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A49562	The death of Charles the First lamented, with the restauration of Charles the Second congratulated delivered in a speech at the ploclaming [sic] of our gratious King, at his town of Wellington, May 17, 1660 : to which are added short reflections of government, governours, and persons governed, the duty of kings and subjects, the unlawfulness of resistance, with other things of moment, and worthy consideration / by William Langley ...	Langley, William, b. 1609 or 10.	1660 (1660)	Wing L406; ESTC R7376	37,260	124

should I fail yet that I did desire it and endeavour it shall content my conscience let others keep their richer gifts close at home yet God assisting my poor Talent shall be employed for the publique good Vale. THE CONTENTS OF THE SPEECH I. THe death of Charles the First lamented a horrid murther and greatest of any except the Son of God II. What ensued upon this cursed Act. III. There are three wayes of choosing Kings Succession the best and Monarchy the best government IV. Some Objections answered shewing that the Kingdom of Christ overthrows not the kingdom of Caesar and that Kings may stand with the peoples liberty V. What a King we may be assured King Charles will be and how God hath doubtless design'd him for his glory VI. It concludes with a short Exhortation THE CONTENTS OF THE REFLECTIONS In seven Chapters Beginning at Page 40. CHAP. I. THat Civil government is necessary it is better not to be then to be without it CHAP. II. That King is a Name not onely of Dignity but of Office and that troublesome CHAP. III. The Duty of Kings deduced from their severall names and how they are called Gods By Analogie Deputation Participation CHAP. IV. Severall Objections of Fanatique persons answered lovers of confusion not order CHAP. V. The Duty of Subjects consisting In Obedience Reverence Maintenance Prayer CHAP. VI. That a King may not be resisted upon any pretence whatsoever against Papists and Scismatiques old and new enemies CHAP. VII That God hath declared his dislike of thir sin of Rebellion by remarkable judgements The Death of CHARLES the first a Horrid-murder and greatest of any except the Son of GOD. THE cruelty rage inhumanity and butchery cōmitted against our late King was damnable in its own nature and unparralleld in any former age yet term'd by bloody Assassinates and Raviliacks an act of Justice and of the highest Justice but by all knowing persons who have any thing of Christianity or Morality for that naturall light of Heathens abhorr'd such Barbarisme cannot choose but reflect upon that sacred Blood with sorrowfull hearts and they who had a hand or were willingly consenting to that superlative murder are men of black Souls and sear'd consciences and without unfeign'd remorse must descend lower then the grave being the greatest of any except the Son of God that act was * Cirills term horribile crimen a fearfull sin excellens malignitas a superlative wickedness * Nicepho censure Aust opus damnabile a damnable act a sin out of measure sinfull such as the Devil entred into him for the doing of it so egregious prodigious that Christ calls him a Devil and ever after Judas the Traytor Trechery odious But against the Innocent the act is execrable It s true Kings have been disgraced and degraded yea depriv'd of life by their Subjects as Julius Caesar Nero Galba Vitellius Domitian Heliogabalus our Edward the second and Richard the second and many more Heathen and Christian yet never any the worst of men so boldly impudent as under the colour of Law to doom their Sovereign to death The Duke of Guise When the Duke of Guise was slain by Poltrot Duraeus a Papist could say of it that the Christian world had not seen a fact funestius luctuosius more dolefull more direfull The Gunpowder Plot. it s said of the Gunpowder Plot it was a Tipe of Tophet a petite Synopsis of Sodom and Gomorrah and of that fearfull conflagration of the World at the day of Doom such an intended Massacre as never Man on Earth or Fiend in Hell devised A greater and acted but behold a greater what eare hears it but must tingle what tongue tells it but must tremble and what heart quakes not at the thought of it the murder of a wise pious learned and mild King your Liege Lord and Soveraign I will not say with Jeremy go to the Isles of Chittim and send to Kedar and see if such things be there but look if Turks A treason unmachable if Tartars if all Heathen Lands can patern such an act I will say with Is Quis vidit quis audivit what eye hath er'e beheld what ear hath ever heard so egregious so prodigious and monstrous a deed Treason a fearfull and prodigious evil Hyppolitus saith in Seneca Nullum caruit exemplo nefas never was so vile a villany but it had example Ask all Antiquity ab orbe condito the Rolls and Records of all Countries of all Times caruit exemplo nefas the world cannot sample it Davids absit shews how haynous this is God forbid I should lay my hands on Gods annointed yea his heart smote him that he cut off but the lap of Sauls garment Treason 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the greatest crime amongst the Romans Amo proditionem odio proditorem saith a Greek Historian Augustus hated the betrayer of his enemy In punishing treason saith Tully nunquam Cassiani inventi sunt Christiani no Judge can be too cruel Never was true Protestant traytor to his Prince Rebells are right Esau's red of bloody dispositions hairy of savage natures and extraordinary cruelty Catuli Catilinarii Statizing Jesuites that turn all Religion into Statisme yea into Atheisme a monstrous menstruous brood truth hating pleaders pioners of the Temple maintain'd by the spoil pillage of it like the great Behemoth He a sea of water they of blood they draw up whole floods of blood into their bellies happy are they who had no hand in such an abominable and detestable act a shame that such were ever baptized into the faith of Jesus Christ but remain in the world to declare their innocency and celebrate their Kings death with lamentations and regrets And what ensued upon this cursed Act Anarchy disorder confusion all villanies and iniquities as it was in the Jews'time Judg. 19.22 Non erat Rex there was no King in Israel but every man did that which was right in his owne eyes Clamitat in coelum vox sanguinis c. the murther of Nobles of Gentlemen of Commons a sin that crys loud in the ears of the Lord of hosts sacriledge their motions being commonly What shall we take away from the man of God Sauls was otherwise 1 Sam. 9.7 pricking the Churches veins and suffering her to bleed to death and enriching themselves by her spoyls pulling down Gods Churches and Temples trampling under feet his Ordinances discountenancing of able Orthodox Preachers opening a door of encouragement to schismaticks and hereticks the bane of Church and State taking away mens estates livelihoods exposing many families and those no mean ones to penury and much misery oppressive exactions upon the people Law being what the power of the sword made it innocency was no plea tell them of injustice they Pilate-like answered Quod feci feci jura perjura defraud dissemble swear forswear kill and slay the Language of their tongues destruction

be left but to turn Turk Some have derived sanctum quasi sancitum an established nature and such is his royall Majesties who hath remained unmov'd unshaken and would not lose his conscience to gain three kingdoms nor forsake that Religion in which his father dyed a Martyr I will upon this occasion adde one thing onely to the perpetuall honour of Englands Kings Constantine the great our Countrey-man was the first Christian Emperor Lucius our Countrey-man the first christened King Henry the 8th the first that shak'd off the Popes unlimited power King James the first of his rank who opposed Antichrist with his own Pen One terms him hujus seculi miraculum Charles the first through the inhumanity of a bloody sort of people because he would not betray the liberty of his Subjects to the lust and ambition of Tyrants the first martyr'd King Where true faith is there is true martyrdom This red must be grounded on white a glorious King candidatus innocentia purpuratus martyrio white and red white by his sanctity in his life red by his martyrdom in death and our gratious King Charles the second though Deo secundus next to God Tert. yet nulli secundus not inferiour to any for his admirable parts and abilities and undaunted resolution and constancy in the faith truly meriting the name and title Defender of the Faith Lastly you may be encouraged that he will be a glorious instrument of Reformation both in Church state he is a good pious King and may avow boldly with Nerva se nihil fecisse Christi Phili in vit Nerva quo minus possit imperio deposito privatum tuto vivere And glory with Samuel whose Oxe 1 Sam. 12.3 whose Ass have I taken or to whom have I done wrong or whom have I hurt His enemyes being Judges cannot justly accuse him his life is so strict and austere Endued with piety that wicked men can draw no patterne from him much less can they hope that he will let loose the reines to sin Vertue necessary saith Lips pol. l. 2. c. 8. and give countenance to the impudent fury of prophanenesse Greatnesse is a copy which every action Their actions are instructions 1 K. 15.30 and 16.19 every affection strives to write after Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis The son of Nebat is never without this brand he made Israel to sin For the most part every man emulates the manners of his Sovereigne Claudia Confessor Papa Confessor populus mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus When Leo lived because he stood well affected to the stage all Rome swarmed with Juglers Singers Players The Common People are like tempered Wax wheron the vitious Seal of greatness makes easy impression no such thing may be feared to proceed from him being a pious King himselfe Kings beget a likenes of manners Bonas omnium mensura and therefore will be a happy father to his Country and take no part with the enemys of his Heavenly Father Can you think that he who hath swept his owne heart will suffer the weeds of impiety so to be nourished in the hearts of his subjects he is not ignorant that God hath said If ye walke contrary unto me Lev. 26.31 I will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation God hath doubtless ordained him for the punishment of evill doers 1 Pet. 2.14 and prayse of them that do well And that we may live quiet and peaceable lives in all godlines and honesty 1 Tim. 2.2 Those that lately Usurped the Throne might bee as indeed they were instruments of Gods Justice but not of Reformation Wasters not builders of Gods Temple It was in my mind saith David to build an House to the name of the Lord my God not to pul it downe but to build 1 Chron. 22.7 but saith he the word of the Lord came to me saying thou hast shed blood abundantly and hast made great warrs David must not and why thou shalt not build an House to my name because thou hast shed much blood but Solomon thy son shall doe it Solomon shall who shall be a man of rest he shall build an house for my name I dare affirm that there is no King in the Christian World except our Gratious King Charles the second that hath not caus'd war nor occasion'd the spilling of their subjects blood and therefore he amongst all the fittest and most suitable for the work of a glorious Reformation and truly I speak it without flattery for I expect nothing where no more is done but duty that if Plutarch were now living to write Lives by parallels Loyalty a duty he would be troubled exceedingly to finde a parallel for our Josias There was no King like unto him 2 K. 23.25 A right comparison betwixt them both in respect of his Majesties morall endowments and Princely virtues Doubtlesse God would never have preserved him from so many Plots such eminent dangers witnesse his wonderfull escape from the Fight at Worcester which Victory seem'd to have no life because it wanted his death In everie mercy a wonder and was not completed with the Sacrifice of his Sacred blood his wonderfull protection in the Land of Captivity being tost from Post to Piller hurld from one Kingdome to another exposed to penury and misery yet sustain'd by a wonderfull providence living at Gods immediate finding and expecting his morrows breakfast from his bountifull hand wonderfully restor'd beyond the thoughts and expectations of man and after such a manner as may be admired and all conclude it is the hand of God All these are strong arguments to perswade us that God hath designed him for his glory and will make him instrumentall for a glorious reformation What now remains but 1. That we pray for him every important action requires prayer much more that which concerns three Kingdoms Moses prayed for the choyce of his successor Let the Lord numb 27● 16. the God of the spirits of all flesh set a man over the Congregation It is not fit that he who is chosen for God should be chosen without God those which in a due proportion must represent God to the world ought to be consecrated to that Majesty which they represent pray for Gods presence to go along with him to be a cloud in the day for direction and a pillar of fire in the night for consolation to defend him from all implacable enemies and fit him with all sutable graces for the discharge of his weighty employment and besides let us bless God for him and hold our selves blessed in him 2. If there be occasion fight for him spend your dearest blood to preserve the breath of your nostrils 3. Rejoyce heartily that you see this day that Israel hath crossed the Sea with dry feet and the returning waters drown'd their pursuing enemies 4. Beware lest your sins and provocations rob you of

illumination in their counsels of his conduct in their enterprises of his strength in their executions of his Providence in their various occurrents dangers and difficulties 4. As they stand in his place so they should walk in his path to be followers of him as dear children to be mercifull as he is mercifull to be holy as he is holy bountifull as he is bountifull just as he is just 1. In distributing justice impartially for Magistrates should have two hands one for mercy the other for justice habet pramium poenam ut apis habet mel aculeum he hath reward and punishment as the Bee hath honey and a sting Ye shall hear the small as well as the great Dan. 1.17 Wrest not the Law nor respect any person Deut. Deut. 16.9 16.9 Lev. 19.15 The Scripture that should be the rule of all mens actions Prov. 24.23 is full to this purpose Job 29.14 The Thebans usually pourtrayed their Prince blind with ears 1 Sam. 12.8 and the Judges assisting him in justice without hands blind lest he should have respect of persons with ears that he might hear both parties indifferently the Judges without hands that they should not be corrupted with bribes The Law without just execution is like a Bel without a clapper and made use of sometimes as cobwebs to catch little Flies and sometimes as Fox-nets to take great ones in a trap Oh how few are there that sit in the seat of Justice whose consciences can prompt them a comfortable answer to that question of Davids Psal 58. Are your minds set upon righteousness Oh ye congregation they are of Gallioh's temper Acts 18. and such as the Psalmist deciphers Psal 82.5 It is written to the commendation of Marcus Aurelius that dividing the hours of the day for the business of his Empire he allotted one hour to hear the complaints of the grieved and do justice 2. In punishing offenders and to this end he is appointed for the punishment of evil doers 1 Pet. 2.14 as they carry a ballance so a sword for bad members as dangerous to the body must be cut off as Chirurgeons do limbs infectious ne pars sincera trahatur You may see more of this in the Speech In a word Justice is the supreme perfection of royall greatness the strongest arms to subdue men the most sacred Majesty to imprint reverence the happiest conquest a King can atchieve it is a princes beauty perfume and lustre yea he who is the States eye Justice is the apple of their eye it is the rampart of his Pallace the bulwark of his Kingdom and prop of his Crown But to conclude this if Shields Shields this instructs them they are a refuge for the Innocent a shelter for the Oppressed a Sanctuary of safety liberty defence and protection Shepherds All they doe should tend to their subjects good having the love and affection of a father Fathers the care and vigilancy of a Shepherd respecting more them then themselves not to tyrannize as if only command were the thing hatefull in their eyes Tyrants Antiochus and punishable by a just God evident by sad examples The name of Antiochus stinks on the earth and he cries to persecutors take heed Herod Herod consum'd with Worms Momprisius Memprisius King of Britain devoured with Wolves Anastasius Anastasius the Emperor kill'd with Thunder a Saxon King of England Seldred was kill'd by the Devil as he was banquetting with his Nobility Pharaoh Pharaoh drown'd in the red Sea nabuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar cast down from his throne and companion with beasts Ozias stricken by God with a leprosie Ozias Joram with an incurable Flux Joram God saith David is terrible to the Kings of the earth Psal 75. and appears so by strange punishments inflicted upon them for their cruelty and impiety It was a notable saying of Pelopidas King of the Phocians who sent Alexander word he marvelled he put his Citizens to death and not himself Alexander askt him why he made such haste to dye replyed Pelopidas to the end that thou being yet more hated of God and man then thou art mayst the sooner be destroyed He that turns Tyrant turns hatefull to God and man Nero wanting one to kill him Idonibezek Judg 1. Eglon ch 3. Abimelech ch 9. Ahab 1 Kings 22.38 was glad to kill himself saying Turpiter vixi Turpiter morior Caius Caligula who had conspir'd the death of many and exercised inhumane cruelties was killed Nabis the Tyrant who usurped the government of the Lacedaemonians putting eighty of their princes to death Innumerable examples in this kind was kill'd by Alexamenes and indeed not only Tyrants but their wicked counsell and bloody instruments who corrupt seduce ought to smart and have often felt a divine hand the reward of such murtherers hath been to be murthered themselves wickedness is often recompensed suo genere in its own kind evil men drink of their own brewing are scourged with their own rod and drown'd in the pit which they digg'd for others Haman hang'd on his own gallows Perillus tormented in his own Engine Nec enim lex justior ulla est Quam necis artifices arte perire sua Abels blood spilt on earth cries for the blood of Cain Justice must cause them that sow blood to reap blood CHAP. IV. Severall objections of Fanatique persons answered lovers of confusion not order THe wickedness of man discovers it self in a perverse rebellious will loth to subject it self either to the Laws of God or man like an untam'd Horse he lifts up his heel against government no King is a judgement Isa 3.6 Isa 3.6 there follows confusion and disorder Judg. Judg. 17.6 17.6 Popular equality burthensome and destructive yet however he will be nibling at the heels and if he can cut off the head of lawfull Authority 1. Ob. The Apostle calls powers humane ordinances 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether to the King as Supreme c. Answ The Apostle calls them humane ordinances not in regard of the substance of government but in regard of the severall forms Kings are beams of the Deity cast into the severall corners of the earth Regna à Deo reges dari Just Lips appointed by God himself I have provided me a King amongst the sons of Jesse 1 Sam. 16.1 And concerning the revolt of the ten tribes in the rent of the Kingdom of Israel 1 Kings 12.24 This thing saith God is done of me Magistrates are the singers of that great hand that rules the world and with his all-powerfull hand hath engraven a touch of extraordinary Majesty upon their foreheads whom he intendeth to authorize and make usefull for humane Society and the conduct and advancement of publique good Rom. 13.1 all higher powers are from the highest powers to whom all creatures