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A43635	A sermon preach'd on the 30th of January vindicating King Charles the Martyr, and the keeping of the day by E.H. ; which may serve for an answer to Mr. Stephen's sermon preach'd on the 30th of January, before the honourable House of Commons.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1826; ESTC R38790	24,130	32

Kingdom on a Flame kindled and blown up by the busie Lungs of fomenting Incendiaries little regarding the mischievous Consequences of our Flames so they might Warm their own Hands Nero like Solacing and Sporting themselves when the City was on Fire But I am Tired with the unpleasing Thoughts of these Horrors and shall therefore put an end to this Discourse of Tumults God grant our Tumults may be at an end I proceed now to the Third and last Observation which I especially aim'd at when I chose this Text so sutable it is to the present Occasion and it is taken from the first and last Words of the Text compared together They proclaimed a Fast and Stoned him with Stones Whence Observe That the most black and bloody Villanies are usually Varnish'd with Religion and Justice A Truth that God knows needs no Proof to those whose Memories can furnish them by this Day 's doleful Celebration with a lamentable Instance though I should not mention this in the Text. The Cry of Religion and Justice Conscience and the Cause of God giving Hosanna's to one of the bloodiest Butcheries that the most dismal Night did e'er give Midwifery unto or the affrighted Sun ever saw Making the same use of the Gospel the Gospel to compass the barbarous Designs as the Jews did of their Temple exclaiming The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord which the diviner Prophet call'd Lying words Jer. 7.4 and Suits too well with a Generation of Lyars This Hypocritical Flourish of the mentioned Jews not escaping the more prying Consideration of an Heathen Historian who upon this Score well styled the Jews Temple Impiae gentis Arcanum A Sanctuary of Roguery Avouching their malignant Hatred as the Prophet Isaiah records with The Lord be glorified the Lord be glorified The Voice is the Voice of Jacob but the Hands the Hands are the Hands of Esau I shall name but Two special Reasons of this Observation before I make a closer Application And the First is this I. Black and Bloody Villanies are commonly Varnish'd with Religion and Justice that the horrid Projects may take the more prosperous Effect For even good and well meaning Men may be proselyted to a Devilish Faction if the Conjurers when they raise it can make it appear like an Angel of light Those Witches of Endor always raising the Devil in the likeness of a Prophet For if the Devil should appear in his own horrid Shape he would Fright even those that Study this Black Art II. Dismal and Bloody Villanies are Varnish'd with Religion that upon Disappointments they may not altogether be Disappointed For if the Cockatrice-Egg of Sedition be not Hatch'd with the Warmth of a Conventicle into the Serpent of Rebellion then it must pass for a harmless Incubation Thus horrid Faux surpriz'd in his destructive Cells retains his Vizor pleads he is about his Lawful Occasions means no Harm not he may not he and his Confederates meet in their own hired House Has the King's Officers no more Conscience than to Disturb Honest Men Thus the old Powder-Plotters and Underminers of Church and State did not want the same Apologies of our modern Faux ' s. So that thô the Train they have laid to Blow up at once the Church and State do not take yet they are Shot-free and Justice-proof by a pious Charm The Man-slayers which the Prophet Zechariah makes mention of in his time Zach. 11.5 used the very same Canting Tone of our men of blood of a later date Blessed be the Lord blessed be the Lord And yet in the foregoing Words of the same Verse 't is recorded That they Slew the Innocent and Sold others and yet held themselves not Guilty Read but that Scripture and you need not study a Parallel Instance So that thô these pious Panders cannot in the Night of Delusion Prostitute their deformed Brats and monstrous Conceptions unto the blacker Villanies they Lust after and are in Love with yet the Changeling still retains the Name of a Babe of Grace and so may pass if not for a Beauty yet for a Saint or at least stave off for fear of doing Violence to Purity all thoughts of Searching her for a Witch Wandring Vagabonds do thus legitimate their Vagrancy by a Ballad or Pedling Trade which thô it bring not much in yet it saves their Backs from the Brand due to Rogues And thô to Pick mens Pockets be the main Design yet missing their Aim they may Finger some small Pence by a Canting Tone Looking like Watermen one way and Rowing another and yet take it ill that Men will not believe they are going Sion-wards because their Faces are thitherwards For the Villany was no sooner perpetrated but as Tamar after she had plaid her wicked Prank resumed the Garment of her Widowhood they Robed themselves again with the Old Vestment and Coverlid of Sanctity hung down the Head like a Bul-rush look'd Sadly and with the Whore in the Proverbs Wiped their Mouthes and said they had done no Wickedness So that if the Usherage of Sanctity cannot hand in their black Deformities of Rapine Blood and Sacriledge which they so much Court yet it will serve to Fence off the Stroke of Justice due to Thieves and Murtherers or at worst Canonize them for Saints and Martyrs in the bloody Kalender of their own Crew But 't is well known by the Blows they Strike what they Aim at thô at the same time they look another way These Ishmaels like Ishmael the Son of Nethaniah Meditate a Slaughter thô they may as he did a little before he Slew the Eighty Men shed a few Crocodile Tears the Text says he came weeping all along as he went Jer. 41.6 And the next Verse records the Butchery But to apply this home to the present Occasion for we must not thus have done with it we 'll see if we can pull the Vizor of this Faux and rather Rub hard to get off the Paint than that Jezabel should pass for a Beauty lest we Sin by Connivance as did the Church of Thyatira God grant that our Lord Jesus do not Write bitter things against this Nation for this Sin as he did against his beloved Church of Thyatira and that this Epidemical Sin bring not upon us another Epidemical Plague Revel 2.20 I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Jezabel to teach and to seduce my Servants to commit Fornication and to commit Murther Rapine and Sacriledge I now come to the Application 1. If dismal and bloody Villanies be commonly Varnish'd with Religion then this may Inform us That the most plausible Pretexts of Religion are always Suspicious since so seldom Sincere Christ tells us so of the Puritan Sect amongst the Jews called Pharisees that they might gorge themselves with the tears of Orphans and devour Widows Houses with more ease and less danger They went to Prayer nay made long Prayers as Jezabel did in the Text prologues the Murther with a