all along behaved itself fuitably to the Royal Name and Title which it bears; and that it will make the fame Auguft Name, the ftanding Rule of all its Actings and Proceedings for ever; ftill remembring with itself, that it is called the King's School, and therefore let nothing Arbitrary or Tyrannical be practised in it, whatfoever has been practifed against it. Again, it is the King's School, and therefore let nothing but what is Loyal come out of it, or be found in it; let it not be fo much as Tin&tured with any Thing, which is either Republican or Fanatical; that fo the whole Nation may have Cause to wifh, that the King may never want fuch a School, nor the Nation may ever want fuch a King. A Prince, great in every thing, which deferves to be accounted Great; a Prince, who has fome of all the Chriftian Royal Blood in Europe, running in his Veins; fo that to be a Prince, is only another word for being of Kin to Him: who, though he is the Princely Center of fo many Royal Lines, meeting in his Illuftrious Perfon; is yet greater for his Qualifications, than for his Extraction; and upon both Accounts much likelier to be Envyed, than Equalled by any, or all the Princes about him. In a word, and to conclude all; a Prince fo defervedly Dear to fuch, as truly love their Country and the Profperity of it, that, could it be warrantable E 2 rantable to pray for the Perpetuity of his Life amongst us, and Reign over us, we could not do it in Words more proper and fignificant for that purpose, than that God would vouchsafe to preferve the One, and continu e the Other, till we should defire to see a Change of Either. To which God, the Great King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, be rendered and afcribed, as is most due, all Praife, Might, Majefty, and Dominion, both now and for . evermore. Amen. A A SERMON Preached before King CHARLES II. AT HIS CHAPPEL in WHITEHALL, ON THE Thirtieth Day of Jan. 1663. BEING THE ANNIVERSARY FOF THE Execrable MURDER Of the Late King CHARLES I. Of Glorious Memory. ILLUSTRIOUS, BLESSED, AND Never-Dying Memory O F CHARLES I. KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE and IRELAND, Cauflefly Rebelled againft, Unhumanly Imprifon'd, and at length Barbarously Murder'd before the Gates of his own Palace, by the Worst of Men, and the moft Obliged of Subje&s. JUDGES XIX. 30. And it was fo, that all that Jaw it, faid, there was no fuch deed done or feen, from the Day that the Children of Ifrael came up out of the Land of Egypt, unto this Day: confider of it, take advice, and speak your minds. T HE Occafion of thefe Words was a Foul and Deteftable Fact, which had happen'd in one of the Tribes of Ifrael; and the Occafion of that Fact was (as the Text not obfcurely intimates) the Want of Kingly Government amongst the Ifraelites at that Time. It being noted as a Thing of particular Remark in Judges xxi, and the last, that this Villany was committed, wher E 4 |