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A45207	Judah's restitution A sermon preached before the reverend judges, Sir Christopher Turner Baron of the Exchequer, and Sir Richard Bernard Serjeant at Law. At the assizes begun at Yorke the 29 of July, 1661. By Jos: Hunter Master of Arts and Minister in Yorke.	Hunter, Josiah, minister in York.	1661 (1661)	Wing H3767; ESTC R203804	15,969	35

it pleaseth him many times to punish the sins of a wanton unthankfull secure proud contentious people They first break with God then God sends breaches upon them You must consider that God will not ordinarily worke miracles for the preservation of any Nation but in his common providence lets every thing work in it's course and according to the disposition of second causes It s no wonder to see an unsound body fall into decay its true God could preserve it if he would but he will not worke a miracle in crossing natures course So usually States are unsound and diseased full of distempers and corrupt humours before they fall into decay God could if he would heal all but he will not step out of the way of his ordinarie providence things shall work as they are disposed He will not work a miracle to preserve a sinfull people but is rather resolved for their many provocations to send upon them a consunption and a languishment The second reason is drawne from Gods wisdome He suffers these decaies to befall a people First that they may see and be sensible of their own imprudence Every wise woman buildeth her house but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands Prov 14. 1. Some such foolish people there are too though they thinke themselves wise who because they dislike something in the building and presume they can easily reare up and reforme all againe pluck downe a whole Nation God lets them alone he knowes they will soone be warped in their owne folly and at last they learne that it had been better to have suffered some things which they conceived amisse than to have endangered the destruction of the Whole How doth the foolish woman pluck down her house she either plucks it downe because she is fickle and would have her house changed too or else because she is foolish and knows not how to governe her house and thus it falls out often that because Governours are imprudent and the people desirous of change they pluck downe a Nation between them And the wise God suffers it that at last they may see their own follie 2. God in wisdome suffers such decaies to make people more thankfull for their restitution It is the epidemicall disease of Man-kind to take notice of the price of any good caremdo magis quàm fruendo Contraries are the best Commentaries one upon another and their mutuall opposition the best exposition The thunder of the Cannon the language of war is the best Rhetorique to commend peace the horror of darknes proves the benefit of light to be heavenly health is then preferred amongst us when it brings letters of Commendation from sicknes Anarchie is the best foile unto a well-temperd government whether in Church or State When a people have found by experience how dangerous defection is then they wish for and rejoyce in the hopes of a restitution 3. God in wisedome suffers such decaies that he may get unto himselfe a great Name and more glory in exercising his divine power skill for the recovering of a ruinous Nation Preservation is bonum optabile but restitution is bonum mirabile This it was that magnifyed Christs cure of the woman which had the bloody issue that he healed her suddenly when she had spent all her estate upon the Physicions Mark 5.25 and was never the better Now the observation I shall raise from hence is this That Restitution is a great mercy to Church or Nation I will prove it very breifly from the notion importance of the word Restitution is cordiall it is healing it is joynting it is setling therefore a great blessing It is Cordiall That which is restaurative is cordiall and that which is cordiall is restaurative The whole heart of this Kingdome of Judah our Prophet tels us at the fift verse of this chapter The whole heart was faint great need they had therefore of a Cordiall or a Restaurative The greater their necessitie was the more gracious is the promise 2 Restitution is healing When a man is heal'd of a Sicknes or distemper then is he said to be restored so this people were at present in a very Sick and distempered condition The whole head sick from the sole of the foot even unto the head there was no soundnesse but wounds and bruises and putrified sores verse 5.6 they had not been closed neither bound up neither mollified with oyntment Great need they had therefore of healing and restoring and still the greater their need the more gracious the promise 3 Restitution is joynting 6. Gala. 1. If a man be overtaken in a fault yee which are spirituall restore such an one in the spirit of meeknes the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 set in joynt or set the bone that is broken of such an one The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved saith the Psalmist I beare up the Pillars of it Dissolved that is discompacted disjoynted Psalm 75.2 Now when God is pleased to bear up a Nation thus disjoynted it is a great mercie but much more when he shall restore it and joynt it again that it is able in some measure to support in selfe Lastly Restitution is setling Mat 17 11. Elias shall first come and restore all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall settle or establish all things and the word signifies properly to establish per collocationem in proprio loco by restoring things and persons to their proper places Now aske a man whose spirits were wel-nigh spent how good a restaurative Cordiall is aske a man that hath been long sick it health be not a great mercie aske a man that hath broken a leg or an Arme how good it is to have them safely set aske one that hath been banished from his Relations his habitation his inheritance how comfortable it is to be restored to them and setled in the possession of them again such a mercy is restitution unto a people it is Cordiall healing jointing setling I will apply this in a few words 1 For information What God promised to Judah he hath in a great measure performed to us He hath after much fainting distemper disjoynting and dislocation granted us a Restitution He hath restored us our Native and undoubted Soveraigne our ancient Governement both in Church and State our fundamentall Lawes our Liberties our peace and I hope his own gracious favour with them all I need not say much of this a man that hath felt the fire need not to be told that it is hot and seeing the advantages which arise from this restitution unto the whole Nation are so sensible I need not tell you how great a mercy it is Perhaps there are some that think this restitution but a relapse I intend not to trouble my selfe to convince them I pray God restore them also to their right judgements in his due time 2 For excitation One restitution deserves another Gods Restituam should stir us up to thinke of a

JVDAH'S RESTITUTION A Sermon preached before the Reverend Judges Sir Christopher Turner Baron of the Exchequer and Sir Richard Bernard Serjeant at Law At the Assizes begun at Yorke the 29 of July 1661. By Jos Hunter Master of Arts and Minister in Yorke YORKE Printed by Alice Broade 1661. To the right Worshipfull Sir THOMAS SLINGSBEY High-Sheriffe of the Countie of YORKE SIR YOu was pleased to command me out to an Honourable but hard Worke which though slenderly performed by me yet hath been kindly accepted by you and earnestly desired by others to be made publique and I am the rather induced to do it that I might give unto the world a testimony and acknowledgement of that esteem and gratitude which I owe you for your abundant and undeserved Respects to me I confesse you ran a very great hazard when you made choice of me for such a service and I might at once both have something lessened your Credit and quite lost mine owne which perhaps was the expectation of some who though they differed in other things agreed in this but whether they were disappointed of their expectation or no your Worshipp is able to give the fullest account and answer I have formerly upon the intreaty and advice of freinds exposed a Sermon of two unto common censure and if any will be at the pains to compare them with this they shall find no contradiction which made me the more willing to adventure this And now that it is put out if it were worth the owning there is none hath more right to it than your Selfe I desire no more and I hope you will grant no lesse than this that as this Sermon had your Command for its production so it may have have your Patronage for its preservation I know it is usuall to fill Epistles Dedicatorie with the praises of the Person unto whom the Dedication is directed but his Majesty hath so much honoured you in preferring you to such a place of Trust Credit in your Country and you have so farre honoured your Selfe in the discharge of it beyond the expectation of your years that I need say nothing I will rather turne my Commendation● into Counsell that you would studie so to improve your time your Abilities and your experience ever having before you for your patterne the Sobrietie and reservednesse of your honoured Father that you may still deserve the Royall Favour be more fit to do God your Country service and live long I do not say to be envied but if envied for nothing else but deserved Honour and Happinesse So prayes SIR Your Worships most humble servant Josiah Hunter Isaiah 1 chap 26 verse And I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellours as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called the Citie of Righteousnesse the faithfull Citie MY Text deserves your more serious attention because taken out of the Prophecy of Isaiah which for the divine matter thereof see Robert's key of the Bible v. Hieron sup Jesch mixed with so many flourishes of humane learning hath ever been of high esteem in the Church Christ who might be said to preach all Text yet sometime in his preaching tooke a Text out of this Prophet as you may see Luke 4.17 18. and this prophecy is quoted oftner in the new Testament than any other book of the old Testament except the psalmes Alsted in praecog Theol. lib 2. c. 122 whether Alstedius himselfe was at the paines of the observation or no I know not but he tells us that Isaiah is alledged sixtie times the Psalmes but sixtie four times in the new Testament Amongst the very Ethiopians this Book was in such repute that the Queens Evnuch made it his vade mecum his companion in his journey and read the prophet Isaiah in his charion though he understood him not Act. 27 28. and St. Ambrose so highly esteemed valued this prophecy that when Augustine wrote to him for his advice what part of Scripture he should especially read he advised him to read the prophet Isaiah as Augustine himselfe tels us Lib confes 9. ca. 5. For the dependence of the words Hyperius his note upon the Text is of good use It is familiar with the Prophets saith he first to declare unto the people their sins then to threaten punishment and last of all to let fall some promises of mercy the first to convince them and beget sorrow the second to humble them and work fear the third to comfort them erect hope This method our prophet observes exactly For first he discovers their sins to them from the 2. unto the 24. verse 2 He denounces judgment against them 24 25. ver 3 He scatters some promises of mercy 26 27. verses The state of the Jewes you may conceive was very much declining tending to ruine the gracious God who alwayes in judgment remembers mercy promises unto them the provision of a remedie every way suitable to their maladie a restistution according to their defection Their defection is noted to be generall in the whole body of the people ver 21. How is the faithfull City become an harlot it was full of judgment righteousnesse lodged in it but now murtherers the particular cause of this generall defection is noted to be the corruption of their Governours ver 23. Thy Princes are rebellious companions of theeves every one loveth gifts followeth after rewards they judge not the fatherles neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them Now observe how sutable the remedie in the Text is to the maladie in the context They were declined God promiseth I will restore the cause of their defection was the infection or corruption of their Rulers accordingly God promiseth to remove that by restoring their Judges as at the first and thir Counselours as at the begining and now sublatâ causa tolletur effectus the faithfull Citie shall be no more called an Harlot or a Sanctuarie for murtherers but it shall be called as it was wont to be the Citie of righteousnesse the faithfull Citie I will a little open the words and when the shell is broken it is easier to take out the meat and dresse it And I will restore thy c. And that is the Copula which joynes the Text and the precedent verse together I will turne mine hand upon thee purely purge away thy drosse and take away all thy tinne and I will restore thy Judges as at the first you may take notice how evill Governours are like impure corrupt and drossie mettalls these God would purge away but because this was in it selfe but a privative mercie therefore he adds a positive in the Text And I will restore thy Judges as at the first I will restore there is a double restitution one ex debito another ex dono One due another free Due restitution is when having taken away any thing unjustly non remittitur peccatum nisi resti natur