YOur miraculous preservation in in that fatal fight at Worcester, (where your personal valour was so signally manifested to the [Page 4] world) and the no lesse miraculous deliverance from the fury of your pur­suers, who before had acted beyond the Parable, and above all President of Cruel [...]y (at which the Nation did blush, and all loyal hearts did bleed) and now were in hot pursuance of your person, hoping to have acted another Scean in so dismal a Tragedy, until that Providence which protected you, then carried you on through so many Stages of Dangers to the place of your arrival, where their malice could not reach you, which made all good and wise men presage that your Majesty was to reserved for an universal blessing to the Nation, when God thought fit to restore you, and us ca­pable to receive.

But when you fled in a disguise from the face of that unparalleld Re­bel, that place of Jehu presented it self to my observation and fear, two Kings could not stand before him, [Page 5] and as in such an exigent David made a Cave his Sanctuary, so (not unlike it) to escape the fury of your Saul, you hid your self in the Cave of a Tree, and by a strange method of Providence, decayed nature became the Ark of your preservation. And af­ter that being destitute of other re­medies, in the habit of a Servant (a penance to Majesty) wandring in your own Kingdom for safety, had a new title to it by the conquest of your pati­ence; VVhich vertue hath been so long exercised by you in the School of your affliction, and banishment, and the rest of them which do so eminently shine in you, have been improved to so high advantages, so far beyond any of your Royal Predecessors, in studying men and languages (the most proper study for Princes) and consulting Fo­rein States and Councels with so much Prudence, that you are universally repu­ted, the wonder of yourage, and the [Page 6] wisest of Princes, a Title far greater than that of great Britain.

To which your Majesty hath a double right, not by Descent only, but by the impressions of Loyalty in the Hearts of your Subjects, which, the resentments of your Calamity, and their sad experiments of the changes of Government under the heavy Yoke of Usurpation and Tyranny, have so in­delebly stampt in them, that they are now as fit for Obedience as You for Government.

But above all your other Royal Gra­ces, your Constancy to your Religion is the most resplendent Jewel in your Dia­dem of Honour, notwithstanding those many Incounters and Temptations You have met with, which hath made You a Star of the first magnitude in the highest Orb of the Church; So in that also You have got an additional Title of the Preserver of the Faith in Your self as well as of Defender.

And by the conduct of a prudent and loyal Commander the Sword is put now into your own hand, a man of men, who hath conquerd without fighting, and hath laid at your soot the whole Harvest of his victory, no lesse than three Kingdoms; To whose vertues I have the ambition to be al­lyed, as I have the honour to be to his person, who hath made himself glo­rious in the discreet management of this great affair, and famous to all po­sterity; Who need no other Advocate than his own merit to have an emi­nent place in your Majestyes favour, of whom it may be truly said, Thus it shall be done to him, whom the King not only delighteth, but is con­cerned to honour.

And now after a long Ecclipse, the Sun of Majesty appears in full splendour; may you shine long upon us with a gratious aspect, that nei­ther any Cloud of Rebellion, or Me­teor of Conspiracy or Faction, may [Page 8] obscure your Light, or obstruct your Influence.

And when you are in the Meri­dian of your Glory, remember that once a Hollow Tree was the place of your Refuge when your Enemies were thick about you, which may be of as great use as that memento to Philip of Macedon, which his Son did so much forget, that after his Asian Conquests puff'd up with so many great successes, he flatter'd himself in­to a conceit of a Deity, and command­ed Divine Adoration to his Person, but not long after one of his Com­manders secretly performed the Office done to his Father, and by the con­trivance of Poyson put him in mind also that he was but a Man.

But your Majesty need look no further back than the beginning of your own Reign, which as it hath been hitherto Cloudy and Tempestu­ous, so I earnestly pray the Progress may be serene and quiet, and the
End Glorious.