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religion_n	king_n	law_n	subject_n	4,732	5	6.6515	4	false

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A45251	The rebels text opened, and their solemn appeal answered being a sermon preach'd in the parish church of Up-Lime, on the thanksgiving-day for our wonderful deliverance from the late horrid rebellion, being Sunday, July 26. 1685 / by Charles Hutton ...	Hutton, Charles, b. 1652 or 3.	1686 (1686)	Wing H3840; ESTC R8588	18,102	34

same is next to that which is unpardonable and therefore St. Peter left that great Impostor in a very doubtful and almost desperate condition affording him no other hopes or comfort but this Perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity ver 22 23. 'T is a bold attempt to play with Lightning or face the Thunder or run upon a Cannons mouth ready to be discharged T is more daring and dangerous to mock God and gild the blackest Villanies with the specious fringes of the glory of God and the Protestant Religion whereas the glory of God was never more sullied and the Protestant Religion never more barbarously handled than in the House of such pretended Friends who as Brutus did Caesar have given it more mortal Wounds than all its other Enemies round about But such Incendiaries as these who bring unholy Fire to Gods Holy Altar instead of burning that must expect to perish in the Flames themselves have kindled For God will be sanctified in them that come nigh him and will be glorified before all the people Lev. 5.3 And my Brethren 't is fit God should be glorified by us at this time as for all his other mercies so for that great mercy which we commemorate this day and which comprehends so many under it no less than the entire defeat and total overthrow of our implacable Enemies whose tender mercies are cruel no less than the preservation of our gracious King and all his Loyal Subjects of our Liberties and Properties our Lives and Fortunes our Laws and Religion from the hands of such desperate men as threatned to trample under feet and quite destroy them For it has pleased God and his Debtors we are for it to cross the bloody and treacherous designs of all those who bare an ill will to our Sion and to disappoint the wicked and crafty devices of an aspiring Absolon and conspiring Achitophel who impiously attempted to pull David from his Throne and to lay his honour in the dust it has pleas'd Almighty God and we are ever bound to bless him for it beyond the expectation of all and the belief too of many to put a sudden and happy end to a bloody and unnatural Rebellion which might have been prolong'd for many Years and wasted and worn us out to nothing and at last ended in the desolation of our Country and the translation of our Kingdom into the hands of some Foreign Power But in the midst of these heavy Judgments God was pleas'd to remember mercy and to think on the poor Church of England which he has redeem'd of old and so miraculously preserv'd ever since the first happy Reformation and to preserve and continue us Members of the same who after the manner which some call Heresy and others Superstition so worship the God of our Fathers Acts 24.14 So I pass from the second part viz. the Solemn Appeal to the third which is III. The supposition That if they were Rebels or Transgressors against the Lord that he would not save them If it be in rebellion or if in transgression against the Lord save us not this day These two Tribes and half were so far convinc'd of the horrid Sin of Rebellion whether it respect that which is made immediately against God or that which is rais'd against our lawful Prince that if they had been guilty of either they confess'd they deserv'd no mercy from the hands of God or Man And well might they think so if we consider the true nature of this sin and the indications of Gods wrath against it First If we consider the nature of Rebellion as it immediately respects God 't is a most enormous Crime no less than an endeavour to pull the Almighty from his Throne and seat our selves in it to wrest the Scepter out of his hand and take it into ours and in effect and as far as man is able to ungod the Deity And this was Lucifer's great sin too great to be forgiven for which he was thrown from the highest Heaven into the lowest Hell he was for invading the incommunicable Attributes and Prerogatives of God and for assuming that divine honour and glory which can be imparted to no Creature whatsoever as is plain from Isa 14.13 14. I will ascend into Heaven I will exalt my Throne above the Stars of God I will ascend above the heights of the Clouds I will be like the most high not like him in purity and holiness that he never aimed at but in Dominion and Majesty and that cast him into the bottomless Pit and continues him there to the Judgment of the great day Jude 6. And every wilful and presumptuous Sinner is such a kind of Rebel though not to that unpardonable degree his vitious Life is a perfect contradiction to Heaven and an open defiance to him that made him every sin he knowingly commits is as it were an Arrow shot against the Almighty and an audacious attempt to destroy his very being I will not allow the World to be made govern'd and judg'd by an All-wise and All-powerful God nor submit my self to any of his Laws to be rul'd and restrain'd by them but am resolv'd to live at large and as loosly as I please without God and without hope in the World This is the result of every obstinate Offenders Discourse this the genuine interpretation of all his wicked actions But besides this Rebellion against God there is another that comes but little short of it and that is Rebellion against our lawful Prince and this too is a sin of a deep dye and a malignant nature no less than an attempt to deface the Image and resist the Authority of God For as Kings Reign by his Power so they bear his stamp and for Subjects to invade either is in effect to offer violence to Heaven and fight against God himself as he that offers an indignity to a Viceroy does really affront the Sovereign that deputed him But the nature of this sin will best appear by surveying some evil properties that belong to it which are these First Rebellion contradicts the Principles of the Christian Religion and thwarts the practices of those holy and inspir'd men that first taught them look over all the sacred Books of the New Testament and search every Chapter and Verse in it from the beginning to the end and I am confident you will find no one thing more inculcated than Obedience unto Sovereign Princes and a quiet and peaceable submission to that Government under which we live I am confident you will find no one thing more expresly condemn'd and severely threatned than resisting the higher Powers and rising up in Arms against them Rom. 13.1 2 c. Tit. 3.1 1 Pet. 2.13 14. and several other places I have not now leisure to name and probably the reason may be this because all the other duties which concern God and our Neighbour depend