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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

making of any more Laws which might be judged necessary for the good of the Nation For without the King no Law can be made His Royal Assent Sanction and Fiat makes every Law to be a Law Therefore the Parliament did never presume to call any things by the name of a Law which they made without the King but by the name not of Acts but of Ordinances of Parliament Secondly there was stop put to the execution of those good and wholsome Laws which were before in being Execution say they is the life of Laws and who but the King is the great Executioner of Laws or the life of their Execution When Judges and other great men in the Law went off by death who but a King could legally substitute others in their room If any Justice be done by Officers not legally called and constituted we must be beholden to usurpation for it Laws are things full of life and spirit if they be such for the constitution and execution of them as they ought to be and upon the life of good Laws depend all our Lives Liberties good Names Estates Properties It is as it were the breath of their Nostrils If the true Soul of the Law go out of it which is the King they must either be restored by some Vsurper or usurping spirit or fall to the ground They who destroy our Laws or the due execution of them had as good in effect burn up all our Ships break down all our Forts and Fences yea they had as good almost cut down all our Banks and Buttresses upon the Sea-shore and let in the Sea upon us as do what they do He that destroys one good Law or the effect and progress of it may do the world more mischief than if he had destroy'd twenty men yea a hundred such as they might be I had almost said If a man could stop the motion of the Sun Moon and Stars and all their Influences upon the earth their light and height c. for ought I know would not be more missed than the free course or progress of Laws would be What Death then could be greater than their demerits who kill'd not only the Law-maker but the Laws themselves which are all in all in all that we have to shew or plead for any thing that we call ours in this world Seventhly Alas alas that I should yet have more wherewith to accuse those poor unhappy men who put the late King to death I say it was Homicidium barbarum a barbarous Murther in reference to the circumstances of it Who knows not that cruelty may be shew'd even towards a noxious Brute which ought to be put to death as towards a wild Boar or the like namely by making its necessary death more painful or more lingring than it need to be but if the same thing be done to a harmless Animal as to a tame Dove or such like the cruelty and barbarousness is yet greater upon that account If the severity be applied to a reasonable Creature man or woman it is counted ten times so barbarous but when barbarous usage shall be applied to a Prince a King our own King a virtuous King and one that had been a man of sorrows and acquainted with griefs for many years together not to grant him as handsome an Exit out of the world as could consist with an untimely death was such a transcendant instance of inhumane barbarity as I think no age can parallel Reader If thy heart can bear the mention of them which I assure thee mine hardly can and if thou art content to weep a while for the following Lines are scarcely to be writ or read with dry eyes I shall quote a few instances of the barbarous usage which our dear and dread Sovereign that then was met with as I find them recorded in Dr. Perrinshief's excellent History of the Life and Death of King Charles I. To say nothing of the King-killing Party in Parliament and Army their over-ruling all the vigorous endeavours which were used from time to time by the whole House of Lords together with the major part of the House of Commons to compromise all matters with his Majesty having courageously Voted though the Army was drawn up to London to over-awe them That the King's Concessions were a sufficient ground for Peace Dr. P. p. 174. But to come immediately to such passages as do refer to his Death Some would have the King saith Dr. Perrinshief pag. 185. first formally degraded and divested of all his Royal Habiliments and Ensigns of Majesty and then as a private person exposed to Justice Others designing a Tyrannical Oligarchy whereby they might have a share in the Government would have the King proceeded against as King that by so shedding his Blood they might extinguish Majesty and so m●rther Monarchy For several of them did confess that indeed he was guilty of no Crime more than that he was their King and because the excellency of his parts and the rights of his birth would not suffer him to be a private person pag. 186. In their second debate about the matters of Accusation all embraced the advice of Harrison to blacken him c. Ibidem Accordingly they impeached him as a Tyrant Traitor Murtherer and an implacable common Enemy because he had levied war against the Parliament Upon which the Author afterward descants thus excellently pag. 187. Those who had none but the light of nature to make them generous never reproached their conquered Enemies with their Victory but these men would murther their Prince against whom they had nothing else to object but the unhappy issues of a war which leaves the Conquered the only Criminal while the name of Justice and Goodness are the spoils of Conquerors Most barbarous was their cruelty because most inexorable For saith he pag. 187. while they were thus ingaged to perpetrate their intended mischiefs all Parties declare against it The Presbyterian Ministers almost all those of London and very many out of the several Countries and some though few of the Independents The Scots also by their Commissioners declare and protest against it The States of Holland also by their Embassadors did intercede and deprecate it as most destructive to the Protestant Interest Some of the most eminent of the Nobility as the Earl of Southampton the Duke of Richmond the Marquess of Hertford and the Earl of Lindsey and others neglact no ways either by Prayers or Reasons to save the King yea they offered themselves as Hostages for him and if the Conspirators must needs be fed with blood to suffer in his stead pag. 189. The Prince of Orange did daily send as Arents the Kindred and Allies of the Conspirators with full Power and to propose any Conditions make any Promises and use all threatnings to divert them from their intended cruelty But all was in vain For no conditions of Peace could please them whose Ambition had swallowed the hopes of Empire therefore they would

diffused power of the two last should happen to be equally divided as is possible for it to be and yet to have a power of determining it self and turn the Scales must not that be done by some one man will it not necessarily issue there For say All power were in a Senate consisting of a thousand men admit there be all the Members of that Senate present at a debate save only one by means of whose absence there being five hundred Votes on the one side there can be but 499 on the other upon this so great division you see the whole Affair is carried by but one voice Even amongst those who by their constitution have an equal share in Government is there not generally a Dominus fac totum a Chieftain or Superintendant a Leading-man a man that hath the casting voice generally given him in whose advice and counsel all the rest or the major part of them do acquiesce And what is such a man but a Monarch in his place and amongst those over whom he governs so absolutely so uncontroulably let him go by what name he will either of Justice Magistrate or Minister c. Kings themselves do not act without their Privy Council and other persons of Honor who are assisting to their Affairs but in conjunction with them their advice and assistance they do what they please And truly so do those petty invisible Princes or Kings that walk incognito and under disguise They in conjunction with some of the best Head-pieces that are about them and by the assistance of their party which adheres to them carry what they please carry all before them in spight of all opposition Thus it was from the beginning thus it now is and will be to the end of the world Were it not easie to say Who is in effect a Monarch amongst the Anabaptists and amongst the Quakers c So that all the Governments in the world are virtually and in effect Monarchies though the people see it not and their Votes are little more than for fashion-sake and to please them with a shadow of Power and Liberty when their real power is little more than to sit still He then that is an Enemy to Monarchy and to every thing that is like it will presently become an enemy to all sorts of Governments all the world over which are indeed and truth but so many Virtual Monarchies all things considered So men fly the Name whilst they continue the Thing and alter the Shadow whilst they accept the Substance of Monarchy over them Amongst those who are equal in power the wisest will always govern the weakest and they that by their Wealth or Prudence or otherwise can make the greatest Party will carry all before them If then the light of Nature and universal practice of the world hath determined Monarchy to be the best and most necessary form of Government who can sufficiently decry their sin who did not only destroy an excellent King and Monarch but also aimed at the destruction of Monarchy or Kingly Power throughout Europe that if it were possible the Name and Thing might be rooted out and might be restor'd no more And so I have made good the 12th thing which I charg'd upon them viz. an attempt to destroy Monarchy though it be the best Government in the world Thirteenthly It must needs be confest they were Self-murtherers or Felo de se's who murthered the late King For in taking away his life they forfeited their own If an Earl or a greater Subject do wilfully but murther a poor Foot-man or Beggar by so doing he forfeits his life according to God's Law yea and the Law of England too He then that kills a King had he a hundred thousand lives would by so doing forfeit every one of them and be made to pay his forfeiture too unless great clemency interpose I remember no one Regicide in all the Scripture but what is punished with death save only that of Jehu committed upon the person of Joram which being done at the express command of God ought not I think to be called Regicide But I pass on Fourteenthly The murthering of the late King was Animaecidium not only Self-murther as to each of their Bodies but Soul-murther as to every of them unless the infinite Mercy of God should step in and prevent it Is Hell-fire the wages of them that wilfully murder but a private person witness those words 1 John 3.15 And ye know no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him i. e. no wilful murtherer hath jus in re as to eternal life i. e. any present actual capacity to enter into life eternal as he that was under a Leprosie under the Law might not for that time be admitted to eat the Passeover though jus ad rem i. e. a dormant suspended right which may or shall be restor'd and redintegrated upon his repentance that he may have as David had when he defiled Bathsheba But divers do say If David had never actually repented of that great sin he had never had eternal life but had been everlastingly damn'd So Baronius in his excellent Book De peccato mortali veniali If the wilful murthering of one private man be enough to sink a Soul into Hell what will not the murder of a King do Will not God heat that Furnace yet ten times hotter for Regicides Korah Dathan and Abiram are called sinners against their own Souls Numb 16.38 for rebelling against Moses and Aaron i. e. for but murmuring against them though not one drop of blood was shed by their hands How greatly then have they sinn'd against their own Souls who have rebelled and resisted even to blood I have before quoted that Text Rom. 13.2 They that resist shall receive to themselves damnation I leave that word to fasten this head on their Consciences as a nail in a sure place and pass on to the next Fifteenthly The murthering of the King was Multicidium pardon the making of a new word in such a case as this or Caedes multorum or Homicidium multiplicatum complicatum i. e. it was a great many murthers in one First it was virtually so according to the computation which we read of 2 Sam. 18.3 But the people answered Thou shalt not go forth i. e. David should should not go forth to Battle thou art more worth than ten thousand of us c. Secondly It was actually so as the Complices in that violent action by encouraging and emboldning each other thereunto were guilty of the sin and death of one another Thirdly As the death of the late King was remotely the death of many persons and families I mean the ruine and destruction of multitudes of Families which depended upon him which was worse than d●ath its self Sixteenthly Putting of the late King to death was Legicidium as well as Regicidium i. e. the death of the Law as well as of the King For first By the King's death a stop was put to the