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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65266	Regicidium Judaicum, or, A discourse about the Jewes crucifying Christ their king with an appendix, or supplement, upon the late murder of ovr blessed soveraigne Charles the first / delivered in a sermon at the Hague ... by Richard Watson ...	Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.	1649 (1649)	Wing W1093; ESTC R31816	23,015	28

into his closet a while take the chaire in the Court of his conscience and then passe sentence upon his King No Rebellion and Atheisme are duo magna mendacia two impes of the Devill the father of lies begot by him upon the deceitfulnesse of the heart in a mist or cloud of pretenses and shewes humanitie can not owne them for its off spring and Reason discovers them to be a bastard brood when she brings them to conscience goes about to trie them in the light Feare God and Honour the King were commands not made but reviv'd by St. Peter they had their first impresse in the first borne of Adam and in the native habit sticke as close as a worse businesse original sinne to the soules of the rest all though they often denie them in their practice The Soveraigne Majestie of God in heaven and of his Vice-gerent on earth in spight of all the rebellious Indepedent crew in the world will preserve a seate for it selfe in the acts or words or thoughts of Christian of Pagan of Jew In the heate of their rejection of Christ you see they lay hold in profession at least of a Heathen Emperour for their King Habemus Caesarem We have Caesar But let us looke a litle aswell into the actions as words of Caesars good subjects in my text and see whether they doe as they speake whether they give to Caesar the things that are Caesars and by their practicke obedience owne him for their Soveraigne I shall not need to tell you they were the sonnes of them that for a long time had the best of Kings for 't is sayd the Lord himselfe was their King and they were the worst subjects in the world How doth the Prophet Esai crie out Heare ô heavens and give eare ô earth for the Lord hath spooken I have nourished brought up children they have rebelled against me Ch. 1. How doth he preferre before them the oxe and the asse the one for knowing his owner and the other his masters crib And for such of them as should have been wiser then the rest Principes populi the very representatives of the people they were rebellious and companions of theeves Vers. 23. Their Prophets were conspiratours and their Priests violatours of the law Ezech. 22. And yet I 'le warrant you this dutifull crew had the confidence at that time to professe Grotius tells us they did it very solemnlie in their Talmud Habemus Deum We have God for our King But to let their stubborne auncestours alone Aetas parentum pejor avis tulit hos nequiores St. Steven sayth of these good men in my text that they were sclerotrácheloi ' aperíptmetoi stffienecked and uncircumcized in heart That they did pneúmati ' antipíptein we translate it resist but the word is more emphaticall and signifies to fall forward or presse against the Holie Ghost Now they that did thus on purpose with stand the rushing wind of the Spirit of God were very unlikelie to be fairlie guided by the breath in the nostrils of their King No it was their malice to Christ that made them pretend such subjection to Caesar Quem tyrannum hostem reputabant profitentur Regem ut Iesu crucisixionem obtineaent sayth Cajetan And if we looke into the historie of those times we shall finde this one people of the Iewes make more worke for the Roman Emperours and their Vice-Roys then all the rest throughout their dominions in the world No sooner came Pilate to his charge to succed Gratus the Praesident of Iurie but bringing certaine images of Caesar as others say golden bucklers to dedicate at Hierusalem all our good subjects are in an uproare and never leave bringing tumults to his doores till he translates them and his solemnitie to Caesarea Not long after he borowes but a litle of their corba their holie treasure to imploy about the making of a conduit our good people fall to their old trade petition him to lay his building aside but they humblie speake it ore gladii in the most dutifull expression of the sword In Claudius time they were such dutifull subjects that he was faine to banish them all out of Rome And in Vespasians so loyal-hearted at Hierusalem that he sent Titus his sonne to besiege them who put 110000. of them to the sword And so observant were they of the good Christian Emperour Constantines commands that to keep them in awe he was faine either to cut off their eares or stigmatize them otherwise in their bodies and so marke them for slaves that would not keep the impression of subjects in their hearts And thus have you a short essay of them their fathers their children who would sooth up Pilate so handsomelie in my text with Habemus Caesarem We have Caesar for our King There remaines now nought but the last particle of all the last of the Chiefe Priestes answer to Pilate being the Jewes final rejection of Christ Alium non habemus We have none bnt Caesar for our King The most willfull answer that ever was render'd by men pretenders to gravitie and judgement the most incongruous to Pilates demand For had Christs Kingdome entrench'd upon Caesars he that was his Provincial Substitute durst not doubtlesse at the same time owne his place and his desire to praeserve the life of him to the ruine of his Master But Pilate was well satisfied in the point by the discourse that passed between our Saviour and him and so in all likelihood were the chiefe Priestes too if their malice had not more perverted their will then ignorance blinded their understanding hereof For the Common people who are not the best masters of reason and the very worst moderatours of passion upon slender grounds to raise a tumult for their Patriots advantage to sell a litle breath for a sixpence crie Tolle Crucifige Away with him crucifie him is no great deviation of nature their earthie souls incline them to the center of profit and their servile spirits make them not onelie readie at hand to fetch and carie but mastivelike with open mouth furiouslie to assaile if commanded onelie by the eye or the fingar But for the chiefe men the Rulers of the people no lesse then the States of the Parliament of the Jewes which Maldonate sayth consisted of the chiefe Priests Elders and Scribes as it is in the 50. of Esai Not onelie to kindle a fire and compasse themselves about with the sparkes and walke in the light of their owne fire But hope to smother their guilt in the smoke For them to professe subjection to Caesar and thence to vouch their rejection of Christ for them to tell Pilate to his face that he can be no friend to Caesar unlesse he become a murderer of Christ this is very wilfullie to walke in the way of the froward wherein the Wiseman tells us are thornes and snares they can not but pricke their