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A49124	Moses and the Royal Martyr, King Charles the First, parallel'd in a sermon preached on the 30th of January, 1683/4 in the Cathedral-Church of St. Peters, Exon. / by Tho. Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1684 (1684)	Wing L2975; ESTC R1028	20,935	33

us be careful of being corrupted by such Principles as will lead us directly to the practice of Rebellion as That there is any earthly Power above or co-ordinate with the King whether it be that of the Pope and his Conclave or that of the Presbyter and his Consistory or that of the People and their Representatives as if the Original of the Kingly Authority were in them and they might give or reassume it as they please That the King though he be singulis major yet he is universis minor That Dominion is founded in Grace on which Maxime as a Popish Prince may be cut off by his Protestant Subjects so a Protestant Prince may be cut off by his Popish Subjects and then as often as any jealous seduced or discontented Subjects shall judge or be perswaded that their Prince is of a different Perswasion from themselves in matters of Religion they may think it lawful to resist him and so no King nor Government in Christendom can be secure 3. Take heed also of entring into Covenants Associations and Engagements without and against the King from these as from the Trojan Horse whole Armies have issued out 4. Take heed also of being perswaded that your former Oaths and Obligations to Obedience are dissolved by the addition of new Vows and Covenants which would vacuate all Oaths of Fidelity between men and make them as Sampson's Wit hs to be broken at pleasure 5. Take heed of that keen distinction which divides between the Kings Person and his Power and teacheth that it is lawful by his authority to fight against his Person contrary to the Law of God and the Land and of all those other Paradoxes which the famous University of Oxford hath condemned and burnt as tending to Rebellion Lastly Beware of all those seditious suggestions of discontented ambitious and factious men that do insinuate Jealousies and suspitions of evil Government and labour to make Parties and raise Sects and Divisions in Church or State such as Corah raised against Moses and Aaron and Absolon and Achitophel against David for from hence come murmurings and speaking evil of Dignities Strife and Envyings bitter Zeal and Contentions Wars and Fightings Confusions and every evil thing And take the more heed of those things at this time especially when there are as yet some of the old Incendiaries kindling the Coals of Sedition and Rebellion and leading multitudes of seduced Souls step by step into those ways and methods which ended in our late Civil Wars and would carry us head-long a second time into the same Confusions I conclude with Solomon's advice My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change for their calamity shall come upon them suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both Prov. 24.22 And one point of Charity more I shall commend as most seasonable at this time which may help to imbalm the memory of the Royal Martyr and cause our Prayers to ascend as Incense by joyning our Alms with them that as we seek to break off our sins by repentance so we would purge out our iniquities by giving to the poor whose number and necessities the hand of God in this Extream Weather hath increased among us Methinks I hear them crying to us Give something for King Charles his sake And our Liberality at this time will be such a testimony of our Religious affection to the memory of that good King as Mary Magdalen's Oyntment which she poured on Christ's head Mat. 26.12 She hath wrought a good work in that she poured out this oyntment on my body she did it for my burial And if we be ready to do good willing to communicate we are assured that with such Sacrifices God is well pleased FINIS

glorious King Non eripit terrena qui regna dat Coelestia And now our Moses hath another Pharaoh and his Egyptian Armies to deal with who by vile arts had stollen the hearts of the people from him and were deaf to all his Messages and Intreaties for Peace God having given them up to the hardness of their hearts with a Quis constituit te Who made thee a Judge and a Ruler over us Acts 7.27 They had wrested the Rod of Government out of his hands and being cast to the ground it became a Serpent and all the Plagues of Egypt which befel the obdurate people could not reclaim them The rivers were turned into bloud Exod. 7.20 And murmuring seditious Libels and Declarations like the Frogs of Egypt were croaking in every house and chamber ch 8. 6. Poverty and Oppression like swarms of biting Lice and Flyes filled the Land ch 8. 17. 24. A grievous Murrain there was upon the Beasts ch 9. 3. and Botches and Blains and Pestilence upon men ch 9. 10. The Cannons and Murdering-pieces were as loud and fatal as the Thunder and storms of Hail v. 23. And destroying Souldiers like Armies of Locusts covered the face of the land confuming every herb and all the fruit of the trees And though Pharaoh saw and confessed that these Plagues would destroy him and his servants yet would he not submit to God and his servant Moses to let the people go and serve their God But mercenary Preachers like so many Balaams and Magicians were still hired to oppose and blaspheme God and Moses their King Herein indeed the sufferings of the Royal Martyr exceeded those of Moses That they were Egyptians who thus oppressed Moses but they were his own natural or rather unnatural Subjects that dealt thus cruelly with our Royal Martyr in whom not onely all the sufferings of Moses but of all the Martyrs met to afflict and consume him For he was not onely deprived of all the comforts of his Life Wife and Children Counsellors and Chaplains as if they intended to destroy his Soul as well as his body but moreover he had tryal of cruel mockings of bonds and imprisonment he was tempted too but would not accept deliverance by betraying the Cause of God and his Church and at last was sawn asunder and slain with the sword Heb. 11.36 And to aggravate all these Impieties I may adde that they were done to him of whom the world was not worthy He suffered in his Body being not allowed convenient Food and Raiment as if they would try whether he could live by Manna and Miracle He was forced to borrow money to buy him bread and wanting Linen when he was at Holdenby being advised to make his case known to them at Westminster he said he would not give them the satisfaction of knowing his wants Next he suffered in his good name as if they would bury him alive under a heap of Reproaches sometimes they reported him to be an easie and misguided fool led away by wicked Counsellors and anon as an obstinate and cruel Tyrant He died often as a King and Confessor when he survived as a man that at last he might endure a double Martyrdom and die as his Saviour did with a Crown of Thorns on his head and a Reed in his hand while they that crucified him bowed before him and mocked him And as if this Impiety were not great enough they mock the Justice of God and the Land by setting up the highest Court of Injustice that ever was heard of in the world With great Reason therefore and undaunted Resolution he denied their Authority to which if he had submitted they would have established Iniquity by a Law and urged the Kings submission against the Laws and Liberties of any of his Subjects He therefore required a Reason of their usurping that Authority over him Bradshaw told him The Vote of the Commons was the Reason of the Nation against which when the King offered his Reasons Bradshaw replied That Reason was not to be heard against the highest Judicature To which the King replying Shew me that Count where Reason is not to be heard he answered We shew it here the Commons of England so evident it is that they had lost their Reason as well as their Religion and had banished all fear of God with the Reverence of man This is that Bradshaw who a little before some say but three weeks when he was made a Serjeant at Law took the Oath of Allegiance that at the same time he might condemn himself with Perjury when he betrayed his Master Yet all these Indignities drew onely some smiles of Indignation and pitying of those unreasonable and cruel men and so he received that Vgly Sentence as he call'd it as the Primitive Martyrs were wont to do with a Deo gratias blessing God that as he had sent him Afflictions so he had given him Patience to endure them And now they make haste to lead him away and crucifie him and that he might yet be more like his Saviour one of the rude Souldiers that guarded him spit in his face which he meekly wiping off said My Saviour suffered more for my sake The Sunday before his death a Guard of barbarous Souldiers were crowded into his Chamber drinking and smoaking Tobacco to which he had a natural antipathy cursing and upbraiding him to his face so that Daniel was not so ill at ease in the Lions Den as his righteous Soul among those men of Belial And to disturb him yet more he was lodged so near the place of Execution that he might hear every stroak of those who wrought all night on the Scaffold Peters and Goodwin two Army-Chaplains would have given him Vinegar and Gall to drink in the words of Isai 14.18 19 c. but a better Angel was sent from Heaven with a Cup of Consolation for on the very day of his death was read the History of our Saviours Passion Mat. 27. and thanking the Bishop of London who then ministred unto him for his choice of so seasonable a Lesson the Bishop told him it was not by his choice but by the course and order of the Church that that Lesson was appointed to be read which he owned as a gracious providence and favour from his God Nor were they more hasty for his Execution than he was for a deliverance from them for he desired the Guard to mend their pace assuring them that he never marched in the head of any Army with better courage to fight for his Earthly than he did now for the Heavenly Crown He was not appaled when he saw a red Sea before him and Armies of Egyptians on every side he did not as Moses exceedingly quake and fear but was more concerned for his Murtherers than for himself And Philo says of Moses Non calligavit oculus nec mutatus est Splendor Gratiae vultus ejus Deut. 34.7 his eye and countenance retained the same Majesty and Splendor on the