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Parallēla dysparallēla, or, The loyal subjects indignation for his royal sovereign's decollation expressed in an unparallel'd parallel between the professed murtherer of K. Saul and the horrid actual murtherers of King Charles I the substance whereof was delivered in a sermon preached at Allhallows Church in Northhampton on (the day appointed for an anniversary humiliation in reference to that execrable fact) Jan. 30, 1660 / by Simon Ford.
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Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.
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〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR The Loyal Subjects Indignation FOR HIS Royal Sovereign's DECOLLATION Expressed in an Unparallel'd PARALLEL Between the Professed murtherer of K. SAUL and the Horrid actual Murtherers of KING CHARLES I. The Substance whereof was delivered In a SERMON Preached at All hallows Church in NORTHAMPTON On the Day appointed for an ANNIVERSARY HUMILIATION in reference to that execrable Fact Jan. 30. 1660. By SIMON FORD B. D. Minister there and Chaplain to his MAJESTY London Printed by J. H. for Samuel Gellibrand at the Golden Ball in St. Pauls Church-yard 1661. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN Earl of LAUDERDAIL Viscount Metallan Lord Thirleston and Bolton One of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Bed-Chamber Principal Secretary of State in the Kingdom of Scotland and One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council in both Kingdoms Right Honourable WHen I had the Happiness to be first known to your Lordship during your Late Tyrannical and tedious Imprisonment at Windsor Castle for which I still acknowledge my self obliged to your own Condescention inviting me thereunto I remember your Lordship was pleased to acquaint me that some Books of mine formerly published had been part of the entertainment of your private hours during the vacancy which that barbarous Persecution gave you from Publick Business And the remembrance hereof emboldneth me to presume that your Lordships Library will afford this Little Piece also a place among its Fellows Nor am I altogether out of hope that it may have the like favour of approbation at your Lordships hands from the experience then given me of the value which your Lordship then assured me you put upon them Especially when I consider that the subject matter of it is Loyalty for which your Lordship then suffered so deeply under the heavy hands of the Late bloudy Tyrant and Usurper and for which I have been for several years persecuted by the Murderers of our Late Sovereign of Glorious Memory for endeavouring to obstruct them in the quiet possession of his vacant Seat by both refusing to subscribe and also bearing publick Testimony from the Pulpit against the Subscription of that accursed Engagement imposed by them in order to a post-justification of that horrid Fact the Extirpation of the Royal Posterity and the Settlement of themselves in their Rights by colour of a publick and National Consent And I assure you my Lord that the Conâ—cience hereof together with that little Contribution which in my low capacity I have through Gods Goodness lived to give towards the Restauration and Settlement of his present Majesty my most Gracious Soveraign and Royal Master whom the Divine Protection long preserve is not the least of my Comforts nor I hope shall be to my dying Day Upon the comfortable experience whereof as also upon the conviction of those Doctrines which in this and my former Parallel I have published to the world I am resolved as long as I live through Gods Grace to seek the Peace and Welfare and Support to my capacity the Crown and Dignity of my most rightful Soveraign and bid a perfect defiance to all Persons and Principles whatsoever that are given to change Now the Lord grant that the guilt of the Late Horrid Murder upon the Lords Anointed may be so wiped off from the Score of these Nations that we be never visited with those very evils or worse for a just punishment thereof to prevent which the Contrivers and Executors of it took so irregular and unlawful a course I mean that the violent revengefulness of some Spirits among us may not re-produce such woful Tragedies as God hath mercifully delivered us from once and again within a few years last past and perpetually honour his just and rightful Successor our present Soveraign with the most Noble and Glorious Title of the Allayer of our mutual heats and animosities the Moderator of all our Differences and the Reconciler of us each to other even whether we will or no by the Interposition of his Royal Authority Let 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be his perpetual Motto and the inviolable Observation of all his Acts of Pardon and Oblivion be his Memorial and Honourable Remembrance to all Generations and may your Lordships Counsels be perpetually assistant to Him as I doubt not but they will in all things of that Tendency which will not only preserve your Name in that Repute which you have hitherto maintained amongst all pious and sober persons but render you a Councellor in whom there will be safety to the Person and Throne of his Sacred Majesty and make good the Character which amongst other your Honourers have been given of your Lordships Wisdom and Temper by Right Honourable Your Lordships most Humble and Affectionate Servant SIMON FORD 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR The Loyal Subjects Indignation FOR HIS Royal Sovereign's Decollation c. 2 SAM 1. 14. And David said unto him How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lords Anointed THis Chapter contains in it a relation of certain passages The Introduction to the Text. An Amalckites Narrative of the death of Saul concerning the death of King Saul which whether true or false seeing we must take them upon the credit of a fugitive souldier can hardly be put out of question though we as probably David to whom it was made did will at present suppose them true and the carriage of David thereupon The whole story whereof seems to be recorded of purpose for the vindication of the holy man from the unjust imputation of designing and conspiring to take away his Sovereigns life by the defensive Arms which he had formerly born against him And three particulars are therein mentioned as evidences of his innocence 1. His unfeigned grief for that lamentable death which by the relators story he understood had befallen him v. 11 12. 2. His indignation against and justice upon the person who professed he was the instrument to hasten it v. 13 to 17. 3. His pious endeavour to perpetuate the memory of his deceased Sovereign in a mournfull Ditty composed by himself and appointed in succeeding Ages to be sung in a solemn manner by the children of Judah To which purpose he caused it to be recorded in a book kept as it seems by Josh 10. 13. of purpose to preserve the memorials of eminent men called the book of Jasher or the Upright and gave it in remembrance of the weapons of warre which it appears by 1 Sam. 31. 3. were most fatall in that battel wherein Saul received his foyl and first wound the title of Kesheth or the Bow of which you have the particular account from v. 17. to the end My Text comes under the second of these mentioned particulars and is the verse wherein David expresseth his deep resentment of the related fact with a just horrour and indignation David said to him How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thy hand to destroy the Lords anointed Which words because
the forwardnesse of Abishai who offered him the service of smiting Saul dead Destroy him not for either the Lord shall smite him with a disease or his day in the course of nature shall come to die or he shall descend into the battel and perish but the Lord forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the Lords Anointed 1 Sam. 26. 8 9 10. And yet which makes this Answer more considerable the Crown of Saul was not only actually forfeited but adjudged so by God himself and the reversion of it bestowed upon David 1 Sam. 15. 28. Notwithstanding all which you see the holy man will not be perswaded to make a forcible entry but waits till God by his providence devolves that upon him which he had demised by promise Obj. Obj. It will be farther objected that this priviledge belonged indeed deed to Jewish Kings but it may be doubted whether the Gospel This priviledg belongs not to Jewish Kings only but all other Kings Sol. introducing a state of Liberty beyond that which the Jewes enjoyed the same immunity belong to Princes since the coming of Christ Sol. To which I answer again 1. That Gospel liberty dissolves not Natural or Civil duties and those that think it does make it a cloak of maliciousnesse 1 Pet. 2. 13 16. 2. That the immunity of Jewish Kings belonged not to them as such but as Gods Anointed as deputed Gods under the most high And the Gospel owns the Supream power even in the hands of persecuting Heathens as an Ordinance of God Rom. 13. 2. 3. And it is evident that the ancient Christians thought so who after they had adventured their lives in the field for persecuting Emperours as Souldiers laid them down for their Religion in obedience to their commands though unjust and barbarous as Martyrs And thus have I dispatched the second consideration that of the person slain made use of in the Text for the second Aggravation of the sin of King-killing that Saul slain was not only Unctus an anointed King by his civil Quality but Unctus Domini one who was Gods Vicegerent by sacred Relation And by consequence am now at liberty to insist a while on the third Aggravation taken from the fact it self as the Text states it And that is represented notoriously foul by three things From the Nature of the Fact as Bloody 1. That it was in its nature bloody He destroyed the Lords anointed It was not a murther intended only nor a murther barely attempted without successe but an actual 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 whiles he is but in being fils the Royal Seat and Heads the Commonwealth and animates all Courts of Justice by the Authority of his Name yea laies some restraint upon the most lawlesse 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 Kings life exposeth the empty Throne to the next potent Usurper 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 misrule in a Nation as there are evil-disposed persons in it And although these evils are not equally felt in hereditary Kingdoms as in others because in such the King never dies yet they are all equally chargeable upon all Regicides seeing that they do not all actually ensue is no thank to them but to the publique constitution rather and the Fact in its own nature being every where of like pernicious tendency and such as even in the best constituted Governments may give advantage of opportunity to the designs of those who shall desire to improve the alteration of affairs to the subversion of the Fundamentals of Government by which succession is secured as we of these Nations have lately found by too sad experience In which respect the fact of this Amalekite was the more hainous as being an actual destroying of the Lords anointed 2. That it was a voluntary or rather wilfull Act. For he stretched wilfull forth his hand and that with a purpose to destroy the King Had the King accidentally rushed upon his drawn weapon or had his armed hand by impression from some external force been made the instrumental cause of taking away the life of the Lords anointed or any other like accident had rendred him the destroyer of the King though besides his intention it had been an infelicity to have been bewailed all the daies of his life But to reach forth his armed hand to lend him a voluntary wound with a purpose to take away his life was a crime not to be expiated with his life it self Every sin receives its degrees of sinfulnesse from the degrees of voluntarinesse appearing in it And the more hainous the sin is the more aggravation doth it admit from the concurrence of the will in any sort because the greater an evil is in it self the more perversion of the will whose only proper object is good must there needs be to render it capable of choosing it 3. and lastly That it was committed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was not afraid to do it A modest timorous sinner hath so much at least of the Audacioâ—â— appearance of vertue as abates something of the odiousnesse of the sin he commits But a very strange monster of wickednesse must he needs be who hath arrived at the unhappy pinacle of sinning dedolently To baffle shame and muzzle fear and stifle conscience in sinning implies a kind of absolute Sovereignty and Dominion in wickednesse and renders the person so qualified a kind of omnipotent sinner and by consequence the most remote from all possibility of repentance And such a Wretch doth David imply that man to be whom neither Religion towards God nor reverence to Majesty will restrain from so horrid a crime as this of destroying the Lords anointed let whatever can be pleaded on his behalf Which brings me to the second particular evidence which David gives to the Quid or matter of his Answer the first General part of my Text which hath waited a long while for its dispatch And that is the invalidity of all that had been or might be pleaded 2 2. The second particular evidence in reference to the matter of Davids reply or the doctrine of the hainousnes of King-killing The invalidity of all Pleas made for it on this malefactors behalf implied in the connexion of this sowre and severe expression with the Amalekites garb and Narrative before improved for his vindication Notwithstanding all which David pronounceth him guilty of the