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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

King and they are either External Rewards Internal Rewards Eternal Rewards First external and they are either General Rewards or Particular Rewards 1. General And so the King he is the Minister of God to thee * Loyal Subject for good Do well so shalt thou have praise of the same Rom. 13.3 4. To this agreeth the saying of the Prophet Isaiah chap. 32. v. 1 2. Behold ‖ 'T is meant principally of Christ but it will hold in this a King shall reign in righteousnesse and Princes shall rule in judgement And a man shall be a hiding place from the winde and a Covert from the tempest as Rivers of water in a dry place as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary land Wherefore as Jeremiab wished the Israelites to seek the prosperity of the * Jer. 29.7 City whether they were carried so I beseech all English ‖ All the Subjects of our King men to seek the prosperity of the King under whom they are governed Jeremies reason may induce them for in the peace thereof they shall have peace in the prosperity thereof they shall have prosperity in the glory thereof they shall have glory Juda and Israel dwelt without fear all the dayes of Solomon 1 Kings 4.25 The like may England Scotland and Ireland all the dayes of Charles if * What Solomon was to them that Charles is to us they prove loyal Subjects 2. Particular rewards of loyalty Kings favour Particular Rewards of Loyalty are first from men 1. The Kings favour Prov. 22.29 Seest thou a man diligent in his businesse he shall stand before Kings he shall not stand before mean men Now as the Kings wrath which the disloyal incur is as the roring * Prov. 19.12 of a Lion terrible and as the ‖ Prov. 16.14 Messengers of death so his favour which the loyall Subject procures is as dew upon the grasse Prov. 19.12 In the light of the Kings Countenance as life and his favour is as a cloud of the later rain 2. Preferment Preferment as in the case of Mordecai Esther 2.21 and 8.2 compar'd 3. External pomp as in the case of Joseph Mordecai Daniel c. Gen. 41.39 to 45. Esther 6.6 to 12. and 103. Dan. 5.29 4. Estimation of the People as in the case of David while a Subject 1 Sam. 187. 5. Favour of the worthiest as in * He was a loyal Subject even to persecuting Saul Davids case 1 Sam. 18.1 Yea 6. sometimes alliance with the noblest as in the case of Joseph and David Gen. 41.5 45. 1 Sam. 18.27 7. Power and Authority Thus in the case of Joseph Mordecai and Daniel being loyal Subjects to their King and Countrey the one was second in Egypt the other second in Persia the third second in Babylon Gen. 41.40 Esther 8.25 and 10.3 Dan. 6.3 8. A good Subject through the blessing of God upon him he is an Iustrument of good yea sometimes much good to his Nation and Countrey as to avoid prolixity in the case of Mordecai Esther 6.2 and 8.10 and 9.1 In our own time that worthy General Monck 9. A good Name and perpetual Renown is the reward of a loyal subject as in the case of Mordecai Esther 10. 2 3. 10. The Loyal Subject is rewarded with good in his posterity so that when dead as to this life he seemeth to live to his Posterity as appears in the case of Barzillai 2 Sam. 19.32 to 40. 1 Kings 2.7 Barzillai was loyal to David in his distresse David was gratefull to Barzillai when delivered from distresses and not only to him but also to his posterity All which rewards of loyalty as they are due unto Application of therewards of loyalty so I make no question but they will be confer'd upon that honorable and valiant Commander the Lord General Monck for his worthy service to his King and Countrey for which no question he and his will be famous to posterity And I beseech God from the bottom of my heart that he may be rewarded also with the blessings following which none but the King of Kings can give Particular Rewards of Loyalty from God the King of Kings are first External If thou O Christian dost fear God and honour the King this shall be thy reward from God Blessed shalt thou be in the City and blessed shalt thou be in the field Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy Cattel the increase of thy Kine and the flocks of thy sheep Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store Blessed shalt thou be when thou commest in and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out Deut. 28.3 4 5 6. Who is it that desires not to be blessed in these be a Religious Fearer of God and a loyal Subject to the King and these promises are made to thee by him who is truth it self and cannot lie 2. Internal in the peace of a good conscience O what blessing greater than the soul 's continual banquet a good conscience saith Solomon is a continual feast Prov. 15.15 What melody to that sweet harmony of * Rom. 2.15 and 8.16 excusing thoughts What comfort to that comfortable assurance that ‖ Rev. 20.12 Luke 10.20 the opening of the books will shew that our names are written in heaven when others wring their hands for grief this will make thee clap thy hands for joy when others do tremble thou shalt triumph This makes thee to sleep quietly to wake cheerfully to be alone without fear and with others without distrust in thy affairs confident in thy recreation comfortable If Rebels be behinde thee and before thee as the Amonites and the Aramites were before and behind Joab yet wouldest thou resolve with him Be of good courage and let us play the men for our People and for the Cities of our God and the Lord do that which seemeth him good 2 Sam. 10.9 12. Thirdly Loyal Subjects that do fear God and honour the King shall have eternal Rewards which is O Christian when after all thy loyalty to thy Sovereign the Sovereign of all Princes shall advance thee into the great City the New Jerusalem described in part according to our apprehention Rev. 21.10 to the end and 22.1 to 6. In the contemplation of which my meditation dazleth and my pen falleth out of my hands the one not being able * 1 Cor. 2.9 to conceive nor the other to expresse the transcendent joyes that are laid up in heaven for all those who believing in Christ are careful to maintain ‖ Tit. 3.8 good works to fear God and honour the King Therefore I shall forbear to dilate it further And so I come to the last thing which is to shew the Subjects duty to their Sovereign Friends and Beloved our KING is Royal your duty it is to be Loyal that 's your duty in general The Sovereign's Royalty requires The Subjects Loyalty Thus in

General Now the Subjects Loyalty to their Sovereign is that I might discend to particulars to be expressed in the practice of these six duties 1. Fear 2. Honour 3. Obedience 4. Tribute 5. Defence 6. Prayer 1 Fear The Sword exacteth Fear Be ye afraid of the Sword saith Job for wrath bringeth the punishment of the sword Job 19. ult To fear the King both Humanity and Divinity teacheth Fear Princes saith Periander My son fear thou the Lord and the King saith Solomon Prov. 24.21 If thou do that which is evil be afraid saith S. Paul for * Viz. The King he beareth not the sword in vain for he is the Minister of God a Revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil Rom. 13.4 The King of the Land being the Minister of God will take vengeance on them that transgresse the Law of God Job being as a King in the Army Job 29.25 Why the young men fearing to be seen where and when they should not hid themselves Job 24.8 This fear as the Porters keepeth Traytors out of the Princes Court keepeth treachery out of the Subjects heart 1 Kings 3.28 The God of Heaven imprint this fear in all our hearts 2. Duty is honour The Kings Crown importeth honour Fear God honour the King the Holy Ghost hath knit them both together and what God hath joyn'd together let not man put asunder Math. 19.6 Fear God honour the King 1 Pet. 2.17 To fear God to use the words of a worthy and Reverend ‖ Mr. Jones Divine in the City of Bristol in a strict sence is to acknowledge his glorious though invisible presence in all our wayes and to be awfully affected therewith to tremble before his Divine and infinite Majesty and that 1. in regard of the time past because we have sinned and 2. in regard of the time to come that we might not sin c. To honour the King is not to speak evil of his sacred person Eccles 10.20 Curse not the King no not in thy thought c. Acts 23.5 Exod. 22.28 To construe his actions in the better part not to be ready as is but the fault of too many to receive evil reports of him lightly Jude v. 8. And to be thankfull to God that he hath honoured us with the defence of so pious a Sovereign 1 Kings 10.7 2 Chron. 9.8 This honour is due to Kings for they are powers Mr. Byfield's Light of faith p. 360. Rom. 13.1 The Sun and Stars shining in the firmament of the State they are Gods both as Gods Deputies and Vice-Royes and as they bear his Image in authority and Soverainty therefore honour them Rom. 13.7 1. Honour him joyfully as all the people with joy and musical Instruments honored King Solomon at his Coronation and Inauguration 1 Kings 1.39 40. 2. Let all Generals of Armies so honour him that all be done to his honour thus Joab being General of the Field under King David fighting against Rabbah of the Children of Ammon and being ready to take the City of waters sent to King David to come in person that David not Joab might have the honour as we read 2 Sam. 12.27 28. 3. Let him be honored with great regard in accesse to his presence even of the nearest and dearest unto him as Esther though the Queen being in her Royal apparrel stood in the Court of the Pallace until the King held out the Golden Scepter Esther 5.1 2. 4. Let him be honored in his presence with most humble gesture even of the Ministers * Rom. 13.1 of the eternal God as Nathan the Prophet being come unto the King made obeisance before the King with his face to the ground 1 Kings 1.23 Finally let him be honoured with gratefull acknowledgement of the Lords unspeakable blessing in honouring us with so pious a Prince 1 Kings 10.9 The third Duty is Obedience this the Scepter requireth Put them in minde saith S. Paul to Titas to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates Tit. 3.1 The whole world swarmeth with examples of obedience If among the Insecta the Bees obey their King if among the Beasts of the field the flocks follow their chief and the Heards their head If among the Fowles of the air the Cranes when he that watcheth over them calleth they come when he flieth they follow If among men the Servant obeyeth his Master the Son his Father the Wife her Husband If in Man the Body obeyeth the Soul If all the Spheres of Heaven notwithstanding their proper and peculiar motions be circumvolved by the first moveable If the Angels which excell ‖ Psal 103.20 in strength are obedient to the voice of God and do his Commandments and hearken unto the voice of his word Nay if the Son of God who could have had more than ten legions of Angels ‖ Mat. 26.53 to do him service here on earth performed obedience Obedience coming into the world John 6.38 I came down from heaven not to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me Obedience being in the world John 4.34 Jesus said It is my meat to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work Obedience also going out of the world as by these Scriptures appear Matth. 26.39 42 44. Luk. 22.42 Phil. 2.8 Wherefore being compassed with such a Cloud of Examples let us cast off all impediments and obey all that the King commandeth us * As in my Book entitled The Gadding Tribe reprov'd c. Publish'd 1655. p. 11. Every Soul must be subject to the Higher Powers and yield obedience to every one of their Ordinances though (a) 1 Pet. 2.13 14. humane if not contrary to Gods Word for there (b) Act. 4.19 Dan. 3. v. 15 16 17 18. and c. 6. v. 7 8 10. we are to obey God rather than man and be it his Commands in point of Gods Worship so far as belongs to the circumstances how and when being in things indifferent in their own nature and that he also professe to disclaim all opinion of holinesse worship merit and necessity there must we be subject and yield obedience readily 1 Sam. 26.6 sincerely Col. 3.22 23. generally not what liketh us but whatsoever the King is pleased to command us Josh 1.16 Yea earnestly with all our might Gen. 31.6 Phil. 2.8 And all this for conscience sake knowing that God is the Author of Magistracy and Magistracy is also good even when the Magistrate is evil Rom. 13.1 to 8. The fourth duty the Subject owes to their Sovereign is Tribute Rom. 13.6 7. Matth. 22. v. 17. to 22. Mark 12. v. 14. to 18. Luke 20. v. 22. to 26. When we consider that many times the King's eye-lids do not slumber that our eyes may safely sleep that the Kings sword cutteth off Thieves that honest Subjects may enjoy their goods that the Kings Scepter curbeth Adulterers that we may keep our Wives and Daughters in Chastity that the

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