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death_n	nature_n	sin_n	soul_n	6,631	5	5.2151	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48660	Sad memorials of the royal martyr, or, A parallel betwixt the Jewes murder of Christ and the English murder of King Charls the First being a sermon preached on the solemnity of His Majestie's martyrdom in the Cathedral-Church of Sarum, An. Dom. 1669 / by T.L. ...	Lambert, Thomas, 1616-1694.	1670 (1670)	Wing L244; ESTC R8199	19,276	39

Rabble by the instigation of the principal Rebels and Incendiaries petition and clamour for his blood under the specious Name of Justice 3. Some of you were guilty by consenting to this horrible Fact and that either à priori while your thoughts took any pleasure in the practice of this execrable deed whatever temptations you had to desire it And some of you ex posifacto when you took any satisfaction in the thing done while you apostatized from your own reason and principles and associated your selves to those Regicides while you became voluntary assistants to execute their commands or any way instrumental to help them defend that interest that they had grasped unto themselves by the Murder of this Holy Man out of any base Fears or greedy Hopes 4. All were guilty of this blood that did not as much as they could hinder the effusion of it while they looked on it with an indifferent eye while they sate still at their case without endeavouring to prevent or reverse that cursed sentence For I must tell you that that Maxim of Self-preservation when the life of our Prince is at stake is but a meer Sophism in the School of Christ He that preferrs any Member to the Head must needs be very unskilful in the necessities of a Natural Body and he that preferrs his own condition before the condition of his Prince is altogether an unprofitable Member of the body politique and falls below the faith and loyalty of the very Infidels themselves And I appeal to your own experience whether Those that are so much Gods to themselves are not Devils to all others However remember that the grand Factors in this bloody business were your Delegates that they did act at all was by your Elections and choice The consciences of those Men were such as you did approve of or else they would never have been chosen into that great Councel of the Kingdom by your Votes * Peccatum contingit in aliquem Dupliciter vel in se qu●ad actum peccati vel in sua causa Aq. Sum. 22ae q. 154.5.0 so that their Acts became your own And if you had not wilfully resolved to have had such counsels and events Why did you choose Persons of so desperate and destructive Principles some of them being generally known and some of them stigmatized for turbulent and factious Persons Men that were Enemies to peace and order These were your Patriots and you see into what condition their Counsels and Acts brought you to Nor is it to be wondered at For who ever knew the Soul taken away and the Body not suffer convulsions So that there remains no more excuse for you than for the Jews nor are you any more able to deny or extenuate the Fact than the Jews could deny excuse or extenuate the Murder of Christ Nay farther even those Persons that thought that they had defended this Prince have too much of the guilt and stain of his Blood on their Garments and Souls as I shall make appear Anon. In the mean time let us consider what this Sin of Murder is A Crime it is of so heynous a nature that if it were but casually and accidentally committed it was death by the Judicial Law if the criminal were taken before he came to the City of Refuge Num. 35. But if wilful and presumptuous he must dye though he came thither Exod. 21.12 Thou shalt take him away from mine Altar that he may dye The Altar it self shall not protect him Nor did the guilt of Blood extend only to Persons But it polluted the Land Num. 35.33 Although it were involuntarily spilt But for the wilful Murder no expiation admitted The Land mourns for such and therefore thine Eye shall not pitty him that it may go well with thee when thou shalt have put away from Israel the guilt of Innocent Blood Deut. 19.11 12 13. The Psalmist pronounceth an heavy sentence on such Offenders Psal 55.23 The bloody and deceitful Man shall not live out half his Days or if he do live longer better it were for him that he did not for he doth but accumulate and heap up as well as protract vengeance he doth but (c) Rom. 2.5 treasure up wrath against the Day of Wrath and increase his fearful account till that time surprize him wherein the most righteous and impartial Judge shall come in Flames of Fire to make Inquisition for Blood God consulted and took deliberation when he made Man Gen. 1.26 Let us make Man after our own Image after our likeness And he takes deliberation likewise in sending Judgments to destroy Man as he extinguished the Canaanites by little and little (d) Psal 103.14 He knows whereof we are made he remembers that we are but dust and yet he is a Lord of a most infinite and an absolute power and surely it is very unreasonable for the choisest buildings to be cast into rude hands to be demolished he is most skilful to pull down that raised the Fabrick and to him it is most reasonable to be committed A Sin directly against the command of God a command in force in all Ages a command against which there shall never be a counter-mand Before the Moral Law He that sheds Man's blood by Man shall his blood be shed Gen. 9.6 Repeated at Mount Sinah Thou shalt do no Murder Exod. 20. No Murder of any sort or any degree Expounded most strictly by Christ Thou shalt do nothing that may tend to murder (e) Mat. 5.22 Thou shalt not be angry without a cause Thou shalt be so far from killing deliberately that thou shalt not do it rashly nay thou shalt be so far from doing of it rashly that thou shalt not begin the least heat that may tend to so bad an end A sin it is clamorous to Heaven for vengeance so doth the first blood from the Earth Gen. 4.10 And so do the Souls from under the Altar Rev. 6.10 And they cryed with a loud voice saying How long O God holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth But to sum up all the evil that can be thought of or spoken against this sin I shall need do no more than add the commentary of the beloved Disciple St. John on that Command 1 Jo. 3.15 You know that no Murderer hath Eternal Life abiding in him But this Wickedness that we now treat of was the most horrible Murder that ever was committed A rasing of Adam's Image and God's too A parricide a killing of our Father A Regicide a Murdering of our Prince a violation of all bonds of Honour Faith and Allegiance a desperate and wilful Perjury and breach of your Oaths of Fealty Obj. You 'l say Alas It was far besides mine intent that ever so vile and cursed a thing as this is should have come to pass so that although I were a casual I was not an intentional Instrument Although I was an accessary I was far