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A93187	God save the King: or, A sermon preach'd at Lyme-Regis May 18. 1660. at the solemn proclamation of his most Excellent Majesty Charles the II. by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith. / By Ames Short M.A. minister there.	Short, Ames, 1615 or 16-1697.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3526; Thomason E1919_2; ESTC R203570	29,855	112

GOD save the KING OR A SERMON PREACH'D AT LYME-REGIS May 18. 1660. at the Solemn Proclamation of his most Excellent Majesty Charles the II. By the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith By Ames Short M. A. Minister there Eccles 10.17 Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the Son of Nobles and thy Princes eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness Psal 21.5 His glory is great in thy Salvation honour and Majesty hast thou laid upon him London Printed for W. Roybould at the Vnicorn in S. Paul's Church-yard 1660. TO The Reverend our much esteemed Friend Mr. Ames Short Minister of the Gospel in Lyme Regis Reverend and worthy Sir WEE have received much content and satisfaction in our spirits from your late seasonable Sermon Preach'd to us upon occasion of our Solemnity in Proclaiming His most Excellent Majesty our dread Sovereign CHARLES the second wherein you did so clearly represent him unto our apprehensions to be in all respects a very hopefull Prince and his accession to the Government of these Kingdoms to be every way so advantagious as did exceedingly increase our joyes for His Majesty's wonderfull Preservation and Restitution and adde very much to the Solemnities of the day And therefore we cannot but return you our hearty thanks for the same And having good grounds to hope that it may have the same effect upon the hearts of others into whose hands it may come who had not the opportunity to hear it we do hereby make it our joynt request unto you to publish your Sermon to the View of the World that those clouds of fears and doubtings which perhaps do sadden the spirits of many good people may thereby be dispersed and all may be induced as cheerfully to embrace and affectionately to close with this hopefull way of Settlement on the good old foundation and as thankefully to acknowledge the great goodness of our God in bringing us thereunto after all our sad Combustions and Confusions as we our selves upon these grounds unfeignedly do Sir we have had such large experience of your good affection to His Majesty's Person and just Authority and your desires for the healing of all our sad Breaches that we cannot doubt of your ready complyance with us in this thing Signed in the names and by the appointment of your very affectionate friends the Members of this Corporation of Lyme-Regis John Ellesdon Mayor Dated May 21. 1660. TO THE WORSHIPFULL THE MAYOR With the rest of the Capital Burgesses of Lyme-Regis in Dorset My Beloved and much esteemed in the Lord. FOr your and the edification of all others the Inhabitants of this place this Sermon was first studied and Preach'd and at your request as appears by your prefixed Letter in order to a more publick benefit with some little enlargement it is now Printed I wish that neither you nor any that heard it may finde cause to say of it as Queen Elizabeth once did of a Sermon Preach'd before her Majesty and Printed at her command of which after the reading of it she said It was the best Sermon Preach'd but the worst Read that ever she heard and read If you judge the like of this after you have read it I shall not think it strange being well assur'd that my Sermons by reason of the plainnesse of my stile are fitter for the Pulpit than the Presse and more acceptable in preaching than they can be in reading And therefore whatever you may think of it I am fully confident I shall be diversly censured for the publication of it according to the various judgements dispositions and affections of such as happily may be at the pains to read it Some perhaps will charge me with flattery of this my highly and worthily esteemed Friend in his most ingenious Epistle to the Reader hath sufficiently cleared me Others no doubt will accuse me of injuring His Majesty by drawing and exposing His Portraicture to publick view in a dresse so homely and unbefitting a Prince of so much worth and excellency With these I shall not quarrel but beg my Sovereign's pardon for handling His Personal and Princely perfections in so rude a manner and I doubt not but I shall obtain it He that hath so freely offered an Act of Grace to his worst of Enemies who shall lay hold of it will not stick to pardon the unavoidable weaknesse of a Loyal Subject when his mercy is implored However having exposed my self to censure upon your desires you cannot but hold your selves obliged with the utmost of your power to vindicate my name from all aspersions which upon this account may be cast upon it And this besides your continuing stedfast in the fear of God and in loyalty to his most sacred Majesty is all that is at present desired of you by SIRS Your affectionate Pastor and Servant in the work and for the sake of Christ Ames Short Lyme-Regis June 4. 1660. To the unprejudic'd Reader BEing apprehended by the report of the intended Proclamation of the KING and carried to the Town of Lyme I there found a Solemnity suitable to the occasion The only strife was who could excell in the testimonies of their rejoycing The Soldiery with much order and galantry discharged their part as a proof of their former and pledge of their future Loyalty The unanimous Magistrates being accompanied with the High Sheriff who gratified the place with his personal presence prov'd the name of their Town to be Lyme-Regis and triumphed at the recovery of that honorable title the Countrey flock'd in with no less joy than admiration at the proclaiming of a King in the twelfth year of his reign They now look'd on themselves as deliver'd from any other person who had playd Rex since 48 in which time we have had such along Parenthesis of transactions as might be left out without prejudice to the sence The Guns shouted every one according to his mouth But cedant arma togae the work begun in nomine Domini The Pulpit was first engag'd and the after Acclamations were but the Eccho's of that sound and repetitions of the Sermon wherein if there be not a composition of Piety Loyalty and strength of reason in plain English I am content to publish my ignorance Let it be perused by unbiassed persons and it must be granted that there is nothing affirmed but truth and the probabilities are back'd with such Arguments as make them next to certainty There can be no ground for suspition of flattery seeing that the publication was not intended and the preaching was at such a distance from the Court Besides the mixture of such directions as please not those who say Isa 30.10 Prophecy unto us smooth things Neither is there any alteration in the Authors principles who hath not only refus'd to engage in the late changes but boldly set himself and warn'd his people against those that were given to them It is confess'd

and Spanish saw Make England happy by no Salick Law This Monarch's rising first restores to health The Kingdom deadly sick o' th' Commonwealth Obstructions thus remov'd each lively vein Conveighs its active spirits once again Hark how the Bels Guns Drums and Trumpets ring And loyal Pulpits cry God save the King See how the blazing earth by Bon-fires tries To translate Heaven and outshine the skies Lyme's glorious Triumphs do bespeak it glad To gain the Title Regis once it had My joys are mixt with pray'rs that Charles his wain By Traytors hands be ne'r o'return'd again That Crown and Church may flourish and the State Be fix'd in spite of strange or home-bred hate That CHARLES be wise as Solomon to give The Childe to those would hav 't united live Theophilus Philanax A SERMON PREACH'D AT LYME-REGIS May the 18. 1660. at the Solemn Proclamation of His most Excellent Majesty Charles II. c. THe Proclamation and Inauguration of Kings hath been observed with great solemnity in all ages The Preamble by all Nations In the observation of which Solemnities none have been more forward than God's most faithfull Prophets and Priests and Ministers of the Gospel And therefore that I may give a further testimony of that loyal and sincere affection I have ever born to His most excellent Majesty our Sovereign Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith I shall at present apply my self to speak something suitable to the solemnity of this day that by so doing I may quicken you to the observation of it both with an inward and outward rejoycing suitable unto it not that I think you need a spur being fully assured of the sincerity of your affection both to his Majesty's Person and Authority Now the words I shall insist upon to this end you shall finde written 1 KINGS 1.39 40. The Text And Zadock the Priest took an horn of Oyl out of the Tabernacle and annointed Solomon and they blew the trumpet and all the people said God save King Solomon And all the people came up after him and the people piped with Pipes and rejoyced with great joy so that the earth rent with the sound of them The words are Historicall and in them you have a Relation of the Proclamation and Inauguration of Solomon to be King over Israel For methods sake and your better understanding of them you may take notice 1. Of the Agents or Persons who were imployed in the observation of these solemnities 2. Of their Actions or the things done and performed by these Agents 3. Of the Person about whose concernments these Agents were imployed The Agents were Zadok the Preist who began the solemnity and the rest of the people who were then present among whom for the honour of the solemnity was Nathan the Prophet and many others men of great account and esteem both in the Church and State of Israel as evidently appears by the verse immediately foregoing So Zadock the Priest and Nathan the Prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went downe and caused Solomon to ride upon King David's Mule c. And from hence I conclude That it is a thing no way unbecoming a Priest Note a Prophet a Minister of God to act his part in the Procla mation and Inauguration of his just and lawful Sovereign 2. The Actions of these Agents and they are divers every man in this Solemnity was imployed in some thing suitable to his place and station 1. Zadok the Priest begins the work 't is said he took a Horne of oyle out of the Tabernacle and anointed Solomon A Ceremony frequently used by God's command and appointment in the designation and Inauguration of Persons to be Kings as you may see by comparing these Scriptures 1 Sam. 9.16 I will send thee a man out of the land of benjamin and thou shalt anoint him to be Captaine over my People Israel that he may save my People out of the hand of the Philistines So cap. 10. v. 1. Then Samuel took a viall of oyle and poured it upon his head and kissed him and said Is it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be Captain over his Inheritance So cap. 16. vers 1. And the Lord said to Samuel c. Fill thy horn with oyle and goe I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlemite for I have provided me a King among his sons Item v. 13. Then Samuel took the horne of oyle and anointed him in the midst of his Brethren and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward Againe 2. Sam. 2 4. And the men of Judah came and there they anointed David King over the house of Judah so 1. Cron. 29.22 and they made Solomon King the second time and anointed him to the Lord to be chief Governor And this ceremony was upon these considerations used 1. To declare that God had called and appointed the Person thus anointed to the exercise of the office of a King 2. To give assurance to others and to the persons thus anointed that God would furnish them with gifts graces and abilities for the discharge of the Kingly office to which he had designed and called them And from the use of this ceremonie it is that Kings in Scripture are often called the Lord's anointed as you may see 1. Sam. 24.6 God forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lord 's anointed c. Seing he is the anointed of the Lord. So Isa 45.1 thus saith the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus c. and in many other places 2. The Priest having done his part the Trumpeters performed their parts they blew the trumpet and by the sound of trumpet proclaimed him King 3. All the people which were present cryed God save King Solomon and then followed after him and piped with pipes and rejoyced with exceeding great joy so that the earth rent with the sound of their shouts and acclamations of joy an Hyperbolicall speech to expresse the exceeding greatness of their joy 3. Solomon the son of David by Bathsheba who had been the wife of Vriah was the person about whose concernments these Agents were thus imployed The person about whose c. I say was Solomon who was 1. Not only a Prince but a lawfull Prince being appointed of God and nominated by David his Royall father to succeed him in his government as you may see by comparing the 1. Chr. 28. and 5. with this 1 King 1.28 c. 2. A hopefull Prince a Prince from whom they might expect much good both to the Church and Sate of Israel and that because he was 1. A very pious Prince 2. A very wise and prudent Prince 3. A beloved Prince beloved even of God himselfe with a speciall love and therefore called Jedediah 2 Sam. 12.24 25. And she bare a son and he called his name Solomon and the Lord loved him

that many of the giddy multitude cry out now upon Vsurpers who lately cry'd them up as much * Turba Remi sequitur for tunam ut semper odit damnatos Idem populus c. But there was no understanding Subject who had not lost the sence of his duty to God and the King but mourn'd at least in secret for the abominable violations of Allegiance and Covenant How much the Protestant Religion the King 's Royal Family the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland have suffer'd by the unparallel'd murther of his late Majesty I need not tell thee * Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit nulli flebilior quàm mihi We have been like a body beheaded for which no other head will serve how artificially soever it be set on and how quickly do those heads fall off that are but clap'd on upon us which wanting a natural conjunction will stand no longer than they are upheld by force neither can there be any conveyance of spirits where there is not the right union But since it hath pleased the Almighty who for the transgression of the Land hath suffer'd many to be Rulers thereof * Prov. 28.2 to restore to us our Lawfull Sovereign and so to set over us our proper head this is matter of thankefulnesse Let us adore the wonders of providences concurring to this blessed change and fix our eyes on that eye in the wheel which hath ordered all the turnings to this end This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes Must not the Enchanters themselves who have assayed to mock providence confess that this is the finger of God * Exod. 8.19 How much reason there is for our rejoycing upon this occasion this ensuing short Treatise will inform thee Who could bow the hearts of the Elders of our Judah as of one man to send this message to the King 2 Sam. 19.14 Return thou and all thy Servants but God who hath the hearts of all men in his hands Who could overturn overturn overturn till He came whose right it was but God who hath made the King's enemies the Instruments of their owne overthrow The Counsels of Achitophels are turned into foolishness in order to the preservation of his sacred Majesties Person and the twisted interests of multitudes of the Kingdome politickly engag'd are as prudently undone and cannot hold together against him Gods patience in forbearing a Nation so guilty is yet followed by his justice both in vindicating those to whom guilt is imputed without cause and in testifying against such as have killed and also taken possession The people that have been long kept under do now flock together like the fishes at Strigone a Town scituate on Danubius and hold their heads above water which they say was a token of their change of their Lord and Master We are weary studying the meaning of Common-wealth and although we have had the name beaten into us yet cannot possibly understand the thing And the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or lawlesness for five days amongst the Persians wherein there was so much robbing and killing never made them more willing of government again than the violencies and illegalities here in this long Interval have made us ready to accept our Royal Sovereign We have been reckon'd Offenders for a word and the cruelty of the new-erected Tribunals was such that the Judgement-seat little differ'd from a Shambles the new Laws like Draco's at Lacedemonia being written in Characters of bloud But our hopes are revived and we trust that if the Lord would have destroyed us Judg. 13. 23. he would not have shewed us all these things His most excellent Majesty hath heightned our expectations by his gracious Declaration The best and wisest of the Nation have done that which God our Laws and Covenant and the necessitie of vindicating themselves and us from the horrid guilt of Regicide have made their duty Into what Chaos was the Church and State lately reduc'd there is the power and wisdome of a Creator requisite to bring all into form and happy shall he be whom the King of Kings will honour as the chief Instrument hereof This Sermon tels thee that Joseph and David were by their Afflictions fitted for eminent service and I am sure our dread Sovereign hath been bred in the same School and doubt not but his Crown is made of gold purified in the fire I shall not need to acquaint thee how his return runs parallel with that of Davids after his banishment who made use of the General and the Priests in order to his reduction * 2 Sam. 19.11 13 But my hearty wish is that the men of Israel and Judah may not dispute who hath the greatest part in him v. 43. or most right to him but that we may all joyn in prayses for the discovery whereof thou art not left here without directions and let me beseech thee as the Author does for the King's sake and for thine own sake to take heed of doing wickedly 1 Sam. 12.25 Do not think thou canst contribute to settlement by studying revenge this will evidence that thy desire of the King is but for thine own ends expect no patent for prophaneness but be sure Ro. 13.4 that the Sword will be drawn for the punishment of evil doers Do not think to justifie thy self by condemning others who possibly refuse to drown their reason to prove their Loyalty Why should not they come in amongst the Kings friends who pray for his health and drink only for their own whither hath division already carried us * En quo discordia cives Perduxit miseros and how open hath it laid us to those enemies that wait the like opportunity Be of Mephibosheth's temper to part with thine own interest for the sake of his Majesty's quiet Let him take all 2 Sam. 19.30 seeing my Lord the King is come home in peace Let us all agree to banish whatever may occasion any further disagreement We have joyn'd in our Proclamations and Acclamations let us joyn also in our Petitions to the King of Heaven that our King as Solomon may build the Temple * 1 Chro. 28.6 and cause the Kingdom to flourish that he may be a Melchisedeck a King of Righteousnesse that his Throne may be established and that under him we may live quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty * 1 Tim. 2.2 which hath been is and shall be the hearty Prayer of him That confesseth his insufficiency to advise thee but Professeth his readiness to serve thee John Hodder Minister of Hawkchurch GReat CHARLS the second 's Picture 's here Peruse it Know that 't was writ at distance and excuse it The lines are loyal let choice Limners mend it Under correction we presume to send it CHARLES whose return revives each drooping heart And quickens each dead soul to act its part Whose vertues though the French