14. The Earth shall be filled with the Knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea Therefore be sure O King thou have Thus saith the Word of the Lord for thy Warrant for God is a jealous God and will not be served with any thing but what is of his own And this did Hezekiah throughout all Jndah and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God and in every work that he began in the service of the House of God and in the Law and in the Commandments to seek his God he did it with all his heart and saith the Text He prospered Chap. 31. 20 21. Whence we may note That whilst Hezekiahs heart was upright to God God prospered him and thus we find in Holy Writ That whilst men with a perfect heart have a careful eye in all their undertakings to please God God hath a tender eye over them to prosper them And thus whilst Joseph is answering his lustful Mistris with a How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God Gen. 39. 9. Though Joseph by her revengeful malice be cast into Prison yet God is with him v. 21. And God gives him favour in the eyes of the Prison-Keeper insomuch that the Prison-keeper looked not after any thing that was under his hands and the Reason is added vers. 28. Because the Lord was with him and that which he did the Text saith The Lord made it it prosper And thus whilst Daniel in the Babylonish captivity is resolved in his heart not to defile himself with a portion of the Kings Idolatrous Meat nor of his wine God bringeth Daniel iuto Favour and tender Love with the Prince of the Eunuches Dan. 1. 3 9. Insomuch that the Eunuch will venture his head to the King his Master rather than Daniel shall want that food he desires V. 10 14. A good encouragemant for the People of God in the very worst of times even to take up a Resolution to eye God in what he would have them to do in all things and not at all to fear the faces of men though never so great for if Shadrach Meshach and Abednego will not bow to Nebuchadnezzars Image but keep themselves close to their God God will keep as close to them and one like the Son of Man shall walk with them in that seven times hot fiery Furnace to preserve them Dan. 3. 16 25. Will Daniel Petition no other but the true God though against the Decree of the King that God will send his Angel to shut the mouths of the Lyons that they shall not hurt him Daniel 6. 10. 22. Therefore suffer me to bespeak thee and thy People O King in the Language of Azariah the Son of Obed which he once uttered to King Asa 2 Chron. 15. 1. Hear thou me CHARLES and all England Scotland Ireland and in particular thou proud voluptuous and vain-glorious City of London the Lord is with you whilst you are with him if ye seek him he will be found of you but if ye forsake him he will forsake you And let not the King be angry if one that is counted a Fannatick speak once more to him not in his own Language but in the words of the Spirit of the Lord in the Prophet David to his Son 1 Chro. 28. 9. And thou Solomon my Son know thou the God of thy Fathers and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of thy thoughts if thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever Thou knowest O King thou hast had a casting off and that that casting off may not be for ever be perswaded to turn to thy God with all thy heart We usually say That he that would move another to weep must first cry himself he must first begin the passion thus God hath done God hath begun a Work God hath first troden a Path for thee O King to walk in God hath made a Return to thee most miraculously and far I presume beyond thine own Expectation or the Imagination of many others therefore O King Prepare to meet thy God have a care thou walk not in any By-Path but onely and alone in that Path of Returning which God hath troden for thee and as God hath been Miraculous in his Returning to thee O be thou as Eminent in thy returniug to him this is that which I am confident the Lord looketh for at thy hands for so saith the Lip of Truth it self Luke 12. 48. For unto whomsoever much is given of him shall be much required and the same voice hath the Spirit of the Lord in my Text But Hezekiah rendred not again according to the Benefits bestowed upon him therefore wrath fell upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem And that I may come to the handling the words themselves I shall briefly shew what God did for Hezekiah that caused him to look for so suitable a return from Hezekiah After these things and the establishment thereof Chap. 32. 1. That is After the Reformation that Hezekiah had made as I have in part laid down and as in the three foregoing Chapters is more particularly discovered After these things and the establishment thereof Sennacherib King of Assyria came and entered into Judah and Encamped against the fenced Cities and thought to win them to himself Whence we may note That though men walk never so close with God yet they cannot be exempted from the malicious endeavours of wicked men David we know is Recorded in holy Writ to be a man after Gods own heart who in the Confidence of his Soul sometimes can say The Lord is on his right hand he shall not be moved Psal. 16. 8. And anon in Psal. 17. 8. he begs of the Lord to hide him under the shadow of his Wings from the wicked that oppress him and from his deadly Enemies Now he will not fear what man can do unto him And anon he cryeth out That one day he shall fall by the hand of Saul Good men are at an uncertainty of quietness or tranquility on this side the grave If the Sons and Daughters of God had too much Happiness and Peace in this life they would then begin to settle upon the Lees and satisfie themselves with that which cannot profit God knows what is fitter for his than they do themselves and therefore it is that he suffers his dearest Children to undergo great Tryals and that for several Reasons First for the Tryal of their Faith according to that of Judg. 2. 21. I will not saith the Lord drive out any of the Nations which Joshua left when he died and the Reason is added That through them I may prove Israel whether they will keep the Way of the Lord to walk therein as their Fathers did keep it therefore saith the Text The Lord left
A Fannaticks Mite Cast into the Kings Treasury BEING A SERMON Printed to the KING Because not Preach'd before the KING The Second EDITION Corrected and Amended By HENRY ADIS a Baptized Believer undergoing the Name of a Free-Willer and also most ignomineously by the tongue of Infamy called a Fannatick or a mad man Silver and Gold have I none but such as I have give I Thee Acts 3. 6. First Read then Judge and Judge nothing before the time because the Wise Man saith That to him that Iudgeth a matter before he heareth it it is folly and shame Prov. 18. 13. LONDON Printed by S. Dover for the Author 1660. DElivered into the KINGS own-Hands by the Author the 26th day of Chisleu in Scripture so called Zech. 7. 1. which is the 9th Month and therefore vulgarly called November 1660. TO CHARLES the II OF England Scotland France and Ireland KING May it please Thee O King I Am come now to present Thee with that MITE the Composing of which I have been very much pressed to in spirit ever since Thou wast brought again into this Land of Thy Nativity with that great Solemnity and Triumph the noise of which hath rejoyced the hearts of forregn Princes daunted the spirits of thy Domestick Enemies made thy Friends merry and the rude multitude mad even to the sadning the hearts of the truly vertuous and as I judge not because thou art restored again for the meerly Rational may plainly behold in it an high Act of Divine Providence But the Moon-sick madness of the multitude yet unrepented of together with the revived and dayly continued Acts of abomination in Stage-playes May-games and Pastimes with the many bitter and most horrid Oaths and Execrations uttered almost in every corner by Nine-Pinn Nine-Hole and PigeonHole-Players and to the poysoning the youth of our Age in that multitude of dammy and debauched Bawdy-houses even the foul and detestible shame of a Christian Kingdom is that they fear is gathering into a black thick Cloud over the Land and in special over rude revelling ranting London out of which it is to be feared unless Nineveâ—…s Repentance intervene will be poured out one or more of those three heavy Judgments of God Plague Sword or Famine Therefore O King I have brought Thee an Antidote both for Thee and Thine the which haply may prove bitter to the taste and will hardly go down yet let me assure thee upon the word of an honest man there is nothing hurtful in it there is not so much as an unwholsome Bud nor a stinking Weed but all precious Flowers and wholsom Herbs newly gathered out of the Garden of God by a faithful Hand and tempered together by a sincere heart and is a Potion of that rare Vertue that if it be willingly taken and well digested it will take down the Tinpany of Pride and utterly dry up the Dropsicall humours of all Abomnations it will perfectly recover out of the Consumption of Vertues and fortifie the heart against all vice whatsoever it will strengthen the stomack both to receive and retain wholsom and sound Doctrine and perfectly purge out the Iniquity of all your Holy Things it will purge the Brain from all fansical formal frenzy and cause it only to study the Great Things of Gods Law it will perfectly purge out Melancholy and generate Joy unspeakable and full of glory it will dry up the overflowing Issues of Sin and nourish up a Soul unto Eternal Life it will Operate upon the inward Man so as that there will be a sudden change in the outward it will make the proud person Humble the Lofty Lowly the Careless Careful the Rich in this World Rich in Good Works the Spotted and painted face truly panitent To be short it will operate upon the Luxurious Lascivious and Licentious and indeed upon all so as that it will take down the Inordinate beat of Lust and make such a sweet Composure as that it will set Love Joy Fear Zeal Pitty and Piety upon their right Objects it will perfectly purge out all Envy and Malice Blood-thirstiness Hatred with all uncharitableness and Create in the room thereof Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness with Meekness and Temperance it will operate upon all Complexions and Sexes and upon all Ranks and Subordinations of men of all ages and as I said before if willingly Received and well Digested it will make the PRINCE Pittiful Just and Pious and the SUBJECT Loving Faithful Loyal it will make Great persons Noble with that true Berean Nobility and joyn Goodness to their Greatness a Rarity indeed it will make the middle sort of men Moderate and cause them to use the World as if they used it not yea it will make the very Beggers of the Blood Royal of Heaven and Children of God yea Kings and Priests to God and to Christ it will make the Sluggish and Slothful watchfully Vigilant and the Vitious truly Vertuous it will make the Child Dutiful and the Parents Indulgent the Servant Painful and the Master Pittiful it will keep the Virgin Chaste and breed Loyalty in the Married it will make Youth Sage and Grave and gray Hairs truly Honourable it will make the Bond-man Free and the Free-man a Fellow Citizen with the Saints and of the Household of God it will make the Poor man truly Rich and the Rich by Poverty of Spirit blessedly Poor it will Corroborate the Cow-hearted and cause the Coward earnestly to contend for the Faith In fine it will so purge out the old Leaven as that it will make a man become a new Lump it will make a meer Natural man truly Gratious and cause him to put off that old man with all his deeds and put on that new Man which after God is created in Righteousness and true Hulyness And thus when old things are passed away ye may evidently behold all things to become new for though a spiritual man be produced yet he is not like a Spirit So as to be invisible but apparently you may behold his Dialect changed and his Aspect altered for that tongue that in the old man was an unruly member and full of deadly Poyson Oaths Execrations and debauched Abominations is in the new Man an Instrument to set forth the Praise of God and to tell what God hath done for his Soul to talk of the Majesty of Christs Kingdom and to declare his Power The Eye that was never better satisfied then when it was beholding vanity is now looking within the vail where the Forerunner is entred it is now beholding the goodness of the Lord and enquiring in his Temple and diligently seeking after that one thing necessary that once Mary chose The feet which before were swiftly running to shed blood are now in Zions Pathes readily running the way of Gods Commandements The hands which before were other wayes employed are now handling of the Word of Life which their Eyes have seen and their ears have heard the which their
Holy Duties as nothing even as vanity and their burning of Incense an abomination unto him Whence we may note That though men be in the Perfect and Real Way of God as to his Worship yet if they do not render to God if their Conversation answer not their Profession the best of their Worship is but vain and abominable in Gods sight and such as God is weary to bear Isai. 1. 14. And such persons are looked upon as Enemies to the Crosse of Christ Phil. 3. 18. And God looked upon them to be so to him and such as he will not long be burthened withal for so saith the Prophet Isaiah 1. 24. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts the Mighty One if Israel Ah! I will ease me of mine Anversaries I will avenge me on mine Eâ—…emies And we find this threatning was made good upon them Zach. 7. 13 14. Therefore saith the Prophet it is come to pass that as he cryed and they would not hear so they cryed and I would not hear but I scattered them with a Whirl-wind among all the Nations whom they knew not c. and so they continue a scattered people to this very day So that we see the Assertion made good in them also That God requires suitable Returns for Mercies bestowed though from the greatest of Men or Nations upon the neglect whereof God punisheth without respect of persons So that we see the point fully proved upon Nebuchadnezzar and Saul two Great and Potent Kings and also ugon Israel the greatest of Nations and that not onely upon the account of multitude but also the greatest Priviledged Nation under the Heavens I shall not spend time to lay down the Reasons of the Point but in a word shall say what the Lord Christ saith Luke 12. 48. To whom much is given of him shall be much required And so I shall come to some Uses that may be made of the Point For as Practice is the very life of Profession So the Uses of a Sermon being well applyed become words spoken in season which the Wise Man saith Are like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver Prov. 25. 11. And seeing it is so that God requires suitable Returns for Benefits bestowed upon the neglect whereof God punisheth c. This then may serve for a Use to great ones and first to thy self O King to Exhort thee in the Name and Fear of Cod seriously to consider particularly what God hath done for thee how God hath preserved thee both abroad and in this Land of thy Nativity and let me humbly beg thee once again seriously to consider the Hollow Oak and that little Vessel which rides in thy constant view and those that were acting in and by them for thy personal preservation the which if report be true thou hast in a great measure already done which is very commendable But this is that O King that I am chiefly pleading for that thou wouldst endeavour to look through and beyond them even to the Finger and Power of that God that wrought in and by them not only for thy Temporal but also if thou beest not wanting to thy self for thy Eternal preservation if thou dost make suitable Returns to him that so wrath may not follow To this purpose consider every one of thy Thoughts and Intentions and examine them before thou put them into action see whether they tend to a suitable Returning to God for such great Benefits received from God or not And if this O King be the bent of thy Spirit and thy continued practice I can assure thee from the Word of the Lord that it will be a lengthning out of thy Tranquillity for so saith the wisest of men by the assictance of the Eternal Spirit Prov. 16. 7. When a mans wayes please the Lord he will make even his Enemies to be at peace with him and not onely so but thou shalt also have a Benefit hereafter and that to Eternity for so saith the Lord by the mouth of a King Psal. 50. 23. Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his Conversation aright will I shew the Salvation of God And secondly O King seeing many Great Ones in this Nation have had a great share in the Benefits God hath bestowed upon thee this may serve for a Use of Exhortation also to them to perswade them to consider seriously what God hath done for them in doing for thee and further to examine what suitable Returns they have already made and what Rendrings they intend to make to God for such great Benefits bestowed I desire to urge this the rather because I see many of their Coaches standing daily where I fear they cannot duly Render to God according to such Mercies bestowed and therefore I shall desire to discharge my Conscience to them in letting them know That without Holiness no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. and without Faith it is impossible to please God Heb 11. 6. Which Faith comes by Hearing and Hearing by the Word of God Heb. 10. 17. and not by Hearing scurrility in Stage-playes May-games and Pastimes Consider O ye Great Ones that are guilty of such actings and know that God requires other things from you and make suitable Returns to God lest God Return his Judgements with Indignation and so the last be worse than the first for we usually say that Relapses are dangerous and many times prove worse than the first Distemper Thirdly Seeing God requires suitable Returns for Benefits bestowed though from the greatest of Men or Nations upon the neglect whereof God punisheth without respect of Persons This then may also serve for a Use of Exhortation and Examination to this Nation considered as a Nation And as some have said They to wit the Nation was a Body without a Head meaning they were without a King for the King is the Head or Supream 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. according to that of Samuel also to Saul 1 Sam. 14. 17. And Samuel said to Saul When thou wast little in thine own sight wast thou not made the Head of the Tribes of Israel And the Lord anointed thee King over Israel c. So that now O England thou canst not so Complain for by a miraculous hand thy Head is restored to thee again examine thy self now what Benefit thou hast received and also how thou art bettered thereby Dost thou render to God according to his Benefits bestowed Art thou grown more Holy than thou wast Or rather art thou not grow openly prophane out of a sense of Gods Great Love to thee Dost thou rejoyce before the Lord with trembling Or rather is not thy rejoycing such as that it would and doth even make a truly Regenerate Soul tremble to behold it Art thou rendring to God for bringing this great Design about without shedding of blood Or rather is not thy Behaviour such as suddenly may cause God to open another vein to the Effusion of thy Bloud even to the Confusion of thy face Art
Tongues also are now ready to declare that so others may partake of that Fellowship which they have with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ To conclude It is an Antidote of such a transcendent vertue that being rightly applyed according to the ensueing Direction it will translate a Creature out of the kingdom of darkeness into the kingdom of Gods dear Son and also cause him there with Enoch and Noah to walk with God O King Silver and Gold have I none but such as I have give I thee I give it thee freely dispose of it at thy pleasure for freely through mercy I received it it cost me nothing that was worth the keeping I parted not with so much as one Mite for it but that which for some time was my daily insupportable burthen which at length grew so ponderous that it weighed me down even to the very brink of Hell the Horrour whereof Darius-like caused me to forsake my meat and also my sleep to pass from me it being a Mountainous confused Lump of Iniquities Transgressions and Sins the fruits of my labours from my Cradle some forty years in the Devils slavery in which I was led captive by him at his will the parting with which was my great gaine not only by lightning my burthen but by an enlightning the eyes of my understanding to the beholding and laying hold on him who is invisible And thus O King through Grace I became a Fannatick or a mad man as some call me And now let me beg thee O King First Neither to slight the Gift for the meanness of the Giver nor the Potion because not compounded by the direction of a Colledge of Phisitians that have read many Authors but the rather esteem it because it is an experienced Receipt and because as the Physitians use to say Probatum est is engraven upon it And secondly let me beg thee O King to make use of it thy self for sure I am thou hast need of such an Antidote the whcih if thou dost I am confident I need not then beg a third Boon of thee to recommend it to thy great Family viz. to those that are under thy charge for that is one part of the excellent vertue that Souls are made partakers of that well digest it viz. that when they are Converted they will be provoked then to strengthen their Brethren And now O King I shall at present cease to ask more at thy Throne but shall apply my self to the Throne of Grace and there beg the Lord to give thee as much true joy in Reading as he in mercy gave me in writing it and that as he hath begun this good Work to put this Antidote into thy hand so he would perfect the same that he would sweeten it to thy taste and help thy disgestion and seeing he hath declared himself to be such an one that waiteth upon Souls that he might be gracious unto them that he would wait upon thee with the sweet incomings of his own Spirit and in special whilst thou art taking this Potion that he would visit thee with his loving kindness So as that it may effectually operate upon thee to the bringing forth the fruits thereof in thy Life and Conversation to the Honour and Glory of him who hath already done such great Things for thee into whose Care Direction and Protection he shall now commend thee who is and by his Assistance shall ever be Thy Loyal Subject to Pray but neither to Swear nor Fight for thee yet Faithfully to Obey thee in all things that God requires in his Scriptures of Truth who never did fight against any of thy Predecessors nor never shall resolve to fight against Thee nor any of Thy Successors HENRY ADIS. An After-Writing TO THE KING MArvel not O King at my single-hearted Conclusion in that I said I shall neither Swear nor Fight for Thee neither conclude me peremptorily Peevish nor factiously Rebellious because I am so plain But by the way know That in Conclusion Thou wilt find him to be Thy truest Friend that dealeth plainliest with Thee for one Dram of down right honesty is of more true worth than a whole Pound of fawning flattery for mine own part although I am by Trade an Upholdster yet know O King I come not to sow Pillows under thy Elbows I fear thou hast Artificial Work-men at that work already and too many too for thy future good but what I have received of the Lord in the singleness of my heart and in plainess of speech I declare unto Thee Take it as Thou wilt and do with me for it as Thou pleasest the meaning of it I yet understand uot but sure I am I have more than a common impulse to the Work however it will fare with me I matter not I both Hope and Pray it may prove of good use to Thee Therefore I shall beg Thee in Gods fear to consider seriously what Thou dost when Thou shalt force men to Swear for he that will Fight for Thee and he that will Swear for Thee being thereto constrained will be as ready if it stand with his own interest both to Swear and Fight against Thee for men generally make little Conscience of keeping constrained Vowes O King Thou hast been Tutored by Experience the best Master and I need not tell Thee that Coustraint and Restraint are two Exstreams and therefore dangerous to deal withal Voluntarily some there are but others being thereto forced have already to their hearts trouble Sworn against Thee And now if thou shalt again compel them to Swear for thee what is it less than to ravish their Consciences and to force them most abominably to forswear themselves A ready way to pull down Gods Judgements upon the Nation for so saith the Prophet Jer. 23. 10. For because of Swearing the Land mourneth So also saith another Prophet Hos. 10. 4. They have spoken Words Swearing falsly in making a Covenant Thus Judgement springeth up as Hemlock in the furrows of the Field And lest I be found guilty of such a heinous sin I shall resolve to trust a man upon his bare word rather than force him to Swear for he that for his own Benefit will not regard the keeping his word passed before God to Man will for his own advantage be as careless both of God and Man in slighting his unwilling Vow Therefore in this O King be perswaded to leave men to their Liberties and know that Englands Subjects will be sooner won by their Kings Kindness than brought under by his cruelty It is the Love of Christ that constrains his So let thy Lenity allure thine And be entreated to shake off all slavish carnal fear and cast thy care and burthen upon him who hath hitherto taken such care for thee Render thou but to him according to his Benefits bestowed upon thee and confident I am that the Keeper of Israel who neither slumbreth nor sleepeth will watch thy Subjects hearts So as that they shall
Wife into his House for so saith the Text v. 18. For Pharaoh called Abraham and said What is this that thou hast done unto me Why didst thou not tell me she was thy Wife Why saidst thou she is my Sister So I might have taken her to me to Wife Though Pharaoh sins I say and that ignorantly too as it is clear he did yet his House must be plagued with great Plagues Whence by the way I would have all to take notice That it is not ignorance that will excuse or shroud neither the meanest nor the greatest of men from the sin-revenging hand of God And secondly That God takes special care for his faithful ones so as that he will not respect persons when they evilly entreat them for so saith the Prophet Psal. 115. 14 15. He suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved Kings for their sake saying Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harm And thus as Abraham was travelling towards the South Countrey whilst he so journed in Gerar the Lord reproved Abimelech also King of Gerar for his sake Gen. 20. For Abraham again said of Sarah his Wife she is my Sister and Abimelech King of Gerar sent and took Sarah v. 2. But God came to Abimelech in a Dreame by night and said unto him Thou art but a dead man a sharp Reproof indeed And he gives him a Reason for his so saying For the Woman saith he which thon hast taken is a mans Wife v. 3. Yet saith the Text Abimelech had not come near her v. 4. And Abimelech said Lord wilt thou stay also a Righteous Nation Said he not she is my Sister and she even she her self said He is my Brother in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this v. 5. And God said unto him in a Dream yea I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart for I also withheld thee from sinning against me therefore suffered I thee not to touch her v. 6. Whence I would note also by the way First That he who is the Searcher of the heart and Tryer of the reins takes a perfect account of the bent of the spirits of the Sons and Daughters of Men And secondly That accordingly he either restrains Souls from sinning against him or else gives persons up to commit sin with greediness for so saith the Text And as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge therefore God gave them up to a reprobate mind Rom. 1. 28. But this is that in the seventh verse that makes the Assertion good Now therefore saith the Lord restore the Man his Wife for he is a Prophet and he shall pray for thee and thou shalt live and if thou restore her not know thou that thou shalt surely die thou and all that thou hast The like we may see made good in Achans Family Josh. 7. That when Achan had taken of the accursed things that goodly Babylonish Garment the Silver and the Wedge of Gold the Judgement extended not onely to the punishment of himself but also to his whole Family and all that was his for so saith the Text Josh. 7. 24. And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the Son of Zerah and the Silver and the Garment and the Wedge of Gold and his Sons and his Daughters and his Oxen and his Asses and his Sheep and his Tent and all that he had And v. 25. They burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones Now the Lord Christ saith Mat. 18. 16. That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every Truth shall be established and I having proved each Particular in the Assertion by two witnesses at the least That God many times punisheth a People for the misactings of their Governours whether in Church State or particular Families And now lest I make my lines too numerous I shall forbear to lay down any Reasons of the Point but shall proceed to some Uses that may be for our present benefit And seeing it is so That God many times punisheth a People for the misactings of their Governours whether in Church State or particular Families This then may serve for a Use of Exhortation to thee O King to thee and to all Kings Princes and Governours of Nations Pastors and Elders of Congregations and Masters of Families as they tender their own good and the good of those that are under them that they walk before the Lord and go in and out before their People in singleness of heart and in the sincerity of their Souls as in the sight of God having a single-eye to the Glory of God and the good of the Souls that are under their charge carefully watching over all their thoughts words and actions so as that they bring not the Judgements of God upon their people by their misactings and to be often with the Lord in Prayer that so they may have his Direction and Protection in all their Enterprises and Undertakings to the comfort of their own Souls and the Peace Benefit and Well-being of those that are under them And secondly This may also serve for a Uâ—… of Exhortation to all Subjects though they be Pastors or Elders of Congregations and Masters of Families as well as Members of Churches or Children or Servants in particular Families that they be often at the Throne of Grace in the behalf of their Kings Princes and Governours and in special that Englands Subjects be often with the Lord in the behalf of their KING who from his long Exile and Restraint is brought again into this Land of his Nativity which is so full of Licentiousnes Luxury and Lasciviousness Revilings Rendings and Tearings Roarings Rantings and Swearings with those Abominations of Stage-Playes May-games and Pastimes Pride and Prodigality that God in Mercy would be pleased to direct his Heart so as that he be not won either to own or allow of them but to disown diswade and discountenance them And that God would farther strengthen both his Heart and Hand to prosecute that lovely laudable prudent pious Conscientious and Christian that truly Noble and most Heroick Princely PROCLAMATION by Him issued forth at his first coming amongst us again and since by him seconded by another that so England though now even a sink of Abominations may by the good hand of God upon us by his industry become as it shall be once said of Jerusalem to be a Praise of the whole Earth And that God would direct him so to consider of his Holy Things as that he present nothing to God but what is Commanded by God that so God may not only Crown him with a Crown of Gold here but also with that Crown of Glory which shall never fade away And that he be thus found Rendring to the Lord considering the danger of the neglect thereof For Hezekiah rendered not again according to the Benefits bestowed upon him but his heart was lifted up therefore wrath was