me; but who is it that hath that design? Est ce noire bandit?" by which you are understood to mean the King. Besides this, it is reported, that you have Albeit he was as inferiour to Christ as a man is unto God, the creature unto the immortall Creator; yet was his privilege of inviolability farre more cleare than was Christ's. For Christ was not a temporal Prince, his Kingdome was not of this world, and therefore when he vouchsafed to come into the world, and to become the sonne of man, he did subject himselfe unto the law; hee, who only could choose when to be borne, made choise to be borne at that time when there was a decree for taxing all the world, that so soone as he was borne he might be enrolled a subject unto Cæsar; he lived as a subject, payed tribute unto Cæsar; he submitted unto Pilat's jurisdiction, acknowledging that hee had power given him from above. But our gracious Soveraigne was well knowne to be a temporal Prince, a free monarch, and their undoubted Soveraigne, to whom they did all owe and had sworne allegiance; and therefore he could not be judged by any power on earth. He disclaimed their authority, as he well might; for they had no power at all over any, much lesse over him. And what power they usurped, was not de super, as Pilat's, but de subter, from beneath, even from the angel of the bottomlesse pit, whose name is Abaddon; for as he seeks the destruction of all men, so especially of Kings, because by their government peace is preserved, justice executed, and religion maintained. But from above they had no power; for God never gave unto the people power over their King; as is evident by scripture, by the law of nature and nations, by the knowne lawes of England, by cleare and undeniable reasons, and by the constant doctrine and practice of the true ancient catholic church. And yet those monstrous traytors, have sacrilegiously invaded God's throne, and usurped his office, whose peculiar it is to be judge of Kings; and so have ventured to try, judge, condemne, and execute their King, in despite of all law, reason, religion, na ture and God himselfe, ect. etc. etc. The Martyrdome of King Charles: Or his conformity been heard to say many scornful and contemptuous things of the King's person and family, which, unless you can justify yourself, will hardly be forgot with Christ in his sufferings. In a sermon on 1 Cor. ii. 8. (Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they knowne it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.) Preached at Bredah, before his Majesty of Great Britaine and the Princesse of Orange. By the Bishop of Downe, June 3d and 13th, 1649. Christiani nunquam sunt inventi Cassiani....Tertull. Hague, printed 1649, in quarto. Extracts of Restoration, and anniversary thirtieth of January sermons, might have been likewise added, but these shall suffice. The Parliament of England, elected by the people whom they represent, and by them trusted and authorized for the common good, having long contended against tyranny, and to procure the well-being of those whom they serve, and to remove oppression, arbritrary power, and all opposition to the peace and freedom of the nation; do humbly and thankfully acknowledge the blessing of Almighty God upon their weak endeavours, and the hearty assistance of the well-affected in this work, whereby the enemies thereunto, both public and secret, are become unable, for the present, to hinder the perfecting thereof. And to prevent their power to revive tyranny, injustice, war, and all our former evils, Parliament have been necessitated to the late alterations in the government, and to that settlement, which they judge most conducible to the honor of God, and the good of the nation, the onely end and duty of all their labors. And that this may appear the more clearly and generally, to the satisfaction of all who are concerned in it, they have thought fit to declare and publish the grounds of their proceedings. They suppose it will not be denyed, that the first institution of the office of a king in this nation, was by agreement of the ten; for such personal offences make deeper impressions, than public actions, either of war or treaty. Here is a resident, as he calls himself, of the King people; who chose one to that office for the protection and good of them who chose him, and for their better government, according to such laws as they did consent unto. And let those who have observed our stories, recollect how very few have performed the trust of that office with righteousness and due care of their subjects' good. And how many have made it their study and labor, to satisfie their particular ambition and power, with high pressures and miseries upon their subjects; and with what horrid prodigality of Christian blood, upon punctilios of their own honor, personal titles and estates. And in the whole line of them, how far hath the late king exceeded all his predecessors, in the destruction of those whom they were bound to preserve; and in stead of spreading his protection to all, scarce permitting any to escape the violence of his fury. To manifest this truth, it will not be improper to take a view of some passages in his reign, wherein he much further out-went all his forefathers in evil, than any example can be found of punishment, etc. etc. etc. A declaration of the Parliament of England, expressing the grounds of their late proceedings, and of settling the present government in the way of a free state.... London, printed March 22, 1648, in quarto. The Parliament likewise pulled down the king's statutes at the west end of St. Paul's and in the Royal Exchange, causing the following inscription to be placed in the nich of the latter, EXIT. TYRANUS. REGVM. VLTIMVS ANNO. LIBERTATIS. ANGLIAE. RESTITUTAE. PRIMO May it please your lordship, my lord president, and this high court, erected for the most comprehensive, impartial, and of Denmark, whose name I hear is Pedcombe; he hath visited me, and offered his readiness to give you any assistance in his power or credit, with the glorious piece of justice, that ever was acted and executed upon the theatre of England, for the trying and judging of Charles Stuart, whom God in his wrath gave to be a king to this nation, and will, I trust, in great love, for his notorious prevarications and blood-guiltiness, take him away from us; he that hath been the original of all injustice, and the principal author of more mischiefs to the free-born people of this nation, than the best arithmetician can well enumerate, stands now to give an account of his stewardship, and to receive the good of justice, for all the evil of his injustice and cruelty. Had he ten thousand lives, they could not all satisfie for the numerous horrid, barbarous massacres of myriades and legions of innocent persons, which by his commands, commissions, and procurements (or at least all the world must needs say, which he might have prevented; and he that suffers any man to be killed, when he may save his life without danger of his own, is a murtherer) have been cruelly slain, and inhumanely murthered, in this renowned Albion; Anglia hath been made an Aceldama, and her younger sister Ireland a land of ire and misery. But now to dissect the charge, etc. etc. etc. King Charles his case. Or an appeal to all rational men concerning his tryal at the high court of justice. Being for the most part, that which was intended to have been delivered at the bar, if the king had pleaded to the charge, and put himself upon a fair tryal, etc. By John Cook of Gray's Inn, Barrester....London, printed 1640, in quarto. The premises from first to last considered, that doctrine which prerogativeth kings above the stroke of human justice, upon the account of their being unaccountable unto men for whatsoever they do, (which the Parliament taketh notice in their declaration of March 17, 1648, to have been the late king's as ambassador, Mr. Alfield, who was then expected, and is now arrived here, and hath had his first audiI have not seen Mr. Pedcombe since; but sertion) appears to be very extravagant, and eccentrical to all principles both of reason and religion. Such an unaccountable officer, (as the said declaration well expresseth it) were a strange monster to be permitted by mankind. For if the main ground of erecting public administrations of justice and courts of human judicature, in all politics and states whatsoever, be, both in reason and religion, to secure and protect those, who live justly and peaceably, against the violence and injustice of oppressours and unjust men; it must needs be contrary unto both, to exempt such persons from the jurisdiction of these courts and administrations, who have always the greatest opportunities and temptations, and, for the most part, the strongest bent of disposition and will, to practise such unrighteousnesse and oppression, etc. etc. etc. The Obstructours of justice. Or a defence of the honora-ble sentence passed upon the late King by the high court of justice. Opposed chiefly to "The serious and faithful representation and vindication of some of the Ministers of London." As also to "The humble addresse of Dr. Hammond, to His Excellencie and councel of "Warre," etc. By John Goodwin....London, 1649, in quarto. .........Hactenus, quod initio institueram ut meorum civium facta egregia contra insanam et lividissimam furentis sophistae rabiem, et domi et foris defenderem, jusque Populi commune ab injusto regum dominatu assererem, non id quidem regum odio, sed tyrannorum, Deo bene juvante videor jam mihi absolvisse: neque ullum sine responso vel argumentum, vel exemplum, vel testimonium ab adversario allatum sciens praetermisi, quod quidem firmitatis in se quicquam, aut probationis vim ullam habere videretur: in alteram fortasse partem culpae proprior, quòd saepiusculaè ineptiis quoque ejus, et argutiis tritis |