_For thou, O Lord, knowest my uprightnesse, and tendernesse, as thou hast set me to be a Defender of the Faith, and a Protectour of thy Church, so suffer me not by any violence, to be overborne against my Conscience._ _Arise O Lord, maintain thine own Cause, let not thy Church be deformed, as to that Government, which derived from thy Apostles, hath been retained in purest and primitive times, till the Revenues of the Church became the object of secular envie; Which seeks to rob it of all the incouragements of Learning and Religion._ _Make me as the good Samaritan, compassionate and helpfull to thy afflicted Church; which some men have wounded and robb'd; others pass by without regard, either to pitie or relieve._ _As my power was from thee, so give me grace to use it for thee._ _And though I am not suffered to be Master of my other Rights as a_ KING; _yet preserve me in that libertie of Reason, love of Religion, and thy Churches welfare which are fixed in my Conscience as a Christian._ _Preserve from sacrilegious Invasions, those temporall blessings, which thy Providence hath bestowed on thy Church for thy glorie._ _Forgive their sins and errours, who have deserved thy just permission, thus to let in the wilde Boar and subtil Foxes, to waste and deform thy Vineyard, which thy right hand hath planted, and the dew of heaven so long watered to a happy and flourishing estate._ _O let me not bear the infamous brand to all Posteritie, of being the first Christian_ KING, _in this Kingdom, who should consent to the oppression of thy Church, and the Fathers of it; whose errours I would rather, with_ Constantine, _cover with silence, and reform with meeknesse, then expose their persons, and sacred Functions to vulgar contempt._ _Thou, O Lord, seest how much I have suffered with, and for thy Church; make no long tarrying O my God to deliver both me and it, from unreasonable men whose counsels have brought forth, and continue such violent confusions, by a precipitant destroying the ancient boundaries of the Churches peace; thereby letting in all manner of errours, scismes and disorders._ _O thou God of order, and of truth, in thy good time abate the malice, asswage the rage, and confound all the mischievous devises of thine, mine, and thy Churches enemies._ _That I, and all that love thy Church, may sing prayses to thee, and ever magnifie thy salvation, even before the sons of men._ * * * * * 18. _Upon_ Uxbridge _Treaty, and other Offers made by the_ KING. I looke upon the way of Treaties, as a retiring from fighting like beasts, to arguing like men; whose strength should be more in their understandings, then in their limbs.