DIONYSIUS GRANVILLE DECANUS DUNELMENSIS. AET. SVAE 54  
Beaupoille pinxit  
G. F. Edelinck Sculp.  
J●pe●sis Thom●● Hacquet  
〈◊〉 h●s pitis sui anno Dom. 1693.  
Serenissimum Dominum Jacobum Secundum Magnoe Britanioe Regem secutus est in Galliam Anno 1688.  
Propter fidelitatem Suam Domino Regi, Principe Arausiacensi Coronam Anglioe Vsurpante, deprivantus fuit anno 1691.    

THE RESIGNED & RESOLVED CHRISTIAN AND FAITHFUL & UNDAUNTED ROYALIST.  
In two Plain Farewell-sermons, & a Loyal Farewell-visitation-speech. Both delivered amidst the Lamentable Confusions occasioned by the Late FOREIGN INVASION & HOME-DEFECTION of his Majesty's Subjects in England.  
By DENIS GRANVILLE D. D. Deane & Archdeacon of Durham, (now in Exile) Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty.  
Whereunto are added Certain Letters to his Relations & Friends in England showing the Reasons and manner of his withdrawing out of the Kingdom.  
VIZ  
A LETTER TO HIS BROTHER THE EARL OF bath.  
A LETTER TO HIS BISHOP THE BISHOP OF DURHAM.  
A LETTER TO HIS BRETHREN THE PREBENDARIES.  
A LETTER TO THE CLERGY OF HIS ARCHDEACONRY.  
A LETTER TO HIS CURATES, AT EASINGTON ET SEDGEFEILD.  
Printed at Roüens by WILLIAM MACHUEL, ruë S. Lo, near the Palace for JOHN baptist BESONGNE, ruë Escuyer, at the Royal sun, and are to be sold by AUGUSTIN BESONGNE in the Great Hall of the Palace at Paris.  
In the year of our Lord God M. DC. LXXXIX.   

TO THE READER.  
THE Subject-matter of these ensuing sheets, concerning Christian Resolution, & Humble Submission to the will of God, in times of distress, (according to the example of the holy Patriach Jacob) & Hearty subjection to the King, according to the Doctrine of the Church of England, & our many Indispensable ties of Conscience, will, with all those few who truly Fear God & Honour the King, sufficiently a pologize, I hope, for the publication of them, in a Juncture, & an Age, advanced to the highest contempt & defiance both of Loyalty and Religion.  
That Incensed God, who hath for our manifold provocations, and more particularly (we have reason to believe) for our Carnal Confidence in the Arm of Flesh, & Disobedience to God's Vicegerent, poured out the vials of his wrath on three Kingdoms, is not like to be appeased, without the serious practice of the contrary Graces, in a manner, as Universal, and general, as hath been our late notorious Defection towards the King, by an abhorred & detestable Violation of the many sacred, & often repeated Oaths, whereby all subjccts were obliged to support his Crown & Dignity.  
Such is my sense of what is past, & Dread of Almighty Gods future Indignation, when I consider that I am (how weak and unworthy soever) advanced to a public station in the Church of England, that I cannot satisfy myself, with mourning in secret, but conceive it my indispensable duty to proclaim (after such a Stupendious Revolution) as soon, & as well, as I am able, to all persons in the Kingdom, my unfeigned Resolution to adhere to my Sovereign, in his distress; lest I may, by silence, contribute to the increase of that dangerous Lethargy, which hath seized on the People of England, who, by Resisting, & at length Deserting, their Prince, have Apostatised from their Religion.  
I have helped, possibly▪ as little as any one of my Brethren, or fellow-subjects, in the Nation, to the first growth of this disease, having for six & tuentie years together opened my mouth widely▪ on Topics, which would have prevented (had they met with due regard) our present misery: & for the truth whereof, I appeal to the whole Jurisdiction whereto I have long related.  
But however I cannot think myself perfectly disengaged to join in attempting the Cure, or, at least, to help on what is, God be thanked, in some sort begun, & whereto the contradictory, & preposterous, proceedings of the King's enemies have assisted; I mean to the oppenning the eyes of thousands in England, to see already the madness of their Change, & the Errors of their late method to redress Grievances; by labouring to bring their Sovereign to Terms (all that was aimed at, I do in Charity believe, by the Church of England's fallen sons) and to deliver the Nation from Domestic Evils by calling for Foreign Assistance. §. The number of souls committed to my charge, in the Cathedral, in my Archdeaconry, & in the Peculiar Jurisdiction depending on the Church of Durham, are too many, & too considerable, to be forgotten, or neglected by me, now, incapacitated otherwise to Preach to them.  
Therefore in this low Ebb of Loyalty, when Instances of firm fidelity to ones Prince are so rare, the Dean of Durham, it is hoped, will be pardonned, if he sets so much value on his own Example, as to make use of it, as well as his words & writes, towards the Extricating the People, with whose souls he hath been Entrusted, out of the Labyrinth whereinto they are Run, by Noncompliance with their Lawful & Gracious Sovereign, & ready Concurrence with a Foreign Usurper, or, at least, towards the Hindering them from Running farther yet into it, & remaining stupidly in so sinful and deplorable a state & condition.  
This induces me to wish, that I could bring the last words, I spoke to the Clergy & Ecclesiastic Officers of my Archdeaconry, & to the Members of the Cathedral and City of Durham (contained in the ensuing Discourses) to the view and consideration of the whole County & Diocese▪ that those, who were absent when I uttered them, may, as well as those present, partake of my poor zeal and endeavours for their spiritual Advantage; which is all the Return, I can at present make, for the temporal Benefits I have reaped in that country, during my enjoyment of sundry considerable Preferments among them.  
If such Communication of my▪ Papers cannot be so soon, & so successfully, effected, as I would, by reason all Intercourse betwixt the Kingdom of England, & this wherein I reside, is stopped, I am willing, in the mean while, to let the world see, that I am not Idle, or Unconcerned, but do all that in me lies, towards this honest End, whereby if no profit accrues to them, or others, I shall ease my mind & deliver my soul.  
If any are pleased to censure, contemn, or reject my writings, because they find nothing in them Learned, or Elaborate, ot (where of the Age is overfond) Controversial, I desire them to consider, that Polemik Learning & Divinity, are things I never did, nor shall pretend to. And that in the month of November 88 when I spoke to the Clergy, & in the first week of December following, when I preached in the Abbey, at Durham (as ill as things did portend) I little dreamt, that my Sovereign, or self, should be put under an unavoidable necessity to fly in to an other Kingdom; or that I should be obliged to make use of such means, & methods to Evidence my sincerity in my Religion (the first thing I should strive to Evince to all those to whose spiritual Assistance I administer) otherwise more 〈◊〉 Regard would had been had to the Penning & Composure.  
But since I am reduced to such hard circumstances (whereto, in conformity to my own Doctrine I Heartily submit) & that the ensuing Discourses, how sleight soever & little worth, in themselves, are abundantly sufficient to demonstrate, that both my Religion & Loya●●y are not of the New Cutt, but of the old Royal stamp, & carry which them, I trust, the true Touch of the Tower, Providence invites me to exposes them to public view, being ambitious of nothing in ●●e world more, than to approve myself (in this Day of Rebuke) to my Sovereign, & his rigth Loyal subjects, for one who thinks that he obliged to be as Faithful to a Roman-Catholick, as a Protestant, Prince, & as true to him in Adversity, as Prosperity.  
As far any Censures of vanity arising from my Title-Page, as if I did there set forth myself à Pattern of humility & Loyalty, they ought not to sway with me so far, as to stop me, in my Endeavours to be so, or to persuade others to become such, since thereto Heaven, at this time, loudly summons all the Nation.  
This I can truly say, without Pride or Boasting, that I have laboured to practise, what I have preached to others, & that I was never more, than at this very instant, aspiring towards those Excellent (but rare) virtues mentionned in the following discourses, which I commend to God's Blessing, & the Candid Readers Charity; desiring all persons in England, who have laboured, either by Kind Invitations, or Threats of deprivation to prevail with m●, to return, & submit to the new Government; to receive this as my final Ansver.  

TO WIT  
If I be DEPRIVED, I am DEPRIVED; or to approach a little neaver to the Phrase of Good Father Jacob. IF I BE BEREFT (OF MY PREFERMENT,) I AM BEREFT.  
D. G. From my study in Roüen Nou. 15. 1689.    

ADVERTISEMENT.  
THE Author having been necessitated, for the discharge of his Conscience and his own Justification, hastily to print these pieces (as before mentioned) in a Foreign Country, where the Printer did not understand the language, and was very little acquainted with the character all persons must understand, that it was not possible to avoid a multitude of faults, in the Orthography & Pointing, as well as sundry rules observed by Printers in England; tho●, possibly, upon perusal they will find the Errors so inconsiderable, & little hindering the sense, that they will rather wonder (as doth the Author) how the Printer should, all things considered, so well succeed in his Undertaking.   

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LETTERS.  
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TO THE EARL OF bath.  
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TO THE BISHOP OF DURHAM▪ etc.  
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FINIS.    

TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.  
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY.  
ALMIGHTY GOD having enabled me, by his grace, to resist those temptations which have overcome the greatest number of the members of my own Church and Country, and being now incapacitated here a bread to render my Sovereign, and your Majesty, better service than to own your Righteous Cause, I think myself obliged to give the world a more than ordinary Testimony of my sincere Loyalty and Resolution, in all times and Changes, to adhere unalterably to the Crown. Having therefore already sacrificed my Revenue by quitting the Nation rather than submit to the Usurpation, and exposed myself to Censure and Obloquy in that part of England wherein I have Lived, by Refusing to Head, or join with those my dependants there, Ecclesiastical and Secular, who have departed from their Allegiance, I know of no better and more Convincing Instance yet remaining to be given by me of my steadfastness to stick to, and serve, the Royal family, than to proclaim that I dare speak truth here a broad from the Press as well as from the Pulpit at home, though every one must foreknow that such an honest Boldness will unavoidably render me uncapable of the favour and good opinion of all those persons, in the Nation (High and Low Spiritual and Temporal) who have Shipwrackt their Faith and Consciences by ceasing to yield (after often swearing) Allegiance and Fidelity to their Sovereign. And it is easy to foresee, that the Printing these, and some other Papers, at this time, in mine own name, will thus render me obnoxious (as I am Contented to be) to all those Builders, who employ themselves in Erecting a New Monarchy and Church in England. But the Aspersions of them that forsake their Religion, as far as they desert their Lawful Liege Lord, (as I hope the following sheets will evidence) will be no intolerable Load to me, who desire no greater Honour and satisfaction, than to share with my King, Queen, and hopeful young Prince, in their Misfortunes, and thereby to demonstrate that my poor distressed Mother, in the greatest and most general defection (as this seems to be) that ever was among any King of England's subjects, will never want some to bear testimony to the truth of her Doctrine; who, according to the Exemple of Christ and his Apostles, doth maintain the practice of Allegiance, and entire submission and subjection to all Lawful supreme powers, deputed by God as his Vice-Gerents to Govern the world. How great a contradiction hereof soever, the last years transactions in England have proved (which hath given the greatest wound that was ever yet given to our Church) the Doctrine of Nonresistance Remains on such authentic Record in the Church of England's Printed Homilies against Rebellion (which I have in some sort Epitomised in the conclusion of my discourse) that your Majesty, as well as the King, will, I hope, be pleased to continue your Charity to our Ecclesiastic Constitution, with liberty to its members to Exercise their Religion, and think no worse of the Parent for the disobedience of the Children, but render that justice to the Church of England, which is due to all Churches, to wit, to be judged by her Doctrine, Discipline, and Order (which I am sure never did carry a long with them any Rebellion) and not by the practice or Conversation of its Members. Whereby if the whole Christian Church was to be judged it would, in many things, appear more vile than some parts of the world overrun with Turkism and Paganism.  
Offerring to God my most fervent devotions for the preservation and Restoration of the King, the Life and Happiness of the Prince, and (out of Gratitude to Heaven) in a most particular manner for your Majesty, who have been Instrumental to the Greatest blessing which hath been these many years conferred on the Kingdom, in bearing and bringing forth an Heir male for the support of the Monarchy, I do, with all humility, implore yours, together with his Majesty's Patronage, as well as beg Pardon for this Presumption, and with the most profound respect imaginable subscribe myself  
YOUR MAJESTY'S, MOST DUTIFUL & EVER FAITHFUL SERVANT & SUBJECT DENIS GRANVILLE.   

A DISCOURSE CONCERNINC CHRISTIAN RESIGNATION AND RESOLUTION, WITH SOME LOYAL REFLECTIONS ON THE DUTCH INVASION.  
Preached in the Cathedral Church of Durham on the 1. Wednesday in Advent, & the sunday following, being the 5. & 9 of December 1688.  
By DENIS GRANVILLE D. D. Deane & Archdeacon of Durham, (now in Exile) Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty.   

TWO SERMONS CONCERNING CHRISTIAN RESOLUTION And Humble Submission to the Will of God in Time's of Distress, on the Holy Patriarch Jacob's Farewell Words to his sons at Parting.  IF I BE BEREFT OF MY CHILDREN, I AM BEREFT. Gen. ch. 43. v. 14. 
FOR the better Understanding of the Story it Will be requisire to read the precedent Words from the 11. verse to the text. v. 11. If it must be so now, do this, take of the best fruits of the Land, in your Vessels, and carry down the man a Present, a little balm, a little honey, spices, & myrrh nuts & almonds. v. 12. And take double money in your hands: and the money which was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an Oversight. v. 13. Take also your Brother, and arise go again unto the man. v. 14. And God Almicghty give you Mercy before the Man, that he may send away your other Brother & Benjamin: IF I BE BEREFT OF MY CHILDREN, I AM BEREFT.  

Introduction.  THe Approaching Holy Feast of CHRIST'S NATIVITY, or Coming in the Flesh, doth Every year require, a Solemn preparatory time of Devotion. And that it may not want such due respect the Church takes care in its preceding Exercises. Every Sunday service during ADVENT hath an Eye to that pious End & purpose. In pursuance whereof we have in this Cathedral revived an Ancient Religious Custom. Two days of every week throughout this season, to wit wednesdays & fridays, are Sermon Days & dedicated to Prayer & Fasting, to accompany those Exercises of Repentance which are always thought a necessary part of out Preparation. But Gods Impending judgements for our sins which at this time threaten Blood & Confusion, do summon us to add to those exercises, and by some voluntary impositions of Daily Devotion, & Mortification, to turn this Advent in to A little Lent, giving up ourselves wholly to the Exercise of Piety & Prayer, beseeching God that he will not Enter into judgement with us, and for our provocations give us up as a Prey unto our Enemies, making us a scorn & derision to them that are round about us. It is lawful, nay Religious, by Devout Prayer, to Use Violence to the Kingdom of Heaven, and if we did in this our Distress betake ourselves to so sure a Refuge, making use of the Holy Weapons of the Ancient Christians, PRAYERS & TEARS, crowding up to the horns of the Altar, & rendering all our Devotions more prevalent by the weekly Reception of the Lords Supper, we that meet in God's House (if we came with that spirit Which we ought) might do our King and Country better service than those who fight for him in the Field. What hath been said I premise in regard to the present Season of ADVENT and the Ensuing Festival of CHRISTMAS, by reason my text doth not respect Either of them, so particularly, as the Storm & Danger Which is imminent, & doth loudly call for the Holy Resolution, aswell as submission of Pious Jacob. And having so done, I shall (before I enter on the Words) Move you to Pray, according to the Canonical Exhortation of the Church.  
Ye shall pray for the Holy Catholieck Church of Christ, that is, for the whole Congregation of Christian people dispersed throughout the World; more especially for the Churches of Great Britain & Ireland. And here in I am to require you more particularly to pray for our Dread Soudraigne Lord, james by the Grace of God King of England etc. Ye shall likewise pray for our Gracious Queen Mary, Katherine the Queen dowager, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales etc.  
Concluding your Devotions always with the Lords Prayer. Our Father. etc.  
THe PATRIARCHES were now returned from their first journey Sermon. I into Egypt, and (as they little thought) from fullfilling their Brother Joseph's dream. They had Bowed to him, whom they thought they had Rob of all Honour, and been Fed by him whom they once conspired to Starve. So inviolable is God's purpose in things to man impossible.  
OLD JACOB here at first with greatest Joy welcomes home his weary sons, but excess of gladness is commonly attended on with Grief, & the end of joy is Mourning. Whiles he is yet congratulating their good success in their Journey, the sad news of Simeons' Imprisonment, silenceth his mirth. Which Grief too is attended on by a greater; the necessity of his Dear Benjamins going into Egypt. Crosses in God's Children just like Billows in the sea follow one on the neck of another.  
The GOOD FATHER is not less troubled with this News, than at the sight of Joseph's Bloody Coat, And Cruel Famine pressing violently on him we may Conceive him to take up his son Reubens note in the 27. ch. of this Book, and at the 19 v. The Child is not, & whither shall I go? What shall I do, miserable man that I am! My Dearest Rachel is dead, my beloved joseph is not, Simeon is not, and can I leave Benjamin also? I remember my sons, What news you brought me of joseph, and Should you Do the like of Benjamin too, You would bring down my Grey hairs with Sorrow to my Grave. And yet woe is me, I must send him or perish, no redemption of Simeon, no food without Benjamins going into Egypt, and without food no life. I had better venture one than draw destruction upon my whole house. Thus than my sons▪ seeing it must be so, On God will I rely for your safeties, his Providence be your Guide, Benjamin shall go with you. Hovever God's Providence must not stop your diligence, nor his Care for you prevent yours for your selves; but use all possible means to excuse yourselves & content the Ruler v. 11. If it must be so now, do this, take of the best fruits of the Land, in your Vessels and carry down the man a Present, etc. v. 14. And God Almighty give you Mercy before the Man, that he may send away your other Brother & Benjamin, IF I BE BEREFT OF MY CHILDREN, I AM BEREFT.  
I need not stand long on the words: the Story is well known, and it gives you some light in to the sense & Occasion of them.  
The Difference between Interpreters is more in words than substance.  
Ari●● 〈◊〉 nearest to the Original, doth translate them, Et Ego qu●modo Orbatus sum, Orbatus sum.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Septuagint.  
Near this S. Ambrose & others, Ego autem quasi orbatus, absque libetis ero.  
●●ni●● as also our late English Translation to the same sense, but more fully render it, Quum Orbatus fuero, Orbatus fuero. IF I BE BEREFT OF MY CHILDREN I AM BEREFT.  
A speeeh, much like to that resolute speeech of Queen Hester. Hest: 4. 16. Quum periero, periero. If I perish, I perisch.  
S. Chrysostom in his 64. Homily on Genesis, makes Joseph's absence the cause of this speech, as if jacob had accounted he had in a manner lost all his Children when he had lost him. Another will have Benjamin the Chief motive. Calvin & Musculas put all the brethren for the ground of it, Who seeing their Father's great care and sorrow, might themselves be the more careful in their Journey.  
How probably soever these seem reasons of his former complaints, in his discourse with Reuben at the 36. v. of the ch. immediately before, and with judah at the 6. v. of this chapcer, Yet, they are no certain grounds for this Speech.  


Fidelis vox est non desperati non eiulautis.  
Luther.   It is the voice of a faithful soul, saith Luther, and not of a desperate man complaining, for, we shall find on Enquiry, that it savours more of Constancy than fear. Affection laments, but Faith rejoiceth. Though he seems to doubt, yet the Event tells us, his Prayer was not without Faith. True indeed a great combat theve was for a time, Affection fight with Discretion, Nature with Necessity, but all this was but ad Luctam, no Conquest ensued. 
Plangi● affectus, sed fides exultat. id.   
He doth but dispute the cause, and forecast the worst. Extreme Power is here conjoined with Extreme infirmity. When he was weak, like the Apostle, than he was strong. God's never failing Spirit contents him at the last, he puts off all further Care to God's Providence, resolving to endure what ever happened. As if he should say, Gods will be done. Benjamin shall go with the rest, and I IF I BE BEREFT OF MY CHILDREN, I AM BEREFT.  
You see (Brethren) my text is a faithful submission of a Resolved Patriarch to the Will of God: A meditation which I recommend to all your most serious thoughts as suitable to this Day of Calamity, & State of Affaires. To improve the same, by rendering it Exemplary to us Christians in General, & more particularly by so authentic and Godly a Pattern to persuade you who hear me to imitate the laudable Resolution of this Man of God; in parting with your Beloved Benjamins, that is your Dearest Delights in times of Temptation, rather than Forsake your Integrity, shall be the Design of my remaining Discourse.  
By the Godly Example of the Good Father jacob, we may learn in all Adversity, to rely faithfully on Gods merey, to hearken to the voice of right Reason, & to Keep a Good Conscience, without giving ear to Flesh & Blood; not doubting if we do so, but that we also, in the Conclusion, like old jacob here, shall receive a Reward.  
The best men are as he was, liable to all manner of Afflictions, even to Poverty, Scorn, & Contempt; yea they may be cast downé, but if they can in Patience possess their souls, and will wait God's leisure, they shall rise again. God backs their Conflicts with irresistible Power. Though Sorrow, Extremest Sorrow, endure for a night, Yet joy, says the Psalmist, shall come in the Morning. When Israel laments for the absence of all his other sons; he is comforted with the recovery of them & joseph. A joy as far beyond his sorrow, as that before Exceeded his exptession.  
That I may the more effectually persuade you to such Pieus' Resolutions, and faithful Submissions to the will of God.  


CONSIDER.  
1. THe Necessity of them we must submit ourselves to the will of God, according to the Example of Jacob, whensovever we are, as he was, afflicted or Tempted.  
2. The Quality or Nature of them. How we must Submit our selves.  
3. The Benefit Redounding from them, why we ought to do it. 
Which last head, (the two first affording matter enough for one Discourse,) I shall reserve for another Sermon.  
Of these particulars by God's assistance, (which I beg at this instant, in an Extraordinary manner) I intent to treat at this time.     
Part. ay I Shall first show the Necessity of them, and here I must take my Rise from Nature.  
So careful is Nature in providing for her own safety, that every shadow of Danger affrights her; and too jealous of Adversity oftentimes becomes most dangerous to herself; like the Partridge in the net, entangles herself the more by her own flutterring. Man is never more plunged into the troubled sea of Calamity, than when, in his own strength he most struggles to get out of it. It is in vain for him to fight against Nature. Her degenerated weaknesses beget our greatest miseries; and they having so near a Relation to her, she cannot put them off! Man may discover, not Expel, them, but (which is the chiefest misery) the nearer he pries into them, the worse, so doing he makes a new wound, by too deep a search into the Old. Just as if he digged in some putrid Grave, or went into some darksome Cell. The Deeper he digs, the more noisome the Stench, and the farther he goes the greater the Horror. In which perplexity he is made such a slave to his passion, that he is unfit for any employment: unsettled in his thoughts, inconstant in his actions; his whole course of life (like a skene of ruffled silk) inextricably entangled in the world, either the loss of wealth, or care of getting it, trouble him.  
He hath no sooner secured himself from a foreign Enemy, but a domestic sets upon him. Ambition of Rising, or Fear of Falling, the loss of one friend, or danger of another still knaw upon him, you shall sooner find him not a Man, than not some way or Other distracted.  
This Continual Involving of all things, and winding of men's minds with them, drove the Stoics of Old to their Fatum, making, as it were, an immutable law of Mutability in natural things. But their ground we may be sure, was Pride, not Faith, who though they felt themselves daily crostwith contrary Motions, yet scorned to Confess their Natural Weakness, in not subjugating, or rather not eradicating their Passions. And therefore put off all events from themselves to Destiny, whatever happened, they resolved to endure it, as though not to be avoided, & sought no farther for any Cause of a Calamity, than sic▪ Fata velint. No Evil they supposed could proceed from their impassionate souls, theywere in their own Opinion absolute men, & therefore whatever came amiss (Casus in culpam transeat) it was not they did amiss, but Fortune.  
Such Heathenish resolutions need no confutation in a Christian auditory; we have changed their Fate into Providence, looking more to the first than the second Causes; to these only as they are disposed by the former, in which all things consist, and by which all things are Governed. But did the Heathens then so firmly rely on natural Causes, whose effectts though certain, (as by the first cause the God of nature before determined) yet they eould not, without injury to Experience, but expect uncertain? It were a double shame for a Christian, not to submit more resolutely to divine Providence, which he believes un changeable. Such a Resolution is the strongest Fort, that can defend a Good man's Heart (and let us now fly unto it in our present visitation) No Engine of Satan can reach it, No storm of Fortune shake it, nor Calm betray it. Whereas without it Man shakes at the first sight of Every Cloud of temptation, and like a hot iron hisses (as it were) at every drop of Affliction which touches him.  
I need stand no longer to prove so Granted a principle. We will conclude Christian Warfare must be under the Banner of divine Providence. Whosoever desires peace of Conscience & true Comfort, must resolutely submit himself in all things to the Will of God.  
But is this all Says the Stoical Christian? Men may live then as they list. God's Providence is inevitable, my best endeavours cannot prevent it. If I shall be saved, I shall be saved. If damned I shall be damned. A Desperate Doctrine of Satan, & the height of Iniquity, like that of the Devil to our Saviour, Mat. 4. 6. Cast thyself down Headlong, for he hath given his Angels Charge over thee. Christ's Answer to the Devil there, must be ours to his Disciples here. Scriptum est. It is written thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. God will not have his Decree brought to man's unjust Determination, and hates all unnecessary trials of his Power. We may not Trust to his Promises, except we Obey his Commands, nor Rely on his Power only, when he affords us means to use our own.  

Natural Quest. l. 2. c. 37.  The very Heathens were not so senseless in their Destiny. Some things, says Seneca, were so determined of the Gods, that the prayers of the people should conduce to their Events. And this very thing he adds, is not contrary but according to Fate. And God's Providence as it hath absolutely decreed all things to their proper End, so hath it ordained means to those Ends, to use which is not against Providence but of it, As he that is ordained to be a Scholar, is by the same Omnipotent Power ordained to bestow his Time in Learning; And he that shall avoid dangers, shall use means to pacify God's wrath by the same decree. These are Senecas' Instances in his book de Fato.  
Learn of him whoever thinks it an Easy way to Heaven, by mere hanging on God's Decree. Neglect of Ordinary means is a sign of the want of Grace. While we stand gazing on the stars, let us beware lest our feet slip into the water under us, and while we are diving to the botomo of the Rock for the more Rich Pearls lest we lose both ourselves and them. Let us not dispute downward from God's Election, but Upwards from our own Sanctification, draw our Arguments a posteriori from the Effect to the Cause. Not say presumptuously, I am Elected, & there fore I must be saved, but with modesty rather begin at home, Saying, I feel the Operation of God's holy Spirit, inclining me to seek the Ordinary means of Salvation through JESUS-CHRIST, and therefore I trust I am Eleeted, and by necessary Consequence, Conclude thou mayst be Saved.  
To avoid this dangerous Shelf in the business of our Salvation, we have need of a twofold Pilot to direct our Course, Faith & Fear, which well tempered together declare the Quality, or Nature of a Christian Resolution, How we ought to rely on God's Providence the second thing I am to show you, to wit, That Christian Resolutions are mixed with Fear & Faith.  
Part. TWO BUt can these stand to gether, Fear & Faith? It will be very natural to Question. Fear perturbs us through the Apprehension of future Evil, saith the Philosopher; and can any evil happen to those who are in CHRIST JESUS, demands the Divine, as we are by Faith Rom. 12. 15. A plain Contradiction, it may seem, to fear Evil and believe none shall happen to us. Fear not, saith your Lord himself Luke 12. 32. and shall we cross his precept by trembling? Cast your care on him for he careth for you 1. Pet. 5. 7. and can we think his care insufficient? why should we fear?  
There is a Comentatour which easily cuts this knot, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vetat Apostolus non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. The Apostle says he forbids not a studious Industry, but an inordinate Carking Care, whose only fruit is destruction. And our Savioar Condemns not all fear, but that of punishment, carnal & servile fear, steps to despair. His own practice approves of both timorem Cultûs & Culpae; a devout & filial fear in holy worship and careful fear of Offending, who in the days of his Flesh, off rd up prayers & supplications, with strong Cries, & Tears unto him, which was able to save him and was also heard in that which he feared. Heb. 5. 7. Our Blessed Lords Practice is the best warrant for ours, he himself being the Architype of all righteousness, whose life ought to be the Canon & Rule of his Disciples.  
These two joined in CHRIST JESUS, our Grand Exemplar, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life, serve as two stars to direct his followers unto him. Fear stirs us up to seek all possible means for the prevention of Evils, Faith keeps us from despair. Fear is linked with the beginning of wisdom, without which your best actions are but as th●se Apples of Sodom which being touched vanish into smoke, or as Trees without fruit, or shells without kernel.  
As an ignorant Careless Mariner without his Compass, we should be driven upon all the shoals and rocks of temptation, were not this fear placed in our Hearts, as a watchman to forewarn our drowsy souls of approaching danger. And as Gideon on Zeba and Salmunna judg. 3. 11. Satan would surprise us unawares, and rob us of our very Hearts & Consciences while we sleep in security. But where the Heart is well fraught with fear, there is no room for Satan and his train. It quickly espies & prevents his most cunning Plots, putting to flight those armies of temptations, with which he useth to beseige man's wounded Conscience. The holy Psalmist doth well inform us of the Power and Force of Fear, when he tells us that it fights with Angel's strength. Ps. 34. 7. The Angel of the Lord, saith David, standeth round about them that fear him, & delivereth them. So that we may here without crime presume to cross our Saviour's speech in another Case of servile fear (understand me of an holy fear) O men of little faith why are ye not afraid?  


Cum crescerit Gratiae time, ●ū abierit time, eum revertetur time.  
S. Bern.   Whensoever the Grace of God shall begin to increase in thee, Fear: When it shall depart from thee, Fear. And when it shall return to thee, Fear. Saith S. Bernard. When thou first feelest God's holy Spirit to move within thee, fear thine own unwor thinnessthinness, that thou receive it not in vain; A Gift not used at all, or not well employed, is a dishonour to the Donour. When thou feelest any decay, or suspension of the Operation of Grace within thee, fear God's displeasure, who for some Cause, or other, suffers thee thus to fall. But most of all must thou fear when God's Grace is revived within thee, for the relapse is worse than the former disease, Therefore thy Fear must increase with thy danger, least being made clean thou shouldst sin again and a worse thing happen unto thee.  
In adversity let us humbly acknowledge with job the punishment of God is fearful. In prosperity with David, there is mercy with God that he may be feared. In all estates let his Essential presence beget an awful Fear and Reverence in all our Actions; since there is nothing more fearful in the Saints and Servants of God than not to fear. Jer. 32. 40.  
However scruple not hence (ye sincere, though imperfect, Christians, ●ver subject sometimes to despondency) the certainty of your Salvation. " An holy fear doth not make us more scrupulous but more certain saith S. Bernard, in his 15 Sermon upon the Psalms. For this Fear (as Hope) is the fruit of an holy Faith, and S. Paul joins it with Faith. Rom. 11. 20. as an Antidote to a high Mind, thou standest by faith be not highminded but fear, and indecd is the ground of our assurance of Salvation, which we cannot have but by faith, I say by faith, not as if that were not certain; but to exclude that certainty of Evidence & sense, which requires an absolute assent, both in respect of the truth of the thing, & of our knowledge, because it is so, & because we can demonstrate it to be so. As when we say 4. is more than 2. the whole is greater than part; perfect knowledge of sense & Experience absolutely conclude it most certain.  
The certainty of our Salvation is a faithful cleaving to the sure promises of CHRIST JESUS. Tho this in respect of itself be more absolute than that of sense, as faith is more certain than any science, yet man's mind not throughly purged, from the foggy Mists of Original pollution, cannot clearly determine.  
CHRIST indeed hath broken down the Partition Wall between God & his people, yet hath he set the Register of his Elect, beyond the ken of any mortal eye. Neither can we assure ourselves any otherwise of our Salvation, than by trusting in him, by applying particularly what he (that cannot lie) hath spoken in General. Whosoever believeth in me shall be saved. And this is in no man so perfect, but that the best may still pray, adjuva me Domine, Lord help my unbelief. He that doth not thus fear, hath no faith and then no certainty.  
As the Spirit of God witnesseth we are the sons of God, so Fear testifieth we have the Spirit. No man more surely relies on his Saviour, than he that most fears to Offend him; so is it no paradox at the same time to tremble and rejoice in the Lord. The frailty of our nature & the subtlety of the Devil conspire for our Ruin; here is good Cause to fear. But JESUS CHRIST is our Castle & Defence, here is greater Cause to rejoice.  
A man on the top of an high tower looking down & considering the danger of a fall trembles to think thereon, but looking back on his feet & seeing himself environned on every side with battlements rejoiceth that he is so secure of the danger. So the most steady beleiver though he know that under the protection of the Almighty he cannot miscarry, yet he (sometimes) trembles to reflect on the deplorable Estate of Falling away. albeit his principle be true, the Word of God cannot fail in any tittle, Whosoever beleiveth shall be saved, yet is he jealous of misapplying it to himself. Tho he thinketh he standeth, he must take heed lest he fall. For it is the Condition of Grace & Faith as of Nature, still to desire increase & perfection, which necessatily requires earnest prayer, and this implies a solicitous Fear.  
So then we may say of a Christian, as scipio sometimes spoke of Rome, it was more secure when it stood in awe of Cartbage. The Church was never freer from Heresies than in the time of Persecution, and the End of Persecution was the beginning of Herisy, We are most certain, when we are most tempted. When Satan desires to winnow S. Peter as wheat, than Christ's prayer assures him of Salvation. Christ's Intercessions are more prevalent than any temptation, and unless we render them ineffectual by impenitency, they are never in vain. Nevertheless his Prayer may not hinder ours, nor his all-sufficiency exclude our labours. We must pray to him, & he will pray for us. Let us fulfil his Commandments, & he will fulfil his Promises. If we Love him, let us fear to offend him. If we have Confidence of our Election in him, then let us use all diligence to make our Calling & this our Election sure, by adding good works to our Faith, in doing where of we shall never fall. It was an Heathen Cannon, that Fortune should not be prayed unto, but with hands in Motion; intimating that no Sacrifice could be accepted from a sluggard. And it is the Apostles Rule, we all know, to add Virtue to Faith, industry to Prayer. For to cry God help, & not to put to our helping hand, is as vain as to labour without God's Help. Not as if his Power were insufficient, but because our Endeavour is required to entitle us to his blessing.  
Shall the Ploughman burn his Blow, or Mariner his ship? because God hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. Shall we not provide decent clothing? because we must not take inordinate care for Raiment. Because CHRIST saith, take no Care what ye shall eat, shall we therefore expect another white sheet from Heaven? Or with the suggard in the Fable, lie on the ground, and expect the falling of the figs with Open mouth. Which is not to serve God, but to tempt him. Such idleness becomes none worse than a soldier of CHRIST'S band. The watchman must watch, though it be God that preserveth the city. His vineyard must be husbanded, & his Garden dressed. Paul must plant, & Apollo's water, before God give the increase. God could have healed Hezekiah without a Bunch of figs. Our Saviour, no doubt, could have spoken the word to the blind man, and he should have received his sight; but that his actions might be our Examples, he uses means for the Cure, he anointed his eyes with clay, bade him wash in the pool of Siloam before he could see. And in the 27 of the Acts of the Apostles, he gives S. Paul all the souls in the ship. His promise could not fail, yet their own sedulity was required to their Safety; by swimming & using broken pieces (you will find by the story) they all came safe to the Land. For how certain soever things are in respect of him who knoweth the End of all things, as well of those which shall be, as those which are or have been, they are not so in respect of our knowledge (as you have heard) wherefore we must not idly Cast ourselves upon his Providence, but humbly submit ourselves unto it, always showing our devotion in Prayers against an Evil, though we cannot our Power in overcoming itt.  
Discreet Diligence must accompany our Affection; Faith must be our Anchor, & we must Row with Fear, even with Fear & Trembling, in the least matter of our Salvation. Not like those whose Faith dares speak as boldy to their Maker as their Neighbour, and hear his Embassage with less reverence, nay with like familiarily, as the Message from an Acquaintance, searching into the very secrets of God, and presuming to learn, what God hath refused to teach; A Generation which may beknown by their Boldness, who take Christ's Office upon themselves, and will weed out those tares which he said should grow with the wheat till the Harvest. And like true Pharisees they separate themselves from the Congregation of their Btethrens, thinking themselves more Holy than they, & more skilful in God's Counsels than if they were immediately inspired from on high, intrepreting God's Deepest Mysteries without an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, at first sight, yea and that more sanctifiedly too than with a Month's preparation.  
Daniel (I doubt not) as wise a man & as holy as any of these meu, Ecclesiastic or Layick●, will not presume to intrepret so much as a Dream without respite and consideration; He first Prays, you will find, with his Company to God for Mercy concerning the secret. Nor will Hester speak unto her King, until she be assisted with the prayers of all the jews in Shushan. And S. john (as S. Jerome reports in his prologue upon S. Matthew) entreated by the Bishops of Asia his Brethren, to write his Gospel, against the Heriticks Ebion & Cerinthus, first required a public Fast to be solemnised throughout the whole Church.  
Such preparation in a Proportion is requisite in our lesser affairs. Rashly to enter the lists of any business (especially that which is sacred) is impudently to Challenge a Blessing not to entreat one, which profane Neglect of Duty how slightly soever men esteem of it, savours of Infidelity & Atheism. For who can Confess a Deity and be ignorant of its concurrence to all actions, and who can know this, & without great impiety, forbear to implore its assistance.  
To ask Help of God the Creator can be no prejudice to man, his Creature; but his greatest advantage & highest Honour. Nether do man's ordinary means & endeavours detract from God's All-sufficient Providence but declare its Power. We seeing the slenderness of our own strength, with greater admiration, acknowledge his Omnipotence which worketh all in all.  
Our Good old Father jacob here well knew the Power & Mercy of God, yet doth he not presume in a danger though he be resolved to bear it; but uses his best means, his faithful Heart & trembling Hand are employed together: The one in providing Presents for the Ruler of Egypt, the other in sending up Prayers to God. If the first cannot persuade him, the last shall command him. Faith is the ground of his diligence, He first relies on God's Mercy; and Fear the Rule of his actions, He goes about to pacify the Rule.  
Well then (quoth he) if it must be so, my sons, do thus, take of the best fruits of the Land in your vessels, alittle balm, alitle Honey spices & myrrh, nuts and Almonds, etc. His Prayers second his outward means, And God Almighty, says he, give you Mercy before the Man, that he may send away your other Brother and Benjamin, and what soever happens, I will endure it, yea, IF I BE BEREFT OF MY CHILDREN, I AM BEREFT.  
Sermon. TWO HITHERTO you have heard the necessity & manner of Submitting to the Will of God. I shall now enter on the 3 Part. of my text, & show you the Benefit redounding from such submissions.  
Part. III This casts me un avoidably upon a Common Place, and one of the most Common of Common Places even that of Adversity or afflistion, as often preached as felt. However there will be no cause to pass it over, since I am naturally led thereto by the Time, as well as my Text, a Time of judgement, of War, & of Danger, threatening our Poor Church & Kingdom with a heavy measure of affliction, & large portion of this Bitter Cup, which I fear is like to be felt, or tasted (unless a speedy Return in Duty to God & the King prevent) by ourselves, & our Posterity. While temporal crosses remain (which die only with Man) we must preach their Necessity & Benefit; The one as absolute, the other to the Godly certain.  
To Do Good & suffer wrong after CHRIST'S blessed Example, is an Especial part of Christian life & Duty. Your Diligence hath been required for the first, the last requires your Humility upon the same grounds of Faith & Fear; whereto if you do add (since Heaven frowns upon this Land,) a profound Humiliation, you will do more than God Expects at your hands.  
Not to fear Affliction becomes a Rigid Sceptic, or senseless Stoic, not an affectionate jacob, or tender hearted joseph. On the other side, to be utterly cast down in the Bed of Sorrow, fits not an Abraham, but a Cain. Both Good & Just is God, saith holy David; Good & Gracious to teach patient sinners in the way; but Just also to punish those, which run on still in their iniquity.  
Happy then are those troubled spirits (let me mind them) where this Constellation appears, where Fear acknowledgeth God a Just judge, and Faith beleiveth him a loving Father.  
Adversity indeed, is the Discipline of God's house, under which he brings up his Children, through fear of which he bridles their inordinate affections, & by disenabling and mortifying them works an unwillingness to offend. For Example.  
The Rich man spoiled of his Riches, sees their uncertainty, and so flies back from his eager pursuit of them to him that gave them. The Vainglorious & ambitious man degraded from Court to Cottage, and after all his Industry & endeavour to Rise, brought Low, & made an Object of Contempt, sees plainly there is no Confidence in any humane Help, no not in the best and most Potent of Princes, nor in any child of man (according to David's observation) teaching him to trust only on the King of Kings. The Good Father here in the text bereft of his Children, confesses they were but a broken staff, and when he could not longer continue a Father, contented himself fully that he was the Child of God.  
So prone is our Nature to all Voluptuousness and uncleanness▪ and so rebellious are our affections against any good, that nothing but this Wormwood can wean us from sucking the dregs of worldly & sensual Pleasures, or stop us in this Earthly pilgrimage from running headlong to destruction. He is certainly miserable, who never felt any misery, if we believe Seneca, and it is good Divinity in the Heathens own sense. Hos itaque quos probat Deus, quos amat, indurar, 
Lib. Cur bonis viris mala accidunt. c. 4.  recognoscit, exercet, quibus indulgere, quibus parcere videtur molles venturis malis servat. Very near that of the Apostle, Heb. 12. 6. The Lord Chasteneth whom he loveth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth, but reserveth whom he seemeth to pass by (Quibus parcere videtur, he doth but seem to pass them over) for greater punishment.  
God less regards a thousand beams in the Eyes of the wicked, than one Mote in the eyes of his people. I will not punish (saith God by his prophet) your daughters when they Commit wheredom nor your, sons when they commit adultery. Host 4. 14. But you whom I have chosen of all the earth, will I punish for all your Iniquity. Amos. 3. 1.  
Thus God's People in this life are as it were travelling from Egypt to Canaan. Tho our deadly Pharaoh, the Enemy of mankind, be over whelmed in the red sea of Christ's blood, that he cannot throw us down, yet can he east Rubs in our way to stumble us. Some Amerites there will be still to Oppose us. The Canaanite is yet in the Land. The Flesh & the World erect Golden Calves, suggest Murmurings, & Lusts, whereby we provoke God to wrath, and force him by affliction to Chastise and correct us into the right way.  
Our Journey is as theirs numb. 21. 22. from Bamoth to Pisgath▪ from the vale of humility & Death, to the plain hill of Happiness & Everlasting life. So S. jerôme applies these words in his Epistle ad Fabiolam.  
And this (before we proceed) may also afford a profitable lesson for this World's Darling. Hath any ascended this hill of Happiness? Let him not cast his scornful eye on his brother in the vale, but look rather towards jeshimon the wilderness over against him, pity them which are in it, and praise God for his better Mansion. Let him not forget that the Hill whereon he stands is Pisgah, which S. jerôme Interprets dolatus, Smooth as if it were plained, very slippery, with an Easy descent, from which the least slip may cast him down thither, whence with great labour he got up making him feel by experience that a Relapse is a double Fall. But this by the way.  
We may take one type more of the Sts. afflictions from the Israelites. There was never any honey (observes the same Father) in their Sacrifices; neither were the lights which burned in their Tabernacles of wax which is sweet, but of Oil sharp and bitter. As if they ought not enjoy the least Emblem or Shadow of Pleasure. But however it was withthem, certain itis to us Christians, that our joy & feli city is not in the Creature here below, but in those things which are above, where Cbrist sits on the right hand of God, whereon we ought to set our Affections, & which are the only object of a right mortified and faithful Christians Search. Our Light as well as Life is in Heaven, Where our Conversation▪ also ought to be, and where we shall by the assistance of the Almighty and a truly sanctified use of God's Visitations (Which are a christians best directions) in the Conclusion Arrive to our Everlasting comfort, if we are not wanting to ourselves. CHRIST JESUS the Sovereign of men and Angels and Captain of our Salvation, if we readily & heartily follow him & Trust in him, will bring us (and it is only He 
Ps. 66. v. 12.  that can bring us) through fire & water into a wealth Place. He is our MOSES to lead us (for we cannot go without him) from Bamoth to Pisgah through many Tribulations, through all the difficulties of our lives and callings, into the Kingdom of Heaven, & Port of our Salvation. And this is the end of God's visitations. The Fire of Adversity is designed to refine us, to purge away our dross, & to fit us for those pure mansions, whereinto no unclean thing can enter.  
Who will not then cry out with David, Ps. 119. v. 71. in his sufferings, it is good for me that I have been afflicted. It is as necessary a Duty to Praise God after Affliction, as to pray unto him in it, though we may not pray for it, tribulations, in themselves, being evil & the effect of Disobedience. Had not man grown Rebellious, God had not visited, but because of the wickedness of his doing, Gods sends upon him Cursing, vexation & Rebuke, Deut. 28. 20. But Christ the Rock of our Salvation (blessed be his name) has turned the edge of this sword. So that (non est malum jam Pati, sed malum facere.) It is not evil now to suffer, but to do Evil.  
The Cross of Christ (like the tree of God showed Moses Exod. 15. 25.) hath altered the nature of our troubled waters, they are no longer bitter & unsavoury, but pleasant & Wholesome.  


Especially in these Operations following▪  
1. They increase our knowledge, both of our Creator, & ourselves.  
2. They increase our Devotion, making us also more conformable to Christ our Head, & so fitter subjects for his Pity & Compassion.    
First they increase our knowledge, etc. While our Outward man is consumed the inner man is renewed. For as long as the body triumphs in his strength, the souls whole employment is to furnish the corporeal organs with vigour & power for their more base Exercises. But those parts disabled by Adversity to receive those Faculties, they return to the soul, and united work more strongly in a weightier matter, even in a divine Contemplation. There is now no fuel for Lust, no shows for Pride, every sense fails to bring in those delightsome species, which in the time of bodily health overloaded the fainting soul. This Prison therefore of the soul thus, once, broken, she becomes active in her business, & runs the way of God's Commandments. Whereas before she only heard of God (as Job speaks) by the hearing of the Ear, The Veil of the Temple once rend by sickness, or other adversity, now her Eyes see him. The Eye of her understanding she more clearly apprehends his Power. The Eye of her Faith she more confidently relies on his mercy.  
Secondly This knowledge inflames her Devotion, and renders us fitter subjects for his pity. We most Earnestly sue for a Remedy of Danger from him whom we best know cares most for us. While we are in our Jollity, just like the Prodigal, in S. Luke's Gospel, we look no further than ourselves. And that I am afraid hath been one of the sins of this Nation, & of this Place. A little cross may drive us to our Neighbour, but when we are driven to eat Husks with the swine, in our greatest Extremity, than (humiliatio in humilitate) our minds are humbled with our Bodies; then, & not till then, Necessity becomes a virtue; I will (because I must) go to the Father.  
God deals with his Children, as a Nurse with hers, suffers them to stagger now & then, that they may look the better to their feet. There is a Hand behind, which the Child sees not, that holds him up. Our Heavenly Father indeed plunges us (if I may so speak) here into the depth of Sorrow, that we may dive into the depth of our own Heart; and to make us more sensible, punishs us by degrees (as he did jacob) first with the loss of Rachel, then of joseph, afterwards with famine & fear of Benjamin. Even as joseph dealt with his brethren, but as joseph also, though he began in wrath, he ends in Peace.  
Mercy follows Judgement and nothing but impenitency doth make a separation. If God at any time be long in punishing, it is to teach his people more sensibly the guilt of their sin; that so, by the better knowledge of their guilt, they may be driven the sooner to repentance the seat of mercy. Both which methods of Almighty Gods dealing with his servants have been often experienced by the People of this land.  
Rough hewn timber and unpolishd stones, are unfit for any Princely Building, therefore God saws us (as it were) in pieces by Adversity, smooths our inordinate affections, & hews down our Rebellious lusts, before we can become a meet Temple of the Holy Ghost.  
God well knows we have lost that image & superscription which he stamped us in, and therefore melts us anew, as the Prophet speaks, Jer. 9 7., and purifies us in the fire of Affliction, that we may be made fit materials, in that day in the which he maketh up his Jewels, Mal. 3. 17.  
In a Christian life then, as in the Almond tree, we must expect a hard shell, though there be a sweet kernel. Hardness, all know by Experience, thus many times contains sweetness, and sundry other useful quallityes, as comfortable Health often follows after an unpleasant Potion.  
Let us approve ourselves therefore the servants of God, in much Patience, as dying but behold we live, as chastened but not killed: as sorrowful yet allway rejoicing. 2. Cor. 6. 9 10. Our Sorrow is but Quasi tristitia, transitory (it seems) as there noted, by the Apostle, a dream or shadow of sorrow. But the joy of a true Christian is other wise, there is Ce●tum gaudium, it is not said as joyful but allway rejoicing.  
Hath then God taken away our Worldly wealth from any of us? It is (we may conclude) because it should not deprive us of Eternal Happiness. Hath God bereft any of us of our Children or Friends? It is because we should put the more Trust in him. Hath he brought any of us to Dishonour here? It is because we may be more fit for Glory hereafter.  
external Benefits (none can deny) are God's Blessings: but so is the want of them also. All things work together for the best to those who Love God. Rom. 8. 28. Christ is to his faithful servants both in life & Death advantage. Would not any wise man willingly sow in tears, that he might reap in ●oy? Would not a man be content with a wet spring, so that he might be certain of a good harvest? And thus much the Holy Prophet David assures us of, Ps. 120. 6. He that goeth on his way weeping, bearing forth good seed, shall doubtless come again with joy, & bring his sheaves with him. The Keeper of Israel may sometimes seem to wink, but indeed he neither slumbers nor sleeps. If he suffer a storm for a time, (wherewith we are at this instant dreadfully threatened) however the ship shall not sink. God is most powerful oftentimes when we seem most neglected, Man's Extremities are Gods opportunities, hath always been the observation & language of Holy men. When ABRAHAM'S hand is up for the Stroke, than an Angel stops the sword. When MOSES lies sprawling in the River, than he is most safe from the Egyptian cruelty. And our jacob hear most comforted in his sons, when he supposed he had lost them. They are to him as the Red sea, threaten destruction but prove safety. While he complains they will bring down his grey hairs with sorrow to the Grave, they revive his old age with good tidings of Corn & joseph.  
Let us then in in the name of God (without farther enlargement) take up Jacob's Resolution in our distresses (to persuade which is the chief design of this and my former sermon, and for which we had never more cause) and we may justly Expect Jacob's Reward. Let us use all means with Fear & faithfulness, Diligence and Courage, to prevent those evils which threaten us, and leave the Event to God's Good pleasure, still ready, with Patient & Constant job, in the extremest misery, to cry out. Though thou Killest me, yet will I put my Trust in thee. So shall we approve ourselves faithful servants to God & the King. And at last receive that Crown of Eternal Bliss which is laid up for all those that fear him.  
But I shall not proceed any further in so beaten a Road, as the Topiek of adversity, nor yet (by your favour) conclude my discourse. There is nothing which can be more plain, & obvious to, a Christian, than the Benefitt of Affliction, a truth Conspicuous out of the writings of the very Heathens, & I commend unto your Review, at this Instant, Plutarch's excellent treatise to that purpose.  
I shall therefore have regard to the Times as well as my text, & consider some of those very afflictions hanging over our heads, which must exercise these our Resignations, & which will prove (christianly submitted unto) thus beneficial to us.  
That it is our Duty faithfully & cheerfully to submit unto God's will, in all times of Adversity with Faith & Fear; and that all truly Christian submissions will in the end be highly Advantageous, hath been the subject of my two last discourses in this Pulpit.  

Application.  IF the Days of Adversity & Affliction, Brethren, be such a hopeful seeds-time, we, in our present Circumstances, are like, if we sow in pious Tears, to have a plentiful crop.  
Many a Heavy Judgement are already fallen upon us, for our past fins against God; and in a more particular manner (we have too just reason to suspect) for our secure & carnal Confidence, our Trusting in the Arm of Flesh, as well as our unpardonable Disobedience to, & vile contempt of, God's Vicegerent the King. And many greater, for our stupid impenitency will fall, we have also too Just cause to fear.  
God hath moved the Land & Divided it, and if his Almighty, & most Merciful, hand doth not prevent, it must shake, nay totter into Ruin & Destruction.  

A cessation granted in order to treat▪  The SWORD is drawn in the Midst of the Nation: God grant it may not be too soon sheathed in one another's bowels; nor Whet by the present Cessation.  
Insomuch that what party soever gain the victory, both must certainly, some way or other, in the Conclusion, be Considerable Loser's.  
It is a sad thing that subjects to the same Prince, should in Words many times profess, & pretend, the same thing; and yet all the while fight against one another to Destruction.  
One Party, among other matters, declares for the Protestant Religion in general; another for the Church of England, as by Law Established.  
This cannot be other, with honest meaning, than the very same cause, for the Church of England is undoubtedly a Protestant Church, and the best Protestant Religion (notwithstanding all aspersions) is professed in that Church; & yet, in all probability, here is, in the Nation, a Quarrel begun (God forgive the Authors) which is not like to be determined without the Shedding of much Christian Blood.  
Or else, again, One Party declares for the King also, (as the Lords at York) as well as the Protestant Religion, together with the Liberties and Properties of the Subject; Another for the King, & Ancient Laws & Government in the Church & State. This likewise, without mental reservation, is no other than the former, & yet both Parties, you see, enter into a dismal bloody War to decide the Controversy.  
'tis certain, that our ancient Laws & Government (so much depending on Monarchy) cannot be preserved, by the Destruction of the Prince; and true Liberty & Property can never be secured by the Destruct on of the Ancient Government; no more can the right Protestant Religion.  
Come, BRETHREN, let us all be well-advised before we imbrue our hands deeply in one another's Blood, such like Pretences & Beginnings had, once, no better consequence.  
Behold, I say, two Parties of the King's subjects making the same Protestation, and yet all the while fight with one another, so that one of them cannot be sincere. If two Persons declare for the King, & yet fall to Blows, one of them (pretend what he will) must certainly be a Rebel in fight against the King.  
I would, in Charity, think that you all conclude Rebellion a most odious thing; and that few will (I am sure no good man would) dip themselves, in so heinous a crime knowingly and wilfully.  
The danger is that many worthy & Honest Gentlemen, as heretofore (and now in our Present juncture) may be ensnared, before they are aware, into this foul Offence, so far, that they cannot tell how to get back again: or (if they do themselves) cannot hinder ill men from proceeding on, & effecting their ends by virtue of the Reputation which they have given to an ill cause.  
I will therefore cease to contend in this place, who is the best subject or veriest Rebel. Whether I, that declare myself for the King, & the Protestant Religion; or he, that declares himself for the Protestant Religion, & the King, is the most Loyal, & the best Protestant.  
I have here openly & frequently enough discovered my Principles concerning Subjection. I am, Brethren, of the same mind I ever was, & so resolved, by God's Grace, to live & die.  
Instead of such disputes, I'll endeavour to paint, & set before your Eyes, this abominable sin that neither party will own. And (without telling you any more who are rebels) I'll plainly show you, what is Rebellion, and what, it is to be Rebellious.  
In prosecution whereof, I'll keep precisely (as well as I am able) to the very Terms, & Words, of the Church of England, in her Printed Sermons or Homilies, Published by Royal authourity.  
Rebellion then, you must know, is there esteemed by the Church of England, wherever it is found, either among Papists or Protestants (either on the 5 of Nou. or on the 30. of Jan.) the worst, as it was the first, of sins.  
In the first of her Homilies against Rebellion, it is styled the Root of all vices, & the Mother of all Mischiefs: and in the second part. the worst of all vices, & the Greatest of all Mischiefs, at the Breaking in whereof all sins, & Miseries, did flow in, & over-whelme the world: The Author of that accursed sin of Disobedience (which brings in all other at its heels) being no other than LUCIFER himself, who of the Brightest & most Glorious Angel, for this very sin of Disobedience, & Rebellion against his King, became the Blackest & foulest Fiend, and from the Height of Heaven fell into the Bottom of Hell. As our Church expresseth it in the afore said Homily.  
Rebellion, in another place speedily after, is styled the Foulest of all sins, being, as it were, the Source & Original of all other, and inseparable from the Highest Pride & Contempt of God. He that nameth Rebellion, saith our Church, nameth not a single, or one only sin, as is Theft, Murder, Robbery, & such like, but (to speak in the old language of the Homily) the whole Puddle & Sink of all sins against God & man; against his Prince, his Country, his Countrymen, his Parents, his Children, his Kinsfolks, his Friends, & against all men universally. All sins (saith the very same Homily) nameth he, that nameth Rebellion; every Commandment being violated thereby, pag. 360.  
Yea, that all the seven deadly sins are contained in Rebellion, you will find asserted in the same page, all sins, by all names that sins may be named, & by all means that sins may be committed, do wholly, & upon heaps follow Rebellion, pag. 361.  
Pestilence, Famine, & War, declared in scripture, to be the greatest of Worldly Plagues & Miseries; yea all the Miseries, which these Plagues have in them, do alltogethor follow Rebellion; the forequoted, pag.  
Of all wars, Civil War, (we are there minded) is the worst; But Rebellion far more abominable than any Civil War, pag. 362.  
Moreover, that Rebels are Commonly punished with Remarkable shameful Deaths, & that they do very seldom repent (the greatest of Punishments) we are assured, by the very same Homily, pag. 363.  
As also, that Heaven is the Place of good & obedient subjects, as Hell, the Prison & Dungeon of Rebels against God & their Prince. Our Church, in that very page, terming every obedient Realm the Figure of Heaven, & a Rebellious one the similitude of Hell.  
I think I need not produce any more quotations, or arguments, out of this Repository of our Church, to convince you, that Rebellion is the most abhorred sin; and that it can never prove a sovereign salve (whoever are the Authors or supporters of it) for the King, Church, or Kingdom.  
But that I may have a sufficient foundation, for a pathetic dissuasion from this sin; it will be requisite to inform you fully, in right Church-of-England-Loyalty. And it can be no other, that is taken, word for word, out of these her own authorized Sermons, which will be most effectually done, by satisfying you, in a particular manner, what the Church of England esteems to be Rebellion.  
First, to withstand, or use any force or violence to, Lawful Sovereigns, the they be never so wicked, and do never so much abuse their Power, is Rebellious. If you will not give me credit; I'll tell you the very page where you may find it. Even in the Homily of Obedience. Part. the second pag. the 66, the last Edit. in the year 1676. Where you are also minded (and I desire you to take good notice thereof) that the Amal●kite who Killed King Saul, though it was done by Saul's own consent & command, 2 Kings. 1, was put to Death.  
Secondly, we are informed that not only open Rebellion, or down right Resistance of the Lords anointed▪ but any kind of Insurrection, or COMMOTION, or Murmuring (one of our modern virtues) is condemned as an intolerable Wickedness, in a well governed Kingdom, p. 67, of the same Hom. 
* N●.  Where you see, by the way, how much this Ages, and that Ages, Protestants, differ in their Sentiments of Loyalty.  
Thirdly, in case of unlawful, or sinful, Commands, our Mother the Church of England (amidst all the unjust Reproaches cast on her) is so far from approving any Violent withstanding, or Rebelling against, lawful Rulers, that it will not allow of any sort of sedition or Tumults, either by Force of Arms, or Otherwise, against the King himself, or any of his officers. But lays before the Rebel's Eye Gods remarkable Judgements on Corah, Dathan, & Abiram, and on others, for provoking God in the like kind; and less provocations, than most of us have been guilty of, though, through the mercy of God, & a Gracious King, we have hitherto escapd unpunished.  
The forementiond Corah, Dathan, & Abiram, were swallowed up alive, for but Grudging against God's Magistrates. Others were utterly Consumed by a sudden Fire sent from God, for their Wicked Murmuring. Others were suddenly stricken with a foul leprosy, for but froward behaviour; not to mention some stung to death with strange, fiery serpents; and 14700, at one time, killed with the Plague, whereof you are minded in the Conclusion of the same Homily; as you are, in Other places of scripture, of 24000, & 70000, also slain by the same Judgement of God for the very same sin. That very sin of Rebellion, that truly Diabolick sin, which many present pretenders to Loyalty nourish in their Bosoms; who have invited the SWORD into the Land, & thereby Conjured up a Devil, which God knows when they will be able to Conjure down again.  
I shall say no more to rectify your Notions Concerning Loyalty & Rebellion, than that our mother the Church of England (now sadly Wounded by her own Children) who is Exceeding averse to this Hellish crime, doth in these her orthodox & Pious Composers (the standard of our Sermons & divinity) Condemn it as disloyal & Rebellious, not only to depose, destroy, or oppose, the King but to put him in fear, to Terrify, or disturb his sacred Person or Mind; valuable (as the scripture tells us) above ten thousand of his subjects.  
And how any of those, who either join with his Enemies; or sit still when their Sovereign needs their assistance, or somuch as mutter against him, can purge themselves from this last mentioned Gild (if the Contrivers and Managers of the Invasion have furnished them with distinctions to clear themselves of the former) I shall never be able to comprehend, or Understand.  
Having now, by God's assistance, shown you the necessity of Christian submission, Resolution, & Resignation to the Will of God; and the manner how we are to Exercise those necessary, & useful Graces, and also made some seasonable Reflections on God's judgements, at this time hanging over our Heads, which do lowdy call for the Practice of the foresaid Duties (without which 'tis impossible for us to be so truly Penitent as to appease God's wrath) Laying also before you the Heinous Gild, & odiousness of the sin of Rebellion, and according to the Doctrine, & in the Words of the Church of England, endeavoured to inform you what the Church (which can better Judge than our Private Heads) doth esteem to be Rebellion & Rebellious, to fortify you against the Odd Notions, & Hodge-Podge-Divinity of such Divines, as are more able to write the History of the Reformation, than willing to Practise the Reformed Religion of the Church of England (the Glory whereof is the Bearing Faith & true Allegiance to their lawful Sovereign) Give me leave as well as I am able to dissuade you from that abominable sin, and all approaches towards it, which is so dreadful in its consequences, and destructive to Monarchy and Episcopacy, being fostered as the Darling of Presbytery & a Common wealth▪ and probably by none more than our Neighbouring One, who Upholds her unnatural Invasion by tempting Subjects to ●ight against their Lawful Sovereign.  
BRETHREN I am not so old as to have forgot, nor so young but that I do Well Remember, the spetious & holy Pretences of 41 which were made use of to Ruin both Church & State. Neither would I be thought so stupid, as not to fear & suspect, but that the same Train of Designs, Intrieguts', and Mathinations, may have the same dismally effects.  
The Generality of People were even then, in the days of King Charles I. as much afraid of Popery, as we are at present, though he shown himself to be one of the most Pious men, and truest Protestant Princes on the Face of the whole Earth. They then dreaded TYRANNY & ARBITRARY POWER (as they pretended) though they lived under a Meek & Gracious Prince, whose Clemency proved his Ruin. They Loudly Exclaimed against EVIL COUNSELLORS, but were not satisfied till they were fleshed with the Blood of LAUD and STRAFFORD, and had overthrown (under that populour colour & disguise) the most Considerable Pillars of Church and State. They complained of Greivances, (with no less noise in those days than Malcontents in these) and also Unmannerly pressed for Condescensions, but when they had Extorted them from that Good Prince, (who was tender of his People even to Excess) they were not contented till he had condescended his Royal Head to the Block; and that, by one fatal Blow, three Kingdoms were involved in Blood & Confusion, Gods-solemne Worship & Service turned quite of doors, the Fathers and dignified Clergy of the Church, aswell as the right-Loyall Nobility & Gentry of the Land, Vilely trampelled on by the Meanest of the Vulgar, and at last the Crown & Church-Revenue (the Purchase chiefly armed at) seized on, & employed to maintain & support FANATICISME & USURPATION.  
Why Rebellion, Sedition, or any rude Treatment of Majesty, should now portend better in 88, than it did 48 years ago, I cannot discover. And that Rebels & Traitor's stead into the Low-countryes, should be purified by the Air & Conversation of Holland, I can as little Conceive. No more can I conceit how the enticing and ensnaring away of the King's subjects (as at present) to fight against their Liege Lord & Sovereign, (nay to deliver him up into the hands of his Enemies) should be a specimen, & infallible Mark of kindness to the Church of-England-Protestant-Religion. Which will not permit upon any pretences whatsoever to take up Arms against a Lawful King, nor assist, aid, or abet those who do, no not somuch as to wish ill to the Lords Anointed in the very Bottom of our Hearts.  
For the Love of God, Brethren, let us leave those fond imaginations, discourses, and practices, which have set the whole Land into a Combustion; let us be ashamed of those Unreasonable Delusions, & Methods of Delivery, which bring those very Fears, (or worse Evils,) on us, which we endeavour to Avoid. Such Infatuation is a sad Prognostication. Quos perdere vult Iupiter hos dementat.  
We have, in this juncture, I confess, just ground of Fear & jeasousy. ay, who have hitherto Opposed Fears & jealousies, do now advise the preaching on those Topieks, to wit. That they who dare unjustly to invade us; intent if they can, (pretend what they please) to Conquer us, and in plain terms in the conclusion to enslave us.  
I dare not in such a Time of difficulty, but declare clearly my Mind & Conscience. If the Trumpet now should give an uncertain Sound, it might be of lamentable consequence.  
I never did yet (I thank God) nor ever will play my Game so, as if I intended only to save my Stake.  
It is your infelicity (Dear & Beloved Brethren) at this instant, to have no Person in Circumstances Superior to me, (in the, Country) to give you right measures. Which when I have honestly and faithfully done; as I have endeavoured this day, (if you will not take them) the Gild must lie at your own doors.  
I never yet was, nor ever shall be, I trust, ashamed, in the Pulpit, to own my duty to my Sovereign. And if I should be silent now, when there is more need than ever for Preachers faithfully to Open their Mouths, to prevent the Seducing of Well-meaning People▪ I should conclude myself accessary to the Rebellion.  
The God of Heaven by his Holy Spirit, the most Infallible Guide, direct us all into the faithful discharge of our respective duties to our Sovereign, from which we can never deviate I am sure without deviating from the Church of England.  
To God the Father, etc.  
FINIS.   

THE CHIEFEST MATTERS CONTAINED IN SUNDRY DISCOURSES MADE TO THE CLERGY OF THE ARCHDEACONRY of DURHAM, SINCE HIS MAJESTY'S COMING TO THE CROWN▪ Summed up and seasonably brought again to their view in a Loyal Farewell-visitation-speech on the 15. of November last. 88 being ten days after the Landing of the Prince of Orange.  
By DENIS GRANVILLE D. D. Deane & Archdeacon of Durham, (now in Exile) Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty.  
Printed at Roüens by WILLIAM MACHUEL, ruë S. Lo, near the Palace for JOHN baptist BESONGNE, ruë Escuyer, at the Royal sun, and are to be sold by AUGUSTIN BESONGNE in the Great Hall of the Palace at Paris.  
In the year of our Lord God M. DC. LXXXIX.   

TO THE READER.  

Dec. 11. 1688.  THE same necessity which drove me from my Home, at the very time which my Sovereign was forced to withdraw from his own Palace, compels me to send these, as well as my other, Papers, to the Press, to show the manner, how I parted with my Friends & Flocks in the Bishopric of Durham, and that the last Discharge of my archidiaconal Office in a Time of trouble, was suitable to my past life & Actting, during more than twenty years, in a time of Peace.  
How imperfect & insufficient soever both have been, I never wanted, through God's Grace, Resolution all a long to Oppose the Subjects in croaching on the Prerogative of their King; as heartily as I have withstood the Dutch their Invading of the Land. It will be no great ground of Admiration then to all who throughly know me, that, at such a juncture, I did dare speak plain English, to fortify my Brethren against Temptations, and encourage them, as I have done, in their Duty to God & the King. And I Bless Gods most holy name, that he hath been pleased to bestow on me, for the supply of my manifold Defects, always Christian Confidence, in the Pulpit, who have not enjoyed much of it any where else.  
By what God gave me boldness, at that time, to speak in the ears of a large & Public Auditory of Clergy & Laity (not rashly but with the most mature consideration that I uttered any thing in my whole life) they might perceive I did not intend to stay at Durham, if my Sovereign should be Banished from his Kingdom. As by committing the same discourse to the Press, after more serious thoughts & greater deliberation, all men will be easily Convinced, that till my Sovereign be restored (which I do heartily pray for) I have no thoughts to return.  
Tho I found it very easy, & intelligible, how to behave myself under a Roman Catholic Prince, in the discharge of all Duties, incumbent on me, as a Right Church-of-England-Subject, or Christian, yet must acknowledge that I am void of Logic & other Learning to supply me with distinctions, and furniture, necessary to live under an Usurper.  
And therefore if the Reader discover the whole course of my life, as well as my writes, destitute of Craft to transform myself into any shape, and change with the Government, let him not be astonished; or accuse me over rigidly, for not doing that, for which I am not so well, as others, qualified, either by nature, or education.  
It hath been my fate to have sucked in other Principles, & to have been trained up under better Tutors; nay, possibly, in my whole Make, to be so contrived, and composed, that it is not in the Power of man to new-mould me, into that sort of Animal, which can blow Hot & Cold with the same Breath, and is able to save his stake, what ever Card turns up trump.  
To these who shall condemn it in me▪ as a deplorable piece of Madness, or folly to talk or write away such a Considerable Revenue, as Providence & my Kind Patrons have bestowed on me, (which I am like to do by setting my name▪ to what I print) I must declare that I am one of those Fools S. Paul speaks of, who that I may be wise am willing, in the sight of the world, to become a Fool, valuing my Innocency, & Quiet of Conscience, more than I do the best Deanery, or Bishopric in Christendom. And as nothing yet hath tempted me, I thank God, to Compliment away my Religion, (though I have been by some so reproached) upon Gods raising & setting over us a Prince of a different Communion. So no Consideration whatsoever (I rely on God's Grace) shall be able to prevail with me to prostitute it, by falling down to adore the multitude, or any Image (though it be of Gold) that shall be set up by the People.  
Those therefore that attack me by arguments, or Threats, in letters, to seduce me back, and draw me into a Compliance with the new Government, that I might set my hand to she raising up the Babel which they are building in England, may save their labour & ink. For till they have confuted the Doctrine which they have preached, as well as the sound Divinity of their Mother, which they have forsaken, they may cease from offerring me other arguments to convince me. And till they persuade me to set a higher value upon my money, than I do on the Grace of God, & prise my temporal interest more than mine Integrity (which no magic I have yet met with all hath been able to effect, so as to fill my pockets) they may also forbear to affright me with Deprivation.  
I have long considered, & studied the point of Allegiance, which I own to my only Liege Lord & Sovereign King james 2, and to no other, and am firmly without doubt, or scruple, satisfied that my Religion will not permit me to swear fidelity to any besides him.  
That the greatest part of my Brethren notwithstanding the faithful & frequent endeavours I have used to establish them in Conformity & Loyalty, should forsake Gods Vicegerent, to do Homage to the People's, is an unexpressible grief to my soul.  
To prevent the Incurring such guilt, and the lamentable scandal of such Apostasy, I did in due time (as may appear from the date of the ensuing Address) expose myself to much censure, by delivering my mind, to an Auditory, which seemed ready to run themselves (as they have done) into that Yoke & servitude; which I (who had greater temptations than others) was resolved to run out of the Kingdom, & from my preferment, rather than submit to.  
And to demonstrate that I am (after great thought fullness & much prayer to God to direct me) of the very same mind here in France on Nou. 15. 1689, that I was in England on the same day of the month 1688, as well as desirous to express my willingness, to do all that in me lies, to awaken those out of their sin, which I could not confirm in their Duty; I am as willing to commit to the Press the discourse I then made. Tho I well know, that I shall, in so doing, in case these Papers get into England, (and considering men's present Genius & Actings there) be exposed to the danger of running (as it were) the 
* Gandelop.  Gauntlet through the Nation.  
D. G. Trom my study in Roüen Nou. 15. 1689.   

ADVERTISEMENT.  
IF this or the former Piece have the good fortune to find the way back to Durham, and fall into the hands of those Persons that were present when they were spoken, (for whose sake they were first delivered and since Printed,) they may chance to take notice, in the perusal, (if their memories do not fail them,) that the Author is more sparing than heretofore, or ever used to be, in his Commendation of the Constitútion of the Church of England, and more particularly in the Praise of its well compiled Liturgy, which he was wont, upon all occasions, very highly to extol; In which case, they are desired to understand and consider, that these Papers have been Printed in a R. Catholic Country, where they could not be permitted to pass the press without the perusal, & approbation of R. Catholics; and that it was a great mark of favour, and an especial token of their present forwardness to concur with, and encourage Loyalty, to suffer Sermons and A speech, spoken by a Divine of the Church of England, to be printed here at all, notwithstanding the castigations which have been made, by the retrenchment of sundry expressions, & omitting all Comparisons which did carry with them any Reflections. And therefore the aforesaid people have no just cause given them to conceit, that the Author hath, in any respect, Changed his sentiments of the Religion of the Church of England, which he hath ever professed, & where in he desires and resolves, by god's Grace, to live and Die.  
If the above mentioned Auditors, (who discover too apparently, that there is among them at home, what ever is in the Author abroad, a lamentable Change) or any other sort of Readers, of our own, or of any Foreign Nation, fancy him guilty of too much sharpness of expression, they are entreated to remember, or to be informed, that what ever he hath utterred, in a time of great Heat & Hurry, hath been spoken against such as did invade his own Native County with unexpressible injustice & unnaturalness, (as well as many heightening aggravations for want gratitude) and that it was a special Duty in every one of his Character, & his station, at that time to expose as much as they were able, an invasion which was beyond all precedent, & without parallel. In so much, that if a satirical Invective (of which the Author was never a great lover) be at any time allowable, in the writings of a Divine, it cannot be denied, surely, but that it may pass here, in this Instance: especially Considering that he did very seasonably show such his indignation, even before the Forces that Landed had rolled to so great a number, but that they might have been Opposed, nay suppressed, by any one County of England, which would have showed itself, right valiant, faithful, and unanimous. And if some 〈…〉 with 〈…〉 during the Reign of in rai●ing subjects▪ 〈…〉 (in the 〈…〉 of Doctor ●.) to dethrone their lawful Sovereign▪ had done their parts, but with as hearty good will (all that the 〈…〉 boast of▪ as he did ● more counties than one▪ might probably have been alarm▪ d, into so Deep a sense of their duty and condition▪ that our present low Country▪ Cavaliers who have mounted us (& shown themselves already so ill riders as to have sput▪ galled us), might have been driven away with shame, before they had gotten into▪ or fixed themselves in 〈…〉 So desirable an end, the Author conceived, may certainly authorize some smartness of stile, and Apologise for him, in any national or 〈…〉 reflections▪ his honest zeal transported him into (which as he spoke he 〈…〉 that if any perceive some vinegar in his ink, he is persuaded▪ they will discover ●o gowle.   

A speech made by the Archdeacon to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Durham in the Church of St. Marry le Bow on the 15. of Nou. 1688. with a Repetition of some chief Matters contained in former speeches since his present Majesty's Accession to the Crown.  

REVEREND & WORTHY BRETHREN.  

Introduction.  It is a Custom in the University of Oxford, once in the year, in the University-Church, to have a Repetition Sermon. This, as wellas other her Customs, I make no doubt, is supported with Substantial Reason. An Auditory of Scholars and Learned men, Doctors & Divines, have not, as she supposes, always such faithful Memories, but that they need a monitor.  
It is no affront therefore Brethren, to think that the Gravest Clergy, at the most Solemn Visitation, may be men of the like Infirmities.  
Were I not then Convinced by the language of your Actions (Whereby you Speak as plainly as by your tongues) that you have either forgotten many things of moment said unto you, or have done much worse, that is, in plain terms, undervalved & rejected them; I your Unworthy Archdeacon, might have cause enough, once in my life, to imitate this laudable University-Patterne, in making you a Repetion-Speech, which, though long, will go down with you the better, at a time, when, as at present, you have no Visitation-Sermon.  
And here it will not be amiss to mind you, that, Repetition-Taske there, in the Church at Oxford, is the most difficult Employment of the whole year. So that you will have Small reason to imagine that I do betake myself to the like course, so much for mine own ease, as for your Edification. And as I shall imitate my Mother the University, in one respect, so shall I in an other. She doth not exercise the Patience of her Auditory, so far, as to bring to their view the substance of many or any Sermons of the whole year, but of the four last immediately preceding Low-Sunday: viz. the Sermons preached on Good-Friday & Easter-Day with those on the two following festivals. No more shall I disturb you with Hearing the Heads of any of my past Addresses, saving the four last, I mean those, which I have made since the Death of our Late Gracious Sovereign. Tho I might invite you to look farther back, being not conscious to myself, (God be praised) that I did ever with zeal press any thing upon you, but what was well worth your Hearing, and consonant to the known Rules of the Church of England. So without any more ado (praying for God's Assistance) I enter on my proposed employment.   

REPETITION OF THE SUBSTANCE OF FORMER SPEECHES.  
SPEECH I.  
THE former of these four Discourses I made you in the Church of S. Nicholas, the three last in this where in we are at present assembled. I shall according to our Oxford-Method entertain you with the Chief & Most important Points in the same order which I spoke them.  
First in that (after a considerable absence & a great Change▪) I did Judge it meet to bring to your view, The Greatness of our Affliction, & our greater sins which provoked God at that time, & in that manner to punish us with the loss of a Meek & merciful Father of our Country.  
A Prince of so condescending a Race, that he was (like his never enough to be admired and good natured Father) more concerned for the Ease & Property of his subjects, than for the security of his own Person & Prerogatives; A Prince of such Exemplary long-suffering, bearing with such innumerable & intolerable Affronts of his Authority, that he did evince to all the world, that it was scarce possible for a Stuart ever to be a Tyrant: A Prince, what ever might be his own personal Infirmities, that had not one of those gross Flaws in a Monarch, which do border upon Injustice & Cruelty to his People; A Prince, that did so abound in Acts of Grace to a stubborn & ungrateful Generation, that an Excessive Clemency had like to have proved his own, as it did his Father's Ruin: Lastly a Prince under whom (God forgive our unreasonable complaints) we might have been (if w●e were not) one of the Happiest Nations in the World.  
The next thing which I offered to your consideration, was, The Gracious Goodness of the present King, in not only continuing but Protecting our Religion: Whereby he did in an unexpected, Blessed, manner, defeat the bitter Calumnies of his Malicious Enemies, who for seven years before had most seditiously hammered into the Spirits of the vulgar most Dismal & Dreadful Apprehensions of a Popish successor. He thereby proving all those (God be thanked) false Prophets, who had insinuated into the People's minds (to the scaring them almost out of their senses) that as soon as the Duke of York came to the Crown, we should have Mass said in all she cathedrals in England. To which Act of mercy in the King, it was but an unsuitable & unseasonable Return (I could not omit the notice) to grudge his Majesty, and those of his Persuasion, the Exercise of their own Religion, with impunity from the severity of the Laws, whilst God kept us under the Government of a Prince of the Roman Communion: Witness the Untimely heat of some turbulent Spirits, in the House of Commons, which assembled on the 19 of may after his Coming to the Crown, who flung a bone among that August assembly, which was like to have brokn all their Teeth: furiously pushing on the then present, & immediate Revival of the Penal Laws, without any exception of the Roman Catholics, who had undeniable pretences, considering their Loyalty and services in the Great Rebellion, to some respite during the Reign of a Prince of their own Religion. But the Major part of that Loyal Parliament wisely foresaw, whereto such a preposterous proceeding did tend, and like faithful Patriots did readily oppose, & soon Quench the flame of that ill-timed Zeal; resolving without any more ado (Would God none had ever changed their minds) firmly to rely on the word of their Gracious Prince, for the security of their Religion & Laws; dutifully expressing their just Indignation against those rash, as well as horrid Rebels, who did at that time, insolently make a desperate attempt to overthrew our Ancient Monarchy: The Parliament Passing a Bill of Attainder, in the first place, against the Arch▪ Rebel & Head of that Republican Crew, who were Wafted hither from the Low-countryes; and then after wards assisting their Sovereign with their Purses & Persons to the utmost of their Power, till (by the Blessing of God) he had wholly suppressed a Dreadful Rebellion; which, however small it might be, in the beginning, might have proved fatal to the whole Church, as well as Kingdom.  
On which Wicked & Bloody Design, we may now make the more severe Reflections (as things have fallen out) since that vile Rebellion, (after it was hatched in Hell) had been harboured in Holland, among our Neighbour's, who make a bad compliment to England, for raising them from a poor distressed state, in the days of Queen Elizabeth, to so High and mighty a Republic, as to give chec to the most potent Crowned Heads, even to the greatest of their Benefactors: and from disputing in the days of Charles 2 for the Sovereignty of the seas (an act insolent enough) to contend in the days of King james 2 for the Sovereignty of the Land, and to fight for the Imperial Crown of this Kingdom, if not to wear it on their heads (which it would badly become) to trample it under their Feet; which would be the undoubted Issue of a Flemish zeal, mixed with Gunpowder & Brandy, though never somuch varnished over with Pretences of Liberty, & Religion.  
We may learn the Favour of the Hollander, in the stories of Amboina & Bantam. From Dutch Acts of Mercy (though some I do behold would not be convinced a few days ago, that, if the Dutch should land, they intended us any harm) the Lord deliver me, and all the Kings Obedient Subjects. And let those who abound with so unaccountable & absurd a sort of Charity, only feel, & experiment their Compassion. And now from this seasonable, and pertinent digression I am led to my third particular of that Visitation-Speech which I am Epitomizing. To wit.  
The unspeakable & undeserved Mercy of Allmighty God, in the blessed suppression of that Diabolick Rebellion where with the Enemies of our King & Church welcomed our Sovereign to the Crown.  
A sad welcome for a poor Weather-beaten Prince newly come into the Haven after a long & terrible Storm; lately banished from Kingdom to Kingdom, and (which he had reason to think none of the least penances which Heaven had imposed upon him) driven into Holland among the Ducth, who it is a Wonder did not use Violence to him, since they did immediately, upon his Coming to the Crown, countenance & support those Rebellious misereants▪ that sought his Royal Life. And whose good will & well-wishes, to those unfortunate Rebels (who landed in the west) may now Clearly be discovered, by the preparations which they have been making ever since the Victory, given by God to our Sovereign, at King-Sedgemoor. Which disappointment, it is plain, grieved them, since they are, at this very instant, maintaining the same Quarrel; publishing a no less Wicked Manifesto, or Declaration; only with this difference, that these treacherous Enemies (which in this juncture of Affairs have impudently invaded us) seem a little more angry, than those traitors which landed at lime, with the God of Heaven, for postponing their Stateholders' pretences to the Crown, by the Blessed Birth of a hopeful Prince (whom God preserve) To whom the Barbarous Dutch (and some more barbarous among ourselves) have been more cruel than Bloody Herod in killing the Children, by endeavouring to prove him illegitimate & disinheriting him (which Providence & the King's wisdom & Care seems to have put out of dispute) thereby destroying the Hopes & felicity of three Kingdoms, in depriving them of so unvaluable a Blessing as an heir Male, to succeed to & support the Monarchy▪ But, to return, the Remarkable Justice & Vengeance of God, in cutting of with great speed those Traitors, last spoken of which they had fostered in their Bosom, and assisted with vessels and arms, to land and begin a Rebellion in England and Scotland, together with the many signal Providences of Heaven, in frustrating all their Wicked designs, bringing to nought all their mischievous attempts, and making that Rebellion, intended for the Ruin of Church & state, a means (as rightly improved it might have been) the longer to uphold both; should Convince (I say) even the most stupid Dutch Understanding of the heavy displeasure of God against such hateful Hypocrisy, as▪ the Colouring over secular, unjust, nay treasonable & bloody Machinations with the profession of Piety: One of the Mottoes which they, at present, bear in some of their Flags (as reported) being pro libertate & Religione for the Preservation of liberty and Religion. That our Neighbours the Dutch, of all others, are become thus zealous & devout, & concerned for the liberties and Religion of England (as they would have us imagine) is some what unintelligible. Bibit Flander editque benè, hath been by wise men heretofore assigned for the Flemmins Character; and I never since heard of his Reformation. Such SAVIOUR'S OF OUR CHURCH (God bless her) would be as bad as the late SAVIOUR'S OF OUR NATION. If Heaven were incensed against us in such a degree, as to put us under a necessity of such miserable Comforters, and friends to support us, it would be hard to know which to choose: A Saviour from Amsterdam or Sala-Manca. All I shall farther say, before I proceed to the next particular, is, that as I do, with all my soul, thank & bless Heaven for Saving the Nation from one of these Saviour's, so I pray with most fervent Zeal (in conjunction with all truly loyal subjects) that we may, in due time, be saved from the Other; Trusting in God, nay resting well assured, that we shall have a gracious Return of our Prayers, if our sins prevent not. And so I engage in my last particular of my first discourse, namely.  
Our indispensable Obligation both to God & the King, to live suitably to such unexpected Blessings of Heaven, & unmerited kindness▪ of an indulgent Prince.  
The mercy of God (you were then told) had been Wonderful beyond expression to our Gracious Sovereign, in first restoring him with his Royal Brothers, after innumerable difficulties attending the Great & Long Rebellion, afterwards preserving him from the danger of many Bloody Battles in defence of this nation, against those very enraged Enemies, which would (notwithstanding we feel their Malice) make the world believe (and some I find are easy enough to believe it) that they are our kind, nay Religious Friends: In the next place delivering him, from that never to be forgotten danger of the Deep, when the GLOUCESTER perished on the Lemon & Oar where God many ways manifested, that he was a Prince which Heaven took into its special & Extraordinary Protection: Then rescuing him from a greater than any of the former danger,, even from the Madness of the People, from the fury of the Rabble, from the Rage of the incensed Multitude, which could not refrain from the highest of Affronts, stabbing in Effigy: Judging him unworthy of the respect due to a King's Brother, though a Turk or Pagan▪ not remembering him for a while somuch as in their Prayers or Cups. Which spleen & Contempt of his sacred person, increased to so high a Pitch (I then observed) that many, of all degrees & Qualities (setting themselves against him) would be satisfied with nothing less, than à barbarous Exclusion of him from the Imperial Crown, whereto Almighty God in spite of Men & Devils has brought him▪ with great Honour & to our Comfort: God, in whose Governance are the Hearts of Kings, putting it into his Royal mind to dispel the Fears & Jealousies of his people, by the first Act he did in Council, before he had wiped the Tears from his Eyes for his beloved Brother; And afterwards making him a Blessed Instrument of suppressing that first (Dutch) Rebellion, which I dare so to style, since it was form in Holland, the Common Receptacle of Christendom for Rebels & Traitors, and so successful a Forge for Treasonable practices, that two proscribed Ministers (fitter to be Smiths than Divines) have there hammered out a second more Devilish Conspiracy. Such Goodness of God to our Royal Family, not leaving it destitute of a Prince of the right line, but settling upon the Throne so accomplished an one in all respects, that if he had been of our Own Religion, we should have thought ourselves loaded with more Happiness than we had been able to bear. This Mercy Isay, in raising a Gracious Princs (though of a different Faith) to be the Defender of ours, in crushing a Rebellion like a Cockatrice in the shell, which aimed more at the destruction of the Church than the Crown, is so unparallelled a Blessing as deservs Everlasting Praise, and an eternal obligation to conform our lives to the Will & Commands of our Earthly as well as our Heavenly King. Which we cannot do (give me leave on such occasions always to be your monitor) till nee do approve ourselves truly Genuine, obedient sons of the Church, as well as Dutiful Complying subjects (I know no difference in those two Epithets of Obedient & Complying, though the last hath been turned into a reproach) in all things which are not Contrary to the Clear Word of God. But I will, for a while, stop such inlargements, as well as set a Period to my promised repetition of the most important Heads of the first of my four Visitation-Discourses, propounded to be brought to your View. Which I have enlarged by unavoidable digressions, Occasioned by the present wicked and treacherous Invasion. I shall sooner pass through the Heads of the second remaining ones, without such additionary Reflections, and bring all, I trust, with in the compass of less time, than what is allowed for both Sermon and speech at a Visitation.   

SPEECH. II.  
THe chief points of my second discourse which I shall lay before you, are, as followeth.  
First our present Kings further Expression of his Gracious Goodnesse and Condescension in the seasonable & happy Renewall of those wholesome & Ecexllent Directions to Preachers, which were published by his martyred Father, and set forth, a second time, by his Royal Brother K. Charles the 2. in the year 1662. Injoining such a Regulation of the Pulpit (out of which have issued our former and our present Flames ready to devour us) such Exact conformity to our Rubric, such frequent Publication (in all parochial Churches) of the Doctrine and discipline of our Church, such respect to the Lords day, and chiefly such a Training up of the Youth, & Catechising them in the Book of Common Prayer, as was the most likely means, (valuable infinitely beyond all our Disputes & Harangues from Either Pulpit or Press) to preserve, the Church of England. And which we Clergy had greedily embraced (God forgive us that fatal Error of Neglecting them) had we not laboured under some kind of Infatuation.  
Secondly, that bitter Invectives a 'gainst the Pope of Rome (whilst we live under a Prince of the Roman Communion) omitting the more sure ways to preserve our Religion, allowed by this, and the last Good King, as well as biting declamations against the non-Conformists in the late King's Reign, by those who were themselves but semi-Conformists, were an Effect of very unblamable & dangerous Zeal, and had mightily increased our schism and weakened our Church: It being not Satirical Harangues, in the days of K. Ch. the 2. (as I then told you, & still think seasonable to repeat) against the fanatics, which did without a Complete Conformity to our Rules, signalise a Right Church-of-England-Divine. No more than furious Railing, or hot Disputing against the Pope, or Church of Rome, in the present Reign of K. James. 2. Can give an undeniable Demonstration, that we are Good Subjects, or firm Protestants. Neither of which can evidence us (God knows) to be the legitimate Jssue of that Church which was never guilty of Boisterous, and unmannerly Zeal, but always professed and taught, not only a deep veneration for Majesty, but Christ like Meekness and Moderation: Exhorting her Children to Honour the King, as well as Fear God, and to be just to all, even to the worst & most implacable of her Enemies or Impugners.  
Thirdly I showed the indispensable Duty of every one of us, to betake ourselves to a more indubitable Course, than the former, of maintaining our Religion by those lawful means (and much more effectual than the other) which were allowed by the King as well as our Church to save our souls, that is, by living according to our Doctrine, rather than by Talking for it, & most particularly by studying and practising our Common Prayer Book; not Spending our Powder & Ball in needless and impertinent pickaring, but laying up a store of Ammunition, & furnishing ourselves by the foresaid prescribed Courses with Courage & Magnanimity against a Day of Battle.  
The fourth & last Point recommended to your Considetation then, at that Juncture of Affairs (and is still worthy to be thought of) was, whether that Subtle & Malicious spirit (who often transforms himself into an Angel of Light, effecting his worst Designs under the disguise of Holiness) dot not use pretended Zeal against, as well as Fears & jealousies of Popery▪ as the most likely and success full strategem to bring it in. I was then and am still of that Opinion. And, for God's sake, do not despise this honest Caution.   

SPEECH III.  
THUS having dispatched the things most worthy of notice, contained in my second discourse as well as the first, I shall attempt to bring to your view the most significant Heads of the third.  
And here Waving sundry Arguments then laid before you, to submit to your Sovereign's Will and Pleasure, even, in the most uninntelligible of all his Acts of Mercy, I mean, that Including the fanatics in his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience. Excess of Favour & liberty granted to his own, as well as our Church's enemies; as also passing over the Characters of a right Loyal, and unalterably Obedient Subject to the King, and of a true, right bred son of our Church, together with that Man of Indifference, that pretends to be both, & yet is neither, which I did then very largely set before you, as well as the motives to become the two first, that is, Good subjects, & Good Christians; Waving, I say, these and some other matters, that time will not permit me to reflect on, I shall only exercise your ears at present, with hearing four Cautions, or Directions, which I recommended to my Auditory, in the Conclusion of that Charge to the Clergy, to wit.  
First, that, that just, reasonable, and moderate Ground of Fear, which every Wise man ought to have, in our Circumstances, might drive u● more close home to the Throne of Grace, and God's Altar and make us all acquaint ourselves, better than ever heretofore, with our Hearts & Consciences; taking such care of the internal exercise of Grace & virtue in the soul (wherein chiefly is the Kingdom of God) & living in such Obedience both to God & the King, as become the best Christians & Subjects least that our Merciful God & Gracious Prince (on whose Grace & flavour our Felicity did then greatly depend) should for our past, or future provocations be incensed, and deprive us of the Liberty we enjoyed, in the Exercise of our Established Religion.  
The second Direction was to take care of the young Generation▪ and never to suffer any Youth to depart from the parishes, or families, or approach to the LORDS SUPPER, with out due Instruction, and a sufficient degree of knowledge and Devotion. (Hic labor hoc opus est▪) And if you were for any works of supererogation, I prayed you to practise them in this course, permitted to us (Blessed be GOD & his VICEGERENT) nay required of us by his Majesty in his pious DIRECTIONS to PREACHERS, as before mentioned; whereto we all ought (as I then Cautioned you) to keep close, and the neglect whereof hath much contributed, without dispute, to our present misery.  
A Third Advice was to beware least a Vulgar notion of Loyalty▪ & obedience to your Superiors in Church & State▪ might debauch y ur Understanding, and make you more suspicious of your Governors' Inchroaement on the People's privileges, than of the People's Sacrilegious Invasion on the Prerogative of GOD'S VICE GERENT. When we cannot discover in England (especially in the family of the Stuarts) any One Instance of the fairest; but may every day find out lamentable Examples of the latter; And that you would remember & be assured, that the Religion of your Sovereign did not one jot either lessen, or somuch as restrain, the Authority or Power, which he received from GOD and not from his subjects; as also be more afraid of, and averse to Popular Tyranny, than the Abuses of Government in a Monarch; who may be supposed to have, as well as his subjects, knouledge, Grace & Conscience of Duty to his Sovereign in Heaven, to restrain him from an extravagant exercise of his Power; and to inform him, that his Account to God, will be more heavy than that of his subjects in case of Maladministration.  
My fourth & last Counsel was to be just to all men, both to the Romanist and Dissenter. That your Aversion to the Doctrine of any Party (though never so Contrary to your own) should not, in any manner, exceed your Love & Concern for the Religion you professed▪ and tempt you to encourage barefaced Violations of Truth & Justice, when it is in the Concern of an Enemy, or Adversary to your Opinions.   

SPEECH IU.  
THERE remains now only the last of my four Addresses to be brought to your view (before I engage in my Conclusive Reflections) which consisted of three heads, & wherein I spoke by way of Caution (I desire you to remember) rather than accusation.  
Three things I did advise, and beseech you in a particular manner, to take heed and be ware of; (And so I shall in the name of God, as long as I have the Honour to be your Archdeacon) Things which really portend much wotfe than most grounds usually assigned in this suspicious Age for Fears & Jealousies.  
The first was, A preposterous zeal against our Adversaries, accompanied too often with a spirit of Contradiction.  
And which distils more aversion into us, and disgust against our Adversaries Person, than Principles; Inclining us to Oppose, & confute him right, or wrong, Concluding all to be evil in our Antagonists (though oftentimes very Commendable) and fond Overweening all to be Good (though some times very unchristian) in ourselves, and others of our Persuasion. A malady, which hath been long the Disease of our Nation. Our Poor Church, ever since the Puritan Faction began, labouring under the same, in such degree, that a Spirit of Contradiction hath been Commonly made the Chief standard & measure of many men's Religion & Devotion, and the distance they kept from the ways & Sentiments of their Opposers, looked on as an infallible Mark of the virtue of their own Persons, and Truth of their profession. Which Opinion and Judgement of matters (though never so popular) are very false Weights & Measures. By reason, at this rate, the worst men must always be the greatest saints, since in them dwdls most Hatred & animosity, & bitter Aversion to all that is not their own: Horrid vices, are usually the Parents of this spirit, which I set before you, & desire you may all Loathe.  
The second thing I cautioned you against, was, men's Declining in Loyalty & Love to their Prince, on account of his Religion; Which doth not in any manner dissolve or abate the Bonds of Duty & Respect in the subject. But on the Contrary Favours received from such a Prince (such as we have received as I shown then more largely) oblige subjects to some more officious respects than are to be paid to a kind Prince of our own Persuasion.  
The third thing whereof I told you that we ought to beware, was, Ingratitude to both God & the King, for those special Mercies and Acts of Grace, which we receive from one and the Other, even during our Murmurrings and Complaints. Ingratitude to the King, I then informed you was inseparable from Ingratitude to God, A Good & Gracious Prince being a Choice Gift of Heaven, & one of the greatest blessings which a Nation can enjoy. And he that will not from the Bottom of his Heart return his thanks & Praise for so inestimable a Jewel, is a monster of unthankfulness to the Common Governor of the Universe, the Greatest of Benefactors.   

Reflections on some of the points repeated, & the circumstances of the Nation, at the time of the delivery of this speech in reference to the Invasion.  
AND now, Reverend Brethren, I have, by the assistance of God finished the Task which I proposed; (to wit,) of Refreshing your memory with the recital of the most important matters which I recommended to your Consideration, in all my Public Visitation-discourses since the Death of the King. And I am sure that there is not one of them, but is very worthy of your thoughts, especially in such a Juncture of Affairs, as obliges every man in authotrity, to use the most powerful Arguments, which ever were used, to raise men to a high pitch of Loyalty, & affection to the Crown of England.  
I might very properly, & profitably farther reflect and enlarge on any of the past particulars, in these our Circumstances. But I shall confine myself chiefly to the two last, whereon I did most briefly Touch, as most pertinent for our Meditation, in this day of Rebuke & Trouble.  
All men are now, I suppose, sufficiently Convinced (who do not labour under some desperate Delusion) of the Mischievous design of our Treacherous neighbours; whom we shall be ashamed nay a afraid any more, surely, to style Friends, or to cry they will do us no harm, (language wherewith my ears have been long grated) it being now by Proclamation Treason so to do.  
If the Prince of Oranges landing with 14000 Traitors (or supporters & Abettors of Treason) at his heels (the particulars of whose forces you have in the last Gazette, together with some Heads of his Rebellious Declaration) will not convince men, that there was such a thing as an Evil intended Invasion, and that there can be no good design to our Liberty, nor Religion, by so manifest a Violation of both, I shall give them up for lost, for men void of common sense, and not spend any more pains or breath upon them.  
As soon as his Majesty told us, in his late Proclamation, that he had undoubted advice of a Wicked Design to invade, & Conquer his Kingdom, I did (& thought it my duty so to do) firmly believe it, and have ever since accordingly, in my poor sphere, not only offered my most fervent Prayers to Heaven, for the protection of our Gracious King, Church & Kingdom, but have done all that in me lay, both by word & example, to exhort every person Committed to my Charge, to defend our King and Country.  
And if all persons had been as forward, as my poor unworthy self, to give credit to, & rely on the Word of our Prince (which I have not yet doubted) the Nation had been, it is manifest, in a better state of Preparation. Tho God be praised, his Majesty's vigilance hath been such, that (if his Officers continue faithful) the Kingdom is in no bad posture to receive, & requite the malice of our Enemies: triumphing, at last, as gloriously over these inveterate Foes as he did three years ago, over the last rebellious villains, which landed in the same Country.  
Thirty thousand vvel-disciplined & loyal subjects, under the banner of so valiant a Prince, as ours, are able undoubtedly, by the blessing of God (despair not) to encounter any Prince in the world, attended on, but with 14000 rebels. By which appellation I do no injustice, since in the Case of Rebellion & Treason, as in that of murder, all companions are adjudged to be accessaries, and justly are to under go their trial, as well as the principal Actors.  
The Goodness of our own Cause, & the Badness of our Enimie's, is as clear as the sun, & put beyond all mann'er of doubt, or suspicion. Neither of which can be brought into Question by any person, but such an one, as having sucked in sedition with his milk, is antimonarchical (whiles he pretends to be Antipapisticall) in his nature, and so much more zealous for the Name of Protestant (the worst thing in it) than for the Religion of Protestants, as to become a Well-willer to Turks against Christindom, wishing success to Infidels, because Cerent Tecli, Bearing the name of a Protestant (a Rebel and an Apost ate, or as bad) is one of their number.  
We must not think so blasphemously of the Deity, that the God of Heaven (a God of Purity & Truth) can have more favour to such a Rebellious Rout, than to a Loyal Army fight under the Royal standard of their lawful Prince in defence of an ancient Monarchy, & most excellent Government.  
No, no we must not imagine, that God (who is of purer eyes than to behold any iniquity with approbation) can have regard to such a Gathering together of the froward and Insurrection of Wicked Doers (as holy David heartily Prays against in the 64. Psalm) who have whet their tongue like a sword, and shoot out their Arrows even bitter words. Where David's Character of the Wicked (you will easily perceive, if you will take, the pains to peruse the whole Psalm) exactly agrees with our Invaders. Both the wickedness & secrecy of their Undertaking having been such as he describes. But as his Character & Complaint in the former part of the psalm doth well agree with those of our Enemies; so, I trust in God, and heartily pray, that the latter & prophetic part, may be verified of them likewise. v. 7. 8. 9 But God shall suddenly shoot at them with a swift arrow, that they shall be wounded, yea their own tongues shall make them fall; insomuch that who so seeth them, shall laugh them to scorn▪ And all men that see it shall say, this hath God done; for they shall perceive it is his work.  
Many considerations, together with God's Providence, in bringing this and other pertinent psalms to the Church's use, since certain intelligence of the Enemies landing, do (for my particular) encourage me to put my Trust in God, that he will not give us up, (I am sure he will not unless our sins rise to a higher Pitch than theirs) as a Prey to these our Malicious Enemies.  
If all orders of men amongst us, who have transgressed his righteous Laws, and rendered (to use the words of our prescribed prayers) both his Mercies & judgements ineffectual to our amendment, do but unfeignedly confess to God, & Heartily repent for such their Provocations, turning away from their wickedness (for which it is not yet too late) He▪ will be pleased to turn away from his wrath, which now hangs over our heads, & doth greivously threaten us.  
But let us all rest assured, that we of England can never be throughly reconciled to Almighty God (and somuch I dare in his name to assure you) without repenting of our Ingratitude (of the late Odious unparallelled Ingratitude) to our Sovereign, as well as himself. Which brings me home to the Topics, that are of all other, at this time, most pertinent for our Consideration. Which Ingratitude, I say your Ingratitude to God & the King; which among other sins, & innumerable impieties, (many of which I fear cry for veageance) doth dare Heaven, not only to chastise us itself, but to make us to be rebuked of our neighbours, and a Byword among the Heathens, suffering us to be laughed to scorn, & had in derision of those that are round about us: The least which the best of us, at this Cris●s, may justly dread for our late (as well as former) wretched requitals, that we have made for the Mercy & Bounty of our Father in Heaven & his Deputy on Earth. I shall not omit the repetition there of (though late carriages & transactions persuade me, it will be unpleasant to some of your ears) since out of God's Rods we may at this very instant pluck a fescue to teach us our lesson.  
We have impudently defied HEAVEN, by all imaginable Provocations, but by nothing more (I am not afraid, nor ashamed, yet to harp upon my old string) than by our contempt of it, in making bold with its VICEGERENT. Tho God hath blessed us English, with a more happy Race of Kings than any Nation in the World can boast of; yet it is notorious, that no people under the sun, have transgressed more egregiously by murmuring & Complaints, or that hath Copied out with more exactness the unthankfulness, Infidelity, & Distrust of the Impenitent & hardhearted. jews, Both in reference to God himself in Heaven, and their Conductors, MOSES & AARON, here on Earth.  
If God in his wrath had sent us a wicked Heathenish Persecutor, a Nero, a Caligula, or Dioclesian, to Reign over us▪ we must with Confusion have confessed, that it had been much less than we deserved; And yet we (the most incorrigible people, I think, under Heaven) are so squeamish, that we cannot digest a Christian Monarch, Gracious & merciful even to Wonder: A Prince, who hath demonstrated himself, beyond all gainsaying, to be a true son of K. Charles the Martyr, who was A King (I am persuaded) of the greatest clemency that ever was upon the face of the Earth; cannot digest, I say, a Sovereign endowed with all these Graces (and a multitude of other Kingly Qualities relating to War & Government) merely because he is not of our opinion, in point of Religion; though he gives us no other disturbance in the exercise of ours, than to desire liberty, for himself & party to enjoy their own.  
Since we have thus Ungodlily Browbeaten Struggled with, and in a manner Disclaimed, if not rejected, such a Christian Prince, God in his Justice threatens to give us up a Prey to our Enemies, & the worst Masters upon the face of the Earth.  
Our abhorred Ingratitude to his Royal Brother & self (without putting in to the scales our other innumerable sins & impieties) may give us just ground to fear, that our incensed God may design to teach us submission and subjection by so severe a Method, as to make us (who have been yet one of the freest and most happy Nations of Europe) TRUCKLE to an Upstart-commonwealth, to an antimonarchical Generation, who by their continual shelt'ring, encouraging, and assisting of Traitors, proclaim their Enmity to the very name of King; and that they would not leave (if they could have their will) one Crowned Head in Christendom,  
But let us not be discouraged, or despond over much. Our condition (Blessed be God) is far from desperate. England cannot be destroyed, unless it destroy itself. If we will, in this our day, but forsake our sins, and stoop first to the God of Heaven, and afterwards to his Anointed servant, our Indulgent Sovereign, as far as he hath for this last month passed condescended to the requests of his People; flinging the worst of Traitors, our sins out of our Bosoms, and I do not doubt, but that we shall soon drive the Dutch victoriously out of the Land.   

TO CONCLUDE.  
IT May perchance, Brethren, seem a little out of the road to employ in this my sole Charge to the Cergy (as I have done) the whole time allotted both for Sermon, & the other ordinary Application. But I pray consider that, I speak to you in avery extraordinary Time, which requires every one of us (Public Persons) to do if he can, something extraordinary in the discharge of his Duty, And besides, 'tis a time of danger and war, which may be attended on, if God in his mercy doth not prevent, with Blood & Confusion. So that I cannot assure myself (t'would be a sin not to fear when God threatens) that I may live to speak to you in this Place any more (Anceps fortuna belli) though I declare I have not such dreadful Apprehensions, as some may have, of this unnatural War, but support myself with a good measure of Confidence, that God will give the King speedily the necks of his Enemies, since he hath by his late Gracious Condescensions, and assurances regained (I am willing to hope) the Hearts of his Friends. Which desirable issue nothing can withhold Heaven from bestowing upon us, but Impenitency▪ & more particularly, the want of Humility to Confess the Errors which we, the Leaders of our flocks, have been guilty of, & to own the false steps we have made, to the Misguiding of our People.  
I do, as well as the King, next under God, rely on the brave ancient valour of the English Nation: English men fight with swords, while their Enemies put their Trust, chiefly, in Lies, & Libels.  
When our Royal, & Puissant Sovereign appears in the head of his Troops▪ His Example, sure, must needs animate and create Valour in the most dispirited Coward. And had I not indispensably devoted myself, to serve my King, by serving our Church (and obliged myself to pray rather than fight for his Grown) I would be the first man that should run to the Royal Standard, and please myself to think, that in defence of my King & Country, I should have the Honour of some of my Ancestors, to fall in the Field, or be buried in the Deep.  
Let not my Earnestness (Brethren) make you Conceit, that I suspect your Loyalty & Allegiance, which I hope, & desire, you will all speedily manifest by a loyal Address to his Majesty, to show your Abhorrence of the Injustice and Unnaturalness of the Invasion, and that you will ever, in remembrance of your Oaths, stand by him & serve himto the Uttermost, with your Lives & Fortunes.  
It is the indispensable Duty of a faithful Visitor to quicken his Clergy, in such an Exigent. And with Integrity of Heart I now do it; that I may give you true Measures, whereby you may set right your People.  
I do acknowledge myself a very feeble (though, I hope, honest) supporter of the Church, & Crown of England. But however, I have not so bad an Opinion of myself God be praised, as to be ashamed (here among you) either of my Life, or Doctrine.  
And to evince that I am not, I have this day repeated, the substance or Chief Heads, of what I have l'ayd before you, during the last four years of my Office: which, none can deny hath been a time of great temptation & trial.   

I COMMEND YOU TO GOD'S BLESSING and Direction.  
I'll say but one word more (and God knows whether it may not be the last I may ever say in this place) and it shall be this.  
CONTEND AND FIGHT, AS WELL AS PRAY AS HEARTILY AS YOU PLEASE AGAINST OUR INSOLENT NEIGHBOURS, THE DUTCH, BUT CEASE TO DISPUTE WITH YOUR PRINCE.  
FINIS.  
SOLI DEO GLORIA.    

THE DEANE OF durham's REASONS FOR HIS WITHDRAWING INTO FRANCE, IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE PRINCE OF ORANGE'S INVASION, And Driving the King, by the Sword, out of the Kingdom of England. IN CERTAIN LETTERS. A LETTER TO HIS BROTHER THE EARL OF bath.  
Printed at Roüens by WILLIAM MACHUEL, ruë S. Lo, near the Palace for JOHN baptist BESOGNE, ruë Escuyer, at the Royal sun, and are to be sold by AUGUSTIN BESOGNE in the Great Hall of the Palace at Paris.  
In the year of our Lord God M. DC. LXXXIX.   

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.  
THE Reader is desired to understand, that when the Author first set pen to Paper, soon after his Landing in France, in the Month of March last passed, that he did not design to print this and the ensuing Letters, or the foregoing Discourses; His intentions, at that time, being only in a few lines to discharge the Obligations which he did in Civility, rather than Religion, owe to his friends & Relations (spiritual & natural▪ in England, after so sudden a separation & mighty Revolution, by informing them in an ordinary way of writing: ffirst of what passed in reference to himself & Cures Ecclesiastical, during the disturbances occasioned by the Prince of Orange; secondly that he did continue (by God's Grace) to be the very same Person, that they did discern him to be at Parting, & which he had ever professed himself, even an Unalterable firm son of the Church of England as first established as well as a right loyal subject to his sovereign: resolved never to Own any new fabric built on the ruins of the Old, more than submit to a new souveraign fet up by subjects in the room of God's Lawful Vicegerent.  
But the changeableness of Times and variety of Public occurrences, which did render it difficult for persons in his circumstances, to fix positively in any determination, caused him on second thoughts, to Undertake the enlargement of the said Letters, for the satisfaction of his own conscience, rather than their curiosity▪ & likewise to publish to the World the Account of himself & Actings which he sends to his Brother, & Bishop, & together with the wholesome Advice he gave, at parting, to the members of Durham Cathedrale, & Clergy of his Jurisdiction. To the end that no person whatso ever under his authority might be ignorant of his Behaviour & Steadfastness, in a time of great Apostasy, but be throughly informed & well assured (the better to keep them from Falling) that he did, to the very last Upshot, practice the Doctrine which he ever Taught; and was not ashamed, by his last services for the Public at Withdrawing, & by his first employment of his Pen after Landing, to proclaim himself one of those indisputably loyal Subjects, that could obey actively in all commands not sinful, Whatever his king be, either by his Practice-in Point of Morals, or by his Profession in regard of his Religion; nay▪ one who was more ambitious to suffer with his afflected Prince abroad, than to keep his Preferments at home (though in their kind some of the best in England) with a Blemish of being accessary to the Rebellion, as his conscience assured him he should have been, if he had (after his manner of Preaching and Practice) but stayed at Durham, & sat still without opposing those who were (he conceived) labouring, by dethroning his sovereign, to Unhinge the Ancient Government both in Church & state; or else held his tongue, & stopped his Pen, after he was got, by à happy Providence, out of the reach of the King's Enemies; to gain the liberty whereof it was one chief part of his design in leaving the Nation.  
Which liberty, & opportunity he thought himself in all good conscience the more readily & heartily obliged to embrace, since he was debarred the Pulpit, & deprived of the ordinary Public exercise of his Ministry; being not contented to preach by his example only, but according to the Rule of the Apostle S. Paul, out of season, as well as in season, by Letters, Advice, and Exhortations, at all Times, on all Places, on all fit occasions, & to all Persons (to whom his Duty bound him to Apply himself) as far, and as well, as he was able: His zeal by à kind of Antiperistasis (the defection reaching his own, till this time, ever loyal family) being increased as well as his resolution.  
But how so many of such Ancient, Noble, Houses, and till this late Epidemical infection in a most exemplary manner faithful to the Crown, should be tainted in the leastwise, with the horrid sin of Rebellion, he cannot divine, nor give any reason for the same, unless the Air of England did begin to grow as contagious as the Plague of Athens, which bred more diseases in men's Souls than in their Bodies, corrupting (as it is Storied) their very morals.  
Yet, what ever intoxicating ●virtue may have been in the cli me, under the Planet that reigned in 88 that all should be true▪ which i● reported of some of his own Kindred, he begs pardon if he prove a very Infidel: It being not in the Power of all the Logicians in the world to Convince him, that it is possible for one descended from his Dear Loyal Father Sir BEVIL GRANVILLE to die a Rebel, more than it is probable, that the lately Landed English rebels should long prosper, or subsist, in Ireland, where no venomous Beast can live.  
These Considerations, together with the difficulty of sending large Packetts, by the Post into another Kingdom, the danger of miscarriage at a Juncture when few letters Went Without Openning; the Seriously and well weighing the vote of the (Pretended) House of Commons to forbid all intercourse with France after the first of August; and more Especially the frequent Reflection on his Bodily Infirmities (fearing he might never be in the like condition of strength & understanding to Unburthen his Conscience, if he slipped so fair all Occasion) did cause him to make as much hast as he could to commit his thoughts thus to writing, and to Communicate them by this sure method of Printing his Letters, which were not completed till the end of October last. Wherein if nether the Reader, nor Persons to whom he writes (more than in the discourses preceding) find any Excellency of stile or matter, of Modern Policy, or modish Learning, they may yet meet with what the Author is more proud of, and in this present Age & Juncture very Extraordinary, as well as more valuable; That is to say, Honesty & Courage enough to be faithful to his King last year in spite of the mobile, & this year in spite of the Usurpation.   

TO THE EARL OF bath.  
EVER HONOURED AND DEAR Sr.  
THAT I never somuch as once presented my Duty to your LP. since I Left London, nor gave you any account of myself during the Months of Oct. & Nou. last passed, I need not, I conceive, make any Apology. All Ceremonious respects being then swallowed up by the Great Concerns & Transactions of the year 88, that Annu● Mirabilis which wholly employed the Head & Hearts of all men. And since that time, my Roling Posture, Change of measures, & Resolutions occasioned by the uncertainty & Change of Affairs & Persons at the Helm, together with the cross Accidents, which I have by Land & sea met with all (through which God hath of his mercy well carried me) would not permit me to salute you with that formality as became me, wherefore I have hitherto continued silent; But being now mor● fixed and Easy, and got where I have been aiming Ever since I left my station (on the 11. of Dec.) I cannot so far forget myself as longer to defer the presentation of my humble Duty & Service, & give you some Account of my behaviour and motions last Winter, together with my present State & Condition, both as to Body & Mind. I have retained that honour & Duty for you that I have given less credit than any other to what I have met with concerning you, either in written, or Printed News, (wherein. I have met with many things which have troubled me) and I hope you will be pleased to have the Goodness, to afford small regard to any Reports or discourses concerning me which may have 〈◊〉 to your Ears Contrary to the Tenor of what I write.  
A bout the End of sept. last, on the first Intelligence of the Dutch Invasion, I retired to my Cures in the Country. First to sedgefeild & then to Easington, using my utmost zeal & discretion, in my private discourses, as well as public Sermons, to establish my people (in so sad a Day of temptation when some stars of the first magnitude fell from Heaven) in the Essential Duties of subjection & Allegiance to their Sovereign, showing that subjects were upon no Consideration whatsoever, nether of Religion, Liberty, nor life, to Resist, or Desert, their Lawful Sovereign, though he were no better than such an One as S. Paul lived under, when he writ the Epistle to the Rom. not only a Heathen, but a Cruel Persecutor, A Nero, A Caligula, or A Dioclesian; And that Subjects to a Christian Prince, and to a Prince so Merciful & Gracious as ours, by consequence would be infinitely more Guilty, if they should Rebel against, or Resist him, merely because he profess'ed a Different Religion.  
After I had endeavoured thus to approve myself a faithful shepherd in taking Care of my Country Flocks, I repaired to my Deanery at Durham, with the honest Design of demonstrating my fidelity to my Sovereign, & my Mother the Ch● of England being persuaded that their Inttests could never be separated. Wherefore I summoned my Brethren the Prebendaries together into Our Chapter-House; where I propounded to them, the Assisting of the King in so sad an Exigent with their Purses, as well as their Prayers, with which motion all present complied, giving readily their Consent with their voices, as all absent (saving one) did by their letters: which occasioned an Act of Chapter to the Effect following, towit, that the Dean should advance an hundred pound & Every Prebend fifty for his Majesty's Service towards the raising of Horse & Men, if occasion should require, & to be disposed of, to the aforesaid Ends & Purposes, in such manner as our Bp. should appoint.  
And this I did, not thinking it any very considerable Service to the King to give him 700 (to which sum it would amount) but that this Act of ours might be an Occasion of setting the wheel a going (and at that time t'was not too late) through the Kingdom. Conceiving it no sin (in such an Extraordinary Juncture) to lead the van in Point of Loyalty to my Prince; since the Diocese & Archdeaconry of Durham in Particular (none can deny) had been all along during the Time of Bishop Consins & ever since a notable Example to the whole Nation of Conformity to the Laws, & dutiful regard to his Majesty's Honour and Interest.  
In the next place Remembering that I bore another Ecclesiastic Office & Dignity in the Church of Durham about the beginning of Nou., I summoned all the Clergy of my Archdeaconry together, (who met on the 15.) labouring in the Absence of my Superior, the Bp. (who was gone up to London) to give them right measures in point of Church of England Loyalty & Religion; laying before them the Indispensable Necessity of their personal Assistance of their Sovereign, as far as any were Obliged, and Exerting their zeal to secure their Flocks that they might not be seduced from their Allegiance, by the Canting Sophistry, & Distinctions of the Age.  
And though the zeal I there Evidenced in my Visitaction Speech, hath had since as formely small effect (as is too visible by the Clergyes general Compliance with their new Gevernours & Government, & renouncing their old) yet it will serve at all times to proclaim, that their Archdeacon did on that Occasion (as he had done before) faithfully deliver his soul.  
Fourthly Believing it might be some Service to his Majesty, for both Clergy & Laity to show their ABHORRENCE of that unnatural Invasion which was then ffeared, I moved first my Brethren of the Chapter, & afterwards my Brethren of the Bench, to Join with me in an Address of that Nature to his Majesty, but the first Refusing, and the last (all but two) waving the same, I thought myself (the most public person in the Bishop's Absence) obliged to give A demonstraction of my own Loyalty which I was not afraid to do, (though the Prince of Orange was at that time advanced as far as Salisbury) and accordingly on Nou. 27. sent to his Majesty by the Post an Assurance thereof in an Address, which was intercepted by the Lord Danby, Lord Lumly & other Lords at York. Whereof I desire your Lordship's permission to annex a true Copy to this letter to prevent the Abuses which may be occasioned by that Paper's falling into the hands of my Enemies.  
Moreover Considering myself once more in the Capacity of a Civil Magistrate, as well as Ecclesiastical, I did a few days after desire my Brethren Justices & Deputy Lieutenants, to give me a Meeting, to consult about Serving his Majesty to the Utmost of our Powers (Hearing as yet nothing from our Bishop) and more particularly how to defend ourselves against the Lords & Gentlemen, who had Seized on York for the Prince of Orange, & were some of them, advancing northwards to sécure Durham and Newcastle. But this honest Zeal of mine, was by their shunning this Opportunity of Meeting likewise rendered fruitless, and the Lord Lumly on Wednesday the fifth of Dec: Surprised us, & entered Durham (whiles I was preaching in the. Pulpit of the Cathedral, in my Course, it being the first Wednesday in Advent) with 50 Horse, or thereabouts, & sundry Gentry of that, & the County of Yorkshire, immediately afters his Arrival Sending one Capt Ireton with ten Troopers up to my Door, to seize on my Arms, & Horses, which I refusing to deliver, or Wait on his Lordhip, he in his Lords name confined me to my House during his stay in that City.  
On Thursday following the Lord Lumly without any Opposition read the Prince of Orange's declaration at the Castle in the Presence of most of the Deputy Lieutenants, Justices, & Gentry who flocked into his Lordship; and by their Compliance encouraged him to send to the Magistrates of Newcastle to demand Reception there, but being refused Admittance, the Saturday after, hastily & with some precipitation, returned, he and his Company, to York, after having read Publicly at the Market Cross the Prince of Orange's declaration, attended on by a great Number of Gentry & the Country Troop; but I thank God there were no horses nor men of mine (though the Dean at other times sent four) to increase the number, & honour that Ceremony; which hindered several of the Clergy, at that time; to send in theirs to the lessenning of the Appearance.  
Hereupon I did Judge it meet the next day after being sunday, to Preach again, though I had done it lately in my own Proper Person, in the Cathedral Pulpit, à seasonable Loyal Sermon (suitable to my past life and Actions in that Country) to persuade the members of that Church, & all the Auditory to stand firm to their Allegiance, in that day of Temptation & never to Join in the least ways with that Horrid Rebellion which was at that time Set on foot in the Nation. Which Sermons I have Printed to Justifye me to all the world (if the publication of these do not do it) from being accessary to the Defection, which then began, (to the Intolerable vexation of my mind) in that Conformable County; which had till the Summer past, by it's forward Obedience & Dutiful Respects stuck so close to the Crown, that his late Majesty was want to style it his Loyal County of Durham.  
Thus was God pleased to assist a Poor weak inconsiderable member (Exalted beyond his merit to a high Station) of the Church of England, with fidelity & Courage, to maintain his Post against the Abettors of that unnatural Invasion, which it was Easy to foresee would be (as it hath been) attended on by an intolerable Usurpation of the Crown, & violation of the Laws, and finally, if God should not of his Mercy, by some kind of miracle, Prevent, by the utter Ruin of the Church of England; and consequently of those who had at first invited the sword into the Land, & betook themselves to a desperate Remedy, a thousand times worse than the Disease Complained off.  
And here before I proceed in my intended Relation of some other passages, I desire permission to insert a few lines to Obviate some censures which I Expect to meet with.  
To such there fore as shall endeavour to destroy the Reputation of my sincerity & zeal, in sticking to the Cause of a Roman Catholic Sovereign, by the Greatness of the Example of those who have deserted it, in complying with the Prince of Orange, (alleging that it is not likely that the single Deane of Durham should be in the right. so many Eminent Persons of Greater Learning, Wisdom, & Piety, in the Wrong, who have given notable Testimonies of their Loyalty by their Sufferings & Confessions, in the Great Rebellion of England, During the Banishment of King Ch. 2.) To such, I declare that I have nothing to say for myself, but must return with a non nobis Domine, all the Glory to God, who is some times pleased to make use of the weak things of the world to confound the Things which are Mighty; & to Reveal unto Babes what he hides from the Wise & Prudent, assisting with in Time's of Persecution, poor Illiterate Men & Women, when many Great Philosophers, & mighty Clerks, have quitted a Righteous Cause, and shamefully deserted the Truth.  
I do with all humility acknowledge it to be purely the Grace of God (the wind of whose Spirit Blows where it listeth) which hath supported and carried me through all those Blasts of temptation which have Thrown down divers strong Pillars of the Temple, Preserving me from the Contagion of the Age, the Spirit of Popularity & Republicanisme, Whereby Satan (transforming himself into an Angel of Light) hath tainted the Generality of the English nation of all sorts & Degrees, & which hath in the Upshot (as is too visible to all the World) proved their Overthrow, & the Fall) never enough to be lamented) of many Noble Personages, who had as well as their Ancestors sucked in Loyalty with their Milk, shed their Blood to uphold the Monarchy, & seemed to be the surest supporters of the crown.  
And thus much I have been obliged to insert here, though I could more willingly have left it unsaid, if it had not been forced from me by the Malicious Objections of my Enemies, & Common Justice to myself & the cause I maintain: It being impossible for me to persevere in the King's Quarrel which I have espoused, without holding fast, with great Resolution, my Integrity, & Bearing witness to the Truth. Besides I am not ashamed, nay think it my Duty, to own, that I am firmly & strongly persuaded, without doubt or scruple, that my present Principles & Practices of Loyalty to my Sovereign, & Past Obedience to the Church of England's Rules (how singular soever by some menit may how been termed & thought) are sound & Orthodox, being founded upon so clear Scripture & Reason, as sets a man (in this particular) above any Example upon Earth.  
Nay I am not afraid to proclaim to all the World, that I Dare Rebuke by my Actions (though not other wise) the Greatest Man alive, who Dares transgress those plain precepts of God, which I shall ever deem à great sin to separate, to wit. FEAR GOD & HONOUR the KING▪ Tho I have so great veneration & Respect for hundreds of Eminent Persons, spiritual & temporal, who have to the admiration of all men lately been imposed on (by what kind of Magic it is hard to understand) to Court, & Compliment their own Misery, that in Dubious matters, I am not so bold, as to Resist the Power of their Examples, which in such things I acknowledge a conductor safe enough to guide their inferiors, who ought to suspect their own Judgements, & sentiments, when they have no clear lightto lead them, rather than those of their Governous in Church & state, whom they own to be Wiser & Better men.  
But to stick close to the service, & Interest of my Lawful Sovereign (who is a Sovereign never the less lawful for his Afflictions or for his Religion) and to OBEY him too, as I am resolved, in all things, which are not Malum in se (if he absolutely requires it) what ever may be the Consequences, is a POINT, wherein I am so well satisfied, that I am ambitious to be instrumental in Convincing all who depend on me, or my Jurisdictions, if I cannot Others, of a Truth so necessary & seasonable for the consideration of Subjects in a Rebellious Age.  
Indeed▪ I am so far from being ashamed, that I am tempted to a little kind of Pride to think, I brought this, & some other like Points to discussion last summer; the General Eviction whereof (however they vere despised, & Opposed) would have stopped Multitudes from running with full Career to put their Necks (by the Expulsion of their own undoubted Gracious Sovereign) under the Yoke of Afforreign Power. And it may not be Altogether unworthy of their Thoughts, who were so angry with them, & made so much Noise about them, whether their Anger did not proceed from the serviceableness of my Doctrine to the King's Interest, which they were about to destroy; those propositious which I asserted, striking at the very Root of the Controversy betwixt the King & Subjects of England, that is, whether the supremacy should be in the King or in the People. A Galled Horse (Pardon the similitude) shows where he is sore by his unwillingness to be handled. And the Serpent directs where a man should strike by defending his Head.  
But how greatly soever I was hereby Exposed to censure, made the Talk & scoff of some Divines & others, over their Cups of Coffee, upon the Interception of a letter to my Ever honoured▪ Friend *****, and other treacherous publication of some Queries, which were canvassed up and down about a year ago, under the name of the Dean (& sometimes falsely under the name of the Bishop) of Durham, I am very well pleased and greatly comforted, t'had I had then somuch honesty & courage, as notwith standing great Opposition, Powerful Examples & persuasions to the contrary, to assert the Prerogative of my King, & to make an Attempt towards the Conviction of Others committed to my Charge, Which were the Only persons for whom those Queries were first designed being certain propositions (of the verity of which I made no doubt) containing the Reasons of my forward Compliance with his Majesty, which I drew into Queries, for the Private Consideration of some young Divines I had under my Roof, requiring them effectually to answer them in writing, with reasonnings which would Bear the Eye, or to comply, as I had done, with the King.  
Which Honest & loyal Queries, though Good sense I am sure, when they were first stole out of my study at Durham, being after passing through divers hands, I know not how disguised, and by some styled the nonsensical Queries of the Dean of Durham, I shall crave leave also to publish in the postcript of this letter, giving you no more trouble till then, about them, or my own Justification. But craving pardon for so long a Digression, return & proceed in my intended narration of some farther transactions relating to his Majesty's service & mine own Escape out of England in order to repair to him.  
Notwithstanding, then, all that I had done, recited in the beginning of this letter, upon the first Alarm of the Prince of Orange's design to invade England, & though I had (God be thanked) honestly discharged a Good Conscience, in Opposing by my Words & Actions, to the uttermost of my Power, the then Growing Rebellion, as I had all along the Increase of that Temper which was, at that time, Burst out into A Dreadful flame, whereto I discerned myself too weak to make any farther Opposition (many of my own Brethren, Deserting, nay opposing, me) I say, notwithstanding all this, I could not satisfy myself, without sending away a faithful servant to his Majesty Express, with an account of that County, together with A Duplicate of those papers, before mentioned, which were intercepted; letting the King understand that I despaired, as things went, (and so did those few loyal frainds who Concurred with me), of doing his Majesty any further service in that Place.  
Having done all that lay in my Power, in all my Capacities, by my most vigorous Endeavours, towatds the Support of the Crown & the Church of England; and seeing myself absolutely uncapable to Act further for his Majesty as I had done, & to discharge my Conscience there in so Metamorphosed a Place, I resolved, after earnest prayer to God to direct me, to preserve my Innocency by fflight, since I could not do it by sitting still & staying in Durham (if I should escape the Jaole which I had little Reason to hope) after an honest Loyal activity, which God had given me the Grace to practice, especially during the Year past; & therefore bethought myself of flying away secretly to the King, to Own his Cause, when I could not otherwise serve him: Commending my Charge & fflock both in Durham & Elsewhere in the Bishopric to God's Wise & Gracious Protection, signifying my mind by letter to my Deputies both in Durham & the Country, & Hoping to Edify them more by such Expression of my Loyalty & Religion, in adhering to my Sovereign, when the Defection began to be general, than I was like to do by such Sermons, or Example, as the new Authority would permit me to give them.  
And accordingly on the 11. of Dec. at midnight, by the help of two faithful servants, which I did dare trust, I got my horses prepared, and was conducted by one of them that night to He●cam, where I procured an honest Guide to Carlisle the nearest of the King's Garnisons, & the most Considerable Place (as I conceived) which then held out for the King, Hull being reduced the week before.  
I had no sooner got to Carlisle (where I was very kindly received by Mr. Howard the Governor, Coll Purcell, Capt Hern, & others Officers there) but the very day after being Saturday, the Post brought in the Dismal News, of the defeat of some of his Majesty's Troops at Reading, & others deserting in such sort, that he was forced to withdraw out of the Kingdom, together with some intimations to the Governor, that it was to no purpose for him to hold out the Place, but that he being a Roman Catholic, it would be most prudent, & not displeasing to his Majesty for him toretire, & leave the Government to the old Governor, towit Sr. Christopher Musgrave, who came into the Town on Saturday night, & Entered on the Government, appearing in the Governors' seat on Sunday the 15. in the Cathedral.  
This Direful Catastrophe, which did both astonish and afflict me, to see our Sovereign, a Gracious Prince, treated with somuch brutality, betrayed by those he thought his best friends, deserted by his Nearest Relations, forbidden his own Palace, & forced out of his Kingdom, did Immediately without much consideration, incline me to leave it also, to man●fest my Just Indignation against Rebellion & treachery, which had then spread themselves almost over the whole Nation. And did resolve accordingly to hasten into France to share with my Sovereign in his Misfortunes.  
In order whereunto (after I had visited the Bishop of Carlisle at Rose Castle, craved his Benediction, & deposited with his Lordship some solemn assurances of Living & Dying in the right Church of England Religion) I departed from Carlisle on wednesday the 19 towards Scotland with a single servant, a scotch man, whom I had newly entertained, to Conduct me to Edinburgh, hoping at Leith, or some other seaport on that Coast to procure shipping for France. But resting a day or two at a Certain Place called Allison-Banke, on the Borders, to confer with an honest Loyal Gentleman, who had engaged there to meet me, I fell into the hands of the Rabble, who then with ffury raged up and down, on the ffiring of the Beacons there abouts very rashly & indiscreetly, by some credulous & temporizing Justices, who gave credit to the ffalse & malicious Reports, of the Landing of Irish Papists, Burning of towns, & massacring of People where ever they came.  
These villains headed by one Palmer a notorious Rogue & murderer who had but lately escaped the Gallows, seized on me for a Popish Priest & Jesuit on S. Thomas' day about 11. at night, & pulled me out of my Bed, Rifling my pockets, & my Chamber, carrying away my Horses, (two Geldings worth 40.) and my Portmanteau, & mounting me on a little jade not worth 40.  
Thus disgracefully conducting me to a Poor alehouse on the English fide, three miles off, where they searched my Portmanteau, & plundered me of a Bag of money, & some small pieces of Plate, with other things; leaving me afterwards in the hands of the Watch, & a Constable to lead me away on foot, in a severe Cold Frosty night, with a Heavy Riding Coat, & great Boots (ill accoutrements for walking) to march to Carlisle, to be examined before one Capt. Bub, & other Officers then in the Garnison, and by whom they did hope to have been rewarded (as they afterwards declared) for their good service to the Country in securing (as they styled me) a fugitive & Dangerous Person.  
But, being well known in the City, & travelling with the Governor Sir Christopher Musgraves Pass, they miss of their Expectation & received a Rebuke, while I had my Horses, & the greatest part of my money restored me, & was set at liberty, either to stay or depart the Town. And indeed can only complain of the Mayor & some of the Magistrates; who instead of Committing the Fellows for Felony & Burglary, they breaking open a stable Door in the night to take away my Geldings, let them go without somuch as entering into Recognizance.  
Tho I was now, a second time, at liberty, by a happy providence, to go where I pleased, & promised A Pass if I would go home to Durham, I did think it most prudent, to continue awhile in that city, to remove the suspicion of my intended Flight out of England, and accordingly lived unconcernedly there for 14. or 15. days, constantly attending Gods Public service, & Preaching in the Cathedral on Christina's day, whereby I convinced People, I hope, that I was no Popish Priest, nor Jesuit.  
After this the country being more Quiet, & no watches kept, nor noise of Irish Papists, which had for a month before intoxicated (as it were) that & other parts of England, I left the Town of Carlisle and ventured back towards Durham, as far as Hexam, but with no Intention to go home, designing after I had shifted off a Guide, & some servants who where sent with letters to me, to strike out of the Road by Berwick towards Scotland; which I did, blessed be God, without any other considerable impediment, and on the 26 of jan: last arrived safe at Edinburgh; endeavouring, as soon as I could, to get admittance into the Castle, & wait on the Duke of Gordon; to whom I communicated my Design of going to the King, and by whom I was informed of a Vessel then in the Road ready to depart for France. Which Opportunity I made use off, and was after many Tempests & a tedious voyage by reason of contrary winds, at last, safely Landed at Honfleur, over against Haver de Grace, By the mouth of the River SEINE, on the nineteenth day of march stilo novo, and the very day after his Majesty's departure from Breast for Ireland; which missing of the King was a great disappointment & mortification to me.  
Being somewhat indisposed after my Long & troublesome voyage (though I was never sick at sea) & in some danger as I thought of an ague, I rested a whole week in that Place, where I found all Persons more than ordinarily civil to me, upon their being satisfied that it was my Loyalty had brought me there, & that I was fled to the King; though I owned myself to be not only a Protestant, & an Ecclesiastic, but an Englihman; which is now thought imprudent & a shame to confess one's self, unless he carries with him undeniable Testimonies of his late fidelity to his Prince. After I had paid my Respects to the Governor the Marquis of Beuron, & returned the compliments I had received, on the 25. I departed for Roüen where I Judged meet (since his Majesty had left this Kingdom) to fix a while & to Recruite myself; being also induced thereto by the great friendship & Civility of Mr. Thomas Hacket, an honest & loyal Merchant, who welcomed me to Town with great respect & kindness, supplied me with moneys, though a stranger to him without Recommendation (whereas one to whom I was recommended failed me) and hath kindly entertained me, at his house, ever since.  
And I have been the sooner prevailed on to rest here in this City from whence I write, by reason a violent Astmatick Cough, (which hath long hung about me) increases somuch, that my Physician believes that my Lungs begin to be ulcerated, & that without much care, I am in great danger of falling into a Deep Consumption. And moreover this Physician, under whose Conduct I am, Deane of the College of Physicians here, & Physician to our Late King, [being not only a very Eminent Dr. of physic, but acquainted with my Constitution (I having here to fore lain long sick of an Ague under his hand, & he also having perfect Command of the English Tongue)] is likely to be much more useful to me than another; and hath been already in the beginning (Praised be God) very successful.  
I confess I have not any great Reason, during my Indisposition to make this city the Place of my Residence, for the sake of the air, which I believe not very good & Propet for a Consumptive Body. Tho I am persuaded that the Air of the Country round about, at a Distance from the River, which I do Often Breathe, is better than any air in England. But the Other satisfactions I have mentioned, in an able Physician, privy to my infirmity of Body & a kind Faithful Friend in adversity, not to be found in our Age every day nor in every Place, do make amends abundantly for any defects of the clime, and are not to be contemned by A Person in my circumstances, driven very bare out of his native Country for his fidelity to his Prince.  
Assoon as I had fixed my Resolution of staying awhile here at Roüen, I did presume to inform his Majesty, by a Packet I sent into Ireland to my Lord Melford, of my Arrival in France, & the manner of my escape, with an Assurance of my unalterable Loyalty, and that I should espouse his service with the same zeal during his Exile & adversity, as when he was on the Throne.  
I did also according to the Duty of a Loyal subject pay to the Queen & Prince, all those respects which I could at a Distance, informing her also by the assistance of my Lord Waldegrave of my Arrival, with assurances that I should never fail to render her Majesty & the Prince, all the duties which were incumbent▪ on a subject of the King of England. And that since I had not the felicity which I came for, of being near his Majesty, I was in the next place desirous to be near her●, and accordingly would hasten to St. Germans as soon as the indisposition of my Body would permit; Taking a great Delight to be nigh the Royal Famliy, when I cannot Otherwise serve them: never thinking myself any ways absolved from the observance I owed my Sovereign & her Majesty & all the blood Royal by the difference of Religion.  
HAving, Sir, thus given you the Trouble of so particular an account of myself, & deportment from the time that we were first allarummed with the news of the wicked intentions of the Dutch to invade us, home to this present day, I think myself no less obliged to give you some Information Concerning my present Temper of mind & future Intentions. And which I am the more willing to embrace this Opportunity of doing, by Reason my infirmities of Body do in such sort increase that I have small reason to imagine that I shall be a long lived man; they administering to me too many Grounds of Fear (if I were to undergo no other hazard) that I may scarce live to see my Friends in England any more▪ unless the air of France & motion, be, by God's Blessing, a means of my Recovery & Cure of that disease which I have contracted by à sedentary life, since my Installation into the Deanery of Durham.  
And here I do in the first place, declare with all sincerity, that I am resolved, by God's Grace, to live & die a true son of the Church of England, Whereof King Charles was, King james 2. (not the Prince of Orange) is, under God supreme Head & Governor, believing her to be for the Purity of her Doctrine, the decent Regularity of her worship, & the wholesomeness of her Discipline (well executed) the best and most Approaching to the Primitive Times, of any Church in Reformed Christiendome. And I do openly affirm to all the World, that however her children (or rather those who have pretended to be so) have behaved themselves, Either heretofore, or of late, to the scandal of the world & Reproach of her Constitution, I am assured she will be found, upon thorough and serious Examination, A Church which doth not Countenance Rebellion, or, indeed, any sin, or wickedness, whatsoever.  
I have given no just reason, I thank God, to any to think me of another Opinion. And if some men have been so uncharitable as to Censure me for ever deviating from her, it hath been only for such Carriage of mine, as may best demonstrate that I am, A right Genuine, & thorough▪ paced (though very feeble) Member of Her: I mean for my Exact Conformity to, & constant Observation of, the Excellent Rules of her Incomparable Liturgy, without any variation; and my Constant zeal in asserting the King's Prerogative, and her Excellent Doctrine of nonresistance & Subjection to Authority, in both which perohance I have been thought sometimes a little singular. But if I have been so, I am sorry for it, I mean, that I should want company in so laudable & Christian a Cause & Practice; For I must still affirm that the first is the Indispensable Duty of Every Church man, and best means to preserve her, & the last (which way soever it fled at the Prince of Oranges Invading England) the very Flour and Glory of our Ch: which neither loss of Estate, nor life, shall (by the assistance of the Almighty) cause me to Renounce.  
I do therefore humbly entreat yourself and all my Relations, no wise to suspect me, as if Wavering from my Obedience to my Mother (the Church) for my immovable Adherence to the cause & interest of the Father of our Country, and my innate Abhorrence of Disputing, Contesting, or rudely Capitulating with my Prince, even-then when he commanded things very contrary to my sentiments, which I did Judge not only inexpedient, but prejudicial to the Flourishing condition of our Church.  
Had I failed as too many did in that juncture, or in paying the very same duties of Allegiance & Honour, to my Present Sovereign, When he came to the Crown, as I had performed to the late King, his Royal Brother & my Gracious Master of Blessed memory, (because his present Majesty declared himself of the R. Cath. Religion) I might indeed have been liable to Censure, for that was a bad mark of a son of the Church of England. But God having enabled me to Resist this Temptation (which hath so mightily prevailed in the Nation) I would not have you Fear that I shall be Overthrown by any other.  
I am I confess, fled out of the Nation to assert the Cause of a R. Cath. Prince, & I live at present in à R. Cath. Country. But sure I am that the right-Church of England Religion doth not only enjoin me to do the first, but considering the circumstances of England & the neighbouring Protestant Countries, at present, to do the later. And why I & other loyal subjects should choose France, rather than any other Nation to Reside in, may quickly be put out of dispute, if our Censurers would be pleased to consider, how kindly the most Christian King received his Majesty of England, and doth still entertain those who have Evidenced their Fidelity to him; as also reflect on the innate Civilily & Hospitality of the French Nation towards strangers, never more Visible than in this time of Distress, when all are Welcome, especially English men; unless they are conceived to be Spies, or Creatures of the Prince of Orange, or other their Enemies. As for my own particular, Common Justice doth Oblige me to acknowledge, that I meet which as much Curtisy now in France among the R. Catholics, as I have done heretofore among the Protestants. And am permitted to live as quietly and securely, though I do no ways di●o●ne my Religion, as any of their own Nation.  
THis brief declaration I have made will suffice, I hope, to assure all my Friends in England of my steadfastness in the Excellent Religion of my Forefathers. The next duty incumbent on me, will be, to give my Family, & you our Chief, some fresh assurance, that I am by the Grace of God Resolved to endeavour for the future (as I have begun) to proceed in imitation of their Loyalty, and according to their examples in all times of War & Trouble heretofore, to stick close to the Crown; Not one of them, that I could ever Read or hear of, having been in the least manner dipped in Rebellion, or sided with any Usurper.  
Indeed their Fidelity to their Sovereign (for which your House God be Praised hath been ever noted) none, Sir, hath better copied out then yourself, whose Name is on that account already Recorded in our English Chronicle. The Secrecy & succesfulness of that Negotiation of yours, in your Master the late King's behalf, with General Monk, will not easily be forgotten among loyal men. And I must confess to all the world, that that notable Example & Pattern, which you have set all your House, by your services & endeavours in the Worst of Time's, for King Charles the 2. hath had great force on me, & been mighty prevalent in inspiring me with some more than ordinary Resolution for his Royal Brother, his lawful successor and our undoubted Sovereign, at my first Entrance on my Deanery, which did oblige me to Appear & Act in à more Pnblick Post than before. And doth still animate me (wherefore, whatever measures you are pleased to take at present, I hope, Sir, you will not blame me) in my present zeal & endeavours.  
Since which time I can say it without Boasting (tho if I did Boast a little, this Conjuncture & my Circustances' would Bear it) that I have never strayed in my affection from his Majesty, nor failed in paying him all the Honour, Duty, & Respect, which I should have rendered to my deceased Master of ever Blessed Memory, had the Naiion been longer blest with his Reign. But instead thereof I do not Blush to let all the world know, that I have been somewhat more Officious (and thought it Every one's Duty so to be) in his Service, than I had been in his Brothers, in consideration of a Roman Catholic Kings Grace & Goodness towards us of the Church of England, in reference to the free exercise of our Religion▪ He granting us the liberty of A Religion contrary to his owned, and making it his Care, at his first Appearance in Council, to secure to his Protestant Subjects of the Ch. of England so unvaluable à Blessing, neither of which if he had done, could we have told how to help ourselves, or been absolved from our Obedience, which my little Divinity hath ever told me (& I hope ever will) is as due to à Roman Cath. Sovereign, as to a Protestant one. The Consideration where of hath, by the Blessing of God, kept me Untainted, & Unstained throughout the whole transactions of the last 5. years, I mean from the 6. of Feb. 84. when his Majesty mounted the Throne, to the 10. of Dec. 88 when the same Sacred Majesty was disgracefully Driven, to the Everlasting Reproach of the English Nation, from his own Palace of Whitehall.  
No Fears, or jealousies of Religion, Liberties, or Laws, dîd ever tempt me (I Bless God) to any undue courses of Resistance, Opposition, or somuch as Unseemly Capitulation, with God's Vicegerent, to preserve them. Tho I love them all so well & Dear, that I can be contented to die for them, in any Place, or Manner, unless it be with à sword in my hand lifted up against my Prince. And I dare Challenge not only my Censurers, but all the World (a state of Hostility will admit of such language) to discover any One Act of mine, whereby I have sided with, or abetted their Enemies, in any Endeavours to destroy, or Weaken them, that I have (I say) ever, either in the capacity of a Private Minister, or Public Magistrate, Ecclesiastical or Civil, (in the West, my first, or North of England, my last, station,) ceased to practise and Exact a strict Conformity to the Rules of our Religion, or to promote an Impartial Execution of law (as long as the laws were in Force) both against Recusant, & Dissenter; Or that, lastly, I did ever Countenance such Omission of Duty in Others, Clergy or laity, under my Authority.  
All Places wherein I have Resided will, I make no question, testify for me, that I have been how (weak & unsuccessful soever) zealous, diligent, & faithful in these particulars; And did never in any Revolution, Put on the Vizard of A TRIMMER; having had always from my Cradle a certain Antipathy against such Indifferency, Hyppocrisy, & Neutrality, as do constitute that Amphibious Creature; which by the assistance of Neighbours (which it is hard to tell whether they live more, upon the land, or in the water) hath given a kind of Mortal Wound to the Church, & Monarehy of England.  
By such Principles & Practices, I have (God be thanked) demonstrated myself A legitimate son of my ever Honoured & Dear Father Sir Bevill Granville, whom I may (I hope in à letter to à Brother) be permitted (for my Consolation in so melancholyck a state of Affairs) a little to Glory in, sinee his Valour & Loyalty (sealed at Lansdown with his Blood) is set above the spleen & censure of the most Malicious Tongues, Forasmuch as the University of Oxford, one of the most famous Universityes in the World, hath vouchsafed to celebrate them, which an Epicedium of their choicest Wits. A respect which hath not (as the Ingenious Reprinter of the late Edition of those Poems doth in his dedicatory Epistle well note) been usually paid to any but the Royal Family. And in the same Temper, much heightened, & strengthened by the serious & frequent perusal of those jugenious Verses, which bring daily to my consideration my loyal Father's Example (& which I carry constantly about me both to inspire & conduct me) I hope by God's Grace to Brach out my soul, without making any difference in Matter of Obedience, betwixt à Papist, & a Protestant Prince; A Christian, or à Heathen.  
I am without any scruple assured (& so is all the World) that my Sovereign King james the 2. is a lawful King, & hath an undoubted Title, which is all a good subject ought to inquire into. If so, I am as much assured that no Power upon Earth, can absolve me from my sworn Obedience to him, what ever we are told to the contrary, in certain Inquiries into the Measures of Submission to Supreme Authority, & the Grounds upon which it may be lawful, 
D▪ B.  or necessary (as ● the Title phraseth it) for subjects to defend their Religion, liberties, & laws. I wish the Doctor had been pleased to speak out plainly according to his thoughts, and I am persuaded he would have said The Grounds whereon it is Lawful to Rebel.  
But I shall give you no more Trouble, by way of Information concerning myself. I shall rather crave liberty to convey to my Younger Relations (since they are numerous) by your favour and means (is you please) some wholesome Advice for their Edification, to establish those who are not Tainted, and to restore those who are, with the false Notions & Maxims of the Times.  
My Elders I shall no wise disturb at present with my remaining discourse. But I humbly conceive it a kind of Duty to take a little Pain sometimes with the Others. My Father's & Mother's Dedication of one of their sons to the Church (and it falling to the lot of me the unworthiest of them) doth in some sort constitute me A Priest to the whole Family; though not to undertake the Charge of all their Souls (that would be a Task not only difficult but impossible for me to discharge and I do not desire it) yet to make to them now & then some spiritual applications, as I do at Present, by your permision, in this letter, & did likewise 5. years since, in some familiar ones to a Nephew in the University of Oxford (which I printed) is a good act of Christian Religion & Fraternal Charity.  
I shall then humbly beg leave, in this paper, to desire all those, who have any ways warped from that strict Duty & Respect which hath been ever paid by their Ancestors to the Crown, to consider their great obligations above others to be Faithful to their Sovereign, taking more than ordinary care lest they Stain the honour of an Ancient House. And shall not, at present, insist on any Duty paid directly to God; that was my business in part of my fore mentioned Address; But the Duties of Subjection, & Doctrine of Nonresistance of Lawful Princes, whom subjects are bound to Obey, what ever be their Opinions or Practices, are so vilely Run dnwne in England, and so universally put out of countenance, that it is a piece of seasonable charity to Revive their Reputation.  
I think I may truly say without vanity or ostentation, that every one of us have been, through the mercy of God, trained up in as a deep a sense of that profound Respect & Submission which is due from subjects to their Supreme, as any family in the Nation, having beeu in an extraordinary manner Blest with Loyal & Religious Parents & Progenitors; who have given the best evidence of their sincere & hearty dutifulness to their Sovereigns in sealing it with their Blood. And till this late never enough to be deplored General Defection, which seemed to carry with▪ it an irresistible Contagion beyond the power of the strongest Antidote, ●here hath never A Blemish of Disloyalty, Blessed be God, been fixed on the Family of the Granvilles, or on the meanest Branch thereof. And that there should any Person now lie under that censure, is to me an Intolerable mortification, & the Heaviest part of my Affliction, amidst my sufferings for my fidelity to the Crown. But since the Torrent hath Overborne some of ours as well as too many of every Ancient, Honourable & Loyal House in the Nation, I cannot satisfy myself to sit still, and not put to my helping Hand to save them: By desiring them, among other things, to beware how they swallow not only new Oaths, but new Conceited Quirks and Distinctions of those Temporizing Common Lawyers, who have, out of sordid Flattery, or Fear; by an unintelligible unheard off sort of Abdication, Coined purely for the service of an Usurper, deformed the Monarchy & Church of England: Making a strange kind of Monster of the Fairest and Best of the Reformed Churches; in placing two heads on one Body, such as are there the most unlikely of any in the world to agree, A Popish & a Presbiterian one.  
I never did imagine that I was, or ever should become a Pillar of the Church, [Tho you all know, that I did in a time of Adversity & Rebellion, when there was small Hopes of Being Deane of Durham, Devote myself thereto honestly with Good will to God's service & without Design.] Much less do I fancy myself A Person of somuch Might or Skill, as to be able to stem such a Tide, as hath Broken in upon us, & Beaten down the High & Rocky Cliffs of England, as if they had been only muddy Banks or the wooden Fences of a Low-Country. But on the other side, I have not so mean thoughts of the Grace & Power of God Almighty, who hath manifested his strength in my Weakness, in upholding & keeping me steady, [during the late Terrible Shock which like an Earth Quake made the Foundations of the Kingdom to Tremble, and overthrew Divers supporters of Church & State] as to despair of all success In my Attempt to fortify at least some, if I cannot regain Others, or any, of my Kindred to whom I write. Who ought not to Conceit themselves so able Divines, as to think they are, in spiritual matters, above my Counsel & advice.  
To accomplish this Good work, whereon I invoke the Assistance of that Spirit whose Power no Creature is able to Resist, I shall lay before their Eyes some of the Good old Church of England-Divinity, which hath been infused into me, as well as their Fathers in our Youths, by those Right Orthodox & Loyal Doctors of the old Stamp under whose Conduct we have had the felicity to be trained up. And remembering & well considering the words of our Saviour Christ, that a Prophet hath always least honour in his own Country, & among his own Kin, I shall keep strictly & faithfully not only to the Sense, but often in prosecuting this Point, use the very words of A Famous Divine, of Authority above any man's Contempt, 
Dr. Hen. Hamond.  being justly, had in honour & veneration, of the whole Nation, as well as our own Family.  
IN the first place, then, I here take liberty to put your and mine own Relations in mind of some seasonable Truths, well Calculated for the meridian of an Ancient Loyal Family▪ & the most effectual Preservative which I know off, to secure their Innocency in a wavering, Corrupt, seditious Age, and Country, tinctured all over with Schism & Rebellion. To wit.  
That our Blessed saviour Christ & his disciples were, of all the Doctors who ever were in the world, the most careful to preserve the Doctrine & Practice of Allegiance, and entire Submission & Subjection to the Supreme Powers, which were deputed by God as his Vicegerents to Govern the world; even then, at that very time, when they lived under Heathen Emperors, who where not only Great Opposers of Christianity, but Cruel Merciless & Bloody Persecutors.  
Furthermore it will be worthy of Observation, that Christ Jesus, though he were as God, the King of all Kings, & might have changed & disposed of their Dominions, as he pleased, yet did not think fit to make any Alteration in the Government he found on Earth when he was born; but on the Contrary, Judged it meet to continue & settle all in that Course, where in it had been formerly placed by God himself, living in a most Exemplary manner in subjection to the known Laws, paying Tribuute to Caesar; Nay showing so great Concern that the Supreme Powers should receive their Due, that he thought fit rather to work a miracle, than appeate deficient in Paying Tribute.  
Whereto if we add our Lord's Refusal to accept of the Judicial Cognizance of an Offence, when he was put upon it, as he did of A Crown when it was offered him by the People, there will appear strong matter of Conviction, & proof of the inviolableness of the Rights of Government, which it is not lawful for any person on earth to usurp or meddle with, without a Just Call. So far was our Humble & Righteous Lord, the Capt: of our Salvation, from retrenching any of the Magistrates former Rights, that he added to MOSES in this matter, enjoining greater Awe & Reverence to be given to the Civil Power.  
Wherein we may take further notice, that Christ Jesus he was so extraordinarily Careful & Tender: That where as MOSES among the Egyptians, when he was but a Private man, did take upon him to exercise an Act of Judicature on the Egyptian which wronged the Israelite Exod. 2. 12. Christ would not do any such thing, leaving the woman taken in adultery, and all other offenders, to the ordinary legal Course; and would not upon any Invitation, or Importunity, Usurp Authority, or take upon him any thing in that matter.  
This without other Enlargement may Abundantly Evince, how unsuitable to the Doctrine and Practice of Christ, and Consequently how unchristian and ungodly are the Doctrines of those Ambitious Men who make Christianity a Ground, or Excuse, for moving Sedition, & Raising Rebellion, thereby disquieting States, & shaking if not dissolving Kingdoms. Tho it be carried on never somuch under the spe●ious colours of Preservation of Religion, Libertyes, or Laws.  
Whereof we have now a late, & perhaps more Notable Instance than ever was in the World: An Attempt so Abhorred & Unnatural: A I act every ways so unjustifiable; & an Impiety so Daring, that it must necessarily, in the Conclusion, pull down Heavy wrath, if not Speedy Vengeance, both on the Contriver & the Accessary; Inviter & the Invited, or on their Posterity. If an extaordinary deep Humiliation before God, & a sincere Repentance, some what answerable to the Greatness of the Provocation, do not in due season appease his Indignation.  
Of which Heinous Gild it concerns every one, who hath been unfortunately dipped therein (as every Complier with, as well as Promoter of, the new Government in England certainly is) with greatest speed, & care to purge himself. And I do hope & Pray that all those, to whom I do presume here in this paper to Address myself, will take these things into timely & deep Consideration: washing off those Stains of Disloyalty, that may have involved any in the Gild of an Unparalled Usurpation, wihch I am afraid exposes poor England to God Almighties Impending Judgements more than all the former sins of out selves or Forefathers.  
That I have, for my own particular, practised the very same Loyalty & honest zeal in reference to the Service of my Sovereign (though A Roman Catholic,) that I did to his Royal Brother; And have not, that I can discover upon the most diligent search, wilfully & knowingly, made one False Step towards the late Irregular & Injustifiable Method of Preservation of our Religion & Laws, by the Ungodly Practices & means of INVASION & USURPATION (which hath in good truth lain both a Gasping) is a Felicity which doth not only wonderfully support, but sometimes almost transport me, amidst my present Exercises of Patience. And will make me relish the worst Air, or Usage, that I can meet with abroad, where there are no Fogs, nor Fumes, raised by Rebellion, better than the best Air or Proferment in England, or any other Country where there Are. And here I should beg pardon, for this present Trouble & Conclude, having been I fear too tedious, but that I stand obliged, lest I preach in vain, to answer one Objection, which it is easy to foresee will be made against my Doctrine, and may carry more Appearance of Reason therewith than any Other.  
To wit.  
Christ's Example pretended for submission to the Prevailing Power; since his acknowledging Allegiance to be due to Tiberius Caesar; whose Predecessors had so lately changed the Government of Rome by the Senate, did by that Act of his give liberty to us▪ lawfully to yield our Allegiance to any unjust prevailing Power, what ever it be.  
This difficulty being solved by the Forementioned learncd Doctor of our own Church & Nation, of undeniable Authority & an Eminent Confessor in the Great Rebellion, I'll give the Answer in his own very words without the least variation. Which is so substantial an one, that it is seasonable at this instant to be exposed to view. And if there were no other Design in my writing would justify the Publication of this letter.  
In short his words are these. The state of the Government of Rome, at that time when Christ Jesus lived▪ must be considered distinctly what it was. It is true indeed that Julius Caesar had (not many years before) wrested the Power out of the Senate's hands, and Changed the Government violently: but before this time of Tiberius, whereof we speak, the business was so accorded between the Senate & the Emperors, that the Emperor now Reigned unquestionably without any Competition of the Senate: In him the Power was quietly seated, the money superscribed with his Image, and Edicts sent out in his name, and he looked on by all (with out any Rival) as inferior to God only. In which case of his acknowledged Power, Christ being borne in his Dominious, thinks not fit to make a Question of his Right, where there was none made by the Romans, or to dispute Caesar's Title (However acquired by violence at first) when they from whom it was taken did acquiesce, & disputed it not. Which Case how different it is from other forcible Usurpations (where the legal Sovereign doth still Claim his Right to his Kingdoms, and to the Allegiance of his Subjects, no way acquitting them from their Oaths, or laying down his Pretention, though he be for the present Ouerpowred) is easily discernible to any who have the Courage & Fidelity to consider it, & is not by his own Interests bribed, or frighted from the performance of his Christian Duty. It being withal most certain, that it belongs not to the conveniences or advantages of subjects to determine, or prevail any thing in the Business of Prince's Rights.  
This, one of the most formidable Objections & Arguments for submission to an unlawful prevailing Power, being thus effectually answered, I shall not think it paine-worthy, in a letter, to multiply other of less difficulty, which by consequence may more easily be blown away.  
And indeed I suppose it needless, at this Time of Day, to fall to strong reasonings to evince the unsincerity of the Pretensions of the Contrivers, & Promoters, of this late unhappy Change of Government in Church & State; they themselves having destroyed all the Plausibility of their own Professions & Declarations.  
First. The Prince of Orange disowned that he came to Conquer, or meddle with the Crown, and yet most willingly accepted thereof at the very first offer of the People.  
Secondly. The Exercise of the King's Prerogative in dispensing with some Laws, on Extraordinary Emergencyes, was thought a Burden Intolerable; But it hath been no Crime since in the Subject to dispense with all; They having got (as they think) what they have long Contended for, the Supremacy in their own hands.  
Thirdly. The Introducing of Arbitrary Power was the Dread of most men, & now they are contented to enjoy nothing else.  
Fourthly. It was Judged unpardonable Tyranny in our Sovereign▪ to touch the meanest of his subjects in Point of Property; but it is a laudable virtue in the Subject, to usurp upon, nay dispose of the Crown.  
Fiftly. The English were Overwhelmed with Jealousies of introducing Popery & promoting the Interest of France. And all the while have gone the direct way to bring the worst of their Fears on themselves, by Driving the King & Prince out of the Kingdom.  
Sixtly. In a word. Sundry other Things, which were deemed nnsufferable in a lawful Prince of Gods Ordaining, are now Practised without disgust by an Usurper, & King of the People's making.  
He that is not yet perfectly Convinced of the Hypocrisy of these Pretences & Procedings (which I hope the most Eminent of our Clergy & Nobility by this time are) seems to have neither Eyes to see, Ears to hear, nor Heart nor Head to consider & Understand.  
I shall conclude with A Memorable Saying of our Royal Martyr King Charles the 1. on his Observation of a like spirit of Delusion which in his days possessed the generality of the People of the same Kingdoms, in Dethroning, nay Murdering, their Lawful King, & one of the Best of Princes, at his own doors.  
" So easy is that Leger de main which serves to delude the Vulgar.  
That the Almighty & Wise God, who in his just displeasure for our sins & ingratitude to Himself & his Vicegerent, hath for the present made the Chutch & Monarchy of England A Notable Monument of his Wrath, would bring all High & Low, who have contributed to so Heinous a Gild, in his due time, to such a sight & sense of their Crimes, that they may give to the world an undeniable Demonstration of the Truth of their Repentance, labouring with all their Might to redress the Scandals they have given, by an unparalelled Apostasy from the Principles of our Church, & an abhorred Defection, in point of Loyalty; is the hearty & humble Prayer of  
(Ever Honoured and Dear Sir) Your Lordship's most humble Servant & Affectionate Brother, DENIS GRANVILLE Roven April 24. 1689.   

POSTSCRIPT.  
THat the Printing of this letter with the following Address & Queres, may not appear to yourself, as I foresee they will to all Zealous Contrivers & Supporters of the Usutpation in England, an act of not only deplorable Folly, but down right Frenzy, I humbly Crave your permission to insert a few lines by way of Postscript.  
I am not ignorant, but that this attempt may render me absolutely incapàble of all the favour you have showed me, since my Flight into France, in your voluntary kind interposition to secure my Revenu; & that it must also expose me for a subject of Common Talk & Censure thoughout the Nation. But since an un blemised Loyalty is infinitely mote valuable than the Possessions of this world, & that, I was persvaded that the Course▪ which I did, by God's grace, Steer, was the most effectual way to secure that, the very Reputation whereof I esteem far beyond the Rents I had at Durham, Easington, & Sedgefeild; nay moreover since that my past Life, & last Deportment in England, had not been all of a piece, if I had not done as I did; You will not, I trust, condemn my Carriage, however contrary to the Maxims & Temper of the Reigning Generation, as unworthy of your House & Family.  
What I have done, I have performed, thanks be to the Almighty, in the Integrity of my Heart & Innocency of my hands, & the sense & Consideration here of (the Issue of things exery day more & more convincing me that I was in the Right) doth afford unspeakable Comfort to my soul.  
My Feeding of some Friends, in my voyage from Scotland hither, with Expectation of an Interview in Kent, & talk of a Passport (the fitst of which I did not intend, & the last, if I could get away without it, I did not desire) is a crime I do assure myself of God's pardon for, & of those friends likewise whom I deluded & disappointed, when God shall be pleased to send us a happy meeting.  
As for that more unpardonable sin where with some do reproach me, & whereof I cannot so well clear myself before the World (but is the only one, thanks be to God, that the World can accuse me of) I me●n my Ignorance & Imbecility to fill my Coffers & Pockets so full as some more frugal & crafty than myself have done in less time, with a smaller Estate or Revenu, I am like to do a sad Penance for it here abroad in a Foreign Kingdom. And the Friends & Relations I leave at home, will not, I hope, add affliction to affliction (if they will not help me with their Purses) by loading me with their Censures; especially considering two last Acts of mine to demonstrate the sincerity of my Repentance for it: First that I did voluntarily diminish my Revenu very considerably, by Rent-Charges to satisfy my own just Debts; Secondly that I looked on my long Neglect to practice Frugality as so great a sin, that I did as voluntarily put myself into a kind of white sheet to atone for the same, by confessing it to God & the world, in a small Peice I printed in the year 85.  
This is my Comfort, that no person in England is like to lose by me, unless by his own proper Choice, & if one man doth so, he must thank himself rather than blame me. If I suffer Deprivation to his loss, he must quarrel with God & the King, whose Commands have unavoidably obliged me to hold fast my Religion & Loyalty. And if the Sacrificing of both, or either of them, was in my Judgement too dear a purchase of my Revenu for myself, no one could reasonably expect that I should undergo it for an other.  
Hoping that these few Hints may give some satisfaction to all, but the Malicious Authors of our present Misery, I shall not enlarge this Postscript farther, than to acknowledge with all thankfulness the kindness which you have showed me in procuring A Dispensation for me (notwithstanding I have contradicted your Example) which I esteem thegreater Obligation, at those friends hands who were instrumental therein, since they did it without my Privity or Motion.  

BY the Publication of the following ADDRESS & QUERES it may appear, than the Author is not afraid (notwithstanding the Obloquy he did a while undergo, in the yet 88, for his dutiful compliance with the King) to own those notions of Loyalty, which he did endeavour to infuse into all persons committed to his Charge; and also that he is not ashamed, to proclaim to all the world (in spite of the Censures he met with all) that he did, & doth, hold the following Queres in the affirmative; being of opinion that to hold them otherwise is to place some of the King's Supremacy in the People.    

An ADDRESS which the Dean of Durham sent to his Majesty, speedily after the Prince of Orange landed [upon his Brethrens their Refusal to join with him, because the Superior Clergy had not Addtessed before] to show his Abhorrance of that Unnatural Invasion; which Address was intercepted by the Lord Lumley & other Lords who had seized on York; as mentioned page 3.  
To the King's most excellent Majesty.  
The Hearty & Humble Address of your majesty's ever loyal, and faithful, Subject, & Servant, the Dean of Durham.  
MAY it please your Sacred Majesty  
In time of an Invasion as in a common Inundation, or Calamity by fire, When every body is bound in duty to preserve the House, City, or Country, whereof he is a member, without usual ceremony or compliment to Superior or Equals, I do judge it an Indispensable Duty of every Faithful & right Loyal subject to hasten to assist his Sovereign with his purse, as well as his prayers, to the utmost of his power & ability; & therefore not daring to stay till all my Betters have given me example in Addressing before me, or all my inferior Brethren have agreed on a form to Address with me, I do heartily offer to your Majesty all that I have to spare for your present service, thinking nothing mine own, in such a time of danger, but what is sufficient to suffice nature: Assuring you withal that I do not only from the very bottom of my soul Abhor & Detest this Treacherous & Unnatural Invasion of the Prince of Orange, together with all the other Wicked, Rebellious, & Bloody Designs of his Adherents, whether Enemies at home or abroad (and more particularly of those among us, who have lately revolted from their Allegiance) but do with great Indignation Renounce all manner of Violence, Force, & Contempt of Authority, offered to your Sacred Person, or Government, either by the Rabble (the very dreg●● of the Mobile) in the City, as well as Rebels in the Field; Conceiving gs a great sin to use any Compulsive Arguments to Constrain or Terrify God's Vicegerent into a Compliance with the Will & Desires of his subjects, be they never so much for the good of himself, Church, or Kingdom: having learned in the Communion of my Mother the Church of England (wherein I am firmly resolved to live & die) other principles than to teach my Supreme, or any of my Superiors, what He or They ought to do, with a sword in my hand, or compel a Sovereign Monarch▪ whether he will or no, to do his duty & gratify his people sooner than he is inclined, or his own Necessity (whereof he is the best judge) will permit: Satisfying myself most thank fully with the repeated assurance, which your Majesty hath already given of our Religion, Laws, & Liberties●, together with all your past & present Gracious Condescensions to remove the Fears & jealousy of your people, Resolving to stay your leisure for the Calling of a Parliament, & all other means & methods, which are in your Majesties own choice, for the securing your own Royal Person, or Establishment of your Government in Church or State.  
Nou. 27. 88 DENIS GRAINVILLE Dean of Durham.   

QVERES Put by the Dean of Durham to some Young Clergy men to answer privately in his own Study (near about the time his Majesty sent forth an order to read his Declaration for liberty of Conscience) which being treacherously stolen away, or falsely transcribed, upon the interception of a letter to a Friend, were dispersed & canvased up and down the Coffeehouses of London, & other parts of England (as mentioned pag. 7.) and are for that reason printed.  
1. Whether a Subject is not bound to comply with his Prince in every Command, or Reasonable Intimation of his pleasure, wherein he is not in Conscience bound to the contrary?  
2 Whether a Subject is not bound to comply with his Prince in some things, which he conceives not only inexpedient but such as may tend to the Prejudice of the Flourishing condition of the Church (provided the Being of the Church be secure) if a lawful Prince of a Different Religion doth absolutely command them, & will not be satisfied without Compliance with such Command?  
3. Whether the Church of England was not an established Church before the enacting of the Penal Laws? If so, whether it is not better to comply with his Majesty in consenting to take away those Penal Laws which his Majesty desires to be abrogated, than hazard the Being of our Church, by provoking the King on whose Favour we depend?  
FINIS.   

TO THE BISHOP OF DURHAM.  
MY LORD.  
So Sudden and violent a separation betwixt a Bishop and his Dean, as hath been occasioned betwixt your Lordship & myself, by our late stupendious Revolution, is a matter of too great importance to be passed over in silence, by one who was driven from his station by the impetuosity of that dreadful storm, which lately fell on, and overthrew our Church and State. I conceive it therefore my duty to inform your Lordship, not only where, but what I am, in this age of mutability, which hath produced, I think, almost all kind of changes, among men of every Quality, Degree, & Calling, but that which Doctor B. speaks of, in his letters concerning his travels into Italy; I mean the change of sex.  
I need not, my Lord, give You any particular account of my behaviour, or usage, in England, after your Lordship was called up to London about Michaelmass last, or of the manner of my Escape, since your Lordship was certified, by letters from myself, in the months of Oct: and Nov: last, of most matters of moment relating to the Church and County of Durham (though I had the honour & satisfaction of receiving an answer to few of them) and may come to the knowledge of other things, by the relation of my deportment, which I have published in my printed letter to my Brother the Earl of bath; whereto I crave leave to refert your Lordship, & all who are inquisitive after me.  
I shall only embrace this occasion solemnly, & publicly, to assure your Lordship, in general, that I did faithfully, and with as much punctuality as I was able, discharge those Trusts which were committed to me, in every one of the places, and offices, which I had the honour to bear under your Lordship; & maintained my Post in your Absence, not withstanding mighty discouragements, till it was not possible for me any longer to strive against that Torrent, which had hurried all matters, in that & other parts of the Nation, into great disorder & confusion.  
When I saw there was no possible means left for me, but to sink, by endeavouring to oppose what was irresistible; or swim down the stream (which no argument not example of the age could, I thank God, prevail with me to do.) I was under a necessity to turn aside, and withdraw myself, beholding matters a while at a distance; rather than in my own station & place of acting; since I carried about which me an unalterable loyal heart, which would not suffer me to run (as most did) with the multitude; & on the other side wanted both strength of mine own, & the assistance of others, effectually to oppose that unruly & many headed monster. But did not resolve to leave the Kingdom, & commit my Flock & Family alone to Almighty God's protection & care, (as I afterwards did) till I had a powerful example, which a dutiful subject ought to be proud to follow, and a Precedent which may set me above the censures of any person in the three Kingdoms.  
When my Sovereign was forced from his own palace, nay driven out of the Realm, it was time for those who were firmly resolved to adhere to, & suffer with Him, to yield to that force & necessity, which A mighty Potentate, by complying with, proclaimed to be invincible. Having then the honour to be one of that number (& glorying that I am so) it would have been a preposterous course for me (who never played my game so as to save my stake) to have stayed at home, or in England, when I was no longer capable to serve Him, in those offices wherein I was placed; and while I had no other prospect, but that of a prison, without doing what was impossible for me to do, I mean bow down to Baal, or in plain English, submit to an Usurper.  
This occasioned my Flight first to Carlisle, & from thence upon its declaring for the P. of Orange; & change of Governor, to Edingburgh, & from that city, upon intelligence of an Embargo, into France, (as is set forth more at large in the former letter to my Brother) to have the honour & satisfaction, which is no small consolation to a loyal Subject in Banishment, of doing homage to the Royal Family, & viewing our hopeful young Prince, who will live, I trust in God, to constrain his Enemies to confess (what they were, I doubt not, always persuaded of in their hearts) that he is the legitimate son of King james the 2: and one of the greatest blessings, which God ever bestowed on the English Nation.  
As for my part (how great a parodox soever it may appear to some) I am fully convinced of the truth thereof, as I always was of God's wonderful Goodness & Providence, in bringing his Father, our Gracious Sovereign, through all his troubles, to the Crown. And I fear, that our abhorred Ingratitude towards God for two such inestimable blessings, as the security of the succession by an Heir Male, & those Halcyon days, which we for two years enjoyed (and might have enjoyed longer had it not been our own faults) under a Gracious Prince of a condescending race, have above other sins pulled down God's judgements, & contributed towards the miserry we now groan under, & the greater misery which hangs over our heads, & out of which we can never be delivered, but by the extraordinary assistance of the same merciful & gracious God and King, whom we have above measure provoked and incensed.  
I have never been ashamed, I thank God, to own such sentiments, as these, amidst all the delusions, which the generality of men of a contrary opinion have lain under, & the greatest Obloquy & Contempt, which by them hath been cast on every one, who stuck close to his Majesty (as I thank God I have done to the utmost of my power) in asserting his Prerogative. But I need not affirm this to your Lordship, or any within your Diocese, having sufficiciently proclaimed my judgement concerning these matters, in the pulpit, both in the Cathedral & other Churches, after his Majesty's happy accession to the Imperial Crown, & the Birth of the Prince of Wales.  
Towards the Filling up the measure of that Iniquity, wherewith our just God would no longer dispense, & whereto our Kings, our Princes, & our Prophets, nay all the people in the land, (to speak in the Evangelical Prophet's phrase,) have contributed more or less, I know, that I myself [a wretched miserable sinner] have sadly helped in every one of my capacities, & heartily beg pardon of God through JESUS-CHRIST for my share of the guilt. But it is to me an unspeakable comfort, that neither my Enemies, nor my own Conscience, can accuse me of those sins, which do seem to be the more immediate ingredients of God's wrath, & which certainly more than others have provoked him, in such Manner, & by such Instruments, to punish Us.  
For I have heartily, from the bottom of my soul, rejoiced at our Gracious Soverain's mounting the Throne, at God's blessing him & us with a hopeful Prince. I have been all along, without murmuring, contented with his Government. I have had always more jealousy of the subject, than of my Sovereign. I have thought ourselves (as it hath proved) nearer a Rebellion, than the Introducing of Popery. And lastly I am not, no not in the thoughts of my heart, guilty, in the leastwise, of that Perfidiousness, & Ingratitude, to my Sovereign, or Injustice & Vnnaturalness to my Fellow-subjects, of calling in Foreign assistance for our Preservation. Or if I had, it should have been any Nation in the world rather than our Neighbours of Holland, being not ignorant of their dealings with the English both at Amboina & Bantam.  
'tis highly probable, my Lord, that these very things which I here allege for my justification, & wherein I so much glory, will be received with derision, and objected against me as my crimes, & that mine & other men's forwardness to obey, & comply with, the King, has contributed to his Fall. This is a fate, which I am sure it will not be possible for me to avoid, since that, before I left the Nation, I had this laid to my charge, by some, who to justify their own sawning on the Mobile, out of Fear or Interest, began to lay all the guilt of the King & kingdom's overthrow to the door of the King & his most obedient subjects; as in Oates' & tongue's plot, some brought in our late gracious Sovereign as concerned in a design against his own Life.  
But I would crave leave, here, to know who are the Objectors. If they are such as have renounced their Allegiance to their lawful Sovereign, I may save the labour to answer them; they being not qualified to censure & accuse me, for helping to what they were well pleased with, & desired should be brought to pass.  
If they be such as will not, at last, submit to the change of Government, & take new oaths, though they have been too far concerned in, & have too much contributed to, the setting up an usurped power (by a greater Complaisance with the Prince of Orange, than I have been guilty of towards my Sovereign) I reply, that the Doctrine of Nonresistance which we have always, till of late, been fond of, set forth at large in our Church-Homilies, doth justify my behaviour; whereof any one may be soon convinced that will be pleased to take the pains (which I have lately done) of seriously perusing, studying, & analizing the Homilies published by authority, Concerning Obedience, & against wilful Disobedience or Rebellion; From whence, no more than from the Holy scripture, can I learn any Medium betwixt Resistance & Compliance. He that doth not comply with Express & Positive commands of his Sovereign, when he believes those commands lawful, doth in some sort resist Him; that saying of our Lord, in this case, being certainly applicable, He that is not for me is against me.  
But these, & like censures, will not, my Lord, in any great measure afflict me. It hath been my fate to be, from my Youth, inur'd to such, & greater, exercises of patience. Indeed I might be induced, rather to suspect my Loyalty and Fidelity to my Sovereign, If I should now escape Scot-free & not be pelted at by those, who out of the same mouth can blow hot & cold, obey a lawful Prince, & obey an Usurper; whose unjustifyable proceedings (blessed be God) my soul doth detest & abhor, being founded in that Laodicean temper, loathsome to God & Goodmen, which I have laboured ever since I have born any public office in Church or State, as far as it was possible for me, to oppose.  
Your Lordship, I am sure, (which is my comfort) will be none of those, who shall load me with reproaches, for my dutiful Compliances which his Majesty, since your example, (which did out run others) as well as your advice, did powerfully invite me thereto. And since your Lordship hath been so kind as to attest, with your mouth to his Majesty, that I was never backward to concur with You, in any thing which was for the King's service. Wherefore I shall spend no more ink to disturb your Lordship with enlarging on so unnecessary a Topick. But I shall take care to strive (by God's grace) to make good the Character, which your Lordship was▪ pleased to give of me last year to the King, you was not, my Lord, any ways deceived in your attestation, neither shall his Majesty (I trust in God) in his expectations from me.  
The remaining paper then▪ my Lord, will be more significantly employed in laying, before your Lordship & the World, the Reasons, why I have not governed myself by your Lordship's example since October last, as I did before, & cannot be prevailed on now to comply with the People's, as I did with the Lord's Anointed my Liege & Dread Sovereign.  
It was, I know, sadly bewailable for persons in such public stations, & so nearly related, as the Bishop & Dean of Dutham, to draw two ways, as we did (I must confess) after your Lordship was pleased to present a paper of Advice to his Majesty, to comply with the demands of the Multitude.  
And it was the more to be lamented, that such division should happen, in a juncture of affairs, & Concussion of the Church & State, that required the Uniting of all persons in every body Ecclesiastic & Civil (all which strength was little enough) to uphold our Sovereign Lord's Crown & Dignity; which we, both, were strictly by our repeated oaths (and possibly more than all others by particular obligations, having received our preferments by his favour) engaged to maintain, & which were more dangerously than ever struck at by Enemies at home & abroad.  
I was astonished, my Lord at so sudden & unexpected, a change, & was, out of respect to your Lordship, one of the last that, in the City & Church of Durham, gave credit to the reports (wherein your honour was concerned) which busied for a while the mouth of almost every person in the County.  
That, that very method which we were afraid, nay well assured of, before parting, was likely to destroy our present Government & Governors (things portending as badly as in forty one) should so immediately (according to your own expression) become the only, & most assured, means of the Preservation of the King's person, & establishment of his Government in Church and State, gave me occasion beyond all measure to admire. And what should move your Lordship, of all men in the Nation, in an unusual way, to advise his Majesty so to do, is not yet discovered by me, though it often employs my thoughts.  
This change of Measures in your Lordship my Diocesan, whose Counsel, Example, and assistance, I did more than ever need and expect, at such a desperate Crisis, did wonderfully weaken me in the discharge of all Duties incumbent on me, either as a Churchman or Justice of the Peace, and did put me under an unavoidable necessity of abating in my zeal to attempt sundry things, and engage in several Designs, which could not be prosecuted, much less accomplished, without the concurrence of my Bishop and Lord Lieutenant.  
This did likewise incapacitate me to censure, or so much as curb those insolent Young Clergymen, who before your Departure were arrived to such a pitch of blodness, as to expose by undecent insinuations in the Congregation, not only their Dean, but Bishop, for Obedience to the King. And which impotency of mine was, the very Sunday after, made conspicuous, by an other indiscreet Sermon preached in the Cathedral pulpit, which I was forced to pass by without so much as admonition (only denying the Preacher the customary respects of an invitation to my table) for fear of a second affront. Since instead of assistance from those, who were sworn to give me that, & much more, I met with reproaches, & was told in the public discharge of the Deans office, that I was well enough Served in that my Bishop had left me in the Lurch.  
I had no small difficulty to bear up against & repel those Arguments, which were brought, the last year, out of the other Province, from the example of great & venerable Prelates, which my entirely devoted heart to honour and obey my King, would not permit me to imitate, though modesty would not allow me openly to condemn. But when those, who laboured to shake me off from my foundation of firm Loyalty, & to betray my Innocence, by persuading me to enter into the Herd, discerned me void of my last support, & deprived of the example of my own Bishop & Father in God, they attacked me (your Lordship my imagine) with too great strength and rudeness, for a single Dean, without Countenance of Superior, or Concurrence of Inferior Brethren, any longer to withstand or oppose, with any considerable effect.  
Tho God Almighty (praised be his holy Name) endowed me, in that day of Trial, with so much courage, as to attempt to do it, in such manner, as may hereafter prove to Edification; never changing my Note nor Measures (when all began to dance after an outlandish Pipe) as long as I stayed on the Place. Witness my Sermons I preached on the 5. & 9 of December▪ two days before I fled, & the Sunday after the Generality of the City & Country had, with open Arms & Mouths, received a Discontented Lord, who the week before seized on the Town for the P. of Orange▪ & profaned both your Castle, & the Markett Cross, with the reading of a Treasonnable Declaration, as is related more at large in the foregoing letter.  
I could not accord, I must confess, with such Example of your Lordship, nor with the Example of others, in being silent, or sitting still, in a time of imminent Danger, Warr▪ & Tumult, when good Nature, as well as good Conscience, dictated to all faithful Clergy men & Christians, not only to list up their voices like a Trumpet, but to employ all their hands to have restrained the unruly multitude, which had got the Bit in their Teeth, & were running madly to a Change of Government, and Deposition of their King; & in that towards their own Destruction; since the Monarchy, as well as our Church, was like to receive (as it hath done) an incurable blow, by an other Disgrace & Banishment of a lawful Sovereign of the same Stock & Race, which had been once before barbarously treated beyond expression, & in such degree, that the English Nation, for a while, became an object of Contempt & Indignation among the very Turks & Pagans.  
However matters might appear to your Lordship, & other Prelates above at London, (as I ought in duty to conclude, by their & your Actings, that they did otherwise than to me below) I could not discover, when my eyes were most open, & cleared by serious & fervent Devotion, that any thing or course tended more to the preservation of the King's Crown, & security of our Church under Him, than our unfeigned submission to our supreme Moderator & Governor, & our vigorous & constant opposition of seditious Incendiaries & Malcontents, who any wise Irritated, or Inflamed the People, or did undutifully capitulate with the King, being agitated (as was apparent) by an humour of Popularity, & that Republican spirit which was gone forth into the Nation, which ought to have been withstood somuch the more, by how much it had gotten strength, & numbers, to terrify some of our greatest Leaders in our very Zion, as well as our Jerusalem; who put themselves into a most dangerous Post [the head of the Multitude] not out of disaffection to the King, I am persuaded, so much as out of fear of that ungovernable Beast, who will make less scruple to pull off the B●sho'ps Lawnsleeves & the Earle's Coronets, than either of them, in the Convention, did to deprive their Lord & Sovereign's head of the Crown. And I must confess myself so short sighted, or hard to be convinced, that I cannot as yet see, or own, that I then made a wrong judgement of things, or, on that account, laboured under any Error.  
Would God, that all those, whom I dare not deny to be, as they think themselves, very much wiser men (though they did approach as much towards rudeness in withsstanding, as I did towards Flattery in complying with the King) had not too late discerned the pernicious fatallness of the contrary Error, in endeavouring to bring God's Vice gerent to Terms, whereby the Sovereignty of our Defender of the faith, was so weakened, broken, & shattered, that he was not able to protect either Church, or State, or so much as his own Sacred Person from the hands of the Rabble▪ nay not secure his very pocketts, at last, from the Fate of me his unworthy servant, & other his Subjects, I mean, from being in our flight picked & rifled.  
Hinc illae lachrim●. And I make no question, but that if Tears would redress what is past, thousands of those, who murmured & complained of the King, would shed whole rivers to restore the King, the Church & the Kingdom to the Circumstances (as bad as they then thought them) which they were all in but last year. But God knows it is now too late to make use of such feeble means, for the recovery of what is lost, floods of tears being not like to prevail, unless accompanied with a holy violence, & conjoined with sincere & hearty prayer, issueing out from a truly penitent heart, & deeply humbled Soul.  
We have, God knows, madly grasped our Religion, our Liberty, & our Laws, out of the hands of our own lawfully descended, merciful, Prince, who manifested all a long, & even at the last upshot, that he carried about him, as he professed, a truly English heart, & whose Interest it was (whatever was his Majesties Religion) to uphold them all; Grasped them away, I say & put them into the power, & at the mercy of Foreigners, whose Humour & Inclination it is, as well as Interest, to destroy them all; whereof a few months are like to afford Us more lamentable Demonstrations, as we have reason to apprehend, by the Transactions of five or six that are past.  
By these few honest reflections, on the miserable Estate of my Native Country, & more particularly on the Cathedral & Archdeaconry of Durham (which I cannot here reflect on without often sitting down & weep) your Lordship may perceive, that I am the very same, that You found me, when You entered on your Diocese 17. years ago; & left me in the month of Octobet last, bearing the Brunt of that dreadful Hurricane, which was then coming out of Holland, & struggling with that insatiable Hydra, which did widely gape for the Crown and Myter, & is like after devouring its supports (like a Jugglar) to disgorge a Commonwealth.  
I am indeed, my Lord, on all accounts, & to all intents & purposes, the very same that I have ever been; entirely devoted to the Honour, & Interest of the ROYAL FAMILY OF THE STVARTS, & so unalterable & steady a Practiser, as well as Professor, of the old Church-of-England-Religion (& more especially of those distinguishing Doctrines which do signally honour our Church, & which were, whilst practised, so lovely in the eyes of all, as to prevail with a Rome Cath: Prince at his mounting the Throne to continue and protect her) that I can by the power of no temptation, or Arguments of Dutch Divinity, be induced to do any certain sinful act to preserve her, whether by way of resisting my lawful Sovereign, or complying with an Usurper.  
I say, my Lord, that I am, both by Nature & Instinct, a perfect Abhorrer of that Diabolick sin of Rebellion, however varnished over by the Father of lies, & by what Names or Titles soever it be dignified or distinguished. And, in the same temper of mind, I do here declare to your Lordship (which I desire may be communicated to every Person in your Diocese under You) that I am resolved, by the grace of the Almighty, to end my days.  
Grieving that your Lordship hath, by doing homage to a Superior which I cannot own, absolved me, in a great measure, from the Canonical Obedience, Duty, & Respect, which I did once owe You, (& whereby I am capacitated to take greater freedom with your Lordship▪ than 'twas lawful for me to do in former letters, as well as debarred of of begging your Benediction, with the same delight I have done formely,) I rest.  
MY LORD Roüen July the 1. 1689. Your Lordships, &c▪ DENIS GRANVILLE.  
FINIS.   

To the Vice-Dean & Prebendaries of the Cathedral Church of Durham.  
MR. Vice-Dean & other Prebendaries of Durham.  
Tho the bodily Infirmities I now feel, as well as the greater ones I have struggled with since I left Durham, [intimated in a letter from Edingburgh] have been, and are, sufficient to excuse my Absence, and may justify me in the eyes of God & Man, for leaving, for some time, so cold and moist an air, as the North of England, and repairing into a Clime more warm and benign, Yet I, who have been, all my days, a Lover of Plaindealing, think not fit to conceal, any longer, the more substantial reasons, which did at first hurry me away from You, and do still detain me abroad.  
Till I was well got out of the reach of those New Governors, whom I could neither own, nor obey, and from whom, for that very cause, had hopes of small favour, I was, as well as my Betters, necessitated to use, the most plausible Arguments I could with Innocence, for a Voyage into France, without declaring the bottom of my design. And Providence, at that time, furnishing me with one very Authentic, and reasonable enough [to wit, upon the return of a dangerous Cough to go once more into a Country, from which I had received formerly considerable advantage, in point of Health,] I should have been much to blame, if I had not made use thereof, as I did, in order to my Escape.  
On this account (in my letter to You, & discourse with those I met in my journey) I insisted on little else, than what related to my then growing Indisposition, which was come to a great height; neither did I (God be thanked) meet, or converse with any so unreasonable, or inquisitive, as to demand stronger motives, than the recovery and preservation of my health, (the next valuable Blessing to the Salvation of my Soul,) to authorize my design of hastening into this Kingdom: famous for its Sovereign & Beneficial air for all Consumptive Constitutions; & the virtue whereof, though I am not got into the most salutiferous Region, I now already, in a very great measure perceive.  
But though all I allege be very true and real, yet I dare not deny that other and greater matters (set forth in a precedent letter) did first put it into my thoughts, and incline me to quit my Station, and without which, had the danger of my life been never so great, I must confess, that, I think, I had never more thus left my Charges, after so considerable an Absence heretofore (to recover my health) from my Offices & Cures.  
In plain English then, I declare to all the World, that the true Cause of my sudden flight was, that I carried about me a Conscience more untractable, and less pliable to an Usurpation, than most I left behinds, as process of time hath made too apparent. My Conscience (such as it was) did oblige me, to the utmost of my Strength, to oppose all usurped power (as I did to the last, wittness all the Congregation present in the Choir the Sunday before my departure) and then, I need not tell You, it was not fit for me to stay there, any longer. I might use the word impossible rather than unfit, since I could not with good Conscience stay. Id tantum possumus (says the Civilian) quod jure possumus.  
I cannot deny that every one of You, and all those Clergy in the Nation, which were satisfied and resolved, to Submit; that is to say renounce your Allegiance to your Lawful Sovereign, and swear new to those, who have ungodlily, and unjustly, deposed him, have done politicly enough to remain at home, sit still, & hold your Tongues; at a time, when the Right Church-of-England-Religion, (according to the best notion I have of it) nay Christianity in general, required all faithful Preachers to lift up their voices like a Trumpet, to oppose the madness of the People, & stop them in their Career to Destruction.  
But I, your unworthy Dean, who, without doubt or scruple, believed it, at that time, as I do at present, a piece of detestable Rebellion to join with any, in a Conspiracy against our King's Crown, as well as Life, (and desire to be torn with wild Horses rather than so to do,) did as politicly, (and I am sure more honestly) in withdrawing.  
But I desire You to remember, that I did not stir from my Post, till the City of Durham was polluted by the Reading of a Declaration, which by a late Proclamation of the King's was pronounced treasonable; & that there werè not four public Magistrates, nor one Minister in the Town, had the Courage any ways to oppose it, or declare their dissent thereto: a v●ry feeble support for a Dean resolved [as I then declared I was, & now declare a new that I am] to stick close, by God's grace, to the Crown of my only lawful Sovereign King james the 2., his Heirs, & Successors: knowing no difference betwixt the Duty & Obedience I owe to a Prince of the Protestant, & to a Prince of the Roman Faith.  
Nay I desire you moreover to consider, that I did not run away & forsake my flocks, as some may be apt to object, when I saw the Wolf coming, but after I saw him come, & with open mouth ready to devour, & had myself in some sort tasted his Fierceness.  
I beseech You therefore so take notice, that it was not till the 11. of December, at night, that I left Durham; a day after his Sacred Majesty was driven from Whitehall. By which time, the Wicked Contrivers of this sad Revolution had accomplished what they had been long endeavouring, stripped the King of all his Supports, put him under a necessity, as well as his most faithful Subjects, to fly into an other Nation, & shown their Good Will towards the Dissolution of the Government.  
And farther, and above all this, though I could not stay longer in Durham, without being defiled by concurring, or confined for opposing, I did not leave England, till the 20. of January; nor fly out of the King's Dominions, till the Subject, who was tender enough of his own Property, had after innumerable Violations of the King's Prerogative, presumed to disspose of the very Crown.  
For 
* The crown offered to the Prince of Orange on Ashwensday  Ashwensday was over, before I took shipping in Scotland. A Dismal day, a day, which I shall mark in my Calendar, with a note of deeper Humiliation than before; A day, which, by all truly devoted Souls to the Honour & Interest of the Imperial Crown of England, will be remembered with more Regrett than Ashwensday 53. A day indeed, once thought fit for the Inauguration of an 
* Cromvell declared Protector on Ashwensday 16●3.  Usurper; who though in all other respects odious & infamous, had not the boldness to seize on the Crown, nor the People of England, at that time, (though plunged over head & ears in Rebellion) the Timidity nor. Stupidity, to offer it to him, who without all dispute might then with less sin, & with more prudence, have put it on his Head▪ (it having for a while before been deposited and unemployed,) than some body since snatched it from the Head of his own Uncle, nay Father.  
This is, Gentlemen, the true & real cause of my withdrawing. And if You please to be mind full of the critical time when, the manner how, & the cause wherefore, being also so just to your Dean, as not to look barely on his going away, but consider it as circumstantiated, and allowing me so much Charity (who have always exercised greater towards my Dependants) as to believe I did, at least, mean well then, and do speak true at present, I am willing to bear all other ccnsures you can load me with, for this late hazardous undertaking, which however it may be misunderstood, in England, (over which, as of late, there seems still to hang some notorious cloud & mist, which strangely obscures men's understanding) and deemed an act of Fear or Folly; yet I am, God be praised, fully persuaded that it was the most honest, the most courageous, & thc wisest Act of my whose Life. And do incessantly praise his name, that he was pleased to endow me with his grace, (passing by many more capable to do him service,) at that very time, and in such manner as I did, to Bear wittness to the Truth.  
1, For my Flock, had I (whose notion both of Religion & Loyalty had caused me all a long to act at an other rate failed by a sordid & truly mean compliance, I had certainly done them irreparable wrong, by thwarting my past Doctrine, & destroying the example of my whole Life.  
2. As for my Revenue, though I possessed the best Deanery, and possibly the best Archdeaconry, & one of the best Livings, in England, A Faithful Christian ought not so highly to value them, as to put them into the scales with his Conscience. And besides I do not forget that I both received, & held my Deanery by the King's favour, & do resolve that without his favour I will never keep it.  
These two particulars granted, I leave all men to judge, whether it was an unwise act of mine, all things considered, to withdraw when, & in such manner, as I did. I do well assure myself, that it will be esteemed otherwise, by all those that do not deny the truth of this undoubted maxim, that Honesty is the best Policy. And I do comfort myself, that my poor exploded Notions of Honesty & Religion, Loyalty to my King, & obedience to the Precepts & Rules of the Church, will yet come in vogue before I leave the World (though I have too much reason to apprehend, that, unless the change of air preserve me, I shall not be a long lived man (however they be run down, & rejected in this intoxicated Age, which hath, in a manner, captivated men's Senses, as well as their Understandings.  
I that am, the Lord be thanked, happily delivered, for a while, from the Fogs of my own Country (which were sadly increased since its late Alliance & Communication with Holland) do no more doubt, than I cease to pray for, the King's glorious, & blessed Restauration. That joyful Day in spite of Men & Devils, will come, as soon, as the Church and Kingdom are, by a profound Humiliation & sincere Repentance, prepared for so choice a blessing. And when it doth come, or is nigh approaching, it will infallibly open men's eyes, & cause them clearly to discern their past egregious folly & facility, in suffering themselves to be so soon overcome, by such deplorable Delusion, as not to distinguish betwixt the felicity of living under an undisputable lawful & gracious Prince (of the most merciful and eligible Race and Qualifications) & bearing the Yoke of an Usurper, whose Crown must necessarily be maintained, as it is gotten, by the Sword. And whose Reign, though it begins in nomine Domini, & is ushered in by a show of Religion, & seeming love of Liberty, & Laws, soon becomes grievous, & his little finger felt much heavier, than the Lawful Predecessour's Loins.  
It will not be needful to pretend to the Spirit of Prophecy for this Discovery, the last eight or nine Month's experience doth powerfully evince the Truth of what I affirm. There doth seem already to be eyes enough open, if their hands were at Liberty, [and good swords in them] in Scotland, & England too, as well as Ireland, to deliver those miserable Kingdoms from real Tyranny & Presbytery, which are not like to be found much more tolerable, for the late injustifiable, as well as unintelligible method of Exclusion of Popery, & pretended Arbitrary Power.  
All those who were come to, & could exercise, their Understandings, from the year 41 to the year 60, cannot forget the unsufferable Slavery which the three Kingdoms underwent▪ upon the unhappy Conjunction of those forementioned unseparable Twins. The horrid Rebellion of those days was less odious than the present one; which is accompanied with the highest Aggravations; less odious I say, or at least less unnatural, (than that under which the best Subjects & Christians in England at present groan) in sundry respects, had not the former been deeply died in the blood of King Charles the Martyr. And yet all the Religion, & great ostentation of Purity of the Gospel, wherewith it was introduced, & at last, after a flood of Loyal blood, submitted to, by an infatuated Generation, ended at length in down right Enthusiasm; which, by breaking of Fences, & tearing up Foundations, let in a Deluge of all kind of Profaneness. The Privileges & Properties, as well as the Liberty of the Subject, were got into the hands of such miserable Keepers, as kept them all to themselves: in such sort, as scarce any Person. You do well remember, could be Master of them, or meet with them, but at Wallingford House. In a word, after inexpressible violence & Injustice, Cutting off sundry Pillars of Church & State, & most those well fixed Church of England-men [Clergy or Layicks] who had the valour to withstand the Usurpers of those days, all matters, at last, run into Anarchy & Confusion. And the Babel, which had been twenty years in building, after a short tottering, at the Death of their Chief Upholder, fell, & crushed its self with its own weight, and covered all their antimonarchical machinations with its Ruins.  
The serious & sober review of all past Transactions, from the beginning of the long & great Rebellion home to the Dutch Invasion, to wit; of the first stupendious wickedness of the Enemies of the King & Church of England: The wonderful long suffering of a justly Incensed God; His unconceivable Goodness and Compassion at length in a real delivery of the Nation, & our Church, [from not only the most Arbitrary power, which had been before exercised, but from the utmost malice of all it's worst Adversaries, who were watching to devour her] The wretched Requital of God's mercy & Love, made to Heaven, by the most Real (I fear none can excuse themselves) as well as pretended Friends of Crown & Myter, in repaying such unexpressible Bounty with Contempt and Ingratitude; &, at last, the most deplorable Folly & Madness of the People of England, in being catched by, nay running into, the very same Snares, wherein they had been once before entangled, by the Subtlety of the Devil, almost to their utter Destruction. The recalling to mind & through Consideration, I say, of such, & the like passages, should have made us, methinks, wise enough to have avoided, in due season, the same Trap which was again laid for us, & into which we are a second time falléns. At least, one would guess (or else we are become perfectly stupid & insensible) should awake every one to look to his Aftergame, for fear we may be remedilessly deprived of the remaining part of our Felicity, which is bound up in the life of our distressed Sovereign, & his legitimate Issue, by our gracious Queen-Consort, who hath evidenced herself, in these & former innumerable Troubles of our afflicted, & thrice banished Prince, a notable Example of Submission & Patience, & who ought to be for being made, by God, the happy Instrument of bringing us the Blessing of a hopeful Heir Male, for ever Dear to the English Nation, & all faithful Subjects to the Crown of England.  
If such extraordinary Dealings of the God of Heaven, varied to every man's capacity & condition; If neither God's speaking by a still voice, nor in the Whirlwind, neither by the Sunshine of mercies, nor the Thunder of his Judgements, [that dreadful Clap, whereinto the late black Clouds driven into England out of Holland, broke very fatally, to the unhinging of the whole Fabric of our Government both in Church & State,] will reclaim us, & make us sensible of our most real Interest, & Happiness in a most desirable & wéll▪ established Monarchy & Episcopacy, [& a gracious Prince, according to the heart's wish of every right loyal son of the Church of England, save that he doth not ptofess our Religion;] nor reduce us to that entire obedience & submission to the King and Church, which the wise dispensations of a loving & long-suffering God seem, above other things, by many repeated Summonss, loudly to call for, there remains nothing but a Fearful looking for of judgement. I know no Salve for our sore; nor can discover any thing which can mollify such stony hearts, or mortify such corrupt natures; that have lamentably defeated our heavenly Father, in all his methods to do good unto us; & save us. And I, who have never been (all that know me must confess) a man of excessive fear & jealousy, as to the Public, must sink down into despair: & conclude that the people of England, the other Day, an object of envy to all the Nations round about us, are signally marked out for God's displeasure, & will be made a standing Monument of his Wrath to all succeeding Ages▪  
But I shall not detain You longer with Reflections on the State of England. It will be a Duty more incumbent on me to consider the Circumstances of Durham, & therein those of the Cathedral Church, my special & more particular Charge, wherein I have been by the Favour of my King, rather than my own merit, set to Preside.  
And indeed I cannot thoroughly reflect on that Church & City, wherein I have (by God's permission & the King's kindness) had the honour, for the last 27. years, to be dignified, without melting into Tears. To consider that the Bishopric & Cathedral Church of Durham, which had so well approved themselves both to his late▪ & present Majesty, & usually exceeded others in expressions of Loyalty, should now lie undistinguishable, & incorporated into the Mass of Rebellion, which the wise & just God is pleased to permit to oppress the whole Land, peirces my very Soul.  
It was one of the most painful mortifications I ever met with, the week before my Departure, to discern myself deserted by all the Citty-Clergy in my honest zeal for the righteous Cause of my Sovereign; In such sort, as not to discover, then on the place, any one Ecclesiastic, neither in the Cathedral, nor any Parochial Church, or Chapel, with in the Precincts of that City, who had the courage, at that juncture, to own openly, either in the Pulpit, or in his Conversation, his oppressed Prince's Interest▪ and Honour, by showing just Indignation against that Treasonable Attempt, which was then insolently made against his Crown & Dignity, in reading publicly, & with great formality, the 
* Prince of Orange's Declaration.  Rebellious paper mentioned in this & former letters; Tho every man, who was not a mere idiot, must comprehend, that that very Act countenanced was in effect the pulling up the sluice, & letting in a Stream of Rebellion to overflow the whole County.  
This was, I declare, to me a mighty exercise of Patience, & did among other Pressures, which possibly contributed much to my crazy condition last Winter, heavily afflict me. But when I look farther, & at this day, regard the State Ecclesisiastick of the whole County, & discover but three of all my Brethren of the Clergy through the whole Bishopric of Durham (as I am made believe by Report) who have had either the Integrity, or Courage, to stand their Ground, against a new & unlawful Oath of Allegiance to a Prince, set up by the abhorred treachery, & unheard of Ingratitude, of the People [Subjects] who have no authority, in our anciently Hereditary Realm, to dispose of the Crown, I am above measure astonished & overwhelmed with grief. Which grief is unexpressibly augmented, when I consider that the members of that Body, or Community whereof I have the honour to be Head, have incurred the same Gild. And those Eminent Persons, which, as Salt, by their Examples▪, aught to have seasoned the whole Diocese, are rendered uncapable to reprove their Inferiors, & reprehend the sins of the Times.  
Alas! if Resistance of the higher powers, be, by some Modern Divines & Distinctions, refined into a Virtue, is Perjury no sin? If the Sacred Authority of our Earthly God (the stile in Sripture allowed to a Lawful Sovereign) be fallen into such deplorable contempt among Subjects, that there is little Regard given either to their Promises, or Commands, is the Majesty of the God of Heaven become so mean & cheap, that men, nay Divines, dare cancel the Obligation of an Oath? And the calling God to witness the truth of what we promise become void, & of no effect, as soon as our Interest tempt us to break it? If so, then farewell all Religion, nay Conversation and Commerce among men. If the Bonds of a Sacred Oath are not sufficient to hold men, surely nothing can.  
The Evils & Mischiefs, which must, avoidable, attend a sin so universally committed through the Kingdom, even by the Leaders & Guides of Christ's Flock, are more & greater than it is possible for any to conceive or foresee.  
Such a Notorious Contradiction of your own past Preaching & Practice, must, I fear, render you very cheap amongst those People, which you have drawn into a Snare by a very sinful Example, & who have too much sense not to discern the illness thereof, though they want Courage to resist it.  
I am sorry that the necessity which I am put to of delivering my Soul, constreins me here to declare thus much, and that you have very often, in my Presence, preached false Doctrine, if your present Proceedings & Compliances are justifiable.  
It's now a more seasonable time than it was a 
* Preachers in the Cathedral Church of Durham, as well as elsewhere, began to Caution their hearers against implicit Obedience, whereby they did, at that time, mean all Complian●s with K. I. james. 2.  year ago for us ecclesiastics, who cannot swallow implicit Faith, to teach our Hearers to beware of implicit Obedience. If it were dreadful & dangerous while we lived under a gracious Prince of an undoubted Title, whose excessive Goodness & Forwardness to rely on his Subjects hath proved his Ruin, is it become otherwise under the Government of a Prince, who hath by Violence wrested a Crown from the very Father of his own Princess, & his own near Relation? who by such an act of unparaleld Injustice, & inexcusable, & palpable, defect of Veracity, (in having at his first Entrance grossly contradicted his own Declaration) gives more just Grounds, than both his Uncles, or his Grandfather ever did, of Jealousy & Fear, & to conclude that he intends to Rule as he Conquered the Kingdom, proposing to himself no other motives, in his future Government, than he did in his first Invasion. And what they were it will be needless to recite to any but those, who were, during the months of Oct: & Nov: last, fast a sleep. And what will become then of our Religion, Libertyes, & Laws, it will be easy enough to divine.  
O Fortunatos nimium bona si sua norint etc.  
The Review of our past Felicity, those very Blessings we enjoyed, and sadly overlooked, during the Reign of our present Sovereign, must needs greivously torment our Hearts; & give us occasion of pining away with just vexation & anger at out selves. Since it is not possible now for us, in all humane apprehension, to swim back to such our [sottishly neglected & lost] Happiness, but through that sea of blood, which Tyrants & Usurpers commonly shed, in prosecuting & accomplishing their Machiavellian Designs. And it is matter of no small moment for men, especially Churchmen, to examine thoroughly, & impartially▪ how much of the Gild will lie at their own Doors. As a great measure thereof must, it is without all Dispute, rest at the door of every one, who hath knowingly and wilfully contributed to the Fall & Banishment of his Lawful Prince, whereby he is put under a Necessity, out of Justice to his son, to recover his own by the Sword, which by Force & Violence, as well as the abhorred Treachery of his own Subjects, were taken from him.  
And I do beseech You to be assured, that in now recommending to You (whom God hath placed under my Authority) so Seasonable, & necessary a Task as this sort of SELFE-EXAMINATION, I do manifest that I am (as I have done often in other matters) your faithful Friend, as well as,  
Roüen Aug: 15. 1689. Your affectionate Brother DENIS GRANVILLE.  
FINIS.   

To the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Durham.  
REVEREND BRETHREN,  
Among the many applications, which, upon my withdrawing, and leaving the Nation, I have been obliged, out of common decency as well as good conscience, (considering the publickness of my circumstances,) to make to my Relations, Natural & Spiritual, I might, without censure, or blame, omit all Laborious penning down of my thoughts for You, the Clergy of my Archdeaconry, having for more than twenty years together, with the greatest industry & best zeal I was able, from year to year, by word & letter, & sometimes in Print, not only incited you at my Visitations, faithfully & diligently to execute your offices; but plainly & fully delivered my soul, at my last, & more memorable, Visitation, on the 15: of the never to be forgotten month of Nov: 1688 (ten days after our late [Dutch-Protestant] Gunpowder-Treason) Brotherly advising, nay earnestly pressing, you, to stand the Test in that great day of trial, that you might not have lost either the honour or reward of Confessors for a Righteous Cause; in Asserting whereof, I am willing (and resolve by God's grace) to sacrifice my life, as I have done my Revenue; if the wise God should think fit to call me to the one, as he hath done to the other.  
To demonstrate undeniably to yourselves, & all that heard me that day, that I was not, among all my weaknesses, afraid or ashamed to own my past life & Doctrine, & to complete the Office of a Visitor, as honestly & heartily as I began, I chose, you may remember, to lay before you the chief heads of all the Good Counsel & Advice, which I had given you at the former Conventions of the Clergy of my Jurisdiction, for four years together; even the four last extraordinary years, that is to say, ever since his gracious Majesty, our Liege Lord & Soverigne King james the 2:, mounted his Throne; though I had too much reason, then to apprehend, by your long neglect thereof, & running counter to the principles & practice of your Archdeacon, it would badly suit with your palates, which at that time, to my grief, appeared, & since, without all dispute▪ are found, not only vitiated, but poisoned, by the Leaven & Magic of the Age.  
It was ever my hopes, that his majesty's Loyal County of Durham (the appellation which my gracious Master King Charles the 2: was wont, as I have often minded You, to afford Us) would have resisted longer than any Diocese in England, by virtue of the Good Government which was very seasonably, & more effectually than else where, therein set on foot at his joyful Restauration.  
How little prevalent, & unsuccessful soever my poor & weak endeavours proved towards your establishment, I could not imagine, that the Clergy of the Bishopric of Durham, could have so soon forgotten (much less have frustrated) the precepts, & Example, given them, by so great a 
* Bishop Cousins.  Confessor, and stout Champion of the old orthodox Church of England, as had happily revived good order, & conformity to the Church's Rules among them.  
But since we find, by sad experience, that it is so, & that even the very Leaders have apostatised, from their Duty to God and the King, It becomes me (who dare not follow their Example) to do all that I can, to prevent the People of my Archdeaconry, from being seduced thereby.  
You know, I have laboured faithfully, & with zeal more than ordinary, to assert the King's cause from the year 1678 (through all the Combustions occasioned by an Infamous Impostor,) home to the Dutch Invasion, & at that very time, even on the 15 of Nou. 1688, brought all the wholesome advice which I had given at several Visitations, to your view in one Address, (as before mentioned,) which I have printed for your farther edification, & my own justification. And in the next place, I knew of nothing better that I could do, than to preach to you by my example, in leaving my Station, & my Revenue, (when I could not be permitted longer to discharge a good conscience,) rather than involve myself, in the guilt of an usurpation. Which act of mine, how grealy soever it may have been censured, I esteem as the best sermon I ever preached in my life, the reflection on which affords much comfort to my soul; since thereby I cleared myself from the guilt of renouncing my Allegiance, as the generality have done, which will prove an eternal blot to the Nation, not excepting the Clergy of the Church of England.  
'tis too late, now to give you Cautions against Perjury, or to set before your eyes, how much more heinous it is in a Priest, than in a Lay man, because the greatest part of you already have swallowed a new oath to an Usurper. And to inform you in the obligation that lies on you, to repent of, rather than keep the oath you have taken, is to conclude you (what I ought not to do) not only bad Christians, but very weak Divines.  
There is no man that understands any thing of Religion, but knows that a rash oath only obliges to Repentance; whereof that there might be some MEET AND WORTHY FRUITS brought forth among the Clergy of my Jurisdiction, would prove to me great matter of Consolation; & if it were done very speedily, it would be a great extenuation of their crime, & afford good ground to hope, they were overborne with the Boisterousness of a Violent Sorme, rather than did wilfully plunge themselves, in so horrid a guilt.  
Let not the fear of losing your possessions, (which I thank God has not prevailed on me) tempt you to lie, one moment, under so insupportable a load. The enjoyments of your Livings will be sadly purchased, by the increase of so enormous an Impiety. And there will be a lamentable Precedent left to your flocks, if You, the Pastors, have not sufficient sincerity to make a speedy Confession of your sin, & courage enough publicly to own the same by giving glory to God & taking shame unto yourselves. There can be no more effectual way to redeem your own honour than by restoring Gods. Nothing contributed so much to the glory of St. Augustin as his Confessions, & Retractations, & consequently nothing can be more to yours, than to betake yourselves to this Essential part of Repentance, I mean the Confession of your Crime, whereby you have scandalised your flocks.  
You that have taken an unlawful oath to save your Benefices, have thereby put yourselves under a greater necessity of parting with them, or retaining your guilt. For nothing lefs, than so, seems to be a sufficient evidence of● your sincerity. God hath so ordered it, by his divine providence, that a sinner always misses of his aim. Those that betake themselves to unlawful courses, to save their lives or estates, must necessarily forsake them, & enter on such as are diametrically contrary to the former, or lose their souls, which are infinitely more valuable than both. Repentance ought to be esteemed by every ordinary Christian a Returning from sin, yea such a Returning as requires the treading out the very steps, which the sinner made in order to the commission of it. And surely, then, what soever is binding in the Disciple, must be much more obligatory in the spiritual Guide.  
But I shall not dive too far into particulars, & chalk out the exact method, & manner how you shall make reparation, for the wrong which You have done, by submitting to an Usurper, both to the King & Church of England. I have reason to believe, that all of you know your duty well enough, & many I am sure, better than I can instruct you; since the Prerogative of the King, Passive-obedtence & Nonresistance were preached up with more zeal, by you in the Bishopric of Durham, than they were by others in any Diocese in England. Where Conformity to the orders of the Church, & Execution of other Laws of the Land, were so well practised (though not as they ought to have been) that the BISHOPRIC which anciently was styled the Land of Priests, was generaly reputed the Seat of thorough-Conformists.  
You on the place of acting, must see, more clearly than I can, at this distance, (though your eyes have been in a great measure blinded by the smoke of a Rebellion) the fittest manner & opportunities of making satisfaction for your egregious Apostasy.  
I shall therefore, rather than prescribe the means, mind you of your indispensable obligation to do the thing, & so redeem your honour, & redress the scandal you have given, to the increase of your own sin, & the unspeakable grief of my soul; who did faithfully labour to make every one committed to my charge, such as God hath given me grace to approve myself; even an unalterable Loyal Subject to King james the second, as well as so legitimate a son of the Church of England, as can never be persuaded, that it can be for her Interest to contradict her Doctrine; Which, as I have hitherto professed, & held fast amidst all the blasts of Temptation, (from what ever point of the Compass they have blown) I am resolved by the Divine assistance to practise unto the end; in spite of the most prevalent examples, or malicious censures, used now as arguments, or engines, to overthrow me.  
That such a General neglect of Church-Order among the Clergy, through the Nation, (as I long, and loudly complained of, and warned you against,) should be attended on by so fatal an Issue, as an Universal Defection, should not be a thing perfectly new to You, to whom I address myself, since you, yourselves, can be my witnesses, that I have often faithfully foretold, that an Universal Semiconformity would end in as Universal Semi-Allegiance: & would God we had not found, by lamentable experience, that it had done much more, by producing that degenerate offspring, who have not only embrued their hands, in so horrid a crime, as the dethroning their lawful Sovereign, but like Vipers have, in a manner, eaten out their very Mother's Bowels.  
I do not doubt but that Almighty God hath, by this time, brought to your memory some of those seasonable cautions & mementoes, which I have plainly laid before You, in the public discharge of my archidiaconal office, with some greater force & effect on your spirits, than they had at their first delivery. I cannot have such prejudicial thoughts of you, as to imagine otherwise, since Divine Providence led me, often, to such suitable Topics, as might have prevented, by God's blessing, (had they been generally insisted on by all those who had Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, and not been rejected by the people,) much of our present misery; the ill effects of which are like to be felt by the succeeding generation; though we should be blessed, to morrow, with such undeserved felicity, as all good Christians long for, I mean the speedy Restauration of our Sovereign, Religion, Liberties and Laws.  
If any of my Brethren prove not only unkind, but so unjust as to deny, what I affirm, in reference to the seasonable advice which I did, from time to time, recommend to them, the papers which I have by me, containing the heads of my Visitation-Discourses, which had better luck than some of my money & plate, in escaping the hands of the Rabble, who treated me roughly enough, in my first-flight from Durham, can testify for me, & demonstrate to the most malicious of my Contemners or Opposers, that I was, during my station among you no, unfaithsull & negligent, though weak & unsuccessful, Visitor.  
There are many things I have said, that I am sure you cannot easily forget, which, though they had not their first designed effect on you, may consequently deserve some of your consideration. It would be very grateful to me, to be informed that I am not mistaken in this particular, but that my past persuasions to do your duty, may opperate, as good counsel hath often done, in length of time & at a great distance.  
Some desirable fruit, in the conclusion, (which I don't despair of) from those numerous young plants, that I had, for 26 years together, with great care & pains, vigilantly watered, will, amidst all the mortification I undergo, revive my soul, & compensate, in some measure, for that lamentable crop which I have hitherto reaped, from the seed I have sown, having met withal, at leaving my station, little other return of my labours, than Almighty God did, Esaie the 5:. where, after the Heavenly Husbandman had digged & dressed his vineyard, & graciously expected, it should have brought forth grapes, it brought forth, (as ours & other Dioceses have done,) wild grapes, which must be acknowledged, after such heavenly Cultivation, a wretched Retribution.  
Heartily praying that the Almighty would strengthen those few who stand, and raise up all who are fallen, I commend my whole jurisdiction to God's Blessing, & rest  
Roüen Aug: 25. 1689. Your ever faithful (though unworthy) visitor, DENIS GRANVILLE.  
FINIS.   

POSTCRIPT.  
HAving in the preceding letter omitted to reply to one censure, whereto I am least willing to answer (being more desirous to Justify myself than accuse my Brethrrn) I cannot forbear to take notice thereof in a Postscript. I mean, that of Singularity; to●it, that my being the only dignified Clergyman of the Church of England, that doth, at present, attend his Master in his Exile, aught to make me Suspect my Zeal. This is the Judgement of my Enemies, that is to say, of the COMPLIERS with the Usurpation in England. But if any of them, or others, twitt me with Singularity at this time, I shall be the less surprised therewith; since the Noncompliance of the Clergy, under my Authority, in that strict Order and Conformity, which I ever thought myself obliged to practise (and did observe, I thank God, in such a degree as to evince the practicableness of those duties, which some men's ●loth represented impossible) hath rendered me so, for near 30 years together. And that I have been so, I mean not discouraged to keep up, as close as I could, to the Church's Rules (though I have wanted the Example, & Company of any right and thorough-paced Conformist since the decease of my ever honoured Brother, Archdeacon Basire) is at this Juncture no discomfort to me. For if God had not endowed me with Grace, and Resolution to have performed my Duty, in a Time of PEACE & QUIET, I should never have been enabled to do it in a Time of Trouble; and to Withstand that Raging Torrent which hath overflown our Church and state.   

A Letter to Mr. james Hope Curate of the Parish of Easington, & Mr. Wm. Kingford Curate of the Parish of Sedgefield, in the Bishopric of Durham, substituted by Dr. Granville to serve the aforesaid Cures.  
BRETHREN,  
Amidst all the mortifications & exercises of Patience, which have been occasioned to me, by the late Revolution of affairs in Church & State, & more particularly by the Defection of the Clergy of my own Jurisdiction, nothing has created so much disquiet, & so lasting a disturbance to my mind, as that there should happen any scandalous failure in either of you, my more peculiar Deputies, & fellow Labourers in the Gospel of Christ.  
Tho the members of that Community whereof I am Head, together with the Clergy of my Archdeaconry, began to take different measures from me, which gave me too just grounds to fear that they would, (as they afterwards did,) Bow down to Baal, in shaking off their Allegiance to their Liege Lord and Sovereign, & submit to an Usurper, yet I did comfort myself with strong hopes, that you, my immediate Supporters, would stick by me, & endeavour to the uttermost of your powers to uphold me (against the violence of that storm which threatened▪) notwithstanding our different sentiments, & apprehensions touching some matters in relation to the transactions of the year past. But, after all those my Expectations, that one of my Crutches (give me leave so to term you since I did so esteem you) should break, in a time of Danger & Difficulty, is to me great ground of grief & trouble.  
That about the beginning of the year 1688, I & you should sometimes differ in our opinion of things, (when there began to bean unhappy Division among the Clergy, not exceptting the very Fathers of the Church of England,) afforded no great matter of wonder or admiration, But in the month of December following, when all eyes were (or aught to be) opened, by a real unnatural Invasion, & saw all the haste imaginable made violently to usurp the Crown, by the Dethroning of a Lawful & gracious Prince, strikes me with great astonishment; especially considering my earnest & unwearied endeavours, by the utmost condescension & reasonings, to inform you of the ill designs carried on (which I had the good luck you must now acknowledge to foresee better than yourselves) against the Church as well as King of England; that one of you, I say, (God be praised it is not both) with whom I had taken so much pains to keep steady, should after so plain a Discovery of the bottom of ill men's intrieges, to involve the Nation in that deplorable misery under which it doth at present groan, should, I say, not only totter, but at last fall into so abhorred a Crime as Perjury, doth pierce my very soul to think on't; since by such ill example there is an irreparable injury done to my Flock, & to the young Clergy of my Jurisdiction, like to be influenced by the Example of the Archdeacon's Curate, who till this late Epidemic Apostasy had been very exemplary in keeping up good order & Discipline, according to the good old right principles of those venerable 
* Bp. Gunning Bp. Cousins.  Prelates, under whom, by God's Providence, I had my education.  
I cannot reflect on so unpardonable a Breach of Trust, though never so much varnished over, with the false paint now vented in the Kingdom, without sore indignation; nor cease to charge the guilt of so great a sin upon you, my Representative in my Parish of Sedgefield, (to whom I now singly speak) who have committed the same with many high Aggravations, as the following particulars will make appear.  
First you being a Person, that was happily trained up not only in a [hitherto ever] 
* Cornwall.  loyal County, & more particularly in a 
* Kilkhampton.  Parish, where there had been much seed sown, which ought to have brought forth other grain, but under a 
* The-Granvilles.  Family whose Loyalty till the fatal month of Nou. 1688 was never blemished with the least stain.  
In the next place after a loyal Education in the University, & the happiness to escape, by God's blessing, those dangerous rocks, on which youth there most commonly split, (to wit: Corruption in principles or morals,) were seasonably transplanted into the Curacy of a very considerable Parish in Worstershier, where the Rector kept up exactly the Order of the Church of England; the strict practice whereof (however things have fallen out) was the most likely means to have kept Clergymen steady, in such a day of trial & temptation as our present miserable generation have lived to see.  
Thirdly were, with much affection & honest intention, singled out, & pitched on, by me (I having a great opinion of your Loyalty) to be my Coadjutour, in 
* Sedgefield.  one of the most considerable Country Parishes of England, the burden of which trust, as well as my great concern for the spiritual welfare of that my flock, you ought to have learned, from the extraordinary zealous applications, which I used at first coming to set you, & all along after to keep you, right, in my honest Particular notions of obedience to the orders of the Church, & of subjection to all sorts of lawful Authority. Which notions I am not ashamed to style now particular, since the issuë of things proclaims them to be right, as well as the opposers of them notoriously in the wrong, & must be so acknowledged by all persons, who are not unhappyly besmeared with the present [religious] Rebellion of England, or blinded by the mist, or fumes of an unsupportable Usurpation.  
Lastly had more reason than others to have resisted those temptations, which overthrew the generality of the Clergy of the Diocese, since you had in one person your Rector's Dean's, & Archdeacon's continual example, in your eye, to the very last minute▪ to uphold you. Nay, moreover, had a pathetic letter written jointly to yourself▪ & your) Brother (directed to the Curates of Easington & Sedgefield from the Deanery, the very night of my Departure▪ which carrying with it my last & best advice & sentiments, immediately before▪ I launched forth into a kind of sea of trouble, likely to attend that persecuted righteous Cause, whereto I was resolved to adhere, aught to have had as much force at Sedgefield, as it had at Easington, in inspiring one, as it did the other to withstand the Shock, which hath furiously overturned so many of the elder & stronger Clergy, both in the Cathedral & Diocese, & scared them out of their Allegiance unto their Lawful Prince, into submission to a Foreign Usurper.  
The last words of a Dying man are usually very powerful with all his Relations. And surely the last exhortations of a Departing Visitor, in such a manner, & for such a cause, should have had the like effect▪ If my late example, as well as zeal, expressed in my address to the Clergy in my conclusive Visitation [in the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow Nou. the 15 1688]▪ proved unsuccessful, & ineffectual to persuade the Rectors of the Parishes of my Jurisdiction, to espouse the Cause of an oppressed Prince & imitate an honest Leader, & faithful Servant to the Crown, who was resolved to sacrifice all rather than desert his Sovereign in misery, Yet it ought not to be so contemptible with either of you, my own Cutates, as to be rejected; but should have stopped you in your Career, had you been bend to run, with never so much eagerness, into slavery under a Belgic yoke; nay ought to have been esteemed so forcible to such immediate Dependants, as you, to whom I now speak, that it should have been hardly possible for either of you to resist it. And that either of you should, & date thus to rebuke me by your practice, & abandon all hopes & expectations of kindness from me, by betraying me (it deserves no milder expression) I look on as a high act of contempt, & receive with all those resentmens' of Displeasure that are allowable in a Christian.  
I did not expect that both, or either of you, should have imitated me, so far then as to have deserted your Stations (though I am persuaded that my doing so was the best & wisest action of my whole life) but if both of you, (rather than renounce your sworn fidelity to King james, & swear Allegiance to an ambitious Prince, his son in law & Nephew, who had by fraud & force deposed his Uncle, nay Father) had been forced so to do, & desert the Nation, (as I did,) as well a my Floks committed to your Care, it would have been a thing very edifying, & grateful unto me, & obliged me to have taken care of you, & allowed you, a share of whatsoever▪ I had to support me; not suffering you to want bread as long as I had it, which ye had no reason to suspect that God's Providence, & a gracious Master's kindness would deny me in the deepest adversity abroad.  
I am sure that ye two, who have not only been long resident in my house & family, but often admitted into my closet, & sometimes into my very bosom, aught to have conceived such an opinion; & should have taken it for granted, by great experience of me, without any farther Declaration. Tho you had not such particular & positive assurances thereof, as I seasonably gave a certain Divine (I much valued) to deliver him out of those temptations, whereinto he (being unhappily Metamorphosed in another Region▪) did however wilfully run himself, to the Injury of his Conscience, and dishonour of himself & friends.  
You therefore (my lapsed Assistant) whom I had drawn away from my native soil (hoping, that, as you have breathed the same air, you would always profess the same principles) to be my comfort & support, in a remote part of the Nation, for the remainder of my life, do strangely disappoint my hopes, & are so much the more blame-worthy, since God Almighty did assist me (poor weak & unworthy Labourer in his Vinyard) with such a happy foresight of matters, relating to the late unfortunate change in government, that I was instrume●tall in the bringing to the view of all those, who related to me, such a Prospect of the things (that did at that time portend ill, as well as future 〈…〉 might render a person stupid, who should despise, or 〈…〉.  
Your 〈…〉 who has done his part faithfully to discharge his Trust in a critical juncture, (& thereby has helped to save the honour of the young Clergy under my Conduct,) will be willing▪ I know, to hear testimony▪ that I did, to my utmost, diligently discharge the part of a faithful watchman▪ penning down my thoughts almost daily, (using him sometimes for an Amanuensis,) to fortify all Persons under my care, against the dangerous inveiglements of ill men, & the plausible, rather than real, arguments of deluded goodmen; who have, by their Reputation▪ contributed more to the present sad state of things, (I must take the liberty to tell them) than the more malicious sinners, that did originally design to trample on the Crown & mitre.  
And that I was no bad Prognosticatour, in the month of August 1688, you yourself, & every body else, may without all contradiction be convinced, by a copy of a Paper which I penned at Durham, the 27 of the aforesaid month, according to my usual manner of dictating to one of my Clerks, in my chamber, at my uprising. Which Paper only contains some floating thoughts of my brain, but relating to mattets of so great importance, as did, according to its title, portend very fatally to the Government & Church of England. And it being the only sheet of some hundreds, (penned in such manner & much to the same purpose,) that I did by great accident bring away with me, I shall here, to this my letter, annex a printed Copy thereof; which will, at least, demonstrate, to all who shall seriously consider it, that I gave a better guess, how things would go, than any of my Censurers or Opposers, who thought themselves greater Politicians, but have so much failed in their Politics, that they (as well as others) are by this time, I suppose, convinced how their zeal, which run so Counter to mine, was very preposterous: viz, That the irregular & unaccountable method they took, to be delivered from Popery and Arbitrary Power, hath brought the whole Kingdom, absolutely under the one, and in greater danger, than ever it was, of the other.  
And that I may do all that in me lies to clear myself, both in the sight of God & man, from being the least ways accessary to the horrid guilt, many, who have depended on me in my parishes, or else where, have contracted, by forsaking our Church's Doctrine, & the good Rules which I have set them, I shall embrace this occasion to add another paper to the former, containing the Order & Directions which I required strictly to be observed in my parishes, respectively, which, will be sufficient to evince, that I did honestly, though imperfectly, endeavour to have prevented the Apostasy of any committed to my charge; Always looking on a strict observation of the Discipline & Rubrics of the Church, as the best means, by God's blessing, to have strengthened them against those temptations that have, at last, overcome them, for which I now begin to value myself.  
And a serious consideration of this Method enjoined in my Parishes, added to the manner of my parting with my Brethren of the Cathedral, & Clergy of my Archdeaconry, set forth in those Fare-well-discourses I made to them, in the months of Nov● & December 1688, will sufficiently proclaim, to all unbiass'd persons, that I was, at least, an Honest man, so far, in all my capacities, as to have no fingar at all in the Invitation of a Foreign power, & the unnatural Invasion which attended thereon, which I am desirous should remain to Posterity upon Record.  
If the publication of such papers, as were never designed for the press, seem to savour any thing of vanity, & cause to believe, that I glory in having been more regular▪ & constant, in my duty, than the generality of my Brethren, let them give a Loser leave to speak, and desire them to remember, & consider, that the Apostle St. Paul himself was compelled to boast, in a less day of temptation than the fifth of November 1688, which did, in a manner, blow up the foundations of three Kingdoms.  
I confess that I do glory with the B. Apostle, but it is, as he did, in my weakness, & the grace that Almighty God has manifested therein, carrying me through the manifold temptations which have prevailed over my Stronger Brethren. I do bless & praise God's holy name, & will do it, by his assistance, for ever & ever, that he did endow me with resolution to stick close to all the Church's Rules & Orders, (whereto I gave my assent & consent at my first entrance into the ministerial function in the year 1661.) without governing myself by example, of any Clergy, high or low, in the city or in the country: Living by the example of those who contradicted their excellent Rule, being a sort of Complaisance which, I bless God's holy name▪ I have never been guilty of, though it has been, God know▪ s, too frequent among my Brethren, and proved fatal to the poor church of England.  
To take no comfort & satisfaction in my own innocency, (which God has in a manner miraculously preserved, when he has suffered such a multitude of abler Divines to fail, who were furnished with greater qualifications to have borne wittness to his truth,) I should look on as an act of meaness of spirit, savouring more of spiritual ingratitude than true humility, who desire rather to be really thankful & humble than appear either.  
Let my censurers be contented with my revenue, which I have left to their mercy, (choosing to do so rather than betray my conscience,) without depriving me of that precious ointment, & more valuable treasure, a good name, which I shall, in spite of all my enemies, endeavour, by the aid of God's holy spirit, to secure my title to, in approving myself, to the very end, as I have hitherto as much as in me lay, a Genuine son of the Church, & Loyal subject to the Crown of England.  
If the present Generation, who favour none with their good opinion but those who concur to the support of the present Fabric in England, will not allow me the aforesaid satisfaction, but load me with obloquy or contempt, (& one of these Fates I expect from the North where so few have followed my example,) there remains, yet, one thing, that I am sure they are not able to deprive me of; I mean the internal Peace and Quiet of my conscience, which I have enjoyed since I was driven from my Station (to Heavens eternal praise I speak it) in a more plentiful measure than ever I did heretofore, when I was in the actual possession of some of the best preferments, of their kind, in England. This supports me under my present pressures, and will be continued unto me, I trust in God, while I continue, as I pray I may, faithful to my mother the Church, & unalterably obedient to the father of my Country.  
Of these things I require you, to assure the flocks I have committed to your charge (whom I do not fail to commend unto God in my constant prayers, &) to whom, besides my devotions, I have nothing to bequeathe but wholesome counsel & a good example. And since I have no way left to convey unto them the first, but by writing (& that with great difficulty too) not to deprive them of the latter is become a duty of higher obligation.  
Example is often more prevalent than precept. Whether the wise God will render mine so unto my people, He alone knows, & it depends on his good pleasure. Sure I am, that when I departed from my Cures, with a sorrowful heart, I did conceive it the best way left me to preach unto them, by putting into actual practice that peculiar sort of Religion & Loyalty (to use the very phrase of some of my censurers) which I had ever taught to others, & wherein I did incessantly labour to establish you, (as before rehearsed,) against the then fashionable [upstart] Divinity, & Allegiance of the Age; & Whereto I should not give this, nor the former epithet in the beginning of this letter, (my religion & loyalty, let men call them what they please, being no other, I bless God, than the natural Result of the pure uncorrupted Doctrine of the right Genuine Church of England) had they not been, you know, to my reproach often so styled, by that Generation of Semi-conformists & Loyalists, who could then but half comply with the reasonnable demands of a Lawful Prince, but can now wholly conform to the will of an Usurper.  
I recommend you both, with all my sheep, to Almighty God's mercy & direction, praying with all fervency to our Heavenly Father in the Church's Littany [part of my daily devotions as I suppose it likewise is of the small number of Othodox Clergy men in the nation] That it may please God to strengthen such as do stand, to comfort & help the weakhearted, to raise up them that fall, & finally to beat down Satan under our feet. Applying it more especially to the case of you my Substitutes, who are unhappyly divided, to my unspeakable trouble, in your principles & practices, which renders this my present way of application, very difficult to me, since it is not easy in one joyntaddress, at the same time, to praise & dispraise (according to the design of this paper) you to whom I write.  
You then (to conclude) who have continued faithful in your Trusts, & discharged your Conscience, I do (as the best reward you can for awhile expect) Praise & pray for; earnestly beseeching God to strengthen you daily, & to carry you through the remaining difficulties, you shall meet witthall. And must Blame (though I pity) you that are fallen, conjuring you to reflect on what you have done, and desiring you to be assured, that I can never have any complacency in your services, till you bring forth undeniable fruits of Repentance. Hoping that my censures of one, as well as praises of the other, will have that kindly operation on your souls which I design, I do, with much christian charity & compassion, subscribe myself▪  
Roüen Oct: the ●. 1691. Your very lov: Brother in CHRIST JESUS, DENIS GRANVILLE.  
FINIS.   

COPY of a Paper mentioned in the foregoing pag. 38. and penned at Durham, by the Author, Aug. 27▪ 1688, by way of reflection on the, then, Dismal prognostics of the Times.  
Things which portend very fatally to the Government and Church of England.  
1. AN Universal Aptitude in men to receive, multiply, and magnify Fears and jealousies of the King.  
2. The generality of the subjects of England (contrary to the Rule of Charity) putting the worst Construction on the Designs and Actings of their SOVEREIGN.  
3. Mens discovering by their preposterous courses (though hey dare not speak it with their mouths) that they think their Allegiance to the King (because of a different Religion) not the same that it would be to a Protestant Prince  
4. An industrious endeavour, for a long time, throughout the land, to alienate the subjects Affection from their Sovereign.  
5. The Spirit of Popularity, at present, so universally reigning, as to overthrew many Honest & Good men, who seem afraid, any longer to do their Duty to the King, and act according to their Principles, for fear of the Mobile.  
6. An extraordinary forwardness, both in Clergy as well as Gentry, to dispute, and rudely to contend with their Prince; nay insoleutly to insult over him upon the least success, made too apparent by the Issue of the late Trial of the Bishops, in Westmunster Hall.  
7. The itch of disputation infinitely prevailing, in this age, above the spirit of Divine Charity & true Devotion, men relying too much on their Arguments & too little on their Prayers.  
8. Men being now agitated more than ever by an intemperate zeal against Popery, as heretofore against Fanaticisme, showing much more Aversion to their Adversary's, than love to their own Religion.  
9 Most men, even Divines, manefesting an excessive fear that Popery will come in, and yet all the while neglect to betake themselves to the most assured means to keep it out; to wit, Amendment of life, and exact conformity to the CHURCH'S RULES, and training up the young Generation by the due exercise of Catechism.  
10. Too many flying to unjustifiable means to preserve their Keligion, and proclaiming by their actions, that they are resolved to Rebel rather than let it go.  
11. Peaple▪ using their strength and number to bring their Sovereign to Terms, and endeavouring by all means possible ta Hough band him, (if I may be permitted to speak in the Northern phrase,) I mean not to leave it in his Rower to hurt them, either in their Religion, Laws, Lives, or Estates, which is, in plain English, to Unking him.  
Durham Aug. 27. 1688.   

COPY of another Paper, mentioned p. 39 that the Author publishes to show how the Singularity, for which he was, censured by some, as before related, and despised by Others, (for he knows himself guilty of no other) was for practising this very following Method, himself, when present, and imposing it on his Curates, when he was absent, to be by them also used in his Parishes: Or for other suchlike unfashionable observation of the Church's Rules, & performance of his Duty. Which upon strict Enquiry into the Author's Discharge of his Offices, (since his first settlement in the North of England,) will be found to be true; and may serve to evince, that as he hath had the hard Fate to be Deposed, for following his Sovereign into France, & sticking to the Crown; so hath he had as hard a Fate, heretofore, for cleaving to his Mother, [& regarding, more than Others, the Precepts of the Church] even to be oftentimes unjustly Opposed, and sometimes reproached, by his Brethren [City & Country-Clergy] merely for his Over doing, as they have usually termed it. That is, in plain English, because his Conscience would not give him leave to omit those Duties, which they, and the generality of the Clergy in the nation, (I will, & may, now take more liberty than ever to speak out) have, to their everlasting shame, scandalously neglected. And by the neglect whereof (in a word) have betrayed their Mother the Church of England, the Head of Reformed Christendom; A very Odd kind of way to accomplish, what people pretend, the Support of the Protestant Religion.  
DIRECTIONS Which Dr. Granville Archdeacon of Durham, Rector of Sedgefeild & Easington, enjoins to be observed by the Curates of those his Parishes, given them in charge, at Easter visitation held at Sedgefield, in the year 1669.  
THAT the Matins & Even-Song shall be (according to the Rubric) said daily, in the chancels of each of his Parish-Churches, throughout the year, without the least Variation.  
That the hours for daily Prayer, on Working-days, shall be six in the morning, & six in the evening, as the most convenient for labourers, & men of business.  


Except as folloveth.  
On all Vigils & Holy-day-Eves, as also on all Saturday-afternoons (which anciently were half-holy-dayes) three of the clock shall be the hour for Evening-Prayers  
On all wednesday & friday-mornings', both throughout Advent & all Lent, and on the three ember-days in each Ember-week▪ the hour shall be nine.  
On the Rogation-Dayes, one hour, at least, earlier by reason of the Perambulation.    
That always, as nine of the clock & three of the clock-prayers aforesaid, (when there shall be some additionary exercise of Devotion requiring a greater number than ordinary) two bells shall chime, to intimate the same to the People.  
That at fix of the clock-prayers, one bell only shall toll beginning a quarter of an hour before.  
That there shall be always 
* Note. That the Dearn's enjoining here, & in some other places, things which were before expressly commanded by the Church, was to declare that the judged them of such moment, as that he would never dispense with the non▪ performance of them in his own Parishes however others did too frèqnently elsewhere.  Catechise, after the second lesson, on sunday and Holy-day-Afternoons, with some explanation of the Church-Catechisme [after the third collect lighten our Darkness] unless there be some exposition of the Scripture or Rubrics, some profitable exhortation, or discourse de temper, drawn from the service of the church, or else that the 39 Articles of Religion, or Canons, are to be read according to Order.  
That one quarter of an hour is sufficient for such Exposition, Exhortation, or Discourse, & that it never shall exceed an half hour.  
That on all aforesaid days, when there are prayers at nine in the morning & two bells chime, there ought to be some additionary exposition, or discourse to the people, (& if de tempore the better) which ought not to exceed the time appointed, for the explanation of the Catechism.  
That there shall be sermons on all Festivals or Holy days. [Except there be an 
* As people grew more fond to hear Sermons than to amend their lives Homilies were mor● frequent.  Homily which shall not be oftenner than to countenance the book, or assert the King▪ s supremacy, according to the Canon, which may very commodiously be done, in some of the Homilies Concerning Obedience, or against Disobedience, being the very words of the Church] which sermons shall never exceed an half hour.  
That the sermons, even on Sundays, shall be shortened to an half hour, when there happens any concurrent offices which require it; but never the least omission of one tittle of the service, or variation from the Rubrics.  
That the Curate, when he bids Christmas, Easter▪ or Pentecost▪ with their Festivals; as also when he gives notice of Ember-week, Passion-week, or Perambulation on Rogation-dayes, or other times extraordinary, he shall come down to the desk [after the Niceene Creed] & do it in a more solemn manner, than when he bids the ordinary Holidays at the table, making a short speech de tempore to quicken the People's Devotion.  
That on Advent-sunday, & Quinquagesima-sunday, he shall do the like to prepare the People for the Devotion of the following holy seasons.  
That besides the several Sacraments at Christmas, Easter-day, Holy-Thursday & Pentecost, there shall be, at least, 
* This practice changed into a monthly Sacrament, at the Combustions, in the year 1679.  5▪ other Sacraments, which Sacraments shall be administered on the several dàyes here nominated viz: on New year's-day, on the first sunday in Lent, on the first Sundays in July, October, & November.  
That Easter shall be the time always for admission of Youth, first at the Communion, who are never to be admitted till they have repaired, upon summons, to the minister to receive private instruction, on wenssday & Fryday-mornings', after service during Lent.  
That the young people be confirmed after due instruction, before they receive, if possible, but when that cannot be contrived by reason of the Bishop's absence, or otherwise, that they, & their friends, be enjoined faithfully to send them to the first confirmation, whereof they shall have notice.  
That none shall be admitted to the Sacrament till 16 years of age, unless the minister shall see extraordinary cause for the same.  
That the 39 articles & Cannons be read according to Injunction.  
That the Canon about Excommunication be read, & excommunicates denounced according to the said Canon.  
That his majesty's Directions to preachers be read in the Congregation, at lest once in the year, which I, by my own authority, take upon me to enjoin, as Ordinary of the PLACE.  
That when Citations, Excommunications, or Absolutions are read, the Curate shall consider whether he may, by any occasionnall reflection out of the Desk, or from the pulpit, improve the same to the People to the deterring of them from the like offence▪ for which the persons mentioned in the said Acts of Court are proceeded against.  
That the Curate do summon the Churchwardens, twice at least between visitation & visitation, to read & consider the visitation-articles, & to quicken & assist them in the due discharges of their offices.  
That he doth, in particular, frequently mind the Churchwardens to go out of the Church at convenient times, for the prevention of disorders in town and alehouses, during SERVICE.  
That the Curate takes a particular notice of the Absence of Churchwardens from the Church on sundays & festivals, and signify the same to the Rector their Archdeacon.  
That when the Churchwardens are negligent, & suffer irregular behaviour during Divine service▪ that he admonish them of such their neglects, & cause them to go out of their seats, sometimes, in the very time of service, to mind people publicly of their disorder, & so shame them into a compliance, if milder & private admonitions prove ineffectual.  
That the Curate makes enquiry, oftentimes, of the Churchwardens, what persons are sick, or detained from the Church by any infirmity (people being negligent to inform the Minister voluntarily) & to repair to them accordingly (though they should not give notice) to assist them in reference to their spiritual estate.  
That the Curate shall on sundays & Holidays (at least) observe a course of personnal application (according to his promise at ordination) to the whole as well as sick, visiting after evening-prayer, one family (if not more) on that account, observing, as far as he shall be able, the venerable Mr▪ George Herbert's method & rule to that purpose prescribed in his Country-Parson, or Character of an holy Priest. Which book, as I recommend to all the Clergy in my Jurisdictions, so do I more especially to my Curates, for their rule & direction, in order to the exemplary discharge of their Function, having always made it mine.  
That the Curate shall consider frequently, at least▪ once a quarter, what Rubrics or Canons be most neglected, & contemned by the parishioners; and that he doth▪ (besides the ordinary explanation of the service once a year, in obedience to his majesty's Directions to Prearchers, read at convenient times the said Rubrics to the people, that is to say between the frist service & Litany, or between Litany & second Service, or before, or after sermon, (omitting if occasion require the psalm then usually sung) & that he shall Zealously (but mildly) stir up the people to the better observation of the same; & that when he discovers these public admonitions ineffectual, that he make it part of his labour, in private, with personnall applications to reform such irregularities. And that he shall as frequently as he can (when presentments are to be made) make such applications, public & private, (as shall appear most convenient) to the offenders, in order to the prevention of their shame & expense, which I desire always may be done, without further prosecution, unless the thing cannot otherwise be reformed.  
That such discourses as he makes, about the Rubrics & Constitutions, may be usually out of the Desk, or if occasion require in the pulpit, after the sermon, which I would not have burdened often with these smaller matters relating only to good order; but reserved for more substantial & essential truths, as the Doctrines of Faith, Repentance, Love, Obedience, Temperance, etc.  
That he doth not take notice of the People's breach of Rubrics, or such disorders, in public, when he can reform the same easily in private, unless they are notorious & scandalous, in which case he is sometimes to give particular persons even public reproofs, in the very Congregation.  
That when there is ground of suspicion that the Churchwardens will not faithfully do their duties in searching the Alehouses, &c, that he go out of the Church sometimes with them, for the more effectual prevention of disorder.  
That he cause the Clerk to inquire (when notice is given of Baptism) whether the witnesses have all received the Sacrament, & also to inform the Parson (if the Churchwardens do not) when any excommunicated persons enter the Church or Church-yard, to which end & purpose there shall be a list kept in the Vestry of all persons excommunicated.  
DENIS GRANVILLE.   

IN REFERENCE TO THE FOREGOING DIRECTIONS, Letters, & Discourses, the Reader is desired to note those matters following.  
FIRST, that here were intermingled, with the abovesaid Directions for the Curates, sundry advices for the Churchwardens & Parish-Clarks, not judged so necessary to be printed. These being sufficient to accomplish the forementioned end of their printing, (p. 39) and convince those Clergy (and others) who would not allow the author to be worthy of his station (when he was admitted into his Deanery) that he did notwithsstanding the great power of their evil example (whose semiconformity first poisoned the nation) at least endeavour to be what he all along chiefly aimed at, that is to say a Diligent COUNTRY-PARSON, if not good Archdeacon: He taking effectual Care (and with no ill success) that these his Rules should be, as they were, better obsered by his Curates, than the Church-Cannons or Rubrics were by them, & the generality of the Clergy of the nation; and consequently in due time might have become a tolerable Deane, by God's blessing, if the CITTY-REBELS, Joining with the Invaders, had not driven him with his master out of England.  
SECONDLY, the Reader is desired to take further notice, that this▪ last▪ ●etter, (to wit to his Curates) was not printed when the others were, (as first intended and mentioned in the Title-Page,) in the year 1689, but was, for certain reasons underwritten, deferred to be put into the Press, till the month & year marked in the conclusion of the said letter, to wit Oct: 1691, some months after the Dean's Deprivation; Which delay, among other things, hindered the more speedy Publication of all the other papers, and was occasioned upon the three ensuing accounts; 〈…〉 First, the Deane imagined, on second thoughts, 〈…〉 that so plain a Rebuke as the faithful discharge of his 〈…〉 Conscience, in the delivery of the Discourses he hath printed▪ & the penning of the foregoing letters he hath published, in his own name, did, by reflection, cast on many considerable [Spiritual & Temporal] Supporters of the Usurped Authority in Church & State, was an Underaking too mighty for him, who never delighted to expose or reproach his Superiors in any manner; nor should have dared thus to have done it, at this time, had not too many of them, manefestly departed from and contradicted the very Doctrine of the Church of England, which they, as well as he, had sworn to maintain.  
Secondly, He long expected that some eminent person in England, better qualified, would have saved him the labour of such an application, as he hath here in print made to the people under his authority, by publishing, ere this, some substantial work that should have strenuously asserted the Cause of King James the 2, & that Church of England whereof he is supreme Governor, by unmasking the wickedness, injustice, and ingratitude, nay unnaturalness of Dethroning their lawful Sovereign, and under a religious pretence usurp his Crown; The aforesaid Person not sticking, to set his name thereto, though it might have cost him his life, to proclaim undeniably to the World, that what he writ he believed to be such truth of God, as he did dare seal with his Blood. Which desirable piece of Charity to the souls of the poor people, who were unhappily drawn into Perjury, by the powerful Example of their leaders, the author hath not yet discovered to be done by any, though he thinks aught to have been performed long ago (what ever had been the issue) to have given right measures to the People of the Land, while they were staggerring, & not quite fallen into the abominable sins of Perjury, and Renouncing their Allegiance. Which Christian work, if it had been acted, in due season, would, among other good effects, have edified also the Dean's Flocks, and rendered unnecessary what he▪ hath said to keep those steady who stand, & to restore those who are fallen, for want of timely underpropping. The author's earnest longing, and waiting with great impatience▪ to have seen such desirable fruit of Primitive zeal, did detain him a while from plunging himself over head & ears, (though he made many offers so to do) into that Deluge which did overspread the land; thinking himself a bad swinmer in such Troubled waters; & moreover (like Elihu Job. 32. 4.) being very unwilling to speak out thus boldly, & shame the silence of his Elders, till he had given them all sufficient opportunity to speak and write; Tho his boldness & zeal (as may be observed, by the way, & is before noted,) was not levelled, directly, to any but those under his own Charge & Care (or nearly related to him) to whom such a hearty application, and such plain Reproofs, even in the very language of the letters, became so necessary, that he could not, in good Conscience, have waved them. And therefore he conceiv's that people have the less reason to be disturbed thereby.  
Thirdly, after the author had made a considerable progress in printing the letters and other discourses he was forced to undertake a hazardous Journey into England Feb. 1689 (whereby he got a small supply of money to subsist a while abroad without defiling himself with any Oath of fidelity to the Prince of Orange,) though with much trouble and Danger, occasioned him by an impertinent and malicious Postmaster, who discovered him in Canterbury. Which voyage made it absolutely necessary to lay aside, till his return, his design of publishing the papers he had penned at his first Coming over, unless he would wilfully, and unavoidably, have run his neck into a halter. Which, all know, was the Fate lately of a 
* Mr. Ashton.  right honest and loyal man.  
THIRDLY, all sorts of Readers may hereby be informed, that these papers are, at this time, the more hastily published without polishing, because the author, hath had this summer after a long interval, some return of those infirmities that he brought out of England▪ which being seasonable mementoes of the mortality of his condition, and uncertainty of his life, have caused him, without any more ado, or longer delay, thus plainly and honestly to deliver his soul: the comfort of which doth to him abundantly balance the uneasiness of any obloquy, which may accrue from the provoked friends of the new government in England, where he desires to appear no more, (unless it please God to restore his Sovereign,) as all may be persuaded easily to believe, by his present manner of proceeding.  
Fourthly. All those who shall blame the Dean's undertaking, may, in a word, satisfy themselves, that he had never thus exposed himself to their censure, if he had believed that a a Dignified Divine in his circumstances (being the only one here abroad out of the Reach of England, and whose Conscience would not permit him to swallow any new dispensatory oaths, or distinctions) could without the just censure of all right Church▪ of England-men, and loyal subjects to King James 2., have remained silent. Since he hath not now those prudential considerations, that others have, to stop his mouth, or stay his pen: His own person being secure & his Revenue lost. Whereas honest Divines & men in England (where he hopes there be many that never bowed the knee to Baal, though he be ignorant who they are) cannot attempt what he does, without the hazard of their lives, or ruin of their families. And therefore concludes that a weak and bad performance, as this, of so good & spiritual a design (the more incumbent on him) would be better than none at all, and be graciously accepted, through JESUS-CHRIST, by that ALMIGHTY GOD who can make the poorest enterprises in his name, successful to accomplish his will.  
Fiftly, & lastly, the Dean's innate indignation to many former, & late preposterous unaccountable procedures in the Subjects of England: to wit, First the Nonconformity, or rather Semiconformity, of the Clergy (who did with zeal more than enough, & sometimes too bitterly, inveigh against nonconformists) which engendered that Brood which are the authors of our Misery: Secondly their Forwardness to dispense throughout the Nation, with the Church-Discipline, as they pleased, where & when, there appeared no necessity; nay with the very Rubrics of the Liturgy, whereto they had all, since the late review, given a solemn Assent & Consent▪ sadly presaging that in time of distress they would, as they have done, dispense with the very Doctrine, though they would not allow his Majesty in extraordinary cases, à less dispensing Power: Thirdly the Pragmaticallness of most Common-Lawye●s (whose duty and interest it was, as well as of the ecclesiastics, to join in the support of the crown of their Sovereign, the Fountain whence all their Law did proceed) in endeavouring industriously by all manner of quirks, to diminish the King's Prerogative & Authority, even coining wicked distinctions, & taking up obsolete laws to dethrone him (when there were enough of such which they would not willingly have revived against the People or themselves) nay flying to the Reign of an Usurper for Acts of Parliament to justify and colour over their fullsome proceedings; as if a Dispensing power in the People was like to be found more tolerable than in the King, or that such a kind of supremacy as the multitude contended for, (and which must be either in Prince, or subject) is less liable to Tyranny, and other abuses, when it is in the subject, than in the Sovereign.  
These, and the like, perversions of Law and Religion, did cause, (the author professeth & is desirous to proclaim) so much disgust in his Soul, as hurried him over all the difficulties and dangers that he met with, in his way to this publication, in such a degree, that the consideration of his book's reflecting on the new Government (which was designed to edify the people within his own province) hath pushed him on, instead of deterring him▪ to send it forth into the light (committing it and his reputation to the mercy of a Gracious God) amidst a crooked and perverse Generation, which he is willing may learn thus much by his boldness, (or fool-hardiness as it will be possibly termed,) to wit, that God hath given him (among a multitude of infirmities,) the Grace not to be afraid or ashamed to do his duty or discharge his offices faithfully, who ever may be rebuked by the doing thereof; and that he is sure, he had done neither, if he had not, as he hath done, delivered his soul, without mincing, in such plain and intelligible language, at such a juncture, as to allot, every thing its right epithet & appellation; giving the very names of REBELLION & USURPATION to what, he was persuaded in his conscience, deserved such denominations; and that are so, [even REBELLION & USURPATION,] if ever there were such things in the World. Yea such a REBELLION & USURPATION that no good Christian can, he is also satisfied in his Conscience, join in the first, or uphold the later, and consequently, that no body can receive the communion, without injury to his soul, in the use of those prayers, which pray for the maintaining of both; since he that receives the blessed Supper of the Lord, in the office of any Church, sets his seal to all the corruptions that are crept into that Church, and doth, in a higher manner▪, profane Gods sacred name, by using that holy ordinance to so impious an end (as to beg of God, by virtue of his saviours body and blood, the destruction of his lawful Prince) than he that barely swears allegiance to an Usurper, Which, yet by the way, who ever does, (let him understand) doth in a manner, Abjure his lawful Sovereign.  
Which is a Case of Conscience that the Author will, in God's name, now venture here publicly to decide (as he hath long since don to some in private) and put his name to the decision, what ever comes of it, since no body else hath done so, for the sake of those many thousands of souls, under his authority, in the Jurisdictons belonging to the Archdeacon & Deane of Durham; whereof none can deny but that he hath a Call from God to take care. And consequently to undertake this difficult province, since no body else do●● Who, if they are not satisfied with his Judgement in this particular (which, as poor as they may esteem it, will yet he trusts, in reference hereto, be found Orthodox) ought to consult, as it concerns them, some abler Casuist: without being scared, (as heretofore in some other cases,) with frightful consequences, administered by the Universality of the DEFECTION & such like considerations; to wit, Empty Churches & thin Altars.  
For if it be a wholesome truth which is recomended, by the Author, to their thoughts, it cannot, he is sure, in the conclusion, produce ill effects to be repent of. And he begs pardon, if he cannot prevail with himself to judge, the last recited effects to be ill, as matters go, & things stand. For he makes no doubt, but that the Churches in England must become Empty, & the Altars thin etc. before his Sovereign is like to return to Whitehall,