His Devotion to God was regular and constant both in publick and in private, and that, not cold and formal, but with an ardent Zeal and enflam'd Affection. In the midst of the perplexing Cares that encompass a Throne, and with which _his_ Throne was peculiarly beset; he always found Leisure for the Exercises of Religion: He was never so dazl'd with the Splendor of an _Earthly_ Crown, as not to prefer before it a _Heavenly_ and _Immortal_ One: Nor was he ever unmindful of this important Truth, that as _his_ Subjects were accountable to _him_; (tho' in the End they quite inverted that Order) so was he himself to render an Account of _his_ Actions at a greater Tribunal before the King of Kings. In the midst of the highest Plenty, and all the Means of gratifying a sensual Appetite that _Royal Affluence_ cou'd Administer, he was remarkably Temperate, Chast and Sober. His Conjugal Affection has been even imputed as a _Crime_. He was an inviolable Observer of his Matrimonial Vow, a Vertue not _too common_ in the World, a very rare one indeed in _Princes_. Nor was he less eminent for Clemency and Justice, and a tender Regard for the Welfare of his Subjects. And if we consider him in the last Scene of his Life, in his Behaviour both before, and at the Scaffold; we may observe an admirable Composition of Christian Meekness, and Royal Grandeur, how under the extremest Pressures he wou'd never be prevail'd with, to do any thing unbecoming either the _Christian_ or the _King_. As he had Liv'd, he Died a true Professor of the purest reform'd Faith: And his Character has this Advantage, even from the _reproachful_ manner of his Death; that his last Declaration so publickly made in the Face of the World, was not capable of being denied, or misrepresented. Whereas had they dispatch'd him by Poyson or Assassination, or any other way of Murder, that had carried less of Pomp and Ostentation; the Accusation had been obvious, that he Died a _Papist_, which his Enemies would not have fail'd to have reported, and his Friends could not so convincingly have disprov'd. His admirable and instructing Legacy to his Children, his Praying for his Murderers, his patient Resignation to the Will of God, and indeed all the several Parts of his Deportment at that dismal Juncture; do conspire to raise in us the highest Esteem and Veneration for his Memory. And sure we may allow to one who was endu'd with so large a Share of Vertues, with so inconsiderable a Mixture of Defects, the Character and Denomination of a good Man. I mean, in a qualified Sense, for, in an absolute Sense, we know who has told us, there is none good but God. And this is one Point in which _Naboth_ and he agree. The next is, that they both were Murder'd with a pretended Show of Justice, and with Religious Solemnities.