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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

been utterly impossible for them by a pretended High Court of Justice and seemingly formal process of Law or rather Pageantry of Judicature to have sentenced so excellent a Prince to die the death of a Malefactor 'T is not yet forgotten what one or more said of hm when the pit was digging and the net spreading for the life of the late renowned King viz. Blacken him blacken him meaning Calumniare fortiter ut aliquid haereat i. e. Brand him smut him make him odious lay those things to his charge which he never did represent him for so did Cook that was Solicitor against him in his printed charge as bad almost as was Nero himself or as they did our Saviour John 7.20 The People said thou hast a Devil c. i. e. Thou art possest Satan hath fill'd thy heart and body both thou keepest a familiar one or more and doest cast out Devils by Belzebub the Prince of Devils Sith this was done to the green dry wonder not at what was done to the dry I am confident Jezebel did not more falsely accuse Naboth of Blasphemy in the high Court of Justice which she procured against him than was his Majesty of famous memory accused in the things that were laid to his charge some of which were so horrid the more horrid and execrable the guilt of his accusers as nothing could be more If our proverb be true about losing a good name He that wholly takes away the good name though but of a private person though he do nothing more does worse than behead him What then have they done or wherewithal shall their Crime be expiated who did not only take away the Head of an excellent Prince one of a thousand but his good name also as much as in them lay and did not only extinguish his Life and Light but endeavoured to make him go out in a snuff and leave a loathsome stench behind him which maugre all their malice God hath converted into a sweet odor and now he who had no Funeral Sermon on the day he was Buried hath hundreds that may be so called preached anniversally on the day of his Death viz. each 30 day of January and his name imbalmed a-fresh on every such day and like to be so to all posterity Lastly If their Treason who imbrued their hands in the Blood of the late King were not attended with the breach of the Tenth Commandment no sin ever was This horrid Murther and Treason was certainly one branch springing from that bitter root Covetousness which the Apostle calleth the root of all evel and if of all evils surely of this for one They thought the Life of a King in an ill sense more worth than the lives of ten thousand of his Subjects I mean a better prey a greater booty of which they could make more earnings and greater advantage to themselves than of ten thousand other Lives They would have said of a common man Quid laudis in nece tantillae bestiae He had not been worth the beheading what should they get by his death But doubtless they had well computed what was to be gotten by the death of their King He had Fields and Vineyards They knew how to part the Skin of a royal Lyon if he were but once dead they would be his Executioners as it were that they might make themselves his Executors I mean serve themselves of his Revenues and cause him to die that they might live more splendidly The Flowers and Jewels of one Royal Crown are sufficient to enrich though with a vengeance many private Families That by their own confession some of them aimed at and doubtless so did the rest or most of them that did never confess it Was it not the wedge of Gold I mean the Kings Revenues and that which they called A Babylonish Garment viz. The Lands of Bishops Deans and Chapters which those Achans those Troublers of Israel long'd for and made their way to through the Blood of their King So Judas for the lucre of 30 pieces betrayed his Lord and Master Now if that be not a great sin which breaks five Commandments at once let the World judge And so I pass on to my Third Aggravation of their sin who Murthered King Charles the First It was flat and down-right Rebellion open and palpable Rebellion In what can a Son more rebel against his Father than if he seek to take away his Life yea do actually murther him Now Kings are as well Political Fathers to their Subjects de facto as they are Nursing Fathers de jure Yea such Political Fathers are much more superior to their Political than Natural Fathers are to their Natural Children Sons if abroad in the World and at full age are not indecently suffered to be covered in the presence of their Fathers but may ordinary Subjects be so in the presence of their King If then Kings be unquestionable Fathers to their Subjects and of an order of Fatherhood superior to those who begat them then whatsoever is Rebellion in Children against their Natural Fathers the same thing if against their King is as true and as great yea greater Rebellion Ex parte objecti Now the Scriptare calls it Rebellion in a Son but to resist and refuse the lawful Commands of his Father Deut. 21.18 If a Man have a stubborn and rebellious Son which will not obey the voice of his Father or the voice of his Mother and that when they have chastened him will not hearken to them There you have a Rebel against his Natural Parents de facto viz. A Child that will not obey or hearken to the voice of his Father or of his Mother And his Punishment is set down v. 21. All the men of his City shall stone him with stones that he die Is Disobedience in a Child to the lawful Commands not only of a Father but of a Mother Rebellion and such as God appointed to be punished with death and such a death too as is there described viz. Then shall his Father and his Mother lay hold on him and bring him out unto the Elders of his City and unto the Gate of his Place and they shall say unto the Elders of his City This our Son is stubborn and rebellious he will not obey our voice c. v. 19 20. Where first of all his own Parents were to be his accusers yea as it were the Constables that were charg'd with him to bring him before the Magistrates and give evidence against him declaring his Crime viz. saying This our Son is stubborn and rebellious a glutton and a drunkard Then his own Countreymen or Townsmen here called the Elders of his City were to be his Judges and to give sentence against him and that sentence of Death and that the Death of a Dog viz. to be stoned and that stoning by the hand not of one strange Executioner but by the hands of Countreymen or fellow-townsmen every one of which did or might fling a