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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

power to offend others that I have none to defend my selfe or to preserve what is mine own from their prereption No man can doubt but they prevented Me in their purposes as well as their injuries who are so much before-hand in their preparations against Me and surprizalls of My strength Such as are not for Them yet dare not be for Me so overaw'd is their Loyalty by the others numbers and terrours I beleive my Innocency and unpreparednesse to assert my Rights and Honour makes Me the more guilty in their esteem who would not so easily have declared a war against Me if I had first assaulted them They knew my chiefest Arms left Me were those only which the ancient Christians were wont to use against their Persecutors Prayers and Tears These may serve a good mans turn if not to Conquer as a Souldier yet to Suffer as a Martyr Their preventing of Me and surprizing My Castles Forts Armes and Navy with the Militia is so far best for Me That it may drive me from putting any trust in the arme of flesh and wholy to cast my self into the protection of the living God who can save by few or none as well as by many He that made the greedy Ravens to be ELYAS Caterers and bring him foode may also make their surprizall of outward force and defence an opportunity to shew me the speciall support of his power and protection I thank God I reckon not now the want of the Militia so much in reference to My owne protection as My Peoples Their many and sore oppressions greive Me I am above My Owne what I want in the hands of Force and Power I have in the wings of faith and Prayer But this is the strange method these Men will needs take to resolve their riddle of making me a glorious King by taking away my Kingly power Thus I shall become a support to My Freinds and a Terrour to My Enemies by being unable to succour the one or suppress the other For thus have they designed proposed to Me the new-modelling of Soveraignty and kingship as without any reality of power so without any necessity of subjection and obedience That the Majesty of the Kings of England might hereafter hang like Mahomets Tomb by a magnetique Charm between the Power and Priviledges of the two Houses in an aiery imagination of Regality But I believe the surfet of too much Power which some men have greedily seiz'd on now seek wholly to devour wil ere long make the Common-wealth sick both of it and them since they cannot well digest it Soveraigne Power in Subjects seldome agreeing with the stomacks of fellow Subjects Yet I have even in this point of the constant Militia sought by satisfying their feares and importunities both to secure My Freinds overcom Mine enemies to gain the peace of al by depriving My self of a sole power to helpe or hurt any yeilding the Militia which is my undoubted Right no lesse than the Crowne to be disposed of as the two Houses shall thinke fit during My time So willing am I to bury all jealousies of me in them to live above all jealousies of them as to My self I desire not to be safer than I wish them My People if I had the sole actuall disposing of the Militia I could not protect My People further than they protected Me themselvs so that the use of the Militia is mutuall I would but defend My self so far as to be able to defend My good Subjects from those mens violence and fraud who conscious to their own evill merits and designes will needs perswade the world that none but Wolves are fit to be trusted with the custody of the Shepheard and his Flock Miserable experience hath taught My Subjects since Power hath beene wrested from Me and imployed against Me and Them that neither can be safe if both be not in such a way as the Law hath entrusted the publique safety and welfare Yet even this Consession of Mine as to the exercise of the Militia so vast and large is not satisfactory to some men which seeme to be Enemies not to Me onely but to all Monarchy and are resolved to transmit to posterity such Jealousies of the Crowne as they should never permit it to enjoy its just and necessary Rights in point of Power to which at last all Law is resolved while thereby it is best protected But here Honour and Justice due to My Successors forbid Me to yeild to such a totall alienation of that power from them which civility and duty no lesse then justice and honour should have forbad them to have asked of Me. For although I can be content to Eclypse My owne beames to satisfie their feares who think they must needs be scorched or blinded if I should shine in the full lusture of Kingly Power wherewith God and the Lawes have invested Me yet I will never consent to put out the Sun of Soveraignty to all Posterity and succeeding Kings whose just recovery of their Rights from unjust usurpations and extortions shall never be prejudiced or obstructed by any Act of Mine which indeed would not be more injurious to succeeding Kings than to My Subjects whom I desire to leave in a condition not wholly desperate for the future so as by a Law to be ever subjected to those many factious distractions which must needs follow the many-headed Hydra of Government which as it makes a shew to the People to have more eyes to foresee so they wil find it hath more mouths too which must be satisfied and at best it hath rather a monstrosity than any thing of perfection beyond that of right Monarchy where counsell may be in many as the senses but the supreame Power can be but in One as the Head Happily when men have tried the horrours and malignant influence which will certainly follow My enforced darknesse and Eclypse occasioned by the interposition and shaddow of that body which as the Moon receiveth its chiefest light from Me they will at length more esteem and welcome the restored glory and blessing of the Suns light And if at present I may seem by My receding so much from the use of My Right in the power of the Militia to come short of the discharge of that trust to which I am sworne for My Peoples protection I conceive those men are guilty of the enforced perjury if so it may seem who compell Me to take this new and strange way of discharging My trust by seeming to desert it of protecting My Subjects by exposing My selfe to danger or dishonour for their safety and quiet VVhich in the conflicts of Civill VVar and advantages of Power cannot be effected but by some side yeilding to which the greatest love of the publique Peace and the firmest assurance of Gods protection arising from a good conscience doth more invite Me than can be expected from other mens fears which arising from the injustice of their Actions

though never so successefull yet dare not adventure their Authors upon any other way of safety then that of the Sword and Militia which yet are but weak defences against the stroaks of divine vengeance which will overtake or of mens owne Consciences which alwayes attend injurious perpetrasions For my selfe I do not think that I can want any thing which providentiall necessity is pleased to take from Me in order to my Peoples tranquillity and Gods glory whose protection is sufficient for me and he is able by his being with me abundantly to compensate to Me as he did to Iob what ever honour power or liberty the Caldeans the Sabeans or the Devill himselfe can deprive Me of Although they take from Me all defence of Armes and Militia all refuge by Land of Forts and Castles all flight by Sea in My Ships and Navie yea though they study to Rob me of the Hearts of my Subjects the greatest Treasure best Ammunition of a King yet cannot they deprive me of my own innocency or Gods mercy nor obstruct My way to Heaven Therefore O my God to thee I flye for help if th● wilt be on my side J shall have more with we the can be against me There is none in Heaven or in Earth that I d●sire in comparison of thee In the loss of all ● thou more then all to me Make hast to succour 〈◊〉 thou that never failest them that put their trust ● thee Thou seest I have no power to oppose them th● come against me who are encouraged to fight und● the pretence of fighting for me But my eyes a● toward thee Thou needest no help nor shall I if I may ha● thine If not to conquer yet at least to suffer If thou delightest not in my safety prosperi● behold here am I willing to be reduced to what th● wilt have me whose Judgements oft begin with 〈◊〉 own Children I am content to be nothing that thou mayst be all Thou hast taught me That no King can be sav● by the multitude of an Host but yet thou canst sa● me by the multitude of thy mercyes who art the L● of Hosts and the Father of mercies Help Me O Lord who am sore distressed on e●ry side yet be thou on my side and I shall not fe● what man can do unto me I will give thy justi the glory of mydistresse O let thy mercy have the glory of my delivra● from them that persecute my Soule By my sinnes have I fought against thee a● robbed thee of thy glory who am thy subiect and iustly mayst thou by my owne Subiects strip me of my strength and eclypse my glory But shew thy selfe O my hope and only refuge Let not mine Enemies say There is no help for him in his God Hold up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not Keep me as the apple of thine eye hide me under the sh●ddow of thy wings Shew thy marveilous loving kindnesse O thou that savest by thy right hand them that put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them From the wicked that oppresse me from my deadly Enemies that compasse me about Shew me the path of life In thy presence is fulnesse of Ioy at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore 11. Vpon the 19 Propositions first sent to the King and more afterwards ALthough there be many things they demand yet if these be all I am glad to see at what price they set My owne safety and My Peoples peace which I cannot thinke I buye at too deare a rate save onely the parting with my Conscience and Honour If nothing else will satisfye I must chuse rathe● to be as miserable and inglorious as My Enemies can make or wish Me. Some things here propounded to me have bi● offered by me Others are easily granted The rest I think ought not to be obtruded upon me with the point of the Sword nor urged with th● injuries of a war when I have already declare● that I cannot yeild to them without violatin● my Conscience 't is strange there can be n● method of peace but by making Warre upo● My Soul Here are many things required of me but ● see nothing offer'd to me by the way of grate full exchange of Honour or any requitall fo● those favours I have or can yet grant them This Honour they doe me to put me o● the giving part which is more princely an● divine They cannot ask more than I can give may I but reserve to my self the incommunicable Jewell of my Conscience and not be forced to part with that whose loss nothing ca● repair or requite Some things which they are pleased to propound seem unreasonable to Me and whil● I have any mastery of My Reason how ca● they think I can consent to them who kno● they be such as are inconsistent with being eithe● a KING or a good Christian My yeilding so much as I have already makes some men confident I will deny nothing The love I have of My Peoples peace hath indeed great influence upon me but the love of Truth and inward peace hath more Should I grant some things they require I should not so much weaken My outward state of a King as wound that inward quiet of My Conscience which ought to be is and ever shall be by Gods grace dearer to Me than My kingdomes Some things which a King might approve yet in Honour Policy are at some time to be denyed to some men lest he should seeme not to dare to deny any thing and give too much incouragement to unreasonable Demands or importunities But to bind My selfe to a generall and implicite consent to what ever they shall desire or propound for such is one of their Propositions were such a latitude of blind obedience as never was expected from any Free-man nor fit to be required of any man much lesse of a King by His owne Subjects any of whom he may possibly exceed as much in wisdome as he doth in place and power This were as if Sampson should have consented not only to bind his owne hands and cut off his hair but to put out his own eyes that the Philistins might with the more safety mock and abuse him which they chose rather to doe then quite to destroy him when he was become so tame an object fit occasion for their sport and scorne Certainly to exclude all power of deniall seemes an arrogancy least of all becomming those who pretend to make their addresses in a● humble and loyall way of petitioning who by that sufficiently confesse their owne inferiority which obligeth them to rest if not satisfied y● quieted with such an answer as the will and reason of their Superiour thinks fit to give wh● is acknowledged to have a freedome and powe● of Reason to Consent or Dissent else it wer● uery foolish and absurd to ask what anothe having not liberty to deny neither hath powe to grant But if this