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A91273	The second part of The signal loyalty and devotion of Gods true saints and pious Christians under the Gospel, (especially in this our island) towards their Christian kings & emperors, whether orthodox or heterodox, virtuous or vicious, Protestants or papists, protectors or persecutors, ever since their kings and emperors first became Christian, till this present. Expressed in, and evidenced by their publike and private supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, options, acclamations, for their long life, health, safety, prosperity, victory over enemies, temporal, spiritual and eternal felicity; peaceable, just, glorious reign over them, &c. And likewise for their queens, children, royal posterity, realms, armies, counsels, officers. ... Together with the various forms of prayers, supplications, collects, votes, and acclamations used at the coronations of emperors and kings, especially of our ancient and late kings of England and Scotland (not hitherto published.) By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P4075; Thomason E1037_3; ESTC R203326	204,194	342

and for that cometh of thee all Counsel and equity all understanding and strength grant unto us here gathered together in thy name that wisdom which is alwaies assistant to thy seat to give knowledge to our feeble and ignorant minds Send down we beseech thee the same wisdom out of thy holy heavens and from the throne of thy Majesty that is may be now with us and labour with us whereby we surely knowing what is acceptable unto thee may be led through it to the debating weighing and final determining of those matters by the which thy blessed Name may be glorified thy Catholick Church of England confirmed and increased the Kings assurance established the common tranquillity of this Realm safely maintained and last of all all estates and people thereof in true obedience and charity united and knit together Grant this O God for thy only Sons sake Jesus Christ our Lord Amen In the Lords House the Collects and Prayers in the Common Prayer Book and Letany for the King Queen Prince and Royal Posterity with other prayers were daily used by the Bishops and Peers during their Session To mention all the particular Prayers for the King Queen and Royal posterity comprised in Books of private Prayers and Devotion as the Practice of Piety and the like and Epistles Dedicatory perfixed to hundreds of B●oks and Sermons dedicated to King James by Bishops Ministers and others of all sorts and in usual Graces before and after meals would be both infinite and nauseous being commonly known and obvious to all and therefore I shall wholy pretermit them the substance of them being comprised in those Prayers already mentioned Anno 165 I shall now proceed to the reign of our late King Charles who as he had constant Supplications and Prayers made for him in all Cathedral and Parish Churches Chapels Colledges most private families and in our Parliaments themselves by name during all King James his reign as Duke of York and Prince of Wales so after his comming to the Crown March 27. 1625. till January 1648. he had the like publike and private Prayers Intercessions and Supplications made for him throughout his 3. Realms as King and for his Queen and royal Posteritie not only by our preaching Ministers in their prayers before their Sermons and by most others in their morning and evening family and closet prayers Graces before or after meales as our own experience attests but likewise these special set Prayers Petitions and Collects in our Letany and common Prayer Book which I shall here transcribe because almost quite forgotten by above 12. whole years discontinuance in most Churches Families too In the publike L●tany ordered to be read thrice every week or oftener upon occasion there are these several Prayers and Petitions to God That it would please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy servant Charles our most gracious King and Governor That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his Enemies That it may please thee to blesse and preserve our gratious Queen Mary Prince Charles and the rest of the Royal Issue After every of which several Prayers and Supplications all the People severally answered We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. After which followed these two Prayers for the Kings Majestie the Queen Prince and Royal Issue and read twice every day in most places O God our heavenly Father high and mighty King of Kings and Lord of Lords the only Ruler of Princes which dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may alwaies incline to thy will and walk in thy way endue him plentifully with heavenly gifts Grant him in health and wealth long to live strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his Enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Almighty God the Father of thine elect and of their seed which Bishop Laud changed into the fountain of all goodnesse we humbly beseech thee to blesse our gracious Queen Mary Prince Charles and the rest of the royal issue Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich them with thy Heavenly grace prosper them with all happinesse and bring them to thine everlasting Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen In the Prayer for the whole Estate of Christs Church there is this Clause relating to Kings in general and King Charles in particular We beseech thee also to save and defend all Christian Kings Princes and Governors and Specially thy servant Charles our King that under him we may be godly and quietly Governed When these Prayers and Collects with the Book of Common-Prayer were suspended by the Directory of the publike worship of God in most places throughout the 3 Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland Printed by order of both Houses 13 Martii 1644. yet the substance of them was still continued by the very Directory it self during the heat of the late Wars between the King and Parliament witnesse p. 10 11. of publike Prayer before the Sermon wherein all Ministers are directed To pray for all in Authority especially for the Kings Majesty that God would make him rich in blessings both in Person and Government establish his Throne in Religion and righteousnesse save him from all evil Counsel and make him a blessed and glorious Instrument for the Conservation and Propagation of the Gospel for the Encouragement and Protection of those that do well and the terror of all that do evil and the great good of the whole Church and of all his Kingdoms for the Conversion of the Queen the Religious education of the Prince and the rest of the Royal seed for the comforting of the afflicted Queen of Bohemia sister to our Soveraign and for the Restitation and Establishment of the Illustrious Prince Charls Elector Palatine much more then now of our Illustrious long-exiled King CHARLES to all his Dominions and Dignities To pretermit all Prayers made for King Charles in Epistles perfixed to hundreds of Books of all sorts dedicated to him whiles Prince of Wales and King of England Scotland and Ireland I shall Conclude only with 3. short Prayers of this Nature in 3. of our learnedest late deceased Antiquaries Dedicatory Epistles to his Majesty being of 3. several professions The first is Mr. John Seldens in the cloze of his Dedicatory Epistle to His Mare clausum Londini 1635. Inexuperabilem Tibi felicitatem sanctissima illa Majestas quae Tuae ●rchetypa est praestet conservetque The 2. is Sir Henry Spelmans in

for the King and let his commands be obeyed not from compelling necessity but from a voluntary minde King Ina in his Charter Anno 7●4 by the Decree and Counsel of his Prelat Adelm the suggestion of all his Priests and upon the Petition of all the Monks in the Province of the West-Saxons granted this Privilege to the Monks of Glastonbury Abby ut sine impedimento secularium rerum absque tributo fiscalium negotiorum liberis mentibus sub Deo serviant monasticam disciplinam Christo s●ffragium largiente regulariter exerceant et pro statu et prosperitate Regni nostri et Indulgentia commissorum criminum ante conspectum Divinae Majestatis Preces fundere dignentur et orationum officia frequentantes in Eccles●is pro nostri fragilitate interpellare nitantur Most antient Monasteries as well as this being specially founded and endowed by our Kings and their Successors for this purpose that they might pray for them and their Realms their Parents Children and Successors temporal spiritual and eternal felicity as the Charters of their foundations and endowments in Monasticon Anglicanum pars 1. 2. and other Authors attest Anno 714 About the year 714. Abbot Ceolfrid writ a large Epistle to Naitan King of Picts concerning Easter and the Tonsure of Clerks beginning thus Domino excellentissimo gloriosissimo Regi Naitano Ceolfridus Abbas In Domino salutem and ending with this Prayer for him Gratia te Regis aeterni longiori tempore regnantem ad nostram omnium pacem custodiat incolumem dilectissime in Christo fili And if Abbots Clergy-men then thus prayed for their health safety long-life and the publike peace of the Nation in their Epistles to Kings much more did they thus pray for them in their private and publike Devotions Anno 716 Ethelred King of M●rcians in the year of Christ 716. in the presence of his Bishops and Nobles by his Charter gave and granted the whole Island of Croyland to God the Virgin Mary and St. Barthollomew to found an Abby therein for the black Monks submitting himself wholy to the mercy and piety of Christ and commending himself Sanctae matris Ecclesiae precibus to the Prayers of his holy Mother the Church and particularly to the Prayers of St. Guthlac the Confessor and Anchorite Whence a Poet thus writ of him Ethelbaldus c. Oret pro nobis sanctissimus iste Sacerdos Guthlacus Ad tumbam cujus haec mea dona dedi A clear evidence that the Churches and Ministers of Christ in England did then constantly pray for their Christian Kings who specially recommended themselves to their prayers Anno 720 Our venerable and most learned Beda doth very much p●esse this Duty of Prayer for Kings though Pagans and Persecutors from sundry Texts of Scripture on which he comments In his Expositiones allegoricae in Ezram l. 2. c. 7. Et offerant oblationes Deo Coeli Orentque pro vita Regis et Filiorum ejus He thus comments Offerunt autem ea Sacerdotes iidem pro vita Regis et Filiorum ejus juxta illud Ap●stoli 1 Tim. 2. Obsecro igitur primò omnium fieri obsecrationes orationes postulationes gratiarum actiones pro omnibus hominibus pro Regibus omnibus qui in sublimitate sunt ut quietam tranquillam vitam agamus c. And in his Exposition on the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Tom. 7. p. 708 709 710. he recites and approves the passages of St. Augustin at large recited in the next Chapter commanding Prayers Supplications Intercessions and Thanksgivings to be made not only for Christian and pious Kings but even for Pagans and Idolaters though vitious though Persecutors of the Gospel and sincere Professors thereof Anno 747 Our famous Council of Clovesho under Archbishop Cuthbert Anno Dom. 747. cap. 30. De orando pro Rege decreed Vt deinceps per canonicas Orationum horas non solum pro se Ecclesiastici sive Monasteriales sed etiam pro Regibus ac Ducibus totiusque populi Christiani incolumitate Divinam incessan●èr exorent clementiam quatenus Quietam et Tranquillam Vitam sub eorum pia defensione mereantur agere Et ut ita post haec unanimes existerent in Deum fide spe caritate seipsos invicem diligerent etiam post hujus peregrinationis pericula ad supernam pervenire pariter mereanter patriam The reason of making this Canon for incessant Prayers for Kings Dukes and Princes is thus expressed in the preceding part thereof that there was a scandal and suspition raised amongst the Priests of God inferiour Clergy that they had an ill opinion of Kings Dukes and Princes as too many have now Hoc est quod Reges cum Ducibus Principibus suis ac deindè minoris potetestatis persuasi plurimi de eis dicere soleant quod non tantum sincero eos non diligant affectu sed insuper eorum bonis praesentibus ac prosperitatibus quibusque foelicioribus magis invideant animo nimis infesto quàm devoto satis congaudeant corde eorumque conversationis statum Odibili quadam detractatione dilacerare non desinant A very good ground to revive and re-enforce this Duty both on Ministers and people now Vt horis canonicis Preces fiant pro Regibus as the Margin of this Canon prescribes as well as the body thereof Anno 750 Boniface Archbishop of Mentz an Englishman by birth thus inscribes and begins his 19. Epistle to our King Ethilbald Domino charissimo in Christi amore caeteris Regibus praeferendo inclyta Anglorum imperii sceptra gubernanti Ethilbaldo Regi Bonifacius c. Wera Burckart Warbeth Abel Wilibald Coepiscopi Perennem in Christo charitatis salutem Confitemur coram Deo sanctis Angelis quia quamcumque prosperitatem vestram video opera bona Deo coram hominilus per nuncios fidelos audivimus quod inter gaudentes et pro vobis orantes gratias agimus Deo postulantes et obsecrantes Salvatorem nostrum ut vos sospites et in side stabiles et in operibus coram Deo rectos in Principatu Christiani populi longo tempore custodiat And King Ethilbert thus closeth his Epistle to Boniface the Archbishop who prayed for him in those times Orantem pro Nobis beatitudinem tuam longaevam divina pietas faciat His 14. Epistle to Pippin King of France begins thus Colsitudinis vestrae clementiae magnas gratias agamus et Dominum Iesum Christum precantes ut vobis in regno Coelorum aeternam mercedem retribuat Most of his and Lullus his Successors Epistles conclude with Prayers Cenewlphus King of the East-Saxons with his Bishops and Nobles in their Epistle to Lullus Successor to this Boniface as they pray for him so they likewise entreat him and his Clerks to pray to God for them in their Congregation Vt pro nostra parvitate proque pace

at the Abby of Bermond●shie in the year 1249. Ordained by Common-Council Quod ipse Dominus Rex ab ipsis omnibus impetravit ut pro ipso et Regina dicatur quotidie in missa quae in veneratione beatae Virginis canitur in eorum Ecclesiis Collecta eelebis Deus in eujus manu For the preservation and welfare of the King and Queen Anno 1270 King Henry the 3d. being very sick at Westminster in the Lent Anno 1270. and despairing of his recovery se orationibus Ecclesiae commendavit recommended himself to the Prayers of the Church Whereupon the Monks of Westminster fearing to lose such a Patriot went in Pilgrimage bare-foot in a rainy season to the new Temple and there singing a Masse for the King and returning thence in the same manner as they went it was told them that the king had recovered of his sicknesse Whereupon he commanded the Monks by his Mandates that they should sing Gandeat in coelis quod convaluit precibus monachorum George Cassandar in his h Preces Ecclesiasticae hath sundry forms of Prayers for Christian King● Emperors Princes and Kingdoms collected out of several antient Liturgies Missals Letanies and Canonical Houres used antiently in most Monasteries and Churches as well in England as in other Kingdoms during the reign of King Henry the 3d. and in the Kings reigns preceding and succeeding him which I shall here insert Deus qui populis tuis virtute consulis amore dominaris da huic f●mul● tuo spiritum sapientiae cum regimine disciplinae ut tibi toto corde devotus in Regni regimine maneat semper idoneus tuoque munere ipsius temporibus securitas Ecclesiae dirigatur ut in tranquillitate devotio Christiana permaneat ut in bonis operibus perseverans ad aeternum Regnum te duce valeat pervenire per eundem Dominum Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui famulum tuum Regni fastigio dignatus es sublimare tribue ei quaesumus ut ita in hujus seculi cursu in commune salutem disponat quatenus a tuae veritatis tramite non recedat Per eundem Dominum nostrum Deus qui scis humanum genus nulla virtute posse subsistere concede propicius Vt famulus tuus N quem populo tuo voluisti praeferri ita tuo sulciatur adjutorio quatenus quibus potuit praeesse valeat prodesse Per Dominum Om●ipotens sempiterne Deus coelestium terrestriumque moderator qui famulum tuum N. ad Regni fastigium dignatus es provehere concede propitius ut a cunctis adversitatibus libertatus Ecclesiasticae pacis dono muniatur ad aeternae pacis gaudia te donante pervenire mereatur Per Dominum nostrum Quaesumus Omnipotens Deus ut famulus tuus N. qui tu● miseratione suscepit Regni gubernacula virtutum etiam omnium à re percipiat increment● quibus decenter armatus vi●iorum monstra devitare hostem superare ad te qui via veritas vita e● gratiosus valeat pervenire Per Dominum nostrum Deus in cujus manu corda sunt Regum inclina ad preces humilitatis nostrae aures misericordiae tuae famulo tuo Imperatori nostro regimen tuae appone sapientia ut ●austis de tuo fonte ●onfiliis tibi placeat super omnia Regna praecellat Per Dominum nostrum D●us cujus Regnum est omnium seculorum supplicationes nostras clementer exaudi Christianorum Regnum tibi subditum protege ut in tua virtute fidentes tibi placeant super omnia Regna praecellant Per eundem Dominum nostrum Deus qui providentia tua coelestia simul terrena moderaris propiciare Christianorum rebus Regibus ut omnis hostium fortitudo te pro nobis pugnante frangatur Per eundem Dominum nostrum Propiciare Domine precibus famulorum tuorum propter Nomen tuum Christiani nominis defende Rectores ut salus ser vientium tibi Principum pax tuorum possit esse populorum Per eundem Dominum Deus Regnorum omnium Regumque Dominator qui nos percutiendo sanas ignoscendo conservas praetende misericordiam tuam ut tranquillitate pacis tua potestate fi●mata ad remedia correctionis utamur Per Dom. nostrum These were the constant publick and private Prayers and Devotions of the Clergy and people for their Kings Princes and their Kingdoms heretofore not unseasonable for our present ●●mes In my perusal of the Clause Rolls in the Tower of London I have observed sundry Memorable Writs and Mandates issued by King Edward the 1 2 3. Richard the 2. and other of our Kings to their Bishops Clergy Abbots Freers Predicants Minors and other Religious Orders upon sundry emergent occasions requiring and commanding them to make frequent and fervent Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings unto God alone not Saints or Angels in times of War danger Treaties and the like for his special assistance direction protection blessing and favour upon the King Queen Prince of Wales the Royal issue kingdom Nobles Armies the Kings Counsels Treaties affairs of all sorts and for publike peace and prosperity Which Writs because very rare pious pertinent to my present Theme suitable to the state of our affairs and never hitherto published in print I shall here insert the chiefest of them at large pretermitting all others of like nature for brevitie sake those here transcribed comprehending in them the form and substance of the residue except only Writs for Masses Dirgees and Prayers for deceased Kings Queens and Princes of which there are many Presidents heterogeneal to my Subject matter which I shall totally passe by Claus 22 E. 1. m. 11. dorso Rex Archiepiscopo Eborum c. salutem Cum inter magnificum Principem Dominum Regem Franciae illustrem Consanguineum nostrum et Nos aliqua sint exorta propter quae ad partes intendimus transmarinas personaliter Nos conferre cum dicto Rege super hiis habituri colloquium et tractatum Credentes firmiter et sperantes quod felicior votis nostris effectus adveniret si devotorum intercessionibus adjuvemur Paternitatem vestiam affectuosè requirimus et rogamus quatenus apud Deum preces devotas suppliciter effundatis et à vestris Subditis illud idem fieri injungatis ut in hujusmodi negotio prosequendo tractando ac etiam ordinando sic Deus Dominus regat et dirigat actus nostros quod cooperante unigenito Dei filio Jesu Christo labor noster in hac parte ita possit fructuosus haberi quod cedat ad laudem sui nominis ac statum quietum prosperum Regni nostri pariter honorem necnon ad totius Christianitatis commodum profectum T. R. apud Sanctum Albanum decimo die Febr. Consimiles literae diriguntur A. Dunolm Epo Consimiles literae diriguntur J. Epo Karli●l Consimiles literae diriguntur O. Line Epo Consimiles literae

the end of his Dedicatory Epistle before the first Tome of his Councils Londini 1639. Dei Vicario Ecclesiae Nutricio Fidei Defensori Carolo Dei gratia Magnae Britaniae Franciae Hiberniae Regi c. Magno Pio Augustissimo Deus optimus maximus Regiam vestram Majestatem sobolemque Serenissimum Ecclesiae et Britaniis Imperpetuum sospitet beatissime The 3 is most learned renowned and pious Archbishop Vsher who thus winds up his Epistle to King Charls perfixed to his Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates Dublini 1639. Deus optimus maximus Regum suorum custos et vindex vitam tibi det prolixam imperium sccurum domum tutam exercitus fortes Senatum fidelem populum probum Veteris Ecclesiae pro Imperatoribus suis vota haec solemnia pro tua et tuorum salute Redintegrat et toto animi affectu numini divino nuncupat Serenissimae Tuae Majestatis servus humilimus Iacobus Armachanus The very next day after the most illegal Trial Condemnation and bloody Execution of our late Soveraign Lord King Charles by that Prodigy of Lawyers John Bradshaw and his Assessors in the new created High Court of Injustice against the Votes and Protests of the Secluded Lords and Secured Commons one of the then secured Members out of his Loyalty to his Majesty and his royal Heir and Successor whose rights he strenuously asserted in his Speech in the House for which he was seized and imprisoned by the Army Dec. 6. 1648. at his own charge Printed 350. of the ensuing Proclamations which he caused to be sent to most Sheriffs and May●rs throughout England and Wales and some of them to be pasted up at Westminster and elsewhere in and about London notwithstanding the Anti-Parliamentary and Antimonarchical Junctoes strict Proclamation to the contrary under pain of High Treasons and the most Capital Punishments which deterred others both from crowning and proclaiming their Hereditary Soveraign according to their former Oathes Covenants and printed Remonstrances A PROCLAMATION PROCLAIMING CHARLES Prince of VVales King of Great Britain France and Ireland WEE the Noblemen Iudges Knights Lawyers Gentlemen Free-holders Marchants Citizens Yeomen Seamen and other freemen of England doe according to our Allegiance and Covenant by these presents heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and proclaim the Illustrious Charles Prince of Wales next heir of the Blood Royal to his Father King Charles whose late wicked and trayterous Murther we doe from our souls abominate and all parties and consenters thereunto to be by hereditary Birthright and lawfull succession rightfull and undoubted King of Great Britain France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging And that we will faithfully constantly and sincerely in our several places and callings defend and maintain his Royal Person Crown and Dignity with our Estates Lives and last drop of our Bloods against all opposers thereof whom we do hereby declare to be Traytors and Enemies to his Majestie and his Kingdoms In testimony whereof we have caused these to be published and proclaimed throughout all Counties and Corporations of this Realm the first day of February in the first year of his Majesties Raign God save KING CHARLES the Second This short ejaculatorie Prayer and Acclamation GOD SAVE THE KING subjoyned to this Proclamation was not only used at the Corouations tryumphs and publick Receptions in Cities Colleges Villages Corporations of all our own forein Kings as I have elswhere touched but constantlie annexed at the end all our Statutes at large printed after everie Session of Parliament from 19 H. 7. till 1 Caroli and at the close of all our Kings Queens publick Proclamations yea ecchoed out by our Sheriffs Heralds Cryers Officers who proclaimed them and by the generalitie of the people present at such Proclamations And it was likewise constantlie used by all Cryers of all publick Co●rts of Iustice Assises S●ssions of the peace Eyres and Gaol Deliveries upon sundrie occasions yea by everie Malefactor acquitted or admitted to his Clergie who usually cry'd GOD SAVE THE KING neither could our Kings enter into anie Citie Town Village College School or House within their Dominions but their Ears were silled with the joyfull sound of this Prayer and Loyal Acclamation Which c●stom I trust will gr●w into common practice again after its over-long Dis-continuance through the treacherie and disloyalty of those who above all others had most obliged themselves to continue it by their respective old oftreiterated Oaths of Fealty Homage Supremacy Allegiance Iustices Maiors Recorders Serjeants at Law Freemen their new Protestations Solemn National League and Covenant Commissions Trusts Offices Callings obliging them both in point of Conscience and Dutie to bear Faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Majesty his Heirs and lawfull Successors and to maintain and defend his and their Persons Crowns and all Jurisdictions Rights Privileges and Royal Prerogatives united annexed and belonging to the Imperial Crown of their Realms against all Powers Persons Invasions Plots and Conspiracies whatsoever without any Apostacy defection or detestable Neutrality Which I hope they will now at last remember so far as to expiate all former violations of them by their future sincere cordial constant inviolable Observations by their dailie publick and private fervent Prayers Supplications Intercessions Thanksgivings to God for his Majesties restitution long life and prosperous Reign and by ●cchoing out this usual Acclamation upon all occasions according to its pristine frequent use throughout our Realms and Dominions I have thus at large by Histories Records and Presidents of all times sorts to which sundrie more might be accumulated irrefragably evidenced the constant un-interrupted practical loyaltie of our Christian Predecessors in making publick and private Supplications Prayers Intercessions and Thanksgivings for our Christian Kings in this Island whether of the British Sax●n English Danish Norman or Scotish Race and for their Queens their Royal Posterity and Kingdoms in their publick and private Devotions and in their Epistles Addresses and Dedications to them to the inrent they may now at last excite encourage provoke and enflame our degenerated disloyal undutifull Men-fearing Time-serving Generation conscienciously to revive and constantlie to practise this long neglected Christian Dutie as being the principal means prescribed by God himself and pu●sued by his Saints in all Ages to produce that publick peace unitie prosperitie and settlement which we h●●e all so long expected and longed for but could never yet obtain by anie carnal policies fastings humiliations prayers since we gave over this enjoyned D●ty and can never probably hope for much lesse actually enjoy till we return to the cordial un-interrupted performance thereof and to our pristine Allegiance Loyaltie Obedience and Subjection to our undoubted hereditary Soveraign Lord and King according to our multiplyed Oaths Protestations Covenant the Laws both of God and the Land the only rules of our Consciences and Practises both as Christians and Subjects And if all these with the precedent

manner disgraced disofficed and some of them slain The Christian Bishops Ministers and Professors of the Gospel made and sang special Songs of Prayse and Thanksgiving unto God Almighty the King and Governour of all things and to Jesus Christ his Son the Redeemer of their Souls and Author of their internal and external peace enjoyed under their Christian Emperor whose Prayses they extolled as you may read at large in Eusebius Ecles Hist l. 10. c. 1 3 4 6 9. And De Vita Constantini l 2 3 4. After which Constantine prescribed to all his Soldiers and Subjects as well Pagans as Christians a set form of Prayer to God for himself and his Sons to be said ev●ry day or Lords Day at least recited in the former Chapter Anno 325 This first Christian Emperor in the first General Council of Nice Anno 325. when he dismissed the many Bishops there assembled by him from all parts whereof 3. came from our Isle of Britain with a grave exhortation to pres●rve mutual concord added this request to them in the close thereof Ut pro ipso ad Deum preces obnixe funderent That they would earnestly powre forth Prayers for him unto God Eusebius further records of him That whereas he esteemed that the Prayers of Pious men were of great moment to him and to the safety and preservation of the whole Common-wealth towards which seeing he reputed them necessary he did not only upon all occasions throw himself down as a Supplicant unto God Uerum etiam ut pro se ab Ecclesiae Praes●dibus supplicaretur mandavit but likewise commanded that Supplications should be made for him by the Rectors of the Church which they accordinglie performed Anno 336 In the 30th year of his reign when a certain Priest praysed him to his face as worthy to enjoy the chief Power of all things in this life to reign together with the Son of God in the life to come He signifying his dislike therof exhorted him not to use such flattering words concerning him for time to come but rather to contend for him with Prayers from God that he might seem worthy to be the servant of God both in this life and that which is to come The same year this Emperor having assembled a very great Synod of Bishops and Priests to Ierusalem to the Dedication of the Temple he had there built some of them adorned that solemnity with Prayers and Disputations others with elegant Orations Sermons and Interpretations of obscure places of Scripture others who could do none of these Supplices Deo preces c. Offered up humble Prayers and Supplications unto God for common peace for the Church of God and for the Emperor himself the Author of these most excellent things and for his Children who were dear to God In his Expedition against the Persians communicating his design unto the Bishops and desiring some of them to be alwaies present with him who were most fit to discharge the Duties of Piety they readilie promised to follow and not to depart one step from him but to go on warfare with him Et apud Deum supplicibus vovotis se pugnaturos and that they would fight with God for him against his Enemies with Supplications and Prayers whereupon being greatly delighted with this expression of their Wills and Endeavours he caused a magnificent Tabernacle to be made in form of a Church in quo Deo victoriarum datori ipse cum Episcopis supplicaret Wherein he with his Bishops might make Supplications to God the giver of Victories Anno 337 When he lay upon his Death-bed his Centurions and Captains of the Army coming to his Chamber deploring his Condition Longioremque ei vitam optarent and wishing him a longer life he answered them He had now obtained true life after his Baptism and that he only understood of what felicity he was made partaker and therefore he would hasten and not procrastinate his migration unto God Upon the tydings of his death all his Gards renting their Cloaths casting their Bodies upon the Ground and knocking their Heads against it sending forth mournfull Voyces with great sorrow and clamours calling him their Lord Prince Emperor and in the interim bewayling him not as a Lord and Tyrant but as pious and natural Children do their Father The Centurions and other Officers and Souldiers predicated him their Saviour Keeper Benefactor the whole Army with all reverence desired him as Flocks of Sheep their Shepheard all the People throughout every City running up and down manifested the secret wound and grief of their minds by outcries and clamours and the rest walked with dejected Countenances as if they were astonished every one reputing that this calamity had principally hapned to himself and miserably afflicting themselves as bereaved of the common safety of human life All the Dukes Earls and Assembly of Princes who were formerly accustomed to reverence and bow down unto him observing their pristine use and custom going in at set times saluted the Emperor lying in his Herse as if he were alive even after his death bowing themselves to the ground the Sena●e with all the rest of the Magistrates and People doing the like reverence to him Upon which Eusebius hath this memorable Observation Solus vero iste beatus Imperator etiam mortuus regnavit cum ei soli post hominum memoriam vel ipso Deo authore omnes qui solebant honores tanquàm superstiti tribuerentur Nam cum is solus ex omnibus Imperatoribus Regem omnium Deum Christum ejus omnibus vitae actionibus piè sanctèque coluerit jure sanè etiam hunc honorem solus adeptus est ut Dei voluntate quod in eo morte sepultum erat tamen apud homines regnaret ut ista scilicet ratione nobis Deus significaret animarum Regnum his qui non prorsus obduruerunt nunquàm consenescere nunquàm entori His two Sons being absent when he died there were some select Captains out of the whole Army eminent for their Fidelitie sent to acquaint them with his death the News whereof being spread throughout all the Legions they all with one mind and consent presently resolved as if great Constantine himself were alive Neminem praeter ejus Filios Romani Imperii Principem agnituros and soon after all resolved that they should not only be called Caesars but likewise Augusti which being a Title of the greatest Dignity of all sorts is the Proper note of the greatest Empire The Senate People and whole City of Rome exceedingly lamented this Emperors death did the same reverence to his Pictures as to himself whiles living and painting the Effigies of Heaven in its proper colours pictured him above the Coelestial Orbs resting in the Heavenly Assembly At his Funeral the Souldiers Priests and People standing round about his Herse expressed their Affections and Devotions towards him in every kind they could ● quibus Divinus per