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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28185	A Birchen rod for Dr. Birch, or, Some animadversions upon his sermon preached before the Honourable the House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, January 30, 1694 in a letter to Sir T.D. and Mr. H.		1694 (1694)	Wing B2941; ESTC R11041	19,052	32

A BIRCHEN ROD FOR D R. BIRCH Or Some ANIMADVERSIONS UPON HIS SERMON Preached before the Honourable The House of Commons At St. Margaret's Westminster January 30 1694. In a LETTER to Sir T. D. and Mr. H. Printed in the Year 1694. Worthy Gentlemen THE Honourable Character which is given of you by all who have the Happiness of your Acquaintance emboldens this Presumption from an unknown Hand I doubt not but as you have Capacity enough to judg so you have Zeal enough to resent the Injury which the Doctor 's Sermon may have occasion'd either to the Memory of the Sacred Martyr or the Title and Government of your present Master and seeing it is more incumbent upon you than others to take the Affair into your Consideration and represent it truly to those under whose Cognizance it properly falls I beg your favourable Censure of the following Animadversions A Birchen Rod for Dr. BIRCH MEthinks the Doctor has not done the Royal Martyr any great Honour in comparing him with Saul who tho he was the Lord's Anointed was a very ill Man and one who did actually play the Tyrant and was far more zealous for his own Honour than ever he was for the Glory of God as appears by his laying hold of Samuel's Garment after he had denounc'd the impending Judgments of the Almighty against him 1 Sam. 15.30 and saying Honour me now I pray thee before the Elders of my People but not one word of desiring Samuel to intercede with him at God's Hand for Pardon So that I think it 's Very plain that he was for advancing his own Prerogative over the People tho he was told that God had rejected him And some malicious Persons won't stick to say that seeing the Doctor takes the liberty of comparing the Royal Martyr with Saul that he cannot be angry at them for alledging that the words which were put into Samuel's Mouth to tell the Israelites the Manner of the King that should reign over them seem to have foretold K. Ch. 1. tyrannizing over his Subjects and invading their Property by the Ship-money and Loan-money obliging them to lend him such Sums as he demanded take Patents for Knighthood and serve in his Fleet and Armies against their Wills and forcing the Country to be at the Charge and Trouble of carrying the Baggage of the Court as they removed from place to place exactly according to what was foretold of Saul 1. Sam. 8.11 He will take your Sons and appoint them for himself for his Chariots and to be his Horsemen and some shall run before his Chariots Ver. 14. And he will take your Fields and your Vine-yards and your Olive-yards even the best of them and give to his Officers and to his Servants Ver. 15. And he will take the Tenth of your Seed and of your Vine-yards and give to his Officers and to his Servants Ver. 16. And he will take your goodliest young Men and your Asses and put them to his Work Ver. 17. He will take the Tenth of your Sheep and ye shall be his Servants And all this in direct Opposition to the Law which the King was obliged to read and observe Deut. 17.18 19. viz. That he should not multiply Horses to himself nor cause the People to return to Egypt ver 16. That he should not greatly multiply to himself Silver and Gold v. 17. That his Heart be not lifted up above his Brethren and that he turn not aside from the Commandment to the Right or to the Left and contrary to the Practice of good old Samuel who could ask of them before God whose Ox or whose Ass he had taken whom he had defrauded and oppressed or of whose Hand he had received any Bribe 1 Sam. 12.3 Or if some should have a mind to carry the Parallel further and compare K. Charles's Spirit of contending with his Parliament to advance an unlimited Prerogative to the evil Spirit which was sent from the Lord upon Saul his Pretensions to Divinity with Saul's being among the Prophets his concluding a Cessation of Arms with the Irish Papists after they had cut the Throats of the Protestants with Saul's sparing of Agag and the Amalekites his persecuting of those Ministers who could not comply with the Book of Sports on Sundays to Saul's cutting off the Priests of the Lord his levying War against his Subjects to Saul's unjust pursuit of David his matching his Eldest Daughter to the Prince of Orange like Saul's marrying of Michal to David his seeming Condescensions to Treaties with his Subjects as that at Vxbridg c. with Saul's acknowledging of his Faults to David his continuing Hostility against them afterwards to Saul's continuing his Persecution of David his taking upon him to be the supream Judg in Church-Affairs and countenancing Bishop Laud's Innovations to Saul's usurping the Priestly Office and offering up Sacrifice and his falling upon the Scaffold by his own stubborn Humour and the superstitious Stiffness of his Chaplains to Saul's falling on Mount Gilboa by his own Sword when his Army was defeated by the Philistines I say if any perverse Man should run the Parallel thus the Martyr's Friends will have but small reason to thank the Doctor for putting it in their Heads But the mischief on 't is our Clergymen are never aware of the Consequences of their own Doctrine witness that unhappy one of Passive Obedience which was good nay superlatively good and the Characteristick of the Church so long as the Court and the Church did agree together but whenever the Court came to touch the Church in her own Property then this Characteristick was laid aside and Passive Obedience turn'd to actual Resistance It was horrid nay damnable Doctrine in my Lord Russel the Earl of Essex and the Nobility and Gentry and Laity to Associate for the defence of their Lives Liberties and Religion and Mutinous for them to Petition their Prince on that Head but it gave the Seven Petitioning Bishops a Right to the Title of Confessors to Address and Cabal against King James for giving Liberty to Dissenters But to come to our purpose The Doctor Pag. 1. says That no Raptures but those of a King and a Prophet could present us with Expressions of Grief suted to the Occasion By which one would think that the Doctor condemns himself for medling with the Subject for whatever parity there may be in the Occasions there 's none betwixt the Doctor and David for I know of no body that looks upon the Doctor either as a King or a Prophet Ibid. He tells us that this Lamentation was over the Fall of a Prince that was Literally the Lord 's Anointed and Successor or if any prefer the being VICE-GERENTS TO THEIR INFERIORS the Desire and Choice of the People So that here the Doctor concedes that a King may be the Lord's Successor and the Peoples Vice-Gerent too which I suppose the Jure Divino Men will not thank him for Because this seems to insinuate That Kings