<p>Why doe men grudge at those, who raysed be,<lb/> By royall Favour, from a low degree?<lb/> Know this, Hee should be honour'd, whom the King,<lb/> To place of Dignity, shall please to bring.<lb/> Why should they blame their Kings, for fav'ring such,<lb/> Whom, they have thought, scarce meriting so much?<lb/> God rules their Hearts; and, they, themselves deceive,<lb/> Who dreame, that Kings exalt, without Gods leave.<lb/> Why murmure they at God, for guiding so<lb/> The Hearts of Kings, as oft they see him doe?<lb/> Or, at his Workes, why should they take offence,<lb/> As if their Wit, could teach his Providence ?<lb/> His just, and his all-seeing Wisedome knowes,<lb/> Both whom, and why he crownes, or overthrowes;<lb/> And, for what cause, the Hearts of Princes, bee<lb/> Inlarg'd, or shut; when we no cause can see ;<lb/> We sometime know, what's well, and what's amisse ;<lb/> But, of those Truths, the root concealed is;<lb/> And, False-hoods, and Uncertainties, there are,<lb/> In most of those things, which we speake, or heare.<lb/> Then, were not Kings directed by God's hand,<lb/> They, who are best, and wisest in the Land,<lb/> Might oft misguide them, either by receiving<lb/> A False-report, or, by some wrong-believing.<lb/> God's Grace it is, that Good-men rays'd have bin:<lb/> If Sinners flourish, we may thanke our Sin.<lb/> Both Good and Bad, so like in out-sides be,<lb/> That, Kings may be deceiv'd, in what they see;<lb/> And, if God had not rul'd their Hearts aright,<lb/> The World, by this time, had been ruin'd quite.<lb/> </p>

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A heart with a crown above it are held in God's hand (a left hand!) over a small chapel with a praying king

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<p>The Hearts of Kings are in God's Hands;<lb/> And, as He lifts, He Them commands.</p>

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