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A39917 Parallēla dysparallēla, or, The loyal subjects indignation for his royal sovereign's decollation expressed in an unparallel'd parallel between the professed murtherer of K. Saul and the horrid actual murtherers of King Charles I the substance whereof was delivered in a sermon preached at Allhallows Church in Northhampton on (the day appointed for an anniversary humiliation in reference to that execrable fact) Jan. 30, 1660 / by Simon Ford. Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699. 1661 (1661) Wing F1491; ESTC R2735 45,646 57

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〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR The Loyal Subjects Indignation FOR HIS Royal Sovereign's DECOLLATION Expressed in an Unparallel'd PARALLEL Between the Professed murtherer of K. SAUL and the Horrid actual Murtherers of KING CHARLES I. The Substance whereof was delivered In a SERMON Preached at All hallows Church in NORTHAMPTON On the Day appointed for an ANNIVERSARY HUMILIATION in reference to that execrable Fact Jan. 30. 1660. By SIMON FORD B. D. Minister there and Chaplain to his MAJESTY London Printed by J. H. for Samuel Gellibrand at the Golden Ball in St. Pauls Church-yard 1661. To the RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN Earl of LAUDERDAIL Viscount Metallan Lord Thirleston and Bolton One of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Bed-Chamber Principal Secretary of State in the Kingdom of Scotland and One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council in both Kingdoms Right Honourable WHen I had the Happiness to be first known to your Lordship during your Late Tyrannical and tedious Imprisonment at Windsor Castle for which I still acknowledge my self obliged to your own Condescention inviting me thereunto I remember your Lordship was pleased to acquaint me that some Books of mine formerly published had been part of the entertainment of your private hours during the vacancy which that barbarous Persecution gave you from Publick Business And the remembrance hereof emboldneth me to presume that your Lordships Library will afford this Little Piece also a place among its Fellows Nor am I altogether out of hope that it may have the like favour of approbation at your Lordships hands from the experience then given me of the value which your Lordship then assured me you put upon them Especially when I consider that the subject matter of it is Loyalty for which your Lordship then suffered so deeply under the heavy hands of the Late bloudy Tyrant and Usurper and for which I have been for several years persecuted by the Murderers of our Late Sovereign of Glorious Memory for endeavouring to obstruct them in the quiet possession of his vacant Seat by both refusing to subscribe and also bearing publick Testimony from the Pulpit against the Subscription of that accursed Engagement imposed by them in order to a post-justification of that horrid Fact the Extirpation of the Royal Posterity and the Settlement of themselves in their Rights by colour of a publick and National Consent And I assure you my Lord that the Con●cience hereof together with that little Contribution which in my low capacity I have through Gods Goodness lived to give towards the Restauration and Settlement of his present Majesty my most Gracious Soveraign and Royal Master whom the Divine Protection long preserve is not the least of my Comforts nor I hope shall be to my dying Day Upon the comfortable experience whereof as also upon the conviction of those Doctrines which in this and my former Parallel I have published to the world I am resolved as long as I live through Gods Grace to seek the Peace and Welfare and Support to my capacity the Crown and Dignity of my most rightful Soveraign and bid a perfect defiance to all Persons and Principles whatsoever that are given to change Now the Lord grant that the guilt of the Late Horrid Murder upon the Lords Anointed may be so wiped off from the Score of these Nations that we be never visited with those very evils or worse for a just punishment thereof to prevent which the Contrivers and Executors of it took so irregular and unlawful a course I mean that the violent revengefulness of some Spirits among us may not re-produce such woful Tragedies as God hath mercifully delivered us from once and again within a few years last past and perpetually honour his just and rightful Successor our present Soveraign with the most Noble and Glorious Title of the Allayer of our mutual heats and animosities the Moderator of all our Differences and the Reconciler of us each to other even whether we will or no by the Interposition of his Royal Authority Let 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be his perpetual Motto and the inviolable Observation of all his Acts of Pardon and Oblivion be his Memorial and Honourable Remembrance to all Generations and may your Lordships Counsels be perpetually assistant to Him as I doubt not but they will in all things of that Tendency which will not only preserve your Name in that Repute which you have hitherto maintained amongst all pious and sober persons but render you a Councellor in whom there will be safety to the Person and Throne of his Sacred Majesty and make good the Character which amongst other your Honourers have been given of your Lordships Wisdom and Temper by Right Honourable Your Lordships most Humble and Affectionate Servant SIMON FORD 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR The Loyal Subjects Indignation FOR HIS Royal Sovereign's Decollation c. 2 SAM 1. 14. And David said unto him How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lords Anointed THis Chapter contains in it a relation of certain passages The Introduction to the Text. An Amalckites Narrative of the death of Saul concerning the death of King Saul which whether true or false seeing we must take them upon the credit of a fugitive souldier can hardly be put out of question though we as probably David to whom it was made did will at present suppose them true and the carriage of David thereupon The whole story whereof seems to be recorded of purpose for the vindication of the holy man from the unjust imputation of designing and conspiring to take away his Sovereigns life by the defensive Arms which he had formerly born against him And three particulars are therein mentioned as evidences of his innocence 1. His unfeigned grief for that lamentable death which by the relators story he understood had befallen him v. 11 12. 2. His indignation against and justice upon the person who professed he was the instrument to hasten it v. 13 to 17. 3. His pious endeavour to perpetuate the memory of his deceased Sovereign in a mournfull Ditty composed by himself and appointed in succeeding Ages to be sung in a solemn manner by the children of Judah To which purpose he caused it to be recorded in a book kept as it seems by Josh 10. 13. of purpose to preserve the memorials of eminent men called the book of Jasher or the Upright and gave it in remembrance of the weapons of warre which it appears by 1 Sam. 31. 3. were most fatall in that battel wherein Saul received his foyl and first wound the title of Kesheth or the Bow of which you have the particular account from v. 17. to the end My Text comes under the second of these mentioned particulars and is the verse wherein David expresseth his deep resentment of the related fact with a just horrour and indignation David said to him How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thy hand to destroy the Lords anointed Which words because