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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06639	The King, and none under God, but the King, can save this nation. With a Welch prophesie (prophecied above a thousand years ago) now Englished and fulfilled to the admiration of all that reads it. / By William Williams, gent.	Williams, William, b. 1613.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2789; ESTC R186711	5,989	16

THE KING And none under GOD but the KING Can Save this NATION With a Welch Prophesie prophecied above a Thousand years ago now Englished and Fulfilled to the Admiration of all that reads it BY WILLIAM WILLIAMS Gent. ECCLES 8.4 Where the word of a KING is there is Power and who may say unto Him What dost Thou LONDON Printed by Thomas Creake 1660. The KING and none under God but the KING Can save this NATION BRethren it is not unknown unto you how Abraham the Father of all the faithful Gen. 14.18 19 20. Heb. 7.4 honoured Melchisedec King of Salem doing him homage and giving him tythes And how God in the conclusion of his promises to Abraham and Jacob and having changed their names Gen 17.6 Gen. 35.11 at last tells them that Kings should come out of their Loins imitating that to be the chief and greatest of all his blessings to them And if we consider the History of the Children of Israel and look upon their different condition when they had no King and when they had a King we shall find it so indeed for Moses who under God brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt is called a King Deut. 33.5 to shew us that such a great work as that was could not be done without a King and under a single Person they Conquered the Land of Canaan Read the book of Ioshua but soon after Ioshua died Israel will be a free State without King or Single Person to do what is right in their own eyes they cast off God his Law they will have a pure liberty of Conscience to do what they list and to serve what God they please Iudg. 2.13 14 15. and some serves one false God and some another yea they were divided and devoted to serve seven Gods at once Iudg. 10.6 yet the true God came not into their minds until they are forced to cry unto him being sore oppressed for want of a King of their own by all the Kings round about them whose Gods they served but the Lord hearing their cry now and then giveth them a Deliverer to save them Iudg. 2.17 yet after they obey him not to serve the Lord. And when their Judge our Deliverer is dead Iudg. 2.19 they return unto their folly free state again not regarding God nor his Law that they might do what is right in their own eyes so that the true worship of God is not mentioned to have been in all the time of the book of Iudges and all the reason given to shew us why the Children of Israel were so ungodly unrighteous and in such misery during that time is because they had no King Iudg. 17.6 7. as you see Micah sets up an Idol Iudg. 18. the Danites rob him of it the men of Gebeah like the Sodomites use the Levit and his Wife Iudg 19. and this was their doings when they had no King Iudg. 2.14 the stronger destroys the weaker and the Kings of the Nations round about them Iudg. 6.2 3 4 5 6. destroy them oppresse them Iudg. 5.6 7 8. drive them into holes 1 Sam. 13.19 20. takes all their Arms from them suffers them to have no Smiths among them 1 Sam. 14.11 22. so that when God is pleased to raise them a Deliverer or Judge to bring them into a little better condition he having no other weapon sometimes must overcome their enemies with an oxe Goad or the jaw bone of an Ass and in such misery they continued until the time of Samuel four hundred and fifty years Iudg. 3 31. Iudg. 15.16 Act. 14.20 and when they had a King Saul by name though as bad as some count him yet he delivered Israel from all their enemies and did for the Children of Israel put all their actions together more then all their Judges in 400. years had done 1 Sam. 14.47 48. We need not compare that time to our present time every one can apply it and see that as the Israelites were delivered from Egypt so we were delivered from Popery and as they had a Law made for them to worship God so we had a Law made for us to worship God as they cast off the true service of God to serve Baal Ashtaroth and all the Gods of the Nations and were spoiled by them so we cast off the true service of God to serve Independents Anabaptists Levellers Renters Quakers with many more Sects and were spoiled by them we may see our own condition by theirs as a man seeth his face in a looking Glass and we may conclude also with them that all this is come upon us because we have no King and desire the Lord to give us a King Doubtlesse the Gods of these Nations had as delightful pleasing deluding power to draw the corrupt nature of man to their service as that power we see now hath to draw men to the Sectaries of our times so that it was hard for Israel to live among them and not to be deluded by them and drawn away from the true God therefore they were commanded to destroy their Altars and utterly to consume both them and their worshippers Deut. 7.1 2 5. Deut. 12.2 3. Iudg. 2.2 3. And now to the History again Samuel had setled his Sons to be Judges in Israel and they took bribes and perverted Judgment 1 Sam. 8.5 6 7 8. and because of that all the Elders of Israel came to Samuel and said unto him behold thou art old and thy Sons walk not in thy ways now make us a King to Judge us like all the Nations but the thing displeased Samuel when they said give us a King to Judge us and Samuel prayed unto the Lord and the Lord said unto Samuel hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee for they have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not Reign over them according to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of the Land of Egypt even unto this day wherewith they have forsaken me and served other Gods so they do also unto thee 1 Sam. 10 18 19. thus the Lord answered Samuels prayer and he took it in this sence that the people in rejecting him rejected the Lord and Samuel all along holds it forth so making the people to be great sinners in ●●●ing a King but the Elders of Israel took it in this sence that as the people did formerly reject the Lord to be their God and served other Gods so now they doe reject Samuel and would have a King for so the word of the Lord holds it forth saying they have forsaken me served other Gods so doth they also unto thee 1 Sam. 8.8 and the Elders would not at all cross the good old man in his saying who was now displeased but lets him have it yet notwithstanding Samuels words they will have a King and will stand firme for him for all Samuels perswasion to

the contrary for Samuel tels them what the Lords answer to his Prayer was 1 Sam. 8.10 and they see the mind of the Lord and that Samuel being a little carried aside by self interest did not construe it right And it is the nature of good men to confine God to their own assemblies yea Governours have high conceits of themselves as if God were no where but with them witness that proud Motto upon our States Coine God with us the Commonwealth of England it is true Samuel was a mighty Prophet but not without sin his fault was Ely's fault he loved his sons too much so that he would not heare of their evil doings The whole booke of Judges is a story of Israels misery for want of a King Judg. 21.25 and it ends with a lamentation thus In those daies there was no King in Israel every man did what was right in his own eyes These things were written for our example and learning and truly we may very well say Amen to it for we know it to be true by woefull experience we had a King and then were the happiest people in the world and now we have no King we are in a woefull condition at home and in scorn and derision throughout the world and could not our great Scripturians see this before now No sure the Kings Lands and Bishops Lands with Deanes and Chapters Lands stood in their eyes and made them blind so that they could not see the truth but now let Christ open your eyes I know you would not be counted the sons of Belial or sons of the Devil that is the meaning of it therefore see of what sort the sons of Belial are 1 They are wicked Sodomites Judg. 19.22 2. They know not the Lord 1 Sam. 2.21 3 They are against Kingship 1 Sam. 10.26.27 4 They are very unruly 2 Sam. 23.6.7 5 They have neither bounty nor charity or Justice but they would have all to themselves though they spue it up again 1 Sam. 1.14.15.16 1 Sam. 30.22.23.24.25 6 They have no concord with Christ 2 Cor. 6.15 7 Of such Belials that pretend holy things but intend earthly things doth the Apostle speake Rom. 16.17.18 Phil. 3.18.19 I say by these marks you may know whether ye are the sons of Belial or no and if ye be and continue to be the sons of Belial how ye are to expect sudden destruction Phil. 3.18.19 1 Thes 5.3 to confirm it with something that speaks to us in particular I will shew you a Welch Prophecy spoken above a thousand years agoe by Taliesin Printed above two years agoe ●hen none could tell what it meant but now every one may see it fulfilled ye have it page 82. of Mr. Pughe's book called Brittish and outlandish Prophesies Thus as followeth Bid. S. Wyddeles yn weddillion Bid. Frwythig y fall bid ball ar saefon Bid. M. Ar grwydir wedi brwydar vnion Bid. H. Yn rhychor ynghor eugylion Bid. L. Ddigwyn a ddwyn gelynion Bid. Naw yn osbarth ar arth anghifion Arthur is a beare of Steel Bid. Yno cymro yn Cymrud y Cloffion In English 1 Let S. The Irish be a reserve 2 Let the Belial English be unsatisfied 3 Let M. Be wandring after an union of distraction 4 Let H. Be chief in the quire of Angels 5 Let L. not regarded bring in Enemies 6 Let 9. Controle the unrighteous bear Let The Welchman then take the lame 1 That is the Scots Irish highlanders 2 That is those who are against Kingship 3 That is General Monck 4 That is Sir Arthur Hasilrig 5 That is Lambert now under foot 6 That is the Nine Colonels Controles Sir Arthur Hesilrig The Welchman is the Prince of Wales who without doubt will come in suddenly make your peace with him quickly lest Lambert and those gallant old Colonels and Commanders laid aside by you beat up your quarters for him I promise you they want neither wisdome nor valour and they will not want weapons and Ox Goad or the jaw bone of an Asse in their hands will do more execution then all your weapons they are experienced Souldiers and much beloved among your Souldiers and by many in City and Countrey therefore beware lest by your delay in Proclaming the King you bring it to another War and loose all The people were divided in Samuels time as now we are some for the King and some against the King those that were for a King were so earnest because God had touched their hearts to be so minded as once he touched Lydias heart but they who were against the King are called the Children of Belial who said of Saul how shall this man save us and they despised him 1 Sam. 10.26 27. Act. 16.14 yet we see how under God Saul first saved them from Nahash the Ammonite and after that from the Israelites who would have put them to death because they despised King Saul had he not stood up for them 1 Sam. 11.11 12 13. so that these despisers were more beholding to Saul then all the rest of the people beside and who knoweth O ye dispisers of King Charls Stuart whether it may not be your case and that King Charles shall save you in like manner But you will say we will have no King to save us but King Jesus I answer do you think that Jesus was not the Saviour in those days but he saveth by means now as he did then Saul was the means who gave the Glory to the Lord 1 Sam 11.13 and before those days Jesus was the King and the Saviour yet Moses was the means for he was King in Ieshurum Deut. 33.5 or in the room of Jesus Moses was deputy or Steward as King Charls Stuart now as for Steward it is a Prophetick Gospel word which hath the promise Luk. 12.42 43. therefore have a care that you despise him not for he is Christ Jesus high Steward or Vice-Roy at this time I have heard 15 years agoe that they had a sport or a way of dispute in Bedlam which they cal'd the hunting of the spirit and they hunted it alwaies until they came unto the word King and then they could go no further and I find since that many in England hath been a long time hunting the spirit and now it is come to the word King they must hunt no further for the spirit now resteth on King Charls as it rested on King Jesus 1630 years ago Ioh. 1.23 I know those Bedlam men were inspired with no worse spirit then them are who all a long since and now pretended to have much of the spirit yet they hunt the true spirit of God and that those Bedlams were forerunners of such Sectaries as we had since but let them rest with the word King as those Bedlams did and go no further last they perish This came providentially to me and I thought good to cite it as an Argument among the rest to bring those people which indeed I love to leave their folly and though it be a mean argument yet I know those people look upon mean things to be of God and most powerful to work great things in mens hearts and so be it unto them God indeed doth not seem to approve of a people that run from one Government to another who are never satisfied therefore Samuel doth strongly argue that the people of Israel who alwaies since they were a people had been Governed by Judges did evil in asking a King to govern them and his main argument to convince them was the shewing them their descent and government under which God did own them 1 Sam. 12.7 8 9 12 13. alas what is that to our cafe they had been then but 4 or 5 hundred years under Judges Act. 13.20 we have been above 3000 years under Kings in which time we received such signal signes of Gods favour that none had the like I say what would Samuel say if he were present now to see such a people that refuse their King and would change their so ancient a government truly I do believe he would be so displeased with them for it that he would immediately call to God for Thunder and Fire from Heaven to destroy them from off the Earth 1 Sam. 7.8 9 10. 1 Sam. 12.18 I never saw young King Charls but once in all my life then he was a Child upon this occasion I saw him when I came out of prison in the Lent time 1638. I went to hear a Sermon at VVhitehal the Text was Luke 19.41 42 43 44. If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes c. And after the Sermon which was very pertinent touching the things which came to passe in England since that time a man came with Prince Charles in his Armes and held him out over the Rales of the Gallary for all the people to see him to shew them that he was under God the only means of peace to them and so I believed then and do believe yet that England cannot be happy without him and now also the people are sensible of it Therefore ye great ones do not think that the people value Parliaments so much as their joy manifested of late upon the news of a free Parliament but that their hope is they will bring in the King otherwise they care not for Parliaments the late King Charls gave them too much of that already they know Parliaments by woful experience to be hurtful to them so that they do not desire to have Parliaments Reign over them any longer But now beware ye people that desire the King what men ye Chuse to Sit this next ensuing Parliament for if ye Chuse any of them that have bought or sold the King Bishops Deanes and Chapters Lands they will do you no good therefore chuse none of them nor any of their Friends which you think will carry on their private ends and self-interest FINIS