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A93187	God save the King: or, A sermon preach'd at Lyme-Regis May 18. 1660. at the solemn proclamation of his most Excellent Majesty Charles the II. by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith. / By Ames Short M.A. minister there.	Short, Ames, 1615 or 16-1697.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3526; Thomason E1919_2; ESTC R203570	29,855	112

his wrath and justice 4. Let us express our joy in His Majesty's Restitution c. By stopping our eares for ever against the bewitching temptations of such as are given to change Let the smart of our sufferings under past changes cause us to dread the least thought of making our selves happy by tearing to pieces our antient and best forme of Government and attempting to erect a new Let us no more lend an eare to those Monsters of Treason and Tyranny who had lately cheated us into slavery under a pretence of liberty and who had brought us into bondage unto their owne wills and lusts by promising to set us at liberty and make us free Let the monstrous opinions and horible confusions we have lately suffered under them cause us to tremble at the mention of a Common-wealth Government that hath begotten them And now that we have recovered our Pilot let us resolve never to cast or suffer him to be cast overboard againe lest we suffer shipshwrack for want of him Let us resolve according to the command of God Pro. 24.21 22. To feare God and the King and not to meddle with those that are given to change 5. Let us express our joy c. By blessing and praising that God who by his power and providence hath so wonderfully brought it about for us Certainely it hath not been brought about by humane policy might or power but by the spirit and finger of God Zech. 4.6 'T is true Inments have been used and as Instruments 't is fit they should be honored and we should blesse God for them But who was it that raised up those instruments was it not God who as the Apostle tells us 1 Cor. 1.27 28 29. hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weake things of the world to confound the things that are mighty c. that no flesh should glory in his presence Againe tell me who gave them that wisdom and conrage wherby they have been enabled to effect what they have attempted was it not God doubtlesse it was So that from first to last the whole work is his and the whole glory and praise of it is due to him Let us then this day and all our days express our joy in it by giving God the glory of it And in our rejoycings let us blesse and praise the God of Heaven for this his unspeakable mercy to us and unto these almost ruined Kingdomes 1. With our souls and all that is within us And let us awaken and stir up our souls so to do as David did his upon another account Psal 103.1 Let us bless him with our souls by loving fearing and admiring of him and all his incomprehensible attributes discovered in bringing about His Majesty's restitution Let us also blesse him by our delighting our selvs in him Let us not express our joy by taking our fill of delight in the creatures but by delighting our selves in God our Creator And indeed this is the best way wherein we can expresse our joy upon any account in the world And such a way of expressing our joy at the Proclamation of His Majesty would at once evidence us to be the King 's best Subjects and God's best friends and servants 2. Let us express our joy upon this account in blessing and praising God with our tongues Let us open our mouths and let our lips shew forth the glory of God this day and all our dayes God hath given us our tongues to this end that with them we might shew forth his praise Letus then in our rejoycing this day be speaking of God and of those glorious attributes of God which he hath discovered in bringing about this work This way David resolved to blesse God Psal 26.7 145.5 and prophecyed that other men should do so too Psal 145.6 7. yea that one generation should tell the works of God to another that he might not lose the honour of them Psal 145.4 So the present generation should bless God for his mercy in the restitution of his Majesty by transmitting it to posterity that the generations to come may praise him for it 3. Let us express our joy upon this account by blessing God with our lives Let our lives praise God every day that we have to live for his mercy to us in the restitution of His Majesty this day to his just Rights And let us thus bless God 1. by endeavouring dayly after a more thorough Reformation of our selves and others as much as in us lies Now that God hath restored His Majesty let us sit down and consider with our selves what our personal sins are whereby we did provoke God to suffer the worst of Tyrants to murther his Royal Father and for so many years to banish his Majesty having discovered them let us turn from them Let us do it heartily and unfeignedly so as never to turn to the commission of them more O let us resolve never to provoke this God more who notwithstanding our sinful provocations hath delivered us from usurping Tyrants and hath restored to us our most dread and rightfull Sovereign 2. By dedicating our selves heartily intirely and sincerely to the fear and service of God Let the consideration fo the great things God hath done for us cause us to fear the Lord and serve him with our whole heart all our days according to that of Samuel 1 Sam. 12.24 though we have hitherto served Satan and our own lusts let us from henceforth resolve to serve no Master but God As you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness to iniquity unto iniquity ev en so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness according to that of the Apostle Rom. 6.19 and both these things I earnestly beg of you 1. For your owne sakes 2. For His Majesty's sake Lest if you still do wickedly you provoke the Lord to destroy both your King and your selves According to that of Samuel 1 Sam. 12.25 But if ye shall still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both you and your King 3. By doing what in us lies in our several stations to improve his Majesty's Authority for the right and proper ends of Authority Let us not any of us endeavour to improve it for by and base ends of our own to scramble for Honors Offices and Preferments for our selves as others have done under the late Usurpers But let us improve it 1. For the suppressing of Superstition Heresie and Profainnesse These are the things that have been the meritorious cause of all our sufferings let us therefore improve his Majesty's Authority to suppress them 2. For the effecting of a thorough Reformation both in Church and State according to the Word of God and the Laws of the land And let us beg of God to put it into his Majesty's heart so to do 3. For the propagation of the truth and power of Godliness that all within his Majesty's Dominions may know the truth and express the power of Godliness in their lives and conversations 4. Let us blesse God with our lives for this his mercy to us in restoring his Majesty by opening the doors of our hearts unto the Lord Jesus Christ the King of glory that he may erect his throne there so as to reigne over us all our dayes according to that of David Psal 24.7 8 9 10. Christ as Mediator guideth all the Affaires of the world And it is he that hath restored his Majesty to his authority now in a way of thankfullnesse unto him let us admit him into our hearts that he may reign and rule over us by his word and spirit Let us serve the King of Kings and Lord of Lords with fear and rejoice with trembling Let us kisse the son lest he be angry and we perish from the way as we are exhorted to do Psal 2.10 11. 6. Let us in the last place expresse our joy in his Majesty's restitution by giving portions to such for whom nothing is provided Ther 's provision made for you Gentlemen of the Country somthing suitable to your worth and quality Let me desire you to expresse your rejoicing in this days solemnity by giving something to the poor for whom nothing is provided Let us do this day as the Jewes of old did upon their Festival days of joy and rejoicing what they did and were enjoyned to do you may see Nehemiah 8.10 11 12. Esther 9.22 Now to conclude all if you thus expresse your joy in the solemnity of this day you shall not only be truly blessed in his Majesty but his sacred Majesty shall be as truly happy in you You shall not onely live happily under his Government here but you shall for ever live and reign with him in an Eternity of glory hereafter Now to the onely wise God who liveth and reigneth for ever and doth what pleaseth him both in Heaven above and in the Earth beneath be Glory Honour and Immortality for ever and ever AMEN FINIS

proudly against the ancient and the base against the honorable But the accession of a lawfull and hopefull Prince c. will undoubtedly prevent or put to an end these mischievous evils that else would happen to that people over which he is to rule 4. The accession of a hopefull and lawfull Prince to Rule and Government will certainely prevent or put to an end those mischeivous disputes and divisions which otherwise will arise amongst a people about the particular forme of Government the person or persons by which they will be ruled When the seat of Authority is vacant or possessed by usurpation every man as he is affected will be contending to be ruled under this or that particular form of government or by this or that particular person The truth of this we have seen made good by sad experience even in our dayes How have disputes about these things broken and crumbled us into a thousand pieces since the horrid murther of his late Majesty of glorious memory and the treacherous exile c. of his present most Royal and most excellent Majesty Now this mischief also the accession of c. will assuredly either prevent or put to an end 5. The accession of a lawfull hopeful Prince to Rule and Government will also prevent or put to an end those frequent and mischievous changes in government to which a State and Kingdom is Subject through the want of such a Prince to Rule and govern it Frequent changes in government either in respect of the persons ruling or the form of government by which it is ruled are very destructive and mischievous to it And therefore when God is displeased with a people he usually brings this Judgement upon them Prov. 28.2 For the transgression of a Land many are the Princes thereof c. And of all Kingdoms those are most subject to this destroying Judgment where their lawful Sovereign is rejected and the Throne is possessed by Usurpation How often did the ten Tribes change their Rulers after their Revolt from the House of David and what frequent changes both of Governors and Government have we seen in this Nation since the murther of our late and Exilement of our present Sovereign but by the accession of a lawful hopeful Prince to Rule these changes are either prevented or put to an end Prov. 28.2 For the transgression of a land many are the Princes thereof but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged i. e. by a lawful Prince who is wise and prudent the state thereof shall be preserved viz. from such frequent and mischievous changes of its Governors and Rulers These are some of those great mischiefs which by this means will be prevented or put to an end and therefore the accession of a lawful hopeful Prince to actual Rule and Government is a thing greatly to be rejoyced in by those over whom he is to rule But secondly The Accession of such a Prince to actual Rule and Government 2 Reas s a thing greatly to be rejoyced in because it gives the people over whom he is to rule great hope of much approaching and continued good to them by his rule and government over them A lawful hopeful Ruler is a great blessing to a Nation and therefore God promiseth to bestow such upon his people as a great blessing to them Isa 1.26 And I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning i. e. I will give thee Rulers like unto those which I set over thee when thou wert first constituted a State and Kingdom such as were Moses Joshua Samuel David c. such as shall be Instruments of much good unto thee as all good and lawful Princes are to all such as they rule over Now the good a people have grounds to hope for upon the accession of a lawful hopeful Prince to Rule and Government is 1. The injoyment of outward peace plenty and prosperity By Solomon's accession to the throne the state of Israel injoyed the good of all these The whole time of the Reign of Solomon they did not onely injoy peace acording as God had promised they should 1 Chron. 22.9 For his name shall be Solomon and I will give Peace and quietnesse unto Israel in his dayes But also great plenty and prosperity as you may see 1 King 10.27 And the King made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones and Cedars made he to be as the Sycamore trees which are in the vale for abundance And 2 Chron. 1.15 in the same words And thus it often comes to passe by the accession of a lawfull hopefull Prince to Rule and Government and therefore there is ground to hope upon the accession of such a Prince to Rule and Government 2. The right administration and execution of law and justice This good and benefit Israel injoyed by the accession of Solomon to Rule and Government as a peares by many instances especially by his decision of the difference betwixt the two Harlots about the living child 1 king 3 from the 16 to the end 3. Safety and protection from all wrong and injury or at least justice against such as wrong and injure them as 't is the duty so 't is for the most part the disposition of lawfull Princes to protect their Subjects yea the meanest of them from wrong and injury and to do such of them right as are wronged and injured This good also Israel injoyed by Solomon's accession to the throne as appears by the foregoing instance 4. Suitable rewards and preferments to their deserts and merits Vsurpers bestow their rewards and preferments upon such as are rightest for their turne but lawfull Princes if they are wise and prudent upon them who are most deserving but especially upon such as are most faithfull to God within their dominions such David resolved to prefer to the honor of being next yea nearest to his person in attendance upon him Psal 101. throughout but especially ver 6. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithfull of the land that they may dwell with me He that walketh in a perfect way he shall serve me By the faithful there he means the truly godly in the land as appears from the latter part of the verse And such were they whom Solomon advanced upon his accession to the throne as appears by 1 King 4. begining 5. The preservation and if need be the Reformation of Religion with due countenance and encouragement in the practice and profession of it Vsurpers for the most part are Corrupters and Suppressers of the truth and power of Religion Such a one was Jeroboam and those Kings that succeeded him in his Vsurpation as you may see 1 Kings 12.26 27. c. to the end And Jeroboam said in his heart now shall the Kingdome return to the house of David If this people go up to do sacrifice in the House of the Lord at Jerusalem then shall the heart of this people turn

we may recover our honour againe 6. That we may now enjoy the liberty of our persons We need not now to feare of being imprisoned for meer pretended crimes and imaginary plots and designs against the State There 's hopes now that no mans person shall be attached or imprisoned but in a legall way 7. Lastly Which is more then all There is now hopes that we may see a through reformation of things amisse in our religion and from henceforth enjoy the Gospel Gospel-worship and ordinances in their full power and purity and so in due time through the blessing of God see an end of all our seperations and Church divisions And all this we may hope for upon the accession of the Kings Majesty to actuall Rule and Government if we consider 1. The various even miraculous providences of God towards him 2. If we consider his Majesty in respect of his personall qualifications for rule and Government I begin with the first 1. The providence of God in afflicting of him in suffering him to be Exiled out of his native Countrey and Dominions to be persecuted and enforced to fly from one Countrey to another by the Tyranny of his Enemies at home by the falshood and treachery of pretended friends abroad The providence of God in this kind I know hath been made use of as an Argument that God had no delight or pleasure in him But Brethren for my part I cannot but look upon it as an Argument that God hath designed him to be an Instrument of much good to us And I cannot but think that Gods design in afflicting of him was to humble and to fit him for Rule and Government And indeed God usually takes this course with such as he hath designed to be Instruments of much good to his Church and People This very course he took with Joseph Gen. 37.27 c. with Moses Exod. 2.15 with David He suffered him by the Tyranny of Saul to be driven out from the Inheritance of the Lord 1 Sam. 26.19 Thus God dealt with them to fit them for Rule and Government and we have reason to think that God took this course with His Majesty to the same end And no doubt he is the better fitted for Rule and Government by his Sufferings It is not imaginable that one who hath so long groaned under tyranny should become a Tyrant that one who hath so long felt the smart of injustice should be unjust to others 2. Again there is hopes of all this good by his accession to Rule and Government if you consider the wonderfull providence of God over him in the preservation of his person and in delivering him out of the hands of all his Enemies His dangers have been great and his deliverances have been eminent both at Worcester and elsewhere In this respect God hath wrought well-nigh as wonderfully for him as he did for Moses Joseph or David And this to me is another Argument that God hath designed him to be an Instrument of much good to these Nations and to his Church and people in them And that there is hope will further appear if you consider 3. The wonderful providence of God in making way for his Restitution to Rule and Government And in this respect the providence of God hath been wonderful even to astonishment 1. In plucking down Richard by his nearest Relations and the same hands that set him up by which means they opened an effeectual door for their own ruine and for His Majesties peaceable Restitution 2. In blasting and infatuating the Counsels of his implacable enemies of every kinde so as to cause them to dash one against another and to throw themselves down by their own hands 3. In stirring up the Spirit of the deservedly Renowned General MONCK with his faithfull Army to disown and declare against the Councel of Turkish-Christian-Janisaries and their Committee of Safety Both which by the special providence of God he quickly scattered as dust before the wind First by sitting still and afterwards by a peaceable and prudent march to London 4. In raising a spirit of courage in the generality of the people throughout this Nation to declare for the admission of the secluded Members and the calling of a free Parliament both which with the blessing of God upon the General 's prudent management of affairs we have seen effected 5. In putting it into the hearts of this present Parliament acording to their duty and allegiance to restore his sacred Majesty in turning about the hearts of all the Commanders both by sea and land to receive his most Royal Majesty againe into his Dominions In all which the wonderfull power and providence of God hath signally apeared So that we may say of our Sovereigne's Restitution what David said of our Saviors Exaltation Psal 118.22 23. The stone which the Builders refused is become the head stone of the corner This is the Lord 's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes And upon this ground we have reason to hope for much approaching good to these Nations by the accession of his most excellent Majesty to the exercise of Rule and Government 2. If you consider him in himself I mean his most excellent Majesty without the least respect to these signall and in a manner miraculous providences of God towards him you shall find him in all respects a very hopeful Prince every way as hopefull as any that hath hitherto swayed the imperiall Scepter of these Dominions And this you shall finde evidently to appeare if you please to lay aside all prejudice and look upon him with a judicious and impartial eye indeed if you look upon him under that shape and representation wherein our late Vsurpers have from time to time exposed him to publick view you cannot but thinke him the unfittest person in the world to wear the Imperial Crowne of these Realmes But I hope you have attained to more grace and wisdom than to believe what his persecuting enemies by Jesuitical example and inspiration have reported of him who have done by him as the Papists of old did by John Husse They have as it were cloathed him in a coat of painted Devils nay have represented him in the shape of an incarnate Devil thereby to make him odious to his subjects if it could have been to have rendred his restitution to his just rights impossible But blessed be the Lord who hath cursed this devilish policy and hath restored him to his Right And now that you may know him to be a hopefull Prince I shall at present give you a true but short representation of him And this I shall doe not to curry favour but to satisfie your doubts and quiet your feares concerning his Majesty whose excellent endowments I am fully perswaded doe far transcend what my tongue or pen can express of him So that when I have said all I would have you to conceive him to be far more eminent than I can represent him unto you However

again unto their Lord even unto Rehoboam King of Judah and they shall kill me and go again to Rehoboam King of Judah whereupon the King took counsel and made two Calves of gold and said unto them It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem Behold thy gods O Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt and so on You may see more of this in the Histories of his Successors recorded in the Books of the Kings and Chronicles But on the contrary such as are lawful and pious Princes are Preservers Promoters and if need require Reformers of Religion yea and countenancers of the most sincere Professors of it Such were all the godly Kings of Judah Such a one was Asa 1 Kings 15.11 12 13 14 15. And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord as did David his Father And he took away the Sodomites out of the Land and removed all the Idols that his Father had made And also Maacha his Mother even her he removed from being Queen because she had made an Idol in a Grove and Asa destroyed her Idol c. 'T is true his reformation was not a through reformation but yet he was a great Reformer and so was his Son and Successor Jehosaphat 1 Kings 22.41 42 43. He walked in all the wayes of Asa his Father he turned not aside from it doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord c. Such a one was Hezekiah he did not content himself with the Reformation of his Predecessors but he carried it on to a higher degree of perfection He did not only break the Images but he also removed the High places as you may see 2 Kings 18.3 4. And so we finde that Solomon's accession to the Throne made much for the advantage of Religion and the Professors of it For immediately upon his coming to it he built the Temple and did very much beautifie and adorn the Worship and Service of God Now the Use and Application of this point is two-fold and 1. Vse 1 The first is a Use of Reproof for such amongst us if any such there be who do not rejoice but grieve at the accession of our Sovereign Lord King CHARLES the second to Rule and Government If I thought there were any such present I would enlarge upon this Use but I hope better things of you all and therefore I forbear lest I should this day sadden the heart of any who will otherwise rejoyce 2. Vse 2 I shall therefore come to the second Use a Use of Exhortation to exhort and stir you up to the observation of the solemnity of this day with all possible joy and cordial rejoycing And I beseech you let us all this day rejoice with exceeding great joy and rejoycing Now to quicken and raise your hearts to a rejoicing suitable to the solemnity of this day consider you have as good cause of rejoicing at the Solemnity of this day as they had who were present at the Proclamation and Inauguration of Solomon Seeing the Prince whose Proclamation-Solemnities you are this day to observe may be in some measure and that without flattery compar'd with Solomon at whose Proclamation this people so greatly rejoyced For as Solomon was so he is 1. A lawfull and 2. A hopefull Prince I say he is 1. A Legitimate and a lawful Prince He is not a spurious Mushrume self-created Prince but a Prince by lineal succession and inherent birth-right being lineally descended by the Father of glorious memory from James of blessed memory the 6. of Scotland but the first of Great Britain France and Ireland and by the Mother from that great and worthy Heroe of his age Henry the 4. of France So that our King is on both sides the Son of Nobles And when it is so Solomon tels you the Land is blessed Eccles 10.17 And as he is a Noble so he is a lawful Prince too The clearness of his Title is such that to argue the lawfulnesse of it would but darken and eclipse it You may as well question the shining of the Sun at noon as the lawfulnesse of his Title 2. He is as a lawful so a hopeful Prince A Prince by whose accession to rule and government we are 1. At present freed from our feares and dangers of being haressed by the attempts of every aspiring ambitious Adonijah to make himselfe King We need not now to feare the aspiring ambition either of a Cromwell or a Lambert Nor need we now feare of being kept in bondage and slavery by an inconsiderable part of a Parliament or a Phanatick Committee of safety under the notion of a free State or Commonwealth 2. We have grounds of hope that his accession to Rule and Government will be a meanes in time to free us 1. From our unsupportable burdens of Excise and monthly Taxes 2. From our soul-destroying and damning universall tolleration 3. We have ground to hope that his accession to actuall rule and government will be a meanes of much good both to our selves and the whole Nation There is now hopes 1. That we shall enjoy a setled Government our antient Government of King Lords and Commons the best forme of Government that the wisedome of man could ever yet contrive to prevent Tyranny on the one hand and Annarchy and Confusion on the other 2. That we may recover and enjoy a firme and lasting peace Not onely a peace within our selves but a peace with the Nations which are round about us Such a peace as Israel enjoyed all the days of Solomon who had peace on all sides round about him so that Israel and Judah dwelt safely every man under his vine and under his fig-tree from Dan even to Beersheba As you may see 1 King 4.24 25. 3. That we may again enjoy an equall distribution of law and Justice We need not now to fear of being outlawed for refusing to perjure our selves by subscribing an Engagement or taking an Oath of abjuration contrary to our former Oaths of allegiance and supremacy or solemn league and covenant 4. That we may againe enjoy freedome of Trade both at home and abroad and thereby recover our exhausted and of late mis-spent treasure If any thing in the world be a meanes to revive Trade in the Nation his Majesty's accession to Government will be the meanes to doe it 5. That we may recover our wonted honour and renowne in forreign parts and Countries England hath been as renowned a Nation as any in the world both for Courage Policy and Pyety But the strange actings of some men in our late revolutions and changes hath made us the contempt scorn and hatred of the whole world It hath made most men believe that we have lost both our piety policy and courage too But now by the Restitution of his Majesty it will appear to all the world that there are some men both of piety policy and courage left among us so that by this meanes