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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38480	Eikon basilike deutera, The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty King Charles II with his reasons for turning Roman Catholick / published by K. James.; Eikon basilike.		1694 (1694)	Wing E312; ESTC R14898	141,838	350

as they propose for the Advancement of Religion and Liberty CHAP. XXVII On his Majesty's being proclaim'd by the Parliament His magnificent Entrance into London and injoying the Countess of Castlemain the first Night MY Designs have taken and my Subjects are thereupon returned to their Duty so that now I am recall'd by the Consent of the Nation who were wearied by the Oppressions of the late Anarchy I may now with Safety put off my Vizard in some measure and say with Pope Sixtus V. that it 's needless to stoop any longer now that I have found the Keys The People I perceive are come to a high Flight of Loyalty so that my small Escapes will not be taken notice of And seeing all this Solemnity is for me why should not I chiefly reap the Sweets of it If the Subjects indulge themselves as to Wine and Women upon this occasion why should the same be denied to their Soveraign The best way to carry on my Designs is to begin my Reign with Jollity which will be grateful to those who have been so long restrain'd from Liberty By this means I shall be sure to have the strongest Party for all Mens natural Inclinations which the Precisians call Lusts and Corruptions will be certainly for me and if once they get a Vent will break out like an Inundation now that they have so long been under a Restraint The youthful Nobility and Gentry will certainly adore my Reign on this account as August and Splendid and the Churchmen will be glad to be from under the Checks and Grimaces of the Puritans so that the Whole being immers'd in Jollity and Pleasure they 'l quickly leave off the Cant of Religion and Property and they who do otherwise will be made the Subject of publick Ignominy Why may not I have the Countess of Castlemain as well as David had Bathsheba The Solemnity of this Day is a much more excusable Tentation than his viewing of a beautiful Woman from the top of his House If I be privately reproach'd as having invaded another Man's Property I can tell them publickly that Princes are not to be limited as private Men they have a Right to the Persons and Goods of their Subjects and who ought to say to a King What dost thou If I keep them from incroaching upon one another they may very well allow me my Liberty I am accountable to none but God and him I will venture to take in my own Hand the Advancement of the Catholick Church will atone for all other Miscarriages so that as to this I have no reason to be sollicitous a good End will hallow the worst of Means and seeing those who are called the debauchedst of Men have sometimes Pangs and Gripes of Conscience a Licentiousness of Practice is the best Method of the World to reduce such to the Church of Rome because Pardons may be had for the highest of Crimes so that a Man may enjoy the Pleasures of Sin and not only be freed from the Punishment due to it but also assur'd of Heaven at last And herein the Pope does as much as Mahomet though under a Vail of greater Modesty and secures to his Followers the Pleasures both of this World and that which is to come so that I shall take care by this Method to pave the way for the Return of Popery and make it appear that Debauchery is look'd upon by me as the best Test of Loyalty as indeed it will be for sure I am that Debauchees as foolish Men call those who indulge the innocent Appetites of Nature will never be Enemies to a Reign which allows them in it but on the contrary will be my surest Defence against all the Attempts of the Puritanical Precisians CHAP. XXVIII On the Parliament's condemning the Regicides and appointing an Anniversary Humiliation on the Day of King Charles I's Murder NOW when the Kingdom is in a Ferment of Loyalty I must take care to revenge my Father's Death wherein I shall be sure of the Concurrence of the Parliament because that same Hand which cut off his Head cut off their Privileges but I must push it further than I 'm afraid they will be willing and by my Friends and Pensioners procure an Act for an Anniversary Commemoration of my Father's Murder by which I shall blazon his Vertues to all Posterity and load his Enemies with the Height of Reproach which will mightily tend to the Establishment of my Prerogative for by crying out against his Murder all manner of Opposition against Soveraigns will be condemn'd I am sure of having the Church of England's Assistance because those that destroyed him did also destroy them so that they will certainly defend his Cause as their own and the more that they extol my Father the more they depress their own Enemies so that I need not doubt but the Church-men will express themselves with all the Hyperboles imaginable to display the Horridness of the Murder and the Piety and singular Vertues of their Martyr which will be of special Use to support my Pretensions to an absolute Monarchy for when the Generality of the Pulpits ring with Declamations for Passive Obedience it will create an Universal Abhorrence of all such as are for any manner of Resistance which the Church-men will find themselves oblig'd to promote that they may throw Dirt upon the Presbyterians who are Enemies to their Hierarchy And thus by keeping the Protestants at Enmity amongst themselves and the stiffest and most obstinate amongst them under the Hatches I shall be the better enabled to destroy the whole and bring in Popery by Degrees if not by Head and Shoulders But as to the Regicides to have them condemned has been no hard matter because the Parliament did never approve of their Proceedings and from their Condemnation I shall reap this Advantage that the Means must fall under the same Censure with the Instruments and all things which contributed to my Father's Death as a pretended Zeal for Religion and the Privileges of the People will be look'd upon as certain Marks of Disloyalty CHAP. XXIX On his Majesty's dissolving the Parliament which called him in and summoning another THis Parliament hath done all that I am to expect from them and therefore it 's expedient that I should dissolve them it not being safe to trust too much to a Parliament that has such an Alloy I must summon another which will be fitter for my purpose and bring in as many of my Companions in Exile as I can Their Spirits are imbitter'd by their former Sufferings and their Purses are still sensible of their Sequestrations which will make them the more eager for a Revenge and to help it on I will still keep them low and feed them with Promises to carry on my Designs I must now begin to think of my Engagements to the Catholicks and towards the better accomplishing of them must restore the Bishops which I can easily do now that the House is fill'd with

certainly happen if none of those who are accus'd be brought to Punishment I must seem to countenance the Prosecution of the Plot to prevent the Peoples having any Pretence for executing Justice themselves which by the great Multitude of Swordmen that attended Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's Corps to the Grave I may reasonably conjecture they have Inclination enough to do And seeing these hot-headed Fellows who were intrusted with the Commission to kill him had so little Prudence as to commit the Fact within the Verge of my Consort 's Palace it behoves me to give way to Justice against them lest the world should think it had been contriv'd at Whitehall And the time of the Parliament's Meeting drawing near I must be very cautious how I take my Measures and contrive in what manner it 's fit to accost them CHAP. LXVII On his Majesty's Apology to the Parliament October 21 1678. for keeping up his Army His demanding of Money and acquainting them with the Plot and Danger from Popery The Vote of the Commons upon the Plot and Orders to apprehend the Earl of Powis and four other Popish Lords Their passing of the Bill for raising the Militia and his Majesty's refusing it The Execution of Coleman and some other Plotters of less note THE Parliament being to meet I must bethink my self of an Apology for not disbanding my Army according to the Act. And seeing they insisted so much upon the Preservation of Flanders as the Barrier of this Nation I must urge the Necessity there was of keeping them on foot for that end and so turn their own Arguments against them which will by the Assistance of my Friends draw a Vail before the Peoples Eyes and at the same time this affords me a specious Reason for demanding Money as having spent what they gave me last to maintain the Army And if this should raise Heats amongst them as I have Reason to think it may I shall thence have a justifiable Pretence for proroguing them again as designing a manifest Invasion of the Rights of the Crown And by this means I shall acquit my self of my Promises to the Catholicks in preventing a thorow Scrutiny into their late Plot and give those hot-headed Bigots who intended my Death a convincing Evidence how necessary it is for them in their present Circumstances to preserve my Life for if I should happen to miscarry at this Juncture when the Kingdom is in a Ferment on account of their Conspiracy it will certainly issue in the Ruine of their Affairs and the perpetual Exclusion of my Brother from the Throne his Enjoyment of which is the thing that they expect with so much Impatience But that I may the better screen my self from the Jealousies of the Parliament it 's necessary that I should inform them of the Popish Plot and the Danger of my Person and the Protestant Religion if they don't fall upon effectual means to prevent it This cannot in Justice give any reasonable Ground of Offence to my Friends the Catholicks seeing I only dissemble to do them the more Service Nor have they any greater reason to be angry at my suffering some of the inferiour sort to be cut off and some of the chief ones committed it being always good Policy rather to lose a Part than hazard the whole This I shall take care to impart to the great ones and so long as I secure my Interest with them I need not value the other The Commons I perceive are not to be diverted by a false Scent as I did hope they would by my Apology for continuing the Army and new Demand of Money but are now very eager in pursuit of the Plot and have voted it a damnable Design to root out their Religion and Government have procured Warrants to apprehend the Earl of Powis with the Lords Stafford Arundel Peters and Bellasis so that I must of necessity comply with committing them to the Tower where I shall take care to keep them in salva though not in arcta custodia and by that means save them from popular Fury By my compliance in this I shall the better stave off the Odium of refusing the Bill for raising the Militia though the Commons have voted it as necessary for their Safety And I can easily palliate my so doing under the Notion of a Tenderness for my Prerogative which being an old Plea can never be suspected of being fram'd on purpose to favour the Plot though at the same time I have no more Cause to repose my self on the Fidelity of the Country than they have to entrust me with a Standing Army I have met with no such Encouragement of late from their Civil Representatives in Parliament as to make me confide in their Military Representatives in an Army The Militia of the Nation were never Friends to my Father nor do I know what reason they have for a greater Respect to the Son If I should gratify the Commons in this I have reason to dread the Issue for having been so bold as to libel my Administration when they had no Forces to back them I have no reason to doubt but that they would advance a Step higher if they should have an Army which they could depend upon Let them exclaim against my Conduct for denying to raise the Militia though at the same time they are encompassed with an illegal Army as loud as they can I am to prefer my own Interest to their Humour and will always value my own Prerogative and Pleasure above the Will of my Subjects who were born for me and not I for them according to the Doctrine of their own beloved Church which can never stand if Popery fall and I doubt not but their Clergy will quickly have their Eyes open to see it for whenever the Tide runs strong against Popery their Bishops decline and Dissenters are favoured and whenever the Stream is turn'd against the Phanaticks the Mitres triumph and Papists are encouraged of which my Father's Reign and mine have afforded many incontrovertible Instances and I doubt not but the Event will verify my having been a true Prophet Foul Water quenches Fire as well as that which is clean and so the Death of some of the meanest Plotters will satisfy the present Resentments of the People And thus the greatest of Cities will condemn their own Suburbs to Destruction in case of a Siege so they can but save the Body of the Place The Heathen Romans thought it their Honour to devote themselves to the Infernal Gods to regain a Battel in hazard to be lost and why should not the Christian Romans follow their Example Those ordinary Fellows who have suffered on account of the Plot will have more than a sufficient Compensation by a Place in the Roman Kalendar of Saints so that they have no reason to upbraid me for suffering the Law to take place against them since according to their own Doctrine their Martyrdom does not only merit a Release from Purgatory but the