their parts but with as hearty good will all that the 〈…〉 boast of as he did â— more counties than one might probably have been alarum d into so Deep a sense of their duty and condition that our present low Country Cavaliers who have mounted us shewn themselves already so ill riders as to have sput galled us might have been driven away with shame before they had gotten into or fixt themselves in 〈…〉 So desireable an end the Authour conceived may certainly authorise some smartness of stile and Apologize for him in any nationall or 〈…〉 reflections his honest zeale transported him into which as he spake he 〈…〉 that if any perceive some vinegar in his ink he is perswaded they wil discover â—o gâ—wle A â—peech made by the Archdeacon to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Durham in the Church of St. Mary le Bovv on the 15. of Nov. 1688. vvith a Repetition of some cheife Matters contained in former speeches since his present Majesties Accession to the Crovvn REVEREND WORTHY BRETHREN It is a Custome in the University of Oxford once in the yeare in the University-Church to have a Repetition Sermon This as wellas other her Customs I make no doubt is supported with Substantiall Reason An Auditory of Schollars and Learned men Doctors Divines have not as she supposes allwayes such faithfull Memoryes but that they need a monitor It is no affront therefore Brethren to thinke that the Gravest Clergy at the most Solemne Visitation may bee men of the like Infirmities Were I not then Convinced by the language of your Actions Whereby you Speak as plainly as by your tongues that you have either forgotten many things of moment said unto you or have done much worse that is in plaine termes undervalued rejected them I your Unworthy Archdeacon might have cause enough once in my life to imitate this laudable University-Patterne in making you a Repetion-Speech which tho long will go downe with you the better at a time when as at present you have no Visitation-Sermon And here it will not be amisse to mind you that Repetition-Taske there in the Church at Oxford is the most difficult Imployment of the whole yeare So that you will have Small reason to imagine that I do betake my selfe to the like course so much for mine ovvn ease as for your Edification And as I shall imitate my Mother the University in one respect so shall I in an other Shee doth not exercise the Patience of her Auditory so far as to bring to their view the substance of many or any Sermons of the whole yeare but of the foure last imediately preceding Low-Sunday viz. the Sermons preached on Good-Friday Easter-Day with those on the two following Feastivalls No more shall I disturb you with Hearing the Heads of any of my past Addresses saving the four last I meane those which I have made since the Death of our Late Gratious Soveraign Tho I might invite you to look farther back being not conscious to my selfe God be praised that I did ever with zeale presse any thing upon you but what was well worth your Hearing and consonant to the known Rules of the Church of England So without any more ado praying for Gods Assistance I enter on my proposed imployment REPETITION OF THE SVBSTANCE OF FORMER SPEECHES SPEECH I. THE former of these four Discourses I made you in the Church of S. Nicholas the three last in this where in wee are at present assembled I shall according to our Oxford-Method entertaine you with the Cheif Most important Points in the same order which I spoke them First in that after a considerable absence a great Change I did Judge it meet to bring to your vievv The Greatnesse of our Affliction our greater sins vvhich provoked God at that time in that manner to punish us vvith the losse of a Meek mercifull Father of our Country A Prince of so condescending a Race that hee was like his never enough to be admired and good natured Father more concerned for the Ease Property of his subjects than for the security of his own Person Prerogatives A Prince of such Exemplary long-suffering bearing with such innumerable intollerable Affronts of his Authority that hee did evince to all the world that it was scarce possible for a Stuart ever to be a Tyrant A Prince what ever might be his own personall Infirmities that had not one of those grosse Flavves in a Monarch which do border upon Injustice Cruelty to his People A Prince that did so abound in Acts of Grace to a stubborn ungratefull Generation that an Excessive Clemency had like to have proved his own as it did his Fathers Ruine Lastly a Prince under whom God forgive our unreasonable complaints wee might have been if wâ—e were not one of the Happiest Nations in the World. The next thing which I offer'd to your consideration was The Gratious Goodness of the present King in not only continuing but Protecting our Religion VVhereby hee did in an unexpected Blessed manner defeat the bitter Calumnies of his Malitious Enimies vvho for seaven yeares before had most seditiously hammer'd into the Spirits of the vulgar most Dismall Dreadfull Apprehensions of a Popish successour Hee thereby proving all those God be thanked false Prophets who had insinuated into the Peoples minds to the scaring them almost out of their senses that as soon as the Duke of Yorke came to the Crovvne vvee should have Masse said in all she Cathedralls in England To vvhich Act of mercy in the King it vvas but an unsuitable unseasonable Returne I could not omit the notice to grudge his Majesty and those of his Persvvasion the Exercise of their ovvn Religion vvith impunity from the severity of the Lavves vvhilst God kept us under the Government of a Prince of the Roman Communion Witnesse the Untimely heat of some turbulent Spirits in the House of Commons vvhich assembled on the 19 of may after his Coming to the Crovvne who flung a bone among that August assembly vvhich vvas like to have brokn all their Teeth furiously pushing on the then present immediate Revivall of the Penal Lavves vvithout any exception of the Roman Catholicks vvho had undeniable pretences considering their Loyalty and services in the Great Rebellion to some respite during the Reign of a Prince of their ovvn Religion But the Major part of that Loyall Parliament vvisely foresavv vvhereto such a preposterous proceeding did tend and like faithfull Patriots did readily oppose soon Quench the flame of that ill-timed Zeal resolving vvithout any more adoe Would God none had ever changed their minds firmely to rely on the vvord of their Gratious Prince for the security of their Religion Lavves dutifully expressing their just Indignation against those rash as vvell as horrid Rebels vvho did at that time insolently make a desperate attempt to overthrovv our Antient Monarchy The Parliament
DIONYSIUS GRANVILLE DECANUS DUNELMENSIS AET. SVAE 54 Beaupoille pinxit G. F. Edelinck Sculp Jâ—peâ—sis Thomâ—â— Hacquet 〈◊〉 hâ—s pitis sui anno Dom. 1693. Serenissimum Dominum Jacobum Secundum Magnoe Britanioe Regem secutus est in Galliam Anno 1688. Propter fidelitatem Suam Domino Regi Principe Arausiacensi Coronam Anglioe Vsurpante deprivaÌ„tus fuit anno 1691. THE RESIGNED RESOLVED CHRISTIAN AND FAITHFUL UNDAUNTED ROYALIST In tvvo Plaine Farevvell-Sermons a Loyal Farevvell-Visitation-Speech Both deliver'd amidst the Lamentable Confusions occasioned by the Late FORREIGN INVASION HOME-DEFECTION of his Majesties Subjects in England By DENIS GRANVILLE D. D. Deane Archdeacon of Durham novv in Exile Chaplaine in Ordinary to his Majestie Whereunto are added Certaine Letters to his Relations Freinds in England shewing the Reasons and manner of his withdrawing out of the Kingdom VIZ A LETTER TO HIS BROTHER THE EARLE OF BATHE A LETTER TO HIS BISHOP THE BISHOP OF DURHAM A LETTER TO HIS BRETHREN THE PREBENDARIES A LETTER TO THE CLERGY OF HIS ARCHDEACONRY A LETTER TO HIS CURATS AT EASINGTON ET SEDGEFEILD Printed at Roüen by WILLIAM MACHUEL ruë S. Lo neare the Palace for JOHN BAPTISTE BESONGNE ruë Escuyer at the Royall sun and are to be sold by AUGUSTIN BESONGNE in the Great Hall of the Palace at Paris In the yeare of our Lord God M. DC LXXXIX TO THE READER THE Subject-matter of these ensuing sheets concerning Christian Resolution Humble Submission to the will of God in times of distresse according to the example of the holy Patriach Jacob Hearty subjection to the King according to the Doctrine of the Church of England our many Indispensable tyes of Conscience will with all those few who truly Feare God Honour the King sufficiently a pologize I hope for the publication of them in a Juncture an Age advanced to the highest contempt defiance both of Loyalty and Religion That Incensed God who hath for our manifold provocations and more particularly wee have reason to believe for our Carnall Confidence in the Arme of Flesh Disobedience to Gods Vice-Gerent powred out the vialls of his wrath on three Kingdoms is not like to be appeased without the serious practice of the contrary Graces in a manner as Universall and generall as hath been our late notorious Defection towards the King by an abhorr'd detestable Violation of the many sacred often repeated Oaths whereby all subjccts were obliged to support his Crowne Dignity Such is my sense of what is past Dread of Allmighty Gods future Indignation when I consider that I am how weak and unworthy soever advanced to a publick station in the Church of England that I cannot satisfy my selfe with mourning in secret but conceive it my indispensable duty to proclame after such a Stupendious Revolution as soon as well as I am able to all persons in the Kingdom my unfeigned Resolution to adhere to my Soveraigne in his distresse least I may by silence contribute to the increase of that dangerous Lethargy which hath seized on the People of England who by Resisting at length Deserting their Prince have Apostatized from their Religion I have helped possibly as litle as any one of my Brethren or fellow-subjects in the Nation to the first growth of this disease having for six tuentie years together openned my mouth widely on Topicks which would have prevented had they met vvith due regard our present misery for the truth whereof I appeale to the whole Jurisdiction whereto I have long related But however I cannot think my-selfe perfectly disengaged to ioyn in attempting the Cure or at least to help on vvhat is God bee thanked in some sort begun vvhereto the contradictory preposterous proceedings of the Kings enimies have assisted I mean to the oppenning the eyes of thousands in England to see already the madness of their Change the Errors of their late method to redresse Grievances by labouring to bring their Soveraigne to Termes all that vvas aimed at I do in Charity beleive by the Church of Englands fallen sons and to deliver the Nation from Domestick Evills by calling for Forreigne Assistance § The number of souls committed to my charge in the Cathedrall in my Archdeaconry in the Peculiar Jurisdiction depending on the Church of Durham are too many too considerable to be forgotten or neglected by me now incapacitated othervvise to Preach to them Therefore in this low Ebb of Loyalty vvhen Instances of firme fidelity to ones Prince are so rare the Dean of Durham it is hoped vvill be pardonned if he sets so much value on his ovvn Example as to make use of it as vvell as his vvords vvritings tovvards the Extricating the People vvith vvhose soules hee hath been Intrusted out of the Labyrinth vvhereinto they are Run by Non-Compliance vvith their Lavvfull Gratious Soveraigne ready Concurrence vvith a Forreign Usurper or at least tovvards the Hindring them from Running farther yet into it remaining stupidly in so sinfull and deplorable a state condition This induces me to vvish that I could bring the last vvords I spoke to the Clergy Ecclesiastick Officers of my Archdeaconry to the Members of the Cathedrall and Citty of Durham contained in the ensuing Discourses to the vievv and consideration of the vvhole County Diocesse that those vvho vvere absent vvhen I utterd them may as vvell as those present partake of my poor zeale and endeavours for their spirituall Advantage vvhich is all the Returne I can at present make for the temporall Benefits I have reaped in that country during my injoyment of sundry considerable Preferments among them If such Communication of my Papers cannot be so soon so successefully effected as I would by reason all Intercourse betwixt the Kingdom of England this wherein I reside is stop'd I am willing in the meane while to let the world see that I am not Idle or Unconcerned but do all that in me lyes towards this honest End whereby if no proffit accrews to them or others I shall ease my mind deliver my soule If any are pleased to censure contemn or reject my writings because they find nothing in them Learned or Elaborate ot where of the Age is over-fond Controversial I desire them to consider that Polemik Learning Divinity are things I never did nor shall pretend to And that in the month of November 88. when I spake to the Clergy in the first week of December following when I preached in the Abby at Durham as ill as things did portend I little dreamt that my Soveraigne or selfe should be put under an unavoidable necessity to fly in to an other Kingdome or that I should be obliged to make use of such meanes methods to Evidence my sincerity in my Religion the first thing I should strive to Evince to all those to whose spiritual Assistance I administer otherwise
in their Misfortunes and thereby to demonstrate that my poor distressed Mother in the greatest and most generall defection as this seemes to be that ever vvas among any King of Englands subjects vvill never vvant some to bear testimony to the truth of her Doctrine vvho according to the Exemple of Christ and his Apostles doth maintaine the practice of Allegiance and intire submission and subjection to all Lavvfull supreme povvers deputed by God as his Vice-Gerents to Governe the vvorld Hovv great a contradiction hereof soever the last years transactions in England have proved vvhich hath given the greatest vvound that vvas ever yet given to our Church the Doctrine of Non-resistance Remaines on such authentick Record in the Church of Englands Printed Homilies against Rebellion vvhich I have in some sort Epitomised in the conclusion of my discourse that your Majesty as vvell as the King vvil I hope bee pleased to continue your Charitie to our Ecclesiastick Constitution vvith liberty to its members to Exercise their Religion and thinke no vvorse of the Parent for the disobedience of the Children but render that Iustice to the Church of England vvhich is due to all Churches to vvit to bee Iudged by her Doctrine Discipline and Order vvhich I am sure never did carry a long vvith them any Rebellion and not by the practice or Conversation of its Members VVhereby if the vvhole Christian Church vvas to bee Iudged it vvould in many things appeare more vile then some parts of the vvorld overrun vvith Turcisme and Paganisme Offerring to God my most fervent devotions for the preservation and Restoration of the King the Life and Happinesse of the Prince and out of Gratitude to Heaven in a most particular manner for your Majesty vvho have been Instrumentall to the Greatest blessing vvhich hath been these many yeares conferred on the Kingdom in bearing and bringing forth an Heir male for the support of the Monarchy I do vvith all humility implore yours together vvith his Majesties Patronage as vvell as beg Pardon for this Presumption and vvith the most profound respect imaginable subscribe my selfe YOUR MAJESTIES MOST DUTIFULL EVER FAITHFUL SERVANT SUBIECT DENIS GRANVILLE A DISCOURSE CONCERNINC CHRISTIAN RESIGNATION AND RESOLUTION WITH SOME LOYALL REFLECTIONS ON THE DUTCH INVASION Preached in the Cathedrall Church of Durham on the 1. Wensday in Advent the sunday follovving being the 5. 9. of December 1688. By DENIS GRANVILLE D. D. Deane Archdeacon of Durham novv in Exile Chaplaine in Ordinary to his Majestie TWO SERMONS CONCERNING CHRISTIAN RESOLUTION And Humble Submission to the VVill of God in Tymes of Distresse on the Holy Patriarch Iacobs Farevvell VVords to his sons at Parting IF I BE BEREAVED OF MY CHILDREN I AM BEREAVED Gen. ch 43. v. 14. FOR the better Understanding of the Story it Will be requisire to reade the precedent Words from the 11. verse to the text v. 11. If it must be so novv do this take of the best fruites of the Land in your Vessels and carry dovvn the man a Present a little balme a little honey spices mirrhe nuts almonds v. 12. And take double money in your hands and the money vvhich vvas brought againe in the mouth of your sacks carry it againe in your hand peradventure it vvas an Oversight v. 13. Take also your Brother and arise go againe unto the man. v. 14. And God Almicghty give you Mercy before the Man that hee may send avvay your other Brother Benjamin IF I BE BEREAVED OF MY CHILDREN I AM BEREAVED THe Approaching Holy Feast of CHRISTS NATIVITY or Coming in the Flesh doth Every yeare require a Solemne preparatory time of Devotion And that it may not want such due respect the Church takes care in its preceding Exercises Every Sunday service during ADVENT hath an Eye to that pious End purpose In pursuance whereof wee have in this Cathedrall revived an Antient Religious Custome Two dayes of every week throughout this season to wit wednesdays fridays are Sermon Dayes dedicated to Prayer Fasting to accompany those Exercises of Repentance which are allwayes thought a necessary part of out Preparation But Gods Impending Iudgements for our sins which at this time threaten Bloud Confusion do summon us to add to those exercises and by some voluntary impositions of Dayly Devotion Mortification to turne this Advent in to A little Lent giving up our selves wholy to the Exercise of Piety Prayer beseeching God that hee will not Enter into Iudgement vvith us and for our provocations give us up as a Prey unto our Enimies making us a scorne derision to them that are round about us It is lawfull nay Religious by Devout Prayer to Use Violence to the Kingdom of Heaven and if wee did in this our Distresse betake our selves to so sure a Refuge making use of the Holy Weapons of the Antient Christians PRAYERS TEARES crowding up to the horns of the Altar rendring all our Devotions more prevalent by the vveekly Reception of the Lords Supper wee that meet in Gods House if we came with that spirit Which wee ought might do our King and Country better service than those who fight for him in the Field What hath been said I premise in regard to the present Season of ADVENT and the Ensuing Feastivall of CHRISTMAS by reason my text doth not respect Either of them so particularly as the Storme Danger Which is imminent doth loudly call for the Holy Resolution asvvell as submission of Pious Jacob. And having so done I shall before I enter on the Words Move you to Pray according to the Canonicall Exhortation of the Church Yee shall pray for the Holy Catholieck Church of Christ that is for the vvhole Congregation of Christian people dispersed throughout the VVorld more espetially for the Churches of Great Britaine Ireland And here in I am to require you more particularly to pray for our Dread Soudraigne Lord Iames by the Grace of God King of England c. Yee shall likevvise pray for our Gratious Queen Mary Katherine the Queen dovvager his Royall Higness the Prince of VVales c. Concluding your Devotions allwayes with the Lords Prayer Our Father c. THe PATRIARCHS were now returned from their first journey Sermon I into Egypt and as they little thought from full-filling their Brother Iosephs dreame They had Bovved to him whom they thought they had Robbed of all Honour and been Fed by him whom they once conspired to Starve So inviolable is Gods purpose in things to man impossible OLD JACOB here at first with greatest Joy wellcomes home his weary sons but excesse of gladnesse is commonly attended on with Greife the end of Ioy is Mourning Whiles hee is yet congratulating their good successe in their Journey the sad newes of Simeons Imprisonment silenceth his mirth Which Greife too is attended on by a greater the necessity of his Deare Benjamins going into Egypt Crosses in
so beaten a Road as the Topiek of adversity nor yet by your favour conclude my discourse There is nothing which can bee more plaine obvious to a Christian than the Benefitt of Affliction a truth Conspicuous out of the writings of the very Heathens I commend unto your Review at this Instant Plutarchs excellent treatise to that purpose I shall therefore have regard to the Times as well as my text consider some of those very afflictions hanging over our heads which must exercise these our Resignations which will prove christianly submitted unto thus beneficiall to us That it is our Duty faithfully chearefully to submitt unto Gods vvill in all times of Adversity with Faith Feare and that all truly Christian submissions will in the end bee highly Advantagious hath been the subject of my two last discourses in this Pulpit IF the Dayes of Adversity Affliction Brethren be such a hopefull seeds-time wee in our present Circumstances are like if wee sovv in pious Teares to have a plentifull crop Many a Heavy Judgement are allready fallen upon us for our past fins against God and in a more particular manner wee have too just reason to suspect for our secure carnall Confidence our Trusting in the Arme of Flesh as well as our unpardonable Disobedience to vile contempt of Gods Vice-Gerent the King. And many greater for our stupid impenitency will fall wee have also too Just cause to feare God hath moved the Land Divided it and if his Allmighty most Mercifull hand doth not prevent it must shake nay totter into Ruine Destruction The SWORD is drawn in the Midst of the Nation God grant it may not bee too soon sheathed in one anothers bowells nor VVhet by the present Cessation Insomuch that what party soever gaine the victory both must certainly some way or other in the Conclusion bee Considerable Loosers It is a sad thing that subjects to the same Prince should in Words many times profess pretend the same thing and yet all the while fight against one another to Destruction One Party among other matters declares for the Protestant Religion in generall another for the Church of England as by Lavv Establisht This cannot bee other with honest meaning than the very same cause for the Church of England is undoubtedly a Protestant Church and the best Protestant Religion notwithstanding all aspersions is professed in that Church yet in all probability here is in the Nation a Quarrel begun God forgive the Authours which is not like to bee determined without the Shedding of much Christian Bloud Or else againe One Party declares for the King also as the Lords at York as well as the Protestant Religion together with the Liberties and Properties of the Subject Another for the King Antient Lavves Governement in the Church State. This likewise without mentall reservation is no other than the former yet both Parties you see enter into a dismall bloudy War to decide the Controversy T is certaine that our antient Lavves Government so much depending on Monarchy cannot be preserved by the Destruction of the Prince and true Liberty Property can never be secured by the Destruct on of the Antient Governement no more can the right Protestant Religion Come BRETHREN let us all be well-advised before wee imbrue our hands deeply in one anothers Bloud such like Pretences Beginnings had once no better consequence Behold I say two Parties of the Kings subjects making the same Protestation and yet all the while fight with one another so that one of them cannot bee sincere If two Persons declare for the King yet fall to Blows one of them pretend what hee will must certainly be a Rebell in fighting against the King. I would in Charity thinke that you all conclude Rebellion a most odious thing and that few will I am sure no good man would dip themselves in so hainous a crime knowingly and willfully The danger is that many worthy Honest Gentlemen as heretofore and now in our Present Iuncture may be insnared before they are aware into this foule Offence so farre that they cannot tell how to gett back againe or if they do themselves cannot hinder ill men from proceeding on effecting their ends by vertue of the Reputation which they have given to an ill cause I will therefore cease to contend in this place who is the best subject or veriest Rebell Whether I that declare my selfe for the King the Protestant Religion or hee that declares himselfe for the Protestant Religion the King is the most Loyal the best Protestant I have here openly frequently enough discoverd my Principles concerning Subjection I am Brethren of the same minde I ever was so resolved by Gods Grace to live dye Instead of such disputes I 'le endeavour to paint sett before your Eyes this abominable sin that neither party wil owne And without telling you any more who are Rebbells I 'le plainly shew you what is Rebellion and what it is to be Rebellious In prosecution whereof I 'le keep precisely as well as I am able to the very Termes Wordes of the Church of England in her Printed Sermons or Homilies Published by Royall authourity Rebellion then you must know is there esteemd by the Church of England whereever it is found either among Papists or Protestants either on the 5 of Nov. or on the 30. of Jan. the worst as it was the first of sins In the first of her Homilies against Rebellion it is stiled the Root of all vices the Mother of all Mischeifs and in the second part the vvorst of all vices the Greatest of all Mischeifs at the Breaking in vvhereof all sins Miseries did flovv in over-vvhelme the vvorld The Authour of that accursed sin of Disobedience vvhich brings in all other at its heeles being no other than LUCIFER himselfe vvho of the Brightest most Glorious Angell for this very sin of Disobedience Rebellion against his King became the Blackest foulest Fiend and from the Height of Heaven fell into the Bottome of Hell. As our Church expresseth it in the afore said Homily Rebellion in another place speedily after is stiled the Foulest of all sins being as it vvere the Source Originall of all other and inseparable from the Highest Pride Contempt of God. Hee that nameth Rebellion saith our Church nameth not a single or one onely sin as is Theft Murder Robbery such like but to speake in the old language of the Homily the vvhole Puddle Sinke of all sins against God man against his Prince his Country his Countrymen his Parents his Children his Kinsfolkes his Freinds against all men universally All sins saith the very same Homily nameth hee that nameth Rebellion every Comandement being violated thereby pag. 360. Yea that all the seaven deadly sins are contained in Rebellion you will finde asserted
to proceed in imitation of their Loyalty and according to their examples in all times of Warre Trouble heretofore to stick close to the Crown Not one of them that I could ever Read or heare of having been in the least manner dipt in Rebellion or sided with any Usurper Indeed their Fidelity to their Soueraigne for which your House God bee Praised hath been ever noted none Sir hath better copied out then your selfe whose Name is on that account already Recorded in our English Chronicle The Secrecy Successefulnesse of that Negotiation of yours in your Master the late Kings behalfe with General Monk will not easily bee forgotten among loyall men And I must confesse to all the world that that notable Example Pattern which you have set all your House by your services endeavours in the Worst of Tymes for King Charles the 2. hath had great force on mee been mighty prevalent in inspiring mee with some more than ordinary Resolution for his Royall Brother his lawfull successour and our vndoubted Soueraigne at my first Entrance on my Deanery which did oblige mee to Appeare Act in à more Pnblick Poste than before And doth still animate mee wherefore whatever measures you are pleased to take at present I hope Sir you will not blame mee in my present zeale endeavours Since which time I can say it without Boasting tho if I did Boast a litle this Conjuncture my Circustances would Beare it that I have never strayed in my affection from his Majestie nor failed in paying him all the Honour Duty Respect which I should have renderd to my deceased Master of ever Blessed Memory had the Naiion been longer blest with his Reigne But instead thereof I do not Blush to let all the world know that I have been somewhat more Officious and thought it Every ones Duty so to be in his Service than I had been in his Brothers in consideration of a Roman Catholick Kings Grace Goodness towards us of the Church of England in reference to the free exercise of our Religion Hee granting us the liberty of A Religion contrary to his ovn and making it his Care at his first Appearence in Councell to secure to his Protestant Subjects of the Ch. of England so unvaluable à Blessing neither of which if hee had done could wee have told how to helpe our selves or been absolved from our Obedience which my litle Divinity hath euer told mee I hope euer will is as due to à Roman Cath. Soueraigne as to a Protestant one The Consideration where of hath by the Blessing of God kept mee Vntainted Vnstained throughout the whole transactions of the last 5. yeares I meane from the 6. of Feb. 84. when his Majestie mounted the Throne to the 10. of Dec. 88. when the same Sacred Majestie was disgracefully Driven to the Everlasting Reproach of the English Nation from his own Palace of Whitehall No Feares or Iealousies of Religion Liberties or Lavves dîd ever tempt mee I Blesse God to any undue courses of Resistance Opposition or somuch as Unseemly Capitulation with Gods Vicegerent to preserve them Tho I love them all soe well Dearely that I can bee contented to dye for them in any Place or Manner vnlesse it bee with à sword in my hand lifted vp against my Prince And I dare Challenge not only my Censurers but all the World a state of Hostility will admit of such language to discover any One Act of mine whereby I have sided with or abetted their Enimies in any Endeavours to destroy or Weaken them that I have I say ever either in the capacity of a Private Minister or Publick Magistrate Ecclesiasticall or Civill in the West my first or North of England my last station ceased to practise and Exact a strict Conformity to the Rules of our Religion or to promote an Impartiall Execution of law as long as the lawes were in Force both against Recusant Dissenter Or that lastly I did ever Countenance such Omission of Duty in Others Clergy or layety under my Authority All Places wherein I have Resided will I make no question testifye for mee that I have been how weake unsuccessefull soever zealous diligent faithfull in these particulars And did never in any Revolution Put on the Vizard of A TRIMMER having had allwayes from my Cradle a certaine Antipathy against such Indifferency Hyppocrisy Neutrality as doe constitute that Amphibious Creature which by the assistance of Neighbours which it is hard to tell whether they live more vpon the land or in the water hath given a kind of Mortall Wound to the Church Monarehy of England By such Principles Practices I have God bee thanked demonstrated my selfe A legitimate son of my ever Honoured Deare Father Sir Bevill Granville whom I may I hope in à letter to à Brother bee permitted for my Consolation in so melancholyck a state of Affaires a litle to Glory in sinee his Valour Loyalty sealed at Lansdown with his Bloud is set aboue the spleen censure of the most Malitious Tongues Forasmuch as the University of Oxford one of the most famous Universityes in the VVorld hath vouchsafed to celebrate them whith an Epicedium of their choicest VVits A respect which hath not as the Ingenious Reprinter of the late Edition of those Poems doth in his dedicatory Epistle well note been vsually paid to any but the Royal Family And in the same Temper much heightned strengthend by the serious frequent pervsall of those Iugenious Verses which bring dayly to my consideration my loyall Fathers Example which I carry constantly about mee both to inspire conduct mee I hope by Gods Grace to Breathe out my soule without making any difference in Matter of Obedience betwixt à Papist a Protestant Prince A Christian or à Heathen I am without any scruple assured so is all the World that my Soueraigne King Iames the 2. is a lawfull King hath an undoubted Title which is all a good subject ought to enquire into If soe I am as much assured that noe Power vpon Earth can absolve mee from my sworne Obedience to him what ever wee are told to the contrary in certaine Enquiries into the Measures of Submission to Supreme Authority the Grounds vpon vvhich it may bee lavvfull or necessary as ◠the Title phraseth it for subjects to defend their Religion liberties lavves I wish the Doctor had been pleased to speake out plainly according to his thoughts and I am perswaded hee would haue sayd The Grounds vvhereon it is Lavvfull to Rebell But I shall give you noe more Trouble by way of Information concerning my selfe I shall rather crave liberty to convey to my Younger Relations since they are numerous by your favour and meanes is you please some wholesome Advice for their Edification to establish those who are not Tainted and to restore those who are with the false
accepted thereof at the very first offer of the People Secondly The Exercise of the Kings Prerogative in dispensing with some Lawes on Extraordinary Emergencyes was thought a Burden Intollerable But it hath been no Crime since in the Subject to dispense with all They having got as they thinke what they have long Contended for the Supremacy in their own hands Thirdly The Introducing of Arbitrary Power was the Dread of most men now they are contented to enjoy nothing else Fourthly It was Judged unpardonable Tyranny in our Soveraigne to touch the meanest of his subjects in Point of Property but it is a laudable vertue in the Subject to usurp upon nay dispose of the Crowne Fiftly The English were Overwhelmed with Jealousies of introducing Popery promoting the Intrest of France And all the while have gone the direct way to bring the worst of their Feares on themselves by Driving the King Prince out of the Kingdome Sixtly In a word Sundry other Things which were deemed nnsufferable in a lawfull Prince of Gods Ordaining are now Practised without disgust by an Usurper King of the Peoples making Hee that is not yet perfectly Convinced of the Hypocrisy of these Pretences Procedings which I hope the most Eminent of our Clergy Nobility by this time are seemes to have neither Eyes to see Eares to heare nor Heart nor Head to consider Understand I shall conclude with A Memorable Saying of our Royall Martyr King Charles the 1. on his Observation of a like spirit of Delusion which in his dayes possessed the generality of the People of the same Kingdomes in Dethroning nay Murthering their Lawfull King one of the Best of Princes at his owne doores Soe easy is that Leger de main which serves to delude the Vulgar That the Almighty Wise God who in his just displeasure for our sins ingratitude to Himselfe his Vicegerent hath for the present made the Chutch Monarchy of England A Notable Monument of his Wrath would bring all High Low who have contributed to soe Heinous a Guilt in his due tyme to such a sight sense of their Crimes that they may give to the world an undeniable Demonstration of the Truth of their Repentance labouring with all their Might to redresse the Scandalls they have given by an unparalelled Apostacy from the Principles of our Church an abhorred Defection in point of Loyalty is the hearty humble Prayer of Ever Honour'd and Deare Sir Your Lordships most humble Servant Affectionate Brother DENIS GRANVILLE Rouen Aprill 24. 1689. POSTSCRIPT THat the Printing of this letter with the following Address Queres may not appear to your selfe as I fore-see they will to all Zealous Contrivers Supporters of the Usutpation in England an act of not only deplorable Folly but downe right Frenzy I humbly Crave your permission to insert a few lines by way of Postscript I am not ignorant but that this attempt may render me absolutely incapà ble of all the favour you have shew'd me since my Flight into France in your voluntary kind interposition to secure my Revenu that it must also expose me for a subject of Common Talk Censure thoughout the Nation But since an un blemis'd Loyalty is infinitely mote valuable than the Possessions of this world that I was persvaded that the Course which I did by Gods grace Steer was the most effectual way to secure that the very Reputation whereof I esteem far beyond the Rents I had at Durham Easington Sedgefeild nay moreover since that my past Life last Deportment in England had not been all of a piece if I had not done as I did You will not I trust condemn my Cariage however contrary to the Maxims Temper of the Reigning Generation as unworthy of your House Family What I have done I have perform'd thanks be to the Almighty in the Integrity of my Heart Innocency of my hands the sence Consideration here of the Issue of things exery day more more convincing me that I was in the Right doth afford unspeakable Comfort to my soule My Feeding of some Friends in my voyage from Scotland hither with Expectation of an Inter-view in Kent talk of a Passport the fitst of which I did not intend the last if I could get away without it I did not desire is a crime I do assure my selfe of Gods pardon for of those friends likewise whom I deluded disapointed when God shall be pleas'd to send us a happy meeting As for that more unpardonable sin where with some do reproach me whereof I cannot so well clear my selfe before the World but is the only one thanks be to God that the World can accuse me of I meâ—n my Ignorance Imbecility to fill my Coffers Pockets so ful as some more frugall crafty than my selfe have done in less time with a smaller Estate or Revenu I am like to do a sad Pennance for it here abroad in a Forreigne Kingdome And the Friends Relations I leave at home will not I hope add affliction to affliction if they will not help me with their Purses by loading me with their Censures especially considering two last Acts of mine to demonstrate the sincerity of my Repentance for it First that I did voluntarily diminish my Revenu very considerably by Rent-Charges to satisfy my own just Debts Secondly that I look'd on my long Neglect to practize Frugality as so great a sin that I did as voluntarily put my selfe into a kind of white sheet to atone fot the same by confessing it to God the world in a small Peice I printed in the year 85. This is my Comfort that no person in England is like to loose by me unless by his own proper Choice if one man doth so he must thank himselfe rather than blame me If I suffer Deprivation to his loss he must quarrell with God the King whose Commands have unavoidably oblig'd me to hold fast my Religion Loyalty And if the Sacrificing of both or either of them was in my Judgement too dear a purchace of my Revenu for my selfe no one could reasonably expect that I should undergo it for an other Hoping that these few Hints may give some satisfaction to all but the Malitious Authors of our present Misery I shall not enlarge this Postscript farther than to acknowledge with all thankfullness the kindness which you have shew'd me in procuring A Dispensation for mee notwithstanding I have contradicted your Example which I esteem thegreater Obligation at those friends hands who were instrumentall therein since they did it without my Privity or Motion BY the Publication of the following ADDRESS QUERES it may appear tha the Author is not affraid notwithstanding the Obloquy he did a while undergo in the yeat 88 for his dutifull compliance with the King to owne those notions of Loyalty which he did endeavour
respects odious infamous had not the boldness to seize on the Crown nor the People of England at that time thô plunged over head ears in Rebellion the Timidity nor Stupidity to offer it to him who without all dispute might then with less sin with more prudence have put it on his Head it having for a while before been deposited and unimploy'd than some body since snatch'd it from the Head of his own Uncle nay Father This is Gentlemen the true real cause of my withdrawing And if You please to be mind full of the criticall time vvhen the manner hovv the cause vvherefore being also so just to your Dean as not to looke barely on his going away but consider it as circumstantiated and allowing me so much Charity who have alwayes exercis'd greater towards my Dependants as to beleive I did at least mean well then and do speak true at present I am willing to beare all other ccnsures you can load me with for this late hazardous undertaking which however it may be mis-understood in England over which as of late there seemes still to hang some notorious cloud mist which strangely obscures mens understanding and deem'd an act of Fear or Folly yet I am God be prais'd fully perswaded that it was the most honest the most couragious thc vvisest Act of my whose Life And do incessantly praise his name that he was pleas'd to endow me with his grace passing by many more capable to do him service at that very time and in such manner as I did to Beare vvittness to the Truth 1 For my Flock had I whose notion both of Religion Loyalty had caus'd me all a long to act at an other rate fail'd by a sordid truely mean compliance I had certainly done them irreparable wrong by thwarting my past Doctrine destroying the example of my whole Life 2. As for my Revenue thô I possess'd the best Deanery and possibly the best Archdeaconry one of the best Livings in England A Faithfull Christian ought not so highly to value them as to put them into the scales with his Conscience And besides I do not forget that I both receiv'd held my Deanery by the King's favour do resolve that without his favour I will never keep it These two particulars granted I leave all men to judge whether it was an unwise act of mine all things consider'd to withdraw vvhen in such manner as I did I do well assure my selfe that it will be esteem'd otherwise by all those that do not deny the truth of this undoubted maxime that Honesty is the best Policy And I do comfort my selfe that my poor exploded Notions of Honesty Religion Loyalty to my King obedience to the Precepts Rules of the Church will yet come in vogue before I leave the World tho I have too much reason to apprehend that unless the change of air preserve me I shall not be a long liv'd man however they be run down rejected in this intoxicated Age which hath in a manner captivated men's Senses as well as their Understandings I that am the Lord be thanked happily deliver'd for a while from the Foggs of my own Country which were sadly increas'd since it's late Alliance Communication with Holland do no more doubt than I cease to pray for the King 's glorious blessed Restauration That joyfull Day in spight of Men Devils will come as soon as the Church and Kingdome are by a profound Humiliation sincere Repentance prepared for so choice a blessing And when it doth come or is nigh approaching it will infallibly open men's eyes cause them clearly to discerne their past egregious folly facility in suffering themselves to be so soon overcome by such deplorable Delusion as not to distinguish betwixt the felicity of living under an undisputable lawfull gratious Prince of the most mercifull and eligible Race and Qualifications bearing the Yoke of an Usurper whose Crown must necessarily be maintain'd as it is gotten by the Sword. And whose Reigne tho it begins in nomine Domini is usher'd in by a shevv of Religion seeming love of Liberty Lavves soon becomes greivous his little finger felt much heavier than the Lawfull Predecessour's Loyns It will not be needfull to pretend to the Spirit of Prophecy for this Discovery the last eight or nine Month's experience doth powerfully evince the Truth of what I affirme There doth seem already to be eyes enough open if their hands were at Liberty and good swords in them in Scotland England too as well as Ireland to deliver those miserable Kingdomes from reall Tyranny Presbitery which are not like to be found much more tollerable for the late injustifiable as well as unintelligible method of Exclusion of Popery pretended Arbitrary Povver All those who were come to could exercise their Understandings from the year 41 to the year 60 cannot forget the unsufferable Slavery which the three Kingdomes underwent upon the unhappy Conjunction of those foremention'd unseparable Twins The horrid Rebellion of those dayes was less odious than the present one which is accompanied with the highest Aggravations less odious I say or at least less unnaturall than that under which the best Subjects Christians in England at present groan in sundry respects had not the former been deeply dyed in the blood of King Charles the Martyr And yet all the Religion great ostentation of Purity of the Gospell wherewith it was introduced at last after a floud of Loyall blood submitted to by an infatuated Generation ended at length in down right Enthusiasme which by breaking of Fences tearing up Foundations let in a Deluge of all kind of Prophaneness The Priviledges Properties as well as the Liberty of the Subject were got into the hands of such miserable Keepers as kept them all to themselves in such sort as scarce any Person You do well remember could be Master of them or meet with them but at Wallingford House In a word after inexpressible violence Injustice Cutting off sundry Pillars of Church State most those well fix'd Church of England-men Clergy or Layicks who had the valour to withstand the Usurpers of those dayes all matters at last run into Anarchy Confusion And the Babell which had been twenty years in building after a short tottering at the Death of their Cheif Upholder fell crush'd it's selfe with it's own weight and cover'd all their Antimonarchicall machinations with it's Ruines The serious sober review of all past Transactions from the begining of the long great Rebellion home to the Dutch Invasion to witt of the first stupendious wickedness of the Enimies of the King Church of England The wonderfull long suffering of a justly Incens'd God His unconceivable Goodness and Compassion at length in a reall delivery of the Nation our Church from not only the most Arbitrary
faile to commend unto God in my constant prayers to whom besides my devotions I have nothing to bequeathe but vvholsome counsell a good example And since I have no way left to convey unto them the first but by writing that with great difficulty too not to deprive them of the latter is become a duty of higher obligation Example is often more prevalent than precept Whether the wise God will render mine so unto my people He alone knows it depends on his good pleasure Sure I am that when I departed from my Cures with a sorrowfull heart I did conceive it the best way left me to preach unto them by putting into actual practice that peculiar sort of Religion Loyalty to use the very phrase of some of my censurers which I had ever taught to others wherein I did incessantly labour to establish you as before rehears'd against the then fashionable upstart Divinity Allegiance of the Age Whereto I should not give this nor the former epithet in the beginning of this letter my religion loyalty let men call them what they please being no other I bless God than the naturall Result of the pure uncorrupted Doctrine of the right Genuine Church of England had they not been you know to my reproach often so stiled by that Generation of Semi-conformists Loyalists who could then but halfe comply with the reasonnable demands of a Lawfull Prince but can now wholy conforme to the will of an Usurper I recommend you both with all my sheep to Almighty God's mercy direction praying with all fervency to our Heavenly Father in the Churche's Littany part of my dayly devotions as I suppose it likewise is of the small number of Othodox Clergy men in the nation That it may please God to strengthen such as do stand to comfort helpe the vveak-hearted to raise up them that fall finally to beat dovvn Satan under our feet Applying it more especially to the case of you my Substitutes who are unhappyly divided to my unspeakable trouble in your principles practices which renders this my present way of application very difficult to me since it is not easy in one joyntaddress at the same time to praise dispraise according to the designe of this paper you to whom I write You then to conclude who have continued faithfull in your Trusts discharg'd your Conscience I do as the best reward you can for aâ—hile expect Praise pray for earnestly beseeching God to strengthen you dayly to carry you through the remaining difficulties you shall meet witthall And must Blame tho I pitty you that are fallen conjuring you to reflect on what you have done and desiring you to be assur'd that I can never have any complacency in your services till you bring forth undeniable fruits of Repentance Hoping that my censures of one as well as praises of the other will have that kindly operation on your soules which I designe I do with much christian charity compassion subscribe my selfe Roüen Oct the â— 1691. Your very lov Brother in CHRIST JESUS DENIS GRANVILLE FINIS COPY of a Paper mention'd in the foregoing pag. 38. and penn'd at Durham by the Authour Aug. 27 1688 by vvay of reflection on the then Dismal Prognostiks of the Times Things vvhich portend very fatally to the Government and Church of England 1. AN Vniversall Aptitude in men to receive multiply and magnify Fears and Iealousies of the King. 2. The generality of the subjects of England contrary to the Rule of Charity putting the vvorst Construction on the Designs and Actings of their SOVERAIGNE 3. Mens discovering by their preposterous courses tho hey dare not speak it vvith their mouthes that they think their Allegiance to the King because of a different Religion not the same that it vvould be to a Protestant Prince 4. An industrious endeavour for a long time throughout the land to alienate the subjects Affection from their Soveraigne 5. The Spirit of Popularity at present so universally reigning as to overthrovv many Honest Good men vvho seem afraid any longer to do their Duty to the King and act according to their Principles for fear of the Mobile 6. An extraordinary forvvardness both in Clergy as vvell as Gentry to dispute and rudely to contend vvith their Prince nay insoleutly to insult over him upon the least success made too apparent by the Issue of the late Triall of the Bishops in VVestmunster Hall. 7. The itch of disputation infinitely prevailing in this age above the spirit of Divine Charity true Devotion men relying too much on their Arguments too little on their Prayers 8. Men being novv agitated more than ever by an intemperate zeale against Popery as heretofore against Fanaticisme shevving much more Aversion to their Adversary's than love to their ovvn Religion 9. Most men even Divines manefesting an excessive fear that Popery vvill come in and yet all the vvhile neglect to betake themselves to the most assured means to keep it out to vvit Amendment of life and exact conformity to the CHURCHES RULES and training up the young Generation by the due exercise of Catechisme 10. Too many flying to unjustifiable means to preserve their Keligion and proclaiming by their actions that they are resolved to Rebell rather than let it go 11. Peaple using their strength and number to bring their Soveraigne to Terms and endeavouring by all means possible ta Hough band him if I may be permitted to speak in the Northern phrase I meane not to leave it in his Rovver to hurt them either in their Religion Lawes Lives or Estates vvhich is in plain English to Unking him Durham Aug. 27. 1688. COPY of another Paper mention'd p. 39. that the Authour publishes to shew how the Singularity for which he was censured by some as before related and despised by Others for hee knows himselfe guilty of no other was for practising this very following Method himselfe when present and imposing it on his Curates when he was absent to be by them also used in his Parishes Or for other such-like unfashionable observation of the Churche's Rules performance of his Duty Which upon strict Enquiry into the Authour's Discharge of his Offices since his first settlement in the North of England will be found to be true and may serve to evince that as hee hath had the hard Fate to be Deposed for following his Soveraign into France sticking to the Crovvne so hath hee had as hard a Fate heretofore for cleaving to his Mother regarding more than Others the Precepts of the Church even to be oftentimes unjustly Opposed and sometimes reproached by his Brethren Citty Country-Clergy merely for his Over doing as they have usually term'd it That is in plaine English because his Conscience would not give him leave to omit those Duties which they and the generality of the Clergy in the nation I will may now take more liberty than ever
more 〈◊〉 Regard would had been had to the Penning Composure But since I am reduced to such hard circumstances whereto in conformity to my own Doctrine I Heartily submit that the ensuing Discourses how sleight soever little worth in themselves are abundantly sufficient to demonstrate that both my Religion Loyaâ—â—y are not of the New Cutt but of the old Royall stamp carry whith them I trust the true Touch of the Tower Providence invites me to exposes them to publick view being ambitious of nothing in â—â—e world more than to approve my selfe in this Day of Rebuke to my Soveraigne his rigth Loyal subjects for one who thinks that hee obliged to be as Faithfull to a Roman-Catholick as a Protestant Prince as true to him in Adversity as Prosperity As far any Censures of vanity arising from my Title-Page as if I did there set forth my selfe à Patterne of humility Loyalty they ought not to sway with me so farre as to stop me in my Endeavours to be so or to perswade others to become such since thereto Heaven at this tyme loudly summons all the Nation This I can truly say without Pride or Boasting that I have labour'd to practise what I have preached to others that I was never more than at this very instant aspiring towards those Excellent but rare vertues mentionned in the following discourses which I commend to Gods Blessing the Candid Readers Charity desiring all persons in England who have labour'd either by Kind Invitations or Threats of deprivation to prevaile with mâ— to returne submit to the new Government to receive this as my finall Ansver TO WIT If I be DEPRIVED I am DEPRIVED or to approach a little neaver to the Phrase of Good Father Jacob. 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Cerent for Count. p. 22. l. 29. vvhich among for among p. 23. l. 12. hardhearted Ievves for hard-hearted Ievves LETTERS IN the Advertisement Page 1. Line 26. 〈◊〉 together for together p. 2. l. 27. on all times for in all places p. 3. l. 2. n 88. for in 88. l. 3. it for is The Date to wit Rouen Nov. 27. 1689. wanting in the conclusion TO THE EARLE OF BATHE PAGE 3. l. 2. 700 for 700 lib. ster p. 4. l. 15. thd for the. l. 16. entere for entred p. 5. l. 34. right So for right so p. 6. l. â—4 vvith in for vvith his Grace in l. 32. hâ—vve for have p. 10. l. â—4 40. for 40. lib. ster l. 35. 40. for 40. sh. p. 29. l. 5. gs for it TO THE BISHOP OF DURHAM c. PAGE 2. l. 18. vvhith for vvith p. 6. l. 16. vvas for vvere p. 14. l. 16. tovvn had for tovvn that had l. 29. so for to p. 31. l. 3. risdiction for Iurisdiction p. 43. l. 1. forgoing pag. 38. for foregoing letter pag. 38. l. 12. bey for they p. 46. marginal note l. 3. Dearn's for Dean's l. 18. the for he The smaller faults vvith may occur they Reader may easily correct in reading FINIS TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY ALLMIGHTY GOD having enabled mee by his grace to resist those temptations which have overcome the greatest number of the members of my own Church and Country and being now incapacitated here a bread to render my Soveraigne and your Majesty better service than to owne your Righteous Cause I think my selfe obliged to give the world a more than ordinary Testimony of my sincere Loyalty and Resolution in all times and Changes to adhere unalterably to the Crowne Having therefore allready sacrificed my Revenue by quitting the Nation rather than submit to the Vsurpation and exposed my selfe to Censure and Obloquy in that part of England wherein I have Lived by Refusing to Head or Ioine with those my dependants there Ecclesiasticall and Secular who have departed from their Allegiance I know of no better and more Convincing Instance yet remaining to bee given by mee of my stedfastness to stick to and serve the Royall familie than to proclame that I dare speake truth here a broad from the Presse as well as from the Pulpit at home tho every one must fore-know that such an honest Boldness will unavoidably render mee uncapable of the favour and good opinion of all those persons in the Nation High and Low Spirituall and Temporal who have Shipwrackt their Faith and Consciences by ceasing to yeild after often swearing Allegiance and Fidelity to their Soveraigne And it is easy to fore-see that the Printing these and some other Papers at this time in mine ovvn name will thus render mee obnoxious as I am Contented to bee to all those Builders who imploy themselves in Erecting a New Monarchy and Church in England But the Aspersions of them that forsake their Religion as far as they desert their Lavvfull Liege Lord as I hope the follovving sheets will evidence vvill bee no intolerable Load to mee who desire no greater Honour and satisfaction than to share with my King Queen and hope-full young Prince
enimies as allso passing over the Characters of a right Loyall and unalterably Obedient Subject to the King and of a true right bred son of our Church together vvith that Man of Indifference that pretends to be both yet is neither vvhich I did then very largely set before you as vvell as the motives to become the tvvo first that is Good subjects Good Christians Waving I say these and some other matters that time vvill not permitt mee to reflect on I shall only exercise your ears at present vvith hearing four Cautions or Directions vhich I recommended to my Auditory in the Conclusion of that Charge to the Clergy to vvit First that that just reasonable and moderate Ground of Feare vvhich every VVise man ought to have in our Circumstances might drive uâ— more close home to the Throne of Grace and Gods Altar and make us all acquaint our selves better than ever heretofore vvith our Hearts Consciences taking such care of the internall exercise of Grace vertue in the soule vvherein cheifly is the Kingdom of God living in such Obedience both to God the King as become the best Christians Subjects least that our Mercifull God Gratious Prince on vvhose Grace fâ—avour our Felicity did then greatly depend should for our past or future provocations be incensed and deprive us of the Liberty vvee injoyed in the Exercise of our Establish'd Religion The second Direction vvas to take care of the young Generation and never to suffer any Youth to depart from the parishes or families or approach to the LORDS SVPPER vvith out due Instruction and a sufficient degree of knovvledge and Devotion Hic labor hoc opus est And if you vvere for any vvorks of supererogation I prayed you to practise them in this course permitted to us Blessed be GOD his VICE-GERENT nay required of us by his Majestie in his pious DIRECTIONS to PREACHERS as before mention'd vvhereto vvee all ought as I then Caution'd you to keep close and the neglect vvhereof hath much contributed vvithout dispute to our present misery A Third Advice vvas to bevvare least a Vulgar notion of Loyalty obedience to your Superiours in Church State might debauch y ur Vnderstanding and make you more suspitious of your Governours Inchroaement on the Peoples priviledges than of the Peoples Sacrilegious Invasion on the Prerogative of GODS VICE GERENT When vvee cannot discover in England espetially in the family of the Stuarts any One Instance of the fâ—irst but may every day find out lamentable Examples of the latter And that you vvould remember be assured that the Religion of your Soveraign did not one jot either lessen or somuch as restrain the Authority or Povver vvhich hee received from GOD and not from his subjects as also be more afraid of and averse to Popular Tiranny than the Abuses of Government in a Monarch vvho may be supposed to have as vvell as his subjects knovledge Grace Conscience of Duty to his Soveraign in Heaven to restrain him from an extravagant exercise of his Povver and to informe him that his Account to God vvill be more heavy than that of his subjects in case of Male-Administration My fourth last Counsell vvas to be just to all men both to the Romanist and Dissenter That your Aversion to the Doctrine of any Party tho never so Contrary to your ovvn should not in any manner exceed your Love Concerne for the Religion you profess'd and tempt you to encourage barefaced Violations of Truth Justice vvhen it is in the Concerne of an Enimy or Adversary to your Opinions SPEECH IV. THERE remaines novv only the last of my foure Addresses to be brought to your vievv before I ingage in my Conclusive Reflections vvhich consisted of three heads vvherein I spoke by vvay of Caution I desire you to remember rather than accusation Three things I did advise and beseech you in a particular manner to take heed and be vvare of And so I shall in the name of God as long as I have the Honour to be your Archdeacon Things vvhich really portend much vvotfe than most grounds usually assigned in this suspitious Age for Fears Jealousies The first vvas A preposterous zeale against our Adversaries accompained too often vvith a spirit of Contradiction And vvhich distills more aversion into us and disgust against our Adversaries Person than Principles Inclining us to Oppose confute him right or vvrong Concluding all to bee evill in our Antagonists tho oftentimes very Commendable and fondly Over-vveening all to be Good tho some times very unchristian in our selves and others of our Persvvasion A mallady vvhich hath been long the Disease of our Nation Our Poor Church ever since the Puritan Faction began labouring under the same in such degree that a Spirit of Contradiction hath been Commonly made the Cheife standard measure of many mens Religion Devotion and the distance they kept from the vvays Sentiments of their Opposers look'd on as an infallible Mark of the vertue of their ovvn Persons and Truth of their profession Which Opinion and Judgement of matters tho never so popular are very false Weights Measures By reason at this rate the vvorst men must allvvayes be the greatest saints since in them dvvdls most Hatred animosity bitter Aversion to all that is not their ovvne Horrid vices are usually the Parents of this spirit vvhich I set before you desire you may all Loathe The second thing I caution'd you against vvas mens Declining in Loyalty Love to their Prince on account of his Religion Which doth not in any manner dissolve or abate the Bonds of Duty Respect in the subject But on the Contrary Favours received from such a Prince such as vve have received as I shevved then more largely oblige subjects to some more officious respects than are to be paid to a kind Prince of our ovvn Persvvasion The third thing vvhereof I told you that vvee ought to bevvare vvas Ingratitude to both God the King for those spetiall Mercies and Acts of Grace vvhich vvee receive from one and the Other even during our Murmurrings and Complaints Ingratitude to the King I then informed you vvas inseparable from Ingratitude to God A Good Gratious Prince being a Choice Gift of Heaven one of the greatest blessings vvhich a Nation can enjoy And hee that vvill not from the Bottome of his Heart returne his thanks Praise for so inestimable a Jevvel is a mounster of Unthankfullness to the Common Governour of the Universe the Greatest of Benefactors Reflections on some of the points repeated the circumstances of the Nation at the time of the delivery of this speech in reference to the Invasion AND novv Reverend Brethren I have by the assistance of God finish'd the Task vvhich I propos'd to vvit of Refreshing your memory vvith the recitall of the most important matters vvhich I recommended to your
of the yeare 88 that Annu◠Mirabilis vvhich vvholy imployed the Head Hearts of all men And since that time my Roling Posture Change of measures Resolutions occasioned by the uncertainty Change of Affaires Persons at the Helme together vvith the crosse Accidents vvhich I have by Land sea met vvith all through vvhich God hath of his mercy vvell carryd mee vvould not permit mee to salute you vvith that formality as became mee vvherefore I have hitherto continued silent But being novv mor◠fix'd and Easy and got vvhere I have been aiming Ever since I left my station on the 11. of Dec. I cannot so farre forget my selfe as longer to deferre the presentation of my humble Duty Service give you some Account of my behaviour and motions last Winter together vvith my present State Condition both as to Body Mind I have retained that honour Duty for you that I have given lesse credit than any other to vvhat I have met vvith concerning you either in vvritten or Printed Nevves vvherein I have met vvith many things vvhich have troubled mee and I hope you vvill bee pleased to have the Goodness to afford small regard to any Reports or discourses concerning mee vvhich may have 〈◊〉 to your Eares Contrary to the Tenour of vvhat I vvrite A bout the End of sept last on the first Intelligence of the Dutch Invasion I retired to my Cures in the Country First to sedgefeild then to Easington using my utmost zeale discretion in my private discourses as vvell as publick Sermons to establish my people in so sad a Day of temptation when some stars of the first magnitude fell from Heaven in the Essentiall Duties of subjection Allegiance to their Soveraign shevving that subjects vvere upon noe Consideration whatsoever nether of Religion Liberty nor life to Resist or Desert their Lavvfull Soveraigne tho hee vvere no better than such an One as S. Paul lived under vvhen hee vvrit the Epistle to the Rom. not only a Heathen but a Cruell Persecutour A Nero A Caligula or A Dioclesian And that Subjects to a Christian Prince and to a Prince soe Mercifull Gratious as ours by consequence vvould bee infinitely more Guilty if they should Rebell against or Resist him merely because hee profess'ed a Different Religion After I had endeavoured thus to approve my selfe a faithfull shepherd in taking Care of my Country Flocks I repaired to my Deanery at Durham vvith the honest Designe of demonstrating my fidelity to my Soveraigne my Mother the Ch◠of England being persvvaded that their Inttests could never bee separated Wherefore I summon'd my Brethren the Prebendaries together into Our Chapter-House vvhere I propounded to them the Assisting of the King in so sad an Exigent vvith their Purses as vvell as their Prayers vvith vvhich motion all present complied giving readily their Consent vvith their voices as all absent saving one did by their letters vvhich occasion'd an Act of Chapter to the Effect follovving tovvit that the Deane should advance an hundred pound Every Prebend fifty for his Majesties Service tovvards the raising of Horse Men if occasion should require to bee disposed of to the aforesaid Ends Purposes in such manner as our Bp. should appoint And this I did not thinking it any very considerable Service to the King to give him 700 to vvhich summe it vvould amount but that this Act of ours might bee an Occasion of setting the vvheele a going and at that time t'vvas not too late through the Kingdom Conceiving it no sin in such an Extraordinary Juncture to lead the van in Point of Loyalty to my Prince since the Diocesse Archdeaconry of Durham in Particular none can deny had been all along during the Time of Bishop Consins ever since a notable Example to the vvhole Nation of Conformity to the Lavves dutyfull regard to his Majesties Honour and Intrest In the next place Remembring that I bore another Ecclesiastick Office Dignity in the Church of Durham about the beginning of Nov. I summond all the Clergy of my Archdeaconry together vvho met on the 15. labouring in the Absence of my Superiour the Bp. vvho vvas gone up to London to give them right measures in point of Church of England Loyalty Religion laying before them the Indispensable Necessity of their personall Assistance of their Soveraign as far as any vvere Obliged and Exerting their zeale to secure their Flocks that they might not be seduced from their Allegiance by the Canting Sophistry Distinctions of the Age. And tho the zeale I there Evidenced in my Visitaction Speech hath had since as formely small effect as is too visible by the Clergyes generall Compliance vvith their nevv Gevernours Government renouncing their old yet it vvill serve at all times to proclame that their Archdeacon did on that Occasion as hee had done before faithfully deliver his soule Fourthly Beleiving it might bee some Service to his Majestie for both Clergy Layity to shevv their ABHORRENCE of that unnaturall Invasion vvhich vvas then ffeared I moved first my Brethren of the Chapter aftervvards my Brethren of the Bench to Joyne vvith mee in an Addresse of that Nature to his Majestie but the first Refusing and the last all but tvvo vvaving the same I thought my selfe the most publick person in the Bishops Absence obliged to give A demonstraction of my ovvne Loyalty vvhich I vvas not afraid to do tho the Prince of Orange vvas at that tyme advanced as far as Salisbury and accordingly on Nov. 27. sent to his Majestie by the Post an Assurance thereof in an Address vvhich vvas intercepted by the Lord Danby Lord Lumly other Lords at Yorke Whereof I desire your Lordships permission to annex a true Copy to this letter to prevent the Abuses vvhich may bee occasion'd by that Paper 's falling into the hands of my Enimies Moreover Considering my selfe once more in the Capacity of a Civill Magistrate as vvell as Ecclesiasticall I did a fevv dayes after desire my Brethren Justices Deputy Lieutenants to give mee a Meeting to consult about Serving his Majestie to the Utmost of our Povvers Hearing as yet nothing from our Bishop and more particularly hovv to defend our selves against the Lords Gentlemen vvho had Seized on Yorke for the Prince of Orange vvere some of them advancing northvvards to sécure Durham and Nevvcastle But this honest Zeale of mine vvas by their shunning this Opportunity of Meeting likevvise renderd fruitless and the Lord Lumly on Wensday the fifth of Dec Surprized us enterd Durham whiles J vvas preaching in the. Pulpit of the Cathedrall in my Course it being the first Wensday in Advent with 50 Horse or thereabouts sundry Gentry of that the County of Yorkshire immediately afters his Arrivall Sending one Capt Ireton vvith ten Troopers up to my Door to seize on my Armes Horses vvhich I refusing to deliver or
Rebellious Age. Indeed I am so farre from being ashamed that I am tempted to a little kind of Pride to thinke I brought this some other like Points to discussion last summer the General Eviction whereof however they vere despised Opposed would have stopt Multitudes from running with full Career to put their Necks by the Expulsion of their owne undoubted Gratious Soveraigne under the Yoke of Afforreign Power And it may not bee Alltogether unworthy of their Thoughts who were so angry with them made so much Noise about them whether their Anger did not proceed from the serviceablenesse of my Doctrine to the Kings Interest which they were about to destroy those propositious which I asserted striking at the very Root of the Controversy betwixt the King Subjects of England that is whether the supremacy should bee in the King or in the People A Galled Horse Pardon the similitude shewes where he is sore by his unwillingness to bee handled And the Serpent directs where a man should strike by defending his Head. But how greatly soever I was hereby Exposed to censure made the Talke scoff of some Divines others over their Cups of Coffee upon the Interception of a letter to my Ever honored Freind ***** and other treacherous publication of some Queries which were canvassed up and down about a yeare agoe under the name of the Dean sometimes falsely under the name of the Bishop of Durham I am very well pleased and greatly comforted thad I had then somuch honesty courage as notwith standing great Opposition Powerful Examples perswasions to the contrary to assert the Prerogative of my King to make an Attempt towards the Conviction of Others committed to my Charge Which were the Only persons for whom those Queries were first designed being certain propositions of the verity of which I made no doubt containing the Reasons of my forwad Compliance with his Majestie which I drew into Queries for the Private Consideration of some young Divines I had under my Roof requiring them effectually to answer them in writing with reasonnings which would Beare the Eye or to comply as I had done with the King. Which Honest loyall Queries tho Good sense I am sure when they were first stole out of my study at Durham being after passing through divers hands I know not how disguised and by some stiled the nonsensical Queries of the Deane of Durham I shall crave leave also to publish in the postcript of this letter giving you no more trouble till then about them or my own Justification But craving pardon for so long a Digression returne proceed in my intended narration of some farther transactions relating to his Majesties service mine own Escape out of England in order to repaire to him Notwithstanding then all that I had done recited in the beginning of this letter upon the first Allarum of the Prince of Oranges designe to invade England tho I had God bee thanked honestly discharged a Good Conscience in Opposing by my Words Actions to the uttermost of my Power the then Growing Rebellion as I had all along the Increase of that Temper which was at that time Burst out into A Dreadfull flame whereto I discerned my selfe too weake to make any farther Opposition many of my owne Brethren Deserting nay opposing mee I say notwithstanding all this I could not satisfy my selfe without sending away a faithfull servant to his Majestie Expresse vvith an account of that County together vvith A Duplicate of those papers before mentiond vvhich vvere intercepted letting the King understand that I despaired as things vvent and so did those fevv loyall frainds vvho Concurred vvith mee of doing his Majestie any further service in that Place Having done all that lay in my Povver in all my Capacities by my most vigorous Endeavours tovvatds the Support of the Crovvne the Church of England and seeing my selfe absolutely uncapable to Act further for his Majestie as I had done to discharge my Conscience there in soe Metamorphosed a Place I resolved after earnest prayer to God to direct mee to preserve my Innocency by fflight since I could not doe it by sitting still staying in Durham if I should escape the Jaole vvhich I had litle Reason to hope after an honest Loyall activity vvhich God had given mee the Grace to practice especially during the Yeare past therefore bethought my selfe of flying avvay secretly to the King to Ovvne his Cause vvhen I could not othervvise serve him Commending my Charge fflock both in Durham Elsvvhere in the Bishoprick to Gods Wise Gratious Protection signifying my mind by letter to my Deputies both in Durham the Country Hoping to Edifye them more by such Expression of my Loyalty Religion in adhering to my Soveraigne vvhen the Defection began to bee generall than I vvas like to doe by svch Sermons or Example as the nevv Authority vvould permitt mee to give them And accordingly on the 11. of Dec. at midnight by the helpe of tvvo faithfull servants vvhich I did dare trust I got my horses prepared and vvas conducted by one of them that night to Heâ—cam vvhere I procured an honest Guide to Carlisle the nearest of the Kings Garnisons the most Considerable Place as I conceived vvhich then held out for the King Hull being reduced the vveek before I had no sooner got to Carlisle vvhere I vvas very kindly received by Mr. Hovvard the Governour Coll Purcell Capt Hern others Officers there but the very day after being Saturday the Post brought in the Dismall Nevves of the defeat of some of his Majesties Troopes at Reading others deserting in such sort that hee vvas forced to vvithdravv out of the Kingdome together vvith some intimations to the Governour that it vvas to no purpose for him to hold out the Place but that hee being a Roman Catholick it vvould bee most prudent not displeasing to his Majesty for him toretire leave the Government to the old Governour tovvit Sr. Christopher Musgrave vvho came into the Tovvne on Saturday night Enter'd on the Government appearing in the Governours seat on Sunday the 15. in the Cathedrall This Direfull Catastrophe vvhich did both astonish and afflict mee to see our Soveraigne a Gratious Prince treated with somuch brutality betrayed by those hee thought his best freinds deserted by his Nearest Relations forbidden his ovvne Palace forced out of his Kingdome did Immediately vvithout much consideration incline mee to leave it allso to manâ—fest my Just Indignation against Rebellion treachery vvhich had then spread themselves allmost over the vvhole Nation And did resolve accordingly to hasten into France to share vvith my Soveraigne in his Misfortunes In order vvhereunto after I had visited the Bishop of Carlisle at Rose Castle craved his Benediction deposited vvith his Lordship some solemne assurances of Living Dying in the right Church of England Religion I departed from
awhile here at Roüen I did presume to informe his Majestie by a Packet I sent into Ireland to my Lord Melford of my Arrivall in France the manner of my escape with an Assurance of my unalterable Loyalty and that I should espouse his service with the same zeale during his Exile adversity as when hee was on the Throne I did also according to the Duty of a Loyall subject pay to the Queen Prince all those respects which I could at a Distance informing her also by the assistance of my Lord Waldegrave of my Arrival with assurances that I should never faile to render her Majestie the Prince all the duties which were incumbent on a subject of the King of England And that since I had not the felicity which I came for of being neare his Majestie I was in the next place desirous to bee neare herâ— and accordingly would hasten to St. Germaines as soon as the indisposition of my Body would permit Taking a great Delight to bee nigh the Royall Famliy when I cannot Otherwise serve them never thinking my selfe any wayes absolved from the observance I owed my Soveraigne her Majestie all the bloud Royall by the difference of Religion HAving Sr thus given you the Trouble of so particular an account of my selfe deportment from the time that wee were first allarumm'd with the news of the wicked intentions of the Dutch to invade vs home to this present day I thinke my selfe no lesse obliged to give you some Information Concerning my present Temper of mind future Intentions And which I am the more willing to embrace this Opportunity of doing by Reason my infirmities of Body do in such sort increase that I have small reason to immagine that I shall bee a long lived man they administring to mee too many Grounds of Feare if I were to undergo no other hazard that I may scarce live to see my Freinds in England any more unlesse the air of France motion bee by Gods Blessing a meanes of my Recouery Cure of that disease which I have contracted by à sedentary life since my Installation into the Deanery of Durham And here I do in the first place declare with all sincerity that I am resolued by Gods Grace to live dye a true son of the Church of England Whereof King Charles was King Iames 2. not the Prince of Orange is under God supream Head Governour beleiving her to bee for the Purity of her Doctrine the decent Regularity of her worship the wholesomnesse of her Discipline well executed the best and most Approaching to the Primitive Times of any Church in Reformed Christiendome And I do openly affirme to all the World that however her children or rather those who have pretended to bee soe have behaved themselves Either heretofore or of late to the scandall of the world Reproach of her Constitution I am assured she will bee found upon thorough and serious Examination A Church which doth not Countenance Rebellion or indeed any sin or wickednesse whatsoever I have given no just reason I thanke God to any to thinke mee of another Opinion And if some men have been soe uncharitable as to Censure mee for ever deviating from her it hath been only for such Carriage of mine as may best demonstrate that I am A right Genuine thorough paced tho very feeble Member of Her I meane for my Exact Conformity to constant Observation of the Excellent Rules of her Incomparable Liturgy without any variation and my Constant zeale in asserting the Kings Prerogative and her Excellent Doctrine of non-Resistance Subjection to Authority in both which perohance I have been thought sometimes a litle singular But if I have been soe I am sorry for it I meane that I should want company in so laudable Christian a Cause Practice For I must still affirme that the first is the Indispensable Duty of Every Church man and best meanes to preserve her the last which way soever it fled at the Prince of Oranges Invading England the very Flour and Glory of our Ch which neither losse of Estate nor life shall by the assistance of the Almighty cause mee to Renounce I do therefore humbly intreat your selfe and all my Relations no wise to suspect mee as if Wavering from my Obedience to my Mother the Church for my immoveable Adherence to the cause interest of the Father of our Country and my innate Abhorrence of Disputing Contesting or rudely Capitulating with my Prince even-then when hee commanded things very contrary to my sentiments which I did Judge not only inexpedient but prejudiciall to the Flourishing condition of our Church Had I fail'd as too many did in that Iuncture or in paying the very same duties ef Allegiance Honour to my Present Soueraigne When hee came to the Crowne as I had performed to the late King his Royall Brother my Gratious Master of Blessed memory because his present Majestie declared himselfe of the R. Cath. Religion I might indeed have been lyable to Censure for that was a bad mark of a son of the Church of England But God having enabled mee to Resist this Temptation which hath so mightily prevailed in the Nation I would not have you Feare that I shall bee Ouerthrowne by any other I am I confesse fled out of the Nation to assert the Cause of a R. Cath. Prince I live at present in à R. Cath. Country But sure I am that the right-Church of England Religion doth not only injoyne mee to do the first but considering the circumstances of England the neighbouring Protestant Countries at present to do the later And why I other loyall subjects should choose France rather than any other Nation to Reside in may quickly bee put out of dispute if our Censurers would bee pleased to consider how kindly the most Christian King received his Majesty of England and doth still entertaine those who have Evidenced their Fidelity to him as also reflect on the innate Civilily Hospitality of the French Nation towards strangers never more Visible than in this time of Distress when all are Wellcome espetially English men unlesse they are conceived to bee Spyes or Creatures of the Prince of Orange or other their Enimies As for my own particular Common Justice doth Oblige mee to acknowledge that I meet whith as much Curtisy now in France among the R. Catholicks as I have done heretofore among the Protestants And am permitted to live as quietly and securely tho I do no wayes diâ—oâ—ne my Religion as any of their own Nation THis breif declaration I have made will suffice I hope to assure all my Freinds in England of my stedfastnesse in the Excellent Religion of my Fore-Fathers The next duty incumbent on mee will be to give my Family you our Cheif some fresh assurance that I am by the Grace of God Resolued to endeavour for the future as I have begun
to infuse into all persons committed to his Charge and also that he is not asham'd to proclaim to all the world in spight of the Censures he mett with all that he did doth hold the following Queres in the affirmative being of opinion that to hold them otherwise is to place some of the King's Supremacy in the People An ADDRESS vvhich the Dean of Durham sent to his Majestie speedily after the Prince of Orange landed upon his Brethen their Refusall to joyne vvith him because the Superiour Clergy had not Addtess'd before to shevv his Abhorrance of that Unnaturall Invasion vvhich Address vvas intercepted by the Lord Lumley other Lords vvho had seiz'd on York as mention'd page 3. To the King 's most excellent Majestie The Hearty Humble Addresse of your Majestie 's ever loyall and faithfull Subject Servant the Dean of Durham MAY it please your Sacred Majestie In time of an Invasion as in a common Inundation or Calamity by fire VVhen every body is bound in duty to preserve the House Citty or Country vvhereof he is a member vvithout usuall ceremony or compliment to Superior or Equalls I do judge it an Indispensable Duty of every Faithfull right Loyall subject to hasten to assist his Soveraigne vvith his purse as vvell as his prayers to the utmost of his povver ability therefore not daring to stay till all my Betters have given me example in Addressing before me or all my inferiour Brethren have agreed on a forme to Address vvith me I do heartily offer to your Majesty all that I have to spare for your present service thinking nothing mine ovvn in such a time of danger but vvhat is sufficient to suffice nature Assuring you vvithall that I do not only from the very bottome of my soule Abhorre Detest this Treacherous Vnnaturall Invasion of the Prince of Orange together vvith all the other VVicked Rebellious Bloody Designes of his Adherents vvhether Enemies at home or abroad and more particularly of those among us vvho have lately revolted from their Allegiance but do vvith great Indignation Renounce all manner of Violence Force Contempt of Authority offer'd to your Sacred Person or Government either by the Rabble the very dregâ—â— of the Mobile in the Citty as vvell as Rebells in the Field Conceiving gs a great sin to use any Compulsive Arguments to Constreine or Terrify Gods Vice-gerent into a Compliance vvith the VVill Desires of his subjects be they never so much for the good of himselfe Church or Kingdome having learnt in the Communion of my Mother the Church of England vvherein I am firmly resolv'd to live dye other principles than to teach my Supreme or any of my Superiours vvhat He or They ought to do vvith a svvord in my hand or compell a Soveraigne Monarch vvhether he vvill or no to do his duty gratifie his people sooner than he is inclin'd or his ovvn Necessity vvhereof he is the best Iudge vvill permit Satisfying myselfe most thank fully vvith the repeated assurance vvhich yeur Majesty hath already given of our Religion Lavvs Libertiesâ— together vvith all your past present Gratious Condescentions to remove the Fears Iealousie of your people Resolving to stay your leasure for the Calling of a Parliament all other means methods vvhich are in your Majesties ovvn choice for the securing your ovvn Royall Person or Establishment of your Government in Church or State. Nov. 27. 88. DENIS GRAINVILLE Dean of Durham QVERES Put by the Dean of Durham to some Young Clergy men to ansvver privately in his ovvn Study near about the time his Majesty sent forth an order to read his Declaration for liberty of Conscience vvhich being treacherously stolen avvay or falsely transcrib'd upon the interception of a letter to a Friend vvere dispers'd canvass'd up and dovvn the Coffee-Houses of London other parts of England as mention'd pag. 7. and are for that reason printed 1. Whether a Subject is not bound to comply vvith his Prince in every Command or Reasonable Intimation of his pleasure vvherein he is not in Conscience bound to the contrary 2 Whether a Subject is not bound to comply vvith his Prince in some things vvhich he conceives not only inexpedient but such as may tend to the Prejudice of the Flourishing condition of the Church provided the Being of the Church be secure if a lavvfull Prince of a Different Religion doth absolutely command them vvill not be satisfied vvithout Compliance vvith such Command 3. Whether the Church of England vvas not an establish'd Church before the enacting of the Penall Lavvs If so vvhether it is not better to comply vvith his Majesty in consenting to take avvay those Penall Lavvs vvhich his Majesty desires to be abrogated than hazard the Being of our Church by provoking the King on vvhose Favour vvee depend FINIS TO THE BISHOP OF DURHAM MY LORD So Suddain and violent a separation betwixt a Bishop and his Dean as hath been occasion'd betwixt your Lordship my selfe by our late stupendiouâ— Revolution is a matter of too great importance to be pass'd over in silence by one who was driven from his station by the impetuosity of that dreadfull storm which lately fell on and overthrew our Church and State. I conceive it therefore my duty to informe your Lordship not only where but what I am in this age of mutability which hath produced I think almost all kind of changes among men of every Quality Degree Calling but that which Doctour B. speaks of in his letters concerning his travells into Italy I mean the change of sex I need not my Lord give You any particular account of my behaviour or usage in England after your Lordship was call'd up to London about Michaelmass last or of the manner of my Escape since your Lordship was certified by letters from my selfe in the months of Oct and Nov last of most matters of moment relating to the Church and County of Durham tho I had the honour satisfaction of receiving an answer to few of them and may come to the knowledge of other things by the relation of my deportment which I have publish'd in my printed letter to my Brother the Earle of Bathe whereto I crave leave to refert your Lordship all who are inquisitive after me I shall only embrace this occasion solemnely publickly to assure your Lordship in generall that I did faithfully and with as much punctuallity as I was able discharge those Trusts which were committed to me in every one of the places and offices which I had the honour to beare under your Lordship maintain'd my Poste in your Absence not withstanding mighty discouragements till it was not possible for me any longer to strive against that Torrent which had hurried all matters in that other parts of the Nation into great disorder confusion When I saw there was no possible means left for me but to
power which had been before exercised but from the utmost malice of all it 's worst Adversaries who were watching to devour her The wretched Requitall of God's mercy Love made to Heaven by the most Real I fear none can excuse themselves as well as pretended Friends of Crown Myter in repaying such unexpressible Bounty with Contempt and Ingratitude at last the most deplorable Folly Madness of the People of England in being catch'd by nay running into the very same Snares wherein they had been once before intangled by the Subtilty of the Devil almost to their utter Destruction The recalling to mind thorough Consideration I say of such the like passages should have made us methinks wise enough to have avoided in due season the same Trap which was again laid for us into which we are a second time fallén At least one would guesse or else we are become perfectly stupid insensible should awake every one to look to his After-Game for fear we may be remedilessly depriv'd of the remaining part of our Felicity which is bound up in the life of our distress'd Soveraigne his legitimate Issue by our gratious Queen-Consort who hath evidenced her selfe in these former innumerable Troubles of our afflicted thrice banisht Prince a notable Example of Submission Patience who ought to be for being made by God the happy Instrument of bringing us the Blessing of a hopefull Heir Male for ever Dear to the English Nation all faithfull Subjects to the Crown of England If such extraordinary Dealings of the God of Heaven varied to every man's capacity condition If neither God's speaking by a still voice nor in the VVhirlevvind neither by the Sunshine of mercyes nor the Thunder of his Judgements that dreadfull Clap whereinto the late black Clouds driven into England out of Holland broke very fatally to the unhinging of the whole Fabrick of our Government both in Church State will reclaime us make us sensible of our most real Interest Happyness in a most desireable wéll establisht Monarchy Episcopacy a gratious Prince according to the heart's wish of every right loyall son of the Church of England save that he doth not ptofess our Religion nor reduce us to that intire obedience submission to the King and Church which the wise dispensations of a loving long-suffering God seem above other things by many repeated Summonses loudly to call for there remains nothing but a Fearfull looking for of Iudgement I know no Salve for our sore nor can discover any thing which can mollify such stony hearts or mortify such corrupt natures that have lamentably defeated our heavenly Father in all his methods to do good unto us save us And I who have never been all that know me must confess a man of excessive fear jealousy as to the Publick must sink down into dispaire conclude that the people of England the other Day an object of envy to all the Nations round about us are signally mark'd out for God's displeasure will be made a standing Monument of his Wrath to all succeding Ages But I shall not detaine You longer with Reflections on the State of England It will be a Duty more incumbent on me to consider the Circumstances of Durham therein those of the Cathedrall Church my speciall more particular Charge wherein I have been by the Favour of my King rather than my own merit set to Preside And indeed I cannot thoroughly reflect on that Church Citty wherein I have by God's permission the Kings kindness had the honour for the last 27. years to be dignified without melting into Tears To consider that the Bishoprick Cathedrall Church of Durham which had so well approv'd themselves both to his late present Majesty usually exceeded others in expressions of Loyalty should now lye undistinguishable incorporated into the Mass of Rebellion which the wise just God is pleas'd to permit to oppress the whole Land peirces my very Soule It was one of the most painfull mortifications I ever met with the weeke before my Departure to discerne my selfe deserted by all the Citty-Clergy in my honest zeal for the righteous Cause of my Soveraigne In such sort as not to discover then on the place any one Ecclesiastick neither in the Cathedrall nor any Parochial Church or Chappell with in the Precincts of that Citty who had the courage at that juncture to own openly either in the Pulpit or in his Conversation his oppress'd Prince's Interest and Honour by shewing just Indignation against that Treasonable Attempt which was then insolently made against his Crowne Dignity in reading publickly with great formality the Rebellious paper mention'd in this former letters Tho every man who was not a mere Ideote must comprehend that that very Act countenanced was in effect the pulling up the sluce letting in a Stream of Rebellion to overflow the whole County This was I declare to me a mighty exercise of Patience did among other Pressures which possibly contributed much to my crazy condition last Winter heavily afflict me But when I look farther at this day regard the State Ecclesisiastick of the whole County discover but three of all my Brethren of the Clergy through the whole Bishoprick of Durham as I am made beleive by Report who have had either the Integrity or Courage to stand their Ground against a new unlawfull Oath of Allegiance to a Prince set up by the abhorr'd treachery unheard of Ingratitude of the People Subjects who have no authority in our anciently Hereditary Realm to dispose of the Crown I am above measure astonish'd overwhelmed with greif Which greif is unexpressibly augmented when I consider that the members of that Body or Community whereof I have the honour to be Head have incurr'd the same Guilt And those Eminent Persons which as Salt by their Examples ought to have seasoned the whole Diocess are rendred uncapable to reprove their Inferiours reprehend the sins of the Times Alas if Resistance of the higher powers be by some Moderne Divines Distinctions refin'd into a Vertue is Perjury no sin If the Sacred Authority of our Earthly God the stile in Sripture allow'd to a Lavvfull Soveraigne be fallen into such deplorable contempt among Subjects that there is little Regard given either to their Promises or Commands is the Majesty of the God of Heaven become so mean cheap that men nay Divines dare cancell the Obligation of an Oath And the calling God to witness the truth of what we promise become void of no effect as soon as our Interest tempt us to break it If so then farewell all Religion nay Conversation and Commerce among men If the Bonds of a Sacred Oath are not sufficient to hold men surely nothing can The Evills Mischiefs which must unavoidably attend a sin so universally committed through
to speak out have to their everlasting shame scandalously neglected And by the neglect whereof in a word have betrayed their Mother the Church of England the Head of Reformed Christendom A very Odd kind of way to accomplish what people pretend the Support of the Protestant Religion DIRECTIONS VVhich Dr. Granville Archdeacon of Durham Rector of Sedgefeild Easington enjoins to be observ'd by the Curates of those his Parishes given them in charge at Easter visitation held at Sedgefield in the yeare 1669. THAT the Mattens Even-Song shall be according to the Rubrick said dayly in the Chancells of each of his Parish-Churches throughout the yeare vvithout the least Variation That the houres for dayly Prayer on VVorking-dayes shall be six in the morning six in the evening as the most convenient for labourers men of business Except as folloveth On all Vigills Holy-day-Eves as also on all Saturday-afternoons which anciently were half-holy-dayes three of the clock shall be the houre for Evening-Prayers On all wensday friday-mornings both throughout Advent all Lent and on the three Ember-Dayes in each Ember-week the hour shall be nine On the Rogation-Dayes one houre at least earlier by reason of the Perambulation That allvvayes as nine of the clock three of the clock-prayers aforesaid vvhen there shall be some additionary exercise of Devotion requiring a greater number than ordinary tvvo bells shall chime to intimate the same to the People That at fix of the clock-prayers one bell only shall toll beginning a quarter of an hour before That there shall be allvvayes Catechisings after the second lesson on sunday and Holy-day-Afternoons vvith some explanation of the Church-Catechisme after the third collect lighten our Darkness unless there be some exposition of the Scripture or Rubricks some profitable exhortation or discourse de tempere dravvn from the service of the church or else that the 39 Articles of Religion or Canons are to be read according to Order That one quarter of an hour is sufficient for such Exposition Exhortation or Discourse that it never shall exceed an halfe hour That on all aforesaid dayes vvhen there are prayers at nine in the morning tvvo bells chime there ought to be some additionary exposition or discourse to the people if de tempore the better vvhich ought not to exceed the time appointed for the explanation of the Catechisme That there shall be sermons on all Festivalls or Holy dayes Except there be an Homily vvhich shall not be oftenner than to countenance the book or assert the King s supremacy according to the Canon vvhich may very commodiously be done in some of the Homilies Concerning Obedience or against Disobedience being the very vvords of the Church vvhich sermons shall never exceed an halfe hour That the sermons even on Sundayes shall be shorten'd to an halfe hour vvhen there happen's any concurrent offices vvhich require it but never the least omission of one tittle of the service or variation from the Rubricks That the Curate vvhen he bids Christmass Easter or Pentecost vvith their Festivalls as also vvhen he gives notice of Ember-vveek Passion-vveek or Perambulation on Rogation-dayes or other times extraordinary he shall come dovvn to the desk after the Niceene Creed do it in a more solemne manner than vvhen he bids the ordinary Holy-dayes at the table making a short speech de tempore to quicken the People's Devotion That on Advent-sunday Quinquagesima-sunday he shall do the like to prepare the People for the Devotion of the follovving holy seasons That besides the severall Sacraments at Christmass Easter-day Holy-Thursday Pentecost there shal be at least 5 other Sacraments vvhich Sacraments shall be administer'd on the severall dà yes here nominated viz on Nevv year's-day on the first sunday in Lent on the first Sundays in July October November That Easter shall be the time alvvayes for admission of Youth first at the Communion vvho are never to be admitted till they have repair'd upon summons to the minister to receive private instruction on vvenssday Fryday-mornings after service during Lent. That the young people be confirm'd after due instruction before they receive if possible but vvhen that cannot be contriv'd by reason of the Bishop's absence or othervvise that they their friends be enjoyn'd faithfully to send them to the first confirmation vvhereof they shall have notice That none shall be admitted to the Sacrament till 16 years of age unless the minister shall see extraordinary cause for the same That the 39 articles Cannons be read according to Injunction That the Canon about Excommunication be read excommunicates denounced according to the said Canon That his Majestie 's Directions to preachers be read in the Congregation at least once in the yeare vvhich I by my ovvn authoriâ—y take upon mee to injoyne as Ordinary of the PLACE That vvhen Citations Excommunications or Absolutions are read the Curate shall consider vvhether he may by any occasionnall reflection out of the Desk or from the pulpit improve the same to the People to the deterring of them from the like offeâ—ces for vvhich the persons mention'd in the said Acts of Court are proceeded against That the Curate do summon the Church-vvardens tvvice at least bevveen visitation visitation to read consider the visitation-articles to quicken assist them in the due discharges of their offices That he doth in particular frequently mind the Church-vvardens to go out of the Church at convenient times for the prevention of disorders in tovvn and ale-houses during SERVICE That the Curate takes a particular notice of the Absence of Church-vvardens from the Church on sundays festivalls and signify the same to the Rector their Archdeacon That vvhen the Church-vvardens are negligent suffer irregular behaviour during Divine service that he admonish them of such their neglects cause them to go out of their seats sometimes in the very time of service to mind people publickly of their disorder so shame them into a compliance if milder private admonitions prove ineffectuall That the Curate makes enquiry oftentimes of the Church-vvardens vvhat persons are sick or detain'd from the Church by any infirmity people being negligent to informe the Minister voluntarily to repair to them accordingly tho they should not give notice to assist them in reference to their spirituall estate That the Curate shall on sundayes Holy-dayes at least observe a course of personnal application according to his promise at ordination to the vvhole as vvell as sick visiting after evening-prayer one family if not more on that account observing as far as hee shall be able the venerable Mr George Herbert's method rule to that purpose prescribed in his Country-Parson or Character of an holy Preist VVhich book as I recommend to all the Clergy in my Jurisdictions so do I more especialy to my Curates for their rule direction in order to the exemplary discharge of