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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31734	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 ...	Minister of the word.	1660 (1660)	Wing C2017; ESTC R21751	17,960	39

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 fury 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 if 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 Relater 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 thought 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 therein 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 Prince

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 Writen 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 Some mocked and others said We will hear thee again of this matter Act. 17.32 LONDON Printed by D. Maxwell 1660. The Apologie IF any shall wonder as doubtless many will why a private person should presume thus to meddle in such a high business and of so great concernment as this t is answered First That in a sinking Bark the poorest Ship-boy is as much concern'd to mind his own preservation as the Pilot himself And then for the Substance of what is here written He is not alone or doth not stand as one single person to affirm it because there are more then many thousands as he dares presume to say within these Nations whose Hearts and Tongues and Hands and Feet with every thing beside are ready to bear witness to it For the Writer hereof if He had manifested himself to be one of those strange Spirits which very much appear in this scribling Age the rankness and luxuriency of whose fancies to the exceeding high dishonour of God and the very great reproach of Religion make bold profaneness filthy obscoenity or downright and disgracefull railings as foyls to set off what they abuse their wit whereby they fight as much as they can against God with his own weapon he could not suffer too much for so doing But he cannot lie under that guilt who hates and abhors such blots and blurs and defilements and waste of Paper and here most seriously professeth so far as he can know his own Heart that he beleeves there is not one which breaths out of flesh and blood who more desires the happy settlement of this Church and State then himself and could be well content to do or suffer any thing within his compass in order to it And therefore being much perswaded of the Truths laid down in these following Papers and hoping they might accidentally at least tend towards that happy End to which they are intended he was like one of those bottles in Job ready to burst until he had found a vent for them Yet if his strong affections and hearty desires herein expressed have carried him beyond the Rules of Prudence or Discretion he humbly craves pardon for his sake whose Goodness hath been wont to wink at or not to impute the Errors of an honest Zeal and so loves the strength of his peoples good affections that he passeth by or overlooks their failings and infirmities The Introduction THe simple saith Solomon believeth eveword whereas he that is wise will not be too credulous Fama mendax Report hath got a very ill Name and till she hath freed her self from that aspersion which chargeth her so much and so often with speaking falshoods they which consider will not be apt to give credit unto every thing she speaks And there is much Reason for it as it is true likewise that if we do not assent unto the reports of many who are of known honesty and therefore dare not make a lie nor willingly publish any thing that is false we our selves deserve not to be believed even then when we speak Truths Now no Truth is for every ones turn and therefore this may be questioned by some and disliked or slighted by others especially by such whose Black mouths and venom'd tongues which in good time will doubtless fall upon themselves have been long spitting of Poyson at the sacred Person presented in this Narrative such who care not how false any accusation is so it be spitefull enough having learn'd a damn'd Position from that Devil Machiavel Calumniare fortiter semper aliquid adhaerebit Throw Dirt enough upon or calumniate any man to purpose and some of it will stick on him And there is no wonder at all in this if we consider that it is in vain for any one in the world to think or hope that he can be beloved of all for there was never yet any man to whom some took not exceptions impossible it is either to please or displease all men whiles some are in love with Vice as deeply as others with Vertue and some dislike Vertue if not for it self yet for contradiction sake and will rather devise then want causes to blast it But for him who now writes this which long since had been communicated if the times had been fit to bear it his witnesses are in Heaven and in his own bosome too that he dares not knowingly let the Readers hereof think what they please speak or write any thing against but for Truth which he undoubtedly believes what here follows is therefore cannot but speak it and so presumes that many-many thousands of these now undeceived Nations will do and entertain the report as it most highly deserves with much joy and gladness And that it may be so received and not thought to be a phantasie of the Writers own Brain he will make hast to discover when and how he came by it In order to which the Reader may please to take notice that the occasion of his having it offered it self thus Where first of the Person from whom it was had and then of the time when and how he had it For the Person first from whom it was had He is a Gentleman of a very good Extraction a wise and an honest mar a person of very much Honour and Integrity one of a very high Resolution and of a much tried and approved Valour a Bed chamber man to his Majesty in Scotland taken prisoner at Worcester amongst many other Gentlemen of good Quality and brought to London but had his liberty there upon his Parol And it was he that gave me the Character of his Majesty as afterward with some requisite circumstances towards the close of this Introduction more fully appears For the time when I had it it was suddenly after his Majesty above-mentioned suffered a defeat at Worcester from that very numerous opposition there made against him which certainly thousands would have forborn to make if they could before have known him aright And that circumstance of time invites me by the way to revive and relate a very sad story I desire pardon if I lengthen it out too much because it is such a one as deserves neither to be written nor read but with abhorrency however I shall repeat it because I fear it is too too much forgotten by the Nation here though certainly it is registred and recorded in Heaven to be reckoned for when God shall please to do it It was about the time when so many of the poor vanquished Scots were brought Prisoners to London and not a few of them 'twixt Worcester and that place when they