to this star Brittany in ships shall humbly cast her self at his knees for mercy imploring assistance from him Touching the former part oâ— this verse or particle of the said Prophecy somewhat might be truly said concerning the right of that Crown and Kingdome to whom it belongs But I shall not presume to press or say any thing concerning that but take the Poets expression for a premonition Cum Canerem Reges Praelia Cynthius aurem vellit And rest satisfied with that saying quae supra nos nihil ad nos His Majesty is Wise and Valiant and when Gods appointed time shall come the Divine hand will restore to his Majesty those Dominions which his Divine Majesty hath determined for his Enjoyment as he hath to those of great Brittain and Ireland which leads me to the latter part of the verse of this Prophecy And Brittany in ships shall humbly cast her self at his Knees or Mercy imploring assistance from him how perfectly this is fulfilled ther 's none surely so blind or impudent as to deny the accomplishment hereof and those Astrologers of our Nation who have heretofore either infirmly impudently or impiously opposed the application of this Prophecy to our present sacred Soveraign whom God hath in so signall a manner severall waies eminently owned as his King his Vice-gerent on Earth will be clearly connced by these evident accomplishments of the most materiall parts of this Prophecy and with all submissive acknowledgement confesse their Errours and Ignorance and humbly implore Gods the Kings and the peoples pardon for their false malevolent calculations and deceitful delusions in denying Gods divine Decrees detracting from his Majesties true honor and deluding the people And in all humility acknowledge his Majesty our Soveraign Lord Charls the Second to be that person intended by the said Prophecy presaged by the said Star in 1572 confirmed by that celestiall sign appearing at his Birth the Pleiades whose sweet influences have in several respects plainly appeared And will attribute as justly due to his Majesty that stile and title of Eagle of the North New Star of the North Lyon of the North sole Monarch of the fourth Monarchy Septentrionall to be settled and seated in the North. The Septentrional Lyon being signified by his Majesties Star of Nativity the Pleiades and also by the Kings Armes both of England and Scotland both bearing Lyons England three Lyons passant and Scotland the Lyon Rampant And Septentrio signifying the North Star being the same with his Majesties Birth-Star scilicet sidus ex septem stellis quae Triones dicuntur And Sidus being derived ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod plures simul videntur vel quod fit plurium stellarum conventus vel ex seder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ordo significat enim ordines stellarum the Pleiades being Conventus 7 em stellarum quae ita ordine sunt sitae ut ternae quaeque stellae proximae inter se trigonon constituunt meaning thereby his Majesties three-fold present diadem or Dominion to be amplified to a â—ld And as Divine Providence had so preordained that the Preachers Text at the time of the appearing of that Star should be a Riddle so doubtlesse many mysterious secrets observations may be from the 7n Stars deduced the most Mysterious numbers of three and seven seven Stars so placed together that every three next make a Trigonon or three quarter triangular or three square figur escomprehended in the word or sign Septentrio septem Triones or ter septem signifying perhaps his Majesties first action in the 21 year of his Age wherein divine Deliverance with Honour appeared The Pleiades Ministring plentifull matter of serious consideration which I shall leave to some other opportunity For although his Maje prevailed not in the first attempt yet a dark and cloudy morning may and did presage a bright Sun-shine day of a more happy Conquest to ensue without blood even over the hearts of his people Our now most gracious King is the 3d. Monarch of great Britain and the 3d. Prince of Wales of the name Charles though the second King of that name into this Prince happily Divine Providence hath determined to infuse all the vertues and powers of his Ancestors the former Monarchs and Princes of these Nations and to make his Majesty more eminently glorious and famous then any or either of those or of his former Predecessors and out of a three-old Dominion or Diadem to enlarge his Territories to a seven-fold Empire which by the seven Stars seems to be signified What means that following part of the Sybills Prophecy in these words Italy pawsing with great difficulty about these trouble some Governments and Scepters will signifie her right hand unto him meaning the Star of the great house of the North whether Rome standing on seven Hills be intended for the right hand of Italy in the Prophecy it matters not 'T is not improbable to be believed that our Carolus Maximus assisting the Christian shall extend his Empire into the Mahumetan Territories I dare engage my life our Charle-main into a seven-fold Soveraignty of Dominion Rides triumphant in his Chariot of incomparable conquests else what means Charls his Wain seven Stars or Peliades The number Seven is a number of various and manifold power if we consider the several parts thereof and the joyning together of them we shall confesse as well by the joyning as by its fullnesse apart that it is most full of Majesty The Pythagorians call it vehiculum vitae because it contains Body and Soul The body consisting of four Elements and the number three respects the soul in its three-fold power rationall irascible and concupiscible seven consisting of 3 and 4. This number as some learned Philosophers affirm joyning the soul to the body the vertue hereof relates to the generation of mankind and causeth Man to be conceived formed brought forth nourished live and indeed altogether to subsist as by many particulars too long to relate might be proved It is most evident our Charlemain is the vehiculum vitae of these three Nations the onely supporting Atlas of the State quasi divinitus ortus the prime and principall Pillar of the safety and welfare of these three Kingdoms Carolus alter ut Atlas est divinitus ortus Hic humeris Coelum sustinet ille Statum There is also in Celestials a most potent power of this number 7 There are four corners of the Heaven diametrically looking one towards the other which is accounted a most full and powerfull aspect and consists of the number seven For it is made from the seventh sign and makes a cross the most powerfull figure of all By the same radiation and number the Solstice is distant from Winter and the Winter aequinoctiall from Summer all which are done by seven Stars there are seven Circles in Heaven according to the longitude of the axletree there are seven Stars greater or lesser about the Artick pole
debeaâ— a King ought to be replenished with true sound and saving knowledge Cic. according to the Psalmist Et nunt reges intelligite erudimini qut indicatis terram Psal 2.10 Veâ—a Konnen 1. pâ—sse polentemesse pollere To be able to be powerfull to exceâ—â— others as far in rare parts as in pâ—â—ority of place Propter summam à Deo regi potestatem concessam in respect of the large power given from God to Kings Latini potestates vocant principes potentes The Latines call powers potent princes Konnen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. valere vnibus pollere To be valiant to excell in strength 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 esâ— vis robur potentia idâ—â—e à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Koach in the French tongue King is called Roy Italian Re Spanish Rey Latine Rex à regendo from ruling In the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. fundamentum populi the foundation basis and establishment of his people without whom no sound sure or firm building either in Church or State can be setled established Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Melech a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Malach i. e. regnavit imperavit Thus much of the political name but much more may be said of the Office power and prerogatives of Kings This double Distichon seems not to be impertinent touching the power of Kings upon these three words and things Rex Lex Grex Lex sine Rege velut Lumâ—n sine Soâ—â—â—uisset Rex sine lege vâ—lut Sol sine luce foret Grex Regem primo Legit Rex cum Grege Legem Condidit hinc legem Rex regit atque Gregem The powers priviledges and prerogatives of Kings by Laws II. sages and Customes Divine and Humane Rationall Naturall are many The Person presence patrimony of Kings by the Laws of our land are in some sort Sacred The Villein of a Lord which by law was seisable in the presence of the King could not be seised for the presence of the King was a protection to him which shews what reverence the law gives to the person of a King plod Com. 322.27 Assi pl. 49. Kings Courts are places priviledged from Arrests so ought the bodies of all his liege subjects in civill causes as debt or the like by the ancient law of the land to be freed from imprisonment that they might serve his Majesty and the Kingdomes being members of that body whereof his Majesty in his politick capacity is the head whereas by an unjust chielf and wicked custome under colour of law many thousand mens bodies are maliciously upon bare pretences buried alive in loathsome prisons and restrained from the service of their King and Country to the great displeasure oâ— God dammage of the King by loâ—â—ng his subjects dishonour of the Nation being branded with a mark of 〈◊〉 parrellel'd Cruelty to 〈◊〉 scandal and opprobry of the law in maintainting malice revenge and oppression and destruction of many thousand persons and their Families This is digression but it is hoped and prayed that hereof his Majesty will be gratiously pleased to make a speedy Reformation which may prevent judgments upon the Nation Reges sacro oleo uncti sunt capacas spiritualis jurisdictionis Kings are anointed with sacred oyle so was Saul and David by Samuel Gods prophet by Gods appointment and many others mentioned in the old Testament c. Their persons are sacred as appears by that strict Command given from God by his prophet Touch not mine anointed Rex est persona mixta cum sacerdote habet ecclesiastieam spiritualeâ— jurisdictionem All power and Authority under the Divine Majesty whether it be Civil and Temporal or Ecclesiastical and Spiritual Jurisdiction belongs to the King within all his Majesties Dominions and is derived from the King being the onely supream Governour over all persons in all Causes 33. Edw. 3. Ayde de Roy. 103 Fiâ—â—bâ—rt 10 â— 7.16 1. Ed. 〈…〉 c. 1. Cawdries Case Rep. 5. 〈◊〉 Which Act is but Dectaâ—ative of the Common Law 1. Jacobi c. 1. vid. 9. Edw. 4. f. 1. The Lands of the King in law is called Patrimoniam Sacrum Com. sur Littl. Sect. 4. What shal we think of those that indeavour to bereave his Majesty hereof or withhold keep the same from the King do they not commit Sacriledge And is not Sacriledge a sin as much odious to God as offensive to the King his Vicegerent Sacriledge whether of Gods or the Kings due Qua Dei aut quae Domini Regis sunt of any thing that belongs to God or the King will prove a sad lading which in the end will sink the best and ablest bottome A little of this Leaven may sowre your whole lump 'T will be as Achans wedge bring a curse with it a small parcell of this sacred patrimony taken into your Purchase like the Kings waste may alter your Tenour in Gods blessings and bring your whole fortune into Wardship Those that be pecants in this kind let them not ever trust to their smooth sayling sudden shipwrack may selfe them in their seeming calmest security It is a destruction to a man to devoure that which is sanctified and after the Vows to inquire If you believe Solomon who had wisdom from above Pro. 10 2â— As greater Power is by God given to Kings and Emperours and mighty Rulers 〈◊〉 greater parts Diviner gifts also of the minde as Wisdome Prudence Valour and the like are bestowed on them Saul being anointed King is said to have another heart given to him by God 〈◊〉 Saâ—â— 10.9 They have also nobler names and greater and awfuller Reverence is due unto them and many men are smitten with such terrour of their Majesticall presence as though they were partakers of somewhat more the humanity and that there were as probable t is there are some rayes of divinity evidently appearing and shining in their Persons Why else is God the great King of Kings pleased to be called King and suffer his name to be communicated to â—â—â—m and by a proper denomination bath confirmed it to them They are called mortall Gods Herâ—e's Terrestriall gods compaâ—ions of the Superior Gods 〈◊〉 by whom the world is governed and disposed by their Laws whom therefore at gods we receive Worship Reverence because God himself â—ath 〈◊〉 the communication of his name 〈…〉 〈◊〉 them gods I have said ye are all soms of the most high God Psal 〈…〉 And to Moseâ— God said I have made 〈…〉 〈◊〉 else where he Gomman 〈◊〉 concerning 〈◊〉 ye shall not detract from the gods And concerning the reverencing and honcuring of them also deereeing riches and first fruits for them and giving them power of the sword and forbidding any to curse them but enjoyning obedience to be yeilded to them though wicked How much the rather then ought it to be rendred to good Kings Antiquity called their Princes gods worshiped them as divine powers as Janus testifyeth in Ovid lib. dâ— fast 1. And divine Plato in his third book de
Republica appointed that Princes both alive dead should be celebrated with divine Honours which Institutiton hath been received amongst the most and best Nations even from the first age to deify their Princes with divine honours a Gods vicegerent on earth and to consecrate them with Eternall memory Hence they did impose their never dying names on little Provinces Mountaines Rivers Lakes Islands and Seas and dedicated to them with great Pomp Pyramides Colosses triumphal arches Trophes Statues Temples playes feasts c And also caled the Heavens Stars Dayes and Months by their Name Hence January from Janus July from Julius August from Augustus So Diet Mercurij from mercury Trismegest Dies Jovis from Jupiter which custome we read was observed not onely by the Aegyptians Greeks and Romanes but also by the then not so Civilized as now a people the Gothes Danes and Teutours Hence Saxo Grammaticus being witnesse what day was formerly called Dies Mercury these call Othines day and what day was formerly named from Jupiter these do now call Thursday from Othin and Thor in times past Kings of Scotland and Denmarke neither are they for any other reason called Gothes then that they call in their Language their Chiefeit God Got. Hence also the Dutch are thus called because they named the God Mars whom they worshiped Tentan By which name the Gaules also called Mercury Why may not the Moneth now called May which some derive a made faction from the moisture then caused by the rising of the Pleiades be changed into Carolâ—â— in regard of the Nativity of our Tresmegistus Carolus in that month 1630. and the pleindes whose rising is in that moneth called also Charls Waine appeared at the time of his Birth on the 29th day thereof on which day also his Majesty returnd Triumphantly to London to his Pâ—rliament in the year 1660. to the ineffectable surpassing Joy of his people Surely heaven disdaining noâ—â—o have a Coelestiall signe the Name of Charleâ—â— Why should we not account it an Honour to the Nation to have this Moneth the best and chiefest in the year dignifyed with the Name of that Person who is the onely Joy Comâ—hrt and Honour of ouâ— horizon His Birth Graced with a Coelestiall Châ—ribus 〈◊〉 His restitution the longing thirsting desire of three Kingdoms The staâ—â— and stay of 〈◊〉 Hotions and restoring the collepsed Honour of our Countrey a â—â—mber lesse number with eyes toâ—â—â—ard their Joy tongues and lips 〈…〉 loud a celaâ—ations expressing 〈…〉 of their hearts 〈…〉 handâ—dife up to hâ—aven â—â—ith prayers and praises Though â—â—â—use are not Minarula yet they are 〈◊〉 mirauda very admirable 〈…〉 such a people 〈◊〉 view of their King and such a King in view of his People handing their eyes to and fro the one from the other like the flowing and falling of waters a reciprocall and interchangeable motion of love between them I know not what others think but to me it seemeth worthy to adde a Rubrick more to your Almanack and make a new holy day amongst you and give it a new name call it Charles day The Pope maketh Jubilees at his pleasure why not this a Jubilee a yeare of extraordinary joy to these Nations The like hath not happened for many generations No not since Britain bate the name of a Nation nor like to come to passe whilest the world lasteth And being a time and occasion of so much Joy and happinesse to King and people let their hearts unite in this one acceptable service to heaven to comfort them that Mourne in Sion To speak and act comfortably to and for many thousands distressed and oppressed debtors destructive members of Christ who have for many years laine defolately and disconsolately languishing buried alive in Prisons ready to perish that they may say to the prisoners go forth and to them that are in darknesse shew your selves our Saviour disdayned not to declare that the Lord had sent him to preach good ridings to the poor to binde up the broken hearted to give liberty to the Captives and to them that are bound the opening of the prison to shew the acceptable yeare of the Lord to comfort all that mourne To Give unto them beauty for ashes that oile of joy for mourning the garments of gladnesse for the spirit of happinesse that ye might be called trees of righteousnesse the planting of the Lord. c. neither can Kings appear like gods in any thing more then in works of mercy But to return to speak of the honour and powervouchsafed by God himself to Princes Kings if just and mercifull are accounted Companions of the Gods and indowed in some respects with the like power Hence they cure diseases by their touch and word and sometimes command the times and heavens as Virgil sung of Augustus Nocte pluit tota redeunt spectacula mane Divisum imperium cum Jove Caesar habet It raines all night in 'th ' morn the raies return Caesar with Jove divided hath the Throne And the Scripture testifyeth of Joshuah who fighting in Gibeon commanded the Sun and Moon saying Sun stand still in Gâ—beon and thou Moon in the valley of Ajalon and the Sun and Moon stood still at his command neither did the Sun set in the space of one day untill he had revenged himself of his enemies and the Lord obeyed the voice of man Also Moses divided the red Sea and Joshua Jourden and led the people over dry-shod The like did Alexander the Macedonian leading forth his Army Sometimes princes are indowed with aprophetical spirit as in many respects the sweet singer of Israel the Kingly Prophet David appears to be most alike to whom not only in afflictions but both in piety and prophecy Was also our late prophetical King and kingly Prophet Carolu bonus primus Charles le bon the good the first not onely regno aut reguan do primus sed bonitate pretate prudentâ—a omnium predecessorum primus whose propheticall expressions in that incomparable divine piece 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are many and many already evidently fulfilled A particular Collection whereof in a peculiar small volumne by it self may hapily hereafter be published I shall herein mention onely three or four at present In his late Majesties Meditation upon the Armies wilfull and wicked surprisal of his Royal and Sacred person at Holmby divers dangerous divisions and distractions are by his Majestie predicted to ensue in the Houses the Army and City which accordingly came to passe 〈◊〉 the Struglings of those two twins as his Majesty then called the Presbyterians and Independents which lately one woâ—â—â— inclosed And the breach still not to grow wider is as impossible as lines drawn from the center t is impossible not to divice from each other to much the wider by how much they go further from the point of union That those Babel Builders should from division fall to confusion and although they pretended the building of Jerusalem the deviding of their tongues and hands was
but an ill Omen and tended to fatall destruction That Divine justice would bring it so to passe that they which by Tumults first occasion'd the raising of armes must be chastened by their own army for new Tumâ—lts The plea against tumults holds good which before was condemned whilst they are Judges of others they are forced to condemn themselves And hereupon saith his Majesty prophetically I see vengeance shall persue and overtake as the mice and rats are said to have done a Bishop in Germany them that thought to escape and fortifie themselues most impregnably against it both by their multitude and compliance and whom the Laws cannot God will punish by their own crimes and hands His Majesty with a pious pity proceeds and towards the Parliament City and all his people which were miserably misled and mistaken saith this good King I was sorry to see them do or suffer unworthily I never had so ill thought of them as to dispaire of their Loyalty to me which mistakes might ecclips but I never believed malice had quite put out I looked on them as Christ did sometime over Jerusalem as objects of my prayers and tears with compassionate grief foreseeing those severer scatterings which will certainly befall such as wantonly refuse to be gathered to their duty marke well this propheticall expression fatal blindnesse frequently attending punishing will full so that men shall not be able at last to prevent their sorow who would not timely repent of their sins nor shall they be suffered to enjoy the comforts who securely neglect the counsells belonging to their peace They will finde that Brethren in Iniquity are not far from becoming insolent enemies there being nothing harder then to keep ill men still in our minde Vulgar compliance with any illegall and extravagant waies like violent motions in Nature soon grow's weary of it self and ends in a refractory sullennesse peoples rebounds are often in their faces who first put them upon those violent strokes Let the accursed Authors and abetters of that Prodigious horrid Rebellion deny if they dare or truely can his late most Religious Majesty to be a true Prophet whose predictions are in many respects so pâ—rfectly fulfilled upon them their Families and adherents and daily shall we finde a more full performance in future to be accomplished In these divine Meditations of his late Majesty touching Death after the Votes of non-Addresses and his Majesties close imprisonment in Carisbrook Castle these â—nsuing expressions who can deny â—o be prophetique There are I know but few steps between the Prisons and the Graves of Princes And after I doubt not but mine Innoâ—ency will finde him both my Protector and my Advocate who is my oneâ—y judge and whom I own as King of Kings Nor will the suffer those men long to prosper in their Babell who build it with the boughs and cement it with the blood of their Kings My blood will cry aloud to heaven for â—engeance but I beseech God not to â—oure his wrath upon the generality of â—he people who have either descerted â—e or engaged against me through the Artifice and Hypocrisie of their leaders whose inward horrour will be their Tormentor nor will they after escape exemplary judgments I am confident they will finde Avengers of my death among themselves The injuries I have sustained from them shal be first punished by them who agreed in nothing so much as in opposing me Their impatience to bear the loud cry of my bloud shall make them think no way better to expiate it then by shedding theirs who with them most thirsted after mine The sad confusions following my destruction are already presaged confirmed to me by those I have lived to see since my troubles and God alone who onely could hath many wayes pleaded my cause not suffering them to go unpunished whose confederacy in sinne is their onely security who have cause to fear that God will both further divide and by mutuall vengeance afterward destroy them And again afterwards by a lively Faith his Princely resolution conclude I Conquerer shall be more then through Christ c. And in the cause so long disputed by the sword between me and my causelesse adversaries I doubt not but his righteous Judgement will confute their fallacies who from worldly successe rather like Sophisters then good christians draw those popular conclusions for Gods approbation of their accounts whose wise providence we know ost permits many events which his revealed word the onely clear safe and fixed rule of good actions and good conscienâ—cs in no sort approves The application of these prophesies are plaine and facile to the meanest apprehensions Hath not divine prudence made all the seditions Shebaes â—ebell ous Corake c. Simeons and Lepi's brethren in iniquity even all the Kings enemies by division among themselves like to the mad Midiannes instruments of ruine and distruction one to another of revenging the injuries done to his Majesty so clearing his innocency and the justice of his cause Let it be considered and observed what is become of all or the most part of that pernitious party of the Long Black Parliament and their Army which so vehemently prosecuted and persecuted his late Majesty and his friends and posterity and it cannot but be confessed and without contradiction concluded That as God is just in all his just judgments and righteous in all his waies so his majeâ—ries predictions have not failed but received a sad and evident accomplishment to the confusion of the faces of his adversaries vindication of his Majesties Honour and Gods glory Among the rest in perpetuam rei memoriam that O. P. omen proditionis onus odium prineipis patria ought be recorded atro carbone notandum to all posterity O. P. for pretended writing of which two Letters with the words Occidisti Possedisti under relating to the saying of Eliah to Ahab 1 King 21.19 the Author of this Tract indured long and hard imprisonment which O.P. proved to be not a Protector a title unworthily assumed but rather a Projector perditionis proditionis non solûm principi patriae sed fataliter finaliter posteritatisuae which as a true token of divine Judgment were ruined in an instant by their own neer relations which by O. P. were raised to preserve them His late Majesty in a Letter of Advise to the then Prince of Wales our now most blessed King hath in many respects manifested himself to be a most wise and prudent Prince by his political instructions in State Affaires a most pious Priest and Ecclesiastes in his divine Doctrines and directions and a true Prophet in his infallible predictions the particulars whereof as it would require much time to recite expresse and apply so I doubt it would be accounted more tedious then requisitely necessary to repeat the same being already set down most fully and eminent for observation in that un parrallel'd piece 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I
my spirit to declare what I conceive and believe God hath determined for Exaltation of his Majesty that unparrallel'd Prince our Charlemain the Second The said Star 1572. may be said to give the first signification to the said Sybilla's Prophecy But this celestiall Signe or Starre which appeared at the Birth of our now King of Great Britain 1630. is an evident Manifestation and clear Confirmation of the fulfilling of that Prophecy pointing out plainly our Charls the Second to be another Charlemain Charls the Great the very person in that Prophecy intended and by Divine Providence preordained to performe and accomplish all those admirable atchievments and to attain that Superlative Greatnesse and Exaltation therein predicted even to be not only Carolus Maguus but also Carolus Maximus the Greatest that hath been or shall be of that Name Carolus à Carolo Grebnerus being in England with Queen Eliz. 1582. declared this as an undubitable Prophecy which should after be fulfilled descendens c administrabit imperium perfelicissime longe lateque dominabitur major erit Carolo Magno Our Charls le grand descending from Charls le bon is undoubtedly that person of which Grebner so prophecyeth The Fathers goodnesse is a firm Foundation for the Son's Greatnesse The Fathers Piety a sure Ground-work for the Son's Prosperity 'T is said of the late King that he was Crowned in White Robes to signifie his unpolluted Integrity Psal 112 6. â—â—ro 10.7 The Righteons shall be had in Everlasting Remembrance the Memoriall of the Just shall be blessed If the Memory surely the Polterity of the Just shall be blessed If the Righteous shall be like a Tree planted by the River side c. whose leaf shall not wither à fortiori his fruit shall flourish and prosper This pious Father prays for this Son's Goodnesse rather then Greatnesse that he may be rather Charls le bon the Good then Charls le grand the Great God is pleased to hear his Prayer as he did Solomon's praying for Wisdom only and gives him Wealth Honour and Greatnesse also in an Extraordinary manner So will God give to our King even give to his Majesty not only goodnesse but greatnesse also destroy his Enemies out of his sight make him a great Name like unto the name of the great Men of the Earth famous through the world as he promised to David and to his seed after him 2 Sam. 7. Our Soveraign Charls hath had a threefold ground for his Greatnesse 1. Divine Gods determination 2. Paternall a good Father 3. Propheticall The Sybills Prophecy after that the Star in 1572. was a prodomus going before the Pleiades which being a Sign Celestiall was as a John Baptist or Precursor appearing at his Majesties Nativity to shew and certifie his Majesty to be the very person by the said Prophecy and Star predicted in whom the effect of both was to be fullfilled All these successively presaging Gods preordinate purpose of making his Majesty Carolus Maximus that most Magnificent Monarch of the North which by the said Prophecy and Star was prefigured the great Lyon and new Star of the North. Let us consider the parts of the said Prophecy and we shall find it most properly principally and solely applicable to our Soveraign Charls the Second rather then to any other Prince or Potentate in the world There shall arise a Star in Europe over the Iberi or Iberians over or towards the great house of the North whose Beams shall Enlighten the whole world In this Verse are these 3. Points or Parts most considerable 1. The place of the apparition of the Star 2. House or Family 3. Future Glory or increase of Greatnesse In the year 1630 in the 110. year after the discovery of this Prophecy and fifty Eight years after the new Stars manifestation which appeared 1572. on the 29. day of May was our illustrious Charles borne in that very part of the World which both the old Prophecy and new Star designed upon whose Nativity at Noon the Sun then brightly shining appeared the Pleiades a celestial sign full of sweet influences called also his Charls Wain as before is shewed to signifie clearly to manifest to the world That the Prince then born was that great Star Sybilla intended And the Star in 1572. to be but the Prodromus or precuisor to this And that by this God was pleased to demonstrate the person intended by Sybills Prophecy and to remove all Doubts and Scruples which might arise touching the certainty thereof Out of the words of the Prophecy it self 't is evident that our King Charles is the onely Person meant thereby For whose is the Government or who is over the Iberi or Iberians the Irish or Ireland or for some hundreds of years have been but his Royall Majesty and Predecessours Again what great House of the North is there in any part of Europe which is greater or in reall truth so great as our Soveraign either in respect of antiquity being for 500 years and more descended and continued and derived from the most Royall bloud and Line of most renowned Kings as any in Christendom or the terrene world Whether we consider the Paternall or Maternall part of his Majesties Kingly Extraction or in respect of the Dominions and Territories de jure belonging to his Majesty being an Empire of no mean power and Extent not inferiour to the greatest in Europe and in regard of the most illustrious prowesse valour and glorious atchievments of his Majesties most heroicall famous Ancestors and Predecessors And as to the last part of this Verse of the Prophecy That the beams of that Star shall enlighten the whole world that relateth to future Effects But 't is most evident that among all the highest humane Heroes that History mentioneth none was ever honoured with the apparition of a celestiall Sign and Star at his Nativity Except our Saviour Christ and our Soveraign Charls which doth clearly presage great and wonderfull Acts to be performed by that person whose honour Heaven is determined to advance and make his Name and Fame glorious through the Universe neither do we find any Celestiall sign Star or Planet whose influeace hath been honoured with so rare and excellent an Epitheton as God himself is pleas'd to attribute in holy Writ to the Pleiades seven Stars or Charls's Wain stiling the influences thereof sweet and most mellifluous shewing also the impossibility for any humane power to restrain the same Job 38.31 The day of his Majesties glorious renown now begins to dawn And before the number of years which equalls the number of Stars in the said Celestiall sign Pleiades appearing at his Majesties Nativity be expired shall shine most brightly throughout Europe and other parts more remote yea before a Trigon of that time be past some fair foundation may be laid for effecting of some Famous future Enterprizes which with much celerity will happily be accomplished Septem Stellae possunt dici triones quod ita