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A46843	King Charles I, no such saint, martyr or good Protestant as commonly reputed, but a favourer of Papists and a cruel and oppressive tyrant all plainly proved from undeniable matters of fact : to which are added Dr. Burnet's, now Bishop of Salisbury, and other reasons, against the keeping up any longer the observation of a fast on the 30th of January : as also short answers to these three questions, I, what is the occasion of the clergies pride and lording it over the laity, II, why they and many of the laity cry up this king for a saint, martyr, &c., III, what is the true reason that the generality of the clergy, and many of the laity, both lawyers and others, are constant advocates for kings, tho never so wicked, and sacrificers of the people.	D. J.	1698 (1698)	Wing J7; ESTC R444	18,954	30

I shall not be hardly thought on since a Person in so high a station so eminent for Parts and Piety as Dr. Burnet now Bishop of Salisbury hath before a great Auditory in the famous City of London viz. the Aldermen c. expressed himself fully against the keeping up that day in his Sermon preached at St. Lawrence Church London Jan. 30. 1680. and since printed by R. Chiswell His words are I acknowledg it were better if we could have Job's Wish that this day should perish that darkness and the shadow of death should cover it that it should not see the dawning of the day nor should the light shine upon it it were better to strike it out of our Kalendar and make our January determine at the 29th and add these remaining days to February And to put it out of doubt what the Bishop of Salisbury's meaning was in that expression It were better if we could have Job 's Wish I shall quote some other expressions in that Sermon Pag. 4. are these words Upon their loving Truth and Peace those black and mournful days should be converted to days of gladness Pag. 5. It might have been expected that our 29th of May should have worn out the remembrance of the 30th of January and now at the end of two and thirty years to this time 50 it may be reasonably asked Should we still continue to fast and mourn Pag. 28. If we come to love the Truth and Peace to live in Love and Peace one with another then our days of Fasting shall be turn'd into solemn and chearful Feasts Then shall our 29th of May swallow up the remembrance of the 30th of January Or perhaps as the Prophet foretold such happy Deliverances should come to the Jews as should make even that out of Egypt to be forgotten so we might hope for such days as should out shine and darken the very 29th of May If we come to love Truth and Peace then shall even this Fast of the 10th month according to the Jewish Account which according to Arch-Bishop Vsher is exactly our 30th of January be to us Joy and Gladness 1. I shall observe That the keeping up the 30th of January hath never as I could learn done the least good but much burt to these Kingdoms for it hath given and still gives the Clergy who rarely preach or write for the good of the Kingdom an opportunity of poisoning the People with lying Stories and dangerous Notions many of them crying up this King to the great scandal of Christianity in a blasphemous manner venting such horrid Expressions as these in his behalf viz. THAT HIS BLOOD CRIED LOWDER FOR VENGEANCE THAN THE BLOOD OF JESUS our dear Redeemer Another vile Wretch said That they accused our Saviour of being a Winebibber and a Friend of Publicans and Sinners but could lay no such Charge to the Martyr of their own making Are such wicked Assertions to be tolerated among Christians God forbid 2. Contrary to all Christianity it effectually keeps up perpetual Animosities Wraths Feuds and Divisions in these three Kingdoms Which are of a pernicious consequence to the publick Welfare of any People For what good Man can hear without a just resentment his Ancestors that ventured their Blood and Treasure for the deliverance of their Country be most falsly and wickedly arraigned as Rebels by a parcel of Clergymen generally Advocates for Tyranny and many of them little sneaking ignorant and scandalous Fellows who on this madding Day impudently vent their lying Harangues against them who under God were the Instruments of much happiness to England 3. The keeping up that day furnisheth the Jacobites with a mighty Argument against the late happy and glorious Revolution for they argue thus Since by Act of Parliament the opposers of King Charles the First who acted by authority of Parliament mark that are branded as Rebels c. how much more are they Rebels that against their own Principles of Passive Obedience and Non Resistance turned out their Jure divino King the late Tyrant James who had not committed half so many arbitrary and illegal Actions nor been guilty of such notorious Violations upon the Laws and Liberties of England as that Holy Martyr Charles the First was justly charged with 4. This solemn observation is pleasing or acceptable to none but those wicked Clergy-men or Laymen that either had a hand in those arbitrary doings of that King or that would still maintain and justifie such pernicious Doctrines and Actions Neither is it to be wondred at that some of the Laymen are for keeping up this day by reason thy now enjoy the Estates of those men that assisted in the redemption of their oppressed Country for the old Saying is true Interest may flatter but it will never lie 5. If against all reason and justice to the memory of our deceased Patriots I should pro confesso allow they had been Rebels by resisting this King I would willingly be satisfied what hath their innocent posterity to answer for in this case To conclude all I do solemnly profess and declare in the presence of God That I have not written this Book to vindicate the Actions of any Relations of mine that had any hand in opposing that King nay I am not sure any of my Family was engaged in that Righteous Cause but for the undeceiving of those that are most strangely against all truth and reason deluded by the Clergy to believe a Lie viz. That King Charles the First was a Saint and Martyr and that all those good people that withstood his notorious oppressions and evil designs were great Rebels Dear Country men I have now set clear light before you and I hope you will no longer walk in darkness I desire you will carefully read over and consider this small Book and that called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640 which contains a black list of the pretended Martyr's tyrannical actions c. and upon all occasions stand u p for the undoubted Truths therein by doing of which you will highly contribute towards the securing to your selve● and posterity a Lasting Happiness Which is the most hearty prayer of yours and his Countries real Friend D. J. FINIS

knows cannot come under any one of these Characters for it is plain that he did not dye for being a Witness or Confessor of the Revealed Truths in God's Word neither did he suffer Afflictions even unto Death for the sake of owning or professing Evangelical Truths No the Parliament did not oppose or prosecute him for being a Protestant but for favouring Papists and subverting in a most arbitrary manner all the Laws and Liberties of England I shall now proceed to shew that this King could not be a firm Protestant His Letter to the Pope printed at large in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. and the People of England against King Charles the First and his Adherents in answer to the Letter he received from the Pope is enough to startle any but such as Land 's Protestants He calls the Pope Most Holy Father and tells him I shall never be so extreamly affected to any thing in the World as to endeavour an Alliance with a Prince that hath the same apprehension of the True Religion with my self Mr. Rushworth hath it in these words Your Holinesses Conjecture of Our Desire to contract an Alliance and Marriage with a Catholick Family and Princess is agreeable both to your Wisdom and Charity for we would never desire so vehemently to be joind in a strict and indissoluble Bond with any mortal whatsoever whose Religion we hated And towards the end of the Letter I entreat your Holiness to believe that I have been always very far from encouraging Novelties or to be a Partisan of any Faction against the Catholick Apostolick Roman Religion In another place he protested That he would expose Life and Estate in the Exaltation of the Holy Chair This cannot redound to the honour of a Protestant King for the Holy Chair in its proper sense means nothing but down-right Popery In another place he tells the Pope I will employ my self for the time to come to have but one Religion and one Faith Having resolved in my self to spare nothing in the World and to suffer all manner of Discommodities even to the hazarding my Estate and Life for a thing so pleasing to God This Resolution cannot look like his converting the Pope and others to the Protestant Religion but directly the contrary And in his Reply to the Nuncio upon his delivering the Popes Letter to him which you may read in Cabala or Mysteries of State pag. 214. he says I kiss his Holiness Feet for the Favour and Honour he doth me so much the more esteemed by how much the less deserved of me hitherto and his Holiness shall see what I do hereafter And so did England Scotland and Ireland and the whole world His Bishops and Chaplains pressed Popish Innovations and preached Doctrines of gross Popery And I think my Father will do the like so that his Holiness shall not repent him of what he has done His marrying a violent Papist and making Articles with France in favour of Papists read his Articles at large in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. c. His stopping all Prosecution against them His preferring many of them to places of eminent Trusts particularly Weston to be his Lord Treasurer Arundell Weston Gottington and Windebanck who all died Papists His pardoning Mountague his Chaplain for preaching down-right Popery His unlawful corresponding and conspiring with the Irish and French to land Forces against the Parliament He was kind to the Irish Papists And in his third year against the plain advice of Parliament like a kind Pope sold them many Indulgences for money Advised with them on all occasions admitted them to private Consultations with him and his Queen His sending one Dillon a Papist Lord soon after a chief Rebel with Letters into Ireland and his dispatching a Commission under the great Seal of Scotland at that time in his own Custody that they should forthwith as formerly had been agreed cause all the Irish to rise in Arms. Read the Commission at large in the Book before mentioned His causing ten thousand Popish Irish Soldiers to be ordered for England by the Earl of Glamorgan do all shew he had more confidence in Popish Irish than in his Protestant English Subjects A rare Protestant I profess These with his betraying the Protestants of the Palatinate Isle of Rhee and Rochel and the poor Protestants of Ireland to the number of 154000 shew the slender affection he had for the Protestant Interest either at home or abroad From such a merciless Protestant Good Lord for ever deliver these Kingdoms Read his Letters to the Rochellers and their Remonstrance upon his betraying them both printed in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. and you will have little cause to admire this Martyr And also the Sheet called Murder will out printed in the same Book which makes it appear he had a hand in the horrid Irish Rebellion In the next place I shall plainly make it appear beyond all doubt that this King was an oppressive Tyrant and should I proceed on this melancholy Subject so largely as with the greatest truth and matters of Fact I might I should have cause to cry out with the Poet Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem Many Instances of his Arbitrary and Illegal Government being printed in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640 c. and also the following Papers which set this King out to the life viz. The Pope's Letter to King Charles I. and King Charles 's Answer His Articles of Marriage with France His Declaration of Sports on the Lord's Day His Letters of Assurance to the Protestants of Rochel and their Remonstrance on his deceiving them His Commission to the Irish Rebels and Rorie Macquire and Philem Oneal 's Declaration thereupon K. Charles II. Letter to the Court of Claims in Ireland in behalf of the Marquess of Antrim for acting by King Charles I. Order King Charles 's Prayer taken out of Pembrook 's Arcadia An Abridgment of the Articles of Peace that King Charles I. made with the Irish Rebels Lord Anglesey 's Memorandum and Walker 's Reasons against Eikon Basilike I shall now content my self with enumerating a few more Instances of his grievous oppressing the People of England as a Tyrant viz. By his raising without Act of Parliament 200000 l. on the poor Merchants for Ship-money Coat and Conduct money His great Minions and Favorites inventing new methods of Monopolies without ever acquainting the Parliament to enable him in a full time of Peace to live without a Parliament as he did about 11 Years together Compulsive Knighthoods the seizing not of one Naboth's Vineyard but of whole Inheritances under the pretence of Forest or Crown-lands Corruption and Bribery compounded for with Impunities granted for the future Arbitrary and excessive Fines on those People that stood in the gap against his Tyranny besides the barbarous Slashings Whippings Pillorings and horrible Imprisonments for

unhappy for his Kingdom And were such persons as these fit to be trusted by the people Men that laboured all they could to make the King a powerful Tyrant and his Subjects a miserable enslaved people Besides could rational men think it safe to permit such a King and his Evil Counsellors to carry on those their Arbitrary Designs apparently destructive to the happiness and welfare of England If they had permitted these Evils to come upon them they ought not only to be beg'd for Fools or Madmen but deserved to lose the privileges of a Free People But God be praised for inspiring and assisting them with greater Wisdom and Courage than foolishly and tamely to suffer their Religion Laws and Liberties to become a Sacrifice to that Tyrant or his Crew His governing ad Libitum Regis by his own arbitrary Lust and Will and not per Legem Terrae and calling but three Parliaments in all his Reign which to the sorrow of England was almost twenty four years must naturally create enemies against him To conclude this Head His whole Reign was such a continued piece of Popish Tyranny and Oppression that the people of England with the greatest chearfulness ran the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes to free themselves and posterity from them both and I challenge the greatest Advocates for this pretended Saint and Martyr to disprove the least matter in this Book laid to his charge nay I 'll go farther I challenge them to give me or any one else a satisfactory account of one good Act he ever did for the glory of God or the good of his three Kingdoms except constrained by his people thereunto For a conclusion of this Discourse I shall make a few Remarques which I hope if well observed may be very useful not only to this present age but to posterity 1. I shall give a short Answer to this Question Why do the generality of the Clergy and Laity so much adore and idolize all Monarchs whether good or bad above the People The Reason is plain The People have nothing material in a Monarchical Government to bestow upon these Court Parasites for the Kings have the disposal of the Bishopricks Deanaries Prebendaries Archdeaconries and most other great Livings and also most of the Temporal beneficial Places as Chancellors Judges and other great Offices from such a sort of men as these nothing but Court-Doctrines can be expected for they are well assured should they preach or write for the Rights or Privileges of the People in Arbitrary Reigns it would be the ready way to dash all their hopes of preferment into pieces And here I cannot but make a melancholy Observation as to the Clergy in general of the late Reigns viz. That by all I could hear or read they have been so far from being Christian Advocates for the Rights and Privileges of millions of people that they have in a most wicked manner promoted and preached up those Doctrines that plainly tended to make them miserable and lasting Slaves Indeed I must confess some few of them have signalized themselves for the good of the People and against Popery Particularly that incomparable Phoenix of our Age Mr. SAMVEL JOHNSON a person that by his sensible Conversation and his golden Works hath done more service to rescue England from Popery and Slavery and secure English mens Rights and Privileges than most if not all the Bishops and Clergy-men ever did since the Reformation His Works are so excellent and highly valuable that they will preserve his Fame long after he is dead and will make good that Motto Vivit post funera virtus And I could wish the Nobility and Gentry would encourage by subscriptions some Bookseller or Printer to reprint all this great Man's Works in one Folio that the Divine and Noble Truths therein contained might be handed down for the publick good to posterity I am extreamly well pleased that our Gracious King WILLIAM hath in some measure tho not so much nor so soon as I could wish tho he had merited more than others rewarded his inhumane sufferings and eminent services for these Kingdoms I would never have a good man have the least cause to say Virtus laudatur alget and that Aude aliquid brevibus gyaris aut carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquid Was the right way to preferment 2. What occasions the Clergy's usurping one Province more than belongs to them viz. the Law when God knows they have work enough to preach the Gospel as they ought to do that their Flocks might be well fed with the Milk of God's Word 1. Want of that true Piety that would keep them closer to their duties to God and men 2. As I hinted before they pick up scraps of Law to make Princes great that they may get promotion thereby tho to the sacrificing of their Country Lastly The imprudent familiarity the Nobility and Gentry have with them many of whom are poor ignorant impious and scandalous fellows that arise from being Parish Boys c. which makes them so proud as to strut and lord it over the People to a prodigious degree I would by no means be thought by this to be an enemy to pious good Clergy-men that as Christian Ministers discharge their duties for I solemnly profess I have the highest value and esteem for all such holy men And I observed in my Travels in Holland that the Dutch did highly respect their Ministers whom I must really confess I believe to be famous for good Lives and Conversations far beyond the generality of the English Clergy Yet they kept these good men at a due distance not suffering any of their Ministers to be seen at any time in an Ale-house Tavern or in a Coffee-house except on their Travels where refreshments must be had to support nature And if any of them shall transgress in this matter they immediately forfeit their reputation and esteem with the people And if they should in their Pulpits presume to meddle with State-affairs and the Magistrates hear of it they send them a pair of Shoos and order them to be gone If Mountague Sybthorp and Manwaring of old Pelling Sherlock Cartwright White Lake Watson Crew Thompson Collier Snet Cook Hawkins Hicks Wilson Long Thompson of Bristol Hollingworth Milbourn Birch and a great many more of the same stamp in the late Reigns had been dealt with according to their deserts I know what would justly have become of most of them 'T is observed that the People of England are famous for punishing little Rogues such as Pick-pockets c. but carelesly and imprudently pass by those Clergymen and Lawyers that have to the greatest degree robb'd them of their undoubted Birthrights and greatest Privileges by whole-sale and endeavoured to establish a Government over them as absolute as the Grand Seignior's 3. I shall take notice of the Observation of the 30th of January in that solemn manner as now kept and if I make some close Remarks thereon I hope