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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

Potterspiry and Eggemond to the Priory and Covent of St. Anne by Coventre founded by his Ancestors Ut iidem Prior Conventus Pro beno statu nostro ac Consortis nostrae liberorumque nostrorum ac carissimae matris n●strae Deum altissimum deprecentur indies et exorent ac missam de Spiritu sancto pro Nobis semel in ebdomade durante vita n●stra faciant celebrari et quendam solempnem annualem obitum pro anima nostra cum ab hac luce migraverimus custodiant et observent In the Book entituled Horae beatissimae Mariae ad ligituum Ecclesiae Salisburiensis ritum printed Parisiis 1519. the 10. year of King Henry the 8th but generally used throughout England some hundreds of years before f. 12. there is this set form of Prayer for the King of England for the time being Deus regnorum et Christiani maximè Protector Imperii Da Servo tuo H. Regi nostro de Hoste triumphum ut qui tua providentia extitit Coronatus tuo semper munimine tutus sit et securus per Christum Dominum nostrum And in Processi●ale ad usus insignis Ecclesiae Sarum Parisiis 1545. f. 6. 124 208. I meet with these short Prayers ejaculations then and formerly publickly used in all Processions for our successive Kings Domine salvum fac Regem Regem nostrum ac Principes c. in omni sanctitate custodi Salvum fac Regem nostrum Famuium tuum Et exaudi nos in die quo invocav●rimus ●te All our antient Missals Offices Howers Primers in times of Popery containing the like Prayers and such as I have formerly recited out of Cassander his Preces Ecclesiasticae together with Prayers for their Souls after their deaths which according to the modern use of the Church of Rome are popish vain sinfull superstitious implying and presupposing a Purgatory but according to their primitive use and institution pious and religious importing no purgatory at all as learned Bishop Vsher proves at large in his Answer to the Jesuites Challenge of Prayers for the Dead p. 194. to 264. to which I refer the Reader for fuller satisfaction herein and concerning the forementioned Prayers for and Charters of our Kings to Monasteries to pray for their own their Ancestors Successors Heirs and others Souls when departed out of this World I could adde many Prayers made for King Henry the 8th in sundry Epistles and Dedications of Books unto him but for brevity I shall omit all but 3. The 1. is Pope Leo the 10th his Bull to him in the 22. year of his Reign subscribed with all the Cardinals Hands wherein he conferred on him the Title of Defender of the Faith for writing a Book against Luther in defence of Pardous the Papacy and 7. Sacraments which Bull begins thus Leo Episcopus Servus servorum Dei Charissimo in Christo filio Henrico Angliae Regi Fidei defensori salutem et Apostolicam benedictionem And is closed with this Benediction and Prayer for him and his Posterity Perpetuum hoc immortale gloriae tuae monumentum Posteris tuis relinquere illisque viam ostendere ut si tali titulo ipsi quoque insigniri optabunt talia etiam opera efficere praeclaraq●e Majestatis tuae vestigia sequi studeant quam prout de Nobis dicta sede optimè merita est unâ cum uxore filiis ac omnibus qui à te ab illis nascentur Nostra Benedictione in nomine illius à quo illam concedendi potestas Nobis data est larga liberali manu benedicentes Altissimum illum qui dixit Per me Reges regnant Principes imperant in manu sua corda sunt Regum rogamus et obsecramus ut eam in suo sancto proposito confirmet ejusque devotionem multiplicet ac praeclaris prosancta fide gestis ita illustret ac toti Orbi terrarum conspicuam reddat ut judicium quod de ipsa fecimus eam tàm insigni titulo decorantes à nemine falsum aut vanum judicari possit Demum mortat is hujus vitae ●●uito curriculo sempiternae illius gloriae consortem atque participem reddat The 2 is William Wraghton an acute Protestant Writer who in his Epistles to King Henry the 8th before his two Books intituled The Hunting of the Romish Fox printed at Basyl 1543. And his Rescuing of the Romish Fox against Stephen Gardner printed 1545. Wisheth him prosperity both of Body and Soul closing his last Epistle to him with this Prayer God grant you health both of Body and Soul victory over your Enemies and Grace to do in this our matter of Religion as shall be most to the Glory of God and the profit of the Common-wealth Amen And he closeth his last Treatise with this Prayer God save the King The third is our learned Protestant Divine Thomas Beacon who in his Path-way unto Prayer dedicated to the Lady Anne Grey ch 55. hath this Godly exhortation to all private Christians Let us flee to God at all times with humble Obsecrations and hearty Requests Let our Prayers be continual Let us in all our Prayers seek the glory of God the advancement of his most blessed word and the health of our own Souls Let us pray for the preservation of the Kings most excellent Majesty H. 8. and for the prosperous successe of his intirely-beloved Son Edward our Prince that most Angel-like Impe. Let us pray for all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal specially for those that have the regiment of the Publick-weal under the Kings Graces Highness Let us pray for the Ministers of Gods Word that they may freely speak the truth of Christs Gospel as it becommeth them Let us pray for all men universally chiefly for the Inhabitants of this Realm of England That they may all bear a faithfull heart both towards God and our King Upon the Reformation of Religion and abolishing of Popish Missals Psalters Howers Processionals and Portuasses by King Edward the sixth in his Parliament 2 3 Edw. 6. ch 10. the King by advice of his Convocation and Parliament commanded A Book of Common-prayer and Administeration of the Sacraments in the English Tongue to be used in all Churches and Chapels throughout the Realm by the Statutes of 2 E. 6 c. 1. 5 6 E. 6. c. 1. Wherein there was not only a Prayer for the King in the Letany but in a special Collect agreeing in substance with those in our later Books of Common-Prayer hereafter cited In this pious Kings reign the Bishops and Ministers in their Epistles and Dedications to him and in their Prayers before after their Sermons usually prayed most heartily and particularly for his long life religious and prosperous reign and spiritual temporal and eternal felicity And John Bale Bishop of Ossery in his Image of both Churches or Paraphrase upon St. Johns Revelation printed 1550. in the last page thereof exhorts all Gods meek-spirited

Alch●●ses or at their own or others Tables as well to God● dishonor as your Majesties In fine I shall be a daily Orator to the God of your Majesties and your Kingdoms Salvation that all the temporal spiritual and eternal blessings comprised in the several Prayers Collects Benedictions Salutations Acclamations and Passages collected in this Treatise for any Christian Emperors Kings and Princes may concenter in and be abundantly powred forth on your Majesties Royal Person Family Kingdoms Councils Court Armies Government People that so your Majestie may be Chronicled to all Posterity as in truth you really demerit for the best devoutest holiest justest and most gratious of all Christian Kings that ever reigned and your formerly disloyal degenerated Subjects by your most righteous Reign and pious Royal Example henceforth become the most Loyal Religious Free and Happiest of all Subjects in the Universe Which is and shall be the daily Prayer of Your Majesties most humble yet Faithfull and Loyal Subject William Prynne From my Study in Lincolns Inne June 5. 1660. To the Courteous and Ingenuous Reader THe Original occasion of the Collections comprised in this Treatise with the general causes of its present publication are at large related in the first six pages to which I shall accumulate one special motive more particularly reflecting on my self ●●●●ssitating me thereunto It hath been my portion as well as the Primitive Christians before me to be frequently accused and publickly slandered as a professed Enemy to the late Kings Person to Kingly Government and a justifier an encourager of REGICIDES and exciter of Subjects to lay violent hands upon their Princes sacred persons in some cases This calumny was first raised and fixed on me by Dr. Heylin and Bishop Laud and by their procurements inserted into the Information exhibited against me by M. Noy then Kings Atturney in the starchamber in June 1633. for my Histriomastix licensed by Dr. Buckner Houshold Chaplain to Archbishop Abbot and indeavoured to be proved by some wrested inferences and expressions of Fathers approved Historians quoted by me in that Book though I had in expresse terms therein condemned these disloyal Practises Positions they aspersed me withall as Jesuitical treasonable and Rebellious disclaimed them in my answer thereunto upon Oath as never once entring into my loyal heart being repugnant to the Oaths of Supremacy Allegiance I had taken both as a a Graduate in the University of Oxford and Barrester in the Innes of Court and to the principles of the Protestant Religion I professed After this I was again scandalized and traduced by some of our Prelates to the late King himself in the year 1641. out of meer malice who would needs strain a passage in my Epistle to the High Court of Parliament prefixed to my Antipathy c. or Historical Collection of the EXECRABLE TREASONS Conspiracies REBELLIONS c. of our English British French Scotish and Irish Lordly Prelates against our Kings and Kingdomes then published against the very letter and meaning of my words and the scope of my whole Book as the King himself then answered mine Accusers upon the reading thereof rejecting their Accusation as a false and groundlesse calumny Upon the publishing of my Soveraign power of Parliaments and Kingdomes in the year 1643. I was again calumniated in the self same kind though therein I at large dicovered censured the Treachery and disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraigns both in their Doctrines and Treasonable practices which they since would charge me with whereupon I fully and particularly vindicated my self from this accusation afresh in my Mr. Prynne the Member reconciled to Prynne the Barrester and other Treatises Having sufficiently cleared my innocency against all these reiterated aspersions coming into the House of Commons in November 1648. as a Member much against my will I did then in three several extemporary Speeches in the House upon the Armies presenting their treasonable Declaration from Saint Albans November the 20. demanding the King to be brought to publick Justice and the Prince and Duke of York to be banished and disinherited c. and upon the Kings seisure by the Army and removal from the Isle of Wight to bring him to his Trial and Execution declare my judgement at large against these their Demands Proceedings not onely as illegal and seditious but as TREASONABLE and PERFIDIOUS in the highest degree Whereupon on the 4. of December 1648. some implacable Enemies to the King endeavouring his destruction highly incensed against me for my zealous loyalty to preserve both his Royal Person and Dignity from their intended violence falsely and maliciously published and Printed a CHARGE against the King in my name purposely to defame me and stop my mouth from speaking my conscience freely in the great debate then on foot touching the satisfactoriness of the Kings Answer to the Propositions of both Houses upon the conclusion of the Personal Treaty with him in the Isle of Wight which false Imposture I meeting with that morning going to the House did there openly complain against it as a malicious Forgerie the very stile frame and expressions in it evidencing it to be none of mine After which I particularly disowned it in the beginning and refuted the whole scope of it and the Armies Declaration to bring the King to Justice c. in the end of my Speech that very day Dec. the 4. 1648. as A MEER destructive JESUITICAL and POPISH DESIGN by sundry Arguments from Scripture Policy and our Laws the manifold Declarations Remonstrances of both Houses and the Army officers themselves the Oaths of Supremacy Allegiance Protestation Vow Solemn League Covenant and other Topicks which Speech I soon after published in print at the earnest request of the Members secured and secluded with me by the Army Dec. 6 and 7. for their Vote touching the Kings Concessions all the grounds and Reasons of this Vote and answers to all objections made against it by the Dissenters from it during the whole Debate being comprised in it Hereupon this forged Charge was branded by all sorts for a meer spurious Brat fit for nothing but the Jakes yet notwithstanding one William Saunderson Esquire a person I never saw nor injured to my knowledge hath inserted this gross Imposture at large into his Compleat History of the life and Reign of KING CHARLS from his Cradle to his grave Printed in London 1658. reviving its memory afresh and fathering it upon me as my genuine Issue p. 1116 1117. and that with so much confidence and reduplicated Positive invective asseverations at least ten years after its general Disclaimer as a most false and malicious Forgery that some of my friends begin to suspect and others now believe report it generally to be penned and published byme which all succeeding ages will undoubtedly credit for truth if not now afresh disowned by me in Print retracted by this calumniating Historian Who having read my former disclaimer

placed under their Hands and Seal or by one of the two Universities under their Seal likewise and except he shall first subscribe to these three Articles following in such manner and sort as we have here appointed 1. That the Kings Majesty under GOD is the only supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesse Dominions and Countries aswell in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal and that no forein Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate have or ought to have Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within his Majesties said Realms Dominions and Countreys c. And Can. 55. They prescribed this form of prayer to be used by them in their prayers before all their Ser-Lectures and Homilies And herein I require you most especially to pray for the Kings most excellent Majesty our Soveraign Lord CHARLES King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith and Supreme Governour in these his Realms and all other his Dominions and Countries over all persons in all causes aswell Ecclesiastical as Temporal Ye shall also pray for the Kings most honourable Councel and for all the Nobility and Magistrates of this Realm that all and every of these in their several callings may serve truly and painfully to the glory of GOD and the edifying and well governing of his people remembring the account that they must make Also ye shall pray for the whole Commons of this Realm that they may live in true Faith and Fear of God in humble obedience to the King and brotherly charity one to another Which all Ministers and Preachers duly observed usually adding this clause thereunto That God out of his infinite mercy would grant so to blesse the Kings Majestie and his Royal issue with a perpetual Posterity that there might never want a Man of that Royal race to sway the Scepter of these Realms so long as the Sun and Moon should endure and till all Scepters and Kingdoms should be resigned at the last day into the hands of Jesus Christ the King of Kings The Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons of the Realm of England assembled in Parliament in the first year of King James do thus expresse and declare their own and the whole Kingdoms unspeakeable joys acclamations and thanksgivings unto God and their own and their posterities Signal Loyalty affection and Devotion to King James his Heirs and Royal progeny for ever in the Statute of 1 Jacobi ch 1. intituled A most joyfull and just Recognition of the immediate lawfull and undoubted succession descent and Right of the Crown Great and manifold were the benefits most dread and most gracious Soveraign wherewith almighty God blessed this Kingdom and Nation by the happy union and conjunction of the two Nobles houses of York and Lancaster thereby preserving this noble Realm formerly torn and almost wasted with long and miserable dissention and bloodie Civil War But more inestimable and unspeakable blessings are thereby powred upon us because there is derived and grown from and out of that union of those two Princely families a more famous and greater union or rather a re-uniting of two Mighty Famous and antient Kingdoms yet antiently but one of England and Scotland under one Imperial Crown in your most Royal Person who is lineally rightfully and lawfully descended of the body of the most excellent Lady Margaret eldest daughter of the most renowned King Henry the 7th and the high and noble Princesse Queen Elizabeth his wife eldest daughter of King Edward the 4th The said Lady Margaret being eldest sister of King Henry the 8th father of the high and mightie Princesse of famous memorie Elizabeth late Queen of England In consideration whereof albeit we your Majesties loyal and faithfull Subjects of all Estates and Degrees with all possible publike Joy and Acclamation by open Proclamations within few houres after the decease of our late Soveraign Queen acknowledging thereby with one full voice of tongue and heart that your Majesty was our only lawfull and rightfull Leige Lord and Soveraign and by our unspeakable and general rejoycing and applause at your Majesties most happy inauguration and Coronation by the affectionate desire of infinite numbers of us of all degrees to see your Royal Person and by all possible outward means have indeavoured to make demonstration of our inward love zeal and devotion to your most excellent Majestie our undoubted rightfull Leige Soveraign Lord and King yet as we cannot do it too often or enough so can there be no means or way so fit both to sacrifice our unfeined and heartie thanks to Almighty God for blessing us with a Soveraign adorued with the rarest gifts of mind and body in such admirable peace and quietnesse and upon the knees of our hearts to agnize our most constant faith obedience and loyalty to your Majestie and your Royal Progenie as in this high Court of Parliament where all the whole body of the Realm and every particular Member thereof either in Person or Represeatation upon their own free Elections are by the Laws of this Realm deemed to be personally present To the present acknowledgment whereof to your Majestie we are the more deeply bounden and obliged as well in regard of the extraordinarie care and pains which with so great wisdom knowledge experience and dexteritie your Majestie since the Imperial Crown of this Realm descended to you have taken for the continuance and establishment of the blessed peace both of the Church of England in the true and sincere Religion and of the Common-wealth by due and speedy administration of justice as in respect of the gracious care and inward affection which it pleased you on the first day of this Parliament so lively to expresse by your own words so full of high wisdom learning and virtue and so repleate with Royal and thankfull acceptation of all our faithfull and constant endeavours which is and ever will be to our inestimable consolation and comfort We therefore your most humble and loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do from the bottom of our hearts yield to the divine Majestie all humble thanks and prayses not only for the said unspeakable and inestimable benefits and blessings above mentioned but also that he hath further enriched your Highnesse with a most Royal Progenie of Most rare and excellent gifts and forwardnesse and in his goodnesse is like to increase the happy number of them And in most humble and lowly manner do beseech your most Excellent Majestie that as a memorial to all posterities amongst the Records of your high Court of Parliament for ever to endure of our Loyalty Obedience and harty and humble Affection it may be published and declared in this high Court of Parliament and enacted by authority of the same That we being bounden thereunto both by the Laws of God and Man do recognize and acknowledge and thereby

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-Inne Psal 72. 1 2. Give the King thy Judgments O Lord and thy Righteousness unto the King's Son Then shall he judge thy people with Righteousness and thy poor with Judgment Tertulliani Apollogia adversus Gentes c. 32. Hoc agite boni Praesides extorquete animam Deo supplicantem pro Imperatore Hoc erit crimen ubi veritas Dei devotio est LONDON Printed for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little-Britain 1680. Where you may be furnished with most of this Learned Authors Works and a Printed Catalogue To his most Illustrious over-long Exterminated but now happily Restored Soveraign CHARLS the SECOND By the Miraculous Grace of God and indubitable Hereditary Birthright and Succession of ENGLAND SCOTLAND FRANCE and IRELAND KING the invincible constant Professor and DEFENDOR of the truly Antient Catholick and Apostolick FAITH in the midst of manifold Persecutions Provocations Solicitations Temptations and Fiery Tryals the Magazin of all Christian and Royal Virtues and Miracle of Gods preserving and restoring Mercies Most gracious Soveraign THe only potentate and KING OF KINGS who removeth Kings and SETTETH UP KINGS and ruleth in the KINGDOM OF MEN TO GIVE IT TO WHOMSOEVER HE PLEASETH having by his own Omnipotent out-stretched arm and successive Miraculous Providences unexpectedly cut off cast down subverted dissipated without hands or bloodshed the most Execrable Persidious Trayterous Murderers of your Royal Father KING CHARLS the first of Glorious Memory and Unjust disinheriters and proscribers of your Sacred Majestie out of all your own Hereditary Kingdoms and some forein States by Violence War and inhumane Tyranny enforcing your Majesty oft to cry out with the Exiled Kingly Prophet Wo is me that I am constrained to dwell in Mesech and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar c. who by rigorous Edicts debarred your Majestie not only of the Charitable Relief of your own Protestant Subjects but likewise of the Christian Aid and Evangelical Tribute due to all Pagan as well as Christian KINGS by divine and common natural Right of their daily Supplications Prayers and Intercessions to God for your Personal Preservation and Restitution under severest Penalties imposed many insupportable new Yoaks of Bondage on all your Subjects necks and worse than Aegyptian Burdens upon their galled backs for sundry yeares almost to their Irrecoverable ruine it pleased this Soveraign King over all the earth and God of the Spirits of all flesh by strange Miracles of mercy through the preparatory loyal Endeavours of some of your Majesties most inconsiderable faithfull Subjects upon the very first Reception and reading of your Majesties most gracious Letters and Declarations to the Lords Commons City of London Army and Navy immediately to bow the hearts and spirits of both your Houses of Parliament and all your Subjects yea of the very Military Officers Forces by Land and Sea formerly raised engaged against your Majesties Cause and Kingship as the heart of one man as he bowed the hearts of the men of Judah after rebellious usurping Absoloms death in the case of exterminated King David so that they immediately and unanimously voted your Majesties speedy return dispatched their several Letters Votes Messengers Fleet and Monies to your Majesty without one dissenting voice to hasten your Majesties return and transport you with honour and safety to enjoy your KINGLY AUTHORITY and PATRIMONY contending with a most cordial aemulation who should be first and forwardest to bring back and conduct your Majesty together with your Princely Brothers and Followers from your long most deplorable exile to your Royal City and Palace with all possible demonstrations of their publike joy and dutifull Allegeance to your Majesty and farr greater Magnificence Solemnity Triumph and multitudes of Conductors than any of your most Victorious Royal Progenitors enjoyed when they returned into England from their greatest Forein Conquests And that which crowned this Miracle of Mercies was its celerity and season it having both its inception and perfection within the limits of one Month and its completion on Your Majesties Birth-day May 29. whereon as You were first born a Prince You were now re●born A MOST GLORIOUS KING and most magnificently invested in the possession of Your Royal Throne at Whitehall in the presence of all your Majesties Lords Commons and thousands of your People there assembled who with their united Shouts Prayers Praises Acclamations Benedictions and Panegyricks congratulated your Maties Natural and Political Nativity thereon both as a Man and Monarch together with the new Birth and Resurrection of Your three United Kingdoms and Churches of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND and their respective Dominions being all raised from their Graves of Death and Misery wherein they had for some years space before been interred and were new born AS KINGDOMS and Churches too on that joyful day worthy to be celebrated by them in all succeeding Generations and to have this Divine motto engraven thereon The stone which the builders refused is this day become the Head of the corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes THIS IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MADE WEE WILL REJOYCE AND BE GLAD THEREIN What the elegant Prophet Isaiah records of Gods miraculous Mercies towards his Church and people Before she travelled she brought forth before her pain came she was delivered of a man-child Who hath heard such a thing WHO HATH SEEN SUCH THINGS Shall the Earth be made to bring forth in ONE DAY OR SHALL A NATION BE BORN AT ONCE For as soon as ZION travelled she brought forth her children Was now verified both of your Majesty and your three whole Kingdoms Churches all brought forth and born together in this one DAY Wherefore Rejoyce ye with Jerusalem with England and be glad with her all ye that love her rejoyce for joy with her all ye that mourned for her It hath been the antient cavill of our Romish Adversaries against our Reformed Protestant Churches Religion that they are false and spurious because they have no