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A28627	Core redivivus in a sermon preached at Christ-Church Tabernacle in London upon Sunday, September 9, 1683, being a day of publick thanksgiving for the deliverance of His Sacred Majesties person and government from the late treasonable rebellion and fanatick conspiracy / by William Bolton ...	Bolton, William, 1650 or 51-1691.	1684 (1684)	Wing B3535; ESTC R23230	14,627	36

Prince may be killed this vvay or that vvay but vvhether any vvay at all For it vvas as unlavvful to murther Charles the first by a pretended High Court of Justice as to endeavour the Assassinatiof his Son our gracious Soveraign vvhom God long preserve by a Blunderbuss Neither doth the Jesuit only lye under this Censure of Encouraging disobedience to their supream Governour But likewise their Contemporaries the Presbyterians I shall easily grant that Mr. Calvin the Founder of the last Sect hath in his Institutes as much pressed the Duty of Subjects tovvards their Princes as any Author vvhatsoever yet in the unhappy distinction of a Publick or private Subject and so making of Princes to be accountable to the Three Estates hath been as destructive an opinion as could be broached I am sure this Nation hath had vvoful experience of it But beloved vvho could expect better fruit from Presbytery which was begot by Rebellion and Treason expelling from Geneva their lawful Magistrate And though Mr. Calvin was not then at Geneva when the Prince was excluded by Farellus and Viretus yet his Comprobavi suffragio meo his approving of what was done by them makes him too too guilty Beza his Successor in the same Chair in his 24th Epistle says as much And if he were the Author of the Book called Vindiciae contra Tyrannos as many think there hath been no Rebellion says my Author which may not fairly be supposed to receive encouragement from it Consult Mr. Knox and he will tell you 't is not Birth or propinquity of Blood that makes a King Lawful And what mischief Buchanan's Book De jure Regni apud Scotos hath done will appear when the traiterous pretended High Court of Justice against King Charles the First drew most of their Pleas out of it Paraeus's Comment upon the Romans for encouraging these Doctrines of resisting the lawful Magistrate in King James's his time was publickly and solemnly burnt at Oxon and I cannot but bless God for the same Universities Prudence at this time for condemning several Seditious and Factious Books and prohibiting her Members the reading of such Books But the late Rebellion against the Father and the now designed Assassination of his Sons sufficiently declare their Disobedience to Princes and those that are set in Authority over them And thus my Beloved I have spoken to the particulars I promised to treat of I shall now proceed to Application and I have done First therefore Did these wicked men in my Text after a succession of Miracles in their deliverance from the Egyptian thraldom Did they I say conspire against their lawful Magistrate and that Magistrate too who had been God's great Instrument in rescuing them from the hands of their cruel Task-masters Oh! how may we condole and lament that the greatest Favours and Indulgence of the meekest Princes cannot oblige some ungrateful Subjects Our Israel too is a sufficient Evidence for we likewise groaned under a most severe slavery our King's Father the anointed of the Lord the Breath of our Nostrils vvas taken in the nets of wicked Men and barbarously murdered at his own Palace our Loyal Nobles were either put to death or banished the best reformed Religion in the World discountenanced and cryed down vvhilst the Calves of Dan and Bethel were erected in the Room Our Liberty the Glory of our English Nation was fettered and shackled and instead of one good King we vvere forced to submit to more than 500 Tyrants The Son of this Royal Martyr our novv gracious Soveraign after a miraculous escape from Worcester vvas forced to shelter himself amongst foreign Princes This and more deplorable than this vvas the Condition of our Israel vvhen God pitying our Calamities restored our Moses and in him our Religion and our Liberty and there was this difference between theirs and our Moses that ours did not pass through a Sea of blood to his Kingdoms but came to the Harbour of rest by peaceable Measures His Restauration was as miraculous as his former Deliverances and he that was forced from his home by a whirlwind of Rebellion came back in the still voice of Peace and Mercy an happy Presage how he would Govern And these 23 or 24 years since his Return might sufficiently assure us of his meek Temper by whom his very Enemies as the worst of them once truly said must acknowledge they fall gently How have all his Subjects sate under their own Vines enjoyed peace and quietness whilst all Christendom besides hath been harrass'd with all the plagues of War And now my Beloved one would think nothing but Praises to God for Mercies past and Prayers for the preservation of our gracious King should be heard in this our Sion But instead of Grapes behold nothing in some men but Thornes instead of Figs Thistles and Brambles for Praises to God for Mercies past vve have Murmurers and Repiners instead of Prayers to God for the preservation of this our King Blunderbusses are provided by Men of the old Leven to destroy his Person with his Royal Brother Plenty hath turned men into Wantonness and our Troubles like Jesurun vvhen fat mutiny and raise Forces not to support but to demolish and ruin the Government The Israelites grumbled though fed with the food of Angels and our Malecontents are repining and talk of slavery which cannot be dreaded from any but themselves and are not satisfied in a good Land flowing vvith all Plenty vvhere there is no vvant but of grateful Hearts to acknowledge it Upon this a Conspiracy is formed in our Israel our vvicked men have their Cabals and Associations words indeed not expressed in this 16 Chap. but sufficiently implyed too Our Conspirators follow the same path as their fore-Fathers in this Chap. but there is this difference between this Conspiracy of theirs and our wicked men that of theirs was a Single whilst this of ours is a Complication of many Conspiracies in one you may call it Legion and though there be a manifest Antipathy between the Presbyterian and the Independent with other Sects yet all of them like Herod and Pontius Pilate though at never so great variance before yet when Christ is to be crucified or when Christs Church is to be destroyed and the nursing Father thereof Gods anointed to be assaulted and a Dispute about the Crown to be raised become Friends and are reconciled Ferguson supplies the place of Korah and three Lords with three Commoners serve instead of Dathan and Abiram and On the Conspirators mentioned in vers 1. Nay you may find other Conspirators in our wicked men who are represented by Absolom and Achitophel the most ignorant can tell The People too are to be allured by the same Arts as formerly the Bishops here as Aaron in this Chap. are cried down with Ye take too much upon you seeing all the Congregation is Holy even every one of them The thirty fifth of Elizabeth that strong bulwark of our English Church against all