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A91279	The signal loyalty and devotion of God's true saints and pious Christians, especially in this our island towards their kings: (as also of some idolatrous pagans) Both before, and under the law and gospel; expressed by their private and publick prayers, supplications, intercessions, thanksgivings, well-wishes for the health, safety, long life, prosperity, temporal, spiritual, eternal felicity of the kings and emperours under whom they lived, whether pagan or Christian, bad or good, heterodox or orthodox, Papists or Protestants, persecutors or protectors of them: and likewise for their royal issue, posterity realms; and by their dutiful conscientious obedience and subjection to them; with the true reasons thereof from scripture and policy. Evidenced by presidents and testimonies in all ages, worthy the knowledg, imitation, and serious consideration of our present degenerated disloyal, antimonarchical generation. In two parts. By William Prynne Esq; late bencher, and reader of Lincolns-In; Signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians, towards their kings. Parts 1 and 2.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1680 (1680)	Wing P4082A; ESTC R229902	277,267	460

placed under their Hands and Seal or by one of the two Universities under their Seal likewise and except he shall first subscribe to these three Articles following in such manner and sort as we have here appointed 1. That the Kings Majesty under GOD is the only supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesse Dominions and Countries aswell in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal and that no forein Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate have or ought to have Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within his Majesties said Realms Dominions and Countreys c. And Can. 55. They prescribed this form of prayer to be used by them in their prayers before all their Ser-Lectures and Homilies And herein I require you most especially to pray for the Kings most excellent Majesty our Soveraign Lord CHARLES King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith and Supreme Governour in these his Realms and all other his Dominions and Countries over all persons in all causes aswell Ecclesiastical as Temporal Ye shall also pray for the Kings most honourable Councel and for all the Nobility and Magistrates of this Realm that all and every of these in their several callings may serve truly and painfully to the glory of GOD and the edifying and well governing of his people remembring the account that they must make Also ye shall pray for the whole Commons of this Realm that they may live in true Faith and Fear of God in humble obedience to the King and brotherly charity one to another Which all Ministers and Preachers duly observed usually adding this clause thereunto That God out of his infinite mercy would grant so to blesse the Kings Majestie and his Royal issue with a perpetual Posterity that there might never want a Man of that Royal race to sway the Scepter of these Realms so long as the Sun and Moon should endure and till all Scepters and Kingdoms should be resigned at the last day into the hands of Jesus Christ the King of Kings The Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons of the Realm of England assembled in Parliament in the first year of King James do thus expresse and declare their own and the whole Kingdoms unspeakeable joys acclamations and thanksgivings unto God and their own and their posterities Signal Loyalty affection and Devotion to King James his Heirs and Royal progeny for ever in the Statute of 1 Jacobi ch 1. intituled A most joyfull and just Recognition of the immediate lawfull and undoubted succession descent and Right of the Crown Great and manifold were the benefits most dread and most gracious Soveraign wherewith almighty God blessed this Kingdom and Nation by the happy union and conjunction of the two Nobles houses of York and Lancaster thereby preserving this noble Realm formerly torn and almost wasted with long and miserable dissention and bloodie Civil War But more inestimable and unspeakable blessings are thereby powred upon us because there is derived and grown from and out of that union of those two Princely families a more famous and greater union or rather a re-uniting of two Mighty Famous and antient Kingdoms yet antiently but one of England and Scotland under one Imperial Crown in your most Royal Person who is lineally rightfully and lawfully descended of the body of the most excellent Lady Margaret eldest daughter of the most renowned King Henry the 7th and the high and noble Princesse Queen Elizabeth his wife eldest daughter of King Edward the 4th The said Lady Margaret being eldest sister of King Henry the 8th father of the high and mightie Princesse of famous memorie Elizabeth late Queen of England In consideration whereof albeit we your Majesties loyal and faithfull Subjects of all Estates and Degrees with all possible publike Joy and Acclamation by open Proclamations within few houres after the decease of our late Soveraign Queen acknowledging thereby with one full voice of tongue and heart that your Majesty was our only lawfull and rightfull Leige Lord and Soveraign and by our unspeakable and general rejoycing and applause at your Majesties most happy inauguration and Coronation by the affectionate desire of infinite numbers of us of all degrees to see your Royal Person and by all possible outward means have indeavoured to make demonstration of our inward love zeal and devotion to your most excellent Majestie our undoubted rightfull Leige Soveraign Lord and King yet as we cannot do it too often or enough so can there be no means or way so fit both to sacrifice our unfeined and heartie thanks to Almighty God for blessing us with a Soveraign adorued with the rarest gifts of mind and body in such admirable peace and quietnesse and upon the knees of our hearts to agnize our most constant faith obedience and loyalty to your Majestie and your Royal Progenie as in this high Court of Parliament where all the whole body of the Realm and every particular Member thereof either in Person or Represeatation upon their own free Elections are by the Laws of this Realm deemed to be personally present To the present acknowledgment whereof to your Majestie we are the more deeply bounden and obliged as well in regard of the extraordinarie care and pains which with so great wisdom knowledge experience and dexteritie your Majestie since the Imperial Crown of this Realm descended to you have taken for the continuance and establishment of the blessed peace both of the Church of England in the true and sincere Religion and of the Common-wealth by due and speedy administration of justice as in respect of the gracious care and inward affection which it pleased you on the first day of this Parliament so lively to expresse by your own words so full of high wisdom learning and virtue and so repleate with Royal and thankfull acceptation of all our faithfull and constant endeavours which is and ever will be to our inestimable consolation and comfort We therefore your most humble and loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do from the bottom of our hearts yield to the divine Majestie all humble thanks and prayses not only for the said unspeakable and inestimable benefits and blessings above mentioned but also that he hath further enriched your Highnesse with a most Royal Progenie of Most rare and excellent gifts and forwardnesse and in his goodnesse is like to increase the happy number of them And in most humble and lowly manner do beseech your most Excellent Majestie that as a memorial to all posterities amongst the Records of your high Court of Parliament for ever to endure of our Loyalty Obedience and harty and humble Affection it may be published and declared in this high Court of Parliament and enacted by authority of the same That we being bounden thereunto both by the Laws of God and Man do recognize and acknowledge and thereby

gratia adesto ut in hac vita grata sint tibi opera ejus in futuro tecum regnet in omnem aeternitatem per Christum Dominum et Servatorem nostrum Amen Salvam fac Domine Reginam nec unquam avertas faciem tuam ab ea Vitam longaevam tribus illi et sub umbra tuarum alarum protege eam Amen After these follow this Prayer Pro Christianis Magistratibus Misericors Deus ac Coelestis pater in cujus manu est omnis terrena potestas Magistratus per te constitutos ad supplicium malorum defensionem bonorum in cujus potenti dextera sita sunt omnia jura leges imperatorum Te supplices oramus pro Principe nostro proque eis qui sunt ei à consiliis qui rempublicam administrant ut gladium ipsis per te commissum in fide vera timore Dei rectegerant eoque pro tua voluntate jussu utantur Obumbret eos virtus sapientia Altissinii Illuminet conservet eos in amore Dei divina tua● gratia Da illis ô Domine sapientiam intellectum Concede quietam gubernationem ut omnes subditos in veritate sidei dilectione justitia quae tibi cordi sit regant dicto audientes conservent Proroga ipsis Dies vitae suae et annos multos largire ut prospera laudata ipsorum functione nomen tuum sanctificetur laudetur in omne aevum Amen Towards the end of the Book follow certain Latin Prayers and Graces to be used before and after meals to which there is this Conclusion added Gratiarum actiones à Cibo semper concludantur hac precatiuncula Deus servet Ecclesiam Regem vel Reginam custodiat Consiliarios ejus regat populum universum tueatur pacem Nobis donet perpetuam Amen In imitation whereof this Prayer was commonly used in all Colleges Schools Hospitals Families throughout the Realm in their Graces after every Meal GOD SAVE his Church our King Queen Prince the rest of the Royal Issue when there were such living and Realms God send us Peace in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The like Prayers in English for the Queen to be used in in Christian Families were published by John Field in his Prayers and Meditations for the use of private Families 1581. The Kings Psalms and Queens Prayers 1590. in Christian private prayers by Edw. Deering 1590. in the Manuel of Prayers set out by Iohn Rogers Anno 1591. in Christian Prayers set out by Henry Bull Anno 1592. in Tho. Sampsons Prayers 1592. with sundry others But I shall close up all with Bishop Iewels Prayer for the Queens Majesty in his Epistle to her prefixed to his Apology of the Church of England printed 1570. and after re-printed God evermore enflame and direct your Majesty with his holy Spirit that the zeal of his House may sincerely devour your Gracious heart that you may safely walk in the wayes of your Father David that you may utterly abandon all Groves and Hill-Altars That you may live an old Mother in Israel that you may see an end of all Distractions and stablisht Peace and Unity in the Church of God Amen And with the Prayer of Doctor Thomas Bilson in the close of his Epistle to her Majesty before his Books of The true difference between Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion A very learned and seasonable Treatise wherein he produceth some Testimonies of Fathers praying for Heretical and persecuting Emperors The King of Kings and Lord of Lords bless and preserve your Majesty and as he hath begun a good and glorious work in you and in the Realm by you so continue the same by lightening you with his holy Spirit and defending you with his mighty Arm as he hath done from the day that he chose you to be the Leader and Guider of his People that you may long keep them in truth and peace by the assistance of his Grace to the prayse of his glory increase of the Godly and grief of his and your Subjects Even so Lord Iesus The Clergy of England assembled in Convocation Anno 1603. the first year of King Iames his Reign in their Constitations and Canons Ecclesiastical then agreed upon by them ratified and published by the Kings Authority under his Great Seal did thus evidence to the world their loyalty to the King and his Royal posterity Can. 1. As our Duty to the Kings Most excellent Majesty requireth we first decree and ordain That the Archbishop of Canterbury from time to time all Bishops of this Province or Deans Archdeacons Vicars and all other Ecclesiastical persons shall faithfully keep and observe and as much as in them lyeth shall cause to be observed and kept of others all and singular Laws and Statutes made for the restoring to the Crown of this Kingdom the antient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and abolishing of all forein power repugant to the same Furthermore all Ecclesiastical persons having cure of Souls and all other Preachers and Readers of Divinity Lectures shall to the uttermost of their wit knowledge and learning purely and sincerely without any colour or dissimulation teach manifest open and declare four times every year at the least in their Sermons and other Collations and Lectures That all usurped and forein power forasmuch as the same hath no establishment nor ground by the Law of God is for most just causes taken away and abolished and that therefore no manner of obedience and subjection within his Majesties Realms and Dominions is due unto any such forein power but that the Kings power within his Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Dominions and Countries IS THE HIGHEST POWER VNDER GOD to whom all men as well Inhabitants as born within the same do by Gods Laws owe most loyalty and obedience afore and above all other Powers and Potentates in the earth Canon II. Impugners of the Kings Supremacy censured Whosoever shall hereafter affirm that the Kings Majesty hath not the same authority in cause Ecclesiastical that the godly Kings had among the Jews and Christian Emperours in the primitive Church or impeach in any part his Regal Supremacy in the said causes restored to the Crown and by the Laws of this Realm therein established let him be excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but only by the Archbishop after his repentance and publick revocation of those his wicked errors Canon XXXVI Subscription required of all such who are to be made Ministers No person shall hereafter be received into the Ministry nor either by Institution or Collation admitted to any Ecclesiastical living nor suffered to preach to Chatechize or to be a Lecturer or Reader of Divinity in either Universities or in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church City or Market-Town Parish-Church Chapel or in any other place within this Realm except he be licenced by the Archbishop or by the Bishop of the Diocesse where he is to be

teneas coelestia regna beatus Cum sanctis pariter semper in arce poli c. Inclytus aeternis David feliciter annis In Christi meritis vivat ubique sa ●r In his 20. Epistle to him col 1517. he informs him Sed lacrymarum munuscula mearum in orationibus apud S. Martinum pro desider antissima authoritatis bestrae prosperitate vobis fidelt transmitto sponsione Ego orabo pro Domino dilectissimo quomodo sancti spiritus visitatio cor meum inluminare dignabitur He winds up his 22. Epistle to him thus col 1521. Ad hujus verò summae beatitudinis indeficientis gloriae post labores hujus vitae felicitatem Deus Jesus te pervenire faciat Domine desiderantissime omni honore dignissime Divitias tribuat veras tibi David amate Cum sanctis pariter Christus in arce poli In the Inscription of his 23. Epistle to him col 1512. he prayeth for and wisheth to him praesentis futurae beatitudinis salutem and begins it with this Thanksgiving Benedictus Dominus Deus et benedicta perpetua illius misericordia super servos suos pro quorum prosperitate et salute vos dulcissime David prosperè duxit et pacificè reduxit conservavit honoravit et exaltavit atque in omni loco adventus vostri lumen justitiae pietatisque ante faciem vestrae beatitudinis splendescere fecit c. Which he thus concludes Hocque Deum asstduis precibus obsecro ut praeseus vita Excellentiae vestrae ejusdem sancti intercessionibus adjuvetur protegatur consistat Et post hanc aeterna cum eodem beatitudine perfrui merearis Domine dilectissune desideratissime David His 90. Epistle to him col 1618. begins thus Domine mi dilect ssime et dulcissime et omnium desiderantissime mi David tristis est Flaccus vester propter infirmitatem vestram Opto et toto corde Deum deprecor ut cito convaleatis ut gaudium nostrum sit pl●num in vobis et sanitas vestra fit plena anima et corpore I shall close with his 24. Epistle to him which hath this Exordium Gloria laus Deo omnipotenti pro salute et prosperitate vestra duleissime mi David atque pro omni honore et sapientia in quibus tè speciali gratia omnibus supercellere fecit Perpetua gratiarum actio resonet et assidua sanctarum Intercessio orationum ad Deum dirigatur quatenus longaeva prosperitate feliciter vivas valeas et Regnes ad correctionem et exaltationem sanctae suae Ecclessae ut sub protectione tuae venerandae potestatis secura quiete Deo deserviat c. And this memorable conclusion Tu prosperitas Regni Tu salus populi Tu decus Ecclesiae Tu omnium protectio fidelium Christi Nobis igitur sub umbra potentiae et sub regimine pietatis tuae divina concesset gratia Religiosam ducere vitam atque summa quiete Deo Christo deservire Ideo solicita mente et pia intentione pro tua prosperitate et salute curam havere et intercedere justum et necessarium havemus Domine desiderantissime atque omni honore dignissime David Rer. I have at large transcribed these salutations options supplications Prayers Intercessions and thanksgivings of our famous English-man Abbot Alchuvinus for 6. reasons 1. Because they are a most full pregnant evidence of his conscientious observation of the Apostles Exhortation and precept 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. and of all other Abbots Prelates and Clergy-men in that age 2ly Because they are a most exact practical commentary upon that Text. 3ly An excellent president for our imitation and notable censure of the Apostacy Disloyalty and Indevotion of sundry Antimonarchical new Saints in this degenerate age 4ly A most clear demonstration of the Excellency of Kingly Government of the happiness that Christian Churches Realms Subjects injoy under Pious Religious Kings Emperors and what extraordinary cause they have to pray unto and to praise and blesse God for them 5ly Because they are full of Excellent variety unknown to most and little taken notice of even by our learnedest Divines 6ly Because they contain the substance of most other Abbots Bishops and Clergy-mens salutations Benedictions Prayers Thanksgivings of this kind in their Epistles to our own and other Kings and Emperors in that and succeeding ages most of which I shall for brevity pretermit since presidented in and by these Epistles About the year of Christ 794. K. Offa praying to God to give him Grace according to his former Vow to find out a place wherein and a Saint to whom he might dedicate a Monastery thereupon turning about to Archbishop Humbert of Canterbury Vnwona Bishop of Winton and other Iust wise men by whom he was governed he intreated them with tears and hands joyned together with all earnestnesse quatenus sincera mente totaque devotione Deum omnipotentem deprecemini ut ad beneplacitum suum honorem et gloriam ad effectum meum perducat defiderium Et cum omnes hoc gaudentes concessissint they with other Clerks whom they had called together entred into an Oratory that was near Super hoc propensius Oraturi Et praemisso hymno Veni Creator Spiritus Oraverunt devotissimi ut Dominus Iustum Regis desiderium ad effectum duceret gloriosum Et cum prolixius orassent eccè lux emissa caelitus totam cellulam illam à summo tecti fastigio usque ad pavimentum perlistravit In qua favor Dei manifestè significabatur After which by the revelation of an angel whiles this King lodged in the City of Ba●h the place of St. Alban the Martyr his interment was revealed unto him where he built a Monastery to him Pope Leo the 3d. in his Epistle to Kenulphus King of M●rcians concerning the restitution of the see of Canterb to it s antient Metropolitical Jurisdiction hath this thansgiving to God for him Omnipotenti Deo referimus grates qui vestram prudentissimam Excellenciam in omnibus exornavit et decoravit c Cenulsus King of the Mercians Anno 821. by his Charter granted and confirmed sundry Privileges to the Abby of Abbendune Maximè ut ipsi diebus Dominicis 7. Missas pro Nobis saluberrime offerant et armis Spiritualibus centum Psaltertis contra invisibiles hostes dimicare non cessant Witlasius King of Mercians being enforced to hide himself 4. months space from King Egberts Captains who sought his life in St. Ethildritha the Anchorites cell within the Abby of Croyland till by the mediation of Abbot Siward he had made his peace with Egbert thereupon in the year 833. of our saviours incarnation he by his Charter confirmed and enlarged the Lands and Privileges of this Monastery and most holy Church of Croyland wherein he stiles it Turris ad coelum ascendeus quae viligiis et orationibus Psalmis lectionibus disciplinis afflictionibus la●hrymis et singultibus

inveniantur et assequautur Deus est exorandus c. Faciendum est judicium pro iniquorum correctione et pro injuriam sustinentium directione non pro malevolentiae ultione nec pro justam causam habentium oppressione c. Sollicitè unicuique ambulandum est cum Deo suo et Regi precipuè qui sub tantis erit in poenis in futuro seculo si malus fuerit super quantos fuerit in isto seculo in quo se à malitia non correxit et non fecit judicium et justitiam et non ambulavit sollicitè cum Deo suo In the front of his 2d Epistle to the Emperor Charles the Grosse Praesentem et futuram optat prosperitatem et gloriam advising him Ut Ecclesiam Gallicanam poenè collapsam restituat Regni dissidia tollat Justitiae leges apud Primores aequè ac subditos sartas tectas conservare Divinum auxilium per preces crebro imperare impios et sceleratos coercere orphanorum et pupillorum patrocinium suscipere humilitateni caritatem mansuetudinem erga omnes sectari improborumque societatem et samiliaritatem defugere as the readiest way to publick peace unity and prosperity His 3d. and 4th Epistles are full of excellent instructions for young Kings and his 5th very pertinent to our Condition The Emperor Lewes the 2d being dead Charles the Bald King of France went into Italy to obtain the Imperial Crown from the Pope which his Brother Lewes King of Germany taking in ill part attempted in his absence to invade the Realm of France Whereupon divers Bishops and Nobles of France being doubtfull what to do in this difficult Cause craved the advice of their Metropolitan Hincm●rus Archbishop of Rhemes who in this Epistle adviseth them at large In tanta discrimine confugiendum esse ad arma spiritualia orationum jejuniorum aliorumque id genus praesidiorum et in fide proprii Regis Caroli licet absit fortiter persistendum nec oves ulla ratione quantumvis Ludovicus vi invadat regnum deserendas Ipsosque Reges libere de suis erratis commonefaciendos ac si parere nolint etiam à corpore Christi abscindendos quod multorum S. Patrum exemplis fusè probat After his debate of the difficulties and dangers on both sides in resisting the unjust Invador of his Brothers Realm and deserting Charles their absent lawfull King he resolves thus Nos Episcopi Domini nostri Caroli si acciderit ut consulere ei non possimus sicuti cupimus in temporali sui Regni defensione atque tuitione et consulamus et in debitae Fidei observatione Consulamus et Nobis Dei cooperatione in pia Dei erga illum observatione et continua mentis devotione atque pro eo apud Deum et Sanctos ejus obsecratione c. Consulamus et nobis ne pro quacunque cupiditate vel temporali emolumento ab illius debita fide exorbitantes quenquam in illius regnum missis Episcopis vel quibuscunque internunciis invitemus nec pro Abbatiis vel honoribus temporalibus atque rebus vel facultatibus nos venundemus Iudae similes effecti qui abiens ad Iudaeos dixit Quid vultis mihi dare ego vobis eum tradam Est etiam quoniam ab alio quocunque justè rationabiliter credi non poterimus neque debemus si quocunque terreno lucro vel illata injuria salva in Deum fide seniori nostro Regi Fidem non servaverimus c. Consulamus etiam quantum adjuvante Domino poterimus Sociis commilitonibus nostris exhortantes eos ut fidem debitam apud eum observent c. Consulamus etiam ei si fortè quis fuerit qui in absentia ejus Regnum ipsius moliatur subripere ut moneamus eum de Sacramentis inter se et Seniorem nostrum factis quae Rex noster se servare velle fatetur et proponemus ei sententiam Domini prolatam per Jeremiam Prophetam contra Sedechiam qui juravit Nebuchadonozor Gentili Regi in Nomine Domini Ezech. 17. Hierom. ibid. whose severe judgement on him for this Perjury he recites at large out of 4 King 25. together with the danger of Perjury out of St. Augustin Epist. 89. who stiles it Gravissimum peccatum Si autem contra Praepositum suum agentibus consulere non potuerimus secundum verba sancti Ambrosii consulamus Nobis ne faciamus quacunque cupiditate vel adulatione vel deceptione vel communicatione undè vituperetur Minister ium nostrum perdamus nomen bonum c. Et non solum in vectigalibus stipendiariis militiae Ecclesiis debitis et Regibus deservire jub●mur verum et in Orationibus sicut Augustinus in libro De Civitate Dei ostendit whose words he recites at large After which he thus winds up this most learned and seasonable Epistle worthy reading Si denique Rex noster-fuerit annuente Deo reversus recipiamus eum cum gaudio de sibi ac Ecclesiae at que Regni necessariis in postmodum procurare Episcopaliter illum commoneamus et prosperitari suae congaudeamus si vero quod non optamus aliter judicio Dei contigerit Devotionem ac fidem debitam erga illum sinceriter custodientes sicut scriptum est dicamus corde dicamus ore Domino exultaverunt filiae Iudae id est confessionis humillimae in omnibus judiciis tuis Domine This was the advice of that learned loyal Bishop in that Age upon this occasion Gerbertus Archbishop of Rhemes afterwards Pope Sylvester the 2d as he hath this expression of his Loyalty to the Emperor Otho Epist 1. Non dicatur reus cui pro Caesare stare semper fuit gloria contra Caesarem ignominia So in his his 20. Epistle Adelaidi Imperatrici he concludes thus Mea sententia haec est quam fidem filio Dominae meae Imperatori asservavi eam matri servabo si nequeo praesens saltem absens benè loquendo bene optando bene orando He begins his 154. Epistle Othoni Imperatori thus Domino glorioso Othono semper Augusto Gerbertus gratia Domini Remorum Episcopus quicquid tanto Imperatori dignum And in his 31. Epistle to Diedericus the Bishop in the person of Prince Charles the Emperors Nephew he thus brands him for his perjury and treachery to the Emperor and the Republick Diederico Hypocritarum ideae Imperatorum infidelissimo prolisque parricidae ac in communi hosti Reipublicae Tu divina humana confundisti jura Cur pastorali officio minas intendis quasi verò tu pastor non lupus rapax non potius alter Judas Apostolus qui Dominum suum 30. perdidit argenteis tu Episcopus qui Dominum tuum Regem Haeredem Regni Regno privasti spe famostssimi quaestus c. Fulbertus Carnotensis Episcopus inscribes his 3 4 13 93. Epistles to Robert King of