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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87776	The kingly myrrour, or King Charles his last legacy to the prince his son. Written a little before his death. Containing many excellent instructions and directions, how to carry himselfe in all estates and conditions. And may serve as a good monitor for all the princes in Christendome.	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing K588; Thomason E1317_5; ESTC R209063	8,741	24

THE Kingly Myrrour OR King Charles His last Legacy to the Prince His Son Written a little before His Death Containing Many excellent instructions and Directions how to carry Himselfe in all Estates and Conditions AND May serve as a good Monitor for all the Princes in Christendome Aprill 11th London Printed for C. V. 1649. The Kingly Myrrour SOn If these Papers with some others wherin I have set downe the private reflections of my conscience and my most impartial thoughts touching the chiefe passages which have bin most remarkable or disputed in my late troubles come to your hands to whom they are cheifly designed they may be so far useful to you as to state your judgement aright in what hath passed whereof a pious is the best use can be made they may also give you some directions how to remedy the present distempers and prevent if God will the like for time to come It is some kind of deceiving lessening the injury of my long restraint when I find my leisure solitude have produced something worthy of my self useful to you That neither You nor any other may hereafter measure My Cause by the successe nor my judgement of things by my misfortunes which I count the greater by far because they have so far lighted upon you and some others whom I have cause to love as wel as my self and of whose unmerited sufferings I have a greater sense then of mine own But this advantage of wisdome You have above most Princes that You have begun and now spent some years of discretion in the experience of troubles and exercise of patience wherein Piety and all Vertues both Morall and Politicall are commonly better planted to a thriving as trees set in winter then in the warmth and serenity of times or amidst those delights which usually attend Princes Courts in times of peace and plenty which are prone either to root up all plants of true vertue and honour or to be contented only with some leaves and withering formalities of them without any reall fruits such as tend to the publick good for which Princes should alwayes remember they are born and by providence designed The evidence of which different education the holy Writ affords us in the contemplation of David Rehoboham The one prepared by many aflictions for a flourishing kingdom the other softened by the unparaleld prosperity of Solomons Court and so corrupted to the great diminution both for peace honor and Kingdom by those flatteries which are as unseparable from prosperous Princes as Flies are from fruit in summer whom adversitie like cold weather drives away I had rather you should bee Charles le Bon then le Grand good then great I hope God hath designed you to be both having so early put you into that exercise of his graces gifts bestowed upon you which may best weed out al vitious inclinations and dispose you to those Princely endowments and employments which will most gain the love and intend the welfare of those over whom God shall place you With God I would have you begin and end who is King of Kings the Soveraigne disposer of the Kingdomes of the world who pulleth down one and setteth up another The best Government and highest Soveraignty you can attain to is to be subject to him that the Scepter of his Word and Spirit may rule in your heart The true glory of Princes consists in advancing Gods glory in the maintenance of true Religion and the Churches good Also in the dispensation of civil Power with Justice and Honour to the publicke peace Piety will make you prosperous at least it will keep you from being miserable nor is he much a loser that loseth all yet saveth his own soul at last To which Center of true happines God I trust hath and wil graciously direct all these black lines of affliction which he hath been pleased to draw on me by which he hath I hope drawn me nearer to himself You have already tasted of that Cup whereof I have liberally drank which I look upon as Gods Phisick having that in healthfullnesse which it wants in pleasure Above all I would have you as I hope you are already wel-grounded settled in your Religion the best profession of which I have ever esteemed that of the church of England in which you have bin educated yet I would have your own Judgement and Reason now seale to that sacred bond which education hath written that it may be judiciously your owne Religion and not other mens custome or tradition which you professe In this I charge you to preserve as comming nearest to Gods Word for Doctrine to the primitive examples for Government with some little amendment which I have otherwhere expressed often offered though in vain Your fixation in matters of Religion wil not be more necessary for your soul then your Kingdoms peace when God shall bring you to them For I have observed that the Devill of Rebellion doth commonly turne himselfe into an Angel of Reformation and the old Serpent can pretend new Lights when some mens consciences accuse them for sedition faction they stop its mouth with the name and noise of Religion when Piety pleads for peace and patience they cry out Zeal So that unlesse in this point You be well setled you shall never want temptations to destroy you and yours under pretensions of reforming matters of Religion for that seemes even to worst men as the best most auspicious beginning of their worst designs Where besides the Novilty which is taking enough with the Vulgar every one hath an affection by seeming forward to an outward Reformation of Religion to be thought zealous hoping to cover those irreligious deformities wherto they are conscious by a severity of censuring other mens opinions or actions Take heed of abetting any Factions or applying to any publicke Discriminations in matters of Religion contrary to what is in your judgement and the Church wel setled your partial adhering as head to any oneside gains you not so great advantages in some mens hearts who are prone to be of their Kings Religion as it loseth you in others who think themselves their profession first despised then persecuted 〈◊〉 you take such a course as may either with calmnes charity quite remove the seeming differences offences by impartiality or so order affairs in point of power that you shal not need to fear or flatter any faction for if ever you stand in need of them or must stand to their courtesie you are undon the Serpent will devour the Dove you may never expect less of loyalty justice or humanity then from those who ingage into religious rebellion Their interest is always made Gods under the colors of Piety ambitions policies march not only with greatest security but applause as to the populacy you may hear from them Iacobs voice but you shall feel they have Esau's hands Nothing seemed less considerable then

wickednesse I hope God will give me and you that grace which wil teach and enable us to want as well as to wear a Crown which is not worth taking up or enjoying upon sordid dishonourable and irreligious termes Keep you to true principles of piety vertue and honour you shall never want a kingdom A principle point of your honour wil consist in your deferring all respect love and protection to your mother my Wife who hath many waies deserved well of me and chiefly in this that having been a means to blesse me with so many hopeful children 〈◊〉 all which with their mother I recommend to your love and care shee hath been content with incomparable magnanimity and patience to suffer both for and with me and you My prayer to God almighty is what even becomes of me who am I thank God wrapt up and fortified in my own innocency and his Grace that he would be pleased to make you an Anchor or Harbour rather to these tossed and weather-beaten Kingdoms a Repairer by your wisedom justice piety and love of what the folly and wickednesse of some men have so far ruined as to leave nothing intire in Church or state to the crown the Nobility the Clergy or the Commons either as to Laws liberties estates order honour conscience or lives When they have destroyed me for I know not how far God may permit the malice and cruelty of my enemies to proceed and such apprehensions some mens words and actions have already given me as I doubt not but my blood will cry aloud for vengeance to Heaven so I beseech God not to pour out his wrathupon the generality of the people who have either deserted me or ingaged against me through the artifice and hypocrisie of their Leaders whose inward horror will be their first Tormenter nor will they escape exemplary judgements For those that loved me I pray God they may have no misse of Me when I am gone so much I wish and hope that all good Subjects may be satisfied with the blessings of your presence and vertues For those that repent of any defects in their duty toward me as I freely forgive them in the word of a Christian King so I beleeve you will find them truly Zealous to repay with interest that loyalty and love to you which was due to me In summe what good I intended doe you perform when God shall give you power much good I have offered more I purposed to Church and State if times had been capable of it The disception will soon vanish and the Vizard will fall off a pace This maske of Religion on the face of Rebellion for so it now plainly appeares since my Restraint and cruell usage that they sought not for me as was pretended will not long serve to hide some mens deformities Happy times I hope attend you wherein your Subjects by their miseries will have learned That Religion to their God and Loyalty to their King cannot bee parted without both their sinne and their infelicity I pray God blesse you and establish you● Kingdoms in righteousnesse your Soule in true Religion and your honor in the love o● God and your people And if God will have disloyalty perfected by my destruction let my memory ever with my name live in you as of your Father that loves you and once a King of three flourishing Kingdoms whom God thought fit to honor not only with the Scepter government of them but also with the suffering many indignities an untimely death for them while I studied to preserve the rights of the Church the power of the Laws the honor of my Crown the priviledges of Parliaments the liberties of my people and my own Conscience which I thank God is dearer to me then a thousand Kingdoms I know God can I hope he yet will restore me to my Rights I cannot dispair either of his mercy or of my peoples love and pity At worst I trust I shal but go before you to a better Kingdom which God hath prepared for me and me for it through my Savior Jesus Christ to whose mercies I commend you and all mine Farewell till We meet if not on Earth yet in Heaven FINIS