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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26408	A plot for a crown in a visitation-sermon, at Cricklade, May the fifteenth, 1682 : being a parallel between the heir and husband-men in the parable, and the rightful prince and his excluders in Parliament / by N. Adee ...	Adee, N. (Nicholas), d. 1701.	1685 (1685)	Wing A573; ESTC R22248	20,134	40

of Church or State who were not called thereunto But the Jews were for Stoning and Killing of those who were sent unto them though they came for their good to reduce them to a better understanding and more honest purposes By the beloved Son who was sent the Son of God whom he was pleased at last to send unto those Rebellious and Ungrateful Husbandmen By Heir the same with Son differing here only in the Relation to the Lord who sent him Come let us kill him that the Inheritance may be ours Is so well understood of every one who has read the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour's Passion or its pourtraicture the Martyrology of our Royal Martyr that it needs no Explanation Our dear Saviour though he foreknew the Determination of these wicked Husbandmen yet as his Father was pleased to send so was he to be sent and to fulfil the Prophecies and Predictions that related to him So he voluntarily came unto them that he might become the Sacrifice for our Redemption And then so soon as the Husbandmen saw him they resolved for I suppose they made no long delay lest they might lose their opportunity and Christ the Heir might have passed over Jordan their Countreys Tweed and then they might be forced to change their design'd Measures to make an Act of Exclusion when they might kill him Therefore When the Husbandmen saw him they reasoned among themselves This their Design was not so light and frivolous as that they should enterprize it rashly at all Adventures therefore they went considerately to work They reasoned that they might ripen their Treason and bring it to its designed end Therefore they convened by way of Assembly and were the Sanhedrim or Jewish Parliament These parli'd and plotted how they might bring High-Treason to pass But yet it was Conventus Malorum a Conventicle they held in a Parliamentary way wherein they contrived this bloody Expedient To kill the Heir that they might enjoy his Inheritance They were loth to part with that pleasant Vineyard they had so long usurped Nay they who were so unjust to their Landlord as not to yield him any of the Fruit were very unlikely to yield up the Vineyard But what they had gotten by Murder and Sedition they were resolved to keep by Blood and Treason so accordingly they voted and their Vote we have here in Terminis This is the Heir Come let us kill him Verily a very fine Vote for Tenants and Subjects to pass against their Liege Lord and Soveraign It 's observable that a Parliament of Traytors or a Sanhedrim of Conspirators never yet designed good to Prince or People for when such meet their reasonings tend only to turn the Commonweal into a Common woe for Reason nor Religion hath neither Tongue nor Ear in such Assemblies For I do not find that ever our Saviour had so much fair-quarter allowed him by this great Council of the Jews as to be heard in his own defence Though he was their great King the everlasting God the Prince of peace Heard indeed he was but it was as people use to hear Sermons that is with a deaf ear his Words were not weighed nor his Reasons considered I confess that he was questioned and buffetted too to serve as a pretext for the Rulers and as a blind for the people and led forth also to confront the Witnesses but he was not heard according to the merits of his cause not acquitted as he ought but condemned as they pleased This is observable here that the Mercy and Justice of the Jews then did exceed that of some Christians now But in this as it was their desire the Ebullition of their malice so it was his Choice too for he was born to this end and in it his Will was done in Earth as it is in Heaven There was no fault found in him Joh. 18.14 but it was judged expedient that one should dye for the people That is Caiaphas one of the leading Members in the Sanhedrim made a Speech there Dr. Ham. on Joh. 11.50 and grounded this Expedient on a politick Maxim they had That they might do any thing to keep the people from Destruction which they feared from the Romans to whom they were then subject And this they feared by reason of the Admiration the people had him in for his Miracles Dr. Ham. on Joh. 11 48. they feared that he who professed himself the Messias would become their King which the Romans would look on as a Rebellion and so tempt them to come with an Army and destroy them It was this politick Reason prevailed in the great Council of their Nation against Justice and Equity their Religion Laws and Oaths yea all that was sacred not only to vote away their Lord's Inheritance but his Life too These Mechanicks having gotten his Royal person into their hands they said This is the Heir come let us kill him These very men who it's likely were the Heads of popular Factions in their respective Countries were some of them who e're while as it were courted him with Hosanna in the highest who when they had gotten hold of him they were for a Crucifie him Crucifie him Such is the Vicissitude of popular Favour that these very men who courted him most when he was riding into Jerusalem forsook him soonest when he was led into Jerusalem Such commonly is the fate of unfortunate Princes Tacit. who being once fallen into the dis-favour of the profanum vulgus Tam benefacta quam malefacta premunt they rake up their former Favours in Oblivion and reckon their good deeds as well as bad into the number of Oppressions And then they are easily led by their Tub Orators and designing Leaders to know no pity nor to shew mercy towards them What may be said or done be it true or false shall be said and done by them to bring their ends to pass but can we ever expect truth from such who have forsaken the Faith If their Tongues were any slander the Vertues of the best and most compassionate Princes should ever be sullied by them Thus Christ the King of the Jews when he came to fulfil was charged to disannul the Law to change their Religion and the Customs which Moses delivered them Acts 6.14 When they had nothing to alledge against Christ truly they devised somewhat falsly by which they hoped to extenuate their Treason by imputing evil to Christ who never did any But his Innocency quickly appeared to his own Vindication and their Confusion Luke 23.14 for Pilate declared in his defence saying I have examined him before you and have found no Fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him v. 23. yet notwithstanding they were earnest to have him crucified v. 33. And they crucified him and the Malefactors v. 31. one on the right-hand and the other on the left But if they did these things in a green tree what shall be