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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49124	Moses and the Royal Martyr, King Charles the First, parallel'd in a sermon preached on the 30th of January, 1683/4 in the Cathedral-Church of St. Peters, Exon. / by Tho. Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1684 (1684)	Wing L2975; ESTC R1028	20,935	33

MOSES AND THE Royal Martyr King CHARLES the First Parallel'd IN A SERMON Preached on the 30th of January 1683 4. IN THE Cathedral-Church of St. Peters EXON By THO. LONG one of the Prebendaries Mat. 6.29 Solomon in all his glory was not like One of these LONDON Printed by J. C. and F. Collins for Daniel Brown at the black Swan and Bible without Temple-bar and are to be sold by Walter Davies in Amen-corner 1684. To the Right Reverend Father in God HENRY Lord Bishop of London One of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council May it please your Lordship THE Great Devotion wherewith your Lordship indefatigably seeks to promote Works of Piety Loyalty and Charity and especially the high veneration that you have for every little thing that concerns the Honour of the ROYAL MARTYR hath given me the presumption of this Dedication Finding among some neglected Papers such Pieces as seemed to retain though but an obscure Character of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I carefully collected and composed them in this little Tablet And though I well know that your Lordship hath a far more perfect Idea of that Best of Kings engraven on your heart yet perceiving that this made a good impression on a Loyal Audience at the first view I have presumed to make it more publick under your Lordships Name which gives a value and lustre to such things as in themselves are but of little worth hoping that by this Recommendation of it it may prove as an Amulet to confirm some in their Loyalty and shame and convince others of their Disloyalty by manifesting to all the incomparable Graces of that Man of God and the unparallel'd Barbarity of those Sons of Belial the Ignoramus's and Ignatians that were Actors in that Tragedy some of which still survive and like the Devil himself seek to draw others into the like Conspiracies and Condemnation with themselves and by another fatal Blow to deprive us of all those Blessings Spiritual and Temporal which by Gods wonderful Providence and Mercy we yet enjoy and to reduce us to our former Distractions and Confusions Nor is it your Lorships publick Merit and Reputation onely but a particular and signal Favour to my self which though forgotten by your self shall be ever thankfully commemorated by me hath obliged me to this confident Address For in truth I have been uneasie and displeased with my self that I found no sooner opportunity nor as yet a better demonstration of my Gratitude and to let the World know what freedom of Access what candor of Countenance and endearing Affability Counsel and Assistance the meanest Clergy-man may hope for from so noble and munificent a Spirit In testimony whereof I have done my self the right with your Lorships favour to subscribe my self Exon Feb. 12. 1683. Your Lordships most Humble and Obliged Servant THO. LONG DEUT. 34.5 So Moses the servant of the Lord died in the land of Moab according to the word of the Lord. ST Gregory Nyssen being desired by his friend Cesarius to give him the Pattern of a holy life transcribes the History of Moses's Heroick Actions and reducing them to Moral Duties proposeth them for his imitation If ever the memorable Actions of that man of God were copied to the life it was done by our ROYAL MARTYR who so imitated whatever was excellent in Moses that it may be thought that God took of the Spirit of Moses and put it upon him So like him he was in his life that in his death he was not separated So he lived and so he died as Moses the servant of the Lord died in the land of Moab according to the word of the Lord. The Text and the time requires me to run a Parallel between Moses and the Royal Martyr whose Obsequies we then duly celebrate when we not onely bewail and detest that execrable Murther and renounce those Principles and repent of those Sins which betrayed that good man into the hands of deceitful and cruel meu but do heartily endeavour to imitate that Christian Example of Faith and Patience which God by him hath commended unto us This Parallel I shall extend 1. To his private and personal Excellencies as he was Moses 2. To his publick and political Capacity as he was the servant of the Lord i. e. by way of Eminency as he was a King in Jesurun Deut. 33.5 who ruled the People of God in the integrity of his heart and with all his might And it is observable that Moses was born when there was a Generation of men that dealt subtily with the people of God but God endued him with so much Patience as well as Meekness and Resolution that no difficulty was insuperable to him The first Grace that appeared in him was his Humility and Meekness of which the Scripture testifieth that he was the meekest man on the earth Numb 12.3 And though this were as another Vail on the face of our Moses for a time to obscure the splendour of his Vertues yet even that tended to his greater glory and admiration among such as did more intimately converse with him He lived long in a retired condition being educated in all the Wisdom of the Egyptians that might qualifie him for the Government to which God had designed him yet his Meekness appeared first in a diffidence of his own judgment which though it were grounded on strong Reason and mature Deliberation yet he alway submitted to such as he thought better skilled in their several Sciences though usually when the Kings Opinion was neglected and theirs followed the success failed and when Moses held up his hands Israel prevailed when he let them down Amalek prevailed His Affability another branch of Meekness was such that the meanest Subject had a a gracious access to him nor needed there any Favourite or Advocate to mediate for him save the justness of his Cause which he would alway hear with great Patience and determine with Prudence and Justice And if at any time he perceived an Egyptian smiting one of his Brethren he would voluntarily interpose and avenge the Oppressed As for the Power which he exercised over his Passions he was as much a King in that as in any other Vertue● The Stoical Philosophy never prescribed a better Apathy than he practised never discovering any Passion but when the Cause of God and his Church was concerned nor was he ever known to act any thing by way of revenge though none was more provoked and though he had Jus utriusque gladii His Enemies indeed made a self-denying Ordinance but none besides himself did practise it His moderation even in words was so great that he seldom spake unadvisedly with his lips and if he did after insufferable Affronts and Injuries call his implacable Enemies Rebels he did no more than Moses Numb 20.10 Hear now ye Rebels and yet he mitigates the harshness of that title with the Epithite of a Religious Rebellion and a misguided Zeal and prays for them in the