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A69969	Eikōn basilikē The porvtraictvre of His sacred Maiestie in his solitudes and svfferings. Together with His Maiesties praiers delivered to Doctor Juxon immediately before his death. Also His Majesties reasons, against the pretended jurisdiction of the high court of justice, which he intended to deliver in writing on Munday January 22, 1648.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Reliqiæ sacræ Carolinæ.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.; Dugard, William, 1602-1662. aut	1649 (1649)	Wing E311; ESTC R39418	116,576	254

come far short of Davids piety yet since I may equall Davids afflictions give Me also the comforts and the sure mercies of David Let the penitent sense I have of my sins be an evidence to me that thou hast pardoned them Let not the Evils which I and my Kingdomes have suffered seem little unto thee though thou hast no● punished us according to our sins Turn thee O Lord unto Me have mercy upon Me for I am desolate and afflicted The sorrows of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles Hast thou forgotten to be gracious and shut up thy loving kindnesse in displeasure O Remember thy compassions of old and thy lovi●g kindnesse which have been for many Generations I had utterly fainted if I had not believed to see thy goodnes in the land of the living Let not the sins of our prosperity deprive us of the benefit of thy afflictions Let this fiery tryall consume the dross which in long peace and plenty we had contracted Though thou continuest miseryes yet withdraw not thy grace what is wanting of prosperity make up ●n patience and repentance And if thy anger be not to be yet turned away but thy ●and of iustice most be stretched out still Let it I beseech thee be against me and my Fathers house as for these sheep what have they done Let my sufferings satiate the malice of Mine and thy Churches Enemies But let their cruelty never exceed the measure of my charity Banish from me all thoughts of Revenge that I may not lose the reward nor thou the glory of my patience As thou givest me a heart to forgive them so I beseech thee doe thou fergive what they have done against thee and me And now O Lord as thou hast given me an heart to pray unto thee so hear and accept this Vow which I make before thee If thou wilt in mercy remember me and My Kingdoms In continuing the light of thy Gospell and setling thy true Religion among us In restoring to us the benefit of the Laws and the due execution of ●●●tice In suppressing the many Schisms in Church and Factions in State If thou wilt restore me and mine to the anci●nt Rights and glory of my Predecessours If thou wilt turne the hearts of My people to thy self in Piety to me in Loyalty and to one another in Charity If thou wilt quench the flames and withdraw the fewell of these Civill Wars If thou wilt bless us with the freedom of publique Counsels and deliver the Honour of Parliaments from the insolency of the Vulgar If thou wilt keep me from the great offence of enacting any thing against my Conscience and especially from consenting to sacrilegious rapines spoilings of thy Church If Thou wilt restore Me to a capacity to gloref●e Thee in doing good both to the Church and State Then shall my soule praise thee and magnifie thy name before my People Then shall thy glory be dearer to me then my Crownes and the advancement of true Religion both in purity and power be My chiefest care Then will I rule my People with iustice and my Kingdomes with equity To thy more immediate hand shall I ever owne as the rightfull succession so the mercifull restauration of My Kingdomes and the glory of them If thou wilt bring Me again with peace safety honour to my chiefest City and my Parliament If thou wilt againe put the Sword of Iustice into my hands to punish and protect Then will I make all the world to see and my very Enemics to enioy the benefit of this Vow and resolution of Christian Charity which I now make unto thee O Lord. As I do freely pardon for Christ's sake those that have offended me in any kind so my hand shall never be against any man to revenge what is past in regard of any particular iniury done to me We have been mutually pnnished in our unnaturall divisions for thy sake O Lord for the love of my Redeemer have I purposed this in my heart That I will use all means in tbe wayes of amne●ly and indempnity which may most fully remove all fears and bury all iealousies in forgetfulnesse Let thy mercies be toward me and mine as my resolutions of Truth and Peace are toward my People Hear my prayer O Lord which goeth not out of fayned lips Blessed be God who hath not turned away my prayer nor taken his mercy from Me. O my soule commit thy way to the Lord trust in him and he shall bring it to passe But if thou wilt not restore me and mine what am I that I should charge thee foolishly Thou O Lord hast given and thou hast taken Blessed be thy name May my people and thy Church be happy if not by me yet without me 26 Vpon the Armies Surprisall of of the King at Holmeby and the ensuing destractions in the two Houses the Army and the City VVHat part God will have Me now to act or suffer in this new and strange scene of affaires I am not much solicitous since little practise will serve that man who onely seeks to represent a part of honesty and honour This surprize of Me tells the world that a KING cannot be so low but He is considerable adding weight to that Party where he appeares This motion like others of the Times seemes excentrique and irregular yet not well to be resisted or quieted Better swim down such a stream than in vaine to strive against it These are but the struglings of those twins which lately one womb enclosed the younger striving to prevaile against the elder what the Presbyterians have hunted after the Independents now seek to catch for themselves So impossible is it for lines to be drawn from the center and not to divide from each other so much the wider by how much they go farther from the point of union That the Builders of Babell should from division fall to confusion is no wonder but for those that pretend to build Ierusalem to divide their Tongues and hands is but an ill omen and sounds too like the fury of those Zealots whose intestine bitternesse and divisions were the greatest occasion of the last fatall destruction of that City Well may I change my Keepers and Prison but not my captive condition onely with this hope of bettering that those who are so much professed Patrons for the Peoples Liberties cannot be utterly against the Liberty of their King what they demand for their own Consciences they cannot in Reason deny to Mine In this they seem more ingenuous than the Presbyterian rigour who sometimes complaining of exacting their conformity to laws are become the greatest Exactors of other mens submission to their novell injunctions before they are stamped with the Authotity of Lawes which they cannot well have without my consent 'T is a great argument that the Independents think themselves manumitted from their Rivals service in that they carry on a businesse of such consequence as the

above mine Own the salvations of mens souls above the presevation of their Bodies and Estates Nor may any men I think without sinne and presumption forcibly endeavour to cast the Churches under my care and tuition into the moulds they have fancied and fashioned to their designes till they have first gained my consent and resolved both my own and other mens Consciences by the strength of their reasons Other violent motions which are neither Manly Christian nor Loyall shall never either shake or settle my religion nor any mans else who knowes what Religion means and how farre it is removed from all Faction whose proper engine is force the arbitrator of beasts no● of reasonable men much lesse of humble Christians and loyall Subjects in matters of religion But men are prone to have such high conceits of themselves that they care not what cost they lay out upon their opinions especially those that have some temptation of gaine to recompence their losses and hazards Yet I was not more scandalized at the Scots Armies comming in against my will and their forfeiture of so many obligations of duty and gratitude to me then I wondred how those here could so much distrust Gods assistance who so much pretended Gods cause to the People as if they had the certainty of some divine Revelation considering they were more then competently furnished with my Subjects Armes and Ammunition My Navy by Sea my Forts Castls and Cities by Land But I find that men jealous of tue Jnstifiablenesse of their doings and designes before God never think they have hnmane strength enough to carry their work on seem it never so plausible to the People what cannot be justified in Law or Religion had need be fortified with Power And yet such is the inconstancy that attends all minds engaged in violent motion that whom some of them one while earnestly invite to come into their assistance others of them soone after are weary of and with nauseating cast them out what one Party thought to rivet to a setlednesse by the strength and influence of the Scots that the other rejects and contemnes at once despising the Kirk Government and ●iscipline of the Scots and frustrating the successe of so chargable more then charitable assistance For sure the Church of England might have purchased at a farre cheaper rate the truth and happinesse of Reformed government and discipline if it had been wanting though it had entertained the best Divines of Christendome for their advice in a full and free Synod which I was ever willing to and desirous of that matters being impartially setled might be more satisfactory to all and more durable But much of Gods justice and mans folly will at length be discovered through all the filmes and pretensions of Religion in which Politicians wrap up their designes In vaine do men hope to build their piety on the ruines of Loylty Nor can those confederations or designes 〈◊〉 durable when Subjects make bankrupt of their Allegiance under pretence of setting up a quicker trade for Religion But as my best Subjects of Scotland never deserted Me so I cannot think that the most are gone so far from Me in a prodigality of their love and respects toward Me as to make Me to despair of their return when besides the bonds of nature and Conscience which they have to Me all Reason and true policy will teach them that their chiefest interest consists in their fidelity to the Crown not in their serviceablenesse to any party of the People to a neglect and betraying of My Safety and Honour for their advantages However the lesse cause I have to trust to men the more I shall apply my self to God The Troubles of My Soul are enlarged O Lord bring thou Me out of My distresse Lord direct thy Servant in the wayes of that pious simplicity which is the best policy Deliver Me from the combined strength of those who have so much of the Serpents subtilty that they forget the Doves Innocency Though hand ioyne in hand yet let them not prevaile against My soule to the betraying of My Conscience and Honour Thou O Lord ca●st turne the hearts of th●se Parties in both Nations as thou didst the men of Judah and Israel to restore David with as much loyall Zeal as they did with inconstancy and eagernesse pursve him Preserve the love of thy Truth and uprightnes in me and I shall not despair of My Subjects affections returning towards me Thou canst soone cause the overflowing Seas to ebb and retire back again to the bounds which thou hast appointed for them O my God I trust in thee let me not be ashamed let not my Enemies triumph over me Let them be ashamed who transgress without a cause let them be turned back that persecute my Soule Let integrity and uprightnesse preserve me for I wait on thee O Lord. Redeem thy Church O God out of all its Troubles 14 Vpon the Covenant THe Presbyterian Scots are not to be hired at the ordinary rate of Auxiliarie nothing will induce them to engage till those that call them in have pawned their Soules to them by a Solemne League and Covenant Where many engines of religious and faire pretensions are brought chiefly to batter or rase Episcopacy This they make the grand evill Spirit which with some other Imps purposely added to make it more odious and terrible to the Vulgar must by so solemne a charme and exorcisme be cast out of this Church after more than a thousand yeares possession here from the first plantation of Christianity in this Island and an universall prescription of time practise in all other Churches since the Apostles times till this last Century But no Antiquity must plead for it Presbytery like a young Heyr thinks the Father hath lived long enough and impatient not to be in the Bishops Chair Authority though Lay-men go away with the Revenues all art is used to sink Episcopacy and lanch Presbytery in England which was lately boyed up in Scotland by the like artifice of a Covenant Although I am unsatisfyed with many passages in that covenant some referring to My self with very dubious dangerous limitations yet I chiefly wonder at the designe drift touching the Discipline and Government of the Church and such a manner of carying them on to new ways by Oaths and Covenants where it is hard for men to be engaged by no less then swearing for or against those things which are of no cleare morall necessity but very disputable controverted among learned godly men whereto the application of Oaths can hardly be made and enjoyned with that judgement and certainty in ones self or that charity and candour to others of different opinion as I think Religion requires which never refuses faire and equable deliberations yea dissentings too in matters only probable The enjoyning of oaths upon people must needs in things doubtfull be dangerous as in things unlawfull damnable and no lesse

assuming My Person into the Armies custody without any Commission but that of their own wil and power Such as will thus adventure on a King must not bethought over-modest or timerous to carry on any designe they have a mind to ' Their next motion menaces and scares both the two Houses and the City which soon after acting over again that former part of tumultuary motions never questioned punished or repented must now suffer for both aud see their former sin in the glasse of the preseut terrours and distractions No man is so blind as not to see herein the hand of divine Iustice they that by Tumults first occasioned the raising of Arms must now be chastened by their own Army for new Tumults So hardly can men be content with one sinne but adde sin to sin till the later punish the former such as were content to see Me and many Members of both Houses driven away by the first unsuppressed Tumults are now forced to fly to an Army to defend themselves against them But who can unfold the riddle of some mens justice the Members of both houses who at first withdrew as my selfe was forced to doe from the rudenesse of the Tumults were counted desertors and outed of their Places in Parliament Such as stayed then and enjoyed the benefit of the Tumults were asserted for the only Parliament-men now the Flyers from and Forsakers of their Places carry the Parliamentary power along with them complain highly against the tumults vindicate themselves by an Army such as remained and kept their stations are looked upon as Abbettors of tumultuary insolencies and Betrayers of the Freedom and Honour of Parliament Thus is Power above all Rule Order Law where men look more to present Advantages then their consciences and the unchangeable rules of Justice while they are Judges of others they are forced to condemn themselves Now the plea against Tumults hold good the Authors and Abettors of them are guilty of prodigious insolencies when as before they were counted as Friends and necessary Assistants I see Vengeance pursues and overtakes as the Mice and Rats are said to have done the Bishop in Germany them that thought to have escaped and fortified themselves most impregnably against it both by their multitude and compliance Whom the Laws cannot God will punish by their own crimes and hands I cannot but observe this divine Justice yet with sorrow and pity for I alwayes wished so well to Parliament and City that I was sorry to see them do or suffer any thing unworthy such great and considerable bodies in this Kingdome I was glad to see them onely scared and humbled not broken by that shaking I never had so ill a thought of those Cities as to despaire of their Loyalty to Me which mistakes might eclipse but I never believed malice had quite put out I pray God the storm be yet wholly passed over them upon whom I look as Christ did sometime over Ierusalem as objects of My prayers and teares with compassionate griefe foreseeing those severer scatterings which will certainly befall such as wantonly refuse to be gathered to their duty fatall blindnesse frequently attending and punishing wilfull so that men shall not be able at last to prevent their sorrows who would not timely repent of their sin nor shall they be suffered to enjoy the comforts who securely neglect the councels belonging to their peace They will find that Brethren in iniquity are not far from becomming insolent enemies there being nothing harder then to keep ill men long in one mind Nor is it possible to gaine a faire period for those notions which go rather in a round and circle of fansie than in a right line of reason tending to the Law the onely center of publique consistency whither I pray God at last bring all sides Which will easily be done when we shall fully see how much more happy we are to be subject to the known Laws then to the various wills of any men seem they never so plausible at first Vulgar compliance with any illegall and extravagant waies like violent motions in nature soon grows weary of it selfe and ends in a refractory sullennesse Peoples rebounds are oft in their faces who first put them upon those violent strokes For the Army which is so far excusable as they act according to Souldiers principles and interests demanding Pay and Indempnity I think it necessary in order to the publike peace that they should be satisfied as far as is just no man being more prone to consider them then My selfe ●though they have fought against Me yet I cannot but so far esteem that valour and gallantry they have sometime shewed as to wish I may never want such men to maintaine My Selfe My Laws and My Kingdoms in such a peace as wherein they may enjoy their share and proportion as much as any men But thou O Lord who art perfect Vnity in a sacred Trinity in mercy behold those whom thy Iustice hath divided Deliver me from the strivings of My People and make Me to see how much they need My Prayers and pity who agreed to fight against Me and 〈◊〉 are now ready to fight against one another to the continuance of My Kingdomes distractions Discover to all sides the wayes of peace from which they have swarved which consists not in the divided wills of Parties but in the point and due observation of the Lawes Make Me willing to go whither thou wilt lead Me by thy providence and be thou ever with Me that I may see thy constancy in the worlds variety and changes Make me even such as thou wouldst have Me that I may at last enioy that safety and tranquility which thou alone canst give Me. Divert J pray thee O Lord thy heavy wrath iustly hanging over those populous Cityes whose plenty is prone to adde fewell to their luxury their wealth to make them wanton their multitudes tempting them to security and their security exposing them to unexpected miseries Give them eyes to see hearts to consider wills to embrace and courage to act those things which belong to thy glory and the publique peace lest their calamity come upon them as an armed man Theach them That they cannot want enemies who abound in sinne nor shall they be long un-disarmed and un-destroyed who with a high hand persisting to ●ight gainst thee the clear convictions of their own consciences fight more against themselves than ever they did against Me. Their sinnes exposing them to thy Iustice their riches too ther 's injuryes their number to Tumults and their Tumults to confusion Though they have with much forwardnesse helped to destroy Me yet let not my fall be their ruine Let Me not so much consider either what they have done or I have suffered chiefly at first by them as to forget to imitate My crucified Redeemer to plead their ignorance for their pardon and in my dying extremities to pray to thee O Father to forgive them for