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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42868	Cain and Abel parallel'd with King Charles and his murderers in a sermon preached in S. Thomas Church in Salisbury, Jan. 30, 1663, being the anniversary day of the martyrdom of King Charles I of blessed memory / by Henry Glover ...	Glover, Henry, b. 1624 or 5.	1664 (1664)	Wing G889; ESTC R9147	19,902	34

God appointed it viz. to deterr others from Murder And surely God hath set a Mark upon these Murderers too enough I hope to deterr all but themselves from the like sin He hath set a Mark of infamy upon them and theirs he hath made them an astonishment to themselves and the World and which is worse he hath as I noted before set a mark upon the souls and consciences of many of them he hath seared them with an hot iron 1 Tim. 4. 2. and given them up as it is to be feared to a reprobate mind Rom. 1. 28. so they have Cains Mark upon them and in this also they share in his punishment as well as in his sin 6. Cain being condemned with his Mark upon him went out from the presence of the Lord ver 16. That is Ab Ecclesia fidelium ex●lavit saith Fagius He was banished from the Church and Ordinances of God he never frequented them more nor offered sacrifice more after he had killed his brother And being thus cast out of the Church he lost the light of Gods countenance which was so sad a part of his Curse that Cain himself complains of it ver 14. And from thy face saith he shall I be hid Gregory the great upon that passage of the Psalmist Psal 51. 11. Cast me not away from thy presence c. hath these words A facie Dei projicitur cut spies veniae post peccatum negatur He is cast out from the presence of the Lord who grows desperate after sin committed Cain was now in a desperate condition and cries out From thy face shall I be hid that is I shall never approach near thy Gracious presence more I shall be out of thy Protection and special favour So Gods hiding of his face signifieth the withdrawing of his comforts care and protection from a person Psal 13. 1. How long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever how long wilt thou hide thy face from me Gods hiding his face from a man is his forgetting of him and his forgetting of him is nothing else out his leaving him out of his protection and special favour It is the withdrawing of the light of his countenance from a man which if it be for a season is called Desertion if for ever it is Hell so that when Cain was gone out from the presence of the Lord he was as it were in Hell while he was upon Earth And this part of the Curse is eminently fulfilled upon the Regicides and their Adherents who have voluntarily pulled down Cains curse upon their own souls and by excluding and separating themselves from the Church and Communion of Gods people have gone out from the Presence of the Lord. This is remarkable that the greatest part of them never cared to come near God in his Ordinances in any part of his Publick Worship since they killed the King God indeed hid his face from Cain but these men have hid their faces from God and run out from his presence without driving which is so exemplary a Curse upon them that he that runs may read it For as Cain after he went out from the presence of the Lord was Mobilis Vagus a wandring Runnagate that could never be quiet in a place so these men after they had forsaken the Communion of our Church were never setled in any thing but ran from Errour to Errour and from Delusion to Delusion till many of them had quite cast off the profession of Christianity These were they who separated themselves sensual having not the spirit which they so much gloried in Jude 19. They went out from the presence of the Lord. 7. And lastly It is a received Opinion among the Jews that Cain running about in the Woods was killed by Lamech instead of a wild Beast in the seventh Generation and so he met with his reward at last though it Aug. Qu. ex Vet. Test qu 6. were long first I know S. Augustine denies this upon the account that Lamech was not the seventh but the fifth Hieron ad Damasum Ep. 125 from Cain but S. Hierom so far defends it as that it was majorum nostrorum sententia an old Tradition that Cain was killed by Lamech who was the seventh from Adam though not from Cain And this is that which we may rest somewhat secure of too that as God hath given some of these wretches their reward in a great deal less time so for those that yet remain the Revenger of bloud will pursue them and at last overtake them too though they may be suffered a while for greater terrour as Cain was to be Runnagates and Vagabonds upon the Earth In Tom. 9. Hieron Ep. 5. I shall conclude all with a saying of S. Hierom or whoever was the Author of that Epistle Ad Virginem in exilium missam which is among his Works Nullus tam crudelis homicida est quam qui ita erga alterum saevit ut non parcat sibi none so desperate a Murderer as he that will destroy himself to be revenged upon another Cain never thought what a mischief he should do to himself in killing his brother For beside all the former curses this misery he brought upon himself that now he was deprived of his brothers company counsel and assistance upon all occasions And certainly had not our King-killers been possessed with a spirit of strong delusion they must needs have foreseen that beside all the misery they should infallibly bring upon the Kingdom they did but thrust a knife into their own Throats when they killed the King But thus it is when God hides his face and gives men over to an infatuated spirit They were like the Mad-man that beat out his own Brains with his own hands Et immemores salutis suae propria manu seipsos interimunt in Reges suos proprias convertendo vires saith Concil Tolet. 4. Can. 74. the fourth Council of Toledo And being unmindful of their own safety they kill themselves with their own hands who lift up their hands against their Kings And thus you have seen how Cains Curse in every particular is fallen upon the Regicides that we may say of them as S. Paul of his Countrymen the Jews That wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 1 Thess 2. 16. And God grant that the Curse may rest there and never flie farther abroad and that the Land may be cleansed from that bloud And for the Kingdoms peace and settlement let us put up that Prayer to God which the children of Israel were taught to pray when a man was found slain in the field Deut. 28. 8. Be merciful O Lord be merciful unto thy people whom thou hast redeemed and lay not innocent bloud unto their charge O let the Guilt of this bloud be forgiven the whole Nation and let the bloud of Christ Jesus cry louder for us then the bloud of King Charles against us Even so O Father for Christ Jesus sake thy dear Son our onely Saviour to whom with thy self and thy Eternal Spirit Three Persons One Glorious God be all Glory Praise and Thanksgiving c. FINIS