Mercurius Davidicus, OR A pattern of loyal Devotion.  
Wherein King DAVID sends his piety TO KING CHARLES, His Subjects.  
Being the practise of the Primitive Christians, Martyrs, and Confessors, in all Ages; Very fitting to be used both public and private in these disloyal TIMES.  
Likewise Prayers and Thanksgivings used in the Kings Army before and after battle.  

Published by His Majesties Command.   
Oxford, Printed by Leonard Leichfield. 1634.   

Mercurius Davidicus, OR, A pattern of loyal DEVOTION, Taken out of KING DAVIDS psalms.  
O LORD of Hosts, 
Psal. 2. v. 3. 4.  stand up wee beseech thee against them that stand up against thee, and take counsel against thee and against thine Anointed.  
Laugh them to scorn, and have them in derision; speak unto them in thy wrath, and vex them in thy sore displeasure.  
In thy strength let the King rejoice; 
Ps. 21 v. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.  give him his hearts desire; deny him not the request of his lips; Prevent him with the blessings of goodness; Set a Crown of pure gold upon his head; Give him a long life, even for ever and ever. Let his Honour be great in thy salvation; lay upon him glory and great worship. Give him everlasting felicity; make him glad with the joy of thy countenance; 
Psal. 21.8, 9, 10.  Let him put his trust in thee, and in thy mercy let him not miscarry: Let his enemies feel thy hand, and let thy right hand find out them that hate him; Make them like a fiery oven in the time of thy wrath; destroy them in thy displeasure: Root out their fruit from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men; because they have intended mischief against thine Anointed Charles, and imagined such a device, which wee beseech thee they may not be able to perform  

Psal. 33. v. 15. Psal. 44.7.  He cannot be saved by the multitude of his Hostes, nor delivered by his much strength: It is not his sword: nor his bow that can help him: do thou therefore save him from his enemies, and tread them under that rise up against him.  

Psal. 45 6 Ps. 54 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 7  Let thy Arrows be sharp amongst the Kings enemies.  
Save him for thy Names sake, and avenge him in thy strength; Hear his Prayer, O God, and harken unto the words of his mouth, because Rebells are risen up against him, and Tyrants and Traytors seek after his soul: Be thou his helper, and be with them that seek to uphold him Reward evil to his enemies, and destroy them in thy truth; Deliver him out of all his troubles, and let his eye see his desire upon his enemies; 
ps. 55 19. ps. ●7 1, 2, 4, 5, 6.  Deliver his soul in peace from the battle that is against him.  
under the shadow of thy wings let his Refuge bee until this tyranny be overpassed and now that he calls upon thee, do thou perform the cause which he hath in hand. Save him from the reproof of them that would eat him up; sand forth thy Mercy and Truth; for his soul is among Lions, and lies among them that are set on fire, whose Teeth are spears and Arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword: Set up thyself O God above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth. 
psal. 57.7.  His enemies have laid a net for his feet, and would press down his Soul; they have digged a pit before him; but let them fall into the midst of it themselves.  
Break their teeth O God in their mouths smite the Iaw-bones of these lions, O Lord; 
ps. 58 6, 7, 8 9.  set them fall away like water that runneth apace, and when they shoot their Arrows, or guns, let them be rooted out: Let them consume away like a Snayl, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; Let thine Indignation vex them, as a thing that is raw; and let our Righteous King rejoice, when he sees thy vengeance, and wash his foot-steps in the blood of the ungodly Rebells.  
Deliver him from his enemies, O God, 
ps. 59 1, 2, 3 4 5, 1 ●1, 12, 13  defend him from them that rise up against him: Deliver him from wicked Doers, and save him from the Blood-thirsty man that will have no Accommodation. See, O God, how they lye waiting for his soul, and how the mighty men are gathered against him, without any offence, or fault of his; O Lord. They run as Volunteers, before they be called, and prepare themselves; Arise thou therefore to help him: stand up, O Lord of Hosts to visit the Rebells, and be not merciful to them that offend of malicious wickedness: slay them not lest their posterity forget it, but scatter them abroad amongst the people and put them down: Let them be taken in their pride, for the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips; for their Preaching is of cursing and lies; Consume them in thy wrath, consume them, that they may know it is God that rules in England, and hath a care of his Anointed.  
Tho' thou hast cast him a great way off, 
ps. 60 1, 2.  Yet be not displeased too long, but turn thee unto him again; Though thou hast moved the Land, and divided it, yet now heal the soars thereof; 
Psal. 60.3, 5.  Though thou hast shown thy people heavy things, and given them a drink of deadly wine; yet now deliver thy beloved servant, our gracious King, with all his true-hearted nobility, gentry, and infantry, and help them with thy right hand.  

ps. 61.6, 7.  Grant the King a long life, that his yeers may endure a long season; Let him dwell before thee; o prepare thy loving Mercy, and faithfulness to preserve him.  

ps 62 3, 4, 10.  Let not the Rebells any longer imagine mischief against him; If they will, let them be slain all the sort of them; yea, as a totterring wall let them be, and like a broken hedge; Because their device is to put out, and pull down him, our King, whom thou hast, and wee trust, wilt still exalt; Let them therefore that delight in wrong and robbery, that give themselves over to vanity, and seek to hurt his soul, 
ps. 63 10, 11 12.  go under the earth, and fall by the edge of the sword; and let the mouth of them that speak lies be stopped; but let the King rejoice in thee, and all they that swear for him be commended.  

ps. 64 1, 2, 4 5, 6 7, 8.  Hear his voice, o God, in his Prayer, and preserve his life from fear of the enemy; hid him from the gathering together of the froward, and from the insurrection of wicked doers, which whet their tongues like a sword, and shoot out their Arrows, even bitter words, that they may privily hit him; which courage themselves in mischief, and commune among themselves how they may lay snares that imagine wickedness, and practise it, which they keep secret ( in a close Committee) among themselves: O God, do thou suddenly shoot at them with a swift arrow, that they may be wounded, and let their own tongues make them fall.  
Thou hast stilled the raging of the sea, 
Psal. 65.7.  and the waves; o show now also one miracle, and cure the madness of the people.  
Arise, O God, and let thine enemies be scattered, 
ps. 68 1, 2, 12, 17 21, 30  and all them that hate thine Anointed, fly before him; Drive them away as the smoke that vanisheth, and let the ungodly Rebells perish at thy presence, as wax melteth at the fire; yea, let their kinglings, with their Armies fly, and be discomfitted: scatter them with thy twenty Thousand Chariots, even with the Thousands of thy Angels; wound them in their heads, and hairy scalps, if they go on still in their wickedness; rebuk the company of Spear-men, the multitude of the Bulls, with the Calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver; Scatter thou the people that delight in war. 
ps. 69 4, 6, 18, 19 20.  More are they then the hairs of his head that hate him without a cause; they that are his enemies, and would destroy him guiltless are mighty; Yet let not us that trust in thee O Lord God of Hosts, be ashamed for the Kings Cause, neither let us that seek thee for him, be confounded; hid not thy face from him thy servant in his trouble; Draw nigh unto his soul, and save it; O deliver him because of his enemies; bet his adversaries, that have cast upon him shane, reproof and dishonour, And seek after his soul, 
ps 70.2. ps. 71 11.20.  be ashamed, turned backward, and put to confusion: Let them be covered with shane and dishonour that seek to do him evil; and for those great troubles and adversities which thou hast shewed him, quicken him, and bring him up from the depths of the earth again.  
Give him, the King, thy judgements, 
ps. 72 1, 2, 3  and thy righteousness unto Prince Charles, his Son; That he may judge the people according unto right, and defend the poor; That he may bring Peace and righteousness unto his people, and keep the simplo folk by their right, and defend the children of the poor, 
Psal. 72.4, 8.  and punish the wrong doer; Let his Dominion be from one sea to another, over England, Scotland and Ireland.  

ps. 74.3, 4.5, 7, 8, 11, 12 19, 23  With the Tribe of Iuda, think upon the tribe of thine own Inheritance, and upon Mount Sion, wherein thou hast dwelled; Lift up thy feet, that thou mayest utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evil in thy Sanctuary, and roar in the midst of thy Congregations, and set up their Banners for tokens; Which break down all the carved work thereof with Axes and hammers; and set fire upon thy holy Places, and defile the dwelling Place of thy Name even to the ground; O, let not the Adversary still do this dishonour, nor let thy enemies blaspheme thy Name for ever; withdraw not thy hand; pluck thou the right hand out of thy bosom to rebuk the enemy, and foolish people, which blaspheme thy Name; yea, the foolish man, that blasphems thee daily.  

ps 75.12. ps. 76.6. ps. 78.73. ps. 79. 1, 2, 12.  Break the horns of the ungodly people; and at thy rebuk let both the Horse and his chariot fall; That thy servant David, and our sovereign Charles, may again feed us with a faithful and true heart, & rule us prudently with all his power.  
Behold, O God, what people are come into thine Inheritance, how they have defiled thy Temple, and made a great part of thy jerusalem an heap of stones: They have slain thy servants, and given their dead bodies to be meat unto the fowls of the air; Oh at length let the sorrowful sighing of the Prisoners come before thee, and according to the greatness of thy power, preserve thou those who are appointed to be Plundered of their Names and Estates; 
ps. 83.4.  By those wretched people, that say,  
Come, and let us root them out, that they be no more a people, & that the Name of K. Charles, and a Conformable Orthodox Clergy be no more in remembrance; 
Ps. 83.5, 9, 11 12.13 14, 17.  That cast their heads with one consent; and are confederate against thine Anointed: But do thou unto them, as unto the Madianites, unto Sisera, and unto jabin at Edge-hill: Make all their kinglings and princelings, that say, Let us take the Houses of God, 
ps 86.14.16 17.  and revenues of the Church in Possession, like Zeba and Salmuna, like unto a wheel, and as the stubble before the wind; As the fire that burns up the wood, and as the flamme, that consumes the Mountains; Let them be confounded and vexed; 
ps. 89.3, 4, 21 22, 23 24, 25 28, 29 30.38.41  Let them be put to shane and perish: The proud are risen against thine Anointed, and the congregation of naughty men, that have not set thee before their eyes, seek after his soul: But turn thou unto him, and have mercy upon him, and give thy strength unto thy servant, and help the Son of thine handmaid; show some good token upon him for good, that they which hate him, may see it, and be ashamed, because thou Lord dost help him, and comfort him; Thou hast made a covenant with thy chosen, thou hast sworn unto David( unto Charles) thy servant; O do thou establish his seed for ever, & set up his throne from one generation to another; Thou hast Anointed him with thy holy oil, now let thy Hand hold him fast, and thine Arm strengthen him; That the enemy may not be able to do him violence, nor these sons of wickedness to hurt him; Smite down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him; Let thy truth and mercy be with him, and in thy Name let his strength be exalted; Make him higher then the Kings of the earth keep thy mercy for him for evermore, and let thy Covenant stand fast with him: Let his seed endure for ever, and his throne as the dayes of Heaven; Cast not his Crown to the ground; Set not up the right hand of his enemies, neither make his Adversaries to rejoice: 
Psal. 89.42.50.  take not away the edge of his Sword, but give him victory in the battle: Remember Lord the rebukes thy servants have, and how wee bear in our bosoms the Rebukes of many people, wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed, and slandered the foot-steps of thine Anointed.  

Ps. 91 3, 4, 7, 12, 16  Deliver him from the snare of the Hunter, and from the noisome pestilence: Defend him under thy wings, keep him safe under thy feathers; let thy faithfulness and Truth be his shield and buckler; Though a thousand fall beside him, and ten Thousand at his right hand, yet give thine Angels charge over him, to keep him in all his ways: Let them bear them in his hands, till thou hast satisfied him with long life, and shewed him thy salvation; until his eye see his lust upon his enemies, 
Ps. 9● 10.  and his car hear his desire of the wicked that are risen up against him:  

Ps. 94 2, 5, 23.  Arise thou judge of the world, and reward the Rebells after their deserving that smite down thy people, and trouble thy heritage: Recompense them their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice. 
Ps. 98 2.   
With thine own right hand, and with thy holy arm, give thy servant Charles the victory.  

Psal. 105.15. Psal. 106.17. Psal. 118.25. Psal. 120.2.6.  He is thine Anointed; and therefore let no hand of wickedness touch him: If they will still go on, let the earth open, and swallow up their Leader, and cover the congregation of all the Rebells.  
help the King now, O Lord; o Lord show him now prosperity.  
Deliver his Soul, O Lord from lying lips, and from a deceitful Tongue; even from the lying lips of those deceitful tongues, who make themselves ready for battle, when he persuades, and entreats, and invites, and speaks unto them of peace: Be thou, O Lord, his Keeper, 
Psal. 121.5, 6, 8.  and Defence upon his right hand; Let not the sun go down upon him by day, in open violence, nor the moon by night, in secret treachery, preserve him from all evil in his goings out, and coming in from this time forth for evermore.  
sand peace within his walls, 
P. 122 7. ps. 123 3, 4.  and plenteousness within His palaces.  
Have mercy upon him, O Lord, have mercy upon him; for he hath been despised, and filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy, and with the despitefulnesse of the proud.  
Be thou on his side, o Lord, even thou thyself, 
ps. 42 1, 2, 4, 6.  now that men rise up against him least they swallow him up quick, now they are so wrathfully displeased at him: and that the deep waters of the proud may not go over his soul, break the snare that they have laid for him, that he may escape as a bide out of the snare of the Fowler.  
If they will still turn back upon their own wickedness, led them forth with the evil doers; 
ps. 125 5.  but let peace be upon Israel even upon K. Charles, and all his loyal subjects.  
Many at me have they fought against him; yea, 
ps. 119 1, 2, 4 5.  many a time have they vexed his soul from his youth up, yet, blessed be thy Name, they have not prevailed against him; how thou their ungodly snares in pieces; convert them, if it be thy good will, if not, confounded them, even as many of them, is have evil will at Sion, or at the King of Sion, King Charles.  
Lord, remember this David of thine, 
ps. 132 1, 10, 19.  and all his troubles; and turn not away the presence of thine Anointed; cloth his enemies with shane, but upon himself let his Crown flourish.  
Give victory unto the King, and deliver Charles thy servant from the peril of the sword and Gun in the day of battle, and evermore, O thou King of Hosts, wee beseech thee thorough Iesus Christ, the Prince of peace. Amen.   

A Thanksgiving for the good success it hath pleased GOD to give His Anointed.  

Psal. 111.1, 4, 6 9.  WEe do and will give thanks to thee O Lord, with our whole hearts: secretly among the faithful, and publicly in the congregation; because thou hast done such a marvelous work for the King in showing his people the power of his works, and given us a hope of Redemption, by a late glorious victor● at Edge-hill.  

ps. 111.1.  Wee do give thanks unto thee, O Lord, and confess thou art gracious, because thou hast taken part with thine Anointed, and them that help him, against the desire of his enemies at Brainford.  

ps. 136 2 3.  Wee give thanks unto thee the God of all Gods: wee give thanks unto thee the Lord of all Lords; because thou hast continued thy mercy to thine Anointed, and conquered him who was called the conqueror and given the King a glorious victory over him at the Devizes.  

ps. 144 1  Blessed be thou O Lord, our sovereigns strength, and our own; who hast taught our hands to war, and our fingers to fight: our hope, our fortress, our castle and Deliverer, our defemder, in whom wee trust, which hast subdued the people under him; and given him a glorious victory over his rebellious Subjects at Cicester.  

ps. 145 1, 2, 6 7 8, 14.  Wee magnify thee, O God our King, and will praise thy Name for ever and ever. Every day will we give thanks unto thee, and praise thy Name for ever and ever; wee will speak of the might of thy marvelous acts, and tell of thy greatness. We will remember thine abundant kindness, and sing of thy righteousn sse; Because thou hast been gracious, and merciful, and of great goodness, in upholding our sovereign, who was falling, and lifted up him thy servant, who was down, by many a glorious victory in the North.  
Our souls shall praise thee while wee live, 
ps. 146 1, 6.  yea as long as we have any being, wee will sing praises unto thee, because thou hast helped him to right( who suffered wrong) in returning the Citizens of Bristol and exeter, the inhabitants of Barstable, Beddeford and Appleford to their pristine Loyalty.  
None of these thy mercies, nor any other shall go out of our remembrance; wee will never cease praising of thee for thy mercies passed, nor praying unto thee for thy mercy future; which wee beseech thee to multiply upon the head of our King, and in the heart of his kingdom, by covering Him in the day of battle, and sending peace within our walls; which we beseech thee to accomplish to us, and him, thorough Iesus Christ our Lord, Amen.   

Another of th● same.  
WEe praise thee, O God, we aclowledge thee to be the Lord; the Lord of Hosts, and the God of Peace; the Lord of Hosts in going forth with the Armies of thine Anointed, our sovereign Charles; and given him one glorious victory at Edge-hill, and a second at Brainceford, and a third at Cicester, and a fourth at Skimer, and a fift at the Devizes, and many a one in the North, and the God of peace, in returning the Citizens of bristol and exeter, the inhabitants of Barstable, Beddeford & Appleford to their pristine Loyalty; O be thou pleased still to take part with him, till thou hast reduced all his other Cities and citizens; all his other towns and Subjects to the same duty of loyalty, and happiness of peace. Give them that still stand out, the grace both of Illumination and Saectification; of Illumination, that they may know their duty, and of Sanctification, that they may do their duty, and confirm us w o are already loyal, that neither for fear of death or torment, nor for hope of life or preferrment, we may ever decline our duty; but continue constant to the end, and in the end receive that Crown which thou hast promised to them that persevere, and exchange this grateful. Anthem, Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to thy Name, we ascribe the glory, into that everlasting hallelujah, Honour and glory, and praise be unto thee, and to the lamb at thy right hand, for ever and ever, Amen.   

The loyal Subjects Prayer, in these disloyal times.  
O Almighty God, King of all Kings, and Governor of all things, whose power no creature is able to resist, to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners, and to be merciful to them that truly repent; Save and deliver our gracious King Charles, his royal Consort the Queen, our hopeful Prince Charles, and the rest of their Princely Issue: his royal Nephews, his loyal Nobility, Gentry and infantry, who are now up in arms under him, and for him, and to maintain thy Glory, and true Religion, his Honour and just prerogatives, the Parliaments lustre and true privileges, the Kingdoms Laws, and the subjects Liberty, from the hands of thine, his, and our enemies: Gi●e them, even them a sight & sense of that Rebellion they are run into, of the effusion of blood, they have caused, of that perjury, by breaking the Oaths of Allegiance, supremacy, and their own late Protestation, they stand guilty of that yet at last they may return to the duty of Piety they owe thee, to the duty of Loyalty they owe their King, to the duty of unity they owe the Church, to the duty of Equity they owe the Kingdom, to the duty of Sobriety they owe themselves, & to the duty of Charity they owe us and all men; that so they may partake of thy mercy and the Kings, in the pardon both of their sin and punishment: If they will not be converted, then O God, insatuate their heads, consternate their hearts, euervate then hands, abate their pride, assuage their malice, & confounded their devices: and when the Armies meet, let these, and all other the enemies of thine, and the King, be as the dust before the wind, and the Angel of the Lord scattering them: These are the men that have raised this war by gro●… dies Fears & jealousies, & deleght in this War by graceless Treacheries & Conspiracies, and therefore according to thine own promise scatter, scatter thou the people that delight in war: Let every one of the Kings Army chase ten of the Rebells, ten of his an hundred of theirs, & an hundred a thousand; and what he could not gain by pieus Oritory, do thou give him by a glorious Victory, Peace, the peace of God, the peace of the Church, the peace of the kingdom, and do thou exchange all this peace on earth, to him our King and to ourselves his Subjects, into the Peace of Glory in Heaven, thorough Iesus Christ, Amen.   

A Thanksgiving for His Majesties late great Victory over the Rebells in the North.  
O Most Mighty God, whose dwelling is above the Heavens, yet humblest thyself to dispose of all things done either in Heaven or earth, who in thy unsearchable judgements hast suffered the Sheba● of these times to blow the Trumpet of rebel on in every corner of this Land, but withall hast istuly turned th s sufferance of thine into their ruin; We praise and magnify thy great and glorious Name, that having given of late to th●… e Anointed so many pledges of thy favour, thou hast yet added to the heap of blessings a New and notable victory over the Rebells in the North; go on, O thou God of our Salvation, go on, as thou hast begun, leave us not wee beseech thee, till thou hast accomplished the great work thou hast so apparently taken into thine own hands; pass by our personal sins, O Lord, though they cry loud, hear them not, but look to the righteousness of our Cause; See the seamless Coat of thy Son torn, she Throne of th ne Anointed trempled on; thy Church invaded by sacrilege, and thy people miserable deceived with his. See it O God,( as see it thou dost) and vindicate what thou seest upon the heads of those who led theft Whetches to destruction, till by their frequent overthrows( if nothng else can possibly reduce them) thou hast scourged them into obedience, and t●… d these enemies of there and ours into a desire of peace, that so having at last subdued their hearts( which is the best of victories) thy David may return to his jerusalem in Peace, and thy people once more ioy under his Government, blessing thy goodness, which hath wrought this for us through the Mediation of thy Son Iesus Christ, to whom with thee, and thy blessed Spirit, be all praise, and glory world without end. Amen.