It cannot, I confess, be equally affirm'd, with relation to our Martyr'd Sovereign, that the Blood of _his Sons_ too calls for Vengeance, _that_ only Stream of Royal Blood having been Spilt, that ran within his own Veins. But tho' they escap'd with Life, (no Thanks to the Usurpers of their Inheritance that they did so) yet were they devested of their just Rights, which none of 'em had then done any thing to forfeit, driven into Exile, branded with Names of Infamy and Reproach, and declar'd _Traytors_ and _Rebels_ themselves, as well as their Abettors and Adherents. Having said thus much by way of Parallel, give me leave to conclude the Comparison between these two Innocents, as I first introduc'd it, with taking Notice of one other material Difference between the two Histories. _Naboth_'s Murderer, tho' _above_ the Reach of _human_ Justice, saw, and confess'd, and bewail'd his Guilt, and humbled himself so effectually before God, that the Vengeance he requir'd for that _innocent Blood_ (for _innocent Blood_ will be aveng'd, nor is it any Security to us, that it was not shed by _us_, or in _our Days_) was not immediately taken, but postpon'd till another Generation. But the _Royal Murderers_ show'd _no_ Remorse. The _Regicides_ of _this Day_ continu'd to the last Inflexible and Obdurate: Their Hearts were so hardned by the just Judgment of God for their accumulated Wickedness; that even those of 'em who, by his peculiar Providence, were reserv'd for _publick Justice_, were so far from any Signs of Repentance, that they even _Gloried_ in the inhuman Deed. I come now in the II. Place to consider the _Nature and Consequences_ of the Fact committed on this Day. The _Nature_ of it may be in a great Measure judg'd, from what has been already said. But farther to convince us of the enormous Guilt of it, let us take it, as attended with the following Circumstances. For a Sovereign and _Hereditary Monarch_ (it was then an _Hereditary Monarchy_ sure) after many other previous Outrages and Affronts, to be brought to the Bar, as a _common Malefactor_, and that before a pretended _High-Court_ compos'd of his own _Subjects_, surrounded with a Guard of his own _Soldiers_, to be Arraign'd of _Treason_, to be Sentenc'd to _Death_, and Executed on a _Scaffold_, in his _Capital City_, and before the Walls of his own _Palace_: And all this to gratify the Ambition or Revenge of a few turbulent Spirits, whilst a far greater Number, who disapprov'd of that rigorous Extremity, cou'd yet be contented to stand by as unconcern'd Spectators, and suffer the bloody Tragedy to be Acted, without offering to interpose, or stirring to the Rescue of their Prince: The Fact I say thus circumstantiated, is not to be equal'd in any History, by which Majesty its self, as well as the Person of the King, was so outragiously insulted.