here in my bloud, or in their gaining my
Kingdoms, if they lose their own Souls?_
_Such as have not onely resisted my just Power, but wholly usurped and
turned it against my self, though they may deserve, yet let them not
receive to themselves damnation._
_Thou madest thy Son a Saviour to many that crucified him, while at
once he suffered violently by them, and yet willingly for them._
_O let the voice of his bloud be heard for my Murtherers, louder then
the cry of mine against them._
_Prepare them for thy mercy by due convictions of their sin, and
let them not at once deceive and damne their own souls by fallacious
pretensions of Justice in destroying me, while the conscience of their
unjust usurpation of power against me, chiefly tempts them to use all
extremities against me._
_O Lord, thou knowest I have found their mercies to me as very false,
so very cruell, who pretending to preserve me, have meditated nothing
but my ruine._
_O deal not with them as bloud thirsty and deceitfull men; but
overcome their cruelty with thy compassion and my charitie._
_And when thou makest inquisition for my blood, O sprinkle their
polluted, yet penitent Souls with the bloud of thy Son, that thy
destroying Angel may passe over them._
_Though they think my Kingdoms on earth too little to entertain at
once both them and me; yet let the capacious Kingdom of thy infinite
mercy at last receive both me and my enemies._
_When being reconciled to thee in the bloud of the same Redeemer, wee
shall live far above these ambitious desires, which beget such mortall
enmities._
_When their hands shall be heaviest and cruellest upon me, O let me
fall into the arms of thy tender and eternall mercies._
_That what is cut off of my life in this miserable moment, may be
repaied in thy ever blessed Eternity._
_Lord, let thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy
salvation._
Vota dabunt, quae Bella negarunt.
_FINIS._
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A
PERFECT COPY OF
PRAYERS,
Used by His
MAJESTIE
in the time of His
_SUFFERINGS_.
_Delivered to Dr._ Juxon _Bishop of_
London _immediately before his Death_.
And his Speeches to the Lady _Elizabeth_ and
the Duke of _Glocester_.
With
His _Reasons_ against the pretended Jurisdiction
of the High Court of Justice; intended to
be delivered, Munday 22 of _Janu_.
1648.
Also
A Copy of a LETTE
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