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A33098	A sermon preached at Edinburgh, in the East-Church of St. Giles, upon the 30th of January, 1689 being the anniversary of the martyrdome of King Charles the first / by James Canaries ...	Canaries, James.	1689 (1689)	Wing C423; ESTC R20246	68,911	94

and ye shall be hated of all men for my Names sake but he that endureth to the end shall be saved but when they persecute you in this city flee ye into another the disciple is not above his master nor the servant above his lord it is enough for the disciple that he be as his master and the servant as his lord if they have called the master of the house Beelzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold Fear them not therefore and fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell whosoever therefore shall confess me before men him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven but whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my father which is in heaven from vers 17. to 33. Whosoever will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me for whosoever will save his life shall lose it but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospels the same shall save it for what shall it profite a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul Mark 8. vers 34 35 36. If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my disciple whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath he cannot be my disciple Luke 14. from vers 26. to 33. And in consequence of this Doctrine he severely rebuked the two Disciples James and John when they would have had him command fire to come down from heaven to consume the greatest Hereticks and Schismaticks that were then in the Jewish Church and who denyed him enterance in their Village and would not receive him because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem Luke 9. vers 51. to 54. Telling those Apostles vers 55. Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of for the son of man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them Therefore also did he use the gentlest method of enforcing his Religion upon his Followers If any man will be my disciple If any man will come after me And when the Jews did persecute him and sought to slay him John 5. vers 16. and forward He took no other course to oppose them but only to justifie himself by the most convincing Arguments and Demonstrations from the Power of working Miracles that was so visibly lodged in him from the excellency of his Doctrine and from his having accomplished the Prophesies that the Scriptures of the Old Testament contain'd of the Messias to come Thus the Apostle St. Paul recommendeth to the Galatians Chap. 6. vers 1. To restore those that have been overtaken in a fault in the spirit of meekness considering themselves lest they also be tempted But we shall hardly cast up any place of the New Testament even at random but we shall find something to this purpose there being nothing that goeth more universally through the whole Doctrine of Christianity as a Gold Vein doth through the Ore than that Christians should suffer any thing for their Religion before they should take up Arms in defence of it Yet lest Precept and Teaching had not been enough to have born in this Christian Duty upon us we have the most uncontrovertible Pattern set before our eyes that can possibly take with those who are not resolved in spight of all the methods of Conviction to stand out in behalf of their own Opinion and Humour And whatever has been said hitherto of our Saviours Example does in an eminent manner speak to the purpose in this place And here the only proper and true gloss can be given of those words which were before cited from St. Peter For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously St. Peter 1 Epist Chap. 2. vers 21 22 23 Neither can any tollerable Sense be put upon that Rebuke this Apostle got for offering to defend his Master by the Sword nor upon that Answer our Lord gave Pilat My kingdom is not of this world Unless besides all the respective Circumstances our Saviour stood in it shall further be granted that he was bound up by the very tenor of his own Religion neither to call for Legions of Angels nor yet to command Troups of his Servants to fight in his defence For it is quite unaccountable how one that can rescue himself by a proportionable force can with any justice yield up himself to a cruel and barbarous Execution tho inflicted by the Magistrat if there were not some other more sacred tye upon him to do so than what can flow from the Civil Constitution of any Nation And there is as little ground to think that the Son of God would merely to undergo a Death for Mankind have choos'd to do it in a way that had made it look so much like a Self-Murder that the most ingenious Wit of this World could not have even plausibly excus'd it from being one without his Sufferings had at once been in conformity to his Religion and to set a Copy to his Followers too Wherefore as he submitted to an unjust Sentence because he would not step out of the Circle of his Private Condition and as at that time he did this to fulfil the Scriptures So that which then rendered this to be lawful in him was only the Doctrine which himself had taught the suffering for Righteousness sake And tho the great Errand for which he came into the World was to redeem the Inhabitants of it and so to die for them Yet all things relating to his Crucifixion were so brought about by the Providence of God that the King of Kings died as a single Subject and the Author of our Faith as a Christian And thus his not resisting the most violent Oppression and Tyranny that ever was acted upon the Earth when it was in his Power to have done it became to be lawful in him or rather to be agreeable to that Holiness which was essential to his Person tho otherwise we had been left either to search out an Apology for it but in vain or else profoundly to adore those hidden Counsels which Angels could never have pryed into And certainly either of these seems not well to quadrate with those Scriptures that have been Cited and many others also which are obvious to every Body that is but moderatly conversant in the Volumn of them Nothing then can be more contradictory to the true Spirit of our Christian Religion than is that fierce that virulent that

way but especially when Both is but at the Venture and This at a certain Remove has a more promising countenance than their present Possession makes a shew of There are besides so many strange Vicissitudes and Alterations incident to Humane Affairs as frequently afford occasion to those who are lying in wait for it to set their fore-thought Conspiracies a-work and to burst out into all the Insolence that is needful for first disturbing and then overturning those who are above them Now the secret Thoughts and under-hand Clubbings and Caballings of Men are not immediatly expos'd to the Lash of the Law and all the Insurrections in any Nation spring from Plots and private Intrigues Wherefore as there will ever be those whose Passions will instigate to mischief and whom favourable Conjunctures will invite to it So that Government can never be sufficiently provided for which has not Shakles upon the very Minds of Mankind as well as upon their Hands and Locks no less to the Doors of their Retirements than to those of their Prisons And therefore unless a Civil Constitution could reach further than the Publick and notour actions of Men it must be acknowledged to come vastly short of what we are seeking Add to all this that every villany every stroak at the Government would be no less lawful than it was prosperous And so nothing could Cajole and Flatter to the hope of Success but what would proportionably encourage the blackest designs and undertakings Wherefore without Conscience all must depend upon a meer May-be and good luck But that once concurring with the Law of Nature and that of the Government the Hell it self within us must break forth and its Furies carry along its Confusions with them before ever the Soveraign Power can be shaken and far less trip'd up For Conscience makes us content in every Condition and not to be still at Grasping more than is convenient for that Station Providence has assigned us It ingadges us to put off all manner of Wrath Anger and Malice to forbear one another and to forgive our very Enemies to do good for evil And so Transforms us from the Vulture to the Dove sets our over-boiling and fermented Blood into an orderly Motion and Suppresses all those Storms within us that are so apt to bluster out in Tempest Thunder towards others It teaches us not to care for the morrow and to take no thought what we shall eat drink or put on and thereby contracts those desires which push us on to the most irregular Methods for satisfying them And it confines us to our own business at home that we be not Bussie-bodies or medale in other mens affairs And therefore checks all those first inclinations to vanity that turn us out a rambling and let us seldom return till we have gone about some hazardous Exploit or other And thus it prevents the earliest beginnings of those Passions that are wont to shock Common-wealths and upon that account it gives more security to These than any after Remedies can well be suppos'd to do But it is also Conscience that penetrats into the very inmost corners and recesses of our hearts that not only Prescribeth to but also over-awes all our thoughts and most obscure Actions And therefore it straitens us so that we must either manage our selves according to the Rules set to us by our Religion and so according to the Eternal Measures of Justice and Righteousness or else desie God Almighty and all the Devils in the Bottomless pit too And however many Men may dare to out brave the utmost Vengeance that can threaten their Bodies from the torturing Instruments of an Executioner Yet few are to be found of such a Sanguine Temer but that the fearful expectation of Judgement from Heaven upon their Souls will Damp and Appal them will make their honest Blood to shiver shatter all their Bones upon one another provided their carreer be not so very Furious as not to allow them one moment for a Serious and Sedate Reflection Now the great business of all Supream Power is to procure Obedience and Submission and the great Springs upon which that moves are Hope and Fear And consequently that will always prove most effectual to all the Designs of Government which proposeth the most transcendent Rewards and Punishments and which extends those most to all the Capacities we possess as to all the Faculties by which we can either Merit or become Guilty And so when Conscience obliges to no more but a short and yet peaceable and quiet life in all godliness and honesty under those whom Providence has plac'd over us and when it ensures a Crown of Glory afterwards for an orderly Subjection here and a Lake of Fire and Brimstone in the World to come for having embroil'd and confounded the Affairs of this when I say Conscience does so what can be more proper to answer the end of Government than it is In a word by Conscience our Alledgance is equally secured to our Soveraign and to our God and we cannot Rebel against the Powers on Earth but we must Flie in the Face of Those in Heaven also Our Souls are the Pawn of our Subjection and we cannot incroach upon This but we must forefeit That with all the Felicity we can ever lay claim to when this World and all the Glory of it has drawn its Skreen upon us And beyond this the Wit of Man cannot invent any more pressing and inviolable●●ty But as Conscience does thus restrain us from all Assaults upon the Soveraign So when one has fortun'd to prevail over him to Justle him out of his Rightful Possession and to usurp all the Power himself even then Conscience will attack him It will force the Scepter from that hand that has unjustly snatcht hold of it that it may be returned to the true Owner At least it will convert that Scepter unto a Mace of Iron to break his Sleep who violently retains it to powder his pleasantest Dreams and to crush his quiet in pieces And this was the Fate of that horrid Usurper Oliver Cromwel after he had Seized the Inheritance of the Royal Martyr of this day For it was observed by all about him especially that year before his death what Quackings and Convulsions he suffered in his Conscience and under what dreadful terrours he laboured doubling and re-doubling his Guards as if he had felt himself under Cains fears that every one that should find him would kill him And such Palpable Indications there were that the Worm that never dies had already begun to gnaw upon his soul to torment him before hand That our most extended Charity toward him will allow him no milder thoughts than that his Resigning the Power he had Sacrilegiously made himself Master of on Earth was at once to leave it for him to whom it did justly belong and to undergo the Slavery of another Region more suiteable to his Crimes and to his Genius too This I