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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09956	Several sermons: some preached in England, and some in the island of Barbadoes in America upon several occasions. / By Robert Scamler ...	Scamler, Robert, b. 1653 or 4.	1685 (1685)	Wing S807C; ESTC R223226	52,095	91

in triumph to his Execution Though to the affront of Heaven and him that dwelleth therein yea Murther him at his Royal Door though contrary to all Examples of Story Precepts of God and Law of Nations no matter for Religion or President This is the Heir come let us Kill him and seize on the Inheritance Quis talia fando temperat à laerymis Where is thy Eye O flint hearted Stoick whose Limbeck will refuse to pay a yearly Tribute at this Sacred Shrine who was the Glory of Europe and shame of his own degenerate People Born it is true in Scotland but he breathed more Gentile Gales than those of Northern Blasts Nay had he not been Born there I would have said and as properly as Nathanael did of Nazereth Can any good thing come from thence Joh. 1.46 Nay may we not read the Characters of Divine Wrath imprinted on those Cursed Judas's and Hellish Varlets to avenge the Blood of this Righteous Abel for as the Offence was equal to that of Cain's so travail the World and you 'll read the Punishment shall be the same Vagabonds and Wanderers shall they be He was a King who was an absolute Conqueror over himself to whom his Passions those attendants on Humane Nature yeilded a more intire Obedience than the Kingdoms he Ruled over For those did never Mutiny but his Kingdoms Loyalty let this day witness Should I conduct you into that large field of Divine Fancies manifested in his Books you would absolutely conclude the Coal which the Seraphim laid on Esays's lips was bestowed on his Pen for they consist of such Ravishing and Eloquent strains that none can read them but with Wonder and Reverence some accurate Pencel might give some faint and weak resemblances of his Personage but who can delineate the Complexion of his Soul so Faithfully as he hath copyed out Himself unto Us in his Writings where we may read his zeal truly ballanced with deep and profound Knowledge Piety and Modesty his Grief for the Ruines of the Church and Miseries of his People his Care for his Friends and Charity for his Enemies his Commiseration of others and Courage in his own Afflictions and in all so even a Temper that he resembled none but him who at his Cross did say Father forgive them they know not what they do In short he was a true Beuclerk as much a Schollar as a Prince and more a Christian than either He was and is not only to this Nation but all Christendom a Mirrour to think how he Lived and a Grief to consider how he Died. Thus fell that shining Star whose Light over-spread the whole Earth and the Royal Dignity Suffer'd an Eclipse in the Greatest King that ever was Let us then Weep and Fast to think how we have rendred our selves guilty of Innocent Blood if the guilt of a Brothers Blood cryed to Heaven for Vengeance how much more the Blood of a Father the common Father of three Christian Kingdoms If Sauls death was so deplorable yet he a wicked Person and the Phylistines none of his Subjects then how much more in this case where wicked Subjects Subjects said I Nay rather the dung of the Earth like Baanah and Rhechab have Murthered a Righteous Man and their most Gracious King How ought this to afflict us Know you not that there is a Prince a great man fallen this day in our Israel He is fallen and his fall accompanied with that of the Nobility and Gentry Laws and Justice with the fall of Church and Religion Doctrine and Discipline Piety and Morality let us Mourn then that our sins of Scarlet may be made white by the Blood of Christ I am charitably perswaded all in this Assembly did detest this Bloody Action with the greatest Horrour and Indignation Nevertheless we must all acknowledge our selves guilty of his Blood because they were our sins the sins of the whole Nation which provoked God to thunder down Vengeance on us in the Person of our Shepherd that so we the sheep might be smitten It was of thy Mercy O Lord thy Mercy alone O praised be that Mercy That we were not utterly consumed when for many years together our Cornutes were turned into Fifes our Dances into Marches and our Banquets into want of Bread and our Livery-Gowns into Buff-Coats and our Suits of Gold into Glittering Armour and our Beavers into Hemlets How was the Pride of our Cupboard and our Fingers Glory turned into Soldiers Sallaries and the price of Blood How were our Girdles turned into Belts and our Gowns and Cassocks into Coats of Mail Our Lofty Houses into Garrisons and our stately Edifices into Prisons our Temples into Stables and the House the Lord the House of Prayer into a Den of Theeves So soon as the Lords Anointed was slain the whole Nation went disorderly and proved out of Course when our Prince of Peace Charles the First was taken from among us then presently sprung up Briars and Brambles more Cruel than Tigers that rifled from Drams of Silver into the Bowels of their own flesh and would either Kill or Die for a days Wages no sooner was Soveraignty dethroned and Majesty destroyed but Desolation and Wo with the whole retinue of Miseries fell upon us Insomuch we no sooner sat down to Meat but we expected the intrusion of Armed Guests how often were men dragg'd from their Beds to the Prison and from thence to an untimely and violent Death And as it fared with the State so also with the Church How did their little Disputes and Divisions hinder the building of Jerusalem They contended so long about the Windows they had almost lost the foundation for Sion how did a pretence of inward Sanctity in some devour their outward Decency Pretending the Glory of God by such means as you would think your selves Villified and affronted How was Charity banish'd to fetch home Truth and a Coal from the Altar to set the Temple it self on Fire When men pretended to be Enlightned by the Spirit yet lived after the Lusts of the Flesh Were not thousands made naked to keep the Surplice off from a few mens backs How were the Churches defaced for the little Piques men conceited at the Windows every minuit difference made a quarrel and did not Disputes raised about a Pin or Nail of the Temple shake and endanger the whole Fabrick thereof Men took up the Weapons of the Devil under a shew of the Lords Cause and pretending to fight the Battles of the Lord they entred a Solemn League and Covenant and Swore Allegiance to the Prince of Darkness How was Christian Religion at once violated and defamed Not only by violating her Precepts but by falsly aspersing her to own and countenance such vitious practices These with many more Miseries did our Nation groan under so soon as we had committed that horrid crime of Regicide and what could we expect less Shall Zimri have Peace who slew his Master The King is Gods Vicegerent