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<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>Febr. 1. 1678/9.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Guil. Sill, R. P. D. Henr. Epi&s;c. Lond. a Sac. Dom.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P> A SERMON PREACHED On the Thirtieth of <HI>January,</HI> 1678/9. BEING THE ANNIVERSARY Of the MARTYRDOM of King CHARLES the Fir&s;t, of Ble&s;&s;ed Memory, AND Publi&s;hed at the Reque&s;t of &s;ome Friends.</P>
<P>BY <HI>EDWARD PELLING,</HI> Rector of S. <HI>Martyns Ludgate.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Jonathan Edwin,</HI> at the Three Ro&s;es in <HI>Ludgate-Street.</HI> 1679.</P>
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<HEAD>A SERMON PREACHED On the Thirtieth of <HI>January,</HI> 1678/9.</HEAD>
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<BIBL>Prov. VIII. 15.</BIBL>
<Q>By me Kings reign.</Q>
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<P>_WERE not the Annals of the <HI>Late Times</HI> written in the Memories of the generality of Men; or were not a fre&s;h Generation &s;ufficiently informed touching that Execrable Murder, whereof their Parents were guilty this Day, it would be nece&s;&s;ary for me to give you an account of the &s;ad Occa&s;ion of our meeting now. But the Clamour of the World about our ears, the Judgments of God that have a|larm'd us even at our doors, that Reproach and Infamy which this Nation lyeth under, tho&s;e Mi&s;eries we have felt, and tho&s;e we fore-&s;ee; but above all the Con&s;ciences in our brea&s;ts,
<PB N="2" REF="3"> cannot but &s;torm us into a Confe&s;&s;ion, that <HI>this day</HI> the Anointed of the Lord was cut off, the Honour of Chri&s;tians, the Wonder of Ages, the Mirrour of Kings, the Noble&s;t of Martyrs, and the be&s;t of Men. This day that mighty Man fell, by the hands of his own Subjects he fell, by the mercile&s;s Ax he fell, before the face of the Sun, and at his own doors he fell; and with him the breath of our No&s;trils was taken away, the Joy of the Earth, the Beauty of <HI>Si|on,</HI> the Fountain of Law, and the Father of the Church; and all Order, Peace, and Religion followed him, and was buried with him in the &s;ame Grave. Be a&s;toni&s;hed, O ye Heavens, and let the Earth put on her Weeds of mourning; let Rhetorick be &s;ilent, and our Thoughts be confounded with horrour; let Chri&s;tianity hide her Face, and let the Thrones of Princes be co|ver'd with Sack-cloth; let the Voice of Loyalty be &s;till, and let all Faces gather blackne&s;s; for this was a thing never &s;een, never heard of be|fore; the Tongue of Men and Angels is not a|ble to expre&s;s the black Circum&s;tances of it; that Maje&s;ty &s;hould be accu&s;ed for Di&s;loyalty to the People, that Subjects &s;hould oppre&s;s their Sovereign by &s;uch pompous and &s;olemn Artifi|ces of Cruelty; that Chri&s;tians, who are com|manded to <HI>Obey</HI> for Con&s;cience &s;ake, &s;hould for Con&s;cience &s;ake <HI>Rebell,</HI> for Con&s;cience &s;ake turn the whole Land into an <HI>Aceldama,</HI> a Field of Blood, and at la&s;t be &s;o bold as to cut off, not the <HI>Skirt of his Garment,</HI> but the <HI>very Head</HI> of
<PB N="3" REF="3"> the Lords Anointed, and that for Con&s;cience &s;ake too; that they &s;hould be &s;o profligate and prodigiou&s;ly wicked, as to &s;tamp upon all the&s;e <HI>unnatural</HI> Proceedings the <HI>&s;acred</HI> Names of Ju|&s;tice and Religion: This is &s;uch a <HI>My&s;tery of In|iquity</HI> as no Age can parallel; no Hi&s;tory com|eth near it, but that which tells us of the Sel|ling and Arraigning, and Condemning and Exe|cuting of the Son of God him&s;elf.</P>
<P>But as long as the Fifth of <HI>November</HI> and the Thirtieth of <HI>January</HI> &s;tand in our <HI>Calendar</HI> in Red Letters, we &s;hall never want occa&s;ion of in|forming the World (if it be not inform'd enough already) of the bloody Attempts of the <HI>Romi&s;h,</HI> and the <HI>Reformed</HI> Je&s;uite, the Devil with a Cru|cifix and a Legend, and the Devil with a Bible and <HI>Samuel</HI>'s <HI>Mantle.</HI> I join them together, becau&s;e like <HI>Samp&s;on</HI>'s Foxes, they &s;et all on Fire, though they are turn'd tail to tail, and their Faces look two contrary ways.</P>
<P>The Argument which has been u&s;ed by many men to prove the Papacy to be Antichri&s;t, is this, that the Pope exalteth him&s;elf above all that is called God, that is (as &s;ome Divines un|der&s;tand it) above the Kings of the Earth, arro|gating to him&s;elf a Power over them <HI>in things Spiritual,</HI> and in Temporal matters too, <HI>in ordine ad Spiritualia.</HI> If this be true, I know not how They can rub the mark of the Bea&s;t out of Their Foreheads, who pretending to be Reformers, have claimed the &s;ame Power over Kings, whom they are plea&s;ed to call Tyrants, as the Pope
<PB N="4" REF="4"> doth over tho&s;e whom he is plea&s;ed to call He|reticks. Sure I am, 'tis an Antichri&s;tian Principle which was never held till the&s;e la&s;t days, when men of debauch'd Con&s;ciences have counted it a great piece of Religion to be Traytors. And into the bargain, 'tis a Principle &s;o &s;editious, that I am not afraid to &s;ay, 'Twas the Trumpet that &s;ounded a <HI>Battalia</HI> in 1642. And the Ax that cut off the Kings head in 1648.</P>
<P>I find tho&s;e who were good Chri&s;tians, and Loyal Subjects, oppo&s;ing this Principle through|out the late Troubles, (when <HI>Goodwin</HI> and <HI>Bridg|es,</HI> and the re&s;t of tho&s;e Rebels defended it in Print,) particularly, the Judicious and Excellent Dr. <HI>Hammond</HI> did learnedly confute it in that Treati&s;e of his<HI>&mdash;Of Re&s;i&s;ting the Lawful Magi|&s;trate,</HI> which was written in the Heat of the War; And afterwards in his Addre&s;s to the Lord <HI>Fairfax</HI> and his Council of War, when they had the King in their Clutches. The So|ber World &s;aw, that nothing could promote, or ju&s;tifie a Rebellion, nor erect fir&s;t a Tribunal for the King's Arraigment, and then a Scaffold for his Execution, but this <HI>Bloody</HI> and <HI>de&s;perate</HI> Doctrine, that <HI>The Magi&s;trate hath his Autho|rity from the People, and that they may re-a&s;&s;ume the Authority to them&s;elves, and both Try and Sentence Him, in ca&s;e of default.</HI></P>
<P>A man might wonder, that &s;ince God hath brought a Calm upon this Land by the Happy Re&s;tauration of an Exil'd Prince, the &s;ame boi|&s;terous <HI>Euroclydon</HI> &s;hould ri&s;e again upon our
<PB N="5" REF="4"> Coa&s;ts, to &s;ink this Kingdom <HI>deeper than ever</HI> in a Gulph of mi&s;eries; But &s;uch is the temper of men who love to &s;wim upon the top, like mire in troubled Waters, that nothing is a great|er <HI>Eye-&s;ore</HI> to them, than <HI>a la&s;ting</HI> Peace. We know, that &s;ome pretending to wit and Policy (I wi&s;h I may &s;ay Chri&s;tianity too) have decla|red to this purpo&s;e, that <HI>The King is King by Law,</HI> that <HI>Government is not Jure Divino,</HI> but that <HI>the Country-Swain hath as good a Title to his Cot|tage as the King hath to his Crown.</HI> And I con|fe&s;s, if St. <HI>Hobbs,</HI> or St. <HI>Machiavil,</HI> be as Authen|tick as St. <HI>Paul,</HI> if once the Scriptures come to be degraded into the &s;ame Cla&s;&s;is with <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> and the <HI>Voice</HI> of the <HI>People</HI> be made as Authoritative as the <HI>Word of God;</HI> &s;o it is.</P>
<P>But let them put upon it the be&s;t Glo&s;s they can, to make it popular and plea&s;ing to the Rab|ble, it is de&s;tructive of all Government, and may be compared to the Locu&s;ts, <HI>Rev.</HI> 8. which though <HI>they had comely faces like men, yet were their &s;hapes like unto Hor&s;es prepared unto Battel, and had tails like unto Scorpions.</HI> We have found by woful experience, that it hath involv'd this Kingdom in <HI>One</HI> Unnatural War already, and he that is not &s;o quick-&s;ighted as <HI>Lynceus,</HI> may yet ea&s;ily fore-&s;ee, that when ever it &s;hall be radi|cated in the Con&s;ciences of a Tumultuous Rout (and there be many aking Teeth among us) it will <HI>Ruine</HI> it in another.</P>
<P>For the&s;e Rea&s;ons, I hope it will not &s;eem ei|ther <HI>un&s;ea&s;onable;</HI> or <HI>unnece&s;&s;ary,</HI> if to an&s;wer
<PB N="6" REF="5"> tho&s;e Obligations, which Religion and Allegi|ance both have laid upon me, I di&s;cour&s;e at this time touching the Chief Magi&s;trates Authority; and for my Subject, I have made choice of the&s;e words of Wi&s;dom, that is, the Son of God, the Wi&s;dom of the Father; <HI>By him Kings Reign;</HI> by his Power and Authority; though they are appointed for the Peoples good, yet are they not the Peoples Creatures; they receive not their Commi&s;&s;ion from any thing under Heaven; nor is their Power a <HI>Derivative,</HI> from any <HI>Con&s;ent, or Suffrage of men,</HI> or <HI>Humane Law;</HI> but from his Appointment who is the Original of all Pow|er, and who&s;e Tru&s;tees, and Repre&s;entatives, and immediate Deputies they are. <HI>By me Kings Reign.</HI></P>
<P>I know &s;ome have look'd upon this Po&s;ition, as &s;omewhat too much and too lofty to be grant|ed, and would fain have it pa&s;s as a piece of Court&s;hip and Flattery brought into Reque&s;t of late by &s;ome Prelates of this Church, by one e|&s;pecially, who&s;e Head was more worth than the Noble&s;t <HI>Dathan</HI>'s that ever followed <HI>Corah</HI> in his Con&s;piracy. And therefore for the clearing of this matter, I &s;hall endeavour to make it good by Scripture, and Rea&s;on, and the Te&s;timonies of the Ancients; which I hope will be enough to &s;atisfie any man but an <HI>Athei&s;t,</HI> but an Unrea|&s;onable <HI>Machiavillian,</HI> but Haughty and In&s;o|lent Innovators, <HI>who are given to Changes, and fear neither God nor the King:</HI> as our <HI>Solomon</HI> in|timates, <HI>Prov.</HI> 24. 21.</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="7" REF="5"> 1. For Scripture. I would fain know what Article of <HI>Faith</HI> is more plainly, and more ex|pre&s;ly a&s;&s;erted in the word of God, than this <HI>thing.</HI> Con&s;ult the place in <HI>Rom.</HI> 13. 1, 2. <HI>Let every Soul be &s;ubject to the higher Powers, for there is no Power but of God, the Powers that be, are ordained of God: who&s;oever therefore re&s;i&s;teth the Power, re&s;i&s;teth the Ordinance of God.</HI> And at the Fourth <HI>ver.</HI> the Apo&s;tle tells us, twice in a Breath, that <HI>the Mgi&s;trate is the Mini&s;ter of God.</HI> Where he confuteth two very gro&s;s mi&s;takes, the one on the Chri&s;tians part, the other on the Heathens. There were &s;ome lately con|verted from Judai&s;m to Chri&s;tianity, who did greatly que&s;tion whether the <HI>Roman</HI> Go|vernment they lived under then was from God, as that was under the Kings of <HI>I&s;rael.</HI> The Phari&s;ees once put the Ca&s;e to our Savi|our, <HI>Whether it were lawful to give Tribute un|to</HI> Cae&s;ar <HI>or not, Mat.</HI> 22. 17. Though they were <HI>forced of Nece&s;&s;ity</HI> to &s;ubmit to the <HI>Ro|man</HI> Yoke, yet they did not think that it was laid upon their necks <HI>by the hand of God.</HI> And therefore that Speech of theirs, <HI>We have no King but</HI> Cae&s;ar, <HI>Joh.</HI> 19. was &s;poken only to curry-favour with Pilate. For their frequent Rebellions, and endeavours to &s;et them&s;elves free from the Heathen's power, were a plain Argument of their per&s;wa&s;ion, that their Ju|ri&s;diction over them was an Illegal U&s;urpation; and <HI>Grotius</HI> fetcheth it out of the <HI>Talmud,</HI> that they were wont to &s;ay, <HI>We have no King but</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="6"> <HI>God.</HI> Now this opinion, <HI>that the</HI> Romans <HI>were not their Lawful Governours,</HI> continued &s;till in the brea&s;ts of &s;ome Converts: and for the correcting thereof, St. <HI>Paul</HI> lays down that plain Propo&s;ition, <HI>There is no Power but of God.</HI> Again, there was another mi&s;take on the Heathen's part, who, among other Calumnies, did ca&s;t this Reproach upon the Chri&s;tians, that they were di&s;loyal, and &s;editious; and the pretence for their malicious Accu&s;ation was this, be|cau&s;e they cryed up their Liberty, and refu|&s;ed to Sacrifice to Pagan Deities, and would not &s;wear by the Emperour's Genius, and the like. Therefore, to &s;top the mouth of Slan|der, and to tye up the hands of Di&s;obedience, the Apo&s;tle lays down this &s;hort Propo&s;ition, as an undoubted Maxime of Chri&s;tianity, that <HI>the Powers that be are Ordained of God;</HI> and when St. <HI>Paul</HI> wrote this, the Power was in the hands of <HI>Nero,</HI> who was as great a Mon|&s;ter as ever the World bred, excepting <HI>Crom|well.</HI> Add to this, that of <HI>Daniel, Ble&s;&s;ed be the name of God for ever and ever, for Wi&s;|dom and Might are his; and He changeth the times and &s;ea&s;ons, He removeth Kings, and &s;etteth up Kings, Dan.</HI> 2. 20. That of the P&s;almi&s;t, <HI>I have &s;aid, ye are Gods,</HI> that is, in His place, and his Delegates, <HI>P&s;.</HI> 82. 7. That of our Saviour to <HI>Pilate, Thou could&s;t have no power, unle&s;s it were given thee from Above, Joh.</HI> 19. 11. That, Subjection is required of us <HI>not only for wrath, but al&s;o for Con&s;cience &s;ake,</HI>
<PB N="9" REF="6"> over <HI>which</HI> none but <HI>God alone</HI> hath an <HI>immedi|ate power;</HI> that, he who Rebelleth is not only a Traytor again&s;t the <HI>Laws of men,</HI> but a Sinner in grain <HI>again&s;t the Laws of God;</HI> and that, as the Wages of &s;in <HI>in general</HI> is Death, &s;o the reward of <HI>this &s;in in particular</HI> is Dam|nation; Nothing can add light to the&s;e words, that are as clear, and bright as the Sun: and the Re&s;ult of them plainly is this, That <HI>the Supreme Power is of Divine Right,</HI> becau&s;e it is &s;et up, not only <HI>by Gods Permi&s;&s;ion,</HI> but by his <HI>In&s;titution</HI> and <HI>Appointment;</HI> by his <HI>Warrant</HI> and <HI>Ordinance Imperial</HI> do Kings reign: &s;o that he that lifteth up his hand again&s;t the <HI>Lords Anointed,</HI> &s;triketh at the Face <HI>of God him&s;elf;</HI> as he told <HI>Samuel,</HI> that the <HI>Jews</HI> had rejected Him, (the Lord of Life him&s;elf) that He &s;hould not Reign over them, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 8. 7.</P>
<P N="2">2. If now in the &s;econd place we argue from Rea&s;on: It is impo&s;&s;ible to &s;hew by the &s;trength of any Philo&s;ophy, that Government can be derived but from God alone. For que|&s;tionle&s;s, the World was not created to be no|thing el&s;e but a huge Wilderne&s;s; neither were men &s;ent into it only to beat and devour one another like &s;alvage Bea&s;ts. God did ever de|&s;ign, that we &s;hould live <HI>godly, righteous, and &s;ober Lives;</HI> and our <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions</HI> being &s;o <HI>various</HI> and <HI>turbulent,</HI> and our <HI>Wills</HI> being &s;o <HI>perver&s;e,</HI> we cannot imagine how there &s;hould be among us any <HI>Order</HI> without <HI>Rule;</HI> nor any <HI>Rule</HI> with|out
<PB N="10" REF="7"> <HI>Law-Makers;</HI> and therefore a Governour is of <HI>God's Appointment,</HI> who never decreeth the <HI>End,</HI> without decreeing the <HI>Means fir&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>I know what can be &s;aid as to this; <HI>viz.</HI> That every man is born a Free-man by the Charter of Nature; that he comes into the world in|ve&s;ted naturally with a Title <HI>to it,</HI> and with Liberty <HI>in it,</HI> and &s;o no Man can take <HI>his Inhe|ritance</HI> from him, without his own &s;uffrage and con&s;ent. Let this be believed, that every one hath power over <HI>his Goods,</HI> whether to keep or alienate them: that he has a power over <HI>his Liberty,</HI> to dive&s;t him&s;elf of it or no. 'Tis granted, that in <HI>Elective States</HI> men do <HI>volun|tarily put</HI> their power into the hands of the Chief Magi&s;trate; and 'tis rea&s;onable they &s;hould do &s;o, that by the&s;e Advantages he may be enabled the better to <HI>protect them.</HI> But when this is done, all is done that is in the power <HI>of Man</HI> to do. There is &s;omething el&s;e which is the <HI>riche&s;t Jewel</HI> in the Governour's Crown, namely <HI>a Power of Life and Death;</HI> he mu&s;t bear a <HI>Sword</HI> in his hand to execute <HI>Ca|pital</HI> Puni&s;hment upon Malefactors in Ca&s;es <HI>Cri|minal;</HI> or el&s;e it cannot be that a Kingdom &s;hould <HI>&s;tand.</HI> Now, this Power can be given him by <HI>none</HI> but <HI>God him&s;elf,</HI> who&s;e Vicegerent and Repre&s;entative he is. For none hath an <HI>Origi|nal Right</HI> to our Lives but <HI>He</HI> that <HI>formed us.</HI> Whatever &s;ome <HI>Heathens</HI> have thought, yet it
<PB N="11" REF="7"> was never granted by any <HI>Chri&s;tian,</HI> that a man hath any power to <HI>kill him&s;elf.</HI> He may &s;ell his <HI>E&s;tate;</HI> he may give away his <HI>Liberty,</HI> chain him&s;elf to an Oar as a Galley-Slave, as a Jew had liberty <HI>by the boring of his Ear through, to become a Servant all his days.</HI> He may open a <HI>Vein,</HI> or amputate a <HI>Member</HI> for the pre&s;erva|tion of the <HI>re&s;t;</HI> but <HI>kill him&s;elf</HI> he <HI>cannot,</HI> without being <HI>felo de &s;e,</HI> guilty of his own blood: Now, what he is not able to do <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> how can he impower <HI>another</HI> to do it for him? How can I <HI>communicate</HI> that to him which I have no <HI>Right to my &s;elf?</HI> Since no man is Lord of his <HI>own</HI> life, no man hath liberty to <HI>rob him|&s;elf</HI> of it, nor power to warrant a <HI>&s;econd Per|&s;on</HI> to do it. <HI>Vengeance is mine, I will repay, &s;aith the Lord:</HI> It is <HI>Gods</HI> Sword wherewith the Magi&s;trate &s;trikes; and by Him he is <HI>Ordained</HI> to be an Avenger: By <HI>whom&s;oever</HI> he is <HI>Cho&s;en,</HI> by <HI>God alone</HI> he <HI>Reigneth;</HI> his Crown and Scep|ter, his Prerogatives and Royalties he holdeth of <HI>Him,</HI> and of <HI>none be&s;ides.</HI> Take the World <HI>di&s;tributively</HI> or <HI>collectively,</HI> either Man by Man, or by whole Communities, the King owns <HI>no Superiour</HI> or <HI>Enfranchi&s;er</HI> (much le&s;s may he be <HI>invaded</HI> by an <HI>&V;&s;urper)</HI> here below.</P>
<P>All the fear is, that by <HI>this grant</HI> a Monarch's Power will be unlimited: An idle Dream, which &s;ome <HI>Demagogues</HI> have held out as a <HI>Flambeau,</HI> to &s;et the World on Fire: For though
<PB N="12" REF="8"> he be not under the <HI>fear</HI> of Law, being exempt from all manner of <HI>Penalty,</HI> yet it is confe&s;&s;ed by all Divines and Lawyers, that the <HI>directive power of</HI> Laws doth oblige him. Who knoweth not, that <HI>God</HI> hath <HI>bound</HI> him to the re&s;pects of <HI>publick Hone&s;ty,</HI> though he hath not made him liable to a <HI>publick Rod?</HI> Who knoweth not, that the Laws of <HI>Nature and Religion</HI> do oblige him as he is a Man, and much more as he is Prince? Who knows not, that he is under the <HI>Munici|pal Laws</HI> of his Kingdom, &s;uch as is the <HI>Petition of Right</HI> here with us? To the&s;e he hath <HI>bound him&s;elf</HI> by his <HI>Own Con&s;ent:</HI> And who knows not, that a <HI>Promi&s;e</HI> or an <HI>Oath</HI> obligeth him too? and that &s;ometimes he is <HI>more careful</HI> to keep it than his <HI>very Subjects</HI> are? But yet, if a Prince <HI>will abu&s;e</HI> his Power, and the Law too, he is not &s;ubject to any manner of <HI>Compul&s;ion,</HI> being ac|countable <HI>only</HI> unto God, who <HI>alone</HI> hath Seal'd his <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion.</HI> It is a violation of the Laws of God and Nature both, to drag a Supreme Ma|gi&s;trate into a <HI>Court of Judicature;</HI> and I never read but of <HI>two</HI> that were ever <HI>haled</HI> &s;o &s;ince the World &s;tood, <HI>the King of</HI> I&s;rael before <HI>Pilate,</HI> and <HI>the King of</HI> England before <HI>Brad&s;haw,</HI> who was by far the greater Knave of the two, becau&s;e of his <HI>Malicious</HI> and <HI>Bloody Intention.</HI> For, <HI>Pilate moved</HI> on our Saviours behalf, and <HI>&s;ought</HI> to deliver him; but <HI>This Son of</HI> Belial <HI>contrived</HI> and <HI>intended</HI> our Soveraign's de&s;truction, and <HI>thir&s;ted</HI> for his Blood, and therefore <HI>his</HI> was the <HI>greater Sin.</HI></P>
<P N="3"><PB N="13" REF="8"> 3. But the time &s;pends, and therefore I mu&s;t touch a little upon the next Argument, con|cerning the &s;en&s;e of the Ancients about the Di|vine Authority of the Supreme Magi&s;trate. And here I might fill a whole Volume with a Cloud of Witne&s;&s;es; I, out of the <HI>Heathens</HI> them&s;elves, who had no Candle to guide them but the light of <HI>Nature;</HI> and yet <GAP DESC="foreign">, Sayeth <HI>Homer, Kings are from God. We look &s;o upon our Go|vernours</HI> (&s;aith <HI>Seneca) as if we &s;aw the immortal Gods them&s;elves;</HI> and divers more have &s;aid, that Kings are God's Repre&s;entatives, <HI>&amp; &agrave; Deo &s;ecundi,</HI> next of all unto him. 2. Out of the Book of Wi&s;dome, which though it be Apocry|phal, yet is very Ancient, <HI>Power is given you from the Lord, and Sovereignty from the Highe&s;t,</HI> Chap. 6. 3. 3. And if you enquire of the <HI>Pri|mitive Chri&s;tians; Clement</HI> in his Con&s;titutions will tell you? That the King is, <GAP DESC="foreign">. <HI>The Ordinance of God. Irenaeus</HI> will tell you, that <HI>by who&s;e Command men are born, by his Command Kings are appointed. Tertullian</HI> will a&s;&s;ure you, that the <HI>Emperour is from him, from whom the Man was before he was Emperour.</HI> That he hath received his <HI>Power</HI> from his hand, of whom he received his <HI>Soul. Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> will in|form you, that <HI>'tis the work of Divine Wi&s;dome, that &s;ome Rule, and others are in &s;ubjection.</HI> And <HI>Epiphanius,</HI> that <HI>the Civil Power is Ordained of God, who alone hath put the Sword of Vengeance into his hand.</HI> And <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> is po&s;itive, <HI>that he who enthron'd</HI> Augu&s;tus, <HI>enthroned</HI> Nero <HI>too; that he who made</HI> Ve&s;patian <HI>made al&s;o</HI> Domitian <HI>an</HI>
<PB N="14" REF="9"> <HI>Emperour; and that he, who &s;et up</HI> Con&s;tantine <HI>the Chri&s;tian, did &s;et up al&s;o</HI> Julian <HI>the Apo&s;tate.</HI> What &s;hall I &s;peak of after Ages, which have all along &s;poken to the &s;ame effect? And what hath been &s;aid to this purpo&s;e, mu&s;t be under&s;tood with relation to <HI>Lawful</HI> Magi&s;trates only.</P>
<P>It &s;ufficeth for the clo&s;e of this matter, that <HI>it is, and ever hath been,</HI> the <HI>plain</HI> and <HI>hone&s;t</HI> Do|ctrine <HI>of the Church of England,</HI> and I &s;hould have wonder'd, how <HI>any Wi&s;e man</HI> &s;hould not &s;ee it in <HI>the Homily again&s;t Rebellion,</HI> but that I do con&s;ider, that that <HI>Homily</HI> is a <HI>Looking-gla&s;s;</HI> wherein <HI>tho&s;e,</HI> who have been <HI>Traytors,</HI> cannot but <HI>&s;ee</HI> their <HI>own guilt</HI> and <HI>deformity,</HI> and there|fore do not care to look at all into it.</P>
<P>You &s;ee by this time <HI>that the King is not by the laws of men,</HI> but <HI>by the Power and Appoint|ment of God. By him Kings reign.</HI> The infe|rences now from this are very obvious.</P>
<P N="1">1. If by <HI>Him Kings reign,</HI> then for <HI>his &s;ake</HI> we are bound to <HI>Obey</HI> them. It is St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Conclu&s;ion. <HI>Let every Soul be &s;ubject to the higher Powers,</HI> for this Rea&s;on, <HI>becau&s;e there is no Power but of God.</HI> It is an Act of <HI>common Ju|&s;tice</HI> to be &s;ubject to him under who&s;e <HI>Govern|ment and Protection we live:</HI> For why &s;hould that man have <HI>any benefit</HI> from <HI>that Ordinance,</HI> which he <HI>will not &s;ubmit to?</HI> Nay it is a <HI>Prime Act of Religion too</HI> to be obedient to the Ma|gi&s;trate, who beareth the &s;tamp and image of <HI>God;</HI> and that, not only <HI>as he is a man,</HI> but chiefly <HI>as he is a Magi&s;trate.</HI></P>
<P>I know there are &s;ome who <HI>make nothing</HI> of
<PB N="15" REF="9"> this Command, though the breach of it be attend|ed with no le&s;s then <HI>Damnation;</HI> they can <HI>de&s;pi&s;e Government, and &s;peak evil of Dignities,</HI> and pull them down from <HI>their Thrones,</HI> and take their <HI>Crowns</HI> from their <HI>Heads,</HI> and their <HI>Heads</HI> from their <HI>Shoulders,</HI> and yet think they are very <HI>Godly</HI> men too, and <HI>perhaps the more Godly</HI> for that. But whatever men may pretend, <HI>Godline&s;s</HI> cannot be without <HI>Obedience;</HI> the <HI>fearing of God,</HI> and the <HI>honouring of the King</HI> mu&s;t go together, be|cau&s;e the King hath <HI>no le&s;s</HI> than <HI>God's Authori|ty,</HI> and &s;uch <HI>Religion</HI> as is not cloathed with <HI>Subjection</HI> is plainly nothing el&s;e, but the cloak of an <HI>Hypocrite.</HI> According to this <HI>Rule</HI> the be&s;t Chri&s;tians have carried them&s;elves before Re|ligion came to be <HI>Sophi&s;ticated.</HI> Witne&s;s the whole Company of the old Apologi&s;ts; <HI>Tertul|lian</HI> in particular, who boa&s;ted with great con|fidence, that <HI>Nunquam nec Albiniani, nec Nigriani, nec Ca&s;&s;iani inveniri potuerunt Chri&s;tiani;</HI> that is, <HI>never was a true Chri&s;tian found to be a Traitor to his Prince</HI> (though &s;ome in the&s;e <HI>latter</HI> dayes could have wi&s;h'd that <HI>that pa&s;&s;age</HI> could have never been found in the Writings of <HI>Tertulli|an.)</HI> I cannot but take notice here of an <HI>un|godly</HI> and <HI>&s;candalous Eva&s;ion,</HI> which has been u|&s;ed by &s;ome who have come among us, part|ly from <HI>Tyber,</HI> and partly from the <HI>Lemain Lake;</HI> and like <HI>Herod</HI> and <HI>Pilate</HI> have con&s;ent|ed together to do mi&s;chief. <HI>Bellarmine</HI> and <HI>Par&s;ons,</HI> and other <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> have given <HI>this Rea|&s;on,</HI> why the <HI>Primitive Chri&s;tians</HI> rebell'd not, <HI>Quia deerant vires,</HI> Becau&s;e they wanted &s;trength
<PB N="16" REF="10"> And we cannot but lament when we con&s;ider that <HI>they,</HI> who have &s;o <HI>bitterly</HI> declaimed again&s;t the Papi&s;t's, have yet lick'd up <HI>their principles,</HI> and pro&s;ecuted <HI>their de&s;ign.</HI> But 'tis well known that <HI>Buchanan</HI> and <HI>Knox long ago,</HI> and <HI>Goodwin</HI> and his fry <HI>&s;ince;</HI> and (within the&s;e eight years) the <HI>Author</HI> of that <HI>Expedient,</HI> which was the fore-runner of the <HI>General Indulgence,</HI> have &s;aid the very <HI>&s;ame thing.</HI> But, not to &s;peak of the <HI>quite contrary</HI> Te&s;timonies of <HI>Cyprian;</HI> nor of the <HI>Thebanlegion,</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of above 6000. in the Reign of <HI>Diocle&s;ian,</HI> who &s;uffer'd them|&s;elves to be cut in pieces rather than they would rebel; <HI>Tertullian</HI> him&s;elf &s;aid, that they <HI>wanted not forces</HI> to revenge them&s;elves, <HI>&s;eeing all places were fill'd with great numbers of Chri&s;tians; Cities and I&s;lands, Towns and Ca&s;tles, nay the very Senate, Court and Camp &s;warming with men of the Chri&s;tian Profe&s;&s;ion;</HI> and 'tis well known that <HI>Ju|lian</HI> the Apo&s;tate's Army con&s;i&s;ted of <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> for the mo&s;t part, who though they had the Sword in their <HI>hands,</HI> yet could not lift them up, but in <HI>Prayer to God,</HI> that he would divert the Emperour's mo&s;t <HI>wicked</HI> de&s;igns. Religion is &s;o far from <HI>di&s;turbing</HI> the publick peace, that it &s;ettles the King's Throne upon the <HI>&s;ure&s;t</HI> Ba&s;is: And as <HI>Guiccardine</HI> tells us how it pa&s;s'd for a Proverb, that <HI>Proprium e&s;t Eccle&s;iae Romanae odi&s;&s;e Cae&s;ares,</HI> it is Natural to the <HI>Church of Rome</HI> to <HI>hate</HI> Princes: So the World can bear witne&s;s of the Sons of <HI>this Church,</HI> that they did ever <HI>love</HI> and <HI>honour,</HI> and dutifully <HI>obey</HI> them; and an ingenious and good man, who hath of late
<PB N="17" REF="10"> excellently written upon our <HI>Liturgy,</HI> ob&s;erves, that whereas we pray in <HI>our Letany,</HI> that God would <HI>deliver us from all Sedition, privy Con&s;pi|racy, and Rebellion,</HI> nothing to <HI>that purpo&s;e</HI> can be found in <HI>any</HI> of the <HI>Roman</HI> Mi&s;&s;als: It is a Glory belonging to <HI>this Church,</HI> that as all her <HI>doctrines</HI> are <HI>pure,</HI> &s;o all her <HI>practices,</HI> and <HI>prayers</HI> are <HI>loyal.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>If by him Kings reign:</HI> Then beware we of tho&s;e <HI>deceitful workers,</HI> who, like Rats that gnaw in the dark, do <HI>privily</HI> go about to <HI>un|dermine</HI> Government, by &s;uch poi&s;onous Do|ctrines as the&s;e, <HI>that Kings may be depo&s;ed.</HI> For if <HI>all</HI> the powers on the <HI>Earth</HI> cannot <HI>give</HI> a King his Authority and Prerogative, neither can <HI>all</HI> the powers on the <HI>Earth</HI> take them <HI>away.</HI> We know <HI>who&s;e</HI> Creed it is, that the <HI>Pope</HI> is Head of the Church; that Princes hold their Crownes of <HI>him;</HI> that by <HI>his</HI> command their Kingdomes may be taken from them; that a di&s;pen&s;ation ab&s;olveth men from all manner of <HI>Oaths,</HI> and an Excommunication doth di&s;charge them from their <HI>Allegiance;</HI> that, if Subjects <HI>cannot</HI> depo&s;e their King but by <HI>War,</HI> then they may rai&s;e an <HI>Army,</HI> and proclaim him a <HI>common E|nemy,</HI> and at la&s;t take away his <HI>life:</HI> nay, that though &s;entence be not <HI>formally pronounced</HI> again&s;t him <HI>Ex Cathedr&acirc;,</HI> yet a Prince his be|ing <HI>guilty</HI> of Here&s;ie doth <HI>ip&s;o facto</HI> deprive him of all his Royalties, and <HI>any private per&s;on</HI> what&s;oever may lawfuly kill him. Hence it was that <HI>Chilperick</HI> of <HI>France</HI> was dethron'd; that <HI>Francis Dandalus</HI> of <HI>Venice</HI> was bound
<PB N="18" REF="11"> with chains, and fed like a dog with &s;craps and bones; that <HI>Henry</HI> the third was murder'd by <HI>Clement,</HI> and <HI>Henry</HI> the fourth by <HI>Ravaillac.</HI> The&s;e are &s;uch deep &s;taines in his <HI>Holine&s;s</HI>'s <HI>Sleeve,</HI> that all the waters of <HI>Tiber</HI> will not wa&s;h them out. Indeed &s;ome of his flatterers have u&s;ed <HI>this devi&s;e</HI> as <HI>Fullers-&s;oap</HI> to take it off, if po&s;&s;ible; that the&s;e were only the Do|ctrines of the <HI>Canoni&s;ts,</HI> and a <HI>few more;</HI> and the practices of &s;ome <HI>private men;</HI> and there|fore they take it ill that they &s;hould charge it upon their <HI>whole Church:</HI> But 'tis ob&s;ervable what we find in the <HI>Controver&s;ial Letters,</HI> that when <HI>Blackwell,</HI> the Arch-Prie&s;t, advis'd the <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> Recu&s;ants to take the Oath of Allegiance, the <HI>Pope</HI> &s;ent over a Breve, and forbad the Oath: and <HI>Bellarmine</HI> reprehended <HI>Blackwell</HI> for an Apo&s;tate from the <HI>Catholick Faith.</HI> And in the dayes of King <HI>Charles,</HI> our ble&s;&s;ed Mar|tyr, <HI>Anno</HI> 47. when there were hopes that <HI>all</HI> parties would <HI>agree,</HI> the Papi&s;ts &s;ub&s;cribing to &s;ome Articles which tended to the confir|mation of our Government, the Old man at <HI>Rome check't</HI> them, and made &s;ome <HI>do pennance</HI> for it. And &s;ince <HI>this Kings</HI> happy Re&s;taur|ation, when the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Remon&s;trance came out with hopes of gaining a Toleration, by the renouncing of &s;ome <HI>pe&s;tilent Doctrines, Peter Wal&s;h</HI> the Contriver of it was <HI>Cen&s;ur'd</HI> for his <HI>di&s;obedience</HI> to the infallible Sea. To the&s;e I &s;hall add but one ob&s;ervation more, that when <HI>Henry</HI> the third of <HI>France</HI> was murder'd, the <HI>Je&s;uites</HI> wrote a Book <HI>de ju&s;t&acirc; abdicatione</HI>
<PB N="19" REF="11"> <HI>Henrici tertii,</HI> wherein they affirm that <HI>it is lawful for any man to kill a Tyrant;</HI> and <HI>that Book</HI> was <HI>allowed</HI> at <HI>Rome;</HI> my witne&s;s for this is Father <HI>Wat&s;on</HI> the Seminary Prie&s;t (in his Quodlibets;) and yet that very man, who accu&s;ed the <HI>Je&s;uites,</HI> was afterwards <HI>ex|ecuted</HI> for Trea&s;on <HI>him&s;elf.</HI> And now let the <HI>impartial</HI> world judge how it concerneth <HI>all States</HI> to &s;pew tho&s;e villains out of their land, who do not only like the Egyptian Frogs <HI>croak</HI> in Kings Chambers, but like &s;o many <HI>Leviathan's</HI> are ready to <HI>devour</HI> them.</P>
<P>But we mu&s;t not think, that di&s;loyalty and trea&s;on do lurk onely under a <HI>Friers Cool:</HI> it had been well for us, if it had not found &s;helter under the Schi&s;maticks <HI>Cloak.</HI> We look upon the <HI>Je&s;uites</HI> as the <HI>very wor&s;t</HI> of Papi&s;ts; becau&s;e no other Sect is &s;uch an enemy to <HI>civil Govern|ment,</HI> as they. And what a &s;ad con&s;ideration is it, that they, who have called them&s;elves the <HI>pure&s;t Prote&s;tants,</HI> &s;hould choo&s;e <HI>no</HI> principles to e&s;pou&s;e and pur&s;ue, <HI>but</HI> the <HI>Je&s;uites?</HI> Let im|partial men con&s;ider what &s;editious practices King <HI>James</HI> charged &s;ome Reformers with in the conference at <HI>Hampton</HI> Court; that, in the <HI>Geneva</HI> Tran&s;lation of the Bible, the Mar|ginal Note upon the 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 15. 16. taxeth <HI>A&s;a</HI> for depo&s;ing his Mother only, and not killing her: that <HI>Salma&s;ius</HI> hath marked a &s;ort of men in <HI>England</HI> with as black a coal as ever the Art of man could find; that the two great Apo&s;tles of the North did teach, that if Princes were Tyrants, their Subjects were free from all
<PB N="20" REF="12"> bonds of Allegiance, that it was as lawful to kill them as Wolves and Bears, and that it is <HI>Bla&s;phemy</HI> to &s;ay, (though <HI>Paul</HI> and the old Fa|thers &s;aid) that we mu&s;t obey Kings, be they good or bad. Let us con&s;ider that a Book for|merly written again&s;t the Supreme Civil Ma|gi&s;trate (whereof <HI>Ficlerus</HI> a Papi&s;t was thought to be the Author) was proved to have been written by a Di&s;&s;enter; and that, in the very year when King <HI>Charls</HI> was beheaded, a|nother book was Printed (and as &s;ome &s;ay, licen&s;ed by the Fag-end of the hou&s;e of Com|mons) bearing this Title, <HI>Several Speeches deli|ver'd at a Conference concerning the power of Par|liament to proceed again&s;t their King,</HI> which was found to have been the &s;ame with the &s;editi|ous Pamphlet of <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> the Je&s;uit, of <HI>Succe&s;&s;ion to the Crown.</HI> I &s;ay, who&s;o &s;hall con&s;ider the&s;e things rightly (that I may not mention any new in&s;tances, &s;ince the di&s;covery of the late devilli&s;h Plot) mu&s;t needs &s;ee, that many great Pretenders among us have been plain Je&s;uites, and we may &s;ay of them, as was once &s;aid of one of their Fraternity, that they preached &s;uch a Go&s;pel as was <HI>clad in Armour.</HI> From &s;uch Preachers as the&s;e, <HI>Good Lord deliver us.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. If it be <HI>by God that Kings reign,</HI> then we may well a&s;k the Que&s;tion, by whom it is that Kings are murder'd? By God's <HI>permi&s;&s;ion,</HI> no doubt. He may hold his hand, and not interpo&s;e his Omnipotence, to re&s;cue an innocent man from violence, but let things go on in vengeance for a peoples &s;ins: So he &s;uffer'd <HI>Abel</HI> to be mur|der'd,
<PB N="21" REF="12"> and his own Son to be murder'd; and 'tis no wonder that in wrath <HI>to this Nation</HI> he &s;uffer'd our Good King to be murder'd. But all this will not excu&s;e either <HI>Cain,</HI> or the <HI>Jews,</HI> or the <HI>high Court of Inju&s;tice,</HI> which outvyed <HI>Both</HI> in their boldne&s;s and wickedne&s;s. 'Twas by God's permi&s;&s;ion that all this was done, but yet by the Contrivance and In&s;tigation of him, who worketh in the children of di&s;obe|dience. <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 2. 2. Before <HI>Judas</HI> betrayed <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> the Text &s;aith Emphatically, that <HI>the Devil enter'd into him.</HI> Had not the <HI>Devil</HI> been in him, he could not have betrayed his Ma&s;ter: But con&s;idering all the circum&s;tances of that horrible Act committed at this time, it was &s;o diabolical, &s;o tran&s;cendently and eminently Diabolical, that the Divel never &s;hewed him&s;elf to be an Ab&s;olute Prince and Ruler until now. Shall I crucifie <HI>your King?</HI> &s;ayes <HI>Pilate.</HI> The Heathen could not but &s;peak it with <HI>indignation and horrour.</HI> What? <HI>Cru|cifie your King?</HI> 'Tis &s;uch a <HI>Ba&s;e</HI> as well as <HI>Bar|barous</HI> Act, as every one, who as but the face of a <HI>man,</HI> though he be never &s;o great a <HI>Villain</HI> cannot, methinks, but blu&s;h at the very <HI>thoughts</HI> of it. The <HI>Jews</HI> were an inhumane, and blood|thir&s;ty people; <HI>They killed the Prophets,</HI> and <HI>&s;toned them which were &s;ent unto them,</HI> and yet when <HI>Pilate</HI> put it to the Vote, whether he &s;hould <HI>crucifie their King,</HI> they &s;eem'd to de|te&s;t and abhor it; they &s;aid we have <HI>no King but Cae&s;ar;</HI> intimating, that had they been &s;atis|fied that Je&s;us was their King, they would
<PB N="22" REF="13"> not by any means have his blood &s;hed, or &s;o much as lift up a finger again&s;t him. To con|firm this, our Saviour him&s;elf upon the Cro&s;s pleaded their Ignorance. <HI>Father forgive them for they know not what they do.</HI> It was <HI>ignorantia Facti,</HI> ignorance of the fact, not of the Law. They knew, by the Laws of God and nature, they ought not to murder any, much le&s;s <HI>their King;</HI> but they were not convinced that that man was <HI>He.</HI> But tho&s;e &s;ordid and degene|rous Traitors, who executed their Malice upon <HI>this holy Martyr,</HI> they <HI>knew</HI> him to be their King, they <HI>confe&s;s't</HI> he was &s;o at his tryal. They had <HI>Sworn Allegiance</HI> to him, nay they &s;wore it in a <HI>Solemn Covenant of their own,</HI> in which little was good or <HI>tolerable</HI> but that <HI>very clau&s;e;</HI> and to let the world &s;ee how little they regard|ed, either <HI>Humanity</HI> or <HI>Religion, Promi&s;es</HI> or <HI>Oaths;</HI> to convince us that they feared neither <HI>Man,</HI> nor <HI>God,</HI> nor the <HI>Divel</HI> him&s;elf, they <HI>kept</HI> that Covenant where they &s;hould have <HI>broken it,</HI> and <HI>for&s;wore</HI> it where they &s;hould have kept it.</P>
<P>I cannot but <HI>wonder</HI> at the <HI>mon&s;trous</HI> Hypo|cri&s;ie of tho&s;e Times, when the <HI>Glory of God</HI> was &s;et in the Fronti&s;piece of every di&s;mal Tra|gedy. I have read of <HI>Pompey</HI> the Great, that he erected a Theatre for Digladiators to fence and kill one another in, and, as if intended to &s;an|ctifie his horrible De&s;ign, he built a <HI>Temple</HI> over it, and dedicated it to <HI>Venus:</HI> &s;o did the&s;e cur&s;ed Mi&s;creants (who&s;e <HI>Religion</HI> was of the &s;ame &s;ize with their <HI>Loyalty)</HI> act all along under the <HI>Vi|zour</HI> of <HI>Religion</HI> (Their Father <HI>Lucifer is often</HI>
<PB N="23" REF="13"> <HI>transform'd into an Angel of light)</HI> they <HI>perjur'd</HI> them&s;elves <HI>in the name of the Lord,</HI> enter'd into <HI>a wicked</HI> League <HI>in the name of the Lord;</HI> Levyed and carried on a <HI>Rebellion in the name of the Lord;</HI> proclaimed a <HI>Fa&s;t</HI> before the Execution day, (as <HI>Jezebel</HI> did when &s;he &s;aught <HI>Naboth's</HI> bloud,) <HI>in the name of the Lord; in the name of the Lord</HI> they cut off the head of <HI>his Vice-gerent;</HI> and did &s;uch wonderful works, as the Sun never &s;aw before, &s;ince 'twas created. Religion, that tyeth the hearts of men in a bond of love; Re|ligion, which is a Pre&s;ervative of Government and obedience; Religion, which a&s;&s;igneth an <HI>appartment in hell</HI> to every <HI>Rebel,</HI> and, I believe, the <HI>lowe&s;t Dungeon</HI> in hell to every <HI>Regicide;</HI> that, it &s;eems, did bring the <HI>good King</HI> to the block, which &s;hould have <HI>upheld</HI> him in his throne. Is this the <HI>Glorious King</HI> they <HI>promi&s;ed</HI> to make us? Is this the <HI>Holy Reformation</HI> which they <HI>cryed</HI> up to the skies? <HI>Holy</HI> did I &s;ay? This <HI>One act</HI> will make the memory of it <HI>odious,</HI> and <HI>de|te&s;table</HI> to all eternity; however &s;ome make a &s;hift to <HI>wipe their mouths</HI> at la&s;t, with the Whore in the Proverbs, as if they had done <HI>no wickedne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;hall the Bloud of <HI>Charles</HI> the fir&s;t be for|gotten Thus? However it was &s;pilt upon the Earth, yet the cry of it is gone up to Heaven, and hath returned upon our Heads, in <HI>Plagues</HI> and <HI>Wars,</HI> and <HI>many di&s;mal Fires</HI> by Sea and Land: and if we repent not of it &s;eriou&s;ly and heartily, it is to be feared that God will enter into Judgement <HI>further</HI> with us yet. The guilt
<PB N="24" REF="14"> of that Innocent and Sacred Bloud, is not &s;o <HI>ea&s;ily</HI> wa&s;hed off, as an <HI>Act of Indemnity</HI> is made.</P>
<P>Well, it is time to Conclude. Tho&s;e black and gloomy days are gone, and God grant we may never &s;ee them more. What I have &s;aid, was not intended to ea&s;e me of my Cho|ler, or to provoke mens Pa&s;&s;ions (unle&s;s it be that of &s;orrow) or onely to rip open an Old Ulcer to <HI>enrage</HI> the Patient: But to lay before you the <HI>Grand Impiety</HI> of the Fact, which indeed this Solemnity doth re|quire of us in &s;ome mea&s;ure, that out of a deep Sen&s;e of this Nations guilt, we may be &s;tirred up (All of us) to be Humbled <HI>True|ly</HI> and <HI>Sincerely</HI> for &s;o foul a Crime, and from the bottome of the mo&s;t penitent hearts to beg of God, not to lay <HI>this Sin,</HI> this <HI>grievous</HI> and <HI>horrid</HI> Sin, to our charge. And in this Duty there are two &s;orts Concerned.</P>
<P N="1">1. Tho&s;e <HI>old,</HI> and <HI>Grey-headed</HI> Rebels, who did either <HI>a&s;&s;i&s;t,</HI> or <HI>encourage,</HI> or <HI>countenance</HI> the Murder, and have liv'd to &s;ee the fearful <HI>Con|&s;equences</HI> thereof: I wi&s;h they may have liv'd to repent and be a&s;ham'd of the <HI>&s;in</HI> too. But how many are there, who will not own <HI>them|&s;elves</HI> to have had an hand in it, but lay it ra|ther at the <HI>Je&s;uites</HI> door, or &s;ome where el&s;e; far enough, to be &s;ure, from their <HI>own</HI> Thre&s;hold? One would think, that men who have been &s;o horribly di&s;loyal to the <HI>Father,</HI> if they were <HI>&s;en&s;ible</HI> of it <HI>indeed,</HI> and convinced in their Con|&s;ciences that they <HI>&s;inned,</HI> would long ago (as one
<PB N="25" REF="14"> fruit of their Repentance) have &s;hewn the mo&s;t Dubtiful &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion and obedience unto the <HI>Son.</HI> But 'tis &s;ad to con&s;ider, that in&s;tead of a <HI>&s;incere Amendment,</HI> they are not yet come &s;o far as to <HI>Judas his Remor&s;e.</HI> For he <HI>Repented him&s;elf,</HI> &s;aith the Text, and acknowledg'd that 'twas <HI>Innocent Blood,</HI> which had been betray'd, and that <HI>he him|&s;elf</HI> had betray'd it, and that he had <HI>&s;inned</HI> in betraying it: <HI>I have &s;inned,</HI> &s;aid he, <HI>in that I have betrayed the innocent blood,</HI> Mat. 27. 4. Here was a very great &s;orrow, and that which made him refund the thirty pieces of Silver, and at la&s;t to go and hang him&s;elf too. I do not wi&s;h the men, I now &s;peak of, <HI>Judas</HI>'s <HI>end;</HI> but I hear|tily wi&s;h that they were &s;o <HI>&s;orrowful</HI> as to confe&s;s their <HI>guilt;</HI> and &s;o hone&s;t, as to make &s;ome Re&s;ti|tution of the <HI>Price</HI> of <HI>Blood;</HI> and moreover, that they were &s;uch friends to <HI>them&s;elves,</HI> and &s;o ju&s;t to the whole <HI>Nation,</HI> as to bring forth &s;uch fruits of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, Peace, and Obedience, as are meet for Repentance. For if they would con&s;ider it, 'tis an Eternal reproach (be&s;ides many other mi&s;chiefs) which they have brought upon Religi|on by the Sin of <HI>this day;</HI> and for it's kind, greater, then what the <HI>Romani&s;ts them&s;elves</HI> have hitherto occa&s;ioned. They have murder'd Kings <HI>privately</HI> with poy&s;on; they have a&s;&s;a&s;&s;inated Princes <HI>openly</HI> with Knives and Ponyards: but they never yet brought a Monarch to the Block by a &s;em|blance of Judicial proceedings, daring the Ma|je&s;ty of Heaven by their Superlative Villany. The Je&s;uite has been but a Puny, in compari|&s;on of <HI>the&s;e Regicides;</HI> and yet I wi&s;h there were
<PB N="26" REF="15"> no Room for the Prophets complaint, <HI>I hearken|ed and heard, but they &s;pake not aright; no man repented him of his wickedne&s;s, &s;aying, what have I done,</HI> Jer. 8. 6.</P>
<P N="2">2. But even we <HI>al&s;o</HI> are concern'd in the <HI>Du|ty</HI> of the Day, who were <HI>not</HI> concern'd as Actors in the <HI>Sin.</HI> There are thou&s;ands of us, that either were then <HI>unborn,</HI> or had not <HI>power</HI> &s;o much as to make an <HI>attempt</HI> to re&s;cue Innocence: and there are many more in this Kingdome, who were &s;o far from helping to cut off the Kings head, that they did not help to drive him to his Scaf|fold, or to hold him by the Hair, but di&s;own'd and declared again&s;t tho&s;e inhumane, unnatural, and barbarous Proceedings. But this notwith|&s;tanding, we are all of us concern'd to be through|ly humbled for that, which was acted by <HI>other hands.</HI> For that &s;in hath redounded to the de|triment of the <HI>whole Nation:</HI> And that Bloud is &s;till clamarous again&s;t us in the language of tho&s;e Soul's under the Altar, <HI>Rev.</HI> 6. 10. How long, O Lord, Holy and True, do&s;t thou not judge and avenge our bloud on them that dwell on the Earth? and though Vengeance hath been com|ing upon us with a <HI>&s;low pace,</HI> yet if we repent not in time of our evil cour&s;es, God will reckon with us at la&s;t, and reckon with us &s;everely too, we have already &s;marted for this &s;in in a high de|gree; and as the Jews were wont to &s;ay: that in every of their Vi&s;itations there were &s;ome drams of the Golden Calf, &s;o we have Rea&s;on to believe, that in every of our Vi&s;itations there have been &s;ome drops of that Sacred
<PB N="27" REF="15"> Bloud, and yet the <HI>Anger of God is not turn|ed away, but his hand is &s;tretched out &s;till,</HI> either to Correct, or to da&s;h us in pieces. God of his Mercy grant us fir&s;t &s;incere and Univer&s;al Repen|tance, and then <HI>Peace</HI> and a la&s;ting Pro&s;perity, for Chri&s;t Je&s;us his &s;ake, <HI>who&s;e Bloud &s;peaketh better things, than the Sacrifices of</HI> Abel. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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