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A44227	Vindiciæ Carolinæ, or, A defence of Eikon basilikē, the portraicture of His Sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings in reply to a book intituled Eikonoklastes, written by Mr. Milton, and lately re-printed at Amsterdam.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.; Wilson, John, 1626-1696.	1692 (1692)	Wing H2505; ESTC R13578	84,704	160

of his Favourites I thought to have pass'd that The King 's Reverend Statute as he calls it for Dominical Jiggs and Maypoles publish'd in his own Name and deriv'd from the Example of his Father James And had so done but that it being spoken to the People upon the Wall I also thought it could be no hurt to undeceive them in the matter Statute I am sure there is none in the case and if there were Where lies the Blame But thus it is The Sabbatarians and Anti-Sabbatarians the one holding the Fourth Commandment to be simply moral and everlastingly oblig'd Christians as well as the Jews the other that it was the same with other days and to make it a Jewish Sabbath was but Will-worship had come from Pens to Blows nor would the labouring sort of People who had no other time of Recreation be depriv'd of that And thereupon the King sets forth a Declaration for tolerating Sports on the Lord's Day in the Afternoon Wherein as it is confess'd he was not without Precedent at home and has ever been and now is the Practice of Holland and Geneva And why all this Cry Godwin's Jewish Antiquity p. 112. Even the Jews had their Sabbath-days Journey and for my part I should sooner trust a Man that after the Service of the Day is over takes a harmless Diversion on a Sunday than him that runs from Sermon to Sermon and cheats his Neighbour when he comes home The Baker of Banbury that whipp'd his Cat for killing a Mouse on the Lord's Day came ofter to Sessions than any two of the Trade And this saith this Accuser is the Substance of his first Section till we come to the devout of it which he calls the Lip-work of every Prelatical Liturgist clapp'd together and quilted out of Scripture-Phrase c. And makes it the Policy of a Tyrant to counterfeit Religions As for Example Andronicus Comnenius the * Constantinople Bizantine Emperor who by A constant reading of Saint Paul's Epistles had so incorporated the Phrase and Stile into his familiar Letters that the Imitation seem'd to vie with the Original Yet this avail'd not to deceive the People of that Empire who notwithstanding his Saint's Vizard tore him to pieces for his Tyranny To the Malice of which I shall only make this return That as he travail'd with Iniquity he hath conceiv'd Mischief Psal 7.14 and brought forth Falshood When yet if he had gone no farther than his own time he might have spoken Truth though not cum Privilegio For what were all the Actions of those his Masters but Theatrical Hypocrisie A mere Shell and outside of Religion and Rebellion blanch'd and varnish'd with dissembled Sanctity And therefore instead of Andronicus he might have better instanc'd in Oliver Cromwell who had it to a Hair and never so fervently sought God as when he acted most strongly against him What he might have been at his Pen I know not but for knocking his Breast lifting up his Eyes attesting God and invoking Imprecations on himself if he did not that which he never intended he should have given Andronicus a Barr and an half and out-thrown him too though this by the way I must take leave to say it was not altogether Andronicus's Tyranny but his Usurpation and Murther of his Predecessor and Nephew Alexius Comnenius that gave him that Tragical Exit And again for he cannot speak without bitterness where the King says I intended not only to oblige my Friends but my Enemies also exceeding even the desires of those that were Factiously discontented if they did but pretend to any modest and sober Sense He says thus Poets never put more pious Words in the Mouth of any Person than of a Tyrant and I shall not instance an abstruse Author wherein the King might be less conversant but one whom we well knew was the Closet-Companion of these his Solitudes William Shakespear who brings in Richard the Third speaking in as high a strain of Piety and Mortification as is in any Passage of this Book c. And what 's this but mere Malice to expose the King to the Censure of the Rabble How A King and have such Books in his Closet As if he alone were confin'd to The Crumbs of Comfort The Sick-man's Salve and The Minc'd-meat of Divinity When Alexander for the most part carried Homer in his Pocket and Virgil Horace Terence were not least in request with Augustus nor do I think but there are many things in Mr. Shakespear that may be safer read than a Seditious Sermon Lastly he as opprobriously as infamously endeavours another blot to his Memory in rendring His Majesty so insensible of that sad hour which was upon him as immediately before his Death to pop into the Hand of that grave Bishop who attended him a Prayer stollen Word for Word from Sir Philip Sidney 's Arcadia a vain amatorious Poem as he calls it and that in a Language estrang'd to Humanity which never insults over even a Slave in Misery And therefore passing that Scurrillity for fear of being infected my self I say thus It seems improbable that he to whom as Solomon says of himself God had given to speak as he would Wisd 7.15 and conceive as is meet for the things to be spoken of should be guilty of so open a borrowing without some acknowledgment at least to the Author I said ere while that I saw and read a part of the King's Book the very next Morning after that execrable Murther to which I add this now and with that regard as if it were my last that it was not many days before I bought it my self and frequently read it with the best attention I wa● capable of nor do I remember to have met i● in that Quarto Impression And I have an O●ctavo of a later Edition now before me in which it is not However it first came into the Book it makes so little to the purpose in this Place that nothing but Envy Hatred Malice and al● Uncharitableness had ever thought of it unles● as Malitia supplet aetatem Malice supplies Years he also did it for want of Argument But stay And I 'll suppose for once tha● His Majesty did give this Prayer to the Bishop and if he did where lies the Scandal The Prayer 't is true is the Prayer of Pamela under Imprisonment Sir Ph. Sid. Arcadia 248. but withal so Divine a Meditation that it speaks the Soul of the Honourable Composer What is that Thought of Mr. Sherley's Only the Actions of the Just Smell sweet and Blossom in their Dust the worse that it is in one of his Plays Or is it a just Quarrel to the English Liturgy that it is taken out of the Roman Missal St. Paul convinces the Athenians of the unknown God Arts 17.28 whom they ignorantly worshipp'd from their own Poets Titus 1.12 And in his Epistle to Titus does not bid him Cretizare cum Cretensibus but

Example of both Fortunes and of a Mind unchang'd in the greatest change of either A Prince Learned Eloquent Affable Courteous and born for the Good of Mankind his Lot had fallen among a better People One i● a word who if he had any fault it was h● not timely adverting his Father's dear-bough Experience who thus confesses of himself Where I thought by being gracious at th● beginning to win all Men's Hearts to a loving and willing Obedience Basilicen Doron p. 23. I on the contrary found the disorder of the Country an● the loss of my Thanks to be all my Reward Which how truly it was verified in this H●● Son will be the Subject of the ensuing Discourse And so I come to this Accuser and hi● Book in the examining which I shall follow his own Method and as he pretends to answer the King make him a suitable Reply and tha● also with as much brevity as I can for neither needeth so much Barbarity any Aggravation nor so plentiful an Argument as the Vindication of an oppress'd King any Art to infor●● it But I stay too long in the Porch The King's Meditations are thus Intituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is as the English Title speaks it Th● Portraicture of His Sacred Majesty And this Answer of Milton's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is the Breaker-in-pieces of that Portraicture Which how he has done Sub Judice L●est CHAP. I. Vpon the King's calling his last Parliament THAT saith he which the King lays down here as his first Foundation Milton p. 1. and as it were the Head Stone of his whole Structure That he called this last Parliament not more by others advice and the necessity of his affairs than by his own choice and inclination is to all knowing Men so apparently not true that a more unlucky and inauspicious Sentence and more betokening the downfal of his whole Fabrick hardly could have come into his Mind And a good mannerly beginning A Man may not say to the King What dost thou and yet it seems may tell him Eccles 8.4 He lyes And without proving any thing but throwing it out boldly that somewhat may stick charges the Court Parasites as he calls them with their averseness to Parliaments and that the King never called a Parliament but to supply his Necessities and having supplied those as suddenly and ignominiously dissolv'd it without redressing any one Grievance of the People And broke off the Parliament at his coming to the Crown for no other cause than to protect the Duke of Buckingham against them who had accused him besides other heinous Crimes of no less than poysoning the deceased King his Father In reply to which it is but necessary to take notice of the condition of that time The Parliament had engaged King James in a War with Spain in which the Parliment 1 Car. 1. deserted his Son He had a large Dominion and a flourishing Kingdom left him but as I said a War and an empty Treasury with it beside which King James died in Debt To the City of London One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Pounds Vid. Annals of K. Charles 1 ●in R●● 1. and ●●r R●●w C●ileet 1 Pa●● F● 179. besides Interest For Denmark and the Palatinate One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds For his Wardrobe Forty Thousand Pounds Laid out for his Navy Twenty Thousand Pounds For Count Mansfield Twenty Thousand Pounds For the Expence of his Fathers Funeral Forty two Thousand Pounds For the Queen Forty Thousand Pounds And to equip and pay the Navy for the Expedition for the Palatinate Three Hundred Thousand Pounds And what was worse than all this there had follow'd King James out of Scotland a sort of People whom himself calls Puritans very Pests in the Church and Common-weal whom no deserts can oblige Bas●●●n Dor●● p. 31. nor Oaths or Promises bind breathing nothing but Sedition and Calumnies aspiring without measure railing without reason and making their own Imaginations the Square of their Conscience These Men had by degrees spread themselves through City and Country and watch'd the People like Hawks so long till they could do any thing with them and sow what they pleas'd as they found them napping Nor wanted there some of the same Kidney here among our selves who under the specious pretences of easing the People had got the command of most of their Purse-strings King James 't is true might have helpt it at first if his Beati Pacisici that is Give Peace in our time O Lord had not been too much in his Light by which means all Remedies in his Son's time came too late and joyn'd with the Disease to the destruction of the Body In this Case what could King Charles the First do Monarchy is more Ancient and Independant than Parliaments and yet their Advice and Assistance makes it more compacted He calls a Parliament in the first Year of his Reign which sate not long And another in his Second in which he lets them know his and the Kingdoms condition and particularly that of the Palatinate Instead of answering which they fall into Debates and Reflections against the Duke of Buckingham and at a Conference of both Houses Vid. The 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 in 〈…〉 p. 15. ●● 1. p. 104. the Commons deliver in an Impeachment of thirteen Articles against him the last of which was That the King being sick of an Ague at Theobald's the Duke had given him a Plaister and a Posset-drink without the Advice and Consultation of his Physicians Three days after the King by message to them takes upon himself as having full knowledge of all those transactions to clear the Duke of every one of those Articles P●●● C●● 〈…〉 However the Duke makes his Defence to the Lords and puts in his Answer and Plea to the Impeachment made against him by the Commons And to the thirteenth Article says That having been recovered himself of an Ague by a Plaister and Posset-drink given him by a Physician of the Earl of Warwick's the King impatiently press'd to have it but was delayed by the Duke who pray'd the King not to make use of it but 〈◊〉 the Advice of his own Physicians nor till it w●● tryed upon one Palmer of the Bed-Chambe● then also sick of an Ague which the King said he would do However the Duke being go●● to London the King would have it and 〈◊〉 took it and upon his return hearing a Rumo●● that the Physick had done the King hurt as that it had been administred by him witho●● Advice the Duke acquaints the King with i●● who with much discontent answer'd thus The● are worse than Devils that say it And so having put in his Answer the Duke moves th● Lords that the Commons might expedite the Reply Instead of doing which they Petitio● the King against Papists and suspected Papist holding Places of Authority and Trust in th●● Kingdom and draw a Remonstrance again● the Duke and Tonnage and Poundage

about Six Thousand tumultuously flock to Westminster crying Justice Justice against the Earl of Strafford Which within a day or two they second with a Petition On which the Earl less valuing his Life than the quiet of the Kingdom writes a Letter to the King whereby to set his Conscience at Liberty and by his own Consent prays him to pass the Bill which in a few days after was by Commission to the Earl of Arundel and three other Lords accordingly done with this Proviso That no Judge or Judges c. shall adjudge or interpret any act or thing to be Treason nor hear or determine any Treason any other way than they should or ought to have done before the making of this Act and as if this Act had never been had or made A modest Confession and that nothing but an Act of Parliament could affect him Nor unlike that Clause in an Ordinance of the King and Lords for the Banishment c. of the Lady Alice Pierce a Favourite of King Edward the Third's viz. That this Ordinance in this Special Case Mr. Seld●n's Privilege of Baronage 71 which may extend to a Thousand other Persons shall in no other case but this be taken in Example However after the Bill was pass'd the King as deeming They will reverence my Son wrote a Letter to the House of Lords with his own Hand and sent it by the Prince of Wales in which he interceeds for that Mercy to the Earl which many Kings would not have scrupled to have given themselves But 't was resolv'd and nothing would do And thus between Accumulative and Constructive Treason nor better prov'd than I have shewn before Sic inclinavit heros caput Taken from Mr. Cleveland Belluae multorum Capitum Merces favoris Scottici praeter pecunias Nec vicit tamen Anglia sed oppressit Or if my Reader had rather have it in English take it from that happy Flight of Sir Richard Fanshaw on that Occasion And so fell Rome herself oppress'd at length By the united World and her own Strength And yet not to leave his Memory in the Dust there is an Act of Parliament that vindicates all I have said in the matter and that is The Act for reversing this Attainder 13 14. Car. 2. c. 29. which says thus That the Bill of Attainder was purposely made to Condemn him upon Accumulative and Constructive Treason none of the said Treasons being Treason apart and so could not be in the whole if they had been prov'd as they were not And the Act further says It was procured by an armed Tumult the names of Fifty nine of the Commons that opposed the Bill posted by the name of Straffordians and sent up to the Peers at a time when a great part of them were absent by reason of those Tumults and many of those present protested against it For which Causes and to the end that Right be done to the Memory of that deceased Earl it was enacted c. That the said Act c. be repeal'd c. And all Records and proceedings of Parliament relating to the said Attainder be cancell'd and taken off the File c. to the intent the same may not be visible in after-Ages or brought in Example to the prejudice of any Person whatever Provided that this Act shall not extend to the future questioning of any Person c. however concern'd in this Business or who had any hand in the Tumults or disorderly procuring the Act aforesaid c. A shrewd suspicion that they thought that Act of Attainder was not so regularly obtain'd as it ought to have been for if it had what needed that Proviso And having duely considered this Act I think the Wonder will cease why the King was so dissatisfied in his Conscience touching the giving his Assent to that Bill of Attainder His Speech on the Scaffold or that the Lord Capel so publickly begg'd forgiveness of God for having given his Consent toward it At least I presume it may startle any Man that from such repeated Calumnies has not yet come to be of our Answerer's Opinion That there may be a Treason against the Commonwealth as well as against the King only A Treason not mention'd in 25 Edw. 3. or in any Statute since saving those of the late Usurper's making inasmuch as no Estate or Estates of the Realm make any thing of themselves but as joyned to their Figure the King And therefore passing the King 's most detested Conspiracy as he calls it against the Parliament and Kingdom by seizing the Tower of London bringing the English Army out of the North c. I leave him and his Stuff together and come to the Third CHAP. III. Vpon His going to the House of Commons I Said ere-while His Majesty might think the Lords would reverence his Son nor was in to be doubted whether the Commons would himself Especially considering the business he went about It was faith the King to demand Justice upon the Five Members whom upon just motives and pregnant grounds I had charged and needed nothing to such Evidence as could have been produced against them save only a free and legal Tryal which was all I desired Which fill'd indifferent Men with Jealousies and Fears yea and many of my Friends resented as a motion rising rather from Passion than Reason See says our Answerer He confesses it to ●an act which most Men whom he calls his Enemies cried shame upon indifferent Men c. as before He himself in one of his Answers to both Houses made profession to be convinc'd that it was a plain breach of their Privilege Yet here like a rott● Building newly trimm'd over he represents it speciously and fraudulently to impose upon the simple Reader c. Words insolent enough without adding the rest though it had not been from his Matter if he had told that simple Reader in which Answer of his Majesties he might have found that Profession However for the discovery of the Truth on both sides it may not be amiss to make a few steps backward that considering the occasion we may the better judge of the thing It had been advis'd to the King by the then Privy-Council of Scotland to send the Book of Common-Prayer to be receiv'd and us'd in all Churches of that Kingdom The King's Declaration 1639. which was accordingly order'd And in the Month of July 1637. publickly read in the great Church of Edinburgh The Kirkmen took fire at it nor wanted there some in England to fan the Flame which in a short time got that head that they invade England but finding the design not ripe enough yet they humbly submit and the business is smother'd Whereas had those smoaking Brands been sufficiently quench'd they had not made a greater Eruption the next Year During this time the King had gotten into the matter and calls this Parliament with a real intention of quieting all They begin where the last Parliament

shewn wherein this Book had been so ill or unwisely settled But were there That had been to question the Godliness and Wisdom of the Compilers of it whom Mr. Fox calls Martyrs or what was worse 2 and 3 Ed. 6. c. 1. run foul of the Statute that says It was concluded by the aid of the Holy-Ghost But says he Edward the Sixth confesses it was no other than the Old Mass-Book done into English and modell'd no farther off it lest by too great an alteration they should incense the People And prudently one would think because to run farthest from what one was last may be a sign that he has altered his Opinion but no Argument that it is for the better But the point lies elsewhere The Universities had thrown more Truants abroad than the Church of England either could or thought fit to provide for to have gone back again they were too well known and to set up in the Country there requir'd no more but a few Notes at St. Mary's and a double Portion of Lungs and Confidence for Words says he will follow of themselves And if they had the knack of laying Damnation home to them whom should the People run after but those that could save them As if a Man had a Sore Leg and he should go to an honest judicious Chirurgeon and he should only bid him keep it warm and anoint it with such an Oil an Oil well known and that would do the Cure haply he would not much regard him because he knows beforehand the Medicine is but ordinary But if he should go to a Quack that should tell him your Leg will Gangrene in three days and must be cut off or you 'll die unless you do something that I could tell you what listning would there be to this Man Oh for the Lord's Sake tell me what it is I will give you any Content for you Pains And such was the Trade of these Men they cry'd down the Common-Prayer not that they could justly find any fault with that Dose of prepar'd Words as he calls it but make the better way for their own Enthusiasms whereas there seems no reason why a Man may not as well Pray in a Set-Form which is commanded as Sing in a Set-Tone which was never so much as recommended But we 'll examine it a little It is the advice of the Preacher Be not rash with thy Mouth Eccles 5. v. 2. and let not thy Heart be hasty to utter any thing before God For God is in Heaven and thou upon Earth therefore let thy Words be few And when the Disciples besought our Saviour to teach them to Pray Luke 11.1 as John also taught his Disciples how easy had it been for him if he had approv'd this Extemporary way to have bade them take no care for what they should say for it should be given them in that Hour Whereas on the contrary Math. 6.7.9 he not only forbade them the use of vain Repetitions as the Heathen do but laid an Injunction on them to pray after this manner Our Father which art in Heaven c. And denounced Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees for devouring Widows Houses under a Pretence of long Prayer Mar. 12.40 In a word and if the Authority of Holy Writ be of any force I think our Gifted Men may make up their Packs unless they produce some equal Authority to counterbalance it and if they shall not there was besides that Authority an Act of Parliament in the Case which no Ordinance could ever amend much less abrogate but least of all were Cranmer Ridley Latimer c. alive would they thank him for saying this English Mass-Book was Composed for ought we know by Men neither Learned nor Godly CHAP. XVII Of the differences between the King and the two Houses in point of Church-Government TOuching the Government of the Church by Bishops saith His Majesty the common Jealousie hath been that I am earnest and resolute to maintain it not so much out of Piety as Policy and reason of State And saith our Answerer hath been so fully prov'd from the Scriptures to be vicious and usurp'd that whether out of Piety or Policy maintain'd it is not material With this further that we may have learnt from Sacred Story and times of Reformation that the King 's of this World have both ever hated and instinctively feared the Church of God But that they have been so prov'd to be as he says he takes it for granted that his Assertion is Proof enough for other he gives none unless it be that Pharaoh when he grew jealous least the Israelites should multiply and fight against him his Fear stirr'd him up to afflict and keep them under And to the same drift this King and his Father found the Bishops most Serviceable And now 't is all out and we see what that Church of God he means is viz. The Seditious Exorbitancy of Ministers Tongues which his Father and himself and Queen Elizabeth before them so Instinctively nor without just cause had reason to suspect A sort of People which King James the first calls Proud Puritans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 65. who cry we are all but vile Worms and yet will judge and give Law to their King but will be judged nor controul'd by none And some Leaves before Id. p. 30. Informing the People that all Kings and Princes were naturally Enemies to the Liberty of the Church and could never patiently bear the Yoke of Christ Id. p. 31. and therefore saith he take heed my Son to such very Pests in Church and Commonweal whom no deserts can oblige neither Oaths nor Promises bind breathing nothing but Sedition and Calumnies aspiring without measure railing without reason and making their own Imaginations without any Warrant of the word the Square of their Conscience Nor were they of less disturbance to Queen Elizabeth than they had been to him as witness that Letter of Sir Francis Walsingham's before-mention'd Chap. 13 And the Lord Keeper Puckering's Speech in Parliament where by the same name of Puritans he charges them to have persecuted Her Majesty so vigorously that they thereby open'd the Door to the Spanish Invasion and warn'd the Parliament from her Majesty to give no Ear to their wearisome Sollicitations for while in the giddiness of their Spirits they labour to advance a new Eldership they do nothing but disturb the good Repose of the Church and the Commonwealth And how they dealt with his Majesty there are few Men sure can be so much Strangers at home as not to know And therefore if the Bishops as Cicero in his Consulship says of himself Eos qui otium pertuban● reddam otiosos took his way of Silencing that Seditious Exorbitance of their Tongues they were Serviceable I must acknowlege it but wherein did they exceed the Obligation of their Office But to proceed What the Bishops by the Laws and Constitutions of this Kingdom were and are