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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39917	Parallēla dysparallēla, or, The loyal subjects indignation for his royal sovereign's decollation expressed in an unparallel'd parallel between the professed murtherer of K. Saul and the horrid actual murtherers of King Charles I the substance whereof was delivered in a sermon preached at Allhallows Church in Northhampton on (the day appointed for an anniversary humiliation in reference to that execrable fact) Jan. 30, 1660 / by Simon Ford.	Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.	1661 (1661)	Wing F1491; ESTC R2735	45,646	57

these publickly avowed by general consent of Protestants That Christ hath left a power to any Person or Persons in his Church to dispose of all Crowns and Scepters and hath subordinated the Temporal to the spiri●ual Sword And that Soveraign Princes being once blasted by the Thunderbolts of that Church may be lawfully deposed and murdered by their Subjects and that Subjects in such a case are absolved from all Oaths of Fealty and Allegiance to them c. let them impute the guilt of this horrid Crime to us and spare not but so long as we and they notoriously know whose Doctrines these are it is no hard matter to guess what Heifer those Seditious Seminaries ploughed with and at whose Forge they sharpned their Goads and Plow-shares who sowed the Tares of such Traiterous Principles in the field of our English Church and Commonwealth However for our fuller vindication in this Particular let every true Protestant for ever abominate the Memory of those Monsters and detest their Principles who have thus opened the mouths of our Adversaries against our Religion and laid such a stumbling-block of prejudice in the way of those poor seduced creatures among us who are thereby hardned in the distance they keep from us and our Communion 3. A Third Consideration to amplifie the horrid murder of our And the vast disproportion between the Facts themselves Late Soveraign beyond that of Saul may be taken from the Fact it self Which although in the case of Saul it hath already been charged with 1. Bloudiness 2. Wilfulness And 3. Audacionsness enough Yet in all these our part of the Parallel weighs much heavier than that The Amalekites Fact was a Sneaking Business acted in a Corner so that it had not been known but by his own Relation But this was a Publick Tragedy in all the Acts of it wherein the Conspirators made all the world Spectators of their audacious Effrontery Here was a Pageantry of Publick Justice an High Court solemnly convened a Bench and a Bar a President and a Prisoner an Inditement and a Prosecution and a Sentence and all these in the most publick place of Judicature in the three Nations And after this a Bloudy Execution not in a Corner but in the open Street in the Face of the Sun as if they meant with a kind of def●nce to God himself to call him in as a publick Spectator to behold how insolently they trampled upon his Authority in his undoubted Vicegerent A Tragedy which in all the Acts and Scenes of it I am confident all the Histories in the world cannot match Many Kings have died by the Sword by the Dagger and the Pistol many by poysonous Drugs and other such Instruments of private and clandestine ambition or revenge But never any till this black day by the Executioners Axe upon a publick Scaffold in the Front of His own Royal Palace c. Nay more if a Survey were made of all the Utopian Inventions of Poetical Fancy no Stage ever had a Tragedy like this acted upon it No Fabulous or feigned History ever adventured a Relation like it to the eyes of the world And indeed sober Readers would have disgusted them if they had upon the very account of the monstrousness of it and taxed the Author with an unpardonable Errour for transgressing Ficta voluptatis causae sint proxima veris. Nec quodcunque volet poscat sibi fabula credi Hor. Art Poet. the ordinary Rule of Fiction the subject matter whereof must be such as seems to carry an appearance of Truth and though it be not verum yet it is verisimile So that here was a confluence of all that wilful projected Cruelty and Insolence could contribute to the aggravation of a Villany 4. To shew the Parallel yet more unparallel in the case of our late Soveraign his Murderers had none of all those Pleas to excuse their wickedness which before have been urged on the behalf of the Amalekite For 1. They made it too publick to render it any way disputable None of the Amalekites Pleas pleadable for this whether they were the Persons who did the Fact or no. And after they had done it they gloried in it as an act of Transcendent Justice and took pride to be pointed at for it 2. So far was our murdered Soveraign from being as Saul was a Tyrant and a Murderer that none ever lost Life or Limb by his Authority but in a course of Justice or by the chance of war And if he were an Enemy to any true Davids which some object to him as a Crime it was his Infelicity not to understand them to be such which occasioned it and I am confident if any such there be who had cause to complain of hard usage from him they are so far Davids still that they will give the Murderers as little thanks for rescuing them from their Sufferings in such a way as he did this Amalekite 3. So far was he from being weary of his Life and desiring the courtesie of a dispatch out of it that he strongly and unanswerably asserted to the faces of his Murderers his Right both to his Life and Crown 4. So far was he from an inevitable necessity of dying at that time either by natural Infirmity or accidental stroak of Providence that he was in the very Prime of his Age Health and Strength 5. So far was he from being pursued by any Enemies but themselves that he had but newly concluded a reconciling Treaty with those who had fought against him whose Arms and Hearts were with a wonderful alacrity open to receive him and expiate all former unkindnesses with all possible Demonstrations of Affectionate Loyalty 6. So far were his Murderers from lighting occasionally upon a tentation to this Fact and being surprized by the unexpectedness thereof that it was the issue of a Conspiracy of divers years before 7. So far were they from being clear of the design of enriching themselves with the Royal Spoyles that like Ahab they had no sooner killed but they presently fell to taking possession of all the Royal Lands and Revenews and distributed them amongst themselves And whereas this Amalekite after he had done the Fact he took the Crown and Bracelet of Saul returned them to his Lawful Successor these barbarous Murderers to make good their unjust possession exclude his undoubted Heir and Successor for many years from his unquestionable Rights and put God himself to the expense of a Miracle at last to restore him 8. And Lastly So far were they from bewailing the Fact when they had done it that as I before told you they triumphed in it as the most Righteous Heroick and Meritorious Act that ever was done by men And some-of them expressed an ambition to perpetuate the memory of their Names by no other Epitaph yea when Gods Justice and mans overtook them and brought them to deserved Execution took the Confidence to challenge a Crown of The Conclusion in