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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

THE FIRST SECOND PART OF THE Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and Pious Christians as also of Idolatrous Pagans towards their KINGS Both before and under the Law and Gospel Especially in this our Island Expressed in and by their publike private loyal Supplications Prayers Intercessions Thanksgivings 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 Subjection and dutifull Obedience to them Whethe●… Good or Bad Christians or Pagans Orthodox or Heterodox Protectors or Persecutors of them With the true Reasons thereof from Scripture Policy Evidenced by varieties of Presidents Testimonies and Authorities in al ages worthy the Knowledge Imitation and serious Consideration of all Christian Kings and Sub●…ects comprising both their Duties towards each other especially of our present degenerated dissoyal Antimonarchical Generation 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 Ae●…yptian Kings are annexed By WILIAM PRYNNE Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Psal. 72. 1 2. Give the King thy Judgements O Lord and thy Righteousnesse unto the Kings Son Then shall he Judge thy p●…ople with Righteousnesse and thy poor with Judgement Tertulliani Apologia adversus Gentes c. 32. Hoc agite boni Praesides ex●…rquete animam Deo supplicantem pro Imperatore Hoc erit crimen ubi veritas Dei Devotio est LONDON Printed by T. Childe and L. Parry and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little-brittain 1660. THE Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and Pious Christians TOVVARDS THEIR KINGS AS ALSO Of some idolatrous Pagans both before under the Law and Gospel expressed by their private and publike Prayers Supplications Intercessions Thanksgivings well-wishes for the health safety long life prosperity temporal spiritual eternal felicity of the Kings and Emperors under whom they lived whether Pagan or Christian Bad or Good Heterodox or Orthodox Persecutors or Protectors of them and likewise for their Royal Issue Posterity Realms and by their dutifull conscientious Obedience and Subjection to them with the true Reasons thereof from Scripture and Policy Evidenced by Presidents and Testimonies in all ages worthy the knowledge imitation and serious consideration of our present degenerated disloyal antimonarchical Generation By William Prynne Esq. a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Psal. 72. 1 2. Give the King thy Judgements O Lord and thy Righteousness unto the Kings Son Then shall he judge thy people with Righteousness and thy poor with Judgement Tertulliani Apologia adversus Gentes c. 32. Hoc agite boni Praesides extorquete animam Deo supplicantem pro Imperatore Hoc erit crimen ubi veritas Dei devotio est LONDON Printed by T. C. and L. P. and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1660. To his most Illustrious over-long Exterminated but now happily Restored Soveraign CHARLS the SECOND By the Miraculous Grace of God and indubitab●…e Hereditary Birthright and Succession of ENGLAND SCOTLAND FRANCE and IRELAND KING the 〈◊〉 c●…stant Pro●…ssor and DEFENDOR of the truly A●…nt Catholick and Apostolick FAITH in the midst of manifold Persecutions ●…rovocations Sol●…ations T●…ions and Fiery T●…yals the Magazin of all Christian and Royal Virtues and Miracle of Gods preserving and restoring Mercies M●…st gracious Soveraign THe on●…y potentate and KING OF KINGS who removeth Kings and SETTETH UP KINGS and ru●…eth in the KINGDOM OF MEN TO GIVE IT TO WHOMSOEVER HE PLEASETH having by his own Omnipotent out-stretched arm and successive Miraculous Providences unexpectedly cut off cast down subverted d●…ipated without hands or bloodshed the most Execrable Perfidious Trayterous Murderers of your Royal Father KING CHARLS the first of Glorious Memory and Unjust disinheriters and proscribers of your Sacred Majestie out of all your own Hereditary Kingdoms and some forein States by Violence War and inhumane Tyranny enforcing your Majesty oft to cry out with the Exiled Kingly Prophet Wo is me that I am constrained to dwell in Mesech and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar c. who by rigorous Edicts debarred your Majestie not only of the Charitable Relief of your own Protestant Subjects but likewise of the Christian Aid and Evangelical Tribute due to all Pagan as well as Christian KINGS by divine and common natural Right of their daily Supplications Prayers and Intercessions to God for your Personal Preservation and Restitution under severest Penalties imposed many insupportable new Yoaks of Bondage on all your Subjects necks and worse than Aegyptian Burdens upon their galled backs for sundry yeares almost to their Irrecoverable ruine it pleased this Soveraign King over all the earth and God of the Spirits of all flesh by strange Miracles of mercy through the preparatory loyal Endeavours of some of your Majesties most inconsiderable faithfull Subjects upon the very first Reception and reading of your Majesties most gracious Letters and Declarations to the Lords Commons City of London Army and Navy immediately to bow the hearts and spirits of both your Houses of Parliament and all your Subjects yea of the very Military Officers Forces by Land and Sea formerly raised engaged against your Majesties Cause and Kingship as the heart of one man as he bowed the hearts of the men of Judah after rebellious usurping Absoloms death in the case of exterminated King David so that they immediately and unanimously voted your Majesties speedy return dispatched their several Letters Votes Messengers Fleet and Monies to your Majesty without one dissenting voice to h●…sten your Majesties return and transport you with honour and sa●…ety to enjoy your KINGLY AUTHORITY and PATRIMONY contending with a most cordial aemulation who should be first and forwardest to bring back and conduct your Majesty together with your Princely Brothers and Followers from your long most deplorable exile to your Royal City and Palace with all possible demonstrations of their publike joy and dutifull Allegeance to your Majesty and farr greater Magnificence Solemnity Triumph and multitudes o●… Conductors than any of your most Victorious Royal Progenitors enjoyed when they returned into England from their greatest Forein Conquests And that which crowned this Miracle of Mercies was its celerity and se●…son it having both its inception and perfection within the limits of one Month and its completion on Your Majesties Birth-day May 29. whereon as You were first born a Prince You were now re-born A MOST GLORIOUS KING and most magnificen●…ly invested in the poss●…ssion of Your Royal Throne at Wh●…tehall in the presence of all your Majesties Lords Commons and thousands of your People there assembled who with their united Shouts Prayers P●…aises Acclamations Benedictions and

glorious work in you and in the Realm by you so continue the same by lightening you with his holy Spirit and defending you with his mighty Arm as he hath done from the day that he chose you to be the Leader and Guider of his People that you may long keep them in truth and peace by the assi●…tance of his Grace to the prayse of his glory increase of the Godly and grief of his and your Subjects Even so 〈◊〉 Iesus The Clergy of England assembled in Convocation Anno 1603. the first year of King Iames his Reign in their Constitations and Canons Ecclesiastical then agreed upon by them ratified and published by the Kings Authority under his Great Seal did thus evidence to the wor●…d their loyalty to the King and his Royal posterity Can. 1. As our Duty to the Kings Most excellent Majesty requireth we first decree and ordain That the Archbishop of Canterbury from time to time all Bishops of this Province or Deans Archdeacons Vicars and all other Ecclesiastical persons shall faithfully keep and observe and as much as in them lyeth shall cause to be observed and kept of others all and singular Laws and Statutes made for the restoring to the Crown of this Kingdom the antient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclefiastical and abolishing of all forein power repugant to the same Furthermore all Ecclesiastical persons having cure of Souls and all other Preachers and Readers of Divinity Lectures shall to the uttermost of their wit knowledge and learning purely and sincerely without any colour or dissimulation teach manifest open and declare four times every year at the least in their Sermons and other Collations and Lectures That all usurped and forein power forasmuch as the same hath no establishment nor ground by the Law of God is for most just causes taken away and abolished and that therefore no manner of obedience and subjection within his Majesties Realms and Dominions is due unto any such forein power but that the Kings power within his Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Dominions and Countries IS THE HIGHEST POWER UNDER GOD to whom all men as well Inhabitants as born within the same do by Gods Laws owe most loyalty and obedience afore and above all other Powers and Potentates in the earth Canon II. Impug●…ers of the Kings Supremacy censured Whosoever shall hereafter affirm that the Kings Majesty hath not the same authority in causes Ecclesiastical that the godly Kings had among the Jews and Christian Emperours in the primitive Church or impeach in any part his Regal Supremacy in the said causes restored to the Crown and by the Laws of this Realm therein established let him be excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but only by the Archbishop after his repentance and publick revocation of those his wicked errors Canon XXXVI Subscription required of all such who are to be made Ministers No person shall hereafter be received into the Ministry ●…or either by Institution or Collation admitted to any Ecclesiastical living nor suffered to preach to Chatechize or to be a Lecturer or Reader of Divinity in either Univerfities or in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church City or Market-Town Parish-Church Chapel or in any other place within this Realm except he be licenced by the Archbishop or by the Bishop of the Diocesse where he is to be placed under their Hands and Seal or by one of the two Universities under their Seal likewise and except he shall first subscribe to these three Articles following in such manner and sort as we have here appointed 1. That the Kings Majesty under GOD is the only supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesse Dominions and Countries aswell in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal and that no forein Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate have or ought to have Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within his Majesties said Realms Dominions and Countreys c. And Can. 55. They prescribed this form of prayer to be used by them in their prayers before all their Ser-Lectures and Homilies And herein I require you most especially to pray for the Kings most excellent Majesty our Soveraign Lord CHARLES King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith and Supreme Governour in these his Realms and all other his Dominions and Countries over all persons in all causes aswell Ecclesiastical as Temporal Ye shall also pray for the Kings most honourable Councel and for all the Nobility and Magistrates of this Realm that all and every of these in their several callings may serve truly and painfully to the glory of GOD and the edifying and well governing of his people remembring the account that they must make Also ye shall pray for the whole Commons of this Realm that they may live in true Faith and Fear of God in humble obedience to the King and brotherly charity one to another Which all Ministers and Preachers duly observed usually adding this clause thereunto That God out of his infinite mercy would grant so to blesse the Kings Majestie and his Royal issue with a perpetual Posterity that there might never want a Man of that Royal race to sway the Scepter of these Realms so long as the Sun and Moon should ●…ndure and till all Scepters and Kingdoms should be resigned at the last day into the hands of Jesus Christ the King of Kings The Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons of the Realm of England assembled in Parliament in the first year of King James do thus expresse and declare their own and the whole Kingdoms unspeakeable joys acclamations and thanksgivings unto God and their own and their posterities Signal Loyalty affection and Devotion to King James his Heirs and Royal progeny for ever in the Statute of 1 Jacobi ch 1. intituled A most joyfull and just Recognition of the immediate lawfull and undoubted succession descent and Right of the Crown●… Great and manifold were the benefits most dread and most gracious Soveraign wherewith almighty God blessed this Kingdom and Nation by the happy union and conjunction of the two Nobles houses of York and Lancaster thereby preserving this noble Realm formerly torn and almost wasted with long and miserable dissention and bloodie Civil War But more inestimable and unspeakable blessings are thereby powred upon us because there i●… derived and grown from and out of that union of those two Princely families a more famous and greater ●…nion or rather a re-uniting of two Mighty Famous and antient Kingdoms yet antiently but one of England and Scotland under one Imperial Crown in your most Royal Person who is lineally rightfully and lawfully descended of the body of the most excellent Lady Margaret eldest daughter of the most renowned King Henry the 7th and the high and noble Princesse Queen Elizabeth his wife eldest daughter of King Edward the 4th The said Lady Margaret being eldest sister of King Henry

to be read thrice every week or oftener upon occasion there are these several Prayers and Petitions to God That it would please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy servant Charles our most gracious King and Governor That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his Enemies That it may please thee to blesse and preserve our gratious Queen Mary Prince Charles and the rest of the Royal Issue After every of which several Prayers and Supplications all the People severally answered We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. After which followed these two Prayers for the Kings M●…jestie the Queen Prince and Royal Issue and read twice every day in most places O God our heavenly Father high and mighty King of Kings and Lord of Lords the only Ruler of Princes which dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may alwaies incline to thy will and walk in thy way endue him plentifully with heavenly gifts Grant him in health and wealth long to live strengthen him that he may 〈◊〉 and overcome all his Enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Almighty God the Father of thine elect and of their seed which Bishop Laud changed into the fountain of all goodnesse we humbly beseech thee to blesse our gracious Queen Mary Prince Charles and the rest of the royal issue Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich them with thy Heavenly grace prosper them with all happinesse and bring them to thine everlasting Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen In the Prayer for the whole Estate of Christs Church there is this Clause relating to Kings in general and King Charles in particular We beseech thee also to besee●…h and defend all Christian Kings Princes and Governors and Specia●…y thy servant Charles our King that under him we may be godly and quietly Governed When these Prayers and Collects with the Book of Common-Prayer were suspended by the Directory of the publike worship of God in most places throughout the 3. Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Printed by order of both Houses 13 Martii 1644. yet the substance of them was still continued by the very Directory it self during the heat of the late Wars between the King and Parliament witnesse p. 10 11. of publike Prayer before the Sermon wherein all Ministers are directed To pray for all in Authority especially for the Kings Majesty that God would make him rich in blessings both in Person and Government establish his Throne in Religion and righteousnesse save him from all evil Counsel and make him a blessed and glorious Instrument for the Conservation and Propagation of the Gospel for the Encouragement and Protection of those that do well and the terror of all that do evil and the great good of the whole Church and of all his Kingdoms for the Conversion of the Queen the Religious education of the Prince and the rest of the Royal seed for the comforting of the afflicted Queen of Bohemia sister to our Soveraign and for the Restitution and Establishment of the Illustrious Prince Charls Elector Palatine much more then now of our Illustrious long-exiled King CHARLES to all his Dominious and Dignities To pretermit all Prayers made for King Charles in Epistles perfixed to hundreds of Books of all sorts dedicated to him whiles Prince of Wales and King of England Scotland and Ireland I shall Conclude only with 3. short Prayers of this Nature in 3. of our learnedest late deceased Antiquaries Dedicatory Epistles to his Majesty being of 3. several professions The first is Mr. John Seldens in the cloze of his Dedicatory Epistle to His Mare clausum Londini 1635. Inexuperabilem Tibi felicitatem sanctissima illa Majestas quae Tuae archetypa est praestet conservetque The 2. is Sir Henry Spelmans in the end of his Dedicatory Epistle before the first Tome of his Councils Londini 1639. Dei Vicario Ecclesiae Nutricio Fidei Defensori Carolo Dei gratia Magnae Britaniae Franciae Hiberniae Regi c. Magno Pio Augustissimo Deus optimus maximus Regi am vestram Majestatem sobolemque Sere●…ssimum Ecclesiae et Britaniis Imperpetuum sospitet beatissime The 3 is most learned renowned and pious Archbishop Ush●…r who thus winds up his Epistle to King Charls perfixed to his Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates Dublini 1639. Deus optimus maximus Regum suorum custos et vindex vitam ●…ibi det prolixam imperium securum domum tutam exercitus ●…rtes Senatum fidelem populum probum Veteris Ecclesiae pro Imperatoribus s●…is vota haec solemnia pro tua et tuorum salute Redintegrat et toto animi affectu numini divino nuncupat Serenissimae Tuae Majestatis servus humilimus Iacobus Armachanus The very next day after the most illegal Trial Condemnation and bloody Execution of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles by that Prodigy of Lawyers John Bradshaw and his Assessors in the new created High Court of Injustice against the Votes and Protests of the Secluded Lords and Secured Commons one of the then secured Members out of his Loyalty to his Majesty and his royal Heir and Successor whose rights he strenuously asserted in his Speech in the House for which he was seized and imprisoned by the Army Dec. 6. 1648. at his own charge Printed 350. of the ensuing Proclamations which he caused to be sent to most Sheriffs and Mayors throughout England and Wales and some of them to be pasted up at Westminster and elsewhere in and about London notwithstanding the Anti-Parliamentary and Antimonarchical Junctoes strict Proclamation to the contrary under pain of High Treasons and the most Capital Punishments which deterred others both from crowning and proclaiming their Hereditary Soveraign according to their former Oathes Covenants and printed Remonstrances A PROCLAMATION PROCLAIMING CHARLES Prince of VVales King of Great Britain France and Ireland WEE the Noblemen Iudges Knights Lawyers Gentlemen Free-holders Marchants Marchants Citizens Yeomen Seamen and other freemen of England doe according to our Allegiance and Covenant by these presents heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and proclaim the Illustrious Charles Prince of Wales next heir of the Blood Royal to his Father King Charles whose late wicked and trayterous Murther we doe from our souls abominate and all parties and consenters thereunto to be by hereditary Birthright and lawfull succession rightfull and undoubted King of Great Britain France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging And

fuit ut non legislator sed Medicorum optimus ad sanam valetudinem omnia referens eam instituisse videatur Whereupon their Kings strictly conforming themselves to their Laws in all things without the least deviation he subjoyns Hâc ergà subditos justitiâ cum Reges uterentur majore in se ●…ives benevolentià quàm amore cognaios propensos habebant Non enim sacerdotum duntaxat collegia sed universa Aegyptiorum Natio adeòque singuli non tàm de uxoribus liberisque boni●…●…uis privatis quàm de Regis incolumitate solliciti ●…rant QUOCIRCA LONGISSIMO ETIAM TEMPORE SUB REGIBUS MEMORATIS INTEGRUM REIPUBLICAe STA●…UM CONSERVARUNT IN SUMMA VITAM FELICITATE EXIGEN●…ES QUAMDIU HAeC LEGUM CONSTITU●…IO V GEBAT Ad h●… plurim●… ab eis gentes s●… maxima vis opum co●… provinciae inimitabili operum magnificentiâ illustratae urbe●… variis sumptuosissimis donariis exornat●… Which God grant may be Englands condition for the future as well as theirs and its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p●… by a speedy happy cordial legal restitution conjunction o●… 〈◊〉 and Subjects in the 〈◊〉 bonds of mutual love and loyalty without any adulation or self-seeking on either part Then shall we sing with the elegant Poet Non quaerit pretium vitam qui debet amori O quantum popul●… secreti numi●… addit Imperii praesens species quantamque rependi●… Majestas alterna vicem cum Reg●… Circi Connixum gradibus veneratur purpura vallis Plebis 〈◊〉 reb●…at fragor Unaque rotis In●…onat Augustus ●…eptenis Arcibus echo Fallitur egregio quisquis sub Principe credit Servitium nunquam libertas gratior extat Quam sub Rege pio●… quos praeficit ipse regendis Rebus ad arbitrium plebis Pa●…rumque reducit C●…ncorditqus libens meritis seu praemia p●… Seu punir●… veliut posito jam purpura fastu De s●… judicium non indignatur haberi Si●… do●…uit regnare Pa●…er si●… casta juventa Froena dedit teneros his moribus imbuit annos Verior Augusti genit●…r fiducia belli Pacis consilium per quem squalore rem●…to Pristina Romuleis infloruit artibus aetas Per quem fracta diu translataque penè potestas In proprium reducta Larem victricia reddit Fata solo fruiturque iterum quibus h●…serat olim Auspiciis Capitique errantia Membra Reponit I shall conclude this whole Treatise with the usual thanks and Prayer of the Prelates Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament in the name all of other Subjects of England whom they represent entred upon every general Pardon of the King passed in Parliament wherein they pray God to give him a peaceable good and long life in these words Les Prelates Seigneurs Commones en ce●…t Parleament assembles au nom de touts vous autres subjects Remercient treshumblement vostre Majesty Prient deiu vous doner en sante bone vie longe And with these Prayers and Collects for the King of England in the Book of Common Prayer Priest O LORD SAVE THE KING Answer by all the people And mercifully hear us when we call upon ●…hee Almighty God whose Kingdome is everlasting and power infinite have mercy upon the whole congregation and so rule the heart of thy chosen Servant CHARLES OUR KING AND GOVERNOUR that he knowing whose minister he is may above all things seek thy honour and glory and that we his Subjects duly considering whose authority he hath may faithfully serve honour and humbly obey him in thee and for thee according to thy blessed word and ordinance through Jesus Christ our Lord who with Thee and the holy Ghost liveth and reigneth one God world without end Amen Almighty and everlasting God we be taught by thy holy word that the hearts of Kings are in thy rule and governance and that thou dost dispose and turn them as it seemeth best to thy godly wisdome we beseech thee so to dispose and govern the heart of CHARLES THY SERVANT OUR KING AND GOVERNOR THAT IN ALL HIS THOUGHTS WORDS AND WORKS HE MAY EVER SEEK THY HONOUR AND GLORY AND STUDY TO PRESERVE THY PEOPLE COMMITTED TO HIS CHARGE IN WEALTH PEACE AND GODLINESSE Grant this O merciful Father for thy sons sak●… Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ●… Sam ●… 6 7 8 9 10. The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up again The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghil to set them among Princes and to make them inherit the Throne of glory c. The Adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces out of heaven shall he thunder upon them the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth AND HE SHALL GIVE STRENGTH UNTO HIS KING AND EXALT THE HORN OF HIS ANOINTED GOD SAVE KING CHARLES THE SECOND AMEN FINIS ERRATA COurteous Reader Correct these mistakes at the Press pag. 〈◊〉 line 22. read ●…erunt p. 16. l. 1. ●… Cath●…lua l. 38. r. ●…eculi p. 32. l. 8. ●… stabilitate p. 4. l. 23. ●… siberatus p. 45. l. 3. ●… sub●… p. 60. l. 14. ●… processionale p. 73. l. 26. sermons l. 30. Charles r. James p. ●…2 l. 32. countenance ●… continuance p. 129. l. 34. multi●… p. 133. l. 22. ●…rmet p. 157. l. 24. ●… circunda●… p. 158. l. 8. perfand p. 234. 〈◊〉 p. 239. 137. ●…ille p. 240. l. 13. penetrassent ●… ●…75 l 34. ●… 〈◊〉 ●…ibue p. 2 77. ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…s p. 27●… ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 282. l. 4. vi●… ●… 22. corona p. ●…84 l. 19. profectuum p. 292. l. 13. r. salvatore p. 293. l. 28. pice Margin p. 23. l. 1. 298. 1. 292. p. 104. l. 5. ●…ection p. 13. l. 7. Ibidem a 1 Tim. 6. 15. Rev 19. 16. b D●… 2 21. c. 4. 25. Job 12. 19 20 21. 1 ●…m 2. 8. Psa. 113. 7 8. c Psal. 98. 1. Exod. 15. 16. Deut. 4. 34. d Dan. 2 34. 4●… e Psal. 120. 4 5 6. f 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. g Ps 46. 7. h Num. 16. 22. ●… 27. 16. i 2 Sam. 16. 9. to 16. a ●…sal ●… 18. 22 23 2●… b Isa 66. 7 8 9. ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jewe's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Apol●…gy of the Ch●… 〈◊〉 ●…h 16. Divi●… 1 D. John White his Way to the true Ch●…ch Sect. 42. 〈◊〉 44. ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their lives 〈◊〉 the Saints * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Exod. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 12 13 ●… b Psal ●…1 1 2 3 c. * Psal 106. 48. * 2 Chron 9. 5 6 7. * Regis ad exemplum to●…us componitur orbis●… Claudian (a) See here p 1. 2. and ch 4. throughout b Histriomap 825. E. 26. 943. 516. to 520. * See The Homelies against Rebellion and on Whitsunday Deus Rex 3 Jac. c. 1. 4. * Page 27. Page 116. ●…age 1117. 1118. * See my Plea for the Lords

Charters granted and confirmed several Lands Liberties and Privileges to the Monasteries and Churches of Stratford Halwiel Frampton Wells Budesley Revesly Boxele and Homecoltram pro amore Dei et pro salute nostra et A. Reginae matris nostrae in liberam et perpetuam elemosynam for which the Monks were to pray King John by several Charters granted and confirmed several Lands and Liberties to the respective Monasteries of F●…ssa St. Katherine near Exeter Thikehued St. Neth D●…re Farendon Shaftesbury and Wolfraughauton pro salute animae H. Regis avi Patris nostri pro salute nostra et 〈◊〉 nostrorum et omnium ancecessorum et successorum nostrorum pro salute animo H. Regis patris nostri et matris sui Imperatricis et antecessorum et 〈◊〉 nostrorum Which the Monks in all these Monsteries were obliged constantly to pray for in all their publike and private Masses and Devotions King Henry the 3 d. granted and confirmed several Lands and Privileges to the Abbies and Monasteries of Danington F●…ssa Flamsted Cesthont Wilburt●…sse Lillichurch Wotton New-Minster near Morpeth Parcolude Kemmer Jorevall Holmcoltram Bynedone Leiselege Lenton and Tarente pro salute animae nostrae et H. Regis et ●…aeredam nostrorum et omnium ●…egum Angliae et omnium fidelium et animarum ante●…rum nostrorum et patris mei et matris meae et pro totius nostri progen in remissionem peccatorum et salvationem et pro statu Regni mei Which the Abbots Priors and Monks in these respective Churches we●… constantly to pray for both in publike and private The Prior and Covent of St. Alba●… in their Letters to King Henry the 3d. touching the Election and presentation of a New Abbot Anno 1235. used this ●…tile and prayer Excellentissimo Domino suo in Christo Reverendissimo Henrico Dei gratia Regi Angliae c. E. Prior Sancti Albani ejusdem loci Conventus cum omni humilitate devotione aeternam in Domino salutem The Prior and Covent of Bath Anno 1242. begin and end their Letters to King Henry the 3d. and his Queen concerning the Election of the Bishop of Bath and Wells in this form and with these Prayers for them Serenissimo Domino Henrico Dei gratia Regi Angliae c. devoti sui ●…umilis Th. Prior conventus Ba●…honiae Salutem et debitam cum orationibus 〈◊〉 reverentiam et fidelitatem c. In omnibus quae nostrae erunt possibilitatis vestris pa●…ati sumus affec●…uose parere mandatis ●…alvat et vigeat Dominatio vestra per tempora longa 〈◊〉 Regia 〈◊〉 ●…estra semper in Domino Conservet vos 〈◊〉 et populo suo Altissimus per ●…pora longiora Ualeat et tigeat Serenitas vestra et ●…liorum vestrorum per tempora longa Ualeat Serenitas vestra semper in Domino Which were their daily prayers for thē in their publike and private Devotions in their Churches and Cells as well as in their Letters And likewise for King Adelstan Edwar●… Edgar Ethelred Kenulphus Henry the I. and King Stephen Benefactors to the Priory of B●…th whose Anni●…rsaries they solemnized every year with Solemn prayers and Alms as the Leger book records In the Vigil o. St. Matthew Anno 1247. when Prince Edward eldest son and heir of King Henry the 3. was sick the said King writ to all the religious persons remaining within the circuit of London where the said Edward lay sick ut 〈◊〉 orarent pro Pueri incolumitate●… that they should devoutly pray for the recovery and health of the child Whereupon amongst others he writ specially to the Abbot and Covent of St. Alban ut pro ipso orantes that praying for him all the Monks should solemnly sing a Masse whose first Collect should be of St. Alban but the second for the sick Prince namely Omnipotens sempiternè Deus salus aeterna credentium c Which being done per Dei gratiam puero sanitas est restituta Haec idcircò dixerim writes the Historian propter murmur populi dicentis ecce laici orant Dominum et exaudiuntur et quare non orat Papa facit pro causa sua imò nostra universalis Ecclefiae Orare imò rapinis inhiat pecuniae indefessus Dictumque est affirmatum quod non sine lac●…rymis scribo plus confidit in pecuniae thesauris quam fidelium precibus vel Eleemosy●…is The Abbots of the Order of Black Monks assembling at the Abby of Bermond●…shie in the year 1249. Ordained by Common-Council Quod ipse Dominus Rex ab ipsis omnibus impetravit ut pro ipso et Regina dicatur quotidie in missa quae in veneratione beatae Virginis canitur in eorum Ecclesiis Collecta celebis Deus in cujus manu For the preservation and welfare of the King and Queen King Henry the 3d. being very sick at Westminster in the Lent Anno 1270. and despairing of his recovery se orationibus Ecclesiae commendavit recommended himself to the Prayers of the Church Whereupon the Monks of Westminster fearing to lose such a Patriot went in Pilgrimage bare-foot in a rainy season to the new Temple and there singing a Masse for the King and returning thence in the same manner as they went it was told them that the King had recovered of his sicknesse Whereupon he commanded the Monks by his Mandates that they should ●…ing Gaude at in coelis quod convaluit precibus monachorum George Cassandar in his h Preces Ecclesiasticae hath sundry forms of Prayers for Christian King●… Emperors Princes and Kingdoms collected out of several antient Liturgies Missals Letanies and Canonical Houres used antiently in most Monasteries and Churches as well in England as in other Kingdoms during the reign of King Henry the 3d. and in the Kings reigns preceding and succeeding him which I shall here insert Deus qui populis tuis virtute consulis amore dominaris da huic f●…mule tuo spiritum sapientiae cum regimine disciplinae ut tibi toto corde devotus in Regni regimine maneat semper idoneus tuoque munere ipsius temporibus securitas Ecclesiae dirigatur ut in tranquillitate devotio Christiana permaneat ut in bonis operibus perseverans ad aeternum Regnum te duce valeat pervenire per eundem Dominum Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui famulum tuum Regni fastigis dignatus es sublimare tribue ei quaesumus ut ita in hujus seculi cursu in commune salutem disponat quatenus a tuae veritatis tramite non recedat Per eundem Dominum nostrum Deus qui scis humanum genus nulla virtute posse subsistere concede propicius Ut famulus tuus N quem populo tuo voluisti praeferri ita tue fulciatur adjutorio quatenus quibus potui praeesse valeat prodesse Per Dominum Omnipotens sempiterne Deus coelestium terrestriumque moderator qui famutuum

the 8th father of the high and mightie Princesse offamous memorie Elizabeth late Queen of England In confideration whereof albeit we your Majesties l●…yal and faithfull Subjects of all Estates and Degrees with all possible publike Joy and Acclamation by open Proclamations within few houres after the decease of our late Soveraign Queen acknowledging thereby with one full voice of tongue and heart that your Majesty was our only lawfull and rightfull Leige Lord and Soveraign and by our unspeakable and general rejoycing and applause at your Majesties most happy inauguration and Coronation by the affectionate desire of infinite numbers of us of all degrees to see your Royal Person and by all possible outward means have indeavoured to make demonstration of our inward love zeal and devotion to your most excellent Maj●…stie our undoubted rightfull Leige Soveraign Lord and King yet as we cannot do it too often or enough so can there be no means or way so fit both to sacrifice our unfeined and heartie thanks to Almighty God for blessing us with a Soveraign ador●…ed with the rarest gifts of mind and body in such admirable peace and quietnesse and upon the knees of our hearts to agnize our most constant faith obedience and loyalty to your Majestie and your Royal Progenie as in this high Court of Parliament where all the whole body of the Realm and every particular Member thereof either in Person or Representation upon their own free Elections are by the Laws of this Realm deemed to be personally present To the present acknowledgment whereof to your Majestie we are the more deeply bounden and obliged as well in regard of the extraordinarie care and pains which with so great wisdom knowledge experience and dexteritie your Majestie since the Imperial Crown of this Realm descended to you have taken for the continuance and establishment of the blessed peace both of the Church of England in the true and fincere Religion and of the Common-wealth by due and speedy administration of justice as in respect of the gracious care and inward aff●…ction which it pleased you on the first day of this Parliament so lively to expresse by your own words so full of high wisdom learning and virtue and so repleate with Royal and thankfull acceptation of all our faithfull and constant endeavours which is and ever will be to our inestimable consolation and comfort We therefore your most humble and loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do from the bottom of our hearts yield to the divine Majestie all humble thanks and prayses not only for the said unspeakable and inestimable benefits and blessings above mentioned but also that he hath further enriched your Highnesse with a most Royal Progenie of Most rare and excellent gifts and forwardnesse and in his goodnesse is like to increase the happy number of them And in most humble and lowly manner do beseech your most Excellent Majestie that as a memorial to all posterities amongst the Records of your high Court of Parliament for ever to endure of our Loyalty Obedience and harty and humble Affection it may be published and declared in this high Court of Parliament and enacted by authority of the same That we being bounden thereunto both by the Laws of God and Man do recognize and acknowledge and thereby expresse our unspeakable Ioyes That immediately upon the dissolution and decease of Elizabeth late Queen of England the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belongiug to the same did by inherent Birthright and lawfull and undoubted Successien descend and come to your most Excellent M●…jestie as being Lineally Iustly and Lawfully next and sole Heir of the Blood Royal of this Realm as is aforesaid And that by the goodnesse of God Almighty and lawfull Right of descent under one Imperial Crown your Majestie is of the Realms and Kingdoms of England Scotland France and Ireland the most Potent and migh●…y King and by Gods goodnesse more able to protect and govern us your loving Subjects in all Peace and Plentie than any of your noble Progenitors And thereunto we most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our selves our heirs and posterities for ever until the last drop of our Bloods be spent And do beseech your Majestie to accept the same as the first fruits in this high Court of Parliament of our Loyalty and faith to your Majestie and your Royal Progenie and posterity for ever Which if your Majestie shall be pleased as an argument of your gracious acceptation to adorn with your Majesties Royal Assent without which it can neither be complete and perfect nor remain to all posteritie according to our most humble desire as a memorial of your Princely and tender affection towards us we shall adde this also to the rest of your Majesties unspeakable and inestimable benefits In which Act there are these particulars very seasonable and observable in respect of the present posture of our publike affairs 1. That the happy union and conjunction of our divided Kingdoms formenly torn and wasted with long and miserable dissentions and bloody civil wars between Competitors for the Crown and the King and Subjects is a great and unspeakable benefit and blessing to the Kingdom and Nation bestowed on them by God himself 2. That the re-uniting not only of the two but three mighty famous and antient Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland under one Imperial Crown and Heredirary King is a far more inestimable and unspeakable blessing to all 3. Kingdoms and Nations 3. That there is no Interregnum in Law in the Realm and Crown of England but that immediately upon the decease of the King thereof the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same do by inherent bi●…thright and lawfull and undoubted Succession Lineally Justly and lawfully descend to the next heir of the blood Royal before he be publikely crowned King As this Act in direct Terms declares and all the Judges of England unanimously adjudged in the case of Watson and Cleark 2. Popish Priests who held King James no lawfull King before he was Crowned and thereupon conspired to imprison him in the Tower c. for which they were both condemned and executed as Traytors Hill 1. Jacobi as had been oft adjudged before in the first 7. years of King H. 6. and in the cases of Queen Jane the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk the Lord Rochford Sir John Gates Sir Thomas Palmer and others condemned in levying War against her and executed 1 Mariae for Treason against Qu. Mary before she was Crowned to deprive her of the Crown which both the Peers and Judges of the Realm and the Parliament of 1 Mariae ch 16. adjudged Treason within 25 E. 3. against the mistaken Doctrine of Mr. Thomas Scot and some temporizing Lawyers of late years 4. That it is

sapientia in protectione clypeus 〈◊〉 Sequatur pacem diligat caritatem abstineat se ab omni impietate loquatur justitiam custodiat veritatem Sit cultrix justitiae pietatis amatrix religionis vige at que praesenti benedictione in hoc aevo annis plurimis in sempiterno sine fine aeternis Praestante Domino nostro Jesu Christo qui cum Patre Spiritu sancto vivit regnat Deus Per omnia saecula saeculorum Amen Post istam Orationem Barones qui Coronam ejus sustentant deducunt eam ad solium ubi in sede parata collocatur circumstantibus eam Baronibus et Matronis Nobilioribus in oblatione In pace ferenda in communione penitùs est ordo Regis superius annotatus observandus Notandum quod antequam Archiepiscopus dicat Pax Domini c. debet dicere hanc benedictiouem super Regem et super populum Sic. Benedicat tibi Dominus custodiatqus te sicut voluit te super populum suum constituere Regem ita in praesenti saeculo faelicem aeternae faelicitati tribuat esse consortem Amen Alia Benedictio Clerum ac populum quem sua voluit opitulatioue tua sanctione congregari tua dispensatione tua administratione per diuturna tempora facias faeliciter gubernari Amen Alia Benedictio Quatenus Divinis monitis parentes adversitatibus omnibus carentes bonis omnibus exuberantes tuo ministerio fideli amore obsequentes in praesenti saeculo pacis tranquillitate fruantur tecum aeternorum Civium consortio potiri mereantur Amen Quod ipse par are dignetur cujus regnum imperium sine fine permanet in saecul●… saeculorum Amen Et benedictio Dei Omnipotentis Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti vos descendat et ●…aneat semper Amen Explicit ordo et officium in Consecratione Regis et Reginae Having given you this Account of the Ceremonies and Prayers used at the Coronations of Forein Christian Emperors and Kings I shall next present you with the Order Prayers Ceremonies and Solemnities used at the Coronations of our antient Saxon and English Kings especially with those in later ages since our Kings and Queenes became Prot●…ants never formerly published in print For the manner and ceremonies of the Unction Benediction and Coronation of the Kings of England the Oaths then taken by them with the Oaths and Homages made by the Prelates Nobles to them mentioned in our Histories being not so pertinent to my Theam I shall reserr the Readers to peruse them at their leisure in Mat. Westm. Flores Hist. part 1. Anno 435 445 454 465 498 516. Galfridus Monumetensis Histor. Regum Brit. l. 9. c. 7 8. c. during the British Kings reigns Willielmus Malmesburiensis de Gestis Regum Angl l. 2. c. 4. 6. 9. 13. Mat. W●…stminster Flores Hist. pars 1. Anno 855 871 924 940 946 959 973 974 975 979 1016 1035 1042. Leges Edwardi Confessoris Lex 17. in Mr. Lambards Archaion Fox Acts and Monuments London 1641. Vol 1. p. 214. for our Saxon and Danish Kings Malmesburiensis Hoveden Brompton Mat Paris Mat Westminster Tho. Walsingham Speed Holinshed Grafton Stow in the Lives of King William 1 2. Henry 1. King Stephen Henry 2. Rich. 1. King John H. 3. Edw. 1 2 3. R. 2. H. 4 5 6. Edward 4. Richard 3. H. 7 8. Edward 6 Queen Mary Queen Elizabeth and King James whose respective Coronations Oathes and Solemnities they recite To which I shall adde Rot. Parl. anno 1 R. 2. n. 44. 1 H. 4. n. 17 53. to 62. and Robertus Holcot in lib Sapientiae Lectio 74. fol. 73. A. B. where he mentions both the O●…th Unction Ceremonies and some prayers used at our Kings Coronations I shall present you 1 With the antient Form of our Saxon Kings Coronations and the prayers used at them recorded by Mr Selden out of the old Saxon Ceremonial 2ly With the Ceremonies and prayers used at the Coronation of King Richard the 2. 3ly With the usual Form of the Coronation of the Kings of England and their Queens and of the Prayers used thereat never hitherto published and omitted by Mr Selden in his Titles of Honor extracted out of Liber Regalis being the form used at the Coronations of Henry the 7 8. and their Queens King James and Queen Anne and our late King Charles 4ly With the Form of the Coronation of the Kings of Scotland used at the Coronation of our late King Charles anno 1633. For the 1 Mr Selden our most learned Antiquary informs us That there remains in an old imperfect Pontifical of the Saxon times a piece of a Ceremonial for the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England or of the English-Saxons wherein after divers Prayers and Benedictions this follows for the Anointing OMnipotens sempiter●…e Deus Creator ac Gubernator Coeli Terrae conditor dispositor Angelorum Hominum Rex Regum Dominus dominantium qui Habraham fidelem famulum tuum de hostibus triumphare fecisti Moysi Josue populo tuo Praelatis multiplicem victoriam tribuisti humilem quoque David puerum tuum Regni fastigio sublimasti eumque de ore Leonis de manu Besti●… atque Goliae sed de gladio maligno Saul omnium inimicorum ejus liberasti Salomonem sapientiae pacisque ineffabili munere ditasti respice quaesumus Domine ad preces nostrae humilitatis super hunc famulum tuum illum quem supplici devotione in Regem Anglorum vel Saxonum pariter eligimus Benedictionum tuarum dona multiplica Hunc dexterâ tuae potentiae semper ubique circunda quatenus praedicti Abrahae fidelitate firmatus Moysi mansuetudine fretus Josuae fortitudine munitus David humilitate exaltatus Salomonis sapientia decoratus tibi in omnibus complac●…at per tramitem justitiae inoffenso gressu semper incedat Hic totius Regni Anglo-Saxonum Ecclesiam deinceps cum plebibus sibi annexis ita enutriat ac doceat muniat instruat contraque omnes visibiles invisibiles hostes idem potenter regaliterque tuae virtutis regimen amministret ut regale solium videlicet Anglorum vel Saxonum * Sce●…tro non des●…rat sed ad pristinae fidei pacisque concordiam eorum animos te opitulante reformet ut populorum debitâ subjectione fultus condigno amore glorificatus per longum vitae spatium paternae apicem gloriae tuae miseratione unita stabilire gubernare mereatur Tuae quoque protectionis galea munitus scuto insuper abili jugitèr protectus protectus coelestibus circundatus optabilis victoriae triumphum de hostibus foeliciter capiat terroremque suae potentiae infidelibus inferat pacem tibi militantibus laetantèr reportet Uirtutibus Christe hune quibus praefatos fideles tuos decorasti multiplici honoris benedictione condecora in regimine regni sublimitèr colloca et oleo gratiae

Panegyricks congratulated your Maties Natural and Political Nativity thereon both as a Man and Monarch together with the new Birth and Resurrection of Your three Uni●… Kingdoms and Churches of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND and their respective Dominions being all ●…ised from the●… Graves of D●…th and Misery wherein they had for some years sp●…ce b●…re been in●…red and were new ●…rn AS KINGDOMS and Churches too on that joy●… d●…y 〈◊〉 to ●…e celebrated by them in all succeeding Generations and to have this Divine motto engra●…n thereon The stone which the bu●…lders refused is this day become t●…e Head of the corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvello●… in our eyes THI●… IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MAD●… WEE WILL REJOYCE AND BE GLAD THEREIN What the ●…gant Prophet Is●…h records of God●… mira●… M●…cies towards his Church and people B●…e she 〈◊〉 she broug●…t forth before her pain came she was delivered of a man child Who hath heard such a thing WHO HATH SEEN SUCH THINGS Shall the Earth be made to bring forth in ONE DAY OR SHALL A NATION BE BORN AT ONCE For as soon as ZION 〈◊〉 she brought 〈◊〉 her childre●… Was now verified b●…th of your M●…jesty and you●… three whole Kingdoms Churches all brought forth and born together in this one DAY Wherefore R●…yce ye with 〈◊〉 with England and he glad with her all ye that love her rejoyce fo●… joy with h●…r all ye that mourned for her I●… hath been the antient 〈◊〉 O●… our●… Rom●…sh Adversaries against our Reformed Protestant Churches Religi●…n that they are false and spurious because they have no mi●…cles wr●…ght in them And they have daily upbraided your s●…cred Majesty your followers yea pierced your souls during your Exile among them w●…th this soul-piercing Quaere * Where is now the God of the Prot stants He can neither p●…rve nor ●…store You to ●…our Crowns and King●…ms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nounce your Protestant God Ch●…ch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Rom●…n Catholike God Church R●…ligion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hope nor 〈◊〉 of your rest●…on and th●…t 〈◊〉 ●…y th●… Arms of your Catholike ●…yes and subjec●… But blessed and for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of ou●… great God who hath now vindicated his own Glorie and O●…ncie against their 〈◊〉 wrought so many Miracles in your Maties restitution to justifie b●…th the Truth of the Prote●…ant Religion Churches your Subj●…s that all their spurious Miracles and Impostures wherewi●…h they abuse their over-c●…edulous Proselytes and fraught their Legends even to n●…sse are no more to be compared with them than a Glo-worm●…o ●…o the Noon day Sun And their God and rock is not as our God and ro●…k our Enemies themselves being now Judges Verily your Majesty with all your Protestant Subjects after such a stupendious glorious deliverance from their la●…e usurping Pharaohs w●…rse t●…n Aegyptian Tax masters Burdens and servitude have just cause to sing aloud to the God of their Salvation this triump●…ant song of Moses and the Children of Israel and King David after them a Who is l●…ke unto thee O Lord amongst the Gods who is like unto thee glorious in holynesse fearfull in prayses doing wonders Thou str●…tchest out thyright hand the earth swallowed them Thou in thymercy hast led forth thy p●…ople which thou hast redeemed Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously The King shall joy 〈◊〉 thy str●… O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he ●…joyce for thou hast now given him his hearts desire thou hast not with-holden the request of his lips For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head His glory is great in thy salvation Honor and Majesty hast thou laid upon him Thou hast made him most Blessed for ever thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy Countenance For the King trusteth in the Lord and through the mercy of the most High he shall not miscarry Blessed be the Lord God of England from everlasting to everlasting for th●…s unexpressible mercy and let all the people say Amen Praise ye the Lord. Yea they all now joyntly and severally apply to your Majestie the blessing and words of the Q●…een of Sheba to King Solomon after she beheld his transcendent Wisdom Virtues and Magnificence which far exceeded the report thereof as your Majesties royal wisdom and graces of all kinds much transcend their fame Bl●…ssed be the Lord thy God who delighted in thee to set thee upon his Throne to be King for the Lord thy God Because the Lord thy God lov●…d Israel England Scotland and Ireland TO ESTABLISH THEM FOR EVER THEREFORE MADE HE THEE KING OVER THEM TO DO JUSTICE AND JUDGEMENT yea to restore them to their pristine Liberty Peace Plenty Traffick Renown Prosperity and make them the happiest of all Subjects in the world In the contempl●…tion of which inchoated common Felicity I humbly presume to dedicate to your Majesty this now compleated Treatise of The Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and pious Christians in all ages and lik●…wise of Pagans to their KINGS both before and under the Law and Gospel more especially within this your first Christian Realm of Britain wherein I have most expa●…ted expressed both by their publike and private Prayers Supplications and Intercessions unto God for their long life health sa●…ety victory prosperity temporal spiritual and eternal felicity and all sorts of blessings both on their Royal Persons Queens P●…ogenies Families Government Kingdoms Armies Counsels by their Thanksgivings to God for their advancement to their Royal Thrones Victories Successes Deliverances Piety Justice and Gratious reigns over them by their loyal Acclamations Salutations Addresses Panegyricks Epistles to them and their dutiful Subjection and Obedience under them which I have evidenc'd by presidents and Testimonies in all ages never formerly collected into one Manual To which I have super added the antient and modern Forms of the Coronations of Christian Emperors Kings Queens and of some Pagans with the Ceremonies Solemnities Prayers Collects and Benedictions used at them especially those relating to England and Scotland not hitherto published as a President for and Prologue to your Majesties much desired and shortly-expected Coronation The first Part of this Treatise I lately Printed in January last for Your Majesties service to inthrone You in the Hearts publike Prayers and Supplications of all Your loyal Subjects to prepare the way for Your Majestyes speedy Restauration to Your Hereditary Crowns and Kingdoms which blessed be God you now actually enjoy to their unspeakable comfort of the accomplishment whereof without Armes or Blood I had such full assurance then and since in my own apprehensions from the Observation of Gods admirable Providences of Your Majesties Opposites intollerable Extravagances and Infatuations of Your Subjects late dutiful Inclinations tending thereunto through the loyal Endeavour of some Faithfull Friends to your