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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

Noble Tribe of Iudah with a promise that the Scepter should Psal 7● 68. not depart from Iudah nor a law-giver from between his feet Gen. 49. 10. till Shiloh came So he likewise named the Race of David Psal 89. 35 36. 37. saying His seed will I make to endure for ever and his Throne as the daies of Heaven Psal 89. 29. and farther declaring himself there so much for Kingship by Royal Birth-right as that he vows to have it so But so he would not have done had he seen election of Kings to be better than succession and he must needs have seen it if it had been so And as in Israel so in other Kingdomes he hath raised some certain Families nearest to himself for the better management of his Publick businesse with the people and for the conduct of Civil Blessednesse unto them Denying to blesse them by Common Hands When Azarias and that Ioseph son to Zacharias in the time of the Mac●abees would needs undertake the procuring of some blessing of Gods people God would not blesse their undertakings nor his people by them Because they were not of the seed of those by whose hand deliverance was given to Israel as it is given for a Reason 1 Maccab. 5. 62. Quia non erant de s●min● illorum c. Such emulous Undertakers were of late in England who intended or at least pretended to seek the welfare of the Land But God would not let the Land fare well by their pretences they were not of his approved Tribe The son of Nobles was not amongst them Nor was it his Political Capacity in a Notional separation but his Personal in a National Conjunction that God would blesse his people by God would have the Redeemer of Israel to be born a King and so the R●deemer of England too It is not for nothing that the Holy Ghost would the world take notice that ou● Saviours Kingship was by succession 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Born the King of the Iews A King by Royal Birth-right Ma●th 2. 2. Born with a right to sit upon the Throne of his Father David Isa 9. 7. And so in Gods ordinary way his Instruments of National Blessednesse be born with right to be inthroned When such be their People be blessed I shall only hint Two Reasons of Solomon's assertion and so thank you for your Noble Patience The first inferred from the Common Infelicities that arise with Ignoble Upstarts such as be d● vili loco assumpti exhaled from low Parentages to high Powers ut pluries laedunt saith Aquinas Aquin. de Reg. Princip lib. 4. c. 19. for the most part prove destructive Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum None to the beggar on horseback Rome was never worse hacknied then when Ignoble Vpstarts mounted the saddle of Imperial Command When Op●lius Macrinus had Volateran Anthropol lib. 23. compassed the Death of the Emperour Caracalla and caused the Souldiers of his faction Oliver like to chuse him though of ignoble Birth to be Emperour that is Stilo novo Lord Protectour he soon became of that Oliverian Pride and Cruelty that he plotted the ruine of all that were not See his Life amongst the Roman Empero●s by R. B. See his Life also by R. B. of his faction or that would not comply with all his wicked purposes So when Maximinus of ignoble birth too was made Emp●rour by his Army Officers he also sought the destruction of the friends of his late Soveraign Alexander Severus and as O. C. did overawed the Senate and persecuted Christians as English Protestants were of late Such be the common evils when such evil Commons aspire C●trari●rum co●trariae sunt causae Beda to Monarchize Well therefore might Solomon say by the rule of Contraries Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the son of Nobles The Second Reason may be from the National felicities Me●and in ●all that succeed with Noble Soveraigns o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Menander A good man is a common good true of every good man but most certainly so of every good King Whose greatest Noblenesse cannot but be the Royal Prerogative of greatest goodnesse yea most notable Blessings to Places and People have mostly attended most Noble Births I may instance in Caesar Augustus descended See his Life written by S. G. S. at the end of Plutarch ' s Live● from the Noble Octavians whose publick Designes reformed his State with good Lawes repaired the Cities di●apidations so modelled publick Elections that honest Trustees might be impowered as our good Soveraign does with Religious Care to have such Burgesses chosen Iani Templum sol● claus●● Musarum sol●s aperuit Emanuel Thesaur Caes Luc. 2. 14. and laboured so for a General Peace that he caused the Temple of Ianus to be shut up as it was that Third Time when the Prince of Peace our Blessed Saviour came into the world and was honoured with that Anglical Birth Song Glory to God in the high●st on earth peace c. In honour of whose Birth that Noble Augustus erected an Altar of Noble structure in the Roman Capitol with this Inscription THE ALTAR OF GOD THE FIRST BORN yea such a Lover of publick good he was noted Seneca de Clement lib. 1. cap. 1● to be that he was worthily styled Pater Patriae I may likewise instance in that Noble Emperour Antoninus Pius See his Life written by R. ● amongst th● Roman Emperours which Sir-name was given him for pardoning many Delinquents at his first coming to Imperial Dignity A branch of Royal Piety which has no lesse flourished in our most pious Soveraign for which Clemency and other Noble Qualities that Antoninus was likewise called the Father of th● Virtues for Placabilitie Clemencie Sanctitie as faith Volateran he was reputed another Numa I could instance also Volate● Anthropol lib. 23. in the noble Emperour Gratianus who did the publick good of Banishing turbulent Hereticks of reducing others See his Life by ● B. to the true Religion and of repairing Churches for the publick Worship of God The time failes me to tell you of Noble Theodosius and his Noble son Arcadius and others that have been Publick Blessings to their subjects I must end with that Noble Emperour Iovinianus a famous Defender of the true Faith and of such as were faithfull to it as our most gracious Soveraign shewes himself to be Not mistaking faction for faith nor fanaticks for the faithfull but taking such to doe by curbing their Contentious spirits and countenancing those that were Orthodox and Orderly such as that holy Father Athanasius whom he restored to his Bishoprick of Alexandria as he did also others to theirs See Socrates S●ol●st● Eccle. Hist l. 3. ● 19 20. from which they had been unjustly sequestred And by the leading example of that good Emperour many were induced to be Christned and by his Christianity many were redeemed from Barbarian Slavery Such a memorable Benefit and publick good as our good Soveraign brought with him ●o this Land where his most Loyal Subjects were most barbarously enslaved by their fellow Subjects of all slaveries the most insufferable But by his most happy coming again to the Land the Land is most happily coming again to it self Terra Beata a blessed Land Blessed in having a King and blessed in having but one King and blessed in having our own King and blessed in having such a King as our own a King right Noble in right acceptation of the Son of Nobles Now the KING of Heaven blesse him and be forever blessed for him And so let us Pray A Prayer Blessed Lord thou hast blessed us and done great things for us whereof we are glad Thou hast turned away the Captivity of the Land and brought back the Captivity of our National Blessednesse We desire to blesse thy Name for all thy Mercies and Blessings but especially for restoring our thrice Noble Soveragin Charles the Second to the Land and the Land unto it self by him Thou hast given him Possession of many and many Hearts Lord help him to hold Possession Thou knowest the Mutability of the Many whose Placets are easily had but hardly held and whose humours are all for making a Darling great but their Consciences not at all for upholding a just Greatnesse But thou still and still the same God of Love and Mercy and Power unto him Uphold and defend him in his just rights and Regalities Make both sorts of Independent Pride come down to Allegiance that of the Covenant and that of the Engagement the Classical and the Congregational Make them both to bend under Royal Authority And keep down all such Corahs as pretend Religion and practise Rebellion Detect the Wickednesse of all such falsaries and Impostours whose voices are the voices of Reformation and Canting Incantamentations But their hands the hands of Violence Oppression Church-robbing King-killing and any such hellish Devillisme O thou God of Truth suffer not such Supplanters any more to cheat the credulous Many of their Loyalty their Religion their Liberty their Estates their Consciences Neither suffer such self-Sainting sons of Cruelty to have any power to touch thine Anointed any more Enervate all their Armes of flesh and cloath them with their demerited shame but upon himself let his Crown flourish And bless him spiritually as well as temporally inwardly as well as outwardly Let not the Greatness of his Court Royal lessen the Goodnesse of his Court of Conscience Suffer not that White Hall which is in him to be lost in that White Hall in which he is And let not any Feast be a Voider to that which has been his Continual Feast But let that Peace of Conscience which sugared all his sufferings and sweetned all their Sharpnesse be still and for ever thy Entertainment of him Let thy Royalty be Blessednesse to him as his is to thy People under him And to make us all his Obedient Subjects make us thy faithfull Servants Help us to honour and humbly obey him in thee and for thee Direct us and all that be concerned in that great Concernment of the Land the choice of Representatives Let all Elections tend to thy Glory the Honour and safety of thine Anointed the Peace and Prosperity of this Nation and National Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. FINIS

the right King and a right King is but what should be and is in England the Lord be blessed to make it blessed and to have Princes in the Land Peers and persons of worth in Trust and Power and they Princes of the Land right English Worthies to whom there belongeth jus imaginis the Hōnour 's Id est Jus Nobilitatis Sigon de j●re Rom. lib. 2. c. 20. of ancient families and they so qualified as Princes should be with Noble vertues to do right honourable service to God the King the Countrey eating in due season and aiming at strength for publick performances like publick persons not Drunkenness like sneaking sots in private Pemb. Analyt Expos Com●dere enim debent ut vivant Deo non vivere ut comedant Hugo Cardinal in locum Debaucheries not serving their own lust but the good of others as it is or should be to make the blessedness compleat Now for certain we have all the first in esse and all the last at least in fieri We have a King now God be blessed and we have our own King the good Lord bless him and be blessed for him and he Rex Nobilis a right King indeed The son of Nobles in Solomons rightest sense Gods blessing therefore to the Land for blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the son of Nobilitatem non dat unus dies ● ud Vives Satellit See Switzerland in Mercator ' s Atlas And in Archbish Abbot ' s Descript of the World Nobles And we have Princes too for an Honourable House of Peers again to redeem us from that other House and they Princes of the Land not subdititious Lords of adulterine Editions no Protectorian Mushromes meer Nullities Ephemeral but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of right Royal Creations vere Patricii the right English Nobility of nobler minds then to come down to those unenglished Confederates in the Land that would have it like to the Land of Confederates a very Anarchie Heroick persons and of Princelike sobriety to eat in tempo●●suo and then but ad reficiendum as St. Jerome renders it to renew their strength exhausted with publick services Publici boni amantes as Corranus saies they should be lovers S. Hieron Interp. Bibl. Corranus in locum of publick good Such we have God be thanked though all it may be are not such And so all the Articles be true though not of all and known so to be though not to all Certainly true of many though not ascertained to the many ●ea all be such forought I know but certain it is that his Proclama M●y 30. 1660. Proclama Aug●st 13. 1660. Pro●lama Septem 29. ●660 Claudian de 4. Honor. Cons Sacred Maiesty takes all due care to have all so witnesse his several Proclamations against Debauchery wherein he commands both Princes and people to be of sober Conversations that he in them might be as blessed by that condition on their part as they are in him by that and all conditions on his O that Claudians Regis ad exemplum c. were verified in this as in matters of lesse concernment that such as love or pretend to love his Majesty would shew it in † Joh. 14. 15. Seneca in Thyeste keeping those Royal Mandates as well as others Rex vel●t honesta Would to God Seneca could now make good what follows 〈◊〉 non eadem volet Were all the people are but all Princes such as the King would have them the Land would surely be as blessed as Solomon can assert it by the Text. But suppose some defects in some and I do but suppose it ● suppositio nihil ponit yet all being perfect ex parte Regis ●● Land may asself the title of blessed for as there is a blessednesse on both conditions together so in either by it self And they be not merely the joynt conditions of one onely blessednesse but the different advantages of divers so the ●●ginal intends it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is plurale constructum as well as ●●gulare As it may be rendred b●ata w●th St. Jerome or be●●tu S. Hieron Interp. Bibl. with Pagnine and Mercer so ●t may beatitudines tuae 〈◊〉 Montanus latines it thy blessednesses And so much Bux●●f a Master of that holy Language likewise observeth as Pagnine does with the Targum and Rabbinical Criticks Some Pagninus T●e Lingu● S●●ct 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 M●nt Bib. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rod. Hebra●● in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O q●e tu es bien heureux o terre of the French Translatours turn it by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O how happy art thou O Land As w●ndring at the happinesse or happinesses happy in having thy King the son of Nobles and happy in having thy Princes such as eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness beata in that and beata in this blessed in either but wonderfull blessed in both together And not only so as by two single beatitudes one by the one condition another by the other but by many in each As 1. Blessed art thou O Land in having a King and 2. blessed art thou in having but one King and 3. blessed in having thine own King and 4. blessed in having such a King as thine own a King right Noble the son of Nobles and 5. blessed also in having Princes and 7. blessed in having them temperate persons such as eat in due season and 8. blessed in having them aim at strength not drunkenness in eating And suppose them not all several blessednesses yet be they severall addi●ions to that so accumulate in the Text and each addition is a blessing I cannot now review them all but must take up with those of the King or by him which speak us blessed and blessed and blessed exceedingly blessed Shall I run them over again to open the palm of the Time with the Text first blessed art thou O Land in having a King But secondly more blessed in having but one King And thirdly more and more blessed Filius Candidorum Periphrasis optimi Regis bene b●oté sancte e●uducati Anton. Co●●an Annotar in having thine own King But fourthly most of all blessed in having such a King as thine own a King most truly Noble composed all of Nobleness of Noble bloud and a Noble soul Nobly descended Nobly disposed Nobly designed filius candidorum the son of Nobles and Noblest of such sons as maximus natu A Noble Climax the true Incrementum of Englands blessedness Let us pace the Gradation again and with steps more deliberate And in the first place let us well observe that our very first step towards National bliss is our having a King The Text supposeth any blessed Land to have so Nor does it pronounce a Land blessed without one The Land of Canaan it self was very unhappy when it wanted a King and was but merely miscalled the holy Land It was indeed neither holy not happy but therefore unhappy because

abound and I need there in to look no farther than the Race of King Brutus from whom this Island took the Name of Britany for that of Albion There I have read more than once those memorable Instances of Manlius and Mempritius and of Morgan See the Abridgement of the Chronicle of England and Cunidagius and of Ferrer and Porrer who fell from Ruling together to ruining one another for sole Supremacy till Ferrer ended his dayes and Porrer that Royal Race of Brutus soon after So fatal it has been to have the Kingly Power of this Land divided Nor has it been lesse fatal to have this Kingdome divided into many as by the Saxons into Seven The Land was never so blessed as since See Cambd. Britan. that Heptarchy was turned to a Monarchy Not many but one Supream felicifies a Land Homer's advice to Greece was ever Hom. Iliad ● as apt for England 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let their be one Lord Paramount one King One puts by emulations Claud. Dub● Orat. in la● l. Reg. Dignita as Dubrelius truely sayes And for the Peace of the Land now blessed be the Authour of Kingship we have a King and but one now It is again a Monarchy as it should be and so terra beata That 's the Second And Thirdly to blesse us more and more God hath restored our right King to us We have our own King once again not an Intruder but the lawfull Heir given us by him who made him for us One born for England Hom. Iliad Arist Ethic. lib 8. c. 11. Vt gregem Psal 77. 20. O 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John 10. 11. vers 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vers 1. Princeps Pastorum 1 Pet. 5 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Homer stiled his Agamemnon The Shepherd of the People appointed of God without doubt to lead his people like a flock And like the good Shepherd his entrance into his sheepfold was by the right way of Royal Right that 's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the door Not like that late Intruder who climbed up some other way 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the same was a thief and a robber But thanks to him who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Our rightest leader is returned in peace though that Intruder was fetch 't away in a bluster Long may our welcome Shepherd lead the flock Whos 's own the sheep are See Arist Ethic. lib. ● cap. 12. and he careth for the sheep No Protector to an own King An own King takes the good of his Kingdome for his own and mindes rem populi as his own But own advantage Freigii Quaest Pol. Aristot Politic. l. 5. Dona● Acciaiol Commentat in Arist ● Po●it Osorius de Regis Instit Discipl lib. 3. own interest is the aim of Intruders and of Tyrants as Freigius notes with Aristotle And what was it but proprium commodum that the late self-minders miscalled The Good old Cause No Tyrants to such intruding Saint seemers They commonly blasphemed our Noble Sovereign with the nick name of Young Tarquin but were themselves the proud Ravishers They ravished the Body of his Pol●tical Lucretia they ravished his Kingdome his Royal Palace and his Princely Revenues And those * By Proclamat against Sequestrations 1643. all Intruders were proclaimed Abb●t●ors of Treason against K. Charles the 1. who was traiterously murdered Intruding Pulpiteers who Pimping for them as some serving men use to doe to debauch Young Masters were Ravishers too and taught them first the way by ravishing all the fairest Personages in the Land with violent and adulterate sequestrations embracing filthy Lu●re if not fair Lucretia too and taking to themselves the Bodies of other men's Estates without taking care for the estates of those other men's bodies quite forgetting the a Acts 3. 13 time of Restitution of all things and as little dreaming of such a time as this for the Restitution of some things But blessed be that b Dan. 7. 9 13. Ancient of dayes for restoring these dayes so like to those of old The Land begins to be like it self again by it's own King beata terra That 's the Third The Fourth is the Crown of all the former● and most of all felicifies the Land It is that we have a Royal Soveraign See Ari. Montan. See Vatabl. See T●em Iun. See S. Ierome See also Dr. Crakenthorp Ser. 2 Chron. 9. 5 6 7. a right King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the son of Nobles Here the Preacher puts the Emphasis Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the son of Nobles Some take it literally as Montanus renders it filius Heroum and filius Nobilium the same with our English and Vatablus means the same by filius Candidorum and so does Tremellius by natus clarissimis Others take it for a figurative Phrase the son of Nobles for truly Noble So S. Ierome has it beata terra cujus Rex nobilis est But I must not dilate upon the Grammar of the words Two things I conceive come under the sense 1. That he be Rex Nobilis a Noble King 2. That he be Rex Natu a King by succession as son of Nobles First a Noble King and a King may be so by Extraction or Education or Disposition Nobly born nobly bred nobly minded He is most truly noble that is so all three wayes And that 's the Noblenesse that so felicifies this Land See it in all three severally First by Extraction the primary meaning of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Son of Nobles such a son ship is an Happinesse to a kingdome and an Honour to a King although Malvezzi to magnifie Malvez Romul Tarquin his Romulus and vilifie his Tarquin affirms that he is not glorious that is born a Prince but he that becomes one By his good leave and without it too we must needs honour Noble Birth and deem it glorious to be nobly born most glorious to be born a Prince We must give honour to whom honour is due and unto Caesar the things Rom. 13. 7 Mat●h 22. 21. that are Caesar ' s and honour is his even from his Birth the prime part of Royal Birth-right The Text asserteth the Land's blessednesse according to the King's Noblenesse and this according to his Birth the Son of Nobles And it is remarkable that it sayes not Herois in the Singular Number but Heroum in the Plural of Nobles Which may be several wayes First in respect of both the immediate Parents He that was of an Hebrew father or an Hebrew mother was accounted Godwin ' s Moses and Aaron lib. 1. cap. 3. an Hebrew But he that was of such a Father and such a Mother was called an Hebrew of the Hebrews as S. Paul writes himself Philip. 3 5. so he that is of a Noble Father or a Noble Mother may be deemed some way Noble but he that is of both Noble is Noble of Nobles filius