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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90132	An ould ship called an exhortation to continue all subjects in their due obedience, or the reward of a faithfull subject to his prince. To the bishops and clergy. To the true nobility. To the civil magistrate. To the true and faithfull subject. What a faithfull subject is? The discription of loyalty. / New riged by a well-wisher, to his prince and countrie, never more need to be set forth to sea, then in these distracted times.		1648 (1648)	Wing O216; Thomason E422_29; ESTC R16076	7,485	16

AN OULD SHIP CALLED AN EXHORTATION To continue all Subjects in their due Obedience or the reward of a faithfull Subject to his Prince To the Bishops and Clergy To the true Nobility To the Civi●l Magist●a●e To the true and faithfull Subject What a faithfull Subject is The discription of Loyalty New Riged by a Well-wisher to his Prince and Countrie never more need to be set forth to Sea then in these distracted times Behold your King THE I LE OF WAIT Printed in the Yeare 1648 To the Reverend Bishops and Clergie FOr asmuch as your Eclesiasticall office is given you from God as the next Principall members under the head to governe the Common wealth of this misticall bodie And that their is required at your hands an Extraordinarie dutie touching the Function of the soule Let mee entreat you to be as vigilant as the five wise Virgins having oyle alwaies in your lamps against the Bridegrome comes forth of his Chamber your office is the soul of the Laitie the heart of Government and the very Epitome of all obedience from you as the Moone boroweth her light of the Sunne all inf●riour ministers take their Order of perfection let then your doctrine be pure and stedfast like Moyses Bush that alwayes burned but never Consumed your preaching in Season and out of Season and your Conversation as spotlesse as the sacrifice of ●urtles You best know what plentie of Manna hath rained in Israel and how many omer full every man ought to gather be not any of you the first that gather more then is commanded and in mistrust of Gods benefits in f●ct the whole Land with the vice of Avarice You ought rather to be like Pelicans in the wildernesse who in tender love peck the blood from their Breast to feed their young one you see with your visible eye how wonderfull Almightie God hath alwayes preserved the Kings Majestie from the snares of his manifould Enemies And in you principally lies the sacrifice of thanks giving it is you that ought to daunce before the tabernacle Num 17. 8. v. and to go with the people to the Arke of the Covenant that your righteousnesse may bud like Arons ro● it is you that ought to flie forth from this tossed Arke and like the doue bring the olive branch Gen. 8. 11. of peace in your mouths and tell the p●ople that if they returne God will be their God and send a truce to their distressed soules by you his Ambassadors Fly not to Tharsis when you are sent to Niniveth least devouring destraction attend you nor with the man of God goe not out of the way Least a Lion tare you in peices but still be conversent with the Lord that Exod. 34. 30. your faces may shine with Moses when he came from the mount and bring the Image of Gods glory to the People in your foreheads you must beare with Aron Exod. 38. 3. the brest plate of Judgment upon your hearts there must be graven upon your forefronts holinesse to the E●●d 35. 39 Lord and your sounds must be heard when you goe into the Holy places before him So shall yee stand like Mount Sina never to be removed and your Golden candle stick shine in the Temple of the Lord remember the charge your Mr. Christ gave to his servant Peter binding him three times above all things by his fervent love and the deare affection he bare to his Mr. to feed his sheep to be with Paul the faithfull Ambassadors of Jesus Christ as though God did besech you through us we pray you in Christs-stead 2 Cor. 5. 2. that ye be reconciled to God with Paul likewise to Phil. 3. 14. be an example of life and doctrine as in these words and follow hard toward the marke for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded if ye be otherwise God shall reveale even the same unto you Ye are Mat. 15. 13. most Reverent the salt of the earth which wanting savour is to be troden under foot yee are the light of the world a Ci●y that is set on a hill cannot be hid let your light therefore shine that they that see your good workes may glorifie your father which is in Heaven This unworthy to councell so grave advisements as if the body should instruct the soule I only like a traviler in his pilgrimage seeing a King go out of his way tell him there is a better a more perfect and a straighter so referring you to your masters reward who hates a hidden tallent I beseech that God who Exod. 13. 21. guideth Israel by day in a pillar of cloud by night in pillar of fire to direct your earthly bodies and spirituall soules to his service Amen To the true Nobility of this Realm TO yee Right honourable that are the props and supporters of a Kingdom that like Atlas should beare the weight of heaven one your shouldiers give me leave to stretch forth the atires of my heart and as in these tempestious times unite yourselves togeather in peace like one body obedient to one principall head in the worthy member the heart the Monarch seate of our Microcosmos should be your residence within whose center as in a Princes Court are diverse receptailes for you to inhabit in then as branches extending from the lofty Cedar being sed by one root doe notwithstanding cherish one another wi●h their naturall sap so like the true stock of Nobility discended from your worthy ancestors be you combined in a conjunction of unseperable aide that the body of the tree may be comforted in so happy an Issue and in the proudest blast of conspiracy keepe you still unremovable be you like faithfull Mardocheus spotles in your waies when traytors like proud Haman shall perish in their own complo●s For if you please to peruse our Histories both Eclesiasticall and prophane yee shall find that never traitor to his native Prince but had his reward threefold returned into his wicked bosome and though it hath pleased God somtimes to suffer them the cause best known to his sacred pleasure to bring to passe their hatefull purposes yet as a woe pronounced to them by whom such evils come their mischiefe hath not past without great mischiefe reguerdond their is none of your honourable society but knowes that treason is the devider and seperater of all good things and a fatall disjoyner of perfection bringing with it ruin and the mercilesse substitutes of war where one the contrary obedience is the finewes of the State and glewes the hearts of Nobility togeather like one indivisible substance and as the seaven leane ●ine in Pharaohs dreame devoured the seaven far yet themselves not the fatter so stands it with treason like a cormerant it devours all yet is it self the better by nothing What greater paterne of misery can there be then a Kingdom devided in it self

to joyne your whole bodies goods Armes Leggs Feet and hart to protect his Royall person without secret grudging private muttering or uncivi●l controversie Ye ought to be like stedfast Rocks in the sea to affront every storme and to withstand without muttering the most bitter blasts that either winter or foule weather can afford To conclude I beseech God in his infinite mercy stir up your deare affecting love to His Majesty mercy hath alwayes sitten at his Right hand and honoured about him like a continuall Hand-maid mercy is the wedding King that like unspotted Virgine hath married him to our Saviour and hath setled his highnesse the faithfull president of his true Church wherein may his Maj. continue many happy dayes to the glory of God and the comfort of his faithfull loving subjects Amen VVhat a faithfull Subject is A Good subject next to the diadem that a dornes a Princes head is the chiefest Ornament that decores his dignity he is the precious balme that annoints his browes and is never to the hart then his Scepter to his Right hand as sweet in his nostrills as the groves of Gillead and more precious in his ●ight then Solomons yourythorne covered with purest Gold His heart is clothed with peace like mount Olivet his eyes as harmlesse as the sight of a Dove his tongue sounds like the Harpe of David and his lips deliver the happinesse of loyalty his eares are the p●rtalls that receive understanding and all perfection from thence is conducted to the hart his hands are readie to fight the batailes of the Lord and his feet shining the steps of blood are bent alwaies to walke in the paths of innocencie thus excellent in the sight of the Prince shines a faithful Subject more gorgeous then the Ephod of Aron and more sumtuous then Solomon in all his Royalty who so is this to this his Prince and Countrie the Lord will prosper him and he shall be blessed in everlasting generation and for one of these benefits he receives in earth he sh●ll have a million in Heaven for one of these perfections he partakes of in this world numbers above number shall attend him in the world to come And his Prince shall thus pray for him and blesse him As Solomon did his Subjects And the King turned his face and blessed all the Congregation of Israell and said blessed be the Lord God of Israell who spake with his mouth to David my Father and hath with his hand fulfilled it And though my selfe may say with Isaiah I am a worme and no man yet I spake it in despite of vaine glorye I would with all my hart as an Isaac in the hands of Abraham serve as a Sacrifice to doe my Prince and Countrie good for sure hee cannot bee a true servitur of God that is not a faithfull subject to his Prince neither would I Iudge my filicity i● this world Answerable to that if once my soule might be Imployed to please my Prince and benefit my Country For all the offices of Humanity depend only upon these Principall performances for I know by that meanes there comes a Blessing from a farr a reward full of joy which none else are worthy to obtaine which reward I hartely pray the great Rewarder of all to send to the true loyall and Faithfull Subiects of England and so wi●h one voyce proceding from one unity of heart let us all say Faithfully GOD SAVE KING CHARLES AMEN The Discription of Loyalty ABove the Clouds where sprangled troopes of Starrs Adorne the precious bosome of the Skye Where heavenly peace abandons breaking Jars And all the Consort that is tun● on high Send forth their delicat melodious sounds That makes those Christall vaults with joy abound With in the bright Imperiall orbe of rest Where soules of Saints one Goulden alters sett And in the Lambes sweet breath are only blest Where thousand Graces millions more beget His Loyalty in thr●●nd in blessed Chaire Most gorgeous in attire most heavenly faire About her head the Swift wing Cherubines hover their silver Pinions in her eyes And the sweet spheares with glorious seraphins Vpon her shining brow with blisse arise No stormie Cloud can vail her beauteous face Because their burnes the holy lamp of Grace Truth richly clothed in whight ornament stand at the right hand of this happy Saint from whom the words of Righteousnes are sent whose cheerfull hopes by envie cannot faint But as the Daughter to the Highest power She sits defended in a strong built Tower Vpon her left hand hope her anker wayes One whom her dear successe doth still attend Nor doth shee feed her servants with delayes But they that one her sacred state depend with bountious hand shee gives such rich reward as vading fame hath neither seene nor heard And as great Michaell with the Dragon fought About the chosen Moses sacred bo●es So she contends with tray●ors that have sought To touch the hearts of Gods annointed ones And like the Archangell gives them all the foile That lift their hands a Princes life to spoile POSTSCRIPT To his Noble Colonell the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Gl●m●●●● Colonell Generall Governor of York Commander in cheif of Westmerland Comberland Northumberland and the Citie of Carlisle and lastly Major Generall to his Majestie and Governor of Oxford the true patern of Loyaltie Sir I Have ever accounted in gratitude to be not only the greatest but the ugliest monster in nature according to that Ingratum Si dixeris omnio dixeris wondring at the most sort of men which in this our age doe live that they take so little regard of it and not rather altogether shame and abhor it but when I perticularly muse of some as of my selfe I find that either oppertunity will not alwayes serve or abillitie in most do want to those that carrie willing minds or answerable in deeds and concerning my selfe of wh●ch is now my drift dispare I have often feared least of divers hereof I would as guiltie be noted and of many to whom I have been grea●ly beholden justly condemned but of note more then of your Honour which to me for som years together you have been pleased to bestow upon me many noble favours the whilst I was under your command wherefore having gotten some fit occation I thought not to pretermit the same but therein to view my mind and poore ability wherein I may doe your honour any service I doe here present small I say in respect of answering any benefit received but great and pretious in regard of the matter therein contained I having been an eye witnesse of your Honours actions for his Majesties cause and knowing what great paines and adventures you have undertaken for the defence of it being alwayes a good account to your Master as a just steward ought to doe your loyall action which England is not ignorant of hath imbolden me to present this small worke to the eyes of the world under good protection not to gaine A populer applause but to hinder as far as in me lyeth the trampling soe pretious a Iewell under the feet of such swine which wallows in the myre of th●se our times I take leave of your Honor wishing you all happinesse in this life and in the world to come Eternall Felicities This is the prayers of one of your Honours Captaines who wil be alwayes readie to observe your command vale FINIS