and punctilio's of Veneration: onely here is the difference;
hereto fore they got an outward Power to controll the temporall
Juridiction; from which Plea being non-suited in all
Civill Courts, They now renew their sanctimonious Pretences,
by tampering every where in the Court of Conscience:
but a Conscience well inform d knows, that with God there is
no respect of Persons; and, me thinks, in these days, it ought
to be fort [unr] amongst men; yea, it must be so, since he that
fat in the Royall Throng, in the midst of his Iniquity, could
not rest secure; but being disrobed of all his sacred Titles
and Pretences, laid him down upon the Block, to shew all
Inferior orders of men, how vain it is to hope for impunity,
and that they must all expect to submit and how before the
Throne of Justice.
This is not written, as if it were to insinuate that Magistrates
ought to be all justice and no Mercy for in most cases
Mercy is to be shewn to penitent offenders;) but only to
shew that no Rank of men should have a privilege of exemption;
especially when they touch Blood, and are Ring leaders
of Partie's : And for this we need no better warrant than
that good old, Divinity which I finde in a printed Sermon of
Mr Gasas Preached upon the occasion of a [unr]
all in London, in the year, 1644. In the Epistle he tels, us
it is an argument of hope, that God hath heard the Crie of
Bloud, and is come down to avenge it, in as much as to an
Army in the field he hath vouchsafed a Councell of [unr]
the [unr] to make inquisition for Bloud. A marcy which
[unr] consider, what an efficasious. (I had atmost said infallible)
means the execution of Justice is to free a Land
from the guilt of Bloud, we cannot look upon it as the least
which God-hath been pleased to administer to a poore languishing
Nation.
In the Sermon it self he proceeds thus. Suppose in Treason
and state Rebellion, the publique Peace is disturbed, the life of
a Kingdom endangered; yea but that which as first, Gods
Image, which is Government and Soveraignty, that is defaced:
Now therefore, if the Judges only Were interested in