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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29136	Anastasis Britannica & Hibernica Great Brittain and Irelands resurrection. Or the happy turn upon his Majesties happy message and happy return. The first part upon occasion of the thanksgiving, May 24. 1660. which was for his Majesties gracious message from beyond seas to the two houses, delivered upon 2 Sam.19.14. And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, ... The second part upon occasion of the thanksgiving, June 28. 1660. for His Majesties safe return to His kingdomes, ... By John Bradshaw pastor of Etchingham in Sussex.	Bradshaw, John, 17th cent.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4151B; ESTC R224001	29,369	53

yet go by its own natural inclination too A similitude which to my thoughts doth to the life set out to us Gods Providence and over-ruling hand concurring with the freedome of our Wills and activity of our minds and spirits For the waters runs in a declining trench the weight and the fluid humidity carries it on but a previous hand prepares the trench So here Well Blessed be that immortal and wise Engineer in heaven that thus guided the Kings heart to bow his Subjects hearts and next Blessed be the Kings prudence and innate goodness who hath saved the shedding of so much Christian blood as else had been shed had it not thus been prevented And let us imitate these two Princes in their imitation Let us strive to be first in offices of love mercy and peace The feet of some of the Kings enemies were swift to shed blood Prov. 1.16 Their feet did run to evil and did make haste to shed blood The King that doth truly patrizare for his royal Father did not desire warre or blood-shed but was the most earnest suiter for peace to his own Subjects that ever was I say the King his feet are swift to save shedding of blood Let us learn to be swift to save and deliver our Neighbours and brethren let us be quick to offices of Justice and offices of mercy Let our feet to do good be as Hynds feet Hab. 3.19 We often read in Scripture of a Nunc ergo Now therefore that is now presently speedily 1 Sam. 6.7 Nunc ergo arripite as the vulgar Latin Venite Gen. 11.3 Faciamus lateres go to let us make brick 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psalm 95. Oh come let us worship Beda renders it Festinate See what haste Abraham made in the way and work of hospitality Gen. 18. v. 6. Abraham hasted to the Tent to Sarah there was haste expressed in his motion make ready quickly three measures of meales there was haste in his command And again Abraham runnes to the heard there was haste in expedition and the yong man hasted to dresse it there was haste in the preparation And David sends word to the men of Judah why are ye the last to bring back the King to his house Pudeat esse postremos let us not be last in offices of piety offices of mercy of hospitality much lesse in offices of duty fidelity allegiance loyalty In these let us both take and give example PART 1. WE come now to the first Complication of a wonder and a blessing and that is a victorious message sent from King David to his subjects the men of Judah A message full of grace as taking no notice of their defection from him A message full of love and compliance as seeking re-union and reconciliation with them There were eight ingredients that made this overture so effectual 1. It was but a message it was not an army to invade and to inforce and yet sure David that was so beloved of God that his very name signifyed beloved could not be so ill beloved of men but he might either for love or money or both have obtained a sufficient force amongst the Gileadites yea perhaps amongst the Ammonites He that was not only more safely but more kindly entertaind on the other side of the water amongst strangers of another tribe He that had such gifts and presents sent him for the sustenance of himself and his people with him could not he have obtained an armed power But he makes use rather of words than of swords and to send out his declaration than to shoot out his arrowes or make provision of Ammunition He chooseth rather dul●ia verba than dura verbera And this was one ingredient which puts me in mind of that speech of Euripides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sick minds whether sick of greif or anger or hate or feare are often cured by words Sure he that brought this message was a good man and came with good tidings and deserved of the men of Judah a good reward 2. As it was no worse than a message so it was a gracious message not thundring out revenge and destruction He might have sent a message of terrour and he that brought it might have been the messenger of death and have entred the Sanedrim with his cloaths rent as 2 Sam. 1.2 The Amalekite came to David But it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 good tidings It was not like Rehoboam's harsh answer my litle finger shall be thicker than my fathers loyns and I will make your yoake heavier and I have rods in brine for you I will whip you with snakes or scorpions every stripe shall be a sting too He considered not that to make himself so thick and heavy was the way not only to be quickly out of breath both he and his family but to catch a fall He should rather have hearkned to gray then green heads who could have told him that acerbitas imperii brevitate saepe compensatur But David was much wiser in his message than Rehoboam in his answer For the returne to his message was Returne thou and all c. the returne to Rehoboam's was quite contrary but no way justifiable what portion have we in David to your tents O Israel an undutifull answer bespeaking an ungodly and unrighteous rebellion 3. It was not only a gracious message as free from indignation but also a loving message as free from contestation scarce an expostulation but such a one as covers kindeness q. d. I hope you will not be the last in loyalty that are first in Consanguinity 4. It was a message from a King not from a fellow-subject and who knows not that majesty carries efficacy For where the word of a King is there is power The words of him that is the annointed must needs like oile sinke into the hearts of the people if they be not harder than an adamant Yea if hard yet it prevails Erasmus sayes a Kings word is like lightning it melts not wax but melts and dissolves the steele 5. Their own King their own leige Lord not a forraigner though in a forraign country not a stranger though exiled from his own home Thus is He pater patriae and shall not the words of a Father prevaile Thus is he a terrestrial God I have said ye are gods and shall not his word as well carry a semblable efficacy as well as his person carry a semblable majesty 6. Their innocent and blameless King of whom it might have been said as it was after of his Antitype but not so infallibly and absolutely Why What evil hath he done what colour had Absalom for the snatching the sword by violence out of the hand of David If the Militia was truly Davids why doth Absalm by violence and fraud wrest and wring it from him And if it was Absaloms how then was David King except he voluntarily quitted his power and left himself only a naked Title 7. Their afflicted King the Message of an

that this late great appearance of English subjects met there leige Lord it may well be called a Gilgal as it puts us into possession of one prevailedge and puts us in hope of another corresponding to the two former For first I hope the reproach of our worse than Egyptians slavery is rowled a way whose misery was almost like Canaans curse a servant of servants shall he be we were subjects unto subjects yea to very servants that having got up tyrannized to some purpose Yea whereas for the sakes of a few the land lay under the reproach of base disloyalty and treachery to the King I trust that is rowled a way in this meeting and as for the other I hope every one will do their part that it may be done away that we may not be lookt upon any longer as on an unbaptized nation in any part of it which I look upon as a reproach to us Now for observation this coming of Judah to Gilgal teaches us first Observ 1 That when we have begun a work of righteousness or piety we should go on forward with it It was not enough for them to send a dutifull message to their King to encourage him to a returne but it was their duty to encourage him and assist him in his returne It is one thing to say you may come if you please another thing to promise him all honourable assistance at his coming many begin well but are quickly at a stan d Gen. 28. The angells upon Jacobs ladder were alwayes ascending or descending none standing still Bern. sic necesse est spiritum nostrum aut proficere aut deficere Christ chose to do good works on the Sabbath to shew that though we should rest from secular works on the Sabbath day yet never should rest from doing good 1 Cor. 13.8 Charity never failes Duties likewise of humanity and humility should never fail Observ 2 That Subjects must be ready to shew all due regard and to give all good encouragement to their injured and offended Princes King David had been much injured and provoked by a considerable party in Judah They could not therefore in common civility or common pollicy do less than go to meet their King nay doubtless what they did was to express their love and hearty alacrity in receiving home their exiled Prince But of this afterwards They chose Gilgal as their generall rendezvouse to put themselves into a fit Posture to meet the King Observ 3 Teaching us not only to chuse fit times but also fit places for all worthy actions or good enterprizes The fittest places for Hearing and the fittest for Praying and the fittest for all civil actions There is much choyce and wisdome in all such things Circumstances are very preservative of or very destructive to Substantials We come now to the fourth part Part. 4 which is the end of their egress to Gilgal and that is congressus to meet the King and to testifie their readiness and joyfulness in their reception of his royal Person And indeed this was not only a very splendid but an happy and not only an happy but a fruitfull meeting And whilest I unfold it and put you into a window to behold it carry along in your thoughts the meeting of our King and his subject and suppose that what is said of the one is spoken of the other And in this one meeting I see seven very happy meetings and very handsome Congresses 1. A meeting of strength and Magnificence 2. Of safety and Honour 3. Of lawfull Government and true Subjection 4. Of Pardon and submission 5. Of Mercy and Truth 6. Righteousness and Peace 7. Rejoycing and Praising 1. Strength and Magnificence You may imagine by what hath lately been at home the strength that was at Gilgal when Judah the strongest Tribe was there and sure if they be cloathed with soft Rayment that are in Kings Houses they would not offer to meet the King as the Gibeonites did with old clouted shooes or thred-bare patcht Coats it is very probable there appeared at Gilgal the very bravery of Judah therefore there was a meeting of strength and magnificence strength in the multitude and magnificence in the Attire and accoutrement 2. Upon this here is a meeting of safety and Honour The King is safely received from the number and loyalty of his people and he is honourably received from the number and quality of his people so that as strength and magnificence so safety and honour waited upon him And this we are commanded to praise God for this day For there was a time when he could not come for divers yeares into his own Kingdoms but with danger to his life and in fear to have his honour laid in the dust Psal 31.13 They took Counsel together against him they devised to take away his life But now God be praised for it he hath preserved his life from fear of the enemy Psal 64.1 God hath shewed him the path of life Psal 16.11 He asked life of the Lord and he gave it him whilest he preserved his life in former yeares when dangers were round about him Psalm 18.4 verse 5. Psalm 21.5 when the sorrows of death compast him and the floods of ungodly men made him affraid In his distress he called on the Lord and cryed unto his God and he heard his voyce out of his Temple His Glory is great in thy salvation O Lord Honour and Majesty hast thou laid upon him 3. Meeting of lawfull Government and loyal subjection Absolom was no lawfull Governour and Judah when they set him up or did acknowledge him were no loyal subjects for the alliegance they did owe was to David not to Absolom For a people with activity approbation and contrivance to set up a false power cuts the very sinews of true Alliegiance and such possibly a considerable part of Judah had been But now here is an happy meeting of recovered true Supremacy and true Allegiance What before was lawless is now not only lawfull but joyfull not only warrantable but very righteous And God be blessed that our eyes have lately seen such a meeting that true and faithfull subjects and a true and lawfull Prince have met together The fourth meeting is of Pardon and submission Both though not exprest yet to be supposed who can otherwise than imagine but that the people did humbly submit themselves in this day of his power and who can think other but that the King who pardon'd Shim●i and granted him his life for his own life granted also a pardon to the men or Judah who had not done after the similitude of Shi●●'s transgression who was pardoned for the time past for what he had done not for what he should after do if he should offend again and this only for his own life and Reigne Nor was it against Davids oath made to Shimei to give order to Solomon to put him to death for no doubt David did know his disposition and principles as

would give us some token for good that we shall be over-run no more And to me there doth appear a very glorious rain-bow which Christ the Sun of Righteousness casts by the beams of the holy Gospel upon the following showers of his own word mens hearts every where being elevated beyond their ordinary pitch and setting forth the Magnalia Dei beyond ordinary expression 2. Let us also make our return let us return to our former Lawes by observing them to our former good customes by using them to our former obedience and all allegiance by continuing in them but let us not return with the dog to the vomit lest as such we be turned out of the door of heaven for without shall be dogs We come now to King Davids retirement or stay by the way and that was at Jordan Part 2 And perhaps that might be partly as hearing of the preparations that Iudah made to meet him and conduct him over Iordan partly peradventure to stay for Amasa's coming with his forces to guard him to his royal palace in Ierusalem Learn we hence Obser 1 that it is the wisdome of Princes to set themselves in the way of their peoples love and devoire It is no ambition or vain-glory in the least degree in them to prepare themselves to receive expressions of love and duty and gladness from their Subjects then especially when they see their people bent upon it and their waving of it would seem rather a reservation of anger or a purpose of revenge than a self-denial It is not to be supposed that David stayed on the other side to see if Iordan would be driven back and a way cut thorow the water for his passage As for Ioshua no doubt David might have had a Convoy there to have conducted him over Iordan but he lik'd much better to have a Convoy of his own native Subjects whose faces no doubt he thirsted to see Obser 2 That as King David was before hand with his Subjects in a message of peace for he sends first so is he before hand in his return in peace for he comes first to Iordan before Iudah comes to Gilgal The motion of the King being like the Primum mobile which being above the orbes moves them with its motion King David moves forward first towards the men of Iudah and then the men of Iudah move forward toward King David That Nation is like to be a blest and happy Nation where the Prince and Princes are most forward to peace and most forward to piety Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis Ps 148. The Psalmist makes a catholick motion to all the creatures to praise God Well but what creatures must lead the way The high and most honourable creatures must first move amongst animate creatures he names angels they are thrones and dignities v. 2. praise him all ye angels and what after Men. And what men first Princes first and then all people v. 11. Kings of the earth and all people Thus is it in the other rank of creatures which are without life First sun and moone and then the middle region v. 3. and 4. and then lower than that the earth and then lower than that the deepes v. 7. Indeed no house joyned so near to the temple as the Kings house to shew that as they are nearest God in dignity they should be nearest God in sanctity Yea to come nearer to our instance here the first in offices of kindness and love More ready to blesse then curse Deut. 27.12.13 what tribes were the blessing tribes such as descended from the free woman the other from the servants mostly Mendoz to shew that the work of blessng is most suitable to the most noble and ingenuous and the work of cursing to the meanest Ambrose tells us the maister Bee is larger then the rest but he never stings so ready is true majesty to clemency Application There is no difficulty to draw this to our present occasion The Text and day falling in together almost in every part We have a King in both and here is a water betwixt the King and his people the King in the Text stayd beyond the water for the conduct of Judah and the King in the day stayed beyond the water for the conduct of his people in the navy yea stayed for a time upon the water till Amasah and the rest came to meet him He sets himself both inoffensively and prudently yea lovingly in the way of his peoples joyfull reception of him As he was first in the message so was he first in the motion towards a meeting Our businesse and duty is to blesse God for the least stirrings and the very first procedures towards an happy closing It is some matter of joy to the mother when the child begins but to stir in the womb though the full rejoycing is not till the child be borne These day-breakes and dawnings of settlement were praise-worthy in the Kings coming to the sea-side expecting a loyal and an honourable waftage over in his setting forward to us and blessed be God that our hopes were not stifled in the womb but that there was a passage on forward and to lay that forth I must passe on in my Text to the third general part the men of Judahs Egress and Judah came to Cilgal c. Judah came to Gilgal that is Part 3. either the most of the people or the best of the people which are before called the men of Judah that is the Nobility and Gentry of Judah with many of the chief Citizens of Jerusalem and that nothing may be wanting to the remarkable fulness of the parallel these were they that dwelt in the South-east of Palestine which was the seat of Judah and the place of Jerusalem the cheif Metropolis of the whole Land happily there might be some out of other tribes or counties but the maine body that appeared in the meeting of David was of personages inhabiting the South-east at least there were more Southestern men than of any one quarter The very explication of this saves me the labour of application afterwards I hope there is but few so ignorant of the coasts as that I should need to spread a map before them Nay yet more I shall before I have done finde out a Gilgal in our South-east borders for that City in Jewry was so called of the Lord because he had there rowled away the reproach of Egypt Josh 5.9 And that reproach of Egypt was twofold one that they had been slaves there and bondmen and therefore it was called the house of bondage the other that they had not been circumcised in the wilderness and herein were become like to Egyptians uncircumcised now both these reproaches were ●owled away the former by their coming into Canaan the latter by being circumcised the former is implicitly laid down and to be under stood the latter is expresly set out to be read And truly wheresoever it was neare the sea-coasts