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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92213	A meditation for the 30th of January, the anniversary of the murther and martyrdome of K. Charles the I. The best of kings, of husbands, of fathers, of Christians, and of men; who was decolated on that day, Anno Domini, 1648. and in the four and twentieth year of his Sacred Majesties most gracious reign.	Rementería y Fica, Mariano de.	1660 (1660)	Wing R46; Thomason 669.f.25[74]; ESTC R212588	1,815	1

A MEDITATION For the 30th day of January THE ANNIVERSARY OF The Murther and Martyrdome OF K. CHARLES the I. The best of Kings Of Husbands of Fathers of Christians and of Men who was decolated on that day Anno Domini 1648. and in the four and twentieth year of his Sacred Majesties most gracious Reign Cain rose up against Abell his Brother and slew him Gen. 4. 8. HArd hearted nature That being yet so young should bring forth so cruell a Monster A Brother to kill a Brother and that for no other quarrell but for his Righteousnesse because his deeds were good and Cains evill what malignity did our first Parents fall distill into all the succeeding Race Yet being question'd by the voice of Heaven Cain desperately evill as he was was not so impudently shamelesse as to own though not so ingenuous as to confesse the fact but why should we remember Cain with so black a Character Cain a Saint may seem compared with the Sons of Beliall whom this latter age hath produced we have seen as this day Englands direfull Tragedy England that most dismally hath committed felony upon her self and with her own bloody hands cut off her own Royall head Oh 't is a sad judgment 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 fatall 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 stammerings and titubations or if it should no ear were able to heare 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 beleive our selves to have seen a most gratious glorious King setled in his Fathers Throne by the Laws of God and of the Land confirmed in his Regall Power by the Oathes of Allegiance taken by his very enemies in the issue of a sharp tedious VVar after the expence of many thousands of Noble Generous Loyall Protestant Christians lives in his just defence to be at length by the power of a rebellious treacherous crewe of his own Subjects and many of them his falfehearted houshould Servants born and bred and grown rich under his happy Government and by his liberall hand brought to a solemn tryall under pretence of Law formally arreigned for his life and 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 Angells 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 least I drown my senses in the abysse of incomprehensible sorrows the whole world abroad stands amazed at it England onely being under the stroke remaines stupidly insensible of her own both sin 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 values 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 least I thinking dye Much lesse doe I know what to do for since the Creation of the VVorld the like hath not been seen but mine eyes deare God are towards thee EJACVLATION LOrd How long wilt thou be angry shall thy jealousie burn like fire for ever If this be done to the green and fruitfull tree what shall become of the drie and withered If a gracious King whome thou hast made so neer thy selfe escape not thy hand of temporal punishment what may a rebellious a monstrously sinfull 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 untill 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 in this our Israell that Religion Law Liberty Property Commerce Love and Vnity may returne 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.