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A87872	The martyrdome of King Charles, or His conformity with Christ in his sufferings. In a sermon on I Cor. 2.8. / preached at Bredah, before his Maiesty of Great Britaine, and the Princesse of Orange. By the Bishop of Downe. June 3. 13. 1649.	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1649 (1649)	Wing L1164; Thomason E569_10; ESTC R22162	31,059	32

people they slandered the foote-steps of Gods anointed their tongues and their pennes too were sharper than swords piercing deepe into his soule many scandalous pamphlets were every day cast abroad which as he saies in his booke like sparkes in great conflagrations did flie up and downe to set all places on fire From every pulpit was sounded a trumpet to rebellion the Embassadors of peace being made the heralds of warre And as our Saviour by the pharisees was called an impostor a deceiver and perverter of the people a blasphemer a Samaritan and one that had a devill So such language and worse too was bestowed upon his Sacred Majesty by a pharisaicall broode of men who are great pretenders to religion but utterly void of it They have a shew of godlinesse but have denyed the power thereof Ioh. 8.59 When our Saviour was at Ierusalem the pharisees stird up the people to stone him whereupon he withdrew himself so when the King was at Westminster tumults were raised stones and blasphemies cast out against him that he was faine to remove from thence and then they cryed out against him for deserting his Parliament though it was the thing they most desired and they knew very well that he would have been glad to be with his Parliament as he often offered if he could have been there with any safety Being thus forced to retire from London they seized all his houses and furniture forts magazins ships and revenues they hunted him like a partridge from mountaine to mountaine that he might have justly taken up the complaint of our Saviour Mat. 8.20 that The foxes had holes and the birds of the aire had nests but himselfe had not where to lay his head When our Saviour had withdrawne himselfe from Ierusalem The Chiefe Priests and the Pharisees gave a commandement Ioh. 11.57 that if any man knew where he were he should shew it that they might take him So upon his Majesties flight such a commandement was given a more cruell and bloudy ordinance was made that whosoever should harbour or conceale the Kings person or did know where he was harboured unlesse he did immediately reveale it should forfeite his estate and die without mercy as a traitor As our Saviour was rejected of his owne people Ioh. 1.11 He came unto his owne and they received him not So was our Soveraigne rejected by his owne people they would not owne him for their King but disclaimed his authority and yeelded their service unto his enemies and as the Iewes denyed the holy one and the just and desired a murtherer to be granted to them Act. 3.14 So they denyed their holy and righteous King and desired the Parliament might rule over them in this they preferred robbers and murtherers worse than Barabas choosing rather to live in bondage under their Iron yoke than to injoy the liberty of subjects under the peaceable governement of a most gracious King As our saviour was rejected by his owne people so was he forsaken of his owne Disciples when the time came that he was to make his soule an offering for sinne then one of his owne Disciples betrayed him an other denyed him all forsooke him Isa 63.6 and left him to tread the winepresse alone So when our Soveraigns afflictions grew great some of his servants betrayed him like Iudas others denyed him and almost all forsooke him albeit they had got well by him yet they were loth to suffer with him And which was yet much worse he was forceably deprived of the comfort of his dearest wife his most sweet and beloved children and for a long time had none to converse with but beasts more savage than those which did company with our Saviour in the wildernesse When Christ was on the crosse one of the theeves who was crucified with him railed on him because he did not relieve them so when our Soveraigne was at Oxford some who suffered with him upbraided him and added griefe to his afflicted soule even railing on him because he did not helpe them when indeed he could not As our Saviour was tempted so was our Soveraigne tempted to distrust to perjury to sacrilege to atheisme tempted to deny God by forsaking his religion and destroying the church which his righteous soule abhorred As the devill made great proffers unto Christ of all the Kingdomes of the world saying All these will I give thee Mat. 4 9. if thou wilt fall downe and worship me So great proffers were made unto our Soveraigne that they would make him a glorious King if he would humble himself unto his Parliament and worship the Idoll which they had set up Besides his soule was daily tortured with reiterated unreasonable propositions and insolent demands as absurd as those which the devill made unto Christ The enemies of our Saviour sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death Much more craft and deceit too was used to catch our Soveraigne in their pit Mark 14.1 As when Christ was at Ierusalem the Pharisees not daring then to lay hands on him because they feared the people sought to fright him with Herod Saying unto him get thee out Luk. 13.31 and depart hence for Herod will kill thee when it was they themselves that intended to kill him So when his Majestie was at Hampton Court his enemies perceiving that the hearts of the people were so turned towards him that it was not safe to lay violent hands on him they did cunningly suggest feares unto him that there was a plot to kill him and so they made him flie into the snare which they had layed for him in the I le of Wight where they thought that Rolph should have dispatched him by poison or poinard but that being discovered they resolved to doe it in a more publicke way Our saviour was apprehended at night Mat. 26.51 so was our Soveraigne in a darke cold winter night taken out of his bed in the I le of Wight and carried unto Hurst Castle Mat. 25.59 They sought false witnesse against our Saviour so did they against our Soveraigne for open proclamation was made with sound of trumpet that all who could informe against the King should come to the painted chamber and give in their evidence and what was it they intended to prove even that he had done that whereof they themselves only were guilty in raising armes and making a warre in the Kingdom The people being suborned by the Priests cried against our Saviour Away with him John 19.15 crucifie him so some of the souldiers were suborned and hired to cry against our Soveraigne Justice Execution Our Saviour was mocked They wagged their heads at him so our Soveraigne had the tryall of cruell mockings Christ was reviled so was our Soveraigne reviled by his enemies especially their false Prophets Matth. 27.29 39 41. Hugh Peters instead of comfort did reach Gall and Vinegar unto Gods anointed in the agony of