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A89348	England's gratulation for the King and his subjects happy union. First preach't on the day of publique thanksgiving, appointed by the Parliament, May the 10th. 1660. Since publish't as a common tribute to Cæsar, at his so much long'd for arrival. By R. Mossom, preacher of Gods Word at S. Pet. P. Wh. London	Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing M2861; Thomason E1033_12; ESTC R202938	12,443	46

England's GRATULATION FOR THE KING and his SUBJECTS HAPPY UNION FIRST PREACHT On the Day of Publique Thanksgiving appointed by the Parliament May the 10 th 1660. SINCE PUBLISHT As a Common Tribute to Caesar at his so much long'd for Arrival By R. MOSSOM Preacher of Gods Word at S. Pet. P. Wh. London London Printed by Tho Newcomb for William Grantham at the Black Bear in St. Pauls Church-yard near the little North Door 1660. To the Kings most Excellent Majesty CHARLS the II. King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. May it please your MAJESTY THE God of all Mercy 's who giveth salvation unto Kings having answered our Prayers and Crown'd our joy's in graciously restoring your Soveraign Power and safely returning your Sacred Person This England's Gratulation made first an offering of Thankfulness unto God is now made a Tribute of Allegiance unto your Majesty humbly presented from that Heart and Hand which in all the variety of State-commotions hath still own'd and publickly own'd the duty and devotion of Loyalty and Love Indeed under our heavyest weight of oppressions beholding your Sacred Majesty bearing the Cross when your Royal Head should have worne the Crown Your Christian Patience became our Princely Patterne for Constancy Your Majesty constant in your faith to God we constant in our faithfulness to your Majesty so that the Tribute we pay dread Soveraign is that of your own coyne and stampt with your own Image Now I pray God grant your Majesty such an holy and happy improvement of that Disciplinary Providence wherewith your Majesty hath been so long exercised as to the Devotions of piety the compassions of Charity the zeal of Justice the love of Learning the exercise of Arms the transaction of Affairs and in all the Accomplishments of Princely Wisedome made solid and firm by long Experience That all the Loyal Subjects of your Majesties three Kingdoms joyfully beholding these the Jewels of your Crown the perfections of your Royalty may clearly see that had not your Majesty the indubitable Right of Heir Apparent to your Father's * For which together with the Churches Rights and his Subjects Liberties He dy'd a Royal Martyr of Blessed Memory now Crown'd with an everlasting glory Crowns yet there is not amongst the best of Princes or Men so fit a subject of their Choyce to make the Soveraign of their Hearts as King Charles the Second Indeed My Leige This is your Soveraignty and may it be as happily continued as it is miraculously recovered Over the Hearts of your People who are now so devoted in their Loyalty that your Majesty reigns in their Love And thus reigning Your Majesty will be the Ornament of your Throne in your Royal Vertues more then the Throne your Majesties ornament in all it's Glory 's Which yet that the King of Kings would make transplendently glorious And so the progress of your Majesties Life like the encrease of our holy Faith may be from glory to glory Is the hearty prayer of him who knows nothing in his heart next the Love to his Saviour more dear then this duty of being Dread Soveraigne Your Majesties most humbly Loyal and Obedient Subject R. MOSSOM England's Gratulation FOR THE KING and his SUBJECTS HAPPY UNION PSAL. 75. vers 1. Vnto thee O God do we give thanks unto thee do we give thanks For that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare Introduction THIS sacred Psalm was then composed when the * Cum omnia sub Saule corrupta fuissent Muscul l'Estat est●t tout ●un é par factions c. Diod. State of Israel was most discomposed Yea then did David make this song for the Sanctuary when there was no harmony but all discord in the Church And this he purposely did as a fit instruction to the then present and all future Generations that if the King did accord with his People and the People with their King the both with God then amidst all the harshest discords in Church or State the sweet harmony of peace should be renew'd and their prosperity re-established And therefore sure did David entitle this Psalm with a * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Septuag ne disperdas Hieron ne perdas in the front of it to intimate that the curse of State-consumption should never invade this happy Union Know then the State of Israel was indeed much like the State of England when this Psalm was composed for David anointed of the Lord to be King he was own'd and receiv'd by the Royal Party the Tribe of Judah and amidst the dissentions of the other Tribes * 2 Sam. 3.17 18. Abner the General of the Host was bringing about all Israel to him And the Generals prudent managing of the matter in so turbulent a State do's prepare the Hearts of the Elders and of the People for the owning David their King whom God had set over them And when as yet he was not setled in his Throne nor adorn'd with the Crown but in expectation of both the present condition of our Soveraign Lord even then he makes this Psalm to testify his thankfulness to God and declare his integrity to his People to testify his thankfulness to God for his dispensations of Providence disposing his Throne towards an establishment and to declare his Integrity to his People in his ministrations of Justice when God by his power should have establisht his Throne Think we then David's person to be the King 's and Israels condition to be Englands And because what God did to them in a gracious measure that he hath done unto us in a more abundant Grace therefore look what David and Israel did to God in a thankful and gratulatory Devotion that do we in a like devout thankfulness and Gratulation even * Psa 100.4 come into his Courts offer unto him an oblation of Praise And for this our gracious Soveraign though absent in person yet as present in Spirit yea as present now in his Regall Authority he thus seems to Lead the Chorus of this day's festivity and to say with David in the name of himself and of his people Vnto thee O God do we give thanks unto thee do we give thanks for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare Before I give you the Division of the Text let me present you an Exposition of the Psalm which will be if rightly observed a seasonable service to this day's solemnity The Exposition then Intended receive paraphrastic●s by way of paraphrase thus as if David the King had said O God who art the King of Kings Vers 1 and sittest on thy Throne judging right right between the Prince and his people thy self unmoveable amidst all State-commotions thy self unchangeable amidst all the Worlds changes Vnto thee O God who hast redoubled thy mercyes do we both King and Subjects redouble our praises we we give thee thanks I their King give thee thanks for their Loyalty and they my

glad shall he be off thy salvation And certainly if ever King might rejoyce in God's strength and be exceeding glad of his Salvation our King much more and we with him The life of the whole Nation is bound up in the Kings life for sad experience tells us we felt the stroak of his Royal Fathers Death when this Kingdom 's glory fell with his body and was cut off with his Head And sure we cannot but be sensible how we have continued ever since so enslaved as not to know any other freedom save that of the Psalmist * Ps●l 88.5 free among the Dead For have we not walkt as so many Ghosts liv'd indeed but as in the infernal shades and heartless as well as headless nay and such should we still continue On the Tuesday after Easter week the Parliament with all loyal acknowledgments received his Majesties gracious Letters and Declaration did not the salvation of our God give us a right Easter Deliverance a resurrection from the dead putting a new life into us by the restoring of our gracious Soveraign Such is the Salvation of our King as none could give it but God the King of Kings so that the Title of Honour assum'd of old by several Emperours after great preservations may now be properly our Soveraign's even 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Preserv'd of God And observe as God do's hereby the more engage the King unto himself in devotion so do's he the more endear the King unto his people in affection For who so considers his deliverances * Especially when he past from Holland into Scotland by Sea and his escapes by * especially after Worster fight Land who so considers his dangers in his Native Country and his distresses in foraign Nations will easily discern how God hath set forth our Soveraign as a Mirrour of his Mercy that the eyes of all his People beholding him the more Dear unto God their hearts should esteem him the more endeared to themselves the Divine protection and favour recommending him to their greater Loyalty and Love Yea this Salvation of God presents our King not only the more to be beloved at home but also the more to be feared abroad Be it so then that other Kings now shine in the full Meridian of their glory as do the Crowns of Spain and France yet we know even at noon day our Charles's Star appears At the birth of his Majesty a Star appeared at noon and 't is not others more radiant Splendour of this Earth's Greatness that can take away the light of his vertues lustre in Heavens salvation Wherefore there must David and Israel the King and his People offer their oblation of praise where they receive their blessings of goodness and that is at the Altar of the Lord non nobis Domine Psal 115.1 non nobis not unto us O Lord not unto us but Vnto thee O God do we give thanks unto thee do we give thanks for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare 2. Particular The offering Thanks Vnto thee do we give thanks Which offering is made by fire for the words of Gemination shew there was an heat of Devotion Vnto thee O God do we give thanks were a Gratulation sincere but to repeat it say it over again unto thee do we give thanks speaks that Gratulation fervent But alas in our Thanksgiving what is it that we give worthy of Thanks why truly very little as to any real worth in it self yet very much as to the Devotion of faith and hope and love and humility c. in the Divine acceptance through Christ Thus to Thank God is to Bless God but not to bless him as he blesseth us His Benedixit is a benefecit when God blesseth man he do's speak the word and it is done Psal 33.9 but when man blesseth God all that he can do is but to speak the word even to declare the Glory and set forth the praises of God's blessings So that God's blessing descends upon man as an heavenly Dew in a quickning and refreshing Vigour man's blessing ascends unto God only as an holy Incense in an acceptable and well-pleasing savour Wherefore when we view the blessings of this day's solemnity and see how abundant God is in his mercy do we let him see how enlarged we are in our thankfulness making our hearts and our mouths as so many altars of Incense to breath forth the sweet savour of his goodness Herein to encourage our Devotion and quicken our zeal know the receipt of blessings is not more comfortable to Man then the returning of thanks is acceptable to God yea a devout Heart is not more truly joy'd in receiving mercyes then in returning thanks Hence it is that Psalms of Thanksgiving they have in them the life and vigour of all holy Devotion yea songs of praise they are the very Types of the joyes of heaven Whereby it is that the Church becomes even Triumphant on Earth Psal 106.47 Thus the Psalmist save us O Lord our God to give thanks unto thy Name and to triumph in thy Praise This then is the offering David and Israel bring to God's altar an oblation of thankfulness Vnto thee O God do we give thanks unto thee do we give thanks this the altar and the offering 3. Particul The reason of bringing this offering to the Altar and that is the nearness of God's name declared in the wonder of his Works for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare It is good that we can give a Rationale of Gods worship that it may be known we serve God with a reasonable service Rom. 12.1 which is the thing he so much requires Now then see we the glory of his Name in the wonder of his works as especially relating 1. To the King 2. To his People 3. To their Enemies 1. Relating to the King That notwithstanding all the dangers of sickness and of Seas of Treacheryes and of Violence notwithstanding all the hazards of temptations provocations yea necessityes and wants Necessityes and Wants so great that though his Kingdom was of this World yea in this World he had three potent Kingdoms yet had he not where to lay his head not where to lay it to rest For such and so many were his flittings if not his flyings from the West of England to the Isle of Scilly from that Island into Holland and from Holland into France from France into Holland again from Holland into Scotland from Scotland into England where what entertainment he had at Worster you may sadly remember being forc't to fly for his life take sanctuary in a Wood and make an hollow Oake his Royal Pallace from thence shadow'd with the Divine protection as * Multo nebulae circum dea fudit amictu Virg. Aen. 1. Aeneas with the vayl-like cloud he passeth thorow a throng of dangers before he attains the Sea-coast of Sussex from whence he hast's