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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86711	The royal joy. Or, A sermon of congratulation upon the five first verses of Psalm XXI. Made upon the occasion of the first news of the proclamation of Charls II. King of Great Britain; brought to His Majesty in the town of Breda, the 21. of May, in the year 1660. Preached at the Walloon Church of the said town, the 23. of May, the day before His Majesties departure: by Anthony Hulsius, pastor of the said Church.	Hulsius, Antonius, 1615-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3363; Thomason E1048_11; ESTC R208129	18,758	33

The reason of it is because cause the violent shakings of the calamities happened to that Prince one upon another during such a long series of years have r●ised his spirit above all earthly things to look on them all with an equal countenance and have taught him to shew himself immoveable to the attempts of either the good or bad fortune As the iron the end whereof is hardned in the fire by being often put therein whether you try it upon a stone or upon a mass of gold it remains still inflexible But that commendable moderation could by no means hinder him from receiving in his soul a very sensible satisfaction of the singular grace of God to him in inclining the hearts of his Subjects to their duty towards him nor from expressing a joy suitable to the due acknowledgement of that incomparable benefit of God Likewise there is no doubt but that the joy of that Prince is a lawful joy and approved of by God it being mixed with that joy of his Subjects whom we see to be as joyful for having yielded themselves to their lawful King as the King himself may be joyful for being restored to his Subjects From whence we conceive this good Omen that since it is God who hath raised this joy it will remain ever common and reciprocal for the time to come such as his faithful Subjects could never be so happy as to take these ten or twelve years bypast when all the joy was confined in the breast of an Usurper of the Kingly Dignity and of those of his faction which filled the Kingdom with violence the Political Government with confusion and disorders and the Church with Sects and Heresies the smaller fort of the people being oppressed and the great ones carrying their heads to be cut off upon Scaffolds Judge ye what may then have been the joy of honest men when none durst open his mouth in the behalf of the good Cause without incurring the crime of High Treason not against the King but against an Usurped Authority and without exposing themselves to the loss both of life and estate Therefore do you represent unto your selves the joy and the action of that people to be like to the joy of those Northern people who for six moneths together having not seen the sun assoon as they spie the first dawning of the day above their Horizon after a long and thick darkness they run to meet that fair Planet and climb upon the mountains to be illuminated by his beams so long hidden from them and as the joy of the Tribe of Judah returning from Babylon Psal 126. When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them that dream then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing II. The cause of his joy is his deliverance which we may say to have been as great as that of David for it goes from one extreme unto the other as well as his But I am dispensed by many considerations from making here unto you a full Narrative of the calamities and sad travels of that Prince during the twelve years of his banishment And the chiefest reason of my silence therein shall be my ignorance For although we have had often the honor to see him in this town and upon those occasions we have heard with much sorrow of heart several relations of his adversities yet knowing all these only by hear-say and the certainty and the circumstances being unknown to us it is not proper for us to say any thing of that here Besides it being a day of rejoycing it would not be convenient to wrong our selves so much as to deprive us by such melancholy discourses of those chaste pleasures whereunto our Bonfires the ringing of our Bells and the shooting off our Canons do invite us in the admiration of Gods wonders in the deliverance of that Prince Adde thereunto that the little we have spoken of David's afflictions not being taken out of any Sermon but only one of the Books of Chronicles it would be in vain for me to undertake to comprise in a Sermon limited by the time of one hour all the sad occurrences of above twelve years time whereof your posterity will see hereafter many very voluminous Histories no less remarkable then those of former ages It may for this time suffice you see in this town before your own eyes an Object which an hundred years hence if the world continues so long will be the subject of Table and Journey-discourses and so much admired as now adays the most illustrious men celebrated by the Histories may be by us A Prince of the most illustrious Blood in all Europe of an extraction meerly Royal of the Father and Mothers side dispossessed of his Inheritance banished from his Country abandoned by his own Blood wandring among Foreign Nations who was accounted to be forgotten of God because out of the Worlds memory whose manner is to turn its back to Adversity though innocent and to adore nothing but Prosperity although never so guilty But who hath been miraculously delivered from the reproach and restored into the possession of his Ancestors contrary to all humane apparences 1. The Author then of this deliverance cannot be other then God whose hand and strength only hath wrought that wonder So that this King may very well say with David Thy deliverance having gotten it not by the strength of his arms but by the only direction from above God having put into his hands the bodies and the hearts of his Subjects who were as wandering sheep seeking their shepherd An example wherein it seems God hath undertaken to give a publick check to the unworthiness of our age for a memorial and an instruction to posterity that the Great ones of this world having forsaken the just cause of that Prince He himself alone hath been willing to shew he is the Protector of innocency who raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill Ps 113.7 Yea he hath so wrought therein that he hath shewed it was his own work and not of men taking from them all pretence of partaking in that glory that that Prince might be beholding to him alone and not to any foreign force which would have rendred the deliverance so much the less illustrious and the conquest the less glorious Glorious was the conquest of the Earl of Richmond afterwards Henry the Seventh when he went out of Normandy with a small Army into England against Richard the Third Tyrant a Murderer and an Usurper of the Crown and won the Kingdom with the loss of an hundred men only the subjects wishing nothing more then to be delivered from the hand of the Tyrant But the deliverance of Charles II. hath been Divine who hath conquered without fighting or losing one man God alone having fought for him with invisible arms not against the bodies but against the souls of men making them subject to his obedience 2.