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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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