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 Of Drinking in Rememhrance 
 of th D E ADj <3cc. 
 
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 H E Queftion I am now to fpealT 
 to, is this : 
 
 Whether Drinking in Remembrance of the 
 Deady excepting only in Rememhrance of Jefus 
 Chrifl^ is an A^ion in it felf Sinful^ novo un- 
 der the Gofpel > And whether the Cufiom of 
 Drinking in Rememhrance of a Departed Mo* 
 narchy is fo in particular ? Affi 
 
 I (hall, by way of Preface, only obferve 
 to you, That were it not for the Power and 
 Prejudice of a Cullom which has lately pre- 
 vailed, thro' much Inadvertency and Want 
 of a pious Zeal and fincere Concern for Re- 
 ligion, in the Hearts of Men , it wou'd be 
 look'd upon as a very needlefs Work, to go 
 about to prove the Affirmative of this 
 Queftion. 
 
 Had we liv'd in any other Age fince 
 
 Chrift, the very Propofing of it ^'^ou'd have 
 
 ftartled all good Chriftians. They wou'd 
 
 immediately fay, I was going about to de- 
 
 A X monftrate 
 
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 monftrate a felf-evident Truth, which no 
 body doubted ; I ihou'd have met with no 
 other Pveturn , but, Who denies it ? And 
 it will certainly come about to this again, 
 whenever Truth and Loyalty fliall triumph 
 over Infidelity and Fadion. 
 The Queftion is not, 
 
 ijt. Whether we may have an Honoura- 
 ble Remembrance of great and worthy Per- 
 fons ; and perpetuate the Memory of fuch 
 as have been ufefu! and exemplary in their 
 Lives 5 by promoting the Honour of God 
 and Religion, and the Good of their Coun- 
 try > This was the Defign of the Diptychs 
 in the Primitive Church, and is countenan- 
 ced and encouraged in Scripture, which pro- 
 pofes it as a Reward confequent to Virtue 
 and Goodnefs in this Life ,- and fays, That 
 the Righteous (hall he had in everlajling Re- 
 memhrance. 
 
 Nor, 2^/y, Whether we are to be well 
 affeded to the late Revolution ? Tho' we 
 cannot fo far limit the Power and Wifdom 
 of God, as to fay , that he could not have 
 delivered us by any other Means or Me- 
 thods more advantageous ; yet whofoever 
 confiders that it was the Hand of God , a 
 remarkable Difpenfation of his Providence, 
 < and the Method by which he chofe to work 
 ' ' fo great a Deliverance for us, muft not only 
 acquiefce in it, but return God the Glory of 
 fo great and general a Bleffing. But, if we 
 
 magni- 
 
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 magnify It only as a Revolution^ and not as 
 it was the faving us from Deftrudtion ; then 
 the next Revolution may be the over- 
 turning our whole Conftitution in Church 
 and State. 
 
 Nor 3^//y, Whether we ought to honour 
 the Memory of King William ! All People 
 who own the late great Deliverance thefe 
 Nations have had from Popery and Arbi- 
 trary Power, mud likewife acknowledge 
 our late Sovereign, of Glorious Memory, 
 to have been the Happy Inftrument in the 
 Hand of God for bringing all that to pafs. 
 And one way of exprelling our Gratitude to 
 God, is, by an Honourable Remembrance of 
 thofe by whom his Bleflings were convey 'd 
 to us. So that if we fet up Statues, ere6t 
 Trophies, raife Pyramids, ring Bells annu- 
 ally, and magnify him in Encomiums, Dif- 
 courfe and Hiftory, I fee nothing in all this 
 fmful in the Nature of the Thing ; tho' it 
 may become accidentally fo ; as particular- 
 ly, when any thing of this is done with a 
 difloyal or fadious Defign. 
 
 Nor, 4//7/y, Whether drla^cing fuch a 
 Health is a Sacrament ? or whether it is done 
 Sacramentally ? But whether the very Ad-ion 
 it felf of Drinking, applied to the N.emory 
 of the Dead, is made Sacramental ? For if 
 the Adion it felf is made Sacramental, then 
 the Confequence is clear, that it muft be a 
 horrid Abufe of it, to prophane it to any 
 
 civil 
 
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 civil or common Ufe. As clear, as that if a 
 Houfe is dedicated to God , we cannot ap- 
 ply it to common Ufe without Prophanation 
 and Sacrilege 5 only with this Difference, 
 that the Defecration of the former, is a 
 Guilt of a much deeper Dye, and of a more 
 abominable Nature. 
 
 Nor, ^thly^ Whether we may remember 
 any abfent Friend, or our Sovereign, by 
 wiftiing them Health and Profperity when 
 we drink, as the Cuftom is? This may be 
 innocently done ,• not but that one hearty 
 and warm Ejaculation for them will do them 
 more Service; however, by this we may 
 flievv our good Will and our Loyalty. But 
 the Queftion is, whether if my Friend or 
 my Monarch were dead, I may, without 
 Sin, perpetuate his Memory, by a Cuftom 
 of Drinking in Remembrance of him ; and 
 that wdth the Epithets of Dear, or Glori- 
 ous, or Immortal, or Pious, ®f. This is 
 what I take to be highly fmful. 
 
 Now we need go no farther for the Proof 
 of the Sinfulnefs of this Practice, than the 
 exprefs Words of Scripture, i Cor, ii. 25-, 
 26. This cup is the new teflament in my blood: 
 this do ye^ as oft as ye drink ity in remembrance 
 of me. For as often as ye eat this breads and 
 drink this cup^ ye do fhew the Lords death till 
 he come. From which thefe feveral things 
 are very plain. 
 
 17?, That 
 
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 i7?, That Drinking to the Memory of ju. 
 Perfoo dead, is the moft profound Myftery 
 oF the Gofpel, and Foundation of our whole 
 Chriftianity. All the Difpenfations of God 
 from the Beginning of the World were cen- 
 ter'd in that Death of Chrift which we drink 
 to, and are compleated by it. Therefore 
 he calls the Cup, The new teftament in my 
 Hood, i. e. No lefs than that Covenant of 
 Pardon and Salvation, which you have in 
 my Blood (hed for you on the Crofs. 
 
 zMy, That the Drinking to the Memory 
 of a Perfon dead, is an Action made Sacra- 
 mental; 'tis adopted into Religion, and con- 
 fecrated to the Glorious Memory of Chrift 
 only. And that by an exprefs Command 
 and folemn Inftitution, Do this in remem- 
 Irance of me. 
 
 idly^ That the very Effence of the Eu- 
 chariftical Sacrifice, confifts in that Adion 
 of Eating and Drinking to the Memory of a 
 Perfon once dead. 'Tis not the Drinking, 
 nor drinking Wine and Water, or both mixt, 
 or fitting, or ftanding, or kneeling ; no, nor 
 the doing it religioully, or by way of Praife 
 or Thankfgiving even to God ; all thefe are 
 but appendant Circumftances. 'Tis in the 
 Prinking to the Memory of Chrift's Death, 
 in which the very Life and Being of that 
 Sacrament confifts. 'Tis the (hewing forth 
 the hordes death till he come^ that conlUtutes 
 it a Sacrarpent. Tis the very Ground and 
 
 Reafoq 
 
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 * Reafon of the Inftitution, that which makes 
 it myftcrious and obligatory on all Chrifti- 
 ans, till his Coming to Judgment. 
 
 If it faid here, That the very Form or 
 effential Part of that Sacrament, is in Drink- 
 ing to the Remembrance of Chrift's Death 
 only, i. e, to his very Ad of Dying for us ; 
 but that in Drinking to the Glorious Memo- 
 ry of a dead Monarch, we mean not to ce- 
 lebrate his Death, but the Glorious Adions 
 of his Life ; and therefore that this can be 
 no prophaning of that Sacrament in that 
 very Inflance which is moft eflential to it. 
 I anfwer, That if we could abftrad* the 
 Perfon of Chrift from his Death ,• could ce- 
 lebrate his Death without remembring him 
 dead, and what he did for us when alive ; 
 or if we could drink to the Memory of a 
 dead Man, without implying and necefTari- 
 ly including his Death, there wou'd be a 
 faint Colour of an Objedion. But how 
 can we Ihew the Lord's Death, without 
 fhewing the Lord that died, that was alive, 
 and then did great Things for us > And per- 
 haps 'tis to obviate this very Objecflion, 
 that the Words of the Inftitution are not, 
 Do this, as oft as ye Drink it, in Remem- 
 brance of my DEATH; but in Remem- 
 brance of M E. 
 
 Ay ! but fays one, the Cafe is ftill diffe- 
 rent ; for Chrift is now alive , but the Mo- 
 narch to whofc Memory we drink, con- 
 tinues 
 
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 tinues dead. Yes , and for that very Rea- 
 fbn we are to celebrate him once dead, who 
 only has Immortaiity ; and that too in a way 
 never to be apply'd to any meerly Mortal 
 Creattire. But away with thefe Subtilties 
 in the mofl: important AStlon of our Lives 
 here' ; and upon which the Salvation of our 
 Souls hereafter fo much depends.. We re- 
 member Chrifl:, and him.dead, by drinking 
 in Remembrance of him ; Whofoe,yer hppe?, 
 to be fav'd by fp dping, let him take care 
 how'he does the. Tame to any other Perfpa, 
 Whatfoqver. toir tho' it be not done in the 
 fame Manner, or with the fame Pefign,. nor 
 with the fame Circumftances ; yet tj^at ftill 
 remains, in which the very Being and Ef- 
 fence of our holy Eucharift coiififts. 
 
 And now can it be a Doubt, wh^t;heraa 
 ASdon fa holy ; dedicated to the Memory 
 of our Blefled Saviour ; confecrated itp fuch. 
 Divine Purpofes ; and niade the very Teft of' 
 our Chrillian Profefiion, may be apply'd to 
 common Ufe, and rhad'e an Expreition of 
 civil Rcfpedl and Complement to the Per- 
 fon or Charafter of whomfoQver wc pleafe 
 to apply it to : Every fmcere Confcience, 
 truly touch'd with aSenle of Pvcligion, will 
 foon determine this Point without any 
 great reach of Underiltii^ding or Jt^ 
 Learning. The plained' and mbS-ol)vious 
 Reafon is the ftrongeft ; and tho' it may be 
 darkned and perplexed by a multitude of 
 
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 Words, or argued away ,- yet the Truth 
 will not be totally extinguifli'd, but will re- 
 cur again, / Tho' it be thus repell'd for a 
 time, it will recoil with uneafinefs upon 
 the Mind, at every ferious fit of Thinking ; 
 and never fufFer a lading Convicflion there, 
 till the very Confcience is defil'd, and hath 
 no fmcere Regard for Religion left. If I 
 Ihould ask any plain, but fmcere Chriftian, 
 this Ihort Queftion, Whether what Chrifl; 
 has commanded to be done facramentally 
 and rcligioufly in Remembrance of him, 
 may, without Sin, be done to any other Per- 
 fon whatfoever, in Remembrance of them? 
 He wou'd anfwer. No furely, not without 
 Wonder and Indignation at the Queftion ; 
 for that would be to honour a Man as I do 
 Chrift. And this is what all the Logick 
 in the World will never anfwer. 
 
 However, to fit the Argument for the 
 T5enius of the Difputers of this World, I 
 will reduce the whole Conteft to a Point, 
 in one or two Syllogifms. 
 
 if Chrift has appropriated that Adion of 
 drinking to the Memory of the Dead, 
 to his own Perfon ; it is highly fin ful 
 to apply it to any other. 
 
 But Chrift has appropriated drinking to 
 the Memory of the Dead, to his own 
 Perfon, Ergk 
 
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 I fuppofe the confequence of the Major 
 will never be deny'd by any one who un- 
 derftands the Terms of it. And for the 
 Minor, 'tis prov^ ttius. 
 
 If Chrifl has inftituted that Adion in 
 Honour of himfelf, he has appropria- 
 ted it to his own Perfon. 
 
 But Chrifl: has inftituted it in Honour of 
 himfelf. Ergo. 
 
 The Minor is deny'd by no Sedl of Peo-' 
 pie who call themfelves Chriftians, but th^ n/^ 
 Quakers. And if any Man denies the con.- v 
 fequence of the Major, Jet him fliew what 
 other way there was of appropriating an 
 Adion to the Perfon of Chrift, befides an 
 pxprefs Inftitution, and Confecration of it 
 into a Sacrament. 
 
 Now if it be faid that they want an ex- 
 prefs Command, that it (hall be done to 
 him only, and not to any one elfe. I anfwer. 
 There was no occafion for an exprefs Com- ^6 
 mand for that which the common Reafoa v 
 of Mankind muft naturally fuggeft. How- 
 ever, 'tis faid in Scripture, Thou fhalt w^r- 
 /hip the Lord thy God^ and him only Jhalt thou 
 ferve. And if that Action of drinking to 
 the Memory of the Dead, be now made the 
 moft Solemn Ad of Worfhip and Adorati- 
 on, as it really is ; then they are not with- 
 put an exprefs Command ,• and the apply- 
 6 % ing 
 
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 ing of that Adion to any other. Perfon, is 
 a manifeft Tranrgreijion of this Precept. 
 
 4. And this brings me to the /ourth 
 thing contained in thofe Texts, namely, 
 That this drinking In Remembrance of the 
 Dead is appropriated to Chrift, not .only, by 
 Virtue ot a Solemn Inftitution and Com- 
 mand, which of their own nature rcjfi rain 
 it to him, and make it highly finful to,^p- 
 ply it to any other Perfon ,' but there is 
 Provificn made for this in the very Form of 
 that Inftitution ;. and this Limitation is 
 rnade in exprefs Words, very plain to that 
 cffeft in the Original, tStd TTDiim^ IotIkk; oiv 
 rnivYrrr-^ il^Thv Ifjihc^vd/uvYimv, The literal and 
 eafy Tranilation of which is this : As oftefi 
 as ye fliall drink thus, do it Tn Remembrance 
 of me. The import is the fame in the 
 Tranflatioh of our Ef^glijh BMt ; this do 
 ye^ as oft as ye J rink it^ in Rememhrattce of 
 me : Only with this difference, that the 
 Drift and Defign of that ooix^^^ a,v ^vvi-n is 
 iict fet in fo plain a light. " 
 ■ The ufe which is generally made of that 
 Claufe, is from thence to urge the frequen- 
 cy of receiving the Sacrament ; Avhich ifi of 
 it felf a thing lufficiently plain from the na- 
 ture of it, and the infinite Advantages we 
 receive by it. And tho' this is a good In- 
 ference, yet it is not fo diredt as that for 
 which the Claufe was chiefly and originally 
 intended ; namely,' to reftrain this Adtion 
 
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 of Drinking to the Memory of a dead 
 Perfon^ to that of our Saviour ; and to pre- 
 venr its ever being done to any one elfe; 
 And to confirm this, the Word carrl^ui; is re- 
 peated in the next Verfe , and the Reafon 
 of this Reitridlion affign'd ; For as often at 
 ye da this , ye fhew forth the Lord's Death ; 
 u €*. It is an Adion confecrated-to the^ Me- 
 mory of the Lord. 
 
 . This Claufe gotx^^^ iV -^Vjit?, w^s left out of 
 fonie Ancient Copies, and particularly the 
 JEthiopick Verfion and Alexandrian Mann- 
 fcript I becaufe it feem'd incoherent, nced- 
 lefs, and to interrupt and perplex the Senfe. 
 But this Fooltfbnefs of God is wifer than'Ment 
 who forefaw that in After- ages an AdJiort ,fo 
 c:onfecrated .to the raofl: Holy and Divine 
 Pijrpofes, and ip Memory #f our Lord, . 
 .wou'd be apply 'd to Civil and Prophane Ufe, 
 4S it i^ .now ipoft ihamefuliy at this Day. 
 And it is very remarkable, that this Claufe 
 is left out in the Inftitution of the Breadj 
 and apply 'd only to the. Cup ; withDefign, 
 in the Purpofe and Fore-knowledge of 
 (jod, to be an invincible Argument to aH 
 future Generations , for the Truth of th^t 
 Dodrine I am now defending. As the "^ 
 Words, Drink je ALL of this , were, no ' 
 doubt, leveird by the fame Wifdom, at that 
 Sacrilegious Cuftom In the Church of Rom^^ 
 of denying tl^e Cup to the I-aity. 
 
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 Now tho* there are not thofe reftraining 
 Words in the Confecration of the Bread ; 
 yet if a Company of Chriftians fliou'd, af- 
 ter Dinner, have a Piece of Bread diftribu- 
 ted to every one of them ; and each of 
 them,in their Turn, put it into their Mouths 
 V<r with this Expreflion ,• Here is to the Glorious 
 ^ Memory of ^i»g William : This wou d fliock, 
 and every one wou'd cry out upon it, as 
 horrid and blafphemous in the Implication : 
 And yet this you fee does not come up to 
 that Impiety , of doing the like with the 
 Wine. 
 
 But to make the Cafe plainer yet, if there 
 be Occafion for it, let us take a parallel In- 
 ftance in the other Sacrament ,• and fup« 
 pofe that Dipping, or Sprinkling, were made 
 a Form of Admiftion into any Civil Copora- 
 tion : The very Eflence of that Sacrament 
 ^ confifts in Admitting Perfons Members of 
 ' the Church, which is a Body Corporate. I 
 ask then, Whether this would not be, not on- 
 ly a Leffening and an Abufe of that Adion, 
 but alfo a mod heinous and impious Propha- 
 nation of it ? " And why ? Becaufe Water is 
 ^pply'd in that very Inftance wherein the EG 
 ifence of that Sacrament confifts ; which i$, 
 - the Admiffion of Perfons into a Vifible 
 Body. ' 
 
 No more need be faid upon this Subject, 
 >jj for the Coiividion of fuch as are in a Dif- 
 Th pofiticn to be convinced : God has made no 
 
 Provi- 
 
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 Provifion, by way of Remedy, for Wilfulnefs 
 and Obftinacy. Such as are felf-will'd, and 
 abound in their own Senfe, there is no Help 
 for them ; they muft live and die full of 
 themfelves, and their own Opinion. 
 
 Tho' we were not able to anfwer all the.- 
 Objections which fuch Perfons make , yet 
 this is no Reafon why we fhould part withj 
 a plain Truth. But the Cafe is fo far otherri 
 wife , that all the Objedions and Inftances 
 made againft it, do but conduce to the far-, 
 ther Confirmation of it, and fetting it in a 
 clearer Light. ; .^ 
 
 Ohj. \fl. We keep Feafts in Memory .oX 
 the Saints. Anfvo. But not to pay them, 
 the fame Honour we do to Chrift. And 
 therefore, let us inftance in the grqat^ft 
 Saint in Heaven , the Virgin Mary ; and. 
 fuppofe that after Dinner or Supper > Wt-.. 
 her Day , a Company of zealous and dq=»/ 
 vout Chriftians fliou'd each of them take ^. 
 Cup or Glafs of Wine , and in th^ir Tnmi 
 drink it with thefe Words, Here is to the Glo^y 
 rious Memory of the Elejfed Virgin Mary ; and : 
 then bring themfelves off with the Popifli. 
 Diftindlion, faying, They mean not the Ctd^i 
 tt4$ Latrice ; no, God forbid ! They mean no \ 
 more by it than Honouring fo great a Saiot,. 
 to whom they are under infinite Obligati-- 
 ons. After all their nice Difquifitions up- 
 cn Civil , Religious , and Divine Honours^ 
 
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 theAnfwer would-be^in iliorr, That of alt 
 Honours paid to her , this ought to be a- 
 voided ; becaufe 'tis the moll fclemn way 
 we have of Honouring Chrift himfelf : fd 
 that this' wou'd be in it felf a worft Idola- 
 tiry than that of the Church of Rome. The 
 Papifts only kneel land pray to her ; but 
 this wou'd be, in no fmali degree, applying 
 to her that which is made the moft Sdema 
 A^ of Worfliip and- Adoration to th^ Divi- 
 nity. - ^ - ■'■ -^ ' 
 
 *' %My^ They don^t do this Religioufly, /. e» 
 by way of Paying K. W^t^^ptn any Divine^ 
 Honour. But can't Men pay Divine Ho- 
 ridur^'j'" without defigning then! fo ? Hath 
 afiy^ thing been more common among Hea- 
 tke^-and Papifts? And did they not both' 
 eOer^riiake the fame Excufe for their Idola- 
 tl^* If'they dr^nk that Health with fuch 
 a^^figtiy this wbu'd be a grievous Aggra-' 
 vatfon-of 'that Action, and they wou'd bfe* 
 Mfof fe than Ti^rif Jr or fews. The Queftion is 
 nfetrv Whether this Adion may have many * 
 ciroimftantial Aggravations, from the diffe-' 
 rent Ufes Men make' of it ? But whether the ' 
 Afeion'itfelfj'Hvhich'is cpnfecrated to fo Di- 
 vi^he-an-Ufe,' m^y be apply *d to any Civil 
 Pfttpofe whatfoever. ' The QUeftion is not, 
 Wlfcther they do it 'Religioufly ? But whe- ' 
 ther Jhey ihbuld'evef do' it Otherwife than" 
 R^igiouflyi* airf af^r the minner inftituted" 
 byChrift* ^- • -^'^H^^-^ • -^ '' 
 
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 %cily, Another objeds, He has no Intent 
 tion of prophaning the Sacrament by that > 
 Cuftom. AH that can be inferred from this, f^ 
 is, Therefore he is not worfe than an Hea- 
 then. This is another Aggravation. There 
 have been many Aggravations of that finful 
 Adlion, as particularly, Dririking to the 
 Glorious and Immortal Memory of a dead Mo- 
 narch upon Men's Knees, and before his 
 Statue ; and in thefe Words, / drink this in 
 Rememhrance^ &c. and by the Title of Sa- 
 njiour^ taking off their Hats when they do 
 it 5 ^c. And there may be yet worfe Ufes 
 made of it ; and too probably there will, 
 by the Enemies of Revelation ; who 
 can't be ignorant, that applying that Adion 
 of Drinking to the Memory of the Dead ^ 
 to civil or common Ufe, ftrikes at the very 
 Root and Foundation of all Chriftianity ; 
 and have already taken Occafion from this 
 very Pradice, to fay, in Contempt of our 
 Holy Eucharift, that it is no more than an 
 HEALTH. The Devil has Views in palli- 
 ating and promoting finful Cuftoms, which 
 w^e can't fee to the End of; and no Man can 
 tell what Confequences this will yet have^ 
 now it is once fee on foot , or where it w ill 
 end. 
 
 4/^/7, Another fays, Drinking to the Me- 
 mory of a dead Monarch cannot be Sacra- ^ii 
 mental , becaufe it has not all the Circum- v 
 fiances of that Sacrament. Who fays it is? 
 
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 The Queftion is not. Whether it is Sacra- 
 mental ? but whether 'tis a grievous Abufe 
 and Prophanation of that which is truly fo > 
 And whether it ought ever to be done but 
 Sacramentally, and with thole Circumftan- 
 ces of Confecration, &c. and as our Saviour 
 did inftitute it ? 
 
 ^thly, Says another, The Cafe is not 
 s// parallel. There is no {hedding of Blood in 
 /r the Cafe of K. PTf^A^. True ; but the 
 Ad:ion is exacftly parallel in that very In- 
 ftance wherein the Being of that Sacrament 
 confifts. And 'tis that which makes it fin- 
 ful, to ufe the fame Adion by way of Civil 
 Honour. 
 
 6thly, Says another, We heel to God, 
 V^ and we k^eel to Man ; and this {hews the 
 7 femeAaion may be us'd both in a Religious 
 and a Civil way. True ; and fo may Drink- 
 ing ; and what then > But neither of them 
 in Honour of the Dead ; fo that this does 
 not touch the Queftion ; which is not about 
 Drinking or Kneeling to the Honour of one 
 or the other ; for the Nature of the thing 
 will be alter'd, as you defign a Religious, or 
 a Civil Worlliip by either of thofe Adions. 
 The Queftion is about Drinking m Remem- 
 hrance of the Dead; Whether, this being con- 
 fecrated to a Religious Worlhip, you may 
 apply that very Adrion in that very manner, 
 to paying a purely Civil Refped. All you 
 have to do here, is to diftinguilli between a 
 
 Cere- 
 
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 Ceremony- which is in its own Nature indif- 
 ferent, and a Sacrament which is not fo • 
 And therefore let us make the Cafe parallel, 
 and then fee how thofe who make this Ob- 
 je(3:ion, will like it. Suppofe, that to tha^ 
 Text of Scripture, At the Name of Jefus, 
 ev.ery Knee jhall lovo^ a folemn exprcfs Tnfti- 
 tution had been added, fo as to make Kneel- 
 ing Sacramental, in thefe Words, Do thisy 
 as oft as ye jhall kneel^ in remembrance cf me. 
 Wou'd Chriftians kneel in Remembrance of 
 any other Perfon dead? Nofure; and Why? 
 Becaufe Kneeling, from being a common 
 Pofture of Reverence and Refpedt, whe- 
 ther to God or Man, wou'd have alter'd its 
 Nature, and become the mod folemn A(St 
 of Praife and Adoration, which cou'd be 
 paid to the Divinity. So that you fee the 
 Objection goes upon a grofs Miftake ,• for 
 . it is not Drinking, or Kneeling, in Honour 
 of God or of Men, that is blameable ,• but 
 Drinking or Kneehng to the Dead. 
 
 But if it be dill objeded , that Kneeling 
 is in that Phil, i. and lo. commanded to be 
 perform'd to Chrift ; and therefore may 
 not, for the fame Reafon, be us'd in Civil 
 Worfhip. I anfwer, We -mud diftinguifli )JL 
 between a Metaphorical Exprellion, deiign'd 
 to denote the lowed Reverence that can be 
 paid by all Intelligent Beings; and Drink- 
 ing to the Memory of the Dead, which is 
 a literal m6 pofitiveln^iixilion, 
 
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 But fuppofe I had faid nothing more in 
 Anfwer to this formidable Objection, only 
 have diftinguifli'd between KneeHng to the 
 Ltvirtg^ and Kneeling to the Dead-, and al- 
 lowed, that Kneeling to the Liying may be 
 ufed in Civil Worlhip, but not to the Dead ; 
 and by reafon of that very Text, At the 
 name of Jefus, every knee Jhall how. And 
 why > Becauie Bowing the Knee at the 
 Name of a departed Perfon, is paying a Di- 
 vine Honour ; and therefore tho'they bowed 
 the Knee to K. Pf ';if^V m when alive, yet 
 It wou'd be rank Idolatry to bow the Knee 
 to the Name of K. WiMio^ m now he is 
 dead. And if the Cafe be fo glaringly true 
 in this Inftance, which hath neither a pofi- 
 tive Form of Inftitution, norexprefs Words 
 to limit the Action to Chrift alone ; how 
 much more is it fo in that Adion of Drink- 
 ing to the Remembrance of the Dead , 
 which hath both ? And how plain is it, that 
 to apply this to any other Perfon, wou'd 
 be, in its own Nature , an idolatrous Ad:, 
 however Men defign'd it. 
 
 ythly. Another fays. He knows Drinking 
 to the Glorious or Immortal Memory , &c. 
 to be finful ; and therefore he drinks a 
 Health only. To all thofe that love and honour 
 the Memory of K, W- ji^t^fe. m. Some ftick 
 to the firft Form, viz, to the Glorious and 
 Immortal Memory of K. W p^(C^ tn ; to all 
 that lovd him when alive^ cind honour his 
 
 Msm(h 
 
[.I ] 
 
 Memory novo he is dead. Others who are 
 fliock'd at this, drink only to the Glorious 
 Memory , but leave out Immortal. O- 
 thers , To all that love and honour the 
 Memory^ &:c. And in lliort, this Health 
 has been put into feveral Shapes and Forms, 
 to avoid the Profanenefs and vifible Impie- 
 ty of it ; and every one, according to the 
 Regard he has left for the bleffed Sacrament 
 of the Lord's Supper, gives it yet a fofter 
 turn. But is not this (porting with things s^ 
 facred ? Does not every one fee, that all ' 
 this is {till the fame horrid and impious Pro- 
 fanation of that very Aftion which is con- 
 fecrated to the Memory of Chrift alone. 
 For, let them w^ord it how they will, and 
 put it into what Form they pleafe, this no 
 way alters the Nature of the Adion ; be- 
 caufe 'tis ftill drinking in an honourahle Re- 
 memhrance of the dead. 'Tis all one whether 
 they drink to the Death of K. Wii^Sl^^ m ; 
 to K. I V p^Cc^ m dead ; or his glorious A- 
 (flions when alive ; or to the glorious Me- 
 mory ; or to the immortal Memory ; or to 
 all that love the Memory, ®c. ftill there is 
 Application made of the Adion of drinking, 
 to a meerMan, in that very manner which 
 ought never to be applied but to the Perfon 
 of Chrift. 
 
 Oi^J, 8. Another Objedion is from that v/> 
 Text of St. Paal^ i Cor. lo. zi. Te cannot n 
 drink the cup of the Lord^ and the cttp of De- 
 vils. 
 
> 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 [" ] 
 
 vils. Here fay they, the Cup of the Lor J is 
 opposed only to the Cup of Devils ; /. ^. a Cup 
 drank in religious Worftiip to Idols. What 
 then ? Ergo drin^ng in honour of others, 
 befides Chrift, is condemn.'d only as it is 
 done religioufly, or with an idolatrous 
 Defign. But this is all a Miftake of the 
 Text, and of the Apoftle's Application of 
 it. If there were no other Argument for 
 what I am afferting, one wou'd think the 
 very mention of this Text, fliou'd be fuffi- 
 cient to ftrike the Confcience of any good 
 Man, and fill him with Horror at the 
 Thoughts of honouring the dead by drink, 
 ing to their Memory, when he confiders, 
 
 i/?, That this was fpoke to Chriftians^ 
 who cou d not have drank that Cup which 
 he condemns, by way of religious VVorQiip ; 
 and if they had, the Apoftle wou'd have 
 then charged them with downright wilful 
 Idolatry. 
 
 idly^ That Chrijlians cou'd not be fup- 
 pos'd to have done it with intention to pro- 
 fane the Eucharift. And this is theReafon, 
 as appears by the Context, why the Apo- 
 ftle informs them of the finfulnefs of what 
 they did ; tho' they did it neither with in- 
 tention of Idol-Worfliip, nor of prophaning 
 that Sacrament. 
 
 3^//y, That the very Reafon of that fe- 
 vere Expreffion, The Cup of Devils^ was 
 becaufe they who drank the Cup of the 
 
 LorJ^ 
 
LorJ^ i.e. in Remembrance of him, could not 
 apply that Adion of Drinking,after the fame 
 manner any other way, without the higheft 
 Prophanation of that Holy Inftitution. To 
 which we may add, 
 
 /^thly^ That their departed Heroes were . 
 the Deities moftly worlhipp'd by the Hea-: fA 
 then ,• and that this Cup here condemn'd^ 
 muft have been a Cup drank in an honou- 
 rable Remembrance of them. For otherwife 
 the Antithefis is loft here ; and the tw^a 
 Cups in this Text are not rightly oppos'd 
 one to the other ; and fo the whole Strefs 
 of the Apoftle's Reafoning fails. This makes 
 it a Cafe fo very like the Modern Pradlice, 
 that whofoever confiders thofe Four Things, 
 muft be of an Opinion, that he cannot drink 
 the Ctip of the Lordy and the Cup of a De» 
 parted Monarch, And for the very Reafoa 
 aflign d in that place by the Apoflle , be- . 
 caufe that Adion of Drinking when apply'd 
 to the Remembrance of the Dead , is full 
 of myfterious Signification, no lefs than the 
 Comniunion of the Blood of Chrifi^ &c. 
 
 Olj. 9. The Wine drank to the Glorious 
 and Immortal Memory, fe'c of K. ^Tf&w, ^ 
 is not confecrated, therefore ^tis not Sacra- ' 
 mental. Who fays it is > Therefore they 
 don^t drink it Rehgioufly. Who fays they 
 do ? No ; but very irreligioufiy. Therefore 
 they don't drink it, by way of Paying any 
 Divine Honour. But 'tis (trange they can- 
 not 
 
[ H ] 
 
 not fee how they may Pay a Divine Honouf ^ 
 tho' they do not defign it fo ; and that it is 
 true that in Fad they do fo, tho'the Wine is 
 not confecrated. The Queftion is, Whether 
 Drinking in Remembrance of K. li^f^ibw^ 
 be not Paying him a Divine Honour, whe- 
 ther the Wine be confecrated, or no ; or 
 whether they intend it, or not > Nay, tho' 
 they openly profefs they defign no Divine 
 Honour ; as thePapifts do, when they Pray 
 to Saints, and proftrate themfelves in a Po- 
 flure of Adoration before Pidures, and Rc- 
 licks , and Statues. The Queftion is not 
 about the Bread , nor about the Wine , or 
 about the Confecration of either, or no Con- 
 fecration of them ; but about the Adion of 
 Drinking, apply'd to the Memory of the 
 Dead ; the^Ufing of Wine to that one Pur- 
 pofe 1^ Vvhether this was confecrated, com- 
 manded , inftituted , dedicated by Jefus 
 Chrift ? And if fo ; whether the making the 
 fame Ufe of Wine, and applying that very 
 one, only, particular, fmgle Adion, which, 
 of all Actions on Earth, Chrift has chofen 
 to himfelf to perpetuate the Remembrance 
 of him thro' all Generations of Chriftians ; 
 may be apply 'd to any other Perfon, with- 
 out moft horrid Defecratioa and Sacrilege > 
 And therefore, here to obviate a Hundred 
 •^^Objedions at once : Tho' Churches and 
 ''^z Plate, fay they, are confecrated to Divine 
 Ufe, yet we may have Houfes to live in, 
 
 wc 
 
[^5 ] 
 
 we may ufe Plate, &c. in common Ufe, 
 Yes, we may fo. But to make theObjefti- 
 on full, and the Anfwer clear, let us take in 
 Bread and Wine, which the' confecrated in 
 the Eucharift, yet we may ufe Bread and 
 Wine for our ordinary Suftcnance.. All this 
 is granted : But then if any particular Houfe 
 or Plate, &c, or Bread or Wine, is dedicated 
 to God by Confecration ,- then that Houfe, 
 Plate, &c. Bread or Wine, may not be ap- 
 ply'd to common Ufe, without Defecration 
 and Sacrilege ; and therefore what is left of 
 the Bread and the Wine after Confecration, 
 are ordered by the Church to be eat and 
 drank before the Congregation depart. 
 And this flievvs the Force of all my Rea- 
 foning upon this Subjedt ; namely, becaufe 
 that one particular Adiion of Drinking ap- 
 plied to the Memory of the Dead, is con- 
 fecrated into a Sacrament, and fo dedicated 
 to the Memory of Chrift ; therefore 'tis 
 prophane and facrllegious to abufe it to 
 common Ufe: And more deteflably (0, 
 than it poffbly can be in any other Inltance, 
 except that of admitting Perfons into a vi- 
 fible Body, by Dipping and Sprinkhng, 
 And why ? Becaufe in all other Inftances, 
 the Confecration is by Man ,• but in this 
 one In (lance, 'tis immediately by Chrift 
 himfelf, in his own Perfon, by a pofit^ve 
 Command, and with exprefs Words of In- 
 ftitution. 
 
 D Bur, 
 
^ 
 
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 But, to carry this Objedion as far as ever 
 it will go, it may be (aid, that the Adion 
 of Drinking to the Memory ofrh^ Dead, by 
 being repeated, becomes a different Adtion ; 
 and To alters its Nature, as it is apply d to 
 God or Man. But it muft be confider'd, 
 that if it is Ten Thoufand times repeated, 
 and apply it how and where you will , 'tis 
 the fame Adion ftill ,• that very one, fmgle 
 Adion confecrated to the Memory of 
 Chrift : /ind therefore there is no Simili- 
 tude or Parity between this and a Houfe, 
 or Bread, or Wine, or Plate, or any other 
 thing dedicated or confecrated to the Ser- 
 vice of God. Nor can there be any Paral- 
 lel, unkTs you fuppofe that there is but one 
 Houfe, or Piece of Plate, or Cup of Wine, 
 or Loaf of Bread in the World ,- and that 
 too dedicated to God. And upon that Sup- 
 pofition, tho' that one thing might be of 
 perpetual Ufe in the Worfhip of God ; yet 
 it wou'd be the higheft Sacrilege to apply it 
 in any other way. If there are Ten Thou- 
 fand Houfes, they are all different Houses ; 
 and fome may be apply d to common Ufe, 
 and others dedicated to the Service of God. 
 But this being the fame Adion, tho' a Mil- 
 lion of times repeated, which was confe- 
 crated to the Memory of Chrift, 'tis the 
 higheft Prophanation and Sacrilege to apply 
 it to any other Perfon, 
 
 NoWj 
 
[ V] 
 
 Now, as to all other ObjedHons that may.^ 
 
 poflibly be made , how many and of what 
 Kind foever they are, I fhall only deiire 
 thofe who make them, to polTefs their Mind^ 
 with this one (hort Truth ; That the Adion 
 of Drinking, apply 'd to the RememhraKce of 
 the Deady is a Sacramental Adion ; and 
 then they will anfwer chemfelves: And all 
 their Reafonings mult at laft center m this, 
 that what is now under the Gofpel "become 
 in its own Nature Sacramental, is moft Ho- 
 ly ; and therefore ought nei^er to be us'd 
 otherwife than Sacramentally ; and that co 
 ufe it otherwife, is moft impious and abo- 
 minable. 
 
 When all Objedions are anfvver'd, and 
 not one of thefe Arguments touched, fays Xl 
 another, I do not fee the Force of this Rea- 
 foning. Then that is either becaufe of the 
 natural Weaknefs, or the Prejudice of his 
 Underftanding: There may be fome Ex- 
 cufe for the firft, but none for the latter. 
 And therefore here what a Man hath to do, 
 is , to be fure that his Under .landing is as 
 weak as he thinks it ; for other^A'ile he is 
 inexcufable. But Hill fome fay, 'tis not my 
 Opinion that there is any 111 in that Health ; 
 and therefore let them forbear it, who thmk 
 there is. This is the moft [atal and pre- 
 vailing Error in the World, and the Rock 
 upon which more Souls have been call a^ay, 
 than upon any other whacfoever. But: 
 D % Imuft 
 
I mDfl: tell them another furprifing Truth, 
 and that is, that when thofe who are in 
 Error come to anfwer fortheir Souls before 
 Jefus Chrift, the Queftion will not be what 
 Opinion they were of ? and whether they 
 flded according to that Opinion > But what 
 Opinion they might and would have been 
 of, if they had uled their underdanding Fa- 
 culties with as much Humility, Diligence, 
 and Inipartiality in this matter, as they did 
 in making 2 Bargain ? 
 
 Is any thing plahier than the Nature of 
 y^ Schism ; that it is a dangerous and crying 
 ^ Sin ; and no lefs than a Man's cutting him^ 
 felf off from a Particular National Church, 
 in which he may not only communicate 
 without Sin , but arrive to the greateft 
 Perfection of Moral Virtue, and Evangeli- 
 cal Hohnefs, that is by the Grace of God 
 attainable in this Life ,• and that hereby 
 he cuts himfelf off from the Body of the 
 Catholick Church. And yet as obvious as 
 this is, Multitudes build their Hopes of 
 Salvation upon their not being of that 
 Opinion, tho' at the fame time they would 
 not cut themfelves off from a Civil Corpo- 
 ration, in which they found their Account, 
 for any Argument or Perfwafion upon Earth : 
 Nay, the' all the Rules of it were not ex- 
 a<fily agreeable to their Humour. And if 
 they ihould be over nerfwaded at any time 
 (qP do, they would never hope for any 
 
 Share 
 
C ^9 1 
 
 Share in the Privileges or Advantages of 
 that Society. 
 
 Can any thing in all Religion be more 
 obvious, than that worfnipping a Wafer is 
 rank Idolatry ? and yet what Numbers are s(l 
 there in the World who do it habitually > V 
 tho' God gave them their five Senfes on pur- 
 pofe to judge whether it is meer Bread or 
 not; and their Reafon to manage thofe five 
 Senfes to the bed advantage ^ and yet they 
 will lay them all afide in this mod concern- 
 ing and important Point ; when at the fame 
 time, all the Sophiftry in the World cannot 
 deceive them in a brafs Shilling. 
 
 And to give but one Inftance more, is 
 any thing more frequent among us, than for ^ 
 Men to profefs themfelves of one Commu- ^ 
 nion ; and yet fpeak, and ad: thro' their 
 whole Lives in favour of another ; to vilifie 
 and expofe it on all occafions, and run into 
 allMeafures for the Encouragement and Sup- 
 port of Separation ? Tho' the being thus 
 falfe to that Communion, in which they 
 hope for Salvation, be a Folly monftrous 
 beyond expreffion, yet how many lamen- 
 table Inftances are there of it in the World > 
 
 All thefe, 'tis true, are of their own 
 Opinion, and profefs to ad according to /^ 
 it ; yet no indifferent Perfon can fay, this 
 will be any Excufe for them in the Day of 
 Judgment. And why > Becaufe the Quefti- 
 on will not be whether Schism, and Idq- 
 
 LATRY, 
 
^ 
 
 [ 3° ] 
 
 LATRY, and that other Sin not to be com- 
 prehended in One Word, were agreeable 
 to their Opinion ; But whether they fuf- 
 fer'd themielves to be fo deceived in any mat- 
 ter Of this World ? Men are never bhnded 
 with fuch Sophifms in the common Affairs 
 of Life 5 and this will be the great Article 
 of their Condemnation, who run into Er- 
 rors in Religion thro' Wilfulnefs, or Preju- 
 dice, or Lazinefs, and want of Thinking. 
 
 Thefe are fuch Objections as I have yet 
 heard, and now what if there were not 
 fuch plain Proof for what I affert ; and fup- 
 pofe that all the Objections made, cou'd 
 not thus be put in fo clear a Light, as that 
 every Capacity might apprehend the Weak- 
 nefs of them ; and that in that Adion of 
 drinking to the Memory of a dead Mo- 
 narch, there were no more than a great 
 Similifude or Semllance of that A6tion,w^hich 
 all allow to be Sacramental ; and that fuch 
 a Cuftom were by fome abufed to ill Pur- 
 pofes, and may be yet farther abufed ; and 
 that fuch a Pradice had but an afpedt or 
 tendency towards lefTening the Veneration 
 of our moft holy Eucharift in the Hearts of 
 People, as this plainly hath : Then I ask 
 any plain fincere Chriftian of the Laity, 
 who hopes for Pardon and Salvation by that 
 Sacrament, whether if fuch an Health were 
 propos'd to him, he would not rejed it 
 with this Anfwer ,- That he would be con- 
 tented 
 
[3« 3 
 
 tented to celebrate the Memory of K. Ifi^tn 
 any way in the World, but with the fame A- 
 <aion,andahnoil:in the fame Form of Words, 
 by which he celebrates the Glorious Memo- 
 ry of his BleiTed Saviour, and which was in- 
 flituted and commanded by him for that ve- 
 ry Purpofe ? 
 
 And fince this Holy Eucharift is the moft 
 Exalted MyAery ot our Religion, and be- y^ 
 come the moft Solemn A3: of Praife and ' 
 Adoration ; then let me ask you, my Bre- 
 thren of the Clergy , who are Stewards of 
 the Myjleries of Qod, Whether you can an- 
 fwer the Charader of being found faithful 
 to fo great a Truft, if by any Omiflion or 
 Negleca of yours, that Veneration and Re- 
 verence Men ought to have for ir, be leffen- 
 ed or impaired ? If you fuffer that very 
 Adion which is thus confecrated to the 
 Holy Jefus, ereded into a Sacram.cnt, and 
 fraught with Myftery and Wonder even to 
 the Angels, to be defecrated and prophaned 
 to common Ufe ? But efpecially, if by aa 
 eafy Compliance with a Practice fo highly )(i. 
 finful, you lay a Stumbling-block in the ' 
 Way of weaker Chriflians, and betray them 
 into what you ought to warn them of, and 
 give them the greareft Deteftation and Ab- 
 horrence for ? Remember, it will be no fmall 
 Article in the Account you are to give of 
 your Stewardfliip , w hether vou exerted 
 your felves with utmofl Zea!, to keep up a 
 
 pro- 
 
[ p] 
 
 profound Regard and Deference for this 
 Ordinance of God, in the Hearts and Con- 
 fciences of Men? And T befeech you, con- 
 fider how far you are like to fail in this, if 
 you do not earneftly endeavour to unde- 
 ceive, and convince all fuch as have been in- 
 fenfibly led into this Pradice thro' Inadver- 
 tency, or want of Underftanding, or fuffi- 
 ciently Confidering the true Nature of that 
 tnoft Holy Sacramental AcStion, which hath 
 been proftituted after fuch an unbecoming 
 and unfandified manner. 
 
 I have purpofely declined infifting long 
 
 upon the Tendency this Health hath to 
 leffen that great Veneration and Efteem we 
 ought to have for our truly Pious and 
 GLOiiious duEEN. For that the 
 perpetual, noify, clamorous Sounding out 
 the Praifes of a dead Monarch, and in a Way 
 which hath a Semblance at lead of 
 Sacrificing to his Ghoft , muft have a ma- 
 lignant Influence upon the Loyalty of un- 
 wary Subjeds , and naturally difpofe them 
 for Faftion and Sedition, is but too plain to 
 be difputed. , 
 
 It may be faid here , That in Drink- 
 ing this Health, they have nothing of that 
 ^ Defign. I anfwer , As far as this can be 
 ' faid with more or lefs Trurh , fo their 
 Guilt is the greater , or the lefs. If they 
 drank with that Defign , it wou'd be plain 
 Spreading Sedition, and Trumpeting Re- 
 bellion ,• 
 
belHon ; and this wou'd be another grie- 
 vous and horrid Aggravation of an Adion, 
 which was in its own Nature deteflable 
 before. This wou'd render it a crying Sin, 
 of an enormous gygantick Size , with a 
 great Variety and CompHcation of Guilt, 
 made up of Impiety and Prophanenefs to- 
 wards God, Difloyalty and Fadion towards 
 our Prince, and Contempt of all Laws Hu- 
 man and Divine. 
 
 *Tis true, many have been led into this ^ 
 Pradice by Inadvertency, and for want of //^ 
 confidering thofe Views Men had who firfl: 
 fet it on foot, and promoted it with a furi- 
 ous Zeal. But becaufe we are generally too 
 apt to be miftaken in our felves, and thsitthe 
 Heart of Man is deceitful above all things^ 
 Ifliall only makeTwoObfervationsinfliort, 
 which may be of Ufe for the Try al of Men's 
 Confciences in this Point, and that they may 
 be fure upon what Principle they have in- 
 duftrioufly promoted this Health, Accord- 
 
 17?. If Men find in themfelves a fincere- 
 Senfe of Obedience and Loyalty towards 
 their prefent Monarch : If they Love and 
 Honour Her Majesty, who is now 
 Living , and Wi(h and Pray from their 
 Hearts that She may be long fo : If they 
 can hear Her juft Praifes without Regret , 
 and that the Recital of thofe many Blcf- 
 E fings 
 
[34] 
 
 fings She hath been the Inftrument of to 
 thefe Nations , gives them no Uneafinefs ; 
 'tis a good Sign that they aid not pro- 
 mote and encourage this J-'ealth , with any 
 evil Intent of calling a Refledion upon the 
 prefent Adminiftration of Atfairs ; of fowing 
 Difcord, and fpreading Fadion and Sedition ; 
 of making it a diftingui(hing Test of a 
 Party , which may grow ftrong enough to 
 bring all Things into Confufion , that they 
 may get above the Crowd, and render them- 
 felves confpicuous , by climbing up and 
 trampling upon the Ruins ot Church 
 and State. But if they, of all People, 
 . fliou'd chance to be noted for Failing in 
 )/^ their Duty to Her who now fills the 
 Throne; and to turn all their Demon- 
 ftrations of Regard and Honour , of Re- 
 fped; and Veneration , I was juft going to 
 fay , of Loyalty and Fidelity likewife , to 
 a Monarch in the Grave,- this wou'd 
 be a ftrong Prefumption , that 'tis all done 
 with a very wicked Defign : And the 
 Thought is fo natural , that People cou'd 
 not then help imagining, that this was ji4J(^ 
 ring of Dead Kings , by way of Rebelling 
 againft the Living. 
 
 And here! cannot forbear obfcrving, that 
 
 • Loyalty^ a Word in Ufe to comprehend 
 
 ff^ all that Honour , Obedience, and Fidelity 
 
 required in Scripture to be paid to Kings 
 
 and Princes, is a Duty owing to the Livings 
 
 and 
 
f 35] 
 
 and not to the DeaJ. The Powers that 
 he^ the Powers in Being , are ordained 
 of God, And therefore that they, who 
 look either backward or forward , fo as to 
 place their Hearts and Thoughts wholly 
 upon any Predeceflbr or SuccefTor what- 
 foever, have great Reafon to fufped them- 
 felves , and to fear that they are flipping 
 their Time, and lofing their Seafon for the 
 Exercife of that Virtue of Loyalty ; for 
 the Violation of which , they will be 
 one Day ftriftly accountable , whatever 
 Evafion they now have from the PenaU 
 ty of Human Laws. Their Time for this 
 Duty is part as to K. PTf^wfcw \ and not ^ 
 yet come as to any, except our Prefenc 
 GLORIOUS Q^UEEN. Happy it is 
 for them , who were not wanting in this 
 Duty towards K. W^^^micm^ when he was 
 Living ; who are true to the Succejfion^ as 
 by Law eftablifh'd in the Houfe of HA- 
 NO V E Ry which they are fworn to Main- 
 tain ; and whenever the Providence of 
 God (hall call them to it , are ready to 
 pay all that Honour and Fidelity , and 
 Loyalty to the Next in that Line, which 
 now, by the Laws of God and Man , is 
 entirely owing to Her Prefent Majefty, And 
 he who cannot, from a Sincere and Loyal 
 Heart, Pray that it may be Long fo , may 
 well fufped that he fails in an indifpenfible 
 E % Duty 
 
[ 56 ] 
 
 Duty to his God, and to his Prince. He is 
 much miftaken, if he fancies that a factious, 
 difcontented , murmuring Spirit will be 
 changed with his Governor, No, this will 
 ever be ready to difclofe it felf , whenever 
 things go crofs to his Humour, or his Intereli. 
 S^ Loyalty, like all other Virtues, is to be ac- 
 'quired and ftrengthened by Habit ; and they 
 who pradife it[in one Reign, are in thebeft 
 Difpofition to continue it in another. 
 Now, becaufe the zealous Drinkers of 
 ^/^this Health do loudly difclaim all Factious 
 // and Rebellious Defigns in it, we muft leave 
 that to their own Confciences, and to the 
 Judgment of *'tte great Day, when the Se- 
 crets of all Hearts fkall he reveatd^ And 
 to avoid any Imputation of Uncharitable- 
 nefs, lee us fuppofe,^ that they have purfu'd 
 this fo warmly oLl|:"W)-f a mifiaken Zeal ; 
 through the Tranfports of their Souls, and 
 an Excefs of Gratitude ro God ; as thinking 
 they can never be too thankful for all the 
 Bleilings thefe Nations have receiv'd before 
 the Year Seventeen Hundred and Two. 
 Or becaufe they think it time enough, ac- 
 •^ cording ro their Cuflom, to recognize the 
 Bkffings of this Reign, under the \\c\t Mo- 
 narch that comes ; and then to change the 
 Health into this Form , Here is to the Glori- 
 ous and Immortal Memory ^ of ™ —— Or, iiko 
 fubtil Cafbiils, to avoid the Prophanenef^ 
 and Impiety of that Health, to turn it into 
 
[37] 
 
 all that Love and Honour the Glorious^ P/- 
 
 ous^ and Immortal Memory of*-^ Or, to 
 
 make themfelves very fafe, t6^h*ave it, 
 
 Here is to all that Lov d ^vohile Livings 
 
 and Honour Her Memory novo But to 
 
 be fu^-e iioi to mean any Honourable Re- 
 membrance , when they drink. For if 
 they (bou'd, after all this Shifting and Turn- 
 ing, it will be in it felf the very fame 
 thing as if they worded it thus, / take and 
 drink this in Remembrance cf K. Wt^Hlbm. 
 Or, / take and drink this in Remembrance of 
 
 So if they took a Piece of Brea^ 
 
 and eat it with this Expreffion, Here is to 
 the Glorious and Immortal Memory^ &c. Or, 
 To all that Love and Honour the Memory ; It 
 wonid be the very fame thing as if they 
 had laid, / take and eat this in Rememhrancey 
 &c. And why > Becaufe the A^ion of Eat- 
 ings thus applied to the Memory of the Dead, 
 Is confecrated by Chrift to the Remem- 
 brance of himfelf, and made Sacramental. 
 So that in each of thefe Iniiances, word it: . 
 how they will, 'tis applying a mofl: Holy 
 Sacramental Adiion to Civil and Prophane 
 Ufe. 
 
 It will be a good Indication of their be- ^ 
 ing touched with a confcientious Senfe of ^sC. 
 Religion towards God, and Loyalty to their 
 Queen , if now they have feen the Prophane 
 and Difloyal Nature of this Health, they 
 phufe to ce^fe that Cuftoin, and find out 
 
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 fome other Way of perpetuating the Me^ 
 mory of fo great and publick a Benefador 
 as K. l^fffbknfy of lefs Danger to their own 
 Souls ; and without any ugly and invidious 
 Glance at the Glories of the prefent Reign ,• 
 which Pofterity will find many ways of Ce- 
 lebrating, when this Cuftom of folemn 
 Drinking to the Memory of the Dead ( as 
 it is the firft Inftance of it that ever w^as 
 known in the Chriftian World; will be 
 tranimitted down with the blackefl: Mark of 
 Infamy, and be juftly odious and deteftable. 
 2.^/v. Another Head of Self-Examination, 
 which I wou'd recommend here, is, Whether 
 they who take Pains to diftinguifli them- 
 felves by laying out much of their Zeal that 
 way, do find in themfelves the like Fer- 
 vency and Warmth in Drinking in Remem- 
 Irance of Chrift Jefus ; who is in a much 
 more Exalted Senfe thtir Saviour^ and their 
 King, For if they, of all People, fiiould be 
 remarkable for being negligent and fcanda- 
 loufly Rcmifs herein,- this would make 
 all thinking and obferving Perfons look 
 upon that prepofterous Manner of Ex- 
 preffing their Regard for the Memo» 
 )^ ry of a Dead Monarch, to be no o- 
 ; . ther than a barefaced Hypocrifie, and loath- 
 fome Prevarication with God and Man.They 
 wou'd be apt to fufped:, that it doth not pro- 
 ceed from any regard to Governors, whether 
 Living or DeaJi but is, as the Apoftle fpeaks 
 
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 on that Occafion, only for a Cloak of MalkU 
 mfnefs : Not from 'any exceeding Gratitude 
 for the Bleflings of a former Reign ; but from 
 the height of Ingratitude for thofe which 
 have been heaped upon us in the prefent. 
 
 If it is objeded by any^that the Word Sa- 
 crament^ which I have made ufe of thro' this X( 
 Difcourfe, is not in Scripture ; and therefore f 
 will not bear that ftrefs which I have laid up- 
 on it. I anfwer,That this is a Term received 
 by the whole Chriftian Church to flgnifie an 
 outward, vifible, bodily Action ; inftituted, 
 appointed, ordained, eftabliflied, (^c. by Je- 
 fus Chrift in his own Perfon ; in full and 
 exprefs Words of Inflitution ; and with a 
 plain pofitive Command : and Men will ne- 
 ver find out a more apt and Significant Word 
 for that purpofe. However,they who do not 
 like it may lay it afide, and take any other 
 Word inftead of it, more a greeable to their 
 particular Humour ; for let that be how it 
 will, they mud allow the Thing 'to be 
 Scriptural. So that when I fay Drinking in 
 remembrance of the Dead^ is applying that ^ 
 outward bodily Adion Sacrament ally ; my /)^ 
 meaning is, that this is applying of it in 
 that very way which was inftituted, appoin- 
 ted, ordained, eftabliflied, &c. or any other 
 Word they pleafe. And that which makes 
 this fo horrid an Impiety, when 'tis done to 
 any other Perfon, is becaufe tho' that bodi- 
 ly A<3rion of Eating or ^Drinking is in its 
 
 own 
 
own nature as indifFerent as Kneeling, Bow- 
 ing, &c. and may be apply'd any other way | 
 yet when apply'd to the remembrance of a 
 Perfon dead, that outward A(9:ion is made 
 ^Sign and a 5f^/of thegreateft inward Grace 
 and Favour that God cou'd beftow upon Man- 
 kind ; nameIy,of the Communion of that Body 
 we remember,/, e, of all the Benefits of Chrift's 
 Death, Pardon of Sin, Reconcihation and 
 Union with God, and everlafting Life here- 
 after. And therefore how it comes to pafs, 
 that the applying this outward Adion in 
 that very Form and Manner, which is now 
 under the Gofpel rendered the moft holy and 
 ftupendious Myftery of Chriftianity, any 
 other way than according to the Inftitu- 
 tion, (hould prevail fo commonly among 
 Chriftians ,• cannot but be, even to any ob- 
 ferving Infidel, juit matter of Wonder and 
 Amazement. 
 
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