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The true Englishman, humbly proposing something to rid us of the plot in the state and of contentions in the church wherein is shown how our King may be the happy healer of nations / by a Philopolite ; and published by his neighbour, Philotheus.
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him with trembling and with fear rejoyce VIII Lest he be angry kiss the Eternal Son Happy are they who thus have done And there have plac'd their chief desire Vnto your selves and him return For if his Anger once take fire Those Flames which should but only warm will burn Good Poesie and sense are quickning things therefore not amiss in me now and then to call in the Doctor who excels therein to help where there is so great need One Psalm more there is I cannot part with being most apposite to my purpose it is that for or of Solomon who you know was a King Which Psalm our Poet in his Paraphrase hath contrived to express my hearts desire i.e. the happiness and glory of our King's Kingdom it is Psalm 72. I. Great God Thy Judgments to our Sovereign give And let his Throne like thine abide May the Young Prince before thee live And on his Enemies Necks in Triumph ride Put on his Head thy Righteous Crown And to the Father's glories add Thy own II. Then shall He judge the People and dispense That Justice which he has receiv'd To him the Poor shall look and thence Have both their Miseries pitty'd and reliev'd The Needies cause He shall maintain And on their Enemies turn their wrongs again III. So shall the barren Cliffs with shouts resound And all the little Hills rejoyce The Vallies from the lower ground Shall thence receive the Image of the Voice Sweet Peace on every Hill shall reign And Justice once more guide the humble Plain IV. Whilst time can measure it His Rule shall last And when even that shall be no more When Time it self expir'd is cast I'th'Vrne that had all dust but his before No Ages left to count it by It shall be measur'd by Eternity VI. Peace and Her fruits shall prosper in his daies And under his Auspicious Reign The Palm shall flourish and the Bayes And Justice to the Earth return'd again To Heav'n no more be forc'd to go But with him keep her residence below VII His far-stretch'd sway Nature alone can bound Which shall from Sea to Sea extend As far as there is any ground And only where the World finds hers have end Then up to Heav'n his Fame shall flie And fill the Mighty Circle of the skie VIII Black Ethiopia at his Feet shall bow Her neck for him to tread upon Honour'd enough if thus he shew Acceptance of the Footstool for his Throne Down in the dust his Foes shall lie With Heads more low than once their thoughts were high IX The Western Continent and farthest Isles And both the Indies Gifts shall bring To him they shall present the Spoils Of Sea and Land as Vniversal King All Kings before him shall bow down And do for Theirs just Homage to his Crown X. Kingdoms opprest shall his Protection crave And needy States unto him sue Th' Opprest he with his arms shall save And with the Needy his Old League renew Redeem their Slaves defend their Right And shew their Blood was precious in his sight XI Thus shall he live and reign and thus receive The Tributes which to him are paid Some Myrrh some Frankincense shall give And Gold which shall like Stones be common made And the due service of each day Shall be to praise that King for whom we pray XIII And when to God he shall resign his breath Yet in his Name he still shall live Above the Pow'r of Grave or Death And to the Immortal Verse a Subject give Which of his happy Reign shall sing And count that Land so which has such a King XIV Bless Him whose Words these Miracles obey And who must all these gifts bestow To Israel's God let Israel pray That from his Spring such streams may ever flow For ever bless his holy Name Nor bound with less than Heaven his mighty Fame There is no hurt I hope in this Transcription it is edifying unto me as is all his Book and what I thereof bring is the more pleasing because so far I am sure I offer what is worthy of thy acceptance I am now near concluding my Discourse having no other remain in my thoughts than some few Directions which shall be given in the next Chapter CHAP. VI. SECT I. IN order to our being what I have hitherto designed in this Discourse I shall propose to some Directions 1 More general 2 More special 1 The General Direction shall be to Four things 1 Look we diligently lest any root of bitterness be springing up in us These are so opposite to what I have been proposing that they be the only troubling and defiling things these will occasion any man to fail of the Grace of God for they be poyson and death to Love What natural name they have St. Paul and St. James will tell you the one names it the law in our members the other Rom. 7. James 4.1 our lusts in the one is pointed to us its Commanding power in the other its being Brutish and in both that it is a warring thing in war against Reason and against the Soul of Man against the direction of God's Spirit and then against every body else The looking diligently and honestly within you will soon inform you what it is and what names I should here give them Of all these bitter roots none to a Nation are so certainly and so speedily mortal as those of affecting to be flattered Revenge and being without natural affection in the Ruler or the Governours subordinate to him Suspicion Jealousies or Fears and affectation of Change and an Opinion of having Political Science in the People I descend not to other particulars and say no more of these because the next Direction if followed will surely cure all at once 2 Let us be willing to be truly Religious or Divine in Intellect and Will in Affection and Practice i.e. that the whole of us tend to God and be given to him So that upon All which is either Naturally or Providentially ours we write with our own hand i.e. most heartily This is the Lord's I know God works in us both to will and to do but how so as that we likewise refuse not to work He stands and knocks and we must open or he comes not in Psal 24. Lift up your heads O ye Gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting Doors and the King of Glory shall come in View this King of Glory until ye be enamour'd of his Divine perfections search or seek until you find him within your selves i. e. to be so far as we can like unto God and out of the real sense of this likeness in our selves to love and admire him This is the true and the highest Worship Man can exhibite to his Maker And to be pure in this of Religion our Will is also requisite i. e. that we throughly consent to be in due moderation and rule over all the joys and pleasures of our Members to bear a strict hand