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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48068	A letter from Major General Ludlow to Sir E.S. [i.e. Sir Edward Seymour] comparing the tyranny of the first four years of King Charles the martyr, with the tyranny of the four years reign of the late abdicated King : occasioned by the reading Doctor Pelling's lewd harangues upon the 30th of January, being the anniversary or General Madding-day.	Ludlow, Edmund, fl. 1691-1692.	1691 (1691)	Wing L1489; ESTC R3060	20,681	33

Flattery and Slavish Sycophancy at a most bold wild and impudent rate calls such a Man as this The best of Kings A Man according to God's own Heart therefore to vindicate my self in treating the Doctor as I have done I tell him in his own slovenly 〈◊〉 Language in his Sermon upon the thirtieth of January 1683 dedicated to that Viper Jeffryes That such a superlative Piece of Putid Imposture may well stir an honest Man's Choler and provoke him to spit some of it in the Villain 's Face And now Sir wiping my Mouth as good Manners require after this so foul Pollution I take my leave of you declaring that I will ever approve my self King William's and Queen Mary's and my most Dear Country's Most Affectionate Loyal Dutyful and Obedient Subject and Servant Edmund Ludlow Postscript THough King Charles the First hated nothing more than to Govern by Precedent yet he would not pray without it and none of the Liturgies suiting his Fancy he had recourse to a Romance as you may here see The Prayer of King Charles stiled A Prayer in Time of Captivity printed in a great Folio called The Works of K. Charles and also in his Eicon Basilice O Powerful O Eternal God to whom nothing is so great that it 〈◊〉 resist or so small that it is contemned look upon my Misery with thine Eye of Mercy and let thine infinite Power vouchsafe to limit out some proportion of deliverance unto me as to thee shall seem most convenient Let not Injury O Lord triumph over me and let my Fault by thy Hand be corrected and make not my Unjust Enemies the Ministers of thy Justice But yet my God if in thy Wisdom this be the aptest Chastisement for my unexcusable Transgressions if this ungrateful Bondage be fittest for my over-high Desires if the Pride of my not-enough humble Heart be thus to be broken O Lord I yield unto thy Will cheerfully embrace what Sorrow thou wilt have me suffer only thus much let me crave of Thee let my Craving O Lord be accepted of since it even proceeds from Thee that by thy Goodness which is thy self thou wilt suffer some Beam of thy Majesty so to shine in my Mind that I who in my greatest Afflictions acknowledg it my noblest Title to be thy Creature may still depend confidently on thee Let Calamity be the Exercise but not the Overthrow of my Virtue O let not their Prevailing Power be to my Destruction and if it be thy Will that they more and more vex me with Punishment yet O Lord never let their Wickedness have such a Hand but that I may still carry a Pure mind and stedfast Resolution ever to serve Thee without Fear or Presumption yet with that humble Confidence which may best please Thee so that at the last I may come to thy Eternal Kingdom through the Merits of thy Son our alone Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen The PRAYER of PAMELA to an Heathen Deity being under Imprisonment In Pembroke's Arcadia 〈◊〉 Edit 13. printed 1674. O All-seeing Light and Eternal Life of all things to whom nothing is either so great that it may resist or so small that it is contemned look upon my Misery with thine Eye of Mercy and let thine insinite Power vouchasafe to limit out some proportion of Deliverance unto me as to thee shall seem most convenient Let not Injury O Lord triumph over me and let my Faults by thy Hand be corrected and make not mine unjust Enemy the Minister of thy Justice But yet my God if in thy Wisdom this be the aptest Chastisement for my unexcusable Folly if this low Bondage be fittest for my over-high Desires If the Pride of my not-enough humble Heart be thus to be broken O Lord I yield unto thy Will and joyfully embrace what Sorrow thou wilt have me suffer only thus much let me crave of Thee let my Craving O Lord be accepted of thee since even that proceeds from Thee let me crave even by the noblest Title which in my greatest Affliction I may give my self that I am thy Creature and by thy 〈◊〉 which is thy self that thou wilt suffer some Beam of thy Majesty to shine into my Mind that it may still depend confidently on thee let Calamity be the Exercise but not the overthrow of my Vertue let their Power prevail but prevail not to Destruction let my greatness be their Prey Let my Pain be the Sweetness of their Revenge Let them if so it seem good unto Thee vex me with more and more Punishment But O Lord let never their Wickedness have such a Hand but that I may carry a pure Mind in a pure Body and pausing a while and O most gracious Lord said she whatever becomes of me preserve the Virtuous Musidorus FINIS 〈◊〉 's first Collections To publish a good was made then a Sin by this Bishop of London and an ill one a Vertue and while one came out with Authority the other could not have a Dispensation So that we seemed to have got in Expurgatory Press though not an Index and the most Religious Truth must be expunged and suppressed in order to the false and secular Interest of some of the Clergy He might indeed have a more early sight of the Cloud than any Man living because 't was of his own raising A Deo Rex à Rege Lex Title-page of Pelling's Sermon 30. Jan. 1683 dedicated to Jefferyes But we find different Doctrin in Bracton and Fleta they tell us That Rex Angliae habet Superiores viz. Legem per quam factus est Rex ac Comites Barones qui debent ei fraenum ponere The King of England hath for Superiors both the Law by which he is constituted King and which is the Measure of his Governing Power and the Parliament which is to restrain him if he do amiss Eraction lib. 2. cap. 16. Fleta lib. 1. cap. 17. Dolbier was a Papist March 17th 1627. This might be the first but 't was not the last time that the University hath made an Election in contempt of the Parliament We here have Dr. Edw. Pelling's MIRROUR OF PRINCES 〈◊〉 of Martyrs Wonder of Ages and the Honour of Men laying down his living Opinion of the Constitution of our Government and according to his then Judgment passing a Sentence of Death upon our Parliaments And seeing the 〈◊〉 told CAPTAIN SIMMONS of the WONDER TAVERN with his goodly Petitioners 〈◊〉 Sissan Owen and 〈◊〉 and the rest of his Parishoners upon the Thirtieth of January 1690. That his most Noble Martyr BEING DEAD YET SPEAKETH I do put in an early request to him on behalf of the Commons of England that he would oblige them upon the next Madding day the twenty Ninth of May in letting them know what his Matchless Saint now speaks and in particular what he says about their Right to Annual Parliaments for 't is to be hoped that by this Time if he be kept 〈◊〉 from ARCHBISHOP LAUD he may be set right in this great Point of English Parliaments