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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53965	A sermon preached on the anniversary of that most execrable murder of K. Charles the first royal martyr by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1682 (1682)	Wing P1090; ESTC R20742	15,297	44

for many even of the Romish Priests have laid them to the charge of the Jesuites and Watson himself in the days of Queen Elizabeth laid them particularly to the charge of the Jesuite Parsons who had written several Seditious Books full of those Principles and in particular a Book entitled Doleman And that all Sober men among us may beware of those Principles and see how powerfully they did work throughout the whole Civil War then and how naturally they tend to embroil us in another and will necessarily do it when there is a fair opportunity I must observe unto you that That very Book of Parsons which had been written so many years before was in the Year Forty Eight printed again with another Title as if it had been newly Penn'd not by a Jesuite but a True Protestant It is to be observ'd too that a late Pamphlet entitled the History of Succession is an Abridgment of Doleman which plainly shews that those Traytors themselves were convinc'd in their Consciences that nothing could justifie the raising of the War and the destruction of the King but the Doctrines of a Through-pac'd Jesuite Thirdly It is certain that an Erroneous Devil in the Understanding will soon become a Furious Devil in mens Practice For those wicked Doctrines being once received presently shew'd themselves by innumerable acts of Sedition and that was another Sinfull way whereby the Crown fell The Government was Libelled every Order of Men in the Church was traduced the Loyal Magistrates and Gentry were threatned and expos'd Nobles were voted Guilty upon publick Fame and kill'd as it were by the strength of Peoples breath his Majesties Palace assaulted by Land and Water and himself forced to Fly in his own defence and all these mischiefs were mainly owing to those Hucksters of Sedition and Treason whose Fingers were daily employed to destroy the King with their Pens as Scotus's Scholars destroyed their Master with Pencils insomuch that being petitioned at Royston to return to his Parliament His Majesty refused for this Reason because the Scandalous Pamphlets that Swarm'd abroad had now brought his Person and Life into eminent danger Fourthly Nor did things stay here but to pull down the Crown from our head effectually an actual War is Levied and Arms are taken up which we cannot suppose to have been done without a direct Design against the King's Life it being altogether uncertain what the Fortune of War may be and how a Single Bullet may be directed as it hapned neer a Town of Cornwall where his Majesty narrowly escaped the next Man to him being shot by the Enemy Which high provocation notwithstanding that I may not omit a Singular instance of his Tenderness and Clemency though his Ordnance were ready planted to batter the place down he hindred the Attack with this noble Expression I understand said He that I have many Good Subjects in the Town and I had rather Spare the Lives of an hundred Rebels than venture the Hurting of one of Them Indeed the Hand of God was all along his Protection in the Field but no thanks to those whose very taking up of Arms was Murder in the Intent and if my Author Symmond's Vindication of the King pag. 90. doth not deceive me it is a memorable Relation which he tells us that at the Battel of Edge-hill his Majesties Souldiers took certain Letters whereby it was discovered that they who then called themselves the Kings most Loving and Obedient Subjects had hired one Blake to signifie by some Token the particular place in the Field where the King was that the shot might be directly level'd thither and that they might speak Home to his Heart out of the mouth of their Cannon 5. We have now seen Some of those wicked Means whereby the Calamity in my Text came upon us Ingratitude Jesuitism Sedition and actual Resistance and were not the Instruments thereof past all feeling methinks they should not stick to take up the Lamentation The Crown is fallen from our Head wo unto us that we have Sinned But yet all these Arts though Sinful would have been Ineffectual had it not been for Another wicked Course they took to Cheat the World into their Assistance I mean their palpable and villanous Hypocrisie Nothing is more Odious in the eyes of God than Hypocrisie and Dissimulation and yet what was pretended all along but the Glory of God the Honour of the King the Interest of Religion the Safety of the People and the Welfare of Three Kingdoms A specious Pretence and a very Raree-Shew in the Original But by too Sad and too Late Experience we found that 't was their Own Greatness and their Own Interest that was at the Bottom that Plunder and Sequestration were the things aimed at that the Church was to be Purged that is from its Possessions and that the Estate Dignity and Power of the Crown was to be Secured but meaning to Themselves In Forty One they did Remonstrate that they did not purpose or desire to abolish the Church Government and disclaimed all intentions of absolving men from that Obedience which they owed to his Majesty whom they profest they knew to be intrusted with the Ecclesiastical Laws as well as with the Temporal In Forty Two they Declared that they intended a due and necessary Reformation of the Government and Liturgy of the Church and to take away Nothing in the one or in the other but what should be Evil and justly Ossensive or at least Vnnecessary and Burdensome In Forty Three they Professed that their Army was designed to defend the King's Person Honour and Dignity and to hinder all change in Religion they Protested as in the Presence of God that they had no Intentions to offer violence to his Majesties Person or to hurt his just Power or to destroy his Monarchy In the Third Article of the Solemn League and Covenant they Swore to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and Authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and that they had no thoughts to diminish his just Power and Greatness And in Forty Six they declared that their sincere Intentions were to uphold the Ancient and Fundamental Government of this Realm by King Lords and Commons Now whether these were not Rank and Persidious Hypocrites let the World judg when instead of Reforming the Church Government they Abolish't it when instead of Revising our Service-Book they quite Remov'd it when in their Negative Oath they afterwards Swore neither directly nor indirectly to Adhere unto or Assist the King when they took away the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and Proclaimed such Traytors as did stand for them when they cashier'd the Noble House of Peers when they sought against the Kings Person attempted the shedding of his Sacred Bloud and at last drove him to the Scaffold all their Remonstrances Declarations Protestations Promises Vows and Oaths to the Contrary notwithstanding Beloved I have not searched into the Villanies of