Appendix to the Memoirs of Thomas Hollis Esq Fr And Ass
Appendix to the Memoirs of Thomas Hollis Esq Fr And Ass
Francis Blackburne
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301. To conclude. Having from a feries of moft clear and incontestable facts, and from the fuffrape of the moft authentic historians of thofe times, attempted an idea of the chara&er and reign of King Charles the Firft; I only add: Will it not extremely aftonifh pofterity to find the memory of this Prince ftill celebrated in the Englifh nation with the higheft honors and applaufe ! to fee a yearly tribute of incenfe offered up to his name in the moft holy places of the kingdom ! to hear him alm...oft adored as a royal and blefled martyr; ex- tolled far above all the princes that ever filled the Britifh throne; pronounced not the beft of Kings only, but the moft excellent of men ; and a parallel often run betwixt his fuffer- ings and the Son of God's ! yea his treatment reprefented as, in fome refpects, more bar- barous, C 755 ] barous, iniquitous, and vile, than that of our blefled Lord ! Strange that theEnglifh nation, who glory in their conltitiuion as a limited monarchy, who have always been extremely jealous of any incroachments upon it, and who dethroned, by force of aims, and baniflied the fon for lefs breaches of the conftitution than were made by the unhappy father, fhould yet ftigmatize that juft war of the parliament with Charles the Firfl with the odious name of a Rebellion !
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