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<P>SERIOUS OBSERVATIONS LATELY MADE, Touching his Maje&s;ty Charles the Second, KING OF <HI>England, Scotland, France &amp; Ireland.</HI></P>
<P><HI>King Charles Stuart,</HI> in Hebrew thus: .&mem;&lamed;&finalkaf; &kaf;&resh;&he; &lamed;&vav;&shin; &tsadi;&vav;&resh; &alef;&tet;</P>
<P>Tran&s;lated into Engli&s;h, is thus, <Q>The King hath prepared a Refre&s;hing, hee hath Cru&s;hed it out of the Rock by Degrees.</Q></P>
<P>Publi&s;hed to inform the People,</P>
<P><HI>Per H. Walker. S. S. T. S.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>R. I.</HI> and are to bee &s;old by <HI>William Gil|bert&s;on</HI> at the Bible in Gilt-&s;pur-&s;treet. 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>Serious Ob&s;ervations Lately made, Touching his Maje&s;ty CHARLES the Second, KING OF <HI>England, Scotland, France</HI> &amp; <HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_HIs Royall Maje&s;ty <HI>Charles the Second,</HI> by the Grace of God King of <HI>England, Scotland, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> is both in the <HI>Hypo&s;ta&s;is,</HI> and in the <HI>Pro&s;opon,</HI> (under God, and our Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t) in this juncture of the time of his tempo|ral life, our true and Soveraign Lord, rightly po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed of the Crown and Government; according to the mind of God revealed in his word, and the Laws and Cu&s;toms of the&s;e Nations; And wee ought to bee &s;ubject to him, not for fear, but out of Con&s;ci|ence; and God hath declared damnation again&s;t tho&s;e that re&s;i&s;t him, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.</P>
<P N="1">1 His Maje&s;ty hath the <HI>Hypo&s;ta&s;is,</HI> that &s;ub&s;i&s;tance to which God hath formed him to King-&s;hip, in who&s;e bre&s;t alone is (for us) the Royall Ab&s;tract: God hath qualified him to u&s;e him as his In&s;trument for the Government hee hath appointed him to, o|ver us; wee cannot think that the Kingly heart mentioned 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10.9. is at this time in any brea&s;t fitted for the&s;e Nations, but in the bo&s;ome of his &s;acred Maje&s;tie.</P>
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<P>His Royal Father (in whom it was till death) had treacherous &s;ervants that con&s;pired again&s;t him, and &s;lew him at his own Hou&s;e, &s;ince which, that di&s;pen|&s;ation of the Spirit de&s;cendeth upon his Maje&s;ty that now is, whom wee are obliged to honour and ble&s;&s;e God for, as the Jews did good King <HI>Jo&s;iah,</HI> who reigned in his Fathers &s;tead, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 21.23.</P>
<P N="2">2 His Maje&s;ty is the <HI>Pro&s;opon,</HI> that per&s;on in the Concrete, upon who&s;e &s;acred brows the Royal Dia|dem is rightly &s;eated; however others have brood|ed upon the Crown, to flatter their ambition, or fancied them&s;elves Urinals, to delude the &s;en&s;es, or a&s;&s;umed the Robes on their own backs, to terrify o|thers, with a pretence of the Plague in it; and da|red to remove the Diadem, and take off the Crown; yet God hath over-turned, over-turned, over-turned it, that it &s;hould bee no more, untill our gracious King <HI>Charles</HI> came, who&s;e right it is, and to whom God hath given it, as hee promi&s;ed, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 21.26, 27</P>
<P>Be&s;ides the&s;e Ob&s;ervations, there are many other peculier rayes of glory that &s;hine about the Throne of his Maje&s;ty, to demon&s;trate to all the world, a mo&s;t clear manife&s;tation of the Lords wonderfull pre&s;ence with, and owning, and ble&s;&s;ing of his Ma|je&s;ties Reign over us.</P>
<P N="1">I. His Maje&s;ty hath an eminent &s;eal from God, by healing the <HI>Evill.</HI> For the Lord Je&s;us hath declared in the holy Scriptures, that, to bee one of the &s;ignes that &s;hall follow them that beleeve; <HI>They &s;hall lay hands on the &s;ick, and they &s;hall recover, Mark</HI> 16.18. His Maje&s;ty doth lay hands on great numbers &s;ick of the <HI>Evill</HI> and they do recover; By Prayer he prevails with God to give an effectuall i&s;&s;ue to his touching
<PB N="3" REF="3"> of them; None, that in his Royal ab&s;ence a&s;&s;umed the Government, could do it; all their &s;trokings and pray|ers to accompli&s;h it, would become vain, but, <HI>Where the word of a King is, there is power,</HI> Eccle&s;. 8.4.</P>
<P N="2">II. His Maje&s;ties <HI>Name</HI> and <HI>Title, King Charles Stuart,</HI> written in Hebrew thus &mem;&lamed;&finalkaf; &kaf;&resh;&he; &lamed;&vav;&shin; &tsadi;&vav;&resh; &alef;&tet; hath a notable &s;ignification, and an&s;wers the fulfilling of an excellent Prophecy, and glorious Promi&s;e, in which the Lord <HI>Jehovah,</HI> graciou&s;ly &s;tands ingaged to his Church: The plain tran&s;lation of the &s;aid Hebrew into Engli&s;h is this, <HI>The King hath prepared a Re|fre&s;hing, hee hath cru&s;hed it out of the Rock by de|grees.</HI> The Lord by him hath fulfilled that great ble&s;&s;ing promi&s;ed to his people, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 3.1, 2. <HI>Behold! a King &s;hall reign in Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and Princes &s;hall rule in Judgement, and a man &s;hall bee as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempe&s;t, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the &s;haddow of a great Rock in a weary land.</HI></P>
<P>When wee were &s;corched wor&s;e than <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> in a barren, &s;tarved, Wilderne&s;&s;e-condition, when &s;torms fell about us, and wee had no &s;helter, when all waters, and means &s;eemed to fail; Religion, Government, Trade, Food, Peace, Hope, all our Springs were dry|ed up; then the Lord called our Royall King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second, to Reign in Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and rule in Judgement, to bee an hiding place, and a covert for us; who is become our <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> and hath prepared a refre&s;hing banquet for us in the Wilderne&s;&s;e; he hath &s;mote the Rock, and given us drink out of the great depths, hee hath cru&s;hed us out &s;weetne&s;&s;e, and made rivers of refre&s;hing &s;treams to glide plea&s;antly in the mid&s;t of us, like that, <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 78.15, 16.</P>
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<P>Government is (ble&s;&s;ed bee God) by his Maje&s;ties Reign over us, re&s;tored to its ba&s;is, Religion and Piety is by him countenanced &amp; encouraged, Prophanene&s;s, and Debauchery, by him reproved and &s;hamed; And it is much upon his Royall endevours to contrive ad|mirable expedients to reduce our differences, to repair Trade, &s;upply Food, and e&s;tabli&s;h Peace and Truth: So that our hopes are great in the Lords re&s;toring of his Maje&s;ty to us, who hath already made us <HI>to &s;uck honey out of the Rock, and oyl out of the flinty rock</HI> (as that) <HI>Deut.</HI> 32.13.</P>
<P N="3">III. Tho&s;e whom God calls to honourable and choice Places and Imployments at their age of thirty years hee u&s;ually poures down upon them a more than ordinary manife&s;tation of his gracious pre&s;ence, to make them very eminent.</P>
<P>Devout <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> was thirty years old when God ad|vanced him to that great dignity wherein hee &s;tood before <HI>Pharoah,</HI> who took off the ring from his own finger and put it on <HI>Jo&s;ephs</HI> hand, arrayed him in fine Robes, with a Gold chain about his neck, and made him to ride in a &s;tately Chariot; And they cryed be|fore him, <HI>Bow the knee;</HI> And hee was Ruler over the Land of <HI>Aegypt, Gen.</HI> 41.41, <HI>to</HI> 47.</P>
<P>Holy <HI>David,</HI> a man after Gods own heart, was thir|ty years old when hee began to Reign King over <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> to whom all the people of the Land came to <HI>Hebron,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>Behold wee are thy bone, and thy fle&s;h; and King</HI> David <HI>made a league with them before the Lord; And they annointed him King over I&s;rael,</HI> 2 Sam. 5. &amp; 4 <HI>la&s;t ver&s;es.</HI></P>
<P>When the Levites were called to the Mini&s;teriall Office, to enter into the &s;ervice of the Lord, to do the work of the Tabernacle, they were appointed by God
<PB N="5" REF="4"> to bee thirty years old, <HI>Num.</HI> 4.</P>
<P>The Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t him&s;elf, when hee began to be thirty years old, then was hee baptized and anointed into the Prie&s;tly Office, when praying, the Heaven was opened, and the Holy Gho&s;t de&s;cended in a bodily &s;hape like a Dove upon him &amp; a voyce came from heaven which &s;aid, <HI>Thou art my beloved &s;on, in thee I am well plea&s;ed,</HI> Lu. 3.21. &amp;c</P>
<P>And this is the age of our gracious Soveraign Lord King <HI>Charles</HI> the Second, in which, through Divine Providence, by the wi&s;dom, power and goodne&s;&s;e of God, his Maje&s;ty is come to the Throne, and e&s;tabli&s;hed in his Royal Go|vernment.</P>
<P N="4">IV. The Lord &s;aith of tho&s;e days wherein hee &s;hall ari&s;e, and the glory of Chri&s;t &s;hall be &s;een, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 40 2. <HI>That Kings &s;hall come to the brightne&s;&s;e of his ri&s;ing, and the people &s;hall flock with them,</HI> ver 3. &amp;c. And this hath God fulfilled in our eyes, making the King, and many that were bani&s;h|ed into &s;trange Lands, to return and mini&s;ter unto us, and build up our broken walls. And God that in his wrath had &s;mitten us, hath thus mercy on us, according to his promi&s;e, <HI>ver.</HI> 10. And tho&s;e that affl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">cted us, bow them|&s;elves down at his Maje&s;ties feet, who&s;e bo&s;ome the Lord hath made a refre&s;hing to us; the Lord make him an eter|nall excellency, and the joy of many Generations.</P>
<P N="5">V. The Lord hath promi&s;ed that in Chri&s;ts exaltation in the mid&s;t of his Church, <HI>Kings &s;hall &s;ee &amp; ari&s;e, and Prin|ces &s;hall wor&s;hip, becau&s;e of the Lord that is faithfull, and the Holy one of</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>hee &s;hall choo&s;e them,</HI> I&s;a 49.7. Thus hath God &s;hewn his faithfulne&s;&s;e to our gracious King, whom hee hath rai&s;ed up, and cho&s;en to bee a nur&s;ing Father, to bring us in his armes, and on his &s;houlders, to an happy e&s;tate, as it is <HI>ver.</HI> 22, 23.</P>
<P N="6">VI. M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ny have &s;poken and written of glorious times
<PB N="6" REF="5"> expected to bee, from what they have gathered out of Gods word, under eminent and choice Rulers, Monarchs, and Powers, which God &s;hall e&s;tabli&s;h among his peo|ple; And the times computed by the mo&s;t of them, doe begin about this pre&s;ent, being the Year of our Lord 1660. and &s;o on to 1670. So much hath been &s;aid of this, not only by <HI>R. Hillel Hanna&s;i,</HI> and other <HI>Rabbins. Anony|mus</HI> and other <HI>German</HI> Drs. But the Lord <HI>Nappier</HI> of <HI>Scot|land, Brightman</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> and many of the&s;e Nations. Yea, tho&s;e called the <HI>Fifth Monarchy men,</HI> have made this their common Theam; little thinking who the per&s;on &s;hould bee that tho&s;e &s;ayings pointed at, Our gracious K. <HI>Charles,</HI> whom the Lord Jehovah is (we may hope) mak|ing &s;o great a Monarch, in this period of time.</P>
<P N="7">VII. It may bee &s;aid of his Maje&s;ty and the&s;e revived Nations of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> &amp; <HI>Ireland</HI> (that are like dry bones rai&s;ed from the dead) as it was once &s;aid of <HI>David</HI> and the people of <HI>I&s;rael, P&s;al.</HI> 144.10, &amp;c. <HI>It is God that giveth &s;alvation unto Kings,</HI> who hath delivered his Ser|vant our Soveraign <HI>Charles</HI> the Second our gracious King, from the hurtfull Sword, that hath rid him out of the hands of &s;trange Nations, and brought him to his Right, to Reign in great &s;plendor over us; <HI>That our &s;ons may bee as plants, and our daughters as poli&s;hed &s;tones, that our garners may bee full, our &s;heep bring forth thou&s;ands, our Oxen bee &s;trong to labour; that there may bee no breaking in, nor going out&punc; that there bee no complaining in our &s;treets.</HI></P>
<P>Happy are wee now, a people in &s;uch a ca&s;e; happy are wee who have &s;uch a King; yea, happy are wee who&s;e God is the Lord. And while wee have breath let us &s;ay,</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave King Charles the Second.</CLOSER>
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