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A66086	Beatitas Britanniæ, or, King Charles the Second, Englands beatituded as preached to the incorporation of the honour of Eay, in the county of Suffolk, March 31, 1661, being the Lords Day before their election of Burgesses, and the week before the choice of knights for the county / by Edward Willian ..	Willan, Edward.	1661 (1661)	Wing W2260; ESTC R98	30,979	47

Scriptures we read of a 〈◊〉 Land of a blessed ma● and of God blessed ever but must not think them blessed all Psal 1. 1. 32. 2. Rom. 1. 25. 9. 5. one way or with one kind of blessednesse they be three beatitudes and all of several species that of a Land very good that of man much better but that of God infinitely best The blessednesse of God is the greatest and highest good that of men next that of a Land in suo genere least and lowest for beatus homo is more in its proper sense then beata terra but benedictus Dominus more then both God is blessed of man man of God the Land of both yea God is blessed of man and of himself too without man and man is blessed but not of himself without God but of God and not without himself and the Land is blessed of God and man or of God by man Gods blessednesse is first and he is first blessed of himself S. August Supporta par 3. c. 2. Anselm Meditat. lib. 1. cap. 2. sibi sufficiens saith S. Austine self sufficient Blessednesse it self and the fountain of blessings fons vivus saith Anselmus an ever flowing and an overflowing fountain from him all blessednesse flows to persons and Nations and to him should all their blessings return as riverets and flouds of water Scalig. contra Carda Exerc. 46● to the main from whence as Scaliger notes they borrow beginnings By him it is that man is beatus and a Land beata and by both should he be benedictus blessed of man and of men for being so of himself and for blessing them But he is not blessed of them as they are of him Mans blessing of God is merely Declarative but his blessing of man is more Man does not make but only speak God blessed and such a speaking of him so addes nothing to his own self-blessedness God is not the lesse blessed indeed though man blesses him not but man is if God blesses not him Man is not as God of himseif blessed nor can he be but God blesses him by communicating blessednesse unto him Gods meer speaking of any man blessed makes him blessed as Aquinas well observes his fiat does it nor can it be without him He is vita beati hominiis saith S. Austine the life of the blessed man S. August de C●●itate Dei l. 19. his blessed life Summum bonum that makes it life and blessed Now the more man enjoyes him the more he joyes in him and his fulnesse of joy will be in his fullest enjoying of Idem Confess lib. 12. him but so we shall not be blessed of him without our selves He that made us without our selves will not save us without Id. de Tri●it our selves as St. Austine well and truly It is indeed by Grace we are saved but not without cooperating Grace as that ornament Ephes 2. 5. of Hippo calls it we must be workers together with God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Apostle and so work out our own salvation 2 Cor. 6. 1. Thil. 2. 12. with fear and trembling Though it be with respect to saving Graces that men be stiled beati yet not so much to their having as their using of them as beati immaculati blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the Law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his Testimonies that seek him with the whole heart Psal 119. 1 2. where blessed is twice ascribed to the using of such graces and that blessednesse of another Nature and higher worth then this in my Text that spiritual this temporal Yet this is of worth too yea of much worth worth my pains in preaching and yours in hearing worth all mens prayers when they want it and all their thanks and praises when they have it as God be praised Antecellens ●m ibus eruditione ●opien●ia Arquer Dictionar The 1 Kings 4. 29 30 31. now they have This well inspired Preacher Solomon himself esteemed it an Argument worthy of himself so did the Holy Ghost in putting it into the pen of such an Amanuensis yet it is but terrene blessednesse a temporal benefit the blessednesse of a Land Terra beata blessed art thou O Land Blessed of God and man or of God by man for God gives the man and the men by whom it is blessed By him Prov. 8. 15. Kings reign and Princes have felicifying vertues as that of Temperance to eat in due season When such are beati the Land is beata blessed in them and blessed by them or for them Their blessednesse spiritual conduceth much to that of the Land which is but temporal meer civill happiness yet may help to render some more then civilly happy But not to mention what may be it is National blessedness and must be answered with National thankfulness We must acknowledge Gods blessing in it which is our way of blessing God as saith Aquinas Now to bless him so let us reassume Benedic●re nostrum est benefici ● ejus agnoscere Aquin. Tom. 13. the consideration of the two conditions the first concerns the King as supream the second his ministers here stiled Princes as subordinate As touching the King it is conditioned that he be the son of Nobles as touching the Princes that they eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness In each condition observe twice two considerables first two and two ex parte Kegis concerning the King and then as many again ex parte Principum four and four in both all gradual Mediums to National blessedness or to the perfection of it see them in order and first in reference to the King these four 1. That the Land has a King 2. That it has but one King it is Rex not Reges in the condition 3. That it has its own King Rex tuus thy King 4. That it has him by succession as descended from the race of Kings filius candidorum the son of Nobles Tantum cibi pot usque sumun● quant● viribus resiciendis suffic●at reliquum vero tempus omne fideliter Reipub. impendunt Anton. Corran in locum Secondly in reference to the Judges and Magistrates and other Worthies of the Land here honoured with the stile of Princes these four 1. That there be Princes in the Land 2. That they be Princes of the Land Principes tui thy Princes 3. That they be sober persons such as eat in due season 4. That they be of publick spirits as publick persons ought to be and aim at strength not drunkenness in eating At strength to doe their office and serve their Countrey not at Drunkenness to debauch their Honours and serve the Devil In those articles which refer to the King we may see what should be and is in England to make it blessed In these which refer to the Princes what is or should be to compleat the blessing To have a King and but one King and he both

Noble Tribe of Iudah with a promise that the Scepter should Psal 7● 68. not depart from Iudah nor a law-giver from between his feet Gen. 49. 10. till Shiloh came So he likewise named the Race of David Psal 89. 35 36. 37. saying His seed will I make to endure for ever and his Throne as the daies of Heaven Psal 89. 29. and farther declaring himself there so much for Kingship by Royal Birth-right as that he vows to have it so But so he would not have done had he seen election of Kings to be better than succession and he must needs have seen it if it had been so And as in Israel so in other Kingdomes he hath raised some certain Families nearest to himself for the better management of his Publick businesse with the people and for the conduct of Civil Blessednesse unto them Denying to blesse them by Common Hands When Azarias and that Ioseph son to Zacharias in the time of the Mac●abees would needs undertake the procuring of some blessing of Gods people God would not blesse their undertakings nor his people by them Because they were not of the seed of those by whose hand deliverance was given to Israel as it is given for a Reason 1 Maccab. 5. 62. Quia non erant de s●min● illorum c. Such emulous Undertakers were of late in England who intended or at least pretended to seek the welfare of the Land But God would not let the Land fare well by their pretences they were not of his approved Tribe The son of Nobles was not amongst them Nor was it his Political Capacity in a Notional separation but his Personal in a National Conjunction that God would blesse his people by God would have the Redeemer of Israel to be born a King and so the R●deemer of England too It is not for nothing that the Holy Ghost would the world take notice that ou● Saviours Kingship was by succession 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Born the King of the Iews A King by Royal Birth-right Ma●th 2. 2. Born with a right to sit upon the Throne of his Father David Isa 9. 7. And so in Gods ordinary way his Instruments of National Blessednesse be born with right to be inthroned When such be their People be blessed I shall only hint Two Reasons of Solomon's assertion and so thank you for your Noble Patience The first inferred from the Common Infelicities that arise with Ignoble Upstarts such as be d● vili loco assumpti exhaled from low Parentages to high Powers ut pluries laedunt saith Aquinas Aquin. de Reg. Princip lib. 4. c. 19. for the most part prove destructive Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum None to the beggar on horseback Rome was never worse hacknied then when Ignoble Vpstarts mounted the saddle of Imperial Command When Op●lius Macrinus had Volateran Anthropol lib. 23. compassed the Death of the Emperour Caracalla and caused the Souldiers of his faction Oliver like to chuse him though of ignoble Birth to be Emperour that is Stilo novo Lord Protectour he soon became of that Oliverian Pride and Cruelty that he plotted the ruine of all that were not See his Life amongst the Roman Empero●s by R. B. See his Life also by R. B. of his faction or that would not comply with all his wicked purposes So when Maximinus of ignoble birth too was made Emp●rour by his Army Officers he also sought the destruction of the friends of his late Soveraign Alexander Severus and as O. C. did overawed the Senate and persecuted Christians as English Protestants were of late Such be the common evils when such evil Commons aspire C●trari●rum co●trariae sunt causae Beda to Monarchize Well therefore might Solomon say by the rule of Contraries Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the son of Nobles The Second Reason may be from the National felicities Me●and in ●all that succeed with Noble Soveraigns o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Menander A good man is a common good true of every good man but most certainly so of every good King Whose greatest Noblenesse cannot but be the Royal Prerogative of greatest goodnesse yea most notable Blessings to Places and People have mostly attended most Noble Births I may instance in Caesar Augustus descended See his Life written by S. G. S. at the end of Plutarch ' s Live● from the Noble Octavians whose publick Designes reformed his State with good Lawes repaired the Cities di●apidations so modelled publick Elections that honest Trustees might be impowered as our good Soveraign does with Religious Care to have such Burgesses chosen Iani Templum sol● claus●● Musarum sol●s aperuit Emanuel Thesaur Caes Luc. 2. 14. and laboured so for a General Peace that he caused the Temple of Ianus to be shut up as it was that Third Time when the Prince of Peace our Blessed Saviour came into the world and was honoured with that Anglical Birth Song Glory to God in the high●st on earth peace c. In honour of whose Birth that Noble Augustus erected an Altar of Noble structure in the Roman Capitol with this Inscription THE ALTAR OF GOD THE FIRST BORN yea such a Lover of publick good he was noted Seneca de Clement lib. 1. cap. 1● to be that he was worthily styled Pater Patriae I may likewise instance in that Noble Emperour Antoninus Pius See his Life written by R. ● amongst th● Roman Emperours which Sir-name was given him for pardoning many Delinquents at his first coming to Imperial Dignity A branch of Royal Piety which has no lesse flourished in our most pious Soveraign for which Clemency and other Noble Qualities that Antoninus was likewise called the Father of th● Virtues for Placabilitie Clemencie Sanctitie as faith Volateran he was reputed another Numa I could instance also Volate● Anthropol lib. 23. in the noble Emperour Gratianus who did the publick good of Banishing turbulent Hereticks of reducing others See his Life by ● B. to the true Religion and of repairing Churches for the publick Worship of God The time failes me to tell you of Noble Theodosius and his Noble son Arcadius and others that have been Publick Blessings to their subjects I must end with that Noble Emperour Iovinianus a famous Defender of the true Faith and of such as were faithfull to it as our most gracious Soveraign shewes himself to be Not mistaking faction for faith nor fanaticks for the faithfull but taking such to doe by curbing their Contentious spirits and countenancing those that were Orthodox and Orderly such as that holy Father Athanasius whom he restored to his Bishoprick of Alexandria as he did also others to theirs See Socrates S●ol●st● Eccle. Hist l. 3. ● 19 20. from which they had been unjustly sequestred And by the leading example of that good Emperour many were induced to be Christned and by his Christianity many were redeemed from Barbarian Slavery Such a memorable Benefit and publick good as our good Soveraign brought with him ●o this Land where his most Loyal Subjects were most barbarously enslaved by their fellow Subjects of all slaveries the most insufferable But by his most happy coming again to the Land the Land is most happily coming again to it self Terra Beata a blessed Land Blessed in having a King and blessed in having but one King and blessed in having our own King and blessed in having such a King as our own a King right Noble in right acceptation of the Son of Nobles Now the KING of Heaven blesse him and be forever blessed for him And so let us Pray A Prayer Blessed Lord thou hast blessed us and done great things for us whereof we are glad Thou hast turned away the Captivity of the Land and brought back the Captivity of our National Blessednesse We desire to blesse thy Name for all thy Mercies and Blessings but especially for restoring our thrice Noble Soveragin Charles the Second to the Land and the Land unto it self by him Thou hast given him Possession of many and many Hearts Lord help him to hold Possession Thou knowest the Mutability of the Many whose Placets are easily had but hardly held and whose humours are all for making a Darling great but their Consciences not at all for upholding a just Greatnesse But thou still and still the same God of Love and Mercy and Power unto him Uphold and defend him in his just rights and Regalities Make both sorts of Independent Pride come down to Allegiance that of the Covenant and that of the Engagement the Classical and the Congregational Make them both to bend under Royal Authority And keep down all such Corahs as pretend Religion and practise Rebellion Detect the Wickednesse of all such falsaries and Impostours whose voices are the voices of Reformation and Canting Incantamentations But their hands the hands of Violence Oppression Church-robbing King-killing and any such hellish Devillisme O thou God of Truth suffer not such Supplanters any more to cheat the credulous Many of their Loyalty their Religion their Liberty their Estates their Consciences Neither suffer such self-Sainting sons of Cruelty to have any power to touch thine Anointed any more Enervate all their Armes of flesh and cloath them with their demerited shame but upon himself let his Crown flourish And bless him spiritually as well as temporally inwardly as well as outwardly Let not the Greatness of his Court Royal lessen the Goodnesse of his Court of Conscience Suffer not that White Hall which is in him to be lost in that White Hall in which he is And let not any Feast be a Voider to that which has been his Continual Feast But let that Peace of Conscience which sugared all his sufferings and sweetned all their Sharpnesse be still and for ever thy Entertainment of him Let thy Royalty be Blessednesse to him as his is to thy People under him And to make us all his Obedient Subjects make us thy faithfull Servants Help us to honour and humbly obey him in thee and for thee Direct us and all that be concerned in that great Concernment of the Land the choice of Representatives Let all Elections tend to thy Glory the Honour and safety of thine Anointed the Peace and Prosperity of this Nation and National Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. FINIS