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With an appendix, or supplement, upon the late murder. of Watson, Richard 1649 13001 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 B The rate of 2 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. 2003-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2004-01 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-02 Olivia Bottum Sampled and proofread 2004-02 Olivia Bottum Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion REGICIDIVM JVDAICVM OR A Discourse , about the Jewes crucifying Christ , their King . WITH An Appendix , or supplement , upon the late murder . OF OVR BLESSED SOVERAIGNE CHARLES THE FIRST Delivered in a Sermon at the HAGVE before His Majestie of GREAT BRITAINE &c. & His ROYAL SISTER , Her HIGNESSE , the PRINCESSE of ORANGE . BY RICHARD WATSON , Chaplaine to the Rt. Honorable the LORD HOPTON . Agnom rejecerunt , Vulpem elegerunt . Cassiodor : HAGE : Printed by SAMUELL BROUN English Bookeseller , Dwelling in the Achter-om at the Signe of the English Printing house . Anno M. D.C.XLIX . To the Rt. Honoble : the LORD HOPTON , BARON OF STRATON &c. One of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privie Councel . MY LORD : Had not my known obligations cōmanded my praesent addresse unto your Lordp. ( to whose bountie for diverse yeares past , & still , I owe as well my being , as some benefit by those intervalls of studie wich our persecuted condition will admit ) the subject of this Discourse , which I publish , would have pointed out your patronage to my thoughts , who have hitherto been such an eminent Assertour of Christianitie by your life , & of Monarchie by your Sword . What defects are in it , too late seeke your name for their cover , having allreadie run their hazard of censure from them , whose judgement I chieflie reverence , & whose sole displeasure I feare . If it may be own'd by your Lordp. as the least title of my dutie discharged , & by your honour cōmended to any future opinion of my disavowing to the vvorld all old or new rebellion & Judaisme , I have the end of my vvishes , & farther incouragement to expresse my selfe : MY LORD Yo Lordships most gratefull & obsequious servant RICHARD WATSON . St. John 19. ch. vers. 14. & 15. And he sayth unto the Iewes , Behold your King . But they cryed out . Away with him , away with him , crucifie him . Pilate sayth unto them , Shall I crucifie your King ? the chiefe Priestes answered , We have no King but Caesar . WEre not my text Scripture , I should apologize for assuming such a sad subject , the sound of which words must needes turne that strong current of griefe upon your eares , which hath allreadie for divérse weekes stream'd forth abundantlie from your eyes . And though it be , were not this a weeke where in we 're every day obligd , as well by Christian dutie as command of the Church , preaching or praying , mournfullie to commemorate the sufferings of our Saviour , and , like loyal subjects ; make some sparkes of our old allegeance rise out of those ashes which we cast on our heads upon the forowfull remembrance of so unjust a judgement pronuunc'd and executed upon so just a King ; I should mine owne selfe checke my imprudence , and prevent your censure of my importunitie in this choyce . But the whole Gospell for the day ( which I presume you observed ) was no other then St. Matthew's long narrative of the Jewes malicious proceedings against Christ , & my text but a part of the same in St. John , with Pilates expresse declaring him to be their King . Indeed the name of this day , which is Palme Sunday , speakes songs & prayses , victories and trophies , Rami palmarum laudes sunt , significantes victoriam , sayth St. Austin : But the service of the day speakes sorowes and sufferings , betraying and murdering , Holie Church not thinking worth her practical record their slight Hosannas , their high way blessings upon the Sonne of David , who within few dayes after could silentlie heare those Anathema maranatha's , those judicial blasphemies against the Sonne of God . Not deigning to preserve , for sacred reliques , those cast rags , the garments I meane the multitude this day spread in his way to the Citie , whose persons and lives ought in conscience & dutie t' have obstructed his Fridays passage to the crosse . The next Sunday , the solemnitie for the Resurrection of Christ , it will be mors in victoria , death swallow'd in victorie , but this day , the first of Hebdomada Magna , the great weeke , appointed for us to meditate on his passion , it is victoria in morte , the palme turn'd into cypresse , victorie drown'd in a deluge of bloud , overwhelmed with the crueltie of death . It should seeme Pilate , whether upon some touch he had in his conscience , with a partial illumination of Gods spirit ; or upon the circumstantial accomplishment of many know'n predictions of the Prophets , or upon the grandure of our Saviours speach , & more then humane Majestie in his countenance ; he collected that , which St. Chrysostom calls megálen sypónoian , a great suspicion of some what more then ordinarie in his person ; Or whether scared by his wifes dreame , and disswaded from the businesse by her counsel ; Or whether the principles of moral honestie prevailed with him to resolve against the condemnation of innocencie , and instrumental completing the malice of the Jewes ; 't is notoriouslie evident what shifts he used , what pretenses he fram'd , either to retract them from their madnesse , or withdrawe himselfe from any interest in the murder . The first instance here of may be his transmitting the processe from his owne Court to the Sanhedrim of the Jewes . Take ye him , and judge him according to your Law . St. Iohn 18. 31. Quae non sunt verbae concedentis , sed horrentis crimen , sayth Cajetan , which are not words of concession , but detestation of the fact , aphosimenou sayth St. Chrysostom . But this they put off with a non licet , It is not lawfull for us to put any man to death , either because the Romans had forbid them the legal cognizance of all capital causes , which Maldonat sayth is the opinion of the most : or as some lay to their charge , though they might stone , or strangle , or burne , crucifie they could not , and none but that would satiate their malice , because the most ignominious way of execution , and as good not all , as not wholelie to their purpose , as they expresse it indefinitelie , with out any limitation . 'T is not lawfull for us to put any man to death . A second instance of Pilates aversion may be the advantage he toke of a custome they had to free a malefactour at this time , and so none fitter then he , who , were his person as bad as their malicious charges would make him , must be least guiltie by his office or dignitie , in all reason and justice most capable of their favour which made him use ( at least in our Evangelists storie ) the Royal title in his quaestion , and say , Shall I release unto you not Christ , or him who , you say , makes himselfe to be the Sonne of God , but your Soveraigne ? Iudaeorum Regem , tht King of the Iewes , vers. the 39. of that chapter . And here their non licet could not passe for an answer , for all though is was not indeed lawfull for them to put at least this man to death ; it was not onelie law , but conscience , and dutie , and allegeance , to save his life and restore him to his libertie . But here comes in their clamour and crie , for feare the Judge should be deafe at such a senselesse demand , Non hunc sed Barabbam , they all cried , Not this man , but Barabbas . Theeves and robbers , villaines and murderers , sett whom they will at libertie but the King , Non hunc sed Barabbam , we will not save him but Barabbas . The third and last experiment we have of Pilate , may be draw'n out of the words of my text . Behold your King , this he thought might move their compassion . Shall I crucifie your King ? this he hop'd would confound them with shame . But they have impatience where with to turne off their pitie , they 'll take no thought to what passe they brought him . Away with him , away with him , and a false colour they have readie at hand to cover their shame Habemus Caesarem , they good men have Caesar for their King . My text divides it selfe into foure parts . I. First here 's Pilate , a heathen Judges ingenuous profession of Christs Regalitie , his Kinglie dominion over the people of the Jewes , Ecce Rexvester , behold your King . II. Secondlie , Their impatient aversion from acknowledging such his supremacie of power . Away with him , away with him , crucifie him . III. Thirdlie Pilates profession resum'd , and fram'd into a strong argument for the freedome and indemnitie of Christ . Crucifigam Regem ! Shall I crucifie your King ? which quaestion , the knowe , implies a negation , and the enthymem 's this . He is your King , therefore , non crucifigam , I must not crucifie him . IV. Fourthlie , and lastlie . The chiefe Priests cunning evasion , and apologie for the Jewes rejection of Christ . Mistake not us , nor the good people we countenance , whose thoughts are not set upon murdering their King , Habemus Caesarem , We have Caesar , who may be well assured of all fidelitie and loyaltie from us , we must heare of no other , alium non habemus , we have no King but Caesar . These be the parts . Before we enter upon the handling of which , Let us pray for Christs Holie Catholique Church , &c. And he sayth unto the Iewes , Behold your King . THis He in my text is that Pilate you meet with every day in your Creed , infamous there for the worst of his acts , his condemnation of Christ , recorded here for the best of his words , his publike profession to the Jewes that he was their King . Christi nomen & regnum ubique porrigitur , sayth Tertullian . As the name , so the regalitie of Christ is held forth every where to the world . In the Prophets predictions , such as that of Micah the 5. of his prophecie and 2. But thou Beth-leem Ephratah though thou be litle among the thousands of Iudah , yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel . In the Wisemens search and inquisition at his birth St. Matt. 2. Where is he that is borne King of the Iewes ? In his owne administration and spiritual exercises of his power , as when he rebuked the windes and the water , and they obeyd him St. Luk. 8. In several intimations by his words . In this place is one greater then the Temple . The son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath . St. Matth. 12. In his silent acception of the acclamations and worship from the people , whose mouths were full with Rex Iudaeorum , Rex Indaeorum . This is he that hath been the desire of Nations , this the expectation of the people , the King of the Iewes . The summe and fullest period of which was the strange ecstatike reverence was given him at his entrance this day into the Cittie , by spreading of garments , cutting downe of boughes , and crying Hosanna to the Sonne of David , which is Free us , or save us we beseech thee , a speach never used but in their feast of tabernacles , being there a piece of their publike service , a part of the peoples responsals to the Priest . So that he which had conversed with the Jewes , and heard at least , if not read , the writings of their Prophets ; He that knew what paines the Wisemen tooke to adore , & doe him fealtie in his cradle ; He that saw the miracles he wrought , & heard the strange language that he spake ; He , whose eyes , and eares were this day filled full with the accomplishment of that Prophetike exhortation in Zacharie . Rejoyce greatlie ô daughter of Zion , shout ô daughter of Hierusalem , ( for never was joy so highlie expressed , never before this was Hosanna known to be turn'd into a shout ) Ecce Rex , behold thy King , cometh unto thee lowlie , and riding upon an asse , the very same language with this dayes historie in the Gospell , He I say that had all these inducements to beleeve , had reason to taxe the incredulitie of the Jewes , and allay their crueltie by pointing at their Soveraigne . Ecce Rex , Behold your King . In the foregoing chapter Pilate , at his entrance , into the Judgement Hall , so dissembled his inclination to beleeve , that Origen puts to peradventure his quaestion , Art thou the King of the Iewes ? deridens , aut dubitans , that he ask'd it in derision , or doubt . And , upon our Saviours replie , Sayst thou this of thy selfe , or did others tell it thee , so loth he seemd to be taken for a Christian , that he would not owne the remote alliance of a Jew . But when he saw the malice of the Priestes delude his cunning and assaile his conscience ; when the importunitie of the peoples clamours was likelie as well to violate his fayth , as ravish his justice , then he doubted about nothing but his honour , a Christian he was , pre conscientia Christianus Tertullian calls him , but he would with all continue Praesident in Jurie , God and Caesar must be content with a joynt interest in his service , Convictus ille , imò & confessus , nec tamen professus , sayth one , Convinc'd he is , and confession he makes , though he becomes no profess'd Christian , what he thinketh not good to assume to himselfe ( in all likelihood onelie for feare of Caesars displeasure ) he presseth very hard upon the Jewes , Ecce Rex , Behold your King . But this Ecce here seemes not onelie to hold forth Pilates fayth , but to guide the Jewes to a sad object , worth their commiseration and pitie . At the 5. verse of this chapter , when , to avoyd greater mischiefe , Pilate had taken Jesus , and scourg'd him ; When with platted thornes , and purple robe the souldiers had crowned Jesus , and arrayd him ; When with their Ave Rex , Haile ô King , they had in scorne derided and mock'd him ; ' anosíos catechismenon ' aphoretos ' exybrismenon , sayth St. Chrysostom , thus undesetvedlie chastis'd , thus unsufferablie reviled , he brings him forth as a fit object for humane compassion , and sayth no more but Ecce homo , Behold the man . Behold and see , whether this be not he , whom your owne Prophet Isaiah speakes of , despised and rejected of men , a man of sorrowes and acquainted with griefe ; Whether it be not he that is wounded for your transgressiont , he that is bruised for your iniquities ; Whether upon him be not the chastisement of your peace , & whether by these stripes ye may not be healed But when he saw those sharpe thornes that pierc'd his head could not pricke them at the heart ; When he saw those stripes , which had ploughed up and made long furrowes in his backe , could by no meanes breake the drie barren ground in their breasts ; When no argument draw'n from such a spectacle of humane miserie could move them ; He becomes , as he thinkes ; imperious in his Rhetoricke , hopes the name of Majestie will awe them ; that they , who would take no pitie on him as man , will recollect themselves and reverence him as their Soveraigne , Ecce Rex , Behold your King . But they , who once have burst the chaines of humane Societie , will breake the bonds of Soveraigntie asunder , and cast away their cords from them ; They , who have forgoten to be men , to be mercifull one to another in love , will scarce bethinke themselves to be subjects , to be obedient all to any one in dutie . When Seneca had defined crueltie to be a certaine fiercenesse of the mind in exacting of punishment , he discovered a generation of bloudie men that could not be compriz'd in this definition , such as , no fault nor injurie preceding , can be sayd neither to punish nor revenge , but qui occidendi causa occidunt , kill merelie because they will kill , nec interficere contenti saeviunt , nor are they content to kill onelie , but torment too , and rage in the maner of their murder . And he knowes not what to style these mens distemper but a brutish savagenesse , a raving madnesse , both implying their incapacitie of doing , or hearing any thing that is reason , so that Ecce homo and Ecce Rex to tell them of man or King , to use any rational argument to appease them , is to take a lambe from a lions mouth , to divert an evening wolfe from her prey , it heightens their rage , it inflames their furie , impatient they are of hearing any thing that tends to that purpose , nothing then but Tolle , Crucifige , Away with him ; Away with him , crucifie him . And this leades me to my second part , the Jewes aversion from acknowledging Christ's supremacie of power , aggravated first by the violence of their passion , Clamabant , They cried . Secondlie by their vehement iterated expression , Tolle , Tolle , Away with him , Away with him . Thirdlie by the crueltie of their tumultuarie condemnation , Crucifige , Crucifie him . Aut ignorantia nos rerum aut insolentia iracundos facit , sayd the Stoike . 'T is either ignorance or insolence ( which in his sense is somewhat hapening beyond expectation , or out of course ) that is the cause of our anger and furie . Either of which , though it can not fullie excuse the excesse of our passion , may abate somewhat the delinquencie of such acts as very naturallie issue from the extremitie of the same . To pleade either in behalfe of the Jewes were to denie that their fathers had a cloud by day , and a pillar of fire by night to conduct them . Habent Mosen & Prophetas ; They have Moses and the Prophets , and they shewed before of the coming of the just one , St. Steven tells them Act. 7. I shall not stand to reproach them with those glorious beames of the sun of righteousnesse , which will they , nill they , stroke themselves into the eyes of the Jewes , to which the Wisemens starre in the East was but a sparkle , & the light that encircled the shepheards but a shadow . The know'n accomplishment of the promise in Genesis , That when the Scepter departed from Iudah should Shilo come , evidenc'd First in Herod the Idumaean , who was no native , but a proselyte to the Jewes , who transmitted the Scepter to his sonne Archilaus , and he to Antipas who had a foreigner for his mother , giving them , that minded it assurance of the thing , might very well put them upon search after the person , and if our Saviours promise were valide in the 7. of St. Matthew , Seeke and ye shall finde , ( which Tertullian sayth , with the rest of that nature , was in this case directlie intended to the Jewes ) that search would have ended no otherwhere then in the cleare discoverie of Christ . But they were Rebelles lumini , as Iob speakes , Rebells against the light in a proper sense , for when this light , that was the Sunne of righteousnesse , the King of the Jewes , was come into the world , they loved darkenesse rather then light . This darkenesse some of them loved in Herod , whom they would needes in flaterie make that Anoynted of God , & instead of Christians were called Herodians . This darkenesse others of them loved in the Serpent whom they commemorate as the founder of knowledge of good & evill , whose power and Majestie they say was lifted up in the brasen image by Moses in the wildernesse , and in the sonne of man by that paterne , as himselfe professeth in the 3. of St. Iohn , the likenesse whereof Tertullian sayth , they us'd in their sacrilegious mysteries , preferring the Devill himselfe before Christ , and from thence were called Ophitae . Thus like sillie children , they chang'd the bread that came downe from heaven for a stone , and the fish that their father gave them for a Serpent . St. Paul indeed in the 3. of the Acts notes that they and their rulers did out of ignorance crucifie Christ . And Christ on his crosse pray'd , Father forgive them , for they know not what they doe . But it may be sayd , That St. Pauls charitie might possiblie get the uper hand of his fayth , and yet our Saviours words were unquaestionable truth , relating to their fatal imprecation , Let his bioud be upon us and our children , made when they litle thought how long that purple veine would be runing , how many generations of their children they plung'd into this river of bloud . Their knowledge of this might else have amus'd and startled them in the act . And in this sense perchance our Saviour might speake it , Ignorant , They know not what they doe . But let their knowledge be what it will , I am sure it could not be greater then their malice , which brake out into this extremitie , of passion , that the Evangelist sayth not , ' élegon they spake , but ' ecráugesan , they cried . An affectus sint corpora , Wherher the passions of the mind be not bodies , hath been a question sprung in moral Philosophie . Such strange alterations have they made , such shapes and representatives of themselves , as seeme more then effects of immaterial formes more then bare impressions of a spirit . Thus of tentimes hath feare shot that bloud to the heart which shame had flushed up in the face , and shew'd her selfe in the image of death . Thus when joy had painted out to the life the verdant spring in the countenance of man , hath sorrow sent his moysture to the root , and as if it were the autumne of his age , parched up his skin like a leafe . But quod aliiaffectus apparent , hic eminet , whereof other affections are the shadow , anger seemes to be the substance it selfe , what they in a transitorie apparition , this in a permanent habit and real . Doth modest shame discover it selfe in a gentle blush , & passe away like the dawing of the morne ? Anger driueth furioussie like the Sun up to the meridian of his rage . Doth sorrow sigh and sob it in a corner , or whisper in the secrecie of a wood ? Anger cries aloud in the streetes , and clamours to a tumult in the mercate . What had been stillie dropt by tender-hearted pitie in a teare , Anger raiseth in the noyse of an earthquake , and throwes about the world in a a tempest . Wrath is cruel and anger is outragious , sayth the Wiseman Prov. 27. 4. Chrysostom renders this ' ecráugesan , ' epebóon , which is , they bellowed it out like an oxe . And otherwhere paraphrasing upon my text , saith he pros ' aptoistéran mâllon ' apotauroúmenoi gnómen , they were raised in their mindes up to the fiercenesse of a bull . A similitude very expressive of a licentious headie multitude in a rage , which , sayth Tullie , non dilectu aut sapientia ducitur ad judicandum , sed impetu , is not lead to judgement by discretion and wisdome , but hurried by the violence of their passion . With such beastes as these was good King David encompassed . Ps. 22. Many oxen are come about me , fat bull , of Basan close me in on every side . Vituli & tauri , 't is renderd by St. Hierom as if young and old had been all of this temper , all in a crie , and a terrible one too . They gape upon me with their mouthes , Sicut leo rapiens & rugiens , as it were a ramping and roaring lion . Vers. 13. If you observe the historie of their actions , who are crying in my text , they all speake the fiercenesse of their wrath , and most irrational extremitie of their passion . First for the surprisal of his person they must have no lesse then a band of armed men , and other Officiers of the Pritstes and Pharises with swords and staves , when he was onelie with a few Disciples in a garden . Then whereas they had him daylie in the Temple , they must come with this power of darkenesse in the night . And in this night , ( thought as the learned Grotius observes , at the time of full moon , too bright for such an interprise as theirs ) they must blaze their furie metà phanôn kaì lampádon , in lanternes and torches , and feigne a senselesse difficultie in the search . When they have got his person , in their power , they must binde him before they carie him away , scarce trusting him with the libertie of his legs when Pilate demands their accusation against him , faine would they have sentence passe with out a charge , upon Pilates implicite fayth in their honest word , that had he been no malefactour they would not have delivered him to the Iudge . And , after many passages of this kind , when Pilate presseth upon them that he was their King , they make an open sepulcher of their mouth , and burie Royal Majestie in a crie . But this crie of theirs was not merelie a confus'd nothing , to stop Pilates mouth about their King , ' athetoûsi dôxas , as St. Jude speakes , They set aside or despise dominions , Away with him , away with him , are words of scorne , contempt , and derision , by which they doe , as it were spit Regal aurhoritie in the face . St. Cyprian calls them , violenta suffragia , Tertullian in the abstract , suffragiorum violentiam , which I will English no otherwise then the madmens verdict . This is gladius linguae , the sharpe sword of the tongue , that cuts off the legal processe of a Court , pierceth law and justice to the heart . When the Herald calls for the cap and knee for due reverence to be render'd to the King , these raging waves fome out no thing but their owne shame , Away with him , away with him , is all can be got from the madnesse of this people . When the Judge commands silence in the Court , and would have a quick hearing of the cause , as in the 59. Isai. By the strength of their crie is judgement turn'd away backward and justice bid to stand afarre off . Non juris ordinem quaerunt , sed furore vincere volunt , sayth one . They looke not after the method of the law , they will cast him not in judgement but furie . That the Prophecie in the 53. of Isai. might be fullfilled . De judicio sublatus est . He was taken away from prison and from judgement . Thus in the propriety of Davids expression , was our Saviour made a scorne of men , and the King of the Jewes an out cast of his people . And what was done by the Jewes unto the King , was afterward by the Romans to his subjects decreed to the death , and when their owne sinnes had draw'n downe vengeance upon their heads , when any publike calamitie toke hold of them , Christianos ad leones , it was solemne with them to surround their Magistrates in tumults and crie to have the Christians cast unto the lions ; And not onelie so , but , as if they had learn'd their lesson from the Jewes , and desired to maintaine as well their words , as their actions , Christiani tollantur . Away with the Christians , was a second forme of their tumultuarie clamours . But there remaines yet a third aggravation of their furie in my text . They are not content to have him taken out of their sight they are not satisfied with the nullitie of his power , the imprisonment of his person , they must quench the thirst of their malice in his bloud , not onelie Tolle , but Crucifige , Away with him , crucifie him . Death and life are in the power of the tongue , sayth the Wiseman , Prov. 18. 21. Which power never playes the tyrant more , then when it gets into those habitations of crueltie , the mouthes of a rebellious multitude in a crie . These , if any , are the madmen he speakes of Prov. 26. who out of their burning lips and wicked heart cast , not words but , firebrands , arrowes , and death . St. Austin makes the mouthes of the Jewes fiercer executioners then their hands , and their tongues sharper instruments then the nailes that fastened our Saviours bodie to the crosse . Vnde occidistis ? gladio linguae . Et quando percussistis nisi quando clamâtis crucifige ? Now , the two principles of popular furie are , for the most part , ignorance and malice . By the one they are not able to judge of the species , or kinde , much lesse the degree of that which they take to be a crime , and , being jealous that what may be bad , is the worst , they proportion revenge by their illimited sensitive appetite , never weigh it in the ballance of reason . By the other they become exquisite inventours , and as curious about the circumstance or forme , as violent about the substantial part or matter of their mischiefe . Such is this jurie of raging Jewes in my text , who doe not onelie outrun judgement in their hast , Away with him , away with him , nor in their rage throw mercie out of the Court , by crying kill him , or , put him to death but specificate execution at their pleasure , and exercise the tyrannie thereof , as wel in the shame , as the torment , by crying out for the worst of the kinde , Crucifige , crucifie him , ' apenéstaton thánaton , saith St. Chrysostome ▪ summum supplicium saith another extremam poenam , a third , & S. Paul more emphaticallie then they all , the crosse , the shame , as we translate him . Hebr. 12. Baronius observes that the Jewes never clamour'd to have our Saviour crucisied , untill Pilate had giv'n them their option , Shall I release unto you this man or Barabbas ? And then , upon a sodain , advantage they toke by this unfortunate occasion , to quit Barabbas of his double due , as he was a theefe and a murderer , and cast the crosse upon our Saviours necke , who was so farre from being either of both , that he was Lord of life , King , of heaven and earth , and sole proprietarie of the world . Thus oftentimes are very unhappie opportunitier of mischiefe administred by such innocent adventures , and furie by accident caried beyond designe . I shall not exspatiate about the circumstances of his death , onelie desire you but to glance upon the two specious objects they set up , the one upon his right hand , the other at his left . In which to his last gaspe he might see the double image of their malice , with out any reflection upon the least guilt in himselfe . Brieflie , such was the ignominie of his sufferings , as put part of Christianitie to the blush , and made many haeretikes about the crosse . In the head of whom was Simon Magus , who sayd Christ withdrew himselfe at the instant of death , & suffered onelie in the counterfeit of his person . After him Cerinthus , authour of that concision you reade of in St. Paul . Beware of dogs , beware of the concision , which was a cutting or dividing Jesus from Christ , and asserting that Jesus did both suffer and rise , but that Christ was impassible forsooke his companie , and left Jesus to suffer by himselfe . In the reare of these comes Basilides with a fiction ; That Iesus and Simon , meaning him of Cyrene , who help'd to beare the crosse , chang'd shapes by consent , and so Simon suffered , while Iesus slipt away in his disguise . And these are taken to be the men whom St. Paul mentions with teares in his eyes . Philip . 3. Whose end was destruction , because ( in this manner as I have told you ) enemies to the crosse . But to take off your thoughts from these idle fancies , I desire you to fixe them upon a serious object in my third generall , and behold Pilate with amazement and horrour metamorpho'zd for a time into a statue , till at length bloud melting in his veines , and just wrath burning at his heart he speaketh with his mouth , yet hath not patience to be explicite in a syllogisme , he presseth , I told you , his argument in an enthymeme . He is your King , therefore , non crucifigam , I must not crucifie him , Nay he yet contracts that into a quaestion , and when neither , humane miserie could move them to pitie nor setting Royal Majestie in their sight , draw them to a remembrance of their dutie he thinkes to shake their obstinacie in pieces , and strike dumbe the insolencie of their crie , ' emphrátton ' autôn tà stómata , Kaì pánton tôn categoreîn bouloménon , xaì dejenùs hoti to oìkeio basileì ' epánestesan , sayth St. Chrysostom , by Crucifigam Regem ? Shall I crucife your King ? I know Interpreters differ about Pilates meaning , and are as apposite as may be in rendring their conjecture upon his words . St. Cyrill of Alexandria sayth . That his first words . Ecce Rex , Behold your King , might be spoken in compliance with the Jewes , whose charge lay chieflie against him for accepting that title from the multitude at his entrance this day into the cittie , and so , Behold I deliver him up unto your pleasure whom some idle people among you publikelie crie up for the King of the Jewes . And upon that ground Euthymius makes an ironie of his quaestion , wherein , he sayth , Pilate rather mockes at Christ , then reproacheth the Jewes : What ? shall I crucifie your King ? The learned Grotius takes the clause with the Ecce to be in reproach , but of what ? not their malice , but their follie . Which may seeme to be in favour of Theophylact , who makes a longer speach for Pilate then in my text , to this purpose allmost . You that charge this man to have taken upon him the authoritie of King , where did he doe it ? whence doe you collect it ? from the purple robe wherewith the souldiers arrayed him ? [ some rag of their owne , having nothing but the counterfeit of the colour . ] From a few th●enes , [ gathered out of a hedge by the highway side ] and platted into a diademe to crowne him ? From a broken reed [ taken out of the water ] and put into his hand for a Scepter ? Ou pánta ' autô ' eutelê ; xaì stole ; xaì trophè ; xaì ' oixos , xaì oudè ' oixos . Are not all things poore and beggarlie about him ? his raiment ? his food ? his house ? nay ' oixos ' oudè ' oixos , his house and no hoose ? as he sayd trulie . The sonne of man hath not where to lay his head . But I follow interpreters of another straine , such as favour Pilate in his beliefe , and are not prone to censure him for his words . Or the same rather dissenting from themselves , and fairlie altering the ill propertie of the sense . St. Cyrill first , who , upon Pilates washing his hands from the fact , and persevering in the defense of our Saviour , thinkes that at first he gentlie rebuk'd them , and suggested to them , that in as bad a condition as they see him , this is he of whom not long since they had a beter opinion then they owne . Ecce Rex , Behold your King . And that afterward he reproacheth their wicked humour to the purpose . You that professed what words you heard , Never man spake like this man ; You that acknowledg'd the miracles which he wrought . Behold the dumbe speake , the lame walke , the blinde see , and the dead are raised unto life . You that upon these &c. justlie built the beliefe you had , that he was the Sonne of David and your King , Is your great Hosanna turn'd to crncifige ? What ? shall I crucifie your King ? Theophylact next who , observing Pilate very peremptorie in maintaining the title he had caus'd to be set up on the crosse , with a froward answer , Quod scripsi , scripsi , What I have writ , I have writ , sayth he did it ' amunóumenos tous Ioudáious , in revenge of the Jewes , who would give no eare to his Ecce Rex , & Crucisigam Regem ? but would persist in their rebellion against their King . But let Pilates fayth be what it will about the person of Christ , and his meaning as ambiguous as may be in this his conference with the Jewes , his words I am sure must import the sense of the world at that time , and , apprehension they had of the just indemnitie of Kings , and exemption from the ignominie of the crosse . And indeed he that shall recollect with himselfe the awfull expressions dropt from the pens of the Romanes , may have enough to reproach any wicked regicide , Jew or Christian , and hisse him out of the communion of men . The Roman Seneca litle thought of deposing , much lesse of murdering Kings , let their actions be what they will , when he made that compendious Directorie for the subject , Rex est , si nocentem punit , cede justitiae , si innocentem , cede fortunae . He is thy King , if he punisheth thee with desert , submit to his justice , if with out , give way to thy fortune , or ill chance , to suffer with out a cause . And what he sayd in these words , he made good in his practice , when he suffered so patientlie , and bathd Nero's furie in his bloud . All indeed were not of his minde . Himselfe makes mention of some Kings heads set to publike sale , Principum sub civili hasta capita venalia , of others throates cut by their subjects , of some tormented to death upon the crosse , but in his stoical language he sayth they were mali exempla fati , all examples of a bad fate , he sayth not , paternes for bad men . But I passe hence to the fourth and last member of my text , the chiefe Priests cunning evasion , and apologie for the Jewes rejection of Christ , Loth they are they should take them for persecuters , much more for murderers of Kings , Habemus Caesarem , they good men have Caesar for their King , to whom they professe subjection and fealtie , the mistake or real injurie is his , who would impose a new tyrannie upon them , and to this they make answer by their Priestes , Alium non habemus , Wee have no King but Caesar . Wherein are 3. Particulars to be handled . First the persons that were the modellers of the answer , and they were Pontifices , the chiefe Priestes . Secondlie , their caution in a subtile abetting or acknowledging a King , Habemus Caesarem , We have Caesar . Thirdlie , their traytourous rejection of Christ , Alium non habemus , We have no King but Caesar , I begin with the first . Livie compares the multitude to the sea , which hath very litle motion of it selfe , calme enough and quiet would it be , but when the windes rise the waters rage , some leading gale first swells the mindes , and a stronger gust forceth on the madnesse of the people . Throughout the whole historie of the Gospell you may easilie see how the chiefe Priestes were the excitantes Aeoli the windie Gods that raised the storme , and their furious breath the tempest that did shipwracke our Saviour . dêmos ' atactos hypò tôn ' archónton diephtharménos , sayth St. Chry : speaking of the Jewes . The confusion & disorder , of the people came by the corruption of the Priestes . No Sooner was he come into the world , but they are the men that must cure Herod of his trouble , & make the discoverie where he should be borne : And they sayd unto him in Beth-leem of Iudaea Math. 2. They the men that were sore displeased with this dayes reverence done him by the people , the childrens crying Hosanna in the Temple , and sayd unto him . Hearest thou what these say St. Matth. 21. The chiefe of them all , good Caiphas I meane , the first that found out the blessed expedient for one man , and that man was this King that must die for the people , St. Iohn : 11. The mater being resonted by them all , they hold a consultation about the maner , and , in order to that , they first covenan , with Judas to sell him . St. Luk. 22. And notwithstanding all the diligence was used , when the designe was likelie to have fallen to the grond , they take it up in this apologie for the people . Pontifices responderunt , The chiefe Priestes answered , sayth my text . And trulie did not the people finde such cunning apologists as these , they are neither more praecipitant in enterprizing , nor more violent in prosecuting a bad cause , then they would be facile in deserting the same , when they once finde patience to hearken to , and shall heare reason to convince them of their errour , Nec quicquam facilius quàm in quemlibet affectum mutare populum , sayth Qninctilian . But when they have authoritie to countenance , and subtile sophistrie to colour their actions they have a guard both for their wilfulnesse and ignorance , and can then bid defiance to the world . The great stroke that the Priests had here in the demagogie of the Jewes came from the legal eminencie of their place , they sitting upon the highest bench of their Magistracie , and the chiefe of them being adaequate in power to their principal Judge or Justiciarie by his office . Sacerdos summus summo Iudice adaequatur , sayth one . Which layd to the leter of a poenal law , whereby death was ordain'd for him who was disobedient to the command of the Priest , reverence and feare might very well involve the common lewes in a silent assent to what their chiefe Priestes answered in my text , Alium non habemut , We have no King but Caesar , Thus , as St. Chrysostom sayth , tês'oletriou miaiphonías `egemónes , xai strategoi , xai paraitioi , which the prophet Isaiah 5. language translates . The leaders of this people cause them to erre , and they that are lead of them are destroyed . But we 'll leave the persons , and come to their answer , which implies their formal subjection to Soveraignitie in the heate of their processe to crucifie their King . Habemus Caesarem , We have Caesar . Two things there are in the soul of man so clearlie writ in the faire indelible characters of heaven , that the hand of hell and malice of the devill , with all the workes of darkenesse he can graspe , can never wipe away into a blanke , and those are religion to a God , and subjection to a Soveraigne . The peevish Israëlites that are angrie at Moses because he stayes somewhat long in the mount , as hastie as they are , will stay themselves , and not stirre a foot till a God be made , be it but a molten calfe ; to conduct them in the way . They that cast away their portion in David , and spit out their inheritance in the Sonne of Jesse , will not summon Israël to their tent 's till they have design'd Jerobóam their Captaine for their King . And Jerobóam , when he hath snatched away the crowne , thinkes not of puting downe the old religion , the going up to Jerusalem to worship , untill he makes Dan and Bethel two stalls for his calves , and proclaimes their golden images his Gods . The most stupid Aegyptian , that will not thinke upon the paradise of heaven , nor heare of him that was walking in Eden in the coole of the day , will as he walkes in his owne garden plucke up a leeke or an onion for his God . I laugh at the foolish Atheist in the Psalmist , who mutters in the secrecie of his heart , but will not tell me plainlie with his mouth , non est Deus , there is no God . And I dare the most traitourous villaine in the world what soever he pronounceth so gravelie in a publicke Hall , where he hath his guard of ruffians about him , to retire into his closet a while , take the chaire in the Court of his conscience , and then passe sentence upon his King . No , Rebellion and Atheisme are duo magna mendacia , two impes of the Devill the father of lies , begot by him upon the deceitfulnesse of the heart , in a mist or cloud of pretenses and shewes , humanitie can not owne them for its off spring , and Reason discovers them to be a bastard brood when she brings them to conscience , goes about to trie them in the light . Feare God , and Honour the King , were commands not made but reviv'd by St. Peter , they had their first impresse in the first borne of Adam , and in the native habit sticke , as close as a worse businesse , original sinne to the soules of the rest , all though they often denie them in their practice . The Soveraigne Majestie of God in heaven , and of his Vice-gerent on earth , in spight of all the rebellious Indepedent crew in the world , will preserve a seate for it selfe in the acts , or words , or thoughts , of Christian , of Pagan , of Jew . In the heate of their rejection of Christ you see they lay hold , in profession at least , of a Heathen Emperour for their King ; Habemus Caesarem , We have Caesar . But let us looke a litle aswell into the actions as words of Caesars good subjects in my text , and see whether they doe as they speake , whether they give to Caesar the things that are Caesars , and by their practicke obedience owne him for their Soveraigne . I shall not need to tell you they were the sonnes of them that for a long time had the best of Kings , for 't is sayd the Lord himselfe was their King , and they were the worst subjects in the world . How doth the Prophet Esai crie out , Heare ô heavens , and give eare ô earth , for the Lord hath spooken , I have nourished & brought up children , & they have rebelled against me ? Ch. 1. How doth he preferre before them the oxe and the asse , the one for knowing his owner and the other his masters crib ? And for such of them as should have been wiser then the rest , Principes populi , the very representatives of the people they were rebellious and companions of theeves . Vers. 23. Their Prophets were conspiratours , and their Priests violatours of the law . Ezech. 22. And yet I 'le warrant you this dutifull crew had the confidence at that time to professe , Grotius tells us they did it very solemnlie in their Talmud , Habemus Deum , We have God for our King . But to let their stubborne auncestours alone . Aetas parentum pejor avis tulit hos nequiores , St. Steven sayth of these good men in my text , that they were sclerotrácheloi & ' aperíptmetoi , stffienecked and uncircumcized in heart . That they did pneúmati ' antipíptein , we translate it resist , but the word is more emphaticall and signifies to fall forward or presse against the Holie Ghost . Now they that did thus on purpose with stand the rushing wind of the Spirit of God , were very unlikelie to be fairlie guided by the breath in the nostrils of their King . No , it was their malice to Christ that made them pretend such subjection to Caesar , Quem tyrannum & hostem reputabant , profitentur Regem ut Iesu crucisixionem obtineaent , sayth Cajetan . And if we looke into the historie of those times , we shall finde this one people of the Iewes make more worke for the Roman Emperours and their Vice-Roys then all the rest throughout their dominions in the world . No sooner came Pilate to his charge , to succed Gratus the Praesident of Iurie , but bringing certaine images of Caesar ; as others say golden bucklers to dedicate at Hierusalem , all our good subjects are in an uproare , and never leave bringing tumults to his doores , till he translates them and his solemnitie , to Caesarea . Not long after he borowes but a litle of their corba their holie treasure , to imploy about the making of a conduit , our good people fall to their old trade , petition him to lay his building aside but they humblie speake it ore gladii , in the most dutifull expression of the sword In Claudius time they were such dutifull subjects , that he was faine to banish them all out of Rome . And in Vespasians so loyal-hearted at Hierusalem , that he sent Titus his sonne to besiege them , who put 110000. of them to the sword . And so observant were they of the good Christian Emperour Constantines commands , that , to keep them in awe , he was faine either to cut off their eares , or stigmatize them otherwise in their bodies , and so marke them for slaves that would not keep the impression of subjects in their hearts . And thus have you a short essay of them , their fathers , their children , who would sooth up Pilate so handsomelie in my text with Habemus Caesarem , We have Caesar for our King . There remaines now nought but the last particle of all , the last of the Chiefe Priestes answer to Pilate , being the Jewes final rejection of Christ , Alium non habemus , We have none bnt Caesar for our King . The most willfull answer that ever was render'd by men pretenders to gravitie and judgement , the most incongruous to Pilates demand For had Christs Kingdome entrench'd upon Caesars , he that was his Provincial Substitute durst not doubtlesse at the same time owne his place and his desire to praeserve the life of him to the ruine of his Master . But Pilate was well satisfied in the point by the discourse that passed between our Saviour and him , and so in all likelihood were the chiefe Priestes too , if their malice had not more perverted their will , then ignorance blinded their understanding hereof . For the Common people who are not the best masters of reason , and the very worst moderatours of passion , upon slender grounds to raise a tumult for their Patriots advantage , to sell a litle breath for a sixpence , crie Tolle , Crucifige , Away with him , crucifie him , is no great deviation of nature , their earthie souls incline them to the center of profit , and their servile spirits make them not onelie readie at hand to fetch and carie , but , mastivelike , with open mouth furiouslie to assaile , if commanded onelie by the eye or the fingar : But for the chiefe men the Rulers of the people , no lesse then the States of the Parliament of the Jewes , which Maldonate sayth consisted of the chiefe Priests , Elders , and Scribes , as it is in the 50. of Esai . Not onelie to kindle a fire , and compasse themselves about with the sparkes , and walke in the light of their owne fire ; But hope to smother their guilt in the smoke ; For them to professe subjection to Caesar , and thence to vouch their rejection of Christ , for them to tell Pilate to his face that he can be no friend to Caesar unlesse he become a murderer of Christ ; this is very wilfullie to walke in the way of the froward , wherein the Wiseman tells us are thornes and snares they can not but pricke their feet as they goe , they can not but be taken in the net . When our Saviour strictlie commands them to pay tribute , they pretend , that at the same time he prohibites paying dutie to Caesar . When he tells them his Kingdome is not of this world , they are zealous to shew their subjection is . Habemus Caesarem , they have Caesar , and none but Caesar for their King . Whereas well they might know , and were bound to take notice of what St. Cyrill of Alexandria sayth he evidenc'd to them in speach . `óti tês toû Kaísaros basileias ' oue ' estì polémiot , that Christ and Caesar are no such inconsistents in government , the very same subjects may they have and yet be no corrivals in dutie . The chiefe Priestes might have sayd , Habemus Caesarem , We have Caesar indeed , and yet Habemus alium , we may have , another , We may have Christ for our King . But ' ap ' ' eláctizen ' en roútois `o `egapémenos Israèl , xaì tês pròs Teòn philias ' anaphandòn ' exálletai , most elegantlie sayth Chrysostom . In these words beloved Israël Kickes away Christ with the heel , and in publike viewe leapes out of her friendship with God . But they that kick'd against , and leap'd from this relation to God , and , as I shew'd you eve'n now , leap'd in , were very desultorie , very uncertaine in their subjection to Caesar , have been justlie since kick'd away and rejected by both , continuing still in that forlorne condition , wherein 1400. yeares since and more , I say againe 1400. yeares since , that you may see how soon , and that you may see how long revenge followes rebellion at the heeles , Tertullian very sadlie describ'd them , dispersi , palabundi , & coeli sui extorres , vagantes per orbem , sine homine , sine Deo Rege , dispersed vagrants , banish'd from Christs Kingdome in heaven , and from Jurie , then Caesars , now the Turkes province on earth , wandring up and downe in the world , having neither God nor man for their King . Desino , & hoc infigo . Thus have I done with Pilate , the Jewes , and the chiefe Priestes in the leter , as they beare a part in the Historie of the Gospell . Yet some others there are very nearlie concerned , if not in the doctrine , I am sure in the use and due application of my text deuteroi Iudâioi , such as deserve the name of second Jewes beter then the Paulian heretikes that had it . And there is déuteros xritès , a second Judge , I shall not doe him the honour to say a second Pilate , he acted very litle of his part , not any that I know but passing an uglie sentence upon his King . And there are déuteroi hiereis , second Priestes , and those chiefe ones too , even they of the Assemblie and Sanhedrin it selfe , who , as silent & uninteressed as they seem'd when that traytourous charge was brought into the Court , have , for above 7. yeares together , made the pulpits ring , and the presse groane with the strength of their crie , and weight of their bookes , ( I say not of their arguments ) to give notice to the world , that with out covenanting ( you know who sayd it ) against reason , conscience , honour , oath ; reforming the reformation it selfe against Scripture and Apostolicke institution , so many hundred yeares precedential practice ; and undeniable Catholike profession , Non habebimus hunc , We will not have CHARLES for our King . And there is déuterot Christos , a second Christ , an anoynted of God , that came as neare as ever King did to our Saviour in his life , and I dare say never any so neare in the similitude of his death . And there is déuteros Ioúdas , a second Judas , not as the first onelie with a band of men , and a few pike-stav'd officers at his heeles ; but not many yeares since in the head of a cursed numerous armie , and cursed be the memorie of that man unlesse bless'd with repentance before his death , that so perfidiouslie sold and betray'd him . And here you have set in your viewe persons enough for a second tragoedie . Quinto productior actu , one that would admit of a sixt act , surpassing severall circumstances of the other , if your griefe would give the patience to heare it or had I just abilities to compose it . Instead whereof I shall crave your favour to repeate my text with some short allusive paraphrase upon the words . And he sayth unto the Iewes , Behold your King . Which He in the moral is our mocke-Judge , but no rightfull successour of that relenting Pilate in my text , because he went not about to stop the peoples crie , by moving their pitie , reproaching their insolence , saying , Ecce Rex , Behold your King , He expos'd him to their crueltie and scorne , reviv'd their calling for Iustice , Iustice , saying , like a miscreant as he was , Ecce carcer , Behold there the prisonor at your barre . Never any President in the world tooke more paines then Pilate did to deliver guiltlesse innocencie from death ; Nor any more then our unjust Judge imploy'd industrious malice to condemne it . To that purpose , as in the 6. of Amos , Turning judgement into gall , and the fruit of rihhteousnesse into hemlocke , that he might be sure to give Majestie its bane . Lactantius and St. Chrysostom are of opinion that Pilate did not positivelie passe sentence upon Christ , but gave onelie permission to the Jewes to execute , as before he had to judge , when he sayd . Take ye him , and judge him , according to your law . But ours I beleeve durst not trust the people with the libertie of that power , I rather thinke if his hand had been as strong as his heart cruel , he would have sav'd the State the charges of a vizard , by becoming the barefac'd executioner himselfe . Pilate much affected to discourse with our Saviour , propounds quaestions , is attentive to answers , seemes very solicitous about his Kingdome and truth , And thou a King then ? and what is truth ? both in the 18. Chapter of St. Iohn : but our furious Rhadamanth breathes out nothing but brimstone and fire , he takes the spunge himselfe and dips it in the sharpnesse of his speach , stops the mouth of condemn'd Soveraigntie , indulgeth not the libertie of a word . Will you heare me a word SIR ? a strange request to be made by a King to a rebell , a stranger to be denied by a subject to his Soveraigne . We 'll take Seneca's divination for the reason , Timuit ne quam liberiorem vocem extremus dolor mitteret , ne quid quod nollet audiret , afrayd he was he should heare what he litle desired , lest the last breath of a dying man , an innocent King design'd for murder , should cast a cloud of horrour on his soul . But to keep neare to the words of my text . Wherein our Praesident faild of the parallel with Pilate , I beleeve the conscience of every Jew did supplie . I beleeve it call'd upon him often enough , saying , Ecce Rex , Behold my King . Behold that King who in compliance with my wilfull and unreasonable demands , ' exénosen heautòn , as 't was sayd of our Saviour , hath evacuated himselfe , and is become allmost aequal to his subjects ; hath suffer'd a diminution of Majestie , is devested of much of his just legal dignitie and power , Customes , Courts , Monopolies , Taxes , Militia , Bishops , all pretended grievances , I could make are either taken away , or limited to my purpose . But then conscience layes the other Ecce at his doores . Ecce Homo , Behold the man . Behold I am that man that set my hand to that rebellious remonstrance , and my heart to have it throw'n into his coach . I that man who by seditious tumults affrighted him and his from their palace ; I that persecuted him in my purse or my person , and hunted him like a partridge in the wildernesse . I that at such or such a battel levell'd many a piece at his quarter sent many a curse to his Royal Person with the shot ; I that bid faire to corrupt his governer and lay him in his garrison ; I that , when the bargaine would not hold , inveigled him out in a strange disguise by many specious promises to protect him . I that when I had him in my hands Judas like kiss'd him and betray'd him into his prison . And then , as in the 34. of Iob , There is no darknesse nor shadow of death where these workers of iniquitie may hide themselves . Their owne guilt is a perpetual thunderclap in their eares , and a fixed flash of lightning in their faces . No promise of mercie can cleare their jealousie , No act of oblivion setle their feare ; Despaire turnes Regnare nolumus to Nolumus vivere , They that cried before , We will not have this man to reigne , crie ten times lowder , We will not , We dare not suffer this man to live . And what then remaines , but Tolle crucifige , Away with him , Away with him , crucifie him . And Pilate sayth unto them , Shall I crucifie your King ? And here I must againe tell the , our Judge is nothing like that Pilate in my text , because he did not put it to the quaestion , saying , Shall I crucifie ? but , when he entred first into the Judgement Hall gave good assurance to his clamorous Jewes , saying in effect , Crucifigam , I will crucifie your King . You therefore that have got the best estates by plunder and pillage , the highest places by supplanting , sequestring , the greatest names by rebelling and murdering . You that have stucke malice at the point of your sword , and wreakt it in the bowells , of your brother ; You that have broke the barres of Religion , run away with the reignes of government and law ; You that have draw'n all kind of iniquitie with cords , and all sinne as it were with a cart-rope . You that , as it followes in the 5. of Esai , say , Let him make speed and hasten his worke , that we may see it ; Feare nothing , Have patience a while , I will but gull ignorance with a forme , take the stoole of wikednesse , wherein to doe justice , imagine mischiefe for law , and then your wish you shall have , for Crucifigam Regem , I will crucifie your King . It remaines in the words of my text . And the chiefe Priestes answered , We have no King but Caesar But our Pilate , as I told you , not putting it to the quaestion , Our Priestes have sav'd the labour of this answer , which is not withstanding in part taken up by their forward disciples , who render this account of their 7. yeares instruction by the new light , to have Monarchie crucified as well their King , enacting , and boldlie proclaiming to the world , Habebimus nullum , We will not have any one for our King . I could yet goe on in the antiparallel , aggravate their malice and transcendent crueltie , as otherwise , so from the place which they chose wherein to murder their innocent King , which was no Golgotha , a sad place of dead mens skulles , but a place for the living to rejoyce and banquet , as if Cannibal like , they meant to feast on his flesh , and carowse it in the cup of deadlie wine ( for so I beleeve they and their posteritie will finde it ) the bloud of their Soveraigne . I shall onelie take notice of Pilates last courtesie to Christ , who , when he could not prevaile for his life , set a crowne upon his head at his death for such , sayth Origen , was that title he writ , Iesus of Nazareth , the King of the Iewet . St. Chrysostom sayth he erected it for a trophie , hosper ' epì tropaíou tinos , houto tà grámmata etheke , lampràn ' aphiénta phonen , kaì tèn níken deloûnta , kaì tèn basileian ' anakerytonta . But our Judge and his Jewes in stead of giving crownes pull downe Kigdomes , hide them as deep in oblivion as they can , that they may lay the firmer foundation for their new modell'd government in a state . But if he that built his house upon sand was likelie to finde such an uncertaine foundation , how sliperie will his be who undertakes to erect a republike on bloud ? If there be a woe for him that buildeth his house by unrighteousnesse , and his chambers by wrong , ( and there is that woe Ieremie 22. ) what is there for him , that frameth his new fabrike by murder ? The stone shall crie out of the wall , and the beame out of the timber shall answer . And what this crie and answer shall be the Prophet Habakuk tells you the second of his Prophecie 12. Vaeilli . Woe unto him that buildeth a towne by bloud , and stablisheth a citie by iniquitie . But to conclude all . Maugre the wicked policie of our Jewes , in racing his name , altering his stampe , burning his papers ( and leprous may that arme be that brings such pretious fuell to the fire ) I say for all this their politike malice , our Royal martyr hath not onelie ( no thankes to his Judge ) the crowne and trophie of a title , but the everlasting stupendious monument of a booke , rais'd higher then the Pyramids of Aegypt in the strength of language , and well proportion'd spiring expression , built with out an hyperbole to heaven in divine meditations , and raptures , to which the Babel of other mens thoughts fall downe , and lies like an heape of confus'd uselesse rubbish upon the earth . It is recorded of St. Paul ; That when his head was stroke off , there issued no bloud , but pure milke out of every orifice of his veines . Nec mirum sayth St. Ambrose , Abundâsse lacte nutricium Ecclesiae . And no wonder is it that abundance of milke should come from the nurse of the Church . Never Church had such a Kinglie nursing father as this in his life , and never Saint gave better milke at his death . So sweet is the relish of his words , such a miraculous meeknesse in his speach , as if he had as well been fed with his Saviours food in the infancie of his life , as he tasted the bitter cup of passion at his death . Of whom you know it was Prophesied of old . Buter and honey shall he eate , that he may know to refuse the evil , and chuse the good . And may our hopefull Jonathan , our gracious Sovgraigne , with his fathers blessing not Sauls curse , breake his fast every day in this honey , and thereby let his eyes be enlightned as Jonathans were , 1. Sam. 14. That he may every day more and more see and avoyd the enemies of his peace . Let him every day take one drop at least thereof upon the top of his rod . Let that sweeten his rod of affliction to him . And let his other rod , his rod of revenge , dipt in this honey , chastise gentlie his enemies for him . And may he grow up in the strength of this food to all the moral vertues fortitude , temperance , magnanimitie , and the rest ; to all the divine graces of his father , till having reignd with as much righteousnesse , honour , and much more peace after him here , he may , by no other then the hand of heav'n be translated , in the fulnesse of time , to reigne with him in glorie hereafter . Amen , Amen . Glorie be to God . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A65266e-300 Tract. 49. in Ioann . S. Matth. 21. 1. Cor. 15. 54. Hom. in 18. & 19. Ioan. S. Matth. 27. 19. Kaì epì pragma ou synkechoremenon autois 〈◊〉 othountos . St. Iohn 18. 39. Vers. 40. Advers. Iud. Cornell . a Lapid. Baron . A. 34. 9. 9. Tract. 35. in 27. Matth. Apol. c. 21. P. Gagn. Ambian . Ch. 53. De Clem. l. 2. c. 4. Senec. De Ira. l. 2. c 31. St. Matt. 2. St. Luke 2. 49. 10. Baron . Apparat. De Praeser . advers. haeret . c. 8. 24. 1 3. 5. Iohn . 3. 19. Tert. De Praeser . c. 15. Ibid. c. 47. St. Luke 23. 34. S. Matth. 27. 25. Sen. Ep. 106. Id. De Ira l. 1. c. 1. Tous . 7. Hom. 83. Bro Planc . St. Iohn 18. S. Matth. 26. 47. S. Ioh. 18. 12. S. Iohn 18. 30. Advers. Demetria . Apol. c. 21. Ep. S. Iude . Tolet. Ps. 22. Tertull. Apol. Baron . An. 301. Tract. in Ps. 36. Paul . Apul. An. 34. S. Matth. 27. 38. Baron . An. 60. Phil. 3. 2. Tert. De Praescript . cap. 46. Tow . 7. Hom. 84. S. Maeth . 9. 20. S. Matth. 29. 24. Reverentiae Bilati istud etiam fuit Stgnum Orig. Tract. 35. in 27. Matth. S. Iohn 7. 46. St. Iohn 19 22. ' Ameinómenos `omoû dé ' apologouménos hypèr toû Christoû . D. Chrys. Hom. 84. Lib. 2. De Ir. c. 30. Ibid. l. 1. c. 2. Lib. 28. Tom. 7. Hom. 83. St. Ioh. 18. 14. Nihil ausuram plebem principibu : amotis . C. Tacit. An. 1. 2. Deut. Hopou gàr hoi archontes ' emictérizon tì chre peri teû eoinoû pléthous logizesthai ; Theophyl . in Luc. 23. Vid. Hug. Grot. De Imper. San Matt. Potest . circ . Sacra . 9. 16. Exod. 32. 1. Kings 12. Gen. 3. Ps. 53. 1. Pet. 2. 17. 1. Sam. 12. 12. Act. 7. 51. Act. 2. 2. Baron . An. 4. An. 51. An. 315. D. Chrysost. Hom. 2. in Ind. S. Ioh. 19. 12. Prov. 22. S. Ioh. 18. 36. Apol. c. 21. Epinan . K. Ch. 1. Eix . Basil. Lib. 3. De Ira. c. 19. Philip . 2. 7. Tom. 7. Hom. 84. St. Matth. 7. 26. Eikòn Básilic . Serm. 68.