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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

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 Ezra 7.26 Whosoever will not do the Law of God and the Law of the King let Judgement be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment London Printed by R. D. and are to be sold at the Holy Lamb in S. Pauls Church-yard near the School 1660. DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE 1 Kings 10.9 2 Chron. 9.8 Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighteth in thee to set thee on the Throne of thy Father to be King for the Lord thy God because the Lord thy God loved ENGLAND therefore made he thee KING over VS to do Judgment and Justice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 TO THE MOST HIGH and MIGHTY MOST GRACIOUS AND RELIGIOUS PRINCE Charles II. By the Grace of God of Great Brittain France and Ireland KING Defender of the true Catholick and Apostolick Faith Christ Jesus the Prince of Princes blesse your Majesty with length of daies and an increase of all Graces which may make you truly prosperous in this life and eternally happy in that which is to come THe Picture and Pattern of Piety most Gracious and Dread Sovereign S. Bernard by name deciphereth out at large the grosse Enormity of that ugly Vice Ingratitude saying It is Iimica animae exaninitio meritorum dispersio vertutum c. An enemy to the Christian Soul an exile of Merits a ruine of Vertues and a consuming fire that scorcheth up the Fountain of all goodness Lest therefore I should condemn my self guilty of this sensual sin and chalenged be of grosse Ingratitude to the God of our Mercies who hath in mercy to these Nations brought your Sacred Royal Person after upwards of eleven years banishment to the happy possession and enjoyment of Your CROWN and KINGDOM to the great joy and comfort of all your Loyal Subjects whose number God Almighty encrease I who am the meanest and most unworthy have presumed most humbly craving pardon for my arrogant audacity herein both in token of my loyal duty to your sacred Majesty as also of that transcendent joy which I do conceive in my heart the Searcher of hearts knows for Your happy Inauguration and Coronation to transport these rude lines to the happy Haven of your Princely Heart wishing to Your Royal Grace the Silver of all earthly prosperity and the Gold of all Coelestial felicity prostrating my self upon the bended knees of humble submission at your Highnesse foot-stoole for pardon of my presumption herein and do make bold to become an earuest yet most humble Petitioner to Your sacred Highnesse Seeing Almighty God for ever blessed be his holy Name hath done so great things for your sacred Royal Person both in defending You from the cursed rage and hellish fury of Your trayterous Adversaries who like a kennel of Bloud-hounds hunted (a) At the fight flight from Worcester Sept. 3. 1651. for Your precious (b) 2 Sam. 18.3 life to destroy it and also which to me seems far greater keeping (c) 1 Pet. 1.5 Your Pious Royal Heart in the affection to and zeal for the true Protestant Religion according to your godly Education notwithstanding your forced Exile into those parts and amongst such persons who are the professed Enemies and Opposers of it and who no question left no stone unturn'd nor meanes untri'd to betray your Sacred Highnesse into a love of and compliance with their erroneous and false worship and as the crown of the mercy making use of the worthy Service of the Lord General George Monck who may be rightly stil'd England's S. GEORGE for the breaking the Ice of the former impossibilities and slaying the hidious Beast and bloudy Dragon that devoured the Lords Heritage and enslav'd us 2 Sam. 19.14 bowing the hearts of your People to sue to You and to declare for You yea Dan. 4.36 moving and uniting the loyal hearts of your Honorable COUNSELLORS and LORDS assembled in PARLIAMENT to vote You * May 6. 1660. in which caused great joy and triumph (a) Psal 14.7 and 53.6 to all your distressed Subiects and so preventing that effusion of bloud which Lambert and the Phanatick party might have involved these Nations in a Crown being seldom if ever won without battel or worn without bloud and so from Heaven proclaiming your Highnesse to the World to be Princeps pacis the Prince of Peace and so with a mighty hand and stretched out arm bringing your Majesty about the thirtieth year of your age to your lawful Crown and Kingdoms which is such a choice work of Providence your Enemies themselves being witnesse that present and future Ages have cause to stand and gaze at it saying in the langnage of Moses Stand still Exod. 14.13 Psal 118.23 Psal 102.18 and see the salvation of the Lord. This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes This shall be written for the generation to come and the People which shall be created shall praise the Lord. The consideration whereof sure I am doth move your pious Royal heart to consult with the Royal Prophet Quid retribuam Jehovae Psal 116.12 What shall I render to the Lord for all his goodnesse towards me That You might honour that Majesty that hath laid Honor and Majesty upon your Royal Person and hath maugre force fraud set a crown of pure gold upon your head that the Highest may establish your Majesties Royal Person and make You that indeed which some unloyal Subjects falsly * Your Majesties Proclamation signed at Brussels Jan. 25.1659 1 Sam. 2.30 pretended a GLORIOUS KING The high way whereunto being as your Grace well knows to honor God for those that honor me I will honor saith the Lord. Of which your Grace hath a double obligation one as a Christian the other as a King as a Christian King which is done by establishing and preservation of (a) As in the 8. Article of you Majesties Doclaration from Flaunders true Protestant Religion which of late years hath been in great danger (b) Your Majesties Proclamation from Brussels signed Jan. 25. 1659. of being rooted out by Anabaptists Quakers and Atheists You are Dread Sovereign over us in the Lord from whom you have your Power Rom 13.1 Prov. 8.15 16. Isa 9.6 7. Revel 1.5 Rev. 19.16 Per me Reges regnant Et Domini dominantur saith Christ who is

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

things First the sad odium that hath been cast of late years upon the Loyal party and that party if not wholly occasioned by the openly prophane and scandalous walking of the generality of those who were the Kings professed Friends they were so noted above any other for horrid Oaths in their common talk and for excessive drinking and debauched drunkennesse that the re-Baptizers * They are since turn'd have new Christened them though not at a Font with a name to render them odious viz. Cavalier a word as an ancient Doctor * Viz. D. Green But though some render it otherwise yet the word was cast as an odium upon the former consideration often told me and others in my hearing derived from the French tongue from a word which signifieth a Swearer a Drunkard a deboist prophane Person But I trust you will own neither the Name nor the Practice especially for the future A second thing I would inform you of shall be by way of lamentation delivered with a little inversion in the words of Jeremiah's Lamentation and the words of holy Daniel and Ezra c. For our sins and for the iniquities of our Fathers (a) Dan. 9.16 our Jerusalem and our people have been a reproach to all that have been about us Thus we have been cast down and not exalted (b) vers 8. Bar. 2.5 because we have sinned against the Lord our God and have not been obedient unto his voice Yea your (c) Lam. 5.2 Inheritance hath been turned to strangers and your houses to aliens Your necks have been under (d) vers 5. persecution and you had no rest Servants have ruled over us (e) vers 8. This was Cham's curse after he had discover'd the nakednesse of his Father Gen. 9.22 24 25. England did worse by her Father the King and therefore deserved worse plagues and there was none for certain years to deliver us out of their hands Yea which is more to be lamented the breath of our nostrils (f) La. 4.20 the Annointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said Vnder his shadow we shall live though among the (g) The very Heathen would not have murthered him Heathen And these tyrannical Usurpers have had dominion (h) Neh. 9.37 over our bodies and over our cattel at their pleasure and we were in great distress For our iniquities have we our Kings and our Priests been delivered into their hands (i) Ezra 9. v. 7. Baruch 2.5 to the Sword to captivity to a spoil and to confusion of face Thus hath it been with us since that prodigious and unpresidented murther of our dear (k) Jan. 30. 1648. Sovereign KING CHARLES the first But now the Lord hath begun to give us (l) Isa 14.3 rest from our troubles and to lift up our heads and to compasse us about (m) Psa 32.7 with Songs of deliverance Grace hath been shewed us from the Lord our God to (n) Ezr. 9.8 9 leave us a remnant to escape and to give us a nail in his holy place and to lighten our eyes and to give us a little reviving in our bondage For we werè bond-men yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage but hath extended mercy unto us in bringing our Gracious Sovereign through so many dangers difficulties and sad revolutions to be our Patron in our lives liberties Religion Yea to the happy settlement of those so much look'd long'd for blessings Peace and Truth c. Having thus informed you ye Loyalists of your heretofore miserable condition and of your present delivered condition by the happy Inauguration of our Deare and long look'd for Sovereign Lord the King I desire You give me leave to exhort You to two duties in special that are incumbent upon you in lieu hereof First to entire and hearty thankfulness to the God of our mercyes Say with the Royall Prophet Psal 103.1 2. Praise the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me praise his holy Name Praise the Lord O my Soul and forget not all his benefits Offer the sacrifice of Praise to God continually that is the fruit of our lips giving Praise to his Name Hebr. 13.15 Secondly to sincere obedience not only to sound forth his praises with your lips but also and that chiefly to shew forth his praises in your lives The mercies we have won by prayer and seeking God we must wear by praises and serving God For to this end were we redeemed out of the hands of our enemies not only of our spiritual but also out of the hands of our temporal enemies that we should serve God in holinesse and righteousness all the days of our lives Luk. 1.74 75. But if after all this is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespasse and seeing our God hath punished us less than our Iniquities deserve and hath given us such deliverance as this should we I beseech you again break his Commandments Would he not then be angry with us until he had consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping Ezra 9.13 14. Read and consider Nehemiah 9. from v. 25. to 29. And now I come through the gracious assistance of Almighty God without which I can do * Joh. 15.5 2 Cor. 2.16 and 3.6 nothing to the third Head of which I shall speak more largely To presume to speak to all the Kings Majesties Subjects joyntly without distinction that seeing Almighty God the great mighty Sovereign of Heaven Earth hath placed us in his gracious goodnesse under so pious ‖ His Piety and Religion shines as bright as the Sun at noon and Protestant a King and so made you as was before said Branches of one Vine Stones of one Building Fellows in one Family Children of one Father Members of one Head nay Subject-heirs under one King that you would all strive and labour to be of one heart and * Ephes 4.1 2 3 4 5 6. Rom. 15.5 6. Phil. 2. v. 1. to 5. one minde in yielding obedience to that ‖ 1 Pet. 2.17 Gospel-Command to fear God and honour the King Now that I might drive this nail to the head I shall endeavour in the prosecution hereof to speak distinctly to these six things 1. The Author Authority and Necessity of Government and Governors both supream and subordinate 2. The hainousnesse of disloyalty or rebellion against the King as Supream and subordinate 2. The hainousnesse of Disloyalty or Rebellion against the King as Supream or subordinate Governors sent by Him and established over Us. 3. I shall answer some objections that may be and have been made in this particular 4. I shall demonstrate the Plagues and punishments that do attend and follow such Rebels and Traytors in this life and something of the Plagues and Torments that do wait and are reserved for them and which without timely Repentance they shall eternally suffer in the life

nothing for the defence of the King yet if thy heart be not too lewd too wicked if thy heart be not void of all piety of all Christian duty thy heart will dayly and often every day pray for the King 1 Tim. 2.1 2. If S. Paul exhorted to pray for Nero for it was in and under the time of his Reign S. Paul lived a man so wicked that as one writes of him he murdered his Tutor his Mother and was Natures Monster If the Prophets commanded the Israelites to pray for the life of the King of Babylon who had wasted ‖ 2 Kings 24 25. chap. Judea with sword and fire besieged and taken Jerusalem burned the Temple carried away the holy Vessels set fire on the whole City brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about murther'd many people enslaved others slew the sons of the King before his eyes afterwards pull'd out the Kings eyes bound him in chains carried him to Babylon and as if this were not impiety enough set up a golden Image and by a Herauld proclaimed * Dan. 3.1 4 5 6. that whosoever did not worship it should be cast into the midst of a hot fiery Furnace If the holy Prophet commanded the Israelites to pray for wicked Nebuchodonosor what would that Holy Spirit by whom both the Prophets and Apostles did write that all English Scotch Irish all others under the subjection or Protection of his most gracious Majesty should do for KING CHARLES II. See a small Book entitled The Character of King Charls the II. who is so Pious and Protestant a Prince as any the Christian world enjoys his Piety and Religion is so eminent and splendorous that should my rude wit presume to dilate it I should but light a candle to the Sun Shall we not pray for such a King Pray for him saith S. Paul in respect of your selves and in respect of God In respect of your selves that you may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty A quiet life that we may have no Insurrections at home A peaceable life that we may have no evasion from abroad In all godlinesse that it may be said of England as once Jacob said of Bethel Surely the Lord is in this place And in honesty that the Name of the Lord be not blasphemed among the Gentiles amongst the Anabaptists Quakers and Sectaries through you Matth. 5.16 1 Pet. 2.12 In respect of God our Saviour pray for the King For saith St. Paul this is good in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2.1 2 3. I would have spoken somewhat largely of this duty of the Subject to their Sovereign but in regard Esquire Prynn hath both learnedly and largely published a Treatise of this Subject entituled The signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and pious Christians towards their Kings I shall suspend my poor labour in discussing it further heartily wishing that that Book before cited might honour every Family in the three Nations that is that every Family might have one and that they would make a good use of it not as the guise of the most is to peruse it and then throw it aside to the Mothes and dust but that they would frequently read it carefully regard it and constantly practice it for in this and nothing so much as this doth the Subjects loyalty signally appear to our Sovereign Lord King Charles So that these fix duties the several branches of Loyalty of the Subject to the Sovereign viz. Fear which the Sword exacteth Honour which the Crown importeth Obedience which the Scepter requireth Tribute which the Throne deserveth Defence which the person meriteth and Prayer which the Lord commandeth are carefully to be remembred and conscienciously to be practised at all times and upon all occasions as ever we would approve our selves good Subjects or good Christians without the practise of which duties so far as belongs to our place and calling we can be neither good Subjects nor good Christians for those that truly fear God will and do loyally honour the King 1 Pet. 2.17 To sum up all these duties in the words of Tertullian His debetur honor propter excellentiam timor propter datam potestatem obedientia propter morale debetum amor propter affectionis operationem To these honour is due for their Excellency fear for their power given them obedience for civil duty tribute for the * Mat. 17.24 to the end preservation of peace love for affection which bringeth forth prayer and piety The like comprehension or abridgement of the Duty of Subjects to their Sovereign that I might help memory is couched in that famous Collect of our mother the Church I hope none will be offended for the citation of it in the second service next ensuing the ten Commandments and preceding the Nicene Creed which is very pithy ALmighty God whose Kingdome is everlasting and power infinite have mercy upon the whole Congregation The Kings duty and so rule the Heart of thy chosen servant CHARLES our King and Governor that he knowing whose Miisister * Rom. 13.4 he is may above all things seek thy honour and glory and that we his Subjects duly considering whose authority he hath may fully serve honour The Subjects duty and humbly obey him in thee and for thee according to thy blessed Word and Ordinance through Jesus Christ our Lord who with thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth ever one God world without end Amen Thus in the Liturgy So likewise in a godly Prayer made by Mr. Bradford that blessed Martyr in Queen Maries dayes amongst other godly Petitions towards the later end of the Prayer entituled A Prayer necessary for all persons there is this pithy one to my present purpose that I may obey our King and all Governors under him * 1 Pet. 2.13 14 unseignedly and receive all Laws and common Ordinances which disagree not from thy Holy Word obediently and pay every man that which I owe him truly Thus I have shewed you the Author Authority and necessity of Government and Governors both Supream and subordinate 2. The hainousnesse of disloyalty or rebellion against the King as Supream or subordinate Governors sent by him and established over us 3. Made answer to some objections in this particular 4. Demonstrated the Plagues that do attend Rebels and Traytors 5. The Rewards of Loyalty and these both temporal and eternal Lastly the duties of the Subject to the Sovereign the God of Heaven make these things profitable to us and powerful in us that we may religiously fear God and really honour the King that so the blessings of loyalty may attend us both here and hereafter Amen AND now that these rude lines of mine being through God's assistance thus composed to go abroad and shew themselves to publick view to whom shall I tender and present them May I to you most honorable Councellors But who am I that knowing your Lordships as