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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92215	A meditation for the thirtieth day of January, the anniversary of the murther and martyrdom of K. Charles the I. The best of kings, of husbands, of fathers, and of men, who was decolated [sic] on that day, Anno 1648, and in the four and twentieth year of His Sacred Majesties most gracious reign.	Rementería y Fica, Mariano de.	1660 (1660)	Wing R46; ESTC R212588	1,809	1

A MEDITATION For the Thirtieth day of January THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE Murther and Martyrdom OF K. CHARLS the I. The best of Kings of Husbands of Fathers and of Men who was decolated on that day Anno 1648. and in the Four and twentieth year of His Sacred Majesties most Gracious Reign Cain rose up against Abel his Brother and slew him Gen. 4. 8. HArd hearted Nature That being yet so young should bring forth so cruel a Monster A Brother to kill a Brother and that for no other quarrel but for his Righteousness because his deeds were good and Cains evil what malignity did our first Parents fall distil into all the succeeding Race Yet being question'd by the voice of Heaven Cain desperately evill as he was was not so impudently shameless as to own though not so ingenuous as to confess the fact but why should we remember Cain with so black a Character Cain a Saint may seem compared with the Sons of Belial whom this latter age hath produced we have seen as this day England direful Tragedy England that most dismally hath committed Felony upon her self and with her own bloody hands cut off her own Royal head Oh 't is a sad judgement that upon the defect of our prayers and the omission of our obedience is fallen upon us a judgment accompanied with such lamentable consequences occasioned by so deplorable an action so fatal a blow as no hand can write the story of it for trembling or if it could no eye were able to read for weeping no tongue is able to speake it's greife for stammering and titubations or if it should no ear were able to hear it for glowing Nay we have seen that that is so far from being communicable to posterity in any credible relation that we our selves can hardly believe our selves to have seen a most gracious glorious King setled in his Fathers Throne by the Laws of God and of the Land confirmed in his Regal Power by the Oathes of Allegiance taken by his very enemies in the issue of a sharp tedious War after the expence of many thousands of Noble Generous Loyal Protestant Christians lives in his just defence to be at length by the power of a rebellious treacherous crew of his own Subjects and many of them his false-hearted houshold Servants born and bred and grown rich under his happy Government and by his liberal hand brought to a solemn tryal under pretence of Law formally arraign'd for his life adjudged by those that were his professed foes and without being heard as a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publique Enemy to be put to death by the severing his Head from his Body and that this sentence should be executed by the force of the Souldiery on a Scaffold erected before his own Court In the midst of Populous London and Westminster in the face of the Sun at noon day God Angels Men looking on and to pass through his Banqueting-house his house of State and Pleasure to this Mount-Calvary and as a Lamb before the Shearers not to open his mouth Oh the Heavens I dare not enter into too serious a consideration of this unheard off unparalel'd fact lest I drown my senses in the Abysse of incomprehensible sorrow the whole world abroad stands amazed at it England onely being under the stroke remaines stupidly insensible of her own both fin and misery The earth indeed at this day was not felt to quake but all mens hearts not more hard then the Adamant trembled The graves indeed did not open to let forth their dead but many tender-hearted amongst the living with grief dyed and went to their graves The vales of our Temples indeed were not rent but our material Temples themselves in this the head of our Church on earth were vertually destroyed in his Majesties Dominions More I cannot tell more on this sad Theam I dare not so much as think lest I thinking dye Much less do I know what to do for since the Creation of the World the like hath not been seen but mine eyes dear God are towards thee EJACULATION Lord How long wilt thou be angry shall thy jealousie burn like fire for ever If this be done to the green and fruitful tree what shall become of the drie and withered If a gracious King whom thou hast made so neer thy self escape not thy hand of temporal punishment what may a rebellious a monstrously sinful People expect But in Judgment thou hast promised to remember mercy have mercy then I humbly pray thee upon the remnant of thy People preserve us under the shadow of thy wings until this Tyranny be over-past and establish over us if it be thy holy will CHARLES the Second the undoubted Son and Heire of his fathers Vertues and Crowns that Kings again according to thy own ordinance may be Nursing Fathers and Queens Nursing Mothers is this our Israel that Religion Law Liberty Property Commerce Love and Vnity may return againe to our bleeding and fainting Nations and all this for thy Sons sake our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Amen Written and wept by M. de R. of the Middle-Temple Exq. 3. Printed in the Year 1660.