Two Sermons in Bristol, Dedication – Title page
TWO SERMONS Preached in the CATHEDRAL-CHURCH OF BRISTOL, JANVARY the 30th 168079. AND JANVARY the 31th 1680/1. BEING The days of Publick HUMILIATION FOR The EXECRABLE MURDER OF King CHARLES the First.
—accipe nostro
Dira quod exemplum seritas produxerit aevo.
Juven. Sat. 15.
By SAMVEL CROSSMAN, B.D.
LONDON: Printed for Henry Brome, and to be sold by Charles Allen in Bristol. 1681.
To the Right Worshipful Sir RICHARD HART Kt. MAYOR of the City of Bristol.
SIR,
YOur own and the joynt-desires of others having rendred these Melancholy Discourses thus publick, you must now be pleased in course to accept of them.
The prodigious Discomposures of our Times, cannot but occasion great thoughts of heart with all sober persons: and it were a most amazing Infelicity, if we who might live together with so much mutual Comfort, should quarrel our selves into common Misery.
These solemn Fasts may serve as sad Remembrancers to shew us where we lost our way, that we wander so wretchedly no more.
The ways of Faction in the State, they are (as one hath well observed of Separation in the Church) A Labyrinth wherein men tire themselves, Mr. Iohn▪ Ball.and grow giddy, as in a maze; but when all is done, there is no way out but that whereby they entered in.
foreign. Arist. Eth. l. 8. c. 12.Now if Monarchy be (as our greatest Writers tell us) the best of Governments, and Popularity the very dregs and worst; our Peace and Welfare bound up in the one, our War and Calamities brought in by the other; we may then fairly hope all wise men will reflect with the deeper sorrow upon our late Confusions, and hold themselves greatly concern'd to consist the more steadily with that happy Restauration which God in so much mercy hath vouchsafed to us. God hath granted it, and every true English-man will be highly thank-ful for it.
Sir, I cannot but heartily acknowledge your worthy conduct of Affairs in that great Trust committed to you. God Almighty enable you to continue therein with that Integrity and Vprightness, that Prudence and Resolution, which becomes a good Christian, a good Magistrate, and a good Subject. Which is the dayly affectionate desire and prayer of
Right Worshipful, Your very humble, and truely respectful Servant, Samuel Crossman. Bristol, Feb. 28. 1680/1.
TWO SERMONS Preached in the CATHEDRAL-CHURCH OF BRISTOL. JANVARY the 30th 1679/80. AND JANVARY the 31th 1680/1. BEING Days of HUMILIATION FOR The EXECRABLE MURDER Of our late Soveraign King Charles I.
By SAMVEL CROSSMAN, B. D.
LONDON: Printed for Henry Brome, and to be sold by Charles Allen in Bristol. 1681.