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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.
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Warner, John, 1581-1666.
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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
to dale not suffering him to rest and not leaving him a safe hold wherein to lay his head for so Ch the King complaines that they had cast him into a condition worse then that of Birds or four footed Beasts when he saith Matth. 8.20 The Foxes have holes and the Birds of the aire have nests but the Sonne of man hath not where to lay his head 3. And was it not a spightfull usage of a King to be led into the common judgment Hall by a Band of rude Soldiers who not long before had been attended by the Best crying as he went Hosanna blessed be or God save the King 4. And was it not a spightfull usage of a King when he was in this common Hall to countenance set on and to hire the scumme of the People or rascallity of the Soldiers to call out for Justice and Execution when they cried Crucifie crucifie him Luke 23.31 5. Was it not a spightfull usage of a King when as he the King speaks to them in mild and civill language as to Judas Mat. 26.50 Friend or Sir but they to him as Mat. 26.61 this Fellow the Prisoner 6. Was it not a spightfull usage of a King to carry him out to Golgotha there to suffer in an open place which was more fit for the baiting of Beasts than the decolling of a King 7. Lastly was it not a spightfull usage of a King not to afford him a Sepulcher or place of Buriall but he must be beholding even for this to another man and yet thus spightfully was Ch the King used My heart bleeds to thinke of their mockings and spightfull usage of their most blessed King and will leave them to be inlarged by our owne Meditations and for a brief close of this scene shall onely say that as a King may so this King was killed by these Jewes before he was slain or put to death and K. David shewes how when be saith Psal 55.21 Psal 59.7 their tongues are swords Psal 140.3 they are poyson of Serpents Killers all these so that calumny slander if it be not the first degree it is a step I am sure to kill a King and here with these weapons they first set upon Ch the King calling him Samaritan John 4. Perverter of the Lawes Deceiver c. And spit on A man may be said figuratively to be spit on when by Declarations Remonstrances Pamphlets or scurrilous terms he is reproachfully and uncivilly entertained and so Ch the King was shamefully most unjustly spit upon when they proclaimed him a Deceiver of a trust John 19.29 a Traytour by perverting the People and drawing them to destruction and in this sense they might truly be said to spit upon Ch the King But not onely this they did which was too much and more dangerous then what was after done by the Soldiers who did vomit out their excrementitious froth upon him of whom I may repeat a passionate expostulation or holy indignation once used by a Preacher on this occasion What rheumatick Raskals said he were these Soldiers for had they or could they find no place to disgorge the scumme of their ulcerous lungs but on the Anointed of the Lord All that I can say for these is they were not onely Soldiers but barbarous Heathens that did this and yet if report be true there hath not wanted even among such as professe themselves Christians such a Soldier who hath done the like to his King and if any such were let him repent in time lest God in justice spew him out of his mouth as it is said Apoc. 3.16 or that he spit not poure out to the dregs the full vialls of his wrath and indignation upon him and all such as have mocked spightfully entreated and spit on Ch the King In the 20 of S. John v. 5. we read that when Pilat a Stranger an Heathen and an Idolater had seen and presented the King thus spightfully entreated he said to the bloud-thirsty-miscreant Jewes Behold the Man as if he had said See how disgracefully and wickedly you have used him already and therefore if you have any sparke of manhood left in you for humanity sake proceed no further but behold him as an object of all pity a deserted afflicted scorned spitefully-used man but the sight of this man which would have melted the eyes of a savage Tiger into water hardens them as rocks and prompts them on to the increase of his misery and their owne vilany for seeing him even then and so miserable then they say as Mat. 21. Come let us without delay not granting time or reprieve let us kill him for so it followes in the story in the Text for they shall kill him But before we enter upon this bloudy act it will be proper and pertinent to the whole to set downe the severall grounds and causes moving these Traytours thereunto which we shall clearly collect and expresse as we find them storied in the Gospels And these were either pretended such as themselves fained and held forth as causes or such as were really and truly the motives and causes of this their killing Ch the King Now the causes pretended we find to be First that which is generally used in raising the People into a Rebellion the Innovation Alteration or Destruction of Religion and with this the Jewes closely charged him Mat. 5.17 where Christ himself by way of Answer saith Thinke or say not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfill and in that Chap. he instanceth and proves that they by their owne Expositions and Traditions were the Innovators and himself the keeper of the Law of Moses and of the Prophets And after this when they thought him too strict in the point of reverence in the Temple in that he drove out the Prophaners thereof Mat. 21.12 which they conceived was lawfull for them to doe No saith he for God himselfe saith of this materiall Temple or Church My house shall be called an house of prayer but You you have made it a den of Thieves or a Stable and place for theft and prophanation 2. They charge him often and with loud out-cries that in the matter of Sabbath-keeping he is too loose and a Prophaner thereof to which he Answers that themselves are in this Jewishly superititious and not he the Prophaner for saith he Marke 2.27 The Sabbath is made for man that is for the preservation of man by necessary actions and recreations conducing to his life and health on that day 3. They closely charge him with abridging them the liberty of Divorces upon any cause which they said was granted them by Moses Mat. 5. Mat. 19. No saith he it is not I but you that alter the Law in this for Mat. 5.32 Whosoever shall put away his Wife saving for the cause of Fornication causeth her to cōmit Adultery but to this whole charge he gives one general answer