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enemy_n	king_n	lord_n	sovereign_a	1,412	5	9.2311	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96624	The thrice welcome, and happy inauguration of our most gracious, and religious sovereign, King Charles II. To the crown and kingdoms of Great-Brittain and Ireland. Containing, in the first place, the authors most humble supplication to the King's most excellent Majesty, in order to the reformation of religion, in six particulars. In the second part, the subjects duty to their sovereign, in sundry heads, and divers particulars very usefull for these times: together with a recommendation of the work to the Kings Majesties subjects. By Geo. Willington, of the city of Bristoll.	Willington, George.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2803; Thomason E1030_1; ESTC R208910	29,981	46

Gedeliah did not himself serve but also incite others to serve his King not only obey but most principally draw others to obedience to our King that I should interrupt your grave Consultations with so slight a Sheeduse yet I do most humbly beseech your Honours to suffer it to passe abroad with your approbation Most and right reverend Fathers and Pastors of the Church to whom God hath given his Vrim and his Thummim may I present it to you Non sum Propheta longe minimo omnium sanctorum peccatorum maximus I know you put your people in minde ‖ Tit. 3.1 to be subject to principalities and Powers to fear God and honour the King I beseech you that this poor mite may be cast into the Lord's Treasury and that you will not discourage it for it will meet with enough of that from the disloyal party but that you will look upon its scope and end which is to shew after the best manner it can its loyal respect to those two great Ordinances of the Gospel viz. Magistracy and Ministry bringing Gods Word and the example of reformed Churches both at home and abroad to bear it out and to witnesse the truth of its assertions Most grave Judges and Magistrates may I present it to you not to be an Instructer of you which it cannot do but that it may passe safely in the Kings dominion without having its throat cut or pocket pickt or passage stopt for where-ever it comes or goes it labours to make your people subject and obedient to you and the Sectaries will sure stop its passage if they can And you my dear and much honored Kinsman by whom I am not worthy to be owned Waldin Willington Esquire and Justice of the Peace in * Living at Hurly Hall Warwickshire Seeing the Creator who hath made of one blood ‖ Acts 17.26 all Nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the Earth hath knit your worthy and my inconsiderable selfe so nigh as to be Brothers Children let me humbly beg that you will protect this poor Orphan left to the wide World in your County also as being somewhat distant from the place both of its Conception and Birth that it may without danger passe in those parts as coming to you to signifie my humble thankfulnesse to your Worship for the great kindnesse I found from you when with you and that since I have received from you Tutors and Instructers of Youth of which I am the most unworthy Dressers of the Plants of England shall I tender it to you you being accounted most necessary members of every Weal-publick In nothing more can you shew your love to your Countrey nor discharge your duties to your Sovereign than by tutoring your yong ones in the knowledge and practice of such Rules Masters of Families and Keepers of Servants shall I tender it to you As you are to do unto your Servants that * Col. 4.1 which is just and equal as you are to provide for them of your own ‖ 1 Tim. 5.8 House so you are to instruct your houshold in the knowledge of God and exercise of Religion Is not God highly displeased with you for not instructing your Houshould who was so highly pleased with A rabam for instructing his Houshold Gen. 18.17 18 19. Now in what can you better instruct your houshold and servants next to the knowledge and fear of God than to honour and obey the King and his Ministers Fathers shall I tender it to you you know who enjoyned you to teach your Sons and your Sons Sons Deut. 4.4 you know who said These words that I command thee this day shall be in thy heart and thou shalt teach them diligently * Whet or sharpen unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down and when thou risest up And thou shalt not only for thy own remembrance binde them for a sign upon thy hand and as frontlets between thine eyes but for thy children and Servants write them on the Posts of thine house and on thy Gates Deut. 6.6 7 8 9. As you love your children omit not this as you love your selves omit it not Isocrates accounted Bristol found the truth of this in Febr. 1659. that not Revenues and Riches not Laws and Ordinances but good nature of youth make a City happy quiet Aristotle affirmed that in vain do men make Laws if Youth be not brought up in good manners And Plato averred that small need had his Common-wealth of Laws by reason of the good discipline wherein his Citizens had been nourished Yea Solomon who spake by Divine inspiration hath delivered this for a truth ‖ Instrue so Junius Instruct or chatechise a child in his way Train up a child in the way be should go and when he is old he will not depart from it As ever you would have your Children whom you love happy as ever you would they should escape those fearfull Plagues that are due to Traytors and Rebels as ever you would they should enjoy the blessings of loyalty both specified before as ever you would they should misse Hell and come to Heaven O bring them betimes to the School of Vertue and good manners suffer them not as some do to mock the aged to rebel against their Tutors lest they come to do worse even to oppose Magistrates to dispise Ministers yea to curse their Parents to their very saces as I have known some do and then the vengeance of God will betide them if God may be believed before man read else and sadly consider that Scripture Prov. 30.17 The eye that mocketh at his Father and despiseth to obey his Mother the Ravens of the Valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it And I am ashamed to disgrace my native soil by saying there are any such there Mothers whom Nature or rather the God of Nature hath made most kinde to your children let not your too great kindnesse to them be too great hurt to them and too great hurt to your selves The wisest Son that by the course of Nature ever any Mother had hath left this lesson for all Mothers for ever and oh that you would minde it A childe left to himself brings his Mother to shame Prov. 29.15 To the like purpose I have read of a too-wantonly brought up Son who being led to execution by the clamor of his tongue saith my Author and sharpnesse of his teeth took irefull revenge of his own Mother Also I have read of another Mother who to maintain her two sons in drinking and gaming defrauded her Husband in his life but soon after his death with her own eys beheld them both robbing following upon rioting openly executed the one with the Sword the other with the rope I beseech all Parents of children to turn to read and consider these following Scriptures 1 Sam. 3. v. 12 13.14 Prov. 13.24 Chap. 19. v. 18. Chap. 22. v. 15. Chap. 23. v. 13 14. and Chap. 29. v. 15 17. Children and all sorts of Youth Remember your Creator in the dayes of your Youth Eccles 12.1 And in the dayes of your Youth as carefully learn to honour those that are set over you by God as you desire earnestly that a long life may be given you of God Exod. 20.12 Last of all I say to all If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels and mercies fulfill ye my joy faith the Apostle that ye be like minded having the same love being of one accord of one minde Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteem other better than himself Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others namely to further one anothers good Phil. 2.1 2 3 4. And as we are once again become a happy Nation by the government of our gracious Sovereign Lord and King so let us and ours perform all dutifull allegiance to our King and pray and pray fervently and pray continually that his dayes upon earth may be as the dayes of Heaven that God would be his Defender and Keeper giving him the Victory over all his Enemies and that under him we may be godly and quietly governed and may live a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty Gal. 6.16 As many as walk according to this Rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God Luk. 2.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS