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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35558	A King and his subjects unhappily fallen out, and happily reconciled being the substance of a sermon with very little alteration fitted for the present time : preached in the sermon-house belonging to the cathedral of Christ-Church Canterbury Jan. 15, 1643, upon Hos. 3,4,5 / by Meric Casaubon ...	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing C804; ESTC R9398	12,046	21

many Ages of the World get no King no Prince of their own in any place As they have no King or Prince so no Sacrifice nor any of those other particulars mentioned here in the Text which I forbear here to mention untill we have better enquired into the true meaning of the words Aftewards shall the Children of Israel returne and seek after the Lord their God and David there King that is they shall turn unto God repent of their incredulity and seek after Christ the Messias stiled in the Scripture not the Son of David only but also David absolutely as by Jeremie and Ezechiel in divers places Him whom when he came first and sought unto them they would not receive in the Latter dayes that is at the end of the World They shall seek and become Christians as St. Paul also doth assure us For I would not Brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery that blindness in part is hapned unto Israel untill the fulness of the Gentiles be come in And so all Israel shall be saved Rom. 11. 2 5 6. And shall fear the Lord and his goodness that is they shall worship God for his goodness according to that of the Psalmist There is mercy with thee that thou mayest be feared Ps. 130. 4. that is worshipped because fear is a principall part and first Original as it were of Gods worship That is the right sense but I may not at this time insist upon it So you have the most genuine and warrantable sense of the words Before we proceed to that use in several Observations upon the words I aim at we will consider of some expositors or rather opinions of expositors upon the same words as also of some particular words of the Text which have bred some difficulty I told you it is the opinion of some Interpreters that the promised restitution of the Children of Israel is to be reckned from their return out of the Captivity of Babylon and this to be the most literall interpretation of the words What might be objected I tould you likewise This King David so eminently so emphatically here promised must certainly be some body else besides Zerobabel Yet I will not deny but that even in Zerobabel this prophecy might have some accomplishment I find most interpreters of that opinion and that is enough to perswade me Wherein by the way the infinite wisdom of Almighty God is much observable so to forecast events from all eternity that the same words of his Prophets might both fit the times and occurrences of the Gospel so long after and yet fit the present occasions and occurrences of those times and events under the law Here I cannot but take notice of an objection made by Ribera the Jesuite a very learned Jesuite as most of that order against this literal interpretation For saith he Jehojakim K. of Juda lived a long time during the Captivity Of whom we reade 2 Kings last Chapter last Verses that Evilmerodach King of Babylon in the first Year of his reign did lift up his head out of prison and spake kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of all other Captive or Tributary Kings that were with him in Babylon And changed his prison Garments and that he did eat bread continually before him all the dayes of his life What an objection is this What shall we make of it I expected Ribera would have told us that Evilmerodach had restored unto Jehojakim King of Juda his Royall power and Soveraignty that he had restored him to his subjects and his subjects unto him Then indeed he had said somewhat But because Jehojakim had a bare title and an empty throne yea and an allowance for his daily expences for that also is expressed in the Scripture vouchsafed unto him by him that had taken away all his power and authority hence to inferr that therefore the Children of Israel were not without a King during the Captivity whether more strange from such a one as Ribera or more ridiculous in it self I know not Yet let me say Such an objection might become well enough a Jesuite that is a perfect enemy to the power and authority of Kings I do not deny but Evilmerodach was great enough to make a true King That honourable Senator of Rome Pompeius Magnus when Rome was Mistresse of the then known world but little excepted made many that were true Kings and had the power and authority of Kings where they did reign and where constituted by him But a meer titular King that hath the pompe and garbe only or ●ay the allowance but not the substance that is the power and Soveraignty is a sad sight Not a King according to the Scripture I am sure whom we may call the breath of our Nostrils of whom we may say under the shadow of his wings shall we live among our enemies Lament 4. 20. Such a King is none of those comely things that wise Salomon did admire A Lyon which is strongest among beasts that is the first a King against whom there is no rising up is his concluding instance the last in order but the first and chiefest in his intention as may be gathered by other examples of the same nature But we have done with this Jesuitical King as we may call him Not so much because Ribera a Jesuite doth make this objection and not any but he that I know of but because it is the proper Character of a Jesuite to be an enemy to the power and authority of Kings As to the sense of the words in generall I have said as much as needs but there is yet in the words if more particularly examined that wants cleering For the Children of Israel saith my Text Shall abide many dayes without a Prince and without a Sacrifice and without an Image and without an Ephod and without Teraphims We made the meaning of the words in generall to be that the Israelites during the time of their desolation shall be without any publick worship of God such worship as was established and commanded by the law of God the Leviticall and Ceremoniall law as particularly Sacrifices and an Ephod which was a sacred garment sufficiently known both to them that are not unacquainted with the law of Moses But how come Images here and Teraphims that is Idols as particulars of Gods worship Here Interpreters are put to it They say the best shift they can make the intention of the words is this That the Israelites shall be without any publick exercise of religion or divine worship whether true set out by Sacrifices and the Ephod ordained by the law or false and idolatrous set out by Images and Teraphims that is Idolls Though this be said by many because they know not what else to say yet it is strange and somewhat unlikely to me that the Prophet should mix true and false worship in this manner God and Mammon light and darkness in one verse without any need And