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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97114	A character of His most Sacred Majesty King Charles the IId. With a short apologie before it, an introduction to it, and a conclusion after it. / Written by a minister of the Word, who hath for a long time desired, and daily prayed for the happy settlement of Church and state within the three nations of England, Scotland and Ireland in truth, & peace, & order.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing W696A; Thomason E1836_3; ESTC R21751	17,958	39

that vve may not any more be delivered into the hands of brutish men that are skilfull to destroy That God vvould please to make these Nations after their so much bleeding to recover their former health and strength and to live in his sight by causing the hearts of all the People vvhich inhabite them more to bleed for that great effusion of blood shed and spilt upon them as for all other hainous sins committed in them that they may not be made to bleed afresh by such heavy Judgements And novv his Judgements his most heavy Judgements have been in these Nations that he would please to make the inhabitants thereof to learn Rightcousness and to learn obedience by the things they have suffered That God vvould surther please to unite the Hearts of all his People in these Nations together as if they vvere all but one man that they may joyntly severally and unfeignedly pray for and pursue after such a Peace and Settlement as may make us at once both safe and happy And that he vvould please to be get and increase a right and a true understanding betvvixt his Majesty and the People of these Nations that he may not be made further to suffer by any of their bold and misgrounded prejudices nor they longer block up the vvay of their ovvn happiness against themselves by their causeless fears That God vvould stir up the hearts of all the people in these Nations who know how to pray unfeignedly to pray for his Majesty that if it shall stand vvith the good pleasure of Almighty God to settle these Nations by the happy establishment of his Royal Majesty here amongst us that he vvould make him such a Blessing in Himself and to these Nations such a Blessing likevvise that the Generations to come may call him blessed vvhereby all such as have been so presumptuously and vvickedly bold led hereunto by their ovvn misconceiving to utter hard speeches against his Majesty for the time past may be convinced and made ashamed and endeavour by their Subjection Love and Loyalty to his Majesty for to salve and heal up all again for the time to come And then that God vvould further please daily to add unto the number of those Chariots and Horsemen in this our Israel that still may be mighty to prevail with him and to scatter those yea all those whosoever they be that delight in War That delight in War For War as it is sometimes necessary so it is alvvayes evil the vvorst of all remedies that can be thought on for if fighting and killing in this Case have any other end proposed besides Peace and Settlement it proves Murther I observed but now that if we desire to be safe and happy by the establishment of his Majesty amongst us we must be instant and importunate with God in his behalf The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord and he turneth it whithersoever he will No King can encline his own heart which way himself listeth and therefore it is the duty of the people that would be happy under a good Prince to Petition the Lord for every thing that may concern his present and Eternal good and welfare that so he may become a King of Prayers and a King of Prayses It is an heedful exhortation of the Apostle in his first Epistle to Timothy where he saith I exhort that first of all Supplications Prayers Intercessions be made for all men for Kings and for all that are in authority for Kings first and there is great reason for it as will presently appear The Tempter in the Gospel presented unto our Blessed Saviour the sight of the Kingdoms of the world and the glory of them The Kingdoms and their glory and we may confess that there is no such Beauty Splendor Bravery Riches Pleasures Majestie to be found in the world as in the Courts of Princes who are Gods Deputies here on earth there is soft rayment there are sumptuous Feasts rich Jewels glorious Triumphs royal State there is honourable Attendance and what not And all these no doubt Satan presented on their fairest side to their best advantage But he did not tell him how many Cares and anxieties attend Greatness He did not acquaint him with the abundant troubles the great disquiet and marvellous perplexities which usually attend earthly Crowns all these Satan hides out of the way nothing may be seen but what might both please and allure But most certain it is that the Crowns of Gold which adorn the heads of Kings though they shine and glister yet all is not gold in them because they are in-layed with Bryers and Thorns High Seats are alwayes uneasie And there is no good Prince who desires to manage his Scepter well if he view it round on all sides but shall find that there is a gread deal more attending earthly Diadems beside Pomp and Glory And for this reason First Prayers must be made for Kings that desire to rule well because their troubles cares and fears are greater then other mens Secondly Their Temptations are likewise greater then those of private Persons and therefore they stand more in need of joynt publick and private Prayers And Lastly They must in a special manner be prayed for by their people upon the account of good vvhich may be received under them That they may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty I have done vvith my short Narrative concerning the most eminent King vvhich might have been abundantly more enlarged by a better Pen though I conceive there is no great need of it in regard that God vvho hath so turn'd the Hearts of the people in general tovvards his Majesty wil doubtless and that speedily turn the face of the King towards his people in bringing him home unto them and then he vvill be his own and therefore much better Epistle When a very great number of the people in these Nations men of even spirits sound minds uncorrupt principles and of godly and blameless lives that never cease Praying for the happy settlement of this Church and State upon the sure foundations of Truth and Peace and Order and long for it as the morning shall not be disappointed of their Hope To Conclude then after all our Miseries we may be yet happy and safe and every thing we want and hope for beside that 's good for us shall assuredly be had after we have been deeply humbled for and have thankfully accepted of the punishment of our former iniquities and vvhen God shall please to speak peace unto us vve resolve by his Grace and assistance not to return again to folly and labour vvith all our might to perform and do vvhat vve resolve By vvhich means all heats and animosities amongst us might be in good time quenched or cooled every mans rights and properties setled Trade encouraged and increased and the three Nations in general who for some years last past by reason of their strange actings and divisions have made themselves a Scorn and contempt unto other people round about them might regain their honour and become both their Envy and Terror yea then all Blessings shall overtake and come upon us both the blessings of Gods left and right hand When which is first to be considered though here put in the last place we contend for the establishment of True Religion of Religion though we may tremble to speak it which hath been so much prostituted in these Nations unto ends that have not been good and made a stirrop to get up to Power or Riches Oh how many thousand souls have been and are betrayed by the abuse of that Word whose use is Soveraign and Saving Yet although some and they too too many under the mask and shew of Religion have been naught yea and most vile it is not possible for any to be good who are not Religious I say therefore when we endeavour after that which above all things ought to be most dear unto us and before all other things most to be contended for the Purity and Power of Religion the Purity thereof separated from all dregs or mixture of Error or Ignorance which do marvellously debase it And then the Power of it consisting in a right understanding of all those things we may and we must know which concern God and our selves And as Religion takes its name from Binding so then may we be accounted Religious when we bind our selves as much as we may to search after every thing vvhich God vvould have us to know and then to do what vve know the Practice of Duty being the Life of Duty In short vvhen not the Form nor the Visard nor the Face nor the Shew nor the Name only but the Purity and Povver of Religion shall shine amongst us vve cannot be less then an happy people For this vvill be the only means to procure to get and to keep the presence of God in mercy and for ever to abide vvith us And happy are the people that be in such a case yea blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God FINIS

they were Captives unarmed and some of them half naked when wounded before and many of them faint sick and almost famished circumstances which did most highly aggravate the cruelty which was shewed them for when it was thus with them above all example of immanitie and barbarousness ever read or known before as I suppose especially by men that dust call themselves Christians yet by such had in cold blood their brains beaten out in several places as they passed by the English Souldiers because they went not forward and faster when by reason of their extreme lameness and feebleness they were scarce able to move at all and nothing done to those barbarous inhumane monsters for so doing though we may say of their cruelty then what was long since spoken by the Spirit of God of that horrid act of Simeon and Levi who fell upon the Shechemites when they were sore and expected not that violence and sury which they were made to feel Cursed be their wrath for it was fierce and their rage for it was cruel Of which cruelty in those strange Butcheries the Relator hereof lived near enough the road where they passed to have been an eye witness of some of them it he could have endured to behold the sight of men causelesly murdered And they of the City of Durham as very many others inhabiting those most remote Northern parts of England are able to relate many like horrid cruel parallel stories before this time after the Scots defeat at Dunbar O what a Savage Cruel Bloody thing is man when he hath lost his Humanity for then they who have been inured to shed blood make it but a sport to kill as if the life of a man were not worth the valuing for custome makes that most hateful and unnatural sin so familiar to them as that the horror thereof is tvrn'd into pleasure thus they making havock of men as fearfully made as dearly redeemed as tenderly cherished and brought up as others yet occidendi causa occidunt they kill because they take pleasure in killing and are no more troubled at the death of a man then if a dog had faln before them But the lives of those poor men I named as the blood of very very many more within the circuit of this Nation to go no further cry loud for Vengeance and the avenger of blood will certainly in his due time return full answer to that loud cry For God who is Mercy it self abhors Cruelty above all other sins he cannot endure that one man should destroy an other as the Beasts of the field the Fowls of the air and the Fishes of the sea do And as every sin hath a tongue so that of blood out-cryes and drowns the rest it is alwayes clamorous and restless and will never leave crying out unto God until it be washed away with a flood of tears issuing from bleeding and broken hearts and dyed into another colour by the blood of Christ but if not so it will certainly in conclusion bring woe and misery enough unto them that shed it For there was never any drop of Inocent blood spilt upon the face of the Earth from the blood of Righteous Abel unto this present hour or that shall be shed so long as there be men and malice and mischief in the world but it swels big as the sea in the eyes of God and cannot be washed away by all the waters therein And further neither the heat of the Sun nor the dust of the ground shall ever be able to dry or drink it up till it be either Avenged or Pardoned Unless the Earth and Heavens and all that are therein can be bribed to keep silence and to take no notice thereof And the Lord the Lord God of Mercy deliver this Land from that and from all other Blood-guiltiness I have done with this most Melancholy Sad Bloody Story which hapned as I have said about the time when that Noble Person before mentioned was intreated by some who much desired to have satisfaction therein That he would please he having had such a particular Knowledg of the King by reason of his near attendance on Him to give them a true Character of his Majesty and to speak nothing but what they might confidently from his mouth believe and report as Truth The Gentleman was very free to it and assured them amongst whom was this Relator that he would not say any thing more or less as to it but what he should report for Truth if desired as his last words when he came to dye which now hear speak thus The Character I. THat His Majesty was a Prince unto whom the Lord had given a very large measure of Wisdom and Understanding far above his Years for to the great Admiration of those who there sate in Council with him and when they thougbt that they had spoken unto some good purpose His great Reason upon Emergent occasions would weigh down all theirs II. He said That while he had the Honor and Happiness to wait upon his Majesty at St. Johnstons in Scotland which was during the whole time of his abode there he kept both his Eyes and Ears open upon him and could never observe nor hear which was very remarkable that his Majesty was addicted unto any sin of Youth III. To testifie this his Majesty was very careful to have a most Regular and Exemplary Court keeping his whole Family there in very excellent and good Order And to this end if he had heard of any Person or Persons in it given to Swearing Drunkenness or to any other Exorbitancies upon a Serious Admonition if they did not Reform they were shewed the way out of his Doors not to be taken into his Family any more IV. He told us that he had heard the King oftentimes to say thus and he desired that this might be in a special manner remembred by us That if ever it should please God to Restore him unto and to settle him in his Just Rights that he would assoon endure a known Traitor about him as a Debauched man V. That his Majesty was very strict in the Observation of his Private Devotions twice every Day and would not suffer any occasions to divert him from those Duties and that he was as careful likewise to frequent the Publick Ordinances VI. That his Majesty retired himself in his Chamber or Closet where he Fasted every Tuesday in Memoral of his Royal Father that day of the Week forced out of his Life by the hands of Violence which day weekly he reserved himself as much as he could from all company and business whether Publick or Private VII That his Majesty was a Prince as Just to make his Word good as any one in the world could be for he would never fail to perform any thing he promised if possibly in his power and therefore was more shie in promising for fear that he might not be able to make good his Word VIII That his Majesty was a