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of doing of the Word.
Rehoboam wasnot. For, though he were both, yet was he fo intangled with warres all his time, and
forced Rill by continual effufion of é/cod, firft to recover, and then to maintain his righr, as that he
was rather'Dux} than Rex in Ifrael,a General of an Army, rather than a’ Kizg : No, bat ( that which
addeth ftillto the:heap of. our b/effings’) like Salomon, © more happy than his father ; as one thac
procured t6 his people peace with all the Nations round about. Of him; of fuch an one as he,
faith the “Queen of /Saba, ‘becanfe the Lord thyGod loved Ifrael , to eftablifh. it. for ever’; therefore
hath he fer thee King overthem , to bring them to, and to preferve them in the happy dayes of peace.
That isindeed the right Kizg,to bzas Melchifedech King of Salem, that is, King of peace. Tobe as
the great King of I/rael, whofe ftile is Princeps pacis. Nee fee
And laft of ‘all, which is the compleat perfe€tion of all; chat in and by him G'O D hath no¢
only fent us a King, buta Raceand fucceffiow of Kings, A bleffing yet further, a greater hope,
by bletfing him, and in him us all, with an Iffue of fuch hope , and with hope ftill of more. Who
*fhall (we truft, and pray they may ) ftrecch their /ine to the worlds end : and ever keep this land,
from this plagu: here mentioned ; from-dayes, whereof it may be faid, ‘Nox erat Rex in Ifrael
Even fo Lord Jefus, fo be it. | .
And thus feventimes aday, praiflewe GOD, for this His fevenfold goodneffe, 1 For a King.
2 anabfolute entire King, 3 a King both in, and of U/racl, 4 a King neither favouring nor favon-
red by Aficah, ‘5 aKingtoo wile to endute, Fecst quifque quod retinm, 6 a'King of peace, 7 a.
King who hath already by Aizfe/f, and thal for ever by his feed, preferve this Land from the evil
dayes, wherein Lfrael was, without a King. There isnot any one of thefe fevers but we owe out
fpecial chanksfor it: But for them all, all that ever we have or can make.
And thefe now we offer and prefenr, to the Divine Maje(ty, all : and together with our thanks,’
a commixtion of Prayers, that this bleffing of a King in Ifrael , and of this King in Ifral, may to
us and our po/ferity, long, and many yeares, ye2, many times many be continued, and we or they of-"
ten fee the renewing of this blefledday. Which Almghty Go p grant, Gc. :
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