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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97069	The bowing the heart of subjects to their sovereign. A sermon preached on the 24th of May, 1660. Being a day of publick thanksgiving to the Lord for raising up his Excellency the Lord General Monck, and other eminent persons, who have been instrumental in the delivery of this nation from thraldom and misery. By Francis Walsall D.D. and rector of Sandy in Bedfordshire.	Walsall, Francis, d. 1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing W624; Thomason E1033_6; ESTC R208962	20,053	37

for them as considerable as they vaunt themselves do but Thou return and they will be more then ever what they are Quakers Return thou the glory of our Nation the light of our Eyes the breath of our Nostrils Thou whose Right we own whose Person we honour whose prosperity we pray for Thou who art the joy of our Hearts the praise of our Tongues the desire and delight of our Eyes Return thou and bring new Joyes and new Glories to thy poor widow'd comfortlesse people and we will gather hopes from those startling Providences that promise us thy Return that the King of Kings will set up a fifth Monarchy in thy belov'd Person and Progeny in a truer and nobler sense than is intended by the wilde assertours of that judgement Thou canst alone under God put a period to our unsufferable sufferings therefore we pray we send this word Return thou 3. And thy servants Those that were before look'd upon as enemies our hearts are now bowed to entertain and imbrace as friends Thou art our great Master and thy servants are our fellow-servants 4. All thy servants We will not dare so fanatical an insolence as to think of shackling or restraining our Prince to Numbers or Persons it is above our duty and it is below thy dignity No no All come and welcome All that please thee shall please us Return thou and all thy se●vants The next words are So the King returned Be it so Lord be it so Amen The King of Kings return him to us with speed and safety and keep him with us with honour and happiness by keeping us to him with Humility and Sincerity I had done here but that there is a bowing the heart in my Text which bows my heart to bow your heart in a short application Our backs have been bow'd down to bear all the burdens that proud and wicked men thought fit to lay upon us Like Issachar we have lain crouching between two burdens of sinne and shame our hearts and our backs too bowed till they almost broke by our fellow Subjects Since then our hearts are thus sweetly bow'd in Loyalty to our natural King and love to our native Countrey Let us say with St Paul Ephes 3. 14. For this cause I bowe my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ And as David expresses it Psal 95. 6. O come let us worship and bowe down let us kneel before the Lord our maker Let us bowe down in praise and prayer I will onely quicken your memories with a few hints what you should praise and pray for and then joyn with you in praise and prayer for them and the Lord bowe all our hearts to and in this Duty First For the Exercise of the Duty of praising God this day the Text and the Time put us in minde of eight things 1. That the Lord hath pleas'd to bowe the heart of the General to be so eminent an Instrument for his Glory and our Good This is the duty the Parliament cals upon us for but I hope we need no quickning 2. That the Lord hath crown'd that excellent Instrument with so magnetick an Influence that he hath bowed so many hearts heads and hands without breaking any 3. That we our selves are sincerely bow'd to our duty to our King and our Countrey 4. That this bowing is so universal as to miracle it is We may say as much All the men of England as the Text sayes All the men of Judah If the major part be all if an hundred to one be all 5. That this bowing our heart to our King is as unanimous as universal All hearts centred in obedience to his Sacred Majesty We hear of triumphal Arches erected in honour of the two new married Princes we have an Arch which we acknowledge not so artificial no● would we have it so it were not good it were so and that is that Arch which alone will bear the weight of a Kingdom the universal and united bent of all our hearts to our King All hearts are bow'd into one Arch a Bow which like that Bow that wears the Kings Colours in Heaven in a party-coloured Ribband woven with Sunne-beams upon a cloud shall be for a Token and a Covenant between God our King and us that a deluge of warre and misery shall never destroy us any more 6. For the wisdome and goodnesse of the Kings most Excellent Majesty who was bowed by God into such a condescension as to vouchsafe to send such gracious Letters and Declarations to the Parliament General City Navy 7. For those humble Messages that are sent back from all these to his Majesty with their most humble desires of his Returne That they sent this word Returne thou and all thy servants 8. That the desires of the Parliament for the Kings Return are so free so full so ingenuous for him and all his servants From my soul I blesse God and I desire you to do so too for the sweet mutual repose and absolute confidence and trust between the King and his Houses which is to me the best Augury of our future happiness because all our former sufferings owe their beginnings to our foolish fears and jealousies Secondly Prayer There is a great stock of Prayers to be laid up and to be laid out upon a three-fold Account 1. For the Remission of National sins 2. For the Removal of National Judgements 3. For the Restoring of National Mercies 1. For the Remission of National sinnes Never expect good from God and the King till you repent the evils against God and the King Object There were great and grain-sins committed in the Nation to which guilt we would not if we could and could not if we would have contributed as we could not hinder such villanies so we did not further them but hated and abhorred them in their Causes and Consequences so far as we could foresee them all along Sol. I answer that I dare answer for you there is no tincture of the actual guilt of those high abominations crimson sinnes sticks to you you may say as to all the blood shed in the high-places of the field or that Akeldama Westminster-Hall with the Apostle you are clear from the blood of all men But O let us consider whether we have not contracted a guilt ex p●st facto if not by closing with the power these bloudy monsters swumme to in blood yet by not pouring out water enough before the Lord to wash away this defilement and stop the Cataract of vengeance which we may justly expect God will let loose in showrs of blood upon the Nation 2. Though we could not perhaps have prevented them we ought not to have connived at them As we ought not to have comply'd with them so we ought to have complain'd of them more to God than it is to be feared we did I shall only give you a slight touch or two upon some of them and that so farre onely as I conceive they may

the people as they finde it in a full spring-tide of Trade they bless God for 3. He bowed c. He what He the General Why this bowing their heart was in loialty to their Sovereigne and love to one another And is this work for a General for a man of warre to make Peace This is as great a Riddle as that a souldier should invent Printing or a scholar should conjure up Gunning or that a Monk should unravel all the plots of the Jesuites spinning But Sic quaerimus Pacem say they that destroy all with fire and sword The end of warre is Peace and though souldiers of fortune that make a trade of warre I hope that Trade that has broke all others will break it self at last be content like the Estridge to eat iron and live upon the sword yet they that take up the sword onely upon an honourable necessity will be glad to think an honest convenience a cogent necessity to lay it down again and afterwards look upon it as as great an honour and happinesse to live by their head-piece as by their sword especially when God comes in with his sword and wounds a noble Commanders heart that it bleeds for the bloud of its Countrey ungodlily pour'd out to make a red Sea for a villain to swimme in to the death of his natural Prince whose murther'd body is design'd by the hypocritical Traitor as a footstool for Mas Anello to clamber up to his Sovereigns Throne and therefore it is no wonder that he bowed them to Peace that the General should be the Peace-maker Thus Abner cryes to Joab 2 Sam. 2. 26. Shall the sword devour for ever And so little an Item bows both these great Generals to Peace vers 28. So Joab blew a trumpet and all the people stood still and pursued after Israel no more And oh let him have his part in Gods and the Kings Beati Pacifici in internal external eternal Peace May he be blessed from the beginning to the end quite through Ps 128. Thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israel Secondly The blessed influence of this He That he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah Where we are to enquire into the Act and the Object 1. The Act He bowed 2. The Object Their heart He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah 1. He bowea Was this such a blessed influence Was this such a piece of goodnesse Souldiers indeed know how to make the people bowe we know that yes and will make but a small matter of breaking them too if they will not bowe God dealt with us as with his people Isai 51. 23. God put us into the hand of them that afflicted us which have said to our soul bowe down that we may go over and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over Haman would break the whole Nation of the Jews because one Mordecai will not bow But our Amasa is of another temper his designe is onely to bowe and not break the heart to soften them into a sweet compliance with their Prince and one another He bowed the heart of all Judah and sent it the King for a token Indeed some hard hearts are like some other hard things not to be bowed without violence or at least much liquoring or greasing with drink or money there are such thick skins in the world that there is no bowing them without a great deal of oil and that is perhaps operam oleum pe●dere But blessed be God he met not with such a people 〈…〉 he met with them as we say in another sense Well he bowed them but how With balmy words with soft and gentle stroking not striking them This is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Thankfulnesse to our good God and this noble General that he bowed us without breaking or cutting he undertook and went through the cure without incision causticks or corrosives but like the good Samaritan he pour'd wine and oyle into our gaping wounds mollify'd us with sweet ointments and balsoms gently binding up the wound that had bled but too freely and to little too little purpose but that of our enemies to infeeble our hearts and lives and quench our spirits For just in such a case he found us as the Samaritan found the man that went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves which stript him of his raiment and wounded him and departed leaving him half dead Luk. 10. 30. Truly if it be not a little too tart I think I may safely as sadly say we have been dealt withall as thieves do by them they rob we have been bound and gagg'd that we might not sti●re to help our selves nor cry out for the help of others while some in the mean time cleverly took away our money so that we owe and own to our General not onely the hope of redress but the happinesse of addresse He was fain to bowe us that he might unbinde us if our hearts had not been bowed our hands and tongues had been bound still and now being handsomly handled carefully open'd and softly bound up again our very wounds will bleed balsome though we bleed freely to preserve our natural Head 2. The Object The heart of all the men of Judah Why were their hearts right and streight before he bowed them Can they be right and streight that are in actual Armes against their lawfull Prince No sure they were farre from streight they were bowed too much the wrong way to treason and rebellion to rapine and murder to covetousnesse and cruelty to ambition and arrogance to their own ways and their own wils and their own works Every man would be his own King and his own Priest his own Magistrate and his own Minister and do what seem'd right in their own eyes the ordinary posture of the people when there was no King in Israel as it is a brand upon that headlesse people often in Scripture but especially it is the fulmen in clausulá the last words of the last Chapter of the Book of Judges So that it seems they were bent too much therefore he was fain to bowe them t' other way to bowe them to unbend them to bowe them to their Prince in loialty and to one another in love this is the bowing that makes them streight They were a crooked generation before and he bow'd them to make them streight The evil bowe before the good Prov. 14. 19. Thus this good General is the fore-runner of his King as John Baptist was of his Christ he makes streight what was crooked to pave the way to his entertainment Luk. 3. 5. But here are two considerable notes that I must not slip 1. That he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah 2. Even as the heart of one man 1. All the hearts of the Nation here is the Universality 2. Even as the heart of one man here is the Unity of their bowing 1. Their

Universality He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah What are all bowers What a world of Osiers are here in a land of Oaks Or did he change the Oaks into Osiers with that pretty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that one weakly pray'd for that God would make all the willows about his Colledge Cedars of Lebanon to wainscot the house of the Lord. What a rare influence had the prudence and power and courage and conduct of this good man that could undeceive them all and turn and bowe them all to their forgotten Prince and principles The great Artist said If he could but get some thing strong enough to fasten on his Engine on he did not doubt but he could the world round Many of this kind of Engineers have been very busie and have turn'd a great part of the world round round even to 〈◊〉 blessed be God there was a place found yet in constant and loyal hearts where this excellent Artist the General fasten'd his rare Engine of wisdome and moderation by which he has bow'd and turn'd them again to their proper motion They are now moved by their own Angel again their own intelligence their native Sovereign whom God set over them as his own Sphere we hope inseparably as he that first fancy'd that opinion Every one beginnes to move in his owne Orbe to sit under his owne Vine and his own Figge-tree But the manner of this successefull bowing is beyond all comparison admirable the Modus rei is as much as Res ipsa the manner is admirable as the matter nay in some sense Materiam superabat opus To see a whole Nation turn'd thus and bow'd in a moment to their God their King and their Countrey in so unexpected * Psal 126. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so unlikely a way without money without mutiny without murder is so rich a miracle of mercy as not this day only but all the dayes of our lives are little enough to be Thanksgiving-dayes for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●urip Alii legunt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I shall wholly entitle God to it and set his Name upon it with the Apostle St Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 11. 33. O the depth of the riches of the wisdome and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgements and blessed be his Name his mercies too and his wayes past finding out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no footstep to trace them by and therefore let us not busie our heads to find them out we shall praise God the better the more we owe to mercy and the lesse to men It is true men are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods hands as Herbalists call the Plants and some have mere signal and speaking signatures of God upon them and these hands of God we may kisse But let us be carefull not to take the Crowns and Garlands which we should lay at Gods feet to set upon mans head Here are two eminent Persons for whom and in whom we rejoyce whom we may with as great reason as the people of Lystra Act. 14. 11. c. did Paul and Barnabas call Jupiter and Mercury but yet we dare not sacrifice to them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 These footstep-lesse wayes of God let us spend that time in praising God for them which our busie nature would in searching to finde them out I have much ado to forbear criticizing upon the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but then I should runne into the Metaphor the word relates to and take away that quick sent of the mercy and leave you at a losse without a footstep to follow this glorious mercy to its proper forme the great and good providence of God that clift of the Rock in which Moses lay while the goodnesse or glory of God for his glory is his goodnesse pass'd before him We have no more to do than what Moses did Exod. 34. 8. And Moses made haste and bowed his head down to the earth and worshipped We can do no lesse than pay such a bowing of the head for this bowing of the heart O come let us worship and bowe down c. Psal 95. 6. 2. The Unity as well as the Universality of their Bowing is to be considered Two expressions speak it 1. It is said He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah the heart not the hearts they were all of one heart of one minde this is the eminent and immediate work of God It is he that makes men to be of one minde in a house Psal 68. 6. And we have seen what a rarity it has been to finde two men of one minde in a house nay hardly one of one mind for an hour together much more in the Kingdome as I thank God I can now call it and that is the 2d. Even as the heart of one man The word is not doubled in the Hebrew it is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that 's enough too I would our Translators would mode their rendrings so that we might once see these modern tongues Linguas ancillantes wait upon their mother and mistresse and not debase and in some places I may say debauch the holy Idiom into a low compliance with our vulgar sometimes too vulgar fancies but I have observed many expressions some in the Text and some in the Margin though truly more in the Text which I shall humbly present to the Church when God shall please to give the Ark rest In the mean time I shall go on Even as one man or the heart of one man God complains of some that have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An heart and an heart two hearts more than one man should have a Prodigy in the Sacrifices of faith and love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as St. James call them Jam. 1. 8. Double minded men that are unstable in all their wayes And truly it is no wonder that one man should be unstable that is of two mindes when two men nay many men must needs be unstable that are not of one minde therefore to establish them he makes them of one minde single-hearted men of one heart to their God their King and Countrey This is the mercy we have long pray'd for Let us not forget to praise God as heartily for it as we have heartily pray'd for it I shall close this with David's Ecce quàm bonum quum jucundum Psal 133. 1 2. Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity It is like the precious oinment upon the head that ran down upon the beard even Aarons beard that went down to the skirts of his cloathing From the Prince and Priest the Magistrate and Minister to the lowest subject Nay like the ointment of Mary powr'd out upon the head of our Saviour all the house is fill'd with the sweet savour of it Not onely the house of our Church and Kingdome but the great house of the world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we