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B02744	Rebellion arraign'd a sermon preach'd before their Majesties in their chappel at Whitehall, upon the 30th of January 1687. The anniversary and humiliation-day, in abhorrency of the sacrilegious murder of our gracious sovereign Charles I. / By the reverend father John Dormor, of the Society of Jesus.	J. D. (John Dormer), 1636-1700.	1688 (1688)	Wing D1926A; ESTC R174707	10,612	31

Rebellion Arraign'd A SERMON Preach'd before Their MAJESTIES In Their Chappel at WHITEHALL Upon the 30th of January 1687. The Anniversary and Humiliation-Day In Abhorrency of the Sacrilegious Murder Of our Gracious Sovereign CHARLES I By the Reverend Father JOHN DORMOR of the Society of Jesus Permissu Superiorum London Printed by Mary Thompson at the Entrance into Old-Spring-Garden near Charing-Cross 1688 TO THE READER READER SInce the Printing of the Pharisee's Council my Promise has been Challeng'd and I call'd upon for two more Sermons almost out of mind The First My Humiliation Sermon Preach'd the 30th of January 87. nam'd Rebellion Arraign'd The other Enituled The Law of Laws and Preach'd the 19th of September 86. If I told thee in my last The rest of my Sermons were at thy call Now I tell thee call for no more It is my design to ease thee of that Trouble by publishing them all together as soon as Leisure will give me leave In the mean time Remember what thou'lt often find in them a short Life is giving way to a long Eternity Farewell J. D. A SERMON Preach'd before Their MAJESTIES On the 30th of January 1687. 1 Pet. cap. 5. ver 6. Humiliamini sub potenti manu Dei ut vos exaltet in tempore Visitationis Be ye humbled under the Powerful Hand of God that he may exalt you in time of Visitation IF ever Nation to its Advantage and Renown comply'd with the words of my Text Dread Sovereign it is your Loyal England England by humbling her self this day in the presence of God and yours appears more Glorious than ever it did by humbling with force of Arms her most redoubted Enemies Victory in VVar is often a gift of Fortune at the best the fruit of Valorous Conduct dear bought not soon got and soon forfeited Englands Humiliation is a standing Victory of Peace it is a quelling of Rebellion it is a Vindication of her Kings Right and her own Honour Chance has no part in it Loyalty produc'd it The Wisdom of both Houses of Parliament concurr'd unto it It is not fed with Blood and Booty but Fasting and Tears with Devotion it is maintain'd and a forever settled Obedience renders it Eternal Thus England has Humbled her worst of Foes by humbling her self and by so humbling her self in this time of Visitation of Gods Mercy upon us is exalted as high as ever Rebellion had cast her low Humiliamini c. Be ye humbled under the Powerful Hand of God that he may exalt you in the time of Visitation The unnatural Enemies of their Country joy'd in her Confusion in her Disgrace they Gloried they Triumph'd in her Losses England was gaz'd at by Foreigners as a Monster to be kept up and cut off from the Commerce with the rest of the VVorld A King Arraign'd said they and with horror by who but England A King call'd to the Bar by who but England A King process'd and Condemn'd by who but England A King brought upon the Scaffold before his own Palace and People and Barbarously put to Death VVhen VVhere tell the place name the Time mention the Record by whoever but England Such were the insulting Reproaches whole England was expos'd to for the guilt of a Crew of Miscreants degenerated from the Fear of God and antient Allegiance pay'd by Dutyful England to her Kings But Silence O you Who thus impeach the whole for the Crime of a few A party of wretched men desperately Wicked and hardened in Impiety They are the words of the Act in reference to this day The King was Arraign'd The King was call'd to the Bar but England Sigh'd England Wept The King against all form of Law was Process'd and Condemned but England Agoniz'd between Grief and Horror The King was Cruelly Murdered but England Vow'd a just Revenge and since has taken it of the Regicides Rebellion in that time over-rul'd the Stage Rebellion acted the Tragedy it had contriv'd poor England disarm'd with sorrowful Eyes was forc'd to look on No House of Peers then sat no free House of Commons a Kennel of Blood-hounds a rude Expression did they not merit worse were the Assassins of our most Indulgent Monarch they were led on by the Scent of an aspiring Passion mask'd with Zeal for Religion so to delude some At Tyranny they ran with a fair show of Liberty so to entice in others Liberty indeed to debase their Equals to pull down their Betters to enslave their Countrey England groan'd under the heavy Scourge and is no sooner recover'd by the Happy and long Sigh'd for Restoration of her Natural Prince and Government but makes it her first care to vindicate her self to Posterity Sitting therefore in Parliament she declares to the World her Inexpressible Detestation and Abhorrency of that Villanous and abominable Fact and for a lasting Monument of this her Sense she beseeches the Royal Power to establish this day of Humiliation to which Piety and Loyalty oblidges us to concur Humiliamini c. Be ye humbled under the Powerful Hand of God that he may exalt you in time of Visitation In order to promote so Religious an Act my first point shall be to remind you of the subject of Humiliation which is Rebellion and since Rebellion so unhumanely Arraign'd our Gracious King. My second point shall be to Arraign Rebellion My third to see Execution done upon her and that by the hand of Humiliation But let us first implore his Divine Assistance him who made himself a Patern of Humiliation for our Sins by the Intercession of His Virgin Mother Ave Maria Humiliamini c. Be ye humbled under the Powerful Hand of God that he may exalt you in the time of Visitation THe proper subject of Humiliation is sin the greater the sin the greater ought the Humiliation to be To private Offences which prejudice the Offender alone private Humiliation is due a publick Humiliation becomes sins which influence upon the publick and no sins wound the publick so dangerously as those which are destructive to Loyalty Obedience and Government Kings bare the burden and dignity of the Publick no sin therefore requires a more signal Humiliation and Repentance than Disloyalty Rebellion and the Contempt of the Right of Kings and their Majesty nor was there ever a Disloyalty Rebellion or Contempt equaling that committed against the Sacred Person of Charles the First Humiliation then on this Anniversary-Day should exceed all others If I mistake not my Discourse holds good relying upon the just proportion to be kept between Humiliation and Sin. I could exemplify each part out of holy Writ were I not press'd between scarcity of Time and Copiousness of matter It is enough that I insist only upon Rebellion But is not that Rebellion to be blotted out of Memory and buryed in Oblivion Old Soares are not to be ript up True if perfectly Heal'd and if perfectly Healed yet their trouble and danger may be expos'd for future Safety and prevention of

God has plac'd in his Vicars Supreme Governours To be a Rule it must not deflect from the first Rule of the Divine Will and Command it must stand with Reason and Justice the Peace and Good of the Publick must be its end And to be for the common good Law cannot be a weapon of private Passion No Law then can uphold this Court of thine O Rebellion Thy ends are Private Thou reced'st from the first Rule by usurping Gods Prerogative who alone is the King and Judge of Kings It is against Reason to claim Power over a Supreme it is Unjust to Arraign thy Judge Law then opposes thy Pretentions to Law and the Dignity of a King wholly defeats them Will'st thou once learn what a King is Give Ear. God is the King of Kings 1 Tim. 6.15 And Kings are as it were the Gods of their People Kings cannot be Gods Judge nor can the People be their Kings Who is the Supreme Who the Judge without Appeal but the King To whom do inferior Judges own their Authority but to the King From who do Courts receive their Power but from the King In whose Name are Impeachments drawn up but in the Kings Acts of Parliament by who are they Enacted but by the King And by consequence the final Legislative Power in who doth it reside but in the King. By the undoubted fundamental Laws of this Kingdom neither the Peers of this Realm nor the Commons nor both together in Parliament nor the People Collectively or representatively nor any other Persons whatsoever ever had have or ought to have any Co-ercive Power over the Persons of the Kings of this Realm It is the Parliament which speaks and yet Rebellion against The undoubted and Fundamental Laws dar'd Erect a High Court of Justice against her Sovereign and what dares not Rebellion do She is too well vers'd in Holy Writ not to know That to resist Kings is to resist God Rom. 13. What shall it be to Process to Condemn to murder one But by who is he to be Try'd Commons are Try'd by Commons Peers by Peers have you a Jury of Kings And had you there 's no Judge left to give the Sentence but God And Woe to Rebellion when God's to Sentence More yet in case you Condemn him according to your execrable Formality of pretended Law may he not grant himself a Reprive He can bestow it upon the meanest and most guilty Subject shall he not be able to confer it upon himself he can give it another even when the Sentence is most Just and shall he not enjoy his own Prerogative against the most unjust of Sentences Ah! To what end do I tyre my self and you Our Renowned Prince plac'd by God above Law without Law and against Law must fall a Victim to the highest Injustice Rebellion has got the Sword and the Sword without the Ballance is the Type of Cruelty to Cruelty Majesty is forc'd to bend and Sacrilegious Rebellion never appear'd with so ghast a Countenance as imbru'd in his Royal Blood. That Blood will ever set her out to the detestation and horror of the World. That Blood will blaze her to all Ages for what she is That Blood will speak aloud and say Fly Rebellion she 'll never spare Subject that durst Process Condemn and by Name of High Justice Murder the Meekest of Monarchs No more no more of what without Affliction and Tears I cannot call to mind His last Thoughts were his Peoples Welfare his Kingdoms Peace his Nations Happiness he died undaunted like himself like a King forgiving what the World will never forget so Sacrilegious a Murder That Pardon that Innocent Blood crys yet for Revenge against Rebellion and upon Rebellion let it fall let Rebellion die never more to rise let it die by the hand of Humiliation The subject of my third point with which I conclude Humiliamini c. Be ye humbled under the powerful Hand of God that he may exalt you in time of Visitation In my preceding Discourse you have seen at Leisure Rebellion Arraign'd Process'd and Convicted of the most detestable of Crimes and by consequence Guilty of the worst of Punishments And as her Sins surmounts all others so would I have her Chastisement proportionable The subject is of a large extent but not to transgress I will close it in little Men that die for Offences will rise again Rebellion I would have her die so as never to revive Let Rebellion then die but how Sub potenti manu Dei Under the Powerful Hand of God by an humble Obedience For what end That God may exalt us in time of Visitation God has his different Visitations as you 'l find in Holy Writ Visitations of Anger Visitations of Love Visitations of Mercy Visitations of Revenge Visitations of Humbling Visitations of Exalting His Visits of Humbling Anger and Revenge lay grievous upon us by the Scourge of Rebellion a Road grown on our own Soil This seems a time of a Visitation of his Love Mercy and Exalation upon us But Humiliamini Humiliamini Be ye humbled We may humble our selves and we may be humbled by another to be humbled by another is commonly a Chastisement to humble our selves is now and then a satisfaction in order to Rebellion it is a Pevention so that our humbling our selves is at once a satisfaction for Rebellion that 's pass'd and prevention of Rebellion that might come and behold the desir'd Execution done by Obedience upon Rebellion greater revenge cannot be taken Satisfaction destroys it and puts it as I may say to Death Prevention hinders it from reviving so that Humiliation Tryumphs in the utter ruine of Rebellion And had I not Reason in the beginning of my Discourse to term it England's standing Peace more glorious than any victory in War So it is If Obedience stands Rebellion must fall And by this Humiliation Day our Obedience being perpetuated Rebellion must down for ever Be ye then humbled under the Powerful hand of God. The Powerful hand of God I interpret to be Kings in their Scepter they sway Gods Power in their Sword his Justice and so by Obedience to our Prince we are Humbled under the Powerful hand of God to the total extirpation of Rebellion The best of satisfactions we can give to the Royal Father is to annihilate Rebellion by a true Allegiance to his great Son Fasting's good Prayer yet more excellent by them the Rebellion of the flesh is tam'd the Rebellion of the Spirit by sole Obedience The ever hard neck'd Children of Israel They Fasted Isaiah 5.8 v. 3. Wherefore have we Fasted and thou seest not wherefore have we afflicted our Soul and thou takest not knowledge Rebellion can Fast and none invoke the Lord with longer breath than Rebels But their Fast and Prayers are not acceptable to the most High They 'r Disobedient their Humiliation is Hypocrisy it enters not the heart Hear what the Lord Answers to the complaint of those pretenders to Prayers and Fasts Behold in the day of your Fasting your own Will is found A Rebel will ever have his own will and refusing to submit his Will to God gives out Gods Will to be his and so makes God as it were a Subject and himself a God. From Obedience then our Humiliation is to derive its whole Worth and Valour and that it may be eternal to the eternal destruction of Rebellion O that England would learn to know the voice of the Serpent Would learn no more to be deluded by those canting Charms of Liberty Property and Religion Remember that even Satan the Prince of Darkness 2 Cor. c. 11. v. 14. read the place it is much to our purpose transfigures himself into an Angel of Light. And so doth his first Child Rebellion No pretence whatsoever can Justify Rebellion You have a Prince whose Wisdom and Experience makes him know your true Good and Happiness I may confidently say better than you know it your selves Trust him who God has Intrusted with you With the free use of your Religion your Bodies and Minds he has both eas'd He has vindicated your Properties Invaded by false Zealots but real Persecution His indefatigable Concern for the publick Honour and Welfare of his Kingdom you cannot but own but you must inviolably own your Duty to him Rebellion's to be kept down by his Wisdom Courage and Power but by a generous and ready complyance in you No Army ever gain'd Victory without Obedience and no Kingdom without Obedience shall ever reap Glory Humiliamini c. Be ye then humbled to be exalted Vir Obediens loquetur Victoriam Prov. 21. v. 28. The Obedient Man shall speak Victory We are to be Men Stout Rational but Obedient to be Victorious both of our Earthly and Spiritual Foes Let Jealousies be laid aside and you 'l improve your Sovereign's Love Appease Animosities Chase away Fears and you 'l produce and nourish a mutual Confidence in each other to your own Quiet and Comfort to the Terror of your Enemies and to your King and Countreyes Renown Thus in Spight of Rebellion by Obedience to the Son you 'l compleat the Wishes of his Dying Father You 'l make an Atonement for that Sacrilegious Murder Obedient England will be more Glorious than ever she was Disgrac'd in the Ignominy put upon her by a few Unnatural Rebels and so enjoying the Fruits of a Peaceable Conscience the Sweets of a setled Tranquility in this Life she 'l be dispos'd to be Crown'd with Eternal Reward in the next Which God of his Infinite Goodness grant us all In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen FINIS