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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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