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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

7. saved it and crownd it at once nay saved and crownd three Nations at once Saved the Nations and Crownd them with their King saved the King and Crownd him with his People the best of Crowns that ever any Prince was Crownd with a Crown of hearts a Crown of greater luster than those three upon his Predecessor Edwards Sword and not only built us a Synagogue but a Temple another Zerubbabel laying the foundation at least of a second Temple for our first is sadly destroyed but no more of that I will not infaudum renovare dolorem I will not blast your full blown joys or grate your ears or my heart with any sad and unseasonable Reflexions upon that mournfull Theme upon a day of such universall rejoycings But this is but one Argument of my Apology for enlarging so much upon this Subject the Generall this day my next is that he is the Generall Subject of this day This is one of the main things in the Act of Parliament for this dayes solemnity as being the Resolve of the Lords and Commons in Parliament That this day be set apart for a day of Thanksgiving to the Lord for raising up his Excellency the Lord Generall and other eminent Persons who have been Instrumentall in the Delivery of this Nation from Thraldome and misery I shall also acquaint you with another Resolve of the House of Commons of the same date viz. Apr. 26. 1660. Resolved That his Excellency Generall Monck have the acknowledgement and hearty thanks of this House for his eminent and unparalleld Services done for those Nations Mr. Speaker did accordingly give the thanks of the House unto his Excellency taking notice of his eminent Services and great Wisdome in conquering the Enemy without expense of Bloud or Treasure That Gods making him so instrumentall to keep up the Nation from sinking when no way appeared whence deliverance should arise could not but be acknowledged by all and looked upon as a miracle so then we must praise God for the Generall this day and when we praise God for him we cannot but praise God in him One Reason more I could give for dwelling so long upon General Amasa and that is that he was the Kings Kinsman See the vers before my Text how the King cajoll's him Say ye to Amasa art thou not of my bone and of my flesh it is no small honour to relate to a King but every loyall soul and every loving Subject looks upon himself as nearly related to his Prince by his Allegiance as he can be by his Alliance and upon that account thinks all the Bloud in his Veines and all the flesh and bones of his body little enough to guard his head his Cognatum numen his lesser God in flesh his Deity incarnate in his Prince 2. He bowed c. How was he qualified for such a work It is not every man that could have bow'd a whole Nation thus and especially this Nation of Judah I am sure Moses that was their General as well as Amasa branded them for a stiff-neck'd rebellious People and this General 's Master David found them so how come they so soft now They were stiff enough as long as Absolom liv'd but Actio moritur cum Personâ his cause dy'd with his carcase and now they melt for him and they melt from him Hopes and fears may stiffen peoples hearts against their known duty whilst the cause looks promisingly but if it get a knock souldiers themselves we see will faces about but nothing softens like the example of a Commander like lightning he melts the steele in the scabber'd makes their hearts soft and fluid and ductill easily lead with a finger to run in their old chanel of Allegiance to their natural Prince O a great man but especially a good great man and beloved for his goodness as well as greatness carries an invisible loadstone that bows and draws even iron hearts Indeed when greatnesse and goodnesse meet together which it is pity is no oftener they work wonders The God of Heaven call's great ones Gods on earth and therefore we give them a civil worship now Quos colimus imitamur saith the Father and therefore if men in power be as good as they are great they shew themselves worthy the Divinity God has stamped upon them for like the upper lights they have a great influence upon those below them The truth is great men had need look what paths they tread for they walk in snow or like the Priests of Bell in ashes every one sees their footsteps and most will walk in them It is not for the Sunne to lie a bed till noon while no man regards the rising or setting of a petty Starre We see by our late Usurpers and Oppressours what power some leading men had to bow others to their will and way they lead people in droves to the Devil the very broad way was full of leaders and followers When one of these great things relapses into backslidings let him goe backward from God as many degrees as he will he shall be sure the multitude will croud after him as the Sunne that went backward for Hezekiah was waited upon by knots and Committees of vulgar lights It was ever the deplored fashion of the world let great ones doe what they will they shall never want Apes while sometimes being too eager in tacking about to gain the tide of wealth or the winde of honour they not onely shipwrack their souls a losse they doe not much value but as we now see endanger their estates and lives Well these Grandees had need look to it Great men are like great Parish clocks if they tell a lie and preach false Doctrine in the steeple they misguide the whole Town into heterodoxy Great men are called starres and they are so indeed for as they shed their light and heat among us so all our fair or foul weather comes from them either in counsel command or example But if like our Amasa our General here they guild the honour of their Birth or Place with noble Action they convert souls by it and preach themselves into Heaven A great good man is a great good-maker Tu conversus saith Christ to Peter When thou art converted strengthen thy brethren A good man is any mans nay every mans good a common Conduit Market Magazine Exchequer Exchange Amasa is the Kings good and the peoples good A good General is a general good He that is most streight himself is most likely to bow others Upon that principle Rectum est Index sui obliqui Upright persons are fittest to be Rules and Rulers for as their straitnesse makes others obliquity and warping more notorious so as it discovers it recovers crookedness many times as he bowed c. No marvel Amasa should have such power over them we reade his nature is in his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Populo parcens Populum elevans he mindes nothing but the advantage and advancement of