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<P>THE LOYAL SUBJECTS REQUEST FOR HIS <HI>Royal Sovereign.</HI></P>
<P>IN A SERMON Preached to His Maje&s;ty's Garri&s;on in the I&s;les of <HI>Silly,</HI> and in &s;everal places &s;ince <HI>November</HI> la&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>By</HI> Nicholas Philips, <HI>Chaplain to His Ma|je&s;ty's Garri&s;on there.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>T. Brown,</HI> 1681.</P>
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<P>LOYALTY AND PIETY The way to live happily on EARTH, The way to live happily in HEAVEN.</P>
<P><HI>By</HI> Nicholas Philips, <HI>late Chaplain to His Maje&s;ty's Garri&s;on in the I&s;les of</HI> Silly.</P>
<Q>Feci quod debui, &amp; &s;ervus &s;um inutilis.</Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>T. Brown,</HI> 1681.</P>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>THE Rea&s;on why I appear in Print is, becau&s;e I want a Pulpit to preach Loyalty and Piety in. The&s;e are Do|ctrines, which as I have preach'd in the wor&s;t of times <HI>&s;ans</HI> Fear, &s;o in the be&s;t without Reward. Nor am I at all di&s;cou|raged in this work, nor frustrated of my expectation and de&s;ign. It being my earne&s;t request unto Almighty God, upon the turn|ing of the Captivity of our <HI>Sion,</HI> That if there were any re|ward due for Loyalty, it might be re&s;erved for me in the other world. And I can be very well content to &s;tay till that King come, who keeps a faithful Regi&s;ter of every mans Actions, and notes them down in his Book, and will bring with him a &s;tock &s;ufficient to reward every man according as he &s;hall find his work to be.</P>
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<HEAD>To His Most Sacred Majesty <HI>Charles</HI> II. by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>THough whatever a Subject doth for his Sove|reign is but his Duty, and there is nothing of Merit, no not in the very Sacrificing of his Life for him; yet &s;ince Earthly Monarchs are in this inferiour to the Supreme and Heavenly One, that the Actions of their Subjects are repre&s;ented unto them, not through the clear and unerring Gla&s;s of their own infinite Knowledge, but through the dark, deceitful one of other mens Reports. Be graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to give the humble&s;t and meane&s;t, the unworthie&s;t of Your Maje&s;ty's Subjects, leave to mind you, That he adventured his Life, and was left for dead in the Field, in the Service of Your late Royal Father; was a patient Sufferer and a zealous Petitioner, for Your Maje&s;ty's Re&s;tauration, all the time of Your Exile; and could neither by Threats be frighted, nor Promi|&s;es allured from his Loyalty; hath &s;ince Your Maje|&s;ty's Happy Re&s;tauration &s;pent the be&s;t part of his time in Your Maje&s;ty's Service, having twice been Chaplain to Your Garri&s;on in Your I&s;les of <HI>Silly;</HI> and is now for the zeal he &s;hewed there to Gods Glory,
<PB REF="5"> and Your Maje&s;ty's Honour, deprived of the Exerci&s;e of his Mini&s;terial Function, having no &s;ettled place to Officiate in. And wanting other means, he is infor|ced to &s;end forth this poor, weak, worthle&s;s Tractate, to let Your Sacred Maje&s;ty and the World know, that however he be dealt with, he &s;till is, and will live for ever,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Sacred Maje&s;ty's Most Loyal, most Faithful, and Immutable Subject and Servant, Nich. Philips.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Loyal Subjects Reque&s;t for his Royal Sovereign.</HEAD>
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<Q><HI><BIBL>Dan. 6. 21.</BIBL> O King, live for ever.</HI></Q>
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<P>TIs a good day this; a day on which after a long and grievous bondage of our Nation under wicked and tyrannous U<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">urp|ers, our miraculou&s;ly pre&s;erved lawful rightful King, was as miraculou&s;ly re&s;tored, and brought home to &s;it on his Fa|thers Throne. And though for the long Life and Pro&s;perity of our King we &s;hould every day pray; yet on this day of his Birth and new Birth we &s;hould double our Devotions; pray and pray, yea never think that we can pray too oft, <HI>Let the King live for ever.</HI></P>
<P>And to &s;tir you up to be con&s;tant and frequent in praying for the long Life and the eternal Life, the earthly Pro&s;perity and Heavenly Glory of our King; I have cho&s;en for the foundation and ground-work of my Di&s;cour&s;e unto you on this day, this Prayer, which was made by a Loyal Subject for his Royal Sovereign, <HI>O King live for ever.</HI></P>
<P>Before I proceed to the handling of the&s;e word, which con&s;i&s;t of
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<P>1. The per&s;on that gave this Royal Title, <HI>O King;</HI> and this Loyal Pray|er, <HI>Live for ever,</HI> was one of Gods holy Prophets; one who though he &s;tand ranked but in the head of the minor Prophets, was one of the greate&s;t of Prophets, and holie&s;t of Men, <HI>viz. Daniel, Then &s;aid Daniel, O King, live for ever.</HI></P>
<P>Though being a Prophet of God, and in&s;pired by his Spirit to write what he did write, the Te&s;timony which he gives of him&s;elf be true; and we may well believe that <HI>Daniel</HI> was a man highly favoured and be|loved of God, becau&s;e we find it thrice &s;o written in this Book of his Prophe&s;ie; yet to confirm this we have the Te&s;timony of his Contem|porary the Prophet <HI>Ezekiel,</HI> who in his 14th. Chap. thrice gives him the 2d. place among the three darling and choicely beloved ones of God, and tells us there of <HI>Noah, Daniel,</HI> and <HI>Job,</HI> that they were men above
<PB N="2" REF="6"> all others mo&s;t highly favoured of God and mo&s;t prevalent with him. And the precedency in his favour, which God gave this our Prophet, above the re&s;t of his Fellows, appears mo&s;t plainly by the precedency which he gave him of them all, in Prophecy and Revelations.</P>
<P>The Revelations and Prophe&s;ies of the other Prophets, were li|mited as both to place and time. They extended no further than the Jewi&s;h nation, or tho&s;e that bordered about them, and were their oppre&s;&s;ours, nor much beyond the time of Chri&s;t's appearing in the fle&s;h. But the Prophe&s;ies and Revelations of our Prophet <HI>Daniel,</HI> were neither limited by place or time: They extended to all parts of the World, and God was plea&s;ed to &s;hew unto him, the ri&s;e and fall of the Monarchys and Em|pires thereof, and they reach as far as the the end of time it &s;elf. And he not only &s;peaks of Chri&s;ts appearing in the fle&s;h in weakne&s;s and hu|mility, <HI>Ch.</HI> 9. 26. But al&s;o of his &s;econd coming in power and great glory with myriads of Angels to judge the world, <HI>Ch.</HI> 7. 10.</P>
<P>But this our Prophet hath not only for the <HI>Theory</HI> and the enlighting of our heads, revealed unto us in his Writings, many an high and deep my&s;tery: But he hath here al&s;o, for our practice, and the ordering of our hands, given us in his life and conver&s;ation, many an excellent pattern of vertue and piety: I could commend to your imitation,</P>
<P N="1">1. The great temperance and &s;obriety which he &s;hew'd in refu&s;ing to feed on the Kings dainty di&s;hes, and contenting him&s;elf only with a Me&s;s of homely pul&s;e. <HI>Ch.</HI> 1.</P>
<P N="2">2. The great humility and &s;elf-denial which he &s;hewed, in relying not on his own wit and knowledge, but by applying him&s;elf unto God for ability, to reveal unto King <HI>Nebucchadnezar</HI> his fleeting and va|ni&s;hed dream, <HI>Ch.</HI> 2.</P>
<P N="3">3. The great fidelity and Heroick courage which he &s;hewed in the execution of his Prophetical-office, by his fearle&s;s delivering of Gods Me&s;&s;age, unto two of the greate&s;t Monarchs in the World, <HI>Nebucchad|nezar, Ch.</HI> 4. and his &s;on <HI>Bel&s;hazar, Ch.</HI> 5.</P>
<P N="4">4. The great zeal and piety which he &s;hewed in making an open pro|fe&s;&s;ion of the true religion, and wor&s;hip of God, when it was no le&s;s then a mans life was worth, to be &s;een adoring any one, but an earthly King, about the middle of this 6 <HI>Ch.</HI></P>
<P>But becau&s;e&punc; it is mo&s;t &s;ea&s;onable and &s;uits be&s;t with the time, I &s;hall only now commend to your imitation, the great Loyalty, and obedi|ence which he &s;hewed unto his King; manife&s;ted by his behaviour, to|ward two of the <HI>A&s;&s;yrian,</HI> and two of the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Monarchs.</P>
<P>No Native of <HI>Chaldea,</HI> no natural born Subject of the <HI>Babylonian</HI> Mo|narchs:
<PB N="3" REF="6" MS="y"> But a Captive of <HI>Judea,</HI> one of the Kings &s;eed there, was <HI>Da|niel.</HI> And yet becau&s;e God who tran&s;lateth Kingdoms, had made <HI>Ne|buchadnezzar</HI> his King by Conque&s;t; and he was carried from <HI>Ju|dea</HI> to live in <HI>Chaldea;</HI> he acknowledgeth him for his lawful Soveraign, behaves him&s;elf mo&s;t loyaly, and dutifully, both towards him, and his Son <HI>Bel&s;hazar.</HI> Gives them both their due title of honor and Maje&s;ty calls them both <HI>O King,</HI> reveals unto the one his ob&s;cure Dream, <HI>Ch.</HI> 2. and reads unto the other the fatal hand-writing on the Wall, <HI>Ch.</HI> 5. and was by both highly honoured and rewarded.</P>
<P>And as he behaved him&s;elf mo&s;t loyaly and obediently towards the Chaldean Monarchies: So when the Mo&s;t-High who ruleth in the King|domes of men, and giveth them to whom&s;oever he will, had tran&s;lated the Monarchy of the World, from the <HI>A&s;&s;yrians</HI> and <HI>Chaldeans</HI> to the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians;</HI> when <HI>Bel&s;hazar</HI> was &s;lain, and <HI>Darius</HI> the <HI>Mede</HI> had taken on him the Kingdom, he became and remains a loyal Subject to him, and to his Son in Law, and Succe&s;&s;or, <HI>Cyrus</HI> the <HI>Per&s;ian:</HI> give King <HI>Darius</HI> he doth here in my text his due title of honour and Maje&s;ty, calls him <HI>O King,</HI> wi&s;heth him long life and pro&s;perity, and prays that he may live for ever.</P>
<P>And this will lead me from &s;peaking of the per&s;on that gave this title, and made this prayer, <HI>Daniel</HI> the Prophet, to &s;peak of the per&s;on, unto whom he gave this title <HI>O King,</HI> and for whom he made this prayer, <HI>Live for ever,</HI> King <HI>Darius.</HI> Then &s;aid <HI>Daniel</HI> unto the King, e|ven unto King <HI>Darius, O King live for ever.</HI></P>
<P>My de&s;cription of King <HI>Darius</HI> I will not fetch from out of the book of the Chronicles of the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> but &s;hall confine my &s;elf within the limits of what I find written of him here in this Sacred book of Scripture. And here I find him &s;et forth in a fourfold condition and quality. The particular view of each of which will mightily heighten the Loyalty and Obedience of holy <HI>Daniel</HI> towards him.</P>
<P N="1">1. The fir&s;t condition wherein we find King <HI>Darius</HI> here &s;et forth un|to us, is the condition of an Ethnick or Heathen <HI>Prince.</HI></P>
<P>No true I&s;raelite, one born within the Covenant of grace, but an Ali|en from the Commonwealth of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> an utter &s;tranger to the Church of God, was King <HI>Darius:</HI> for he was a <HI>Mede, Ch. 5. ult.</HI> 'Tis a fana|tique and brain&s;ick fancy to Imagine, that grace and &s;alvation gives a ju&s;t title to temporal power and dominion: I am &s;ure the author of grace, and &s;alvation, our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour him&s;elf, hath taught us other|wi&s;e. His Kingdom, as he tells us, <HI>John</HI> 18. 36. was not of this world, nor came he into the world to confound, and overthrow, but to confirm
<PB N="4" REF="7"> and e&s;tabli&s;h Civil Government. Acknowledge he did the Sovereign|ty of <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> over him, and paid him Tribute, <HI>Mat. 17. ult.</HI> Submit he did to the Judgment of his Deputy <HI>Pilate&punc;</HI> and acknowledge he did that the power he had over him, was given him from Heaven, <HI>John</HI> 19. 11. And enjoyned he hath all his Followers and Di&s;ciples, <HI>Mat.</HI> 22. 21. to be Loyal Subjects; <HI>To give unto</HI> Ce&s;ar <HI>the things that are</HI> Ce&s;ar's.</P>
<P>Under pretence of &s;eeking to advance Chri&s;ts Kingdom, and to &s;et him on his Throne: To ri&s;e up in Rebellion again&s;t Kings, and to go about to Dethrone and Depo&s;e them, is direct contrary both to the Pre|cepts and Practi&s;e of Chri&s;t, is a mo&s;t Antichri&s;tian Principle and Pra|ctice: The very Doctrine and doing of Devils. And it is not a&s;&s;uredly the good Spirit of God; but the evil Spirit, <HI>Lucifer</HI> him&s;elf, he who was the fir&s;t Rebel, that is &s;till the in&s;pirer, &s;tirrer up and Patron of all Rebels.</P>
<P>Dominion and Sovereignty (as &s;aith a Reverend Prelate of our Church) are the Ordinances of God, not<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bp. <HI>Brownrig.</HI></NOTE> as he is the Author of Grace and Redeemer of his Church, but as he is the Author of Mankind, and Governour of the World. And the Authority of Magi&s;trates is not a My&s;tery of the Go&s;pel, but an appointment of God by his general Providence.</P>
<P>The duty of Children to Parents; of Servants to Ma&s;ters; of Sub|jects to Sovereigns, is not a con&s;equent of Chri&s;tianity, but a Principle of Nature, and a Law of Nations, confirmed indeed by God in the Law, and by Chri&s;t in the Go&s;pel; but not there fir&s;t founded and e&s;tabli&s;h|ed: For there were Parents and Ma&s;ters, and Kings in the World, before the Law was given upon Mount <HI>Sinai,</HI> or the Go&s;pel Publi&s;hed from Mount <HI>Sion.</HI></P>
<P>A Chri&s;tian Child cannot ca&s;t off his Duty and Obedience to his Fa|ther, though he be an Heathen or an Infidel; but is bound not only by the Law of God, but even by the Law of Nature and Nations to ho|nour and obey him. A Chri&s;tian Servant cannot &s;hake off his Yoke and Servitude, though his Ma&s;ter be an Unbeliever; but is bound not only by the Law of God, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 6. but even by the very Law of Nature and Nations to do him &s;ervice. Chri&s;tian Subjects cannot deny Obedience and Submi&s;&s;ion to their Lawful Sovereigns, though they be Infidels and Heathen; but are bound, not only by the Law of God, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13. 1. but even by the very Law of Nature and Nations to obey and pay them Tri|bute.</P>
<P>My Chri&s;tian Bretheren, It is not &s;afe for you in this ca&s;e, to tru&s;t to the Ear, and li&s;ten to what the Factious and Seditious Spirits of this our Age tell you. And if you will be kept &s;afe from the horrid Sin of
<PB N="9" REF="7" MS="y"> Rebellion, you mu&s;t employ a &s;urer &s;en&s;e. Open your Eyes, look into the Scriptures, and &s;ee what the Saints and Holy Men of God have done in time pa&s;t. And if with the Noble <HI>Bereans,</HI> you give your &s;elves to the &s;earch of them, you will find the Prophets, <HI>Jeremy, Ezechiel, Daniel</HI> in the Old Te&s;tament: Chri&s;t him&s;elf, St. <HI>Paul,</HI> St. <HI>Peter,</HI> and all the Apo&s;tles and Primitive Chri&s;tians in the New, not ca&s;ting off their Obedience to their Lawful Sovereigns, becau&s;e they were not Believers, and within the Covenant of Grace; but honouring, obeying and praying for them, though they were Heathen Men and Infidels.</P>
<P>As an Heathen and Ethnick Prince is King <HI>Darius</HI> here fir&s;t &s;et forth unto us.</P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;econd is, that he was an utter Enemy unto, and a Per&s;ecu|tor of, the Church and cho&s;en people of God.</P>
<P>Not onely an Alien from the Commonwealth of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> but an utter Enemy unto it; one that kept Gods People in bondage and captivity, was King <HI>Darius:</HI> and yet for all this he is acknowledged by holy <HI>Da|niel</HI> for his lawful Sovereign, honoured of him, and prayed for by him.</P>
<P>And this will teach us (quite contrary to the Doctrine of the Con|clave and the <HI>Cla&s;&s;es</HI>)&punc; That Fidelity and Obedience is due from Chri&s;ti|ans to their Lawful Sovereigns, though they prove Oppre&s;&s;ors of them; load them with heavy Burdens and Taxes, and keep them in Bondage and Slavery.</P>
<P>The Prophet <HI>Jeremy</HI> exhorts the <HI>Jews</HI> in their Captivity to &s;ubmit to the Yoke of the King of <HI>Babylon:</HI> To &s;tudy the Peace of his Govern|ment, and to pray for the life of him and his Sons, <HI>Jer. 29. 7. Baruch</HI> 1. 11.</P>
<P>The Apo&s;tle St. <HI>Paul</HI> exhorts the Chri&s;tians at <HI>Rome</HI> to be &s;ubject to the <HI>Roman</HI> Emperours, though they were Tyrants and Per&s;ecutors; <HI>Let every Soul be &s;ubject to the Higher Powers,</HI> &s;ays he, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13. 1. and he for|bids them there, <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 2. under no le&s;s penalty than Damnation, to ri&s;e up again&s;t them, or re&s;i&s;t them.</P>
<P>The per&s;on plac'd in Authority over us, may be an evil man; yet is not his Authority an evil, but a good thing; <HI>the Ordinance of God,</HI> &s;ays St. <HI>Paul,</HI> and therefore <HI>propter Deum, for Gods &s;ake;</HI> becau&s;e he hath put his Vizard on him, and made him his Repre&s;entative here on Earth, he is to be honoured, obeyed and &s;upported, and in no ca&s;e to be ri&s;en up a|gain&s;t and re&s;i&s;ted.</P>
<P><HI>Daniel, Ezechiel</HI> and the Captivated <HI>Jews</HI> honoured, obeyed and pray|ed for the <HI>A&s;&s;yrian</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Monarchs, who kept them in Bondage and Captivity. The Apo&s;tles and Primitive Chri&s;tians honoured, obeyed and prayed for the <HI>Roman</HI> Emperours, who per&s;ecuted them unto death,
<PB N="10" REF="8"> and &s;pilt their bloud like water. And thus mu&s;t we do, and their Ex|ample mu&s;t we follow; if we will manife&s;t our &s;elves to be true Chri&s;ti|ans, and &s;uch who are followers of them who <HI>through Faith and Patience have inherited the Promi&s;es;</HI> if God be plea&s;ed to &s;et &s;uch Rulers over us.</P>
<P>As a Per&s;ecutor and Oppre&s;&s;or of the Church of God is King <HI>Darius,</HI> in the Second place, here &s;et forth unto us.</P>
<P>In the Third he is &s;et forth as a &s;etter up of a fal&s;e Religion, and one that went about to compel his Subjects to Idolatry. Forbid he did by Publick Edict, the Religious Wor&s;hip of God, and made a Decree, that <HI>Who&s;oever &s;hould ask any Petition of God or Man, for the &s;pace of thirty days, &s;ave of him only, &s;hould be ca&s;t into the Den of Lions;</HI> and yet not|with&s;tanding all this, the holy Prophet <HI>Daniel</HI> acknowledged him for his King and Sovereign, honours and prays for him.</P>
<P>The <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> may teach us out of their Cannons and Decretals; and <HI>Presbyters</HI> out of their holy Covenant, That Kings and Princes are no farther to be honoured, obeyed and prayed for by the Subjects than they obey God, and are Profe&s;&s;ors and Defenders of the true Religion; but the Sacred Scriptures teach us otherwi&s;e, and do not exempt us from obedience to our Lawful Sovereigns; no, not when they make evil Laws, deface Gods Wor&s;hip, and endeavour to force men to Ido|la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ry. Indeed active and actual obedience to the unju&s;t Decrees of our Kings and Princes we may not, we mu&s;t not give; for this were to pre|fer Men in our actual obedience before God, to &s;ubmit to them, and rebel again&s;t him, directly to cro&s;s the precepts and practice of our brave Leaders the ble&s;&s;ed Apo&s;tles, <HI>Acts</HI> 5. 29. And verily, in evil and impi|ous Commands, they obey the King be&s;t that di&s;obey him mo&s;t; and are his be&s;t Subjects, who are lea&s;t ob&s;equious to him. King <HI>Saul</HI>'s Souldi|ers, who in 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 22. refu&s;ed upon his Command to &s;lay the Prie&s;t of the Lord, were better Subjects, and &s;hewed greater love and Loyalty to|ward him than did <HI>Doeg</HI> the <HI>Edomite,</HI> who by his ready obeying his Com|mand, drew on his Head the guilt of innocent bloud. And King <HI>He|rod's</HI> Courtiers, <HI>Acts</HI> 12. who flattered and cry'd him up for a God, were the wor&s;t of Traitors, and occa&s;ioned his mi&s;erable death and de|&s;truction.</P>
<P>But though we may not perform the unlawful Commands of our law|ful Sovereigns; yet profe&s;&s;ions and prote&s;tations of Subjection and Sub|mi&s;&s;ion we mu&s;t &s;till make them, and with patience, &s;uffer we mu&s;t, what they &s;hall be plea&s;ed to inflict on us; when we find, that we cannot with a good Con&s;cience, and with the &s;alving of our obedience unto God, perform what they command.</P>
<PB N="11" REF="8" MS="y">
<P>Holy <HI>Daniel</HI> here refu&s;eth upon the Command of the King to make an Idol of him, and to pray unto him, but yet &s;till acknowledged him for his Sovereign, continues Loyal to him, and cea&s;eth not to pray for him, and patiently, without any re&s;i&s;tance, doth he &s;ubmit to the puni&s;hment he was plea&s;ed to inflict on him. In like manner the Primi|tive Chri&s;tians refu&s;ed to burn Incen&s;e to the <HI>Roman</HI> Emperours, or to &s;wear by their <HI>Genius&punc;</HI> but yet, pray they did for the &s;ucce&s;s of their Armies, peace of their Empire, and the &s;afety of their Per&s;ons, and pa|tiently, without the lea&s;t &s;hew of re&s;i&s;tance (when &s;ufficiently armed with defence) permitted they them&s;elves to be cut in pieces by them.</P>
<P>When God &s;tirs up the Spirit of Princes to make good Laws, he doth it St. <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> &s;aith, for the Reformation of tho&s;e that are evil, an when he permits them to make evil Laws, he doth it for the probati|on and tryal of tho&s;e that are good; and unle&s;s God did &s;ometimes per|mit Princes to make evil Laws, to publi&s;h Decrees again&s;t his Sacred Wor&s;hip, how &s;hould his True Wor&s;hippers, &s;uch as are &s;incere in his Service, be known and di&s;tingui&s;hed from other Men? and therefore as St. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aid of Here&s;ies, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. 19. we may &s;ay of evil Princes, <HI>oportet e&s;&s;e,</HI> they mu&s;t be; otherwife how &s;hall Gods true and faithful Servants be approved and manife&s;ted? <HI>If there had been no Per&s;ecutors of the Church, there had never been any Martyrs in the Church.</HI></P>
<P>Men that Arm them&s;elves with Swords and Guns to oppo&s;e and make re&s;i&s;tance again&s;t the unlawful Decrees of their lawful Sovereigns, may talk much of the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Religion, and boa&s;t of their great zeal to|wards it; I am &s;ure the truly Antient, Catholick, Chri&s;tian Religion allows Subjects to make u&s;e of no other Weapons again&s;t their lawful Sove|reigns than Prayers, Tears and Patience; and their Religion (whate|ver they call it) is not the Chri&s;tian Religion, will not bring them where Chri&s;t is, and to Reign with him, unle&s;s it teach them to do as Chri&s;t did, <HI>even patiently to &s;uffer for well doing.</HI></P>
<P>As the &s;etter up of the fal&s;e Religion and a compeller of his Subjects to Idolatry, is King <HI>Darius,</HI> in the Third place here &s;et forth unto us. And,</P>
<P>In the Fourth, As the Author and Commander of <HI>Daniel</HI>'s Death and De&s;truction. <HI>Daniel</HI> being for his Wi&s;dom, and the excellent Spirit that was found in him, preferred by the King to be one of the Three Pre&s;idents of the Kingdom. He is by his Fellow Pre&s;idents and the re&s;t of the Princes, mightily envied, and becau&s;e they could not fault him concerning the Affairs of the Kingdom, which he managed with Pru|dence, Fidelity and Equity, they (knowing him to be a Wor&s;hipper of
<PB N="12" REF="9"> the true God) re&s;olve to make a &s;nare of his Religion, and to entrap him by means of it; and by their cunning in&s;inuations and flatteries, they prevail &s;o far upon the King, that they per&s;wade him to make a Decree, <HI>That who&s;oever &s;hould offer any petition to God or Man, for the &s;pace of thirty days, &s;ave of the King only, he &s;hould be ca&s;t into the Den of Lions,</HI> Now this Decree of the King, being directly oppo&s;ite to Gods Holy Law, and to the &s;econd Commandment, (wherein God hath re|&s;erved Religious Wor&s;hip and Adoration &s;olely unto him&s;elf) <HI>Daniel</HI> refu&s;ed to ob&s;erve: And contrary unto it, he in his Chamber, with the Windows open toward <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> three times a day, after his won|ted cu&s;tom, pre&s;ented his Supplications and Prayers unto Almighty God; for which being accu&s;ed by the Princes &amp; condemned by the King, he is ca&s;t into the Den of Lions. And being there miraculou&s;ly pre&s;er|ved of God, he doth not upon his coming forth of it, complain of the hard mea&s;ure that was &s;hewn him, nor of the great inju&s;tice that was done unto him: Doth not revile the King, and charge him with Tyran|nies and Cruelties, but owns him for his Sovereign &s;till; gives him his due title of Honour, calls him, <HI>O King,</HI> prays for his Life and Pro&s;peri|ty, and wi&s;heth that he may live for ever.</P>
<P>And in &s;o doing he hath taught us, that no wrongs and injuries that are done us by our lawful Sovereigns, can exempt and di&s;charge us from that Loyalty and Obedience which we owe unto them. The <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> when oppre&s;&s;ed and &s;lain by King <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> rebelled not again&s;t him. <HI>Da|vid</HI> when per&s;ecuted and pur&s;ued by King <HI>Saul</HI> would not oppo&s;e him, would not con&s;pire again&s;t him; yea refu&s;ed when it lay in his power to take his life from him. <HI>Jeremy</HI> when abu&s;ed, &s;hackled and impri&s;on|ned by King <HI>Zedekiah,</HI> would not revolt from him, and fall to his Ene|mies the <HI>Chaldeans.</HI> The Primitive Chri&s;tians when Ma&s;&s;acred by Thou|&s;ands, and cut in pieces by their per&s;ecuting Emperours, could never be provoked by any of their Cruelties to joyn in any Con&s;piracy or Rebelli|on again&s;t them, but always prayed for them, and wi&s;ht them good &s;ucce&s;s.</P>
<P>When wrongs and injuries are done us by private per&s;ons, we may &s;afely u&s;e what lawful means we think fit to right our &s;elves; but when Kings, armed with Power and Authority from Heaven, oppre&s;s and in|jure us, we mu&s;t not un&s;heath our Swords, but &s;hew &s;orth our Patience, and learn of our Ma&s;ter Chri&s;t Je&s;us to be led like Seeep to the Slaugh|ter.</P>
<P>It is not <HI>bono Regi, &s;ed Regi:</HI> not to Kings that are good and gentle, and rule well; but to tho&s;e that are froward and evil, and rule ill,
<PB N="13" REF="9" MS="y"> that we Chri&s;tians are commanded by St. <HI>Peter, 1 Ep.</HI> 2. 18. to be &s;ubject and obedient. Evil, as well as good Princes have their Kingdom from God; <HI>for by him,</HI> as he tells us, <HI>Prov. 8. 15. Kings reign;</HI> and he it is, as our Prophet <HI>Daniel</HI> teacheth us, <HI>Chap.</HI> 4. 25. that tran&s;lates Kingdoms, <HI>and gives them to whom&s;oever he plea&s;eth.</HI></P>
<P>He who gave the Kingdom of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> to <HI>David,</HI> that good and pious Prince, gave it al&s;o to <HI>Jeroboam the Son of Nebat,</HI> that impious and pro|phane one. He who gave the <HI>Roman</HI> Empire to <HI>Augu&s;tus,</HI> that &s;weet and merciful Prince, gave it al&s;o to <HI>Nero,</HI> that inhumane <HI>Carnifex,</HI> and Mon|&s;ter of Men. He who advanced to the Emperial Dignity, <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the mo&s;t Chri&s;tian Emperor, advanced al&s;o unto it, <HI>Julian</HI> that damn|ed Apo&s;tate from the Chri&s;tian Faith: And therefore <HI>propter Deum, for Gods &s;ake,</HI> becau&s;e the Powers that be, are ordained of him, becau&s;e he hath put his Vizard upon Kings, and made them his Repre&s;entatives here on Earth, are they to be honoured and obeyed, &s;upported and pray|ed for by their Subjects, and in no ca&s;e, no though they be never &s;o Tyrannical or Heretical, are they to be ri&s;en up again&s;t, or re&s;i&s;ted by their Subjects.</P>
<P>Kings are <HI>&s;oli Deo minores,</HI> inferiour to none but God, have no Su|periour on Earth to judge or depo&s;e them, no not &s;o much as the Pope or the People: And therefore, when wronged or injured by them, we have no other way of appeal;&punc; than unto him, who is higher than the highe&s;t, and with Prayers and Tears to lay open our Cau&s;e before God. And in no other Water are we Chri&s;tians allowed to drown a Tyrant, than in the Water of our Eyes; nor with any other Fire to burn an He|retical Prince, than with the coales of kindne&s;s, heaped on his head: And this, this, as &s;aith St. <HI>Pet. 1 Ep&punc;</HI> 2. 19. is truly Chri&s;tian and Thank|worthy; when men for Con&s;cience toward God, and becau&s;e they will not be found guilty of re&s;i&s;ting his Ordinance, endure grief, &s;uffering wrongfully.</P>
<P><HI>Bonum facere, &amp; malum pati,</HI> to do good chearfully, and to &s;uffer evil patiently, <HI>e&s;t vere Regium,</HI> a truly Kingly Act, and by &s;o doing, &s;ubjects will in the end, with <HI>Daniel,</HI> get the Conque&s;t and Victory over their Kings.</P>
<P>You have &s;een who it was that &s;aid, and the per&s;on to whom it was &s;aid, <HI>O King live for ever:</HI> It was the Prophet <HI>Daniel</HI> to King <HI>Darius.</HI> And now before we proceed any farther, let us make a brief Application of what hath been already &s;aid, and as the Apo&s;tle phra&s;eth it, transfer over the&s;e things unto our &s;elves.</P>
<P N="1">1. Did the Prophet <HI>Daniel</HI> honour, obey and pray for King <HI>Darius</HI> who was a Heathen Prince, and an Alien from the Church of God?
<PB N="14" REF="10"> And are not we Chri&s;tians much more bound to honour, obey, and pray for King <HI>Charles,</HI> the Re&s;torer of the true Religion, and the Defender of the true Catholick Faith among&s;t us? Did he &s;ay unto King <HI>Darius, O King, live for ever;</HI> and are not we much more bound daily and hour|ly to pray unto God, that our King <HI>Charles</HI> may live for ever?</P>
<P N="2">2. Did <HI>Daniel</HI> honour and pray for King <HI>Darius,</HI> who was an Op|pre&s;&s;or and Per&s;ecutor of Gods People; one that kept them in bondage and &s;lavery? And are not we much more bound to honour, obey, and pray for our King <HI>Charles,</HI> who hath been under God the Re&s;torer of our Liberty, the Healer of our Breaches, the Repairer of our Ruines; one who hath f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">eed us from the greate&s;t bondage and &s;lavery that ever people groaned under? Did he &s;ay unto King <HI>Darius, O King, live for ever;</HI> and &s;hall not we much more pray for our King <HI>Charles,</HI> that he may <HI>live for ever?</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Did <HI>Daniel</HI> honour, obey, and pray for King <HI>Darius,</HI> who made evil Laws, and endeavoured by his evil Edicts to compell him, and the re&s;t of his Subjects unto Idolatry; and are not we much more bound to honour, obey, and pray for our King <HI>Charles,</HI> who doth not exerci&s;e an arbitrary authority over us, but rules him&s;elf and us by tho&s;e very Laws which we our &s;elves have made and con&s;ented unto, and doth not com|mand us from; but unto the Service of God? Did he &s;ay, <HI>O King, live for ever;</HI> and &s;hall not we ever pray, that our <HI>King Charles</HI> may <HI>live for ever.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. Did holy <HI>Daniel</HI> honour and pray for King <HI>Darius,</HI> who exerci|&s;ed great inju&s;tice and cruelty upon him in particular, and commanded him for his &s;yncere &s;erving God to be ca&s;t into the Den of Lions; and are not we much more bound to honour, obey, and pray for our King <HI>Charles,</HI> who hath not wronged nor injured any one of us, but hath pro|tected us all in our ju&s;t Rights and Liberties; and who may truly and ju&s;tly make the &s;ame Challenge among&s;t us, that aged <HI>Samuel</HI> made among the <HI>I&s;raelites, 1 Sam. 12. 3. Behold here I am, witne&s;s again&s;t me who&s;e Ox have I taken, or A&s;s have I taken, or whom have I oppre&s;&s;ed or defrauded, &amp;c.</HI> Did he &s;ay unto King <HI>Darius, O King, live for ever;</HI> and &s;hall not we daily and hourly pray unto God, that our King <HI>Charles</HI> may <HI>live for ever?</HI></P>
<P>I have done with per&s;ons concerned in this Compellation, <HI>O King;</HI> and in this Precation, <HI>Live for ever.</HI> I take my leave of King <HI>Darius</HI> and the Prophet <HI>Daniel,</HI> and I pa&s;s now to &s;peak &s;omething in brief of the Title it &s;elf, and of the Prayer. And,</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="15" REF="10" MS="y">1. Of the Title or Compellation, <HI>O King.</HI> Titles of Honour and Acts of Reverence are debts and duties which Subjects owe, and mu&s;t readily pay unto their Sovereigns. The Dignity of a King is a kind of Divinity; and as God &s;ometimes takes unto him&s;elf their Title, and calls him&s;elf a King; &s;o doth he &s;ometimes impart unto them his Title, and calls them Gods; <HI>I have &s;aid ye are Gods,</HI> &s;aith he of Kings and Princes, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 82. 6. Kings and Princes are Gods, though not by na|ture, yet by office; for they are Gods Vicegerents, and repre&s;ent his per&s;on here on earth. The very Heathen called their King <HI>Imago Dei,</HI> the Image of God; and oft in Scripture are Kings termed <HI>The Lords Anointed,</HI> to teach us that God hath a more particular Intere&s;t in them, than he hath in other men.</P>
<P>Many in the&s;e our evil and licentious times take unto them&s;elves, (the more is their &s;hame) a wretched liberty to <HI>&s;peak evil of Dignities;</HI> and it is meat and drink to the factious and &s;editious Spirits of our Age&punc; to di&s;cour&s;e over their Pots and their Pipes&punc; of the faults and failings of their King. But beware, my Brethren, that you ca&s;t not in your lot among them, and be partakers with them in this evil deed; for it is written <HI>Exod. 22. 28. Thou &s;halt not revile thy God, nor &s;peak evil of the Ruler of thy people.</HI> Is it fit as <HI>Elihu</HI> the <HI>Ba&s;ire</HI> demands, <HI>Job</HI> 34. 18. to &s;ay unto a King, Thou art wicked, or to Princes, You are ungodly? It is no way fit &s;ure, but de&s;erves a mo&s;t &s;evere Cen&s;ure and Puni&s;h|ment.</P>
<P>Kings have no Superiour here on earth, and therefore cannot be ar|raigned and judged for their faults by any, but by their &s;uperior Lord in Heaven; who to keep them within their due limits, hath threatned them (<HI>E&s;ay 30. ult.</HI>) with a <HI>Tophet</HI> he hath prepared for them.</P>
<P>Kings are not to be thought on, are not to be look'd on, are not to be &s;poken of or unto as mere men, but as the Vicegerents, the magnifi|cent Repre&s;entatives of Almighty God. Honoured they are to be next unto God, and as per&s;ons inferiour to none but God. And if you plea&s;e to &s;earch and ob&s;erve the Scriptures, you will find the like reve|rence and re&s;pect required of Man, to be given unto the King as unto God. <HI>Fear God and the King,</HI> &s;aith the Wi&s;eman, <HI>Prov. 24. 21. Fear God, honour the King,</HI> &s;aith the Apo&s;tle S. <HI>Peter,</HI> 1 Epi&s;t. 2. 17. And though the Bill of <HI>Naboths</HI> Indictment (1 <HI>Kings</HI> 21.) was badly proved, yet it was well enough drawn &s;ure; <HI>Naboth</HI> did bla&s;pheme God and the King, for a man may as well be guilty of Bla&s;phemy in &s;peaking evil of the King, as in &s;peaking evil of God, who&s;e Vicegerent he is and who&s;e per&s;on he repre&s;ents. And the Apo&s;tle S. <HI>Peter</HI> in his &s;econd
<PB N="16" REF="11"> Epi&s;t. 2. 10. hath pointed out &s;uch men unto us to be ungodly men, and heirs of damnation; &s;uch as are re&s;erved unto the day of Judgment to be puni&s;hed; who de&s;pi&s;e Dominion, and are not afraid to bla&s;pheme and &s;peak evil of Dignities.</P>
<P>That then, my Brethren, you may manife&s;t your &s;elves to be true Chri&s;tians&punc; and Loyal Subjects, Heirs of Salvation and not of Damnati|on; learn (I pray) of holy <HI>Daniel</HI> to honour and reverence the King; and though when you &s;peak to him or of him, you call him not <HI>Stylo Chaldaico, O King;</HI> yet call him <HI>Stylo Anglicano,</HI> either <HI>Gracious Lord,</HI> or <HI>Royal Sovereign,</HI> or <HI>Sacred Maje&s;ty.</HI></P>
<P>And as we mu&s;t here in the fir&s;t place learn of holy <HI>Daniel,</HI> to give Titles of Honour and Reverence unto our King; &s;o in the &s;econd place,</P>
<P N="2">2. We mu&s;t learn to &s;end up our Supplications and Prayers unto the <HI>King of Kings,</HI> for the &s;afety and pro&s;perity of our King, and to pray with him, <HI>O King, live for ever.</HI></P>
<P>The duty indeed it is of us Chri&s;tians to pray for all men, but to pray for Kings and &s;uch as are in Authority, is, as S. <HI>Paul</HI> teacheth, 1 <HI>Tim. 2. 13. Our principal and e&s;pecial duty; for Kings above all others, &s;tand mo&s;t in need of our prayers,</HI> as being per&s;ons mo&s;t expo&s;ed to temptations, and dangers, and therefore for our King doth our mother the Church of <HI>England</HI> enjoyn us in her Liturgy, to pray three or four &s;everal times, and yet in &s;o doing commits no Tautology, nor makes u&s;e of any Idle ex|pre&s;&s;ions; for the &s;everal capacities of our King as he is a man, a Chri|&s;tian man, a Magi&s;trate, yea, our &s;upreme magi&s;trate, require us &s;o oft to pray for him. And to &s;peak nothing but truth, the many prayers which our Liturgy hath in it for the King, is none of the lea&s;t cau&s;es that makes it &s;o di&s;gu&s;tful, to the factious and &s;editious &s;pirits that are among&s;t us; and it is no le&s;s than a miracle to find one that is, or hath been an enemy to the King, well affected toward the Liturgy of the Church.</P>
<P>To make &s;olemn &s;upplications and prayers for, and to wi&s;h well un|to their King, hath been the practice of Pious and Loyal people in all ages: And great need &s;ure have the people to be in&s;tant and always to pray for the &s;afety and pro&s;perity of their King; for as the life of Old <HI>Jacob,</HI> was &s;aid to be bound up in the life of <HI>Benjamin;</HI> &s;o the happi|ne&s;s and felicity of the people con&s;i&s;ts in the &s;afety and pro&s;perity of the King.</P>
<P>The ble&s;&s;ings which God &s;howrs down upon the King, are like the oyntment that was poured upon the head of <HI>Aaron;</HI> they &s;tay not there
<PB N="17" REF="11" MS="y"> but de&s;cend from him unto the very &s;kirt, and upon the lowe&s;t of his people; and if God be plea&s;ed to ble&s;s the King and keep him &s;afe, he will have a care, that all the people, even from <HI>Dan</HI> to <HI>Beer&s;heba</HI> &s;hall live in &s;afety and &s;it quietly every man under his own vine and his own fig-tree.</P>
<P>When the members of the body feed the belly, what do they el&s;e, I pray, but feed them&s;elves and provide for their own &s;trength and nou|ri&s;hment? &s;o when &s;ubjects pray for, and cheerfully contribute and pay tribute towards the maintenance and &s;upport of their King; what do they el&s;e I pray then provide for the &s;afety of them&s;elves and their po&s;terities; for under his &s;hadow and protection it is that they &s;it &s;afe, both from Foreign and Dome&s;tick foes? And like the Ivy tree they cannot grow and pro&s;per, without the &s;upport of this <HI>Royal-oak,</HI> And therefore, my brethren, as you wi&s;h well to your &s;elves and your po&s;terity, to your Friends, to your Country; &s;o wi&s;h well unto your King, and pray as <HI>Daniel</HI> did here for <HI>Darius,</HI> That he may <HI>live for ever.</HI></P>
<P>But is not this prayer, you will perhaps &s;ay, which <HI>Daniel</HI> made for King <HI>Darius,</HI> and you now advi&s;e us to make for our King, a faithle&s;s, groundle&s;s one? And do we not in it pray for what we cannot hope, <HI>viz.</HI> That our King who is a mortal man and mu&s;t die, may be immor|tal and <HI>live for ever,</HI></P>
<P>Surely this prayer is not only of a <HI>Babyloni&s;h</HI> &s;tile and &s;tamp, u&s;ed by none but the Subjects of the <HI>Chaldean</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Monarchs, but it bears on it al&s;o the &s;tamp of the &s;anctuary, and was made u&s;e of in <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> by Gods own people; And as <HI>Nehemiah</HI> prayed for King <HI>Artaxerxes;</HI> the wi&s;e&punc; men of <HI>Babylon</HI> for King <HI>Nebuchadnezzar; Daniel</HI> here for King <HI>Darius</HI> prayed; Queen <HI>Bath&s;heba</HI> for King <HI>David,</HI> and that too when he lay on his death bed, and could not by the cour&s;e of nature live ma|ny days longer: <HI>Let my Lord King David Live for ever</HI> (&s;aith &s;he) 1. King 1. 31.</P>
<P>And it is a Prayer that may Faithfully and Piou&s;ly be made by us, for ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> King, and that in a threefold re&s;pect and &s;ence,</P>
<P N="1">1 It may be &s;aid of us in re&s;pect of our &s;elves and pre&s;ent happine&s;s&punc; all changes in Government are full of Peril and Danger, as well to mens Souls and Bodies as to their Goods and E&s;tates, and therefore in re&s;pect of our own good and happine&s;s, we may &s;afely and faithfully pray, <HI>That the King may Love for ever, Live for ever</HI> to us, that is, that he may out|live us; That our little &s;tars may all go down, before the &s;etting of our Glorious Sun, that our &s;mall candles may be all wa&s;ted and burnt
<PB N="18" REF="12"> out, before the Great Lamp of our <HI>I&s;rael</HI> be extingui&s;hed.</P>
<P N="2">2. It may be &s;aid of us in re&s;pect of our Country, and the future fe|licity and happine&s;s of it when we are dead and gone. 'Tis a Maxim in our law, That the King never dies: no &s;ooner is the breath out of the no&s;trils of the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;or of our Crown, but the right of it is immediate|ly devolved and pa&s;&s;ed over upon his lawful Heir and Succe&s;&s;or, and therefore that Kingly Government, the Government under which our Nation hath long flouri&s;hed may never cea&s;e among&s;t us, we may &s;afely and faithfully pray, <HI>That the King may live for ever; Live for ever</HI> to our Country, that is, that no night may follow the &s;etting of our Sun; But that when our <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is called up into mount <HI>Nebo</HI> to dye, a <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> may be appointed to &s;ucceed him; when our King <HI>David</HI> &s;hall be ga|thered unto his fathers, a <HI>Solomon</HI> may be &s;et upon his Throne, and that his &s;ucce&s;&s;or may be the Heir of his Vertue and Piety, as well as of his Crown and Dignity.</P>
<Q REND="margQuotes"><P>And indeed Brethren and Country-men, prayer is the only law|ful means, that we may make u&s;e of in the ca&s;e of &s;ucce&s;&s;ion: The di&s;po&s;ing of Kingdoms, and the &s;etting up of Kings, is a prerogative which the King of Kings claims as peculiar onely unto him&s;elf.</P>
<P><HI>By me Kings reign,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>Prov.</HI> 8. 15. He it is, as it is written <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> 4 25. That ruleth in the Kingdom of men, and giveth it unto whom&s;oe|ver he will. Surely when Subjects in hereditary Kingdoms take upon them to elect Kings, and pre&s;ume to nominate who &s;hall be next Heir to the Crown, they traiterou&s;ly u&s;urp upon the Authority Royal of Al|mighty God, &s;et up Kings as he complains, <HI>Ho&s;. 8. 4. without him:</HI> run them&s;elves directly into the &s;ame crime that the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> did, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 13. when they revolted from the hou&s;e of <HI>David,</HI> thru&s;t out the right Heir to the Crown, with a <HI>Nolumus hunc, We will not have this man to rule over us:</HI> And will ('tis &s;adly to be feared) provoke God, to give them a King in his wrath, to plague them with a <HI>Jerob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ham</HI> indeed; to &s;et up &s;uch a King over them, as will withdraw them all from the true &s;ervice and wor&s;hip of God at <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> into Idolatry, and the wor&s;hiping of the golden Calves that he &s;hall &s;et up at <HI>Bethel</HI> and <HI>Dan.</HI></P>
<P>God hath hid future things, the i&s;&s;ue of to morrow in the dark, lockt up in his Cabinet, among&s;t his &s;ecret things, as well the date of Mans days, as all things that &s;hall happen after, this very minute, and no man knows what &s;hall be after him under the Sun, who &s;hall be his
<PB N="19" REF="12" MS="y"> own Heir, and &s;ucceed him in his E&s;tate, much le&s;s who &s;hall be the Kings Heir, and &s;ucceed him in the Throne. Men may get E&s;tates, but it is God that makes Heirs unto them; men may con&s;ult and pre|&s;ume to enact who &s;hall be next Heir to the Crown, but it is the Coun&s;el of the Lord that &s;hall &s;tand; and he &s;hall be our next King, whom he &s;hall plea&s;e to nominate and appoint; nor &s;hould we &s;uffer doubtful thoughts to ari&s;e in our minds, de&s;pair of Gods provi|dence, and care for us, and run our &s;elves into &s;editious and traite|rous practices, becau&s;e the next Heir to our Crown, and the vi&s;ible &s;ucce&s;&s;or of our &s;acred Sovereign, is &s;aid to be &s;educed and drawn away from the true faith, and the religion that is profe&s;t among&s;t us; for who of all us knows whether he may not be laid in his grave, before the eyes of our pre&s;ent Royal Sovereign be clo&s;ed? and who a|mong&s;t us can tell, whether when God alters his condition and makes him our King, he may not al&s;o alter his mind, give him as he gave <HI>Saul</HI> when he made him King, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10. 9. another heart.</P>
<P>All I &s;ay brethren that we have to do in this ca&s;e, is to prai&s;e God for the pre&s;ent gracious King that he has &s;et over us, to pray for his long life and pro&s;perity; and to be&s;eech him, that when he &s;ees fit to take him from us, he would be graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to &s;et &s;uch a King over us, as may with him be a zealous de&s;ender of his true faith, and a nur&s;ing father to the Church; a &s;upporter and pillar of the &s;tate, and one that will govern not in an arbitrary, but a legal way, and &s;ecure us all in our ju&s;t rights and liberties; and let us quietly permit God to do his own work, to rule in the Kingdom of men, and to give it to whom|&s;oever he will, and with patience wait the event.</P></Q>
<P>This Prayer, <HI>O King live for ever,</HI> may &s;afely and faithfully be made of us in re&s;pect of our King him&s;elf. Surely the &s;oul, and the eternal &s;al|vation of the King, ought to be as dear to every good Subject as his body and temporal pre&s;ervation, and we &s;hould be as zealous', and as careful, to obtain a Crown of Glory hereafter for him in Heaven, as to keep the Crown upon his head here on earth; and there|fore we may faithfully and piou&s;ly pray that our <HI>King may live for ever,</HI> that is, that when God &s;hall be plea&s;ed to put an end to his days, he may change his temporal Crown into an eternal one, and from reigning over men on earth, admit him to reign for ever with him|&s;elf in Heaven.</P>
<P>To pray for the King is the duty of every good Subject; but &s;o to do is the mo&s;t e&s;pecial duty of tho&s;e that are payed by the King, and have
<PB N="20" REF="13"> their whole livelihood and maintainance from him: &s;uch mu&s;t know that it is their duty, as well to guard the King and the Fortre&s;&s;es of his Kingdom, with their &s;piritual weapons of Faith and Prayer, as with their carnal ones of Pikes and Guns; and when the Kings Souldiers&punc; and tho&s;e that are pay'd by him, are not employed in the natural Mili|tia, and in the guard-hou&s;e a watching for the defence of the fortre&s;s&punc; which he hath committed unto them, they cannot with a good con|&s;cience be better employ'd, than in betaking them&s;elves to the Spiritual Militia, and in repairing to the Church, there to joyn with the Con|gregation, in praying for the Safety and Pre&s;ervation of the King. And they have large con&s;ciences &s;ure who take the Kings daily pay to do many times the Devils work, and &s;pend more time in the tap-hou&s;e and drinking to the King, than in the Temple a praying for him; and I am right &s;orry that I am enforced to complain, that the prayers of the Church which are here daily, Morning and Evening in the Church, made for the King, are &s;o far from being acceptable unto tho&s;e that are here maintained by the King, that they &s;well and puff at them; and heartily wi&s;h that they were rid of the bu&s;ie, preci&s;e, pragmatical Prie&s;t that u&s;eth them.</P>
<P>But though &s;waggering and &s;wearing Sword-men boa&s;t them&s;elves to be the Kings Life-guard, and be&s;t defence again&s;t his Foes; yet 'tis pious and praying Churchmen, that are indeed his be&s;t Life-guard and &s;tronge&s;t&punc; Tower of Defence. Valiant Souldiers and Sword-men are at be&s;t, and when they have done their be&s;t, but the Infantry and Foot|men; 'tis pious Prie&s;ts and praying Churchmen, (as lightly as male|pert Souldiers &s;et by them, and as ba&s;ely as they e&s;teem them) that make up the Cavalry, are (as termed 2 <HI>Kings 13. 14.) the Chariots of I&s;|rael, and the Hor&s;emen</HI> thereof; the principal <HI>Militia,</HI> and defence of King and Kingdom. And I will be bold to &s;ay, that His Maje&s;ty hath not in all his Dominions a &s;tronger Ca&s;tle or Fortre&s;s of defence again&s;t his Foes, than is the Church, nor any better Souldiers than tho&s;e Prie&s;ts, that to their watching add daily praying for him.</P>
<P>But what may &s;ome here object? Will you blame Souldiers, and &s;uch as are paid by the King, for neglecting to pray for the King? Why no men are more mindful of the King, or pray oftener for him than they do? They &s;eldom drink, (and they drink many of them God knows too oft) but they drink a Health to the King, and pray for him?</P>
<P>Surely my Warlike Brethren and Sons of <HI>Mars,</HI> as grim and big as you look, I am not afraid to tell you, that to make a Taphou&s;e your
<PB N="21" REF="13" MS="y"> Temple, and to &s;acrifice there for the Life of your King to the Heathen|i&s;h and drunken God <HI>Bacchus;</HI> and in the mean time, to leave the Tem|ple of the living God, the Church, where Prayers are daily morning and evening made for the King, to lie naked and de&s;olate, is to make your &s;elves ju&s;tly guilty of what <HI>Naboth</HI> was fal&s;ly charged withall, <HI>viz.</HI> of bla&s;pheming God and the King.</P>
<P>My Brethren, I am not &s;o Stoically &s;evere, as to deny you the u&s;e of moderate Refre&s;hments and Recreations, e&s;pecially at &s;uch times of publick joy as this is. In the u&s;e of moderate and allowed plea&s;ures no man can lawfully give you the reins further than I will; and if you will but keep your &s;elves within the limits of Obedience unto your Heavenly King, and have a care that you abu&s;e not him by intemper|ance and abu&s;e of his Creatures, by Bla&s;phemy, and the taking of his Sacred Name in vain; I will tell you, that you cannot be on this day too expre&s;&s;ive of your joy for the Re&s;tauration of your Temporal King; and the bodily Pa&s;times and Merriments which you at this time u&s;e, will not at all be prejudicial to your Souls, nor a blemi&s;h to your Religion, if you will but be plea&s;ed to ob&s;erve in them the&s;e few &s;hort Rules, and have a care,</P>
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<ITEM>1. That you do nothing contrary to piety and the glory of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. That you do nothing contrary to Loyalty and the Laws of the King.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. That you do nothing contrary to Sobriety and good of your &s;elves. And,</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. That you do nothing contrary to Charity and good of your Neighbour.</ITEM>
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<P>Ob&s;erve but the&s;e few &s;hort Rules, and you may &s;afely and with a good con&s;cience go and eat the Fat, and drink the Sweet, and u&s;e on this day any of Gods good creatures for your comfort and &s;olace.</P>
<P>But before I di&s;mi&s;s you to your temporal Sports and Merriments, I &s;hall de&s;ire you to joyn with me in the &s;piritual duty of praying for the long life, &s;afety, and pro&s;perity of the King.</P>
<P N="1">I. Let us pray then,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Vivat&punc; Rex,</HI> Let the King live; give him (O Lord) long life, and let his years continue unto many generations; let him abide before thee for ever; O prepare thy loving kindne&s;s and faithfulne&s;s, that they may pre&s;erve him. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Sit felix Rex,</HI> Let the King pro&s;per and have good &s;ucce&s;s in all his undertakings. Give &s;trength (O Lord) unto the King, and exalt the horn of thine Anointed; let his honour be great in thy Salvation,
<PB N="22" REF="14"> Glory and great Wor&s;hip do you lay upon him; give him everla&s;ting felicity, and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Sit &s;alvus Rex,</HI> God &s;ave the King; defend (O Lord) thine Anoint|ed, and keep the King &s;afe from all the Plots and Con&s;piracies of his &s;ecret Foes, and from all the a&s;&s;aults and attempts of his open Ene|mies. Let the Soul of my Lord the King be bound up in the bundle of life with thee (O Lord;) but as for the Souls of his Enemies, &s;ling them all out as out of the middle of the &s;ling; cloath them all (O Lord) with &s;hame, but upon him&s;elf let his Crown flouri&s;h. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P N="2">II. Let us pray again,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Vivat Rex in aeternum,</HI> Let the King live for ever, live for ever un|to us; may he (O Lord) outlive us all, and let none of our glimmer|ing Stars ever &s;ee the &s;etting of our glorious Sun; but let all our dim Lights be put out, all our Eyes clo&s;ed, before the bright &s;hining Lamp and Candle of our <HI>I&s;rael</HI> be extingui&s;hed and put out. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Again let us pray, <HI>Vivat Rex in aeternum,</HI> Let the King live for ever, live for ever to our Country. O let no Twylight of Popular Schi&s;ms and Factions, no dark night of Popi&s;h Ignorance and Super&s;titi|on follow the &s;etting of our Sun, but appoint (O Lord) a <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> to &s;uc|ceed our <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> when he is called up to Mount <HI>Nebo</HI> to die; a <HI>Solomon</HI> to &s;it on the Throne of our <HI>David,</HI> whenever it &s;hall plea&s;e thee to ga|ther him to his Fathers. And may Kingly Government never cea&s;e in our Nation, may our Royal Sovereign never want an Heir of his Ver|tue and Piety, as well as of his Crown and Dignity, till <HI>Shiloh</HI> come again, and all Crowns and Scepters be laid down at the foot of the Lamb. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Once more let us pray, <HI>Vivat Rex in aeternum,</HI> Let the King live for ever, live for ever (O Lord) with thee in Heaven. When thou art plea&s;ed to put an end to his Reign here on earth, O take him we be&s;eech thee to reign with thee for ever in Heaven; and turn his Crown of Gold (O Lord) into a Crown of Glory. <HI>Amen.</HI> And now,</P>
<P>La&s;tly, unto the King eternal, immortal, invi&s;ible; to the onely wi&s;e God and our Saviour Chri&s;t Je&s;us, be given and a&s;cribed as mo&s;t due, all Glory, Honour, Power, Might, Maje&s;ty and Dominion, now and for ever more. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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