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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53965	A sermon preached on the anniversary of that most execrable murder of K. Charles the first royal martyr by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1682 (1682)	Wing P1090; ESTC R20742	15,297	44

Common-wealth And it appears by the Letters which were written See the Grand Design c. by Andreas ab Habernsield a Bohemian That Cardinal Richelieus Chaplain together with Cunaeus and divers other Romish Priests were employed here before the Civil War brake out to bring the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury that then was to Destruction And the Truth is the Jesuite could never hope for a more fair Opportunity of doing his Own Work among us Safe and Vndiscern'd than when he had turn'd the Nation into Factions and set every one of them to grapple with the Government So that things falling out just according to the Jesuites Directions the King being Murthered the Archbishop being Sacrificed and the Monarchy being changed into a Republick every Child may easily understand that it was not the Security but the Ruin of our Religion that was intended all along from the beginning Briefly If Rebellion be Religion then were our Pretending Reformers the Undoubted Patrons of it If the Destruction of the Church be the Preservation of Protestancy then were the Papists and They the Only True Protestants in the World If to cut off the Defender of the Faith if to Harass and Ruin the Ministers thereof if to banish all Order if to throw away all Forms of Divine Worship if to turn Oratories into Stables if to render the Service of God Ridiculous and Contemptible if to play the Hypocrites and to violate Oaths and by all instances of wickedness to bring a Reproach and Odium upon Christianity if such Religious Villanies as these did speak Men to be the True Friends and Patrons of Religion I am Sure no Age of the Church ever produced Such Friends and Patrons before though I cannot undertake but This Age possibly may produce the like 3. Next let us consider a little in what a Miserable case we were in respect of the Subjects Property to Defend which they pretended a Particular and more than Ordinary Zeal insomuch that thousands of Men were perswaded to believe that their Designs were Honourable to Secure every Mans Right and to make the whole Nation Great and Prosperous But were we not Cheated of our Hopes in that respect too While the King Sat Easie in His Throne every man Sat Safe in his Possessions and we were then as God be blessed we are now under our own Vines and under our own Fig-trees Paradise was in in our Land Prosperity was our Portion the King was our Guardian the Laws were our Security and every Mans Riches were his Own I pray what became of our Magna Charta when our Monarch and Monarchy were cut off Indeed we had Laws but like the Laws of Draco that were written in Bloud we had Courts of Justice such as were almost as Just and Merciful as the Thirty Tyrants of Athens and Estates we had in the hands of Sequestrators who Kept them Safe for us and our Estates yielded their yearly Fruits of Increase for Locusts and Caterpillars but Taxations we had none only such as we could not Pay nor any Grievances in the Nation greater then were our very Rulers 4. Nor Lastly did it Fare better with the Peoples Liberty whereof they profest to be the most Trusty and Faithfull Keepers See what became of it when the Crown was fallen For to Preserve our Liberties they made us Slaves and to keep all Arbitrary Power out they brought it in So that Vid. Delegat Scot. Chart. ult the Scots themselves in an Instrument directed to the Trayterous Juncto at Westminster in February Forty Eight upbraided them tartly for exercising that Tyranny Themselves which they pretended forsooth to remove all danger of by taking away the High Commission-Court and the Star-Chamber The Civil Liberty of a People is wrapped up in the Laws and this great Blessing we have had under our Kings that we have been dealt with according to those Laws to which we our selves have by our Representatives given our own Consent Happy are the People which be in such a case But what a miserable plight were we in when instead of One King we had an Army of Vsurpers and instead of a Golden Scepter to bow down to we had an hundred Iron Rods to be beaten with Yes it was a Glorious Liberty when the Scum of the Nation could Imprison without Reason could Kill without Law could Live without Religion could Tyrannize without Conscience could do every thing that was good in their own Eyes In short They had the Liberty to Plunder and Oppress and We had the Liberty to Beg or to Starve They had the Liberty to be Cruel and Savage and We had the Liberty either to be Dishonest or to be Hang'd Let us learn therefore to be Wise in time and in a Ticklish Age be carefull to distinguish between the Lamb-skin and the Wolf and having had the Experience of Former times to instruct us give great heed as to avoid our old Miseries so to forbear the old Methods which brought them about Let us not suffer our selves at any time to be Abused with a Shew nor to trust rashly to Pretenses because what Hath hapned may happen again and to tread in the Same track is the ready way to drop in the Same Snare And this I would crave leave to recommend especially to your Consideration who are Members of this Great and Honourable City because it is notorious that the Original and Growth of our Late Troubles and the Sin of This Day were all in a great measure owing to the wicked Practices of a prevailing Party here whose Confederacies in Treason did help strongly to give the Fatal blow to Three Kingdoms 'T was here that Traytours were Harboured and Carried in Pomp. 'T was here that Firebrands were thrown even from the Pulpit to inflame the whole Nation 'T was Hence that Petitions were presented against the Orders of the Church that Clamours were fomented against Church-men that Tumultuous Routs were sent to cry for Justice and to frighten the King from his own Palace 'T was hence that Associations against the Government were encouraged that a wicked Covenant was dispatcht abroad into all parts of the Kingdom that whole Treasures were issued out to begin the Rebellion and an Army raised too to carry on the Blessed Work of the day I do not care to instance in particulars do but Look into the Annals of the Times and you will Blush to see that so much Guilt was contracted within the Walls of London I cannot therefore without being wanting in that duty which I owe to God to the King and to your Selves but earnestly beseech you that you take great heed of those Means whereby the Crown fell once and both Dread and as much as Lyeth in you Labour to Prevent the Like Miseries as presently came upon the fall of it I should be Unjust to this City should I not own my confidence that there are now many as Loyal as Great as Brave Spirits in it as any Age could boast of and let me add it is both your Honour and the present Happiness of the Kingdom that there are so and God increase their Number Strength and Fortunes Yet we see what in such a great Body we cannot but Expect what different Interests and Parties there be and how Blind Some are I will not say Wilfully but yet so Vnfortunately that they do not discover the manifold Blessings of God wherewith they are Surrounded in the midst of some Discouragements However since I perceive men on All hands do profess themselves most Loyal and most Dutiful Subjects I hope it will be acceptable Counsel unto All if we Exhort you that ye Fear God and the King and never meddle with them that are given to Change In order thereunto Study to be Quiet and to do your Own business follow Holiness and Peace endeavouring by all possible means to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace Let the Spirit of God rule in all your Hearts the Spirit of Love and Obedience the Spirit of Humility Vnity and Concord Let all Bitterness and Wrath and Envy and Clamour and Railing be put away from you with all Malice In fine Love the Brotherhood Fear God and Honour the King that so God may Bless us and make us once more an Happy Prosperous and United Nation and that neither We nor our Posterity may ever have cause to take up the Churches Lamentation in my Text The Crown is fallen from our Head wo unto us that we have Sinned FINIS ERRATA Note that these words Pag. 15. It is to be Observed too that a late Pamphlet entitled The History of Succession is an Abridgment of Doleman ought to have been put in the Margin