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A53104	A sermon preached in the parish-church of St. Sepulchres, on Monday the 30th of January, 1693/4 being the anniversary solemnity for the martyrdom of King Charles I / by Richard Newman, late Vicar of Kynton ...	Newman, Richard, Vicar of Kynton.	1694 (1694)	Wing N924; ESTC R7939	7,681	32

themselves nor would willingly allow the Reputation of it in others A King whom if we had not by our Sins render'd our selves unworthy to enjoy longer we had been it may be in doubt of nothing more than being surfeited with our own Felicity and that we enjoy'd Him not all the World must bear Him Witness it was not his Fault seeing at that last and Fatal Treaty as Providence made it at Newport He there shew'd so great a Desire in his Gracious Condescentions to make his People Happy that he even forgot he had any share of his Own to challenge among them having indeed given them all but what he could not part with I mean That Sovereign Goodness of Disposition which was the only thing almost that he had left besides the redintigrated Affections of his People divers of whom began then to know Him better and therefore valued Him the more out of Conviction that they had ignorantly persecuted Him under a mistaken Zeal to support his Throne withall So that I think I may truly say It was the fatal Infatuation and Infelicity of these Nations that they knew not in the Day of their Visitation The things that belonged to their Peace and therefore were they by the Righteous Judgment of God for a full Decad of Years and more justly hid from their Eyes O fortunatos nimium bona si sua nôssent Anglicolas And for his Religion this I think may safely be said of Him without Exception from any but such as all Religion may blush to own That if the Imployment of his serene Hours were of a piece with the Entertainment of his Solitudes and Sufferings that Man is not enough Christian himself who can admit a Dispute in his own Bosom whether he ought not to be ranked amongst the chiefest of Christians And indeed whatever we thought of Him Living as to his Religion the Consequences of his Death too sadly Evidenc'd how much the Protestant Cause was concern'd in his Preservation and especially the sad Face of this Orphant Church of England after the unhappy Death of this its Nursing Father which from that Time forwards became the most woful Scene of Anarchy and Confusion that ever was seen in the Christian World if we may at all give Credit to the best of Histories not excepting even Munster it self which saw but the Prologue to our Fatal Tragedy For who knows not whatever Persons or Parties stept up in his vacant Seat made it the Master-piece of their Policy like self-interested Chirurgeons to keep our Wounds open that they might keep themselves in Practice and to maintain opposite Factions to peck at one another that whilst the People were busied in private Contests they might be the less sensible of their Oppressions insomuch that the Revival of old Heresies and Schisms every one of which carried a Legion of new Ones in its Belly together with the apparent Dangers of Extirpation to the true Protestant Religion and all its Professors for many Years together since our Sins remov'd Him from us have convinced not a few that he was not so much to blame as was too commonly thought for not giving his Consent to those violent and sudden Changes which their mis-guided Zeal amongst many others alike mis-led in those unhappy Times too importunately call'd for In the mean while If what I have said concerning the Person whose Funeral-Anniversary this Day is appointed to solemnize and I am afraid I have rather injur'd his blessed Memory by saying too little than the Truth by saying too much of Him I say if you find your selves in any measure sensible of the Loss you suffer'd by his violent Removal I hope then you will be the better prepar'd to entertain the next Consideration wherein this accursed Parricide exceeded that of King Saul's in my Text if we consider the Persons who committed this horrid Fact And so I come to run the Parallel between the Persons Murthered The Death of King Saul and the sad Occasion of this Day 's Solemnity And indeed many Kings Deaths are Recorded in Holy Scripture and divers of them Violent and Bloody and many of them brought about by the Hands of Rebellious and Traiterous Subjects But to equal all the hainous Circumstances of the most execrable Murther committed this Day on King Charles the First of ever Blessed Memory I know no Example that can in the least pretend to outvie it 'T is true indeed that both of them were Kings Anointed and the Lord 's Anointed and both Murther'd by Subjects but the Difference of them so vastly distant that no Power of Invention can ever bring them to an equal Parallel As First They were not Native-Forreigners as the Amalekite in my Text was but these Parricides were his Majesties Native Subjects that had drawn their first Breath in his Hereditary Dominions and to this natural Bond of Allegiance had voluntary added divers stronger Tyes of Religious Oaths Protestations and Covenants yea some of them that lifted up not their Heads only but their Hands against Him were such as did eat of his Bread his own Sworn Servants and none of them obliged by any such Provocations of cruel Usages so that it is hard to conceive how it might be possible to load a Malefactor with more aggravating Circumstances to render Him monstrously Criminal But Secondly A Second Consideration to amplifie the horrid Murther of this Day may be taken from the Fact it self in that it outvies the Death of King Saul For the Amalekite's Fact was a sneaking Business acted in a Corner so that it had not been known but by his own Relating of it But that of this Day was a publick Tragedy in all the parts of it wherein the Conspirators made all the World Spectators of their audacious Effrontery For here was a Pageantry of publick Justice an High-Court a Bench and a Bar a President and a Prisoner an Indictment and a Prosecution and at last an illegal and wicked Sentence even against the Lord 's Anointed and all these in the most publick Place of Judicature in the Three Nations And last of all a most Bloody Execution and that not in a Corner but in the open Street in the Face of the Sun as if they meant with a kind of Defiance to God Himself to call Him in as a publick Spectator to behold how insolently they trampled upon his Authority in his undoubted Vicegerent A Tragedy which in all the Acts and Parts of it I may be confident to affirm all the Histories in the World can never parallel For many Kings indeed have died by the Sword by the Dagger and the Pistol and many by poisonous Compositions and other such Instruments of private and clandestine Ambition and Revenge but never Any till this black Day by the Executioner's Axe upon a publick Scaffold in the Face of his own Royal Pallace so that here was a Confluence of all that wilful Cruelty and Insolence could contribute to the Aggravation of a Villany I shall conclude All with an humble Supplication to the King of Kings That the horrid Murther which was this Day committed on the Sacred Person of the Lord 's Anointed may be so wiped off from the Score of these Nations That we be never visited with those very Evils or any that may appear so hainous as those were And as God hath been so graciously merciful to us and deliver'd us once and again within a few Years last past and has protected and defended us from all those Dangers which might have happened to us if his infinite Mercy had not interpos'd So we may perpetually honour our present Sovereigns that now sit on the Throne with the most Noble and Glorious Titles of The Allayors of our mutual Heats and Animosities The Moderatours of all our Differences and The Reconcilers of us to each other in Vnity and Godly Love That so we may walk worthy of the Vocation wherewith we are called with all Lowliness and Meekness with Long-suffering Forbearing one another in Love Endeavouring to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace Eph. 4.1 2 3. Which God of his infinite Mercy grant we may All do for Jesus Christ his Sake Amen FINIS ERRATA Page 25. Line 18. for Heads Read Heels