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A sermon preached at St. Andrew's Plymouth, January 30th, 1698/9 by John Gilbert ... ; with a preface defending King Charles the martyr, and the observation of his day, against the libels, and practice of such, who are enemies to both.
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Gilbert, John, d. 1722.
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the Rebellion and Murther In his time says he under Apolog. Nar. p. 140. a complaint of Slavery we lived like Freemen I do utterly declare the Proceedings against him as contrary to Faith Example Duty and Oaths he granted more than any King ever did to any Parliament or more than any Parliament ever demanded of any King and more than the fatal Long Parliament could in the Beginning hope or wish I do not so much as in Thought P. 139. reflect on the Honour of His late Majesty whose Memory shall remain Sacred and Glorious while that of His Enemies shall rot and stink SEVERAL others who bore Arms against the King at that time had the like Remorse and Sentiments and shewed it openly even while Nol was in his Altitudes and drove Army Parliament and all before him M. R. Huntington Coll. George Coll. E. Crooke Iconoclastes pref p. 8. of Higham Coll. Mat. Tomlinson were some of them So true was it that Milton the most Inveterate of the King's Enemies observed that those who hated him and fought against him with displayed Banners in the Field afterwards applauded and extolled him as a Prince the Wisest and most Religious that ever lived BUT besides the Sword Men who became convinced and dropp'd their Weapons many of His busiest Enemies the great Incendiaries in the Parliament Pulpit or Press had the same Conviction when the Heat of their Jealousy and Rage was abated and they had time to consider or opportunity to converse with him Then they became convinced and admired him more than the Q of Sheba did Solomon for she came to see a Man famous for Wisdom and found him to exceed her Expectation But these a Man Infamous for Folly and Wickedness and found him so much the contrary that they cried out Ecce plus quam Solomon Mr. Long ag Walker p. 48. Dr. Hollings Jan. 30th 93. Thus Mr. Vines after the Dispute at Newport cri'd out Lo a second Solomon A. Henderson after that at New Castle was so charm'd with the King's Learning Wisdom c. that he became severely penitent for what he had acted many Years against him retired to Scotland * Whitlock Mem. p. 123. Saunderson Hist p. 921. Perinchiff Hist K. Char. p. 39. Heath Chr. p. 115. Ravilak Red. p. 4. Athen. Oxon. vol. 2. p. 520. 436 205. and there died of Grief leaving such a Character of Him as his greatest Friends have not exceeded Sir Tho. Herbert and Mr. Harrington put into the King's Bed-chamber upon the removal of his Loyal Servants by the Army became Converts and boldly vindicated Him against the Calumnies of His Enemies and declared him a most Wise and Excellent King So did Speaker Lental W. Prinn Mr. Corbet c. Hist Indep vol. 2. p. 109. 138 201. He was the most sanctified virtuous and knowing Prince in the World had learnt the whole Method of Human Perfection said C. Walker 1650. who was a Covenanter a Member of the L. Parliament and had as himself boasts faithfully served them from the beginning with great Pain Hazard vast expence of Health and Money Gratis and in pure Love of the good old Cause and Hatred of the King's Will 1647. The famous Mr. A. Marvel during Cromwel's Usurpation was his Under Secretary to Milton a great Admirer of both And altho' after the Restauration he became the great Idol of the publicans a Lampooner of the Court and Friend to its Enemies yet on all Occasions he met with in his reflective and satyrical Writings to mention the R. Martyr he speaks of him with Applause When the War broke out quoth he Hell broke loose Hist Judep vol. 2. p. 109. 138 201. the L. P. ought and might have trusted the King with Rehearsal Transprosed part 1. p. 302. Part 2. p. 349. the whole Matter about which they quarrelled he was of so accurate and piercing a Judgment the best Prince that ever wielded the Scepter of these Kingdoms very pious and religious of exquisite Vnderstanding Further Instr to Painter 1670. Holy Charles was like Marcus Aurelius THERE cannot be a truer or better Character given of this most excellent Prince than in a Hist K. Char. 1649. Libel written 1649. by W. Lilly on purpose to defame Him and renown his Murtherers but it 's too long for this Preface Most of those who embrued their Hands in his Blood recanted confess'd their Guilt in shedding the Innocent Blood of a Sacred King of ever blessed Memory with Tears abhorr'd the Fact and themselves for committing it and like Joseph's Brethren accused one another at the Bar for what they had done together on the Bench as may be seen in Authentick Reports of their Tryals though a late scandalous Libeller hath the Impudence to affirm That those who condemned King Charles to Death were steadfast to the T. O. first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 73 last few of them having so little Grace to repent of what they had done but what he Swears and what he Writes are alike with him usually the breadth of Heaven wide from Truth For though Rebellion be like the Sin of Witchcraft seldom or never repented of yet 23 that is almost all those execrable Regicides who by a Mockery of Justice perpetrated that cruel Villany were sometimes by the Power of Truth and Conscience forced in the midst of or soon after all their Railing at this Martyr'd King to cry out as Satan did to our Saviour I know Thee thou art the Son of God! And declare Voice from Heaven to the Com. Wealth 1651. openly to the World as A. Evans soon after the Murther that He was a Prince Able Wise Faithful of an undefiled good Spirit perfect in all things Justified of God and Men and by His own Enemies THUS much for the Evidence given in behalf of the R. M. by many of his Adversaries and Murtherers There are a loud of Witnesses beside who tho' his Friends cannot be thought Partial in his Favour some of them being Men of Honour who well knew Him Testified for him when he was Dead and they Dying by the same Hand that bereft him 't was no Time or Subject for Flattery or Falshood I will therefore produce a couple of them to clench the whole and perfume the Court after that filthy pack who have appeared in this Cause and then adjourn THAT Loyal Martyr and Noble Patriot the Lord Capel was Famous even among his Enemies for Piety Integrity Wisdom and Heroic Vertue when he came to Die for his Fidelity to this Excellent Prince he gave Him this Eulogy with his last Breath I have considered the Images of all the Greatest Speech on the Scaffold and most Virtuous Princes which have been in the World and cannot find one more sufficient than K. Charles AND Duke Hamilton who Died with him for Hamilton's Memoirs p. 398. the same Cause took God to witness at his last moments that he knew the
to shew 1st What cause we have yet to fear the Judgments of God to avenge the innocent Blood of our late SOVERAIGN who was upon this Day Barbarously Murthered And 2d What Course we should take to prevent the Execution of such Judgments 1st To shew what cause we have yet to fear the Judgments of God to Avenge the innocent Blood of our late SOVERAIGN who was Barbarously Murthered on this Day I suppose I need not spend time to prove to you who are before me that the Executing of our late SOVERAIGN was not an Act of Justice but of Inhumane and Barbarous Cruelty If we are not convinced of this it is vile Hipocrisy to assemble upon this occasion The Act of Parliament by which this Day is set apart and enjoined for Humiliation and Prayer declareth the putting our late SOVERAIGN to Death to be An Horrid Impious Execrable 2 Car. 12. Murther and unparalell'd Treason committed by a party of Wretched Men desperately Wicked and hardened in Impiety who were neither true Protestants nor true Subjects but Miscreants whose Fanatick Rage gave the Protestant Religion the greatest VVound and Reproach and the People of England the most insupportable Shame and Infamy it was possible for the Enemies of GOD and the KING to bring upon them And in the Prayers which we Offer up to God this Day the Vertues of this Murther'd Prince His Courage and Constancy His Patience and Charity are commemorated His Innocency is asserted His Cause is justify'd in that His Death is stiled a Martyrdom by which we may know how to judge of that which is called the good Old Cause Old indeed as that of Lucifer but no better though more prosperous We certainly who offer up such Prayers as those if we have one grain of sincerity must be well satisfied that the Blood of this Day was Innocent and therefore may justly provoke God when he maketh Inquisition for Blood to punish our Sinful Land wherein this was shed Taking it then for granted that the Arraigning Condemning and Executing King Charles the First of Blessed Memory was an Act of Barbarous Injustice and Cruelty I proceed to shew what reason we have to fear God may deal with us as he did with David and the People of Israel for Saul's Murthering the Gibeonites If we compare the Person Murthered on this Day with those mentioned in the Text we shall find his Quality to be such that it will aggravate the Shedding of his Blood above that which was punished with a Three Years Famine Our late Murthered Soveraign had the Piety of David without his Sins No Vriah fell by his Cruelty no Bethsheba was defiled by his Lust And if David was worth Ten Thousand Israelites as they all declared 2 Sam. 18. 3. the Martyr of this Day was more worth then all the Gibeonites and therefore we may fear his innocent Blood may pull down more than a Three Years Famine If with the generality of Interpreters we look upon the Murther of the Gibeonites as more Hainous because of the Perjury conjoyned with it by the Violation of that Oath which was taken for their Preservation hath not the Murther of this Day the same Aggravation but in a higher Degree That was an Oath taken by Joshua and the Princes of Israel some Hundred Years before Saul's time But the Authors of this Day 's Murther had Personally taken the Legal Oath of Alegiance and that Illegal one of the Covenant and were obliged by both to preserve the Life of this excellent Prince and his Honour too And if we proceed to compare our Case with those before-mentioned in which you heard God inflicts Judgments for the Blood and Violence of a preceding Generation we may see farther Cause to fear that when God maketh Inquisition for Blood that of this Day may be remembred Did not David as you hear befored mind the killing of the Gibeonites nor the Hardships those were under who did survive that Cruelty Is it not plain the Two last Kings tho' somthing was done to avenge their Father's Blood had little Regard to the Service and Sufferings of his Friends For many of those found more Favour who ventured their Lives and Fortunes to bring the King to the Block then those who Hazarded both to keep him from it Were the Jews Punished for Crucifying our Saviour Forty Years after because they owned and justified that bloody Fact And were the Scribes and Pharisees threatned to be punished for the Blood of Abel and Zacharias because they were acted by the same Temper and Principles by which those unjust and cruel Actions were committed It is plain our Case carrieth great Resemblance to these For are there not Books openly Printed and Sold in which the Murther of this Day is Justified Do we not in Conversation often hear the Righteous Cause of our late Murthered Soveraign Arraigned and Condemned and his sacred Memory Blasphemed And by this it is plain there are many amongst us who want nothing but Age to have appeared in the Court in which the late King was Condemned or on the Scaffold on which he was Executed And doth not that Hatred of Monarchy and Zeal for another Species of Government the Principles by which our late Soveraign was brought to the Block encrease amongst us These are Matters too Evident to be denied though it is very strange it should be so under the Government of a Crowned Head the Grandson of our Royal Martyr who hath the same Blood running in his Veins which was this Day shed And thus having shewed that we have Cause to fear there may be more Judgments in Store to avenge the Royal and Innocent Blood this Day shed I proceed in the 2d Place to consider what Course we should take to prevent the Execution of these Judgments And what more effectual way can be thought on than what the Authority and Wisdom of the Nation hath appointed The Observation I mean of this Day for Humiliation and Prayer To implore the Mercy of God that the Guilt of that Sacred and Innocent Blood may not be Visited on us or our Posterity as the Statute sensibly express'd it Were not too many so Cross-grain'd as to turn this Fast into a Feast Were not those who appoint so many Fasts for the private Concerns of a Conventicle so Froward as to Despise this which is Commanded by Authority for a General and Publick Good Did we all Assemble this Day to Humble our selves before God for our Sins to declare our Abhorrence for the Murther of this Day and to Deprecate the Vengeance it may provoke GOD to Inflict Did we to such an Observation of this Day add a sincere Reformation of our Lives endeavouring to live Peaceably and quietly in all Godliness and Honesty then we might turn our Fears of Divine Vengeance into Hopes of Enjoying many Years of Peace and Prosperity under His present Majesty whom GOD hath set over us Which God of his infinite Mercy grant through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen FINIS BOOKS Printed for and Sold by Charles Yeo John Pearce and Philip Bishop BOOKSELLERS in EXON SElect Hymns each fitted to two Tunes to be Sung in Churches The Beauty of Holiness Or a short Defence and Vindication of the pious Decency Regularity and Order of Reading the Communion-Service at the Communion-Table offered to a dissatisfied Neighbour from his Minister A Form of Prayer for Married Persons for the most part taken out of the Liturgy A Practical Treatise concerning Evil Thoughts wherein are some Things more especially useful for Melancholy Persons By William Chilcot M. A. Mr. Blount's Oracles of Reason Examined and Answered in Nine Sections In which his many Heterodox Opinions are Refuted the Holy Scriptures and Revealed Religion are Asserted against Deism and Atheism By Josiah King M. A. and Chaplain to the Right Honourable James Earl of Anglesey A Sermon preach'd in the Parish Church of Bovey Tracy on Easter Day 1698. By Francis Stooke M. A. A Sermon preach'd in St. Saviour's Church in Dartmouth July 24th 1698. Together with some Reflections on the Opinion of those who affirm That the only Difference between the Church and the Meeting-House is that of a few Ceremonies In a Letter to a Friend By Humfry Smith M. A.