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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

former times with any manner of Delight but out of pure Necessity that by seeing the Methods whereby the World was Deluded and the Throne Subverted in One Age we may learn to Beware lest we be led by the Nose and Trickt out of our Obedience and Loyalty in Another For it is a Pleasure and Pastime to some to play Pranks and to Shew how Dexterous and Artificial they can be at Cheating the unwary Populace and Hurling the World into Confusion Therefore if God in Vengeance for our Sins shall at any time Suffer our Government to Shake let us Remember Epicharmus his Rule and not be too Credulous nor be deceived with Popular Professions of Zeal and Conscience a thing which many times is Pretended just as a fine Shew is hung up upon a Sign-post only to draw in Custom When the late Unhappy Troubles were breaking out were there not Thousands of well-meaning Persons that were Impos'd upon and abused with False Notions and-Appearances As Truth came more and more to light did not many Desert that Cause which they found to be wicked and turn to the interest of the Crown Had not divers an Hand in the War who did not Foresee nor Dream that it would End with such a sad Tragedy and when the Fatal Blow was given did not the Generality of men Lament to see what a dreadful Issue things were brought to by the Subtle Designs of some and by the Rashness Easiness and Folly of others Why they are the maddest people in the World that will not be Disciplin'd into Wit nor taught to be Wary by their own Costly Experience especially when they have time to cast up their Accounts and to compare their Acquests with their Losses and have the greatest Reason to consider what Woes and Miseries did Presently and Naturally follow upon the falling of the Crown which brings me 3. To the third and last thing in my Text that woful Condition which the Prophet Lamented upon the Ruin of Their Government and which we were enthralled in upon the Subversion of ours The Crown is fallen from our Head wo unto us that we have Sinned I would intreat every Thinking man who is not in Love with Misery nor desirous to Court and Invite his own Ruin to consider Seriously whether the whole Christian World could shew another Nation which was so Miserable as this Poor Kingdom was before the Restauration of his present Majesty We drank off indeed the very Dregs of the Cup of Bitterness and which made it the Bitterer we mingled the Draught our selves We were not Forced as the Jews but Sold and that by our selves into the hands of the Babylonians This People were there own Captives Submitting to Tyrants of their own Making Purchasing their Slavery with their Bloud Contracting to be undone by Leagues Covenants Associations and other Acts and Deeds of their Own It is their Usual Fate who are given to Change that they commonly change One Government for a Worse and the quartering out of a Kingdom into a Common-wealth is but the drawing on of that Curse upon a Nation which King Solomon meant when he said that for the Transgression of a Land Many are the Princes thereof Pro. 28. 2. For as all Republicks have been originally Raised upon the Ruins of Monarchy so they who Erected them have ever Groan'd under the works of their own hands and there is not a Common-wealth in the World but may attest the Truth of that in Maximus Tyrius that Happy is that State which hath a King for its Governour We may easily see by some instances abroad that men are great Losers both as to their Spiritual and Temporal Interest by being Members of a State that is Popular and my Author hath rightly Observed of the State of the Low-Countries in particular that though they are happy in being freed from the Yoke of Popery yet having fought with the King of Spain about Two things Religion and Taxes they have so far prevailed in respect of Both that They have gotten all the Religions in Christendom and pay the greatest Taxes in the World But of all the People under Heaven This Nation most deserved to be Plagued with the Worst of Governments who would not be contented with the Best And the truth is we had Woes with a witness and were so Surfeited with Evils which Then we accounted Plagues that Wise men could not think we should ever long to be Sick with them again For whereas these things were promised us a Settlement of the Nation together with a Security for our Religion Property and Liberty let every impartial man look into the History of those Times and judge whether in every of these respects we did not receive a Curse instead of a Blessing 1. For a Setled we had a most Distracted Nation so that Rome it self that had Shifted its Government so often could not compare with this Little Island wherein there was such a Variety of Scenes We had Plague upon Plague as if our Land had been another Egypt save only in This that we could not find a Goshen in any part of our Country To day we had one form of Government and the next day another and every one a Plague nay to go on upon the Parallel not only our Waters were turn'd into Bloud but even Flies and Locusts and Lice and Frogs that croaked in the King's Chambers were the Plague Epidemical and which is worse Men were forced to Worship and Adore these Vermine and as at first they set them up so at last they bowed down before them 2. As for Religion the great Lesson which was taught us was to be Silly and Dishonest to have the Wisdom of the Dove and the Innocency of the Serpent Hence came such numerous Sects and Divisions in a short time as by the Confession of Some of That Party were never known before under that Government which they decryed as Antichristian Hence came Atheism the Daughter of That Age and the Monster of This for when Men found that the Quarrel was about Religion and saw that many Pretenders to it were Religious Cheats they were apt to Mistrust and for their Vices sake to Believe that the whole business of Religion was a Cheat too and so Mr. Hobbs was followed as a greater Apostle than St. Paul Let me add one thing more hence it came to pass that Popery hath gotten such Elbow-room among us For the Subtle Romanists easily perceived that there was no way for them to introduce their Religion into this Kingdom but by creating first such Factions and Schisms as in time would overthrow the establisht Government Therefore did Campanella the Jesuite advice the King of Spain to use this Project First to Divide De Monarch Hisp the English and then to perswade the Parliament to turn the Kingdom into a Common-wealth And in like manner Cardinal Richelieu counselled the French King To use all possible means to change the Monarchy of England into a