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A91279	The signal loyalty and devotion of God's true saints and pious Christians, especially in this our island towards their kings: (as also of some idolatrous pagans) Both before, and under the law and gospel; expressed by their private and publick prayers, supplications, intercessions, thanksgivings, well-wishes for the health, safety, long life, prosperity, temporal, spiritual, eternal felicity of the kings and emperours under whom they lived, whether pagan or Christian, bad or good, heterodox or orthodox, Papists or Protestants, persecutors or protectors of them: and likewise for their royal issue, posterity realms; and by their dutiful 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 knowledg, imitation, and serious consideration of our present degenerated disloyal, antimonarchical generation. In two parts. By William Prynne Esq; late bencher, and reader of Lincolns-In; Signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians, towards their kings. Parts 1 and 2.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1680 (1680)	Wing P4082A; ESTC R229902	277,267	460

miracles wrought in them And they have daily upbraided your sacred Majesty your followers yea pierced your souls during your Exile among them with this soul-piercing Quaere Where is now the God of the Protestants He can neither preserve nor restore You to your Crowns and Kingdoms Unless you renounce your Protestant God Church Heresie embrace our Roman Catholike God Church Religion there is no hope nor possibility of your restitution and that only by the Arms of your Catholike Allyes and Subjects But blessed and for ever magnified be the glorious Name of our great God who hath now vindicated his own Glorie and Omnipotencie against their reproaches wrought so many Miracles in your Maties restitution to justifie both the Truth of the Protestant Religion Churches your Subjects that all their spurious Miracles and Impostures wherewith they abuse their over-credulous Proselytes and fraught their Legends even to nauseousnesse are no more to be compared with them than a Glo-worm to the Noon-day Sun And their God and rock is not as our God and rock our Enemies themselves being now Judges Verily your Majesty with all your Protestant Subjects after such a stupendious glorious deliverance from their late usurping Pharaohs worse than Aegyptian Tax-masters Burdens and servitude have just cause to sing aloud to the God of their Salvation this triumphant song of Moses and the Children of Israel and King David after them Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the Gods who is like unto thee glorious in holynesse fearfull in prayses doing wonders Thou stretchest out thy right hand the earth swallowed them Thou in thy mercy hast led forth thy people which thou hast redeemed Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoyce 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 this 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 Queen 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 Blessed 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 loved 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 contemplation 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 likewise 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 expatiated expressed both by their publike and private Prayers Supplications and Intercessions unto God for their long life health safety victory prosperity temporal spiritual and eternal felicity and all sorts of blessings both on their Royal Persons Queens Progenies Families Government Kingdoms Armies Couns●ls 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 and 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 in and Prologue to your Majesties much desired and expected Coronation The first Part of this Treatise I lately Printed for Your Majesties service in January last to inthrone You in the Hearts cordial Prayers and Supplications of all Your loyal Subjects and 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 late Your Subjects dutiful Inclinations tending thereunto through the loyal Endeavour of some Faithfull Friends to your Majestie and your People that I committed the Second Part of this Treatise and all that concerns Your Coronation to the Presse in the beginning of April last before any visible appearances thereof to the eyes or thoughts of others And I repute it an extraordinary Blessing and Honour from God and your Majesty that any of my Paper Arms and Publications in your Majesties and others apprehensions have been instrumental to promote this your happy Unbloody most joyfull Restitution to your Throne and Kingship maugre all Ire Ingagements Oaths of Abjurations to debar your Majestie and all your Royal line for ever from them I humbly beseech your Royal Majestie graciously to accept this Unpolish'd work compiled in the midst of many publike distracting Imployments bring your Highnesses peculiar by all Rights and Circumstances as a Publick Testimony of my Loyalty to your Majestie and a lasting Monument of my Thankfullnesse to Almighty God for hearing my many years constant Prayers and blessing my impotent Paper Artillery and endeavors for your Majesties long-desired and now happily accomplished Investitute not only in your Royal Throne but like a 〈◊〉 in the Hearts Consciences publike private Devotions and Supplications of all your People Whom this Treatise seconded with my Healths Sicknesse dedicated to your Royal Father many years past and your Majesties most Pious fresh Proclamation will instruct and excite most devoutly to pray for your Majesties Health and Happiness in their Churches Chapels Families Closets rather than heathenishly to prophane abuse your Sacred Name in drinking your Majesties Health to the Hazard of their own and their fools to boot through Drunkennesse and Intemperance in Taverns

parts 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 refusing 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 slave 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 Man of blood c. when he fled from his usurping Son Absolom was thought worthy to lose his head by Abishai who would have cut it off had 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 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

propterea unxit te Deus Deus tuu● oleo laetitiae ad exemplum illius quem ante secula unxerat praeparticibus 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 Jesus Christ may open to thee the dore who saith of himself I am the dore by me if any man enter in ●he shall be safe and let him be thy helper who is the key of David and the Scepter of the house of Israel who openeth and no man shutteth who shutteth and no man openeth who bringeth forth the captive out of prison where he sate in darkness and in the shadow of death that in all things thou mayest follow him of whom the Prophet David saith Thy seat O God endureth for ever the Scepter of thy Kingdome is a right Scepter thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity Wherefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladness above thy Fellows even Jesus Christ our Lord. After this he blesseth the King saying Benedicat tibi c. Dominus custodiatque te sicut te voluit super Populum suum esse Regem ita in presenti seculo faelicem aeternae faelicitatis tribuat esse consortem Amen The Lord blesse and keep thee and as he hath made thee King over his people so he still prosper thee in this world and make thee partaker of his eternal felicity in the world to come Amen Grant O Lord that the Clergy and People gathered together by thy Ordinance for this service of the King may by the gracious assistance of thy goodnesse and the vigilant care of thy servant and King be continually governed and preserved in all happinesse Amen Grant that they obeying thy holy will may be freed from all adversities and enjoying the riches of thy grace may with fervent love walk in the waies of thy Commandements that in this life being made partakers of thy peace they may be Citizens of thy Kingdome in the life that is to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The King kisseth the Archbishop and the Bishops then Assistant After this the King goeth up from the Altar to the Stage all the Peers solemnly attending his Majesty in their places In the mean time the Quire sing Te deum laudamus c. Which being ended the Archbishop inthronizeth the King into his throne there saying Sta retine à modo locum quem huc usque paterna successione tenuisti haereditario judicio tibi delegatum per autoritatem Dei omnipotentis praesentem traditionem nostram omnium Episcoporum caeterorumque Dei servorum quanto Clerum sanctis altaribus propinquiorem prospices tanto ei potiorem in locis congruis honorem impendere memineris quatenus mediator Dei hominum te mediatorem Cleri Plebis in hoc regni Solio confirmet in regnum aeternum regnare faciat Jesus Christus Dominus noster Rex Regum Dominus Dominantium qui cum patre spiritu sancto vivit regnat in secula seculorum Amen Stand and hold fast from henceforth that place whereof hitherto thou hast been heir by the succession of thy fore-fathers being now delivered unto thee by the authority of Almighty God and by the hands of Us and all the Bishops and Servants of God and as thou seest the Clergy to come nearer unto the Altar so remember that in places convenient thou give them greater honour that the mediator of God and Man may establish thee in this Kingly throne to be the mediator betwixt the Clergy and the Laity and that thou maist raigne for ever with Jesus Christ the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who with the Father and the holy Ghost liveth and reigneth for ever Amen Which done all the Peers do their homage to the King His verbis I become your Leige-man of Life and Limb and of Earthly Worship and faith and Troth shall bear unto you to live and dye with you against all manner of folk So God me help And after put their hands and touch the Crown by way of ceremony as promising to support it with all their power Then the King to ease himself of the Scepter and Rod in his hands giveth them to carry to such as it pleaseth his Majesty The Archbishop kneeled down and made his Homage 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 Archbishop goeth down to the Altar and begins the Communion The Prayer Quaesumus omnipotens c. Quaesumus omnipotens Deus ut famulus tuus Jacobus Rex noster qui tua miseratione suscepit Regni gubernacula virtutum etiam omnium percipiat incrementa Quibus decenter ornatus vitiorum voraginem devitare hostes superare ad te qui veritas vita es gratiosus valeat pervenire per Dominum Iesum nostrum Amen O Almighty God we 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 to thee in glory who art the Way the Truth and the Life thorough Christ our Lord. The Epistle 1 Pet. 2. 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 habundantiam frumenti vini olei serviant tibi populi adorent te tribus Esto Dominus fratrum tuorum incurventur ante te filii matris tuae qui benedixerit tibi benedictionibus repleatur Deus erit adjutor tuus Opus benedicat tibi benedictionibus coeli desuper in montibus in Collibus benedictionibus abyssi jacentibus deorsum benedictionibus uberum uvarum Pomarumque benedictiones Patrum antiquorum Abraham Isaac 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

Subjects do most justly acknowledge this great and infinite Blessing to have proceeded merely from God his Great Mercy and to his most holy Name do ascribe all the Honour Glory and Praise And to the end this unfeigned Thankfulnesse may never be forgotten but be had in perpetual Remembrance that all Ages to come may yield praise to his Divine Majesty for the same and have in memorie THIS IOYFULL DAY OF DELIVERANCE Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authoritie of the same That all and singular Ministers in everie Cathedral and Parish-church or other usual place of Common prayer within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall alwaies upon the fifth day of November say Morning Prayer and give unto Almighty God thanks for this most happy Deliverance And that all and 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 delivered 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 Justice 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 marvellous 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 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

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 for ever 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 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 Books 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. 1645. 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 Letany ordered 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 Majestie 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 vanquish 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 save and defend all Christian Kings Princes and Governors and Specially 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

of Angels King of Kings and Lord of Lords who didst cause thy faithful servant Abraham to triumph over his enemies didst give many victories to Moyses and Joshua the Governors of thy people didst exalt thy lowly servant David unto the height of a Kingdome didst enrich Solomon with the unspeakable gift of Wisdome and Peace Give ear we beseech thee unto our humble Prayers and multiply thy blessing upon this thy Servant whom in lowly devotion we do consecrate our King that he being strengthned with the Faith of Abraham indued with the Mildnesse of Moyses armed with the Fortitude of Joshua exalted with the humility of David beautified with the Wisdome of Solomon he may please thee in all things he may alwaies walk uprightly in the way of Righteousnesse he may nourish and teach defend and instruct thy Church and people and like a mighty King minister unto them the government of thy Vertue against all enemies visible and invisible and by thy help reform their mindes to the concord of true Faith and peace that being underpropped by the due Obedience and honoured by the condign Love of these his people he may by thy mercy royally ascend up to the throne of his forefather and being defended with the Helmet of thy protection covered with thy invincible shield and all clad with heavenly Armour he may gloriously triumph and by his power both terrifie infidels and bring joyfull peace to those that fight for thee through our Lord who by the power of his Crosse hath destroyed Hell and having overthrown the Kingdome of the Devil is with victory ascended into Heaven in whom doth consist all Power Kingdome and Victory who is the glory of the humble the life and salvation of his people who liveth with thee and the holy Ghost Benedic domine c. hunc Regem nostrum Jacobum qui regna moderaris a seculo tali eum benedictione glorifica ut Davidis teneat sublimitas sceptrum glorificatus in ejus te propitio reperiatur merito Da ei tuo inspiramine cum mansuetudine ita regere Populum sicut Salomonem fecisti regnum obtinere pacificum Tibi cum timore semper sit subditus tibique militet cum quiete Sit tuo Clipeo protectus cum Proceribus ubique tua gratia major existat Honorifica eum prae cunctis regibus Gentium Felix populis dominetur feliciter eum Nationes adorent Vivat inter gentium Catervas magnanimus Sit in judiciis aequitatis singularis Locuplet eum tua praedives dextera frugiferam obtineat patriam Et ejus libris tribuis profutura Praesta ei prolixitatem vitae per tempora ut in diebus ejus oriatur justitia A te robustum teneat regiminis solium eum Jocunditate Justitia eterno glorietur in regno Amen O Lord thou that governest all Kingdomes from everlasting blesse we beseech thee this our King that he may rule like David and by thy mercy obtain his reward Grant that by thy inspiration he may govern with the mildenesse of Solomon and enjoy a peaceable Kingdome Grant that he may serve thee with fear and fight for thee with constancy Protect him and his Nobles with thy Shield and alwaies give him victory by thy Grace Honour him before all the Kings of the earth Let him rule over Countryes and let Nations adore him Let him be singular in Judgement and Equity and make him rich with thy rich right hand Give him a fruitful Country and give to his Children all good things Give him a long life in this world and in his dayes let Justice flourish Strengthen thou the throne of his Government and with gladnesse and righteousnesse let him glory in thy eternal Kingdome through Jesus Christ Deus ineffabilis author mundi Conditor generis humani Gubernator imperii Confirmator regni qui utero fidelis amici tui Patriarchae nostrae Abrahae praeelegisti Regem seculis profuturum Tuum presentem Regam hunc cum exercitu suo per intercessionem omnium Sanctorum uberi benedictione locupleta in solium Regni firma stabilitate connecte visita eum sicut Moysem in Rubro Josuam in Praelio Gedeon in agro Samuelem in templo Et illa eum benedictione syderia ac sapientiae tuae rorae perfunde quantum beatus David in Psalterio Salomon filius ejus te remunerante precepit è coelo Sis ei contra acies Inimicorum lorica in adversis galea in prosperis patientia in protectione Clipeus sempeternus presta ut gentes illi teneant fidem Proceres sui habeant pacem diligant Caritatem abstineant se à cupiditate loquantur justitiam custodiant veritatem Et ita populus iste pullulet coalitus benedictione aeternitatis ut semper permaneant tripudiantes in pace victores per Christum Dominum nostrum c. God the unspeakable Author of the World the Creator of Mankinde the Governor of Empires the Establisher of Kingdomes who out of the loynes of thy faithfull friend our Father Abraham didst choose a King that should save all Nations Blesse we beseech thee this our present King and his Army with a rich blessing Establish him in the throne of this Kingdome Visit him as thou didst visit Moses in the Bush Josua in the Battel Gedeon in the Field and Samuel in the Temple besprinkle him with the dew of thy Wisdome and give unto him the blessing of David and Solomon Be thou unto him a coat Armour against his Enemies and an Helmet in adversity Give him patience in Prosperity and protect him alwaies with thy Shield Grant that other Countries may keep Faith unto him and that his Nobles may live in Peace embrace Charity abstain from Covetousnesse speak Justice and maintain Truth and so this people may grow up together with the blessing of Eternity that having overcome they may rejoyce in everlasting peace through Christ our Lord. Deus qui populus tuis virtute consulis amore dominaris da huic famulo tuo Jacebo spiritum sapientiae cum regimine disciplinae ut tibi toto corde devotus in regni regimine maneat semper idoneus tuoque munere ipsius temporibus securitas Ecclesiae dirigatur in tranquillitate devotio Christiana permaneat ut bonis operibus perseverans ad aeternum regnum te duce valeat pervenire per Dominum Jesum Christum c. God which providest for thy people by thy Power and rulest over them in Love grant unto this thy Servant James the spirit of Wisdome and Government that being devoted unto thee with all his heart he may so wisely govern this Kingdome that in his time the Church may be in safety and Christian Devotion may continue in peace that so persevering to the end in good works he may by thy mercy come unto thine everlasting Kingdome through thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth with thee world without end Amen The Letany being ended the Archbishop begineth to