upon fair Calculation, it was computed that, before ever the Ufurper came to sway,in eight Years: time, forty Millions had been raised by the Grandees of Parliament; which was judged more Money than had been levied on the Subject, in all the Monarchs Reigns, fince the Norman Conqueft, till that time. Were the Jews compelled to speak a strange Language? So were we. Mifcreants of the blackest Hew, we were taught to call Saints and Precious Ones; a Cabal of Arbitrary Grandees, were now ftyled Keepers of our Liberties; Juncto's of Bloody and Cruel Men, a Committee of Safety; the common Boutefeau's and Incendiaries of State, Affertors of our Laws, and Patriots of our Country; Demure Cant, and Hypocritical Jargon, went by the name of powerful and awakening Gofpelling. Were Attempts made to enflave them in their Confciences, as well as Bodies? So it was here, and fevere things threatned and inflicted on all that would not fall down and worship the Idol of Liberty and Reformation which they had set up; and which were as much what they pretended to be, as Nebuchadnezzar's Image was a true God. However, to establish their Ini

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quity and Ufurpation as fure as they could, they impofed Impious Engagements, and Oaths of Abjuration of the Royal Line, as f they were refolved to push fair for Men's Eterhal Ruin, as well as Temporal.

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And now the Affairs and Interefts of the Royal Party were at a very low Ebb, and no Glimpfe of Hope appeared from any QuarTer or Region round about. Even thofe that were most Loyally inclined, found that, by ftrugling in the Toyls, they were more farally entangled, and while they played on Ithe Game with an Unfortunate Hand, inftead of retrieving what was loft, they only -made new Additions to the Power and Cou-rage of the Adversary. All therefore they -could do, was, to fit down and weep by the Waters of their Captivity, when they rezmembred Sion, and to joyn with the Guardian-Angel of the Land, who doubtlefs (as it is in the ft Chapter of this Prophecy at the 12th Verse) sympathized with the piteous Calamities of its Charge, and would follicite Heaven in some such Pious Expostulation as -this..

How long, O Lord of Hofts! How long wilt -thou not have Mercy on Jerufalem, and on the

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Cities of Judah, against which thou haft had Indignation this twenty Years? Look down from Heaven, and behold thy Church in Ruins, and thy Vicegerent hunted as a Partridge on the Mountains, and thy Gospel prostituted to the Lufts of Wretched Hypocrites, or Ambitious Men; and the whole Land overflown with Guilt, or Fears, or Blood. How long wilt thou be wroth with thy People that prays, and hide thy Face in an angry Cloud from Judah thy Sanctuary, and Ifrael thy Poffeffion? Thou, indeed, haft been justly displeased at us; But what are these V furpers that are at Ease, that they thus help for ward, and aggravate our Affliction? Up then, Lord, and let not Man have the Upper Hand; Let not the Sword devour for ever, nor Violence and Confufion be entailed on us and our Heirs for evermore. Remember, that the Wrongs done to thy Anointed below, take Heaven at their Rebound; and that he cannot be innocent to his God, who is an Offender against his King. Pity a Nation that has no Pity upon it felf, and Scatter the People that delight in War; and do Thou, Lord, help in Trouble, for Vain is the Help of Man. 'Tis a Caufe now fit for thee to appear in; and fince all other Medicines fail, difpenfe to us out of the Treasures of Thy

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own Goodnefs and Benignity. None now can Rival Thee in any Part of the Glory of the Work; and Thou wilt thereby fignalize thy Power, no less than thy Pity and Compaffion. Let thy Hand be upon the Man of thy Right Hand, and on that Royal Perfon, whom thou fo miraculously preservedst for thy own Self. Make good the Happy Omens and Glorious Prefages at his Birth, and convince the World, that the Hea yens did not then fmile on him in vain; Settle. us again upon the old Foundations, and let not a Nation, whom thou hast formerly fignalized by a Train of Illuftrious Mercies and Protections, become the Scorn and Derision of our Enemies round about us.

Such were the forrowful Accents, and pious Breathings of God's Angels, and Godly Men; and at length, to fhew the prevalency of those Christian Weapons, Prayers and Tears, kind Heaven graciously was pleased to hearken; and on the fudden, removed all our Mifery, and took away our Reproach; and, as David, by an unexpected Unction, was taken from following the Ewes great with Young, to feed Jacob God's People, and Ifrael his Inheritance; fo here, a new, and

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far more glorious Scene did prefently open and disclose; and the Royal Intereft, from feeble, and almost forlorn, became as David; and. God, by a mighty, but gentle Spirit, turned our Captivity as the Rivers in the South: And (as in the World's first Creation) out of a Mafs of Matter, dark and disorderly, blended and confused, of jarring and difagreeing Natures, he produced a comely and well compacted Fabrick of Government, in Church and State, which fhould move orderly, and minifter to the Good of each particular Being.

2. As to the Condition of our Prince: None ever fo like David as He, in Dangers, and Deliverances, and unexpected Advancement. What though he was destined to a Crown, by Divine Appointment and Decree; who would not yet have preferred any private Station, with Security, before it? rather than for ever (on the Account of that Eminence) be perfecuted by the jealous Rage of Saul, and the virulent Calumnies of Doeg, and the fierce Infurrections of Sheba, and the unnatural Rebellion of Abfalom. Unravel the History of both thofe Royal Perfons, and tell me if any two Characters do so justly agree:

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