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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94769	A thanksgiving sermon. For the blessed restauration of his sacred Majesty Charles the II. Preach'd at Upton before Sir Richard Samwel, knight, May 29. 1660. By William Towers Batchelor in Divinity; eighteen years titular prebendary of Peterburgh; sixteen, titular parson of Barnake. Now (by the friendly favor of Mr. Reynolds) continued curate at Upton in the diocess of Peterburgh. With a short apostrophe to the King.	Towers, William, 1617?-1666.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1964; Thomason E1034_1; ESTC R209028	13,502	23

A Thanksgiving Sermon For the blessed RESTAURATION Of His SACRED MAJESTY Charles the II. Preach'd at VPTON before Sir Richard Samwel Knight May 29. 1660. By William Towers Batchelor in Divinity eighteen years titular Prebendary of Peterburgh sixteen titular Parson of Barnake Now by the Friendly favor of Mr. Reynolds continued Curate at Vpton in the Diocess of PETERBVRGH With a short Apostrophe to the King LONDON Printed by R. D. for Thomas Rooks at the Holy Lamb at the East end of S. Paul's 1660. To His most Sacred Majesty Charles the II. By the special Grace of God KING of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Most dread Sovereign THough your Court be now much fuller of Gratulations To You than once your Camp was with Bullets Against You though your Royal Palace be as much beset with the cheerfull Duties of Men as your Royal Oake was pitch'd about with the Ministry of Angels and the trembling Prayers of three Kingdoms Yet I humbly crave leave that one Shrub amongst so many Cedars may testifie his joy that the Powder-fire hath not come out of the Bramble to destroy those Cedars nor to do violence to the persecuted Defender of them and of the helpless Shrubs too Nor do I much fear the repulse of my loyal Suit since a good Prince will be as accessible and exorable as his great God That God hath humbled himself to hear my constant Prayers for the King and the King will stoop so low to hear my Petition to the King since 't is no more than that your Majesty may be acquainted that we who contributed to the dulling of the edge of the sword to the quenching of the Vollies of fire against you with lowder vollies of those primitive weapons the one fervent enough to melt the Sword and the other moist enough to extinguish the flame Tertullian's Preces Lachrymae have now chang'd our armor into Preces Praeconia Praises to God for your Majesty's unbloudy Victory Good will towards men for that the same Voices and the same Guns which before made a separation from amongst us and breath'd out slaughter upon us have now clos'd with us in shouting out the common joy and vollying out the Triumphs of the King His leige People and themselves a joy too big to be understood and we that feel it cannot tell all the joy we feel who unless some Angel will dare to recount the fulness af honor which God hath done to your Majesty beyond all the Princes in Christendom To unite two Kingdoms into one Britain was a great and wise work of your Royal Grandfather for which he deservedly wears the Name of The wisest Monarch of all before him but this was brought to pass in his riper years in his dayes of Peace what will not mature judgement and much plenty do when the very lack of judgement the very desire of plenty hath made one with whom I would not exchange my Curateship for all the Crowns he now hath Aliter cineres mando jacere meos wade through bloud rebelliously shed through oaths forsworn all of them some in not being kept the rest in being taken till he climb'd into a Throne Ut lapsu graviore ruat But what greater wonders hath God done by your Majesty your tender years have overcome so vast miseries which would kill him whom the Devil tempted to murther and God suffered to Martyr the best of Kings Your yonger days have reduc'd three States three Protectordoms into three Realms and those three Realms under one King and that one King the lawfull head of them all Come Angels and speak we over-master'd mortals must sit down and wonder Nothing else is left for us besides to pray that God would continue to make you wiser than your wisest Grandfather to make you as holy for our conceptions cannot imagine any thing to have been besides the Man Christ or to can be more holy as your Royal Father to bless your Majesty and your Kingdoms under you with all the blessings which God hath ever bestowed upon good and suffering Kings or will ever grant to reform'd and penitent People The Prayer of Your Majesty's humblest Votary from the first famous 29. of May and most dutiful Subject twelve yeares before the second when your Majesty enter'd the Imperial City of London WILLIAM TOWERS Psalm the XXI The Title of the Psalm The Text. and the former part of the first verse To the Chief Musitian A Psalm of David The Title The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord. The Verse IT is a Thanks-giving day and a rejoycing Text what the Title does covertly whose cover we shall pull off anon the Text does in open vew Rejoice 'T is a Thanks-giving for the integrity and Successe of the General in preparing the way before the face of the Lord our King to bring him in to make the King happy in a loyal and obedient people to render the people blessed in a lawful and Religious King A Lawful one these three waies 1. By the law of Nature The Kingdome is his and the King is our birth-right besides that he is our Legal King by the most fundamental Law he is our Natural King too by the loins out of which he came 2. By the law of the Land that declares him our Sovereigne and us his Subjects as our supreme Not at all subjects to our fellow subjects unlesse under him not by the usurpation of one a wrong OR or more of them a wrong and mis-named Parliament a Juncto rather but to those set over us by his authority by him and for him For him not in a pretence but really 3. By the Law of God 't is by him Kings Reign Prov. 8 1● and for him not only for wrath but for conscience Rom. 13.5 for conscience to him that we obey We are to blesse God for the General The General meanes the King and the King meanes God The Text. in the latter part of it meets with all three Strength with the General the King with the King and Thy strength and O Lord with God Give we honor to whom honour is due Rom. 13.7 to each theirs in their right subordination to the General for the good of the King to the King for the benefit of three Kingdomes to the Tri-Une God for his blessing upon all to the General to the King as instruments to the General as a lesse principal instrument than the King and yet as a more prinipal instrument than all the world besides yet as the most principal instrument to help us to that Musical word the King which makes our very eyes to dance and our very hearts to leap to the King as the most principal instrument of all more immediately deriving blessings upon all to God as the Author the Guider the Finisher the All in All. In the General have we due esteems of and bear we deserved respects to the