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A62841	Amyntor, or, A defence of Milton's life containing I. a general apology for all writings of that kind, II. a catalogue of books attributed in the primitive times to Jesus Christ, his apostles and other eminent persons ..., III. a complete history of the book entitul'd Icon basilike, proving Dr. Gauden and not King Charles the First to be the author of it, with an answer to all the facts alledg'd by Mr. Wagstaf to the contrary, and to the exceptions made against my Lord Anglesey's Memorandum, Dr. Walker's book or Mrs. Gauden's narrative, which last piece is now the first time publish'd at large.	Toland, John, 1670-1722.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Wagstaffe, Thomas, 1645-1712. Vindication of King Charles the martyr.; Gauden, John, 1605-1662. Eikon basilike, the pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in his solitude and sufferings.; Walker, Anthony, d. 1692. True account of the author of a book entituled Eikon basilike.	1699 (1699)	Wing T1760; ESTC R22638	52,206	178

Misery with thine Ey of Mercy and let thine infinite Power vouchsafe to limit out som Proportion of Deliverance unto me as to thee shall seem most convenient Let not Injury O Lord triumph over me and let my Faults by thy Hand be corrected and make not mine unjust Enemy the Minister of thy Justice But yet my God if in thy Wisdom this be the aptest Chastisement for my unexcusable Folly if this low Bondage be fittest for my over-high Desires if the Pride of my not-enough humble Heart be thus to be broken O Lord I yield unto thy Will and joyfully embrace what Sorrow thou wilt have me suffer only thus much let me crave of thee let my Craving O Lord be accepted of thee since even that proceeds from thee let me crave even by the noblest Title which in my greatest Affliction I may give my self that I am thy Creature and by thy Goodness which is thy self that thou wilt suffer som Beams of thy Majesty to shine into my Mind that it may still depend confidently on thee Let Calamity be the Exercise but not the overthrow of my Virtue Let their Power prevail but prevail not to Destruction Let my Greatness be their Prey Let my Pain be the Sweetness of their Revenge let them if so it seem good unto thee vex me with more and more Punishment But O Lord let never their Wickedness have such a Hand but that I may carry a pure Mind in a pure Body and pausing a while and O most gracious Lord said she whatever becomes of me preserve the Virtuous MUSIDORUS CONCLUSION I HOPE by this time I have satisfy'd Mr. BLACKHALL since I have not only laid together the first Testimonies concerning this Matter but also answer'd the Exceptions that were made to those Testimonies and disprov'd the fresh Evidence which was produc'd no the behalf of Icon Basilike But if he 's offended at my Performance he may thank himself seeing without his causeless Provocation I had never written a Word more on this Subject as I shall not do hereafter unless for as justifiable a Reason For notwithstanding I may not answer every Scribler yet I 'll be misrepresented and abus'd by no body worth my notice INDEED Mr. BLACKHALL is not the first who has occasion'd Controversies by a Thirtieth of Ianuary Segmon Every body knows how much the Observation of that Day was abus'd in the two last Reigns by servil Flatterers who not content to run shameful Parallels between the Sufferings of our Savior and the King wherein the latter was often made to exceed they taught the People the ridiculous Doctrin of Passive Obedience as they allow'd the Prince an Unlimited and Despotic Power This render'd those Persons justly odious to the Nation and made sober Men frequently wish that such an Opportunity of doing Mischief might be taken away from those who fail'd not to improve it to the utmost It was likewise observ'd how much these Sermons contributed to raise Animosities and Feuds in the Kingdom and to continue the fatal Distinctions of Names and Parties which every good Man should desire might be abolish'd or bury'd in eternal Oblivion Besides that for many weighty Reasons such Days ought not to be perpetuated or otherwise in a little time ours will be as full as the Roman Calendar wherfore I readily approve of the learned Bishop of Salisbury's Opinion That our Deliverances should wear out the Memory of such tragical Accidents which no body pretends to justify and indeed I think it very reasonable if our Legislators be of the same Opinion that the Commemoration of his present Majesty's Landing to deliver us from Slavery on the Fifth of November should hereafter take place of the Thirtieth of Ianuary Other Holydays have bin recommended to a constant Observation tho' they are since grown into disuse or are legally abolish'd which the best Friends of the Clergy desire may be the Fate of that Day out of their respect to the Church For these Sermons do constantly put the People in mind of that Set of Men who preach'd 'em out of their Liberties in former times and the honest Clergy themselves are still under an unhappy Necessity of saying many things that let 'em think what they will are not extremely pleasing to the Body of the Nation The Descendants of those concern'd in that Act and many of 'em far from approving it conceive themselves unkindly us'd in most of those Discourses nor are the Posterity of the greatest Royalists in a better Condition if that be a National Guilt that 's never to be expiated tho' neither they nor their Ancestors consented to it to say nothing of the frequent Intermarriages and other Tyes between both the Parties IF the Extravagancies of those Sermons had terminated with the late Reign few People perhaps would trouble themselves now about what 's past unless constrain'd to it by som officious Chaplain But they cannot endure to hear the Members of the Parliament of 40 so infamously branded considering how lately they were oblig'd themselves to assert their Laws and Liberties against the Martyrs Son who violated and broke them at his Pleasure And in this Sense many were of Opinion that King CHARLES's Blood lay heavy on the Nation which made them for the ease of the same to shake off the Burden of King JAMES SOM who otherwise Honor the Memory of King CHARLES the First are angry to hear him in Mr. BLACKHALL's Language call'd the best of Kings and the best of Men when they consider especially that the Apostles were Men and that several Persons among the Greek and Roman Heathens did infinitly excel him in all Moral and Heroic Virtues As for Princes if good Manners could not make Mr. BLACKHALL except the present King Justice at least might well oblige him to do it King WILLIAM has never dispens'd with express Laws in favor of Popish Recusants He never protected any of his Chaplains against the Parliament for preaching up Arbitrary Power He never requir'd Soldiers to be try'd by Martial Law in time of Peace nor levy'd Loans or Ship mony contrary to Law much less imprison'd fin'd or banish'd such as refus'd to pay those illegal Taxes He does not countenance any SIBTHORPS MANWARINGS or MOUNTAGUES to teach his Subjects Non-Resistance or to compliment himself with Arbitrary Power He is so far from sending for Foren Troops to enslave the Nation that he readily sent those away which he kept here by Law as soon as he understood the Kingdom had no further need of their Service He does not use to imprison Members of the House of Commons for using that Freedom of Debate which is Essential to their Constitution He never threaten'd to betake himself to other Councils than his Parliament as CHARLES the First did saying that Parliaments were in his Power and that he might grow out of Love with them Nor is it known that he went into the House of Commons to demand any of their Members no more than

he has seiz'd the Customs without any Act to impower him He never promis'd as King CHARLES did in a Letter to his Queen that he would take away all the Penal Laws against Roman Catholicks as soon as he should be able nor any thing else of this nature For these are only a few Instances not to blacken that Prince but to shew how little som sort of People seem to value his present Majesty for generously restoring the Constitution and for so willingly passing many excellent Laws for enlarging or securing the Liberty of his Subjects as well as for always paying such a Deference to Parliaments which he not only assembles willingly but likewise according to ancient Custom annually In short if King CHARLES the First was the best of Kings the late King JAMES is not half so bad as I think him Nor is there any Doubt if a second Restoration which God and all Freemen forbid should ever happen but that the Abdication-Day would be appointed as a perpetual Fast. What Mr. BLACKHALL thinks of dispensing with the Laws and acting without or contrary to them we may guess when he says That King CHARLES's greatest Enemies could not charge him with any Vice or Immorality as if only Whoring Drinking or Swearing were immoral Practices SINCE this King who truly was not the worst must needs be counted the best of Men I do not much wonder that Mr. LONG of Exeter was for having som Portions of his pretended Book read in the Church for the further enlightning of our Understanding Nor that Dr. PERINCHIFF should tell us in his Life how som purchas'd Chips of the Block on which he was beheaded and Parcels of the Sands discolor'd with his Blood as also som of his Hair Hoping continues he they would be a means of Cure for that Disease which our English Kings through the Indulgence of kind Heaven by their Touch did usually heal And it was reported that these Reliques experienc'd fail'd not of the Effect Now who can laugh at the Popish Legends and be serious when he reads this Passage Wheras if there was ●ver any Power in England of curing the King 's Evil it was plainly lodg'd in the People BEFORE I conclude I must remark that tho his pretended Friends were so ready to father such Books on CHARLES the First wherein he had no Hand yet they industriously left out of his Works a Letter to Pope GREGORY XV whereof I can prove him as evidently to be the Author as CICERO or VIRGIL may be entitul'd to the Philippicks and the Aeneids There is an interpolated Copy of it in the first Volum of RUSHWORTH's Collections It is rightly inserted in the Quarto Edition of a Book call'd Cabala or Mysteries of State It is also in the Italian Mercury of VITTORIO SIRI in Du CHESNE's French History of England Scotland and Ireland and in several Spanish and Italian Authors Pope URBAN VIII mentions it in the Letter which he likewise sent this Prince with another to his Father King JAMES both which may be read in RUSHWORTH's Collections Now was not the omitting of this Letter a notorious Fraud since that it alone with those Letters which the Parliament publish'd to disgrace him and a few Pieces besides make up all his genuin Writings For as to those Messages Propositions Declarations Treaties and other public Papers which fill that bulky Folio they call his Works whoever takes them to be his is likewise capable of believing he was the true Author of Icon Basilike THIS is all I had to write concerning this famous Book not to reflect on the Memory of CHARLES the First but in my own Vindication being a Liberty not deny'd me by Equity or Law and which if I neglected to improve I should be more unjust to my self than my Adversaries whose Malice I shall readily forget and heartily pray God to forgive FINIS Joh. 8. 5. * Dicit Augustinus de Consensu Evangel l. 1. c. 7. quod ipse Dominus ni●il scripserit ut aliis de illo scribentibus necesse sit credere † Salvator nullum volumen doctrinae s●ae proproprium dereliquit quod in plerisque Apochryphorum deliramenta confingunt Hieronym in Commentar ad Ezechielis cap. 44. * Origen contr Cels. l. 5. * Stromat l. 2. 5. Contra Cel● l. 1. de Princip l. 3. * Advers Haeres l. 4. c. 3 Stromat l. 1. 2. 4. 6. princip l. 1. c. 3. l. 2. c. 1. Homil. 10. in Hos. 〈◊〉 pa●sim † L. 1. contr Haeres Euseb. Hist. Eccles. l 4. c. 14. Phot. 〈◊〉 126. * Contra Haeres l 3. c. 3. Stromat l 1 4 5 6. De Princip l. 2. Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 16 36. l. 4. c. 22 23. † Contra Haeres l. 5. c. 28. Hist. Eccles. l. 2. c. 26. * Hom●l 6. in Luc. † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ep. ad Ephes. Luc. 1. 1 2 3. * 〈…〉 personas Evangel●i 〈◊〉 Haeres l. 3. 11. Ezek. 6 6 10. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 3. † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 25. * Let the third and twenty first Chapters of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius be consulted with what St. Ierome has written on the same Subject 〈…〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Origen l. 2 contra Ce●● † Solius hilii p●tatis testamentum non potuisse corrumpi solum non habere aliqu●d quod in se debea● imp obari p●aesertim q●o● n●c ab ipso scriptum constat nec ab ejus apostolis sed lonpo post tem●●●e à quib●idam ince●ti nominis viris qui ne 〈◊〉 non 〈…〉 scribent●bus qu●● 〈…〉 Apos●olo●um nomina partim eo●●m qu● 〈…〉 Scriptorum suorum 〈…〉 a●●eve●anies ●ecundum ●os se scripsisse quae sc ipserint Quo magis mihi videntur injuria gravi affe●●sse discipulos Christi quia quae dissona iidem repugnantia sibi scriberen● ea referrent ad ipsos secundum eos hae● scribere se promitterentur Evangelia quae tantis ●int reserta erro●ibus tantis contrarietatibus narrationum simul a●●●ntentiarum ut nec sibi pro●sas necinter se conveniant Quid ergo aliud est quam calumnia●i bonos Christi Discipulorum conco●dem c●tum in crimen devocare discordi●● Augustin contra Faust. l. 32. c. 2. * Multa à majoribus vestris eloquiis Domini nostri in●erta verba sunt quae 〈◊〉 signata ipsius cum ●jus f●de non congr●unt 〈◊〉 sertim quia ut jam saepe pr●batum à nobis 〈◊〉 nec ab ipso haec sunt 〈…〉 sed mu●●a post 〈…〉 quibus ipsis inter 〈…〉 judaeis per sama● 〈…〉 Qui tamen omnia eadem in Apostolo●um Domini conserentes nomina vel ●orum qui secu●i Apostolos viderentur errores ac mendacia sua secundum eos ●escripsisse mentiti sunt Augustin ibid. l. 33. c. 3. * Latitabant usque ad recentiora illa seu Traj●ni seu e●iam fortasse ●●driani tempora in