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A53104	A sermon preached in the parish-church of St. Sepulchres, on Monday the 30th of January, 1693/4 being the anniversary solemnity for the martyrdom of King Charles I / by Richard Newman, late Vicar of Kynton ...	Newman, Richard, Vicar of Kynton.	1694 (1694)	Wing N924; ESTC R7939	7,681	32

whatever the Ceremony of Investiture is by the Customs of several Nations equivalent thereunto it puts a Note of highest Difference and Distinction between the Persons dignified therewith and Others For Three high and honourable Functions we read in Scripture were conferr'd by this distinguishing Ceremony of Anointing and all of them fenc'd and priviledg'd from Injuries by Vertue of that Holy Oyl namely the Priestly Prophetical and Royal Offices Not to instance in the Two former as not suitable to our present Occasion yet were it easy to prove That the Almighty has Written a Nolite Tangere a Priviledge from common Handling especially the last The Royal is so highly secur'd by the Holy Scriptures That they exact from Subjects such a ' special Awe and Reverence towards KINGS as not only binds the Hand and Tongue but even the Heart also to its good Behaviour And in the Case of this very King Saul when he was once Anointed KING the Holy-Ghost imposes the Brand of Sons of Belial that is Sons of the Devil upon all those who despised or spake contumeliously of Him 1 Sam. 10.27 And Solomon the Wisest of all Mortals strictly chargeth us Not to curse or wish evil to the King no not in our Thoughts Eccles 10.20 So that this Consideration was extreamly conducing to the Aggravation of the Amalekite's Sin in my Text and in him of every King-Killer's Offence For if the lesser Injury may not be done to KINGS surely the greater may not If our Tongues nay Thoughts are not to injure them How much less our Hands Secondly To strengthen this Consideration yet further Holy David calls him not only Vnctus Anointed but Vnctum Domini the Lord 's Anointed which Title particularly relates Him to God as his Vicegerent and enhaunceth the Sin of every one that shall presume to lay violent Hands upon the Lord 's Anointed to the Guilt of High-Treason even against GOD Himself That the Title of the Lord 's Anointed is attributed and belongs to other Kings besides Saul as to all the Jewish Kings yea and besides even Heathenish Kings also is evident from that instance of Cyrus Isa 41.1 And argues that the same Security belongs to all other Kings as being no less related to God and commissioned under Him according to that in the Proverbs By me Kings Reign And so I come to the Third Aggravation taken from the Fact it self and that is represented notoriously Foul in Three Respects First That it was in its own Nature Bloody He destroyed the Lord 's Anointed It was not a Murther intended only nor a Murther barely attempted without Success but an actual and real Murther And yet had he not effected it the very Attempt considering the Quality of the Person had been so hainous a Crime that the Laws of Nature and Nations would have punished it with Death But here the Guilt is infinitely aggravated by the Execution of that which had been so highly Criminal but to attempt For a King however attempted against whilst he is in Being fills the Royal Seat and heads the Common-wealth and animates all Courts of Justice by the Authority of his Name yea lays some restraint upon the most Lawless and dissolute Persons on the Account of a Possibility of being called to Account for their Outrages and Enormities but the actual taking away of a King's Life exposeth the empty Throne to the next potent Vsurper silenceth the Laws annulleth all deputed Powers by the Expiration of their Commissions renders every Man in a sort his own Master and sets up for the Time as many Lords of mis-rule in a Nation as there are evil disposed Persons in it And therefore the Fact of this Amalekite was the more hainous as being an actual destroying of the Lord 's Anointed But Secondly It was a voluntary and wilful Act for He stretched forth his Hand and that with a purpose to destroy the King Had the King accidentally rush'd upon his drawn Sword or had his armed Hand by Impression from some external Force been made the instrumental Cause of taking away the Life of the Lord 's Anointed or any other like Accident had render'd him the Destroyer of the King though besides his Intention yet had it been an Infelicity to have been bewail'd all the Days of his Life And this I hope to make further appear if you please to consider with me the Person whose Death we this Day commemorate compar'd with King Saul in my Text I mean our late Gracious and now Glorious Sovereign A Person by what I have read and heard of Him of a Temper so far different from Saul's that as the One seem'd to be compos'd of Cruelty so the Other by all the Relation that I ever met with seem'd to have nothing in his Constitution but Clemency A Person in both Capacities both of Man and King so free not only from the Guilt but even from the Suspicion of any enormous Crime that even the Malice of his Accusers themselves could find nothing to stuff out that black Charge which they unjustly laid against Him but the unhappy Contests between Himself and his Subjects which indeed were his great Infelicity but their Guilt who first made the unhappy Breach and afterwards as much as in them lay hindred the making it up because their own Consciences of having unpardonably offended Him told them they could expect no Security but in his Ruine A Person and King of so elevated a size both of Intellectual and Moral Endowments that I may be bold to say the Stature of his inward Man as much over-topp'd and surpass'd the most accomplish'd of his Subjects as King Saul's outward Man did overlook the rest of the Israelites 1 Sam. 10.23 For his Intellectuals He was endow'd with such an height of Fancy as would deservedly have won him the Laurel in a Common-wealth of Poets He was Master of so sublime a Grandeur of Language and stately Majesticalness joyn'd with an amiable Fluency of Stile as might have challenged a Dictator's-ship amongst the best of Orators of which his Royal Remains are an indisputable Evidence And for his soundness of Judgment both in Points of Controversie and Cases of Conscience he might have challenged the Theological Chair upon the Account of meer worth and have sate not only Regius Professor but Rex Professorum in both Universities For his Morals He was Just Valiant Temperate Chast Merciful and what not and that even to such a Proportion as that he might have set the very best of his Subjects a Copy of Vertue in his own Example Indeed he was a Prince that might have past clear with the universal Reputation Of the best of English Kings had he not been so unhappy as to Reign in the worst of Times wherein the English Manners were so extreamly debauch'd with the Blandishments of a long continued Tranquility and Plenty and their Judgments so miserably intoxicated with Prejudice and Censoriousness that too too many neither lov'd the Practice of Vertue

A SERMON Preach'd at St. Sepulchres ON Monday the 30th of January 1693 3. Imprimatur R. Barker R. R. in Christo Patri ac Domino Domino Johanni Archiep. Cant. à Sacris Domest Martii 21 mo 1693 4. A SERMON Preached in the Parish-Church of St. Sepulchres ON Monday the 30th of January 1693 4. BEING THE Anniversary Solemnity For the MARTYRDOM of King Charles I. By Richard Newman late Vicar of Kynton in Warwick-Shire and now Preacher of the Evening Lecture at St. Ann'swithin Aldersgate London Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1694. 2 Sam. I. ver 14. And David said unto him How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord 's Anointed THIS whole Chapter contains in it an Eminent Relation of certain Remarkable Passages concerning the fatal Death of King Saul and the humble Carriage of Holy David there-upon The whole History whereof seems to be Recorded on purpose for the Vindication of the Holy-Man from the unjust Imputation of designing to bereave Saul of his Life by the defensive Arms which he had formerly borne against him And Three Particulars are therein very Remarkable as Evidences of his Innocence First His unfeigned Grief for the lamentable Death which he understood had befallen him ver 12. Secondly His Indignation against and Justice upon the Person who was so audacious as to profess he had been the Instrument to hasten it ver 13 to 17. Thirdly His pious Endeavour to perpetuate the Memory of his deceased Sovereign in a mournful Ditty composed by himself and appointed in succeeding Ages to be Sung in a solemn manner by the Children of Judah Nor was this of David's Example altogether Barren for we find it afterwards followed by the Godly Jews upon the Occasion of the unhappy Death of good Josiah they Mourned so truly and so heartily for him that the greatness of their Sorrow in after-Ages grew into a Proverb Zech. 12.11 where 't is said As the Mourning of Hadadrimon in the Valley of Megiddon And among their solemn Lamentations had One kept on Record to Posterity penn'd by an Holy Prophet Lam. 4.20 and perpetuated the solemn Remembrance of that heavy Stroak by publick Command for so you have it exprest at large in 2 Chron. 35.24 25. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing-men and singing-women spake of Josiah in their Lamentations to this day and made them an Ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations And afterwards when Gedaliah the good Governour left by Nebuzeradon was treacherously slain by Ishmael Jer. 41.1 2. we find there was an Annual Fast appointed and observed till the Return from Captivity upon the very Month wherein he was Slain as the most judicious Interpreters expound the Fast of the Seventh Month Zech. 7.5 Which Examples loudly call for the like deep and solemn Impressions and Expressions of heartiest Sorrow from all Loyal Subjects upon like Accidents and abundantly justify the Annual Solemnity of this Day especially if we consider how great a Loss these Kingdoms suffered and how great a Guilt they contracted by the lamentable Providence that occasion'd it Of which I shall speak more plentifully in my ensuing Discourse I confess indeed the Tears of Subjects are the best Spices to embalm a Sovereign's Memory withall nor can there be a louder Attestation to the Deserts of a Prince than that his Loss is bewail'd as a common Calamity Upon which Account it is That the Almighty promises it as a signal Mercy to the hopeful Son of wicked Jeroboam That all Israel shall mourn for him 1 Kings 14.13 and threatens it as a heavy Judgment on Jehoiakim the wicked Son of good Josiah That he should be buried with the burial of an Ass thrown in a Ditch without any one to mourn or lament for him neither Brother nor Sister nor Subject Jer. 22.18 19. And this may suffice for a short Justification of the Annual Solemnity of this Day I now come to the Text it self which are the Words of Holy David to this wicked Amalekite How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lords Anointed In which Words I shall observe these things First The Person that committed this horrid Fact Thou who oughtest to have avoided it with an holy Fear and that under a Two-fold Capacity 1st As a Private Man 2dly As a Subject and at that time in a more especial Relation as being then a Souldier under King Saul Secondly The Person on whom this horrid Crime was committed and who ought to have been otherwise dealt with if considered in this Two-fold Capacity 1. In Relation to his Civil Quality He was Unctus a Person who had receiv'd Regal Unction and so was thereby separated from the Vulgus or common sort of Men a King that was solemnly inaugurated The Anointed 2. In Respect of his Sacred Relation and so he was the Lord's Anointed God's Deputy and Vicegerent by ' special Commission Thirdly The Fact it self which was First In its own Nature Bloody He destroyed Him Secondly In its Principle Voluntary He stretched forth his Hand which implys a purposed Resolution of Heart to do it Thirdly In its manner it was without Fear He was not afraid to do that Act which he should have trembled at Of these by God's Assistance in their Order First In that he was a private Man and for him to execute a Power of Life and Death was an high Presumption and would amount to no less than horrid Murther if acted upon the meanest Person in the World but when to the Privateness of the Condition is added the highest Subjection also this enhaunces it to be a far greater Aggravation Had the Amalekite Slain his Equal he had been a Murtherer but the Slaying his Superiour to whom he had sworn Faith and true Allegiance render'd him a Parricide And therefore the horrid Sin of Subjects Murthering their Prince upon this bare Account amounts to no less than to a Usurpation of a Jurisdiction inconsistent with all Principles of Right Reason and Laws both of God and Man and renders the Person that is so Guilty superlatively Criminal as one who forfeits his Soul to God and his Life to Man by the Guilt of the highest Premunire that can be incurr'd Thus have I done with the First Emphatical Aggravation of the Fact from the Person committing it And though Saul had deserved to die never so justly yet what Commission had the Amalekite a private Person and his own Subject to Kill him And so Holy David tells him How was thou c. Secondly The Fact is rendred extreamly more hainous by the Second Emphatical Aggravation in the Text which is taken from the Person Slain namely Saul under a double Consideration I. Vnctus II. Vnctus Domini First He was Vnctus in his Civil Quality He was a Person solemnly separated and set-apart from other Men an Anointed King Anointing or