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A58858	Mirabilia dei, or, Britannia gaudio exultans Opened in a congratulatory sermon for the safe return of our Gracious Soveraign, and happy restitution to the full and free exercise of His royall authoritie. Preached on the 14th. of June, [16]60. which was the day set apart for the members, master, and students of the Kings Colledge, in the town and parish of Old Aberdeen, to commemorat and solemnly praise the Lord for the rich mercies above mentioned: by Alexander Scrougie preacher of the Gospel, and minister at Old Aberdeen.	Scrogie, Alexander, d. 1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing S2127; ESTC R218663	34,871	47

late King Thirdly He was hotly assaulted and solicited by some Champions of the Romish Church and especially by some who had Apostatized from the Truth themselves and so knew the better how to perswade others Fourthly He receives kind intertainment and protection from some of the Romish Party Fifthly Assistance was offered by them of that perswasion unto Him if He would turn Papist were not all these strong tentations yet His heart was indivertible from God and His Truth that neither ill usage from His own nor favours conferred and offered by strangers could work that change His heart like Davids was fixed trusting in the Lord his heart was established Psal 112. 7 8. He hid Gods word in his heart that he should not sin against him Psal 119. 11. and this was a great and special work of the Lords The third great work God hath done for us is the bringing again our captivity of which remark but these shortly First It was Nationall for although we were not all exiled yet we were captivated in our own Land like a man Imprisoned in his own House and this was a sore ill A generous Woman once said Mallem mille mortes quam tributaria capita circumferre Secondly It was of a large extent reaching to all ranks Our King exiled our Nobles Imprisoned many of our brethren carried away further then from Judea to Babylon even to Barbado's and some of the Ministers of Christ removed from their own Nation and Flocks Thirdly Our captivity was spirituall to sin imposed on us by threatning as was done to the Jews in Babylon We wer threatned and urged to subscribe their Tender thereby to disclaim our King and the ancient Government of these Nations and to bow to there Idol of Anarchie and Usurpation to which too many readily yeelded Ministers were prohibited upon no lesse pain then silencing them from preaching the Gospel to pray for His Majesty a duty that lay upon all by Gods reiterated Commands All commanded to keep dayes of Thanksgiving for discovery of plots against Usurpers which was a justifying of them in their wicked Usurpations and proclaiming to the world that God was well pleased with them and their wayes Fourthly It reached even to the Church and Truth of God the Government thereof decreed as Antichristian her Discipline opposed and slighted Religion hazarded by a vast Act of Toleration her Ministers flouted and while they were officiating before God abused her Worship interrupted her Patrimony seased upon some crying out Let us take to our selves the Houses of God in possession Psal 83. 12. her Judicatories interrupted and Gods Servants driven out from the General Assemblies and made specticles to men and Angels but the Lord hath turned away this our captivity and it is his great and glorious doing The fourth great work was the overthrow of the Kings and our Enemies 1. They were many 2. Proud puft up with Successe 3. Desperate whom no command of the Lord could bow nor threatning affright 4. Cruel acted by Jesuiticall and Anabaptisticall Furies 5. Covetous being mad upon unjust gain and al 's mad in the retention of it 6. United and combined together by all the ligaments of carnall Policy Yet the great and good Lord divided them and they melted away like a snail he laid their pride in the dust and turned these boasting Lamechs into Cowards and made them flee as chaffe before the wind so that we may apply that saying of the Psalmist Psal 76 5. The stout hearted are spoiled and none of the men of might have found their hands At the appearance of that chief Instrument they cryed out as the Egyptians of old Exod. 15. 25. Let ●s flee from the face of Israel for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians and this was the Lords great doing The fifth great work is the raising up Instruments for carrying on these great Works I name but six 1. The Lord Generall George Monck an other Cyrus to us who wrought under God the foresaid great things He our Ezra or help our Nehemiah or Comforter our Zerubbabel or mighty One made so by the mighty God of Britain before whom the great Mountains became a plain Zecha 4. 7. and Hushai-like defeated the crafty counsels of Achitophels 2. His Debora whose loyal heart made her put forth the uttermost of her conjugall influence 3. The good and loyal people of England influenced by the breathings of the Spirit of the Lord calling for a free Parliament and their and our King 4. The right Honourable the City of London joyning their endeavours with the Lord General and People of the Land 5. That famous Parliament that now sits crowning the work by their unanimous calling home His Majesty and restoring Him to His just Priviledges and Authority 6. The Lord General Montague who proved active to engage the Navie to own His Majesty and waft Him over safe unto His own Kingdoms That so many should all with one mouth and hand carry on so great a work is unto me an argument of Gods approving and working thereof for as it is an argument of the Divine Authority of the propheticall Scriptures that the Prophets though they lived in divers places and ages of the World yet they all agreed in one and the same Truth as if they had all spoken by one and the same mouth as ye have it Luk. 1. 70. As He spake by the mouth not mouths of His holy Prophets So when God stirreth up his Servants in all places of the Kingdom and them of all ranks and ●etteth them all about one work as if they were one man it may be taken for no lesse then Gods doing especially if ye consider the case of our King while they begin to act for Him not sitting on His Throne and swaying the Scepter but in His low estate even then to remember Him and lay themselves out for Him speaks out Gods great doing and that not only His finger but His whole hand yea His ten fingers yea both His arms to speak after the manner of man was lifting up these Instruments and imploying them in His work and to this we may add that these Instruments should undertake the work against so many high and great Mountains that stood in the way against so many sons of Anak and mighty Gyants combined so strongly together and yet levell them all and scatter them all can speak no lesse then that the mighty Spirit of God was in them and His strong hand with them Take a word more to advance the greatnesse of all these doings and works and for that end consider First The time when When we like the Jews thought it Impossible at least so soon we were like these dry bones Ezek. 37. our hope was almost lost vers 11. yet though it seemed difficult in our eyes it was not so in Gods Zech. 8. 6. to whom all things are possible Matth. 19. 26. and doth whatsoever he will Psal 135. 6. he breathed upon us

spoke of them Fifthly So great was the heroick Loyalty of the holy Fathers Commanders and Christians in primitive times that it was Universally accounted unlawfull to resist their Emperours by force of Arms although persecutors or hereticall or apostates not because they wanted force as Bellarm. and others would Bellarm. l. 5. de Rom. Pontif c. 6. 7. Cyprian ad Demetrian Tertul. in Apoleget c. 37. make the world believe Tertull. and Cyprian are living witnesses to the contrare Cyprian saith the number of Christians was marvellous great We do not resist saith he although our number be great if we would be revenged we could not want force we are visibly known to you and interested in all your Affairs Cities Forts Decuries What war are we not ready and fit for c. saith Tertul. It is clear that the far greater part of Julians Army were Christians as appeared instantly upon his death by their loud Acclamations to Jovian his Successor Christiani sumus yet they having power did not resist not though the people be prone to resist you saith Nazian not when Nazian Orat. 2. in Julian Ambros tom 3. l. 5. post epist 32. the people are present and offer a defence saith Ambros when the same Ambros was sufficiently armed both by power of People and Souldiers strengthned with the might of Christ and guarded by Angels yet would not defend his Church with violence against the furie of the hereticall Emperour as witnesse August Epist 166. Athanasius having sufficient power to stir up the Emperour Constance a true professor against his Athanas in Apollog ad Constantium brother Constantius an Heretick yet would not but rather submitted to the violence of persecution That famous example of that renowned Thebean Legion of 6666. Souldiers is well known who having sufficient force to resist yet suffered themselves to be slain for their Christian profession by the Officers of Maximinian the Emperour multitude of testimonies might be produced from Antiquity to clear this to the full which the narrow compasse of an Epistle doth forbid The Apostles did choose rather to suffer evil then to revenge although endued with the power of working miracles Acts 5. 5. 9 10. Heroicall Martyrs thought their faith glorified in this that being persecuted yet performed obedience for conscience sake they did it in obedience to Gods Command saith August and Amobius They thought it more lawfull to be killed then to kill by resisting the Emperour saith Tertul. in Apolog. c. 37. and their August lib. Expos quar Propos ad num 74. Arnob. cont Gentes lib. 8. reasons were First Gods Command binding to obedience and forbidding resistance Rom. 12. 19. Rom. 13. 1 2. 1 Pet. 3. 13. 18. Secondly The sword is not put into the hands of Subjects the Prince beareth it Rom. 13. 4. Thirdly Princes have their Authority from God and they accounted it unlawfull to rob and deprive them of what God gave them Fourthly Vengeance is threatned against them that resist Matth. 26. 52. Rom. 13. 2. These who bear the sword against Rulers saith August must perish Fifthly Christians should be preachers August cont Faust l. 2. c. 75 Cyprian ad Demetr August Loc. cit Arnob. cont Gent. l. 8. its Cyprians word of the supernaturall vertue of Patience and not of vengeance Sixthly By the induring the miseries of this life they avouched their hope of a life eternall saith August Seventhly That thereby they might make a distinction of Christian obedience from that of Pagans saith Anob that whereas these yeeld obedience proceeding only from fear of men the obedience of Christians should appear to be from conscience towards God Eighthly They thought their Faith and Profession glorified by Suffering which would have been stained by resisting Ninthly They knew this was an excellent mean to propagate the Christian Faith They saw that Sanguis Martyrum was semen Ecclesiae and thereby also men were induced to search out the evil for not doing whereof they did suffer and so came to know the vanity of Idols and to consider the good for which they underwent so many miseries and so came to know the excellency of Christian truth If others should not resist far lesse Ministers who should be Paterns My tears and Prayers are mine armour saith Ambros for Amb. 〈…〉 cont 〈…〉 and l. 2. 〈…〉 14. and l. 〈…〉 Epist ad 〈…〉 Bern. epist 22●● ad Lodovic Regem such are the defence of Priests We beseech O Emperor we fight not though all the world should conspire against me said Bernard to move me to practise conspiracy against the Majesty of the King I would fear God and not willingly offend the King ordained of God for I cannot be ignorant of that which is written c. Rom. 13. 2. These Prerogatives wherewith the great King hath priviledged Kings his Lieutenants and Deputies on Earth should work the hearts of Subjects to a sense and practice of their severall duties they owe to Gods Vicegerents and to an abhorrency of these following sins 1. Not to comply with Traytors and Rebels against Gods Anointed by being a Champion or Leader of them as Joab to Adonijah by being spoks-man for them as Jeroboam to his Crue by blowing the Trumpet animating them as Sheba to his Crue by giving them shrewd advice how to manage their matters as Achitophel to Absolom by praying for their successe which was all Abiathar could do by harbouring them as the City Abel did Sheba by furnishing them with money or supplies as the men of Sechem to Abimelech by speaking or writing in defence of the Rebels or their deeds by praising them calling them the Godly Party as some called Corah and his Company the people of the Lord and Holy by reviling and cursing which is the base and presumptuous trade of Shimei of filthy dreamers and ignorant beasts by touching the Kings Person His Regalia His Crown Authority and Dignity by wresting the Militia out of His hand who bears not the sword in vain Rom. 13. 4. touch these once His person will soon fall under contempt and if they go His life will not tarry long after As these Prerogatives forbid us to meddle with these sins so they call upon us to these following duties 1. To take notice and discover Conspiracies hatched and contrived against the Kings Person or Authority whether by angry Bigthans and Teresh's or crafty Achitophels or fawning Judases If Mordecai did so to an Idolater and oppressour of Gods people what should a Subject do to his lawfull and orthodox Prince 2. To honour the King by a reverent conceit of Him and by an outward honourable testimony of the vertues in Him and the good we receive by Him 1 Pet. 2. 17. 3. To pray for them their persons and Government 1 Tim. 2. 2. 4. To fear them Prov. 24. 21. 1 Pet. 2. 18. 5. To fight for them not against them Joh. 18. 36. 6. To pay them tribute Rom. 13. 6 7. Matth. 17.