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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34287	A sermon preached at the Cathedral Church in Gloucester, upon St. Georges Day on which day His most sacred Majesty Charles the Second, was most solemnly crowned / by Tomas Carles ...	Carles, Thomas, 1625 or 6-1675.	1661 (1661)	Wing C583; ESTC R2450	13,986	24

amazement at the wonderfull acts of divine providence in this year of Jubilee wherein the Riddle of Josephs preferment hath been resolv'd Psalm 130.7 and the plentifull redemption of Israel from their Egyptian bondage G. Monk reacted and out-done To him that raised up a Moses to conduct us and made him a second Joshua too to give possession of our Canaan to the redeemed ones let us Now first and alwayes give the praise Holy and reverend is his Name Psalm 111.9 Well might the Pope tell an English Gentleman in the midst of our greatest confusions that our Nation was the land of wonders because we chang'd our Religion once a moneth and our Government once a week He little thought of the great wonder which since our eyes have seen that all those changes did work together through the overruling providence of him that changeth not to bring about the Royal Exchange the happy restoring of that Government which we hope will never change Time was when we could scarce hope for this day nay some would not hope for it though they did desire it it could not be they thought without blood therefore they rather begun to lie down under the burden as Issachar rather hugging their wounds then looking out for a cure for fear of torture and truly our case was so desparate that had not God like the good Samaritan poured oyl into our wounds by saving and restoring his anointed with the wholesome help of his right hand we had been as Sodome and like unto Gomorrah Rom. 9.29 Ezek. 18.29 But his wayes were equal though ours were unequal To look back on our many miseries Judg. 21.25 Virgil. when there was no King in our Israel were but Infandum renovare dolorem and that would be improper on a day of triumph No Beloved since we are even to miracle prevented with the blessings of goodness and God is this day setting a Crown of pure gold on our Soveraigns head let the perpetual Amnesty be confirm'd and all the dire effects of war and violence be buried in Oblivion Ephes 4.20 I 'm sure we have so learned Christ But that we may not loose our selves in this Labyrinth of joy I shall follow the clew of my Text and briefly shew you our happiness in the Kings honour which will excite us to pay our duty and homage to his Crown let us therefore cheerfully put in our claims at the Court of Heaven and having our Petitions granted perform the best office at his Coronation i. Proclaim his vertues and pray for his felicities What the Prophet saith of the Lord Christ that God will shake the heavens and the earth Hag. 2.7 and the desire of all Nations shall come we may apply in a qualified sense to our dear King the Lord Christ. After a terrible conclusion of the European world the temple of Janus was suddenly shut an unexpected peace ensued among all the dissenting kingdoms round about and the desire of these three Nations did come home and indeed so highly hath it pleased God to honour our Augustus for so we are told Charles signifies that the Miracle of a general peace attends the beginning of his actual raign who is not only the desire of his own people but the admiration of forreign Nations And we trust and pray that the glory of this latter house raised by Gods special instrument the valiant Zerubbabel shall be greater then that of the former In honour of whose prudent and matchless archievements Hag. 2.9 His Majesty sure is crowned upon St. Georges day 'T is wonderfull to consider how God prevented us with his liberal blessings which the Fathers call benedictionem dulcedinis the blessing of sweetness it self the very cream and quintessence of blessing lay in the prevention of the mercy Our hearts God knows panted for the Kings return and we thought it seven years first seven years shall I say An age an age shall Isay nay every day as much and yet he returned before we could in any reason or conjecture expect him God had wonderfully preserved him Psalm 91.3 Delivering him from the snares of the hunter and mighty Nimrods of the Earth and to shew still the prevention of goodness when we would willingly have been at the expence of blood to purchase his presence and protection He brought Him to us crown'd with the Olive of peace and the Laurel of victory wreath'd into one garland bringing him back into the Loyal City between a matchless pair of Royal brothers with thousands of drawn swords and yet no blood spilt Did not the * Duke of Gloucester dead since the Kings return Fatal Title of the place wherein we meet compress my thoughts 't were easie to expatiate here but Surely the divine Providence so ordered it on purpose that we should eye the Person as extraordinary for whom he hath done such great things That his entrance into the World May 29. 1930 1660. and his entrance into His Palace both on the same day of the moneth should be attended with Wonders * Charles the second born May 29. 1630. being Saturday On Sunday his father King Charles the first came to St. Pauls to render thanks where these verses were presented to hims An Ecclypse on Munday following His Birth with a miracle in nature a bright star at midday His bringing back with a Miracle of Providence a Constellation of once divided affections Rex ubi Paulinas accessit gratus ad Aras Immicuit medio Lucida stella polo. Dic Divina mihi tranctans aenigmata coeli Haec Oriens nobis quid sibi stella velit Magnus in Occiduo Princeps modo nascitur orbe Moxque sub Ecclypsi Regna Orientis erunt After Caesars death we are told that such a star appeared which was commonly talkt of as if it were Caesars soul What was the Romane Caesars Epilogue was our English Caesars Prologue I will not launch out into the unridling of dark Prophesies I need not construe Grebner's praedictions but certainly some great thing was presag'd by such an unusual Herald But that observable Motto on the coyn stampt on purpose in honour of his Royal birth as it was true in the sense then meant so I hope and believe it will be verified with advantage in his future glorious Reign Hactenus Anglorum nulli Never yet was any English man born Prince of great Britain France and Ireland before him My meaning is that since He may truly say that the Moto's of his three glorious Predecessors in their coynes are still ●●●rant with him Posui 〈◊〉 ●torem meum Qu. Eliz. K. James Charles 1. 〈…〉 dissipentur inimici and 〈…〉 Regno I say that as there was none like before him so he may prove thrice blessed in his Government and the None-such of the Princes of the Earth I believe you come prepared to excuse me if my piety to my renowned Soveraign break forth more solemnly this day I never had such