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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89085	Curse not the King. A sermon preached at St. Martin's in the Fields, on the 30th of January, 1660. Being the anniversary day of humiliation for the horrid murder of our late gracious soveraign Charles the I. By John Meriton, M.A. rector of the church of St. Nicholas Acons, London, and lecturer to that congregation.	Meriton, John, 1636-1704.	1661 (1661)	Wing M1817; Thomason E1084_7; ESTC R202914	21,267	35

Curse not the King A SERMON Preached at St. Martin's in the Fields On the 30th of January 1660. BEING THE Anniversary Day OF HUMILIATION For the Horrid Murder of our late Gracious Soveraign Charles the I. By JOHN MERITON M. A. Rector of the Church of St. Nicholas Acons London and Lecturer to that Congregation My son fear thou God and the King and meddle not with those that are given to change Prov. 24. 21. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Marc. Anton. lib. 6. London Printed by J. Macock for Henry Herringman and are to be sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Blew Anchor in the Lower-Walk in the New Exchange 1660. To the Right Honourable Algernoon Earl of Northumberland William Earl of Salisbury John Earl of Mulgrave Francis Lord Seymour With others Right Honourable Right Worshipful And the rest of my Worthy Honoured Friends Inhabitants in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields Right Honourable Right Worshipful And Well-beloved I Cannot but reckon it as one amongst the many remarkable Mercies that God hath undeservedly and unexpectedly with a liberal Hand heaped upon us in our late wonderful Revolutions That a Day of solemne Fasting and Humiliation was set apart by Restored Authority for the lamenting that Barbarous and bloody Regicide which mans Injustice and Heaven-daring Impiety acted And Divine Justice and incensed Severity inflicted as an heavy Judgement upon the three Kingdoms And that the many thousands who then abhorred but could not hinder it might in a publique manner with freedome and safety wash away that blood-guiltiness with their tears the springs of heretofore restrained griefs rising up as Rohoboth without any Gen. 26. 22. stoppage of Philistines and running along the Channel of a Religious and Penitential Mourning Craesus his Son seeing some bloody Assassinates offering violence to his Father in a sudden vehemency of passion cryed out though dumbe before It is Craesus O do not kill him We have with sorrow seen the death of our Civil Father Amo 5. 13. And the prudent kept silence in that time for it was an evil time though there were that spoke with more Loyalty then safety but God hath now opened our mouths to express before himself and the world our sad resentment of that prodigious and unnatural Paricide after a twelve years tongue-tyed silence How much enclined rather then enforced I was to contribute my poor help in the work of that Day in submission to this Ordinance of man for the Lords sake 1 Pet. 3. 13. needs not be declared Nor will your chearful concurrence need further evidence then your ready diligent attendance upon and earnest attention to as other holy exercises so this plain unpolished Sermon which upon the joint importunity of many of your selves whom I could not well gratifie with the grant but much worse disoblige with a denyal of their Request is now exposed to publique view The Argument I still judge as I then did fit for the Pulpit on that and necessary for your practice upon every day And further Apology I make none for sending abroad these blotted Papers I am so fully satisfied in the truth and Scripture evidence of the matter herein handled and so justly charitable to my Christian Hearers as to presume none were dis-sat is fied with the hearing of themselves pressed to a long discountenanced Loyalty And Did we not live in an age wherein for a Minister of the Gospel to indemnify himself from the Ordeal of a captious and over-critical ear and calumniating Tongue were next to an impossibility I might with more security rest satisfied that though possibly I had profited but a few yet that I had at least displeased none If any unapt and mis-becoming expressions shall occur which would better bear the slight and transient touch of the ear then the more fixed and deliberate scrutiny of the eye I therein beg your candid and charitable indulgence being desirous that the Sermon might now appear in the same dress of Phrase so near as the frailty and slipperiness of my Memory would permit as when at the first delivered I cannot let slip this Opportunity without a publique and grateful acknowledgement of your many and great Favours conferred upon and continued unto my unworthy self and particularly your acceptance and encouragement of my weak Endeavours for the space of eight years fully finished on the very day of my Preaching this Sermon And if God hath used a worthless Instrument for the spiritual good of any souls among you the highest Honour of a Gospel Minister and I hope my greatest ambition I desire that he who hath been the principal Agent in the work may be the sole Object of the Praise I have herein pressed you to an Honourable esteem of and Loyal dutiful Affections towards the Kings Majesty And am not apt to distrust some measure of Fruit answering the cost of Seed and Plowing And if by the pains of eight years Preaching I have persivaded any of you to take an Oath of Alleagiance to Christ the King of Kings I cannot but judge had the time been longer and my diligence greater both imployed to good purpose May the Kings Majesty whom God hath Mercifully and Miraculously restored to the Antient and Glorious Throne of His Progenitors be blessed from Heaven with a Long Pious Peaceable and Prosperous Reign till at length he changeth an earthly corruptible Crown of Gold for an Heavenly Incorruptible Crown of Glory May the Nobility be further Ennobled with true Zeal and Sanctity Never accounting Honour and Greatness disobligations from Religion which are then only wisely and faithfully improved when they are made Incentives to and Vtensils of Religion May we all live in Purity and Piety to God as it becometh Christians In Loyalty and Fidelity to our King as it becometh Subjects In Vnity and Charity one with and toward another as it becometh Brethren It is the hearty Prayer of Your Honours Humbly Devoted Your Worships Thankfully Obliged And Your Affectionately Engaged Servant in the Lord JOHN MERITON Curse not the KING Eccles 10. 20. Curse not the King no not in thy thought and curse not the Rich in thy Bed-chamber for a Bird of the Air shall carry the voice and that which hath Wing shall tell the matter THat thought is free is one of our profane Proverbs not more common then Atheistical as good say in ones heart with the fool there is no Psal 14. 1. God as demolish his Throne or exclude and extirpate his Soveraignty from the hearts of Men to think that God doth not know hath not bounded will not judge the thoughts were to make him an Idol God and we 1 Gor. 8. 4. know that an Idol is nothing in the world God is himself most manifest and for the evidence of his soul supremacy hath given check to those sins that are least manifest prohibiting thoughts of pride envy malice covetousness hypocrisie Atheism blasphemy both against himself and his Deputy