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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56576	Post nubila Phoebus, or, A sermon of thanksgiving for the safe and happy returne of our gracious soveraign ... preached in the city of Aberden at the desire of the lord provest, bailies and councell thereof, upon the XIX [19] day of Iune / by Iohn Patersone ...	Paterson, John, 1604?-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing P687; ESTC R1742	16,018	27

these three Kingdoms SCOTLAND ENGLAND IRELAND in the wreathing whereof some of this Nation cannot justly plead innocency Wee may look upon this day as the beginning of a blessed Peace after a time of much innocent bloud as upon a day of a civill Resurrection after a long civill or rather incivill Death as a day long wished and prayed for by all the truly godly in the three Kingdoms who have not learned that fanatique and overturning PRINCIPLE to divorce between Religion and Loyalty which GOD hath so nearly and strictly united And therefore the Lord hath called the Land to Rejoycing and to songs of Praise Jubilation Division These words of the Text May be taken up in five poynts I. Wee have the Condition of the Jews before the time of their release and delivery came They were in BONDAGE When the Lord brought back the Captivity of Zion They were under the power and slavery of their Conquerours the Babylonians II. Wee have their Deliverance the loosing of their Captivity with their Reduction to their native Countrey Brought back the Captivity of Zion III. Wee have the Authour of their Delyverance it was not Themselves not their own wisdome nor Power nor Policie not the arme of Flesh but GOD GOD alone When the Lord c. IV. How the loosing of them from Captivity and their Reduction from Bondage did affect them at first they wer so surprised with it that they could not beleeve that it was a true reall Thing they looked on it as a Dream We were lyke them that dream V. The Effects which the sense of their Delyverie did work upon them after that the Amazement was a little allayed these were Rejoycing and Mirth Then was our mouth filled with laughter our tongue with singing The first Thing considerable in the words is the JEWS condition before the Lord visited them with this mighty and gracious Deliverance They were in bondage and slavery When the LORD brought back the captivity of ZION by ZION wee ar to understand the two Tribes or the KINGDOM of Judah comprehending both their Church State They were carried Captives from their own Land by Nebuchadnezar to Babylon The STORY wherof we have at length II. Chronicl 36. and in the tenth book of Josephus de BELLO IUDAICO as also in the Ps 137. there is a hint of it By the rivers of Babylon there wee sate downe yea we weept when wee remembred Zion Wee hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song they that wasted us required of us mirth saying Sing us one of the songs of Zion How shall wee sing the LORDS song in a strange land If I forget thee O IERVSALEM let my right hand forget her cunning If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roofe of my mouth if I preferre not IERVSALEM above my chiefe joy vers 1.2.3.4.5.6 That even that people whom GOD loves and respects Observ 1 may be brought under sad bondage that in reference both to their Ecclesiastick and Civill ESTATE This was the lot of the LORDS own peculiar People the Iews were bondmen in Egypt they laboured there in brick and mortar they wer Captives in ASSYRIA Captives in BABYLON they ar now scattered up and down the World for their Blasphemy Infidelity and Crucifying the LORD of GLORY and for not accepting their MESSIAH to reigne over them And what hath our Condition been these severall by gone yeares Even a Dark gloomy black Day wherein wee had light neither of the Sun nor Moon nor Starres in our civill Relations I do not say That we ar a people beloved of God in such a signall way as the Iews wer They wer a Royall Priesthood but I may say That the Lord hath had a singular respect to Britaine beyond many Nations for many ages And yet because we were not thankfull to God for His rich signall Mercies for such a faire day of the Gospell for so long continued Plenty and Peace under such a just equall ancient and wel-ballanced GOVERNMENT as any Nation in Europe injoyed but like JESHURUN wee waxed fatt in our sins and like a wild untamed Colt did cast our Ryder took the reins upon our own lawles necks Therfore the LORD brought us under a base Slavery and Bondage by which our sins might visibly be read in our judgement The Lord did justly bring us under by a Factious rebellious Hypocriticall Treacherous and usurping Party who have trode on the necks of three Ancient KINGDOMS as upon the Myre in the streets and rendered us Captives in reference both to our State and Churches Interests As for our State IT was clearly and totally overturned and razed to the very foundations our ancient Iudicatories changed Strangers imposed on us for our Iudges men unacquainted with our Lawes and Customes our Parliaments with their power totally taken away OVR GRACIOVS and DEAREST KING of Sacred and Eternall Memory CHARLES the FIRST the PEARLE of earthly Kings most cruelly inhumanely and barbarcusly martyred and murdered by a faction of Godlesse Cruell Bloudy Perfidious and Hypocriticall TRAYTORS and yet under a pretence of Zeale for GOD and justice O unparalleled hellish Villany Traytors who plotted it Traytors who acted it traytors who rejoyced in it Traytors who allowed it for by that one fatall O fatall blow these Canniballs cutted the throats of three KINGDOMS left them bleeding they did put out the most GLORIOVS and SHYNING LIGHT that ever sway'd Scepter in Britaine But the Cruelty and bloudy Designe of that Murthering Faction was not satia●ed with that Royall and innocent Bloud after that sweet SOVLE was posted into GLORY to receive the immarcessible Crowne whether no Traytor can reach a bloudy hand then they voted down MONARCHICALL GOVERNMENT by a faction having secluded and forced from the Parliament the godly honest and loyall Party thereof they proscribed and by an ungodly Act they disinherited our most GRACIOVS KING now reigning by the mercy and goodnesse of GOD over their bellies and laid aside that ROYALL FAMILY from having any right to the CROWNE and declared Him the Capitall Enemy of their new-moulded COMMON-WEALTH they did raze the HOVSE of LORDS that Ancient and wel-ordered Pillar of the STATE And when this Nation of SCOTLAND had brought home our Native and Righteous KING and set the CROWNE on His Head Did not that bloudy faction headed by that Cerberus Oliver Cromwell force Him from all His DOMINIONS to live as an Exile in forreign Nations Were not our Nobles and ancient Gentry despised and abused Were not these three KINGDOMS impoverish'd with heavy Assesses and sad impositions the bloud of the poore sucked out and all to maintayne the ambition and tyrannie of an usurping Faction Were not the Lives of the most godly and most faithfull Subjects of the three Nations made bitter unto them their hearts sadded by