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A78211	The strong man ejected by a stronger then he. In a sermon preached at Gloucester, the 15th of May, 1660. Being the day his Royal Majesty, King Charles the second, was proclaimed. Shewing, how the strong man Satan is cast out of the palace of the heart, and the Lord Christ possessed thereof. With some application to the present ejectment of the late usurper, Satans confederate, out of the royal palace, and the Lords Christ, King Charles the-second possessed thereof. By Wil. Bartholmevv, M.A. and Vicar of Campden in Gloucester-shire.	Bartholomew, William, vicar of Campden.	1660 (1660)	Wing B979; Thomason E1033_3; ESTC R208957	21,945	35

mercies from this great congregation Let us cast our eyes therefore once more upon the words and we shall meet with correspondencies of like effects as meet together in the Text and therein behold Gods mercy and our own duty First 1. The strong man the late Usurper who was for the strong man in the Text him you have heard to be the Devil The strong man that lately kept the Palace what was he We shall best judge by his works our Saviours rule Usurpation Tyranny Murther and Rebellion you know whose works they are and you know whose works they have been of late years and they represent him that did them as ill-favoured a childe as the Devil hath any unlesse the Lord rich in mercy gave him repentance and that you may the better know him by his features or rather deformities Secondly 2. Armed he was a strong man armed armed with the Serpents head more subtill then all the Beasts of the field and armed with the Lions paw with the Arms Ammunition Forts Castles and the whole Militia of the three Nations by him usurped and surreptitiously gained but what speak I of that strength Like the Man in the Gospel possessed with a Devil a Luk. 5.3 No man could binde him no not with chains but he would pluck them assunder and breake them in pieces This great b Iob. 41.27 Leviathan esteemed Covenants as straw Protestations as rotten wood Engagements Promises and Oaths the strongest bonds in the world he would break them as easily as c Judg 1.9 Samson broke the Wit hs like a thred of Towe when it touched the Fire Above all this d 1 Sam. 17.5 Goliah was armed with a coat of Male with Impudence of Meridian altitude for he would Preach if need were and Pray with the greatest Pharisee of them all yea weep too like the Crocodile over his murdered prey full well he knew how to cover all his horrid actings with Religion Saint-ship and the Liberty of the good people of the Nation Thirdly 3. Kept the Kings Koyal Palace in this posture this strong Man armed kept the Palace the Royal and ancient seat of the Kings of England There he played Rex The Bramble was mounted above the Cedar of Lebanon Antichrist in his chair for there are e 1 Joh. 2.18 many Antichrists exalting himself above all that is called God his very Horses in the Temple of God Fourthly 4. His goods are in peace untill All this while his goods are in peace none durst say why dost thou so He prospered for a time in his wickednesse lived in all jollity without the controulment of any judgement which indeed is one of Gods heaviest judgements to suffer prosperity to attend upon evil actions Yet nothing was more common with him and his Flatterers then to interpret it as a blessing and from his good successe to justifie the evill of his enterprizes Felix scelus virtus vocatur it is no new thing to stamp the name of vertue upon prosperous impiety as Dionysius having a fair winde after he had robbed the Temple of Aesculapius stuck not to say that the Gods love Sacriledge This conceit reigned with him as long as he reigned that he was bound to God not bound by Satan whilst his goods were in peace f Psal 37.7 Ver. 2.10 But fret not thy self saith the Prophet David because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to passe for he shall be cut down like the Grasse and wither as the green Herb yet a little while and the wicked shall not be A stronger then he i Christ in the Text and Christ too in the first place 2. A stronger then he came he sent his pale messenger Death who came upon him 1. The Lord Christ and overcame that strong man and forced him from his Palace and he is gone to his own place There it was Christus Dominus the Lord Christ and Christus Dominus hath sent us Christum Domini the Lord Christ hath sent us the Lords Christ 2. The Lords Christ King Charles the Second the Lords anoynted our Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES the Second to reign over us who is stronger then the strong man personal or collective 1. Stronger being assisted by God for the hand of God hath been apparently with him in the whole series and progresse of our settlement The great and infinite wise God did see so many mens hearts drawn away from their obedience to their Soveraigne by strong delusions as they could not be reduced to their Allegiance without the infinite expence of Blood or by a miracle Behold therefore a miracle King Charles returned from his Banishment arrived upon the coast of England setled in his Throne without one drop of Blood shed or one blow given either by way of offence or defence All mountains of opposition are become a plain and the Lord hath brought forth the head-stone of Englands glorious Fabrick with shoutings And let us cry Grace Grace unto it g Zech. 3.6 7. Not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts Who so seeth not a miracle here and sends not up thanks to God for it must be like the man of whom I spake in the opening of the Text possessed with a Blinde and Dumb Devil The Lord hath shewed himself from Heaven wonderfully the Finger of God hath cast the strong Man and his power out and planted a stronger then he in The right hand of the Lord hath the preheminence the right hand of the Lord hath wrought this wonderfull alteration and given us a stronger then he his right hand and his arme and the light of his countenance because he had a favour unto him A favour to his right and unquestionable title For the righteous Lord loveth righteousnesse A favour to his incomparable patience under unparalleld afflictions h Ja. 5.14 You have heard of the afflictions of Job saith Saint James and you have heard of the patience of King CHARLES and have seen the end of the Lord i Psal 40.1 2 3. He waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto him and heard his cry and hath brought him out of his distresse and hath set his feet upon a rock and established his goings and hath put a new song into his mouth A favour to his invincible constancy in the Christian Religion established in the Church of England In that Religion his Royal Father of glorious memory died a Martyr a King amongst Martyrs And in that Religion his Royal Son hath lived being immoveable as a Rock in the midst of the Sea of temptations Thus did the Stars of his Vertues shine most clearly in the Dark Night of his Exilement And for this cause we trust he will be daily stronger in the affections of his Loyal people and of all the true Sons of our Mother the Church of England Secondly 2. And hath overcome He will come upon them

possession of their hearts for his own habitation and restores unto them the graces whereof they were despoiled But when a stronger First stronger then Satan and comes upon him c. This strong man Satan he buckles on his Armour about him stands upon his Guard is resolved to keep his Captives and will not let them go But there is no remedy he must yeild perforce what he cannot hold For a stronger then he cometh upon him and overcometh him His valour that the first a Psal 89.19 The Lord hath layed helpe upon one that is mighty b Dan. 9.25 Messiah the Prince as Daniel calls him enters the lists encounters the Prince of the power of Darknesse and the enterprize shall go on with successe c Esay 53.10 the good pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands for he waketh in great strength and is mighty to subdue enemies and mighty to save his people In whose presence Conquest its selfe stands exspecting only his dread beck d Luke 1.19 The Lord hath raised up a horn of Salvation his Son Jesus Christ e Acts 10.43 To him give all the Prophets witnesse A horn of Salvation noting his power and strength to break all the horns of Satan and to batter down his Kingdome untill it fall to the ground as the Walls of Jericho at the sound of the Rams horns Hail King said they in scorn but King he is in earnest f Esay 96.54 The Government is upon his shoulders having a golden Scepter of Grace which his people kisse and an Iron rod of strength wherewith according to the first Prophesie g Gen. 3.15 He breaketh the head of that old Dragon the Devil who is as little able to resist him as a Potters Vessel a rod of Iron to whom deservedly appertains this magnificent Elogie He is stronger then all Greater is he that is in you saith Saint John that is Christ then he that is in the world i the Devil And for this purpose the Son of God was manifested h 1 Joh. 3.8 that he might destroy the works of the Devil For the accomplishing whereof he is throughly furnished i Col. 1.19 In him dwelleth all fulnesse A fulnesse of Wisdome to contrive a fulnesse of Power to effect and a fulnesse of successe the Battell is not doubtfull the Event is certain He goes on conquering and to conquer The second particular 2. Overcomes him His victory But when a stronger then he shall come upon him and overcome him David with a stone out of a sling smote Goliah to the ground and then with his own Sword severed his Blasphemous head from his shoulders The Son of David Jesus Christ Daniels stone cut forth of the Mountain without hands born of a Virgin that never knew man smote that Great Goliah the Devil foyled him with his own Weapon conquered him with his own Sword By death overcame him that had the power of death k 1 Cor. 23.24 Christ Crucified was to the Jewes a stumbling block and to the Gentiles foolishnesse but to them which are called the power of God and the wisdome of God The power of God to conquer the strong man in the Text Satan and the wisdome of God to befool that old Serpent who would not have put it into the heart of Judas to betray him had he not thought that when he was nayled to the Crosse he could neither fight nor fly but the Devil was mistaken for all his craft The Crosse was Christs triumphal Chariot wherein he subdued all the Potentates and Powers of darknesse l Col. 2.15 having spoyled Principalities and Powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in it in the Crosse for duo in cruce affixi intelliguntur saith Origen two were fixed on the Crosse Christ visibly and willingly for a time and Satan invisibly and unwillingly for ever Now this victory takes quite away the scandal of the Crosse and blessed Paul will glory in nothing m Gal. 6.14 but the Cross of Christ Christs Death gave such a blow to the Devil as cast him down without any hopes of ever rising again when he had swallowed up Christ in the Grave he thought he had got the Field and that all was sure but he found to his sorrow a Hook under that Bait which he never suspected he received a Trojan horse within his Walls which forced him to yeeld both Field and Victory and he by Death seizing upon him that was Innocent forfeited his power over us that are guilty so many of us as truly believe in Christ An Eye of Faith doth see in the Death and Passion of Christ Hell disappointed Satan confounded and Christs-poor captived Lambs rescued as a panting prey out of the paw of that roaring Lyon and the grim mouth of that raging Bear Object But you will say Satan doth still fight against the Faithfull by his assaults and temptations Satan yet fights against the faithful Answ True he doth so Christ permits him First To exercise his Childrens Graces and to work them to a conformity with himselfe Yet secondly Satan is deprived of all power to prevail to the ruine of the Souls of Beleevers they being built upon a Rock against which the gates of Hell shall not prevail Thirdly For their comfort they strive with a conquered enemy who hath more Gall then strength so that if we like good Soldiers of Jesus Christ resist stedfast in the Faith the victory undoubtedly will be ours He that hath trodden down Satan under his will also tread him down under our Feet and we shall have cause to triumph and say n 1 Cor. 15.57 Thanks be unto God which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Who the better to encourage us in this conflict and to assure us of conquest hath taken away from him all his armour But when a stronger then he cometh upon him and overcometh him he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted That 's the third 3. Taketh from him his armour Satan is armed first as you have heard with his own subtill serpentine temptations which are so many stings and darts 1. Blunting the darts of his temptations whereby precious Souls receive many deadly wounds But as a Serpent fixing his sting upon a Rock finds no entrance and renders his sting thereby uselesse so that old Serpent the Devil attempting to fasten the sting of his temptations upon the Rock which is Christ lost his sting there the power the venome of it and hath made it uncapable of stinging us having by Faith once taken sanctuary in the clefts of that Rock o Eph. 6.16 Therefore above all saith the Apostle take the shield of Faith wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the Devil Temptations are as so many darts that poyson the Soul and scorch it as with fire But Christ touched by Faith Faith in the

be in peace 2. 2. From the nature of habitual sin This evill peace receiveth nourishment from the nature of habitual sin A godly man though he may be taken by occasion in a fault yet finds he no rest in the way that is finfull No rest in my bones by reason of my sin saith David but an ungodly man u Jude v. 12. feeds himself in sin without fear For as no element they say is ponderous in its proper place if we lye under deep waters the burthen thereof offends us not though otherwise they may annoy us so Sin is not a burthen to a man in his unregeneracy and his unconverted condition it being in him as in its proper region or element he is at peace This Lethargy taketh growth 3. From evil managing plenty unto living voluptuously 3. From plenty ill managed It is the rich man in the Gospel that said Soul take thy ease thou hast goods laid up for many years A Surfet of plenty or pleasure drowns sinners in a sleep of security and then Satan hath them sure It was Crasus his councel to Cyrus that that if he would hold the Lydians in Slavery he must let them sing and play and drink and dance and dally and such pipes Satan wants not that a dead sleep of carnal security may fall upon his Vessals and that they may for the present live in peace A wretched and miserable peace that ends in ruine and destruction The w Arist Prob. Sect. 23. q. 5. Philosopher tells us of a Sea wherein by hollows of the Earth or some whirling attractive property the Ship is suckt in and cast away in a calm so do wicked mens Souls gently perish in the midst of their own security While they cry peace peace saith the Scripture sudden destruction shall come upon them as travel upon a woman and they shall not escape Great peace have they that love Gods Law saith the Psalmist and nothing shall offend them But such as have forsaken Gods Law and cast it behinde their back if they have Peace the Devil is in that peace If Pharaoh be at peace with the Israelites it is a sign they are his Bond-slaves If the Goaler be at peace with his Prisoner it is a signe he hath him under Bar and Bolt and if Satan be at peace with wicked men and they at peace in their Sins it is a signe he is possessed of the Palace their hearts and they are his Vassals and so my first Proposition is cleared That all unconverted ones c. Whither now by way of Application shall I convert my Speech Application to all that are unconverted to take up a Lamentation and to cry mightily to God to send his Son Jesus Christ to make them free but to such as are not yet converted from the error of their ways and from the evil of their doings To all that live in the practice of any known sins and yet are at peace in themselves that they would take up a Lamentation and Mourning for their sad and miserable condition as one that mourneth for the death of his first-born The Prince of the Power of darknesse they are under him his Captives Vassals and slaves You walk in darknesse in disobedience against God that 's the way you are in and darknesse outer darknesse will be your portion that 's the end you are hasting to Profligate sinners may say in their ruffe and jollity as those Gallant fellowes in the 12 Psalme and 4 verse Who is Lord over us Truly it is no hard matter to answer you even the Devil all you have all you are is his he hath the custody of that Royal Fort the Palace the Heart that 's his house I will go to my house saith that unclean spirit Matth. 12.44 and when he comes he findes it empty so is every heart that is not established with grace and garnished ready for him and his guests even seven Devils more wicked then himself which push on miserable captives to commit iniquity with greedinesse Doctor Sanderson Ser. 7. ad Aulam for go they needs must whom the Devil drives Hence some melt themselves in Lusts and sordid pleasures possessed with a Voluptuous Devil others pine themselves lean whilst they behold the fatnesse of their neighbours portion w Jo. 4.5 The spirit that dwells in them lusteth after Envy behold a malicious Devil Another upon the wings of Ambition soars to an usurped pinacle of Honour loe there dwells a proud Devil Another stops his ears and will not hear sound doctrine nor seasonable reprehension but is a follower of such teachers as are after his own lusts not being pleased with that which is true but allowing that onely to be true which pleaseth him The Devil hath infected his eare with an itch and unlesse you claw him he will not hear you Another labours of a Bloody Flux of Oaths or lets his mouth loose x Epist Jude ver 8. to speak evill of Dignities The Devil hath possessed his tongue and set it on fire with the fire of Hell O that all men living and lying in these and the like sins would take this to heart that their precious Soul for which the world assords not a valuable compensation is in the possession of Satan they are under the shadow and government of that Bramble the Devil whence nothing can be expected but the fire of Hell to come forth and destroy them y Exod. 5.19 The people of Israel finding themselves in evil case under Pharaoh when they were to gather straw and the whole tale of Brick also exacted they cryed for anguish of heart because of their cruel bondage and the Lord heard their cry z Exod. 6.6 7 8. and by the hand of his Captain Moses did bring them from under their burthens O that all in their sins would be so sensible of their bondage as to cry earnestly to God for their Souls as the man in the Gospel for his Son Have mercy upon me O Lord for my Soul is possessed with a Devil and sometimes he throws me into the Fire and sometimes into the Water Makes me as hot as fire to the pursuit of that which is evil but to that which is good as cold as Ice That they would cry mightily to God one deep call upon another a depth of misery on a depth of mercy I am so fast in prison I cannot get out Then would the Lord send a greater then Moses to deliver them even his Son Jesus the Captain of our Salvation on whom he hath powred his spirit to bring deliverance to Captives and to open the Prison door to such as are bound under Satan The second and most welcome assertion that now invites your attention 2 Prop. A sinners deliverance out of Bondage by Christ who is When Jesus Christ is pleased in mercy to visit any such poor Captives he ejects Satan pulls down the reign and dominion of Sin takes

hath been interwoven in the former discourse That which remains is First Application By way of Query Secondly Of Counsel Thirdly For Courage and Animation First First for quaere you have heard the whole world is engaged either for Christ or Satan all fight either under Christs ensigne or the Devils The important quaery now is who are you for unless you return the answer of a good Conscience to this quaery you lose your soul which is more worth then the whole world Blessed be God we are yet in the land of the living let us make it the business of our whole life to give a good answer to this weignty quaery before we go hence and be no more seen Think of it what answer you will give to God when Death shall summon you to his awful tribunal If you have been for Christ behold his arms open to releive you if for Satan the Devil will have his due O that we could say with that holy Martyr none but Christ none but Christ certain it is that all one day shall be subject to Christ either as Subjects or Rebels if they that will not kisse the golden Scepter of his grace held forth in the Word they shall feel the weight of his Iron rod which shall break them in pieces like a Potters Vessel while there is none to help Let us therefore cast down all their weapons of Rebellion and disobedience lest we be found fighting against Christ Are you stronger then he that hath overcome this strong man are you able to meet him with ten thousand sins who is able to come against you with twenty thousand Plagues and Judgements who will come one day u 2 Thes 1.8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ w Depart I pray you from the Tents of Wickednesse lest you be consumed in your sins And now the alarum sounds in our ears resolve to be volunteers for Christ consecrating and giving up your selves a willing people unto him though other Lords and other Lusts have had dominion over us yet now let us make mention of his name onely saying We will have no King but Jesus Christ reigne thou over us for thou hast delivered us from Satan that strong man And being thus resolved hearken Secondly 2. Counsell to the Counsel If you be for Christ then deliver up the Palace to him let him have the Heart for his Temple and let it be beautified and furnished as is meet for his entertainment like the Temple of the triumphant Solomon with the rod of Aaron wholsome Discipline in an holy frame of Heart the two Tables of the Law the two Testaments written in the heart the Pot of Manna the Sacrament of the Lords Supper duely received and with due preparation Let not your heart be so withered within you as to forget to eate that bread with Morning and Evening Sacrifices of Prayers and Praises For in his Temple doth every man speak of his honour Having thus consecrated the Temple of the Heart to Christ yet know the heart is naturally deceitful and Satan will be busie to re-obtain his Possession w Prov. 4.23 Go keep thy heart saith Solomon with all diligence and above all thy keepings keep thy Heart and let not any bosome sin lodge there with your allowance but though it be as dear unto you as your right Hand or your right Eye yet cut it off and cast it from you otherwise that sin will hold Intelligence with the Enemy to let him in again But when he shall see that sin killed and crucified the Head of it as I may say upon the Walls then he departs with shame and confusion But this departure will be but as he departed from Christ for a season saith the Text therefore Thirdly 3. Courage and Animation for Courage and Animation we must all resolve upon it as good Soldiers of Jesus Christ to make War against Satan as long as we live and never to be at peace with him nor our sins according to our vow in Baptisme which was to renounce the Devil and all his works and to continue Christs faithful Soldiers and Servants to our lives end When the Children of Israel were entred into the Land of Canaan God tells them that they were to make Warre with the w Num. 33.53 Cananites untill they had destroyed them So we that are entred into a covenant of peace with Christ must be at War with Sin Satan even to the utter destruction of every Amalekite x Luke 12.5 Think you saith our Saviour to his Disciples that I am come to send peace I tell you nay but debate Christs business that he came upon the earth for was to pull down the enmity between God and us and so to make peace but not a sinful peace not peace with Satan not peace with Sin but to go out and fight daily against these Philistins This hath been the sad Catastrophe of the Caesars and Alexanders of the world they have fled like Eagles to the conquering of Nations and have been afterwards conquered with their own lusts Bid we battle to our own corruptions labour to be conquerours at home to keep that vast Sea of Passions Affections within due bounds Fortior est qui se quam qui fortissima vincit He that overcomes himselfe is greater then he that overcomes a strong City This is the holy War to fight against Sin and Satan a War wherein we have Jesus Christ for our Captaine whose quarrell whilst we espouse he will Crown us with Victory and after that gives us a Crown of Victory Be thou faithful unto Death saith he and I will give thee a crown of Life The Jewel the Mystery conteined in the Text you have had revealed and opened unto you I must now beg a few minutes patience of you untill we have reviewed the History We read in the second of the Kings and the seventh The History reviewed and revived at this time how the Lord by implanting Phantasies and frightful apprehensions into the mindes of the Syrians then warring against Israel thereby discomfitted the whole host so that they fled whilst none pursued them Here was a strong man And a stronger then he came upon him and overcame him with a Phantasie for the weaknesse of God is stronger then men Hereupon the Leapers said to one another This is a day of good tidings if we hold our peace we do not well Doubtlesse this is a Day too of good Tydings of the Proclaiming and of the Returning of his Sacred Majesty King Charles the second into his Kingdome and into his Dominions with peace safety and honour A strong man armed not long since kept the Palace the Royal Palace of the Kings of England but a stronger then he hath come upon him and overcome him We should not do well to refrain our lips to keep back Gods

and overcome them yea he hath overcome the hearts of his people already by his Acts of Indulgence As the Lord Christ draweth his people unto him even so doth the Lords Christ k Hosea 11.4 I drew them saith the Lord with cords of a Man with bonds of Love and I was to them as they that take off the Yoke c. So doth our Gracious Soveraigne humanely and courteously draw the hearts of his people unto him without rigor or violence not roughly drawing them as slaves but gently alluring them as Sons sparing many as a Father doth his Son that hath highly exasperated him Thirdly 3. Takes away the armour Having overcome his people he takes away their armour All those poysonfull weeds of disobedience and contradiction which through the malice of the Devil and craftinesse of Seducers were planted in many peoples hearts do now dye and wither at the approach of this glorious Sun The people are daily undeceived and see plainly that Liberty and Loyalty dwell together and that they can partake of no true Freedome who withdraw their obedience to their lawfull SOVERAIGN Who Fourthly 4. Divideth the spoyles divideth the spoyles amongst his Subjects by his most prudent distribution of Justice and Mercy His Justice restores to him that was spoyled that which the spoyler spoyled him of And his Mercy is of large extent manifested to a Miracle even to such as are conscious to themselves that they have not deserved it Blessed be our good God and blessed be our Eyes that we See and our Ears that we Hear that which many Loyal and right worthy persons now asleep in their Graves have desired to see and hear but have not Thus is our Captivity turned from under a strong Man a Bramble to live under a stronger then he a Vine which the Lords own right hand hath planted and made so strong for himself Thus I say is the Captivity of our Sion turned whilst we were like unto them that dream a dream indeed Deliverance came without looking without labouring for the lesse of Man the more of God in it The Lord was pleased not to give our desired successe to the Battle at Dunbar nor at Worcester he reserved the glory of this great work for himself Not unto thee O Lord not unto thee but unto us be the shame of our Rebellions not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thee be the glory of bringing the King back againe to us What remaineth now but that you that hear me this day and all the three Nations would suffer the word of exhortation To rejoyce and give thanks unto the Lord Christ Hence an exhortation to rejoyce and give thanks cautioned with who hath restored to us the Lords Christ the Lords anoynted our dread Soveraigne The Lord hath highly magnified us in mercy and deeply we are bound to magnifie him for his mercy saying and singing with holy David every one of us l Psal 35.10 All my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him yea the poor and the needy from him that spoyled him Thus let us rejoyce and give thanks yet with due cautions First of Sobriety 1 Sobriety a sacrifice of joy and praise such a Mercy requires But let it not be offered to Bacchus but Jovi Liberatori to the great God of Heaven and Earth Let us rejoyce and give thanks and expresse the same by walking honestly as in the day m Rom 13.13 not in rioting and drunkennesse who so after this manner saith the Lord offereth praise glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God Secondly 2. Charity Charity and works of Mercy A day of feasting and joy is also a day of n Esther 9.22 sending portions one to another and gifts to the poor Let Mercy be shewed to them for his sake from whom we have received so great a Mercy Thirdly 3. Unity Unity and Peace one with another and the rather because it is the desire of a King to his Subjects and should conjure our hearts to abstaine from all tearmes and notes of separation So should our Kingdome our Nation our Hierusalem be as a City that is at unity in it selfe whilst we that dwell together in it are at unity amongst our selves Fourthly 4. Daily prayers for his Majesty with daily prayers for his MAJESTY That the Lord would keep this Mercy forever in the imaginations of the thoughts of his Heart and prepare his Heart unto the Lord. That the rod of Affliction which the Lord hath removed from him may open his eare to Discipline and teach him with all prudence to sway the Scepter which he hath put into his hand That it may appear daily by his wise Government that the Lord hath preserved him to set forth his glory to protect his Church and for a blessing to his people Glory to God in the highest FINIS