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A85584	Great Britans [sic] vote: or, God save King Charles. A treatise seasonably published this 27th. day of March, the happy inauguration of his sacred (though now despised and imprisoned) Maiesty. Wherein is proved by many plaine texts of Scripture, that the resisting, imprisoning, or deposing our King, under what specious pretences soever couched, is not onely unlawfull but damnable.		1648 (1648)	Wing G1670; Thomason E431_26; ESTC R202345	36,900	55

Question that judgement bee executed upon them and then either behead or hang them or banish them or plunder them or at least imprison them oh unpar●lleld disputants This is most certainly true witnesse the case of Corew Lilborne J●nkins Mainard yea which ought to make a deepe Impression in all good mens hearts of the Kings Majesty himselfe whom they unjustly keep a Prisoner because he will not contrary to his Conscience and Honour say as they say and enact that for Law which contrary to Law they Vote and accuse him of his Fathers Murther and other crimes of a high nature and yet not admit him to answer for himselfe or permit others to write in his Vindication So that th se things considered heare oh heavens and judge oh eart● have not all the people of great Britan just cause to joyne as their loyall obedience bindes them to their necessary service both in hearts and voices to Almighty God the protector of Kings to a Psal 2● 8 9. finde out all his enemies and make them like a fiery Oven in the time of his anger to confound all their Conspiraci●s making them like the grasse b Psal 119.6 on the house tops which withereth before it come forth And when more seasonable than upon this day for this is the day of our King c. CHAP. III. BVt besides these Reasons I shall here produce other causes and motives to induce all good Subjects to this Christian service and loyall duty to pray continually for the preservation of the King which because many and manifold I will but touch some of them and omit the re●● for we must be short ●●●im 2.2 The first is the Apostle Paules Precept ante omnia before al that Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving of thanks bee made for Kings c. and renders a powerfull motive to perswade all consi●ting of three benefits d P●s● in ●●●um arising from it 1. a quiet and peaceable life 2. in all godlinesse and honesty 3. this is good and acceptable in the sight of God The Kings preservation is our preservation his welfare is the weal of our Common-wealth Pliny saith e Plin. 2 Pan●g ad Pra●● 〈◊〉 A Countrey is unhappy under an unhappy King so that if people desire to live a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty let them like dutifull members pray for the prosperity of the supreame head for if he fall upon the rocks they are like to come to ruine As a Ship whose Pilot perisheth is driven upon the rocks and so is cast away even so how can the ship of State saile with a prosperous winde whose Regall Pilot suffers shipwracke Regall adversity is the Harbenger of popular calamity and a Kings imprisonment of his peoples perpetuall slavery Wherefore if Subjects desire to bee happy themselves let them continually pray for the happinesse of their Soveraign whose prosperity is the Axis or Cardo the very foundation of their temporall felicity 2 Motive is the great difficulty in the right managing of the Regall Office and therefore had need to be assisted with the frequent and fervent prayers of the people imploring divine wisedome to direct the heart of their Soveraigne for it is the Art of Arts rightly to rule and governe Common-wealths this many-headed multitude so divided in faction and action scarce two of one minde or mould Peace pleaseth Cato Warre Pompey the Souldier cryes Arma virumque Cano War war that makes us merrie the Merchant prays give peace in our time oh Lord Brutus desires a Common-wealth Caesar a Monarchy Cicero's Counsel is Let us be Time-servers but Lentulus thinks that the voice of a flatterer in the f popular sort as many heads as hearts and let every one doe what seemes good in his owne eyes wee will not have Charles King in our Israel So that to reconcile and to reclaime to unity and unanimity this Babell of men and these men of Babell it is requisite that the King be for the people to God-ward Exod. 18.19 bring their causes unto God teach them Ordinances and Lawes shew them the way wherein they must walke V. 20. and the worke that they must doe and then provide out of all the people able men V. 2● such as feare God men of truth who may judge the people in every small matter though every great matter be brought to him V. 22. so that each starre moving in its proper Orbe about the Sun who by this influence of his power unto others is not thereby accounted falne from his Sphere himselfe no more than to be conceited to bee placed therein at first by their appointment though such preposterous opinions have beene vented of late to the distraction of this poore Kingdome and without a timely retraction will produce its utter ruine and destruction which God of his mercy prevent I say that so each one in the Kingdome acting in his owne place the Commons under the Iudges or Peeres the Peeres or Iudges under the King and the King under God alone then shall the King be able to judge and rule this people wish ease and comfortably and all this people shall also goe to their place in peace ● ●od ●8 23 Now 't is the God of Heaven onely that can qualifie Kings with wisedome and knowledge fit for an imployment of such difficulty and he alone it is that will and must appoint the person whom he will thus qualifie For the Israel of God must accept of acknowledge and obey him for their King wh m the Lord their God shall chose not then whom themselves shall elect Deut. 17 15. Vnto God then it is the duty of all good subjects to pray alwayes with all manner of prayer and Supplication in the Spirit that God would enlarge with heavenly wisedome the heart of our Soveraigne and the Kings a Prov. 21.2 heart is in the hand of the Lord and furnish him with all blessed gifts sutable to performe his Royall Task making him as wise as b 2 Chr. 1.21 Solomon as religious as c Psal 27.4 Davia as zealous as the good King d 2 Kin. 2● 1● Iosias and in respect of his present condition as patient as Iob defending him against all forraine Invasions delivering him from all domestick Conspiracies and giving him Liberty from his present Captivity that so being by the power of our God restored to his Throne and Dignity full of the knowledge and experience of the great goodnesse of God towards him and endued with the wisedome which is ahout the Throne of the King of Kings with an understanding heart may judge this great people and awe and order this stiffe-necked and Rebellious nation then shall all this people also go to their owne place in peace and sit under their owne Vines and Fig-trees being for the future godly and governed quietly under him saying this is the day of our King this is a day of good

tidings wee should not doe well should wee hold our peace the very stones in the streets will reprove us and the timber out of the wall upbraid our silence by their acclamations exciting our dull affections to shoute for joy and pray God save King Charles CHAP. IV. ANd truly there are five things to name no more which all good subjects owe unto their Soveraigne ●●is Prayer 2 Obedience 3. Honour 4. Service 5. Tribute And if any Subject deny any one of these the King may take him by the throat and say a Matth. 18.28 Solve quod debes Pay that thou owest 1. First is Prayer to pray for the Kings preservation on earth and salvation in Heaven The heathen Chaldeans may learn Christians this lesson who cryed to their King b Dan. 3.9 Nebuchadrezar O King live for ever As King c 1 Kin. 8.34.36 Solomon prayed for his people so ought his people to pray for him s ying of their Lord the King as King David speakes of the Lord of Israel Blessed d Psal 106.48 be the Lord God of Jsrael for ever and ever and let all the people say Amen saying to the King as Amasa and his company said to David e 1 Chron. 12.18 Thine are we O David and with thee O son of Ishai peace peace be unto thee and peace be unto thy helpers and the Lord thy God in his good time be thy helper That tongue that will not pray for his Majesties present liberty from prison and honourable re-establishment in his lawfull Throne and Kingdome and for the future Peace Prosperity and preservation of so vertuous a Prince and their anointed Soveraigne is such a tongue as the Apostle Iames f Iam. 3.6 speakes of fire and a world of wickednesse and is set on fire of hell for saith Austin the just man never ceases to pray unlesse he cease to be just much lesse should he cease to poure forth fervent and faithfull supplications for the King that under him wee may lead a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty Such ungodly and undutifull subjects as will not unloose the strings of their tongues to pray for the safety and felicity of the King we wish that they were like the men at the river Ganges who it wee credit the report of Strabe have no tongues g M●●●● 2● better is it to enter into the kingdome of Heaven losing a member then having such an ungodly member to be cast into hell fi●● But herein many times the tongue is m●re offici●us then the heart with tongue they cry Hosanna h but in heart like Iewes wish crucifige with a verb●● service many abound crying and ●ringing vivat Rex but withall store it hoc Parliamentum and that will never make a good prayer A King had need call to his subjects as God to his servants i 〈◊〉 2● ●● give me thy heart the world is full of faire tongues but false hearts none but the great searcher of the heart hath a window in the heart to see who honour with lippes and their hearts farre from him So that Kings had need examine their subjects as k 〈◊〉 2● ●5 Christ did Peter thrice dost thou love me The world hath bred so many protestors of the Romish and so many professors of the Sectaries doctrine of devillish equivocation and Parliamentiz'd creatures profound in the art of diss●mulation that many men are like God● in Sands in dubio pelagi ter●●ve doubtfull whether to belong to sea or land tempo●●●ers or neuters like the l R●● 3.15 Church of Laodicea neither hot ●●r cold either Prince or Pope Parliament or Levellers please them Monarchy Aristocracy Democracy yea An●●chy all alike to them As for Religion Protestanisme ●op●ry Put i●a●●sme Anabaptisme Turkisme Heathenisme Atheisme o● wh●tever the grand Councell shall countena●ce is equally received by them These like the Camel●on assume any shape fashionable to the time to whom yet I doubt not but God will one day say Because ye are luke-warm profess●●s neither hot nor cold I will spue ye out of my mo●th Rev 3.16 Such as these study Machiavell more then the Gospel m M●●● 〈…〉 c. 3. ●ashion themselves to the favour●ble fortune of the time and thinke themselves happy as n Ma●● 〈…〉 he counts those Princes happy whose counsels are successively correspondent to the condition of the times The prayers of such temporizers whose tongues may flame but their hearts are as cold as a stone are abhominable in the sight of God Esto religiosu in Deum qui●●ir il●um Imperatori●sse propitium saith Tertullian n T●●t A●oc c. 34. The Lord is far off the wicked but hee neareth the prayers of the righteous saith o 〈◊〉 v. 15. ●● Sal●m●n God will not be●●e the prayers of these Church-nea●ers yea Chu●●h-haters n● more then the idolatr●●us I●wes p Ezech. 8.18 Th●ugh they cry in any eares with a loud voice yet will not I heare them And therefore that we may performe our first bounden duty unto the King acceptable to the King of Kings in making hearty and humble prayers for the freedome restauration protection and preservati●n of his Majesty let all the people in his Realm from ●igh to low from great to small doe this comfortable and Christian service fervently feelingly and ●aithfully unto the Lord night and day crying and craving God save the King The Lord hath commanded this duty to pray not on●●r good Kings but even for bad Kings When Paul gave that Apostolicall counsell 1 Timothy 2.1 2. to pray for for Kings Caligula Claudius or Nero most bloody Pagan Emperours then raigned q Baruc. 1. ●●● Ier. 29.7 So Abraham prayed for K. Ab●m●lech Gen. 20.27 So ●●ob H●ss●d Kin● Pharoah Gen. 47.10 Pray for the life of Nebuchadnezar King of Babylon and for the life of Balthasar his sonne that their dayes might bee on earth as the dayes of heaven So the Lord commanded the Iewes to pray for the peace of the City of Babylon where Nebuchadnezar raigned If then the Lord charg and command to pray for such Governours as were Pagans Persecutors Idolaters Infidels how devoutely and deeply are all loyall subjects ●ound to pray and to praise God for the blessed government of Zealous and Christian Kings Especially how more ought we to pray for so religious and gracious a King and to beseech God with prostrate soules to visit and set him at liberty now after the time he hath afflicted him and permitted his restraint and comfort him with joy and gladnesse for the yeares wherein hee hath suffered adversity and for the future to defend him and his from all the treacherous traines and rebellious plots whether of forraine foes or home hatcht parricides whether corner creeping Iesuits of the Romish party or house-preaching Iudasses of Schismaticall faction To deliver from and strengthen him against whom let us we doe implore the hand of heaven to Sentinell ov●● him