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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54100	The character of that glorious martyred King Charles I being a brief description of his religious reign, from his coronation to his unhappy death : wherein is laid open, 1. His outward actions, 2. His piety, 3. His zeal to Gods ordinances, 4. His wisdom, 5. His justice, 6. His mercy, 7. His humilty [sic], 8. His bounty, 9. His wonderful patience / by W.P. Esq.	W. P., Esq.	1660 (1660)	Wing P125; ESTC R5376	4,498	9

THE CHARACTER Of That Glorious Martyred King CHARLES I BEING A Brief Description of His Religious Reign from his Coronation to his unhappy Death Wherein is laid open 1. His outward Actions 2. His Piety 3. His Zeal to Gods Ordinances 4. His Wisdom 5. His Justice 6. His Mercy 7. His Humilty 8. His Bounty 9. His wonderful Patience By W P Esq Heb. 12.1 2. Let us run with Patience the Race that is set before us looking unto Jesus the Author and finisher of our Faith who for the Joy that was set before him endured the Crosse and dispised the shame and is set at the right hand of the Throne of God LONDON Printed for T. B. 1660. The true Character of a Glorious KING First for his outward Actions THe best pulse to discover the inward temper is by his outward Actions he was alwaies Grave Serious and deliberate and made them bear for the most part the impressions of Wisdom piety and a composed settledness upon them yet when ever moving upon just Principles Grounds of Reason and Religion to engage in any undertaking he was most vigorously pursuing it by all fair and honorable means knowing that a good end ought not to be aimed at by bad actions which made him bring the least grain as well as the greatest wedge the Circumstancials as well as the essentials of all his actions to the highest and never would allow or at least least maintain the most pale-faced modest insinuating errour in any action but ever accounted it his glory to confesse and reform it when detected rather then maintain it And in regard of his private indulgences to himself he ever walked with all preciseness as the Apostle commands 1 Thess 5. knowing that though Religion alloweth great and just Liberties to humane Nature it was not safe what he might lest it proved a perversion of blessings into temptatious for as he was as I formerly hinted temperate and moderate in all things as did ever appear in his Recreations Expences Apparel Diet and the like for though he fed liberally it was orderly twice a day only and to the size of nature not desire being never known to oppresse but relieve it by eating or drinking and alwayes chose rather to shorten then stretch his Teacher or strain the conjugal and Matrimonial knot that fastned him to his Saviour in an Judivorceable Espousal but preserved himself pure chast and unspotted of the world as far as Humane nature by the Power of Divine grace was capable knowing that the least way given to any lust or vice will soon make it grow and spread for as all rivers fill by drops and the first issue disposes the Orifice to become greater he strove to nip every temptation in its first springing declining to come neer the brink of any Precipice lest he might slip or fall in by weakness or giddiness which the empty eariness the vain pleasures of this world often intoxicate the brain with like the best Wines taken in excess which cause distempers instead of cheering Elevating the spirits Secondly Of his Piety wherein especially in his latter time he was as much beyond Imitation as President making much of his life so far as it admitted of a Sequestration from his calling as a King to that of a Christian but one continued Act of Regulated Devotion both in regard of his retirements in that non est vera religio quae cum templo relinquitur saith Lactantius and more publick duties of Holiness wherein he was constant in paying his Debt of homage and out-rent to God in Prayers both in his own house and the Church as the Exchequer wherein God is best pleased to reserve them when the Sacrifice is not raw and indigested made up of the passions and humours of men but of the finest of the flower the best of the herd such as the Church allowes metal that will not fly upon the test but such as the publike stamp of Law had made currant no embased but the best coyn for he ever worshipped God in that way which the Papists call Heresie and Schismaticks Popery seeming to take Heaven by a Holy violence in the fervency of his Devotions being as it were eaten up in his zeal to Gods house and all his Holy Sacrifices Thirdly In zeal to Gods Ordinances Temple and Ministers like the lamps in the Sanctuary he also sent forth a pure and holy flame so as with King David it even consumed and fed upon him not be upon the Church for he was alwayes so industrious to preserve them in their purity and glory and to advance them in all just estimation and greatness as he contemned his own interest nay life for them when they came in competition for would he have sacrificed the Church he had been the Churches Sacrifice so as he made his life and death but one continued Act of Protection to her and hers against all the open Invasions and secret Stratagems of Atheismes and Heresies Fourthly His wisdom he was as an Angel of God knowing both good and evil avoiding the one as a Ship or sand that would sink his vessel and using the other as the rudder or Stern to keep it in a safe course knowing that a Kingdom is Established by righteousness So as he might have been feared as well as admired for his knowledge had it not been tempered with an equal goodness for he could dive inao the bottom of the most deep and hidden Magination unriver the most close fix'd designs see Effects in their causes not Judging of causes according to the vulgar errour by their effects nay he could pierce into the center of policy it self and have applyed ptudential remedies for the killing the Cockatrice in the Egg and have pluckt up by the roots those dark though to him known designs in their Infancy that have by their growth produced such unhappy fruites had he consulted his Power and not his Piety but he alwayes soared upwards as high as Heaven in his deliberations and fetch'd his conclusions from thence from Divine not Humane Aphorismes making Religion both the basis and roof reason and Humane providence as supporters onely of his designs and undertakings and would never own his preservation to unlawfull ones but trusted in God for all events ever with Ely saying they were good though counter to his designs because from above and profitable when unpleasant Fifthly His Justice he was then truely informed though Princes see by other eyes truth sometime reflected by false glasses a Melchisedeck without Father Mother or other relations considering no mans person but his cause not of Caesar's temper who said Melior causa cassii sed denegare bruto nihil possum nor the Emperour who having been once Niceas his Favorite wrote to his Judges in a cause depending between him and another if Niceas cause be good let Justice prevail if bad let favour prevail however let Niceas prevail but standing as the Center in the circumference equally to distribute