ishment is due to a Murderer, let God's Law, let man's
law speak. Sir, I will presume that you are so well read in
Scripture, as to know what God himself hath said concerning the
shedding of man's blood: Gen. IX., Numb. XXXV. will tell you
what the punishment is: And which this Court, in behalf of the
whole kingdom, are sensible of, of that innocent blood that has
been shed, whereby indeed the land stands still defiled with
that blood; and, as the text hath it, it can no way be cleansed
but with the shedding of the Blood of him that shed this blood.
Sir, we know no dispensation from this blood in that Commandment
'Thou shalt do no Murder': We do not know but that it extends to
kings as well as to the meanest peasants, the meanest of the
people: the command is universal. Sir, God's law forbids it;
Man's law forbids it: Nor do we know that there is any manner of
exception, not even in man's laws, for the punishment of murder
in you. It is true, that in the case of kings every private hand
was not to put forth itself to this work for their reformation
and punishment; But, Sir, the people represented having power in
their hands, had there been but one wilful act of murder by you
committed, had power to have convened you, and to have punished
you for it.

But then, Sir, the weight that lies upon you in all those
respects that have been spoken, by reason of your Tyranny,
Treason, Breach of Trust, and the Murders that have been
committed; surely, Sir, it must drive you into a sad
consideration concerning your eternal condition. As I said at
first, I know it cannot be pleasing to you to hear any such
things as these are mentioned unto you from this Court, for so
we do call ourselves, and justify ourselves to be a Court, and a
high Court of Justice, authorized by the highest and solemnest
court of the kingdom, as we have often said; And although you do
not yet endeavour what you may to discourt us, yet we do take
knowledge of ourselves to be such a Court as can administer
Justice to you: and we are bound, Sir, in duty to do it. Sir,
all I shall say before the reading of your Sentence, it is but
this: The Court does heartily desire that you will seriously
think of those evils that you stand guilty of. Sir, you said
well to us the other day, you wished us to have God before our
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