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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 Royal Joy OR A SERMON OF CONGRATVLATION 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 HVLSIVS Pastor of the said Church LONDON Printed by John Bill Anno 1660 TO HER HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS ROYAL MADAM THis Sermon which I make bold to present to your Highness bears upon its Front THE ROYAL JOY a Title given unto it by the Text but we bear another upon the front of our hearts viz. THE POPVLAR JOY The Kings Joy bath been made the Subject of the Publick Joy It hath chiefly appeared upon the Countenances of all your faithful Subjects of the Town of Breda in an extraordinary manner there being none of our Inhabitants but hath given the marks of a cordial Applause upon the first report of His Majesties Restauration with an excess of joy and I dare say with as strong expressions of rejoycing as might have been uttered by the most affectionate of his own Subjects And I may truly say Madam that it is not the present time of prosperity which hath given us the first impressions of this inclination towards that worthy Prince it is of an older date and had its beginning together with the knowledge we had of him We never saw him coming in or going out of this Town during the time of his Affliction but we made Vows for his Deliverance yea and we would have carried him upon his own Throne had our strength been equal to the motions of our hearts and could the effects have been answerable to the tenderness of our affection which hath had a not able increase since the time Heaven hath favored us with the accomplishment of our desires and hath chosen this Town to be the place where His Majesty hath received the news of his Proclamation where his Subjects have resorted in crowd to render him their Devoirs and where even our Soveraign Magistrates the Lords States General and Provincial of Holland have personally appeared to express unto His Majesty the sense of the singular satisfaction they received by seeing such an happy day It is true Madam your Highness hath been the occasion our Town hath received such an Honor and therefore we do acknowledge you as the second cause of it and the Instrument in the hand of God yet we do interpret it as a benefit of God whereby he hath been pleased to reward the part we have taken out of our affections in the calamities of that Prince that as for a long time we have sympathiz'd with him so we should be the first sharers of his comfort and joy I cannot think Madam that any one would be so unjust towards us as to envy us such an advantage since it is justified even by the example of our Lord Jesus Christ who was pleased that Mary Magdalene to whom the Town of Breda may be compared upon the present occasion should have the first share of the glad tidings of his Resurrection which she received from his own mouth as a reward of her cares and fears for him wherein she had excelled above all his other friends and kindred The Custom of our Ancestors who rendred their memorable actions even the days of their Funest Battels famous by the names of the places wherein they had hapned doth give that right to our Town that this so remarkable action of the Divine Providence which is one of the most signal wonders that ever were celebrated by the Histories of the past ages ought to be published under its name Blessed be therefore that august day wherein His Majesty being in the midst of us hath received by an unanimous accord the Homage of his Subjects Let it henceforth be called THE DAY OF BREDA Let it be under that Name the Object of the Admiration of all the Christian Kings and Princes let it shine even to the most remote places of the Barbarous Nations let it be ingraved with the Steel in our Records and Memorials that for ever it may be the subject of the Discourses of our Posterity But that which we do esteem above all Madam is the admirable goodness and sweetness wherewith His Majesty hath received the visits of all sorts of persons Those affectionate and reiterated protestations and promises be hath made to our Soveraign Lords the States as also to our vener able Magistrates to the Pastors and to the other persons both Political and Ecclesiastical of this Town Of the sincerity of his affection towards the true Reformed religion and towards all the Protestant Princes and States and chiefly towards the States of these United Provinces promising unto them the continuation of the affection his Ancestors have shewed unto them and particularly Of the favorable remembrance and good will he would still keep for the Town of Breda where he had received the news of his restauration and known the effects of the inclination shewed to his Person and to his Subjects That language Madam hath ravished our spirits hath filled our hearts with joy and our mouths with vows and acclamations We have gathered it with our own ears as the expressions which the Spirit of Peace had dictated to His Maiesty's mouth which will make us hereafter cast our eyes upon that Excellent Prince as upon a mighty Organ reserved by God for the present times and raised in his blessing to be a ballance and an Equilibrium for the publick tranquillity throughout all Europe And our Inhabitants Madam have also expressed a singular satisfaction of the gracious content his Majesty hath been pleased to shew be hath received of their cordial affection and weak services they have been able to render to those that belong to your Royal House And we pray your Highness to believe that if the noise of our Muskets and Canons thundering from our Bulwarks at the departure of his Maiesty could not accompany him further then a little beyond our gates that of our Vows and prayers to God for his prosperity will follow him to his very City of London and will contribute to the setting of his Crowns upon his head These are the truest proofs of our affection which your Highness doth ever recommend unto us as often as we have the honor to wait upon you viz. those of our prayers to God for your Highness and your Family And truly they are the most material and the most pure ones and which give stronger impressions then all others for they do ascend to the place of origine viz. Heaven and bring down from thence abundance of blessings upon earth whereas all others do vanish in their pomp and apparate and most part cannot bring any advantage to the object thereof Which consideration hath put me in mind of the matter of this Sermon

pronounced upon the same day we prepared to take our leave of his Majesty and conceived our publick vows for the prosperity and the happy success of his Voyage Now our Flock desiring of me some copies of it to keep an eternal memory in their families of such an illustrious Occurrence I made bold Madam most humbly to crave the protection of your Highness under whose sweet favor able Government 't is maintained being besides doubly interessed in the subject which gave occasion to this Sermon both in regard of themselves and in regard of his Highness the Prince of Orange which is the object of our delight and upon whose face the Royal lustre of his Maiesty doth also shine And although this small work be not answer able to its illustrious subject yet your Highness's goodness whereof we have an infinite number of proofs doth assure me you will cast a gracious eye upon the Author's intention and out of your clemency will bear with his defects In the confidence where of I do continue my vows to the Soveraign King of Kings that be may be pleased to poure his most precious graces upon your Highness and all your Serenissime Family and to conserve their Lustre upon Earth and make them Triumphant in Heaven Having no other ambition but to express with all the imaginable respects how much I am MADAM Your Highnesse's Most humble and most obedient Servant and Subject A. HULSIUS From BREDA May 24. 1660. THE ROYAL JOY THE TEXT Psalm 23. v. 1 2 3 4. 1. The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall be rejoice 2. Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not withholden the request of his lips Selah 3. For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness thou settest a crown of pure gold on his bead 4. He asked life of thee and thou gavest it him even length of days for ever and ever Welbeloved Brethren in our Lord Jesus Christ THis town which formerly hath been the Stage on which Tragedies of War Pestilence and Famine and of Bloodshed have been acted is now become a Theatre of Joy and Magnificence A Theatre whereon an Action is now acted which hath the whole World for Spectators It is not a representative action such as are the Comedies and Enterludes wherein men do represent such qualities as they really have not but it is a real action such as were our former Tragedies wherein the Persons are really and indeed such as they represent The chiefest and Soveraign Actor here is the GOD of Heaven who as he doth shew himself wonderful in all his works so he doth it most particularly in this You see your Town full of Illustrious persons of Lords of Princes and of Soveraign Magistrates You see therein a KING formerly dispossessed of his Throne and now setled again thereon to the astonishment of all the World You see the Subjects recalling their lawful Prince out of meer affection without constraint without violence without effusion of blood You see therein your Soveraign Magistrates bringing their Vows and Congratulations to the King and to his people You see the fair and loving apparences of a perfect correspondence and of ●n universd content Upon the whole we may with truth pronounce the sentence of the Psalmist Psal 118. This is the Lord 's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes For as many objects we see so many wonders and so many expressions of the admirable providence of God and we may with re●son s●y that this Town hath never seen such a day nor is like ever to see such a one to the worlds end Let us speak of it in publick for it is a work which is done in publick and it foundeth to the very extremities of the earth Let us speak of it in the house of God since it is the work of God Let us speak of it in blessing since God hath wrought it not in wrath as he sometimes wrought here but in his grace Let us speak of it in the day of our rest since he hath done it for the setling of the peace and rest of his Church Let us therefore call this day The day of the Lord and let us say yet with the same Psalmist This is the day which the Lord hath made let us rejoice and be glad in it But let S. Paul tell us the occasion of that joy 2 Cor. 6. It is now the time accepted it is now the day of salvation A day of salvation indeed and an accepted time A day of salvation for the King a day of salvation for his people a day of salvation for the true Reformed Religion and an accepted time for our State and for us all together Both the joy and the ground of it are found in our present Text which hath for an object two general parts I. A joyful King II. The cause of his joy viz. His salvation and deliverance And this cause is more largely deducted 1. By its Author and principal cause which is the strength of the Lord. 2. By its secondary cause or the means whereby the King hath obtained his deliverance namely his hearts desire and the prayer or request of his lips 3. By its effects or the proofs of his deliverance which are I. General That he hath prevented him with the blessings of goodness II. Particular viz. I. The setting of the Crown II. The lengthening of days This is the division of the Text. But it is to be observed that this place is one of those that can admit of three senses ordinarily applied to the holy Scriptures I. The literal sense II. The mystical sense III The accommodated sense The literal is that which is immediately and properly the intention of the holy Ghost be it found either in simple and proper words or in figurative tearms The mystical sense is that which is known to be the secondary intention of the holy Ghost and hath no place but in Types onely 1. When the thing spoken of is found accomplished in some subjects which was a Type or figure of Christ or of his Church 2. When what is said to belong to the mystical sense in one place is found to appertain to the literal sense in another Whensoever any of those two conditions is wanting the mystical sense is not admitted and we ought singly to adhere to to the litteral which then is to have place alone without looking therein for any secondary intention We might illustrate this by Examples but the present occasion doth not permit it The accommodated sense is never under the intention of the holy Ghost as to any particular place but only as to the whole scope of the whole Scripture and is left to the liberty of the Expositor who may draw out of it all manner of moralities for the publick instruction so as he keep within the bounds of the Analogy of Faith grounded upon the word of God We say then that as to the