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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92958	Mercy in a miracle shewing, the deliverance, and the duty, of the king, and the people In a sermon preached at Mitcham in Surry, June 28. 1660 in a solemne congratulation for the restoration of his Majesty to his royal throne. By Anthonie Sadler, late chaplain, to the right honourable Leticia, Lady Pagett, Dowager, deceased.	Sadler, Anthony, b. 1610.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1660 (1660)	Wing S268; ESTC R230425	14,467	29

The AUTHOR ON His FRONTISPIECE THat each fair Fancy may the Fancy find Of th'Emblems meaning and the Authors mind The Moral of the Model's This. The Tree Presents the King cut down His Tragedy No Feller seen the Murder in Disguise The Dead Tree-Dry the King 's poor Obsequies The Regall Scepter broke and stately Crown By Rebells Fury turned upside-down Do shew a Change of State Records are burn'd And Monarchy to Anarchy is turn'd The Root not Dead doth Emblemize the strength Of happy Hope to Sprout again at length The lively Branches are the Issue Royall The Angel's Trumpet is the Subject Loyall The Mode Triumphall with a flying Wing Is England's Joy our Soveraign's Welcoming The Taller Branch its growing through a Crown The King his Birth-right shews the Crown his Own The other Two alike in Leaves but Lower Shew their Alliance to the Higher Power The Hand above is God The Water-pot Is Providence The Streams that do allot Each Branch his Sent of Water are God's Grace To make us Lovall to the Royal Race Thus th' Emblem is Divine the Moral plain Divinely-moral in each Soveraign King Charles the First His Murder and His Son King Charles the Second's Restoration So saith Anthony Sadler There is hope of a Tree if it be cut downe that it will sprout againe and the branches thereof will not cease though the root of it wax old in the Earth and the stocke thereof be dead in the Ground yet by the sent of water it will bud bring forth boughs like a Plant. Job 14. 7. 8. 9. Maughan sculp MERCY in a MIRACLE SHEWING The Deliverance and the Duty OF The KING and the People IN A SERMON Preached at Mitcham in Surry June 28. 1660. in a Solemne CONGRATULATION For the Restoration of his Majesty to his Royal Throne BY ANTHONIE SADLER Late Chaplain to the Right Honourable Leticia Lady Pagett Dowager Deceased LONDON Printed by T. C. for L. Sadler 1660. TO THE KING HIS Most Excellent MAJESTY Dread SOVERAIGN CUshi in the Court gave happy Counsell and Ahimaaz from the Camp brought happy Tidings for the Preservation and Restoration of King David But my poor self having neither Counsell to give nor Tidings to bring unto my Lord the King I even I standing still to see the Work the great Work of God in the Becalming of this so Tempestuously-factious Nation have I have indeed Gratefully beheld and Publickly declar'd the mercifull dispensations of Gods wonderfull providence towards your Majesty and your People Your Long Banished Royall Self is now Restored to your proper Throne and your long Enslaved Loyall People are now Restored to their proper Freedom May your Majesty be ever thankfull to the Lord seeing the Honour is Yours the Happiness is Ours and the Glory His. May your People also be ever Loyall to your Majesty being Englands Monarch as to your Birth Gods Vice-gerent as to your Right Christendomes Mirrour as to your Virtues And the Worlds Wonder as to your Restoration Nor is my Tongue now only as the Pen of a Since the first apprehending of my Person by a Troope of Horse 1643. but especially 1654. under the so called Protector his so called Councel of State and his so called Commissioners for my Inquisitio Anglicana ready Writer neither is my Pen now only as the Tongue of a ready Orator surely no My known Loyalty will vindicate mine Integrity and my known Sufferings will Vindicate my Loyalty from all Flattery and Falshood Yea This very Sermon will present your Majesty with all the Loyall Zeal and affectionate Loyalty that was and is and shall be ever as due confess'd and as true observ'd by Your Majesties Most Obsequious And Observant Subject ANTHONIE SADLER MERCY in a MIRACLE St. MATTHEW 8. 25. Lord save us we Perish THe happy issue of this Text joyfully presents you with the just cause of this dayes solemnity for the Text implies and this day expresses a Solemn Thanksgiving for some great Deliverance The Dsciples were in a raging storm and so God knowes were we their Storm was made a Calm and so Gods name be prais'd is Ours The danger of the Disciples case was very Obvious and their Preservation was very Eminent being wrought by Gods natural Son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Christ of God and the Saviour of the World As for our Case the Case of poor England the Case of a sinful Nation and therefore justly miserable the case of a miserable Nation and therefore justly sad Ah my brethren we were so near a Ruine utter Ruine because deserv'd that our Preservation was not only Eminent but strange so strange that as when God turned again the Captivity of Jacob we as people in a Dream do scarce believe the Truth of so strange a Preservation A Preservation at such a time when first the whole Land was distracted with as many Miseries as Opinions When Secondly the very brands was kindled to set the pile on Fire When Thirdly the Royall City was made a Scorn the Chaines and Posts broken up the Gates and Percullesses broken down When Fourthly all the Royall Progeny all the Honourable Nobility all the Reverend Clergy all the loyall Gentry and all the true-hearted Commonalty of the Land were disdained and proscribed to a bloody Massacre When Fifthly some Fear'd others wonder'd and All complain'd In a word When we knew not what to do nor where to go that then now in this so violent a Tempest a Tempest of more then common despair that then the great God of Heaven and Earth should upon a sudden in a way so unlikely and at a time so needful should so turn about as he hath now done the great Wheele of all Transactions This oh this as the shadow upon the Diall Vmbra diem docet umbra deum certainly it could not but tell us that God was there God was there indeed for though the instrument was obvious yet the work was misterious and God in Both. Let the Lord Monke have his deserved praise yea and his reward too but let the Lord of Hosts God Almighty have all the Glory and our thanks for ever For As great Deliverance hath God given to his King as to his people yea to the people by their King Gods Adopted Son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sure foundation of a setled state O see what it is to wait upon God God may delay but he will not deny to help his servants Witnesse the return of our Soveraign to his Throne and his Subjects to their Freedome The Lord make his Majesty truly Happy his People truly Loyal and all truly thankful for this Regal Restauration thus If God stop his Ears it is to open our mouths if he afflict us t is to make us pray Lord save us we Perish The Text in General is a prayer wherein we might observe these three things 1. The Form of it 2. The Authors of it and 3. The Reason of it or if you please We might