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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

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