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A57599	Loyalty and peace, or, Two seasonable discourses from I Sam. 24, 5 viz., David's heart smote him because he cut off Saul's skirt : the first of conscience and its smitings, the second of the prodigious impiety of murthering King Charles I, intended to promote sincere devotion and humiliation upon each anniversary fast for the Late King's death / by Samuel Rolls.	Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing R1880; ESTC R25524	110,484	255

Loyalty and Peace Or Two Seasonable DISCOURSES From 1 Sam. 24.5 viz. David's heart smote him because he cut off Saul's skirt The First Of CONSCIENCE and its Smitings The Second Of the Prodigious Impiety of Murthering King CHARLES I. Intended To promote sincere Devotion and Humiliation upon each Anniversary Fast for the late King's Death By Dr. SAMUEL ROLLS Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty LONDON Printed by Tho. James Mathematical Printer to the King 's most Excellent Majesty for Joseph Hindmarsh at the Black Bull in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange 1678. but stand ready for such another I had dedicated these my first-fruits in the Church to him to whom all first-fruits are due but that I considered that Kings like High Altars ought not to be approached all at once but by steps and degrees as also that such a Tragedy as I here relate could not be pleasant to his Majesty to read though very profitable for his Subjects that it should be written The Loyal Contents of this small Treatise may assure the world that your Lordship hath admitted into his Majesties Service a Person of as unfained and fervent Loyalty as your heart could wish or as the world affords And now my Lord what remains but my most ardent wishes in which I know your Lordship will joyn with me viz. That the Soul of our Lord the King may be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord his God as the Phrase is 1 Sam. 25.29 and the lives of his enemies may be slung out as out of the middle of a sling that his Enemies may be clothed with shame but upon himself his Crown may flourish and that God would cover his head both in the day of Battle and of Peace For your Lordship I have no greater thing to wish than that the King of Kings may take your Lordship as much into his favour as the King of England has done and instead of the Star which his Majesty hath bestowed upon you may in due time give you that Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judg shall give at the great day to all them that love his appearing which is the hearty Prayer of My Lord Your Lordships most humble faithful and obedient Servant S. ROLLS TO The most Reverend Father in God WILLIAM Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of all England and Metropolitan and one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council S. R. The least of all the Servants of the Church and not worthy to be so called humbly dedicates his poor and unworthy Labours in the ensuing Treatise of Conscience c. May it please your Grace THough some Writings of extraordinary men may seem to need no Patron yet I am very sensible that mine do and this of mine above all the rest which for the nature of the Subject may pretend to deserve one because I do easily foresee it will fall under the displeasure of many both for the Author 's and Arguments-sake for the Author's sake because he hath given his Service to the Church of England which he had done many years sooner but for an invincible impediment not unknown to your Grace and now doth with as much heartiness chearfulness and satisfaction as ever man did for which there are some that do stomach him the more because a doubting trembling s●●upulous Conformist is in their apprehension the honestest man that conforms and in the most safe and salvable condition though the Spirit of God speaking by St Paul hath told us That whatsoever is not of faith is sin and that he that doubteth is damned if he eat No less distasteful to many prejudiced and malecontented people is the Argument of the latter part of this Fook For they cannot endure to hear that Fact called a horrid and bloody Murther which they have look'd upon as a gallant and heroick Enterprize not unlike the signal Atchievements of Jael against Sisera Ehud against Eglon recorded in the Book of Judges I doubt too many had rather that Act had been made a Precedent than the Actors thereof an Example My Lord If I fly not to your Grace's Protection men of that ill Character will be ready to swallow me up quick whilst their rage is kindled against me For having preached but one 30th day of January upon the subject of this Book I know to my sorrow what it and a few more expressions of my Conformity cost me and how I was made to run the Gaunlet for it and from some men could have no quarter But my comfort is that I have fully satisfied my own Conscience in this that I have written and if your Grace's Judgment shall be also satisfied therewith I shall value it more than I shall regard the censure and clamor of a thousand disaffected persons who for want of Capacity Learning and Integrity are not the thousandth part so able to make a judgment of it I therefore beseech your Grace to take both it and its Author under your wing at least the Author for his good and loyal Intentions which may extend far towards the covering of his weaknesses who will easily own that he hath nothing to be proud of if he may be proud of any thing but that he had the honour to have been sometime of the same University and Colledge with your Grace and admitted thereinto upon your Grace's personal Examination and Allowance I write not this as presuming to invite your Grace to water what you have planted but only to make a hedge about it that no wild Creatures may root it up Now that he whose right hand hath fixed your Grace in that place of Eminency where you now shine as a Star of the first Magnitude would always hold your Grace as a Star in his own right hand and make you as hitherto your Grace has been a burning and shining Light shining forth more and more like the Sun towards the perfect day is the hearty Prayer of Your Grace's Most Devoted Orator Humble Servant and Obedient Son S. ROLLS To the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Arlington Lord Chamberlain Of His Majesty's Houshold and one of His Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council c. S. R. Humbly dedicateth the ensuing Treatise wishing it may prove in any measure worthy of your Lordships acceptance May it please your Lordship HAving lately received more immediately from your Lordships hand an Honour too big for me to mention in print I hold it my bounden duty thankfully to acknowledge it Were I able to write any thing that might be worth your Lordships reading which I can scarce presume to think that were one proper way of doing it for the Calves of Mens Lips are as usual a Thank-offering as any and the Calves or Sacrifices of their Pens are almost the same thing For Pens are a sort of Lips wherewith men speak so loud that the world may hear them My Lord within the compass of this Book I have endeavored to express my hearty Loyalty first to the

who not only despised the Authority but destroyed the very Life of that excellent King of whom we have been speaking But there is one cause more of mens despising the great sin of Sacriledge and making nothing of it viz. A great mistake which they are and have been under as touching the holiness of Persons viz. That they know and acknowledge no holiness of Persons but that which the Scripture intends when it saith without holiness no man shall see God Whereas most evident it is both from the Old and New Testament that Persons are very often called holy upon a much more laxe large and loose account Ex. gr 1. Vpon account of being dedicated though not by themselves to God yet by God to himself to his own use and honour Luke 2.23 Every Male that openeth the Womb shall be called holy unto the Lord. Surely that is not meant of a saving but of a ceremonial Holiness of a typical rather than of a substantial Holiness 2. Vpon account of Gods external Adoption of a people to the title and outward priviledges of his Children and Holy ones Hence it is said of the Jews or Jewish Nation though it were not savingly true of all or of the most of them 1 Pet. 2.9 Ye are a chosen Generation a holy Nation a peculiar People c. The reason of which Apellation is because they were Israelites to whom pertained the Adoption and the Glory and the Covenants c. Rom. 9.4 Not so far forth as that all of them were thereby finally sav'd but only put into a much better capacity for Salvation than others were who did not enjoy the same priviledges 3. Vpon account of meer profession and outward appearance men are often called in Scripture Holy and Saints which is all one c. So 1 Thes 5.27 Let this Epistle be read to all the Holy Brethren So he calls the whole Church So Heb. 3.1 Wherefore Holy Brethren partakers of the Heavenly Calling c. So we find the word Saints scattered so freely and us'd so commonly in Saint Pauls Epistles that we may rest assured it is not there applied to them only who are Saints indeed Rom. 12.13 Distribute to the necessity of the Saints i.e. Of all poor persons professing the Christian Religion for they could not search or judge of their hearts Rom. 15.25.26 Rom. 16.15 With innumerable other Texts to the some purpose 4. Vpon the account of federal Holiness are they called Holy who are not all so in strictness of speaking or i● relation to eternal Life So 1 Cor. 7.14 Th● unbelieving Husband is sanctified or rendre● holy by the Wife and the unbelieving Wife is sanctified by the Husband else were your Children unclean but now are they holy meaning federally not savingly holy as the unbelieving Wife is said to be sanctified by her Husband not savingly for so many never are but federally 5ly and lastly Persons may be called sacred upon the account of their being inviolable or such as do not lie open and exposed so as common persons do but there is a noli me tangere upon them Touch not handle not hurt not to be sure Touch not mine annointed and do my Prophets no harm So the Feast of Jubile was called Holy because inviolable Lev. 25. Now though none but religious and godly Kings be holy so as is meant when the Scripture saith Without holiness none shall see God yet every King professing the Christian Religion is sacred upon the five accounts last rehearsed and in a peculiar manner upon the last of them viz. As being more inviolable and unapproachable for the matter of hurting more guarded from the violence of men by the sacredness of his Office and Supremacy of his Condition than Subjects are Yea and upon one accompt more 6ly ●ings and Rulers as they have more of the Image and Stamp of God in point of Authority therefore called Gods in Scripture and they are set apart by God for his more especial service as his Deputies and Vicegerents upon earth may and ought to be counted sacred persons Now being Sacred the injury done to such especially the destroying of theirlives may very fitly be stiled Sacriledge Now when I have spoken to two things more viz. 1. That Sacriledge is a very great sin and 2. That this Regicide was very great Sacriledge I shall dismiss this 4th Article and proceed to another May not the heavy judgments of God inflicted for Sacriledge be alledged as a great proof of the hainousness of that sin for though God hath now and then signally punished sins seemingly but small yet it is possible they might be really much greater all things considered than we know of yet ordinarily they are great and hainous sins for which God visiteth men with great and heavy Punishments And such are the Judgments which God hath inflicted for Sacriledge witness Mal. 3.9 Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even this whole Nation Witness also what we read touching Eli and his Sons 1 Sam. 2.25 When Hophni and Phineas took away pa●● of the Flesh which the People brought fo● offerings to rost for themselves Eli th●● expostulated with them If one man sin against another the Judge shall judge him b●● if a man sin against the Lord who shall entreat for him Where their Sacriledge i● spoken of as so great a sin and so immediately against God that they would find it hard to get any body to intercede for them though in Law-suits betwixt man and man Advocates and Council a● they are called are allowed on both sides In Jer. 7.16 God said to Jeremy Pray no● you for this People neither make intercession to me for I will not hear thee And in Exod. 32.10 The Lord said to Moses let me alone that my wrath may waxe hot against them and that I may consume them Now Eli spoke to his Sons as if their sin had made God so angry that he scarce knew what mortal man would dare to intercede for them or be suffered by God to stand in the gap Yea the following words are very severe viz. Notwithstanding they hearkened not to the voice of their Father because the Lord would slay them i. e. God was so provoked by their liquorish Sacriledge that he was resolved not to prevent their ruin by any special interposure of his Grace nor yet to put their Father upon what further means he might have used for the reclaiming of them viz. By hard blowes instead of soft words Yea so angry was God with Eli's Sons for their Sacriledge that it reached not their heads only but also run down upon the Skirts of their Father Eli for not punishing of them at an otherguess rate than his tender over-indulgent heart had suffered him to do because he smote them not as with Rods God smote him and his as with Scorpions 1 Sam. 2.34 This shall be a sign unto thee that shall come upon thy two Sons on Hophny and Phineas

he was besieged by Omri and saw that the City was taken he went into the Pallace and burnt the Kings House over him and died 1 Kings 16.18 How sped the Servants of Amon King of Judah who murthered him in his House See 2 Kings 21.24 And the People of the Land slew all them that had conspired against King Amon and made Josiah his Son King in his stead Joash his Servants conspired against him and slew him 2 Chron. 24.25 which was a most just thing on Gods part to avenge the Blood of the Sons of Jehoiada the Priest v. 25. but how came they off see 2 Chron. 25.3 When the Kingdom was established to him he i. e. Amaziah slew his Servants that had beheaded the King his Father If the Murtherers of private persons be now and then reserved to the judgment of the great day to be punished yet Divine Justice and Vengeance as if more concerned about the death of Princes than of Private Persons by the instances fore-cited seems to have alwayes overtaken those even in this Life who have spilt the Blood of Kings as Water upon the Ground Whence is easie to infer that though Homicide be a very great sin yet Regicide is greater and that he was a King whom the Men I am writing of put to death no man ever doubted Seventhly Neither was it Regicide only or the murthering of one who was meerly a King of which these men were guilty but also Justicidium or the murthering of a good King Who knows not that the wilful murthering of any man though a bad yea though the worst of men is a great and crying sin but the murthering of a good and vertuous man a man of a thousand is worse than that and beyond either of them is the murthering of a good and excellent King yea of one of the best Kings in the World which is the case before us Now by how much better the murthered person was by so much worse was the murther for Corruptio optimi est pessima is a never failing rule I dare not apply to this occasion those words of St. Peter Acts 3.14 Ye denied the holy one and the just because they are peculiar to our Saviour who is the holy and the just one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and there is no man so besides him but that the martyred King was a man of great vertue is I think as generally acknowledged by them that either knew him or have seen what is in History concerning him as almost any thing is Who could ever taxe him with Intemperance more or less Who knew not the greatness of his Patience under his unparallell'd Sufferings his professed forgiveness of his most provoking enemies Who ever did read more Divine Lines more pious Contemplations dropping from the Pen of any afflicted Prince than his incomparable and unimitable Book doth contain But it will not stand with the brevity here intended or with the Symmetry of this part with the rest of this Book to write a History in this place of that renowned Kings Vertues but he that shall read his Life excellently written as it is by Dr. Perringshief and others if he have any faith in Histories as what wise men hath not some will not as much admire the greatness of his Vertues as the barbarousness of his Sufferings and both together most of all Herein appeared the barbarousness of his murtherers that they could find in their hearts to use a Prince so immensely ill who deserved so excellently well The Apostle saith Rom. 5.7 Paradventure for a good man some would even dare to die Were they Men or Monsters or Devils incarnate or what were they then who instead of dying for a good man put a good man to death An untimely death I had almost call'd it a shameful death for so it in true tended but that I know no shame was in martyrdom If any man doubt the piety of that Martyr and the tenderness of his Conscience let him but read the 2. chap. in his excellent Book viz. upon the Earl of Strafford 's death Because when almost wearied out of his life by the importunity of those that he believed did wish him well and us'd it as a Maxime Better one man perish though unjustly than the people be displeased or destroy'd he had complied to sign a Bill against the Earl of Strafford's life though without plenary consent to his destruction as he himself saith Lord how uneasie was his Consciscience Reader forbear weeping if thou canst when thou readest those melting warning words of his I see it a bad Exchange to wound a man 's own Conscience thereby to salve State-sores to calm the storms of Popular discontents by stirring up a tempest in a man 's own bosom But I will not prevent thy reading of that whole most excellent Chapter which may almost warrant us to call him A father of Penitents as Abraham was called A father of the Faithful I shall conclude this seventh Article of my charge against the Murtherers of King Charles the First with a short reflexion upon David's words to Baanah and Rechab who cut off the head of Ishbosheth and brought it to him looking for a reward 2 Sam. 4.11 How much more when wicked men have slain a righteous person shall not I require his blood of your hand and take you away from the earth As if David had said for that he meant Saul was a wicked King an enemy to God as well as me and yet when one told me saying Behold Saul is dead viz. the Amalekite who said he slew him by his own command to put him out of pain 2 Sam. 1.10 I took hold of him and slew him who thought I would have given him a reward for his tidings If he were worthy of death who only reported himself upon a pick-thankly account to have kill'd Saul who seem'd otherwise about to kill himself and at his own appointment who was then full of anguish though Saul was a very wicked man as aforesaid what have they deserv'd who beheaded a virtuous King sore against his will and best endeavours to the contrary and that with many circumstances of barbarity as you will hear hereafter And so I proceed to the eighth Article wherewith I charge the said King's Judges viz. Hypocrisie I say with great Hypocrisie practized in that fact It was Homicidium maxime Hypocriticum It was even the Master-piece of Hypocrisie and the grandest Cheat under the Notion of Piety that ever was imposed upon the world Now all Hypocrisie is a perfect Lye and the fault that needs a Lye grows two thereby as Mr. Herbert tells us Who that understands the intrigue of that Business do's not cry out Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum Could such a Monster spring from the Womb of Religion Who laid that Brat at her Door For it was none of hers So Politicians talk most of Religion when they mean nothing less as if they would compensate by taking God

three are met together as Papists say of his body natural The younger Brethren of Presbytery For saith one Our English Amsterdam was founded since our English Geneva They who cried down the Covenant as it was for Monarchy and for the preservation of the King's Life and Honour but did and do still cry up the Covenant against Prelacy and to upbraid all Conformists with Perjury who have declar'd the Covenant not to be obligatory The great Freeholders in point of Discipline who brook no Landlord in that point or to have any Authority over them The Hance-town Church-men who claim to have all Power and Jurisdiction within themselves and say Who is Lord over them That sort of men who of all sorts of Christians seem to have least regard to one Article of our Creed viz. I believe the Holy Catholick Church or they by whose practice one would think that were no Article of their Creed If there be no sort of men to whom the Characters aforesaid do agree sith no Party is nam'd none need to be concern'd but if any such there be or have been they were they who said of the King's death Ah! ah so would we have it The Limner who drew the foregoing Picture thought it a disparagement to write under it This is the Picture of such an one for if it be like no body it is good for nothing 'T is possible that some whom it doth not concern will out of a jealous humour apply it to themselves but let them be warn'd by what was said of one that did so I said the Author of a certain Character have made a Fools Cap and such an one has put it upon his head and fancies that it fits him But in good earnest if the Painter have not wrong'd those people whose Picture he meant to give us but such be their real Feature and Portraicture if it be as like them as can be they are a people worthy to be exposed chid and rebuked and most unworthy to be esteem'd by others at any such rate as they esteem themselves and one another Let those Characters be intended of whomsoever for I shall not pretend to know of whom they are intended but I have found them somwhere methinks the men of such a Complexion and Constitution as they seem to describe must needs be some of those men that were well-willers to the death of King Charles the Martyr For they can never love Kings well who would be Kings themselves John 19.12 Whosoever maketh himself a King speaketh against Caesar Fifthly Doubtless Fifth-Monarchy-men gave no discountenance to the death of the King for many of them thought long for the expiration of the fourth Monarchy which they supposed might be at the death of the King or soon after For when all was overturn'd overturn'd overturn'd then they thought he would come whose right it is Sixthly But that the Papists should be so hearty for the King's Murther as it should seem they or some of them were is not that the wonder of all wonders May not such a truth as that is be confirmed by the Testimony of two great Orthodox Divines If so they are forth-coming The first shall be Dr. Perrinshiefe pag. 195. For there mentioning Jesuitical Counsels he addeth whose Society it is reported upon the King's offering to give all possible security against the corruptions of the Church of Rome at a Council of theirs did decree to use their whole Interest and Power with the Faction to hasten the King's death which sober Protestants had reason enough to believe because all or the most of the Arguments which were used by the Asserters of this violence on his Majesty were but gleanings from Popish Writers Also pag. 213. the same Author saith thus How little the Papists credited what the Faction would have the world believe was too evident by the Conspiracies of their Father against his Life and Honour which the discovery of Hubernefield brou●ht to light They were mingled likewise amon●st the Conspirators and both heated and directed their fury against him They were as importunate in their calumnies of him even after his death as were the vilest of the Sectaries For his sake they continued their hatred to his Family abetted the usurpations of the following Tyrant by imposing on the world new Rules of Obedience and Government invent●d frrsh calumnies for the Son obstructed by various Methods his return to the Principality because he was heir as well of the Faith as of the Throne of his Father My next witness and two such witnesses may suffice as well as twenty shall be Dr. Mo●ul●n Prebendary of Canterbury in a Book of his called A Vindication of the Protestant Religion in the point of Obedience to Sovereigns c. pag. 58. The late Rebelion was raised and fostered by the Arts of the Court of Rome Jesuites professed themselves Independent as not depending on the Church of England and in the Committees forthe destruction of the King they had their Spes and their Agents The Roman Priest and Confessor is known who when the fatal stroke was given to our holy King and Martyr flourish●d his Sword and said Now the greatest Inemy that we have in the world is gone I 'll ●uote no more but rather commend that excedent Book to thy reading Thus have we made a competent discovery at whose door the death of the late King doth principally●ie Her upon methinks I hear some saying But what is the King's death to us who had not the least finger in the death of the murthered King What is that to us Let them look to it as was said to Judas when in despair Answ There are many ways and circumstances whereby a man that was not principally concern'd yet may be brought in as truly accessary to the Kings death or to any such thing as it was viz. 1. Connivendo 2. Non reprehendendo 3. Non praeveniendo 4 Non dolendo 5. Demerendo 6. Non deprecando 7. Imitando 8. Non detestando satis contra protestando 9. Provocando 10. Non puntendo cum possumus 'T is much to be feared that this whole Nation may come in for a share in the Kings death thus remotely or upon account of one or other of the foresaid particulars For 1. Some did as it were connive at it when it was in fieri or bringing about and dic not do all they could have done to prevent it Now to such that passage 1 Sam. 26.15 16. may be applied David said to Abner wherefore hast thou not kept thy Lord the King For there came one of the people in to destroy the King thy Lord. As the Lord liveth ye are worthy to die because ye have not kpt your Master the Lords Anointed And now see where the Kings spear is and the cruse of water that was at his Bolster Was not old Eli therefore charged with the sins of his wicked Children because his Sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not 1