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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61248	A sermon preached in the Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of St. Peter in York, January 30th, 1688/9, and published at the request of the auditors by William Stainforth ...	Stainforth, William, d. 1713.	1689 (1689)	Wing S5173; ESTC R13543	15,374	42

might have lived to a far longer date to have been the blessed instrument of much Glory and much Happiness to these Kingdoms For by the healthfulness of his Constitution and the soundness of his Vitals he seem'd to have been design'd for a long Life and in all probability his Moderation and Temperance and Sobriety which he practis'd on all occasions might have lengthned his days very nigh these of ours if not to them But he was too great a Blessing for such an ingratefull and sinfull People to enjoy any longer and therefore God suffers him to fall into the bloudy hands of his implacable Enemies and to be cut off by them that so the Nation might be involved in those Confusions and groan under those Miseries which the provoking guilts and impieties of it so abundantly deserv'd And all Men had great reason to apprehend beforehand those dismal Evils which soon followed his Death when they consider'd the Manner and Circumstances of it For that God should suffer so Holy a King to be so inhumanely treated and so barbarously murthered could proceed from nothing but his hot-burning Wrath against the Nation and his immoveable purpose to pour down his heavy Judgments upon it And the Event sadly demonstrated the reasonableness of such pre-apprehensions for when he suffer'd our Religion and our Laws suffer'd with him and the Government both in Church and State expired and dyed in the very same moment with him For then our Holy Religion was banished from our Churches and the Ministers of it driven into Corners or forc'd into Prisons and the Abomination of desolation stood in our Holy Places Then Hypocrisie pull'd off its Mask and Atheism appear'd barefac'd and Profaneness grew impudent and Sacrilege laid its devouring hands on all holy Things then innumerable Swarms of new and unheard of Sects sprang and grew up among us and walked abroad in their uncouth Forms and monstrous Shapes Then Popery prevail'd and increas'd and seduc'd many weak and unstable Souls and gained more Proselytes in those dark times of trouble and confusion as some have made the computation than in all the peacefull Reign of King CHARLES the second So that Cardinal Richilieu seems to have had some grounds for that Maxim of his viz. Till the Monarchy of England was chang'd into a Common-wealth there was little reason to hope for the return of Popery Then our Laws were either laid aside or turn'd against themselves expounded and interpreted to their own ruine and the destruction of those who adhered to them and so were executed in no other sense than in that in which their Royal Fountain and Guardian was executed that is by being destroy'd Thus you see how the manner of our King's death was an Index of God's fierce displeasure and a Prologue to Tragical Miseries which immediately succeeded it and what great reason the Nation had upon that account to grieve and mourn for him But this is not all but there 's something more of a fadder Consideration still behind and which extremely differenceth our Case from that of the Jews concerning the death of that good King Josiah and shews that these Nations not onely had but still have more reason to grieve and mourn for the violent and untimely death of that blessed Martyr and glorious Saint King CHARLES the First of ever Blessed Memory and this will appear if 3. We consider the Instruments by which this bloudy and untimely death was effected and brought to pass For it was not an Assyrian or an Egyptian not a Stranger or Foreigner which slew him but his own native Subjects who by all the Laws of God and Man by all the Ties of Oaths and Engagements of Promises by all the Obligations of Gratitude and Interest were bound to preserve and protect his Royal Person against all attempts of Violence whatsoever And if the Jews mourned so heavily for Josiah who dyed by the chance of War and by the hands of an Alien from the Commonwealth of Israel how much more ought we to mourn for our Gratious Sovereign who was put to death as a Criminal and Malefactour in his own Kingdom and in the great and famous Metropolis of that Kingdom and before the Gates of his own Royal Palace in that Metropolis and by the hands of his own natural Subjects This was a prodigious Wickedness a Complicated Villany an Unprecedented Excess of Unrelenting and Impudent Barbarity It was Murther and Treason too and both of them heightened to the utmost degree of Aggravation by being dressed up in the forms and methods of publick Justice And if all Murther is a crying Sin which importunes the Justice and wearies the Ears of the Almighty untill it be avenged how clamarous must the bloud of innocent Majesty be and how great must those Judgments be which must silence its loud Cries and attone the Wrath which is due for it And can this Nation then sit down under the sense and remembrance of this sad and deplorable Evil without being touched and affected with it without being humbled and grieved for it without accompanying their Grief and Humiliations with a sincere and hearty repentance for the Guilt of this day's Wickedness as well as of all other their Offences For the Guilt of this Murther was as National as the Loss which was sustained by it and all the People of this Kingdom were accessory to it either as the Instruments or the occasions of it some by their actual putting him to death and imbruing their wicked hands in his Innocent bloud some by their unnatural Rebellion and Treasonable Fighting against him some by their cowardly Neutrality and treacherous Unconcernedness and all by their personal Sins and Vices which inflamed the Wrath of God and contributed to the general Provocation And let us not vainly imagine that we are no way concerned for this great Evil no way obliged to be grieved and humbled for it because it was committed Forty years ago when most of us were not born and most of of us who were then born not capable of knowing good from evil for it being a National Sin a National Judgment is due for it And because this World is the proper Season for inflicting such Judgments we have reason to dread that God will bring upon us the Judgement which is due for this Sin if he has not already brought it with all the Circumstances of Terrour and Severity of Execution except we endeavour to avert it with sincere Humiliations and unfeigned Repentances Remember that it was not till Forty years after the death of our Blessed Saviour that God visited the Jewish Nation for the guilt of shedding his Innocent bloud and it is very probable that very few of those who either petitioned for his Crucifixion or apprehended and Murthered him were living at that time And yet when God after so long forbearance visited that Nation for that Sin neither Age nor Sex nor Rank or Quality were spared but all were involved in the same common Fate and felt the severe effects of the Publick Calamity It s true indeed God provided an opportunity for the Christians to escape and to fly beyond the reach of the publick Judgment but that we may not presume on impunity from the Example of their deliverance we must know that they were Christians not onely in Name and Profession but in Life and Practice and their Graces and Vertues were as singular and extraordinary as their Preservation And therefore consider it is now just Forty years since the horrid Fact was committed which we either do or should commemorate this day with Fasting and Humiliation and Penitential Sorrows And consider farther that the publick Affairs of this unsettled Kingdom seem now to be brought to a Crisis and to move on the point of Life and Death of Happiness and Misery How things will go and what will be the issue and event of them God onely knows but I am sure there is no such certain and effectual way to make them go well and succeed to our preservation and happiness as to humble our selves under the hand of God to lament and bewail all our Sins both Personal and National Private and Publick and particularly the Sin of this day which was such a scandal to the Protestant Religion such an Infamy to the English Nation and such an offence to Almighty God And therefore with contrite Hearts and devout Minds let us pray to God that he would deliver us from Bloud-guiltiness and particularly from the guilt of that Royal Bloud which we now bewail and mourn for that so it may not be charged upon us or our Posterity And to our devout Prayers let us add Works of Mercy and Charity which are Sacrifices well-pleasing to God and throughout the whole course of our Lives let us keep innocence and doe that which is right and upon all occasions be followers of that which is good and then we may hope that God for the sake of Christ will pardon and forgive us all our offences receive us into his favour and protection own us for his People in this World and receive us into his Glory in that to come which God grant for Christ Jesus's sake To whom with the Father and Holy Spirit be ascribed all Might Majesty Dominion Praise and Thanksgiving now and for ever Amen FINIS