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 Fâ—…ssa St. Katherine near Exeter Thikehued St. Neth Dâ—…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 Fâ—…ssa Flamsted Cesthont Wilburtâ—…sse Lillichurch Wotton New-Minster near Morpeth Parcolude Kemmer Jorevall Holmcoltram Bynedone Leiselege Lenton and Tarente pro salute animae nostrae et H. Regis et â—…aeredam nostrorum et omnium â—…egum Angliae et omnium fidelium et animarum anteâ—…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 weâ—… constantly to pray for both in publike and private The Prior and Covent of St. Albaâ—… in their Letters to King Henry the 3d. touching the Election and presentation of a New Abbot Anno 1235. used this â—…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 â—…umilis Th. Prior conventus Baâ—…honiae Salutem et debitam cum orationibus 〈◊〉 reverentiam et fidelitatem c. In omnibus quae nostrae erunt possibilitatis vestris paâ—…ati sumus affecâ—…uose parere mandatis â—…alvat et vigeat Dominatio vestra per tempora longa 〈◊〉 Regia 〈◊〉 â—…estra semper in Domino Conservet vos 〈◊〉 et populo suo Altissimus per â—…pora longiora Ualeat et tigeat Serenitas vestra et â—…liorum vestrorum per tempora longa Ualeat Serenitas vestra semper in Domino Which were their daily prayers for theÌ„ in their publike and private Devotions in their Churches and Cells as well as in their Letters And likewise for King Adelstan Edwarâ—… Edgar Ethelred Kenulphus Henry the I. and King Stephen Benefactors to the Priory of Bâ—…th whose Anniâ—…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 incolumitateâ—… 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 lacâ—…rymis scribo plus confidit in pecuniae thesauris quam fidelium precibus vel Eleemosyâ—…is The Abbots of the Order of Black Monks assembling at the Abby of Bermondâ—…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 â—…ing Gaude at in coelis quod convaluit precibus monachorum George Cassandar in his h Preces Ecclesiasticae hath sundry forms of Prayers for Christian Kingâ—… 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 fâ—…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 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 Whetheâ—… 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 Subâ—…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 Aeâ—…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 pâ—…ople with Righteousnesse and thy poor with Judgement Tertulliani Apologia adversus Gentes c. 32. Hoc agite boni Praesides exâ—…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 indubitabâ—…e Hereditary Birthright and Succession of ENGLAND SCOTLAND FRANCE and IRELAND KING the 〈◊〉 câ—…stant Proâ—…ssor and DEFENDOR of the truly Aâ—…nt Catholick and Apostolick FAITH in the midst of manifold Persecutions â—…rovocations Solâ—…ations Tâ—…ions and Fiery Tâ—…yals the Magazin of all Christian and Royal Virtues and Miracle of Gods preserving and restoring Mercies Mâ—…st gracious Soveraign THe onâ—…y potentate and KING OF KINGS who removeth Kings and SETTETH UP KINGS and ruâ—…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 dâ—…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 hâ—…sten your Majesties return and transport you with honour and saâ—…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 oâ—… 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 seâ—…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 magnificenâ—…ly invested in the possâ—…ssion of Your Royal Throne at Whâ—…tehall in the presence of all your Majesties Lords Commons and thousands of your People there assembled who with their united Shouts Prayers Pâ—…aises Acclamations Benedictions and
significat Judaei auteÌ„ cives supernae Jerusalem qui in hoc seculo peâ—…egrinantur inter malos et Regibus atque Principibus tributa xeddant et â—…aetera quae salvo Dei cultu constitutio secularis exigit Idcirco debet orare pro pace eorum quia in pace eorum erit illis pax â—…tique interim temporalis quae bonis malisque communis est Utimur ergo et nos pace Babylonis ex qua per fidem et coeâ—…stis patriae dâ—…siderium ità populus Dei laetabitur ut apud hanc interim peregrinetur Pax autem nostra propria et bâ—…um Deo est per fidem in aeternum cum illo per speciem Orate inquit pro pace Principum et pro salute omnium quia hoc agere est bonum id est utile Ecclesiae acceptum id est gratum atque placitum coram Deo salvatore nostro qui-sâ—…ut nos salvat ita omnes homines vult salvos fieri ad agnitionem veritatis venire c. Omne genus hominum intelliganâ—…us per quascunque differentias distributum Reges Principes Nobiles ignobiles sublimes humiles c. Hoc enim bonum est coram Salvatore id est ut pro talibus 〈◊〉 Hoc quippe Deus bonum judicavit ut oratione humilium dignaretur salutem praestare sublimibus This was the received Doctrine of this great learned Arch-bishop of Canterbury Anselme both under King Wâ—…ll Rufus and H. the I. Queen Maud his daughter and heir to the Crown by her Charter founded and granted to the Abby of Bardesley sundry Lands Pro Dei amore pro anima H. Regis Patris mei Et M. Reginae Matris meae parentum antecessorum meorum pro salute G. Comitis Andegaviae Domini mei mea H. Haeredis mei et aliorum filiorum meorum et pro pace et stabilitate Regni Angliae In her Charters of confirmation and grant to the Abbyes of Kingeswood Stoneley Cogeshale and St. Frideswide in Oxford she hath the like expressions for all which the Monks there were obliged to pray King Stephen by his respective Charters of grant and conâ—…mation to the Monasteries of Feversham Billewas Sibeton and other Abbies gave and confirmed Landâ—… and Liberties to them pro salute animae meae Mathiâ—…dis Re ginae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 E. filii mei et aliorum puerorum meorum et 〈◊〉 meorum Regum Angliae et nominatim pro anima Regiâ—… Henâ—…ici et fratrâ—…m meorum by prayers to be made in tâ—…em by the Monks therein â—…or that purpose King Henry the II. by his Charters of grant and confirmation of Lands and Liberties to the Abbies and Monasteries of St. Maryes in York Eton Abberbury Feversham Qâ—…arrera St. Maryes near Dublin in Ireland Mirâ—…val Flexley Croxdâ—…n Wâ—…teham and Tavystock granted sundry Lands and Franchises to them Pro Dei amore pro salute animae meae et reginae meae et haeredum meorum et pro anima Regis Henrici avi pro animabus antecessorum nostrorum et omnium parentum majorum et antecessorum meorum Regum Angliae et Successorum nostrorum et matris meae Imperatricis et puerorum meorum to be obtained by their Prayers inserting this Clause into his Charter of Confirmation to St. Maries in York Ne aliquis haeres vel successor quaerat relevamen vel aliquod Dominium praeter orationes et preces et eleemosynam animae suae de beneficiis vel eleemosynis quas aliquis dedit praedictae Abbathiae King Henry the 2d comming into England to be crowned after King Stephens death ut decebat tantum tà m beatum virum cum summa laetitia et multis prae gaudio lachrymantibus in Regem benedictus est in throno Regni splendidissimè collocatus est De cujus temporis beatitudine sic diximus heroicè writes Henry Huntingdon Anglia lethali jamdudum frigore torpens Nunc solis fervore novi rediviva calescens Erigis impressum terrae caput vacuatis Tristitiae lachrymis pro laetitia lachrymaris Cum lachrymis haec verba tuo profundis alumno Spiritus es caro sum Tu nunc intrante revixi Anno 1166. there falling out a difference between this King and Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury Pope Alexander thus begins all his Epistles to the King on Beckets behalf Alexander c. Dilecto filio Henrico illustri Regi Anglorum Salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem Advising him so to govern his Realm to the honour of God and tranquillity and peace of his Church Ut Regnum temporale conservet et pâ—…st illud det tibi Deus â—…ine fine mansuram And Archbishop Becket though in exile begins his Epistle to the King the same year in these words Reverendissimo Domino suo Henrico Dei gratia illustri Anglorum Regi c. Salutem et utinam per omnia benefacere And ends it thus Bene valeat semel et semper Dominus meus Anno 1171. Robert Abbot of Wallatia and 4. other Ambassadors of King Henry sent to Rome about Reckets Businesse began their Epistle to the King with Charissimo Domino Henrico illustr Angliae Regi c. Salutem facile in omnibus et ubique servitium Closing it thus Ualeat et vigeat sublimitas vestra confortamini in Domino exultet cor vestrum Reginald elect Bishop of Bath begins his Epistle from Rome to this King with Salutem in eo qui dat salutem Regibus And Manuel Emperor of Constantinople thus salutes him in the beginning of his Epistle to him Salutem et omne bonum Pope Lucius in his Epistle to him Anno 1185. wisheth him Salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem The Patriark of Antioch begins his Epistle to him with this option in illo regnare per quam Reges regnant The Master of the Temple Tricius in his Epistle wisheth him Salutem in eo qâ—…i dat salutem Regibus Stephanus Tornacensis Episcopus inscribes his first Epistle to this King thus Henrico Râ—…gi Anglorum cum omni prosperitate gloriam sempiternam Petrus Blesensis Arch-deacon of Bath thus begins his 12 41 42 62 and 153. Epistles to him Henrico Dei gratia illustrissimo Anglorum Regi c. Salutem in eo per quem Regesregnant His 41. Epistle to him is thus concluded Bene valeat charissimus Dominus meus diuque ac faeliciter vivat et regnet Richard Archbishop of Canterbury his Epistle to him begins with Salutem et in Regno temporali â—…egni Coelestis memoriam et amorem And the Archbishop of Rhoane the 153. Epistle of Petrus Blesensis beginning with the Salutation used in his 1. Epistle ends with this Prayer Bene valeat altissimus Dominus et Deus qui se contra eum in superbia et abusione erigunt reportet in virtute altissimi gloriam et triumphum King Richard the 1. by his respective
at Kingston upon Hull confirmed by King Richard the 2d granting sundry Lands to the Prior Monks and their successors upon this condition Volumus itaque ordinamus quod praefati Prior Monachi eorum successores habeant specialiter in Missis orationibus aliis diviâ—… serviciis recommendatum statum nobilistimi Domini Regis Ricardi praedicti nostrum and of several others particularly mentioned dum vixerimus cum ab hac luce migraverimus orent celebrent celebrari facient pro animabus nostris ac specialiter et continuè pro anima dicti Domini nostri Regis Edwardi defuncti and of several others particularly mentioned pro quibus orare tenemur et omnium fidelium defunctorum I could adde many more Writs and Mandates of the former nature upon extraordinary Occasions out of the Clause Rolls of King John Hen. the 3d. Edw. the 3d. Henry the 4 5 6. Edward 4. H. 7 8. Edward 6. Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles which because they would rather surfit than delight or instruct the Readers I shall wholy pretermit King Henry the 5th founded a Monasteâ—…ie at Shene the grounds and ends whereof he thus expressed in his Charter Cum excelsae Majestatis exennia quae gloriam nostri regiminis de die in diem ubertim ut ipsi videmus extollant ritè à Nobis gratiarum vendicant actiones justissimum credimus ut eo medio in auctorem tendant quo nobis ab auctore fluxerunt nomine Salvatoris ut sicut per Mediatorem Dei et hominum Dominum Jesum ad Nos indignos de paetre luminum bona cuncta procedunt ità nostrae laudes quamvis inutiles per cundem Jesum Christum et datorem gratiarum omnis boni principium revertantur Whereupon he granted and confirmed for him and his Heirs sundry Lands to this Monastery free from all secular exaction and service Pro 〈◊〉 et aliis divinis Offictis inibi faciendis pro salubri statu nostro dum vixerimus ac anima nostra cum ab hac luce migraverimus animabus parentum progenitorum nostrorum omnium fidelium defunctorum Necnon pro pace tranqutilitate et qutete populi et Regni nostri ac insuper pro aliis pietatis operibus ibidem sustinendis ministrandis et supportandis juxta ordinationem nostram haereredum et executorum nostrorum in hac parte plenius faciendam which was accordingly executed King Edward the 4th by his Charter of 17 Febr. in the first year of his Reign granted the Priory of Shirburn to the Hospital of St. Julian called Domus Dei in the Town of Southampton In augmentationem divinae cultus infra hospitale nostrum sancti Juliani c Necnon ut dilecti Nobis in Christo Magister Jahannes Pereson nunc Custos Hospitalis praedicti acnunc Capellani et Fratres ejusdem Hospitalis ac successores sui pro salubri statu nostri et Haeredum et Successorum nostrorum dum agimus in humanis Necnon pro animabus nostris cum universae carnis viam ingâ—…essi fuerimus necnon pro animabus recolendae memoriae Principis Ricardiâ—…uper â—…uper Ducis Eborici Patris nostri c. Et omnium aliorum Primogenitorum nostrorum Imperpetuum specialiter exorare teneâ—… King Henry the 7th appropriated the Churches of Potteâ—… spiry and Eggemond to the Priory and Covent of St. Anne by Coventre founded by his Ancestors Ut iidem Prior Conventus Pro bono statu nostro ac Consortis nostrae liberorumque nostrorum ac 〈◊〉 matris nâ—…strae Deum altissimum deprecenâ—… indies et exorent 〈◊〉 missam de Spiritu sancto pro Nobis semel in ebdomade duranâ—…e vita nostra faciant celebrari et quendam solempnem annualem obitum pro anima nostra cum ab hac luce migraverimus custodiant et observent In the Book entituled Horae beatissimae Mariae ad ligituum Ecclesiae 〈◊〉 ritum printed Parisiis 1519. the 10. year of King Henry the 8th but generally used throughout England some hundreds of years before f. 12. there is this set form of Prayer for the King of England for the time being Deus regnorum et Christiani maximè Protector Imperii Da Servo tuo H. Regi nostro de Hoste triumphum ut qui tua providentia extitit Coronatus tuo semper munimine tutus sit et securus per Christum Dominum nostrum And in Processinale ad usus insignis Ecclesiae Sarum Parisiis 1545. f. 6. 124 208. â—… meet with these short Prayers ejaculations then and formerly publickly used in all Processions for our successive Kings Domine salvum sac Regem Regem nostrum ac Principes c. in omni sanctitate custodi Salvum fac Regem n stram Famulum tuum Et exaudi nos in die quo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 te All our antient Missals Offices Howers Primers in times of Popery containing the like Prayers and such as I have formerly recited out of Cassander his Preces Eeclesiasticae together with Prayers for their Souls after their deaths which according to the modern use of the Church of Rome are popish vain sinfull superstitious implying and presupposing a Purgatory but according to their primitive use and institution pious and religious importing no purgatory at all as learned Bishop Usher proves at large in his Answer to the Jesuites Challenge of Prayers for the Dead p. 194 to 264. to which I refer the Reader â—…or fuller satisfaction herein and concerning the forementioned Prayers for and Charters of our Kings to Monasteries to pray for their own their Ancestors Saccessors Heirs and others Souls when departed out of this World I could adde many Prayers made for King Henry the â—…th in sundry Epistles and Dedications of Books unto him but for brevity I shall omit all but 3. The 1. is Pope Leo the 10th his Bull to him in the 22. year of his Reign subâ—…cribed with all the Cardinals Hands wherein he conferred on him the Title of Defender of the Faith for wâ—…iting a Book against Luther in defence of Pardous the Papacy and 7. Sacraments which Bull begins thus Leo Episcopus Servus servorum Dei Charissimo in Christo filio Henrico Angliae Regi Fidei defensori salutem et 〈◊〉 benedictionem And is closed with this Benediction and Prayer for him and his Posterity Perpetuum hoc immortale gloriae tuae monumentum Posteris tuis relinquere illisque viam ostendere ut si tali titulo ipsi quoque insâ—…gniri optabunt talia etiam opera efficere praeclaraqâ—…e Majestatis 〈◊〉 vestigia sequi studeant quam prout de Nobis dicta sede optimâ—… merita est unâ cum uxore filiis ac omnibus qui à te ab illis nascentur Nostra Benedictione in nomine illiâ—…s à quo illam concedendi potestas Nobis data est larga liberali manu benedicentes Altissimum illum qui dixit
Per me Reges regnant Principes imperant in manu sua corda sunt Regum rogamus et obsecramus ut eam in suo sancto proposito confirmet ejusque devotionem multiplicet ac praeclaris pro sancta fide gestis ita illustret ac toti Orbi terrarum conspicuam reddat ut judicium quod de ipsa fecimus eam tam insigni titulo decorantes à nemine falsum aut vanum judicari possit Demum mortatis bujus vitae finito curriculo sempiternae illius gloriae consortem atque participem reddat The 2 is William Wraghton an acute Protestant Writer who in his Epistles to King Henry the 8th before his two Books intituled The Hunting of the Romish Fox printed at Basyl 1543. And his Reseuing of the Romish Fox against Stephen Gardner printed 1545. Wisheth him prosperity both of Body and Soul closing his last Epistle to him with this Prayer God grant you health both of Body and Soul victory over your Enemies and Grace to do in this our matter of Religion as shall be most to the Glory of God and the profit of the Common-wealth Amen And he closeth his last Treatise with this Prayer God save the King The third is our learned Protestant Divine Thomas Beacon who in his Path-way unto Prayer dedicated to the Lady Anne Grey ch 55. hath this Godly exhortation to all private Christians Let uâ—… flee to God at all times with hâ—…mble Obsecrations and hearty Requests Let our Prayers be continual Let us in all our Prayers seek the glory of God the advancement of his most blessed word and the health of our own Souls Let us pray for the preservation of the Kings most excellent Majesty H. 8. and for the prospâ—…rous successe of his â—…ntirely-beloved Son Edward our Prince that most Angel-like Impe. Let us pray for all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal specially for those that have the regiment of the Publick-weal under the Kings Graces Highness Let us pray for the Ministers of Gods Word that they may freely speak the truth of Christs Gospel as it becommeth them Let us pray for all men universally chiefly for the Inhabitants of this Realm of England That they may all bear a faithfull heart both towards God and our King Upon the Reformation of Religion and abolishing of Popish Missals Psalters Howers 〈◊〉 and Portuasses by King Edward the sixth in his Parliament 2 3 Edw. 6. ch 10. the King by advice of his Convocation and Parliament commanded A Book of Common-prayer and Administration of the Sacraments in the English Tongue to be used in all Churches and Chapels throughout the Realm by the Statutes of 2 E. 6 c. 1. 5 6 E. 6. c. 1. Wherein there was not only a Prayer for the King in the Letany but in a special Collect agreeing in substance with those in our later Books of Common-Prayer hereafter cited In this pious Kings reign the Bishops and Ministers in their Epistles and Dedications to him and in their Prayers before after their Sermons usually prayed most heartily and particularly for his long life religious and prosperous reign and spiritual temporal and eternal felicity And John Bale Bishop of Ossery in his Image of both Churches or Paraphrase upon St. Johns Revelation printed 1550. in the Iast page thereof exhorts all Gods meek-spirited Servants in their daily Prayer afore all other to remember that most worthy Minister of God King Edward the sixth which hath so sore wounded the Beast that he may throw all his Superstition into the bottomlesse lake again from whence they have comen to the comfort of his People Our learned Thomas Beacon in his Preface to The Flower of Godly Prayers dedicated to Anne Dutchesse of Somerset as he doth exceedingly blesse God for the extraordinary zeal and piety of King Edward the 6th in delivering his Realm from Antichristian Tyranny and Popery reforming the Church propagating true religion and in giving us this most worthy Prince to be our King So he hath this particular Prayer for the King to be used by all private Christians daily in their respective Families and Closets with zeal and devotion Almighty God King of Kings and Lord of Lords which by thy divine ordinance hast appointed Temporal Rulers to govern thy People according to equity and justice and to live among them as a loving Father among his natural Children unto the advancement of the good and punishment of the evil we most humbly beseech thee favourably to behold Edward thy Servant our King and Governour and to breath into his heart through thy holy Spirit that Wisdom that is ever about the Throne of thy Majesty whereby he may be provoked moved and stirred to love fear and serve thee to seek thy glory to banish Idolatry Superstition and Hypocrisy out of this his Realm and unfeignedly to avance thy holy and pure Religion among us his Subjects unto the example of other forein Nations O Lord defend him from his enemies send him long and prosperous life among us and give him grace not only in his own Person godly and justly to rule but also to appoint such Magistrates under him as may be likewise affected both toward thy holy Word and toward the Common-weâ—…l that his Subjects living under his Dominion in all godlinesse peace and wealth may passe the time of this our short pilgrimage in thy fear and service unto the glory of thy blessed name which alone is worthy all honour for ever and ever Amen Next after this followâ—… one Prayer for the Kings Council And after that a Prayer for the common peace and quietnesse of all Realms very seasonable for our times And in his Pomaunder of Prayer he hath this Prayer of Subjects or Commons As it is thy godly appointment O Lord God That some should bear rule in the world to see thy Glory set forth and the common peace kept so is it thy pleasure again that some should be Subjects and Inferiours to others in their vocation although before thee there is no respect of Persons And for as much as it is thy good will to appoint me in the number of Subjects I beseech thee to give me a faithfull and an obedient heart unto the High Powers that there may be found in me no Disobedience no Unfaithfullnesse no Treason no Falsehood no Dissimulation no Insurrection no Commotion no Conspiracy nor any kind of Rebellion in Word or Deed against the Civil Magistrates But all Faithfulnesse Quietnesse Subjection Humility and whatsoever else becommeth a Subject That I living here in all lowlynesse of mind may at the last day through thy favour be lifted up into everlasting Glory whâ—…re â—…hou with the Father and the Holy Ghost livest and reignest very God for ever Amen These were the Godly Loyal fervent daily publick and private Prayers of Protestant Ministers and Subjects for King Edward the 6th in that Age. Queen Mary a Popish Prince
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 assiâ—…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 worâ—…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. Impugâ—…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 â—…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 â—…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 Crownâ—… 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 iâ—… derived and grown from and out of that union of those two Princely families a more famous and greater â—…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
all our conferences that those things may be propounded conceived allowed and confirmed which may best please thee and most directlie and soundly uphold the honour of thy Name the â—…nceritie of thy worship the safety of our King and peace of thy people even for thy Son our Lords sake And that we may not our selves be any hinderance to the obtaining of these our defires either by means of any sin formerly committed or of any corruption yet remaining in us we humblie pray thee to forgive our sins and blot out all our iniquities and to stand reconciled unto us in an everlasting covenant of peace as if we had never sinned against thee And because our hearts by nature are not fit for good cogitations create a new heart and renew a right spirit in us remove far from us all vain-glorious humour of advancing our private profit all envious humour of disgracing other mens gifts all malicious humour of hurting anie mans person and finally all froward humour of opposing our selves against just needfull and godly things by whomsoever propounded Furnish us with knowledge wisedom and zeal by sending down thy spiâ—…it into our hearts that we may understand discern prefer and set forward all things tending to the advancement of thy glorie and such as may be thought worthie our assent and furtherance And because all good things are not of equal goodness nor all needfull things of equal necessitie let our care and zeal be equallie proportioned to the degrees of things in gâ—…nesse and necessitie different And therefore first make us carefull of the glory of thy Name which is the high end of all thy counsels and works and ought to be the last and first respect of all our purposes and doingâ—… And therein let our especial care be to provide for the continuance of thy word and religious practice of thy worship by the Ministery and means that Christ hath planted in his Church next let the good of this whole Island move our care and zeal which consisting in the safety and honour of the King and the enacting and executing of good Laws let us be wisely carefull and faithfully zealous for the Person of our King whom thou the King of Kings hast in mercy set over us And because no Law can be good that is not agreeable to thy Law which containeth the Fundamental equity of all Laws in making Laws to govern thy people let us alwaies have an eye unto thy Law not digressing from the holy equity thereof and what through thy mercy we shall here profitably enact we pray thee through the whole Kingdom it may be truly executed that our great labour may not be disgraced with little fruit And forasmuch as we all and every one of us have in this place with wonder and astonishment and without any merit of ours found a most evident assurance of thy mercy and goodnesse in a miraculous deliverance from the greatest danger by Popish treachery thaâ—… ever was attempted or threatned towards our King our State and Us give us good Lord hearts above the hearts of men to offer unto thee in the same place a daily sacrifice of thanksgiving in the highest measure together with a fervent and incessant zeal care and diligence in all our proceedings for the setling of the peace and happy estate of thy Church amongst us the preservation of our King his royal Progeny our selves and our Posterity and for the preventing suppressing and final rooting out of the spring issue and fruit of all such hellish and popish hearts intentions and practices to the everlasting praise and glory of thy blessed name Hear us we pray thee O Father of mercy in these our most humble and needfull petitions forgive and answer us according to thy fatherly and great goodnesse for Jesus Christ his sake to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God be all praise glory and power now and forever Amen A Prayer for the Parliament used also in the House II. ALmighty God which by thy holy Prophet David art most truly said to stand in the Congregation of Princes and givest judgement in the midst of the mighty men of the world and through whom Princes do reign Law-makers do disceâ—…n jâ—…st things Lords bear rule and all Judges of the earth execute judgement and for that cometh of thee all Counsel and equity all understanding and strength grant unto us here gathered together in thy name that wisdom which is alwaies assistant to thy seat to give knowledge to our feeble and ignorant minds Send down we beseech thee the same wisdom out of thy holy heavens and from the throne of thy Majesty that is may be now with us and labour with us whereby we surely knowing what is acceptable unto thee may be led through it to the debating weighing and final determining of those matters by the which thy blessed Name may be glorified thy Catholick Church of England confirmed and increased the Kings assurance established the common tranquillity of this Realm safely maintained and last of all all estates and people thereof in true obedience and charity united and knit together Grant this O God for thy only Sons sake Jesus Christ our Lord Amen In the Lords House the Collects and Prayers in the Common Prayer Book and Letany for the King Queen Prince and Royal Posterity with other prayers were daily used by the Bishops and Peers during their Session To mention all the particular Prayers for the King Queen and Royal posterity comprised in Books of private Prayers and Devotion as the Practice of Piety and the like and Epistles Dedicatory perfixed to hundreds of Bâ—…oks and Sermons dedicated to King James by Bishops Ministers and others of all sorts and in usual Graces before and after meals would be both infinite and nauseous being commonly known and obvious to all and therefore I shall wholy pretermit them the substance of them being comprised in those Prayers already mentioned I shall now proceed to the reign of our late King Charles who as he had constant Supplications and Prayers made for him in all Cathedral and Parish Churches Chapels Colledges most private families and in our Parliaments themselves by name during all King James his reign as Duke of York and Prince of Wales so after his comming to the Crown March 27. 1625. till January 1648. he had the like publike and private Prayers Intercessions and Supplications made for him throughout his 3. Realms as King and for his Queen and royal Posteritie not only by our preaching Ministers in their prayers before their Sermons and by most others in their morning and evening family and closet prayers Graces before or after meales as our own experience attests but likewise these special set Prayers Petitions and Collects in our Letany and common Prayer Book which I shall here transcribe because almost quite forgotten by above 12. whole years discontinuance in most Churches Families too In the publike Lâ—…tany ordered
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 saeculâ—… saeculorum Amen Et benedictio Dei Omnipotentis Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti vos descendat et â—…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 Protâ—…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. Wâ—…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 Oâ—…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 sempiterâ—…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 Bestiâ—… 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 complacâ—…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 * Sceâ—…tro non desâ—…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
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 â—…ives benevolentià quà m amore cognaios propensos habebant Non enim sacerdotum duntaxat collegia sed universa Aegyptiorum Natio adeòque singuli non tà m de uxoribus liberisque boniâ—…â—…uis privatis quà m de Regis incolumitate solliciti â—…rant QUOCIRCA LONGISSIMO ETIAM TEMPORE SUB REGIBUS MEMORATIS INTEGRUM REIPUBLICAe STAâ—…UM CONSERVARUNT IN SUMMA VITAM FELICITATE EXIGENâ—…ES QUAMDIU HAeC LEGUM CONSTITUâ—…IO V GEBAT Ad hâ—… plurimâ—… ab eis gentes sâ—… maxima vis opum coâ—… provinciae inimitabili operum magnificentiâ illustratae urbeâ—… variis sumptuosissimis donariis exornatâ—… Which God grant may be Englands condition for the future as well as theirs and its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pâ—… by a speedy happy cordial legal restitution conjunction oâ—… 〈◊〉 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 populâ—… secreti numiâ—… addit Imperii praesens species quantamque rependiâ—… Majestas alterna vicem cum Regâ—… Circi Connixum gradibus veneratur purpura vallis Plebis 〈◊〉 rebâ—…at fragor Unaque rotis Inâ—…onat Augustus â—…eptenis Arcibus echo Fallitur egregio quisquis sub Principe credit Servitium nunquam libertas gratior extat Quam sub Rege pioâ—… quos praeficit ipse regendis Rebus ad arbitrium plebis Paâ—…rumque reducit Câ—…ncorditqus libens meritis seu praemia pâ—… Seu punirâ—… veliut posito jam purpura fastu De sâ—… judicium non indignatur haberi Siâ—… doâ—…uit regnare Paâ—…er siâ—… casta juventa Froena dedit teneros his moribus imbuit annos Verior Augusti genitâ—…r fiducia belli Pacis consilium per quem squalore remâ—…to Pristina Romuleis infloruit artibus aetas Per quem fracta diu translataque penè potestas In proprium reducta Larem victricia reddit Fata solo fruiturque iterum quibus hâ—…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 ceâ—…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 â—…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 sakâ—… Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen â—… Sam â—… 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 â—…erunt p. 16. l. 1. â—… Cathâ—…lua l. 38. r. â—…eculi p. 32. l. 8. â—… stabilitate p. 4. l. 23. â—… siberatus p. 45. l. 3. â—… subâ—… p. 60. l. 14. â—… processionale p. 73. l. 26. sermons l. 30. Charles r. James p. â—…2 l. 32. countenance â—… continuance p. 129. l. 34. multiâ—… p. 133. l. 22. â—…rmet p. 157. l. 24. â—… circundaâ—… p. 158. l. 8. perfand p. 234. 〈◊〉 p. 239. 137. â—…ille p. 240. l. 13. penetrassent â—… â—…75 l 34. â—… 〈◊〉 â—…ibue p. 2 77. â—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…s p. 27â—… â—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 282. l. 4. viâ—… â—… 22. corona p. â—…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. â—…ection p. 13. l. 7. Ibidem a 1 Tim. 6. 15. Rev 19. 16. b Dâ—… 2 21. c. 4. 25. Job 12. 19 20 21. 1 â—…m 2. 8. Psa. 113. 7 8. c Psal. 98. 1. Exod. 15. 16. Deut. 4. 34. d Dan. 2 34. 4â—… e Psal. 120. 4 5 6. f 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. g Ps 46. 7. h Num. 16. 22. â—… 27. 16. i 2 Sam. 16. 9. to 16. a â—…sal â—… 18. 22 23 2â—… b Isa 66. 7 8 9. â—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jewe's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Apolâ—…gy of the Châ—… 〈◊〉 â—…h 16. Diviâ—… 1 D. John White his Way to the true Châ—…ch Sect. 42. 〈◊〉 44. ‖ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their lives 〈◊〉 the Saints * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Exod. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 12 13 â—… b Psal â—…1 1 2 3 c. * Psal 106. 48. * 2 Chron 9. 5 6 7. * Regis ad exemplum toâ—…us componitur orbisâ—… 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. â—…age 1117. 1118. * See my Plea for the Lords
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 Uniâ—… Kingdoms and Churches of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND and their respective Dominions being all â—…ised from theâ—… Graves of Dâ—…th and Misery wherein they had for some years spâ—…ce bâ—…re been inâ—…red and were new â—…rn AS KINGDOMS and Churches too on that joyâ—… dâ—…y 〈◊〉 to â—…e celebrated by them in all succeeding Generations and to have this Divine motto engraâ—…n thereon The stone which the buâ—…lders refused is this day become tâ—…e Head of the corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvelloâ—… in our eyes THIâ—… IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MADâ—… WEE WILL REJOYCE AND BE GLAD THEREIN What the â—…gant Prophet Isâ—…h records of Godâ—… miraâ—… Mâ—…cies towards his Church and people Bâ—…e she 〈◊〉 she brougâ—…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 childreâ—… Was now verified bâ—…th of your Mâ—…jesty and youâ—… three whole Kingdoms Churches all brought forth and born together in this one DAY Wherefore Râ—…yce ye with 〈◊〉 with England and he glad with her all ye that love her rejoyce foâ—… joy with hâ—…r all ye that mourned for her Iâ—… hath been the antient 〈◊〉 Oâ—… ourâ—… Româ—…sh Adversaries against our Reformed Protestant Churches Religiâ—…n that they are false and spurious because they have no miâ—…cles wrâ—…ght in them And they have daily upbraided your sâ—…cred Majesty your followers yea pierced your souls during your Exile among them wâ—…th this soul-piercing Quaere * Where is now the God of the Prot stants He can neither pâ—…rve nor â—…store You to â—…our Crowns and Kingâ—…ms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nounce your Protestant God Châ—…ch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Româ—…n Catholike God Church Râ—…ligion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hope nor 〈◊〉 of your restâ—…on and thâ—…t 〈◊〉 â—…y thâ—… Arms of your Catholike â—…yes and subjecâ—… But blessed and for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of ouâ—… great God who hath now vindicated his own Glorie and Oâ—…ncie against their 〈◊〉 wrought so many Miracles in your Maties restitution to justifie bâ—…th the Truth of the Proteâ—…ant Religion Churches your Subjâ—…s that all their spurious Miracles and Impostures wherewiâ—…h they abuse their over-câ—…edulous Proselytes and fraught their Legends even to nâ—…sse are no more to be compared with them than a Glo-wormâ—…o â—…o the Noon day Sun And their God and rock is not as our God and roâ—…k our Enemies themselves being now Judges Verily your Majesty with all your Protestant Subjects after such a stupendious glorious deliverance from their laâ—…e usurping Pharaohs wâ—…rse tâ—…n Aegyptian Tax masters Burdens and servitude have just cause to sing aloud to the God of their Salvation this triumpâ—…ant song of Moses and the Children of Israel and King David after them a Who is lâ—…ke unto thee O Lord amongst the Gods who is like unto thee glorious in holynesse fearfull in prayses doing wonders Thou strâ—…tchest out thyright hand the earth swallowed them Thou in thymercy hast led forth thy pâ—…ople which thou hast redeemed Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously The King shall joy 〈◊〉 thy strâ—… O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he â—…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 thâ—…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 Qâ—…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 Blâ—…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 lovâ—…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 contemplâ—…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 likâ—…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 expaâ—…ted expressed both by their publike and private Prayers Supplications and Intercessions unto God for their long life health saâ—…ety victory prosperity temporal spiritual and eternal felicity and all sorts of blessings both on their Royal Persons Queens Pâ—…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
orthodox Religious Kings who protect preserve them in their Religion Laws Liberties but even for their Pagan Heretical Kings and such who afflict oppresse persecute them and not to curse depose murder destroy or rebell against them Mat. 5. 43 44 45. Luke 6. 27 28 29. c. 23 24. Acts 8. 60. Rom. 13. 1 2 3. c. 12. 19 20 21. 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. 1 Pet. 2. 18 to 25. contrary to the practice tenents of the Saints subjects of this degenerate apostate treacherous and perfidious age 5ly That one part of Gods and mens blessing of Kings is that they may have a numerous continuing progeny permanent House and royal issue to succeed them in the throne and reign over their Nations and Kingdoms in happinesse peace safety prosperity for many generations Gen. 17. 5 6 7. 16. 2 Sam. 7. 10. to the end 2 Chron. 6. 4 to 18. 1 Kings 8. 18 to 27. c. 11. 36 37 38. 2 Kings 10. 31. Ps. 132. 11 12. compared with Psal. 128. 3 4 5 6. Gen. 24. 60. Which no doubt was one chief part of Jacobs blessing of and prayer for King Pharaoh being one principle brâ—…nch of the blessings he bestowed on and wished to his own Sons and Grandsons when he blessed them before his death Gen. 48. 15 16 19 â—…3 c. 49. 10. 22 25 28. Whence it inevitably followeâ—… that it is the property duty of all loyal pious Saintâ—… Christians people cordially to pray for and desire God to blesse their Kings with a numerous permanent royal issue and posterity to succeed them in their royal thrones and reign over them with all peace safety felicity not to difinherit banish abjure extirpate their posterities and deprive them of their hereditary Crowns which some now deem their Saintship piety honour felicity to accomplish The 3d. are the several prayers and supplications that Moses made for King Pharaoh the grand oppreâ—…or enthraller afflicter of the Israelites when God sent him to rescue them from their intollerable bondage â—…nder him and his Officers to remove those very plagues which God himself inflicted on Pharaoh and his Aegyptians thereby to deliver them from their vassallage and bring them out thence to the promised Land thus recorded by Moses himself Exod. 8. 8. to 14. When the frogs came up and covered the land of Aegypt then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said Intreat the Lord that he may take away the Frogs from me and from my people and I will let the people go that they may do sacrifice to the Lord. And Moses said to Pharaoh Glory over me against when shall I intreat for thée and for thy Servants and for thy People to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses that they may remain in the river only And he said to morrow And Moses said be it according to thy word that thou mayst know that there is none like unto the Lord our God and the frogs shall depart from thee and from thy houses and from thy servants and from thy people they shall remain in the River only And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh And Moses cryed unto the Lord because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh And the Lord did according to the word of Moses and the frogs dyed out of the Houses out of the Villages and out of the Field v. 29 30 31. Moses intreated the Lord that the swarms of frogs he sent might depart from Pharaoh from his Servants and from his Pople And the Lord did according to the word of Moses and he removed the frogs at Pharaohs request there remained not one After this Moses intreated the Lord to remove the mighty Thunder and Hail he had sent spreadiug abroad his hands unto the Lord in prayer for that end and they ceased Exod. 9. 28 29 33. The like he did at his Intreaty to remove the plague of Locusts Exod. 10. 7 18 19. From these Presidents and practice of Moses I shall deduce these genuine seasonable Observations 1. That Moses being born in Egypt and bred â—…p in Pharaohs Court was rather a Native subject to King Pharaoh than a mere Sojourner and Foreiner as Abraham and Jacob were to Abimelech and Pharaoh though he had been absent thence about forty years it thence follows from the premises That Subjects as well as Sojourners are bound by duty and allegeance to pray for their Kings and people 2ly Moses was enforced to fly out of Egypt to save his life because Pharaoh sought to 〈◊〉 him for killing an Egyptian who smote and opprâ—… an Hebrew one of his Brethren and this Pharaoh to whom God sent him and for whom he thus prayed four times after each other was not only a Pagan-Idolater but in all probability the Kings Son or Grand-son who sought to slay him Aegypt being an herâ—…ditary Kingdom as Isay 19. 11. and all Historians record Yea both these Pharaohs with two or more of their Ancestors and their Officers did extraordinarily oppress the Israelites caâ—…sing all their Male-children they could meet with to be drowned in the River but such as the Midwives preserved against their commands afflicting them by their Task-masters heavy burdens rigorâ—…us service and hard bondage which made their lives bitter and caused them to sigh groan and cry unto the Lord by reason of the bondage who thereupon heard their cry and saw their oppression and remembred his Covenant made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob to rescue them from their Thraldom yet notwithstanding Moses prayed four times to remove the Plagues God had inflicted on Pharaoh his Servants and people and no waies endeavoured to deprive or disinherit them either of their Lives Crowns or Succession though a chosen Servant Man and Saint of God commissioned and sent by God himself to deliver the Israelites from their bondage under Pharaoh and bring them out of Egypt Whence I shall irrefragably infer That the eminentest chosen Saints Men and Servants of God yea all other loyal Subjects ought chearfully to obey and pray for not only their Pagan Idolatrous but persecuting and oppressing Kings and their royal Posterity and though they may use all lawfull means to deliver themselves and fellow-subjects from their unjust tyranny bondage oppressions yet they neither lawfully can nor ought forcibly to dethrone disinherit them or their Posterities of their Crowns nor rebel against or deprive them of their lives by tumultuous Insurrections Assassinations and High Courts of Justice 3ly That Godly persecuted oppressed Subjects may and ought to pray for the removal of those Judgements which God himself inflicts upon their oppressive persecuting Kings their Servants People successively one after another for those persecutions tyrannies oppressions under which they groan and cry of purpose to bring them to repentance and deliver them from their bondage pressures vexations under them as Moses did in this case of Pharaoh his Officers and the Egyptians for the removal of 4 grievous Plagues inflicted upon them one
most zealous fervent pathetical Thanksgiving and Prayer to God for the accomplishmeut of this promise in establishing and blessing his House for ever Which being afterwards put in writing and particularly recorded in sacred Story no doubt was constantly used both in private and publick by himself and all his loyal devout Subjects whether Priests Levites or people all his Reign and registred as a sacred President for all hereditary pious Kings and Subjects future imitation 2ly Davids publick Prayers Psalms and Thanksgivings to God for himself as King and for his Royal Son and his Posterity that should succeed him in the Throne recorded in sacred writ prescribed to the Church and people of God during his Reign and succeeding Ages and constantly used by them and all Churches of God to this very day at the inauguration of their Kings and upon other royal Solemnities Victories Triumphs and Installments or mariages of their Sons and heirs to the Crown I shall instance only in Psal 18. I will love thee O Lord my strength c. Therefore will I give thanks unto thee O Lord among the heathen and sing praises unto thy name Great deliverance giveth he to his King and sheweth mercy to his anointed to David and to his séed for evermore Psal. 21. The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy Salvatian how greatly shall he rejoyce For thou hast given him his hearts desire thou hast not withholden the request of his lips for thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head He asked life of thee and thou gavest it him even length of dayes for ever and ever his glory is great in thy salvation glory and majesty hast thou laid upon him for thou hast made him most blessed for ever c. Which Psalm though it be mystically applied to Christ the King of his Church and Saints by many yet doubtless it was literally meant of King David himself who compiled it Psal. 45. My heart is indicting a good matter I will speak of the things which I have made touching the King literally intended of Solomon but mystically of Christ his kingdom and Church Psal. 61. Hear my cry O God attend unto my Prayer c. Thou wilt prolong the Kings life and his years as many generations He shall abide before God for ever O prepare mercy and truth which may preserve him Psal. 72. 1 2 c. Give the King thy Judgements O God and thy Righteousness unto the Kings Son Then shall he judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgement c. He shall save the souls of the needy He shall redeem their Soul from deceit and violence and precious shall their bloud be in his sight He shall live and unto him shall be given of the Gold of Sheba Prayeâ—… also shall be made for him continually and daily shall he be praised Which Psalm though mystically meant of Jesus Christ the Son of David as all accord yet it was first literally made used in and by the Church and people of God and prescribed to them as a publike Prayer for King David and his Son Solomon who was to succeed him in the throne as most accord and the Contents in our Bibles resolve Or for King Solomon whom some make the penman thereof and his Son Rehoboam However it is a direct form and divine precept for the people of God in all hereditary kingdoms to make continual daily publike and private Prayers intercessions supplications and thanksgivings unto God for their hereditary kings their heirs apparent and successors to the crown and royal posterity according to the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. grounded on this Psalm I shall conclude with Psal. 89. and Psal. 132. of like nature with the former wherein not only the Psalmist but the Churches Congregations of the Saints in that and succeeding ages do sing of the mercies of the Lord and make known his faithfulness to all generations for making this Covenant with David and his seed I have made a Covenant with my chosen I have sworn unto David my servant Thy séed will I establish for ever and build up thy throne to all generations c. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my Covenant shall stand fast with him His séed also will I make to endure for ever and his Throne as the dayes of Heaven If his children forsake my Laws and walk not in my judgements if they break my statutes and keep not my commandements then will I visit their transgressions with the rod and their sin with scourges Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail My Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David his séed shall endure for ever and his Throne as the Sun before me It shall be established for ever as the Moon and as the faithfull witnesse in Heaven Selah 〈◊〉 thy children will keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them their children also shall sit upon tâ—…e Throne for evermore For the Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation This is my rest for ever there will I dwell for I have desired it c. There will I make the horn of David to bud I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed His Enemies will I cloath with shame but upon himself shall his crown flourish From all these Psalms which you may read at large these irrefragable Conclusions may be clearly deduced 1. That it was the constant practise duty not only of King David himself but of the Church and people of God under him and his royal posteritie to make incessant prayers supplications intercessions and thanksgivings to God both publikely and privately for him his royal house and posterity 2ly That they did in their publike and private devotions prayers psalms and thanksgivings take special notice and make particular mention of Gods promise to King David his House and Royal seed that they should inherit the Throne and kingdom over his people by succession for ever and rejoyce therein yea pray for its accomplishment and Gods grace and blessing on his House seed as their own and the Churches greatest blessing happinesse and fafety 3ly That as the sins of Davids royal seed and progeny did not cause God himself the king of kings who conferred the kingdom and throne upon them to break his Oath and Covenant with them nor to deprive them of their kingly Government Throne or totally to withdraw his loving kindness and mercy towards them but only to chastize them with his rod and scourge them for their amendment So it did neither withdraw the allegeance loyaltie dutie prayers supplications intercessions or thanksgivings of the Church and their pious subjects from them but rather intend and augment them as is evident by
Psal. 89. 38 to 59. and Psal. 132. All which particulars do apparently check and reprehend the contrary late practice of the Subjects and Saints within our three kingdoms and Churches of England Scotland and Ireland 4ly The pietie and loyaltie of Davids Great Officers and Subjects in praying for him and his people in their conferences with and addresses to him I shall instance only in 3. presidents The 1. is that of Joab his chief Captain and General when David commanded him to number the people much against his judgement and disswasions from it 2 Sam. 24. 3. And Joab said unto the King The Lord thy God adde uuto the People how many soever they be and that the eyes of my Lord the King may sée it The 2. is that of Araunah when king David after the three dayes of Pestilence inflicted for his numbring the People came to buy the threshing-floor of him to build an Altar to the Lord that the plague might be stayed from the people 2 Sam. 24. 21 22 23. And Araunah said unto the King The Lord thy God accept thée Both these are direct prayers to God for King David by these two loyal Subjects The 3. president is the gratulatory salutation and prayer of Hushai when he sent him under a pretended revolt from him to his son Absolom who usurped his throne and forced him to flie to undermine Achitophels craftie counsel against him thus recorded 2 Sam. 16. 16. And it came to pass that when Hushai the Archite Davids friend was come unto Absolom he said God save the King God save the King or Let the King live doubling this salutation of and praier for him Whence I inferr these 2. probable if not undeniable Conclusions 1. That this salutation and praier was usual amongst the Israelites not only at their kings Coronations but upon their Officers and Subjects accesses and addresses to them even in king Davids daies as well as in all succeeding ages 2ly That if Hushai thus used it to Absolom a king only by Traterous usurpation of his Fathers Throne he and other loyal Officers subjects used it much more at the inauguration of and their addresses to their lawfull pious king David a man after Gods own heart 3ly The third king over Gods own people was Solomon the first who enjoyed the Crown by inheritance from David his Father by Gods special appointment and crowned king in his Fathers life time to prevent the usurpations of his Brother Adonijah thus recorded in sacred writ 1 kings 1. 30 to 49. When David was old his son Adonijah to defeat Solomon of the Crown making a strong partie caused himself to be proclamed king which David being informed of by Bathsheba Solomons mother he thereupon by the advice of the Prophet Nathan out of a conscientious performance of the Oath he formerly swore in the name of the Lord to Bathsheba that Solomon her son should reign after him which Oath he then renewed commanded Zadock the Priest Nathan and Benaiah to take his servants to cause Solomon his son to ride upon his own muâ—… and bring him down to Gihon and there to anoint him King over Israel and blow ye with the trumpet and say God save King Solomon Then ye shall come up after him that he may come and sit upon my throne for he shall be King in my stead and I have appointed him to be â—…uler over Israel and over Judah Whereupon Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the King and said Amen The Lord God of my Lord the King say so too As the Lord hath been with my Lord the King even so be he with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my Lord King David So Zadok the Priest and Nathan the Prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiadah and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and caused Solomon to ride upon king Davids Mule and they brought him to Gibeon And Zadok â—…he Priest took an horn of oyle out of the Tabernaâ—…le and anointed Solomon and they blew the Trumpet and all the people said God save King Solomon And all the people came up after him and the people piped with pipes and rejoyced with great joy so that the earth rent with the sound of them and the City rang again Vpon this Jonathan the Son of Abiathar the Priest came in to Adonijah and related the premises to him and all the Ghests that were with him aâ—…ding also Solomon sitteth on the Throne of the kingdom and moreover the Kings Servants came to bless our Lord King David saying God make the name of Solomon better than thy Name and make his Throne greater than thy Throne and the King bowed himself upon his Bed And also thus said the king Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which hath given me one to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my Throne this day mine eyes even séeing it After which David assembled all the Princes of Israel the Princes of the Tribes the Captains of the Companies that ministred to the King by course the Captains over the thousands and over the hundreds the Stewards over all the subâ—…nce and possessions of the king and of his Sons with the Officers and mighty men and with all the valiant men unto Jerusalem Where standing upon hisfeet he declared to them Gods election of his son Solomon to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel and that he should build God an house then giving the Congregation and Solomon a charge to keep and seek all the commandements of God and to serve him with a perfect heart and willing mind c. he gave Solomon a pattern of the form materials vessels chambers treasuries of the Temple and courses of the Priests After which relating to them the quantity of Gold silver pretious stones brasse and other materials he had provided and dedicated towards the building of the Temple by his example and exhortation he caused both the Princes and people to offer bountifully and willingly both gold silver brasse iron and precious stones for the service of the House of God Whereupon David made a most heavenly thanksgiving and prayer unto God before all the Congregation who joyned with him therein In which praier he and the Congregation used this expression relating to Solomon 2 Chron. 29. 18 19. O Lord God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel our fathâ—…rs Give unto Solomon my Son a perfect heart to kéep thy Commandements thy Testimonies and thy Statuteo and to do all these things and to build the Palace for which I have made provision After which all the Congregation blessed the Lord God of their Fathers and bowed down their heads and worshipped the Lord and the king And the morrow after they sacrificed sacrifices and offered burnt-offerings unto the Lord even a thousand bullocks a thousand rams and a thousand lambs with their drink-â—…ffrings and sacrifices in abundance for all the people and did eat and drink that day before the Lord with gladness and
they made Solomon the son of David King the second time and anointed him unto the Lord to be Chief Governor c. v. 20 21. Froâ—… all which premises it is apparent 1. That the Priests Prophets Princeâ—… Captains Officers and all the people of God at the coronation of Solomon and so at their other hereditarie Kings inaugurations who succeeded him by like practice and custom did blow with Trumpets pipe with Flutes rejoice with exceeding joy and cry out with united shouts prayers acclamacions God save the King Let the King live so that the Earth did rent and the City ring again with the sound thereof 2ly That besides this usual short prayer and ejaculation unto God for him and their following Kings the greatest devoutest of the Officers and people did break forth into other most affectionate pathetical expressions praiers for them as Benaiah and other of Davids servants did here in the case of Solomon saying The Lord God of my Lord the king say Amen too As the Lord hath been with my Lord the king David so let him bee with Solomon and make his name better than thy name and make his throne greater than thy throne 3ly That they joyned in publike prayers to God for their Kings after their installments in the kingdom as the whole Congregation did here with David for Solomon O Lord God of Abraham c. give unto my son Solomon a perfect heart to keep thy Commandements c. Ps. 132. 1 c. 4ly That in their usual addresses to their Kings they bless them by wishing them spiritual and temporal blessings long life and prosperity to them and bless God for their advancement to the Throne and Government over them as is evident by the 1 Kings 1. 27. 43. compared with the 2Sam 10. 16. and other subsequent texts 5ly I shall adde to the premises this passage in Huram king of Tyre his letter to Solomon 2 Chron. 2. 12. Huram said moreover Blessed be the Lord God of Israel that hath made heaven and earth who hath given to David a wise Son endued with prudence and understanding that might build an house for the Lord and an house for his kingdom And these words of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon 2 Chron. 9. 7 8. 1 Kings 10. 7 8. Happy are thy men and happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighted in thée to set thée on his throne to be King for the Lord thy God because thy God loved Israel to establish them for ever therefore made hee thee King over them to do judgement and justice Now if King Huram and the Queen of Sheba meer foreiners Princes not subjects thus blessed God for Solomons kingdom justice reign and advancement to his fathers throne for the establishment and welfare of his subjects then much more were the Israelites themselves his own subjects and servants obliged to blesse him and blesse God for his reign wisdom and good government over them which no doubt they did constantly perform in their publike and private Devotions and all their addresses to him as also to their other Kings succeeding him though not particularly recorded in the books of Kings and Chronicles which are but short Epitomes of his and their reigns 3ly When King Solomon had finished the Temple he assembled all the Elders heads of the Tribes and chief of the fathers of the children of Israel with the Priests and Levites to Jerusalem to bring up the Ark and dedicate the Temple where Solomon having first blâ—…ssed all the Congregation he with the whole Congregation of Israel standing before and joyning with him Blessed the Lord God of Israel who had with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to his father David That his Son which should come out of his loyns should build an House to the name of the Lord God of Israel The Lord therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken for I am risen up in the room of David my Father and am set on the Throne of Israel as the Lord promised and have built the House for the Lord God of Israel c. After which he stood before the Altar of the Lord upon a brazen scaffold and kneeled upon his knees before all the Congregation of Israel and spred forth his hands towards heaven and said O Lord God of Israel there is none like thee in the heaven nor in the earth which keepest Covenant and shewest mercy unto thy servants that walk before thee with all their hearts Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him and spakest with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thy hand as it is this day Now therefore O Lord God of Israel kéep with thy servant David my Father that which thou hast promised him saying There shall not fail thée a Man in my sight to sit upon the Throne of Israel yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my Law as thou hast walked before me Now then O Lord God of Israel let thy word I pray thée be verified which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David c. O Lord God turn not away the face of thine anointed Remember the Mercies of David thy servant When Solomon had ended all his prayer and supplication to the Lord he arose from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven and he stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice saying Blessed be the Lord God that hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he hath promised there hath not failed one word of all his good promise which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant The Lord our God be with us as he was with our Fathers Let him not leave us nor forsake us that he may incline our hearts unto him to walk in all his wayes and to keep his Commandements and his Statutes and his Iudgements which he commanded our Fathers And let these my words wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord be nigh unto the Lord day night that he may maintain the cause of his servant the cause of his people Israel the thing of a day in his day or at all times as the matter shall require that all the People of the Earth may know that the Lord is God and there is none else c. After all the Dedications sacrifices offerings and feasts were fully ended Solomon sent the people away and they blessed the King and went unto their tents Ioyfull and glad of heart for all the goodnesse that the Lord had shewed unto David his servant to Solomon and to Israel his people In these remarkable passages we have King Solomon blessing all his Princes Elders people and they blessing him again and both of them joyning together in blessings thanksgivings and
prayers to God for his blessings mercies and fulfilling of Promises Covenants to each other and their ancestors especially to King David and his royal posterity in relation to their spiritual and temporal welfare and exceedingly rejoycing for Gods goodness mutually bestowed on each other but more especially for Gods promise made and fulfilled to David Solomon and their royal posterity That they should not want a man of their seed to sit upon the throne of Israel for ever for the real performance whereof they all most earnestly prayed as well as for David and Solomon as the only means under God of their perpetual unity safety felicity Now these Prayers Blessings and Thanksgivings of Solomon thus made at the dedication of the Temple registred by the Dictate of Gods Spirit inserted into the History and Canon of the Scriptures as patterns of imitation for the Israelites and all Gods people in succeeding generations we cannot but conceive and acknowledge they were frequently recited and imitated at least by the godly Israelites upon all occasions both publikely and privatly 4ly When idolatrous King Jeroboam put forth his hand to lay hold on the Prophet and man of God who prophecied against his Altar at Bethel and God thereupon immediately dryed up his hand he stretched out so that he could not pull it in again to him Thereupon the King said to the man of God Intrâ—…at now the face of the Lord thy God and pray for me that my hand may be restored me again And the man of God besought the face of the Lord and the Kings hand was restored again and became as it was before Here we have a Prophet and man of God praying for an Idolater and persecuting king to restore that very hand he then stretched out against him to apprehend and imprison him for prophecying against his idolatrous Altar by Gods special command How much more then would he have prayed for king David Solomon and other pious Kings to restore and preserve their lives 5ly When Athaliah had slain all the seed royal of the house of David but Joash an infant of an year old and usurped the Crown above six years Jehoiada the High Priest called the Rulers of the hundreds and Captains of the guard and all the chief fathers of Israel and the Levites and brought them into the House of the Lord and made a Covenant with them and took an Oath of them and â—…ewed them Joash the kings son whom he hid being but 7. years old and said unto them Behold the kings son shall reign as the Lord hath said of the sons of David Then disposing the Captains Guards and Levites in the Temple with their weapons in their hands round about Joash they thereupon brought out the Kings Son and put upon him the Crown and gave him the Testimony and made him King and Jehoiadah and his sons anointed him and they clapt their hands and said God save the King And all the people of the Land rejoyced and sounded with Trumpets also the Singers with Iustruments of Musick and such as taught to sing praise praysing the King And Jehoiada took the Captains of hundreds and the Nobles and the Governours of the people and all the people of the land and brought down the king from the House of the Lord and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom And all the people of the Land rejoyced and the City was quiet after they had slain Athaliah with the sword Here we have the self-same acclamation and prayer Let the King live or God save the King made by Jehoiada the High-Priest and his Sons the Captains of the Army the Princes Officers Priests with all the City and people present at the coronation of Joash right heir to the Crown by descent from the House of King David as was used at the Inaugurations of Saul and Solomon and no doubt was practised at the coronations of all other Kings of Judah and Israel though not particularly recorded in the Sacred History of their lives and reigns being a thing so vulgarly known for brevity sake it being the received practice custom of all other Nations at the Coronations of their Kings and Emperors till this very day as is evident by Dan. 2. 4. c. 3. 9. c. 6. 6. 21. as well as among the Israelites 6. I shall evidence the truth of the Israelites practice in praying for their kings whiles they lived by what the Scripture records touching their lamentation and publike mourning for their pious and good kings when they died It is recorded 2 Chron. 35. 24 25. that when good King Josiah died oâ—… his wounds received in battel and was buried all Iudah and Ierusalem mourned for him and all the singing men and singing women spake of Iosiah in their Lamentations unto this day and made them an Ordinance in Israel and behold they are written in the Lamentations writ upon this occasion amongst others as is evident by Lam. 4. 20. c. 5. 16. The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said Under his shadow we shall live among the Heathen The Crown of our head is fallen Wo unto us that we have sinned If all Judah and Jerusalem the singing men and singing women and Jeremiah the Prophet thus mourned for and lamented the death of Josiah and their other good Kings at and after their funerals no doubt they constantly prayed for their health long life and prosperous reigns whiles they were living as the premises evidence though not particularly recorded in the Abridgement of their reigns in the Books of Kings and Chronicles 7. Ezra c. 9. 7. in his prayer Nehemiah c. 9. 32 34. in his prayer Jeremiah Lam. 2. 9. and Daniel c. 9. 6 8. in his prayer confessed lamented the sins of their Kings and Princes and bewailed their deliverance into the hands of the Kings of the Lands to the Sword to Captivity to a spoyl and Confusion of face and prayed not to let all the trouble that had come upon them seem little c. Therefore no doubt they constantly prayed for their kings during their reigns and prosperity who thus lamented their captivity and misery 8. The Prophet Ezekiels injunction by God c. 19. 10 c. to take up a Lamentation for the Princes of Israel because they were cut off and caried away captives the strong rod of the royal progeny broken and withered so as Israel had no strong rod left to be a Seepter to rule concluding thus this is a Lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation with that of the Prophet Hosea c. 10. 3. In that day Israel shall say by way of Lamentation and grief we have no King because we fearâ—…d not the Lord what then should a King do to us Are convincing Arguments that these Prophets and all fearing God did constantly pray for the life and continuance of their kings and kingly Government and Posterity whiles they enjoyed them as their principal
earthly blessing and security since they thus sadly lamented the want and Captivity of their kings and Princes of the royal bloud to rule over them as their greatest misery and infelicity both for the present and future till restored to the throne again to rule over them 9. The Israelites whiles they were bondmen and Captives under the Babylonians Assyrians Persians having no kings nor Princes of Davids royal posterity to rule over thē did make prayers offer Sacrifices to God for the lives prosperity of these Pagan kings their sons too therefore no doubt they did it much more out of loyalty and duty for their own hereditary kings and their sons whiles they reigned over them For their practice in relation to those forein kings under whom they were Captives though Pagans Idolaters and Enemies to their Nation We have one memorable Precept and at least three Presidents in Scripture The 1. is that of Jer. 29. 1 to 9. where Jeremiah the Prophet by Gods direction and command writ thus in his letter sent from Jerusalem to the Elders Priests Prophets and all the people of Israel when Nebuchodonosor had caried them away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel uuto all who are caried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon Build ye houses plant vineyards take ye Wives and beget Sons and Daughters c. And seek ye the peace of the City whither I have caused you to be carried away captive and pray unto the Lord for it to which some Antients adde and pray for the life of Nebuchodonosor and his sons virtually included in the former clause at least for in the peace thereof ye shall have peace If all the Elders Priests Prophets and people of Israel were thus specially commanded by God himself to pray for the Peace and Prosperity of this Idolatrous City of Babylon their greatest Enemies and persecutors wherein they lived in captivity and bondage and for King Nebuchodonosor and his sons lives who burnt their City and Temple at Jerusalem destroyed captivated their Kings Princes kingdom Nation and sent them captives to Babylon because in their Peace and prosperity themselves should enjoy peace and tranquillity even in and under their bondage Then doubtlesse were they much more obliged in duty piety prudence to pray for the peace life health and felicity of their own Kings kingdom and royal City of Jerusalem whiles they there lived under their royal Government I shall compare this with Baruch 1. where we read the Jews in Babylon upon reading of Baruchs book made a collection of mony and sent it to Jerusalem unto Joachim the High Priest and to the Priests and all the people which were found at Jerusalem And they the Jews who brought it said Behold we have sent you mony to buy Burnt-offerings and Sin-offerings and Incense and prepare ye Meat-offerings and offer upon the Altar of the Lord our God And pray for the life of Nebuchodonosor K. of Babylon and for the life of Balthasar his Son that their daies may be upon Earth as the dayes of Heaven And the Lord will give us strength and lighten our eyes and we shall live under the shadow of Nebuchodonosor King of Babylon and under the shadow of Balthasar his Son and we shall serve them many daies and find favour in their sight Pray for us also unto the Lord our God for we have sinned against the Lord our God and unto this day the fury of the Lord and his wrath is not turned from us From which passage though it be Apocryphal it is apparent that the Iews during their captivity both at Babylon and Ierusalem did constantly pray to God for the long life welfare and prosperous reign of Nebuchodonosor and his Son after him though Pagan-Idolators and Enemies who destroyed their Country City Temple led most of them away Captives out of their own Land and made them Tributaries and Bondmen to them◅ Therefore much more did they and were they bound in duty loyalty allegiance and prudence to pray for their own hereditary natural rightfull kings of Davids royal Family whiles they reigned over them The 2. is the observable president of the Prophet Daniel himself Dan. 6. who did accordingly perform this duty he being a captive under Darius though a Pagan King an Idolater an Enemy to the whole Jewish Nation a Foreiner of the Persian not Israelitish race an impious Tyrant Persecutor if not Enemy to himself and the true God making establishing and signing this royal Decree at the sollicitation of his Princes on purpose to insnare Daniel That whosoever shall ask a Petition of any God or Man for thirty dayes save of King Darius himself should be cast into the Lions den for breach of which impious dec◅ee by praying to God Daniel was cast by the Kings commandement through the Princes malice against him into the Lions den and a stone laid at the mouth of the den which the K. sealed with his own signet and the signet of his Lords that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel Yet notwithstanding all these circumstances which might in the judgement of flesh and bloud disoblige Daniel from his dutifull alle◅iance to and prayer for Darius his life and happinesse No sooner did King Darius come to the Lions den the next morning early crying with a lamentable voice and saying O Daniel servant of the living God is thy God whom thou servest continually able to deliver th◅e from the Lions but Daniel the very first words he used brake forth into this most loyal salutation of and prayer for him v. 20 21. O King live for ever My God hath sent his Angel and hath shut up the Lions mouths that they have not hurt me for as much as before him innocency was sound in me and also before thee O King have I done no hurt calling him King no less than twice together no◅ Tyrant Infidel Persecutor Enemy of God and his people as some degenerate Saints of this Age would have done without any such injustice as he suffered from and by his decree and using the self-same Salutation to and Prayer for him and other idolatrous persecuting Kings as their natural born Subjects Princes used as is evident by comparing this Text with Dan. 2. 4. c. 3. 9. c. 5. 10. c. 6. 6. Therefore questionless he and other godly Israelites did and would have manifested the like loyalty piety and reverence towards their own hereditary Kings of Davids posterity in their own Country though Idolaters Persecutors Tyrants much more when just upright mercifull bountifull and religious The 3. is the memorable Decree of King Darius concerning the building repairing expences and oblations of the House of the Lord in Jerusalem and the chief end thereof recorded Ezra 6. 3 to 14. Moreover I make a Decree that you shall do for the Elders of these Jews for the building of the House of God that of the Kings Goods
even of the Tribute beyond the River forthwith expences be given to these men that they be not hindred And that which they have need of both young bullocks and rams and lambs for the Burnt-offerings of the God of Heaven wheat salt wine and oyle according to the appointment of the Priests which are at Ierusalem let it be given them day by day without fail that they may offer Sacrifices of sweet savors unto the God of heaven and pray for the life of the King and of his Sons Also I have made a Decree that whosoever shall alter this word let timber be pulled down from his house and being set up let him be hanged thereon and let his house be made a dunghill for this c By this Decree it is most apparent 1. That the Priests and people of God at Ierusalem living as Tributaries under this pagan Persian King were specially enjoyned and required by his royal decree day by day to offer Sacrifices and pray unto the God of Heaven for the life of the King and of his Sons of which there could be but these two probable grounds either that they used thus daily to offer Sacâ—…ifices and prayers to the God of heaven for their own hereditary Kings and their Sons in the old Temple at Ierusalem by Davids and Solomons injunction before it was demolished as they were now ordered after its rebuilding and repair which is most probable since their antient usual daily Sacrifices and prayers for the King and his Sons are here conjoyned Or because their own pagan Priests used to do so in Persia Babylon and their own antient Dominions 2. That this Decree in all its partâ—… specially in this last was so peremptory and penal that whosoever should alter or disobey it was to have the Timber pulled from his house and hanged thereon and his house to be made a Dunghill for this Therefore this Duty was no doubt constantly performed by the Priests and Elders of the Jews in whose favour it was made If then those Priests and Subjects demerited such a severe punishment as this for refuâ—…ing or neglecting to make daily sacrifices and prayers to the God of Heaven for this forein Pagan King and his Sons to whom they were only Captives and Tributaries what penalties executions do those undutifull disloyal Christian Subjects and Ministers deserve who wilfully neglect refuse nay prohibit under grievous penalties daily Prayers and Intercessions to be made to the God of heaven for their own undoubted natural hereditary Christian Protestant Kings and their Sons against the purport of this Decree and the express injunction of God himself in the New Testament 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3 No doubt hanging and demolishing their Houses is too good for them if this Pagan King may be Umpire The 4. is the Decree of King Artaxerxes to Ezra the Priest and Scribe of the Law of the God of Heaven for monies to buy Bullocks Rams Lambs with their Meat-offerings and Drink-offerings and to offer them upon the Alter of the house of God which was at Jerusalem Ezra 7. 11 to 25. in which Decree though there be no such express clause as in the former to offer Sacrifices and Prayers to the God of Heaven for the King and his Sons yet it is comprised therein in the general being but a confirmation of the Decree of Darius and it is clearly intimated and expressed in the reason of this Decree at the close thereof Whatsoever is commanded by the God of Heaven let it be diligently done for the house of the God of Heaven for why should there be wrath against the Realm of the King and his Sons which wrath Ezra the Priests and people of Israel worshipping the God of Heaven were to deprecate and stave off by their daily publick Sacrifices and prayers to the God of Heaven in the behalf of this King his Sons and Realm and praying for their welfare and prosperity which no doubt they constantly performed as is evident by Ezraes special Thanksgiving to God v. 27 28. Blessed be the Lord God of our Fathers which hath put such a thing as this into the Kings heart to beautifie the House of the Lord which is at Jerusalem and hath extended mercy unto me before the King and his Counsellors and before the Kings mighty Princes ch 9. 8 9 10. And now for a little space Grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God to leave us a remnant to escape and to give us a Nayl in his holy place that our God may lighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage For we were Bondmen yet our God hath not forsaken us in our Bondage but hath extended mercy to us in the sight of the King of Persia to give us a reviving to set up the House of our God and to repair the desolations thereof and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem And now O our God what shall we say after this for we have forsaken thy commandement c. The recital of which mercy in Ezra his solemn Thanksgiving and also in his publick humiliation was a most effectual prayer for this King and his Sons and praysing God for the benefits extented to his people by their means and favour To these 4. Precepts and Presidents in sacred writ I shall annex a 5th out of the Jewish History Apion accused the Jews to the Emperor Caius Caligula who usurped to himself divine honour that when all other Nations throughout the Roman Empire dedicated Temples and Altars to him and erected his Statue in their Temples and sware by his name that the Jews would do neither nor permit his Statue to be set up in the Temple of their God whereupon he commanded Petronius with two Legions to make war upon the Jews unless they would erect his Statue in the Temple which they peremptorily opposed as being contrary to the law of their God and custom of their Ancestors choosing rather all to dye and offering their Necks to the Block than to permit such a transgression against their Gods law Hereupon they sent Embassadors to Caius whereof Philo was chief to satisfie him who informed him that though they could not erect his Statue nor adore him as a God being contrary to their Religion yet such was their loyalty towards him That they did twice every day offer Sacrifices prayers unto their God for him in the Temple Therfore no doubt they did the like for Darius Artaxerxes Nebuchadnezzar and other Kings to whom they were Tributaries and much more for their own natural Kings and their Sons of the House of David Xly. God himself gave this express prohibition to the Israelites Exod. 22. 26. Thou shalt not revile the Gods nor curse the Ruler of thy People repeated Acts 23. 3. and thus seconded Eccles. 10. 20. Curse not the King no not in thy thoughts for a bird of the Ayr shall carry the voyce and that which hath wings shall tell
the matter Therefore it is clear by the rule of contraries yea by Christs and Pauls own expositions resolutions Mat. 5. 44. Lu. 6. 28. Rom. 12. 14. that they were to bless and pray for them yea though they persecuted and despitefully used them Shimei for violating these divine Precepts in cursing and rayling against King David and stiling him a câ—… â—… when he fled from his usurping Son Absolom was thought worthy to lose his head by Aâ—…ishai who would have cut it off bad not David for the present forbad his execution 2 Sam. 16. 7 to 10. c. 19. 21. For which crime Solomon by Davids order afterwards put him to death 2 Kings 2. 8. 44 45 46. using this speech unto him Thou knowest all the wickedness which thy heart is privy to that thou didst to David my Father therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head and King Solomon shall be blessed and the Throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever whereas Shimei said the Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul in whose stead thou hast reigned and the Lord hath delivered thy Kingdom into the hand of Absolom thy Son and behold thou art taken in thy mischief because thou art a bloody man Now if this sin of his in cursing and rayling against David his King was a capital crime and treason deserving death â—… and God himself reputes it an heinous offence in the idolatrous Israelites and others when vexed with famine oppression and other judgements by evil Kings to curse their King and look upwards Isay 8. 21. Then questionless it is a grievous sin and capital offence for Subjects to give over prohibit all publick and private Prayers for their Kings or curse theÌ„ though wicked oppressive idolatrous tyrannical much more when just good pious christian orthodox and not only to curse but dethrone murder them eject banish and disinherit their royal posterities and abolish their Kingly Government for which they can expect nought else but exemplary punishments and the reward of Shimei both from God and men being contrary to all the recited Presidents of Gods Saints and people under the law CHAP. III. I Proceed now to the last Classis of Presidents for supplications prayers intercessions thansgivings for Kings under the Gospel where I shall begin with Jesus Christ the King of Kings the principal subject matter Author of and first K. under the Gospel which as it begins with the Genealogy and Nativity of Jesus Christ who was born King of the Jews and inquired after worshipped presented with Gold Mirrhe and Frankincense by the Wisemen under the notion of a King Mat. c. 1 2. 1 2 c. So it informs us that at his birth an Angel of the Lord appeared to the Shepheards saying Behold I bring unâ—…o you tidings of great joy which shall be to all people for unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour wâ—…ich is Christ the Lord. And suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly host praysing God and saying Glory to God in the highest in earth peace good will towards men Lu. 2. 9 to 15. Of this King Iesus to whom the Angel appearing to his Mother Mary before his conception said That the Lord God shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be no end Lu. 1. 32 33. his Father King David many hundred years before his Nativity thus prophecyed Ps. 72. 15 17. To him shall be given of the gold of Sheba Prayer also shall be made for him continually and daily shall he be praysed all Nations shall call him Blessed And the Prophet Zechariah thus propâ—…ecyed conceâ—…ning him c. 9. 9. Rejoyce greatly O Ierusalem Behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just and bringing Salvation riding upon an Ass and upon a Colt the foal of an Ass which Prophecies were fulfilled both by the earnest Prayers and Desires of many Prophets Kings and righteous men to see and hear King Jesus before his incarnation by the Songs of rejoycing and thanksgiving at and for his very conception and birth recorded Mat. 13. 16 17. Lu. 10. 23 24. c. 1. 42 45 68 69 70 c. c. 2. 20 to 39. 37 38. Mat. 2. 1 to 12. And at his triumphant riding like a King unto Jerusalem on an Asse and its foal Matth. 21. 5 to 17. Mar. 11. 1 to 18. Lu. 19. 29 c. At which time a very great multitude spread their Garments in the way others cut down branches from the Trees and strawed them in the way and when he was come nigh to the descent of the Mount of Olives the whole multitude that went before and followed after began to rejoyce and praise God with a loud voyce and cryed saying Hosanna to the Son of David blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest Blessed be the Kingdom of our Father David Hosanna in the highest Blessed be the King that commeth in the name of the Lord peace in Heaven and glory in the highest And when some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him Master rebuke thy Disciples He answered and said unto them If these men should hold their peace the stones would immemediatly cry out After which the Chief Priests and Scribes seeing the wonderfull things he did and the Children crying in the Temple saying Hosanna to the Son of David they were sore displeased and said unto him Hearest thou what they say Jesus saith unto them Yea have ye not read Out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings thou hast perfected prayse This is likewise evident by those very clauses in the form of prayer which Christ himself recommended to his Disciples to be daily used by them Mat. 6. 1â—… 13. thy Kingdom come oâ—…t stiled â—… Christs Kingdom in the Gospel as well as the Fathers for thine is the Kingdom the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen By that Prayer of all Gods Saints Rev. 22. 20. Amen Even so Lord Iesus come quickly And by that Song of the Lamb which they who had gotten victory over thé Beast having the harps of God do sing Rev. 15. 2 3 4â—… Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name for thou only art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee All which sacred Texts Prayers Prayses Songs and Thanksgivings for the Nativity Kingship Kingdom and inauguration of Jesus Christ as a King into his Kingly Office and for the second comming of his Person and Kingdom of Glory are sufficient Presidents grounds warrants for all Christian Subjects under the Gospel to rejoyce triumph wiâ—…h Songs and Psalmes of Thanksgiving and exceeding joy both at the Births
vota fundimus pro patria haud secus quam Sacerdotes Et plus beneficiorâ—…m a Christianis confertur in patriam quam a reliquis hominibus dum cives erudiunt ad pietatem erga Deum tutelarem patriae praesidem ejusque viam ad coelestem quandam civitatem Dei muniant modo recte vivant vel in exiguis civitatibus How shonld this shame and reprove us now for neglecting this Christian duty for our christian Protestant Kings and Kingdoms St. Cyprian Bishop of Carthage who was martyred in the 8. persecution under the Emperors Valerianus and Galienus Anno 248. in his elegant Book Ad Demetrianum Proconsul of Afric who imputed all the wars famins wherewith the world was then afflicted to the Christians writes thus of the Christians prayers for and loyalty to their persecuting Emperors and Superiours Nos qui exposita nativitate terrena spiritu recreati renati sumus nec jam mundo sed Deo vivimus non nisi cum ad Deum venerimus Dei munera promissa capiemus Et tamen pro arcendis hostibus et preces fundimus et pro pace ac salute vestra propitiantes ac placantes diebus ac noctibus â—…ugiter atque instanter oramus On which passage Pamelius hath this observation Locus insignis pro antiquitate precum Ecclesticarum communium qualis est etiam in Tertul. Justin. Apologiis Repeâ—…iuntur hujusmodi preces in Litnrgiis etiam Jacobi Clementis Basilii Chrysostomi That the Christians then prayed for their very Enemies and Persecutors according to Christs injunction St. Cyprian expresly asserts in his Book De bono Patientiae p. â—…84 b. De Zelo Livore p. 191. a. Testim l. 3. ad Quirinum Sect 49. p. 221. Dionysius and othe rChristians convented before Emillianus the Governour under the Pagan Emperour Valerianus Anno 260. as if they were enemies to the Emperors and prayed not to God for them and the Empire gave him this Answer Nos omnes Deum Deum omniâ—…m Gubernatorem qui Valeriano Galieno Caesaribus Imperium largitus est et colimus et veneramur Huic eâ—…iam sine intermissione pro eorum Regno ut stâ—…bile et firmum manâ—…at preces adhibemus And can any Christians think they do either God or their Country good service in giving over praying thus for their Christian Kings and Kingdoms and maintaining and continuing them both together Arnobius a Christian Philosopher and Rhetorician flourishing about the year of Christ 300. under persecuting Pagan Emperors in his Disputationum adversus Gentes l. 4. Antuerpiae 1582. p. 148 150. writes thus Majestatis sunt apud vos rei qui de vestris secus obmurmuraverint Regibus Magistratum in ordinem redigere Senatorem aut convitio prosequi suis esse decrestis periculosissimum paenis c. Soli sunt apud vos Superi inhonorati c. Nostra quidem scripta cur ignibus merverint dari cur immaniter conventicula dirui in quibus summus oratur Deus Pax cunctis et venia postulatur Magistratibus exercitibus Regibus familiaribus inimicis adhuc vitam degentibus in quibus aliud auditur nihil nifi quod mites verecundos pudicos castos familiares communicatores rei cum omnibus quos solidet germanitatis necessitudine copulatio Verum ita se res habet ut quoniam plurimum gladiis potestate valetis ferri the case of our Army-Saints now anteice vos etiam veritatis scientia judicetis et esse pro diis pios quorum potentia primi opinionum obscaenitate faedastis In the reign of Constantine the Great a Godly and devout Christian Woman being taken Captive by the Iberians dwelling nigh the Euxine Sea then Idolators and Barbarians gave herself to continency fasting and fervent prayer during her Captivity the Kings Sâ—…n of very tender years fell into a dangerous disease whereof none to whom he was carried could cure him at last they brought him to this Christian Captive who in the presence of many Women without applying any salve or medicine laid her Sackcloath upon him and said only these words Christ which healeth many will also heal this Infant When she had uttered these words And also prayed unto God for ayde and assistance to heal and cure the Disease the Child forthwith recovered and enjoyed perfect health The fame of which cure being bruited amongst the Barbarians Wives came at last to the Queens ears so that she was very famous A while after the Queen herself fell sick and this simple woman was sent for who refused to go for fear some violence should be offered to her Thereupon the Queen being conveyed to her she practised and prayed to God for her recovery as she had done before for the Child and forthwith the Queen is rid of her disease Wherupon she thanketh the woman who answer'd It is not my doing but Christs the Son of God the maker of heaven and earth exhorting the Queen to call upon him and to worship the true God The King hearing of this strange cure commanded the Captive woman should be bountifully rewarded Who sending back his rewards said she wanted no riches but esteemed Godlinesse the greatest treasure and that the King should receive a precious Iewel if he would acknowledge that God with she professed Whereupon the King and his Queen long instructed by her in the Christian Faith called all his Subjects together by Proclamation to whom he rehearsed the manner of his Sons and Queens cure by this Captives prayers and what hapned to himself in hunting by praying to her God then they preached Christ to both Sexes the King to men and the Queen to women after that built a house of Prayer turned Christians and sent Ambassadors to Constantine for a Bishop and Clergy-men to instruct them further in the Faith protesting their further belief in Christ as the marginal Historians more at large relate Here we have a Captive Christian by her Prayers healing the Kings Son and Queen of incurable Diseases under whom she was a Captive and converting the King Queen and all his Subjects to the Christian Faith by her Prayers and the miraculous cures wrought by them and Christs power concurring with her prayers a strong obligation for Christians to practise the Apostles precept 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. even for Pagan persecuting Kingâ—… and Princes much more for Christian under whom 〈◊〉 live not as Captives but natural born Subjects St. Amórose Hierom Sâ—…dulius Chrysostom Theodoret Primasius Remigius Bishop of Rhemes Beda Rabanus Maurus Haymo Halberstatensis Oeâ—…umenius Theophylact and all Antients in their expositions and commentaries on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. with all modern Expositors on this Text and St. Augustin De civitate dei lib. 19. c. 26. resolve That Christians ought to pray publickly and privately to God for the life safety prosperity of Pagan and persecuting Kings Princes Governors Rulers as well as those who are Christians by the Apostles
precept he being inspired with the same Spirit as the Prophet Jeremy Baruch was who sent an Epistle to the Captive Jews in Babylon to pray unto the Lord for the life of King Nebuchadonozer aâ—…d of his Sons and for the peace of the City to which they were carried Captives because in the peace thereof they should have peace And that upon the same ground the Servants of God ought to pray unto him for the lives of their Kings Princes and their Sons and the peace of their Realms though Pagans that they may the more freely serve God and lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty which they cannot do in times of war and persecution If then this was the constant doctrine practice duty of all the primitive Christians Bishops Ministers Fathers of the Church under their worst bloodiest persecuting Pagan and idolatrous Emperors Kings Princes thus constantly to make supplicationsâ—… prayers intercessions thanksgiving unto God for them and to be most dutifull loyal and submissive to them without the least rebellion insurrection or treachery against them as all these Fathers clearly manifest then much more ought it to be so under their own lawfull hereditary Christian Kings and Princes for which I shall produce some notable presidents in former ages after Emperors and Kings became Christians and imbraced the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the 6. 7. Chapters reserved for a second part CHAP. V. BEfore I proceed to the practice of the Primitive Christians and their successors in all Empires Kingdoms in praying interceding supplicating and giving thanks to God for their Emperors Kings and their royal Progeny whether Orthodox or Heterodox after they became Christians I thought fit to subjoyn the practice even of Pagan Idolatrous Subjects in praying and sacrificing to their Idol Gods for the long life prosperity happy reigns and succession of their Pagan Idolatrous Kings and Emperors and their posterity over them both at their solemn inaugurations their ordinary Addresses to them and upon other occasions and that as well for vitious tyrannical oppressive Kings and Emperors as those who were most just gracious good bountifull and beneficial to the publick I have hinted before p. 14. That the Israelites borrowed their acclamations to and prayers for their first King Saul at his inauguration to the Kingdom from the Heathen Nations round about them who used to cry God save the King O King live for ever at their Coronations and addresses to them and likewise to offer sacrifices and prayers to their Gods for them and their Sons as is evident by Ezra 6. 9 10. c. 7. 21 22 23. compared with Jer. 29. 7. Baruck 1. 10 11 12. which I formerly insisted on To which I shall adde Dan. 2. 4. Where King Nebuchadnezzar sending for all the Magicians Astrologers Sorcerers and Caldeans to interpret his dream when they came and stood before the King and heard his demand they spake thus to the King in Syriack O King live for ever tell thy servants the dream and we will shew the interpretation Dan. 3. 8 9. When King Nebuchadnezzar after this had erected a golden Image and commanded all to fall down and worship it under pain of being cast into the midst of a fiery furnace Certain Caldeans came near and accused the Jews before the King for not worshiping his Gods and the Golden Image he had set up which accusation they thus prefaced They spake and said to the King Nebuchadnezzar O King live for ever Dan. 5. 10. When King Belshazzar was very much terrified with the hand-writing in the wall in the midst of his impious feast which none of his Astrologers Magicians South-sayers and wise men could read or interpret the Queen thereupon came into the Banquet-house and spake and said O King live for ever let not thy thoughts trouble thee nor let not thy countenance be changed c. So Dan. 6. 6. when the Presidents of the Kingdoms Princes Governors Counsellors and Captains of King Darius conspired against Daniel and urged him to make an impious royal Statute that whosoever shall ask a Petition of any God or man for thirty days save only of thee O King he shall be cast into the den of Lions these Presidents and Princes assembled together to the King and said thus unto him King Darius live for ever And v. 20 21. When the King came to the Lions den after Daniel was cast into it to inquire of his safety Then said Daniel unto the King O King live for ever From all which texts it is irrefragable that it was the constant practice of the Persians Babylonians Assyrians and Caldeans and of all their Princes Governors Officers Astrologers South-sayers Queens Wisemen Courtiers Subjects People in all their addresses speeches to their Kings to use this salutation to and prayer for them O King live for ever and therefore much more to pray thus for them in their Temples and to use this acclamation and the like at all their Coronations and publick triumphs Hence Theodoret in his Interpretation on Dan. 5. 10. on these words Rex in saecula or in aeternum vive thus comments Haec autem er at praefatio qua subjecti Kegibus eâ—…s â—…unc salutabant et ad hoc usque tempus hic mos invaluit Quidam enim imperiti Reges eos qui nunc sunt aeâ—…ernos vocare consueverunt in syngraphis quoque commerciorum hoc quidam ascribunt stultitiae magis quà m impietatis damnandi And on Dan. 6 21. He addes Usitatam praefationem Daniel suis ser monibus praeponit videlieet liceat tibi 〈◊〉 diuiâ—…me vivere Etenim in praesenti etiâ—…m 〈◊〉 Reges in commerciorum scriptuâ—… is quidaÌ„ appellare consâ—…everunt Junius Câ—…lvin and others on Dan. 2 3. 5. 6. observe â—…hat O King live for ever was a common salutation and pâ—…ayer used amongst the Caldâ—…ans for fuâ—…ther proof whereof I shall only adde one memorable president which Aelianus Variae Hist. l. 3. c. 32. records It being the cnstom of the Persians alwaies to present their Kings with gifts when they travelled abroad a certain Persian named Sinaeta meeting King Artaxerxes Mnemon far from his House being much troubled in mind that he had nothing to present him with according to the law custom of the Persians he therupon ran to the river Cyruâ—… and taking up a little water in the palms of his hands came and presented it to the King saying O King Artaxerxes live for ever O Rex Artaxerxes regnes in aeâ—…rnum Nunc te prout possâ—…m quomodo possum te munere dono ut non indonatus quantum ad me attinct quantum in me est praetereas Honoro autem te Cyri aquis c. Wherewith the King being greatly delighted sent him an honorable and rich reward To passe from the Persians Babylonians and Chaldeans to the Romans It is evident by the Testimonies of sundry Historians and Fathers that the Idolatrous
Necessities Sicknâ—…ssâ—…s Sufferings Afflictions Temptations because then they need them most as well as private Christians Churches Nations as the marginal Scriptures will abundantly evidence 3. That it is not only unnatural unchristian and inhuman but antichristian tyrannical treasonable if not diabolical and atheistical for any usurped Powers or Innovators whatsoever not only to enforce Subjects against their Loyalty Consciences the Presidents of all Christâ—…ans Pagans and the Pâ—…ecepts of God himself not onlâ—… by unrighteous flagitious Edicts and Engagements tâ—… command and injoyn both Ministers all other Subjects to abjure their former hereditary Kings their Heirs lawful Successors against all Scripture presidents Laws their former Oaths of Fealty Homage Allegiance Supremacy Protestation Vow Leagues Solemn Covenant to be true loyal faithful and obedient Subjects to them their Heirs and Successors and to maintain and defend their Persons Rights Jurisdictions and Crowns with their lives and estates against all attempts conspiracies and machinations whatsoever but to inhibit under severe penalties all publick and private Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings unto God in their behalfs even in their greatest extremities when they stand most in need of them And to commit imprison sequester and cast any Subjects into a Lions den for obeying God herein rather than men as thâ—… High-Priests heretofore committed and imprisoneâ—… the Apostles and the Babylonian Princes and King the Prophet Daniel the extremity of Tyranny Impiety and devilish persecution which God will most severely revenge and recompence in due season 4. That for any professing themselves the chiefest of all Saints and men truly fearing God to obliterate deface remove out of all our Churches Chapels Courts publick Halls places the Arms of their lawful Kings to erect only a bloody Crosse and Irish Harp in their steads and to deleate in some places these sacred Texts of Prov. 24. 21. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King c. 1 Pet. 2. 17. Fear God honour the King and in other places HONOUR the King permitting Fear God to stand alone on the Church walls and other places where they were painted or carved near the Kings Arms and to make such a strange divorce between these 2. sentences which God himself hath united and so strictly conjoyned both in the Old Testament and New That so the Ministers and people might be thereby deterred not only from honoring praying for their Kings as God enjoyns them but induced to cast off the very fear publick worship of God himself provoked at last to say with the despairing Idolatrous revolting 10. tribes of Israel Hos. 10. 3. We have no King because we feared not the Lord what then should King do to us a crime whereof so me swaying Grandees have been deeply guilty in our 3. Kingdoms is in truth the highest strain of Apostacy Irreligion prâ—…fessed Atheism and contempt of God that ever men professing themselves Saints or Christians were guilty of in any age since the Creation And for others of them to say in the very Church and presence of God himself with much passion as one of the sitting Juncto did very lately that the word KING doth so stick in our Ministers mouths and teeth that it will never be well till it be thrust and forced down their throats by force and armed Tyranny only because Mr. Case in his prayer after Sermon at St. Martins Church on the Lords day prayed That God according to his promise and in his own sense and meaning would be graciously pleased to make Kings to become Nursing-Fathers and Queens to be Nursing-Mothers to his Church is such a transcendent strain of Atheistical impiety Antimonarchical malice brutish Tyranny and Barbarity as should make our very hearts and loins to q uake and will certainly draw down the extremity of Gods vengeance on those who are guilty thereof if not on our whole now miserably distracted oppressed and almost ruined Kingdoms if not timely repented of 5ly That Kings and Monarchy are the very best most desirable happyest peaceablest honorablest safest Governors and Governments of all others in the world because in the first place we are commanded obliged by God himself to make supplications intercessions prayers and thanksgivings unto him for them that under them 〈◊〉 live a peaceable and quiet life in all godlinesse and honesty but never for a Commonwealth by name and all Christian Nations in all ages have accordingly practiced it as the premises and second paâ—…t will abundantly demonstrate 6ly That ever since we neglected disused and gave over this publick Christian duty for our just hereditary Kings their heirs successors and royal posterity and have abandoned abjured engaged against them and Kingship we have never had nor enjoyed a quiet and peaceable life in Church or State and have generally abandoned all real godlinesse and honesty which are hardly to be found in any of our 3. Kingdoms especially amongst our Grandees Army-Officers and those refined sublimated Saints of the last edition who most pretend unto them and have done acted voted setled nothing that is good or acceptable in the sight of God the Father or tending towards the Temporal or eternal salvation of all men and reducing them to the knowledge much lesse the practice of the truth but we have been still disquieted vexed oppressed tormented with endless wars tumults revolutions of Governors and Governments intollerable taxes excises losses decay 〈◊〉 trade by Land and Sea errors schismes sects heresieâ—… blasphemies of all sorts and an inundation of all vices sins hypocrisies perjuries treacheries and wickednesses which may hasten our total and final dissolution without any hopes of mercy restauration or future settlement or hearts or wisdom to lay hold of those manifold oppâ—…rtunities which Gods wonder-working providence hath put into our hands to preserve and restore us if timely laid hold on and improved by us for that end 7. That the only ready hopefull christian divine and most effectual means now left and prescribed by God to every private Minister Christian Family Church and our three ruined lacerated distracted Kingdoms to recover and restore their long expected and vainly endeavoured pristine peace quietness settlement trade godliness honesty honor prosperity the saving knowledg power sincere profestion and truth of the Gospel with all other blessings of this and a better life and to put a period to all future wars revolutions tumults oppressions tyrannies taxes heresies blasphemies and Jesuitical designs now threatning ruine both to our Churche Kingdoms Families and Posteâ—…ities is for all and every of them publickly and privately to revive and practise these duties with constancy frequency zeal fervency resolution for our undoubted hereditary King and the royal posterity in their and our greatest distresses according to the premised Commands and Presidents recorded in Scripture by God himself and the Presidents of all Gods Saints and people in former Ages maugre all oppositions or inhibitions of poor
this their obstinate opposition of and rebellion against their Kings Monarchy and Kingship Prov. 24. 21 22. so no doubt He that sitteth in the Heavens if they therein still proceed will laugh at them and their Antimonarchical Votes the Lord shall have them in derision yea he shall speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure He shall break them with a rod of Iron and dash them in pieces like a Potters vessel maugre all their forces votes counsels confederacies and make good those general promises Yet have I set my King upon my holy Hill of Sion Rule thou in the middest of thine enemies The Lord reigneth let the Earth rejoyce let the mulâ—…de of the Isles be glad thereof Yea the Lord reigneth be the pâ—…ple never so impatient He â—…tteth between the Cherâ—…bine be the Earth never so unquie Great deliverance giveth he unto his King and shâ—…th mercy to his Anointed to vid and to his Seed for evermore And that which is most considerable their own transcendent unpresidented tyrannical illegal unrighteous violent proceedings against the whole House of Peers the majority of their own secluded ejected old Fellow-Members the City of London and their Common Council their former chief Supporters whom they have now made the scorn and derision of the World by voting down their Common Council and pulling down their Gates Percullises and Posts before any hearing or Judgement and putting higher affronts upon them after all their former Obligations and the late Kings large Privileges granted to them in the Isle of Weight than ever any Kings of England formerly did or durst attempt Their dis-obliging and dis-carding all or most of those Army-Officers and Souldiers who first created them a Parliament without a King or House of Lords and restored them to their present power in May last and engaging others of them in such displeasing services as do render them odious for the present and infamous to posterity Their exasperating the generality of the Nobility Gentry Ministers and Commons of our three Kingdoms against them by their peremptory denyal to admit and forcible seclusion and voting out the old secluded Members the Majority of the House to monopolize all Parliamentary power and Offices into their own hands and refusing the convening of a free and full Parliament without prelimitations to settle our Distractions according to the general Desires and Addresses of most Counties and Cities of the Kingdom and imprisoning some worthy Gentlemen Swordmen only for presenting at their Counties requests these their Desires in Letters directed to their Speaker and unjustly refusing to bayl them upon Habcas Corporaes in Courts where they sit both as Members and Judges and Parties which none ever did before thereby leaving the subjects in greater Vassalage than ever they sustained under the late King whom they branded and beheaded as the worst of all Tyrants And yet doubling and trebling their Taxes in their exhausted condition and losse of all Trade for those very 6. Months space for which they were taxed and forced to pay in before hand by them without their Common consent in Parl dâ—…ring their Representatives forcible seclusion against their own Act Oct. 11. 1659. contrary to all their former late Declarations no Kings of Englâ—…nd having been so extra vagant arbitrary unjust oppressive in their Governments and proceedings as they have been and that in the very midst of their own private sears and unsettlement and our publick dangers after all the late vast expences of blood and treasure to maintain our Laws Liberties Propertys against all arbitrary and tyrannical powers nor yet daring to attempt against their Subjects what they have boldly acted against their fellow Members and the People whom they once voted the Sovereign power of the Nation whose servants not Lords they pretend themselves which desperate violences oppressions and extravagances without any hopes of ease peace liberty or settlement will render our Kings and Kingshiâ—… more amiable and desirable than ever and more promote and accelerate their restitution than all Royallists Counsels and endeavours whatsoever in wise mens Judgements Cum duplicantur lateres Venit Moyses 1 Tim. 1. 17. Now unto the King eternal immortal invisible the only wise God be Honor and Glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS ERRATA p. 4. l. 24. last r. middle p. 43. l. 19. 500 r. 300. p. 68. l. 31. discis â—… dejicis l. 34. r. dolori p. 77. l. 32. dele si p. 78. l. 1. r. orationis l. 19. nuncupari l. 34. Antoninus Margin P. 78. l. 9. Antoninus l. 10. P. 10 â—… 49. THE SECOND PART OF THE Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and Pious Christians under the Gospel especially in this our Island towards their Christian Kings Emperors Whether Orthodox or Heterodox Virtuous or Vicious Protestants or Papists Protectors or Persecutors ever since their KINGS and EMPERORS first became CHRISTIAN till this present Expressed in and Evidenced by their publike and private Supplications Prayers Intercessions Thanksgivings OPTIONS Acclamations for their long life Health Safety Prosperity Victory over Enemies temporal spiritual and eternal Felicity peaceable just glorious reign over them c. And likewise for their Queens Children Royal Posterity Realms Armies Counsels Officers Largely manifested both in point of Theory and Practice in a Chronological method by Fathers Councils Ecclesiastical Histories Liturgies Missals Books of publike and private Prayers Poems Panegyricks Epistles Records Charters and Authors of all sorts and ages Together with the various Forms of Prayers Supplications Collects Votes and Acclamations used at the Coronations of Emperors and Kings especially of our ancient and late Kings of England and Scotland not hitherto published By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Psal. 133. 1. Lord remember David and all his afflictions Psal. 46. 6 7. Sing Prayses unto our God sing prayses sing Praises unto our King sing praises For God is the King of all the Earth sing ye Praises with understanding 2 Sam. 19 14 15 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah even as one man so as they sent this word unto the King Return thou and all thy servants So the King returned and came to Jordan and all Judah came to Gilgal to go to meet the King to conduct the King over Iordan LONDON Printed by T. Childe and L. Parry and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1660. THE SECOND PART OF THE Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and pious Christians towards their KINGS HAving lately presented the world with the first part of the Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and Pious Christians as likewise of Idolatrous Pagans towards their Kings and Emperors both before and under the Law and also under the Gospel whiles their Emperors and Kings were Idolaters and Ethnicks expressed both by their private and publick Supplications
Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings unto God by their Votes Acclamations unto themselves others for their health safety long-life temporal spiritual and eternal felicity whether they were Good or Bad Orthodox or Heterodox Protectors or Persecutors in 5. distinct Chapters I shall now by Gods assistance proceed to the constant practice of Christians under the Gospel in this kind after their Kings and Emperors became Christians professing the Gospel of Jesus Christ whether their Kings and Emperors were gracious and Religious vitious or impious Orthodox or Erronious beginning with the Kings of our own Island and presenting you with presidents of this kind both in forein Prelates and Clergy-men as well as in their Domestick Christian Subjects of all sorts our British Island producing the first Christian King Queen and Emperor in the world and the first presidents of private and publick Supplications Prayers Intercessions and thanksgivings for them unto God and Votes Acclamations for their safety health life and prosperity as they were Christian. CHAP. VI. THe very first Christian King professing the Christian Religion under the Gospel mentioned in History is Lucius King of the Britons reigning in this our Island this King Anno Christi 156. as Radulphus Baldoc the Chronicle of Gisburn the antient Manuscript D. primo statu Landavensis Ecclesiae and Bishop Usher out of them relate sending two Embassadors to Pope Elutherius most earnestly and devoutly intreating him That by his command and will he might be made a Christian This Pope thereupon granting his request Gratias agens Deo suo c. giving thanks to his God and singing Glory be to God on high for joy that this King and Nation who had continued Gentiles from the first peopling of the Island by Brute did so ardently hasten to the faith of Christ sending Eluan and Meduin to convert them After which this King Lucius in the year 179. or sooner as some or in the year 185. or later as others think it writing a Letter to Pope Elutherius to send him a Copy of the Imperial Laws to govern his Nation by them this Pope in the conclusion of his Epistle in Answer to the Kings Letter inserted this devout Prayer unto God in his behalf Det vobis omnipotens Deus c. Almighty God grant you so to rule the Kingdom of Britain that you may reign for ever with him whose â—…car you are in the Realm aforesaid If this Pope though a forein Prelate thus prayed to God for this first Christian King no doubt his own Christian Bishops Ministers whom he endowed with ample possessions and maintenance and his Christian Subjects in their private and publick Prayers and Devotions to God and in their Epistles and Addresses to him did much more imitate his example in pursuit of the Apostles precept 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. as all the Primitive Christians did even for their Pagan Kings and Emperors as I have evidenced in the precedent Chapters though we find no expresse mention thereof in our British Histories The first Christian Queen in the world was Helena Daughter of King Coel whose Son Constantine the Great born and first created Emperor in our Island of Britain was the first Roman Emperor who publickly professed the Christian faith and instituted publick Prayers to be made unto God by his Souldiers People and Subjects whether Christians or Ethnicks for himself his Sons and his Posterity who constantly powred forth their Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings unto God for his life health safety victories and successes as well in this our Island as in all other places of his Empire as these passages of Eusebius who lived in his Court and flourished under him will aboundantly evidence This Godly Christian Emperor Constantine before his Battel with the persecuting Tyrant Licinius dedicated a certain vacant time to powr forth Prayers to our Saviour Christ in the tabernaâ—…le of the Crosse which he fixed far remote from his Camp where afflicting his body with fasting and abstinence he powred out Prayers Supplications to God to reconcile him to himself and become his gracious Protector In which Duty he imployed certain Persons whom he reputed eminent both for faith and piety to joyn with and assist him in the performance thereof as he usually did upon other occasions before every battel with the enemy After which having vanquished Licinius and by his death obtained the sole power and government over the Roman Empire Omnes ubique victorem hymnis celebrabant Tum choreis hymnis primum Deum summum omnium regem esse praedicarunt deindè victorem Constantinum ejusque fâ—…os modestissimos Deoque charos Caesares acclamationibus continuis extulerunt After which this Godly Emperor to excite his Subjects to Prayers was portrayed in all his Coyns Statues standing upright with his eyes looking up and his hands stretched forth and elevated towards Heaven as if he were praying prescribed all his Legions and Soldiers as well Pagans as Christians this set form of Prayer in the Roman tongue which they were to use and recite every Lords day in their daily prayers with their hands and eyes lifted up to Heaven unto God the Giver oâ—… all good thiâ—…gs and Author of victory Te solum Deum agnoscimus c. We acknowledge thee to be God alone we professe thee to be King we invocate thee our helper by thee we have obtained victories by thee we have overcome Enemies from thee we confâ—…sse we have received present hope that we shall obtain future felicity Tui omnes supplices sumus abs te petimus ut Constantinum Imperatorem nostrum unà cum piis ejus liberis quà m diutissime nobis salvum victorem conserves We are aâ—…l Supplicants unto thee We all request from thee that thou wouldest conserve our Emperor Constantine together with his pious Children safe and victorious to us for many generations or as long as possible may be or for ever Ejusmodi ferè Sanciebat a Militibus solis die fieri talesque ab eis voces in diurnis Precibus adhiberâ—… Which prayers no doubt were used in this our Island of Britain where he was born and crowned by his Soldiers and other Subjects for him and his royal posterity as well as in other places the Churches and Christians then in Britain concurring both in their Doctrine and Practice with the Churches in Rome Italy Aphrick Aegypt Spain France Lybia Greece Asia Pontus and Cilicia as Constantine himself records in his Epistle to all Churches concerning the affairs of the Council of Nice Anno 330. But of this more in the next Chapter It is the Observation of Thomas Rudburne the History of Winton Church and Bishop Usher out of them Orationes ac deprecationes justorum assiduae cum multum valeant apud justum judicem Deum ascenderunt lacrymae suorum fidelium in conspectu conditoris altissimi sedatum est gravissimae persecutoris ac
Christ and commending himself Sanctae matris Ecclâ—…siae precibus to the â—…rayers of his holy Mother the Church and particularly to the Prayâ—…s of St. Gâ—…blac the Confessor and Anchorite Whence a Poet'thus writ of him Ethelbaldus c. Dret pro nobis sanctissimus iste Sacerdos Guthlacus Ad tumbam cujus haec mea dona dedi A câ—…ear evidence that the Churches and Ministers of Christ in England did then constantly pray for their Christian Kings who specially recommended themselves to their prayers Our venerable and most learned Beda doth very much p esse this Duty of Prayer for Kings though Pagans and Persecutors from sundry Texts of Scripture on which he comments In his Expositiones allegoricae in Ezram l. 2. c. 7. Et offerant oblationes Deo Coeli Orenâ—…que pro vita Regis et Filiorum ejus He thus comments Offerunt autem ea Sacer dotes iidem pro vita Regis et Filiorum ejus jâ—…xta illud Apâ—…stoli 1 Tim. 2. Obsecro igitur primò omnium fieri obsecrationes orationes postulationes gratiarum actiones pro omnibus hominibus pro Regiâ—…ns omnibus qui in sublimitate sunt ut quietam tranquillam vitam agamus c. And in his Fxposition on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Tom. 7. p. 708 709 710. he recites and approves the passages of St. Aâ—…gustin at large recited in the next Chapter commanding Prayers Supplications Intercessions and Thanksgivings to be made not only for Christian and pious Kings but even for â—…agans and Idolaters though vitious though Persecutors of the Gospel and fincere Professors thereof Our famous Council of Clovâ—…sho under Archbishop Cuthbert Anno Dom. 747. cap. 30. De orando pro Rege decreed 〈◊〉 deinceps per â—…anonic as Orationum horâ—… non solum pro se Ecclesiastici sive Monasteriales sed etiam pro Regibus ac Ducibus totiusque populi Christiani incolumitate Divinam incessanâ—…èr exorent clementiam quatenus Duictam et Tranquillam Uitam sub corum pia defensione mereantur agere Et ut ita post haec unanimes existerent in Deum fide spe caritate seipsos invicem diligerent etiam post hujus peregrinationis pericula ad supernam pervenire pariter mereanter patriam The reason of making this Canon for incessant Prayers for Kings Dukes and Princes is thus expressed in the preceding part thereof that there was a scandal and suspition raised amongst the Priests of God inferiour Clergy that they had an ill opinion of Kings Dukes and Princes as too many have now Hoc est quod Reges cum Ducibus Principibus suis ac deindâ—… minoris potetestatis persuasi plurimi de eis dicere soleant quod non tantum sincero eos non diligant affectu sed insuper eorum bonis praeâ—…entibus ac prosperitatibus quibusque foelicioribus magis invideant animo nimis infesto quà m devoto satis congaudeant corde eorum que conversationis statum Odibili quadam detractatione dilacerare non desinant A very good ground to revive and re-enforce this Duty both on Ministers and people now Ut horis canonicis Prâ—…ces fiant pro Regibus as the Margin of this Canon prescribes as well as the body thereof Boniface Archbishop of Mentz an Englishman by birth thus inscribes and begins his 19. Epistle to our King Ethilbald Domino charissimo in Christi amore caeteris Regilus praeferendo inclyta Anglorum imperii sceptra guâ—…ernanti Ethilbaldo Regi Bonifacius c. Wera Burckart Warbeth Abel Wilibald Coepiscopi Perennem in Christo charitatis salutem Confitemur coram Deo sanctis Angelis quia quamcumque prosperitatem vestram video opera bona Dee coram hominiâ—…us per nuncios fideles audivimus quod inter gaudentes et pro vobis orantes gratias agimus Deo postulantes et obsecrantes Salvatorem nostrum ut vos sospites et in side stabiles et in operibus coram Deo rectos in Principatu Christiani populi longo tempore custodiat And King Ethilbert thus closeth his Epistle to Boniface the Archbishop who prayed for him in those times Orantem pro Nobis beatitudinem tuam longaevam divina pietas faciat His 14. Epistle to Pippin King of France begins thus Câ—…lsitudinis vestrae clementiae magnas gratias agamus et Dominum Iesum Christum precantes ut vobis in regno Coelorum aeternam mercedâ—…m retribuat Most of his and Luâ—…us his Successors Epistles conclude with Prayers Cenewlphus King of the East-Saxons with his Bishops and Nobles in their Epistle to Lâ—…llus Successor to this Boniface as they pray for him so they likewise entreat him and his Clerks to pray to God for them in theiâ—… Congregation Ut pro nostra parvitate proque â—…ace congregationis nostrae Domino supplicare cum eis qui tecum invocant nomen Domini Iesu memineris Omnipotens Deus qui dispersa congregat congregata â—…stodit ipse vos sua gratia protâ—…gat et vâ—…stri laboris fructum in aeterna patria nos 〈◊〉 concedat The renowned Council of Calchuth held in the year 787. under Alfwold King of Northum 〈◊〉 and Offa King of Mercians their Prelates and Nobles and Pâ—…pe Adrians two Legates Grâ—…gory and Thâ—…ophylact c. 12. De Ordinatione honore Regum amongst other things prescribed constant Prayers for and subjection to Kings prohibiting all Treasons and Conspiracies against them in these words and from these Scriptures Scitore quia Dominus dominator est in regno hominum ipsius est regnum cuicuâ—…que voluerit dabit illud Ideo Omnes generaliter admonuimus ut consona voce et corde Dominum rogent ut qui eum eligit in Regnum ipse ei tribuat regimen Disciplinae sanctae suae ad regendam plebem suam Honor quoque eis ab omnibus impendatur dicente Apostolo Regem â—…onoroficate alibi sive Regi quaâ—…i praecellenti five Ducibus tanquam ab co missis ad vindictam maleâ—…actorum laudem verò bonorum Item Apostolus Omnis anima sublimioribus potestatious subdita sit quia non est potestas data nisi 〈◊〉 Deo Qâ—…ae autem sunt à Deo ordinata sunt Igitur qui 〈◊〉 potestati Dei ordinationi resistit qui autem resistâ—…nt ipsi â—…ibi damnationem acquirunt Nulius Regi detrahat dicente Salomone in ore tuo ne detraxeris Regi in corde tuo ne maledixeâ—… 〈◊〉 Principiâ—… quia aves Coeli portant illud qui habet pennam aâ—…ntiabit verbum In necem Regis Nemo communicare audeat quia Christus Domini est Et si quis tali sceleri adhaeserit si Episcopus est aut ullus ex Sacerdotali gradu ex ipso detrudatur et â sancta haereditate dejiciatur sieut Judas ex Apostolico gradu ejectus est omnis quisquis tali sacrilegio assenserit aeterno anathematis vinculo
manibus Apostolus consecrasset unxisset in Regem monita salutis adjecit praecipuèque caelibem vitam commendans quot esset annos regnaturus aperuit Obstupefactus Praesul tanti novitate miraculi petit sibi à sancto visionis hujus mysterium revelari de statu insuper regni instantis fine periculi apostolicum exegit oraculum Tune sanctus vultu placido intuens intuentem Domini inquit o Praesul Domini est regnum ipse dominatur in filiis hominum Ipse transfert regna mutat imperia propter peccata populi regnare facit hypocritam Peccatum pecca vit populus tuus Domino tradidit eos in manus Gentium dominati sunt etiam qui oderunt eos Sed non obliviscitur misereri Deus nec continebit in ira sua misericordias suas Erit enim cum dormis cum patribus tuis sepultus in senectute bona visitabit Dominus populum suum faciet redemtionem plebis suae Eliget enim sibi virum secundum cor suum qui faciet omnes voluntates suasâ—… qui me opitulante regnum adeptus Anglorum Danico furorâ—… finem imponet Erit enim acceptus Deo gratus hominibus amabilis civibus terribilis hostibus utilis Ecclesiae Qui cum praescriptum terminum regnandi in justicia pace compleverit laudabilem vitam sancto fine concludet Quae omnia in beato Edwardo completa rei exitus comprobavit Expergefactus Pontifex rursus ad preces lacrymasque convertitur et licet faelicit a tem suae gentis non esset ipse visurus de malorum tamen fine certus effectus gratias agens Deo plurimum gratulabitur Factus igitur animaequior populis paenitentiam praedicabat quibus Deus misericordiam non defutur am constantissimè pollicebatur Most of our Historians record That St. Peter in this vision shewed Edward the Confessor to Bryghtwold whiles he was an exile in Normandy and anointed him King in his sight declaring to him the honesty of his life and peaceablenesse of his Reign which should continne for 22. years space After which he inquiring of St. Peter who should succeed him received this comfortable Answer from him worthy our confideration REGNUM ANGLIAe EST REGNUM DEI IPSE SIBI REGES PROVIDEBIT as he hath done ever since and that especially by the constant Prayers Supplications and Intercessions of the Ministers Clergy and people of the Realm in all Ages Queen Emma Mother of King Edward the Confessor being falsly accused of Incontinency with Aldwin Bishop of Winchester and other crimes and enforced to make her purgation in Winchester Church by going barefoot over 9. plough-shares red hot the King her Son Nobles Bishops and People resorting thither upon this occasion When the Queen was led to this torment between 2. Bishops only Totius populi clerique quasi una voce ululantis S. Swithinum invocantis exclamantis S. Swithine libera eam maximus fletus paene ad â—…oelos elatus est tantusque clamoris sonitus vocibus viribusque omnium factus est ut S. Swithinus vel ilico sine mora vel nunquam occurreret ut tonitrua reboantia superavit credebant enim illa sua vociferatione Deum ipsum vim pati coactumque servum suum Suithinum quaâ—… violenter extractum à coelo ad liberandam Reginam dimissurum After which strong fervent united Prayers and cries of the People and Clergy to God for her the Queen miraculously passed over all these Plough-shares which she pressed with the weight of her whole Body without seeing the Iron or feeling the burning or receiving the least hurt thereby King Edw. the â—…onfessor having founded and endowed the Church of St. Peter of Westminster with sundry Lands and privileges amongst other ends pro animabus Regum tam Successorum quam Praedecessorum meorum omnium parentum meorum et pro pace ae tranquillitate Regni mei et prosperitate totius Anglorum Popult for all which the Monks thereof were to make contiuual Prayers Supplications and Intercessions unto God Pope Nicholas thereupon confirmed by his Bull the privileges which the King had granted to this Church by his Charters which Bull begins with this Salutation and proceeds with this Thanksgiving and Prayer for him unto God Nicâ—…olaus Episcopus servus servorum Dei gloriosissimo piissimo omnique honore dignissimo speciali quoque filio nostro Edwardo Anglorum Regi visitationem omnimodam salutem mellifluam et benedictionem Apostolicam Omnipotenti Deo referrimus grates qui vestram prudentissimam Excellentiam in omnibus ornavit ac decoravit erga beatum Petrum c. Orantes misericordiam illius qui est Dominus omnium ef Rex super omnia solus ut ipse participem vos faciat ex omnibus si qua sunt coram Deo bonis operibus nostris fratres nos soâ—…ios in dilectione constituat in omni tempore amplius acnon minorem partem nostri obsequii reconsignet in suo regno quà m nobismetipsis provenire optamus Erimus ettam deinceps pro vobis sine dubio orantes assidue ut ipse Deus vobis subjiciat Hostes et Inimicos qui contra vos voluerint insurgere et confirmet vos in paterno solio ac propria Haereditate a most seasonable Prayer for our present exiled hereditary King as well as for King Edward the Confessor who after above 25. years dispossession of the Crown by the tyrannical invading Danish 〈◊〉 was by their deaths restored to the â—…rown in peace by his Subjects without the least effâ—…sion of blood for which mercy here-paired and re-founded this Abby as his first Charter to it recites Uestro desiderio voluntati Omnipotens Deus praestet effectum et conâ—…met vobis paterni Regni Imperium et tribuat Incâ—…ementum et post praesentis vitae Decursum perducaâ—… ad aeternum permanentis Gloriae Imperium This King in his Epistle to this Pope to confirm these privileges recorded by Ailredus hath this passage concerning Peter-pence which engaged the Pope particularly to pray for him and his Realm Ego quoque pro modulo meo augeo confiâ—…mo donationes consuetudines peâ—…uniarum quas sanctus Petrus habet in Anglia ipsas pecunias collectas cum Regalibus donis mitto vobis ut oretis pro me et pro pace Regni mei et continuam eâ—… sollempnem memoriam instituatis totius Gentis Anglicae coram corporibus sanctorum Apostolorum And if the Pope thus prayed continually for this King his Realm and People upon this account no doubt his own Bishops Clergy and other Subjects did much more do it King William the first in his Charter of confirmation of Lands and Liberties to the Church of Derherst Anno 1069. granted them by King Edward the Confessor his Predecessor that they might pray pro salute animae meae omniumque liberorum nostrorum Quatenus Nos Soboles nostri ipsius
sancti Dionysii precibus sociorumque ejus adipisci mereamur prosperum praesentis vitaestatum aeternae stationis portum King William Rufus by several Charters granted and confirmed Lands and Liberties to the Abbies and Priories of Bermondesey Tavystock and Saint Mary Magdalen in Barnestable pro salute animae meae et Antecessorum meorum pro anima Patris mei Willielmi Regis et matris meae ipsiusque mei to be obtained by the Prayers of the Monks and religious persons in these Houses King Henry the first by sundry Charters during his reign granted and confirmed sundry Lands and Liberties to the Abbies Priories and Churches of Malverne Colum Bermondsey Lenton Thetford Mountacute St. Andrews Northampton Barnstaple and others besides to pray pro salute râ—…demptione animae meae pro animabus Patris mei Willielmi Regis Anglorum matris et fratris mei Willielmi Regis et pro Successorum meorum salute pro pace et stabtliâ—…ate Regni et pro salute et incolumitate filii mei Gulielmi pro salute et incolumitate mei ipsius et statu Regni mei pro animabus AntecessoruÌ„ meorum To which end they constantly made Prayers for them And Wâ—…lliam Peverel one of his Subjects pro divini cultus amâ—…re communi remedio animarum Dominorum meorum Willielmi â—…egis et uxoris ejus Matildis Reginae et filii eorum Willielmi Regis et omnium parentum suorum et meorum Necnon eâ—… pro salute Domini mei Henrici Regis et uxoris ejus Matildae Reginae et filii eorum Willielmi et filiae eorum Maâ—…ildis pro statu quoque Regni sui Necnon et pro salute animae meae et uxoris meae et filii mei Willielmi et omnium liberorum meorum pia devotione et devota largitione offero Deo et Ecclesiae Gluniacensi c. It being usual both in that and succeeding Ages for Subjects and Officers to our Kings to endow Monasteries and Churches with Lands to pray for the spiritual and temporal prosperity of the Persons Souls and Realms of their Kings Queens their Sons Children and Successors in the first place as well as for their own Souls Wives Childrâ—…ns and Posterities mentioned only in the second and last place in their Charters and Endowments of which there are many Presidents in the first and second parts of Monasticon Anglicanum collected by Mr. Roger Dodsworth and Mr. William Dugdale to whom I refer the Reader for fuller satisfaction * Pope Pascal the first in his Epistle to K. Henry the 〈◊〉 touching the Liberties of the Church of Ely as he begins his Epistle with Salutem et Apostolicam benedic so he thus ends it Omnipotens Deus Apostolorum suorum precibus et vos et prolem vestram custodiat et caelestâ—… post terrenum vobis regnum concedat The like he doth in his Epistles to him concerning Archbishop Anselme concluding one of them in these words Ipse Omnipotens Deus in cujus manu corda sunt Regum assit hortatui nostro assit auditui tuo ut juxta praecepta ejus tuas disposueris actiones ipse Regnum tuum pacis et honoris sui stabilitate ac subliminatione disponant Amen He closeth other of his Epistle to him thus Dominus te misericordia sua in potentia et probitate custodiat et a terrena ad coeleste regnum perducat Amen Again Haec si feceris pro te Dominum ipso adjuvante exorarâ—… curabimus et de peccatis tam tui quà m conjugis tuae sanctorum Apostolorum meritis absolvimus Goffridus Abbas Vindocinensis in France in his Epistolaâ—…um l. 5. Epist. 17. to King Henry the 1. of England hath this prayer for and profession of his constant fidelity to him Clarissimo Duci Normannorum et praecellentissimo Regi Anglorum Henrico carissimo Domino praecordiali amico Frater Goffridus Vindocinensis Abbas in presenti prospere semper et feliciter vivere et in futuro manere cum Rege Angelorum Vâ—…strae magnitudini dulâ—…issime Pater et Domine significavi iter nostrum Et quia vobis sensi esse contrarium itineris statim mutavi propositum Vester itaque servus testis est mihi Deus in vestra Fidelitate remaneo in qua quandiu vixero Indesinenter permanebo Quod quando et quomodo Exceâ—…entiae vestrae placuerit secundum meum posse operibus comprobabo Ualeat Dominus meus Rex et vigeat quem omnipotens Deus ab omni adverâ—…tate defendat et tribuat ei quod bene desiderat Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury begins his Epistles to this King Henry during his exile thus Suo reverendo Domino Henrico Regi Anglorum Anselm Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus fidele Servicium cum orationibus fideles orationes cum fideli sevicio And concludes them thus Omnipotens Deus sic regnet in â—…orde vestro ut vos per eundem regnetis in gratia ejus Omnipotens Deus sic in hoc et in aliis actibus vestris dirigv ac vestrum secundum voluntatem suam ut post hanc vitam perducat Vos ad gloriam suam Amen In his Commentary and Exposition on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. He presseth the Duty of praying for Kings though Pagans and Persecutors in these words Hujusmodi preces siant pro omnibus hominibus c. Et pro illis etiam de quibus minus videbatur id est Pro Regibus licet sint mali et sanctis infesti pro omnibus qui in sublimitate secularium potestatum positi sunt sicut Consules et Dâ—…ces quia de omni genere hominum convertentur ad religionem et perveniant ad salutem et de eis qui fastu et elatione secularis potentiae fidem et humilitatem videntur abhorrere â—…cut cernimus Quod ipst Reges desertis Idolis pro quibus persequebantur Christianos unum verum Deum cognoverunt et colunt et ideo pro illis orandum fuit cum etiam persequerentur Ecclestam ad hoc etiam orandum est pro Principibus ut nos qui sub illis sumus vitam agamus quietam a persecutione ut conversis Principibus Gentiles non audeant inquietare nos movendo persecutiones pro impietate idolatriae nec haeretici tranquillitatem nostram turbare praesumant volentes corrumpere castitatem fidei quorundam In pace Principum quies et regnum servatur Ecclesiarum Nam in bellis et discordiis eorum dissipatur tranquillitas tepefcit pietas solvitur Disciplina vel districtio Qua soluta infirmiorum castitas violatur Et ideo pro his orandum est ne eveniant haec per dissentionem Principum Unde et per Jeremiam Dominus Judaeis qui in Babylone captivitenebantur praecepit dicens Quaerite pacem civitatis ad quam transmigrare â—…os fecit et orate pro ea ad Dom. quia in pace illius erit par vâ—…bis Babylon vero quae dicitur confusio SocietateÌ„ iniquorum
the 8th father of the high and mightie Princesse offamous memorie Elizabeth late Queen of England In confideration whereof albeit we your Majesties lâ—…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 Majâ—…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 adorâ—…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 affâ—…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 Mâ—…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 mighâ—…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 biâ—…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
us not unto us Lord but to thy Name be ascribed all honour and glorie in all Churches of the Saints throughout all generations for thou Lord hast discovered the snâ—…s of death thou hast broken them and we are delivere d be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our cruel Enemies which delight in blood infatuate their Counsel and root out their Babylonish and Antichristian sect which say of Ierusalem down with it even to the ground And to that end strengthen the hands of our gracious King the Nobles and Magistrates of the Land with Iudgement and Iustice to cut off â—…hese Workers of Iniquity whose Religion is Rebellion whose Faith is Faction whose Practise is murthering of Souls and Bodies and to root them out of the confines and limits of this Kingdom that they may never prevail against us and triumph in the ruine of thy Chuâ—…h and give us grace by true and serious repenâ—…ance to avert these and the like Judgements from us This Lord we earnestlie crave at thy mercifull hands togetheâ—… with the countenance of thy powerfull protection over our bread Soveraign the whole Church and these Realms and the speedie confusion of our implacable Enemies and that for thy dear Sons sake our onlie mediator and advocate II. ALmighty God and heavenly Father which of thy everlasting providence and tender mercy towards us hast prevented the extreme malice and mischievous imagination of our ensmies revealing and conâ—…nding their horrible and devilish enterprise plotted against our Soveraign Lord the King his Royal House and the whole Sâ—…ate of this Realm for the subversion thereof together with the truth of thy Gospel and pure Religion amongst us and for the reducing of Popish Superstition and tyranny into this Church and land we most humbly prayse and magnifie thy glorious name for thine infinite gracious goodnesse in this our marvellous Deliverance we confesse it was and is thy mercy thy mercy alone most mercifull Father that we are not consâ—…med that their snare is broken and our Soul is escaped For our sins cryed to Heaven against us and our iniquities justly called for judgement upon us but thy great mercy towards us hath exalted it self above judgement not to deal with us after our sins to give us over as we deserved to be a prey to our enemies but taking our correction into thine own hands to deliver us from their blood-thirsty malice and preserve from death and destruction our King and Statâ—… with thy Gospel and true Religion amongst us Good Lord give us true repentâ—…nce and unfeigned conversion unto thee to prevent further judgements increase us more and more in lively Faith and fruitfull love in all obedience that thou mayest continue thy loving favour with the light of thy Gospol to us and our Posterity for evermore Make us now and alwaies truely thankfull in heart word and deed for all thy gracious mercies and this our special deliverance Protect and defend our Soveraign Lord the King with the Queen and all the Royal Progeny from all treasons and conspiracies preserve them in thy faith fear and love under the shadow of thy wings against all evil and wickednesse prosper their reign with long happinesse on earth and everlasting glory following in the Kingdom of Heaven Bless the whole State and Realm with grace and peace that with one heart and mouth we may praise thee in thy Church and alwaies sing joyfully that thy mercifull kindness is ever more and more towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever through Jesus Christ oâ—…r only Saviour and Redeemer Amen III. ETernal God and our most mighty Protector we thy people of this Land confesse our selves above all the Nations of the earth infinitely bound unto thy heavenly Majesty for thy many unspeakable benefits conferred and heaâ—…ed upon us especially for planting thy Gospel among us and placing over us a most gracious King a faithfull Professor and Defendor of the same both which exasperate the enemies of true Religion and enrage their thoughts to the invention of most dreadfull designs all which notwithstanding it hath pleased thee bitherto either to prevent or overthrow at this time principally thou hast most strangely discovered an horrible and cruel plot and device for the massacring as well of thy dâ—…ar Servant and our dread Soveraign as of the chief States assembled in thy fear for the continuance of thy truth and good of this Realm We humbly present ourselves at thy feet admiring thy might and wisedom and acknowledging thy grace and favour in preserving them and the whole Realm by their safety beseeching thee for thy Son Iesus Christ his sake to continue still thy care over us and to shield our gracious King under the shadow of thy wings that no mischievous attempt may come near nor the Sons of wickednesse may hurt him but that under him we may still enioy this his peaceable Government with the profession of the Gospel of thy Son Iesus Christ to whom with thee and the holy Ghost c. IV. O God infinit in power and of endless mercy we give thee all possible thanks since it hath pleased thee so miraculously to discover and defeat the mischievous plots of thine and our Enemies thou hast delivered our dread Soveraign from the snares of the Fowler and his Nobles from the fire of the fury of the wicked he shall rejoyce in thy Salvation and we his People shall tryumph in this thy wonderfull Deliverance thy Gospel shall prosper and thine Adversaries shall be confounded And multiply good Lord we beseech thee thy great goodnesse towards our gracious King and his Kingdoms from this time forth through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen After this Deliverance from this horrid Powder-plot there were these 2. forms of Prayers used in the Commons House by the Speakâ—…rs during the Parliaments session very seasonable for our times wherein they expressed their Loyalty and Devotion to the King and his Royal Progeny A Prayer used by the Speaker of the Commons House of Parliament I. O GOD most great and glorious which dwellest in the Heavens over all yet humblest thy self to behold the things that are done upon the earth we the people and sheep of thy pasture assembled by thy providence to the performance of this high service whereupon the honour of thy name the beauty of thy Church amongst us the glory of the King and wealth of our State doth depend knowing that without thee we can do nothing do at this time with fear and reverence in the beginning of our consultations first look up unto thee from whom wisedom and happie successe doth come praying thee to look down upon us who first look up unto thee from whom wisdom and happie successe doth come praying thee to look down from Heaven upon us with the eye of thy mercy to draw near unto us with the presence of thy grace to prepare us all with counsel and understanding and to be President and Director of
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 Mâ—…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 beseeâ—…h and defend all Christian Kings Princes and Governors and Speciaâ—…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 Sereâ—…ssimum Ecclesiae et Britaniis Imperpetuum sospitet beatissime The 3 is most learned renowned and pious Archbishop Ushâ—…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 â—…ibi det prolixam imperium securum domum tutam exercitus â—…rtes Senatum fidelem populum probum Veteris Ecclesiae pro Imperatoribus sâ—…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
preces fundentibus Deus ipsi sanitatem restituit adeo â—…t viribus et sanitate melius quam antca gauderet as Eutichyus or Addit 〈◊〉 à mandatum ut statas solitasque pro Imperatore preâ—…s ad Deum funderemus Christianos Christiana sua templa exaedifieare rem maturare consueta Officia in illis facere Preces pro Imperii statu fundere he publishing 2. Edicts in the Christians behalf Undè Christiani hac indulgentiâ—… concessa devincti Debent Deo suo obnixe supplicare pro nostra pro Reipublicae pro sua ipsorum salute ut quoviâ—… modo cum publicâ—…s rerum stotus integer incolumis retineatur tum ipsi in suis familiis absque câ—…ra sollicitudâ—…e vitam traducere queant as Eusebius Nicepborus record the story Lo here this persecuting bloodie Pagan Emperor restored to his perfect health by the Prayers of the Christians whom he slew imprisoned persecuted in his health yet behold his desperate ingratitude both to God and them Ille verò ubi sanitati restitutus convaluisset ad majorem impietatis gradum quà m antea prolapsus in omnes ditiones suâ—… scribens Christianos occidi jussit ne professionis ejus quispiam in Imperio ejus relinqueretur neve urbem aut oppidum incolere sinerentur sed penitus extirparentur Interfecti sunt ergo è Christianis qua viri qua feminae qua pueri plures quà m numer ari possint adeo vt prae occisorum multitudine Plaustris delati in mari in deserto projicerentur But God soon after smote him with an ulcer in his Bowels which tortured him extremely corroded and eat out his Bowels caused his verie eyes to fall out of his head upon the ground burnt up his Flesh which was severed from his bones so as he perished by a most miserable death confessing that God had deservedlie punished him in this sort for his madnesse and rashness against Christ and his Members Constantine the Great born and declared Emperor first of all in this our Island of Britain the first professed Christian of all the Roman or other Emperors in the World about the year of our Lord 310. having conquered this Tyrant Mâ—…ximinianus in the field he and the Christians sang prayses unto God for his great victorie in the words of Moses and the Israelites after Pharaoh his overthrow Exodus 15. 1 to 22. After which entring into Rome in tryumph with great pomp he was there received by all the people both men women and children Senators and other Noble persons running out by Troops to meet him with joyfull countenances willing minds happy acclamations and unsatiable joy as their Deliverer the Conservatour of their Countrie and most benign Patron But he as one having the fear of God naturally residing in his mind not pâ—…ed up with these triumphant acclamations and popular applauses nor yet with the Proclamation of his prayses yet very conscious of the ayd given him from God commanded immediatelie that the Banner of our Saviours passion should be â—…et in the hand of his statue Which being set up in the most famous place in Rome holding the sign of the Crosse in his right hand he commanded this following Inscription to be engraven thereon in Roman Letters In this wholsom sign the true cognisance of Fortitude I have delivered the City from under the Tyrants yoke and set the Senate and People of Rome at liberty and restored them unto their pristine Greatnesse and Splendor After Maximinianus the Tyrants death an utter Enemy to all Pietie and Godliness through the Grace of Almighty God Churches were re-edified and erected from â—…he Foundations the Gospel of Jesus Christ freely preached professed and propagated Maximinianus by publick Edicts proclaimed the chiefest and most deadly Enemy the most impious wicked pernicious and malicious Tyrant and most execrable hater of God All Tables and Inscriptions set up in every City to his and his Childrens honour were either thrown down from aloft to the ground or obliterated or blotted out with a deformed black colour In like manner all Statues erected to his honour being tumbled down were broken in pieceâ—… and exposed to the laughter and derision of such who would abuse them All his persecuting Instruments Favorers and Partisans were in like manner disgraced disofficed and some of them slain The Christian Bishops Ministers and Prosessors of the Gospel made and sang special Songs of Prayse and Thanksgiving unto God Almighty the King and Governour of all things and to Jesus Christ his Son the Redeemer of their Souls and Author of their internal and external peace enjoyed under theiâ—… Christian Emperor whose Prayses they extolled as you may read at large in Eusebius Ecles Hist. 1. 10. c. 1 3 4 6 9 And De Uita Constantini 1 2 3 4. After which Consâ—…antine preâ—…cribed to all his Soldiers and Subjects as well Pagans as Christians a set form of Prayer to God for â—…imself and his Sons to be said every day or Lords Day at least recited in the former Chapter This first Christian Emperor in the first General Council of Nice Anno 325. when he dismissed the many Bishops there assembled by him from all parts whereof 3. came from our Isle of Britain with a grave exhortation to presâ—…rve mutual concord added this request to them in the close thereof Ut pro ipso ad Deum preces obnixe funderent That they would earnestly powre forth Prayers for him unto God Eusebius further records of him That whereas he esteemed that the Prayers of Pious men were of great moment to him and to the safety and preservation of the whole Common-wealth towards which seeing he reputed them necessary he did not only upon all occasions throw himself down as a Supplicant unto God Uerum etiam ut pro se ab Ecclesiae Praesidibus supplicaretur mandabit but likewise commanded that Supplications should be made for him by the Rectors of the Church which they accordinglie performed In the 30th year of his reign when a certain Priest praysed him to his face as worthy to enjoy the chief Power of all things in this life to reign together with the Son of God in the life to come He signifying his dislike therof exhorted him not to use such flattering words concerning him for time to come but rather to contend for him with Prayers from God that he might seem worthy to be the servant of God both in this life and that which is to come The same year this Emperor having assembled a very great Synod of Bishops and Priests to Ierusalem to the Dedication of the Temple he had there built some of them adorned that solemnity with Prayers and Disputations others with elegant Orations Sermons and Interpretations of obscure places of Scripture others who could do none of these Supplieâ—…es Deopreces c. Offered up humble Prayers and Supplications unto God for common peace
id est Pacificam vitam agamus in omni pietate castitate Pietas est cultus Religio Omnipotentis Dei. Ideò ergo orandum est seâ—…vis Dei Pro vita Regis et pace 〈◊〉 ut ipst liberius possint dedi i esse in cultu et Religione Dei Quia plerumque dum hostes fugant servos Dei à propriis sedibus discurrerent bella seditiones per Regna ut non possint in cultura Dei esse intenti per omnia sicut tempoâ—…e pacis Pietas etiam est misericoâ—… quà m debemus impendere pauperibus indigentibus Si ergâ—… depraedamur ab hostibus non possumus opus misericordiae exercere quia non valet impendere alteri qui non habet undè semetipsum sustentet Sed ut habeamus unde eleemosynam tribuamus Orandâ—… est pro vita Regis ac Principum et pro pace Regni ut agamus vitam nostram in omni castitate corporis tempore pacis utcumque nimia difficultate servari potest castitas Quando verò depraedatur Regnum à praedonibus hostibus nequaquam potest servari quia Domini qui depraedati sunt captivos expleant voluntatem immunditiam suam cum eis ut libet nec valent resistere Quapropter orandum est pro salute et vita Fidelium Regum et Principum ut longo tempore conservati pacem habeat Regnum et magis ac magis proficiant in melius Pro infidelibus quoque orandum est ut proficiant in melius et transeant ad fidem c. Pope Gregory the 1. in his Epistles writen to Emperors Kings and Queens hath many Prayers unto God for them some of them recited in the precedent Chapter relating to England I shall insist only upon some others Epist. l. 4. Epist. 62 Mauricio Augusto he hath this passage Tunc magis Dominorum exercitus contra hostes crescit quanto Dei exercitus ad orationem creverit by their Prayers Tears and Fastings for the Emperor Epist. l. 4. Epist. 31. Mauricio Augusto he concludes with this Prayer for him Inter haec ergò omnia incerta ad solas lachrymas redeo petens ut idem Omnipotens Deus piissimum Dominum nostrum et sua hic manu regat et in illo judicio liberum ab omnibus delictis inveniat Epist. l. 4. Epist. 34. Constantinae Augustae he hath this passage Et in Redemptoris nostri largitate confido quia bonum hoc in serenissimo Domino Mauritio piâ—…mis filiis in Coelestis quoque patriae retributione recipietis In omnipotenti autem Domino confido quia longam piissimis Dominis vitam tribuet Lib. 5. Epist. 16. Mauritio Augusto he concludes thus Quatenus Deus omnipotens qui placitam sibi Catholicae rectitudiniâ—… integritatem clementiam vestram amare cernit atque defendere Et hic devictis hostribus pacatae vos Imperare Reipublicae et cum sanctis in aeterna faciat vita râ—…gnare The like expressions he useth Epist. 59. Brunichildae Reginae Francorum He begins his 63 Epistle Mauricio Augusto with Inter annorum curas innumerabiles sollicitudines quas indefesso studio pro Christianae Reipublicae regimine sustmetis magna mihi cum universo mundo Laetitiae causa est quod pietas vestra custodiae fidei quà Dominorum fulget Imperium pâ—…aecipua solicitudine semper invigilat Unde omninò confido quia sicut vos Dei causas religiosae mentis amore tuemini Ita Deus vestras Majestates sua gratia sueâ—…ur et adjuvat Lib. 6 Epist. 6. Mauricio Augustâ—… he begins thus Omnipotens Deus qui pietatem vestram pacis Ecclesiasticae fecit esse custodem ipsa vos fide servat c. Pro qua re totis Precibus deprecamur ut bonum hoc Omnipotens Deus serenitati Dominorum piaeque eorum soboli et in praesenti seculo atque in perpetua remuneratione retribuat Epist. 31. Mauritio Augâ—…sto he concludes with this Prayer for him Omnipotens autem Deus serenissimi Domini nostri vitam et ad pacem sanctae Ecclesiae et ad utilitatem Reipublicae Romarae per tempora longa custodiat Certi enim sumus quia si vos vivitis qui Coeli Dominum timetis nulla contra veritatem superbia praevalere permittetis Lib. 7. Epist. 5. Brunichildae Reginae Francorum he ends with this Prayer for her Omnipotens Deus sua vos protectione custodiet atque a perâ—…dis Gentibus Regnum vestrum sui Brachii extensione defendat Uosque post longa Annorum â—…urricula ad gaudia aeterna perducat The like prayer he makes Epist 42. Theodelindae Longobardarum Reginae videlicet Dei nostri misericordiam deprecamur ut bonorum vicem retributionem in corpore in anima hîc in futuro compenset c. Epist. 102. Theoderico Theoberto Regibus Franciae he begins and ends thus Summum in Regibus bonum est justiciam colere ac sua cuique jura servare subjectis non sinere quod potestatis est fieri sed quod aequum est custodire c. Qâ—…atenus per hoc aequitatem Sacerdotiâ—…us custoditis Eorum Precibus anâ—…e Dei semper occulâ—…s floreatis Epistola 128. Richaredo Regi Wisigothorum he is verie copious in rendering Thanks to God for him as being a chief instrument in converting the Goths to the Christian Faith concluding with this Prayer for him Omnipotens Deus in cunctis Aâ—…ibus vestris Coelestis Brachiâ—… extensione vos protegat vobisque et praesentis viâ—…ae prospera et post multa annorum currâ—…cula gaudia concedat aeterna Lib. 8. Epist. 2. Mauriâ—…io Augusto he and the Clergy thus prayed for him Pro quare lachrymabili Prece omnes deposcimus ut omnipotens Deus qui Clementiae vestâ—…ae corda compunxit incolume in amoris sui constantia Dominorum servet Imperium ut victorias eorum in cunctis Gentibus auxilio suae Majestatis extendat See his Epistola 53 54 55 56 59 60 64. to several Kings and Queens wherein he renders tâ—…anks and makes Prayers for them unto God Lib. 11. Epist. 1. he recites the murther of the Emperor Mauritius with all his 5. Sons Brother and some of his Nobles by Phocas after which Phocas who usurped the Empire and Leontia his Empresse sending their Statues to Rome 7 Kal. Maij Acclamatum est eis in Lateranis in Basilica Julii Ab omni clero vel Senatu Exaudi Christe Phocae Augusto et Leontiae Augustae vita So much did they flatter this bloody Murderer of his Soveraign Lord and his Royal Issue and Invader of his Crown And Epist. 45. Phocae Augusto Pope Gregory himâ—…elf thus courts and prayes for him Considerare cum gaudiis magnis gratiarum actionibus libet quantas Omnipotenti Domino laudes debemus quod remoto jugo tristitiae ad libertatis tempora sub Imperialis benignitatis vestâ—…ae pietate pervenimus c. Sanâ—…a itaque Trinitas vitam vestram per longa tempora
generaliter cunctos qui nostri conventui interfuêre ut obedientes sint Domino excellentissimo Imperatori nostro et fidem quam ei promissam habent inviolabiliter conservare studeant Orationes quoque assiduas intentè fundere pro ejus stabilitate ac incolumitate omnes se velle secundum nostram admonitionem unanimiter professi sunt ut misericordia divina longiori aevo illius mâ—…nsuetudinem conservare dignetur c. The Council of Mentz about the same time under Charles the Great c. 1 c. made this Prayer for him and his Posterity In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti Gloriosissimo et Christianissimo Imperatori Carolo Augusto verae Religionis Rectori ac Defensori Dei Ecclesiae una cum prole sua ejusque Fidelibus vita et salus honor et benedictio cum victoria fine fine mansura The Council of Cavailon the same year under this Charles the Great thus decreed Omnis iste Conventus gratissima deliberatione decrevit ut ab omnibus indesâ—…nenter orationes fiant pro vita et incolumitate pro salute animae et corporis Domini Imperatoris prolisque ejus pro statu Regni c. The Synod of Rhemes the same year under the same Emperor decreed Ut pro Domino Imperatore sâ—…aque Nobilissima prole Orationes et Oblationes quae pro ipsis hactenus Deo Omnipotenti oblatae sunt augeantur ut eos suis temporibus in praesenti seculo cum omni saelicitate custodiat et in futuro cum sanctis Angelis suis pia miseratione gaudentes efficiat The like is decreed in Capitularia Caroli Magni Ludovici l. 7. c. 7. Fredericus Lindebrogus Codex Legum Antiqu p. 1663. The Synod of Paris under Lewis Lotharius Anno 829. l. 1. c. 8. as it presseth all Obedience Subjection and Loyalty to Kings so it prescribes constant Prayers for them from the 1 Tim. 2. concluding thus Si enim Hieremias Propheta Dei pro vita Idololatrae Regis Nebuchadonozor orare admonet quantò magis pro salute Christianorum Regum do omnibus ordinibus Deo est humiliter supplicandum The Synod of Paris under Bishop Odo made this Decree Praecipitur districtè omnibus Presbyteris ut pro Domino Rege faciant specialem commemorationem quando poterunt Theodulphus Abbas Floriacensis et Aurelianensis Episcopus in his Poems to Ludovicus the Emperor thus prays for him Inclite Caesar ave Ludovice serene valeque Et tibi cunâ—…ipotens det bona cuncta Deus Orbis te totus laudat veneratur amatque Et monitis paret sedulus undè tuis c. Grates pro vestrâ summa pietate rependam Aeterno Patri qui vos regnare potenter Et mores sanctos servare salubriter egit Prospera multigenis concedens cuncta triumphis c Uos pater et gnatus Sanctus quoque Spiritus omni Tempore concedat Domino praestanâ—…e valere In his Poem In Adventu Caroli filii Augustorum he hath this Salutation and Prayer for him Salve Regum sancta proles Nullus ordo nulla rerum Mens lingua cor voluntas Salve Regum sancta proles Dicat omnis plebis agmen Dives pauper sospes aeger Salve Regum sancta proles Chare Christo Carole Nunc silescat vastitas Laudem dando personet Chare Christo Carole c. Clerus ipse primitus Consonent in laudibus Chare Christo Carole c. Which Salve is 7. times more repeated in that Poem with other Prayers for Prince Charles In his Poem In adventu Lotharii Imperatoris he useth theâ—…e Prayers for and Acclamations to him Imperator magne vivas Gaudeat totum tuorum Omnis aetas omnis ordo Imperator magne vivas Sancta Lothari Maria virgo Et simul eum Patre magno Imperator magne vivas Et Valens junctis beatis Uestra pax in pace cunctos Intus extra longe juxta Britto cedat atque Bulgar Uita virtus et potestas Fama felix te sequatur Summa summae Trinitati Quae gubernet et coronet Imperator magne vivas Semper et feliciter which is ten times repeated Agmen hic fidelium Corde dicens intimo Semper et feliciter Te cum Fratribus Servet armet protegat Semper et feliciter Hoc Precetur omnibus Firmet apta subditos Fulgeat concordia Omnis ardor Hostium Robur et victoria Atque vitae praemia Sit per aevum Gloria Te per omne seculum Semper et feliciter Walafridus Strabus Abbot of St. Gall in his Poem to Ludovicus the Emperor makes this expression of his Loyalty to and prayes thus for him Vilia pro meritis sunt haec munuscula vestris Sed tamen ex pleno quae dat amore fides Quam vobis servare diu totumque per aevum Hanc animam veluti nitar ad usque obitum Quid mihi quid possit consistere clarius unquam Gloria quà m Domini continuata pii c. Ipse pio vires divinaque munera Regi Et clarum aeterno tempore det columen Pacem consilio faciet retinere salubri Quem paci aeternae muneribusque parat Haec vos cum vestris repetitus saepius Annis Haec ad festa Deus provehat incolumes In his Verses to the Empresse Judeth he prayes thus for her and hers Orabo quod ipse Hactenus orabam quaeque petenda reor Uita praesidio pace et solamine Christi Uos vestrosque simul tempus in omne frui Proxima sanctorum quod nos per festa dierum Plenius acturos credimus et volumus In another b Poem to her in reference to her name Judeth he prays thus for her Nomine quem sequitur factis da Christe sequatuâ—… Pace fide pietate animo sermonibus ausis Dogmate consiliis successu et prole fideli c. Laeta cubans sit laeta sedens sit laeta resurgens Laetetur que poli faelix in sede locata In his other Verses to her he prays thus Uos vestrosque Dei semper miserata potestas Protegat exaltet ffrmet regat armet adornet And in his Poem to Charles the Emperors Son by Judeth he prays thus for him Majestas tibi cuncta Dei det prospera semper Et vitae aeternae dulcia dona seret Haymo Bishop of Halberstat in Germany Interpretatio in 1 Epist. Tim. c. 2. v. 1 2 3. hath the self-same Commentary and Words pressing the duty of praying for Kings as Remigius forecited Hincmarus Archbishop of Rhemes in France flourishing under Charles the Great and Lewis his sonne one of the learnedest Scholars in that age in his Epistola 1. ad Ludovicum Balbum Regem who desired his advice how hee might settle and govern his distracted Kingdom in peace in such a time of confusion as we now are in returns him this answer in an Epistle thus directed Domino Ludovico
enim ignoro ubi legerim Qui potestati resistit Dei ordinationi resistit c. Non contristabit per illum de illo Ecclesiam suam in quem et de quo in tantis plura laetificavit Quem suo munere contulit sua longanimitate servabit et si quid aliter sapitis et hoc ipsum vobis revelabit et erudiet corda in sapientia Hoc optamus hoc oramus die et nocte He begins his 220 Epistle to this King thus Libentèr quidem sicut ipse fateri dignamini etiam propria testante conscientia quae ad honorem vestrnm et regni vestri utilitatem spectant pro nostro exiguo posse et quaerimus quaeremus though he sharply reprehends him therein In his 221 Epistle to this King who oppugned the Church he writes thus Profectò stabimus pugnabimus usque ad mortem si it a oportuerit pro matre nostra armis quibus licet non scutis et gladiis sed precibus fletibusque ad Deum Et ego quidem qui me memini praeter Quotidianas preces quas pro Pace et Salute vestra atque Regno coram Domino suppler ipso teste fundebam And why so Insuper et fratri vestro ejusque militibus balastariisque Domos Episcopales contra jus et phas inhabitandas et res Ecclesiae in hujusmodi nefarios usus profligandas audacter nimium exponitis Dico vobis non erit diu inultum si haec it a facere pergitis c. His 255 Episile begins thus Ludovico Dei gratia excellentissimo Regi Francorum Bernardus Clarevallis vocatus Abbas fidelis suus salutem à Rege Regum Domino dominantium Ipsi et Dilectae ejus et Filiis ejus Regnâ—… terrae jura Regnorum tune sanè sana suis Dominis atque illaesa persistunt si divinis ordinationibus ac dispositionibus non resistunt c. He addes Colligitur Concilium Quid in hoc detrahitur Regiae gloriae regni utilitatibus Ibi Unâ—…versae Ecclesiae commendabitur ac rememorabitur Excellenciae vestrae prompta et specialis Devotio qui Regum primus aut certè inter primos rabiei persequentium eandem matrem vestram strenuissimè et christianissimè defendendo obviastis Ibi gloriosè ab ingenti illa multitudine debitae gratiae referentur vobis Ibi a Millibus Sanctorum orabitur pro vobis et vestris He begins his 138 Epistle thus Henrico illustrissimo Regi Anglorum B. Abbas dictus de Clarevalle honorem sospitatem pacem And his 139 Epistle thus Lothario Dei gratia Imperatori Augusto B. Abbas de Clarevalle Si quid potest peccatoris Oratio Benedictus Deus qui vos elegit et erexit cornu salutis Nobis ad Laudem et Cloriam Nominis sui et reparandum Imperii decus ad subveniendum Ecclesiae suae in tempore malo Postremo ad operandum etiam nunc salutem in medio terrae From all which passages it is most apparent that this devout Abbot with all the Abbots Monks Clergy and Councils in that age did constantly pray for their own Christian Kings their Queens Sons Posteritie and other Kings Emperors wishing all health safety happinesse prosperity to them and their Realms for the Churches happinesse and did blesse God for their reigns exaltations successes Piety Zeal and Government Petrus Abbas Cluniacensis Epist. l. 2. Epist. 7. Sigivardo Norwegiorum Regi prefaceth his Epistle with this salutation in praesenti faeliciter in futuro faelicissimè cvm Christo regnare begins it with this Thanksgiving to God Omnipotenti et aeterno Regi toto cordis affectu gratias agimus qui menti vestrae favorem et amorem suum inspirare dignatus in vobis amorem coelestium terrenis affectibus praevaluisse ostendit c. And thus closeth it Ipsi omnium bonorum largitori grates quas possumus agimus et ut hoc ad effectum perducere satagatis votis omnibus exoramus Epist. 39. Glorioso Principi et magnisico Constantinopolitanae urbis Imperatori Ioan ni Cale he wisheth Salutem ab eo qui dat salutem Regibus beginning with this Thanksgiving Gratias omnipotenti Regi Regum cujus Regnum Regnum est omnium seculorum qui Imperatoriam Majestatem vestram super omnes Christiani nominis Principes exaltavit et ad tenendam toto orbe Ecclesiam suam velut in medio Orientis Occiedentis Aquilonis constituit c. Et ut aliquid beneficii spiritualis voâ—…is istud facientibus rependamus ficut Praedecessores nostri ac nos ipsi Reges Francorum Reges Anglorum Reges Hispanorum Reges Romanâ—…rum ipsos Imperaâ—…ores ac vicinos vobis Reges Ungarorum confratres et comparticipes omnium beneficiorum Cluniacensis congregationis fecimus by their daily Prayers for them ità sublimitatem vestiam ex parte omnipotentis Dei c. in eisdem et spiâ—…itualibus benesiciis plenâ—… et perfectè in quantum licet suscipimus ut omnipotens Salvator et hîc temporale Regnâ—…m vobis adaugeat et conservet et in futuro cum sanctis Regibus vos ad sempiternum perducat Amen He begins his 46. Epistle to the King of Iâ—…rusalem with the like Salutation and Thanksgiving to God Epistâ—…la l. 3. Epist. 3. Illustri et religioso Regi Siciliae Domino et amico Râ—…tgerio he useth the very same Salutation blesseth God for him and ends with this prayer for him Inde laetamur inde in domino gloriamur inde Celsitudinem vestram etsi vultu incognitam verae dilectionis brachiis amplectimur et ut ad honorem nominis sui et ad sâ—…lutem populi sui omnipotens Salvator vestram regalem potentiam magnificet et conâ—…ervet humiliter et frequenter precamur Epist. l. 4. Epist. 37. to the same King Rotgerio he wisheth Bonorum Regum dignitatem et honorem beginning it with Gratias omnipotenti Regi Regum qui sublimitatem vestâ—…am inter universos Christiani orbis Reges ac Principes quadam specialis magnificentiae gloria insignivit quadam gloriosi nominis fama singulariter exaltavit Adding Personam vestram Regnumque Omnipotenti Deo Religiosisque tam nostris quam aliis congregationibus studiosissime commendavi Epistola 36 Illustri ac magnifico Principi Domino Ludovico Regi Francorâ—…m is prefaced with this option Feliciter hîc regnare Regemque Regum in Regno ac decore fuo videre and begins with Licet Regis aeterni militiam quam per te Regem terrenum contra inimicos crucis suae armare disposuit ad peregrina euntem comitari non valeam Devotione tamen oratione consilio et auxilio quali quantoque potero prosequi concupisco c. I shall only adde Epist. l. 6. Epist. 16. Magnifico Principi domino Rotgero Regi Siciliae Frater Petrus humilis Cluniacensium Abbas Salutem praesencem et Regnum sempiternum Audientes obitum â—…liorum vestrorum valdè doluimus et tâ—…m pro sospitate vestra quà m pro omnibus
Iodocus Coccius and others apprehend prescribes this form of Consecration Prayers and Collects at the Empeâ—…ors Coronation which I shall recite because omitted by Mr. Selden it begins thus Incipit Ordo Romanus ad Benedicendum Imperatorem Orationem primam det Episcopus de Castello Albanensi ante portam Argenteam Oremus Deus in cujus manu corda sunt Regum inclina ad preces humilitatis nostrae aures misericordiae tuae Principi nostro regimen tuae appone sapientiae ut haustis de tuo fonte confiliis tibi placeat super omnia Regna praecellat Per Dominum Orationem secundam det Episcopus Portuensis intra Ecclesiam beati Petri Apostoli in medio rotae Deus inenarrabilis auctor mundi ut supra scriptum est in ordinatione Regis Deinde vadat ante confessionem beati Petri Apostoli prosternat se pronus in terram archidiaconus faciat litaniam Qua finita Episcopus Ostiensis ungat ei oleo exorcizato brachium dextrum inter scapulas dicat orationem istam Domine Deus omnipotens cujus est omnis potestas dignitas te supplici devotione atque humillima prece deposcimus ut huic famulo tuo N. prosperum Imperatoriae dignitatis concedas effectum ut in tua dispositione constituto ad regendam Ecclesiam tuam sanctam nihil praesentia officiant futuraque non obsistant sed inspirante sancti Spiritus tui dono populum sibi subditum aequo justitiae libramine regere valeat in omnibus operibus suis te semper timeat tibi jugiter placere contendat Per. Pontifex ergo stet sursum ante altare imponat ei diadema super caput dicens Accipe signum gloriae in nominae Patris Filii Spiritus sancti ut spreto antiquo hoste spretisque contagiis omnium vitiorum sic judicium justitiam diligas misericorditer vivas ut ab ipso Domino nostro Jesu Christo in consortio Sanctorum aeterni regni coronam percipias Qui cum Patre Spiritu tuo sancto vivit regnat Deus per insinita secula seculorum Resp. Amen Alia coronae impositio Accipe coronam à Domino Deo tibi praedestinatam habeas teneas atque possideas filiis tuis post te futuris ad honorem Deo auxiliante derelinquas Exaudi Domine preces nostras famulum tuum N. ad regendum Rom. imperium constitutum ut per te regere incipiat per te fideliter Regnum custodiat Qui vivit regnat Oremus Prospice omnipotens Deus serenis obtutibus hunc gloriosum Imperatorem nostrum N. sicut benedixisti Abraham Isaac Jacob Require supra in benedictione Regis Alia Deus pater aeternae gloriae sit adjutor tuus Protector omnipotens benedicat tibi preces tuas in cunctis exaudiat et vitam longitudine dierum adimpleat et semper in sua voluntate custodiat thronum Regni corroboret gentes populumquetuum ad nutum tuum subjiciat et à peste et fame tuis temporibus conservet inimicos tuos confusione iâ—…duat et super te Christi sanctificatio floreat et super caetera regna excellentiorem faciat ut qui tribuit in terris imperium ipse tibi in coelis cum electis suis conferat habere consortium Per. To this 〈◊〉 shall subjoyn the Ceremonies and Prayers made at the Coronation of the Emperor of Russiâ—… recorded both in Latin and English in the Marginal Authors The Solemities used at the Russe Emperors Coronation are on this manner In the great Church of Precheste or our Lady within the Emperors Castle is erected a Stage whereon standeth a Skreen that beareth upon it the Imperial Cap and Robe of very Rich stuâ—… When the day of the Inauguration is come there resort thither first the Patriarch with the Metropolitans Abchbishops Bishops Abbots and Priors all richly clad in their Pontificalibus Then enter the Deacons with the Qâ—…ier of Singers Who so soon as the Emperor setteth foot into the Church begin to sing Many years may live Noble Theodore Juanowich c. whereunto the Patriarch and Metropolitan with the rest of the Clergy answer with a certain Hymn in form of a Prayer singing it altogether with a great noise The Hymn being ended the Patriarch with the Emperor mount up the Stage where standeth a Seat ready for the Emperor Whereupon the Patriarch willeth him to sit down and then placing himself by him upon another Seat provided for that purpose boweth down his head towards the ground and saith this Prayer O Lord God King of Kings and Lord of Lords which by thy Prophet Samuel did dest choose thy Servant David and anoint him for King over thy People Israel hear now our Prayers and look from thy Sanctuary upon this thy Servant Theodore whom thou hast chosen and exalted for King over these thy holy Nations anoint him with the Oyl of gladnesse protect him by thy Power put upon his Head a Crown of Gold and precious Stones give him length of daies place him in the seat of Justice strenthen his Arm make subject unto him all the barbarous Nations Let thy fear be in his whole heart turn him from an evil Faith and from all error and shew him the salvation of thy holy and universal Church that he may judge thy People with justice and protect the children of the poor and finally attain everlasting life This Prayer he speaketh with a low voyce and then pronounceth aloud All praise and power to God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost The Prayer being ended he commandeth certain Abbots to reach the Imperial Robe and Cap which is done very decently and with great solemnity the Patriarch withall pronouncing aloud Peace be unto all And so he beginneth another Prayer to this effect Bow your selves together with us and pray to him that reigneth over all Preserve him O Lord under thy holy protection keep him that he may do good and holy things let Justice shine forth in his daies that we may live quietly without strife and malice This is pronounced somwhat softly by the Patriarch whereto he addeth again aloud Thou art the King of the whole world and the Saviour of our Souls to thee the Father Son and the holy Ghost be all prayse for ever and ever Amen Then putting on the Robe and the Cap he blesseth the Emperor with the sign of the Crosse saying withall in the Name of the Father the Son and the holy Ghost The like is done by the Metropolites Archbishops and Bishops who all in their order come to the Chair and one after another blesse the Emperor with their two fore-fingers Then is said by the Patriarch another Prayer that beginneth O most holy Virgin Mother of God c. After which a Deacon pronounceth with a high loud voyce Many years to Noble Theodore good honourable beloved of God great Duke of Volodemer of Mosko Emperor
Anth. Brown Will. Paget Anthony Denny William Herbert The Order of bringing the King and Queen into the Church with other Ceremonies touching their Coronation 2. BIshops to support the King 2. Bishops to support the Queen 2. Bishops to sing the Letany 1. Bishop to carry the Paten 1. Bishop to bear the Regal The Dean of Westminster to be in the whole Action 2. Bishops to attend the Archbishop 1. Bishop to Preach 1. To demand the fourth Question of the King 1. Nobleman to carry the Spurs before the King 3. Special Noblemen to carry the 3. Swords before the King 2 To carry the 2. Scepters before the King 1. To carry the Rod with the Dove before the King 1. Nobleman to carry the Crown before the Queen 1. Nobleman to carry the Sâ—…epter before the Queen 1. To carry the Ivory-rod before the Queen The Maâ—…shal of England is to go before the Archbishop to the 4. sides of the Stage when he demandeth the Question of the people touching their willingnesse c. The Archbishop undoeth the Loops of the Kings Apparel and shirt and openeth the Places to be anointed The anointing ended The Dean of Westminster closeth the Loops again which were opened Then a shallow quoiff is put on his head because of the anointing oyl Then the Collobium or Dalmatica is put on him by the Dean of Westminster And after a Prayer ended The said Dean arrayeth the King First with the Supeâ—…tunica or close Pall. Then with the Tynsin hose Then with the Sandals Then are the Spâ—…rs put on by a Nobleman appointed by his Majestie After the Archbishop hath delivered the Sword unto the King the same Sword is girded about him by a Peer thereto appointed by his Majestiâ—… Then the Armil is put about his neck and tied to the boughts of his Arms by the Dean of Westminster So is likewise the Mantel or open Pall put on him by the said Dean Then the King putteth on the Linnen gloves Then the King offereth up his Sword wherewith 〈◊〉 was girt before Then a Peer redeemeth the Sword taketh it again from the Altar draweth it out and carrieth it before the King so drawen from that time during the whole solemnitie The Coronation Inthoronization and other Ceremonies ended and Homage done by the Archbishop Bishops and Noblemen the King delivereth the Scepter and the Rod with the Dove hiis qui stirpi Regali sunt proximiores who ease the King of them and carry them before him Touching the Solemnity for the Queen THe Solemnitie of the Kings Inthoronization and Coronation being performed the Archbishop leaveth the King in his Throne and goeth again down to the Altar Then the Queen who hath all this while reposed her self in her Chair beneath ariseth and commeth to the steps of the Altar and kneeleth down c. And when the Queen ariseth from her prayer the chiefest Lady present taketh off her Coronet and after that done openeth her breast for the Anointing c. Then the Queen kneeleth down again and the Archbishop anointeth her c. Then the chiefest Lady attendant clozeth the Queens Robe at her breast and after putteth on her head a Linnen quoiff c. Then the Archbishop putteth on her Ring and then Crowneth her And after that putteth the Scepter into her Right â—…and and the Ivory Rod into her left hand The Communion ended and other Ceâ—…emonies performed the King and Queen with all solemnitie return to their Thrones above from whence after a while they return down again in all solemn manner into St. Edwards Chapel c. Where the King in the Traverse is disrobed of St. Edwards Robes by the Lord Great Chamberlain which Robes are then delivered to the Dean of Westminster Then the King is newly arrayed by the Lord Great Chamberlain with his Robes royal prepared for his Majesties wearing that day Then the Archbishop setteth the Crowns Imperial provided for the King and Queen to wear that day upon their heads The King and Queen so Crowned taking into their hands each of them their Scepter and Rod aâ—…ter the train is set in order before them go from St. Edwards Altar out to the great Altar and so up to the Stage and so thorough the midst of the Quire and Church and return the same way they came The Scepters and Rods of St. Edward which the King and Queen carried in their hands are after Dinner to be re-delivered to the Church of Westminster to be kept with the Residue of the Regalia It hath pleased his Majestie to give order to me the Archbishop for the appointing of these Bishops 2. Bishops to support the King 2. Bishops to support the Queen 1. Bishop to carry the Regal 1. Bishop to carry the Paten Your Lordships are to understand the King his pleasure which of the Noblemen it will like his Majestie to appoint 1. To carry the Spurs before the King 3. To bear the 1 2 and 3. Sword before the King 2. To bear the 2. Scepters before the King 1. To bear the Rod with the Dove before the King 1. To carry the Crown Imperial which the King is to wear that day 1. To bear the Crown before the Queen 1. To bear the Scepter before the Queen 1. To bear the Ivory Rod before the Queen 1. To put on the Kings Spurs 1. To girt on the Kings Sword 1. To redeem the Sword after it is â—…ffered and to bear it drawn before him 2. To ease the King of the carriage of his Scepter and Rod. The manner of the proceeding at the Coronation GEntlemen and Esquires 2. and 2. Knights having no Liveries Sewers of the Chamber Aldermen of London Esquires of the body Clerks of the Signet Clerks of the privy Seal Clerks of the Counsel Clerks of the Markets of England Chaplinâ—… having Dignity Secretarieâ—… of the Latin and French Solicitor Attorny and the Kings Sergeants Masters of the Requests Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer Lord chief Justice of the common Pleaâ—… Master of the Pâ—…olls Lord chief Justice Popham Nunc privati consilii Knights of the Bath Sergeant Porter Sergeant of the vestry The Kings Chapel in Copes The Pâ—…bends of Westminster Master of the Jewel-House Master of the Gardrobe Counsellors being Knights Bishops in their Robes Barons in their Robes Secretary Controuler Thresorer Earls in their Robes Their Coronets on their caps in their hanâ—…s Clarencieux Lion Vlster Lord Keeper Lord Archbishop alone An Earl with the Spurs An Earl with Saint Edwards Scepter An Earl with the pointed Sword An Earl with the Sword called Curtana An Earl with the third Sword The Mayor of London with his Mace Garter principal King at Arms. Gentleman usher of the Privy Chamber The Lord Great Chamberlain of England The Constable with his Mace The Sword in the Scabbard The Maâ—…shal with his Rod. An Earl bearing the Scepter of the Dane An Earl bearing the Crown An Earl bearing the Orb. Barons of the Cinqueports for the Canopy His Majestie
led by the Bishops of Duresm and Wells The Chamberlain assisting the Train Master of the Horse Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to the King Grooms of the privy Chamber Gentlemen-Ushers to the Queen An Earl bearing the Queens Scepter An Earl bearing the Queens Crown An Earl beaâ—…ing the Queens Ivory Rod. A Bishop The Queen in a purple Robe Her hair dependent under a Canopie borne by the Barons of the Cinqueports A Bishop Train-bearer The Queens Chamberlain supporting the Train Marquesses Countesses Baronesses Ladies of the Privy Chamber Gentlemen of the Queens Privy Chamber Captain of the Guard with all the Guard following For the third I shall present you with the Ceremonies and Prayers used at King James Queen Annes and our late King CHARLES their Coronations at Westminster of which I have two Authentick Copies never formerly Printed Processio ad Templum de Palatio Ascentio ad Thronum Interrogatio Populi Descentio ad Altare Himnus veni Creator Litaniae Unctio Regis Investitura Regis Benedictio Regis Ascentio ad Thronum Inthronizatio Homagium Caeremoniae supportationis Coronae Communio Sacra Descentio ad oblationem Communicatio Regis Ascentio ad Thronum Finis Communionis Oblatio Concio Juramentum Regis Colobii c. Tunica Gladii Armillae Pallii Coronae Annuli Oblatio Gladii Sceptri Virgae Descentio ad Tumulum Edwardi Confessoris Depositio Coronae sacrae vestium Indutio Coronae Novae vestium Discessio de Templo ad Palatium A Brief out of the Book of the Rites of the Coronation called Liber Regalis 1. THE person that is to Annoint and Crown the King is the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury 2. The place is the Church of VVestminster to which it is by divers Charters granted to be Locus constitutionis Coronationis Regiae Repositorium Regalium 3. The time if it may well be some Sonday or Holy-day The Preparation 1. There is a Stage set up square close to the four high Pillars between the Quire and the Altar railed about which Stage is to be spread with Tapestry and the Railes of it to be richly covered 2. It is also to have Stairs out of the Quire up to it and down from it to the Altar other Staires Eastward 3. There is a Throne of Estate for the King to be erected on the said Stage adorned in all points as is meet 4. There is also another Chair of Estate for the King to be set below by the Altar on the right side of it and a Fald-stool with Cushions for the King to pray at 5. There is a traverse also to be made in St. Edwards Chappell for the King to disrobe himself in after the Ceremonies of his Coronation ended The Evening before the Coronation 1. The Evening before the Coronation the King is to be put in minde to give himself a certain space to contemplation and prayers In what sort it is set down in Libro Regali It appertaineth by office to the Abbot of Westminster to remember his Mâ—…jesty of this and other observances 2. There is then also to be delivered by his Majesties appointment to such persons as he shall like to assigne to carry them 1. The Regall 2. The Paten 3. The two Scepters 4. The Rod with the Dove 5. The Spurs 3. There is then also to be delivered to his Majesty the Tuniea or Shirt of red Silke with the places for the annoynting opened and looped close which he is to wear next over his Shirt The morning of the Coronation 1. It is to be provided that all the Regalia that is King Edward the Confessors Crown and other Ornaments together with the Ampull wherein is the Oyle with which antiently the Kings and Queens have been anoynted be laied ready upon the Altar 2. It is to be provided that the Crown and other Robes Royal which the King is to put on and wear after the Rites of the Coronation ended be brought and laid ready in the Traverse within Saint Edwards Chappel 3. There is cloth to be spread on the ground from the Pallace Hall door unto the Stage in the Church for his Majesty to tread on all the way by the Heir of the Lord Beauchamp of Bedford Almoner for the Coronation day The receiving of the King into the Church 1. The Archbishop and Bishops of the Realm then present together with the Church and Quire of Westminster onely are to meet the King at the Pallace gate in procession wise 2. Two Bishops assigned by the King are to bear the one the Regal the other the Paten 3. After them three Peers by the King likewise to be appointed are to bear the one the Scepter with the Crosse the other the long Scepter the third the Rod with the Dove 4. After them the three Swords to be born per Comitem Cestriae 2. Hunting don 3. Warwick 5. After them a Peer by the King appointed to bear the Spurs 6. Then the King under a Canopy born by the Barons of the Cinque Ports The King supported by the two Bishops of Durham and Bathe 7. Abbas Westomonaster semper lateri Regis adhaerendo praesens debet esse pro dicti Regis informatione in hiis quae dictae Coronationis concernunt solennitatem Ad ipsum vero hoc officium solummodo spectat The King is to be received into the Church with an Anthem Protector noster Protector noster aspice Deus respice in faciem uncti tui quia melior est dies una in Atriis tuis super Millia Quam dilecta c. Gloria patri c. Behold O Lord our Protector and look upon the face of thine Anointed because one day in thy Court is better then a thousand Psal. quam dilecta c. 84. 11. Gloria patri c. The King passing up the body of the Câ—…ch and so through the Quire goeth up the Staiâ—…s uâ—… his Throne of Estate and there râ—…poseth hiâ—…lf The King set in his Throne the Arcâ—…bishop going to every of the four fides of the Stage viz. North South East and West the Marshall of England going before him to all the said places asketh the people if they be willing to accept of the King as theiâ—… Soveraigne that he may be Anointed and Crowned His verbis The people demanded if they be willing Sirs here I present unto you King James the rightful Inheritor of the Crown of this Realm wherefore all you that be come this day to do your homage service and bounden duty be ye willing to do the same Or thus Sirs here present is James rightfull and undoubted Inheritor by the Laws of God and Man to the Crown and Royal dignity of England with all things thereunto annexed and appertaining elect chosen and required by all three Estaâ—…es of this same Land to take upon him this said Crown and Royal dignity whereupon you shall understand that this day is fixed and appointed by all the Peers of the Land for the
consecration enunction and Coronation of the said most excellent Prince James Will you serve him at this time and give your wills and assents to the same Consecration Eâ—…ction and Coronation Or thus Will you take this worthy Prince James right Heir of the Realm and have him to your King and become Subjects to him and submit your selves to his Commandements This while the King standing up turneth himself to every of the four sides as the Archbishop is at every of them speaking to the people The people signifying their willingnesse by answering all in one voice Yea Yea God save King James The Quire singeth the Anthem Firmetur manus Firmetur manus tua exaltetur dextra tua justitia judicium prâ—…paratio sedis tuae Misericordia veritas precedent faciem tuam Alleluiah Firmetur manus tua Let thy hand be strengthned and thy right hand be exalted Let Justice and Judgement be the preparation â—…f thy Seat and Mercy and Truth go before thy Face Alleluia Ps. misericordias Dei Glory be to the Father c. While the Quire singeth the Anthem the Archbishop goeth down to the Altar and revesteth himself there The Archbishop being there ready the King supported by the two Bishops as before and attended by the Abbot of Westminster goeth down from his Throne to the Altar The Kings Offering and the Sermon There he maketh his first Oblation which is Pallium â—…nm una libra auri After the King hath Offered he kneeleth down at his Fald-stool The Archbishop saith the Prayer Deus humilium Deus humilium visitator qui nos Sancti Spiritus illustratione consolaris pretende super hunâ—… famulum tuum Jacobum gratiam tuam nt per eum tuum in nobis addesse sentiamus adventum per Dâ—…minum Christum nostrum c. Deus visitator humilium O God which dost visit those that are humble and dost comfort us by the light of thy Holy Spirit send down thy Grace upon this thy Servant James that by him we may feel thy presence amongst us through Jesus Christ. Then doth the Sermon begin which the King heareth in his Chair of Estate by the Altar on the South side of it The Sermon being done the Archbishop goeth to the King and aâ—…keth his Majesty concerning his willingness to take the Oath usually taken by his Predeceâ—…ors The King shewing himself willing therewithall ariseth and cometh to the Altar The Archbishop ministreth the three first questions and the King answereth them severally Scilicâ—… 1 Quaestio Si leges consuetudines ab antiquis justis Deo devotis Regibus Flebi Anglorum concessas cum sacrameâ—… confirmatione eidem Plebi concedere servare voluerit praesertim leges consuetudines libertates à glorioso Rege Edwardo Clero populo concessas c. Dicto autem Principe se promittente omnia praemissa concessurum servaturum Tunc exponat ei Metropolitanâ—… de quibus jurabit Ita dicendo c. Prima quaestio Servabis Ecclesiae Dei cleroque populo pacem ex integro concordiam in Deo secundum vires tuas Respondebit servabo Secunda quaestio Facie fieri in omnibus judiciis tuis equam rectam justitiam discretionem in misericordia veritate secundum vires tuas Resp. Faciam Tertia quaestio Concedis instas leges consuetudines esse tenendas promittis per te eas esse protegendas ad honorem Dei corroborandas quas vulgus elegerit secundum vires tuas Respondebit Concedo promitto Sequitur admonitio Episcoporum ad Regem legatur ab 〈◊〉 Episcopo coram omnibus Clara voce Sic dicendo Domine Rex à vobis perdonari petimus ut unicuique de nobis Ecclesiis nobis commissis Canonicum Privilegium ac debitam legem atque justitiam conservetis defensionem exhibeatis â—…ut Rex in suo regno debet unicuique Episcopo Ecclesiiis sibi commissis Respondebit Animo libenti devoto promitto vebis perdono quia unicuique de vobis Ecclesiis vobis commissis Canonicum Privilegium debitam legem atque justitiam Servabo defensionem quantum potuero adjuvante Domino Exhibebo â—…cut Rex in suo Regno unicuique Episcopo Ecelesiis sibi commissis quod rectum exhibere debet Adjiciantur praedictis Iuterrogationibus quae justa fuerint Pronunciatis omnibus supra dictis dictus Princeps confirmet se omnia prâ—…dicta esse servaturum Sacramento super altâ—…re coram cunctis protinus praestito Juramentum Gallice SIre voulez vous granter garder per vostre serment confirmer au peuple de Angleterre les leys les custumes a eulx granteé par les Roies de Angleterre voz predecesseurs droictereulx devoutez a dieu nommement les leys les custumes les Franchisez granter au Clergie au peuple par le gloriens Roy Saint Eduard vostre predecesseur Responsio Regis Ie les grant promet Episcopus Sire garderez vous a Dieu au seinte Eglise au Clergie au peuples paix accord en dien entirement selonque vostre poer Resp. Regis Ie le garderay Episcopus Sire ferez vouz faire en toutz voz jugements droit justice discretion in misericorde verite a vostre poer Resp. Regis Ie le feray Episcopus Sire granterez vouz a tenir a garder les leys les custumes droicturelles les quelux la Communaute de vostre Reaume auera es leus lez defenderez 〈◊〉 al honor de dien a vostre poer 〈◊〉 Regis Ie les grant promet The Kings Oath in English SIR Will you grant and keep and by your Oath Confirm to the People of England the Lawes and Customes to them granted by the Kings of England your Lawful and Religious Predecessors and namely the Laâ—… Câ—…mes and Franchises granted to the Clergy and to the People by the glorious King St. Edward your Predecessor Rex Resp. I grant and promise to keep them Episcopus Sir Will you keep Peace and Agreement entirely according to your power both to God the holy Church the Clergy and the People Rex I will keep it Episcopus Sir Will you to your power cause Law Iustice and Discretion in Mercy and Truth to be executed in all your judgements Rex I will Episcopus Sir Will you grant to hold and keep the Lawes and rightfull Customes which the Commonalty of your Kingdom have and to defend and uphold them to the honour of God so much as in you lye Responsio Regis I grant and promise so to do This done the King 〈◊〉 to the observation of what he hath promised them upon the Altar After the Oâ—…th thus taken the King returneth to his Chair of Estate agâ—…in The Archbishop beginneth the Hymn Veni Creator spiritus and the Quire sing it The Hymn ended the King kneels down at his Fald-stool and the Archbishop saith
his 〈◊〉 giveth them to carry to such as it 〈◊〉 his Majesty The Archbishop kneeled down and made his Homâ—…ge as followeth Out of the Coronation of Edward the 6. J. A. Shall be faithfull and true and Faith and Troth bear unto you our Soveraign Lord and to your Heires Kings of England and I shall do and truly knowledge the service due of the Lands I claim to hold of you as in the right of your Church as God shall help me And so kissed the Kings left cheek c. Or these words taken out of another book I become your man Leige of life and Limb and Troth and hearty Honour to you shall bear against all men that now live and dye So help me God c. The Aâ—…chbishop goeth down to the Altar and begins the Communion The Prayer Quaesumus omnipotens c. Quaesumus omnipotens Deus ut â—…amulus tuus Jacobus Rex noster qui tua miserationâ—… suscepit Regni gubernaâ—…ula virtutum etiam omnium percipiat incrementa Quibus decenter ornatus vitiorum voraginem devitare hostes superare ad te qui veritas vita es gratiosus vâ—…leat pervenire per Dominum Iesum nostrum Amen O Almighty God wâ—… beseech thee that this thy Servant James our King who by thy mercy hath received the government of this Realm may also receive an increase of all Vertues whereby he may be acceptable to thee and avoid the gulfe of vice and overcome all his enemies and finally come â—…o thee in glory who art the Way the Truth and the Life thorough Christ our Lord. The Epistle 1 Pet. 2. By two Bishops The Gospel Matth. 22. By two Bishops The Nicene Creed The Offertory The King cometh down from the Throne to offer He offereth twice 1. Bread and Wine 2. A Mark of Gold Then the Prayer Omnipotens Deus c. Omnipotens Deus det tibi de rore coeli de pinguedine terrae habundâ—…ntiam srumenti vini olei serviant tibi populi adâ—…rent te tribus Esto Dominus fratrum tuorum incurventur ante to filii matris tuae qui benedixerit tibi benedictionibus repleatur Deus erit â—…djutor tuus Opus benedicaet tibi benedictionibus coeli desuper in montibus in Collibus benedictionibus abyssi jacentibus deorsum benedictionibus uberum uvarum Pomâ—…rumque benedictiones Patrâ—…m antiquorum Abraham Isaâ—…c Jacob confortatae sint super te Almighty God give thee of the dew of Heaven and of the fat of the Earth abundance of Corn and Wine Let the Natioâ—…s serve thee and the Tribes adoâ—…e thee and let him be blessed that blesseth thee and God shall be thy helper Almighty God blesse you with the blessing of Heaven above in the Mountains and Hills and with the blessings of the Earth beneath with the blessings of Corn and Wine and Fruit and let the blessings of the old Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob be established upon thee through Christ our Lord. Blesse O Lord the vertuous couâ—…age of this King and accept the work of his handsâ—… replenish his Realm with the increase of thy Blessings with the fruit of the Heavens and the dew of the Water and the depths Let the influence of the Sun and the Moon drop down fatnesse upon the high Mountains and the Clouds rain plenty upon the low Vallies that the Earth may abound with store of all things Let the blessings of him that appeared in the Bushâ—… descend upon his head and the fulnesse of his blessings fall upon his Children and posterity Let his Feet be dipped in Oyl and his horn be exalted as the horâ—… of an Unicorn by which he may scatter his enemies from on the sace of the Earth the Lord that sitteth in Heaven be his defender for ever and ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Blâ—…sse we beseech thee O Lord these thy gifts and fanctifie them unto this holy use that by them we may be made partakers of the Body and Bloâ—…d of thy only begotten Son Jesus Christ. And thy servant our King James may be sed unto everlasting life of Soul and Body and inabled to the discharge of his great place and osfice whereâ—…nto thou hast called him of thy great goodnesse grant this O Lord for Jesus Christs sake our only mediator and advocate Amen Deus Rex Regum dominus dominaâ—…tium per quem Reges regnant legum â—…onditores â—…ura 〈◊〉 dignare 〈◊〉 benedicere â—…ic regâ—…le ornamenâ—…um presta ut famulus tuus Rex noster qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ornaâ—…ento bonorum morum sanctarum 〈◊〉 in conspectu tuâ—… sulgeat post teâ—…pora alieni vitam 〈◊〉 gloriâ—…m quod tempus non habet â—…ine fine possideat per Dominum nostrum c. O God the King of Kings and Lord of Lords by whom Kings do reiâ—…n and Law-givers do make good Lawes 〈◊〉 in thy favour to blesse this Kingly ornament and grâ—…nt that thy servant our King who shall wear it may shine in the spiâ—…it with the ornament of good life and holy actions and after this life ended he may forever enjoy that life and glory which hath no end through Christ our Lord. The prayer done the Abbot of Westminster arrayeth the King 1. With the supertunica or close Pall. 2. Then with the Tynsin hose 3. Then with his Sandalls The Spurs are put on by a Nobleman thereto by the King appointed Then the Archbishop taketh the Sword and layeth it before him on the Altar and sâ—…ith the Prayer Exaudi Domine c. Quaesumus Dominâ—… preces nostras hunc ensem quo â—…ic famulus tuus Jacobus se circumcingi desiderat majestatis 〈◊〉 dextera benedicere 〈◊〉 dignare quatenus defenfio atque protectio eccleâ—…iarum esse viduarum Orphanorum omniumque Deo Servientium contra saevitiam paganorum 〈◊〉 insidiantibuâ—… sit pavor terror formido per Dominum nostrum c. Hear our prayers we beseech thee and vouchsafe by thy right hand of majesty to blesse and sanctifie this Sword wherewith this thy servant James desireth to be girt that it may be a defence and protection of Churches Widows Orphans and all the Servants of God against the savage cruelty of Pagans and Infidels and that it may be a feâ—…r and terror to all those that lye in wait to do mischief through Christ our Lord. Then the Archbishop delivereth the Sword into the Kings hands saying Accipe gladium Which Sword is girt about him by a Peer thereto appointed Accipe gladium per manus Episcoporum licet indignas vice cum authâ—…ritate sanctorum Apostolorum consecratas tibi regaliter impositum nostraeque benedictionis â—…fficio in defensiouem sanctae fidei Ecclesiae divinitus ordinatum Et â—…sto memor de quo Psalmista prophetavit dicens Accingere gladio tuo super femur tuum potentissime ut per eundem vim aequitatis exerceas molem iniquitatis poteâ—…er destruas
sanctam Dei Ecclesiam ejusque fideles propugnando protegas Non minus sub fide falsos quam Christiani nominis hostes execreris ac destruas viduas pupillos clementer adjuves ac defendas desolata restaures restaurata conserves ulciscaris injusta Confirmes bene disposita quatenus haec in agendo virtutum triumpho gloriosus Justitiaeque cultor egregius cum mundi salvatora cujus typuâ—… geris in nomine sine fine merearis regâ—…are Qui cum patre â—…piritu Sancto c. Receive this Kingly Sword which is hallowed for the defence of the Faith of Christs holy Church and delivered unto thee by the hands of Bishops though unworthy yet Consecrated in the place of the holy Apostles and remember of whom the Psalmist did propheâ—… saying Gird thy self with thy Sword upon thy Thigh O thou most mighty and with this Sword exercise thou the force of Equity and mightily destroy the growth of Iniquity protect the holy Church of God and his faithful people and pursue Hereticks no lesse then Infidels defend and help Widdows and Orphans Restore the things that are gone to decay and maintain those things that are restored be revenged of injustice and confirm things that are in good order that doing these things thou maist be glorious in the triumph of Vertue and excellent in the ornament of Justice and reign for ever with the Saviour of the world whose image you bear who with the Father and the Holy ghost Then the Armill is puâ—… about his neck in the manner of a Stole and tyed to the boughts of his two Arms. The Archbishop saying Accipe armillas sinceritatis sapientiae divinaeque circumdationibus judicium quibus intelligas omnes operationes tuas contra hostes visibiles invisibiles posse esse munitas per Dominum nostrum c. Recive the Armill as a token of Gods embracing whereby all thy works may be defended against thy enemies both bodily and ghostly through Christ our Lord. Then the Mantle or open Pall is put on by the Abbor of Westminster The Archbishop saying Accipe pallium quatuor initiis formatum per quod intelligas quatuor mundi partes Divinae potestati esse subjectaâ—… Nec quenquam posse feliciter regnare iâ—… terris nisi cui potestas regnandi fuerit collocata de Coelis Receive this Pall which is formed with four Corners to let thee understand that the four quarters of the world are subject to the power of God and that no man can happily reign upon Earth who hath not received his authority from Heaven Then the Archbishop taketh the Crown into his hanâ—…s and saith this prayer Deus perpetuatis Duâ—… virtutum cunctarum hostium victor benedic hunc famulum tuum Jacobum tibi caput suum inclinantem prolixa sanitate prospera felicitate eum conserva ubicunque auxilium tuum invocaverit cito adsis protegas ac defendaâ—… Tribue ei quaesumus domine divitiaâ—… gratiae tuaeâ—… comple in bonis desiderium eâ—…us corona eum in misericordia tua tibique domino opia devotione jugiter famuletur per Dominum nostrum Iésum Christum filium c. O God of Eternity the commander of all Powers the vanquisher of all Enemies blesse this thy servant who boweth his head unto thy Majesty preserve him in long health and prosperous felicity be present with him proâ—…ect and defend him whensoever he calleth upon thee Give him we beseech thee the riches of thy Grace fill his soul with goodnesse and crown him with thy mercy and let him alwaies in godly devotion wait upon thee through thy Son our Lord Iesus Christ. The Archbishop Crowneth the King saying Coronet te Deus corâ—…na Galâ—…aque justiâ—…iae honore opere fortitudinis ut per officium nostrae benedictionis cum fide recta multiplici bonoram operum fructu ad Coronam pervenias regni perpâ—… Ipse largiente cujus regâ—…um permanet in secula seculorum God Crown thee with a Crown of Glory and Righteousnesse with the honor and work of Fortitude that thou by ouâ—… Ministery having a right Faith and manifold fruit of good works â—…aist obtain the Crown of an everlasting kingdome by the gift of him whose kingdome indâ—…eth for ever In the mean time the Quire singeth the Anthem Confortare Be strong â—…nd os a good courage and observe the Commandemâ—… of the Lord to walk in his wayes and keep his Ceremonies Precepts Testimonies and Iudgements and almighty God prosper and strengthen thee whithersoever thou goest The Lord is my Ruler therefore I shall want nothing Deus in virtute The King shall rejoyce in my strength O Lord exceeding Then he putteth the Ring on his Wedding finger saying Accipe regiae dignitatis aâ—…nulum per hun â—…e Catholicae fidei signaculum quatenus ut hodie ornaris â—…aput Princeps regni ac Populi ita perseveres auctor stabâ—… Christianitatis Christianae fidei ut felix in opere locuples in fide cum rege Regum glorieris Cui est honor gloria per aeterna secula seculorum Amen Receive the Ring of Kingly dignity and by it the seal of Christian Faith that as this day thou art adorned the head and Prince of this Kingdome and People so thou maist persevere as the Author and establisher of Christianity and the Christian Faith that being rich in Faith and happy in Works thou maist reign with him who is King of Kings to whom be glory and honour for ever and ever After this the Archbishop saith this prayer Deus cujus est c. omnis potestas dignitas da fâ—…mulo tuo propriae suae dignitatis effectum in qua te remunerante permaneat semperque te timeat tibique jugiter placere contendat per Dominum nostrum c. O God to whom belongeth all Power and Dignity give unto thy Servant the Fruit of his Dignity wherein grant he may long continue and fear â—…ee alwaies and alwaies labour to please thee through Christ our Lord. The King cometh to the Step of the Altar to receive the Sacrament The Archbishop ministreth the Bread The Abbot of Westminster the Cup. The King returneth to his Throne and there staieth the end of Service The Communion being done the King cometh down in Estate to the Altar Thence into King Edwards Chappell The King taketh off his Crown and delivereth it to the Archbishop who â—…aiethâ—… it on the Altar there The King withdraweth himself into the Traverse There the great Chamberlain of England disrobeth him of the Robes of King Edward the Confessor These Robes he immediately delivereth to the Abbot of Westminster The King is arrayed with his own Royal Robes provided for his Majesty to wear that day The King being newly arrayed cometh forth of the Traverse and goeth to King Edwards Altar There the Archbishop putteth on him the Crown which is provided for his Majesty to wear that day The King taketh again his Scepter with the Cross into his hand
Let thine Hands be strengthened and thy right Hand be exalted let Judgment be the preparation of thy Seat mercy and truth go before thy face Hallelujah Psal. 89. Misericordias Dei c. Glory be to the Father c. Whilest the Anthem is singing the Arch-bishop goeth down to the Altar or Table and resteth there Then is the King supported by two Bishops brought to the Altar and makes his Oblation After which he kneels at his Fald-stool and the Arch-bishop sayes this Prayer Deus visitator humilium O God who dost visit those that are humble and dost comfort them by thine Holy Spirit send down thy Grace upon this thy Servant King Charles that by him we may feel thy presence amongst us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Prayer ended the King sits down in his Chair and the Archbishop goeth unto him and asketh if he be willing to take the Oâ—…th appointed to be given at the Coronation of Kings His Majesty declaring his willingness the Archbishop ministreth the Questions following Archbishop Sir will you promise to serve Almighty God and as every good King in his Kingdom ought to do maintain the Gospel of Iesus Christ in this your Kingdom against all Itheism Profaneness Hâ—… Schism or Superstition whatsoever Rex I promise faithfully so to do Archbishop Sir will you promise to rule this People subject to you and committed to your Charge according to the Laws Constitutions and Customes of this your Kingdom causing asmuch as in you lyeth Justice and Equity to be ministred without partiality And to endevour the Peace of the Church of Christ and all Christian People Rex I grant and promise so to do Archbishop Sir will you likewise promise to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of the Crown of Scotland Rex I promise so to do Archbishop Sir We do also beseech you to grant and preserve unto us of the Clergy and to the Churches committed to our Charge all Canonical Priviledges and that you will defend and protect us as every good King ought in his Kingdom to defend his Bishops and the Churches that be under their Government The King answers With a willing heart I grant the same and promise to maintain you and every one of you with all the Churches committed to your charge in your whole Rights and Priviledges according to Law and Justice Then the King rising from his Chair is led to the Altar where in sight of all the people laying his hands upon the Bible he takes his Oath and sayes All the things which before I have promised I shall observe and keep â—…o God me help and by the Contents of this Book After rhe Oath the King returns to his Chair of State and then is sung the Hymn Veni Creator c. The Hymn finished the King kneeleth at his Foldstool and the Archbishop sayes this prayer We beseech thee O Lord holy Father almighty and everlasting God for this thy Servant King Charles that as at the first thou broughtest him into the world by thy Divine Providence and in the flower of his youth hast preserved him untill this present time So thou wilt evermore enrich him with the gift of Piety fill him with the grace of Truth and daily increase in him all goodnesse that he may happily enjoy the seat of supreme Government by the gift of thy supernal grace And being defended from all his Enemies by the Wall of thy mercy mâ—…y prosperously govern the people committed to his Charge After the Prayer the Letany is sung and at the close thereof this is to be added That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true Worshiping of thee in Righteousnesse and Holiness of life this thy servant Charles our King and Governor and so to the end Then is said this prayer by one of the Bishops that sings the Letany O Almighty and everlasting God Creator of all things Ruler of Angels King of Kings and Lord of Lords who madest thy Servant Abraham triumph over his Enemies didst give many victories to Moses and â—…nah the Governors of the people didst raise and exalt Daâ—…id thy Servant to be a King over them diâ—… enrich Solâ—…mon his Son with the gift of Wisdome and Unâ—…â—…nd blessedst him with peace and great prosperity Give ear we beseech thee unto our humble Prayers and multiply thy blessings upon this thy Servant who is now to be consecrated our King that He being strengthned with the faith of Abraham endued with the mildness of Moses armed with the fortitude of Joshuah exalted with the humility of David and beautified with the Wisdom of Solomon may please thee in all things and ever walk uprightly in thy wayes Defend him by thy mighty arm compass him with thy protection and give him to overcome all his and thine Enemies Honour him before all the Kings of the Earth Let him rule over Countries and let Nations adore him Establish his Throne with Judgement and Equity let Justice flourish in his dayes and grant that He underpropped by the due obedience and hearty love of his People may sit on the Throne of his Forefathers for many years and after this life may reign with thee in thine everlasting kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen The Letany thus ended the Archbishop beginneth to say aloud Lift up your Hearts and give thanks unto the Lord. Answer By the Bishops that sings the Letany We lift them up unto the Lord and to give thanks unto him it is meet and right Then the Archbishop says It is very meet and right and our bounden duty so to do and at all times and in all Places to give thanks to thee O Lord holy Father almighty and everlasting God the strength of thy Chosen and the exalter of the humble who in the beginning by sending the â—…oud of Waters didest punish the sins of the World and by a Dove bringing an Olive branch in her mouth didst give a token of Reconcilement to the Earth Who afterwards didst consecrate thy Servant Aaron a Priest by the anointing of Oyl as also by the pouring out of the same didst make Kings Priests and Prophets to govern thy People Israel And by the voice of the Prophet David didst foretel that the Countenance of thy Church should be made joyful with Oyl We boseech thee to bless and sanctifie this thy Servant King Charles that he may minister Peace unto this People that he may attain to the perfection of Government in Counsel and Judgment and that his Countenance may be alwayes cheerfull and amiable to all his People through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen This Prayer said the King rises from his devotion and reposeth himself awhile in the Chair of State in which he is to be Crown'd Afterwards he goeth to the Altar and standeth with his Back close unto it disrobes himself of his upper Garment his under Coat having the loops opened in the Places where he is to be anointed Then he