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A93064	The dignity of kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and easie way to establish a free Common-wealth. Proving that kingship is both in it self, and in reference to these nations, farre the most excellent government, and the returning to our former loyalty, or obedience thereto is the only way under God to restore and settle these three once flourishing, now languishing, broken, & almost ruined nations. / By G.S. a lover of loyalty. Humbly dedicated, and presented to his most Excellent Majety Charles the Second, of England; Scotland, France and Ireland, true hereditary king.	G. S., Lover of loyalty.; Searle, George, attributed name.; Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677, attributed name.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3069; Thomason E1915_2; ESTC R210007	99,181	247

the Lord promised to be and was with him as he was with Moses and the people obeyed him as they did Moses I dare say and affirm that no King of England ever did assume nor any would hereafter desire a larger extent of Authority over Subjects then Joshuah had and exercised over Israel After Joshua succeed the Judges who all of them exercised the authority although they wanted the title of Kings yet one of the Sons of Gideon Abimelech born of a Concubine had both the power and title of a King and was a Tyrant yet was he none to whom and in whom the promise of blessednesse was made which was not accomplished till Davids time Adde to this that the Glory of Israel was never compleat but under Kingly Government no nor till the promised Kingly stock came Before they were sold now to this heathen King now to that oppressed burdened and afflicted yea and in the time of Saul the Philistins oppressed Israel sorely insomuch that you shall finde Saul with a slender Army and them following him trembling on the other hand the insulting Philistims reproaching them when they saw any of them to appear These Hebrews come out of their holes into which they were crept to hide themselves Untill David the Chosen of the Lord comes to sit upon the throne and to have the Kingdom established unto him over all Israel as well as Judah then he fights the Battles of the Lord and God gives him Victory on every side untill the name of Jacob became famous among the Nations And it is worth observation that after the death of Joshua and the Elders who out-lived Joshuah who had seen Gods great works no Ruler being then in Chief the Children of Israel ask counsel of God who shall go up first to battell and God gives answer Judah shall go up first Now the Sanedrim or Common-wealth of Israel had a time to be tryed how good a Government that was yet then you shall finde the Children of Israel making peace with the Nations about them contrary to the express command of God by Moses and Joshua severely injoyned and often reiterated Then comes the Angel with that sad message which made them lift up their voyce and weep so remarkably that the place from it took the name of Bochim or place of weeping Then was that praevarication of Israel not to be expiated but by reiterated and tedious servitudes under Heathen neighbouring Princes whom they forbore to extirpate according to the Command of God Then comes the time of which the Holy Ghost testifies that there was no King in Israel and every one did that which was right in his own eyes This was the Interstitium of Government that of the bare Sanedrim or Seventy Elders being reputed by God as none at all in which the Levites Concubine was with unheard of brutish inhumanity ravished to death which barbarous abominable action was revenged with almost the whole extirpation of one great Tribe in Israel to wit Benjamin forty thousand stout men being lost in two preceding Battels on the part of the Eleven other Tribes and after this the Jabesh-Gileadites utterly cut off all the males to wit and married women because they were Anathematized by a Solemn Vow of the Congregation for not appearing before the Lord in Mizpeh in revenge of this detestable Rape upon the Tribe of Benjamin By which it is evident that the Government of Moses Joshua and the Judges was accounted by God as Kingship and the want thereof is by Divine inspiration reputed as a total defect of Government There was no King in Israel therefore every man did what was good in his own eyes Yet at that time it is evident by the same sacred authority that there were Elders of the Congregation otherwise called the Chief of the Tribes who consulted upon this act of those of Gibeah committed against the Levite upon his Concubine and who upon the Benjamites appearing armed to defend the fact mannaged the Warre against the whole Tribe who devoted to destruction by a solemn Curse in Mizpeh what City Town or Family soever should not appear to revenge this wickednesse Who repented after that a Tribe should come so neer to perishing out of Israel Who advised a way to the Benjamites how to supply them that survived that great overthrow and massacre of their Brethren with Wives having before given an Oath with a Curse to all the people upon whosoever should give a wife to a Benjamite A man would think that here were Government good enough if a Republican Government were worth estimation But notwithstanding it is testified that no King being in Israel every man did what was good in his own eyes The miseries brought upon Israel during the Interval between Joshua and the Judges Sampson and Samuel were so great and overwhelming that David a great Warrior and with whom God was spent his whole Reign in fighting the Lords Battels and making up those defects and amending such faults which were committed during the space that there was no King in Israel who therefore being as the Holy Ghost styled him a man of bloud was put off from building the Temple of the Lord although it was in his heart and God accepted therein his good intentions but this work was reserved to Solomon his Son and Successor a King of Peace and blessed with Plenty and all manner of Prosperity and so Chists Type in whose dayes Jerusalem was the renown of all the Nations round about who payd Tribute to Solomon and counted it their glory and happiness to be his Friends and Allies Adde to this that during the Reigne of David Jerusalem first came to be subject to Israel being formerly in the possession of the Jebusites which was the only place chosen by God the Lord of Heaven and Earth out of all the Earth to put his name there here was Zion the holy place out of which the Lord vouchsafed to distill his blessing First upon his chosen people and by their means upon all that fear him in all Nations making no difference After David comes Solomon mighty in power and extent of dominion for the bordering Nations were his tributaries to the great River yea and beyond it splendid in magnificence abounding in Riches incomparable for Wisdome yet blessed with Peace he builds a Temple for the Lord of Hosts and a place for the God of Jacob to dwell in who sitting in the high and holy Heavens and whom the Heavens of Heavens cannot contain yet vouchsafed to dwell between the Cherubims which Solomon had made according to the pattern given to him from himself Of this performance God himself testyfieth that from the day that Israel came out of Aegypt he had no house to dwell in but was content to dwell in Tabernacles in which being made according to the pattern shewed by God to Moses in the Mount were put the Arke with other holy things belonging to Gods worship and so continued till Solomons

and his undaunted profession of the same in the midst of and in despite of all these Injuries offered him from Protestant Subjects hath been the joy of all his Friends the admiration of Strangers the envy of Enemies and is notorious in Europe to the silencing of Momus himself so that his known practise can give the lye to the words or pen of any barking black-mouthed Adversary whatsoever This is the Lords doing to his Name be glory for ever If then it had been our undoubted duty to have received him joyfully and submitted to him chearfully and conscientiously for the Lords sake though he had been a Romist how much more ought we to do it as the case stands and how ought every true Christian to long for his return and not give God rest day nor night but be instant in servent prayer till his Restitution be accomplished For whatever may be pretended as to settlement by a Common-wealth there is no way of firm settlement but by returning to our former Allegiance We came not to that passe we were lately in but by the means of treason rebellion perjury murder oppression and sacriledge for which God certainly will visit Could we imagine there were no God as foolish Atheists imagine or that God were like to us an Abettor of such Villanies as we act and approve it would yet be very improbable that a foolishly intended Common-wealth should ever be setled forasmuch as the Interest of the Nation is ingaged to Monarchy it is a Government we were trained up in and accustomed thereto and our Kings not Fortaigners to us but our own Countrey-men who were themselves by bloud allyed to many if not most of the Nobles and they to the Gentry they also to the Yeomen and Countrey-Farmers that Interests were woven together so firmly and the knots knit between all so indissolvably that the same cannot be undone without the certain inevitable ruine of all And if Interests which have sprung up since the Warre whose foundation is illegality enormity and Villanous impiety be in ten or twelve years become so considerable that for peace sake the formalities of Law and nyceties of Justice must be dispensed withall and the rule raptim vivendi since it is become Epidemicall must be connived at as to the time past or else palpable and apparent danger might be of new Combustions is it to be imagined that so long continued and so interwoven Interests can be thrown aside like an Almanack out of date and all remain quiet We see that those who never were possess'd of nor quietly injoyed the Government but only reacht after and aspired to it can scarse be satisfied without injoying what they thus gap'd for but will rather endeavour to set all on fire then go without it and is it likely that such who were legally and quietly possest therewith owned by all and Allegiance sworn to them by all as the Kings Posterity was included in the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy and all his legal Successors in defect of Issue the Nobles also who are numerous whose Franchise and Prerogative it was so farre to participate in Government as to be the Peers of the Nation and to make one House of English Parliaments The Gentry also who were firm to their Soveraign whose Birthright it is to choose and be chosen Commoners Can all these be blown away with a puffe and breaches be sodered up notwithstanding 't were a madnesse to imagine it Certainly if to adhere to a King who had piously and happily Governed nigh twenty years descended of Ancestors of happy memory who with himself had almost compleated a Century of years in most happy tranquility were deserving sequestration imprisonment and death as some suffered besides a losse of priviledges and Franchises to themselves yet must their innocent Babes be cut off likewise with the Parents and can peaceable submission nevertheless be expected Certainly no Religion and reason both forbid it no marvel then if now at length toward the Morning Watch the Day-star of our deliverance appearing the Righteous God hath looked down through the Cloud of confusion and disorder and hath troubled the Host of our Egyptian Task-masters taking off the Chariot-wheels so that they drive heavily and troubling their Counsels in such sort that I hope they will never be praevalent more but if they continue obstinately impenitent will bring back upon them the Waters of trouble despair agony and final destruction that so when these Egyptians are over whelmed in those Flouds by which they intended to swallow up the Innocent we may with joyfull hearts sing Praises to him our Deliverer in the Church and pay our Vowes in the Assembly of the Great Congregation and I presume with confidence that if it shall please the Lord once more to return in mercy to this poor Nation to lay our Foundations firmly anew to heal our breaches and to restore unto us our Judges as at the first and our Counsellors as at the beginning we shall then be wary hereafter how we slight Gods Blessings and loath Manna lest if we again relapse into the same or the like sinne a worse Judgement overtake us As for our King 's being maintained during his Exile it hath been almost a Prodigy in Providence of his own he might say as David to Saul They banished him from the presence of the Lord saying in effect Goe serve other Gods and if David the Chosen of the Lord and a man after his heart when banished Israel fled to Achish King of Gath a Philistine who shewed him kindnesse and treated him with courtesie who can condemn our Exiled Prince far from Friends and Relief hunted from England into the Low Countreys and France from thence recalled to Scotland and as soon pursued by that implacable Bloud-hound who had not quenched his thirst with his Royall Fathers bloud and by him persecuted and driven into England thence forced again to flye to the Low-Countreys and France where he had the relief and converse of Protestants but even this was envyed him by our late infamous Vsurper who partly by force partly by policy ejected him out of both those Jurisdictions yet when destitute of Friends and succour God put it into the Tyrants minde to quarrell with Spain our most profitable Ally and that Prince relieves our distressed Royall Orphans Here was Gods goodnesse triumphing over mans basenesse his mercy over their cruelty to him be the glory but in greater mercy he hath kept our King and Royall Issue from being tainted in their Religion which is a favour for which Immortall praise is due to his Name And thus Mr. Milton I have run through your Discourse and in answering it I have obviated whatever is material in what you wrote against Salmasius either derogating from Kingly Government or justifying that Execrable murder of our lawfull and once happy yet for ever glorious martyr'd King CHARLES and in prosecuting my own Assertion in opposition to yours I have I

conceive anticipated any material Objection that might be made for future in behalf of one or against the other I shall now conclude with you wishing you heartily true repentance and a sound minde Rayling against Majesty when insulted over by the permission of God and casting scurrilities in the face of Gods Anoynted is the mark of a Shimei let his profession of Religion be what it will and if God ever come to awaken your Conscience in mercy or in judgement you will finde such a like reproof in your breast as cursing Shimei had from Solomon Thou knowest all the wickednesse that is in thy heart and which it is privy to c. out of the abundance of which you belched forth your filthy Expressions against him of whom those who are truly pious fearing God and the King give a different Character But I hope all who are indeed wise will be enabled to judge of persons and things You say what you write is the Language of the Good Old Cause I am sure what I write is the Language and according to the sense of Good Old True Christians and of the Scripture What you wrote you wrote no more you say then if you had written to stocks or stones And what I reply to you or to the Ring-leading Rumpers I am confident I write to such that is scared Consciences and stony breasts but as you hope your writings out of those stones may raise up some Children unto Liberty so I hope these my Writings may meet with some who in simplicity are following Absalom in Hebron being by delusions won to desert their lawfull KING in Jerusalem I mean following an Vsurping Aspirer in contempt of true Authority and the true Church deserting their True KING and rejecting the true means of Grace to be only found in Zion But those who are True and Cordial Subjects and Sons to their King and of the Orthodox Protestant Church know that David whom Shimei reviled was a man after Gods own heart and one whom the Lord chose to make an Everlasting Covenant with so different is the esteem of good men being made by divers sorts of persons As an Eye that is distempered and bloud-shot dazles at the Sunne or any clear Light seeing by it nothing but bloud terror and amazement nor can abide to behold it but looking down on the green Earth is more contented and pleased So guilty mindes or restlesse spirits cannot endure the lustre of Majesty but go poring upon and admiring that which is more sordid and neerer the Earth as suting best to their capacity To both which the Poet thus alludes and shewes the fate of each Sapiens domin abitur astris Vir Terrae pronus sensibus is suberit But I hope these terrae filii will be no longer Remora's to our long wished for and expected Deliverance Settlement and Joy which that it may come certe citò both surely and speedily is and hath been my prayer and I hope every Cordiall Subject and loyall Breast in England Scotland and Ireland will say Amen A PERORATION To his EXCELLENCY the Lord Generall MONCK and his OFFICERS AND TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE The Two HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT Which are shortly to meet and Sit at WESTMINSTER Most Honourable LORD HAving in defense of Regall Government against Mr. Milton's Ready and Easie way to establish a Free Common-wealth brought by Gods good help and assistance my ●ntended task to an end it remains that I now addresse my self to your Excellency in a paraeneticall or congratulatory way for what you have through Gods blessing been instrumental in bringing to passe We are all deeply sensible and thankfully acknowledge that the Righteous God for our many and great sins had corrected us and brought us into such a state and condition as this Nation never before was in since it first was known to be a Nation to thi● day He had cut off from us the Ancient and the Honourable had deprived us of our happy Governors broken our once matchlesse peaceably setled and long happily Government Had set Ephraim against Manasse Manasseh against Ephraim and both against Judah so that the Syrians before and the Philistims behinde did all seem to devoure our Israel with open mouth Yet for all this his fierce anger was not turned away but his hand appeared stretched out still against us Our Kingdome was divided rent and tottering one part against the other the Son envying and betraying the Father and one Brother another so that there was neither peace nor truth among us Our Church also was broken almost to pieces with Schismes Factions and Heresies our profession scandalized with damnable Errors and Blasphemies so that we had scarce the face of a true Church left among us Our Principles were tainted and corrupted with the crying sins of murther sacriledge cruelty of pression hypocrisie rebellion and perjury breach of faith Vowes Covenant and Oaths with hard-heartednesse and impenitency that it was hardly to be discerned if any spark of true Religion and power of Godlinesse remained in this every way guilty Nation or no whose hands were deeply imbrued and beyond washing stained with the sacred bloud of Majesty nor was the cruelty perpetrated upon the Father so repented of as to give glory to the God of Heaven but it was continued upon us and justified by us in the rejecting of his whole Royall Lyne and Issue and neglecting his necessitated Orphons and Widow although by profession we owned our selves Christians and boasted of a far greater Light then had shone upon any of our Ancestors or Predecessors Yet among them in a time not much removed from Paganisme perjured Harold permitted Edgar the true Heir of the Crown to injoy a large part of his Estate and Revenue and to retain the title and command of Earle of Oxford one of his subordinate titles had he been Crowned KING as Harold by Oath engaged to Edward the Confessor he would see performed when Edgar came to years and in the mean time himself would only assume the Title exercise the Office and execute the Charge of Guardian or Protector of him during his minority notwithstanding which perjuriously he himself Usurped the Crown Deposing the right Heir howbeit left him the Title and Dignity of Earle of Oxford with a large Revenue so farre was he from conspiring against his life though he aspired unjustly contrary to his Oath to his Crown But among us Saints by profession enjoying the greatest light which ever appeared since the Apostles time is found Harold's perjury exceeded fourfold and his cruelty a thousand fold For besides one Oath of Allegiance and another of Supremacy given to all also another Oath sutable to the former at Admission to sit in Parliament the Authority of England which was subordinate to the King in order to manage a War against him with whom they were called to consult and to whom and his Queen with his whole Royal Issue they were sworn to be true to preserve his