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opinion_n	mortal_a	sin_n	venial_a	597	5	12.4318	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35074	A sermon preached at Holy-Rood House, January 30. 1681/2. before Her Highness the Lady Anne. Tho. Cartwright ...	Cartwright, Thomas, 1634-1689.	1682 (1682)	Wing C704; Wing C704A; ESTC R170908	23,302	36

the score to the commission of such horrid Crimes against both the King and the People and yet not have their names once called to an account for any injustice But we have too much cause to say of the Spawn of these Blood-suckers Gen. 49. 7. as Jacob did of Simeon and Levi Cursed be their Anger for it was fierce and their Wrath for it was cruel I mean the Worshippers of that Scythian Diana which was once fed with so many inhumane Sacrifices and to which as to another Molock so many men of Parts and Piety of Courage and Loyalty aswel as Children were compelled to pass through the fire Not to swim along with the stream of their Rebellion was present drowning Crede aut jugulum dabis might have been their Motto considering how many mens lives and fortunes were sacrificed to their revenge and passion there was no need nor noise of liberty of conscience when that Religion was rampant Now if these were Saints who were Scythians If these were the Children of God which are the Sons of Belial If these were the Failings of the Righteous which are the Crimes of the Wicked Let them wipe their mouths as clear as they can they were taken bloody handed and their treachery deserves to travel in a Proverb to the end of the World till they can wash either their hands or mouths in innocence from this great Transgression Some of the more moderate men if indeed there can be any moderation in Rebellion perhaps if they had not found it easier to lay on their Hounds than to rate them off would have desisted sooner but yet they remembred so much of their Practice of Piety I mean of Machiavel's Instructions that they would neither stand so close to the King as well as they lov'd him as to be oppressed with his ruine nor yet so far off but that when his ruine came they might be able to rise upon some parts of it They pretended to deserve aswel of the Traytors and Usurpers then as they do now of the King and as Godly as they were the Crown and Church-lands were a great Gain to them they thought it a mortal sin to rob either but not so much as a venial one to buy the stollen goods But to think that any Reasons of mine or Convictions of their own should make them believe that this sin might be laid to their charge were to entertain a better opinion of their Piety and my own Parts than either of them deserve Never was any Parricide committed with so high an hand as this it was done by the joynt agreement and contrivance of the two Imps of Rebellion those Brethren in iniquity whom Faction coupled and Interest divided for they strugled together in the Womb of Ambition till the elder was indeed craftily supplanted by the younger who carried away the long expected Fruits of the others Plots and Practices This made them so very busie when the work was over to shift off the guilt of this execrable Act from the one to the other and whether of the two Harlots was indeed the true Mother of this Monstrous Birth you will best know by attempting to divide it Solomon would have judged it to belong to her who would rather part with it all than accept of half and then the Elder Brother is the principal Murderer Their case in short was this The One granted Commissions to fight against the King but yet they would be thought to have provided for his Personal Safety in a Parenthesis of fair Words they could not sleep in their Beds for fear of the King 's being murdered and the other judged it as lawful to behead him The one gave the Council and the other the Stroke The one laid the Train and the other fired it The one devoured the Prey and the other gave a Blessing to it The one carried on the Rebellion in the four first Acts of the Tragedy and the other were the bloody performers of the fifth The one sharpned the Ax and the other stroke with it The one brought his Royal head to the block and the other severed it from his shoulders The elder of the Twins bound his Father and the Younger butchered him The one first murdered the King of Great Brittain the other the Person of Charles the First Vel neutrum flammis ure vel ure duos they run at least parcel guilty and both of them certainly washed their hands in his blood how desirous soever they have been since to wash them of it But to whether of the two the sin is more properly chargeable I had rather a better Casuist would resolve them Between them I am sure they have brought the greatest scandal upon the Protestant Religion and the English Nation imaginable making it as much the Scorn and Reproach as before it was the Envy and Glory of the World Pudet haec opprobria nobis Et dici potuisse non potuisse refelli God grant our Posterity may learn to be ashamed of those Actions which have brought such an obloquy and disgrace upon us as to make us the sole object of publick execrations and curses And that especially considering what a vast Treasure they squandred away to purchase his destruction who was the chief Instrument of their preservation and in fine their own destruction too for Quid tu si peream ego What became of the Peerage when Prelacy and Kingship were run down Then was a time when Actaeon-like they were worried by their own Hounds till they had learned that Nemo gratis malus est that they had bought their iniquity at a dear rate and better they had never been born than that the guilt of their iniquity should lie so heavy upon them and the punishment devolve as it did upon so many thousands besides them But like blind Sampson so they gratified their own revenge they were utterly regardless how many they destroyed in plucking down the glorious Fabrick of Church and State about their ears No calling drank so deep of this bitter cup in that unnatural War as ours the States loss was not to be expressed but the Churches not to be imagined for our Priviledges and Revenues were not only taken from us by those Jews who would have Crucified Christ himself as they did his Vicegerent to get his Garments but our office it self lay ableeding and was drawing to its last gasp if a Miracle of Providence had not sent us such a Sovereign such a Nursing Father as God hath now blessed us with to revive it Now if when so many frightful circumstances meet together to wring tears from our eyes at the resentment of such an inconceivable loss do not ingage us in a serious lamentation and if our sobbs do not grave the remembrance of our Martyr'd Sovereign in our hearts in Characters as great as was the Crime of His Murderers we are more insensible of God's Dealings and our own Demerits then becomes us There were more Judases than one