4.I o Mr. N E A L'S IId Vo1. of the them ; that you may in due time govern, and they be governed as in the Fear of God ; which is the Prayer of Newport, Nov. z , 1648. Your very loving Father, C. R, I will now conclude this Anfwer, with a Cha- ra&er of this glorious Monarch, (whom Mr. Neal has made it his Bufinefs to blacken and afperfe in every Page) taken from the Teftimony both of Friends and Enemies. Lord Clarendon's great Chara6ter of him, is too long to be inferted in this place ; which he con- cludes in the followingWords : ' To conclude, he was the worthieft Gentleman, the belt Mafter, the belt Friend, the belt Father, and the bell: ' C.hr/ian, that the Age in which he lived pro- ' duced. And if he were not the greateft King, if he were without fome Parts and Qualities, that made fome Kings great, and happy, no other ' Prince was ever unhappy, who was poffefied of halfhis Virtues and Endowments, and fo much ' without any kind ofVice.' Dr. (afterwards Bifhop) Brcwnrigg [in a Sermon before the Univerfity of Cambridge, March 7, 1644.] iàys: ' Let us acknowledge our Happi- nets, who have no Pharaoh for our King, one that feareth not the Lord, but one who both re- ' Iigiouíly knoweth and feareth God. Did England ever know a Prince more frequent, constant, and attentive in the Worship of God ? 'Tis a corn- ' mendable thing in a private Perfon, much more in a King, tokeep his daily and constant Hours of Prayer, to bring his Children up in the Wor- ship of God, to teach them betimes to know the * Hiory of the Rebellion, Vol. III. p. 197, 198, 199.God
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