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B04311	A sermon preached on Sunday the XXVI of July, 1685. Being the day appointed for solemn thanksgiving to almighty God, for his Majesties late victory over the rebels. / Preached at Wakefield by Obadiah Lee, M.A. and vicar there.	Lee, Obadiah, 1636 or 7-1700.	1685 (1685)	Wing L885B; ESTC R222844	9,795	31

A SERMON Preached on SUNDAY The XXVI of July 1685. Being the Day Appointed for Solemn Thanksgiving to Almighty God for His Majesties late Victory over the REBELS Preached at Wakefield By Obadiah Lee M. A. and Vicar there Printed for and Sold by Elizabeth Richardson Bookseller in Wakefield MDCLXXXV A SERMON 2 Sam. 18.28 The latter part of the verse Blessed be the Lord thy God which hath delivered up the men that lift up their hand against my Lord the King The whole verse runs thus And Ahimaaz called and said unto the King all is well and he fell down to the Earth upon his face before the King and said blessed be the Lord thy God which hath delivered up the Men that lift up their hand against my Lord the King THis day being set apart not only as a weekly Sabbath Commemorating these Spiritual mercies which we receive by the Victorious and Triumphant Resurrection of the Lord of Life and Glory over our spiritual Enemies Sin Death and Hell but also by His Majesties Royal Proclamation as a day of special Thanksgiving to God for his happy Victory over his and our Enemies whom no former pardon could ingage nor acts of grace mollifie to a due discharge of their duty I thought this History this particular part of it now read to you would not be unsuitable to the occasion and accordingly made choice of it The Wise man tells us Eccl. 1.9 There is no new thing under the Sun and ver 10. Is there any thing whereof it may be said See this is new It hath been of old time which was before us Accordingly we have Absalom and Achitophel after some revolution of Ages once more upon the stage in these last and therefore worst of times pursuing the same methods of destruction under the same pretences and though Israels politick Achitophel did long since wisely dispose of himself to the Halter to save the Hangman a labour and their Rebellious Absalom was caught up between earth and heaven as unworthy of either the senseless Oak becoming a just avenger on him whom its likely the doting fathers indulgence would have spared yet severest instances of heavens wrath will not discourage those Ambitious spirits who have a glistering Crown and an advanced Throne in their prospect But blessed be God our Achitophels projects failing he dies of the sullens in a Foreign Nation and our Absaloms Rebellious rout is defeated and himself become a prey to Justice good news this and who fitter to have the first Tidings of it then Israels King Loyal and couragious Ahimaaz offers himself to Joab the General to be the first messenger of such happy Tidings and we have him delivering his message to the King in the words of my Text blessed be the Lord thy God which hath delivered up the men that lift up their hand against my Lord the King Thus you see my text is the first Tidings brought to King David of the total defeat of the Forces of Rebellious Absalom delivered in the pious strain of Thanksgiving and Praises to King Davids God blessed be the Lord thy God c. That I may the more clearly proceed in the handling of the text it will be not unuseful to give you an account of the occasion in order whereunto we must know that Absalom the main subject of the story was blest with that high Prerogative of being the King of Israel's Son one whom God had indowed with the most exquisite accomplishments of nature of goodly personage and surprizing beauty and comeliness the more remarkable because natures workmanship in none so exactly delineated in Scripture as this of Absalom as if God had in him given an exemplar of perfect beauty chap. 14.25 We read that in all Israel there was none so much to be praised as Absalom for his beauty from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him And no wonder that so goodly a presence a person endowed with such advantages attracts the eyes and affections of all beholders No sooner does he appear in Israels famous Metropolis but all the news and discourse was of the beauty and perfection of the young Absalom For the endowments of his soul he knew how to resent an injury hide his resentment with shows of kindness and take the surest and most opportune revenge Witness his behaviour towards his brother Amnon for the Rape of the beautiful Thamar so that he was a person of most profound dissimulation And as he was thus cunningly Revengeful so of an haughty Ambitious spirit as he was the Son of a King so ambitious to be one for no sooner had he obtained the King his Fathers pardon for his Brothers Murder and regained His Majesties favour but he appears in the splendor and state of heir apparent to Israels crown Beauty and greatness made him proud and great spirits will not rest contented with moderate prosperity and therefore because outward Pomp and unwonted shews of Magnificence affect the light minds of the vulgar Absalom to the height of his birth and the incomparable comeliness of his person adds the unusual state of a more than Princely Equipage chap. 15.1 He prepares him Chariots and Horsemen and fifty men to run before him And now his Chariots rattle and his pampered Horses praunce it proudly through Jerusalems streets with his fifty Footmen in goodly Liveries running before their glistering Master the City rings of the glory of their Prince and are ready to adore these continual triumphs of peace and though excess and novelty of expensive bravery in publick persons give just cause to suspect either vanity or a Plot yet true hearted David misdoubts no such matter construes all as meant to the honour of a Fathers Court or the expressions of joy and thankfulness for a late reconcilement This gives advantage First to flatter and thereby gain the mobile to his designs he rises early stands in the gate and with prodigious humility in mascarade he courts the Communalty seems to pity the want of a free course of justice in which was he good Man concern'd none should have cause to complain See says he thy matters are good but alas none is deputed of the King to hear thee Knowing that no musick is more sweet to the Ears of the unstable multitude than to hear well of themselves ill of their Governours And now every one speaks of his praise crying out oh brave Prince Absalom the World hath not so compleat a Prince as Absalom Thus are the unwary unthinking subjects hearts stoln by the close Traytor from their lawful Sovereign but certainly as no natural face has so clear a white and red as the painted so such over fair shows are a just argument of unsoundness However having by these Arts scrued himself into the affections of the people the next advance must be a Cloak of Religion to perfect the treachery of an ungracious Son that carries Peace in his Name War in

his Heart and therefore because the more deformed any action is the fairer vizor must be put upon it Absalom forsooth must go to Hebron there to pay his Vows to the most High which he uttered when he was in trouble How glad is the good Old King at the News hereof that he hath a Son so goodly and withal so pious whom he dismisses loaden with a Fathers blessing but what trust is there in flesh and blood when David is not safe from his own Loyns Armed Troops willingly offer themselves to make up the train of this darling Prince and now he wants nothing but the Oracle of his age politick Achitophel to form the design him he gains who advises him first to ascend his Fathers Bed to prevent a future reconcilement and then to pursue his flying Fathers person yet David is not so deserted of God or Man but gathers an Army of Loyal Subjects though far inferiour to that of Rebellious Absalom which Army he first Musters and then dismisses while himself retires to Mehanaim to see the event of this fatal battel Well the battel is joyned and the Lord of Hosts with whom it is all one to save with many or with few takes part with justice and lets rebellious Israel feel what it is to bear Arms for a Trayterous Usurper the news of which we have in the Text. Thus I have given you as short account as I could of the occasion of the text it was rebellious Israels defeat and usurping Absaloms death that gave Life to these words I was going to draw the parallel sutable to this days joy but I suppose none that have heard the History can be to seek to draw the parallel Had not we also an Absalom our late Kings Son though Illegitimate one indowed with perfection of Body and Mind only with Absalom wanting Grace and Loyalty Was he not as high in the King his Fathers favour as ever Absalom was in Davids yet Royal favours work nothing upon a disloyal Heart for though he was as great and high as Riches and Honour could make him or a Subject in his circumstances could expect yet filius ante diem patrios inquirit in annos he searches his Fathers Register and finding him not old enough yet to dye he seeks by an untimely death to cut off his too indulgent Father and kind Uncle that he also might usurp the Throne And did not he use the same methods and tread in the same paths that Absalom did of old having rendered himself conspicuous by a more than common Valour and Conduct in foreign Wars he advances in honour and esteem and by his Princely train especially into the West which it seems he design'd for a more bloody Stage and prodigious flattery in self-disregarding familiarity with those of meaner quality he gained their affections and stole their hearts And now all mens mouths are filled with the praises of this young Prince he is become at once the darling both of King and Subject Munmouth's Health is drunk his Praises sung in every place but amidst the praises of the admiring vulgar black thoughts possess the disloyal heart Neither does he want an Achitophel the man with three Names that once betrayed the Grand-father and therefore the more likely to betray the Father too This cunning man fills the young head with aspiring projects and by his policy forms a Plot for the destruction of the King the then Duke of York our present Sovereign and ruine of the Government but through Gods special Providence this Plot was discovered and he who expected to be Proclaimed King was proclaimed a Traytor but the close Traytor quickly improves into an open Rebel he therefore no sooner hears of the death of the King but he provides himself with Arms and Ammunition and had his spies with Absalom in several parts of these nations to sound the affections of the people and make way for his ready reception and though his as well as Absalom's Achitophel was dead yet he pursues the design invades two nations at once by himself and accomplices and under the stale pretense of extirpating Popery and Tyranny he breaks out into open Rebellion and pushes on to the issue of a Battel And though the Loyal Party was as far inferiour to the Rebels in number as those of David were to those of Absalom yet God who is the only giver of Victory by these few defeats the more numerous Rebels And we also had a valiant Ahimaaz Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe Great Grand-Son to the famous 〈◊〉 Tobias Matthews Arch Bishop of YORK our own Countrey man and he also of Sacerdotal Race to bring Englands King Tidings how the Lord had avenged him of his Enemies Thus you see the parallel holds in all the particulars and now I hope we may say all is well and how can we better express our praises to God for this wonderful mercy than in the words of the Text blessed be the Lord our God which hath delivered up the men that lift up their hand against our Lord the King In the Text are three things Observable 1. There were men that lift up their hand against the King The best of Kings have Enemies 2. These men thus lifting up their hand against the King are delivered up viz. to death and destruction Ruine is the ordinary consequence of Rebellion 3. The God of Israel blessed for thus delivering up the men that lift up their hand against the King of Israel Blessed be the Lord thy God c. 1. There were men that lift up their hand against the King This is supposed for if there had been none such there had been no blessing of God for delivering them up The best of Kings are not secure from the worst of Enemies such as dare to lift up their hands against them Moses was a Wise a Learned and a Pious Prince one set up immediately by God and proved his immediate call to the Government by most stupendous Miracles and yet this Moses is conspired against as an Usurper and a Tyrant one that took too much upon him and set himself above the Congregation of the Lord and tho these found a judgment worthy of God the Earth no longer able to bear those sinful burdens of it opened her mouth and swallowed them up so that they went quick into Hell yet Rebellion perished not with these Rebels David was one of Gods own chusing a Man after Gods own heart one that had often hazarded his Life for the defence of Israel his People yet we have this David complaining Psalm 3.1 Lord how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise up against me an expression the more remarkable because pen'd upon his flight from Absalom he had foreign Enemies Ishbosheth Hanun Hadadezer the state of the Philistines he had homebred Rebels those that lift up their hand against him though their natural Prince Absalom Achitophel Amasa here Sheba Adonijah and Joab afterwards VSE 1 Let not