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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57328	Elias the Second his coming to restore all things, or, God's way of reforming by restoring ; and, Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of two contending brethren in two sermons : the former preacht in Warwick at the Generall Assize there held August 19, 1661 : the other in Coventry at the annuall solemnity of the maior's feast on All-Saints Day following : both publisht at the importunity of divers of the auditors being eminent persons of quality in that country / by John Riland ...	Riland, John, 1619?-1673.; Riland, John, 1619?-1673. Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of two contending brethren.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1519; ESTC R11927	45,131	119

ELIAS the Second HIS Coming to RESTORE ALL THINGS OR Gods way of Reforming by Restoring AND MOSES the PEACE-MAKER his Offers to make One of Two contending Brethren IN TWO SERMONS The Former preacht in WARWICK at the Generall Assize there held August 19. 1661. The Other in COVENTRY at the Annuall Solemnity of the Maior's Feast there on All Saints day following Both Publisht at the importunity of divers of the Auditors being Eminent persons of Quality in that County By JOHN RILAND Arch-Deacon of COVENTRY and sometimes Fellow of St M Magdalene Coll in Oxon Ea nunc sunt tempora in quibus nec Vitia nec Remedia pati possumus Liv. Thus saith the Lord in Returning and Rest shall ye be saved in Quietnesse and Confidence shall be your Strength but ye would not Isa 30. 15. OXFORD Printed by HEN HALL Printer to the University 1662. To the most highly Honoured THE NOBILITY THE KNIGHTS ESQVIRES and GENTRY of WARVVICK-SHIRE The Author heartily wishing all Blessings Spirituall and Temporall Humbly Dedicates the following SERMONS To the READER IN the Delivery of these Sermons it was none of my least Encouragements even then when I am sure I most wanted them to think that I neither begg'd nor forc'd my way into either of those Pulpits which indeed to me who never in my life had any clambring fancy to be aspiring above a private Audience I confesse were matter of very much Fear and Aversation But those things are over now and I can securely look upon my former Confusions as so many Egyptian Carcases driven down the stream of Time Yet although One Woe is past behold two more are coming I mean the Printing and Publishing of those Sermons In reference whereunto the usuall prefacing concerning the Commands of some and the Requests of others I suppose in me may be wholly superfluous who cannot be so fond as to imagine that such sorry things as these should ever travell much further then those warme Hands which at first receiv'd them whose Justice to me now if in any measure such as was their Kindnesse then must needs fully certify for me herein and save me that labour But if they should chance to straggle further and so fall under some severer Fingers which can easily pinch through such slight and thin Discourses then I intreat all those to Consider viz. I was a Man beyond the common condition of men born to troubles in this World which crowding in upon me through some inevitable Misfortunes for this twenty years have found me somewhat else to do then to meddle much with Books unlesse they were Debt-books and such like sad old Manuscripts the Crossing of which rather then the Marking any other hath been the greatest part of my Employment For this I blesse the God of Heaven who by an invisible hand hath held me up and brought me hitherte But besides that the constant task of Preaching for many years might well exhaust a greater stock of Reading then ever I could be guilty of having had so short a time I am sure I find it so to gather in the University and so long a time to scatter in the Country But beyond all this when a party of Souldiers from Warwick An order for Sequestration Castle coming with Swords in one hand and Gilbert Millington in the other brake in upon me threw me out of my Living too near the hard walls of that Castle and there settled a Jersey Kember in my stead which force remains unremoved to this day Much about the same time those times of Dispersion as my Parsonage house was broken in the Country my Study or rather my Self was broken in Oxford where I lost all my Books except two or three of the most inconsiderable and that which most undid me all my Papers so that thereby I was perfectly reduced to his condition Qui totum perdidit Id Nil Pers Sat. Comparing which losses and some other Misfortunes which afterward befell me with the abundance of Blessings I had formerly there received I may say of that Weeping eye whose very Name is precious and will ever be honourable S. M. Magd. Col. Oxon. with me the same Fountain sent forth the sweetest and some of the bitterest Waters that ever I tasted of Not that I think any misusage of mine worthy of the VVorlds notice so as to sound a Trumpet to my Sufferings but only this I humbly begge that in those severall respects aforesaid I may be borne withall whatever Defects Mistakes or other like Frailties shall be found upon the ensuing Sermons VVherein however some have counted me too sharp and I wish others do not count me too Dull God is my Record my Desire and Meaning in the main is nothing but the same which at this time was sung by a Quire of Angels Glory to God on high On Earth peace Good will toward Men especially Honour and Obedience to his Sacred Majesty and all in Authority under him that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all Godlinesse and Honesty for which cause I bow my Knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus that now at last we may all live as Subjects love as Brethren that so the God of Love and Peace may be with us Amen Decemb. 26. 1661. I. R. ELIAS the Second HIS Coming to RESTORE ALL THINGS OR GOD'S WAY OF REFORMING by Restoring Set forth in a Sermon preach'd in Warwick at the Generall Assize held there Aug. 19. 1661 At the Request of the Honourable Sr EDWARD BOUGHTON Baronet His MAIESTIES First High Sheriff for County after his most happy Restauration Dum volumus esse meliores veteribus sumus forsan dissimiles Quintil. Behold thou art made whole sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee Joh. 5. 14. OXFORD Printed by HEN HALL Printer to the University 1662. ELIAS THE SECOND His Coming to restore all things OR God's way of Reforming by Restoring Isa 1. 26. And I will restore thy Iudges as at first and thy Counsellers as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called the City of Righteousnesse c. THE World was never so forlornly wicked that God left himself or them altogether without Act. 14. 17. witnesse No He sent not onely Fruitfull Seasons but Faithfull Prophets amongst the most Faithless and Unfruitfull Soules yea when by suffering all Nations to walk in their own wayes he seem'd to wink hardest even then he was not without his Seers among them In some of the darkest and most midnight times with the Iewes Isaiah the Son of Amos had his Visions who as in many passages he gives testimony of Christ so in one passage Christ gives a special testimony of him more Math. 15. 7. then of any the other Prophets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 well did Isaiah prophesie of you c. Indeed such a one this people wanted For as the stinging of some Serpents they say produceth a raging kind of pain which cannot be cured but by Musick so