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duty_n	call_v	day_n	lord_n	3,188	5	4.3142	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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