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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63886	A sermon preached before the King on the 30th of January, 1684/5 being the fast for the martyrdom of King Charles the first of blessed memory / by Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, and Almoner to His Majesty.	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1685 (1685)	Wing T3287; ESTC R3928	11,974	33

with the Blood of Christ upon whom we intend and ought to bring this fearful Guilt of Royal Christian Bloodshed Vpon none but Those that in a higher or lower Degree in a greater or less proportion have brought it upon themselves And who are those which must be my third Consideration 3. Since Actions full of Horror and Astonishment if they are long deliberated and done with Form as was the Deed of this day are never done without that which the Stoics call a Prolepsis that is a deep and firm persuasion of mind that such Actions are both lawful and necessary to be done they that establish the Principle by which the minds of men are set and fixt on Such Actions must be Responsible for the next immediate visible and unavoidable consequence of their own Principle When the Principle is once Rivetted in the heart there is nothing so desperate or so damnable but men will go through it without fear Women among the Barbarians will ascend the Funeral Piles of their dead Husbands and smile as they give their own Bodies to be burnt to Ashes Yea very Children have suffer'd Torments not only patiently but joyfully for a false Religion strongly impress't upon them instead of the true one Whoever therefore confirm and harden others in King-killing Principles must bear a share in the Guilt though not they but others shed the Blood of Kings because such Principles strike at all Kings for they strike at the Kingly Office it self and they do it once for all As the Son of Zerviah offer'd to Smite King Saul and so as he should not need to Smite him a second time Now upon this Supposition as I shall shew anon that some who came into the World since our present Gracious Soveraign began to Reign have brought upon themselves the blood of his Royal Father by defending the Regicide so others that liv'd some Ages before that dismal Period of time did as it were antedate the Guilt by introducing odious Presidents or laying down wicked Premisses long ago from whence these late Great Offenders follow'd their footsteps or drew their abhorred Conclusions Out of the many Instances of this kind which I could easily produce I shall mention but a very few against two Parties Those of the one Party do pass in the Church of Rome for true Catholics Those of the other Party would fain pass among Vs for the true Protestants Both Parties are as opposite each to the other as they are to Vs and the Truth yet both of them agreed in the main Design to Confound Monarchy Pope Zachary was I think the first who pretended to exercise a power of Absolving Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance whereupon a King of France Childeric the Third was depos'd as unfit for Government the ancient Royal Family was laid aside till it was at last extinguisht the Crown of France was set on another Head and settled on another Family Now I may truly say That Bishop of Rome laid a Foundation for many a following Rebellion even That Rebellion arising so long after from the Holy League And Gregory the Seventh the first who avow'd openly that pestilent Heresy call'd by his Name the Hildebrandian Heresy of the Deposing and if need were the King-killing-power made way for the Clements the Ravillacs and the Powder-Traytors And T. Aquin. himself for all he is Sainted and stands as the Pillar of their Schools yet deliver'd this for good School-Divinity That as soon as any Prince is denounc'd Excommunicate for Apostacy from the Faith his Subjects are ipso facto free from his Dominion over them and from the Oath of Fidelity by which they were bound to him I must needs say whoever they are that bring such Principles as these for Christian Doctrine into the Church they attempt to give the State and the Kingly Office it self a mortal wound They do their best to set up the Court of Rome as a standing High-Court of Justice over all Kings And then for the other Party Knox and Buchanan with the rest of those old Leaders to Rebellion as well as Milton and several later Patrons of the Good Old Cause they shall one day be star'd in the face by all that pretious Blood which their Writings encourag'd others to shed so prodigally And Calvin himself is inexcusable who clearly enough discovers his ill-meaning though he thinks fit to shew it but in half-lights to disguise it with Ifs or And 's with a perhaps or it may be If there be now says he any popular Officers ordain'd to moderate the Licentiousness of Kings such as were the Ephori set up of old against the Kings of Sparta the Tribunes of the People against the Roman Consuls and the Demarchi against the Athenian Senate and with which power says he perhaps as the world now goes the Three Estates are seiz'd in each several Kingdom when they are Solemnly Assembled so far am I says he from hindring them to put restraints upon the exorbitant Power of Kings as their Office binds them that I conceive them says he rather to be guilty of a perfidious Dissimulation if they connive at Kings when they play the Tyrants or wantonly insult on the Common People in that says he they treacherously betray the Subjects Liberties This was as a certain Learned Author justly terms it a Stumbling-block of Disobedience and Rebellion cunningly laid by Calvin in the Subjects way And so it prov'd for this Doctrine was quickly improv'd into Application and Vse As the same Author tells us from another that the Commissioners from Scotland endeavor'd to justifie their proceedings before Q. Elizabeth against their unfortunate Soveraign Q. Mary by those very words of Calvin which I have repeated from whence they inferr'd That it was lawful for them to put evil Princes into Prison and also to deprive them of their Kingdoms Nor is it any great wonder after this Determination from Him who was an Oracle with them of Switzerland and Geneva That in spight of all that honest Deodati had declared against our Rebellion they afforded a friendly Reception and gave the right hand of Fellowship to some of those whom they knew to have been at the Top of that bloody Cabal which past the Sentence upon the King Indeed this Principle leads directly to the Trial of a King by his Subjects it exposes the Majesty of Princes to be made a Cruel Pageant to their People as one of our Republican Assassins is reported to have urg'd that the King whom they promis'd to make a glorious King might be array'd in his Robes and brought to the Scaffold with the Crown on his Head to shew that together with the Monarch they would cut off the Monarchy it self This Principle one of Calvin's Institutions in it 's own natural and necessary tendency would set up a High Court of the Three Estates in each Kingdom as another standing High Court of Justice over each King But to come nearer home to our own times Vpon