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A26408	A plot for a crown in a visitation-sermon, at Cricklade, May the fifteenth, 1682 : being a parallel between the heir and husband-men in the parable, and the rightful prince and his excluders in Parliament / by N. Adee ...	Adee, N. (Nicholas), d. 1701.	1685 (1685)	Wing A573; ESTC R22248	20,134	40

teaching the People herein what to do and what to eschew for he who hindereth not Sin and Sedition when he may commands it Think not that any of us who tamely sit still and suffer willingly the loss of our Right in our David shall be acquitted no more than they were who consented to the Civil War against our King as it is phrased tho the same was a Rebellion in Ireland Mat. 27.24 and with Pilate to wash our hands and to say We are not guilty of the Blood of this just man There are no Neuters in Treason as there are no luke-warm persons in Heaven we must be for God or against him So we must be for the Lord of the Vineyard and his Heir or against them As there is no device can absolve us from our Obedience to our Parents so there 's no Act can absolve us from our Allegiance to our Prince they stand both equally proped by one Command Ex. 20.12 without Dispensation or Absolution whatever the Pope the Papist and the Commons in Parliament the Presbyterian God pretend to the contrary As the King is justly defended by the Law in his Person and Prerogatives from all Invaders so is his Successor to descend unto us by the same Tenure for he will not derive his Title from Man but God as doth his Predecessor And if he or his Posterity should become evil Princes which God forbid that any of the Posterity of our Royal Martyr should be so tainted yet God can make them to become good Kings Prov. 21.1 To affirm then that an House of Husbandmen common Mechanicks or Country-Farmers who at first were called together by the Sovereign Lords of our Vineyard to consult de dubiis arduis regni who the nearer they were raised towards the Sun which exhaled them the more exorbitant and formidable they grew whether by Cunning and Policy or Might and Rebellion I shall not now determine When such as these shall form themselves into an High Court of Justice or a Grand Committee sometimes equivalent Terms for an Arbitrary Council and assume to themselves greater Authority than that paternal Power which gave them Birth and Being That is to alter the Course of Government Causa non impedientes are numbred by Philosophers among moral efficient Causes and steerage of our Obedience He who doth thereto tamely consent doth betray his Christian Trust and Courage too as well as he who doth so unjustly vote and act for our Slavery For by our silence 1. We consent that the Crown is elective and not hereditary 2. We despise God's Providence over us in forsaking his Choice for us we chuse for our selves which is in effect to do as Israel did not only to reject the lawful Heir or Successor but God too 1 Sam. 8.7 For mans Law as it ought not to add so it ought not to diminish from the Law of God These are but waste words to you of the Clergy who sufficiently know your Duty herein would to God you had all the Courage and Goodness to practice it as well To discourage us from our Duty it 's said that there is an Act made which gave to our Virgin Queen together with her Parliament the power of the Crown and that no man may since affirm that that may not be done without severe penalties therefore I shall not reply unto it either Pro or Con only this I say let us remember that we are Protestants and not a miscellany of Papists and Dissenters and let not the fear of Man raze out our Love and Duty to God and our King If such an Act should pass we cannot foresee the Evils which it would bring with it both to Church and State as before intimated But I suppose the Intent of its Promoters is to punish the true and orthodox Protestants and to promote their Adversaries to divide this our most gracious Sovereign's Inheritance between them The passing of such an Act would be like the passing-Bell which rang at the Command of Peter of Arragon in Sicily which was the Signal to the Sicilian Massacre Let all then but especially we of the Clergy set our selves against all whatsoever that shall endeavour the deposing of our good and merciful King or the Exclusion of his Heirs and Successors or the Division and Desolation of this his Inheritance our British Vineyard Let each of us with Nehemiah cast away fear Chap. 6.11 and say Should such a man as I flee or warp from Protestant Principles when the very Foundation of our Religion our Laws and our Loyalty stands at stake It is a shame for Protestant Ministers to own such exotick Principles and Practices as are now by some designing Leaders patronized who yet affect the name of Protestants notwithstanding Which principles were they examined by you you would easily find that they who defend them are of no Religion but a Gallamalfry of Popery and Presbyterism for whatever is faced with Faction is lined with Popery Do you think that such men as these owe any good Will to our Sion who durst be so impudently bold as to fly at our Sovereign Such men as these do as much good in a Parliament-House as a MONKEY in a Glass-shop who 'll never cease their setting of things in better order until they have broken all in pieces Now these are the men which I beseech you Brethren to mark Ro. 16.17 for they cause Divisions and Offences contrary to the Doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them Let not any of them either Father or Son have your Voice or Assistance to be Members of our Senates For Treason is such an hereditary Leprosie that the Royal Ocean of Mercy and Bounty can scarce purifie it for such think that it is ground enough for them irreconcileably to hate whom they have thus offended I am sorry that ever any of our Function should be so weak and pusilanimous so far to forsake their Station as to stand by those men who so far set themselves against our Sovereign Lord as to elect such men who durst oppose his Successor Don't ye dream that you shall gain any great Boon by it They may promise you Oliveyards and Vineyards greater Parsonages and a superintendant power in your respective Parishes but I doubt they 'll deceive you when they have served themselves by you for it 's a known Maxim To love the Treason but to hate the Traitor But if they chance to be condemned you may then have as many thanks as the Ladder and the Hangman and all those subservient helps which brought them to that Doom But if they should prosper and prevail in their Attempts how highly soever you are honoured by them now above your Brethren yet all the favour you may expect from them then will be Only the same Polyphemus granted to Vlysses namely That he should be devoured the last of his Companions Now I have but little to say unto you who are Church-Wardens your Faults I need not tell you for the whole Town and Country talks of them Matters would never have come to this pass had you and such as you made Conscience of your Oaths but they who make no bones of Oaths will make no scruple of Treason for by the Transactions of what is lately past one would think that the likeliest men to serve in our Parliaments would be such only as you or such who have been actually in Arms against the King or his Father My Reason is because such men seem to please the Layety best for that they will be sure if they can to vote down the Heir and all his Supporters But it is the parts and duties both of Priests and People to stop such in their Career when opportunity shall offer it self that we like Protestants should choose Protestants and not men of blended Principles and so by this means prevent their final Resolve viz. This is the Heir come let us kill him that the Inheritance may be ours From which Vote good Lord deliver us for Jesus Christ his sake to whom with the Father and Holy Ghost be ascribed all Honour c. now and evermore Amen FINIS

of Church or State who were not called thereunto But the Jews were for Stoning and Killing of those who were sent unto them though they came for their good to reduce them to a better understanding and more honest purposes By the beloved Son who was sent the Son of God whom he was pleased at last to send unto those Rebellious and Ungrateful Husbandmen By Heir the same with Son differing here only in the Relation to the Lord who sent him Come let us kill him that the Inheritance may be ours Is so well understood of every one who has read the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour's Passion or its pourtraicture the Martyrology of our Royal Martyr that it needs no Explanation Our dear Saviour though he foreknew the Determination of these wicked Husbandmen yet as his Father was pleased to send so was he to be sent and to fulfil the Prophecies and Predictions that related to him So he voluntarily came unto them that he might become the Sacrifice for our Redemption And then so soon as the Husbandmen saw him they resolved for I suppose they made no long delay lest they might lose their opportunity and Christ the Heir might have passed over Jordan their Countreys Tweed and then they might be forced to change their design'd Measures to make an Act of Exclusion when they might kill him Therefore When the Husbandmen saw him they reasoned among themselves This their Design was not so light and frivolous as that they should enterprize it rashly at all Adventures therefore they went considerately to work They reasoned that they might ripen their Treason and bring it to its designed end Therefore they convened by way of Assembly and were the Sanhedrim or Jewish Parliament These parli'd and plotted how they might bring High-Treason to pass But yet it was Conventus Malorum a Conventicle they held in a Parliamentary way wherein they contrived this bloody Expedient To kill the Heir that they might enjoy his Inheritance They were loth to part with that pleasant Vineyard they had so long usurped Nay they who were so unjust to their Landlord as not to yield him any of the Fruit were very unlikely to yield up the Vineyard But what they had gotten by Murder and Sedition they were resolved to keep by Blood and Treason so accordingly they voted and their Vote we have here in Terminis This is the Heir Come let us kill him Verily a very fine Vote for Tenants and Subjects to pass against their Liege Lord and Soveraign It 's observable that a Parliament of Traytors or a Sanhedrim of Conspirators never yet designed good to Prince or People for when such meet their reasonings tend only to turn the Commonweal into a Common woe for Reason nor Religion hath neither Tongue nor Ear in such Assemblies For I do not find that ever our Saviour had so much fair-quarter allowed him by this great Council of the Jews as to be heard in his own defence Though he was their great King the everlasting God the Prince of peace Heard indeed he was but it was as people use to hear Sermons that is with a deaf ear his Words were not weighed nor his Reasons considered I confess that he was questioned and buffetted too to serve as a pretext for the Rulers and as a blind for the people and led forth also to confront the Witnesses but he was not heard according to the merits of his cause not acquitted as he ought but condemned as they pleased This is observable here that the Mercy and Justice of the Jews then did exceed that of some Christians now But in this as it was their desire the Ebullition of their malice so it was his Choice too for he was born to this end and in it his Will was done in Earth as it is in Heaven There was no fault found in him Joh. 18.14 but it was judged expedient that one should dye for the people That is Caiaphas one of the leading Members in the Sanhedrim made a Speech there Dr. Ham. on Joh. 11.50 and grounded this Expedient on a politick Maxim they had That they might do any thing to keep the people from Destruction which they feared from the Romans to whom they were then subject And this they feared by reason of the Admiration the people had him in for his Miracles Dr. Ham. on Joh. 11 48. they feared that he who professed himself the Messias would become their King which the Romans would look on as a Rebellion and so tempt them to come with an Army and destroy them It was this politick Reason prevailed in the great Council of their Nation against Justice and Equity their Religion Laws and Oaths yea all that was sacred not only to vote away their Lord's Inheritance but his Life too These Mechanicks having gotten his Royal person into their hands they said This is the Heir come let us kill him These very men who it's likely were the Heads of popular Factions in their respective Countries were some of them who e're while as it were courted him with Hosanna in the highest who when they had gotten hold of him they were for a Crucifie him Crucifie him Such is the Vicissitude of popular Favour that these very men who courted him most when he was riding into Jerusalem forsook him soonest when he was led into Jerusalem Such commonly is the fate of unfortunate Princes Tacit. who being once fallen into the dis-favour of the profanum vulgus Tam benefacta quam malefacta premunt they rake up their former Favours in Oblivion and reckon their good deeds as well as bad into the number of Oppressions And then they are easily led by their Tub Orators and designing Leaders to know no pity nor to shew mercy towards them What may be said or done be it true or false shall be said and done by them to bring their ends to pass but can we ever expect truth from such who have forsaken the Faith If their Tongues were any slander the Vertues of the best and most compassionate Princes should ever be sullied by them Thus Christ the King of the Jews when he came to fulfil was charged to disannul the Law to change their Religion and the Customs which Moses delivered them Acts 6.14 When they had nothing to alledge against Christ truly they devised somewhat falsly by which they hoped to extenuate their Treason by imputing evil to Christ who never did any But his Innocency quickly appeared to his own Vindication and their Confusion Luke 23.14 for Pilate declared in his defence saying I have examined him before you and have found no Fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him v. 23. yet notwithstanding they were earnest to have him crucified v. 33. And they crucified him and the Malefactors v. 31. one on the right-hand and the other on the left But if they did these things in a green tree what shall be

done in the dry So according to their Proverb Utter desolation followed this their Treason So true a Prophet was Christ in this Parable to foretel to the Jews both his own Sufferings and their Cruelty and Destruction For according unto his Word at the time appointed Luk 20.16 The Lord of the Vineyard came and destroyed these Husbandmen and gave the Vineyard to others Thus commonly the Wheel of Treason breaks the Necks of them who at first turned it Their malevolent Reasonings brought on their own Pates direful Conclusions even their own Destruction So true is it that he who votes for Treason gives his Voice for his own death which will appear not only in Judas who betrayed and the Jews who killed their King but in all those Traitors and Conspirators who have at any time devised the Death of their lawful Princes and Sovereigns few or none ever came without Ignominy and Sorrow unto their Graves Of which there are many Instances In the Jews Vote against our Saviour we may observe 1. Their Confession who Christ was They acknowledged That he was the Heir Surely he was no doubtful or presumptuous Heir for we do not find that ever they denied him his right to the Vineyard or Kingdom of Israel for that in their Vote here they confessed and declared as in a full Parliament Nemine contradicente that Christ was the Heir 2. We may consider the Condition or Quality of those Conspirators they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Husbandmen or Farmers meer Mechanicks a word of large Extent Such it may be who were bred to the Plough and the Spade Whosoever had cunning enough to plot against and Treachery to betray the rightful Heir and Covetousness enough to seize upon his Inheritance were sufficiently capacitated to be Members of this Jewish Parliament or Sanhedrim 3. Here is their unanimous Agreement together with their final Resolve Come let us kill him Come here is not the voice of their Precept of calling to this their Assembly but it is their † Celeusmae seu clamor ad Theologos Hierarchiae Anglicanae Celeusma Shout Noise or Watch-word to call together all their non-conforming but yet consenting Brethren in this and as many others as they could too to joyn hands and assist with them at this Regicide the Murder of the Heir Now verily all those Guiles of God Religion and the Good Old Cause disappeared when they had thus brought their Plot to its maturity Such Shadows then vanish of their own accord 4. Here 's their wicked Instigation to this their traiterous Resolution That the Inheritance might be theirs I suppose that these wicked Conspirators had some hopes of easing themselves from the Roman Yoke by turning Monarchy into Democracy This seems to me probable for that they aspired to the Vineyard and Birth-right of their Lord and Sovereign for they believed that if they had killed the rightful Heir that the Romans who had but an usurped Title which they got and kept by the Sword might by better steel be taken and maintained from them This temporal Inheritance of our Lord that he was born to Mat. 2.2 was only the Kingdom of the Jews and this was all that these Husbandmen did covet by killing of Christ the rightful Heir But if we consider his just Dominions according unto his Inauguration and God's Designation then we find not only the Land of Jury did belong unto him Heb. 1.2 but the whole World too But these Husbandmen the Jews aimed at the Partition and enjoyment of his Kingdom of Judea only and therefore as Republicans use to do they were resolved though they waded through Blood and Treason to attain that Inheritance Thus in hopes to exchange their Mattocks and Shovels for Crowns and Scepters for in a Commonwealth most States-men prove not only as Kings but are Tyrants too every one Rehoboam-like makes his Little-singer heavier than the rightful Heir's Loins Heyl. Geog. 206. for what is gotten by Rebellion must be kept by Force and Treason Hence it is said of Venice the best Free-State in the World that Christians live better under the Turk than under the Venetians Prov. 28.2 And Solomon tells us that it is for the Transgression of a Land that many are the Princes thereof Yet notwithstanding how many are there among us that court their own Infelicity Our Lord himself was the only begotten of his Father the true Heir of the Crown of Jury who in this Parable gave the Malecontents of his own Kingdom such divine Warnings as might melt them into pity towards him but their wicked Hearts were so far from being mollified that they were the more enraged and tho they saw his Miracles Signs and mighty Wonders that he wrought among them and by them saw that he was the very same that was shadowed forth unto them in this Parable yet they did as it were shut their eyes and stop their ears that they might not see with their eyes and understand with their hearts so that they might persevere in their Rebellion against him Nay they could not but confess had not the Fear of Caesar supplanted the Fear of God That these very Works and Sufferings that Christ did undergo should be performed by their expected Messias and King for that he fulfilled all that was foretold of him So that they had not sufficient Excuse for doubting much less for denying him to be their anointed King Priest and Prophet By his Miracles he asserted to them his Divinity by his Sufferings his Humanity He gave himself unto them to be a pattern and example of all Vertue and holy living and he gave his Gospel the supremest and exactest Law that ever was to teach them to conform themselves to his Example so that his Words as well as his Works were enough to convince them that he was the rightful Heir And verily a man might confidently believe that none could be more ignorant among them who was the rightful Heir of their Vineyard or Kingdom than we can be ignorant who is the Heir of our British Crown and Diadem But we read that some had they known what they did would not have crucified the Lord of Glory And St. 1 Cor. 2.8 Acts 3.17 Peter told the Jews that through Ignorance they killed Christ as did also their Rulers Doubtless the Literati among the Jews knew well enough whom they conspired against But here I understand it of the illiterate who were likely among the Scribes and Elders as well as Commons of Israel for there were in Israel as well as Nineveh such who could not discern between their right-hand and their left And of these it 's very likely some of the rich were advanced to be of the Sanhedrim though not for their Wisdom yet for their Weakness that they might carry on the Designs of their Patriots which men of Wisdom and Courage would never have done And I suppose but it 's only my Supposition that the choosing