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england_n	france_n	king_n	prince_n	18,120	5	5.7862	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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