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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42496	Stratostē aiteutikon A iust invective against those of the army and their abettors, who murthered King Charles I, on the 30 of Jan., 1648 : with other poetick pieces in Latin, referring to these tragick times, never before published / written Feb. 10, 16[4]8, by Dr. Gauden, then Dean of Bocking in Essex, now Lord Bishop of Exeter.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1661 (1661)	Wing G372; ESTC R38755	36,903	56

Votes and the general desires of all his Subjects under the most solemn National security and Publick Faith which could be given or pass between a King and his Subjects or indeed any honest men But even when his Majesties great wisdom and goodness had so far brought all things to a fair closure and happy Agreement that the two Houses were satisfied and resolved to proceed upon his Majesties Concessions as a firm ground of Peace to the Kingdom Yet after all these publique Civil and Sacred Obligations which lay upon the two Houses and the Kingdom on your selves as well as any and all of us for you to seize again upon his Majesties person without any pretended Authority and with your Iron hands and Adamantine hearts to ravish and pull him out of the arms and embraces of his Subjects violently to hale and tear him from the reviving love and loyalty of the two Houses and his People thence to hurry and toss him to and fro to what inhospitable places and desolate Prisons you listed there to deprive him not only of all things proportionable to his quality as a King but even of those civil accommodations which ought to be allowed to any Gentleman though an Enemy and a Captive of War which the King never was not being taken by force but rendring himself to the professed love and sworn loyalty of his Subjects After this with a sacrilegious mockery of Justice in the highest affronting of God the King the Parliament and the three Kingdoms by an unheard of and most horrid Outrage and riorous force to oppress and utterly destroy the remaining honour freedom and power of the two houses and in despite of them to erect a new Court of Justice as you most unjustly term it for which you have no colour of Law from God or Man no precedent in this or any other Christian Kingdom no ground or pretence of Parliamentary consent or Authority of either Houses whose Members three parts of four at least you forcibly detained and deterred from fitting in the House of Commons the Lords being unanimously against you by all which methods of cunning and violence you seek like Absalom the contradiction between whose name and actions very well fits your affected but undeserved title of Saints to intrude your selves into a Judicative as well as a Military power as if Hangmen and Executioners should usurp the sears of Judges who are not fit to be of a Jury since their interest and advantage like yours lying in the destruction of others will easily tempt them to condemn any man At length you make a shift to pack not a high Court of Justice as you shamelessely style it but the basest Conventicle of Injustice that ever was in the World In which all Cards of honour being shuffled out you turn up such Knaves only for Trumps as will best play your game A very Medly and Rapsody of the most ignorant shallow cowardly cruel weak debauch'd and insolent Fools or Athiests Hypocrites Traytors and Tyrants that ever usurped power over any honest and innocent man Your President Bradshaw and your Solicitor Cook are commonly known and branded to be men of as corrupt Souls as any lived in their profession Their most trayterous and covetous villanies not allowing the least pretence of ignorance ●n the Laws which are in no Case more clearly expresly and severely contrary than in this of taking away the Kings life wherein they against all Law Duty and Conscience were as Judas's chiefly employed At last upon the wicked most unjust and cruel Sentence of these Mercenary Un-authorized and Tyrannous Sycophants and Hucksters of Justice who must needs have their Commission from him that is the Father of Lyes the false Accuser the Old Murtherer the deceiving Serpent the Roaring Lyon the Red Dragon the Dead Sea of Cruelty and the sink of all Confusion the Damned and Damning Devil and not from God the Fountain of Justice the Father of Mercy the Institutor of Order the Author of Peace and the Commander of subjection to lawfull Kings in any notion imaginable further than the Divel may have Commission from God permitting and limiting the activity but not approving the iniquity of his rage and malice to compell such a King so Great a Monarch of three Kingdoms their Undoubted Soveraign Lord to submit to their arraignment Accusations and Sentence who were most of them his declared and desperate Enemies without allowing him the liberty of protesting against their confessed Usurpation and Non-authority or of pleading for his own both Innocency and well known Privilege Soveraignty and unquestionable Immunity according to the Laws of God and of this Kingdom which are expresly against their trayterous and tyrannous proceedings as well as the nulli●y of their Authority After this without any remorse or pity to their and our King to force a person of so excellent worth wisdom vertue honour and Majesty to how down at the feet of so vile persons and then to Chop off his Head which was Sacred Crowned and Anoynted as rightfull King over them and all his Subjects in his Dominions A Butchery so barberous that the common Headsmran abhorted to do it nor may we think those bloody Zealots were willing he should deprive them of the pleasure of cutting the throat of such a Sacrifice to inaugurate them in their Royal Priesthood by which their Schismatical fury pretends a title against or above all Lawfull Kings and Governours What Words what Tears what Sighs what oppressive Thoughts what secret and un-utterable Reflections of most stupified and astonished Souls are sufficient to measure the Immensity to weigh the burden to express or conceive the horror of this outragioussin and most flagitious villany Poor Prince after so many delusions so many lying Addresses made by the chief Engines and movers of the Army after so much patience so great demonstrations of excellent wisdom meekness calmness and Christian gentleness to his very Enemies and Jaylours under infinite reproaches injuries and indignities even to the very spitting in his face after all those gracious condescendings by which he had reduced himself almost to the very shadow and bare name of a King saving that he had gained the highest and most absolute Empire in the renewed love loyalty of the most and best of his Subjects that he might please all secure and satisfie all purchase Peace for all at any rate but the price of his Conscience Yet after all these infinite demonstrations of goodness capable to have softned even Devils themselves to be thus butchered by a Souldiery and Schismatical cruelty to be brought to publique execution without any help or redemption from Parliament or people who generally abominated so horrid inhumane unseen and unheard of a Spectacle whose Publique Faith besides their Personal Allegiance was engaged for his Majesties honour and safety what heart can be large enough to equal the sorrow what Eyes can be Fountains sufficient to deplore so unmerited a Fate befalling so

in at the window will open the door to greatest Rebellions and Regicides Subjects cutting off the lap of their Kings garment or lesning the Robe of royal Majesty that is their just reputation honour and authority will imbolden them to venture at their heads and throats yea to take away their lives and Kingdoms which David a man after Gods own heart so much abhorred that his heart presently smote him for that cautious essay as petty Treason upon Sauls Vesture which carried with it something of injury and indignity to the King the Lords anointed nor did his justice spare those King-killers who having slain Saul and Ishbosheth Davids enemies thought he had done a meritorious service A mans greatest flatterers enemies and traytors are those in his own breast where proud discontents inordinate lusts and extravagant passions as the populacy rabble and vulgarity of people are prone daily to conspire and mutiny against that Reason and Religion which ought to have a constant rule and soveraignty in the soul I believe many men never intended in their first Schismatical motions so sinfull a conclusion many no doubt are now ready to alter their opinion at the scene and success of affairs yea to think those counsels actions very wicked which they find are become so unprosperous but he sees sins too late who doth it as Adam Cain Judas by retrospection only in the glass of punishment It is best discerned by a forward and direct view in the first access by that prospect which the Word of God and the Laws of the Land give us Had this been done by those blood thirsty and deceitfull men this Piece might have been spared now it will serve on the Anniversary of Englands Lamentation Jan. 30. to excite that just passion of a penitent grief and utter detestation which are due to the memory of so foul a Fact and of those sins which brought us under the stroke of so sore a judgement The grief and horror of which did so perfectly possess my soul when I wrote this Steliteutick in an extasie of sighs tears and indignation that the Reader may easily perceive the deluge of sorrow by the streams of it which run as a torrent with much trouble and unevenness not with that order and smoothness that becomes a quiet and calm temper which had been a sin in me at that time when every soul not stupid or seared in England was filled with extreme grief and horror either for the sin they had done or for the punishment they had deserved or for the duty they had omitted or for the desperate estate of the malicious doers of it whose repentance was scarce to be hoped or prayed for having spoken and acted so many lyes perjuries and sacrileges in hypocrisie seared their consciences caused the enemies of God to blaspheme and prophaned the spotless sanctity of Christian Religion and done despight to the Spirit of grace which they dared to pretend to be the patron of their bloody policy a promoter and approver of their so execrable and accursed practices I shall be glad if any faithfull corrasive here may bring any of them yet living to some sense of their most crying and transcendent sins that if possible they may repent be pardoned by the mercies of God and merits of the Son of God whose precious blood only can cry louder than that of the Kings if this end be not attained of which God knows as yet there have been very few signs yet I have great hope to reach the other end of keeping all good Christians and loyal Subjects for the future from the like degeneration as much as they would avoid Hell and eternal damnation Obedience to Superiours in all things lawfull for the Lords sake is a Christians greatest honour● and patience with pr●yers and tears under unjust pressures is his surest defence all other wayes are but the wanton temptations of the devil and the petulant transports of mens wicked hearts most unworthy of good Christians as all primitive examples teach us whose actions flowing from faith and guided by love must never vary from the paths of piety and loyalty humility and charity which are the way to true peace and eternal happiness And thus I have given thee O Christian Reader an account of my first writing and now publi●hing or rather owning this Steliteutick or pious Satyre writ against so 〈…〉 nstrous a sin as that was of Murthering the King Farewel JOH EXON 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A just INVECTIVE Against the MVRTHERERS OF King Charls the First HAve you killed our King and also taken possession of his Goods Lands and Kingdoms O ye blood-thirsty and deceitful men Is this your Sion that must be built with Royal blood and your Jerusalem that must be raised with such detestable iniquiry O ye painted Sepulchers will no bones serve to fill you but those of your King You ravening Wolves whom God hath suffered to uncase your selves of your Sheeps Cloathing can nothing satiate your cruel Appetites and Hydropick Thirst but only the flesh and blood of our King whom with merciless hands and hearts in an impudent Triumph you have murdered before the Face of God and his Subjects whose Royal Posterities and peoples Lives and Estates you now hope to devour without any opposition or gainsaying So cruelly heavy and barbarous is that Iron Scepter with which you think to rule this Nation nor allowing any fair and legal plea for either Kings or Peoples Lives Liberties Estates or Religion but beyond all Papal and Mahumetane Tyranny you usurp over our Souls no less than our Bodies and seek now by slavish fears and sinful Agreements to make to make us all as much the Children of the Devil as your selves whose Consciences no doubt like Cain's tell you your desperate and damnable Estate having sinned against the light of God and his holy Spirit some of you so impudently and maliciously as justly excludes all hope of pity or pardon from God and Man having first treacherously betraied then barbarously murthered both your and our King Go on you Apollyons you Abaddons in the Spirit of Antichrist to fill up the measure of your Abominations till you are drunk with blood and stumble and fall together O you Locusts the blackest smoak and noisomest vapour that ever the breath of the bottomless pit exhaled or sent forth into the Christian world your Maiden faces in your first seemingly modest and fair pretensions to the King and Kingdom have now brought on the poisonous Scorpions of you Tails after many cunning windings of flattery perjury and hypocrisie Behold the fruits of your Oaths Prayers Fastings your Illuminations Raptures and the Sacred madnesses of your Prophets are they not as the Grapes of Sodom sour and unsavoury seting on edge the teeth of all men that have any taste or relish of true piety Are these the practices of Saints of spiritual and seraphick minds of men living in God and in Christ by the Spirit

any Person Process Judgement or Punishment on Earth When the Souldierie by Sea and Land shall once seriously reflect upon and consider the infinite odious aggravations wherewith this horrid Murther of such a Man such a Prince and their lawful King is laden to which Villany their Valour was abused to be only as Blood-hounds Butchers and Hang-men no doubt they will be conceive so just and generous a disdain that no mens hands will be more ready to avenge their own dishonour the shame of their Profession the wound and stain of their Consciences the Blood of their King the Dignity of Parliaments and the Loyaltie of their Nation never so branded in any former age than those Souldiers whose Valour you the Achitophels Jeroboams Hamans and Machiavels of our times have basely abused only to serve you in accomplishing you Execrable Villanies and to preserve you from just and speedy Vengeance which as Severus said to those Villaines and Traitors who had murthered their Emperour Pertinax can neither be invented for you nor executed upon you proportionable to the many and Out ragious Villanies committed by you We the People of England cannot but appeal to God your own Consciences such as they are cauterised and polluted with the Blood of our King also to the judgement of all men that have but common sober sense Whether any Age any Monuments of former times any History of humane Aff●i●s have ever recorded any excess of Riot any superfluity of Wickedness to have ever flowed from the hearts of any men o● have been fulfilled parallel to yours Whether any Combination of desperate men filled with the Quintessence of all wickedness fraught with flatterie crueltie hypocrisie tyrannie and all degrees of malicious Villany incident to humane nature have since the world began and Mankind hath been planted upon the Earth ever committed the like Villanies which exceed all names of Vice and Infamies or ever more deserved to be made a publick Curse and universal Execration to all Mankind to have their persons cut off from the face of the Earth and buried with the burial of an Ass to have their Posterity as a Pestilent Progenie spewed out of the Land unless they fully declare their unfeigned and utter abhorrence of their Fathers Villanies who have defiled the Land with the blood of the King That their Houses which are neither great nor many may be raised that their memories may be blotted out from under Heaven or only remembred with perpetual scorn cursing and infamie Since they have besides many other preparatorie mischiefs by murthering the King dis-inheriting his Posteritie and dissolving this antient and flourishing Monarchy as far as lies in their power and malice put us upon this miserable choice Either cowardly basely and shamefully to submit to their detestable and unsatiable Tyrannie or to be ever oppressed with a War in our own bowels in which we must either expose our Lives and Fortunes to these mens covetous Cruelty or help to enslave and destroy our selves by assisting these Usurpers or compel the Rightful Heir of these Kingdoms our hopeful King CHARLS the Second to plead and assert his Right by a Foraign Sword being denied that just assistance which as his Subjects we ought to afford him against the Murtherers of his and our Countries Father his own Enemies and indeed of all Kingly Majesty and Mankind the Dissolvers of our Parliaments the Oppressors of our Liberties the Exhausters of our Estates the Suckers of our Blood the Blasphemers of our Religion the Damners of our Souls unless God preserve us the Crucifiers afresh of the Lord of Glory and putting him to open shame The Crie of the blood of our King the Voice of the Genius of this Nation and the Alarm of Gods Justice call aloud to all honest men of Foraign Nations round about to all loyal Subjects in these three Kingdoms to all men of any common honesty or sober profession of Religion in all the world summoning them to sanctifie themselves and lustrate and expiate not only this English Nation and these three Kingdoms but all Mankind and Civil Societies by taking speedy Vengeance and executing Gods and Mans severest Justice on these perfidious Truce-breakers proud Usurpers cruel Hypocrites traiterous Apostates and barbarous King-killers We cannot but send the divided parts of our dead but endeared King now a glorious Saint whom these men have with subtilty and cruelty lately murthered to all the Tribes of this our Israel to desire the advice of all good men to see and consider whether this hideous Villany were committed with their consent or deserve to be patronized with their Agreement whether it was ever thus done in any Christian Nation or Kingdom by any Army of pretending Saints or any men we say not of Common Honesty but of the most exquisite and studied Villany Whether any thing can be produced out of Common Principles of sound Reason out of the Laws of God out of Christs Holy Precepts out of the Actions and Examples of any holy and good men or lastly out of any letter sense or meaning of our Laws whereby in the least degree to countenance cover or excuse the Actions of these men or to satisfie any mans Conscience that doth not utterly abhorre and seriously endeavour to expiate the sin and guilt of such Detestable Villanies According to the heaped and over-running measure of their open sins and abominable Villanies so let every good man that fears God knows the Memory and Vertues of so good a King loves his Country will keep a good Conscience and desires to save his own soul not only withdraw all voluntary assistance from them lest they seem approvers of their wicked Deeds and be partakers of their Guilt and Judgements but heartily pray and constantly endeavour the Restoring of the Crowns and Kingdoms to the only Lawful Heir the late Kings Eldest Son upon whom are many happy Presages and great Expectations of Glorious Atchievements whom God hath in Mercy we hope to these Churches and Kingdoms preserved out of the hands of these bloody Villains who Declared in their Devilish Remonstrance their purpose to destroy him with his Brother the Duke of York and mingle their tender bloods with that of their Father whom special Providence hath prepared for great and excellent Designs by the maturity of his years by the procerity of his person by the gallantry of his Spirit by the excellency of his Understanding by the gravity of his Manners and severity of his Example far beyond what is wonted or expected in young Men or young Princes in point of Piety and Vertue This is that Person this that Prince worthy of his high Descent worthy of such a Father whose worth already promises to exceed all you can desire or hope for from a Good and Gracious King upon him God and our Laws and our Oaths commands all Loyal and Religious Subjects to fix their Eyes to unite their Hearts and Hands to the Love and Assistance of him to