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A66086	Beatitas Britanniæ, or, King Charles the Second, Englands beatituded as preached to the incorporation of the honour of Eay, in the county of Suffolk, March 31, 1661, being the Lords Day before their election of Burgesses, and the week before the choice of knights for the county / by Edward Willian ..	Willan, Edward.	1661 (1661)	Wing W2260; ESTC R98	30,979	47

Nobil●um That 's the first but the least Secondly Son of Nobles may be in respect of several descents on either side or of several descents on both The last is far most Honourable and that 's the Noblenesse of our Charles the 2. the Son of Nobles by many and many descents on both sides First on his Royal Fathers side descended from many and many most Noble Kings of several Kingdomes and of all the most Noble Races in this When the Race of King Henry the 8. was ended with Queen Elizabeth Pretences were made by divers to the Crown of England but after due enquiries made they were all found in the Royal Grandfather of our most noble Charles the 2. And when the Businesse of Recognition was on foot in the Parliament Tertio Iacobi it was made evident by that Renowned Earl of Northampton that the Pretences of the Britains from King The right Honorable Earl of Northampton's Speech for that Recognition M. S. Brutus were in King Iames as from Cadwallo Those of the Scots by Fergus those of the Picts by the daughter of Hengist those of the Saxons by the sister of Edgar those of the Danes by the daughter of King Christian and those of the Normans by Margaret eldest daughter to King Henry the 7. in whom the Red and White Roses were most sweetly damasked York and Lancaster well united by that happy Match of Henry the 7. Son to the Noble Earl of Richmond and Elizabeth eldest daughter to Edward the 4. from whom came Prince Arthur who died young and Henry the 8. whose Race ended in Queen Elizabeth and left the Royal Dignities to the Race of Princesse Margaret by Iames the 4. of Scotland and so they became the Royal Birth-rights to King Iames the first of England and sixth of Scotland and so to our most Royal Soveraign Charles the 2. the rightest Lineal Descendant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by many most noble Descents on that side of his Royal Father Secondly the Son of Nobles also as descended from many Races of French Kings by that most Noble Daughter of France his Royal Queen Mother An Honour of no little estimate but so highly valued as there is almost no Nation Lupan Commen de Magistr Traesectur franc●r Praefat. saith Lupanus quae non ad francos Reges originem referat adeo magnum ●st fortibus nasci which derives not some honour from French Kings so much it is to be of such consanguinity Were it feasible in a Sermon to shew you all the streams of Royal Bloud that have flowed into the Noblest Veines of our most Noble Charles the 2. from all the high born Kings and Queens on all sides in all descents you could not but most highly honour his Nobleness by Extraction and think it no Hyperbole but his Birth-right to be Gwillim's Display of Heraldry Sect 6. c. 7. stiled the Noblest King in Christendome as that Herauld honours him and worthiest of all the Honours that Loyal Subjects can do a Soveraign who is in Solomon's rightest sense The Son of Nobles The Second way of Noblenesse is by Education or Institution a Noblenesse that God himself looks after For when he designed Moses to be Ruler of his People Israel he preordained his Education to be in the Court of Egypt and not as a servant there but as the son of a Noble Princesse Acts. 7. 21 22. who nourished him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith St. Luke as her own Son and so he was learned in all the Wisdome of the Deus effecit ut adoptaretur à fil●a Pharaonis Macar Homil. 9. Egyptians A Prince-like Institution and merely by Divine appointment as Macarius well observeth Nor would God have David to be a King before he had been a Courtier and that not merely as one of King Saul's Retinue but as of Royal Affinity Son in Law to the King no light matter as David himself hinted to the servants of Saul 1 Sam. 18. 23. But so he was to prepossess him with a Noble Spirit by Noblenesse of Institution Such regard has God himself to Noble Education Nothing more needfull for improving innate Inclinations to Noble Mindednesse And such Inclinations use to be in Noble Extractions seminals of right Noblenesse When Noble Birth and Noble Breeding Nicho● de Ly●a in hunc Vers Dionys Carthus in L●cum meet as they should they make right Noble indeed as Lyra notes s● inv●cem ornant sayes Dionysius Carthusianus they mutually adorne each other like a precious Gem in an Ornament of gold The Gold of Noble Extraction is ever fitly adorned with the Gem of Noble Education and right it is for both to be deemed precious Gold D. Ba●●hol Chassan de Glor. Mu●● par 8. is so even from the very Mine and so Nobility from the Wombe for as Chassanaeus sayes Nobilitas transit in filios in infinitum The honour of Noble Birth for ever descends and that of Noble Breeding should ever ascend Noble Temperaments be in Noble Extractions and Noble Tendencies in such Temperaments and such tendencies be easily heightened with right Institutions Well therefore might the Preacher bestow the Honour of the Text upon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The son-ship of Nobility has the start of others to be bettered by Noble Breeding And Nobleness of Breeding should ever follow that of Birth And it is By I●st ●●tion in virtue wisedom● and poli●●● which Education Son● of Nobles ●specially ought to have Pemb. Analyt●cal expos a. i. e. Pacificus sive pacatus Eucherius de Nom●n H●br S. Hieron Interp. Nom. Mat●h not unlikely but Solomon might have an Eye to Nobleness of Breeding in asserting what he does of the Son of Nobles who so eyes the Education of our right a Solomon may see him heightened by it to the Zenith of right Nobleness advantaged by Institutions by Afflictions and by Intercessions First of Institutions both Civil and Sacred these by such a Church-Discipline those by such a Court-Discipline as could not but season him rightly for Court and Church-Concernments His Tutors in both were more than Ordinary and his Institutions by more than Tutors No Vives no Coxe no Ascham could have instilled better Principles into his Noble soul then have been by Tutors nor any Bachanan so good Much less could Aristotle or Pl●to or Sen●●a have bettered the same though famous Tutors to great Princes And I may tell you that his Noblenesse of Education derives not all advantages nor most from Tutors though most able but from a most Royal and most Religious Father of ever blessed Memory in quo instar omnium auxiliorum erat who could doe and did as much as all besides and much more His Moods and Methods were like himself most truly Noble witnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chap. 27. that part of his Royal Likenesse entituled To the Prince of Wales And witnesse those Effects which verifie S. Austin● touching Discipline who sayes it is Magistra

Religionis S. August Serm 52. verae pietatis the Tutoress of Religion and real Piety What pious and prudent Counsels were given viva vo●e I presume not to turn into Traditions But my thoughts are of what being dead he yet speaketh by his even inspir●d Pen. That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is still pictural quens and will for ever speak most Royal Institutions and other Oraculous Enunciations such as have conduced to the making of his Majesty CHARLES le Bon and CHARLES le Grand * Great in Goodnesse and Good in Greatnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Eth. Lib. 5. c. 1. Secundum ●ian●em H 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Chrys Hom. 17. ad Popul Antioch Rom. 5. 3 4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Mirrour of Noblenesse by right Institutions And secondly his Noblenesse of Education has been bettered much in the School of Afflictions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God himself for divers yeares was pleased to School him with the Severer Discipline of sad Providences And with his Rod and Ferula hath surely beaten in the best of Wisedom even that which is Experimental For Tribulation worketh patience and patience Expertence saith the Apostle And to that his royal Father might allude in saying to him He had the advantage of wisdome above most Princes in that he had spent some yeares of discretion in the experience of Troubles and exercise of Patience And thirdly his Nobleness of Education was also advantaged much by Intercessions to God for him Some by Loyal people in private Devotions well watered with tears and others in publick by Loyal Pulpits consigned and sealed with earnest Amens of the like Congregations besides the Prayers and Tears of such a father as surely availed much 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iam. 5. 16. Well might the seeds of his Pious Nobility and Noble Piety thrive being so well watered It was rightly said to M●nica as touching her Son Augustine that the son of so many Prayers and Tears in all probability could not be for ever lost And who could expect any lesse than that God in his due time should blesse our Soveraign on better means and make him a blessing A right noble soul he has made him by such right means Now the last kind of Noblenesse is that of disposition Noble Mindednesse the very 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Royal Dignity and Crown of both the former By this a King makes good the Nobility of his Birth and Honours of his Royal Progenitors and proves the Text most true By this he becomes a Blessing indeed unto his Subjects a Hug Cardina in Locum Hugo Cardinalis expounds the Text of this as the only right felicifying Noblenesse And b Diodati Annotat. in hunc vers Diodate takes him only for the Son of Nobles in Solomon's sense who bears a Noble Mind But c Carnis propagine virtutum praeclar●●te Dionys Ca●thu in Locum Dionysius Carthusianus rightly thinks him most truely so that is Noble by Noblenesse of stock and also by a stock of Noblenesse in himself a Noble stock of Heroick Virtues Now this it is that beautifies our King and beautifies his Kingdomes Yea this has crowned him already and rendred him most worthy of that Royal Diadem ●ow ready for for him It is this Noblenesse that inclines him so to Acts of Grace as the like did d Philip of Ma●edon's Life by S. G. S. at the end of those by Plu●ar Philip of Macedon and makes him resolute with e See Plut. in vit Alex. S Ambr. in Apolog. 1. David c. 6. Alexander the Great that nothing can be more Noble than to do well to them that have deserved ill S. Ambrose thought it grande inventum in King David so to bear the bitter words of one bold railing Shimei What is it then in our Soveraign to forgive both the Lying ●od lib 9. ● 36. M●gni● animi proprium est p●acidum ●ss●●ranq●il●umq●e ac ●●jurias ●ss●nsa● superand● desp●cere Senec. de Clemen 1. 3. S●e Volater Anthrop●log lib. 1● ●●utar in Aristide Tongues and Libelling Pens of many Shime●●s and many Shebaes and many ●●bshakehs guilty of Crimes no less than Capital by Imperial Laws and not only to forgive them but to practice the Art of Forgetting them too Blessed all thou O Land in a King so Nobly disposed as to bury ten thousand Acts of Rebellion in one Royal Act of Obliv●o● Out acting that Aristides himself so renowned for not remembring his malignant enemies that had exlled him Indeed his exilement was only by an Ostracisme and that ever was pro●erto tempore and commonly cum honore a Relegation to some certain place for ten or fifteen years at most But our Soveraigns profligation or proscription or cru●ller persecution was on worse tearms yet pardoned on 1 Pet. 2. 23. Cum enim Princeps vir●●●ibus divinis ●r●natus ad r●mp gubernandam accesserit non homo sed Deus ipse remp illam gubernabi● Deus enim in pectore sancti principis inclusus ●um movebit facile in studium publicae salutis impellet Hieron Os●rius Lusitan de Reg Instit. discip l. s. better Principles His greater indignities born not only animo civili with that Worthy in Su●●oni●s but animo ●●lesti with that Worthy of Worthies in St. Peter Who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered threatened not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously And it is not only Noble mindednesse but Heavenly mindednesse too in his Sacred Majesty to have men live and mend A disposition that proves him both the Son of Nobles according to his first Birth and the Son of God according to his Second Of Civil and Sacred Noblenesse too It is his great Honour and our great Happinesse that by N●ture he is satus sanguine Diûûm the Son of England's Mort●l Gods but his greater Noblenesse and Englands greater Happinesse that by Grace he is renatus sanguine Christi a Son of God Immortal every way right Noble according to that first acceptance of the Son of Nobles The Second is that a King be so by succession born a King A point that merits more Observance and a more deliberate Treatise that can be ministred in a breath or two at the very last gasp of a Sermon Yet I must be at a very point with it otherwise I might at large have related how I●stus Lipsius treating of Kings by El●ction and Kings by Lip●●u● Monit ●o●●t l. 2. c. 3. 4. Succession upon just reason rejected Election and electeth Succession And so must all that will yield to Reason or to Religion The Word of God ascribes the Blessednesse of a Land to a King by succession or a King by Birth the Son of Nobles And the common Course of Goe hath ever been to annex the Administration of National Blessednesse to some Princely Tr●be ennobled for that purpose or to some certain Race of Kings So he appointed the