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A56163	The first and second part of the signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians (as also of some idolatrous pagans) tovvards their kings, both before and under the law, and Gospel especially in this our island. Expressed in and by their private and publike private loyal supplications, prayers, intercession, thanksgiving, votes, acclamations, salutations, epistles, addresses, benedictions, options of long life, health, wealth, safety, victory, peace, prosperity, all temporal, spiritual, eternal blessings, felicities to their kings persons, families, queens, children, realms, armies, officers, chearfull subjections and dutifull obedience to them: whethe [sic] good, or bad, Christians, or pagans, orthodox, or heterodox, protectors, or persecutors of them. With the true reasons thereof from Scripture and policy. Evidenced by varieties of presidents, testimonies and authorities in al ages, ... Whereunto the several forms, ceremonies, prayers, collects, benedictions and consecrations, used at the coronations of Christian emperors, kings, queens (more particularly in England and Scotland, not formerly published) and of the Mahometan and Ægyptian kings, are annexed. By; Signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians, towards their kings.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3955; ESTC R217939	286,462	453

Christ and commending himself Sanctae matris Eccl●…siae precibus to the ●…rayers of his holy Mother the Church and particularly to the Pray●…s of St. G●…blac the Confessor and Anchorite Whence a Poet'thus writ of him Ethelbaldus c. Dret pro nobis sanctissimus iste Sacerdos Guthlacus Ad tumbam cujus haec mea dona dedi A c●…ear evidence that the Churches and Ministers of Christ in England did then constantly pray for their Christian Kings who specially recommended themselves to their prayers Our venerable and most learned Beda doth very much p esse this Duty of Prayer for Kings though Pagans and Persecutors from sundry Texts of Scripture on which he comments In his Expositiones allegoricae in Ezram l. 2. c. 7. Et offerant oblationes Deo Coeli Oren●…que pro vita Regis et Filiorum ejus He thus comments Offerunt autem ea Sacer dotes iidem pro vita Regis et Filiorum ejus j●…xta illud Ap●…stoli 1 Tim. 2. Obsecro igitur primò omnium fieri obsecrationes orationes postulationes gratiarum actiones pro omnibus hominibus pro Regi●…ns omnibus qui in sublimitate sunt ut quietam tranquillam vitam agamus c. And in his Fxposition on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Tom. 7. p. 708 709 710. he recites and approves the passages of St. A●…gustin at large recited in the next Chapter commanding Prayers Supplications Intercessions and Thanksgivings to be made not only for Christian and pious Kings but even for ●…agans and Idolaters though vitious though Persecutors of the Gospel and fincere Professors thereof Our famous Council of Clov●…sho under Archbishop Cuthbert Anno Dom. 747. cap. 30. De orando pro Rege decreed 〈◊〉 deinceps per ●…anonic as Orationum hor●… non solum pro se Ecclesiastici sive Monasteriales sed etiam pro Regibus ac Ducibus totiusque populi Christiani incolumitate Divinam incessan●…èr exorent clementiam quatenus Duictam et Tranquillam Uitam sub corum pia defensione mereantur agere Et ut ita post haec unanimes existerent in Deum fide spe caritate seipsos invicem diligerent etiam post hujus peregrinationis pericula ad supernam pervenire pariter mereanter patriam The reason of making this Canon for incessant Prayers for Kings Dukes and Princes is thus expressed in the preceding part thereof that there was a scandal and suspition raised amongst the Priests of God inferiour Clergy that they had an ill opinion of Kings Dukes and Princes as too many have now Hoc est quod Reges cum Ducibus Principibus suis ac deind●… minoris potetestatis persuasi plurimi de eis dicere soleant quod non tantum sincero eos non diligant affectu sed insuper eorum bonis prae●…entibus ac prosperitatibus quibusque foelicioribus magis invideant animo nimis infesto quàm devoto satis congaudeant corde eorum que conversationis statum Odibili quadam detractatione dilacerare non desinant A very good ground to revive and re-enforce this Duty both on Ministers and people now Ut horis canonicis Pr●…ces fiant pro Regibus as the Margin of this Canon prescribes as well as the body thereof Boniface Archbishop of Mentz an Englishman by birth thus inscribes and begins his 19. Epistle to our King Ethilbald Domino charissimo in Christi amore caeteris Regilus praeferendo inclyta Anglorum imperii sceptra gu●…ernanti Ethilbaldo Regi Bonifacius c. Wera Burckart Warbeth Abel Wilibald Coepiscopi Perennem in Christo charitatis salutem Confitemur coram Deo sanctis Angelis quia quamcumque prosperitatem vestram video opera bona Dee coram homini●…us per nuncios fideles audivimus quod inter gaudentes et pro vobis orantes gratias agimus Deo postulantes et obsecrantes Salvatorem nostrum ut vos sospites et in side stabiles et in operibus coram Deo rectos in Principatu Christiani populi longo tempore custodiat And King Ethilbert thus closeth his Epistle to Boniface the Archbishop who prayed for him in those times Orantem pro Nobis beatitudinem tuam longaevam divina pietas faciat His 14. Epistle to Pippin King of France begins thus C●…lsitudinis vestrae clementiae magnas gratias agamus et Dominum Iesum Christum precantes ut vobis in regno Coelorum aeternam merced●…m retribuat Most of his and Lu●…us his Successors Epistles conclude with Prayers Cenewlphus King of the East-Saxons with his Bishops and Nobles in their Epistle to L●…llus Successor to this Boniface as they pray for him so they likewise entreat him and his Clerks to pray to God for them in thei●… Congregation Ut pro nostra parvitate proque ●…ace congregationis nostrae Domino supplicare cum eis qui tecum invocant nomen Domini Iesu memineris Omnipotens Deus qui dispersa congregat congregata ●…stodit ipse vos sua gratia prot●…gat et v●…stri laboris fructum in aeterna patria nos 〈◊〉 concedat The renowned Council of Calchuth held in the year 787. under Alfwold King of Northum 〈◊〉 and Offa King of Mercians their Prelates and Nobles and P●…pe Adrians two Legates Gr●…gory and Th●…ophylact c. 12. De Ordinatione honore Regum amongst other things prescribed constant Prayers for and subjection to Kings prohibiting all Treasons and Conspiracies against them in these words and from these Scriptures Scitore quia Dominus dominator est in regno hominum ipsius est regnum cuicu●…que voluerit dabit illud Ideo Omnes generaliter admonuimus ut consona voce et corde Dominum rogent ut qui eum eligit in Regnum ipse ei tribuat regimen Disciplinae sanctae suae ad regendam plebem suam Honor quoque eis ab omnibus impendatur dicente Apostolo Regem ●…onoroficate alibi sive Regi qua●…i praecellenti five Ducibus tanquam ab co missis ad vindictam male●…actorum laudem verò bonorum Item Apostolus Omnis anima sublimioribus potestatious subdita sit quia non est potestas data nisi 〈◊〉 Deo Q●…ae autem sunt à Deo ordinata sunt Igitur qui 〈◊〉 potestati Dei ordinationi resistit qui autem resist●…nt ipsi ●…ibi damnationem acquirunt Nulius Regi detrahat dicente Salomone in ore tuo ne detraxeris Regi in corde tuo ne maledixe●… 〈◊〉 Principi●… quia aves Coeli portant illud qui habet pennam a●…ntiabit verbum In necem Regis Nemo communicare audeat quia Christus Domini est Et si quis tali sceleri adhaeserit si Episcopus est aut ullus ex Sacerdotali gradu ex ipso detrudatur et â sancta haereditate dejiciatur sieut Judas ex Apostolico gradu ejectus est omnis quisquis tali sacrilegio assenserit aeterno anathematis vinculo

and Coronations of their Kings Princes yea to pray for their Persons Kingdoms Posterities Felicity Stability Tranquillity Perpetuity and for their speedy comming restitution when forcibly driven from their Kingdoms by Enemies or Rebels And if any malicious Pharisees Priests Scribes or ●…rayterous Antimonarchists shall be sore displeased with them for these th●…ir Prayers Prayses Rejoycings Thanksgivings and rebuke them for the same King Jesus his own Answere to the Pharisees Priests and Scribes forecited may for ever stop their mouths and reclaim them ●…rom such disloyal ●…reasonable rebukes And so much the rather because these premi●… Presidents both before and under the L●…w and Gospel app●…ved prescribed by God and practised by his Servants were the ground of this Gospel exhortation and injunction which not only approve●… and prescribes but commends the same to all Christians under the Gospel in these observable words 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. I exhort therefore that first of all Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for Kings in the first place as Supreme 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. and for all that are in Authority under and after them that we may live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour who will have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth I shall a little insist on this Gospel Text as most punctual full pertinent to my purpose the rather because in August 1659. in the University of Cambridge it self a Minister of the Gospel the Son of a Parliament man was by the Maior of the town whose wife is a Quaker apprehended by a company of Souldiers and kept Prisoner for a time only for praying in general for all Christian Kings Princes and Governors according to this Text when George Whitehead and George Fex two Quakers blasphemously railed and disputed against Jesus Christ the two other Persons the blessed Trinity and the word of God an whole hour together in the Maiors presence and sundry others without check or punishment such are the atheistical antimonarchical times wherein we live In this text consider 1. The Pen-man of it by divine inspiration S. Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ specially delegated by him to the Gentiles uncircumcision to open their eies to turn them from darkness to light and from ●…he power of Satan unto God And to bear Christs name before the Gentiles and Kings Acts 9. 15. c. 26. 1●… 17 18. Gal. 2. 2 7 8 9. Eph. 3. 1 to 12. Acts 13. 46 47. c. 15. 7. c. 18. 6. c 21●… 19 20. c. 22 21. c. 28. 28. Rom 11. 13. c. 15. 15 to 25. Col. 1. 27 28. 2 Tim. 1. 11. c. 4. 17. Therefore these Duties are specially recommended and prescribed to them 2ly The person to whom this Epistle and exhortation was principally particularly directed even Timothy his dearly beloved Son and Fellow●… Minister in preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles then residing at Ephesus 1 Tim. 1 3. a City and Church of the Gentiles where he exercised his Ministry and was to perform these Duties publickly in his own person as a Minister to excite all others thereunto Therefore these Duties of making publick Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings for Kings both in publick and private do principally belong and are carefully to be performed by all Ministers and Preachers of the Gospel to and amongst the Gentiles 3ly The manner of pressing these Duties the Apostle doth most earnestly and zealously urge their performance as the words I exhort or earnestly desire import Exhortings being the most passionate pathetical fervent pressing of men to duties Lu. 3. 18. Act. 11. 23. c. 13. 15. c. 2. 40. c. 15. 32. c. 20. 2. Rom. 12. 8. 1 Thes. 2. 11 12. c. 4. ●… c. 5. 14. 2 Thes. 3. 12. 1 Tim. 4. 13. c. 6. 2. 2 Tim. 4. 2. Tit. 1. 9. c. 2. 6 15. Heb. 3. 13. c. 12. 5. c. 13. 22. 1 Pet. 5. 1. Jude 3. 4ly The grounds of his enforcing these Duties so earnestly implyed in the word therefore relating to the close of the precedent Chapter v. 18 19 20. This charge I commit unto thee Son Timothy according to the Prophecies that we●… before on thee that thou by them mightest war a good warfare holding Faith and a good Conscience which he could not do or perform unless he discharged these Duties he thus exhorted him to being a part of his spiritual good warfare and both a means and evidence of his holding Faith and a good Conscience and his neglect or contempt of them a ready way to make shipwrack of them as Hymeneus and Alexander had done whom he had dilivered to Satan Antimonarchical and Antimagistratical Ministers or Christians will soon turn Apostates and Blasphemers yea put away and make shipwrack of their Faith and good Conscience towards God when they became disloyal and rebellious to their Kings and give over Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings for them as we have found by late sad experiments 5ly The primacy and excellency of these Duties before all others expressed in the clause I exhort therefore that first of all that is in the first place before and above all other Duties parts of Ministry or Christianity they are carefully conscienciously cordially to be performed without the least omission or neglect 6ly The variety of the Duties set forth by these various expressions That Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings all in the plural number be made for Kings Which pluralities imply 1. A universality of their several kinds to wit That all sorts of Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings whatsoever ought to be made for them 2ly A multiplicity of each of them not a single Supplication Prayer Intercession Thanksgiving and no more but many and manifold Supplications Prayers and Thanksgivings 3ly A frequency fervency constancy perpetuity in the performance of them both in publick and private all our lives long without ceasing or flagging as the marginal Scriptures evidence 4ly An universality in respect of persons and places thus expressed in the verse following I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy hands 5ly An universality of things Mercies Blessings c. for which Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings ought at any time ordinarily or extraordinarily publickly or privately to be made to God in behalf of Kings 6ly Supplications for the pardon and remission of all their sins errors miscariages frailties iniquities whatsoever for converting diverting or keeping them from all evil and destructive waies errors counsels designs undertakings whatsoever dishonourable to God scandalous to Religion hurtfull to the Church fatal to their Kingdoms People Royal persons families and posteritie and for removing all inflicted threatned or feared judgements evils from their Persons Families Kingdoms Relations Prayers for all sorts of corporal temporal spiritual eternal Blessings Mercies which they at any time

Necessities Sickn●…ss●…s Sufferings Afflictions Temptations because then they need them most as well as private Christians Churches Nations as the marginal Scriptures will abundantly evidence 3. That it is not only unnatural unchristian and inhuman but antichristian tyrannical treasonable if not diabolical and atheistical for any usurped Powers or Innovators whatsoever not only to enforce Subjects against their Loyalty Consciences the Presidents of all Christ●…ans Pagans and the P●…ecepts of God himself not onl●… by unrighteous flagitious Edicts and Engagements t●… command and injoyn both Ministers all other Subjects to abjure their former hereditary Kings their Heirs lawful Successors against all Scripture presidents Laws their former Oaths of Fealty Homage Allegiance Supremacy Protestation Vow Leagues Solemn Covenant to be true loyal faithful and obedient Subjects to them their Heirs and Successors and to maintain and defend their Persons Rights Jurisdictions and Crowns with their lives and estates against all attempts conspiracies and machinations whatsoever but to inhibit under severe penalties all publick and private Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings unto God in their behalfs even in their greatest extremities when they stand most in need of them And to commit imprison sequester and cast any Subjects into a Lions den for obeying God herein rather than men as th●… High-Priests heretofore committed and imprisone●… the Apostles and the Babylonian Princes and King the Prophet Daniel the extremity of Tyranny Impiety and devilish persecution which God will most severely revenge and recompence in due season 4. That for any professing themselves the chiefest of all Saints and men truly fearing God to obliterate deface remove out of all our Churches Chapels Courts publick Halls places the Arms of their lawful Kings to erect only a bloody Crosse and Irish Harp in their steads and to deleate in some places these sacred Texts of Prov. 24. 21. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King c. 1 Pet. 2. 17. Fear God honour the King and in other places HONOUR the King permitting Fear God to stand alone on the Church walls and other places where they were painted or carved near the Kings Arms and to make such a strange divorce between these 2. sentences which God himself hath united and so strictly conjoyned both in the Old Testament and New That so the Ministers and people might be thereby deterred not only from honoring praying for their Kings as God enjoyns them but induced to cast off the very fear publick worship of God himself provoked at last to say with the despairing Idolatrous revolting 10. tribes of Israel Hos. 10. 3. We have no King because we feared not the Lord what then should King do to us a crime whereof so me swaying Grandees have been deeply guilty in our 3. Kingdoms is in truth the highest strain of Apostacy Irreligion pr●…fessed Atheism and contempt of God that ever men professing themselves Saints or Christians were guilty of in any age since the Creation And for others of them to say in the very Church and presence of God himself with much passion as one of the sitting Juncto did very lately that the word KING doth so stick in our Ministers mouths and teeth that it will never be well till it be thrust and forced down their throats by force and armed Tyranny only because Mr. Case in his prayer after Sermon at St. Martins Church on the Lords day prayed That God according to his promise and in his own sense and meaning would be graciously pleased to make Kings to become Nursing-Fathers and Queens to be Nursing-Mothers to his Church is such a transcendent strain of Atheistical impiety Antimonarchical malice brutish Tyranny and Barbarity as should make our very hearts and loins to q uake and will certainly draw down the extremity of Gods vengeance on those who are guilty thereof if not on our whole now miserably distracted oppressed and almost ruined Kingdoms if not timely repented of 5ly That Kings and Monarchy are the very best most desirable happyest peaceablest honorablest safest Governors and Governments of all others in the world because in the first place we are commanded obliged by God himself to make supplications intercessions prayers and thanksgivings unto him for them that under them 〈◊〉 live a peaceable and quiet life in all godlinesse and honesty but never for a Commonwealth by name and all Christian Nations in all ages have accordingly practiced it as the premises and second pa●…t will abundantly demonstrate 6ly That ever since we neglected disused and gave over this publick Christian duty for our just hereditary Kings their heirs successors and royal posterity and have abandoned abjured engaged against them and Kingship we have never had nor enjoyed a quiet and peaceable life in Church or State and have generally abandoned all real godlinesse and honesty which are hardly to be found in any of our 3. Kingdoms especially amongst our Grandees Army-Officers and those refined sublimated Saints of the last edition who most pretend unto them and have done acted voted setled nothing that is good or acceptable in the sight of God the Father or tending towards the Temporal or eternal salvation of all men and reducing them to the knowledge much lesse the practice of the truth but we have been still disquieted vexed oppressed tormented with endless wars tumults revolutions of Governors and Governments intollerable taxes excises losses decay 〈◊〉 trade by Land and Sea errors schismes sects heresie●… blasphemies of all sorts and an inundation of all vices sins hypocrisies perjuries treacheries and wickednesses which may hasten our total and final dissolution without any hopes of mercy restauration or future settlement or hearts or wisdom to lay hold of those manifold opp●…rtunities which Gods wonder-working providence hath put into our hands to preserve and restore us if timely laid hold on and improved by us for that end 7. That the only ready hopefull christian divine and most effectual means now left and prescribed by God to every private Minister Christian Family Church and our three ruined lacerated distracted Kingdoms to recover and restore their long expected and vainly endeavoured pristine peace quietness settlement trade godliness honesty honor prosperity the saving knowledg power sincere profestion and truth of the Gospel with all other blessings of this and a better life and to put a period to all future wars revolutions tumults oppressions tyrannies taxes heresies blasphemies and Jesuitical designs now threatning ruine both to our Churche Kingdoms Families and Poste●…ities is for all and every of them publickly and privately to revive and practise these duties with constancy frequency zeal fervency resolution for our undoubted hereditary King and the royal posterity in their and our greatest distresses according to the premised Commands and Presidents recorded in Scripture by God himself and the Presidents of all Gods Saints and people in former Ages maugre all oppositions or inhibitions of poor

them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well for so is the will of God that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men c. Omitting the very first and principal clause in the Text which he durst or would not read Whether it be to the King as Supreme and the disjunctive Or unto Governours which not only mangled but marred the words and sence of the place After which he immediately added that the self-same rule was prescribed by the Apostle Paul 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. which he thus read maimed as he did the former text I will therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercesstons and thanksgivings be made for all men skipping over the principal words For Kings and reading only the next words All that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour Which double omission and preterition of these two chief clauses in both these quotations one after another in this very Doctrine to avoyd scandals did so much scandalize me that I presently said to the Soldiers fitting in the same seat with me This old temporizing unworthy Minister in mangling and perverting both these Texts one after another in this strange manner by omitting and not reading the principal clauses in them in the very Pulpit and presence of God himself and directions to his Auditors hath given me greater scandal and juster offence than any Minister I ever yet heard preach in all my life not only by imitating but exceeding the very Devil himself when he tempted our Saviour For he when he tempted Christ to cast himself down from the pinacle of the Temple Mat. 4. 6. cited only one Text to induce him to it omitting the last words thereof Ps. 91. 11 12. For it is written he shall give his Angels charge over thee passing over this material clause to keep thee in all thy wayes and reciting only the subsequent words and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone Wherein the Devil acted his own part only both as a Tempter Lyer Prevaricator and that in private But this old Minister if he deserve the Title alleged two several Texts one after another publikely to the whole Congregation in the very Pulpit as the Embassador of Christ himself both which he mangled and prevaricated in the prime Clauses which he omitted wherein he neither acted the part nor discharged the duty of a faithfull Minister but Devil or diabolical Prevaricator fearing pleasing those Anti-royallists in present power and those who could but kill the body more than God himself who could cast his soul and body into hell and had under severest penalties enjoyned all men but Ministers more especially Deut. 4. 2. c. 12. 32. not to diminish ought from the word which he hath commanded them Not to turn from it either to the right hand or to the left Josh. 1. 7. For if any man shall take away from the words of this Book God shall take away his part out of the Book of life and out of the holy City and from the things that are written in this Book Rev. 22. 19. All which texts this timorous wretched Minister regarded not at all dreading the Menaces Commands Power of our Republican Grandees more than the Threats Precepts and Omnipotency of God himself Whereupon the Soldiers confessed to me That it was very ill done of the Minister thus to mangle Scripture and that they were as much offended with him for it as my self Upon further discourse hereof after Sermon I told the Troopers They might now discern the sad effects of abolishing our Kings and Kingship and how formidable our new Republican Grandees who succeeded them were already become not only to the Common people but also to Ministers of the Gospell that some at such a great distance from them as Lanceston dreaded them more than God himself and that in the very Pulpit and House of God not daring to read the word KING or KINGS in the very Texts they quoted for fear of incurring High Treason against the new more than Kingly Governors and Legifers at Whitehall and Westminster who to prevent this mischief might do well to make an Additional Knack to those Knacks they had formerly published against Kings and Kingship and the Ingagement against them that the words KING and KINGS should be expunged out of these two Texts of 1 Pet. 2. 13 17. 1 Tim. 2. 2. and all other Texts of the Old and New Testament in all Bibles to be henceforth printed or read within their New Commonwealth and all old Bibles prohibited lest Ministers or people should incur the guilt of High Treason by reading or obeying these Scriptures to the pr●…dice of their Republike and if others were afrayd to 〈◊〉 i●… I would in my next Letters to their President John B●…dshaw and his Associates at Whitehall acquaint them with this passage and hint thus much to them Which I did accordingly when I came to Pendennis Castle Upon this and other occasions I made a Collection of such Scriptures and Antiquities in all ages both before and under the Law and Gospel as most clearly evidenced both the practice and duty of the Saints Churches and People of God and of Pagans too in making publike and private prayers for the lives healths Prosperity of their Kings Emperors and their royal Posterities whether they were Good or Bad Christian or Pagan Orthodox or Heterodox Protectors or Persecutors of Christianity and the professors of it Which being a Subject not particularly treated of at large by any Writers I have seen or heard of very seasonable usefull to inform the ignorance and reform the neglect thereof in this Apostate age wherein this Christian duty hath been so long neglected decryed prohibited in all our three Kingdoms I thought it not only convenient but necessary to make them publike and communicate them to posterity for the glory of God the Honor of Religion and the benefit of all Christian Kings Emperors Princes throughout the world In the Marshalling of these Collections I shall observe a meer Chronological Method as most usefull and perspicuous digesting all Presidents and Proofs pertinent to this Subject into distinct Chapters beginning with those that are most antient CHAP. I. THE first Presidents I meet with of Frayers made to God for Kings are such as are recorded in Scripture before the Law was given in Mount Sinai or any King instituted by God among his own people of Israel of which there are 3. remarkable Instances seldom taken notice of which I shall recite explicate and apply in order as I find them The 1. is that of Abraham the Father of all faithfull believers thus registred to posterity Gen. 20. Abraham and his wife Sarah sojourning at Gerar

orthodox Religious Kings who protect preserve them in their Religion Laws Liberties but even for their Pagan Heretical Kings and such who afflict oppresse persecute them and not to curse depose murder destroy or rebell against them Mat. 5. 43 44 45. Luke 6. 27 28 29. c. 23 24. Acts 8. 60. Rom. 13. 1 2 3. c. 12. 19 20 21. 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. 1 Pet. 2. 18 to 25. contrary to the practice tenents of the Saints subjects of this degenerate apostate treacherous and perfidious age 5ly That one part of Gods and mens blessing of Kings is that they may have a numerous continuing progeny permanent House and royal issue to succeed them in the throne and reign over their Nations and Kingdoms in happinesse peace safety prosperity for many generations Gen. 17. 5 6 7. 16. 2 Sam. 7. 10. to the end 2 Chron. 6. 4 to 18. 1 Kings 8. 18 to 27. c. 11. 36 37 38. 2 Kings 10. 31. Ps. 132. 11 12. compared with Psal. 128. 3 4 5 6. Gen. 24. 60. Which no doubt was one chief part of Jacobs blessing of and prayer for King Pharaoh being one principle br●…nch of the blessings he bestowed on and wished to his own Sons and Grandsons when he blessed them before his death Gen. 48. 15 16 19 ●…3 c. 49. 10. 22 25 28. Whence it inevitably followe●… that it is the property duty of all loyal pious Saint●… Christians people cordially to pray for and desire God to blesse their Kings with a numerous permanent royal issue and posterity to succeed them in their royal thrones and reign over them with all peace safety felicity not to difinherit banish abjure extirpate their posterities and deprive them of their hereditary Crowns which some now deem their Saintship piety honour felicity to accomplish The 3d. are the several prayers and supplications that Moses made for King Pharaoh the grand oppre●…or enthraller afflicter of the Israelites when God sent him to rescue them from their intollerable bondage ●…nder him and his Officers to remove those very plagues which God himself inflicted on Pharaoh and his Aegyptians thereby to deliver them from their vassallage and bring them out thence to the promised Land thus recorded by Moses himself Exod. 8. 8. to 14. When the frogs came up and covered the land of Aegypt then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said Intreat the Lord that he may take away the Frogs from me and from my people and I will let the people go that they may do sacrifice to the Lord. And Moses said to Pharaoh Glory over me against when shall I intreat for thée and for thy Servants and for thy People to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses that they may remain in the river only And he said to morrow And Moses said be it according to thy word that thou mayst know that there is none like unto the Lord our God and the frogs shall depart from thee and from thy houses and from thy servants and from thy people they shall remain in the River only And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh And Moses cryed unto the Lord because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh And the Lord did according to the word of Moses and the frogs dyed out of the Houses out of the Villages and out of the Field v. 29 30 31. Moses intreated the Lord that the swarms of frogs he sent might depart from Pharaoh from his Servants and from his Pople And the Lord did according to the word of Moses and he removed the frogs at Pharaohs request there remained not one After this Moses intreated the Lord to remove the mighty Thunder and Hail he had sent spreadiug abroad his hands unto the Lord in prayer for that end and they ceased Exod. 9. 28 29 33. The like he did at his Intreaty to remove the plague of Locusts Exod. 10. 7 18 19. From these Presidents and practice of Moses I shall deduce these genuine seasonable Observations 1. That Moses being born in Egypt and bred ●…p in Pharaohs Court was rather a Native subject to King Pharaoh than a mere Sojourner and Foreiner as Abraham and Jacob were to Abimelech and Pharaoh though he had been absent thence about forty years it thence follows from the premises That Subjects as well as Sojourners are bound by duty and allegeance to pray for their Kings and people 2ly Moses was enforced to fly out of Egypt to save his life because Pharaoh sought to 〈◊〉 him for killing an Egyptian who smote and oppr●… an Hebrew one of his Brethren and this Pharaoh to whom God sent him and for whom he thus prayed four times after each other was not only a Pagan-Idolater but in all probability the Kings Son or Grand-son who sought to slay him Aegypt being an her●…ditary Kingdom as Isay 19. 11. and all Historians record Yea both these Pharaohs with two or more of their Ancestors and their Officers did extraordinarily oppress the Israelites ca●…sing all their Male-children they could meet with to be drowned in the River but such as the Midwives preserved against their commands afflicting them by their Task-masters heavy burdens rigor●…us service and hard bondage which made their lives bitter and caused them to sigh groan and cry unto the Lord by reason of the bondage who thereupon heard their cry and saw their oppression and remembred his Covenant made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob to rescue them from their Thraldom yet notwithstanding Moses prayed four times to remove the Plagues God had inflicted on Pharaoh his Servants and people and no waies endeavoured to deprive or disinherit them either of their Lives Crowns or Succession though a chosen Servant Man and Saint of God commissioned and sent by God himself to deliver the Israelites from their bondage under Pharaoh and bring them out of Egypt Whence I shall irrefragably infer That the eminentest chosen Saints Men and Servants of God yea all other loyal Subjects ought chearfully to obey and pray for not only their Pagan Idolatrous but persecuting and oppressing Kings and their royal Posterity and though they may use all lawfull means to deliver themselves and fellow-subjects from their unjust tyranny bondage oppressions yet they neither lawfully can nor ought forcibly to dethrone disinherit them or their Posterities of their Crowns nor rebel against or deprive them of their lives by tumultuous Insurrections Assassinations and High Courts of Justice 3ly That Godly persecuted oppressed Subjects may and ought to pray for the removal of those Judgements which God himself inflicts upon their oppressive persecuting Kings their Servants People successively one after another for those persecutions tyrannies oppressions under which they groan and cry of purpose to bring them to repentance and deliver them from their bondage pressures vexations under them as Moses did in this case of Pharaoh his Officers and the Egyptians for the removal of 4 grievous Plagues inflicted upon them one

after another by God himself and Moses and Aaron as his Instruments Thus much concerning these most memorable antient Presidents before the Law and Kings of Israel which none have hitherto pressed or insisted on in this kind to my knowledge as I have done CHAP. II. I Shall in the next place proceed to Presidents of Gods Servants and people under the Law from the first erection of the Israelites into a kingdom till our Saviours Nativity intermixed with some examples of this kind in Pagan Idolators within that circle of time The first Prayer and President of this nature recorded in sacred Story by Gods own Spirit is that which was ●…ed at the anointing and inauguration of Saul the very first King * elected ordained by God himself over his ow●… people of Israel when Saul being chosen by lot and fetched from among the ●…ff where he had hid himself 1 Sam. 11. 23 24. The Prophet Samuel said to all the people See yee him whom the Lord hath chosen that there is none like him among all the people And all the people thereupon shouted and said God save the King or Let the King live as the Hebrew Phrase renders it which no doubt they o●…t times repeated according to the usual practice at all Kings inaugurations and coronations ever since which probably they ●…ned from the custom of other Nations round about them who had Kings and kingly Government before them as the 1 Sam. 8. 5 19 20. Make us a King to judge us like all the Nations Nay but we will have a King over us that we also may be like all the Nations compared with Deut. 17. 19. And shall say I will set a King over me like as all the Nations that are about me more than intimate Now these words Vivat Rex Let the King live or God save the King are not only a most royal loyal Salutation and Acclamation of all the People as directed to King Sauls person and inauguration but a direct Prayer unto God for his long life happiness and prosperous Reign over them as their King as the words themselves and the use of them in succeeding Ages import compared with Psal. 72. 15. Ps. 21. 4 5. Ps. 34. 12. Ps. 61. 6 7. Gen. 17. 18. Not long after when Saul had totally routed Nahash the Ammonite and his great Army and rescued Jabesh Gilead from them which they had encamped against 1 Sam. 11. 11. thereupon after this Salvation which the Lord had wrought by him for Israel v. 14 15. Samuel said to the pecple Come and let us go up to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there and all the people went to Gilgal and there they made Saul King before the Lord and there they sacrificed Sacrifices of Peace-offerings before the Lord and there Saul and the men of Israel rejoyced greatly Which words imply that both Samuel and the people by making Saul King the second time before the Lord and offering PeaceOff●…rings offering and rejoycing greatly before the Lord did make special Prayers and Thanksgivings unto God for his life prosperity and victorious success over his and their Enemies according to the subsequent Gospel-text grounded on this Pre●…dent 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. And Samuels subsequent words to the people at this meeting ch 12. 13 14 23 25. Now therefore behold the King whom ye have chosen and whom ye have desired and behold the Lord hath set a King over you if you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his Voyce and not rebel against the Commandement of the Lord then shall both ye and also the King that reigneth over you continue following the Lord your God But if ye shall still do wickedly ye shall be destroyed both you and your King Moreover as for me God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you compared with the 1 Sam. 15. 35. where it is recorded that after Gods rejection of Saul and repenting he had made him King for disobeying his command in sparing Agag and the best of the Amalekites spoyles Nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul and ch 16. v. 1. And the Lord said to Samuel How long wilt thou mourn for Saul seeing I have rejected him from being King over Israel All these do clearly evidence that Samuel the Prophet and no doubt all other his loyal pious Subjects Priests and Levites did constantly make Prayers Supplications and Intercessions to God for Saul and bewail and moan for his Sins even after God had rejected him much more then did they perform this Duty before Gods rejection during all his Reign as well as at his inauguration The next King over Gods people by divine election and designation was David in whose House Seed and Royal Progeny God established the hereditary succession of the Crown and kingdom both by his Promise Covenant and Oath 2 Sam. 7. 10 to the end 1 Chron. 28. 4 to 10. 1 Kings 18. 25 26. 2 Chron. 7. 17 8. c. 23. 3. Ps. 89. 3 4 28 29. Ps. 132. 11 12 13 14. Jer. 33. 20 21. What particular Prayers and Acclamations were made at his Instalment in the Royal Throne over the Tribes of Israel I find not recorded in Scripture or Josephus only I read in general 2 Sam. 5. 3. All the Tribes of Israel came to David to Hebron and King David made a League with them in Hebron before the Lord and they anointed David King over Israel no doubt with many Prayers to God for his life and prosperous Reign and reiterated shouts Let the King live as at Sauls precedent and Solomons and other kings subsequent inaugurations though omitted for brevity in sacred History During Davids Reign I shall observe several particulars pertinent to my purpose 1. Davids Soul-ravishing Prayer and Thanksgiving made to God himself upon Gods message and promise to him by Nathan the Prophet to set up his Seed after him and to establish his House Kingdom and Throne for ever recorded at large 2 Sam 7. In which Prayer David used these expressions amongst other v. 25. c. And now O Lord God the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy Servant and concerning his House establish it for ever and do as thou hast said And let thy name be magnified for ever saying The Lord of Hosts is the God over Israel and let the House of thy Servant David be established before thee c. And now O Lord God thou art that God and thy words be true and thou hast promised this goodnesse unto thy Servant therefore now let it please thee to bless the House of thy Servant that it may continue for ever before thee for thou O Lord hast spoken it and with thy Blessing let the House of thy Servant be blessed for ever Here we have David the first hereditary king over Gods people upon the first tidings of Gods promise to settle the Inheritance and Succession of the kingdom of Israel in his House and seed for ever making a

most zealous fervent pathetical Thanksgiving and Prayer to God for the accomplishmeut of this promise in establishing and blessing his House for ever Which being afterwards put in writing and particularly recorded in sacred Story no doubt was constantly used both in private and publick by himself and all his loyal devout Subjects whether Priests Levites or people all his Reign and registred as a sacred President for all hereditary pious Kings and Subjects future imitation 2ly Davids publick Prayers Psalms and Thanksgivings to God for himself as King and for his Royal Son and his Posterity that should succeed him in the Throne recorded in sacred writ prescribed to the Church and people of God during his Reign and succeeding Ages and constantly used by them and all Churches of God to this very day at the inauguration of their Kings and upon other royal Solemnities Victories Triumphs and Installments or mariages of their Sons and heirs to the Crown I shall instance only in Psal 18. I will love thee O Lord my strength c. Therefore will I give thanks unto thee O Lord among the heathen and sing praises unto thy name Great deliverance giveth he to his King and sheweth mercy to his anointed to David and to his séed for evermore Psal. 21. The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy Salvatian how greatly shall he rejoyce For thou hast given him his hearts desire thou hast not withholden the request of his lips for thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head He asked life of thee and thou gavest it him even length of dayes for ever and ever his glory is great in thy salvation glory and majesty hast thou laid upon him for thou hast made him most blessed for ever c. Which Psalm though it be mystically applied to Christ the King of his Church and Saints by many yet doubtless it was literally meant of King David himself who compiled it Psal. 45. My heart is indicting a good matter I will speak of the things which I have made touching the King literally intended of Solomon but mystically of Christ his kingdom and Church Psal. 61. Hear my cry O God attend unto my Prayer c. Thou wilt prolong the Kings life and his years as many generations He shall abide before God for ever O prepare mercy and truth which may preserve him Psal. 72. 1 2 c. Give the King thy Judgements O God and thy Righteousness unto the Kings Son Then shall he judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgement c. He shall save the souls of the needy He shall redeem their Soul from deceit and violence and precious shall their bloud be in his sight He shall live and unto him shall be given of the Gold of Sheba Praye●… also shall be made for him continually and daily shall he be praised Which Psalm though mystically meant of Jesus Christ the Son of David as all accord yet it was first literally made used in and by the Church and people of God and prescribed to them as a publike Prayer for King David and his Son Solomon who was to succeed him in the throne as most accord and the Contents in our Bibles resolve Or for King Solomon whom some make the penman thereof and his Son Rehoboam However it is a direct form and divine precept for the people of God in all hereditary kingdoms to make continual daily publike and private Prayers intercessions supplications and thanksgivings unto God for their hereditary kings their heirs apparent and successors to the crown and royal posterity according to the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. grounded on this Psalm I shall conclude with Psal. 89. and Psal. 132. of like nature with the former wherein not only the Psalmist but the Churches Congregations of the Saints in that and succeeding ages do sing of the mercies of the Lord and make known his faithfulness to all generations for making this Covenant with David and his seed I have made a Covenant with my chosen I have sworn unto David my servant Thy séed will I establish for ever and build up thy throne to all generations c. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my Covenant shall stand fast with him His séed also will I make to endure for ever and his Throne as the dayes of Heaven If his children forsake my Laws and walk not in my judgements if they break my statutes and keep not my commandements then will I visit their transgressions with the rod and their sin with scourges Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail My Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David his séed shall endure for ever and his Throne as the Sun before me It shall be established for ever as the Moon and as the faithfull witnesse in Heaven Selah 〈◊〉 thy children will keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them their children also shall sit upon t●…e Throne for evermore For the Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation This is my rest for ever there will I dwell for I have desired it c. There will I make the horn of David to bud I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed His Enemies will I cloath with shame but upon himself shall his crown flourish From all these Psalms which you may read at large these irrefragable Conclusions may be clearly deduced 1. That it was the constant practise duty not only of King David himself but of the Church and people of God under him and his royal posteritie to make incessant prayers supplications intercessions and thanksgivings to God both publikely and privately for him his royal house and posterity 2ly That they did in their publike and private devotions prayers psalms and thanksgivings take special notice and make particular mention of Gods promise to King David his House and Royal seed that they should inherit the Throne and kingdom over his people by succession for ever and rejoyce therein yea pray for its accomplishment and Gods grace and blessing on his House seed as their own and the Churches greatest blessing happinesse and fafety 3ly That as the sins of Davids royal seed and progeny did not cause God himself the king of kings who conferred the kingdom and throne upon them to break his Oath and Covenant with them nor to deprive them of their kingly Government Throne or totally to withdraw his loving kindness and mercy towards them but only to chastize them with his rod and scourge them for their amendment So it did neither withdraw the allegeance loyaltie dutie prayers supplications intercessions or thanksgivings of the Church and their pious subjects from them but rather intend and augment them as is evident by

which is born cometh not to overcome Kings by fighting but to subdue them after a wonderfu●…l manner by dying c. for he is come not that he may destroy alive but that he may triumph being slain How then any Servants can be greater wiser powerfuller than their Lord King Jesus who came not to dethrone uncrown any earthly Kings and reign alive in their steads but to conquer and triumph over them only by his death though King of Kings and Lord of Lords in daring to ravish not only the Crowns but Lives Kingdoms hereditary Lands Revenues Powers Kingships of their Christian Soveraigns instead of making Supplications Prayers Interceisions Thanksgivings for them and their Royal posterity let their own Consciences resolve them and all others who preach the Gospel wherein there is neither Precept nor President for such Antichristian Jesuitical practices 9ly The end reason why Ministers Christians and other Subjects should make Supplications Prayers Intercessions Thnaksgivings for their very persecuting tyrannizing oppressing Pagan KINGS G●…vernours and yielding patient loyal Subjection under them is because it is the most effectual means prescribed by God whereby to reclaim conver●… save them by overcomming their evil with goodness Rom. 12. 20 21. the most probable ready prevalent course by which they themselves may lead a quiet and peaceable life under them in all godliness and honesty and recover enjoy both their invaded civil and Christian Liberties not their mutinous Rebellions or taking up Arms against them forcibly to reform or dethrone them which would but increase their troubles pressures persecutions interrupt their peace quietness yea make shipwrack of their godliness honesty loyalty faith and good Consciences which we have found true by late sad experiments Upon which ground the Apostle Paul thus describes the deportment of himself and the other Apostles and Christians under their Persecutors 1 Cor. 12 13. being reviled we bless being persecuted we suffer being defamed we intreat according to our Saviours forecited Precept Mat. 5. 44 45. seconded with his own example and Stephens who prayed for their murdering Persecutors at their very deaths Luke 23. 34. Acts 7. 60. leaving us an example that we should follow their steps herein 1 Pet. 2. 20 21 22 23. Ja●… 5. 6 to 12. 10ly The motive God here used to excite Timothy and all other Christians to make Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings for Kings and all in Authority under them whether good or bad Pagans or Christians Persecutors or Protectors of Religion for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour as well as beneficial to themselves their Kings and Governours in the last recited respects And if so then the neglecting rejecting inhibiting of these Duties in publick or private must questionless be very evil sinfull displeasing in the fight of God our Saviour who will severely punish it yea a means to hinder us from enjoying and leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty or any Settlement or Tranquillity in Church and State which we have long expected endeavoured desired and prayed for but never enjoyed since we neglected and rejected this duty of making Supplications Prayers Intercessi●…ns Thanksgivings for our Kings and casting off their Persons and Kingly Government and a●…e never likely to enjoy till we Loyally and Conscientiously restore both them and these duties for them prescribed in and by this Gospel Text which I have opened and pressed to the full upon this consideration and the Apostles Resolutions Acts 4. 19. c. 5. 29. We ought to obey God rather than Men. 11ly This exhortation of Paul was practiced by himself when he was brought as a Prisoner and pleaded his cause before King Agrippa Acts 26. 28 29. Who saying to Paul almost thou perswadest me to be a Christian. Thereupon Paul said I would to God not only thou but also all that hear me this day were both almost and altogether such as I am except these bonds A direct prayer to God for this Kings and his other Auditors Conversion to Christianity Thus much for Scripture Presidents and Precepts warranting and commanding this duty both before and under the Law and Gospel I now proceed to other Testimonies in the Primitive Church as well for Pagan Arrian and heretical persecuting Emperors Kings Princes as for Christian Orthodox and such who were Protectors of Christianity and Christians CHAP. IV. FOr the practice of the Primitive Church and Christians to●…ching their publike private prayers intercessions supplications for Kings and Emperors though Pagans and Persecutors as then they were no doubt it is as antient as the Apostles themselves as is evident by the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. and practiced by them in their publike Liturgies if we believe the Liturgies fathered upon St. Peter and St. Mark to be genuine In the Masse of St. Peter published by William Lindan Bishop of Gaunt printed in Bibliotheca Patrum Coloniae Agrip. 1618. Tom. 1. p. 210. E. I find the Deacon saying In pace Rogemus Dominum pro Religiosissimis Augustis u●… una propugnent c. But this Masse twice mentioning the mediation and intercession beatorum Apostolorum Petri Pauli Cornelii Cypriani Laurentii c. some of them not living till 200. years after Peters death and speaking of Peter only as a Saint and Martyr departed and this prayer being not for any Pagan but most religious Christian Emperors This Masse is certainly a gross Popish forgery fathered upon Peter some hundreds of years after his death yet I thought meet to mention this passage in it The Liturgie attributed to St. Mark the Evangelist Peters Disciple as it is but a Popish forgery as well as Peters yet because it contains some set observable Prayers for Kings I shall here insert them as translated out of the Greek Copy Biblioth Patrum Coloniae Agrip. Tom. 1. p. 21. C. Sacerdos hunc in modum orat Dominator Domine Deus omnipotens Pater Domini Dei Servatoris nostri Jesu Christi precamur obsecramus te ut Regem nostrum in pace et fortitudine justitiaque conserves Subjicito ei o Deus omnem inimicum adversarium Apprehende arma scutum exurge in adjutorium ejus Da ei o Deus victorias ut animum ad ea intendat quae nobis pacifica sunt ad nomen sanctum tuum Ut nos in tranquillitate dierum ejus quietam et tranquillam vitam degamus in omni pietate honestate gratia commiserationibus benignitate unigeniti filii tui c. Unto which Prayer all the People are to say Amen After which p. 23. follow these two Prayers Regem Legiones Principes Senatus Concilia Populos nostros in omni pace disponito Rex Regum et Domine dominantium Regnum servi tui orthodoxi et Christum amantis Regis nostri quem super terram regnare justum censuisti in pace et fortitudine et justitia et tranquillitate conserva

viribus suis nisi consilio sustineretur Suam itaque incolumitatem amant cum pro uno homine denas legiones in aciem ducunt cum in prima fronte procurrunt et adversa vulneribus pectora feriunt ne Imperatoris sui signa vertantur Ille est enim vinculum per quod Respublica coh●…ret Ille spiritus vitalis quem haec tot millia trahunt nihil ipsa per se futura nisi onus et praeda si mens illa Imperii subtrahatur Rege incolumi mens omnibus una Amisso rupere fidem Hic casus Romani populi exitium erit hic tanti fortunam populi in ruinas aget Tamdiu ab isto periculo aberit hic populus quamdi●… sciet ferre fraenos quos si quando abruperit vel aliquo casu discussos reponi sibi passus non erit haec unitas et haec maximi Imperii contextus in partes multas dissiliet Idemque huic Urbi dominandi finis erit qui parendi fuerit Ideo Principes Regesque et quocunque alio nomine sunt Tutores status publici non est mirum amari ultra privatas 〈◊〉 necessitudines Nam si sanis hominibns publica privatis potiora sunt sequitur ut is quoque carior sit in quem se Respublica convertit Ollm enim ita se induit Reipublicae Caesar ut didu●…i a●…terum non possit sine utriusque pernic●…e nam ut illi viribus opus est ita et huic capiti All which we have found true by sad experience He addes c. 19. Quid pulchri●…s est ●…egi quam vivere optantibus cunctis et vota non sub custode nuncupantibus Si paulo valetudo titubavit non spem hominum excitari sed metum Nihil est cuiquam tam pretiosum quod non pro salute Praesidis sui commutatum velit Omne quod illi continget fibi quoque evenire deputet And should not Christians Protestants and our three distressed distracted Protestant Kingdoms Nations Churches upon these very grounds reasons shew as much cordial affection loyalty duty to their undoubted Christian Protestant Kings and Princes as these Pagans did to their Heathen Kings and Emperors yea shall they not rise up in judgement against them before all Tribunals of God and men if they do it not Con●…ider well of it and declare your judgements herein When the Emperor Titus was sick Medendae valetudini leniendisque morbis NULLAM DIVINAM humanamque opem non adhibuit INQUISITO OMNE SACRIFICIORUM remediorumque GENERE the priests people praying and sacrificing for his health When his death was known non secus atque in domestico luctu MAeRENTIBUS PUBLICE CUNCTIS Senatus prius quam edicto convocatus ad Curiam cucurrit obseratisque adhuc foribus deinde apertis Tantas mortuo gratias egit laudesque quantas congessit ne vivo quidem unquam atque praesenti The Heathen Epigramatist and Poet Martial flourishing under the Pagan Emperors Domitian and Trajan to whom he inscribes many of his Epigrams hath these prayers for them l. 4. Epig. 1. De Natali Domitiani Caesaris alma dies et luce sacratior illa Conscia Dictaeum qua tulit Ida Jovem Longa precor Pyleoque veni numerosior aevo Semper et hoc vultu vel meliore nite Hic colat Albano Tritonida cultus in auro Perque manus tantas plurima quercus eat Hic colat ingenti Redeuntia secula lustro Et quae Romuleus sac●…a Terentus habet Magna quidem Superi petimus sed debita terris Pro tanto quae sunt improba vota Deo Epig. l. 7. Epig. 51. ad Jovem Nil pro me mihi Juppiter petenti Ne succensueris velut superbus ●…e pro Caesare debeo rogare Pro me debeo Caesarem rogare He begins his dedication of his 8. Book to Domitia●… thus Imperatori Domitiano Caesa●…i Augusto Germanico Dacico Valerius Martialis salutem And Epig. l. 10. Epig. 32. ad Trajanum he prayes thus for him Di tibi dent quicquid Princeps ●…rajane mereris Et rata perpetuo quae tribuêre velint Qui●…sua restituis spoliato jura patrono c. Epig. l. 11. Epig. 4. Precatur Deos pro Nerva Trajano in this form Sacra Laresque Phrygum quos Trojae maluit ●…aeres Q●…am rapere arsur as Laomedontis opes Scriptus aeterno nunc primùm Juppiter auro Et soror summi filia tot●… patris Et qui purpureis jam tertia nomina f astis Jane refers Nervae vos precor ore pio Nunc omnes servate Ducem servate Senatum Moribus hic vivat Principis ille suis. And Epig. l. 12. Epig. 6. in commendationem Nervae Recta fides hilaris Clementia cauta potestas Jam redeunt longiterga dedère metus Hoc populi gentesque tuaepia Roma precantur Dux tibi sit semper talis et iste diu c. C. Plini●…s secundus in his Epistles and Panegyrick to the Emperor Trajan hath many excellent Prayers Vows Supplications Gratulations and thanksgivings to the Gods for his long life health prosperity Government Empire in his own the Senates Souldiers and Provinces names which are very pertinent and observable Epistolarum l. 10. Epist. 1. C. Plinius Trajano Imperatori Salutem the usual inscription of all his Epistles to him he prayes thus for him Prec●…r ●…rgo ut tibi et per te generi humano prospera omnia id est digna seculo tuo contingant Fortem te et hilar●…m Imperator optime et privatim et publice opto Lib. 10. Epist 44. C. Plin. Tra. Imp. Salutem Solemnia vota pro Incolumi●…ate tua qua publica salus continetur et suscipimus Domine pariter et solvimus precati Deos ut velint ea semper solvi semperque signari To which Trajan returned this Answer Epist. 45. Et soluisse vos cum provincialibus Diis Immortalibus vota pro mea salute et incolumitate nuncupasse liventer mi Secunde charissime cognovi ex literis tuis Epist. 60. he thus mentions the publick joy prayers made for him and the Oath of Allegiance sworn to him both by the Souldiers and people on the day of his inauguration Diem Domine quo servasti Imperium dum suscipis quanta mereris lae●…itia celebravimus precati Deos ut te generi humano cujus tutela securitas saluti tuae invisa est incolumem florentemque praestarent Praeiimus commilitonibus jusjurandum more solenni praesrantibus et provincialibus qui eadem certarunt pietate juvantibus To which the Emperor returns this answer Epist. 61. Quanta Religione ac laetitia commilitones cum provincialibus to praeennte diem Imperii mei celebraverint libenter mi Secunde charissime cognovi literis tuis Epist. 89. Opto Domine et hunc natalem et plurimes alios quam felicissimos agas aeternaque laude florentem virtutis tuae gloriam et Incolumis et fortis aliis super a●…ta operibus Augeas

Peers of this Land to be this day Will you serve at this time and give your good wills and asse●…ts to the same Consecration Enunction and Coronation as by your duty of Allegiance ye be bound to do The people do answer Yea Yea Yea and and cry King Edward King Edward King Edward This done the Archbishop of Canterbury being revested as he should go to Masse with the Bishops of London and Winchester on both side with other Bishops and the Dean of Westminster in the Bishops absence to go in order before the King The King shall be brought from his seat by them that assisted him to the Church to the high Altar where after his prayer made to God for his Grace he shall offer a Pall and a pound of Gold 24. l. in Coin which shal be to him Delivered by the Lord great Chamberlain Then shall the King fall groveling before the Altar and over him the Archbishop shall say this Collect Deus humili●…m c. Then the King shall rise and go to his ●…hair to be prepared before the Altar his face to the Alt●… and standing one shall hold him a Book And the Archbishop standing before the King shall ask him with a loud and distinct voice in manner and form following Will ye grant to keep to the people of England and other your Realms and Dominions the Laws and Liberties of this Realm and other your Realms and Dominions I grant and promise You shall keep to your strength and power to the Church of God and to all the people holy peace and concord I shall keep You shall make to be done after your strength and power equal and rightfull justice in all your Dooms and Judgements with mercy and trot●… I shall do Do ye grant to make no new Laws but such as shall be to the honor and glory of God and to the good of the Common-wealth and that the same shall be made by the consent of your people as hath been accustomed I grant and promise Then shall the King rise out of his Chair and by them that before assisted him be led to the high Alt●…r where he sha●…l make a solemn oath upon the Sacrament layed upon the ●…aid Altar in the sight of all the people to observe the premisse and laying his ●…and again on the Book shall say The things which I have before promised I shall observe and keep so God help me and these holy Evangelist●… by Me bodily touched upon this holy Altar That done the King shall fall again g●…oveling before the high Altar and the said Archbishop kneeling before him shall with a loud voice begin Veni Creator c. Which done the said Arch●…ishop standing shall say over the King Te invocamus c. and at the end shall kneel again And then shall the King rise and be set in the Chair again And after a little pawse he shall rise and assisted with those that did before that Office goe again to the high Altar where he shall be unclothed by his great Chamberlain unto his coat of Crimson satten which and also his shirt shall be opened before and behind on his shoulders and the bought of his Arms by the said great Chamberlain to the intent that on those places he be anointed and whilest he is in the Anointing Sir Anthony Denny and Sir William Herbert must hold a pall over him And fi●…st the said Arch-bishop shall annoint the King kneeling in the palmes of his hands saying these words Unguantur manus c. With this Collect ●…espice omnipotens Deus After he shall annoint him in the breast in the middest of his back on his two boughts of his Arms and on his head making a Crosse. And ●…fter making another Crosse on his head with holy Cream saying as he annointeth the places aforesaid Ungatur Caput ungantur Scapulae c. During which time of unction the Quier shall continually sing ung●…runt Regem and the psalm Domine in virtute tua laetabitur Rex And it is to be remembred that the Bishop or Dean of Westminster after the Kings enunction shall dry all the places of his body where he was anointed with Cotten or some Linnen cloth which is to be burnt And forthwith the places opened for the same are to be clozed by the Lord Great Chamberlain And on the Kings hands shall be put by the said Archbishop of Canterbury a pair of Linnen gloves which the Lord Great Chamberlain shall before see prepared This done the King shall rise and the Archbishop of Canterbury shall put upon the King a Tabert of Tarteron white shaped in manner of a Dalmatick And he shall put upon the Kings head a Coiff the same to be brought by the Great Chamberlain Then the King shall take the Sword he was girt withall and offer it himself to God laying it on the Altar in token that his strength and power should first come from God And the same Sword he shall take again from the Altar and Deliver to some great Earl to be redeemed of the Bishop or Dean of Westminster for one hundred shillings Which Sword shall be borne naked afterwards before the King Then the King being set in his Chair before the Altar shall be crowned with King Edwards Crown and there shall be brought by the Bishop or Dean of Westminster the Regal Sandals and Spurs to be presently put on by the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Spurs again immediately taken off that they do not incumber him Then the Archbishop with all the Peers and Nobles shall convey the King sustained as before again into the Pulpit setting him in his Siege Royal and then shall the Archbishop begin Te Deum laudamus c. which done the Archbishop shall say unto the King S●…a et retine amodo locum And being the King thus set all the Peers of the Realm and Bishops holding up their hands shall make unto him Homage as followeth First the Lord Protector alone Then the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chancellour So two and two as they be placed I. N. become your Liege man of lieff and limme and of earthly worship and faith and troth I●…hall bear unto you against all manner of Folks as I am bound by any allegiance and by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm So help us God and All-Hallows And then every one shall kisse the Kings left cheek which done all there holding up their hands together in token of their fidelitie shall with one voice on their knees say We offer to sustain and defend you and your Crown with our Lives Lands and Goods against all the world And with one voice to cry God save King Edward which the people shall cry accordingly Then shall the King be led to his Traverse to hear the high Masse and so depart home Crowned in order as he set forth accordinglie T. Cantuar. T. Wriothesly Cancellar W. Saint-john John R●…ssel J. Lisle Cuthb Duresme

Subjicito ei Deus omnem hostem et adversarium tàm nostratem quam externum Apprehende arma et scutum exurge in adjutorium ei Obumbra super caput ejus in die belli fac ut de fructu lumbi ejus sedeat super sedem ejus Loquere ad cor ejus bona pro sancta tua Catholica Apostolica Ecclesia omni Christum amante populo ut nos in tranquillitate ejus tranquillam quietam vitam degamus in omni pietate sanctitate Which latter Prayer is only for Christian Kings the former for Pagan as well as Christian both founded on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. But to omit these spurious I shall proceed to true genuine Antiquities Polycarpus the Disciple of St. John and the Elders with him about 120. years after Christs Nativity in their Epistle to the Church of God at Philippi precisely enjoyn them to pray for Kings Potentates and Princes then all Pagans and likewise for their Persecutors Haters and Enemies to Christs Crosse that their fruit may be made manifest in all things and that they might be made perfect in Christ. Justin Martyr in his 2d Apology for the Christians to Aelius Adrianus and Antoninus pius the Emperors and the Senate of Rome about the year of Christ 150. thus relates the loyalty of the Christians to them both in paying Tributes and praying to God for them though Pagans and Persecutors of Christianity Tributa vero census iis qui à vobis constituti sunt ubique in primis conamur pendere quemadmodum ab eo Christo instituti sumus cum enim ad eum quidam adiissent quaererentque num tributum pendendum esset Caesari qua 〈◊〉 qu ●…x iis vicissim cujus imaginem simulachrum nummus haberet ac respondissent Caesaris rursus eis respondit●… Reddite ergo quae sunt Caesaris Caesari quae sunt Dei Deo Hinc Deum solum adoramus vobis autem in alii●… rebus laeti servimus Regesque vos Principes hominum esse profitemur Rogamusque ut ●…os cum Regali potestate sanam bonamque mentem habere inveniamini Quod si nobis etiam precantibus in lucem omnia proferentibus negligetis nihil ex eo detrimenti capiemus c. At the end of this Apology there is an Epistle of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Emperor to the Senate of Rome in favour of the Christians reciting That when he and his Army in Germany were surrounded with their Enemies and like to be destroyed by them and for want of water having not drunk any in 5. daies space ●…e thereupon sent for the Christians in his Army of whom ●…e found a great multitude and would have compelled them with threats to fight which he ought not to have done because ●…e afterwards knew their force Hereupon they assaulted the Enemies not with any preparation of weapons nor of arms or trumpets but casting themselves down upon the ground having God as it seems shut up in their minds and Consciences voluntarily though we call them Atheists they not only prayed that for me but also for this Army they might be removers of the Thirst and Famin wherewith they were pressed So soon as they had c●…st themselves down upon the ground and had prayed to their God whom I knew no●… presently there fell showers of rain from Heaven which were most cold upon us but upon the Enemies of the Romans there fell hayl in the shape and likenesse of fire And it is also very likely God was presently at hand in the midest of their Prayers as invincible and indissoluble Wherefore begining from thence we may grant to such that they may be Christians lest they should request and impetrate any armes of this kinds against us Wherein it is acknowledged by this Emperor that all these Christian Souldiers did in this Extremity of danger thirst and famine pray for the Emperor and his Armies safety and deliverance from their Enemies though Pagans that God instantly heard answered their prayers sending a comfortable rain to refresh them and raining hail and fire and thunderboults from Heaven on their Enemies which routed them without fighting whereupon this Emperor indulged them Liberty to professe themselves Christians without any impeachment or molestation as formerly Tertullian ad Scapulam lib. p. 165. thus relates the story Marcus quoque Aurelius in Germanica Expeditione Christianorum Militum Orationibus ad Deum factis imbres in site illa impetravit And in his Apologeticus p. 588. Et nos è contrario edimus Christianorum Protectorem si literae M. Aurelii gravissimi Imperatoris requirantur quibus Germanicam sitim Christianorum forte Militum precationibus Impetrato imbri discussam contestatur O●…osius l. 7 c. 15. thus Milites Christiani sub M. Antonino merentes pluviam in summa siccitate victoriam in ultima propè desperatione a Deo precatione sua Impotrarunt Ea victoria Marcomannicum bellum confecit c. Nicephorus Eccles. Hist. l. 4. c. 12. relates the story at large That the Christian Legion kneeling down upon their knees and imploring the help of God in their extream thirst danger and necessity when they were thus praying God smote their Enemies which pursued them with frequent thunderboults whence they were afterwards stiled The thundering Legion and refreshed and revived the Emperors Army with sweet and pleasant showrs Tam efficaces Scilicet nostrorum esse preces Hanc rem profani etiam Historici tradidere as Apollinaris and Julius Capitolinus in the life of M. Antoninus Theophilus Antiochenus Patriarch of Antioch flourishing about 180. years after Christ under the Emperours Marcus Aurelius and Commodus in his lib. 1. ad Autolichum contra Christianae Religionis calumniatores writes thus concerning his and other Christians practice in honouring and praying for though not adoring the Pagan Roman Emperor aud King Honorabo Regem sive Caesarem non tamen adorabo verum pro eo orabo Deum qui vere verus Deus est adorabo sciens Caesarem ab ipso esse ordinatum Rex enim sive Caesar Deus non est meminerit se esse hominem a Deo esse in hanc dignitatem promotum non ut adoretur sed ut juste quemadmodum justitia exigit judicet Nam Regnum sive Imperium rerumque administratio ipsi a Deo commissa demandata est Regem quidem sive Caesarem honora honora inquam magna cum benevolentia subjectus ei existens et orans pro eo Haec faciens Dei voluntatem exequeris nam divinae legis hic tenor est Honora fili mi Deum Regem et nunquam eorum inobediens sis Subito enim hostes suos ulcisci possunt This was the loyal Doctrine practice of this Great Patriarch and the primitive Church of Antioch where the Disciples were first called Christians to obey honor and pray for their very Heathen King or Caesar as set over them by God himself

and that with chearfulness and benevolence as Duties specially commanded them by the tenor of Gods word Irenaeus Bishop of Lions in France flourishing at the same time as he affirms Adversus haereses l. 4. c. 34. Est ergo Altare in coelis illuc enim preces nostrae dirigendae so he asserts lib. 5. p. 599 600 601. Non diabolus determinavit hujus seculi Regna sed Deus Regis enim cor in manu Dei est per Solomonem ait verbum Per me Reges regnant c. which he likewise proves from Rom. 13. 1 2. whence he concludes Ad utilitatem ergo Gentilium Terrenum Regnum positum est a Deo sed non a Diabolo qui nunquam quietus est imo qui nec ipsos quidem Gentes vult in tranquillo agere ut timentes Regnum humanum non se alterutrum homines vice piscium consumant sed per legum positiones repercutiant multiplicem Gentilium injustitiam Et secundum hoc ministri Dei sunt qui tributa exigunt a nobis in hoc ipsum servientes quae sunt potestates a Deo ordinatae sunt Manifestum est quoniam mentitur Diabolus di●…ens Mihi tradita sunt cui volo do ea Cujus enim jussu homines nascuntur hujus jussu et Reges constituuntur apti his qui in illo tempore ab ipsis regnantur Quidam enim illorum ad correction●…m utilitatem subjectorum dantur conservationem justitiae Quidam autem ad timorem panam increpationem Therefore there is good reason for the Church and Christians to pray for them though Pagans and Persecutors Athenagoras Atheniensis a famous excellent Philosopher in his most excellent Apologia sive Legatio pro Christianis dedicated by him to the Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Aurelius Commodus not only justifies the loyalty fidelity and obsequiousness of all the Christians then living under them and Prayers for them against all the malicious calumnies of their Slanderers and Pagan enemies worthy perusal but likewise brings them in using this constant form of Prayer to God for them and their royal Posterity and their succession in the Empire after them both in publick and private Nos enim adeo vobis devoti addictique pro Imperio vestro preces ad Deum fundimus et ut filius quod justissimum est let our Antimonarchists observe it in Regno olim Parenti succedat utque Imperium vestrum magis magisque semper augeatur Denique omnia ex animi sententia vobis eveniant oramus quod nobis salutare fuerit ut quietam tranquillamque vitam degentes vobis interim ad quaelibet Imperia prompti inserviamus Grounding this their practice on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. as an evangelical duty prescribed to them by God Tertullian flourishing about 200. years after Christ is very copious in justifying the loyalty of all the Christians in his Age to their very idolatrous persecuting Roman Emperors together with their dutifull subjection to and prayers unto God for all of them against the malicious accusations and complaints then made against them by their Enemies I shall transcribe two of his passages to this purpose Sic circa majestatem Imperatoris infamamur tamen nunquam Albiniani nec Nigriani vel Cassiani chief Conspirators and Traytors against their Emperors inveniri potuerunt Christiani sed iidem ipsi qui per genios eorum in pridie usquam juraverunt qui pro salute eorum hostias et fecerunt et voverunt qui Christianos saepe damnarunt hostes eorum sunt reperti Christianus nullius est hostis nedum Imperatoris quem sciens a Deo suo constitui necesse est ut et ipsum diligat et revereatur et honoret et salvum velit cum toto Romano Imperio quousque seculum stabit tamdiu enim stabit Therefore they never attempted the deposition of the Emperor nor change of the Imperial Government though Pagan colimus ergo er Imperatorem sic quomodo et nobis licet et ipsi expedit ut hominem a Deo secundum quicquid est a Deo consecutum solo Deo minorem Sic enim omnibus major est dum solo Deo vero minor est Sic ipsis Diis major est dum ipsi in potestate sunt ejus Itaque et sacrificamus pro salute Imp sed Deo nostro et ipsius sed quomodo praecepit Deus pura prece Ita nos oramus magis pro salute Imperatoris ab eo cam postulantes qui praestare potest His passages in his Apologia adversus Gentes are most full where he thus writes and refutes the Gentiles objections of this kind against the Christians Ventum est ad secundum titulum 〈◊〉 Augustioris Majestatis c. Propterea igitur publici hostes Christiani quia Imperatoribus neque ●…anos neque mentientes neque temerarios honores dicant quia verae Religionis homines solemnia eorum conscientia potius quam lascivia celebrant c. To which he returns this Answer fully clearing the loyalty of the Christians to their persecuting Pagan Emperors and constant prayers for them Insuper eos 〈◊〉 qui salutem Imperatorum sciunt petere qui ●…tiam possint impetrare dum sciunt 〈◊〉 Nos enim pro salute Imperatorum Deum invocamus 〈◊〉 Deum verum●…●…f D●…um vivum quem et ipsi Imperatores propitium sibi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 malunt Sciunt ●…uis illis dederit Imperium sciunt quis homines quis animas 〈◊〉 Deum esse solum in cujus solius potestate sum à quo sunt secundi post quem primi ante omnes et super omnes De●…s homines c. Inde est Imperator unde homo ante quàm Imperator inde 〈◊〉 unde spiritus Illuc suspicientes Christiani 〈◊〉 expansis quia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nudo quia non 〈◊〉 denique sine monitore quia de pectore 〈◊〉 precantes 〈◊〉 semper pro omnibus Imperatoribus vit●…m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 securum Domum tutum Exercitus fortes 〈◊〉 fidelem populum probum 〈◊〉 quiesum quaecunque hominis et Caesaris vola sunt Haec ab alio orare non 〈◊〉 quam a quo sciam me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ipse est qui solus praestat c. Sic itaque nos ad Deum expansos ungulae fodiant cruces suspendant ignes lambant gladii guttura detruncant bestiae insiliant paratus est ad omne supplicium ipse habitus orantis Christiani H●…c agite boni Praesules extorquete animam Deo supplicantem pro Imperatore Hoc erit crimen ubi veritas Dei dev●…tio est Adeo lati nunc sumus Imperatori mentiti vota quae diximus ad evadendum scilicet Planè proficit ista fallacia Admittitis enim nos probare quodeunque defendimus Qui ergo putas nihil nos de salute Caesarum curare inspice Dei voces literas nostras quas neque ipsi supprimimus plerique casus