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A44222	The death of King Charles I proved a down-right murder, with the aggravations of it in a sermon at St. Botolph Aldgate, London, January 30, 1692/3 : to which are added, some just reflections upon some late papers, concerning that King's book / by Rich. Hollingworth.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1693 (1693)	Wing H2501; ESTC R13678	16,735	43

Religion as professed in the Church of England and no doubt would have maintained its Interest and Honour both at home and abroad by Virtue of the Principles of their Education which must without all dispute have taught them to Love and Honour to Support and Strengthen the Protestant Interest over all these Western Parts of the World and therefore we must thank these Murderers of this Good King for the misfortunes of the last Reign and for the Fears that are upon us at present And now having proved the Murder and shewed you the Aggravations of it give me leave to ask you whither we ought not to be serious in the observation of this Day And whether they be not great Offenders and bad Men that ridicule the Day and call it in scorn the madding Day Whether they be not Men of mischievous and provoking Principles that still continue to assert and justifie this barbarous Act And whether we may not expect great Judgments to fall upon us upon this account Come therefore my Beloved let us all seriously bethink our selves and consider what great reason we have to do every thing that tends to pacifie Divine Wrath at this time and to procure His Prefence to go along with us You all know that we have at this time the greatest and dearest things that belong to us lye at stake to wit our Religion and our Laws we have a potent Enemy to encounter who yet scorns us and bids defiance to all the conjoyned Forces on this side Europe an Enemy who if he prevails will certainly bring us into the condition of his own Subjects both as to Religion Liberty and Property and therefore Oh! thou good God give us the Interposals and Watchfulness of Thy Providence lend us Thy mighty helping Hand in this our time of Trouble let us be under Thy Conduct and Guidance and preserve still our Noble Prince and let him be under the shadow of Thy Wings and make his Enemies to flee before him And blessed are as the Psalmist says the People that are in such a case and who thus have the Lord for their God I but my beloved tho God is ready to help us yet he hath proposed conditions on our part in order to an interest in his Power and Presence we must eschew Evil and do Good we must forsake the wickedness of our ways we must not speak evil of Dignities nor curse the King no not in our hearts we must not shed Innocent Bloud nor vindicate and justifie it when it is done If we are resolved upon such courses as these are we must expect to be dealt withal by the great God accordingly we must follow the example of David and cry Deli●●● us from Bloud guiltiness O God thou God 〈◊〉 Salvation And beg that we may be warned throughly from this sin and cleansed from this iniquity I this is the way to have success attend our Counsels and our Engagements both by Land and Sea Give me leave to speak plainly to you and I hope those if there be any such as I am satisfied there are that came with a design to make themselves merry here to day with our preaching and praying will go away with better and more serious Thoughts and that because the happiness of their Countrey is concerned in their holy and pious resentments of and indignation against this horrid Murder But if all this will not prevail with you give me leave to tell these sort of Men that are resolved to abuse this great Martyr and laugh at the observation of the Day that at the same time they abuse the King and the Queen who this Day solemnly observe it that they abuse the Two Houses of Parliament who have appointed Preachers to set out affect them with the sin of the Day And withal let me tell you notwithstanding all their professions of Honour to and kindness for King William and Queen Mary yet they are unmannerly and clownish ill bred and rude persons for if King Charles I had had no personal Vertues to recommend him to the World yet methinks they should be so civil and so far make good their pretensions of Honour and Affection to K. William and Q. Mary as at least to hold their Tongues and keep them from railing against him and that barely because he was the King and Queen's Grandfather And now tho' I have said so much as I am sure will convince all good men yet I am satisfied there are a Generation of Men will not cease to vent their rage against this great Prince and in order to it have very lately cryed up and triumphed in a discovery of some Papers which seem to rob him of the glory and honour of being Author of his excellent Book which Papers I have read and find them Romantick and vain-glorious making a simoniacal offer in order to obtain the best Bishoprick in England and withal so contradictory to plain evidence two years before they are pretended to be writ by the Author and so vastly different from the noble Air and Stile and Spirit of that excellent Book that I do here in the face of this Congregation challenge the Party to Print the Papers and do assure them they shall have a just Examination and Consideration in a due and convenient time and this great King's Memory will still be preserved by that great and excellent Book which indeed it is almost impossible to believe any man could write but he that was in his Circumstances and Condition and under such Thoughts as such a Condition when Sanctified is usually attended withal FINIS

Nation This Day to bewail is not according to that Notion of Murder a real Act of Murder and not a piece of Justice as many wicked Men at this Day call it and consequently does not deserve to be abhorred and grieved for by all Men that wish well to the Kingdom and in order to it do endeavour to atone that displeasure which the Shedding and the Vindicating the shedding of Innocent Bloud may justly raise in the Divine Breast and which may provoke God still to pour down his Judgments upon us for so doing And certainly there is no good Man in the Nation but will conclude considering the Circumstances and Dangers we are in threatned by a powerful Enemy abroad and weakned so much by so great destructive Divisions at home I say there is no good Man but will conclude that we ought to do all that lyes in us to procure the Blessings and the kind and seasonable interposals of Divine Providence to secure our Armies by Land and our Forces by Sea and so to prosper them that we may be delivered from the hands of our Enemies and all that hate us our Nation and Religion And he that by Vindicating the crying Sin of Murder does contribute towards Divine Provocation he is so far from being a Friend to the Laws and Liberties of his Countrey that he is the greatest Enemy they have and ought by all Men trusted with Publick Offices either Spiritual or Secular to be both publickly instructed and with all good Temper to be reproved too that so he may be reclaimed from a Sin that hath so poysonous an influence upon the Good of the Community of which he is a Member First therefore As for the True Notion of Murder the thing forbidden in the Text In short it is nothing else but the taking away another Man's Life without a Warrant from God or Man deputed and entrusted by God in a Judicial way to bring Men to such a piece of Justice as deprives them of their Lives For it is plain from Scripture that many Mens Lives have been taken away by an immediate Command from God which justified the Act and took away the Notion and consequently the Guilt of Murder And it is as plain that there are many Acts of Wickedness that God ordered the Lawful Magistrate for the appeasing of Divine Wrath and the Good of Humane Societies to put Men to Death which Laws have had their force in all Nations and Countries whatsoever and indeed without which Humane Societies would quickly be dissolved and the World would be like nothing but a Wilderness or Desart full of Men turned into the nature of wild Bears and Tygers and where you have one violent destruction of a Fellow-Creature you would have a thousand So that the Murder of my Text is nothing else but a pretending and undertaking to be Master of another Man's Life without any Commission from God or any Legal Tryal by Men according to the Laws of the Country in which they live and to which they are bound to subject themselves So that this brings me to the work and business of this day namely to consider Whether the Death of King Charles the First was a Murder yea or no or an Act of Justice as some wicked men do still pretend to call-it Now here let us consider whether they had a Commission from God to do it Now a Commission from God must either be by a Voice from Heaven or else by the Ministry of an Angel sent by God or some other way by which God did convey His Mind and Purpose to His People of old none of which were ever pretended to as the ground and reason of this great Man's Death by any that had a hand in it And therefore let us see what Warrant they had from the Laws of the Land The Laws of the Land What are they or upon what Authority are they founded Why according to our Constitution all Laws flow from the Power of King Lords and Commons the Lords and Commons framing and preparing Bills such as they conceive for the Good of the Countrey and the King by his Royal Fiat giving Life and Being to those Bills upon which they immediately become obligatory to the People of the Land to violate or transgress which is attended with such Pains and Penalties as those Law-makers who make up the Legislative Power of the Nation think good and meet to enact and whatsoever is offered as a Law made without the concurrence of these Three Estates together is an Invasion and Encroachment upon the True and Essential Constitution of the Kingdom For neither the King without the Lords and Commons nor the Lords and Commons without the King can bind the Subject to any thing under the Notion of a Law of this Kingdom This my Beloved is our happy Frame of Government which certainly is the best the World can shew and under which we ought to sit with great delight and pleasure And they that go about to set any of these Three Powers contrary to the Law above their places are great Enemies to this excellent Constitution and their Projects and Contrivances their Arguments and Proposals have always been of very unhappy consequence to the Kingdom in general And for my own part I do here profess my self so great an Admirer of this happy Constitution that by the Grace of God my little Finger shall never be employed to make any jar in the Harmony and Concurrence of King Lords and Commons and I will always submit by doing or by suffering to whatsoever they shall Enact And though they should pass into a Law what I in Conscience could not comply withal yet I think it my duty not to Resist but to be passively Obedient which I account the true Notion of Non-Resistance and Passive-Obedience two Doctrines which if not maintained and practised in this sense I have named all Government is precarious and will be in danger of being unhinged whenever a number of discontented and ambitious Persons get together with Force and Strength in order to carry on their wicked and base designs and to answer and gratifie their unreasonable dissatisfactions Well this being the true Notion of the English Laws pray let us see whether King Lords and Commons ever consented to a Law that enabled one part to destroy the other the King to destroy and null the Being and Authority of Lords and Commons or the Lords and Commons to sit upon judge and take away the Life of their King And here I challenge the boldest Assertor of the Justice of the Murder of this Day to show me any one word from the beginning of the Statute-Book to the end thereof that looks this way or gives such a Power into any of the three parts of the Legislative Powers Hands And if there be no Commission from the Law of the Land then certainly this Death must be called and is a true and real Murder the Thing forbidden in my Text. 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