A Worthy KING .

HE is the figure of God , in the nature of government , and the chief of man , the Churches champion , and natures honour : heavens quintessence , earths magnificence , a director of the Law , and the strength of the same , the sword of Justice , and the Scepter of mercy , the glass of grace , and the eye of honour , he is the searcher out of treason , and the terrour of traitors , but he is the life of loyalty , his command is general , his frown is death , and his favour is life , his charge is his subjects , his care is their safety , his pleasure their peace , and his joy their love , he is not to be parallel'd , because that he is without equality , and the prerogative of his Crown may not be contradicted , he is the Lords anointed , and therefore must not be touched , he is the head of the publick body , and therefore must be preserved , he is the scour of sin , and the blessing of grace , Gods Vice-Roy over his people , and under him sumpream head and Governor , his safety must be his counsellours care , and his health his subjects prayer , his pleasure his peers comfort , and his content his Kingdoms gladness , his presence must be reverenced , his person attended , his Court must be adorned , and his state maintained , his bosome must not be searcht into , his will not disobeyed , his wants must not be unsupplyed , nor his place unregarded , he is more than a man , although not a God , and next unto God to be honoured above all men .

( A Worthy Prince ) such is our KING , whom God long preserve .

HE is the hope of a Kingdom , and the richest Iewel in the Kings Crown , the fairest Flower in the Nations Garden , the Ioy of nature in the hope of honour , he is the love of wisdom , and the life of worthiness , in the secret carriage of his hearts intentions , until his designs come to action , and so to perfection , he seems but as a dumb shew to the worlds imagination , in his wisdom he startles the stupid of their expectation by his valour and by his vertue be subjects the hearts of ambition , and wins the love of the most noble , and by his own bounty he binds the most sufficient , he is the Christial-Glass where nature may behold her comfort , and the Book of Reason , where vertue may read her honour , he is the Morning-Starr that hath light from the Sun , and the blessed fruit of the Tree of Earths Paradice , he is the study of the wise in the state of honour , and in the subject of Learning , he is the History of admiration , he is in the noat of Wisdom , the aim of honour , and in the honour of Vertue , the hope of a Kingdom .

A Worthy Privy-Coursellour .

He is the Piller of a Realm , in whose wisdom and care , next under God & the King , stands the safety of a Kingdom , he is a watch-Tower to give warning of the enemy , to discover treason , & apprehend the traitors , and bring them to condign punishment , he is the hand of providence , for the preservation of the state and Kingdom , he is an Oracle in the Kings Ear , and a sword in the Kings hand , an even weight in the ballance of Justice , and a light of grace in the love of truth , he is an eye of care in the course of Law , and a heart of love in his service to his Soveraign , a mind of honor in the order of his service , and a brain of invention for the good of the Comonwealth , his place is powerful , his service is faithful , and his honour ought to be proportionable to his great employment , he is a fixed Planet amongst the Stars of the Firmament , which through the clouds in the ayr shews the greatness of his light , and the goodness of his Influence .

A Worthy Noble Man .

He is the mark of honour , the eye of wisdom , in the observation of desert sees the fruit of grace , he is the Orient pearl that reason polisheth , for the beauty of nature , and the Diamond spark where Divine graces gives vertue honour , he is the Noat Book of Mortal Discipline , where the conscience of care may find the true Courtier , he is the nurse of hospitality , and the relief of necessity , the love of charity , and the life of bounty , he is learnings grace , and valours fame , wisdoms fruit , and k ndness love , he is the true Fawlkon that feeds on no Carrion , and the generous Steed that will be no Hackney , the true Dolphin that fears not the Whale , and the true Man of God that fears not the Devil , he is the Darling of nature , in reasons Philosophy , the Load-stone of light , in loves Astronomy , the ravishing sweet in the Musick of honour , and the Golden Number in Graces Arithmetick .

A Worthy Bishop or Minister .

He is an Ambassador from God unto men , in the midst of War to make a treaty of peace , who with a pronounciation of a general pardon upon a general and a particular confession of sin , the fruit of Repentance and faith in the merits of Christ , gives a full assurance of comfort , he brings tydings from Heaven of happiness to the worse upon earth , he is the silver Trumpet in the musick of Love , where faith hath a life that never faileth the beloved , he is the director of Life in the Laws of God , and the true Chyrurgeon of the Soul in lancing the sores of sin , the terrour of the reprobate in pronouncing of their damnation , and the joy of the faithful in the assurance of their salvation , he is in the nature of grace worthy of honor , and in the measure of life worthy of love , he is a continual agent betwixt God and man , and the preaching of his Word , and praying for his people , is as well his delight as Imployment .

A Worthy JUDGE .

He is a doom , whose breath is mortal upon the breach of the Law , where treason must receive its reward , and malefactors that act against the Law he cuteth off from the Common wealth , he is the sword of Iustice in the hand of the King , and the eye of wisdom in the circuit of a Kingdom , his study is a most true square for the keeping of a due proportion betwixt command and obedience , that the King may in the more safety keep the Crown on his head , and the Subject his head on his shoulders , he is feared of none but of the foolish , and cursed of none but the wicked , but of the Wise he is honoured , and of the gracious he is beloved , he is a Surveyer of rights , and a revenger of wrongs , and in the Iudgement of truth , the honour of Iustice , his words are Law , his power grace , his labour peace , and his desert honour .

A worthy Knight and Commander in the Wars .

He is a spirit of proof , in the advancement of vertue , by the desert of honour , in the eye of Majesty , in the field he gives courage to his souldiers , in the Court he gives grace to his followers , in the City reputation to his person , and in the Countrey honour to his House and Family , his sword and his horse make his way to his house , and his armour of proof is his undaunted spirit , the Musick of his delight is the sound of the Trumpet , and the ratling of the warlike Drum , and the paradice of his eye is his enemies army defeated , the oppresseds relief makes his conquest honourable , & pardoning the submissive , makes him as famous for mercy , as courage , he is in Nature mild , and in Spirit stout , in Reason judicious , and in all honourable ; He is a Yeomans commander , and a gentlemans Superior , A Noble mans companion , and the King and Kingdoms worthy Favourite .

A Worthy GENTLEMAN .

He is a true Branch of the Tree of honour , whose fruits are the actions of Vertue , as pleasing to the eye of Judgement , as tastful to the spirit of Understanding ; whatsoever he doth it is not forced , except it be evil , which either through ignorance , unwillingly , or through compulsion unwillingly , he falls upon : He is in nature kind , and in demeanour courteous , in alleagence strict , and in Religion zealous ; in service faithful , and in rewarding bountiful : He is Woven by the spirit of Wisdom , to adorn the court of Honour : his Apparel is for the most part , more comely then costly , and his Dyet more wholsom then excessive ; his exercise more healthful then painful , and his Study more for knowledge then for pride : his Love not wanton nor common , his gifts neither nigardly nor yet prodigal , and his carriage is neither Apish nor Sullen ; he is an approver of his pedigree , by the Nobleness of his passage , and in the course of his life , an example to his posterity .

A Worthy LAWYER .

He is the Student of knowledge , how to bring controversies to a conclusion of peace , and out of respect unto Understanding , he devides time into Uses , and cases into Instructions , he lays open obscurities and is praised for his Speech of truth ; he pleads much in Forma Pauperis , for small Fees , he is a means for the preservation of Titles , and the holding of possessions , and a great instrument of peace , in the Iudgement of Impartiality , he is the Clyants hope in his causes pleading , and his hearts comfort in a most happy Issue , he is a finder out of tricks in the craft of evil consciences , and the joy of the distressed in the relief of Justice , he is a maker of peace amongst the Spirits of the contentious , and a contriver of quietness in the Execution of the Law .

A Worthy SOULDIER .

HE is the Child of Valour , who was born for the service of a pure and just necessity , and for to bear the Ensign of honour : In the actions of worth , he is the dyer of the earth with Blood , and the ruine of the erections of Pride , the refeller of Rebellion , and the chastizer of the Rebells : He is the watch of Wit , in the advantage of time , and the Executioner of wrath upon the wilful offender : He disputes questions with the point of his Sword , and prefers death to Indignities : He is a Lyon to Ambition , and a Lamb to Submission ; he hath hope fast by the hand , and treads upon the head of fear ; he is the Kings Champion and the Kingdoms guard , Peaces preserver and Rebellion terror ; he makes the horse trample at the sound of the Trumpet , and leads on to the Battel , as if that he was going to a breakfast , he knows not the nature of Cowardise , for his rest is set upon resolution , his strongest Fortification is his mind , which beats off the assaults of idle humours , and his life is the passage of danger , where an undaunted spirit stoops to no Fortune ; with his Armies he wins his Arms , and by his desert in the field , his honour in the Court , in the truest Manhood , he is the truest man , and in the creation of honour the most worthy Creature .

A Worthy PHYSITIAN .

HE is the Enemy of Sickness , in the purging of nature from corruption , his action is most in the feeling of Pulses , and his discourse is chiefly of the nature of Diseases ; he is a diligent seacher out of simples , and accordingly makes his compositions ; he perswades abstenence and patience for the benefit of health , while purging and bleeding are the chief courses of his Counsel .

The Apothecary and the Chyrurgion are his two attendants , with whom confering upon time , grows then temperate in his cures , surfeits and wantonness are great agents for his imployment , when by the secret of his Skill , out of others weakness he gathers his own strength ; he is a most necessary member for an unnecessary malady , for to find out the Disease and cure the diseased .

By what hath been said , it is most undoubtedly the best and most surest government that is under God governed , by one single person , that is to say , one King , which ruleth only for the good of his people , and that kind of government hath been best approved of in all ages , hath longest continued , and is most antient , for who can deny but that all things both in heaven & earth are governed by one God , by one perpetual order , and by one Providence , one Sun ruleth over the day and one Moon over the night .

Let us well observe the little Bee , which of of all other creatures is to be admired , & seemeth to be a perpetual figure of just government , which having amongst them one principal Bee for their Governour , which excelleth all other in greatness , yet hath he no sting , but in him is more knowledge then in all the rest , for if the day following shall be fair and dry , in the morning early he calleth them , making a noise as it were the sound of a horn or Trumpet , then do all the residue prepare them to labour , gathering nothing but what shall be sweet and profitable .

The Captain himself laboureth not , but all the other for him , he only seeth that no Droan nor unprofitable Bee enter into the Hive and consume the honey gathered by the other , and if so , presently expelleth them from their common-wealth .

The Philosopher saith , that the universal School of all the world , is the person and Court of a Prince , and that the prince is a strong wall for the defence of the truth , and that the Counsellors and houshold-servants of the prince being well tryed , and also the head Officers and Judges , and all other that have Authority , rightly chosen and instructed by the just example of the princes Court , how quickly then will the whole Common-wealth be brought into good order , all men delighting in the vertue , and praising the beauty and the commodity thereof in their Superiors ; also rejoycing at the affabillity and gentleness of so pious , valours , and vertuous , noble Prince , dreading his severity , bringing vertue into custom , that such vices as before seemed but little , then become loathsom , filthy , and detestable .

Plato saith , that except Wise men be made Governours , man-kind shall never have quiet rest ; nor Vertue be able to defend her self against her Enemies ; and Alex Severus saith , that those that are put into a Authorite by the King , ought to be such as were never infamed with any notable vice , and that therewith they be sufficiently furnished with Wisdom and Gravity , void of all private affections , as fear , Averice , and flattery ; who like Chyrurgions , shall neither for honour nor affection , forbear with corrisive and sharp Medicines to draw out the festered and stinking Coars of old Marmotes and invetrate Sores , ingendred by the long custom of vice .

And Plutarch saith , That it behoveth a prince to take good heed to his Counsellors , that he may know whom to trust , saying , Happy is that prince , and glorious is that Common-wealth that hath Young men to Travel , and Antient persons for to give Counsel : Happy is that Kingdom where those that are in Authority , temper it with wisdom and purity of life and conversation ; The King that is merciful , his Estate shall prosper , and his wisdom shall greatly help him at his need : his Subjects shall rejoyce in him , his Raign shall prosper , and his estate shall continue long in Renown and glory .

Next under God , is the King ; who is so gr at a Father as he ? who is Father of a whole countrey , that is to say , of them that be Fathers , &c.