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<P><HI>GOD &s;ave the KING:</HI> OR, A SERMON PREACH'D AT LYME-REGIS <HI>May</HI> 18. 1660. at the Solemn Procla|mation of his mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty Charles the II.</P>
<P>By the Grace of God, of <HI>England, Scotland, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> King, Defender of the Faith.</P>
<P>By <HI>Ames Short</HI> M. A. Mini&s;ter there.</P>
<Q><P><BIBL><HI>Eccle&s;. 10.17.</HI></BIBL> Ble&s;&s;ed art thou, O Land, when thy King is the Son of Nobles, and thy Princes eat in due &s;ea&s;on, for &s;trength, and not for drunkenne&s;s.</P>
<P><BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 21.5.</HI></BIBL> His glory is great in thy Salvation: honour and Maje&s;ty ha&s;t thou laid upon him.</P></Q>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>W. Roybould,</HI> at the <HI>&V;nicorn</HI> in S. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Church-yard. 1660.</P>
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<FIGDESC>portrait of Charles II</FIGDESC>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>TO The Reverend, our much e&s;teemed Friend, Mr. <HI>Ames Short,</HI> Mini&s;ter of the Go|&s;pel in <HI>Lyme Regis.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reverend and worthy Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_WEE have received much content and &s;atisfaction in our &s;pirits from your late &s;ea&s;onable Ser|mon Preach'd to us upon occa&s;ion of our Solemnity in Proclaiming His mo&s;t Excellent Majesty, our dread Sovereign <HI>CHARLES</HI> the &s;econd; wherein you did &s;o
<PB REF="4">clearly repre&s;ent him unto our apprehen&s;ions to be in all re&s;pects a very hopefull Prince, and his acce&s;&s;ion to the Government of the&s;e Kingdoms to be every way &s;o advantagious, as did exceed|ingly increa&s;e our joyes, for His Maje&s;ty's wonderfull Pre&s;erva|tion and Re&s;titution, and adde very much to the Solemnities of the day: And therefore we can|not but return you our hearty thanks for the &s;ame. And ha|ving good grounds to hope, that it may have the &s;ame effect upon the hearts of others, into who&s;e hands it may come, who had not the opportunity to hear it; we do hereby make it our joynt reque&s;t unto you to publi&s;h your Sermon
<PB REF="4">to the View of the World, that tho&s;e clouds of fears and doubt|ings, which perhaps do &s;adden the &s;pirits of many good people, may thereby be di&s;per&s;ed, and all may be induced as cheerfully to embrace, and affectionately to clo&s;e with this hopefull way of Settlement on the good old foun|dation (and as thankefully to ac|knowledge the great goodne&s;s of our God in bringing us thereun|to after all our &s;ad Combu&s;tions and Confu&s;ions) as we our &s;elves upon the&s;e grounds un|feignedly do. Sir, we have had &s;uch large experience of your good affection to His Ma|je&s;ty's Per&s;on, and ju&s;t Autho|rity, and your de&s;ires for the
<PB REF="5">healing of all our &s;ad Breaches, that we cannot doubt of your ready complyance with us in this thing.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Signed in the names, and by the appointment of your very affectionate friends, the Members of this Cor|poration of</HI> Lyme-Regis.John Elle&s;don <HI>Mayor.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Dated</HI> <DATE>May <HI>21. 1660.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>TO THE WORSHIPFULL, THE <HI>MAYOR, With the re&s;t of the Capital Burge&s;&s;es of</HI> Lyme-Regis <HI>in</HI> Dor&s;et.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Beloved, and much e&s;teemed in the Lord.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_FOr your and the e|dification of all o|thers, the Inhabi|tants of this place, this Sermon was fir&s;t &s;tudied and Preach'd; and at your reque&s;t, as appears by your prefixed Letter, (in order
<PB REF="6">to a more publick benefit) with &s;ome little enlargement, it is now Printed. I wi&s;h, that nei|ther you, nor any that heard it, may finde cau&s;e to &s;ay of it, as Queen <HI>Elizabeth</HI> once did of a Sermon Preach'd before her Maje&s;ty, and Printed at her command; of which (after the reading of it) &s;he &s;aid, <HI>It was the be&s;t Sermon Preach'd, but the wor&s;t Read, that ever &s;he heard and read.</HI> If you judge the like of this after you have read it, I &s;hall not think it &s;trange; being well a&s;&s;ur'd, that my Sermons (by rea&s;on of the plainne&s;&s;e of my &s;tile) are fitter for the Pulpit than the Pre&s;&s;e, and more acceptable in preach|ing
<PB REF="6">than they can be in read|ing.</P>
<P>And therefore, whatever you may think of it, I am fully con|fident, I &s;hall be diver&s;ly cen|&s;ured for the publication of it, according to the various judge|ments, di&s;po&s;itions, and affecti|ons of &s;uch as happily may be at the pains to read it. Some perhaps will charge me with flattery; of this my highly and worthily e&s;teemed Friend, in his mo&s;t ingenious Epi&s;tle to the Reader, hath &s;ufficiently cleared me. Others, no doubt, will accu&s;e me of injuring His Maje&s;ty, by drawing and ex|po&s;ing His <HI>Portraicture to pub|lick view in a dre&s;&s;e &s;o homely,
<PB REF="7">and unbefitting a Prince of &s;o much worth and excellency:</HI> With the&s;e I &s;hall not quarrel, but beg my Sovereign's pardon, for handling His Per&s;onal and Princely perfections in &s;o rude a manner; and I doubt not but I &s;hall obtain it. He that hath &s;o freely offered an <HI>Act of Grace</HI> to his wor&s;t of Enemies, (who &s;hall lay hold of it) will not &s;tick to pardon the unavoi|dable weakne&s;&s;e of a <HI>Loyal Subject,</HI> when his mercy is im|plored. However, having ex|po&s;ed my &s;elf to cen&s;ure upon your de&s;ires, you cannot but hold your &s;elves obliged (with the utmo&s;t of your power) to vindicate my name from all
<PB REF="7">a&s;per&s;ions which, upon this ac|count, may be ca&s;t upon it. And this (be&s;ides your continu|ing &s;tedfa&s;t in the fear of God, and in loyalty to his mo&s;t &s;a|cred Maje&s;ty) is all that is at pre&s;ent de&s;ired of you, by</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>(SIRS)</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your affectionate Pa&s;tor and Servant in the work, and for the &s;ake of Christ, Ames Short.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Lyme-Regis, <DATE>June 4. 1660.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the unprejudic'd Reader.</HEAD>
<P>BEing apprehended by the re|port of the intended Procla|mation of the KING, and car|ried to the Town of <HI>Lyme,</HI> I there found a Solemnity, &s;uitable to the occa&s;ion. The only &s;trife was, who could excell in the te&s;timonies of their rejoycing. The Soldiery, with much order and galantry, di&s;char|ged their part, as a proof of their former, and pledge of their future Loyalty: The unanimous Magi|&s;trates, being accompanied with the High Sheriff (who gratified the place with his per&s;onal pre&s;ence) prov'd the name of their Town to be <HI>Lyme-Regis,</HI> and triumphed at the reco|very of that honorable title; the Countrey flock'd in with no le&s;s joy than admiration, at the proclaim|ing of a King, in the twelfth year
<PB REF="8">of his reign: They now look'd on them&s;elves as deliver'd from any o|ther per&s;on who had playd <HI>Rex</HI> &s;ince <HI>48,</HI> in which time we have had &s;uch along Parenthe&s;is of tran&s;actions, as might be left out, without preju|dice to the &s;ence. The Guns &s;houted every one according to his mouth; But <HI>cedant arma togae,</HI> the work be|gun <HI>in nomine Domini:</HI> The Pulpit was fir&s;t engag'd, and the after Acclamations were but the Eccho's of that &s;ound, and repetitions of the Sermon, wherein if there be not a compo&s;ition of Piety, Loyalty and &s;trength of rea&s;on in plain En|gli&s;h; I am content to publi&s;h my ignorance. Let it be peru&s;ed by unbia&s;&s;ed per&s;ons, and it mu&s;t be granted, that there is nothing affir|med but truth, and the probabili|ties are back'd with &s;uch Arguments as make them next to certainty. There can be no ground for &s;u&s;pi|tion of flattery, &s;eeing that the pub|lication
<PB REF="9">was not intended, and the preaching was at &s;uch a di&s;tance from the Court: Be&s;ides, the mix|ture of &s;uch directions as plea&s;e not tho&s;e who &s;ay,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 30.10</NOTE> <HI>Prophecy unto us &s;mooth things.</HI> Neither is there any alteration in the Authors principles, who hath not only refus'd to engage in the late changes, but boldly &s;et him&s;elf, and warn'd his people a|gain&s;t tho&s;e that were given to them. It is confe&s;s'd, that many of the giddy multitude cry out now upon &V;&s;urpers, who lately cry'd them up as much
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Turba Remi &s;e|quitur for tunam ut &s;em|per, &amp; o|dit dam|natos. I|dem po|pulus, &amp;c.</NOTE>. But there was no un|der&s;tanding Subject (who had not lo&s;t the &s;ence of his duty to God and the King) but mourn'd (at lea&s;t) in &s;ecret for the abominable viola|tions of Allegiance and Covenant. How much the Prote&s;tant Religion, <HI>the King's Royal Family,</HI> the three Kingdoms of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> have &s;uffer'd by the unparallel'd murther of his late
<PB REF="9">Maje&s;ty, I need not tell thee
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit, nulli fle|bilior qu&agrave;m mihi.</NOTE>. We have been like a body beheaded, for which no other head will &s;erve, how artificially &s;oever it be &s;et on, and how quickly do tho&s;e heads fall off, that are but clap'd on upon us? which wanting a natural conjun|ction, will &s;tand no longer than they are upheld by force; neither can there be any conveyance of &s;pi|rits where there is not the right uni|on. But &s;ince it hath plea&s;ed the Almighty (who for the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of the Land hath &s;uffer'd many to be Rulers thereof
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Prov. 28.2.</NOTE>) to re&s;tore to us our Lawfull Sovereign, and &s;o to &s;et over us our proper head, this is matter of thankefulne&s;&s;e. Let us a|dore the wonders of providences, concurring to this ble&s;&s;ed change, and fix our eyes on that eye in the wheel, which hath ordered all the turnings to this end. This is the Lords doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. Mu&s;t not the Enchanters
<PB REF="10">them&s;elves (who have a&s;&s;ayed to mock providence) confe&s;s, that this is the finger of God
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Exod. 8.19.</NOTE>? How much rea&s;on there is for our rejoycing upon this occa&s;ion, this en&s;uing &s;hort Treati&s;e will inform thee. Who could bow the hearts of the Elders of our <HI>Judah,</HI> as of one man, to &s;end this me&s;&s;age to the King,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 19.14.</NOTE> <HI>Return thou and all thy Servants,</HI> but God who hath the hearts of all men in his hands? Who could overturn, over|turn, overturn, till He came who&s;e right it was, but God, who hath made the King's enemies the In&s;tru|ments of their owne overthrow? The Coun&s;els of <HI>Achitophels</HI> are turned into fooli&s;hne&s;s, in order to the pre&s;ervation of his &s;acred Ma|je&s;ties Per&s;on, and the twi&s;ted in|tere&s;ts of multitudes of the King|dome, politickly engag'd, are as prudently undone, and cannot hold together again&s;t him. Gods pa|tience in forbearing a Nation &s;o
<PB REF="10">guilty, is yet followed by his ju|&s;tice, both in vindicating tho&s;e, to whom guilt is imputed without cau&s;e; and in te&s;tifying again&s;t &s;uch as have killed, and al&s;o taken po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion. The people that have been long kept under do now flock together like the fi&s;hes at <HI>Strigone,</HI> (a Town &s;cituate on <HI>Danubius</HI>) and hold their heads above water, which (they &s;ay) was a token of their change of their Lord and Ma&s;ter. We are weary &s;tudying the meaning of Common-wealth, and although we have had the name beaten into us, yet cannot po&s;&s;ibly under&s;tand the thing. And the <GAP DESC="foreign">, or lawle&s;ne&s;s for five days a|mongst the Per&s;ians, wherein there was &s;o much robbing and killing, never made them more willing of government again than the violen|cies and illegalities here, in this long Interval, have made us ready to accept our Royal Sovereign. We
<PB REF="11">have been reckon'd Offenders for a word, and the cruelty of the new|erected Tribunals was &s;uch, that the Judgement-&s;eat little differ'd from a Shambles; the new Laws, like <HI>Draco's</HI> at <HI>Lacedemonia</HI> being written in Characters of bloud. But our hopes are revived, and we tru&s;t, that <HI>if the Lord would have de|&s;troyed us,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Judg. 13. 23.</NOTE> he would not have &s;hewed us all the&s;e things.</HI> His mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty hath height|ned our expectations by his gracious Declaration. The be&s;t and wi&s;e&s;t of the Nation have done that which God, our Laws, and Covenant, and the nece&s;&s;itie of vindicating them|&s;elves and us from the horrid guilt of Regicide, have made their duty. Into what <HI>Chaos</HI> was the Church and State lately reduc'd? there is the power and wi&s;dome of a <HI>Crea|tor</HI> requi&s;ite to bring all into form; and happy &s;hall he be whom the <HI>King of Kings</HI> will honour, as the
<PB REF="11">chief In&s;trument hereof. This Ser|mon tels thee that <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> and <HI>Da|vid</HI> were by their Afflictions fitted for eminent &s;ervice; and I am &s;ure <HI>our dread Sovereign</HI> hath been bred in the &s;ame School, and doubt not but his Crown is made of <HI>gold purified in the fire.</HI> I &s;hall not need to acquaint thee how his return runs parallel with that of <HI>Davids,</HI> after his bani&s;hment, who made u&s;e of the General and the Prie&s;ts in order to his reduction
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 19.11, 13</NOTE>: But my hearty wi&s;h is, that the men of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> and <HI>Judah</HI> may not di&s;pute, who hath the greate&s;t part in him,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">v. 43.</NOTE> or mo&s;t right to him; but that we may all joyn in pray&s;es, for the di&s;covery whereof thou art not left here with|out directions; and let me be&s;eech thee (as the Author does) for the King's &s;ake, and for thine own &s;ake, to <HI>take heed of doing wickedly.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 12.25.</NOTE> Do not think thou can&s;t contribute to &s;ettlement by &s;tudying revenge:
<PB REF="12">this will evidence that thy de&s;ire of the King is but for thine own ends; expect no patent for prophanene&s;s, but be &s;ure,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 13.4.</NOTE> <HI>that the Sword will be drawn for the puni&s;hment of evil doers.</HI> Do not think to justifie thy &s;elf by condemning others, who po&s;|&s;ibly refu&s;e to drown their rea&s;on, to prove their Loyalty. Why &s;hould not they come in amongst the Kings friends, who pray for his health, and drink only for their own? whither hath divi&s;ion already carried us
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">En quo di&s;cordia cives Perduxit mi&s;eros.</NOTE>? and how open hath it laid us to tho&s;e enemies that wait the like opportu|nity? Be of <HI>Mephibo&s;heth's</HI> tem|per, to part with thine own interest for the &s;ake of his Maje&s;ty's quiet, <HI>Let him take all,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Sam. 19.30.</NOTE> &s;eeing my Lord the King is come home in peace.</HI> Let us all agree to bani&s;h whatever may occa&s;ion any further di&s;agree|ment. We have joyn'd in our Pro|clamations and Acclamations, let us joyn al&s;o in our Petitions to the
<PB REF="12"><HI>King of Heaven,</HI> that <HI>our King,</HI> as <HI>Solomon,</HI> may build the Temple
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">1 Chro. 28.6.</NOTE>, and cau&s;e the Kingdom to flouri&s;h, that he may be a <HI>Melchi&s;edeck,</HI> a King of Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, that his Throne may be e&s;tabli&s;hed, <HI>and that under him we may live quiet and peaceable lives in all godline&s;s and hone&s;ty
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 2.2.</NOTE>;</HI> which hath been, is, and &s;hall be the hearty Prayer of him,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>That confe&s;&s;eth his in&s;ufficiency to advi&s;e thee; but, Profe&s;&s;eth his readine&s;s to &s;erve thee,</HI>John Hodder, <HI>Mini&s;ter of</HI> Hawkchurch.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<L><HI>GReat CHARLS</HI> the &s;econd's Picture's here, Peru&s;e it;</L>
<L>Know that 'twas writ at di&s;tance, and excu&s;e it:</L>
<L>The lines are loyal, let choice Limners mend it;</L>
<L>Under correction we pre&s;ume to &s;end it.</L>
<L><HI>CHARLES,</HI> who&s;e return revives each drooping heart,</L>
<L>And quickens each dead &s;oul, to act its part:</L>
<L>Who&s;e vertues though the French and Spani&s;h &s;aw,</L>
<L>Make <HI>England</HI> happy by no <HI>Salick</HI> Law.</L>
<L>This <HI>Monarch</HI>'s ri&s;ing, fir&s;t re&s;tores to health</L>
<L>The Kingdom deadly &s;ick o'th' Commonwealth.</L>
<L>Ob&s;tructions thus remov'd, each lively vein</L>
<L>Conveighs its active &s;pirits once again.</L>
<L>Hark how the Bels, Guns, Drums and Trumpets ring,</L>
<L>And loyal Pulpits cry, <HI>God &s;ave the King!</HI></L>
<L>See how the blazing earth by Bon-fires tries</L>
<L>To tran&s;late Heaven, and out&s;hine the &s;kies,</L>
<L><HI>Lyme</HI>'s glorious Triumphs do be&s;peak it glad</L>
<L>To gain the Title <HI>Regis,</HI> once it had.</L>
<L>My joys are mixt with pray'rs, that <HI>Charles</HI> his wain,</L>
<L>By Traytors hands be ne'r o'return'd again,</L>
<L>That Crown and Church may flouri&s;h, and the State</L>
<L>Be fix'd, in &s;pite of &s;trange or home-bred hate.</L>
<L>That <HI>CHARLES</HI> be wi&s;e, as <HI>Solomon,</HI> to give</L>
<L>The Childe to tho&s;e would hav't united live.</L>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>Theophilus Philanax.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A SERMON PREACH'D AT <HI>LYME-REGIS, May</HI> the 18. 1660. at the Solemn Proclamation of His mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty, Charles II. &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_THe Proclamation and Inauguration of Kings hath been ob&s;erved with great &s;olemnity in all ages,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Pre|amble.</NOTE> by all Na|tions: In the ob&s;ervation of which
<PB N="2" REF="14">Solemnities, none have been more forward than God's mo&s;t faithfull Prophets and Prie&s;ts, and Mini|&s;ters of the Go&s;pel. And there|fore that I may give a further te&s;timony of that loyal and &s;incere affection I have ever born to His mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty, our So|vereign Lord, <HI>Charles</HI> by the grace of God of <HI>England, Scotland, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> King, Defen|der of the Faith. I &s;hall at pre&s;ent apply my &s;elf to &s;peak &s;omething &s;uitable to the &s;olemnity of this day; that by &s;o doing I may quic|ken you to the ob&s;ervation of it, both with an inward and outward rejoycing &s;uitable unto it: not that I think you need a &s;pur, being fully a&s;&s;ured of the &s;incerity of your affection, both to his Maje|&s;ty's Per&s;on and Authority.</P>
<P>Now, the words I &s;hall in&s;i&s;t upon to this end, you &s;hall finde written,</P>
<PB N="3" REF="14">
<Q><BIBL>1 KINGS 1.39, 40.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Text</NOTE></BIBL>
<P><HI>And</HI> Zadock <HI>the Prie&s;t took an horn of Oyl out of the Tabernacle, and annointed</HI> Solomon: <HI>and they blew the trumpet, and all the peo|ple &s;aid, God &s;ave King</HI> Solo|mon.</P>
<P><HI>And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with Pipes, and rejoyced with great joy, &s;o that the earth rent with the &s;ound of them.</HI></P></Q>
<P>The words are Hi&s;toricall, and in them you have a Relation of the Proclamation and Inauguration of <HI>Solomon</HI> to be King over <HI>I&s;rael.</HI></P>
<P>For methods &s;ake and your bet|ter under&s;tanding of them, you may take notice,</P>
<P N="1">1. Of the Agents or Per&s;ons who were imployed in the ob&s;ervation of the&s;e &s;olemnities.</P>
<P N="2">2. Of their Actions, or the things done and performed by the&s;e A|gents.</P>
<PB N="4" REF="15">
<P N="3">3. Of the Per&s;on, about who&s;e concernments the&s;e Agents were imployed.</P>
<P>The Agents were <HI>Zadok the Prei&s;t,</HI> (who began the &s;olemnity) and the re&s;t of the people who were then pre&s;ent, among whom (for the honour of the &s;olemnity) was <HI>Na|than the Prophet,</HI> and many others, men of great account and e&s;teem both in the Church and State of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> as evidently appears by the ver&s;e immediately foregoing. <HI>So Zadock the Prie&s;t and Nathan the Prophet and Benaiah the &s;on of Je|hoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went downe, and cau&s;ed Solomon to ride upon King David's Mule, &amp;c.</HI> And from hence I conclude.</P>
<P>That it is a thing no way unbe|coming a Prie&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Note.</NOTE> a Prophet, a Mi|ni&s;ter of God, to act his part in the Procla mation, and Inaugura|tion, of his ju&s;t, and lawful Sove|reign.</P>
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<P N="2">2. The Actions of the&s;e Agents, and they are divers, every man (in this Solemnity) was imployed in &s;ome thing &s;uitable to his place and &s;tation.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Zadok the Prie&s;t</HI> begins the work, 'tis &s;aid he <HI>took a Horne of oyle out of the Tabernacle, and a|nointed Solomon.</HI> A Ceremony frequently u&s;ed (by God's com|mand and appointment) in the de|&s;ignation, and Inauguration of Per&s;ons to be Kings, as you may &s;ee by comparing the&s;e Scriptures, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 9.16. <HI>I will &s;end thee a man out of the land of benjamin, and thou &s;halt anoint him to be Cap|taine over my People I&s;rael, that he may &s;ave my People out of the hand of the Phili&s;tines.</HI> So cap. 10. v. 1. <HI>Then Samuel took a viall of oyle, and poured it upon his head, and ki&s;&s;ed him, and &s;aid, Is it not be|cau&s;e the Lord hath anointed thee to be Captain over his Inheritance?</HI>
<PB N="6" REF="16">So <HI>cap.</HI> 16. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 1. <HI>And the Lord &s;aid to Samuel, &amp;c. Fill thy horn with oyle, and goe, I will &s;end thee to</HI> Je&s;&s;e <HI>the Bethlemite, for I have provided me a King a|mong his &s;ons.</HI> Item v. 13. <HI>Then Samuel took the horne of oyle and anointed him in the mid&s;t of his Brethren: and the &s;pirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.</HI> Againe. 2. <HI>Sam.</HI> 2 4. And the men of Judah came and <HI>there they anointed David King</HI> over the hou&s;e of <HI>Judah:</HI> &s;o 1. <HI>Cron.</HI> 29.22. and they made <HI>Solomon</HI> King the &s;econd time, <HI>and anointed him to the Lord to be chief Governor.</HI> And this cere|mony was upon the&s;e con&s;iderati|ons u&s;ed.</P>
<P N="1">1. To declare, that God had called, and appointed the Per&s;on thus anointed to the exerci&s;e of the office of a King.</P>
<PB N="7" REF="16">
<P N="2">2. To give a&s;&s;urance (to others and) to the per&s;ons thus anointed, that God would furni&s;h them with gifts, graces, and abilities, for the di&s;charge of the Kingly office, to which he had de&s;igned, and called them. And from the u&s;e of this ce|remonie it is that Kings in Scrip|ture are often called <HI>the Lord's a|nointed,</HI> as you may &s;ee, 1. <HI>Sam.</HI> 24.6. God forbid that I &s;hould do this thing unto my Ma&s;ter the <HI>Lord's anointed,</HI> &amp;c. Seing he is <HI>the anointed of the Lord.</HI> So, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 45.1. thus &s;aith the Lord <HI>to his anointed, to Cyrus,</HI> &amp;c. and in many other places.</P>
<P N="2">2. The <HI>Priest</HI> having done his part, the Trumpeters performed their parts, they blew the trumpet and by the &s;ound of trumpet pro|claimed him King.</P>
<P N="3">3. All the people which were pre&s;ent, cryed, <HI>God &s;ave King Solomon,</HI> and then followed,
<PB N="8" REF="17">after him, and piped with pipes and rejoyced with exceeding great joy; &s;o that the earth rent with the &s;ound of their &s;houts and acclamations of joy; an <HI>Hyper|bolicall</HI> &s;peech to expre&s;&s;e the ex|ceeding greatne&s;s of their joy.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Solomon</HI> the &s;on of <HI>David</HI> (by <HI>Bath&s;heba</HI> who had been the wife of <HI>&V;riah</HI>) was the per&s;on about who&s;e concernments the&s;e Agents were thus imployed. The per&s;on about who&s;e, &amp;c. I &s;ay, was <HI>So|lomon,</HI> who was,</P>
<P N="1">1. Not only a <HI>Prince,</HI> but a <HI>law|full Prince,</HI> being appointed of God, and <HI>nominated</HI> by <HI>David</HI> his Royall father to &s;ucceed him in his government, as you may &s;ee by comparing the 1. <HI>Chr.</HI> 28. and 5. with this. 1 <HI>King.</HI> 1.28. &amp;c.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>A hopefull Prince,</HI> a Prince from whom they might expect much good, both to the <HI>Church and Sate</HI> of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and that
<PB N="9" REF="17">becau&s;e he was, 1. A very <HI>pious Prince.</HI> 2. A very <HI>wi&s;e,</HI> and <HI>prudent Prince.</HI> 3. <HI>A beloved Prince,</HI> beloved even of God him|&s;elfe with a &s;peciall love, and therefore called <HI>Jedediah.</HI> 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.24, 25. And &s;he bare a &s;on and he called his name <HI>Solomon,</HI> and <HI>the Lord loved him, &amp;c. and he cal|led his name Jedidiah, becau&s;e of the Lord.</HI> 4. A <HI>Prince of peace,</HI> or a peaceable Prince. So much is &s;ig|nifyed by his name <HI>Solomon.</HI> 1. <HI>Chr.</HI> 22.9. Behold a &s;on &s;hall be borne to thee, who &s;hall be a <HI>man of re&s;t,</HI> and I will give <HI>him rest from all his enemies round about:</HI> for his name &s;hall be <HI>Solomon,</HI> and I will give <HI>peace and quiet|ne&s;se to I&s;rael in his dayes.</HI> He was called &s;o, to &s;hew that the peo|ple of I&s;rael &s;hould enjoy much peace under his government. Now the con&s;ideration of the&s;e and &s;uch like things, was the cau&s;e why the
<PB N="10" REF="18">people pre&s;ent at his proclamation and inauguration were thus tran&s;|ported with exceeding great joy and rejoycing. From all which put together you may ob&s;erve this point of Doctrine.</P>
<P>That <HI>the acce&s;&s;ion of a lawfull hopefull Prince</HI> to the <HI>actuall ex|cerci&s;e of Rule and Government,</HI>
<MILESTONE UNIT="Doctr."> is a thing greatly to be rejoyced in, by all tho&s;e over whom he is to rule and govern.</P>
<P N="1">1. That this is a thing greatly to be rejoyced in, &amp;c. is evident by the <HI>univer&s;all</HI> practice of all good and loyall &s;ubjects in all Ages Countryes and Nations: who&s;e con&s;tant u&s;e it hath been, to &s;o|lemnize the acce&s;&s;ion of their law|full hopefull <HI>Princes</HI> to actuall rule and Government, with all out|ward Domon&s;trations of joy and rejoycing. How exce&s;&s;ively did this people here reioyce at <HI>Solo|mon's</HI> acce&s;&s;ion to the Throne?
<PB N="11" REF="18">this was matter of rejoycing, not onely to the common rabble and rude multitude, but to <HI>Zadok</HI> the Prie&s;t &amp; <HI>Nathan</HI> the Prophet al&s;o: the&s;e as well as others, who were pre&s;ent, rejoyced at it with excee|ding great joy. Which, being wi&s;e and pious men, they would not have done, had it not been a thing greatly to be rejoyced in.</P>
<P N="2">2 The truth of this is further e|vident by the&s;e two following rea|&s;ons.</P>
<P>Becau&s;e the acce&s;&s;ion of &s;uch a Prince to actuall Rule and Government will a&s;&s;uredly <HI>pre|vent,</HI>
<NOTE N="1" PLACE="marg">Rea&s;.</NOTE> or <HI>put to an end</HI> many (o|therwi&s;e) unavoidable mi&s;cheifs and inconveniencies, to which the people of a State and Kingdome are incident, and obnoxious, for want of &s;uch a Prince to rule and govern them. Many are the mi&s;|chiefes and inconveniencies to which the people of a State and
<PB N="12" REF="19">Kingdome are liable, for want of a lawfull Prince to rule and govern them; all which mi&s;chiefs and in|conveniencies are either prevented or put to an end by the acce&s;&s;ion of &s;uch a Prince to actual Rule and Government. I &s;hall name &s;ome of them.</P>
<P N="1">1. The acce&s;&s;ion of &s;uch a Prince to actual Rule and Government, will either prevent or put to an end the a&s;piring attempts of proud and ambitious men, to exalt them|&s;elves to the highe&s;t place of power and authority; together with tho&s;e many inconveniencies &amp; mi&s;chiefs that accompany or follow their at|tempts. When a People are with|out a lawful Prince to rule them, every ambitious per&s;on that can but head a Faction, will be ready to take the opportunity of &s;etling him&s;elf upon the Throne. In an <HI>Interregnum,</HI> every man who can make a party to a&s;&s;i&s;t him, will be
<PB N="13" REF="19">climbing up unto the Throne. Now the mi&s;chiefs and inconve|niencies that befall a State or Kingdome by the a&s;piring attempts of ambitious men, to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e them&s;elvs of power and authority, are innumerable. Such were the mi&s;chiefs that befel the people of the ten Tribes (upon this account) after their revolt from the Hou&s;e of <HI>David.</HI> After they had rejected their lawful Sovereign, tho&s;e that were ambitious were &s;till &s;cram|bling for Authority among&s;t them: by rea&s;on whereof innumerable mi&s;chiefs befel them. But now (I &s;ay) the acce&s;&s;ion of a lawfull Prince, &amp;c. will either prevent or put to an end the&s;e &s;ad mi&s;chiefs and inconveniencies. This was the effect of <HI>Solomon</HI>'s acce&s;&s;ion to the Throne; it put to an end the a&s;pi|ring attempts of <HI>Adonijah</HI> to make him&s;elf King, together with the many inconveniencies that were
<PB N="14" REF="20">like to follow upon it, as you may &s;ee, 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 1.5, 49, and 50. ver|&s;es compared. <HI>Then</HI> Adonijah <HI>the &s;on of</HI> Haggith <HI>exalted him&s;elf, &s;aying, I will be King: and he pre|pared him Charriots and hor&s;men, and fifty men to run before him. &mdash; And all the Gue&s;ts that were with</HI> Adonijah <HI>were afraid, and ro&s;e up, and went every man his way. &mdash; And</HI> Adonijah <HI>feared becau&s;e of</HI> Solo|mon, <HI>and aro&s;e, and went and caught hold on the horns of the Al|tar.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. The acce&s;&s;ion of &s;uch a Prince to rule and government will either prevent, or put to an end, the Tyrannies and Cruelties which are u&s;ually exerci&s;ed by &s;uch as exalt them&s;elves, and u&s;urp Authority. It is almo&s;t impo&s;&s;ible for a Prince to be a <HI>Tyrant</HI> in <HI>Title,</HI> and not be a <HI>Tyrant</HI> in <HI>Exerci&s;e.</HI> Such as get power wickedly, do (for the mo&s;t part) u&s;e it unju&s;tly: Though
<PB N="15" REF="20">(<HI>Ab&s;alom</HI>-like) they may make fair promi&s;es, to make a party to lift them to the Throne; yet they &s;eldom or never ob&s;erve and keep them. The truth of this evident|ly appears almo&s;t in the whole <HI>&s;e|ries</HI> of the Kings of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> after their revolt from the Hou&s;e of <HI>David.</HI> The mo&s;t of them were not only <HI>Tyrants</HI> in <HI>Title,</HI> but in <HI>Exerci&s;e</HI> al&s;o. But now the acce&s;|&s;ion of a lawful hopeful Prince to the actual exerci&s;e of Rule and Government, will prevent, or put to a period the&s;e Tyrannies and cruelties, which U&s;urpers u&s;ually exerci&s;e over an en&s;laved Nation.</P>
<P N="3">3. The acce&s;&s;ion of &s;uch a Prince to Rule and Government, will a&s;&s;uredly prevent or put to an end, tho&s;e <HI>Rapines</HI> and <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ions</HI> whereby the people are &s;ubject to be oppre&s;&s;ed, <HI>every one by another, and every one by his Neighbour.</HI> When the &s;eat of Authority is va|cant
<PB N="16" REF="21">or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by &s;uch as have no right or ability to Rule; the people are in danger tobe <HI>oppre&s;&s;ed every one by another.</HI> When there was no King in <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> every man did what &s;eemed good in his own eyes, though it were to the hurt and prejudice of others; as you may &s;ee, <HI>Judg.</HI> 18.1, and 18. com|par'd, <HI>In tho&s;e days there was no King in I&s;rael,</HI> &amp;c. and <HI>cap.</HI> 19.1, 25. compar'd. And the like e|vils are men in danger of, when the Seat of Authority is po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by &s;uch as have no right or &s;kill to Rule: hence a wo is denounc'd again&s;t that land <HI>who&s;e King is a Child, Eccl.</HI> 10.16. <HI>i.e.</HI> who is as unfit and un&s;kilful to Rule, and as much wedded to his own will, as a childe is. And therefore when God is angry with a people, he threa|tens <HI>to give Children to be their Kings, and that Babes &s;hould rule over them, I&s;a.</HI> 3.4. <HI>i. e.</HI> men of a
<PB N="17" REF="21">childi&s;h di&s;po&s;ition; in re&s;pect of wit, &s;kill, carriage, courage, no better than Children, or in &s;ome &s;ort wor&s;e, becau&s;e more wilfull, and le&s;&s;e advi&s;able. And now that land where &s;uch rule, mu&s;t needs be in a woe ca&s;e, becau&s;e where &s;uch rule, every man is &s;ubject to be oppre&s;&s;ed by his neigbour; as appears by 3. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 4,5. <HI>And I will give children to be their Prin|ces, and babes &s;hall rule over them and the people &s;hall be oppre&s;&s;ed e|very one by another and every one by his Neighbour: the child &s;hall behave him&s;elf proudly again&s;t the ancient, and the ba&s;e again&s;t the ho|norable.</HI> But the acce&s;&s;ion of a lawfull and hopefull Prince, &amp;c. will undoubtedly prevent, or put to an end the&s;e mi&s;chievous evils that el&s;e would happen to that peo|ple over which he is to rule.</P>
<P N="4">4. The acce&s;&s;ion of a hopefull and lawfull Prince to Rule and
<PB N="18" REF="22">Government will certainely pre|vent, or put to an end tho&s;e mi&s;|cheivous di&s;putes, and divi&s;ions, which otherwi&s;e will ari&s;e among&s;t a people, about the <HI>particular forme of Government, the per&s;on, or per&s;ons by which they will be ru|led.</HI> When the &s;eat of Authority is vacant, or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by u&s;urpa|tion; every man, as he is affected, will be contending to be ruled under this or that particular form of government, or by this or that particular per&s;on. The truth of this we have &s;een made good by &s;ad experience even in our dayes. How have di&s;putes about the&s;e things, broken and crumbled us into a thou&s;and pieces, &s;ince the horrid murther of his late Maje&s;ty of glorious memory, and the <HI>trea|cherous exile,</HI> &amp;c. of his pre&s;ent mo&s;t Royal and mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty! Now this mi&s;chief al&s;o, the acce&s;&s;ion of, &amp;c. will a&s;&s;uredly
<PB N="19" REF="22">either prevent or put to an end.</P>
<P N="5">5. The acce&s;&s;ion of a lawfull hopeful Prince to Rule and Go|vernment, will al&s;o prevent or put to an end tho&s;e frequent and mi&s;chievous changes in govern|ment, to which a State and King|dom is Subject through the want of &s;uch a Prince to Rule and govern it. Frequent changes in govern|ment, either in re&s;pect of the per|&s;ons ruling, or the form of govern|ment by which it is ruled, are very de&s;tructive and mi&s;chievous to it. And therefore when God is di&s;|plea&s;ed with a people, he u&s;ually brings this Judgement upon them, <HI>Prov.</HI> 28.2. <HI>For the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of a Land, many are the Princes thereof, &amp;c.</HI> And of all Kingdoms tho&s;e are mo&s;t &s;ubject to this de|&s;troying Judgment, where their lawful Sovereign is rejected, and the Throne is po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by U&s;ur|pation. How often did the ten
<PB N="20" REF="23">Tribes change their Rulers, after their Revolt from the Hou&s;e of <HI>David?</HI> and what frequent chan|ges, both of Governors and Go|vernment have we &s;een in this Nation, &s;ince the murther of our late, and Exilement of our pre&s;ent Sovereign! but by the acce&s;&s;ion of a lawful hopeful Prince to Rule, the&s;e changes are either prevented, or put to an end, <HI>Prov.</HI> 28.2. <HI>For the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of a land many are the Princes thereof; but by a man of understanding and knowledge, the &s;tate thereof &s;hall be prolonged, i. e.</HI> by a lawful Prince, who is wi&s;e and prudent the &s;tate thereof &s;hall be pre&s;erved, <HI>viz.</HI> from &s;uch frequent and mi&s;chievous changes of its Governors and Rulers. The&s;e are &s;ome of tho&s;e great mi&s;chiefs which by this means will be pre|vented or put to an end; and therefore the acce&s;&s;ion of a lawful hopeful Prince to actual Rule and
<PB N="21" REF="23">Government, is a thing greatly to be rejoyced in by tho&s;e over whom he is to rule. But &s;econdly,</P>
<P>The Acce&s;&s;ion of &s;uch a Prince to actual Rule and Government,
<NOTE N="2" PLACE="marg">Rea&s;.</NOTE> s a thing greatly to be rejoyced in; becau&s;e it gives the people, over whom he is to rule, great hope of much approaching and continued good to them, by his rule and go|vernment over them: A lawful hopeful Ruler is a great ble&s;&s;ing to a Nation; and therefore God promi&s;eth to be&s;tow &s;uch upon his people as a great ble&s;&s;ing to them, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 1.26. <HI>And I will re&s;tore thy Judges as at the first, and thy Coun&s;ellors as at the beginning, i. e.</HI> I will give thee Rulers like unto tho&s;e which I &s;et over thee, when thou wert fir&s;t con&s;tituted a State and Kingdom? &s;uch as were <HI>Mo|&s;es, Jo&s;hua, Samuel, David, &amp;c.</HI> &s;uch as &s;hall be In&s;truments of much good unto thee; as all good
<PB N="22" REF="24">and lawful Princes are to all &s;uch as they rule over. Now the good a people have grounds to hope for upon the acce&s;&s;ion of a lawful hopeful Prince to Rule and Go|vernment, is,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>The injoyment of outward peace, plenty, and pro&s;perity.</HI> By <HI>Solomon's</HI> acce&s;&s;ion to the throne, the <HI>&s;tate of I&s;rael</HI> injoyed the good of all the&s;e. The whole time of the Reign of <HI>Solomon,</HI> they did not onely injoy peace; (acording as God had promi&s;ed they &s;hould 1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 22.9. <HI>For his name &s;hall be Solomon, and I will give Peace and quietne&s;&s;e unto I&s;rael in his dayes.</HI>) But al&s;o great plen|ty and pro&s;perity, as you may &s;ee 1 <HI>King.</HI> 10.27. <HI>And the King made &s;ilver to be in Jeru&s;alem as &s;tones, and Cedars made he to be as the Sy|camore trees which are in the vale for abundance.</HI> And 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 1.15. in the &s;ame words. And thus it
<PB N="23" REF="24">often comes to pa&s;&s;e by the acce&s;|&s;ion of a <HI>lawfull, hopefull Prince</HI> to Rule and Government; and therefore there is ground to hope upon the acce&s;&s;ion of &s;uch a Prince to Rule and Government.</P>
<P N="2">2. The right admini&s;tration and execution of law and ju&s;tice. This good and benefit I&s;rael injoyed by the acce&s;&s;ion of <HI>Solomon</HI> to Rule and Government, as a peares by many in&s;tances, e&s;pecially by his deci&s;ion of the difference be|twixt the two Harlots about the living child. 1 <HI>king.</HI> 3 <HI>from the</HI> 16 <HI>to the end.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Safety and protection from all wrong and injury, or at lea&s;t ju&s;tice again&s;t &s;uch as wrong and injure them, as 'tis the duty, &s;o 'tis (for the mo&s;t part) the di&s;po&s;ition of lawfull Princes, to protect their Subjects (yea the meane&s;t of them) from wrong, and injury, and to do &s;uch of them right as are wronged
<PB N="24" REF="25">and injured. This good al&s;o I&s;|rael injoyed by <HI>Solomon's</HI> acce&s;|&s;ion to the throne, as appears by the foregoing in&s;tance.</P>
<P N="4">4. Suitable rewards and prefer|ments to their de&s;erts and merits. <HI>&V;&s;urpers</HI> be&s;tow their rewards and preferments upon &s;uch as are righte&s;t for their turne, but law|full Princes (if they are wi&s;e and prudent) upon them who are mo&s;t de&s;erving, but e&s;pecially upon &s;uch as are mo&s;t faithfull to God within their dominions, &s;uch <HI>Da|vid</HI> re&s;olved to prefer to the ho|nor of being next, yea neare&s;t to his per&s;on in attendance upon him, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 101. throughout, but e&s;pecially <HI>ver.</HI> 6. <HI>Mine eyes &s;hall be upon the faithfull of the land, that they may dwell with me. He that walketh in a perfect way he &s;hall &s;erve me. By the faithful</HI> there he means, the <HI>truly godly in the land:</HI> as appears from the latter
<PB N="25" REF="25">part of the ver&s;e. And &s;uch were they whom <HI>Solomon</HI> advanced, upon his acce&s;&s;ion to the throne, as appears by 1 <HI>King.</HI> 4. begining.</P>
<P N="5">5. The pre&s;ervation and (if need be) the <HI>Reformation</HI> of Re|ligion, with due countenance and encouragement in the practice and profe&s;&s;ion of it. <HI>&V;&s;urpers,</HI> for the mo&s;t part, are <HI>Corrupters</HI> and <HI>Sup|pre&s;&s;ers</HI> of the <HI>truth</HI> and <HI>power of Religion.</HI> Such a one was <HI>Jerobo|am,</HI> and tho&s;e Kings that &s;uccee|ded him in his <HI>&V;&s;urpation,</HI> as you may &s;ee, 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 12.26, 27. &amp;c. to the end. <HI>And Jeroboam &s;aid in his heart, now &s;hall the Kingdome return to the hou&s;e of David: If this people go up to do &s;acrifice in the Hou&s;e of the Lord at Jeru&s;a|lem, then &s;hall the heart of this peo|ple turn again unto their Lord, even unto Rehoboam King of Judah, and they &s;hall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam King of Judah: where|upon
<PB N="26" REF="26">the King took coun&s;el, and made two Calves of gold, and &s;aid unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jeru&s;alem; Behold thy gods, O I&s;rael, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt:</HI> and &s;o on. You may &s;ee more of this in the Hi&s;tories of his Succe&s;&s;ors, re|corded in the Books of the <HI>Kings</HI> and <HI>Chronicles.</HI> But on the con|trary, &s;uch as are lawful and pious Princes, are Pre&s;ervers, Promo|ters, and (if need require) Refor|mers of Religion; yea, and coun|tenancers of the mo&s;t &s;incere Pro|fe&s;&s;ors of it. Such were all the godly Kings of <HI>Judah:</HI> Such a one was <HI>A&s;a,</HI> 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 15.11, 12, 13, 14, 15. <HI>And A&s;a did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his Father. And he took a|way the Sodomites out of the Land, and removed all the Idols that his Father had made. And al&s;o Maa|cha his Mother, even her he removed
<PB N="27" REF="26">from being Queen, becau&s;e &s;he had made an Idol in a Grove, and A&s;a de&s;troyed her Idol, &amp;c.</HI> 'Tis true, his reformation was not a through reformation, but yet he was a great Reformer; and &s;o was his Son and Succe&s;&s;or <HI>Jeho&s;aphat,</HI> 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 22.41, 42, 43. <HI>He walked in all the wayes of A&s;a his Father, he turned not a&s;ide from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, &amp;c.</HI> Such a one was <HI>Hezekiah,</HI> he did not content him|&s;elf with the Reformation of his Predece&s;&s;ors, but he carried it on to a higher degree of perfection. He did not only break the Images, but he al&s;o removed the High places, as you may &s;ee, 2 <HI>Kings</HI> 18.3, 4. And &s;o we finde, that <HI>Solomon's</HI> acce&s;&s;ion to the Throne made much for the advantage of Religion, and the Profe&s;&s;ors of it. For immediately upon his coming to it, he built the Temple, and
<PB N="28" REF="27">did very much beautifie and a|dorn the Wor&s;hip and Service of God.</P>
<P>Now the U&s;e and Application of this point is two-fold: and,</P>
<P N="1">1. <MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="&V;&s;e"> The fir&s;t is a U&s;e of Reproof, for &s;uch among&s;t us (if any &s;uch there be) who do not rejoice, but grieve at the acce&s;&s;ion of our So|vereign Lord King <HI>CHARLES</HI> the &s;econd to Rule and Government. If I thought there were any &s;uch pre&s;ent, I would enlarge upon this U&s;e: but I hope better things of you all, and therefore I forbear, le&s;t I &s;hould this day &s;adden the heart of any, who will otherwi&s;e rejoyce.</P>
<P N="2">2. <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="&V;&s;e"> I &s;hall therefore come to the &s;econd U&s;e, a U&s;e of Exhortation, to exhort and &s;tir you up to the ob&s;ervation of the &s;olemnity of this day with all po&s;&s;ible joy and cordial rejoycing. And I be&s;eech you, let us all this day rejoice
<PB N="29" REF="27">with exceeding great joy and re|joycing. Now to quicken and rai&s;e your hearts to a rejoicing &s;uitable to the &s;olemnity of this day, con&s;ider, you have as good cau&s;e of rejoicing at the Solemnity of this day, as they had who were pre&s;ent at the Proclamation and Inauguration of <HI>Solomon:</HI> Seeing the <HI>Prince,</HI> who&s;e Proclamation-Solemnities you are this day to ob|&s;erve, may be in &s;ome mea&s;ure <HI>(and that without flattery)</HI> compar'd with <HI>Solomon,</HI> at who&s;e Proclama|tion this people &s;o greatly rejoy|ced: For, as <HI>Solomon</HI> was, &s;o he is, 1. A lawfull; and 2. A hopefull Prince. I &s;ay, he is,</P>
<P N="1">1. A Legitimate and a lawful Prince. He is not a &s;purious Mu&s;hrume &s;elf-created Prince: but a Prince by lineal &s;ucce&s;&s;ion and inherent birth-right, being lineally de&s;cended by the Father of glorious memory, from <HI>James</HI>
<PB N="30" REF="28">of ble&s;&s;ed memory, the 6. of <HI>Scot|land,</HI> but the fir&s;t of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland;</HI> and by the Mother, from that great and wor|thy <HI>Heroe</HI> of his age, <HI>Henry</HI> the 4. of <HI>France.</HI> So that our King is, on both &s;ides, the <HI>Son of Nobles.</HI> And when it is &s;o, <HI>Solomon</HI> tels you, <HI>the Land is ble&s;&s;ed, Eccle&s;.</HI> 10.17. And as he is a Noble, &s;o he is a lawful Prince too. The clearne&s;s of his Title is &s;uch, that to argue the lawfulne&s;&s;e of it, would but darken and eclip&s;e it. You may as well que&s;tion the &s;hining of the Sun at noon, as the lawfulne&s;&s;e of his Title.</P>
<P N="2">2. He is as a lawful, &s;o a hopeful Prince. A Prince by who&s;e acce&s;|&s;ion to rule and government we are,</P>
<P N="1">1. At pre&s;ent freed from our feares and dangers of being <HI>hare&s;|&s;ed</HI> by the attempts of every <HI>a&s;pi|ring, ambitious Adonijah,</HI> to
<PB N="31" REF="28">make him&s;elfe King. We need not now to feare the a&s;piring am|bition either of a <HI>Cromwell</HI> or a <HI>Lambert.</HI> Nor need we now feare of being kept in bondage and &s;la|very by an incon&s;iderable part of a <HI>Parliament,</HI> or a <HI>Phanatick Com|mittee of &s;afety</HI> under the notion <HI>of a free State, or Commonwealth.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. We have grounds of hope that his acce&s;&s;ion to Rule and Go|vernment will be a meanes, in time, to free us,</P>
<P N="1">1. From our <HI>un&s;upportable bur|dens</HI> of <HI>Exci&s;e</HI> and <HI>monthly Taxes.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. From our <HI>&s;oul-de&s;troying and damning univer&s;all tolleration.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. We have ground to hope that his acce&s;&s;ion to actuall rule and go|vernment, will be a meanes of much good both to our &s;elves and the whole Nation. There is now hopes,</P>
<P N="1">1. That we &s;hall enjoy a &s;etled Government, our antient Govern|ment
<PB N="32" REF="29">of King, Lords and Com|mons: the be&s;t forme of Govern|ment that the wi&s;edome of man could ever yet contrive, to pre|vent <HI>Tyranny</HI> on the one hand, and <HI>Annarchy and Confu&s;ion</HI> on the other.</P>
<P N="2">2. That we may recover and en|joy a <HI>firme and la&s;ting peace.</HI> Not onely a peace within our &s;elves, but a peace with the Nations, which are round about us. Such a peace as <HI>I&s;rael</HI> enjoyed all the days of <HI>Solomon,</HI> who had <HI>peace on all &s;ides round about him, &s;o that I&s;|rael and Judah dwelt &s;afely, eve|ry man under his vine, and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer|&s;heba.</HI> As you may &s;ee 1 <HI>King.</HI> 4.24, 25.</P>
<P N="3">3. That we may again enjoy an <HI>equall di&s;tribution of law and Ju|&s;tice.</HI> We need not now to fear of being <HI>outlawed</HI> for refu&s;ing to <HI>per|jure our &s;elves</HI> by &s;ub&s;cribing an
<PB N="33" REF="29"><HI>Engagement,</HI> or taking an Oath <HI>of abjuration,</HI> contrary to our former Oaths of <HI>allegiance and &s;u|premacy, or &s;olemn league and covenant.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. That we may againe enjoy <HI>freedome of Trade</HI> both at home and abroad; and thereby recover our <HI>exhau&s;ted and of late mi&s;-&s;pent trea&s;ure.</HI> If any thing in the world be a meanes to revive Trade in the Nation, his Maje&s;ty's acce&s;|&s;ion to Government will be the meanes to doe it.</P>
<P N="5">5. That we may recover <HI>our wonted honour and renowne, in forreign parts and Countries.</HI> En|gland hath been as renowned a Na|tion as any in the world, both for <HI>Courage, Policy,</HI> and <HI>Pyety.</HI> But the &s;trange actings of &s;ome men in our late revolutions, and changes hath made us the contempt, &s;corn, and hatred of the whole world. It hath made mo&s;t men believe that
<PB N="34" REF="30">we have lo&s;t both our piety, po|licy, and courage too. But now by the Re&s;titution of his Maje&s;ty it will appear to all the world, that there are &s;ome men both of piety, policy, and courage left among us, &s;o that by this meanes we may recover our honour a|gaine.</P>
<P N="6">6. That we may now enjoy the liberty of our per&s;ons. We need not now to feare of being im|pri&s;oned for meer <HI>pretended crimes and imaginary plots, and de&s;igns again&s;t the State.</HI> There's hopes now that no mans per&s;on &s;hall be attached, or impri&s;oned, but in a legall way.</P>
<P N="7">7. La&s;tly. (Which is more then all) There is now hopes that we may &s;ee a through <HI>reformation of things ami&s;&s;e in our religion;</HI> and from henceforth enjoy the Go&s;|pel, Go&s;pel-wor&s;hip and ordinan|ces in their full power and purity
<PB N="35" REF="30">and &s;o (in due time) through the ble&s;&s;ing of God, &s;ee an end of all our &s;eperations and Church divi&s;i|ons.</P>
<P>And all this we may hope for upon the acce&s;&s;ion of the Kings Maje&s;ty to actuall Rule and Go|vernment, if we con&s;ider, 1. The various &amp; even miraculous provi|dences of God towards him. 2. If we con&s;ider his Maje&s;ty in re&s;pect of his per&s;onall qualifications for rule and Government. I begin with the fir&s;t.</P>
<P N="1">1. The providence of God in afflicting of him, in &s;uffering him to be <HI>Exiled out of his native Countrey and Dominions:</HI> to be per&s;ecuted, and enforced to fly from one Countrey to another, by the <HI>Tyranny of his Enemies at home; by the fal&s;hood and treachery of pretended friends abroad.</HI> The providence of God in this kind, I know, hath been made u&s;e of as an
<PB N="36" REF="31">Argument, that God had no de|light or plea&s;ure in him. But, Brethren, for my part, I cannot but look upon it as an Argument that God hath de&s;igned him to be an In&s;trument of much good to us. And I cannot but think, that Gods de&s;ign in afflicting of him, was to humble and to fit him for Rule and Government. And indeed, God u&s;ually takes this cour&s;e with &s;uch as he hath de&s;igned, to be In&s;truments of much good to his Church and People. This very cour&s;e he took with <HI>Jo&s;eph, Gen.</HI> 37.27, &amp;c. with <HI>Mo&s;es, Exod.</HI> 2.15. with <HI>David:</HI> He &s;uffered him by the Tyranny of <HI>Saul, to be dri|ven out from the Inheritance of the Lord,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 26.19. Thus God dealt with them, to fit them for Rule and Government; and we have rea&s;on to think that God took this cour&s;e with His Maje&s;ty to the &s;ame end. And, no doubt, he
<PB N="37" REF="31">is the better fitted for Rule and Government by his Sufferings. It is not imaginable, that one who hath &s;o long <HI>groaned under tyran|ny,</HI> &s;hould <HI>become a Tyrant;</HI> that one who hath &s;o long felt the &s;mart of <HI>inju&s;tice,</HI> &s;hould be <HI>unjust</HI> to others.</P>
<P N="2">2. Again, there is hopes of all this good by his acce&s;&s;ion to Rule and Government, if you con&s;ider, <HI>the wonderfull providence of God over him, in the pre&s;ervation of his per&s;on, and in delivering him out of the hands of all his Enemies.</HI> His dangers have been great, and his deliverances have been emi|nent, both at <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> and el&s;e|where. In this re&s;pect God hath wrought well-nigh as wonderfully for him, as he did for <HI>Mo&s;es, Jo|&s;eph,</HI> or <HI>David:</HI> And this, to me, is another Argument, that God hath de&s;igned him to be an In&s;tru|ment of much good to the&s;e Na|tions,
<PB N="38" REF="32">and to his Church and peo|ple in them. And that there is hope, will further appear, if you con&s;ider:</P>
<P N="3">3. The wonderful providence of God, <HI>in making way for his Re&s;titution to Rule and Govern|ment.</HI> And in this re&s;pect, <HI>the pro|vidence of God hath been wonder|ful, even to a&s;toni&s;hment.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. In plucking down <HI>Richard, by his neare&s;t Relations,</HI> and the &s;ame hands that &s;et him up; by which means they opened an effe|ectual door for their own ruine, and for His Maje&s;ties peaceable Re&s;ti|tution.</P>
<P N="2">2. In <HI>bla&s;ting and infatuating the Coun&s;els</HI> of his <HI>implacable ene|mies</HI> of every kinde; &s;o as to cau&s;e them to da&s;h one again&s;t a|nother, and to throw them&s;elves down by their own hands.</P>
<P N="3">3. In &s;tirring up the Spirit of the <HI>de&s;ervedly Renowned General
<PB N="39" REF="32">MONCK, with his faithfull Army,</HI> to di&s;own, and declare again&s;t the <HI>Councel of Turki&s;h-Chri&s;tian-Jani|&s;aries,</HI> and their <HI>Committee of Safety.</HI> Both which, by the &s;pe|cial providence of God, he quickly &s;cattered as du&s;t before the wind. Fir&s;t by &s;itting &s;till, and after|wards by a peaceable and prudent march to <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. In rai&s;ing a <HI>&s;pirit of courage in the generality of the people,</HI> throughout this Nation, to <HI>declare for the admi&s;&s;ion of the &s;ecluded Members,</HI> and the calling of a <HI>free Parliament,</HI> both which, with the ble&s;&s;ing of God upon the <HI>General's</HI> prudent management of affairs, we have &s;een effected.</P>
<P N="5">5. In putting it into the hearts of this pre&s;ent Parliament, (acor|ding to their duty and allegiance) to re&s;tore his &s;acred <HI>Maje&s;ty;</HI> &amp; in turning about the hearts of all the Commanders, both by &s;ea and land
<PB N="40" REF="33">to receive his mo&s;t Royal Maje&s;ty againe into his Dominions. In all which the wonderfull power and providence of God hath <HI>&s;ignally apeared.</HI> So that we may &s;ay of our <HI>Sovereigne's Re&s;titution</HI> what <HI>David</HI> &s;aid of our <HI>Saviors Exal|tation. P&s;al.</HI> 118.22, 23. <HI>The &s;tone which the Builders refu&s;ed is become the head &s;tone of the corner; This is the Lord's doing, and it is mar|velous in our eyes.</HI> And upon this ground we have rea&s;on to hope for much approaching good to the&s;e Nations by the acce&s;&s;ion of his mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty to the exerci&s;e of Rule and Government.</P>
<P N="2">2. If you con&s;ider him in him|&s;elf (I mean his mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty) without the lea&s;t re&s;pect to the&s;e &s;ignall and (in a manner) miraculous providences of God to|wards him; you &s;hall find him in all re&s;pects a very hopeful Prince, every way as hopefull as any that
<PB N="41" REF="33">hath hitherto &s;wayed the imperi|all Scepter of the&s;e Dominions. And this you &s;hall finde evidently to appeare, if you plea&s;e to lay a|&s;ide all prejudice, and look upon him with a judicious and impartial eye; indeed if you look upon him under that &s;hape and repre&s;entati|on wherein our <HI>late &V;&s;urpers</HI> have from time to time expo&s;ed him to publick view, you cannot but thinke him the unfitte&s;t per&s;on in the world to wear the Imperial Crowne of the&s;e Realmes. But I hope you have attained to more grace and wi&s;dom than to believe what his per&s;ecuting enemies, by Je&s;uitical example <HI>and in&s;pirati|on, have reported of him,</HI> who have done by him as the Papi&s;ts of old did by <HI>John Hu&s;&s;e.</HI> They have (as it were) cloathed him in <HI>a coat of painted Devils:</HI> nay, have repre&s;ented him in the &s;hape of <HI>an incarnate Devil,</HI> thereby to
<PB N="42" REF="34">make him odious to his &s;ubjects, &amp; (if it could have been) to have rendred his re&s;titution to his ju&s;t rights impo&s;&s;ible. But ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord who hath cur&s;ed this de|vili&s;h policy! and hath re&s;tored him to his Right. And now that you may know him to be a hopefull Prince, I &s;hall at pre&s;ent give you a true, but &s;hort, repre|&s;entation of him. And this I &s;hall doe not to curry favour, but to &s;atisfie your doubts, and quiet your feares concerning his Maje|&s;ty, who&s;e excellent endowments I am fully per&s;waded, doe far tran&s;cend what my tongue or pen can expre&s;s of him. So that when I have &s;aid all, I would have you to conceive him to be far more eminent than I can repre&s;ent him unto you. However, for your &s;a|tisfaction, give me leave (as in a gla&s;&s;e) to give you as it were a dark &amp; &s;hady re&s;emblance of him.
<PB N="43" REF="34">And herein I &s;hall &s;peak as in the pre&s;ence of God and therefore ut|ter nothing, but what I am fully per&s;waded is mo&s;t true and reall. But to come to the bu&s;ine&s;s, if you view him well with an unprejudi|ced eye, you &s;hall finde him to be,</P>
<P N="1">1. A <HI>Prince mo&s;t eminently &s;tout and valiant;</HI> of the truth of this he gave an undeniable proof at <HI>Wor|ce&s;ter,</HI> his enemies them&s;elvs being Judges. His mo&s;t capitall enemy <HI>Oliver,</HI> then General again&s;t him, at a publick fe&s;tival entertainment in <HI>London</HI> upon the occa&s;ion of his victory over his Maje&s;ties Ar|my, there gave this te&s;timony of him. Which together with the un|conquerablene&s;s of his &s;pirit under all his <HI>(&s;ufficiently great)</HI> &s;uffe|rings, is an evident demon&s;tra|tion of the more than ordinary &s;toutne&s;s of his &s;pirit, acording to that of <HI>Solomon. Pro.</HI> 18.14. <HI>The &s;pirit of a man will &s;u&s;tain his
<PB N="44" REF="35">infirmity.</HI> And (indeed) had not his &s;pirit been like him&s;elf, great, it had been impo&s;&s;ible for him to have borne up under afflictions of &s;o great a weight. And this is the fir&s;t qualification or princely ver|tue that you may finde him en|dowed with. And this is &s;o nece&s;|&s;ary a qualification for a Prince, that without it he can neither op|po&s;e his Enemies, protect his Sub|jects, or execute impartial ju&s;tice upon Offenders.</P>
<P N="2">2. If you view him with an un|prejudiced eye, you &s;hall finde him to be a very <HI>wi&s;e and prudent Prince:</HI> a Prince, who is neither a <HI>Childe in age,</HI> nor in <HI>under&s;tand|ing.</HI> He is not like <HI>Rehoboam,</HI> who at 40 years of age was but a very Baby, both in re&s;pect of wi&s;dom and experience, as plainly appea|red by his rejecting the wi&s;e and prudent Coun&s;els of his Fathers old and experienced Councellors;
<PB N="45" REF="35">and by imbracing the violent and heady advice of his own raw and (as to State-affairs) unexperien|ced Play-mates and Companions: By which his Childi&s;h folly and indi&s;cretion (through the ju&s;t judgement of God upon him) he occa&s;ioned the Revolt of the ten Tribes from him, as you may &s;ee, 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 12.8, 13, 14, 15, 16, <HI>&amp;c. But he for&s;ook the coun&s;el of the old men, which they had given him: and con&s;ulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which &s;tood before him. &mdash; And the King an&s;wered them roughly, and &s;pake to them after the coun&s;el of the yong men, &s;aying, my Father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke, &amp;c. So when all I&s;rael &s;aw, that the King harkened not unto them, the People an&s;wered the King, &s;aying, What portion have we in David? &amp;c.</HI> and in re|&s;pect of this his imprudence he was
<PB N="46" REF="36">&s;aid to be <HI>young and tender-hear|ted,</HI> 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 13.7. although he had at that time compleated the 41. year of his age, as appears in 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 12.13. &mdash; <HI>for Rehoboam was</HI> 41 <HI>years old when he began to reign.</HI> But, ble&s;&s;ed be God, our Prince may more fitly be compar'd unto <HI>Solomon,</HI> who, though much younger in years than <HI>Rehoboam,</HI> is yet many years elder in wi&s;dom and experience; which Princely vertue, together with his right to the&s;e Dominions, he hath, through the grace and mercy of God, de|rived from his Grandfather <HI>James,</HI> the fir&s;t of Great <HI>Brittain,</HI> the <HI>So|lomon</HI> of his Age; and from his late Maje&s;ty, his no le&s;&s;e wi&s;e and prudent Father. Now, that he is a Prince of eminent wi&s;dom and prudence, may as ea&s;ily be demon|&s;trated, as that there is light and heat in the body of the Sun. And indeed it is evident, beyond all doubt.</P>
<PB N="47" REF="36">
<P N="1">1. By his choo&s;ing rather to get acce&s;&s;ion to his Throne by the law|ful, dutiful, and loyal endeavors of his mo&s;t pious and prudent Sub|jects, than by the forcible a&s;&s;i&s;t|ance of Forreigners and Strangers. It may be, &s;ome may think, this latter had been his be&s;t and wi&s;e&s;t cour&s;e: Seeing, by the aid of &s;uch he might have made him&s;elf more great and ab&s;olute, than he can expect to do, by his coming in upon the loyal and affectionate endeavours of his own Subjects. But, that &s;uch may &s;ee their own imprudence, I would have them to con&s;ider,</P>
<P N="1">1. That his attempting to come in by &s;uch a means as this, would have been very hazardous and uncertain, and &s;o by con&s;equence, imprudent. Had &s;trangers endea|voured his Re&s;titution by force of Arms, it is probable that many (if not the mo&s;t of tho&s;e who have
<PB N="48" REF="37">been active to bring him in, would have been meerly pa&s;&s;ive in it, if not active to keep him out. Be|&s;ides, his &s;ettlement, by this means, would not have been &s;o &s;ure and la&s;ting as now: a Princes greate&s;t &s;ecurity lying in the affections of his Subjects. That Prince who gains the hearts of his Subjects pro|cures him&s;elf a firmer &s;ettlement by far, than he doth who only conquers their bodies by the force and violence of &s;trangers, and keeps them in &s;ubjection only by armed Guards and Soldiers.</P>
<P N="2">2. That his coming in by this means would (at lea&s;t) have endan|gered the utter de&s;truction, if not the irrecoverable lo&s;s of his Domi|nions. 'Tis unque&s;tionable, that he could not have conquer'd with|out the hazard of the total deva&s;ta|tion of the 3 Kingdoms. Be&s;ides, he might have been in danger of be|ing dethroned, by tho&s;e Foreigners
<PB N="49" REF="37">them&s;elves, when they once con|quered his own Subjects. We are not without in&s;tances of the like practi&s;es of Strangers in former Ages, who (when they have con|quered their enemies) to &s;et up them&s;elves, did not &s;tick to depo&s;e tho&s;e very Princes that called them in to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance. And indeed he could expect no other from his Popi&s;h Allies, without making &s;hipwrack of that Faith whereof he is the Defender, and reconci|ling him&s;elf to the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> the Mother of Harlots: it being a received Maxim and Principle a|mong&s;t Papi&s;ts, That <HI>Faith is not to be ob&s;erved and kept with Here|ticks.</HI> Be&s;ides, if (as it might have done) the Conque&s;t had faln to the &s;ide of his Oppo&s;ers; his Re|&s;titution would have proved (if not impo&s;&s;ible, yet) infinitely more difficult, than it hath now appear|ed to be.</P>
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<P N="3">3. That a Princes greatne&s;s and happine&s;s, doth not &s;o much con|&s;i&s;t in the ab&s;olutenes of his power, as in the affections of his Subjects, and in their cheerful and willing &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to his Per&s;on and Au|thority. Now though foreign force may over-awe, yet it cannot gain the hearts of Subjects, though it may force them to &s;ubmit to the power of their Prince, it will never cau&s;e them cheerfully to obey their Prince. And therefore this our Prince, in choo&s;ing to be re&s;tored by his Subjects, rather than by forreign force, hath cho&s;en the be&s;t way of acce&s;&s;ion to his Throne, and thereby &s;hewed him&s;elf a wi&s;e and prudent Prince.</P>
<P N="2">2. He hath di&s;covered his emi|nent wi&s;dome and prudence, by his choo&s;ing the Recovery of his Right by a gracious compo&s;ure of things with his truly loyal and faithful Subjects, who in the late unhappy differences adhered both
<PB N="51" REF="38">to King and Parliament, rather than to attempt the regaining of it by the forcible help and aid of &s;uch as &s;tile them&s;elves <HI>The Royal party.</HI> Doubtle&s;s, he wanted not &s;ome, who (like <HI>Rehoboams</HI> young and heady Councellors) gave him ad|vice to take this cour&s;e. And it mu&s;t be confe&s;s'd that &s;ome at|tempts have been made to this end: but having found by con|&s;tant experience, that all endea|vors this way have proved abor|tive and un&s;ucce&s;sfull, by rea&s;on of the indi&s;cretion of &s;ome, and the treachery of others; he hath at la&s;t rejected all Councels tend|ing to force and violence, and wi&s;ely re&s;olved upon a contrary cour&s;e. And this in a juncture of time, when he had the greate&s;t hopes of a&s;&s;i&s;tance, not only from Allies and Friends abroad, but al&s;o from his mo&s;t loyal and duti|ful Subjects at home; wherein he
<PB N="52" REF="39">hath exactly troden in the &s;teps of his truly <HI>Heroick and prudent Grandfather, Henry the</HI> 4. <HI>King of France and Navarre;</HI> who, after he had fought many Battels, and obtained as many &s;ignal Victories, cho&s;e to obtain the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his <HI>Crown of France</HI> by treaty and capitulation, rather than to en|deavour the recovery of it by making u&s;e of further force and violence. And in this re&s;pect al&s;o he hath &s;hewed him&s;elf to be eve|ry way as wi&s;e, as <HI>Rehoboam,</HI> by his contrary practice, di&s;covered him&s;elf to be weak and fooli&s;h.</P>
<P N="3">3. By ca&s;ting him&s;elf upon his Parliament in order to his own and the &s;ettlement of his Dominions. By which Act he hath in a manner told them that he is willing to be, or doe, what his be&s;t and wi&s;e&s;t Subjects &s;hall thinke be&s;t and mo&s;t honorable for him, in order to the &s;ettlement of his Dominions in &s;afe|ty,
<PB N="53" REF="39">peace &amp; honor; and by this al&s;o he hath &s;hewed him&s;elfe a truely wi&s;e and prudent Prince; for by this means he hath, and will, en|gage the hearts of his con&s;cien|tious Subjects to <HI>become his &s;er|vants for ever.</HI> As <HI>Rehoboam</HI> would certainely have done, had he put in execution the Coun|&s;ell of the old experienced men. 1 <HI>Kings.</HI> 12.7. Con&s;tant experi|ence &s;heweth us that Princes gaine more by complying than they do by conte&s;ting with their Subjects. That by gratifying them in &s;mal|ler, they win upon them in greater matters: this <HI>Solomons</HI> old expe|rienced Coun&s;ellors did very well under&s;tand, and therefore advi&s;ed <HI>Rehoboam</HI> to comply with his Sub|jects and to abate &s;omething of the rigour of his fathers Government. And this al&s;o was well under&s;tood by <HI>Queen Elizabeth,</HI> the wonder both of her age and &s;ex for <HI>ma&s;cu|line
<PB N="54" REF="40">wi&s;dome and valour</HI> who (by gratifying her Subjects ju&s;t de|mands in Parliament) became, in a manner the &s;ole and ab&s;olute Mi|&s;tris both of her Subjects hearts, hands, and pur&s;es. And this was it which made her &s;o formidable to her Enemies, and &s;o great a comfort and &s;upport to her Allies and freinds. Let no man therefore thinke our Prince imprudent in ca&s;ting him&s;elfe upon his <HI>Parli|ament</HI> for termes of &s;ettlement: it being the mo&s;t prudential cour&s;e in the world to make him both a great and happy Prince.</P>
<P N="4">4. He hath &s;hewed him&s;elfe a wi&s;e and prudent Prince, in re&s;olving upon the reformation, and &s;ettlement of the Church by con&s;ent of Parliament, according to the advice of a &s;elect A&s;&s;embly of pious and learned Divines. Which indeed is the mo&s;t proper and mo&s;t prudentiall meanes in the
<PB N="55" REF="40">world, to di&s;cover and reforme tho&s;e damnable Here&s;ies, and to make up tho&s;e Church-de&s;troying divi&s;ions that are crept in among&s;t us. Who are more likely to di&s;co|ver the minde of God, and to finde out wayes and meanes of re|conciling differences and divi&s;ions among&s;t Brethren, than godly and learned Divines, who&s;e whole work and bu&s;ine&s;s it is to &s;tudy the minde and will of God? Be|&s;ides, this is that means that God him&s;elf hath appointed for the cu|ring of the&s;e evils, as <HI>Acts</HI> 15. doth appear, where we finde the Apo|&s;tles and Elders did a&s;&s;emble them|&s;elves in a Synod to this very end. Now by all this it appears, that our Prince is a wi&s;e and prudent, and &s;o by con&s;equence, a hopeful Prince.</P>
<P N="5">5. If your view him well with an impartial eye, you &s;hal finde him to be an exceeding <HI>Patient and long-fuffering Prince;</HI> a vertue &s;o
<PB N="56" REF="41">nece&s;&s;ary, that without it a Prince cannot mannage the affairs of his Kingdome. And in this Princely vertue al&s;o he far out&s;hines (if not all, yet) the mo&s;t of his Predece&s;|&s;ors, his mo&s;t Royal Father only excepted. And no wonder, &s;ee|ing he hath been from his <HI>Youth accu&s;tomed to the yoke,</HI> and inured to affliction. Now his eminency in this Princely vertue doth evident|ly appear,</P>
<P N="1">1. In bearing his great and ex|traordinary afflictions and the per|&s;ecutions of his enemies, and un|kindne&s;&s;es of his pretended friends in foreign parts. 1. Without mur|murring. 2. Without fainting. In re&s;pect of murmuring, (for any thing I have heard) he was like <HI>David, dumh, and opened not his mouth,</HI> becau&s;e he knew his &s;uffe|ring <HI>was the Lords doing, P&s;al.</HI> 39.9. And he was &s;o far from fainting under them, that he rather gathered
<PB N="57" REF="41">&s;trength and courage, by being accu&s;tomed to the bearing of them.</P>
<P N="2">2. This princely vertue appears eminently in him, by his waiting upon God in his greate&s;t &s;traits, with hope and confidence of his goodne&s;s and mercy, to bring a|bout his Re&s;titution to Rule and Government in his own way and time. In which re&s;pect it &s;eems he had taken up the <HI>Churches re&s;oluti|on. Mic.</HI> 7.9, 10. <HI>I will beare the indignation of the Lord, be|cau&s;e I have &s;inned again&s;t him, un|till he plead my cau&s;e and execute judgement for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I &s;hall be|hold his righteou&s;ne&s;s.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. This princely vertue &s;hines forth apparently in him, by his de|clining the u&s;e of unlawful means, and by his re&s;olution (in a way of dependence upon God) to per&s;i&s;t in the u&s;e of all lawfull meanes to
<PB N="58" REF="42">recover his right. Had he been impatient he would have ca&s;t off the u&s;e of all meanes like that im|pious and impatient King we read of, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 6.33. <HI>Behold, this evil is of the Lord, what &s;hould I wait for the Lord any longer?</HI> Or el&s;e he would have turn'd a&s;ide to the u&s;e of &s;inful &amp; unlawful means, had he not been a patient Prince, he would have been in danger of changing his re|ligion in hopes to gain his earthly Crowns, though by &s;o doing he had lo&s;t an Eternal Crown.</P>
<P N="4">4. That he is a long &s;uffering Prince, appeareth al&s;o,</P>
<P N="1">1. In that he hath not been pro|voked and moved to Acts of re|venge, by all tho&s;e wrongs and in|juries that have been done him. If reports be true, when &s;ome of tho&s;e. Engli&s;h Souldiers that were in direct oppo&s;ition again&s;t him, were taken by the <HI>Spaniard,</HI> and put into his hand, to be di&s;po&s;ed
<PB N="59" REF="42">of as he thought good; in&s;tead of revenging him&s;elfe upon them, he fed and cloathed them.</P>
<P N="2">2. In that he &s;till retaines his princely and paternall affections to his Subjects, notwith&s;tanding all the provocations wherewith he hath been provoked.</P>
<P N="4">4. If againe you look upon him with an unprejudiced eye, you &s;hall finde him to be a <HI>very &s;ober and moderate Prince.</HI> And that, 1. In <HI>his pa&s;&s;ions.</HI> 2. In <HI>his affecti|ons.</HI> The moderation of his pa&s;&s;i|ons appears by his endeavors to al|lay and moderate the pa&s;&s;ions of &s;ome, who &s;tile them&s;elves the <HI>King's (or Royal) party.</HI> The mo|deration of his affections appears; by ca&s;ting him&s;elf upon the Parli|ament, without making any the lea&s;t demand of having his own power or greatne&s;&s;e inlarged or augmented.</P>
<P N="5">5. If you look upon him with an
<PB N="60" REF="43">impartial eye, you &s;hall finde him to be a &s;elf-denying Prince, as e|vidently appears, by his referring the &s;ettlement of things to the Par|liament. 2. By his re&s;olution to be advi&s;ed by the Parliament in all things which doe concerne both Church and Sate Affaires. 3. By his <HI>willingne&s;s to part with his Lands and Revenues</HI> (if the Par|liament &s;hall thinke fit) in order to the &s;ettlement <HI>of the&s;e Nations in peace and tranquility.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. If you look upon him with an impartial eye, you &s;hall finde him to be a <HI>Gracious, mercifull, and compa&s;&s;ionate Prince,</HI> which princely vertues do eminently ap|pear in him,</P>
<P N="1">1. By his readine&s;&s;e to pardon his wor&s;t of Enemies, who are not re&s;olved to per&s;i&s;t in their enmity again&s;t him, excepting &s;uch as the Parliament &s;hall think fit to exempt from pardon. In which
<PB N="61" REF="43">re&s;pect he hath &s;hewed him&s;elf to be a follower of <HI>David,</HI> (that man who was one <HI>after Gods own heart</HI>) who granted an act of Grace to <HI>Shimei,</HI> who cur&s;ed, and threw &s;tones at him, when he fled from <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> for fear of <HI>Ab&s;alom,</HI> as you may &s;ee by comparing 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 16.5, 6, 7, 8. with 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 19.18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23.</P>
<P N="2">2. By declaring his readine&s;&s;e to grant a General pardon to all parties among&s;t us; as well know|ing, that the be&s;t of us (yea, that &s;uch as would be thought his be&s;t friends) do, in &s;ome re&s;pect or o|ther, &s;tand in need of it.</P>
<P N="3">3. By his profe&s;&s;ed readine&s;&s;e to allow a liberty to men of ten|der con&s;ciences, to &s;uch as are truly &s;o.</P>
<P N="4">4. By his declared Re&s;olution, to extend his princely love and favour to all his de&s;erving Sub|jects, of what party &s;oever, with|out
<PB N="62" REF="44">putting the lea&s;t di&s;tinction or difference between them.</P>
<P N="7">7. And la&s;tly, if you look upon him with an unprejudiced eye, you &s;hall finde him probably to be a <HI>truly pious and religious Prince;</HI> I &s;ay; probably to be &s;o, and this is the greate&s;t a&s;&s;urance that we can have of any mans pie|ty and religior, in the world, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 5.12. <HI>By Silvanus a faithfull Bro|ther (as I &s;uppo&s;e.)</HI> Now that he is &s;o, is very probable.</P>
<P N="1">1. By his adhering to the true Prote&s;tant Religion, notwith&s;tan|ding, 1. The injurious dealing of profe&s;&s;ed Prote&s;tants, both with his Royal Father and him&s;elfe. 2. The many kindne&s;&s;es of Papi&s;ts heaped upon him, together with their &s;trong temptations to cor|rupt and &s;educe him. Beloved, the&s;e things con&s;idered, we may be con&s;ident of his piety upon the account of his adhering to the Pro|te&s;tant
<PB N="63" REF="44">Religion; for &s;ome who do not only profe&s;s them&s;elves to be Prote&s;tants, but to be the mo&s;t refined and reformed Pro|te&s;tants in the world, have, by tho&s;e not to be parallel'd inju|ries they have done him, given him the ju&s;te&s;t occa&s;ion that could be given, to renounce the Prote|&s;tant Religion: As namely,</P>
<P N="1">1. By their <HI>impudent and ab|horred murther</HI> of his Father, under a pretence of Law and Ju&s;tice; a thing never before done by any profe&s;&s;ing them&s;elves Prote&s;tants.</P>
<P N="2">2. Their bani&s;hing him out of his own Dominions into <HI>Holland,</HI> from thence into <HI>France,</HI> and then into <HI>Flanders,</HI> among&s;t the mo&s;t rigid and zealous &s;ort of <HI>Papists:</HI> by which acts they did, as it were, bid him to go, and to be a <HI>Papist.</HI> As <HI>David</HI> complained that <HI>Saul</HI> did in effect, bid him to <HI>go and &s;erve other gods,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 26.19.</P>
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<P N="2">2. As the injuries done him by &s;educed Prote&s;tants have been ma|ny, which might have cau&s;ed him to di&s;ta&s;t the Prote&s;tant Religion; &s;o the kindne&s;&s;es heaped upon him by Papi&s;ts, have been great. And it is not to be doubted but they have made u&s;e of both, as induce|ments to per&s;wade him to for&s;ake the prote&s;tant and to embrace the Popi&s;h Religion. You may be &s;ure they have &s;ufficiently aggravated the mi&s;cariages of tho&s;e among us who murthered his mo&s;t Royall father, &amp;c. charging that, and all other injuries done him, upon the Parliament and their whole Partie (though the mo&s;t of them did de|te&s;t it from their hearts, endeavo|ring to prevent it, and do bewail it to this day) nay, they have not been wanting to &s;ugge&s;t unto him, that the principles of Prote&s;tants do allow and encourage Subjects to murther and depo&s;e their King.
<PB N="65" REF="45">This and much more, doubtle&s;&s;e, they have &s;ugge&s;ted to him, that (if po&s;&s;ible) they might work in him an abhorrency both of Pro|te&s;tants and of the prote&s;tant Re|ligion. Whil&s;t, no doubt, on the other hand, they have, upon all oc|ca&s;ions, repre&s;ented to him the Pa|pi&s;ts in his Dominions under the notion of his mo&s;t Loyal Subjects, not &s;ticking to tell him how much they have &s;uffered (e&s;pecially in <HI>Ireland</HI>) for their Loyaltie to his late Maje&s;ty, (though the world knows they were in open rebellion again&s;t him before the war brake forth in <HI>England</HI>) that they might at once gaine his affections both to his popi&s;h Subjects, and their Religion. And truely the&s;e things con&s;idered, together with his a|boad among Papi&s;ts and his [then] dependence upon them for &s;upply of per&s;onal wants, and their large promi&s;es of re&s;toring him to his
<PB N="66" REF="46">ju&s;t Rights and Authority. It is even a miracle that the temptation had not prevailed upon him: for my own part, I que&s;tion whether the be&s;t of us would have held con&s;tant to our Religion, had we been under the like temptation. Nay, when I con&s;ider, upon how &s;light temptations (&s;eemingly) the be&s;t among&s;t us have changed both their principles and practice in Re|ligion; I even conclude, that if any of us had been in his Maje&s;ty's condition, and if his temptations had been ours, we &s;hould not have &s;tood &s;o firm and un&s;haken as he hath done. Now, Brethren, it is either pollicy or piety that hath pre&s;erved and kept him. But,</P>
<P N="1">1. It cannot be imagined, that he hath been pre&s;erved meerly by policy. Nay, (in appearance) it had been his be&s;t policy to have changed his Religion; &s;eeing, by
<PB N="67" REF="46">&s;o doing he would certainly have obtained all po&s;&s;ible a&s;&s;i&s;tance, both from <HI>Popi&s;h Princes</HI> abroad, and from his <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Subjects at home: &s;o that I conclude, it is not pollicy that hath pre&s;erved him; and therefore,</P>
<P N="2">2. It mu&s;t be piety and grace in the heart, which hath inabled him (in the mid&s;t of the&s;e temptations) to adhere unto the Prote&s;tant Re|ligion, both in profe&s;&s;ion and pra|ctice; and that even in tho&s;e Countries where the Prote&s;tant Religion is not allowed. And this is the fir&s;t ground upon which I conclude him to be a <HI>pious Prince.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. That he is a <HI>pious Prince</HI> is further probable, by his de&s;ire (whil&s;t he was in <HI>Scotland</HI>) to be delt plainly with, in re&s;pect of his own per&s;onal &s;ins, and the &s;ins of his Family, which he ap|prehended were the cau&s;e the
<PB N="68" REF="47">hand of God was &s;o heavy upon him, that he might be humbled for them. In which re&s;pect he &s;ee|med to imitate <HI>Job,</HI> that great example and pattern of patience, who, in his affliction, begg'd of God, that he <HI>would make him to know his tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion and his &s;in, Job</HI> 13.23.</P>
<P N="3">3. That he is probably a <HI>pious Prince,</HI> is further evident, by his meek and humble behaviour to|wards Mr. <HI>Douglas</HI> (both in the time of hearing and after) who, in his Coronation-Sermon, dealt both boldly and plainly with him, in laying open his own, and the &s;ins of his Family. Though this Reverend man (<HI>Nathan</HI>-like, as appears by his Sermon &s;ince prin|ted) made u&s;e of his mini&s;terial Authority to reprove him; he &s;hewed not the lea&s;t di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t him, either in the time of preaching, or after; but by his
<PB N="69" REF="47">behavior &s;eemed to &s;ay, as <HI>David</HI> did, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 141.5. <HI>Let the Righte|ous &s;mite me, it &s;hall be a kindne&s;s, &amp;c.</HI> And by this al&s;o he hath ma|nife&s;ted him&s;elf to be both a <HI>pru|dent</HI> and a <HI>pious Prince.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. 'T is further probable that he is a <HI>pious Prince,</HI> by his profe&s;&s;ed dete&s;tation and abhorrency of profainne&s;s and impiety; his loa|thing of tho&s;e things, he doth up|on all occa&s;ions di&s;cover, by re|proving men for drunkenne&s;s, &s;wearing, and all &s;uch like pro|phane and impious practices. And now, Brethren, having &s;poken him a <HI>pious Prince,</HI> I have expre&s;|&s;ed the be&s;t, the <HI>all</HI> that can be &s;aid, to make it manife&s;t to you, that he is a hopefull Prince, a Prince, by who&s;e acce&s;&s;ion to the Throne, we may well hope for much approaching good both to our Church and State.</P>
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<P>And therefore let us this day, yea, all our dayes, rejoice with an exceeding great rejoycing. But here, I be&s;eech you, let it not this day, or at any other time, expre&s;s our joy for his Re&s;titution to <HI>Rule and Government</HI> in any way di&s;|plea&s;ing to God, or di&s;honorable to His mo&s;t &s;acred Maje&s;ty. I be|&s;eech you, let not any of us dare to do it, &s;o as to debauch our &s;elves by drinking his health, ei|ther upon our knees or otherwi&s;e. This practice, though &s;o much u&s;ed among&s;t us, doth better be|fit heathens, than profe&s;s'd Chri|&s;tians. Nay, it is a bruiti&s;h practice, again&s;t which even <HI>Heathens</HI> them|&s;elves have thought fit <HI>to enact and make Decrees,</HI> as you may &s;ee, <HI>E&s;ther</HI> 1.8. <HI>And the drinking was according to the Law, none did compel, &amp;c.</HI> Now in the cu&s;tome of drinking Healths, it is impo&s;ed upon every man, that he drink
<PB N="71" REF="48">the &s;ame quantity and mea&s;ure that others do. Be&s;ides, to be upon our knees drinking, is a Ce|remony fitter to be ob&s;erved in an act of wor&s;hip to <HI>Bacchus,</HI> than in our rejoycing at the Proclamation of a Prince &s;o truly pious and Chri&s;tian. So that it is not only di&s;plea&s;ing to God, but di&s;hono|rable to his Maje&s;ty: who there|fore cannot but di&s;like the debau|chery of tho&s;e who allow them|&s;elves in the practice of it; &s;eeing by &s;o doing they repre&s;ent him to the world in the &s;hape of a <HI>&s;en&s;ual Bacchus,</HI> and not (as indeed he is) a truly noble and religious Prince, who eats in due &s;ea&s;on for &s;trength and not for drunkenne&s;s. Let us then for ever bani&s;h this <HI>Baccha|nalian cu&s;tom</HI> from this and all other &s;uch like days of Solemnity, and let us leave it to tho&s;e <HI>who&s;e King is a child, and who&s;e Princes eat in the morning,</HI> and drown
<PB N="72" REF="49">them&s;elves in &s;en&s;ual delights and plea&s;ures, as the Idolatrous and u&s;urping Princes of <HI>Samaria</HI> did, as you may &s;ee <HI>Amos</HI> 6.1, 3, 4, 5, 6. Let us, I &s;ay, bani&s;h this wretched cu&s;tome whereby the <HI>God of glory hath been &s;o highly provoked,</HI> and thou&s;ands of precious &s;ouls have been eternally damned. And let us betake our &s;elves to &s;uch a way of rejoycing as may be plea&s;ing to God, and grateful to his Maje&s;ty. And,</P>
<P N="1">1. Let us expre&s;s our joy in his Maje&s;ty's Re&s;titution to his ju&s;t rights both this day and all the days of our lives, by our putting up <HI>&s;incere, hearty, and importu|nate Prayers to God for him.</HI> In|&s;tead of being upon our <HI>knees drinking healths to him,</HI> let us often <HI>pro&s;trate</HI> our &s;elves before <HI>the Throne of Grace</HI> to pour out our &s;elves to God for him. Thus the people here in my Text expre&s;t
<PB N="73" REF="49">their joy at King <HI>Solomons</HI> Procla|mation and Inauguration. They cryed, <HI>God &s;ave the King,</HI> and doubtle&s;s they did it not for the pre&s;ent onely, but every day of their lives. And indeed this is a duty that we are commanded to performe on the behalfe of &s;uch as are lawfull Rulers, whether they be Kings or others. And &s;o to do, the Apo&s;tle tels you, is <HI>good and acceptable in the &s;ight of Godour Sa|viour,</HI> 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.1, 2, 3. Expre&s;s we then our joy in his Maje&s;ty's Re|&s;titution, by be&s;eeching the God of life, health and Grace, 1. To give and to be&s;tow upon him both health of body and length of days: &s;ay we to God in his behalf, <HI>let the King live and let his &s;oul be bound up in the bundle of life with thee.</HI> 2. That God would pour down upon him from day to day a greater portion of that Princely and governing &s;pirit wherewith he
<PB N="74" REF="50">hath already &s;o plentifully indu|ed him. 3. That he would cau&s;e his <HI>Crowne to flouri&s;h upon his head,</HI> maugre all that malice and hatred wherewith <HI>Satan</HI> hath fil|led his enemies hearts. 4. That he would give our <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> both <HI>Church and State,</HI> peace and plenty, truth and pro&s;perity, all his dayes. 5. That he would give him grace more and more to improve his au|thority for his glory and his Chur|ches good: that &s;o when he lay|eth down, together with his life, this <HI>tran&s;itory and earthly Crown,</HI> he may obtaine that heavenly and <HI>immortall Crown, which God hath laid up, and will be&s;tow upon all tho&s;e who love the Lord Je&s;us, and long for his appearing.</HI> 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.8.</P>
<P N="2">2. Let us expre&s;s our joy in his Maje&s;ty's Re&s;titution, &amp;c. By all outward expre&s;&s;ions of it that are lawfull and convenient. <HI>Let us
<PB N="75" REF="50">eat the fat and drinke the &s;weet.</HI> Let the Trumpets &s;ound, the Bels ring, the Guns roare, the Drums rattle, The Bonfires flame, the people &s;hout, &s;o as if po&s;&s;ible to make <HI>the very earth to rend</HI> with the very loud noi&s;es of their &s;houts and joyful acclamations: thus the text tels us the people here expre&s;&s;ed their joy at <HI>Solo|mons</HI> Praclamation to be King.</P>
<P N="3">3. Let us expre&s;&s;e our joy in his Maje&s;ty's Re&s;titution, &amp;c. By yeilding all cheerfulobedience and &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to his Maje&s;ty's per&s;on and ju&s;t Authority all our dayes. And this let us re&s;olve to doe though it be improved by his &s;a|cred Maje&s;ty (as I doubt not but it will) for the <HI>enacting of lawes</HI> to curb and re&s;traine us in the practi&s;e of Sin, and in the &s;ati&s;|faction of our bruti&s;h and &s;en&s;uall lu&s;ts and plea&s;ures. Let us not obey his Authority onely whil&s;t he
<PB N="76" REF="51">commands tho&s;e things that &s;uite with our intere&s;ts, lu&s;ts and hu|mors: but al&s;o when he commands that which is good, though it be cro&s;s and contrary to our own wils and intere&s;ts. So is the will of God that we &s;hould do, 13. <HI>Rom.</HI> 1, 2, 3, 4. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.13, 14. If we rejoyce at his Maje&s;ty's Pro|clamation this day, and di&s;obey his Authority another day, we &s;hall but evidence our &s;elves to be <HI>Hypocrites,</HI> and make our &s;elves the more obnoxious to his wrath and ju&s;tice.</P>
<P N="4">4. Let us expre&s;s our joy in His Maje&s;ty's Re&s;titution, &amp;c. By &s;topping our eares for ever again&s;t the bewitching temptati|ons of &s;uch as are given to change. Let the &s;mart of our &s;ufferings under pa&s;t changes, cau&s;e us to dread the lea&s;t thought of making our &s;elves happy by tearing to pie|ces our antient and be&s;t forme of
<PB N="77" REF="51">Government, and attempting to erect a new. Let us no more lend an eare to tho&s;e <HI>Mon&s;ters of Trea|&s;on and Tyranny,</HI> who had late|ly cheated us into &s;lavery, un|der a pretence of liberty, and who had brought us into bondage unto their owne wills and lu&s;ts, by promi&s;ing to &s;et us at liberty and make us free. Let the mon|&s;trous opinions and horible confu|&s;ions we have lately &s;uffered un|der them, cau&s;e us to tremble at the mention of a <HI>Common-wealth Government,</HI> that hath begotten them. And now that we have re|covered our <HI>Pilot,</HI> let us re&s;olve never to ca&s;t (or &s;uffer him to be ca&s;t) overboard againe, le&s;t we &s;uffer &s;hip&s;hwrack for want of him. Let us re&s;olve, according to the command of God, <HI>Pro.</HI> 24.21, 22. <HI>To feare God and the King, and not to meddle with tho&s;e that are given to change.</HI></P>
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<P N="5">5. Let us expre&s;s our joy, &amp;c. By ble&s;&s;ing and prai&s;ing that God, who by his power and providence hath &s;o wonderfully brought it about for us. Certainely it hath not been brought about by hu|mane policy, might, or power, but by the &s;pirit and finger of God. <HI>Zech.</HI> 4.6. 'Tis true, In|ments have been u&s;ed, and as In|&s;truments 'tis fit they &s;hould be ho|nored, and we &s;hould ble&s;&s;e God for them. But who was it that rai&s;ed up tho&s;e in&s;truments? was it not God? who (<HI>as the Apo&s;tle tells us,</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.27, 28, 29.) <HI>hath cho&s;en the fooli&s;h things of the world to confound the wi&s;e: and the weake things of the world to confound the things that are migh|ty, &amp;c. that no fle&s;h &s;hould glory in his pre&s;ence.</HI> Againe, tell me who gave them that wi&s;dom and con|rage wherby they have been ena|bled to effect what they have at|tempted? was it not God? doubt|le&s;&s;e
<PB N="79" REF="52">it was. So that from fir&s;t to la&s;t the whole work is his, and the whole glory and prai&s;e of it is due to him. Let us then this day, and all our days, expre&s;s our joy in it, by giving God the glory of it. And in our rejoycings let us ble&s;&s;e and prai&s;e the God of Heaven for this his un&s;peaka|ble mercy to us, and unto the&s;e (almo&s;t) ruined Kingdomes.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>With our &s;ouls, and all that is within us.</HI> And let us <HI>awaken and &s;tir up</HI> our &s;ouls &s;o to do, as <HI>Da|vid</HI> did his upon another account, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 103.1. Let us ble&s;s him with our &s;ouls, by loving, fearing, and admiring of him, and all his in|comprehen&s;ible attributes, di&s;co|vered in bringing about His Ma|je&s;ty's re&s;titution. Let us al&s;o ble&s;&s;e him, by our delighting our &s;elvs in him. Let us not expre&s;s our joy, by taking our fill of delight in the creatures, but by delight|ing
<PB N="80" REF="53">our &s;elves in God our Crea|tor. And indeed, this is the be&s;t way wherein we can expre&s;&s;e our joy upon any account in the world. And &s;uch a way of ex|pre&s;&s;ing our joy, at the Proclama|tion of His Maje&s;ty, would at once evidence us to be the King's be&s;t Subjects, and God's be&s;t friends and &s;ervants.</P>
<P N="2">2. Let us expre&s;s our joy upon this account, <HI>in ble&s;&s;ing and prai|&s;ing God with our tongues.</HI> Let us open our mouths, and let our lips &s;hew forth the glory of God this day, and all our dayes: God hath given us our tongues to this end, that with them we might &s;hew forth his prai&s;e. Letus then in our rejoycing this day be &s;peak|ing of God, and of tho&s;e glorious attributes of God, which he hath di&s;covered in bringing about this work: This way <HI>David</HI> re&s;olved to <HI>ble&s;&s;e God, P&s;al.</HI> 26.7. <HI>&amp;</HI> 145.5.
<PB N="81" REF="53">and prophecyed that other men &s;hould do &s;o too, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 145.6, 7. yea, <HI>that one generation &s;hould tell the works of God to another, that he might not lo&s;e the honour of them, P&s;al.</HI> 145.4. So the pre&s;ent ge|neration &s;hould ble&s;s God for his mercy in the re&s;titution of his Ma|je&s;ty, by tran&s;mitting it to po&s;te|rity, that the generations to come may prai&s;e him for it.</P>
<P N="3">3. Let us expre&s;s our joy upon this account, by <HI>ble&s;&s;ing God with our lives.</HI> Let our lives prai&s;e God every day that we have to live for his mercy to us, in the re&s;titution of His Maje&s;ty this day to his ju&s;t Rights. And let us thus ble&s;s God,</P>
<P N="1">1. by endeavouring dayly after a more thorough Reformation of our &s;elves and others, as much as in us lies. Now that God hath re|&s;tored His Maje&s;ty, let us &s;it down and con&s;ider with our &s;elves what
<PB N="82" REF="54">our per&s;onal &s;ins are, whereby we did provoke God to &s;uffer the wor&s;t of Tyrants to murther his Royal Father, and for &s;o many years to bani&s;h his Maje&s;ty, &amp; ha|ving di&s;covered them, let us turn from them. Let us do it heartily and unfeignedly, &s;o as never to turn to the commi&s;&s;ion of them more. O, let us re&s;olve never to provoke this God more, who, notwith&s;tanding our &s;inful provo|cations, hath delivered us from u|&s;urping Tyrants, and hath re&s;to|red to us our mo&s;t dread and right|full Sovereign.</P>
<P N="2">2. By dedicating our &s;elves heartily, intirely and &s;incerely to the fear and &s;ervice of God. Let the con&s;ideration fo the great things God hath done for us, cau&s;e us to fear the Lord and &s;erve him with our whole heart all our days, according to that of <HI>Samuel,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.24. though we have hitherto
<PB N="83" REF="54">&s;erved Satan, and our own lu&s;ts, let us from henceforth re&s;olve to &s;erve no Ma&s;ter but God. <HI>As you have yielded your members &s;er|vants to uncleanne&s;s &amp; to iniquity unto iniquity; ev en &s;o now yield your members &s;ervants to righte|ou&s;ne&s;s unto holine&s;s,</HI> according to that of the Apo&s;tle, <HI>Rom.</HI> 6.19. and both the&s;e things I earne&s;tly beg of you. 1. For your owne &s;akes. 2. For His Maje&s;ty's &s;ake. Le&s;t if you &s;till do wickedly, you provoke the Lord to de&s;troy both your King and your &s;elves. Ac|cording to that of <HI>Samuel,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.25. <HI>But if ye &s;hall &s;till do wic|kedly, ye &s;hall be con&s;umed, both you and your King.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. By doing what in us lies, in our &s;everal &s;tations, to improve his Maje&s;ty's Authority, for the right and proper ends of Authority. Let us not any of us endeavour to improve it for <HI>by and ba&s;e ends of
<PB N="84" REF="55">our own:</HI> to &s;cramble for Honors, Offices, and Preferments for our &s;elves, as others have done under the late U&s;urpers: But let us im|prove it,</P>
<P N="1">1. For the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of Super|&s;tition, Here&s;ie, and Profainne&s;&s;e. The&s;e are the things that have been the meritorious cau&s;e of all our &s;ufferings: let us therefore improve his Maje&s;ty's Authority to &s;uppre&s;s them.</P>
<P N="2">2. For the effecting of a tho|rough Reformation, both in Church and State according to the Word of God, and the Laws of the land. And let us beg of God to put it into his Maje&s;ty's heart &s;o to do.</P>
<P N="3">3. For the propagation of the truth and power of Godline&s;s that all within his Maje&s;ty's Do|minions may know the truth and expre&s;s the power of Godline&s;s in their lives and conver&s;ations.</P>
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<P N="4">4. Let us ble&s;&s;e God with our lives for this his mercy to us, in re|&s;toring his Maje&s;ty, by opening the doors of our hearts unto the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the King of glory, that he may erect his throne there, &s;o as to reigne over us all our dayes, according to that of <HI>David, P&s;al.</HI> 24.7, 8, 9, 10. Chri&s;t, as Mediator, guideth all the Affaires of the world. And it is he that hath re&s;tored his Ma|je&s;ty to his authority: now in a way of thankfullne&s;&s;e unto him let us admit him into our hearts, that he may reign and rule over us by his word and &s;pi|rit. Let us <HI>&s;erve the King of Kings and Lord of Lords with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Let us ki&s;&s;e the &s;on le&s;t he be angry, and we peri&s;h from the way,</HI> as we are exhorted to do, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2.10, 11.</P>
<P N="6">6. Let us (in the la&s;t place) ex|pre&s;&s;e our joy in his Maje&s;ty's re|&s;titution
<PB N="86" REF="56">by giving <HI>portions to &s;uch for whom nothing is provided.</HI> Ther's provi&s;ion made for you Gentlemen of the Country, &s;om|thing &s;uitable to your worth and quality. Let me de&s;ire you to ex|pre&s;&s;e your rejoicing in this days &s;olemnity, by giving &s;omething to the poor for whom nothing is provided. Let us do this day as the <HI>Jewes of old</HI> did upon their <HI>Fe&s;tival days of joy and rejoicing;</HI> what they did and were enjoyned to do, you may &s;ee, <HI>Nehemiah.</HI> 8.10, 11, 12. <HI>E&s;ther.</HI> 9.22.</P>
<P>Now to conclude all, if you thus expre&s;&s;e your joy in the &s;o|lemnity of this day, you &s;hall not only be truly ble&s;&s;ed in his Maje|&s;ty; but his &s;acred Maje&s;ty &s;hall be as truly happy in you. You &s;hall not onely live happily under his Government here; but you &s;hall for ever live and reign with him in an Eternity of glory here|after.
<PB N="87" REF="56">Now to the onely wi&s;e God who liveth and reigneth for ever, and doth what plea&s;eth him both in Heaven above and in the Earth beneath, be Glory, Honour and Immortality for ever and ever. AMEN.</P>
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