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A56751	The unlawfulness of stretching forth the hand to resist or murder princes with the principal cases about resistance, considered, in two sermons : the first preacht upon the last thirtieth of January, the other, upon the day of thanksgiving, for the deliverance of the King and kingdom from the late treasonable conspiracy / by William Payne ...	Payne, William, 1650-1696.	1683 (1683)	Wing P912; ESTC R22908	23,488	47

do this in a pompous way of ludicrous and pretended Justice For that is as if a Company of Robbers before they took away a Man's Purse should bring him to some of their Fellows and they tell him that property was an Encroachment upon the natural Right that all Mankind equally had to the things of the World and because he had traiterously and feloniously infring'd this and other Rights and Priviledges that belong'd to them therefore they condemn'd him to deliver his Purse immediately Just such a Mock-thing as this was the High Court of Justice and just so much Power had they to condemn and murder their anointed Sovereign And if all Murder be a Sin that cries loud to Heaven for Vengeance and brings a Guilt not only upon the particular Shedders but defileth a Land as God expresly says Numb 35.33 And even an uncertain Murder was to be expiated by all that lived within any City of such a Distance from it Deut 21. Then what Vengeance may we think due besides what we have felt already for the Blood of our Late Martyr'd Sovereign And how shall this City that was I am sure at no great distance the nearest I doubt on all accounts to this bloody Murder be expiated and atoned from it Let us use that Prayer that was appointed in that Case tho' God knows infinitely below and unlike ours with which I shall conclude Be merciful O Lord unto thy People Israel whom thou hast redeemed whom thou hast redeemed at last from the Slavery and the Cruelty of those bloody and violent Men and lay not innocent Blood unto thy People of Israels Charge and God grant that this Blood may be forgiven unto this Kingdom and that for the sake of that precious Blood of Christ which speaketh better things than the Blood of Abel or the Blood of Charles the First Now to God the Father Son and Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory Praise and Thanksgiving both now and for evermore A SERMON UPON THE THANKSGIVING For the Deliverance of the KING and KINGDOM From the Late Treasonable CONSPIRACY 1 SAM 26.9 For who can stretch forth his Hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless I Begun a Discourse to you on these Words the last Thirtieth of January the day wherein our Nation stands infamous to Posterity for the Murder of our Late Martyred Sovereign How many such black Days are we to have to stain and discredit our English Kalendar Will the Traitors of our Nation equal the Number of the Romish Saints They will in time I doubt not bid fair for it and very much out do them had they but every one a day But it is to be hoped Posterity will be so kind to us as to think the Villany of the one as incredible as the Miracles of the other and put our Plots in the same Rank with their fabulous Legends else we had need of another sort of Act of Oblivion that may make Time forget as well as Law and blot out our Reproach to after Ages How will it else look to those who shall have recovered their English Vertue and Loyalty that their Ancestors who were neither wild nor barbarous ignorant nor irreligious should yet stand upon Record for doing such things as the darkest Paganism did never allow nor the savagest people scarce ever commit One of the best Princes that ever sate not only upon the English but upon any Throne brought as a Malefactor before the Bench of his meanest Subjects when every man in the Kingdom can claim his Priviledge of being tryed only by his Peers condemned there by a Mock Scene of Justice and barbarously executed upon a Scaffold before his own Palace And should I now tell you of the Excellent Son of that Good Father murdered by as vile but a more secret way by a Company of bloody Villains lying in Wait and Ambush for him making His Sacred Body the Mark of their murdering Weapons and levelling their loaded Blunderbusses at their Sovereigns Heart That Heart which had always so much Clemency and Tenderness for his worst Enemies and spared even many of their Lives who are now without Pity taking away his Should I tell you how many gaping Wounds they made in his Royal Breast and how the precious Blood gush'd from every Artery and ran down from every open Orifice like common Water spilt upon the Ground till the anointed of the Lord thus used by merciless Villains lay gasping and besmeared in his own and his Brothers Blood Lord how dreadful is it to describe or imagine what they would have committed And when they had done this they could stop at nothing but go on like thirsty Blood-hounds to kill and destroy to massacre thousands of his faithful Subjects to attend their beloved Prince till they had made Rivers of Blood flow in every Street and fill'd every place with Slaughter and Confusion Should I tell you all this and lay open so bloody a Scene before your Eyes 't would be but the very History of the late intended Tragedy of that Hellish Conspiracy which Heaven whom we thank this day and can never sufficiently thank all our Lives has deliver'd us from When we look back upon it and view the Danger we have escaped the pleasing Horrour confounds us and scarce leaves us Sences to be thankful as we ought I shall therefore take off your thoughts a little from the thing it self and put you upon thinking what it can ever be that should engage men in such stupendous Villanies as these what hellish Charms can ever draw men into such abominable Designs and how those who call themselves Men and Christians and what they are more fond of than either Protestants should be guilty of what is so contrary and reproachful to all those Honourable Names It had been nothing so strange if these men had been of a Religion whose very Make is Treasonable which has mingled Treason even with its Offices of Religion and its Articles of Faith Had they been of that Church which obliges those of its Communion to worship Traitors as Saints and to hold deposing of Kings as a Catholick Doctrine Had they owned those General Councils that have decreed this and acknowledged that Infallible Head who could in Cathedra commend the Assassination of a Prince and compare it to the best Actions in Scripture next our Saviour dying for Mankind It had not been half so much to be wondred at if they had thus suckt Treason from the Breasts of their Roman Mother or been nursed up in it at a Popish Seminary then it would have been but natural to have had the Poyson broke out sometime or other into Plots if the Season had been fair and outward Circumstances not driven it in But to renounce Popery with great Zeal and yet retain what is the most Vnchristian in it and to pretend to Protestancy and yet allow what every Protestant Church in the World condemns is to resolve to be a Traitor and to be of no Religion at all Treason in Papists is like Original Sin to Mankind they all have it in their Natures though many of them may deny it or not know it and tho' it break not out in all to the same outward Extravagancies but in Protestants it

THE UNLAWFULNESS OF Stretching forth the Hand TO Resist or Murder PRINCES WITH THE Principal Cases about RESISTANCE CONSIDERED In Two SERMONS The First Preacht upon the Last Thirtieth of January The other upon the Day of Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of the King and Kingdom from the Late Treasonable Conspiracy By WILLIAM PAYNE Rector of St. Mary White-Chappel LONDON Printed by A. Grover for Walter Kittilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1683. TO THE HONOURABLE Sir WILLIAM SCROGGS Late Lord Chief Justice of ENGLAND My Lord I Could be very glad that I had less Reason to justifie the publishing of these Sermons and that they were altogether as unseasonable as the putting out of Bills to Cure the Plague when no Body is Sick or Dies of it but Treason is a Disease that Rages amongst us and though it be not like the Sweating-Sickness of old a Malady peculiar to English Men yet the plenty and Luxury of our Country may perhaps make us more Subject to it then others Were I able to prescribe any thing however ordinary that was likely to be either a Remedy or an Antidote against it I should think it my Duty as a Lover of the Peace and Salvation of Mankind as a Lover of my King and Country and as a Minister of that Church and Religion which has been often the Mark but never the Author of any Treason and I hope the good meaning of this Endeavour will compound for the weakness of it and its Honesty and Charity cover the Multitude of its Faults and Imperfections I thought my self more then ordinarily concerned to do this when the Infection had so largely spread at our end of the Town and in my own Parish where two of the Conspirators that are Executed and two others that are in the Proclamation had their last Abodes for though this does not like other Contagions begin in Alleys and the Out-parts among the Poor and Ordinary Persons yet the Great ones make it their Business to spread it among those and there it settles and there it generally breaks out Had these Men come to our Churches they had learnt other Principles then what I am afraid they have done elsewhere and that none may be so malitious as to think we calculate our Sermons merely for the present Circumstances as if the Pulpit were but a kind of weather-glass wherein the Doctrine of Obedience to Governours is higher or lower according to the temperature or Variation of outward Affairs I have put out a plain Sermon without any addition or alteration that was Preacht long before the Plot when I little thought of having any such occasion to make it publick I thought then and do so now that those Obvious and Familiar things which every one must use on that Subject would do good but there remained a harder part which was to keep the good Seed I had sowed clear from the Weeds that are apt to grow up and choke it for Treason has stood so long without being cut down especially in the late Times that it has run to seed and scattered its Principles that will not fail to nourish and make it grow again and I thought the only way to destroy it was to pluck up those by the Rootes I know My Lord the Subject will commend it self to your Patronage whose Loyalty to your Prince is so well known to all that as it was always your vertue so it has been sometimes your Crime and who have so well shown your Zeal and Abhorrence of all Plots and Treasons in the late Popish one where your Justice and Eloquence were too hard for the cunningest of Traitors and the Priests found your Reason out-doe their Infallibility yet I should not have presumed to offer these Discourses unto your Lordships hands who is not only so great a Judge but so great a Master of sence and of speaking but that I know your Candour and Mercy is equal to your Judgment so that what has inclined you to approve and encourage me in some other things of this nature will I question not prompt you at least to excuse me in this The Extraordinary kindness and Civility you have been pleased to show me would require a much better Testimony of my Observance and Gratitude then this which is the only one I can pay at present and therefore must beg you to accept it from My Lord Your most Obedient and most Obliged Servant William Payne A SERMON UPON THE Thirtieth of JANVARY 1683. Being the Day of the Martyrdom OF King Charles I. 1 SAM 26.9 For who can stretch forth his Hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless RELIGION as it makes Provision for us in another World and is the only Means to secure us a good State after this Life a future and eternal Happiness for our Souls so 't is that also upon which the present Welfare the Comfort and Felicity of this Life does chiefly depend 't is that which supports the World and preserves the Peace and Order the Quiet and good Settlement of it 't is that which sets a Guard about our Lives and all our Enjoyments and restrains Mankind from ravening and devouring one another 'T is that which is the main Strength the true Foundation of Government which supports the Princes Throne and Guards it like an Angel from the Sons of Violence and as it obliges us to all those Duties of Right and Justice that are necessary for the Good and Welfare of all Mankind so it especially secures and maintains the Rights of Princes and Governours which cannot be violated without the greatest Mischief and the most pernicious Consequences to the World David who was the most singular Example of all Religion and Piety to God who was the great Example and Teacher of it to the Jewish Church and who has left such Memorials and Monuments of it as make up a great part of the Devotion and Worship of all Christians Him was God pleased to make as great an Example of Loyalty to his Prince and of Duty and Obedience to his Sovereign and that purely from the same Principles of Religion and Conscience that made him so to God He had the least Reason otherwise to be so to his Prince that could be well imagined Who sought to take away his Life unjustly he hunted him as a Partridge upon the Mountains and intended to make him a Prey to his unreasonable Fury and Displeasure Who would have taken away that Right which God had expresly given him and deprived him of the Succession to the Crown which Heaven had entituled him to Who destroyed all his Friends he could light of and murdered fourscore and five of the Priests of the Lord in one day upon his account 1 Sam. 22.18 Who put a whole City to the sword Man Woman and Child v. 19. and exercised all the Acts of Cruelty and Injustice to him and all those that favoured him How much less than all this would have served some Men