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A sermon preach'd on the 30th of January vindicating King Charles the Martyr, and the keeping of the day by E.H. ; which may serve for an answer to Mr. Stephen's sermon preach'd on the 30th of January, before the honourable House of Commons.
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Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.
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as low as mean Ignatius And I will add when God sits upon the Grand Inquest for innocent Blood He will not only Search as low as mean Ignatius but righteous Charles to the immortal Honour and Dishonour of our Nation England's Martyr Our Kingdom has been famous over the World for the first Christian King in the World Lucius for the first Christian Emperour in the World Constantine the Great for the first Reformed Prince K. Edward VI. and for the first Royal Martyr for the Church and State King Charles I. chosing rather to resist to Blood then betray the Laws of the Land the Freedom and Honour of Parliaments the Rights of His Crown the just Liberty of his Subjects and the true Christian Religion in its Doctrin Government and due Encouragements to the greedy Jaws of ravening Wolves A good Shepherd giveth his Life for the Sheep Most deservedly therefore as the Romans did their Emperour Titus may we Stile him without suspition of flattery deliciae humani generis the good Peoples Darling an epidemical Cordial Corculum populi as Scypio was called the Peoples Sweet-Heart who was De regione non magis sollicitus quam de Religione cared not so much for his own Kingdom as God's counting it more Honour with the good Emperours Theodosius and Constantine to be Christi vasallam membrum Ecclesiae quam caput Imperii Christ's Servants than an Earthly King and a Member of the Church rather than Head of an Empire Having cropt the Top of all Vertues as Pindarus said of Hiero or as Vitellius of Cato Major Homo virtuti simillimus optimus imperator orator Senator omniumque artium magister he was as like Vertue as ever one could look being an incomparable King an incomparable Orator an incomparable States-man and an incomparable Church-man and if not the endowments of a Prophet yet of a King and Priest being at all Essays a Master of Art But in his juster Praises though Rhetorick it self should expatiate she must lose a Figure his worth transcending common Hyperboles The Memory of the just is blessed Prov. 10.7 A great Man good is greatly good not only because they are precious by being rare for God knows we may too often say of Religion as it was said of David The Lords favour thee not Sam. 29.6 making it their business Erigere muros maris quam corrigere mores to build Manners rather than to mend their Manners But because their good Examples as well as their bad are greatly followed like great Men being the Looking-Glasses by which the Rabble dress themselves the great Body turning to and fro and if the Head turn round the unwilely bulk will usually wheel for Company I love not Encomiums of this Nature but here to be silent is to injure Innocence and rob a Righteous Man a Righteous King and a Glorious Martyr of his due God himself calls a worse King his choice One Isa 42.1 Nemo vir magnus sine afflatu divino unquam fuit saith Cicero no Man did ever do or suffer bravely but by divine Instinct a Hand lent him from Heaven and I think it no boldness to say amongst a People that think themselves reproach'd when Charles is vindicated no Man could do or suffer with that Christian Patience Meckness and Magnanimity the Imprisonments and Tumults the Reproaches and Martyrdom that he did except God was with him Oh when will this Kingdom deserve the title that Polidore-Virgil says was once usually given to it Regnum Angliae regnum Dei Regnum Angliae regnum Angelorum whilst this day tells us it was Regnum Diabolorum Plato commends the Attick Country in that it was beloved of God and loved God Oh that England might be so too beloved of God and love God and fear God which is impossible if we do not honour the King so saith St. Paul Rom. 13.2 though cruel Nero had then the power He that resisteth the Power is damned or as our Translation shall receive to himself Damnation A Scripture that I wonder how those that glory so much in their poring upon the Scripture can overlook or their tender Consciences make a baulk of without either Scruple or Remorse So that we have cause to wish for our Kingdom as Ferus did for the Romish Synagogue that we had some Moses to take away our Evils Non enim unum tantum vitulum fed multos habemus non tres Rebelles Korah Dathan Abiram fed innumeros The Israelites had but one golden Calf but we have many they had three grand Rebels Korah Dathan and Abiram but we thousands As if Rebellion with all its odious Retinue and Appurtenances could be propagated ex traduce Korah that great Rebel was a Priest too one of the Sons of Lew and one of the Princes of the Assembly as Numb 16.2 and of all these 250 Princes mentioned Numb 16.2 Men of renown famous in the Congregation he was the chief for according to the custom of Egypt from whence they came their Princes were Priests yet that would not serve he will be Chief-Priest or nothing aut Caesar aut nullus as Moses Articles against him ver 10. of the 16th of Numb and to compass his design he turns Independant Minister and sides with the People that by these Rounds of the Ladder he might climb up to his desired Height Ambition has no Reins never knows to make a stop is always the Father of Rebellion though Religion may be the Godfather and give it a Name Was not Aaron the second Man amongst the new Common-wealths men that came out of Egypt yet that 's not enough but he Bandyes with his holy Sister Miriam the Prophetess against Moses to get the Supremacy Numb 12.1 and to effect this first they rip up a Fault committed 40 Years contrary to the Law against strange Wives in the Marriage of a poor Black-moor Woman called there an Aethiopian Woman the true cause of their discontent breaks forth Hath the Lord indeed only spoken by Moses and hath he not also spoken by us So that it is certain as well as an old Rule that he that goes about to spy faults in his Superiors and blaze them in publick to their shame that Man certainly is going about to rebell and pick a quarrel with them First he renders them dirty and then they are fit for nothing but to be rubb'd first array them in Bear-skins then sets Dogs upon them to worry them There 's a Writ in Law called Ne injuste vexes vex not any Man unjustly and the People of old were forbidden to vex a Stranger but for a King to be Vexed Oppressed and at last Murdered by his own Subjects as Barbarously as Bloodily in the midst of his Kingdoms and in the Strength of his Years his Friends and loving Subjects being helpless Spectators whilst the Caitiffs reviled him and triumphed in their unparallell'd Massacre at his own Gates is a piece of horrid Butchery as matchless as odious And all this with the