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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97115	God save the King, or A sermon of thanksgiving, for His Majesties happy return to his throne. Together with a character of his sacred person. Preached in the parish-church of East Coker in the county of Sommerset, May 24. 1660. By William Walwyn B.D. and sometimes fellow of St. Johns College in Oxon.	Walwyn, William, 1614-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing W696B; Thomason E1033_10; ESTC R203977	18,961	42

GOD SAVE THE KING OR A SERMON OF Thanksgiving FOR HIS MAJESTIES Happy Return to his THRONE TOGETHER WITH A Character of His Sacred Person Preached in the Parish-Church of East Coker in the County of Somme●set MAY 24. 1660. By William Walwyn B D. And sometimes Fellow of St. Johns College in O●on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will make th●m one p●opl● in th● L●nd upon the Mo●ntains of Israel and one King shall be King to th●m all Ezec● 37. 22. LONDON Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy lane 1660. Charles the second by the grace of God King of England Scotland France Ireland Defender of the Faith 〈◊〉 To the Right Reverend Father in God Brian by the Providence of God Lord Bishop of Sarum Grace Mercy Peace and Life everlasting in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Right Reverend Father in God LEt not the Gratitude which for your many favours I owe unto your Lordship seem Arrogancie or Presumption because by way of Retribution though it be but a poor one to repay in Paper only what I received from your Lordship in richer Bullion I have taken the boldnesse to thrust this slender Discourse under the wings of your Patronage the truth is so weak a Chick could not likely derive so much life and vigor under any other wing as under yours though indeed it be a fitter shelter for Phoenixes and Birds of Paradise only the production I mean of Abler Pens and richer Abilities than I dare pretend to Yet my Lord I hope it will be no disparagement to your Honour to patronize so slight a thing as This with which I now present your Lordship since herein you will very much imitate the Divine Goodness of the Great Creator who cherished the Little Gnat as well as the vast Elephant and hath a Paternal providence as well for a Diminutive Wren or a Contemptible Hedge Sparrow as for the Gayer and Greater Ostru●h or the Majestick and Towring Aeagle Our Great Master preferred the poor Widows single Mite before all the Offerings of Those who cast much more than She into the Treasury and this makes me not altogether to Despair but that this my Mite may also find your kind Acceptance This Discourse is all along a fervent prayer for the King our Great Lord and Master as you may see upon the Title page in every Leaf and it is also an earnest perswasion to that Loyalty and Obedience which all His Subjects owe unto Him both by the Laws of God and Man and thus far I am confident this Sermon will please your Lordship very well You have here also another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or true Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty your Royal Pupil and Great Master also in which you cannot but with infinite Complacency behold the rare Fruits of those Seeds which your Self hath sown and the influencies of the Divine Grace hath ripened to such an excellent Maturity and perfection My humble request my Lord is only this that you would please favourably to take this paper as the Testification of my Continued Loyalty to my King and the most Thankfull Acknowledgement of these undeserved respects which heretofore you were pleased to cast upon so mean an Object as From my Study in Fast Cok●r near Y●avil in the County of Sommerset June 18 1660. Your Lordships most humble Servant WILLIAM WALWYN To his very much Honored Friend William Helyar Esquire and one of his Late Majesties Colonels Grace and peace be multiplyed SIR I Was ever very unwilling with the Scriblers of this Age to do open penance in a white Sheet yet the Great Tyes and manifold Obligations which you have upon me have inforced me to lay aside my natural Modesty for I would rather seem somewhat Arrogant than altogether Ingratefull and to present to your view this ensuing Discourse it had not the Happinesse to take your Judicious Ear by reason of your absence from home when it was preached and now it craves your favourable Eye though perhaps it might better have expired and vanished with the breath in which it was delivered But although the meanesse of it may not so well please your accurate Judgement the Loyalty of it will I know well please your Loyal Heart The Sermon was Calculated at first for the Meridian of a Country Auditorie but with your Patronage it may serve indifferently for any other place within this Nation God himself accepted their good Will who brought onlie a Little Goats hair towards the Building of the Temple as well as their richer Offerings who being blessed with Greater Abilities than Others brought in their Gold and Silver and so I hope that you Sir will accept this Slender Offering since it is also designed for the edifying of the Church of God Please you to peruse it you shall meet in this Discourse with a True Character of our Most gracious Soveraign though I confesse it be drawn with but rude lines and in weak Water-Colours As also here you may likewise at once take Prospect of that Happiness for which both like Josuah and Moses you have so gallantly fought and so fervently prayed and of that Misery which you and all Loyal Subjects have at length escaped by the miraculous Return of his Gracious Majestie to his Throne whom I know you truly Love and honour Sir if this slight Paper-work of mine may any way be servic●a●le to my God my King my Country or my Friends or may by Go●s blessing reduce any Disl●yal Soul to his lost Alleg●ance and make him a better Subject hereafter by shewing to himself his own ugly Metamorphosis he hath his whole W●sh Intent and Design who here subscribes himself Sir Your most Affectionate Friend Humble Servant and Faithfull Pastor W. WALWYN God Save the King 1 Sam. 10. 24. the latter part of the verse And all the people shouted and said God save the King OUR Royal Soveraign hath already been proclaimed in all the Signal Towns and Cities of this Kingdom and by the Grace of God this day I will proclaim Him in the Pulpit too and I shall do His Sacred Majesty but Justice by proclaiming Him thence from whence He hath so oft in our Rebellious times been much declaimed against to which end I have made choice of this Text now read unto you The words in the Original sound as much as Vivat Rex Or let the King live Divines distinguish Prayer into two sorts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Supplicatorie for the blessings we want and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Gratulatorie for the benefits we have already received These words Vivat Rex Let the King live or GOD SAVE THE KING are both for 1. They are a Supplicatorie Oration wherin the people zealously pray for the Preservation and permanency of King Saul's Reign over them and 2. They are a Gratulatorie Acclamation whereby the people testifie their Joy and Thankfulnesse unto God for their King And indeed were our Saviour again upon the earth