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A44222	The death of King Charles I proved a down-right murder, with the aggravations of it in a sermon at St. Botolph Aldgate, London, January 30, 1692/3 : to which are added, some just reflections upon some late papers, concerning that King's book / by Rich. Hollingworth.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1693 (1693)	Wing H2501; ESTC R13678	16,735	43

through Perjury and Perfidiousness through Breaches upon Promises reiterated and repeated again and again And therefore upon this account I recommend to you weeping and wailing because Perjury and Murder are great and crying sins II. Another Aggravation of this Murder is the Person that suffered and that was King Charles I. and here let us see whether he deserved such a barbarous death I am very far from thinking him a man in a state of Perfection and I do acknowledge there were Errors and Failures in his Government he came early to the Crown and therefore might be imposed upon but I hope every Man does not deserve to be knock'd o' th' Head for every particular slip of his life if so the best Kings that have Reigned would not have died natural deaths neither David nor Solomon neither Hezekiah nor Josiah nor any other Prince recorded for vertuous and very good men But however whatsoever his imperfections were in the beginning of his Reign I am sure before the Quarrel began with him he rectifyed them all and consented to remove all those things that were accounted grievous and indeed filled the Statute-Book with more Privileges than it does afford now for a succeeding Parliament took away some things then established which they in their great Wisdom thought neither fit for a King to grant nor People to enjoy The truth of it is this Great Person take him in all considerations deserved a far better Lot than he met withal and many of those that at first entertained hard thoughts of him and engaged against him upon Conversation and Acquaintance with him repented of what they had done and as they ever after bore a great esteem for him so in all their discourses afterwards represented him as one of the best of men they ever met withal particularly the Learned and Pious Mr. Vines who said to some Friends of mine That if ever there was a Solomon since Solomon it was Charles the I. And truly no wonder for certainly he was a Man endowed with as many Vertues and Graces as most Princes that ever sate upon a Throne His Devotions in the way of the Church of England were constant and regular his Discourses pithy and profitable for he was a man of great Parts and admirable Improvements his Behaviour was affable and courteous and so long as he was able possessed of his own Inheritance he was greatly Charitable and ready to lend his helping hand in promoting any publick Good which I could make out by many Instances further his Chastity considering the Temptations he as a King might be supposed to be under is scarce to be parallel'd and his Temperance acknowledged by all that were about him his Patience was in some sort like that of his great Master 's the Holy Jesus and tho he met with as great affronts and indignities as ever Man did that wore a Crown yet his very Enemies confessed that they could not throw him into a Passion nor ruffle him so far as to break out into undecent and angry Reflections how he behaved himself at his Tryal and immediately before his Death and at the hour of Death it self pray search the History and you will be satisfied that he was acted by a more than ordinary Divine Spirit one instance I cannot omit and that is when he was going through the Park towards the Scaffold with a Guard about him he spoke to Two Persons that did more immediately attend him that they would go faster saying That he now went before them to strive for an Heavenly Crown with less sollicitude than he had oftentimes bid his Souldiers to fight for an Earthly Diadem and how he went out of the World with a clear Soul without the least revenge but praving forgiveness for his Enemies you may find in the True Account of the passages at his Death And pray my Beloved what Cause was there now for this Great and Good Man's Murder Yes say some wicked Men he was a Tyrant and a Papist A Tyrant that is strange that gave to his People all they could reasonably ask and frankly offered to consent to any thing that did not strip him of his Kingship and that was consistent with his Honour and Conscience If such a Man be a Tyrant then You and I must all of us change our Notions of things and call Good Evil and Evil Good And as for the Imputation of Popery there is no Man that reads his History with an unprejudiced Mind can believe the least inclination to it if Living and Dying in perfect Communion with the most excellent Church in the World if offering to do any thing that might preserve and support the Protestant Religion be arguments of a Papist then I must confess the Imputation is just but what Man of the Church of England is not a Papist at this rate But thanks be to God as he refuted this Reflection by the whole Series of his Life and by his solemn Protestation at his Death when he was just going to give an account to God so I think the Members of this Church have Preach'd Printed and said enough in the late Reign for ever to silence and shame this Reflection and Imputation out of the World So that hitherto we find no cause of Death in him at all even if by the Laws of the Land he had been rightly tryed by a just Power that had as just an Authority to bring him to an Hearing and Tryal and therefore this is a great aggravation of his Death that a Man of Innocence and Goodness a Man of Virtue and Piety a Man indeed of a most Exemplary Life should be thus Butcher'd and that by those who had no more Authority to do it than you have to fall a cutting one anothers Throats as soon as this Sermon is ended And therefore upon this score This Death ought to be bewailed and there is great reason for the observing This Day in order to prevent the Judgments that may come upon us for shedding and for the vindicating the shedding of this Innocent Bloud III. Another Aggravation of this Murder is the Consequences of it Alas after the Sacrifice of this great Person Nobles fell by their bloudy hands and the best Families were either Banished or Imprisoned and their Estates Confiscated a bloudy War with Scotland was commenc'd and that free Nation brought into a perfect slavery and that which was a thing of deplorable consequence this Good Man's Children were Banished to seek their Bread in strange Countreys from whence proceeded the Miseries especially of the last Reign and therefore those Men that flye in the face of the Two last Kings should do well to consider where they were forcibly bred and how they came to be bred there who sent them out of their own Countrey and exposed them to live upon the Bounty of Popish Princes if King Charles the First had lived out his time they no doubt had been bred up in the strictest way in the Protestant