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A56369	A sermon preached at Christ-Church, Dublin, before both Houses of Parliament, May the 29th, 1661 being the anniversary of His Majesty King Charles the Second, his most memorable and happy restauration / by the Right Reverend Father in God, John Lord Bishop of Elphin.	Parker, John, d. 1681.	1661 (1661)	Wing P434; ESTC R11730	18,948	52

engage any to a perseverance in guilt for the future by opposing the happiness and quiet of their Country in the restauration of King Peers and People to their just ancient and fundamental right He granted free and generall Pardon to all of what quality condition or degree whatsoever that within forty dayes after publication thereof should take hold of that his grace and favour except such as the Parliament should except Such who having washed their hands in the Sacred blood of his Royal Father were not capable of Pardon Nor could those Nobles and worthy Patriots finde out a readyer vvay to expiate that horrid Crime and avert those heavy judgements which then threatned the Nation than by an exemplarly execution of those unparalell'd Regicides These Letters and Declaration sent to both Houses being publiquely read produced the like effect vvhich that message of King David's did on the Tribe of Iudah they bowed they inclined the hearts of the People unto the King and were indeed the first appearance of our long expected happiness and the very foundation of all this our ensueing peace For upon the reading of these Letters Declaration both Houses of Parliament the great representative of the Kingdome passed this Vote or to this effect as near as I can remember that his Majesty CHARLES the Second immediately upon the death of his Royall Father of blessed memory as true and lawfull Heir was the undoubted King of these Kingdomes See how God who turnes the heart can change the condition 'T is not many yeares since vvhen each new Parliament produced a new Vote against the King their chief work being by all the Lawes they could contrive to disable him from claiming and frighten the people from promoteing him unto the Crown to this purpose the Usurper begot Parliaments and upon them Ordinances with which they quickned so fast sometimes to a superfetation that a second was hastily begotten before the first was born But novv they freely and vvithout danger Vote and publiquely ovvn him their lavvfull and undoubted King whom even novv had been Treason but to have named vvith honour The day wherein these gracious Letters and Declaration were read in Parliament vvas the first of this Moneth of May in the year 1660. And truly this Moneth ought to be unto us as Abib unto the Israelites Exod. 12. the beginning of Moneths Their deliverance from Egypt's bondage being not more signall than this of our's from the bondage of those cruell bloody and usurping Tyrants Persons of whom I may most truly say as Gregory Nazianzen said of Iulian the Apostate they had the defection of Ieroboam the cruelty of Ahab the hardness of Pharaoh and the sacriledge of Nebuchadnezzar Orat●… adv Julian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nay a complication of all impieties in one The first day then of this Moneth was the birthday of our happiness and each succeeding day was the happy Parent of new joyes Dies diei eructat verbum Psal 19.2 Day unto day uttered speech and night unto night shewed knowledge For not long after this publique owning of the King the Houses sent Commissioners to invite him home being much more impatient of his stay than others had been formerly fearfull of his arrivall they sent and they sent again this word unto the King return thou c. And here again you may behold a change indeed Not many yeares since you might have seen your King forced to disguise himself in the poor habit of a mean Servant to escape the fury and rage of his bloody and rebellious Subjects and in that disguise to seek relief and shelter in forreign Countries where their kindeness was seldom longer lived than their advantage and when he was not aptly serviceable to their ends they vvere no more charitable to his vvants They who were his own allyes bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh unkindely deserted him and to comply with the Vsurper denyed him the benefit of their ayr to breath in so that like Noah's Dove Isai 61.3 he scarce found rest for the sole of his foot Yet in the Crovvd of all these temptations nothing could stagger his faith or make him svverve from the true Protestant Religion and therefore God hath now given him beauty for ashes the oyl of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness Yea * Psal 21.2 God hath given him his hearts desire and hath not denyed him the request of his lips and * Psal 21.7 why because the King trusted in the Lord and through the mercy of the most highest he did not miscarry but upon the 25. or 26. day of this Moneth his Majestie landed at Dover and the 29. this day which vve novv celebrate he made his entrance into his renovvned City of London to the unexpressible joy and satisfaction of all his good People And surely never vvas there a people so overwhelmed with joy neither ever vvas there a people more expressive of their joy and loyall affections conducting his Majestie into that his Royall City in far greater splendour and triumph than any one of his most victorious Predecessours Kings of England return'd from their greatest Conquests So that they that bragg'd of their signal Conquests might have here beheld a Conquest indeed a victory Royal one like that of David's fit for a King so many thousand hearts taken captive in one day Exod. 7.12 This victory like Aaron's * rod has swallowed up all their victories and like Pharaoh's Magicians they must novv confess digitus Dei est hic * Exod. 8.19 this is the finger of God And truly I esteem it the greatest temporall happiness I ever yet enjoyed that I vvas an eye-witness of that joy though sometimes I could not vvell distinguish whether the teares trickled faster from the eyes or the acclamations ecchoed lowder from the mouthes of the People Num. 23.21 The Lord their God was with them and the shout of a King was among them All former Crucifige's vvere now turned into the loudest Hosanna's and though teares trickled down yet were they not lachrymae doloris but lachrymae amoris not teares of sorrow but teares of love so that I could not but take up that observation which the Jevves did of Jesus when he vvept over Lazarus Ecce quomodo amabant eum Iohn 11.36 behold how they loved him Sure I am the spirit of God moved upon these waters This day then of us never to be forgotten his Majesty enter'd upon the actuall possession of his Royall Crown and dignity this day he * 2 Sam. 19.30 came again in peace unto his own house and and vvith him as vvith David all his Servants many worthy Gentlemen and Nobles Duke of ORMOND and among them one vvho having some yeares under his Majesty governed this Kingdome lost his estate and often hazarded his life for the preservation of those whose falleness to say no vvorse made him an exile and