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 quæ 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.

The lawes that were lately quiescent, and even trampled under foot, your
Majesty has revived; and been yet so prudent in reforming, that even those
which your Enemies made upon good deliberation, you permit to stand,
shewing your self rather to have been displeased with the Authours, then
the Things.

As to Discipline (after the sacrifice due for that innocent blood of your