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A43635 A sermon preach'd on the 30th of January vindicating King Charles the Martyr, and the keeping of the day by E.H. ; which may serve for an answer to Mr. Stephen's sermon preach'd on the 30th of January, before the honourable House of Commons. Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708. 1700 (1700) Wing H1826; ESTC R38790 24,130 32

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A SERMON Preach'd on the 30th of January VINDICATING King CHARLES THE MARTYR AND THE Keeping of the Day By E. H. Which may serve for an ANSWER To Mr. Stephens's SERMON Preach'd on the 30th of January before the Honourable House of Commons LONDON Printed and are Sold by I. Nutt near Stationers-Hall 1700. A SERMON Preach'd on the 30th of January c. 1 Kings XXI 12 13. They Proclaimed a Fast and set Naboth on high among the People And there came in two Men Children of Belial and sat before him and the Men of Belial witnessed against him even against Naboth in the Presence of the People saying Naboth did Blaspheme God and the King Then they carried him forth out of the City and Stoned him with Stones that he Dyed HERE 's a sad Story in the Text to bring to our Remembrance this day a more Tragical and Bemoan'd History of a Later Date The Blood-shed in the Text and That of this sad occasion are too much Parallel Naboth's Vineyard made him the only Blasphemer of his City and fit to die he must forfeit his Life that he may forfeit his Lands And the glorious Martyr of this daies Celebration must forfeit His Head that He might forfeit the Diadem Both of them therefore were thought worthy to Die because worth the Killing The greatest Purse is the beloved Prey of the greatest Thieves The stateliest Cedar must first feel the Ax And the Tree with the goodliest and best grown Branches must be soonest Lopt Thus ourbest Deer must be first Destroy'd And both fall by the hands of men of Belial And yet Both with the specious and plausible Formalities of Religion and Justice 1. Religion They proclaimed a Fast sought the Lord Fasted and Wept as if their Tender Consciences durst attempt nothing without Advice first from the Oracle of Heaven 2. Justice They set up a Court of Judicature and first set Naboth on high among the People and then bring in their Evidence two Men Children of Belial Knights of the Post as the like wretches did against our Saviour and our Sovereign This Man Blasphemed c. Impudent Cruelty Is not Malice and Murder sufficiently Solemn without the mockery of Piety and Justice Is it not enough to Deflower Innocence but must Religion be the Pander Is' t not enough to Ensnare the Righteous but must Divinity be the Stalking-Horse Must the Fountain of Light be brought in as an Accessary to the works of Darkness Is not the Devil Fiend enough except he appear like an Angel of Light And is nothing but the Glorious Gospel and the Cause of GOD a fit Mask for such Loathsome Deformities Is this Religion Is this the Cause My Letany must be that of Jacob's in Detestation of his Bloody Sons those Instruments of Cruelty Oh my Soul come not into their Secrets unto their Assembly mine Honour be not thou united Gen. 49.6 A doleful Tragedy then is the Text which begins Speciously but ends in Heaviness begins Gorgeously but ends in Blood For when I read the first words They proclaimed a Fast my surprized Meditations can scarcely credit my Eyes when they view the last words They stoned him with stones so incongruous is the Consequence Who can imagine that Murder should stain the Epilogue when the Prologue was so gloriously gilded with Religion The words then are nothing else but the description of a High Court of Justice solemnly Erected by Wicked Men Men of Belial Celebrated with the especious Pretext of a Religious Fast to avouch the Arraignment and Bloody Sentence past upon a Guiltless Man Veiling the Murder with the Vmbrage of Devotion and Justice and therefore publickly Solomnized in the presence of the People not Covertly as Richard the Third Murder'd his Nephews but Impudently and before the Sun Wherein Six Particulars do especially present themselves to our Consideration all too sutable if it had been the will of GOD to the contrary to the Bewailed Occasion of this dayes Remembrance The Last whereof ought in our Method to be First taken notice of I. What was done A Bloody Murder They Stoned II. Vpon whom it was done Vpon an Innocent Man III. By whom it was done By Men of Belial IV. Before whom it was done In the presence of the People V. How it was done With the Method and Formalities of Piety and Justice VI. Why it was done The pretended cause was his Blasphemy But The true Cause is exprest in the sixth and seventh Verses of this Chapter Ahab Longed for the pleasant Vineyard and Jezabel will stay the Longing of this greedy Cannibal tho' it be with Mans Flesh and quench his covetous Thirst with a Draught of Blood If Naboth had been Poor and Lean he had escap'd amongst the Rascal Herd but he was too Fat and Fair-like to avoid the Shambles of these bloody Butchers His fertile Field like another Golgotha must be the Price of Blood Thus the Pleasant Vineyards the Tempting Crown-Lands and Bishops-Lands expos'd the Sacred Person of our Sovereign to the rapacious Jaws of our keener Wolves Our Loftiest Mountains were most subject to the Storm The Text will furnish us with Three Observations seasonable for our Meditations this day I will speak to each of them as far as may sute with the present occasion which yet will afford us a large field of Discourse First Many times in this Life the Worst Vsage does befal the Best of Men. Here 's no just offence given yet Naboth must die the death of a Murtherer Innocence we see is no sure Protection nay 't is sometimes arraign'd when Villany goes scot-free or it may be sits on the Bench as if Astraea's flight was no Poetical fiction but a real History as if there was no Reward for the Righteous nor a GOD that judgeth in the Earth Thus Hemlock and the worst of Weeds may out-live a Storm when the Rose and Lilly is Deflowred Manasseth that Monster of Men Reign'd the longest of any of the Kings of Judah yet good Josiah was slain in Battel and Jeroboam an Vsurper lived to see Three Successions in the Throne of Judah Many Brutes out-live Men and many brutish men the best of men Sure I am our worst Ivies flourished when the Royal Oak that supported them was dead What shall we say to these things This strange and uncouth visage of Providence did so startle the Prophet David that it almost frighted him out of his Faith He knew not what to think on 't but was ready to say Verily I have cleansed my Heart in vain and washed my Hands in Innocency Because the Vngodly prospered in the world Nabal in Plenty when David was ready to Starve for want of Bread The chief Argument that Cicero produces to prove That the Jews were not the People of GOD is taken from no other Topick then St. Paul who wrote not long after him makes use of to the same Hebrews to prove the contrary to wit Their frequent Afflictions Heb. 12.6 7 8. 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