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conscience_n	david_n	heart_n	smite_v	1,341	5	9.6931	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94101	The subjects sorrow: or, Lamentations upon the death of Britains Josiah, King Charles most unjustly and cruelly put to death by His own people, before His Royal Palace White-Hall, Jan. the 30. 1648. Expressed in a sermon upon Lam. 4. 20. Wherein the divine and royal prerogatives, personall vertues, and theologicall graces of His late Majesty are briefly delivered: and that His Majesty was taken away in Gods mercy unto Himselfe, and for the certain punishment of these Kingdoms, from the parallel is clearly proved.	Brown, Robert, fl. 1668, attributed name.; Juxon, William, 1582-1663, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing S6106B; ESTC R206110	26,786	95

general and distant survey of this blessed circuit flowing with milk and honey King Charles his Celestial gifts and graces As Jove principium His religious piety renders it self glorious in his great love fear and honour of God His zeal and devout frequency in prayer receiving the Sacraments and reading the holy Scriptures his reverence in Gods House his attention unto Gods word preached the esteem he had of Gods Messengers his hatred of Heresie and the zealous care he had as it was consistent with charity to propagate the true worship of God the Protestant Religion this in the purity thereof he established by his Laws enlarged with his Regall Authority cleansed from that Rust it had contracted through the Atheism and ignorance of the Times by the contemptibleness of the outward worship adorned with Decency and Order in the publique service and with cost upon the places dedicate unto that service but chiefly he beautified it with the glorious example of his holy life and encouragement of the Officers thereof whom he rewarded with the rewards of Honour and Maintenance His Royall Palace as Theodosius Juniors was a constant Receipt for learned and pious Prelats whom he entertained and cherished as the Servants of the great God Socrat. l. 7. c. 22. and Dispensers of the mysteries and means of Grace which as it was an especiall and infallible mark of the sincerity of his humble piety so through the supercilious irreligion of the times did that which should have most endeared him unto Christians draw neglect and contempt upon him from them and those Great ones too who love nothing of Christianity but the naked name he knew that Church-maintenance was the best Nurse of Religion and therefore no weight of difficulties could so press upon him to alien Gods portion the Patrimony of the Church to preserve which from the sacrilegious invasion of the first movers of these Troubles who thought the best way to shake off Government was to destroy Religion and the most effectuall and quick course to destroy Religion to take away Church-maintenance He tendred the sale of so much Crown-land as would amount unto the value of the Church-land That great and strict care he took to keep the Throne and Kingdom of God in his Soul His Conscience inviolable shews that although he made his abode among Men yet his Conversation was in Heaven The continuall acknowledged remorse he was seized with for consenting against the dictate of his Conscience unto the Earl of Strafford's death speaks him another David and A Man after Gods own heart such were the tender impressions that Act ever left in him 1 Kings 1.1 as David when he cut off the skirt of Sauls garment his heart smote him and indeed his Majesty found that fate which the Rabbins assigne unto David's fact that he found no heat in his cloaths afterwards So His Majesty found not that comforting warmth in the advices of others which he did in the solid Counsels of that ever to be honoured Earl How many invincible Arguments have we of his Majesties singular sanctimony How in that his great Tryall of his afflictions did the abundance of his joy the riches of his graces and the absolute and compleat contentation of piety shine forth in all his speeches and actions as that first great Patron of Christianity Constantine the Great would have his Effigies kneeling engraven on his Coyne Euseb vit Const m. l. 4. c. 15. with his hands spread and his eyes advanced towards Heaven the posture of an humble suppliant at the Throne of Grace so did our late most Religious KING desire that unto that his Golden Manuall might be prefixed his Representation kneeling contemning a Temporall holding our blessed Saviours Crown of Thorns and aspiring unto an eternall Crown of Happiness which clears unto us that his large Soule was not possessed with narrow and temporall considerations but with the regards of lasting and eternal Interests so that of all the Christian Kings of this Isle he may be positively said the most Christian From his piety let us pass over unto his prudence which although it be fairly measured out unto us in his great piety the practise whereof is the supreme prudence and best evidence of a good Understanding yet morally considered as it is an habit acting in humane affairs by the ordered rules of Reason we shall find his Majesty nobly accomplished with this Vertue furnished with a strong memory of things past with a sound judgment in their reference and relation unto things present with a clear and quick apprehension to discern the operations and tendencies of Occurrents and with a singular providence and wise disposition of things fit to attain unto his ends which were ever honourable and worthy of so great a Prince who ever judged a Christian simplicity the best policy With the gravest Nation of Europe the Spaniard he gained in his younger years the reputation of A sober grave wise Prince which will fully appear if we look upon him in his particular relations His Majesty was a most kind Husband religiously observant of the holy ties of Wedlock a tender and indulgent Father unto his Children unto whom he paid the due of Paternall care in their religious and royall Education His Kingly bounty unto his Servants shew him a liberall and good Master and his good affection unto his People whose welfare he ever prized above his owne and unto the last minute was much more afflicted from the sence of theirs than his own sufferings shew him a most gracious Soveraign And however he was by those who long since took away his Civill life and destroyed his royall reputation with his Subjects to set up themselves and drive on their own ends represented a Prince of mean and contemptible endowments and unfit for Government the whole World now sees their gross falshood and their Confessions give the Lie unto their loud and lewd Calumnies for since his solitary and close Confinement when he could have no Counsell but what he fetched from Heaven all rationall and unprejudiced men see His sober wise satisfactory and resolute Answers unto all their arrogant dull destructive dissolute Propositions so that it is a positive and measur'd judgment made from the whole carriage of his transactions with this Parliament that he was incomparably the wisest Prince in Christendome and better understood the Constitution and affairs of his Kingdomes than any man now living Neither may we here as the constant Attendant and sworn Servant unto his princely prudence but with wonder reflect upon his Kingly Eloquence his flowing and as Tacitus speaks of Augustus King-becoming stile sweet pure acurate perspicuous grave full of copious facility and elegant felicity without strained affectation or servile and forced imitation so that had he not some naturall difficulties in Pronuntiation he would have been approved the best Oratour and perfect Master of Language as he was of Reason that ever Britain yet bred but who ever