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spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	jesus_n	13,652	5	5.8822	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50842	The originals of rebellion, or, The ends of separation a sermon preached on the thirtieth of January, 1682 in the parish-church of Great Yarmovth / by Luke Milbourne ...	Milbourne, Luke, 1649-1720.	1683 (1683)	Wing M2036; ESTC R916	23,150	48

before them the dangers they expos'd themselves to both in this and the future World by setting themselves against the ordinance of God! How did his tender Soul relent for those unhappy Wretches whose zealous Ignorance hurried them to death in so cursed a Cause but alas the hardest Rocks the very Walls that held him a Prisoner to his Rebels were not more insensible than those remorseless Villains who by Treasons had got the greater power and were resolv'd to abuse it to his destruction for whose sacred life millions of such Hellish Souls had been but too mean a Sacrifice Our Saviour once told Pilate that If his Kingdom had been of this world then his servants would have fought that he should not have been delivered to the Jews John 18.36 The Case was alter'd now our Saint-like Rebels thought the Kingdom of Charles the First not to be of this World else would they never have been so unnatural to have fought against to have condemn'd to have murdered him Jews indeed they were in wickedness and labour'd hard to copy out Jewish treachery and cruelty to their Messiah the ever blessed Jesus in their false and bloody Dealing with his Vicegerent the Anointed of the Lord. It was an ill sight in the judgment of Solomon to see Servants on Horse-back and Princes like Servants walking upon the Earth Eccl. 10.7 but how much more dismal was the sight to see a great Monarch led by a company of bruitish Guards as his Saviour had been before as a Sheep to the slaughter to see awful Majesly appear by compulsion before those persons his pretended Judges whose Fathers he would have disdain'd to have set with the Dogs of his flock Who were children of fools yea children of base men who were viler than the earth as Job 30.1.8 expresses it there to hear himself vilified and belyed by the impudence of a Mercenary Wretch to hear the sentence of Death pronounced upon him by those who ow'd their own lives to the protection of his Laws even then when they broke them desperately to his ruine But what Adamantine Heart but would bleed to see that Sacred Head struck off by an execrable Villain and shew'd to the Astonished Multitude under the scandalous Name of the Head of a Traitor Such as this surely was a throughly reforming Practice well becoming those Blood-thirsty Saints whose Devilish atchievements we this day sadly Commemorate Thus Jesuitism and Separation go hand in hand both hold Princes responsible to their Subjects as Superiors both hold them liable as well as others to Excommunication both hold the Subjects absolv'd from their sworn Allegeance to that Prince whom they judge an Enemy to God both hold it lawful to oppose him by force of Arms and both conclude in Murder and I make no question but the same Heaven which receiv'd St. Garnet St. Fawx St. Clement St. Ravilliac and their Followers may equally contain St. Cromwell Bradshaw Corbet Peters and the rest of that Hellish fraternity who all dyed impenitent in the same damnable faith if their own Friends bely them not But the Sun is risen again God has visited us in Mercy beyond our deserts and we see the Gracious Son of Charles the Martyr seated on the throne of his Father May his Reign be prosperous and his Days many ready has this incorrigible Nation been to run headlong again into its former woes Antimonarchical Doctrines walk abroad again in open day Suspicions and Jealousies are reentertain'd the busie Separatists active to buoy up their Party and to make an Interest once more great enough to reverse those Laws which justly take notice of them as Hypocritical and Seditious rather than true Protestants The old Steps had been so far traced again that had not Almighty God inspired his Vicegerent among us with wisdom from above to crush those Basilisks in their early motions the Kingdom in all probability had e're this been made an Acel-dama a field of Blood But thanks be to God at last the Snare is broken and we in some measure delivered God of his mercy direct our Sovereign still and confound the subtle and incessant Devices of his Enemies God grant that we may know in this our day the things that belong to our Peace that we may sincerely pray for and obey our Prince that we may contend earnestly for that Faith which was once delivered to the Saints that laying aside all Malice and Hypocrisie we may serve the Lord our Defender and the Restorer of our breaches with fear and rejoice before him with reverence that his blessing may ever rest upon us and upon our King for Jesus Christ's sake To whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit c. FINIS