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A56163	The first and second part of the signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians (as also of some idolatrous pagans) tovvards their kings, both before and under the law, and Gospel especially in this our island. Expressed in and by their private and publike private loyal supplications, prayers, intercession, thanksgiving, votes, acclamations, salutations, epistles, addresses, benedictions, options of long life, health, wealth, safety, victory, peace, prosperity, all temporal, spiritual, eternal blessings, felicities to their kings persons, families, queens, children, realms, armies, officers, chearfull subjections and dutifull obedience to them: whethe [sic] good, or bad, Christians, or pagans, orthodox, or heterodox, protectors, or persecutors of them. With the true reasons thereof from Scripture and policy. Evidenced by varieties of presidents, testimonies and authorities in al ages, ... Whereunto the several forms, ceremonies, prayers, collects, benedictions and consecrations, used at the coronations of Christian emperors, kings, queens (more particularly in England and Scotland, not formerly published) and of the Mahometan and Ægyptian kings, are annexed. By; Signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians, towards their kings.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3955; ESTC R217939	286,462	453

them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well for so is the will of God that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men c. Omitting the very first and principal clause in the Text which he durst or would not read Whether it be to the King as Supreme and the disjunctive Or unto Governours which not only mangled but marred the words and sence of the place After which he immediately added that the self-same rule was prescribed by the Apostle Paul 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. which he thus read maimed as he did the former text I will therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercesstons and thanksgivings be made for all men skipping over the principal words For Kings and reading only the next words All that are in Authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour Which double omission and preterition of these two chief clauses in both these quotations one after another in this very Doctrine to avoyd scandals did so much scandalize me that I presently said to the Soldiers fitting in the same seat with me This old temporizing unworthy Minister in mangling and perverting both these Texts one after another in this strange manner by omitting and not reading the principal clauses in them in the very Pulpit and presence of God himself and directions to his Auditors hath given me greater scandal and juster offence than any Minister I ever yet heard preach in all my life not only by imitating but exceeding the very Devil himself when he tempted our Saviour For he when he tempted Christ to cast himself down from the pinacle of the Temple Mat. 4. 6. cited only one Text to induce him to it omitting the last words thereof Ps. 91. 11 12. For it is written he shall give his Angels charge over thee passing over this material clause to keep thee in all thy wayes and reciting only the subsequent words and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone Wherein the Devil acted his own part only both as a Tempter Lyer Prevaricator and that in private But this old Minister if he deserve the Title alleged two several Texts one after another publikely to the whole Congregation in the very Pulpit as the Embassador of Christ himself both which he mangled and prevaricated in the prime Clauses which he omitted wherein he neither acted the part nor discharged the duty of a faithfull Minister but Devil or diabolical Prevaricator fearing pleasing those Anti-royallists in present power and those who could but kill the body more than God himself who could cast his soul and body into hell and had under severest penalties enjoyned all men but Ministers more especially Deut. 4. 2. c. 12. 32. not to diminish ought from the word which he hath commanded them Not to turn from it either to the right hand or to the left Josh. 1. 7. For if any man shall take away from the words of this Book God shall take away his part out of the Book of life and out of the holy City and from the things that are written in this Book Rev. 22. 19. All which texts this timorous wretched Minister regarded not at all dreading the Menaces Commands Power of our Republican Grandees more than the Threats Precepts and Omnipotency of God himself Whereupon the Soldiers confessed to me That it was very ill done of the Minister thus to mangle Scripture and that they were as much offended with him for it as my self Upon further discourse hereof after Sermon I told the Troopers They might now discern the sad effects of abolishing our Kings and Kingship and how formidable our new Republican Grandees who succeeded them were already become not only to the Common people but also to Ministers of the Gospell that some at such a great distance from them as Lanceston dreaded them more than God himself and that in the very Pulpit and House of God not daring to read the word KING or KINGS in the very Texts they quoted for fear of incurring High Treason against the new more than Kingly Governors and Legifers at Whitehall and Westminster who to prevent this mischief might do well to make an Additional Knack to those Knacks they had formerly published against Kings and Kingship and the Ingagement against them that the words KING and KINGS should be expunged out of these two Texts of 1 Pet. 2. 13 17. 1 Tim. 2. 2. and all other Texts of the Old and New Testament in all Bibles to be henceforth printed or read within their New Commonwealth and all old Bibles prohibited lest Ministers or people should incur the guilt of High Treason by reading or obeying these Scriptures to the pr●…dice of their Republike and if others were afrayd to 〈◊〉 i●… I would in my next Letters to their President John B●…dshaw and his Associates at Whitehall acquaint them with this passage and hint thus much to them Which I did accordingly when I came to Pendennis Castle Upon this and other occasions I made a Collection of such Scriptures and Antiquities in all ages both before and under the Law and Gospel as most clearly evidenced both the practice and duty of the Saints Churches and People of God and of Pagans too in making publike and private prayers for the lives healths Prosperity of their Kings Emperors and their royal Posterities whether they were Good or Bad Christian or Pagan Orthodox or Heterodox Protectors or Persecutors of Christianity and the professors of it Which being a Subject not particularly treated of at large by any Writers I have seen or heard of very seasonable usefull to inform the ignorance and reform the neglect thereof in this Apostate age wherein this Christian duty hath been so long neglected decryed prohibited in all our three Kingdoms I thought it not only convenient but necessary to make them publike and communicate them to posterity for the glory of God the Honor of Religion and the benefit of all Christian Kings Emperors Princes throughout the world In the Marshalling of these Collections I shall observe a meer Chronological Method as most usefull and perspicuous digesting all Presidents and Proofs pertinent to this Subject into distinct Chapters beginning with those that are most antient CHAP. I. THE first Presidents I meet with of Frayers made to God for Kings are such as are recorded in Scripture before the Law was given in Mount Sinai or any King instituted by God among his own people of Israel of which there are 3. remarkable Instances seldom taken notice of which I shall recite explicate and apply in order as I find them The 1. is that of Abraham the Father of all faithfull believers thus registred to posterity Gen. 20. Abraham and his wife Sarah sojourning at Gerar

Majestie and your People that I committed the Second Part of this Treatise and all that concerns Your Coronation to the Presse in the beginning of April last before any visible appearances thereof to the eyes or thoughts of others And I repute it an extraordinary Blessing and Honour from God and your Majesty that any of my Paper Arms and Publications in your Majesties and others apprehensions have been instrumental to promote this your happy Unbloody most joyfull Restitution to your Throne and Kingship maugre all late Ingagements Oaths of Abjuration to debar your Majestie and all the Royal line for ever from them I humbly beseech your Royal Majestie graciously to accept this Unpolish'd work compiled in the midst of many publike distracting Imployments being your Highnesses peculiar by all Rights and Circumstances as a Publick Testimony of my Loyalty to your Majestie and a lasting Monument of my Thankfullnesse to Almighty God for hearing my many years constant Prayers and blessing my impotent Paper Artillery and endeavors for your Majesties long-desired and now happily accomplished Investiture not only in your Royal Throne but likewise in the Hearts Consciences private and publike Devotions and Supplications of all your People Whom this Treatise seconded with my Healths Sicknesse dedicated to your Royal Father many years past and your Majesties most Pious fr●…sh Proclamation will instruct and excite most devoutly to pray for your Majesties Health and Happiness in their Churches Chapels Families Closets rather than heathenishly to prophane or abuse your Sacred Name in drinking your Majesties Health to the Hazard of their own and their souls to boot through Drunkennesse and Intemperance in Taverns Alehouses or at their own or others Tables as well to Gods 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 From my Study in Lincolns Inne June 5. 1660. Your Majesties most humble yet Faithfull and Loyal Subject William Prynne 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 ne●…essitating 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. Backner 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 tho●…gh 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 a●… never once entring into my loyal heart being repug●…ant to the Oaths of Supremacy Allegiance I had taken 〈◊〉 has 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 botb 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. Pry●…ne 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

vota fundimus pro patria haud secus quam Sacerdotes Et plus beneficior●…m a Christianis confertur in patriam quam a reliquis hominibus dum cives erudiunt ad pietatem erga Deum tutelarem patriae praesidem ejusque viam ad coelestem quandam civitatem Dei muniant modo recte vivant vel in exiguis civitatibus How shonld this shame and reprove us now for neglecting this Christian duty for our christian Protestant Kings and Kingdoms St. Cyprian Bishop of Carthage who was martyred in the 8. persecution under the Emperors Valerianus and Galienus Anno 248. in his elegant Book Ad Demetrianum Proconsul of Afric who imputed all the wars famins wherewith the world was then afflicted to the Christians writes thus of the Christians prayers for and loyalty to their persecuting Emperors and Superiours Nos qui exposita nativitate terrena spiritu recreati renati sumus nec jam mundo sed Deo vivimus non nisi cum ad Deum venerimus Dei munera promissa capiemus Et tamen pro arcendis hostibus et preces fundimus et pro pace ac salute vestra propitiantes ac placantes diebus ac noctibus ●…ugiter atque instanter oramus On which passage Pamelius hath this observation Locus insignis pro antiquitate precum Ecclesticarum communium qualis est etiam in Tertul. Justin. Apologiis Repe●…iuntur hujusmodi preces in Litnrgiis etiam Jacobi Clementis Basilii Chrysostomi That the Christians then prayed for their very Enemies and Persecutors according to Christs injunction St. Cyprian expresly asserts in his Book De bono Patientiae p. ●…84 b. De Zelo Livore p. 191. a. Testim l. 3. ad Quirinum Sect 49. p. 221. Dionysius and othe rChristians convented before Emillianus the Governour under the Pagan Emperour Valerianus Anno 260. as if they were enemies to the Emperors and prayed not to God for them and the Empire gave him this Answer Nos omnes Deum Deum omni●…m Gubernatorem qui Valeriano Galieno Caesaribus Imperium largitus est et colimus et veneramur Huic e●…iam sine intermissione pro eorum Regno ut st●…bile et firmum man●…at preces adhibemus And can any Christians think they do either God or their Country good service in giving over praying thus for their Christian Kings and Kingdoms and maintaining and continuing them both together Arnobius a Christian Philosopher and Rhetorician flourishing about the year of Christ 300. under persecuting Pagan Emperors in his Disputationum adversus Gentes l. 4. Antuerpiae 1582. p. 148 150. writes thus Majestatis sunt apud vos rei qui de vestris secus obmurmuraverint Regibus Magistratum in ordinem redigere Senatorem aut convitio prosequi suis esse decrestis periculosissimum paenis c. Soli sunt apud vos Superi inhonorati c. Nostra quidem scripta cur ignibus merverint dari cur immaniter conventicula dirui in quibus summus oratur Deus Pax cunctis et venia postulatur Magistratibus exercitibus Regibus familiaribus inimicis adhuc vitam degentibus in quibus aliud auditur nihil nifi quod mites verecundos pudicos castos familiares communicatores rei cum omnibus quos solidet germanitatis necessitudine copulatio Verum ita se res habet ut quoniam plurimum gladiis potestate valetis ferri the case of our Army-Saints now anteice vos etiam veritatis scientia judicetis et esse pro diis pios quorum potentia primi opinionum obscaenitate faedastis In the reign of Constantine the Great a Godly and devout Christian Woman being taken Captive by the Iberians dwelling nigh the Euxine Sea then Idolators and Barbarians gave herself to continency fasting and fervent prayer during her Captivity the Kings S●…n of very tender years fell into a dangerous disease whereof none to whom he was carried could cure him at last they brought him to this Christian Captive who in the presence of many Women without applying any salve or medicine laid her Sackcloath upon him and said only these words Christ which healeth many will also heal this Infant When she had uttered these words And also prayed unto God for ayde and assistance to heal and cure the Disease the Child forthwith recovered and enjoyed perfect health The fame of which cure being bruited amongst the Barbarians Wives came at last to the Queens ears so that she was very famous A while after the Queen herself fell sick and this simple woman was sent for who refused to go for fear some violence should be offered to her Thereupon the Queen being conveyed to her she practised and prayed to God for her recovery as she had done before for the Child and forthwith the Queen is rid of her disease Wherupon she thanketh the woman who answer'd It is not my doing but Christs the Son of God the maker of heaven and earth exhorting the Queen to call upon him and to worship the true God The King hearing of this strange cure commanded the Captive woman should be bountifully rewarded Who sending back his rewards said she wanted no riches but esteemed Godlinesse the greatest treasure and that the King should receive a precious Iewel if he would acknowledge that God with she professed Whereupon the King and his Queen long instructed by her in the Christian Faith called all his Subjects together by Proclamation to whom he rehearsed the manner of his Sons and Queens cure by this Captives prayers and what hapned to himself in hunting by praying to her God then they preached Christ to both Sexes the King to men and the Queen to women after that built a house of Prayer turned Christians and sent Ambassadors to Constantine for a Bishop and Clergy-men to instruct them further in the Faith protesting their further belief in Christ as the marginal Historians more at large relate Here we have a Captive Christian by her Prayers healing the Kings Son and Queen of incurable Diseases under whom she was a Captive and converting the King Queen and all his Subjects to the Christian Faith by her Prayers and the miraculous cures wrought by them and Christs power concurring with her prayers a strong obligation for Christians to practise the Apostles precept 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. even for Pagan persecuting King●… and Princes much more for Christian under whom 〈◊〉 live not as Captives but natural born Subjects St. Amórose Hierom S●…dulius Chrysostom Theodoret Primasius Remigius Bishop of Rhemes Beda Rabanus Maurus Haymo Halberstatensis Oe●…umenius Theophylact and all Antients in their expositions and commentaries on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. with all modern Expositors on this Text and St. Augustin De civitate dei lib. 19. c. 26. resolve That Christians ought to pray publickly and privately to God for the life safety prosperity of Pagan and persecuting Kings Princes Governors Rulers as well as those who are Christians by the Apostles

despicable Mortals the long neglect and discontinuance of this sacred duty and most effectual remedy being as I fear the principal cause of the long continuance and encrease of their and our miseries afflictions pressures and sad confusions If then the serious consideration of Gods own reiterated Injunctions the presidents of Fathers Christians Saints Martyrs Subjects inall ages yea of the very Pagans themselves and the many Oaths Vows Covenants Protestations Declarations Remonstrances we have formerly made with our own and our Ancestors constant practice of these Dutyes for many hundreds of years will not perswade us hereunto yet let the consideration of our personal and national preservation establishment peace settlement prosperity both as men and Christians and the cheapness easiness of this homage and duty to God our King Country our selves which all exes ages though mean poor in Purse or feeble in Body unable to assist and ayd their Soveraign or Country in either are as able to perform as well as the noblest Peers the richest Subjects the valiantest Souldiers or the wisest States men now at last excite and engage them unanimously conscien●…iously and fervently to perfom them both in publick and private To induce them more chearfully thereunto I shall recommend unto them this memorable obser●…ation and seasonable passage of St. B●…sil the Great famous in his gene●…ation and in the Church of Christ. Being by the goodnes and benignity of my most good God through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the operation of the holy Ghost delivered from the error of the Gentiles traditions and long ago even from the beginning educated by Christian parents I verily learned the holy Scriptures from them ●…om my childhood which brought me into the knowledge of the truth but when I became a man and had very frequently used peregrinations and had fallen into the consideration of many things as was meet I verily found in other Arts Sciences much concord amongst those who exactly exercise singular Arts but in the Church of God only and for which Christ dyed and into which he hath abundantly and richly powred forth his holy Spirit I observed the greatest discord and vehement dissentions of many both between themselves and also against the divine Scripture and that which is most horrid the very Presidents of the Church constituted in so great a Dissention both of mind and opinions between themselves and fighting against the commands of our Lord Jesus Christ with so great contrariety as even cruelly to dissipate the Church of Christ and to disturb his redeemed Flock without any commiseration that even on these now if ever when wicked men went out and flourished that of the Apostles may be fulfilled Out of your selves shall aris●… men speaking perverse things that they may draw disciple●… a●…r them When I discerned these things and the like and doubted what and whence the sourse of so great an e●…l might be at ●…irst I was as it were in some thick dark●…sse and as if ●…t in a ballance I did turn my self now on this side now on that side onescale drawing me to it sel●… by reason of thelong custom of men but the other pulling me back for the truth acknowledged in the holy Scripture Now when as this ●…ad for some space and very 〈◊〉 hapned whiles I was searching out the cause of this ●…vil as I have related 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Book relating the History of the Judges came into my mind where it is written that every one then did what seemed right in his eyes and the cause thereof is declared together with it in that which is premised That in those daies there was no King in Israel Therefore remembring these things I did think even of these present dissentions that which truly is ●…errible to be spoken and perchance a paradox but if it shall be considered and weighed is most true that peradventure even now for the contempt of one great true and only King of all there is so great Dissention and Fighting among those who are in the Church of Christ whiles every one hath revolted from the Doctrine of our Lord Iesus Christ and challengeth to himself by his own Authority his own cogitations and definitions and would rather reign against the Lord than be subject to the Lord and be governed by him When I searched this with my self and stood amazed at this monstrous impiety did yet further search it out I was farther perswaded that the foresaid cause was true by nothing more then from the things of this life For I saw every state of a multitude well compounded and to obtain agreement and consist together so long only as their obedience was kept towards some one King over them all and on the other side that dissention and division of every kind yea and moreover polyarchy did arise from hence if there being no King there was a liberty obtained of doing any thing we would I have seen sometimes even a swarm of Bees from the Law of Nature to wage War and in order to follow their own King And tr●…ly I my self have beheld many such things and I have also heard many such things and those know more who are imployed about these things that even from hence that I have said may be proved to be true for it is the property and peculiar of those who 〈◊〉 unto the command of one and obey and use one King that they are may be well disposed and at concord among themselves therfore all d ssention discord is both a Iudgment and sign of that contumacy wherein the principality of one is rejected According to the same reason even the very dissention which is forbidden both between the Commandements of our Father and our Lord and also between our selves 〈◊〉 either from a departure from the true King or from the r●…uncing of him which he there further proves from sundry Texts Therefore by his and Gods own resolution there is no way to heal our manifold Dissensions Distractions and restore peace unity order in our Church and State but by returning to our t●…ue lawfull Spiritual and Temporal only Kings both whom we have most contemptuously and obstinately so long rejected both in ●…ur dev●…tions legal transactions our Church and State affairs which I wish all Republicans Antimonarchists most seriously to ponder and our new Junctoes and General Council of Army-Officers seduced and acted by Campanella Spanish and Romish Emissaries to promote our ruine who of our Servants are now become our Soveraign Lords and Legifers changing their lunatick Votes Resolutions Moddels of Government as frequently as the Moon to keep us in endless Confusions by trampling all Laws of God and the Realm and their spiritual as well as temporal King and Monarchy under their feet But this King of Kings as he hath of late years dashed them in pieces by his admirable stupendious providences of which they will not take notice for

interibit Judae traditori sociatus sempiternis cremabitur incendiis ut scriptum est Non solum qui faciunt s●…d qui consentiunt facientibus judicium Dei non effugiunt Duo namque Eunuchi A●…rum Regem interficere cupientes in patibulum suspensi sunt Animadvertite quid fecerit David prae ecto cum ei Dominus dixerit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Saul in manus tuas dum inveniet dormientem Et hortatus à milite ut occideret eum dixit Absit à me hoc pe●…catum ut extendam manum meam in Ch●…istum Domini Illum autem militem qui post mortem ejus venit ad eum protestans quod ipse occiderat Saul capite truncavit reputatum est ei ad justitiam et semini ejus post e●…m Exemplis namque apud 〈◊〉 probatum est quod quicunque internecionis Dominorum suêre culpabiles in spacio vitam inierunt et utroque 〈◊〉 ca●…uerunt This was the Practise Doctrine and Loyalty of our Ancestors in this National Great Council and primitive age fit to be revived by our present Generation Our famous Country-man Flaccus Alchuvinus Scholar to our venerable Bed●… Tutor to the Emperor Charles the Great and the learnedest English-man in that age hath many memorable rare passages and prayers for Kings and Emperors in his Works and Epistles not vulgarly known which I shall transcribe at large In his Book De 〈◊〉 usu Operum Lutetiae Paris 1617. col 152. d. he writes thus Septem praeterea sunt Psalmi ex quibus si unum corpus efficimus pro omni prorsus corpore oramus Ecclesiae in his namque memoria Sacerdotum REGUMque et Potentatum populi quoque et plebis simul Memento Domine David c. O●…t of which Psalms he frames a Prayer col 153. Propitiare Domine quaeso univer●… tuae Cacholicae Ecclesiae toto orbe terrarum diffu●…ae c. Propitiare famulo suo N Regi cunctisque Christianis Principibus universo exercitui eorum In his 31. Epistle to Offa King of Mercians col 1554. he concludes with this P●…ayer for Gods Grace and Benediction upon him and his Realm Divina te tuumque Regnum coelesti benedictione comitetur gratia Domine excellentissime And Epistle 84. written by him to Offa in the name of Charles the Emperor he thus closeth it col 1614. Uita salus prosperitas tibi tuisque fide libuss a Deo Christo detur in aeternum In his 29. Epistle to Aedilred King of Northumberland describing at large t●…e Office of good Kings and Princes col 1540. he hath this passage Ecclesiarum Christi sint defensores tutores ut Servorum Dei orationibus longa vivant prosperitate And he closeth his 79. Epistle to King Aedilred with this prayer for him col 1554. Deus omnipotens Regni felicitate morum dignitate longaeva prosperitate te florere faciat dilectissime fili His 48. Epistle to most noble King Egfrid King of M●…rcians concludes thus col 1562. E. Divina te in omni bonitate pietas florere faciat fili charissime But of all his Prayers and Thanksgivings those in his Epistles to the Christian Emperor Charles the Great his Scholar written to him for the most part under the name of David Rex are most observable I shall instance in some of the chiefest In his Epistle to him De Ratione Septuagesimae c. col 1142. he begins thus Benedictus sit Deus Pater omnipotens qui te creavit honoravit benedictus sit Dominus noster Jesus Christus filius Dei ve●…i qui te redemit elegit Benedictus sit Spiritus sanctus paracletus qui te illuminavit dilatavit cor tuum in omni sapientia scientia charitatis dilectissime D. D. dulcissime Domine Et benedicta sit sancta Trinitas unus Deus omnipotens Pater Filius Spiritus sanctus qui mini serviculo suo licet indigno ta●…em concessit Dominum amicum adjutorem gratiae ri●…ae Et benedicta sit potestas et Regnum tuum e●… Fi. ii 〈◊〉 et Filii Filiorum tuorum usque in generationes 〈◊〉 sempiternas et veniat super te et super tuam Generationem benedictio sanctorum in die Domini nostri Iesu Christi utque sanctissima sua voluntas vigeat ●…loreat crescat in corde tuo clarissime Ecclesiae Christi rector defensor His 2d Epistle to him Col. 1465. runs in the same words His first Epistle to him is thus directed Col. 1462. Domino piissimo praestantissimo omni honore dignissimo David Regi Fiaccus Albinus ve●…ae beatitudinis aeternam in Christo salutem After his particular Thanksgiving to God for him he thus proceeds Non solum ego ultimus servulus Salvatoris nostri congaudere debeo prosperitati exaltatione clariss●… ae potestatis vesti ae sed tota sancta Dei Eccles●… unanimo caritatis concentu gratias agere Domino Deo omnipotenti 〈◊〉 qui tam pium prudentem justum his novissimis mundi periculosissimis tem●…oribus populo Christiano perdonavit elementissimo munere Rectorem atque Defensorem qui prava corrigere recta corrobora●… sancta sublimare omni intentione studeat nomen Domini Dei eccelsi per multa terrarum spacia dilatere gaudeat Catholicae fide●… lumen in extremis mundi partibus incendere conetur c. In qua Dominus noster Jesus Christus qui est virtus sapientia Dei te custodiat exaltet et ad gloriam perennis visionis suae pervenire faciat His Epistles to this Emperor begin for the most part with wishing him perpetuae pacis gloriae salutem perpetu am salutem c. His 4. Epistle to him col 1476. ends thus Deprecantes quoque Domini D●…i nostri clementiam qui te undique regat et custodiat et victorem faciat omnium Inimicorum tuorum seu visibilsum seu invisib●…um quatenus cum co●…ona gloriae multis feliciter regnaturum annis ad regnum perpetuae beatitudinis pervenire cum sidelibus suis concedat In his 6. Epistle col 1480 he and his Monks prayed thus for him Totum cordis mei aff●…ctum in gratiarum actiones Christo clementissimo Regi effudi illius Sedula oratione deprecans 〈◊〉 cum omnibus nostrae Devotionis cooperatorib●… quatenus vestram Pacificam amabilem potentiam ad exaltationem sanctae suae Ecclesiae sacratissimi gub●…rnacula Impe●…ii longaeva prosperitate custodire reg●…re et dila●…are vignetur His 7. Epistle to him begins thus col 1487. Gloria laus ●…eo Patri Dom. nostro Jesu Christo quia in gr●…tia sancti Spiritus per devotionem et ministerium sanctae fidei bonae voluntatis vestrae Christianitatis Regnum atque agnitionem veri Dei dilatavit plurimos longè laté●…ue populos ab errori●…us impiet●…tis in viam 〈◊〉 deduxit c. His 9. Epistle ends with

Charters granted and confirmed several Lands Liberties and Privileges to the Monasteries and Churches of Stratford Halwiel Frampton Wells Budesley Revesly Boxele and Homecoltram pro amore Dei et pro salute nostra et A. Reginae matris nostrae in liberam et perpetuam elemosynam for which the Monks were to pray King John by several Charters granted and confirmed several Lands and Liberties to the respective Monasteries of F●…ssa St. Katherine near Exeter Thikehued St. Neth D●…re Farendon Shaftesbury and Wolfraughauton pro salute animae H. Regis avi Patris nostri pro salute nostra et 〈◊〉 nostrorum et omnium ancecessorum et successorum nostrorum pro salute animo H. Regis patris nostri et matris sui Imperatricis et antecessorum et 〈◊〉 nostrorum Which the Monks in all these Monsteries were obliged constantly to pray for in all their publike and private Masses and Devotions King Henry the 3 d. granted and confirmed several Lands and Privileges to the Abbies and Monasteries of Danington F●…ssa Flamsted Cesthont Wilburt●…sse Lillichurch Wotton New-Minster near Morpeth Parcolude Kemmer Jorevall Holmcoltram Bynedone Leiselege Lenton and Tarente pro salute animae nostrae et H. Regis et ●…aeredam nostrorum et omnium ●…egum Angliae et omnium fidelium et animarum ante●…rum nostrorum et patris mei et matris meae et pro totius nostri progen in remissionem peccatorum et salvationem et pro statu Regni mei Which the Abbots Priors and Monks in these respective Churches we●… constantly to pray for both in publike and private The Prior and Covent of St. Alba●… in their Letters to King Henry the 3d. touching the Election and presentation of a New Abbot Anno 1235. used this ●…tile and prayer Excellentissimo Domino suo in Christo Reverendissimo Henrico Dei gratia Regi Angliae c. E. Prior Sancti Albani ejusdem loci Conventus cum omni humilitate devotione aeternam in Domino salutem The Prior and Covent of Bath Anno 1242. begin and end their Letters to King Henry the 3d. and his Queen concerning the Election of the Bishop of Bath and Wells in this form and with these Prayers for them Serenissimo Domino Henrico Dei gratia Regi Angliae c. devoti sui ●…umilis Th. Prior conventus Ba●…honiae Salutem et debitam cum orationibus 〈◊〉 reverentiam et fidelitatem c. In omnibus quae nostrae erunt possibilitatis vestris pa●…ati sumus affec●…uose parere mandatis ●…alvat et vigeat Dominatio vestra per tempora longa 〈◊〉 Regia 〈◊〉 ●…estra semper in Domino Conservet vos 〈◊〉 et populo suo Altissimus per ●…pora longiora Ualeat et tigeat Serenitas vestra et ●…liorum vestrorum per tempora longa Ualeat Serenitas vestra semper in Domino Which were their daily prayers for thē in their publike and private Devotions in their Churches and Cells as well as in their Letters And likewise for King Adelstan Edwar●… Edgar Ethelred Kenulphus Henry the I. and King Stephen Benefactors to the Priory of B●…th whose Anni●…rsaries they solemnized every year with Solemn prayers and Alms as the Leger book records In the Vigil o. St. Matthew Anno 1247. when Prince Edward eldest son and heir of King Henry the 3. was sick the said King writ to all the religious persons remaining within the circuit of London where the said Edward lay sick ut 〈◊〉 orarent pro Pueri incolumitate●… that they should devoutly pray for the recovery and health of the child Whereupon amongst others he writ specially to the Abbot and Covent of St. Alban ut pro ipso orantes that praying for him all the Monks should solemnly sing a Masse whose first Collect should be of St. Alban but the second for the sick Prince namely Omnipotens sempiternè Deus salus aeterna credentium c Which being done per Dei gratiam puero sanitas est restituta Haec idcircò dixerim writes the Historian propter murmur populi dicentis ecce laici orant Dominum et exaudiuntur et quare non orat Papa facit pro causa sua imò nostra universalis Ecclefiae Orare imò rapinis inhiat pecuniae indefessus Dictumque est affirmatum quod non sine lac●…rymis scribo plus confidit in pecuniae thesauris quam fidelium precibus vel Eleemosy●…is The Abbots of the Order of Black Monks assembling at the Abby of Bermond●…shie in the year 1249. Ordained by Common-Council Quod ipse Dominus Rex ab ipsis omnibus impetravit ut pro ipso et Regina dicatur quotidie in missa quae in veneratione beatae Virginis canitur in eorum Ecclesiis Collecta celebis Deus in cujus manu For the preservation and welfare of the King and Queen King Henry the 3d. being very sick at Westminster in the Lent Anno 1270. and despairing of his recovery se orationibus Ecclesiae commendavit recommended himself to the Prayers of the Church Whereupon the Monks of Westminster fearing to lose such a Patriot went in Pilgrimage bare-foot in a rainy season to the new Temple and there singing a Masse for the King and returning thence in the same manner as they went it was told them that the King had recovered of his sicknesse Whereupon he commanded the Monks by his Mandates that they should ●…ing Gaude at in coelis quod convaluit precibus monachorum George Cassandar in his h Preces Ecclesiasticae hath sundry forms of Prayers for Christian King●… Emperors Princes and Kingdoms collected out of several antient Liturgies Missals Letanies and Canonical Houres used antiently in most Monasteries and Churches as well in England as in other Kingdoms during the reign of King Henry the 3d. and in the Kings reigns preceding and succeeding him which I shall here insert Deus qui populis tuis virtute consulis amore dominaris da huic f●…mule tuo spiritum sapientiae cum regimine disciplinae ut tibi toto corde devotus in Regni regimine maneat semper idoneus tuoque munere ipsius temporibus securitas Ecclesiae dirigatur ut in tranquillitate devotio Christiana permaneat ut in bonis operibus perseverans ad aeternum Regnum te duce valeat pervenire per eundem Dominum Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui famulum tuum Regni fastigis dignatus es sublimare tribue ei quaesumus ut ita in hujus seculi cursu in commune salutem disponat quatenus a tuae veritatis tramite non recedat Per eundem Dominum nostrum Deus qui scis humanum genus nulla virtute posse subsistere concede propicius Ut famulus tuus N quem populo tuo voluisti praeferri ita tue fulciatur adjutorio quatenus quibus potui praeesse valeat prodesse Per Dominum Omnipotens sempiterne Deus coelestium terrestriumque moderator qui famutuum

his 〈◊〉 giveth them to carry to such as it 〈◊〉 his Majesty The Archbishop kneeled down and made his Hom●…ge as followeth Out of the Coronation of Edward the 6. J. A. Shall be faithfull and true and Faith and Troth bear unto you our Soveraign Lord and to your Heires Kings of England and I shall do and truly knowledge the service due of the Lands I claim to hold of you as in the right of your Church as God shall help me And so kissed the Kings left cheek c. Or these words taken out of another book I become your man Leige of life and Limb and Troth and hearty Honour to you shall bear against all men that now live and dye So help me God c. The A●…chbishop goeth down to the Altar and begins the Communion The Prayer Quaesumus omnipotens c. Quaesumus omnipotens Deus ut ●…amulus tuus Jacobus Rex noster qui tua miseration●… suscepit Regni guberna●…ula virtutum etiam omnium percipiat incrementa Quibus decenter ornatus vitiorum voraginem devitare hostes superare ad te qui veritas vita es gratiosus v●…leat pervenire per Dominum Iesum nostrum Amen O Almighty God w●… beseech thee that this thy Servant James our King who by thy mercy hath received the government of this Realm may also receive an increase of all Vertues whereby he may be acceptable to thee and avoid the gulfe of vice and overcome all his enemies and finally come ●…o thee in glory who art the Way the Truth and the Life thorough Christ our Lord. The Epistle 1 Pet. 2. By two Bishops The Gospel Matth. 22. By two Bishops The Nicene Creed The Offertory The King cometh down from the Throne to offer He offereth twice 1. Bread and Wine 2. A Mark of Gold Then the Prayer Omnipotens Deus c. Omnipotens Deus det tibi de rore coeli de pinguedine terrae habund●…ntiam srumenti vini olei serviant tibi populi ad●…rent te tribus Esto Dominus fratrum tuorum incurventur ante to filii matris tuae qui benedixerit tibi benedictionibus repleatur Deus erit ●…djutor tuus Opus benedicaet tibi benedictionibus coeli desuper in montibus in Collibus benedictionibus abyssi jacentibus deorsum benedictionibus uberum uvarum Pom●…rumque benedictiones Patr●…m antiquorum Abraham Isa●…c Jacob confortatae sint super te Almighty God give thee of the dew of Heaven and of the fat of the Earth abundance of Corn and Wine Let the Natio●…s serve thee and the Tribes ado●…e thee and let him be blessed that blesseth thee and God shall be thy helper Almighty God blesse you with the blessing of Heaven above in the Mountains and Hills and with the blessings of the Earth beneath with the blessings of Corn and Wine and Fruit and let the blessings of the old Fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob be established upon thee through Christ our Lord. Blesse O Lord the vertuous cou●…age of this King and accept the work of his hands●… replenish his Realm with the increase of thy Blessings with the fruit of the Heavens and the dew of the Water and the depths Let the influence of the Sun and the Moon drop down fatnesse upon the high Mountains and the Clouds rain plenty upon the low Vallies that the Earth may abound with store of all things Let the blessings of him that appeared in the Bush●… descend upon his head and the fulnesse of his blessings fall upon his Children and posterity Let his Feet be dipped in Oyl and his horn be exalted as the hor●… of an Unicorn by which he may scatter his enemies from on the sace of the Earth the Lord that sitteth in Heaven be his defender for ever and ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Bl●…sse we beseech thee O Lord these thy gifts and fanctifie them unto this holy use that by them we may be made partakers of the Body and Blo●…d of thy only begotten Son Jesus Christ. And thy servant our King James may be sed unto everlasting life of Soul and Body and inabled to the discharge of his great place and osfice where●…nto thou hast called him of thy great goodnesse grant this O Lord for Jesus Christs sake our only mediator and advocate Amen Deus Rex Regum dominus domina●…tium per quem Reges regnant legum ●…onditores ●…ura 〈◊〉 dignare 〈◊〉 benedicere ●…ic reg●…le ornamen●…um presta ut famulus tuus Rex noster qui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 orna●…ento bonorum morum sanctarum 〈◊〉 in conspectu tu●… sulgeat post te●…pora alieni vitam 〈◊〉 glori●…m quod tempus non habet ●…ine fine possideat per Dominum nostrum c. O God the King of Kings and Lord of Lords by whom Kings do rei●…n and Law-givers do make good Lawes 〈◊〉 in thy favour to blesse this Kingly ornament and gr●…nt that thy servant our King who shall wear it may shine in the spi●…it with the ornament of good life and holy actions and after this life ended he may forever enjoy that life and glory which hath no end through Christ our Lord. The prayer done the Abbot of Westminster arrayeth the King 1. With the supertunica or close Pall. 2. Then with the Tynsin hose 3. Then with his Sandalls The Spurs are put on by a Nobleman thereto by the King appointed Then the Archbishop taketh the Sword and layeth it before him on the Altar and s●…ith the Prayer Exaudi Domine c. Quaesumus Domin●… preces nostras hunc ensem quo ●…ic famulus tuus Jacobus se circumcingi desiderat majestatis 〈◊〉 dextera benedicere 〈◊〉 dignare quatenus defenfio atque protectio eccle●…iarum esse viduarum Orphanorum omniumque Deo Servientium contra saevitiam paganorum 〈◊〉 insidiantibu●… sit pavor terror formido per Dominum nostrum c. Hear our prayers we beseech thee and vouchsafe by thy right hand of majesty to blesse and sanctifie this Sword wherewith this thy servant James desireth to be girt that it may be a defence and protection of Churches Widows Orphans and all the Servants of God against the savage cruelty of Pagans and Infidels and that it may be a fe●…r and terror to all those that lye in wait to do mischief through Christ our Lord. Then the Archbishop delivereth the Sword into the Kings hands saying Accipe gladium Which Sword is girt about him by a Peer thereto appointed Accipe gladium per manus Episcoporum licet indignas vice cum auth●…ritate sanctorum Apostolorum consecratas tibi regaliter impositum nostraeque benedictionis ●…fficio in defensiouem sanctae fidei Ecclesiae divinitus ordinatum Et ●…sto memor de quo Psalmista prophetavit dicens Accingere gladio tuo super femur tuum potentissime ut per eundem vim aequitatis exerceas molem iniquitatis pote●…er destruas