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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58702	Detma basilikē a sermon preached at the Kings prison in the Fleet on the 30th of January, 1681, being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I, of ever blessed memory.	T. S.	1682 (1682)	Wing S156; ESTC R33576	19,933	56

Notwithstanding this the Ordinance for his Majesties Tryal is refused by the Lords whereupon the House of Commons pass it alone and by themselves cause a Charge of High Treason to be drawn up against him in order to his Tryal in the Name of the Commons of England and immediately make Proclamation That they that could Accuse the King should present themselves before the Commissioners appointed for his Tryal and they should be heard I will not trouble you with Remarques upon these several passages the bare Relation does manifestly shew us both the Rebels Malice his Majesties Sufferings and admirable Patience and Resignation whereof himself hath given us the best draught in his own incomparable Book We will therefore leave him a while to his Devout Prayers and Holy Meditations and before we bring him to act his last Part upon this Bloudy Stage according to the order of our method speak a word upon His Sufferings in the Persons of his Loyal Nobility and such good Subjects as stood and fell with his Majesty in that Good Cause We commonly say The King is the Fountain of Honour and when the Fountain is troubled you know the Rivulets and little Streams must needs run muddy The King is like the great Luminary of the world the Sun from which as some Natural Philosophers conceive both the Moon and many of the lesser Lights of Heaven borrow their shine and splendour Now when the Sun it self is Eclipsed the Moon and all those other Planets must needs fade and lose their brightness When the King 〈…〉 we th●●● 〈…〉 Loyal ●●bles should enjoy their reflected Honours and Liberties Thi● was the state of 〈…〉 time 〈…〉 was D●●●●●'● 〈…〉 the measures of his Suffering this Fai●● 〈…〉 were likewise Plunder'd 〈…〉 and many of 〈…〉 So exactly were those 〈…〉 applicable to this sad occasion The Servant is not greater then his Masters And 〈…〉 things in the Green Tree what will they do to the D●● I will not pretend to give you a just Bill of the Mortality of those da●s But since I am so far engag'd I will 〈◊〉 to say something and be sure to keep 〈…〉 bounds of truth and modesty There were on his Majesties part above Twenty Earls and Lords slain and 〈…〉 a pretended Court of Just●●● 〈…〉 and Knights above an Hundred 〈…〉 Lieut●●●●● 〈…〉 and Serjeant 〈…〉 Four hundred 〈◊〉 and other inferiour Commission Officers and then for the meaner Subjects and 〈…〉 you to guess I will say nothing of 〈…〉 ●●●hers but pray to God th●● their Bloud 〈…〉 ever ●tise up in Judgment against 〈…〉 〈…〉 or Ten●●●●● overture would 〈…〉 Oak and goodly ●●●ars but destroy d●●●● crush'd the very Sh●● 〈…〉 There was fear scarce 〈…〉 were only thought 〈◊〉 to be so though his Qu●l ioy were never so mean but felt the Insolence and Violences of th●●● 〈◊〉 ●●ful Conquerours Yea some●●●● 〈…〉 a Crime only to live in a Loyal Neighbourhood and to relieve or shew mercy to such as were persecuted for 〈◊〉 Loyalty was the ●●ady way to follow the●● 〈◊〉 and share in the 〈…〉 Nay more their malice often times 〈…〉 ●scended all bounds that they did mischief where they were not 〈…〉 to themselves only 〈…〉 they took in doing it Burning 〈…〉 Goods destroying Books E●●●●●●s and Publick Records to the prejudice of Posterity the disturbance of Possessions the obstruction of Justice the impairing of Learning only to make themselves sport Nay I believe there is scarce a Cathedral in the Kingdom which does not bea● the Livery of their madness and some markes of their rage unto this very day Nor do I wonder that the Houses of God were prophan'd and defac'd when I consider that the Priests themselves who serv'd at his Altar were either sacrific'd to the fury of his Enemies or at least depriv'd of their Benefices and expos'd to the wide world which was one of their tender Mercies But what do I speak of their persecuting of the living who envy'd the very rest and quiet of the dead breaking in pieces their Monuments and violating the Ashes of those Bodies whose Souls are in ●eaven out of their reach long ago How monstrous and disproportionable is it in these men to pretend themselves Servants of the Living God who in their practices 〈◊〉 ●●ich a mortal ha●●ed to the places where his 〈◊〉 dwells Or how can we think that they have any Religion who have even divested themselves of all Humanity I will pass from this unpleasant Argument with praying for those of them that are yet alive in the words wherewith St. Stephen the blessed Proto Martyr pray'd for those that ston'd him Lord lay not this S●● to the● Charge I will only put you in mind that when you have added the Sufferings of the Nobility to those of his late Majesty you have the compleat figure and substance of the Text A King in Chai●e● and his Nobles in Feet●● of Iron But there is yet no end of this sorrowful story What I have hitherto said are all but flourishes and preliminaries The great slaughter of the fifth Act the last and bloudiest section of my method is yet to come and that is the Murder and Martyrdom of the best of Kings by the hands of his own Rebellious Subjects An action that all circumstances consider'd can find no parallel in time past and God forbid it should in time to come to which Posterity shall for eve●●ay an annual Tribute of Tears and the solemnity 〈◊〉 Penetential Commemoration An action that surpasses all the savage and inhumane Barbarities of those Countreys whose Cruelty is gone into a Proverb and which among other Nations has branded and stigmatiz'd this of ours with an eternal Infamy The Rebels bring their Lawful Sovereign to a formal Tryal in a Court of their own erecting In vindication of whose Authority when questioned by his Majesty as they had nothing to answer so could they not produce the least colour of Law or pretence of Reason for trying him who was unaccountable to ●●●y 〈◊〉 upon Earth and according to that antient ma● 〈…〉 the Law can do no wrong But their Po●●● ●●●st pass for Justice and their Wills are a Law And he might as well demand an account of their Proceedings as an Innocent Traveller might of violence offer'd him by a desperate knot of Banditti or Highway-men All this while as the Jews did at the Tryal of our Saviour the insolent Souldiers according to their Instructions not to mention their more than Barbarous and Inhumane affronts and uncivilities cry out aloud for Justice against the Prisoner at the Bar. The President of that High Court of Justice as they called it in the mean while with a torrent of imperious and insolent words urges him to plead while he only persists as well be might to deny the Authority of the Court. There are several days spent in the same manner after which as Judges use to treat Malefactors that have not the fear of God before their Eyes the