he doth present his people with regnal benedictions if his Subjects do know how to obey he doth know how to cherish if they do know how to be Liegemen he doth know how to be a King Here is the Mannah which doth feed all the Camp and the Alabaster box of pretious Spikenard which doth fill with the sweet savour of it the whole house where it is opened As excellent Majesty is added to him Dan. 4.36 so excellent magnificence doth flow from him as the land is the land of his dominion 2 Chron. 8.6 so it is the land of his beneficence To be a general ayd this he doth esteem his royalty to benefit all this he doth account as his high Prerogative For this Pyrrhus was stiled by his people Aquila the Eagle Plutarch because with a quick eye he looked through all his Regions Alexander l. 2. c. 11. and Artaxerxes was called Mnemon because he was mindful of all his Subjects wants Marmeus l. 11. Hist Rer. and Alphonsus the 10th of Aragon was named Largus for his large and liberal affection to all them within his Dominions yea how many Princes else were honoured with the illustrious Titles of Fundatores the Founders of the peoples happiness and Liberatores the Deliverers of them from slavery and Conservatores the preservers of their freedoms yea they knew not how to abound enough to them in exultations and exaltations approbations and acclamations traunces and triumphs they hung up Tablets and built Statues to them that what their minde and memories could not perpetuate their Marbles and Monuments might Oh they held themselves infinitely advanced generally blessed by them And indeed what are good Princes but storehouses where a whole Nation may have supply and Conduits where a State in general may fill its Pitchers here is the pool of Bethesdah which healed all sick of Diseases which when the Angel stirs the waters will step into it A good King doth give a publick call to all the people of the land wishing them to resort to him and they shall be favoured and fostered Come Nobles saith he come Bishops come Judges come Merchants come Prisoners come Enemies and ye shall find my beneficent Nature 1. Come Nobles ye which have been brought up in Scarlet and yet have embraced the Dunghil ye which are of Honorable houses and yet the Other-house had put you down which have been men of renown and yet Abjects have confronted you which are Nobles by birth and yet the children of base men viler then the earth which one would have disdeigned to set with the dogs of his flock have insulted over you which are Lords and servants of servants have striven to be your Masters which are to be the great Judges of the land to punish Malefactors and yet have been handled as if ye had been found amongst Theeves and been the grand Delinquents of the times which are to be the great Council of the Kingdom but have been used as if ye had not been fit to be Clerkes of the Council not to be the little finger of a Parliament but have been unhoused and could find no place to sit in unless ye would step down into an house of Commons Oh it doth pity me saith such a King to think how long ye have been obscured and lived rather like Cloister-men then Noblemen Come ye and ye shall find that ye have a King that will seek you out and take you up ye shall be no longer the Scorne and Mockage of the vulgar If ye know your Fountain of honor the spring is not yet dried up as ye were created by a Prince so by a Prince shall ye be confirmed ye are the Mighty of the Land 2 Kings 24.15 and ye shall be as Mighty as ever were any of your Progenitors without an Herald at Armes I will preserve to you your Scutcheons and Pedigrees I will re-establish you in your pristine honors and dignities and restore unto you PEEREAGE 2. Secondly come Bishops ye which have the Consecration of the Lord upon your Foreheads which are Starres in the right hand of God which have an Apostolical institution and an Apostolical succession which are the Advocates of faith the Champions of truth and the Bulwarks and Buttresses of the Protestant Church whose learned Treatises are your own fame the Schismaticks envy and the Jesuites tortures whose prudent milde and fatherly Government though the best discipline upon earth cannot be free from scandals and exceptions by them which would not in all things govern half so well hath been the Delight of judicious Princes the satisfaction of well-principled Nobles and more acceptable to the people in general and to Dissenters in particular then the coercive power of a more rigid party Oh ye which have the key of knowledge and the key of jurisdiction to whom belong the Pastoral staffe the stole and the chaire Oh it doth grieve me saith such a Prince that ye which have had such a Primitive calling and been reverenced by all Antiquity and been intertained with such an high and honorable reception wheresoever Monarchical government hath been setled that of late to the contempt of Apostolical Ordination the scorne of Ecclesiastical usage the shame of the Reformed Churches and the Inlet of heresy and blasphemy have been so declined decried despised defamed and even defaced and that because some would have you more then men and some have voyced you forth to be but trivial men and some have made you the worst of men well I find that the most Orthodox Fathers the Holy Apostles and our Blessed Saviour met with as base aspersions and as curs'd language therefore these things do not move me your calling is just the Orders are faultless I cannot expect you to be Angels it is well that I finde you for the generall to be the wifest and the best of Men. Therefore gather together ye are not utterly a lost calling your King knew the worth of you and the Church feels the want of you I will therefore put your â—rosier again into your hands invest you in your ancient Robe and establish you in your Prelacy 4 Come Judges ye which have Benches to exercise judicature in and are the Oracles of the land to determine the great difficulties of right which sit by the Kings Writ and do represent the Kings person that as in him is the Portion of the Law-giver so there is in you the Portion of the Sence-givers for though ye be not Law-makers yet ye are Law-Remembrancers the Text is not yours but the Commentary is yours for what are ye but the great Interpreters of the mysteries of Statutes and Usages Yea the great Antiquaries of Records and Customes Ye have eyes so cleere that ye can see as far as the Conquest and can Spy out the motions of Government in the Saxon Heptarchy yea that finde out the ballance of the Romane justice nay perhaps if need were could glance at Brutes groundsel and settle
under his mercy What now then nothing but proclaiming of Rebels searching abroad for Taytours committing to Dungeons holding up hands at the barrs of justice Rackings and Gibbetings in the Reign of such a Prince no some wiser then other some An hasty precipitate Prince might do this but a man of understanding and knowlege hath no such spight or rancour in him There is not an hasty word heard not a disturbing Messenger sent abroad not a vindictive action appearing but all in another accent They which were his own Enemies are not so much as called Enemies much less prosecuted as Enemies except therefore they would have the Crown from his head what would they have more from the head and heart of such a Milde Mercifull Prince that weares the Crowne After intestine warres and bloody encounters what is the issue There is a reconciliation all Friends a generall Amnesty is past the King and his Enemies are at peace There is not a man which will hurt the King there is not a man whom the King will harme his Enemies will rather fall at his feet then strike at his head and the King is readier to shed teares then blood The King may rest in his Throne and his Enemies may rest in their beds Let them both rest and let not all the Machiavilians in the land all the Jesuites at Rome all the Devils in Hell be able to set them at variance We have had a chargeable insurrection a dismall warre a lasting and wastng rent but praised be the great over-ruling God that he by an Heavenly providence hath brought in the right Heir and by an Heavenly inspiration hath knit the hearts of three Kingdoms to acknowledge this Heir that not only the King and his faithfull Subjects are met but the King and his fiercest Enemies are reconciled Oh vexation to the turbulent Polititians Oh torment to the State-troubling Jesuites Oh the mysteries of Gods secret actings Oh the miracles of his unsearchable wisdome Consider and confess ponder and publish recount and record weigh and wonder sing for joy and weep for joy Ask now of the dayes that are past since the day that God Created man upon earth enquire from the one end of heaven to the other if there came to passe such a great thing as this or whether any such like thing hath been heard Deut. 4.32 A King without the Land and a single person voted never again to reign in the Land and the whole Nation filled with Swordmen Pikemen and Spearmen to fight it out to the last drop of blood rather then the designe should fall to the ground and yet in the exiled condition of the King and against the desperate Decrees of such an Illegal Irregal Depriving Depraving Deposing Decrowning Party coming through the midst of many which had been ancient Enemies not one lifting tongue or weapon that was generally known either to oppose his entrance or resist his right God to astonishment hath brought the King into the Land and brought him to his Throne setled him and setled his Enemies and all things so miraculously ordered in Heaven and so sweetly composed upon earth that all differences are ended in accord and all jarres in embracements that there are nothing but mutual and reciprocall desires and vowes for one anothers welfare Oh mercy mever to be forgotten Oh miracle never enough to be admired they require a Trophee they deserve an Hosannah yea a volley of Hymns to celebrate them Thus can the providence of God settle a distracted Nation thus can the prudence of a King pacifie a displeased distempered people and turn Capital enmity by degrees into cordial unity But to draw to a close a King that can be thus good to his Enemies to whom will he not be benigne I have shewn you how many shall have a sense of his happy Government and who may not have a share of it Yes expect it one expect it every one I say no more but that a Prudent Prince is extensive in felicity He is a blessing to a whole STATE But by a man of understanding and Knowledge the STATE theref shall be prolonged Now let us come to the lastingness of the Cure shall be prolonged From hence observe that a prudent Prince doth set up a Stable Kingdom not for a life but for generations His ego nec metus rerum nec tempora pono Virgil. 1. Aeneid There are neither measures nor stints to be put to such things wise men do not bury all their happiness with them as if when they were dead their children must go seek for estates no the Fathers shall enjoy it Virgil ibâ—d Et nati natorum qui nascentur ab illis their Sonnes shall inherit it and their Sonnes Sonnes after them so that they are happy in themselyes and happy in their posterity therefore is it said that the root of the righteous shall not be moved Prov 12.3 Such leave a deep rooting which long continuance of time can hardly pluck up Might may gain riches for a season but prudence doth bring in durable riches Pro 8.18 This is not greatness for a glance or glimpse but for perpetual generations Gen. 9.12 or to the utmost bounds of the everlasting hills Gen. 49.26 that as a wise mans name and blood shall remain in his posterity so shall his felicity Whatsoever doth carry no fastening with it but is like unto a pinne half driven home yet this is a nayle in a sure place yea such a nayle as a man may hang upon it all the glory of the Fathers house and of the Nephewes and of the posterity Es 22,23 24. Quaeris Alcide parem Seneca dost look for any Champion like to Hercules and dost thou look for any Founder like to the prudent man no he doth build for ages The King that judgeth according to truth and he is the wisest Prince his Throne shall be established for ever Pro. 29.14 Was it not verified in David Yes God promised to make him a house and when his daies should be fulfilled and he should sleep with his Fathers God would set up his seed which should come out of his loynes and the Kingdom should be established 2 Sam. 7.12 VVas not this promise found true in the event yes though Judah had some Kings that were none of the best yet for the first Founders sake the Kingdom was a long time preserved as it is manifest in the reign of Abiam who was bad enough yet for Davids sake did the Lord his God give him a light in Jerusalem 1 Kings 15 4. and the like is seen in Jehorams reign who was desperately evil for he not only walked in the sinnes of Israel but took the Daughter of Ahab to wife yet the Lord would not destroy Judah for his servant Davids sake as he had promised to give him a light and to his seed for ever 2 Kings 8.19 yea no enemy for a long time could scale that City which a wise
you to your Kingdome and humbly imploring that the State thereof may be prolonged submissively I take leave and rest Your Majesties sincere suppliant and sacrificing subject Tho. Reeve Waltham Abbey ERRATA Ministers for Monsters p. 11. l. 1. dread such an army for dread such an Enimy p. 15. l. 30. ENGLAND'S RESTITUTION Proverbs xxviij 2. For the transgression of a Land many are the Princes thereof but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged SOlomon sheweth here the high misery of a Nation many Princes and he sheweth what it is that brings in this plague the transgression of the Land For the transgression of a Land many are the Princes thereof But let Solomon demonstrate yet there are those which will remonstrate for what is the cause of the alteration of States and the change of governments that good Rulers are taken away and bad come in their stead is it transgression No we are too great Advocates to our own corruptions to confesse the original of sorrows to flow from our own prevarications they are not our many sinnes that are the occasion of the many Princes but there are many other accidents some look to the malignancy of Planets some to the improvidence of Statesmen some to the turbulency of mens natures but Transgression is not the procatarctical cause No the Land doth suffer but the Land is innocent it is the judgement of the Land but not the trespass of the Land the tribulation of the Land but not the transgression of the land Thus all the judgements from heaven cannot awaken the sinner out of the spirit of slumber Ionas doth sleep in the midst of the Tempest and he must be taken by lot before he will acknowledge that the ship was ready to be cast away for his sake Pindarus Pychon formosus this venemous serpent shall be cryed up to be amiable But when we have used all our subterfuges our own guilts will be found to be the State-Troublers if there be changes of Governours it is the iniquity of the times which hath buried the good Governours if there be many Princes it is the transgression of the Land that hath shewn to the Land these many strange faces For the transgression of a Land many are the Princes thereof well a breach is made how shall it be closed up mourn ye for your sinnes and the Land shall no longer mourn take away the transgression of the Land and the tryal of the Land is taken away the many Princes are gone and a good Prince come in their stead a Prince indeed that shall cause the wasted Land to flourish a decayed State to be prolonged But by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged For the transgression of the Land many are the Princes thereof but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged So that here we have Solomon's proverb and his prophesie His proverb For the transgression of the Land many are the Princes thereof his prophesie that after the many unfortunate Princes a glorious Prince should arise who should blesse the Land and prolong the State But by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged Many Princes made the Land unhappy but had it never been happy before yes he that talks of many Princes doth intimate that there was once a choice Prince for as the transgression of the Land brought in many Princes so the obedience of the Land was blessed with one eminent Prince a Prince of bloud a Prince of virtues the honour of the Throne the Mirrour of Princes a Prince that was the Crystal drop of innocencie the bright flame of devotion the Gem of Justice Chastity clemency constancy affability wisdome bounty and in a word the Treasury of all Royal perfections the traunce of all his loyal Subjects and the admiration of strangers who whilest he was in power preserved their Religion Lawes Liberties and endeavoured what in him lay to make the Church a Sanctuary and the Kingdome a Chauntry But this Prince was too happy for the times too good for the Land the people having lost their obedience they lost their Prince the innocency of the Land being turned into the transgression of the Land this Prince proved but short-lived he was taken away by disaster the sinnes of the Land had filled this Nation full of troubles his person full of hazards and took away his precious peace and at last took away his precious life turned a Prince into a prisoner and a Monarch into a Martyr so that there remained nothing but to cry out after him oh beate Sesti Horace oh happy Sestius well he being gone what was the fate of this transgressing Land judgement from heaven brought in many Princes many Princes what Princes 1. One Prince seemed like a Giant I have read of many Giants but this was a Giant indeed as big well-nigh as five hundred men above the stature or dimensions of any of the Anakims or Zanzummims How did this Giant reign and how long oh the reign was fierce there was nothing but exactions and impositions depredations upon Estates and pressures of Conscience How long was the reign too long and yet not very long for the government was so intolerable that this Giant was plucked away by force thrust by with scorn and removed without a groan well after that Prince was gone who was the next Lu. ad Cal. Pi. One which insigni praestinguit imagine visus daunâ—ted the age with his Looks a man of ire fire tumour tumult terrour torment a Gorgon a Centaure an enraged Ajax an Hercules furens which would warre against right reason lawes leagues motions modesty promises precedents orders oathes decrees destinies which would set all in commotion and combustion call for aid above but if that would not come readily force it from beneath consult with cunning men not refuse Astrologers Magicians to give advice Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta movebo Yea mingle heaven and earth together to accomplish designes Oh the base arts of ambitious men oh the damned attempts of aspiring Politicians next the red Dragon can any thing be more venemous next Belzebub can any thing be blacker or give a worse sent of brimstone Urit miserum gloria pectus this same desire of worldly glory doth scorch a wretched breast Bern. serm Quadrages Ambitio subtile malum doli artifex tinea sanctitatis ex remediis morbos creans Ambition is a subtil evil the prime artisant of deceit the moth of holinesse creating diseases of remedies Bonsin l. 8. Dec. 2. with Zingis it will kill all that will not obey and stick at nothing which will advance Plutarch yea with Pyrrhus out of a thirst to get more it doth not regard what already it doth possesse but aim at greater things and never care by what means it doth obtain them just like this haughty Prince before
that was once said to be Victor Victoriae Id. ibid. The Conqueror of Conquest at last was cast into chaines by Laelius Q. Cepio that was called Patronus Senatus the Patrone of the Senate had at last his bowels torne out by the Hangman Oh how many of these Glowormes have we seen shine brightly for a time How many of these Pageants have we beheld pass along the streets with pomp and glory for a season for God divers times doth shine upon the counsel of the Ungodly they rest in their houses and florish in their Palaces they walk with stretched out necks and puff at their Inferiors they build their nests in the Stars and wear pride like a chaine about their necks Oh how lofty are their eyes and their eye-lids are lifted up But what is all this but as the brightness of a Falling-star which doth shine so long as the unctuous matter doth continue but then doth drop down in gelly Worldly glory doth dazle much for a while but it is but fluid and transitory How mad are we then that are apt to be inchanted with present greatness How ready are we to magnifie any sort of men which do thrust into Authority by us they shall be accepted extolled and said to be Governors designed from Heaven to rule over us they shall be crouched unto and have all the flattering Titles that Time-serving Parasites can invent Oh your Excellency Oh your Serene Highness these same Larves shall be taken for natural faces these same Usurpers shall be cried up as lawful princes But beware of this delusion for may not the worst of men have the best of Fortunes Yes I my self have seen the wicked in great prosperity Psal 37.35 To them alone the land may be given Job 15.19 Their eyes may start out with Fatness and they may have Collops in their Flanks Job 19.27 But how long will this hold nay how soon will it be gone have they any more than a Lease of this greatness can they convey it to their Heirs by free-deed no they have but their term and when that is expired the posterity hath scarce the rags of the Fathers Robes Away therefore with all mutable fading pomp that is the true greatness that hath a permanency in it as here that is the true State that is Prolonged But by a man of Vnderstanding and Knowledge the State thereof shall be Prolonged Secondly this doth shew that it is not in the power of man To cut off the entaile of States The Government may be interrupted but again renewed for a while disturbed but afterwards prolonged Away then with them that think they can shoot away Principalities out of the Gun-room and blow down States with Votes break Scepters and dash in pieces Crowns at pleasure Monarchy say they shall never return again into this Land there is an end of the Single Person nay some there are that pretend they can see the dooms of Princes in the stars and poetize Kings out of their Thrones with Mystical Magical Verses Mars Puer Alâ—cto Virgo Vulpes Leo Nullus Or raze out just Titles to Soveraignty by throwing down dead Images or give the last Exequies to Royal Lines by crying Exiit no there may be a dead winter for a time but at the Spring the Righteous shall flourish as the Palme tree Psal 92,12 There may be some opposition and obstruction for a while but all the weapons that are formed against thee shall not prosper and every tongue that riseth up against thee shall be condemed this is the heritage of the Lords Servants and their righteousness is of me saith the Lord Isa 54.17 Though there be not cleer day on the suddain for them yet Light is sown for the righteous Psal 97.11 Though there may be some waiting yet the Patient abiding of the righteous shall be gladness Prov 10.28 Sigon l. 11. Occid Imp. cap. 11. Honorius the Son of the great Theodosius being expelled his Kingdom at last recovered it Fulgos l. 6. and so did Justinian the Second after several indignities endured by Leontius and Tyberius Id. ibid. and so did Andronicus when he had been driven out of the Empire by Emanuel Saxo Grammaticus reports the like of Hiarnus Syward and Jarmericus and infinite it were to relate all examples that to this end might be produced Therefore let no man think that accidents can quite throw down Thrones or present Casualties can be perpetual Fates to Monarchies No Governments have their interchanges as the State here that had various chances under the many Princes yet when a wise Prince came to rule it was Prolonged But by a Man of Vnderstanding and Knowledge the State thereof shall be Prolonged 3 This doth shew that that Greatness is uncomfortable which is unconstant and that Felicity is not profitable which will not be prolonged Here is much striving in the world to get vast Estates and when all is done men have no confidence for their continuance What man is there that hath built a a new house and hath not dedicated it Deut. 20.5 Here are many Builders but few Dedicators they rather heap together Estates then hallow them so long as they may get they care not by what means they get and are these revenues like to prosper is there no more required to happiness but thine own industry can thy own ripe head or right hand settle an estate no blind are the Dizzards of these times which think to raise fortunes by the engine of Endeavor they carke and spare and gripe and think that is the high way to preferment yea the only way to make Possessions firme if they be but provident the Estate shall be Prolonged it is no matter for Gods Providence but their own but alas do not these men at last find that their hands may stretch and their brains may retch and that in conclusion they do but spend their strength in vaine and that they shall bring forth nothing but the wind Endeavor I confess is requisite for I know that the Fool that fold his hands together shall eat his own Flesh Eccles 4.8 But endeavor is not all for I know likewise that the anxious worldling may unfold both his hands and not pamper his flesh There is the paineful Fool as well as the slothfull Fool they are both empty Sculls It is true that the sluggard doth bereave his own house for by slothfulness the Roof of the House doth go to decay Eccles 10.18 And it is as true that the Worldling that doth think to fetch in all by his restless pains doth but labor in the very fire and weary himself for vanity Heb. 2.13 What great substance is there to be gotten out of the fire and that which is gotten doth it not carry such an heat in it that it will consume all to nothing But I have nothing to do with the idle Fool but the busy toylsom Fool. Come forth then thou turmoiling Idiot thou which dost sweat thy self
of the dungeon hath freedome no trances no extasies yes Let us praise the Lord who hath remembered us in our base estate for his mercy endureth fâ—r ever And hath rescued us from our Oppressours for his mercy endureth for ever Psal 136.23,24 What people once more miserable what people now more happy magnifie your God and kisse his present extol his mercy and be ravished with his Man We have had enough of the Many men here is the one and the Onely Man we have had enough of the intruding men here is the interessed man we have had enough of the self ended man here is the genraell-ended man the right republike man the true and great Statesman a Man that doth mind nothing but the common good that doth preferre the welfare of the Nation before the splendor of his owne palace a Man that is naturally ours a man that is cordially ours a Man that is wholy ours the Man of the Kingdom the Man for the Kingdome a Brittish man the Brittish glory what would ye expect in man that is not to be found in this Man what would ye desire in man that is not eminently in this Man I am unwilling to call him Man doubtlesse he is celestiall or let him be Man but withall call him Mirrour A Prince of constellations a Prince of the Sunne a Prince that hath in him the influence of the third heavens yea I might say the inspiration of Gods own brest the Prince of Gods right eye and Gods right hand Blessed Prince that enjoys such a God happie Land that enjoys such a Prince Since the Foundations of the earth all things considered when were there so many mercies and miracles shewn in one Prince I admire them and almost adore them sure I am I may God for them This Age hath the fruit of them after ages will have the bruit of them that we had judgement enough to prize them or thankfulnesse enough to honour them Oh that this should be the Prince that God in the sight of the whole world would Crown with his own right Hand That this should be the Land where such a Darling of Heaven should raign To speak much of him is but his desert to speak all of him is beyond my All. It had need be some Appelles that should draw this Picture or some Thamiris the sonne of Philammon whose songs were said to be composed by all the Muses which should be the Precentor in this Dittie Yet thus much I can and will say of him and that not only for to shew my Princes honour but the peoples happinesse that his birth is Royal and blessed art thou Oh Land when thy King is the sonne of Nobles Now where is there a Prince in Christendom which can derive such an ancient Linage Secondly That his puissance is proved and approved his valour being the fame of all Nations Thirdly That his patience is renowned he having shewn himself the suffering Anvile both of necessities and indignities What should I speak of more his Temperance is an Example and his clemencie is beyond Example Should I set out his other perfections and break a string in the expressing of them some Grashopper or other would be so kind as to leap upon my Instrument and sing out that which I might be defective in Strabo l. 6. as it happened to Eunomus when he contended with Ariston For his Eminencies are so well known that they are the daily speech of the vulgar To abridge therefore much that might be spoken I shall only give him the just praise of my Text and say that whatsoever a rare Man he be in other things he is a proper Man I mean a proper man to cure a Diseased and perishing State for he is a Man of Understanding and Knowledge Briefly to descant upon both these First He is a Man of Understanding in heavenly things he will own no Faith but that which is inspired nor no Worship but that which is Primitive nor no Ministry but that which is Apostolical nor no conversation but that which is unblemished He doth desire a bright Church more then a glorious Court Secondly He is a Man of Knowledge in temporal things He that in his greatest extremities beyond-Sea hath wronged none but hath preserved the honour of his justice will not come come home to his own to feed upon his peoples Birthrights there is nothing in him that doth seem like a claw For matters of Judicature the Administration of Justice is like to be as free under him as the light of Heaven for as he hath the ablest Judges so he will make them the faithfullest he that caâ—…ies such an eye over his Bishops will likewise watch over his Judges that there may be no remissnesse partiality nor corruption in them He doth set up his Royal Standard to the whole Nation and if those which were entrusted by him do not weigh out justice to his people he will as soon punish a Judge as a Judge should a Malefactour or an Oppressour howsoever if any thing should escape that way for want of his priviâ—y it shall be the sinne of the Judges and not of the Prince For the advancement of the welfare of the Nation ye need not doubt it for as he is a King so his Kingdom doth lye close under his Eyelâ—…â—…ea it is deeply engraven into the bottom or â—his 〈◊〉 the benefit of his people being as dear to him 〈◊〉 the Râ—… of his Crown-land His Presence hath â—…ken aâ—…ly 〈◊〉 hindrances to obstruct Trade and His Princely care shall be to add all furtherances that all Callings both by Sea and Land may prosper for he is very sensible that his Subjects stock is his Bank it being impossible if there be not the height of tenaciousnesse and ingratitude that there can be a wanting Prince where there is a flourishing people In point of knowledge I do fear him but in one thing and that it the first the preserving of his own Rites but that he will not fail in for want of Knowledge but through abundance of good nature for I hear that he hath a heart so great and an hand so liberal that he will give Royalties to expresse Bounty but this perhaps may be but a particular mans fear my wise Prince in time may prove as great an Husband of his Rights as others would have him a boundlesse Distributer But if this should be his errour it were but his own injurie and an exuberancy of an heroical and magnificent Spirit Thus then I have now shewn you what your Prince is and it is fit for every one to know the worth of his own Jewel to honour a Prince is a part of loyaltie Give honour to whom honour belongeth Fear God and honour the King Honour me before the people said Saul and Samuel did not refuse it To ascribe more to a King then is due is flattery to substract from a King what he doth deserve is Felony And as there may be many Parasites so I doubt there are a great company of Crown-plunderers What I have uttered I intend rather for an Alarum-bel then a Trumpet for an Incentive then a Panegyrick to quicken your thankfulnesse then to decipher my Princes perfections and this I think is both duty and conscience If he be such a Prince then affect him admire him value him reverence him Think whit a miserie ye had what a blessing ye have oh strange alteration Oh blessed change Have ye a King and such a King then do nothing to diminish his Worth to disturbe his Government to prejudice his Rights to injurie his person Malicious is that eye which coth look upon him with spight Venomous is that heart which doth envie his Government and cursed is that hand that would assault his person Would any one throw down that dish by which he should be fed Pluck out that eye by which he should see Bruise that foot by which be should walk Clip out that Tongue by which he should speak Stamp under foot that evidence by which he should inherit Rend in pieces that Garment wherewith he should be cloathed Burn that house wherein he should dwell abase scorn scandall maligne mischieve murther that King that should make him happie both for bodie and soule Is this the subjection to a King Is this the obedience to a Man of Understandidg and Knowledge God deliver us from such loyal Subjects here is horrid Allegiance I beseech you therefore by the remembrance of the Many Princes ye have had and of the one Prince ye have by the men of violent spirits and politick heads and by the Man of Understanding and Knowledge by your former slaverie and your present libertie by your Kings Right and your Kings Graces by your Countrymens welfare and your Enemies watchfulnesse by the honour of obedience and the shame of Rebellion by the names of Subjects and the Noblenesse of Saints by the obligation of Oathes and the commination of Gods Lawes by the impartial Judges which ye feel in your own bosomes and the incorrupt Judge which ye will meet with at the Throne by the fruit ye desire under the Ministery and by the comforts you expect upon your death-beds that laying aside all jealousies irefull passages exasperated passions humours and tumours motions and commotions ye do bow before such a King and blesse God for such a Man Know his just Claim and acknowledge his Perfections pray for his prosperous Raign and do what ye can to preserve his precious and sacred Person so may the King have safety thy Kingdom prosperity Religion Honour the Church Unity the Gospel propagation Faith Purity the Nation may be preserved the State may be prolonged and Upon all the Glory there may be a Defence All which God grant for his mercies sake Amen Amen FINIS