_To thee, O Lord, do I addresse my Prayer, beseeching thee to pardon the rashness of my Subjects Swearings, and to quicken their sense and observation of those just, morall and indispensable bonds, which thy word and the Laws of this Kingdom have laid upon their Consciences; From which no pretensions of Piety & reformation are sufficient to absolve them; or to engage them to any contrary practises._ _Make them at length seriously to consider that nothing violent and injurious can be religious._ _Thou allowest no mans committing Sacriledge under the zeal of abhorring Idols._ _Suffer not sacrilegious designs to have the countenance of religious ties._ _Thou hast taught us by the wisest of Kings, that it is a snare to take things that are holy, and Vows to mak enquiry._ _Ever keep thy Servant from consenting to perjurious and sacraligeous rapinei, that I may not have the brand and curse to all posterity of robing Thee and thy Church, of what thy bounty hath given us, and thy clemencie hath accepted from us, wherewith to encourage Learning and Religion._ _Though My Treasures are Exhausted, My Revenues Diminished, and My Debts Encreased, yet never suffer Me to be tempted to use such profane Reparation; lest a coal from thine Altar set such a fire on My Throne and Conscience as will hardly be quenched._ _Let not the Debts and Engagements of the Publique, which some mens folly and prodigalitie hath contracted, be an occasion to impoverish thy Church._ _The State may soon recover, by thy blessing of peace upon us; The Church is never likely, in times, where the Charity of most men is grown so cold, and their Religion so illiberall._ _Continue to those that serve Thee and thy Church all those encouragements, which by the will of the pious Donours, and the justice of the Laws are due unto them; and give them grace to deserve and use them aright to thy glory, & the relief of the poor: That shy Priests may be cloathed with righteousnesse, and the poor may be satisfed with bread._ _Let not holy things be given to Swine; nor the Churches bread to Dogs; rather let them go about the City, grin like a Dog, and grudge that they are not satisfied._ _Let those sacred morsels, which some men have already by violence devoured, never digest with them, nor theirs; Let them be as_ Naboth's _Vineyard to_ Ahab, _gall in their mouths, rottennesse to their names, a moth to their families, and a sting to their Consciences._ _Break in sunder O Lord, all violent and sacrilegious Confederations to do wickedly and injuriously._ _Divide their hearts and tongues who have bandyed together against the Church and State, that the folly of such may be manifest to all men, and proceed no further._ _But so savour My righteous dealing, O Lord, that in the mercies of thee, the most High, I may never miscarry._ * * * * * 15. _Vpon the many Jealousies raised, and Scandals cast upon the_ KING, _to stirre up the People against him._