soles of their feet to dry up all the rivers of besieged places Isa 38.24 25. and said By the multitude of my Chariots am I come up to the heighth of the Mountain to the sides of Lebanon and I will enter into the heighth of his border and the forrest of his Carmel then did God but hiss for the flie as it is in the Prophet call up from Scotland a small Isa 7.18 inconsiderable and despised number and with them wrought this great Salvation Exod. 15.3 6. The Lord is a man of war the Lord is his name Thy right-hand O Lord is become glorious in power thy right-hand O Lord hath dashed in pieces the enemy And though there were several loyal attempts made before and some of them probable enough to effect deliverance for us yet did the all-wise God suffer them to be all broken and frustrated happily that he might fool earthly wisdom and by staining the beauty of all creature-excellency take the whole glory of our deliverance to himself that he might give us cause with admiration and amazement to say Thon settest a Crown of pure gold on his head A word of Inference and I ha' done 1. If God set the Crown on the King's head then what wretched impudence is it in any to dare to think much more to attempt the taking it off It is the very acting of that fancy of the Poets of the Giants fighting against Heaven Nothing but Hell is ill enough to own such an audacious presumption a most detestable and monstrous impiety 2. If God set the Crown on the King's head let us set our hearts on the King As Samuel said to Saul 1 Sam 9.20 On whom is all the desire of Israel is it not on thee and on all thy fathers house Prize him as the loyal men of Judah did their King David Thou art worth ten thousand of us Give unto Cesar the things that are Cesar ' s. Geneva Bibles wrong the King Give did I say it is not so proper though some like that Translation better 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the word render pay it is his due Rom. 13.7 Render him his due Tribute as the Apostle calls it the Tribute of our persons our purses our tongues our hands our hearts Make honourable mention of him when we speak of him Bern. I and we must Sentire sublimiter too saves the Father think highly of him Do not take up any unworthy reports nor entertain any unhansome suspicion of him Do but remember how dear we have paid for our jealousies and I 'le say no more of that To draw to a conclusion Nothing now remains but Prayers and Praises 1. Prayers to him that setteth the Crown of pure gold on the King's head that he will please there to fix Psal 89.20 21 22. and keep it That as he hath found David his servant and anointed him with his holy oyle so he will establish his hand with him and let his arm strengthen him that the enemy may not exact upon him nor the son of wickedness hurt him That God who watched over him Psal 105.13 15. and charged his providence with him when he went from one Nation to another from one Kingdom to another people Psas 140.12 and suffered no man to touch his Anointed will still deliver him from the evil man and preserve him from the violent man which imagine mischief in their heart Psal 18.47 48. and continually are gathering together for War That he will subdue the people under him and lift him up above those that rise up against him V. 6.7 hujus Ps That he will make him exceeding glad with his countenance and the King trusting in God through the mercy of the most high Psal 7◠9 Psal 132.18 he may not miscarry That his enemies may lick the dust and be cloathed with shame but upon himself his Crown may flourish And blessed be God our prayers for him may come out of our Closets again and be put up in the Congregation It is sad to think how he was persecuted out of the very prayers of his people And these Prodigious Reformers would needs have our duty to be our crime A duty we owe to all to Kings most of all and was never forbidden by any but where They and Satan had command How well their interdiction to pray for the King can consist with that Apostolical injunction 1 Tim. 2 1. to pray for Kings and for all that are in authority let the world judge unless these New Modellers can pretend to a power of regulating the Rule it self and to deal with the Royal Law as they sometime did with the Laws of the Kingdom But we shall leave them to him who hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sharp Sword with two edges to avenge the affronts and injuries done to his own truth 2. Praises Let us end with them Praise is the great duty of this day Psal 44 8. In God let us boast all the day long and praise his name for ever Exod. 15.1 2 7. Sing unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously The Lord is our strength and song and he is become our salvation In the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee Psal 148.13 And therefore Let us praise the name of the Lord for his name alone is excellent his glory is above the Earth Psal 150.1 and Heaven Praise God in his Sanctuary praise him in the firmament of his power You of the Magistracy Praise him in the heighths Vers 2. praise him for his mighty acts praise him according to his excellent greatness You of the Souldiery Psal 149.6 Let the high praises of God be in your mouths and a two-edged sword in your hands You of the Commonalty Psal 29 1. 2 9. Give unto the Lord glory and strength give unto the Lord the glory due unto his Name in his Temple let every man speak of his honor for the Lord taketh pleasure in his people Psal 149.4 Psal 29.11 Psal 64.9 he will beautifie the meek with salvation The Lord will give strength unto his people the Lord will bless his people with peace Let all men fear and declare the work of God and wisely consider of his doings Let us all praise him till Earth emulates Heaven where they are all praises Let them shout for joy and be glad Psal 35.27 that favour our Righteous Cause yea let them say continually Let the Lord be magnified which taketh pleasure in the prosperity of his servants Because thou hast been our help Psal 63.4.7 therefore in the shadow of thy wings will we rejoice Thus will we bless thee while we live and lift up our hands in thy Name And when mens tongues cannot reach it let us borrow of Angels Luk. 2.13.14 and join with the heavenly Host praising God and saying Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good-will towards men And that our praises may come in a good place and our thankfulness follow our mercies nearer than ordinary Let them be Mental and Monumental 1. Mental Keep in mind the works of God Let not that complaint of Nehemiah come in against us Neh. 9.16 17. That we dealt proudly and hardned our necks and hearkned not to his commandments And refused to obey neither were mindful of the wonders that he did among us Let not that of the Psalmist be charged upon us That we sang his praise Psal 106.12 13 21. and soon forgat his works That we forgat God our Saviour who had done great things for us To remember mercies is but a cheap piece of thankfulness 2. Monumental Erect Trophees and set up Memorials of our deliverance Psal 45.4 5 6 7. Let one generation praise his works to another and declare his mighty acts Let them speak of the glorious honor of his Majesty and of his wonderous works Let men speak of the might of his terrible acts and declare his greatness Let them abundantly utter the memory of his great goodness and sing of his righteousness Propagate our deliverance to infinite posterity Hide it not from our children Psal 78.4 and let them shew the generations to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done Num. 23.23 According to this time it shall he said of Jacob and of Israel what hath God wrought Exod. 12.14 17. Let this day be repeated annually it is a day to be unto us for a memorial to keep it a feast unto the Lord throughout our generations to observe it in our generations by an Ordinance for ever Psal 102.18 Let it be written for the generations to come that the people which shall be created may praise the Lord Psal 111.4 That merciful and gracious Lord who hath so done his marvellous works that they ought to be had in remembrance Psal 136.23 Who remembred us in our low estate brought back his banished and hath all his life prevented him with the blessings of goodness and this day set a Crown of pure gold on his head Now unto the King eternal 1 Tim. 1.17 immortal invisible the only wise God be honor and glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS
GODS GOODNESSE IN Crowning THE KING Declared in a SERMON In the Church of Kingston upon Hull on the happy day of the Coronation of His Sacred Majesty CHARLS the SECOND April the 23d. 1661. By EDWARD BOTELER sometimes fellow of St. Mary Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge and now Rector of Wintringham in the County of LINCOLN Horat. Carm. li. 4. Od. 5. Sic desideriis icta fidelibus Quaerit patria Caesarem LONDON Printed for G. Bedâ—l and T. Collins and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet street 1662. To the Right Honourable JOHN LORD BELLASSYSE Baron of Worlaby Lord Lieutenant of the East-Riding of York-shire and Governour of His MAIESTIES Garison and Forts of Kingston upon Hull My Lord THESE Notes were taken in your Lordships Garison and threatned to be brought before you in case I would not promise they should be forth-coming and engage for their appearance I did so and I here humbly present them for their trial If upon their examination your Lordship shall find them guilty of any thing like Heterodox or Disloyal let them be committed to Vulcan who allows papers no Bail But if their integrity shall appear I humbly beg your Lordships pass that they may go abroad under your honorable name For now every one is talking of their preferments I would gladly the world should know mine which is to be My Lord Your Lordships most humble and most devoted servant E. BOTELER To the Right Worshipful CHRISTOPHER RICHARDSON Esq MAYOR Of the Town of Kingston super HVLL AND To the Aldermen his Brethren who continued faithful during the late Defection AND To the Officers Burghers and Free-men that fear God and honour the King in that Corporation SIRS WE reade in that Reign Speed's Hist B. 9. ch 18. p. 705. and no Reign of Edward the fifth of a juggling Divine called John Shaw a man of more fame than learning sayes the story and of less conscience than either that he preached away his credit with the people and lost his honesty by decrying the Title of his lawful Prince and magnifying the pretence of Richard the then Protector Foecunda culpae Secula Hor. Car. l. 3. Od. 6. But our Times big with mischief have brought forth a whole generation of such Changlings Creatures that would cry up Richard Protector and Oliver Protector and any Protector that would protect them in other mens Livings and their own Sorceries and Seditions Things sitter for Steeples than Churches as serving only to shew which way the wind stands having Ephemeram Religionem as Beza sayes of Baldwinus every day a new Religion It is all I shall say for this poor piece that it is honest Psal 45 1. My heart indited a good matter when I spake of the things which I made touching the King the Anointed of the Lord the rightful King declared so by the joint suffrages of Heaven and Earth And my comfort is I never spake for any other never worshipped any Calf of the peoples making never bowed to any golden image never plaid the Advocate for ill-gotten greatness nor durst misplace the royal and renowned names of David and Solomon upon any proud and inglorious Usurper So that you need not shame to share in the Patronge of this Sermon it is made Publick at your command let it be made passable by your encouragement Some of the male-contented Faction have been as unhansome as they durst in their discourses of it it is no more than I looked for Psal 45 5. Gods arrows are sharp in the heart of the Kings enemies and no wonder then if their madness make them run over at mouth You were pleased to treat it more ingenuously and have got this requital that in your candid reception of it you have spoken your own Loyalty And give me leave to tell you to your honor those acclamations and those expressions of joy which came from your hearts and sate upon your countenances on that day have given the world such an occount of you that you have secured your credit with the Ages to come and sweetned the name of your Town which before was ill-sented all the Nation over May this opening your hearts in some good measure compound for the shutting your gates May your Town a long while alas torn in pieces by Pulpit-Granado's now at length be as Hierusalem Psa 122 3 Vers 6 7. a City that is at unity in it self Let them prosper that love you Let peace be within your Walls and plenteousness within your borders Psal 144.12 That your sons may grow up as young plants and that your daughters may be as the polished corners of the Temple Vers 13. That your Garners may be full affording all manner of store Vers 14. That there be no decay no leading into captivity and no complaining in your streets Isa 23 8. That your Merchants may be Princes and your Trafiquers the honorable of the Earth Ezek. 27.25 That the Ships may sing of you and you may be made very glorious in the midst of the Seas May your happiness out-measure your hopes and your welfare exceed all possible votes of Your most obliged servant E. BOTELER In Concionem politissimam ad Excellentissimum Authorem Dominum Edoardum Botelerium NOn pius è Rostris furor hic denunciat arma Clamat intrepidè Sit maledicta Meros Non hîc Stentoreâ celebratur voce Farellus Alcarona tibi nullus habetur honos Christiadûm namque arma Preces fruitur patiendo Non vi non armis sacra serenda fides I fuge ferratâ Bellonae casside tecta Relligio tantis prodigiosa malis At tandem nostris tu gratior advenis oris Pax redit auspiciis dum Botelere tuis Secula dum renovas depingens aurea rursus Tempora foelicis flumine Rhetorices Dum Caáuciferi sic polles arte loquentem Ut te Battus amet nec sua verba crepet Scilicet haud melius citharâ divinior Orpheus Advocat in Thebas saxa animata suas Quà m tua divinae revocat facundia linguae Errantem eloquio ferrea corda domas Reddis Angligenis Regem redduntur ipsi Regi dum clarum dat diadema Deus Ex Ariadneo regum nam ducta corona Sydere grande Jovis non leve plebis opus Reddita Hullae sibi tandem dum Rostra perornas Quaeque Rebellis erat Regia rursus erit Amicissimo meritissimo viro accinebat H. CORBET M.D. In concionem Die Regio Kingstoniae super Hull Reverendo Viro D. Edoardo Botelerio Rectore Wintringhamiensi habitam ANglica Regales visunt Capitolia pompae Atque triumpham is vox sonat alma Ducis Sceptra tenet mollitque animos Rex Carolus iras Temperat hunc laetum dicite sêcla diem Ad restim nestrae redeunt cum res fera tellus In Chaos antiquum jam ruitura viget Discordes animos concordi pace ligavit Amnestia boni Regis ira
not how to speak good enough of the name of that God Qui non petentibus solùm sed impaenitentibus non invocantibus sed provocantibus bonum largitur And this runs a paralel with that promise of the Evangelical Prophet Isa 65.24 And it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer and whiles they are yet speaking I will hear And this calls for that return of the Apostle Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think Eph 3.20 211 unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end Amen Thou preventest the King in his Petition that 's one 2. Lorinus in Loc. Thou preventest him in his Expectation Et voâ—a vincit cogitationes He exceeds not only prayer but thoughts This is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indeed exceeding abundantly above all when goodness is above both votes and hopes and imagination it self could not reach our mercies And certainly if ever God prevented the thoughts and expectation of King or people we are they Ps 126.1 When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them that dream 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So the Seventy two Interpreters With whom the vulgar Latin consents Sicut consolati as men comforted We are dead men revived Like men given for gone and restored As sick desperately sick persons strangely unexpectedly recovered from the confines of death and the grave to a pancratick habit and soundness of body Which best Interpreters conceive to be the meaning of that place Let us look back again for we can never look too often and with admiration enough on that memorable ingagement at WORCESTER There the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away 2 Sam. 1.21 the shield of the King as if he was not anointed with oyle There innumerable evils compassed him about There the wrath of the enemy was great Deut. 32.27 and the adversary behaved himself strangely and said Our hand is high behold we do prevail The enemy said Exod. 15.9 I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoil my lust shall be satisfied upon him my hand shall destroy him I will make his remembrance to cease from among men Deut. 3â— 26 Lam. 4 19 His persecutors were swifter than the Eagles of the Heaven they pursued him upon the Mountains they laid wait for him in the Wilderness And we thought nothing else Vers 20. Exod. 14.13 Psal 57.2 but that The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the Lord had been taken in their pits But see the salvation of the Lord which he shewed to him that day He cried unto God most high unto God that performeth all things for him And lo besides beyond above all expectation Vers 2. Ps 124.7 He sends from Heaven and saves him from the reproach of him that would swallow him up His soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the Fowlers the snare is broken and he is escaped Preventing goodness secured him against circumventing wickedness and he is alive as at this day Vers 6. Blessed be the Lord who hath not given him as a prey to their teeth Psa 18 46 The Lord liveth and blessed be his rock and let the God of his salvation be exalted Add to this his constancy in Religion from which neither as his own royal pen gives it us could ever move him though he might complain as David 1 Sam. â—6 19 They have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord saying Go serve other Gods And add to this his return hither in safety upon the wings of his peoples votes and prayers after the government was unhinged and the old foundations so farre out of course and the New Modellers so strengthened in their wickedness as to dare to attempt the abjuration of his royal Person Isa 58.12 and Family To build the old wast places and to raise up the foundations of many generations and be called The Repairer of the breach the Restorer of paths to dwell in And we must needs confess that God hath eminently prevented all expectations with the blessings of goodness Let us learn then whether we owe and to whom to ascribe the peace the plenty the liberty the life the joy of this Day even to preventing goodness all Had it not been for that neither we nor possibly this place especially in this decorum and lustre had been standing here this day This was our wings and feathers our rock and refuge our walls and bullwarks our shield and buckler our strength and stay our light and our salvation This is that Tower of David builded for an Armory Cant. 4.4 whereon there hang a thousand Bucklers all shields of mighty men This is every thing to the King and to us in him Thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness That Zion's stones have been pitied Ps 102.14 and any have favoured the dust thereof so that she did not sink down into eternal and irrecoverable ruines That the beauteous Church of England scratched and torne by her own undutiful sons is not sitting solitary like that Widow in the Lamentations bemoaning her miseries and begging pity of Passengers Lam. 1.12 Is it nothing to you all you that pass by behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger That we are not filled with the noise of the Warrior Isa 9 5. and Garments rolled in blood Ps 144.14 That we have no leading into captivity no complaining in our streets but our eyes see Hierusalem a quiet habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down That the plots and conspiracies of unreasonable men if it be not unreasonable to call them men are discovered their purposes disappointed and their arm broken That we are not filled with bitterness Lam. 3 15. and made drunk with wormwood Fed with the bread of Affliction Isa 30.20 and the water of Affliction and our Teachers removed into corners That we are not compassed with gall and travel Lam. 3.5 7. hedged about and our chain made heavy That our necks are not under persecution Ch. 5.5 8. and we labouring without rest Servants ruling over us whiles there is none to deliver us out of their hands In short That we are not incomparably wretched as miserable as war and wickedness as faction and folly as error and ambition as malice and madness can make us is solely from this preventing of the Text Thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness And therefore that I may close this How much is it our concern to address often and earnestly to Heaven to importune the God of all grace that he will continue to prevent the King and his liege people with the blessings of goodness still 1 Sam.
as if they could not embelish and set it out with terms significative enough Posuisti in capite ejus Coronam de lapide pretioso Thou settest a Crown of precious stones on his head so the Vulgar Latin And Bruno the Carthusian from Josephus tells us Cicero In Psal it was Corona cum Sardonyche in medio gemmarum A Crown that had a Sardonyx set in it in the midst of other Jewels The Sardonyx signifieth Zeal for the Faith and a readiness to die for it A stone that would stand well in the Diadem of this Realm as well becoming him who is Defender of the Faith and renewing the precious memory of that Royal Martyr K. Charls 1. who sealed his love to it with his blood Rev. 12.11 and loved not his life unto the death I am not so much a Lapidary as to give you in all these Crown-Jewels and their Tropological imports I shall only tell you the Topaz was one that Lapis auri aemulus so called for the golden colour of it Corn. â—ap Com. nâ—â—od p. 554. l D. signifying Animum caelestem ad omnia infractum a gallant soul one that dares invite danger and shrinks in at no apprehensions of fear And to this also the Head to be Crowned this day hath a good title as his actions both at home and abroad can witness But time is more precious than these stones and therefore I shall spend no more of it upon them Enough of that reading A Crown of precious stones on his head Saint Hierom reads it Ex obryzo of tried gold Auri purgatissimi Optimi Those are other readings speaking the same sense of the Text and therefore I shall keep to that A Crown of pure gold I shall not digress into a discourse of the several acceptations of the word Crown in Scripture Sometimes speaking excellence Prev 12.4 A vertuous woman is the Crown of her husband Sometimes abundance Ps 65.11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness and thy clouds drop fatness Sometimes recompence Rev. 3.11 Hold fast that which thou hast that no man take thy Crown I shall make quicker work if I only observe to you That Crown speaks Majesty Gold perpetuity Pure simplicity 1. Crown There 's Majesty Liv. The Historian calls this Insigne Regium this especially it is the first highest greatest and most inseparable 2 King 11.12 Esth â— 17 When Joash was made King Jehoiada put the Crown upon him And when Esther was made Queen the Crown of the Kingdom was set upon her head In familiar discourse Crown speaks as much as Kingdom A Crown is so expressive of Majesty that it gives us in some and those the sublimest apprehensions of the life to come and all those glorious retributions of the Saints It was the highest notion under which St. Paul could conceive of the bliss of Heaven Henceforth is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day A Crown There 's Majesty 2. Gold There 's perpetuity Let the Isthmian Gamesters wear their Garlands whose names were as fading as their flowers Gold that immortal mettal is only fit for his head who is immortal and that Rex nunquam moritur makes the King so And so does that In pactum salis 2 Chron. 13.5 of Abijah The Lord hath given the Kingdom over Israel to David for ever even to him and to his sons by a Covenant of Salt And so does that promise made to David in faithfulness Ps 89.29 His seed will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the dayes of heaven Nulla te terris rapiet vetustas Senec. Tu comes Phoebo comes ibis astris Gold there 's perpetuity I willingly omit some other designations of Gold Prudence it notes wisdom as Lead doth hebetude and folly Opulence it is the riches of a people Gen. 2.11 Havilah is commended because there is gold Supremacy it is the first of Mettals and the King first of men Tranquility Times of peace before Warre and Bloodshed broke into the world are by the Poets called the Golden Age. Mollia securae peragebant otia gentes Ovid. 3. Pure There 's simplicity It speaks the King simple in opposition to mixture 1. In his rule It is not a Miscellany an every-thing-nothing a mingled a Mungrel Government It is not sophisticated with any Plebeian ingredients not an Aristocratical composition much less an Anarchical confusion but it is the pure gold of Monarchy 2. In his Title Which is clear Like him who would devise the pedigree of O. Williams alias Cromwel from Ow … and fair he needs no mercenary pen to lead him a new way into antiquity He doth not cut out his way to it with the sword swim to it through a Sea of innocent blood break into it through repealed Oaths and Obligations He doth not tread down Law and Right stride over honor and honesty prostitute conscience and whatever the civilized world calls Sacred Briefly He does not weave a Cloak of Religion to steal a Crown withal but his right is indubitate his Title clear it is a Crown of pure gold This Crown of pure gold commends the King's dignity commands our duty 1. Commends the King's dignity Not as if he needed any mutuatitious worth or had little but what he was beholden to his Crown for I think enemies themselves if so gracious a Prince can have any must needs say that he is even with his Crown and brings as much lustre to his Crown as his Crown to him but because the Crown upon the right head though he should be otherwise unworthy makes a Dignity Which made it a pardonable and no unhandsome piece of Zeal in a noble person of this Nation Thomas Earl of Surrey to Hen 7. that if the Crown were set upon a stake he would fight for it It is a truth that Nero as King is exalted as much above the common rate of men and hath as much right to obedience from his Subjects as Augustus Domitian as Vespasian Julian as Constantine And if they that dote so upon Mr. Calvin's Discipline will but allow of his Doctrine he tells us Calv. in Ro. 13. Etiamsi non rarò degenerant qui Principatum tenent nihilominus deferenda est eis obedientia quae Principibus debetur Though Princes should not be good men yet they have the right of good Princes to the subjection of their people Nulla ergo Tyrannis esse potest Ibidem sayes the same Calvin and I instance in it on purpose because he sayes so quae non aliqua ex parte subsidio sit ad tuendam hominum societatem No Tyranny can be which may not in some measure tend to advance the Weal-publick Pet. Mart. in Ro. 13. And Peter Martyr speaking of Nero saith that Cum ipse imperio suo opprimeret Orbem terrarum tamenjus dicebatur Tyranny then