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cause_n	church_n	england_n	time_n	1,468	5	3.5504	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87760	King Charles his farewell Left as a legacy to his deare children; written a little before his death. Containing many excellent admonitions and directions how to demeane themselves in all estates and conditions. With his prayers in the time of his troubles.; Eikon basilike. Selections	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing K552; Thomason E1410_2; ESTC R209521	13,170	35

Faction in England for many yeares so compliant they were to publique order nor indeed was their Party great either in Church or State as to mens judgements But as soon as discontents drave men into Sidings as ill humours fall to the disaffected part which cause inflamations so did all at first who affected any novelties adhere to that side as the most remarkable and specious note of difference then in point of Religion All the lesser Factions at first were officious servants to Presbytery their great Master till time and military success discovering to each their peculiar advantages invited them to part stakes and leaving the joynt stock of uniforme Religion pretended each to drive for their party the trade of profits or preferments to the breaking and undoing not onely of the Church and State but even of Pesbytery it selfe which seemed and hoped at first to have ingrossed all Let nothing seeme little or despicable to you in matters which concerne Religion and the Churches peace so as to neglect a speedy reforming and effectuall suppressing Errours and Schisms which seem at first but as a hand-bredth by seditious Spirits as by strong winds are soon made to cover and darken the whole Heaven When you have done justice to God your own soul and his Church in the profession and preservation both of truth and unitie in Religion The next main hinge on which your prosperitie will depend and move is That of civill Justice wherein the setled Laws of these Kingdoms to which you are rightly heir are the most excellent rules you can govern by which by an admirable temperament give very much to Subjects industry liberty happinesse and yet reserve enough to the Majesty Prerogative of any King who owns his people as Subjects not as slaves whose subjection as it preserves their prosperity peace and safetie so it will never diminish your Rights nor their ingenuous Liberties which consists in the enjoyment of the fruits of their industry and the benefit of those Laws to which themselves have consented Never charge your Head with such a Crown as shall by its heavinesse oppresse the whole body the weaknesse of whose parts cannot return any thing of strength honour or safety to the Head but a necessary debilitation and ruine Your Prerogative is best shewed and exercised in remitting rather then exacting the rigor of the Laws there being nothing worse than legall tyrannie In these two points the preservation of established Religion and Laws I may without vanity turn the reproach of my sufferings as to the worlds censure into the honour of a kinde of Martyrdome as to the testimony of my own Conscience The troubles of my Kingdomes having nothing else to object against me but this That I prefer Religion and Lawes established before those alterations they propounded And so indeed I do and ever shall till I am convinced by better Arguments than what hitherto have been chiefly used towards Me Tumults Armies and Prisons I cannot yet learn that lesson nor I hope ever will you That it is safe for a King to gratifie any Faction with the perturbation of the Laws in which is wrapt up the publique Interest and the good of the communitie How God will deal with Me as to the removal of these pressures and indignities which his Justice by the very unjust hands of some of my Subjects hath been pleased to lay upon Me I cannot tell nor am I much solicitous what wrong I suffer from men while I retain in my soule what I beleeve is right before God I have offered all for Reformation and Safety that in Reason Honour and Conscience I can reserving onely what I cannot consent unto without an irreparable injury to my own soule the Church and my people and to you also as the next and undoubted Heire of my Kingdoms To which if the divine Providence to whom no difficulties are insuperable shall in his due time after my decease bring you as I hope he will My Counsell and Charge to you is That you seriously consider the former reall or objected miscarriages which might occasion my troubles that you may avoyd them Never repose so much upon any mans single counsell fidelity and discretion in managing affairs of the first magnitude that is matters of Religion and Justice as to create in your self or others a difference of your own judgement which is likely to be alwayes more constant and impartiall to the interest of your Crown and Kingdom than any mans Next beware of exasperating any Factions by the crossnesse and asperity of some mens passions humours or private opinions imployed by you grounded onely upon the differences in lesser matters which are but the skirts and suburbs of Religion Wherein a charitable connivence and Christian toleration often dissipates their strength whom rougher opposition fortifies and puts the despised and oppressed party into such Combinations as may most enable them to get a full revenge on those they count their Persecutors who are commonly assisted by that vulgar commiseration which attends all that are said to suffer under the notion of Religion Provided the differences amount not to an insolent opposition of Laws and Government or Religion established as to the essentials of them such motions and minings are intolerable Alwayes keep up solid piety and those fundamentall Truths which mend both hearts and lives of men with impartiall favour and Justice Take heed that outward circumstances and formalities of Religion devour not all or the best incouragements of learning industry and piety but with an equall eye and impartiall hand distribute favours and rewards to all men as you finde them for their reall goodnesse both in abilities and fidelities worthy and capable of them This will be sure to gaine you the hearts of the best and the most too who though they be not good themselves yet are glad to see the severer waies of vertue at any time sweetned by temporall rewards I have You see conflicted with different and opposite factions for so I must needs call and count all those that act not in any conformity to the Laws established in Church and State no sooner have they by force subdued what they counted their common Enemy that is all those that adhered to the Laws to Me and are secured from that feare but they are divided to so high a rivalty as sets them more at defiance against each other than against their first Antagonists Time will dissipate all factions when once the rough horns of private mens covetous and ambitious designes shall discover themselves which were at first wrapt up and hidden under the soft and smooth pretensions of Religion Reformation and Liberty As the Wolfe is not lesse cruell so he will be more justly hated when he shall appeare no better than a Wolfe under Sheeps cloathing But as for the seduced Traine of the Vulgar who in their simplicity follow those disguises My charge and counsell to you is That as you need no