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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66730	The true interest of nations impartially stated in a sermon preached at the Lent assizes at Chelmesford in Essex, March 2d. 1690/1 : proving that the promoting universal righteousness, piety, justice, and honesty, is the sure means to exalt a nation ... / by Anthony Walker ...	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.	1691 (1691)	Wing W311; ESTC R5492	23,518	42

needs no Proof and the very Text expounds it making any People in the latter Branch parallel to Nation in the former 3. The Government and Polity by which such a People are governed in such a Country defended from their Enemies secur'd in their Rights restrain'd from doing ill encourag'd to do well by Wise and Righteous Laws and just Execution of them by Rewards and Punishments For if House may be put for the Master of it as Luke 19.9 This day is Salvation come to this House i e. to Zacheus as I find it expounded And Church for the ruling Part in the Church Matth. 18.17 Tell it to the Church 'T is not less proper to expound Nation for the Government of a Nation Secondly The Cause Righteousness with respect to Nations may be considered as Threefold for Evangelical Righteousness respects Persons singly not Nations complexly which we may call Religious Civil Moral Righteousness Religious Righteousness is Godliness or Piety which gives to God the Worship and Service he expects The Glory due unto his Name Psal 29. Which is the Scope of the first Table 2. Civil Legal Political Righteousness which is Justice and Equity consisting in due Administration of Judgment by just distribution of Rewards and Punishments according to the true Design and Intent of the Wise and Righteous Laws of every Nation and Society of Men defending and rewarding those who observe and keep them and restraining and punishing those who transgress and break them that the Administration of Justice may be really the Terrer of evil doers and to the Praise of them who do well Rom. 13. 3. Moral Righteousness is Honesty and Probity fair and upright dealing by private Persons betwixt Man and Man the Source of which is to love our Neighbour as our selves Mat. 22.39 And that Golden Rule of our Saviour to do to others as we would they should do to us Luke 6.31 And the whole amounts to walking in all capacities with all good Conscience void of offence towards God and Men Acts 24.16 Thirdly The Effect Exalteth This also may imply Three Things Honour Safety Plenty 1. To Exalt signifies to set up on high in Honour Renown and Fame To make thee high above all Nations which he hath made in Praise in Name and Honour Deut. 26.19 And the very Text intimates this in opposing Reproach to being exalted 2. Safety To be set on high oft signifies to be placed out of the reach of Danger To set him on high from him that puffeth at him He shall dwell on high his place of Defence shall be the Munition of Rocks Isa 33.16 He is my Shield and my Salvation my high Tower and my Refuge my Saviour thou savest me from violence 2 Sam. 22.3 3. Plenty and Prosperity when it is with a Notion as David pray'd it might be with his Psal 144.13 14 15. That our Sons may be as Plants grown up in their youth our Daughters as Corner-Stones polished after the similitude of a Palace That our Garners may be full affording all manner of Store That our Sheep may bring forth Thousands and ten Thousands in our Streets That our Oxen may be strong to labour That there be no breaking in nor going out that there be no complaining in our Streets Happy is the People that is in such a case Happy here is consignificant to being exalted And that enlarged Promise of exceeding Plenty Deut. 28.11 12. The Lord shall make thee plenteous in Goods in the fruit of thy Body thy Cattel thy Ground The Lord shall open to thee his good Treasure Ends thus v. 13. And the Lord shall make thee the Head and not the Tail and thou shalt be above only and thou shalt not be beneath So that Plenty and Prosperity properly exalts in Scripture-Language and Account Thus from this genuine Explication of the Words you may please to take a comprehensive view of this excellent Text and grasp the Strength and Substance of it into one Proposition viz. That Religion and Piety Justice and Equity Probity and Honesty exalt into Honour and Renown Safety and Peace Plenty and Prosperity a Nation the Land in which they are found the People by whom they are practised the Government by which they are defended and promoted In the handling which Proposition I shall set these Limits and bounds to my Discourse as the Method and Measures of it 1. To confirm its Truth that they do it 2. To shew the Season and Circumstances when they do it 3. To demonstrate the Reasons why or shew the Means by which they do it All which I shall pursue as distinctly as I can I begin with the First to confirm this Truth viz. that Piety Justice Honesty exalt Countries People Governments in Honour Safety Plenty There cannot be a more full and comprehensive Confirmation given of any Truth than what may be drawn to confirm this from Deut. 28. in the 14 first Verses in all the Branches of it which I must refer you to being too long to transcribe and point at the Particulars When it goeth well with the Righteous the City rejoiceth By the Blessing of the Vpright the City is exalted Prov. 11.10 11. Religion and Justice are like the two Pillars Solomon erected before the Porch of the Temple Jakin and Bouz Establishment and Strength 1 Kings 7.21 Justice with Religion as a Great Man hath observed is the strong Foundation and the steddy Prop of States and Kingdoms Therefore good Men are as Elisha call'd Elijah The Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof 2 Kings 2.12 What a Blessing had ten righteous Men been to Sodom for the sake of so small a number God would not have destroyed them Gen. 18.32 Peace is the Skin of a Nation but Religion and Justice are its Soul and Spirits The rubbing off the Skin may make it sore but the loss of Soul and Spirits bring Death without Remedy Golden Christians are truly the Brazen Walls and Iron-Gates which secure Cities Wisdom that is Goodness or Piety in Solomon's Stile is better than Weapons of War and strengthneth more than Ten a number of Perfection that is very many mighty Men that are in the City Eccl. 7.19 But I shall confirm the Truth of this Sentence Righteousness exalts a Nation according to the more enlarged Sense of it given in the Explication and Proposition By Arguments drawn from 1. God's Promises 2. Observation and Experience 3. The Aptitude and Tendency of such Causes to produce such Effects I begin with the First God hath made good Promises that it shall be so The Text is express and speaks in the present Tense for greater assurance it exalteth to prove it shall so do I at present take the Promises for granted and shall by and by produce them and on that Supposition argue They being made shall be made good or else either God cannot do it or he will not do it Not the first for he is Almighty He can do all things Job 42.2 Nothing is too