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A87760	King Charles his farewell Left as a legacy to his deare children; written a little before his death. Containing many excellent admonitions and directions how to demeane themselves in all estates and conditions. With his prayers in the time of his troubles.; Eikon basilike. Selections	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing K552; Thomason E1410_2; ESTC R209521	13,170	35

palliations for any designes as other men so that you study really to exceed in true and constant demonstrations of goodnesse piety and vertue towards the people even all those men that make the greatest noise and ostentations of Religion so you shall neither feare any detection as they doe who have but the face and mask of goodnesse nor shall you frustrate the just expectations of your people who cannot in Reason promise themselves so much good from any Subjects novelties as from the vertuous constancy of their King When these mountaines of congealed factions shall by the Sunshine of Gods mercy and the splendor of your vertues be thawed and dissipated and the abused Vulgar shall have learned that none are greater Oppressours of their Estates Liberties and Consciences than those men that entitle themselves The Patrons and Vindicators of them onely to usurpe power over them Let then no passion betray you to any study of revenge upon those whose own sinne and folly will sufficiently punish them in due time But as soone as the forked arrow of factious emulations is drawn out use all princely arts and clemency to heale the wounds that the smart of the cure may not equall the anguish of the hurt I have offered Acts of Indemnity and Oblivion to so great a latitude as may include all that can but suspect themselves to be any way obnoxious to the Laws and which might serve to exclude all future jealousies and insecurities I would have you alwayes propense to the same way when ever it shall be desired and accepted let it be granted not onely as an act of State policy and necessity but of Christian charity and choice It is all I have now left Mee a power to forgive those that have deprived Mee of all and I thank God I have a heart to doe it and joy as much in this grace which God hath given Me as in all My former enjoyments for this is a greater argument of Gods love to Me than any prosperity can be Be confident as I am that the most of all fides who have done amisse have done so not out of malice but mis-information or mis-apprehension of things None will be more loyall and faithfull to me and you than those Subjects who sensible of their Errours and our Injuries will feele in their own Souls most vehement motives to repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for their former defects As your quality sets you beyond any Duell with any Subject so the Noblenesse of your minde must raise you above the meditating any revenge or executing your anger upon the many The more conscious you shall be to your own merits upon your people the more prone you will be to expect all love and loyalty from them and to inflict no punishment upon them for former miscarriages You will have more inward complacency in pardoning one than in punishing a thousand This I write to you not despairing of Gods mercy and My Subjects affections towards you both which I hope you will study to deserve yet We cannot merit of God but by his own mercy If God shall see fit to restore Me and You after Me to those enjoyments which the Laws have assigned to Us and no Subjects without an high degree of guilt and sin can devest Us of then may I have better opportunity when I shall be so happy to see you in peace to let you more fully understand the things that belong to Gods glory your own honour and the Kingdoms peace But if you never see My face again and God will have Me buried in such a barbarous Imprisonment and obscurity which the perfecting some mens designs require wherein few hearts that love me are permitted to exchange a word or a look with Me I doe require and entreat you as your Father and your KING that you never suffer your heart to receive the least check against or dis-affection from the true Religion established in the Church of England I tell you I have tryed and after much search and many disputes have concluded it to be the best in the world not onely in the Community as Christian but also in the speciall notion as Reformed keeping the middle way between the pomp of superstitious Tyranny and the meannesse of fantastick Anarchy Not but that the draught being excellent as to the main both for Doctrine and government in the Church of England some lines as in very good figures may happily need some sweetning or polishing which might here have easily been done by a safe and gentle hand if some mens precipitancy had not violently demanded such rude alterations as would have quite destroyed all the beauty and proportions of the whole The scandall of the late Troubles which some may object and urge to you against the Protestant Religion established in England is easily answered to them or your own thoughts in this That scarce any one who hath been a beginner or an active Prosecutor of this late Warre against the Church the Laws and Me either was or is a true Lover Embracer or Practiser of the Protestant Religion established in England which neither gives such rule nor ever before set such examples 'T is true some heretofore had the boldnesse to present threatning Petitions to their Princes and Parliaments which others of the same Faction but of worse Spirits have now put in execution but let not counterfeit and disorderly zeal abate your value and esteeme of true piety both of them are to be known by their fruits the sweetnesse of the Wine and Figtree is not to be despised though the Brambles and Thorns should pretend to beare Figs and Grapes thereby to rule over the Trees Nor would I have you to entertain any aversation or dislike of Parliaments which in their right constitution with freedome 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 Nor would the eveats of this blacke Parliament have been other than such however much byassed by Factions in the Elections if it had been preserved from the insolencies of popular dictates and tumultuary impressions The sad effects of which will no doubt make all Parliaments after this more cautious to preserve that Freedome and Honour which belongs to such Assemblies when once they have fully shaken off this yoak of Vulgar encroachment since the publique interest consists in the mutuall and common good of both Prince and People Nothing can be more happy for all than in fair grave and Honourable wayes to contribute their Counsels in Common enacting all things by publique consent without tyranny or Tumults Wee must not starve our selves because some men have surfeited of wholsome sood And if neither I nor you be ever restored to our Rights but God in his severest justice will punish My Subjects with continuance in their sin and suster them to be deluded with the prosperity of their wickednesse I hope

KING CHARLES HIS FAREWELL LEFT As a Legacy to his deare CHILDREN Written a little before his Death Containing Many Excellent Admonitions and Directions how to demeane themselves in all Estates and Conditions WITH His Prayers in the time of His Troubles LONDON Printed for SKG 1649. KING CHARLES HIS FAREWELL SON if these Papers with some others wherein I have set downe the private reflections of my Conscience and my most impartiall thoughts touching the chiefe passages which have been most remarkable or disputed in my late troubles come to your hands to whom they are chiefly designed they may be so farre usefull to you as to state your judgement aright in what hath passed whereof a pious is the best use can be made and 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 kinde of deceiving and lessening the injury of my long restraint when I finde my leisure and solitude have produced something worthy of my selfe and usefull to you That neither You nor any other may hereafter measure My Cause by the Successe nor my Judgement of things by my Mis-fortunes which I count the greater by far because they have so far lighted upon You and some others whom I have cause most to love as well as my Selfe and of whose unmerited sufferings I have a greater sense than of mine Own But this advantage of wisdome You have above most Princes that You have begun and now spent some yeares 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 publique 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 and Rehoboam The one prepared by many afflictions for a flourishing Kingdom the other softned by the unparaleld prosperity of Solomons Court and so corrupted to the great diminution both for Peace Honour and Kingdom by those flatteries which are as unseparable from prosperous Princes as Flies are from fruit in summer whom adversity like cold weather drives away I had rather you should be 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 and Gifts bestowed upon you which may best weed out all vitious inclinations and dispose you to those Princely endowments and employments which will most gain the love and intend the wel-fare of those over whom God shall place you With God I would have you begin and end who is King of Kings the Soveraign disposer of the Kingdomes of the world who pulleth downe 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 civill Power with Justice and Honour to the publique 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 soule at last To which Center of true happinesse God I trust hath and will graciously direct all these black lines of affliction which he hath been pleased to draw on me and by which he hath I hope drawn me nearer to himselfe You have already tasted of that Cup whereof I have liberally drank which I look upon as Gods Physick having that in healthfulnesse which it wants in pleasure Above all I would have you as I hope you are already well grounded and setled in your Religion The best profession of which I have ever esteemed that of the Church of England in which you have been educated yet I would have your own Judgement and Reason now seal to that sacred bond which education hath written that it may be judiciously your own Religion and not other mens custome or tradition which you professe In this I charge you to persevere as coming nearest to Gods Word for Doctrine and to the primitive examples for Government with some little amendment which I have otherwhere expressed often offered though in vaine Your fixation in matters of Religion will not be more necessary for your souls then your Kingdoms peace when God shall bring you to them For I have observed that the Devill of Rebellion doth commonly turne himself into an Angel of Reformation and the old Serpent can pretend new Lights when some mens Consciences accuse them for Sedition and 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 and most auspicious beginning of their worst defignes Where beside the Noveltie which is taking enough with the Vulgar every one hath an affectation by seeming forward on an outward Reformation of Religion to be thought zealous hoping to cover those irreligious deformities whereto they are conscious by a severitie of censuring other mens opinions or actions Take heed of abetting any Factions or applying to any publick Discriminations in matters of Religion contrary to what is in your Judgement and the Church well setled your partiall adhering as head to any one side 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 and their profession first despised then persecuted by you Take such a course as may either with calmness and charitie quite remove the seeming differences and offences by impartiality or so order affaires in point of power that you shall not need to feare or flatter any faction for if ever you stand in need of them or must stand to their courtesie you are undone The Serpent will devour the Dove you must never expect lesse of loyalty justice or humanity then from those who engage into religious Rebellion Their interest is alwayes made Gods under the colours of Piety ambitious policies march not onely with greatest security but applause as to the populacy you may heare from them Jacob's voyce but you shall feele they have Esau's hands Nothing seemed less considerable than the Presbyterian