A select collection of Catholick sermons preache'd before their majesties King James II, Mary Queen-Consort, Catherine Queen-Dowager, etc. . SERMON XXV. UPON THE Sacrament, Preach*d before the KING, At Worcester, Augufi 24, 1687.^ DEUT. xxxii. 7. Interroga majores tuos, & dicent tibi. Ask thy elders^ and they will tell thee, IS now no lefs than fix andthirty Years, Moft SacredMajesty, iince our Cityof Worcefler has been ho-nourd with the Prefence ofour King. Our Loyalty wasthen fufficiently tryd; and now it isabundantly rewarded. Our Loyalty^ whichthen was fo well known to all the World,invite
A select collection of Catholick sermons preache'd before their majesties King James II, Mary Queen-Consort, Catherine Queen-Dowager, etc. . SERMON XXV. UPON THE Sacrament, Preach*d before the KING, At Worcester, Augufi 24, 1687.^ DEUT. xxxii. 7. Interroga majores tuos, & dicent tibi. Ask thy elders^ and they will tell thee, IS now no lefs than fix andthirty Years, Moft SacredMajesty, iince our Cityof Worcefler has been ho-nourd with the Prefence ofour King. Our Loyalty wasthen fufficiently tryd; and now it isabundantly rewarded. Our Loyalty^ whichthen was fo well known to all the World,invited your royal Brother to this Refuge :Vol. IL Y y 2 And. 346 SERMON XXV. And we employd our befl: Endeavours tofreferve his facred Terfon : But twas toogreat an Honour for us : The AlmightyI took it wholly to himfelf; and, by a fur- prifing Miracle of ProvidencCy afterwardsgranted to our earned Prayers what he be-fore denied to our unfortunate A?ms, Aswe have never forfeited the Credit of ourLoyalty^ we hope your Majesty is wellafTured we fhall be always ready to expo^our Lives and Fortunes in your MajestysService. It is not in the Power of SubjeSlsto give their Prt?ice a more convincing Af-furance, that they always ivill be Loyal,than that they always have bee?i fo. 1 onlywifh, with all my Heart, that we had everbeen as Loyal to the Church as to the State jand that we had as zealouily oppofed theReformatio?i of our Faith^ as we withftoodthe Alteration of our Govern?ne?it. When I firft appeard in this Place, Imade it my Bufinefs to prove, that accord-ing to Principles of Natural Philojophy,the Myftery of Tranfubftantiation is neithercontrar
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