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A sermon preached before the King on the 30th of January, 1684/5 being the fast for the martyrdom of King Charles the first of blessed memory / by Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, and Almoner to His Majesty.
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Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.
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Wing T3287; ESTC R3928
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generosity But if any of our own Countrymen are once debauch'd into so high a degree of Frenzy as to declare themselves Enemies to their Country These says he when you have represt them from destroying the Commonwealth yet you can hardly restrain them by any Force or reconcile them by any Favour By a long sad Experience we find this Observation is too true Most of the Shimei's that have once lift up their Voice in Curses against the King and lift up their Hand to sling Stones at his Sacred Head though they be heartily forgiven yet they will keep no bounds but transgress again the most easy Conditions given them They that have brought the Royal Blood upon themselves can scarce be prevail'd withal to make any stop till by some new Treasonable Attempt they bring their own Blood also on their own Heads and so did these in the Text these whom the Apostles do thus Accuse for shedding the Blood of Jesus whom ye slew and hang'd on à Tree although they were told in the very next words that he was ready to impart that Grace which no earthly Prince can bestow to give Repentance as well as forgiveness of Sins yet it follows When they heard this they were cut to the heart and took Counsel to slay them And yet but two Chapters before a great number whom St. Peter charges Ye have Crucify'd him when they heard this were prickt to the heart and said unto Peter and to the rest of the Apostles Men and Brethren What shall we do He bids them Repent and with many words he exhorts them Save your selves from this untoward Generation Whereupon a Multitude of them came over that same day one short plain Sermon converted three thousand of Christ's Murderers And I make no doubt not a few of those that were carry'd away with the Dissimulation of the men of malice among us have been converted by the Blessing of God and the preaching every Thirtieth of January more than Three thousand Sermons There is still a healing Principle in the Blood of Christ The Lamb of God that was slain that is design'd to be slain from the beginning of the World takes away the Sin of the World that is he gives his Grace to all that are ready to receive it for the taking away of Sin all the whole heap of Sin even this Sin which lies so hard upon many of Shedding the Blood of Kings For Christ did his part to expiate even for those that shed his own Blood and that was the Blood of God No Traytor if he be penitent ought to Despair but his Spirit may be Sav'd in the Day of the Lord Jesus since our Blessed Saviour has said it St. Luke 22. This is my Blood which is shed for you speaking to all that were present nevertheless the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the Table Therefore Judas himself the foulest Traytor had a Share in the Blood of Christ if he would have put in his Claim to it He had offer'd him if he would have accepted the Grace of Repentance And in that weighty Christian Duty in order to which this Divine Grace is extended to all Mankind we are all of us deeply concern'd Since alas we are none of those whom our Saviour calls just men that need no Repentance for as many of us as have broken our Baptismal and Sacramental Vows are Guilty of the Death and Passion which Christ once suffer'd for us upon the Cross And for those of Us that were men knowing Good and Evil before this abominable Fact of Murdering the King for it was done within the memory of Man and of many in this numerous Audience We are not able to say uâ—â—â—ss we deceive our selves as Pilate did that we are Innocent of the Blood of this just Person The Crown is fallen from our Head Wo unto us for we have sinn'd Such was the Lamentation of the Prophet Jeremiah upon such a Calamity as ours was and with great Reason such was his Reflection on the Cause of that public dreadful Calamity Their National Crying Sins And the same Account is given by a great Divine as well as a most wise Prince King Solomon That when the Providence of God permits such strange Revolutions and suffers Kingdoms to degenerate into Commonwealths 't is for the Transgression of a Land many are the Princes thereof Our repeating the Old extream Provocations since God is a Righteous Judge Strong and Patient and God is provoak'd every Day may bring upon us new Judgments such as we cannot foresee and such as we should not be able to endure the sight of Correct us O Lord but in thy Judgment not in thy Fury least thou bring us to nothing And God in his mercy if it be his blessed Will punish us any way rather than that his Judgments should ever again be any thing such as the last were that they should touch the Lord 's Anointed or that God should suffer men to ride over our Heads as the Psalmist speaks or that the Lord should cover the Daughter of Sion the Church with a Cloud in his Anger and cast down from Heaven unto Earth the Beauty of Israel Lamentable things to be reflected upon But that nothing like them may ever return upon us it lyes upon us all to pursue with a vigorous Christian Resolution the Apostles Precept and Injunction upon all those that were any way concern'd in the matter of my Text Repent ye therefore and be converted that your Sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Lord. Which presence we may be confident the Blessed Martyr of this day was on this day so long ago as he became a Martyr admitted to enjoy There to live and reign for ever with the Lord in whose presence is the fulness of joy and at â—â—â—se right hand there is pleasure for ever more To which c. FINIS