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knowledge_n	law_n	sin_n	sinful_a	1,296	5	10.4091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62008	King Charles his funeral who was beheaded by base and barbarous hands January 30, 1648, and interred at Windsor, February 9, 1648 with his anniversaries continued untill 1659 / by Thomas Swadlin ...	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing S6219; ESTC R34629	139,690	216

charged us we cannot deny but that we are therefore Reprobates we hope not For what we have done hitherto we have done ignorantly we knew not our sins to be so Capital and we trust God will wink at our sins of ignorance Nay says St. Paul you cannot plead ignorance For you know the Law of God and that they which do such things are worthy of death and yet you did them Yes truly they reply we have committed those sins against our knowledge but what then must we needs be damn'd for that will not God pardon the frailties of our youth though we have not done these ignorantly yet we have done them of infirmity Nay says St. Paul by your leave that you have not neither For if you had committed these sins by way of infirmity in your selves you would then con demn them in others but you not only do them your selves but you also take pleasure in them that do them Before I proceed give me leave to wish that those Inditements were not as justly chargeable upon a great part of English Christians as they were upon the Roman Gentiles not upon all no there are many Chast Plous Religious Meek Patient and Loyall Souls amongst them who are not liable to any of St. Pauls enditement in this Chapter nor yet upon the Parliament neither that long Parliament no God forbid I should have or ha●bour such a thought of Parliament of a true Parliament which represents the blessed Trinity in Power Wisedome and Sanctity where the King as Head directs the Lords Spirituall and Temporall as heart enlivens and the Commons as the inferiour Members put all things into execution I speak only of a Faction in that Parliament who by their Serpentive sedulity and subtlety engros'd the power of all cut off the Head of the Head the Kings Head and voted down or rather out the Heart of the Hearts the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and did not only do these things themselves Malignity Murther Deceipt Debate but also took pleasure in them that did them and vent one degree further commanded others to do them too In which words the Apostle 1. Accuseth them for doing things worthy of death 2. Aggravates that fault And were blessed St. Paul now living he would further aggravate it 1. From their knowledge of Gods Law 2. By delighting in others for doing the same 3. By Commanding all others and compelling many to do the same witness the 1. Engagement 2. Oath of Abjuration 3. Subscription against the common Enemy King Charles the second I begin with the first Agravation so the Accusation is too plain indeed too plain that who so runs Psal 1. may read it and the Observation thence is this Knowledg Aggravates Sin Joh. 9.41 For saies Christ If yea were blind yea should have no sin i. e. Nullum non simpliciter sed nullum Comparative None not simply but no sin Comparatively and when Christ extenuates their sin that crucified him he prays thus for them Father Luke 25. forgive them for they know not what they do and if I if you am that Servant which knew my Masters will and prepare not my self to do according to his will I yes and you yes and they whosoever they are shall be beaten with many stripes Luke 12. If Christ had not come and spoke to you and them and me Joh. 15.22 we had not had sin but now because Christ hath spoke to us all we have no Cloak for our sin If you and they Joh. 4.17 and I know how to be good and do it not know how to abstaine from sin and abstaine not to us it is sin If I sin of Ignorance only I want both knowledge and good will having a will only to the deed not to the sin but if I sin willingly I want both good will and inclination to leave my sin having a will at once both to the deed and sin and therefore the more sinfull because when I knew the deed to be sin yet I would do it More sinfull therefore I am then other men because my knowledge makes my sin a willfull neglect of Gods Authority He is the immediate Law-giver and hath revealed it to me as well as to Adam and Eve as well as to Moses and Aaron as well as to the Prophets and Apostles More sinfull therefore I am then ignorant people because my knowledge makes my sin a Prophane Contempt of the Law-givers Authority and He hath revealed it more to me and you and them then to the Gentiles Yet may no man hence more prophanely in far welcome Ignorance for though ignorance lessors both Sin and Damnation yet it makes not my sin to be no sin and it is but a miserable comfort for a So●omite to think that a Capernaise is worse then himself when he is in the burning Lake for he too is damned everlastingly Luk. 12.46 though less tormented Science in the knowing sinner shall have the more stripes yet no more stripes then his sciene is capable off Ignorance in the unknowing sinner shall have fewer stripes yet no fewer then his Ignorance is capable off As the tender and soft flesh is more sensible of the sharpness by incision or stripes then the tough and hardned flesh yet they both have enough though not equally the same Nessire to be invincibly Ignorant is damnable simplicity Nolle scire to be wilfully Ignorant is hainous Impiety Scire et nolle facere to know good and not to do it is intollerable Obstenacy or scire et contra facere to know good and yet to do the contrary against the light of that knowledge is a very near borderer upon that unpardonable sin the sin against the Holy Ghost which shall never be forgiven This is the Aggravations of the Gentiles sins they knew those severall acts to be sins yet they did the sins Now before we go on let us examine whether some of our English Christians did not know the Dethroning the deposing the killing the Murthering of King Charles the first were not a sin and a great a very great sin Certainly they did know it they knew it 1. By the Law of God they knew it 2. By the Example of Christ they knew it 3. By the Native Positive and Statute Lawes of this Kingdome all which they were bound and sworn to observe to follow and yet against their knowledge and Oath both They quod horrendum est dicere quod infandum est renovare They dethron'd him depos'd him kill'd and Murthered him 1. They knew it by the Law of God It is expresly said Thou shalt do no murther but this it may be is too generall what think you then of that particular prohibition Nolite tangere Christis meos Touch not mine Annointed Doeth not this concerne Kings in particular For they were Annointed or rather doth it not concerne you in particular that howsoever you touch other men yet you would forbear to touch Kings i. e.

to touch them with any hand of violence He whosoever he be that doth it commits no less sin then Crimen laesae Majestatis High Treason Touch not mine Annointed is all one with Prov. Job lay no violent hands on Kings no nor tongues neither speak not irreverently of them no nor hearts neither think not unworthy of them But it may be some have got and others follow the new gloss of these words Touch not mine Annointed i. e. touch not my Prophet touch not my Saints touch not my holy ones Prov. This concernes not Kings Well be this admitted though it be not granted yet what say you to that of Solomon Fear God and the King and that in respect of the Oath Is not this home to this particular The King next to God and the King joyned with God in the duty of Feare q. d. If you fear not the King when you have seen you fear not God whom you have not seen and is not that Aggravation of the sin in not fating God for want of fearing the King and an Aggravation of another sin in not fearing the King for want of fearing God But the Aggravation is yet further and higher and that in respect of the Oath Take the Oath which way you please eitheir the Oath of Universall obedience to God wherein the King is not left out or the Oath of particular Allegience and Supremacy to the King wherein the King is especially put in and yet God not left out for the Oath is to the Ki●g b●fore God and that God before whom you took this Oath will be a most severe revenger upon you that have broke this Oath of Allegiance to the King before God and the Oath of Obedience to God before the Church 2. They knew that Murthering of King Charles the first was a sin and a very great sin by the Example of Christ when he was upon the Earth Cloathed with the Garment of our Humanity Having at his Command and beck twelve legions of Angels for his assistance and rescue Joh. 19. and Pilate told him he had power to loose him and power to Crucifie him Christ was so far from Commanding his Angels or to resist Pilates power that he commanded St. Peter to sheeth that sword which he drew in his defence and said no more to Pilate but thou should'st have no power over me unless it were given thee from above therein acknowledging all Royall Power on earth to be a Dorrative and Derivative from Gods power in Heaven therefore to be feared obeyed and submitted unto at no hand to be resisted But whether the Murthering of a King be the resisting of Regall Power and a sin yes and an Aggravation of that sin because they knew it Judge your selves Again from Christs Example Mat. when these Crafty and Fox-like Pharisees come to Christ that they might entangle him and therefore demanded whether it were he asketh whose lawfull to give Tribute unto Caeser or no superscription was upon their money and when he heard it confessed from themselves that it was Caesers why then quoth he give unto Caser the things that are Casaers and to God the things that are Gods thereby denying God and the King to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Incompatible and commanding us as well to give the King our Goods and Bodies to him service as to do give God our Souls and Bodies in his service And doth not this Aggravate their sin who against their knowledg are so far from paying or giving the King his Tribute that they plunder him of his life 3. They knew that Murthering of the King was sin a great sin a very great sin by the Native Positive and Statute Laws of this Kingdome All which Lawes do say It is High Treason to Imprison the King certainly then much Higher Treason to Murther the King And this last Aggravation of their sin concerning their knowledge that Murther'd King Charles the first at his own Royal Pallace-Gate Jan. 30. 1648. and I conclude it with this prayer for you and my self Give us grace O God to labour for knowledge Joh. 13.17 and give us more grace to add practise to our knowledge that we may be blessed in knowing good and doing well through Jesus Christ Amen Cursed am I if I know and will not do not because I know but because knowing I will not do what I know and so sin against my knowledge as these Gentiles did They knew the Law of God This was the object of their knowledge some Translations read the Righteousness of God some the Judgement some the Justice of God They all come to one so I here understand by the Law not the Law written either Morall or Judiciall for this was the Jewes Prerogative but the Law unwritten whereby every man knowes in generall what is good what is evil what is to be done what is to be forborn and this was a priviledge which God vouchsafed the Gentiles and that three waies 1. By the light of Nature which Philosophers called the Law of Nature Lex and Lux not differing much either in Signification or pronuntiation E. and U. In pronuntion light i.e. the light of the minde which direct and Law the Law of the minde which perswadeth 2. By Conscience which is the lights light or the Lawes Law and is therefore quiet and commends the minde for well doing but is restless and condemnes the mind for ill doing and so the next Chapter tells us their Conscience or thoughts accusing or excusing accusing when any thing is done co●tra scientiam against knowledg excusing when the mind thinks or the mouth ●peaks or the hand doth cum scientia according to knowledge ever writing like that Lex Acilia among the Romans one of these letters to be read either A. or C. if A. it was Absolution if C. it was Condemnation 3. By examples of Vengeance upon evil doers which may be called the judiciary Law of God and so is the word here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Righteousness Law or Judgment injusti facti Correctio the punishment of an unjust act especially of that which is the unjustest of unjust Sects whether it be Homicidium Parricidium or Regi-cidium ●urthering of a man which is bad or the murthering of a Father which is worse or the murthering of a King which is worst of all Had we been before Christ or were we now without Christ yet we should have the Law at least the knowledge of the Law of God and this the Apostle proves to every one of us two wayes 1. A Facto by Fact 2. A Testimonio by Witness 1. By Fact thus Though they have not the law yet by Nature they do the things contained in the Law Rom. 2.14 by Nature by the light of Nature For by the light of Nature Plutarch thus justifies the first precept of the Decalogue saying Omnes hoc uno ore dicunt esse Deos In amator in Tim. 3. pag. 416.