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A43670	A sermon preached before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of London, at Bow-church on the 30th, of January, 1681/2 by George Hickes.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1864; ESTC R12553	30,557	44

God Buch. de jure Mr. Case in Evang. arm p. 25. Covenanters inform for defens arms So Bellarmin de Concil l. 2. c. 19. de Cler. l. 3. c. 6. 35. That all people the English in particular have a right to choose their own Government M. Case Ev. arm 25. 35. M Strickland Ev. arm 29. 36. That the Loyal Subjects who adhered to his Majesty were Babylonians Midianites and Idolaters 37. That Idolaters and Idolatrous Priests ought to be punished with death Cases Sermon to the Court-Marshall Aug. 17. 1643. Marshall's Sermon March 26. 1645. Herle to the Lord Mayor 1644. p. 22. Marshall to the Commons Decemb. 22. 1645. p. 52 53. and to the Commons Feb. 23. 1641. p. 9. Love at Uxbridge Jan. 30. 1644. p. 7. Spotswood hist l. 3. Coleman in Foulis hist of wicked plots p. 183 184. 38. That * Mr. Sedgewick and Mr. Strickland Ev. arm p. 29. M. Faircloth ib. 32. Mr. Bridges ib. 33. Dr. Homes ib. 34. the Church of England was Idolatrous full of Idols Babylonish garments and Popish trumpery and ‖ Mr. Jenkins before the Parl. Sept. 24. 1656. p. 23. Because he makes so light of the blood and treasure which was shed and spilt in the late Rebellion I desire the Reader probably to compute how many thousand men lost their lives on both sides in it and as for the Treasure as Mr. Heath before his Chronicle observes it exceeds all Arithmetick and belief For besides the Customes Kings Revenues Sequestred Ecclesiastical profits Sales of the Lands of the King Queen and Prince Bishops Deans and Chapters Decimations 100000 and 120000 l. per mens it amounted in 5 years time as he computes to near 20000000 l. Much such another unchristian saying was that of Mr. Marshal's to both Houses Jan. 18. 1643. ib. I confidently affirm that our days are now better than they were 7 years ago because it is better to see the Lord mark the phrase execute judgment than to see men working wickedness and to behold a people lye wallowing in their blood than Apostatizing from God and embracing Idolatry and Superstition and banishing the Lord Jesus from among them See also p. 22. that the removal of them countervailed for all the blood and treasure which was shed and spilt in these Kingdoms not excepting the blood of This day Scripture and reason published by divers anti-episcopal Divines and ordered to be Printed by the Committee of the House April 14. 1643. Evan. Arm. p. 36. 39. That it was as blameless to kill the Kings Person in a battel as for a Constable or Watch-man to knock him down if he committed violence in a disguise 40. That he had a solemn and fair Tryal Milton in Apol Preface to his Iconoclastes the Pourtraiture of the Kings of England 1650. p. 15. Armies Remonstrance Nov. 16. 1648. Brookes before the Commons Dec. 26. 1648. p. 17 19. Cockain to the Commons Nov. 29. 1648. Dr. Owen a Fast Sermon Jan. 31. 1648. p. 5. 15. A Thanksgiving Sermon for the defeat at Worcester Oct. 24. 1651. p. 2. 6. Jo. Goodwins Defence of the sentence passed on the King Mr. Herle's Preface before his Sermon on 2 Sam. 22.16 17. Preached to the Commons Nov. 5. 1644. Do justice to the greatest Sauls sons are not spared no nor may Agag or Benhadad though themselves Kings Zimri and Cozbi though Princes of the people must be pursued into their Tents This is the way to consecrate your selves to God becoming the Majesty of the people of England and was justly put to death * Mr. Baxter Evan. arm 17 18. 39 40 41. Slaters Protection Protected 1658. Mr. Jenkins in his Petition 1651. Gods Providence i. e. his permission of Events and Success are antecedent delarations of Gods Will and approbation A refusal to be subject to this authority the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England is a refusal to acquiesce in the wise and righteous pleasure of God such an opposing of the Government set up by the Soveraign Lord of Heaven and Earth as none can have peace neither in acting nor suffering for Lastly that the Usurping powers after him were lawful powers ordained of God These with many other such Popish and damnable Positions may be found in these words or others of the same importance in the writings and accounts of the most celebrated Authors and Ringleaders of the Anti-episcopal parties in both Kingdoms and I forbear to name them both to avoid the loss of time which such a long Catalogue would take up and the envy which would fall upon me for naming of some of all professions who yet live or whose memory is yet fresh among us And as the Authors of this new Divinity have taught so they and their disciples have acted in contradiction to the Gospel and the Primitive professors of it and in opposition to Caesar and his Laws It would make a large History to relate all their slanderous undutiful Speeches Petitions and Remonstrances all their Seditious Declarations and meetings all their Riots Tumults Insurrections and Rebellions and all their Treasons Murders and Assassinations in these two Kingdoms from the time of Queen Elizabeth and King James his Mother unto this present day As for the Kings Mother they compared her to ‖ Herod and Pilate p. 48 Jesabel and Athaliah and * Cambdens Eliz. p 95. 3d Edit in English preached that it was lawful to put her to death * Spotsw hist p. 123 124. Foulis hist b. 1. ch 8. They killed great numbers of the Popish Clergy and pulled down Monasteries and Cathedral-Churches by Virtue of Gods Laws against Idolatry without staying for Reformation by Law To be short as King James complained at Hampton-Court they renounced her Authority put her up in several Prisons fought her from field to field beat her out of her own Kingdom took all into their own hands and forced her for his sake who was in their custody to resign her Title to the Crown As for him he declares in his Preface to all Christian Monarchs Princes and States that they Persecuted him not from his Birth only but from Four months before he was born With what inhumanity and irreverence did they treat him in his Minority forcing Oaths upon him against his Conscience and keeping his person under restraint * Spotsw hist l. 6. Foulis b. 1. ch 8. After he got his liberty their Preachers called him Jeroboam denounced the judgments of God against him said he was possessed with a Devil and affirmed that his Subjects might lawfully rise and take the Sword out of his hand Accordingly they did so in Edinburgh crying out at the time of the Insurrection the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon And to the last moment he lived among them he had as great contests against their ‖ See the story of Blake in Spotsw and Foulis ib. l. 6. Presbytery displayed Ecclesiastical Soveraignty as ever any King had

against the Pope As for what they taught and practised in Queen Elizabeths days may be seen in the Schismatical * Such as Martin Mar-Prelate H' y' any work Diotrephes demonstration of discipline and many more made and dispersed by Udal Barrow Greenwood Studly Bowler Copping Thacket Penry and others As may be seen in Bancr dang pos books of that time as also from the accounts we have in History of the ‖ Dang pos b. 4. bloody Principles and Practices of Coppinger Hacket and their Associates who were all the Disciples or Companions of Cartwright and Trevers and condemned for High Treason though most of them upon the intercession of the Arch-bishop were graciously reprieved by the Queen As soon as King James came to the Crown of England they began to make loud and grievous complaints against the Church of England in behalf of the Discipline which to satisfie their clamours made him give them a Conference at Hampton-Court Where his Majesty having considered the vanity of their Objections put out a Proclamation for Uniformity which making them despair of any hopes from him they entred into a stricter correspondence with their brethren in Scotland In the first Parl. of this King one of the Members bid the House take heed lest if they gave too much to the King they should endanger their own throatscuttting as they went home Another said It would never be well with England till a Sicilian Vesper was made of the Scottish Nation as if he had not known what Country men the King and Princes were and in England privately magnified the power of Parliaments against the Prerogative and by those arts so enflamed the people that the Nation presently began to ring with clamours of grievances danger of Arbitrary power freedom of Speech birthright of the People and such like things as English ears had rarely or never heard mentioned in such a mutinous manner before Nay they used all imaginable arts to render the King and Clergy odious to the people and so Faction and Sedition encreased more and more among them till his Son our late Blessed Soveraign who was Murdered This day succeeded to the Crown I shall not because I need not relate how this Excellent Prince was abused and tormented by them both in and out of Parliaments I shall not repeat their undutiful Speeches and Slanderous reflections on His Sacred person nor trouble my self and you with reciting those Lies and Defamations by which they represented him to his people for a Papist a Tyrant and a Fool. I shall not I cannot with patience rehearse the several Acts and Scenes of this Execrable Tragedy from the beginning of the Rebellion to the Vote of Non-Addresses which Murdered the King and from thence to the High-Court of Justice which Arraigned and Condemned the Man It pains and torments me to remember the Speeches that were made the Votes that passed the Sermons that were preached and the Books that were Printed to delude his poor Subjects whom in his greatest miseries he pitied more than he did his own self I cannot think upon our Naseby's and all other British fields of blood without horrour and indignation especially when I consider all the Mock-Treaties they made with him and that they as he called God to witness in his Speech upon the Scaffold first began the War Much less am I able to insist upon the Nature Manner or Style of his Arraignment or tell you the Barbarous and Inhumane manner in which they abused His Sacred and Innocent person when the very abjects of the people gathered themselves together against him making mows and ceased not I leave you to recollect all this and reflect on the horrour of this execrable Tragedy especially upon this last Act of which I shall only say as the Israelites said upon another occasion There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day Consider of it take advice and freely speak your minds Having now shew'd First That it was an old charge against the Primitive Christians that they were enemies to Caesar and did all things contrary to his Decrees Secondly That this charge was most malicious and unjust And having in the Third place found upon enquiry if any modern Christians were guilty of that charge that the Anti-episcopal people of these Kingdoms have been highly guilty of it according as the Apostle foretold I now proceed to make some short practical reflections proper to the times and the business of this day First then let us seriously reflect on the great difference betwixt the Principles and Practices of Christ and the Primitive Christians and the Principles and Practices of our New-Reformers and then consider what Spirit they have been of Not of the Spirit of Christ who hath commanded us to lay down our lives without resistance for his sake and the Gospels who blamed Peter for drawing his Sword and who not only lived but dyed an Obedient Subject to Caesar submitting himself unto his Governours when he had more Legions of Angels at his than Caesar had Legions of men at his command Nor of the Spirit of the Apostles who taught the same Doctrine of Patience and Passive Obedience to Legal Authority following the example of their Masters and commanding all Christians to be subject to Lawful Magistrates not only for Wrath but for Conscience-sake Nor of the Spirit of the Primitive Christians who inviolably taught and practised the same Doctrine under Ten famous Persecutions within the first 300 years They were mocked scourged imprisoned stoned sawn asunder empaled crucified and slain with the Sword or if they took the * Matth. 10.23 allowed benefit of flight they wandered about in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins in Desarts and Mountains and Dens and Caves of the earth and all this not only when they wanted power but when they were become the greater part of the Empire and a great part of the Imperial Army and when the Powers that were did not submit their Scepters to Christ's Scepter but endeavoured to root his Religion and the Professors of it out of the world Of what Spirit then have they been even of a Popish Jesuitical sort of spirit and of Popish Jesuitical Principles for all the Positions which I have laid down out of their Writings may be found in the Writings of the * See them paralleled with the Jesuits in Herod and Pilate p. 54. in Lysim Nican in Sir Will Dugdales short view 16 17. in L. Keeper Puckerings Speech to the Parliament 1585. 27th of Queen Eliz. ib. 13. Dr. Nalsons Introduct p. 5. Jesuits and to the great scandal of the Protestant name they have perverted the Gospel-Doctrines of Patience and Obedience by them as much as the Jesuits have done They have taught and learned all their damnable Doctrines of Disobedience and resistance not only against Princes in general but against their own Soveraign and as to this