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A62103	A vindication of King Charles: or, A loyal subjects duty Manifested in vindicating his soveraigne from those aspersions cast upon him by certaine persons, in a scandalous libel, entituled, The Kings cabinet opened: and published (as they say) by authority of Parliament. Whereunto is added, a true parallel betwixt the sufferings of our Saviour and our soveraign, in divers particulars, &c. By Edw: Symmons, a minister, not of the late confused new, but of the ancient, orderly, and true Church of England.	Symmons, Edward.; Symmons, Edward. True parallel betwixt the sufferings of our Saviour and our Soveraign, in divers particulars.	1648 (1648)	Wing S6350A; ESTC R204509	281,464	363

better habitation And thus we see that to argue from success is but a weak kind of Arguing nay these very men that now use the same in their own behalf were wont to say heretofore when others have prevailed against their faction The m●re Knaue the better luck I know no reason but that Proverb is stil as t●●e as ever ● But I shal now shew in the next place that the worst men have always ●in wont to plead this Argument Two or three examples amongst many shal be alleaged to this purpose The Scripture tels of ●●bsakeh when he moved the people of Jerusalem as these men do us to make a general revolt from Hezekiah he pretended that God had set him on work and had said Go up against this land and destroy it and his main Argument was his Masters extraordinary great successe to which purpose he reckoned up as our enemies do a great many Cities Towns and Castles which he had taken as H●nah and Ar●●●d Sepharvaim Henah and Iva● And so the Turke argue at this day against the Christians that their Religion excels ours because they have prospered better and prevailed more then we have done And in like sort the Independent faction may urge the same thing against the Presbyterians here amongst ●s for they have been the most succesful and if the Argument be good then down must go the Presbytery as wel as Episcopacy r●●t and branch and the Parliament have erred in Voting for it yea and the Covenant taken to conform the Government of this Church to that of Scotland becomes frustrate and of none effect But to proceed As Ra●s●akeh and the Turks so the Popish Bishops in Qu. Maries time did insist much upon this Argument as Master Fox witnesseth they would urge upon the Martyrs their extraordinary successe which they and their cause had by King Edwards death and Queen Maries coming to the Crown against such great endevours to the contrary these very men who now use the same Argument in their own behalf wil not allow that it was sufficiently good then in the behalf of the Papists I ●il mention but one example more and that is of Pope Alexander the third who as story speaks him was none of the best men when he had prevailed against the good Emperour Frederick the second his Liege-Lord as these have done against their King by getting a great victory against him wherein most unfortunately his son was taken prisoner for redemption of whom the Emperour was forced to prostrate himself upon the ground and yeild his neck to be troden on and to acknowledge Alexander to be rightful Pope which by reason of a schisme was before denied and to restore what ever had been taken during the war on his part when I say the Pope had brought him to all this and to such like things would these men now bring their S●veraig● as is evident by the Doctrine of their Preachers who tel the people that God wil bring the necks of Kings under the feet of his Saints that is as they interpret under the feet of their faction then did He the said Pope insult and glory as these already begin to do in his Extraordinary great success and made it his Argument to perswade the foolish world after these mens fashion that his cause was Gods and that God had favoured his quarrel as the most just and lawful Henry King of England and Lewis King of France were both in the Seduction in token whereof being both on foot they held the Bridle of the Horse on which the Pope rode the one with the right hand and the other with the left And thus also we see that the worst men have bin wont to use this kind of Arguing which our Adversaries now think to be so good and do stand so much upon But from this consideration we for our parts shal beware of being swayed by it or of judging Gods love or hatred from outward Accidents fools only build upon such foundations Evil is the touch-stone of Good and often gets the better of it to try goodnesse Constancy The Arke was taken Prisoner by the Philistines it doth not follow thereupon that God did hate the same no more doth it now follow that he hates the King because he lets his Enemies for the present prevaile against him For Israels sin God suffered the Arke of his glory to be obscured for a season so for our sins it is that our Soveraign is afflicted And let not these Insulters perswade themselves that our Allegeance is so weakly knit that it can be loo●ened with this Argument we are not of them that draw back nor yet of them that blush not to affirm that so long as the King is able to protect them they are bound to serve him but no longer these waters of affliction that have so plentifully showred down upon his Head are not able in the least degree to quench the heat of our love they are as oyle rather to inlarge the flames of our affections the Enemies success against him and ill usage of him doth but make him appear in our eys more like our Saviour and so locks our hearts the faster to him And let these King-Tormentors know that God hath an hook for their Noses and a Bridle for their lips and the things that are coming upon them make hast Nulla sors l●nga est the weather-cock may turn alieno in l●co haud stabile regnum est there is no constant sitting in anothers seat ima permutat brevis Hora summis who knows what a year a month or a day may bring forth quos foelices Cynt●ia vidit vidit miseres abitura dies Great and wise Agamemnon professed that he had learned by his victories 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that great things are overturned in a monent Troya nos tumidos fecit nimium feroces saith he Troyes Conquest hath made us proud and cruel fierce and haughty Et Stamus nos Danai loco unde illa cecidit we the Conquerours are in the same condition from whence she fel Hodie mihi cras tibi is the Motto of all Mortals our portion of sorrow we have to day they shal have theirs to morrow the times may so alter that Affliction may chance to stand again for a mark of Gods Children even in their Calender res Deus nostras celeri citatas turbine versat And so I have done with this particular and come to that which these Libellers adde in their next words Having minded us of their late extraordinary successe in the field they proceed and say Yet stil this Clandestine proceedings against us here condemning all that are in any degree Protestants at Oxford as also granting a Tolleration of Idolatry to Papists indemnity to the Murderous Irish in a close trading way for meer particular advantage cannot be defended by any but by the falsest of men Papists and by the falsest of Papists Jesuites SECT XVII

Minister of the Protestant Church of France that they of their Religion never lived so safely and so comfortably before as they have done since they were disarmed of their weapons which they were at the end of their last warre which he called a Rebellion But with you all the strength and promises of God it seemes are nothing unlesse you have somewhat that is sensible to trust unto O if you knew God and were religious indeed you would be of another mind for they that know thy Name will trust in thee sayes the Psalmist Nay we read in Scripture of haters of God that should come in the last times who should have a form of Godlinesse notwithstanding we feare you are rather of that number and that you hate God for his word sake because therein he so plainly opposeth those waies of Rebellion cruelty oppression and injustice which you walke in and commandeth so strictly those things which as it appears you have resolved against and for his sake you hate all that belongs unto him his Church which you have destroyed his Prophets whom you have persecuted his Service which you have abolished his Temples which you have defiled and his Annoynted whom you have vilified because in meeknesse gentlenesse mercy patience and goodnesse he is so like unto him and are these markes of true Piety not they that commend themselves but whom their works commend and whom God commends are and shall be the onely approved persons I dare boldly affirm and I call your own Consciences to witnesse it with me that Kingly Majesty was never so blasphemed and exposed to vulgar contempt as it hath been since you sate nor was the dignity of Parliament which next to the Kings honour ought by all true Englishmen to be held as sacred so abused as it hath been by you who have used its venerable name to countenance all your evill and illegall actions against your Soveraign and his Subjects and have made that High and Supreme Court as the Pharisees of old did Gods House no better then a very den of Thieves and I am confident if Jesus Christ my Master were here he would tell you so to your faces and bestow as many woes upon you as he did upon your Brethren in those dayes who like you did pretend so much to Piety when they had so little of it You take to your selves the Title of the Lords Worthies forfooth but good names doe not alwayes prove good men Titles without truth serve but to enhance and disexcuse damnation you call the warre on your side Sacrum so was the Pope wont to call his though it be both against Law and Religion your League and Covenant you stile Holy as was that in France when time was though like that it be to root out Protestant Profession and the King your Armies you intitle the Armies of God as the disobedient Barons in King Johns time did theirs and your worke you call opus Domini the Lords work and the Lords cause though such as the Lord abhorreth and detesteth thus bold are you with the Almighty as if he were such another as your selves but is this true Godlinesse it will not be so found at the great day you talk much of Conscience but doth this alone prove you have any do not many men use to plead Conscience when through passion or opinion they pursue a cause with greater heat then themselves can give or others discern a reason for your Consciences scruple as you would have us think at a gesture or a Garment in Gods Service but they are secure in Actions of killing robbing rebelling and breaking all Lawes of private interest and Soveraign Power we see you are resolute in bloud and rapine and can even scorn at those that make Conscience at such crimes you talk of mens having Authority from Gods word for what they doe and yet practice your selves things above measure sinfull as if they were necessary duties and are able to shew no Scripture at all for the same we are posed we confesse at your Pietie we can see no dram of goodnesse in your doings and therefore must conclude there is as little in your selves Policy we confesse we see great store in you even such as was in Jeroboam that sonne of Nebat who made Israel to sinne for to prevent the peoples return to their Loyaltie whom himselfe had drawn into Rebellion he altered the established way and manner of worshipping God which he knew would have reduced them to their right obedience ver 27. Jeroboam said in his heart if this people go up to doe sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem then shall the hearts of this people turn againe unto their Lord even unto Rehoboam King of Judah and they shall kill me And hereupon he sets forth a Directory or new way of serving God and perswades the people that other places were as fit for that purpose as the Temple or Church it selfe yea and vers 31. He made Priests of the lowest of the people which were not of the Sonnes of Levi and Chap. 13. 33 34. Whosoever would he consecrated him and he became one of their Priests which thing saith the Text became sinne to the house of Jeroboam even to cut it from off the face of the earth Truly Sirs 't is too evident to all men that your Piety hath runne in the very same Channell after Jeroboams example you have made England to sinne looke you to the consequent We confesse also you have as much Religion and Pietie as Absalom had enough to vizard over for the while your cursed Design till you had supplanted your Soveraign stole away the hearts of his people from him insinuated into them a suspition of his truth and justice perswaded them to accept of you to be Judges in his place wherein you have received as many complaints and relieved as few as ever Absalom did In briefe such hath been your godlinesse and humilitie that you have declared the King to have failed in his Trust and Voted the Royall Power to be in your selves yea a power more then Royall even to subvert all Lawes which because the King approves not of you have drawne his own sword against him and pursued him as eagerly on all advantages as ever Absalom did his Father while he in the meane time David-like hath pitied you and was unwilling to spill your bloud surely if there were nothing else then your unnaturall violence against your Soveraign in all your wayes opposed to his mercy towards you in the height of injury it were abundantly sufficient to discover to all the world that little true Pietie that is in you But if to this we adde also the consideration of that superlative crueltie towards your brethren we are confident that no tongue touched with Christianitie will dare to speak one word in your commendations Your proceedings against them speak you to be of the Tyrant Maxentius mind that the bloud