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<P>THE MARTYR Of the People, <HI>OR,</HI> THE MURDERD KING.</P>
<P>Epxre&s;&s;ed in &s;everall Con&s;iderations upon His Sufferings and Death.</P>
<P>With a Character of His Life and Vertues.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>I&s;aiah 57.1.</HI></BIBL>
<P>The righteous is taken away from the evill to come.</P></Q>
<P><HI>And they who &s;et up Judicatories, and Courts of Ju&s;tice, not by Gods Authoritie, but the peoples pretended Power, and proceed not as his Mi|nisters, but as their Officers, do not indeed execute Ja&s;tice, and Judge|ment; but kill, and murther, under pretence of Judgement and Ju&s;tice.</HI></P>
<Q><P><HI>O con&s;ider this you that forget God.</HI>
<BIBL>P&s;al. 50.22.</BIBL></P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Yeare. 1649.</P>
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<HEAD>The Martyr of the People: Or, the Murder'd KING.</HEAD>
<P>TRea&s;on, Rebellion, Blood and Murther, are in&s;eparable com|panions; which the loyall people of <HI>England</HI> hath groaned under the&s;e many yeers: not onely with the lo&s;&s;e of life, Reli|gion, Laws, Liberties, and E&s;tates; but of our gracious King, and Soveraign; who&s;e memory, and &s;ad con&s;ideration, puls up all the &s;luces of &s;orrow, and lets in a flood of tears to over-whelm the Land: our calamities like a flood is lifted up above our Earth, and hath co|vered the highe&s;t hils of our temporall felicitie; Could <HI>Judah</HI> mourn for the death of good King <HI>Jo&s;iah,</HI> and &s;hall not <HI>England</HI> the lo&s;&s;e of our vertuous King, <HI>Charls</HI> the Ju&s;t; murdered by the mo&s;t inhumane, cruell and barbarous people, that ever profe&s;&s;ed the title or name of Subjects in the Chri&s;tian world.</P>
<P>For a Parliament, called and &s;ummoned by their Soveraigns Writ and Authority, as the Repre&s;entative of the Kingdom, for &s;etling of the true Prote&s;tant Religion profe&s;&s;ed among&s;t us, for e&s;tabli&s;hing the Laws and Liberties of people, and lawfull rights and Prerogatives of the King: And contrary to their faith, tru&s;t, and Allegiance, to rai&s;e Arms again&s;t him, and be the fir&s;t &s;ubverters, and violators of Reli|gion; Laws and Liberties; And after the tragicall Actors of murder|ing their lawfull King before his own palace. Oh accur&s;ed act, oh blood, thir&s;tie and perjured wretches, not to be parallel'd by Pagan or Infidell.</P>
<P>We that were a people living in a land that flowed with milk and honey, the mo&s;t happie under the Sun, happy in our Religion, Laws, and Liberties, happy in the plenty of all earthly ble&s;&s;ings that would make us happy; happy under the government of a vertuous and pious Prince, as ever &s;wayed the Scepter, &s;ince this Kingdom was a Monarchy: Are now become the mo&s;t mi&s;erable and contemptible people in the Chri&s;tian world; our lo&s;&s;e of &s;uch a Prince as he was, is the lo&s;&s;e of all that could make a Land or people happy in this temporall life.</P>
<P>I &s;hall give you a brief Character or Epitome of the per&s;onall vertues and graces of this pious Prince, which made him both glo|rious
<PB N="2" REF="3">in life and death. And fir&s;t, for his Pietie and Religion, his zeale and devout frequencie in Prayer, receiving the Sacraments, his reading the Scriptures, his reverence in Gods Hou&s;e, his attention to Gods Word preached, the e&s;teeme of his Me&s;&s;engers, his hatred of Here&s;ie, and the zealous care he had to propagate the true Prote&s;tant Religi|on, which in the puritie thereof he e&s;tabli&s;hed by his Lawes enlarged by his Regall Authoritie, and clean&s;ed it from the ru&s;t of Athei&s;me, Faction, and Ignorance of the Times: His Royall Palace was a con|&s;tant Receipt for pious and learned men, whom he entertained and cheri&s;hed; &s;o that that which &s;hould endeare him to his people, drew neglect, by the Schi&s;me and irreligion of the&s;e corrupted Times, who love nothing of Chri&s;tianitie but the naked name: He knew, Church-maintenance was the be&s;t Nur&s;e of Religion; and therefore no &s;uf|ferings, or difficulties, could &s;o pre&s;&s;e upon him, to alienate Gods Por|tion, the Patrimonie of the Church; which to pre&s;erve from the &s;a|crilegious inva&s;ion of the fir&s;t movers of the&s;e Troubles (who thought the be&s;t way to &s;hake off Government, was to de&s;troy Religion, and the mo&s;t effectuall and quick cour&s;e to de&s;troy Religion, was, to take away Church-maintenance) he tendred the &s;ale of &s;o much Crowne-Land, as would amount to the value of Church-Land.</P>
<P>This &s;hewed him in his life time a &s;econd <HI>David,</HI> a man after Gods owne heart, who&s;e conver&s;ation was in Heaven. How many invinci|ble Arguments have we of his &s;ingular &s;anctimonie? how that in all his greate&s;t Tryals and Afflictions, did the abundance of his joy, and the riches of his Graces and Vertues, &s;hine forth in all his Speeches and Actions; which &s;hewed his contemning a temporall Crowne, for an immortall and eternall one with the King of Kings.</P>
<P>Next, for his Wi&s;dome and Prudence, morally con&s;idered, acting in humane affaires by the ordered rules of Rea&s;on, His Maje&s;tie was nobly accompli&s;ht: He was furni&s;hed with a good Memorie of things pa&s;t, with a &s;ound judgement, in their reference and relation to things pre&s;ent, and of a cleare and quick apprehen&s;ion, to di&s;cerne occurrences for the future; which were both honourable and worthy in &s;o great a Prince as he was. In &s;umme, he was a &s;ober, grave, and wi&s;e Prince, as appeares in all his &s;ufferings; when he was confined; and clo&s;ely impri&s;oned, where he could have no Coun&s;ell but what be fetcht from Heaven, that in all the tran&s;actions betwixt Him and the Parliament he appeared the wi&s;e&s;t King in Chri&s;tendome; nay,
<PB N="3" REF="3">he better under&s;tood the con&s;titution and affaires of his Kingdomes then any man now living: This Age &s;hewes not a man of abilitie to take up his Princely Pen, who&s;e &s;tile and eloquence may be the object of their wi&s;hes, but never of their imitation.</P>
<P>Againe, whoever looks upon the &s;weet influence of his Ju&s;tice upon all, will appeare in the peace of his Kingdome, the &s;erenitie of his peo|ple, the tranquillitie of publike Affaires, the encrea&s;e of Trade, the growing riches of his Subjects, and the univer&s;all happine&s;&s;e of his Government; which made the&s;e three Kingdomes thrice happy, untill the Helme of Government was wre&s;ted out of his &s;acred hands by the&s;e State-Empericks, u&s;urping a Power by Blood, Murther, and de|&s;truction of their King and fellow &s;ubjects.</P>
<P>Looke upon his Chri&s;tian fortitude and magnanimitie, with what patience he did undergoe his Afflictions, and compo&s;e his greate&s;t pre&s;&s;ures in the hote&s;t flames of Adver&s;itie, with that meekne&s;&s;e and comfort, being for Gods Cau&s;e, and his peoples Rights, that he came to the Scaffold like a Lambe to the &s;laughter; &s;o chearefully he layd downe his life to the violence of his cruell Adver&s;aries.</P>
<P>Ob&s;erve likewi&s;e his Temperance, being free from all di&s;guize in drinke, or &s;urfeting; a matchle&s;&s;e Vertue in the be&s;t of Princes.</P>
<P>Al&s;o his Mercie and Clemencie to the bloudie and cruell rage of his Enemies, in freely forgiving them, followed his Saviours rule, prayed for his per&s;ecutors.</P>
<P>The&s;e Divine Graces in &s;o glorious a King, was a firme Rock again&s;t the popular rage and &s;welling malice of his in&s;ulting Adver|&s;aries (witne&s;&s;e that golden Manuel, or heavenly Meditations penned by his owne Royall hand) who&s;e pious Devotions, and Religious life, declare him to be the Temple of the holy Gho&s;t.</P>
<P>From the view of his Vertues, looke upon his Sufferings, and you &s;hall finde Envie ever maliciou&s;ly attending upon Vertue; and by how much the more illu&s;trious it is, the greater hatred per&s;e|cutes it: you know, the troubles of the righteous are many; be|hold then, what &s;orrowes were like unto his: Con&s;ider his Sufferings from his departure from <HI>White-hall</HI> to his death, before his &s;aid Palace; and you may conclude, the Glory of <HI>England</HI> is taken from us: Remember fir&s;t, how he was forced from us by tumults; his Townes, Cities, Ca&s;tles, Navie, and Magazine &s;eized upon; An
<PB N="4" REF="4">Army rai&s;ed again&s;t him, and his faithfull Subjects: into how many dangers was he expo&s;ed too, cha&s;ed from place to place (not having any to hide his head with-&s;afetie) pur&s;ued with that violence, when thou&s;ands of his loyall Subjects lo&s;t their lives, yet the Lord was his pre&s;erver in the day of trouble.</P>
<P>I &s;hall pa&s;&s;e by tho&s;e eminent dangers the de&s;troying Sword threatned again&s;t his Per&s;on; And tell you of his leaving his City of <HI>Oxford,</HI> and going to the Scotch Army at <HI>Southwell,</HI> his remove to <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> and continuance there with them, untill he was de|livered to the Parliament and Army (I may &s;ay, &s;old) his re&s;traint at <HI>Holmby,</HI> and after hurried away from place to place as the Army moved, and &s;o to <HI>Hampton</HI> Court, where it was the expectation of the Kingdom to &s;ee him e&s;tabli&s;hed in his Throne, according to their League and Covenant; But by the policy of a prevalent party in the Parliament and Army (who&s;e tralterous acts, and re|bellious practi&s;es &s;hall brand them with infamy to all ages) he was conveyed privately to I&s;le of Wight, under the pretence of poy&s;oning, whereby the people were deluded, and their hopes fru&s;trated. In <HI>Carisbrook Ca&s;tle</HI> he was confin'd to clo&s;e impri&s;on|ment; In which time of durance ob&s;erve his patience in his great|e&s;t tribulations, and then con&s;ider, one of the mo&s;t potent Mo|narchs of Europe, loved at home, feared abroad, mo&s;t cruelly and &s;trictly impri&s;oned, debarred from his wife, and hopefull chil|dren, from the attendance of any of his &s;ervants, from Gods hou&s;e, and publick wor&s;hip, from his Chaplains, all his friends and loyal &s;ubjects; to lye under the weight of &s;candals, reproaches, wants, and mi&s;eries, tortured with unrea&s;onable Propo&s;itions, and in&s;olent Demands, tormented (if po&s;&s;ible) unto perjury, &s;a|criledge, and Athei&s;me, no conditions propounded but for &s;ur|rendring his Crown and Kingdoms into their hands: the&s;e were the terrible tryals of this good King in the jaws of his cruell Ene|mies, who finding him like a rock, unmovable, they contended un|to blood: The&s;e were they that appeared in the likene&s;&s;e of an An|gel of light: The&s;e were the Patriots of their Countrey that drive on their helli&s;h de&s;ignes under the &s;hew of godline&s;&s;e: The&s;e are the Grandees of the Kingdom that would pre&s;erve His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> maintain his lawfull rights, Crown, and Dignity, by
<PB N="5" REF="4">murthering him; and after make an Act for aboli&s;hing all Kingly Government in this Kingdom.</P>
<P>Yet to &s;atisfie the deluded people of <HI>England,</HI> they draw up a Charge again&s;t Him, accu&s;e him of Murther, Trea&s;on, and Tyran|ny, (try Him after the form of Judicatory proceedings, without Law, or pre&s;ident) in the name of the Commons of <HI>England;</HI> and tho&s;e Commons that thir&s;ted after the blood of their King, are compri&s;ed in a factious and &s;chi&s;maticall Army; the&s;e are the men that e&s;tabli&s;h iniquitie by a Law; the Jews dealt &s;o with our Saviour, <HI>We have a Law, and by that Law he ought to dye.</HI> As he imi|tated his Saviour in his &s;ufferings; &s;o they imitated the Jews in their per&s;ecution of him. As for in&s;tance, when he was brought to his illegall tryall in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-Hall,</HI> how was he reviled, and &s;pit upon by his barbarous and blood-thir&s;tie Enemies; and when they cryed, Ju&s;tice, Ju&s;tice, and Execution: He an&s;wered not again, but with our Saviours words, <HI>God forgive them, for they know not what they &s;ay.</HI></P>
<P>Thus from the <HI>Throne</HI> to the Block, have they brought the mo&s;t pious, religious and vertuous Prince in the Chri&s;tian world.</P>
<P>They that at fir&s;t engaged again&s;t him, and was the fir&s;t viola|ters of their obedience due to His Maje&s;tie, you &s;ee puni&s;hed: That power they gave to make him glorious, &s;pilt his Innocent blood: Here you may &s;ee the fruits of Trea&s;on, Rebellion, and u&s;urpa|tion, in varying from Chri&s;tian principles, to do evill that good may come on it: The Nationall &s;ins of <HI>England</HI> hath powr'd this calamity upon us; as the pride, hatred, and plenty of this King|dom produced the&s;e Wars, that faction and rebellion, that the murthering of the King, the mo&s;t horrid murther that ever the Sun &s;aw: for Subjects to murther their King; and Engli&s;h Sub|jects, a people renowned for loyaltie, and beloved in all parts of the Univer&s;e; are now become the mo&s;t contemptible people upon the face of the Earth.</P>
<P>But you have made him a glorious King, and prov'd him glo|rious in his per&s;onall Vertues, glorious in his divine Graces, and glorious in &s;uffering for the cau&s;e of God, the true Prote&s;tant Re|ligion, the Laws and Liberties of his three Kingdoms, and a glo|rious Saint with the King of Glory. Yet remember for all this you &s;hall come to judgement; for blood, murther, and &s;chi&s;me the
<PB N="6" REF="5" MS="y">Land mournes, and Gods heavie Judgements hangs over our heads: betwixt his judgements and the Kingdomes &s;innes, our King is taken from us, and his death hath made the wide in-let to all our mi&s;eries; our &s;orrows, like a torrent, over-flowes the Land; and a generall cala|mity is fallen upon us.</P>
<P>Who can forget the ble&s;&s;ed dayes we enjoyed in his Reigne? the glory and truth of Religion, the ju&s;t Execution of Lawes, Peace, Riches, and Plenty, liberty at home, protection and honour abroad; <HI>England</HI> was the Garden of the World, the perfection of beauty, and the joy of the whole Earth: but now our glory is departed from our I&s;rael, <HI>England</HI> is become a Widow, our Churches turned into Stables, and Temples become Court of Guards; the royall Palaces of our late King, made Gari&s;ons; the patrimony of the Church, the Souldiers &s;alary; our Lawes &s;ubverted, and our Religion and Liberty de&s;troyed, and taken from us: we are become a prey to cruell and bloody peo|ple, who&s;e dayly practi&s;e is to de&s;troy, and made &s;laves to the wor&s;t of Heathens, a people without God, without Faith, Law, Rea&s;on, and Humanity.</P>
<P>For the lo&s;&s;e of our King, the Land mournes: Hee that was the Comforter and protector of his people, is become the Martyr, he hath layd downe his life for his people, and exchanged this earthly and temporall Crowne, for an immortall and glorious one; where his eyes &s;hall not &s;ee, nor his &s;oul be afflicted with all the evill that &s;hall fall upon us. To conclude, the remembrance of his &s;ufferings and death &s;hall eternize him glorious, &s;o long as the Sun and Moone endureth; When the memory of his cruell and blood-thir&s;ty Enemies &s;hall peri&s;h from the face of the Earth.</P>
<Q><L>We have lo&s;t the chiefe&s;t of all Earthly things:</L>
<L>The highe&s;t, lowe&s;t, and the best of Kings.</L></Q>
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