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,a                                      
,,sermon                                
,,preach',d                             
,before the ,right ,honourable          
,,the                                   
,,lord-,,mayor1                         
,,the                    ,aldermen and  
,citizens of ,london1                   
,,at ,,the                              
,,cathedral ,church of ,st4 ,paul1      
,on ,monday the #cjth of ,jan4          
#agji_/aj4                              
,,being                 ,the            
,,anniversary ,,fast for the ,martyrdom 
of ,king ,,charles the ,first4          
,by ,,andrew ,,snape1 ,d4 ,d4           
,chaplain to his ,grace the ,duke of    
,somerset1                     and      
,rector of ,st4 ,mary at ,hill4         
,,london3 ,printed for ,,jonah ,,bowyer1

 at             the ,sign of the ,rose  
in ,ludgate-,street4 #agaj4             
,garrard1 ,mayor4         ,martis vii4  
die ,februarii1 #agji4 ,annoq2 ,regni   
,regin ,ann1         ,magn ,britanni1 c4
 ,octavo4      ,this ,court doth desire 
,dr4 ,snape to ,print his ,sermon1      
,preach'd at the  ,cathedral ,church of 
,st4 ,paul1 before the ,lord-,mayor1    
,aldermen and  ,citizens of this ,city1 
on ,monday the ,thirtieth of ,january   
last1  being the ,day of ,humiliation   
for the ,martyrdom of ,king ,charles the
  ,first4                               
,,gibson4          #a ,,kings1 ,,xxi4   
#i1 #aj4         ,proclaim a ,fast1 and 
set ,naboth on high among the ,people3  
,and set ,two ,men1 ,sons of ,belial1   
before him1 to bear ,witness            
against him1 saying1 ,thou didst        
blaspheme ,god and the ,king3           
and then carry him out and stone him1   
that he may die4      ,there is scarce  
any one ,instance of the shedding       
innocent ,blood  recorded in ,holy      

,scripture which has not at some time or
 other been  apply'd to the ,occasion of
 this ,day's ,solemnity1 even that of   
our  blessed ,saviour not excepted1     
whose ,steps we have with one ,voice    
declar'd in the ,service of the ,church 
the blessed ,martyr cheerfully to  have 
follow'd4 ,note3 #b;d ,collect for the  
day4 ,but here indeed it  concerns us to
 tread warily4 ,we can only affirm of   
the greatest ,saints  and brightest     
,luminaries of the ,church that they    
have made some faint  ,approaches toward
 that great ,exemplar1 without presuming
 to equal  either the ,merits or the    
,sufferings of any meer ,man to those of
 our  crucify'd ,redeemer3 in all other 
,parallels there is less ,danger of     
,excess1 since most of 'em will be      
found1 in many ,circumstances1 to fall  
short of the ,fact committed on this    
,day4    ,now altho' in such a          
comparative way of arguing1 where we    
single out  some remarkable ,passage    
from the ,records of past ,ages1 and    

adapt it1  as far as it will naturally  
bear1 to some ,after-,occurrence that   
has  fall'n out nearer our own ,times1  
it cannot be expected that both  the    
,cases should be in all ,respects       
exactly the same1 without the  least    
,variation1 yet when we can point out   
some of the principal  and              
,master-,strokes of each of 'em which   
have a near ,resemblance of  one        
another1 when the ,methods and ,ways of 
,acting1 the ,motives and  ,inducements 
to it1 with other concurrent            
,circumstances1 are the same2  this may 
be enough to justify the ,choice of the 
,subject1 and make it  serve at least as
 a fair ,introduction to the ,matter in 
,debate4    ,i mention this1 because of 
one remarkable ,disagreement1 which you 
must needs have been before-hand with me
 in observing1 between the  ,case of    
,naboth1 and that of this ,day's ,royal 
,sufferer1 who as he  had ,liv'd the    
,ornament1 so ,died the ,martyr of the  
,english ,church  and ,monarchy3 ,and   

that is1 that in the former of 'em1 an  
innocent  ,subject was ,murder'd by a   
wicked ,king 7or at least by his        
,instruments  and ,agents1 not without  
his ,approbation and ,consent1 as       
appear'd by  his subsequent ,behaviour1 
in seizing his ,inheritance1 as well as 
by  his own ,confession1 when he        
submitted to the ,prophet's ,charge1 and
  humbled himself for it7 whereas in the
 latter1 a just and pious ,king  was    
depriv'd at once of his ,crown and ,life
 by wicked and rebellious  ,subjects4   
,but there are other ,resemblances      
between 'em1 that will make  ,amends for
 this ,disparity4 ,and therefore ,i     
shall proceed4         ,i4 ,to draw a   
,parallel between the two ,cases1 and   
shew what is           common to 'em    
both4         ,,ii4 ,to consider the    
,nature and ,consequences of the ,fact  
committed on this ,day4 ,and            
,,iii4 ,i shall conclude with one or two
 ,moral ,reflections4      ,i4 ,i am to 
draw a ,parallel between the two ,cases1

 and show what  is common to 'em both4  
,here then we may observe1 that the     
,persons  compar'd were both good ,men3 
,both were ,murder'd with a pretended   
,show  of ,justice1 and with ,religious 
,solemnities3 ,both for the same ,cause1
  because they would not part with the  
,inheritance of their ,fathers3         
,neither of 'em suffer'd singly2 but the
 ,enemies of each extended their        
,malice to the whole ,race of 'em4      
,first ,i say they were both good ,men4 
,that ,naboth was so1 we may very       
fairly conjecture from his ,behaviour in
 the ,matter of the ,vineyard2  and from
 the ,severity of ,god's ,wrath toward  
,ahab and his ,family1 for  unjustly    
putting him to ,death4 ,for altho' the  
,murder even of a wicked  ,man1 either  
by false ,accusation1 or secret         
,treachery1 is a very heinous  and      
detestable ,thing2 7and that ,life that 
is ,forfeited to ,justice by a  thousand
 real ,crimes1 yet if innocent quoad    
hoc1 and taken away by  wicked          

,subornation1 on weak and insufficient  
,evidence1 for that which  is not a     
,crime1 or which was not committed1 will
 derive a ,sentence of                  
,blood-guiltiness1 nay of the ,shedding 
innocent ,blood1 on the ,contrivers  and
 ,actors in such an ,execution27 yet we 
cannot suppose1 that this is1  in so    
excessive a ,degree1 provoking1 or that 
it entails the ,divine  ,vengeance on so
 many ,generations1 as when the ,person 
,condemn'd is  eminent for ,piety and   
,vertue4    ,if indeed we were to judge 
of ,things by their first ,appearance1  
the  ,carriage of ,naboth toward ,ahab1 
in denying him his ,vineyard1 might     
seem to have been very ,churlish and    
,undutiful1 especially when offer'd  a  
better ,vineyard in ,exchange for it1 or
 an equivolent in ,mony4  ,and the      
,kings condescending way of ,address1   
when he thus expresses  himself1 ,if it 
shall seem good to thee1 and if it      
please thee2  might be thought to have  
deserv'd a better ,answer than1 ,i will 

not  give thee my ,vineyard4    ,but we 
must consider on the other ,hand1 that  
the ,thing which the  ,king desir'd1 was
 absolutely ,unlawful1 and expressly    
forbid by the  ,command of ,god2 the    
smallest ,ceremony of whose ,appointment
 could not  be dispens'd with4 ,we may  
learn from ,lev4 #be4 and ,num4 #cf4 how
  straitly the ,jews were enjoyn'd to   
look upon the ,inheritance of their     
,fathers as ,sacred3 ,the very numerical
 ,lands and ,possessions were to be     
continually preserv'd in the respective 
,families to which they were  allotted1 
and the present ,occupants had no ,power
 of totally alienating  'em1 but only   
till they could be redeem'd by one of   
their ,kin1 and not  so long as that1 if
 a ,year of ,jubilee should first       
happen1 when all  ,things were to be    
restor'd as at the beginning3 ,and even 
that temporary  ,alienation was not to  
be made1 but under the ,pressure of     
extreme  ,necessity1 which it seems was 
not ,naboth's ,case4 ,so that he look'd 

on the ,proposal1 as a ,thing he could  
not with a safe ,conscience comply      
with1 and therefore speaks1 you see1    
with some ,abhorrence of it1 7tho'  not 
altogether so bluntly as ,ahab repeated 
it to his ,wife7 ,the ,lord  forbid it  
me1 that ,i shou'd give the ,inheritance
 of my ,fathers unto  thee4 ,from this  
,i say1 and the other ,consideration    
before-mention'd1  we may reasonably    
infer that ,naboth was a ,man of        
,uprightness and  ,integrity2 tho' the  
,scripture has distinguish'd him by no  
other ,title1  but that of ,naboth the  
,jesraelite4    ,but we have better     
,arguments than bare ,conjectures and   
remote  ,conclusions to induce us to    
believe that our ,martyr'd ,sovereign   
was  highly deserving of this           
,character1 of which we have all the    
,proof and  ,demonstration that 'tis    
possible for one ,man to have of the    
,integrity  of another4    ',tis true1  
,god alone is an infallible ,judge and  
,discerner of the ,heart2  he only      

beholds with an unerring ,eye the       
,uprightness or ,obliquity of  ,human   
,thoughts and ,intentions2 and therefore
 none but he can absolutely  and        
decisively pronounce of any ,person1    
that he is either ,holy and  ,sincere1  
or ,wicked and ,prophane4    ,but we    
,men must form our ,judgment from the   
outward ,actions1 and  wheresoever we   
find a regular ,conduct1 where all the  
,duties to ,god and  ,man1 as far as we 
can observe1 are exactly and punctually 
discharg'd1  where there are no visible 
,infractions of ,divine or ,human ,laws1
 or none  but such as may be imputed to 
,human ,frailty2 we are to look upon a  
,person so qualified as a ,man of       
,probity and ,vertue4    ,this is no    
more than is due in common ,justice4    
,but ,christian  ,charity will oblige us
 yet farther1 even where there are some 
suspicious ,appearances1 if the         
,character of the ,person be in other   
,respects unblemish'd2 to err 7if we    
must err7 on the better ,side1 and  make

 a favourable ,construction4    ,this is
 ,spoken at large1 and not that there is
 any ,occasion for this  last ,supposal1
 with ,regard to the ,subject ,i am     
upon3 ,there being  nothing in the      
,behaviour of that excellent ,prince1   
that has so much  as an indirect        
,aspect1 nothing ,i mean that can affect
 his general  ,character4    ,when ,i   
affirm this ,i consider him chiefly as a
 private ,christian1  for in his ,royal 
,capacity indeed1 as we find him        
represented1 by  the designing ,artifice
 of his malicious and restless ,enemies1
 there  are faulty ,appearances enough4 
,and yet the very ,persons1 who thus    
industriously blackned and defam'd him1 
and loaded him with so many  unjust     
,reproaches on the ,account of his      
,regal ,administration2 7which  can     
never be so ,excellent1 as to give no   
,handle to the ,factious1  the ,guilty1 
and the ,disappointed1 to censure and   
malign it1 and  will be always liable to
 ,misconstruction1 the ,reasons of      

,state being  so ,mysterious7 yet cou'd 
never charge on him any gross           
,misbehaviour  in ,point of ,moral      
,duty1 any one habitual ,vice1 or       
indulg'd ,passion1  tho' they wanted not
 ,means of prying into his most secret  
,commerce and  private ,correspondence1 
and nothing1 we know1 is so             
quick-sighted as  ,malice4    ,his      
,devotion to ,god was regular and       
constant both in publick and in         
private1 and that1 not cold and formal1 
but with an ardent ,zeal and  enflam'd  
,affection4 ,in the midst of the        
perplexing ,cares that encompass  a     
,throne1 and with which his ,throne was 
peculiarly beset2 he always  found      
,leisure for the ,exercises of          
,religion3 ,he was never so dazl'd  with
 the ,splendor of an ,earthly ,crown1 as
 not to prefer before it  a ,heavenly   
and ,immortal ,one3 ,nor was he ever    
unmindful of this  important ,truth1    
that as his ,subjects were accountable  
to him2  7tho' in the ,end they quite   

inverted that ,order7 so was he himself 
to  render an ,account of his ,actions  
at a greater ,tribunal before the  ,king
 of ,kings4    ,in the midst of the     
highest ,plenty1 and all the ,means of  
gratifying  a sensual ,appetite that    
,royal ,affluence cou'd ,administer1 he 
was  remarkably ,temperate1 ,chast and  
,sober4 ,his ,conjugal ,affection has   
been even imputed as a ,crime4 ,he was  
an inviolable ,observer of his          
,matrimonial ,vow1 a ,vertue not too    
common in the ,world1 a very rare  one  
indeed in ,princes4 ,nor was he less    
eminent for ,clemency and  ,justice1 and
 a tender ,regard for the ,welfare of   
his ,subjects4    ,and if we consider   
him in the last ,scene of his ,life1 in 
his ,behaviour  both before1 and at the 
,scaffold2 we may observe an admirable  
,composition of ,christian ,meekness1   
and ,royal ,grandeur1 how under the     
extremest ,pressures he wou'd never be  
prevail'd with1 to do any thing         
unbecoming either the ,christian or the 

,king4    ,as he had ,liv'd1 he ,died a 
true ,professor of the purest reform'd  
,faith3  ,and his ,character has this   
,advantage1 even from the reproachful   
manner of his ,death2 that his last     
,declaration so publickly made in the   
,face of the ,world1 was not capable of 
being denied1 or misrepresented4        
,whereas had they dispatch'd him by     
,poyson or ,assassination1 or any  other
 way of ,murder1 that had carried less  
of ,pomp and ,ostentation2 the          
,accusation had been obvious1 that he   
,died a ,papist1 which his ,enemies     
would not have fail'd to have reported1 
and his ,friends could not so           
convincingly have disprov'd4    ,his    
admirable and instructing ,legacy to his
 ,children1 his ,praying for  his       
,murderers1 his patient ,resignation to 
the ,will of ,god1 and indeed  all the  
several ,parts of his ,deportment at    
that dismal ,juncture2 do  conspire to  
raise in us the highest ,esteem and     
,veneration for his  ,memory4 ,and sure 

we may allow to one who was endu'd with 
so large a  ,share of ,vertues1 with so 
inconsiderable a ,mixture of ,defects1  
the  ,character and ,denomination of a  
good ,man4 ,i mean1 in a qualified      
,sense1  for1 in an absolute ,sense1 we 
know who has told us1 there is none good
  but ,god4 ,and this is one ,point in  
which ,naboth and he agree4    ,the next
 is1 that they both were ,murder'd with 
a pretended ,show of  ,justice1 and with
 ,religious ,solemnities4    ,in order  
to ,naboth's ,murder there was a ,fast  
,proclaim'd1 a solemn  ,assembly call'd1
 a formal ,accusation forg'd1 and       
suborn'd ,witnesses  produc'd4 ,the     
principally intended ,wickedness was    
thus usher'd in  with a preparatory     
,combination of other ,crimes2 thus     
closely was the  ,train of ,mischeif    
laid1 by the ,contrivance of wicked     
,jezebel2 that  ,hypocrisy1 ,perjury and
 false ,judgment should be the ,prelude 
and  ,introduction to ,murder4    ,and  
was not this exactly the ,case of our   

,royal ,sufferer8 ,was there  not a ,day
 of ,humiliation appointed8 ,was not the
 nefarious ,business in  ,agitation     
dignified with the specious ,title of   
the ,lord's ,work8 ,did  not the cheif  
,authors of that ,cruelty pretend to be 
seeking the ,lord1  whilst their        
,instruments were embruing their ,hands 
in the ,blood of the  ,lord's ,anointed4
    ,how horribly did they profane the  
,name of ,god1 whilst they invok'd  him1
 as ,accessary to their ,bloody         
,machinations1 and besought him to      
strengthen their ,hands in that         
diabolical ,work6 ,how wretchedly did   
they  pervert his ,word1 which teaches  
all ,obedience and ,reverence to        
,princes2  whilst even from those sacred
 ,writings they would pretend to justify
  not only the highest ,insolence and   
,contempt1 but even the actual ,murder  
of his ,lawful ,vice-gerent6 ,to how    
base ,purposes were the ,ordinances  of 
,religion prostituted1 whilst they      
fasted for the ,success of that  impious

 ,act1 which it requires a perpetual    
,fast to deprecate the ,guilt  of3 ,and 
made long ,prayers only for a ,pretense1
 when they were  making a ,royal ,widow1
 and devouring ,houses and ,lands1      
stately ,palaces1  and ,princely        
,revenues with insatiable ,greediness6  
,how ill did it accord  with their      
profest ,purity and ,godliness1 after   
they had strain'd at so  many ,gnats1 to
 swallow such a ,camel6    ,could they1 
in ,reality1 have been held by any      
,religious ,ties1 they  would have paid 
some ,regard1 if not to the general     
,precepts of  ,obedience1 if not to the 
former ,oaths of ,allegiance they had   
taken2  yet at least to their own       
,solemn ,league and ,covenant1 that     
precious  ,test of ,disloyalty1 they so 
eagerly contended for1 and which they   
had  contriv'd as a ,snare for others1  
whilst1 thro' the ,deadness of their    
,consciences1 they were unrestrain'd    
themselves4    ,even that ,engagement1  
rebellious as it was1 provided for the  

,security  of the ,king's ,person1 which
 they were bound1 by all that was       
,sacred1 to  protect and defend2 and    
consequently the putting him to ,death1 
besides  all the other bad              
,circumstances1 was an ,act of the most 
deliberate  ,perjury that ever was      
committed4    ,but as if something was  
still wanting to fill up the ,measure of
 their  complicated ,impiety2 they added
 ,hypocrisy to the rest1 gave a         
,religious  ,turn to their execrable    
,proceedings1 and in the ,depth of all  
this  ,mischeif1 pretended a ,zeal for  
,god's ,glory1 and to have nothing so   
much at ,heart1 as promoting the ,purity
 of his ,worship4    ,nor was ,piety the
 only false ,pretence1 they wou'd make a
 show of  ,justice too3 ,they would seem
 to do that by ,law1 which was an open  
,violation of all the ,laws both of ,god
 and ,man4 ,to this ,end was erected  a 
,mock-,tribunal of ,self-created        
,judges1 who by ,vertue of that usurp'd 
and imaginary ,authority1 presum'd to   

set before 'em as a ,criminal1  their   
unquestionably rightful ,sovereign4     
,they had false ,witnesses1  ,sons of   
,belial1 ready at hand to have born     
their ,testimony against  him1 and to   
have charg'd him with such ,things1 as  
he not only1 in ,fact1  was clear of1   
but which he was not capable of         
committing4    ,naboth indeed might1    
'tho' he did not1 have ,curs'd ,god and 
the  ,king4 ,note3 ,so the ,hebrew ,verb
 should be rendred here1 as it is       
elsewhere4 ,the ,arabick and ,chaldee   
express it by two different  ,words4    
,thou didst ,blaspheme ,god1 and ,curse 
the ,king4 ,there were  really such     
,offences1 tho' there was no such       
,offender4 ,whereas in the  ,case of our
 ,martyr'd ,prince1 the ,crime its self 
was as ,fictitious as  the ,personal    
,charge4 ,he not only was not1 but cou'd
 not be guilty of  that ,treason they   
accus'd him of1 since by our known      
,constitution1 it  was against himself  
only that any ,treason cou'd be         

committed4 ,we find  in no ,records the 
mention of such a ,crime1 as the        
,lese-,majesty of the  ,people1 nor that
 the cruellest ,tyrants were ever tax'd 
with being  ,rebels to their own        
,subjects4 ',tis possible for 'em to    
,misgovern1 to  subvert ,fundamentals1  
to abuse their ,trust1 or to forsake it1
 and drive  the ,people to a ,necessity 
of transferring their ,allegiance 7of   
which  our own ,times have furnish'd us 
with an ,instance37 ,but they can never 
be guilty of ,treason1 nor suffer the   
,punishment of ,traytors4    ,when      
therefore the good ,king disown'd this  
illegal ,judicature1 and  refus'd 7as he
 well might7 to ,plead his ,cause before
 'em2 they still  went on with a ,mask  
of ,justice1 and in                     
,mock-,representation of a legal        
,process1 to ,sentence and ,condemn him1
 and ,sign a ,bloody ,warrant for his   
,execution4    ,another ,thing in which 
his ,case does nearly resemble that of  
,naboth  is1 that they both were        

,murder'd for the same ,cause1 because  
they wou'd  not part with the           
,inheritance of their ,fathers4         
,naboth might have compounded for his   
,life1 by relinquishing  his ,vineyard1 
nay he might have had an equivalent too4
 ,but as he  conceiv'd himself bound in 
,conscience1 religiously to preserve his
  original ,patrimony1 he was under an  
unhappy ,necessity of making such a     
,refusal1 as brought him to that        
untimely ,end4    ,and the ,desire of   
his ,inheritance was the ,motive that   
induc'd our  unnatural ,country-men1 to 
take away the ,life of their ,lawful    
,king4  ,the ,inherent-,rights and      
,prerogtiaves of the ,crown1 which his  
,royal  ,predecessors had uncontestably 
enjoy'd1 thro' a ,succession of many    
,ages1 were one after another disputed  
with him1 and in the ,end  violently    
extorted4 ,what he cou'd depart from1   
with safety to his  ,conscience and     
,honour1 he gave 'em1 by a voluntary    
,consent1 to preserve  the ,quiet of his

 ,kingdom2 but when he perceiv'd that   
nothing wou'd  content 'em2 7their      
,demands still rising1 as his           
,concessions were  larger7 he adher'd   
with a steddy ,resolution to those      
,branches of ,power1  which he judg'd to
 be inseparable from the ,royal         
,dignity1 and parted  with them and his 
,life together4    ,before they had thus
 compass'd their wicked ,ends1 and were 
become  ,masters of all without         
,controul1 whilst there was yet the     
,appearance  and ,shadow of ,kingly     
,government1 and nothing cou'd be valid 
without  the ,royal ,sanction2 even     
then1 tho' they left him the ,name1 they
  arrogated to themselves the ,power4   
,with what repeated ,importunities  did 
they ,daily tear from him his most      
trusted and faithful ,servants1  under  
the ,character of ,evil ,counsellors1   
and thrust into his ,presence  and      
,councils1 their own ,mercenary         
,creatures1 ,men of notorious ,faction  
and ,disloyalty1 the profest ,haters    

both of his ,person and ,authority1  as 
the only ,men to be confided in6 ,how   
justly might he have answer'd  their    
haughty and unreasonable ,demands 7for  
such in ,effect were their  humble      
,petitions7 in the ,words of the wisest 
of ,princes 7when a  very improper      
,application was made to him1 in behalf 
of one1 who had  so little ,pretension  
to ,favour1 that ,impunity was more than
 he had  deserv'd7 ,ask for him the     
,kingdom also4 ,note3 #a ,kings #b4 #bb4
    ,they wanted1 in short1 such a      
,power as should create ,dependencies on
  them1 and tie fast to their ,service  
such ,instruments of ,mischeif as  they 
should have ,occasion to make use of4   
,and not to descend to all  the several 
,branches of ,royalty1 'twas ,dominion  
and ,government they  aim'd at2 an      
,affectation of ,lording and ,ruling it1
 was the real ,ground  of their         
seditious ,outcries 7as the ,event      
sufficiently show'd7 however  they      
varnish'd over their ,designs with more 

plausible ,pretences4    ,once more1 we 
may observe another ,resemblance between
 these two  ,innocent ,persons1 in that 
neither of 'em suffer'd singly1 but the 
,enemies of each extended their ,malice 
to the whole ,race of 'em4 ,tho'  the   
,history now before us is silent as to  
,naboth's ,family1 and only  relates    
what befel him in his own ,person2 yet  
we may learn from #b  ,kings #i4 #bf4   
what became of 'em4 ,surely ,i have seen
 ,yesterday the  ,blood of ,naboth1 and 
the ,blood of his ,sons1 saith the      
,lord1 and ,i will  requite thee in this
 ,plat4    ,it cannot1 ,i confess1 be   
equally affirm'd1 with relation to our  
,martyr'd ,sovereign1 that the ,blood of
 his ,sons too calls for  ,vengeance1   
that only ,stream of ,royal ,blood      
having been ,spilt1 that  ran within his
 own ,veins4 ,but tho' they escap'd with
 ,life1 7no ,thanks  to the ,usurpers of
 their ,inheritance that they did so7   
yet were they  devested of their just   
,rights1 which none of 'em had then done

 any  thing to forfeit1 driven into     
,exile1 branded with ,names of ,infamy  
and  ,reproach1 and declar'd ,traytors  
and ,rebels themselves1 as well as      
their ,abettors and ,adherents4         
,having said thus much by way of        
,parallel1 give me leave to conclude    
the ,comparison between these two       
,innocents1 as ,i first introduc'd it1  
with taking ,notice of one other        
material ,difference between the two    
,histories4 ,naboth's ,murderer1 tho'   
above the ,reach of human  ,justice1    
saw1 and confess'd1 and bewail'd his    
,guilt1 and humbled  himself so         
effectually before ,god1 that the       
,vengeance he requir'd for  that        
innocent ,blood 7for innocent ,blood    
will be aveng'd1 nor is it  any         
,security to us1 that it was not shed by
 us1 or in our ,days7 was  not          
immediately taken1 but postpon'd till   
another ,generation4    ,but the ,royal 
,murderers show'd no ,remorse4 ,the     
,regicides of  this ,day continu'd to   

the last ,inflexible and ,obdurate3     
,their ,hearts  were so hardned by the  
just ,judgment of ,god for their        
accumulated  ,wickedness2 that even     
those of 'em who1 by his peculiar       
,providence1  were reserv'd for publick 
,justice1 were so far from any ,signs of
  ,repentance1 that they even ,gloried  
in the inhuman ,deed4 ,i come now in    
the      ,,ii4 ,place to consider the   
,nature and ,consequences of the ,fact  
committed on this ,day4 ,the ,nature of 
it may be in a great ,measure  judg'd1  
from what has been already said4 ,but   
farther to convince us  of the enormous 
,guilt of it1 let us take it1 as        
attended with the  following            
,circumstances4    ,for a ,sovereign and
 ,hereditary ,monarch 7it was then an   
,hereditary  ,monarchy sure7 after many 
other previous ,outrages and ,affronts1 
to  be brought to the ,bar1 as a common 
,malefactor1 and that before a          
pretended ,high-,court compos'd of his  
own ,subjects1 surrounded with  a ,guard

 of his own ,soldiers1 to be ,arraign'd 
of ,treason1 to be  ,sentenc'd to       
,death1 and ,executed on a ,scaffold1 in
 his ,capital  ,city1 and before the    
,walls of his own ,palace3 ,and all this
 to  gratify the ,ambition or ,revenge  
of a few turbulent ,spirits1 whilst a   
far greater ,number1 who disapprov'd of 
that rigorous ,extremity1 cou'd  yet be 
contented to stand by as unconcern'd    
,spectators1 and suffer the  bloody     
,tragedy to be ,acted1 without offering 
to interpose1 or stirring  to the       
,rescue of their ,prince3 ,the ,fact ,i 
say thus circumstantiated1 is  not to be
 equal'd in any ,history1 by which      
,majesty its self1 as well as  the      
,person of the ,king1 was so            
outragiously insulted4    ,and that all 
this should be done in a ,kingdom1 by   
the undoubted  and fundamental ,laws    
whereof 7,i speak in the very ,words of 
a ,law1  made indeed since the horrid   
,fact1 but made1 not to constitute1 but 
recognize this ,essential ,prerogative1 

as antecedently inherent in  the ,crown1
 that7 neither the ,peers of the ,realm1
 nor the ,commons1 nor  both together1  
in ,parliament1 or out of ,parliament1  
nor the ,people  ,collectively1 nor     
,representatively1 nor any other        
,persons whatsoever1  ever had1 have1 or
 ought to have any coercive ,power over 
the ,persons of  the ,kings of the      
,realm4 ,note3 ,stat4 #ab4 ,car4 #b4    
,ch4 #cj4 4 #g4    ,and if no such      
,authority was lodg'd with the whole    
,body of ,subjects1  how much less cou'd
 it be claim'd by that inconsiderable   
,remnant of  one ,house1 which without  
the ,concurrence of the other1 and      
whilst the  far greater ,part of its own
 ,members were kept out by ,force of    
,arms2 had  the ,confidence to usurp the
 venerable ,name of ,parliament4        
,never was that happy ,part of our      
,constitution1 that ,necessary  ,fence  
against ,arbitrary ,rule1 and ,bulwark  
of ,english ,laws and  ,liberties1 so   
reproachfully perverted4 ,never were the

 ,people of  ,england so untruly said to
 be represented3 which they no more     
were1  by the corrupt ,refuse of that   
,assembly2 than the ,catholic ,church   
was  fairly represented in the pretended
 ,council of ,trent1 where only  those  
cou'd be admitted1 who were the known   
,favorers of the ,pope's  ,supremacy1   
and who wou'd be sure to do his ,work   
effectually4    ,but let us suppose they
 had a ,power over his ,person1 and     
withal that  he had misemploy'd his     
,regal ,administration as much as some  
have  represented him to have done2 let 
us take all for ,truth that inveterate  
,malice1 or factious ,prejudice has     
endeavour'd to fasten on him2 even      
these ,provocations were far from       
sufficient to justify so extravagant a  
,remedy as the shedding of his ,blood4  
,much less when they liv'd under so mild
 a ,government1 and a ,prince so  tender
 of the ,rights and ,liberties of his   
,subjects as he naturally was  in his   
own ,temper4    ,i pretend not to deny  

that1 even in his ,reign1 there were    
some  just ,causes of ,complaint1 some  
real ,grievances1 some unwarrantable    
,impositions and unjustifiable ,demands4
 ,princes are but ,men1 and  fallible   
like other ,men1 nor is it any great    
,wonder if the best of 'em  mistake the 
,extent of their ,prerogative1 when     
persuaded into an undue  ,opinion of it1
 by those that shou'd advise 'em better4
    ,but how easily might those         
,greivances have been set right in      
,time1 had  not the rough and undutiful 
,manner in which the ,redress of 'em was
  sought1 made him believe for a time   
there were none that needed it4  ,but   
when once he was convinc'd of their     
,reality1 how willingly did he  redress 
'em all1 and more than all1 that cou'd  
with any show of ,justice  be complain'd
 of1 or be thought to deserve the ,name 
of ,hardships6  ,how often might ,things
 have been brought to a better ,temper1 
and the  unhappy ,breach accommodated1  
had not their own ,obstinacy prevented  

it1 whom no ,degree of ,royal           
,condescension would satisfie or        
appease2  but his ,blood they would     
have1 and his ,blood they had3 ,the     
,guilt  whereof has ever since lay heavy
 on this sinful ,nation1 and even now   
calls for our deepest ,humiliation1 to  
deprecate that ,vengeance of  ,almighty 
,god1 which might justly be inflicted on
 the remote ,posterity  of the ,actors  
in that unnatural ,parricide4    ,he has
 abundantly testified his ,displeasure  
at it1 by many bad and  mischeivous     
,consequences it has produc'd1 some of  
which we still  smart under1 tho' not   
the first ,i am going to mention1 which 
is    ,the ,confusion of those ,times   
that immediately ensu'd4 ,the miserable 
,state of ,anarchy to which this unhappy
 ,country was reduc'd1 after  the       
,extirpation of the ,royal ,family1 may 
be a ,warning to all  querulous         
,innovators1 who are never contented    
with the present ,state  of ,things4    
,they compass'd their ,wish at last1 and

 had the ,satisfaction  of seeing both  
,kingly and ,episcopal ,government at   
once abolish'd1  and themselves1 7as    
they suppos'd7 in a ,state of religious 
and civil  ,liberty4    ,but did they   
enjoy that ,liberty any otherwise than  
in ,name8 ,did  it not cost 'em much    
dearer to maintain their new ,lords in  
their  ill-gotten ,tyranny1 than ever it
 had done to supply the ,exigencies  of 
their lawful ,prince8 ,was the ,freedom 
of ,parliament1 and ,right  of          
,elections more inviolably kept8 ,were  
they less under the ,terror  of an armed
 ,force8 ,were there fewer ,executions1 
,fines and  ,imprisonments8 ,was the    
,course of the ,law more free and       
undisturb'd1  or ,justice more equitably
 and impartially ,administer'd8 ,were   
the  ,taxes more moderate1 the ,loans of
 ,money less constrain'd1 or the        
,public ,faith 7when no ,body knew what 
or where the ,public was7 a  better     
,security for what was lent1 than before
 this violent ,convulsion  of the       

,state4    ,no4 ,the ,reverse of all    
this is notoriously true1 if there be   
any ,truth  in ,history4 ,they dream't  
and rav'd of ,oppression before1 but    
they were  then opprest in ,earnest4    
,they were before chastis'd with        
imaginary  ,whips1 but then with real   
,scorpions4 ,and surely it was a just   
,judgment  of ,god upon 'em for their   
,inconstancy of ,temper1 and ,eagerness 
for a  ,change1 that when once they had 
shaken off their just ,allegiance1 and  
chose new ,masters for themselves1 they 
were afterwards forc'd to be            
perpetually changing1 and cou'd find no 
,power that was able to protect  'em    
long1 but saw more ,turns and           
,revolutions in the ,compass of a few   
,months1 than had happen'd in a         
,thousand ,years before4    ,new        
,schemes and ,models of ,government were
 daily ,fashion'd1 some of  which died  
in ,embryo1 others made a ,blaze for a  
short ,time1 but no  sooner had they    
turn'd themselves to the new-started    

,light1 in hopes to  be warm'd and      
directed by it1 but the ,airy ,meteor   
disappear'd4    ',twas a common ,thing  
then to see ,servants on ,horseback1    
whilst ,princes  walk'd on ,foot1 to see
 the meanest of the ,people in the      
highest  ,places2 and one might have    
seen ,jotham's ,parable exactly         
verified1  when instead of the ,fatness 
of the ,olive1 and the ,fruitfulness of 
the ,vine2 the ,supreme ,dominion was   
invested in the despicable1 the         
useless1 the hurtful ,brambles4    ,then
 as to ,spirituals4 ,did the ,authors of
 those ,troubles find their  ,account in
 'em8 ,were they able at last quietly to
 ,establish their own  ,way of ,worship1
 and had they not many contending       
,rivals8 ,were not  their own           
,complaints against the ,hierarchy1 of  
taking too much upon  'em1 imposing on  
the ,lord's ,people1 and depriving 'em  
of their  ,christian ,liberty1 return'd 
upon themselves8 ,was there a greater   
,advancement of ,piety1 whilst the      

,sacrament was rarely ,administer'd1    
the ,catechizing of ,youth exceedingly  
neglected1 and almost all ,religion     
resolv'd into ,hearing8 ,was there a    
greater ,liberty of ,conscience1  when  
the prevailing ,sect for the ,time      
,condemn'd the ,toleration of the  rest 
as ,anti-christian8           ----,en   
quo ,discordia ,cives       ,perduxit   
miseros6    ,these were the ,blessed    
,fruits of ,discord and ,rebellion4     
,this was the ,price of over-turning a  
legally and peacably settled            
,constitution4    ,as another bad       
,effect 7but ,god be prais'd that's over
 too7 of this  ,day's ,cruelty1 may be  
reckon'd the imminent ,danger we were   
in1 not many  ,years since1 of the      
,return of ,popish ,superstition into   
this ,nation1  to which1 in all human   
,probability1 the greatest ,part of it  
had in a  little time relaps'd1 had not 
,providence defeated the ,designs that  
were  form'd against our ,holy          
,religion1 by the late ,happy           

,revolution4    ,that very ,danger1 ,i  
say1 of ,popery1 may be imputed1 in its 
,original1  to those who1 by ,banishing 
the ,royal ,progeny1 and obliging 'em to
  fly for shelter to the ,court of a    
,popish ,prince1 expos'd 'em to the     
utmost ,temptation of changing the      
,religion of the ,country they had      
left1 for that of the ,place where they 
were ,entertain'd4 ,it did1 in  ,fact1  
so happen1 that they were earnestly     
solicited to that ,effect1 and  one of  
'em1 we know1 7and we had like to have  
known it at too dear a  ,rate7 unhappily
 complied with the ,temptation4    ,but 
there are some ill ,consequences of that
 great ,rebellion1 that still  affect   
us1 and particularly the unhappy        
,divisions that reign among us4  ',tis a
 sad and deplorable ,thing indeed1 that 
,men who are ,professors of  the same   
,religion1 who have the same ,political 
,obligations1 who are  bound by all the 
,ties both of ,interest and ,duty to    
direct their ,designs  and ,actions to  

the same ,end1 should notwithstanding1  
fly into such  opposite ,extremes1 and  
brand each other with such opprobrious  
,names4    ,such ,jealousies and        
,surmises1 such ,names of ,distinction1 
and forming  of ,parties1 were the fatal
 ,beginnings of that ,intestine ,war1   
which  depopulated and laid ,wast this  
flourishing ,kingdom1 and ended in the  
,murder of the ,sovereign1 and the total
 overthrow of all orderly  ,government  
both in ,church and ,state4 ,and that   
,spirit of ,division which  then began  
to ,reign has never since been totally  
ejected4    ,add to this1 that many     
loose ,principles as to ,government1    
were then  imbib'd1 of which it were    
much to be wish'd1 there were no        
,tincture  still remaining4    ,and     
7which is worst of all7 it is too       
certain that the ,pretences to  a more  
than ordinary ,sanctity1 and the great  
,apperance of ,godliness  in such       
,numbers of ,men1 who yet1 when the     
,mask was off1 were found to  be wicked 

to the last ,degree1 and to have acted  
by no ,principles but  ,iuterest and    
,ambition2 gave an unhappy ,disgust to  
many ,observers  of their ,conduct1     
against all that favor'd of ,piety and  
,goodness1 and  rais'd an unjust        
suspicion in 'em1 that all ,religion was
 counterfeit1  that whoever went under  
the ,character of a devout ,person1 was 
only  acting a ,part1 in order to       
deceive4 ,thus were the ,seeds of       
,atheism  and ,irreligion sown1 which   
have since thriven but too well1 and    
yielded a very ungracious ,encrease4    
#a4 ,to the same ,cause too we may      
ascribe almost all our ,differences in  
,religion4 ,we can call upon all the    
,persuasions but one1 who enjoy the     
,benefit of the ,toleration1 7and may it
 ever be enjoy'd by ,consciences  truly 
tender7 to look back to those unhappy   
,times for their first  ,original1 and  
see1 in the midst of how much           
,licenciousness and ,disorder  they were
 propagated1 and began to spread4       

,i shall only crave your farther        
,patience1 while ,i apply what has been 
said in two short moral ,reflections1   
both which ,i shall take from the       
concluding ,prayer in the ,service for  
the ,day1 where we beseech ,god1  that  
neither the splendor of any thing that  
is great1 nor the ,conceit  of any thing
 that is good in us1 may any ways       
withdraw our ,eyes from  looking on our 
selves as sinful ,dust and ,ashes4      
#a4 ,then1 from the tragical ,event of  
this ,day1 we may observe the           
,uncertainty of all ,human ,state and   
,grandeur4 ,of how short  ,continuance1 
and consequently of how little ,value is
 the most  glittering ,pomp1 that       
attracts our vain ,eyes1 and strikes us 
with  ,admiration6 ,of how slippery a   
,tenure must lesser ,dignities and      
,honours be1 if ,majesty it self be so  
insecure6 ,how little is the  ,condition
 of ,princes to be envied1 who have     
often ,occasion to envy  the ,quiet and 
,repose of the meanest of their         

,subjects1 who can ,sleep  securely1    
whilst they are waking and caring for   
'em6 ,they are equally  expos'd to ,pain
 and ,sickness1 to ,infirmity and       
,diseases2 they lye as  open to a       
natural1 and much more open to a violent
 ,death4 ,plots  and ,conspiracies1     
,assassinations and ,poysonings are     
,accidents  peculiar to the ,royal ,list
 of ,mortality1 and seldom bring a      
,subject  to his ,end4    ,nor is the   
,fame of ,princes less liable to        
,injury1 than their  ,persons4 ,calumny 
dares even assault the ,throne1 and     
fears not to  trample on ,regal         
,sepulchers4 ,there is none so great and
 inaccessible1  as to be out of the     
,reach of that intruding ,monster2 who  
will blacken  and sully the clearest    
,fame1 turn the brightest ,ornaments and
 ,beauties  into ,deformities1 detract  
from the most ,heroical and ,princely   
,vertues1  and transform1 to the        
,appearance of such as see by her       
,glass1 a  good ,josiah into a wicked   

,jeroboam4 ,and as the most conspicuous 
,greatness is no ,preservative against  
the common ,calamities of the  ,world1  
so neither    #b4 ,is the most eminent  
,goodness4 ,tryals and ,afflictions are 
the  common ,lot of ,mortality1 and     
every ,man1 more or less must sustain   
his  ,share of 'em4 ,in this1 the       
,righteous and ,wicked fare alike1 nor  
can a  ,man judge of ,love or ,hatred by
 all that is before him4    ,there are  
indeed many ,passages of ,scripture1    
that encourage a good ,man  to expect   
even the ,blessings of this ,life1 and  
ordinarily ,speaking1  he does actually 
enjoy 'em1 at least in a contented ,mind
 and quiet  ,conscience1 which          
comprehends 'em all4 ,but we are to look
 upon these  ,passages1 as moral        
,observations1 not as absolute          
,promises3 ,that  according to the most 
rational1 most probable1 most natural   
,event1  such temporal ,blessings would 
be allotted to good ,men1 not that each 
particular good ,man should be possess'd

 of every one of 'em1 for that  would be
 in some ,measure1 to have his ,portion 
here4    ,all this is beside our        
,contract with ,god4 ,the ,reward there 
stipulated1  is the ,kingdom of ,heaven1
 and if he does think fit to add these  
,things unto us1 and to enlarge our     
,portion1 by the ,accession of some     
external good ,things1 'tis over and    
above our covenanted ,recompence4       
,but whatever the ,lot may be of a      
righteous ,man here on ,earth1 he  will 
be sure of his ,reward in a better      
,place1 in those ,regions of  endless   
,bliss and ,glory1 where the ,blessed   
,martyr1 whom we this ,day              
,commemorate1 we may ,charitably        
presume1 is now adorn'd with that ,crown
  of ,life1 which he ,purchas'd by his  
constant ,perseverance unto ,death4     
,,finis4               ,,books ,printed 
for1 and sold by ,jonah ,bowyer1 at the 
,rose         in ,ludgate-street1 near  
the ,west-,end of ,st4 ,paul's          
,church4      ,fourteen ,sermons1       

preach'd on several ,occaosins1 together
 with a large  ,vindication of the      
,doctrine contain'd in the ,sermon      
preach'd at the  ,funeral of ,mr4       
,thomas ,bennet4 ,by ,francis           
,atterbury1 ,d4 ,d4 ,dean of  ,dean of  
,carlisle1 ,preacher at the ,rolls1 and 
,chaplain in ,ordinary  to her ,majesty4
    ,not included in the said ,volume2 a
 ,spittal ,sermon preach'd at ,st4      
,bridget's ,church1 before the ,right   
,honourable the ,lord-,mayor1 c4        
,concio ad ,clerum ,londinensem1 habita 
in ,ecclesia ,s4 ,elphegi1 ,maij #ag4   
#agji4 ,a ,francisco ,atterbury1 ,s4 ,t4
 ,p4 ,carliolensis ,ecclesi ,decano1    
,regi ,majestati a ,sacris ,domesticis4 
,sancti ,patris nostri ,joannis         
,chrysostomi ,archiepiscopi             
,constantinopolitani  de ,sercerdotio   
,libri ,,vi4 accessere ,dissertationes  
qudam ,promiales  de ,dignitate         
,sacerdotali1 item ,s4 ,chrysostomi     
,vita e ,celeber4 ,cavij  ,historia     
,litteraria desumpta4 ,adornavit1       

,prfationemq2 adjecit ,joannes  ,hughes1
 ,a4 ,m4 ,collegij ,jesu apud           
,cantabrigienses ,socius4 ,cantabrigi   
,typis ,academicis4    ,instructions for
 the ,education of a ,daughter1 by the  
,author of  ,temelachus4 ,to which is   
added a small ,tract of ,instructions   
for the  ,conduct of young ,ladies of   
the highest ,rank1 with suitable        
,devotions  annex'd4 ,done into         
,english1 and revis'd by ,dr4 ,geo4     
,hicks3 ,the  second ,edition4    ,the  
glorious ,descent1 or the ,blessings of 
the ,holy ,ghost1 represented  in thre  
,discourses on ,st4 ,john1 vi4 #g4      
,lately preach'd at ,triploe  near      
,cambridge4 ,to which are added1 three  
other ,sermons1 ,two on the  ,feast of  
,easter2 and1 one on the ,nativity of   
our ,lord4 ,by ,edmund  ,brome1 ,b4 ,d4 
and ,fellow of ,st4 ,john's ,college in 
,cambridge1 being  improv'd with ,notes 
and ,enlargements4    ,an ,account of   
the ,earl of ,peterboroughs ,conduct in 
,spain1 chiefly  since the ,raising the 

,seige of ,barcelona1 #agjf4 ,to which  
is added  the ,campagne of ,valencia4   
,with ,original ,papers4 ,the second    
,edition  corrected4    ,epicteti       
,enchiridion1 made ,english1 in a       
,poetical ,phrase4 ,by ,ellis  ,walker1 
,m4 ,a4    ,a ,sermon preach'd at the   
,anniversary ,meeting of the ,sons of   
the ,clergy1  in the ,cathedral ,church 
of ,st4 ,paul1 on ,thursday1 ,dec4 #b4  
#agjh4 ,by  ,phillip ,basse1 ,d4 ,d4    
,a ,sermon ,preach'd before the ,sons of
 the ,clergy1 at their                  
,anniversary-,meeting in the ,church of 
,st4 ,paul1 ,dec4 #f4 #agji4 ,by        
,francis ,atterbury1 ,d4 ,d4 ,preacher  
at the ,rolls1 ,dean of ,carlisle1  and 
,chaplain in ,ordinary to ,her ,majesty4
 ,to which are annex'd1 ,an  ,abstract  
of the ,charter1 erecting the           
,corporation2 and a ,true  ,account of  
the ,sums1 distributed sinee its        
,erection4      ,just ,publish'd    ,a  
,true ,state of the ,case of the        
,reverend ,mr4 ,greenshields1 now       

,prisoner in the ,tolbooth in           
,edenburgh1 ,for ,reading               
,common-,prayer1  in an ,episcopal      
,congregation there2 tho' qualify'd by  
taking the  ,oaths1 and praying for the 
,queen and ,princess ,sophia4 ,with     
,copies  of several ,original ,papers   
relating to his ,accusation1 ,defense1  
,imprisonment1 and ,appeal1 first to the
 ,lords of the ,session in              
,north-,britain1 and since to the ,house
 of ,lords4