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A46843	King Charles I, no such saint, martyr or good Protestant as commonly reputed, but a favourer of Papists and a cruel and oppressive tyrant all plainly proved from undeniable matters of fact : to which are added Dr. Burnet's, now Bishop of Salisbury, and other reasons, against the keeping up any longer the observation of a fast on the 30th of January : as also short answers to these three questions, I, what is the occasion of the clergies pride and lording it over the laity, II, why they and many of the laity cry up this king for a saint, martyr, &c., III, what is the true reason that the generality of the clergy, and many of the laity, both lawyers and others, are constant advocates for kings, tho never so wicked, and sacrificers of the people.	D. J.	1698 (1698)	Wing J7; ESTC R444	18,954	30

knows cannot come under any one of these Characters for it is plain that he did not dye for being a Witness or Confessor of the Revealed Truths in God's Word neither did he suffer Afflictions even unto Death for the sake of owning or professing Evangelical Truths No the Parliament did not oppose or prosecute him for being a Protestant but for favouring Papists and subverting in a most arbitrary manner all the Laws and Liberties of England I shall now proceed to shew that this King could not be a firm Protestant His Letter to the Pope printed at large in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. and the People of England against King Charles the First and his Adherents in answer to the Letter he received from the Pope is enough to startle any but such as Land 's Protestants He calls the Pope Most Holy Father and tells him I shall never be so extreamly affected to any thing in the World as to endeavour an Alliance with a Prince that hath the same apprehension of the True Religion with my self Mr. Rushworth hath it in these words Your Holinesses Conjecture of Our Desire to contract an Alliance and Marriage with a Catholick Family and Princess is agreeable both to your Wisdom and Charity for we would never desire so vehemently to be joind in a strict and indissoluble Bond with any mortal whatsoever whose Religion we hated And towards the end of the Letter I entreat your Holiness to believe that I have been always very far from encouraging Novelties or to be a Partisan of any Faction against the Catholick Apostolick Roman Religion In another place he protested That he would expose Life and Estate in the Exaltation of the Holy Chair This cannot redound to the honour of a Protestant King for the Holy Chair in its proper sense means nothing but down-right Popery In another place he tells the Pope I will employ my self for the time to come to have but one Religion and one Faith Having resolved in my self to spare nothing in the World and to suffer all manner of Discommodities even to the hazarding my Estate and Life for a thing so pleasing to God This Resolution cannot look like his converting the Pope and others to the Protestant Religion but directly the contrary And in his Reply to the Nuncio upon his delivering the Popes Letter to him which you may read in Cabala or Mysteries of State pag. 214. he says I kiss his Holiness Feet for the Favour and Honour he doth me so much the more esteemed by how much the less deserved of me hitherto and his Holiness shall see what I do hereafter And so did England Scotland and Ireland and the whole world His Bishops and Chaplains pressed Popish Innovations and preached Doctrines of gross Popery And I think my Father will do the like so that his Holiness shall not repent him of what he has done His marrying a violent Papist and making Articles with France in favour of Papists read his Articles at large in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. c. His stopping all Prosecution against them His preferring many of them to places of eminent Trusts particularly Weston to be his Lord Treasurer Arundell Weston Gottington and Windebanck who all died Papists His pardoning Mountague his Chaplain for preaching down-right Popery His unlawful corresponding and conspiring with the Irish and French to land Forces against the Parliament He was kind to the Irish Papists And in his third year against the plain advice of Parliament like a kind Pope sold them many Indulgences for money Advised with them on all occasions admitted them to private Consultations with him and his Queen His sending one Dillon a Papist Lord soon after a chief Rebel with Letters into Ireland and his dispatching a Commission under the great Seal of Scotland at that time in his own Custody that they should forthwith as formerly had been agreed cause all the Irish to rise in Arms. Read the Commission at large in the Book before mentioned His causing ten thousand Popish Irish Soldiers to be ordered for England by the Earl of Glamorgan do all shew he had more confidence in Popish Irish than in his Protestant English Subjects A rare Protestant I profess These with his betraying the Protestants of the Palatinate Isle of Rhee and Rochel and the poor Protestants of Ireland to the number of 154000 shew the slender affection he had for the Protestant Interest either at home or abroad From such a merciless Protestant Good Lord for ever deliver these Kingdoms Read his Letters to the Rochellers and their Remonstrance upon his betraying them both printed in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. and you will have little cause to admire this Martyr And also the Sheet called Murder will out printed in the same Book which makes it appear he had a hand in the horrid Irish Rebellion In the next place I shall plainly make it appear beyond all doubt that this King was an oppressive Tyrant and should I proceed on this melancholy Subject so largely as with the greatest truth and matters of Fact I might I should have cause to cry out with the Poet Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem Many Instances of his Arbitrary and Illegal Government being printed in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640 c. and also the following Papers which set this King out to the life viz. The Pope's Letter to King Charles I. and King Charles 's Answer His Articles of Marriage with France His Declaration of Sports on the Lord's Day His Letters of Assurance to the Protestants of Rochel and their Remonstrance on his deceiving them His Commission to the Irish Rebels and Rorie Macquire and Philem Oneal 's Declaration thereupon K. Charles II. Letter to the Court of Claims in Ireland in behalf of the Marquess of Antrim for acting by King Charles I. Order King Charles 's Prayer taken out of Pembrook 's Arcadia An Abridgment of the Articles of Peace that King Charles I. made with the Irish Rebels Lord Anglesey 's Memorandum and Walker 's Reasons against Eikon Basilike I shall now content my self with enumerating a few more Instances of his grievous oppressing the People of England as a Tyrant viz. By his raising without Act of Parliament 200000 l. on the poor Merchants for Ship-money Coat and Conduct money His great Minions and Favorites inventing new methods of Monopolies without ever acquainting the Parliament to enable him in a full time of Peace to live without a Parliament as he did about 11 Years together Compulsive Knighthoods the seizing not of one Naboth's Vineyard but of whole Inheritances under the pretence of Forest or Crown-lands Corruption and Bribery compounded for with Impunities granted for the future Arbitrary and excessive Fines on those People that stood in the gap against his Tyranny besides the barbarous Slashings Whippings Pillorings and horrible Imprisonments for

factus est Rex ac Comites Barones qui debent ei Fraenum ponere The King of England hath for his Superiors both the Law by which he is constituted King and which is the measuring of his governing Power and the Parliament which is to restrain him if he do amiss Bracton l. 2. c. 16. Fleta l. 1. c. 17. That the King by his Coronation Oath hath a power to rule his People for their best advantage to administer to every man his just rights to confirm such Laws that the People make conducing to the Common Good c. And no other Authority can he with justice claim That it is against the Moral Law that a Kingdom should suffer it self to be unkingdom'd ruin'd and destroy'd having power in their hands to save themselves self-preservation being natural even to brute beasts when disturbed That God doth sometimes require that One should suffer for all but never that All should suffer for One. That Rebellion consists in resisting of just Governors in their just Government and not in defending legal rights against a Tyrant That it is unlawful to keep any Oaths Vows and Covenants to or for the King that are against the good of the Kingdom for the performing or keeping them would be an adding sin unto sin wickedness unto wickedness that is to do Evil as well as to promise the doing thereof He that covenants to do things unlawful covenants with Hell must therefore the League of Hell and Death be maintained These things one would think should have some weight with our Nonswearing Jacobites who choose rather to break the solemn Oaths they took to feed their Flocks than to comply with swearing Faith and true Allegiance to that Prince that Providence in a most miraculous manner raised up to deliver these Three Kingdoms from the Egyptian slavery it groaned under A Prince who by his own Merits and the Peoples Election can justly claim the best Title that ever any King of England had let the Fools and Knaves who madly dote on the Divine Right of Succession c. say what they will to the contrary That the Oath of Allegiance is not made to the King Warring or any ways Acting against the welfare of the Kingdom but to him as Governing for good according to the Laws of the Land That the Oath of Supremacy doth not allow him to be the Supreme Legislative Power of the Kingdom and that he is in all Cases the sole Judg and over all persons an absolute Lord unto whose Will and Pleasure the People are bound to be subject Actively or Passively for such a Power becometh only those that are perfect as God himself is perfect That all Oaths Vows Covenants and Compacts whatsoever are conditional reciprocal and mutual the King being as well bound to the People as the People to the King That the King 's voluntary and plenary breach of his Agreement with the People doth ipso facto discharge the People from their Vows and Covenants until such time as the Agreement and Compact between the King and People be again renewed and united The Nobility Gentry and Clergy have in their noble assistance in the late Revolution justified this Position to the height and also that Kings are accountable to their Subjects for their Male Administration That the People of England cannot give the Parliament a power to enslave themselves for thereby they would be Self-betrayers and in a degree Self murderers Neither can the People de Jure make Laws destructive to the Common-safety or give any Power to others to the making of such Laws That what King James the First told the Lords and Commons in the Year 1609. is certainly true viz. That he is no King but a Tyrant that governs not by Law That there is a very great and dangerous defect in the constitution of the Government of England if the same Power that gave the Coronation Oath cannot judg whether the said Oath be kept or not and call to an account for the violation thereof Bracton Fleta the Parliament of 1640. and the late Revolution seem clearly to allow Kings being accountable c. That Kings and all Magistrates ought to be Nursing Fathers not Bloody Tyrants to make their People miserable to reward Virtue and not to encourage Injustice Oppression and Vice That if they would answer the end of Government which is the Publick Good they ought to study the happiness and welfare of their Subjects equally with their Own Lastly That if they will not govern thus according to Law and Justice they must not think the People of England will be such Fools as to stay for their accounting in the other World for they do not love the Welshmans reckning which was to let her alone till the last Judgment and then her would account fairly for all her Rogueries c. I am very well satisfied let the wretched Advocates for Tyranny and Arbitrary Power say what they will to the contrary That these Doctrines or Maxims cannot destroy Government because they will not permit Governors to destroy the People Nay they will establish a Just Government by rooting out the Unjust The Throne will be established by Righteousness but ruined by Wickedness Those Doctrines that rectifie Governors in the administration of Common Right and Justice do fasten the Crowns of Government upon their Heads for by doing every man right their Throne is set up in every man's Heart and not only so but the promised Presence of an Infinite Power will ever secure and prosper such Administrations These pious Doctrines do not implead Government but the Evils thereof and are all included in this The Safety of the People is still the chiefest Lord Rule Reason and Law These Divine Truths will I hope be highly acceptable in this age of light and knowledge tho Laud Sibthorp Manwaring Mountague and other wicked Clergy-men of those and later times have unjustly esteemed them Rebellious I could produce many more Instances to inform the deluded part of mankind that this adored Prince was far from being a pious One but for the present shall give but one more clear Demonstration that is His causing a Declaration to be published and read in all Churches that all Sports c. whatsoever were lawful on the Sabbath-day How agreeable this most wicked Act can be to Religion I cannot conceive and I am of opinion it will puzle all those that in a blasphemous strain call him a Saint and Martyr to defend him from this horrid impiety See the Declaration at large printed in the Book called A Vindication of the Parliament of 1640. Neither can I see for what Reasons any of his adorers can make him a Martyr for the word Martyr in the Greek Martur signifies Testis a Witness In Ecclesia dicitur Testis Confessor Veritatis Verbo Dei patefactae singulariter autem ille qui propter Confessionem Evangelicae veritatis sustinet Afflictiones ipsamque adeo Mortem Our pretended Martyr God