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A56186 Part of the famous speech of William Prynn esq, Decemb. 48, touching K. Charles I Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1648 (1648) Wing P4027; ESTC R8192 7,202 8

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Part of the Famous Speech OF WILLIAM PRYNN Esq Decemb. 48. Touching K. Charles I. THe next thing proposed by them for a speedy Peace and Settlement is the bringing of the King to speedy Justice for all his Treasons and Blood-shed in the late Wars and to Depose and Execute him as the greatest capital Malefactor in the Kingdom This certainly is a very dangerous and unlikely way to Peace and Settlement First of all The smiting of the Shepherd is the way to scatter not unite the Sheep The slaying of the King or General in the Field Scatters and Dissolves the Army not secures them To cut off a King'dhead is the next way to destroy not cure a diseas'd Body Such kind of State Policy may destroy or disturb but never Settle us in perfect Peace The Prince his next Heir the Queen the Duke of York all his Children and Allies both at Home and Abroad will certainly meditate Revenge and all Kings in Christendom will assist them even for their own Interest and Safety least it should become a President for themselves And will this then secure or be a likely way to Peace or Settlement 2. The greatest part of the Members in both Houses the Lords Gentlemen and all sorts of People throughout the Kingdom the whole Kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland who have as great an Interest in the Kings Person being their Lawful King as we have and are obliged by Allegiance and Covenant to protect his Person and Crown from violence will unanimously as one man oppose and protest against it and by force of Arms endeavour to bring those to Execution who shall presume to advise or attempt to depose or destroy the King in any kind contrary to their Allegiance and solemn Covenant Yea all Protestant Realms Churches States in Foreign parts will abhor both the fact and adjudge it contrary to their Principles and Religion and that which may irritate Popish Kings and Princes to take up Arms to ruine them lest they should fall into the like practises And can this then be a safe or speedy way to Peace and Settlement especially when we know not what Government shall succeed upon it and can expect nothing but bloody consequences from such a bloody advice 3dly I never read of any Peace or Settlement in any Kingdom where King-killing was practised or approved When the Roman Armies began once to Kill their Emperors and cut off their Heads They were scarce ever free from Civil-wars One Army set up one Emperor another Army another the Senate a third who always Warred till they had cut off one anothers Heads Most of those Emperors had very short reigns few of them above a year or two and some of them scarce two Months but most of them untimely Deaths In Sclavonia and Norway where they had a Law that he that slew a Tyrant King should succeed him in the Throne They had almost every year a new King perpetual wars and discords and not one of all their Kings for above one hundred years together ever came to a natural Death but was murthered as a Tyrant and succeeded by a worse and greater Tyrant as Saxogramaticus and Nubrigensis testify And in the sacred Story it self it is very observable That after ten Tribes revolted from Rehoboam though by Gods Justice and approbation for Solomons sins they had never any Peace or Settlement but perpetual Wars with one Kingdom or another or between themselves Their Kings or most of them were all Tyrants and Idolators and by the just Hand of God for the most part tumultuously slain and murthered one of and by another who succeeded them He that murthered his Predecessor being usually slain by his Successor or his Predecessors Sons Servants or by the People of the Land in a tumultuous way In the 2 Kings 15. We read in that one Chapter of no less then four of those Kings slain one by another and as for the People under these Kings they had never any rest peace settlement or freedom but lived under the greatest misery and oppression that ever any Subjects under Heaven did as the sacred History records This King-killing certainly can be then no probable way at all to Peace Safety Settlement or Freedom but the Policy to deprive us eternally of all these and of God and Religion to boot as it did the ten Tribes heretofore 4thly This way to Peace and Settlement is directly contrary to all the former Ingagements Oathes and several Petitions Declarations Remonstrances Protestations and Professions of both Houses of Parliament To the King kingdom People wherein we have alwayes protested and held forth unto them both before and since the Wars That we will preserve and protect the Kings Person from danger support his royal Estate with Honour and Plenty at Home with Power and reputation Abroad and by our Loyal Affections Actions and Advice lay a sure and lasting foundation of the Greatness and Prosperity of his Majesty and his royal Posterity in future times That we are still resolved to keep our selves within the bounds of Faithfulness and Allegiance to his sacred Person and Crown That we will with our Lives Fortunes Estates and with the last drop of our Blood endeavour to support His Majesty and his just Soveraignty and Power over Us and to prevent all dangers to his Majesties Person That we took up Arms as well for a Defence of His Majesty to Protect his Person as the Kingdom and Parliament without any intent to hurt or injure His Majesties Person or Power Professing in the presence of Almighty God That we would receive him with all Honour yeild Him all due Obedience and Subjection and Faithfully endeavour to secure His Person and Estate from all danger and to the uttermost of our Power to procure and establish to Him and His People all the Blessings of a Glorious and Happy raign which both Houses several times profest and remonstrated to the World TO MURDER and DEPOSE THE KING was such a scandal as any that profess'd the name of a Christian could not have so little Charity as to raise it especially when they must needs know the Protestation taken by every Member of both Houses whereby they Promise in the presence of Almighty God to defend His Majesties Person and all their Addresses and Petitions to Him expressing the contrary That they never suffered it to enter into their Thoughts to Depose the King abhorring the very Thought of it much more the Intent That they never suffered the word DEPOSING the King To go out of their Mouthes nor the thing to enter into their Thoughts That they rest assured both God and Man will abominate that Monstrous and most Injurious Charge laid upon the Representative Body of this whole Kingdom by the Malignant Party against the King as Designing not only the ruine of his Majesties Person but of Monarchy it self The Authors of which malicious horrid scandal they profess to make the Instances of their exemplary Justi●e so