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A56163	The first and second part of the signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians (as also of some idolatrous pagans) tovvards their kings, both before and under the law, and Gospel especially in this our island. Expressed in and by their private and publike private loyal supplications, prayers, intercession, thanksgiving, votes, acclamations, salutations, epistles, addresses, benedictions, options of long life, health, wealth, safety, victory, peace, prosperity, all temporal, spiritual, eternal blessings, felicities to their kings persons, families, queens, children, realms, armies, officers, chearfull subjections and dutifull obedience to them: whethe [sic] good, or bad, Christians, or pagans, orthodox, or heterodox, protectors, or persecutors of them. With the true reasons thereof from Scripture and policy. Evidenced by varieties of presidents, testimonies and authorities in al ages, ... Whereunto the several forms, ceremonies, prayers, collects, benedictions and consecrations, used at the coronations of Christian emperors, kings, queens (more particularly in England and Scotland, not formerly published) and of the Mahometan and Ægyptian kings, are annexed. By; Signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians, towards their kings.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3955; ESTC R217939	286,462	453

they made Solomon the son of David King the second time and anointed him unto the Lord to be Chief Governor c. v. 20 21. Fro●… all which premises it is apparent 1. That the Priests Prophets Prince●… Captains Officers and all the people of God at the coronation of Solomon and so at their other hereditarie Kings inaugurations who succeeded him by like practice and custom did blow with Trumpets pipe with Flutes rejoice with exceeding joy and cry out with united shouts prayers acclamacions God save the King Let the King live so that the Earth did rent and the City ring again with the sound thereof 2ly That besides this usual short prayer and ejaculation unto God for him and their following Kings the greatest devoutest of the Officers and people did break forth into other most affectionate pathetical expressions praiers for them as Benaiah and other of Davids servants did here in the case of Solomon saying The Lord God of my Lord the king say Amen too As the Lord hath been with my Lord the king David so let him bee with Solomon and make his name better than thy name and make his throne greater than thy throne 3ly That they joyned in publike prayers to God for their Kings after their installments in the kingdom as the whole Congregation did here with David for Solomon O Lord God of Abraham c. give unto my son Solomon a perfect heart to keep thy Commandements c. Ps. 132. 1 c. 4ly That in their usual addresses to their Kings they bless them by wishing them spiritual and temporal blessings long life and prosperity to them and bless God for their advancement to the Throne and Government over them as is evident by the 1 Kings 1. 27. 43. compared with the 2Sam 10. 16. and other subsequent texts 5ly I shall adde to the premises this passage in Huram king of Tyre his letter to Solomon 2 Chron. 2. 12. Huram said moreover Blessed be the Lord God of Israel that hath made heaven and earth who hath given to David a wise Son endued with prudence and understanding that might build an house for the Lord and an house for his kingdom And these words of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon 2 Chron. 9. 7 8. 1 Kings 10. 7 8. Happy are thy men and happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighted in thée to set thée on his throne to be King for the Lord thy God because thy God loved Israel to establish them for ever therefore made hee thee King over them to do judgement and justice Now if King Huram and the Queen of Sheba meer foreiners Princes not subjects thus blessed God for Solomons kingdom justice reign and advancement to his fathers throne for the establishment and welfare of his subjects then much more were the Israelites themselves his own subjects and servants obliged to blesse him and blesse God for his reign wisdom and good government over them which no doubt they did constantly perform in their publike and private Devotions and all their addresses to him as also to their other Kings succeeding him though not particularly recorded in the books of Kings and Chronicles which are but short Epitomes of his and their reigns 3ly When King Solomon had finished the Temple he assembled all the Elders heads of the Tribes and chief of the fathers of the children of Israel with the Priests and Levites to Jerusalem to bring up the Ark and dedicate the Temple where Solomon having first bl●…ssed all the Congregation he with the whole Congregation of Israel standing before and joyning with him Blessed the Lord God of Israel who had with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to his father David That his Son which should come out of his loyns should build an House to the name of the Lord God of Israel The Lord therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken for I am risen up in the room of David my Father and am set on the Throne of Israel as the Lord promised and have built the House for the Lord God of Israel c. After which he stood before the Altar of the Lord upon a brazen scaffold and kneeled upon his knees before all the Congregation of Israel and spred forth his hands towards heaven and said O Lord God of Israel there is none like thee in the heaven nor in the earth which keepest Covenant and shewest mercy unto thy servants that walk before thee with all their hearts Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him and spakest with thy mouth and hast fulfilled it with thy hand as it is this day Now therefore O Lord God of Israel kéep with thy servant David my Father that which thou hast promised him saying There shall not fail thée a Man in my sight to sit upon the Throne of Israel yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my Law as thou hast walked before me Now then O Lord God of Israel let thy word I pray thée be verified which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David c. O Lord God turn not away the face of thine anointed Remember the Mercies of David thy servant When Solomon had ended all his prayer and supplication to the Lord he arose from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven and he stood and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice saying Blessed be the Lord God that hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he hath promised there hath not failed one word of all his good promise which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant The Lord our God be with us as he was with our Fathers Let him not leave us nor forsake us that he may incline our hearts unto him to walk in all his wayes and to keep his Commandements and his Statutes and his Iudgements which he commanded our Fathers And let these my words wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord be nigh unto the Lord day night that he may maintain the cause of his servant the cause of his people Israel the thing of a day in his day or at all times as the matter shall require that all the People of the Earth may know that the Lord is God and there is none else c. After all the Dedications sacrifices offerings and feasts were fully ended Solomon sent the people away and they blessed the King and went unto their tents Ioyfull and glad of heart for all the goodnesse that the Lord had shewed unto David his servant to Solomon and to Israel his people In these remarkable passages we have King Solomon blessing all his Princes Elders people and they blessing him again and both of them joyning together in blessings thanksgivings and

despicable Mortals the long neglect and discontinuance of this sacred duty and most effectual remedy being as I fear the principal cause of the long continuance and encrease of their and our miseries afflictions pressures and sad confusions If then the serious consideration of Gods own reiterated Injunctions the presidents of Fathers Christians Saints Martyrs Subjects inall ages yea of the very Pagans themselves and the many Oaths Vows Covenants Protestations Declarations Remonstrances we have formerly made with our own and our Ancestors constant practice of these Dutyes for many hundreds of years will not perswade us hereunto yet let the consideration of our personal and national preservation establishment peace settlement prosperity both as men and Christians and the cheapness easiness of this homage and duty to God our King Country our selves which all exes ages though mean poor in Purse or feeble in Body unable to assist and ayd their Soveraign or Country in either are as able to perform as well as the noblest Peers the richest Subjects the valiantest Souldiers or the wisest States men now at last excite and engage them unanimously conscien●…iously and fervently to perfom them both in publick and private To induce them more chearfully thereunto I shall recommend unto them this memorable obser●…ation and seasonable passage of St. B●…sil the Great famous in his gene●…ation and in the Church of Christ. Being by the goodnes and benignity of my most good God through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the operation of the holy Ghost delivered from the error of the Gentiles traditions and long ago even from the beginning educated by Christian parents I verily learned the holy Scriptures from them ●…om my childhood which brought me into the knowledge of the truth but when I became a man and had very frequently used peregrinations and had fallen into the consideration of many things as was meet I verily found in other Arts Sciences much concord amongst those who exactly exercise singular Arts but in the Church of God only and for which Christ dyed and into which he hath abundantly and richly powred forth his holy Spirit I observed the greatest discord and vehement dissentions of many both between themselves and also against the divine Scripture and that which is most horrid the very Presidents of the Church constituted in so great a Dissention both of mind and opinions between themselves and fighting against the commands of our Lord Jesus Christ with so great contrariety as even cruelly to dissipate the Church of Christ and to disturb his redeemed Flock without any commiseration that even on these now if ever when wicked men went out and flourished that of the Apostles may be fulfilled Out of your selves shall aris●… men speaking perverse things that they may draw disciple●… a●…r them When I discerned these things and the like and doubted what and whence the sourse of so great an e●…l might be at ●…irst I was as it were in some thick dark●…sse and as if ●…t in a ballance I did turn my self now on this side now on that side onescale drawing me to it sel●… by reason of thelong custom of men but the other pulling me back for the truth acknowledged in the holy Scripture Now when as this ●…ad for some space and very 〈◊〉 hapned whiles I was searching out the cause of this ●…vil as I have related 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Book relating the History of the Judges came into my mind where it is written that every one then did what seemed right in his eyes and the cause thereof is declared together with it in that which is premised That in those daies there was no King in Israel Therefore remembring these things I did think even of these present dissentions that which truly is ●…errible to be spoken and perchance a paradox but if it shall be considered and weighed is most true that peradventure even now for the contempt of one great true and only King of all there is so great Dissention and Fighting among those who are in the Church of Christ whiles every one hath revolted from the Doctrine of our Lord Iesus Christ and challengeth to himself by his own Authority his own cogitations and definitions and would rather reign against the Lord than be subject to the Lord and be governed by him When I searched this with my self and stood amazed at this monstrous impiety did yet further search it out I was farther perswaded that the foresaid cause was true by nothing more then from the things of this life For I saw every state of a multitude well compounded and to obtain agreement and consist together so long only as their obedience was kept towards some one King over them all and on the other side that dissention and division of every kind yea and moreover polyarchy did arise from hence if there being no King there was a liberty obtained of doing any thing we would I have seen sometimes even a swarm of Bees from the Law of Nature to wage War and in order to follow their own King And tr●…ly I my self have beheld many such things and I have also heard many such things and those know more who are imployed about these things that even from hence that I have said may be proved to be true for it is the property and peculiar of those who 〈◊〉 unto the command of one and obey and use one King that they are may be well disposed and at concord among themselves therfore all d ssention discord is both a Iudgment and sign of that contumacy wherein the principality of one is rejected According to the same reason even the very dissention which is forbidden both between the Commandements of our Father and our Lord and also between our selves 〈◊〉 either from a departure from the true King or from the r●…uncing of him which he there further proves from sundry Texts Therefore by his and Gods own resolution there is no way to heal our manifold Dissensions Distractions and restore peace unity order in our Church and State but by returning to our t●…ue lawfull Spiritual and Temporal only Kings both whom we have most contemptuously and obstinately so long rejected both in ●…ur dev●…tions legal transactions our Church and State affairs which I wish all Republicans Antimonarchists most seriously to ponder and our new Junctoes and General Council of Army-Officers seduced and acted by Campanella Spanish and Romish Emissaries to promote our ruine who of our Servants are now become our Soveraign Lords and Legifers changing their lunatick Votes Resolutions Moddels of Government as frequently as the Moon to keep us in endless Confusions by trampling all Laws of God and the Realm and their spiritual as well as temporal King and Monarchy under their feet But this King of Kings as he hath of late years dashed them in pieces by his admirable stupendious providences of which they will not take notice for