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<FIGDESC>depiction of King Charles I and his son</FIGDESC>
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<P>THE Kingly Myrrour, OR King Charles His la&s;t Legacy to the Prince His Son.</P>
<P>Written a little before His Death.</P>
<P>Containing Many excellent in&s;tructi|ons and Directions, how to carry Him&s;elfe in all E|&s;tates and Conditions.</P>
<P>AND May &s;erve as a good Mo|nitor for all the Princes in <HI>Chri&s;tendome.</HI></P>
<P><ADD>Aprill 11^t^h</ADD> <HI>London</HI> Printed for C. V. 1649.</P>
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<HEAD>The Kingly Myrrour:</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SOn,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>If the&s;e Papers, with &s;ome others, wherin I have &s;et downe the private refle|ctions of my con&s;cience, and my mo&s;t impar|tial thoughts touching the chiefe pa&s;&s;ages, which have bin mo&s;t remarkable, or di&s;pu|ted in my late troubles, come to your hands, to whom they are cheifly de&s;igned; they may be &s;o far u&s;eful to you, as to &s;tate your judge|ment aright in what hath pa&s;&s;ed; whereof a pious is the be&s;t u&s;e can be made; &amp; they may al&s;o give you &s;ome directions, how to reme|dy the pre&s;ent di&s;tempers, and prevent (if God will) the like for time to come.</P>
<P>It is &s;ome kind of deceiving &amp; le&s;&s;ening the injury of my long re&s;traint, when I find my lei&s;ure &amp; &s;olitude have produced &s;omething worthy of my &s;elf; &amp; u&s;eful to you, That nei|ther You nor any other may hereafter mea|&s;ure My Cau&s;e by the &s;ucce&s;&s;e, nor my judge|ment of things by my misfortunes, which I count the greater by far, becau&s;e they have &s;o far lighted upon you, and &s;ome others whom I have cau&s;e to love as wel as my &s;elf, and of who&s;e unmerited &s;ufferings I have a greater &s;en&s;e then of mine own.</P>
<P>But this advantage of wi&s;dome You have above mo&s;t Princes, that You have begun, and
<PB N="2" REF="4">now &s;pent &s;ome years of di&s;cretion, in the experience of troubles, and exerci&s;e of pati|ence, wherein Piety, and all Vertues, both Morall and Politicall, are commonly better planted to a thriving (as trees &s;et in winter) then in the warmth, and &s;erenity of times, or amid&s;t tho&s;e delights, which u&s;ually attend Princes Courts in times of peace and plenty which are prone, either to root up all plants of true vertue and honour, or to be content|ed only with &s;ome leaves, and withering for|malities of them, without any reall fruits, &s;uch as tend to the publick good, for which Princes &s;hould alwayes remember they are born, and by providence de&s;igned.</P>
<P>The evidence of which different education the holy Writ affords us in the contemplati|on of <HI>David</HI> &amp; <HI>Rehoboham:</HI> The one prepared, by many aflictions for a flouri&s;hing kingdom the other &s;oftened by the unparaleld pro&s;pe|rity of <HI>Solomons</HI> Court, and &s;o corrupted to the great diminution, both for peace, honor, and Kingdom, by tho&s;e flatteries, which are as un&s;eparable from pro&s;perous Princes, as Flies, are from fruit in &s;ummer, whom ad|ver&s;itie, like cold weather, drives away.</P>
<P>I had rather you &s;hould bee <HI>Charles le Bon,</HI> then <HI>le Grand,</HI> good then great, I hope God hath de&s;igned you to be both, having &s;o ear|ly put you into that exerci&s;e of his graces &amp;,
<PB N="3" REF="4">gifts be&s;towed upon you, which may be&s;t weed out al vitious inclinations, and di&s;po&s;e you to tho&s;e Princely endowments, and em|ployments, which will mo&s;t gain the love, and intend the welfare of tho&s;e, over whom God &s;hall place you.</P>
<P>With God I would have you begin and end, who is King of Kings; the Soveraigne di&s;po&s;er of the Kingdomes of the world, who pulleth down one, and &s;etteth up ano|ther.</P>
<P>The be&s;t Government, and highe&s;t Sove|raignty you can attain to, is, to be &s;ubject to him, that the Scepter of his Word and Spirit may rule in your heart.</P>
<P>The true glory of Princes con&s;i&s;ts in advan|cing Gods glory in the maintenance of true Religion, and the Churches good; Al&s;o in the di&s;pen&s;ation of civil Power, with Ju&s;tice and Honour to the publicke peace.</P>
<P>Piety will make you pro&s;perous, at lea&s;t it will keep you from being mi&s;erable; nor is he much a lo&s;er, that lo&s;eth all, yet &s;aveth his own &s;oul at la&s;t.</P>
<P>To which Center of true happines, God, I tru&s;t, hath and wil graciou&s;ly direct all the&s;e black lines of affliction, which he hath been plea&s;ed to draw on me, &amp; by which he hath [I hope] drawn me nearer to him&s;elf. You have already ta&s;ted of that Cup whereof I
<PB N="4" REF="5">have liberally drank, which I look upon as Gods Phi&s;ick, having that in healthfullne&s;&s;e which it wants in plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>Above all, I would have you, as I hope you are already; wel-grounded &amp; &s;ettled in your Religion: the be&s;t profe&s;&s;ion of which, I have ever e&s;teemed that of the church of <HI>England,</HI> in which you have bin educated yet I would have your own Judgement and Rea&s;on now &s;eale to that &s;acred bond which education hath written, that it may be judiciou&s;ly your owne Religion, and not other mens cu&s;tome or tradition, which you profe&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>In this I charge you to pre&s;erve, as com|ming neare&s;t to Gods Word for Doctrine, &amp; to the primitive examples for Government, with &s;ome little amendment, which I have otherwhere expre&s;&s;ed &amp; often offered, though in vain. Your fixation in matters of Religion wil not be more nece&s;&s;ary for your &s;oul then your Kingdoms peace, when God &s;hall bring you to them.</P>
<P>For I have ob&s;erved that the Devill of Re|bellion, doth commonly turne him&s;elfe into an Angel of Reformation; and the old Ser|pent can pretend new Lights; when &s;ome mens con&s;ciences accu&s;e them for &s;edition &amp; faction, they &s;top its mouth with the name and noi&s;e of Religion; when Piety pleads for peace and patience, they cry out Zeal.</P>
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<P> So that, unle&s;&s;e in this point, You be well &s;etled, you &s;hall never want temptations to de&s;troy you and yours, under preten&s;ions of reforming matters of Religion, for that &s;eemes even to wor&s;t men, as the be&s;t &amp; mo&s;t au&s;picious beginning of their wor&s;t de&s;igns.</P>
<P>Where, be&s;ides the Novilty which is taking enough with the Vulgar, every one hath an affection, by &s;eeming forward to an outward Reformation of Religion, to be thought zea|lous, hoping to cover tho&s;e irreligious defor|mities, wherto they are con&s;cious by a &s;everi|ty of cen&s;uring other mens opinions or acti|ons.</P>
<P>Take heed of abetting any Factions, or ap|plying to any publicke Di&s;criminations in matters of Religion, contrary to what is in your judgement, and the Church wel &s;etled your partial adhering as head, to any one&s;ide gains you not &s;o great advantages in &s;ome mens hearts (who are prone to be of their Kings Religion) as it lo&s;eth you in others, who think them&s;elves, &amp; their profe&s;&s;ion fir&s;t de&s;pi&s;ed, then per&s;ecuted <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> you: take &s;uch a cour&s;e as may either with calmnes &amp; charity quite remove the &s;eeming differences &amp; of|fences, by impartiality, or &s;o order affairs in point of power that you &s;hal not need to fear or flatter any faction; for if ever you &s;tand in need of them, or mu&s;t &s;tand to their courte&s;ie
<PB N="6" REF="6">you are undon: the Serpent will devour the Dove: you may never expect le&s;s of loyalty, ju&s;tice, or humanity, then from tho&s;e who in|gage into religious rebellion: Their intere&s;t is always made Gods, under the colors of Pi|ety, ambitions policies march, not only with greate&s;t &s;ecurity, but applau&s;e, as to the po|pulacy; you may hear from them <HI>Iacobs</HI> voice but you &s;hall feel they have <HI>E&s;au's</HI> hands.</P>
<P>Nothing &s;eemed le&s;s con&s;iderable then the <HI>Presbyterian</HI> faction in <HI>England,</HI> for many years; &s;o compliant they were to publick order: nor indeed was their party great, either in Church, or State, as to mens judgements: But as &s;oon, as di&s;contents drave men into Sid|ings (as ill humors fal to the di&s;affected part, which cau&s;e inflamations) &s;o did all, at fir&s;t who affected any novelties adhere to that fide, as the mo&s;t remarkeable &amp; &s;pecious note of difference (then) in point of Religion.</P>
<P>All the le&s;&s;er Factions at fir&s;t were officious &s;ervants to <HI>Presbytery</HI> their great Ma&s;ter: till time &amp; military &s;ucce&s;s di&s;covering to each their particular advantages, invited them to part &s;taks, &amp; leaving the joynt &s;tock of uni|form Religion, pretended each to drive for their party, the trade of profits or prefer|ments, to the breaking &amp; undoing not only of the Church &amp; State, but even of <HI>Presbytery</HI> it &s;elf, which &s;eemed &amp; hoped at fir&s;t to have ingro&s;&s;ed all.</P>
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<P> Let nothing &s;eem little or de&s;picable to you, in matters which concern Religion, and the Churches peace, &s;o as to neglect a &s;peedy re|forming and effectual &s;uppre&s;&s;ing errors, and &s;chi&s;ms, which &s;eem at fir&s;t but as a hand|bredth, by &s;editious Spirits, as by &s;trong winds are &s;oone made to cover and darken the whole Heaven.</P>
<P>When you have done ju&s;tice to God, your own &s;oul, and his Church, in the profe&s;&s;ion, &amp; pre&s;ervation both of truth &amp; unity of Reli|gion. The next main hing on which your pro&s;perity will depend, and move, is, that of civil ju&s;tice, wherein the &s;etled Laws of the&s;e kingdoms, to which you are rightly heir, are the mo&s;t excellent rules you can govern by; which by an admirable temperament give very much to Subjects indu&s;tery, liberty, and happines &amp; yet re&s;erve enough to the Maje|&s;ty &amp; Prerogative of any King who own his people as Subjects not as &s;laves; who&s;e &s;ub|jection as it pre&s;erves their propriety, peace, and &s;afety; &s;o it will never dimini&s;h your. Rights, nor their ingenuous liberties; which con&s;i&s;ts in the injoiment of the fruits of their indu&s;try, and the benefit of tho&s;e Lawes to which them&s;elves have con&s;ented.</P>
<P>Never charge your Head with &s;uch a Crown, as &s;hall by its heavine&s;s oppre&s;s the whole body, the weakne&s;s of who&s;e parts
<PB N="8" REF="7">cannot return any thing of &s;trength, honor, or &s;afety, to the Head, but a nece&s;&s;ary debilitati|on and ruine.</P>
<P>Your Prerogative is be&s;t &s;hewed, and exer|ci&s;ed in remitting, rather an exacting the rigor of the Laws, there being nothing wor&s;e, then legal tyranny.</P>
<P>In the&s;e two points, the pre&s;ervation of e|&s;tabli&s;hed Religion and Laws, I may (without vanity) turne the reproach of my &s;ufferings, as to the worlds cen&s;ure, into the honour of a kind of Martyrdome, as to the te&s;timony of my owne Con&s;cience. The troubles of my Kingdomes have nothing el&s;e to object again&s;t me but this, That I prefer Religion and Laws e&s;tabli&s;hed, before tho&s;e alterations they pro|pounded.</P>
<P>And &s;o indeed I do, and ever &s;hall, till I am convinced by better Arguments, then what hitherto have been cheifly u&s;ed towards me, Tumults, Armies, and Pri&s;ons.</P>
<P>I cannot yet learn that le&s;&s;on, nor I hope e|ver will you, That it is &s;afe for a King to gra|tifie any Faction with the perturbation of the Laws, in which is wrapt up the publick Inter|e&s;t, and the good of the community.</P>
<P>How God will deale with mee, as to the removeall of the&s;e pre&s;ures, and indignities, which his ju&s;tice by the very unju&s;t hands of &s;ome of my Subjects, hath been plea&s;ed to lay
<PB N="9" REF="7">upon Me, I cannot tell: nor am I much &s;o|licitous what wrong I &s;uffer from men, while I retain in my &s;oul, what I beleeve is right be|fore God.</P>
<P>I have offered all for Reformation and Safe|ty, that in Rea&s;on, Honour and Con&s;cience I can; re&s;erving only what I cannot con&s;ent unto, without an irreparable injury to my own &s;oule, the Church, and my people, and to you al&s;o; as the next and undoubted Heir of my Kingdoms.</P>
<P>To which if the divine Providence to whom no difficulties are in&s;uperable, &s;hall in his due time after my di&s;cea&s;e bring you, as I hope he will: My Coun&s;el and Charge to you, is, That you &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider the former real or ob|jected mi&s;carriages, which might occa&s;ion my troubles, that you may avoid them.</P>
<P>Never repo&s;e &s;o much upon any mans &s;ingle councel, fidelity, and di&s;cretion, in managing affairs of the fir&s;t magnitude, (that is, matters of Religion and Ju&s;tice) as to crea&s;e in your &s;elf, or others, a diffidence of your own judg|ment, which is likely to be always more con|&s;tant and impartial to the intere&s;t of your Crown and Kingdome then any mans.</P>
<P>Next beware of exa&s;perating any Factions by the cro&s;&s;ene&s;&s;e, and a&s;perity of &s;ome mens pa&s;&s;ions, humors, or private opinions, im|ployed by you, grounded only upon the dif|ferences
<PB N="10" REF="8">in le&s;&s;er matters, which are but the skirts and &s;uburbs of Religion.</P>
<P>Wherein a charitable connivence and Chri|&s;tian toleration often di&s;&s;ipates their &s;trength, whom rougher oppo&s;ition fortifies: and puts the di&s;pi&s;ed and oppre&s;&s;ed party, into &s;uch Combinations, as may mo&s;t enable them to get a full revenge on tho&s;e they count their Per&s;ecutors, who are commonly a&s;&s;i&s;ted by that vulgar commi&s;eration, which attends all, that are &s;aid to &s;uffer under the notion of Reli|gion.</P>
<P>Provided the differences amount not to an in&s;olent oppo&s;ition of Laws, and Government, or Religion e&s;tabli&s;hed, as to the e&s;&s;entialls of them, &s;uch motions and minings are into|lerable.</P>
<P>Alwayes keep up &s;olid piety, and tho&s;e fun|damentall Truths (which mend both hearts and lives of men) with impartiall favour and Ju&s;tice.</P>
<P>Take heed that outward circum&s;tances and formalities of Religion devour not all, or the be&s;t incouragements of learning, indu&s;try, and piety, but with an equall eye and impart<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">|all hand, de&s;tribute favours, and reward to all men, as you find them for their reall goodne&s;&s;e both in abilities and fidelities worthy and ca|pable of them.</P>
<P>This will bee &s;ure to gain you the hearts of
<PB N="11" REF="8">the be&s;t and the mo&s;t too: who though they be not good them&s;elves, yet are glad to &s;ee the &s;everer wayes of virtue at any time &s;weetned by temporall rewards.</P>
<P>I have, You &s;ee, conflicted with different and oppo&s;ite Factions (for &s;o <HI>I</HI> mu&s;t needs call and count all tho&s;e, that act not in any conformity to the Lawes, e&s;tabli&s;hed in Church and State) to &s;ooner have they by force &s;ubdued what they counted their common Enemy, (that is, all tho&s;e that adhered to the Laws, and to Me) and are &s;ecured from that feare, but they are divided to &s;o high a rivalty, as &s;ets them more at defiance again&s;t each other, then again&s;t their fir&s;t Antagoni&s;ts.</P>
<P>Time will di&s;&s;ipate all Factions, when once the rough hornes of private mens covetous and ambitious de&s;ignes, &s;hall di&s;cover them&s;elves; which were at fir&s;t wrapt up and hidden under the &s;oft and &s;mooth preten&s;ions of Religion, Reformation and Liberty: As the Wolf is not le&s;&s;e cruel, &s;o he wil he more ju&s;tly hated, when he &s;hall appear no better than a Wolfe under Sheeps cloathing.</P>
<P>But as for the &s;educed Traine of the Vul|gar, who in their &s;implicity follow tho&s;e di&s;gui&s;es; My Charge and Councell to you, is, That as yee need no palliations for any de&s;ignes, (as other men) &s;o that you &s;tudy re|ally to exceed [in true and con&s;tant demon|&s;trations
<PB N="16" REF="9">of goodne&s;&s;e, piety, and vertue, to|wards the People) even all tho&s;e men, that make the greate&s;t noi&s;e and o&s;tentations of Religion, &s;o you &s;hall neither feare any de|tection, (as they &s;ay, who have but the face and mask of goodne&s;s) nor &s;hal you fru&s;trate the ju&s;t expectations of your people, who cannot in Rea&s;on promi&s;e them&s;elves &s;o much good from any Subjects novelties, as from the vertuous con&s;tancy of their <HI>King.</HI></P>
<P>When the&s;e mountains of congealed fa|ctions &s;hall by the Sun&s;hine of Gods mercy, and the &s;plendor of your vertues be thawed and di&s;&s;ipated; and the abu&s;ed Vulgar &s;hall have learned, that none are greater Op|pre&s;&s;ors of their E&s;tates, Liberties, and Con&s;ciences, than tho&s;e men that entitle them&s;elves, the Patrons and Vindicators of them, only to u&s;urp power over them: Let then no pa&s;&s;ion betray you, to any &s;tudy of revenge upon tho&s;e, who&s;e own &s;in and fol|ly will &s;ufficiently puni&s;h them in due time.</P>
<P>But as &s;oon as the forked arrow of factious emulations is drawn out, u&s;e all princely arts and clemency to heal the wounds that the &s;mart of the cure may not equall the an|gui&s;h of the hurt.</P>
<P>I have offered Acts of indempnity, and Oblivion, to &s;o great a latitude, as may in|clude all, that can but &s;u&s;pect them&s;elves to
<PB N="13" REF="9">be any way obnoxious to the Lawes; and which might &s;erve to exclude all future jea|lou&s;ies and in&s;ecurities.</P>
<P>I would have you alwaies propen&s;e to the &s;ame way, when ever it &s;hall be de&s;ired and accepted, let it be granted, not only as an Act of State policy and nece&s;&s;ity, but of chri|&s;tian charitie and choice.</P>
<P>It is all I have now left me, a power to for|give tho&s;e that have deprived me of all; and I thank God, I have a heart to do it, and joy as much in this grace, which God hath given me, as in all my former enjoyments; for this is a greater argument of Gods love to me, then any pro&s;perity can be.</P>
<P>Be confident (as I am) that the mo&s;t of all &s;ides who have done ami&s;&s;e, have done &s;o, not out of malice but mi&s;-information or mi&s;|apprehen&s;ion of things.</P>
<P>None will be more loyal and faithfull to me &amp; you, then tho&s;e Subjects who are &s;en&s;i|ble of their Errors, and our Injuries, wil feel in their own Souls mo&s;t vehement motives to repentance, and earne&s;t de&s;ires to make &s;ome reparation for their former defects.</P>
<P>As your quality &s;ets you beyond any Du|ell with any Subject, &s;o the noblene&s;s of your mind mu&s;t rai&s;e you above the medi|tating any revenge, or executing your anger upon the many.</P>
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<P> The more con&s;cious you &s;hall be to your own merits, upon your people, the more prone you will be to expect all love and loy|alty from them, and to inflict no puni&s;hment upon them for former mi&s;carriages: You will have more inward complacency in par|doing one than in puni&s;hing a thou&s;and.</P>
<P>This I write to you, not de&s;paring of Gods mercy, and my Subjects affections towards you, both which, I hope you will &s;tudy to de&s;erve, yet we cannot merit of God, but by his own mercy.</P>
<P>If God &s;hall &s;ee fit to re&s;tore me, and you after me, to tho&s;e enjoyments, which the Laws have a&s;&s;igned to us, and no Subjects without an high degree of guilt and &s;in can dive&s;t us of, then may I have better oppor|tunity, when I &s;hall be &s;o happy to &s;ee you in peace, to let you more fully under&s;tand the things that belong to Gods glory, your own honour and the Kingdoms peace.</P>
<P>But if you never &s;ee my face againe, and God will have me buried in &s;uch a barba|rous impri&s;onment and ob&s;curity, (which the perfecting &s;ome mens de&s;igns require) wherein few hearts that love me are Permit|ted to exchange a word or a look with me, I doe require and entreat you as your Fa|ther, and your King, that you never &s;uffer your heart to receive the lea&s;t check again&s;t,
<PB N="15" REF="10">or di&s;-affection from the true Religion e&s;ta|bli&s;hed in the Church of England.</P>
<P>I tell you I have tried it, and after much &s;earch, and many di&s;putes, have concluded it to be the be&s;t in the world, not only in the Community as Chri&s;tian, but al&s;o in the &s;pe|ciall notion as reformed, keeping the mid|dle way between the pomp of &s;uper&s;titions Tyranny, and the meanne&s;&s;e of fanta&s;tique Anarchy.</P>
<P>Not but that the draught being excellent as to the main, both for Doctrine and Go|vernment in the Church of <HI>England</HI>) &s;ome lines, as in very good figures, may happily need &s;ome &s;weetning or poli&s;hing, which might here have ea&s;ily been done by a &s;afe and gentle hand: if &s;ome mens precipitan|cie had not violently demanded &s;uch rude alterations, as would have quite de&s;troyed all the beauty and proportions of the whole.</P>
<P>The &s;candall of the late Troubles, which &s;ome may object, and urge to you again&s;t the Prote&s;tant Religion e&s;tabli&s;hed in <HI>England,</HI> is ea&s;ily an&s;wered to them, or your owne thoughts in this, That &s;carce any one who hath been a Beginner, or an active pro&s;ecu|tor of this late War again&s;t the Church, the Lawes, and me, either was, or is a true Lover, Embracer, or Practi&s;er of the Prote&s;tant Re|ligion,
<PB N="16" REF="11">e&s;tabli&s;hed in <HI>England,</HI> which neither gives &s;uch rule, nor ever before &s;et &s;uch ex|amples.</P>
<P>Tis true, &s;ome heretofore had the bold|ne&s;&s;e to pre&s;ent threatning Petitions to their Princes and Parliaments, which others of the &s;ame Faction (but of wor&s;e Spirits) have now put in execution: but let not counterfeit and di&s;orderly zeal abate your value and e|&s;teem of true piety, both of them are to be known by their fruits, the &s;weetne&s;s of the Wine &amp; fig-tree is not to be de&s;pi&s;ed, though the Brambles and thornes &s;hould pretend to bear figs and grapes, thereby to rule over the Trees.</P>
<P>Nor would I have you to entertain any a|ver&s;ation, or di&s;like of Parliaments, which in their right con&s;titution with freedome and honour will never injure or dimini&s;h your greatne&s;s, but will rather be as interchange|ings of love and lovaltie and confidence be|tween a Prince and his People.</P>
<P>Nor would the events of this black Parlia|ment have been other than &s;uch (however much by a&s;&s;ed by Factions in the Elections) if it had been pre&s;erved from the in&s;olencies of popular dictates, and tumultuary impre&s;&s;i|ons: The &s;ad effects of which will no doubt make all Parliaments after this more cauti|ons to pre&s;erve that Freedom, and Honour,
<PB N="17" REF="11">which belongs to &s;uch a&s;&s;emblies when once they have fully &s;haken off this yoak of Vul|gar encroachment, &s;ince the publike intere&s;t con&s;i&s;ts in the mutuall and common good both of Prince and people.</P>
<P>Nothing can be more happy for all, than in fair, grave, and Honourable waies to contri|bute their Councels in common, enacting all things by publike con&s;ent; without Tyranny or Tumults. We mu&s;t not &s;tarve our &s;elves, becau&s;e &s;ome men have &s;urfeited of whole|&s;ome food.</P>
<P>And if neither I, nor you, be ever re&s;tored to our rights, but God in his &s;evere&s;t ju&s;tice, will puni&s;h my Subjects with continuance in their &s;in, and &s;uffer them to be deluded with the pro&s;perity of their wickedne&s;&s;e; I hope God will give me and you that grace, which wil teach and enable us, to want, as well as to wear a Crown, which is not worth taking up, or enjoying upon &s;ordid, di&s;honourable, and irreligious termes.</P>
<P>Keep you to true principles of piety, ver|tue and honour, you &s;hall never want a king|dom.</P>
<P>A principle point of your honour wil con|&s;i&s;t in your deferring all re&s;pect, love, and protection to your mother, my Wife; who hath many waies de&s;erved well of me, and chiefly in this, that having been a means to
<PB N="18" REF="12">ble&s;&s;e me with &s;o many hopeful children <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> (all which, with their mother; I recommend to your love and care) &s;hee hath been con|tent with incomparable magnanimity and patience to &s;uffer both for, and with me, and you.</P>
<P>My prayer to God almighty is, (what even becomes of me, who am, I thank God, wrapt up and fortified in my own innocency and his Grace) that he would be plea&s;ed to make you an Anchor or Harbour rather, to the&s;e to&s;&s;ed and weather-beaten Kingdoms a Re|pairer by your wi&s;edom, ju&s;tice, piety, and love, of what the folly and wickedne&s;&s;e of &s;ome men have &s;o far ruined, as to leave no|thing intire in Church or &s;tate, to the crown the Nobility, the Clergy, or the Commons; either as to Laws, liberties, e&s;tates, order, ho|nour, con&s;cience or lives.</P>
<P>When they have de&s;troyed me (for I know not how far God may permit the malice and cruelty of my enemies to proceed, and &s;uch apprehen&s;ions &s;ome mens words and actions have already given me) as I doubt not but my blood will cry aloud for vengeance to Hea|ven; &s;o I be&s;eech God not to pour out his wrathupon the generality of the people, who have either de&s;erted me, or ingaged again&s;t me, through the artifice and hypocri&s;ie of their Leaders, who&s;e inward horror will be
<PB N="19" REF="12">their fir&s;t Tormenter, nor will they e&s;cape ex|emplary judgements.</P>
<P>For tho&s;e that loved me, I pray God, they may have no mi&s;&s;e of Me, when I am gone; &s;o much I wi&s;h and hope, that all good Subjects may be &s;atisfied with the ble&s;&s;ings of your pre|&s;ence and vertues.</P>
<P>For tho&s;e that repent of any defects in their duty toward me, as I freely forgive them in the word of a Chri&s;tian King, &s;o I beleeve you will find them truly Zealous, to repay with intere&s;t that loyalty and love to you, which was due to me.</P>
<P>In &s;umme, what good I intended, doe you perform; when God &s;hall give you power: much good I have offered, more I purpo&s;ed to Church and State, if times had been capable of it.</P>
<P>The di&s;ception will &s;oon vani&s;h, and the Vizard will fall off a pace, This maske of Re|ligion on the face of Rebellion (for &s;o it now plainly appeares, &s;ince my Re&s;traint and cruell u&s;age, that they &s;ought not for me, as was pre|tended) will not long &s;erve to hide &s;ome mens deformities.</P>
<P>Happy times I hope, attend you, wherein your Subjects [by their mi&s;eries] will have learned, That Religion to their God, and Loy|alty to their King, cannot bee parted without both their &s;inne and their infelicity.</P>
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<P> I pray God ble&s;&s;e you and e&s;tabli&s;h you<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Kingdoms in righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, your Soule in true Religion, and your honor in the love o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> God and your people.</P>
<P>And if God will have di&s;loyalty perfected by my de&s;truction; let my memory ever, with my name, live in you; as of your Father, that loves you, and once a King of three flouri&s;h|ing Kingdoms; whom God thought fit to honor, not only with the Scepter &amp; govern|ment of them, but al&s;o with the &s;uffering many indignities, &amp; an untimely death for them; while I &s;tudied to pre&s;erve the rights of the Church, the power of the Laws, the ho|nor of my Crown, the priviledges of Parlia|ments, the liberties of my people, and my own Con&s;cience, which I thank God is dear|er to me then a thou&s;and Kingdoms.</P>
<P>I know God can, I hope he yet will re|&s;tore me to my Rights. I cannot di&s;pair ei|ther of his mercy, or of my peoples love and pity.</P>
<P>At wor&s;t, I tru&s;t I &s;hal but go before you to a better Kingdom, which God hath prepar|ed for me, and me for it, through my Savior Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to who&s;e mercies I commend you and all mine.</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Farewell, till We meet if not on Earth, yet in Heaven.</SALUTE></CLOSER>
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