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A42728 A sermon preached at St. Andrew's Plymouth, January 30th, 1698/9 by John Gilbert ... ; with a preface defending King Charles the martyr, and the observation of his day, against the libels, and practice of such, who are enemies to both. Gilbert, John, d. 1722. 1699 (1699) Wing G711; ESTC R3491 22,764 68

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made not only before the Union of the Kingdoms but before the uniting of the contending Royal Houses of Lancaster and York is done in words very significant and expressive The Parliament say they is of such Authority Rot. Parliam apud Westm 1 Ric. 3. that manifestation or declaration of any Truth or Right made by them maketh before all other things most faith and certainty quieting Mens Minds and removing the Occasion of all doubts IF we consider the Nature and look into the Practice of all late Parliaments they afford us great reason to trust their Integrity and rely on their Judgments Having shewn themselves such irreconcilable Adversaries and Opposers of Popery and Tyranny and so quick-sighted to discover it far off and alway shewing their Abhorrence of those detestable Faults in a King and express'd their Indignation with a witness But when or where have they said of a popish Tyrant as they do of the R. Martyr And enjoyn anniversary Lamentations in the most solemn-manner and most sensible Expressions for the loss of him and in the heighth of a National Ferment against Popery and Tyranny Vote as they did 70000 l. to erect a Monument A. D. 1678. to his Blessed Memory Thirdly NONE more Magnify and cry up the Power and Credit of Parliaments either as Judges or Evidences than those who Writ Fought and Preach'd against K. Charles the Martyr both before and since His Murther So that if they submit not to their Decision in this as well as other Cases they must be Men of great confidence and partiality THE L. P. Rem May 26. 1642 declare themselves Husb. Colled vol. 1. p. 270. Judges between the King and His People in all matters of Right The Parliament is say they at another time the Reason of the King and Kingdom The only competent Judges where the Fault is when page 278. the Question is Who is King or What is best What ever they declare ought not to be questioned by any one and all who guide themselves by their Declaration 288. ought to be free from all Accounts and Penalties This was said of them when they were scarce half two Estates without Lords Spiritual and against their Head the King And so were but an headless Trunk or Carcass as Bracton and Fortescue Fal. 109. cap. 12. saith of the English Community when without a King For He is as my Lord Coke calls him Caput principium finis Parliamenti so essential to the making of a Parliament that He is Head Beginning and End of it W Prinne in the heighth of their Reign published four Books concerning the Soveraign Power of Parliaments Wherein he makes them sole Judges of Wrong done by any one especially the King and affirms it Treason to deny it or refuse Submissions to their Judgments and Declarations THE Regicides on the Bench and the fame Traytors at the Bar insisted on this infallible Judgment and Power of Parliament to warrant their execrable Treason But they had no such Power or Judgment to justify them Mr. Baxter saith The Parliament hath Power to Holy C. Wealth p. 355 439 471 c. declare what is Just and what is Vnjust What is Law and what is against Law They are our Eyes c. And we are bound to believe them a the most competent Judges and Witnesses And although this was written during and in justification of a Rebellion and Usurpation Yet to do Mr. Baxter right he did conform to the Judgment of the next compleat Parliament and declared the R. M. Innocent and the Person of the King inviolable and for so doing hath been lash'd in his Grave by one otherwise of his own Kidney All Judgments especially in things of the greatest moment are to be Respited till they have Pref. to E. Strafford 's Tryal declared and judged saith Rushworth Mr. Johnson hath as much as any Man asserted the Power and vouched the Credibility of Parliaments though he Argum. p. ●2 sometimes takes the liberty to censure such as they have declared Innocent and deny some Prerogatives of the Crown fixed to it by many Statutes I forbear to produce the Opinions of Horn Bracton Fleta Fortescue Sir Tho. Smith Mr. Cambden Sir W. Rawleigh Sir Ed. Coke Sir R. Cotton and many others learned in the Law Constitution and History of England and go on to shew what our Parliament those Infallible Judges say to the Case in Controversy THE healing Parliament was convened without a King under an Illegal and Usurp'd Power and consisted for the most part of such as had been active either in Council or Arms against the R. M. so that they knew well what was done and where the Right lay And none more than they asserted His Innocence detested the Principles and branded the Men by whom He fell as may be seen in most of their Acts. ALL the succeeding Parliaments to this Day do on all the Occasions they have to mention this good King repeat and confirm the Judgment of their Predecessors and declare Him Innocent Sacred most Excellent Gracious and of ever Blessed Memory Eulogies which belong not nor will ever be given to a Popish Tyrant by any much less by many Protestant Parliaments Vide 12. Car. 2. 11 12 14. 30. 13. Car. 2. 5. 9. 38. 14. Car. 2. 9. 21. 22. 29. 16. Car. 2. 1. 6 7. Guliel Mariae c. I refer to the Statute Book for abundance of this kind and present you with the Extract of one Declaration very Emphatical not to be found there because the Act is expired which contains it But in the Role 14. Car. 2. 8. we have it in these words Whereas there was a Loyal Party which through all hazards and extremities in Defence of the KING's Person Crown and Dignity the Rights and Priviledge of Parliament the Laws and Honour of the English Nation did bear Arms by the command of His late Majesty of ever blessed Memory And according to their Duty and the known Laws of the Land oppose that Barbarous Rebellion raised against His most Excellent Majesty in the Year 1640 by some of the Men then sitting at Westminster by the Rapin and Oppression of a long Rebellion Treason and Vsurpation the Kingdom became exhausted c. Here you have the Matter fully display'd the true Characters and Right of the King's Cause set forth the Loyalty of His Friends declared and approved the Wickedness of His Enemies justly censured and condemn'd their Resisting and taking up Arms against Him declar'd Traiterous and Unlawful and the Direful Effects of that Rebellion briefly but fully described Which shews how contrary to Law and Truth in Right and Fact those late Libels are which Accuse the King Justify the Traitors and Vindicate that Rebellion calling Him Tyrant them Patriots and that a Blessed Reformation Cujus contrarium IF we look into the Sermons yearly preach'd before the House of P. and observe their Thanks and Order to Print such
Canon Gilbert ' s SERMON Preached at St. Andrew ' s Plymouth January 30th 1698 9. A SERMON Preached at St. Andrew ' s Plymouth January 30th 1698 9. By JOHN GILBERT M. A. Vicar there and Canon of Exeter With a PREFACE DEFENDING King Charles the Martyr And the Observation of His Day against the Libels and Practice of such who are Enemies to both LONDON Printed by Sam. Darker for Tho. Bennet at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1699. THE Publisher to the Reader In Defence of KING CHARLES THE MARTYR And the Observation of His Day THE Importunity of Friends and the Reflection made by others on this Sermon gave the Reverend Preacher just Cause to permit its Publication that he might Gratify the Desires of the one and Confute the wrong Surmises of the other DISCOURSES of this Nature never were more seasonable and needful than now while many with such Freedom to call it no worse calumniate the good Name and trample on the Ashes of that Glorious Sufferer the Martyr of the Day whose pious Memory and Righteousness are by the Command and Example of the highest Authority in England Yearly Commemorated and Recognized to God and the World NO Men pretend greater Regard and Deference to the Authority and Judgment of Parliaments than many of those who in the Case of K. Charles contradict and give them the Lye If they Determine or Enact agreeable to the Humor and Interest of those Partial Men they magnify the Judgment of our Representatives to a Pitch near Infallibility and make their Power boundless But if many successive Parliaments Declare or Decree contrary to their Opinions or Principles or opposite to their Humors and Inclinations or Credit no Men less regard submit or conform to it than they OF this the R. Martyr's Case is a Notorious Instance for he tho' declared in many Acts of divers Parliaments A Righteous Just Innocent Prinse and as such Yearly Commemorated by their solemn Lamentation on His Day and ordering publick Thanks to the Preachers and printing the Sermons then delivered before them which ought to sway the Judgments of those Men or at least to stop their Mouths But maugre all that they spare not to Reproach his Memory and Brand his Name with the Odious Characters of Bloody Tyrant Perjured Popish Pseudo-Martyr and a Spoyler of the English Government And do this not in private Corners but publick Coffee-houses not only in Cabals and Clubs such as the Rhiming Conventicle of the Protestant Joyner and the Calves-head Meeting of Factious Atheists every 30th of January but in Swarms of Libels openly sold in Westminster-Hall and Cry'd by the Hawkers at the King's Palace Gate in the Face of the Supream Authority and Highest Judicature of the Nation who have so often and do so frequently declare and protest against the Falshood and Scandals which those Venomous Libels impudently Disperse to Reproach His Majesty's most Innocent and Illustrious Progenitor AT the same time the same Men with matchless Boldness do as Openly and in Print Extol Ludlow's Mem. Oats Icon. 1. Op Reform Pref. to Milton's Letters vind of O. C. vind L. Parl. and Applaud as Protestant Heroes English Patriots Men full of Grace the Knowledg of God and true Religion Men of Honour Prudence c. Those execrable Traytors and proscribed Regicides who in divers Statutes stand Branded for horrid Murtherers Parricides Miscreants Sons of Belial neither true Subjects nor true Protestants but Authors of the greatest Reproach and Infamy it was possible for the greatest Enemies of God and the King to bring on the Protestant Religion and the Nation THE Preface to a Sermon will not afford room to say all I can to confute these Men to shew the Wickedness of their Principles the Falseness and Injustice of their Reproaches and the Innocence of K. Charles But I have prepared and will shortly publish full and unquestionable Proof of them all FOR upon a full and impartial Survey of all that hath been Written on both sides of the Controversy between the R. M. and his Enemies I find though they had the Advantage by their Success to be thought the Right Cause yet they wanted that Strength of Law and Reason which they had in Arms and Legions And in this Judgment I am confirm'd by the Concurrence of all the many Parliaments we have had ever since that Tragical Dispute every of them having judged for the King and condemn'd his Enemies declared Him in the Right and they in the Wrong And beside the Determination of those most competent Judges we have the Evidence of very many Men who Acted with the greatest Zeal and Violence against Him and were literally His Mortal Enemies who being afterward convinced of their Error publickly Recanted declared their Repentance and Remorse gave Testimony to His Innocence and the Righteousness of his Cause and from Inveterate Adversaries became Advocates and Compurgators NOW were there no other Evidence or Argument as there are abundance to prove the Innocence of this Holy King these Two were enough viz. The constant and agreeing Judgment and Declarations of many Parliaments and the Testimony of many of His greatest Foes These render all other Pleas needless and supersede as well as surmount all other Proof whatsoever either from Judgment or Evidence or both FOR the Parliament i. e. and the King and Coke Jurisd of Courts c. 1. Idem Instit page 109. three Estates of the Realm assembled being by none more than the Royal M. Enemies accounted the most absolute and supream Judges of right and wrong and the Evidence of an Enemy reputed the most credible in a Man's behalf and both these full and clear in the Vindication of King Charles The Controverfy must End here unless they will deny what all grant to be true and themselves with great Ardour and Zeal have often asserted By this Law and by this Testimony we will therefore be Tried and Judged and let those that will not be convinced by them be accounted as the Scripture saith Men that have no truth in them MY Work then in this short Defence and Pleading for K. Charles is to prove 1st the Validity and Competency of their Judgments or the power and rights of Parliaments to judge fully and finally in all matters of right or wrong 2dly That they have given or declared for the King And lastly that many of his greatest and most malicious Foes by the Invincible power and force of Truth or Conscience have done the same So that his very Enemies being Judges and Witnesses King Charles appears Just and Innocent THE power and right of Parliaments to judge and make final determination in the matter before us appears by their own Declaratory Statutes The nature and practice of all late Parliaments and by consent and testimony of the King's Enemies THE transcendent power of Parliaments to judge finally in all Cases of which they take cognizance is evident among many of their own Declarations One especially