The Loyal Subjects tears, For the Sufferings and Absence of their SOVEREIGN, CHARLES II.  
King of England, Scotland & Ireland.  
With an Observation upon the expunging of Exit Tyrannas Regum Vitimus, 
 By Order of General Monk.  
AND Some Advice to the Independents, Anabaptists, gives, &c.  Regi qui perfidus, nulli fidus. 
London, Printed for Charles King. 1660. March .31. 1659   

The Loyal Subjects tears, For the Sufferings and Absence of their SOVEREIGN, CHARLES II.  
SOvereignty, as it should imprint a Reverence in our hearts, so should it( if any ways eclipsed) beget a Tear in our eyes. We have a King, and we must aclowledge him, otherwise we are not worthy to live under him, but where is the King? can he command himself? is he not a Subject to his subjects, the scorn of Rebels and Traitors, the contempt of heretical Factions, and in stead of being admitted the Preserver of our Religion, laws and Liberties, his Authority is null and voided, his Power's restrained, his person secluded and dishonoured, nothing left un essayed that may get in his Subjects a dis-esteem, or to his own person an immerited disgrace, contrary to the Solemn League and Covenant, Protestations, and Oath of Allegiance promised to the Posterity?  
The consideration whereof cannot choose but draw distilling Tears from all true Subjects eyes, with this further Consideration, that these unlawful proceedings have occasioned our too too many Alterations and Revolutions, to be scourges for the Miscarriages of the Nation, with this additional Conclusion, that the murder of his Sacred Majesty hath drawn down Vengeance upon our heads, to the loss of thousands of precious lives, the decay and ruin of Trade both foreign and domestic, rendering us odious and prodigious to all Strangers, and hypocritical to each other, and the impenitent perseverance therein( in persecuting our right and lawful Prince) will indubitably continue the Curse of God to us and our Posterity, if Providence did not seem to check these Exorbitancies after a long tract of time, by causing the Right honourable, and Ever-noble General monk, to be a happy Instrument in carrying on( without bloodshed) the desired Returns to our due Obedience, and of hard-hearted and implacable Rebels, to become patient and loving Subjects; who( to his everlasting Memory let it be recorded) ordered that abominable Superscription of EXIT TYRANNUS as a Capital offender to be expunged, to the rejoicing of all the rich and noble Merchants of the City of London, with the addition of a stately bone fite at their charge the whole night ensuing. Does not this add joy to the happy Union betwixt France and Spain? and hopes to re instate our Sovereign? who questionless would take it far more kindly from his Subjects, and no question show pity and compassion upon the possession of his Fathers Crowns; to all the forrowful and seduced upon their return to due Obedience, and meet them with Olive branches, those emblems of Victory, Peace and Mercy, and rejoice with such as are sensible that the Happiness of the People lies not in the alteration of the mode, but men, people being again and again blessed, as to heaven and earth, spiritual and temporal, under Kings and Queens  
I desire not to promote Differences, therefore none shall extract from me the least syllable of passion, being rather desirous to bring water than oil to the flamme that is kindled. We cannot choose but receive a sensible resentment of his present Sufferings, and of his present Condition, though the Fact be others, our connivance would make the fault ours, who have had cause a long time to repent of the Oppression and Slavery we were brought to, by opposing and abusing so patient, so gracious, so merciful, so just, so pious a Prince, and embracing unnatural and bloody Wars, abandoning and overthrowing all Order Ecclesiastical and Civil, and subjugating ourselves and Posterity to the unsupportable yoke of Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government, which hath been evidenced of late years by the general Distempers, Murmurings, Heart-burnings, continual Plottings and Insurrections, crying out for Peace, but pursuing War; quarreling for Liberty, and Freedom, while we pursue Arbitration and the Power of the Sword. See the depravity of our nature, and the perv●rseness of out own wills! we row one way, and look another: cruel men, beastly men, who glory in their own destruction, ●ignifying the instruments of ou● own ruin, ●words, Pistols, and Instruments of War( those constant Associates) before a Generous and High-born Prince of Peace, environed with true-hearted Subjects.  
Before I draw to a Conclusion, I shall a little reflect upon the politic Actors of this Age, who upon all occasions of Advantages have their Religion to choose, and under pretence of seeking the Kingdom of God have got the Riches of the Kingdom into their possession, viz. Independents, Anabaptists, gives, &c. and are therefore afraid lest Justice should overtake them with his iron hands, for disloyalty and treachery, having for these fifteen years and more, appeared the true Copies of those Italian Pictures, that present a Devil on the one side, and a Saint on the other, pretending to Sanctity like a Fiend re-vers't, or the Devil turned the best side outward, laid down in seven several Considerations.  
I. Leave off your fomenting( and fall to pacifying) divisions, and conclude( among yourselves) with others, that one body with an absolute head, will more easily be kept in unity and concord, then many thousand bodies that have every one a head that is absolute.  
II. Render not yourselves( like caterpillars that devour every green thing in the Land) greedy to suck the blood of the Nobles and Subjects, raising and enriching yourselves by their ruins, out-going in rapine and cruelty the Star-Chamber, High-Commission, &c.  
III. Leave off separating yourselves from the Church, having no warrant for what you do out of the Word of God.  
IV. Know that Government by blood, is not by Law of Nature or Divine; Force and faction being ground whereon God builds no stable structures, but on the contrary sandy foundations.  
V. Remember that honest Intentions are insufficient pleas for irregular Actions; it being no good divinity in St. Pauls time for any to say, Let us do good, that evil may come on't, and confess( without offence) with St. Austin, Ferenda est magis omnis Necessitas, quam perpetranda est aliqua iniquitas.  
VI. Do not imitate the irregular practise among the Athenians, who had as many religions as Pastors, and every one to frame his religion according to his own idea and fancy, but extirpate such destructive principles root and branch.  
VII. Lastly, consider that Humility and self-denial are the two fairest flowers of the Christian Garland, and to convince his Gracious Majesty of your true repentance for your former obstinacies, rebellion to his Father, and real return to Himself, prostrate yourselves and families at his foot-stool, present your Petitions, entreat his Pardon, who is more ready to forgive, than you to ask; and say with the Loyal Subject,  
God save King Charles II.