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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78962	His Majesties prayers which he used in time of his sufferings. Delivered to Doctor Juxon, Bishop of London, immediately before his death, with his severall speeches to his children, (viz.) the Duke of Glocester, and the Lady Elizabeth. And a letter from the Prince to the King his father.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1649 (1649)	Wing C2539; Thomason E1317_2; ESTC R209047	4,184	16

My salvation hereafter Grant this ô mercifull Father for his sake who suffered for Me even Jesus Christ the Righteous Amen FINIS A Copy of a Letter which was sent from the PRINCE to the KING Dated from the Hague Jan. 23. 1648. SIR HAving no means to come to the knowledge of your Majesties present condition but such as I receive from the Prints or which is as uncertain report I have sent this bearer Seamour to wait upon your Majesty to bring me an account of it that I may withall assure your Majestie I do not onely pray for your Majestie according to my Duty but shall alwaies be ready to doe all which shall be in my power to deserve that blessing which I now humbly beg of your Majestie upon SIR Your Majesties most humble and most obedient Son and servant CHARLS Hague Jan. 23. 1648. The Subscription was thus For the King Munday 29 January 1648. A true Relation of the RINGS Speech to the Lady Elizabeth and the Duke of Glocester the day before his Death HIs Children being come to meet Him He first gave His blessing to the Lady Elizabeth and bad her remember to tell her brother Iames when ever shee should see him That it was his Fathers last desire that he should no more looke upon Charls as his eldest brother onely but be obedient unto him as his Sovereign and that they should love one another and forgive their Fathers enemies Then said the King to her Sweet-heart you l forget this No said she I shall never forget it while I live and pouring forth abundance of Tears promised Him to write downe the particulars Then the King taking the Duke of Glocester upon His knee said Sweet heart now they will cut off thy Fathers Head upon which words the Child looked very stedfastly on him Mark Child what I say They will cut off my Head and perhaps make thee a King But mark what I say You must not be a King so long as your brother Charls and Iames doe live For they will cut off your Brothers heads when they can catch them and cut off thy head too at the last and therefore I charge you do not be made a King by them At which the Child sighing said I will be torn in peeces first Which falling so unexpectedly from one so young it made the King rejoyce exceedingly Another Relation from the Lady Elizabeths own Hand WHat the King said to me the 29 of Janua 1648. being the last time I had the happinesse to see Him He told me He was glad I was come and although he had not time to say much yet somewhat he had to say to me which he had not to another or leave in writing because He feared their cruelty was such as that they would not have permitted Him to write to me He wished me not to grieve and torment my selfe for Him for that would be a glorious death that He should die it being for the Laws and Liberties of this Land and for maintaining the true Protestant Religion He bid me read Bishop Andrews Sermons Hockers Ecclesiasticall Policie and Bishop Lauds Book against Fisher which would ground me against Popery He told me he had forgiven all his Enemies and hoped God would forgive them also and commanded Us and all the rest of my Brothers and Sisters to forgive them He bid me tell my Mother that His thoughts had never strayed from Her and that His love should be the same to the last Withall He commanded me and my Brother to be obedient to Her and bid me send His blessing to the rest of my Brothers and Sisters with commendation to all His friends so after He had given me His blessing I tooke my leave Further He commanded Us all to forgive those people but never to trust them for they had been most false to Him and to those that gave them power and he feared also to their own soules and desired me not to grieve for Him for he should die a Martyr And that he doubted not but the Lord would settle His Throne upon His Son and that we should be all happier than we could have expected to have been if he had lived With many other things which at present I cannot remember ELIZABETH Another Relation from the Lady Elizabeth THe King said to the Duke of Glocester that he would say nothing to him but what was for the good of his soule He told him that He heard that the Army intended to make him King but it was a thing not for him to take upon him if he regarded the welfare of his soul for he had two Brothers before him and therefore commanded him upon His blessing never to accept of it unlesse it redounded lawfully upon him and commanded him to feare the Lord and he would provide for him FINIS

HIS Majesties PRAYERS Which He used in time of h●● SUFFERINGS Delivered To Doctor Juxon Bishop 〈◊〉 London immediately before his Death With his severall Speeches to hi● Children Viz. the Duke of Glocester and the Lady Elizabeth And A Letter from the Prince to th● King his Father Aprill 16 Printed at London Anno. Dom. 1649. A Prayer in time of Captivity O Powerfull and Eternall 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 let thy infinite power vouch-safe to limit out some proportion of deliverance unto Me as to thee shall seeme most convenient let not injurie O Lord triumph over Me and let My faults by thy hand be corrected and make not My unjust Enemies be Ministers of thy Justice But yet My God if in thy wisedome this be the aptest chastisement for My unexcusable transgressions if this ingratfull bondage the fittest for My over-high desires if the pride of My not enough humbled heart be thus to be broken O Lord I yield unto Thy will and cheerfully imbrace what sorrow Thou wilt have Me suffer Onely thus much let Me crave of Thee let My craving O Lord be accepted of since it even proceeds from Thee that by Thy goodnesse which is Thy selfe Thou wilt suffer some beame of Thy Majesty so to shine in My minde that I who in My greatest afflictions acknowledge it My Noblest Title to be thy Creature may still depend confidently on Thee Let Calamity be the exercise but not the overthrow of My vertue O let not their prevailing power be to my destruction And if it be Thy will that they more and more vex Me with punishment yet O Lord never let their wickednesse have such a hand but that I may still carry a pure mind and stedfast resolution ever to serve Thee without feare or presumption yet with that humble confidence which may best please Thee so that at the last I may come to Thy eternall Kindome through the Merits of thy Son our alone Saviour Iesus Christ Amen Another PRAYER ALmighty and most mercifull Father looke down upon Me Thy unworthy servant who here prostrare My selfe at the Foot-stool of Thy Throne of Grace but looke upon Me O Father through the Meditation and in the Merits of Jesus Christ in whom thou art onely well pleased for of my selfe I am not worthy to stand before Thee or to speak with my uncleane lips to Thee most holy and eternall God for as in sin I was conceived and borne so likewise I have broken all thy Commandments by My sinfull motions unclean thoughts evill words and wicked works omiting many duties I ought todo committing many vices which thou hast forbiden under pain of thy heavy displeasure as for My sins O Lord they are innumerable wherefore I stand here liable to all the miseries in this life and everlasting torments in that to come if Thou shouldest deale with Me according to My deserts I confesse O Lord that it is thy mercy which endureth for ever and Thy compassion which never fails which is the cause that I have not been long ago consumed but with Thee there is mercy and plenteous Redemption in the multitude therfore of Thy mercies and by the merits of Jesus Christ I intreat Thy divine Majestie that thou wouldst not enter into judgement with Thy servant nor be extreame to mark what is done amisse but be thou mercifull unto Me and wash away all My sins with that precious bloud that My Saviour shed for Me. And I beseech Thee O Lord not only to wash away all My sins but also to purge My heart by thy holy Spirit from the drosse of My naturall corruption and as thou dost adde daies to My life so good Lord I beseech thee to adde repentance to my dayes that when I have past this mortall life I may be partaker of thy everlasting Kingdome through the Merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer by Confession made in and for the time of affliction ALmighty and most mercifull Father as it is only Thy goodnesse that admits of our imperfect Prayers and the knowledge that Thy mercies are infinite which can give us any hope of thy accepting or granting them so it is our bounden and necessary duty to confesse our sinnes freely unto Thee and of all men living I have most need most reason so to do no man having bin so much obliged by Thee no man more grievously offending Thee that degree of knowledge which thou hast given Me adding likewise to the guilt of My transgressions For was it through ignorance that I suffered innocent bloud to be shed by a false pretended way of justice or that I permitted a wrong way of Thy worship to be set up in Scotland And injured the Bishops in England O no but with shame and griefe I confesse that I therein followed the perswasions of worldly wisedome forsaking the dictates of a right informed Conscience Wherefore O Lord I have no excuse to make no hope left but in the multitude of thy mercies for I know My repentance is weake and My prayers faulty Grant therefore mercifull Father so to strengthen My repentance and amend My prayers that Thou mayest cleare the way for Thine owne mercies to which O let thy Justice at last give place putting a speedy end to My deserved afflictions In the mean time give Me patience to endure Constancy against temptations and a discerning Spirit to choose what is best for Thy Church and people which Thou hast committed to My Charge Grant this O most mercifull Father for Thy Son Jesus Christs sake our only Saviour Amen A Prayer in time of iminent Danger O Most mercifull Father though My sins are so many and grievous that I may rather expect the effects of Thy anger than so great a deliverance as to free Me from My present great dangers yet ô Lord since Thy mercies are over all thy works and thou never failest to relieve all those who with humble and unfained repentance come to Thee for succour it were to multiply not diminish My transgressions to dispair of thy heavenly favour wherefore I humbly desire Thy Divine Majesty that Thou wilt not onely pardon all My sins but also free me out of the hands and protect Me from the malice of My cruell Enemies But if thy wrath against My hanious offences will not otherwaies be satisfied then by suffering Me to fall under my present afflictions Thy will be done yet with humble importunity I do and shall ever leave to implore the assistance of thy heavenly Spirit that My cause as I am Thy Vicegerent may not suffer through my weaknesse want of courage O Lord so strengthen and enlighten all the faculties of My minde that with clearness I may shew forth thy Truth and manfully endure this bloudy Tryall that so My sufferings here may not only glorifie Thee but likewise be a furtherance to