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A87212	A sermon preached at Dorchester in the county of Dorcet, at the proclaiming of His sacred Majesty Charles the II. May 15. 1660. By Gilbert Ironsyde Batchelour of Divinity, and minister of Stepleton in the said county.	Ironside, Gilbert, 1588-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing I1048; Thomason E1034_15; ESTC R209046	21,155	36

made no flesh can claime it we have great cause to rejoyce and be glad in it for we have hitherto been harrowed by proud ambitious usu●ping Tyrants this was their name But now the Lord hath sent us a King in his own name a name written in the Law of Nature the Law of Nations the Law of the Land Therefore let Zadock anoint him let them blow the Trumpet and let all the people cry Hosanna God save the King Blessed be he that thus cometh in the name of the Lord. I hope it is not with us as with those people when they cryed their Hosanna's for the Text tells us that the Priests and Scribes were so displeased and some of the Pharisees never behind Priests and Scribes in this kind said Master rebuke thy Disciples Luk. 19 39. I hope there be no such Malignant spirits amongst us if there be and 't is possible there may be for God never did a work so glorious against which some mens hearts were not imbittered and their tongues viperous not the Creation witnesse the Manichees not the Incarnation witness the Marcionites not the Redemption witnesse the Socinians not his Grace witnesse the Pelagians nor his wonderfull workes of Providence witnesse our Modern Stotcks Ranters and Atheists it may therefore be so here But if there be their answer lyes ready in the Text I tell you if these should hold their peace the stones would cry God would rather give mouthes and tongues to the very stones then lose the praise of so glorious a work or which is not impertinent were mens hearts flints or Adamants such a mercy as the Son of David hath in it heat enough to melt them Honoured and Beloved I appeal to the conscience of all Mankind whether this our mercy hath not in it very much of a melting quality unlesse it meet with hearts harder then the upper and nether mill-stone To see a King such a King so miraculously delivered preserved restored even by an out-stretched arme from heaven To see a Languishing State revived a dying Church quickned To see Factions Schismes Sects Heresies Prophaneness Irreligion Atheism and which is yet worse Satanicall delusions Fanatick phrensies that dark and thick cloud ascending from the bottomlesse pit which hath been spread over us these many years so suddenly to vanish and disappear And in the room of those ugly Fiends the choise blessings of God like so many glorious Angels Peace and Settlement Trade and Commerce Government and Religion Laws and Liberties to be re-established To see all these cast upon us with the light of Gods pleased countenance in a generall conjunction if not concurrence without the least drop of the bloud of revenge as if Esays prophesy were visibly fulfilled the wolfe to lye down with the Lamb the Leopard with the Kid and none to destroy in all the holy mountain And that which heightens all the rest to see that God hath vouchsafed to such an unworthy people once more a King and such a King as may seem to secure all other his favors a King of the ancient extract from his Royall Progenitors to prevent future usurpations a King born in our Nation and therefore sure must love the Nation a King so eminent in his person more then eminent for his most excellent endowments a King whom God himself hath bred and tutored in the school of forreign experience without the least taint of their religion or vices An excellent school for a King and in his own house a school of afflictions the best school any Prince can be brought up in in a parallel to both these I think no History can afford Is not all this enough to melt us into Hosannas that have not put off humanity and in the room thereof taken the Wolf or Tyger Therefore if there be any that is otherwise minded whether Priest Seribe or Pharisee Papist Jesuite or Sectarie God I hope shall reveal it to him also in due time But if any be obstinate let him be obstinate still In the mean time let us doe our duties and to this purpose let me beg your patience I shall not abuse it I hope with any long or impertinent discourse upon the words of the Text I will hearken c. This Psalm is prophetical and the spirit of prophesie sees as God himself sees future events in their present existencies When Alexander the Great died in Babylon according to the prediction of the Solar and Lunar trees in India he divided his Empire amongst his Commanders saith the Historian 1 Mac. 1. by this means Syria came to Antiochus Epiphanes v. 10. Syria was ever an ill neighbour to Judea and Antiochus was one of the worst that ever had Syria no marvel then if there were great lamentation in Israel v. 25. for he not only invades the Land but also proudly enters the Sanctuary robs it of all its glorious furniture takes away the golden Altar the Candlestick the Table the golden basons all the gold and silver jewels and treasure he could find v. 21 22. He that begins will sacriledge will easily swallow bloud so did Antiochus he murdered many a man saith the Text v. 25. He that will not stick at Sacriledge and bloud will make little of rapine oppression persecution and a wicked toleration of all religions no more did Antiochus v. 41 42. till all the house of Israel was covered with confusion saith the Author This Epiphonema this Tyranny was very great upon the people of Israel Credibile est It is very credible saith a good interpreter that our Prophet in this Psalme speaks of the condition of the Jews under this Antiochus and first he tells what this poor people did in the time of their great disconsolation as chickens when the Kite hovers over them fly to the wings of the Dam so these hope to be safe under the feathers of the Almighty this was always their manner when they were afflicted they sought him and sought him early this also the Prophet fore-sees for he gives us a copy of their prayer nay he pens it for them in readinesse against the time should come This is usuall with Gods Spirit to provide his people of set formes for particular occasions many years before they happen Moses Esay David Solomon did so and our blessed Saviour hath given us a most comprehensive forme which may serve all our occasions to the worlds end So far is Gods spirit from branding set formes with lazie services This prayer therefore must needs be excellent for the Authors sake and for its own too For in it they First thankfully acknowledge the goodnesse of God to their predecessors he had been formerly favourable to their Land he had brought again the captivity of Jacob he had forgiven their sins covered or buried their iniquitte and so withdrawn his wrath v. 1 2 3. Then they supplicate for themselves Turn us O God which is not meant of their persons by repentance but of their present condition from

A SERMON Preached at DORCHESTER In the County of DORCET AT THE PROCLAIMING OF HIS SACRED MAJESTY CHARLES THE II. May 15. 1660. By Gilbert Ironsyde Batchelour of Divinity and Minister of Stepleton in the said County LONDON Printed for Robert Clavell at the Staggs head in S. Pauls Church-yard 1660. To the Right worshipfull the Knights and Gentry c. of the County of Dorset that came with Loyall bearts to Proclaim his Sacred Majesty at Dorchester May 15. 1660. Right Worshipfull BEauty consists more in proportion of parts then in the exquisitnesse of Complexion for whatsoever this be if the other be wanting it begets a deformity And was it not so in your late meeting about the greatest affair that ever this County or Nation had the Proclaiming of the Kings Majesty I must needs acknowledge and record it for your Honour that you did it with all Alacrity Solemnity and Loyalty yet an ill choice was made of your Preacher an intigrall part of that Service an old man much decayd in Strength Lungs Parts plundered of Abilities as well as Books by the Discouragements and Distractions of our late Confusions and this was not so handsome I have but a few things to say for him besides that he was of their own appointing that there was a kind of proportion even in this disproportion I mean as to the work in some sort to which he was to speak for concerning this Origens observation is good Deus vult ex locustis vincere Gigantes God will by grassehoppers overcome Giants as we see at this day and as for him Davids words are verified Ex ore infantium fundasti robur God can perfect praise out of the Mouth of a weak instrument Besides when Abraham entertain'd the Angels Senex currit Vxor festinat Puer accellerat nullus piger est in to●● familia The Servant made haste the VVife bestird her self the old man ran too as fast as he could It 's the same Fathers observation It was so when we received our gracious Soveraign as an Angel of God sent from heaven in that blessed Proclamation Nullus piger in tota familia Every man acted his part with the best of his abil ties the Sheriff proclaimed the Gentry attended the Country waited the young men displayed their banners the whole Town triumphed Men Women and Children acclaimed and the old man your Preacher did run too as fast as he could and though he fetcht not with Abraham a fatling from the herd yet with Mary be brought his young Pigeons and his Turtle as much Affectionate Zeal and Loyalty as the best And now if you ask why I present it to you the second time in this dresse being so leane Answerable to the time I had I shall not make use of that old Gentleman-usher or Trapanner to the Print-house Importunity not to be resisted though this also might be pretended the more I pitty their Judgments the true reason is that the loudnesse of my Voice might be supplied by the loudnesse of the Presse and that those that could be but spectators for the Noise Croud and my Defects may now be readers of the Sermon if they please and thereby both retain and renew within themselves the solemnity of that day never to be forgotten And upon this account craving your pardons and praying for your happinesse from under our most Wise God and our most Gracious and Dread Soveraign whom God preserve be pleased to accept the services of Gentlemen Yours most Affectionately Devoted G. J. PSALM 85.8 I will hearken what God the Lord will say for he will speake peace to his people and to his Saints but let them not turn again to folly WHen our blessed Lord went from Bethphage to Jerusalem they that went before and they that followed and the very children in the Temple cryed Hosanna to the son of David Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord Mat. 21.8 9 15. This Hosanna is a long prayer in a short word comprehending much matter in a few syllables Ne sibi blandiantur verbosi oratores as Mr. Calvin speaks on another place God is not always best pleased when we make him the longest Orations You may read if you please this long-short prayer for so I may call it in Psal 118.25 O Lord I pray thee save now O Lord send now prosperity Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Some will tell you that this 118. Psalm was penned by David for the use of the people when he returned victorious from the Philistins but give me leave to say when he returned from his long banishment from being hunted by Saul another Nimrod as a partridge upon the mountains when the people had proclaimed him in Hebron and Samuels unction had taken full effect as in 2 Sam. 5. This appears to me by the precedent verses The stone which the builders refused Saul and his counsell which should have been builders but were indeed destroyers is become the head in the Corner the chief pillar and support both of Church and State This was the Lords doing and it was marvellous in our eyes this is the day which the Lord hath made let us rejoyce and be glad in it It is therefore you see a Psalm of prayers and praises and this Hosanna is a great acclamation containing both even the same which they commonly used at all their Kings Inaugurations When Saul was presented by Samuel with a See ye not him whom the Lord hath chosen All the people shouted and said God save the King 1 Sam. 10.24 and when Zadock had anointed Solomon they blew the Trumpet and all the people said God save King Solomon 1 King 1.39 It is so here these people look upon Christ as the King of Israel therefore cry Hosanna to the son of David There is yet more in this Hosanna and it lies Emphatically in this particle of the present tense Now O Lord I pray thee save now O Lord send now prosperity This Now refers to what was past as much as to say we have hitherto been opprest by Saul and his Agents commonly styled the violent and the cruel man but now we have a King of another nature of a better temper therefore Save now O Lord O Lord send now prosperity Besides those that hitherto we have had come in their own names Saul was a proud usurper David the true proprietor and that by Gods own donation which is here called his name Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. And how well doth all this suit with our present occasion Is not our David returned from his long exile and banishment Have not our Tribes proclaimed him in Hebron No longer hunted by any Nimrod we know Is not this long refused stone become the head of our corner Is not this the Lords onely doing and is it not marvellous in our eyes and in the eyes of all the world It 's surely the day which God alone hath