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God's judgments upon regicides a sermon preached in the Fleet-prison on the 30th day of January 1682/3, proving that the bloud of that pious monarch and glorious martyr, King Charles the First, is not yet expiated / by J. Butler, B.D., chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Ormond.
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J. B. (John Butler)
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God's Iudgments UPON REGICIDES A SERMON Preached in the Fleet-Prison on the 30th Day of January 1682 3. Proving that the Bloud of that Pious Monarch and Glorious Martyr King Charles the First is not yet Expiated By J. Butler B. D. Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Ormond LONDON Printed by T. Moore and J. Ashburne for Awnsham Churchill at the Black-Swan in Ave-Mary-Lane 1683. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY To the most Noble and Thrice Excellent Prince James Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormond c. My very good Lord and Patron Health Happiness and length of Days be ever wished My Lord THough it pleases God to distinguish me from your other Chaplains by that Eminent Mark the Sign of the Cross Yet neither do I nor am I to esteem my self any thing the more thereby acquitted or in any thing the less whit discharged of that Diligence in Service which in Duty I owe unto your Grace In a great Mans House there ought to be Vessals of all sorts God has made others much more Weighty in the Purse and more Graceful upon the Back as well as in the Head and as so the apter Ornaments in your Parlour and Chappel and at your great Table But God has confined me to a private Closet and thereby as it were given me in special charge to be the more instant at my private Devotions and most serious Studies and therein lies my Service while they attend your greater affairs Afflictions especially when they come in crowds and thronging one upon anothers Neck as with me for some time of late they have done do usually threaten with much of blame as well as pain and I am content to bear the blame and do acknowledg a guilt upon me equal to the Burthen that my God hath laid upon my Back though the sin wherewith I am charged is such as in the Book of God is no where forbidden in that sense as it lies at my door and was never proved against me by any Circumstance or light of Evidence more then by one onely Boy whose Education had never arrived to the understanding of an Oaths weight and I have endured a Twelve-Months Imprisonment upon that one Boys Evidence and yet do still find my Crime so unpardonable as no submission nor satisfaction can expiate it We know that where God loves best many times he mostly chastizeth and yet that knowledg though we have for it a Divine warranty is very apt to be out of mind when we look upon a Man in Calamity But your Grace is a Person of more Candour whose own Experience of the good Hand of God in the day of adversity has taught you to look upon a perplexed Sufferer with such an equal Eye as can distinguish his Sorrows from his Shame This Sermon my Lord was Preached in the Prison such another place as was that where St. Paul sung his Psalms 'T is a Prophetical Discourse and toucheth nearly upon our own Countrey and upon our own Times and almost upon this very Instant The Inspiration is none of mine I pretend not to it in the least what is thereof is our Saviours and of other Sacred Persons from whose Writings and Sayings I took it up and my Authors I have quoted The Reading the Application and something of Interpretation I own and your Grace will find them all back't with Reason and good Warranty Our present Age God have Mercy on us is not without very great stain and shame of crying sins sins exceeding hainous if not unparallel'd excepting those against the Bloud of our Blessed Saviour and therefore such as have for a long time cried for Vengeance And besides old sins of above Forty Years standing Alas here is a loud cry of many fresh sins which smoak with very large thick black dreadful and nausceous Vapours Schisms Heresies Hypocrisies and wicked Envy on one Hand and Atheism Sensuality and unreasonable Prophaness on the other and excess of Pride and Covetousness on all Hands do Reign beside the Sacriledg Simony Flattery Bribery and Cheats which are to be found predominant in some one sort of particular Persons and the Rapines Oppressions and Extortions in some other sort And now that the menacing Signs of Heaven do appear day by day and year by year and yet the Persons mostly therein concerned do least regard them But undoubtedly there are some wise Men among us which its to be hoped will expose themselves to stand in the Gap in this time of Eminent danger We have my Lord among others one eminent Prophesie of a most eminent Father in God whom your Grace did well know who being a Person of Famous Authority and that as well for Wisdom and Sanctity as for Place and Dignity has left so much the more weight upon his words which says That bloudy dangers do await us but withal promises that in the midst of that danger the truly Religious and best sort of Christians shall be safe And surely this is a great encouragement to all wise Men to be diligently and seriously striving who shall most excel in Piety Truth and Righteousness And for this Reason and to this end no doubt it hath pleased God to load some Men with the heavier Irons upon their Heels in order to hold them out of that crowd which he intends to shoot at when the time shall come up to serve his purpose And Blessed are all they who by some lighter punishments shall be rendred so safe that when others shall be called to an account for their Pride and Wantonness and all other defilements of over-much prosperity They shall be excused Methinks my Lord I do contemplate in the Person of your Grace a sometimes eminent Patron of your Family Gislebert Earl of Brionij in Normandy who was Grandfather to Robert the Cup-bearer the first of your Line that assumed the Sirname of Le Boutellier in the days of King William the First of this Kingdom This Gislebert was Guardian to King VVilliam the Conquerour when Duke Robert his Father left him an Orphan at Eight Years of Age and by his Wisdom and Care carried him off thorow more then an Hundred dangers of his Minority See Stow upon Will the Con. at end of his Life and worthily gained the Name as he was called in those days Pater Patriae He lived in an ill time but with much Wisdom and Courage he stood in the Gap and withstood the insolencies of an unruly People and attained unto old Age and to see his Sons and Grandsons of perfect Age and lastly dyed in a Tumult wrestling with ill humoured People to serve his Countrey I do not propose this example my Lord as if I do any way conceive your Grace in any more then common danger to follow him in a violent Death but rather as such with whose Noble Acts hitherto you have had the Reputation to compare And as for a tumultuous Death every wise Man among us does know it threatens the most obscure as times go and