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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51826	A solemn humiliation for the murder of K. Charles I with some remarks on those popular mistakes, concerning popery, zeal, and the extent of subjection, which had a fatal influence in our civil wars.	Manningham, Thomas, 1651?-1722.	1686 (1686)	Wing M509; ESTC R8082	9,825	33

such a provocation as this comes to reckon with a Kingdom who can escape the terrible Visitation who can abide the Almighty Wrath They were but few in comparison with the whole Body of the Jewish Nation that were immediately concerned in putting our Blessed Saviour to death they were not many perhaps onely a mercenary Rabble who petitioned for his Crucifixion and undertook to answer all the Appeales of his Bloud at their own and their Childrens peril Yet when the time of their Visitation came which was not till Forty years after the killing of their King when perhaps most of his Murderers were dead and rotten every Age Sex and Family that were in Jerusalem shared alike in the common Calamity the Famine the Pestilence and the Swords of the Romans had no commission to distinguish When the Divine Vengeance for the Bloud of our Martyr will more signally break out we know not and we beseech the infinite Mercy it may never Our Forty years have not yet expired neither have the Romans as yet prevailed against us or the Inundation of Sects overwhelmed us How soon they may he alone can tell who alone can hinder we have no better security left us than strong Cries deep Repentance passionate Deprecations O remember not against us former iniquities But are we fit persons to intercede are we fit to stand in the gap to turn away the anger of the Lord and to stop the destroying Angel Do not our continued provocations our daily repeated personal sins call for new Indignation on us What attonement therefore can we make or wherewithal shall we come before the Lord Can Intemperance satisfie for Hypocrisie or Prophaness expiate for Murder Is Sedition and Rebellion a repenting for the barbarous outrages of a Civil War or of this days Crime Will Oaths and Curses and Blasphemies drown the noise of our crying Sins Or will the contempt of the Bloud of Christ be a propitiation for the Bloud of the Martyr When our late Gracious Soveraign and the Royal Line were restored by an extraordinary Providence by a secret and wonderful hand was our gratitude returned to God with that sobriety of Christian Joy as became a redeemed people Or were the unquiet Zelots of our Land less obstinate in their Opinions more forward to remit their Scruples or more modest in their Demands And have we not already undergone some remarkable instances of Gods displeasure for the Murder of our King and the Prophanation of his restoring Mercy such as a Forreign War a raging Pestilence a dreadful Fire and an actual Rebellion As the Jews were wont to say that in every Calamity that befel them there was an ounce of the Golden Calf in it of that shameful and Idolatrous revolt so may we also affirm that in every Judgment that o'retakes us there is an ounce of the Bloud of the Martyr in it or else why are we like that stubborn Generation such a forlorn people as to be Hardned under every Calamity and to turn our most signal Mercies into the greatest Provocations Why are we continually murmuring often Plotting sometimes Rebelling Why do we shew so little remorse for our present for our former Iniquities for the Iniquities of this day The Lord does often defer and put off the extremity of Temporal Judgments to see if the next Generation will amend but if they go on in the same ways if they follow their Fathers steps imitate their bad Examples and revive their sins then he executes his Vengeance for both together and most justly punishes a people for Offences committed many years ago because they renew them because they act them over again against greater conviction and with more obstinacy and malice as all must do who continue Schismatical in the Church or Factious in the State after so great a light and knowledge of Truth and Duty and having had so long a time so merciful a season to understand and to amend their Errours There were three things that were more especially active and fatal in our late Distractions concerning which some did wilfully mistake though others were undoubtedly deluded They were Popery Zeal and the extent of Subjection The notions of these were strangely disguised both in mens Writings and Apprehensions the effects of these most violent and impious But since our Restoration and settlement since mens Spirits have been in some disposition and capacity to receive a rational instruction all these things have been so plainly declared according to their true nature so fully stated as to their measure and extent so frequently inculcated as to their just and sober use that there is left no further pretence for Ignorance or Mistake that the Seditious have now no cloak for their Rebellion For First in respect to Popery Men have been seriously advised not to measure the Protestant Religion by any peevish opposition to the Papists nor to account every thing Popery that is practised in the Church of Rome but to allow of such a judicious distinction between them as Wise men may know what to Write for and good men may know what to Die for Men have been often told that our Reformation was no new Religion but onely a necessary and discreet removal of some intolerable corruptions and an establishing of the old Christianity taught us plainly in the Scriptures and interpreted where dubious by the ancient Fathers They have been told that in the Reforming of this Church all things were acted not by way of Anabaptistical Tumult and Rebellion not out of a spirit of contradiction and furious Zeal but by the consultation and authority of the lawful Powers and according to the just Liberties of a National Church What fiery turbulency did men shew against the moderate and perpetual Episcopacy of this Land as if it had been the principal abomination of Antichrist And yet the voting down of that so dreaded Order was received with a Triumph at Rome What Outcries were there made and with what confidence was it asserted that the chief of our Bishops and Clergy were driving on a Popish Interest when it was manifest that they were the greatest nay the onely true Champions against it As for some of the more eminent of them when they could no longer remain with any safety in this Kingdom where-ever they travelled they gallantly maintained the fight against the Subtleties and Corruptions of that Church and like Hannibal when he was banished from Carthage where-e're they came they justly raised up Enemies to the Romans Thus the renowned Brumhall Cosins and Morley c. carried the War into the Enemies Country were victorious abroad though contemned at home defended our Church against the strength and power of Rome whilst their Adversaries went destroying of all Christianity here by contending with the shadow of Errour by mistaking the Controversie by shewing great violence little Learning no Arguments By cherishing those Distractions both in Church and State which gave the greatest blow to the Protestant Cause and the surest