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city_n	esq_n	honourable_a	thomas_n	7,669	5	10.2802	5	false

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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

the basest Bramble I heartily wish vve vvould all impartially consider vvhat vve have as vvell as vvhat vve vvould have and lay those two before us like Beauty and Bands in several distinct heaps and Zech. 11. then say if our heaps of Beauty be not far the biggest Many thousands vve knovv came short of Canaan meerly for their murmuring and mis-believing And vve if vve still joyn vvith those Iewes in their repining notes Wherefore came we Num. 21. 5. sorth of Egypt here 's neither bread nor water Our soul loaths this light bread If so then as we par-take with them in their Sins let 's beware we share not with them in their Sufferings and so the Lord send Serpents amongst us even as he did amongst them A sly and subtile generation that are wise as Serpents but innocent as Eagles or Vultures and long to be dividing the Prey upon the Carcases of the two grand Combatants Therefore let 's not murmure as some of them murmured and were destroy'd of Serpents And that 's all I have to say to the Unthankful Secondly and lastly to the Mis-thankfull as I may so call them who erre and miscarry much in those wrong and improper expressions of that Thankfulness which else they seem to have as Drinking Swearing Swaggering abusing themselves and insulting over others and such other sad expression in this kind which too frequently we meet withall What hath our Kingdome been so lately blown up and hover'd in the Air for so many years together and now at last as I have read of a City-wall light upon the very same Foundations again and must our Sins be needs sinking a new Mine to try the fortune of a second Blast God indeed hath restored and here it is Afterward thou shalt be called Civitas Justi as one Translation hath it the City of the Righteous one that is Christ's City but when will this Afterward once be me thinks like the hinder-wheels of the Chariot of Sisera it is too long a coming We have had bouncing and Knocking God knows enough and too much and some have still hoped all in order to a very glorious Building at last But what will others say Is this your Civitas Iusti and are such as these and these Jud. 5. 28. the Citizens thereof Is this the end of all God's purging purifying and refining here spoken of only to produce a Vessel of Dishonour Have we been so long stripe of our Iewels and Ornaments the Majesty and Glory of our Kingdome and by Fasting and Prayer laboured in the very fire and after all out comes the Beast instead of the Man or Christian I speak it with shame and sorrow concerning some of our selves Had it not been better for some that the Iebusite and Canaanite had still Stuck like Thorns in their sides would that have kept them upright rather then the Beasts of the Field should thus prevail against us and all manner of Brutality and Sottishnesse over run us What do some say Are these the good Subjects of his Majesty Are these the true Sons of the Church those especially whose Garments should proclaime their gravity and purity As with a sword in my bones the enemy reproacheth me daily saying not where is their God but where are his Servants We may say in this case as St. Paul doth in another not much unlike it If unbelievers or Mis believers come in amongst such will they not say they are all madd When 1 Cor. 14. 23. David did but act a madd man's part what saith Achish Have I any need of madmen But sure t is 1 Sam. 21. 15. now beyond Acting when even the Asse leaves her old Hebrew prose and now of late turnes English Poet to reprove the madnesse of such Prophets However St. Paul affirmes The Head cant 1 Cor. 12. say it hath no need of the Feet yet I am confident our Head may say of such soul and dirty Feet I have no need of you God saith in the Text he will Restore but we can say he hath Restored and our eyes may behold our own Iudges as at the first and our own Counsellers as in the beginning but above all our own King whose exemplary goodnesse and temperance justice prudence is such that however some Hereticks have falsely affirmed we sinn'd at first yet certainly now we may at last be reform'd meerly by lmitation unlesse the People that pretend to love him most shall imitate his Goodnesse the least of any But to conclude remember this that Resorming is the only end of Restoring God hath done the one it rests upon you and me all yours and all ours really to endeavour the happy attainment of other which do not we stick still in the midway and have come through but half our Text but if indeed we do it then the Whole verse is dispatched and we not being hearers only of what God hath done for us but Doers of what we should performe back again to him shall most assuredly be blessed in our deed Which blessing God Almighty the fountain of all Blessings bestow upon us for Jesus Christ his sake To whom c. FINIS MOSES THE Peace-maker his Offers to make one of two contending Brethren A SERMON Preached in COVENTRY at the usuall Anniversary of the Maior's Feast there upon All-Saints day 1661. At the Request of the Present Maior several Knights and Gentlemen in and about that City By JOHN RILAND Arch-Deacon of COVENTRY Si Haeredes Christi sumus in Pace simus Cypr. Beati Pacifici quoniam Filii Dei vocabuntur Parens enim omnium Deus est neque aliter transire in nuncupationem Familiae ejus licebit Hilar. in Mat. And the work of righteousnesse shall be Peace and the effect of righteousnesse Quietnesse and Assurance for ever Isa 32. 17. I am for Peace Ps 120. 7. OXFORD Printed by HEN HALL Printer to the University 1662 To the Right Worshipfull THOMAS PIDGEON Esq MAIOR of Coventry To the Right Honourable the RECORDER IAMES EARL of NORTHAMPTON Lord LIEFTENANT of the County of Warwick and the City and County of Coventry Sr. THOMAS NORTON Baronet Sr. ARTHUR CAILEY and Sr. RICHARD HOPKINS Knights HENRY SMITH and MATHEW SMITH Aldermen Deputy LIEFTENANTS of the said City and County with the rest of the Aldermen The Author wishing all the Blessings of Peace dedicates the following SERMON Act. 7. 26. Saying Sirs ye are Brethren why do ye wrong one to another THE words came at first from him who was the designed Governour of the Jews and may not be impertinently discours'd upon before an elected Magistrate among Christians Moses their Ruler elect as yours is now spake them so they can't be unsit for the time and the main Purport of them driving at Peace I think they may not altogether be improper for this Place The whole Chapter contains St. Stephens Apology for himself against a lewish Calumny whereby they charged him with blasphemy against Moses who