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A66985 A sermon preach'd January XXX. 1684/5 being the fast for the martyrdom of King Charles I of blessed memory / Benjamin Woodroffe ... Woodroffe, Benjamin, 1638-1711. 1685 (1685) Wing W3469; ESTC R10607 19,085 44

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the later of the two hath the Honour to be first on the Argument Their Books were publish'd between the Years of 1576 and 1578 both within the time of Buchanan's Writing and Publishing his De jure Regni apud Scotos all which i. e. the first coming of the Jesuits into England the settling of private Presbyteries by the Brethren and the writing of these several Books one in France another in Germany a third in Scotland to which I might add the many most virulent Pamphlets then sent abroad at home such as Goodman True Obedience Martin Mar-prelate the Demonstration of the Discipline set out by Penry and Udal Ministers by Job Throckmorton Knightly Wigston Laicks in 1588. the same Year when the Queen was deposed by Sixtus Quintus his Bull and the King of Spain came with his Armado to seize the forfeited Crown and all this just about the time when Subscription was in England first required to the Book of Articles so much the dread of all Innovators both in Church and State because so much for the Stability of both Ab uno disce omnes But because how near Brethren soever they are in Iniquity yet there is nothing in which they are so uneasie as to be thought such let us a little more distinctly see what the Guilt of the one is in this Affair and how the others is aggravated beyond it 'T is Guilt very enormous Guilt to be those who like Jeroboam the Son of Nebat make Israel to sin who corrupt and adulterate the Principles of Religion This in the first Instance of it certainly is a Guilt of the most heinous Nature and horrid Consequence imaginable But these are not the Circumstances of the present Comparison between Israel and Judah for 't is Israel as I ask'd leave to express those of the Romish Perswasion under the unhappiness of their being seduced and led out of the way Revolted Israel Israel under the Prejudice of false and corrupted Principles under a kind of Necessity of being deceived we are speaking of Israel too made the Subject of the greatest judgments For what Hatred what Scorn what Disgrace and Punishment have been thought too much for such Offenders Our Annals are full of their Story our Laws most strict and severe against them And between such and Judah i. e. those who still own the Purity of Religion and the Principles thereof those who have seen what hath been done to such Criminals what they have suffered for their Wickedness and yet make those Principles a Covert for their Falshood those Sufferings an Encouragement for themselves to act greater Villanies between such I say and Judah hangs the Scale and on these Accounts must turn on her Side For what will aggravate Sin if not its being committed against the general Principles as of all Religion so of what Men particularly profess and the highest Professions and Protestations to the contrary What more expose to more dreadful Judgments than the hardening themselves against so manifest and just an hand of God as they have seen upon others in the like Guilt and have felt upon themselves an Example one would think that might work on them in having their own so miraculously detected and in some measure already punish'd I speak it not with Respect to Israel those of a corrupt and adulterated Religion but to give our modern Saints still the Honour of the Comparison with respect to Judah I speak it too in vindication of the reformed Religion the glorious stile whereof they so unjustly usurp and are so great a Scandal to What I say will aggravate Sin if not the continuing in it under such Circumstances 'T was the Horror of their Case in the Text and so God himself enforces it And I saw when for all the Causes whereby back-sliding Israel committed Adultery I had put her away and given her a Bill of Divorce yet her treacherous Sister Judah feared not What remains is that 5. We sum up all by way of Inference Use 1. From hence it appears why in Scripture Treason and Rebellion are represented under so black a Character as being a Sin which equals the worst of Murders supposes the same Rancor of Mind arises from the same Passions of Avarice or Ambition and in the fatal Consequence of it must end in Ruine and that such as carries the immediate marks of Divine Vengeance along with it for with reference to all these St. Jude denounces the Woe v. 11. Woe unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after the Error of Balaam for Reward and perished in the Gainsaying of Core And long before Samuel had told Saul 't was in his particular Case of Disobedience and that upon the most specious Pretence of Piety and high Devotion out of a seeming Zeal for God's Honour that he who gave him the Victory might himself by Sacrifice share in the Spoil 1 Sam. 15. 15. The People spared the best of the Sheep and of the Oxen to sacrifice unto the Lord but applicable to the same Sin wherever 't is found Rebellion is as the Sin of Witchcraft and Stubbornness is as Iniquity and Idolatry and that will carry in it these several Aggravations 1. 'T is a Sin that in its exciting Cause usually springs from Pride and Discontent the very Sin of the Devil in Heaven it self 2. 'T is a Sin that supposes the renouncing of God and his Religion Whatever we may pretend otherwise 't is the very unchristning the Man the drawing him off from his very Vow of Baptism whereby he professes to renounce the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World from the Obedience he then professed to Christ his Lord and General 't is the being ashamed of his Cross and what the sad consequence thereof is 3. 'T is a Sin that puts us out of God's Protection out of the Care of his Wisdom and Providence and no wonder that being abandoned to our selves and the Devil 4. We should be still hurried another fatal Attendant of this Guilt from one degree of Wickedness to another that we should be seduced by its bewitching Charms such as the High Out-cries for Liberty Property or Religion whether there be any reason for it or no led on by Fears and Jealousies the proper Symptoms of those who deal with the Devil to all manner of Impieties And so the latter Clause of that foremention'd 1 Sam. 15. 15. imports which tells us that Stubbornness is as Iniquity and Idolatry Iniquity as it opposes whatsoever is just and equal in the Laws of Men Idolatry as it sets up the Imagination of the Fool the fine Model and Platform he bewitches himself with the Idol of his own creating in the place of God 5. 'T is a Sin Witchcraft is and if Rebellion be such it must take the same Fate that must never hope for Success Witchcraft puts the Wretch out of the Protection of Heaven and cannot expect its Blessing And
this alone one would think should be enough to disparage the mad Attempts of the Rebel that as Gowry is said to have made his Remark when he was hatching his Treason that no Conspiracy was ever so form'd amongst all that he had met with as not to be defective in one Circumstance or other and therefore he would take care to out-do them all and needs it must be so for it can never take God into the Counsel never have the Help of his Wisdom and Providence to accomplish it a shrewd Defect indeed and such a Circumstance as might serve to recover Men to their Wits if any thing were sufficient to recover him who is so bewitch'd with his own Pride Malice or Revenge some of the necessary Ingredients in this Sorcery and what is still more dreadful than all this 6. 'T is a Sin that shall be eternally punish'd with that Despair in Hell with which 't is begun and prosecuted on Earth Use 2. From hence see the many and great Reasons we have to detest the execrable Treason of this Day Tell it not in Gath publish it not in Askelon That ever Religion should be prostituted to serve so great a Villany That the Holy Name of God should be made use of to countenance the Murdering of his own Vicegerent 'T was David's Question to the Amalekite who might have pleaded the Royal Command of Saul and but a sort of Allegiance paid to him in his Anguish to stand upon him and slay him 2 Sam. 1. 14. How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord 's Anointed Is it nothing to have the Divine Character effaced Nothing to be guilty of Royal Blood To behead the Nation at a Blow and then bring him by whom Kings reign into the Conspiracy Blessed Saviour Was this thy meaning when thou commandedst to give to Caesar the things that are Caesars Was this the Reason of thy submitting to Civil Powers that thy Disciples must presently construe it to signifie their Right to depose them Or was it for this Thou inspired'st good St. Paul to tell us We must needs be subject not only for Wrath but Conscience sake Rom. 13. 5. that for Conscience sake we should Rebell against them I might farther aggravate the Fact from the Excellency of the Person his Clemency his Justice his Temperance his Chastity his exemplary Piety and Patience but 't is too stupifying an Argument to dwell on and therefore shall only add this that the only way not to make all this horrid Guilt ours is that which God predicts as what must lead to the Recovery of Israel from that Captivity their Rebellion brought upon them which shall be my last Use viz. Use 3. A turning to God and for they must go together to our King so 't is Hosea 3. 5. Afterward shall the Children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God and David their King There is a sort of Allegiance there is a Duty we can still pay to the Royal Martyr what was wanting to his Person let us pay to his Memory rather let us pay to what of him survives our Dear Sovereign for He too suffer'd in and with him Let us consider who 't was that set either Father or Son on the Throne and let us not forget to pay all Duty and Allegiance there 't is the only Method left us to redeem the Nation and make the Stain of the Guilt not publick still Let us above all disclaim the Principles on which 't was acted let neither Israel nor Judah Religion under any Name whatever so unhallow it self as to justifie the least Degree of Treason 'T is a Debt we all owe to the Honour of our great Master's Name which hath so much suffer'd on either hand as to take care that that be no longer thus reproached for thus to dishonour him and his Gospel certainly is more than to crucifie him afresh 't is to make him the very Malefactor on the Cross to make him the Barabbas the Author of Sedition and Murder in the greatest Detestation and Abhorrence whereof give me leave to conclude with the Words of the Apostle Wherefore you must needs be subject 'T is the Duty as Christians we owe to that Holy Name 't is the truest Honour you can do the Gospel to free it from those Abuses to which turbulent and seditious Men prostitute that Holy Heavenly and Peaceable Doctrine You are those who your selves expect Crowns 't is the Name under which the future Glory you hope for is express'd and is the Rebel fit to be advanced to that Dignity you expect an everlasting Kingdom think not a little Patience and Subjection too much to pay for it you look after Eternal Joy let not Repining and Murmuring be the Preparatives for it Submit to those whom the Lord hath set over you 'T is your undoubted Duty and 't is your Reward your Reward here in that Peace that Quiet that Content and what doth not that Name contain which such a Temper leads to and enjoys at present and 't will be your Reward hereafter in that State of everlasting and unalterable Obedience to the King of Kings in which Heaven and its Happiness will consist Now unto the King Eternal Immortal Invisible the only Wise God be Honour and Glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS ADVERTISEMENT ☞ England's Black Tribunal Containing the Tryal of the Blessed Martyr-King Charles I. with the Dying Speeches and Behaviour of many of the Nobility and Gentry who suffered Death for their Loyalty by the then Rebels Sold by Henry Playford near the Temple-Church 8o. Price bound 2 s.