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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65266	Regicidium Judaicum, or, A discourse about the Jewes crucifying Christ their king with an appendix, or supplement, upon the late murder of ovr blessed soveraigne Charles the first / delivered in a sermon at the Hague ... by Richard Watson ...	Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.	1649 (1649)	Wing W1093; ESTC R31816	23,015	28

sharpe thornes that pierc'd his head could not pricke them at the heart When he saw those stripes which had ploughed up and made long furrowes in his backe could by no meanes breake the drie barren ground in their breasts When no argument draw'n from such a spectacle of humane miserie could move them He becomes as he thinkes imperious in his Rhetoricke hopes the name of Majestie will awe them that they who would take no pitie on him as man will recollect themselves and reverence him as their Soveraigne Ecce Rex Behold your King But they who once have burst the chaines of humane Societie will breake the bonds of Soveraigntie asunder and cast away their cords from them They who have forgoten to be men to be mercifull one to another in love will scarce bethinke themselves to be subjects to be obedient all to any one in dutie When Seneca had defined crueltie to be a certaine fiercenesse of the mind in exacting of punishment he discovered a generation of bloudie men that could not be compriz'd in this definition such as no fault nor injurie preceding can be sayd neither to punish nor revenge but qui occidendi causa occidunt kill merelie because they will kill nec interficere contenti saeviunt nor are they content to kill onelie but torment too and rage in the maner of their murder And he knowes not what to style these mens distemper but a brutish savagenesse a raving madnesse both implying their incapacitie of doing or hearing any thing that is reason so that Ecce homo and Ecce Rex to tell them of man or King to use any rational argument to appease them is to take a lambe from a lions mouth to divert an evening wolfe from her prey it heightens their rage it inflames their furie impatient they are of hearing any thing that tends to that purpose nothing then but Tolle Crucifige Away with him Away with him crucifie him And this leades me to my second part the Jewes aversion from acknowledging Christ's supremacie of power aggravated first by the violence of their passion Clamabant They cried Secondlie by their vehement iterated expression Tolle Tolle Away with him Away with him Thirdlie by the crueltie of their tumultuarie condemnation Crucifige Crucifie him Aut ignorantia nos rerum aut insolentia iracundos facit sayd the Stoike 'T is either ignorance or insolence which in his sense is somewhat hapening beyond expectation or out of course that is the cause of our anger and furie Either of which though it can not fullie excuse the excesse of our passion may abate somewhat the delinquencie of such acts as very naturallie issue from the extremitie of the same To pleade either in behalfe of the Jewes were to denie that their fathers had a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night to conduct them Habent Mosen Prophetas They have Moses and the Prophets and they shewed before of the coming of the just one St. Steven tells them Act. 7. I shall not stand to reproach them with those glorious beames of the sun of righteousnesse which will they nill they stroke themselves into the eyes of the Jewes to which the Wisemens starre in the East was but a sparkle the light that encircled the shepheards but a shadow The know'n accomplishment of the promise in Genesis That when the Scepter departed from Iudah should Shilo come evidenc'd First in Herod the Idumaean who was no native but a proselyte to the Jewes who transmitted the Scepter to his sonne Archilaus and he to Antipas who had a foreigner for his mother giving them that minded it assurance of the thing might very well put them upon search after the person and if our Saviours promise were valide in the 7. of St. Matthew Seeke and ye shall finde which Tertullian sayth with the rest of that nature was in this case directlie intended to the Jewes that search would have ended no otherwhere then in the cleare discoverie of Christ But they were Rebelles lumini as Iob speakes Rebells against the light in a proper sense for when this light that was the Sunne of righteousnesse the King of the Jewes was come into the world they loved darkenesse rather then light This darkenesse some of them loved in Herod whom they would needes in flaterie make that Anoynted of God instead of Christians were called Herodians This darkenesse others of them loved in the Serpent whom they commemorate as the founder of knowledge of good evill whose power and Majestie they say was lifted up in the brasen image by Moses in the wildernesse and in the sonne of man by that paterne as himselfe professeth in the 3. of St. Iohn the likenesse whereof Tertullian sayth they us'd in their sacrilegious mysteries preferring the Devill himselfe before Christ and from thence were called Ophitae Thus like sillie children they chang'd the bread that came downe from heaven for a stone and the fish that their father gave them for a Serpent St. Paul indeed in the 3. of the Acts notes that they and their rulers did out of ignorance crucifie Christ And Christ on his crosse pray'd Father forgive them for they know not what they doe But it may be sayd That St. Pauls charitie might possiblie get the uper hand of his fayth and yet our Saviours words were unquaestionable truth relating to their fatal imprecation Let his bioud be upon us and our children made when they litle thought how long that purple veine would be runing how many generations of their children they plung'd into this river of bloud Their knowledge of this might else have amus'd and startled them in the act And in this sense perchance our Saviour might speake it Ignorant They know not what they doe But let their knowledge be what it will I am sure it could not be greater then their malice which brake out into this extremitie of passion that the Evangelist sayth not ' élegon they spake but ' ecráugesan they cried An affectus sint corpora Wherher the passions of the mind be not bodies hath been a question sprung in moral Philosophie Such strange alterations have they made such shapes and representatives of themselves as seeme more then effects of immaterial formes more then bare impressions of a spirit Thus of tentimes hath feare shot that bloud to the heart which shame had flushed up in the face and shew'd her selfe in the image of death Thus when joy had painted out to the life the verdant spring in the countenance of man hath sorrow sent his moysture to the root and as if it were the autumne of his age parched up his skin like a leafe But quod aliiaffectus apparent hic eminet whereof other affections are the shadow anger seemes to be the substance it selfe what they in a transitorie apparition this in a permanent habit and real Doth modest shame discover it selfe in a gentle blush