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3 - By the Rivers of Babylon: the Cult in Exile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

Andrew Lacey
Andrew Lacey
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
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A captiv'd Prince becomes a glorious saint.

For he in suffering has more valour shown,

Than you with all your victories have done:

And thereby gain'd more love and loyalty,

Than if he had enjoy'd his liberty.

(The Princely pelican. 1649, pp. 36–7)

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

(Psalm 137: 1)

Thomas Fuller was busy with his Worthies of England when he heard the news that Charles was to be tried for his life, at which, so his biographer records,

such an amazement struck the loyal pious doctor when he first heard of that execrable design intended against the King's person, and saw the villainy proceed so uncontrollably, that he not only surceased, but resolved to abandon ‘that luckless work’, as he was then pleased to call it. ‘For what shall I write’ said he, ‘of the worthies of England, when this horrid act will bring such an infamy upon the whole nation as will ever cloud and darken all its former and suppress its future rising glories?’

The biographer goes on to say that on learning of the execution Fuller was distracted with grief, ‘until such time as his prayers, tears and fasting, having better acquainted him with that sad dispensation, he began to revive from that dead pensiveness to which he had so long addicted himself’.

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The Cult of King Charles the Martyr , pp. 49 - 75
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2003

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