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A89053	Britannia rediviva, or, a gratulatory sermon for his Majesties safe arrivall and happy restitution to the exercise of his royall government. Preached, at the desire of the magistrats and councell of Aberdene, on the XIX of June, which they had designed to be a day of solemne rejoycing within the city, for the mercy above mentioned, by John Menzeis, professor of divinity: and preacher of the gospell in Aberdene	Menzeis, John, 1624-1684.	1660 (1660)	Wing M1724; ESTC R230727	28,599	38

pleasure to rake this dunghill could easily fill a volume with such stuffe from their writtings which Cardinall Bellarm. delyvers lib 5. de Romano Pontifice cap. 7. Rat. 3. Non licere Christianis tolerare Regem haereticum si is conetur subditos in suam haeresin pertrahere That it s not lawfull for subjects to tolerat an Hereticall King if he labour to draw his subjects to his heresie It not this to blew a Trumpet for rebellion because of these and such like Popish principles our gravest Divines among the rest learned Davenant in his book intituled Determinationes quarundam Quaestionum Theologicarum quaest 17● have most deservedly concluded ●esuiticos Pontificios non posse esse bonos subditos That Iesuited Papists can never be good subjects and worthy Master Baxter in his Key for Catholicks part 1. cap. 48. spares not to say That Kings are not Kings where the Pope is folly Pope What neede we more It not Our Most Seren PRINCE of glorious memory K. Iames the VI. a Witnesse beyond exception Who in his Royall Apologi● for the oath of Allegeance pagg. 279. and 280. inter opera Regia after a recitall of twelve of Bellarmin's positions destructive to Royaltie such as That O impudēt and prodigious tenets Kings are rather servants then Lords that they are subject not onely to Popes but also to Bishops Presbyters yea to Deacons That Emperours must not take it ill to drink not only after the Bishop but also after the Presbyter That Ecclesiastick perso●s are as far above Princes as the soul in dignity is beyond the body That the function and authority of Kings is not immediatly of God or of Divine right That Kings may be deposed by their subjects That Popes have deposed Emperours but never did an Emperour depose a Pope c. Who I say after a large recitall of these and other of the Iesuits pernicious tenets most judiciously concludeth Non magis opponi Christum Beliali aut lucem tenebris aut Coelum Inferno quam Roberti Bellarmini de Regibus opinio Divinis Oraculis adversatur That is That the Devill is no more opposite to Christ nor light to darknesse nor hell to Heaven then the Iesuite Bellarmine's opinion of Kings is repugnant to the divine Oracles of holy Scripture But Alas What shall I say Is it not to be lamented if it were possible with tears of bloud That so much advantage should have been given to the Iesuited party for recrimination to retort a charge of disloyal●●●● A GRATULATORY SERMON for His Majesties safe ARRIVALL and happy restitution to the Exercise of His Royall Government● PSAL. LXXI Vers 20. Thou which hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me again and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth Vers 21. Thou shalt increase my greatnesse and comfort me ●n every side Vers 22. I will also praise thee with the psaltery even thy truth O my GOD unto thee will I sing with the harp O th●● Holy One of Israel IN the words read leaving to preface upon the The text divided Psalme in generall we have these three things First A Great and a gracious King David the Royall Psalmist and sweet finger of Israel expressing his sense of the deep troubles under which he● had groaned Thou hast shewed me great and s●re troubles II. The same David from a well grounded perswasion of faith promi●ing to himself from the Lord as signall mercies for the future as his former afflictions had been bitter Thou shalt quicken me again and bring me up again from the depths of the earth Thou shalt increase my greatnes and comfort me on every side Wee have him III. as one who well knew how to improve both rods and deliverances solemnly engaging to be forthcoming for the Lords praise I will The first branch subdivided also praise thee with the Psalteri● even thy truth O my GOD. c. I returne intending by a few short hints to passe through the words In the first branch David holds out 1. The principall Author of all his sad exercises not Saul not Doeg not Absolom in time of whose unnaturall conspiracy this psalme is thought to have been penned But Thou O Lord sayes he Thou O holie Angustias multas et malas Tremell Magnas malas Pagnin et Mont. One of Israel 2. He gives a touch of the bitternesse of his exercises he cals them great and sore troubles that is depth distresses But 3. w●e have fai●hs undervaluing prospect of all these evils Sense had called them great sore troubles but faith in a manner correcting sense sayes Thou hast suè●●ed me great sore troubles fecisti ut experirer Iun. et Tremell But they acknowledge according to the hebrew its Fecisti ut viderem hence Pagnin Ostendisti Thou hast made me to see or shewed me as if David had said albeit sense do aggravate my afflictions as great sore troubles yet faith gives me another estimat of them It s but a transient view shew of trouble which I have had Thou who hast shewed me great sore trouble The words of this branch are so plain that they need not further explication then what hath been insinuated in the division Therefore I proceed to some doctrines Doct. 1 Doct. 1. Great ones and good ones may be exercised with great and sore troubles David was both a great Prince and a good man yet was he exercised with great and sore troubles Ye will finde the truth of this if ye reade the History of Sa●ls persecution and of Absolems usurpation i● the books of Samuell Was not Joseph an eminent Worthy yet was he also exercised with great and sore troubles The archers sorely grieved him shot at him and wounded him GEN. 49. 23. He was thrown into a pit sold to Ishmaelits after cast into a dungeon and laid in the irons in a strange Land But what speak I of David or of Joseph Was there ever so great an One as our LORD CHRIST the Son of the Highest or so good an One The holy and just One. Yet behold and see● if ever there was any sorrow like to His sorrow The 1. reason of the Doctrine A first reason of the point may be this Great and haynous ●ins bring on great and sore afflictions I never knew any rationall creature afflicted but were sinners either formally or by imputation I add this caution because of Our Lord Jesus who never knew sin II. Cor. 5. 21. as to His own Person He was conscious to himself of no wickednesse nor ever was guile found in his mouth I. Pet. 2. 22. yet one spared not to say I pray mistake not the word that He was the greatest of sinners namely by imputation because all the sins of the Elect were imputed to Him and charged on Him Isai 53. 6. He laid on him the iniquities of us all Dominus fecit occurrere in ●um ARR. MONT. he