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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69969	Eikōn basilikē The porvtraictvre of His sacred Maiestie in his solitudes and svfferings. Together with His Maiesties praiers delivered to Doctor Juxon immediately before his death. Also His Majesties reasons, against the pretended jurisdiction of the high court of justice, which he intended to deliver in writing on Munday January 22, 1648.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Reliqiæ sacræ Carolinæ.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.; Dugard, William, 1602-1662. aut	1649 (1649)	Wing E311; ESTC R39418	116,576	254

objected against him so clear as after a long and fair hearing to give convincing satisfaction to the major part of both Houses especially that of the Lords of whom scarce a third part were present when the Bill passed that House And for the House of Commons many Gentlemen disposed enough to diminish My L. of Straffords greatnes and power yet unsatisfied of his guilt in Law durst not condemne him to die who for their integrity in their Votes were by poasting their names exposed to the popular calumny hatred and fury which grew then so exorbitant in their clamours for Justice that is to have both my self and the two Houses vote and do as they would have us that many 't is thought were rather terrified to concur with the condemning party then satisfied that of right they ought so to do And that after Act vacating the authority of the precedent for future imitation sufficiently tells the world that some remorse touched even his most implacable Enemies as knowing he had very hard measure and such as they would be very loath should be repeated to themselves This tendernesse and regret I find in my soul for having had any hand and that very unwillingly God knows in shedding one mans bloud unjustly though under the colour and formalities of Justice and pretences of avoiding publike mischiefs which may I hope be some evidence before God and Man to all posterity that I am far from bearing justly the vast load and guilt of all that bloud which hath been shed in this unhappy War which some men will needs charge on Me to case their own soules who am and ever shall be more afraid to take away any mans life unjustly then to lose my own But thou O God of infinite mercies forgive me that act of sinfull complyance which hath greater aggravations upon Me then any Man Since I had not the least temptation of envie or malice against him and by my place should at least so farre have bin a preserver of him as to have denied my consent to his destruction O Lord I acknowledge my transgression and my sin is ever before me Deliver me from bloudguiltiness O God thou God of my salvation and my tongue shal sing of thy righteousness Against thee have I finned and done this evill in thy sight for thou sawest the contradiction between my heart and my hand Yet cast me not away from thy presence purge me with the blood of my Redeemer and I shall be clean wash me with that pretious efusion and I shall be whiter then snow Teach me to learn Righteousnesse by thy Judgements and to see my frailtie in thy Justice while I was perswaded by shedding one mans bloud to prevent after-troubles thou hast for that among other sins brought upon Me and upon My Kingdomes great long and heavie troubles Make me to preferre Justice which is thy wil before all contrarie clamours which are but the discoveries of mans iniurious will It is too much that they have once overcome me to please them by displeasing thee O never suffer me for any Reason of State to go against my Reason of Conscience which is highly to sin against thee the God of Reason and Iudg of our Consciences Whatever O Lord thou seest fit to deprive me of yet restore unto me the ioy of thy Salvation and ever uphold me with thy free Spirit which subiects my will to none but thy light of Reason Justice and Religion which shines in my Soule for thou desirest Truth in the inward parts and integritie in the outward expressions Lord hear the voice of thy Sons and my Saviours Bloud which speaks better things O make me and my people to hear the voice of ioy gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may reioice in thy Salvation 3 Upon His Maiestes going to the House of Commons MY going to the House of Commons to demand justice upon the 5. Members was an act which my enemies loaded with all the obloquies and exasperations they could It filled indifferent men with great jealousies and fears yea and many of my freinds resented it as a motion rising rather from Passion than Reason and not guided with such discretion as the touchines of those times required But these men knew not the fast motives and pregnant grounds with which I thought my self so furnished that they needed nothing to such evidence as I could have produced against those I charged save only a free legall Triall which was all I desired Nor had I any temptation of displeasure or revenge against those mens persons further then I had discovered those as I thought unlawful correspondencies they had used engagements they had made to embroyle my Kingdomes of all which I missed but little to have produced writings under some mens owne hands who were the chief contrivers of the following innovations Providence would not have it so yet I wanted not such probabilities as were sufficient to raise jealousies in any Kings heart who is not wholly stupid and neglective of the publick peace which to preserve by calling in question halfe a dozen men in a fair and legall way which God knows was all my design could have amounted to no worse effect had it succeeded then either to do me and my Kingdome right in case they had bin found guilty or else to have clear'd their innocency and removed my suspitions which as they were not raised out of any malice so neither were they in Reason to be smothered What flames of discontent this spark though I sought by all speedy and possible means to quench it soon kindled all the world is witnes The aspersion which some men cast upon that action as if I had designed by force to assault the House of Commons and invade their priviledge is so false that as God best knows I had no such intent so none that attended Me could justly gather from any thing I then said or did the least intimation of any such thoughts That I went attended with some Gentlemen as it was no unwonted thing for the Majesty and safety of a King so to be attended especially in discontented times so were my followers at that time short of my ordinary guard and no way proportionable to hazard a tumultuary conflict Nor were they more scared at my comming then I was unassured of not having some affronts cast upon me if I had none with me to preserve a reverence to me For many people had at that time learned to think those hard thoughts which they have since abundantly vented against Me both by words and deeds The summe of that businesse was this Those men and their adherents were then looked upon by the afrighted vulgar as greater Protectors of their Lawes and Liberties then my self and so worthier of their protection I leave them to God and their own Consciences who if guilty of evill machinations no present impunity or popular vindications of them will be subter fuge sufficient to rescue

come far short of Davids piety yet since I may equall Davids afflictions give Me also the comforts and the sure mercies of David Let the penitent sense I have of my sins be an evidence to me that thou hast pardoned them Let not the Evils which I and my Kingdomes have suffered seem little unto thee though thou hast no● punished us according to our sins Turn thee O Lord unto Me have mercy upon Me for I am desolate and afflicted The sorrows of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles Hast thou forgotten to be gracious and shut up thy loving kindnesse in displeasure O Remember thy compassions of old and thy lovi●g kindnesse which have been for many Generations I had utterly fainted if I had not believed to see thy goodnes in the land of the living Let not the sins of our prosperity deprive us of the benefit of thy afflictions Let this fiery tryall consume the dross which in long peace and plenty we had contracted Though thou continuest miseryes yet withdraw not thy grace what is wanting of prosperity make up ●n patience and repentance And if thy anger be not to be yet turned away but thy ●and of iustice most be stretched out still Let it I beseech thee be against me and my Fathers house as for these sheep what have they done Let my sufferings satiate the malice of Mine and thy Churches Enemies But let their cruelty never exceed the measure of my charity Banish from me all thoughts of Revenge that I may not lose the reward nor thou the glory of my patience As thou givest me a heart to forgive them so I beseech thee doe thou fergive what they have done against thee and me And now O Lord as thou hast given me an heart to pray unto thee so hear and accept this Vow which I make before thee If thou wilt in mercy remember me and My Kingdoms In continuing the light of thy Gospell and setling thy true Religion among us In restoring to us the benefit of the Laws and the due execution of ●●●tice In suppressing the many Schisms in Church and Factions in State If thou wilt restore me and mine to the anci●nt Rights and glory of my Predecessours If thou wilt turne the hearts of My people to thy self in Piety to me in Loyalty and to one another in Charity If thou wilt quench the flames and withdraw the fewell of these Civill Wars If thou wilt bless us with the freedom of publique Counsels and deliver the Honour of Parliaments from the insolency of the Vulgar If thou wilt keep me from the great offence of enacting any thing against my Conscience and especially from consenting to sacrilegious rapines spoilings of thy Church If Thou wilt restore Me to a capacity to gloref●e Thee in doing good both to the Church and State Then shall my soule praise thee and magnifie thy name before my People Then shall thy glory be dearer to me then my Crownes and the advancement of true Religion both in purity and power be My chiefest care Then will I rule my People with iustice and my Kingdomes with equity To thy more immediate hand shall I ever owne as the rightfull succession so the mercifull restauration of My Kingdomes and the glory of them If thou wilt bring Me again with peace safety honour to my chiefest City and my Parliament If thou wilt againe put the Sword of Iustice into my hands to punish and protect Then will I make all the world to see and my very Enemics to enioy the benefit of this Vow and resolution of Christian Charity which I now make unto thee O Lord. As I do freely pardon for Christ's sake those that have offended me in any kind so my hand shall never be against any man to revenge what is past in regard of any particular iniury done to me We have been mutually pnnished in our unnaturall divisions for thy sake O Lord for the love of my Redeemer have I purposed this in my heart That I will use all means in tbe wayes of amne●ly and indempnity which may most fully remove all fears and bury all iealousies in forgetfulnesse Let thy mercies be toward me and mine as my resolutions of Truth and Peace are toward my People Hear my prayer O Lord which goeth not out of fayned lips Blessed be God who hath not turned away my prayer nor taken his mercy from Me. O my soule commit thy way to the Lord trust in him and he shall bring it to passe But if thou wilt not restore me and mine what am I that I should charge thee foolishly Thou O Lord hast given and thou hast taken Blessed be thy name May my people and thy Church be happy if not by me yet without me 26 Vpon the Armies Surprisall of of the King at Holmeby and the ensuing destractions in the two Houses the Army and the City VVHat part God will have Me now to act or suffer in this new and strange scene of affaires I am not much solicitous since little practise will serve that man who onely seeks to represent a part of honesty and honour This surprize of Me tells the world that a KING cannot be so low but He is considerable adding weight to that Party where he appeares This motion like others of the Times seemes excentrique and irregular yet not well to be resisted or quieted Better swim down such a stream than in vaine to strive against it These are but the struglings of those twins which lately one womb enclosed the younger striving to prevaile against the elder what the Presbyterians have hunted after the Independents now seek to catch for themselves So impossible is it for lines to be drawn from the center and not to divide from each other so much the wider by how much they go farther from the point of union That the Builders of Babell should from division fall to confusion is no wonder but for those that pretend to build Ierusalem to divide their Tongues and hands is but an ill omen and sounds too like the fury of those Zealots whose intestine bitternesse and divisions were the greatest occasion of the last fatall destruction of that City Well may I change my Keepers and Prison but not my captive condition onely with this hope of bettering that those who are so much professed Patrons for the Peoples Liberties cannot be utterly against the Liberty of their King what they demand for their own Consciences they cannot in Reason deny to Mine In this they seem more ingenuous than the Presbyterian rigour who sometimes complaining of exacting their conformity to laws are become the greatest Exactors of other mens submission to their novell injunctions before they are stamped with the Authotity of Lawes which they cannot well have without my consent 'T is a great argument that the Independents think themselves manumitted from their Rivals service in that they carry on a businesse of such consequence as the