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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35184	Two sermons preached in the cathedral-church of Bristol, January the 30th 1679/80 and January the 31th 1680/81 being the days of publick humiliation for the execrable murder of King Charles the first / by Samuel Crossman ...	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing C7271; ESTC R17923	25,553	48

was right in his own eyes Right in their own eyes it might be but wrong enough in the eyes of God and all good men Gross Idolatry in Religion the most odious Savageness in Conversation as the Sequele attests Such are the barbarous products of loose times Hitherto the Princes Soveraignty and the Subjects Safety his Augustness their happiness as those wings of the Cherubims over the mercy-seat they meet and embrace each other What God has thus exemplarily put together 't is pity that man should attempt or dare to put asunder The relative Titles which our ancient Laws with so much sageness use may further confirm us in this point Pater patriae Medicus Maritus regni The Soveraign is the common Father of the Country He the Physician we the weak Patients he the Husband the Kingdom his Spouse betroth'd to him with a solemn Coronation-Ring His absence makes us a Family of desolate Orphans an Hospital of languishing Patients and the whole Kingdom a solitary helpless Widow expos'd to endless Oppressions Such a Prince did we lose and such were the Calamities that ensued upon it 'T is true all specious perswasions were us'd to raise that wretched War against the King nothing but golden Declarations set forth to reform Church and State to remove evil Counsellors to redress Grievances and to secure Liberty and Property to the People Dajustum sanctumque videri So fair the pretence it seems must needs be But alas this Angel of Light soon vanished as a personated appearance and the issue prov'd such as we have but small joy to relate A wilde Scepticism in Religion an utter Subversion of Government such excessive Taxes and Impositions such fifth and twentieth parts such Sequestrations and Decimations such Views and Reviews such plundring of Loyal Subjects and illegal sales of their Estates such vast expence of Bloud and Treasure as England till then had not known These sore pressures by degrees fill'd the whole Land with sighings Vtinam viveret Oh that the King were alive and upon his Throne again for then was it better with us than it is now Our sin became our punishment In the day that we rebelled against our Soveraign in that day we laid violent hands upon our own Happiness 3. The violence this day committed 't was a most open Violation of all Laws both Divine and Humane whatever may be the sinews of boisterous War we are sure good Laws are the sinews of all civil Society and Peace where they fall we also fall with them Plebs sine lege ruit That God who hath created man a reasonable creature hath thereby shewed his intentions to govern us by such moral Ductures his holy Commands and Laws but these we wretchedly cast behind our backs As our soveraign Legislator he hath set over us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Supreme Powers The persons commissionated are honourably stil'd the Ministers of God and the Commission intrusted in their hands no less than the Ordinance of God thus issued forth for our good And all this while Princes were then open Pagans with this severe caution added to the convert Christians of those times That resisting this power 't would be a confronting the Eutaxie the Oeconomie and good Order of Heaven a supplanting the true jus divinum a despising not the Delegate but the Original not man but God Lord how apocryphal were these great Doctrines of the Gospel esteemed in our late Rebellion Or rather what unchristian Christians were we then grown Solomon tells us Where the word of a King is there is power that is Authority and Majesty and who may say unto him What dost thou 'T is not for every clownish Peasant 't is not for every pragmatical Mechanick rudely to censure his Princes actions Non potest ad rationes vocari He is a Person too high to be cited before their Tribunal Thus our English Laws in all humble reverence of the Divine tread plainly in the very same steps Omnis sub Rege ipse sub nullo nisi tantum Deo We are Subjects to the King he a Subject to none but God If we do ill the King is a Revenger to execute wrath upon us if he does ill Reges in ipsos imperium est Jovis God himself will take cognizance of that matter in a Superiour Court Satisque ad poenam quod Deum habet ultorem This is the check in his case God stands ready both to inspect and punish his faults But that we might not incroach upon Gods Prerogative we have Angels set as it were with flaming Swords before us Touch not mine Anointed curse not the King no not in thy thought In the nearest Harmony wherewith our own Laws have most religiously determined The very thoughts of evil against the King though never spoken they are treason and could they be proved they would be death Hence it is that so strict care is taken for the Person the Life the Crown and Dignity of the Soveraign in the Oath of Allegiance which by Act of Parliament is to be administred to all forts of persons that the Oath of God might make us the better Subjects to our King The same pious sence our Parliaments have as loyally from time to time expressed to our Kings The Crown of England hath been so free at all times that it hath been in no Earthly subjection but immediately subject to God So one Parliament at another time The King hath no Peers in his Land and cannot be judged And in King James's time the Parliament having agnized upon the knees of their hearts their constant Faith Loyalty and Obedience to the King and his Royal Progeny they proceed in all lowliness to this further Address We recognize as we are bound by the Law of God and man that the Realm of England and the Imperial Crown thereof doth belong to You by inherent Birthright Which they beseech the King to accept as the first-Fruits of their Loyalty and Faith to his Majesty and his Posterity for ever And well had it been for us had we kept these sacred Memorials this sense of our bounden Duty truly engraven upon our hearts The Soveraign had not then been so heavy a Sufferer the Subject had not then been so hainous a Criminal but both eminently happy in Gods blessing The Counsel was certainly good and well worthy his Robe who then gave it Hold to the Laws and the great Body recovers forsake them and it will certainly perish Men and Brethren we have thus far made our Preparations for some penitential Sorrow We have now to sit down together as Job's three Friends every one with our Mantle rent and Dust upon our heads making our confession as Joseph's Brethren Verily we are guilty concerning our Soveraign's blood Methinks we may see him religiously preparing himself the better to receive this bitter Cup solemnly taking that divine Cordial our Spiritual Viaticum the blessed Sacrament in commemoration of