it, like Waters that run through a Medicinal or a Chalky Soil, they are always the more operative, or the more sweet at the Fountain, the longer their Paffage under Ground hath been. And this is not only true forward from the Prince to the People, as they fay Love is usually more paffionate in the Descent, but alfo upward and back again from the People to their Prince, who are always most prone to obey and serve the Mafters, they have been ufed to for fo long a time, and will sooner endure Oppreffion from an Hereditary Prince, who hath a kind of Merit and Supererrogation of his Ancestors to attone for Injuftice in himfelf, than submit their gall'd Necks to the more pliant Yoak of a Military Upstart, or an Elective Pretender: and though in fomeCountries by many Provocations, or by a vain perfwafion that Providence hath discarded him, when they discern him unfortunate and unfuccessful, they are at laft prevailed with, contrary to their Duty, to withdraw their Homage and Obedience from their natural and rightful Sovereign, and fet up another in his ftead, yet, even in this cafe, neither Anger nor Superftition can prevail with them to forfake his Family, together with his Perfon, but they still retain an an Affection for the Line, as may be seen in many Instances of the Ottoman Empire, in the Accounts given us of former Times, befides what hath hapened not many Months ago, in the last surprising Revolution. How happy then are we in fo long a Succeffion of HeroicKings,that have been inured to Juftice and to Mercy from the moft antient Boundaries of Time and Fame?that seem to have begun their Course together with the Sun, and hitherto have contended with him, who shall set the latest, and have improved in every Age in the Myfteries of Government, in the Fineness, and exactness of an imperial Conftitution, and in the habitual Advantages of Birth and Education, by which they are equally fitted at the fame time to oblige and to command, to extort the Duty and Affection of their Subjects,and to provoke their Love,their Admiration and Fear. Again, as Monarchy is in general the best of Governments, and an Hereditary Monarchy the best of Monarties, it being that which God himself establish'd for the Security and Safety of his peculiar People; fo more particularly, of all the Governments that ever were ordained by God, or fubmitted to by Men, there is none fo happy as our English Confti. 、 PREACHED In S. Peter's Westminster, on the first Sunday in Advent, at the Confecration JOHN Lord Bifbop of Durham, Cozens RICHARD Lord Bishop of Carlisle, stor By W. S. B. D. Gaiden Apoc. 1. 20. Septem Stella Angeli funt Septem Ecclefiarum. LONDON, Printed by T. Roycroft, for Robert Beaumont, at the IN CHRISTO PATRI, AC DOMINO, Dno JOHANNI EPISCOPO DUNELMENSI, EOQUE NOMINE JURA HABENTI COMITIS PALATINI SACRE THEOLOGIA PROFESSORI VETERIS SCRIPTVRARUM CANONIS PETROBURGENSIS EX DECANO, DECANO DESIGNATO, DUNELMENSIS DIU CANONICO, JAM ΕΤΙΑΜ Κανόνι, ECCLESIÆ ANGLICANE ET FILIO, ET PATRI OPTIMO HODIERNÆ, ET NUPERÆ, OP ROMANÆ PVGNATORI STREVO, VETERIS, ET PRIMITIVÆ, VT & ADMIRATORI PERPETVO, CATHOLIC CULTORI DEVOTISSIMO, Ὁμοψήῳ, καὶ Ὁμοψύχω VIRO. |