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A97180	The devilish conspiracy, hellish treason, heathenish condemnation, and damnable murder committed and executed by the Iewes against ... Christ their king ... As it was delivered in a sermon on the 4 Feb. 1648 ... out of some part of the gospel appointed by the Church of England to be read on that day.	Warner, John, 1581-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing W902; Thomason E550_16	37,074	47

understand that in this Treason those Priests were like our Romish Jesuits yet you may well understand and believe them to be Mars his Priests called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who in their Temples and Sacrifices scattered the fire of sedition and rebellion and being appointed in the Church as Trumpets yet upon the least grievance or discontent of the People they used their Trumpets as Sheba did 2 Sam. 20.1 to stirre up the People to their Tents and to take up Armes though it be against Ch their King and indeed without these or the like never did Commotion or Rebellion take life or live long so that to choake or strangle these is the way to cut the throat of all Rebellion I cannot omit in a word to put you in mind that the Gospels have minded us of some who though comprised under those before mentioned yet notified by an especiall title as called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as in our English Bible Luke 7.30 Lawyers and these as chiefe peeces culled out of the rest were as I may call them Chaire-men for so Christ spake of them they sit in Moses Chaire and what they say saith Christ that is when they speake and say the Law doe as they say and teach but doe not follow or imitate them in their waies and practises for as Christ there said of them they have rejected or frustrated the counsels of God written in the Law against themselves and therefore Luke 11.52 Woe unto you Lawyers for ye have taken away the key of knowledge the Law and instead thereof you teach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the traditions of men Mat. 15.3 6. which traditions Saint Paul Ephes 2.15 calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in our English not Laws or Canons but Ordinances In the 15. of Marke 1. we read of their Councel in which or to which most of the fore-specified Parties were assembled and gathered together I cannot I thinke no good Christian can call it as some of our Councels have termed Benedictum but either Indoctum Insanum Sacrilegum or as indeed this was and so to be stiled of all others from the beginning of the world to this day Diaholicum The Councell of Trent in comparison of this was Divinum and of it we may truly and properly apply that Psal 1.1 it is the Councell of the Vngodly the way of Sinners and the seat of the Scornfull and therefore all good men may say as Jacob Gen. 49.5 Instruments of cruelty are in their hands or their Swords are Weapons of violence and may pray as he did v. 6. O my soule come not thou into their secret unto their assembly be not thou united for in their anger they slew a Man v. 7. Cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruell I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel and why may not all the People say Amen for though in this Councell and Treason there were of severall Sects and Factions as Pharisees and Sadduces who were as opposite as Lutheran and Calvinist and Scribes and Herodians who differed in many things and hated each other yet they all in this conspire and thence it is called in the worst sense a Conspiracy or as here a Councell to betray to death Ch their King And yet that all may not appeare alike guilty let me adde that though there be no Accessaries in Treason or none more Traytours than others in respect of its ordinary punishments yet some are and may justly be said to be greater and more guilty in the Treason than others And to this I desire it may be noted that there being at this time but three apparent profest Sects among the Jewes into which or some of which all Jewes of what Authority Place or Office soever had cut and divided themselves viz. Pharisees Sadduces and Essenes of which latter sort happily Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea might be Now as these I find not mentioned in the New Testament so nor to be Actors in this grand Rebellion or Treason for they were peaceable men but as the Pharisees of the two ruling Sects were the most numerous and potent so were they the most forward and active in the leading part to tempt and betray Christ yet the Sadduces who denyed all Scripture that made against them 2. The immortality of the Soule 3. All punishment for evill after death these and upon these grounds and causes I may suppose were the most active and cruell in hurrying the Lord of life to death and killing Ch their King Besides Officers and Sects there is a Faction mentioned in this Treason as distinct from all the former and they are in the Gospel called Herodians and these were flattering Courtiers who varied and changed their Opinions with the over-ruling and swaying part and concerning these and such like Christ gave that saving cautionary counsel Marke 8.15 Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herodians that is of the contagious doctrines of the former and the Fox-like subtilties of the latter 2. Of their leaven of doctrine for it is 1. sower 2. spreading 3. tainting and from their persons Matth. 23. a Generation of Vipers 1. multiplying 2. infectious 3. killing There is further mention of Samaritans who were to the Jews as Papists to Protestants and branded by the Jewes as inhumane and bloudy men and though Ch the King did all he possible could for the Jewes and nothing at all for the Samaritans more than to pity them and not fuffer them to be destroyed when some of his Disciples like fiery Zealots desired it yet these would not joyne in the bloudy act with the more seeming-holy Professors but shall at last rise up and condemne them But in stead of those you shall find Luke 22.66 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 word for word the Presbytery for they led the way and Marke 15.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the whole Councell of the professing Jewes they first or last have their hands in it But I heare these Jewes John 8.3 boasting themselves to be Abrahams seed the Faithfull vers 41. the Children of God but here truth it selfe tells them what indeed they are notwithstanding their vaine hypocrisie and he saith v. 44. ye are of your Father the Devill and the lusts of your Father ye doe who was a Murderer from the beginning As the persons of the Traytours are not in this or any other Text laid together so nor in this or any other is the manner exprest how they enterprized plotted or proceeded in this devilish Tragedy of any one that Text which Christ parabolically uttered Mat. 21. comes the nearest to the point where Christ saith they seeing him there called the Heire but now their King upon sight of such a sacred Majesty which would have begot an awfull reverence in all but such as they were upon this sight their eyes became bloud-shot and therefore forth with from seeing they proceed to saying saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

wherein he shewes that they were Innovators for saith he Mat. 19.8 What ye now teach and professe was not from the beginning but ye by forsaking the old good way prescribed and by following the traditions and expositions taken up from your latter Rabbins you Mat. 15.3 6. have made the commandement of God of none effect and thereby v. 9. you teach for doctrines the commandements of men John 7.19 Moses did give you the auncient good Law which you would wrest and force against me yet none of you keepeth the Law A second generall pretended charge upon which they proceed to his condemnation is exprest John 11.48 If we let him alone all men will believe on him and adhere to him against us and so we may lose our place and Nation where we see plainly that salus Populi the safety and liberty of the People is their maine pretended cause which cause hath no other ground or bottome but that which themselves created for their owne wicked ends to wit some feares and jealousies that if we let Him alone the Nation will be destroyed and hereupon from this charge grounded upon their own disguised and counterfeit fears the whole Councell gives sentence it is expedient that he the one Man die for the People v. 50. To which I may reply as M. W. Sedgwicke one of the Armies Prophets in his Justice upon the Army p. 5. O ye Jewes ye miserably abuse this Maxime and the People too like a company of Deceivers and Mountebanks who talke of curing saving delivering while that they doe but waste spoyle and destroy the People and therefore all your swelling words are but as the attire of an Harlot whereby as you make your selves more vendible so you make your selves more abominable A third generall pretended charge against him we find Mark 15.2 He calls himselfe King and he that is so can be no friend to Caesar that is to the Conquerour and we John 19. are resolved and professe that we will have no other King hereafter but the Conquerour Caesar Will you now that I summe up the whole charge of these Jews against Ch the King Why the first part is That he is a Tyrant in that he hath endeavoured to change and destroy our Lawes thereby robbing us of our liberty which he traversed and denied Mat. 5.19 The second charge is He is a Traytour and an Enemy to the State for Luke the 23.2 he perverteth the Nation and that two waies 1. By forbidding tribute and power of Governing to the Conquerour 2. By calling himselfe their King The third charge is that his course tends to the destruction murder of the People which is implied in those words Joh. 11. We must not let him live but kill him lest the Nation perish Pardon I pray this one short digression while I become a Rehearser of what the Armies Remembrancer hath borrowed from Master Sedgwicke whom he calls the Armies justice These men are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Devils exquisite Accusers and such wicked Spirits are now abroad like those Ezek. 21.32 brutish men skilfull to destroy Brutish not sparing the holiest nor honourablest things Kings Lords Ministers Scripture Ordinances Oathes they lay all wast and yet in the greatest bruitishnesse And yet though there be the most sensuall and beastly confusion yet they will doe it artificially skilfully saying all is for God justice Religion and that they doe it by the power of Christ and the power of God in Religion And see saith he how old studied Professours of Religion when once their consciences are defiled and they begin to trade in the world with a pretence that it is for God they are so cunning that no bonds of honesty or faith can hold them and there can be no such compleat and very Knaves as a Jesuite and a Pharisee and how close these words come home to these Layers of this charge judge ye for they who are the onely Breakers of the Law accuse Him for destroying the Law and thereupon his charge is to be a Tyrant they have perverted the Nation and slaughtered the People whereby they incurre the name and guilt of Traytours and Murderers Matth. 22. Luke 7.52 and yet they charge him to be the Traytour Enemy to the State and Murderer but let this be remembred what there falls from them John 11.50 He must die for the People that is for our Laws and Liberties and so is become by his death your Martyr your Sacrifice and your Saviour Hitherto you have heard the Jewes feigned false unjust charge against Ch the King with a short vindication of him and a recrimination to them which that it may more plainly appeare be content I pray with a little more pleasing patience to be rightly informed what the reall true causes were which moved these accursed Jewes to so horrid an act as to kill Ch the King And the generall leading cause is in one word that they are Hypocrites a Generation of Vipers Sonnes of Belial Children indeed of the Devil for so Ch told them John 8.44 Ye are of your Father the Devill he was a Murderer from the beginning and the lusts and the works of your Father ye will doe and therefore from such a viperous generation and Devilish brood what can be expected lesse then murder And from this source see another cause bubling as it were for when they perceived and found that he spake as never man did John 7.46 2ly That he did all things well Marke 7.37 yea wonderfully well John 11.45 and that by these meanes the People loved believed and adhered to him John 11.48 which they by no means would have had the People perceived or done these rare endowments and virtues like the glorious rayes of the Sunne upon putrified matter worke and beget the poysonous Brats of envie hatred and malice and thereupon and therefore as it is Mat. 27.18 Marke 15.10 for envie they delivered or betrayed him to death A third reall cause that although they knew by experience that Ch the King in his life was so tender and meek that he studied the saving of all that would not wilfully perish and so patient and mercifull at his death that he forgave and prayed even for his Murderers yet the guilt of their hate malice and murder against him was of so deep a staine that they could not that they would not believe either and therefore as their elder Brother Cain they crying out Our sins are greater than he can forgive us can find no other way to save or secure themselves but by his death and this is a reall maine cause why these bloudy Jewes did kill Ch the King A fourth reall cause may be conceived that he was their King not by their election and free will but by the Title of an Heire for so Mat. 21. before they resolved to kill him they premised this is the Heire so that though his other graces and virtues might have preserved him as a Man yet