Ninety-Six Sermons, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint): By the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God: By the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This volume contains two separate and entire series of Sermons: the one, upon the Conspiracy of the Gowries, preached upon the fifth of August, consisting of eight Ser mons; the other, upon the Gunpowder Treason, preached upon the fifth of November, consisting of ten.

The Sermons in the first series were delivered at intervals between the years 1607 and 1622, both inclusive, before King James I. At Rumsey, Holdenby, Burleigh near Oak ham, in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, and at Windsor. The last Sermon, for 1623, was only prepared to be preached, but was never actually delivered. The whole may be con sidered as exhibiting in a clear and distinct light, the original source and subsequent derivation of kingly power; the sacred ness of the persons of princes, as the anointed of the Lord; the protection afforded them from above, in the discharge of their royal functions; the extreme and desperate wickedness of those who presume, on any pretence whatever, to rise up in rebellion against their authority; and the certainty of drawing down the Divine vengeance upon their heads, and upon their posterity, if they attempt to do so. The argu ments in support of these views, are for the most part drawn from Holy Scripture, supported by the authority of Catholic Fathers, and the decrees of Councils.

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