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A96624	The thrice welcome, and happy inauguration of our most gracious, and religious sovereign, King Charles II. To the crown and kingdoms of Great-Brittain and Ireland. Containing, in the first place, the authors most humble supplication to the King's most excellent Majesty, in order to the reformation of religion, in six particulars. In the second part, the subjects duty to their sovereign, in sundry heads, and divers particulars very usefull for these times: together with a recommendation of the work to the Kings Majesties subjects. By Geo. Willington, of the city of Bristoll.	Willington, George.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2803; Thomason E1030_1; ESTC R208910	29,981	46

Princeps Pacis Princeps Regum terrae Rex Regum Dominum Dominantium By me Kings reign and Princes decree Justice By me Princes rule and Nobles even all the Judges of the Earth We * All your loyal Subjects most humbly beg and have good cause to hope that as your Grace is over us in the Lord so You will be also over us for the Lord Isa 47.23 by being a Nursing Father to Gods Church and People Maintain his Kingdome Dread Sovereign and he will uphold yours your Dominion shall be stable your Name shall endure for ever and shall be concinued so long as the Sun Psal 72.1 8 17. In order hereunto I the meanest of all your Majesties Subjects do upon my bended knees most humbly beseech your Grace and the Honorable Parliament that you will First cut off false Prophets Hereticks and perverse and incorrigible Seducers and Blasphemers for these are the pest of Church and State This was the practice of that pious King Josiah after the corruption and decay of Religion in the dayes of Manusseh to his eternal praise being but twelve years old 2 Chron. 34.3 2 King 23.5 6 7 8 20. and 2 Chron. 34.33 and of good King Asa 2 Chron. 15.8 12 13 14 15 16. So of good King Hezekiah 2 King 18.3 4 5 6 7. And that pious Ruler Nehemiah chap. 13. And it was Dread Sovereign the grave Councel of your Royal Father of blessed memory in his ΕΙΚΟΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ cap. 27. directed in special to your Highnesse With God I would have You begin and end who is the King of Kings the Sovereign Disposer of the Kingdomes of the world who pulleth down one and setteth up another Secondly I most humbly beg Your Grace that the holy Sabbath of the Lord viz. the Christian Sabbath may by Your Majesties strict command be more religiously kept and observed than heretofore Because 1. the prophane and loose nature of carnall men is apt and prone to take liberty where 't is but tollerated for the prophanation and violating of that holy rest Because 2. the religious observation of the Sabbath is a speciall help and furtherance to the observation of the rest of the commandments and therefore placed in the midst between the two tables Because 3. God hath threatned in holy Scripture such and so many menaces to a person or people City or Nation that make no care of the observation thereof Nehemiah 13.18 Jer. 17.27 the truth of which Scriptures and many more may be sadly verefied in our own daies for after the publication of that Book for a tollerating of sports upon the Lords day the Church of England which was famous before both at home and abroad never prospered after The blessings 4. which God hath promised to the religious observation of it are so many and great that I dare not make so bold to cloy your Royall eares with the recitall of them your Highnesse knowing them far better than my unworthy self I being not an Instructer but Petitioner as Isa 58.13 14. Jer. 17.19 to 27. Most Gracious Sovereigne your Highness very well knows that it is the duty of all Magistrates especially of the supreme not only to observe the Sabbath themselves but also to cause others to observe it also in respect of outward conformity that none within their Gates Precincts Jurisdict on power habitation or charge be suffered to violate that holy Rest The example of holy Nehemiah is eminently famo is in this particular chap. 13. v. 16. to 23. Thirdly I do most humbly beg that your Grace will uphold Piety adorns Learning cherish and foster a learned and pious Ministry in your Kingdoms who were accounted vile and laden with reproaches and scorns while Faction flourished and Tyranny bear Rule and in special such Ministers whose loyal constancy and integrity doth bespeake them to be what Ministers of Christ's sacred Gospel ought to be not time-serving Polititians to gratifie mens (a) Gal. 1.10 humors and serve their own sordid Interest but (b) Mat. 5.13 Lux mundi (c) vers 14. Sal terrae (d) Eze. 3.17 33.7 Heb. 13.17 Watch men for our Souls (e) Jer. 44.4 2 Cor. 5.20 Gods Ambassadors which Christ the King of Kings upholds (f) Revel 1.16 20. in his right hand and hath promised to (g) Math. 28.20 be with them to the end of the world and is either received and honored or (h) Mat. 10.40 Lu. 10.16 1 Thess 4.8 contemned and despised in them Fourthly I humbly beg your Grace that you would uphold a liberal and sufficient Maintenance for the Learned and Pious Ministry of Christ's Gospel which was denied and with-held by the Sectaries because your Highnesse knows the Arch-Bishop of our (i) 1 Pet. 2.25 and 5.4 souls hath ordained this Canon Law that they (k) 1 Cor. 9. chap. which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel And they that labour in the Word and Doctrine are worthy of double honour 1 Tim. 5.17 viz. Countenance and Maintenance And that not a niggardly but a liberal and sufficient maintenance that they may be encouraged (l) 2 Chron. 31.4 in the Law of the Lord. Nay we find that even King Pharaoh though a Heathen King for ought I can finde had so much Religion in him that when the People of Egypt in the great famine of seven years were forced to mortgage and sell their Lands to buy food to keep them alive Gen. 47.19 yet would King Pharaoh by no means cause or suffer the Priests Land to be morgaged or sold though some in our days have done far worse as we read Gen. 47.22 Only the land of the (m) Or Prophets Priests bought (n) Pharaoh he not For the Priests had a portion assign'd them of Pharaoh and did eat the portion which Pharaoh gave them wherefore they sold not their Lands As Tribute (o) Rom. 13.6 7. is due to the Crown so is Tithes (p) Heb. 7.4 5 6 7 8 9. due to the Ministry and those Sons of Belial which deny or with-hold either do (q) Mal. 3.8 rob God Fifthly I doe most humbly beg your Grace that in order to the establishing of a Learned Ministry to Posterity your Majesty will be a Fosterer and Patron of the Schools and Nurseries of good Learning especially the two once Famous Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Lastly I doe most humbly beg your Grace that the Seminaries of Sin and Satan Wickedness and Vice may be beaten downe and suppressed at least in their numerousness and lawlesness I meane the boundless tolleration of unlawfull places of drabbing and drinking and such like to the dishonor of God greif of his people and scandal of Religion This will make your Royall Person to be Famous to succeeding Ages and cause You to be as your Royal Father of blessed memory hath expressed * Εικον Βασιλικε cap. 27. it Charles Le Bon and Le Grand Thus

to come 5. The Rewards that they shall be made partakers of both here and hereafter that are loyal Subjects Finally I shall endeavour to shew wherein this loyalty doth consist or which comes all to one what the Subjects Duty is to their Sovereign or subordinate Governors And then having made a recommendation hereof to several degrees of persons I shall make a Conclusion For the first viz. The Author Authority and benefit of Government and Governors though I might and did intend so to do prove it from some Meditations and Collections of my own yet considering how distastful a point it is to the distemper'd pallats of many brainsick persons and how hardly they can digest it I shall suspend my own and prove the matter omitting Scripture testimonies also by the consent of all the Protestant Churches in Christendome in the harmony of Confession as I finde it collected by a very reverend * Dr. Featley in his Book entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 169. c. Divine of our English Church now with God that so it may be the more convincing except to those who are enemies to the Protestant Religion Concerning the Author Office and Authority of the Civil Magistrate understand it both of the King as Supream and ‖ 1 Pet. 2.13 14. also Governors sent by him thus we read Helvetica posterior cap. 30. Helvetian Confession Magistratus omnis generis ab ipso Deo est institutus ad generis humani pacem ac tranquilitatem ac ita ut primum in mundo locum obtineat c. Englished thus The Magistrate of what kind soever is ordained of God for the peace and quietnesse of Mankinde and he ought to have the first place in the world And a little afterwards God doth work the safety of his People by the Magistrate whom he hath given to be as a Father to the World so all Subjects are commanded to acknowledge this benefit of God in the Magistrate let them therefore honour and reverence him as the Minister of God love him and pray for him as their Father obey him in all his just and righteous Commands the care of Religion chiefly appertains to a godly Magistrate let him therefore draw his Sword against all Malefactors Murtherers Thieves and blasphemous Hereticks c. Damnamus igitur Anabaptistas qui ut Christianum negant fungi posse officio Magistratus ita etiam negant quenquam à Magistratu juste occidi We condemn therefore say they the Anabaptists who as they deny that a Christian may execute the office of a Magistrate so also they deny that any man may be put to death by him The Bohemian Confession Chap. 16. Ex sacris literis docetur Politicum Magistratum esse ordinationem Divinam à Deo constitutum qui à Deo originem suam ducat efficacitate praesentiae auxilii bujus perpetui conservetur ad gubernandum populum in iis rebus quae ad hanc in terris corporis hujus vitam pertinent universi singuli in omnibus quae Deo tantum non sunt contraria eminenti potestati subjectionem praestent Primum Regiae Majestati postea vero omnibus Magistratibus qui cum potestate sunt * Nota. sive ipsi per se boni viri sunt sive mali Thus Englished From the holy Scriptures it is taught That the Civil Magistrate is the Ordinance of God and appointed by God who both taketh his original from God to whose power all and every one ought to be subject in those things that are not contrary to God First to the Kings Majesty then to all the Magistrates and such as in Authority under him whether they be of themselves * Note this well good men or evil The French Confession Credemus Deum velle mundum legibus Gallica Confess Art 39. politia gubernari ut aliqua sint fraena quibus immoderate mundi cupiditates coerceantur idioque constituisse Regna respublicas reliquas principatum species * Nota sive haereditario jure obveniant sive minus c. Englished We believe that God would have the world governed civilly and by Law that there may be certain Bridles whereby the desires of men may be restrained and that therefore he hath appointed Kingdomes Commonwealths and other kindes of Principalities whether ‖ Note this they come by * As our Gracious King's doth inheritance or otherwise and because he is the Author of this Order we must not onely suffer them to rule whom he hath set over us but also yield unto them all honour and reverence as to Deputies and Ministers assigned by him to execute their lawfull and holy Function into their hands God hath put a Sword to punish all breaches as well of the first Table as of the second Gladium in Magistratum manus tradidit reprimendis nimirum delictis non modo contra secundam tabulam sed etiam contra primam commissis The Low Dutch Confession Credimus Deum optimum maxim Bel. Conf. Art 36. ob generis humani corruptelam atque depravationem Reges Princeps Magistratus constituisse veleque ut mundus lic legibus ac certa politia gubernetur ad coercenda hominum vitia ut omnia inter homines recto ordine gerantur Idcerco Magistratus ipsos gladio armavit ut malos quidem plectant paenis probos vero tueantur c. Englished We believe that Almighty God by reason of the corruption and depravation of Mankinde did appoint Kings Princes and Magistrates and that it is his will this world should be governed by Laws and civil government and to this end he hath armed Magistrates with a sword to punish the wicked and defend the good To these it appertaineth of duty not only watchfully to defend the civil state but also to endeavour that the holy Ministry of the Word be maintained all Idolatry and false-worship removed the Kingdom of Antichrist pulled down and the Kingdom of Christ propagated Quamobrem Anabaptistas turbulentos omnes detestantur c. Wherefore we detest all Anabaptists and * Mark the Connexion seditious persons who cast away all Government and Magistracy pervert Judgements and overthrow all mens Rights make all mens goods common and lastly abolish and confound all orders and degrees appointed by God among men for honesty and comlinesse sake The High-Dutch Confession at Ansperge Legitimae ordinationes civiles Augustand Confess Art 16 sunt bona opera ordinationes Dei sicut Paulus testatur Rom. 13.1 damnat Anabaptistas qui interdicunt haec civilia officia Christianis c. Englished Civil Governments and constitutions are good works and Ordinances of God as S. Paul testifieth they condemn therefore the Anabaptists who forbid civil offices to Christians they condemn also those who place Evangelical perfection in abandoning all civil affaires whereas Evangelical perfection is spiritual consistat motibus cordis in timore fide dilectione obedientia and consisteth

in the motions of the heart in the feare of God faith love and obedience The Basil Confession Let every Christian Magistrate bend all his forces this way that among all that are under him Art 7. the Name of God may be honored his Kingdome propagated and his will in the rooting out of all wickedness and vice may be fulfilled this duty was ever enjoined even to the Heathen Magistrates how much more is it required of a Christian Magistrate ut vero Dei Vicario who is Gods true Vicar The Saxon Confession We teach Saxonica Conf. Art 23. That in the whole Doctrine of God delivered by the Apostles and Prophets that Civil Government is maintained and that Magistrates Laws Tribunals and the lawful Society of men sprung not up by chance but that all the good order that is left is preserved by the exceeding goodness of God for the Church's sake and so forth which I omit for brevity sake The Sueviek Confession is notable and runs thus Our Churches teach Suevica Con. Art 23. That the office of a Magistrate is most sacred and divine whence it is that they who exercise this power are in Scripture called Gods and our Preachers teach that the obedience which is to be performed to Magistrates is to be placed among good works of the first rank and that by how much a man is a more sincere and faithfull Christian the more carefull he is to observe the Laws of the State To which add the Confession of Scotland We confess and acknowledge Empires Kingdoms Scotch Conf. Dominions and Cities to be distincted and ordained by God that Powers and Authority in the same be it of Emperors in their Empires Kings in their Realms Dukes and Princes in their Dominions and of other Magistrates in their Cities to be God's holy Ordinance ordained for manifestation of his own glory and for the singular profit and commodity of Mankinde so that whosoever goeth about to take away or confound the whole estate of Civil policy now long established we affirm the same men not only to be enemies to mankinde but wickedly to fight against Gods expressed will The Confession of England The King's Majesty hath the chief power in this Realm of England and other his Dominions The English Confession Art 37. unto whom the chief government of all estates of this Realm whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all cases doth appertain and is not nor ought to be subject to any forreign jurisdiction The Laws of the Realm may punish Christian men with death for hainous and grievous offences To all which let me add the Confession of the Assembly of Divines Chap. 23. 1. God the Supream Lord and King of all the World hath ordained Civil Magistrates to be under him over the People for his own glory and the publick good and to this end hath armed them with the power of the Sword for the defence and encouragement of them that are good and for the punishment of evil doers 4. It is the duty of People to pray for Magistrates to honour their persons to pay them tribute and other dues to obey their lawfull Commands and to be subject to their Authority Note this well for Conscience sake Infidelity or difference in Religion doth not make void the Magistrates just and legal authority nor free the people from their due obedience to him from which Ecclesiastical persons are not exempted much lesse hath the Pope any power and jurisdiction over them in their Dominions or over any of their People and lest of all to deprive them of their dominions or lives if he shall judge them to be Hereticks or upon any other pretences whatsoever The sum of all is the Civil Magistrate is a Divine Ordinance and his chief care is or ought to be Religion for the defence and vindication whereof God hath put a Sword in his hand to cut off the disturbers of the peace as well in the Church as the Commonwealth and because he is the Minister * Rom. 13.4 of God for our wealth and Safety his Authority is to be obeyed by all sorts of men for conscience sake and not to be resisted upon pains of Damnation Thus I have from the melodious Harmony of all the reformed Churches proved the Authority and shewed the author and Benefit of Government and Governours but Supream and subordinate Wisdom 6.3 Power is given of the Lord and Saveraignty from the bighest See Prov. 8.15 16. Dan. 2.21 chap. 4. v. 25. 32. Rom. 13. v. 1 2 4. Job 36.7 The next thing is to shew the hainousness of disloyalty or Rebellion Rebellion hath all evil in it as said the Greek * Thucid. Historiographer in Rebellion is all kinde of evil it is as one cals it the sink of all sin and the Sea of all mischief Of Rebels and seditious persons to their Sovereign whom the God of Heaven hath made a * Psal 82.6 God on earth doth God himself say as he did of the Israelites he did to Samuel They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me 1 Sam. 8.7 that I should not reign over them Yea the Holy Ghost doth amply set forth the hainousnesse of this sin of ‖ 'T is spoken there of Rebellion against God but it will hold in this case also Rebellion when he doth by the Prophet Samuel compare it with the sin of Witchcraft or the service of the Devil 1 Sam. 15.23 Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft compared with the sin of Witchcraft as I conceive to denote the hainousnesse of it Witchcraft is such a hainous sin that the Lord gave a strict charge * Exo. 22.18 Deut. 18.10 to his ancient People saying Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live Surely so hainous is this sin of Rebellion that a Rebel against his King and Countrey is not worthy to live For instance that Norman Gentleman who confessed to a Franciscan Frier that he had a thought to kill Francis the King of France though he had changed his minde repented and asked pardon of that crime yet the Frier reporting it to the King and the King referring it to the Parliament of Paris the grave Court of that great Parliament though that King shewed himself very gracious condemned him to death Yea so great detestation is there to be had of the least shew of violence to the Prince that whereas the Law excuseth mad-men from punishment madnesse it self being so great a punishment yet when Capito a man raging mad drew his Sword upon Henry the son of King Francis he was therefore executed Thus much in brief for the second thing viz. the hainousnesse of disloyalty or rebellion The third thing is according to promise to answer some objections that may be and have been made in this particular Of all which very briefly but plainly Object Is it lawful in no case for Subjects to rise up in Arms against their lawful Sovereign Answ