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A44222	The death of King Charles I proved a down-right murder, with the aggravations of it in a sermon at St. Botolph Aldgate, London, January 30, 1692/3 : to which are added, some just reflections upon some late papers, concerning that King's book / by Rich. Hollingworth.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1693 (1693)	Wing H2501; ESTC R13678	16,735	43

through Perjury and Perfidiousness through Breaches upon Promises reiterated and repeated again and again And therefore upon this account I recommend to you weeping and wailing because Perjury and Murder are great and crying sins II. Another Aggravation of this Murder is the Person that suffered and that was King Charles I. and here let us see whether he deserved such a barbarous death I am very far from thinking him a man in a state of Perfection and I do acknowledge there were Errors and Failures in his Government he came early to the Crown and therefore might be imposed upon but I hope every Man does not deserve to be knock'd o' th' Head for every particular slip of his life if so the best Kings that have Reigned would not have died natural deaths neither David nor Solomon neither Hezekiah nor Josiah nor any other Prince recorded for vertuous and very good men But however whatsoever his imperfections were in the beginning of his Reign I am sure before the Quarrel began with him he rectifyed them all and consented to remove all those things that were accounted grievous and indeed filled the Statute-Book with more Privileges than it does afford now for a succeeding Parliament took away some things then established which they in their great Wisdom thought neither fit for a King to grant nor People to enjoy The truth of it is this Great Person take him in all considerations deserved a far better Lot than he met withal and many of those that at first entertained hard thoughts of him and engaged against him upon Conversation and Acquaintance with him repented of what they had done and as they ever after bore a great esteem for him so in all their discourses afterwards represented him as one of the best of men they ever met withal particularly the Learned and Pious Mr. Vines who said to some Friends of mine That if ever there was a Solomon since Solomon it was Charles the I. And truly no wonder for certainly he was a Man endowed with as many Vertues and Graces as most Princes that ever sate upon a Throne His Devotions in the way of the Church of England were constant and regular his Discourses pithy and profitable for he was a man of great Parts and admirable Improvements his Behaviour was affable and courteous and so long as he was able possessed of his own Inheritance he was greatly Charitable and ready to lend his helping hand in promoting any publick Good which I could make out by many Instances further his Chastity considering the Temptations he as a King might be supposed to be under is scarce to be parallel'd and his Temperance acknowledged by all that were about him his Patience was in some sort like that of his great Master 's the Holy Jesus and tho he met with as great affronts and indignities as ever Man did that wore a Crown yet his very Enemies confessed that they could not throw him into a Passion nor ruffle him so far as to break out into undecent and angry Reflections how he behaved himself at his Tryal and immediately before his Death and at the hour of Death it self pray search the History and you will be satisfied that he was acted by a more than ordinary Divine Spirit one instance I cannot omit and that is when he was going through the Park towards the Scaffold with a Guard about him he spoke to Two Persons that did more immediately attend him that they would go faster saying That he now went before them to strive for an Heavenly Crown with less sollicitude than he had oftentimes bid his Souldiers to fight for an Earthly Diadem and how he went out of the World with a clear Soul without the least revenge but praving forgiveness for his Enemies you may find in the True Account of the passages at his Death And pray my Beloved what Cause was there now for this Great and Good Man's Murder Yes say some wicked Men he was a Tyrant and a Papist A Tyrant that is strange that gave to his People all they could reasonably ask and frankly offered to consent to any thing that did not strip him of his Kingship and that was consistent with his Honour and Conscience If such a Man be a Tyrant then You and I must all of us change our Notions of things and call Good Evil and Evil Good And as for the Imputation of Popery there is no Man that reads his History with an unprejudiced Mind can believe the least inclination to it if Living and Dying in perfect Communion with the most excellent Church in the World if offering to do any thing that might preserve and support the Protestant Religion be arguments of a Papist then I must confess the Imputation is just but what Man of the Church of England is not a Papist at this rate But thanks be to God as he refuted this Reflection by the whole Series of his Life and by his solemn Protestation at his Death when he was just going to give an account to God so I think the Members of this Church have Preach'd Printed and said enough in the late Reign for ever to silence and shame this Reflection and Imputation out of the World So that hitherto we find no cause of Death in him at all even if by the Laws of the Land he had been rightly tryed by a just Power that had as just an Authority to bring him to an Hearing and Tryal and therefore this is a great aggravation of his Death that a Man of Innocence and Goodness a Man of Virtue and Piety a Man indeed of a most Exemplary Life should be thus Butcher'd and that by those who had no more Authority to do it than you have to fall a cutting one anothers Throats as soon as this Sermon is ended And therefore upon this score This Death ought to be bewailed and there is great reason for the observing This Day in order to prevent the Judgments that may come upon us for shedding and for the vindicating the shedding of this Innocent Bloud III. Another Aggravation of this Murder is the Consequences of it Alas after the Sacrifice of this great Person Nobles fell by their bloudy hands and the best Families were either Banished or Imprisoned and their Estates Confiscated a bloudy War with Scotland was commenc'd and that free Nation brought into a perfect slavery and that which was a thing of deplorable consequence this Good Man's Children were Banished to seek their Bread in strange Countreys from whence proceeded the Miseries especially of the last Reign and therefore those Men that flye in the face of the Two last Kings should do well to consider where they were forcibly bred and how they came to be bred there who sent them out of their own Countrey and exposed them to live upon the Bounty of Popish Princes if King Charles the First had lived out his time they no doubt had been bred up in the strictest way in the Protestant

THE DEATH OF King Charles I. Proved a Down-right MURDER With the Aggravations of it IN A SERMON AT St. Botolph Aldgate LONDON January 30. 1692 3. To which are Added some Just Reflections upon some late Papers concerning That King's Book By RICH. HOLLINGWORTH D.D. LONDON Printed by R. Norton for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1693. To the INHABITANTS Of St. Botolph Aldgate LONDON Who are true Lovers of Old England indeed My good Friends and Parishioners THere is a certain bold Libeller who has been pleased under the Name of Ludlow a Regicide to load me with a great many reproaches and false Stories in several lewd Pamphlets in order to prejudice you against my Person and thereby to hinder the success of my Ministry amongst you which thanks be to God has had very little effect as yet and I hope never will for I must say thus much that I have found the Love and Respects of abundance of You rather encrease than diminish ever since I undertook the honest and just Defence of King Charles the First into my hands but however that You may not repent of standing by me in this good Cause I think it very necessary to take this occasion to defend my self against an Imputation of this bad Man's to wit of Forgery a Sin of which if I thought or knew my self guilty I should Blush nay Tremble ever to come into a Pulpit to Preach the Doctrines of the Gospel either to You or any other persons whatsoever and therefore I shall with all freedom and unreservedness let You into the Knowledge of this thing which he calls Forgery Being the last Summer at my Lord Bishop of London's I accidentally met with the Reverend Mr. Lamplugh Son to the late Archbishop of York who was pleased knowing that I was engaged in the Cause of King Charles the First to shew me Mr. Henderson's Death-bed Declaration which he found in his Father's study and upon my request to lend it me which after I had read and found so very Honest so plain and hearty a Character and so agreeable to what by an uninterrupted Tradition had been delivered down to us of this Age both by English and Scotchmen namely that Mr. Henderson after a thorow acquaintance and conversation with King Charles the First at Newcastle went away perfectly changed as to his Opinion of that King's Sanctity Learning and profound Judgment and with great grief that he had been instrumental to the Miseries that Good Man was brought to at that time I say it being so agreeable to what was so generally said of Mr. Henderson I after I had shewed it to many Persons of great Character and Consideration in Our Church and by them encouraged to make it more publick resolved to Re-print it that the World might see how much that Great and Good Man was abused by this Libeller who so impudently brands him with the Name of Nimrod Pharaoh and unaccountable Tyrant which Character as it wonderfully pleased all that wish well to our English Monarchy so it had the contrary effect upon our Commonwealths men and therefore in half a Years time this Scribler makes a shift to get Two pretended Papers to Prove this a Forgery The First is as he tells you a Letter from a grave and worthy Gentleman who lived in Scotland about that time and was very conversant in the great Affairs of that Kingdom And what says this grave and knowing Gentleman to this affair why he tells him he never heard of this Declaration neither there nor here and that had it been true to wit that there was such a one the World would have been full of it Strange that this Man so conversant in the great Affairs of Scotland at that time should not hear of a Declaration of the General Assembly as to the Falshood and Forgery of that Book and therefore this very thing must make any Man not prejudiced call in question the Truth of the Assemblies Declaration especially considering this bold Man puts it out without any attestation from any Publick Notary or any other Creditable Witnesses whom he might have employed to search the Records and therefore I believe upon this account the World will lay the Forgery at his Door and not at mine especially when I tell him this Story that I have from a great and undoubted hand That Mr. Henderson when he came from Newcastle to Edinburgh did design to unbosome himself in the great Church at Edinburgh as to the Vertues of that great King and the Reasons of the Change of his Opinion of Him which was understood by some great Leaders in the Assembly and therefore they hindred his Preaching after which he fell Sick and Dyed and no doubt to unburthen and ease his Mind drew up in this Declaration what he intended to Preach had he been permitted And now I think my Good Neighbours You will say I have sufficiently defended my self from the base Imputation of a Forgerer The other things I shall trouble you with the account of are some Papers said lately to be found which plainly as they say make it out that King Charles I. was not the Author of that Book which for forty odd Years has gone in his Name These Papers by the kindness of the Gentleman in whose hands they are I have examined twice and I am very sorry for Dr. Gauden's Memory sake that they have been so much exposed because in my Remarks upon them some things must fall very hard upon that Prelate which I should be very averse to was not the Name Honour Religion and Learning of King Charles concerned which I hope will excuse me amongst all Men that understand the difference of Persons especially of a King and a Subject The first Paper I shall take notice of is a Petition to the King for the Bishoprick of Winchester which indeed for his Memory's sake ought by no means to have been exposed to view it is so Romantick so childishly cracking and boasting of his Heroick and Secret Service that a Man would think the poor Man had utterly forgot and lost all the impressions of common Policy and Prudence and was resolved to provoke the King to command him out of White-Hall as a Man not fit to be a Countrey Curate much less preferred to the wealthiest Bishoprick in England But the best of it is though he had the vanity to draw it up he was yet so wise as not to present it which is plain from his own mouth for Page 5 of Dr. Walker we have this Story That the last time Dr. Walker saw him which was after he was Lord Bishop of Worcester Elect he asked him whether King Charles II. knew that he wrote the Book He gave him this answer That I cannot positively and certainly say he doth because he was never pleased to take express notice of it to me The truth of it is when I consider that Dr. Walker says That Dr. Gauden took the

Nation This Day to bewail is not according to that Notion of Murder a real Act of Murder and not a piece of Justice as many wicked Men at this Day call it and consequently does not deserve to be abhorred and grieved for by all Men that wish well to the Kingdom and in order to it do endeavour to atone that displeasure which the Shedding and the Vindicating the shedding of Innocent Bloud may justly raise in the Divine Breast and which may provoke God still to pour down his Judgments upon us for so doing And certainly there is no good Man in the Nation but will conclude considering the Circumstances and Dangers we are in threatned by a powerful Enemy abroad and weakned so much by so great destructive Divisions at home I say there is no good Man but will conclude that we ought to do all that lyes in us to procure the Blessings and the kind and seasonable interposals of Divine Providence to secure our Armies by Land and our Forces by Sea and so to prosper them that we may be delivered from the hands of our Enemies and all that hate us our Nation and Religion And he that by Vindicating the crying Sin of Murder does contribute towards Divine Provocation he is so far from being a Friend to the Laws and Liberties of his Countrey that he is the greatest Enemy they have and ought by all Men trusted with Publick Offices either Spiritual or Secular to be both publickly instructed and with all good Temper to be reproved too that so he may be reclaimed from a Sin that hath so poysonous an influence upon the Good of the Community of which he is a Member First therefore As for the True Notion of Murder the thing forbidden in the Text In short it is nothing else but the taking away another Man's Life without a Warrant from God or Man deputed and entrusted by God in a Judicial way to bring Men to such a piece of Justice as deprives them of their Lives For it is plain from Scripture that many Mens Lives have been taken away by an immediate Command from God which justified the Act and took away the Notion and consequently the Guilt of Murder And it is as plain that there are many Acts of Wickedness that God ordered the Lawful Magistrate for the appeasing of Divine Wrath and the Good of Humane Societies to put Men to Death which Laws have had their force in all Nations and Countries whatsoever and indeed without which Humane Societies would quickly be dissolved and the World would be like nothing but a Wilderness or Desart full of Men turned into the nature of wild Bears and Tygers and where you have one violent destruction of a Fellow-Creature you would have a thousand So that the Murder of my Text is nothing else but a pretending and undertaking to be Master of another Man's Life without any Commission from God or any Legal Tryal by Men according to the Laws of the Country in which they live and to which they are bound to subject themselves So that this brings me to the work and business of this day namely to consider Whether the Death of King Charles the First was a Murder yea or no or an Act of Justice as some wicked men do still pretend to call-it Now here let us consider whether they had a Commission from God to do it Now a Commission from God must either be by a Voice from Heaven or else by the Ministry of an Angel sent by God or some other way by which God did convey His Mind and Purpose to His People of old none of which were ever pretended to as the ground and reason of this great Man's Death by any that had a hand in it And therefore let us see what Warrant they had from the Laws of the Land The Laws of the Land What are they or upon what Authority are they founded Why according to our Constitution all Laws flow from the Power of King Lords and Commons the Lords and Commons framing and preparing Bills such as they conceive for the Good of the Countrey and the King by his Royal Fiat giving Life and Being to those Bills upon which they immediately become obligatory to the People of the Land to violate or transgress which is attended with such Pains and Penalties as those Law-makers who make up the Legislative Power of the Nation think good and meet to enact and whatsoever is offered as a Law made without the concurrence of these Three Estates together is an Invasion and Encroachment upon the True and Essential Constitution of the Kingdom For neither the King without the Lords and Commons nor the Lords and Commons without the King can bind the Subject to any thing under the Notion of a Law of this Kingdom This my Beloved is our happy Frame of Government which certainly is the best the World can shew and under which we ought to sit with great delight and pleasure And they that go about to set any of these Three Powers contrary to the Law above their places are great Enemies to this excellent Constitution and their Projects and Contrivances their Arguments and Proposals have always been of very unhappy consequence to the Kingdom in general And for my own part I do here profess my self so great an Admirer of this happy Constitution that by the Grace of God my little Finger shall never be employed to make any jar in the Harmony and Concurrence of King Lords and Commons and I will always submit by doing or by suffering to whatsoever they shall Enact And though they should pass into a Law what I in Conscience could not comply withal yet I think it my duty not to Resist but to be passively Obedient which I account the true Notion of Non-Resistance and Passive-Obedience two Doctrines which if not maintained and practised in this sense I have named all Government is precarious and will be in danger of being unhinged whenever a number of discontented and ambitious Persons get together with Force and Strength in order to carry on their wicked and base designs and to answer and gratifie their unreasonable dissatisfactions Well this being the true Notion of the English Laws pray let us see whether King Lords and Commons ever consented to a Law that enabled one part to destroy the other the King to destroy and null the Being and Authority of Lords and Commons or the Lords and Commons to sit upon judge and take away the Life of their King And here I challenge the boldest Assertor of the Justice of the Murder of this Day to show me any one word from the beginning of the Statute-Book to the end thereof that looks this way or gives such a Power into any of the three parts of the Legislative Powers Hands And if there be no Commission from the Law of the Land then certainly this Death must be called and is a true and real Murder the Thing forbidden in my Text. 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