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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66422	A sermon preach'd before the King at Whitehall, on January 30, 1696 by John Lord Bishop of Chichester ...	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1697 (1697)	Wing W2729; ESTC R7460	12,789	33

THE BISHOP OF CHICHESTER's SERMON Before the KING JANVARY 30. 1696. A SERMON Preach'd before the KING At WHITEHALL ON JANVARY 30. 1696. BY JOHN Lord Bishop of CHICHESTER Published by His Majesty's Special Command LONDON Printed for Ri. Chiswell and Tho. Cockerill At the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard and at the Corner of Warwick-Lane in Pater-Noster-Row M DC XC VII MATTH XXIII 34 35 36. Behold I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucify and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias Son of Barachias whom ye slew between the Temple and the Altar Verily I say unto you All these things shall come upon this generation IN this Chapter our Blessed Saviour pronounces no less than Eight dreadful Woes against the Scribes and Pharisees for their gross Hypocrisy and amongst the rest for the pretended Reverence they bore to the Memory of the Ancient Prophets whom their fore-fathers wickedly Abused Persecuted and Killed so that they said If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets v. 30. But our Saviour shews that if they had lived in those Days they would have acted in the same way since the same temper was existent in them as had been heretofore in their Fathers So v. 31. Ye are witnesses unto your selves that ye are the children of them which killed the Prophets Fill ye up then the measure of your Fathers for that ye are now in the way to Wherefore behold I send unto you prophets c. and ye will do unto them as your Fathers heretofore did unto those Prophets whose Sepulchres ye now Garnish and whose Praises ye Celebrate So that in the Event upon you will come the sorest Judgments and it will be as if all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias c. were required of this Generation There is some doubt to be made concerning the Zachariah referred to in the Text for there were several of that Name in Scripture as also in Josephus the Jewish Historian But this we may observe that whoever he was he was Slain before the time that our Saviour here so sharply inveighs against the Jews for it is by him charged upon them as a thing past whom ye slew Again it was a story well known to that People and a case very notorious and if so as there was no case more notorious than that of Zachariah the Son of Jehoiada so there was none that this Character could agree to but to him who was slain in the court of the house of the Lord or as it is here between the Temple and the Altar But then there are Two or Three difficulties remaining one of which is That Zachariah who is here called the Son of Barachias is in the Regal Story said to be the Son of Jehoiada In answer to which We may observe from Scripture That it was common among the Jews as among many other Nations to give several Names to the same Person as Solomon was called Lemuel and Jedidiah and especially where those Names were of the same signification as Jehojakim and Eliakim And thus it is with Jehoiadah and Barachiah 2. It was usual to give or to have Names given upon some Eminent Service done by them or some Eminent Blessing that befel them So Gideon had the Name of Jerubbaal given to him by his Father Joash upon his breaking down the Altar of Baal And Jacob was called Israel because as a prince he had power with God and men Thus Zacharias is here called the Son of Barachias or as that Name signifies the blessed of the Lord which was among them a term of Honour and Respect And a Name without doubt as it was due so was given to Jehoiada in a more especial manner because of his eminent Piety and of his Zeal in advancing Joash to the Throne and for restoring the Liberties and Religion of that People after they had both been invaded by the Infamous Practices of the Idolatrous Athaliah He may for this reason well deserve the Name of Barachias or the blessed of the Lord. And then the Aggravation of the Sin was That this Zachariah martyr'd by them was the Son of that brave Jehoiada that Patriot of their Countrey and whom without any regard to his Ancestor to his own Quality his Message or the Place they furiously rushed upon and stoned him the Punishment of Blasphemers in the Court of the Lord's House or Court of the Priests A Fact so heinous that the Jews say his Blood continully bubbled up and was not expiated till the Babylonish Captivity which was about Two hundred and fifty years after But if it was at this distance from the time of our Saviour how comes this Instance of Zacharias to be the last as that of Abel was the first I answer Because that Blood was supposed to lye upon that Nation till the Captivity after which they were as averse to Idolatry as ever they were before addicted to it and therefore that sort of Persecution ended with it But if it were so that Zacharias was the Son of that Jehoiadah it seems very hard and unjust that this Blood and much more the Blood of Abel and all the Righteous Blood shed upon the Earth should be required of that Generation as our Saviour here affirms For what was the blood of Abel to them who was Killed by his Brother Cain all of whose Posterity perished in the Deluge Or how were they concerned in the Blood of such Righteous Persons as were slain in other parts of the Earth or even in that of Zacharias who though killed by their Ancestors was slain above Seven hundred years before I grant this Blood could no more literally be charged upon that Generation than they could be said to have been Cotemporaries with those Ages of Abel or Zacharias But it is here thus represented partly because they were of the same Temper and were acted by the like spirit of Envy and Hatred as the Murtherers of Abel and Zacharias c. Partly it was as to Zacharias because the course of impiety in former Ages was carried along though in a different way even to that Age and lastly because that what they were now agitating and would shortly accomplish would be a Crime of such malignity as would fill up the measure of their fathers and would determine in their Ruin ver 37 38. O Jerusalem c. behold your house is left unto you desolate And it is as if he had said Ye think your selves clear of your Fathers Iniquity forasmuch as ye Garnish the Sepulchres of those Prophets whom they