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A33098	A sermon preached at Edinburgh, in the East-Church of St. Giles, upon the 30th of January, 1689 being the anniversary of the martyrdome of King Charles the first / by James Canaries ...	Canaries, James.	1689 (1689)	Wing C423; ESTC R20246	68,911	94

refulgent Marks of their long'd for Deliverer Hence it is manifest that Our Saviour would have had but to lay hold on those Importunat Invitations wherewith he was dayly throng'd for mounting the Throne of his Royal Ancestor David And yet we know that he stole away from the Multitude that would have made him King John 6. vers 15. And as solicitously declin'd the Highest Elevation among Men as others Court and Fight for it Nay as he himself was preparing immortal Crowns of Righteousness for all those that should walk in those Paths he had so clearly chalked out unto them Besides his interest among the People was such that not only the Priests at several times durst not set upon him for fear of them but even when he was in their Clutches when Pilat had him at his Mercy he was in a capacity of getting himself rescued and that by ordinary means If my kingdom were of this World said he then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews Joh. 18. vers 36. So that if he had thought it lawful for Subjects either to shake off their Governours or to resist them when they fall to oppress them he had never cast such a Copy to his Followers who could not but be presum'd not to follow the Actions of their Master as much as his Words Yea further He not only would not suffer St. Peter to defend him in an hostile manner but also up-braided the rashness of his undertaking with this smart rebuke Put up thy sword into his place for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword Mat. 26. vers 52. And thus he did at once condemn the Doctrine of its being lawful for Subjects to resist the Supreme Authority even when they suffer the most unjustly by it and also furnisht us with the most eminent Instance of non-resistance that the violentest Attack could give us occasion for But however much this has been urged I would fain know whether or not our Saviour design'd by such an Example to entrench upon the Right of the Subject Yet to answer by piece-meal I say to his refusing to be King That then Jacobs Prophecy was fulfilled and the Scepter was departed from Judah because Shilo was come And so that Constitution which was appointed by God to be peculiar to that People was then expir'd And the Romans were become their lawful Governours not only by their right of Conquest but even by their own Sollicitation of the Protection of their Power as Josephus reports Unless therefore it could be made out that the Romans were then usurping over them by violating the fundamental Constitution of their new Government our Saviour acted but conformably to the Principles I have laid down about Subjection neither would he have yielded to the desire of the People to be their King without overturning those Measures and Rules of Government which were then established both by the Law of Nature and of Nations Yet moreover it was totally inconsistent with our Saviours design to have ever assum'd any other Principality to himself but what tender'd him to be the Prince of our Peace with God his Father and the Captain of Eternal Life and Salvation unto us And when he only departed alone into the Mountain to escape the design of making him King without reproving it of injustice as wronging the rightful Soveraign there are thoughts suggested thereby to us of a far different nature from those in behalf of which such a Passage is alledged For he who taught openly in the Temple those things that were most distasteful to the Jews cannot reasonably be construed to have dar'd in the Mountain to have expos'd such a wicked Error as the People then shew they entertain'd It seems then that it was sufficient to his Purpose to let them understand that whomever they designd to make their King 't is like because of the Oppressions they were lying under he was not the Person that could embrace it his Errand to this World being only to dispose them for a Kingdom in that which is to come Then as to our Saviours Behaviour in the Presence of and Answer to Pilate He both shew he was not to go over the limites of that Private Station he had confin'd himself unto and that he had not set up for any Temporal Monarchy his Kingdom being a Spiritual one that involved quite other Rights than those that were repugnant to the Subjection he as a Member of the Common-wealth was oblig'd to pay Wherefore tho nothing could have been more barbarous and unjust than was the Treatment he met with first from his Accusers the Jews and then from the Governour Pilate yet in the capacity of a single Subject he reckoned it unlawful to gainstand such an act of Oppression as extended not immediatly in its own nature to endanger the Common-wealth but only fell heavily upon his individual concernment But there is something shrewdly imported in these words then would my Servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews For it were blasphemous to think that our Saviour under any kind of Supposition about himself would have given his Verdict to what in it self was unjust and unwarrantable And as to the Reprimand St. Peter got it is palpable that our Saviour only intended by it to show that altho the Sword was lawful against the Assaults of privat Invaders since he had given Commission even to barter ones Garment for one upon that account Yet no private Quarrel was sufficient ground for drawing it against the publick and lawful Authority and that neither He himself nor his Doctrine however sacred both were was to be defended against Persecution by such carnal Means It is also observable that the Verse 54 But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be denotes that there was something particular in that whole Affair relating to his Person and that in a certain Subordination to the End why he took our Nature upon him he was necessitated to submit to the Governing Power that then was in the Nation notwithstanding it was infinitely abus'd in its management toward him It cannot indeed be denyed but that St. Peter in his first Epistle Chap. 2. Verse 21. tells us that one end of his suffering was for our Imitation having says he suffered for us to leave us an example that we should follow his steps But then our Sufferings must resemble the Motives and Limitations of his And it were very odd to Dream unless it were by Dreaming indeed that the Copy ought to contain more than was in the Original But where our Saviours Doctrine and Example obliges us to suffer will more fully appear in the ensuing fourth Part of this Discourse And now I am naturally brought to it Namely I am to take notice of those Errours that most commonly ●pp●s● themselves to our Christian Doctrine about Subjection and which do little better than entirely evacuate the whole

such And whatever is of such a Consequence as these things are use still to be no less publick in their respective places than are the Churches and Crosses that are mostly so in them the great danger of controverting them rendering them to be so And the fear of the Inquisition had made me learn so much when I was at Rome tho nothing else had done it Wherefore tho the Credit of Travellers is sometimes wont not to be too much lean'd upon yet it must have sunk to a very low Character if what they say shall be disbeliev'd merely because they say it And my Assertion neither needed to nor did actually depend upon my Testimony There are Histories and Bulls enough extant to clear the business Neither is the Holy League nor the Gunpowder Plot forgot not to speak of so many horrid Massacies as the Popes Fingers were not clean of And we are not ignorant how the present Pope has resented the late Decisions that were made against him by the Clergy of France at that Temporal Anti-Popes its Kings Command besides what has been Father Maimbourgs case So that it must be desperata causa Papatus as indeed it is however if this Affair can make no other Shift for it self but to set up upon such a down-right brazen Face as the denyal of the Matter of Fact will amount to I shall now only as humbly as earnestly recommend to all of the Church of Rome that are especially Persons of any Quality for perhaps their Clergy will think themselves obliged by what I have advanced to prove the Pope Infallible according to the Principles of the Popish Religion seriously to consider upon what Bottom they have settled themselves I am very much perswaded that many of them have naturally so much Honour and such a generous Sense of things that they would not like their Religion the better that it obliges them to such rebellious such destructive Principles and unless they be Atheists which God forbid I should think any of them is to Practices too consonant unto these If they will but impartially lay to Heart what I have said I doubt not but they will find that their Pope is as absolute and illimited a Monarch in Religion as ever was any Grand Signior in Turkey And I have much better thoughts of them than to imagine that they look upon themselves as mere Arbitrary Slaves to the Pope as to their Religion But the great mischief of most mens Errours proceeds from their not pondering sufficiently what Consequences the general and confus'd Principles they entertain are originally the Source of But what-ever Papists have done or may do Would to God that many who have call'd themselves Protestants had not writ too much and too frequently after their Copy And would to God that none of these for the like Principles could be charged for being the Executioners of the Martyrdom of this Day And so having fully discust all that chiefly concerns this famous Text I thought most suitable to be pitcht upon on such an occasion my next work is to speak to the Text of the Day But first I must tell you that I doubt not but my Discourse hitherto will by some be thought to be like a Quarter-Staff that strikes at both ends and by others to be exact Trimming all out to wit as they stand who look upon it But that has ever been and ever will be the Fate of all those Truths that happen to be owned first after they were prevail'd over by those Errours that were of the utmost contrary Extreams And I thank God I have endeavoured as much as I could to exercise my self as to all I have said in a Conscience void of offence both toward God and toward all men Neither have I suffered my self to fall under any byass or prejudice from the Writings of other men having only made use of the Great Doctor Sherlocks Book of the Case of Resistance to the Compiling this Discourse and never having in all my life read any of those Authors that are commonly said to be of the Republican Stamp So that the only Guide I have followed is the Holy Scriptures together with those Suggestions of my own Reason that needed little or no pains to force them out All the favour then that I crave is that none would make any Application of the least Syllable I have spoke but in so far as I have done so my self For I have uttered absolute Verities absolutely without designing to touch any of those Persons that may be concerned in them but in as much as the Tenor of my Discourse did oblige me to it And if Intention comes to be quarrelled I cannot see how others can better judge of mine than my self And having thus a little obviated those Calumnies that none can promise he shall be secure from I proceed in my Design But now a Subject offers it self to me that requires such equal and suitable advantages as I dare not presume to think I am sufficient for handling it with Now I should lay forth the Perfections of a Man that Heaven had resolved should be more than a King a Martyr both for his Religion and his Countrey too Now it lyes upon me to expose the greatest Villany and Wickedness as well in its Formalities as in its Substance that ever the Sun beheld For its Creators Sufferings made it shrink in its Head and here it had also done it but that there was such a distinction to be made by it when not the God of Nature but the best King in the World was Butchered by the bloody hands of impious Men or rather incarnate Furies And therefore now I must draw a Curtain over that which I have not skill enough to adorn with the liveliest with the most deserved Colours And it is only EIKON BAZILIKH that is most proper to make us understand both what that King was and how barbarously he was treated by his ungrateful Subjects Wherefore I shall only in a few words put you in mind that in King Charles the First 's case the Constitution of our Government was infinitly broke on the Subjects side And that it was they which in the most unjust manner that was possible did Invade the Rights and Royalties of that King and not He that did so with theirs For so many of both Nations have already been so much before hand with me as to this point that for me to go particularly to task with it were to suppose we had all been sleeping these 50 years bygone And besides the unanimous Laws both of Scotland and of England have not left us the power of doubting what the nature of that Rebellion was Neither can I perswad my self that there is any hearing me who will not readily assent to the justness of them I take this then for a thing so universally granted by all the World that it were as much to bewray my self as to encroach upon others should I any further attempt to