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A57599	Loyalty and peace, or, Two seasonable discourses from I Sam. 24, 5 viz., David's heart smote him because he cut off Saul's skirt : the first of conscience and its smitings, the second of the prodigious impiety of murthering King Charles I, intended to promote sincere devotion and humiliation upon each anniversary fast for the Late King's death / by Samuel Rolls.	Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing R1880; ESTC R25524	110,484	255

stone at him so at once giving him both his death and burial and killing him as it were by burying him that is by burying him alive under a heap of Stones This Punishment did the Law of God award for rebelling but against the Commands of a private Father or Mother even death and such a death If he that rebelled but against the majesty of a private Father or Mother were so punished surely we may allude to what David spoke to Doeg Psal 120. What shall be given unto thee or what shall be done unto thee thou false Tongue who rebellest against the Majesty of a King sharp arrows of the Almighty with Coals of Juniper as it is v. 4. Nay beyond all this if to rebel against the Will and Command of a private Parent were made a capital Crime how much more than capital if a man had any thing dearer to him than life to lose might it justly be made to rebel against the very Life of a King and our own King Hear the Prophet aggravating the sin of Rebellion 1 Sam. 15.23 And Samuel said Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft and Stubbornness is as Iniquity and Idolatry Now whereas some may object that that is spoken of Saul 's Rebellion against God not of any Subjects Rebellion against him which is very true yet for as much as they who rebel against the lawful Commands of their lawful Rulers in so doing do rebel against God whose Vicegerents they are whose Image they bear by whom Kings Reign and who are called The ordinance of God Rom 13.2 Hence may they be said to be guilty of Idolatry or Witchcraft or what is as bad who rebel against their lawful Commands but a thousand times more who rebel against the Lives of Gods anointed ones I mean of those Kings whom God hath set over them Then let no Man say Rebellion is no sin unless he think that Idolatry and Witchcraft be no sins neither Why do we read of those who perished in the gainsaying i. e. in the Rebellion of Core Jude 11. if Rebellion be no great sin Core and his Complices were a sort of Rebellious Levellers or Levelling Rebels attempting to overthrow the Government both of Church and State as appeareth by their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their gainsaying or contradicting and murmuring against both Moses and Aaron and see what came of them v. 32. The earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses and all the men that appertained to Corah and all their Goods What had Corah Dathan and Abiram done Had they cut off the Head of Moses and of Aaron no such matter They had only opened their mouths against them and talkt at such a rate as if they had been as good men as they themselves and for that did the Earth open its mouth upon them They and all that appertained to them went down alive into the Pit and the Earth closed upon them and they perished from the Congregation v. 33. Which words give me fit occasion to mention what he whom some have called Our English Seneca meaning Master of the Sentences saith to this purpose Vengeance against Rebels may sleep it cannot die A sure if late judgment attends those that dare to lift up either the hand or tongue against the sacred persons of Gods Vicegerents Nay hear what a greater than he saith Rom. 13.1 2. The Powers that be are ordained of God whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Now the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here translated damnation is put in many places not only for Judgment as some would mince the matter but for Gods eternal wrath and vengeance So Luke 20.47 Acts 24.25 Rom. 2.2 Heb. 6.2 2 Pet. 2.3 1 Cor. 11.29 See Dr. Hammond Thus having proved Perjury High Treason and Rebellion against those who had their hands in murthering of King Charles the First I come in the fourth place to lay Sacriledge to their charge of which I shall easily prove them as guilty as of the three former Now that word Sacriledge is no sooner dropt from my Pen but I sancy that at the first sight thereof some there are that will forthwith charge Superstition upon me for using it looking upon that which we call Sacriledge or upon the notion of Sacriledge as a meer Chimaera or Ens rationis a Bugbear to scare Children For their opinion is that there are but fours sort of Holy things in the World viz. 1. The Holy God Trinity in Vnity c. 2. Holy Angels and Archangels 3. Holy Men and Women or Saints Triumphant in Heaven and Militant upon Earth 4. Holy Ordinances of God such as Prayer Preaching Sacraments c. Now it is very true if we speak concerning the Holiness of Things nothing but the Ordinances of God if ye take that word in the largest sense viz. for Things ordained and instituted of God as holy separate and devoted to himself are holy for God is the Fountain of all kind of holiness as Kings are of all temporal honours But the great mistake of these who make nothing of Sacriledge yea who despise the word Sacriledge lies here by God Ordinances they understand nothing but Scriptures Praying Preaching Hearing Reading Singing of Psalms Sacraments c. These indeed are Ordinances of God but whatsoever else is of Gods ordinaing and appointing as set a part or devoted to himself is Gods Ordinances Also Civil Power and Authority is called the Ordinance of God Rom. 13.2 because ordained of God v. 1. and therefore surely it is in a sense sacred because one of Gods Ordinances Upon that account it was that the Ark of God though but a piece of Wood was called Holy and that we do read so often of Holy days the Sabbath and other festivals yea of holy places yea of the holy of holies or most holy place which was the inmost Temple called the Sanctuary and that Jerusalem is called the Holy City Also of the Holy Vessels that were in the Tabernacle 1 Kings 8.4 And of the Holy Garments made for Aaron and his Sons Exod. 28.3 and 29.29 Hence the Priests and Sons of Aaron are said to be Holy to God by vertue of their Office Levit. 21.8 Yea hence those words Levit. 25.12 It is the Jubile it shall be holy unto thee i. e. it shall be observed as a thing of Gods ordaining and therefore inviolaible and sacred Now in this sense it may be truly nnd soberly said of all Kings as such that they are sacred viz. Because the Powers that are are ordained of God and cannot be resisted but upon pain of damnation because they are the Ordinance of God Rom. 13.2 Now Sacriledge being the violation of sacred things for that all Scholars know to be the true notion of it and the Persons and Authority of Kings being sacred as hath been proved at large they must need● be guilty of notorious Sacriledge

for it but presume not to meddle with the persons of Soveraigns whom God hath reserved to his own immediate Justice Let them stand or fall to their own Master and who is that but God Almighty Would it not be murther in him who is no Executioner nor appointed by the Magistrate thereunto to put to death the fowlest Malefactor that was ever brought to a Gaole because he has no authority so to do To be sure they who put the late King to death neither had or could have any authority or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for what they did for we have no such Law or Custom in England thanks be to God as to put our Kings to death if they do not please us They may be free in their own perswasion to do such things if commissioned from Rome for that purpose who doubt the Supremacy of all Princes but the Pope to whom they apprehend all other Princes to be of right in subjection but we Protestants have not so learned Christ and Religion as to think that the Heads of all Secular Princes are at the Popes Devotion and their lives in his hands and that they are to hold them but durante illius beneplacito During his Holiness Pleasure Therefore I am amaz'd to think what kind of Heteroclite degenerate Protestants they were if we may call them Protestants who took the boldness to behead King Charles the Martyr Sixthly The sixth Article which I exhibit against the Murtherers of the late Royal Martyr is that their fault was Regicide the murthering not of a private person or subject but of a King which gave a great accent to their crime and made them as it were double-died in blood Though the blood of Jesus Christ may and will upon true and lively repentance wash away the Guilt of Royal Blood so as to prevent the eternal damnation of them that shod it and oh the virtue and value of that Blood that can do so yet I know no Laver that God hath appointed to wash out the stain thereof I mean the blot and stain which it always leaves upon the names and memories of them whose hands have been so imbrewed To attempt that were to wash a Blackamore All injuries become greater by the greatness of the object or party against whom they are committed Read the greatness of their sins in the greatness of the punishments which God hath inflicted on them as the Scripture tells us who have so much as resisted or rebell'd against their Kings but more against them who have put their Kings to death When the Moabites who had paid tribute to King Ahab rebell'd against his Son Jehoram 2 Kings 3.5 They were sorely beaten and the King of Moab brought to such distress that he took his Eldest Son that should have reign'd in his stead and offered him for a burnt offering upon the Wall v. 27. Again we read how Ho eah the King of Israel was punished and the Israel it es carried away Captive though the Governours were Heathen and the Subjects the People of God 2 Kings 17. because after he had made himself servant and tributary to Shalmonezer King of Assiria he afterwards denied him tribute c. In like manner Zedekiah King of Judah was punished as you may see 2 Kings 25.1 compared with chap. 24.20 Thorow the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah until he had cast them out from his presence viz. giving them up to Famine Desolation Captivity Destruction of their City and Temple chap. 25 c. that Zedekiah rebell'd against the King of Babylon yea see what is added chap. 25.7 They slew the Sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and put out the Eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in Fetters of Brass and carried him to Babylon Lord what a dismal train of Consequences insued upon a Jewish King his rebelling but against a Babylonish King Instance we next in Sheba who rebell'd against David and drew all the ten tribes after him was he not by him besieg'd in Abel had his head cut off by the advice of a Woman and thrown out to him 2 Sam. 20.22 The Amalakite that said he had slain Saul though he had not slain him and though he said that Saul bid him was notwithstanding presently put to death at the command of David saying this to him 2 Sam. 1.14 How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thy hand to destroy the Lords anointed Yea David was so incensed at it that he cursed the Mountains where Saul was slain v. 21. Ye mountains of Gilboa let there be no dew neither let there be rain upon you nor fields of offerings for there the shield of the mighty is v●lely cast away the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oyl The meer murmurings of the Israelites against Moses are both spoken of and punished as murmurings against God Exod. 16.8 So Num●● 20 13. it is said the people chode with Mose● for water and yet v. 13. it is said that th● water was called the water of Meribah be cause the Children of Israel strove with th● Lord. Hannaniah perswaded the Jews to revolt from the King of Babylon only an● yet it is said that he taught rebellion again● the Lord Jer. 28.16 Was not Miriam punished with Leprosie but for speaking again●● Moses Numb 12.10 Mind what God said and did upon that occasion ver 8. were y●● not then afraid ye viz. Miriam and Aaron to speak against my servant Moses ver 9 And the anger of the Lord was kindled again●● them and he departed v. 10. And the Clo●● departed from off the Tabernacle and behold Miriam became leprous Nay we find disobedience to the very Priests and Lovite● threatned with Leprosie Deut. 24.8 9. Tak● heed of the plague of Leprosie that ye take heed diligently to observe and do according t● all that the Priests and Levites shall teach thee ver 9. Remember what the Lord thy God d●● to Miriam viz. who was strucken with Leprosie for murmuring against Moses who was no Priest To perswade men to revelt from those Princes whose subjects they are is yet a farther Crime than bare murmuring and see how God punished it in Ahab and Zedikiah who were rosted to death by Nebuchad-nezzer Jer. 29.22 And how Shemaiah's whole Family was likewise extirpated v. 32. Hear David's Sentence against Saul's Servants for not using their utmost indeavours to preserve his Life 1 Sam. 26.16 As the Lord liveth ye are worthy to die because ye have not kept your Master the Lords anointed See how miserably Rachab and Banah two of Ishbosheth's Captains came off who murthered their Master and carried his Head as a present to King David hoping for a reward v. 12. David commanded his Young Men and they slew them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them up possibly in Chains as a terror to others Had Zimri peace who slew his Master Elah King of Israel Surely no for when

he was besieged by Omri and saw that the City was taken he went into the Pallace and burnt the Kings House over him and died 1 Kings 16.18 How sped the Servants of Amon King of Judah who murthered him in his House See 2 Kings 21.24 And the People of the Land slew all them that had conspired against King Amon and made Josiah his Son King in his stead Joash his Servants conspired against him and slew him 2 Chron. 24.25 which was a most just thing on Gods part to avenge the Blood of the Sons of Jehoiada the Priest v. 25. but how came they off see 2 Chron. 25.3 When the Kingdom was established to him he i. e. Amaziah slew his Servants that had beheaded the King his Father If the Murtherers of private persons be now and then reserved to the judgment of the great day to be punished yet Divine Justice and Vengeance as if more concerned about the death of Princes than of Private Persons by the instances fore-cited seems to have alwayes overtaken those even in this Life who have spilt the Blood of Kings as Water upon the Ground Whence is easie to infer that though Homicide be a very great sin yet Regicide is greater and that he was a King whom the Men I am writing of put to death no man ever doubted Seventhly Neither was it Regicide only or the murthering of one who was meerly a King of which these men were guilty but also Justicidium or the murthering of a good King Who knows not that the wilful murthering of any man though a bad yea though the worst of men is a great and crying sin but the murthering of a good and vertuous man a man of a thousand is worse than that and beyond either of them is the murthering of a good and excellent King yea of one of the best Kings in the World which is the case before us Now by how much better the murthered person was by so much worse was the murther for Corruptio optimi est pessima is a never failing rule I dare not apply to this occasion those words of St. Peter Acts 3.14 Ye denied the holy one and the just because they are peculiar to our Saviour who is the holy and the just one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and there is no man so besides him but that the martyred King was a man of great vertue is I think as generally acknowledged by them that either knew him or have seen what is in History concerning him as almost any thing is Who could ever taxe him with Intemperance more or less Who knew not the greatness of his Patience under his unparallell'd Sufferings his professed forgiveness of his most provoking enemies Who ever did read more Divine Lines more pious Contemplations dropping from the Pen of any afflicted Prince than his incomparable and unimitable Book doth contain But it will not stand with the brevity here intended or with the Symmetry of this part with the rest of this Book to write a History in this place of that renowned Kings Vertues but he that shall read his Life excellently written as it is by Dr. Perringshief and others if he have any faith in Histories as what wise men hath not some will not as much admire the greatness of his Vertues as the barbarousness of his Sufferings and both together most of all Herein appeared the barbarousness of his murtherers that they could find in their hearts to use a Prince so immensely ill who deserved so excellently well The Apostle saith Rom. 5.7 Paradventure for a good man some would even dare to die Were they Men or Monsters or Devils incarnate or what were they then who instead of dying for a good man put a good man to death An untimely death I had almost call'd it a shameful death for so it in true tended but that I know no shame was in martyrdom If any man doubt the piety of that Martyr and the tenderness of his Conscience let him but read the 2. chap. in his excellent Book viz. upon the Earl of Strafford 's death Because when almost wearied out of his life by the importunity of those that he believed did wish him well and us'd it as a Maxime Better one man perish though unjustly than the people be displeased or destroy'd he had complied to sign a Bill against the Earl of Strafford's life though without plenary consent to his destruction as he himself saith Lord how uneasie was his Consciscience Reader forbear weeping if thou canst when thou readest those melting warning words of his I see it a bad Exchange to wound a man 's own Conscience thereby to salve State-sores to calm the storms of Popular discontents by stirring up a tempest in a man 's own bosom But I will not prevent thy reading of that whole most excellent Chapter which may almost warrant us to call him A father of Penitents as Abraham was called A father of the Faithful I shall conclude this seventh Article of my charge against the Murtherers of King Charles the First with a short reflexion upon David's words to Baanah and Rechab who cut off the head of Ishbosheth and brought it to him looking for a reward 2 Sam. 4.11 How much more when wicked men have slain a righteous person shall not I require his blood of your hand and take you away from the earth As if David had said for that he meant Saul was a wicked King an enemy to God as well as me and yet when one told me saying Behold Saul is dead viz. the Amalekite who said he slew him by his own command to put him out of pain 2 Sam. 1.10 I took hold of him and slew him who thought I would have given him a reward for his tidings If he were worthy of death who only reported himself upon a pick-thankly account to have kill'd Saul who seem'd otherwise about to kill himself and at his own appointment who was then full of anguish though Saul was a very wicked man as aforesaid what have they deserv'd who beheaded a virtuous King sore against his will and best endeavours to the contrary and that with many circumstances of barbarity as you will hear hereafter And so I proceed to the eighth Article wherewith I charge the said King's Judges viz. Hypocrisie I say with great Hypocrisie practized in that fact It was Homicidium maxime Hypocriticum It was even the Master-piece of Hypocrisie and the grandest Cheat under the Notion of Piety that ever was imposed upon the world Now all Hypocrisie is a perfect Lye and the fault that needs a Lye grows two thereby as Mr. Herbert tells us Who that understands the intrigue of that Business do's not cry out Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum Could such a Monster spring from the Womb of Religion Who laid that Brat at her Door For it was none of hers So Politicians talk most of Religion when they mean nothing less as if they would compensate by taking God