valour subdued Babylon and delivered the City to his own Master and Lord for which signal service Darius was wont to say familiarly that he did owe so much true honour and respect to his dear Zophyrus that he would rather have received him from Babylon without any blemish or mutilation then to have twenty Cities such as Babylon subdued to his imperial Scepter Menelaus Agamemnon and Vlisses had great service effected by the fidelity ingenuity and courage of Sinon †Virgil 2. Aeneidos who like a stout daring and subtil Greek insinuated and insnared the Trojans to their ruine and so effected a happy successe attended with much honour and renown to the Greeks in their long siege to Troy Marcus Antonius was a true faithful and loyal friend to Caesar and when he could do him no longer service in the Imperours life being slain by the conspirators he took his royal Robe stained with blood stabbed cut and mangled and making his funeral Orations to the people fill'd their eyes with tears their souls with sorrow and by degrees drew them to vindicative resolutions to revenge Caesars death Plutarch ' in vita Bruti which caused Cymber and Brutus and the chief conspirators to fly for fear of popular insurrection fury against the Traitors the light of these Pagan Heathen examples is not so dim but that it may serve to guide this present age into the paths of virtue resolutions of loyalty nay it may serve as a help to detect and discover the falshood treachery cowardise and ignoble disloyalty of many whom neither the laws of God nor of the Land have been strong enough to oblige them to the duty and Allegiance they owe and ought ever to pay to their Soveraign But these and all other morall examples of this kind come infinitely short of that transcendent worth that appeared so glorious in this noble Israelite for their grounds were at best but Honour Emulation or Interest and though founded on the basis of virtue friendship or fortitude yet their chiefest Actions and endeavours were accompnied with vain-glory and arrogancy if not tainte and stained with revenge proud ambition or sordid avarice But Hushai was led to his duty by the light of grace by the gratitude of a noble mind by the laws of God which commandeth * Psal 105. Touchnott mine Anointed because as the wiseman e Wis 6.3 Data est à Domino potestas regibus virtus ab altissimo assureth power is given to Kings from the Lord and Soveraignty from the Highest St. Paul therefore writing to the Roman Christians directs in the Apostolical Canon f Rom. 13.1 Rom. 13.4 Non tantum summo magistratui sed infimis quibusvis magistratus potestate fuugentibus debetur obedientia Theod. Beza Annota Let every Soul be subject to the higher powers And this is backt with many reasons because Kings receive their sword from God because they are his ministers because they are impowered to protect and punish and from this principle and fountain of evangelical truth it Naturally flows and follows that Kings in their persons and in their lawful heirs and successours and in all their just rights and commands are to be observed and obeyed Hence it is that Iews and Christians Greeks and Barbarians all persons of all sorts are commanded to render to every man what is due whether it be Tribute fear or honour and that duty is to be performed not only for wrath but for conscience sake non propter iram sed propter conscientiam Rom. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 13.2 The rule seemes positive and infallible that whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation St. Peter was as highly concern'd in this point with the Iews as St. Paul with the Gentiles and therefore they are directed and taught to submit themselves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake 1 Pet. 2.13 p. 17. whether it be to King as supream or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him this command is redoubled again by the same Apostle Fear God honour the King So then the duty of loyalty and allegiance to Princes is not only grounded on legal but evangelical principles and hath not only Prophetical but Apostolical foundations to warrant and support this truth and as the primitive and best Christians both in their active and passive obedience gave testimony of this truth even to Heathen and Pagan Princes and Emperours so Christ who is the way the truth and the life preached this doctrine and commanded to give unto Caesar what was Caesars to God what was Gods This day spring from an high probably did influence and enlighten Hushai the Archites noble and loyal Soul who seasonably and succesfully encountred the greatest danger disappointed the deepest policy and dissolved and dispersed the most unnatural Treason that the age had hatched or produced wherein King David lived and it is a just obligation that lyeth strictly on the resolution and affections of all subjects to the utmost of their reason and power to imitate if not exceed the great worth and virtue of this noble Archite in their duty and devoirs towards their Soveraign who being a Christian Monarch of a lawful Royal line for the succession of many hundred years may expect and require most justly the most exact performance of loyalty and true Allegiance and that not only because prescription custom reason laws but sacred oaths which are the highest bonds and call God himself to witnesse oblige and conjure the subjects to their fidelity and duty and this was performed punctually and compleatly by Hushai to King David who being one of the sons of Iesse was the first of his family who sate on the throne and succeeded with as much conflict as honour his unhappy predecessor Saul yet this noble person though the Monarchy was but a later foundation translated from the house of Saul to the house of David yet he did neither boggle nor startle though Absalon by his flattery of reformation insnared and infatuated the popular multitudes pretending justice when he traiterously invaded the person of the King and the prerogatives of the Crown yet none of these circumstances nor that the head-piece and politician Achitophel was in the conspiracy could deter Hushai from his duty but that he would adventure his life fortune and all that was dear to him in the Kings cause and so just a necessity he resolved that his courage his wisdome and his fidelity could never be more serviceable and therefore this loyal subject is more active and diligent to preserve King Davids rights and to immortallize his own honour in this unfortunate juncture of extremities many thousands loyal subjects of his Majesties three Kingdomes had Hushaies resolutions and affections in the late barbarous and unnatural wars some royalists by virtue of their Soveraignes commission raised troops
or truth Yet in a Thrasonical humour or Pharisaical pride they cry up and justifie all their own proceedings with all the circumstances of their dictates and designes and at the same time are ready to decry and detract from others though never so square in their actions and sincere and candid in all their resolutions Seeing then that Philautia self love and adulation so easily suddenly and pleasingly surpriseth mens phansies corrupteth their judgements captivateth reason and in fine enslaveth the soul it may well become all who are truely enamored with virtue honour justice and the hopes of a good report or to mount a step higher to love the peace and tranquility of a calm and unspotted conscience in this nice point carefully to submit there senses to reason and the strength of reason to the force and power of godlinesse which is the best preservative of the soul in all trials and more refined probations And it is Piety that is the touchstone that discovereth the mettall whether it be true or false It is the scale that ballanceth every word and action and determineth them either weighty or light This as the rudder of the Ship governeth as the anchor it holdeth as the Pilot it directeth and as the keile swimming in the bottom of the angry waves it secureth and supporteth all the superstructure of the floating artificial Castle that overglideth and surmounteth the lofty billowes of the Ocean Conscience is the daughter of Piety which grounded on the principles of truth and a good cause encourageth men to be divinely affected towards God and loyally resolved towards their Prince It is probable in this great revolution and stupendious vicissitude of government the streames of the subjects affections returning passionately to their King and to monarchy that all or at least the greatest number of the people of the three Kingdomes may pleade a co-operation or a concurrency in this miraculous change And as the labourers in the vineyard to boast and proclaim that they have not only suffered and sweat but even born the brunt and bickerment of the day others may perhaps challenge to themselves the merit not only of pardon and amnesty but of thanks grace and favour because they appeared serviceable at the last hour and doubtless royal bounty will not deny them the wages of their loyalty if their return to their Prince be cordial and sincere But the case of Hushai the Archite stated rightly may like a bright Beacon set on fire and flaming on some high Mountain give an Alarum and luster to the amazement of all spectators In this president of Hushai a loyal subject may see the warrant the reasons the matter the manner and the truths of his duty being such an example in the King who imployed him in the person who was commanded and trusted and for the eminency and concernment of the service wherein he was employed that hardly and humain or holy history can parallel the like and all these circumstances conduce much to guide the Prince to his royal care whom to trust or employ and as equally concerns the the subjects and people how to dispose of themselves even in their greatest dangers of their lives and fortunes towards their King and Soveraign This hath been the condition of many gallant and loyal soules who not only in their personal valour but in all their contrivances and councels have made it their choicest interest as equally near as the saving of their soules to hold up the honour of the crown withall its just rites and prerogatives ever since the first commotions and troubles of the late war or that the late formidable rebellion had so intoxicated and bewitched the giddy humours of the People of his Majesties three kingdomes and as persons of these affections resolutions and principles were led and fixed to their Prince so a zealous duty to the Church of England their mother wrought their perswasions to a careful preservation of that truth and religion which the most learned and most judicious sober Christians hold fourth for both doctrine and discipline to be the purest profession the best form of serving God and to come nearest to the pious practise of the primitive Christians and though in the three Kingdomes it was forced like a Dove to the clefts of the Rocks to fly into upper chambers private Closets or secret corners yet the honour of God the saving of Soules the beauty of Sion was ever during the violence of the persecution so precious that the Church of England found dutiful children and couragious Sons and Daughters in her blackest Afflictions And as the Ark had the protection of a Royal Patron and nursing Father abroad for many years K. Charles the 2. so it was supported and preserved by the dutiful hands and hearts of many thousands of the three Kingdomes whose very soules did pray and long for nothing more then his Majesties joyful Restoration and that the Ark might return happily with him And now not to loose the argument a review may be more Genuinely taken and a stricter examination made in Hushai the Archites great and wise undertakings and his happy and high performances and successes both to the Church the Crown and the Kingdome of Judah and Israel for all who made bonefires caused Bells to ring and with other external circumstances made Heaven and Earth to rejoice with chearful and loud acclamations were not Israelites indeed like Nathaniel or wise and couragious and loyal Hushai it may be believed that many who had wide throats and made loud vociferations at his Majesties return had but narrow affections and t is possible that guilt or fear or danger may force a compliancy where the stream was so strangely turned and ran as a mighty Tide or torrent with such irresistable violence Therefore Hushai's wisdome and loyalty and the conduct of his affaires in so dangerous a Crysis and juncture of extremities may prove a more happy Patern for all ages and like Ariadnes clue of Silk direct all worthy subjects like Theseus more prosperously to encounter the minotaure or monster of Rebellion and having slain that bloudy and savage beast more securely to return out of the labyrinth and interrigues of such Hellish delusion in the company of true honour triumph and victory It is not to be doubted but many pretend to this noble Israelites worth and merits who if rightly reflected on know well as conscious to themselves that either they have forfeited their Faith and Allegiance ever since the original commencement of the late civil warrs or in an over activity in their Rebellious endeavours have done most horrid injuries to their King and Country or in a tepid fit of Newtrality have been luke-warm and basely complacent to both parties or else in a degree yet more ignoble and fordid having animas venales vendible and mercenary spirits have entertained the wages of iniquity and under the guise and pretence of loyal subjects and faithful Patriots have betrayed and
destroyed the Prince and his People or if there can be any thing worse there is a brood and generation of pretenders to the best and most loyal services because they attended in the Navie that wafted refluctuated the King into England that they had adventured to Breda to Brussels to Holland to France to Germany that they had been active at home and dutiful abroad and had contrived and contributed most both in their persons and purses towards his Majesties Restauration And it were an unkindnesse if not a crime to derogate from such pretensive merits but the sting that causeth a sore swelling is that these new brooms returned to loyalty sweep all so clean that they leave no work not the least Atome of honour in this high concern to those nobler spirits who never forfeited their fidelity to their King but as Hushai ever walked by the influence of his Majesties commission or commands and in all conditions whether active or passive in the concerns of their Faith and Allegiance never swerved nor so much as warped from their Native obedience or from the rules and dictates of Honour and a good Conscience This great Hero and exemplar of his fidelity to his Prince is recorded in the Sacred book of God and thence recommended to all subjects of all ages of all Kingdomes as a lively pattern to direct them in their duty and service towards their Soveraign and in many excellencies he is hardly imitable for the holy Historian tells the world 2 Sam. 15. that this loyal Israelite unsummon'd unsent for no sooner heard the news of the Kings sad condition that Absolon was unnaturally turn'd Traitor against his Father and the people in Rebellion against their King but instantly this great worthy marcheth after his Prince and finding him on the top of the Mount where he worshiped God he attended his Soveraign Lord with diligence and haste though his sad posture presented the Affliction and sorrow of his soul for his coat was rent and his head was covered with earth and what posture could better become a loyal heart then what cleerly expressed grief or indignation to see or hear of a disobedient Son persecuting a loving Father or a stubborn deluded people infatuated into a high and horrid Rebellion but Hushai was neither startled at his Princes dangerous condition nor consulted for his own safety nor was catched with flattery and the large promises of the Traitors oyle and smooth tongue nor did he dread or stand amazed at the oraculous Counsells of Achitophel the grand politician but his Native duty conducts him speedily to wait on his Prince and true and unspoted loyallty allegiance directing him in his march without any doubts or disputes laying his life at his Masters feet he in an instant bespeaks himself a perfect Royalist and so with his life friends and fortune ready to obey whatever commands the King thinks fit to impose upon him Some noble Heathens have left to the world famous examples of their love and loyalty to their Princes and to the shame and dishonour of many infamous Christians have exceeded them for their fidelity and true allegiance Plutarch * Hephaestion unut ex Alex. magni ducibus quem ille cum Cratero ita conterebaiut hunc quidem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hephastionem vero 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 appellaret Plutarch in vita Alexandri hath recorded Hephaestion to the memory of his immortal honour that he passionately loved and esteemed the person of Alexander the great and in his discourse with Craterus the Conquerour told him that Hephaestion did not only love him as a King but did most affectionately honour him as Alexander And it was a royal mark and distinction of Alexanders own creating to stile Craterus a lover of the King but Hephaeston a lover and admirer of Alexander and it seems his duty to his Prince as it received bounty from his Soveraign whiles he lived was rewarded with high honour when he was dead for the same Author affirmes that this noble Emperour in a grateful memory to so faithful a subject and so couragious a commander magnificently expended more then twelve thousand Talents upon his exequies and Funerals There is such another passage of Clitus * Clitus inter pracipuos Alexan. Maced familiares eidemque charissimus quod filius essetnutricis illi us tum quod ab illo in vitae discrimine fuisset servatus hunc in convivio liberius in Persicos mores invectum Rex temulentus spiculo trajecit cujus facti postridie tanta cepit paenitentia discussa jam ebrietate ut totum triduum à cibo abstinuerit decreveritque omuino inedia sibi mortem concissere ac amicum optime de se meritum ad inferos persequi sumptuoso cumfunere sepelivit Plutarc in vita Alexandri who having been Alexanders nurcesson and in his person and Relations most serviceable to the King in many of his greatest dangers The Emperour advanced him to great favours and enriched him with Princely munificency and when a Persian intemperate excesse and debauchery had drown'd the Kings reason and had raised a tempest in his passions so that in his fury with a javelin he had slain his favourite yet this sad accident so deeply affected the Emperour when he had recovered his confounded reason that he appeared to be overwhelmed in a gulf of shame and sorrow and so giving rules for his own pennance obliged himself to a hard duty hence determining and decreeing that his intemperance should be rewarded with penury and that he who had so ignobly abused plenty and in such extravagant luxury slain his friend should justly dye and perish for want of food hereby the King proposed a more speedy death to himself that he might more suddenly follow the Ghost of Clytus to the imagined shades below Such a character of true worth and loyalty Darius gave of his dear Zophyrus who waging warr and besieging the vast City of Babylon but without successe or victory trusted the possibilities of the effecting of that design to the fidelity courage and wisdome of faithfull Zophyrus who the better to disguise himself and to accomplish the conquest with greater safety to his person and more secure successe to his Soveraign disfigured his face to a high deformity and having permitted his ears his †Nobilis Persa ipse sibi nasum aures labia amputavit ita Babylonas quasi transfuga se contulit conquerens de crudelitate sui Regis receptus egitur a Babyloniis dux belli constitutus urbem Dario tradidit unde Darius solebat dicere se Zophyrum malle integrum quam viginti capere Babylonas Herod lib. 4. lips and his nose to be cut off as pretended by a Persian barbarous cruelty in this posture he adressed to the Babylonians as an abused and tortured Persian fugitive where being received and advanced to great trust and command as a General of their Army by his prudence and
SIR will you grant and keep and by your Oath confirm to the people of England the Laws and Customes to them granted by the Kings of England your lawful and religious predecessors and namely the Laws Customes Franchises granted to the Clergy by the glorious KING St. Edward your predecessour according to the Laws of God the true profession of the Gospel established in this Kingdome and agreeing to the prerogative of the Kings thereof and the ancient customes of this Realm The King Igrant and promise to keep them Lord Bishop Sir will you keep peace and Godly agreement entirely according to your power both to God the holy Church the Clergy and the people King I will keep it L. Bishop Sir will you to your power cause law and justice and discretion in mercy and truth to be executed in all your judgements King I will L. Bishop Sir will you grant to hold and keep the rightful Customes which the commonalty of this your Kingdome have will you defend and uphold them to the honour of God so much as in you lyeth King Igrant and promise so to do The Petition of the L. Bishops read by the L. Bishop of ROCHESTER O Lord our King we beseech you to grant and preserve unto us and the Churches committed to our charge all Canonical priviledges and due Law and Iustice and that you would protect and defend us as every good King in his Kingdome ought to be a Protector and defender of the Bishops and Churches under their Government The King answered With a willing and devout heart I promise and grant my pardon and that I will preserve and maintain to you and the Churches committed to your charge all Canonical priviledges and due law and justice and that I will be your Protector and Defendor to my power by the assistance of God as every good King in his Kingdome ought in right protect and defend the Bishops and Churches under their Government Then the King went to the Altar where laying his hand upon the Evangelists he took the Oath following The things which I have here before promised I shall perform keep so God me help and by the contents of this Book and so kissed the Book The Homage of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for himself and all the Bishops he kneeling down and all the Bishops behind him said I William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury shall be faithful true Faith Truth shall bear unto you our Soveraign Lord and your Heirs Kings of England and I shall do and truly acknowledge the service of the Lands which I claim to hold of you as in right of the Church So God me help Then he arose and kissed the Kings left cheek as did the rest of the Bishops The Homage of the Nobility I James Duke of York become your Leigeman of life and limb and of earthly worship and Faith and Truth I shall bear unto you to live and dye against all manner of folk So God me help The Oath of a Lord Chancelour YOu shall swear that well and truly you shall serve our Soveraign Lord the King and his people in the office of Chancelour and you shall do right to all manner of people poor and rich after the laws and usages of this Realm and truly you shall counsel the King and his Counsel you shall layne and keep and you shall not know nor suffer the hurt or disheriting of the King or that the rights of the Crown be deceased by any means as far forth as you may let it and if you may not let it you shall make it cleerly and expresly to be known unto the King with your true advice and councel and that you shall do and purchase the Kings profit in all that you reasonably may As God you help and by the contents of this book The Oath of a privy Counceller YOu shall swear to be a true and faithful servant unto the Kings Majestie as one of his privy counsel you shall not know or understand any manner of thing to be attempted done or spoken against his Majesties Person Honour Crown or Dignity Royal but you shall let and withstand the same to the utmost of your power and either cause it to be revealed to his Majestie himself or to such of his privie Councel as shall advertise his Highness of the same You shall in all things to be moved treated and debated in Councel faithfully and truly declare your mind and opinion according to your heart and conscience and shall keep secret all matters committed and revealed unto you or shall be treated off secretly in Counsel and if any of the same Treaties or Counsels shall touch any of the Councellers you shall not reveale it unto him but shall keep the same until such time as by the consent of his Majesty or of the Councel publication shall be made thereof You shall to your uttermost bear Faith and Allegiance unto the Kings Majestie his Heirs and lawful successours and shall assist and defend all jurisdictions preheminences and authorities granted to his Majestie and annexed to his Crown against all forraign Princes Persons Prelates and Potentates by act of Parliament or otherwise And generally in all things you shall do as a faithful and true servant and Subject ought to do to his Majestie So help you God and by the holy contents of this book The Oath of a Secretary of State YOu shal swear to be a true faithfull Servant unto the Kings Majestie as one of the Principal Secretaries of State to his Majestie you shall not know or understand of any manner of thing to be attempted done or spoken against his Majesties person Honour Crown or Dignity-royal but you shall let and withstand the same to the uttermost of your power and either do or cause it to be revealed either to his Majestie himself or to his privie Counsel you shall keep secret all matters revealed and committed unto you or that shall be secretly treated in Counsel and if any of the said treaties or Counsels shall touch any of the Councellors you shall not reveal the same unto him but shall keep the same until such time as by the consent of his Majestie or the Connsel publication shall be made thereof you shall to your uttermost bear Faith and Allegiance to the Kings Majestie his heirs and lawful successours and shall assist and defende all jurisdictions preheminences and authorities granted to his Majestie and annexed to his Crown against all forraign Princes Persons Prelats or Potentates c. By act of Parliament or otherwise Generally in all things you shall do as a true and faithful servant and subject ought to do to his Majestie So help you God and by the holy contents of this book Subscription of such as are to be made Ministers according to the 37 canon and constitution Anno Dom. 1603. and in the reign of our Soveraign Lord Iames by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland
designs for general advantages so they bend and humble themselves to court and catch all capacities Thus Cataline caressed the lowest of the Romans as he passed in the streets And it is remarkable in Absolon how like a Serpent he insinuated creeping and cringing bending and bowing to the earth so the Prophet observes him in his cariage to the meanest Israelite 1 Sam. 15.5 And it was so that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeysance he put forth his hand and took him and kissed him But that which was the cheifest cheat 8 Hypocrisie or the holy cheat and both deluded King David and his subjects was cunning hypocrisy or in the abused canting phraise of these jugling times Liberty of conscience and a pretence to holinesse or performance of religious vows so the Prophet describes the deceiver 2 Sam. 15.7.8 And it came to passe after forty years that Absolon said unto the King I pray thee let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed unto the Lord in Hebron for thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria saying if the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Ierusalem then I will serve the Lord. And as this arch conspirator Absolon so his councellor Achitophel seemd to be very zealous and religious so the Prophet taketh notice that Achitophel being sent for by Absolon He was it his City of Giloh where he was raising rebellion when offering sacrifices 2 Sam. 15.12 There were many thousands engaged and envolved in the ☞ conspiracy and some few hundred more innocent or rather less malicious Traitors and the Prophet to their comfort recordeth both their number and their qualities 2 Sam. 15.11 And with Absolon went two hundred men out of Ierusalem that were called and they went in their simplicity and they knew not any thing 9 Traitors are false and most persidious There is yet one attendant more that is concomitant and adherent to traiterous dispositions which are for the most part very false and horridly perfidious thus Absolon had no sooner leave to go in peace to Hebron but immediately he sent his spies through all the tribes of Israel saying as soon as ye hear the sound of the Trumpet then ye shall say Absolon reigneth in Hebron 2 Sam. 15.10 These nine characters whiles they continue engraven on traiterous subjects hearts they cannot be permitted to the reputation of true royalists as Hushai the Archite that noble Israelite who was not tainted with any of these defiling qualities but positively and in the affirmative was richly endued with many heroick virtues which did highly capacitate his noble soul for the service of his God the God of Israel and for David the King the Lords annointed and for the Peace Liberty and Hapiness of the Kingdome and Country where he was an honourable Courtier a prudent Counsellour a loyal subject and faithful Patriot and the holy pen of that sacred writer who did set forth character Absolon Achitophel and their traiterous confederates doth delineate and portray in most lively colours the most incomparable and supereminent virtues of the true and perfect royalist in the great abilities and worth of Hushai the Archite who saith the Prophet was in zealous passion Characters of true royalists 1 Holy indignation for their King in a sad conditon 2 Sam. 15.32 or holy indignation to see his King in a sad condition his people in rebellion and the whole Kingdome in such a wild confusion and distraction Ecce occurrit ei Chusai Arachites scissâ veste terrâ pleno capite Behold Hushai the Archite came to meet the King with his coat rent and earth upon his head Good subjects they neither value liberty 2 Attend there Prince in greatest danger life or limb riches or fortune nor any personal concernment but when their King and his Crown is in danger and his royal Person in the field they hazard and adventure all as loyal subjects in their Princes service and they are not only to attend but to be active quick and lively in the concernment of a Crown this great worthy is a noble example of diligence and activeness in his swift endeavours to advance his princes cause their is no mention made of declaration or proclamation of the call of a drum or sound of trumpet but as soon as the royal Standaris mounted 3 True royalists ought to be quick and active for their King in danger and it is but whispered or at least but rumourd that King David was in danger and his people in rebellion Hushai speedily posteth and addresseth to the royal camp so the Prophet expresseth Chushai Arachites occurrit ran as with all haste to meet the King impatient until he came to his Princes aid and assistance This worthy Israelite was neither timorously or cowardly inclind as ignoble Poultrones nor treacherously affected as Laodicean newters nor shackled and imprisoned with the fetters of base and filthy lusts as lacivious and lu xurious epicures but as on a suddain abandoning and quitting all delights prophits and concernments as swift as lightning he flyeth to attend his Prince in his dangerous extremities as Hushai was quick and active for the preservation of his King 4 The best royalists the most religious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato in Apol. 2 Sam. 15.32 Ista ingeniorum scabies ut omnes disputare malint quam viveve Seneca epist 2.5 so he appeares which was his greater honour and commendation religious and rightly setled for his principles in Gods worship and service he was no black soul'd Atheist whose devotion intirely attends his interest nor factious Schismatick hypocritical separatist or brain sick Phanatick but a true Israelite indeed and so it appears by the double circumstances of the manner and time of his attendance for the manner it was in a Iewish mode and dress his cloathes rent and his head covered with earth emblems of sorrow and indignation and a religious condolement and compassion And as to the time of his address it proved either by design or providence to be at that instant When the King was come to the top of the Mount where he worshipped God behold Hushai the Archite came to meet him Even then when the King was at his prayers and earnestly said 2 Sam. 15.31 O Lord I pray thee turn the Counsel of Achitophel into foolishnesse 5 Fortitude requisie in true royaliste Then as joyning in holy devotion did Hushai most happily attend his Kings commands To these excellent capacities and fitness King David found Hushai a man of courage magnanimity neither fearing the Enemies power nor distrusting the Kings more weak and sad condition not of a low and pusillanimous spirit nor of a ranting and vaporing humour who like some squibs and crackers will thunder and roare like lyons and though the cause be never so good in an instant change their notes and like timorus Hares betake themselves to there heels This