have so strong an influence on your Thoughts I hold it a more Princely Act rather to close then to lay open such a Wound to your Fame Oh no! in no cases Ned said his Majesty the way to cure Wounds is not to close but to discover them they rankle by being closed before they be cured As for Princely Pollicy I hold none better than sincere Piety it is my constant Resolve and shall be my daily Prayer that my Sins may be ever before me for there is such precious Eye-salve in a pious Tear that it allays the Distemper of an afflicted Spirit The next thing the King reflected on was how contrary the Actings of the Parliament were to their Promises in making him a most glorious King on which he said It should be his most supream Care to rely on God's sacred Providence which I am confident will never fail me but full of Deceit is the Heart of Man In this manner says the Author frequently and fervently did the King deliver his Mind and return to his Study The Author also gives the reason why his Majesty concluded every Section with a distinct Psalmody It was observed saith he by his Majesty's Chaplains and by us that waited on him that though he spake occasionally of all parts of Scripture yet he took such Comfort in the Psalms of David that he would usually repeat whole Psalms Mentioning that of St. Augustine In every part of Scripture I find something useful but in the Book of Psalms I find a Store-house of all things and if David a Man after God's own Heart were so afflicted that not only his Enemies but his familiar Friends who fed at his Table made that a Snare to ketch him what may I expect in these evil days He acknowledged God's Kindness to him in afflicting him which he thus expressed I have seen saith he and applied it to myself and found Comfort in the Application how when many Children were playing the Wags in the Street one amongst the rest was taken hold of and corrected and I found it to be by the Father of that Child and that 't was his Affection that caused him to correct it this is my Heavenly Father's course with me and I kiss his Rod his Afflictions hath gained me a Tongue for Passion said the King which made my Tongue inarticulate and the long course of Sufferings hath so lessen'd my Opinion of Sufferings that Passion is now a Stranger to me and I think myself happy in the chearful imbracing of my Unhappiness and the Distaste of the Publick hath made me my own private Secretary Then he mentioneth with what Comfort the King received these Papers after Naseby Fight saying I see that the gracious Eye of Heaven would not suffer me to be deprived of all Comfort Posterity shall see by these Papers that I know how to subdue my own Passion and solace myself with Divine Comforts in the height of my Affliction though the Enemy gain the Field a composed Patience shall crown me with a braver Victory I know no Triumph more Absolute than a Self-Conquest The Author adds That his Majesty's Idiom was so well known not only to his Attendants and Enemies but to forreign Kings and States that none but such as were guilty of Weakness or Perversness could question his Ability for such a Work His own Testimony at his Tryal that he knew the Laws of the Kingdom as well as any Gentleman that did not make Profession of them is an Authentick Proof of his Ability Another Argument I shall urge is the vast difference between the Kings Stile not only in his Portraicture but in many other Writings as may be seen first in several of those Letters and Papers which were taken at Naseby and set forth by the Parliament as the King 's of which tho they intended to make an ill use yet as his Majesty observes on that Subject His Enemies might be convinced by them he could both mind and act his own and his Kingdom 's Affairs so as becomes a Prince which my Enemies are loath should be believed of me as if I were wholly confined to the Dictates and Directions of others whom they brand with the name of Evil Counsellors He that believeth the Disputations that past between his Majesty and Henderson at Newcastle and these between him and the Commissioners in the Isle of Wight which his Enemies knew to be his being personally and viva voce managed and were admired by his Opponents must own the King's Ability and see the same strength and nerves in the Chapter of Church-Government though in the one he urgeth them as a Disputant in the other as an Orator but like himself in all Both Disputes are to be seen among his other Works I shall choose to commend such Works as are best known to be his Majesty's and recommend those which he wrote during his strict Confinement in Carisbrook after the Vote of Non-addresses which may be seen p. 279. of his Works to 295 which will shew a great Identity both in his way of Arguing and in the Stile After this to recompence my Reader 's pains if at least he account it so I shall compare Dr. Gauden's Stile with the King 's I choose a Book which the Doctor wrote concerning the Covenant to see whether he did imitate his Majesty in writing on that Subject because Dr. Walker affirms that Chapter was written by Dr. Gauden defend himself against some that said he wrote Nonsence whom he answers in these words p. 19. of his Anti-Baal He tells his Reader how the City of London were affected with Dr. Gauden's Pious Nonsence and Honest Blasphemy when preaching at St. Paul's before the Lord-Mayor and General Monke he did so Anatomize those cruel Medicasters and crafty Empiricks of the Times the slight Healers who made their Profit and Pleasure out of the Diseases Pain and Miseries of their Country How did the Rumpers then rage and tremble at the Truth and Courage of Dr. Gauden's Nonsence How were the Regicides astonished at the Sword of his Mouth that Word of God How were the Sacrilegious Merchants of Church Lands appaled before that Blasphemy which being like Thunder and Lightning by Dr. Gauden's Tongue and Pen quite blasted all the Glory of their Purchases of which so seasonable Sermons and Writings especially that of the Tears of the Church of England the Libeller expresseth a deep sence for from that time the bloody Babel fell and could rise no more from that day Many wicked Men began to look what Rocks and Mountains might cover them and by this time they may have a quicker sence of Dr. Gauden's Nonsence notwithstanding they have thick Skins brawny Hearts and cauterized Consciences You shall seldom find the Genius of two Authors more differing than these of the King and the Doctor his Majesty's Discourses were exceeding rational and curt but very convincing and the Meekness of his Expressions insinuated as Oyl to mollifie the hardest Temper By
was and what Dependance for Certainty might be grounded on his solemn Words especially when the Cause of his espoused Church of Rome was interposed will not be easily persuaded Jurare in verba It is too evident how little he regarded either the Reputation or the Desire and Charge of his dying Father p. 138. of that Book viz. I intreat and require you as your Father and King That you never suffer your Heart to receive the least Check against or Disaffection from the true Religion established in the Church of England c. But the Author of the Restitution urgeth a more considerable Objection p. 24. of Dr. Walker That in the written Copy of this Book the Memorandum says there were some Corrections and Alterations written by K. Charles 's own hand which the Author of the Restitution presseth as an Argument that the King was the Author or otherwise there could be no reason given for his Majesty's correcting the Manuscript and suffering it to pass as a Book of his own Composure for without question the King knew of the printing of it having sent to Royston to prepare his Press for something that he would send him to be printed four Months before And the whole Book as Dr. Walker owns was in the Printer's hands in December and the Copies published about the end of January of which the King most probably was certified it being his great Concern Yet Dr. Walker answers That what the Corrections by the King 's own hand seemed to his Adversary to be a Reason of seems to Dr. Walker to be quite contrary and says That he assuredly believes this corrected Copy was that sent by the Marquess of Hartford from Dr. Gauden To which it may be replied That as Dr. Walker says it is not certain that Dr. Gauden's Book was ever delivered to the King of which as hath been acknowledged by him the Doctor had never any notice Nor secondly that the King had leisure at that important Season being worried by the Divines that were sent to him in a tedious Dispute concerning Church-Government which he so well defended against them as in the Account printed in his Reliquiae Carolina which no Man did ever question to be the King 's own but also by the Commissioners who were limited to a certain day and by Delays and Unreasonable Demands against both his Honour and Conscience so perplexed him that he had but little time or heart either to View or Correct another Man's Writings But thirdly if Dr. Gauden's Copy sent by the Marquess was the Copy that was corrected by the King 's own hand as Dr. Walker says he verily believes then do I assuredly believe that it was not that Copy by which the Book was printed 1. Because Dr. Walker says that Dr. Gauden having no return from the King concerning his Approbation and Publishing of the Book sent the last parts of it to the Press by Dr. Walker in December see p. 33. whereas he acknowledgeth that Mr. Herbert and Mr. Levet might see the corrected Copy at the Isle of Wight as Sir W. Dugdale affirms they did and they attending his Majesty till he was made a close Prisoner and by a Vote of the then Parliament for Non-addresses and the imprisoning his Sacred Person in Hurst-Castle by order from the Army which was as Whitlock in his Memoirs notes to be on the 4th of December The King had no opportunity after that to send Dr. Gauden's Book to the Press And Dr. Walker says That Dr. Gauden would not write for a return of that Copy but sent another So that the Premises considered it is most probable that the whole Book was long before finished by the King with the Corrections viewed and brought into order and fairly transcribed by Sir John Brattle and his Father as Sir John hath attested and then the Original returned to the King who had it by him at the Isle of Wight But the Copy written by Sir J. Brattle and his Father or which is more probable by Mr. Odert for it was transcribed more than once for fear of miscarrying Was the Copy recommended to Mr. Simmonds to fit it for the Press who most probably did procure the printing of it because the Proof-sheets were sent back to him as they were printed off as Dr. Walker confesseth in a memorable Scory p. 30. And this answers those two Objections made by Dr. Walker p. 25. If the King himself had been the Author why was not the Book in his own Hand-writing as well as the Corrections and Alterations And why any Corrections of a fair Copy if he had finished the Original himself before it was copied Or why if he sent it to be printed did he not send the corrected Copy rather than an imperfect one which needed his Correction and Alteration All these Questions are briefly answered thus The King's Book which was both written and corrected by his own hand as Mr. Levet affirms was transcribed fairly by another hand and the Transcript sent to the Press the Original being returned to the King at the Isle of Wight and this is the Reason why the corrected Copy was not sent to the Press P. 20. Dr. Walker says That in more than forty Years there may be some Mistake in Sir J. B. of other Papers for these or some other lapse of Memory c. Reply And why might not Dr. Walker in forty Years be guilty of a Mistake or Lapse of Memory about a Matter in which he was less concern'd than Sir John for Dr. Walker says He never read the Book in Manuscript which Sir John transcribed and affirms it still to have been the King 's own hand And why might he not mistake Dr. Gauden's declaring it to be his Book when he declared only that he published the King's Book though I see no ground to believe either As for the corrected Copy it will appear that the whole Book as well as the Corrections was the King's Hand-writing by this following Testimony under Mr. Richard Duke's hand communicated to me Sir I confess that I heard Major Huntington to say more than once That whilst he guarded Charles the First at Holmeby-house as I remember he saw several Chapters or Leaves of that Great King's Meditations lying on the Table several Mornings with a Pen and Ink with which the King scratched out or blotted some Lines or Words of some of them Upon which I must also confess that I concluded they were originally from the King but others have drawn a contrary Argument from the King 's correcting the Papers yet I put this under my hand that the Major told me That he did suppose them originally from that Learned Prince Which is the Totum that can be intimated from Sir your humble Servant Richard Duke This was written to Dr. Charles Goodall June 15 1692 from whom I received it This shews that the King was wont to correct his Meditations shortly after his penning of them and the whole was his
that durst raise so evil a Report of Dr. Gauden as to the Covenant might presume to six this Phantome of his own on the Doctor That the Doctor told him that he made the K.'s Book And whether Dr. Gauden did affirm it to Dr. Walker or Dr. Walker misreported Dr. Gauden both these Testimonies are very infirm and cannot stand against the opposite Reasons and Authorities P. 32. Dr. Walker answers to four things objected by Sir W. Dugdale The most material he saith is concerning Major Huntington from whose mouth he says he will in the Faith of a Christian declare without diminution or wresting of it which he says was this p. 33. When that Book was published and so confidently reported to be the King 's then surely or I believe here something is wanting or his hand trembled these are the Papers I see him so usually take out of his Cabinet but this was but my Conjecture and I never declared it to be otherwise for I assure you I never read one Line or Word of the Papers in the King's hand and I cannot say there was one Passage in these Papers which is this printed Book for how should I never having look'd into them This Account of Major Huntington he says he faithfully relates as in the sight of God Now if Dr. Walker be proved by several Witnesses of good Credit to have reported a Relation greatly different from that which the Major gave to several Friends and Relations at several times concerning the Matter in question I suppose the agreeing Testimony of several such competent Witnesses will greatly invalidate Dr. Walker's Relation and if the Reader shall be convinced that Dr. Walker hath misreported Major Huntington's Testimony it may be a Prejudice to his Report of Dr. Gauden's Now first Dr. Walker confesseth p. 32. That he often heard Major Huntington's Testimony to be this That whilst he attended his Majesty or had the guarding of him he saw the King frequently take these Papers out of his Cabinet and sometimes read them sometimes wrote more and that when he saw the Book he declared Those Chapters in it were those very Papers he had so seen Which two Relations are contradictory Now it is very probable that what Dr Walker affirms he so often heard alledged as Major Huntington's Testimony might come to the Major's ears in his Life-time and had he disliked it would have contradicted it to such Friends as inquired the Truth of that Business whose Testimonies I shall now set down And first the Testimony of the Learned Dr. Robert Hall Son of the Famous Joseph Hall Bishop of Exeter who was Treasurer of the Church of St. Peter's Exon to whom the Major was near related by his Marriage and with whom he sojourn'd sometime at Clist-hidon the Doctor 's Benefice this Reverend Dr. Hall hath told me and others That Major Huntington waiting on his Majesty at Holmeby assured him that he had seen the King writing some of those Papers which the Major had opportunity to read and knew that such as he did then read were the same as are now printed To this of Dr. Hall I add that of Richard Duke Esq and Justice of the Peace in Devon who lately declared to me and another Judicious Divine That he heard the Major affirm the same almost in the same words And Sir Will. Courtney a Person of great Honour as I am credibly informed when this Relation was read or told to him as Dr. W. reported it was pleased immediately to say That he well knew the Major and had heard him aver the like Report as Mr. Duke and others have declared These Evidences confirm what Dr. Hollingworth relates p. 21. of his Defence That a Non-conforming Minister told him viz. That Major Huntington told him with his own mouth That he procured some Papers that made up part of this Royal Book from the hands of Fairfax the Parliament General which were taken after Nazby Fight and kept by the Lord Fairfax and that afterward the said Major presented them to the King with his own hand Dr. Hollingworth adds I spare the Man's Name for particular Reasons but if I am called to do it I will depose the Truth of his Saying so upon Oath But I hope the Testimonies now following will prevent that labour the first is that of the Reverend Mr. Will. Read Archdeacon of Barnstable in these words I do hereby Certifie That I dining with Bp. Lamphlugh at his Palace in Exon some Years since there hapning some discourse concerning K. Charles the First his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and some said there was a Doubt made Whether the said King were the Author of the said Book or no I told the Company then at the Table That I had heard from several Persons of good Credit many Years ago that one Major Huntington did affirm That after Nazby Fight he took that King's Cabinet wherein several Meditations of the said Book were written with his own hand and that he afterwards delivered them into the King 's own hands which he received with very much Joy and gave him many Thanks for restoring them to him And I do farther Certifie That one Rich. Duke of Otterton in the County of Devon Esquire being then at the Bishop's Table did positively affirm That what I had reported concerning Major Huntington was true he knowing well the said Major and having heard him with his own mouth affirming to him that what I have above set down was true In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand this 18th day of July A. D. 1692. Will. Reade Archdeacon of Barum This is confirmed by that of Mr. Cave Beck p. 27. of Dr. Hollingworth's Character of Charles the First in these words That some Years after the King's Tryal Major Huntington at Ipswich assured me That so much of his Majesty's Book as contained his Meditations before Nazby Fight was taken in the King's Cabinet and that Sir T. Fairfax delivered the said Papers unto him and ordered him to carry them to the King And the Major affirmed that he read them over before he delivered them and that they were the same for Matter and Form with those Meditations in the printed Book and that he was much affected with them and from that time became a Proselite to the Royal Cause He also told me That when he delivered them to the King his Majesty appeared very joyful and said He esteemed them more than all the Jewels he had lost in the Cabinet P. 10. of Dr. H.'s Defence he repeats this Passage That Dr. Meriton dining with Sir T. Pilkington the late Lord-Mayor he hapned to meet with Dr. Walker at that Table where Dr. Walker with his usual Confidence asserted Dr. Gauden to be the Author of the King's Book On which Dr. Meriton turned upon him with the Story of Mr. Simmonds's communicating the whole business to Dr. Gauden Upon which he was so confounded that he had nothing to say for himself which being seconded
by Mr. Marriot then Chaplain to the Lord-Mayor who heard the whole Discourse and withal the Silence that he put Dr. Walker to Dr. Hollingworth ventured to give the World an account of it in Print This saith Dr. Hollingworth p. 5. of the Character of Charles the First is so true and will upon just occasion be attested by others as well as myself that I do here in the face of the World challenge Dr. Meriton or Mr. Marriot to deny one Syllable of the Substance of it either as to the one in telling his Success in the Dispute or the other justifying it as really true In p. 11 of Dr. H.'s Defence he says That Mrs. Simmonds being askt by him How far her Husband was concerned in the King's Book And what she knew of it She answered That going into her Husband's Study she saw on the Table a Book in Writing which she knew not to be her Husband 's Writing she asked him whose it was which he turning her off with bidding her mind her own business she desisted from further Enquiry The King's Murder following quickly after she told me her Husband never joyed himself but fell sick and died the 29th of March following and throughout his whole Sickness he declared the Book was the King's Book And p. 26. Dr. Hollingworth says That Mrs. Simmonds dining some Years since at a Citizen's House who aspersed K. Charles the First he told her If she would confess the Truth that her Husband made the Book there were some hundred of Pounds at her Service She knowing her Husband's Honesty in his Death-bed Assertions scorned and told him She was not to be bribed by never so much to so great a Lie I have also an Authentick Testimony communicated to me by Dr. Charles Goodall That Dr. Walker had often waited on his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and was wont to ask his Grace Whether he desired to be informed concerning the true Author of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 affirming that not the King but Dr. Gauden was the Author of it adding this as a Reason That Dr. Gauden had a Copy before it was published This only Argument he alledged to his Grace but as for all those other Assertions which are since vented in his Book Dr. Walker at no time made use of them to confirm what he had delivered Further my Lord told me That Mr. Levet the Author of the Letter printed in Restittuion to the Royal Author had often and many Years successively waited on him and entring into discourse on this matter did as often constantly aver as related in the printed Letter That he waiting on his Majesty in Prison had seen the several Sheets of the Book written with the King 's own hand and interlined by him To this I shall joyn the Testimony of another Archbishop lately sent in a Sermon preached in Dublin by the R. R. Henry Lord Bishop of Meath at the Funeral of James Margetson D. D. Archbishop of Armagh which was printed at London for Nath. Ranew at the King's Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard 1679. in the 28th Page of that Book the Bishop of Meath tells us the following Passage was attested by the Archbishop whose Words by all that knew him past as unquestionable viz. That the Archbish being in London after the Death of the Royal Martyr did administer the last Offices of the Church to a Gentleman on his Death-bed whose Name he mentions not but says That a dying Person told him that he had been one sometimes near in Attendance on that Sacred Martyr in his Solitude and that to him were committed by the King those Papers which he said he knew to have been written by the King 's own hand and which were after published with the Title of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which the Bishop of Meath observed for obviating malicious Speeches detracting from that excellent Work breathing Piety and Devotion and vindicating the Sincerity of that Great Soul in all his Actings and Occurrencies therein mentioned Malice suggesting to the World that although that Work carried the King's Name yet it was not his own but composed by some of his Chaplains intending thereby to lessen his Majesty's great and excellent Parts and to render that most excellent Piece less regarded and their own Wickedness less observed By this Testimony saith the Bishop of Meath that false Assertion appears and the Royal Author of that precious Work found to be the King himself it being declared by such a Person dying and so could hope for no Advantage by it This Sermon was printed about thirteen Years since To these may be added the Testimony of the Archbishop of Armagh who was often heard to affirm That after the Fight at Nazby the King being much troubled for the loss of his Papers taken in his Cabinet commanded him to endeavour the Recovery of them which he did to the King 's great Satisfaction And that of Col. Hammond who was the King's Keeper in the Isle of Wight who attested That he saw those Papers in the King's hand heard him reading them and saw him correcting them As Dr. Perinsheiff in the Life of Charles the First p. 95. To these may be added that of Dr. Dillingham p. 22. of Dr. Holling.'s Defence That he waiting on the King after that he was seized by the Army saw and read in the King's Bed-Chamber a whole Chapter of the King's Book fresh written with his own hand in the Year 1647. Dr. Fowler 's Testimony the present Bishop of Glocester is another Confirmation p. 23. of Dr. H.'s Defence viz. That Mrs. Keightly of Albrohatch in Barking Parish in Essex gave him this Account about twenty eight Years since That she had a Servant who was made a Parliament Captain and a little before the King's death told her he had laid down his Commission and she asking him the reason he replyed That whereas he had been told that the King was a very bad Man he was now abundantly assured that he is an excellent good Man And being askt what induced him to judge so told her That he was appointed to stand every Morning at his Majesty's Bed-Chamber-door when he was a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight observing for several days that the King went into his Closet quickly after he was dressed and there stayed a considerable time and then went down into the Garden and perceiving that he left the Key in the Closet-door he adventured to go in and found that he had been penning most devout and pious Meditations and Prayers which he fell to reading till he saw the King return to the Walk that lead to his Chamber And thus the Captain did for several Mornings and read the King's Morning-works till he came to a Resolution no longer to be such a Prince's Jaybor Mrs. Keighley told me further That he gave such an account of those Meditations and Prayers that she was confident they were printed in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after she came to
read that Book This Mrs. Keighly was a very Religious and Pious Gentlewoman and as Discreet and Prudent This I attest Edward Fowler D. D. June 25th 1691. Now let the Reader judge who are likely to declare in the Faith of a Christian what they had from the mouth of Major Huntington whether the talkative Dr. Walker who is Singularis Testis or those many Persons of great Note whose agreeing Testimonies I have produced P. 34. he answers Mr. William Levet's Testimony which says That he could depose that the Book was his i. e. the King 's own having oftentimes observed his Majesty writing his Royal Resentments of the Bold and Insolent Behaviour of the Souldiers that had him in their Custody and that he had the Happiness oftentimes to read the same in Manuscript under his Majesty's own hand he being pleased to leave the same in the Window of his Bed-chamber Dr. Walker's Answer is That there is no such Chapter in all that Book Reply Neither did Mr. Levet affirm there was but he that shall read the 23d Chapter of the Scots delivering him up to the English and his Captivity at Holmeby and Chap. 26. of the Army 's surprising him at Holmeby and in the following Chapters he may find too much both of the Insolency of his Rebellious Subjects and the Barbarous Demeanor of the Souldiers from whom he feared Assassination Dr. Walker grants that Mr. Levet might read it in the Isle of Wight but will not believe it was the King's writing unless it be understood of the Corrections only which he supposeth the King made in the Book sent by Dr. Gauden or else that his Majesty had transcribed it But Mr. Levet saith he often read it in Manuscript under the King 's own hand and what a strange Fancy is it of Dr. Walker that the King in that Hurry of Business should transcribe so large a Book with his hand when he had so little time to dispatch more urgent Affairs Mr. Levet's Testimony is as follows p. 8 and 9. of Dr. Holling.'s Character of K. Charles the First If any one desire to know the true Author of a Book intituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I one of the Servants of K. Charles the First 's in his Bed-Chamber do declare That when his Majesty was a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight that I read over the said Book which was long before the Book was printed in his Bed-Chamber writ with his Majesty's own hand with several Interlinings Moreover his Majesty Charles the First told me Sure Levet you do design to get this Book by heart having often seen me reading of it I can testifie also That Royston the Printer told me that he was imprisoned by O. Cromwell because he would not declare that King Charles the First was not the Author of the said Book Sign'd and Seal'd Octob. 16th 1690. To which add this Testimony I Robert Herne formerly Servant to Sir Philip Warwick do attest That I have often heard Sir Philip Warwick as also Mr. Odert and Mr. Whitaker declare That they had transcribed Copies of the King's Book written with his own hand Witness my hand Robert Herne Sect. 6. p. 34. Dr. Walker gives the Reasons for publishing his Book p. 34 and 35. 1st It was imposed on him by Dr. H. for his own Vindication and to wipe off a false Accusation That he was guilty of a false Story by a free owning of what he forced me to write And p. 35. says It was wrung and wrested from him by some Body's impertinent Affectation to meddle with what he understands not Ans It was was no impertinent Employment for any Member of that Church which honoureth that King as their Royal Martyr to undertake the necessary Vindication of his being Author of that Book which as Dr. W. observes did render the Murther of so good a King to be more abhorred 2. Did awaken many to Repentance who had contributed to it 3. Did dispose the Nation to recal the Royal Family and many more good Effects which if the Nation were imposed on and it should pass as Dr. Walker would have it that Dr. Gauden was the Author of it would be accounted as a Sham not only to the Infamy of Dr. Gauden the Contriver and Dr. Walker the Concealer but to the Diminution of the King 's deserved Honour and revive their old Calumnies of covering foul Deeds with fair Pretences And as for Dr. Walker's Negative Reasons in p. 35. That he intended not by this Discovery to rob that excellent King of any Honour properly due to him will appear to be no Reasons nor will the Station in which he then was viz. A Chaplain at Warwick-House perswade the Reader to believe that no Man of his Rank loved the King better honoured him more while he lived or more abhorred his Murder bewayled his Death giving more open Testimony against it or sustaining greater Loss for so doing 2. Dr. Walker gives us his Positive Reasons drawn from two signal Providences the one serving as an Apology why he did not reveal this Secret sooner and the other why he did it now It much amuseth me that a Doctor of Divinity should make Providence a Party with himself to cross itself and justifie two such contrary Ends and declare That whatever others may think he judgeth it a sign that God would have that which he calls a pious Fraud an officious Lie a talking deceitfully for Man to the maintaing of which he thinks he contributed by his Silence and for which he was perswaded by many cogent Reasons that God was not well pleased with Dr. Gauden himself and others And then for what Reason he knows not p. 35. as he confesseth but only thinks that Providence may have other Reasons now to serve by suffering this Discovery to be wrested and wrung from him by some Body's impertinent Affectation to meddle in what they understood not The sence of which is this God's Providence in recovering the King's Paper 's which Arwaker had seized as in p. 30 31. he shews in a large Harangue and suffering them to be printed was Dr. W.'s Reason why he did for about forty three Years conceal an Imposture put on the whole Nation such as was a Trouble to his Conscience and displeasing to God And the same Providence by suffering Dr. Hollingworth to wring and wrest from him this Discovery which if his Conscience had been really grieved for concealing it he should have revealed freely and meekly as a Penitent should force him afterward to publish to salve his own Reputation Dr. Walker p. 31. mentions another signal Providence for his Discovery viz. The Earl of Anglesey's Memorandum found in a void Leaf of the King's Book which if it had not been casually opened by Mr. Millington but fallen into some hand that either might not regard it or would have concealed it then Dr. Hollingworth would not so unseasonably have provoked Dr. Walker and Dr. Walker would have been as
in this Age to revive their Calumnies against the Royal Martyr and to justifie his Murther it is hard to guess unless it be that there is a Commonwealth at the bottom for whoever will defend a Rebellion against so good a Prince will not stick to oppose the best that shall succeed him their Principles being Antimonarchical But this is not my present business the Question which I am to discuss is Whether King Charles the First or Bishop Gauden were the Author of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dr. Walker in a late Book hath peremptorily affirmed That it was composed by Bishop Gauden and sent to the Press by him That it was penned by the King and printed by his Order I shall endeavour to demonstrate as far as a Matter of Fact done so long since will admit And that the Reader may not think me a Pragmatical Person as medling with a Business wherein I am not concerned and which hath been undertaken by a more Eminent Person I shall briefly acquaint him with the Occasion of my being ingaged in this Dispute I were importuned by two Eminent Doctors to declare what I knew concerning the Book in question and accordingly I subscribed my Name to that Testimony printed in Dr. Hollingworth's Answer to a Libel that goes under the Name of Ludlow in these words I had the hap to be acquainted with Bishop Gauden as long as he was our Diocesan and I have heard him often affirm That he was fully convinced that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was intirely that King's Work Tho. Long. In answer to Dr. Hollingworth's Book there comes forth another Libel under the same Name of Ludlow to which there is a Preface prefixed subscribed by one Joseph Wilson of Yarmouth though I am so credibly informed that I believe there is no such Person and that neither Ludlow nor Wilson wrote any of those Books but a Juncto of Republicans whoever the Authors be it appears that they are deeply immerged in the Guilt of Regicide which they endeavour to justifie and in the very words of Milton not only Defame the Book affirming That it begins with Falshood and ends with Fraud but also Blaspheme his Person in the same words of that profligate Person p. 4. of his Iconoclastes viz. That the King never loved never fulfilled never promoted the true Ends of Parliament If there were such a thing as a Metempsychosis I should think thac the Souls of Bradshaw Milton and other Regicides had a Transmigration into the Souls of this Juncto of Republicans Wherefore as I account it my bounden Duty to Vindicate the Royal Martyr to the best of my Knowledge and the utmost of my Power so I shall still esteem it as a Point of Honour rather than of Reproach to be evil spoken of by such a Juncto of Men as were so far from sparing the Reputation of the Royal Martyr that in a most barbarous manner they deprived him of his Life nor is it more evident that he or they who have most impudently published those Libels against that best of Kings do strike at Monarchy in general as well as at that most Innocent and yet most Defamed Monarch and lay a Foundation for a Commonwealth for it is most rational to conclude that they who sought and where they could not find a just Cause for their Rebellion made their own Groundless Fears and Jealousies an Occasion for the most Unnatural and Bloudy Civil War that so Rent three Flourishing Kingdoms will ever acquiesce or rest satisfied with the Administration of the Government by any that shall succeed to the Crown though they shall excel that Royal Martyr in Wisdom Clemency Temperance and other Vertues as much as he excelled any of his Cotemporary Monarchs I say it is not more evident that they will be Seditious in the State than that they will be as Troublesome and Factious in the Church whose Principles lead them against the Doctrine and Discipline by Law established and for that cause hate the Persons of the Legislators all which hath been practised by their Predecessors and is designed by the present Managers of the late Libels who if the present Governours in Church and State were as much in their Power as in the Year 48 and had but one Neâ—k they would not stick to destroy all at one Blow as their Predecessors thought they had done Now as in the Preface before mentioned there is no Author to be found so neither is their any Proof in the whole Libel produced to Invalidate the Testimonies so clearly alledged by Dr. Hollingworth after a most exact Enquiry concerning the Author of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which will be demonstrated hereafter it is my business now only to confirm my own in order to which I shall not urge to prove Bishop Gauden's Kindness to me though I may truly as Dr. Walker doth the Parliament's Favour to Bishop Gauden by presenting him with a Piece of Plate it being well known that he collated on me one of the first Prebends of his Church in his first Year and I should be very injurious to his Memory to attest any Untruth concerning him the Occasion on which I ground my Evidence I well remember was this On the 30th of January in the Bishop's first Year the Bishop preached in the Cathedral in the Forenoon on Jonah 1.14 We beseech thee O Lord we beseech thee let us not perish for this man's life and lay not on us innocent bloud for thou Lord hast done as it pleased thee By the Bishop's order I preached in the Afternoon my Text was the Evangelical Promise Isa 49.23 Kings shall be thy nursing-fathers and their Queens thy nursing-mothers Whereon as occasion offered I aggravated that detestable Parricide perpetrated on the Person of the Royal Martyr and among other Arguments I urged the Piety and Clemency of that most excellent Prince reading out of his Book several Paragraphs to that purpose and one other from a Speech to the Commissioners at Newport against some that thought him Revengeful That he was so far from seeking Revenge that if a Straw lay in their way to hurt them he would stoop and take it up to prevent it Adding God forgive them for I do The Duties of the Fast being over I was invited to sup with the Bishop and standing with him by the Fire-side he gave me Thanks for my Sermon and then declared to me what I have attested And now that I may not appear to be a single Witness in this Evidence I subjoyn these following Attestations first that quoted by Dr. Holling p. 10. That Mrs Gauden told a Lady of good Quality That she had a great concern for the eternal State of her Husband because he pretended he was the Author of that Book when to her knowledge he never wrote it This Dr. Hollingworth had from a Minister in London To this I shall subjoyn the agreeing Testimony of Mr. Gifford who lived with Dr. Gauden and as
Dr. Walker intimates did Transcribe the Book which Testimony I had from the mouth of the Reverend Dr. Edw. Lake Archdeacon of Exeter being then on his Visitation about Easter last who declared in the presence of another judicious Friend That he well knew Mr. Gifford and that discoursing with him occasionally concerning the King's Book Mr. Gifford thought it next to the Holy Scripture to be one of the most Divine Books that had been written And that Mr. Gifford preaching on the 30th of January and urging to Charity he quoted this Passage out of that Book as being the King's Book It is all that is now left me a Power to Forgive those that deprived me of all and I thank God I have a Heart to do it This Testimony being given by Mr. Gifford to an intimate Friend who was much better acquainted with the Transactions concerning the Author and Publishers of that Book and for ought I ever heard of a clearer Reputation than Dr. Walker who owned that he never read the Book in Manuscript but intimates that Mr. Gifford transcribed it who had he been conscious that the Copy which he transcribed had been of Dr. Gauden's compiling yea I may say had he not known as he had the best opportunity to inform himself that it was the King's he would never have quoted it as his on so solemn an Occasion So that I need nor desire any other Evidence to confirm my Testimony but leave it to the indifferent Reader to judge whether the single Report of Dr. Walker or the joynt and agreeing Testimony of Mr. Gifford and Mr. Long and Mrs. Gauden are most credible And if any Reader be yet doubtful I intreat 'em for his full Conviction to suspend his Censure till he hath considered what followeth As for the impertinent and false Reflections made on the Author of the Vox Cleri which he calls a Virulent Book let it speak for itself and he that hath an ear to hear must needs apprehend that he wrote only in behalf of the Church as by Law established to which he had given his hearty Assent and Consent to which the Churches Enemies being of another mind account all that shall be written on its behalf to be Venemous Invectives and to deserve alike Remark as he makes on the Royal Martyr That he who acted so tragically over us should leave the World with such a ridiculous Exit for which wretched Invention the Libeller is beholding to that long since exploded and by a miraculous Providence confuted Motto of Bradshaw and his Fellow-Regicides viz. Exit Tirannus Regum Ultimus I shall not follow Dr. Walker in his Excursions but keep close to his Arguments for the Proof of his Assertion which he delivers in these words P. 3. I know and believe the Book whose Author is enquired after was written by Dr. Gauden except two Chapters writ by Bp. Duppa so far as the subjoyned means may produce such Knowledge and the Reasons may induce such Belief In p. 2. He solemnly appeals to the Searcher of Hearts Avenger of Falshood and Revealer of Secrets that he wrote nothing of the Truth of which he was not throughly perswaded by as full Evidence as he judged such a Matter of Fact needed and at such distance of Time was capable of Yet after this solemn Appeal and Declaration of his Knowledge and Belief in the same Page he begs leave to retain his Opinion Till Means of Knowledge Reasons of Belief Arguments for thinking otherwise be produced and then promiseth to yield So that notwithstanding his Knowledge and Belief and his being throughly perswaded by full Evidence he is still in a Suspence and doubts that such Arguments may be produced as may alter his Opinion And in p. 3. he talks of such probable Arguments as may confirm himself and satisfie others among which Arguments that which he mentioneth p. 8. he judgeth to carry the fairest and highest Probability to confirm what he had before declared viz. The reasonable Belief that he i. e. Dr. Gauden was the Composer of it The Argument is p. 8. n. 5. in these words I am as sure as I can be of any thing that Dr. Gauden made the Extract out of this Book called I think Apophthegmata Carolina the thing is most notorious that there was such a Book came out in a very short time after printed by Mr. Dugard Now why should Dr. Gauden concern himself so much more than any other of the King's Friends and dispatch it with such Expedition had he had no more concern in it than other Men Ans Let the Reader judge how probable the rest of his Arguments are when in his own Judgment this is the fairest and highest Probability to confirm what he hath declared for what force is there in the Argument because Dr. Gauden collected the Apophthegmata Carolina therefore he made the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if the Abbreviating of any Book were an Argument that the Abbreviator were the Author of it Indeed the very Argument is a scandalous Reflection on his Friend's Memory as if it had not been enough to sham the World with a Book in the King's Name but he must Extract his own Apothegms or Wise Sayings out of it and charge his Prince with what he never said nor thought of It had been a pretty way of trumpetting his own Praise and setting his own Military Political and Theological Abilities on a Level with those of the wisest Prince in Christendom I think Antiquity gives us no Instance of any Man publishing his own Apothegms however Dr. W.'s unfortunate in this since the Collector and Publisher of the Apophthegmata Carolina was not Dr. Gauden but Dr. Hooker a Person still living in White-Lion-Court against Virginia-street in Wapping It would have concluded more rationally if Dr. Gauden had defended it against Milton and some others that wrote against it as Dr. Earle did yet none will infer that Dr. Earle was the Author though he took the Pains also to Translate it into Latine And it 's a more Logical Inference to say Dr. Gauden published an Extract of weighty Sentences out of that Book therefore he was not the Author of it Dr. Earle's Testimony given by Mr. Beck p. 28. of Dr. Holling is very convincing That he being sent by his Lord Vicount Hereford to Dr. Earle then at the Hague to ask what he knew of the King 's being Author of that Book the Doctor told him As sure as he knew himself to be the Translator of that Book into Latine so certain he was King Charles was the Author of the Original in English And he adds For my part I am apt to believe no Person was able to frame that Book but a Suffering King and no Suffering King but King Charles the Martyr Dr. Walker in p. 4. declares what he knew of this Book and by what means Dr. Gauden saith he sometime before the whole was finished was pleased to acquaint me with his Design and
shewed me the Heads of divers Chapters and some of the Discourses written of them and after some time spent in the Perusal he vouchsaft to ask my Opinion concerning it and after some Consideration I told him I supposed it would be much for the King's Reputation Honour and Safety c. Ans I have another Testimony of Dr. Walker's which the Reader shall have at large which is dated March 23d 1690 where he declares That he is uncertain whether he ever read this Book in Manuscript or only saw it with its Title of the Chapters Now as the growth of a Testimony by material Additions and Alterations is accounted a Prejudice against it so much more when something is affirmed in the later which was denied in the former Testimony for in p. 4. he says He perfectly remembreth that in the second Chapter of the Earl of Strafford where it is said He only hath been least vext by them who counselled me not to consent against the Vote of my own Conscience Dr. Gauden told him that Dr. Juxon was meant by that Passage Which was common Discourse shortly after the Earl's Death though Dr. Walker makes it a Secret There were printed some Reflections shortly after the Book was published and in the Frontispiece Bp. Juxton described behind a Curtain dictating the Book Dr. Walker's Testimony concerning the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 March 23 1690 was as followeth Bp. Gauden wrote that whole Book two Chapters only excepted the one about Liturgies the other of Refusing the King the Attendance of his Chaplains which two Chapters were written by Bp. Duppa Dr. Walker well remembring that Bp. Gauden told him That Bp. Duppa upon the Perusal of this Book told Bp. Gauden that the two forementioned Heads were fit to be writ upon and therefore desired him to draw up two Chapters on the same but after farther Consideration he told him That he would write those two Chapters himself Dr. Walker farther observed That considering Dr. Gauden's Circumstances it was very obvious why Dr. Gauden should not think of writing on those Heads because the Doctor disused the Liturgy and had never been one of the King's Chaplains and so not so sensible of writing on those two Chapters The bigger part of the Copy of this Book was delivered by Bp. Gauden to Mr. Simmons as Dr. Walker conjectures One Peacock Bp. Gauden's Steward's Brother received part of those Papers from Dr. Walker particularly the Picture sealed up these were put up in a Trunk between the Lady Warwick's Points Peacock delivered these Papers to another Person unknown to Dr. Walker One Lieutenant Arraker seized Mr. Simmons's Papers in Carter-lane on a Sunday among which the Proof-sheets of this Book were which were restored to Mr. Simmonds on Munday by order of Col. Rich upon the Intercession of Dr. W. Some of the Proof-sheets having the Greek Title on the outward Leaf were scattered in Carter-lane and gathered up by Simmonds's Son or some of the Family as soon as the Troopers were gone Bp. Gauden told Dr. Walker that he delivered a Copy of this Book to the Marquess of Hartford when he went to the Treaty at the Isle of Wight and desired him to deliver it to the King if he could find an Opportunity and know his Majesty's Pleasure whether he would give leave that it might be published but whether the King did ever receive the Papers the Bishop could not tell he received no account of the same as he told Dr. Walker a little before his Death Dr. Walker enquired of the Bishop how he could satisfie himself in imposing this Book on the World The Bishop replyed Consider the Title being the King's Portraicture and no Man useth to draw his own Picture Dr. Walker and Mr. Gifford were both privy to these Affairs living together in the Bishop's House though the Doctor is uncertain whether he ever read this Book in Manuscript or only saw it with its Title of the Chapters though he thinks that Mr. Gifford might Copy it out Dr. Walker discoursed Major Huntington at Tunbridge about the King's Papers who told him That he had been under Examination about that Affair before several Committees of Parliament and all that ever he said was That he had seen several Manuscripts of the King 's whilst he attended him which he conjectured might be those but never affirmed them to be so because he never read one word of them Of this Testimony we shall have occasion to make use hereafter P. 4. Dr. Walker says Dr. Gauden shewed me the Heads and some of the Discourses and after some time spent in Perusal I expresly added I stuck at the Lawfulness of it and modestly askt him How he satisfied himself so to impose upon the World In p. 35. Dr. Walker makes his Apology for discovering this Secret after he had supprest the knowledge of it for forty Years and complains how hard measure it would be not to suffer a Man to reveal that by concealing of which he fears God is displeased and he necessitated to labour under a continued Uneasiness and Dissatisfaction of his own Mind And he confesseth he had many cogent Reasons to persuade him that God was not well pleased with Dr. Gauden others and himself for what we contributed to it This is well considered but it is very inconsiderately added what he says in a few Lines after That he suffered this Discovery to be wrung and wrested from him by some Body's impertinent Affectation to meddle with what he understood not for if he had been really troubled in Conscience for concealing that Secret which he there gives for the revealing of it i. e. Because as we must not speak wickedly for God nor talk deceitfully for him neither may we do so for any Man And as St. Augustine says An officious Lye ought not to be told to save the whole World And that there was more than Appearance of Pious Fraud in this Affair which by his Silence he contributed to the maintaining of a Person truly consciencious would have timely freely and ingenuously have made the Discovery and not suffered the Wound to rankle and disquiet him for forty Years together and not seek ease by discovering of it till he was forc't to it in his own Defence Dr. Walker adds p. 4. That he dining sometime after with Dr. Gauden in London he went with him after Dinner to Bp. Duppa and Dr. Gauden having had some discourse with the Bishop Dr. Gauden told Dr. Walker That the substance of their discourse was to this effect That the Bishop told Dr. Gauden there were two Subjects more which he propounded to the Doctor to write on viz The Ordinance against the Common Prayer and the denying the Attenaance of his Majesty's Chaplains but on second Thoughts the Bishop desired the Doctor to leave the writing on those two Heads to him which accordingly he did as Dr. Gauden own'd to Dr. Walker and others who were privy to the whole Ans I am fully
told her That she had a great concern for the eternal State of her Husband because he pretended to be the Author of that Book when to her knowledge he never writ it Both these Testimonies cannot be true if Mrs. Gauden spake them and this makes me think one of them was Dr. Walker's for this is so material a Proof that if Dr. Walker knew the truth of it I wonder why he omitted it in his printed Book it is a shrewd Presumption against a Witness when he so varieth in his Testimony as to add a material Evidence at one time and to omit another at another time when a Person is unconstant and inconsistent with him-himself in a Matter of great importance it is an Argument of Unfaithfulness Again by this Solemnity of Mrs. Gauden's discovering her Husband to be the Author of that Book upon her taking the Sacrament the Intent seems to be that this Secret might be laid open and made notorious and to that end that the Communicants were made acquainted with it and if it were at a publick Sacrament there was likely a full Congregation if it were a private Sacrament desired by Mrs. Gauden for the Ease of her Conscience as Dr. Walker found the concealing it to be a Trouble to his yet we suppose there must be at least three Communicants by whose Testimony Mrs. Gauden's Declaration might be confirmed and the Notoriety of the thing be perpetuated How comes it to pass after all this the thing should remain a Secret still and not known for ought we yet hear of to any one but Dr. Walker As to Mr. Gifford whom Dr. Walker supposeth to have been the Transcriber of the Copy and to have believed it as much as himself I have opposed the Testimony of Dr. Edw. Lake Archdeacon of Exeter wno was well acquainted with Mr. Gifford and his single Testimony far more Credible than Dr. Walker's Dr. Walker says That Dr. Gauden delivered to him what was last sent up giving strict Caution with what Wariness to carry and deliver it See his Account of March 23d 1690. and accordingly he delivered it Saturday December 23d 48 to one Peacock who was instructed by what Hands to transmit it to Mr. Royston This the Doctor says to shew his great Care to discharge his Trust who notwithstanding the strict Caution with what Wariness to carry and deliver it he committed it to one Peacock a Brother to Dr. Gauden's Bailiff with new Instructions by what other Hands he should transmit it to Mr. Roston whereas he acknowledgeth that the bigger part of this Book was delivered by Dr. Gauden to Mr. Simmonds He wanted a good Memory as he says of Dr. Hollingworth The Reader cannot but observe that in all this tedious Narrative he meets with no other Evidence but Dr. Walker's bare Word which will not amount to a single Testimony being invalidated by his own Relation of Matters of Fact very inconsistent with each other and unsatisfactory to himself and wanting a further Confirmation is forced to find out probable Reasons such as they be in SECT III. Of his probable Arguments to Confirm himself and help to Convince others c. The first probable Argument is That Dr. Gauden in the beginning of the Long Parliament which carried on the War against the King preacht before them on Zach. 8.19 which Sermon is printed and the House of Commons presented him with a large Silver Tankard with this Inscription Donum Honorarium Populi Anglicani in Parliamento congregati Johanni Gauden c. which constantly went about his House and he had been inclinable to the Parliament Interest till he found they went beyond their first Pretentions and the Expectations of himself and other good Men When he discover'd that he endeavoured to redeem his Error by bending to the contrary Extream And I am persuaded it was this that put him on the designing and finishing of this Book This Argument is so far from being probable and fit for Conviction that it is more like to move Laughter for it may conclude thus for Dr. Walker as well as for Dr. Gauden Dr. Walker had been of the Parliament Party against the King was a Favourite of the Party and a Chaplain to them but when they went beyond his Expectation he bended to the contrary Extream therefore Dr. Walker wrote the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But though the Argument doth not make this probable yet it shews a great Probability that Dr. Gauden hath bended to contrary Extreams but Dr. Walker is more constant to his first Principles Dr. Walker's second probable Argument is drawn from the fourteenth Chapter i. e. of the Covenant and p. 6. he relates it at large to this effect That being privy to the truth of this Affair out of Curiosity he asked Dr. Barwick Dean of St. Paul 's What he thought of this Book for the thing being doubtfully spoken of he made bold to ask his Judgment of it The Dean pressed him with this Argument If it were written by any but the King it must be a Friend or an Enemy not by an Enemy for no Enemy of the King would have represented him so much to his Advantage not by a Friend for no Friend of his would write as he doth of the Covenant c. Meaning so favourably Ans It is highly improbable that Dr. Barwick who doubtless had considered that Chapter against the Covenant would have chosen such an Argument when there is as much said in that Chapter to condemn the Covenant as could rationally be expected for in the first Paragraph he says That it was a pawning of their Souls to the Presbyterian Scots by a Solemn League and Covenant In the second he calls it An Engine intended chiefly to batter down Episcopacy and compares it to a Charm and Exorcism In the third That it contained many dubious and dangerous Limitations referring to himself and things very disputable which could not be sworn to with Judgment and Certainty to a Man's self or Charity and Candor to others P. 4. That imposing Oaths on People must needs in things doubtful be dangerous and in things unlawful as he had proved this to be by his Proclamation and the irrefragrable Arguments of the University of Oxford had determin'd was damnable P. 5. That it was not only superfluous but irreconcilable to former Oaths and the Protestation so lately taken to maintain the Religion established in the Church of England since they account Discipline so great a part of Religion P. 6. That it was laid as a Snare and Engine by Men of ambitious Minds to catch and hold vulgar Credulity under the Terror of Perjury P. 7. That such After-contracts imposed without and against the King's Consent or any Power or President from the Laws of God or Man could not absolve the Subjects from those Moral Bonds of Duty which lay on their Consciences both to God and the King and calls it a mocking of God Now what Friend of the King 's
King's Name if it were Dr. Gauden's for if the Fraud had been found out it would have more disparaged the King and his Cause than the concealing of it could have advantaged it the King 's great Abilities and Innocency being better known and believed than to need such Props and Fallacious Means to support it which I believe his pious Soul would have abhorred if it had been proposed to him Rem 2. If the bigger part of the Book was delivered by Dr. Gauden to Mr. Simmonds that delivery might be only a return of what the Doctor had received before from Mr. Simmonds for he was chiefly intrusted with the printing of it as appears by the returning of the Proof-sheets to him to Correct them and if Dr. Gauden had been the Author he had better means to send it to the Press and was more fit to correct his own Copy than to commit this Work and the Secret of Dr. Gauden's being the Author of it to a Sequestred Man who as the Event shews was suspected and hardly escaped a full Discovery whereas both Dr. Gauden and Walker were Favourites of the Times Rem 3. Whereas he says that he and Mr. Gifford who both lived in Dr. Gauden's House knew this Secret I have shewn that Mr. Gifford was of a contrary Perswasion to that of Dr. Walker's for Mr. Gifford spake of it and quoted it in his Sermon as the King's Book and he being the Transcriber of it as Dr. Walker intimates had more opportunity and means to inform himself who was the Author Rem 4. Dr. Walker says He was uncertain whether he ever read the Book in Manuscript but only saw it with the Titles of the Chapters This is contrary to what he had more than once affirmed That he had read it and particularly that Chapter concerning the Earl of Strafford whereupon he discoursed with Dr. Gauden and questioned How he could satisfie himself to impose such a Book on the World in the King's Name P. 4. He says Dr. Gauden shewed me the Heads of divers Chapters and some of the Discourses written of them and after sometime spent in the Perusal he askt my Opinion of it which amounts to a Contradiction scarcely to be excus'd by the Uncertainty of his Memory But if he never read the Book in Manuscript how could he be so certain that the Book was of Dr. Gauden's Compiling And indeed the Intenion of doing the King Service by such an Imposture was in Dr. Gauden such a Sin as the making of a Practical Lye and in Dr. Walker who concealed it and by Silence gave Consent a making himself a Party which Dr. Walker from St. Augustine condemns as a thing not to be practised for the saving of the World Rem 5. Whereas Dr. Walker says That Dr. Gauden being asked How he could satisfie himself in writing such a Book in the King's Name That he replied Look on the Title and said no Man useth to draw his own Picture This is overthrown by Mr. Clifford's Testimony p. 4. of Dr. Holling where it is affirmed That Mr. Royston shewed the first Proof-sheet to Dr. Taylor the Title whereof was The Royal Plea which the Doctor said would betray the Book there being two Informers Cheltenham and Jones who would discover the Book by the Title and therefore Dr. Taylor wrote to the King to have it changed and had leave to call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which those Informers could not understand being Greek This Testimony concerning the Title seems more rational than that which Dr. Walker reports from Dr. Gauden who as Dr. Walker reports would excuse himself for imposing his Book on the World as if it were the King 's because no Man useth to draw his own Picture When I consider Dr. Walker's subjoyning these probable Arguments to confirm his positive Assertion and to convince his Reader it minded me of the frequent Salvo's used by our News-writers who having related a fictitious Story to fill up their Papers are wont to add But this needs a Confirmation and then 't is an hundred to one but they have made a false Relation When we see a Man constantly using Crutches we conclude he is an infirm Person and we may guess at the strength of the Doctor 's Perswasion and Affirmation by the Cogency of his probable Arguments So that if this Relation was taken from Dr. Walker's own mouth as Dr. Goodal assures me and I am induced to believe because Dr. Walker says Sect. 5. p. 34. That he had occasionally and when he had been desired declared the Substance of what he now hath written And I have been credibly informed That Dr. Walker had often spoken too freely of this Affair in Coffe-houses and to several Companies not without much Variation in the Circumstances from what he says he is now forced to write and it hath been observed that some Men have so long divulged their own Fancies that at last they have believed them to be true and to save their Reputation from being accounted vain Persons are ready to swear to what they have said In which I wish the Reader could find cause to excuse the Doctor and believe that what he hath reported is a true Story and not a strong Imagination because he testifieth of himself That it is both naturally and morally next to impossible that it should be so p. 17. to which he would perswade his Reader because his Story is so self-consistent in all its parts which he says the Aldgate Doctor 's is not Ans I think it as possible for Dr. Walker to tell a false Story after another Man as for Dr. Hollingworth and seeing they relate such different Stories as cannot both be true it is more likely that he that grounds his Confidence on the Relation of a single Person and tells the Story with many Imperfections Inconsistencies and Contradictions though he make his Appeals to God for the Truth of it as too many do in every Court should be adjudged to tell an Untruth rather than he who proves the Veracity of his Relation by a much more considerable number of Men of good Reputation than the Laws of God or Man require for the ending of Controversies And whereas he complains p. 35. That it is hard measure not to suffer a Man to reveal that by concealing which he fears God is displeased and he necessitated to labour under a continued Dissatisfaction of Mind I wonder what Necessity forced him against his mind to conceal this Secret when he being a Chaplain at Warwick-house was under a great Temptation of being highly preferred by his Patrons if at that time he had freely discovered it and therewithal eased his Conscience from that which kept him uneasie forty Years together He concludes after all his confident Affirmations and probable Arguments as a Sceptick p. 37. If any Man can produce stronger Reasons for the Negative part I do not say only I will but that I must believe that contrary part How vainly
to believe that Dr. Symonds had a perfect Copy by which it was printed and by it he was enabled to correct the Proof-sheets And it is possible that Dr. Gauden might cause a Copy of this to be transcribed by Mr. Gifford as Dr. Walker thinks Mr. Clifford declares That the King for fear the Original should be lost ordered Mr. Odert Secretary to Sir Edw. Nicholas Principal Secretary of State to transcribe it and lodged the Original in the Marquess of Hartford's hands And by the Copy of Mr. Odert he i. e. Mr. Clifford and Mr. Milbourne did print the Book And further he saith That he never heard nay that he was sure that Dr. Gauden was never concerned in that Book by which Mr. Milbourne and Mr. Clifford printed it And Mr. milbourne the Printer and Mr. Clifford who were concerned in the printing of it say That the Copy by which it was printed came to his hands all at once Sect. 5. p. 23. Is an Answer to a Treatise intituled Restitution to the Royal Author wherein is set down this Memorandum of the E. of Anglesey on a printed Copy of the King's Book K. Charles the Second and the Duke of York did both in the last Sessions of Parliament 1675 when I shewed them in the Lord's House the written Copy of this Book wherein are some Corrections and Alterations written with the late K. Charles the First 's own hand assure me that this was none of the said King 's Compiling but made by Dr. Gauden Bishop of Exon which I here insert for the Undeceiving others in this Point by attesting so much under my Hand Anglesey Ans Whether the whole or any part of this Memorandum were the Hand writing of the E. of Anglesey is not proved and therefore the Author of the Restitution might more freely reflect on it supposing it not to be the Earl's and that First by the Impropriety of the Expressions as calling his then Royal Highness which was the proper Court-phrase the D. of York but what is more material is that both the King and Duke should assure him That this was none of K. C. 1st's Compiling but made by Dr. Gauden Bp. of Exeter which is a greater Impropriety to call him that dyed Bp. of Worcester Bp. of Exeter which Charles the 2d must needs know having had so great a Contest with him when he granted him the Bishoprick of Worcester who had a Promise of Winchester of which Dr. Walker gives a large account p. 15 16 17 18. And whereas the Earl says they both did assure him c. Quere what Arguments they used Dr. W. himself would not have taken their bare Words for an Assurance seeing that he still reserved a liberty to dissent from what he says He was so well perswaded of as of any matter of Fact if more probable Arguments were produced But against the bare Word of this Royal Pair the Author observes the publick Acts of Charles the 2d who Anno 1660 gave Mr. Royston as a Requital of printing his Father's Book the sole Priviledge of printing all the Works of K. C. 1st among which this Book hath a particular Character of Recommendation the substance of the Priviledge is in these words Charles the Second c. whereas we have received sufficient Testimony of the Fidelity and Loyalty of our Servant Richard Royston and of the great Losses and Troubles he sustained for his Faithfulness to our Royal Father of Blessed Memory and Our self in printing and publishing many Messages and Papers of our said Blessed Father especially those most excellent Discourses and Soliloquies by the Name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Know ye that it is our Royal Will and Pleasure and we do by these Presents grant to the said Richard Royston c. the sole printing and publishing of the said Messages Papers and Discourses contained in the Book intituled Reliqiuae Sacrae Carolinae with other Papers and Declarations concerning our said Royal Father c. The same Priviledge was granted to Mr. Royston by K. James the Second Anno 1685 whence the Author of the Restitution leaves it to the Readers to judge whether these publick Declarations of both the Kings made with all the Circumstance of Advantage are to be believed before a blind Manuscript written by a doubtful Hand and grounded on a private Relation to which may be added that K. James the Second in a Letter from Rochester before his Departure quoted a Passage out of his Father's Book viz. There is but little between the Prisons and the Graves of Princes To this Dr. W. answers That Kings are not so Critical as to inspect the Particulars of their Royal Grants To which it may be replied That if they had been well informed that this Book was written by Bp. Gauden as the Memorandum says they did affirm it was a Crime Laesae Majestatis to say they publickly and personally attested that to be their Father's when they believed the contrary To this Dr. Walker rejoyns an Answer by a Parallel Case Of a Printer's having a License to print K. David 's Psalms containing in number 150 Would this saith he prove that David was the Pen-man of them all No say I because the Titles prefixt to many of the Psams declare that some of them were penned by other Authors as Moses who lived long before David Heman Asaph c. who lived after him and yet the Denomination may be taken from the greater part of the Psalms which are acknowledged to be David ' s. But how could that King give a Priviledge to print his Father's Works if he knew that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is especially recommended and for the sake of which the Collection was made were not his Father's But as if this Objection had been foreseen it is sufficiently confuted by the Distinction made by both the Kings between the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which they own to be their Royal Father's and other Papers and Declarations concerning their Royal Father for the drawing up of which they conceived he made use of his Ministers and Secretaries though it be well-known that his Majesty of Blessed Memory was wont not only with great Deliberation to review the first Draughts but taking his Pen in hand to tell them merily That he was a pretty good Cobler and made such Additions and Alterations as he thought fit insomuch as they who knew him most intimately affirmed That if he had been a Secretary to any other Prince he would have been esteemed as an Oracle But here it may be enquired How the two Kings were so well assured themselves that the Book was written by Bp. Gauden as to assure others of it Whereas Dr. Walker says That Dr. Gauden himself knew not to his dying day whether Charles the Second ever knew it but by Conjecture because the Duke of York knew it It seems then the King must have the certainty from the Duke and he that considers the Circumstances in which the Duke
Hand-writing as well as the Corrections from the beginning The Author of the Memorandum saith That he inserted it there that is in the void Leaf of a small printed Copy for the Undeceiving others in this Point Ans I should guess that the Earl was scarcely undeceived himself in this Point by the little heed and care which he took for the undeceiving of others For first It is likely says Dr. Walker that no Eye had seen it from the time of the writing of it Anne 1675 Nor did I ever hear that he declared to any other though I presumed to ask the Reverend Doctor Richard Ansley the Earl's Son and Dean of Exeter concerning it and I agree with Dr. Walker in this That if Mr. Millington had not casually opened it it might have fallen into the hands of one that either had not regarded it or would have concealed it p. 31. If the Earl had been fully convinced of the King's Relation and intended to Undeceive others as by the Memorandum it seems he intended to do what should hinder him to have made a more publick Declaration of a Truth for which he had the Authority both of the King and Duke not only to secure him but to gratifie him for publishing what they were so willing should be known And if this thing was done in the House of Lords as the Memorandum says and where so great a Concourse was and a Matter fit to be known was offered the King viz. the sight of his Father's Book wherein were the Corrections and Alterations written with the King 's own hand it 's probable it was shown to some of the Nobles who also might hear the Discourse and yet it was not spoken or dreamt of until this Memorandum was by chance opened some Years after Lastly I shall believe unless the sight of that Book convince me of the contrary that it was wholly written with his Majesty's own hand as well as the Corrections because I have the Testimonies of many competent Witnesses to induce me so to believe viz. Mr. Levet Mr. Herbert Major Huntington and that Captain who was converted by it when the King was even ready to die on his Cross Nor can I believe that the Noble Earl did write that Memorandum as we have it there are many in London can counterfeit any Man 's Writing We know how his Majesty was abused by counterfeiting his Broad-Seal but neither doth the Memorandum say That the Book was not of the King 's Writing only that the Corrections were which excludes not the other and though that particular Book were not yet one there was written wholly by the King as is irrefragably proved I desire the Reader therefore to take notice that I reflect not on the Earl's hand for which we have no Proof and because we hear not of any thing spoken or done by the Earl to Undeceive the People in that Point which if he had been willing to do he could never have a better opportunity than then when the King the Duke and as we may believe a great number of the Lords the highest Judicature of the Nation were in the House then I say was the fittest time if the Earl had been as willing to Undeceive the Nation as the King and Duke were and the fairest opportunity to do it by shewing them the Book many of the Lords then present knowing the King's Hand and not to leave it in a void Leaf of a Twelve-peny Book left undiscovered to the day of his death I may also presume that that Learned Earl who was as great a Lover of Truth as of Books having such a Book sometime how long I know not in his hands would either before or after it had been shewn to the King and Duke have compared the Print with the Copy and then if he had found any considerable Alterations he would have mentioned them in his Memorandum as the Ground of being undeceived himself and a farther Means to Undeceive the Nation And thus much for the Memorandum which I think never did Undeceive any except Dr. Walker P. 6 and 7. Dr. Walker affirms That Dr. Gauden had taken the Covenant If this be true I see no cause why he should have a Promise of the best Bishoprick in England though he might be prefered to that of Exeter for other good Services which he did after he became a Convert and wrote against the Covenant for when Dr. Reynolds that had taken the Covenant and as some say the Engagement was preferred to Norwich which is much better than Exeter and other Bishopricks were offered to others that were less deserving And p. 129. of his Anti-Baal Berith he calls God to witness that Exeter was granted him by the King's Favour and the general Desire of the City and Diocess of Exeter without any his own or others ambitious procuring or solliciting in his behalf I cannot perswade myself that if Bp. Duppa and those other great Men to whom the dispose of the Bishopricks was committed had known that Dr. Gauden bad written the King's Book would have set him below Dr. Reynolds and divers others that had done less Service if there had been no other reason for it but to engage him to Silence in so important a Secret But what if Dr. Walker do slander his Patron Dr. Gauden and it should appear that he never did take the Covenant no not in any sence I have so much Deference to the Worth of that Bishop as well as Gratitude as he was my Patron that I shall propose the Reasons why I think Dr. Walker hath injured him in this particular and if it appear to the Reader that Dr. Walker is injurious in this he will be induced to believe that he is not to be credited in his other Relation viz. That Dr. Gauden told him that he wrote the King's Book P. 275. of the Anti-Baal The same Objection was made and answered as followeth That Dr. Gauden had taken the Covenant For Dr. Gauden 's making one of the Number of his Covenanters as Mr. Crofton reckoneth without his Host. To satisfie Mr. Crofton and the Libeller's Curiosity who go by Hearsay Dr. Gauden assures the World That he never took any Oaths but those appointed by the Law no Protestation nor Engagement no League Vow or Negative Oath and for this Covenant he offered freely to some principle Authors of it his many just Scruples and Objections against it both as to its Matter and Authority He had some of their Answers under their Hands agreeable to that Sence his Charity was and is willing to interpret the meaning of the Covenant to reform not ruine Episcopacy then he declared publickly his Judgment for Bishops and Episcopacy to be such as now it is That he neither could nor ever would assent to the Covenant in any Sence but such as was in his Freedom to refuse and consistent with his former Oaths the Laws of the Land and the Preservation of Episcopal Government in its
silent as Providence in this matter To shut up this Part If all those Imperfections which may Invalidate an Evidence do meet in this of Dr. Walker's and there are the joynt Testimonies of several Unexceptionable Persons against his Evidence the Case may easily be determin'd First then Dr. Walk.'s Evidence is but the single Testimony of what he heard from Dr. Gauden and Mascard in his 1361 Conclusion de Probationibus says Testis unicus de Auditis nil probat and in his 1360 Conclusion N. 5. Testis unicus ut faciat semiplenum probationem debet esse omni exceptione major Which they that consider the Premises will hardly believe of Dr. Walker 2. A Witness that deposeth things very unlikely doth not prove them because veri similitudine is the ground of Truth so Conclus 1364. Testis non veri similia deponens non probat and Testimonii fundamentum est fides 3. Because the King's Book had past for his own above forty Years and ad reprobandum instrumentum Testes omni exceptione majores requiruntur Conclus 1360. N. 3. 4. He that producing another to confirm what he had witnessed and finds his Fellow-witness to affirm what he denied or deny what he affirmed rendreth his Evidence suspected this the Doctor hath often done particularly in Major Hnntington's Evidence produced for him Conclus 1368. 5. A Witness that without a Call offers himself to give Testimony as Dr. Walker did to the Archbishop of Canterbury and in several Companies is not approved by Conclus 1358. Nor he that prosecutes his Testimony with Eagerness and Animosity for Animose deponens suspectus redditur Conclus 1368. Testis sibi contrarius non probat D. W. hath not only varied in his Testimony by increasing his Evidence but often contradicting of it So that we may conclude with that Great Civilian That Dr. Walker's Testimony ought not to prevail against the Testimony of so many competent Witnesses because he labours under so many Defects The Result of what I have written will be this That Dr. Walker's single and incoherent Evidence of what he pretends to have heard from Dr. Gauden cannot deserve any Credit against the Testimonies of so many Authentick Witnesses of the Matter of Fact as have given their Evidence for the King 's being Author of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nor consequently of what he pretends he had from Major Huntington 1. Major Huntington 2. Dr. Dillingham 3. Mr. Herbert 4. Mr. Levet 5. Sir John Brattle 6. Mr. Woitaker 7. Mr. Gafford 8. Mr. Clifford 9. Mr. Royston 10. Mr. Simmonds and his Wife 11. Mr. Robert Hearne 12. Mrs. Gauden 13. Mr. Odert 14. Dr. Jer. Taylor 15. Dr. Earle 16. Two Arch-bishops of armagh 17. Sir William Dugdale 18. Mr. Milbourne 19. Mrs. Keilegh produced by the Bishop of Glocester besides those collateral Witnesses that corroorate their Testimonies And I suppose the single Evidence of one of these may out-weigh that of Dr. Walker how much more the Verdict of so many Worthy and Reverend Persons in the Judgment of any Person but such as with Ludlow have the Guilt of that Royal Blood crying for Vengeance against them and will not be convinced that Regicide is a Sin And though he be the only Survivor of that Barbarous Crew and hath escaped the Justice of Men and glorieth in his Impenitency shall receive the greater Condemnation for the Royal Martyr's Sentence is most certain That the severest Vengeances of God are then most accomplished when Men are suffered to compleat their wicked Purposes See his Meditations on Death If Dr Walker who profest so much Love to the Royal Martyr for his Wisdom and Piety a Member of that Church for the Preservation of which in pursuance of his pious Resolution to defend it or make it his Tomb-stone the King sacrificed his Life hath so shamelesly martyr'd him a second time in his Essigies or Portraicture what wonder is it if his professed Enemies that hated him as a King to divide his Inheritance among them should perpetuate their immortal Hatred against him in hope to regain that part of his and the Church's Inheritance which by the Hire of their Rebellion they had sacrilegiously purchased And if the consident Reports of Dr. Walker be found so faulty how incredible is it that the late Libels written under the Name of Ludlow a Regicide should have so much appearance of Truth or shadow of Honesty as to deserve any other Confutation than what was long since due to their Authors Sure I am a few such Accountants as the Doctor and Ludlow would soon make the Kingdom become Bankrupt Dr. WALKER's True Modest and Faithful ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR of ' ΕΙΚΩΠΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ Strictly Examined and Demonstrated TO BE False Impudent and Deceitful The Second PART NOW suppose all that hath hitherto been spoken to prove that the King and not Dr. Gauden was the Author of the Book be laid aside and taken as non dictum yet I suppose what may be produced 1st From consideration of the K.'s Abilities to write such a Book 2ly From his Declaration that he design'd to write it 3ly From his Testimony that he had done it 4ly From the Characters which may be observed in that Book of the Royal Author which appear as plain as his Image and Superscription on his Coin and do as naturally own each other as the Ewe doth the Lamb will abundantly convince the Reader that it was the King's and not Dr. Gauden's Work for though he be dead yet he speaks very intelligibly to any that have had any knowledge of his Royal Eloquence And this I shall prove First from his known Abilities to write such a Book that his Majesty was from his Childhood devoted to his Studies and being of a quick Apprehension did lay up a great Stock of Humane and Divine Knowledge That you may not read the Testimonies of his Friends with Prejudice I shall first shew you what Opinion his Adversaries had of him one of the most bitter I account Cooke who solicited against him at his Tryal who in his Apology for their Proceeding against him p. 35. says He was well known to be a hard Student in his younger days He had more Learning and dexterity in State-affairs undoubtedly than all the Kings in Christendom and for his Parts if they had been sanctified he was another Soloman The second Testimony is that of Lilly who in his Discourse of Monarchy or no Monarchy whom I mention not as an Astrologer but as a Man of Sence that was an Observer of the Persons and Actions of the Times he says That he had singular Skill in Limning and Pictures a good Mathematician not unskilful in Musick well read in Divinity excellently in History and no less in the Laws and Statutes of the Nation of a quick and sharp Conception would write his Mind singularly well in good Language and Stile he would apprehend a Difference between Parties with great Readiness and Methodize a long Matter in
few Lines insomuch that I have heard Sir Robert Holborn oft say He had a quicker Conception and easier understood a Cause in Law and with more Sharpness drove the Matter to a Head than any of the Privy-Council and when the King was not there Sir Robert cared not to be there He had also among other special Gifts the Gift of Patience so that he would hear out a long Discourse without Interruption or Distaste he had a discerning Eye to judge of Men and honoured the Vertuous he was not at all given to Luxury but extream temperate in his Food and Apparel he would Argue Logically and frame his Arguments Artificially c. For which I may give an Instance in his Discourse with Henderson who hath at large declared his Judgment of the King after his Disputation with him it is at large in the Character of Charles the First in Dr. Hollingworth to this effect I do declare to God and the World That since I had the Honour and Happiness to Converse and Consult with his Majesty especially in Matters of Religion that I found him the most Intelligent Man that ever I spoke with as far beyond my Expression as Expectation I profess that I was oft-times astonished with the Quickness and Solidity of his Reasons and Replys wâ—ndring how among his Sports and Recreations he attained so great Knowledge I confess ingeniously that I was convinc'd in Conscience and know not how to give him any reasonable Satisfaction yet the Sweetness of his Disposition is such that whatever I said was well taken I must say that I never met with any Disputant let be a King and in Matters of so high Concernment of that mild and calm Temper which convinced me more to think that such Wisdom and Moderation could not be without extraordinary measure of Divine Grace I had heard much of his Carriage toward the Priests in Spain and that K. James told the D. of Buckingham That he durst venture his Son Charles against all the Jesuits he knowing him to be so well grounded in the Protestant Religion but could never believe it before I observed particularly his Devotion which I must truly say was more than ordinary and was observed by him before his Troubles twice a Day constantly Morning and Evening for an Hour's space in private twice a Day before Dinner and Supper in publick besides Preachings twice on the Sundays on Tuesdays and other extraordinary Times I dare say that if his Advice had been followed all the Blood that is shed and all the Rapine committed might have been prevented The whole Confession of Mr. Henderson is confirmed in few words by Mr. Vines who heard him disputing a whole Day with fifteen Commissioners and Counsellors and four Divines especially concerning Church-Affairs on the Propositions sent him to their Conviction who coming prejudiced against him as a Man of slender Parts went away admiring how he became so Learned and prevailed with their Masters that his Concessions might be voted a Ground for a Treaty which was voted to be with his Majesty's Honour Safety and Freedom the Success whereof Cromwell feared and foresaw for he charged such of the Commissioners that he could best confide in to be careful what Concessions they made for he feared the King would be too subtle for them But Mr. Vines the most able of the Divines repented of his being deluded to such unworthy Thoughts of the King and gave him great Reverence and persuaded others to do so saying He was sorry the King was no better understood for he thought him the best Divine of any Lay-man in England And the Dispute with Henderson and this of the Isle of Wight do sufficiently manifest his great Abilities and Vertues which were such that when a Dispute arose in favour of Cromwell Whether a King or no King Henry Martyn told the House If we must have a King we had rather have kept him i. e. King Charles than any Gentleman in the Nation And others said If he had not been born to be a King no Man deserved it better So that by the Confession of his Enemies his greatest Fault was that he was born to be a King and that God had anointed him above his Fellows These great and good Qualities of his Majesty made his Enemies so averse from imbracing his often renewed Solicitations for Treaties of Peace especially when he desired a Personal Treaty for they could not but observe how by strength of Reason and Meekness and Piety of Conversation He made Proselites of such as had the Happiness to converse with him whose Prejudices and Prepossessions he quite extinguished and made them more real Friends than they had been Enemies Dr. Gauden his Letter to the Army on the behalf of the King urgeth That the King was renowned by some of themselves for the Greatness of his Understanding and many other Princely Vertues and Incomparable Endowments Here I might enquire 1. How well Dr. Gauden was qualified for this Work And 2. At what time he may be supposed to have begun and finished it for he must be a Man of extraordinary Abilities of great Experience and diligent Inspection into the Polity and Intrigues of the Times and one that wrote Memorials of them while they were fresh in Memory one that was deeply concerned in them and after long and mature Deliberation digested them And who but the King was sufficient for these things Dr. Gauden probably might have heard as many did that the King had begun such Meditations and having such an Opinion of his great Abilities could not with any good Manners take the Work out of his hands But suppose the Doctor had been competently qualified for such a Work what time might be allowed for compleating of such an incomparable Work Dr. Walker says He that would imitate another's Stile ought to be well acquainted with it and bestow first second and third Thoughts And this ought to be done with greater Deliberation where the Work is more difficult to be imitated by reason of its Excellency and Perfection and the Undertaker of a Genius agreeable to the Work And if Dr. Gauden were a Covenanter as Dr. Walker says if his Stile and Genius were such in 48 as it was in 61 if we hear not of any Correspondence between him and the Royalists until the time that the Book was ordered for the Press by the King himself if after that it is supposed to be written by Dr. Gauden it was transcribed by Mr. Gifford and sent to the King by the E. of Hertford in November 48 after which some things were added by the King it will appear that such a Book as this which for one that was a Stranger to the Subject must be more than the Work of one Year especially for a Man not duly qualified for it as the King himself was confessed to be by Friends and Foes for his Pen was incomparably the most Princely and best polished in his time in the
Council none reasoned more like a Senator among the Lawyers as an Oracle in the Camp like Coesar among the Bishops as a Constantine in the Temple as a Saint on the Scaffold as an undanted Martyr who by his Arguments was more than Conqueror over them who overcame him by their brutish Valour and Arms in a word one of his greatest Failings was the excess of his Clemency distrust of his own Judgment and his easie Concessions to his subtile Adversaries to whose Importunity he granted so much till they had no more to ask nor he to give and some of them were not ashamed to provoke him the more because they knew he had Charity enough to forgive them all and indeed he forgave them that could not forgive themselves such as God hath said he will not forgive who continue to offend out of malicious Wickedness Being ask'd of C. Hammond his Jaylor What Regret his Spirit had against his Enemies he answered I can forgive them Collonel with as good an Appetite as ever I eat my Meat after Hunting and that I 'll assure thee was no small one In his Meditations on Death he prays not so much that the bitter Cup of a violent Death may pass from him as that of God's Wrath may pass from all those whose hands by deserting him were sprinkled or by acting or consenting to his Death were embrued with his Bloud After these Acknowledgements of his Enemies it were as needless as it is endless to sum up the Testimonies of such of his Friends as best knew him and his Conversation As first of his Father who could well judge of his Proficiency in Learning and Piety of which I have given an account Secondly His Vertuous Brother Prince Henry who perceiving how studious and reserved his Brother was took the Archbishop's Cap and put it on his head saying If I live Charles I will make thee Archbishop of Canterbury At the Age of Thirteen on Easter-Munday 1613 he was strictly examined in order to his Confirmation by two Bishops in Presence of Dr. Hackwell his Tutor to the great satisfaction of them all He read and noted several good Authors and contracted their Arguments into a narrow but clear compass such as Hooker Bp. Andrews and Archbishop Laud's Arguments against Fisher the Jesuite of which he made excellent use in his Dispute with Henderson at Newcastle and the Divines sent to worry him at the Isle of Wight But they that will not be persuaded by what hath been already said neither will they believe though one should rise from the Dead no nor then neither will these Infidels be perswaded for although as his Majesty both prayed and foretold God hath in great Mercy granted the Royal Family and the Church which died with the Father and rose again with the Son a Restauration most like to a Resurrection from the Dead yet will they not be persuaded But to prevent their seducing of others I proceed 2ly to shew that the King did design this Work for although Dr. Walker pretends that Dr. Gauden would excuse his imposing this Book on the World by shewing the Title and saying No Man useth to draw his own Picture yet we know that Coesar did and none but Coesar could write his own Commentaries so did that great Emperour and Philosopher Antoninus in that excellent Book De Seipso which Dr. Merike Casaubon in his Englishing that Book calleth his Meditations And how usual is it for great Men to keep Diaries of their special Actions and Concerns as Archbishop Laud did After which Examples the King may be presumed to have done the like and that he did design so to do hath been shewn by the undoubted Evidences which have been manifested concerning some Chapters of that Book taken at Naseby and restored by Major Huntington to the King at Holmeby to which I may add that he began it while he was besieged in Oxford and more yet when confined at Holmeby and that the whole was finished by his own hand at the Isle of Wight where they were seen both by Friends and Enemies even by Col. Hammond himself and that Captain of whom Bp. Fowler produceth a sufficient Testimony that he was convinced of his Majesty's Piety and Innocence by reading his Meditations which made him lay down his Commission and become a Convert as Major Huntington had done before In a Book called the Princely Pellican printed 1649 the Author gives us as he affirms in the Title-page satisfactory Reasons that his Sacred Majesty was the sole Author of the Book in question which he wrote at the instance of several Persons of Quality who knew him to have been a constant Attender on his Majesty's Person against such Reflection as had been published against those Divine Essays and first he tells us that the occasion of them was that the Parliament had misrepresented him to his People of which he complained in these words O that my Subjects knew the Integrity of my Heart towards them and that as they could not see his Heart so neither would the Parliament permit his Presence to plead his own Cause But many odious scurrilous and treacherous Libels were published against him which yet he perused with a modest Smile saying I intend to wipe off these with a Spunge of Truth it shall be my Task at spare hours and many such it seems my Parliament will admit me to undeceive my People and to rectifie their misguided Judgments These were the grounds says that Author which induced his Majesty to this Work After this the King in his Garden at Theobalds communicated this Design to some of his Gentlemen of whose Abilities he was most confident particularly that he would shew the Reason of his Receding from the Parliament which he hoped would be to the full Satisfaction of his Subjects and of which he said That not one Line had fallen from his Pen which he might not confirm with Honour were it racked by never so rigid and uncharitable Construction Then he told us that another Subject of his writing should be The most Faithful Servant and Incomparable States-man that any Christian Prince could rely upon one said he whom I cannot without a pious and religious Sorrow remember condemning myself in nothing more than suffering my Hand to thwart the Resolution of my Heart having so expresly delivered my Thoughts and in so publick a manner as besides my own consciencious Fears which incessantly awaken'd me the Relation of so ungrateful an Action cannot but in succeeding Times succeed highly to my Dishonour To which a Gentleman of his Privy Chamber made answer That this could not be imputed to his Majesty but to their Doctrinal Assurance who maintained the Conveniency of it To which with a deep Sigh the King replied It is not safe for Princes to pin their Faith on Timing Prelates sleeves their future account shall neither lessen my Guilt nor solve my Honour And when another Gentleman said Sir If the sence of that Action
may also give you some Directions how to remedy the present Distempers and prevent if GOD will the like for the time to come It is some kind of lessening and deceiving the Injury of my long Restraint when I find my Laeisure and Solitude have produced something worthy of myself and useful to you that neither you nor any other may hereafter measure my Cause by the Success nor my Judgment of Things by my Misfortune c. I cannot think that any but the King could be the Author of this Letter 1st Because it is affirmed by many that it was delivered to Bishop Juxton to be conveyed to the Prince 2ly Because as K. James his Father had left large Instructions to his Son with a Charge to observe them which he called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so in Imitation of him King Charles would not leave the World without giving his Son whom he left in a Sea of Troubles without some Directions which he had learned by long Experience how to steer his Course And if this Letter be the King 's we have an Assurance that the rest of his Meditations were so too to which the King refers the Prince for further Direction One instance I cannot omit because I think that this being joyned with that of the Letter to the Prince may if well considered put an end to the Controversie it is the Answer which the King made to the Commissioners in the Isle of Wight when they prest him to yield to their Desires for the Abrogating of Episcopacy in England To which Dr. Gauden says the King answered That he had granted all he could to save his Life which might consist with the saving of his Soul And being urged again That his Majesty had abolished Episcopacy in Scotland He answer'd That it is no Plea to sin again because he had once sinned in this kind but rather to repent and do so no more This Answer of the King's Dr. Gauden might have known in the Year 1661 when he quoted it in Anti-Baal p. 134. but he could not know it so early as to place it in the middle of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if he had written that Book the Chapter being the 17th of that Book was in all probability written by the King some Years before which was not known to the Bishop before that Book was printed But the King had opportunity after the Treaty to correct alter and add what he thought fit till his close Imprisonment so that he had either written the Answer which we have in that Chapter before which the Doctor had not seen so long ago as to write it in that place or inserted it after the Treaty was over the King's Answer is this If any shall impute my yielding to them the Scots as my Failing and Sin I can easily acknowledge it but that is no Argument to do so again or much worse being now more convinced in that Point nor indeed hath my yielding to them been so Happy and Successful as to encourage me to grant the like to others Nor is it so likely that the Bishop would accuse the King of Sin though he doth it himself which might have put a better Argument into his Enemies mouths than any the had invented against him viz. His Obstinacy to grant that to the English which he had granted to the Scots More Instances may be collected from almost every Chapter by the Judicious to convince him that not Dr. Gauden but the King was the Author of that Book I suppose therefore that the King might insert that Answer after he had given it to the Commissioners at the Treaty for evident it is that the Title was altered after the Book was in the Press by the King's order on Dr. Taylor 's Letter which is another good Argument That Dr. Gauden's shewing the Title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to evade the Fault of imposing a Book of his own on the Nation in the King's Name was a meer Fiction of Dr. Walker's for the Book which was sent to the Press had another Title viz. Suspiria Regalia or The Royal Defence and was not altered until the Book was begun to be printed I am loath to defile my hands again by medling with Milton but I must to stop the foul Mouths of some People whom he hath taught to object that his Majesty made use of a Prayer made by a Heathen to a false God or Goddess in time of Captivity To which I answer 1st By denying what Milton says That the King had unhallowed and unchristned Christianism by borrowing to a Christian use Prayers offered to a Heathen God To which Dr. Earle's Answer to Milton saith Did St. Paul by applying to a Christian use the Words of a Heathen Philosopher and Poet unhallow the Scripture Doth not Milton confess that Book of Sir Philip Sidney's is full of Wit and Worth And why might not a Christian Prince collect what is good out of a worthy Book of such a Religious Author for Sir Philip Sidney was known to be a Man of great Piety and Wisdom as well as of Courage and Wit I have heard that the King for his Recreation did divert himself by reading that Book the best of its kind then extant and he did it with great Observation and good Improvement Now which is more commendable the King who made his very Recreations subservient to his Devotion or those Adversaries of his that prophaned the Scriptures and their Prayers with preaching up Rebellion Cursing the King and venting their Malice and bitter Passions against their Brethren The King had great Examples for what he did no less than of our Saviour who in the Institution of both Sacraments and in composing the Form of Prayer for his Disciples made use both of the Matter and Words which were used by the Jews adapting them to his Sacred Ordinances that are to continue till the World's end And when Celsus objected to St. Origen That he could parallel most of our Saviour's Precepts with the Saying of some of his Heathens Origen thought it a great Recommendation of the Evangelical Precepts that they so well accorded with the Moral and Natural Truths which the Reason of Mankind did approve of Were the Jews ever blamed for Adorning the Temple with the Riches and Spoil of Aegypt Did not Solomon borrow Materials and Architecks from an Idolatrous King to build the Temple of the True God God permitted his own People to do what the King if he did it hath done They might marry a Moabitish Woman that was a Captive after her Purification by paring her Nails and shaving her Hair and so she became a Daughter of Sion It is easie to collect from such Heathen as Seneca M. Antonius Epictetus M. Tyrias c. such Petitions to their Unknown Gods as might shame the hasty Harangues of many who profess a more perfect Knowledge than others of the True God Dr. Patrick in his Parable of the Pilgrim written after the manner of
a Romance hath said more to insinuate Piety and Devotion to the Hearts of his Readers than can be found in all the Sermons writ by Cromwel's and the Army-Chaplains whose Preaching and Prayers were of Cursing and Lies as David expresseth it The PRAYER objected is in these Words O Powerful and Eternal GOD to whom nothing is so great that it may resist or so small that it is contemned look upon my Misery with Thine Eye of Mercy and let Thy infinite Power vouchsafe to limit out some Proportion of Deliverance unto me as to Thee shall seem most convenient Let not Injury O Lord triumph over me Let my Faults by Thy Hand be corrected and make not my unjust Enemies the Ministers of Thy Justice but yet my GOD if in Thy Wisdom this be the aptest Chastisement for my Unexcusable Trangressions if this ungrateful Bondage be fittest for my over-high Desires if the Pride of my not enough humble Heart be thus to be broken O Lord I yield unto thy Will and chearfully imbrace what Sorrow thou wilt have me suffer only thus much let me crave of thee let my craving O Lord be accepted of since it even proceeds from thee That by thy Goodness which is thyself thou wilt suffer some Beam of thy Majesty so to shine in my Mind that I who acknowledge it my noblest Title to be thy Creature may still in my greatest Afflictions depend considerably on thee let Calamity be the Exercise but not the Overthrow of my Virtue O let not their prevailing Power be to my Destruction and if it be thy Will that they more and more weaken me with Punishment yet O Lord never let their Wickedness have such a hand but that I may still carry a pure Mind and stedfast Resolution ever to serve thee without Fear or Presumption yet with that humble Confidence which may please thee so that at the last I may come to thy Eternal Kingdom through the Merits of thy Son our alone Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Now who could find such a Jewel though lying in a Dung-hill and not think it worthy to be taken up and set in Gold Yet be it known that this Prayer was not the Conception of a Heathen to a Pagan God but of a serious and eminent Christian to direct others how to Address themselves to the True GOD in time of Extremity for as it was the Business even of Heathen Poets and Satyrists to expose Vice and commend Virtue in their Satyrs and Interludes so and much more was it intended by that noble Person throughout his Arcadia 'T is an excellent Directory for Prayer which Persius none of the best Poets hath given Demus superis jus fasque animi sanctosque recesus Ment is incoctum generoso pectore honestum Haec codo ut admoveam templis farre lisabo Now who can wonder that the King is blamed for using this Prayer by them that reject our Lord's Prayer This yet I observe for the Honour of his Majesty that what his Enemies would account a Virtue in others they impute as a Fault to him his most innocent Actions are charged with transcendent Guilt their transcendent Guilt represented as pious Actions for thus that Miscreant discants on the finding this Prayer printed among the King's Papers Who would have imagined so little Rear in him of the True All-seeing Deity so little Reverence of the Holy Ghost whose Office it is to dictate and present our Christian Prayers so little Care of Truth in his last Words or Honour to himself or to his Friends or Sence of his Afflictions or of that sad Hour which was upon him as immediately before his Death to pop into the hand of that grave Bishop who attended him as a special Relique of his Family Exercise a Prayer stollen out c. The ground of this Devilish Invective he makes that which he calls the stoln Prayer But what one Sentence or Word in all that Prayer may not become a Christian in his deepest Affliction Do all that pray by set Forms despise the Office of the Holy Ghost What shall become then of all those Primitive Christians and the Reformed Churches that pray by Forms And how can be fix that Hellish Accusation of his Majesty on a false Conceit that this was the Prayer used by him in his last Words This is a Suggestion of his own Malice and Delusion Lastly This Prayer was not heard of until a considerable time after the King's Death I have seen his Majesty's Book printed and reprinted one of which I can produce where there is no Footstep of this Prayer it might perhaps be found among some other loose Papers of his Majesty which the Printer for his Benefit finding how great Esteem the People had of his Majesty's Devotions clapt in with his Book as we are wont to bind up the Apocripha with the Canonical Scriptures This therefore is the Malice of a Rebel and the Scoff of an Atheist of one that exceeds the Grand Regicide Bradshaw who when Mr. Royston told him on his Oath That he knew no other but that it was the King's Book Askt him How he could believe that so ill a Man could make so good a Book And how say I could so good a Book be made by an ill Man The whole Book was but a Transcript of his Life which answer each other as Face to Face as Philo in the Life of Moses such as his Words were such were his Deeds as in a Musical Instrument all was Harmonious and Uniform his Heart and Mind was seen in his Actions and his Actions expressed in lively charming pious and powerful Words Thus lived this Glorious King and thus he died as another Moses though of a stammering Tongue yet Mighty in Words and Deeds his whole Life as Philo says was a Martyrdom to God being worried by the Contradiction of a Rebellious People who chose Idols to go before them a Chorah Dathan and Abiram rather than Moses and Aaron he was the meekest Man on the Earth when a rude Souldier spit in his Face he wiped it off with a pious Thought My Saviour saith he endured this and more for my sake He was not appaled when he saw the Red Sea before him and Armies of Aegyptian Souldiers on every side he did not as Moses exceedingly quake and fear being more concerned for his Murtherers than for himself And as Philo says of Moses Non calligavit oculus nec mutatus est splendor gratiae ejus As Majestick on the Scaffold as on the Throne which he ascended as more than Conqueror from an Aegypt to Canaan whereof he had a full Prospect from his Mount Pisgah there he Blessed the Tribes of Israel and Prophesied of their future Prosperity as in Deut. 33. There God promised to go up with him and give him Rest Exod. 33.14 There he could converse with God as a Man with his Friend face to face And having prayed to see the Glory of God it was wonderfully displayed before him as in Exod. 34.6 7. in Grace and Mercy to him and in Terrour to his Enemies that were guilty of his Death And so he died as the Rabbins say With a Kiss of GOD's Mouth But the Malice of his Enemies is not yet dead for the Devil and his Angels are still disputing with Michael and his Angels about his Book as they did about the Body of Moses i. e. as some interpret it the Book of his Law and Instructions for the Service of God the reason is the same as is given why the Apostate Julian removed the Bones of Babylas the Martyr because as long as the Relicks of the Martyr were so nigh the Devil's Oracles could not assist him nor will the Consults of Papists Republicans or Regicides have any Operation upon us as long as the Reliquiae Carolina have their due Respect and Influence upon us FINIS A Catalogue of Books written by the Reverend Mr. Long. one of the Prebends of St. Peter's Exon. A Resolution of certain Queries concerning Submission to the Present Government The QUERIES I. Concerning the Original of Government II. What is the Constitution of the Government of England III. What Obligation lies on the King by the Coronation Oath IV. What Obligation lies on the Subject by the Oaths of Supremacy c. V. Whether if the King Violate his Oath and actually Destroys the Ends of it the Subjects are freed from their Obligation to him VI. Whether the King hath Renounced or Deserted the Government VII Whether on such Desertion the People to preserve themselves from Confusion may admit another and what Method is to be used in such Admission VIII Whether the Settlement now made is a Lawful Est ablishment and such at with a good Conscience may be Submitted to Restections upon a late Book entituled The Case of Allegiance conder'd wherein is shewn that the Church of England's Doctrine of Non-Resistance and Passive Obedience is not inconsistent with Taking the New Oaths to their present Majesties The Historian Unmask'd or some Reflections on the late History of Passive Obedience wherein the Doctrine of Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance is truly stated and asserted The Case of Persecution charg'd on the Church of England consider'd and discharg'd in order to Her Justification and a desired Union of Protestant Dissenters An Answer to a Socinian Treatise call'd The Naked Gospel which was decreed by the University of Oxford in Convocation Aug. 19th Anno Dom. 1690. to be publickly Burnt as containing divers Heretical Propositions With a Postscript in Answer to what is added by Dr. Bury in the Second Edition