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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

obliging the people together with many other advantages which are more peculiarly annex'd both to their Persons and Places But I have wasted so much of my allowance in the first part that I doubt I cannot be so much as indifferently just to the second without being extremely unjust to the third part the which being of most Practical concernment and because I perceive also that much of the Second will without any violence flow into that Channel I hasten thither to meet it and so shall spend the rest of my time in recommending unto you those Inferences that may arise from the whole matter which was the third thing proposed 1. Since God we see hath that great Hand in Government that he saith here I will restore thy Iudges c. then it may not be unseasonable here 1. Inference First of all to enter our Caveat against the People T is not they but God as the Text informs us who is the giver and restorer and indeed the onely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the oeconomy of Dominion Why then do the People imagine a vain thing why should they trouble themselves and others in things too high and too hard for them Let the 1 Sam. 6. 13. men of Bethshemesh follow their reaping why should they forsake their own to thrust their sickles into God's Harvest and with their sweaty palms handle his Mysteries I would to God that some of those that now pretend to so much study of the Scriptures would not overlook that one line in S. Paul but Study to be quiet and do their own businesse 1 Thes 4. 11. 'T is confess'd matters in Government may chance to be somewhat unhing'd and disorder'd but then are these men of skill and authority to set things right again If any thing be amiss in the instrument must every rude and boisterous hand that can only increase the distempers of it be trying and tampering with it What must that venerable image Order and Government which as hath been shew'd fell down from Heaven upon the least crack or bruise be only hammer'd out by a company of Ephesian silver-smiths No let the people know 't is not their common Shop-oyle but the Oyle of the Sanctuary that is used in the Fiat of Government Besides let them but view this Text again and there they will meet with Counsellers Judges and in them Kings like Angels ascending and descending and God himself standing at the uppermost round of this Ladder All these are betwixt them and the honest power of restoring and reforming So that unlesse they overturn this Ladder which will be hard so long as God stands at the top of it or unlesse they resolve to rush on and ride o're the heads of their Superiors 't will be a great while ere it fairly comes to their turn to have to do in these grand matters of Government The Arke I told you was a Type of Authority what State-Carpenters soever might have an hand in the hewing and erecting it we know not but this we are sure of 't was God only that put Noah into it and gave him the full possession of it by that usual ceremony of shutting Gen. 7. 16. him within it as there 't is express'd they went in male and female and the Lord shut him in which unlesse the Lord himself had done shut the door fast upon him and clos'd up all the chinks and little crevises in the outside thereof which none of them within could possibly do the waters you know might soon have soakt through and endanger'd all So for this great bottom of Government unlesse the Lord take the Governour and shut him in and then perfectly close up every crany with his own hand it cannot be but the waters of Strife Sedition and Rebellion will soak through the sides thereof and in time hazard the drowning of all That 's the first Inference 't is God and not the People I will restore c. Then how contrary are 2. Inference those unto God Almighty who are altogether for changing or destroying when God is wholly for restoring yet not as of Late but as at the Beginning First for Changing Some there be so strongly enamour'd with any strange face of Affaires that fresh and new Deformities please them better then accustom'd Beauties So the Scenes be new and often shifted the Play will be applauded be it never so bloody and Tragical I was well and would be better I took Physick and dyed saith that forraign Proverb and how far our late troubles may put it into better English I submit to any indifferent Judgment Certainly this Turba Medicorum had well nigh made an end ofus and cur'd the Disease as one observes many do by destroying the Patient And yet how rife and frequent are those amongst us that would willingly part with their present Gold Silver Peace Safety for a little more of the former Iron and Steel again When the lewes pass'd through the red Sea every Orig. sup Exod. hom 5. Tribe saith a Father had its peculiar channel for their safe conveyance to the Shore Was it not so with us when on this side and that side the Waters stood upon huge threatning heaps we were so in love with Ruine we were not content to be sav'd the same way but among those many Divisions of ours every Tribe must be allow'd a several and safe passage through its own Channel And yet now that we are so newly gotten upon these Banks of Iustice and Peace whereon God be blessed we yet stand what numbers have we who would be glad to plunge themselves others back again into the bottom of that red Sea of blood and confusion and this chiefly if not meerly from a fond love after Changes If there be as some hold such Circulations in Nature that in seven years time men may be said to have other Flesh and Blood and so other Bodies certainly such men as these may have twenty other Minds in half that space Not that he who without tumult fairly motions a change in lesser matters should alwaies do it as their Custome was with a rope about Plutarch his neck Nor that it should be present death to offer to wind up or slacken the least string in the circumstantials of Policy no but if Archimedes thinks he can unhinge the Earth he must have some firme foundation for the foot of his Engine to rest upon So if the great globe of Government should be stirred which God forbid though some can spy not only Motes but Beams in the Worlds bright eye the Sun and though the Goddesse be well drawn yet 't will go hard but some Hypercriticks will find fault with her slipper however I say if they will be moving our modern Archimede's should chose some more probable supporters whereon to fix their new Engines then the various and floating humors of the People who if they are like Gen. 49. 3 4. 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