100 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



set, the first motion that was made was for 

 * Thanks,' &c. for my sermon, which produced 

 this vote, Sir John Knight made the motion. 

 But for all this order I did tiot print my ser- 

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Tluis far for his own memorandum. 



It seems when he perceived that he had dis- 

 pleased some gentlemen by the very mention of 

 the Jesuits doctrine of deposing of kings (which 

 he did in the latter part of his sermon,) he was 

 unwilling to give further offence to as many as 

 should think proper to construe what he said as 

 a reflection on the proceedings of the House. 

 For though he always thought it his duty in the 

 pulpit both to speak to the point, and to speak 

 to the plain truth ; yet wherever he could avoid 

 giving unnecessary offence no man was more 

 careful to do so. 



This sermon had been composed in King 

 Charles the Second's reign, viz. in 1679. And 

 had been often preached without offence, and 

 the words which were thought obnoxious on 

 this occasion, were penned at a time when it 

 was impossible the preacher should have any 

 design of reflecting on a procedure that was not 

 then dreamed of. 



But least what he said or may be reported to 

 have said on this occasion, should hereafter be 

 imputed to a disposition which never was his, it 



