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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74840	The divine penitential meditations and vovves of His late Sacred Majesty in his solitude at Holmby-House, faithfully turned into verse. By E.R. Gentleman.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, attributed name.; Gauden, John, 1605-1662. Eikōn basilikē.	1649 (1649)	Thomason E560_27; ESTC R204961	6,848	14

Numb 1. THE DIVINE PENITENTIAL MEDITATIONS AND VOVVES OF HIS LATE Sacred Majestie IN HIS SOLITUDE AT HOLMBY-HOVSE Faithfully turned into Verse By E. R. Gentleman Respiciat Deus Bene cogitata Senec. LONDON Printed in the Year 1649. To the READER I Here present unto thee a flower plucked out of that most excellent store-yard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meanly turned into vers therefore I may boldly applaud and admire the one and referre my owne unto thy censure yet if this findes acceptance from Loyall Subjects it will incite me to proceed with the other Meditations which if I shall not be so fortunate as to performe I hope some more happier Deviner Muse will with an Elaborate Penne Dilucidate unto the world what is deficient in my Skill but not in will I am farr from desiring any plaudit Menander Omnis insipience arrogantia plausibus capitor Every foole is won with pride and his own flattering applaude but as I should be sorry to affect the one so I hate and disrespect the other it shall be sufficent to me if I please them who are Ravished with these Divine Meditations which like A Diamond cannot lose their Luster although they were mantled in Cimmerian-Darkness The world must confesse with me that they are obstacles to our profound Mercuralists who can extract such Sences out of the Sacred Scripture that are again the sence of common reason which yet catch poore silly people by Shooles as Fishermen with Drag nets take their Fishes yet are not or will not our Trumpettors be sensible of it but either encourage them or remain silent as in a Lethargie And thus since neither our former nor present sufferings can refine or cleanse our drossie leprous soules HOW may we hope that our correction is ended or that the rod shall be burnt Marius Nictor Nil hostes nil dira fames nil deing morbi Egerunt fuimus qui nunc sumus ijsque periclis Tentati nihilo meliores reddimur unquam Sub vitijs nullo colparum finum manentes Nor foes nor famine nor diseases have Work't any change in us that which we were We constantly remain and still do crave To be entangled in the self-same snare No time can our depraved manners move In vice we dwell in endless sin 's our love Which as it is too true so must we still expect heavier Judgments none but such who have the grape of Canaan A good ●onscience will be able with patience to endure them Acts 27. 't was that made PAUL couragious in the turbulent Adriatical Sea when the Mariners dispaired the tempestuous Euroclidon blowing and suffering 14. dayes want of meate and light Homer 'T is a good Conscience that is like the Herbe Nepenthes which driveth away all sadnes 't is a good Conscience that without Musick or Wealth or Honour or Liberty nay in a forced and unlawfull Death is happy and merry alone 1 Pet. 2.17 And it is that which I wish unto all who fear God and honour the King For Conscience is individuall and inseperable there is no putting of it to flight or flying from it Lyps●pol nec fugere nec fugare poteris it was bread and borne with us and saith as Ruth to Naomi I will go with thee whither soever thou goest Therefore since our Kingdom is become a Pantheon next after the Scripture I may well prescribe this Panacea which sure none will refuse for Seneca Miser esse mavult esse qui faelix potest Who miserable doth desire to be That may be linked to felicity Yet if any shall as I am confident many wil find fault with me I only desire them either to mend what I have most willingly begun or lay them away and not afford them any spare time for reading Farewell Penitentiall Meditations AND Vowes in the KINGS Solitude at Holmby GIve eare to my words O Lord consider my Meditations and hearken to the voice or my cry my King and my God for unto thee will I pray GIve eare unto my words O Lord My Meditations think upon To●… voice of my sad cry accord My King my God to thee alone I 'le offer up my supplication I said in my hast I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes neverthelesse thou hearest the voice of my supplication when I cry unto Thee I unadvisedly did say That I am cast out of thy sight Of thy clear eyes more bright then day Yet thou to heare me dost delight When I with cryes to thee show my sad plight If thou Lord shouldest be extream to mark what 's done amisse who can abide it But there is mercy with thee that thou mayst be feared therefore shall sinners fly unto thee If thou sweet Lord shouldst be extream To notifie what 's done amisse Who can abide't but thy bright beame Shines mercy which with feare must kiss Therefore shall sinners fly to thee for blis I acknowledge my sins before thee which have the aggravation of my condition the eminency of my place adding weight to my offences My leprous sins I with contrition Acknowledge now before thy Grace Which ponderous are by my condition The Eminency of my place Adding much weight to them which me deface Forgive I beseech thee my Personall and my Peoples sins which are so farre mine as I have not improved the ●…wer thou gav●…t me to thy Glory and my Subjects good Forget forgive I thee implore My Pers●nall and my Peoples ill Which are so added to my store As I improv'd nos power and skill Thou gav'st me for thee their hurt to kill Thou hast now brought me from the glory and freedom of a King to be a Prisoner to my own Subjects And now thou hast dejected me From what my Glory did disclose And freedom of a Majesty To be a Prisoner unto those who 're my own Subjects yet their King oppose Justly O Lord as to thy over-ruling hand because in many things I have rebelled against Thee But justly 't is most mighty Lord As to thy over ruling hand Because that I thy will defer'd And contrary to thy Command In opposition against thee did stand Though thou hast restrained my Person yet enlarge my heart to thee and thy grace towards mee And yet although thou hast restrain'd My Person O enlarge my Heart To thee my God my God unfain'd And let me have a greater part Of thy good Grace for to o're way my smart I come farre short of Davids Pyety yet since I may equall Davids afflictions give me also the comforts and the sure mercies of David I come far short of Davids zeale Yet since in afflictions equall his I only unto thee appeale For Davids Comforts happy bliss And the sure mercies which he did not miss Let the penitent sence I have of my Sins be an evidence to me thou hast Pardoned them O let the feeling penitent sence Which of my numerous sins I have Be unto me an evidence