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Eikon basilike deutera, The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty King Charles II with his reasons for turning Roman Catholick / published by K. James.; Eikon basilike.
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time so that according to this Doctrine there is no other Church nor Interpreter of Scripture but that which lies in every Man 's giddy Brain I desire to know therefore of every serious Considerer of these things whether the great Work of our Salvation ought to depend upon such a Sandy Foundation as this Did Christ ever say to the Civil Magistrate much less to the People that he would be with them to the End of the World Or did he give them the Power to forgive Sins St. Paul tells the Corinthians Ye are God's Husbandry ye are God's Building we are Labourers with God This shews who are the Labourers and who are the Husbandry and Building And in this whole Chapter and in the preceeding one St. Paul takes great pains to set forth that they the Clergy have the Spirit of God without which no Man searcheth the deep things of God and he concludeth the Chapter with this Verse For who hath known the Mind of the Lord that he may instruct him But we have the Mind of Christ Now if we do but consider in humane Probability and Reason the Powers Christ leaves to his Church in the Gospel and St. Paul explains so distinctly afterwards we cannot think that our Saviour said all these things to no purpose And pray consider on the other side that those who resist the Truth and will not submit to his Church draw their Arguments from Implications and far-fetch'd Interpretations at the same time that they deny plain and positive Words which is so great a Disingenuity that 't is not almost to be thought that they can believe themselves Is there any other Foundation of the Protestant Church but that if the Civil Magistrate please he may call such of the Clergy as he thinks fit for his turn at that time and turn the Church either to Presbytery Independency or indeed what he pleases This was the way of our pretended Reformation here in England and by the same Rule and Authority it may be altered into as many more Shapes and Forms as there are Fancies in Mens Heads A Brief Account of Particulars occurring at the happy Death of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles II. in regard to Religion faithfully related by his then Assistant Mr. Jo Hudleston UPON Thursday the Fifth of February 1685. between seven and eight a Clock in the Evening I was sent for in haste to the Queen's Back-stairs at Whitehall and desired to bring with me all things necessary for a dying Person Accordingly I came and was order'd not to stir from thence till farther notice being thus obliged to wait and not having had time to bring along with me the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar I was in some Anxiety how to procure it In this conjuncture the Divine Providence so disposing Father Bento de Lemos a Portugez came thither and understanding the Circumstance I was in readily proffer'd himself to go to St. James's and bring the most Holy Sacrament along with him Soon after his Departure I was call'd into the King's Bed-chamber where approaching to the Bed-side and kneeling down I in brief presented his Majesty with what Service I could perform for God's Honour and the Happiness of his Soul at this last Moment on which Eternity depends The King then declared himself That he desired to die in the Faith and Communion of the Holy Roman Catholick Church That he was most heartily sorry for all the Sins of his Life past and particularly for that he had deferred his Reconciliation so long That through the Merits of Christ's Passion he hoped for Salvation That he was in Charity with all the World That with all his Heart he pardon'd his Enemies and desired Pardon of all those whom he had any wise offended and that if it pleased God to spare him longer Life he would amend it detesting all Sin I then advertis'd his Majesty of the Benefit and Necessity of the Sacrament of Penance which Advertisement the King most willingly embracing made an exact Confession of his whole Life with exceeding Compunction and Tenderness of Heart which ended I desired him in farther sign of Repentance and true Sorrow for his Sins to say with me this little short Act of Contrition O my Lord God! with my whole Heart and Soul I detest all the Sins of my Life past for the Love of Thee whom I love above all things and I firmly purpose by thy Holy Grace never to offend Thee more Amen Sweet Jesus Amen Into thy Hands Sweet Jesus I commend my Soul Mercy Sweet Jesus Mercy This he pronounced with a clear and audible Voice which done and his Sacramental Penance admitted I gave him Absolution After some time thus spent I asked his Majesty if he did not also desire to have the other Sacraments of the Holy Church administred unto him He reply'd By all means I desire to be Partaker of all the Helps and Succours necessary and expedient for a Catholick Christian in my Condition I added And doth not your Majesty also desire to receive the precious Body and Blood of our dear Saviour Jesus Christ in the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist His Answer was this If I am worthy pray fail not to let me have it I then told him it would be brought to him very speedily and desired his Majesty that in the Interim he would give me leave to proceed to the Sacrament of Extreme Unction he replied With all my Heart I then anointed him which as soon as perform'd I was call'd to the Door whither the Blessed Sacrament was now brought and delivered to me Then returning to the King I entreated his Majesty that he would prepare and dispose himself to receive At which the King raising up himself said Let me meet my Heavenly Lord in a better Posture than in my Bed But I humbly begg'd his Majesty to repose himself God Almighty who saw his Heart would accept of his good Intention The King then having again recited the forementioned Act of Contrition with me he received the most Holy Sacrament for his Viaticum with all the Symptoms of Devotion imaginable The Communion being ended I read the usual Prayers termed the Recommendation of the Soul appointed by the Church for Catholicks in his Condition After which the King desired the Act of Contrition O my Lord God c. to be repeated This done for his last spiritual Encouragement I said Your Majesty hath now received the Comfort and Benefit of all the Sacraments that a good Christian ready to depart out of this World can have or desire Now it rests only that you think upon the Death and Passion of our dear Saviour Jesus Christ of which I present unto you this Figure shewing him a Crucifix lift up therefore the Eyes of your Soul and represent to your self your sweet Saviour here crucified bowing down his Head to kiss you his Arms stretched out to imbrace you his Body and Members all bloody and pale with Death to redeem you and as you see him dead and fixed upon the Cross for your Redemption so have his Remembrance fixed and fresh in your Heart Beseech him with all Humility that his most precious Blood may not be shed in vain for you and that it will please him by the Merits of his bitter Death and Passion to pardon and forgive you all your Offences And finally to receive your Soul into his blessed Hands and when it shall please him to take it out of this transitory World to grant you a joyful Resurrection and an Eternal Crown of Glory in the next In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen So recommending his Majesty on my Knees with all the Transport of Devotion I was able to the Divine Mercy and Protection I withdrew out of the Chamber In Testimony of all which I have hereunto subscribed my Name JO. HVDLESTON ERRATA PAge 105. line 2. read happier Ibid. l. 3. after Restraint supply than the Brutes
manage the Plot Whereupon my Lord Russel Algernon Sidney c. were out off The Earl of Essex ' s being murdered in the Tower The Trial and Sentence of Mr. Speke and Mr. Braddon for endeavouring a Discovery thereof The Continuance of the Surrender of Charters c. p. 303. Copies of two Papers written by the late King Charles II. Published in 1686. by King James ' s Authority who attested that he found them in his Brother 's Strong Box written in his own Hand p. 309. A brief Account of Particulars occurring at the happy Death of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles II. in regard to Religion faithfully related by his then Assistant Mr. Jo. Hudleston p. 316. ΕΙΚΩ'ΠΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ ' ΔΕΥ'ΤΕΡΑ CHAP. I. On his Majesty's being converted into the Catholick Church THIS I know will be offensive to my Subjects if it should take air and therefore in Policy am obliged to conceal it but that I am secure enough as to God and my own Conscience I have no reason to doubt 'T is the Catholick Church whereof I am now a Member and it 's that Church which in the Bibles of the Hereticks themselves is called the Pillar and Ground of Truth then why should I scruple to submit my self to her Direction Did not my Grandfather K. James though he maul'd Bellarmine give the Pope the Title of Most Holy Father and declare his Readiness to meet the Church of Rome half way Did not my Father whom the very Hereticks acknowledg a Martyr in like manner give the Pope those Titles which they call Names of Blasphemy If he had thought the Catholick Religion damnable or believed that the Church of Rome teaches the Doctrine of Devils would he ever have taken a Catholick Princess into his Bosom or granted such Concessions in favour of her Religion and suffered it to spread so much in his Dominions Would he have imployed the Irish in his Armies after they had cut the Protestants Throats or would he ever have made Arch-Bishop Laud his Favourite who brought such Innovations into the Church of England and declared his good liking to a Cardinal's Cap if the Church of Rome were but a little reformed So that I am safe enough as to what concerns my Soul having not only the Sentiments of the Bishop of Rome positively for me but also those of the alterius orbis Episcopus not at all against me Then surely I may venture my Salvation on the same bottom with my Mother and embarque in a Church which uncontrovertibly appears not to have been altogether disrelishing to my Father Let it go which way it will I am of the surest side the Catholicks say that out of the Church of Rome there is no Salvation and Protestants acknowledg that in the Church of Rome there is Salvation and though it should be true what I have learn'd from my Tutor Hobbs and am indeed inclin'd to believe that all Religion is but a Trick of State to keep the People in obedience yet a Profession of Religion is necessary for a Prince as well as others according to Machiavel's Maxim Plebem dum vis fallere finge Deum and certainly that Religion of which it is a Fundamental Principle that Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion is most agreeable to a Prince who would maintain or advance his Prerogative for where it is allowed as amongst all Protestants to examine the Dictates of their Ghostly Fathers in relation to the Church it must unavoidably follow that the People will also claim the like Privilege to canvass the Orders of their Civil Fathers in relation to the State Then let the Hereticks talk as they please of the Kings of the Earth giving their Power to the Beast I see that it is undoubtedly the best Expedient for any Monarch who designs to be absolute to be an obedient Son to the Church of Rome who can insure him not only his Subjects Persons but also their Consciences and Purses seeing they must do and believe as the Church will have them True it is my Misfortune that a Protestant Bishop and several Protestant Lords who have follow'd me hither are privy to my Conversion which might indeed prove fatal to my Affairs if it were not their Interest as well as mine to conceal it but seeing their Restitution depends on mine I have no reason to fear that they will divulge it And for the Satisfaction of the Church of Rome though I have no Cause to profess to be of the Religion of Protestants who murdered my Father and give the Ignominious Character of an Idolatress to my Mother yet seeing the Principles of the Catholick Church allow Mental Reservation and that Christ himself did not reject Nicodemus thô a Night-Disciple the Roman Catholicks cannot be angry that I still profess my self a Protestant especially seeing thereby I shall be the more capable of doing them Service and thus I find my self obliged to give an early Assent to my Grandfather K. James's Maxim which he had from Lewis XI of France who never learn'd any other Latin Words viz. Nescit regnare qui nescit dissimulare Nor do I know why it should be any greater Stain to my Honour to feign my self a Protestant for the Crown of Great Britain than it was to my Grandfather Henry the IV. to feign himself a Catholick for the Crown of France and may my Endeavours have the same Success but a happier Exit And seeing the World will have it that there is a God I can lose no more but a little Breath to make some Addresses if there be none but seeing it 's safer to venture with the bulk of Mankind than to rely on the Efforts of some Men of Wit I am resolved to lift up the following Prayer O thou Almighty Being who createdst the Heavens and the Earth by whom Kings reign and Princes decree Justice to thee I refer my Cause for a final Decision Thou art King of Kings who puttest down one and settest up another and therefore the fittest for me to make Application unto I have been taught by those who call themselves thy Ambassadors and would have me to believe it to be thy Law that Kings are accountable to none but thy self as being thy Vicegerents and Gods on Earth Vindicate therefore the Justice of my Cause against those Men who have not only usurp'd my Throne but thine for I am accountable to none but thee Give Success to my Arms and Endeavours against them And seeing thou hast said that Vengeance is thine and thou wilt repay it let not the hoary Heads of those who shed my Father's and thy Vice-gerent's Blood go down in Peace to the Grave And give me Strength O thou most High to execute Vengeance upon a bloody Nation Thou who didst grant Samson ' s Desire to be reveng'd on the Philistines for his two Eyes listen to my Petition I request thee that I may be aveng'd for my Father's Blood and the unjust Vsurpation of my own Throne CHAP.