Sermon 23 April 1661, Title page – Dedication
A SERMON Preached at the COLLEGIATE CHURCH AT MANCHESTER On Tueſday the 23. of April 1661.
Being the CORONATION-DAY OF HIS Royal Majeſtie CHARLES II.
By RICHARD HEYRICK Warden of the ſaid Colledge.
LONDON, Printed for RALPH SHELMERDINE Bookſeller in Mancheſter. 1661.
To the Reverend RICHARD HEYRICK Warden of Chriſts Colledge in Manchester.
REVEREND SIR,
OF thoſe Truths you have frequently delivered to us, this one, which you preached to our eares upon that happy and joyous day of his MAJESTIES Coronation, which is not of the ſmalleſt concernment, a Truth, which with the KING hath been an Exile, and baniſht both the Pulpit and the Preſſe in this Land for many yeares together; but ſince both are returned together home; the one to the Throne, the other to the Pulpit; the one Crowned, the other preached, both on a day; we judged it worthy the Preſs, whereby it might better manifeſt it ſelf to the world, that as at the Preſence and Sight of his Maieſties Sacred Perſon, all his enemies flie and fall before him, ſo at the approach of this light, the groſse miſts of errors and contrary tenents, which have poſſeſſed this Iſland of late yeares, might be diſpelled and utterly confounded. Neceſſary alſo we judged it, in reſpect of us ſonnes of the Church of England, to vindicate our ſelves, that though darkneſs might cover the ſurface of our Church, and ſeize upon ſome perſons, yet we ſtill kept this light within us unextinct, the doctrine of our Church we ſtill retain, and we who are ſouldiers will fight for his Majeſtie, in defence thereof to the laſt drop of our blood, nor was it fit the Herauld and Proclaimer of this doctrine ſhould be concealed and unknown, therefore paſseth it under your name, Pardon us wherein we have acted without full directions from you, it was our love and zeal to the Truth, and to you the Preacher of it, that cauſed this forwardneſſe in us. Sir, the Town ingeneral, we more particularly who were further Actors in the ſolemnization of the day, are obliged to you for your great paines: And to teſtifie our gratitude for ſo great a favour, thought good to ſend them both together abroad into the World, your paines, with our unfeined thanks affixed thereto, who in the name of our ſelves, and the reſt of our ſouldiers under our Command, do ſubſcribe ourſelves
SIR, Your affectionate Neighbours and well-Wiſhers
John Byrom, Major of the Trained Band.
John Cawſey Lieut.
Hugh Johnſon Enſign.
Nicholas Moſley Captain of the Auxiliaries.
William Heawood Lieut.
William Byrom Enſigne.
Mancheſter May 11. 1661.