them by the giddy preachments and undigested swelling and tedious prayers of their Lecturers who reduced all Religion unto lip-worship and canting Scriptures Hence came it to passe that contemning the old paths the truth of the reformation in the Protestant Religion they contended unto bloud to corrupt by their phanatick Alterations the pure Doctrine Evangelical discipline established in the Church of England to effect which with the more â—ase they adventure upon sacriledgâ— to carry on that they must pull down Episcopacy the fence of the Church and here the King as a nursing Father interposing they render Him unable by encroaching upon his Prerogatives quarrelling him seize upoÌ„ his Strenghs Arme fight against him imprison and then Murther Him which last Act of Rebellion though the greatest part of the first Engagers may be thought never to have intended yet they may see the first violation of their Obedience due unto His Majesty punished by a guilt thus farre of his Innocent bloud that that power which they raised spilt it So dangerous it is to vary from a Christian Principle or to do evil that good may come of it God onely having power to direct limit and determine any evill action so that look over the pedigree of Englands sins through the severall descents thereof and you will find it thus Peace begot wealth that plenty that pride that vanity that curiosity that contention that hate of the Clergy that Sacriledge that the downfall of Bishops that the contempt of the KING that War that imprisonment and that the murther of the King a murther the most horrid murther that ever the Sun saw for Subjects to take away their King's life without the prescription of a single example or a law nay even against all laws divine and humane to Try him after the form of a Judiciary proceeding this is to entitle God unto the greatest sin to establish iniquity by a Law and to make God such as themselves Thus the Jews dealt with our Saviour We have a Law and by that Law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God although there was no such Law but a new-made Law a Juncto-law Straffords law Canterburies law the King's law consequent Laws Laws without names or cognizance made because he was KING Neither doth their power any more prove the equity of this Fact the great scandal of the Christian name and height of Anabaptistical fury than the Devils power which is from God doth justifie his malice which is from himself They have now indeed made King Charles a glorious King prov'd him glorious in his personal Vertues glorious in his divine Graces but most glorious in the Christian Constancy of his glorious Sufferings for Gods Cause the true Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of the three Kingdomes thus hath God extorted a truth from them for this spake they not of themselves but God forceing their testimony they prophesied As we have seen His Majesties sufferings and their causes our sins so let us reflect upon their punishments as the Springs from which our sorrows should arise The exceeding avarice and hypocrisie two noted Court-sins with which the greatest Christian Prince Constantine was abused of the State-Grandees the deep pits wherein they laid the fatall snares into which pious King CHARLES fell will be visibly punished for God will not be mocked The pride vanity sacriledge rebellion and the cruel murther of His Majesty will have particular judgments levell'd against these sins every mans sin even of those who have fought for His Majesty who have yet fought against him by their sins hath given force unto this great stroke and wound given unto these Kingdoms in His Majesties death and therefore ought every man to proportion his sorrow unto his sins As King Josiah from Judah so the strong Baricado King Charles is taken away betwixt Gods judgments and this Kingdom the great and wide In-let of all misery is made by his death could our sorrows answer them like a Torrent it would overflow all the banks of Reason and grow too big to be carried away by the channels of our senses behold every spring of Jeremiah and Judahs sorrow open to send forth these flowing streams of affliction upon us and all arise from the same head The breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said Under his shadow we shall live among the Heathen Those heavy judgments which the Prophet Jeremiah foresaw impending and after came to pass by King Josiahs death are in a great part by King Charles his death already come upon us Gods House his beautiful house is laid waste the Heathen have entred into the Sanctuary they have made a noise in the House of the Lord as in the day of a solemn Feast So that they who in the beginning pretended God Religion the Church their Cause have dealt with us as that Faction among the Jews who called â—hemselves The Zealous in the war with Titus did under pretence of defending Religion and the Law they possessed themselves of the Temple yet were themselves the first who put fire with their own hands into the holy places How hath the avarice and carnall interests of the Teachers of these times corrupted the purity of our Religion as Judahs so Englands onely Prophets have seen vain and foolish things for her and they have not discovered her iniquity to turn away her captivity but have seen for her false burthens and causes of banishment they have shed the bloud of the just K. Charles in the midst of her Englands greatest Adversaries are chief and her Enemies prosper Servants do bear rule over us and there is none to deliver us out of their hand They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghils Princes are hanged by their hands and the faces of the Elders are not honoured War desolation and famine with their sad effects foretold in these Lamentations appear in our Horizon already like Elihu's little Cloud which will shortly overspread our whole English firmament and all these calamities have and will fall upon us because the Crown is fallen from our Head the British Josiah King Charles is taken from us and we have no comforter and how great and just causes of our sorrows are all these Calamities But let this sorrow have the full advantage in its fall to adde motion unto all the turning wheels of our afflicting griefs the fall from our great happiness in his Majesties Government Let London let England let Scotland let Ireland let every of them Remember as Jerusalem did in the dayes of her afflictions and her miseries all the pleasant things that she had in the dayes of old All the pleasant things they had in the blessed dayes of King Charles his blessed Reign the glory and truth of her Religion the just execution of
her Laws her peace her riches her plenty her liberty at home and her protection and honour abroad England was the perfection of beauty and the joy of the whole earth The Kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the Adversary and Enemy should have entred into the Gates of our Jerusalem London that Churches should be turned into stables Gods Houses made Courts of Guards the Royall Palaces made Garrisons the Tythes the portion of Gods Ministers made the Souldiers salary that the Law should be turned into wormwood our Religion and Liberty measured out unto us by the Pikes length the decisions of the Sword become the Principles of Faith and that which is the cause of all this mechanick persons Trades-men who will certainly marr never can mend so great concernments they never before handled or were acquainted with the sole Moderators of Publick affairs and the chief Princes and Potentates of our Kingdom But now The glory is departed from our Israel the Arke of God is taken and how is England become a Widow made a prey unto cruel people and skilful to destroy who daily force and prostitute her unto their wicked purposes for these things let England and every true-hearted Englishman say I weep mine eye mine eye runneth down with waâ—er because the Comforter King CHARLES that should relieve my soul is far from me The breath of our Nestrils the Anointed of the Lord c. The life of our Religion of our Laws of our Liberties is taken from us the Image of Gods power in supreme Authority Indemnity Inviolability is taken from us our Physition our nursing Father our Comforter our Protectour is taken from us for our sins was taken in their pits so that now we want the wings of his protection among these Heathen among whom we live we are now made very Slaves unto the worst of Heathen a people without God without Faith without Law without Rule without Reason without Humanity without all these and whose unruly will onely iâ— unto them all these These calamities are all fallen upon us because The breath of our Nostrils c. pious King Charles is taken from us like Elias in a â—iery Charriot or as Constantine the Great after his death was impressed on a Coyn pluck'd up by a divine hand into Heaven that his eyes might not see nor his righteous soul be afflicted with all the evil which is come upon us to consume us wo unto us for we have sinned These are but the contracted heads of those miseries which we shall all read over in the vast Volumes of our approching woes and justly besâ—eaks such sorrows as might transform us into Niobes make our heads Rivers of sorrows and our eyes Fountains for continual tears The Lord in mercy look upon us and wipe away these tears from our eyes and their causes our sins from our souls and since the bloud of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church in mercy unto his Church restore the seed of his Martyr King Charles the First unto the Government of these Kingdoms that Religion Peace and Liberty may be restored unto us I conclude these ours as the Prophet doth his Lamentations Turn thou unto us O Lord and we shall be turned renew our dayes as of old if thou hast not utterly dejected us Hear our prayers O Lord for thy Sons sake unto whom with the Holy Ghost be ascribed c. FINIS 2 Chrâ— 35.25 Calvin 2 King 23.25 27. Lam. 2â— Gen. ◠〈◊〉 13.3 â—ab â— 16. â—am 14. â—am 21. â—hro 27. â— Ecc. â— 1. Euseb. supra Civ D. â— l. 17. c. â— â— Vet. â—cil â—â—eum â—num â—uid â—ficat â—ibus 〈◊〉 huâ—â—bus â—remiâ— Aug. â—â—rb D. â— 23. â—e 8.4 â—t 2. Socraâ— proae l. 5. Euseb. vit Coâ— m. l. 4â— 24. Rom. â— 4. Pâ—al 47 Cont. Faust. â— Maniâ— 2â— c. 7 â—m 10. â—ngs 4. â—ngs 5. â—ngs â— â—hron â— 9. 2 Samâ— 4. 1 Kinâ— 27. Esth. â— 1 Kinâ—â— Acts â— 10.1 Euseb. Hist. l. â— c. 14. Psal. 5. â—on â—â—bat 〈◊〉 saâ—menti â—ctitaâ— quid â—o veâ—abatur â—vid â—g Cont. â—et l. 2. â— â—am 24. David Sauleâ— proptâ— sacroâ—â—ctam â—â—ctioneâ— honorâ— vivumâ— viâ—diâ— occisuâ— Aug. â— lit oâ—t c. 48. In Apâ— Ep. l. 2. Ep. 13â— Dig. vâ— l. 1. tit H. leg 3â— Tho. Aâ— Ia. IIâ— 96. a. 5â— III m. 〈◊〉 Carâ— Ep. â— 1 Saâ— 14. â—m 26. ◠〈◊〉 non â—â—ebat â—â—ocenâ—◠〈◊〉 haâ—â—at sanâ—â—tem 〈◊〉 vitae â—â—sed saâ—â—menti 〈◊〉 quod â—alis â—â—inibus â—tum â—ubi 〈◊〉 Amb. 〈◊〉 l. 2. Ep. â— Eusâ— Hiâ— Ecc. l. 3â— c. 27. Theod. l 3. f. 19. 〈◊〉 deâ—m non â—dideâ—â— in 〈◊〉 Chriâ—â—ni non 〈◊〉 terreâ—regibus â—equi â—g Con â—in â—l 118. Ps. 114. â—â—om â— 7 cap. â—â— 14. Psal. 133.2 Lev. 19.15 Luk. 10 34. Isa. 3.7 Rom. 13 4. Psal. 104 15. Cyril Cat. 3. Job 32.18 â—â—nt 〈…〉 l. 12.11 â—od 19. â— 2 Châ— 13. 〈…〉 c. 14 〈◊〉 â—3 24 Jer. â— 2 Saâ— 3. 1 Sam 17. 2 Châ—â— 24. â— Job â— 2 〈◊〉 34.17 Isa. 57. â—hron 19. â—hron 24. ch 11.1 â—â—rius â—estis â—egno 〈◊〉 Anâ—rit p. 5 â— Vicaâ— summi â—is Leg. Reg. c. Lamb. â—ud â— Lex 〈◊〉 Socra c. 22. â—â—ngs Euseb. Const. l. 4. c. 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 l. â— 1. 〈…〉 16. Isa. 14 18 19 20. Acts 13 10. â— 2.10 〈◊〉 12. â—â—eod l. c. 9. Eph. 2.2 〈◊〉 16. â— 19.7 Vit. Coâ— l. 4. c. 2 Lam. â— 2 7â— Jos. 〈◊〉 Jud. l. â— c. 12. 〈◊〉 2.14 â— 13 â— 5 â— 8 â— 5 â— 12 5.1 1.9 1.7 â— 15 1.1 1.1 â—onst â— 73. â— 21
life of authority so the execution of them is the life of the Law Herein a pious Prince being eminently the representer of his God and may be said the breath of his Subjects as unto their civil and religious life in making and executing such Laws as may dispose them in order unto God and salvation But this divinely alluding and cryptick similitude appropriate unto a pious Prince to be the breath of our Nostrils hath not a more lively feaâ—ure of divine resemblance then the vigorous exemplarity of personal pieâ—y in the Prince himself his example giving life reputation and lustre unto Religion in which sense is it that a King is tearmed An Angel of God the light or Candle of his people from all these Considerations good K. Josiah was justly acknowledged the breath of their Nostrils he restored the Law even lost punished extirpated Idolatry setled the Church restored Religion encouraged the Priests judiciously ordered the whole service of Gods houses and for his personal sanctimony besides these Acts of royal prudence and zeal the Holy Ghost affords him this great and graâ—ious testimony that his heart was tender and that he did humble himself before God his chief care solicitude was to decline those things that would offend God and preserve his Conscience a clear and unspotted glasse wherein the glorious Image of divine holinesse did shew it self transparent in the whole conduct of his actions yet this great and royal pattern of piety the life of their Religion and Law was taken in their pits for the sins of his Subjects he fell into the fatall snares of his Adversaries yea notwithstanding he bare yet a moâ—e visible cognizance and livery of Gods own divine and supream Authority being The Anointed of the Lord Gods Christ sacred by holy Unction unto God Unto no materiall thing hath God fastned such significations of his Graces unto mankind as unto Oyle the whole influence of Gods jurisdiction over man being as the most lasting pieces are drawn in Oyle represented unto us by a mysterious application thereof through Unction therewith of those unto whom God hath by a deputation conferred the great and chief Places of Trust for the exercise of his supreme power over mankind as the Kingly Priestly and Prophetick Offices they whom God had delegated unto these subservient Offices of Supreme Authority and constituted his own under-Officers having the Warrant for the execution of their Places signed by the outward Act of sacred Unction The Title Anointed sayes Eusebius is of great reverence and glorious delivering types and symbols of heavenly things and secret images and representations full of mystery But whereas Priests and Prophets in Scripture are barely called Vncti Anointed for Kings the style alwayes runs Vncti Domini the Lords Anointed God having given unto Kings by a more immediate consignation greater relations and proportions of his power than unto either the Priest or the Prophet Kings were by divine instinct of God unto his Prophet anointed with Oyl and made Christs or anointed that they should resemble Christ because they by themselves resemble the image and figure of regal and principal power which is seen in the onely and true Christ So Saint Augustine speaking of Saul's Unction which made David fear even to touch him saith Oleum illud c. mysticè accipiendum magnum Sacramentum intelligendum est That Oyl with which Saul was anointed and from that Crisme or Unction was termed Anoinned is to be understood mystically and is a great Sacrament so the Ancients usually termed the representations of things holy When Sylvester the Bishop of Rome anointed Constantine Consignationem Spiritus Sancti adhibuit sancti Chrismatis Vnctione dicens signet te Deus sigillo fidei In nomine c. saith the Author He gave a Consignation of the Holy Ghost by the Unction of the holy Oyle saying Almighty God imprint in thee the seal and character of his faith In the name of the Father c. Now the plenitude of the Regall power derived from Unction is visible in these proportions of similitude 1. Unction conferred upon them Vim supereminentis Domini the power of absolute and supreme Authority Oyle denoting Soveraignty in that being mixed with any Liquor it maintains a superiority in the supernatation appearing still uppermost the Exercise of which supreme Authority consisted in the making and abrogating of Laws Civill and Ecclesiasticall which in matters indifferent and not against the clear evidence of Gods word should bind the Conscience David Solomon Hezekiah Josiah ordered the Affaires of the Jewish Church and Socrates tells us that after the Emperours became Christians matters of the Church wholly depended upon them and that it was by their summons and pleasures that the greatest Counsels were called and therefore Constantine the Great would usually say unto the Bishops Vos intra ego extra Ecclesiam Episcopus à Deo sum constitutus ye are Bishops within the Church and without the Church I am a Bishop appointed by God he was Communis Episcopus the common and ecumenicall Bishop in his Empire It gave them power to denounce Warre the merum Imperium and absolute power of the Sword being his from God Ordo ille naturalis mortalium paci accommodus hoc poscit ut suscipiendi belli authoritas atque Concilium penes principem sit even natural order accommodate unto the peace of mankind requiring this that the power of making War remâ—ins wholly in the Prince which when the people usurped we see they were punished Numb 14.44 3. To conclude peace and make Confederations and Leagues as King David and King Solomon did the Olive from which Oyle comes is the Embleme of Peace and Unction notably insinuates those ready inclinations and endeavouâ—s in Kings to procure the peace of their Subjects and in order unto peace to make Cessations and Truces which when broken even by Dâ—vids General he was sentenced as for murther 4. The free Election of their Servants and disposition of all Offices in Church and State 5. To pardon unto Offenders their lives reprieve or to punish them with death as in Joab's and Shimei's case 6. To receive Appeals from all other Judicatures that absolute submission unto the supreme Magistrate being taught Christians as Polycarpus the holy Martyr and Bishop told the Proconsul which brings no hurt unto the salvation of our Souls and Religion And from this divine signature of supreme power in Kings by Unction flows their indempnity and inviolability in word and deed they are not to be smitten even with the tongue much less the hand Against thee onely have I sinned sayes David which St. Ambrose expounds by his absolute exemption from humane Judicature There is no rising up against a King sayes Salomon who may say unto him what doest thou David acknowledged the Image of God by holy Unction in the worst of Kings
taking away a good King from a People is an evidence of his heavy displeasure and a certain Prognostique of the many miseries he will bring upon them That a violent death proves a temporall blessing unto a King when it takes from him the sight and sense of his Subjects sufferings That a violent death may justly be reputed a departing in peace compared with a continuance of the sence of troubles and durable calamity That all men are strictly and deeply engaged unto the most solemn sorrow for the calamity of their King as caused by their sins and ushering in their approaching miseries Let us see whether our Kingdomes may not truly calculate their griefs by the Ephimerides of Judah's sorrow we have had a British Josiah whose Graces and Prerogatives fully answered the proportion and size of their pattern Could Judah's sinnes snatch away their pious King JOSIAH from them and do not we conceive that our sins have hurried our Religious King CHARLES from us Was King Josiah's death the In-let of Judah's miseries and do not we suppose that King Charles his life may be the period of our temporall happiness and his death the first act of that tragicall Woe which is to be presented upon the Theatre of this Kingdome likely to continue longer than the now-living Spectators We have had as great an Ebbe of Felicity in the loss of our King Charles as Judah had in her Josiah's should not the Tyde then of our sorrows run as high as theirs Surely the parallel considerations of the Vertues and Prerogatives of both these pious Kings of the causes of their Calamities and the sad consequences attending them will command an equality of ours with Judah's sorrow we will a little invert the method Begin with King Charls his divine and regal Prerogatives next shew his personall Vertues and Graces then his Sufferings point at their Causes and conclude with our own constrained Sorrows England in her best and loudest language the Law hath largely declared the sacred soveraignty of her Kings spoke them Gods Vicars assigned unto them the fulness of Regall power laid forth their jurisdiction by as large bounds as the Scripture doth King Josiah's or any other Kings of Israel or Judah Are not these legall registred and publick acknowledgments That every man is under the King and he under God onely That he is not inferiour unto his Subjects even collectively considered That he is a mixt person and capable of Spirituall Jurisdiction through holy Unction That he is the fountain of Honour hath the sole power to pardon and punish Offenders to leavy War to make Peace to constitute Officers That he can do no wrong Do not these expressions amount unto The breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord c. And these are the Regall peculiars of the Kings of England inseparably annexed unto their Crown and Dignity which he that runneth may read being written in those large and known characters of the Law Certainly these significant delineations of the sacred and regall power of the Kings of England were copied out of the holy Scriptures which those that now wrest them and make that fair Face of the Holy Ghost a vizard alterable unto the disguise of their personated piety and hypocritical practice seeing will not see Doubtless the Crown of England was held from the Lord paramount of Dominion God by as free noble and regall a tenure as any under Heaven And from him by a lineall and unquestionable right of succession had King Charles the investure thereof and grant of all these royall acknowledged Prerogatives untill without any divine or humane warrant He was violently disseized of them and taken in their pits These were his sacred and regall Prerogatives Let us now look into that spacious field of His personall Vertues a fragrant tract having the sweet smell of A field which the Lord hath blessed and since time wil not permit the perusal of every pleasant walk of grace and the delightful Ambits of his vertues let us as Moses from Mount Nâ—bo take a general and distant survey of this blessed circuit flowing with milk and honey King Charles his Celestial gifts and graces A Jove principium His religious piety renders iâ— self glorious in his great love fear and honour of God His zeal and devout frequency in prayer receiving the Sacraments and reading the holy Scriptures his reverence in Gods House his attention unto Godâ— word preached the esteem he had of Gods Messengers his hatred of Heresie and the zealous care he had as it was consistent with charity to propagate the true worship of God the Protestant Religion this in the purity thereof he established by his Laws enlarged with his Regall Authority cleansed from that Rust it had contracted through the Atheism and ignorance of the Times by the contemptibleness of the outward worship adorned with Decency and Order in the publique service and with cost upon the places dedicate unto that service but chiefly he beautified it with the glorious example of his holy life and encouragement of the Officers thereof whom he rewarded with the rewards of Honour and Maintenance His Royall Palace as Theodosius Juniors was a constant Receipt for learned and pious Prelats whom he entertained and cherished as the Servants of the great God and Dispensers of the mysteries and means of Grace which as it was an especiall and infallible mark of the sincerity of his humble piety so through the supercilious irreligion of the times did that which should have most endeared him unto Christians draw neglect and contempt upon him from them and those Great ones too who love nothing of Christianity but the naked name he knew that Church-maintenance was the best Nurse of Religion and therefore no weight of difficulties could so press upon him to alien Gods portion the Patrimony of the Church to preserve which from the sacrilegious invasion of the first movers of these Troubles who thought the best way to shake off Government was to destroy Religion and the most effectuall and quick course to destroy Religion to take away Church-maintenance He tendred the sale of so much Crown-land as would amount unto the value of the Church-land That great and strict care he took to keep the Throne and Kingdom of God in his Soul His Conscience inviolable shews that although he made his abode among Men yet his Conversation was in Heaven The continuall acknowledged remorse he was seized with for consenting against the dictate of his Conscience unto the Earl of Strafford's death speaks him another David and A Man after Gods own heart such were the tender impressions that Act ever left in him as David when he cut off the skirt of Sauls garment his heart smote him and indeed his Majesty found that fate which the Rabbins assigne unto David's fact that he found no heat in his cloaths afterwards So His Majesty found not that comforting warmth in the advices of others which he
His Majesty should not have a royall interment with His Auncesters the causes were nearer thee Let me assigne them First it had been a Condemnation of your selves to have allowed him solemne and Kingly Funeralls unto whom you gave so unjust and cruell a death that were to build up what you were resolved to destroy Next you could not but know that â—he neighbourhooâ— of his sacred earthly remains must needs refricate the scarce skinn'â— sorrowes of London whâ—n they should have such a standing and still present Monument of their former happinesse in His Majesties peaceable Government and of their new miseâ—y in your Tyranny which would serve also this being the place of the greatest confluence to recrude the griefe of the whole Kingdome and probably beget such compunction and reluctancy in both City and Kingdome as would testifie it selfe by their attempt to cast you downe headlong from your new and wickedly acquired Dominion Another reason was lest the nearnesse of his Body whom you murthered might too frequently offer unto you the horror of your Guilt and redouble unto you those inward cheques and lashings of your Consciences which you cannot be without and so impede and trouble your Counsels The Devill at the Oracle of Apollo of Daphne could not give his Answers unto Julian the Apostate who sent to consult him about his undertakings against the Persians so long as the body of the Martyr Babylas lay by him so it is to be presumed that the same Spirit which the Apostle saith powerfully worketh in the Children of disobedience might be hindred in his cooperation and influence upon those unto whom he hath consigned the chief exercise of his power in our English world if King Charles his sacred reliques were lodged so nigh unto them as Westminster and therefore Windsor was neare enough But from the view of His Majesties undeniable matchlesse Virtues let us passe on unto that of His sufferings Sinfull envie never failes to give a malicious attendance upon virtue which by how much the more it is illustrious with so much the greater rancour doth she dog and persecute it and â—herefore many are the troubles â—f the righteous and no meer man had ever more then righteâ—us King Charles behold and see if any sorrows and suffrings were like unto His. See one of the most potent Monarchs of Europe loved at home and feared abroad most injuriously and strictly Imprisoned debarred from the most deare society of the most virtuous and best Wife from the converse and sight of his most sweet hopefull Children from the attendance of his most faithfull Servants from Gods house from Gods publique worship all Gods Servants forc'd to cohabite with Beasts brutish savage and wicked Men these to be made the Instruments of their cruelty unto him who were his sworne Subjects and Servants upon whom all civill and divine obligations of duty and affection unto His Majesty rested and that upon pretensions of Religion and liberty of which He was the truest and most undoubted Defender to lie under the weight and wounds of so many scandals reproaches wants and miseries besides the most grievous sense of the sufferings of his Kingdoms and best Subjects to be daily tortured with so many iterated unreasonable Propositions and insolent Demands to be racked out of his undoubted Royal Rights to make so many Concessions such great Condescentions in his propensness unto peace which notwithstanding his Enemies never meant to be tormented if it were possible unto perjury sacriledge and Atheisme and to have no other Conditions propounded for the Enjoyment of his Crownes and Kingdomes then that which the Devill made unto our Saviour All these will I give thee if thou wilt fall downe and worship me to offer his owne that which never was theirs to deny God which God gave them him to acknowledge and worship him These must needs be sorrowes and sufferings as beyond expression so above our conception most terrible tests and trials of all his virtues certainly no man had ever more and more strict examinations of Gods graces in him all which he fully answered with a learned and invincible piety for in all these who ever heard him murmure repine or charge God foolishly who ever heard him accuse raiâ—e at or threaten his most confirmed Foes with Job his eyes still powred out tears unto God whose justice in their greatest injustice he acknowledged and although he vindicated his owne Innocency having wherwith to justifie homselfe before man from theirs yet not before God he cleared the equity of his judgement upon him for acting against his Conscience in the Earle of Straffords death But it was the great and crying guilt of these Nations sinnes Englands principally which made this righteous man fall into the pits of his Adversaries to ripen Gods judgment upon this Nation by that great addition of guilt the shedding of his innocent bloud who had so many characters of Gods supreme power and spirituall graces upon him as must needs make this Crime committed against God draw his speedy and unavoidable vengeance upon them for it God usually punisheth one sinne by suffering Sinners to fall into others and those customary sinnes accompanied with senslessnesse and impenitency which fills up the measure of sin brim-full for judgment to take it off so that this pious Prince fell in the very corruption of Christianity which is of farre more maligne aspect and hath a more malicious influence of impiety upon the actions of men then Atheisme it selfe for then men professe that they know God yet in their works they deny him using the name of God and Religion as Conjurers in their Incantations to perpetrate those things are most contrary unto God and destructive unto Religion for as the Devill never doth moâ—e hurt then when he appeares in the likenesse of an Angel of light so are men never so mischievous as when they drive on wicked designes under the shew of Godlinesse Englands former sins which caused this Gods just dereliction the abandoning them up unto greater were their exceeding luxury in turning the grace of God temporal favours into wantonnes the long continuance of their peace the increase of their Trade riches and plenty begot in them a generall insolency and pride so that wheÌ„ they waxed fat like Jesurun they kicked against God in the Authority and regard due unto his principall Officers the Prince and the Priest Hence the people of England in their generality became self-willed heady high-minded and incorrigible they slandered the footsteps of Gods Anointed smote him with tâ—â—â—â—ngue contended with Gods â—â—iests and usurped that sacred Jurisdiction which God had delegated unto them a those Conspirators did Ye take too much upon you ye Sonnes of Levi since all the people of the Lord are holy under pretence of the Ambition of the Clergy and being like Elihu's new bottels ready to burst with that liquor of flatuous and superficiall knowledge instilled into