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A49124	Moses and the Royal Martyr, King Charles the First, parallel'd in a sermon preached on the 30th of January, 1683/4 in the Cathedral-Church of St. Peters, Exon. / by Tho. Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1684 (1684)	Wing L2975; ESTC R1028	20,935	33

preserve his life or to destroy it to charge him with all the miseries of the late War And a Leader of this Party says that the removal of our Ceremonies onely might countervail for all the Bloud and Treasure spilt and spent in those Distractions Jenkins Sermon Sept. 24. p. 23. which was spoken in 1656. about 8 years after the Kings death They did not indeed erect a high Court of Justice to arraign him but they raised Armies to fight against him And it is to be believed saith Mr. Baxter that a man would kill him whom he fights against And Mr. Marshal p. 19. of a Letter of his says That if the King had been slain in battel it had been none of the Parliaments fault for he might have kept himself farther off if he pleased And they might have kept themselves at home and done their own business and not the Devils work in pursuing their King to his Prison which hath usually been the Grave of Kings as it was his And in this the Army-men in a Book called Bonds and Bounds argued not amiss If by the Covenant say they p. 45. we were indispensibly obliged to preserve his i. e. the Kings Person how comes it to pass that we were obliged by the same Covenant to wage War against him I have heard of a distinction between his Person and his Power but never between his Person and Himself So that if the Covenant would have dispensed with any Souldier of England or Scotland to kill his person by an accident of War as his life was oft in danger before he was brought to the Scaffold his death had been violent and the obligations to preserve him had ended and yet according to this argument the Covenant had not been broken why then should these men think the World so dull as not to understand plainly enough that the Covenant provided for his death more ways than one And in brief the Actions of the two Parties differed onely as Diminutio obtruncatio Capitis They that took away his Regal Power did diminuere caput Regis they that took away his Life did obtruncare Caput they that first gave Commission to raise a War against him and they that slew him were equally guilty for they are all Principals in such an execrable Treason Nec dum finitus Orestes The immortal hatred of these persons would not permit the dead body of Moses to be gathered with his Fathers and be at rest for we read in St. Jude v. 9. of the Devil and his Angels disputing with Michael and his Angels about the body of Moses either while it was yet alive the Devil intending to send some evil Spirit to dispatch him secretly which the good Angels opposed or being dead to deny him a Burial-place with his Ancestors for the same reason perhaps that the Apostate Julian removed the Bones of Babilas the Martyr because the Devils Oracle could not assist him while the Martyr lay so near it and therefore he must be buried at a distance in the Valley lest the Regicides should be minded of their guilt and the People inraged at the remembrance of their loss But as Pliny de viris Illustribus speaking how the Romans were incensed to revenge the death of Romulus their Founder Proculus stept forth and said to them Be not troubled O ye Romans for I saw your King in a glorious Chariot ascending up into Heaven So to allay our sorrows and to cause us to lay aside all thoughts of revenge I say his Enemies have so far kept their words with him as to make him a glorious King Thus fell the best of Kings by the worst of men that had generally sworn Allegiance to him and often perjured themselves by Covenants and Engagements against him He fell before his own Palace and at the Gates of his great but unrelenting City He fell in the midst of his Age and maturity of his Strength and fulness of Grace the Prodigy of Wisdom and Meekness He fell by the Sword and for the sins of a stiff-necked and rebellious People He fell not alone but our Religion our Laws and Liberties fell with him and out of the Ashes of that Phaenix they all rose again and resumed their first strength and splendour If we number him among the good Kings none of them was so wise if among the wise none of them was so good Charles le Bon was not so wise nor Charlemain was ever so good If the names of all the best Princes were to be engraved in a Ring the name of this King would serve as a Diamond to give vertue and luster to it Carolus Primus nulli Secundus his Murther therefore was a Murther all circumstances considered not to be parallel'd by any but the Passion of our great Lord and common Saviour and next to that to be detested and abhorred of all men And this is the first Vse and Conclusion that I shall draw from these Premises That we seriously lament and repent for those Impieties which the sins of the Nation drew upon it self and from which the Land is not purged to this day For as God threatned Israel for the sin of making the golden Calves that when he visited he would visit that sin upon them from whence the Jews observed that in every judgment there was an ounce i. e. some greater weight for the sin of the golden Calf So we may justly believe that by those dreadful Plagues and Conflagrations that have been on the Land and especially on the great City God would call to our remembrance that great sin for which his anger is not yet turned away but his wrath is stretched out still And because amendment of life is the best signe of Repentance let us imitate his Example in Meekness and peaceableness of Spirit in Temperance and Chastity in Patience and Charity even to our greatest Enemies but especially in his Love to that Church which adhered so faithfully to him and which therefore he so loved as to lay down his life for it and in whose Doctrine and Communion if you keep your selves you will be free from that great iniquity of Rebellion and Conspiracies which are like the sin of Witchcraft Which word minds me of one Admonition more That you would consider the nature of this sin which comes so nigh to the sin of Witchcrast that it seldom admits of any repentance for a sad observation and yet too true it is that among all the Regicides that were executed for that actual Murther of the Father which how horrid it was you have heard and among those that died for the intended Murther of the Son whom God long preserve though they all acknowledged or were proved guilty of the Fact not one repented of the sin notwithstanding that God hath threatned such resistance with damnation and though such may escape the judgment of men it will be a fearful thing for them in their impenitency to fall into the hands of God 2. 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of praying twice a day which he scarce ever did in all the time of War consecrating some place as a Chappel in the open Field so tender was his Spirit that he exacted it of himself at anothor time As Philo observes of Moses Si quando ab officio defuisset severè à se paenas exigebat He had that tenderness of Conscience which was onely talked of by others for as soon as the wrath of God was gone out against the Land like Moses he ran and stood in the gap and humbled himself with Fasting and Supplications to divert the wrath of God And for his secret Meditations and Vows he hath raised such a Monument to himself and given such an Example to the World as all men may admire but few or none can imitate King Francis the First said that of all Books in the World next to that of the Gospel he would have that of Moses his Pentateuch to be preserved And indeed those Books are as Philo says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these are the onely Records of the Creation and miraculous providence of God wherein also the fundamentals of all Laws are preserved And next to Holy Writ and the Records of the Church there is no Book savours so much of Divine Rhetorick and the Primitive Spirit of Christian Devotion as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth I have seen his Majesties Picture drawn in the Text of David's Psalms a fit shadow for the Devotion of his Soul but this which was drawn by his own unimitable Pen will be a more lasting Monument and give him a better Immortality than all the Regal Memoirs of the best-deserving Princes by this as Sampson he conquered more at his death than he had done in all his life-time Vota dabant quae bella negarunt his Pen obtained what his Sword could not As none but Caesar was fit to write his own Comment so the King did it in such a stile as will perpetuate his Fame to the end of the World And for my part I shall like it the better for that which that scurrilous Milton said to defame it viz. that his Party admired it and were stricken with such blindness as next to the darkness of Egypt happened not to any people more gross or misleading For which saying perhaps it was that he himself was smitten with blindness long before his death I conclude this point of the truth and fidelity of our Moses with that which Philo says of his Qualis erat Oratio talis erat vita ut in instrumento musico nil discrepavit mentem actis exprimens facta dictis accommodans I shall not presume to extend my Parallel between Moses and the Royal Martyr for working of Miracles though God gave him such a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or gift of healing as was very wonderful and highly beneficial to the Nation in the curing of thousands that were otherwise incurable But that which causeth me to mention this was that Cure which Moses wrought upon Miriam who was troubled with a kind of Kings Evil being smitten with a Leprosie somewhat like it for her murmuring against Moses but was cured by his Prayer Numb 12.13 Moses cryed to the Lord saying Heal her now O God I beseech thee And when the rude Souldiers that guarded his Majesty denied a poor afflicted woman that was very importunate to have access to him deriding her as a superstitious woman the Royal Martyr observing and pitying her condition told her Though he could not touch her he would pray to God to heal her and she went to her home and was healed But to return But these Supporters of the Royal Throne his Kingdoms were preserved in Peace and Prosperity for near seventeen years together there was no decay of Trade no leading into Captivity no Wars nor rumors of Wars among us The King himself was the greatest sufferer being left in some straights and engaged in expensive affairs by his Father which his Adversaries taking notice of instead of easing him by timely supplies they adde to it by murmurings and reviving the old Quarrel between the Kings Prerogative and the Priviledges of the People For the decision of which our Moses summons an Assembly of the Princes and Heads of the People hoping that they would take part of the burden of the Government from his shoulders which was too heavy for him to bear alone as Moses complained to God Numb 11. v. 14. wherefore by Gods decree he calls the Elders of the people to stand with him v. 16. but v. 26. we hear of Eldad and Medad two Field-Chaplains that separated from the Tabernacle and prophesied in the Camp against Moses Miriam also ch 12. 1. a zealous woman spake against Moses because of an Ethiopian woman whom Moses had married whom God reproved v. 7. testifying of Moses that he was faithful in all his house and v. 8. saying How were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses And this Leven though but a little at first fermented the whole lump for ch 16. 1. Corah Dathan and Abiram with 250 Princes of the Assembly famous in the Congregation men of renown began to make set Speeches against Moses and Aaron and so incensed the people that as Josephus says they came with a confused tumult to apprehend and stone Moses and with noise and uproar they came to the very door of the Tabernacle where Moses was crying out that the Tyrant was to be cut off and the people delivered from thraldom having great burdens laid on them Dathan and Abiram come also with their armed Servants to resist Moses in case of force And now Corah a man of popular Eloquence talks aloud That Moses had lifted up himself without any Commission above the People thinking to exercise an Arbitrary power over them who were all holy and to whom as Saints the power of Dominion did belong and accused them as men of bloud v. 41. Ye have slain the people of the Lord though as yet neither Moses nor Aaron had used any other weapons but their Prayers and Tears to appease the rage of the people and to turn away the wrath of God from them But from this time began the Affliction of Moses whom God seemed to have raised up to this very end that he might shew in him the power of his grace how able he is to support a weak vessel amidst an ocean of troubles for as Philo says of Moses Tota vita Mosis Martyrium Deo reddidit his whole life was but a Martyrdom from the time that he was drawn out of the Bulrushes of Tweed where he was exposed in a languishing condition till he died on Mount Abarim before his Royal Palace his Enemies made him to pass through fire and water more than seven times that he might be as tryed Gold the more precious and splendid for though as Moses Bush he was still burning yet was he not consumed but they made him in a better sence than ever they intended a