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The life and reigne of King Charls, or, The pseudo-martyr discovered with a late reply to an invective remonstrance against the Parliament and present government : together with some animadversions on the strange contrariety between the late Kings publick declarations ... compared with his private letters, and other of his expresses not hitherto taken into common observation.
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- The life and reigne of King Charls, or, The pseudo-martyr discovered with a late reply to an invective remonstrance against the Parliament and present government : together with some animadversions on the strange contrariety between the late Kings publick declarations ... compared with his private letters, and other of his expresses not hitherto taken into common observation.
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- Milton, John, 1608-1674.
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- London :: Printed for W. Reybold ...,
- 1651.
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- Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649.
- Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649.
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"The life and reigne of King Charls, or, The pseudo-martyr discovered with a late reply to an invective remonstrance against the Parliament and present government : together with some animadversions on the strange contrariety between the late Kings publick declarations ... compared with his private letters, and other of his expresses not hitherto taken into common observation." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50910.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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whether God had so absolutely gi∣ven the power of the Sword, into his hands, as at his own will and pleasure to unsheath it against his own sub∣jects, and the Representative of the Kingdome, whom by his Coronation Oath he was obliged to defend and protect, doubtlesse no man is so madd to believe, that the Kings resolutions (in using it as he did to their destru∣ction) were so religiously byassed as it became a Christian King: But that you may further understand, why the King so peremptorily stood to the upholding of Bishops, and to keep the Militia in his own sole power, (for that's the meaning of his not quitting the Sword) which all the world knows to be no otherwise (by the intent of the Lawes of the Land, Reason, and the Law of Nature) an inseparable flower of the Crown than Fiduciary, alwaies in reference to a trust given our Kings by Parliament, out of confidence that it shall be used to no other intent or end than the defence of the Kingdom, and not to be perverted against it, as all the ancient and modern Statutes im∣port,
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both in their preambles and texts; Cast your eyes on his own Directions to the Vxbridge Commissioners num∣ber 21. where you may evidently see, that it was not so much the scruple of his Conscience and Coronation Oath, as in relation to his own particular de∣signes and interests; viz. That as it is the Kings duty to protect the Church, so it is the Churches to assist the King in the maintenance of his Authority; wherefore my Predecessors have been alwaies care∣full, and especially since the Reformati∣on, to keep the dependency of the Clergy intirely on the Crown, without which it will scarsely fit fast on his bead; there∣fore you must do nothing to change this necessary dependance.