The religious and loyal subject's duty considered: with regard to the present Government and the Revolution / A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, on Wednesday, January 30, 1722-3

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A SERMON Preached in the Cathedral Church OF CANTERBURY , ON Wednesday , January 30. 1722-3. Being the Anniversary Fast Of the Martyrdom of K. CHARLES I.
Published at the Request of the Prebendaries then present.
By ISAAC TERRY , M. A. Late of Christ-Church, Oxon.
LONDON : Printed for R. Knaplock, at the Bishop's-Head in St. Paul 's Church-Yard. 1723.

THERE is no need that I should acquaint any who are here present with the sad occasion of this anniversary solemnity; nor need I, I suppose, use many words to raise in you a just abhorrence of that most execrable parricide, which we are now bewailing. To be sure we do all of us, from the very bottom of our hearts, detest and abominate
it; unless we have been all this while in this holy place prevaricating with God and man, and adding a feigned humiliation to the number of our former provocations.
As it ought to be the earnest prayer and endeavour of all good men and loyal subjects, that no such wickedness may hereafter be committed among us, to the reproach of our nation, and of the holy Religion which we profess: so is it particularly incumbent on the ministers of the Gospel, to press upon men the due observation of those laws, which the most high hath enacted for the security and support of his vice-gerents on earth; and to caution men against those pernicious principles and practices, which in the last age brought a most excellent and gracious Monarch to the block; and quite overthrew our constitution in church and state: and which in all ages, if a timely stop be not put to them, will produce the like tragical effects, as having a natural tendency to subvert government, and to introduce anarchy and confusion amongst mankind.
For which reason I have chosen for the subject of my following discourse, this solemn charge of the wise King Solomon to his Son; My son, fear thou the Lord and the King: and meddle not with them that are given to change . In which words are bound upon us three rules of life, very necessary to be observed by all who would not be deemed enemies to the publick peace and tranquility.