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A91279	The signal loyalty and devotion of God's true saints and pious Christians, especially in this our island towards their kings: (as also of some idolatrous pagans) Both before, and under the law and gospel; expressed by their private and publick prayers, supplications, intercessions, thanksgivings, well-wishes for the health, safety, long life, prosperity, temporal, spiritual, eternal felicity of the kings and emperours under whom they lived, whether pagan or Christian, bad or good, heterodox or orthodox, Papists or Protestants, persecutors or protectors of them: and likewise for their royal issue, posterity realms; and by their dutiful conscientious obedience and subjection to them; with the true reasons thereof from scripture and policy. Evidenced by presidents and testimonies in all ages, worthy the knowledg, imitation, and serious consideration of our present degenerated disloyal, antimonarchical generation. In two parts. By William Prynne Esq; late bencher, and reader of Lincolns-In; Signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians, towards their kings. Parts 1 and 2.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1680 (1680)	Wing P4082A; ESTC R229902	277,267	460

THE Signal Loyalty and Devotion OF GOD's True Saints and Pious Christians Especially in this our Island towards their KINGS As also of some Idolatrous Pagans Both before and under the Law and Gospel expressed by their private and publick Prayers Supplications Intercessions Thanksgivings well-wishes for the Health Safety Long Life Prosperity Temporal Spiritual Eternal Felicity of the Kings and Emperours under whom they lived whether Pagan or Christian Bad or Good Heterodox or Orthodox Papists or Protestants Persecutors or Protectors of them and likewise for their Royal Issue Posterity Realms and by their dutiful conscientious Obedience and Subjection to them with the true Reasons thereof from Scripture and Policy Evidenced by Presidents and Testimonies in all Ages worthy the Knowledg Imitation and serious Consideration of our present Degenerated Disloyal Antimonarchical Generation In TWO PARTS By William Prynne Esq late Bencher and Reader of Lincolns-Inne Psal 72. 1 2. Give the King thy Judgments O Lord and thy Righteousness unto the King's Son Then shall he judge thy people with Righteousness and thy poor with Judgment Tertulliani Apollogia adversus Gentes c. 32. Hoc agite boni Praesides extorquete animam Deo supplicantem pro Imperatore Hoc erit crimen ubi veritas Dei devotio est LONDON Printed for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little-Britain 1680. Where you may be furnished with most of this Learned Authors Works and a Printed Catalogue To his most Illustrious over-long Exterminated but now happily Restored Soveraign CHARLS the SECOND By the Miraculous Grace of God and indubitable Hereditary Birthright and Succession of ENGLAND SCOTLAND FRANCE and IRELAND KING the invincible constant Professor and DEFENDOR of the truly Antient Catholick and Apostolick FAITH in the midst of manifold Persecutions Provocations Solicitations Temptations and Fiery Tryals the Magazin of all Christian and Royal Virtues and Miracle of Gods preserving and restoring Mercies Most gracious Soveraign THe only potentate and KING OF KINGS who removeth Kings and SETTETH UP KINGS and ruleth in the KINGDOM OF MEN TO GIVE IT TO WHOMSOEVER HE PLEASETH having by his own Omnipotent out-stretched arm and successive Miraculous Providences unexpectedly cut off cast down subverted dissipated without hands or bloodshed the most Execrable Persidious Trayterous Murderers of your Royal Father KING CHARLS the first of Glorious Memory and Unjust disinheriters and proscribers of your Sacred Majestie out of all your own Hereditary Kingdoms and some forein States by Violence War and inhumane Tyranny enforcing your Majesty oft to cry out with the Exiled Kingly Prophet Wo is me that I am constrained to dwell in Mesech and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar c. who by rigorous Edicts debarred your Majestie not only of the Charitable Relief of your own Protestant Subjects but likewise of the Christian Aid and Evangelical Tribute due to all Pagan as well as Christian KINGS by divine and common natural Right of their daily Supplications Prayers and Intercessions to God for your Personal Preservation and Restitution under severest Penalties imposed many insupportable new Yoaks of Bondage on all your Subjects necks and worse than Aegyptian Burdens upon their galled backs for sundry yeares almost to their Irrecoverable ruine it pleased this Soveraign King over all the earth and God of the Spirits of all flesh by strange Miracles of mercy through the preparatory loyal Endeavours of some of your Majesties most inconsiderable faithfull Subjects upon the very first Reception and reading of your Majesties most gracious Letters and Declarations to the Lords Commons City of London Army and Navy immediately to bow the hearts and spirits of both your Houses of Parliament and all your Subjects yea of the very Military Officers Forces by Land and Sea formerly raised engaged against your Majesties Cause and Kingship as the heart of one man as he bowed the hearts of the men of Judah after rebellious usurping Absoloms death in the case of exterminated King David so that they immediately and unanimously voted your Majesties speedy return dispatched their several Letters Votes Messengers Fleet and Monies to your Majesty without one dissenting voice to hasten your Majesties return and transport you with honour and safety to enjoy your KINGLY AUTHORITY and PATRIMONY contending with a most cordial aemulation who should be first and forwardest to bring back and conduct your Majesty together with your Princely Brothers and Followers from your long most deplorable exile to your Royal City and Palace with all possible demonstrations of their publike joy and dutifull Allegeance to your Majesty and farr greater Magnificence Solemnity Triumph and multitudes of Conductors than any of your most Victorious Royal Progenitors enjoyed when they returned into England from their greatest Forein Conquests And that which crowned this Miracle of Mercies was its celerity and season it having both its inception and perfection within the limits of one Month and its completion on Your Majesties Birth-day May 29. whereon as You were first born a Prince You were now re●born A MOST GLORIOUS KING and most magnificently invested in the possession of Your Royal Throne at Whitehall in the presence of all your Majesties Lords Commons and thousands of your People there assembled who with their united Shouts Prayers Praises Acclamations Benedictions and Panegyricks congratulated your Maties Natural and Political Nativity thereon both as a Man and Monarch together with the new Birth and Resurrection of Your three United Kingdoms and Churches of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND and their respective Dominions being all raised from their Graves of Death and Misery wherein they had for some years space before been interred and were new born AS KINGDOMS and Churches too on that joyful day worthy to be celebrated by them in all succeeding Generations and to have this Divine motto engraven thereon The stone which the builders refused is this day become the Head of the corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes THIS IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MADE WEE WILL REJOYCE AND BE GLAD THEREIN What the elegant Prophet Isaiah records of Gods miraculous Mercies towards his Church and people Before she travelled she brought forth before her pain came she was delivered of a man-child Who hath heard such a thing WHO HATH SEEN SUCH THINGS Shall the Earth be made to bring forth in ONE DAY OR SHALL A NATION BE BORN AT ONCE For as soon as ZION travelled she brought forth her children Was now verified both of your Majesty and your three whole Kingdoms Churches all brought forth and born together in this one DAY Wherefore Rejoyce ye with Jerusalem with England and be glad with her all ye that love her rejoyce for joy with her all ye that mourned for her It hath been the antient cavill of our Romish Adversaries against our Reformed Protestant Churches Religion that they are false and spurious because they have no

miracles wrought in them And they have daily upbraided your sacred Majesty your followers yea pierced your souls during your Exile among them with this soul-piercing Quaere Where is now the God of the Protestants He can neither preserve nor restore You to your Crowns and Kingdoms Unless you renounce your Protestant God Church Heresie embrace our Roman Catholike God Church Religion there is no hope nor possibility of your restitution and that only by the Arms of your Catholike Allyes and Subjects But blessed and for ever magnified be the glorious Name of our great God who hath now vindicated his own Glorie and Omnipotencie against their reproaches wrought so many Miracles in your Maties restitution to justifie both the Truth of the Protestant Religion Churches your Subjects that all their spurious Miracles and Impostures wherewith they abuse their over-credulous Proselytes and fraught their Legends even to nauseousnesse are no more to be compared with them than a Glo-worm to the Noon-day Sun And their God and rock is not as our God and rock our Enemies themselves being now Judges Verily your Majesty with all your Protestant Subjects after such a stupendious glorious deliverance from their late usurping Pharaohs worse than Aegyptian Tax-masters Burdens and servitude have just cause to sing aloud to the God of their Salvation this triumphant song of Moses and the Children of Israel and King David after them Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the Gods who is like unto thee glorious in holynesse fearfull in prayses doing wonders Thou stretchest out thy right hand the earth swallowed them Thou in thy mercy hast led forth thy people which thou hast redeemed Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoyce for thou hast now given him his hearts desire thou hast not with-holden the request of his lips For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head His glory is great in thy salvation Honor and Majesty hast thou laid upon him Thou hast made him most Blessed for ever thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy Countenance For the King trusteth in the Lord and through the mercy of the most High he shall not miscarry Blessed be the Lord God of England from everlasting to everlasting for this unexpressible mercy and let all the people say Amen Praise ye the Lord. Yea they all now joyntly and severally apply to your Majestie the blessing and words of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon after she beheld his transcendent Wisdom Virtues and Magnificence which far exceeded the report thereof as your Majesties royal wisdom and graces of all kinds much transcend their fame Blessed be the Lord thy God who delighted in thee to set thee upon his Throne to be King for the Lord thy God Because the Lord thy God loved Israel England Scotland and Ireland TO ESTABLISH THEM FOR EVER THEREFORE MADE HE THEE KING OVER THEM TO DO JUSTICE AND JUDGEMENT yea to restore them to their pristine Liberty Peace Plenty Traffick Renown Prosperity and make them the happiest of all Subjects in the world In the contemplation of which inchoated common Felicity I humbly presume to dedicate to your Majesty this now compleated Treatise of The Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and pious Christians in all ages and likewise of Pagans to their KINGS both before and under the Law and Gospel more especially within this your first Christian Realm of Britain wherein I have most expatiated expressed both by their publike and private Prayers Supplications and Intercessions unto God for their long life health safety victory prosperity temporal spiritual and eternal felicity and all sorts of blessings both on their Royal Persons Queens Progenies Families Government Kingdoms Armies Couns●ls by their Thanksgivings to God for their advancement to their Royal Thrones Victories Successes Deliverances Piety Justice and Gratious reigns over them by their loyal Acclamations Salutations Addresses Panegyricks Epistles to them and their dutiful Subjection and Obedience under them which I have evidenc'd by presidents and Testimonies in all ages never formerly collected into one Manual To which I have super-added the antient and modern Forms of the Coronations of Christian Emperors Kings and Queens and of some Pagans with the Ceremonies Solemnities Prayers Collects and Benedictions used at them especially those relating to England and Scotland not hitherto published as a President in and Prologue to your Majesties much desired and expected Coronation The first Part of this Treatise I lately Printed for Your Majesties service in January last to inthrone You in the Hearts cordial Prayers and Supplications of all Your loyal Subjects and to prepare the way for Your Majestyes speedy Restauration to Your Hereditary Crowns and Kingdoms which blessed be God you now actually enjoy to their unspeakable comfort of the accomplishment whereof without Armes or Blood I had such full assurance then and since in my own apprehensions from the Observation of Gods admirable Providences of Your Majesties Opposites intollerable Extravagances and Infatuations of late Your Subjects dutiful Inclinations tending thereunto through the loyal Endeavour of some Faithfull Friends to your Majestie and your People that I committed the Second Part of this Treatise and all that concerns Your Coronation to the Presse in the beginning of April last before any visible appearances thereof to the eyes or thoughts of others And I repute it an extraordinary Blessing and Honour from God and your Majesty that any of my Paper Arms and Publications in your Majesties and others apprehensions have been instrumental to promote this your happy Unbloody most joyfull Restitution to your Throne and Kingship maugre all Ire Ingagements Oaths of Abjurations to debar your Majestie and all your Royal line for ever from them I humbly beseech your Royal Majestie graciously to accept this Unpolish'd work compiled in the midst of many publike distracting Imployments bring your Highnesses peculiar by all Rights and Circumstances as a Publick Testimony of my Loyalty to your Majestie and a lasting Monument of my Thankfullnesse to Almighty God for hearing my many years constant Prayers and blessing my impotent Paper Artillery and endeavors for your Majesties long-desired and now happily accomplished Investitute not only in your Royal Throne but like a 〈◊〉 in the Hearts Consciences publike private Devotions and Supplications of all your People Whom this Treatise seconded with my Healths Sicknesse dedicated to your Royal Father many years past and your Majesties most Pious fresh Proclamation will instruct and excite most devoutly to pray for your Majesties Health and Happiness in their Churches Chapels Families Closets rather than heathenishly to prophane abuse your Sacred Name in drinking your Majesties Health to the Hazard of their own and their fools to boot through Drunkennesse and Intemperance in Taverns

gratia adesto ut in hac vita grata sint tibi opera ejus in futuro tecum regnet in omnem aeternitatem per Christum Dominum et Servatorem nostrum Amen Salvam fac Domine Reginam nec unquam avertas faciem tuam ab ea Vitam longaevam tribus illi et sub umbra tuarum alarum protege eam Amen After these follow this Prayer Pro Christianis Magistratibus Misericors Deus ac Coelestis pater in cujus manu est omnis terrena potestas Magistratus per te constitutos ad supplicium malorum defensionem bonorum in cujus potenti dextera sita sunt omnia jura leges imperatorum Te supplices oramus pro Principe nostro proque eis qui sunt ei à consiliis qui rempublicam administrant ut gladium ipsis per te commissum in fide vera timore Dei rectegerant eoque pro tua voluntate jussu utantur Obumbret eos virtus sapientia Altissinii Illuminet conservet eos in amore Dei divina tua● gratia Da illis ô Domine sapientiam intellectum Concede quietam gubernationem ut omnes subditos in veritate sidei dilectione justitia quae tibi cordi sit regant dicto audientes conservent Proroga ipsis Dies vitae suae et annos multos largire ut prospera laudata ipsorum functione nomen tuum sanctificetur laudetur in omne aevum Amen Towards the end of the Book follow certain Latin Prayers and Graces to be used before and after meals to which there is this Conclusion added Gratiarum actiones à Cibo semper concludantur hac precatiuncula Deus servet Ecclesiam Regem vel Reginam custodiat Consiliarios ejus regat populum universum tueatur pacem Nobis donet perpetuam Amen In imitation whereof this Prayer was commonly used in all Colleges Schools Hospitals Families throughout the Realm in their Graces after every Meal GOD SAVE his Church our King Queen Prince the rest of the Royal Issue when there were such living and Realms God send us Peace in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The like Prayers in English for the Queen to be used in in Christian Families were published by John Field in his Prayers and Meditations for the use of private Families 1581. The Kings Psalms and Queens Prayers 1590. in Christian private prayers by Edw. Deering 1590. in the Manuel of Prayers set out by Iohn Rogers Anno 1591. in Christian Prayers set out by Henry Bull Anno 1592. in Tho. Sampsons Prayers 1592. with sundry others But I shall close up all with Bishop Iewels Prayer for the Queens Majesty in his Epistle to her prefixed to his Apology of the Church of England printed 1570. and after re-printed God evermore enflame and direct your Majesty with his holy Spirit that the zeal of his House may sincerely devour your Gracious heart that you may safely walk in the wayes of your Father David that you may utterly abandon all Groves and Hill-Altars That you may live an old Mother in Israel that you may see an end of all Distractions and stablisht Peace and Unity in the Church of God Amen And with the Prayer of Doctor Thomas Bilson in the close of his Epistle to her Majesty before his Books of The true difference between Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion A very learned and seasonable Treatise wherein he produceth some Testimonies of Fathers praying for Heretical and persecuting Emperors The King of Kings and Lord of Lords bless and preserve your Majesty and as he hath begun a good and glorious work in you and in the Realm by you so continue the same by lightening you with his holy Spirit and defending you with his mighty Arm as he hath done from the day that he chose you to be the Leader and Guider of his People that you may long keep them in truth and peace by the assistance of his Grace to the prayse of his glory increase of the Godly and grief of his and your Subjects Even so Lord Iesus The Clergy of England assembled in Convocation Anno 1603. the first year of King Iames his Reign in their Constitations and Canons Ecclesiastical then agreed upon by them ratified and published by the Kings Authority under his Great Seal did thus evidence to the world their loyalty to the King and his Royal posterity Can. 1. As our Duty to the Kings Most excellent Majesty requireth we first decree and ordain That the Archbishop of Canterbury from time to time all Bishops of this Province or Deans Archdeacons Vicars and all other Ecclesiastical persons shall faithfully keep and observe and as much as in them lyeth shall cause to be observed and kept of others all and singular Laws and Statutes made for the restoring to the Crown of this Kingdom the antient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and abolishing of all forein power repugant to the same Furthermore all Ecclesiastical persons having cure of Souls and all other Preachers and Readers of Divinity Lectures shall to the uttermost of their wit knowledge and learning purely and sincerely without any colour or dissimulation teach manifest open and declare four times every year at the least in their Sermons and other Collations and Lectures That all usurped and forein power forasmuch as the same hath no establishment nor ground by the Law of God is for most just causes taken away and abolished and that therefore no manner of obedience and subjection within his Majesties Realms and Dominions is due unto any such forein power but that the Kings power within his Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Dominions and Countries IS THE HIGHEST POWER VNDER GOD to whom all men as well Inhabitants as born within the same do by Gods Laws owe most loyalty and obedience afore and above all other Powers and Potentates in the earth Canon II. Impugners of the Kings Supremacy censured Whosoever shall hereafter affirm that the Kings Majesty hath not the same authority in cause Ecclesiastical that the godly Kings had among the Jews and Christian Emperours in the primitive Church or impeach in any part his Regal Supremacy in the said causes restored to the Crown and by the Laws of this Realm therein established let him be excommunicated ipso facto and not restored but only by the Archbishop after his repentance and publick revocation of those his wicked errors Canon XXXVI Subscription required of all such who are to be made Ministers No person shall hereafter be received into the Ministry nor either by Institution or Collation admitted to any Ecclesiastical living nor suffered to preach to Chatechize or to be a Lecturer or Reader of Divinity in either Universities or in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church City or Market-Town Parish-Church Chapel or in any other place within this Realm except he be licenced by the Archbishop or by the Bishop of the Diocesse where he is to be

placed under their Hands and Seal or by one of the two Universities under their Seal likewise and except he shall first subscribe to these three Articles following in such manner and sort as we have here appointed 1. That the Kings Majesty under GOD is the only supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesse Dominions and Countries aswell in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal and that no forein Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate have or ought to have Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within his Majesties said Realms Dominions and Countreys c. And Can. 55. They prescribed this form of prayer to be used by them in their prayers before all their Ser-Lectures and Homilies And herein I require you most especially to pray for the Kings most excellent Majesty our Soveraign Lord CHARLES King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith and Supreme Governour in these his Realms and all other his Dominions and Countries over all persons in all causes aswell Ecclesiastical as Temporal Ye shall also pray for the Kings most honourable Councel and for all the Nobility and Magistrates of this Realm that all and every of these in their several callings may serve truly and painfully to the glory of GOD and the edifying and well governing of his people remembring the account that they must make Also ye shall pray for the whole Commons of this Realm that they may live in true Faith and Fear of God in humble obedience to the King and brotherly charity one to another Which all Ministers and Preachers duly observed usually adding this clause thereunto That God out of his infinite mercy would grant so to blesse the Kings Majestie and his Royal issue with a perpetual Posterity that there might never want a Man of that Royal race to sway the Scepter of these Realms so long as the Sun and Moon should endure and till all Scepters and Kingdoms should be resigned at the last day into the hands of Jesus Christ the King of Kings The Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons of the Realm of England assembled in Parliament in the first year of King James do thus expresse and declare their own and the whole Kingdoms unspeakeable joys acclamations and thanksgivings unto God and their own and their posterities Signal Loyalty affection and Devotion to King James his Heirs and Royal progeny for ever in the Statute of 1 Jacobi ch 1. intituled A most joyfull and just Recognition of the immediate lawfull and undoubted succession descent and Right of the Crown Great and manifold were the benefits most dread and most gracious Soveraign wherewith almighty God blessed this Kingdom and Nation by the happy union and conjunction of the two Nobles houses of York and Lancaster thereby preserving this noble Realm formerly torn and almost wasted with long and miserable dissention and bloodie Civil War But more inestimable and unspeakable blessings are thereby powred upon us because there is derived and grown from and out of that union of those two Princely families a more famous and greater union or rather a re-uniting of two Mighty Famous and antient Kingdoms yet antiently but one of England and Scotland under one Imperial Crown in your most Royal Person who is lineally rightfully and lawfully descended of the body of the most excellent Lady Margaret eldest daughter of the most renowned King Henry the 7th and the high and noble Princesse Queen Elizabeth his wife eldest daughter of King Edward the 4th The said Lady Margaret being eldest sister of King Henry the 8th father of the high and mightie Princesse of famous memorie Elizabeth late Queen of England In consideration whereof albeit we your Majesties loyal and faithfull Subjects of all Estates and Degrees with all possible publike Joy and Acclamation by open Proclamations within few houres after the decease of our late Soveraign Queen acknowledging thereby with one full voice of tongue and heart that your Majesty was our only lawfull and rightfull Leige Lord and Soveraign and by our unspeakable and general rejoycing and applause at your Majesties most happy inauguration and Coronation by the affectionate desire of infinite numbers of us of all degrees to see your Royal Person and by all possible outward means have indeavoured to make demonstration of our inward love zeal and devotion to your most excellent Majestie our undoubted rightfull Leige Soveraign Lord and King yet as we cannot do it too often or enough so can there be no means or way so fit both to sacrifice our unfeined and heartie thanks to Almighty God for blessing us with a Soveraign adorued with the rarest gifts of mind and body in such admirable peace and quietnesse and upon the knees of our hearts to agnize our most constant faith obedience and loyalty to your Majestie and your Royal Progenie as in this high Court of Parliament where all the whole body of the Realm and every particular Member thereof either in Person or Represeatation upon their own free Elections are by the Laws of this Realm deemed to be personally present To the present acknowledgment whereof to your Majestie we are the more deeply bounden and obliged as well in regard of the extraordinarie care and pains which with so great wisdom knowledge experience and dexteritie your Majestie since the Imperial Crown of this Realm descended to you have taken for the continuance and establishment of the blessed peace both of the Church of England in the true and sincere Religion and of the Common-wealth by due and speedy administration of justice as in respect of the gracious care and inward affection which it pleased you on the first day of this Parliament so lively to expresse by your own words so full of high wisdom learning and virtue and so repleate with Royal and thankfull acceptation of all our faithfull and constant endeavours which is and ever will be to our inestimable consolation and comfort We therefore your most humble and loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do from the bottom of our hearts yield to the divine Majestie all humble thanks and prayses not only for the said unspeakable and inestimable benefits and blessings above mentioned but also that he hath further enriched your Highnesse with a most Royal Progenie of Most rare and excellent gifts and forwardnesse and in his goodnesse is like to increase the happy number of them And in most humble and lowly manner do beseech your most Excellent Majestie that as a memorial to all posterities amongst the Records of your high Court of Parliament for ever to endure of our Loyalty Obedience and harty and humble Affection it may be published and declared in this high Court of Parliament and enacted by authority of the same That we being bounden thereunto both by the Laws of God and Man do recognize and acknowledge and thereby

expresse our unspeakable Joyes That immediately upon the dissolution and decease of Elizabeth late Queen of England the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by inherent Birthright and lawfull and undoubted Success●en descend and come to your most Excellent Majestie as being Lineally Justly and Lawfully next and sole Heir of the Blood Royal of this Realm as is aforesaid And that by the goodnesse of God Almighty and lawfull Right of descent under one Imperial Crown your Majestie is of the Realms and Kingdoms of England Scotland France and Ireland the most Potent and mighty King and by Gods goodnesse more able to protect and govern us your loving Subjects in all Peace and Plentie than any of your noble Progenitors And thereunto we most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our selves our heirs and posterities for ever until the last drop of our Bloods be spent And do beseech your Majestie to accept the same as the first fruits in this high Court of Parliament of our Loyalty and faith to your Majestie and your Royal Progenie and posterity for ever Which if your Majestie shall be pleased as an argument of your gracious acceptation to adorn with your Majesties Royal Assent without which it can neither be complete and perfect nor remain to all posteritie according to our most humble desire as a memorial of your Princely and tender affection towards us we shall adde this also to the rest of your Majesties unspeakable and inestimable benefits In which Act there are these particulars very seasonable and observable in respect of the present posture of our publike affairs 1. That the happy union and conjunction of our divided Kingdoms formenly torn and wasted with long and miserable dissentions and bloody civil wars between Competitors for the Crown and the King and Subjects is a great and unspeakable benefit and blessing to the Kingdom and Nation bestowed on them by God himself 2. That the re-uniting not only of the two but three mighty famous and antient Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland under one Imperial Crown and Heredirary King is a far more inestimable and unspeakable blessing to all 3. Kingdoms and Nations 3. That there is no Interregnum in Law in the Realm and Crown of England but that immediately upon the decease of the King thereof the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same do by inherent birth-right and lawfull and undoubted Succession Lineally Justly and lawfully descend to the next heir of the blood Royal before he be publikely crowned King As this Act in direct Terms declares and all the Judges of England unanimously adjudged in the case of Watson and Cleark 2. Popish Priests who held King James no lawfull King before he was Crowned and thereupon conspired to imprison him in the Tower c. for which they were both condemned and executed as Traytors Hill 1. Jacobi as had been oft adjudged before in the first 7. years of King H. 6. and in the cases of Queen Jane the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk the Lord Rochford Sir John Gates Sir Thomas Palmer and others condemned in levying War against her and executed 1 Mariae for Treason against Qu. Mary before she was Crowned to deprive her of the Crown which both the Peers and Judges of the Realm and the Parliament of 1 Mariae ch 16. adjudged Treason within 25 E. 3. against the mistaken Doctrine of Mr. Thomas Scot and some temporizing Lawyers of late years 4. That it is the duty and practice of all loyal and faithfull Subjects of all estates and degrees with all possible publike joyes unspeakable general rejoycings acclamations applauses affectionate desires by other means to proclaim acknowledge and Crown their lawfull hereditary Kings after the decease of their Ancestors and to make all possible demonstrations of their cordial loyalty love zeal and affection to them both in and out of Parliment being obliged thereunto both by the Laws of God and Man 5. That this Act of Parliament and the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance do both in point of Law Loyalty Justice Conscience oblige the whole English Nation their heirs and posterities for ever to be true faithfull loyal and obedient to King James his heirs and posteritie for ever and so to our present King till the last drop of their blood be spent as to their undoubted lawfull and hereditary Kings and Soveraigns 6. That a numerous hopefull royal Progeny likely to continue and perpetuate the hereditarie succession of the Crown in the true Regal line is an extraordinarie blessing and happinesse to the Kingdom for which they are all bound both in and out of Parliament to render all humble thanks and praises unto God To this I shall subjoyn the Statute of 3 Iacobi ch 1. entituled An Act for a publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God every year on the fifth day of November FOrasmuch as Almightie God hath in all ages shewed his power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverance of his Church and in the protection of religious Kings and States And that no Nation of the earth hath been blessed with greater benefits than this Kingdom now enjoyeth having the true and free profession of the Gospel under our most gracious Soveraign Lord King Iames the most great learned and religious King that ever reigned therein enriched with a most hopefull and plentifull Progeny proceeding out of his Royal loyns promising continuance of this happinesse and profession to all posterity the which many malignant and devillish Papists Jesuites and Seminary Priests much envying and fearing Conspired most horribly when the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Queen the Prince and all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons should have been assembled in the Upper House of Parliament upon the fifth day of November in the year of our Lord 1605. suddenlie to have blown up the said whole House with Gunpowder An invention so inhuman barbarous and cruel as the like was never before heard of and was as some of the principal Conspirators thereof confesse purposely devised and concluded to be done in the said House that where the sundry necessarie and Religious Laws for preservation of the Church and State were made which they falsly and slanderously term cruel Laws enacted against them and their Religion both place and persons should be all destroyed and blown up at once which would have turned to the utter ruine of this whole Kingdom had it not pleased Almighty God by inspiring the Kings most Excellent Majestie with a Divine spirit to interpret some dark phrases of a Letter shewed to his Majestie above and beyond all ordinarie construction thereby miraculously discovering this hidden Treason not many hours before the appointed time for the execution thereof Therefore the Kings most Excellent Majestie the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and all his Majesties Faithfull and loving

Progeny our selves and our Posterity and for the preventing suppressing and final rooting out of the spring issue and fruit of all such hellish and popish hearts intentions and practices to the everlasting praise and glory of thy blessed name Hear us we pray thee O Father of mercy in these our most humble and needfull petitions forgive and answer us according to thy fatherly and great goodnesse for Jesus Christ his sake to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God be all praise glory and power now and for ever Amen A Prayer for the Parliament used also in the House II. ALmighty God which by thy holy Prophet David art most truly said to stand in the Congregation of Princes and givest judgement in the midst of the mighty men of the world and through whom Princes do reign Law-makers do discern just things Lords bear rule and all Judges of the earth execute judgement and for that cometh of thee all Counsel and equity all understanding and strength grant unto us here gathered together in thy name that wisdom which is alwaies assistant to thy seat to give knowledge to our feeble and ignorant minds Send down we beseech thee the same wisdom out of thy holy heavens and from the throne of thy Majesty that is may be now with us and labour with us whereby we surely knowing what is acceptable unto thee may be led through it to the debating weighing and final determining of those matters by the which thy blessed Name may be glorified thy Catholick Church of England confirmed and increased the Kings assurance established the common tranquillity of this Realm safely maintained and last of all all estates and people thereof in true obedience and charity united and knit together Grant this O God for thy only Sons sake Jesus Christ our Lord Amen In the Lords House the Collects and Prayers in the Common Prayer Book and Letany for the King Queen Prince and Royal Posterity with other prayers were daily used by the Bishops and Peers during their Session To mention all the particular Prayers for the King Queen and Royal posterity comprised in Books of private Prayers and Devotion as the Practice of Piety and the like and Epistles Dedicatory perfixed to hundreds of Books and Sermons dedicated to King James by Bishops Ministers and others of all sorts and in usual Graces before and after meals would be both infinite and nauseous being commonly known and obvious to all and therefore I shall wholy pretermit them the substance of them being comprised in those Prayers already mentioned I shall now proceed to the reign of our late King Charles who as he had constant Supplications and Prayers made for him in all Cathedral and Parish Churches Chapels Colledges most private families and in our Parliaments themselves by name during all King James his reign as Duke of York and Prince of Wales so after his comming to the Crown March 27. 1645. till January 1648. he had the like publike and private Prayers Intercessions and Supplications made for him throughout his 3. Realms as King and for his Queen and royal Posteritie not only by our preaching Ministers in their prayers before their Sermons and by most others in their morning and evening family and closet prayers Graces before or after meales as our own experience attests but likewise these special set Prayers Petitions and Collects in our Letany and common Prayer Book which I shall here transcribe because almost quite forgotten by above 12. whole years discontinuance in most Churches Families too In the publike Letany ordered to be read thrice every week or oftener upon occasion there are these several Prayers and Petitions to God That it would please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy servant Charles our most gracious King and Governor That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his Enemies That it may please thee to blesse and preserve our gratious Queen Mary Prince Charles and the rest of the Royal Issue After every of which several Prayers and Supplications all the People severally answered We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. After which followed these two Prayers for the Kings Majestie the Queen Prince and Royal Issue and read twice every day in most places O God our heavenly Father high and mighty King of Kings and Lord of Lords the only Ruler of Princes which dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may alwaies incline to thy will and walk in thy way endue him plentifully with heavenly gifts Grant him in health and wealth long to live strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his Enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Almighty God the Father of thine elect and of their seed which Bishop Laud changed into the fountain of all goodnesse we humbly beseech thee to blesse our gracious Queen Mary Prince Charles and the rest of the royal issue Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich them with thy Heavenly grace prosper them with all happinesse and bring them to thine everlasting Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen In the Prayer for the whole Estate of Christs Church there is this Clause relating to Kings in general and King Charles in particular We beseech thee also to save and defend all Christian Kings Princes and Governors and Specially thy servant Charles our King that under him we may be godly and quietly Governed When these Prayers and Collects with the Book of Common-Prayer were suspended by the Directory of the publike worship of God in most places throughout the 3 Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Printed by order of both Houses 13 Martii 1644. yet the substance of them was still continued by the very Directory it self during the heat of the late Wars between the King and Parliament witnesse p. 10 11. of publike Prayer before the Sermon wherein all Ministers are directed To pray for all in Authority especially for the Kings Majesty that God would make him rich in blessings both in Person and Government establish his Throne in Religion and righteousnesse save him from all evil Counsel and make him a blessed and glorious Instrument for the Conservation and Propagation of the Gospel for the Encouragement and Protection of those that do well and the terror of all that do evil and the great good of the whole Church and of all his Kingdoms for the Conversion of the Queen the Religious education of the

plectatur Nam si maledici Regnum Dei non possidebunt Quantò magis talis ab Ecclesiae necessariò pellitur qui divinae sententiae violator atque in Principem peacans invenitur Si quis contra Regiam dignitatem dolose callide et perniciose machinari comprobatus suerit nisi dignissime satisfecerit anathematizetur Si quis potestati Regiae quae non est nis● a Deo contumaci ac 〈◊〉 Spiritu contra anthoritatem et rationem pertinaciter contradicere praesumpserit et ejus in●●is Imperils obtemperare noluerit anathema sit CHAP. VIII I Now proceed in the last place to the Solemn publick Prayers Acclamations Supplications Thanksgivings Collects usually made at the Solemn Coronations of Christian Emperors Kings and Queens and the Homage and Oaths of Allegiance and Fidelity then commonly sworn to them by their Prelates and Nobles especially in England I shall begin with Corippus who poetically relating the manner of the Coronation of the Emperor Justin and his Empresse Sophia Anno 565 he living in that Age brings in the Patriarch of Constantinople thus praying for him and the People supplicating and praying for their happiness long life and prosperous Reign with united reiterated Shouts and Acclamations Postquàm cuncta videt ritu praefecta priorum Pontificum summus plaenaque aetate venustus Adstantem benedixit eum Coelique potentem Exo●ans Dominum sacro diademate jussit Augustum sancire caput summoque coronam Imponens apici c. After which the People Justinum Sophiamque pares duo lumina mundi Esse ferunt Regnate pares in saecula dicunt Felices Annos Dominis felicibus orant Insonuit vox illa diu tandemque quievit Cautacbuthenus Histor l. 1. c 41. recording at large the Ceremonies used at the Coronation of the Emperors of Constantinople and particularly of the inauguration of Andronicus the younger Anno 1330. informs us That the Patriarch of Constantinople ascending upon a Scaffold Patriarcha precationes ad Imperatorum unctionem compositas alias submissa alias clara voce omnibus andientibus ordine recitat ac Deum ei qui ungendus est propitiat c. Patriarcha verò ad soleam consistens pro Imperatore Imperatrice et eorum populis Preces pronunciat After which Diaconus sublata voce inquit Memor sit Dominus Deus potentiae Imperii vestri in Regno suo ubique nunc et semper et in secula seculorum addens Amen Deinceps et reliqui Diaconi ac Sacerdotes adeuntes idem comprecantur After his Consecration he ascends into the Catechumeum where he may be seen of all where there is a Hymn Sung to his Prayse et sanctis Acclamationibus ab omnibus excipitur As touching the Ceremonies used at the Coronations of the Roman Emperors and the several Prayers Collects Oaths made at them you may consult at leisure Hieromymus Balbus de Coronatione ad Carol. 5. c. 6 31. Gunther lib. 1. Onuphrins de Comitiis Imperatoriis c. 10 11. Bartholomeus Chassaneus Catalog Glor. Mundi pars 5. consid 27. Krantzius Saxoniae Hist l. 4. c. 37. Sigonius de Regno Ital. l. 1 3 4 7. Aventinus Annal. Boyorum l. 6. Antonius Sabinus Georgius Flammin Grimstones Imperial History and others in the lives of the Emperors Charles the 5th Maximilian 1 2. Matthias Ferdinand The form of the Emperors coronation in Italian printed 1558 and above all others Melchior Goldastus Politica Imperialia Part. 3. Discurs 3. The old Ordo Romanus Antiqu. de divinis Catholicae Ecclesiae Officiis et Ministeriis compiled about 800. years after Christ as Iodocus Coccius and others apprehend prescribes this form of Consecration Prayers and Collects at the Emperors Coronation which I shall recite because omitted by Mr. Selden it begins thus Incipit Ordo Romanus ad Benedicendum Imperatorem Orationem primam det Episcopus de Castello Albanensi ante portam Argenteam Oremus Deus in cujus manu corda sunt Regum inclina ad preces humilitatis nostrae aures misericordiae tuae Principi nostro regimen tuae appone sapientiae ut haustis de tuo fonte consiliis tibi placeat super omnia Regna praecellat Per Dominum Orationem secundam det Episcopus Portuensis intra Ecclesiam beati Petri Apostoli in medio rotae Deus inenarrabilis auctor mundi ut supra scriptum est in ordinatione Regis Deinde vadat ante confessionem beati Petri Apostoli prosternat se pronus in terram archidiaconus faciat litaniam Qua finita Episcopus Ostiensis ungat ei oleo exorcizato brachium dextrum inter scapulas dicat orationem istam Domine Deus omnipotens cujus est omnis potestas dignitas te supplici devotione atque humillima prece deposcimus ut huic famulo tuo N. prosperum Imperatoriae dignitatis concedas effectum ut in tua dispositione constituto ad regendam Ecclesiam tuam sanctam nihil praesentia officiant futuraque non obsistant sed inspirance sancti Spiritus tui dono populum sibi subditum aequo justitiae libramine regere valeat in omnibus operibus suis te semper timeat tibi jugiter placere contendat Per. Pontifex ergo stet sursum ante altare imponat ei diadema super caput dicens Accipe signum gloriae in nominae Patris Filii Spiritus sancti ut spreto antiquo hoste spretisque contagiis omnium vitiorum sic judicium justitiam diligas misericorditer vivas ut ab ipso Domino nostro Jesu Christo in consortio Sanctorum aeterni regni coronam percipias Qui cum Patre Spiritu tuo sancto vivit regnat Deus per infinita secula seculorum Resp Amen Alia coronae impositio Accipe coronam à Domino Deo tibi praedestinatam habeas teneas atque possideas filiis tuis post te futuris ad honorem Deo auxiliante derelinquas Exaudi Domine preces nostras famulum tuum N. ad regendum Rom. imperium constitutum ut per te regere incipiat per te fideliter Regnum custodiat Qui vivit regnat Oremus Prospice omnipotens Deus serenis obtutibus hunc gloriosum Imperatorem nostrum N. sicut benedixisti Abraham Isaac Jacob Require supra in benedictione Regis Alia Deus pater aeternae gloriae sit adjutor tuus Protector omnipotens benedicat tibi preces tuas in cunctis exaudiat et vitam longitudine dierum adimpleat et semper in sua voluntate custodiat thronum Regni corroboret gentes populumque tuum ad nutum tuum subjiciat et à peste et fame tuis temporibus conservet inimicos tuos confusione induat et super te Christi sanctificatio floreat et super caetera regna excellentiorem faciat ut qui tribuit in terris imperium ipse tibi in coelis cum electis suis conferat habere consortium Per. To this I shall subjoyn the

propterea unxit te Deus Deus tuu● oleo laetitiae ad exemplum illius quem ante secula unxerat praeparticibus suis Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum c. Receive the Rod of vertue and equity Learn to make much of the godly and to terrifie the wicked Shew the way to those that go astray Offer thy hand to those that fall Repress the proud Lift up the Lowly that our Lord Jesus Christ may open to thee the dore who saith of himself I am the dore by me if any man enter in ●he shall be safe and let him be thy helper who is the key of David and the Scepter of the house of Israel who openeth and no man shutteth who shutteth and no man openeth who bringeth forth the captive out of prison where he sate in darkness and in the shadow of death that in all things thou mayest follow him of whom the Prophet David saith Thy seat O God endureth for ever the Scepter of thy Kingdome is a right Scepter thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity Wherefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladness above thy Fellows even Jesus Christ our Lord. After this he blesseth the King saying Benedicat tibi c. Dominus custodiatque te sicut te voluit super Populum suum esse Regem ita in presenti seculo faelicem aeternae faelicitatis tribuat esse consortem Amen The Lord blesse and keep thee and as he hath made thee King over his people so he still prosper thee in this world and make thee partaker of his eternal felicity in the world to come Amen Grant O Lord that the Clergy and People gathered together by thy Ordinance for this service of the King may by the gracious assistance of thy goodnesse and the vigilant care of thy servant and King be continually governed and preserved in all happinesse Amen Grant that they obeying thy holy will may be freed from all adversities and enjoying the riches of thy grace may with fervent love walk in the waies of thy Commandements that in this life being made partakers of thy peace they may be Citizens of thy Kingdome in the life that is to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The King kisseth the Archbishop and the Bishops then Assistant After this the King goeth up from the Altar to the Stage all the Peers solemnly attending his Majesty in their places In the mean time the Quire sing Te deum laudamus c. Which being ended the Archbishop inthronizeth the King into his throne there saying Sta retine à modo locum quem huc usque paterna successione tenuisti haereditario judicio tibi delegatum per autoritatem Dei omnipotentis praesentem traditionem nostram omnium Episcoporum caeterorumque Dei servorum quanto Clerum sanctis altaribus propinquiorem prospices tanto ei potiorem in locis congruis honorem impendere memineris quatenus mediator Dei hominum te mediatorem Cleri Plebis in hoc regni Solio confirmet in regnum aeternum regnare faciat Jesus Christus Dominus noster Rex Regum Dominus Dominantium qui cum patre spiritu sancto vivit regnat in secula seculorum Amen Stand and hold fast from henceforth that place whereof hitherto thou hast been heir by the succession of thy fore-fathers being now delivered unto thee by the authority of Almighty God and by the hands of Us and all the Bishops and Servants of God and as thou seest the Clergy to come nearer unto the Altar so remember that in places convenient thou give them greater honour that the mediator of God and Man may establish thee in this Kingly throne to be the mediator betwixt the Clergy and the Laity and that thou maist raigne for ever with Jesus Christ the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who with the Father and the holy Ghost liveth and reigneth for ever Amen Which done all the Peers do their homage to the King His verbis I become your Leige-man of Life and Limb and of Earthly Worship and faith and Troth shall bear unto you to live and dye with you against all manner of folk So God me help And after put their hands and touch the Crown by way of ceremony as promising to support it with all their power Then the King to ease himself of the Scepter and Rod in his hands giveth them to carry to such as it pleaseth his Majesty The Archbishop kneeled down and made his Homage as followeth Out of the Coronation of Edward the 6. J. A. Shall be faithfull and true and Faith and Troth bear unto you our Soveraign Lord and to your Heires Kings of England and I shall do and truly knowledge the service due of the Lands I claim to hold of you as in the right of your Church as God shall help me And so kissed the Kings left cheek c. Or these words taken out of another book I become your man Leige of life and Limb and Troth and hearty Honour to you shall bear against all men that now live and dye So help me God c. The Archbishop goeth down to the Altar and begins the Communion The Prayer Quaesumus omnipotens c. Quaesumus omnipotens Deus ut famulus tuus Jacobus Rex noster qui tua miseratione suscepit Regni gubernacula virtutum etiam omnium percipiat incrementa Quibus decenter ornatus vitiorum voraginem devitare hostes superare ad te qui veritas vita es gratiosus valeat pervenire per Dominum Iesum nostrum Amen O Almighty God we beseech thee that this thy Servant James our King who by thy mercy hath received the government of this Realm may also receive an increase of all Vertues whereby he may be acceptable to thee and avoid the gulfe of vice and overcome all his enemies and finally come to thee in glory who art the Way the Truth and the Life thorough Christ our Lord. The Epistle 1 Pet. 2. The Gospel Matth. 22. By two Bishops The Nicene Creed The Offertory The King cometh down from the Throne to offer He offereth twice 1. Bread and Wine 2. A Mark of Gold Then the Prayer Omnipotens Deus c. Omnipotens Deus det tibi de rore coeli de pinguedine terrae habundantiam frumenti vini olei serviant tibi populi adorent te tribus Esto Dominus fratrum tuorum incurventur ante te filii matris tuae qui benedixerit tibi benedictionibus repleatur Deus erit adjutor tuus Opus benedicat tibi benedictionibus coeli desuper in montibus in Collibus benedictionibus abyssi jacentibus deorsum benedictionibus uberum uvarum Pomarumque benedictiones Patrum antiquorum Abraham Isaac Jacob confortatae sint super te Almighty God give thee of the dew of Heaven and of the fat of the Earth abundance of Corn and Wine Let the

his glory is great in thy salvation glory and majesty hast thou laid upon him for thou hast made him most blessed for ever c. Which Psalm though it be mystically applied to Christ the King of his Church and Saints by many yet doubtless it was literally meant of King David himself who compiled it Psal 45. My heart is indicting a good matter I will speak of the things which I have made touching the King literally intended of Solomon but mystically of Christ his kingdom and Church Psal 61. Hear my cry O God attend unto my Prayer c. Thou wilt prolong the Kings life and his years as many generations He shall abide before God for ever O prepare mercy and truth which may preserve him Psal 72. 1 2 c. Give the King thy Judgements O God and thy Righteousness unto the Kings Son Then shall be judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgement c. He shall save the souls of the needy He shall redeem their Soul from deceit and violence and precious shall their bloud be in his sight He shall live and unto him shall be given of the Gold of Sheba Prayer also shall be made for him continually and daily shall he be praised Which Psalm though mystically meant of Jesus Christ the Son of David as all accord yet it was first literally made used in and by the Church and people of God and prescribed to them as a publike Prayer for King David and his Son Solomon who was to succeed him in the throne as most accord and the Contents in our Bibles resolve Or for King Solomon whom some make the penman thereof and his Son Rehobeam However it is a direct form and divine precept for the people of God in all hereditary kingdoms to make continual daily publike and private Prayers intercessions supplications and thanksgivings unto God for their hereditary kings their heirs apparent and successors to the crown and royal posterity according to the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. grounded on this Psalm I shall conclude with Psal 89. and Psal 132. of like nature with the former wherein not only the Psalmist but the Churches Congregations of the Saints in that and succeeding ages do sing of the mercies of the Lord and make known his faithfulness to all generations for making this Covenant with David and his seed I have made a Covenant with my chosen I have sworn unto David my servant Thy séed will I establish for ever and build up thy throne to all generations c. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my Covenant shall stand fast with him His séed also will I make to endure for ever and his Throne as the dayes of Heaven If his children forsake my Laws and walk not in my judgements if they break my statutes and keep not my commandements then will I visit their transgressions with the rod and their sin with scourges Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail My Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my livs Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David his seed shall endure for ever and his Throne as the Sun before me It shall be established for ever as the Moon and as the faithfull witnesse in Heaven Selah I thy children will keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them their children also shall sit upon the Throne for evermore For the Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation This is my rest for ever there will I dwell for I have desired it c. There will I make the horn of David to bud I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed His Enemies will I cloath with shame but upon himself shall his crown flourish From all these Psalms which you may read at large these irrefragable Conclusions may be clearly deduced 1. That it was the constant practise duty not only of King David himself but of the Church and people of God under him and his royal posteritie to make incessant prayers supplications intercessions and thanksgivings to God both publikely and privately for him his royal house and posterity 2ly That they did in their publike and private devotions prayers psalms and thanksgivings take special notice and make particular mention of Gods promise to King David his House and Royal seed that they should inherit the Throne and kingdom over his people by succession for ever and rejoyce therein yea pray for its accomplishment and Gods grace and blessing on his House seed as their own and the Churches greatest blessing happinesse and safety 3ly That as the sins of Davids royal seed and progeny did not cause God himself the king of kings who conferred the kingdom and throne upon them to break his Oath and Covenant with them nor to deprive them of their kingly Government Throne or totally to withdraw his loving kindness and mercy towards them but only to chastize them with his rod and scourge them for their amendment So it did neither withdraw the allegeance loyaltie dutie prayers supplications intercessions or thanksgivings of the Church and their pious subjects from them but rather intend and augment them as is evident by Psal 89. 38 to 59. and Psal 132. All which particulars do apparently check and reprehend the contrary late practice of the Subjects and Saints within our three kingdoms and Churches of England Scotland and Ireland 4ly The pietie and loyaltie of Davids Great Officers and Subjects in praying for him and his people in their conferences with and addresses to him I shall instance only in 3. presidents The 1. is that of Joab his chief Captain and General when David commanded him to number the people much against his judgement and disswasions from it 2 Sam. 24. 3. And Joab said unto the King The Lord thy God adde uuto the People how many soever they be and that the eyes of my Lord the King may sée it The 2. is that of Araunah when king David after the three dayes of Pestilence inflicted for his numbring the People came to buy the threshing-floor of him to build an Altar to the Lord that the plague might be stayed from the people 2 Sam. 24. 21 22 23. And Araunah said unto the King The Lord thy God accept thée Both these are direct prayers to God for King David by these two loyal Subjects The 3. president is the gratulatory salutation and prayer of Hushai when he sent him under a pretended revolt from him to his son Absolom who usurped his throne and forced him to flie to undermine Achitophels craftie counsel against him thus recorded 2 Sam. 16. 16. And it came to pass that when Hushai the Archite Davids friend was come unto Absolom he said God save the King God save the King or Let the King live doubling this salutation of and praier for him Whence I inferr

Prince and the rest of the Royal seed for the comforting of the afflicted Queen of Bohemia sister to our Soveraign and for the Restitution and Establishment of the Illustrious Prince Charls Elector Palatine much more then now of our Illustrious long-exiled King CHARLES to all his Dominions and Dignities To pretermit all Prayers made for King Charles in Epistles perfixed to hundreds of Books of all sorts dedicated to him whiles Prince of Wales and King of England Scotland and Ireland I shall Conclude only with 3. short Prayers of this Nature in 3. of our learnedest late deceased Antiquaries Dedicatory Epistles to his Majesty being of 3. several professions The first is Mr. John Seldens in the clo●e of his Dedicatory Epistle to His Mare clausum Londini 1635. Inexuperabilem Tibi felicitatem sanctissima illa Majestas quae Tuae archetypae est praestet conservetque The 2. is Sir Henry Spelmans in the end of his Dedicatory Epistle before the first Tome of his Councils Londini 1639. Dei Vicario Ecclesiae Nutricio Fidei Defensori Carolo Dei gratia Magnae Britaniae Franciae Hiberniae Regi c. Magno Pio Augustissimo Deus optimus maximus Regiam vestram Majestatem sovolemque Serenissimum Ecclesiae et Britaniis Imperpetuum sospitet beatissime The 3 is most learned renowned and pious Archbishop Vsher who thus winds up his Epistle to King Charls perfixed to his Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates Dublini 1639. Deus optimus maximus Regum suorum custos et vinder vitam tibi det proliram imperium securum domum tutam exercitus fortes Senatum fidelem populum probum Veteris Ecclesiae pro Imperatoribus suis vota haec solemnia pro tua et tuorum salute Redintegrat et toto animi affectu numini divino nuncupat Serenissimae Tuae Majestatis servus humilimus Jacobus Armachanus The very next day after the most illegal Trial Condemnation and bloody Execution of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles by that Prodigy of Lawyers John Bradshaw and his Assessors in the new created High Court of Injustice against the Votes and Protests of the Secluded Lords and Secured Commons one of the then secured Members out of his Loyalty to his Majesty and his royal Heir and Successor whose rights he strenuously asserted in his Speech in the House for which he was seized and imprisoned by the Army Dec. 6. 1648. at his own charge Printed 350. of the ensuing Proclamations which he caused to be sent to most Sheriffs and Mayers throughout England and Wales and some of them to be pasted up at Westminster and elsewhere in and about London notwithstanding the Anti-Parliamentary and Antimonarchical Junctoes strict Proclamation to the contrary under pain of High Treasons and the most Capital Punishments which deterred others both from crowning and proclaiming their Hereditary Soveraign according to their former Oathes Covenants and printed Remonstrances A PROCLAMATION PROCLAIMING CHARLES Prince of VVales King of Great Britain France and Ireland WEE the Noblemen Judges Knights Lawyers Gentlemen Free-holders Marchants Citizens Neomen Seamen and other freemen of England doe according to our Allegiance and Covenant by these presents heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and proclaim the Illustrious Charles Prince of Wales next heir of the Blood Royal to his Father King Charles whose late wicked and trayterous Murther we doe from our souls abominate and all parties and consenters thereunto to be by hereditary Birthright and lawfull succession rightfull and undoubted King of Great Britain France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging And that we will faithfully constantly and sincerely in our several places and callings defend and maintain his Royal Person Crown and Dignity with our Estates Lives and last drop of our Bloods against all opposers thereof whom we do hereby declare to be Traytors and Enemies to his Majestie and his Kingdoms In testimony whereof we have caused these to be published and proclaimed throughout all Counties and Corporations of this Realm the first day of February in the first year of his Majesties Raign God save KING CHARLES the Second This short ejaculatorie Prayer and Acclamation GOD SAVE THE KING subjoyned to this Proclamation was not only used at the Coronations tryumphs and publick Receptions in Cities Colleges Villages Corporations of all our own forein Kings as I have elswhere touched but constantlie annexed at the end all our Statutes at large printed after everie Session of Parliament from 19 H. 7. till 1 Caroli and at the close of all our Kings Queens publick Proclamations yea ecchoed out by our Sheriffs Heralds Cryers Officers who proclaimed them and by the generalitie of the people present at such Proclamations And it was likewise constantlie used by all Cryers of all publick Courts of Iustice Assises Sessions of the peace Eyres and Gaol Deliveries upon sundrie occasions yea by everie Malefactor acquitted or admitted to his Clergie who usually cry'd GOD SAVE THE KING neither could our Kings enter into anie Citie Town Village College School or House within their Dominions but their Ears were filled with the joyfull sound of this Prayer and Loyal Acclamation Which custom I trust will grow into common practice again after its over-long Dis-continuance through the treacherie and disloyalty of those who above all others had most obliged themselves to continue it by their respective old oftreiterated Oaths of Fealty Homage Supremacy Allegiance Iustices Maiors Recorders Serjeants at Law Freemen their new Protestations Solemn National League and Covenant Commissions Trusts Offices Callings obliging them both in point of Conscience and Dutie to bear Faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Majesty his Heirs and lawfull Successors and to maintain and defend his and their Persons Crowns and all Jurisdictions Rights Privileges and Royal Prerogatives united annexed and belonging to the Imperial Crown of their Realms against all Powers Persons Invasions Plots and Conspiracies whatsoever without any Apostacy defection or detestable Neutrality Which I hope they will now at last remember so far as to expiate all former violations of them by their future fincere cordial constant inviolable Observations by their dailie publick and private fervent Prayers Supplications Intercessions Thanksgivings to God for his Majesties restitution long life and prosperous Reign and by ecchoing out this usual Acclamation upon all occasions according to its pristine frequent use throughout our Realms and Dominions I have thus at large by Histories Records and Presidents of all times sorts to which sundrie more might be accumulated irrefragably evidenced the constant un-interrupted practical loyaltie of our Christian Predecessors in making publick and private Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings for our Christian Kings in this Island whether of the British Saxon English Danish Norman or Scotish Race and for their Queens their Royal Posterity and Kingdoms in their publick and private Devotions and in their Epistles Addresses and Dedications to them to the inrent they may now at last

Coronation 1. It is to be provided that all the Regalia that is King Edward the Confessors Crown and other Ornaments together with the Ampull wherein is the Oyle with which antiently the Kings and Queens have been anoynted be laied ready upon the Altar 2. It is to be provided that the Crown and other Robes Royal which the King is to put on and wear after the Rites of the Coronation ended be brought and laid ready in the Traverse within Saint Edwards Chappel 3. There is cloth to be spread on the ground from the Pallace Hall door unto the Stage in the Church for his Majesty to tread on all the way by the Heir of the Lord Beauchamp of Bedford Almoner for the Coronation day The receiving of the King into the Church 1. The Archbishop and Bishops of the Realm then present together with the Church and Quire of Westminster onely are to meet the King at the Pallace gate in procession wise 2. Two Bishops assigned by the King are to bear the one the Regal the other the Paten 3. After them three Peers by the King likewise to be appointed are to bear the one the Scepter with the Crosse the other the long Scepter the third the Rod with the Dove 4. After them the three Swords to be born per Comitem Cestriae 2. Huntingdon 3. Warwick 5. After them a Peer by the King appointed to bear the Spurs 6. Then the King under a Canopy born by the Barons of the Cinque Ports The King supported by the two Bishops of Durham and Bathe 7. Abbas Westomonaster semper lateri Regis adhaerendo praesens debet esse pro dicti Regis informatione in hiis quae dictae Coronationis concernunt solennitatem Ad ipsum vero hoc officium solummodo spectat The King is to be received into the Church with an Anthem Protector noster Protector noster aspice Deus respice in faciem uncti tui quia melior est dies una in Atriis tuis super Millia Quam dilecta c. Gloria patri c. Behold O Lord our Protector and look upon the face of thine Anointed because one day in thy Court is better then a thousand Psal quam dilecta c. 84. 11. Gloria patri c. The King passing up the body of the Church and so through the Quire goeth up the Staires unto his Throne of Estate and there reposeth himself The King set in his Throne the Archbishop going to every of the four sides of the Stage viz. North South East and West the Marshall of England going before him to all the said places asketh the people if they be willing to accept of the King as their Soveraigne that he may be Anointed and Crowned His verbis The people demanded if they be willing Sirs here I present unto you King James the rightful Inheritor of the Crown of this Realm wherefore all you that be come this day to do your homage service and bounden duty be ye willing to do the same Or thus Sirs here present is James rightfull and undoubted Inheritor by the Laws of God and Man to the Crown and Royal dignity of England with all things thereunto annexed and appertaining elect chosen and required by all three Estates of this same Land to take upon him this said Crown and Royal dignity whereupon you shall understand that this day is fixed and appointed by all the Peers of the Land for the consecration enunction and Coronation of the said most excellent Prince James Will you serve him at this time and give your wills and assents to the same Consecration Enunction and Coronation Or thus Will you take this worthy Prince James right Heir of the Realm and have him to your King and become Subjects to him and submit your selves to his Commandements This while the King standing up turneth himself to every of the four sides as the Archbishop is at every of them speaking to the people The people signifying their willingnesse by answering all in one voice Yea Yea God save King James The Quire singeth the Anthem Firmetur manus Firmetur manus tua exaltetur dextra tua justitia judicium preparatio sedis tuae Misericordia veritas precedent faciem tuam Allelutah Firmetur manus tua Let thy hand be strengthned and thy right hand be exalted Let Justice and Judgement be the preparation of thy Seat and Mercy and Truth go before thy Face Alleluia Ps misericordias Dei Glory be to the Father c. While the Quire singeth the Anthem the Archbishop goeth down to the Altar and revesteth himself there The Archbishop being there ready the King supported by the two Bishops as before and attended by the Abbot of Westminster goeth down from his Throne to the Altar The Kings Offering and the Sermon There he maketh his first Oblation which is Pallinm unum una libra auri After the King hath Offered he kneeleth down at his Fald-stool The Archbishop saith the Prayer Deus humilium Deus humilium visitator qui nos Sancti Spiritus illustratione consolaris pretende super hunc famulum tuum Jacobum gratiam tuam nt per eum tuum in nobis addesse sentiamus adventum per D●minum Christum nostrum c. Deus visitator humilium O God which dost visit those that are humble and dost comfort us by the light of thy Holy Spirit send down thy Grace upon this thy Servant James that by him we may feel thy presence amongst us through Jesus Christ Then doth the Sermon begin which the King heareth in his Chair of Estate by the Altar on the South side of it The Sermon being done the Archbishop goeth to the King and asketh his Majesty concerning his willingness to take the Oath usually taken by his Predecessors The King shewing himself willing therewithall ariseth and cometh to the Altar The Archbishop ministreth the three first questions and the King answereth them severally Scilic●t 1 Quaestio Si leges consuetudines ab antiquis justis Deo devotis Regibus Plebi Anglorum concessas cum sacramenti confirmatione eidem Plebi concedere servare voluerit praesertim leges consuetudines libertates à glorioso Rege Edwarde Clero populo concessas c. Dicto autem Principe se promittente omnia praemissa concessurum servaturum Tunc exponat ei Metropolitanus de quibus jurabit Ita dicendo c. Prima quaestio Servabis Ecclesiae Dei cleroque populo pacem ex integro concordiam in Deo secundum vires tuas Respondebit servabo Secunda quaestio Facies fieri in omnibus judiciis tuis equam rectam justitiam discretionem in misericordia veritate secundum vires tuas Resp Faciam Tertia quaestio Concedis instas leges consuetudines esse tenendas promittis per te eas esse protegendas ad honorem Dei corroborandas quas vulgus elegerit secundum vires tuas Respondebit Concedo promitto