Eikon Basilik the Portraiture of His Majesty King Charles 1st
Eikon Basilik the Portraiture of His Majesty King Charles 1st
Inc Arthur D Little
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I thought that, in all reason, the gaining of that respite could not be so much to the rebels' advantages (which some have highly calumniated against me) as it might have been for the Protestants' future as well as present safety ; if, during the time of that cessation, some men had had the grace to have laid Ireland's sad condition more to heart, and laid aside those violent motions which were here carried on by those that had better skill to let blood than to stanch it. But in all the miscons...tructions of my actions (which are prone to find more credulity in men to what is false and evil, than love or charity to what is true and good), as I have no judge but God above me, so I can have comfort to appeal to His omniscience, who doth not therefore deny my innocence because he is pleased so far to try my patience, as He did His servant Job's. I have enough to do to look to my own conscience and the faithful discharge of my trust as a king ; I have scarce leisure to consider those swarms of reproaches which issue out of some men's mouths and hearts, as easily as smoke or sparks do out of a furnace, much less to make such prolix apoligies as might give those men satisfaction, who, conscious to their own depth of Upon the Rebellion and Troubles in Ireland.
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