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A78151	The Kings return. A sermon preached at Winchcomb in Gloucestershire upon the Kings-day, Thursday, May 24. 1660. By Clement Barksdale.	Barksdale, Clement, 1609-1687.	1660 (1660)	Wing B795; Thomason E1033_5; ESTC R208960	10,230	23

your hearts be loyally affected towards God the King of Kings and loyally affected to God's Vicegerent our gracious Soveraign Have honorable Thoughts of God and the King and then out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will be filled 2. Our Mouths also must be thankful The Lord open our lips that our mouth may shew forth his praise Vocal praise in the Congregation in the singing of Psalms is a comely thing and you need not be ashamed of it in your private Houses yea you may sweeten your business and comfortably pass away your solitary times by holy Musick Hear the Psalmist Praise ye the Lord praise the Lord O my soul While I live will I praise the Lord I will sing praises to my God while I have any being Psal 146. And Psal 147. Praise ye the Lord for it is good to sing praises to our God for it is pleasant and praise is comely God must be praised as in singing so in speaking in our ordinary discourses we should delight to make mention of the loving kindness of the Lord delight to make a thankful remembrance of the peace and plenty of the liberty and protection of the deliverances and mercies which God hath bestowed upon our Land delight to speak reverently of the King who is under God the Minister and the Preserver of these mercies for us Bless God and bless the King Obey God and obey the King For 3. Our Actions also must be thankful and without this real Thankfulness by our Obedience all our verbal and ceremonial expressions are of no account Obedience is that which God requires Obedience is that which the King desires of you Obedience to the Laws of God and to the Laws of the King When we do all in our places and stations perform our duty Ministers their duty Magistrates their duty and every sort and rank of people their duty then are we all truly Thankfull 1. The Ministers that are the Guides of the people in spiritual things and by good Doctrine and good example are to lead them in the wayes of God they must testifie their thankfulness by attending more duly and giving themselves more devoutly to the Ministery of the Word and Prayer O that the daily Sacrifice that hath long ceased might now be renewed in every Parish In this Parish till better provision be made I shall be glad to celebrate Morning Prayer at the ringing of the School-bell Pray take notice of it and let one at least out of every Family be spared to assist in the publick Service of God 2. The Magistrates that have power in civil things and by execution of good Laws of the Land and by their own good behaviour are to keep peace and order among the people they must testifie their Thankfulness by a more faithful discharge of their Office Keep up the respect due to Authority joyn your selves together as one man and this Union will strengthen you to suppress any disorders among your Inferiors Consult maturely for the common good determine soberly execute courageously and let every publick Officer be a man of a publick spirit knowing there is some ray of Majesty descending on him and that he is Gods Minister and the Kings 3. Let all people of all ranks and qualities testifie their Thankfulness old and young rich and poor Let the Elder men and Fathers by their gravity and wisdom be guides and examples to the younger rejoycing that they have lived to see this blessed restauration and that they may now assure and comfort themselves that their children shall be bred in true Religion and under lawful Governours Let the younger testifie their thankfulness by their sober-mindedness and modesty and readiness to follow the steps of their wiser Fathers rejoycing that they have happy times before them and are likely to have a greater share in the fruits of his Majesties just and gracious Government Let the richer sort shew themselves really thankful by their bounty and liberality to the poor and by their other works of piety and charity and let the poor be thankful too in their way by their patience and contentedness by their diligence and painfulness in some honest labour Lastly Let every one without exception make it his chief care to serve and fear God and next to God to honour and obey the King this being the best way to engage God to continue and enlarge his mercies and favours to us the best way to make sure of God to be our God for ever and to make sure of the King to be our King so long till it shall please God to remove him to that Kingdom which alone is better then this the Kingdom of Heaven In the mean it is our Happiness our Joy and our Crown that we have such a King the Son of such a Father that thought not his life dear unto him but laid it down for the Church and People committed to his care Such a King instructed by such a Father in the Art to govern justly prudently and mercifully Such a King as God hath miraculously for us and delivered from many dangers and brought his Royal Person through many Tryals that he might be more precious like Gold tryed in the fire and appear unto his people with the greater splendor Such a King as is mindful of these his Sufferings not to revenge them but to make a good use of his Afflictions and to be better'd by them To conclude such a King in whom all good men do hope to find that Wisdom that Justice that Clemency that Piety which will undoubtedly render him the Glory of Kings and the Joy of all his Subjects Which God of his infinite Mercy grant through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer O Most glorious God the Creator and Governour of all the world we acknowledge thine infinite mercy to this lately distracted and distressed Nation It is thy hand thy power thy favour whereby this happy Change is brought to pass Thou hast inclined the heart of the King to his People and Thou hast inclined the heart of the People to their King We know O Lord it is thy doing and we look upon it with admiration as a wonderful favour both to the King and People We beseech thee accept our Thanks and Praise which we offer up unto thee with all our hearts and with unfeigned lips And we beseech thee also to enable us as we desire to testifie our Thankfulness by our Obedience in the whole course of our lives that all the People of the Land Ministers and Magistrates young and old rich and poor doing their duty in their several places and glorifying thy Name by a godly Conversation Thou mayst still delight to dwell amongst us to do us good and to continue thy favour to us from generation to generation We pray thee multiply thy best blessings upon our Soveraign Lord the King upon the most Illustrious Prince the Duke of York and upon the rest of the Royal Progeny upon the House of Lords and Commons upon the Lords of his Majesties Privy Council upon all the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom Bless we pray thee the Judges and Magistrates the Bishops and Ministers the Soldiers and Scholars all orders and degrees of men that all may live in thy fear in obedience to the King and in brotherly love and concord O let not the Sword devour any more nor the noise of War be heard in our Land Quiet the spirits of all parties take away our carnal animosities and vain opinions that we may all gladly close in a perfect reconciliation under our gracious King As thou hast made him an example of forgivenness and mercy so grant that all his Subjects may shew mercy to one another being tender-hearted and forgiving one another as God for Christ's sake is ready to forgive us all Lord perfect thine own work and make us such as thou wouldst have us and deal with us not according to our deserts but according to thine own infinite Mercies in Jesus Christ For whom we ever bless thee in whom we crave acceptance with thee and to whom with Thee O Father and thy Holy Spirit one Eternal God be all Honour and Glory now and for ever Amen The End

the Salvation of the Lord is upon the King and this is matter of joy and rejoycing to him and to all good people For it is the usual Method of Providence to convey blessings to the people by the King As the Ointment poured on Aarons head ran down to the skirts of his garment so a blessing on the King when his Royal Person is brought home in safety and honour and establisht in the Throne descends through the whole body of the Realm even to the skirts and borders of the Land And therefore we may conclude the care of God in the preservation of the King to be a principal and peculiar care When the King is brought home it is the Lords doing A further proof hereof we may draw from another speech of King David concerning Shimei ch 16. where he acknowledges even the cursing of that wicked man to proceed in some sort from the Lord. I say in some sort i. e. not with his allowance approbation but by his permission for this was permitted and directed by the Lord for Davids humiliation and that use the good King makes of this persecution by the railing tongue of Shimei Now if this evil was from the Lord surely that good must be from the Lord and that in a more proper sense As it was the Lord that afflicted David in his expulsion so it was the same Lord that mercifully comforted David by a happy restauration To speak a little of our David by way of parallel How patiently his most Excellent Majesty hath endured his 12. years banishment how much he hath been better'd by his sufferings you perceive by his own words the true character of his Princely mind Should I say that he hath exceeded David as in the measure of his sufferings so in the measure of his patience and in his clemency and easiness to forgive you would think it perhaps an excess of speech Certainly our King in his gracious Letters and Declaration shews himself of a most Christian temper and as well deserves the title Christianissimus as Defensor Fidei We have great reason to believe he hath taken his afflictions as from the hand of God and that it is the same God that doth now by wonderful wayes and means bring him again For though God be the prime Cause and Author yet under God as I said there be means and instruments of the Kings return whether we look upon King David or King Charles And first for King David Let us cast an eye upon the History He had the service of a faithful and discreet Counsellor Hushai the Archite to defeat the counsels of the politick Achitophel v. 34. He had Zadoc and Abiather the Priests with their two sons Ahimaez and Jonathan to give him secret Intelligence from the Enemies quarters v. 35. He had those valiant Triumviri Joab Abishai and Ittai and many gallant Captains and loyal Souldiers on his side ch 18. He had a reconciled General Amasa to bow the hearts of the men of Judah as the heart of one man so that they sent this word unto the King Return Thou and all thy Servants ch 19. 14. He had Barzillai to conduct him over Jordan v. 31. Noble Barzillai a very aged man a very great man and a very good man Who had provided the King of sustenance v. 32. Yea all the people of Judah conducted the King and half the people of Israel v. 40. Thus for King David Now for King Charles the Means also of his return are worthy to be mentioned and truly they are never to be mentioned without honour I shall but briefly name them and but some of them neither such as are most apparent to us We cannot give them praise enough but must here fly to our Juvate posteri Posterity must help us to give them their deserved Glory In the first place appears his Excellency the Lord General who by his declaring for a Free Parliament gave great hopes to all loyal Hearts of the Kings Return conceiving well that as a force upon the Parliament overthrew the King so the Freedom of Parliament would restore the King What prudent Counsels what faithful Endeavours what happy Successes his Excellency hath used and enjoyed all along must be the work of some worthy Historian to relate and record for after Ages to admire Next are to be remembred the Honorable Secluded Members who as they had been secluded and forced away from the House for their Votes and endeavours to free the late King the Royal Father of glorious Memory and to bring him home to the Parliament with safety and honor So when they were lately restored to their places made it their business and the business of the Honorable Council of State to prepare the way for the Return of the Royal Son his most Excellent Majesty now raigning We may not here forget the many Petitions and Declarations presented to the General in his March towards London by the Gentry specially in several Counties nor the Addresses made to the famous City of London nor the great Aids of the City it self nor the later Declarations of this and other Counties all tending to the restoring of the Liberties both of Church and State to the healing of our wounds the making up of our breaches and to that which might consummate and crown all the rest of our desires the return of the King To send for the King and receive his Majestie was an honor reserved by the Providence of God for this present Parliament consisting both of Lords and Commons this most Honorable Parliament having in it the Flower of the English Nobility and Gentry this blessed Parliament thrice blessed because the means of a threefold blessing a blessing on the King a blessing on the State and a blessing on the Church Amongst the means of the Kings return I shall in the last place mention that which is not surely of the least efficacy the Prayers of the Church the lately persecuted Ministers of the Church of England and of the good people adhering to them Faithful Prayers are of great power with God and the King himself is said to have openly professed that his business is most advanced by the Prayers of religious people whom he esteemeth as the best of his Subjects Prayers for the King are a Prime part of that Tribute we owe his Majesty even by the Law of Christ Prayer is the fairest wind to bring him safe to land Prayer is the surest Guard to preserve his Sacred Person Prayer is the firmest Pillar to uphold his Throne For Prayer procures the favour of the Lord and it is the favour of the Lord by which the King Returns and Reigns and Prospers So I proceed from the first Proposition It is the Lords doing to bring the King again To the Second To bring the King again is a Signal Favour of the Lord. If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord c. II. To bring the King again is a Signal Favour of