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Cain's mark and murder, K. Charls the I his martyrdom delivered in a sermon on January the thirtieth / by David Jenner, B.D. ...
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Jenner, David, d. 1691.
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proved to be notoriously wicked and enormous in their Actions and Conversations they then ought to undergo the Churches Censure in order to their Amendment And therefore as soon as Cain's Murther is Revealed and proved God out of Hatred and Indignation to that his Sin turns him out of his Favor and Churches Communion and all because Virtue and Vice Light and Darkness God and Belial may not cohabit and dwell together All care then is to be used for the preserving Gods Church pure and spotless without Wrinckle or Blemish For as God Almighty at the Judgment Day will make a Separation between the Sheep and the Goats So does he Authorize his Bishops Pastors and Governors of the Church Militant here upon Earth to Separate the Notoriously Bad from the Eminently Good As for Hypocrites and such Wicked Men whose Naughtiness cannot be discovered nor proved they being Masked over with an outward Profession and Form of Religion and so lying undiscovered must be tolerated in the Church for they are the Tares which will grow up with the wheat But as for all Cain's who are openly wicked whose Villanies may be read in their Fore-heads they are not to be permitted to enjoy so transcendent a Priviledge as Church Fellowship but ought to be presented in due Course of Law Secondly From hence we may be informed of the many Dangers Ghostly and Bodily all Excommunicated Persons are exposed unto Quantis in periculis versentur illi quà m expositi sint Satanae omnibus Malis Qui extra Ecclesiam sunt constituti c. A Wicked Man Excommunicated like Cain is from under the Protection and guard of Divine Providence he is exposed to Mens Malice to the Beasts cruelty and lies open to all the fiery Darts of Satans Temptations His Sin and Guilt subjects him to the vengeance and viols of Gods wrath and he may well fear that every Creature will take up Arms against him and become the Executioner of Gods Anger and so pay unto him the Wages of his sin which is Death and that which is worst of all he being Excommunicated Gods Church and Favor is given up unto a Reprobate Mind and unto all manner of Profaness as was Cain and his whole Generation But Secondly this Mark set on Cain was not only for a punishment to him as it denoted his rejectment and Excommunication out of Gods Church and Favor but also in that it was a perpetual Brand and Mark of Infamy and Ignominy set upon him on purpose to discover unto all Persons his foul fact his horrid Murther and Guilt Yea briefly it was as the Hand-writing on the wall or as the Finger of God Pointing out and declaring to the whole world This (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Cbrys Ho 19. in Gen 3. This is the Murtherer This is that cursed Cain who so maliciously slew his pious and innocent Brother Abel As this Mark of Cain's was for his punishment so likewise was it for a special Token and Sign of Gods clemency and Mercy towards him and that first in as much as it was a Mark of Preservation St. Chryl Tom. 3. in Psal 144. p. 5.20 c. and the assurance of a Long Life God might in his rigor and Justice have cut him off in the very Act of Sin but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unfathomable is the depth of Gods love unconceivable is the immensity of his Clemency unsearchable are the Riches of his Mercies towards the Sons of Apostolized Man he saves a live when he might justly have kill'd and suffers them to tread upon his Earth whose heavy load of guilt and sin might well have pressed and sunked them down to the centre of it Such is the Superlativeness of Gods Benignity such are the yearnings of his Bowels of Compassion towards Guilty-Cain as that he does not only here in the Text Reprieve him from the sudden Execution of the Sentence of a speedy Death according to the Tenor of the Law made against Murther but bestowed also Long life upon him which was a Mercy so great as that 't is beyond conception and expression And that Cain lived long as the premises speak is an universal Tradition and the Sacred Scriptures those infallible Oracles of Truth assure us that he lived to see his Childrens Children it was a general opinion among the Jews that Cain lived unto the Seventh Generation to this purpose they read the words immediatly before our Text. Whosoever Slayeth Cain Vengeance shall be taken on him Seven-fold c. The Hebrews read them thus Whosoever Slayeth Cain at the Seventh Generation Vengeance shall take hold on him And thus they make the words prophetical of Cain's living unto the Seventh Generation and of his being Kill'd in that Generation and who ever should then Kill him should be severely punished The same Tradition makes Lamech to be Author of Cain's Death For whilest he was lying solitary in the Woods upon the Ground Lamech an Hunter mistaking him for a wild Beast Shot and killed him for which Fact Lamech's two Wives Adah and Zillah v. 23. of this Chapter would no longer live with him but endeavored a Divorcement from him he being a Murtherer Wherefore Lamech makes his just defence and vindicates himself and takes off their Accusation of Wilful Murther alledging that he slew the Man Cain against his will unawares otherwise he had not done it and therefore if God did permit Cain a willful and malicious Murtherer to live so long as to the Seventh Generation he did not question but God would suffer Lamech who had at the worst committed only Man-slaughter unawares by mere casualty to live not only unto seven but also unto Seven times seven Generations that is unto a far greater number of years then did Cain St. Chrysostome is of opinion that Lamech was a very good and just man St. Chrysost in Gen. 4. Hem. 10. and that because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. a good man is always the first accuser of himself For such an one was Lamech who as soon as ever he had accidentally Kill'd a man does not conceal it as did Cain but ingenuously Confesseth it and therefore if Cain sound mercy much more Lamech But to conclude this particular we will no longer traverse the above mentioned Tradition nor dispute its verity or falsity only this we are assured of scil That Cain lived long after the Commission of his detestable Fact and the Signature on his Fore-head was a confirmation and sealing of the lease of a Long Life to him all which was an undenyable Argument of Gods Goodness and Mercy towards him 2. This Mark was a Token of great Mercy in that God thereby did declare he would not only give Cain a longer time to live in but also a longer time to repent in For by thus delaying his Execution God primarily aimed at Teshuvah his sincere Repentance and conversion expecting that now he should redeem time expiate and wash out as much
Cain's Mark AND MURDER K. Charls the I. HIS MARTYRDOM Delivered in A SERMON ON January the Thirtieth BY David Jenner B. D. Prebendary of Sarum LONDON Printed by J. R. for John Williams at the Sign of the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1681. To the Honourable MARMADUKE DARCY Brother to the Right Honourable COGNIERS DARCY Lord DARCY and MENIL SIR THe following Discourse being Clad in a mean Country Dress and wanting the usual Ornaments of this Learned Age High Strains of Oratory and Eloquence and the brave Flourishes of Rhetorick was never by me thought Worthy of an Imprimatur But such has been the Importunity of some and the Arguments of others pretending the Publication thereof may tend to the Publick good that is to the Confirmation of some in their Loyalty and to the Reducing of others from their Disobedience which indeed ought to be the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only Design of all our Endeavors as that at last it has free leave to Walk abroad and if it meets with any that are disaffected to the Present Government I only request They would first Candidly peruse it before they Censoriously Condemn it As for all others I doubt not but their Charity will east a Veil over all its Errata's And as for the reason of its Dedication unto your Honour it is double First Your High and Vndeserved Favours bestowed upon my self Secondly Your Eminent and Constant Loyalty not only to His Present but also to His Late Majesty of Ever Blessed Memory For it is well known that you did not only make it your Duty but your Delight which is your Glory to Serve His Late Majesty in the Extremity of His Misfortunes And you were ever found in the very Front among those many Heroes and Worthies which Fought and Suffered for Him And truly were I not assured that your Modesty had rather your own Works than my Pen should express your High and Great Merits I could easily enlarge this short Epistle into a Voâ—â—me And willingly Expatiate in your due Praises for venturing your Life and Fortunes in the Service of that Glorious Martyr King CHARLES the I. Who was a Good Man in Aristotle's strictest Definition i. e. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Having in Him an happy Connexion of all the Virtues Gradu Heroico in the highest Degree And here I cannot but admire and be astonished to read that ANTONIUS TRIUMVIR a Roman Heathen should have such an High Valuation for Varro's Learning as after Semence to pardon Him and Subscribe Vivat Varro Vir Doctissimus And that the most Exemplary Piety the Vniversal Learning and the wonderful Acquirements of our Ever Blessed Soveraign CHARLES the I. should not have the least Influence upon the Minds of his Murtherers and should not have caused them to Retreive their own Vnjust Sentence of Death which they most Barbarously had passed upon him nor at last prevail with them to Subscribe Vivat Rex Vir Doctissimus Pientissimus But the All-wise God designed a better Life and a more Glorious Kingdom for His Majesty and therefore he permitted them to open the Cage and Tabernacle of his Body that so his Immortal Soul might the sooner take Wing and fly up unto the higher Regions of endless happiness and there take Possession of that Incorruptible Crown of Glory which the Holy JESUS who was gon before had prepared for Him Vnto which place of Eternal Bliss that your Honour and all those who have faithfully served their Prince and Country May in due time arrive shall be the constant and daily Prayer of him who is Noble Sir Your Most Humble Servant DAVID JENNER Cain's Mark Genesis 4.15 The Lord set a Mark upon Cain c. January the Thirtieth THE Day and the Text are I hope pertinently though I am sure unhappily met together They making a sad and lamentable Report of a double Murder The one committed upon the Person of Innocent Abel the other upon the Sacred Majesty of King Charles the First of ever happy Memory And you have the Authors of both deservedly Marked and Branded for the same The one by the Hand of Justice as in the Day The other by God himself as in the Text. The Lord set a Mark upon Cain c. For Methods sake we shall begin First with the Text and then Conclude with the Occasion and Matter of the Day As for the Text The Lord set a Mark upon Cain c. It is necessary we Inquire First Into the Occasion of these Words Secondly What was this Mark Thirdly What should be the End and purpose of it Lastly The Improvement of the whole 1. As to the Occasion of these Words Vid. St. Aug. civ Del. l. 15. c. 7 8. It was Cain's Barbarous and Malicious Murthering of his Dearest and only Brother Abel And his just fear of Gods Vengeance attending that his Crime He was in a Panick Fear and Dread least his Fellow Creatures should become his Executioners and Revenge his Brothers Death especially seeing the chiefest if not the only provocation he had for this his unheard of Fratricide was nothing else but his own inveterate emulation and Serpentine Hatred arising only from Gods Approbation of his Brothers Offering rather than of his For God was infinitely better pleased with Abels Oblation being accompanyed with honest simplicity and sincere Heartedness than with Cain's notwithstanding all his pompous shows and specious pretences of deep Devotion And here by the way we cannot but take notice how much Eva was deceived and disappointed in her Expectations a sufficient Argument of Humane Frailty For after her Fall God having blessed the Conception of her Womb and having Enriched her with a Son She presently Jonas-like sondly sets her heart and affections upon him and Names this her First-born 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cain that is Possession and Fullness But her Second Son She calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Abel that is Vanity and Unprofitableness By which diversity of Names evidently appears a diversity of affection in the Mother and it shews us the preposterous Love of lapsed Mankind as also the shallowness of our Judgments in that we oftimes highly esteem and eagerly value that most which in truth is worst and make that the object of our choice which God refuseth and commonly place our joy and Contentment in that which proves our greatest Cross and occasion of Sorrow Further this minds us of another Truth to wit that innocent good Men in this World many times even like Christ and Abel from their Minority are had in less regard Reputation and esteem then the Wicked and Debauched Bravado's of the Age. Thus we find impartial Aristides Banished for his Virtues Aemil. Prob. vid. Pious Socrates (a) Aelian Hist l. 2. c. 13. p. 33.35 Martyred for his Religion whilest Atheistical and Scoffing Aristophanes has the Eugè and Applause of the People Thus an Esau is preferred before a Jacob by his Indulgent Father