Transcriber's Notes: Every effort has been made to reproduce the original text as printed. Sidenotes and footnotes in the original have been moved inline to follow applicable text. A SERMON PREACH'D Before the Right Honourable THE LORD-MAYOR, THE Aldermen and Citizens of _London_, AT THE _CATHEDRAL_ Church of St. _Paul_, On _Monday_ the 30th of _Jan._ 1709/10. BEING The ANNIVERSARY FAST for the _Martyrdom_ of King CHARLES the First. By _ANDREW SNAPE_, D. D. Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of _Somerset_, and Rector of St. _Mary at Hill_. _LONDON_: Printed for JONAH BOWYER, at the Sign of the _Rose_ in _Ludgate-Street_. 1710. _Garrard_, Mayor. _Martis_ vii. _die Februarii, 1709. Annoq; Regni Reginæ Annæ, Magnæ Britanniæ, &c. Octavo._ This Court doth desire Dr. _Snape_ to Print his Sermon, Preach'd at the Cathedral Church of St. _Paul_, before the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of this City, on _Monday_ the Thirtieth of _January_ last, being the Day of Humiliation for the Martyrdom of King _Charles_ the First. _GIBSON._ 1 KINGS, XXI. 9, 10. _Proclaim a Fast, and set_ Naboth _on high among the People_: _And set Two Men, Sons of _Belial_, before him, to bear Witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the King: and then carry him out and stone him, that he may die._ There is scarce any one Instance of the shedding innocent Blood recorded in Holy Scripture which has not at some time or other been apply'd to the Occasion of this Day's Solemnity, even that of our blessed Saviour not excepted, whose Steps we have with one Voice declar'd in the Service of the Church the blessed Martyr cheerfully to have follow'd. [Note: _2d Collect for the day._] But here indeed it concerns us to tread warily. We can only affirm of the greatest Saints and brightest Luminaries of the Church that they have made some faint Approaches toward that great Exemplar, without presuming to equal either the Merits or the Sufferings of any meer Man to those of our crucify'd Redeemer: in all other Parallels there is less Danger of Excess, since most of 'em will be found, in many Circumstances, to fall short of the Fact committed on this Day.