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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61173	A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at St. Margarets Westminster, January 30th 1677/8 by Thomas Sprat ...	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.	1678 (1678)	Wing S5053; ESTC R16476	17,653	54

instead of the most Flourishing Court of Europe He saw Himself long abandon'd to silent Walls or Rocks and Seas and yet more cruel Guards or then when in His Solitude He cast His thoughts back on His Travels abroad where He was the Love and Delight of Forein Courts and on His Return Home when the Whole Nation seem'd for Joy to go out beyond its own Shores to Meet Him and now to find that the same Nation lay so quiet and Astonish'd at His approaching Murther or then when He reflected on the Spotless Innocence of His whole Life and compar'd it as He well might with other Princes His Contemporaries and yet observ'd the strange Difference that Heaven had made in their Fortunes or then when He found that after the Greatest hopes of Peace and Accommodation He was so suddenly so unexpectedly Hurried to Destruction that even many of His Enemies could not keep pace with the rest in their Cruelty or when He saw that all the second Attempts of His Loyal Friends had prov'd as unfortunate as the first or when He remember'd the Innocence and the Calamities of the absent parts of Himself and took His last leave of those His Children that were present or when He beheld the places of His Trial and Martyrdome the one the Chief Seat of His own Justice the other of His former Splendor Or when I can go no farther For this can scarce be spoken without Tears and Tears will not become a Death so Triumphant Let it suffice that in all this He was not without all Natural Affections nor can any Man that is be truly Magnanimous Two things indeed came near His Heart the Misfortunes of His Family and Friends and the Slavery in which He saw His Subjects were going to be Inthrall'd These only could touch yet even these could not disorder His Soul nor weaken His Faith in God to whom He Meekly Resign'd His Own Private and the Publick Cause which was His own too and by a Divine Spirit Foretold the happy Recovery of both Let therefore the present Age and Posterity let all his Friends and Admirers know what his Enemies could not but confess that in all his Last Words and Looks and Actions He not only equall'd his former Greatness but he Did and Spoke and Look'd as became the Glory he was going to possess He parted from his Crowns as not asham'd to have worn them nor conscious of deserving to lose them nor unwilling to leave them He submitted not to the Unjust Sentence as a King he yielded to the Cruel Execution of it as a Christian The dishonorable part he refus'd the painful he accepted He pleaded not for himself at his Enemies Bar because it was below him He Pleaded and Pray'd for his Enemies at the Bar of heaven which only was above him That Majesty which Nature gave him he preserv'd he improv'd That humility and charity which Religion Taught him he Practis'd he adorn'd What Comforter in so great a Tempest could have inspir'd him with such Security such Calmness such Cheerfulness Who but He whom the Winds and Seas obey'd He that walk'd Himself on the Roughest Waves suffer'd himself the greatest Torments and was able to make His Disciples do the same Of that Divine Teacher He learnt this Heavenly Truth That Persecution is a Blessing and He behav'd Himself Conformable to that Blessed Example as well as Doctrine He was Persecuted for Righteousness sake whether we take Righteousness for Justice or Religion For both of which He was a Martyr and although his Persecutions might seem a Curse to him in this World because they depriv'd him of an Earthly Diadem yet they were a Real Inexpressible Blessing to him For he is abundantly unmeasurably recompens'd in the Kingdom of Heaven Whether the Kingdom of Heaven be taken as usually it is in Scripture Language for the Gospel of that Kingdom those Truths and Precepts that shew the Way to it or for the Joys of Heaven it self to which they Lead He certainly has had the blessings of both He felt out of question the sincere Comforts of the Evangelical Doctrine in this World his Life shewd it his Sufferings prov'd it his Death most evidently confirm'd it And therefore we have a charitable undoubted assurance that he attain'd at his Death to the other more happy Sense of the Word that as he himself the very Moment of his Expiring said he should He has exchang'd his Corruptible for an Incorruptible Crown that the Text of the Sermon Preach'd before him at his Coronation though it then might seem unseasonable has prov'd Prophetical which was the latter part of those Words Be thou faithful unto Death and I will give thee a Crown of Life We have now attended this Godlike Man to the end of his Labors and as much as we can do by our lmperfect Applauses and Congratulations we have brought him to the end of his Faith his entrance into the Kingdom of Glory But I am sensible that in Zeal to perform my poor Office to his Ashes I have too much Trespass'd on the Patience of this Great Assembly Yet I was led on by some kind of confidence that having this the Subject of my Discourse I should not only have your Customary pardon and more than ordinary Attention but the most favourable Concurrence of your tenderest Passions For though on less and private occasions there is scarce any Sorrow but may be wearied and dried up by the distance of almost Thirty years yet I could not but believe and you your selves have given me the greatest reasons imaginable to believe it that there are none here present who came not hither still afresh and most nearly concern'd in the Irreparable Loss of that excellent King Perhaps some that have heard me this day were his own Menial Servants and so were Domestick Witnesses of His incomparable goodness and had a share in His particular Kindness many there may be here who injoy'd the blessed fruits of His first Peaceful most Gentle most Religious Reign many I see who griev'd at His Ruin and indeavour'd too to support His falling Greatness with the hazard of all with the loss of much that was near and dear to them Even the youngest of us methinks cannot but still most sensibly regret His untimely Fall by which they were depriv'd of so perfect an Example of all Virtue and Piety and were forc'd to pass away their first years that else might have been most pleasant amidst the Oppressions and Confusions of their Country And certainly all of us together have just cause to be humbled under a sense of Gods Wrath and to Implore his Mercy that this Royal Innocent Blood which was spilt for the Church and has cryed from under the Altar may at length cease Crying not only against the Wretched Instruments of that Cruelty for that also in our own Charity and by His Example we ought to Pray for but that His Blood may cease Crying against the whole Nation it Self which How shall I express it without offence nay How with a just resentment which certainly suffer'd it by their Negligence Should I not add by their stupidity and too much hasten'd it by their Sins And if we are all Cordially thus affected as I doubt not but we all are with such Indignation for his Undeserv'd Death such Veneration for His Never-dying Memory may we all endeavor to express these our Affections not only by declaring our abhorrence of those Black Counsels and Accursed Practises which finish'd the last part of His Tragedy but even of those that did any way though at never so great a distance in the least Contribute towards it May all of us according to our several Stations and Abilities and Who can have Abilities to do this if you here present have not May all of us be most industriously Watchful that the same Schismatical Designs and Antimonarchical Principles which then lnspir'd so many ill Men Misled some Good Men and cost our Good King so Dear may not once more revive and Insinuate themselves again under the same or Newer and Craftier Disguises and find an opportunity to attempt the like Mischiefs For the Present Let us all joyn in our hearty Prayers to Allmighty God That he would be pleased to pardon to us and to our Country this Hainous Publick Sin by the same Infinite Compassion by which we can only expect Forgiveness of Our own particular Sins By that Blood which speaks better things than the Blood of the most Righteous Abel or Charles By that Blood which is more Precious than the Kings By the Blood and Merits and Intercession of Iesus Christ Our Lord. Amen FINIS Rev. 2.10