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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57599	Loyalty and peace, or, Two seasonable discourses from I Sam. 24, 5 viz., David's heart smote him because he cut off Saul's skirt : the first of conscience and its smitings, the second of the prodigious impiety of murthering King Charles I, intended to promote sincere devotion and humiliation upon each anniversary fast for the Late King's death / by Samuel Rolls.	Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing R1880; ESTC R25524	110,484	255

an accepted time a day of Salvation You were worse scar'd than hurt with the Alarm of a King Such is not the manner of the King that rules over us as is described 1 Sam. 8.9 ours is no such King Are not your Estates all but those that were ravished from the Church or State continued with you Is not the Law open and ready to defend you and yours if required as much as any other of the Kings Subjects If you be as quiet may you not live as quietly as any people in England To allude to that Text Psal 126.1 When the Lord turned again the Captivity of Zion we were like them that dream Are you not like men and women in a dream to see your selves in so good a plight and posture as you never expected to have been if God restor'd the King Had God given you a new Law of thankfulfulness upon condition it should have been so well with you as now it is would you not have accepted it with all your hearts upon those terms If God has been better to you than his word or promise your obligation is so much the greater Learn we then to bless God for our good King to love honour and obey him and let us cry out with the man after God's own heart Psal 118 28. God is the Lord which hath shewed us light bind the Sacrifice with cords even to the horns of the Altar ver 29. O give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Now Reader let thine own invention tell thee how these heads may be further enlarged and upon what other heads it may be most proper for thee to discourse either in publick or private upon a 30th day of January sacred to the Memory of King Charles the first his Martyrdom I will detain thee no longer than whilst I have made a little enquiry into one great Mystery and resolved one perplexing Question which is this Quest If the murthering of the late King were so great a sin as I have deciphereed it to be How comes it to pass that none of all his Judges one excepted who by common fame is presumed to be a man of more Conscience and Religion than the rest no not of those who were executed for it were ever for ought I heard learn to confess and bewail what they had done but rather to carry and brave it out with such confidence and seeming innocence as the adulterous woman Prov. 30.20 of whom Solomon thus speaks She eateth and wipeth her mouth and saith I have done no wickedness This their confidence hath cast such a mist before the eyes of some people and so perverted their judgments as to make them think there was nothing amiss in what they did yea to be almost perswaded that they did God good service in it and quitted themselves like Phineas who stood up and executed judgment and it was accounted to him for righteusness Answ But oh the mistakes of men Oh the false Glosses which dazle the eyes of poor filly mortals Oh the common fallacy which imposeth upon the world viz. Non causa pro causa They must needs have had the most false and flattering Consciences the most deceitful hearts that ever men had if ever they presum'd to tell them they had done well or bid them when taking their Viaticum or last repast to eat their bread with joy and drink their wine with a merry heart for God accepted their work or that with such a sacrifice as that God was well pleased Had an Israelite instead of sacrificing a Lamb cut off a dogs neck or offered Swines blood for an oblation to God or bless'd an Idol instead of burning incense or slain a man instead of killing of an Oxe as God expresses in Ifa 66.3 he might as well have promised himself Gods acceptance thereof and his smelling a sweet savour of rest from thence as those Murtherers of an excellent King could do of that bloody barbarous Sacrifice which they had prepared to which I may aptly apply those words of the Apostle 1 Cor. 10.10 But I say the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to Devils and not to God No drink-offering ever cheer'd the heart of Devils and wicked men so well according to Judg. 9.13 as did that of Royal Blood If ever there were mirth in Hell surely it was upon that day That was such a Hecatomb as the infernall Fiends never had a greater offered to them never a Feast of more fat things sacrificed to their malice That they who were the Actors in this bloody Tragedy were no more sensible of what they had done might spring from two causes 1. Because the sin being so great and horrid as it was might well bring a kind of Apoplexy upon their Consciences and in some such apoplectick Fit they or some of them seem'd to dye For great sins as well as great sorrows and blows are apt to stun and stupifie as I proved before 2. Because there were many of them that were concern'd in it and it might seem to them to be in this as in other cases viz. That many hands make light work 'T is a very true and common observation that when a great many men joyn together when they go as it were in herds and droves they do often venture upon doing of those things by consent which were they invited to do alone they would be ready to say as he Is thy Servant a dead dog that I should do this thing One would think men were deceived with some such idle fallacy as this viz. That if an hundred men joyn together in one Murther or other high act of Injustice or Dishonesty every one of them were but the hundredth part of a Murtherer as if multorum manibus grande levatur onus were a Rule that held in this case but as thus applied it is a very great mistake For what our Law saith is consonant to right Reason viz. That in murther no man is meer accessary but all are principals and obnoxious to death Shall I add a third This their sin was not so universally gone before to judgment as is a plain ordinary Murther because it was coloured over with a pretence of Law and Justice there were a great many that were ready not only to vindicate but applaud it the mask was not quite taken off from it nor the vail of darkness from the hearts of all the Spectators This with a good strong Cordial a sufficient opiate and a seared Conscience and an ambition to set a good face upon what they had done to make the best of a bad market to dye like men and Souldiers and those that some would not doubt to Canonize for Saints even for the sake of their Regicide could they but keep their own counsel by dying such in point of Resolution and seeming Assurance those with some other things I could name might be the true causes why they did or seem'd to die

Kings of England and particularly of his gracious Majesty that now is for ever after Let us Ministers tell the people on that day how just and righteous God is how God is known by the Judgments which he executeth the wicked being taken in their own snare and in the pit which they digged for others how he causes mens sins to find them out and long forborn Murther and Regicides to pursue men like Blood-hounds how he brings the wheel upon ungodly men after long-forbearance how though he be long-suffering yet not ever-suffering and when he maketh inquisition for blood he will not forget the Blood of Kings or suffer the shedding of Royal blood to go unpunished Mind your people how dangerous the beginnings of publick Disturbances and Changes are even like sparks of fire in the midst of a Magazine of Gun-powder and may prove of as dangerous consequence When a King and his people are once ing aged against each other in a War ten to one but the issue will be either he will hang them if he have the better of it or they will behead him if the day be theirs Think of Solomons words Prov. 17.14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out waters therefore leave off contention before it be medled with Think also of the words of St. James Jam. 3.5 Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth Labor on that day especially to bring one French fashion into England viz. to cause the people of England to love and honour their King as universally as the people of France are said to do whose humour and it is a very good one is this as I am inform●d viz. If their King enjoy great renown and prosperity if he be victorious and successful a little matter else will content them they are content with any thing looking upon their happiness as bound up in his and that if he be happy they ought not to think themselves miserable A 30th of January is as good and sutable a day as can be to exhort the people as St. Paul doth 1 Tim. 1.1 2. That not only supplications prayers and intercessions but also giving of Thanks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be made for Kings and for all that are in Authority and in order thereunto to make them sensible how many and great mercies benefits and priviledges they enjoy under the Government of his Majesty that now is Doth not the blood and spirit of Justice if I may so call it freely and uninterruptedly circulate in all the veins of this Nation Was there ever less complaint of Male-administration in publick Courts than has been ever since his Majesties return What great numbers are there of able Lawyers Judges Sergeants and others Learned in the Law And possibly as many Gentlemen of honesty and integrity as have been known of that Profession in any one Age. How well furnished are both the Vniversities with good Scholars and good men though it cannot be expected they should all be such especially Masters and Fellows of Colledges And that I may instance in every of the Liberal and Learned Professions How many Learned Physicians are there in England far surpassing the number of Learned men of that Profession it may be in any part of Europe for so I have heard Nay how many scores of Pious and Learned Divines are there at this day in England doubtless in no age all Divines were such and amongst them how many painful and excellent Preachers acurate Disputants noble champions for the Protestant Religion mighty Goliahs to encounter the greatest Leviathan's and as rational clear-headed enemies to Atheisme Enthusiasme and Nonserse as ever drew sword against those Enemies I was about to fay If God had given us leave to bespeak a King after our own hearts or made one on purpose for us such as we desired he could not in sundry respects have excelled what he now is Ex. gr 1. In point of Mercy and Benignity I think he has forgiven more than any King did before him or may do after him a more unsanguinary Prince never was in the world Blame him not if he exact that Obedience which is due to him but he cares as little for Sacrifice as ever King did and as small a matter hath atoned him as ever did atone any Prince so provoked and injured as he hath been If he has not fed his enemies when he saw them hungry and clothed them when they were naked many men that were his enemies both in war and otherwise never did any man do it 2. In point of Peaceableness for all know him to be the true Grandchild of King King James He is none of those that delight in War and are ever and anon immersing their Subjects in Seas of Blood He loves not to quarrel his Neighbours round about him and to Hector them into War and to give up his people to the Sword to eat their flesh and drink their blood but had rather have them sit under ther vines and under their fig-trees none making them afraid 3. If Humility and Condescention be an ornament to a Prince and the advantage of his Subjects I am much deceived if his Majesty doth no abound therein and yet reserveth to himself the Majesty and Greatness which doth become his place What Prince in the world more affable more accessible than he 4. If it be a mercy to have a wise Prince who understands his own business as doubtless it is t is well known by this time of day that he is one none but a wise Pilot could steer safely in so great storms as his Majesty hath been in and preserve a Ship from being lost sayling amongst so many Rocks and Shelves and Sands as he has done The wisdom of his Grandfather King James as being one of the greatest Royal Scholars that ever was began early to appear for the warm Sun of so literate an Education quickly brought him to maturity But the wisdom of King Charles the Martyr did then most gloriously shine out when he himself was under a cloud of Adversity and was like Musick which makes the sweetest melody upon the waters So did his Piety and Wisdom upon the waters of Affliction As a man may bebold the Sun in a shady pit or well better than above ground for there is no reflexion from the earth to divert our eyes So they who beheld King Charles the First in the deep pit or well of Affliction saw his wisdom to greater advantage than it was taken notice of before and in him that Maxime verified viz. Vexatio dat intellectum Quite contrary it hapned to his Majesty that now is whom God bless for ever In the years of his Adversity his wisdom and other excellencies were better known to Foreiners than to us his natural Subjects for that he was then upon force-put a stranger to his own Country and Kingdoms and evil-minded men took the advantage of his Exile and absence to represent him as they pleased But