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A30420	A sermon preached before the Aldermen of the city of London, at St. Lawrence-church, Jan 30. 1680/1 being the day of the martyrdome of K. Charles I. / by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing B5875; ESTC R14664	19,574	37

the stranger nor the prisoner and that none of them should imagine evil against his brother in his heart and in this Chapter V. 16 17. that they should speak every man the truth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neighbour and execute the judgement of truth and peace in their Gates This being done The Third thing is in my Text that upon their loving truth and peace those black and mournful days should be converted to days of joy and gladness How these Anniversaries were first set up and by what authority whether by the direction of any Prophet or by common agreement does not appear to us We have both the Institution and the continuance of another Anniversary a little before this expresly set down Upon Iosiah's death Ieremy that foresaw 2 Chron. ●5 25. what was to follow under the reigns of his degenerated issue made a lamentation and set it to be sung by the Quire of the mourners upon which an Ordinance was made and those lamentations continued in use to the day in which that Book of the Chronicles was writ which as appears by the last Verses that mention the return of the Captivity under Cy●us was above eighty years at least after Iosiah's death for his children reigned above ten years and the Captivity lasted seventy so long had that Anniversary been observed And it seems to be almost a law of nature to commemorate both mercies and judgements on those days in which they have been sent us We of this Island have had occasion for Fasts on all these months On the fourth month reckoning according to the Iewish account were the fatal Standards set up On the seventh the horrid Massacre and Rebellion of Ireland broke out and in England on that same day of the month but a year after the first Battel at Edge-hill was fought On the tenth and on the tenth day of it was that wickedness done which we now mourn for The King was murdered and the Government wholly subverted and on the fifth month were his Majesties Armies that now reigns defeated both at Dunbar and Worcester It might have been expected that our 29th of May should have worn out the remembrance of the 30th of Ianuary and now at the end of two and thirty years it may be reasonably asked Should we still continue to Fast and mourn Shall the yearly return of this black and dismal day with the melancholy thoughts and reflections which accompany it be for ever observed Shall we convey this entail of sorrow to our posterity Does this blood continue still to cry for vengeance as the blood of Abel did or as the Iews say the blood of Zacharias the son of Iehojada the High Priest continued still to bubble on the floor of the Court of the Temple where he was killed till the Captivity that many thousand Priests being killed on the place the Earth drunk it up and shall neither the execution of Justice on the Murderers nor the Prayers of the whole Nation remove this guilt On this occasion it may be no improper thing to run out on the horridness of so unexempled a wickedness but I hope it is needless I hope all men carry still in their minds such a horrour at that fact that their thoughts boil afresh within them at every time they reflect on it Bloodshed without lawful authority fills the mind of the Criminal with black and terrible thoughts and makes him oft a terrour to himself so that either the dead Ghost or the apprehensions of guilt haunt and follow such till they grow even weary of life since there can be no reparation made to the party injured So that it is scarce possible for the Murderer to stop even the cry of Blood in his own Conscience The Innocence and the Dignity and the Sacredness of the person Murdered are vast aggravations and if such a crime comes in the conclusion after so great an effusion of blood that it has run down like water and above all if the actors have done what they could to entitle God to it doing it with the forms of Justice so that in the place of judgement and righteousness there was Eccl. 3. 10. iniquity and wickedness and by their high pretensions to Piety and Zeal for Religion the enemies of all Religion have taken advantage to mock at true Holiness and the enemies of the Reformed Religion have thought they were now furnished with somewhat by which they might cast back that heavy but just imputation laid on them of setting up the doctrines and encouraging the practices of deposing and killing of Kings on the Protestants All these things concurr to aggravate this crime Blood desiles the land and it cannot Numb 35. 33. be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it And by Moses law when that could not be found out God appointed a solemn Deut. 21. 6 7 8 9 ver expiation to be made amongst the Iews in the name of the whole Nation Blood is of so crying a nature that it is said of that shed by Manass●s that God would not pardon it neither his late Repentance nor the Reformation 2 King 24. 4. carried on by Iosiah could avert those judgements that were the just punishments of such heinous sins All these things concurr to give us a right sense of that guilt which we now lament and endeavour to remove It may be expected that I should in the next place enlarge on the Vertues the Piety Chastity Temperance the Magnanimity and Constancy of mind of this Murdered Prince But the performing this as it ought to be I confess is a task above my strength especially coming after so many who have done it with such life that any thing I could add would be but a flat repetition of what has been often much better said And indeed we have his character given us in such true and lasting colours in that Picture which he drew for himself in his solitudes and sufferings that it is perhaps a piece of presumption to take up the Pencil again and to add any touches to what is so perfect that it may be made worse but can hardly be the better for any addition Besides that the strains of a Panegyrick do not agree so well with the solemnities of a Fast. I shall therefore say no more neither to raise the just esteem and veneration of this Royal Martyr nor to possess you with more detestation of so unparalleled a wickedness which as it had no pattern in any former age so I hope shall never be a precedent for after times But shall return to the Question put to the Prophet in the former Chapter with the answer given to it both there and here and in speaking to it shall discourse of these three particulars First What ought to be the measures and rules of continuing Anniversary mournings upon such great occasions Secondly What is to be done to have the occasions of our mourning converted

but these may suffice especially since it is visible that this is a certain and necessary consequence of the deposing Doctrine And though Gerson one of the best Men of his Age did at the Council of Constance where the Papal power was troden under foot and the Court of Rome had no influence so vain a thing it is to distinguish between the Court and Church of Rome press much for the obtaining of a Decree That no subject should murder his King or Prince even that could not easily pass and he himself was in danger of his life for solliciting it so earnestly In conclusion it was done but with such a reservation as shews they would only condemn the assassinations of private cut-throats for those were only condemned Who killed their King without waiting for the sentence of any Iudge whatsoever so if sentence is past by any Judge the Ecclesiastical as well as the Civil then this decree notwithstanding it will be lawful for a Subject to kill his King I might here run out into many Instances to shew you how acceptable the killing of Kings has been to those of that Church how Sixtus the V. made a Panegyrique upon Clements murdering Henry the III. of France before a Congregation of Cardinals how Francis Veronno wrote both in defence of that fact and of Chastells attempt on Henry the IV. how Garnet and Hall that suffered for the most desperate attempt that ever was I mean the Gun-powder Treason are reckoned among the Martyrs in the Catalogues set out by the Jesuites and under the pictures and prints made for Garnet he is called the true Martyr of Christ. Legends of miracles have been also made for them which will be reserved till a fit time comes for their Canonization which they deserve full as well as Thomas Becket did who was the greatest Saint in the Church for some Ages the blessed Virgin nay which is more Jesus Christ himself not excepted if we may judge by the devotion that was payed at his Shrine since by the Legier books of Canterbury it appears yet on Record that in some years above 950 l. was offered at his Altar and not a six pence at our Saviours Altar and but a few pounds at the blessed Virgins And to shew how well they approved of the Gunpowder Treason at Rome Gerard and Greenwoll or Tesmond two of the principal Conspirators were so well entertained there that escaping thither from the Justice of this Nation the one was made the Popes Penitentiary and the other lived in the English Colledge there and officiated often in St. Peters in the Vatican After all this evidence in which I have not once named Mariana though they would make us believe he is the only person of their Communion that ever maintained this opinion it is apparent that the killing of Kings has been openly taught and publickly encouraged in that Church and that it is a necessary consequence of the Deposing Doctrine What hand they had in this execrable crime and how far they disguised themselves into all the forms and divisions about Religion that were among us I shall not positively assert It has been done with very much assurance by persons of great worth and credit and there are many probabilities to induce us to believe it Two things were observable in the methods of carrying on this great wickedness clearly borrowed from them The one was the actors pretending to Enthusiasms and inward directions for what they did though it was clearly contrary both to the Laws of God and Man That the person of our Prince is Sacred and exempted from punishment is a constant Maxim of our Government which makes his ill Ministers and Councellors accountable for every thing that is done amiss That the House of Commons cannot set up by their single Authority a Court to judge of the life of the meanest subject that a force put on either House though but a small part were violently excluded makes it to be no more a House of Parliament and that much more when the far greater part was secluded they were certainly no House of Commons That one House without the concurrence of the other and the Royal assent joined to both could not do any thing legally and finally That the Officers of the Army had no right to assume the Government into their hands were all things so manifest according to the constitutions of this Kingdom that they who acted so contrary to them knew they could never justifie themselves by either Law or President It was necessary then to fly to somewhat that should seem to be above all the limitations and restraints of Law and that was to pretend secret directions from God A Doctrine that overthrows the main and fundamental principle of the Reformation which is That in all things which relate to God the Scriptures only are to be our Rule And indeed it is hard to determine whether the referring all controversies of Religion to one infallible Judge or the giving up of men to the heats of their own fancies be the most dangerous principle The latter seems worse for the former leaves us to the mercy of one man whereas the other exposes mankind to the fury and humour of every brainsick or designing man It is certain that in the publick actions of our lives and in moral matters Inspiration without a warrant from Scripture or a clear proof of a Divine Mission attested by some publick and supernatural sign or miracle is not only a fallacious but may be a pernicious guide That this was all borrowed from the Writings and the publick and encouraged practices of the Church of Rome from whom that which is true and rank Fanaticism has issued out though perhaps many Dr. Stillingfleet of the Fanaticism of the Church of Rome of those among us are not aware of it has been made out so fully and beyond contradiction by an eminent Writer of our own that I need add nothing in confirmation of what must be universally acknowledged by all who have read his learned Book on this subject A 2d thing that appeared in carrying on the wickedness of this day borrowed from the Doctrines of that Church was a principle that all the rules and constitutions of Government may be broke through by the sounder and better part of the people at their pleasure that Princes and Parliaments and the major part of either House were subject not only to the whole body of the people for this would not have served their turn but to the sounder and better part The resolving all power in the people was first taken up by the assertors of the Popes deposing power for they argued that if it belonged to the people then the Pope representing the Universal Church all their rights did accrew to him so that in their names he was to dispose of Crowns as he pleased But here these maxims were thus varied The power was said to belong to the people in common but was to