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A86310	Queen Esthers resolves: or, A princely pattern of heaven-born resolution, for all the lovers of God and their country: opened in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at the monethly fast, May 27, 1646. / By Richard Heyricke, Warden of Christs Colledge in Manchester in Lancashire, and one of the Assembly of Divines.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing H1748; Thomason E338_11; ESTC R200845	22,360	35

pains after he hath done so great things that heaven and earth are astonished I fear not to say they have sin'd this sin which is to death which God will not which men should not pardon but if your charity be yet above my faith That you beleeve there are that have not sin'd neither the one nor the other yet your sence cryes loud unto you they have shed innocent blood pretious blood the blood of the sons of God which God will not nor you may not pardon they have not onely fil'd Jerusalem shed the blood of many of your Citizens but they have fil'd England Scotland Ireland with blood Recompence them according to their worke they whose sword hath made many childlesse let your sword make their mothers childlesse Recompence them according to their work yea give them double not onely according to the work of their hands but according to the mischiefe of their heart which far exceeds the work of their hands yea it is double unto it and therefore God which sees their bloody minds bids his people recompence them according to what they have done double unto them according to what they would have done It was a bloody speech of one once your prisoner now Governour of a strong hold that yet stands out against you If the King commanded him he would not care but glory in it to burn all the Cities of the Kingdome to lay the Land as Sodome and Gomorrah to sow this Garden of Eden with salt O let not these sons of Zerviah that have shed the blood of war in peace and have put the blood of war upon their girdle and in their shooes that were on their feet let not their hoary head go down to the grave in peace they have been the troublers of Israel God and you trouble them enter into your chamber and shut the doors upon you and then revolve again and again all the sad stories of these mens cruelty sum up whatever losse or dammage the three Kingdomes have suffered by them yea exact not the principall but the utmost farthing of Use and Interest Our Saviour Christ tels the Pharisees That they have fil'd the measure of their sins and that they had brought upon them all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of Righteous Abell unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias whom they slew between the Temple and the Altar these men are guilty of all the blood that hath been shed in this Kingdome in the cause of Liberty of Priviledge of Religion God will lay all the blood to their charge he will not loose one drop of the blood of his Saints Abels blood yet cryes for vengeance God when he comes to make Inquisition for blood he will account for every drop of blood he that pardons all other sins will not pardon innocent blood Teares shall not wipe away the guilt of blood Reformation cannot hinder when God inquires for blood God may defer his Visitation yet come he will and he will enquire whether there be any of the house of Babylon alive to make restitution for blood The same Spirit that actuated Cain to kill his brother Abell actuated the Pharisees to kill the servants the sons of God the same have actuated these men to kill the Saints The devill was a Murtherer from the beginning the whole world lies in the wicked one they all walk by the same bloody principles they have the same inraged spirit with the same hellish rage which reacheth up to heaven by which they have shed any of the blood of the Saints they would have shed all if all the blood that were shed from Abell to this time did run in the veines of any one child of God they would open that vein and let out that blood and spill it as water upon the ground Caligula's bloody wish is in all their hearts O that all the Saints and servants of God had but one head that with one blow I might strike it off Neither let your eyes spare though there are great ones that are guilty Queen Vasthi too curiously wedded to the observation of the Persian Law which inhibits women to be seen of strangers and too much doting upon her own beauty and Majesty refuseth to come though the King sends a first and second time and therefore she shall never come more the King and his Councell Decree it and give a Morall Reason for it greatnesse and wickednesse may not twin together Princes have not any licence to offend Queens themselves have not an Obstante for sin 'T is the misery of greatnesse the offence is as great as the offender the sin as soveraign as the Person great Persons do not so much commit sin as teach it their disobedience is ever Masculine and it begets followers of it as of their Persons they are of a diffusive and spreading nature The highest Court may reach the highest Persons Causes and not Persons are to be heard in Your Parliament I le conclude this with that of Ezra chap. 7. ver. 26. Whosoever will not do the Law of thy God nor the law of the King let judgement be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to Imprisonment Let not them Perish that have adventured the perishing that you the Kingdome might not perish Esther found favor in the eies of the king the king gave her Hamans house It was the Piety of David that he inquired Whether there was any of the house of Saul that he might shew the kindnesse of God unto him and it was a commendable custome in the Courts of Persia to have the good Acts of the Subjects Chronicled Mordecai was found in the History and the King highly advanced him for it Would you be pleased to peruse your own Records you may finde some places that now like Mordecai lyes sad and desolate in the gate that did you admirable service whereof you did rejoyce and glory pardon my zeal if I name the Town and Parish of Manchester unto you a Town famous for Religion ever since the Reformation beleeve it it hath been a Goshen a place of light when most places of the Land have been places of darknesse it hath been an hiding-place a place of refuge and sanctuary against the Tyranny of Prelacy the stormes and tempest of persecution They were with the first that jeoparded themselves in the high places of the Earth that ventured the perishing in the cause of God the Kingdome They offered themselves willingly amongst the people and they laid out themselves in what they had for the publike service yea I know there were that like the Widdow threw in all their treasure into the publike Treasury God did great things by them and for them I fear not to say they preserved the North Manchester was the publike Magazine the Sanctuary to poor Exiles the Prison to proud Enemies the Bulwark to the