C R Dieu ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT x MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms That the mouths of all schismatical and Seditious persons may be stopped, (who endeavour to bring their sovereign into hatred with his People, by scandalising his Sacred majesty, with a purpose to alter our Religion, and introduce popery) here is published to the view of all the World his majesty's solemn Protestation (which he made in the presence of God and the Congregation, before he received the Blessed Sacrament) at Christs-Church in Oxford, 1643. which neither adversity nor prosperity can ever make him violate. His majesty's late PROTESTATION, Before his Receiving of the Sacrament. His majesty being to receive the Sacrament from the hands of the Archbishop of Armagh, used these public expressions immediately before; He rose up from His knees, and beckoning to the Archbishop for a short forbearance, made this Protestation. MY Lord, I espy here many resolved Protestants, who may declare to the World the Resolution I do now make. I have to the utmost of my power prepared my soul to become a Worthy Receiver: And may I so receive comfort by this Holy Communion, as I do intend the establishment of the true Reformed Protestant Religion, as it stood in its beauty, in the happy days of Queen Elizabeth. I bless God, in the midst of the public Distractions, I have still liberty to Communicate; And may this Sacrament be my Damnation, if my Heart do not join with my Lips in this Protestation. A Prayer for the King, to be frequently and fervently said of all loyal Subjects. O Most gracious and most glorious Lord God, we humbly pray thee, for the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, to look down (with much pity and compassion) upon the sad and suffering Condition of thy Servant; and our sovereign, the King, O, let his Life be right dear and precious in thy sight: Lord remember him and all his Trouble, how he swore unto the Lord, and vowed a Vow unto the almighty God of Jacob: O, save and deliver him, according to thy mercy, that all the world may know that this is thy hand, and that thou, Lord, hast done it: though his enemy's curse, yet bless thou; and let them be confounded that rise up against him, but let thy Servant rejoice: O, be with him in Trouble, deliver him, and bring him to honour; satisfy him with long life, and show him thy salvation. Remember, Lord, the Reproach that thy Servant hath, and vow he doth bear in his bosom the Rebukes of many people, wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee, and slandered the footsteps of thine Anointed: Wherefore we beseech thee to comfort him again now, after the time that thou hast afflicted him, and for the years wherein he hath suffered adversity; show thy Servant thy work, and his royal Children thy Glory: and the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon all those that endeavour his reinthroning: prosper thou the work of their hands upon them, O prosper thou their handiwork. O, satisfy us with this mercy and that soon, so shall we be glad, and rejoice all the days of our life, and join with our gracious King, in giving praise to thee, who livest and reignest world without end. AMEN. June 14th Printed in the year 1648.