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A78151	The Kings return. A sermon preached at Winchcomb in Gloucestershire upon the Kings-day, Thursday, May 24. 1660. By Clement Barksdale.	Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1660 (1660)	Wing B795; Thomason E1033_5; ESTC R208960	10,230	23

the Lord. And here I said It is a Favour to the King and a Favour to the People also A Favour to the King How great a Favour will be manifest if we consider 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from what to what the King returns 1. King David returns from beyond Jordan to Jerusalem from the way of the Wilderness v. 23. to the Royal City King Charles returns from beyond the Seas into Great Britain now to be made by his presence again the most fortunate Island of the whole World He returns from Holland from Flanders from Spain from France from Germany in which forein Countries he hath long wandred as it were in a Wilderness to his own dear Country to his own City to famous London the Chamber of his Empire to renowned Westminster the Seat of his Parliament to White-Hall his Royal Palace 2. King David returns from Poverty to Riches from want to plenty from being fed by the bounty of old Barzillai at Mahanaim to feed Barzillai if he please or at least his son Chimham at his Table in Jerusalem King Charles returns from a necessitous condition wherein he disdained not relief from the bounty of others to a flourishing Estate to distribute bounties and graces and benefits to all 3. King David returns from his flight a most sad and dangerous flight All the Countrey wept with a loud voyce v. 23. v. 30. David wept as he went up and had his head covered and he went barefoot and all the people that was with him covered every man his head and they went up weeping as they went up As his flight was sad so it was dangerous he escaped narrowly from the mischievous counsel of Achitophel ch 17. King Charles also fled but it was after he had in his own Person fought valiantly even in the judgment of his great Enemy in that unhappy Battel at Worcester 'T was a cruel Fight and a sad Flight and a difficult yea miraculous miraculous escape The King took upon him the form of a Servant and the Lord brought him by the ministery of some Noble Persons safe over the Sea and now returns him and exalts him after his humiliation He brings him again with Honor and Majesty Such preparations such Attendance such Solemnities such Rejoyceing and Acclamations as are beyond the reach of my understanding and the expression of my tongue 4. King David returns to the Ark of God and the Tabernacle to the enjoyment of the Solemn Worship of God This is that he most longed for As the Heart panteth after the water brooks so panteth my soul after thee O God My soul thirsteth for God for the living God when shall I come and appear before God! Psal 42. This is that he promiseth himself The Lord will bring me again and shew me his Ark and its habitation King Charles returns from among strangers that are I will not say of another Religion because the Creed the Commandments and the Lords Prayer the Fundamentals are common to us but of another way and manner of Religion having mixed the Truth with Errours and Superstitions where yet his Majesty by the singular Grace of God hath preserved himself pure and untainted He returns home not only to enjoy himself but to give his Kingdoms too the publick exercise of true Religion liberty of solemn and regular Devotions and a free Administration of the Word and Sacraments This this Beloved is the Glory of his Majesties return That Religion returns with the King Not only Peace and Prosperity to the State but peace and prosperity to the Church returns with the King And therefore in this chiefly as in other respects the bringing home of the King is a signal Favour of the Lord. A Favour to the King and a Favour to the People also as you will further perceive if you consider that his Majesty hath bound up his own Interest to use his own words entirely with that of his Subjects and is as ready to give any thing for the Publick good as they are to receive 1. Is it not a Favour to the People to have Religion establisht and good Order prescrib'd for the publick Service of God and a lawful Ministery countenanced and maintained that the people may be no longer tossed to and fro with every winde of new Doctrine nor seduced by false unordained Teachers nor deprived any longer of the benefit and comfort of the Holy Sacraments for themselves and their children This is one benefit and the chief of all by the Kings return 2. Is it not a favour to the people to have a firm Peace setled in the State upon true Foundations to have reverence and obedience paid to the Fundamental Laws of the Land to have Justice equally and impartially administred to all men to have vice suppressed and virtue advanced to have Trade open and Oppression shut every man to sit under his own Vine and enjoy his own as well as the King enjoys his own This is also a Benfit and a very great one by the Kings Return 3. Is it not a Favour to have heavy burdens unloosed to have the oppressed set free and every yoke broken that the banished be called home the ejected and sequestred relieved the suffering party eased and refreshed This is another Benefit of the Kings Return 4. Is it not a Favour that such as have in these late calamitous times either wilfully or weakly transgressed their bounds and have either invaded the Kings or their fellow-subjects rights should be assured of pardon and reconciliation and that all uncharitableness and animosity all notes of discord separation and difference of parties should be utterly abolished This is another and a very considerable Benefit of the Kings Return Wherefore being there are so many Benefits and Blessings brought home unto us with our Gracious Soveraign we cannot but acknowledge the favour to be a signal Favour both to King and People a Favour never to be forgotten a Favour deserving all Thankfulness That 's the Use we are to make of it to be truly Thanful And now having laid sufficient grounds and motives for the Duty in conclusion I must briefly exhort you to it Use When Liberty was proclaimed to the Graecians after long Oppression the People cryed out to the Herald to proclaim it again and again delighting and rejoycing in the very sound and voyce of Liberty England hath been long exercised and almost exhausted by great and unsupportable calamities and how can we chuse but exult when we hear of Liberty How can we chuse but break forth into thanks and praises for our freedom and deliverance How can we chuse but testifie the Thankfulness of our hearts by glorifying God in our life and conversation Our Thankfulness must begin at the heart be expressed by the mouth be testified and compleated by our hands in our daily actions 1. Our hearts must be thankful And truly unless our expressions come from this root they will quickly die and come to nothing O let

the Salvation of the Lord is upon the King and this is matter of joy and rejoycing to him and to all good people For it is the usual Method of Providence to convey blessings to the people by the King As the Ointment poured on Aarons head ran down to the skirts of his garment so a blessing on the King when his Royal Person is brought home in safety and honour and establisht in the Throne descends through the whole body of the Realm even to the skirts and borders of the Land And therefore we may conclude the care of God in the preservation of the King to be a principal and peculiar care When the King is brought home it is the Lords doing A further proof hereof we may draw from another speech of King David concerning Shimei ch 16. where he acknowledges even the cursing of that wicked man to proceed in some sort from the Lord. I say in some sort i. e. not with his allowance approbation but by his permission for this was permitted and directed by the Lord for Davids humiliation and that use the good King makes of this persecution by the railing tongue of Shimei Now if this evil was from the Lord surely that good must be from the Lord and that in a more proper sense As it was the Lord that afflicted David in his expulsion so it was the same Lord that mercifully comforted David by a happy restauration To speak a little of our David by way of parallel How patiently his most Excellent Majesty hath endured his 12. years banishment how much he hath been better'd by his sufferings you perceive by his own words the true character of his Princely mind Should I say that he hath exceeded David as in the measure of his sufferings so in the measure of his patience and in his clemency and easiness to forgive you would think it perhaps an excess of speech Certainly our King in his gracious Letters and Declaration shews himself of a most Christian temper and as well deserves the title Christianissimus as Defensor Fidei We have great reason to believe he hath taken his afflictions as from the hand of God and that it is the same God that doth now by wonderful wayes and means bring him again For though God be the prime Cause and Author yet under God as I said there be means and instruments of the Kings return whether we look upon King David or King Charles And first for King David Let us cast an eye upon the History He had the service of a faithful and discreet Counsellor Hushai the Archite to defeat the counsels of the politick Achitophel v. 34. He had Zadoc and Abiather the Priests with their two sons Ahimaez and Jonathan to give him secret Intelligence from the Enemies quarters v. 35. He had those valiant Triumviri Joab Abishai and Ittai and many gallant Captains and loyal Souldiers on his side ch 18. He had a reconciled General Amasa to bow the hearts of the men of Judah as the heart of one man so that they sent this word unto the King Return Thou and all thy Servants ch 19. 14. He had Barzillai to conduct him over Jordan v. 31. Noble Barzillai a very aged man a very great man and a very good man Who had provided the King of sustenance v. 32. Yea all the people of Judah conducted the King and half the people of Israel v. 40. Thus for King David Now for King Charles the Means also of his return are worthy to be mentioned and truly they are never to be mentioned without honour I shall but briefly name them and but some of them neither such as are most apparent to us We cannot give them praise enough but must here fly to our Juvate posteri Posterity must help us to give them their deserved Glory In the first place appears his Excellency the Lord General who by his declaring for a Free Parliament gave great hopes to all loyal Hearts of the Kings Return conceiving well that as a force upon the Parliament overthrew the King so the Freedom of Parliament would restore the King What prudent Counsels what faithful Endeavours what happy Successes his Excellency hath used and enjoyed all along must be the work of some worthy Historian to relate and record for after Ages to admire Next are to be remembred the Honorable Secluded Members who as they had been secluded and forced away from the House for their Votes and endeavours to free the late King the Royal Father of glorious Memory and to bring him home to the Parliament with safety and honor So when they were lately restored to their places made it their business and the business of the Honorable Council of State to prepare the way for the Return of the Royal Son his most Excellent Majesty now raigning We may not here forget the many Petitions and Declarations presented to the General in his March towards London by the Gentry specially in several Counties nor the Addresses made to the famous City of London nor the great Aids of the City it self nor the later Declarations of this and other Counties all tending to the restoring of the Liberties both of Church and State to the healing of our wounds the making up of our breaches and to that which might consummate and crown all the rest of our desires the return of the King To send for the King and receive his Majestie was an honor reserved by the Providence of God for this present Parliament consisting both of Lords and Commons this most Honorable Parliament having in it the Flower of the English Nobility and Gentry this blessed Parliament thrice blessed because the means of a threefold blessing a blessing on the King a blessing on the State and a blessing on the Church Amongst the means of the Kings return I shall in the last place mention that which is not surely of the least efficacy the Prayers of the Church the lately persecuted Ministers of the Church of England and of the good people adhering to them Faithful Prayers are of great power with God and the King himself is said to have openly professed that his business is most advanced by the Prayers of religious people whom he esteemeth as the best of his Subjects Prayers for the King are a Prime part of that Tribute we owe his Majesty even by the Law of Christ Prayer is the fairest wind to bring him safe to land Prayer is the surest Guard to preserve his Sacred Person Prayer is the firmest Pillar to uphold his Throne For Prayer procures the favour of the Lord and it is the favour of the Lord by which the King Returns and Reigns and Prospers So I proceed from the first Proposition It is the Lords doing to bring the King again To the Second To bring the King again is a Signal Favour of the Lord. If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord c. II. To bring the King again is a Signal Favour of