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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93792	Three sermons preached in the Cathedral Church of Winchester The first on Sunday, August. 19. 1660. at the first return of the Dean and Chapter to that church, after the restauration of His Majesty. The second on Jan. 30. 1661. being the anniversary of King Charles the first, of glorious memory. The third at the general assize held there, Feb. 25. 1661. By Edward Stanley, D.D. Prebendary of the church.	Stanley, Edward, 1597 or 8-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing S5233D; ESTC R229852	48,452	164

now we make them as well at home they be grown staple with us so you may have these now in every Weavers shop as well as in the Jesuites They will tell you in plain English for In ordine ad spiritualia hath been translated into all Languages that to advance the Kingdom of Christ that is their own Kingdom and not his and to promote the Cause 't is lawful to take Armes to Murther Kings and to commit any Villany in the world And yet St. Paul tells us that no Cause will justifie this He Preaches subjection to Princes Let every soul be subject and therefore every body much more and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation And so St. Peter Preaches the same and the Primitive Fathers of the Church after them as if we had so much leasure 't were very easie to shew you I will instance onely in two one of the Greek Fathers and one of the Latin St. Gregory Nazianzen for the Greek and he sayes that when Julian the Apostate had designed the Ruine of the Christians he was disappointed only by their Teares Naz. Orat. ● in Julianum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they made use of no other Weapons against the persecutor but Tears and yet almost all his Army were Christians And so St. Ambrose in the like Case Lib. 5. Orat. in Auxent Dolere potero potero flere I can weep and lament sayes he but I cannot resist Nec possum nec debeo I ought not to resist it if I could These were all the Nets those Primitive Christians made use of to catch and Embalme their Persecutors in their Teares like a flie in a drop of Amber But for any other Nets they never knew the use of them till these late Modern times wherein many new Inventions are discovered and this among the rest for subjects to make Nets for their Kings But this I must tell you is in Invention deviating from Justifie and Right as the Wise man sayes there God made man upright but he hath sought out many Inventions they are but crooked ones as many turnings in them as in a Labyrinth and the upright man whom God made will never away with them for they are Nets of their own making and not his And they be made to a mischievous end to catch the feet of Princes Mighty Hunters it seems they are like Nimrod that no prey will serve them but their King Why ordinary Hunters Moll ort praeda saginantur as 't is in Quintillian and so ordinary Dogs too Praeda Canum Lepus est A Hare will serve their turn Theirs was the Lion a sport if I may call it so not usuall among us in England what ever it may be among Africans or Indians But so it must be Placet in vulnus Maxima Cervix And they lov'd the sport too wel a Company of Hell-hounds they were and you cannot but remember it to go a King-catching with Reverence be it spoken by us to the Sacred Majesty of Kings 't was their pastime as well to talk of it as to act it And how often their Nets were set for him 't would be but a sad story to repeat As the Devil sets Nets every where Totus mundus Diaboli Laqueus sayes St. Gregory so did these men too He could not set his foot in any corner of his Kingdom but there was a Net set for him They have set traps in my way and in the way wherein I went have they privily laid a snare for me as David complained Psal 142.3 Hunted he was from one place to another till at last he fell into the Noose and Captus est in Laqueis ipsorum he was taken in their Nets He that shall remember how he came into our Neighbour Island by a Train and how fast they held him there when they had him cannot think this Text ill applyed but he will look upon it as a Prophecy of him too But yet take him alive for all that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he said to Agamemnon though you have hunted for him and taken him yet destroy him not Zedekiah was not destroyed though he were taken A living Dog is better then a dead Lion they did what they could to prefer a Dog before him for he must not live Timete superi fata Here 's the heighth of all Impiety Next to the Crucifying of Christ the King of Heaven I challenge any History to match it for he was destroyed not in Battel as David said of Saul Forte in praelium descendens peribit Peradventure he may fall in the battel and so there might be something of Chance in it and not of Malice because Bullets distinguish not Not by the hands of a wicked Assassinate as some other Princes have miscarryed but as they would have the world believe by the hand of Justice That he might be like his Saviour in all things he must be arraigned but before worse Judges then Pilate for he cryed What evill hath he done and so washed his hands for a testimony that he would have no hand in shedding the blood of Christ whereas these washed their hands in his blood they held up their hands to justifie the Sentence and with their hands subscribed the Sentence of Death And so 't was acted accordingly Will Posterity believe it Nec audent Fata tam vastum nefas Admittere Yet so it was a Scaffold erected at the Court gate In ludibrium Majestatis in defiance of Majesty and the King was murdered at high Noon And 't is said there was a Net upon the Scaffold too in case of resistance to make good the Captus in laqueis in every particular though this Lamb before the Shearers gave them no occasion to make use of it And by this time I suppose it may be sull Sea with you and you call for justice upon the Murtherers They have felt it some of them and they have suffered deservedly for it the stroke of Justice found them out at last and Gods Providence is magnified in his care of humane affairs But while we call for justice upon others are we our selves innocent Ne saevi magne sacerdos Something there is in the Text yet that may draw us into the Conspiracy too as well as we think of our selves and as severe as we are to other men If the Vulgar Translation read the Text right instead of Captus est in laqueis ipsorū it is there Captus est in poccatis nostris He was taken not in their Nets but in our sins Murther they say will out and then though some have been punished already yet there be many more that deserve it and we our selves are of that number Talk no more of the Independents or the Presbyterians or the Anabaptists or any Sectary besides the Net was spun by all of us in our sins he was taken And 't is most true A good King cannot miscarry but for the sins of the people If you understand it of Iosiah