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
your Favour Sir was his usual Condescention in his Disputes yea even at his Tryal to Bradshaw In every Paragraph of his there is as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great height of Reason and Contemplation to entertain the learned and a great Plainness and Facility of Sence and Expression so that as some say of the Scripture The Elephant may swim and the Lamb wade through Dr. Walker talked of peculiar Expressions used by Dr. Gauden in his private Devotion but names not one I beg the Reader 's Patience therefore to repeat a few of them in the Book lately quoted p. 10. he says His Adversary struts in his Rhodomontade Titles of Defiance in his prodigious Railings in his sarcastical Ironies in his sophistical Sophisms in his dull Argumentations in his specious Pretences of Zeal and Clamors for Reformation And p. 13. speaking of his Analisis of the Covenant he talks of the solid weight and Divine Truth of that free and rational Analisis void of Obscurity Popularity Partiality Sophistry or Flattery P. 16. he tells his Adversaries of their Cacotomy their Idolized Sacrilegious Sectors and Pasquil Oratory the Atrocity of their Facts and Impudicities a By-blow of Devotion the Gorgon's Head and Devil of Mascow the Spirit of Asmodeus Leopardike Presbyters Talismanik Charms he calls them Medicasters and crafty Empyricks compares his two Opponents to Sancho Pancho and Don Quixot with their Pickvant Darts and Lippient Eyes Heards of good Words and Flooks of Figures It is a wonder as others have observed that if Dr. Gauden had penned that Book that no such Expressions are found in it no not one when his Writings are stuft with Bombast and Greek Words and Latine Sentences yea with some of his Peculiarities Dr. W. calls them such as his Analeptist Cacotomy Impostarage Borborites Grassant Traculent Brontes Fanto Farrago Paradoe Sempervive Corbonist Ecobolian Antisectical Symoniack Privado Offa and Buccoone Cordolium Ephialta Parrhesy Caecinnations Diaboletto's and many such other Expressions which may deserve an Explanation when Blunt's or Chamberlain's Dictionary of hard Words are next printed How one small Book should abound with such Words and Phrases and not one of them in the King's Book considering how fond the Doctor seems to be of them is a probable Argument that the Doctor had no hand in that Book Besides it is a wonder to think how Dr. Gauden at or before 48 should be Master of so grave significant and polite Stile and in the Year 61 should when he was a Bishop use such an Exotick Verbose and almost Barbarous Stile this is another Argument to convince that not Dr. Gauden but the King was the Author of that Book If I should trace all the Footsteps and Characters of the King's Image and Superscription I must transcribe the whole which is an express Image of his Royal Soul which as the Philosophers say of the Souls informing the Body is Tota in toto tota in qualibet parte His humble Confessions his solemn Appeals to God his Vows and Resolutions to persevere in suffering any Affliction rather than to break the Peace of his Conscience or be guilty of deserting the Church which he shewed to be dearer than his Life He that will find a Parallel to the Life and Writings of our Royal Martyr must ascend to the Apostolical and Primitive Times for among all our Modern Examples if there may be any one found that may be compared with him in any one Grace or Vertue yet there is none that comes near him for all those Graces which shined in him as illustriously as the Sun doth above the other Luminaries Where is there such an instance of Condescention and Charity to Enemies of greater Love and Constancy to his Friends of Patience and Submission in Affliction of Humility and Devotion to God of the Contempt of Death in its most terrible Approaches and dreadful Aspect That which would have astonished and stupified the Spirits of other Men comforted and elevated his Passage from a Crown of Thorns to a Crown of Glory The next Argument to prove that the King was the Author of this Book is the Testimony of those several Persons which were concerned in the Printing and Publishing of his Majesty's Book and first I have this Testimony from Mr. John Norman who was well acquainted with Mr. Royston when the Book was first published who had it from Mr. Royson's own mouth viz. That there was Information given that such a Book was to be printed and great Endeavours were used to prevent it but that he had removed a Press at some distance from the City to secure the Impression which he did and speedily finished it not without some Hazard there being diligent Search made in all the known Printers Houses for it but in one night he caused several Hawkers to come to a certain place where the Books were delivered them and they sold above two thousand Copies for the price of 15 s. each That the Care and Chargewhich he used for concealing the Impression cost him some hundreds of Pounds which notwithstanding he was taken up on Suspicion and made a Prisoner till after some time he had his Liberty on giving 500 l. Bail Now what caused this great Care and Expence in Mr. Royston but the Letter which he had formerly received from the King to prepare a Press for some Papers which should be sent him What caused so great Endeavours to suppress them but because they were truly informed that the King had of a long time been writing somewhat in Vindication of himself and they had a hint that it was then in the Press Mr. Norman is an aged Person well known in the City of Exon and County of Devon It will be too tedious to recite all the Testimonies of those several Persons who had a hand in Methodizing the loose Papers in Transcribing and Publishing them in Print as Sir John Brattle and his Father Mr. Odert Mr. Gifford the Transcribers Mr. Royston Mr. Simmonds and others concerned in the Printing whose Testimonies have been produced and are above all Exception And yet his Majesty 's own Testimony though he bore Witness of himself is most material for in that Letter to the Prince from the Isle of Wight which I presume none could be so daring to write in his Majesty's Name and publish it while he was living and might have survived much longer and call the Queen his Wife and the Prince his Son and prescribe Rules to him he thus begins Son if those Papers with some others wherein I have set down the private Reflections of my Conscience and my most Impartial Thoughts touching the chief Passages which have been most remarkable or disputed in my late Troubles come to your hands to whom they are chiefly designed they may be so far useful to you as to state your Judgment aright as to what is past whereof a pious is the best use that can be made And they
Flame And they have not the Understanding of Children that having been often burnt do not dread the Smoak of such Fires 'T is not for his sake alone that such Libels are divulged but to shew their Antipathy to Monarchy itself even in the Persons of such as God by a Series of Miracles hath raised to make us a happy People And certainly there is some Fire under that Smoak where the King's Supremacy over Ecclesiastical Assemblies is exploded and Episcopal Ordination is accounted a Transgression And where King Charles the First is dealt with in Effigy as he was in Person as a Tyrant Traytor and Murtherer of whom the World was not worthy Dr. WALKER's True Modest and Faithful ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR of ' ΕΙΚΩΠΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ Strictly Examined and Demonstrated TO BE False Impudent and Deceitful The First PART WHether the King's Portraicture were drawn by his own or another Hand as it is no Diminution of his known Virtues whereof those Meditations are but a Reflection that cannot express the Perfection of his Devout Soul and Innocent Life so neither can it be any Extenuation of their Guilt who so barbarously murther'd his Person and after so long a time do now disturb his Ashes to rob him of this precious Jewel To what end this Impotent Piece of Malice is now attempted I cannot Divine unless it be by the just Judgment of God to perpetuate their Infamy who glory in that which all the World besides themselves know to be their abominable Sin and Shame Had there been any Probability that the Regicides could have found any other Author of those Incomparable Meditations they would more industriously have pursued that Method but finding bâ— the Examination of Royston the Printer Mr. Levet testifies That Royston told him that he was imprisoned because he would not declare that the King was not the Author of that Book Dr. Holling p. 9. before several Committees that this course would destroy their Design they resolve to deal with his Book as they had done with his Person to Defame it by scandalous Reflections â—oud Calumnies and false Glosses and Misinterpretations And they found a fit Instrument to attempt their Design a Person that was a Compendium of all the Villanies and Impieties of the Age who had been a profest Enemy to Monarchy a Pleader for Divorces on Trivial Occasions and against Tithes and the Clergy which he hath left in several printed Tracts as his Portraicture this is that Infamous Milton whom the Regicides hired by the Price of three hundred Pounds to Deface that Royal Monument but all in vain for by his over-doing he hath quite undone the Design for first he takes it pro confesso that it is the King's Book and says That the King left it behind him as the best Advocate and Interpreter of his own Actions p. 3. of his Preface And says That because the King co 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ed at the Bar that his Reasons could not be heard neither he nor his Friends should have cause to find fault being met and debated with in that open Court of his own erecting But his Proceedings against this Book were like those of his Fellow-Regicides against his Person For p. 2. of his Preface He accuseth the Book as having nothing of Solidity in it being stuft with naught else but the common Grounds of Tyranny and Popery And p. 6. That the King used more running Fetches to Undermine our Liberties and put Tyranny into an Art than any British King before him Which are such palpable Falsities as the Father of Lies would not own and of which he gives the Reader a plain Confutation p. 8. in these words That they who before hated him for his high Misgovernment as he miscals it nay fought against him with display'd Banners in the Field now after the printing of his Book applaud and extol him as the Wisest and most Religious Prince that lived And the Reformer turn'd Regicide they saw the Truth of the King's Declarations made manifest and all their Slanders of the King confuted And Milton's great Objection against him for ever silenced which was That the Testimony of one Man in his own Cause affirming cannot be of any moment to bring in doubt the Authority of a Parliament denying the Allegation Which is as if the Testimony of those that had rob'd and slain an innocent Man in the face of the Sun deserved more Credit than his dying Testimony against his Murtherers and the Matter of Fact attested by more than a thousand Witnesses They saw the Mask taken off and the Rebel appear where the Reformer was represented As for that Impudent Calumny That the KING's BOOK is stuft with Grounds of POPERY 't is what his Masters durst not accuse Him of and from which the whole Course of his Life so well known to the Nation would acquit him particularly some of those private Letters of his which the Parliament publisht wherein he declared to the Queen That he differed from her in nothing but her Religion His Dispute with the Marquess of Worcester yet in print though by a partial Hand that relates it to the King's Disadvantage his constant Devotion at our Prayers and Sacrament his Solemn Protestations at York in the head of his Army at Oxford when he sealed the Truth of his Profession by receiving the Sacrament at the hands of the Archbishop of Armagh as he did also in the Cathedral of Exeter after he had defeated Essex's Army in Cornwal And which is the best Confirmation his declaring at the last instant of his Life that he died a Christian according to the Profession of the Church of England as it was left him from his Father the farther Proof of this would be but as some Apologies the calling that in question which was not doubted of before and raising a Suspicion of it Therefore I leave this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and pursue that Sacrilegious Milton who in p. 4. relating how some Men by Polity have accomplished after Death that Revenge upon their Enemies which in Life they were not able He to this Book applies the Example of Caesar whose last Will and Testament being read to the People and what bounteous Legacies he had bequeathed them it wrought more to the avenging of his Death than all the Art he could ever use to win their Favour in his Life time Which the Royal Martyr foretold in that most Christian Sentence wherewith he closed his Book Vota dabunt quae bella negarunt The true meaning whereof his Majesty gives in the Chapter concerning the Uxbridge Treaty viz. What we could not get by our Treaties we may gain by our Prayers Out of which Flower that venemons Spider would extract Poison But the Book shines throughout with such Beams of Light as evidently display the Innocency and Piety of that incomparable Prince and the Impiety and Perfidy of his Enemies and hence it is that they so hate it But what Temptation hath prevailed with some Persons
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
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
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
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