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A89053	Britannia rediviva, or, a gratulatory sermon for his Majesties safe arrivall and happy restitution to the exercise of his royall government. Preached, at the desire of the magistrats and councell of Aberdene, on the XIX of June, which they had designed to be a day of solemne rejoycing within the city, for the mercy above mentioned, by John Menzeis, professor of divinity: and preacher of the gospell in Aberdene	Menzeis, John, 1624-1684.	1660 (1660)	Wing M1724; ESTC R230727	28,599	38

v. 3. at last be had 14000 cap. 43. v. 12. at first he had 3000 camels cap. 1. v. 3. at list he had 6000 cap. 42. v. 12. and so the spirit of God goes on cap. 42. doubling his estate in his latter dayes beyond what it was before For reasons take these few hints The Lords does so Reason first First to shew his Almighty power that he can help at a dead lift even when creatures are laid in the depths of the earth Reasō secōd Secondly to manifest his faithfulnes that he is a God who keepeth promise Providence may seem to crosse promises for a season yet the Lord is ever myndfull of his promise and therefore in end will suffer nothing to fall to the ground of all the good word which he hath spoken Reasō third Thirdly To engage those whom he thus signally exalteth to tune up a song of praise to him Psalm 40 2. The Lord brought me up out of an horrible pit and out of the myrie clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings Now what was the result of his deliverance is subjoined v. 3. He put a new song in my mouth even praise to our God Reason 4 And Fourthly to engage them to be zealous for him and his interests Sure it becomes them ●●● whom the Lord hath done great things to say Quid retribuam Demino What shall I render to the Lord Psalm 116. 12. Vse The poynt might afford many uses specially for the consola●tion and strengthening of the hands of afflicted ones but these I forebeare to day Only this one We have to remember to day to the Lords praise as signall a providence in exalting Our SOVERAI●N Lord the KINGS MAIESTY to the throne of his ROYALL FATHER of eternall memory as either David or any Prince mentioned in sacred or prophane history did ever meet with If ye consider first the low and lamentable condition to which his Sacred MAJESTY was brought these diverse years ●bygone Secondly The manifold attempts with great and potent Armies for his deliverance all which were blasted Thirdly The unexpectednes of this revolution surely When the Lord turned our captivity we were as those who dreamed Psalm 126. 1. Fourthly the poynt of tyme when the Lord appeared namely when our confusions wer like to be greater our yoke heavier then ever So that at evening tyme as Z●ch speaketh c. 14. 7. when all were fearing mid-night darknes The Lord hath made light to arise And Fifthly which is no lesse admirable then any of the former that so great a change should be carried on without blood There have been many strange changes in Britaine within these twenty years but surely none like to this wherin the gracious hand of divine providence hath so signally appeared Verily we may sing and say with our Royall Psalmist Psal 118. 22. 23. 24. The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner This is the Lords doing it is marvellous in our eyes This is the day which the Lord hath made we will be glad and rejoyce in it Now that I may close this doctrine and withall the second Three hopefull desires branch of the text there are three things which from my heart I both wish and hope from the Lord to his MAJESTIE they ought to be all our desires and hope in his behalfe The first is that the promise of my text may be fulfilled in him viz. That the Lord would increase his greatnes and confort him on every side that he may be the most glorious renowned trulie blessed KING that ever Britaine injoyed I wish that Patriarchall Blessing to him which Jacoh Propheticallie pronounced upon Ioseph Gen. 49. 25. 26. The Blessings of heaven above The Blessings of the depth that lyes under The Blessings of the breasts and of the womb Blessings beyond all the blessings of his progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hils be upon the head of our Ioseph upon the Sacred head of our Gracious SOVERAIGN whom the Lord hath separated to rule ever TERTUL Apolog c. 30. Denique sine monitore quia de pectore oramus Note here that from this phrase sine Monitore quia de pectore some learned men have observed that CHRISTIAN'S in Tertullians time did not wholly tye themselves to stinted liturgicall formes in prayer precantes su●us semper pro omnibus Imperatoribus vitam illis prolixam Imperium securum domum tutam exercitus fortes Senatum fidelem populum probum orbem quietum quecunque hominis et CAESARIS vota sunt his people in these Nations Blessed be he in his Royall Person In his Counsels and Government in his Allyes abroad in his Subjects of all ranks at home in his Parliaments Armies Navies Nobilitie Gentrie Borroughs Ministers of the Gospell c. Let him be blest Bonis Throni et Scabelli Poliet Soli both with Blessings of the throne and of the footstool with an eminent measure both of Saving graces and Kingly graces with length of dayes a flourishing Crown with Loyal subjects with a thriving Gospell Church with pure spirituall ordinances throughout his Dominions Thus shall the promise of the text be accomplished His greatnesse shall be increased he comforted on every side My second wish which also I hope is that with David in my Text He may look on the Lord as the God of all his mercies and first Fountain of them DAVID doth not attribute these great things which here he expects either to Joabs gallantry or Hushai's policy though both wer greatly instrumentall in this deliverāce of David in overturning this cōspiracy of Absolom But he looks above all unto God as the first Spring the first wheel the first Mover THOU O Lord said he shalt quicken me againe THOU shalt raise me up THOU shalt inerease my greatnes THOU shalt cōfort me on every side GOD was all in all to him IT is far frō my purpose to undervalue the atchievments of Instruments or to derogate in the least from the high respect that is due to them Succeeding Generations will blesse that truely Noble Valorous and Loyall GENERALL MONCK Whom God hath chiefly honoured as an Instrument in the work Neither should Hushas's be forgotten who by counsel have been assisting I hope these who have been most instrumentall have learned Christ better then to offend that I say The Lord should be looked to as the first Authour of all Nay themselves must will acknowledge all their instrumentality to be of Him O so signally as the Lords hand hath appeared therefore let Him above all be looked to and this will help through his blessing to the sanctified improvment of these late mercies But my third desire which I likwise waite and hope for is That OUR SOVERAIGN like another DAVID may be Zealous for God and the precious interests of the Gospell O how zealous was David for the Lord psal 69. 9. The zeale of thy

alwayes rejoyeing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing yet possessing all things He puts as one saies a tanquā an as upon all his the people of God their afflictions as if they were more in seeming then in reali●ie Reason 2 Secondly As the sting is taken away so the Lord sweetneth rods to beleevers by his own gracious presence Hee is with them in fire and water Isai 43. 2. The refreshing influence of his gracious presence made some call their prison an Orchard of delights and others to sing at the stake Hence said one Tua prasentia Domine Laurentio ipsam craticulā●ulcem fecit Thy gracious presence O Lord made the burning gridiron sweet to Laurence when he was rosted alive upon it Reason 3 And thirdly not to adde more reasons the afflictions of Saints in tyme are as was said of Julians persecution but a passing clond What were all the hardships which David met with from Saul after he was peaceably setled on the thron but as the remembrance of a shew upon a stage When Absoloms conspiracie was discussed what was the remembrance thereof but like a dream when it past Vse Is there not here unspeakable comfort to the people of God It s but a transient view of afflictions they have here in time when they are up in glory cloathed with robs of immortality with palmes in their hands what will the remembrance of the afflictions of tyme be to them but as a dream when it s gone Now my earnest desire to the Lord is that all the bitter tryals with which the Royall familie have been hitherto exercised may bee swallowed up with such a blessed and sanctified prosperity for the future that all their former sufferings may be as a dream whē its past as a shew upon a stage when it s withdrawn And this for the 1. branch of the text Thou hast shewed me great sore troubles The second branch of the text I come to the second branch wherin faith promises a glorious out-gate to David from all his troubles Thou shalt quicken me againe and shalt bring me up againe from the deepths of the earth As if he had said I am like a man dead and buried I am laid in the explication of the secōd branch deepths of the earth In abyssis sayes Tremell In voraginibus ●erra says Pagnin Swallowed up in the g●●s of the earth I am civilly dead and buried laid by as a broken vessell in the thoughts of the people wherof can be no more use So spoke sense O but sayes Faith there shall be a resurrection Thou O Lord wilt returne and quicken me yea Thou wilt bring me up from the depths of the earth Though I be low yet thou wilt exalt me This was much yet Davids faith rests not here it goes on Thou shalt increase my greatnes multiplicabis magnitudinem meam sayes Montanus thou shalt multiplie my greatnes thou shalt make my state grandour dignity more eminent then ever and far beyond my predecessors and so indeed it was And yet more sayes he Thou shalt comfort me on every syde circuibis consolaberis me so Montan. thou shalt compasse me comfort me that is thou shalt surround me with comfort as my afflictions have abounded so shall my comforts Thus yee have a short explication of this branch I only give two short doctrines from it that I may passe thorow the text Doctrine first Doct. first It s a very dark clo●d through which faith will not see an out-gate It s deep trouble indeed wherin faith will not see a vision of peace David now was under great sore trouble yet behold what his faith sayes Thou shalt quicken me againe and bring me up from the depths of the earth thou shalt encrease my greatnes and comfort me on every syde Reason first A First reason may be Faith is the evidence of things not seen H●b 11. 1. when sense saies It will not be when reason saies It cannot be then faith saies It shall be I see it saies faith Though I sit in darknes the Lord shall be a light unto me Micah 7. 8. Yea it realizes things absent Trem. reades these prophecies of faith in my text in the present Pagnin in the pret imperfect Vivificabas faci●bas ascendere multiplicabas consolabaris Faith assures the heart as much of promised mercies as if they were already enjoyed Reasō secōd Secondly When faith acteth upon a promise it contemneth all difficulties I see sayes faith these and the other difficulties in the way but faithfull is he who hath promised the mouth of the Lord hath spoken he will performe Reasō third Thirdly Faith saileth in a room sea It improveth infinite Omnipotencie the almighty power of God Rom. 4. 20. 21. Abraham staggered not at the promise through unbeliefe being fully perswaded that what he had promised he was able to perform Hence it is said All things are possible to him that believeth Mark 9. 23. Vse Dear people study the cleanly exercise of this precious grace of faith it will prove a brave supporter in a day of strait when sense and reason are miserable comforters and ready to say there is no help for thee in God now thou art fallen and shall never rise againe then faith will prophecie good things as in my text Yet God will quicken me againe and bring me up from the depths of the ●arth O happy they who know by experience what this jewel ●●●faith is Surely I know nothing which could have upheld either our late gracious SOVERAIGN or his MAJESTY who now is under their incomparable sufferings but this heavenly grace of faith The just lives by faith Hab. 2. 4. faith maketh the beleeving sufferer more then Conquero●r Doctrine second But I come to the second and maine doctrine at which I drive It is not unusuall with our Lord to raise these eminently whom he hath laid once very low How low was David brought under Sauls persecution when he was forced to flee among heathens and once had no other way to save his life but by feigning himself mad How low was he brought by Absolem when he is put to flee bare-footed from Ierusalem when a dog like Shimei durst come and throw stones at him yet after all this the Lord did honour him exceedingly and as my text speaketh The Lord did increase his greatnes and comfort him on every syde I give but another instance How low was Iob brought stript of all his estate bereaved of all his children in one day moreover smitten with loathsom diseases in his person the arrows of God in the meane while drinking up his spirit yea and under such temptations that as he speaketh cap. 7. 15. he was ready to choyse strangling death rather then life yet as you reade c. 42. 10. 12. The Lord ●urned ●ask the captivity of Iob his latter end was more prosperons ●hen the first at first he had 7000 sheep cap. 1.