A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London at St. Mary le Bow, July 26, 1685, being the day of publick thanksgiving for his Majesties late victory over the rebels by John Scott ...
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A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London at St. Mary le Bow, July 26, 1685, being the day of publick thanksgiving for his Majesties late victory over the rebels by John Scott ...
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Smyth
Mayor
.
Jovis
xxx
.
die
Julii
,
1685.
Annoque
Regni
Regis
Jacobi
Secundi
Angl.
&c.
primo
.
THIS
Court
doth
desire
Dr
Scott
to
Print
his
Sermon
Preached
in
the
Parish
Church
of
S.
Mary
le
Bow
,
on
Sunday
last
,
before
the
Lord
Mayor
,
Aldermen
and
Citizens
of
this
City
.
Wagstaffe
.
August
10.
1685.
Imprimatur
.
Hen.
Maurice
,
Rmo
Dom.
W
mo
Cant.
Archipe
.
à
Sacris
.
A
SERMON
PREACHED
Before
the
Right
Honourable
THE
Lord
Mayor
AND
ALDERMEN
Of
the
CITY
of
LONDON
.
At
St.
Mary
le
Bow
,
July
26.
1685.
BEING
The
Day
of
Publick
Thanksgiving
for
His
MAJESTIES
late
Victory
over
the
REBELS
.
By
JOHN
SCOTT
,
D.
D.
Rector
of
St.
Peters
Poor
,
London
.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
R.
N.
for
Rob.
Horne
at
the
South
Entrance
of
the
Royal
Exchange
,
and
Walter
Kettilby
at
the
Bishop's
Head
in
St.
Paul's
Church-Yard
,
1685.
2
SAM
.
XVIII
.
28.
And
Ahimaaz
called
and
said
unto
the
King
,
All
is
well
.
And
he
fell
down
to
the
earth
upon
his
face
before
the
King
,
and
said
,
Blessed
be
the
Lord
thy
God
,
which
hath
delivered
up
the
men
that
lift
up
their
hand
against
my
Lord
the
King.
THIS
Ahimaaz
was
a
Soldier
under
Joab
,
in
the
battle
which
he
fought
with
Absalom
,
the
Rebellious
Son
of
his
too
kind
and
indulgent
Father
,
King
David
;
who
having
newly
pardon'd
him
that
unnatural
murder
of
his
brother
Amnon
,
and
received
him
into
grace
and
favour
,
and
furnished
him
with
a
plentiful
revenue
,
and
slendid
equipage
;
so
that
if
he
had
pleased
,
he
might
have
lived
in
peace
and
glory
,
and
been
a
comfort
to
his
Father
,
a
Patriot
to
his
Countrey
,
and
a
blessing
to
his
Family
:
and
after
he
had
finished
the
circle
of
a
happy
and
prosperous
life
,
might
have
gone
down
with
honour
to
his
grave
.
The
foolish
ungrateful
young
man
,
being
thereto
excited
,
partly
perhaps
by
the
insinuations
of
a
company
of
crafty
Male-contents
,
but
chiefly
by
his
own
Ambition
,
imbarques
himself
in
a
wicked
and
desperate
design
,
against
his
Father's
Life
and
Crown
;
in
order
whereunto
,
he
industriously
sets
himself
,
by
mean
and
poor
condescensions
,
to
cajole
and
inveagle
the
rude
and
giddy
Mobile
;
which
,
partly
by
declaiming
against
the
Male-administrations
of
his
Father's
Government
,
partly
by
promising
them
a
through
reformation
if
ever
he
arrived
to
be
a
Judge
in
Israel
,
he
at
length
accomplished
.
And
now
having
formed
to
himself
a
strong
and
numerous
party
,
he
gets
his
Fathers
leave
to
make
a
progress
to
Hebron
,
(
a
factious
town
without
doubt
,
and
it
lay
West-ward
of
Jerusalem
)
under
pretence
of
paying
a
Vow
there
;
for
so
Religion
is
the
usual
sham
of
Rebellion
:
where
being
arrived
with
200
men
out
of
Jerusalem
,
who
followed
him
blindfold
without
either
fear
or
wit
,
he
sends
for
one
Achitophel
,
who
had
been
a
Councellor
to
his
Father
,
but
at
this
time
,
as
it
seems
probable
,
was
discarded
the
Court
for
some
high
misdemeanour
:
this
canker'd
old
wretch
,
glad
of
the
opportunity
to
revenge
himself
upon
his
Master
,
immediately
joins
interests
with
his
undutiful
Son
,
and
thereby
increases
his
party
into
a
strong
and
numerous
Army
,
with
which
he
marches
against
his
King
and
Father
,
and
is
overthrown
in
a
pitch'd
battle
;
and
notwithstanding
his
Father's
orders
to
the
contrary
,
is
slain
by
the
hand
of
Joab
,
who
wisely
foresaw
that
David
could
never
hope
to
Raign
in
peace
so
long
as
the
Rebel
Absalom
was
alive
.
Hereupon
Ahimaaz
the
son
of
Zadock
,
a
valiant
Soldier
,
and
swift
and
nimble
foot-man
,
desires
Joab
his
General
that
he
may
be
the
messenger
of
the
good
tidings
to
the
King
;
but
Joab
having
a
kindness
for
the
man
,
and
wisely
considering
that
the
news
of
Absalom's
death
would
be
very
unwelcome
to
David
,
and
in
all
probability
transport
him
into
a
high
displeasure
,
and
so
prove
fatal
to
the
deliverer
;
at
first
refuses
to
let
him
go
,
and
in
his
room
sends
Cushi
,
who
was
either
a
common
or
a
foreign
Soldier
;
but
Ahimaaz
upon
his
importunate
desire
,
at
length
obtains
of
Joab
leave
to
follow
him
,
and
being
much
the
nimbler
,
out-runs
Cushi
,
and
being
arrived
into
the
King's
presence
,
cries
,
All
is
well
,
being
unable
either
through
excess
of
Joy
,
or
want
of
breath
to
express
his
message
at
lagre
:
after
which
having
recovered
himself
a
little
,
he
throws
himself
at
the
King's
feet
,
and
in
a
transport
of
Joy
and
Thanksgiving
,
thus
expresses
himself
,
Blessed
be
the
Lord
thy
God
which
hath
delivered
up
the
men
the
lift
up
their
hand
against
my
Lord
the
King.
In
choosing
which
words
for
my
Text
upon
this
joyful
occasion
,
God
knows
I
have
no
design
to
insult
and
trample
on
the
memory
of
that
wofully
mislead
and
unfortunate
Gentleman
,
who
was
Captain
of
that
late
black
Rebellion
,
the
happy
overthrow
and
conclusion
of
which
we
are
now
thankfully
commemorating
.
For
though
it
cannot
be
denied
,
but
that
his
unnatural
and
undutiful
behaviour
to
his
late
most
gracious
Father
and
Soveraign
,
did
but
too
justly
intitle
him
to
the
Name
and
Character
of
Absalom
;
and
that
his
Rebellion
against
,
Infidelity
to
,
and
barbarous
aspersions
of
his
present
Majesty
,
who
was
always
his
generous
Patron
and
Benefactor
,
do
but
too
deservedly
brand
him
the
perfidious
and
ungrateful
Absalom
:
yet
considering
the
Relation
he
bore
to
our
late
dear
Soveraign
of
ever
blessed
Memory
,
the
promising
blossom
of
his
Youth
,
before
it
was
blasted
with
wild
and
boundless
ambition
,
and
the
glorious
sphere
in
which
he
once
moved
,
where
,
had
he
not
aspired
to
the
Seat
of
the
Sun
,
he
might
have
shone
among
Stars
of
the
first
magnitude
,
and
shed
forth
a
benign
influence
upon
his
Country
and
Family
.
Considering
these
things
,
I
say
,
I
am
so
far
from
triumphing
on
his
ruine
,
that
I
heartily
lament
and
bewail
his
being
seduc'd
into
the
crimes
that
were
the
cause
of
it
,
and
detest
those
cursed
Achitophels
that
seduc'd
him
,
only
to
make
him
the
tool
of
their
own
dire
revenge
and
restless
ambition
:
and
if
God
so
please
,
may
that
same
Justice
which
hath
reach'd
him
,
lay
hands
on
them
,
and
by
a
yet
more
infamous
punishment
revenge
his
sin
and
ruin
on
their
heads
.
And
since
his
memory
cannot
live
with
honour
,
I
heartily
wish
it
might
dye
in
oblivion
,
that
so
having
paid
that
debt
which
Law
and
Justice
and
the
necessary
reasons
of
things
exacted
of
him
,
it
might
never
hereafter
be
remembred
against
him
,
how
desperately
he
broke
through
all
the
ties
of
Nature
,
Honour
,
Gratitude
and
Religion
,
to
precipitate
himself
into
a
shameful
and
untimely
fate
.
But
this
being
only
a
hopeless
wish
,
I
shall
in
pity
to
his
memory
,
forbear
running
the
odious
parallel
between
Absalom
and
him
,
through
all
the
black
circumstances
of
their
sin
and
punishment
,
having
said
enough
already
,
and
yet
no
more
than
what
was
necessary
,
to
explain
the
sutableness
of
the
Text
to
the
occasion
,
Blessed
be
the
Lord
thy
God
who
hath
delivered
up
the
men
that
lift
up
their
hand
against
my
Lord
the
King
:
In
which
words
there
are
two
things
observable
.
First
,
The
great
concern
and
interest
God
hath
in
the
overthrow
of
Rebels
,
It
is
he
that
delivers
'em
up
.
Secondly
,
The
great
cause
we
have
to
return
thanks
to
God
when
he
delivers
'em
up
.
I
shall
begin
with
the
first
od
these
,
viz.
The
great
concern
and
interest
God
hath
in
the
ovethrow
of
Rebels
,
It
is
he
who
delivers
'em
up
.
T
is
true
the
success
of
War
,
on
which
side
soever
it
lights
,
depends
upon
the
divine
Providence
,
which
having
the
disposal
of
all
events
,
whether
they
be
adverse
or
prosperous
,
turns
the
scale
of
victory
on
which
side
it
pleases
:
for
the
second
causes
upon
which
success
and
victory
ordinarily
depends
,
is
the
good
conduct
of
those
who
command
,
and
the
strength
and
courage
and
expertness
of
those
that
execute
;
all
which
are
under
the
command
and
sovereign
disposal
of
God
,
who
if
he
pleases
can
infatuate
the
wisest
and
most
skilful
Commanders
,
blindfold
their
judgments
,
confound
their
reason
,
and
turn
their
wisdom
into
folly
,
so
that
they
shall
run
quite
counter
to
their
own
designs
,
and
blow
up
themselves
with
their
own
trains
;
who
if
he
doth
not
infatuate
'em
,
can
yet
frustrate
their
wisdom
,
and
by
a
thousand
accidents
which
they
can
neither
foresee
nor
prevent
,
baffle
and
defeat
their
most
prudent
and
promising
designs
;
who
if
he
pleases
can
divide
and
break
the
strength
of
the
most
numerous
,
dissolve
and
confound
the
order
of
the
best
disciplined
,
melt
and
emasculate
the
courage
of
the
most
resolute
Armies
;
and
having
the
sovereign
disposal
of
all
the
second
causes
of
success
in
his
hands
,
't
is
he
alone
that
can
decide
the
Battle
and
determine
the
hovering
Victory
to
which
side
he
pleases
;
so
that
whether
it
lights
on
the
right
or
wrong
side
,
on
the
usurping
Rebels
,
or
lawful
Prince's
Crest
,
't
is
by
his
all-disposing
direction
and
appointment
:
for
though
the
horse
is
prepared
for
battle
,
and
secondary
causes
concur
as
means
and
instruments
,
yet
victory
is
of
the
Lord
,
Prov.
21.31
.
And
though
sometimes
for
wise
and
righteous
ends
he
permits
unjust
Arms
to
prosper
and
triumph
over
a
Righteous
cause
,
of
which
we
have
a
woful
instance
in
our
memory
;
yet
ordinarily
and
regularly
he
declares
on
the
righteous
side
,
and
awards
success
according
to
the
Justice
of
the
cause
.
For
Battle
is
an
appeal
to
God
,
in
which
the
contending
Parties
joyn
issue
to
put
their
case
into
his
hands
,
and
refer
the
justice
of
their
cause
to
his
award
and
determination
;
and
being
hereby
constituted
the
sole
arbitrator
between
'em
,
he
ordinarily
decides
the
victory
according
to
the
right
of
the
case
;
and
,
unless
there
be
some
very
great
reason
moving
him
to
the
contrary
,
awards
it
to
the
juster
side
.
They
therefore
who
make
and
unjust
War
,
appeal
to
God
in
a
wrong
cause
;
and
therefore
have
all
the
reason
in
the
world
to
expect
that
he
will
decide
against
'em
,
and
finally
award
the
victory
to
their
enemies
.
'T
is
true
,
God
is
not
obliged
in
justice
,
always
to
determine
the
Victory
to
the
Just
cause
:
for
there
may
be
just
reasons
,
and
many
times
there
are
,
moving
him
to
the
quite
contrary
.
Sometimes
it
may
be
more
for
the
publick
good
,
of
which
he
is
the
great
conservator
,
that
this
particular
righteous
cause
should
miscarry
,
than
that
it
should
prosper
and
succeed
;
in
which
case
it
's
but
reasonable
that
he
should
rather
permit
a
particular
mischief
,
than
hinder
a
publick
convenience
.
Sometimes
a
good
cause
may
be
more
effectually
advanc'd
by
a
present
overthrow
,
than
by
a
victory
;
and
when
this
happens
,
it
's
a
good
reason
why
God
should
at
present
pronounce
the
sentence
of
victory
on
the
contrary
side
.
Sometimes
it
may
be
necessary
to
deny
success
to
those
who
have
the
righteous
cause
on
their
side
,
in
order
to
the
crowning
it
with
some
greater
blessing
;
and
to
take
away
a
less
good
,
to
make
room
for
a
greater
,
is
such
an
exchange
,
as
is
far
from
Robbery
.
And
lastly
,
Sometimes
for
the
sins
of
those
on
the
right
side
may
be
such
as
do
render
it
not
only
fit
,
but
necessary
for
God
to
make
'em
examples
to
the
world
,
of
his
righteous
severity
.
And
what
greater
severity
can
he
express
,
than
to
abandon
a
good
cause
,
and
rather
permit
it
to
fall
to
the
ground
,
than
see
it
upheld
and
supported
by
impious
and
prophane
hands
?
But
though
there
are
these
,
and
sundry
other
just
reasons
why
God
should
not
always
award
success
and
victory
to
the
right
side
;
yet
doubtless
he
ordinarily
doth
so
:
for
all
war
is
either
between
one
Prince
and
Nation
and
another
,
or
else
between
Princes
and
rebellious
Subjects
.
Now
as
for
the
first
,
it
is
in
most
cases
impossible
for
us
certainly
to
determine
which
of
the
two
parties
hath
the
rightful
cause
;
because
we
do
not
understand
the
pretensions
on
both
sides
,
nor
are
we
capable
of
judging
of
those
nice
reasons
,
and
intricate
circumstances
upon
which
their
opposite
claims
depend
;
and
therefore
though
we
through
our
pity
and
ignorance
together
,
do
commonly
pronounce
the
vanquished
cause
the
best
,
and
upon
that
account
do
foolishly
murmur
at
the
decisions
of
Providence
,
as
if
they
were
unjust
and
unequal
;
yet
God
,
who
sees
through
all
the
circumstances
of
things
,
doth
many
times
most
certainly
know
the
contrary
,
and
so
determines
the
case
contrary
to
our
blind
pity
and
ignorance
,
according
to
his
own
infallible
judgment
:
and
had
we
but
the
understanding
of
God
,
I
make
no
doubt
but
we
should
find
many
of
those
prosperous
causes
which
we
condemn
for
unjust
,
to
be
most
just
and
righteous
,
and
be
fully
satisfied
,
that
the
awards
of
Providence
in
the
case
are
much
more
equal
than
we
imagine
.
But
then
,
as
for
the
other
sort
of
war
,
viz.
That
between
Princes
and
their
rebellious
Subjects
,
it
's
evident
that
Providence
doth
much
more
constantly
decide
the
success
to
the
just
and
righteous
cause
,
and
give
judgment
on
the
side
of
the
injured
Prince
,
against
the
Rebellious
and
usurping
Subjects
.
For
if
you
consult
History
,
you
will
find
,
that
though
for
just
and
righteous
ends
,
God
hath
sometimes
permitted
Rebellions
to
succeed
;
yet
where
he
hath
prospered
one
,
he
hath
usually
cursed
and
blasted
twenty
.
And
indeed
,
since
War
,
as
was
before
observed
,
is
an
appeal
to
God
,
the
great
Arbitrator
of
all
events
;
there
are
peculiar
reasons
why
he
should
more
constantly
declare
himself
for
the
right
side
in
a
Rebellious
war
,
than
in
any
other
:
First
,
Because
Rebellion
is
an
apppeal
to
him
,
in
a
cause
that
is
plainly
and
apparently
unjust
.
Secondly
,
Because
't
is
an
appeal
to
him
,
in
a
cause
that
very
nearly
touches
and
effects
his
own
Authority
.
Thirdly
,
Because
't
is
an
appeal
to
him
,
in
a
cause
that
is
of
all
others
most
destructive
of
humane
Society
.
First
,
Because
Rebellion
is
an
appeal
to
God
in
a
Cause
that
is
plainly
and
apparently
unjust
.
For
in
those
wars
that
are
between
Princes
and
Princes
,
the
right
or
wrong
of
the
case
is
many
times
not
easily
decidable
:
the
Meum's
and
Tuum's
of
Princes
and
Nations
,
being
very
often
so
blended
and
confounded
by
Conquests
,
Leagues
,
and
Intermarriages
,
and
revolutions
of
Empire
;
that
't
is
not
only
difficult
,
but
sometimes
impossible
to
determine
on
which
side
the
Right
lies
:
and
tho'
the
contending
Princes
may
in
most
cases
,
perhaps
,
be
able
to
inform
themselves
,
whether
the
Cause
they
contend
for
be
right
or
wrong
;
yet
the
people
can
be
no
competent
Judges
of
it
,
but
are
obliged
to
acquiesce
in
their
Princes
judgment
,
and
to
follow
'em
with
an
implicit
faith
:
so
that
if
they
are
in
the
wrong
,
't
is
through
invincible
ignorance
,
which
renders
their
case
extreamly
pitiable
and
excusable
before
the
just
and
righteous
Tribunal
of
God.
And
therefore
though
He
most
perfectly
understands
on
which
side
the
Right
lies
,
be
the
case
never
so
perplexed
or
intricate
,
yet
his
compassion
to
their
mistaken
innocence
,
may
in
concurrence
with
other
reasons
,
especially
when
their
enemies
sins
do
outvy
the
justice
of
their
cause
,
sometimes
prevail
with
him
to
give
judgment
of
Victory
on
their
side
.
But
as
for
Rebellion
,
the
injustice
of
it
is
far
more
visible
and
apparent
,
every
man
knows
,
or
might
easily
know
,
if
he
were
not
extreamly
wanting
to
himself
,
that
his
King
is
the
Vicegerent
of
his
God
;
and
that
being
so
,
he
is
indispensibly
obliged
by
all
the
ties
of
Reason
and
Religion
to
submit
to
his
Will
,
and
reverence
his
Person
,
and
bow
to
his
Authority
;
and
that
he
cannot
lift
up
his
hand
against
him
,
without
fighting
against
God
himself
;
the
truth
of
which
is
as
obvious
to
our
natural
reason
,
and
as
plainly
asserted
in
holy
Scripture
,
as
of
any
Proposition
in
Religion
:
so
that
I
dare
boldly
affirm
a
Man
may
find
as
fair
pretexts
for
any
vice
whatsoever
,
even
for
Drunkenness
,
Whoredom
or
Perjury
,
as
ever
were
made
for
Rebellion
.
And
were
I
to
set
up
for
a
publick
Patron
of
wickedness
,
I
hardly
know
a
villany
in
nature
so
black
and
monstrous
,
which
I
could
not
more
plausibly
recommend
to
Mens
reason
and
consciences
,
than
this
of
resistance
against
lawful
Authority
;
which
is
such
a
complication
of
Villanies
,
such
a
loathsom
mixture
of
Hellish
Ingredients
,
as
is
enough
to
nauseate
any
Conscience
but
a
Devil
's
.
And
though
Conscience
and
Religion
are
the
Colours
it
usually
marches
under
,
yet
is
the
imposture
of
this
pretence
so
fulsome
and
barefac'd
,
that
no
Man
in
his
wits
can
be
innocently
abused
by
it
.
For
certainly
that
Man
must
have
a
great
mind
to
rebel
,
his
will
must
have
a
strong
Bias
of
pride
or
discontent
,
faction
or
ambition
in
it
,
that
in
despite
of
all
the
evidence
from
Reason
and
Scripture
to
the
contrary
,
can
perswade
himself
that
it
is
lawful
for
him
,
and
much
less
that
it
is
his
duty
to
lift
up
his
hand
against
his
Soveraign
.
And
therefore
for
Men
to
appeal
to
God
in
a
cause
so
apparently
wicked
,
is
not
submissively
to
refer
themselves
to
him
,
but
openly
to
mock
and
affront
him
;
were
the
case
obscure
and
difficult
,
though
it
were
unjust
,
it
were
excusable
,
and
might
fairly
admit
of
a
reference
to
the
righteous
arbitration
of
God
:
but
to
make
a
vexatious
appeal
to
his
Judgment
again
,
in
a
case
which
he
hath
so
often
and
so
expresly
judged
already
,
is
a
common
Barratry
;
't
is
not
to
consult
but
to
tempt
him
,
and
under
pretence
of
submitting
to
his
determination
,
openly
to
defy
his
authority
:
in
effect
,
't
is
to
appeal
from
his
will
to
his
providence
,
and
to
bespeak
him
to
declare
himself
against
his
own
declaration
.
In
this
case
therefore
where
the
injustice
of
the
cause
is
so
apparent
,
and
consequently
the
appeal
to
him
about
it
is
so
prophane
and
insolent
,
God
is
more
peculiarly
concerned
as
soveraign
arbitrator
to
award
for
the
right
side
,
by
delivering
up
the
Rebel
as
a
sacrifice
to
the
just
Revenge
of
his
injured
Prince
.
Secondly
,
Rebellion
is
an
appeal
to
God
in
a
cause
wherein
his
own
Authority
is
very
nearly
touched
and
affected
in
Wars
between
Princes
and
Nations
:
the
unjust
side
indeed
offends
against
his
Authority
,
by
refusing
to
submit
to
the
Laws
of
Justice
,
and
consequently
are
accountable
to
him
for
high
undutifulness
and
disobedience
,
which
is
no
more
than
the
common
case
of
all
wilful
offenders
against
the
Laws
of
Heaven
;
but
in
the
case
of
Rebellion
there
is
not
only
a
peremptory
disobedience
to
those
Laws
of
God
,
which
require
our
dutiful
submission
to
our
lawful
Superiours
,
but
also
a
direct
renunciation
of
the
divine
Authority
it self
.
For
all
soveraign
power
is
immediately
founded
in
the
Dominion
of
God
,
who
being
the
supreme
Lord
of
the
World
,
no
Person
can
have
right
to
govern
in
his
Kingdom
under
him
,
but
by
commission
from
him
:
for
every
supreme
Authority
is
the
head
and
fountain
of
all
other
Authorities
,
so
far
as
it
extends
;
and
if
it
be
not
so
,
it
cannot
be
supreme
.
So
that
unless
all
Authority
be
derived
from
God
,
he
can
have
no
such
thing
as
a
supreme
Authority
in
the
World
;
and
if
it
be
all
derived
from
him
,
then
all
those
persons
who
are
vested
with
supreme
Authority
under
him
,
must
derive
and
hold
it
immediately
from
him
;
and
if
they
hold
it
immediately
from
him
,
they
can
be
accountable
for
the
exercise
of
it
to
none
but
him
:
and
if
so
,
then
for
any
of
their
Subjects
to
presume
to
call
'em
to
account
by
a
publick
form'd
Resistance
,
is
to
arraign
God's
own
Authority
,
and
invade
his
peculiar
;
t
is
to
thrust
him
out
of
his
Throne
,
and
set
themselves
down
in
it
,
and
there
to
summon
his
Authority
before
'em
,
and
require
it
to
submit
its
awful
head
to
their
impious
doom
and
sentence
.
For
since
in
their
several
dominions
all
soveraign
powers
are
next
to
and
immediately
under
God
,
't
is
by
his
Commission
alone
that
they
act
,
and
therefore
to
his
Tribunal
alone
that
they
are
accountable
:
so
that
by
resisting
them
,
we
do
as
directly
resist
God
,
whose
Deputy-Governours
they
are
,
as
a
Neopolitan
doth
the
King
of
Spain
,
by
levying
Arms
against
his
Vice-Roy
of
Naples
;
and
by
refusing
to
obey
their
just
and
lawful
commands
,
we
demur
to
God's
Authority
,
who
in
every
Just
thing
they
impose
or
require
,
speaks
to
us
by
their
mouths
,
and
commands
us
by
their
Laws
:
for
so
the
Scripture
tells
us
,
not
only
that
they
are
ordained
of
God
,
and
that
to
resist
them
is
to
resist
the
Ordinance
of
God
,
not
only
that
they
are
the
Ministers
of
God
;
and
that
therefore
for
Conscience
sake
,
or
in
reverence
to
his
Authority
,
which
they
bear
,
they
are
to
be
obeyed
,
Rom.
13.1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5.
but
also
that
they
judge
for
God
,
and
not
for
men
,
2
Chron.
19.6
and
that
therefore
their
judgment
is
God's
,
Deut.
1.17
.
Whilst
therefore
we
behave
our selves
factiously
and
rebelliously
towards
those
whom
God
hath
set
over
us
,
we
live
as
Out-laws
in
the
Kingdom
of
God
,
without
any
respect
to
that
visible
Authority
by
which
he
governs
the
World.
And
if
this
be
so
,
then
for
Subjects
to
rebel
against
their
Prince
,
is
neither
better
nor
worse
,
than
to
appeal
to
God
against
his
own
Authority
,
and
to
put
this
impious
case
to
him
,
whether
it
be
He
or
they
that
have
the
right
of
Governing
the
World
:
for
this
is
the
natural
language
of
every
rebellious
appeal
to
God
;
Lord
,
we
refer
it
to
thee
,
whether
it
be
not
just
and
lawful
for
us
to
take
up
Arms
against
thee
,
to
renounce
and
cast
off
thy
Dominion
over
us
,
and
fly
in
the
face
of
all
that
visible
Authority
by
which
thou
art
pleased
to
rule
and
govern
us
.
Judge
now
we
beseech
thee
,
between
thy self
and
us
,
let
the
event
decide
the
right
of
the
case
,
and
do
thou
prosper
and
succeed
us
in
this
our
undertaking
,
according
to
the
justice
and
righteousness
of
our
cause
.
When
therefore
his
own
Authority
is
thus
nearly
touched
,
by
an
appeal
so
Impious
and
Audacious
,
it
's
high
time
for
him
,
unless
some
mighty
reason
intervene
to
the
contrary
,
to
stir
up
his
strength
,
and
make
bare
his
Arm
,
in
the
vindication
of
his
injured
right
,
and
affronted
Authority
;
and
by
delivering
up
the
insolent
Rebel
to
condign
punishment
,
to
assert
and
maintain
his
Dominion
over
the
world
.
Thirdly
and
Lastly
,
Rebellion
is
an
appeal
to
God
in
a
cause
that
is
of
all
others
the
most
destructive
of
humane
Society
:
Which
is
another
peculiar
reason
why
God
should
decide
against
it
,
rather
than
against
any
other
unjust
war
whatsoever
.
For
God
being
the
Soveraign
head
of
humane
Society
,
we
may
be
sure
that
the
principal
end
of
his
Government
is
the
publick
good
;
that
being
infinitely
happy
within
himself
,
and
from
the
immense
perfections
of
his
own
nature
,
he
can
have
no
self
ends
to
serve
in
ruling
and
governing
the
world
;
but
that
his
great
design
is
to
Bless
his
Subjects
,
and
by
diffusing
his
goodness
through
the
world
,
to
make
'em
all
partakers
of
his
happiness
.
And
if
it
be
so
,
then
we
may
certainly
depend
upon
it
;
that
as
those
things
and
actions
are
most
grateful
to
him
,
which
are
most
beneficial
,
so
those
are
most
odious
and
offensive
to
him
,
which
are
most
prejudicial
to
the
world
.
Now
there
is
no
one
thing
whatsoever
that
is
more
beneficial
to
the
world
than
Government
,
which
is
the
soul
of
Humane
Society
,
by
which
it
exists
and
operates
,
without
which
it
must
inevitably
dissolve
,
and
its
united
parts
immediately
disband
and
fly
in
pieces
.
For
an
ungoverned
Society
of
men
,
is
no
better
than
a
herd
of
Wolves
and
Tygers
,
whose
cross
interests
,
inconsistent
humors
,
extravagant
passions
and
affections
,
are
perpetually
prompting
'em
to
tear
and
worry
one
another
;
by
reason
of
which
it
is
impossible
for
'em
to
live
together
with
any
comfort
or
security
,
but
either
they
must
submit
their
passions
to
be
restrained
by
Law
,
and
their
interests
to
be
ballanced
and
adjusted
by
Government
,
or
withdraw
themselves
like
other
beasts
of
prey
into
dens
and
secret
retirements
,
and
there
live
poor
and
solitary
as
Batts
and
Owls
do
,
and
subsist
like
Vermin
by
robbing
and
filching
from
one
another
.
Since
therefore
Government
is
so
indispensably
necessary
for
the
Common-weal
of
men
,
to
be
sure
,
God
,
who
is
supream
Lord
of
all
,
and
the
great
end
of
whose
Government
is
the
good
of
the
whole
,
must
have
a
very
tender
respect
and
regard
for
it
,
and
an
implacable
aversion
to
every
thing
that
is
destructive
to
it
.
Now
it
's
certain
,
there
is
nothing
so
destructive
to
Government
as
Rebellion
:
For
as
for
wars
between
Prince
and
Prince
,
and
Nation
and
Nation
,
they
are
indeed
the
plagues
and
scourges
of
Nations
,
by
reason
of
the
slaughters
and
devastations
they
carry
with
'em
;
but
they
subvert
not
Government
,
which
is
the
life
of
Nations
:
whereas
Rebellion
carries
the
same
slaughters
and
devastations
with
it
;
and
besides
that
,
it
strikes
at
the
very
foundations
of
Government
.
For
though
the
design
of
the
Leaders
of
Rebellion
,
is
not
to
destroy
Government
,
but
to
usurp
and
ravish
it
out
of
the
hands
of
the
lawful
possessors
;
yet
their
practice
tends
directly
to
the
destruction
of
it
.
For
whenever
Subjects
levy
Arms
against
their
Soveraign
,
they
actually
throw
off
the
yoke
of
his
Government
;
and
if
they
may
throw
off
his
,
they
may
for
the
same
reason
throw
off
anothers
,
till
at
last
they
have
thrown
off
all
,
and
utterly
dissolve
themselves
into
a
wild
Tumult
and
Confusion
:
which
being
once
admitted
,
Government
can
have
no
other
foundation
to
rest
on
,
but
the
humor
and
caprice
of
a
wild
multitude
that
is
to
be
governed
no
otherwise
,
and
no
longer
than
it
pleases
.
And
how
is
it
possible
for
any
frame
of
Government
whatsoever
to
subsist
upon
such
fickle
and
mutable
principles
:
So
that
when
Subjects
Rebel
against
their
Soveraign
,
they
appeal
to
God
against
the
very
being
of
Government
it self
,
which
is
the
life
and
soul
of
all
humane
Society
,
and
do
in
effect
desire
him
finally
to
determine
by
the
issue
and
event
of
things
,
whether
it
be
just
and
reasonable
,
that
they
should
be
ruled
and
governed
.
When
therefore
the
point
they
contend
for
,
is
so
apparently
destructive
to
humane
Society
,
of
which
he
himself
is
the
supreme
head
and
Soveraign
,
and
the
final
decision
of
it
is
refer'd
to
his
Arbitration
:
We
have
all
the
reason
in
the
world
to
presume
,
that
he
who
is
the
God
of
order
and
not
of
confusion
,
will
,
without
some
mighty
inducement
to
the
contrary
,
damn
the
Rebels
cause
,
and
award
success
and
Victory
to
the
Government
.
Since
therefore
there
are
so
many
peculiar
reasons
why
the
Lord
of
hosts
,
the
mighty
God
of
War
,
should
arm
his
Almighty
power
against
the
Rebelliuos
:
this
ought
to
caution
us
not
to
engage
our selves
in
any
Factious
,
Disloyal
or
Rebellious
design
against
our
Prince
and
Government
;
because
in
so
doing
,
we
take
the
most
effectual
course
that
it
's
possible
for
men
to
do
,
to
oblige
the
Almighty
Providence
of
Heaven
to
fight
against
us
.
For
there
is
no
one
sin
in
all
the
black
Catalogue
of
the
works
of
darkness
,
which
God
is
more
concerned
to
punish
in
this
life
,
than
this
of
Treason
and
Rebellion
.
And
accordingly
if
you
consult
those
monuments
of
divine
vengeance
,
which
are
transmitted
to
us
,
both
in
Sacred
and
Prophane
history
,
you
will
find
that
there
are
none
of
any
sort
so
numerous
and
remarkable
,
as
the
dire
and
infamous
Tragedies
or
Rebels
.
And
though
from
these
no
certain
conclusion
can
be
made
of
the
fate
and
issue
of
all
particular
Rebellions
,
because
there
are
instances
of
some
that
have
prospered
and
succeeded
;
and
particularly
of
one
among
our selves
,
and
in
our
memory
,
which
next
to
the
Rebellion
of
the
fall'n
Angels
,
was
perhaps
the
most
Barbarous
and
Infamous
that
was
ever
acted
on
the
stage
of
nature
.
Yet
this
I
am
certain
of
,
that
were
it
my
design
to
draw
down
some
exemplary
judgment
on
my
own
head
,
and
even
to
entail
the
vengeance
of
heaven
,
upon
my self
and
my
prosperity
,
I
could
not
propose
to
my self
a
more
probable
and
effectual
way
,
than
Rebellion
:
Which
of
all
the
crimes
and
villanies
that
have
ever
been
perpetrated
,
either
by
Devils
or
men
,
hath
ever
proved
most
fatal
to
the
Actors
of
it
.
Wherefore
as
we
would
not
make
our selves
the
marks
of
divine
vengeance
,
and
expose
our
guilty
heads
to
its
Almighty
Thunderbolts
,
it
concerns
us
to
be
very
careful
that
we
do
not
swerve
from
our
due
Allegiance
to
our
Prince
,
that
we
do
not
suffer
our
Pride
or
discontent
to
prey
upon
our
Loyalty
,
nor
imbibe
Seditious
Principles
,
nor
intriegue
our selves
with
factious
Combinations
,
which
are
the
Seminaries
of
Rebellion
:
but
that
out
of
an
awful
fear
and
dread
of
God
,
we
honour
and
obey
the
King
;
and
avoid
,
as
we
would
the
Air
of
a
Plague-sore
,
medling
with
those
that
are
given
to
change
.
I
now
proceed
to
the
second
observable
in
the
Text
,
viz.
That
God's
delivering
up
of
Rebels
,
is
a
just
ground
of
praise
and
thansgiving
to
him
;
for
the
proof
of
which
I
shall
not
need
to
urge
any
other
argument
,
than
the
signal
defeat
and
overthrow
of
his
late
Rebellion
,
for
which
we
are
now
rendering
our
thankful
acknowledgments
to
God.
For
considering
the
temper
and
quality
of
the
Persons
,
of
which
this
unnatural
Rebellion
was
composed
,
a
very
small
Prophet
may
easily
prognosticate
,
to
what
a
deplorable
condition
this
Nation
must
have
been
reduc'd
,
if
it
had
prosper'd
and
succeeded
;
for
it
was
nothing
but
a
common
shore
,
into
which
all
the
kennels
of
the
Nation
ran
,
being
partly
made
up
of
the
most
debauch'd
and
profligate
Atheists
,
that
had
broke
through
all
the
Laws
of
humanity
,
and
stript
themselves
so
naked
of
all
the
shew
of
Piety
and
Vertue
,
that
they
had
not
hypocrisie
enough
remaining
to
disguise
their
lewd
and
villanous
intentions
;
partly
of
beggarly
Male-contents
,
who
had
no
other
way
to
repair
their
broken
fortunes
,
but
by
running
in
to
the
shipwrack
of
the
Nation
;
but
chiefly
of
hot-brain'd
furious
Sectaries
,
whose
blind
zeal
,
like
the
Devil
in
the
possess'd
Man
,
threw
'em
into
Fire
and
Water
,
transported
and
hurried
'em
into
any
villany
,
into
Perjury
and
Murder
,
Treason
and
Sacrilege
,
and
would
not
permit
'em
to
stop
at
any
thing
,
that
made
for
the
Interest
of
their
cause
:
such
were
the
Ingredients
of
this
poisonous
mixture
.
So
that
had
God
for
our
sins
permitted
it
to
prevail
,
we
had
quickly
seen
a
flourishing
Kingdom
,
like
Herod
in
all
his
glory
and
splendor
,
seized
on
,
eaten
up
by
Lice
,
by
a
swarm
of
the
basest
and
most
infamous
Vermin
that
ever
bred
out
of
the
filth
of
a
Nation
:
We
had
seen
the
Atheist
glutting
his
lust
with
the
rapes
of
our
Wives
and
Daughters
,
and
quaffing
the
tears
of
Widows
and
Orphans
:
we
had
seen
the
beggar
on
Horse-back
flaunting
in
the
spoils
of
our
fortunes
,
and
triumphing
on
the
heads
of
our
Nobles
and
Gentry
;
and
the
bloudy
Enthusiast
imbrewing
his
hands
in
Loyal
bloud
,
appeasing
his
furious
zeal
again
with
Royal
Sacrifice
,
and
throwing
down
all
that
is
Sacred
in
our
Jerusalem
,
to
make
way
for
the
erecting
his
Phanatick
Babel
,
his
Tumult
and
confusion
of
Religions
:
in
a
word
,
we
had
seen
our
Laws
trampled
on
,
our
Liberties
inslaved
,
and
our
yet
Sacred
and
Virgin
Throne
,
to
our
everlasting
infamy
,
deflowred
and
prophaned
by
a
spurious
illegitimate
Issue
.
With
this
dire
spectacle
our
eyes
had
most
certainly
been
entertained
,
had
this
black
Rebellion
succeeded
:
wherefore
our
Gracious
God
being
moved
to
commiseration
,
by
this
woful
prospect
of
our
approaching
Calamity
,
roused
up
himself
like
a
mighty
Man
of
War
,
and
with
an
avengeful
eye
looked
down
upon
this
Host
of
Assyrians
,
and
with
the
breath
of
his
Nostrils
,
scattered
the
Rebellious
Rout
before
him
.
Wherefore
not
unto
us
,
O
Lord
,
not
to
our
conduct
or
puissance
,
but
to
thy
Name
be
all
the
Glory
and
Honour
.
And
since
we
are
all
of
us
sharers
in
this
Great
Deliverance
,
it
's
just
we
should
all
return
the
Tribute
of
our
Praise
to
our
Great
Deliverer
.
O
give
thanks
unto
the
Lord
therefore
for
he
is
good
,
because
his
Mercy
endureth
for
ever
.
Let
Israel
now
say
that
his
Mercy
endureth
for
ever
.
Let
the
House
of
Aaron
now
say
that
his
Mercy
endureth
for
ever
.
Let
all
them
that
fear
the
Lord
say
that
his
Mercy
endureth
for
ever
.
And
as
the
best
Return
of
Gratitude
we
can
make
to
God
,
let
us
by
our
future
Loyalty
to
his
Illustrious
Vice-gerent
,
by
our
firm
relyance
on
his
Royal
Promises
,
which
hitherto
have
been
ever
sacred
and
inviolate
,
by
our
chearful
submission
to
his
Laws
,
and
constant
forwardness
to
oppose
and
detect
all
treasonous
designs
against
his
Person
and
Government
,
endeavour
as
much
as
in
us
lies
to
render
his
Reign
safe
and
easie
,
and
prosperous
.
And
by
our
immovable
constancy
in
the
profession
and
practice
of
our
holy
Religion
,
the
most
pure
and
unsophisticated
,
the
most
Primitive
and
Loyal
Religion
of
the
Church
of
England
:
let
us
endeavour
to
indear
our selves
to
God
,
that
so
by
our
faithful
supplications
we
may
prevail
with
God
to
fix
the
Crown
upon
his
Royal
Head
,
to
guard
and
protect
his
Sacred
Person
,
to
bless
and
secure
his
Government
,
to
abate
the
Pride
,
asswage
the
Malice
,
and
confound
the
devices
of
his
Enemies
;
and
after
he
hath
injoyed
a
long
,
a
pious
and
prosperous
Reign
upon
Earth
,
to
Crown
him
with
everlasting
Glory
in
Heaven
.
To
which
Prayer
I
am
sure
all
that
are
the
genuine
Sons
of
the
Church
of
England
will
with
a
true
Heart
and
Zealous
affection
say
,
Amen
.
FINIS
.