hat they love it; that
your example will reproach all who went before you: As you promis'd, so
you perform'd it, punctually, and with advantage. Nor indeed do you desire
any thing should be permitted your Majesty, but what is indulg'd your
Vassals, subjecting even your self to those Lawes by which you oblige your
Subjects; For as it is a great felicity to be able to do what one will, so
is it much more glorious, to will only what is just and honourable. All
other Princes before your Majesty spake as much; you only have performed
it; nor is there a Tittle of your engagements, which even your very
enemies diffide of, much lesse your Friends suspect: They enjoy, and these
hope; because those were to be conciliated by present effects, these are
secure by past promises; and none that receives them of your Majesty
reckons from the time they injoy it, but the period of your promise;
because it proceeds (they know) from a Princely and candid mind; and if it
seem long in acquiring, it is not (I perswade my self) because you are
difficult, much less unmindful; but that the benefit may be more
acceptable, and the sense of it more permanent; since too suddain felicity
astonishes, and sometimes renders the Recipient ingrateful, whilst your
favours are not fugitive but certain. It was only for Your Majestie to be
compleatly happie, when you began to be so; and yet your subjects had as
much as they could well support; since you have made it your only
businesse to sublevate the needie, and give them as it were a new Fate,
your piety not more appearing in pardoning your Enemies, and receiving the
Penitent, then your justice in restoring the Oppressed: For how many are
since your returne, return'd to their own Homes, to their Wives, Children,
Offices, and Patrimonies? _Addiditque Dominus omnia quae fuerant Jobi
duplicia_; some of them with immense advantages; and of this the
languishing _Church of England_ is a most eminent instance; That she,
which was first and most afflicted, should be first and chiefly refreshed.

You have taken away the affluence to the Committees, Sequestrators,
Conventicles, and unjust Slaughter-houses, and converted their zeal to the
Temples, the Courts, and the just Tribunals: Magnanimity is return'd
again to the Nobility, Modesty to the People, Obedience to Subjects,
Charity to Neighbours, Pietie to Children, Fidelity to Servants, and
Reverence to Religion; In summe, You are the Restorer of Your Countrie.

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