The Print●r ●o the Reader.  

READER, As thou the faults herein dost spy,  
I p●●● thee to correct them with thy Pen:  
The Au●ho● is Close-Prisoner, knows not why;  
And shall have Liberty, but knows not when.   

But if he Falls; as he hath lived, he Dies  
A faithful Maryr for Our LIBERTIES.    

THE Scotch Souldiers LAMENTATION UPON The DEATH of the most Glorious and Illustrious Martyr, KING CHARLES.  
showing, That the Authors thereof have out-done all, even konrah, Dathan and Abiram, in Rebellion.  
And himself went likewise beyond all, but our blessed Saviour whom he imitated, in his sufferings.  
To which is annexed, An ELEGY on the Death of that much to be bewailed PRINCE.  
Printed in the year, 1649.   

The Scotch Souldiers Lamentation upon the death of the most Glorious and Illustrious Martyr, King CHARLES.  
WHen the Prophet wept before hazael, hazael asked him, Why weepeth my Lord? The Prophet replied, Because of all the evil w●ich thou shalt do to Israel; their strong holds shalt thou set on fire, their young men shalt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and ripp up their women with child: hazael in horror of those bloody facts, asked if he were a dog that he should do these great things.  
At the beginning of these times, if any man should have  told us, that our kingdom should under pretence of fighting against the Kings evil Counsellors, have fought against His Majesties sacred Person; That we should have murdered up His nobility, Gentry, and loyal people of both kingdoms; That we should cause an alteration in Religion, and change of State in England; That we should usher in all the Doctrines( or rather Blasphemies) of Heresies, and Rebellions; That we should( contrary to the trust reposed in us by His Majesty) sell His Majesty as Judas sold our Saviour, whereby His Majesty should be used with that barbarism which surpasseth all Histories for the time past, and will exceed all belief for the time to come: Would not we with indignation ask if we were dogs that we should do such things? But turn you and I will show you yet greater abominations than these: Wee( miserable and wretched wee) have delivered a most good and gracious King, our own sovereign, Countryman, a Protestant Prince, the wisest of men, the best of Princes, into the hands of most bloody, cruel, and deceitful men, who have committed such horrid impiety in the assasinating of their most gracious sovereign, that whosoever hears thereof it cannot but make both his ears to tingle, his heart to faint, his knees to tremble, and all good men( who thereby consider the wrath of God upon this Nation) to be as leaves shaken with the wind; That turns our Harp into mourning,& our Organ into the voice of those that weep. Never, oh never, had Jerusalem such cause to lament the death of her good Josiah; Never, oh never, had the daughters of Jerusalem such cause to mourn for Saul who clothed them in purple, as we have to lament the sad and dismal Fate of our late most gracious sovereign Lord the King, who is fallen before them as a man falleth before wicked men; as Ishbosheth was murdered by Banach and Rechab, where wicked men slay a righteous person in his own house. Alas, alas, blessed and happy had we been, if at the first kindling of these enraged fires, we had perished in the flames thereof. It is in vain for us to palliate our sins, and with Solomons whore to wipe our mouths, and to say we had done none evil. What soul is not agonized when we consider that we have not only besprinkled, but imbrued our hands in so foul a sin? It was ever our glory, that so great and gracious a Prince first drew his breath in our Nation: But it is now our shane and sorrow that we should put a sword into the hands of his Enemies, to deprive him of that Life which he received in our kingdom.  
It was we, that first rose up in tumults against His sacred Majesty, when he did but tender to us an unity of discipline with the English: out of which love of Unity, the malice of the devil( who always draws evil out of good) hath procured these great differences and distractions. It was we, that when by the mediation of the English Lords Articles of Pacification were agreed on between His Majesty and us( contrary to those Articles) refused to disband. It was we that seconded our disobedience, by refusing to attend His Majesty, when he commanded to know the reason of our not disbanding. It was we that in a tumultuous and disloyal way made Covenants to oppose the King, and countenanced that Empostresse Maiden, who( pretending to enthusiasms) persuaded the People to Rebellion, and( in reference to our Covenant) blasphemed Christ by the name of covenanting Jesus. It was we that came to the King in Military Minaces with our swords in one hand, and a Petition( sharper than our swords) in the other, to force His Majesties compliance with those who he knew sought his Life and crown. It was we that had three hundred thousand pounds, and were courted by the name of dear Brethren, to overawe the English in their own kingdom into Rebellion against His Majesty: As if the English poison had not strength enough to envenome the Nation, unless it were wrought up to the height by our ingredients. It was we, that when Loyalty had gotten the upper hand in England, and had given a deadly wound to the beast, healed that deadly wound again, and( having like the Dragon in the Apocalypse) given our power to the beast, have caused him to be worshipped, to blaspheme, and to make war upon the Saints. It was we, that when His Majesty fled to us for relief,( contrary to the laws of humanity, of Nations, of duty, and of our faithful promises) delivered him up, thereby exposing him, and the three kingdoms to these most execrable miseries. Good God, what advocate shall we have to pled for us at the bar of Gods Judgement, when he shall call our Nation to an account for these things? when inquisition is made for blood, and the cry of the souls under the Altar shall obtain their desired vengeance upon us, I fear we shall be reckoned amongst those at whose hands, not only the blood of all our own former Kings murdered by us, but all the righteous blood  shed from Abel to Zacharias the son of Barachias, who was slain between the Temple and the Altar; And from Zacharias to our righteous King Charles( who likewise may be said to be slain between the Temple and the Altar, for that he died for the maintenance of Gods Church, and the truth of his Religion) shall be required. Alas, alas, how is now that( sometime) sacred name of Religion blasphemed, our national honour tainted, our laws violated, our Nobles murdered, our People enslaved, and our whole Nation exposed to the wrath of Heaven, to the scorn of men, and to the horror of tormenting consciences? How doth every pious breast shrink, and every loyal soul thrill at the horror of that fatal blow, which at one stroke murdered not only our Rome( as call gula would have had it) but three Kings in one, the best of men, and three kingdoms, the most flourishing of all people, and in them the most royal blood of imperial Majesty, the purest of all Religions, the justest of all laws, the wisest constitution of all Governments, and( had we known our own happiness) the happiest of all people? What tongue of men or Angels can sufficiently express the detestation of that bloody fact, that separated the best of heads from so lovely a body? The best of Kings from his most loyal subjects? The best of Husbands from a most affectionate Wife? The best of Fathers from most sweet and dutiful Children? and the best of Masters from so many obedient, and( sometimes) most happy servants? In a word, the horridness of that transcendent impiety was such, that( next to the murdering of our most blessed Saviour) it was the most accursed act that ever yet was perpetrated upon the face of the earth. Summon up all the Treasons that have been perpetrated since the worlds Creation, extract the poison thereof into one fiery flying serpent, yet will that venom be but a lenitive in comparison of this. Tell us no more of konrah, Dathan and Abirams Rebellion, as it was young in age( being at the first rising of the Israelitish Nation) so it was young in impiety and malice in comparison of this. See how these Rebels in many things run parallel with konrah, and see how in many things they outstrip the parallel. Consider we the Authors of the one rebellion, and of the other. The Authors of Korahs Rebellion were Levites, men honoured by God with the service of the Tabernacl●, yet not such as had any share in the high Priesthood: And the incendiaries of this Rebellion were inferior Ministers, Lecturers, and such as could not attain to high honour or preferment in the Church. konrah seeks out a discontented Laity, by whose swords they thought to carry on this and his confederate Levites design, even Dathan and Abiram, and On of the Tribe of reuben, who( being of the elder Tribe, to whom the sceptre by birthright did of old belong) were discontented that Moses a Levite should govern Israell, and therefore rose up against him, and thought to wring the sceptre out of his hand: as these seditious Lecturers choose the earl of Essex, warwick, and other heads for their Rebellion, who being discontented in Court, might with more plausibilitie be retained the heads of their faction. again, konrah and his complices drew to their faction two hundred and fifty men famous in the Congregation, men of renown: so these men drew to their parties, some of the Nobility, and divers of the Gentry, men of popular spirits, and such as by craft and subtlety had insinuated into the affections of the common people. But yet herein these men exceed the parallel; that whereas with konrah were men of renown 250; the many Commanders among these are Brewers, Dray-men, tradesman, men of such inferior rank and condition, that in them is fulfilled one of Solomons vanities, who saw servants ride a horseback, and Princes go on foot: And no doubt but if konrah had prevailed, the Elders who stuck to Moses had as well suffered by the insolency and cruelty of those Rebels, as now the Nobility and Gentry of His Majesties three kingdoms do by the tyranny of these Usurpers.  
again, Korahs Rebellion was not against Moses only, or Aaron only, but against Moses and Aaron: As this Rebellion was not against the King only, but against King and Bishops, who as they were joined in their Commissions, and power from heaven, so they were in their sufferings by the Devils malice. But here again they outrun the parallel; for konrah fought only against the persons of Moses and Aaron, and did not seek the destruction of their functions but these men seek the extirpation not of Monarchs only, but of Monarchy, not of Bishops only, but of episcopacy itself. I hope I shall not offend divinity, if I say, that this monarchy which the Rebels of our times seek to root out, is farmore excellent than that of Moses. That of Moses was more excellent than that of the patriarchal founded in Adam, The government of Kings above that of the Judges, and the government of Christian Kings above that of the line of David: For that this Government wherein Kings shall be our nursing Fathers, and Queens our nursing Mothers, is that ultimate end, and that Ocean into which the blessings and promises of the Law and the Prophets do finally determine. For indeed I conceive that the names of Christ and Jesus are deeply mysterious: That Christ signifying Anointed, and Jesus a Saviour, shows that God will have none to be a Saviour to his people but only him that is anointed by God. Now we never red that Christ was anointed with any material oil, but his Unction was that Kingship and Priesthood which he received from God, to be above his fellowes; That he should be King of Kings, and the chief Bishop of souls, and an Highpriest for ever after the order of Melchisedecke, and from whom all Kingship and Priesthood are derived. Now Gods operations tend always to an higher degree of perfection, and therefore the Kingship and Priesthood under the gospel, must of necessity be more perfect than the Kingship or Priesthood under the Law, either of Nature or of Moses, and so consequently Rebellion against Kingship or Priesthood under the gospel is much more odious and abominable than against any other Kingship or Priesthood whatsoever. The Priesthood of Aaron was to be done away, but this of the Apostles is to continue to the worlds end; And the Apostles( from whom the Bishops derive their authority) are to sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israell, which is an honour higher than any that is mentioned to be promised to the Priesthood of Aaron. again, the Rebellion of konrah was against Moses the meekest man upon earth, and against Aaron the Saint of the Lords; It was against Moses the Lawgiver, and against Moses who delivered them out of egypt: so was this sin of theirs much aggravated, in that it was against Charles, a King of that unparalelled mildness, and sweet temper, that he was the astonishment of all people in praying for and forgiving his enemies; Against Charles, who was the Defender of the Faith, and now sealed it with his blood; and against Charles who gave his life for the freedom of his people, rather than he would submit them to the arbitrary tyranny of an usurping power. But herein they exceed the parallel, in that konrah and his complices did not violate any explicit oaths, either of Moses his supremacy, or their own Allegiance, as these have done; and not only so, but they have without any legal Authority forged Protestations, vows and Covenants, sol●mne Leagues and Covenants, whereby to guile the people into Rebellion; and when they had forced them on mens consciences, they did again force the violation of the same, yea they would have made the King himself( if it had been possible) tenfold more the child of Perdition than themselves, by forcing him to things clearly contrary to his Oaths, Protestations, Declarations, and Conscience; yea, they seek to brand him with perjury because he would not forswear himself. And certainly, when Zacharias his flying book against swearers,( wherein likewise are included those that commit or force perjury) shall enter into the houses of these men, and lay open the curses due to them for these sins; and when all the perjuries which the Kings subjects have taken, and have been violated by these mens means shall be discovered, then will the horror of their consciences tell them what it is, either to commit perjury themselves, or to force it upon others, or to condemn those who constionably make care of their Oaths.  
Then for the manner of Korahs Rebellion, these men run parallel with him in every thing. konrah and his confederates charge Moses and Aaron with taking too much upon them, when as indeed they did nothing but by authority and command from God: so these men charge the King and Bishops with usurpation, and extending the line of their Prerogatives( not only in the extravagancies of their Officers, but also) in assuming to themselves, and claiming that just power, Prerogative and Right, wherewith they were invested by the known laws and constitution of the kingdom.  
again, they place the supreme power and Authority in the people, and charge Moses with pride in lifting up himself above the Congregation of the Lord: so these men commit all their wickedness in the name of the People, and of the Commonwealth, in whom they pretend the supreme Power to be. They pretend to holinesse, saying that all the Congregation of the Lord are holy, every one of them: so these men pled to the spirit, and call themselves the Saints, the Godly, the holy Brethren, and that the Spirit hath made them free: And as those men under those pretences of an holy Congregation were proved the wickedest of all people; these men under formalities of Religion are the most abominable of all Christians. They pretend through their holiness, a power to execute divine functions, as to offer Incense, which belonged only to the Priest: so these men( although they have no calling thereunto) take upon them power to be Teachers, and preach in Buff coats both in Churches and private Conventicles. Also, as those gathered all the Congregation together against Moses and Aaron, at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: so these men gathered many thousands together, and many Tumults, at the doors of the Parliament, and forged many Petitions in the name of the People, to demand Justice( as they termed it) against the King, the Bishops, and the royal Party. Yea they wilfully persevere in their obstinacy, for when Mos●s( though he were the Party offended) sought by all possible means to draw off Dathan and Abiram, they  told Moses flatly, that they would not come up to him: so when our good King sought all the ways he could to take off these men by yielding to their demands, by complying with them, by tendering conditions of Peace, far beneath the honour of offended Majesty, and far above their demerit, yet they obstinately refuse to comply with him, and in stead of an humble submission, they refuse to treat with him, and vote Non-addresses to him. Yea, as they accused Moses of malice and treachery, as if he had brought them out of a Land flowing with milk& honey, and had not brought them into the Land of Canaan, and that he went about to put out the eyes of the people, thereby to bring the odium of all Israell upon Moses and Aaron: so have these men sought to make the King and His Government odious to His People, by forging lies unto them, as if the King intended to rule them by an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government, and as if all that the King did or said, were done with no other purpose than to ensnare the people, and to bring them to the bent of his own bow. Yea by so much the greater was the sin of konrah, for that it was done against so many miracles by Moses and Aaron in egypt, against so many deliverances out of egypt, and through the read Sea, against so many wonders in the wilderness, and against so many divine revelations, and special Providences of God in all places; that as the sin was extraordinary, so it brought an extraordinary judgement upon them: yet( under favour) I do conceive that this Rebellion against our late King, and now continued against the son, doth by many degrees exceed the Rebellion of konrah; for that this is a sin against the gospel, and therefore by how much the gospel is more glorious than the Law, by so much are sins committed under the gospel of a more desperate and odious nature, and of a blacker die than those that were committed under the Law, and that not only in respect of the revealing and exhibiting of Jesus Christ, and his Gospel, which makes the least in the kingdom of Heaven,( i.e. of Grace) greater than John the Baptist( though amongst men that were born of women there was none greater than he) but also in respect of the many known laws inhibiting, and judgements visibly punishing of these sins, which were not before the promulgation of the Law, and manifestation of the gospel. Now konrah, Dathan and Abiram knew but the infancy of that kingdom, but they did not know a monarchical right for so many Centuries as we have done, nor had they experimented the horror of that sin by Gods judgement upon any preceding Rebels, as we have done: Therefore I hope I shall not offend charity, if I say, That if they had known another konrah and his complices so severely punished as these were, if they had had so many precepts and examples of meekness, patience, obedience, and submission to Kings and Magistrates as we have had, and that from the Prophets, from Christ himself, from the Apostles and Disciples of Christ, and from the holy Martyrs, and Churches of God, they would never have run into that accursed Rebellion; and therefore in that respect I do not see but that they( even they) as well as sodom and Gomorrah against the Jews, will rise up in judgement and condemn the wicked generation of our times: And so much the rather, for that what konrah did, it was rather in attempt than action; but these men have not only attempted, but acted, and made these three kingdoms the Stages of deplored misery, and overwhelmed them as well in blood as tears. I will not deny but that ambition, pride, covetousness, treachery, perjury, and sacrilege, might accompany Korahs Rebellion; but yet( for ought appears in the Scripture) they are nothing suitable to the horridness of these, these being raised of purpose to make ●avock of the Churches Lands, and of the Kings Estate, Life, crown, Family, and Friends. hypocrisy wrought high in the Rebellion of konrah, but alas it was but a molehill to this mountain, a straw to this block, a gnat to this camel. konrah pretended not to do all for the honour and safety of Moses, and to make him great and glorious, beloved at home, and dreaded abroad amongst the Canaanites with whom he was to fight, as these did to our late King; the Devils Scholars in Rebellion had not yet taken out that Lesson; That with other heaps of hypocrisy and malice were reserved for the last of times, and to bee practised by the worst of men, when under Formality of Justice, and Piety, and under pretence of authority from the People, they should break all the bonds of Religion, Faith, and loyalty; it being well known, that the People had no such authority to give them; and if they had had it, yet not one of an hundred would have consented to these most accursed actions in murdering of the King, and the Nobles. The House of peers unanimously disavowed it, the greater part of the House of Commons protested against it; the Ministers preached against it as against the laws of God, and abhorring from the principles of Religion, and scandalous to Christianity, and in particular to the Protestant Cause; The Judges declared it to bee against the laws of the kingdom; And the whole Votes, and desires of the People sought a Pacification by Treaties of Peace with the King, not by an extirpation of the King, and his royal Issue: And yet a prevailing Party of a few, by the power of the Sword, must palliate all their wickedness in the name of the People. Thus through their deep hypocrisy, the Name of God, his Spirit, his Word, his Truth, must be blasphemed, to usher in their horrid impieties: The name of the Law, to set up Injustice; The Honour and safety of the King, to murder and root out him, and his royal Race; The name of Parliaments, to root out the Houses, and the name of the People, to cut off the Peoples head in the murdering of their gracious King. But a dissembled Sanctity is a double Iniquity, and Injustice under the formalities of Justice is the greatest Injustice. To speak no more of this most accursed murder of our never sufficiently lamented King, by way of parallel with that of Korahs Rebellion against Moses; I wish all men whose hands are stained in this blood, seriously to bethink themselves, and with trembling to consider, That as they have out-vyed konrah, and his Complices in their sins, so they will( if they prevent it not by timely repentance) out-suffer them in their punishment. Let them consider, that of all sins that can be committed against man, the greatest is murder; of all murders the most odious is the assasinating of Kings; of all Kings the Highest and dearest in Gods favour are Christian Kings, who are Defenders of the Faith, and Propagators of the gospel; of all Christian Kings Religion and Duty most strictly tie all Subjects to their own sovereign; and of all Kings of this Nation never any attained to that vastness of wisdom, and Learning, to that innocency of Life, to that heroic Resolution, and hight of Perfection, as our late most glorious, and renowned Martyr King Charles hath done: And for such a King to be thus murdered, is the astonishment of men and Angels. But yet what wonder is it, that the Serpent should bruise the heel of the womans seed, that the devil should muster up his Forces against one who so seriously sought the ruin of Sathans kingdom, and the advancement of true Religion? He loved and honoured the apostolical Function, and the promotion of Gods Ministers in the comforts and encouragements of Learning, and Piety; and therefore it is no marvel if Sacrilege and Malice to the Churches glory contributed their strength to his destruction. He loved and promoted the purity of the gospel in the sincerity of Faith; and therefore it is no marvel if hypocrisy under the mask of Religion sought to quench his zeal with his own blood. He aimed at Peace, Unity, and Concord in the worship and Service of God; That as all his Subjects were enjoined to worship the same God, at the same time, and to pray for the same things, so he sought to make them do it in the same manner; it is no marvel therefore if schisms, and Divisions sought to unite themselves, by dividing him from his People, his soul from his body, and head from his shoulders; yea,( if it had been possible) by dividing him from God himself. He endeavoured a perfect Peace and Unity in his own kingdoms. That the Parliament might enjoy without control their known and just Privileges, That the People from the highest to the lowest, might enjoy their freedom, and that Justice might be equally distributed to all as well as to himself; it is no marvel therefore if Injustice, that it might rob God, the King, the People, the Church, and Parliament of all their deuce, by setting up a Mock-Parliament, erect a Mock-Court of Justice, and find out Mocke-Judges, to guile the People with Mocke-Lawes, and in stead of one real King( the fountain of Justice) to set up many Mocke-Kings, the Common-shore of all filthiness. he sought the Peace and happiness of His People; and therefore it is no marvel if Rebellion first kindle coals of dissension between them, then raise a war, and lastly murder him in his Peoples Name.  
I dare not be so presumptuous as in any thing to equalize, or compare the Sufferings of my late sovereign with those of my Saviour, being( I know) that never sorrow was like unto his sorrow, and that it did infinitely transcend all human sufferings, not only in merit, but also even in the exquisiteness of his Agonies; Yet( seeing God vouchsafeth us himself to be our copy, and commands us to be holy as he is holy, and Christ commands us to learn of him) I hope I shall not offend the Truth if I say, That never any Prince did in all the circumstances of his Sufferings, as well as of his Innocency, Faith, Patience, meekness, and Courage, come so near the sufferings of my Saviour as my sovereign did in his; which he could never have born with that Christian Resolution, had not the sufferings of my Saviour had a strong influence upon him to sanctify his afflictions to him.  
Was Christ maligned, and envied by the Hypocrites of the times, the proud Scribes and Pharisees, who under pretence of long Prayers devowred widows houses; who tithed Mint and Cumin, but neglected Justice, righteousness, and the weighny matters of the Law; That made clean the out-side of the cup, when the in-side was full of filthiness and all uncleanness; That made broad their phylacteries, and had the Law written in their skerts, when it was far from their hearts; That loved greetings in the Market-places, and to be called Rabbi, Rabbi, and the upper seats at Feasts; That pretended to a strict observation of the Sabbath, and reproved even Christ and his Disciples for the violation thereof, whilst in the mean time themselves wallowed in all sins, and opposed the acts of Piety and Charity? King Charles was so when he was persecuted, and murdered by those, who under pretence of long Prayers devoured not onely widows houses, but whole kingdoms; who seek to take away all Tithes, yea even that of Mint and Cumin, and utterly to extirpate all the inheritance of the Church; That under a formal gravity, and starched look, and under pretended holinesse, and justice, root out Religion and the laws, and under a zealous reforming of the Sabbath, have taken away the worship of God; who have justled the King out of his Seat of imperial Majesty, that they may be saluted the onely rabbis of the world.  
Was Christ betrayed of his own servants, and forsaken of his friends, his Apostles, Disciples, and denied of him who pretended most zeal and Loyalty to him? King Charles was so, when he had his Forts, Castles, and towns delivered up by Treachery, and when he was forsaken of his Subjects, Servants, and Officers.  
Was Christ delivered up of his own countrymen to be murdered by the Judges of another Nation? King Charles was so, when we delivered him to the Commissioners of the English Parliament, who kept him a Prisoner at Holdenby, till he was carried away from thence by the Souldiers, and posted from place to place, and at last murdered by his en●mies.  
Was Christ mocked with a Purple rob? King Charles was so, when they sent him a rich gown rather to abuse than cloath him; that his Wardrobe might be made the richer for themselves.  
Was Barrabas( a seditious Murderer) preferred before Christ, and did they persuade the multitude to destroy Jesus? It was so with King Charles, before whom they did prefer his most murderous, and seditious Rebells, and against whom in a tumultuous manner they cried out to destroy him, under the name of Justice.  
Did they renounce Christ to be their King and lay his claim to the Kingship as a Crime unto him? and did they pick quarrels with him about the building of the Temple? It was so with King Charles, whom they renounce to bee their King, and against whom they take occasion of offence for his love that he bare to the Temple, and Church of God. Of Christ it was said, This is the ston which the builders refused: and of King Charles it was said, We will not have this man to reign over us.  
Were Herod and Pilate at bitter enmity between themselves, yet united in friendship against Christ? It was so with King Charles; The Presbyterians and Independents were at great variance amongst themselves, yet both complied against King Charles. Herod mocked him, the Souldiers set him at nought, but Pilate Crucified him: The Presbyterians jeered the King by their scoffing Treaties, and Propositions; the Souldiers vilified him, but the independents murdered him: The Presbyterians brought him to the block, the Souldiers held him by the hair, and the Independents cut off his head.  
Did the Souldiers part Christs Garments amongst them, and cast lots upon his Vesture? It was so with King Char●es when they spoiled his Wardrobe, and disposed of the Court Robes 〈◇〉 a prey to the Souldiers.  
I could instance how a soldier spit upon the face of my sovereign, as they had done upon the face of my Saviour, their ulcerous Lungs vomiting out those filthy Excrements, s●ew more ulcerous souls,& more nauseous foam than that of Cerberus; How the Generalls wife sought to draw off her Husband from having an hand in the death of King Charles, as Pilates Wife sent to him to have nothing to do with that just man; How King Charles did good before his death even to his enemies, as Christ cured Malchus his care, when he was sent by the High Priest to fetch him to his death; and how they blasphemed Christ for casting out Devills, as these accused King Charles for curing the Kings evil; And lastly, that what was done to Christ, was done for the fulfilling of many Prophesies, which foretold of his Sufferings, And certainly there were many Predictions of these times; To let pass lilies, and all other astrological Predictions, as being actuated rather by the spirit of Rebellion and of Error, than of Truth, I shall only instance in that prophetical Prediction of Master Nostradamus, who was physician to Charles the ninth, and in a Book Printed at lions 1568, speaking what should happen in the ensuing Centuries, and in particular in the year 1649. saith expressly, Senete de Londres mittrout al mort Cour Roy. Many other Predictions there were both in English, Welsh, latin, and other Tongues, hinting upon these times, but by what Spirit they were inspired, I leave it to others to determine: Onely I may safely say, That where God Almighty doth intend strange and unheard of alterations either in States or Kingdoms, he frequently sends such Predictions as the Warning-Pieces of his Judgements. Though we are bound from expecting them, yet God is not tied from either Miracles, or prophetical Revelations, which are sometimes manifested to private Persons, many times to kingdoms and public Officers of State, and sh●ll after a most special manner precede the general day of Judgement, when time shall be no more. Neither will I deny, but that God might reveal his secret mysteries herein to the devil himself, and to some wicked men, as he did the destruction of Saul, and of Ahab, to the devil, and the happiness of Israel to Balaam, because God doth employ them as the Instruments of his fierce wrath and indignation upon those whom he means to punish: And therefore as there were many Predictions as well from wicked men and women, as from the Saints and Prophets of God, concerning our blessed Saviour, yet all had their original, and fountain● from the God of Truth; So God might reveal both to the just and unjust these strange mysteries of his intentions towards the English in these times, of purpose to make his Anointed more in resemblance to his own son, than he had done any other King.  
But the glory of King Charles his Suffering, was in the imitating of Christ by the lustre of his virtues. Christ when he was reviled, reviled not again, but was as a Sheep dumb before the Sheerer, so he opened not his mouth: Such mildness, meekness, and gentleness did King Charles use, not retorting upon them their pride, malice, and rebellion, as he justly might have done.  
Christ prayed for his enemies; Father forgive them, for they know not what they do: So did King Charles, from his soul forgiving them, and praying for their repentance, and pardon; yea charging his son, the now King, that if he came in to succeed him in his Throne, He should not seek revenge upon those that took away his life; as if( in spite of hell) he would outstrip their most horrid cruelties by the splendour of his goodness; And that the world might see, That when wickedness was at the height, yet it could not be so wicked as he was good; showing himself a King in his royal Fortitude, a Man in his Humanity and sweetness, and a Christian in praying for his Enemies.  
Christ dyed for the good of his People, to deliver them from the bondage of Hell: And King Charles dyed because he would not deliver up his People to the insolent tyranny of prevailing Rebells.  
Christs enemies persecuted him even after his Death, in his Name and Honour, in calling him a Deceiver; In his Gospel, by seeking to suppress that; and in his Followers, and Friends, by persecuting them: It is so with King Charles, re-iterating and lading him with scandals and aspersions, never regarding how they have been often, and fully answered by himself and his friends, denying that book to be his which vindicates his Honour, and presents his royal Image; So that they seek to bring Bastardy upon the issue of his brains, as well as they sought to 〈◇〉 upon himself and his royal Issue, thereby to root o●● Tam libros, quam liberos; And lastly, they seek by un-Kinging him, to un-Peere his Nobles, embase his Gentry, and root out, and persecute all those that are Royally affencted.  
There have been many Martyrs, but no Martyr-Kings that I know of but my blessed Saviour Christ Jesus, and my late gracious sovereign Lord King Charles: And I doubt not but that as he hath had the Honour to be most like my Saviour in his sufferings, so he is now in the transcendency of his most glorious reward. Many Kings like the Birds of the air take care to feather their Nests, and to eternize their name with honour, and wealth: But this good King Charles( by the principles of Divinity, knowing the vanity of earthly Honours, like the Phoenix) took care to perfume his Nest with a bed of Spices; and soaring aloft with the wings of Contemplation in the fiery zeal of heavenly Devotion, he offered himself a Sacrifice thereupon for the good of his people, for the honour of his God, for the prosperity of the Church, and for the defence of the true, ancient, catholic, and apostolic Faith. Yea, his death was such, that like the death of samson he gave his enemies a more deadly blow thereby, than he had done in all his life before: Yea, even the succeeding generations of those who have now murdered him, will as the children of the Jews did to the Prophets whom their Fathers slay, build Monuments for him, and say, that if they had lived in his dayes, they would nor have had a hand in the murdering of so glorious a Saint. Have you not heard of the patience of Job? Yea, we have, he was the glory of the Gentiles, most eminent for Piety and Patience, before or near the time of the promulgation of the Law; We have heard likewise of Moses, the meekest man upon earth; and of David, a man after Gods own heart, and a type of Christ, as well for his patient abiding as his suffering: But me thinks I see my late sovereign studying which way the Transcript should exceed the copy, and endeavouring to out-strip the Patience of Job, Moses ●●d David, as far as the glory of the gospel doth exceed the times either of the Law under the Jews, or of Nature under the Gentiles. No actions could satisfy the Contemplation of his royal spirit, but onely his whose Vice-gerent he was: all others were of too low a size for the acquienscie of his imitation. Me thinks I see my blessed Saviour holding out the pattern of this King to all Posterity, to show the world, that he can work miracles even in these dayes of Infidelity; and that he hath his Davids, his Moseses, and his Jobs even now, and that amongst Kings, and Princes, in whose Courts( let malice look never so black with slander and envy) there are often found those that are clothed with meekness, and all virtues, as well as with soft Raiment.  
And yet we see Innocency is not Malice-proofe, for all this goodness, this holy, this blessed Martyr-King, the breath of our nostrils, the Anointed of the Lord, was taken in their Pits, of whom we said, under his shadow wee shall live among the Heathen. By this means the joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning the crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us that wee have sinned; certainly God took away our King in greater wrath than ever he gave Saul to Israel. But tell me then, O ye heavens, and ye stars that fought against Sisera in your Courses, Why did ye not blast the design of these wicked men? Why, seeing the deeps of Hell were broken, and overflowed the earth, did it not rain down fire and brimstone from Heaven upon these men, that they might be as notorious for their Judgement, as they are infamous for their sins? Why did not God rain down Hell from Heaven, and patter them with great hailstones, as he did the Kings that combined against Joshuah? Why did not the earth open her mouth, and swallow up the Dathans of the times? What? is God more remiss in his judgements? or is he now a reconciled friend to those that are the enemies of his laws? Doth he now contemn his own Ordinances, and slight those that bear the Image of his Majesty? God forbid! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? Is not God yesterday, to day, and the same for ever? Yes surely: But me thinks I see all the Creatures of Heaven and Earth marshalling themselves to a just revenge; but withall I hear the Divine Providence commanding the Creatures, that they should not hinder the career of these mens impieties; That their wickedness, and the peoples folly in being seduced by them, together with the Kings glorious virtues, might bee made known to the World; That they who had abused, and slighted the sovereign Majesty of a King, might know by wanting his protection, what it is to provoke the offended Majesty of Heaven. And although judgement bee not speedily executed upon these men, yet a Reprieve is no pardon. More happy was konrah, Dathan, and Abiram in the fire from heaven, and the earths swallowing them up, whereby they could not( like these men) ripen the accursednesse of that Rebellion to a desired maturity, than these men are in their glorious successses: For maturity and fullness in wickedness, brings a maturity and fullness of judgement. Time was when Babylon said, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow,( as these men boast that God hath given testimony to their Cause by their success) But time was again, when( notwithstanding her great security) a voice from Heaven was said to cry, That her sins have reached up to Heaven, and God hath rendered her iniquities: reward her even as she hath rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup that she hath filled, fill to her double: how she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her. It is the saddest of all judgements when prosperity in sin is the precipice of our ruin; When the Amorites shall not be punished, because the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet full, When the warmth of the sun, and dews of Heaven ripen the apple of sodom to the destruction of the three whereon they grow, great is the fall of that three, when once it is hewn down and cast into the fire. Certainly our great prosperity in our sin may make us justly to fear, That as we have committed such a Rebellion, that wee may say of it as of the Locusts of Egypt, before then were none such as they, nor after them shall be such; So God likewise will suite the judgement to the sin, and make that as strange and dreadful as our sin was horrid. I will not take upon me to divine what this judgement shall be, onely I wish all men by the bigness of the shadow to judge of the proportion of the body, and by the horridness of the sin in murdering so gracious a King, to fear the cleanness of a most horrid judgement. And the horridness of this sin is seen by the goodness and inoceney of our murdered Josiah, like unto whom there was none before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, neither after him shall be any like him. The transcendency of the sin in murdering so transcendent a King, requires a transcendency of judgement. Let us not deceive ourselves, our Walls may bee Cannon-proofe, Vengeance-proofe I am sure they cannot be; whilst sin lies centred in the actions, the circumference of Heaven will find a Line leading judgement to this center. Gods judgements can ambuscado our valour, and when wee think our enemies are flying before us, wee may see our Cities on fire behind our backs. It is true that wee are strong and stout in the courage of our horse; but our horse are flesh and not spirits; Though we pretend to the Spirit for ourselves, we cannot do so for our horses too. O therefore let all righteous souls depart from the Tents of these wicked men, lest they perish in their cry. O our too too sad experience hath taught us, That Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations; O my soul come not thou into their secret, unto their assembly mine honour be not thou united: For in their anger they slay a man, and in their self-will they digged down a Wall: Cursed bee their anger for it was fierce, and their wrath for it was cruel. What? can we think that all the Christian World will be lethargized, and so unnaturallized in their affections as tamely to suffer the murdering and extirpation of their own royal blood without control? what though for a while the bones that we have thrown in amongst them take up their whole employment, so that they have no leisure to look this ways, yet a time may come, when that may be verified in the son, which we rather in jest than in earnest objected against the Father, and the pretended fears of foreign Invasions may prove most true to our utter ruin? we as it were derided the judgements of God by pretended fears in the beginning of our Rebellion against the Father; And Gods judgements may deride us, and laugh at us when our destruction cometh, by our real fears in the end of our Rebellion against the son. Wee have entitled God to our Cause by reason of our successses in it, and God may confute this Argument by rooting out this Cause together with ourselves. What will our wooden walls prevail, when wee have a raging Sea of wickedness within ourselves, foaming up nothing but mire and dirt? It is true, that we have taken the great Lion of the forest in our Net, but yet the young Lion is escaped, and our Consciences cannot but tell us, that we deserve to bee torn in pieces by him, through the revenge of offended Majesty, and that( in respect abused patience turns to fury) out of the Serpents root should come forth a Cockatrice. There is yet some hope that by a sweet and timely compliance with his Majesty, our kingdom may be looked upon with the eye of Commiseration: But if we harden our hearts,( as pharaoh, and those accursed miscreants, who murdered his Father, did) what can wee expect but more miracles of Plagues to bee wrought upon us than was upon Egypt, and in the end an utter over-whelming in the read Sea of our own blood?  
It pities me to think how all sorts of people have paved a causey to their own destruction, and how vengeance with an hot sent pursues them in the same steps which they themselves have trodden. Nay, so great are the sins of us all, that it were a sin for us to pray for any other blessings, with greater zeal than for repentance, all other blessings without that, by how much the greater they were, would bring by so much the greater curses, and heighten the greatness of our ruin.  
It pities me for that great, and sometimes glorious, but now most bloody City; It was once( like Jerusalem) a City at unity within itself, and righteousness lodged in it: But the Manasses of the time have( like Jerusalem) filled it with blood from one end to the other. It now( like Jerusalem) hath justified her sisters, Sod●me and Samaria. Base miscreants, that dare act any thing that is wicked, or be any thing but what is loyal, Were not all your former wickednesses sufficient to your condemnation, but must you add this above all, to harbour and countenance the Locusts of the Times for the murdering of your sovereign? and that in public view, at his own House, to make White-Hall the blackest Palace that ever eye beholded? Must it be your pastime to murder your sovereign in that place that was appointed for the baiting of bulls and bears? O hellish brutishness I never did Cicilian Tyrants find out such torments against the bodies of their slaves, as these did to agonize the soul of their most Christian, and most Gracious sovereign. What now( O ye bloody City!) do your gold and silver mountaines of Plate present unto you, but the head of your Dread sovereign( as once Saint John the Baptists head was) in one of your Chargers? You fear the firing of your City more than the fire of Hell, and yet you go the way to be burned in the flamme both of the one, and of the other. You have heaped up your sins like your treasures. You think not that godliness is great gain, but that great gain is godliness, which you will purchase at any rate. You will sell your souls for wealth, and yet you will willingly part from your wealth to purchase damnation for your souls. You have heaped up treasures against the day of wrath, and as you heap up treasure to maintain your sin, so you heap up sins to destroy your treasure: your sins and treasures are the equal contributers to your judgement. Behold, stand amazed, and consider, That he who clothed you in Purple and scarlet, is now by your cruelty, Rebellion and treachery, purpled over in the gore of his own blood. He that by his grace and favour made you rich, like the Merchants of Tyrus, to whose coffers all the glory of the earth contributed their riches, that made the Nobles of the earth your Pilates, is now by your means divested of all His glory. He, the warmth of whose bosom cherished you to life, is now stung to death by the poison of your malice. He, whose royal Ancestors gave you that sword, the ensign and honour of your Loyalty, is now murdered by that sword which was given for his defence: And he, whose care was for your preservation, prosperity, and happiness, is now murdered by your cruelty. talk no more of your glorious deeds, your Hospitals, your alms-houses, your pretended charity. You build alms-houses, and seek to fill them with the royal Race, the Nobility and Gentry of the kingdom, whose wealth formerly filled your coffers. You glory that your Hospitals should be stored with those royal spirits who are made miserable by yourselves. talk no more of your walls, your Tower, your Fortifications, though you build them up as high as Babel, though you tower them up to the skies. Heaven can slight them as well as the leveling Army, your confusion is within yourselves, and you that used your hands to the murdering of your King, may come yourselves to be destroyed without hands.  
It pities me to consider the several Counties, who( being to the City as the veins to the liver) have filled their channel with blood from that fountain, whereby the whole kingdom is like Aholibah, all wallowed in her blood: And these three kingdoms fight their battle royal to the ruin of each other. Alas, alas, how have the people suffered themselves to be entitled as well to the judgement as the sins of these men? When all these wicked abominations are done under the name of the people, and when the people calmly sit still, without entering so much as their Protestations against them, what can the world judge but that they themselves are the actors thereof? And is not this the high road to make the people abhominated in the sight both of God and man? and to cause the Christian Princes to root out the whole Nation, and plant it with others who may bring forth better fruits of Religion, and Loyalty? Was there ever such a thing done before these times, that a sort of impious men should pretend the power and Authority of the People to cut off the Peoples head, and to make them felo de se, murderers of themselves? The forgery of Bale, by usurping the name and person of another, was heretofore accounted felony: But felony and treason is too low a name to express the detestation of that sin whereby the sons of Belial entitle the People to their sins and judgements. These dandlings of the Peoples Indulgencies, which pretend to aim at the Peoples greatest good, have implunged the People in the greatest sins, misery and shane.  
It pities me for those royal stems, the pledges of our succeeding hope; Those Olive branches, sometimes round about the Kings Table, were their Fathers comfort, and all good peoples joy, when it was esteemed a blessing from heaven to have his quiver full of such shafts. But what heart doth not bleed to see the inheritance of their royal Father sold away? The eldest son and heir of His crown and kingdoms voted not to reign, and the younger children voted that they were born to nothing? do these men know what it is to take the old ones with the young. And admit the King had been guilty, and themselves invested with a legal power to punish him, to set the childrens teeth on edge, because the Fathers have eaten sour grapes, is not suitable to the principles of old Divinity, nor was it practised by King 〈◇〉 amongst the Jews upon the children of those who murdered his Father: And shall these royal, sweet, and innocent babes be exposed to sorrow and shane, and be left as naked as Job upon the dunghill, because their Father was constant to his Religion, and a lover of his people? Who doth not sadly bewail the mourning of that innocent Turtle, who doth so bitterly lament the absence of her bemoaned mate? The inventions of new sins have found out new divorces for those that obeied and loved their husbands according to the old Law. 〈◇〉 ●ound that she was a queen, which was with th●m 〈◇〉 ●●ght to root out Monarchy, as the sin against the Holy Ghost, never to be forgiven in th●s world, nor in the world to come: Nay more, she was Wife to Charles the First, and Mother to Charles the Second Kings of Great britain, which was so transcendent a crime, that never a woman excepting herself was guilty of such a fault. Yea( that which more aggravates the fault) she dearly loved her husband, and sought to maintain his regal Rights; She mourned and lamented for his sufferings, and now seeks to show her love to him by her tender and indulgent care over His royal race. These, these are the realty of those faults for which she is thus deprived of her Husband, her Children, her Estate, her Honour, and voted guilty of High Treason. But O let that God who is a Father to the fatherless, and an Husband to the Widow, pled their cause; O let the pitiful cries of the fatherless and the Widow come before thee; O let the malicious wickedness of their adversaries come to an end: But let those terrible storms and tempests, which have thrown down and rooted up so many Cedars, now turn to a calm serenity; Let the royal Branches take root and flourish more than ever; Let excellent Majesty be added to them; Yea let them for ever rejoice in the affections of a most loyal People; And let the People triumph in the protection of that royal Race, who I hearty pray may in all things be like their Martyr-Progenitor, except his sufferings.  
It pities me for that sometimes most pious and glorious Church, which was as much the stupendium of the Nations for her piety, wisdom, and I earning, as she is now for her shane and confusion. How did once those golden lamps of the Sanctuary burn clear, until her Levites under pretence of snurfing them, have in a manner extinguished the same? How have they removed that golden candlestick, whose lustre rather inflamed these mens wicked hearts to sacrilegious Felony, than enlightened them in the ways of Piety? These Babylonians more rejoice to carrouse in the golden Vessells of the Temple, than by taking the cup of salvation to call upon the Name of the Lord. That celestial piece of Beauty, that once sucked the breasts of Kings, and had queens for her nursing Mothers, is now( as if she were of Elyes Family, turned out of the Priesthood) ready to beg her bread: And those that instructed others in the ways of Piety, have now none other liberty of Preaching, but by the exercise of Patience, and Piety in their own Practise.  
It pities me for those two eyes of the kingdom, the sometimes famous Universities; How are they now become bloodshed by the Murder of their sovereign? Never were Elyes, or Jacobs eyes more dim with age, than these now are, who like the blind man in the gospel see men walking like Trees, and have now no other use, but to behold their own miseries, and then to weep for those miseries which they do behold. And certainly, the putting out of these two eyes is no less a reproach to the Nation, than Nahash his putting out the right eye of Israel would have been to them. The light of the body is the eye, but if the eye be darkened, how great is that darkness? If Jereboams Calves reform our Bethels, of purpose to hinder the worship of God at Jerusalem, it is no marvel if Jeroboams memory be stigmatized with this eternal Brand, That it was Jeroboam the son of Nebot that made Israel to sin. Farewell therefore Religion, farewell Learning, farewell all the blessed Lights of the Sanctuary, till God shall in mercy sand us some good Josiah to restore our Priests, our Levites, our Temples, and the Service of God as at the first.  
It pities me for those jarring strings of the Irish harp, whereof so many have been knapt asunder by screwing them to too high a Note, and others have been remissed to keep the Instrument in perpetual Discord. O how sweetly did our David tune this harp again, enough to have quieted the evil Spirit of Saul himself; had not multitudes of Sauls, possessed with worse Spirits than Saul was, murdered up our David.  
It pities me for our own Nation; we are now become like Egypt for our sins, and for our Divisions; Egypt is risen up against Egypt, and City against City. Never did the Cadmaean race with more eagerness destroy each other, than we have done: Yea happy had we been if( like Cain) wee had contented ourselves onely with our Brothers blood, but the blood of other kingdoms as well as of our own, of our sovereign as well as of our Brethren, cries for vengeance against us. And were it nor for those heroic Spirits, Those Montrosses, those Gurdians, those Oglebyes, and others, whose loyal breasts may mediate with his Majesty, and foreign Princes, by a timely atonement, we could not expect, but that as the source and original of all these miseries came from us, so the dregs of this bitter Cup would be left to us. What shall we do, when the wrath of the Lamb appears against us? it will be in vain to call upon the Rocks to cover us, and the mountaines to fall u●on us to hi●e us from that wrath. O let that blood of our dear sovereign,  shed by the cruelty, covetousness, and treachery of our hands, be for ever silent.  
But the great Cedars never fall alone: When the sun is turned into blood, it is no marvel if the stars fall from Heaven; If the fountain be dried up, it is no marvel if the lesser channels cease their Current; and no man of judgement can expect, but that where these men root out the King, and all the royal Race, they will likewise destroy the Nobles. Protestations to the contrary are not of value with those that change their principles together with their fortune: They that think it their glory to bind Kings in chains, will deem it their honour to bind Nobles in Links of ●ron. Where the Scripture, Well is thee, O Land, when thy Princes are the sons of Nobles, is become apocryphal, there, in these mens Divinity, no Nobles must be allowed to be the sons of Princes. The next in honour to the royal Race are the Noble Families, and therefore they must be next in suffering. No Bishop no King, No King no Nobles, are the undoubted sequences of these times. Those that like Death will level sceptres with the Spade, will teach their children to presume against the Ancient, and the vile against the Honourable. But O ye Noble souls, whose breasts were not framed of the common mould, suffer not your Silver to become dross, nor your Wine to be mixed with Water: You that had the honour of being peers and Companions with your sovereign in his Sufferings, be ye so likewise in the Gallantry of your heroic Spirits. You cannot hope to equalize him in his more than human Resolutions, that is a copy for your admiration; Heaven only requires your desire and emulation therein: But to imitate it is a Divine Privilege reserved onely for those Martyr-Kings, whose exchange of Crownes and kingdoms for celestial glory makes them the choicest Favourites of Heaven. Shine and be glorious in your own Spheres; but grieve not that a star cannot equalize the glory of the sun: Onely as the King is most glorious amongst Princes, so would I have you to bee amongst the Nobles of the Earth.  
And as for our present sovereign( whom I hope the Divine Providence hath reserved to bee the repairer of the breach) mine hearty desire is, and I hope it will bee all your Prayers, that he may bee as another Solomon, to sit on the Throne of his Father David, being as eminent for his wisdom and Excellency of Majesticke Power, as his Father was for his Piety and Sufferings. O let that sun which hath now long been muffled in Clouds, break forth with more resplendent Majesty; Let that three which hath been bound with Fetters bud forth, and be as the great three, which spreads its branches to the four corners of the earth, in whose branches the Fowls of the air do nest, and under whose shadow the Beasts of the Field do rest themselves. O let all mens hearts, tongues, hands, and prayers contribute to such a blessing; and let it continue from generation to generation, till time shall be no more, and till all the Kings of the earth shall cast down their Crownes at the feet of him that is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords: And in the mean time let all good People in the passionate affections of their souls cry out, God save KING CHARLES the Second.  
FINIS.   

An Elegy upon the Death of the most Glorious, and Illustrious Martyr, King CHARLES.  

( 1)  
ye Christian Princes contribute your tears  
To this sad tomb:  
By this beware lest jealousies and fears  
In equal doombe  
level your sceptres to your sad regret,  
And tread your Crownes under your subjects feet.   

( 2)  
In what strong hold can you be deemed secure?  
unless it be  
Because( 'tis known) the world cannot procure  
So good as he?  
More safe perchance you are, because less good:  
Rebellion now sucks none but choicest blood.   

( 3)  
Others do die because they sin, but he  
Because he's good:  
Religion, Justice, sacrificed be  
In this dear blood.  
If Kings be slain because they're good and just,  
How then will Rebels be by God accursed?   

( 4)  
What do you weep? Alas, it is in vain  
Him to deplore!  
These weeping marbles by their tears complain,  
You must do more,  
You must weep blood; these stones by tears do call  
For vengeance, you by blood must right his fall.   

( 5)  
Forewarned Heaven foresaw, with watery eyes,  
This dismal fate:  
Your grief must thunder fire from the skies  
Upon the pate  
Of all such Rebels, and King killing Cities,  
That force our sorrows to such mournful ditties.   

( 6)  
ink hath not black enough, nor gull, to tell  
So foul a fact,  
Nor Pen hath skill enough to parallel  
So cursed an Act:  
Hell only( whence it came) can have the skill  
By plagues to pencil out this horrid ill.   

( 7)  
If that the way to Heaven be by Hell,  
The King is blessed;  
He went that way; Hell fiends could never quell  
His royal breast.  
If sorrow were the Kings High-way to bliss,  
What road must we go to our happiness?   

( 8)  
But all cannot climb by Elisha's fi●●,  
Though Charles might do't.  
Gods love his soul did with his Spirit inspire,  
Which cheered him to't.  
he's mirror of Kings, Angels wonderment,  
Glory of his friends, his foes astonishment.   

( 9)  
No Monument dare we presume t' erect  
( Great Charles) for thee:  
Thy Works, thy Name from times teeth will protect  
T' eternity.  
tombs and Epitaphs, the underlings of famed,  
Are all too low t' immortalize thy Name.   

( 10)  
Thy Book( Great Charles) renews King Davids glory,  
Divinely inspired:  
And Davids psalms will eternize thy Story,  
So much admired.  
In Davids psalms wee'l red our royal King,  
None but King David can Charles praises sing.   

( 11)  
Now sleep( sweet soul) in thine eternal Peace  
From Foes annoy.  
O let blessed Angels harmonies increase  
To thy great joy.  
Wee'l weep our tears; and leave thee to that bays,  
Where God with Glory crownes Angels with praise.   
FINIS.