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A43685	A vindication of some among our selves against the false principles of Dr. Sherlock in a letter to the doctor, occasioned by the sermon which he preached at the Temple-Church on the 29th of May, 1692 : in which letter are also contained reflexions on some other of the doctor's sermons, published since he took the oath.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1692 (1692)	Wing H1878; ESTC R6402	65,569	61

hath more offended against the King and the Realm than the King hath done against him or us Thus Sir spoke that Heroick Prelate in the Court of Parliament and his practice was answerable to what he spoke For he chose not the safer but the juster side as all good Men ought to do He knew while he spoke that Bonds and Persecutions would attend him nevertheless he spoke freely and after speaking was committed to Prison and after that was crushed with many other brave Men by the Usurper against whom they rose up Afterwards about the sixth year of his Reign Rich. Scroop A. B. of York with the L. Maubray Marshal of England H. Piercy E. of Northumberland L. Bardolf and * As I suppose the Earls of Salisbury Huntington Glocester the Lords Clarenden Roper with divers other Knights and Esquires and after that the Lord Thomas Piercy Earl of Worcester and Lord Henry Piercy Son and Heir to the Earl of Northumberland many others published an Excommunication and † In the first Volume of Fox's Acts and Monuments in the Reign of H. IV. Remonstrance consisting of several Articles against Henry which they fixed upon the doors of Churches and Monasteries to be read of all It begins thus IN THE NAME OF GOD Amen Before the Lord Jesus Christ Judge of the quick and the dead We not long since became bound by Oath upon the Sacred Evangelical Book unto our Sovereign Lord Richard late King of England that we as long as we lived should bear true Allegiance and Fidelity towards him and his Heirs succeeding him in the Kingdom by just Title Right and Line according to the Statutes and custom of this Realm have here taken unto us certain Articles subscribed in form following to be proponed heard and tried before the just Judge Christ Jesus and the whole World but if which God forbid by Force Fear or Violence of wicked Persons we shall be cast in Prison or by violent death be prevented so as in this World we shall not be able to prove the said Articles as we wish then we do appeal to the High Coelestial Judge that he may judge and discern the same in the day of his Supream Judgment First We depose say and except and intend to prove against Lord Henry Darby commonly called King of England himself pretending the same but without all Right and Title thereunto and against his Adherents Fautors Complices that they have ever been are and will be Traitors Invaders and destroyers of God's Church and of our Sovereign Lord Richard late King of England his Heirs his Kingdom and Commonwealth as shall hereafter manifestly appear In the second Article they declare him forsworn perjured and excommunicate for that he conspired against his Sovereign Lord King Richard In the fourth they recite by what wrong illegal and false means he exalted himself into the Throne of the Kingdom and then describing the miserable State of the Nation which followed after his Usurpation they again pronounce him Perjured and Excommunicate In the fifth Article they set forth in what a barbarous and inhumane manner Henry and his Accomplices imprisoned and murdered K. Richard and then cry out Wherefore O England arise stand up and avenge the Cause the Death and Injury of thy King and Prince if thou do not take this for certain that the Righteous God will destroy thee by strange Invasions and Forreign Power and avenge himself on thee for this so horrible an Act. In the seventh they depose against him for putting to death not only Lords Spiritual and other Religious Men but also divers of the Lords Temporal there Named for which they pronounce him Excommunicate In the ninth they say and depose that the Realm of England never flourished nor prospered after he Tyrannically took upon him the Government of it And in the last they depose and protest for themselves and K. Richard and his Heirs the Clergy Commonwealth of the whole Realm that they intended neither in Word nor Deed to offend any State of Men in the Realm but to prevent the approaching Destruction of it and beseeching all Men to favour them and their Designs whereof the first was to exalt to the Kingdom the true and lawfull Heir and him to Crown in Kingly Throne with the Diadem of England Upon publishing these Articles much people resorted to the Archbishop but he being circumvented by the Earl of Westmoreland who pretended to join with him dismissed his Forces at his persuasion upon which he was immediately made Prisoner and beheaded at York with the Earl Marshal and divers York shire Gentlemen and Citizens of York who had joined with him The Earl of Northumberland and Lord Bardolph escaped and held out two years longer before they were crushed by the Usurper but at last they were both slain Fighting in the Field against him You see Doctor in this Remonstrance how the Archbishop and Lords that joined with him contrary to the general sense of Mankind unking'd this Providential King for want of a Legal Title and Remonstrated against him as a Perjured Traytor and Vsurper and when he lay upon his Death-bed he himself also began to be of their Opinion contrary to the general sense of Mankind when his guilty Conscience forced him to tell his Son That he had no good Title to the Crown but he not inferior to his Father in Ambition snatched it from his Pillow and plainly told him That as he had got it by the Sword so by the Sword he would keep it And in truth Doctor your Title by Providence against Law is Sword Title and your Providential Kings Sword-Kings for in all Kingdoms the Sword is King where their lawfull Prince is not the Sword or Supream Force Rules all and that Supream Crushing Force which by God's permission gets and keeps possession makes your Providential Kings 12. I have hitherto shewed you what Opinion many Wise and Considering Men had of Henry IV. and his Reign for want of Legal Right and Title And I now proceed to shew the sense that a whole Parliament had of him and of his Son and Grand-Son's Succession the latter sitting in the Throne This appears from Roll. Parl. 39 Henry VI. as it is in Cotton's Abridgement or rather from the Record at large as it is to be seen as it was lately printed in an Answer by a skillful and faithful hand to The unreasonableness of the new Separation upon account of the Oaths This Roll gives an account how Richard Duke of York Father of Edward IV. brought to the Parliament Chamber in writing not a Petition but a Claim to the Crown of which Henry had been long fully and quietly possessed and his Title which was only Succession by Birth-right being fully made appear it was the Opinion of all the Lords that it could not be defeated That single Title by Proximity of Blood was thought sufficient to supersede all the patch'd Titles of Henry and all that could be said in

Estates of the Realm This Doctour I fear is the Spirit and these the Principles generally speaking of the Refugees and this Spirit and these Principles of which they give so many Signs obliged the King for his own Security to send their Ministers out of his Kingdom but he did not send them away empty he did not send them to the Galleys as you know who did What I have said Doctour is out of justice and not out of kindness to the French Monarch I am none of those that wish he may prevail and bear all before him like a Torrent but I do not like that he should be ignorantly and partially traduc'd by every soul mouth'd Pulpitier when were it not for his invincible Mistake in Religion he would be thought even by you one of the bravest Princes that ever wore a Crown Nor have I any ill Will at his Protestant Subjects I have been as great a Reliever of them in proportion to my Ability as any other Man in the Kingdom and should be glad to see a Vindication of them that I might have a better Opinion of them I grant the King hath persecuted them with very great Severity and made havock of their Church and am as sorry as you can be for it and for the Cause of it but then are there no persecutors among the Confederate Princes Look about you Doctor set the Acts and Edicts and Executions of other Princes against his and then you will find that other Protestants besides the French have been dragoon'd and lost their Estates their Lives their Liberties and their Countrey for Conscience sake In short the French Apologists tell us that the King persecuted them because they intended to persecute him This their own Consciences can tell them whether it be true or no and if it be true then their destruction is of themselves and they have brought down their Ruine upon their own Heads The Bishop of St. Asaph who foretold the Downfall of their King hath now foretold his Conversion and their Restitution It is some Months ago since he foretold that this would happen within a year God grant his Prediction may prove true it would make his Majesty a Constantine to his People But yet I fear that would not satisfie some Men nor reconcile their ulcerated Minds to him unless with the Popish Religion he quitted the Interests of King James This Doctor is another crowned Head against whom you love to croak All your malicious Speeches and Slanders of him and particularly those in your first and second Letter concerning the French Invasion are filed up in Heaven and shall be brought in Evidence against you at the great Day of Judgment when without publick and bitter Repentance you will appear at the left Hand with Cromwell Bradshaw Cook Milton and Thom. Good win and be sent with those Worthies of the Old Cause into your own place You cannot be content with sober and wise Men among your Brethren to say nothing of him or when you speak to speak of him as they do with Decency and Respect but you fall upon him as the Mob did at Feversham with a brutal Rage without any Regard to his Royal Name and Person or to her Majesty and the Princess whom you dishonour in reproaching of him For let me tell you Doctor the Disgrace of the Chief always terminates in the Clan and the Men of Honour will tell you they are bound to revenge it as soon as they have the Opportunity 16. In this Sermon you also upbraid him with his Misfortunes which no good Man can think of without the greatest degree of Compassion scornfully calling him the late unfortunate Prince It is true Doctor he is unfortunate but you should have remembred what Solon said of Croesus and that what happens to Kings may also happen to Divines You live now in great Prosperity and State but God may yet bring you down He can when he pleases take off the Wheels of your Chariot turn your Silver Candelesticks into Brass and your Wax Candles into Tallow and reduce you even beyond your first principals yet before you dye I wish this may not happen to you nor none of those who insult over the Calamities of that unfortunate Prince but if it do so remember you saw the Anguish of his Soul and had no Pity for him and then say therefore if this Distress come upon us One of the Nine Men when he heard him pitied had the Barbarity to say Why what matter is it He is but a Bastard St. Alban 's Bastard and it is great pity that her Majesty had not been told of it before he put on his Lawn Slieves We commonly say Misfortunes are no Crimes and before you upbraid him with them again remember his Father the Martyr of the Church of England was unfortunate before him and had this also added to the rest of his Misfortunes that he was reviled and had in derision by such Sons of the Earth as you But God supported him by his Grace and made him more than Conqueror and the same God which supported the Father hath also upheld the Son under his Misfortunes which let me tell you had never come upon him had you and your Brethren the Clergy done their Duty as some of them did And therefore methinks you should take no pleasure in ripping up his Misfortunes which are your Crimes He was unfortunate in you more than in his Lay Subjects You might have saved him as well as your Religion if you would have preached but half as much for him as you did for that but your general Silence in the needfull time betrayed him to all his Misfortunes and Now such as you among your Brethren are very sorry that they are not greater and mad against the suffering Remnant because they do not renounce him in his Misfortunes and murmur against God that hath preserved him and laid Help upon one that is mighty for him a mighty Prince who hath long maintain'd more Legions than the Roman Empire did at the highest Pitch of Greatness and who perhaps one day like Augustus and Trajan may inscribe upon his Medals coined upon such glorious Occasions REX PARTHIS REX ARMENIS DATVS for God seldom raises Princes to that Greatness but he hath something extraordinary for them to doe I must also remind you of another great Blessing which God who remembers Mercy in Judgment has bestowed upon him and thereby enabled him the better to bear the loss of his Kingdoms He hath given him of his most virtuous Queen a Royal * See the Observator published Monday Aug. 21. and Wednesday Aug. 23. 1682. Son and Daughter by whom I trust the Royal Family will be multiplied into many Branches and come to be restored to its antient Rights and Glory The Seed of the Royal Martyr is in them and I hope it is no Crime to pray that God would give them the sure Mercies of David and let them grow up like