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A63517 The true Englishman, humbly proposing something to rid us of the plot in the state and of contentions in the church wherein is shown how our King may be the happy healer of nations / by a Philopolite ; and published by his neighbour, Philotheus. Philopolite. 1680 (1680) Wing T2697; ESTC R34079 69,739 140

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of their Trusts by obstinate manners He suffers not to stay in his presence any who dare to lie for his or their own advantage Psal 101. and Flatterers are as false Witnesses in his Judgment and Inflictings 5 He receives into his Counsel no other than such who are generous above being corrupted with Money and the Couragious who dare to advise and do what is just though it doth which is near impossible if so that it should displease him his own defects not excepted He is for faithful and constant Advertisement of all things 6 He with diligence and care governs himself to escape discomposure by humor and to strengthen meekness in disposition by which he is perspicacious in understanding and prudent in managing all his Affairs He is temperate and grave comporting with Authority and disgraceth it not by luxury or lust Time would fail me were I able to say the whole of the excellencies in this Prince If God would utter by voice the least I should expect to hear would be Behold my Servant a man after my own heart Behold a Prince my adopted Son I am well pleased with him yea he is my delight Honour and Obey ye him And would God speak more I fancy it would be somewhat thus Not for your sakes O People do I this but for my own Name sake and because I loved you I have raised up this Prince for a Blessing to you And though you have Enemies and the hands of those that hate you are at work to destroy you Isal 37.33 35. yet will I defend this Nation to save it for my Own sake and for this my Servants sake Thus you see God and the King are confederate and do conspire as it were to make a People happy to which if they add their own consent to Love as you have heard how can they miss of it and continuing to love must be so until they cease to be Which ceasing as a Nation shall not be until the Son of God gives up his Kingdom unto the FATHER and then it is rather a necessary and most advantagious Change 1 Cor. 15.53 c. than a ceasing to be For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality And when this is done Death is swallowed up in Victory i.e. for ever devoured so that they die no more nor shall they have any other Enemy for that the last to be destroyed is Death which victory God gives them through Jesus Christ Revel 1● the Prince of Peace and Prince of the Kings of the Earth Therefore my Beloved Brethren be ye stedfast unmoveable alwaies abounding in the work of the Lord for asmuch as you know your labour is not in vain in the Lord. Having seen so much of this King and also how we come by him that he is given of God it is meet that we should give the glory and our thanks unto God And because this King deserves praise too let us do them together in singing some farther part of the 45th Psalm III. Gird to thy Loius thy conquering Sword Mr. Smith Thou that excell'st in might Put on thy glories and appear Deck't with Imperial light IV. Ride prosperous in Thy Majesty Whilst Meekness Truth and Right Shall teach thy Right hand wondrous things Things terrible for might V. Sharp are thine Arrows in their hearts That fight against thy Crown So that the People at thy feet Fall in subjection down VI. Thy Throne knows no declining point No period of daies Thy Scepter with an equal hand Justice and Right displaies VII Vertue thou lov'st and Vice do'st hate Wherefore thy God hath shed Above thy Fellows Oil of Joy Vpon thy Sacred head XVII To all succeeding Ages I Will propagate thy Name And all the dwellers under Heav'n Shall still thy Praise proclaim Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs I find are very teaching and admonishing as well as chearing and comforting things when we are singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord. I wish we had a better Version in our Churches than what is therein used I think it manifold more exceptionable than our Common Prayer But to return That which now remains is to make reflection on what I have said to see how far thence England may be instructed which I shall endeavour in the following Chapter CHAP. V. SECT I. GOD Hebr. 1. and 2. who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath now in these last daies spoken unto us by his Son therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should let them slip For if the word spoken by Angels was stedfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation As this Love would give us for escaping out of the vicious Customs of this World and for our deliverance as out of the Calamities we feel so in preventing those we fear or do deserve God also having thereunto born witness and farther invited us both with Signs and Wonders and with diverse Workings such as have not been in any one Age before us as will appear to any by the following Observations 1 What was the more than Twenty years affliction our King and we were under by Contentions at first and after a Civil War by Usurpation Tyranny Murthers in which was shed most Sacred Blood and at last violation of all right and governing by Will against Law I say what was all this for but to School us into Love For did not the Inflicters pretend our Persecuting our Imposing and Innovating in the Church our ruling by Will against Law and thereby destroying Liberty and Property in the State to be their Motive thereunto And did they not whip us with these Rods and visit us with these very Stripes doing to us really and in high degree what they falsly or too far charged on us By which we seemed to be as Adonibezek Judg. 1.7 Suspicions though groundless or a Charge though false should be improved to greater caution and distance And is it not less manly than a Child is to affect or reach toward that by which we have so sorely smarted 2 What was our King's and with his our Restauration but God's call to Love For 1 Was it not began and compleated without fury or one drop of Blood A thing as Circumstances then were not possible to any save he who did it namely God who is and was therein Almighty Love 2 Did not the main Instruments under God therein after too long enmity between us love us first For they invited us home and received us without imposing ought upon us If Love had not ruled in them as they might have demanded so we must have granted their demands Which act of theirs doth at once both teach and oblige us to Love But suppose our