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* / The Nonconformist . No . XIV . , ' '
An Essay ott the Life and Character of Hugh Peters , Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell and the Parliament . ri ^ HE example which was exhi-_ L bited to the world by the execution of Charles L astonished and confounded all the potentates of Europe , who till then had considered themselves to be wholly exempt from human chastisement , and not amenable for their conduct to any earthly tribunal whatever . The parasites of
the court , and the defenders of the hierarchy , in every 'Christian country ; poured out the ' most violent and indignant denunciations against the sacrilegious wretches who had dared to sit in judgment upon their hereditary sovereign , and had impiously assailed the life of a monarch who was the
peculiar favourite of heaven . The friends of liberty , on the other hand , hailed the news of this unprecedented catastrophe as the harbinger of better times , and as an indubitable surety against any future attempt at
arbitrary power or tyrannical domination . So desirous was each of these parties to obtain possession of the public mind , that the British press for a long time was exclusive ^ employed upon publications either to anathematize
or to justify the late revolutionary event . ; * " The sufferings of the Royal Martyr ( for so the deceased monarch was termed ) were compared to those of 'Christ' the Redeemer . In the com ^
. panson , the hardships of the king ' s c ? ( ° account * of his rank ) were ridiculously and impiously preferred ; and the crucifiers of their God were , by . churchmen and their adherents , regarded witii ' an inferior ^ detestation to the murdeYers of their king . " * » - ¦ i
* < Macau lay ' s -EiiKlsuid . quarto- IV , 426 . > b ' l p
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A tetter from General Digby to the Marquis of Ormond , given in the State Letters which were published by Carte , the historian , has the following remarkable passage : From the creation to the accursed day of
this damnable murther , nothing parallel to it was ever heard of . Even the crucifying our blessed Saviour , did nothing equal this ; his kingdom not being of this world ; and he * though unjustly condemned , yet he was judged at a lawful tribunal . ***
A sermon , preached by the Bishop of Down , before Charles II . in the year 1649 / which was . printed at Breda , may be adduced as a fair specimen of the language of the highchurch divines , and of the methods
which they resorted to , in order to inflame the minds of the public . " The person , " says he , 4 t now murdered , was not the Lord of glory , but he was a glorious Lord ; Christ ' s own vicar ; his lieutenant and
vicegerent here on earth ; and , therefore , by all laws , human and divine , he was privileged from any . punishment which could be inflicted by men . Albeit he was . an inferior to Christ , as
main is to God ; yet was his privilege of inviolability far more clear than was Christ ' s—for Christ , when he vouchsafed : to . opine into the * world , and to become the son of man , he did subject himself'to the Jaw ; but our
gracious sovereign was a free monarch , to whom they did all owe and had sworn' allegiance . " Again : The Scripture dpth teach us to honour and obey the king , as God ' s minister
set over us ; and that the injuries of kings , though ever so great , are to be endured-by their subjects , who have no other remedy , and are to use no other arms agaiirst their king than to if f i . * " ¦* * ' ¦ .- c ;_ "'
" " ¦ * * SlAteXetlers , III . 607 . * .
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VOL , XI y . 4 ^
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Nrf . CLXV . ] SEPTEMBER , 1819 . [ Vol . XIV .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/1/
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