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A91813	King Solomons directory: or, The reformed Catholicks rubricke: shewing a Christian how to demeane and behave himselfe both in prosperity and adversity: / as it was set forth in a sermon at St. Peters Pauls-wharfe, London, July the 8. 1649. By Fran: Riddington, a loyall subject, and long sufferer for fearing God, and honouring the King.	Riddington, Francis.	1649 (1649)	Wing R1438; Thomason E565_16; ESTC R206142	14,454	20

confesse and forsake our sinnes correct and amend what ever is amisse in us redeeme the time we have vainly spent and work out our salvation with fear and trembling Fear God honour our King and love as Brethren and then we need never fear what man can doe unto us Luke 12.4 5. Let all of us in the fear of God in this day the latter day the day of Adversity thus consider and God it may be may be intreated and once againe restore unto us the former day the day of Prosperity wherein we may lawfully yea must and ought thankfully to be joyfull and merry To which purpose let us pray This Prayer was omitted because the Glass was run and the Season then almost as hot as these 8. years persecution but being it was really intended it is therefore here verbatim inserted O Lord God of Hosts God of the spirits of all Flesh who for a long time hast sorely afflicted us with the devouring scourge of a most unnaturall War And in the depth of thy displeasure hast suffered us to proceed to that height of impiety as unsatisfied with the bloud of our fellow-members to cut off Him who was our Head and to take away His Life for the preservation whereof we ought all of us both by the Lawes of God and Man to have sacrificed our own O Lord we do confesse that we be even astonished and confounded with the apprehension of our most sinfull and most miserable condition O who can lay his hands on the Lords Anointed and be guiltlesse Had He been a Saul and His Subjects Davids Had He beene rejected and they elected They Righteous and He Wicked yet had they sinned against their own Soules and been guilty of the highest Treason for defiling their hands with the Bloud of their Soveraigne Of how much greater condemnation doth this sinfull Land stand guilty who have laid hands upon a David and are themselves Shimea's and Shebaes who have slaine a most pious prudent and peaceable Prince and are themselves a most perfidious rebellious and wicked People Yea and to fill up the measure of our iniquity that their might be nothing wanting to make our sinne compleat we have usurpt thy Authority who art the onely Judge of Kings and committed this horrid Murther under the specious colour of Justice We have if we may make use of His owne Expressions added the mockery of Justice to the cruelty of Malice So that now we may seeme even ripe for destruction and thou mayest justly thrust in thy sickle and cut us down destroy us root and branch as in one day and lay our Land waste into a Wildernesse or give it unto Strangers to be inhabited Thou mayst sweep us away with the beesome of Destruction and give us our portion with the Devil and his Angels as the worst of Hipocrites in the hottest place of that Lake which burns with Fire and Brimstone But Lord in Judgment we humbly beseech thee to remember mercy and thou that takest no delight in the Death of one single sinner spare mercifull Lord spare a great though most sinfull Nation Pity a despised Church and distracted State heal up those Wounds which our sins have made so wide that none but thine owne hands can close them and in the tendernesse of thy unspeakable compassion set up the Sunne in his Fathers Throne that he may restore thy worship settle Peace and purge the Land of the Guilt of that innocent Loyall yea ROYALL blood wherewith it is Defiled which cries aloud for Vengeance in thine ears O Lay not this sin of bloud-guiltinesse unto the charge of this whole Nation which is committed by the hands of a handfull in comparison to the whole Neither let the Cry of that horrid murther committed upon the Person of thine Anointed by those who have graspt all power into their hands out-cry the cry of their prayers whose Loyall hearts abhorre the very thought of such a Heinous Treasonable Damnable fact and mourne in secret for it O Let it pity thee to see so flourishing a Church and State as this but lately was to be thus rent and torne in pieces by a rude rabble of Seditious Sacrilegious Rebellious Trayterous Men who have embrued their hands in the bloud of King Priest and People Who have Usurpt all authority trampled upon all Religion Violated all our Lawes infring'd all our liberties and destroy'd our properties and Father all their impieties upon thee because for our sins thou sufferest successe to attend their actions which have neither warrant nor president in thy Word But Lord we beseech thee for Jesus Christ his sake to be reconciled unto us to pardon our sins and heale our Land which for its transgressions hath many Princes yea Servants that rule over it And give us Him thy Servant our true and rightfull Soveraigne CHARLES Sonne and Heyre to his deceased Father to be our King maugre all the power and malice of thine his and our inhumane barbarous and bloud thirsty enemies Arise O Lord maintaine thine owne cause Remember how the Adversary hath blasphemed thy Name profaned thy holy places Murdered thine Anointed butchered his Subjects and now gee about to disinherit his posterity and convert a well-tempered Monarchy into a popular Anarchy This thou hast seen O Lord and because thou holdest thy tongue they think wickedly that thou art even such a one as their selves but doe thou reprove them and see before them the things which they have done That thou maist take the matter into thy hands the poore commiteth himself unto thee O be thou the helper of the friendlesse and breake the power of the ungodly and malicious Infatuate their Councells and divide them Infeeble their forces and Disperse them Impale their hearts weaken their hands and command Salvation and deliverance for thy Church the King and his people That thy worship may be restored Thine ANOINTED inthroned and Truth and Peace re-established in all our Borders and that for his sake who is the Prince of peace and that shed his most precious blood to purchase our peace even Jesus Christ the righteous To whom with thee and the blessed Spirit be ascribed as is most due All Honour Power Praise might Majesty Dominion and thanksgiving for ever and for ever Amen FINIS

KING SOLOMONS DIRECTORY OR The REFORMED CATHOLICKS RUBRICKE Shewing a Christian how to demeane and behave himselfe both in Prosperity and Adversity As it was set forth in a SERMON at St. Peters Pauls-wharfe London July the 8. 1649. By FRAN RIDDINGTON a loyall Subject and long Sufferer for fearing GOD and honouring the KING Prov. 24. v. 21 22. My Son feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1649. ECCLES 7. former part of ver 14. In the day of prosperity be joyfull but in the day of adversity consider TO every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under Heaven saith our Author the preacher at the 3 Chap. and first ver of this his Booke stiled Ecclesiastes And amongst other times for other things he tels us at the 4 ver of that Chap. how that there are proper and peculiar times for Mirth and mourning Joy and Grief Sorrow and solace There is a time saith he to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourne and a time to Dance And both these times for both these purposes are apart exprest and particularly applied in the words of my Text. The time of Mirth and Musick of gladnesse and rejoycing is the time of Gods revealing his Mercies unto us and bestowing his blessings favours and benefits upon us the Day of prosperity as it is here termed in the Text wherein we are admonished and exhorted to be joyfull In the Day of prosperity be joyfull The time of weeping and mourning of lamentation and sorrow is the time of Gods denouncing his Judgments against us or executing them upon us and afflicting us with Warres Famine Pestilence or such like Calamities the Day of Adversity as it is here also termed wherein we are commanded to consider In the Day of adversity consider In the day of prosperity c. In the words there is no such great difficulty as that I should neede to trouble you with much variety of senses and expositions yet are they not so very facile and easie neither to every capacity as that they may fully be understood without as well as with this short paraphrase and explanation In the day of prosperity be joyfull that is enjoy thy portion of blessings with cheerfulnesse In the day of Adversity consider that is be well advised fall not to impatient murmuring or ungodly shifting but stay thy selfe in expectation on God In the day of prosperity when thy affaires be prosperous thy successe in just undertakings happy when it goes well with thee thy King and Country be joyfull and merry But in the day of Adversity in the time of any private or common calamity consider bethink thy selfe of the cause and of the cure of that disaster Consider wherefore it is inflicted and how it may be removed Use prosperity and adversity to the ends appointed by God unto thee and be thou a constant and conscionable observer of the Churches both Feasts and Fasts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 12.15 Rejoyce with them that rejoyce and weep with them that weep In the day of Prosperity send up joyfull acclamations to the high Court of heaven in testimony of thy thankfulnesse for those free and undeserved favours and blessings which thou dost enjoy In the day of Adversity send up strong cryes and present thy Supplications before the mercie-seat of Gods offended Majestie in token of thy repentance and contrition In the day of prosperity be joyfull but in the day of adversity consider So that my Text I may terme the Schoole of a religious deportment In it that great Master of all Arts and Sciences that learned Doctor in all Professions Sol hominum Solomon that Mirrour of Men Wisdomes eldest sonne reades all his Scholars a Lecture of Divine Morality or Morall Divinity if I may so say teaching and instructing them what their manner of behaviour must be at all times and so what it must and ought to be at this present how we ought to demeane and behave our selves now and alwayes In it we have Oppositio mutatio temporum Oppositio mutatio tonorum An opposition and change of Times An opposition and change of Tunes And this latter fitted to the former the tune to the time the duty and ditty to the day Weeping Mourning Sighing Sobbing and the like sad expressions of a sorrowfull spirit are as unseasonable and unseemly at a Feast and on the day of prosperity as unnecessary eating drinking laughing playing dycing dancing and their like are at a Past and in the day of adversity And therefore our Author the Preacher the wisest of men King Solomon where he tells us of different times there also he tells us of the different tunes that we are to observe and keep in those times As in my Text. Where we have two severall and opposite dayes The day of prosperity and the day of adversity There also we have the severall and Apposite businesse of them both Joy of the former Consideration of the latter In the day of prosperity be joyfull but in the day of adversity consider Which of these dayes This day is is easie you will not deny to determine It is well knowne far and neare that we of this Nation have nothing to doe this day with the first day in the Text the day of prosperity these are not dayes and times wherein it goes well with us our King and Country and therefore not dayes and times wherein to be so frollick joyfull and merry We as if we had liv'd too long have our-liv'd that day and God he onely knowes whether we shall ever see it againe before we die O if we had known even we at least in that our day the things which belong'd unto our peace but now ah now Quid nisi vota supersunt what remains saving only prayers that they be not hid from our eyes As our Saviour said of Jerusalem bemoning and prophesying its destruction Luk. 19.42 This day every day that now goes over our heads is Hezekiahs day such another day as that day 2. Kings 19.3 A day of trouble and of rebuke and of blasphemy for the Children are come to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth Such are the pangs of this Sin-sick-land as of a woman in travaile where the poore Infant is altogether unable to deliver it selfe and the pained Mother to be delivered of it Such another day as the Prophet Ezekiell sets forth with an Ecce at the 7 Chap. and 10. ver of that his prophesy Behold the day behold it is come the morning is gone forth the rod hath blosomed pride hath budded violence is risen up into a rod of wickednesse Or such a day as the Prophet Zephaniah speaks of at the first Chap. of his prophesy 15. and following verses A day of wrath a day of trouble