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The voice of King Charls the father to Charls the son, and the bride say come being an invitation of King Charls to come in peaceably and be reconciled to his father's minde and shewing the integrity of His Highness Oliver Cromwel ... / by Arise Evans.
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Evans, Arise, b. 1607.
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second grand Cause was that toleration to prosane the Sabbath which so stirred up the wrath of God against the King that he caused all his people to abhor him for it The third was the refusing to take the Anabaptist-Petition in 1633. into consideration for though they were then but small yet they had such a Truth on their side that they became to be the most violent and prevalent instruments that stood up in the war against the King The fourth was a young man that suffered in 1634. for poysoning his Master for so it was proved either by a false witness or a true one yet the young man constantly denied it to the death and great application was made to save his life insomuch that the Case came before your Royal Father who as I heard examined it and was so satisfied in the matter that he would not pardon it and no small heart-burning fire arose from that even insomuch that the Kingdom is turned upside down by it and therefore let men now take heed how they judge such hard Cases between blood and blood lest they slay the innocent This I believe his Majesty then might have done in such a Case that seeing the young man's Friends depended so much upon his innocency that if they would free the King by taking the blood upon themselves laid to his charge in case the Witness was true and that God should require it he to grant their request for so much liberty to the King in such a Case is intimated 2 Sam. 3. 28 29. where David clears himself by putting the blood of Abner upon Joab and his deferring to avenge it for his time I do not say Your Royal Father sinned in this thing for it was done by witness but that it gave occasion against him Judg. 10. 4. and against his people with whom God was angry so that as he would not pardon this sin God would not pardon the other sins Therefore it is not prudence for a King to be violent against any one sin and yet suffer many sins to go unpunished for A King that sitteth in the throne of judgement scattereth away all evil with his eyes A King who can say I have made my heart clean I am pure from my sin Prov. 20. 8 9. It is one thing for a man to sin as he is a man and it is another thing for the same person to sin as he is a King David as he was a King was perfect save onely in the matter of Uriah 1 Kings 15. 3 4 5. but as he was a man he had other sins Psalm 40. 12. 1 Chron. 21. 7 8. But I conclude this I believe your Royal Father for his own particular to be a perfect man and had he been so severe to punish Sabbath-breakers Whore-mongers Swearers Drunkards and such-like sinners as he was to punish Murtherers he had been a perfect King also Yet I hope what he wanted will be made up in your Royal Person that you may be perfect in every degree for such things was too hard a business as times then went for your Royal Father in his life-time to do because the great ones were too much inclinable to such sins but God by his providence brought them down and punished their sins by manifesting his wonderful wisdom in making that great sin of Murther so hated by your Royal Father to fight against all the other sins and to conquer and subdue them that your Royal Father by his martyrdom through Jesus Christ might conquer murther and so bring all under Christ Jesus and himself For a Murtherer hath no power over a Martyr and a rebellious War is a Murtherer neither can he be a Murtherer to him for that he is subdued before him because he stayeth and conquereth the Murtherer by his death as if he should say to him for so the Scripture holds it forth Hosea 13. 14. O Murtherer by my death I will be thy death and the Martyr also by his death gets eternal life John 12. 25. his mortality is swallowed up of life 2 Cor. 5. 4. besides Murther throughout the Scripture is called Death as he saith 1 Cor. 15. 26 54. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death And again speaking of this time saith he Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory And again Heb. 2. 14. That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death that is the devil and the devil was a murtherer from the beginning John 8. 44. Again No murtherer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 John 3. 15. All which places and many more shew That Death Devil Dragon and Murtherer is one and the same and none can destroy this Dragon and his Followers but Jesus Christ with his Martyrs Rev. 12. 11. by giving him as much blood as he can desire and as much mercy as he can receive that he might cease from his wickedness and be reconciled unto God again that God may be all in all and that the mortal enmity that is among men and brethren through war and division might be swallowed up with love and life eternal And in appearance as yet to me there is none more capable under God then your Royal Self to make your Self and all others in these Kingdomes happie and there is no way for your Majesty to do it but by obeying your Royal Father's Voice as abovesaid and though that be most contrary for flesh and blood to do yet you must humble your Royal Self more then that by sending your free general pardon to all without any seeking but my seeking of it for according to that which goeth for Law with us it is not safe for any and specially they in power to seek to you but what I say who have alwayes hazarded my life for my conscience sake may prove as authentick as if all had sent to your Majesty And therefore I beseech your Majesty make trial of it if not to them yet may it please your Majesty to send it and though I be unworthy to be your Royal MESSENGER and if you think fit to honour me with such a Favor I make no question through GOD's assistance but to give you a good account of it notwithstanding the danger of moving such a thing so that I believe it is not safe at first for any of your Nobles to come upon such a MESSAGE And for any grudge to revenge or rancor in heart against them that put your Royal FATHER to death have no such thoughts but purely love them for I never heard that any of the seed of the Martyrs hated them that had put their Fathers to death but rather gloried in that their Fathers so gloriously died And who were the Instruments to bring them to that glory but those that put them to so hard a Trial And after the Grace of Repentance is given them who will honour the Martyrs more then they who have persecuted them unto