The honour due to the civil magistrate stated and urg'd in a sermon compos'd for the day of thanksgiving for the happy discovery of the late horrid and execrable conspiracy against His Majesties sacred person and government / by Theophilus Dorrington.
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- The honour due to the civil magistrate stated and urg'd in a sermon compos'd for the day of thanksgiving for the happy discovery of the late horrid and execrable conspiracy against His Majesties sacred person and government / by Theophilus Dorrington.
- Author
- Dorrington, Theophilus, d. 1715.
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- London :: Printed for John Wyat ...,
- 1696.
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- Prerogative, Royal -- Great Britain.
- Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"The honour due to the civil magistrate stated and urg'd in a sermon compos'd for the day of thanksgiving for the happy discovery of the late horrid and execrable conspiracy against His Majesties sacred person and government / by Theophilus Dorrington." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36371.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
THE materials of the following Discourse are Thoughts which have a long time taken possession of my Mind, upon a good con∣sideration of the Duty therein urg'd, and of the Behaviour of the World with Relation to it. The Occasion of putting them now to∣gether was, The Happy Discovery of the late Wicked and Detestible Conspiracy against the Life of Our KING; (whom may it please God long to preserve) and by consequence against our Peace, Liberty, and Religion, and the Welfare of Europe.
It was at first design'd for a Sermon, and in particular for the Day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God for that Discovery; to which I intended it should have been somewhat more expresly accomodated in an Application at the End: To be sure, the best way of expressing our Thankfulness to Almighty God for having so wonderfully, again, pre∣served our Good KING, is to study and practice all that Duty which God requires we should pay to the KING. But having had no op∣portunity to use the Discourse in that way, by reason of my uncertain Circumstances at present, I have resolv'd thus to Publish it.
Thus it came to pass that it is in such a Method: And the Duty is here Stated and Ʋrg'd (as becomes a Sermon) from the Intimati∣ons of Holy Scripture concerning it; and the whole Discourse is chiesly grounded upon Principles of Religion. Being, then, after this man∣ner at first composed, I was willing to let it go with this Character; Because the greatest Reverence and Regard is certainly due to Religi∣on, and to what is firmly and necessarily connected with the Principles and Precepts of it: All That therefore may, with great Reason, have a mighty force, and power upon Men. I heartily pray that this Dis∣course may, as much as is necessary, revive this Happy and Impor∣tant Instance of Religious Practice amongst us, to the Honour of our Holy Religion, the Obtaining the Divine Favour and Blessings upon the Nation, and the Promoting the Tranquillity, and Prosperity of our Good KING and his People. To which Ends I am sure this Practice will mightily conduce.