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A56163	The first and second part of the signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians (as also of some idolatrous pagans) tovvards their kings, both before and under the law, and Gospel especially in this our island. Expressed in and by their private and publike private loyal supplications, prayers, intercession, thanksgiving, votes, acclamations, salutations, epistles, addresses, benedictions, options of long life, health, wealth, safety, victory, peace, prosperity, all temporal, spiritual, eternal blessings, felicities to their kings persons, families, queens, children, realms, armies, officers, chearfull subjections and dutifull obedience to them: whethe [sic] good, or bad, Christians, or pagans, orthodox, or heterodox, protectors, or persecutors of them. With the true reasons thereof from Scripture and policy. Evidenced by varieties of presidents, testimonies and authorities in al ages, ... Whereunto the several forms, ceremonies, prayers, collects, benedictions and consecrations, used at the coronations of Christian emperors, kings, queens (more particularly in England and Scotland, not formerly published) and of the Mahometan and Ægyptian kings, are annexed. By; Signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians, towards their kings.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3955; ESTC R217939	286,462	453

Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings unto God by their Votes Acclamations unto themselves others for their health safety long-life temporal spiritual and eternal felicity whether they were Good or Bad Orthodox or Heterodox Protectors or Persecutors in 5. distinct Chapters I shall now by Gods assistance proceed to the constant practice of Christians under the Gospel in this kind after their Kings and Emperors became Christians professing the Gospel of Jesus Christ whether their Kings and Emperors were gracious and Religious vitious or impious Orthodox or Erronious beginning with the Kings of our own Island and presenting you with presidents of this kind both in forein Prelates and Clergy-men as well as in their Domestick Christian Subjects of all sorts our British Island producing the first Christian King Queen and Emperor in the world and the first presidents of private and publick Supplications Prayers Intercessions and thanksgivings for them unto God and Votes Acclamations for their safety health life and prosperity as they were Christian. CHAP. VI. THe very first Christian King professing the Christian Religion under the Gospel mentioned in History is Lucius King of the Britons reigning in this our Island this King Anno Christi 156. as Radulphus Baldoc the Chronicle of Gisburn the antient Manuscript D. primo statu Landavensis Ecclesiae and Bishop Usher out of them relate sending two Embassadors to Pope Elutherius most earnestly and devoutly intreating him That by his command and will he might be made a Christian This Pope thereupon granting his request Gratias agens Deo suo c. giving thanks to his God and singing Glory be to God on high for joy that this King and Nation who had continued Gentiles from the first peopling of the Island by Brute did so ardently hasten to the faith of Christ sending Eluan and Meduin to convert them After which this King Lucius in the year 179. or sooner as some or in the year 185. or later as others think it writing a Letter to Pope Elutherius to send him a Copy of the Imperial Laws to govern his Nation by them this Pope in the conclusion of his Epistle in Answer to the Kings Letter inserted this devout Prayer unto God in his behalf Det vobis omnipotens Deus c. Almighty God grant you so to rule the Kingdom of Britain that you may reign for ever with him whose ●…car you are in the Realm aforesaid If this Pope though a forein Prelate thus prayed to God for this first Christian King no doubt his own Christian Bishops Ministers whom he endowed with ample possessions and maintenance and his Christian Subjects in their private and publick Prayers and Devotions to God and in their Epistles and Addresses to him did much more imitate his example in pursuit of the Apostles precept 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. as all the Primitive Christians did even for their Pagan Kings and Emperors as I have evidenced in the precedent Chapters though we find no expresse mention thereof in our British Histories The first Christian Queen in the world was Helena Daughter of King Coel whose Son Constantine the Great born and first created Emperor in our Island of Britain was the first Roman Emperor who publickly professed the Christian faith and instituted publick Prayers to be made unto God by his Souldiers People and Subjects whether Christians or Ethnicks for himself his Sons and his Posterity who constantly powred forth their Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings unto God for his life health safety victories and successes as well in this our Island as in all other places of his Empire as these passages of Eusebius who lived in his Court and flourished under him will aboundantly evidence This Godly Christian Emperor Constantine before his Battel with the persecuting Tyrant Licinius dedicated a certain vacant time to powr forth Prayers to our Saviour Christ in the taberna●…le of the Crosse which he fixed far remote from his Camp where afflicting his body with fasting and abstinence he powred out Prayers Supplications to God to reconcile him to himself and become his gracious Protector In which Duty he imployed certain Persons whom he reputed eminent both for faith and piety to joyn with and assist him in the performance thereof as he usually did upon other occasions before every battel with the enemy After which having vanquished Licinius and by his death obtained the sole power and government over the Roman Empire Omnes ubique victorem hymnis celebrabant Tum choreis hymnis primum Deum summum omnium regem esse praedicarunt deindè victorem Constantinum ejusque f●…os modestissimos Deoque charos Caesares acclamationibus continuis extulerunt After which this Godly Emperor to excite his Subjects to Prayers was portrayed in all his Coyns Statues standing upright with his eyes looking up and his hands stretched forth and elevated towards Heaven as if he were praying prescribed all his Legions and Soldiers as well Pagans as Christians this set form of Prayer in the Roman tongue which they were to use and recite every Lords day in their daily prayers with their hands and eyes lifted up to Heaven unto God the Giver o●… all good thi●…gs and Author of victory Te solum Deum agnoscimus c. We acknowledge thee to be God alone we professe thee to be King we invocate thee our helper by thee we have obtained victories by thee we have overcome Enemies from thee we conf●…sse we have received present hope that we shall obtain future felicity Tui omnes supplices sumus abs te petimus ut Constantinum Imperatorem nostrum unà cum piis ejus liberis quàm diutissime nobis salvum victorem conserves We are a●…l Supplicants unto thee We all request from thee that thou wouldest conserve our Emperor Constantine together with his pious Children safe and victorious to us for many generations or as long as possible may be or for ever Ejusmodi ferè Sanciebat a Militibus solis die fieri talesque ab eis voces in diurnis Precibus adhiber●… Which prayers no doubt were used in this our Island of Britain where he was born and crowned by his Soldiers and other Subjects for him and his royal posterity as well as in other places the Churches and Christians then in Britain concurring both in their Doctrine and Practice with the Churches in Rome Italy Aphrick Aegypt Spain France Lybia Greece Asia Pontus and Cilicia as Constantine himself records in his Epistle to all Churches concerning the affairs of the Council of Nice Anno 330. But of this more in the next Chapter It is the Observation of Thomas Rudburne the History of Winton Church and Bishop Usher out of them Orationes ac deprecationes justorum assiduae cum multum valeant apud justum judicem Deum ascenderunt lacrymae suorum fidelium in conspectu conditoris altissimi sedatum est gravissimae persecutoris ac

the duty and practice of all loyal and saithfull Subjects of all estates and degrees with all po●…sible publike joyes unspeakable general rejoycings acclamations applauses affectionate desires by other means to proclaim acknowledge and Crown their lawfull hereditary Kings after the decease of their Ancestors and to make all possible demonstrations of their cordial loyalty love zeal and affection to them both in and out of Parliment being obliged thereunto both by the Laws of God and Man 5. That this Act of Parliament and the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance do both in point of Law Loyalty Justice Conscience oblige the whole English Nation their heirs and posterities for ever to be true faithfull loyal and obedient to King James his heirs and poste●…itie for ever and so to our present King till the last drop of their blood be spent as to their undoubted lawfull and hereditary Kings and Soveraigns 6. That a numerous hopefull royal Progeny likely to continue and perpetuate the hereditarie succession of the Crown in the true Regal line is an extraordinarie blessing and happinesse to the Kingdom for which they are all bound both in and out of Parliament to render all humble thanks and praises unto God To this I shall subjoyn the Statute of 3 Iaco●…i ch 1. entituled An Act for a publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God every year on the fifth day of November FOrasmuch as Almightie God hath in all ages shewed his power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverance of his Church and in the protection of religious Kings and States And that no Nation of the earth hath been blessed with greater benefits than this Kingdom now enjoyeth having the true and free profession of the Gospel under our most gracious Soveraign Lord King Iames the most great learned and religious King that ever reigned therein enriched with a most hopefull and plentifull Progeny proceeding out of his Royal loyns promising continuance of this happinesse and profession to all posterity the which many malignant and devillish Papists Iesuites and Seminary Priests much envying and fearing Conspired most horribly when the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Queen the Prince and all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons should have been assembled in the Upper House of Parliament upon the fifth day of November in the year of our Lord 1605. suddenlie to have blown up the said whole House with Gunpowder An invention so inhuman barbarous and cruel as the like was never before heard of and was as some of the principal Conspirators thereof confesse purposely devised and con●…luded to be done in the said House that where the sundry necessarie and Religious Laws for preservation of the Church aud State were made which they falsly and slanderously term cruel Laws enacted against them and their Religion both place and persons should be all destroyed and blown up at once which would have turned to the utter ruine of this whole Kingdom had it not pleased Almighty God by inspiring the Kings most Excellent Majestie with a Divine spirit to interpret some dark ph●…ses of a Letter shewed to his Majestie above and beyond all ordinarie construction thereby miraculously discovering this hidden Treason not many hours before the appointed time for the execution thereof Therefore the Kings most Excellent Majestie the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and all his Majesties FaithfuIl and loving Subjects do most justly acknowledge this great and infinite Blessing to have proceeded merely from God his Great Mercy and to his most holy Name do ascribe all the Honour 〈◊〉 and Praise And to the end this unfeigned Thankfulnesse may never be forgotten but be had in perpetual Remembrance that all Ages to come may yield praise to his Divine Majesty for the same and have in memorie THIS IOYFULL DAY OF DELIUERANCE Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authoritie of the same That all and singular Ministers in everie Cathedral and Parish-church or other usual place of Common prayer within this Realm of E●…gland and the Dominions of the same shall alwaies upon the fifth day of November say Morning Prayer and give unto Almighty God thanks for this most happy Deliverance And that all and everie person and persons inhabiting within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall alwaies upon that day diligentlie and faithfullie resort to the Parish Church or Chapel accustomed or to some usual Church or Chapel where the said Morning prayer preaching or other service of God shall be used and then and there to abide orderlie and soberlie during the time of the said prayers preaching or other service of God there to be used and ministred And because all and everie person may be put in mind of this Dutie and be the better prepared to the said ●…oly service Be it enacted by Authoritie aforesaid That every Minister shall give warning to his Parishioners publikelie in the Church at morning prayer the Sunday before everie such fifth day of November for the due observation of the said day And that after morning Prayer or preaching upon the said fifth day of November they read publicklie distinctlie and plainlie this present Act. Upon this occasion there was a special Book of Prayers and Thanksgivings complied by the Bishops and Clergy prescribed by Authority to be annually read in all Churches and Chapels on the 5th of November wherein amongst others there were four remarkable prayers and thanksgivings relating to the King Queen Prince all the Royal posterity Nobility and Magistrates which I shall here insert I. ALmighty God who hast in all Ages shewed thy power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States professing thy Holy and Eternal Truth against the wicked conspi●…acies and malicious practises of all the enemies thereof We yield unto thee from the very ground of our hearts all po●…le praise and thanks for the wonderfull and mighty Deliverance of our gracious Sovaraign King L●…mes the Queen the Prince and all the Royal branches with the Nobility Clergy and Commons of this Realm assembled together in Parliament by ●…opish treachery appointed as sheep to the slaughter and that in most barbarous and savage manner no age yielding example of the like cruelty intended toward●… the Lords anointed and his people Can this thy goodness O Lord be forgotten worthy to be written in a pillar of Marble that we may ever remember to praise thee for the same as the fact is worthy a lasting monument that all posteritie may learn to detest it From this unnatural conspiracy not our merit but thy mercy not our foresight but thy providence hath delivered us not our love to thee but thy love to thy anointed servant and thy poor Church with whom thou hast promised to be present to the end of the world And therefore not unto

Panegyricks congratulated your Maties Natural and Political Nativity thereon both as a Man and Monarch together with the new Birth and Resurrection of Your three Uni●… Kingdoms and Churches of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND and their respective Dominions being all ●…ised from the●… Graves of D●…th and Misery wherein they had for some years sp●…ce b●…re been in●…red and were new ●…rn AS KINGDOMS and Churches too on that joy●… d●…y 〈◊〉 to ●…e celebrated by them in all succeeding Generations and to have this Divine motto engra●…n thereon The stone which the bu●…lders refused is this day become t●…e Head of the corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvello●… in our eyes THI●… IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MAD●… WEE WILL REJOYCE AND BE GLAD THEREIN What the ●…gant Prophet Is●…h records of God●… mira●… M●…cies towards his Church and people B●…e she 〈◊〉 she broug●…t forth before her pain came she was delivered of a man child Who hath heard such a thing WHO HATH SEEN SUCH THINGS Shall the Earth be made to bring forth in ONE DAY OR SHALL A NATION BE BORN AT ONCE For as soon as ZION 〈◊〉 she brought 〈◊〉 her childre●… Was now verified b●…th of your M●…jesty and you●… three whole Kingdoms Churches all brought forth and born together in this one DAY Wherefore R●…yce ye with 〈◊〉 with England and he glad with her all ye that love her rejoyce fo●… joy with h●…r all ye that mourned for her I●… hath been the antient 〈◊〉 O●… our●… Rom●…sh Adversaries against our Reformed Protestant Churches Religi●…n that they are false and spurious because they have no mi●…cles wr●…ght in them And they have daily upbraided your s●…cred Majesty your followers yea pierced your souls during your Exile among them w●…th this soul-piercing Quaere * Where is now the God of the Prot stants He can neither p●…rve nor ●…store You to ●…our Crowns and King●…ms 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nounce your Protestant God Ch●…ch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Rom●…n Catholike God Church R●…ligion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hope nor 〈◊〉 of your rest●…on and th●…t 〈◊〉 ●…y th●… Arms of your Catholike ●…yes and subjec●… But blessed and for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of ou●… great God who hath now vindicated his own Glorie and O●…ncie against their 〈◊〉 wrought so many Miracles in your Maties restitution to justifie b●…th the Truth of the Prote●…ant Religion Churches your Subj●…s that all their spurious Miracles and Impostures wherewi●…h they abuse their over-c●…edulous Proselytes and fraught their Legends even to n●…sse are no more to be compared with them than a Glo-worm●…o ●…o the Noon day Sun And their God and rock is not as our God and ro●…k our Enemies themselves being now Judges Verily your Majesty with all your Protestant Subjects after such a stupendious glorious deliverance from their la●…e usurping Pharaohs w●…rse t●…n Aegyptian Tax masters Burdens and servitude have just cause to sing aloud to the God of their Salvation this triump●…ant song of Moses and the Children of Israel and King David after them a Who is l●…ke unto thee O Lord amongst the Gods who is like unto thee glorious in holynesse fearfull in prayses doing wonders Thou str●…tchest out thyright hand the earth swallowed them Thou in thymercy hast led forth thy p●…ople which thou hast redeemed Sing ye unto the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously The King shall joy 〈◊〉 thy str●… O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he ●…joyce for thou hast now given him his hearts desire thou hast not with-holden the request of his lips For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse thou settest a Crown of pure gold on his head His glory is great in thy salvation Honor and Majesty hast thou laid upon him Thou hast made him most Blessed for ever thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy Countenance For the King trusteth in the Lord and through the mercy of the most High he shall not miscarry Blessed be the Lord God of England from everlasting to everlasting for th●…s unexpressible mercy and let all the people say Amen Praise ye the Lord. Yea they all now joyntly and severally apply to your Majestie the blessing and words of the Q●…een of Sheba to King Solomon after she beheld his transcendent Wisdom Virtues and Magnificence which far exceeded the report thereof as your Majesties royal wisdom and graces of all kinds much transcend their fame Bl●…ssed be the Lord thy God who delighted in thee to set thee upon his Throne to be King for the Lord thy God Because the Lord thy God lov●…d Israel England Scotland and Ireland TO ESTABLISH THEM FOR EVER THEREFORE MADE HE THEE KING OVER THEM TO DO JUSTICE AND JUDGEMENT yea to restore them to their pristine Liberty Peace Plenty Traffick Renown Prosperity and make them the happiest of all Subjects in the world In the contempl●…tion of which inchoated common Felicity I humbly presume to dedicate to your Majesty this now compleated Treatise of The Signal Loyalty and Devotion of Gods true Saints and pious Christians in all ages and lik●…wise of Pagans to their KINGS both before and under the Law and Gospel more especially within this your first Christian Realm of Britain wherein I have most expa●…ted expressed both by their publike and private Prayers Supplications and Intercessions unto God for their long life health sa●…ety victory prosperity temporal spiritual and eternal felicity and all sorts of blessings both on their Royal Persons Queens P●…ogenies Families Government Kingdoms Armies Counsels by their Thanksgivings to God for their advancement to their Royal Thrones Victories Successes Deliverances Piety Justice and Gratious reigns over them by their loyal Acclamations Salutations Addresses Panegyricks Epistles to them and their dutiful Subjection and Obedience under them which I have evidenc'd by presidents and Testimonies in all ages never formerly collected into one Manual To which I have super added the antient and modern Forms of the Coronations of Christian Emperors Kings Queens and of some Pagans with the Ceremonies Solemnities Prayers Collects and Benedictions used at them especially those relating to England and Scotland not hitherto published as a President for and Prologue to your Majesties much desired and shortly-expected Coronation The first Part of this Treatise I lately Printed in January last for Your Majesties service to inthrone You in the Hearts publike Prayers and Supplications of all Your loyal Subjects to prepare the way for Your Majestyes speedy Restauration to Your Hereditary Crowns and Kingdoms which blessed be God you now actually enjoy to their unspeakable comfort of the accomplishment whereof without Armes or Blood I had such full assurance then and since in my own apprehensions from the Observation of Gods admirable Providences of Your Majesties Opposites intollerable Extravagances and Infatuations of Your Subjects late dutiful Inclinations tending thereunto through the loyal Endeavour of some Faithfull Friends to your

Necessities Sickn●…ss●…s Sufferings Afflictions Temptations because then they need them most as well as private Christians Churches Nations as the marginal Scriptures will abundantly evidence 3. That it is not only unnatural unchristian and inhuman but antichristian tyrannical treasonable if not diabolical and atheistical for any usurped Powers or Innovators whatsoever not only to enforce Subjects against their Loyalty Consciences the Presidents of all Christ●…ans Pagans and the P●…ecepts of God himself not onl●… by unrighteous flagitious Edicts and Engagements t●… command and injoyn both Ministers all other Subjects to abjure their former hereditary Kings their Heirs lawful Successors against all Scripture presidents Laws their former Oaths of Fealty Homage Allegiance Supremacy Protestation Vow Leagues Solemn Covenant to be true loyal faithful and obedient Subjects to them their Heirs and Successors and to maintain and defend their Persons Rights Jurisdictions and Crowns with their lives and estates against all attempts conspiracies and machinations whatsoever but to inhibit under severe penalties all publick and private Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings unto God in their behalfs even in their greatest extremities when they stand most in need of them And to commit imprison sequester and cast any Subjects into a Lions den for obeying God herein rather than men as th●… High-Priests heretofore committed and imprisone●… the Apostles and the Babylonian Princes and King the Prophet Daniel the extremity of Tyranny Impiety and devilish persecution which God will most severely revenge and recompence in due season 4. That for any professing themselves the chiefest of all Saints and men truly fearing God to obliterate deface remove out of all our Churches Chapels Courts publick Halls places the Arms of their lawful Kings to erect only a bloody Crosse and Irish Harp in their steads and to deleate in some places these sacred Texts of Prov. 24. 21. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King c. 1 Pet. 2. 17. Fear God honour the King and in other places HONOUR the King permitting Fear God to stand alone on the Church walls and other places where they were painted or carved near the Kings Arms and to make such a strange divorce between these 2. sentences which God himself hath united and so strictly conjoyned both in the Old Testament and New That so the Ministers and people might be thereby deterred not only from honoring praying for their Kings as God enjoyns them but induced to cast off the very fear publick worship of God himself provoked at last to say with the despairing Idolatrous revolting 10. tribes of Israel Hos. 10. 3. We have no King because we feared not the Lord what then should King do to us a crime whereof so me swaying Grandees have been deeply guilty in our 3. Kingdoms is in truth the highest strain of Apostacy Irreligion pr●…fessed Atheism and contempt of God that ever men professing themselves Saints or Christians were guilty of in any age since the Creation And for others of them to say in the very Church and presence of God himself with much passion as one of the sitting Juncto did very lately that the word KING doth so stick in our Ministers mouths and teeth that it will never be well till it be thrust and forced down their throats by force and armed Tyranny only because Mr. Case in his prayer after Sermon at St. Martins Church on the Lords day prayed That God according to his promise and in his own sense and meaning would be graciously pleased to make Kings to become Nursing-Fathers and Queens to be Nursing-Mothers to his Church is such a transcendent strain of Atheistical impiety Antimonarchical malice brutish Tyranny and Barbarity as should make our very hearts and loins to q uake and will certainly draw down the extremity of Gods vengeance on those who are guilty thereof if not on our whole now miserably distracted oppressed and almost ruined Kingdoms if not timely repented of 5ly That Kings and Monarchy are the very best most desirable happyest peaceablest honorablest safest Governors and Governments of all others in the world because in the first place we are commanded obliged by God himself to make supplications intercessions prayers and thanksgivings unto him for them that under them 〈◊〉 live a peaceable and quiet life in all godlinesse and honesty but never for a Commonwealth by name and all Christian Nations in all ages have accordingly practiced it as the premises and second pa●…t will abundantly demonstrate 6ly That ever since we neglected disused and gave over this publick Christian duty for our just hereditary Kings their heirs successors and royal posterity and have abandoned abjured engaged against them and Kingship we have never had nor enjoyed a quiet and peaceable life in Church or State and have generally abandoned all real godlinesse and honesty which are hardly to be found in any of our 3. Kingdoms especially amongst our Grandees Army-Officers and those refined sublimated Saints of the last edition who most pretend unto them and have done acted voted setled nothing that is good or acceptable in the sight of God the Father or tending towards the Temporal or eternal salvation of all men and reducing them to the knowledge much lesse the practice of the truth but we have been still disquieted vexed oppressed tormented with endless wars tumults revolutions of Governors and Governments intollerable taxes excises losses decay 〈◊〉 trade by Land and Sea errors schismes sects heresie●… blasphemies of all sorts and an inundation of all vices sins hypocrisies perjuries treacheries and wickednesses which may hasten our total and final dissolution without any hopes of mercy restauration or future settlement or hearts or wisdom to lay hold of those manifold opp●…rtunities which Gods wonder-working providence hath put into our hands to preserve and restore us if timely laid hold on and improved by us for that end 7. That the only ready hopefull christian divine and most effectual means now left and prescribed by God to every private Minister Christian Family Church and our three ruined lacerated distracted Kingdoms to recover and restore their long expected and vainly endeavoured pristine peace quietness settlement trade godliness honesty honor prosperity the saving knowledg power sincere profestion and truth of the Gospel with all other blessings of this and a better life and to put a period to all future wars revolutions tumults oppressions tyrannies taxes heresies blasphemies and Jesuitical designs now threatning ruine both to our Churche Kingdoms Families and Poste●…ities is for all and every of them publickly and privately to revive and practise these duties with constancy frequency zeal fervency resolution for our undoubted hereditary King and the royal posterity in their and our greatest distresses according to the premised Commands and Presidents recorded in Scripture by God himself and the Presidents of all Gods Saints and people in former Ages maugre all oppositions or inhibitions of poor

percussionis jaculum fulminosum completo videlicet spatio viginti duorum annorum undè Christiani qui priùs in sylvis opacissimisque locis se posuerant within this our Island of Britain as well as in other places during the reigns of Dioclesian Maximinian and Licinius who grievously persecuted them in publicum se ostendentes under Constantine the Great renovant Ecclesias quae usque ad solum undique erant destructae Quo in tempore aedificata est Ecclesia Wintoniensis secundò ab Christi fidelium oblationibus The Christians daily Prayers and tears to God in this our Island being the principal means to cease their former persecutions under their cruel Pagan Emperours and to procure them peace and prosperity under this first Christian Emperor Constantine for whose long life and prosperous reign they daily Prayed unto God in the Churches they re-edified and repaired during his pious Reign Guithelin Archbishop of London in the the year of our Lord 455. being ●…ent by the Christian Britons of our Island into Britain in France to crave ayde against the barbarous Nations who invaded murdered spoyled and miserably oppressed them thereupon Androenus King of the French Britons sent his Brother Constantine with 2000. men unto them upon condition they should elect and crown him for their King Which expedition Constantine undertaking Guithelin thereupon brake out into these gratulatory Acclamations and Prayers unto Christ for him Christus vincit Christus regnat Christus imperat Assit igitur gratia Christi Regi Britanniae qui est defensio nostra ut insulam miserimam ad pristinam reducat libertatem Christ overcommeth Christ reigneth Christ commandeth Therefore let the grace of Christ be present and assistant to the King of Britain who is our defence that he may reduce the miserable Island to its pristine liberty A Prayer as suitable for our miserable exiled King and Island now as for this their new British King and Island in that Age wherein the other Bishops and Christian Britons made the like Prayers for him both at and after his Coronation as Guithelin did before it Our famous B●…itish King Aurelius Ambrosius after he had destroyed and burnt the bloody Regicide and Usurper Vortigern and conquered and exiled the Pagan Saxons in the year of Ch●…ist 488. repaired and new built the Churches they had demolished placed P●…iests and Clerks in them restored divine service to its due state conserred many Gifts Rents and Revenues upon Church-men Et orare pro Regno et Ecclesiae statu omnibus imperavit And he commanded all men to pray for the Realm and state of the Church which no doubt they performed accordingly in their Churches not fo●…getting to pray likewise for this good King who repaired them and restored Christianity To pretermit Saint Patricks Prayers and Petitions to God for the seven Kings he baptized and the Irish he converted to the Faith with his ascending into a Mount and there fasting forty daies ut orarct pro cis that he might pray for them Pope Gregory the 1. in his Epistle to Aldeberga or rather B●…ha wife to King Edilbert before his conversion to the faith of Christ who after her conversion was very instrumental to help convert the King and his subjects to the faith useth this thanksgiving and prayer to God on her behalf Omnipotentem Deum Benediximus qui conversionem Gentis Anglorum mercedi vestrae dignatus est propitius reservare c. Bona vestra non soli m jam apud Romanos qui pro vita vestra fortius oraverunt s●…d etiam per diversa loca et usque Constantinopolim ad Serenissimum Principem pervenerunt ut sicut nobis de Christianitatis vestrae solatiis laetitia facta est ita quoque de perfecta operatione vestra Angelis fiat gaudium in coelis c. Ut et hîc foelicitèr cum glorioso filio nostro conjuge vestro regnetis et post longa Annorum tempora futurae quoque vitae gaudia quae finem habere nesciunt capiatis Oramus autem Omni potentem Deum ut gloriae vestrae cor et ad operanda quae diximus gratiae suae ig●…e succendat et aeternae mercedis fructum vobis de placita sibi operatione concedat The same Pope Gregory in his Epistle to Edilbert King of Kent exhorted him willingly to hear devoutly to perform and studiously to keep in memory what Augustin then his Bishop should admonish him for this reason Quia si vos eum in eo quod pro omnipotenti Deo loquitur auditis idem Omnipotens Deus hunc pro vobis exorantem celerius exaudiet Si enim quod absit verba ejus postponitis quomodo eum omnipotens Deus poterit audire pro vobis quem vos negligitis audire pro Deo A clear evidence that Augustin and other Bishops and Christians in that age devoutly and constantly prayed to God for King Edilbert Tota igitur mente cum eo vos in fervore fidei stringite atque adnisum illius virtute quam vobis divi●…tas tribuit adjuvate ut regni sui vos ipse faciat participes cujus vos fidem in regno vestro recipi facitis et cus●…odiri After which he concludes his Epistle with this prayer for this Kings spiritual temporal and eternal safety long life felicity and salvation Omnipotens itaque De●…s in vobis gratiam quam coepit p●…rficiat atque vitam vestram et hic per multorum annorum curricula extendat et post longa tempora in caelestis ves Patriae congregatione recipiat Incolumem excellentiam vestram gra●…ia suprema custodiat Domine fili 10 Julii Anno 19. Mauritii Tiberii A●…sti Pope Boniface in his Epistle to King Ethelbert sent by 〈◊〉 Bishop of Lond●…n Anno Dom. 615. p●…ayes thus for him In Christo valeas Domine 〈◊〉 Edwin King of Northumberland promi ed to renounce hi●… Idolatry and to serve Christ because Edelb●…rga his Q●…een being a Christian by the p●…ayers of Paulinus Bishop of the Nor●…humberlanders was delivered without much pain of a child Wherupon E●…iscopus gratias caepit agere Domino Christo Regique astruere Q●…od ●…lle precibus suis a●…ud illum ob●…nuerit ut Regina sospes absque dolore gravi sobolem procrearet But this King deferring his Conversion to Christianity contrary to his promise Thereupon Pope Boniface writ to Queen Edelburga to use all possible means for her Kings conversion and amongst others to make fervent Prayers to God for his illumination and salvation Unde orationi continuò insistens a longanimitate coeleftis clementiae illuminationis illius beneficia impetrare non desinas Ut videlicet quos copulatio carnalis affectus unum quodammodo corpus exhibuisse ministratur hos quoque unitas fidei etiam post hujus vitae transitum in perpetua societate conservet A●… hoc enim misericordiam Dominicae pietatis consecuta es ut fructum fidei creditorumque tibi

Per me Reges regnant Principes imperant in manu sua corda sunt Regum rogamus et obsecramus ut eam in suo sancto proposito confirmet ejusque devotionem multiplicet ac praeclaris pro sancta fide gestis ita illustret ac toti Orbi terrarum conspicuam reddat ut judicium quod de ipsa fecimus eam tam insigni titulo decorantes à nemine falsum aut vanum judicari possit Demum mortatis bujus vitae finito curriculo sempiternae illius gloriae consortem atque participem reddat The 2 is William Wraghton an acute Protestant Writer who in his Epistles to King Henry the 8th before his two Books intituled The Hunting of the Romish Fox printed at Basyl 1543. And his Reseuing of the Romish Fox against Stephen Gardner printed 1545. Wisheth him prosperity both of Body and Soul closing his last Epistle to him with this Prayer God grant you health both of Body and Soul victory over your Enemies and Grace to do in this our matter of Religion as shall be most to the Glory of God and the profit of the Common-wealth Amen And he closeth his last Treatise with this Prayer God save the King The third is our learned Protestant Divine Thomas Beacon who in his Path-way unto Prayer dedicated to the Lady Anne Grey ch 55. hath this Godly exhortation to all private Christians Let u●… flee to God at all times with h●…mble Obsecrations and hearty Requests Let our Prayers be continual Let us in all our Prayers seek the glory of God the advancement of his most blessed word and the health of our own Souls Let us pray for the preservation of the Kings most excellent Majesty H. 8. and for the prosp●…rous successe of his ●…ntirely-beloved Son Edward our Prince that most Angel-like Impe. Let us pray for all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal specially for those that have the regiment of the Publick-weal under the Kings Graces Highness Let us pray for the Ministers of Gods Word that they may freely speak the truth of Christs Gospel as it becommeth them Let us pray for all men universally chiefly for the Inhabitants of this Realm of England That they may all bear a faithfull heart both towards God and our King Upon the Reformation of Religion and abolishing of Popish Missals Psalters Howers 〈◊〉 and Portuasses by King Edward the sixth in his Parliament 2 3 Edw. 6. ch 10. the King by advice of his Convocation and Parliament commanded A Book of Common-prayer and Administration of the Sacraments in the English Tongue to be used in all Churches and Chapels throughout the Realm by the Statutes of 2 E. 6 c. 1. 5 6 E. 6. c. 1. Wherein there was not only a Prayer for the King in the Letany but in a special Collect agreeing in substance with those in our later Books of Common-Prayer hereafter cited In this pious Kings reign the Bishops and Ministers in their Epistles and Dedications to him and in their Prayers before after their Sermons usually prayed most heartily and particularly for his long life religious and prosperous reign and spiritual temporal and eternal felicity And John Bale Bishop of Ossery in his Image of both Churches or Paraphrase upon St. Johns Revelation printed 1550. in the Iast page thereof exhorts all Gods meek-spirited Servants in their daily Prayer afore all other to remember that most worthy Minister of God King Edward the sixth which hath so sore wounded the Beast that he may throw all his Superstition into the bottomlesse lake again from whence they have comen to the comfort of his People Our learned Thomas Beacon in his Preface to The Flower of Godly Prayers dedicated to Anne Dutchesse of Somerset as he doth exceedingly blesse God for the extraordinary zeal and piety of King Edward the 6th in delivering his Realm from Antichristian Tyranny and Popery reforming the Church propagating true religion and in giving us this most worthy Prince to be our King So he hath this particular Prayer for the King to be used by all private Christians daily in their respective Families and Closets with zeal and devotion Almighty God King of Kings and Lord of Lords which by thy divine ordinance hast appointed Temporal Rulers to govern thy People according to equity and justice and to live among them as a loving Father among his natural Children unto the advancement of the good and punishment of the evil we most humbly beseech thee favourably to behold Edward thy Servant our King and Governour and to breath into his heart through thy holy Spirit that Wisdom that is ever about the Throne of thy Majesty whereby he may be provoked moved and stirred to love fear and serve thee to seek thy glory to banish Idolatry Superstition and Hypocrisy out of this his Realm and unfeignedly to avance thy holy and pure Religion among us his Subjects unto the example of other forein Nations O Lord defend him from his enemies send him long and prosperous life among us and give him grace not only in his own Person godly and justly to rule but also to appoint such Magistrates under him as may be likewise affected both toward thy holy Word and toward the Common-we●…l that his Subjects living under his Dominion in all godlinesse peace and wealth may passe the time of this our short pilgrimage in thy fear and service unto the glory of thy blessed name which alone is worthy all honour for ever and ever Amen Next after this follow●… one Prayer for the Kings Council And after that a Prayer for the common peace and quietnesse of all Realms very seasonable for our times And in his Pomaunder of Prayer he hath this Prayer of Subjects or Commons As it is thy godly appointment O Lord God That some should bear rule in the world to see thy Glory set forth and the common peace kept so is it thy pleasure again that some should be Subjects and Inferiours to others in their vocation although before thee there is no respect of Persons And for as much as it is thy good will to appoint me in the number of Subjects I beseech thee to give me a faithfull and an obedient heart unto the High Powers that there may be found in me no Disobedience no Unfaithfullnesse no Treason no Falsehood no Dissimulation no Insurrection no Commotion no Conspiracy nor any kind of Rebellion in Word or Deed against the Civil Magistrates But all Faithfulnesse Quietnesse Subjection Humility and whatsoever else becommeth a Subject That I living here in all lowlynesse of mind may at the last day through thy favour be lifted up into everlasting Glory wh●…re ●…hou with the Father and the Holy Ghost livest and reignest very God for ever Amen These were the Godly Loyal fervent daily publick and private Prayers of Protestant Ministers and Subjects for King Edward the 6th in that Age. Queen Mary a Popish Prince

vobis Rempublicam servent in quo ●…am vos adhuc nutantem collocavistis Trebellius Pollio relates that when the Senate was informed on the 9th of March that Claudius was made Emperor the Senate went to the Temple of Apollo to celebrate divine rites Et lectis literis Claudii Principis haec in Claudium dicta sunt Aug. Claudi Dii te nobis praestent dictum sexagies Claudi Auguste Principem te aut qualis tues semper optavimus dictum quadragies Claudi Auguste te Respub requirebat tu frater tu pater tu amicus tu bonus Senator tu verè Princeps dictum octuagies At another time acclamavit Senatus Claudi Dux fortissimè habeas virtutibus tuis devotioni tuae Claudio statuam omnes dicamus c. Felicem te Claudi judicio Principum felicem et virtutibus tuis Consulem te te Praefectum VIVAS VALERIE AMERIS A PRINCIPE The Emperor Aurelianus in his wars against the M●…comanni writ to the Senate ut inspiciantur fatales libri quibus spes belli terminandi SACRATA DEORUM IMPERIA TERMINANTUR And by his Letters ROGAVIT OPEM DEORVM quae nunquam cuiquam turpis est ut vir fortissimus admiretur Whereupou by the Decree of the Senate the High-Priests Senate and People went to the Temple and offered Sacrifices Devotions and solemnities to the Gods for his good success and victory over his and their enemies When Tacitus was nominated Emperor by the Senate Omnis Senatus acclamavit Tacite Auguste D●… TE SERVENT te diligimus te Principem facimus tibi ●…ram Reipublicae orbisque mandamus suscipe Imperium ex Senatus auctoritate c. And when he refu●…ed to accept the Dignity by reason of his Age acclamationes Senatus fuerunt Et Trajanus ad Imperium senex venit dixerunt decies c. Antoninum tamen non corpus eligimus dixerunt vicies TACITE AUGUSTEDII TE SERVENT Statimque acclamatum est Omnes omnes After this Itum est ad campum Martium comitiale tribunal ascendit ibi Praefectus urbis Aelius Caesenanus sic locutus est Vos sanctisimi milites et sacratissimi vos Quirites habetis Principem quem de sententia omnium exercituum Senatus elegit Tacitum dico augustissimum virum ut qui hactenus sententiis suis Rempublicam juv●… nunc juvit jussis atque cons●…ltis Acclamatum est a populo felicissime Tacite Auguste Dii te servent et reliqua quae solent dici Probus comming to the Army when there wanted an Emperor Quasi divino nutu undique AB OMNIBUS ACCLAMATUM EST PROBE AUGUSTE DII TE SERVENT Deinde concursus cespititium tribunal appellatusque Imperator ornatus etiam pa●…io purpureo quod de statua templi ornatum est atque inde ad Palatium reductus invitus et retrectans et saepe dic●…ns Non vobis expedit milites non mecum bene agitis Ego enim vobis blandiri non possum After his Letters read in the Senat their Opinions being demanded accl matumest PROBE AUGUSTE D●…I TE SERVENT Olim dignus et fortis et justus bonus ductor bonus Imperator Exemplum militis exemplum Imperii DII TE SERVENT A●…rtor Reipublicae FELIX IMPERES Magister militis FELIX IMPERES TE CUM TUIS DII CUSTODIANT c. After which Manlius Statianus the President made an Oration beginning thus Diis Immortalibus gratias et prae caeteris Patres conscripti Iovi optimo qui nobis Principem talem qualem semper optabamus dederunt Si recte cogitemus non nobis Aurelianus non Alexander non Antonini non Trajanus non Claudius requirendi sunt omnia in uno Principe constituta sunt c. Decerno igitur Patres conscripti votis omnium concinnentibus nomen Caesareum nomen Augustum addo Proconsulare imperium Patris patriae reverentiam Pontificatum maximum jus tertiae relationis tribuniciam potestatem Post haec acclamatum est Omnes omnes To pretermit all other Presidents of this kind in Histories and in Panegyrical Orations Poems Epistles and Inscriptions by the Pagan Romans to their Heathen Emperors expressing their Prayers Supplications Intercessious Thanksgivings Acclamations Vows Applauses in behalf of their Emperors both at their elections inaugurations confirmations triumphs congiaries and all other occasions I shall conclude with these already cited being full punctual and rarely taken notice of these Pagans by the light of Nature punctually pursuing the Apostles exhortation 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. to the shame of those Christians who neglect it A Corollary to the 5. precedent Chapters I Should now proceed to the 3. remaining Chapters wherein I shall evidence by manifold notable punctual Testimonies Presidents and Records not Vulgarly known 1. The constant practice of the Christians and Churches of this our Island of Great Britain from Lucius the first Christian King thereof till Jan. 30. 1648. the day of King Charles his bloody death in making supplications prayers intercessions and thanksgivings unto God for their Kings Queens and their royal posterity both in publick and private devotions and in their Epistles addresses to them whether good or bad pious or impious orthodox or heterodox gracious or tyrannical 2. The universal practice of all the primitive Christians Churches Fathers Councils under the Roman Emperors and Kings after they turned Christians and of their successors in all succeding ages to this present in doing the like 3. The usual special forms of prayers collects supplications and thanksgivings at the solemn Inaugurations and Coronations of their Emperors Kings and Princes But these being somewhat long and requiring more time to digest and publish them than I am yet master of I shall reserve them God willing for a Second part if this find acceptation as no doubt it will with all pious real Subjects truly fearing God and honoring their lawfull King I shall therefore cloze up this part with a few brief Corollaries and Conclusions deduced from and warranted by the premised Chapters 1. That it is not a meer arbitrary and voluntary but the very bounden commanded indispensible duty of every Christian and Subject whatsoever but more especially of Ministers and Clergy-men by the Law of God Nature Nations to make daily hearty fervent constant supplications prayers intercessions and thanksgivings unto God for their lawfull Emperors Kings Princes and their royal Posterity where hereditary whether their Emperors or Kings be Infidels Idolaters Papists Hereticks Persecutors Tyrants or Orthodox Christians Protestants Just Righteous Pious Mercifull and Fathers to their people And that it is not only a great sin and impiety against God but a high contempt Indignity Disloyalty and Treason to their Soveraigns to neglect and give over these duties or coldly or rarely to perform them 2. That these duties are more frequently fervently and constantly to be practised by Ministers and all other Subjects and Christians in the times of their Emperors Kings and Princes greatest Dangers Troubles Trials Distresses Exiles