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A65741	Thysia 'aineseōs, or A thank-offering to the Lord for the happy recal of our dread soveraign Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. to his kingdoms and people. God save King Charles the II.	White, Henry, 1593 or 4-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1771A; ESTC R219453	15,508	23

Inference This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes 1. The Instance is a Tropical speach or Metaphorical when a name or thing is transferred from its proper signification to another or not proper by some similitude In Rhetorick none is held more elegant or of a more frequent use The holy Scripture is full of them not abhorring from those Schemes which the Plebeans are forward to censure and condemn in those that use them as smelling too much of art to which they are strangers Here the state of Gods Church or people whether we regard the Ecclesiastical or Political frame is likened to a building they which have the government or be in power to the builders choise men or designed of God to the stones the materials and strength of the whole fabrick such as those by the Architects are refused or laid by as useless yet though wilfully rejected by men are against their wills by the divine providence advanced to the Supremacy or head of the corner This is the sum of the Metaphor whose sense I shall endeavor more particularly to inquire after which that I may the b●tter do let us in this first part of the Text observe two things 1. A Rej●ction by man The stone which the builders refused 2. An Exaltation from God The same is become the head of the corner Which together may be expounded three ways 1. Historically of David 2. Prophetically of Christ 3. Analogically of Kings My care shall be to avoid wringing and wresting that is a spiritual tyranny to rack and torment a text to force it to say what we would have it I shall strive for no more then dilucidly to deliver what the words put into my hand carrying on the Rejection and Exaltation according to the order laid before us 1. The Historicall sense Though Christ were before David in dignity yet was David before Christ in time in his sufferings we will ever give Christ the priority of honor yet without injury to Christ take David first in order for the Historical sense 1. And order willeth us to begin with his Rejection by men David was a stone which the builders refused Called a stone say some because he killed Goliah with a stone The man he was whom God had designed for government anointed by his Prophet confirmed by his promise yet despised and refused thrown away as good for nothing and that by the builders Saul and his Courtiers An hard time he had of it he met with hard terms course usage driven into straights put to his shifts and that for many years together Saul persued him with deadly hatred and would suffer him to rest no where 1 Sam. 26.21 1 Sam. 26.19 but dogs him in the wilderness hunts him as a Partridge on the mountains drives him out of his kingdome from among the inheritance of the Lord saying Go serve other Gods Forced he was to live amongst the idolatrous heathen thus thrust into temptation either to lose his life at home or change his religion abroad to the loss of his Soul 2 Sam. 3.6 He was refused by Abner a great Commander Ishbosheths General who made himself strong for the house of Saul What was done for Ishbosheth was the undoing of David purposed to keep him out of the kingdom 1 Sam. 23.16 The men of Keilah refused him and would have betrayed him that he might fall into the hands of Saul The misery of great ones was seldome unattended by treachery they might sooner finde an whole tribe of disloyalists then one person that were faithful The Ziphites refused him 1 Sam. 23.19 and discovered him to Saul Doth not David hide himself with us in the strong holds of the wood c. The woods were willing to cover him but there were men found ready to lay him open to destruction Thus was David refused on all hands made contemptible as a stone which we tread upon spurn away as good for nothing in repute a triobular a mere gregaring held unfit to supply the place of a man He was the stone which the builders refused 2. You have now heard of his rejection have a little patience and you shall hear of his exaltation The same is become the head of the corner Even he that was debased despised and rejected of men is notwithstanding all that exalted by God whom they thrust to the threshold the Lord placed on the throne made him the head or chief of his people like a corner stone that joyned all together or a bottom stone that sustained the whole weight of the building and bare up the body politick Calvin Har. Hoc in Davide actum est This was done in David When his enemies had done what they could to undoe him all would not do In fumum abiit their work vanished into smoke and David sits enthroned among the people of God The Chaldee expoundeth it of David The builders despised the young man which among the sons of Jesse was worthy to be made King and ruler At the first he was Ejectus in exilium driven into banishment at the last Evectus ad dignitatem lifted up to dignity or constituted King Moller in Psalm 118. 2 Sam. 5.3 So Moller of David All the Elders of Israel came to the King to Hebron and King David made a league with them in Hebron before the Lord and they anointed David King over Israel Power may do much might overcometh right the strongest sword hath often cut asunder the most just title Policy may do more there was more danger in Achitophels brain then in Absaloms power Malice is held unmatchable if armed with power yet hath that been over-reached by subtilty There is more done by the hand then the hammer with which it worketh Where all these can do nothing treachery hath prevailed an army in aray may meet that restistance which hidden fraud never feeleth of Yet could neither power nor policy nor malice nor treachery hinder David from his kingdom How vain is it for man to strive against God! Nimrod is permitted to build a Tower Psal 2.1 Non impleverunt quod volverunt August tom 8. Enarr in Psal 2. it proves but a Babel Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing Their purposes came to no purpose their will was good but their hands were weak Were it not better for men to be quiet then to storm them selves into a frensie or swell till they break All buildings against God are upon a sandy foundation which the next gust of his dispeasure levelleth with the earth Gamaliel told the Jews Acts 5.39 that if the work were of God they could not overthrow it The providential works of the Highest are so firmly cemented that the whole power of the creature is not able to dissolve them Let the man whom God will raise be confident let his enemies keep off their hands which they lift not up but to their own destruction 2.

more enthroned in the hearts of his People holding as strong residence in their affection as presidence over the Nations Not to speak of the way and means the happy instruments a small army from the North the scattering of an opposite army without a stroke striking the forwardness of Englands Metropolis the noble City of London the suddain concurrence of the whole Nation in the several parts of it and by the principal men remonstrating and declaring for a free Parliament their countenancing and encouragement from the Lord General such a Parliament called assembled and unanimously assenting and avowing to recal their King the dispatch of their Proclamations to declare His Right to protest their loyalty and subjection to perswade all to entertain Him as their Soveraign to the exceeding joy and super-abounding gladness of the People which hath rung through the Nation mounted up in multiplied flames like the Stars in number the air rent with acclamations and all these persued with publike thankfulness to God every good heart being a prepared altar for such an offering These considered not felt with the hand but poised in the ballance of a devout estimation we cannot doubt of the convenience of the Textual instance to our gracious King and dread Soveraign the same stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner 2. I can stay no longer in the Instance the fore-wind of my Text filleth the sailes of affection and drive on to the Inference which is a part of application This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes Two things here offer themselves unto us 1. An Adscription to the worker This is the Lords doing 2. The Admiration of the work And it is marvellous in our eyes 1. An Adscription to the worker This is the Lords doing 1. God is owned in it and he hath owned his servants whose prayers went up for a memorial unto him who hath returned a gratious answer never to be forgotten He hath signed their petitions with the broad Seal of his mercy which must be engraven upon our hearts with the indeleble characters of love and gratitude 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost in Psal 117. That which was done was not by man or men What hands soever were in it there was an hand above all which produced the blessed effect We exclude not the means though God needs them not Where the cooperation of second causes is allowed the main work is attributed to the first cause Let me be understood of what is truely and properly good The Lord is of purer eyes then to behold that which is evil and certain I am that he looketh not favorably on them that entitle him to it This work was great and good greatly good such as became the great God to do and with all willingness we acknowledge him the doer of it Non humanis viribus sed Dei potentia Hiero. in loc Psal 44.3 Done it was not by humane force but by Divine power so St. Herome They gat not the land in possession by their own sword neither did their own arm save them but thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a favor unto them Their arms were not idle nor their swords useless we may well think that their hearts set their hands on work yet there was something above all these without the concurse whereof the victory had not been attained Let us leave mens sins upon their own score but give the Lord his due in all that is good What good is done by man be the instruments who you will it is the Lord that by them doth the good that is done This denieth not an acknowledgement to the hand by which the benefit is conveyed we may kiss the cup out of which we drink but our thanks must be carried to another The widow of Sarepta's kindness was gratefully received by the Prophet so was his entertainment by the Shunamite All the help we receive by the hands of others ought to reside with us and be requited if in our power Let them wear the robe that won the fleece let the Crown be ever set upon the right head let God have the glory 2. When the Lord hath done his work his great work he hath determined all ought to acquiesce in it Yet let me have leave to think that in works of this kinde all have not resented his goodness nor thankfully approved the operation of his hands The Critical humorists want not a black tooth to bite nor a bitter tongue to inveigh against the best performances Gods deliverance of Israel out of Egypt was not attested with thankfulness from the Egyptians but persued by hatred to his people so far were they from resting in it that they armed against it When God had chosen Saul to be King 1 Sam. 10.27 there were children of Belial who said How shall this man save us and they despised him and brought him no presents Homines nequam so Tremellius and Junius turn it men of perverse spirits who dislike that with which all others are pleased who adore no images but those of their own imaginations who arragate all to themselves but derogate from all others even from them whom God will have honored 1 King 1.40 When Solomon was advanced to the kingdom the people piped with pipes and rejoyced with great joy so that the earth rent with the sound of them This was harsh musick in the eares of Adonijak and his followers extremely disrelished the bit they gaped for fell into anothers mouth they were distasted because deprived of their expected sweetness Let the Lords doing be never so great or glorious male-contents self-seekers such as are sharp set upon their own emolument full of hope to have their turns served in their own way have still in them a contrary humor to the Lords doing They which see the hand of the Lord in it his right hand and that reaching forth a rich blessing to his Church and people are otherwise affected they magnifie the Lord their souls bless him for the benefit Psal 5.11 they rejoyce in it and shout for joy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost in Psal 117. St. Chrysostome hath four words to express the joy of the people for the exaltation of the stone refused to rejoyce to leap for joy to be affected with chearfulness to entertain with delight or pleasure These he would have spiritual of the mind and heart That is ever best and without that all other joy is but froth and scum Yet it may not be denied but the inward joy of the soul may have it out-lets the full heart will finde a vent it cannot forbear the discovery of it self David danced before the Ark. Moses sung his thankfulness to the Lord. Psal 68.25 The singers went before the players on instruments followed after amongst them were the damosels playing with timbrels Where there is an impression of a great

work of God upon the som a work of mercy such expressions as disagree not from reason and religion are imitable and commendable in which pious men are not to be blamed if they seem to forget themselves in remembring the great work of the Lord. 3. The Lord puts much honor upon them whom he maketh instruments of his peoples good yet it concerns them to remember Hoc factum à Domino This was the Lords doing and to tremble at the least defaulkment from his glory by assuming to themselves the least part of his due He is very tender in point of honor and will not endure his Crown upon the head of a creature it is well that they may partake of his mercy to cloud his Majesty is unsufferable Acts 12.23 Herod was smitten by on Angel because he gave n●t God the glory Epiphanius affirms it that there were none of the Sect of the Herodians left in his time Hath there been any time without such haughty spirits that from the love of self-excellence have challenged the whole glory of their actions to themselves Dan. 4.30 Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of my kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my Majesty Here is a voice of pride beyond the common stature of men but he was un-man'd for it and turned out to common with the beasts the fittest company for such who lose God in the gaze of themselves That of the Psalmist doth best become the thoughts and mouths of the servants of God Psal 115.1 Non nobis quib non à nobis Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give glory Not to us because it was not of us It was thy doing not ours it is enough for us to have the fruit and comfort to thee onely O Lord be all the glory for ever 2. I may not omit what the Text subjoyneth to the adscription to the worker the admiration of the work It is marvellous in our eyes It was thy work and our wonder We have had factum a Domino The Lords work here factum mirabile His wonderful work Psal 111.4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembred Remembred they may be comprehended they cannot be Were they not transcendent to the bounds of reason our knowledge would prevent admiration We admire what we understand not though something be seen yet there is more then we can see In Davids Exaltation after his rejection in Christs in our Kings all wonderful and appliable to all But the business of this day will licence me to look to the last the Lords making our King that was refused the Head and Ruler of His People Rom. 11.33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgements and his ways past finding out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys in Rom. 11. Hom. 19. That there was a depth he knew how deep it was he knew not The speach is of one admiring not of him that knew all We are not ignorant of what the Lord hath done yet we are to seek in all that he hath done and must make admiration our refuge as his people did after a great deliverance Num. 23.23 Quid operatus sit Deus What hath the Lord wrought If we fix our eyes upon the Sun in his brightness they are dazeled if we wade in the Ocean our feet fail us if we muse upon things too high for us our thoughts are puzled As creatures of the greatest sagacity sometimes lose the sent and are at cold hunting so the most sublimate wits are foundred in the great works of God Let the means be considered by which the Lord did this great work that help came from whence it was least looked for from a party not comparable to their adversaries in power in such a juncture of time when the pretended builders were past fear being fleshed with fresh victory the people past hope looking for no better then to be devoured by Publicans and Sinners to which if we add the way in which it was done without noise without bloodshed so many recovered without the loss of any a strong army scattered without conflict the wonderful providence power wisdom and mercy of God appeared in it even to astonishment That poor we unworthy we should live to see our gracious King by them dispised refused cast off with insulting recalled restored enthroned with honor prosecuted with abundant love and redundant acclamations of joy To see the almost ruined Walls of our Nation our good Laws repaired our lost Liberty recovered our Rights and Properties assured and that which is more dearest our withered Religion to flourish once again to meet a gale of good hope to see the Church raised out of her grave restored not to life onely but to health and beauty this this I say is wonderful in our eyes there is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in it a depth not to be fathomed by the plumb-line of our understanding yet ever acknowledged with admiration published with grateful confession and though it cannot be throughly uttered yet it shall never be smothered but as a beacon upon an hill perpetually burning to the glory of our God Here was a wonderful wonder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys in Mat. 21. Homil. 69. as the Father hath it This in our eyes in the eyes of the receivers not of the refusers they look upon it with regret we with love and joy Psal 126.3 The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad What shall we render unto the Lord You know what the Prophet said concerning the Shunamite from whose hand he had received benefits 2 King 4.13 Behold thou hast been careful for us with all this care what is to be done for thee VVe that have been so great receivers cannot but be sollicitous of a return unless incapable of gratitude Nolo vos Judaico notari opprobrio c. Bern. tom 1. super Cantic Serm. 13. I would not have you branded with the reproach of the Jews saith Bernard of whom the Scripture testifieth that they were unmindeful of the benefits of the Lord and the wonders that he had sh●wed them VVE cannot recompense but we ought to recount we cannot pay but we ought to publish Psal 26.7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works He honoreth the giver that publisheth his own receits he begets a good opinion of his benefactor in others that tells abroad all the good that hath been done for him New mercies call for renewed thankfulness Psal 98.1 O sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things Gods works are never old whilest their memory is fresh with us If we take new for excellent exquisite not vulgar but such as may be sutable to that which he hath done for us our words will be too low let us therefore borrow of others what our poverty cannot supply Let us borrow that Trisagium of the Seraphims Isai 6.3 Holy holy holy is the Lord of hostes the earth is full of his glory That Doxology of the heavenly Militia Luk. 2.14 Glory to God in the highest in earth peace good will towards men That Adoration of the four and twenty Elders Revel 4.11 Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honor and power c. That Hallelujah of the heavenly Chorus Revel 19.1 Salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God Let our hearts warm the blessing let our tongues declare the work let the worker be hallowed in our lives that our greatest care being to walk worthy of his bounty it may please him to perpetuate his loving kindness towards us through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honor glory praise and thanksgiving now and ever Amen FINIS

ΘΥΣΊΑ ἈΙΝΈΣΕΩΣ OR A THANK-OFFERING To the LORD For the happy Recal of Our dread SOVERAIGN CHARLES BY The Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. to His Kingdoms and People Delivered in a Sermon at Rougham in Suffolk May 24 1660. A day as we heard set apart for that purpose God save King CHARLES the II. LONDON Printed for William Frankling Book-seller at Norwich in the Year 1660. To the worshipful JEFFERY BURWEL OF ROUGHAM in the County of Suffolk Esq SIR You having heard a Sermon publickly delivered on the 24 of May 1660 a day set apart as we heard for thanksgiving to God for the happy recal of his Majesty King CHARLES to his Kingdomes and people were pleased to request a copy thereof which I not knowing how to deny to a Gentleman so well deserving and so much of him who hath no greater ambition then to be responsal to that goodness which in this age is grown so rare a dainty In obsequiousness to your demand I have here made that a Present to your Eye which you formerly tasted by the Eare not expecting that the Pen should express the lively Energy of the Voice yet as Pictures sometimes please where the lively Motions are not found so my hope is you will favourably accept in writing what you approved when vocally delivered The danger of fawning we are not ignorant of the breath of palpon's is infectious a taint to the receiver treasonable in the speaker Yet may we not refuse to give just praise thereby to avoid the suspicion of Parasitisme Your religious minde is manifest in your actions in your publick attendances and private duties exemplar in both to your neighbors abroad to your family at home Your love to distressed Ministers in the late stormy times though you had not a Cave to hide them in yet you wanted not an House to entertain them nor a munificent hand to relieve their necessities which howsoever they be resented by some will be no less then Aromates in heaven Your cordial and constant loyalty to his MAjESTY hath been sufficiently known to those that know you and as much may be said of your sincere affection to the Church of England which speak for you to all not misled in a distracted and confused generation What these might do with others I know not they are strong motives to me to prize your worth and prosecute your person with respect May it please you to accept what I have done and what my desire is to do to serve you that shall more oblige him who is and resolves to be Sir Yours in all humble observance and daily Oratour at the throne of grace HEN. WHITE A THANK-OFFERING TO the LORD for the KINGS happy return to his People MATTH 21.42 Jesus saith unto them Did you never read in the Scriptures The stone which the builders refused the same is become the head of the corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes THis is manifest to all that these words are a reply of Christ to some men concerning something formerly discoursed by the knowledge whereof we are lighted into the present business In his preaching our Savior had proposed the parable of the vineyard from vers 33. and so on In which he had presented the immense bounty and benignity of God towards the Jews his unwearied patience and expectance of fruit his great care of continual supply by sending messenger after messenger and last of all his Son to whom all reverence was due and ready submission supposed but we finde in them unparallel'd insolency horrid cruelty and detestable ingratitude in beating and butchering the servants by a continued course in wickedness murthering the Son the true and lawful heir of the vineyard not for any evil that he had done but that they might get the inheritance to themselves They dispossessed him that they might take possession made him away that they might make way to their own advancement Too sad a story for this joyful day nor would I have soured your thoughts with the least remembrance of it did not the dependence of the present words exact it at my hands In the 40. verse our LORD doth rather ask a sentence then pronounce one as choosing rather to make them their own Judges then to judge them When the Lord therefore of the vineyard cometh what will he do unto those husbandmen To this they roundly answer verse 41. He will miserably destroy those wicked men c Full little thinking that they were concerned in it but taking it as a business remote they spake plainly that if God were just he would not suffer so great iniquity to go unpunished and though he came late yet he would smite sure at last returning the full measure of their demerits upon their heads Evil they were and evil punishment they must look for to be handled as severely by divine justice as their inhumane wickedness required So favorable are men in their own case so loth to be found guilty so ready to put it off so forward to lay it home to others whilest they hope the blow shall not hit them In the words of the Text we have Christs return to them by which they might understand that they were meant in all that had been said the very men who had acted so great villany and were yet to act more Did you never read in the Scriptures The stone which the builders refused c. The words are cited out of the 118. Psalm vers 22 23. They are Erotematical or Interrogatory The Interrogation is not simple but figurate and hath here the force of an Asseveration You have read the Scriptures and in them these words also He doth not question what he had a desire to know but speaketh as of a thing known to them as men studied John 5.39 well versed in holy Writ not to seek in that book in which they sought Eternal life His speach is directed to the Jews men within the pale and Pomery of the Church who acknowledged the Scripture to be 2 Tim. 3.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 given by divine inspiration and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of it self creditable and unquestionable These men no more doubted of the divine authority thereof then of the Divinity it self They were fully perswaded that God spake here whose Authority is Supreme from which there is no Appeal It was enough to them there needed no more the evidence of the Word had with them the force of all arguments they could no more refuse to submit to this then to refuse their God It is in vain to quarrel or dispute in a case determined by the great Moderator of heaven and earth There we search but having found it there we look no further in this we acquiesce In the words we have two parts 1. An Instance The stone which the builders refused the same is become the head of the corner 2. An

the same Jesus whom ye crucified both Lord and Christ The object of your contempt is now in the greatest honor he whose name you did execrate hath now a name above all names he whom you contumeliously abused God hath crowned with Glory you brought him to the grave but he is risen from the dead Rom. 1.4 and thereby declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness the same Christ whom you hanged upon the cross now sitteth on the right hand of God Herein appeared the power and wisdom or the powerful wisdom of God which over-wrought all the malice of Christs enemies and in despite of them hath made or advanced the stone by them refused the head of the corner the fundamental and principal of all 3. The Analogical sense Having taken into consideration the Historical sense as meant of David the Prophetical sense as pertaining to Christ give me leave to say something of the Analogical sense in reference to Kings The building being of stone the materials firm and solid which the Text in a borrowed sense speaketh it to be Kings and Princes go along with the resemblance being a part of the Political edifice a principal part of the foundation amongst us our Lawyers telling us that Monarchy or government by Kings is one of the fundamental Laws of this Nation it will not be denied but they may be taken in by proportion or likeness Sure we are that in the holy Scriptures we finde them such and though our translation turneth it The chief of all the people yet the Original hath it Pinneth cal-hagnam the corners of all the People the supporters of the Common-wealth and the most eminent of all Num. 24.17 Balaam prophesying of the Star that should come out of Jacob and the Scepter that should arise out of Israel saith that he should smite the corners of Moab where our margent hath it the Princes of Moab Princes are called the stay of the tribes Isai 19.13 The Hebrew is Pinneth the corner of the tribes The old Latine turneth it Angulum populorum the corner of the people To be understood of Princes as the firmament and ornament of the Common-wealth We have found them corners we may finde them Heads or Chiefs also by their usual appellation Num. 1.16 Heads of the thousands of Israel The Elders of Israel said unto Jeptha that they came unto him that he might be their head Judg. 11.17 Lerosch which the Seventy turn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a Prince Hosh 1.11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together and appoint themselves one head The Thargum reads They shall appoint themselves one Prince of the house of David Let the place be meant of Christ yet is Christ as King called the head which is to my purpose Kings and Princes are called heads not only for their eminent place or power but for the great profit they should bring unto the people by ordering and governing them in a way most conducing for their good which is of import against the Acephalists the men of an headless way and the Polycephalists which are for many heads both being monstrous and unnatural Kings being found to be Corner-stones and heads in reference to the publike State or Government we may proceed to their Rejection and Exaltation which are the parts of the Instance Here I might shew how this hath been verified in other Nations as amongst the Macedonians Epirots Danes and in later times among the Turks but this time calling for it I shall onely run the parallel in our present Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second as a stone refused by man yet exalted by God and made the head of the corner His rejection is first offered unto us The stone which the builders refused By builders or architects here we are not forced to understand them to whom the government was legally committed not the Archi-gubernists but meer Archimagoes which by crafty and cruel devices took upon them the government which snatched the reigns into their hands and forced to themselves the Title of the Trustees of the Nation who under pretence of keeping utterly ruined the liberties of the People who in stead of holding forth a Scepter of safety held over their heads a Sword of terror By these our true and lawful King was refused or reprobated as the word in the Text hath it used most basely and unworthily as the refuse recrement or retriment that I say not as the excrement of men Here he was to three Kingdoms lawful heir and apparent yet not suffered to enjoy one of them not a corner in any one not to rule but not to live in any one of his Dominions but driven as a miserable exile to shift as well as he could in the wide world After the fight at Worcester there was a thousand pounds promised to any that could bring him into the hands of his enemies that the price of his head as we have cause enough to think When he had found shelter among the Low-Dutch he was soon driven from thence by those here which had the better of that nation by sea His next remove was into France where having found an umbrello with his allies and royal relatives he was upon compact to be removed from thence as soon as the men here had closed with that Monarch and driven to hunt abroad for another covert which for a small time he found amongst the Protestant Princes in high Germany where he met not onely with civil usage but remarkable honor VVhen our workmen had concluded a peace with France and the Low-countries and a war begun with Spain he was by that King taken into protection which sounds much to his honor with all true-hearted Carolists under that wing he remained till of late Here have been two or three Parliaments so called which made it their first work to renounce his interest and you are not ignorant that some who called themselves a Parliament abjured him and decreed that he should be abjured and utterly renounced by all others What our most gratious King suffered in all the time of his absence what dangers he was in in what straights with what temptations assaulted with what difficulties he wrastled is not easily conceived nor can by me be delivered yet let me think enough to have been said to warrant the applying of these words to him Lapidem qu●m reprobaverunt adificantes The stone which the builders refused 2. Blessed be God we are now come to his Exaltation The same is become the head of the corner After so long rejection no appearance of help not a spark of hope visible his enemies triumphing his friends at the dead lift no reviver to sense the strength of humane reason at a loss this stone cast down is raised our King restored advanced to his native right the inheritance of his royal Predecessors to the height of honor and what is