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A33727	Noah's dove with her olive-branch, or, The happy tidings of the abatement of the flood of England's civil discords as it was delivered in a sermon preached at Preston in the county-palatine of Lancaster on the 24th of May, 1660, being the publick day of thanksgiving for the restoring of His Sacred and Most Excellent Majesty, Charles the Second / by William Cole ...	Cole, William.	1661 (1661)	Wing C5037; ESTC R40846	32,990	45

thou and all thy servants This is a president worth the deepest consideration of such Kings who have been forced from their Throne as David was Ignoscere pulchrum est jam misero poenaeque satis vidisse precantem and so it comes to pass as is the observation of Bias 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fear not more their Prince then they are solicitous for his good and afraid of evil to befal him 3. They were such as preferred the peoples good above their own their Subjects were more dear unto them then their Scepter their Kingdom then their Crown When Ioshua divided the Land for the inheritance of the people it is remarkable he kept not a foot of it for himself nor had he any but what the children of Israel gave him Ioshua 19. 49. And when they put him as Masius judges by the advice of Eleazar the High Priest to ask for himself he fixed upon a very mean and contemptible place so mean that St. Hierom speaks in his Epitaph of Parlea that she was amazed when she came to the Tomb of Joshua quod ipse possessionum omnium distributor montana sibi aspera loca delegisset had ask'd for himself such a mountainous and mean possession in comparison of that of others No less remarkable is that of David 2 Sam. 24. 17. Let thy hand be against me and against the house of my fathers but as for these sheep what have they done and Moses Exod. 32. 32. who would rather wish to be blotted out of the book of God then that his wrath should break out against the people Such Princes are indeed not princeps but patres the Fathers of their Countries and do exercise as Seneca calls it potestatem patriam But further 4. They were such as were zealous for God and godliness set and sharpned the edge of their royal sword against sin and wickedness How passionately zealous in the cause of God was Moses when he sees the Idolatry of the people how earnest in his adjuring and exhorting the people to stick fast to their Religion before he went up to Neb● to dye there Ioshua could not 〈…〉 till first he had engaged the people to God in a sole●● Covenant Josh. 24. David he fetched up the Ark of the Lord to Ierusalem and bought a place for the future Temple of it and Solomon he built it an House Quis mente sobrius regibus dicat saith St. Aug. Nolite curare in regno vestro à quo tueatur vel oppugnetur ecclesia domini vestri quis velit esse religiosus vel sacrilegus This is the glory and excellency of Princes that as they are Gods and Gods Vicegerents upon earth so nothing should be more sacred to them then the interest of truth and power of godliness and what mercy greater can befal a people then such a Magistracy For if the delirium regis the miscarriage of the Prince do cause such punishments on the whole body if the excellency and glory of any Government lie in the serviceableness thereof to promote and honour truth and godliness to discountenance and discourage errour and prophaness if as generally it is an holy Prince makes an happy people how great then is this mercy when God shall restore thee such Judges as at the first and such Counsellors as at the beginning But to conclude 5. They were such as what they were the same they continued to be till the end of their race till death it self made their sacred heads to stoop to its impartial stroke Indeed in the latter days of Solomon there arose some cloud upon the splendor of his former Government occasion'd by the influence of his Idolatrous Wives upon him so hazardous a thing it is for Kings to marry the Daughters of a strange god but yet he recovered himself from that declination and rose up to as great an altitude of holiness and zeal for God as ever formerly when his own experience had enabled him to pen the Book of Ecclesiastes Moses and Ioshua and David their care of their people lived till they died and what they were at first they were till the very last in their personal graces and profitable Government It is usual for Kings to begin their Dominion with more acceptance then to continue it Mitissima sors est regnorum sub rege novo That Quinque unium Neronis is famous in that story of the Roman Caesars for so long none so good for ever after none so vile and wicked True it is that greatness is a sad temptation to put the best of men upon exorbitances Aeneas Sylvius in the Council at Basil contended stifly against the Pope when he got that Chair himself he was no more Aeneas Sylvius I shall not need to lay open the disadvantages of vertue that fall upon Princes when peaceably setled in the Throne the Lord I hope will give us to see the piety and integrity the moderation and clemency the unalterable zeal to the Protestant cause the fixed detestation of debauchery and prophaness the right understanding and apprehension of the principles and deportments of honest men however now aspersed all these and more then these precious pearls in the Imperial Crown of his sacred Majesty shall yet keep their orient lustre and unspotted brightness notwithstanding what attempts may be made by temptation to eclipse them or shadow off their vital influence from the people Such Princes were these who were the older better the longer they lived the more deeply did they love their people and the more dearly were they loved by them and went to their graves with common lamentation 4. I might add if God do restore to a people such a Government then their Government is vested in the hands of such as have parts and abilities from God for the fitting of them to manage their Authority God had put of the spirit of Government upon Moses and Ioshua and David and the whole earth came to hear the Wisdom of Solomon He himself that had had the experience of what was necessary for the Ruler of such a people cries out Eccles. 10. 16. Wo unto thee O land when thy King is a child viz. for Wisdom Soberness Judgment and Understanding and to the same purpose is Isa. 3. 4 5. But I shall conclude this with this Observation As the giving to a people of such a Government is a blessing so the restoring of it is much more for so the Text speaks I will restore or I will cause to return as the word imports thy Judges as at the first c. I have touched at some inconveniences of the force that may fall out upon legal gracious rightful Authorities And what woful effects do attend such violences and usurpations and therefore shall add no more But in such a day as this when God doth not only give but restore and cause to return a separated Husband to the bosom of his disconsolate Wife a banished Father to the arms of his