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A58702 Detma basilikē a sermon preached at the Kings prison in the Fleet on the 30th of January, 1681, being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I, of ever blessed memory. T. S. 1682 (1682) Wing S156; ESTC R33576 19,933 56

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England will take it they are resolv'd not to strike a stroke in their Quarrel How this Covenant obtained amongst us and how it was received in this Kingdom I shall not need to tell you Let me only say this and the truth of it That it was only made use of here as a trick of State for the R●●ner of the Church and the Extirpation of her Discipline I had like to have added the Damming of mens Souls for it was directly contrary to the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance so that he that took both Them and the Covenant must of necessity be Perjur'd and whereas they called it A Solemn League and Covenant with God I dare boldly say in the Prophets Phrase Isa 28.15 It was a Covenant with Death and an agreement with Hell But to return to the War This War was managed on His Majesties side with the greatest disadvantages imaginable for the Parliament had seized upon His own Revenues sequester'd His Friends and to keep His Subjects from serving him out of Love and Loyalty they maliciously spread abroad false and scandalous Reports of His Person Thus by the permission of God Almighty who sometimes in Judgment lets the Wicked prosper His Majesties Army by several considerable Losses being extremely reduced and weakened and Money which is the strength and sinews of War being wanting to recruit them He resolves to give over the War and betake Himself to the Scotch Army which lay then before Newark and did so having this only comfort in the world besides that of a good Conscience that the Event never states the Justice of a Cause With what killing thoughts and terrible apprehension●● do we think His Majesty threw Himself into the power of these perfideous Men of whom he himself said after they had sold him That they were just in this that they had not deceived him How lamentable was his condition when upon mature deliberation he thought it his greatest safety to trust those in whom he knew there was no Trust Immediately after his arrival there he issues out his Warrants to all the Governours of Towns and other Officers in his Army to capitulate with his Enemies make such Conditions as their circumstances would admit and surrender And certainly it could not chuse but be a very great affliction to so large and noble a Soul as that of his to think that at last so many Brave and Loyal men must leave his Service without any Reward but that of Heaven and be expos'd to the Fury of those wicked men whose very tender Mercies he knew were Cruel The News of His Majesties putting himself into the protection of the Scots you may think quickly arriv'd at the Parliament who immediately agree with them about his Price I must not say Ransom and so he is bought and sold and deliver'd into the hands of his Implacable ●nemies conducted to Holm●y and confin'd And this brings to the third Section of His Majesties Sufferings to wit During His Imprisonment which part of his affliction comes nearest the literal sense of the Text To bind your Kings in Chains I shall need to say little especially in this Audience of the pressures and difficulties of a Prison to the very meanest and most vulgar of men But that a King should be bound in Chains the Assert or of the Peoples Liberties confin'd a Sovereign Prince so Great so Good so Just Imprison'd by his own Subjects in his own Kingdom may challenge the wonder and amazement of this age and perhaps exceed the belief of some of those that are to come The boldness and malice of his Enemies was a wonder so also was His Majesties Virtue and Patience And certainly had not his Spirit been buoy'd up and wonderfully confirm'd by the sweet and comfortable Influences of God Almighty's his restraint would have deluded their last Revenge and put an end to his miserable Life before the day Immediately after his Enemies that their malice and bitterness might want no aggravation command his Guardians to retrench both the Expences of his entertainment and his Retinue The Countrey-people that flock'd thither to be cur'd of that Disease which we commonly call the King 's Evil are not admitted to his Presence but repell'd with Scorn and Reproaches But that which was the most Prodigious and Inhumane of all their Cruelties and hard usage was that as if like the Devil they had envy'd the well-fare of his Soul notwithstanding all his Sollicitations in this Extremity they refus d him the attendance of his Chaplains a greater Rigour and Barbarity than is ever used amongst Christians to the meanest Prisoners and greatest Malefactors By the first they might think to lessen the Quality of his Person By the second to diminish his Credit and Esteem among the People But by the last I know not what they could intend unless it were to hedge up his way to Heaven and if it were possible murder his Immortal Soul I will not adventure to tell you how his Majesty resented this passage I refer you to his own Book A while afterwards some mis-understanding arising between the Parliament and the Army the General sends a Party of Horse seizes his Majesties Person and carries him from one place to another till at last he is committed Prisoner to the Isle of Wight And here the Parliament send their Commissioners to Treat with him again where they find his Concessions such that they tell him they doubt not but that the Peace will suddenly be concluded and all differences between Him and his People adjusted and determined Upon their return to London the Army wherein it is probable there were many Cains and Judass's who thought their sins too great for Pardon puts for●h a Remonstrance wherein they demand That Justice may be done upon all the Actors and Contrivers of the late Civil War and particularly upon his Majesty as the Author and Beginner of that Calamity Hereupon his Majesty is committed close Prisoner his Servants dismiss'd and he himself a while after brought to Windsor and so to London with a strong Guard where the usual Respect and ceremony of the Knee is quite wav'd and omitted by most of those that are about his Person nay there were some that would scarce vouchsafe him the Hat And now to add the last complement to their Iniquity which is to Establish it by Law the House of Commons declare That by the Fundamental Laws of the Realm it is Treason in the King of England to levy War against the Parliament and Kingdom That the Legislative Power is in the People That the Commons assembled in Parliament are the Supreme Authority of the Nation That all the People of the Nation are included in the Parliament although the King and House of Peers do not consent thereunto That the King himself took Arms against the Parliament and therefore is Guilty of all the Bloud-shed in the late Civil War and that he ought to expiate the Crime with his own Bloud