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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62008	King Charles his funeral who was beheaded by base and barbarous hands January 30, 1648, and interred at Windsor, February 9, 1648 with his anniversaries continued untill 1659 / by Thomas Swadlin ...	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing S6219; ESTC R34629	139,690	216

to touch them with any hand of violence He whosoever he be that doth it commits no less sin then Crimen laesae Majestatis High Treason Touch not mine Annointed is all one with Prov. Job lay no violent hands on Kings no nor tongues neither speak not irreverently of them no nor hearts neither think not unworthy of them But it may be some have got and others follow the new gloss of these words Touch not mine Annointed i. e. touch not my Prophet touch not my Saints touch not my holy ones Prov. This concernes not Kings Well be this admitted though it be not granted yet what say you to that of Solomon Fear God and the King and that in respect of the Oath Is not this home to this particular The King next to God and the King joyned with God in the duty of Feare q. d. If you fear not the King when you have seen you fear not God whom you have not seen and is not that Aggravation of the sin in not fating God for want of fearing the King and an Aggravation of another sin in not fearing the King for want of fearing God But the Aggravation is yet further and higher and that in respect of the Oath Take the Oath which way you please eitheir the Oath of Universall obedience to God wherein the King is not left out or the Oath of particular Allegience and Supremacy to the King wherein the King is especially put in and yet God not left out for the Oath is to the Ki●g b●fore God and that God before whom you took this Oath will be a most severe revenger upon you that have broke this Oath of Allegiance to the King before God and the Oath of Obedience to God before the Church 2. They knew that Murthering of King Charles the first was a sin and a very great sin by the Example of Christ when he was upon the Earth Cloathed with the Garment of our Humanity Having at his Command and beck twelve legions of Angels for his assistance and rescue Joh. 19. and Pilate told him he had power to loose him and power to Crucifie him Christ was so far from Commanding his Angels or to resist Pilates power that he commanded St. Peter to sheeth that sword which he drew in his defence and said no more to Pilate but thou should'st have no power over me unless it were given thee from above therein acknowledging all Royall Power on earth to be a Dorrative and Derivative from Gods power in Heaven therefore to be feared obeyed and submitted unto at no hand to be resisted But whether the Murthering of a King be the resisting of Regall Power and a sin yes and an Aggravation of that sin because they knew it Judge your selves Again from Christs Example Mat. when these Crafty and Fox-like Pharisees come to Christ that they might entangle him and therefore demanded whether it were he asketh whose lawfull to give Tribute unto Caeser or no superscription was upon their money and when he heard it confessed from themselves that it was Caesers why then quoth he give unto Caser the things that are Casaers and to God the things that are Gods thereby denying God and the King to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Incompatible and commanding us as well to give the King our Goods and Bodies to him service as to do give God our Souls and Bodies in his service And doth not this Aggravate their sin who against their knowledg are so far from paying or giving the King his Tribute that they plunder him of his life 3. They knew that Murthering of the King was sin a great sin a very great sin by the Native Positive and Statute Laws of this Kingdome All which Lawes do say It is High Treason to Imprison the King certainly then much Higher Treason to Murther the King And this last Aggravation of their sin concerning their knowledge that Murther'd King Charles the first at his own Royal Pallace-Gate Jan. 30. 1648. and I conclude it with this prayer for you and my self Give us grace O God to labour for knowledge Joh. 13.17 and give us more grace to add practise to our knowledge that we may be blessed in knowing good and doing well through Jesus Christ Amen Cursed am I if I know and will not do not because I know but because knowing I will not do what I know and so sin against my knowledge as these Gentiles did They knew the Law of God This was the object of their knowledge some Translations read the Righteousness of God some the Judgement some the Justice of God They all come to one so I here understand by the Law not the Law written either Morall or Judiciall for this was the Jewes Prerogative but the Law unwritten whereby every man knowes in generall what is good what is evil what is to be done what is to be forborn and this was a priviledge which God vouchsafed the Gentiles and that three waies 1. By the light of Nature which Philosophers called the Law of Nature Lex and Lux not differing much either in Signification or pronuntiation E. and U. In pronuntion light i.e. the light of the minde which direct and Law the Law of the minde which perswadeth 2. By Conscience which is the lights light or the Lawes Law and is therefore quiet and commends the minde for well doing but is restless and condemnes the mind for ill doing and so the next Chapter tells us their Conscience or thoughts accusing or excusing accusing when any thing is done co●tra scientiam against knowledg excusing when the mind thinks or the mouth ●peaks or the hand doth cum scientia according to knowledge ever writing like that Lex Acilia among the Romans one of these letters to be read either A. or C. if A. it was Absolution if C. it was Condemnation 3. By examples of Vengeance upon evil doers which may be called the judiciary Law of God and so is the word here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Righteousness Law or Judgment injusti facti Correctio the punishment of an unjust act especially of that which is the unjustest of unjust Sects whether it be Homicidium Parricidium or Regi-cidium ●urthering of a man which is bad or the murthering of a Father which is worse or the murthering of a King which is worst of all Had we been before Christ or were we now without Christ yet we should have the Law at least the knowledge of the Law of God and this the Apostle proves to every one of us two wayes 1. A Facto by Fact 2. A Testimonio by Witness 1. By Fact thus Though they have not the law yet by Nature they do the things contained in the Law Rom. 2.14 by Nature by the light of Nature For by the light of Nature Plutarch thus justifies the first precept of the Decalogue saying Omnes hoc uno ore dicunt esse Deos In amator in Tim. 3. pag. 416.

the Law of Nature or the Divine Law not by Popular Pactions or Politick and National Agreements we are bound to obey the King and the Reason is Because the King is the Supream Head i. e properly Universorum of all the People and all this is not obscurely implyed but manifestly expressed and that not by single and yesterday Pamphlets but by sundry old Authentique Histories and Chronicles Would you have it yet plainer Look ye then upon the Oaths ye have taken in the presence of Almighty God The Oath of Allegiance The Oath of Supremacy and your own Parliamentary Protestation In each of these you have sworne to maintain the Kings Soveraignty in all Causes and over all Persons Ecclesiastical and Civil A Soveraignty he hath not onely over singular persons but over all persons and you have sworn to maintain it and as you endeavour it so God will help you But you may fear you may justly fear If you have un-Sworne that or Sworne against that which you have so Solemnly Sworne to maintaine That GOD will not onely not help you but wound you wound you while you live with the Infamy of Rebells and a tormenting Conscience Witnesse Alderman Hoyle Sr. Henry Phane Senior and some more and wound you when you are dead with the Eternity of Fire and all the Torments of Hell From both which Almighty God deliver you for his Son Jesus Christ his sake and from which that you may be delivered I pray God give you grace to acknowledge esteem King Charles II. to be Universis as well as Singulis Major Greater then and over all because They that think lesse of him do despise him and are therefore the Chil●ren of Belial as they are and shall be in future Chronicles who thought lesse of King Charles I. and therefore murthered him And so are they that bring him no presents which is my third Consideration and to be handled the next year In the mean time God in mercy c. Anno Dom. 1653. 1 SAM 10.27 They brought him no Presents WEE are by the Grace of God Pars. 3. met here again to remember a sad and mournful day That day on which the best King that ever England had was murthered I chan● 〈◊〉 my Text yet because I am yet to shew you the Privative cond tion of Rebels or Children of Belial from these words They ●●ought him no Presents And I sha●l not spend much time in the Explication of these words The● are obvious enough to the thinnest understanding and th●yi● end thus much These men these Children of Belial di●no● contribute to the maintenance of the King They did not ●yd im they did not assist him They ayded him not with A●ms they assisted him not with mony They withheld his Vecti●li from him They brought him not his Customes his Crown-Re●enues his Subsidies and Poll-monies I shall therefore spend my ensuing Discourse in resolving that Question which doth almost Naturally arise from these last words viz. Whether it be lawful to bear Arms Quest. 3 or contribute for the maintenance of a War against the King This Text resolves it Negatively and says It is not lawful For they who brought the King no presents were therefore Sons of Belial and therefore much more are they the Sons of Belial who fight against or contribute to maintain a War against the King And this I shall endeavour to make good 1. Removendo by removing all Objections that I meet withal which colour this Opinion 2. Moven●o by commending to you some choise and pregnant places of Scripture which give the checkmate to this Opinion 3. Propendendo by explaining those places of Scripture by the practises of the Fathers 4. Proponendo by laying before your face some of those fearful Judgements which have befallen some men who have born Arms against their Kings as fearful Examples for them who contribute to the maintenance of such Wars And first for the Objections and the first of any validity I meet with is that of David's taking up Arms against King Saul Object 1 and it is argued thus 1 Sam. 22.1 2. 1 Sam. 24.18 David the Subject took up Arms against Saul the King and was not rebuked for it either by any Divines or Lawyers or States-men Many of his Fellow Subjects to the number of 600. took up Arms with him and very likely many more contributed to the maintenance of that Army nor yet were they reprehended either by any Rules of Divinity Law or Policy and Therefore Subjects may take up Arms and contribute to the maintenance of a Warre against a King if he be an Oppressour of their Properties Liberties or Religion And to this first colourable Objection Answer I Answer thus The Allegation is false For how can it possibly be imagined That David took up Arms against Saul when we find him continually flying from and never fighting with Saul Yea 1 Sam. 24.6 so far was he from fighting with him or taking up Arms against him that when God had delivered Saul into his hands two several times 1 Sam. 26.9 once in the Wildernesse of Engedi and once in the Hill of Hachilah David durst not himself nor would he suffer any man else to stretch forth his hand against King Saul and for this reason 1 Sam. 24.2 Because he was the Lords Annointed Certainly David neither raised nor entertained these 600 men to fight or encounter with or against Saul For what are 600 to so many thousand as Saul had at Command 1 Sam. 26.2 He never went without 3000 men after him David used these 600 only for Spies or Scouts that they might give him Intelligence where Sauls ambushments lay that so he might as is said the better avoid his fury ver 4 Certainly therefore David with his 600 mens is very unlearnedly urged as an Example of Disloyalty Nor will that Addition help it viz. That David was 40000 strong in the days of Saul and likely he would not lye still with that great Army 1 Chr. 1.12 No no They had no such foolish Oath in those Loyal daies as Never stir law It is fit let the King know himself It is high time King Saul were removed from his evil Counsellours Doeg and his fellows For first you cannot but know at least you cannot deny That these 40000 come not to David until Sauls death if you observe the story Ver. 22. For it is said expresly They came to David to help him until it was a great Host like the Host of God And these are the numbers of the Bands Ver. 23. that were ready Armed to the War and come to David to Hebron to turn the Kingdom of Saul unto him according to the Word of the Lord And what made these men come to David at this time It was Sauls death and they knew David was appointed by God to succeed him But secondly admit it for truth That David was 40000 strong in the da●es of Saul