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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45554	A loud call to great mourning in a sermon preached on the 30th of January 1661, being the anniversary fast for the execrable murther of our Late Soveraign Lord King Charles the First, of Glorious Memory, before the Honourable Knights, citizens, & burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament, in the parish-church of Saint Margarets Westminster / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing H730; ESTC R9601	30,912	58

of the Church of Smirna Be thou faithfull to the death and I will give thee a Crown of life And surely though I may justly take up the words of the son of Syrack concerning Iosiah in reference to King Charles his eminent goodnesse The remembrance of Charles the First is like the Composition of the perfume that is made by the Art of the Apothecary it is sweet as honey in all mouths and as musick to a banquet of wine yet with all the remembrance of his death by which we were bereaved of so excellent a Prince cannot but be bitter as gall and wormwood and would be accompanied with sighs and groans So much the rather when we sadly take notice what I shall by and by enforce that this good King like Iosiah suffered for the badnesse of his people and withal duly consider what dismal miseries upon the people followed the death of this good King When Augustus dyed saith the Historian Orbis ruinam timueramus we feared the ruine of the world was at hand What fears of utter ruine to come upon City Countrey Kingdom did possesse our spirits when our Caesar was taken from us That malice which deprived us of him debarred us of the rightful Heir so that for many years there was no King in Israel The basest of the people were instead both of our Princes our Priests now a single and then a many-headed monster usurped the rule over us during whose Tyrrany what heresies and blasphemies what confusions and distractions what decimations of the Laity Silencing of the Clergy murthering of both slavery and bondage upon all so that we were no better than captives in our own Land Who can lay these things to heart and not wish with the Prophet Ieremy Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slaughter of the Father and ruine of the daughter of my people What as on this day thirteen years and for a long time after was only done apart and in the closets whispering our sighs to Heaven let us this day do together and openly pour out our lamentations before God and man nor let the distance of time abate our sense of that grievous blow which was then given yea let it be mournfully remembred to all Generations and that not only with tears of commiseration for the sad loss but chiefly of compunction for the great sin which is the other branch of the Application 2. As there was to be a great mourning in Ierusalem for the Crucifixion of Christ so let there be a mourning this day in the Cities of London and Westminster yea throughout the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland for the Decollation of King Charles the First I would not in this be misconstrued as if I went about to equalize the sufferings of my Soveraigne with those of my Saviour far be it from me could those glorified Saints know what was done here below as I am sure the blessed Virgin Mary would be enraged against the Papists for attributing as it were to the mothers milk what only belong to the sons blood so I doubt not but that blessed Martyr Charles would be incensed against any who should name his death the same day with his Saviours as if there were any comparison between the value of the one and the other And as I do not equalize the blood of my Soveraigne with my Saviours so neither the guilt of his murtherers with theirs who put Christ to death But yet I hope without offence we may take notice how near a resemblance there was and how as in some respects the guilt of the one was far greater so in some the charge lyeth heavier against the other To which end be pleased to observe 1. In putting Christ to death they put to death an innocent man they did so in cutting of Charles True here was a disparity Christ was perfectly innocent from all kind of sin whatsoever so was not he nor any other son of Adam yet thus far a congruity that as there was no just cause for the Crucifying of Christ so neither for Beheading him Indeed his impudent enemies drew up a charge against him so did the Iews against Christ but that as full of falshood as malice They charge him with raising a war against the Parliament how justly let the date of the Commissions on both sides decide it is his own Appeale and that not long before his death They accuse him for being a Traytor to his people which was so far from being true that it was impossible since he never received any trust from them I cannot here passe by that which was very remarkable that even those who raised the war against him voted his concessions at the Isle of Wight to be so far satisfactory as that they were a just ground for a peace notwithstanding which the Rebels Army proceeded to compass his death and yet I doubt not but some of the Centurions beholding his behaviour at his death said within themselves certainly this was a righteous man 2. In putting Christ to death they crucifie a King so the Magi affirm where is he that is born King simulnatus simul Caesar he was a King by birth So was he who was on this day murthered Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords annointed and be guiltlesse was Davids Question and justly nay will you hear one of their own putting the Question Who did ever hear of any King put to death for any crime never indeed till in this monstrous age the greatnesse of his Person being in worth above any crime as civil The truth is Kings are Gods Vicegerants upon earth their persons inviolable and their actions unquestionable yet these Miscreants lay violent hands upon the Lords annointed Indeed here the disparity is vast since he whom the Iews pierced was not only a King but a God God Man and in respect of his Deity the eternal Son of God equal with the Father But still in this a congruity that as Christ in respect of his humanity was by descent from his Parents Heir to the Crown of Iudah So was Charles to this of England and consequently in this the parallel is good that the crime in both was the murder of an innocent King 3. The murther of the Messiah was not done in a corner but openly not sodainly but deliberately and that in a formal way of arraigning accusing condemning and executing was it not so here they would not strangle him in his Chamber he was not slain in heat of blood but he is brought with premeditation to the Bar as a Malefactor a charge is drawn up against him a sentence passed upon him with deliberation his enemies adding to use his own words the mockery of justice to the cruelty of malice and at length in the presence of his people at the Gate of his Pallace he is triumphantly Executed 4. Christ