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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

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 Ezra 7.26 Whosoever will not do the Law of God and the Law of the King let Judgement be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or to banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment London Printed by R. D. and are to be sold at the Holy Lamb in S. Pauls Church-yard near the School 1660. DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE 1 Kings 10.9 2 Chron. 9.8 Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighteth in thee to set thee on the Throne of thy Father to be King for the Lord thy God because the Lord thy God loved ENGLAND therefore made he thee KING over VS to do Judgment and Justice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 TO THE MOST HIGH and MIGHTY MOST GRACIOUS AND RELIGIOUS PRINCE Charles II. By the Grace of God of Great Brittain France and Ireland KING Defender of the true Catholick and Apostolick Faith Christ Jesus the Prince of Princes blesse your Majesty with length of daies and an increase of all Graces which may make you truly prosperous in this life and eternally happy in that which is to come THe Picture and Pattern of Piety most Gracious and Dread Sovereign S. Bernard by name deciphereth out at large the grosse Enormity of that ugly Vice Ingratitude saying It is Iimica animae exaninitio meritorum dispersio vertutum c. An enemy to the Christian Soul an exile of Merits a ruine of Vertues and a consuming fire that scorcheth up the Fountain of all goodness Lest therefore I should condemn my self guilty of this sensual sin and chalenged be of grosse Ingratitude to the God of our Mercies who hath in mercy to these Nations brought your Sacred Royal Person after upwards of eleven years banishment to the happy possession and enjoyment of Your CROWN and KINGDOM to the great joy and comfort of all your Loyal Subjects whose number God Almighty encrease I who am the meanest and most unworthy have presumed most humbly craving pardon for my arrogant audacity herein both in token of my loyal duty to your sacred Majesty as also of that transcendent joy which I do conceive in my heart the Searcher of hearts knows for Your happy Inauguration and Coronation to transport these rude lines to the happy Haven of your Princely Heart wishing to Your Royal Grace the Silver of all earthly prosperity and the Gold of all Coelestial felicity prostrating my self upon the bended knees of humble submission at your Highnesse foot-stoole for pardon of my presumption herein and do make bold to become an earuest yet most humble Petitioner to Your sacred Highnesse Seeing Almighty God for ever blessed be his holy Name hath done so great things for your sacred Royal Person both in defending You from the cursed rage and hellish fury of Your trayterous Adversaries who like a kennel of Bloud-hounds hunted (a) At the fight flight from Worcester Sept. 3. 1651. for Your precious (b) 2 Sam. 18.3 life to destroy it and also which to me seems far greater keeping (c) 1 Pet. 1.5 Your Pious Royal Heart in the affection to and zeal for the true Protestant Religion according to your godly Education notwithstanding your forced Exile into those parts and amongst such persons who are the professed Enemies and Opposers of it and who no question left no stone unturn'd nor meanes untri'd to betray your Sacred Highnesse into a love of and compliance with their erroneous and false worship and as the crown of the mercy making use of the worthy Service of the Lord General George Monck who may be rightly stil'd England's S. GEORGE for the breaking the Ice of the former impossibilities and slaying the hidious Beast and bloudy Dragon that devoured the Lords Heritage and enslav'd us 2 Sam. 19.14 bowing the hearts of your People to sue to You and to declare for You yea Dan. 4.36 moving and uniting the loyal hearts of your Honorable COUNSELLORS and LORDS assembled in PARLIAMENT to vote You * May 6. 1660. in which caused great joy and triumph (a) Psal 14.7 and 53.6 to all your distressed Subiects and so preventing that effusion of bloud which Lambert and the Phanatick party might have involved these Nations in a Crown being seldom if ever won without battel or worn without bloud and so from Heaven proclaiming your Highnesse to the World to be Princeps pacis the Prince of Peace and so with a mighty hand and stretched out arm bringing your Majesty about the thirtieth year of your age to your lawful Crown and Kingdoms which is such a choice work of Providence your Enemies themselves being witnesse that present and future Ages have cause to stand and gaze at it saying in the langnage of Moses Stand still Exod. 14.13 Psal 118.23 Psal 102.18 and see the salvation of the Lord. This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes This shall be written for the generation to come and the People which shall be created shall praise the Lord. The consideration whereof sure I am doth move your pious Royal heart to consult with the Royal Prophet Quid retribuam Jehovae Psal 116.12 What shall I render to the Lord for all his goodnesse towards me That You might honour that Majesty that hath laid Honor and Majesty upon your Royal Person and hath maugre force fraud set a crown of pure gold upon your head that the Highest may establish your Majesties Royal Person and make You that indeed which some unloyal Subjects falsly * Your Majesties Proclamation signed at Brussels Jan. 25.1659 1 Sam. 2.30 pretended a GLORIOUS KING The high way whereunto being as your Grace well knows to honor God for those that honor me I will honor saith the Lord. Of which your Grace hath a double obligation one as a Christian the other as a King as a Christian King which is done by establishing and preservation of (a) As in the 8. Article of you Majesties Doclaration from Flaunders true Protestant Religion which of late years hath been in great danger (b) Your Majesties Proclamation from Brussels signed Jan. 25. 1659. of being rooted out by Anabaptists Quakers and Atheists You are Dread Sovereign over us in the Lord from whom you have your Power Rom 13.1 Prov. 8.15 16. Isa 9.6 7. Revel 1.5 Rev. 19.16 Per me Reges regnant Et Domini dominantur saith Christ who is

ceasing farther to trouble your Majesties Sacred ears hoping the Ministry that are both eminent and famous for Religion and Learning will presse forward such Motions as these prostrating my unworthy selfe upon the KNees of Submission at your Highnesse's Footstoole for my presumption herein I beg without intermission before the throne of the Almightie's Grace that he may blesse your Majesty with many and happy days that your House Throne and Kingdome may be estalished for ever to the honor of that Great God and the good of his Church and that for Christ's sake our only Lord and everlasting Saviour Amen Your Majesties unworthy Subject Geo. Willington CAROLE vive diu DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE Luc. 19.38 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 61.6 7. Dies diebus Regis superedito anni ejus sicut ut multarum generationum Meneat coram Deo in seculum benignitatem fidem praepara qui custediant cum Tremel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Second Part Of 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 The Subjects Duty to their SOVEREIGN in divers Heads and sundry particulars very usefull for these Times Together with a Recommendation of the Work to all His Majesties Subjects By Geo. Willington of the City of Bristoll Joshua 1.18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy Commandment and will not harken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him he shall be put to death only be strong and of a good courage London Printed by R. D. and are to be sold at the Holy Lamb in S. Pauls Church-yard near the School 1660. THE SUBJECTS DUTY TO THEIR SOVEREIGN THE saying of the Greeks as a learned Divine notes carries much of truth in it Dr. Sutton lib. Disce vivere cap. 21. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Order is the Mother and Preserver of things For sure it is that the society of men consisteth in Ruling and Obeying Where none do guide others what order can be looked for Where order is not Confusion will follow and the success of Confusion is plain (a) Poor England hath sadly found the truth of this since that dismal day Jan. 30. 1548. Ruine Where men shake off Obedience to their King and lawful Governors who are from him who Ruleth and governeth all and live as they list what peace can be preserved And where peace is not what State either in Church or Commonwealth can long stand Where Rulers are not some run head-long they know not whither in the bent of their own wills others are waving up and down in Opinions all are as a body clean out of course and subject to a (b) Judg. 18.1 and 19.1 and 17.6 20.23 Dissolution On the contrary when Governors ordain a Law and all hearken (c) Viz. So hearken as to obey unto the Law because a Law without partiality doth speak indifferently unto all there is Obedience there is Concord there is continuance in well doing Now for those of all other who live under the Law of Laws to wit the Law of Grace for those I say before all other to shew all dutifull obedience to their Kings and Governors placed over them (d) Pro. 8.15 16. Rom. 13. by God what more seemly what more Christian Branches of one (a) Joh. 15.1 Vine Stones of one (b) 1 Pet. 2.5 Building Fellows in (c) Eph. 3.15 one Family Children of (d) Mal. 2.10 one Father Members of (e) Eph. 5.23 30. one Head nay Heirs of one (f) Rom. 8.17 The heavenly Kingdome Kingdome what more beseeming than among these People to obey Rulers and Rulers to obey God When Moses is praying Joshua leading Israel obeying God blessing and prospering all O happy are the People that are in such a case And therefore having shewed unparalleld boldness in directing the former part of this Schedule unto His Majesty our Gracious and dread Sovereign by way of most humble Petition let me now addresse an humble request to the Subjects I my self being the most unworthy and inconsiderable of our Sovereign Lord and King The sum whereof shall be directed first to the disloyall Party whose number I beseech God to extenuate Secondly to the Loyal Party whose number I beseech God to augment Thirdly to all joyntly and without distinction praying to God to make them both one without distinction as to their Loyalty To the two former Heads to wit to the disloyal and loyal party distinctly and apart I shall be very brief For the first To you that are either openly or secretly disloyal to our Gracious Sovereign Lord the Kings most excellent Majesty give me leave to tell you in the words of the Holy Ghost by the Prophet Isaiah chap. 1. v. 19 20. If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the land But if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoureed with the sword for the mouth (g) Rom. 3.4 of the Lord hath spoken (h) Rom. 2.7 8 9 10 11 12. it Look back and consider the Oath of Allegiance which you have formerly taken all of you save only those minority made uncapable of taking it and in consideration thereof hearken to the words of the Royal Preacher Eccles 8.2 I counsel thee to keep thy Kings Commandments and that in regard of the Oath of God In regard of the Oath viz. the Oath of Allegiance called the Oath of God as I conceive for two reasons either first in reference to the King to whom you sware Allegiance being a Titular * Psal 82.6 1 Cor. 8.5 God or more properly as I conceive called the Oath of God in reference to the true (a) Jer. 10.10 God and that upon a double account either first because this Oath was taken in especial manner in the sight and presence of God who always doth behold (b) Pro. 15.3 us but then especially or in special manner when we do in such a solemn manner sweare by (c) Gen. 31.43 to 54. Ecc. 5.6 his Name or secondly because the wilfull violation of this sacred bond or solemn Oath of Allegiance shall be revenged (d) Eze. 17.19 Zac. 8.17 Mal. 3.5 Levit. 19.12 Numb 30.2 Eccl. 10.20 Isa 48.1 Jer. 4.2 and 5.2 by God who is the Lord of Hosts if not with temporal plagues in this world yet sure I am with eternal torments in Hell without true repentance See and sadly consider the Proofs in the Margin But I shall speak more fully of this matter God willing upon the third Head But before I come to that the main thing intended let me in the second place speak a word very briefly to the loyal Party who do fear God (e) 1 Pet. 2.17 and honour the King And here give me leave first to inform you secondly to admonish you That which I would inform you of is briefly two

things First the sad odium that hath been cast of late years upon the Loyal party and that party if not wholly occasioned by the openly prophane and scandalous walking of the generality of those who were the Kings professed Friends they were so noted above any other for horrid Oaths in their common talk and for excessive drinking and debauched drunkennesse that the re-Baptizers * They are since turn'd have new Christened them though not at a Font with a name to render them odious viz. Cavalier a word as an ancient Doctor * Viz. D. Green But though some render it otherwise yet the word was cast as an odium upon the former consideration often told me and others in my hearing derived from the French tongue from a word which signifieth a Swearer a Drunkard a deboist prophane Person But I trust you will own neither the Name nor the Practice especially for the future A second thing I would inform you of shall be by way of lamentation delivered with a little inversion in the words of Jeremiah's Lamentation and the words of holy Daniel and Ezra c. For our sins and for the iniquities of our Fathers (a) Dan. 9.16 our Jerusalem and our people have been a reproach to all that have been about us Thus we have been cast down and not exalted (b) vers 8. Bar. 2.5 because we have sinned against the Lord our God and have not been obedient unto his voice Yea your (c) Lam. 5.2 Inheritance hath been turned to strangers and your houses to aliens Your necks have been under (d) vers 5. persecution and you had no rest Servants have ruled over us (e) vers 8. This was Cham's curse after he had discover'd the nakednesse of his Father Gen. 9.22 24 25. England did worse by her Father the King and therefore deserved worse plagues and there was none for certain years to deliver us out of their hands Yea which is more to be lamented the breath of our nostrils (f) La. 4.20 the Annointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said Vnder his shadow we shall live though among the (g) The very Heathen would not have murthered him Heathen And these tyrannical Usurpers have had dominion (h) Neh. 9.37 over our bodies and over our cattel at their pleasure and we were in great distress For our iniquities have we our Kings and our Priests been delivered into their hands (i) Ezra 9. v. 7. Baruch 2.5 to the Sword to captivity to a spoil and to confusion of face Thus hath it been with us since that prodigious and unpresidented murther of our dear (k) Jan. 30. 1648. Sovereign KING CHARLES the first But now the Lord hath begun to give us (l) Isa 14.3 rest from our troubles and to lift up our heads and to compasse us about (m) Psa 32.7 with Songs of deliverance Grace hath been shewed us from the Lord our God to (n) Ezr. 9.8 9 leave us a remnant to escape and to give us a nail in his holy place and to lighten our eyes and to give us a little reviving in our bondage For we werè bond-men yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage but hath extended mercy unto us in bringing our Gracious Sovereign through so many dangers difficulties and sad revolutions to be our Patron in our lives liberties Religion Yea to the happy settlement of those so much look'd long'd for blessings Peace and Truth c. Having thus informed you ye Loyalists of your heretofore miserable condition and of your present delivered condition by the happy Inauguration of our Deare and long look'd for Sovereign Lord the King I desire You give me leave to exhort You to two duties in special that are incumbent upon you in lieu hereof First to entire and hearty thankfulness to the God of our mercyes Say with the Royall Prophet Psal 103.1 2. Praise the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me praise his holy Name Praise the Lord O my Soul and forget not all his benefits Offer the sacrifice of Praise to God continually that is the fruit of our lips giving Praise to his Name Hebr. 13.15 Secondly to sincere obedience not only to sound forth his praises with your lips but also and that chiefly to shew forth his praises in your lives The mercies we have won by prayer and seeking God we must wear by praises and serving God For to this end were we redeemed out of the hands of our enemies not only of our spiritual but also out of the hands of our temporal enemies that we should serve God in holinesse and righteousness all the days of our lives Luk. 1.74 75. But if after all this is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespasse and seeing our God hath punished us less than our Iniquities deserve and hath given us such deliverance as this should we I beseech you again break his Commandments Would he not then be angry with us until he had consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping Ezra 9.13 14. Read and consider Nehemiah 9. from v. 25. to 29. And now I come through the gracious assistance of Almighty God without which I can do * Joh. 15.5 2 Cor. 2.16 and 3.6 nothing to the third Head of which I shall speak more largely To presume to speak to all the Kings Majesties Subjects joyntly without distinction that seeing Almighty God the great mighty Sovereign of Heaven Earth hath placed us in his gracious goodnesse under so pious ‖ His Piety and Religion shines as bright as the Sun at noon and Protestant a King and so made you as was before said Branches of one Vine Stones of one Building Fellows in one Family Children of one Father Members of one Head nay Subject-heirs under one King that you would all strive and labour to be of one heart and * Ephes 4.1 2 3 4 5 6. Rom. 15.5 6. Phil. 2. v. 1. to 5. one minde in yielding obedience to that ‖ 1 Pet. 2.17 Gospel-Command to fear God and honour the King Now that I might drive this nail to the head I shall endeavour in the prosecution hereof to speak distinctly to these six things 1. The Author Authority and Necessity of Government and Governors both supream and subordinate 2. The hainousnesse of disloyalty or rebellion against the King as Supream and subordinate 2. The hainousnesse of Disloyalty or Rebellion against the King as Supream or subordinate Governors sent by Him and established over Us. 3. I shall answer some objections that may be and have been made in this particular 4. I shall demonstrate the Plagues and punishments that do attend and follow such Rebels and Traytors in this life and something of the Plagues and Torments that do wait and are reserved for them and which without timely Repentance they shall eternally suffer in the life

in the motions of the heart in the feare of God faith love and obedience The Basil Confession Let every Christian Magistrate bend all his forces this way that among all that are under him Art 7. the Name of God may be honored his Kingdome propagated and his will in the rooting out of all wickedness and vice may be fulfilled this duty was ever enjoined even to the Heathen Magistrates how much more is it required of a Christian Magistrate ut vero Dei Vicario who is Gods true Vicar The Saxon Confession We teach Saxonica Conf. Art 23. That in the whole Doctrine of God delivered by the Apostles and Prophets that Civil Government is maintained and that Magistrates Laws Tribunals and the lawful Society of men sprung not up by chance but that all the good order that is left is preserved by the exceeding goodness of God for the Church's sake and so forth which I omit for brevity sake The Sueviek Confession is notable and runs thus Our Churches teach Suevica Con. Art 23. That the office of a Magistrate is most sacred and divine whence it is that they who exercise this power are in Scripture called Gods and our Preachers teach that the obedience which is to be performed to Magistrates is to be placed among good works of the first rank and that by how much a man is a more sincere and faithfull Christian the more carefull he is to observe the Laws of the State To which add the Confession of Scotland We confess and acknowledge Empires Kingdoms Scotch Conf. Dominions and Cities to be distincted and ordained by God that Powers and Authority in the same be it of Emperors in their Empires Kings in their Realms Dukes and Princes in their Dominions and of other Magistrates in their Cities to be God's holy Ordinance ordained for manifestation of his own glory and for the singular profit and commodity of Mankinde so that whosoever goeth about to take away or confound the whole estate of Civil policy now long established we affirm the same men not only to be enemies to mankinde but wickedly to fight against Gods expressed will The Confession of England The King's Majesty hath the chief power in this Realm of England and other his Dominions The English Confession Art 37. unto whom the chief government of all estates of this Realm whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all cases doth appertain and is not nor ought to be subject to any forreign jurisdiction The Laws of the Realm may punish Christian men with death for hainous and grievous offences To all which let me add the Confession of the Assembly of Divines Chap. 23. 1. God the Supream Lord and King of all the World hath ordained Civil Magistrates to be under him over the People for his own glory and the publick good and to this end hath armed them with the power of the Sword for the defence and encouragement of them that are good and for the punishment of evil doers 4. It is the duty of People to pray for Magistrates to honour their persons to pay them tribute and other dues to obey their lawfull Commands and to be subject to their Authority Note this well for Conscience sake Infidelity or difference in Religion doth not make void the Magistrates just and legal authority nor free the people from their due obedience to him from which Ecclesiastical persons are not exempted much lesse hath the Pope any power and jurisdiction over them in their Dominions or over any of their People and lest of all to deprive them of their dominions or lives if he shall judge them to be Hereticks or upon any other pretences whatsoever The sum of all is the Civil Magistrate is a Divine Ordinance and his chief care is or ought to be Religion for the defence and vindication whereof God hath put a Sword in his hand to cut off the disturbers of the peace as well in the Church as the Commonwealth and because he is the Minister * Rom. 13.4 of God for our wealth and Safety his Authority is to be obeyed by all sorts of men for conscience sake and not to be resisted upon pains of Damnation Thus I have from the melodious Harmony of all the reformed Churches proved the Authority and shewed the author and Benefit of Government and Governours but Supream and subordinate Wisdom 6.3 Power is given of the Lord and Saveraignty from the bighest See Prov. 8.15 16. Dan. 2.21 chap. 4. v. 25. 32. Rom. 13. v. 1 2 4. Job 36.7 The next thing is to shew the hainousness of disloyalty or Rebellion Rebellion hath all evil in it as said the Greek * Thucid. Historiographer in Rebellion is all kinde of evil it is as one cals it the sink of all sin and the Sea of all mischief Of Rebels and seditious persons to their Sovereign whom the God of Heaven hath made a * Psal 82.6 God on earth doth God himself say as he did of the Israelites he did to Samuel They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me 1 Sam. 8.7 that I should not reign over them Yea the Holy Ghost doth amply set forth the hainousnesse of this sin of ‖ 'T is spoken there of Rebellion against God but it will hold in this case also Rebellion when he doth by the Prophet Samuel compare it with the sin of Witchcraft or the service of the Devil 1 Sam. 15.23 Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft compared with the sin of Witchcraft as I conceive to denote the hainousnesse of it Witchcraft is such a hainous sin that the Lord gave a strict charge * Exo. 22.18 Deut. 18.10 to his ancient People saying Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live Surely so hainous is this sin of Rebellion that a Rebel against his King and Countrey is not worthy to live For instance that Norman Gentleman who confessed to a Franciscan Frier that he had a thought to kill Francis the King of France though he had changed his minde repented and asked pardon of that crime yet the Frier reporting it to the King and the King referring it to the Parliament of Paris the grave Court of that great Parliament though that King shewed himself very gracious condemned him to death Yea so great detestation is there to be had of the least shew of violence to the Prince that whereas the Law excuseth mad-men from punishment madnesse it self being so great a punishment yet when Capito a man raging mad drew his Sword upon Henry the son of King Francis he was therefore executed Thus much in brief for the second thing viz. the hainousnesse of disloyalty or rebellion The third thing is according to promise to answer some objections that may be and have been made in this particular Of all which very briefly but plainly Object Is it lawful in no case for Subjects to rise up in Arms against their lawful Sovereign Answ

King and they are either External Rewards Internal Rewards Eternal Rewards First external and they are either General Rewards or Particular Rewards 1. General And so the King he is the Minister of God to thee * Loyal Subject for good Do well so shalt thou have praise of the same Rom. 13.3 4. To this agreeth the saying of the Prophet Isaiah chap. 32. v. 1 2. Behold ‖ 'T is meant principally of Christ but it will hold in this a King shall reign in righteousnesse and Princes shall rule in judgement And a man shall be a hiding place from the winde and a Covert from the tempest as Rivers of water in a dry place as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary land Wherefore as Jeremiab wished the Israelites to seek the prosperity of the * Jer. 29.7 City whether they were carried so I beseech all English ‖ All the Subjects of our King men to seek the prosperity of the King under whom they are governed Jeremies reason may induce them for in the peace thereof they shall have peace in the prosperity thereof they shall have prosperity in the glory thereof they shall have glory Juda and Israel dwelt without fear all the dayes of Solomon 1 Kings 4.25 The like may England Scotland and Ireland all the dayes of Charles if * What Solomon was to them that Charles is to us they prove loyal Subjects 2. Particular rewards of loyalty Kings favour Particular Rewards of Loyalty are first from men 1. The Kings favour Prov. 22.29 Seest thou a man diligent in his businesse he shall stand before Kings he shall not stand before mean men Now as the Kings wrath which the disloyal incur is as the roring * Prov. 19.12 of a Lion terrible and as the ‖ Prov. 16.14 Messengers of death so his favour which the loyall Subject procures is as dew upon the grasse Prov. 19.12 In the light of the Kings Countenance as life and his favour is as a cloud of the later rain 2. Preferment Preferment as in the case of Mordecai Esther 2.21 and 8.2 compar'd 3. External pomp as in the case of Joseph Mordecai Daniel c. Gen. 41.39 to 45. Esther 6.6 to 12. and 103. Dan. 5.29 4. Estimation of the People as in the case of David while a Subject 1 Sam. 187. 5. Favour of the worthiest as in * He was a loyal Subject even to persecuting Saul Davids case 1 Sam. 18.1 Yea 6. sometimes alliance with the noblest as in the case of Joseph and David Gen. 41.5 45. 1 Sam. 18.27 7. Power and Authority Thus in the case of Joseph Mordecai and Daniel being loyal Subjects to their King and Countrey the one was second in Egypt the other second in Persia the third second in Babylon Gen. 41.40 Esther 8.25 and 10.3 Dan. 6.3 8. A good Subject through the blessing of God upon him he is an Iustrument of good yea sometimes much good to his Nation and Countrey as to avoid prolixity in the case of Mordecai Esther 6.2 and 8.10 and 9.1 In our own time that worthy General Monck 9. A good Name and perpetual Renown is the reward of a loyal subject as in the case of Mordecai Esther 10. 2 3. 10. The Loyal Subject is rewarded with good in his posterity so that when dead as to this life he seemeth to live to his Posterity as appears in the case of Barzillai 2 Sam. 19.32 to 40. 1 Kings 2.7 Barzillai was loyal to David in his distresse David was gratefull to Barzillai when delivered from distresses and not only to him but also to his posterity All which rewards of loyalty as they are due unto Application of therewards of loyalty so I make no question but they will be confer'd upon that honorable and valiant Commander the Lord General Monck for his worthy service to his King and Countrey for which no question he and his will be famous to posterity And I beseech God from the bottom of my heart that he may be rewarded also with the blessings following which none but the King of Kings can give Particular Rewards of Loyalty from God the King of Kings are first External If thou O Christian dost fear God and honour the King this shall be thy reward from God Blessed shalt thou be in the City and blessed shalt thou be in the field Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy Cattel the increase of thy Kine and the flocks of thy sheep Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store Blessed shalt thou be when thou commest in and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out Deut. 28.3 4 5 6. Who is it that desires not to be blessed in these be a Religious Fearer of God and a loyal Subject to the King and these promises are made to thee by him who is truth it self and cannot lie 2. Internal in the peace of a good conscience O what blessing greater than the soul 's continual banquet a good conscience saith Solomon is a continual feast Prov. 15.15 What melody to that sweet harmony of * Rom. 2.15 and 8.16 excusing thoughts What comfort to that comfortable assurance that ‖ Rev. 20.12 Luke 10.20 the opening of the books will shew that our names are written in heaven when others wring their hands for grief this will make thee clap thy hands for joy when others do tremble thou shalt triumph This makes thee to sleep quietly to wake cheerfully to be alone without fear and with others without distrust in thy affairs confident in thy recreation comfortable If Rebels be behinde thee and before thee as the Amonites and the Aramites were before and behind Joab yet wouldest thou resolve with him Be of good courage and let us play the men for our People and for the Cities of our God and the Lord do that which seemeth him good 2 Sam. 10.9 12. Thirdly Loyal Subjects that do fear God and honour the King shall have eternal Rewards which is O Christian when after all thy loyalty to thy Sovereign the Sovereign of all Princes shall advance thee into the great City the New Jerusalem described in part according to our apprehention Rev. 21.10 to the end and 22.1 to 6. In the contemplation of which my meditation dazleth and my pen falleth out of my hands the one not being able * 1 Cor. 2.9 to conceive nor the other to expresse the transcendent joyes that are laid up in heaven for all those who believing in Christ are careful to maintain ‖ Tit. 3.8 good works to fear God and honour the King Therefore I shall forbear to dilate it further And so I come to the last thing which is to shew the Subjects duty to their Sovereign Friends and Beloved our KING is Royal your duty it is to be Loyal that 's your duty in general The Sovereign's Royalty requires The Subjects Loyalty Thus in