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THE LIFE and DEATH OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR, Parallel'd with our Saviour in all his Sufferings.
Who was murdered (before His own Palace at Whitehall) the 30th of Jan. 1648.
With some Observations upon his cruel and bloudy Persecutors.
The wicked take counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed,Psal. 2.2.
LONDON,
THe Life, sufferings and death, of our (late) murdered King (who imitated his Saviour) is here briefly re
And first for his Life; the personall virtues, and Prince,
Regall Authority, and Royall bloud: He was the figure of God in the
He was the Churches Champion, natures honour, and earths Maje
and the Scepter of Mercy; he was not to be parallel'd, beCrown
Lawes, divine and humane, he was priviledg'd from any punishPrince, his King
and therefore when he vouchsafed to come Caesar: he lived as a Subject, paid tribute unto Caesar;
Caesar.
Pilates Jurisdiction,Pilates juris
But our gratious Soveraign was well known to be a temporall
de super, as Pilats was; but de subter, as Bradshaws,
Abaddon: For as he seeks the destruction of all men, so especially of KINGS, because by their Government,God never gave unto the people power over their Kings, as is evident by ScriEngland,
Traitors, and bloudy Tyrants, have sacriGods Throne, and usurped his Office, whose peculawfull King, in despight of Law, ReaJotham,
Bramble above the Cedar of Leban
while they set the people, even the basest of the people, on the Bench, and placed the King a Prisoner at the Bar.
Never such a Tragedy was acted by any Subjects in the Christian world, since the first constitution of Monarchy, as this unparallel'd murCHARLS THE JƲST.
Pilate knew by the light of Nature, that a King is not to be put to death; therfore he said unto the Jews, Shall I crucifie your King? As if he had said, If Jesus be a King, he is not to be put to death. The chief Priests, as impudent and malicious as they were, did not deny the proposition, that a King is not to be put to death; but they denied the assumption, that Jesus was their King, (saying) We have no King but Cesar: But thJews,
Jews, so they are worse then Pagans; for Tully pleaCesar for Diotarus King of Galatia, albeit he was but a triFor a King to be guilty of death, is such a thing as hath not been heard of;
Here you see the inveterate and malicious rage of factious and Angels then of Men.
And therfore, as Apelles did, so will I, draw a veil over that which Divine Meditations:
As Christ was above the Law, being the Son of God; so he was
Observe his patience, that the ten last years of his life,He fought
To bring that to passe, how did they asperse him with many foul They slandered the foot
Many scandalous Pamphlets were every day cast abroad, Which (as he saies in his Book) like sparks in great
From every Pulpit was sounded a Trumpet of Rebellion; the Ambassadours of Peace being made the Heralds of War.
And as our Saviour (by the Pharisees) was called, an Impostor,
a Deceiver, a perverter of the people, a Blasphemer, a Samaritan, and one that had a Devil: so such language, and worse,His Sacred Majesty by a Pharisaicall brood of Traitors, who are the great pretenders
They have a shew of godlines
When our Saviour was at Jerusalem,
to stone him, whereupon he withdrew himself: So when the Ki
was at Westminster,
For deserting His Parliament,
London, they seized all His Houses and Furniture, Forts, Magazines Ships and Revenues;They hunted Him, like a Partridge, from mounta
that He might justly complain with our Saviour, Th
When our Saviour had withdrawn himself from Jerusalem, The chief Priests and Pharisees gave commandment, that if any man knew where be were,
that he should shew it, that they might take him: So upon His MajeThat whosoever should harbour or conceal the Kings Person, or did know where He was harboured, unlesse he did immediatly reveal is, should forfeit his estate, and die without Mercy, as a Traitor.
He came unto his own, and they received him not: So was our Soveraign rejected by HiJews denied the Holy One,
and the Just, and desired a Murderer to be granted them; so they denied their holy and righteous King and desired the Parliament might rule over them. In this they preferred Robbers and Murderers, worse then Barabbas; chusing ra
he was to make his soul-offering for sin, then one of his Disciples betrayed him, another denied him, all forsook him, and left him to tread the Wine-presse alone: So when our Soveraign's afflictions grew great, some of His Servants beJudas; others denied Him, and almost all forwhich His righteous soul abhorred.
As the Devil made great proffers unto Christ, saying,All these
So they GLORIOƲS KING, if He
Our Saviours Enemies sought how they might take him by craft, and
Such deceit was used to catch our Soveraign in Jerusalem, the Pharisees, not daHerod, Saying to him, Get thee out, and depart hence,
when they themselves intended to kill him: Hampton Court,
That there was a plot to kill Him;
Isle of
Rolph should have dispatched Him
Our Saviour was apprehended at night: so was our King, in a Isle of Wight,
Hurst Castle.That all who could inform
The people being suborned by the Priests, cried against Away with him, crucifie him: So some of the Souldiers Justice and Execution.
Our Saviour was mocked: So our Soveraign had the triall of
Christ was reviled:Hugh Peters. Our Saviour was spit upBradshaw and Cook
Our Saviour was watched the night before he suffered; in thPilat, from him to Herod, then back again to thCommon Judgment Hall, where he was condemned, and at the thir
Let us now see how he did bear this; even as his Saviour had done, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the crosse, despising the shame.
His Spectators wept to see him on the Scaffold. He died for the Church and his peothat fadeth not away: And so, like his SaWhen he was reviled, he reviled not again, but was led like a sheep unto the slaughter, and opened not his mouth. As Christ prayed for them that crucified him: so did our Soveraign pour out many devout prayers for his Enemies,Adamant. As Christ wept over Jerusalem so did our Soveraign weep over his three Kingdoms; being more sorry for the miseries that are to come upon them, then for all that had hapned unto himself. As women, beholding Christs passion, wept:
Soveraign on a Scaffold, wept bitterly; unto whom he might have said (as our Saviour said unto the other, Weep not for me, ye Daughters of Jerusalem, but weep for your selves.
Christ gave himself for the Church, he died for the people: so our Soveraign in another sense, gave himself for the Church, and died for his people; for he might have saved his life, if he would have consented to destroy the Church, and inslave his peo
ple: so that (as he said on the Scaffold) he was the Martyr of the people, The Martyr of the People. Martyred by them, and for them. When our Saviour suffered, there were terrible signs and wonders, and darknesse over all the Land: so dung the time of our Soveraigns Mar •• tyrdom, there were strange signs seen in the sky, in divers places of the Kingdom; and it was thought very prodigious, Signs and Wonders. that when he suffered, the Ducks forsook their Pond at SaintJameses,and came as far asWhitehall,fluttering about the Scaffold: So that he might have said unto his bloudy Murderers,Ask the Beasts, and they will tell thee;Job 12.7. and the Fowls of the Heaven, and they will instruct thee,what an unnaturall mur her ye are now committing. When our Saviour suffered, the Centurion, beholding his passion, was convinced that he was the Son of God, and feared greatly: so one of the Centurions who guarded our Soveraign, • Collonel Tomliason. beholding his most Christian, Pious and Magnanimous carr age, was convinced, and is to this day stricken with great fear, horror and astonishment. • Thus from the Throne to the Block, have his cruel, traiterous and bloud-thirsty Enemies brought the most Virtuous, Religious and Pious Prince in the Christian World.