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<P>A SPEECH Delivered to the KING In the Name of the Forreign Churches Of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">his REALM, for the ROYAL PROTECTION WHICH HIS MAJESTY Hath been plea&s;ed to a&s;&s;ure <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> His late DECLARATION.</P>
<P><HI>Pronounced at</HI> WHITEHALL, <HI>on Frid<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> MARCH <HI>the</HI> 15th. 1665/6.</P>
<P>By <HI>LEWIS HERA&V;LT,</HI> Mini&s;ter of the FRENCH Church in <HI>LONDON.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Publi&s;hed by Command.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Tho: Ratcliffe,</HI> for <HI>Octavian Pulleyn junior,</HI> at the Bible in St. <HI>Pauls Church-yard</HI> over again&s;t the little North-door. M.DC.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">.</P>
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<HEAD>A SPEECH Delivered to the KING In the Name of the FORREIGN CHURCHES Of this REALM, for the <HI>Royal Pro|tection</HI> which HIS MAJESTY hath been plea&s;ed to a&s;&s;ure Them of by His late DECLARATION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT is in the Name of the <HI>Forreign Churches,</HI> both <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Dutch,</HI> who live under Your Maje&s;ties Royal Government, that this Day we have the Honour to appear in Your Pre&s;ence, to render unto Your Ma|je&s;ty our humble&s;t Submi&s;&s;ions, and deepe&s;t Re&s;pects; and to Pre&s;ent you not Thoughts curiou&s;ly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">pon, choice Words, or an arti|ficial compo&s;ed Speech, but Hearts burning with Zeal, fervently devoted to Your Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, and Souls breathing nothing el&s;e but Thankfulne&s;s, Obedience, and Fidelity. No, SIR,
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this Speech is not a Speech of Art, but of Nature. It is out of the abundance of the heart,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 12, 34.</NOTE> that our mooths do make this humble Acknowledgment to Your Maje&s;ty of all the Favours we have formerly received from Your Royal Goodne&s;s; and in a more e&s;pecial manner, to render unto Your Maje&s;ty with all the &s;incerity of our hearts, our mo&s;t humble Thanks for this la&s;t great Favour which You were plea&s;ed to add to the former, in following the Example of God, who doth not only take into his protection all Mankind, but more particularly all true Belie|vers: And according to St. <HI>Pauls</HI> Exhortation, who advi&s;eth us <HI>to do good to all men;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.10.</NOTE> <HI>but e&s;pecially to tho&s;e who are of the hou|&s;hold of faith.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gal.</HI> 6.10.</NOTE> Your Maje&s;ty, by Your Declaration, publi&s;hed not long &s;ince, taking under Your Royal Protection all the Stran|gers living in Your Dominions, and willing to come into them for &s;helter, doth declare a mo&s;t kind and &s;pecial care toward tho&s;e among&s;t them who have that advantage, and are &s;o happy as to be joined and united with Your Maje&s;ty in the &s;ame Bond of Faith and Religion.</P>
<P>SIR, by that Clau&s;e in&s;erted in Your Declaration in favour of all Forreigners in General, Your Maje&s;ty does mo&s;t advanta|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ou&s;ly &s;hew at once Your Humanity, Prudence, and Genero&s;i|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ing in this, according to its u&s;ual practice, the Cha|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> truly Royal di&s;po&s;ition, who&s;e purpo&s;e it is to do good <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> men and to do hurt to none:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>Luk.</HI> 22.</NOTE> And &s;o You may with right <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ke upon <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">u th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> Title of <HI>Benefactor,</HI> which is given to Kings in the Go&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> in a more particular manner belonging unto Your Maje&s;ty <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">nd in that al&s;o. SIR, You &s;hew Your Self to be the true Son, and worthy Succe&s;&s;or of the late King Your Father, of glorious and immortal Memory, who cau&s;ed this excellent Motto to be engraven on a Medal, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ra&s;um ut pro&s;im, I am a King only to do good:</HI> And in this re&s;pect it may be &s;aid of Your Maje&s;ty,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Carolus Quintus.</HI></NOTE> what was &s;aid of that great Emperor of the la&s;t Century, <HI>That with one hand he made War, and with the other he offered Peace.</HI></P>
<P>But al&s;o, becau&s;e Your Maje&s;ties Goodne&s;s among&s;t all Stran|gers in General, is plea&s;ed more e&s;pecially to con&s;ider tho&s;e whom the purer profe&s;&s;ion of the Go&s;pel doth force to &s;eek here under the &s;hadow of Your Royal Protection, the Peace and Liberty of their Con&s;ciences; You give therein a manife&s;t proof of Your true Chri&s;tian Piety, and &s;hew that You might have, without any compari&s;on, more right to a&s;&s;ume, among&s;t Your Titles, that Motto,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Adrian.</NOTE> <HI>Pietas Augu&s;ta, the Augu&s;t Piety,</HI> than did that Emperor of Old. By it al&s;o You do Declare to all the World, that mo&s;t ju&s;tly, and in a mo&s;t augu&s;t manner, the glorious Title of <HI>Defender of the Faith,</HI> is Your ju&s;t due, and that it is not without a direction of Gods &s;pecial Providence that it is fallen, as it were, among&s;t the Lot of Your Inheritance.</P>
<P><PB N="5" REF="3">By this means, it old <HI>Rome</HI> was prai&s;ed and renowned for her Ho&s;pitality towards afflicted Strangers, who did re&s;ort thither from all Corners of the World, and to whom She was an <HI>Azylum,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> a place of Reinge, and for this rea&s;on was called the <HI>Centre of all Nations;</HI> Your <HI>England,</HI> SIR, with a far more ju&s;t Title enjoyes that Cle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">y, and de&s;erves much more to be &s;o called, ha|ving been &s;o happy for above an whole Age pa&s;t, by the Bounty of the Kings Your Predece&s;&s;ors, and of Your Maje&s;ty, to be likewi&s;e an <HI>Azylum,</HI> and a place of &s;helter to many Thou&s;ands of the Faithful of &s;everal Nations, who being forced to for&s;ake their own Countrey, have, as it were, found it again here with greater and more con&s;iderable advantages: In&s;omuch as of them, in &s;ome &s;ort it may be &s;aid, <HI>That they had been lo&s;t, if they had not been lo&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>By this means al&s;o, SIR, after the Example of Him, who&s;e Image You have the Honour &s;o particularly to bear, You draw them to Your Obedience and Service; You tye and fa&s;ten them to You with a mo&s;t &s;trict Knot; You chain and link their hearts, if I may &s;o &s;ay, <HI>with the cards of a man, and with bands of love;</HI> You Rule, SIR, not only over their Bodies, but chiefly over, and in their Souls, in which You have e&s;tabli&s;hed Your Empire and Dominion.</P>
<P>And hereof it is, SIR, that we now make a &s;olem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;tation to Your Maje&s;ty, humbly be&s;eeching You with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> founde&s;t Humility we are capable of to be fully <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> our entire Obedience, and &s;tedfa&s;t and inviolat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> Your Service, from which we &s;hall never depart i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> ther directly nor indirectly.</P>
<P>In this &s;tate and condition, SIR, we &s;hall continue <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> to pray and be&s;eech the God of all Ble&s;&s;ings, that it may plea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> him to &s;anctifie more and more all tho&s;e great Endowments, and rare and eminent Vertues, with which he hath been plea&s;ed to en|rich Your Maje&s;ty, and for which You are at this Day by all the World looked upon as one of the greate&s;t Princes that ever wore a Crown, being thus by God made a powerful In&s;trument in his hand for the accompli&s;hment of his work. We &s;hall continue fervently to pray and be&s;eech him,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 144.10.</NOTE> <HI>who giveth &s;alvation unto Kings, and delivereth them from the hurtful Sword;</HI> who hath already wrought &s;o many Wonders in Your Maje&s;ties behalf; and who after many fiery Trials to prepare and frame You for his work, <HI>having &s;hewed You great and &s;ore troubles, hath quickned You, and brought You again from the depths of the Earth;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 71.20.</NOTE> who having &s;uffered Your Maje&s;ty to be as it were, for a time trodden upon by Dragons, and covered with the &s;hadow of Death, hath at la&s;t br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;ed in pieces, and trodden down tho&s;e Dragons under his feet, cau&s;ing their outragious devices to return on their own guilty heads, &s;hewing him&s;elf to be the God of Your Salvation.
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To him, I &s;ay, we &s;hall daily pray, that he will be plea&s;ed to take more and more Your SaCRed Per&s;on in his Cu&s;tody and Protecti|on,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 17.8. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 49.16. <HI>Cant.</HI> 8.6.</NOTE> delivering You from all hurtful Accidents what&s;oever: To keep You as the Apple of his Eye, to cover You under the &s;ha|dow of his Wings: To have You alwayes graven as upon the palms of his hands: To &s;et You as a Seal upon his heart, as a Seal upon his arm: To encamp round about Your Maje&s;ty the Army of his holy Angels: To be Your Van and Your Rear: To be Your Buckler,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 71.18. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 61.8. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 91.4.</NOTE> and an impenetrable Shield of Defence again&s;t all Attempts and Enterpri&s;es. Not to leave You, nor to for&s;ake You, till You are Grey-headed, and that You may abide before him for ever: That his Truth and Mercy may pre&s;erve You: That it may be to You a Shield and a Buckler: That he will pour down abundantly on Your Maje&s;ties Head the choice&s;t of his Ble&s;&s;ings both of Heavens and Earth:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 132.18. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 21.4. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> 16.</NOTE> That he make Your Maje&s;ties Dia|dem flouri&s;h on Your Brows, and Your golden Crown on Your Head: That he &s;atisfie Your Maje&s;ty with long life: That he continue to &s;hew You his deliverance: That he in a full happine&s;s add dayes unto the dayes of Your Maje&s;ties, and make Your Years to be as many Generations: That he pour his ble&s;&s;ing upon Your Royal Bed, that he make it green and flouri&s;hing, that the Queen <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Royal Confort be as a fruitful Vine. To be &s;hort, that he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ed to give unto Your Maje&s;ty a long and happy Life, a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ire, a firm and well <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tabli&s;hed Hou&s;e, victorious Ar|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;el <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">edient People, a quiet State. Briefly, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> a word, SIR, that he be continually <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> You by the right hand,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"></NOTE> guide You by his Coun&s;el, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">eceive You into his Glory. <HI>Amen,</HI> SIR, <HI>Amen,</HI></P>
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