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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

apparent and by your selves confessed to be unwarrantable Such Scripture paintings upon the face of your Jesabel would have served the turn of John of Leyden Knipperdoling Muncer and those other Impostors your infamous Predecessors as well as you and indeed they were by them no less pretended But with how bless*d success you are loath to own to remember as presaging your like destinies in Gods due time It is a strange and unwonted way of any sound and true Christians apparently to violate aud wholly decline from the obedience of clear moral precepts of Justice and other both Religious and Civil Duties to God and Man under a pretence of Zeal and a Call to fullfill prophetick Obscurities which darkly foretell what shall be done but do not precisely command us to do this or that In which events even the wickedest men and Anti-christs such as these are may as the Vials of the wrath of God pour our themselves and have a great part to act and yet receive no comfort or reward other than that of Hypocrites who may as Joseph's Brethren and Nebuchadnezzar did then most serve Gods Prophetick and Providential disposings when they act most contrary to his Revealed Will and only seek to serve their own Envy Covetousness and unsatiable Tyranny however they may as the Devil bait their Temptations with Scripture Allegations But know O ye hard-hearted Belshazzars whom no hand-writing out of Gods Words clearly setting forth your sin curse woe and damnation can yet scan or deterr from your frolick villanies That if you were Angels from Heaven as you are Luciferine Brats from Hell transforming your selves at first into Angels of light but now fully uncased so that now your fiery eyes your black and wide mouths your blasting and sulphurious breath your proud horns and your cloven feet appear to all but your own besotted Imps and Familiars if we say you yet appeared as Angels yet you should give us leave to believe the express Will and Word of God rather than your jugling fancies to which that is diametrically contrary both in the Precept and all practices of Christ and his true Saints Hear how the voice of God disagrees with your apparent folly and madness He bids honour and obey the King and our lawful Governours You cry crucifie destroy and scatter them Christ commands to give unto Caesar that which is Caesars no less than to God what is Gods But you take away as from God and his Church what is his so from our Caesar his Empire Liberty Life Posterity and all The voice of God bids us seek peace and ensue it branding with the reprobate marks of Hypocrites those that as Traytors heady high minded and fierce despisers of what is good break all Truce or Treaties which you have done beyond what ever the fal●est Miscreants ever did The Word of God is a clear constant uniform light as to the Rules of an holy life in Piety Equity and Charity but your Opinions Practices and pious Pretentions Centaure-like are various and deformed Changlings many-shapen and mis-shapen Monsters shifting Proteusses Slippery and virtiginous Serpents folded and hidden in the winding labarinths and intricate circulations of your many subtil slie and perplexed Designs The truth is there is as wide a difference between your clamors howlings and hideous yellings which sound nothing but War Blood Rebellion Famine Death Desolation and Damnation and that soft sweet gracious and most glorious voyce of God in the holy Scriptures which you use for a Net not a Garment as there is between the most bright beautiful Soul-saving-Truths and most black deformed Soul-damning-Lyes Your selves cannot think us uncharitable if we do believe and tell you That you have more blaspemed the Spirit Name Grace Word Saints and Servants of God by intituling these as Inspirers Authors and Approvers of your most graceless and devillish practices than ever those hard-hearted and impudent Hypocrites the Pharisees did by imputing the saving miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ to your Beelzebub the Prince of Devils whose Servants you are whose work you do and whose wages you must expect Nor do we doubt but all the Curses written in the Book of God which like that of Meroz have been causelesly factiously and fasly by some of your double-faced Janus's formerly imprecated upon the King and his loyallest Subjects will certainly overtake and fall upon both you and your viperous Generation We hope God will in his infinite goodness not suffer this dying Church and desolated Nation to be further partakers of your Babylonish Sins and open Sorceries lest we be partakers of your plagues and Torments which are laid up in the Treasures of the wrath both of God and all good men against you and your desperate faction We tell you we are so far from counting you Saints and Saviours that we look upon you as the Tophet which God hath indeed prepared for the King and these Kingdoms to try and torment them a while But we doubt not but God will at last cast you who are our Sin our Death and our Hell into the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone for ever Unless you repent so many of you Officers Souldiers and others as are capable of Repentance not being so deeply engaged in the desperate sins of those men your chief Leaders and Seducers who being past feeling of a most reprobate sense greedy and unreasonable Sinners make no conscience to damn your Souls for the perfecting their ambitious and covetous designs for which they have hitherto made use of the hands of so many valiant men worthy of a better work and a nobler War whereby to destroy your and our King subvert our Parliaments Laws Government and Religion And all this against all your and our Protestations Vows Oaths and Promises to God and Man O you that have followed these Theudasses as the seduced people sometime did Absalom in the simplicity of your hearts not aware of their devillish stratagems devises and designs You that have any touch of Gods Spirit or his Grace in your hearts any fear of God or dread of Sin left in you You that have any sense of your Souls eternal welfare which those either question or deny any terrour of the wrath of God or hope of his love and mercy You that are afraid to degenerate into unreasonable Beasts or incarnate Devils that you may enjoy the benefit of the Kings last charitable Prayers for your pardon and repentance make hast to depart from the Tents of these Achans these Korahs these Sinners who know themselves accursed of God and Men. Come out of their Babylon which is become the habitation of Devils and the Hold of every foul Spirit a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird by a penitent and pious withdrawing from such filthy Harpies such cunning yet cruel Hyena's such weeping yet devouring Crocodiles such Banners as bear not the Kings Arms but his head cut from his body such Ensignes as are dyed in the blood of

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