THE LIFE and DEATH OF KING CHARLES THE MARTYR, paralleled 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 bloody Persecutors.  The wicked take counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed, Psal. 2.2. 
LONDON, ●… inted in the Year, M.DC.XLIX.   

The life and death of King charles the MARTYR.  
THe Life, sufferings and death, of our( late) murdered King( who imitated his Saviour) is here briefly represented the view( especially) of those( his traitorous Subjects) that dipped their hands in the spilling of his blood. 
Character of his life.   
And first for his Life; the personal virtues, and ●… razes of this pious Prince, 
His virtues and graces.  which made him both glorious in his ●… fe and death, was his piety in Religion; His zeal and devout fre●… uency in prayer; who propagated the true Protestant Religion in ●… s purity, and established it by his Laws and regal Authority, and ●… ealed it with his royal blood: He was the figure of God in the ●… ature of Government.  
He was the Churches Champion, natures honour, and earths Maje●… y; the director of the Law, and strength of the same; the sword of ●… ustice, and the sceptre of Mercy; he was not to be paralleled, be ause he was without equality; and the prerogative of his Crown ●… as not( in just ways) to be contradicted; As he was the Lords ●nointed, 
The Lords Anointed.  therefore not to be touched: As he was the head of the ●… ublique body; therefore to be preserved: As he was Gods Vicegerent here on earth, within his dominions: And therefore by ●… ll laws, divine and human, he was privileged from any punish●ent that could be inflicted by men; albeit he was inferior to Christ, as man is unto God; the creature, 
His privilege Christ not a temporal Prince.  unto the immortal Creator: yet was his privilege of inviolability far more clear ●… hen was Christ: for Christ was not a temporal Prince, his King●… ome was not of this world; and therefore when he vouchsafed to come ●… unto the World, and to become the Son of man; he did subject himself unto the Law; 
Did subject himself to the Law.  and so soon as he was born, he enrolled himself a Subject unto Caesar: he lived as a Subject, paid tribute unto Caesar; 
Paid tribute to Caesar.  he submitted unto Pilates Jurisdiction, 
Pilates jurisdiction.  acknowledging that he had power given him from above.  
But our gracious sovereign was well known to be a temporal Prince, a free Monarch; 
Free Monarch  our undoubted sovereign, to whom we di●… allow, and had sworn Allegiance; and therefore he could not b● judged by any power on earth; he disclaimed their Authority, a●… well he might; for they had no power at all over any, much less over him: 
Pilats power:  And what power they usurped was not de supper, as Pilats was; but de subter, as Bradshaws, 
Bradshaws:  from beneath, even from the Angel of the bottomless pit, whose name is Abaddon: For as he seeks the destruction of all men, so especially of KINGS, because by their Government, 
Peace, Justice and Religion:  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 Kings, as is evident by Scripture, by the Law of Nature and Nations, 
Law of Nature and Nations:  by the known Laws of England, 
Laws of England:  by clear and undeniable reasons, and by the constant doctrine of the true, ancient and catholic Church; as were easy for me to show, should I enlarge myself upon this subject.  

His sufferings: Traitors and Tyrants: Judges and Murderers:  And yet these monstrous Traitors, and bloody Tyrants, have sacrilegiously invaded Gods Throne, and usurped his Office, whose peculiar it is to be Judge of Kings; and so have presumed to try, judge, condemn and murder their lawful King, in despite of Law, Reason, Religion Nature, and God himself. As it is in the parable of Jotham, 
Parable of Jotham:  they have advanced the 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. 
The King Prisoner at the Bar:  So they have overthrown the order of God and Nature, dissolved the bonds of human society, 
To the basest of His people  bringing a mere confusion and dissipation of all things.  
Never such a Tragedy was acted by any Subjects in the Christian world, since the first constitution of Monarchy, as this unparalleled mur●er of our sovereign Lord and K.( whom I may call) charles THE JUST. 
charles the just Pilats knowledge: John 19: 15: Chief Priests:  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 crucify 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 caesar: But th●se Murderers are worse then the Jews, 
Worse then Jews or Pagans: Tully pleaded to caesar for Diotarus:  for they confessed him to be their King, and yet most most barbarously judge, condemn and put him to death. And as they are worse then Jews, so they are worse then Pagans; for Tully pleading before caesar for Diotarus King of Galatia, albeit he was but a tributary King, yet he doth challenge that privilege unto him, say●… g, For a King to be guilty of death, is such a thing as hath not been heard of; ●… ey are worse then Devils, for the Devils never rise up against their Prince.  
Here you see the inveterate and malicious rage of factious and ●… bellious Subjects against their King, who was the best of Kings: 
The rage of his Enemies:  ●… ever was there yet any Prince that sate upon the Throne, 
His piety and prudence:  who ●… s beyond him for piety and prudence, for heroical and Chri●… an virtues. But here I dare not venture to praise him, lest com●… king short, I may seem to wrong him; who was a Theme fitter ●… r tongues of Angels then of Men.  
And therfore, as Apelles did, so will I, draw a veil over that which 〈…〉 am not able to express; and leave to all men to judge what he ●… as, by his Divine Meditations: 
His Divine Meditation:  That Book, or Golden manual; ●… ll tell you what we have lost, having no superior on earth.  
As Christ was above the Law, being the Son of God; so he was ●… ove the censure of human Laws, he being a King. 
He imitateth o●r Saviour:  As Christ was ●… ost innocent, there was no guil nor guilt found in him: so was ●… e innocent of all the crimes objected against him. 
A King:  As he was a ●… king, he did represent Gods person here on earth: and as he was 〈…〉 good King( full of Grace) he was a most lively Image of Christ; 
A parallel betwixt King charles and our Saviour:  ●… o lively an Image of him, that amongst all the Martyrs( who fol●… owed Christ unto heaven, bearing his cross) never was there a●… y who expressed so great conformity with our Saviour in his suf●… erings, as he did.  
Observe his patience, that the ten last years of his life, 
The last ten years of his ●i●e:  He fought ●ith Beasts, even with unreasonable men, who were resolved to be satisfied with ●… othing, but with the utter destruction of Him and His Posterity.  
To bring that to pass, how did they asperse him with many foul ●… nd false calumnies against their own knowledge and Conscience, 
calunniated with false aspersions:  only to render him odious unto his people? They slandered the foot●… teeps of Gods Anointed; Their tongues and pens were sharper then swords, ●… iercing deep into his soul: Many scandalous Pamphlets were every day cast abroad, Which( as he says in his Book) like sparks in great ●… onflagrations, did fly up and down, and set all places on fire: From every Pulpit was sounded a Trumpet of Rebellion; the ambassadors of Peace being made the Heralds of War.  
And as our Saviour( by the Pharisees) was called, an Impostor, 
Our Saviour aspersed:  a Deceiver, a perverter of the people, a Blasphemer, a Samaritan, and one that had a Devil: so such language, and worse, 
Our King vilified:  was bestowed upon His Sacred Majesty by a pharisaical brood of Traitors, who are the great pretenders to Religion, 
Joh. 8.59.  but are utterly void of it: They have a show of godlines●… but have denied the power thereof.  
When our Saviour was at Jerusalem, 
Our Saviour at Jerusalem.  the Pharisees stirred up the●… people to ston him, whereupon he withdrew himself: So when the Ki●… was at Westminster, 
The King at Westminster.  Tumults were raised, and Blasphemies cast o●… against Him, that He was forced to remove from thence: Then the●… cried out against Him, For deserting His Parliament, 
forced from London.  though it wa●… the thing they most desired: Being thus forced to retire from London, they seized all His Houses and Furniture, Forts, Magazines Ships and Revenues; 
Hunted like a Partridge.  They hunted Him, like a Partridge, from mounta●… to mountain, that He might justly complain with our Saviour, Th●… Foxes have holes, and the Birds of the air have nests, but Himself had n● where to lay His head.  
When our Saviour had withdrawn himself from Jerusalem, The chief Priests and Pharisees gave commandment, that if any man knew where be were, 
An Ordinance making it treason to harbour the Kings Person.  that he should show it, that they might take him: So upon His Majesties flight, a cruel and bloody Ordinance was made by these Murderers, That whosoever should harbour or conceal the Kings Person, or did know where He was harboured, unless he did immediately reveal is, should forfeit his estate, and die without Mercy, as a Traitor.  

They disclaimed their King.  As our Saviour was rejected of his own people, He came unto his own, and they received him not: So was our sovereign rejected by Hi● own people, they would not own Him for their King, but disclaimed His Authority, and yielded their service unto His Enemies: And as the Jews denied the Holy One, 
And desired the Parliament to rule over them.  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 barrabas; choosing rather to live in bondage, under this iron yoke, then to enjoy the liberty of Subjects, under the peaceable government of a most gracious King.  

Our Saviour rejected of his Disciples. The King betrayed and forsaken of His Servants. Deprived of Wife and Children.  As our Saviour was rejected by his own people, so was he forsaken of his own Disciples; that when 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 winepress alone: So when our Soveraign's afflictions grew great, some of His Servants betrayed Him, like Judas; others denied Him, and almost all forsook Him; He was forcibly deprived of the comfort of His dearest Wife, His most sweet and beloved Children. And as our Saviour was tempted: so was our sovereign tempted to distrust, to perjury, to sacrilege, to Atheism, tempted to deny God, 
The King tempted.  by forsaking His ●… ligion, and destroying the Church, which His righteous soul abhorred.  
As the Devil made great proffers unto Christ, saying, 
Promises to make Him a Glorious King.  All these ●… ngdoms will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me: So they ●… omised to make our sovereign a GLORIOUS KING, if He ●… uld submit to the Parliament, and worship the Idol which they ●… d set up: Besides, His Soul was daily tortured with unreasona●… Propositions, and insolent Demands, as absurd as those which 〈…〉 Devil made unto Christ.  
Our Saviours Enemies sought how they might take him by craft, and 〈…〉 him to death: Such deceit was used to catch our sovereign in ●… ir pit. As when Christ was at Jerusalem, the Pharisees, not da●… g to lay hands on him, because they feared the people, sought ●… fright him with Herod, Saying to him, Get thee out, and depart hence, 〈…〉 Herod will kill thee; when they themselves intended to kill him: 〈…〉 when His majesty was at Hampton Court, 
The King at Hampton Court. Suggested with Fears.  His Enemies perceiving ●… at the hearts of His People were so turned towards Him, that it ●… s not safe to lay violent hands on Him, they cunningly suggest ●… rs unto Him, That there was a plot to kill Him; 
A Plot to kill Him.  and so they made ●… m fly into the snare which they had laid for Him in the Isle of ●… ght, 
Flies to the Isle of Wight.  where they thought that Rolph should have dispatched Him 〈…〉 poison, or poniard: but that being discovered, they resolved 〈…〉 do it in a more public way.  
Our Saviour was apprehended at night: so was our King, in a ●… k could Winter night, taken out of His Bed in the Isle of Wight, 〈…〉 carried to Hurst Castle. 
Carried to Hurst Castle.  They fought false witness against ●… r Saviour: so did they against our sovereign; 
Proclamation made for all Witnesses against Him: Souldiers cried Justice and Execution:  for open Procla●… tion was made, with sound of Trump●t, That all who could inform ●… inst the King, should come unto the Painted Chamber, and give in their ●… dense. The people being suborned by the Priests, cried against ●… r Saviour, Away with him, crucify him: So some of the Souldiers ●… re hired to cry against our sovereign, Justice and Execution.  
Our Saviour was mocked: So our sovereign had the trial of ●… el mockings. Christ was reviled: 
Mocked and reviled:  so our sovereign was reviled 〈…〉 his Enemies, especially, Hugh Peters. Our Saviour was spit up●…: so was our sovereign; Bradshaw and Cook 
Bradshaw and Cook:  did spit out the ●… oath of their ulcerous lungs against Him to His face; and a barba●… us soldier did really spit in His Face. 
A soldier spit in his Face:  Our Saviour was bound: 〈…〉 there was an intent to have bound our sovereign, as Himself ob●… rved upon the Scaffold, 
An intent to bind the King to the Scaffold Guarded night and day with Souldiers.  by the Rings that were fastened on the ●… ock.  
Our Saviour was watched the night before he suffered; in th●… morning sent to Pilat, from him to Herod, then back again to th●… Common judgement Hall, where he was condemned, and at the thir●… hour lead forth to be crucified: But our sovereign was watched many nights before he suffered; for all the time of his trial hi●… Chamber was fil'd with barbarous Souldiers, who deprived him o●… his rest, and of all manner of privacy, which was more bitter t●… him then death. 
The King suffered the 30 of Jan: at three in the afternoon, 1648.  At last, our Saviour suffered death: so did ou●… sovereign, at the very same hour of the day; for our Saviour gav●… up the Ghost at the ninth hour, which is our three of the clock in the afternoon: the same hour put a period to our sovereigns life, and to the happiness of three Kingdoms.  
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 cross, despising the shane.  

He despised an earthly Crown for an immortal Crown.  He contemned an Earthly Crown, for the assured hope he had of an immortal Crown, that fadeth not away: And so, like his Saviour, When he was reviled, he reviled not again, but was lead like a sheep unto the slaughter, and opened not his mouth. As Christ prayed for them that crucified him: so did our sovereign pour out many devout prayers for his Enemies, 
He prayed for his Enemies.  which might serve to melt their hearts, if they were not harder then Adamant. As Christ wept over Jerusalem so did our sovereign weep over his three Kingdoms; being more sorry for the miseries that are to come upon them, then for all that had happened unto himself. As women, beholding Christs passion, wept: 

His Spectators wept to see him on the Scaffold.  
He died for the Church and his peoples liberties.   so many women, beholding their sovereign 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 yourselves.  
Christ gave himself for the Church, he died for the people: so our sovereign 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 enslave his people: 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 darkness over all the Land: so du●●ng the time of our sovereigns Martyrdom, 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 Saint Jameses, and came as far as Whitehall, fluttering about the Scaffold: So that he might have said unto his bloody 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 unnatural 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 sovereign, 
colonel Tomliason.  beholding his most Christian, Pious and Magnanimous carr●age, was convinced, and is to this day strike with great fear, horror and astonishment.  
Thus from the Throne to the Block, have his cruel, traitorous and bloodthirsty Enemies brought the most Virtuous, Religious and Pious Prince in the Christian World.  
FINIS.