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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02735	Dies nefastus; or A sermon preached on the publick fast day, for the cruell murther of our late soveraign, upon that unfortunate day January 30. / By Andrew Dominick, D.D. ...		1662 (1662)	Wing D1842A; ESTC R175969	9,106	24

those times that Religion and Godlinesse it self should be so abused to be made the Stalking-horse for Sacrilege Robbery and Theft and that the exquisitenesse of Villany should grow to that strength as to infect the World for many years after if it be not lustily observed by us and the World made sometimes ashamed Quis tulerit Gracchos Juven●● Satyr 10. said the Poet who is able with tollerable patience to see men such proficients in Villany that they can shift the Scene and be Knaves on both sides grow as confident with whom they have new●y insinuated to do mischief by them as ever they did or threatned heretofore by the contrary These be pure youths indeed and would be uncased a little to appear in their own colours these be those Bulls of Bashan that can breed disquiets and through all bounds of Law and Right pasture up●n men at their pleasure Certainly Davids Persecution was very great but our Davids much more it we consider the Hostility of it either to Himself Church or Loyal people or if we consider the Plurality thereof David complained of many Bulls 't was not any one that could have compassed him but they were many he speaketh of many of all his Persecutors Many Bulls of Bashan yea strong Bulls compassed me so it is usually the State is like a Ship and the unruly Multitude like the Sea which if by any means a leake be sprung will pour in to the endangering of all After David was opposed with an Army the very abjects could shake their heads at him and many troubles followed one upon another so beloved when our bewailed King was compassed on every side how did the mischiefs on every hand increase the Reverend Fathers pulled down and Canting false Prophets set up petty Tyrants like young sprouts started up every where out of the great root of Tyranny above many but to domineer over their Clergy and have of his livelihood as they pleased had their wayes they gloried in to do him mischief at pleasure and if Aristotle's rule in moral Philosophy be true Quicquid per amicos aliqualitèr per nos that what we do by friends we may be said to do in some sort our selves then were some and of such fashion too as ought to have scorned such things no honester then they should be and yet beloved these were not half the evils of those dayes which came upon us without all question through the untimely loss of our gracious Sovereign then did they slander and reproach the foot-steps of the Lords Annointed then was the Orthodox faith exploded the gravest Ministers proscribed and many of the Rable yet for the contempt was poured out on Church men can scarce yet entertain a just respect but the servant is not above his Lord there were who said Christ had a devil Joh. 8.48 and in the time of Constantine the Emperour the truly Orthodox were called of the Arrians Homousians Theod. lib. 1.4 Austin was called of the Palagians a Manichee and as Ruffin lib. 1.17 Athenatius was called a Conjurer that they might deprive him of his Bishoprick nay they Excommunicated the most Orthodox partie and denyed them Christian burial when they were dead Lord whither will not the petulant rage and madnesse of men carry them when once let loose Government is a precious thing that distinguisheth us from beasts and makes us to live like men nay like honest and good men which if let loose our late times shew what beasts men will become Bulls of Bashan and ravening Lions the holy Ghost thinks fit expressions to intimate their purposes and practices that once set themselves against Law and Supreme authority The Leaders and instigators unto that evil are in Gods account and all reason shews in a Common-weal as wilde Bulls and ravening Lions drawing a world of evils after them if not timely prevented and discreetly avoided by all For as Lawes are the proper fences and bounds of our properties and rights so is the Soveraign power the shelter and preservation of the Law As therefore is the losse of Law such is the utimely destroying of the rightfull Soveraign which must needs draw after it as we not many years since w●●fully experienced multitude of evils So that we may this day weep for our selves as Christ told the people of the Jewes Weep not for mee but weep for your selves that God may avert the judgement due unto this land for that most horrid and wicked fact committed on this day Weep ye that so much i●nocencie uprightnesse and justice should fall by such guilty and treacherous hands Neither may ye wonder Beloved that God would let loose those bulls of Bashan upon his David upon so good a King his best Servants ate fittest to make greatest Champions as ablest through greatest graces to stand out most nobly in the causes of God And beside Christ himself went this way to heaven and it behoveth those who are mostly his members to be made most conformable unto him and was not Christ betrayed too and sold and are there not many who have betrayed him over again in his members an have gone like Judas unto the persecutors and said What will ye give me and I will deliver him unto you And now beloved Observe agen who is it in the text that saith have compassed me mee was it not David Holy David a King and a Prophet a man after Gods own heart 1 Sam. 13 14 16 13. to whom was promised the blessing Acts 13.23 who spake by the holy Ghost yet so it was that God suffers him to be in that manner compassed with Bulls and Lyons Many Bulls have compassed me strong Bulls of Bashan beset me round about Whence we may observe That the afflictions of good men are notes rather of love then displeasure of the Almighty for whom the Lord loveth he afflicteth and so he doth the wicked too but in a different manner and to a different end they find not that comfort in it nor that amendment by it as do Gods Servants wicked men are seldom the better for any cross or at best of no long continuance 'T is true 't is said of Ahab Seest thou not how Ahab humbleth himself But yet a little after we read him threatning and scouling at Gods Prophet for telling him the truth but gracious hearts are highly every way improved by troubles Before I was afflicted I went astray saith David but now I have kept thy word So then afflictions as they are arguments in Gods Servants of more goodness so are they of more love and therefore are they to be the more condoled and lamented in their sufferings by how much their translation hence what way soever may be for their own joy and comfort above but our misery in their losse or manner of losse here below Then I lay you down this doctrine That it is most meet according to command that we mourn this day for the untimely death of our late King for