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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

is given to my Lord Mauritius the Emperor and lest any should imagine Priests exempted he saith in the same place and to the same person Sacerdotes meos luce manui commisi Howsoever the Popish Clergy hold themselves free from obedience to the Civil Magistrate yet Christ aliter jussit aliter gessit Bern in Rom. 13. and the best interpreter of Gods Law our Saviour shews It lies on all persons both by precept and practice That Clergy men ow subjection and Loyalty to the Secular power Our Saviour John 19.11 who was a Priest and Prophet submitted himself to the Roman Magistrate confessing the Presidents power from heaven The Apostle Paul did tread in his Masters steps appealed unto Caesar Act. 25. and appeared before Caesar as his lawfull Governor and Saint Peter exhorts all men to submit to Gods Ordinance 1 Pet. 2.13 Whether to the King c. I wonder the Papists before this time did not purge the 13th to the Romans as being more Lutheran then Catholick and others besides them may blush and be ashamed to wrest as they do that Scripture 1. Quere Though it be over all persons must this obedience be in all things Answer Kings sometimes bid what God forbids in that case our Apostle enjoyns to obey God rather all consent to this Acts 5.29 Princes must be obeyed but inter limites disciplinae within the bounds of Religion if their command cross Gods Tert. Peters rule must over-rule Deo magis quam hominibus it must be in things agreeable to the mind and will of God 2. Qu. May there be resistance and may the Subject disobey in such a case Answ Though he cannot obey actually he must passively the Kings wil must be done aut à nobis aut de nobis either of us or on us either we must be patients or agents patients when he is tyrannous and wicked and agents when he is good and godly The Apostle saith not Be subject to Christian and holy Governours but indefinitly to Potentates not to the good and curteous 1 Pet. 2.18 but to the froward Si bonus nutritor est tuus si malus tentator tuus est if a good King he is thy nurse receive thy nourishment with obedience if evil he is thy tempter receive thy triall with patience But this I intend to speak fully of in the sixth Chapter 3. Qu. Whether the Princes power extends to all causes as well as over all persons Answ It is part of the Kings stile In all causes in spirituall as well as temporall in both he must be obeyed so he countermand not God none will doubt this if he consider the doings of Josiah his Authority in Ecclesiasticall causes The state of this question is very significantly laid down in that speech of Constantine to his Bishops Vos intra Ecclesiam Episcopi Euseb de vita Const 4. ego extra Ecclesiam you are Bishops within the Church and I a Bishop without the Church they in the proper and internall offices of the Word Sacraments and Ecclesiastical Censures and he for outward authority and presidence theirs limited to the soul consisting in Preaching the Word his to the body in bearing the Sword Second Duty A second Duty is Reverence and this is threefold Mentis Oris Corporis In thought Subjects must have an high esteem of their Kings and hold them solo Deo Minores none above them but God Elutherius wrote to Lucius a Britain King vos estis Dei Vicarius you are Gods Vicegerent in your Kingdome against whom we are not to harbour an ill thought but have a Reverent esteem of them Eccless 10 20. but have a Reverent esteem of them befitting their Regality Highnesse and Majesty and as the Lords Anointed Reverence in tongue Thou shalt not revile the Ruler of thy people In tongue for Subjects to rail against their Soveraign is unchristian yet used by Romanists and Separatists what Base Reproachfull Speeches have been given out against our late gratious Soveraign I tremble to think of a King that in the whole world had no Peer and yet how vilified and disgraced by black mouths and had they not wiped all shame from their faces and banisht Religion from their hearts they durst never have laid such an heap of disgraces on Gods Anointed Of body Reverence of Body this is usual in Scripture it ought to bow to a mean Magistrate but fall down to Regal Majesty Ahimaaz did to David David to Saul the Kings son to his father 2 Sam. 14. They have three special Ensigns of Honour A Crown of gold for their sublimity for which they must be Reverenced a Scepter of Righteousnesse for government for which they must be obeyed a Sword for vengeance Rom. 13.4 for which they must be feared Honour them we ought as the * Rom 13.4 Ministers and * 2 Sam. 14.17 Angels of God the Shepherds and Shields of his people under whose shadowing boughs we may sit and repose our selves num 27.17 Ps 47.9 Ezek. 31.3.6 A third Duty is maintenance by way of Tribute Third Duty this our Saviour did when the Ruler was a Heathen and knew not God Give to Caesar the things that are Caesars Matth 2.21 His Precept he saith not Date but Reddite because Tribute is a due Debt unto Caesar and if to a Painym Emperor much more to a Christian King he saith not reddite quae petit sed quae sunt illius which Principals are Honour obedience Tribute His Practice He paid Caesar Tribute and to that end willed Peter to go to the Sea and to cast in an angle and take the first fish that cometh up and in his mouth he should find a piece of twenty pence V. 27. that take and give unto them for me and thee it is observed that though our Saviour wrought many Miracles yet never any about honour or money but that of Tribute rather then that should go discharged he will work a miracle By Tribute I mean all Sesses Custom Subsidy or whatsoever else due to Kings either to sustain their States or support the publick charges of the Kingdome being his stipend or pay Rom. 13.6 for he is the Minster of God serving for the same purpose saith the Apostle Fourth Duty A fourth duty that Subjects ow is Prayer Saint Paul willeth and enjoyns to pray for them and that when like Manasseh they poured out blood like water 1 Tim. 2.1 the Jews are commanded to pray for Nebuchadnezzar Jer. 29.7 and the peace of Babylon Nebucadnezzar deserved not the name of a man but of a beast Dan. 4. yet as a King he is called the servant of the highest God in his peace they have peace Tertullian shews the love and affection Christians bore to their Magistrates In Apologet. Oramus Imperatoribus ut det Deus illis vitam prolixam imperium tutum aulam securam exercitus

THE DEATH OF CHARLES The First LAMENTED With the Restauration of CHARLES The Second CONGRATULATED Delivered in a Speech at the Ploclaming 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 late of Lichfield Minister now of Wellington his Majesties faithfull loyall Subject The Land is defiled with blood Psal 106.38 It cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of them that shed it Numb 35.33 They that in spilling blood such pleasure have Let them not go but bleeding to their grave LONDON Printed by T. R. for R. Lowndes at the white Lyon in St. Pauls Church-yard and Sym Gap● next to Hercules Pillars To the ever Honoured truly Noble and constant Lover of his King and Country Sir Thomas Leigh Kt. All health and happiness grace and peace be multiplied Much Honoured Sir IT was the exprobration of Athens Vertue and Magnanimity often sleighted that she suffered those men to dye in Exile Ignominy and Oblivion that with their vortuous endeavous had rear'd her up on the pillars of fame Miltiades Aristides Solon Phocion Ubi vixerunt ubi jacent where liv'd they where lie they their worthy acts gave glory to that City and that City covered them with the inglorious dust of obscurity How many worthy persons have ventured All men take notice of faults few enquire into perfections and lost lives and estates for the good of their King and Kingdom and lie as forlorn forgotten nay have not many wrung blood out of the nostrils of Reason in framing Arguments to their disgrace and dishonour but they are blessed that have so suffered and the Church hath in conclusion gain'd by their loss yet during the turbulent working of these thunder exhalations in our ayr They who lay a foundation of greatness in irreligion will come to confusion we have lamented Miseram regni faciem the miserable estate of our Countrey whose face hath been scratch'd and torn by the bloody nails of persecuting Bears and the wretched instruments of blood and cruelty rewarded Noble Sir not onely your many respects and unmerited favours congested and heaped upon me in my poor-low condition Revenge unsutable for Christians occasioned by the injustice of those in Authority and malice of adversaries whom God forgive depriving me of my means the support and livelihood of my wife and children but your great sufferings for Charles the first of blessed memory One hour of the Suns eclipse is more gazed at then a thousand clear days Hujus seculi miraculum and constant loyalty towards our gratious Soveraign King Charles the second Nulli secundus moves me to this Dedication you have layn long at the Cape bona speranza and what you have with sighs so heartily prayed for Patience is the greatest sufferer and the greatest conquerer and with confidence and patience expected your eyes now behold and your heart rejoyeth at the wonderfull restauration of your liege Lord and Soveraign the breath of your nostrils as dear and pretious as your own soul My first Treatise in defence of the Ministry in such times as few mouths were open for it and not without apparent danger and hazard to my self the honour of the Ministers of the Gospel then thriving like trees in Autumne was by you as curteously entertain'd as faithfully offered I have observed right Worshipfull your detestation of those horrible wickednesses committed The house of the just a strong bulwark your sense of that generall and sensible declination in zeal both to Religion and Justice the two main pillars and supporters of Church and State your love to all pious Orthodox Ministers and contempt of those that of a cast servitor get into the Churches service out of the chamber into the Chancel and from the buttry-hatch into the Pulpit your exceeding pity and compassion to the Church of God made havock of by a savage kind of people Wisdom prudence goodness magnanimity counsell and whatsoever is praise-worthy your readiness and willingness had you a thousand lives to sacrifice them all for your Countrey yea let me say without flattery there is nothing wanting that may sit you for the discharge of the weightiest employment and render you a true Christian and worthy to succeed in your Noble fathers honour I shall not worthy Sir enlarge my self on your sweet temper of spirit your noble mind your piety towards God charity towards the oppressed Piety disposeth the actions to glorious actions your skill in the French and Italian Tongues how mature and wise your counsels how sober and serious your actions how well ordered and regulated your family Cato was preferr'd befor Aristides because he was Pater familias how well esteemed and beloved by your Country which particulars to insiston would swell to a Volume In a word you are not wanting in that which is the life of Christianity and Nobility a good and holy life honour excluding vertue ends in shame and of such an one it may be said Quanto ornatior Dignity in a person unworthy is an ornament in the dirt tanto nequior the more adorned the more wicked God regards the title of Optimus more then Maximus greatness is the fairest object to the worlds eye but goodness to the eye of heaven it is a foolish dream to hope for immortality and a long lasting name by a Monument of brass or stone it is your good life that shall immortalize your memory A good conscience casteth the shadow of a singular reputation and make every heart your Tomb and every tongue your Pen to write your deathless Epitaph Worthy Sir I must end where I began with an humble acknowlegement in testimony whereof I have set to my hand and sent it as a token of the gratitude of my heart with my unfeigned prayers and hearty wishes of all reall happiness to your noble self most vertuous Lady and sweet children I remain Your Worships hearty Lover and faithfull servant W. Langley From my Study at Wellington May 24. 1660. To the Loyall Reader I Will not trouble thee with a recitall of many years sufferings nor of my loyalty that occasioned them the former is apparently known the later in a great measure by Gods providence concealed from my implacable adversaries who as they left no stone unroll'd would have made use of it to my utter ruine and overthrow I intend and let me perswade thee to return blessings for curses and mercies for injuries I hold revenge to be the greatest injury the contempt of injury the best revenge and the forgiveness of injury one of the best duties of a Christian I know no truth was ever yet so happily innocent as to free it self from calumny My desire is to do good whereof

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

must be subject and adds the powers that be are ordained of God insinuating that the Magistrate is not from God after any common manner but ordained after a more speciall sort By me Kings rule Prov. 8.15 they hold their Scepters from him therefore was their usuall stile formerly and blessed be God now is Charles by the grace of God King c. 2. Ob. Libertines and others wrest that Text of St Paul 1 Tim. 1.9 The Law is not given to the just and righteous man therefore good men are exempted from obedience to Laws Answ The just man doth well not for fear of punishment as compelled by Law but of grace and meer love towards God and goodnesse justo lex non est posita Melanch in loc neque ad condemnationem neque ad coactionem albeit there were no King or Law to command him he would be a King and Law to himself obeying higher powers of his own accord But why frame you Arguments of disobedience when the Apostle tells you you must needs obey Rom. 13.5 Observe the words Must needs obey not onely for wrath but for conscience sake you must needs obey because all powers are of God because it is a sin to disobey because temporal and eternal judgement accompanieth this sin necessary ex necessitate finis praecepti for thereby we do that which is acceptable to God enjoyning obedience and that which is profitable to our selves enjoying Government 1 Tim. 2.2 That we lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty And this must be for conscience sake For conscience sake saith the Apostle tuta conscientia praestari possunt quae propter conscientiam praestanda sunt a man may do that with a safe conscience which he must do for conscience and therefore they are far from good men seem what they will that pretend conscience for their disobedience to the Civil Magistrate the freedome you talk of if any must be spiritual Iohn 8.36 liberi quia liberati because made free by Christ a discharge from the whole bondage of the Law sin and Sathan and not a liberty to do what every man list and live under no obedience Gods people notwithstanding their liberty must perform duty to whom duty belongs 3. Ob. The Kings of Judah were figures of Christ and figures are now ceas'd and abolish'd Answ It s true in part they were shadows and figures yet more then figures for the Levitical Priesthood took an end but the Political Government hath no end for the office of Kings is established 1 Pet. 2.13 Honour the King and God hath promised to his Church in Gospel-times A blessing to the Church in the New Testament Isa 49.23 That Kings shall be their nursing fathers Queens their nursing mothers Isa 49.23 S. Paul counsels to pray for Kings and all that are in authority 1 Tim. 2.1 2. Why should any study Arguments against those from whom so much good hath proceeded they maintain the Church and the Church maintains them they hold up the Crown of Religion and Religion strengthens their Crowns I might alledge the happy Government of many well disposed Kings Antonius Pius The piety of Antonius pius is very commendable for his gratious Decree that none should accuse a Christian because he was a Christian Constantius Constantius the father of Constantine made more reckoning of those that professed Christianity then all his treasures Jovianus after Julian refused to be Emperor Jovianus unlesse he might govern Christians Constantine Great Constantine had that name not so much for his greatnesse in authority as godlinesse Theodosius and many others too many to be named I will not insist on the happy and glorious Reigns of David Solomon before his prevarication Hezekiah Josiah those that make them onely shadows have not the least shadow of Reason or any substance of Honesty 4. Ob. With God there is no respect of persons Jam. 2.1 Rom. 2.11 and this is often repeated Eph. 6.9 Col. 3.25 1 Pet. 1.17 and many other places Answ By person is not meant the substance but the quality viz. whatsoever is about or without a man as birth education honour wealth and the like Acts 10.34 God respects not any because they are high or low rich or poor but in every Nation whosoever he be he that feareth him and worketh righteousnesse is accepted with him and in this sense no respecter of persons in giving favour and forgiving faults he regards not the rich more then the poore the Jew more then the Gentile a man of peace more then a man of war nor Peter a Jew born more then Cornelius an Alien I confesse all are fellows in respect of grace and the common faith Jam. 2.1 Part. Answ but all are not fellows in respect of authority place but this answers it self Have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ in respect of persons in a word it is a common saying Nec regna socium ferre nec tedae sciunt Love and Lordship can abide no fellowship That common-Weal where many will rule except subordinately is like Plinies Amphisbena a Serpent which had an head at each end of her body and while both strive which should be the Master head the body is miserably torn When one comforted a poor widow which had lately lost her husband for that he was an unthrift and unkind replied although he were but a bad husband he was an husband and such an one is better then none for the commodities of Government are so great that a very bad husband to the Common wealth is better then none the Anabaptists in their confusion and disorders contrary to their own Doctrine thought it best Sleidan Com. to choose a head a King and so they did and a worthy one a renowned Tailor John Berold CHAP. V. The Duty of Subjects and how it consists in Obedience Reverence Maintenance Prayer for them SAint Peter names one 1 Pet. 2.17 which includes others Fear God Honour the King the fear of God is a fit Introduction to the Kings Honour they are homines Deo secundi next to God Tert. the fearers of God Honour the King most we must Honour him for God himself honoureth him in stiling him by his name God and the King have interchangeably borrowed names God is a King in heaven the King a God on earth he must therefore be honoured Saint Paul names but one too and that is subjection Rom. ●3 5 including the whole duty of Subjects 1. Obedience and that general none exempted for that universal note every soul omnis anima Rom. 13.1 confutes the seditious Papist and tumultuous Anabaptist Bilson against the Jes p. 118. Epist. l. 2. Epist 100. The Papist would exempt Clergy men from obedience to secular powers a Doctrine not heard of till 1000 years after Christ Gregory the Great one of the most learned Popes saith That power over all men