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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35571	Not popery, but the Protestant religion the support of the crown. Confirmed out of the mouth of that blessed martyr King Charles I. of pious memory. With other of his sayings and instructions concerning both religion and government, worthy to be seriously considered by all Protestants.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1682 (1682)	Wing C82; ESTC R1051	4,179	4

you all That I die a Christian according to the Profession of the Church of England as I found it left to me by my Father c. In his first Paper to Mr. Hindrrson He declares how he was by his Father King James whom none could call in question in the particular of Religion brought up in the right Religion not Popery mark that and that he had laid in him the grounds of Christianity in which he had continued to that day and that nothing made him reverence the Church of England more than that its Reformation was effected neither with Multitude or with Tumult but legally and orderly and by such who had only the Reforming Power And as he had been well instructed and settled in the True Protestant Religion himself so he endeavoured to instruct and fix his Children as the Relation under the Lady Elizabeths own hand testifies being some of his last words to her to ground her against Popery recommending to her reading for that end Bishop Andrews's Sermons Hooker's Ecclesiastical Policy and Bishop Laud's Book against Fisher And thus he instructed his Son our now Dread Sovereign in his Icon Basilicon Above all says he I would have you well grounded and settled in your Religion that of the Church of England in which you have been educated c. And again I charge you to persevere in it as coming nearest to Gods Word for Doctrine and to the Primitive Examples for Govèrnment c. And a little after Your Fixation in matters of Religion will not be more necessary for your Souls than your Kingdoms Peace when God shall bring you to them And in the same Advice laid down to his Son he proceeds after this manner If you never see my Face again I require and entreat you as your Father and your King that you never suffer your heart to receive the least check against or dissatisfaction from the true Religion established in the Church of England I tell you I have try'd it and after much search and many disputes have concluded it to be the best in the World c. And not only as to Religion did this Blessed King and Martyr give instructions to the Prince his Son now our Sovereign but also in other matters of Government worthy to be Recorded in Letter of Gold and which no doubt are fixed deeply in His Majesties Memory and will not be forgotten by him among the many others he advises him and says Never repose so much upon any Mans single Councel Fidelity and Discretion in managing Affairs of the first Magnitude that is matters of Religion and Justice as to create in your self or others a diffidence of the Judgment which is likely to be always more Constant and Impartial to the Interests of your Crown and Kingdom than any mans Next beware of exasperating any Factions by the crosness and asperity of some mens Passions Humors or private Opinions imployed by you grounded only vpon the differences in lesser matters which are but the Skirts and Suburbs of Religion Wherein a charitable connivance and Christian Toleration often dissipates their strength whom rougher opposition fortifies and puts the despised and oppressed Party into such Combinations as may most enable them to get a full Revenge on those they count their Persecutors who are commonly assisted by that vulgar Commiseration which attends all that are said to suffer under the Notion of Religion Always keep up solid Piety and those Fundamental Truths which mend both hearts and Lives of Men with impartial favour and Justice Take heed that the outward Circumstances and Formalities of Religion devour not all or the best encouragements of Learning Industry and Piety but with an equal eye and impartial hand distribute favours and rewards to all men as you find them for their real goodness both in abilities and fidelity worthy and capable of them This will be sure to gain you the hearts of the best and the most too who though they be not good themselves yet are glad to see the severer ways of Virtue at any time sweetned by Temporal Rewards I would not have you to entertain any aversation or dislike of Parliaments which in their right Constitution with Freedom and Honour will never injure or diminish your Greatness but will rather be as interchangings of Love Loyalty and Confidence between a Prince and his People Thus we see on what Pious Foundations of both Religion and Justice this King built his Policies the Protestant Religion he esteemed his Glory and the Prop of the English Crown Parliaments the Peoples Love Liberties and Properties he esteemed his Chief Support and a wrong to them an injury to his own Right Popery he held absolutely inconsistent with the Constitution of this Realm and no doubt did never nxpect that one out of his Loines who was Martyr'd for the Protestant Cause and the Church of England should ever declare for the Church of Rome be a Professor of it and give hopes to the Papists of setting up their Authority and Dominions in these Kingdoms FINIS London Printed for L. C.