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A91273	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. ... 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.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P4075; Thomason E1037_3; ESTC R203326	204,194	342

everie person and persons inhabiting within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall alwaies upon that day diligentlie and faithfullie resort to the Parish Church or Chapel accustomed or to some usual Church or Chapel where the said Morning prayer preaching or other service of God shall be used and then and there to abide orderlie and soberlie during the time of the said prayers preaching or other service of God there to be used and ministred And because all and everie person may be put in mind of this Dutie and be the better prepared to the said holy service Be it enacted by Authoritie aforesaid That every Minister shall give warning to his Parishioners publikelie in the Church at morning prayer the Sunday before everie such fifth day of November for the due observation of the said day And that after morning Prayer or preaching upon the said fifth day of November they read publicklie distinctlie and plainlie this present Act. Upon this occasion there was a special Book of Prayers and Thanksgivings compiled by the Bishops and Clergy prescribed by Authority to be annually read in all Churches and Chapels on the 5th of November wherein amongst others there were four remarkable prayers and thanksgivings relating to the King Queen Prince all the Royal posterity Nobility and Magistrates which I shall here insert I. ALmighty God who hast in all Ages shewed thy power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States professing thy Holy and Eternal Truth against the wicked conspiracies and malicious practises of all the enemies thereof We yield unto thee from the very ground of our hearts all possible praise and thanks for the wonderfull and mighty Deliverance of our gracious Soveraign King Iames the Queen the Prince and all the Royal branches with the Nobility Clergy and Commons of this Realm assembled together in Parliament by popish treachery appointed as sheep to the slaughter and that in most barbarous and savage manner no age yielding example of the like cruelty intended towards the Lords anointed and his people Can this thy goodness O Lord be forgotten worthy to be written in a pillar of Marble that we may ever remember to praise thee for the same as the fact is worthy a lasting monument that all posteritie may learn to detest it From this unnatural conspiracy not our merit but thy mercy not our foresight but thy providence hath delivered us not our love to thee but thy love to thy anointed servant and thy poor Church with whom thou hast promised to be present to the end of the world And therefore not unto 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 snares 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 these 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 Church and give us grace by true and serious repentance to avert these and the like Judgements from us This Lord we earnestlie crave at thy mercifull hands together with the countenance of thy powerfull protection over our dread 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 confounding their horrible and devilish enterprise plotted against our Soveraign Lord the King his Royal House and the whole State 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 marvelleus Deliverance we confesse it was and is thy mercy thy mercy alone most mercifull Father that we are not consumed 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 State with thy Gospel and true Religion amongst us Good Lord give us true repentance 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 wickednesss 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 our 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 heaped 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 hitherto either to prevent or overthrow at this time principally thou hast most strangely discovered an horrible and cruel plot and device for the m●ssacring as well of thy dear 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 our selves 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 ●o 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 Speak●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 g●ory 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 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 s●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 spirit 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 goodnesse 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 doings 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 that 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 servent 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 discern just things Lords bear rule and all Judges of the earth execute judgement

regum cuivit gloriatur cum De● patre spiritis sancto God the Son of God Christ Jesus our Lord which was anoynted by his Father with the oyl of gladnesse above his fellowes he by his holy anoynting pour down upon thy head the blessing of the holy Ghost and make it enter into the inward part of thy heart so that thou maist receive invisible grace and having justly governed thy temporall Kingdome thou maist reign with him eternally who onely being without sin doth live in glory with God and the Father and the holy Ghost Deut qui es justorum gloria misericordia peccatorum qui misisti filium tuum pretioso sanguine su● genus humanum redi●sere qui conteris bella propugnatores in te sperantium 〈◊〉 arbitrio omnium regnorum continetur potestas Te humiliter deprecamur ut praesentem famulum tuum Jacobum in tua misericordia confidentem in praesenti sede regali benedieas ●ique propitius adesse digneris ut qui tua expetit protectione defendi omnibus fit hostibus fortior Fac eum Domine beatum esse victorem de invictissimis Corona eum cor●nae justitiae pietatis ut ex toto corde tota mente in te credens tibi deserviat Sanctum tuam Ecclesiam defendat sublim●t populumque sibi commissum juste regat nullis insidiantibus malis eum in justitiam convertat Accende domine Cor ejus ad amorem tuae gratiae per hoc unctionis oleum unde unxisti Sacerdotes Reges Prophetas quatinus diligens justitiam per tramitem similiter justitiae populum ducens post peracta à te disposita in regali excellentia ann●rum curricula pervenire ad aeterna gaudia mereatur Per Christum Jesum c. God which art the glory of the Righteous and the mercy of Sinners who hath sent thy Son to redeem mankinde with his precious blood who bringest Wars to an end and defendest those that trust in thee upon whose good will and pleasure doth depend the strength of all Kingdomes we humbly pray in this Royal seat to blesse this thy servant who putteth his considence in thy mercy vouchsafe in thy favour to be present with him that he which desireth to be defended by thy protection may be stronger then his Enemies Crown him with the Crown of Justice and Piery that with all his heart and all his minde he may trust in thee serve thee defend and advance thy holy Church and govern the people committed to his charge in justice and equity Kindle O Lord his heart with the love of thy grace by the inward annoynting wherewith thou hast annoynted Priests Kings and Prophets that he loving Justice and leading his people by the wayes of righteousnesse after the glorious course of this life which thou hast appointed he may come to eternall joy through Christ The prayers being ended First a shallow Quoife is put on the Kings head because of the annoynting If his Majesties haire be not smooth after it there is King Edwards Ivory combe for that end Then the Colobium or Dalmatica is put on him After the putting on whereof the Archbishop saith the prayer Deus Rex Regum c. The King putteth on the Linnen gloves part of the Regalia Then he taketh off his Sword wherewith he was girt before He goeth to the Altar and there offereth it The chief Peer then present offereth and redeemeth the Sword Which having done he draweth the Sword out and carryeth it naked before the King from that time all the solemnity The Archbishop taketh the Scepter with the Crosse and delivereth it into the Kings right hand with these words Accipe sceptrum regiae potestatis insigne virgam scilicet regni rectam virgam virtutis qua teipsum benè regas sanctans Ecclesiam populumque videlicet Christianum tibi à D●mino commissum regia virtute ab improbis defendas pr●●os corrigas rectos pascisices ut viam rectam tenere possint tuo juvamine dirigas quatenus de temporali regno ad aeternum regnum perven●as ipso adjuvante cujus regnum permanet in secula seculorum Amen Receive the Scepter the signe of Kingly power the Rod of the Kingdome the Rod of Vertue that thou maist govern thy felf aright and defend the holy Church and Christian people committed by God unto thy charge Punish the wicked and protect the just and lead them in the way of righteousnesse that from this Temporal kingdome thou maist be advanced to an Eternal kingdome by his goodnesse whose kingdome is everlasting After the Archbishop saith this prayer Omnium Domine fons bonorum cunctorumque Deus institutorum perfectuum tribue quaesumus famulo tuo Jacobo adeptam benè regere dignitatem à te sibi praestitum honorem dignare corroborare Honorifica eum prae cunctis regibus uberi eum benedictione locupleta in solio regni sirma stabilitate consolida visita eum sobole praesta eum prolixitatem vitae In diebus ejus semper oriatur Justitia ut cum Jocunditate laetitia eterno glorietur in regno O Lord the Fountain of all good things and the author of all good proceedings grant we beseech thee to this thy servant James that he may order aright the dignity he hath obtained Vouchsafe to confirm the honour which thou hast given him honour him before all Kings and enrich him with a rich benediction establish him in the throne of this Realm visit him with increase of Children let justice spring up in his dayes and with joy of gladnesse let him reign in thine everlasting kingdome Then the Archbishop delivereth the Rod with the Dove into the Kings left hand saying Accipe virgam virtutis atque aequitatis qua intelligas te mulcere pios terrere superbos Errantes viam doce Lapsisque manum porrige disperdasque superbos releves humiles ut aperiat tibi ostium Jesus Christus dominus noster qui de se ipso ait Ego sum ostium per me si quis introierit salvabitur Et ipse qui est clavis David Sceptrum domus Israel qui aperit nemo claudit claudit nemo aperit sit tibi adjutor qui educit vinctum de domo Carceris sedentem in tenebris umbra mortis ut in omnibus sequi merearis eum de quo Prophetae David cecinit Sedes tua Deus in seculum seculi virga recta est virga regni tui imitare ipsum qui dicit Diligas justitiam odio habeas iniquitatem propterea unxit te Deus Deus tuuc oleo laetitiae ad exemplum illius quem ante secula unxerat prae particibus suis Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum c. Receive the Rod of vertue and equity Learn to make much of the godly and to terrifie the wicked Shew the way to those that go astray Offer thy hand to those that fall Repress the proud Lift up the Lowly that our Lord