SERIOUS OBSERVATIONS LATELY MADE, Touching his Majesty Charles the Second, KING OF England, Scotland, France & Ireland. King Charles Stuart, in Hebrew thus:. מלך כרה לוש צור אט Translated into English, is thus, The King hath prepared a Refreshing, he hath Crushed it out of the Rock by Degrees. Published to inform the People, Per H. Walker. S. S. T. S. LONDON, Printed for R. I. and are to be sold by William Gilbertson at the Bible in Gilt-spur-street. 1660. Serious Observations Lately made, Touching his Majesty CHARLES the Second, KING OF England, Scotland, France & Ireland. HIs Royal Majesty Charles the Second, by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, is both in the Hypostasis, and in the Prosopon, (under God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ) in this juncture of the time of his temporal life, our true and Sovereign Lord, rightly possessed of the Crown and Government; according to the mind of God revealed in his word, and the Laws and Customs of these Nations; And we ought to be subject to him, not for fear, but out of Conscience; and God hath declared damnation against those that resist him, Rom. 13. 1 His Majesty hath the Hypostasis, that subsistence to which God hath form him to King-ship, in whose breast alone is (for us) the Royal Abstract: God hath qualified him to use him as his Instrument for the Government he hath appointed him to, over us; we cannot think that the Kingly heart mentioned 1 Sam. 10.9. is at this time in any breast fitted for these Nations, but in the bosom of his sacred Majesty. His Royal Father (in whom it was till death) had treacherous servants that conspired against him, and slew him at his own House, since which, that dispensation of the Spirit descendeth upon his Majesty that now is, whom we are obliged to honour and bless God for, as the Jews did good King Josiah, who reigned in his Father's stead, 2 King. 21.23. 2 His Majesty is the Prosopon, that person in the Concrete, upon whose sacred brows the Royal Diadem is rightly seated; however others have brooded upon the Crown, to flatter their ambition, or fancied themselves Urinals, to delude the senses, or assumed the Robes on their own backs, to terrify others, with a pretence of the Plague in it; and dared to remove the Diadem, and take off the Crown; yet God hath over-turned, over-turned, over-turned it, that it should be no more, until our gracious King Charles came, whose right it is, and to whom God hath given it, as he promised, Ezek. 21.26, 27 Besides these Observations, there are many other peculiar rays of glory that shine about the Throne of his Majesty, to demonstrate to all the world, a most clear manifestation of the Lords wonderful presence with, and owning, and blessing of his Majesty's Reign over us. I. His Majesty hath an eminent seal from God, by healing the Evil. For the Lord Jesus hath declared in the holy Scriptures, that, to be one of the signs that shall follow them that believe; They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover, Mark 16.18. His Majesty doth lay hands on great numbers sick of the Evil and they do recover; By Prayer he prevails with God to give an effectual issue to his touching of them; None, that in his Royal absence assumed the Government, could do it; all their stroke and prayers to accomplish it, would become vain, but, Where the word of a King is, there is power, Eccles. 8.4. II. His Majesty's Name and Title, King Charles Stuart, written in Hebrew thus מלך כרה לוש צור אט hath a notable signification, and answers the fulfilling of an excellent Prophecy, and glorious Promise, in which the Lord Jehovah, graciously stands engaged to his Church: The plain translation of the said Hebrew into English is this, The King hath prepared a Refreshing, he hath crushed it out of the Rock by degrees. The Lord by him hath fulfilled that great blessing promised to his people, Isa. 3.1, 2. Behold! a King shall reign in Righteousness, and Princes shall rule in Judgement, and a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary land. When we were scorched worse than Israel, in a barren, starved, wilderness-condition, when storms fell about us, and we had no shelter, when all waters, and means seemed to fail; Religion, Government, Trade, Food, Peace, Hope, all our Springs were dried up; then the Lord called our Royal King Charles the Second, to Reign in Righteousness, and rule in Judgement, to be an hiding place, and a covert for us; who is become our Moses, and hath prepared a refreshing banquet for us in the Wilderness; he hath smote the Rock, and given us drink out of the great depths, he hath crushed us out sweetness, and made rivers of refreshing streams to glide pleasantly in the midst of us, like that, Psalm 78.15, 16. Government is (blessed be God) by his Majesty's Reign over us, restored to its basis, Religion and Piety is by him countenanced & encouraged, Profaneness, and Debauchery, by him reproved and shamed; And it is much upon his Royal endeavours to contrive admirable expedients to reduce our differences, to repair Trade, supply Food, and establish Peace and Truth: So that our hopes are great in the Lords restoring of his Majesty to us, who hath already made us to suck honey out of the Rock, and oil out of the flinty rock (as that) Deut. 32.13. III. Those whom God calls to honourable and choice Places and Employments at their age of thirty years he usually pours down upon them a more than ordinary manifestation of his gracious presence, to make them very eminent. Devout Joseph was thirty years old when God advanced him to that great dignity wherein he stood before Pharaoh, who took off the ring from his own finger and put it on joseph's hand, arrayed him in fine Robes, with a Gold chain about his neck, and made him to ride in a stately Chariot; And they cried before him, Bow the knee; And he was Ruler over the Land of Egypt, Gen. 41.41, to 47. Holy David, a man after Gods own heart, was thirty years old when he began to Reign King over Israel, to whom all the people of the Land came to Hebron, saying, Behold we are thy bone, and thy flesh; and King David made a league with them before the Lord; And they anointed him King over Israel, 2 Sam. 5. & 4 last verses. When the Levites were called to the Ministerial Office, to enter into the service of the Lord, to do the work of the Tabernacle, they were appointed by God to be thirty years old, Num. 4. The Lord Jesus Christ himself, when he began to be thirty years old, then was he baptised and anointed into the Priestly Office, when praying, the Heaven was opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a Dove upon him & a voice came from heaven which said, Thou art my beloved son, in thee I am well pleased, Lu. 3.21. &c And this is the age of our gracious Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second, in which, through Divine Providence, by the wisdom, power and goodness of God, his Majesty is come to the Throne, and established in his Royal Government. iv The Lord saith of those days wherein he shall arise, and the glory of Christ shall be seen, Isa. 40 2. That Kings shall come to the brightness of his rising, and the people shall flock with them, for 3. etc. And this hath God fulfilled in our eyes, making the King, and many that were banished into strange Lands, to return and minister unto us, and build up our broken walls. And God that in his wrath had smitten us, hath thus mercy on us, according to his promise, ver. 10. And those that afflicted us, bow themselves down at his Majesty's feet, whose bosom the Lord hath made a refreshing to us; the Lord make him an eternal excellency, and the joy of many Generations. V The Lord hath promised that in Christ's exaltation in the midst of his Church, Kings shall see & arise, and Princes shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy one of Israel, he shall choose them, Isa 49.7. Thus hath God shown his faithfulness to our gracious King, whom he hath raised up, and chosen to be a nursing Father, to bring us in his arms, and on his shoulders, to an happy estate, as it is ver. 22, 23. VI M●ny have spoken and written of glorious times expected to be, from what they have gathered out of God's word, under eminent and choice Rulers, Monarches, and Powers, which God shall establish among his people; And the times computed by the most of them, do begin about this present, being the Year of our Lord 1660. and so on to 1670. So much hath been said of this, not only by R. Hillel Hannasi, and other Rabbins. Anonymus and other Germane Drs. But the Lord Nappier of Scotland, Brightman of England, and many of these Nations. Yea, those called the Fifth Monarchy men, have made this their common Theme; little thinking who the person should be that those say pointed at, Our gracious K. Charles, whom the Lord Jehovah is (we may hope) making so great a Monarch, in this period of time. VII. It may be said of his Majesty and these revived Nations of England, Scotland & Ireland (that are like dry bones raised from the dead) as it was once said of David and the people of Israel, Psal. 144.10, etc. It is God that giveth salvation unto Kings, who hath delivered his Servant our Sovereign Charles the Second our gracious King, from the hurtful Sword, that hath rid him out of the hands of strange Nations, and brought him to his Right, to Reign in great splendour over us; That our sons may be as plants, and our daughters as polished stones, that our garners may be full, our sheep bring forth thousands, our Oxen be strong to labour; that there may be no breaking in, nor going out▪ that there be no complaining in our streets. Happy are we now, a people in such a case; happy are we who have such a King; yea, happy are we whose God is the Lord. And while we have breath let us say, God save King Charles the Second. AMEN. FINIS.