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A23817	The period of the grand conspiracy delivered in two sermons, The desire of nations, preached on the fast day, April 6, 1660, the second, The joy of nations, preached on the thanksgiving day, June 29, 1660 / by John Allington.	Allington, John, d. 1682.	1663 (1663)	Wing A1212; ESTC R25234	38,105	114

this spiritual edifice they would none of this stone for their voice is No King but Cesar They who put him to death for fear the Romans should come yet when design led them to it they cry up even the Roman party We have no King but Caesar None but a General none but an Usurper should head them Nolumus hunc come what will of it we will not have this stone We will not have this man to reign over us And hence it came that the very laboureres or under-builders of all they are taught to cry out against this stone as the very rubbish of the work preferring a piece of course clay to a royal Marble Non hunc sed Barabbam not him but Barabbas Any Usurper any Villain any Form rather than the right King any Blood-stone rather then Christ the Living-stone any petra scandali any Rock of offence rather then caput Anguli the corner stone Matth. 27. 22. When Pilate saw there was such an hellish despight against this stone Pilate said unto them what shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ As if he had said if ye will not have him for your King nor allow him to be an Head stone what place shall I assign him what shall I do with him They all said Let him be crucified that is let him be destroyed And indeed in this they were right for a King can be safe in none but in his own place lessen him and like a loose stone he drops out the corner stone will fit no where but at the Head onely And this Rebell and Usurpers too well know for when the Husbandmen in the Gospel had a will to be Lords and to take the Sons Inheritance into their own Hands to make sure work They cast him out of the vineyard and killed him not onely cast him out but killed the Heir Rebels are the greatest cowards in the world if the Corner stone be but above ground they fear it will heave and heave and do what they can become the Head of the corner And therefore when Pilate said What shall I do with Jesus which is called Christ they cryed make him away make him away let him be crucified torn to pieces beat to powder make him incapable and uselesse and all is well enough And what did they omit to do it look upon his passion and you shall finde that if he had been a stone indeed they stampt and trampled on him head hands feet and side found not so much pitty from these Builders as the very stones afforded for whereas the Builders tear and rend the stones themselves they rent for no sooner was the most Holy Priest of his living Temple his Soul seperate from the Body but the vail of the temple rent in twain even from top to bottom When the King the Corner stone was thrown down the Temple by a kinde of sympathy rends also but the Builders they were as merry as if his sighs had been pleasant tunes and his exquisite sorrow the joy of their hearts for even in the anguish and bitterness of death They mocked and derided him so that indeed never was any stone more contemptuously disallowed and rejected then was the son of David so that never could any so rightly apply that of this Psalm as he did for he even he was that stone which the Builders refused He that stone who after the most sad refusall that could be made Became for all that Caput Anguli The head of the corner Lament 1. 12. Behold and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow As there was no sorrow like to our Saviours sorrow even so no rejection no reprobation like to his no stone brought to a more unlikeliness of a raising then he was for who could think that that stone which was hid and buried in infimas partes terrae in the lower parts of the earth who could think that stone which was closed within a Rock and the mouth of that secured with a mighty stone yea who could have thought that that Body which was as dead as a stone that person whom shame and sorrows weight and pain had bruised to pieces who could have thought that such a stone should be so cemented and again so perfected as to become the beauty of the Building and to be made even the Head stone of the corner Yet this was done and this was the Lords doing Ephes 4. 10. He that descended is the same also that ascended Yea and if we make due observation of it we shall finde that his reparation it was proporionable to his reprobation For he who descended low he ascended high he who was humbled to the lower parts of the earth He was exalted far above all heavens He who was thrown off as a stone onely meet to advance the rubbidge he was advanced to the heighth that a stone is capable even the Head of the building for He is the Head of the Body the Church and 2 Coll. 10. The Head of all Principality and Power yea higher yet for he is the Head of the corner Corner it implies more then Building for corner is a place where at least two walls meet so that to be the Head of the corner implies Union as well as Dignity and in this respect there was never such an Head stone as the Kings stone never such a corner stone as was this Head stone of the corner For Eph. 2. 14. He is our peace who hath made both one Whether we respect Jew or Gentile Male or Female quick or dead Heaven and Earth this stone is the Head to every corner for to him was given All power both in heaven and earth And therefore was the rejected stone repaired and the disallowed stone advanced That he might be Lord both of the dead and the living so that to this we may very meetly adde the words following and say This is the Lords doing and it is marvelous in our eyes Thirdly or lastly by way of Analogy and to enforce the better sense of our present Blessing let us see how far our Davids Son or the Son of our late King may be here concerned I shall now shew unto you that in divers choice Particulars he very meetly resembles both David and the Son of David For 1. Infamy 2. Breeding in the same School 3 Exile both from the Land of his Nativity Religion of his God 4. Time 5. For The persons persecuting His Restitution First that He hath been a stone rejected and refused This is as clear as the noon day yea this very day of the Thanksgiving had never been else Now in the time of his Reprobation the good King David thus complains The very abjects gathered themselves against me yea The very drunkards made songs of me Those who had not a stone in their houses could finde a stone to throw at a distressed King And hath not even this been the

man save us even very then some despised him And 2 Sam. 20. When God beyond all expectation had removed the usurpation and brought that King who was fled out of the land to his royall City even then Sheba the son of Bichri blew a trumpet and said We have no part in David neither have we inheritance in the son of Iesse every man to his tents O Israel The Son of Bichri in behalf of himself and his party professed unless they might have inheritances out of the son of Iesse unless they might have the Crown land they were rather for a war then a settlement rather for confusion then a King they valued a King at no more then what was their own interest and their own advantage Now truly thus to do is not with the Spirit of God to deem a King a stone a Corner stone a Head stone but a stepping stone a stirrup stone a stone laid onely for advance to private interests and to raise and get up to personal advantages But they who so did the Spirit of God puts an eternal brand upon them calling them Children of Belial A man of Belial yea between the Loyal and the Seditious the Spirit of God most remarkably distinguisheth for they who adhered and went with the King they are said to be such Whose hearts God had touched but those who despised and brought him no presents they who looked upon him but as one of them they are such Whose hearts Sathan governed men of Belial Those whose hearts God had touched they owned and joyed and triumphed in their King they shouted and said not God save Saul as a man But God save the King God grant he may live not as a man but a King in Glory and Majesty in Power and Greatness But the children of Belial they hung down their heads like a Bulrush and had rather see a Kings head on a block then to be as God would have it the head stone of the corner But in despight of all who devised how to put him by whom God would exalt the Lord would and hath compassed his own design For The stone which the Builders refused is become the head stone of the corner This is the Lords doing and marvelous in our eyes c. In the words we may for methods sake observe these two Generals First Matter of fact Secondly The manner of doing In the matter of fact two Considerabl● 1. A Reprobation a Stone Refused 2. A Reparation Exalted The stone which the Builders refused is become the Head c. In the second General in the manner of doing two Particulars 1. Gods extraordinary efficiency The Lords doing 2. Mans duty and regard in these words Marvelous in our eyes First of the matter of fact The stone which the Builders refused is become the Head stone of the corner Now for as much as Expositors of great note attribute the prime sense to David and the principal to the Son of David I shall follow their steps and indeed shall consider this matter of fact upon three accounts 1. Davids Reprobation and Reparation how he was the stone both refused and exalted 2. The Son of David Christ our Lord his Reprobation and Reparation how the Builders refused him who became the Head 3. Lastly how far by way of Analogy or resemblance our David and our Davids Son our late King and the Son of this King may be here concerned whether he who is become the Head of the corner hath not been a stone reprobated and refused First That David was a rejected stone the History of his life will easily evince For if we look upon him upon the account of Nature we finde him the youngest not the seventh but the eighth Son yea we finde seven at home or about home but he as a neglected Pebble in the Fields keeping sheep when Samuel came to look him up 1 Sam. 15. 11. Yea afeter this when Samuel by anointing had made him a precious stone Eliab his eldest brother even then when he came by Gods appointment to work a mighty deliverance accused him of pride and naughtiness of heart 1 Sam. 17. 28. Saul he adopts him for a Son gives him a daughter but hurls him off as a stone and persecutes him as a Partridge upon the Mountains Yea 1 Sam. 26. 19. David himself complaineth saying They have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord saying Go serve strange gods So that he was now become a very rowling stone a stone one would think neither fit to Bed nor Head Yea when he was in the land of strangers even there and that by those who pretended of loyalty to follow him when a cross accident befell them They began to speak of stoning of him 1 Sam. 30. 6. So that a poor King had need be a stone a well weathered stone for storms and cross winds will soon crack break and crumble him to dust else Now who would think that a poor shepheard Boy persecuted by a King driven out of the Land of his Nativity despised by his brethren ready to be stoned by his followers opposed by a General who would think that that stone which such Master-Builders did set at naught should become the Head of the corner and the Glory of his people And yet such was his Reparation for 2 Sam. 2. 4. The men of Judah anointed him King in Hebron And the tribes of Israel seven years and six moneths after came and made him King over all Israel So that albeit Judah and Israel were not two Nations nor two Kingdoms yet they were two high parties malignant and well-affected loyal and rebellious for the King and against the King But when the rejected stone was put in where it ought to be when the Builders wearied with war and perverseness put him in his right place and made him the Head of the corner This union made up the breach and that Head so closed the joynts that Israel and Judah the rebellious and the loyal all Davids days lived as brethren So that to this change and reparation of King David we may well say This is the Lords doing and marvelous in our eyes Secondly let us consider this stone as relating to the son of David and truly we shall finde him a stone refused and set at naught indeed In every Erection there are divers sorts of Builders some plot some work some serve The Master-Builders are for plotting the Masons for raising the labourers for serving Now by every of these was the stone in the Text refused Psalm 2. 2. The Kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers took counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed Against the Kings son against the son of David there was a combination of Princes the very Master-Builders took counsel and plotted against him they would not have this stone to head them The Pharisees Scribes and Elders those whom I may call the Masons in