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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89614	Hosannah: a Thanksgiving-sermon, June 28th. 1660. By J. M. Presb. Anglic.	Martin, John, 1619-1693.	1660 (1660)	Wing M842; Thomason E184_4; ESTC R4777	26,592	39

expressing this admiration with respect unto due circumstances not barely to wonder at it and no more to wonder and perish as they in the Acts to wonder and give God no glory for working this wonder but a set time appointed for making mans wondering to end in the glorifying of God publique prefixt nationall blessing of God and rejoycing in a publique place at a publique time a day for it and a congregation on that day this day and we This is the day the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it v. 24. 4. Lastly here is solennitatis celebratio the celebrating or keeping this solemnity as it ought to be kept with praise and prayer nay with a set form of praise and with a set form of prayer not in such a manner as every man pleaseth as though there were no King in Israel or such a King as had no care of the Church but celebrated it must be with Hosannah's the usuall manner of celebrating praise amongst the Jews Psal 20. Mat. 21. as are Te Deum's amongst Christians and a form of prayer for continuing and inlarging this mercy O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quick earnest prayer the pattern of the Antiphones in our Liturgie the choicest part of all and therefore the Devill shoots most of his arrows against it even bitter words O Lord show thy mercy upon us O Lord save the King c. perfectly resembling these of the Text Save now I beseech thee O Lord O Lord I beseech thee send now prosperity v. 25. Be pleas'd to try the first quarter of this garment of praise and if that fits there 's no fear of the other three The stone which the builders r●fused the same is become the head●stone of the corner The mirandum or thing to be wondered at 1. The manner of expression is clearly parabolicall and as I conceive proverbiall too 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in speaking plainly it signifies the unlook'd for and unhop'd for promotion of a person to a place of greatest trust and dignity Such was that of David unto the government of all Israel being not only taken from following the Ewes great with young Psal 78.71 and so a great change made when his Shepherds crooke was turn'd to a Regall Scepter but compassed about with enemies on every side hunted as a partridge upon the mountains where little or nothing of covert and shelter could be had to secure him the whole house of Saul and all the dependents thereon and adherents thereto to be layd aside e're the thing could be brought to pass Tantae molis erat so very great a difficulty that there was little or no probability that a stone by the builders with reason enough as they and a world of others thought refused should in despight of all opposition become the head stone of the corner Yet thus it was in the issue and the difficulty of effecting it made the thing when done the more remarkable Such likewise was the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods exalting of Christ Phil. 2. who by taking upon him our humane nature and the infirmities thereof sin onely excepted and being found in the form of a servant and so nothing in him which in the eyes of the world rendered him desirable was by the Jewish builders the Cheif Priests the Scribes the Pharisees the Lawyers and the Elders of the people rejected and not barely so but set at nought too vilifyed reproach'd and blasphemed and in fine layd safe enough as they thought in his grave for ever pretending any more to the place and dignity of being the head stone in the corner yet was he by the mighty power of God raised from this lowest step of exinanition the prison of the grave and the honds of death being unable to secure the resolutions and practises of those builders but God raised him from the dead through the spirit of holynesse and set him at his own right hand in h●avenly places farre above all Principalitie and power and might and dominion with other such marks of universall Soveraignty as you may hear from that great Herald of the Lords Anointed St. Paul Eph. 1. at the end Thus farre you 'll say the garment of praise sorts well enough with the occasion of wearing it but how for us we 'll parallel the case and see First then here 's a stone a stone refused and that not by ignorant men standers by men of no judgement in such matters but by men of skil the builders themselves and then this stone after all this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this reprobation of him and this setting of him at nought become the head stone in the corner We 'll pursue it for a while in the Parable Stones you know are a very considerable part of the materials of building without them no building is strong and durable Babel may be built with brick instead of stone and layd with slime instead of mortar but a Building of Church or State must be like Solomons Temple and Solomons house of the Kingdom of hewen stones such stones as are wrought by the square and tryed by the line and these set in well-temp●red mortar or else 't will not be right And a building there was amongst us of these Nations a building of the Church and a building of the State excellently wrought as men well-skill'd in such kind of buildings have often acknowledged both of our own Countrymen and Strangers But whether there were any neglect in those whose office it was to look unto and secure these buildings or whether time which gnaws out and vitiates things morall and politique as well as naturall had weakned these buildings by any dangerous faultrings and decayes or whether the fashion of the Structure was not such as pleased some capricious build●rs who like Ahaz when he had been at Damascus 2 King 16.10 must needs have the form altered and quadrata mutata rotundis or what else was in the cause I shall not trouble my self to remember or imagine but sure it was that these active Builders like Solomon unto Lebanon sent out their Labourers by ten thousand at a time and quickly pull'd all to peices all was levell'd with the ground the materialls scattered not one stone to be seen upon another the very corner stone being digg'd up and cast away To set this together again was in the judgement of all men a work of much time and difficulty and by some conceived a thing utterly impossible there being so many of the materials and they the choicest spoyled with the fall many others lost and scattered which could neither be found or supplyed and the shape of such as remain'd unreducible to the new modell and platform Upon this the builders sate for some years together consulting and contriving what was fit to be done and frequently ejecting some or other of their fellows either for that their numerousnesse