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A77543 Britains king revived: or, a seasonable warning to the kingdom of Scotland assembled in Parliament, upon the first of January, 1660. By Scotlands true friend. Scotlands true friend. 1660 (1660) Wing B4811A; ESTC R223959 9,797 17

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portion was on the one and other side and before the holy portion and the possession of the city Ezek. 45.7 and 48.21 In those days when every man followed the lust of his eyes and the abominations of his heart there was no King in Israel Judg. 17.6 The Law and Testimony is given to the King to govern the Lords people thereby Deut. 17.19 20. 2 King 11.12 And the people in that Government do owe to him obedience and loyalty And the manner of his kingdom is told to the people by Samuel the Prophet and laid up before the Lord as Judge for justice and punishment in case of the peoples disloyalty and disobedience 1 Sam. 10.25 The King is Custos utriusque Tabulae to Moses the Governour of Israel were the two Tables of the Law delivered and he onely called up to the mount of God when Aaron and Hur and the Elders of Israel were at a distance from him Exod. 22.2 14. And when the Book of the Law was found by Hilkiah the High-priest in the days of Josiah it was sent to the King for observance and government of the people by the same 2 King 22.8 10. This Religious mistake betwixt the Tribes is reconciled and cleared by their candid fair and large declaration That the building of their Altar great to see to was not done to rebel against the Lord and their Brethren nor to impose upon them but for a witness of their zeal to his glory and interest for themselves and generations after them in the true worship of his Name not to innovate and bring in a strange Religion but rather not to estrange themselves and posterity from the true Religion It was not done in rebellion against Authority nor in transgression against the God of Israel but with loyalty to the Governour albeit not consulted with by them therein and in their zeal to follow the Lord Not to debord from the Laws and Ordinances of God but that the border of Jordan which bounded them from the earthly Canaan of the ten Tribes might not divide them from the heavenly Canaan Now let Scotland trace the steps of this unadvised religious procedure and mistake and close their Tragical dispensations these many years past in a Comical Loyal Christian and peaceable Conclusion and fair Declaration to their Brethren of England and all Reformed Churches in the world and their lawful righteous Prince and Governour that all of them may say and perceive this day that the Lord is amongst them and hath delivered them out of the hand of the Lord because that Scotland hath not committed this trespass and saved them from the zealous wrath and revenging hand of the Lords Anointed because that they have not intended rebellion against him These twenty years past and upwards Scotland hath helped their Brethren in England and other Nations against the manners of the Canaanites of suspected Heresie Popery and Idolatrous Will-worship once and again have they gone over Jordan to them armed leaving their wives children and flocks behinde them and with their weapons in the one hand and their tools in the other hand labored to build the walls of Jerusalem by a just Reformation against their common enemy that man of sin and the Beast of Rome and their Emissaries and that work being done and setled by the many gracious Concessions and Indulgences of the late King of ever-blessed memory to both Nations and Scotland sent home again to their tents and the land of their possession with a blessing of friendly assistance to their losses Anno 1641 and resentment of their just charges and expences Anno 1646. albeit to say the truth more then the half thereof be yet in remainder unsatisfied Yet after their return they build a great Altar to see to by their new fears of alteration of former transactions Anno 1642. and 1643. and a League and Covenant with their Brethren in England and Ireland the same year without the approbation and consent of the late King their valorous wise couragious Joshua is proposed and agreed upon which in the judgment of many of the other Brethren was an imposing of the two Tribes and a half upon the ten Tribes and a building of that Altar upon the border of their Canaan not so significant of the Principles of true Religion as occasioning a jealousie and mis-understanding between them and their lawful Liege-Lord and King in their loyalty to him and his posterity as may witness the suspicion of forsaking of his Royal Person at Neweastle Anno 1646. and in Anno 1648. during his restraint at the Isle of Wight This Altar of League and Covenant was great to see to great in the eyes of God by the fruit of his grace upon the spirits of men if done sincerely and universally by all with the approbation of the Supreme Magistrate terrible in the sight of Satan and hell and all wickedness if successful amongst the Nations in life and conversation by that grace specious and full of lustre for Unity and Uniformity of Truth Worship and Government if uprightly intended with consent aforesaid without self-interest unbyassed ends of covetousness and ambition without hypocrisie It was long and painful in building with great sufferings in life and estate and costly with infinite treasure of Publike Faith from many honest men in their integrity of heart and innocencie of hands to God and Royal authority over them Yet as all these circumstances are no true characters of a good Cause so neither are they symptomes of a bad Cause where sincerity and candidness of heart with the grace of self-denial are in the work Now that Scotland is this day delivered out of the hands of her enemies the worst of men to whom the Lord had sold her these ten years past in the fierceness of his anger and by her most righteous Kings return from the wilderness for the fins of his people to the glory of his Throne and magnificence of his Kingdom with the seeking of his Lords and Counsellors unto him Is also by his most gracious goodness restored to her ancient Liberties and Priviledges of a free Nation and that babes and children are no more her Counsellors and Judges but a free Parliament granted to her of her own Nobles and heads of Israel and that her Prince with the advice of her brethren in England hath sent his Commissioner to her for her better settlement and establishing of his Kingdom there Let her now plead her cause with him in all submissive humility and uprightness of heart and clear to her King the cause and reason of building this her great Altar of League and Covenant to see to whether or not in transgression against the Lord and rebellion against his Anointed Is the suspected iniquity and jealousie of her former National Covenant 1638 too little in the balance of his Royal judgement and all Reformed Churches abroad but at this day also by the League and Covenant she must again bring jealousie
Britains KING REVIVED Or A Seasonable Warning To the KINGDOM of SCOTLAND Assembled in PARLIAMENT Upon the first of January 1660. By SCOTLANDS true Friend Josh 22.10 c. And when they came to the borders of Jordan that are in the land of Canaan the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan a great altar to see to LONDON Printed in the year 1660. BRITAINS KING revived c. OUtward Providences and Dispensations are not the Guides and Directories of Mans actions but as in the bitter trouble of the one there may be wisdom so in the sweet peace of the other may be foolishness and evil And the time of casting off the Armour more dangerous from within then sometine the putting on of the same is hurtful from without A victorious Army may fall in themselves and their own resolutions work trouble and disquietness Laudable intentions and good actions in matter may be misconstrued and subject to blame through defect of form and prudential circumstances Coifederacies may sometimes debord beyond their limits and the lesser party unawares impose upon the greater Religion may occasion mistakes neither doth the specious lustre and beauty of it exempt from censure People without the counterance of Authority may intend well but an harmony betwixt them is the sure band of all their work All these Aphorisms of State and Experimental Observations are clear here and plainly verified upon the first view of the condition of this little Israel and review of Scotlands affairs and transactions these fatal years past Twenty and seven years war with Canaan and peace in the end through valour and wisdom turneth into a dangerous Jealousie betwixt the greater and the lesser Tribes their parting of company with joy and spoil of Enemies threatens parting of hearts to further sorrow and spilling of their own bloud the turning of their weapons homeward beyond Jordan ready to sheath their swords in their own bowels at Jordan and turn those swelling waters into bloud of swelling hearts The religious intention of the lesser Tribes to 〈…〉 to themselves the true Religion and not to be 〈…〉 the division of Jordan was commendable 〈…〉 ●…ing in it was unadvised without the priva●… 〈…〉 ●…nour Joshua or their other brethren the 〈…〉 ●…ner of it unlawful by an Altar out of Shiloh or 〈…〉 the place of it more scandalous to their Brethren then safe 〈◊〉 them selves an Altar upon their brethrens side of Jor●●● 〈…〉 significant of their right and interest in the true God as upon their own side the border beyond Jordan is their 〈…〉 into Jealousie The indiscreet extent and limits of the●● 〈…〉 true Worship unto their neighbours Land is an 〈…〉 them beyond the moderation of Fraternity and occasioneth a misunderstanding Reuben here seeth the son of 〈…〉 too hastily Gad in his purpose advanceth in troops most suriously and Manasseh in the work forgets too speedily all form●●●oyls in the defence of Religion in Aegypt and the wilderness and his fathers house in the enjoyment of it as thus by a just mistake of their brethren to expose it to danger by a Civil War and division The greatness of this Altar to see to begets no charity to their work nor can plead their integrity of heart forever Idolatry is more expensive costly and painful then true ●●re and undefiled Religion and the golden Calf in the wilderness robbeth Israel of all their jewels and golden ear-rings the sure of Gideon's Ephod at Opbrah did spoil his people of all their golden collars and ornaments of prey from the Midianites and their Kings Molech the god of Ammon and Sidon bereaveth his worshippers of their first-born and spareth them not from the cruelty of the fire Great is Diana of the Ephesians and her silver-smiths very rich And the people of Israel did dispence with their many painful long and wearisome journeys to go even to Dan to worship the golden calf of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin Yea under greatest shew of Religion and pretence of Zeal may be acted greatest Cruelty Fraud and Covetousness as witness Simeon and Levi the two sons of Jacob in their Circumcision to Hamor King of Shechem and his son and people before the marriage with Dinah their sister and Jehn his covetousness of the Kingdom of Israel from the house of Ahab by his zealous eruelty killing all the Priests of Baal was acted under his hypocrifie in the worshipping of their false God The two Tribes and an half meaned well in Religion but not prudently with the advice of Joshua their Governour before departing to their inheritance who had sufficiently directed them in the ways of God nor dutifully with his consent who was appointed by the Lord as a nursing father with Eleazar the son of Aaron in his Church neither in their enterprise did they enquire at the mouth of the Lord nor consult his wisdom in that great important case and hard matter and therefore they are in trouble Mans strength and wisdom in the matters of God is folly and when rashly handled through presumption and spiritual pride falleth to the ground When mixed with the impurity of his own thoughts and ends the building proveth but stubble and hay as daubed with untempered mortar and without the stability and indurance of gold and silver sincerity and uprightness in all self-deniedness But when the Ruler of the Lords people in his holy things or providentials is consulted with and by their prayers and petitions with tears is invited to the work then heavens influence and earths fruitfulness is joyned together for a blessed generation and production heavens mediatory blessing with the Lords soveraignty of power in his Vicegerent upon earth doth proceed And as in all Gods works which he sees to be good especially in what concerns immediately his glory upon earth there is the power of the Father by the grace of the Son for the operation of the Spirit so in all the Spirits motions upon a people in matters of Religion and actings thereupon by the grace of the Son there should be the consulting wisdom and consenting confirming Power and Authority of the King and Governour the Father's Vicegerent upon earth if intended for success and a blessing with peace profit and duration The building of the walls of Jerusalem and Reformation of the Worship of God was much intended and sought after by the people in the days of Ezra the Scribe but slowly proceeded in for the space of fifty years till the Governour Nehemiah came and then also much divided by the wicked enemy by opposition and conspiracie against him as the top-stone of that work The King is the pillar and supporter of Religion and therefore his place in the Temple was always by a pillar as the manner was 2 King 11.14 and 23.3 He is the hedge and guard of the Church of God in spirituals and temporals and therefore the Princes