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A30414	The royal martyr, and the dutiful subject in two sermons / by G. Burnet.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. Royal martyr lamented.; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. Subjection for conscience-sake asserted.	1675 (1675)	Wing B5869; ESTC R22925	37,186	94

left no mean unessayed to satisfie even all their jealousies and fears and therefore in a Paper under his own Pen he writes these words We do conjure all our good Subjects of that our Native Kingdom by the long happy and uninterrupted Government of us and our Royal Progenitors over them by the memory of these many large and publick Blessings they enjoyed under our dear Father by these ample favours and benefits they have received from us not to suffer themselves to be misled and corrupted in their affections and duty to us by the cunning malice and industry of these Incendiaries And when he heard these dismal news of that most barbarous Rebellion in Ireland with what zeal he set about the sending relief to them may appear from the following words of one of his Letters to one in his Native Kingdom after he had lamented the miseries and afflictions to which his good Subjects in Ireland were reduced through the inhumane and unheard-of cruelties of the Rebels there and had regrated the delays of sending supplies to them through the distractions of England he adds So that if some extraordinary course be not taken for their present supply it is not like their miseries will end sooner their days Therefore he required them to haste the sending over their Forces assuring them That if the Parliament of England did not punctually pay them he would engage his own Revenue rather than delay so good and so necessary a work and that he would issue out such Warrants under the Great Seal of England and grant all their other desires which in reason could be demanded for the advancement of it And after that seeing that work went on slowly he was resolved to have gone in person to have carried it on more vigorously and to have hazarded himself that he might preserve his People But finding that Resolution gave great Jealousies to those who censured him whatever he did he gave it over How careful he was to prevent a Rupture in this Nation not only his great Concessions prove but his constant offers of Treaty even when things went prosperously with him do demonstrate therefore reflecting on this in a Paper under his own Pen he writes We denied not any thing but what by the known Law was unquestionably our own we earnestly desired and pressed a Treaty that so we might but know at what price we might prevent the miseries and desolations that was threatned but this was absolutely and scornfully refused and rejected And in a Message which though it was never sent yet remains under his hand he writes these words And now he conjures his two Houses of Parliament as they are Englishmen Christians and lovers of Peace by the duty they owe their King and by the bowels of Compassion they have towards their fellow-subjects that they will accept of these offers whereby the joyful news of Peace may be again restored to this languishing Kingdom And thus far the Parallel of Saul and our Martyred King hath held good but now they must depart from one another and it shall appear how our late Soveraign was on many accounts hugely preferable to the King lamented in my Text yet I shall name one particular in which Saul had the better of him Saul had by his rash Oath endangered Ionathan's life which he seemed resolved to execute but the earnest intercessions of his People prevailed on him to change these his severe and cruel resolutions But alas our Martyr having firmly resolved to save a person he judged innocent and clear of the Treason charged on him did to comply with the most pressing desires of his People consent to the putting him to death We have seen his fault and the specious colours that led him to it next let me lay before you his Repentance expressed by himself in a Letter Anno 1642. One thing more which but for the Messenger were too much to trust to Paper the failing to one friend hath indeed gone very near me wherefore I am resolved that no consideration whatsoever shall ever make me do the like upon this ground I am certain that God hath either so totally forgiven me that he will still bless this good cause in my hands or that all my punishment shall be in this world which without performing what I have resolved I cannot flatter my self will end here And he ends that Letter thus Beside generosity to which I pretend a little my Conscience will make me stick to my friends How deep his sense of that sin how great his apprehensions of the Judgments of God and how true his notion of Repentance was cannot but easily appear upon the first hearing these words But for this one advantage the King in my Text had of the King of the Day we shall find many great and noble Characters in which he excelled him And first Saul pretended some zeal for God he built an Altar for him he honoured Samuel his Prophet he went and destroyed the Amalekites but when it might serve his turn he did not stick to disobey God he saved Agag and much of the spoil of the Amalekites pretending it was preserved for offering Sacrifices He had not patience to stay for Samuel but did sacrilegiously offer the Sacrifice himself But our Martyr did not only express great regard to God in his Prosperity by many high marks of his zeal and constant attendance on the Worship of God his great esteem of all worthy and deserving Churchmen and his Royal bounty to the advancing all pious and religious purposes But by his constant and firm adhering to those Rights of the Church and to all he judged himself bound in Conscience to maintain therefore it was that he did choose to bear the greatest dangers rather than sin against his Conscience When the violence of his Native Subjects against the Order of Bishops had brought things to that pass that it could not be maintained without much blood and confusion he judged that God loved mercy better than sacrifice did give way to their fury but with that tender care that became a man of so severe and exact a Conscience and this shall appear by some evidences I go to mention Having signed a Paper of Concessions wherein he had used the word it pleased him reflecting on the importance of that he wrote the following words in a Letter to him that had the managing of that business I must desire you to alter one word that I should not be thought to desire the abolishing of that in Scotland which I approve and maintain in England Now the word content expresses enough my consent to have them surcease for the present But the word pleased methinks imports as much as if I desired them to take them away or at least that I were well pleased they should do so But I leave it to your ordering so that you make it be clearly understood that though I permit yet I would be better pleased they let them alone And in the

THE Royal Martyr AND THE DUTIFUL SUBJECT IN TWO SERMONS By G. BVRNET LONDON Printed for R. Royston Bookseller to his most Sacred Majesty at the Angel in Amen-Corner 1675. THE Royal Martyr Lamented in a SERMON Preached at the SAVOY ON King CHARLES the MARTYR'S Day 1674 5. By Gilbert Burnet LONDON Printed for R. Royston Bookseller to his most Sacred Majesty at the Angel in Amen-Corner 1675. THE Royal Martyr Lamented in a SERMON Preached at the SAVOY on King CHARLES the MARTYR'S Day 1674 5 2 SAM 2. 12. And they mourned and wept and fasted until even for Saul and for Ionathan his Son and for the people of the Lord and for the house of Israel because they were fallen by the sword THere is no Maxim so general or so constant but that it may allow of some exception and therefore though the Wiseman after all his experience his most searching Observations and the great prospect he had of the order of second Causes and the temper of mens minds does pronounce there was nothing new under the Sun Yet this day and that never-enough-lamented Villany we now remember must put in for an exception from that rule which did indeed exceed all the common measures of wickedness so far that as there is nothing in any History like it so when the World is some Ages older if such an action be not an Omen that its end is near this will scarce gain credit but be looked on as the Tragical contrivance of some deeply-Melancholy wit Some Princes have been by their prevailing Conquerors put to death others have been assassinated by their own Subjects But to see a Soveraign Prince brought to the Pageantry of a Mock-trial and by a Court made up of his own Subjects on a pretence of Justice sentenced to lose his life not in the corner of some private Prison but in the chief City of his Dominions and in the most eminent place of it is an evidence of the degeneracy of the age we live in that would dare to act what in former ages none would have thought on What Phocas did to the Emperour Mauritius is the nearest parallel to it which History offers but comes far short of matching it for neither were the Rights of the Roman Emperours derived by so clear a Title nor so long a Descent as our Royal Martyr's were and so no wonder if those who rose by the sword did also fall by it Nor did Phocas so far affront Justice as to pretend to put his Master to a Trial and Mauritius had by so base an avarice exposed so many of his Soldiers to be cut off and used the rest so ill that no wonder they in their fury against him were guilty of so foul a Conspiracy But how much more exquisitly wicked was the crime we now remember when a Prince whose Rights were devolved on him by so many Titles the British the Saxon the Norman and the Scotish Races having all united in him who had also in his whole Government shewed that deep sense of Religion with a most tender regard to the good and quiet of his Subjects was against all the rules of Justice and yet upon some colours of it brought to so publick a death But as Phocas as basely treacherous and wicked as he was was most ignominiously and shamefully courted by Pope Gregory the Great who writes to him in a stile of so mean and servile flattery that it justly stains all the other good Qualities of that Prelate And his Successor Boniface did yet more meanly comply and got himself declared by him the Universal Bishop of the Church From which we may judg of that See by vvhat arts they are resolved to rise and to make use of the worst of men if they can but serve their turn So in this Regicide Religion was vouched and God appealed to And indeed it was no wonder that these treated his Vicegerents so coarsely that made so bold with God himself as to pretend he was their Patron and warrant in what they did And perhaps if these actors had as fully complied with him that pretend to be Christs Vicegerent as Phocas did he had as plainly justified their actions as Gregory and Boniface did which might have been far rather looked for now after all the opinions some of their Emissaries have broached of murdering Princes then at that time when their corruptions were but a-forming and their ambition was beginning to fly at Supremacy and Universal Jurisdiction But is all our work only to reflect with some horrour on this infamous action have we no other concern in this Day The Collect tells us That the sins of this Nation have been the cause which hath brought this heavy judgment upon us We also pray That this our land be freed from the vengeance of his blood And indeed had not our sins been great so that the cup of our iniquities was quite full it could not have run over in a tract of a long Civil War which brought along with it so much bloodshed rapine and contempt of all things sacred and humane and all was compleated in this crime beyond which wickedness could go no higher Those who were so nobly and generously loyal as to serve his late Majesty of most blessed memory do with a just glorying rejoyce in the reflection on their past Services yet let me crave leave to offer even to them how far they ought to be concerned in mourning and fasting on this Occasion It was our contempt of God and Religion our being purely formal in our Religious Worship our forgetting to acknowledg God the author of our Peace and Plenty our abusing these by excess and riot that brought on those sad and unheard-of Judgments Among the much-abused words of the late time were Incendiary and Incendiarism but those were the great Incendiaries that kindled Gods wrath and it is from such that we may justly fear the like or rather severer Judgments if our sins now be greater than they were then Therefore the lamenting and repenting of these sins by which what is past may be forgiven and what may be feared be prevented being the proper work of this day I come now to consider my Text and what reflections may be drawn from it though in a case so much without a precedent as this is it is not to be imagined that a Text wholly pertinent can be pickt up But we shall make the most of this we can and consider three things in it First This King whose Death was so much lamented and in what particulars he was a Parallel and in what not of our Royal Martyr Secondly What reason David with the rest of the people of Israel had to mourn for his Death and how far that agrees with our case Thirdly How they expressed their sorrow and how far their example calls on us to imitate it For the first it was Saul the Son of Kish whom God had by the hands of Samuel designed to be King of

Israel for whom David had that respect that even when he was most unjustly hunting his life yet he would not stretch forth his hand against him seeing he was the anointed of the Lord. And in this our Royal Martyr was his Parallel since he was by a tract of an undisputed Succession that which Saul was by immediate Revelation the Lord 's Anointed And indeed he looked on himself as having his Authority from God as will appear from the following instances which before I mention I must preface with this that I will not enlarge on the whole field of that Murdered Princes Vertues for that were both endless they being so many and needless they being so well known But having by a great happiness seen not a few I may add hundreds of Papers under his own Royal Pen I shall only now offer divers passages drawn out of those that vvill give some Characters of his great Soul And as in the Indies the Art of Painting is only the putting together little Plumes of several colours in such method as to give a representation of vvhat they design vvhich though it be but coarse vvork yet the Colours are lively so I can promise no exact vvork but true and lively Colours I vvill offer being those mixed by our Martyr himself though perhaps unskilfully placed by me And as the Popish Legend tells of tvvo Pictures of our Saviour done by himself one particularly vvhich he left in Veronica's Handkercher vvhen he vviped his face vvith it so from the svveat of our Royal Martyr some Lineaments of his Face shall be offered And to return to make good the character of our late Soveraign he ovvned all his Authority to be derived from God and therefore in one of his Papers I find these vvords vvhen he is acknovvledging the great blessings and eminent protection he had received from the hands of the Almighty he adds To whom we know we must yield a dear account for any breach of trust or failing of our duty towards our People And in another Paper reflecting on the Demand concerning the Militia he gives the reason vvhy he could not consent to it as it vvas proposed Because thereby he wholly divested himself as he conceived of the power of the Sword intrusted to him by God and the Laws of the Land for the Protection and Government of his People thereby at once disinheriting his Posterity of that Right and Prerogative of the Crown which is absolutely necessary for the Kingly-Office and so weakening Monarchy in this Kingdom that little more than the name and shadow of it will remain In another Paper he expresses his zeal to preserve the Lavvs as became Gods Vicegerent in these vvords If we wanted the Conscience we cannot the discretion to tempt God in au unjust quarrel the Laws of our Kingdom shall be sacred to us we shall refuse no hazard to defend them but sure we shall run none to invade them And that Paper vvhich is very long he thus concludes God so deal with us and our Posterity as we shall inviolably observe the Laws and Statutes of our Kingdom and the Protestations we have so often made for the Defence of the true Reformed Protestant Religion the Laws of the Land and the just Priviledges and Freedom of Parliaments From these Evidences it will appear what severe thoughts he had of the Obligations he lay under to Almighty God from whom he had his power and to whom he knew he was to give account of his Administration 2. We find it is said of Saul that after he was anointed God gave him another heart and that meeting a company of Prophets he prophesied to the astonishment of those that beheld him How much of this Divine Spirit rested on our Blessed Martyr all those Meditations which were his Exercises in his retirement do abundantly declare If by Saul's prophesying be meant the foretelling what was to come I meet somewhat very near it from his Royal Pen Anno 1642 in a Letter wherein he writes these words I have set up my rest on the justice of my cause being resolved that no extremity or misfortune shall make me yield for I will either be a Glorious King or a Patient Martyr and as yet not being the first and at present not apprehending the other I think it now no unfit time to express this my resolution to you A very overly observer will see much in these words even without a Commentaty Or if by prophesying be to be understood an elevated way of trusting in God and adoring him then I shall add what I find under the same Sacred Pen when he was at Newcastle in a Letter to one of his Subjects Know that I rather expect the worse than the better event of things being resolved by the Grace of God and without the least repining at him to suffer any thing that injury can put upon me rather than sin against my Conscience And in another Letter Now for the sad consequences I know no so good antidote as a good Conscience which by the Grace of God I will preserve whatever else happen to me A third Character we have of Saul is that he was very careful to protect his Subjects when in danger as appears both by his haste to relieve Iabish-Gilead when sore pur to it by the King of Ammon and by his engaging against the Philistines with so much Personal danger to himself and his Family Now what our Martyrs zeal for protecting his Subjects was I speak not of his care in protecting the oppressed Protestants in Germany and France which I leave to the Historians I shall make appear from the following Evidences What vast Concessions he made to his native Kingdom every body knows and therefore he concluded a Paper he signed on his Pacification with them in these words And as we have just reason to believe that to our peaceable and well-affected Subjects this will be satisfactory so we take God and the World to witness that whatever Calamities shall ensue by our necessitated suppressing of the Insolencies of such as shall continue in their disobedient Courses is not occasioned by us but by their own procurement And in a Letter to one of his Commissioners there he writes But if the madness of our Subjects be such that they will not rest satisfied with what we have given you power to condescend to which notwithstanding all their Insolencies we still allow you to make good to them We take God to witness that what misery soever fall to that Country hereafter it is no fault of ours but their own procurement And in another Letter at that same time We take God to witness we have permitted them to do many things for establishing of Peace contrary to our own judgment How far he complied with their most unreasonable desires to the very great diminutions of his Royal Authority is well enough known When he saw them inclined to engage in the Civil War in this Kingdom he