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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02735	Dies nefastus; or A sermon preached on the publick fast day, for the cruell murther of our late soveraign, upon that unfortunate day January 30. / By Andrew Dominick, D.D. ...		1662 (1662)	Wing D1842A; ESTC R175969	9,106	24

death Here I could speak of the Apostles and other Saints believing in Christ how some of them were beheaded and others crucified others hanged on a tree others killed with the swords most sad stories all yet even to be paralleld by these times in our memorie Eusebius tells us of a persecution under those monsters of Men Dioclesian and Maximinian wherein 17000 Christians were slain with the sword * V. D Johan Pappas in Epist Hist Eccles And an other tells of 900000. in the space of 30. years from 1550. to 1580. in the Low Countries England Italy and Spaine that were miserably butchered for the Religion we now profess * D. Saccus 2 part post Doni 8. Tr. But what is this to the cruelties our eyes have seen or might have seen in a lesser space both of ground and time Oh how many thousands beloved yea who is able to number them that went to wrack by the means of that unnatural Rebellion of late years amongst us Nay men of principallest quality and best fashion amongst us * Here think up●n the Nobles Knights Gent. Nay our dearl highly honoured and beloved King compassed by those Bulls of Bashan and destroyed in open sight at his own Doors his poor loyal people sighing and helplesse Spectators O horrid and unheard of cruelty O bloudy Catalines Could no bloud satisfie after so many noble streams your cruel hands had made but the blood of your Sovereign what vipers what tygers what bulls of Bashan were these certainly David could not more bitterly entitle his malicious enemies then we may justly those of the late King many are the adversaries which rose up against him may Israel now say many are the adversaries and they fought against me with cruel hatred may Israel also say and who were those adversaries that rose up so violently against David not strangers but his own Subjects his own vassalls and servants this aggravated the matter had it been a stranger as he said elsewhere he could have borne it with much more patience but our late Sovereign was afflicted by his own people insolently handled by rebells most barbarously murthered yet bore it with unheard of patience sweetly counselling and advising as if he had been not so much to die by them as for them Oh beloved let us bewaile that wicked fact let us lament that ever English-man should prove so unnatural so cruel so inhumane as to rise up against his own own own natural Prince What a disgrace by that barbarous fact did those vipers bring upon the Nation 't is storied of vipers that grown to maturity in their dams belly they gnaw a hole and so those serpents come forth into the world just so did those Rebells of old grown up to some strength gnaw a hole thorow the bowels of those that bred them and destroyed the Patrem Patriae and had well nigh murthered their Countrey beloved for this should we mourn this day for this lament abhorring all thought of the least refreshment For know ye not that a great prince fell in Israel this day let us therefore mourn let us express and shew our sadness before God and man and let this be Dies Nefastus an unlucky day a day of darkness for ever a day of blackness and gloominess let no joy or gladness be heard in our streets but rather paleness in our faces and sorrow perceived in our hearts on this day for ever Let us also by prayers and godly readings humble our minds at the footstool of Divine Majesty that he may be intreated concerning the blood of our gracious Sovereign that some of the chief actors having been hung up before the Lord the kingdom may be guiltless before the Lord for ever Oh hear us we beseech thee O Lord and make not inquisition upon the guiltlesse for blood but let the blood of those which spilt that most pretious blood satisfie thy sore displeasure for shedding of that blood Austin tells us de Civit. 26. there sha●● be ●owards the end of the world such Persecutions as never was and truly such dayes had we within these few years past when those Bulls of Bashan were got loose what swarms then of Locusts and Caterpillars were every where upon every green thing Zozomen and Theodoret tell us That the Persecutions were not alwayes with present death to hang or shoot them forthwith but sometimes to macerate them first in Prisons and to afflict them there with expectation of death more intollerable then death it self So was the Church afflicted in the Primitive times and when those Bulls of Bashan were loose who ever escaped the Clergy ever went to wrack in the Primitive Persecution John the Baptist was B●headed Peter and John we read were Imprisoned Acts 4.3 S● Peter and Andrew were Crucified St. Bartholomew Skin'd alive St. Luke Hanged Ignatius cast to Lions the Prophet Michael fed with bread and water others spoyled of their Goods and Estates and sent away into Banishment But with us many thousands of the poor Commonalty were sold into perpetual sl●very to Digge under ground in Mines all the dayes of their Lives Many were deprived Zozom saith oft times of their civil Honours and the Churches in many places shut up the Ministers proscribed and turned out Church Revenues scamled amongst needy and bankrupt people to encourage others such like to rise up and accuse their Godly Ministers and now I beseech you doth not this seem like the History of our times saving that we had something yet worse which grew out of thes● ev●s and that was the damnable mask of Religion and Godlinesse then which there can be nothing more desireable when true and sincere For it is not my thoughts I blesse God for it to speake or hint the least in way of discountenancing of true Religion and Godlinesse or to discourage or balke any in the sincere practice thereof no it were better I profess● th●t my tongue should cleave to the roofe of my mouth No my beloved Brethren go on I beseech you in all Sinceritie and Truth both to professe and practice also not in words onely but in deeds also f●r there is nothing more beneficiall nothing more comfortable in the end then to be able to say with the Holy Father Egredere meâ anima go forth my soul go forth with chearfulnesse to meet thy gratious Lord whom thou hast through his grace served so many years Then nothing is more desireable then Religion but then I mean to note it also that nothing is more mischievous when feigned and counterfeited and what was more frequent 't was that great Mask the prime Contrivers of our Ruine walked in themselves and it was that they loved to see their Imps to imitate them in so that if the common'st * So it was with my self Strumpet in fame could but scruple at the word Temple or Church or Altar she was Godly enough to accuse her Minister for a Scandalous Person Oh the Hypocrisie of