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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

tam duris rationum multiplicium nexibus astriuguntur Greg. mor. 1. 4. c. 5 should be saved O'twill be an heavy thing for one Iudg to arise with the weight of so many Shires Cities and Counties upon him for which if he gives not a good account 't will be a sadder load then so many Milstones about his neck or so many mountaines upon his back at the day of Judgment If he that had but one Talent can't passe his Math. 25. 25. Accounts though he bring again that one entire and undiminish'd sure he that had ten Talents must not think to come off with accounting for five nor he that had five to reckon for two only Therefore when I read in the Gospell of that Mat. 18. 24 Servant that owed his Lord so many thousand Talents as that must needs be some great Lord who was able to lend so much so the other must signifie me thinks some great man too who was able to borrow so much else sure he had never been so deeply entrusted No 't is not for a mean man to arrive at so honourable a ruine Your petty Larceny poor sort of Sinners they Prov. 23. 21. indeed may transgresse for a piece of Bread or a pair of Shoos or a burden of Sticks and so over-run themselves in God's books with such trifling Mite-trespasses and Sins of the lesser Shekel But 't is the sad Priviledge of great ones they can take up their condemnation by Talents and at last utterly break with God for many thousands Hence it is that as one observes Pharoh and his Chariots are said to sink like lead into Ex 15. 10. the mighty waters T is for your slighter sinners to float up and down upon the surface of that Infernal lake but for great Transgressors compar'd to Pharaoh's Chariots because the Devil is most victorious and triumphant in them Zach. 5. 7 8. they sink down like lead which as it is the proper Embleme of Sin in that Prophet so the higher it falls the heavier it lights and the lower it sinks towards the Center Therefore as Solomon saies to every one If thou be wise thou shalt Prov. 9. 12. be wise for thy self the like I may say to you great ones if you be good you shall be good for your selves and therefore it concernes you that you be so And that 's the second respect 3. And as for themselves it behoves Judges and Counsellers to be good so thirdly in regard of the People whose following reformation we see here wholly depends upon their Restoring So that their being good is of very great importance to the People and that upon this account First if they are had they cannot without sin be resisted unlesse we prove our selves plain Romanists and that of the rankest sort among them For this Doctrine of Non-resisiance was heretofore an ancient Land-mark to part betwixt them and true Protestants who like Isaack when they see nothing but knives and cords fire and fagot yet know no other Language but My Father My Father and so follow on Gen. 22. 7. in peace and quietnesse to the place of slaughter whereas a fierce Romanist would have snatch'd the Knife out of his Fathers hand struck him beneath the fifth ribb flung the fire in his own face and if but strong enough to twist wrest them from his hands He will quickly bind the common Father even with cords to the Altar Which Resistance if it be still upheld secretly in hearts of of men I see not what Stage there is for Passive Obedience to appear upon in this World and there 's no room for it in the other World and so one Pearl of great price is dropt and utterly lost from off this chain of Graces Sure if those of Old had thought so slightly of it as some of late seem to have done for certain there had been but very few Martyrs and so one of the highest Mansions in Heaven should still stand void and empty Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father Mat. 26. 53. and be shall presently give me saith Christ more then twelve Legions of Angels Christ you see here though he could yet will not resist an unlawful Power for such was that of the High Dr. Hammond Priests as that Learned Man observes no not so much as by a Prayer which one would think was the most innocent resistance in the World And therefore I believe that he who rather then suffer would resist if he could though the Power be never so lawful well may such a one suffer as a Murderer as a busy body in other mens matters as an evill doer or an evill speaker But 1 Pet. 4. 15 because he doth not suffer like Christ he cannot suffer like a Christian and so can justly have but little Comfort much lesse of Glory in those sufferings But for this we need not passe beyond the bounds of our Text. 'T is certain here the lewes had evil Judges and Counsellors and therefore God promiseth to restore them those that should be good but for ought I find gives them no power to pull out those that were bad Secondly and as they can't be resisted if they are evill so they will be imitated by the People whom therefore it much concerns they should be good That device of Pharaohs how that the midwives Ex. 1. 16. should murder the Hebrew Infants was most unnaturally cruell for their imployment which was the office of life was thereby abused and made an instrument of death to the Babe that was new born Iust so is it with those in power and authority the midwivery of whose good examples should give life their bad examples bring death upon a People Those Dames that have breasts have no bowels who poyson those fountains of nourishment and pitty it is to see poor Infants draw in death from those Nipples that should be the Springs of life All this is done by these evill Examples which like Ezekiels waters so long as they are no higher Ezek. 47. 3. then the Ancles the Knees or the middle that is the sins of our Equals or Underlings then we may happily wade over but if by another measure that of greatness they come to rise higher and get above us then the deep waters run over our Heads and grow up to a drowning river so that we cannot passe over Sin I 'le warrant you is none of those modest Guests who when they are bidden choose to sit down in the lowest room it desires rather to come Luk. 14. 10 in with gay apparrel and those of the Gold ring and Jam. 2. with them be bidden Friend sit here in a good place rather then like a poor Sneaks to stand under the footstool Indeed Sin is a meer Pharisee and loves the uppermost Luk. 11. 43 seats in the Synagogues and greetings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is in the Courts of Judgment rather

then in the Market place And if it be so kindly greeted as to get upon the Bench 't will quickly soak through all those seats below it If it once be upon the solemne board with the Masters of Israel soon get down among the Dogs underneath the Table and with the same easinesse when once it scales the Pulpit it makes nothing of over-leaping the lower Pewes and Basses of the Congregation Iudges and Magistrates in Scripture are signified by those that sit in the gates As when Iob was a Iudg saith he of himself I went out to the Job 29. 7. Gate through the City And such were those that Ps 69. 12. sate in the Gates and spake evill of David Now if the Sickness once seizes upon the Gates and Entries of a City what with going forth and coming in continually both City and Country will quickly catch it If your common Pillars be but besmear'd with the Infection I have heard of some Devillish minded men that so design'd to propagate the Plague sure there is a mighty danger of its spreading and if great ones such as are or should be Pillars the common resting places of wearied souls where every one comes to lean and repose himself I say if these common Pillars are once infected the Disease can't chuse but increase and Death will multiply The word which is here set to signifie Lawyers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Forerius in loc and Counsellors in the Hebrew signifies also Foundations Now if the Foundations be not only destroyed in themselves but by ill Examples destructive unto others alas what hopes can there be of that Building But on the contrary if they be good and such as at the first here promised and as those at the Beginning that is like Moses Ioshua Samuel c. then it follows Thou shalt be called the City of Righteousness the faithfull City or 't is in one Translation Metropolis Iustitiae Mater fidelis Zion that is Ierusalem and Zion the State hoth Ecclesiastical and Civil Chruch and Kingdome both shall be the better for them Water you know comes forcibly from above and how small a stream we see drives an overshot Mill certainly if you that are in heighth and power would but make use of that advantage-ground which God hath given you 't were impossible the Charriot wheels of Reforming after this Restoring should drive so heavily and that this Afterward in the Text should be so long a coming We have a great while talkt our selves out of breath about this generall Amendment if indeed we have any mind to it these very words before us point out that which must be the way and none other first Good Iudges and Counsellors and then a Good People unlesse we think to read the Text backward then indeed we may for on at the bottom of the verse begin with the People and so force Reformation to creep upwards from them to their Governours But mending you kuow is a sort of moving and motion hath its rise from above from the heads and not the heels of the people Good Iudges Lawyers seem here to be sufficient of themselves for the work but if to them we readded a Religious Gentry we may putin a pious and obedient Clergy though not one word is here spoken of them for alas the gleanings of your Ephraim is more considerable this way then the whole Vintage of our Abiezer therefore I say again had we to those helps in Government which the Textmentions an additional assistance from a Religious Gentry doubtlesse Sin in a short time would grow into such disgrace that it would be an absurd uncivill thing for a man to be Ineligious All we lie in a low Flatt as it were but the Gentry are the rising ground in a Kingdome and as it was in Noah's flood so was it also in our late Deluge the very first sign of the Abatement of those waters was when the tops of the Mountains Cen. 8. 5. were seen I mean when the Gentry began to lift up their Heads As they are Mountains so were they but spicy ones O how would Christ and his Kindome come running like a Roe upon Cant. 8. 14 those mountaines of Spices But if these mountains of Spices should prove mountains of Gilboah whereon no drops of heavenly dew descendeth or mountains of Golgotha Where in stead of beholding 2 Sam. 1. 21. Christ running like a Roe we may see and hearhim crucisyed like a common Slave all the day long Surely very sad must be the condition of that Kingdome Great men were allow'd to derive their Pedegree Varro from the Gods ut ad magna impellantur that their Actions might rise as high and be as divinely noble as their Extractions But when the people shall behold this high-born bloud to boyl over so much in vanity excesse and impiety when those that are brought up in Scarlet imbrace Dunghils and their Sins as deep in grain as their Garments O what shall we do in the end thereof Sed spero meliora and therefore it is God knows that I have said thus much for I could not rub and chafe a Corpse but that I have a desire and hopes of life in it To which purpose I 'le here relate to you what I have from Origen super Gen. Hom. 17. who reports concerning the young Lion that when at first he is brought into the world he lies stillfor many dayes as it were in a dead sleep without any stirring at all at last in comes the old Lyon who beholding his beloved young still lying in the same death-like posture what with griefe and rage falls a roaring wherewith the Den shakes again and so at last the young sleepy Creature stirres and rowzes Our Land is the Lioness after a long time of pain and travell when the Thunder of the late Wars produced nothing but Gourds and Mushromes at last there 's a young Lyon brought into the world Men of noble Birth and Extractions Persons of generous Designes and Inclinations and what loyall Subject yea what good Christian is not truly joyfull at the sight hereof But alas as yet the new-born Creature stirs not very little shew of life there 's in it If it must be so forcertain that old Iudah's Lyon will come among us at last and beholding so sad and unpleasing a spectacle he will fall a roaring and our Dens of Security will fall a trembling then sure those that now seem divided between Sleep Death will hear that voyce of God and live That so the many enemies of God the King may all know this Noble Creature was not dead but sleepeth When once the due Fear of that our God the true Love and Honour to this our King the tender regard and pitty toward this our Native Country together with a just care of our own common Concernes and Safety shall make us think it high time to stir and look about us in obedience to that Jogg

the Egyptian indeed 't is Death to some to hear talk of Peace As Millers and Sailers with other such that live by the winds a perpetuall Calme would undo them Give such as those Sea-room enough and then they are safe whereas if they come neer firme ground and are once cast upon Shoar they split and are broken to pieces The Disciples of Christ we read were once Mat. 14. 27. afraid of their own Master as if they had seen a Spirit So many when they see Peace a coming toward them are afraid and think 't is an Apparition But what Christ said to them his Majesty hath been pleas'd to say to us Be not afraid behold it is I. In some 't is probable the fear of Restitution may lie like a Lyon in the Way And indeed should many amongst us repent but at half that rate as the little Publican did and restore but twofold yea but the same again for his fourfold I doubt many that are great ones now would soon be as little in Estate as Zacheus was in Stature and they would quickly repent of such a Repentance Therefore that the way of Peace may be straw'd with Flowers as well as pav'd with Marble so that all may be perswaded to come and walk in it Behold here are no severe exhausting Satisfactions no grievous and ruining Restituions no harsh and cruell Compositions As for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here that must be let alone for ever Be of good cheer if thy sins are forgiven thee thy wrongs are Only after all the Injuries on one side and the Acts of Kindnesse on the other let 's be willing to be friends with our King and Country and those whom we have so much wrong'd if they have wronged us in forgiving us O forgive them that wrong St Austin observes that whereas the other Creatures were made two and two God created Man single there assigning the reason thereof De uno multitudo propagatur ut in mult is unitas Civ D. l. 22. c. 26. servaretur Thus that we might be all taught of God to love one another God would at first give us all one Spring head as it were that so we might the more undividedly stream along in the same Channell God is the God of Love and Peace be perfwaded to it for God's sake And Christ though content to be crucifyed on Mount Calvary yet while he was living as may be observed he was most delighted to be in Mount Olives He looseth his life in the place of Skuls an Embleme of War where the truth is he is still crucify'd but he leads his Life most commonly in a place of Olives an Embleme of Peace There he prayes there he preaches there he walks contemplates and watches do's all but dye that was reserv'd for Mount Calvary yea thence he ascends up into Heaven and as Peace Act. 1. 12. was one of the last legacies his Lips bequeath'd us when he dyed so Mount Olives the dwelling place of Peace was the last piece of Earth his blessed Foot toucht when he ascended Remember Christ is the great lover of Peace Do it for Christ's sake But if neither for God's sake nor Christ's yet some perhaps may be mooved for their Countreys sake Imagine you sawthis native Kingdome of ours like another Iob not now upon but newly crept off the Dunghill and thus bespeaking you as there he doth his Visitants Have pity upon me O Job 19. 21 my Friends have pity for the hand of the Lord hath touched me Indeed the hand of the Lord hath not only toucht but a longtime lain heavy upon this Land of ours and if after all we have yet no pitty we are far more miserable comforters then ever Jobs were For if we observe they seem to have some kind of sympathizings with his Sorrow He rents his Mantle and they rent theirs he shaves his head they throw Dust upon theirs If he sits upon the Ground so do they and their Sorrows maintain as long and as sad a silence as his do Yea as in most things they did with him Job 2. so in one passage they out-did him For whereas we find not as yet that Iob had shed one Tear for all his sufferings 't is said of them They lift up ib. 12. v. their voice and wept O be not more remorselsse then were Iob's friends Do it for your Countrey 's sake But if the present age prevaile nothing yet have some regard and pitty upon Posterity Let not the little ones as soon as born be taken and dasht against the stones as it were by being taught such hard and unrelenting Lessons and exposed unto such harsh and ruthlesse principles as the men of this generation have proceeded upon I have heard of an ingenious Limmer who mostlively represented a dying piece in this manner A goodly Matron mortally wounded at the Storming of a City as she lay bleeding and expiring of her Wound behold her helplesse hungry Infant comes crawling towards her Breasts while the dying Mother looks wistly and carefully upon it Ne sanguis metuens pro lacte bibatur as if fearing lest the hungry Babe should suck down Blood in stead of Milk How far this sad Resemblance might not long since be suitable to our Church and Kingdome I leave to your Consideration Only take heed I speak it to all unpeaceable implacable Spirits that the Children yet unborn in lieu of the innocent wholsome milk of true Christian Principles be not betray'd to Blood by your Examples I do not dispair but that by these poor yet well-meant Motives some Salamander may be enticed out of his beloved fire and that we Christian Brethren will regard these Peace-offers of Moses although the Iewish ones did not But what need we a further wast of Words to a Christian Audience when one Quirites hath pacified an Heathen Tumult Men and Brethren that 's only our Quirites what have we so soon forgotten the miseries of War that we must already be labour'd and perswaded to Peace Need there be a Law enacted That every one shall eat when he is hungry and drink when he is thirsty Need any of us be intreated to sleep securely live plentifully eat the fat and drink the sweet of a good Land sit quietly under our own Vine by day and rest undisturbedly in our own Beds at night What is it indeed so much sweetnesse and pleasure for me to eat my own morsell with a trembling hand and drink of my own Cup as Belshazar did of anothers with a perpetuall shaking because of the sad and frightfull Alarms of War Well if we must be argued into Peace and men will not be happy unlesse they see good reason for it at present I shall seek no farther than the Text Sirs ye are Brethren Were are they Hebrews so are we Christians Were they in the midst of enemies are not we Had they a Peace making Moses blessed be God so have we and if they are all Brethren we much more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Co-uterini such as have lain in the same womb of this our Church drawn at the same Breasts of Consolation both the Testaments have been nurst up with the same sincere milk of Gods word and a good Chatechisme And as we have been brought up on the same Knees and hung upon the same Breasts of one common Mother so we hope all to be received into the Bosome of one common Father What saith St Paul There 's one Body one Spirit Eph. 4. 4 one Hope of our Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all Now if after all these ones we must still be two I shall even leave you as Moses did them Only remember this the time may come that what Moses here speaks to us all we may one day sadly repeat to each other saying Sirs we were Brethren why would we do such wrong one to another THE END