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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35074	A sermon preached at Holy-Rood House, January 30. 1681/2. before Her Highness the Lady Anne. Tho. Cartwright ...	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1682 (1682)	Wing C704; Wing C704A; ESTC R170908	23,302	36

Crown of Thorns and then made his way to a Crown of Eternal Glory one would think they still had such another under the Anvil for his Son How much respect soever they acknowledged to be due they never paid him any unless like the worshippers of Hermes they thought the hurling stones at him to be the best instance of their devotion Their Trojan horses which they sent him were consecrated indeed to Pallas without but lined with an ambush of armed Enemies within and their foul Projects the more horrid for having such a disguizing luster perpetually put upon them Was the Parliament to which they pretended such a zeal to bring him held at Holmby house or at Carisbrook castle Was S. James's the High Court of Justice or the Scaffold the place in which they meant to debate with him Did ever men give themselves the lye so loudly as these Or did they ever mean do you think to run the hazard of being honest whilst such down right knavery as this would serve their turns Their wickedness was not spun with so fine a thread but that it might be discovered nor have they taught their Children to mend the matter They had better have used no pretences at all for their disobedience then such frivolous ones as they did so easily was their nakedness betrayed through their fig-leaves when they thought they had stitcht them together to the greatest advantage We do not now want sufficient evidence to prove that Rebellion may be in Maskarade aswel as Popery But the Beast which hath two holes to his den can stop or open either as the Weather sits and they commenced their quarrel so cunningly that as their interessed zeal taught them to clip the King in sunder by a State distinction seperating his Person from his Power so that they might the better disguise their more dangerous secret they made the specious pretence of fighting against his Evil Councillers to stalk before it And who would not willingly offer himself a Sacrifice to so good a Cause Who would not lift up his hand against them who intend any Evil to my Lord the King either in his Person or Government if his Sacred Life be in danger all good Subjects will hazard theirs to save it These were those words of Inchantment by which the unthinking people were so unusually enticed into their own Thraldom and a great part of that dismal spell which raised the Spirit of discord to walk so long among them and I pray God he be not conjured again by the same methods But alas how soon was this Mask of Hypocrisie laid aside and the face of their dark design overspread with a Rebellious Leprosie How soon was Jacob's voyce betrayed by the palpable roughness of Esau's hands Was there any one motive by which they were induced to sight made good And which I pray of his Evil Councillers when they had Him in their power did they labour to destroy unless they took his Good Conscience for one But when Faction hath bent her bow she never wants some Bolts to shoot they who resolve to pick quarrels know at least how to feign suspicions and jealousies and upon no better foundation than this did they raise the quarrel so that the King 's real wrong was to joyn battle with their weak surmizes for the Injury and Invasion of which they complained was only contingent and conjectural a Plot wrapt up in the womb of some dark Cabinet Councils which engaged them by a Preventive and Anticipating War to take up Arms against the King not because he was but because he possibly might be a Tyrant which that they might the better induce the credulous rable to believe they dealt with their minds as melancholy men use to do with the Clouds raised monstrous forms and shapes to fright them where no fear was as Time the best Interpreter of mens intentions did convince us By such black Arts did they raise up those turbulent Spirits which they would afterwards have been glad they could have conjured down again but armed Petitioners were not so easily disbanded as listed Their security consisted in scaring the People who are a sort of timerous Dear and as wild as Bucks whose heads when they are once fly-blown with the buzzes of suspicion the Vermin multiply exceedingly and one jealousie begets another Many were the Birds of prey which they threw off from their fists to devour his reputation the same which now fly at his Son 's our Gracious Sovereign the place of whose breeding was so well known that they might have ventured to have floun them without varvels for their owners might have been found in S. Stevens Chappel without the help of a cunning man Lord what weak groundless and improbable conjectures did they raise of the King's adherence to the Church of Rome And how many such bastard creatures of their own corrupt fancies did they lay to his charge As if it had been part of their Religion to revile him whereas if they would have spoke their conscience and not their spleen they must needs acknowledge that He had done more for the suppression of Popery than any Prince before him Witness his Answer to the Parliament at OXON in the first year of his Reign concerning the suppression of Popery A.D. 1625. To the Petition of the Third Parliament A.D. 1628. and his Proclamation in farther pursuance of it 3. Aug. An. Reg. quarte Witness his Confirmation of the third Canon made in the Convocation A.D. 1640. for suppressing of the growth of Popery Witness his Protestation which he made near Wellington in the County of Stafford 19. Septemb 1642. Whereby he ingaged himself in the Presence of Almighty God to live and die as he did in the true Protestant Religion as it stood in its Beauty in the happy days of Queen Elizabeth without any connivance at Popery and to the utmost of his power defend and maintain it Witness his Confirmation of that his Sincerity before his receiving of the Holy Eucharist at Christ-Church in OXON A.D. 1643. and his Latine Declaration of it to all Forreign Churches in May 1644. and his Conference with the Marquess of Worcester at Ragland Castle A.D. 1645. And yet for all this the Popular Maxime prevailed That the King was not to be trusted and so 't was his 't is his Sons and the misery of the best Princes when they do well to be evil spoken of Our Saviour himself was crowned with reproaches aswel as thorns and if these things were done in the green Tree what shall be done in the dry No wonder if they whet their Tongues like a Sword and shoot for their Arrows such bitter words as these against the King Psal 64. 3. Psal 11. ● who was so upright in his heart Their Antimonarchical Spirits had fill'd them so brim-full of gall and venome against the Crown that it was not strange their mouths should run over with such poyson of Aspes against the person of the