just man be surprized by death he shall be in heaven yet in respect of Outwards and Relations an unexpected blow brings more than ordinary distraction and it leaves a very sad character of Gods displeasure when men as birds and fishes are caught in the snare and taken in the net Eccles 9.12 13. When the first-born were suddenly slain there was a great cry Exod. 12.29 30. Quis cladem illius noctis Virgil. Aeneid 2. quis funera fand◠Explicet aut possit lachrymis aequare dolores 2. Taken from the Mourners themselves 1. The sins of subjects hasten their Princes deaths 1 Sam. 12. ult and especially 1. Idolatry 2. Disobedience to the Word and Dispersers of it 2. The peoples losse and this will appear by what chief Magistrates are represented in Scripture 1. Captains to lead 1 Sam. 9.16 2. Sir John Heyward in the reign of King Edward the sixth Shields Psal 47.9 Hos 4.18 As the Protectour and Admiral were call'd King Edwards Shield and Target 3. Heads Num. 25.15 Judg. 11.8 9 11. 4. Heirs of Restreint Judges 18.7 And Sauls Reigning 1 Sam. 9.17 is called restreining Heb. When these curbs and bits are gone horses turn wilde People are sons of Belial without a yoke when these Sea banks are broken down Libertinisme will break in as a mighty torrent 5 Breath of the peoples nostrils Lam. 4.20 Zedekiah being in prison as Calvin notes his peoples breath is stopt Motions cease when there is a suffocation 6. Healers Esay 3.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chosbesch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chobesch of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chabasch to tie and gird fast tying as a Chyrurgion and Physician a Ruler Iob 34.17 Because Princes bind their Subjects by their Lawes Patients dye when Physicians give them over The good Samaritane did cure when the traveller was wounded Luke 10.34 7. Shepherds Cyrus my Shepherd Esay 44 28. David from a Shepherd of sheep came to be a Shepherd of men Psal 78.72 Homer calls Agamemnon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the King doth rule by feeding Matth. 2.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now Christ speaking of his death and the dispersion of his Disciples said Smite the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered Incustoditae diripiuntur oves which sentence is thrice spoken of in Scripture Zech. 13.7 Matth. 26.31 Mark 14.27 After Pauls departing grievous wolves would enter not sparing the flock Acts 20.19 8. Fathers Agasicles King of the Spartans had this Apothegme That there is no more firme ground of establishment than when a King doth govern his subjects as a father his children and saith Lavater Princes are good parents and if fathers die children should consider the benefits they have enjoyed and the many hardships and pains their parents have sustained for them Wicked Ioash weeping over dying Elisha call'd him O my father my father the Charet of Israel and the Horse-men thereof Yea they are not only fathers but nursing fathers Num. 11.12 Esay 49.23 9. Corner-stayes which binde the main building If these are blown down the house it self will not stay long after Esay 19.13 10. Builders Psal 127.1 11. Watchmen ibid. 12. Eyes Job 29.15 An eye with a Scepter was the Egyptian Hieroglyphick of a Princes Vigilance and Rule If the eye be out or dark how great is that darknesse Matth. 6.23 Such a Land is a meer Polyphemus blinded 13. Saviours Obad. ver 21. to which may be added three more 14. Steers-men A Prince * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Polit. saith Plato is as a Ship-master who alwayes takes care both of the Ship and Sea-men 15. Pilots to conduct safe in the midst of Shelves Rocks Enemies and Tempests 16. Husbands a good Prince is maritus populi Now if it be an Art of Arts and Discipline of Disciplines to rule men as * Ars Artium Disciplina Disciplinarum regere hominem Nazianzen speaks then to lose such a Ruler is a losse of losses not easily expressed or repaired 3. The peoples miseries an inundation of calamities came tumbling in on Josiah's death Jehoahaz his eldest sonne was quickly deposed and the Land fined 2 Chron. 36.3 Iehoiakim his second son was fetter'd ver 5. The Temple was ransackt and the Vessels were carried away ver 7. and Zedekiah his third son was imprisoned and blinded Nebuchadnezzar and the King of the Chaldees crushed all some were killed others taken prisoners Temple City Palaces and all the goodly Vessels were destroyed and the people were carried into captivity and remained in Babylon seventy years The death of a Prince saith Charles the fifth is as the Suns Eclipse which usually portends commotions and perturbations of State some time after and this made Christ turn himself and speech to the daughters of Ierusalem not to weep for him but for themselves and children foreseeing a terrible storme coming on the State after his decease Luke 23.27 28. saith the Prophet Ieremy chap. 50.17 the Pastor being away Israel is a scattered sheep the Lyons have driven him away First the King of Assyria hath devoured him and last this Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon hath broken his bones 3. Taken from the Act of Mourning 1. It testifies love John 11.35 36. Jesus wept at the death of Lazarus then said the Jews behold how he loved him 2. It s restrictive of envy reproach and slander John 11.21 36. The people beholding the sad Tragedy of Christs death in all its Acts smote their breasts Luke 23.48 * Gratia major est cùm hominibus tanta reverentia incutitur ut agnitis criminibus Christum jam colunt quem bactenus irriserunt The grace is greater and more remarkable when so much reverence is struck in men that acknowledging their sins they now love Christ whom before they scorned saith Aretius and indeed the dead move more compassion than when they have been living Lycurgus the great Law-giver more prevailed with the Lacedemonians when he was dead than when he was alive Julius Caesar wept at the sight of dead Alexander and living Alexander startled at the Tombe of Cyrus The Deeds and Trophies of Miltiades did affect Themistocles and of Hercules Theseus and Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester when he had chop 't off the head of Thomas Lord Cromwel Earle of Essex by his own Engine saith Speed yet when he was dead seeing the general Mourning did wish when it was too late that Cromwel were alive again Even such praise the dead which are already dead in the speech of the Royal Preacher Eccles 4.2 3. It is impulsive inducing others to sympathize and condole John 11.16.33 Si vis me flere dolendum tears of friends draw on the tears of enemies and neuters Gen. 50.3 11. The Egyptians mourned for Jacob and the name of the place was called ABEL MIZRAIM the mourning of the Egyptians Even the daughters of the Nations shall lament Ezek. 32.16 The wicked Prophet mourned over the man of God slain by a Lyon 1
PEPLUM OLIVARII OR A good Prince BEWAILED BY A GOOD PEOPLE Represented in a SERMON October 13. 1658. Upon the death of OLIVER Late Lord Protector By George Lawrence A. M. Minister of Crosses Hospital 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homeri Iliad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 said Achilles Theodosius tanâ—us Imperator recessit à nobis Non totus recessit reliquit enim nobis HONORIUM filios suos iâ— quibus eum debemus agnoscere Ambrosius in Obitu Theodosii When the Inhabitants of the Land saw the mourning in the floor of Arad they said This is a grievous mourning wherefore the name of it was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ABEL MIZRAIM Genesis 50.11 LONDON Printed by E. M. for Samuel Thomson at the Bishops head in Pauls Church-yard 1658. TO THE THRICE ILLUSTRIOUS RICHARD LORD PROTECTOR OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND IRELAND AND THE Dominions Thereunto belonging May it please your Highnesse TO accept this poor Oblation as a Testimony of my unspeakable grief and sympathie for the losse of your Renowned father OLIVER LATE LORD PROTECTOR and as a paremphasis and acknowledgment of thankfulnesse for your Highnesse personal undeserved respects to Your most Loyal And Humble Subject George Lawrence PEPLUM OLIVARII OR A good Prince BEWAILED BY A GOOD PEOPLE 2 CHRON. 35.24 All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah IN the twentieth Verse is Described the subsequent manner of Josiah's death The Coherence after he had done so many Glorious Actions and especially his unexampled Preparation of the Temple That we may understand saith Cajetan That Divine Grace even in the time of the Old Testament is granted to the very friends of God not according to life temporal though it be very much desired And the occasion was this Pharaoh Necho or the lame King of Egypt came to fight against the King of Assyria 2 Kings 23.29 Whom some suppose to be Hadadrimmon or Adad the sonne of Tabrimon who was Benhadad 1 Kings 15.18 Josiah's confederate and reigned in Carshemish from whom or the abundance of Pomegranates the City and the battelfield seeme to take their names Which * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 70. place was eminent for the mourning of Ahab slaine at Ramoth Gilead say Jonathan Adrichomius and others and especially for the mourning for Josiah wounded and slaine in the Valley of Megiddo Zech. 12.11 But that Benhadad was at this last fight computers do deny he being dead many years before this engagement of Josias And therefore more probable it was Nebuchadnezzar the elder who was both King of the Assyrians and Babylonians and Carchemish by Euphrates was his present hold which being a Syrian City mentioned in Esay 10.9 and Jerem. 46.2 sent many forces saith Josephus against the Medes and Babylon who had often worsted the Assyrians What was the cause now is not known but it is apparent that there was continual hatred betweene them The Truth and Antiquity of which story as to its substance is attested by Herodotus in his second book called Euterpe Lavater saith That Interpreters write that the King of Assyria had expelled the King of Syria out of Carchemish whom Necho intending to restore brings his forces through Judah the nearest way having received a Commission to make haste and Josiah fearing National troubles withstood this lame yet flying Necho And Albeit Necho sends him Ver. 21. 1. Ambassadours of Peace 2. Informs him of a special Commission from God 3. Disswades him from intermedling 4. And though he tells him of the danger as having received a prophecie from the Prophet Jeremy that he should go to Carchemish and prevaile saith Hierom in his Hebrew Traditions yet notwithstanding all his arguments Josiah provokes Necho and drawes forth to fight in the Valley of Megiddo Note That the best of Gods people have their oversights and failings which many times they cannot see to redresse before it be too late James 3.2 In many things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we stumble all Humanum est errare Homo sum * L. 1. Histor Alieno Imperio felicior qudm sao Tacitus saith of Sulpicius Galba that he was more happy in anothers Kingdome than his own But Josiah was more happy in his own Kingdome than anothers And though some things may plead for Josiah as 1. His zeal against a proud cruel and lofty person 2. His assistance of a Confederate 3. His defending his own Land from Invasion 4. Necho's pretended Commission might have been a meere Collusion though the effect shewed otherwise 5. Expedition and haste to prevent an Incursion yet Josiah was not blamelesse 1. Because hearing of Necho's Commission he was incredulous For God can speak by wicked men as Balaam Caiaphas yea by brutes as by Balaams Asse 2. Because he was self-confident persisting in his resolved course 3. Because he asked not counsel from God saith Cajetan He must be in haste indeed who taking a long journey will not pray a short prayer Whence we may learn 1. That there is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7.20 2. That God leaves his many times to try them 2 Chron. 32.31 3. That though God doth punish such yet he moderates his corrections Seen in Asa Jehosaphat Amaziah Uzziah Hezekiah and here Josiah Though he dies in Megiddo yet in the peace of his Kingdome and he lives in heaven 4. That the wisest hath no cause to trust in his own wisdome Eccles 7.16 17 18 Prov. 23 4. Cease from thine own wisdome For though Josiah thirty years was a wise holy and happy Prince yet he erred at last in bringing warre on Egypt Many and great be the errors of wise men which made Cicero himself exclaime against himself O me nunquam sapientem our own wisdome is a weak Reed which will quickly fail 5. Be not Censorious saith Job ch 12.5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a Lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease 6. Beare with the infirmities of the weak Rom. 14.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Receive such as mothers their sick and weak children into your bosome 7. It is our best wisdome to flie to the true Oracle for wisdome and to pray Lord order my steps in thy Word Psal 119.133 and to cry Hold up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not Psalme 17.5 8. Adde watchfulnesse Matth. 26.41 Josiah is now come to the bloody field Verse 22. the Valley of Megiddo taking its name from a Town or Castle near adjoyning for the word generally notes a Town or Castle saith Strigelius Armageddon mentioned in Rev. 16.16 notes the place of cutting in pieces or the destruction of a Troop saith * In his consent of Scripture Broughton of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in Eusebius and Mageddon the Mount of Megiddon It was a City whose King Joshua took Josh 12.21 And hence it appears Tunc tua res agitur that Necho marching beyond his bounds moved Josiah to
Sepulchre saith Sandys Some there be so wicked as to lament the death of beasts fish and fowle more than they would the death of the best and most useful Christians Such was the ridiculous profanesse of the Magaveres that at the burial of the dead they wrapped the dead body in Holly twigs binding the neck and legs together putting it into a hole covering it with stones and setting on the heap some ridiculous thing or other and so without any more ado departed Secondly In excesse 1. Who mourn immoderately Jacob surmising his sonne Ioseph to be rent in pieces rent his cloathes and put sackcloth on his loynes and mourned for his sonne many dayes and all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him but he refused to be comforted and he said for I will go down into the grave unto my sonne mourning thus his father wept for him Gen. 37.33 34 35. Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted because they were not Ierem. 31.15 And Lyra faith it was a tradition among the Jews that Rachels Tombe did lament and weep to the Israelites passing by there when they were taken captives by the Babylonians and lead to Babylon And Hierom reports of Paula that she would grieve at the death of her husband and children that she was alwayes like to die for sorrow Now the Apostle disswades from this 1 Thes 4.13 14. By believing the great Articles of the Resurrection * Baal Turim The Hebrews gather from Gen. 23.2 Because the letter Caph is lesse than all the rest Abraham wept but a little for Sarab not as if he did care for her but a little but to shew moderation though the death of publick persons calls for a greater stream of tears than the death of others yet there is still to be observed a due proportion The Turks mourn in white and but a little saith Sandys The Egyptians mourn too much 2. Who mourn desperately as Sauls Armour-bearer seeing his Master fall falls on his own Sword and kills himself 1 Sam. 31.5 and the Ethiopians seeing their King dead slay themselves The speech of Thomas to his fellow-disciples let us also go that we may dye with him John 11.16 meaning dead Lazarus savoured much more of true affection than regulated zeal God that made a Law that none should kill another made no such proviso that any should be Felo de se and kill himself 3. Read Buxtorf Synag c. 35. de sepultura mortuorum Judaeo rum Who mourn superstitiously Jerem. 16.5 6. Levit. 19.28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print any marks upon you as the Arabians and other Heathens The womens weeping for Tammuz Ezek. 8.14 15. whether it were an idolatrous Prophet or Adonis or Osiris King of Egypt or a beast or the Sunne in some figure the lamentation was a great abomination and this their wailing was to be bewailed So that the Rules of mourning must be these It must be 1. Real 2. Affectionate 3. Christian 4. Proportionable 5. Charitable and Merciful and 6. Scriptural according to the Canon of the Word The third and last Use is of Exhortation To quicken us to be affected with the stroak of Gods hand and to grieve for the death of the thrice Illustrious Oliver of BLESSED Memory BLESSED The People were not sensible of King Uzziahs death Evil men understand not judgment but they that seek the Lord understand all things Prov. 28.5 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this that the righteous and the wise and their workes are in the hand of God Eccles 9.1 Woe is me saith Micah chap. 7.2 The good man is perished out of the earth And to provoke all the people in the three Nations to mourn let them 1. Consider His Dignity 1. Motive who was raised up to the highest place in government and lifted into the Throne by the prayers of Gods people and not by the ambitious and usurped lift of self-exaltation as * The rebellious exalt themselves Ps 66.7 The Rule of Diogenes was this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THOU must be impudent and bold and THOU must slander Kings and private persons for so it shall come to passe that all will cast their eyes upon THEE and judge THEE Valiant Samosatensis tom 1. p. 366. self-exalting Diogenians Stentorize In which station absit invidia verbo no Prince did behave himself more unbyassedly religiously and prudentially than he 2. Consider his worth being a man every way fitted and furnished for the discharge of so great a work and so high a calling Eminent he was 1. In his Justice commutative and distributive punishing few and rewarding many beyond their deservings with life and liberty who had prodigiously forfeited both Et piger ad poenas Princeps ad praemia Velox Quique dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox Walking by that golden Rule 2 Sam. 23.3 He that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God 2. In his Religion being a man mighty in Scripture enjoying a praying Spirit a Spirit of communion with God love to all the Saints and living by faith in all his actions Making the interest of Christ his own and in his practice asserting the position of * Non fundatur Dominium nisi in Imagine Dei Hugo Dominion is not founded but in Gods Image Animating and setling learned and godly Ministers extending his beams as Charles the fifth notes of a good Ruler like the Sunne even to the dark places and providing an Act to confirme the titles of Ministers and shewing to the Ministry in general so setled so great affection as emulatory to the Ministry of all the Nations round about us endeavouring and consulting an expedient to cement both Ministers and Professors of the classical and congregational way the grief for whose divisions lay heavy on his spirit till the last sympathizing with the distressed Protestants in Peidmont Poland and other places who resorted to him as affrighted chickens to the Hens wing for shelter and esteemed him the Protectour General of the Protestant Religion patronizing the Dutch French and Italian Congregations in their priviledges and rites passing that that full and admirable bill for the Celebration of the Lords day and like another Constantine when Religion was languishing even at the last gasp was her Physician who did administer a seasonable restorative if not miraculously work a resurrection 3. In his kindnesses to the Nation for what Tertullus said of the Governour Acts 24.2 might be said of him that we did enjoy great quietnesse and very worthy deeds Witnesse his zeal and wisdome in asswaging that purple deluge of English and Hollandish blood he was the Dove with the Olive branch who did not only declare Peace but effect it He was the true Chobesch the binder up of our wounds and stopper of that bloody issue of both Nations and did not only renew friendship
immarcessible 1 Pet. 5.4 Quarta Perennis Seneca as he lived vertuously so he chearfully died with this verse in his mouth Vixi quem dederit cursum fortuna peregi And as Frisius said of Plato 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he shined as the morning starre amongst the living and dying the evening star amongst the dead And though he had been in deaths often and faced death as often as he fought battles and though his death had been attempted by Sundercombe and others yet he died not a violent but a natural death in his own personal peace and peace of his Kingdomes being full of dayes and lies now in the bed of honour and on the third day of September 1658. he received his Writ of ease from all his more than Herculean labours which had been a day one year after another viz. Anno 1650. Anno 1651. rubrick't with two remarkable victories at Dunbar and Worcester as Antipater died on the same day of his rising 2. With much grief to others Octavian and Titus Vespasian were not more lamented of the former it was said Would to God he had not been born or never died and of the latter that he was * Amor Victor deliciae humani generis the Love Conquerour and delights of mankinde to whom Speed compares our Henry the fifth And such was the lamentation of the Emperour Severus that * Aut non nasci aut non mori debaisse the Senate of Rome said he should either not be borne or not die Our English Senate much laments his death of whom it may be said as of David Acts 13.36 After he had served his own generation by the will of God he fell on sleep 1 Chron. 29.28 He died in a good old age full of dayes riches and honour and Solomon his son reigned in his stead On whom the Criticks made this Epitaph Here lies David who when he was a boy Slew Lyons and Bears In his middle age great Goliah When he was a little older great enemies The Philistins And in his old age overeame himself 9. In his fame * Statius Notum per saecula nomen His memory as of the just is blessed Prov. 10.4 and shall be an everlasting foundation ver 25. whence the Rabbins in their quotations of any eminent Authour deceased usually subjoyne this honourable commemoration BENEDICTAE MEMORIAEN or such an one of blessed memory Memoria ejus sit in Benedictione The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance HAPPY Psal 112.6 OLIVER of HAPPY MEMORY this the second motive 3. Consider your own sins Our sins have hastned the Protectours removal as unthankfulnesse pride animosities avarice formality and licentiousnesse These were the ague fits which have expelled his breath and our obduracy the stone which hath sunk him to the grave And we may say as Bradford said of the death of King Edward the sixth King of England Our sins made holy Oliver die 4. Consider our own losse The losse of a General is a general losse The losse of him is a complexion or rather a complication of losses We have lost a Captain a Shield the Head an Heire of Restraint the Breath of our Nostrils an Healer a Shepherd a Father and a Nursing Father a Corner-Stone a Builder a Watchman an Eye a Saviour a Steers-man and Rector a Pilot and a Common Husband 5. Lastly consider our miseries which we deserve even the miseries which befell Judah and Jerusalem after Josiah's death in the dayes of Jehoahaz Jehoiakim and Zedekiah desolation of Cities Temple Families and a Captivity stricter and longer than a Babylonian which the Lord in mercy turn from us and turn us to him by true and unfeigned repentance O England repent repent And now considering all these incentives who can refrain from weeping Quis enim tam tristia fando Myrmidonum Dolopúmve aut Diri Miles Vlyssei Temperet à lachrymis And if any should ask me what is the cause of so much mourning I answer with Ambrose telling the cause of his grief to a friend for the decease of an eminent person demaunding the question * Quia di ficile esset similem ei invenire Because it would be a hard thing to finde one like to him Saith God of Solomon 1 Kings 3.12 There was none like him neither after him should arise any like him Anglia Nec primum similem visa es nec habere sequentem He hath wonne the Palme Victory hath setled the Olive Peace and hath left his friends to hang * Plectra dolo retacent muta dolore lyra est their Harps upon the Willow Truly I may say his Deeds deserve a full distinct and faithful Chronicle which were so superlative that a succeeding generation of no little faith would scarce suppose them credible yet of him I may dare say as was said of the Royal Princesse Prov. 31.29 Many Princes have done vertuously but Renowned OLIVER hath excelled them all But here an Asthma stops me for with * Si omnia corporis mei membra verterentur in lacbryma◠holy Hierom if all the members of my body were converted into tears yet in this short variety of words I fear I should have silenced more than what is spoken and with * Silere meliùs putem quâm parum dicere Salust him of Carthage better may I judge to say nothing more than speak a little And therefore here die away my mourning pen and let thy Manumitter sob the rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 easing his heart-bound grief by weeping forth this Epitaph HIC JACET TOTIVS ANGLIAE SCOTIAE ET HIBERNIAE INDVPERATOR ET TOTIVS CHRISTIANISMI MIRACVLVM OLIV ARIVS But now methinks I hear the treading feet and the reviving voice of his Royal Successor saying Why make you this ado and weep hath not my father of admired fame by the advice of Parliament provided a succession to prevent the Rivalry of all pretenders and ten thousand woes O my Lord you are the Honorius of our deceased Theodosius his eldest son the rightful heir you do patrize and walk in your fathers steps you are entred into the Harvest of your fathers dear-bought labours and may you and yours reap the sweetnesse of them to many generations But yet give me leave to vent these Votes and pray 2. Directions to prevent miseries after the Protectours death 1. For your Highness That the God of Counsels would direct you your Council Armies and the whole Land that you may be a father of thousands of millions and that your seed may possesse the gate of them that hate you that Jacobs legacy to Joseph may be your portion Gen. 49.26 Surpassing blessings may crown your Head that the advice of your languishing father on his death bed may not be forgotten Tu Civem Patremque geras lu consule cunctis Nec tibi nec tua te moveant sed publica vota As Theodosius counselled Honorius That in the strength of Jesus Christ * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch you would rouze and bestir your self for without Christs assistance the government of three Nations would quickly sink you * Grande opus sub quo sudaret Olympifer Atlas ◠A work so great Would make Olympus-bearing Atlas sweat And that the wilde dream of raving Porphyrius in Gildas Britannia est fertilis Provincia Tyrannorum may by your godly and prudential Regency be prov'd a lye 2. That your Subjects would study loyalty peace and love that you may not be ashamed of them nor they afraid of you and that they may be as willing upon all occasions to serve you as Ittai and his servants David 2 Sam. 15.15 21. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Said Ignatius in an Epistle to the Smyrneans The people ought to honour the Prince for there is none more excellent and near to God in the University of things than he And 3. That both you and all might mind our own mortalities while we are called upon to bewail the death and sicknesses of others Said Elihu to Job chap. 36.18 Because there is wrath beware lest he take thee away with his stroak But here I shall conclude with the vote of Tertullian to Trajan the Emperour wishing your Highnesse * Vitam prolixam Imperium securum Domum tutam Exercitus fortes Senatum fidelem Populum probum Orbem quietum LONG LIFE A SECURE REIGNE A SAFE HOUSE VALIANT FORCES A FAITHFUL SENATE A GOOD PEOPLE AND A QUIET WORLD FINIS