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A97069	The bowing the heart of subjects to their sovereign. A sermon preached on the 24th of May, 1660. Being a day of publick thanksgiving to the Lord for raising up his Excellency the Lord General Monck, and other eminent persons, who have been instrumental in the delivery of this nation from thraldom and misery. By Francis Walsall D.D. and rector of Sandy in Bedfordshire.	Walsall, Francis, d. 1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing W624; Thomason E1033_6; ESTC R208962	20,053	37

for them as considerable as they vaunt themselves do but Thou return and they will be more then ever what they are Quakers Return thou the glory of our Nation the light of our Eyes the breath of our Nostrils Thou whose Right we own whose Person we honour whose prosperity we pray for Thou who art the joy of our Hearts the praise of our Tongues the desire and delight of our Eyes Return thou and bring new Joyes and new Glories to thy poor widow'd comfortlesse people and we will gather hopes from those startling Providences that promise us thy Return that the King of Kings will set up a fifth Monarchy in thy belov'd Person and Progeny in a truer and nobler sense than is intended by the wilde assertours of that judgement Thou canst alone under God put a period to our unsufferable sufferings therefore we pray we send this word Return thou 3. And thy servants Those that were before look'd upon as enemies our hearts are now bowed to entertain and imbrace as friends Thou art our great Master and thy servants are our fellow-servants 4. All thy servants We will not dare so fanatical an insolence as to think of shackling or restraining our Prince to Numbers or Persons it is above our duty and it is below thy dignity No no All come and welcome All that please thee shall please us Return thou and all thy se●vants The next words are So the King returned Be it so Lord be it so Amen The King of Kings return him to us with speed and safety and keep him with us with honour and happiness by keeping us to him with Humility and Sincerity I had done here but that there is a bowing the heart in my Text which bows my heart to bow your heart in a short application Our backs have been bow'd down to bear all the burdens that proud and wicked men thought fit to lay upon us Like Issachar we have lain crouching between two burdens of sinne and shame our hearts and our backs too bowed till they almost broke by our fellow Subjects Since then our hearts are thus sweetly bow'd in Loyalty to our natural King and love to our native Countrey Let us say with St Paul Ephes 3. 14. For this cause I bowe my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ And as David expresses it Psal 95. 6. O come let us worship and bowe down let us kneel before the Lord our maker Let us bowe down in praise and prayer I will onely quicken your memories with a few hints what you should praise and pray for and then joyn with you in praise and prayer for them and the Lord bowe all our hearts to and in this Duty First For the Exercise of the Duty of praising God this day the Text and the Time put us in minde of eight things 1. That the Lord hath pleas'd to bowe the heart of the General to be so eminent an Instrument for his Glory and our Good This is the duty the Parliament cals upon us for but I hope we need no quickning 2. That the Lord hath crown'd that excellent Instrument with so magnetick an Influence that he hath bowed so many hearts heads and hands without breaking any 3. That we our selves are sincerely bow'd to our duty to our King and our Countrey 4. That this bowing is so universal as to miracle it is We may say as much All the men of England as the Text sayes All the men of Judah If the major part be all if an hundred to one be all 5. That this bowing our heart to our King is as unanimous as universal All hearts centred in obedience to his Sacred Majesty We hear of triumphal Arches erected in honour of the two new married Princes we have an Arch which we acknowledge not so artificial no● would we have it so it were not good it were so and that is that Arch which alone will bear the weight of a Kingdom the universal and united bent of all our hearts to our King All hearts are bow'd into one Arch a Bow which like that Bow that wears the Kings Colours in Heaven in a party-coloured Ribband woven with Sunne-beams upon a cloud shall be for a Token and a Covenant between God our King and us that a deluge of warre and misery shall never destroy us any more 6. For the wisdome and goodnesse of the Kings most Excellent Majesty who was bowed by God into such a condescension as to vouchsafe to send such gracious Letters and Declarations to the Parliament General City Navy 7. For those humble Messages that are sent back from all these to his Majesty with their most humble desires of his Returne That they sent this word Returne thou and all thy servants 8. That the desires of the Parliament for the Kings Return are so free so full so ingenuous for him and all his servants From my soul I blesse God and I desire you to do so too for the sweet mutual repose and absolute confidence and trust between the King and his Houses which is to me the best Augury of our future happiness because all our former sufferings owe their beginnings to our foolish fears and jealousies Secondly Prayer There is a great stock of Prayers to be laid up and to be laid out upon a three-fold Account 1. For the Remission of National sins 2. For the Removal of National Judgements 3. For the Restoring of National Mercies 1. For the Remission of National sinnes Never expect good from God and the King till you repent the evils against God and the King Object There were great and grain-sins committed in the Nation to which guilt we would not if we could and could not if we would have contributed as we could not hinder such villanies so we did not further them but hated and abhorred them in their Causes and Consequences so far as we could foresee them all along Sol. I answer that I dare answer for you there is no tincture of the actual guilt of those high abominations crimson sinnes sticks to you you may say as to all the blood shed in the high-places of the field or that Akeldama Westminster-Hall with the Apostle you are clear from the blood of all men But O let us consider whether we have not contracted a guilt ex p●st facto if not by closing with the power these bloudy monsters swumme to in blood yet by not pouring out water enough before the Lord to wash away this defilement and stop the Cataract of vengeance which we may justly expect God will let loose in showrs of blood upon the Nation 2. Though we could not perhaps have prevented them we ought not to have connived at them As we ought not to have comply'd with them so we ought to have complain'd of them more to God than it is to be feared we did I shall only give you a slight touch or two upon some of them and that so farre onely as I conceive they may

bring vengeance upon the Nation without repentance For as I hate to take in that sink that stinks all the world over or stirre that old foul dunghill the corruption whereof has bred so many vipers that tear out their mothers bowels so I scorn to throw any bitter reflections at a party that is down I shall onely minde you of them as I have but too much reason to fear they will draw down the vials of Gods wrath upon the Nation unlesse good people pray them away There be many of them like the Devils in Mary Legion a phrase which the more suits those sinnes as speaking not only multitude but power an arm'd multitude But I shall wrap them up all in one piece but it is scarlet the notion of bloud a sin of the deepest die and the loudest cry we may all pray with David Psa 51. 14. Deliver me from blood guiltinesse O God so we reade it but it is from bloods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Several sorts of blood lie upon us and cry upon us I shall name onely four bloud of People bloud of Prophets bloud of Princes bloud of Christ And here because every mans heart and eyes as well as tongue can speak freely upon this sad subject I shall say no more but this O pray pray to God for pardon of our heat and tindernesse to warre the swiftnesse of our feet to shed bloud I could tell you how too freely you parted with your gold to set up Calves that you might worship them But I think you have dearly paid for this State-idolatry though I cannot say dearly enough because I fear the Lord hath not yet said to his destroying Angel it is enough We cannot but fear that a great showre of vengeance will fall upon us unlesse we prevent it with a showr of tears for all that bloud of the Nation which our Land hath drunk up so freely till it stagger'd and reel'd again and to compleat the Sacrifice to Pride Ambition and Covetousnesse it was crowned with the bloud of our lawfull excellent Prince This bloud is loud bloud it cryes high and I am afraid the cry of our tears the voice of our weeping hath not yet stilled the cry of this sinne This bloud is not speechlesse yet O let us pray that the bloud of Christ would plead for us and wash away this bloud and so for the bloud of the Gospel in countenancing even blasphemy it self discountenancing the Truth and its Preaching and Professours and prostituting the Ordinances of the first magnitude to the basest of villanies here 's work enough for this head of prayer for the remission of National sins 2. For removing of National Judgements which we either feel or fear especially from warre battel and murder David rather chose Plague than Warre to fall into the hands of God than man O pray against the Causes and Consequences of Warre The causes divisions in Church and State and dissatisfiednesse with the present though we know not how to make it better and the Consequences of it destruction of body and soul Estate Relations Name Nation All. O it is the devouring sword it hath done too much the Lord say it hath done enough 3. For Restoring National Mercies Here I shall propound to your devotion two heads of prayer 1. That the Lord will please to return our King to us safely and speedily we must pray to God as well as the King for his Return Lord return him speedily to us and keep him safely with us to thy Glory the good of thy Church the honour of the Gospel the Peace Plenty and Prosperity of all his Majesties Dominions and let all the people say Amen 2. That the Lord who hath pleas'd to bowe our hearts would keep them bow'd to himself his second self his sacred Majesty and to our selves i. e. to one another That the King may rejoyce in his people ●●e people may glory in their King and both King and people in their God that we may see God shining upon us in that glorious Prophecy Isa 1. 26. I will r●store thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellours as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called the City of Righteousnesse the faithfull City The good Lord restore Magistracy and Minist●y to their lost beauty and splendour and that old Peace and Plenty honour and safety with which he hath heretofore crowned this Queen of Islands Amen Amen I have but one word more and that is concerning the Joy of this day I would not willingly give the least check to the honest and sober expressions of your Joy you were never blest with a time that more requir'd it but then it is honest and sober Joy I mean not rude beastly drunkenness debauchery No Serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce before him with trembling Ps 2. 11. i. e. Fear to offend God in your Joy I shall beg this of you that belong to my charge for three precious sakes your good Gods sake your good Kings sake and your good Causes sake 1. For your good Gods sake that gracious God who hath given you this blessed opportunity of rejoycing and can turn that joy into weeping as he has done your water into wine Provoke him not to anger under a pretence of praising him for his mercy Do not blast such a glorious mercy as this is by abusing Gods other mercies in riot and drunkenness 2. For your good Kings sake His most excellent Majesty who is the just cause of your joy is a sober Prince and no man ever hated drunkenness and debauchery so much as he unless it were his Father of precious and glorious memory who was the Great Example of Temperance in every kinde Reg●●ad Exemplum O imitate two Kings rather than beggars and rogues that can be content to die as they live beasts 3. For your good Causes sake Remember that there is a Party in the Nation whose eyes are upon you to spie out something that may open their mouths against you and your Cause and are resolv'd to take advantage from the loosness of your mirth to make people believe that now all wickedness and prophaneness is broke loose and riot shall be countenanc'd which is a great disparagement to your Prince your Parliament and this glorious Cause Let us not drink down this Cause again it shrunk in the wetting before we know how little drinking the Kings health contributed to his help If this good Cause should take wet again I will not prophecy but I will pray yet against this wickednesse Let us pray and praise God FINIS