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A86711	The royal joy. Or, A sermon of congratulation upon the five first verses of Psalm XXI. Made upon the occasion of the first news of the proclamation of Charls II. King of Great Britain; brought to His Majesty in the town of Breda, the 21. of May, in the year 1660. Preached at the Walloon Church of the said town, the 23. of May, the day before His Majesties departure: by Anthony Hulsius, pastor of the said Church.	Hulsius, Antonius, 1615-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3363; Thomason E1048_11; ESTC R208129	18,758	33

The Royal Joy OR A SERMON OF CONGRATVLATION Upon the five first Verses of PSALM XXI Made upon the occasion of the first News of the PROCLAMATION of CHARLS II. King of Great Britain Brought to His Majesty in the Town of BREDA the 21. of May in the Year 1660. Preached at the Walloon Church of the said Town the 23. of May the day before His Majesties departure By ANTHONY HVLSIVS Pastor of the said Church LONDON Printed by John Bill Anno 1660 TO HER HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS ROYAL MADAM THis Sermon which I make bold to present to your Highness bears upon its Front THE ROYAL JOY a Title given unto it by the Text but we bear another upon the front of our hearts viz. THE POPVLAR JOY The Kings Joy bath been made the Subject of the Publick Joy It hath chiefly appeared upon the Countenances of all your faithful Subjects of the Town of Breda in an extraordinary manner there being none of our Inhabitants but hath given the marks of a cordial Applause upon the first report of His Majesties Restauration with an excess of joy and I dare say with as strong expressions of rejoycing as might have been uttered by the most affectionate of his own Subjects And I may truly say Madam that it is not the present time of prosperity which hath given us the first impressions of this inclination towards that worthy Prince it is of an older date and had its beginning together with the knowledge we had of him We never saw him coming in or going out of this Town during the time of his Affliction but we made Vows for his Deliverance yea and we would have carried him upon his own Throne had our strength been equal to the motions of our hearts and could the effects have been answerable to the tenderness of our affection which hath had a not able increase since the time Heaven hath favored us with the accomplishment of our desires and hath chosen this Town to be the place where His Majesty hath received the news of his Proclamation where his Subjects have resorted in crowd to render him their Devoirs and where even our Soveraign Magistrates the Lords States General and Provincial of Holland have personally appeared to express unto His Majesty the sense of the singular satisfaction they received by seeing such an happy day It is true Madam your Highness hath been the occasion our Town hath received such an Honor and therefore we do acknowledge you as the second cause of it and the Instrument in the hand of God yet we do interpret it as a benefit of God whereby he hath been pleased to reward the part we have taken out of our affections in the calamities of that Prince that as for a long time we have sympathiz'd with him so we should be the first sharers of his comfort and joy I cannot think Madam that any one would be so unjust towards us as to envy us such an advantage since it is justified even by the example of our Lord Jesus Christ who was pleased that Mary Magdalene to whom the Town of Breda may be compared upon the present occasion should have the first share of the glad tidings of his Resurrection which she received from his own mouth as a reward of her cares and fears for him wherein she had excelled above all his other friends and kindred The Custom of our Ancestors who rendred their memorable actions even the days of their Funest Battels famous by the names of the places wherein they had hapned doth give that right to our Town that this so remarkable action of the Divine Providence which is one of the most signal wonders that ever were celebrated by the Histories of the past ages ought to be published under its name Blessed be therefore that august day wherein His Majesty being in the midst of us hath received by an unanimous accord the Homage of his Subjects Let it henceforth be called THE DAY OF BREDA Let it be under that Name the Object of the Admiration of all the Christian Kings and Princes let it shine even to the most remote places of the Barbarous Nations let it be ingraved with the Steel in our Records and Memorials that for ever it may be the subject of the Discourses of our Posterity But that which we do esteem above all Madam is the admirable goodness and sweetness wherewith His Majesty hath received the visits of all sorts of persons Those affectionate and reiterated protestations and promises be hath made to our Soveraign Lords the States as also to our vener able Magistrates to the Pastors and to the other persons both Political and Ecclesiastical of this Town Of the sincerity of his affection towards the true Reformed religion and towards all the Protestant Princes and States and chiefly towards the States of these United Provinces promising unto them the continuation of the affection his Ancestors have shewed unto them and particularly Of the favorable remembrance and good will he would still keep for the Town of Breda where he had received the news of his restauration and known the effects of the inclination shewed to his Person and to his Subjects That language Madam hath ravished our spirits hath filled our hearts with joy and our mouths with vows and acclamations We have gathered it with our own ears as the expressions which the Spirit of Peace had dictated to His Maiesty's mouth which will make us hereafter cast our eyes upon that Excellent Prince as upon a mighty Organ reserved by God for the present times and raised in his blessing to be a ballance and an Equilibrium for the publick tranquillity throughout all Europe And our Inhabitants Madam have also expressed a singular satisfaction of the gracious content his Majesty hath been pleased to shew be hath received of their cordial affection and weak services they have been able to render to those that belong to your Royal House And we pray your Highness to believe that if the noise of our Muskets and Canons thundering from our Bulwarks at the departure of his Maiesty could not accompany him further then a little beyond our gates that of our Vows and prayers to God for his prosperity will follow him to his very City of London and will contribute to the setting of his Crowns upon his head These are the truest proofs of our affection which your Highness doth ever recommend unto us as often as we have the honor to wait upon you viz. those of our prayers to God for your Highness and your Family And truly they are the most material and the most pure ones and which give stronger impressions then all others for they do ascend to the place of origine viz. Heaven and bring down from thence abundance of blessings upon earth whereas all others do vanish in their pomp and apparate and most part cannot bring any advantage to the object thereof Which consideration hath put me in mind of the matter of this Sermon

The means hath been his hearts desire and the request of his lips Let him go to sea who will learn to pray faith the proverb No doubt but that Prince in the midst of the vast sea of his calamities among so many storms that went over his head being destitute of all supply from men hath had his recourse unto the Lord the only support of the afflicted souls and said often with David Out of the depths do I cry unto thee O Lord and with queen Elizabeth when she was carried from the Tower of London to the prison of Woodstock by order of queen Mary her sister Be merciful unto me O God be merciful unto me for my soul trusteth in thee yea in the shadow of thy wings do I make my refuge until the calamity be overpast In a word the Lord hath heard the desire of his heart and hath rewarded his persevering piety in the profession of the Reformed religion which he stedfastly kept in his heart notwithstanding wait hath been often laid to his conscience during the years of his banishment among the enemies of the Truth deceitful promises could not shake the stedfastness of his spirit Yet he hath been forced to swallow down the blame with the calamity as if he had been unfaithful to God therein But experience hath shewed the contrary that although he was surrounded with the thick clouds of Idolatry he hath ever preserved the purity of the worship of God in his family as a most learned and most orthodox Divine among his Domesticks an unreproachable witness before God and man hath assured us Yea and the event doth now shew us the contrary David faith Psal 66.18 If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me So had this Prince had any thought tending to the disadvantage of the Worship of God and of that flourishing Church of Christ in his Kingdoms the Lord would not have heard the desire of his heart But he hath heard it And therefore let us conclude that his conscience and his affection to the truth of the holy Gospel remained pure and sincere as he hath also protested in the midst of us A mighty argument to prove that God honoreth such as do honor him and are faithful to his service 3. The proofs of his deliverance are likewise manifest I. In general God hath prevented him with blessings The world did imagine that new Form of the Government of those Kingdoms to have taken root that the wound of that Revolution was now consolidated and that the ugly skar it had contracted could not be opened but by the edge of the sword But God's thoughts are not as mens thoughts As the Heavens are higher then the earth so are the ways of God higher then the ways of men Isa 55. Who untying and unfolding all those difficulties hath opened to this Prince a door whereat he hoped not to be able to enter when he thought upon the way of Arms wherein the Grace from above hath prevented him shewing him a surer an easier and a safer way for him and for his people II. In particular 1. He bath set a Crown upon his head yea and three Crowns are designed unto him And what is more it is God who setteth them on his head who by his mighty hand raiseth the hands of his subjects to set them with an unanimous consent upon his head Wherein his providence is yet more admirable then it hath been in the example of David sithence the Crown of Saul taken up in the battel was brought to David by an Amalekite 2 Sam. 1. after the same manner as that of Richard the 3. of whom we have spoken before was set on Henry the 7. his head in the Battel-field both by anticipation Whereas to this Prince it is offered after a mature deliberation of all his States To David it was presented he being in the Kingdom to this he being yet abroad David was only proclaimed King of Judah at the beginning of his reign for the other Tribes adhered yet to the son of Saul for two years But this is proclaimed King of all his Kingdoms without any opposition 2. The lengthening of days shall be the crowning of that admirable work of God which as David by the gift of prophefie promised unto himself so do we wish it to this Prince by our vows and prayers INSTRUCTION SOme might here say the same that sometimes one Sheba the son of Bichri said 2 Sam. 20.1 We have no part in David the interest of this King and of his Subjects is not our interest their joy is not our joy who live under and depend on other Magistrates and therefore have nothing common I answer it is true that as the Sea doth divide us so there is a diversity of Politick Government between us But there is another union besides that of the bodies viz. that of consciences whereby this Prince and his people do acknowledge themselves to be tied unto us and our Soveraign Magistrates and their Subjects do acknowledge to be tied unto them There are two several ties that binde us to our Superiors each Nation to their own but there is one only tie that ties us all to the King of Kings our Lord Jesus Christ as several lines drawn from the circumference of the circle do meet all in the centre which is in the middle so Jesus Christ and the purity of the holy Gospel is our common centre wherein we meet together as members of the same body as Subjects of the same King as Citizens of the same Spiritual Commonwealth So we have part in David so this King and his people are near related to us our interests are common our joyes common our advantages common our losses common And upon this account we pour this day our Prayers for that Prince That God the pleased to accomplish in and for him the excellen work be hath begun That be will lead him in his journey and bring him safe into his Kingdom to incline the hearts of all his subjects to him that all of them none excepted may imbrace him as their Father and Deliverer so to settle his Crown upon his Head that it may never be shaken hereafter To strengthen him against all foreign forces to protect him against the designs of his enemies against all dangers and inconveniences and to give him a flourishing and peaceable Reign that being made a joyful and contented King sitting upon his Throne he might all the days of his life acknowledge the Author and the manner of his deliverance Religiously remember the gracious Protection of god during the long tempest of his calamities and the wonders he hath wrought for his restauration That be might keep a holy correspondence with the State of these Vnited Provinces as his Ancestors have done and might shew the first effects of his acknowledgement by a fervent zeal to the repurgation of the Church of Jesus Christ of all those Sects and Heresies that have crept into