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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51826	A solemn humiliation for the murder of K. Charles I with some remarks on those popular mistakes, concerning popery, zeal, and the extent of subjection, which had a fatal influence in our civil wars.	Manningham, Thomas, 1651?-1722.	1686 (1686)	Wing M509; ESTC R8082	9,825	33

PSAL. LXXIX v. 8. O Remember not against us former Iniquities or the Iniqities of them that were before us THE repeated Practices of Rebellion in this our Land and our continual dread of Imminent Judgments do add a new Seasonableness to this days Humiliation And let us add a new vigour to our Intercedings with the Almighty to prevent those Punishments which we so highly deserve For we are this day met to bewail the greatest National sin except that which the Jews committed in Crucifying the Lord of Life A sin which hath made us a Scandal and a Proverb of Reproach to other Kingdoms a miserable and divided people within our selves and a dreadful Theatre of the continual Judgements of God There was doubtless a general corruption of Life and Manners that disposed this Nation to enter into such horrid Counsels and to engage in such furious attempts Luxury Wantonness neglect of Religion and wise Discipline first forfeited the protection of Providence and then God delivered up an infatuated people to their own Passions and false Zeals and let them follow their own Imaginations It is indeed to no good purpose at least in this place to lay the whole Guilt upon any particular Party amongst us That may be the business of an Historian but not of a Divine That may serve to awaken Governours but will not contribute towards the attonement of our God That may give Men Rules of worldly Policy but will never work in us a true and Spiritul Compunction Sharp and eager Reflections may promote Revenge and Malice but will hardly produce a general Humiliation and Repentance Whatever Designs our Adversaries formed we may be sure it was our Sins that gave them their Success The Tragedy is acted the Murder compleated the anger of the Almighty is provoked the Nation has sinn'd and the Nation must repent or else there is nothing but a fearful looking for of swift and final Destruction But O! Remember not against us former Iniquities It is not requisite at this time to engage in any exact method of Discourse the Subject of this days Meditation being somewhat too big for the common Rules of Art 'T is the property of great Passions to know but little Order The sudden effusions of a pious and Loyal Heart with some general remarks on the more fatal Springs and Principles of Faction and Rebellion are more suitable to this Solemnity than the smoother compositions of a mind at leisure Let such as please study to be Elegant under the Indignation of God and the Infamy of a Kingdom all that I shall at present attempt shall be onely to manifest an humble and an Holy concern in every period I pronounce The English Nation had been long held in singular repute for their Noble their good-Natur'd and Loyal Courage and not onely the Neighbouring Kingdoms but the remoter parts of the Earth had been Witnesses of their unalterable Affection to their Kings whom they cheerfully followed in their Expeditions with constant and unwearied Duty But the abomination of this day has almost silenced all our former Praise and the stain of this days Murder has cast a blemish on our ancient Glory How must we blush to think that it shall be always read in story How that English men stood round a Scaffold with their Muskets and Javelins to guard and forward the Murder of their own King Surely the strangeness of the Fact will make men suspect the truth of the History they will abhor the Record that shews them such a Villany But yet does not this days Assembly does not this present Generation too truly attest it but can they can all Posterity attone for it The favour of Providence and the Honour of our Country which we have lost by our Rebellions we must recover by our Humiliations The Victories of the Field must be turned into the Repentances of the Temple and the active Nobleness of Exploits into meekness and sufferings for Truth and Holiness if ever we expect that the Lord should forget the Iniquity of this day Pontius Pilate willing to give some check to the importunate malice of the Jews who so tumultuously demanded the Crucifixion of our Lord and Saviour put this harsh and dishonourable Question to them Shall I Crucifie your King He cannot be crucified but your Name also must be crucified with him in the Superscription of his Titles for he shall be crucified the King of the Jews So might it this day have been put to the English Rebels Will you murder your King the Father of your Country the Vice-gerent of God the Fountain of Justice the preserver of your Laws and the Guardian of your publick Peace and Order Will you murder your own most just and ●●●●al King so Wise so Meek so Pious and so Devout a King whom Providence Succ●●sion your own Laws and your Cons●n●● have established in the Throne and of which his own Vertues had made him 〈◊〉 worthy Will you murder that King who has parted with so much of his Prerogative for your satisfaction who has delivered up a most able Counsellor to your importunate and unjust Petitions and wounded his Conscience for your peace and safety who has undergone the rudeness of your Victories your Prisons and your Mockeries of Justice with the same mildness and constancy which he shewed in the fulness of his Empire who has given up every thing to your implacable demands but your truest Liberties your Laws and Rights and your established Worship But 't is too late now to ask the Question and I shall forbear to continue the Figure any longer They have acted the Crime they have brought an Eternal Infamy upon the Nation an indelible blot upon Religion and I fear an Hereditary Curse upon this miserable Land But why should those be concerned in the trouble and confusion of this day who had no share in the guilt of it for are there not many now living who may justly boast of their extraordinary service to that Excellent Prince and of the honour they had of suffering with him And were not many of us unborn when this accursed thing was committed Yet however this was most properly a National Guilt because so many of all Orders Ranks and Callings amongst us were engaged in that Rebellion which brought forth this execrable Fact and in sins of this nature the Children must either inherit the Curse or attone for the Iniquities of their Fathers None of us how innocent soever either in our own actions or those of our progenitors None of us though never so Loyal either in our Principles or our Parentage are above the reach of this days amazement are beyond the necessity of this days Humiliation For publick sins of such example such scandal and contagion as this like the first Rebellion of Man remain a debt upon Posterity and involve more in their unhappy consequences than the immediate Instruments themselves or the Off-spring of those who first acted them For when God upon