THE Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and Pious Christians , TOVVARDS THEIR KINGS : ( AS ALSO Of some idolatrous Pagans ) both before , under the Law and Gospel : expressed by their private and publike Prayers , Supplications , Intercessions , Thanksgivings , well-wishes for the health , safety , long life , prosperity , temporal , spiritual , eternal felicity of the Kings and Emperors under whom they lived , whether Pagan or Christian , Bad or Good , Heterodox or Orthodox , Persecutors or Protectors of them : and likewise for their Royal Issue , Posterity , Realms : and by their dutifull conscientious Obedience and Subjection to them ; with the true Reasons thereof from Scripture and Policy . Evidenced by Presidents , and Testimonies in all ages , worthy the knowledge , imitation , and serious consideration of our present degenerated disloyal , antimonarchical Generation .

By William Prynne Esq. a Bencher of Lincolns Inne .

LONDON , Printed by T. C. and L. P. and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain , 1660.

THe a a 1 Tim. 6. 15. Rev 19. 16. on●…y potentate , and KING OF KINGS , who b b D●… 2 , 21. c. 4. 25. Job 12. 19 , 20 , 21. 1 ●…m 2. 8. Psa. 113. 7 , 8. removeth Kings , and SETTETH UP KINGS , and ru●…eth in the KINGDOM OF MEN TO GIVE IT TO WHOMSOEVER HE PLEASETH ; having by his own Omnipotent c c Psal. 98. 1. Exod. 15. 16. Deut. 4. 34. out-stretched arm , and successive Miraculous Providences , unexpectedly cut off , cast down , subverted , d●…ipated , d d Dan. 2 34. 4●… . without hands or bloodshed , the most Execrable , Perfidious , Trayterous Murderers of your Royal Father KING CHARLS the first , of Glorious Memory , and Unjust disinheriters and proscribers of your Sacred Majestie out of all your own Hereditary Kingdoms , and some forein States by Violence , War , and inhumane Tyranny , ( enforcing your Majesty oft to cry out with the Exiled Kingly Prophet ; e e Psal. 120. 4 , 5 , 6. Wo is me that I am constrained to dwell in Mesech , and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar &c. ) who by rigorous Edicts debarred your Majestie not only of the Charitable Relief of your own Protestant Subjects , but likewise of the Christian Aid , and f f 1 Tim. 2. 1 , 2 , 3. Evangelical Tribute , ( due to all Pagan as well as Christian KINGS , by divine and common natural Right ) of their daily Supplications , Prayers , and Intercessions to God , for your Personal Preservation , and Restitution , under severest Penalties ; imposed many insupportable new Yoaks of Bondage on all your Subjects necks , and worse than Aegyptian Burdens upon their galled backs , for sundry yeares , almost to their Irrecoverable ruine , it pleased this g g Ps 46. 7. Soveraign King over all the earth , h h Num. 16. 22. ●… . 27. 16. and God of the Spirits of all flesh , by strange Miracles of mercy , through the preparatory loyal Endeavours of some of your Majesties most inconsiderable faithfull Subjects , upon the very first Reception and reading of your Majesties most gracious Letters and Declarations to the Lords , Commons , City of London , Army , and Navy , immediately to bow the hearts and spirits of both your Houses of Parliament , and all your Subjects , ( yea of the very Military Officers , Forces by Land and Sea , formerly raised & engaged against your Majesties Cause and Kingship , ) as the heart of one man , ( as he i i 2 Sam. 16. 9. to 16. bowed the hearts of the men of Judah after rebellious usurping Absoloms death , in the case of exterminated King David ) so that they immediately and unanimously voted your Majesties speedy return , dispatched their several Letters , Votes , Messengers , Fleet and Monies to your Majesty , without one dissenting voice ; to h●…sten your Majesties return , and transport you with honour and sa●…ety , to enjoy your KINGLY AUTHORITY and PATRIMONY , contending with a most cordial aemulation , who should be first and forwardest , to bring back and conduct your Majesty ( together with your Princely Brothers and Followers ) from your long most deplorable exile , to your Royal City and Palace , with all possible demonstrations of their publike joy , and dutifull Allegeance to your Majesty , and farr greater Magnificence , Solemnity , Triumph , and multitudes o●… Conductors , than any of your most Victorious Royal Progenitors enjoyed when they returned into England from their greatest Forein Conquests . And that which crowned this Miracle of Mercies , was its celerity and se●…son , it having both its inception and perfection within the limits of one Month , and its completion on Your Majesties Birth-day ( May 29. ) whereon , as You were first born a Prince , You were now re-born A MOST GLORIOUS KING , and most magnificen●…ly invested in the poss●…ssion of Your Royal Throne at Wh●…tehall , in the presence of all your Majesties Lords , Commons , and thousands of your People there assembled , who with their united Shouts , Prayers , P●…aises , Acclamations , Benedictions , and Panegyricks congratulated your Maties Natural and Political Nativity thereon , both as a Man and Monarch ; together with the new Birth and Resurrection of Your three Uni●… Kingdoms and Churches of ENGLAND , SCOTLAND and IRELAND , and their respective Dominions , being all ●…ised from the●… Graves of D●…th and Misery ( wherein they had for some years sp●…ce b●…re been in●…red ) and were new ●…rn AS KINGDOMS and Churches too on that joy●… d●…y , 〈◊〉 to ●…e celebrated by them in all succeeding Generations ; and to have this Divine motto engra●…n thereon . a a ●…sal . ●… 18. 22 , 23 , 2●… . The stone which the bu●…lders refused is ( this day ) become t●…e Head of the corner ; This is the Lords doing , and it is marvello●… in our eyes , THI●… IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MAD●… , WEE WILL REJOYCE AND BE GLAD THEREIN .

What the ●…gant Prophet b b Isa 66. 7 , 8 , 9. Is●…h records of God●… mira●… M●…cies towards his Church and people : B●…e she 〈◊〉 , she broug●…t forth ; before her pain came , she was delivered of a man child . Who hath heard such a thing ? WHO HATH SEEN SUCH THINGS ? Shall the Earth be made to bring forth in ONE DAY ? OR SHALL A NATION BE BORN AT ONCE ? For as soon as ZION 〈◊〉 , she brought 〈◊〉 her childre●… ; Was now verified b●…th of your M●…jesty , and you●… three whole Kingdoms & Churches . all brought forth and born together in this one DAY . Wherefore , R●…yce ye with 〈◊〉 , ( with ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●… 〈◊〉 . England ) and he glad with her all ye that love her ; rejoyce fo●… joy with h●…r , all ye that mourned for her . 〈◊〉 Jewe's 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 the Apol●…gy of the Ch●… 〈◊〉 .

I●… hath been the antient 〈◊〉 O●… our●… Rom●…sh Adversaries , against our Reformed Protestant Churches & Religi●…n , that they are false and spurious , because they ●…h 16. Divi●… . 1 D. John White his Way to the true Ch●…ch , Sect. 42. 〈◊〉 . 44. have no mi●…cles wr●…ght in them : And they have daily upbraided your s●…cred Majesty & your followers , yea pierced your souls during your Exile among them , w●…th this soul-piercing Quaere , * Where is now the God of the Prot stants ? He can neither p●…rve nor ●…store You to ●…our Crowns and King●…ms ; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nounce your Protestant God , Ch●…ch , 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Rom●…n Catholike God , Church , R●…ligion , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hope nor 〈◊〉 of your rest●…on and th●…t 〈◊〉 ●…y th●… Arms of your Catholike ●…yes and subjec●… . But blessed and for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of ou●… great God , who hath now vindicated his own Glorie and O●…ncie against their 〈◊〉 , & wrought so many Miracles in your Maties restitution , to justifie b●…th the Truth of the Prote●…ant Religion , Churches , & your Subj●…s , that all their spurious ‖ ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Miracles and Impostures wherewi●…h they abuse their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 their lives 〈◊〉 the Saints . over-c●…edulous Proselytes , and fraught their Legends even to n●…sse , are no more to be compared with them , than a Glo-worm●…o ●…o the Noon day Sun : And their God and * * 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . rock is not as our God and ro●…k , our Enemies themselves being ( now ) Judges .

Verily , your Majesty with all your Protestant Subjects , after such a stupendious , glorious deliverance from their la●…e usurping Pharaohs , w●…rse t●…n Aegyptian Tax masters , Burdens and servitude , have just cause to sing aloud to the God of their Salvation , this triump●…ant song of Moses , and the Children of a Exod. 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 , 12 , 13 , ●… Israel , and King David after them ; a Who is l●…ke unto thee , O Lord , amongst the Gods ? who is like unto thee , glorious in holynesse , fearfull in prayses doing wonders ? Thou str●…tchest out thyright hand , the earth swallowed them ; Thou in thymercy hast led forth thy p●…ople , which thou hast redeemed . Sing ye unto the Lord , for he hath triumphed gloriously . b b Psal ●…1 . 1 , 2 , 3 &c. The King shall joy 〈◊〉 thy str●… O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he ●…joyce ? for thou hast ( now ) given him his hearts desire , thou hast not with-holden the request of his lips : For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse , thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head : His glory is great in thy salvation , Honor and Majesty hast thou laid upon him . Thou hast made him most Blessed for ever , thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy Countenance , For the King trusteth in the Lord , and through the mercy of the most High he shall not miscarry . * * Psal 106. 48. Blessed be the Lord God of England from everlasting to everlasting ( for th●…s unexpressible mercy ) and let all the people say , Amen ; Praise ye the Lord . Yea they all now joyntly and severally apply to your Majestie , the blessing and words of the Q●…een of Sheba to King Solomon , after she beheld his transcendent Wisdom , Virtues , and Magnificence : ( which far exceeded the report thereof , as your Majesties royal wisdom and graces of all kinds much transcend their fame ) * * 2 Chron 9. 5 , 6 , 7. Bl●…ssed be the Lord thy God , who delighted in thee , to set thee upon his Throne , to be King for the Lord thy God . Because the Lord thy God lov●…d Israel ( England , Scotland and Ireland ) TO ESTABLISH THEM FOR EVER , THEREFORE MADE HE THEE KING OVER THEM TO DO JUSTICE AND JUDGEMENT , yea , to restore them to their pristine Liberty , Peace , Plenty , Traffick , Renown , Prosperity , and make them the happiest of all Subjects in the world .

In the contempl●…tion of which inchoated common Felicity , I humbly presume to dedicate to your Majesty , this now compleated Treatise of , The Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and pious Christians in all ages ( and lik●…wise of Pagans ) to their KINGS , both before and under the Law and Gospel ; more especially within this your first Christian Realm of Britain , ( wherein I have most expa●…ted ) expressed both by their publike and private Prayers , Supplications , and Intercessions unto God for their long life , health , sa●…ety , victory , prosperity , temporal , spiritual and eternal felicity ; and all sorts of blessings both on their Royal Persons , Queens , P●…ogenies , Families , Government , Kingdoms , Armies , Counsels ; by their Thanksgivings to God for their advancement to their Royal Thrones , Victories , Successes , Deliverances , Piety , Justice and Gratious reigns over them ; by their loyal Acclamations , Salutations , Addresses , Panegyricks , Epistles to them , and their dutiful Subjection and Obedience under them , which I have evidenc'd by presidents and Testimonies in all ages , ( never formerly collected into one Manual ) To which I have super added the antient and modern Forms of the Coronations of Christian Emperors , Kings , Queens , ( and of some Pagans ) with the Ceremonies , Solemnities , Prayers , Collects and Benedictions used at them , especially those relating to England and Scotland , ( not hitherto published ) as a President for , and Prologue to your Majesties much desired and shortly-expected Coronation .

The first Part of this Treatise , I lately Printed , in January last , for Your Majesties service , to inthrone You in the Hearts , publike Prayers and Supplications of all Your loyal Subjects , to prepare the way for Your Majestyes speedy Restauration to Your Hereditary Crowns and Kingdoms , which ( blessed be God ) you now actually enjoy , to their unspeakable comfort : of the accomplishment whereof without Armes or Blood , I had such full assurance then and since in my own apprehensions , from the Observation of Gods admirable Providences , of Your Majesties Opposites intollerable Extravagances and Infatuations , & of Your Subjects late dutiful Inclinations tending thereunto , through the loyal Endeavour of some Faithfull Friends to your Majestie and your People , that I committed the Second Part of this Treatise , and all that concerns Your Coronation , to the Presse , in the beginning of April last ; before any visible appearances thereof to the eyes or thoughts of others : And I repute it an extraordinary Blessing and Honour from God and your Majesty , that any of my Paper Arms and Publications ( in your Majesties and others apprehensions ) have been instrumental to promote this your happy , Unbloody , most joyfull Restitution to your Throne and Kingship , maugre all late Ingagements , & Oaths of Abjuration , to debar your Majestie and all the Royal line for ever from them .

I humbly beseech your Royal Majestie graciously to accept this Unpolish'd work ( compiled in the midst of many publike distracting Imployments ) being your Highnesses peculiar by all Rights and Circumstances , as a Publick Testimony of my Loyalty to your Majestie , and a lasting Monument of my Thankfullnesse to Almighty God , for hearing my many years constant Prayers , and blessing my impotent Paper Artillery and endeavors for your Majesties long-desired , and now happily accomplished Investiture , not only in your Royal Throne , but likewise in the Hearts , Consciences , private and publike Devotions and Supplications of all your People . Whom this Treatise , seconded with my Healths Sicknesse , ( dedicated to your Royal Father many years past ) and your Majesties most Pious fr●…sh Proclamation , will instruct and excite most devoutly to pray for your Majesties Health and Happiness in their Churches , Chapels , Families , Closets , rather than heathenishly to prophane , or abuse your Sacred Name , in drinking your Majesties Health ( to the Hazard of their own and their souls to boot , through Drunkennesse and Intemperance ) in Taverns , Alehouses , or at their own or others Tables , as well to Gods dishonor as your Majesties .

In fine , I shall be a daily Orator to the God of your Majesties and your Kingdoms Salvation , that all the temporal , spiritual , and eternal blessings , comprised in the several Prayers , Collects , Benedictions , Salutations , Acclamations , and Passages , collected in this Treatise , for any Christian Emperors , Kings , and Princes , may concenter in , and be abundantly powred forth on your Majesties Royal Person , Family , Kingdoms , Councils , Court , Armies , Government , People ; that so your Majestie may be Chronicled to all Posterity ( as in truth you really demerit ) for the best , devoutest , holiest , justest , and most gratious of all Christian Kings that ever reigned , and your formerly disloyal , degenerated Subjects , by your most righteous Reign , and pious * * Regis ad exemplum to●…us componitur orbis●… Claudian . Royal Example , henceforth become the most Loyal , Religious , Free , and Happiest of all Subjects in the Universe : Which is and shall be the daily Prayer of

THe Original occasion of the Collections comprised in this Treatise , with the general causes of its present publication , are at large related in the first six pages ; to which I shall accumulate one special motive ( more particularly reflecting on my self ) ne●…essitating me thereunto .

It hath been my portion ( as well as the (a) (a) See here , p , 1. 2. and ch. 4. throughout . Primitive Christians before me ) to be frequently accused , and publickly slandered , as a professed Enemy to the late Kings Person , to Kingly Government , and a justifier , an encourager of REGICIDES , and exciter of Subjects , to lay violent hands upon their Princes sacred persons in some cases .

This calumny was first raised and fixed on me by Dr. Heylin and Bishop Laud , and by their procurements , inserted into the Information exhibited against me by M. Noy ( then Kings Atturney ) in the starchamber , in June 1633. for my Histriomastix ( licensed by Dr. Backner Houshold Chaplain to Archbishop Abbot ) and indeavoured to be proved by some wrested inferences , and expressions of Fathers , approved Historians quoted by me in that Book , tho●…gh (b) Histriomap . 825. E. 26. 943. 516. to 520. I had in expresse terms therein condemned these disloyal Practises & Positions they aspersed me withall , as Jesuitical , treasonable and Rebellious ; & disclaimed them in my answer thereunto upon Oath , a●… never once entring into my loyal heart , being repug●…ant to the Oaths of Supremacy & Allegiance I had taken 〈◊〉 has a a Graduate in the University of Oxford , and Barrester in the Innes of Court ; and to the principles of the * * See The Homelies against Rebellion , and on Whitsunday , Deus & Rex , 3 Jac. c. 1. 4. Protestant Religion I professed .

After this I was again scandalized and traduced by some of our Prelates to the late King himself , in the year 1641. out of meer malice , who would needs strain a passage in my Epistle to the High Court of Parliament prefixed to my Antipathy , &c. or , Historical Collection of the EXECRABLE TREASONS , Conspiracies , REBELLIONS , &c. of our English , British , French , Scotish and Irish Lordly Prelates , against our Kings and Kingdomes , then published , against the very letter and meaning of my words , and the scope of my whole Book , as the King himself then answered mine Accusers upon the reading thereof , rejecting their Accusation as a false and groundlesse calumny .

Upon the publishing of my Soveraign Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes , in the year 1643. I was again calumniated in the self same kind , though therein I at large dicovered , censured the Treachery and disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraigns , botb in their Doctrines , and Treasonable practices , which they since would charge me with ; whereupon I fully and particularly vindicated my self from this accusation afresh , in my Mr. Pry●…ne the Member reconciled to Prynne the Barrester , and other Treatises .

Having sufficiently cleared my innocency against all these reiterated aspersions , coming into the House of Commons , in November , 1648. as a Member , much against my will , I did then in three several extemporary Speeches in the House , upon the Armies presenting their treasonable Declaration from Saint Albans November the 20. demanding the King to be brought to publick Justice , and the Prince and Duke of York to be banished and disinherited , &c. and upon the Kings seisure by the Army , and removal from the Isle of Wight , to bring him to his Trial and Execution ; declare my judgement at large against these their Demands & Proceedings , not onely as illegal and seditious , but as TREASONABLE and PERFIDIOUS in the highest degree .

Whereupon on the 4. of December 1648. some implacable Enemies to the King , endeavouring his destruction ( highly incensed against me for my zealous loyalty to preserve both his Royal Person and Dignity from their intended violence ) falsely and maliciously published and Printed a CHARGE against the King in my name , purposely to defame me , and stop my mouth from speaking my conscience freely in the great debate then on foot , touching the satisfactoriness of the Kings Answer to the Propositions of both Houses , upon the conclusion of the Personal Treaty with him in the Isle of Wight : which false Imposture I meeting with that morning going to the House , did there openly complain against it , as a malicious Forgerie , the very stile , frame and expressions in it , evidencing it to be none of mine . After which I particularly disowned it in the * * Page 27. beginning , and refuted the whole scope of it , and the Armies Declaration to bring the King to Justice , &c. in the end of my Speech that very day Dec. the 4. 1648. as A MEER destructive , JESUITICAL and POPISH DESIGN , by sundry Arguments from Scripture , Policy and our Laws , the manifold Declarations , Remonstrances of both Houses , and the Army officers themselves , the Oaths of Supremacy , Allegiance , Protestation , Vow , Solemn League . Covenan●… , and other Topicks : which Speech I soon after published in print at the earnest request of the Members , secured and secluded with me by the Army , Dec. 6 , and 7. for their Vote touching the Kings Concessions ; all the grounds and Reasons of this Vote , and answers to all objections made against it by the Dissenters from it , during the whole Debate , being comprised in it . Hereupon this forged Charge was branded by all sorts for a meer spurious Brat , fit for nothing but the Jakes : yet notwithstanding one William Sunderson Esquire ( a person I never saw nor injured to my knowledge ) hath inserted this gross Imposture at large into his Compleat History of the life and Reign of KING CHARLS , from his Cradle Page 116. to his grave , Printed in London , 1658. reviving its memory afresh , and fathering it upon me as my genuine Issue , p. 1116 , 1117. and that with so much confidence , and reduplicated Positive , invective asseverations ( at least ten years after its general Disclaimer , as a most false and malicious Forgery ) that some of my friends begin to suspect , and others now believe , report it generally to be penned and published byme , which all succeeding ages will undoubtedly credit for truth , if not now afresh disownedby me in Print , & retracted by this calumniating Historian : Who having read my former disclaimer and refutation thereof , the very day of its publication in my Printed Speech , and finding it by the stile , texture and close , to be collected by some other Author , out of my Royal Popish Favourite , and other Books , as he pretends therein , purposely to traduce me ; hath discovered his undemerited malice , as well as his injudiciousness & disingenuity , in fathering that Bastard upon me in such a confident , scurrilous , invective manner as he hath done : for which I demand publick reparations from him , by a Printed Retractation and obliteration of it , out of his Hist●…ry , which it doth much disparage , defile and discredit as well as himself , and the late King , whose life and death he hath recorded to Posterity .

His Readers may observe , that a great part of his History is borrowed from Mr. Clement Walker his History of Independency ; wherein he finds his & my joint Protestation , under both our hands , then published to the world and●… ●… riall ; together with the joint Protestation and disswasion of all the secured and secluded Members against it , in their Vindication , Jan. 20. 1648. to which I was a subscriber : whereby his malice and want of ingenuity herein appear most plainly ; but more particularly by this , that himself immediately ●…age 1117. 1118. after this seigned Charge , in the same* page of his History mentions and misreci●…es my MEMENTO , to traduce a●…d abuse me , willingly concealing the Title , Argument and scope thereof , which would have convicted him both of Calumny , and Forgery , in fathering this pretended Charge against the King , upon me , and making me the prime Actor in the Kings Trial and Tragedy , when as the whole House of Commons and most then living knew , I was the very first of all others , who sp●…ke , writ , and protested publickly against it , as my Printed Speech and Memento , with other Publications both before and since abundantly evidence .

Let the Title and Argument of my Memento alone , and one Foreiners Testimony of special Note concerning it ( to omit others ) display both the malice and falsity of this Historians calumny . The Title of it is , A brief Memento to the present Unparliamentary Juncto , touching Their present Intentions and Proceedings to depose and execute CHARLES STUART their Lawful King . By William Prynne Esquire , a Member of the House of Commons , and Prisoner under the Armies 〈◊〉 : Jan. 1. 1648. The subject and scope thereof was this , that ( being debarred by my imprisonment under the Army from speaking to those then sitting in the House ) I sent them ten Reasons in Print , drawn from our Laws , the Declarations and Remonstrances of Parliament , the Oaths of Supremacy , Allegiance , Protestation , So●…emn National League and Covenant , Scriptures , the practice of Gods own people of Israel , of all Protestant Realms and Subjects ; the Relations of the late King to Scotland , Ireland and Forein Princes ; the unl●…wfullnesse , Treasonableness , and dangerous Consequences of the Kings Trial and Execution , and other Topicks , to disswade them from their intended Charge and Proceedings against him , onely to satisfie the Army-Officers under whose force they sate : Which to . Reasons , as they were highly approved by most , and never yet answered by any at home ; so they satisfied the Protestant Ministers , Churches and States abroad , being translated into several Languages . Among others , * * See my Plea for the Lords and House of Peers , p. 461. 462. Samuel Bochartus ( one of the eminentest and learnedest Protestant Divines in France ) in his Latin Epistle to Dr. Morley ( one of the Kings Chaplains ) Printed Parisiis 1650. sect. 3. De jure & potestate Regum p. 145. having proved the unlawfulness of the Trial , Proceedings , Sentence and Execution of the King , by Scripture , Fathers , and other Authorities , and manifested the English Presbyterian Ministers , and Members professed opposition against and dislike thereof , subjoins , Ex hoc numero PRYNNIUS , vir multis nominibus insignis & PARLIAMENTI DELEG ATORUM UNUS , è carcere in quo cum pluribus aliis detenebatur , Libellum composuit Parliamento oblatum , ( to wit my Memento ) in quo decem rationibus , eisque validissimis , contendit , eos rem illicitam attentari , ( in impeaching and proceeding capitally against the King ) reciting the heads of my ten Reasons ; then concluding , Haec ille , & multo plura : Seriptor mire nervosus , cujus verba sunt stimuli & clavi in altum defixi : Therefore that Mr. Saunderson should brand me for my Memento , imprisonment by the Army , and forcible seclusion from the House , and make it a Divine Judgement inflicted on me for this forged charge against the King ; though this Memento was written professedly against the Kings charge , trial and Execution , as UNLAWFUL and UNCRHISTIAN , as Bo●…hartus , a Foreiner , thus signally attests , must be the extremity of malice , and calumny , subjecting him to his own friends , Mr. James Howels censure , in his Epistle to him prefixed to this H●…story , That A FALSE ERRONEOU●… CHRONOLOGER , is one of the WORST MEMBERS that can be in a COMMON-WEALTH , and INDEED OF MANKIND IN GENERAL ; for he wrongs , the time past , the time present , and the time to come : as he hath done , by fathering this Charge upon me , and his misrelation of my Censure too , p. 218 , 219. after it was nulled by both Houses of Parliaments unanimous Vote , as * * A new discovery of ●…he Prelates tyranny . p. 141. 142. &c. Causelesse and Illegal ; All which I pray God to give him grace to repent and retract .

Having thus vindicated my Innocency from his false calumnies , I shall onely recommend the confideration of the duties pressed in this Treatise , to the daily practice of every Reader , of what party soever , in these divided factious times .

Art thou a professed Enemy to the exiled King and Royal Family , conceiving them to be Enemies or opposites unto thee , thy Interest ; or party ; or such who probably may prove enemies or persecutors to thee and them , if restored to their Rights and Powers : then pray for them under this Notion , according to Christs own precepts and example , Mat. 5. 43. to 48. Luke 6. 27. c. 23. 34. Acts 7. 62. Rom. 12. 20 , 21. the Presidents of the Primitive Christians here ch. 4. and ●…n the Liturgie of our Church , That it would please thee to forgive our enemies , persecutors and slanderers , and to turn their hearts . And the Collect on Saint Stephens d●…y , Grant us O Lord , to learn to love our enemies , by the example of thy Martyr Saint Stephen , who prayed for his Persecutors . Dost thou repute th●…m persons of little or no real affection to the Protestant Religion , and the sincere Professo●…s therof as ● Int●…rest will not lie . Nedham represents them ; ) or as bad as Turks , Pagans O●… 〈◊〉 , and some ( I hear ) esteem them , because themselves a●…e such yet since thou art commanded by God to make supplications , prayers , and intercessions for ALL MEN , yea , for the very worst of Turks , Jews , Idolaters , Pagans , Infidels , as our Church doth on Good ● Co●…lect . ●… . Fryday , that they may be converted , Reformed , saved & becom Members of , or Nursing-Fathers to the Church ; ( if Kings ) let them have as large a share in thy prayers , as any of these have or ought to have by Gods Command . And if thou esteem them as thy lawful Hereditary Kings Pri●…ces , Superiors , professing the tru●… Reform●…d Religion , and M●…mbers of the true visible Church of Christ , let them en●…oy thy daily fervent prayers , intercessions , supplications and thanksgivings to God for them , especially when they need them most , during their exiled , afflicted and distressed condition , amidst Papists , and s●…ucers : and let me have a share in thy devotions for a blessing on this Treatise , and me .