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A83989 Englands redemption: or, A path way to peace: plainly demonstrating, that we shall never have any setled state, until Charles II. (Whose right it is) enjoy the crown. 1660 (1660) Wing E3022; Thomason E1019_1; ESTC R208242 2,588 8

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ENGLANDS REDEMPTION OR A Path Way TO PEACE Plainly Demonstrating That we shall never have any setled State UNTIL CHARLES II. Whose Right it is enjoy the Crown Eccles 10.17 Blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the Son of Nobles Lament 5.8 Servants have ruled over us and there is none that doth deliver us out of their hands March .26 LONDON Printed for Charles King 1660. ENGLANDS REDEMPTION OR PATH-WAY TO PEACE AS a distracted Ship whose Pilot the raging violence of a tempestuous storm hath cast down headlong from the Stern staggereth to and fro amongst the unquiet Waves of the rough Ocean some●imes clashing against the proud surly Rocks and sometimes reeling up and down the smoother waters now threatning present shipwrack and destruction by and by promising a seeming safety and secure arrival yet never setled fast nor absolutely tending to the quiet and desired Haven So the vexed Government of frantick England ever since the furious madness of a few turbulent Spirits beheaded our King and Kingdom threw down Charles the Martyr our onely lawful Governor from the Stern of Government and took it into their unskilful and unlawful hands it hath been tossed up and down sometimes falling amongst the lawless Souldiers as a Lamb among Wolves or as a Glass upon Stones yet in all our Revolutions although many gaps have been laid open the Government hath not steered its course directly to Charls the second its onely right and quiet Haven O therefore let our di●●racted England be a Warning-Piece to all Nations that they never attempt to try and judge their King for what cause soever and let all Traytors and Tyrants in the world learn by the example of our English Rebels that their prosperity and dominion though it seemeth never so perpetual is but momentany and as the w●nd which no man seeth for who so much applauded and look'd upon as the Long Parliament when they first took upon them to correct and question the King and who now so ridiculous and scorned They were then admired by the people as the Patrons Vindicators Redeemers and Keepers of their Liberty Nay I may most truly say that the people did Worship and Adore them more than they did God But now they aae become a by-word the scorn and derision both of men women and children and hooted at by every one as the greatest and most shameful laughing-stock in the world O abominable that Englishmen should degenerate into such impudence for this is the truth of their Case Might they but still have the Kings and Bishops Lands which they have gotten by their horrible Treason and Rebellions and be sure to live secure from the punishment which the Law of the Land would inflict upon them they would easily confess if the Devil have not made them Contradictors of all manner of truth That Monarchy is the best of all Governments especially for the English Nation where as one may say it grew by Nature until these Destroyers of the Laws of God Nature and the Realm rooted it up and endevoured to plant their fancied Commonwealth in its room which will grow there when Plums grow in the Sky or when Rocks grow in the Air not before as you may see by the small Root it hath taken ever since the Reigne of Charles the Martyr Reade his incomparable heavenly Book which will make thee weep for our loss but rejoyce and admire at his piety As for our rising Sun Charles the second though hitherto obscured by the foggy Mists of Treason and Rebellion in his own Kingdoms yet do the rayes of his Sacred Majesty shine throughout the world beside and his Renown ecchoeth in every part of the Earth to the admiration of Foraign Kingdoms and to the envy and hatred of the Rebels in his own yet cannot their malice but marvel at the Vertues and Patience of their King whom they so much wrong and it grieves them to see that Royall Progeny whose ruine they so greedily hunt after flourish with such glorious splendor amongst the Kings and Princes of the Earth growing in favour wit● God and man whilst they odious to all but themselves by their Tyranny and Rebellion incur the displeas●re both of Heaven and Earth and become a ridiculous Rump the object of the S●orn and Derision both of old and yong rich and poor And had not these infatuated Rebels brazen faces to deny what their own Consciences telleth them is true they would presently Declare That the onely way to settle our Distractions and restore our Nation to its pristine Happiness and Glory were to call in the K●ng and re-establish him in his own which they unjustly pocket from him for so long as there is one of the Race of the Stuarts which God long preserve and any Foraign King or people remain alive we must never look for peace or plenty but as publick Thieves always live in a posture of War and ever expect Foraign Nations to come in and swallow us up who account it as indeed it is the greatest piece of Justice under the Sun to revenge with our Bloods and utter Destruction the bloody Murther of Charles the first and the unnatural Banishment of Charles the second our onely lawful Soveraign Therefore let the cries of the People come unto thee O God and restore our gracious King Charles the second to his Hereditary Crown whose Youth thou hast seasoned with the Afflictions of King David and clouded the Morning of his and our happinesse with the Misery of an unchristian Exile which hath made him the fitter for his Throne and thy Mercy Restore our Ancient Liturgy and our Lords Spiritual and Temporal to their undoubted rights and Priviledges in Parliament Restore the Commons to their right Wits and learn them to know That the Head is above the Feet So that our King onely with the Assent of the Lo●ds and Commons may make and give us Laws as it was in the beginning Until which time I will put down my Sails and keep close under the Haven being sure to have nothing else but Tempests and Storms and no clear setled Weather until then either in Church or Common-wealth Let our Republicans boast of their Free-State or of what else they please for a bone out of joynt will never be setled right but in its proper place On the late Miraculous Revolutions in England I. THree Kingdoms like one Ship a long time lay Black Tempest-proof upon a troubled Sea Bandy'd from Wave to Wave from Rock to Sand A prey to Pirats from a Foraign Land II. Expos'd to all the Injuries of Fate All the reproaches of a Bedlam State The brave Sails torn the Main-Mast cut in sunder Destruction from above and ruine under III. Once the base rout of Sailors try'd to steer The giddy vessel but thence could appear Nothing but mad Confusion Then came one He sate at Helm and his Dominion IV. Frighted the blust'ring Billows for a while And made their Fury counterfeit a Smile Then for a time the Bottom seem'd to play Ith'wonted Channel and the beaten way V. Yet floated still The Rabble snatch'd again Its Management but all alas in vain No Anchor fixt no wished Shore appears No Haven after these distracted years VI. But when the Lawful Pilot shall direct Ovr wav'ring course and heav'n shall him protect The Storms shall laugh the Winds rejoyce thereat And then our Ark shall finde an Arrarat FINIS