermen and Citizens of London Febr. 6. 1680 1. 4. The True Notion of Persecution stated in a Sermon preached at the Time of the late Contribution for the French Protestants 5. A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor at Bow Church Jan. 30. 1681 2. 6. The Moral Shechinah Or a Discourse of Gods Glory in a Sermon preached at the last Yorkshire Feast June 11. 1682. All Six by George Hicks D.D. Prosecution no Persecution Or the Difference between Suffering for Disobedience and Faction in a Sermon preached at Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk March 22. 1681. The Modern Pharisees shewing the Principles of the present Jesuits and Puritans to be of the same evil Influence with the Ancient Pharisees Both by Nath. Bisbie D.D. Dr. Calamy 's Sermon preached before the L. Mayor at Bow-Church May 29. 1682. Mr. Kidder 's Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor July 16. 1682. Dr. Fowler 's Sermon preached at the Assizes at Gloucester Aug. 7. 1681. Mr. Young 's Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor Febr. 4. 1682. Mr. Hopkin 's Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor Sept. 3. 1683. Mr. Foxe 's Sermon preached at the Herefordshire-Feast July 3. 1683. The Originals of Rebellion Or The end of Separation in a Sermon preached Jan. 30. 1682. The Rebellious City Destroyed being an Anniversary Sermon in memory of the Dreadful Fire of London Sept. 2. 1666. Preached 1682. Loyalty Protesting against Popery and Phanaticism Popishly Affected in a Sermon preached Nov. 5. 1682. both by William Wray M. A. Ahitophel's Policy Defeated in a Sermon preached on the Thanksgiving-Day Sept. 9. 1683. Samaritanism Reviv'd in a Sermon preached by Luke Milbourne on the late Thanksgiving-Day Sept. 9. 1683. FINIS