A FOUNTAIN OF Loyal Tears, POURED FORTH BY A Sorrowful SON, for the Untimely Death of His Royal FATHER.  
Being a Form of Prayer to be Used by all those that yet Retain a spark of Religion to God, or Loyalty to their Prince.  
Recommended by King Charles the TWO, to be used by all His faithful Subjects throughout. His Dominions, in these times of War, Sickness, Famine, Trouble, and Adversity.  
PARIS: Printed by His MAJESTY'S special Command. 1649.   

FOrasmuch as it hath been the late Resolves of those that call themselves The Commons Assembled in Parliament, to forbid Preaching and Praying in that Vniform-way formerly agreed upon and enjoined by Our royal Father, and Free Parliaments: Therefore We have thought good to Commend unto all Our Loving Subjects a short and easy Method of Prayer, that by jointly seeking unto God, he may (as from the Ninivites) turn away his fierce wrath from Us miserable Creatures, that so We may receive forgiveness of all Our manifold witkedness wherewith We have justly provoked his vengeance to destroy Us: Therefore as We have humbled Ourselves before him by Fasting and Prayer, so We desire all Our Loving Subjects to do the like; that We being delivered from the destruction of Our Enemies, may again be restored and brought to all good temprature of Government, Love, Unity, Charity, and all other Blessings; Which is the Only desire of  
Your Afflicted Sovereign Charles Rex. From our Court in Jersy Septemb. 14. 1649.   

A Form of PRAYER.  

A Prayer for all oppressed People.  
ALmighty and everlasting God, We acknowledge and confess from the bottom of our hearts, That we are justly plagued for our manifold sins and infirmities: We beseech thee, for the merits of thy Son, to look upon our manifold Miseries with the eye of thy Mercy; and of thine infinite goodness vouchsafe to limit out some portion of our Deliverance unto us, as may seem most conducing to the Glory of thee, and thy Son Jesus Christ: let not the children of iniquity, O Lord, any longer triumph over us; let our thee let the blood of Christ shed in his members appease thy justly incensed anger against us for our sins: O Lord, behold how they have not only destroyed their King, who was the lively Image of thy Sacred Majesty on Earth, but yet rest so unreasonable, and unsatisfied, that they content not themselves with the destruction of him and his loyal Subjects, but seek the destruction of his whole Posterity: their tongues O Lord are far sharper than their Swords: they delight in nothing more, then to slander the footsteps of thine Anointed: in the place where they should proclaim Peace and Salvation, they have Trumpeted forth Rebellion, Schism, and War, and the way of Peace they have not known: as the blind Jews, they have denied the holy One, and the Just; and desired a Murderer and a Rober to be granted unto them; holding it liberty to be led Captive by their own sin; rather choosing to live in perpetual bondage under the Iron-yoak of a wicked, perverse, and ungodly generation of men, then under the peaceable Government of a most gracious King: forgive we beseech thee the crying sins of this Nation, the chief of which are Perjury, Murder, Sacrilege, and contempt of thy holy Word and Commandments; O Lord, we acknowledge there is an account due for every idle word at thy Tribunal, then how much more for the breach of so many Oaths, Covenants, and Solemn Declarations pronounced with lifted up hands before thee? thou haste, O God, commanded us to fear thee, and honour thy Vicegerent; but we quite contrary, have despised thee; and dishonoured, nay Murdered him thou commandest us to honour: Thou commandest us to love one another, even as thy Son loved us: but instead of loving, we have hated, nay killed and rob one another: thou commandest us to eat the sweat of our own brows, but we are contented with nothing more than to eat the sweat of others; nay make it our work, and sweat in defrauding our Neighbours; we have neglected those things that were necessary for our eternal Salvation, and cleaved to the Momentary things of this World; we have not frequented thy house, and now a Rebellious House of Robbers and Thiefs pray upon us: we were become a stiffnecked and rebellious Nation; and now thou hast put an iron yoke about our necks, and made us slaves to slaves themselves, the meanest (and most contemptible) of the People; whose Designs are Treasonable, whose Religion is Hypocrisy, whose Practice is Bloody, whose Power is Usurpation, whose Ambition is Power; who by irreligious Policy seek always to prevent us from returning to our former Allegiance to our lawful King, as thou hast commanded; Lord make them all as Athaliah, or as Rebellious Absalon, and deliver us thy people, that put our only trust in thee; raise up we beseech thee a Moses to thy People, and a Jehojadah to their King, that we being delivered from these Usurpers, may serve thee with fear and reverence all our days, Amen.   

A Prayer in the time of Danger.  
O Lord ever merciful and pitiful to those that truly repent, and cry unto thee in their Afflictions, though our sins are many and grievous, that we may still rather expect thy further anger, than any Deliverance to free us thy poor Servants from so many heavy Plagues and Burdens that are laid upon us by our fellow Subjects, who now Usurp Rule, and Tyrannize over us; O Lord, since thy Mercies are over all thy Works, and that thou never failest to Relieve all those who with humble hearts, and unfeigned Affections come unto thee by Repentance: We beseech thee for the Merits of thy only Son that suffered death for us, to protect us from the malice of all our cruel Enemies; since they have taken our Means, Lord, let not our Lives be the objects of their hatred; Call in we beseech thee the Heir of our Vineyard, that we may weed out those Brambls that with their sharp fruitless thorns catch us as in a trap, and by their tyranny and injustice hold us till they have destroyed us: We beseech, thee since they will not frame their Will to thy Word, according to thy Word, let them perish: let them be as Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, sawllowed up by the Earth or meanest of the People, although they have exalted themselves to heaven by their Prosperity in wickedness, (accounting their success therein thy Work) yet make them know, that they have been but all this time digging their own graves, and earning the wages of death, nay double damnation: Lord we beseech thee pull off this Mask of Religion from the face of Rebellion, that thy people may be no longer deceived, but plainly see their Hypocrisy, and Restore unto us Justice, Piety, and Truth, that so we may again be made capable of Peace, Prosperity, and all other Blessings: O deliver thy Servants from the poison under their tongues, from the snares of their lips, and from the fire and swords of their words, that under Colour of long-Prayers have not only sought to devour the Houses of their Brethren, but of their King and their God, wresting thy holy Word to their own destruction, have heaped unto themselves false Teachers of the Calves of Jeroboam to serve themselves in their wickedness, and Prophecy Lies till they devour the Church's Patrimony, and the King's Life that was her Nursing Father, and the People's Obedience, that were her dear Children; their eyes swell with fatness, & as their Lust moves them, even so they do; accounting it the dictates of thy holy Spirit, when it is the powerful working of Satan in the Children of disobedience: by the craft of their tongues they corrupt Divers, so that many people fall unto them, out of whom they suck no small advantage, they have no misfortune happens unto them, neither are they chastised as others, but puffed up with Pride, and overwhelmed with Cruelty, they prosper in the world, have the Houses of God and the King in possession, they lay snares privily to take the upright in heart, that they may shed his innocent blood, and devour him; they have prepared instruments of death (Hooks, Pullyes, and the like) to persecute the Anointed of the Lord, and tread down his Life and Honour in the dust: Stand up O Lord in thy wrath, lift thyself up because of the indignation of our enemies; when thou makest Inquisition for Blood remember them; and forget not the Complaint of the poor: let the Wicked be trapped in the work of their own hands, and sink down into the Pitt they have digged for others, and caught in their own Net; let them be turned backward into Hell, and all perish that forget God, and set at naught his Commandments; their mouths are full of Fraud, Deceit, and Cursing; they are become so proud that they care not for God, neither is the Almighty in any of their thoughts, their ways are grievous to thy People (because they discern not thy Judgements) they defy the men that are more righteous than themselves, they lurk privily in the thievish Corners of the streets, and in their Dens to murder the innocent: their eyes are set against the poor, they dissemble, fall down and humble themselves, that the Congregations of the poor may fall into the hands of their Captains: they flatter with their lips, and dissemble with their double hearts; they have said, With our Tongue we will prevail, we are they that ought to speak, who is lord over us? their throat is an open Sepulchre, the poison of Asps is under their lips, and their tongues are tipped with deceit, their speeches are of Cursing and bitternrss, their feet are swift to shed Blood, destruction is in their ways, and the way of Peace have they not known: they work mischief every day, and eat up the people as it were bread: they swear unto their Neighbours, and dis-appoint them, and their Judges take a Reward to destroy the Righteous: Arise O Lord and save thy People that are in great adversity and tribulation: who is God but the Lord? who hath any strength except our God: It is he that will Guide our King with strength of War, and make his way perfect: He shall teach his hands to fight, and make his arms to break a bow of Steel: He shall cause him to follow his Enemies and overtake them, and shall not return till they are destroyed: the Lord will deliver him from his Cruel Enemies, and set him up above his adversaries, even from the strive of the people shall he deliver him and make him the head of the Heathen, a strange People shall serve him: then shall the English Rejoice and give thanks to thee O Lord, and sing praises unto thy Name that hast heard their Prayers, and (after much Chastizements) hast showed they loving kindness unto thine Anointed, and to his Seed for ever.  
Save us O Lord, and hear us, O King of Heaven, when we call upon thee. Amen.   

A Prayer for the King.  
ALmighty and most merciful Father, We humbly beg and beseech thee (for Jesus Christ his sake) to shower down thy Blessings abundantly on the head of thy Servant and our Dread Sovereign Lord King Charles: We beseech thee give us Obedient and Loyal hearts to Him, as He unto thy Commandments; increase in His Loyal Heart true Faith, godly Zeal, and love of the same; that He may always incline to thy Will, and walk in thy ways: give Him power and strength, that He may regain His Rights, vanquish and overcome all His Enemies, and after a long and prosperous Reign, attain everlasting Joy and Felicity, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.   

A Prayer for the Queen, and the rest of the Royal Branches.  
O Almighty God, the Fountain of all goodness; We beseech thee to bless our Gracious Queen Mary, and all Her Royal Offspring: give Them a full measure of Joy after all their Sorrow, and evermore mightily Defend Them: endue them with thy holy Spirit, every Them with thy Heavenly Grace, prosper Them with all Happiness, and bring Them to thine everlasting Kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.   

A Prayer to be said this time of War.  
O Almighty God, King of all kings, and Governor of all things, whose power no Creature is able to resist; to whom it belongs justly to punish rebellious Sinners, and to be merciful to all those that be Obedient, and truly repent: Save and deliver us (we beseech thee) from the hands of our Cruel and Bloody Enemies; abate their Pride, assuage their Malice, and confound all their Plots and Devices; that thy Servants being armed with thy Defence, may be evermore preserved from all perils and dangers to glorify thee that art the only giver of all Victory, through the Merits of thy only Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.  
FINIS.