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48 for.) But till it may be aid, that Cromwell and his adherents were not, properly peaking, guilty of rebellion; becaue he, whom they beheaded was not, properly peaking, their king; but a lawles tyrant.—much les, are the whole body of the nation at that time to be charged with rebellion on that account; for it was no national act; it was not done by a free parliament. And much les till, is the nation at preent, to be charged with the great in of rebellion, for what their ancetors did, (or rather did NOT) a century ago.

how came the anniverary of king Charles's death, to be olemnized as a day of fating and humiliation? The true anwer in brief, to which inquiry, is, that this fat was intituted by way of court and complement to king Charles II, upon the retoration. All were deirous of making their court to him: of ingratiating themelves; and of making him forget what had been done in oppoition to his father, o as not to revenge it. To effect this, they ran into the mot extravagant profeions of affection and loyalty to him, inomuch that he himelf aid, that it was a mad and hair brain'd loyalty which they profeed. And amongt other trange things, which his firt parliament did, they ordered the Thirtieth of January (the day on which his father was beheaded) to be kept as a day of olemn humiliation, to deprecate the judgments of heaven for the rebellion which the nation had been guilty of, in that which was no national thing; and which was not rebellion in them that did it—Thus they oothed and flattered their new king, at the expence of