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Geik?n Basiliký. the Portraiture of His Majesty King Charles I [by J. Gauden].
Geikn Basilik the Portraiture of His Majesty King Charles I - by J. Gauden Author:Charles General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: I know God can, I hope He yet will restore me to my rights: I cannot despair either of His mercy, or of my people's love and pity. At worst, I trust I shall but go before you to a better kingdom, which God hath prepared for me, and me for it, through my Saviour Jesus Christ, to whose mercies I commend you and all mine. Farewell till we meet, if not on earth, yet in heaven. XXVIII. Meditations Upon Death, After The Votes Of Non-addresses, And H1s Majesty's Closer Imprisonment In Carisbrook Castle. As I have leisure enough, so I have cause more than enough to meditate upon and prepare for my death ; for I know there are but few steps between the prisons and graves of princes. It is God's indulgence which gives me the space, but man's cruelty that gives me the sad occasions for these thoughts. For, besides the common burden of mortality, which lies upon me as a man, I now bear the heavy load of other men's ambitions, fears, jealousies, and cruel passions, whose envy or enmity against me makes their own lives seem deadly to them, while I enjoy any part of mine. I thank God my prosperity made me not wholly a stranger to the contemplations of mortality: those are never unseasonable, since this is always uncertain, death being an eclipse which oft hap- peneth as well in clear as cloudy days. But now my long and sharp adversity hath so reconciled in me those natural antipathies between life and death which are in all men, that, I thank God, the common terrors of it are dispelled, and the special horror of it, as to my particular, much allayed: for although my death at present may justly be represented...« less