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A pillar of gratitude humbly dedicated to the glory of God the honour of His Majesty, the renown of this present legal, loyal, full, and free Parliament : upon their restoring the church of England to the primitive government of episcopacy : and re-investing bishops into their pristine honour and authority.
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Gauden, John, 1605-1662.
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A Pillar of Gratitude HUMBLY DEDICATED To the GLORY of GOD The HONOUR Of His MAJESTY The RENOWN of this Present Legal Loyal Full and Free PARLIAMENT Upon Their Restoring the CHURCH of ENGLAND To the Primitive Government of EPISCOPACY And Re-investing Bishops Into Their Pristine Honour and Authority Anno 1661. Aarons Rod. BLESSED and FLORID Num. 17. 8. Barren Fig-Tree CURSED and WITHERED Mat. â—1 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 17. 14. Giving Thanks always for all things Ephes 5. 20. Nemo gratus malus Nemo malus gratus Perditissimum censuerunt Veteres quem ingratum dixerunt London Printed by J. M. for Andrew Crook at the Green-Dragon in St Pauls Church-yard 1661. To the Right Honorable and most Noble Princes Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts and Lords Barons and Peers of the Parliament of England Together with the other honorable Gentlemen Knights and Burgesses of the House of Commons THere shall need no other Apology for the erecting and thus dedicating this PILLAR of GRATITUDE than that which all Justice and Ingenuity do make for the Archbishops and Bishops with all the Orderly Clergy of the Church of England Who must cease to be Christians and Men Religious and Rational just and ingenuous if we should not be highly sensible how much we are commanded by all the Laws of Gratitude to God and Man to express in some publique and solemn manner the humble sense of our thankful Hearts for that great Mercy signal Honor and eminent Favor which the good Providence of God by the Graciousness of the Kings Majesty by the Nobleness of the House of Peers and by the Generosity of the present House of Commons yea we hope by the desire and consent of all wise sober and just men in this Church and Kingdom hath restored as the other dignified Clergy to their respective Dignities so us the Archbishops and Bishops not onely to the exercise of our Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction but also to the ancient Honor when his Majesty shall please to call us of sitting consulting and voting in the House of Peers Senatus quo Sol augustiorem in orbe non vidit as the most learned Bishop Andrews writes in his Tortura Torti A Court and Council in its full and free Constitution not to be exceeded hardly equalled in all the World for number and for grandeur for the conspicuity of its Wisdom for the majesty of its Presence and for the Eminency no less than Antiquity of its Authority Agreeable to that of Fortescue cited by Sir Edward Coke in his Institutes l. 4. c. 1. Si Antiquitatem spectes est vetustissima si Dignitatem est honoratissima si Jurisdictionem est capacissima Nor do We the Bishops with all our Brethren of the Clergy more congratulate our own Reception to our pristine station after fifteen years absence than your LORDSHIPS safe Return after twelve years Banishment to the enjoyment of your native Right and hereditary Honor of sitting in Parliament as Barons and Peers And no less do we celebrate with joy the renewed priviledge of the free-born Commons of England to sit and suffragate in their honorable House by their chosen Deputies the Knights and Burgesses after they had for many years been baffled with Tumults broken by Factions bastinadoed with Truncheons and beaten with Swords in order forsooth to preserve the Liberty of the Subject the Priviledges of Parliament and the Reformed Religion Above all for in that one all your Honors all our civil Freedoms and temporal Happinesses are included we of the Clergy beyond all men have cause anew to solemnize this Day with Faelix faustúmque a peculiar joy and jubile to Gods glory the Churches peace and the Kingdoms prosperity the happy Return of his SACRED MAJESTY to his rightful Throne as the Sun to his proper Orb or Sphere after the dreadful Overthrow of our late Phaetons Who having set this English World on fire and quenched the other two British Kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland with their blood ashes and ruines had this onely honor for their Epitaph Magnis excidere ausis That they justly fell from most audacious adventures arrogant usurpations and impudent impieties smitten at length as with the Conscience of their own enormious wickednesses so with the Thunder and Lightning the terror and consternation of that divine vengeance which when they least dreamed of did wonderfully overtake them after they had a long time flattered themselves in Providences and by the delusion of Successes had blasphemed the most high holy and righteous God as if he were such an one as themselves a lover of perfidy perjury and hypocrisie Which vengeance was also on the sudden executed upon them as by the loyal Prayers and pious Impatiences of all his Majesties good Subjects so chiefly by the honest Policies and prudent Conduct of one wise and valiant General who as Samson caught those subtile Foxes and tied them tail to tail but without any other firebrands than themselves taking the crafty in their own devices and pulling down the proud from their seats of scorn and Tyranny May his heroick name be written in the Book of Life as it is in that of worldly Honor with an indeleble Character because he did not pervert to private ambition as others had foolishly and falsly done the rare opportunity of doing Actions of incomparable Loyalty to his Prince and of Love to his Country Those Scandals and Reproaches to all true Honor and Religion those pests and shame to all good Government being once gone with Judas to their own places after they had filled the three Kingdoms with blood barbarity and confusion and the measure of their iniquity up to the brim by a wanton superfluity of folly and madness wickedness and hypocrisie at last this grand Theater of Wisdom and Honor the Parliament of England was left free for the joyful Reception of its ancient Inhabitants King Lords and Commons there to sit with Freedom and Honor never again we hope and pray to be divided scattered confounded and destroyed Whose Piety and Justice not satisfied with their own Return to this Throne of Majesty this sanctuary of Religion this seat of Honor this Citadel of all legal and ingenuous Liberties are pleased still to express a sense of solitude until they had compleated More majorum after the ancient patern of English Parliaments their honorable society with the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales That so in this as in all other instances of true Honor they might not come short of the Piety and Prudence of their noble Ancestors who thought that a Parliament of England without Bishops was as a City without a Temple or as a Temple without an Altar or as an Altar without a Sacrifice or as all these without a duly consecrated Priest or as he and they too would be without the true Worship of the true God And thus have we lived to see by merciful and miraculous Revolutions a plenary Restauration of the Majesty Honor Piety and