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A49562	The death of Charles the First lamented, with the restauration of Charles the Second congratulated delivered in a speech at the ploclaming [sic] of our gratious King, at his town of Wellington, May 17, 1660 : to which are added short reflections of government, governours, and persons governed, the duty of kings and subjects, the unlawfulness of resistance, with other things of moment, and worthy consideration / by William Langley ...	Langley, William, b. 1609 or 10.	1660 (1660)	Wing L406; ESTC R7376	37,260	124

no fruite of the Gospell nor was any true Protestant Traytor to his King A King upon any colour and pretence whatsoever ought not to be resisted for if we cannot readily submit to his commands by doing we must and ought by suffering when his Laws agree with Gods we must be Agents but when dissonant we must be patients be it known unto thee oh King say the three Children that we will not serve thy Gods not worship the golden Image that thou hast set up the Egyptian Midwives would not murther though the King commanded Saul bid Jonathan kill David he would not When the thing commanded cannot be lawfully done we must submit to the punishment So Hermogenes when the Emperour would have had him to worship an Image do mihi veniam Imperator minaris tu carcerem Deus gehennam pardon me oh Emperour thou threatest prison but God Hell Thou the confiscation of my goods God the damnation of my soul obed irem tibi nisi quod obediam Domino I would obey thee but I must first obey God then must obey good Governours willingly or endure bad Tyrants patiently Julians Souldiers would readily obey his Commands against his enemies but not to worship Idols To conclude the King is wrong'd if but vilipended in thy thought more if vilifyed in speech but if forceably opposed that sin is superlative out of measure sinfull Davids absit shews how heynous that act is God forbid I should lay my hand on Gods anointed if his heart smote him when he cut Sauls lap off his garment what would it have done had he cut off his head CHAP. VII That God hath declared his dislike of the sin of Rebellion by Remarkable Judgements FEW can think of that punishment of Corah Dathan numb 16.30.31 and Abiram without a trembling heart they that cried we will not go up God made the next day to go down quick ad Infernum It was not a common sin nor did they die a common death and what is written is for our instruction Absalom rebelled against his father 2 Sam. 18.9 Gods Vengeance followed him and overtook him he was hang'd strangely hang'd Gods Justice led him to that place Achitopel was his own Executioner 2 Sam. 17.23 Treason is the greatest Crime and in punishing it no Judge can be too cruel but oftentime they save the Hangman a labour It was truly said of Jesabel Had Zimri peace 2 Kings 9.32 that slew his Master Who can lay hands on the Lords Anointed and be guiltlesse 1 Sam. 26.9 Faults that are only in the will are no way prejudicial to civil Society and consequently deserve no punishment by humane Justice but high Treason is punishable both the desire the effect the heart the hand But admit that dayes are prolonged yet are they killed with a Sword of their own tortured with a tormenting Conscience the remembrance of their cruel Fact wounds them at the heart and strikes them in a marvellous fear of Gods Vengeance to be poured upon them They know their iniquity their sin is ever before them and in laughter their hearts are sorrowfull Saint Paul tells us R. 13.2 that such shall receive to themselves damnation which is construed either of temporal or eternal judgement By the Laws of England a Traitor hath his Judgement to be drawn from the prison to the place of execution How punished by by aw as being unworthy to tread any more upon the earth and that backward with his head downward for that he hath been retrograde to natural wayes hanged betwixt heaven and earth as being unworthy of both his privy parts cut off as being unprofitably begotten and unfit to leave any generation after him his bowels and intrals burn'd which inwardly had conceived and concealed such horrible Treason then his head cut off which imagined the mischief and last of all his whole body quartered and made a Prey for the birds of the air How such persons have ruined themselves their Families all Histories are full of Tragicall examples in which I might enlarge my self Acquirunt sibi damnationem as in the Vulgar Latine they do not onely receive but pull upon themselves heavy Judgement 10. This may be understood of eternal damnation as is plain in Corah Dathan and the rest of that Conspiracy who is said to go down quick to hell numb 16. If murther be a crying sin Treais a roaring sin he that murthers a Prince kills many sometime a whole State which assuredly cries aloud to the Lord in such a sort as it awakes him and calls to speedy judgement and this onely wakens the sinner who hitherto had so little Repentance for his wickednesse that he concluded there was no wickednesse stood in need of Repentance but behold the sound of fear is now in his ears the sense of a Dagger at his heart the error of future punishment lies at his door he finds his Conscience open to condemn him and hell gates open to receive him It was not long since he heard nothing but pleasure profit a sweet satisfaction of desires happinesse but now Wrath Judgement Torment and Sting of Conscience Sorrows and Woes are reserved for their farewel of sin God may be patient a long time but laesa patientia fit furor patience too much wronged becomes rage serior esse solet vindicta severior the sorest vengeance is that which is long in coming and the Fire of Indignation burns the hotter because God hath been cool in the execution impudent impenitent sinners will find this true by sad Experience They that said What is their knowlege in the most High shall see that God sees their wickednesse no place whatsoever nor Vault in the ground bottome of Mountains nor holes of Rocks shall hide you from his Wrath. I shall have no will to end with Terror yet no time Reader to sweeten thy Thoughts with those comforts which Faith might suck from the Blood of Christ I say no more the godly shall find him a Lamb as willing to save them as before to suffer for them he hath purchased promised and prepared a Kingdome and they shall Reign for evermore to whom be Eternal Glory Amen FINIS

should I fail yet that I did desire it and endeavour it shall content my conscience let others keep their richer gifts close at home yet God assisting my poor Talent shall be employed for the publique good Vale. THE CONTENTS OF THE SPEECH I. THe death of Charles the First lamented a horrid murther and greatest of any except the Son of God II. What ensued upon this cursed Act. III. There are three wayes of choosing Kings Succession the best and Monarchy the best government IV. Some Objections answered shewing that the Kingdom of Christ overthrows not the kingdom of Caesar and that Kings may stand with the peoples liberty V. What a King we may be assured King Charles will be and how God hath doubtless design'd him for his glory VI. It concludes with a short Exhortation THE CONTENTS OF THE REFLECTIONS In seven Chapters Beginning at Page 40. CHAP. I. THat Civil government is necessary it is better not to be then to be without it CHAP. II. That King is a Name not onely of Dignity but of Office and that troublesome CHAP. III. The Duty of Kings deduced from their severall names and how they are called Gods By Analogie Deputation Participation CHAP. IV. Severall Objections of Fanatique persons answered lovers of confusion not order CHAP. V. The Duty of Subjects consisting In Obedience Reverence Maintenance Prayer CHAP. VI. That a King may not be resisted upon any pretence whatsoever against Papists and Scismatiques old and new enemies CHAP. VII That God hath declared his dislike of thir sin of Rebellion by remarkable judgements The Death of CHARLES the first a Horrid-murder and greatest of any except the Son of GOD. THE cruelty rage inhumanity and butchery cōmitted against our late King was damnable in its own nature and unparralleld in any former age yet term'd by bloody Assassinates and Raviliacks an act of Justice and of the highest Justice but by all knowing persons who have any thing of Christianity or Morality for that naturall light of Heathens abhorr'd such Barbarisme cannot choose but reflect upon that sacred Blood with sorrowfull hearts and they who had a hand or were willingly consenting to that superlative murder are men of black Souls and sear'd consciences and without unfeign'd remorse must descend lower then the grave being the greatest of any except the Son of God that act was * Cirills term horribile crimen a fearfull sin excellens malignitas a superlative wickedness * Nicepho censure Aust opus damnabile a damnable act a sin out of measure sinfull such as the Devil entred into him for the doing of it so egregious prodigious that Christ calls him a Devil and ever after Judas the Traytor Trechery odious But against the Innocent the act is execrable It s true Kings have been disgraced and degraded yea depriv'd of life by their Subjects as Julius Caesar Nero Galba Vitellius Domitian Heliogabalus our Edward the second and Richard the second and many more Heathen and Christian yet never any the worst of men so boldly impudent as under the colour of Law to doom their Sovereign to death The Duke of Guise When the Duke of Guise was slain by Poltrot Duraeus a Papist could say of it that the Christian world had not seen a fact funestius luctuosius more dolefull more direfull The Gunpowder Plot. it s said of the Gunpowder Plot it was a Tipe of Tophet a petite Synopsis of Sodom and Gomorrah and of that fearfull conflagration of the World at the day of Doom such an intended Massacre as never Man on Earth or Fiend in Hell devised A greater and acted but behold a greater what eare hears it but must tingle what tongue tells it but must tremble and what heart quakes not at the thought of it the murder of a wise pious learned and mild King your Liege Lord and Soveraign I will not say with Jeremy go to the Isles of Chittim and send to Kedar and see if such things be there but look if Turks A treason unmachable if Tartars if all Heathen Lands can patern such an act I will say with Is Quis vidit quis audivit what eye hath er'e beheld what ear hath ever heard so egregious so prodigious and monstrous a deed Treason a fearfull and prodigious evil Hyppolitus saith in Seneca Nullum caruit exemplo nefas never was so vile a villany but it had example Ask all Antiquity ab orbe condito the Rolls and Records of all Countries of all Times caruit exemplo nefas the world cannot sample it Davids absit shews how haynous this is God forbid I should lay my hands on Gods annointed yea his heart smote him that he cut off but the lap of Sauls garment Treason 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the greatest crime amongst the Romans Amo proditionem odio proditorem saith a Greek Historian Augustus hated the betrayer of his enemy In punishing treason saith Tully nunquam Cassiani inventi sunt Christiani no Judge can be too cruel Never was true Protestant traytor to his Prince Rebells are right Esau's red of bloody dispositions hairy of savage natures and extraordinary cruelty Catuli Catilinarii Statizing Jesuites that turn all Religion into Statisme yea into Atheisme a monstrous menstruous brood truth hating pleaders pioners of the Temple maintain'd by the spoil pillage of it like the great Behemoth He a sea of water they of blood they draw up whole floods of blood into their bellies happy are they who had no hand in such an abominable and detestable act a shame that such were ever baptized into the faith of Jesus Christ but remain in the world to declare their innocency and celebrate their Kings death with lamentations and regrets And what ensued upon this cursed Act Anarchy disorder confusion all villanies and iniquities as it was in the Jews'time Judg. 19.22 Non erat Rex there was no King in Israel but every man did that which was right in his owne eyes Clamitat in coelum vox sanguinis c. the murther of Nobles of Gentlemen of Commons a sin that crys loud in the ears of the Lord of hosts sacriledge their motions being commonly What shall we take away from the man of God Sauls was otherwise 1 Sam. 9.7 pricking the Churches veins and suffering her to bleed to death and enriching themselves by her spoyls pulling down Gods Churches and Temples trampling under feet his Ordinances discountenancing of able Orthodox Preachers opening a door of encouragement to schismaticks and hereticks the bane of Church and State taking away mens estates livelihoods exposing many families and those no mean ones to penury and much misery oppressive exactions upon the people Law being what the power of the sword made it innocency was no plea tell them of injustice they Pilate-like answered Quod feci feci jura perjura defraud dissemble swear forswear kill and slay the Language of their tongues destruction

blessings and once more turn your flourishing kingdom into an Akeldema or field of blood Impietas ad arma vocat if we fight against God we provoke God to fight against us If we lift up the hand of wickedness we shall meet with the hand of Justice if transgression beat the Drum Fiat justitia habebis pacem Aust destruction will begin the march Live righteously and live peaceably the Lord fix all our hearts upon himself that neither our selves our children nor their generations may ever see warr in England Psal 147. strengthen the bars of our gates and establish peace in our borders we beseech thee O Lord. 5. Study to be loyall Treason is a fearfull and prodigious evil they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Remember Corah Dathan and Abiram If murther be a crying sin Treason may be term'd a roaring sin To conclude the time commands a period be once more perswaded to be instant in prayer for his sacred Majesty that God would be pleased to give him Vitam longam regnum prosperum prolem faelicem vitam eternam a long life a prosperous raign a happy progeny in this world and in the world to come life eternall with expressions from loyall hearts and dutifull affections cry out Long live King Charles the second happily and prosperously to the terror of his enemies and comfort of his Subjects Long live Charles the II d. FINIS This Speech was ended with the general acclamations of all the commers there being no small concourse of gentlemen God could never endure a luke-warm affection who discovered fervorem in affectu cheerfulness in their affection deserving wreathed Coronets for their willing and cheerfull obedience their hearts being towards the Governour of Israel nor a small number of Commons praise worthy too Go on step not back all discharging their pistols and muskets that the very skies eccho'd to their joys This Speech as it was faithfully delivered was with much civility and loyalty entertain'd and is now drawn to the Press through the pressing desires and prevailing importunities of many worthy Persons whose favours do oblige me to comply with their requests who otherwise might command By some I know it will be censured for there was yet never any truth so happily innocent as to free it self from calumny and no man so blest if it may be so term'd as not to be scowr'd and scourg'd by malevolent tongues CHAP. I. That civil Government is necessary it is better not to be then to be without it I Need not to spend time to shew you that government is necessary God hath appointed order in all things and set a Captain over them Among the Fowls the Eagle among the Beasts the Lion among the Serpents the Basilisk among the Fishes the Whale among the Bees one Master among the Sheep one Leader Rex unus est Apibus Cipr. de vanitat Idol Dux unus in Gregibus among the Cranes one Chief Quem ordine literato sequuntur Hier. Epist ad Rust. that goes before the rest the Pismires have their Covernour and the Grashoppers go forth by bands Prov. 30.2 among the Planets a Sun among the Angels Cherubims and Seraphims and in Hell the kingdom of confusion there is distinction of persons Luke 11.15 and orders otherwise Beelzebub could not be the chief of Devils and hath God left man ungovern'd appointed no Ruler amongst men far be such thoughts from any man endued with Reason take away government destroy order and where there is no order ibi ruinae ostium patet the door is open to ruine and destruction malum quidem est ubi est nullus principatus c. it is an exceeding evil where there is no government for order is the good of every creature and it is better not to be then be without it Lips Pol. l. 2. c. 1. all civil life consists in society and society in traffique and government The first is an argument of another discourse the other is defin'd to be a certain order as well in commanding as obeying which is so necessary that it is the onely stay of humane affairs without which Cic. 3. de leg no house no City no Nation neither the whole state of mankind nor the universall nature of things nor the world it self can stand Seneca 1. l. de elem and continue it is that chain by which Societies are linkt and vitall spirit by which men breath The rod of Circes which tames man and beasts that are touched therewith yea Liv. l. 6. there is no greater mischief in the world Sopho. then the want of government and therefore they are led by a strange spirit and voyd of all reason that are enemies to government the Apostle calls them Jude 8. Filthy dreamers that despise government and speak evil of dignities i.e. of those in authority In Germany they would have fram'd a politique body but found it impossible Bulling adv Anabapt sol 95. like the body of Poliphemus without his eye or like the confused Chaos when height and depth light and darkness were mingled together popular equality is the greatest inequality voyd of all name nurture and nature of a Commonwealth for some must be subject other soveraign some low some high some rule some obey let us be of the number that desire to move orderly in our own sphere keep our right ubi rather wishing our harmlesness should suffer then not to give passive and patient obedience to lawful Authority for take away order and degrees of persons what wil follow but a licentious Ataxie or confusion God hath ordained some Masters other servants Some Masters some servants to repine at others greatness and our meanness is to cavil with God as if he wanted wisdom and equity in disposing these inferiour creatures it is a savage and popular humour to malign and enveigh against men in eminent places Levellers that rhyme when Adam delv'd and Eve span who was then the Gentleman seemd to be made amongst Jack Straw's followers and to savour of rebellious discontent Anarchy and disorder have ever been the bane of Kingdomes confusion misery all the villanies and iniquityes of Israell are imputed to this non erat rex their was no King in Israell Judg. 19.20.21 chap. CHAP. II. That King is a name not onely of dignity but of office and that troublesome THe word King in its severall Languages makes this good Rex regendo Heb. Raga amongst other accept signifies to feed from hence is derived Rex rego or Regno Rex a regendo from governing and its usuall among the Prophets and Poets for regere and pascere to signify the same Homer Virgill and David put no difference betwixt reges and Pastores Ps. 23. styling Kings shepheards and shepheards Kings And where the vulgar Latine reads Dominus regit me Hieroms translation hath it Dominus pascit me the Lord is my

shepheard Pastores Populi an usuall name for Kings shewing that they must cary a gentle hand over their subjects feeding not fleeceing of them that they must be watchfull and defend them from wolves and thieves A King is not for himselfe but for his People his subjects houses are garded and secured by his vigilancy their ease procured by his labour their delights enjoyed by his industry and their merry vacations by his painefull employments After Saul was annointed 1 Sam. 10.25 Samuel declares unto him the obligations of his office a King is not to sleepe and take his ease to sway the Scepter Royall at his will and pleasure but to governe and maintaine the People in peace and justice to Protect and defend them from their Enemies being not for himselfe but for them a King Adverte saith Seneca to the Emperour Nero Rempublicam non esse tuam sed te reipublicae Seneca lib. de clem 1. the Commonwealth is not thine but thou the Commonwealths that thou mightest apply they selfe wholy to the common good Rex eligitur non ut sui ipsius curam habeat sese moliter curet sed ut per ipsum ii qui eligerunt bene beateque vivant they are made choyse of that People may live well and happily under them In the Greeke tongue a King is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi basis populi as the basis foundation of the people Some conceive this name was given from the Basiliske but that is no ground for such an etymology who sustains the weight and bears the load upon his shoulders the burthen and cares of his kingdom but more of this in the third Chapter which treats of the duty and office of Kings It is a name of office not dignity onely and requires much wisdom prudence Seneca lib. de ele 1. c. 17. discretion and sagacity Nullum animal majori est arte tractandum quam homo it is the art of Arts most difficult to learn and a Father gives the reason Quia inter omnes animantes homo maxime Nazianz. in Apolog. moribus varius voluntate diversus amongst all living creatures man is most various in his manners and most diverse in his will most mutable in his opinions most deceitfull in his words of more colours doublings and fouldings then any other worst to be known hardest to be rul'd and above all most unthankfull to him that is set over him and therefore Inter artes omnes vivendi regendi ars amplior superior est of all offices the highest and greatest is regall To rule a great burthen a burden as well as a dignity a noble servitude an honourable slavery whose fetters are of fine gold Commodus Emper. as the Emperour Commodus said but though of gold they are still chains though honourable still servitudes and the rather chains because they tye men under colour of honour and the rather servitudes because they oblige us to serve all under the title of commanding all as they possess a rank of more height and eminency then others Salust ad Ca. Caes de Rep. Ordin so they are obliged to a greater care then others which ought to be an attendant on Power This was wel understood by Antigonus King of Macedonia who checkt his Sons immoderate government An ignoras fili mi regnum nostrum nobilem esse servitudinem art thou ignorant my Son that our kingdom is a noble servitude I speak this without any unmannerliness or thought of the least disesteem to that high and supreme office but to draw from us all due respect and obedience How greatly should we value them and how far we stand obliged to those that undertake the charge and burthen of so weighty an employment as the protection conservation peace and safety of his subjects trouble vexation This many Kings have confest inquietude both of soul and body and therefore the Crown and Scepter have the face of dignity but the body of much care and perplexity this is evident by Moses when God made him his Viceroy instead of giving him thanks for so honourable a charge makes his moan and complaint for laying so heavie a load upon his shoulders num 11.12 Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight that thou layest the burthen of all the people upon me proceeding further saith Have I conceived all this people v. 12. have I begotten them that thou shouldst say unto me Carry them in thy bosome Worth observing as the nursing father beareth the sucking child all God said to Moses was that he should be their Captain their Ruler yet he sticks not to say that he laid the burthen of all the people upon him Regere portare are synonomies with this Motto added thereunto Porta eos Carry them there is not any government that is without its burthen Prior in donis major imperio Upon those words of Jacob to Reuben Judg. 49.3 Thou art my first-born the excellency of dignity and excellency of power Hierome renders Major ad portandum the greatest to bear Potestas accepta non honor Greg. l. 24. Mor. c. 26. sedonus aestimatur Dominion Signiory is not to be esteemed an honour but a trouble a mixture of a little honour and much trouble Ovid. Met. Laetus erat mixtoque oneri gaudebat honore The Latine word which signifies honor doth but differ in one letter from that which signifies a load or burthen Honos onus onos onus for H is but an aspiration I shall conclude this chapter by way of advice That the greatest offices have need of the greatest supports num 11.16 God commanded Moses that he should make choyce of the Elders of Israel to rule his People The greatest offices need the greatest supports Heavie-headed men accompanied with much vertue aproved life soundness of Religion much prudence furnished with qualities sutable to their office are only worthy to give counsell and those which Kings are to make choyce of for their service they are to have many eyes ears and hands as Xenophon wrote in his Institution of Cyrus Agamemnon wisht for ten Nestors many subordinate Counsellors Ministers and assistants by whom to discharge the burden of their places It was a saying of Seleucus one of the kings of Syria Seleucus saying That if men did considerately know how trouble some it were only to write and read so many letters of so weighty affairs if the Crown were thrown at their feet they would not take it up 1 Kings 10. Let a King be never so wise he hath need of helps to advise and counsel Solomon his antient counsel Salomon had his ancient Counsel it was Senatus indeed because it consisted of grave and old men but his Son not so wise provided Counsellors like himself young in years and in discretion which howsoever they were