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A50289	Karolou trismegistou epiphania the most glorious star, or celestial constellation of the Pleiades, or Charles Waine, appearing, and shining most brightly in a miraculous manner in the face of the sun at noonday at the nativity of our sacred soveraign King Charles 2d, presaging His Majesties exaltation to future honour and greatness transcending not only the most potent Christian princes in Europe but by divine designment ordained to be the most mighty monarch in the universe : never any star having appeared before at the birth of any (the highest humane hero) except our Saviour / by Edw. Matthew ...	Matthew, Edward.	1660 (1660)	Wing M1309; ESTC R19177	46,201	175

debea● a King ought to be replenished with true sound and saving knowledge Cic. according to the Psalmist Et nunt reges intelligite erudimini qut indicatis terram Psal 2.10 Ve●a Konnen 1. p●sse polentemesse pollere To be able to be powerfull to exce●● others as far in rare parts as in p●●ority of place Propter summam à Deo regi potestatem concessam in respect of the large power given from God to Kings Latini potestates vocant principes potentes The Latines call powers potent princes Konnen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. valere vnibus pollere To be valiant to excell in strength 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 es● vis robur potentia id●●e à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Koach in the French tongue King is called Roy Italian Re Spanish Rey Latine Rex à regendo from ruling In the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. fundamentum populi the foundation basis and establishment of his people without whom no sound sure or firm building either in Church or State can be setled established Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Melech a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Malach i. e. regnavit imperavit Thus much of the political name but much more may be said of the Office power and prerogatives of Kings This double Distichon seems not to be impertinent touching the power of Kings upon these three words and things Rex Lex Grex Lex sine Rege velut Lum●n sine So●●●uisset Rex sine lege v●lut Sol sine luce foret Grex Regem primo Legit Rex cum Grege Legem Condidit hinc legem Rex regit atque Gregem The powers priviledges and prerogatives of Kings by Laws II. sages and Customes Divine and Humane Rationall Naturall are many The Person presence patrimony of Kings by the Laws of our land are in some sort Sacred The Villein of a Lord which by law was seisable in the presence of the King could not be seised for the presence of the King was a protection to him which shews what reverence the law gives to the person of a King plod Com. 322.27 Assi pl. 49. Kings Courts are places priviledged from Arrests so ought the bodies of all his liege subjects in civill causes as debt or the like by the ancient law of the land to be freed from imprisonment that they might serve his Majesty and the Kingdomes being members of that body whereof his Majesty in his politick capacity is the head whereas by an unjust chielf and wicked custome under colour of law many thousand mens bodies are maliciously upon bare pretences buried alive in loathsome prisons and restrained from the service of their King and Country to the great displeasure o● God dammage of the King by lo●●ng his subjects dishonour of the Nation being branded with a mark of 〈◊〉 parrellel'd Cruelty to 〈◊〉 scandal and opprobry of the law in maintainting malice revenge and oppression and destruction of many thousand persons and their Families This is digression but it is hoped and prayed that hereof his Majesty will be gratiously pleased to make a speedy Reformation which may prevent judgments upon the Nation Reges sacro oleo uncti sunt capacas spiritualis jurisdictionis Kings are anointed with sacred oyle so was Saul and David by Samuel Gods prophet by Gods appointment and many others mentioned in the old Testament c. Their persons are sacred as appears by that strict Command given from God by his prophet Touch not mine anointed Rex est persona mixta cum sacerdote habet ecclesiastieam spirituale● jurisdictionem All power and Authority under the Divine Majesty whether it be Civil and Temporal or Ecclesiastical and Spiritual Jurisdiction belongs to the King within all his Majesties Dominions and is derived from the King being the onely supream Governour over all persons in all Causes 33. Edw. 3. Ayde de Roy. 103 Fi●●b●rt 10 ● 7.16 1. Ed. 〈…〉 c. 1. Cawdries Case Rep. 5. 〈◊〉 Which Act is but Decta●ative of the Common Law 1. Jacobi c. 1. vid. 9. Edw. 4. f. 1. The Lands of the King in law is called Patrimoniam Sacrum Com. sur Littl. Sect. 4. What shal we think of those that indeavour to bereave his Majesty hereof or withhold keep the same from the King do they not commit Sacriledge And is not Sacriledge a sin as much odious to God as offensive to the King his Vicegerent Sacriledge whether of Gods or the Kings due Qua Dei aut quae Domini Regis sunt of any thing that belongs to God or the King will prove a sad lading which in the end will sink the best and ablest bottome A little of this Leaven may sowre your whole lump 'T will be as Achans wedge bring a curse with it a small parcell of this sacred patrimony taken into your Purchase like the Kings waste may alter your Tenour in Gods blessings and bring your whole fortune into Wardship Those that be pecants in this kind let them not ever trust to their smooth sayling sudden shipwrack may selfe them in their seeming calmest security It is a destruction to a man to devoure that which is sanctified and after the Vows to inquire If you believe Solomon who had wisdom from above Pro. 10 2● As greater Power is by God given to Kings and Emperours and mighty Rulers 〈◊〉 greater parts Diviner gifts also of the minde as Wisdome Prudence Valour and the like are bestowed on them Saul being anointed King is said to have another heart given to him by God 〈◊〉 Sa●● 10.9 They have also nobler names and greater and awfuller Reverence is due unto them and many men are smitten with such terrour of their Majesticall presence as though they were partakers of somewhat more the humanity and that there were as probable t is there are some rayes of divinity evidently appearing and shining in their Persons Why else is God the great King of Kings pleased to be called King and suffer his name to be communicated to ●●●m and by a proper denomination bath confirmed it to them They are called mortall Gods Her●e's Terrestriall gods compa●ions of the Superior Gods 〈◊〉 by whom the world is governed and disposed by their Laws whom therefore at gods we receive Worship Reverence because God himself ●ath 〈◊〉 the communication of his name 〈…〉 〈◊〉 them gods I have said ye are all soms of the most high God Psal 〈…〉 And to Mose● God said I have made 〈…〉 〈◊〉 else where he Gomman 〈◊〉 concerning 〈◊〉 ye shall not detract from the gods And concerning the reverencing and honcuring of them also deereeing riches and first fruits for them and giving them power of the sword and forbidding any to curse them but enjoyning obedience to be yeilded to them though wicked How much the rather then ought it to be rendred to good Kings Antiquity called their Princes gods worshiped them as divine powers as Janus testifyeth in Ovid lib. d● fast 1. And divine Plato in his third book de

A Representation of his late Majesty King Charles the first His giving Thankes to Almighty God for the birth of his Sonne now our most Gratious Soveraigne King Charles the 2d. at St. Pauls London May the 29th 163● ΚΛΠΟ'ΛΟΥ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE MOST GLORIOUS STAR OR CELESTIAL CONSTELLATION OF THE Pleiades or Charles Waine Appearing And shining most brightly in a Miraculous manner in the Face of the Sun at Noon day at the Nativity of our Sacred Soveraign KING Charles 2d Presaging his Majesties Exaltation to future Honour and Greatness Transcending not only the most potent Christian Princes in Europe but by Divine designment ordained to be the most Mighty Monarch in the Vniverse Never any Star having appeared before at the birth of any the Highest humane Hero except our Saviour Behold a King shall reign in righteousness Psal 32.1 By Edw. Matthew of the Middle Temple Esq LONDON Printed for J. Stafford and Edw. Thomas and are to be sold neer the White-hart in Smithfield and at the Adam and Eve in Little-Britain 1660. To the most Augustuous Prince my Dear and Dread Soveraign Charlemain the 2d by the Mercy and Divine decree of the Almighty his Highness own Inhaerent Inheritance and legal Succession The peoples surpassing desire signal Loyalty longing affection and especial Election of Great Britain France and Ireland Jure Divino humano King Defender of the true ancient Christian Catholick Faith c. And by Divine Providence preordained to be the most pious prudent and potent Prince in the Universe ERuctavit Cor meum verbum bonum Dico ego opera mea Regi Psal 45.1 My heart is Inditing of a good matter concerning the King Divine providence disposing my Meditations towards so sacred a subject directs the Dedication thereof according to the Princely Prophet Davids pattern Dico opera mea Regi Quod ausus sum tantae Majestatis Principem tantillo adire munusculo That so mean a person should approach the presence of so mighty a Prince with so poor a present may be accounted high presumption yet 't is storied that Jupiter was pleased with the course fare of a poor person Baucis in hospitium magnum accepisse Tonantem Atque illi insuaves apposuisse dapes c. Vnder the law he that had not a Lamb to sacrifice was permitted to offer a Turtle Dove or pair of young Pigeons and in the Gospel a small Mite renders a poor Widdow Liberall Aeschines when he saw his fellow Schollers presenting great gifts to Socrates their Master being destitute of such a present presented himself professing to be wholy devoted to his Master which Socrates accepted as the chiefest Gift There is nothing worth your Majesties acceptance in the power of Your Highnesse meanest subject Parasitical adulation I know unpleasing to your prudent Majesty and hateful to mine own Nature my Life and what else can be accounted dear usque ad aras I have bin alwaies and still shall be most freely ready to sacrifice 'T is said of Caes●r that surely nature meant him for a Conqueror when she gave him both such courage and such courtesie which put Marius into a muze saying that he that du●st speak to him was ignorant of his greatnesse and he that durst not was so of his goodnesse The incomparable Candor of your Majesties sweetest disposition gives me incouragement humbly to implore Your Majesties princely pardon for this presumption and to vouchsafe your Highnesse Gracious acceptance of this unpolished piece penner whilst my Soule though inlarged with surpassing Love and Joy for my Soveraigns safe and happy Restoration for which my prayers to Heaven were frequent and constant my Tounge and Pen Head Heart and Hands according to my best ability not wanting yet was much streightned with perplexity of spirit by reason of long imprisonment and distracted with distemper of Mind and Estate alwaies attending the sad Condition of Prisoners Happily herein somewhat not unworthy your Majesties serious consideration at present may be observed I hope I have herein delivered nothing touching your Majesty but what I have received from the dictates of that Good Divine spirit which hath directed me through this whole discourse and what I faithfully believe will in due time be fully accomplished my faith herein being in part confirmed not only by those propheticall presages in this Tract specified and by Dreams Visions which howsoever by some may be accounted vain or deceitful yet I have often proved since found really to come to pass and receive a plenary effect touching your Majesties return and other matters of Moment But also by an irresistible and invincible pressure of spirit to publish what in this tract I have written so that I may truly say with the Prophet Jeremiah 'T was a fire in my bones and I could not supresse it but by Divine impulsion of spirit was importuned and prest to declare what by divine designment I believe is determined touching your Majesties exaltation not only to be the most potent Christian Prince in Europe But to be the phenix of this Age and the most Famous and Illustrious potentate in the Vniverse This I shall be ready to avouch against the most criticall carpers murmuring and detracting Momusses and seeming zealous Zoylusses and 't is probable some pernicious Pashurs wil conspire with other confederates cogitare cogitationes to devise devises against Jeremiah and be ready percutere eum lingua to smite him with the tongue Jer. 18.18 Their malice shall render them nothing more then Pashurs reward but a new name of terror and shame Magor missabib signifying fear round about we have of late unhappily had too many pashurs who cannot abide to hear any truth spoken such as wil not hear any good declared or prosperity presaged to their Prince how pious worthy soever but are ready rather to calumniate let all such seditions Shebaes Cursing Shimei's Railing Rabshekeis rebellious Korahs know that though they rail rage against their lawful Soveraign against whom they ought not to entertain so much as an evil thought he that sits in Heaven will not only deride but in the end destroy all such disturbing Traytors will establish your Majesties Throne in righteousness cause your Highnesse Crown to flourish and cloth your Enemies with shame confusion in conclusion The King of Kings hath set his King on high upon his holy Hill his Sion over his People sent an heavenly Herald to proclaim his present power and declare a future inlargement of his Dominion A glorious Star or rather flial Constellation the Pleiades Charles Waine shining brightlie on the day of your Majesties Nativity when your Majesties late pious Father of blessed memory came to offer his sacrisice of praise as Incense at the Alter of St. Paul That Celestiall Embassadour was sent to certifie Gods acceptance of that sacrifice and to confirm the certainty of your Majesties future Exaltation to transcendent honour by divine designment preordained E Caelis