THE Bowing the Heart OF SUBJECTS TO THEIR SOVEREIGN A SERMON PREACHED on the 24th of May 1660. Being a Day of Publick Thanksgiving to the Lord for raising up his Excellency the Lord General MONCK and other eminent Persons who have been Instrumental in the Delivery of this Nation from thraldom and misery By Francis Walsall D. D. and Rector of Sandy in Bedfordshire PSAL. 126. 1 2 3. When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them that dream Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing then said they among the Heathen The Lord hath done great things for them The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad LONDON Printed for John Sherley at the golden Pelican in Little-Britain 1660. TO THE Ingenuous Reader IT is not hard to divine that this poor Peece will be charg'd with a double guilt of coming out too soon and of coming out too late too soon as being no better and too late if it were better The horns of this Dilemma will be more easily slipt by owning both then denying either The reason why it comes out so late being because the Authour thought it not fit to come out at all howsoever at last he bowed his heart to use the phrase of his Text to the judgment shall I say or affection of his Friend 't were a day after the Feast but that he hopes the Feast will last alwayes besides that it may passe for a vigil to the grand Festival of June 28. which is appointed a Day of Thanksgiving for his Majesties happy return c. If any expression in it be quarrell'd at as too aery thou wilt easily pardon the ebullitions and excrescences of an excessive and unweildy Joy Since it pleased God to goe out of the ordinary Roade of his Providences in giving us this blessed Opportunity of Rejoycing it is no wonder if we step out of our ordinary roade of Preaching to meet him and wait upon his Praise Those clear souls whose real affections to the Cause have exalted their spirits will need no other Topick to perswade their Allowance of some passages which upon another Account may seem too light than this that when Rivers overflow their banks as in this great Spring-tide of Joy before they retreat to their channels they leave behind them a kind of light matter that floated upon the face of the waters which has its use too in a tendency to make fruitfull as the rest of the body of water that has more weight and sinks deeper When mens mouths have been long stopped as we have been too long ante-episcopally silenc'd when the Lord opens our lips to shew forth his praise by so eminent a Miracle of Mercy as this was it is hard to give a check to those thoughts that have lain so long in durance and now press and throng and croud up to such a Goal-delivery Such Solemnities as they enlarge the heart so they give a great latitude to Tongue and Pen in venting those enlargements But no more this will be enough to him I address to the Ingenuous Reader F. W. A SERMON Preached on May 24 1660. Being a Day of Publike Thanksgiving c. 2 SAM 19. 14. And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah even as the heart of one man so that they sent this word unto the King Reurn thou and all thy servants AS I cannot speak too much so I would not speak too little of those Glories the most conspicuous hand of Providence hath shed and shined upon us those Miracles of Mercies he hath guilded and enameld this day withall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the day is too little for the day as our Saviour saith Enough for the day is the evil Matth. 6. 34. thereof so may we say and happy we that we may say so too much for the day is the good thereof the day is too little to acquaint you with all the Grounds of your praising God this day and to raise the Building of your high Praises upon those grounds Therefore Psal 149. 6. that little that the little time will give me leave to speak to the Time I would fain have apt and apposite few words but fit words acceptable words such as the Preacher sought out a word in season such Eccles 12. 10. Esa 50. 4. Prov. 25. 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Opus Diei in die suo as the Prophet found out Solomon tells us that a word fitly spoken is like Apples of Gold in Pictures of silver such gold and silver Medals would I cast among you this day and therefore have I pitched upon this Text than which the whole Book of God affords none more seasonable and suitable for the work of the day or the day of the work for it wraps up in its fair bosome all those sparkling circumstances that have canonizd this day in the Rubrick of our hearts and characterd it in a Dominicall scarlet for a holy Feast to the Lord a day of Praise and Thanksgiving This May 24 is the forerunner of May 29 as John Baptist was to Christ and I have the rather chosen this because as it is a remarkable Time so you should have a remarkable Text that whatsoever the Sermon be you may be sure of an excellent Text a Text butted and bounded and exactly circumstantiated and proportioned to the Time that those that commonly remember little of the Sermon may remember Sermon enough in the Text. And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah even as the heart of one man so they sent this word unto the King Return thou and all thy servants My work to day shall be only a Paraphrase and a Parallel close woven together on the words modelled into these three parts 1. Here 's a blessed Instrument He. 2. A blessed Influence of that He upon others He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah even as the heart of one man 3. A blessed Effect of this Influence that they sent this word unto the King Return thou and all thy servants 1. The blessed Instrument He A blessed Instrument in the hands of God and the King Gods servant and the Kings servant Amasa the Generall of the Army If you would know who this Amasa was look into Chap. 17. 25. And Absolom made Amasa Captain of the Host instead of Joab He was the Generall of the Advers Party Absoloms Generall yet He i. e. his Generall did this great Work He bowed the hearts of all the men of Judah i. e. He inclind and brought over the whole Nation to the King that he might happily bring over the King to the Nation God bowed his heart first and then he bowed the hearts of all the People This bowing the Generals heart to the King as well as the Generals bowing the hearts of the People to the King is the most eminent and conspicuous work of the great heart-bower and heart-breaker God himself of
for them as considerable as they vaunt themselves do but Thou return and they will be more then ever what they are Quakers Return thou the glory of our Nation the light of our Eyes the breath of our Nostrils Thou whose Right we own whose Person we honour whose prosperity we pray for Thou who art the joy of our Hearts the praise of our Tongues the desire and delight of our Eyes Return thou and bring new Joyes and new Glories to thy poor widow'd comfortlesse people and we will gather hopes from those startling Providences that promise us thy Return that the King of Kings will set up a fifth Monarchy in thy belov'd Person and Progeny in a truer and nobler sense than is intended by the wilde assertours of that judgement Thou canst alone under God put a period to our unsufferable sufferings therefore we pray we send this word Return thou 3. And thy servants Those that were before look'd upon as enemies our hearts are now bowed to entertain and imbrace as friends Thou art our great Master and thy servants are our fellow-servants 4. All thy servants We will not dare so fanatical an insolence as to think of shackling or restraining our Prince to Numbers or Persons it is above our duty and it is below thy dignity No no All come and welcome All that please thee shall please us Return thou and all thy seâ—vants The next words are So the King returned Be it so Lord be it so Amen The King of Kings return him to us with speed and safety and keep him with us with honour and happiness by keeping us to him with Humility and Sincerity I had done here but that there is a bowing the heart in my Text which bows my heart to bow your heart in a short application Our backs have been bow'd down to bear all the burdens that proud and wicked men thought fit to lay upon us Like Issachar we have lain crouching between two burdens of sinne and shame our hearts and our backs too bowed till they almost broke by our fellow Subjects Since then our hearts are thus sweetly bow'd in Loyalty to our natural King and love to our native Countrey Let us say with St Paul Ephes 3. 14. For this cause I bowe my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ And as David expresses it Psal 95. 6. O come let us worship and bowe down let us kneel before the Lord our maker Let us bowe down in praise and prayer I will onely quicken your memories with a few hints what you should praise and pray for and then joyn with you in praise and prayer for them and the Lord bowe all our hearts to and in this Duty First For the Exercise of the Duty of praising God this day the Text and the Time put us in minde of eight things 1. That the Lord hath pleas'd to bowe the heart of the General to be so eminent an Instrument for his Glory and our Good This is the duty the Parliament cals upon us for but I hope we need no quickning 2. That the Lord hath crown'd that excellent Instrument with so magnetick an Influence that he hath bowed so many hearts heads and hands without breaking any 3. That we our selves are sincerely bow'd to our duty to our King and our Countrey 4. That this bowing is so universal as to miracle it is We may say as much All the men of England as the Text sayes All the men of Judah If the major part be all if an hundred to one be all 5. That this bowing our heart to our King is as unanimous as universal All hearts centred in obedience to his Sacred Majesty We hear of triumphal Arches erected in honour of the two new married Princes we have an Arch which we acknowledge not so artificial noâ— would we have it so it were not good it were so and that is that Arch which alone will bear the weight of a Kingdom the universal and united bent of all our hearts to our King All hearts are bow'd into one Arch a Bow which like that Bow that wears the Kings Colours in Heaven in a party-coloured Ribband woven with Sunne-beams upon a cloud shall be for a Token and a Covenant between God our King and us that a deluge of warre and misery shall never destroy us any more 6. For the wisdome and goodnesse of the Kings most Excellent Majesty who was bowed by God into such a condescension as to vouchsafe to send such gracious Letters and Declarations to the Parliament General City Navy 7. For those humble Messages that are sent back from all these to his Majesty with their most humble desires of his Returne That they sent this word Returne thou and all thy servants 8. That the desires of the Parliament for the Kings Return are so free so full so ingenuous for him and all his servants From my soul I blesse God and I desire you to do so too for the sweet mutual repose and absolute confidence and trust between the King and his Houses which is to me the best Augury of our future happiness because all our former sufferings owe their beginnings to our foolish fears and jealousies Secondly Prayer There is a great stock of Prayers to be laid up and to be laid out upon a three-fold Account 1. For the Remission of National sins 2. For the Removal of National Judgements 3. For the Restoring of National Mercies 1. For the Remission of National sinnes Never expect good from God and the King till you repent the evils against God and the King Object There were great and grain-sins committed in the Nation to which guilt we would not if we could and could not if we would have contributed as we could not hinder such villanies so we did not further them but hated and abhorred them in their Causes and Consequences so far as we could foresee them all along Sol. I answer that I dare answer for you there is no tincture of the actual guilt of those high abominations crimson sinnes sticks to you you may say as to all the blood shed in the high-places of the field or that Akeldama Westminster-Hall with the Apostle you are clear from the blood of all men But O let us consider whether we have not contracted a guilt ex pâ—st facto if not by closing with the power these bloudy monsters swumme to in blood yet by not pouring out water enough before the Lord to wash away this defilement and stop the Cataract of vengeance which we may justly expect God will let loose in showrs of blood upon the Nation 2. Though we could not perhaps have prevented them we ought not to have connived at them As we ought not to have comply'd with them so we ought to have complain'd of them more to God than it is to be feared we did I shall only give you a slight touch or two upon some of them and that so farre onely as I conceive they may
whom Solomon saith Prov. 21. 1. The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water he turneth it whithersoever he will He turned the Generals heart to the King and turnd the Peoples heart to the Generall that he might turn Gen. 22. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Peoples heart to their King This is Deus in monte Deus è machiná an eminent and immediate Providence where we may see not the finger only but the hand not the hand only but the eminent visible naked bare Arm of God God covers his hand acts as it were behind the hangings when he uses means but when he will shed a lustre upon eminent Persons and Things by immediate Providences he makes no use of the Creature but puts forth his own power immediately thus he handles the enemies of his Church without gloves as we say with his bare naked hand which is more than with his Rod as speaking immediate vengeance and thus God delivers his servants with a mighty hand and outstretched arm So has he done for us that we may say with the Prophet Esa 52. 10. The Lord Hab. 3. 9. Thy bow was made quite naked hath made bare his holy arm in the eys of all Nations and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of God And therefore you shall find in some Scriptures that God does eminently assert his own hand as Esa 63. 5. I looked and there was none to help and I wondred that there was none to uphold therefore his own arm * Esa 59. 16. It is in the third person â—is arm brought salvation Thus it has often been the honour and happiness of Gods people to own their salvation to the immediate hand of God Deut. 33. last Happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee saved by the Lord the shield of thy help and who is the sword of thy excellence such is the salvation we bless God for this day this is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes Psal 118. 23. it is in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this is from the Lord i. e. the immediate hand of God the doing is from the Lord as the day is from the Lord both his immediate work as it follows ver 24. this is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hanc diem fecit Dominus which I conceive a more naturall reading of the words than that of haec est dies quam fecit Dominus because there is neither is nor which in the Text. This deed the Lord did and this day the Lord made we will rejoyce and be glad in it And good reason for such a sweet such a sudden such a saving change without noise without charge without bloud I challenge all Nations all Ages all Story to produce a paralell the Lord help us to kiss the Hand of that glorious Arm with an humble Thankfullness Let us thank God for Amasa and let us thank God in Amasa for David let us thank God for the Generall and let us thank God in the Generall for the King As we have a high share so let us have a deep sense of those sweet and saving successes that Providence hath crownd the Generals undertaking with I would gladly let the world know the value we put upon his Excellence for our Deliverances deliverances that have not only answerd but prevented our hopes prevented and yet enlargd them by giving in pledges to our humble confidence that this floating Island is at length growing to its long-groand-for establishment upon its proper Basis of Truth and Peace Religion and Law Let us pay our Sterling thanks to the Lord of Hosts for this Excellent Amasa the Lord Generals Excellence whom the Lord hath made the Healer of our Breaches first to heal a broken and divided House and by that a broken and divided Kingdom both which as they were a Judgment of God upon us so in the Judgment of God himself they threatned our fatall and finall Ruin A House divided and a Kingdom divided cannot stand saith Christ Mar. 3. 24 25. And we were both these and the Lord made the Generall a blessed Instrument of Healing both these and by them us all by applying his excellent Weapon-salve to the Sword heald us that were hurt It was he that set the dislocated secluded Members of that great Body in joynt again He was the first Mover to our Happiness the first that gave Check to that rapid motion that so hurryd us to destruction It was he that securd the Intervall between the two Parliaments so that though the world was half mad then yet we had a lucid Intervall It was he that setled our Joys and securd our hopes in this present Parliament It is he the needfull Midwifery of whose constant Care and goodness still attends this poor travelling Nation that is yet in her Throes tormented with many strugling Parties in her Womb till she be fairly deliverd of a Handsom and Happy Birth that may wear the Lord Generals Name to Posterity and our Childrens Children shall sing the Story of the Lord Generall Monks Peace while their pleasd Parents smile themselves into tears of Joy in the remembrance that they liv'd to see the Truth of those strange Revolutions that to after-Ages may possibly wear the face of a Romance This is that blessed Instrument in Gods hand and the Kings hand that He in my Text Noble Amasa a Generall that is the Darling of Prince and People Lord shield him from the Fate of Amasa and Joab Lord keep him as the Apple of thine Eye whom thou hast raisd to keep the Apple the light of our Eys his most Sacred Majesty the only proper and precious Keeper of our Lives and Liberties O may both King and Generall long live happy in one another and all we in both them You may wonder I have said so much of this He the Generall but that I may rebate that wonder which is indeed but the daughter of Ignorance and inconsideration I must tell you this He is a Generall and that word speaks Power a Publick Person and a Generall Blessing And truly though I never spake so much of any living man in this Place and I fear or hope shall I say shall never have occasion to say so much again of any living man a Subject yet if I had spoken less of him the stones might have flown in my face for my silence and spoken themselves these lowd Truths The Peoples Argument to Christ for the Centurion was but a petty Topick to this They tell him that hee was worthy for whom he should do this for he loved their Nation and built Luk. 7. 4 5. them a Synagogue Whereas this Noble Souldier hath not only loved but saved our Nation and not only saved our Nation but as the admir'd St. Alban says in that History of Stanly to Hen.
7. saved it and crownd it at once nay saved and crownd three Nations at once Saved the Nations and Crownd them with their King saved the King and Crownd him with his People the best of Crowns that ever any Prince was Crownd with a Crown of hearts a Crown of greater luster than those three upon his Predecessor Edwards Sword and not only built us a Synagogue but a Temple another Zerubbabel laying the foundation at least of a second Temple for our first is sadly destroyed but no more of that I will not infaudum renovare dolorem I will not blast your full blown joys or grate your ears or my heart with any sad and unseasonable Reflexions upon that mournfull Theme upon a day of such universall rejoycings But this is but one Argument of my Apology for enlarging so much upon this Subject the Generall this day my next is that he is the Generall Subject of this day This is one of the main things in the Act of Parliament for this dayes solemnity as being the Resolve of the Lords and Commons in Parliament That this day be set apart for a day of Thanksgiving to the Lord for raising up his Excellency the Lord Generall and other eminent Persons who have been Instrumentall in the Delivery of this Nation from Thraldome and misery I shall also acquaint you with another Resolve of the House of Commons of the same date viz. Apr. 26. 1660. Resolved That his Excellency Generall Monck have the acknowledgement and hearty thanks of this House for his eminent and unparalleld Services done for those Nations Mr. Speaker did accordingly give the thanks of the House unto his Excellency taking notice of his eminent Services and great Wisdome in conquering the Enemy without expense of Bloud or Treasure That Gods making him so instrumentall to keep up the Nation from sinking when no way appeared whence deliverance should arise could not but be acknowledged by all and looked upon as a miracle so then we must praise God for the Generall this day and when we praise God for him we cannot but praise God in him One Reason more I could give for dwelling so long upon General Amasa and that is that he was the Kings Kinsman See the vers before my Text how the King cajoll's him Say ye to Amasa art thou not of my bone and of my flesh it is no small honour to relate to a King but every loyall soul and every loving Subject looks upon himself as nearly related to his Prince by his Allegiance as he can be by his Alliance and upon that account thinks all the Bloud in his Veines and all the flesh and bones of his body little enough to guard his head his Cognatum numen his lesser God in flesh his Deity incarnate in his Prince 2. He bowed c. How was he qualified for such a work It is not every man that could have bow'd a whole Nation thus and especially this Nation of Judah I am sure Moses that was their General as well as Amasa branded them for a stiff-neck'd rebellious People and this General 's Master David found them so how come they so soft now They were stiff enough as long as Absolom liv'd but Actio moritur cum Personâ his cause dy'd with his carcase and now they melt for him and they melt from him Hopes and fears may stiffen peoples hearts against their known duty whilst the cause looks promisingly but if it get a knock souldiers themselves we see will faces about but nothing softens like the example of a Commander like lightning he melts the steele in the scabber'd makes their hearts soft and fluid and ductill easily lead with a finger to run in their old chanel of Allegiance to their natural Prince O a great man but especially a good great man and beloved for his goodness as well as greatness carries an invisible loadstone that bows and draws even iron hearts Indeed when greatnesse and goodnesse meet together which it is pity is no oftener they work wonders The God of Heaven call's great ones Gods on earth and therefore we give them a civil worship now Quos colimus imitamur saith the Father and therefore if men in power be as good as they are great they shew themselves worthy the Divinity God has stamped upon them for like the upper lights they have a great influence upon those below them The truth is great men had need look what paths they tread for they walk in snow or like the Priests of Bell in ashes every one sees their footsteps and most will walk in them It is not for the Sunne to lie a bed till noon while no man regards the rising or setting of a petty Starre We see by our late Usurpers and Oppressours what power some leading men had to bow others to their will and way they lead people in droves to the Devil the very broad way was full of leaders and followers When one of these great things relapses into backslidings let him goe backward from God as many degrees as he will he shall be sure the multitude will croud after him as the Sunne that went backward for Hezekiah was waited upon by knots and Committees of vulgar lights It was ever the deplored fashion of the world let great ones doe what they will they shall never want Apes while sometimes being too eager in tacking about to gain the tide of wealth or the winde of honour they not onely shipwrack their souls a losse they doe not much value but as we now see endanger their estates and lives Well these Grandees had need look to it Great men are like great Parish clocks if they tell a lie and preach false Doctrine in the steeple they misguide the whole Town into heterodoxy Great men are called starres and they are so indeed for as they shed their light and heat among us so all our fair or foul weather comes from them either in counsel command or example But if like our Amasa our General here they guild the honour of their Birth or Place with noble Action they convert souls by it and preach themselves into Heaven A great good man is a great good-maker Tu conversus saith Christ to Peter When thou art converted strengthen thy brethren A good man is any mans nay every mans good a common Conduit Market Magazine Exchequer Exchange Amasa is the Kings good and the peoples good A good General is a general good He that is most streight himself is most likely to bow others Upon that principle Rectum est Index sui obliqui Upright persons are fittest to be Rules and Rulers for as their straitnesse makes others obliquity and warping more notorious so as it discovers it recovers crookedness many times as he bowed c. No marvel Amasa should have such power over them we reade his nature is in his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Populo parcens Populum elevans he mindes nothing but the advantage and advancement of
bring vengeance upon the Nation without repentance For as I hate to take in that sink that stinks all the world over or stirre that old foul dunghill the corruption whereof has bred so many vipers that tear out their mothers bowels so I scorn to throw any bitter reflections at a party that is down I shall onely minde you of them as I have but too much reason to fear they will draw down the vials of Gods wrath upon the Nation unlesse good people pray them away There be many of them like the Devils in Mary Legion a phrase which the more suits those sinnes as speaking not only multitude but power an arm'd multitude But I shall wrap them up all in one piece but it is scarlet the notion of bloud a sin of the deepest die and the loudest cry we may all pray with David Psa 51. 14. Deliver me from blood guiltinesse O God so we reade it but it is from bloods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Several sorts of blood lie upon us and cry upon us I shall name onely four bloud of People bloud of Prophets bloud of Princes bloud of Christ And here because every mans heart and eyes as well as tongue can speak freely upon this sad subject I shall say no more but this O pray pray to God for pardon of our heat and tindernesse to warre the swiftnesse of our feet to shed bloud I could tell you how too freely you parted with your gold to set up Calves that you might worship them But I think you have dearly paid for this State-idolatry though I cannot say dearly enough because I fear the Lord hath not yet said to his destroying Angel it is enough We cannot but fear that a great showre of vengeance will fall upon us unlesse we prevent it with a showr of tears for all that bloud of the Nation which our Land hath drunk up so freely till it stagger'd and reel'd again and to compleat the Sacrifice to Pride Ambition and Covetousnesse it was crowned with the bloud of our lawfull excellent Prince This bloud is loud bloud it cryes high and I am afraid the cry of our tears the voice of our weeping hath not yet stilled the cry of this sinne This bloud is not speechlesse yet O let us pray that the bloud of Christ would plead for us and wash away this bloud and so for the bloud of the Gospel in countenancing even blasphemy it self discountenancing the Truth and its Preaching and Professours and prostituting the Ordinances of the first magnitude to the basest of villanies here 's work enough for this head of prayer for the remission of National sins 2. For removing of National Judgements which we either feel or fear especially from warre battel and murder David rather chose Plague than Warre to fall into the hands of God than man O pray against the Causes and Consequences of Warre The causes divisions in Church and State and dissatisfiednesse with the present though we know not how to make it better and the Consequences of it destruction of body and soul Estate Relations Name Nation All. O it is the devouring sword it hath done too much the Lord say it hath done enough 3. For Restoring National Mercies Here I shall propound to your devotion two heads of prayer 1. That the Lord will please to return our King to us safely and speedily we must pray to God as well as the King for his Return Lord return him speedily to us and keep him safely with us to thy Glory the good of thy Church the honour of the Gospel the Peace Plenty and Prosperity of all his Majesties Dominions and let all the people say Amen 2. That the Lord who hath pleas'd to bowe our hearts would keep them bow'd to himself his second self his sacred Majesty and to our selves i. e. to one another That the King may rejoyce in his people â—â—e people may glory in their King and both King and people in their God that we may see God shining upon us in that glorious Prophecy Isa 1. 26. I will râ—store thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellours as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called the City of Righteousnesse the faithfull City The good Lord restore Magistracy and Ministâ—y to their lost beauty and splendour and that old Peace and Plenty honour and safety with which he hath heretofore crowned this Queen of Islands Amen Amen I have but one word more and that is concerning the Joy of this day I would not willingly give the least check to the honest and sober expressions of your Joy you were never blest with a time that more requir'd it but then it is honest and sober Joy I mean not rude beastly drunkenness debauchery No Serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce before him with trembling Ps 2. 11. i. e. Fear to offend God in your Joy I shall beg this of you that belong to my charge for three precious sakes your good Gods sake your good Kings sake and your good Causes sake 1. For your good Gods sake that gracious God who hath given you this blessed opportunity of rejoycing and can turn that joy into weeping as he has done your water into wine Provoke him not to anger under a pretence of praising him for his mercy Do not blast such a glorious mercy as this is by abusing Gods other mercies in riot and drunkenness 2. For your good Kings sake His most excellent Majesty who is the just cause of your joy is a sober Prince and no man ever hated drunkenness and debauchery so much as he unless it were his Father of precious and glorious memory who was the Great Example of Temperance in every kinde Regâ—â—ad Exemplum O imitate two Kings rather than beggars and rogues that can be content to die as they live beasts 3. For your good Causes sake Remember that there is a Party in the Nation whose eyes are upon you to spie out something that may open their mouths against you and your Cause and are resolv'd to take advantage from the loosness of your mirth to make people believe that now all wickedness and prophaneness is broke loose and riot shall be countenanc'd which is a great disparagement to your Prince your Parliament and this glorious Cause Let us not drink down this Cause again it shrunk in the wetting before we know how little drinking the Kings health contributed to his help If this good Cause should take wet again I will not prophecy but I will pray yet against this wickednesse Let us pray and praise God FINIS