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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

pleasure to rake this dunghill could easily fill a volume with such stuffe from their writtings which Cardinall Bellarm. delyvers lib 5. de Romano Pontifice cap. 7. Rat. 3. Non licere Christianis tolerare Regem haereticum si is conetur subditos in suam haeresin pertrahere That it s not lawfull for subjects to tolerat an Hereticall King if he labour to draw his subjects to his heresie It not this to blew a Trumpet for rebellion because of these and such like Popish principles our gravest Divines among the rest learned Davenant in his book intituled Determinationes quarundam Quaestionum Theologicarum quaest 17● have most deservedly concluded ●esuiticos Pontificios non posse esse bonos subditos That Iesuited Papists can never be good subjects and worthy Master Baxter in his Key for Catholicks part 1. cap. 48. spares not to say That Kings are not Kings where the Pope is folly Pope What neede we more It not Our Most Seren PRINCE of glorious memory K. Iames the VI. a Witnesse beyond exception Who in his Royall Apologi● for the oath of Allegeance pagg. 279. and 280. inter opera Regia after a recitall of twelve of Bellarmin's positions destructive to Royaltie such as That O impudēt and prodigious tenets Kings are rather servants then Lords that they are subject not onely to Popes but also to Bishops Presbyters yea to Deacons That Emperours must not take it ill to drink not only after the Bishop but also after the Presbyter That Ecclesiastick perso●s are as far above Princes as the soul in dignity is beyond the body That the function and authority of Kings is not immediatly of God or of Divine right That Kings may be deposed by their subjects That Popes have deposed Emperours but never did an Emperour depose a Pope c. Who I say after a large recitall of these and other of the Iesuits pernicious tenets most judiciously concludeth Non magis opponi Christum Beliali aut lucem tenebris aut Coelum Inferno quam Roberti Bellarmini de Regibus opinio Divinis Oraculis adversatur That is That the Devill is no more opposite to Christ nor light to darknesse nor hell to Heaven then the Iesuite Bellarmine's opinion of Kings is repugnant to the divine Oracles of holy Scripture But Alas What shall I say Is it not to be lamented if it were possible with tears of bloud That so much advantage should have been given to the Iesuited party for recrimination to retort a charge of disloyal●●●● A GRATULATORY SERMON for His Majesties safe ARRIVALL and happy restitution to the Exercise of His Royall Government● PSAL. LXXI Vers 20. Thou which hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me again and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth Vers 21. Thou shalt increase my greatnesse and comfort me ●n every side Vers 22. I will also praise thee with the psaltery even thy truth O my GOD unto thee will I sing with the harp O th●● Holy One of Israel IN the words read leaving to preface upon the The text divided Psalme in generall we have these three things First A Great and a gracious King David the Royall Psalmist and sweet finger of Israel expressing his sense of the deep troubles under which he● had groaned Thou hast shewed me great and s●re troubles II. The same David from a well grounded perswasion of faith promi●ing to himself from the Lord as signall mercies for the future as his former afflictions had been bitter Thou shalt quicken me again and bring me up again from the depths of the earth Thou shalt increase my greatnes and comfort me on every side Wee have him III. as one who well knew how to improve both rods and deliverances solemnly engaging to be forthcoming for the Lords praise I will The first branch subdivided also praise thee with the Psalteri● even thy truth O my GOD. c. I returne intending by a few short hints to passe through the words In the first branch David holds out 1. The principall Author of all his sad exercises not Saul not Doeg not Absolom in time of whose unnaturall conspiracy this psalme is thought to have been penned But Thou O Lord sayes he Thou O holie Angustias multas et malas Tremell Magnas malas Pagnin et Mont. One of Israel 2. He gives a touch of the bitternesse of his exercises he cals them great and sore troubles that is depth distresses But 3. w●e have fai●hs undervaluing prospect of all these evils Sense had called them great sore troubles but faith in a manner correcting sense sayes Thou hast suè●●ed me great sore troubles fecisti ut experirer Iun. et Tremell But they acknowledge according to the hebrew its Fecisti ut viderem hence Pagnin Ostendisti Thou hast made me to see or shewed me as if David had said albeit sense do aggravate my afflictions as great sore troubles yet faith gives me another estimat of them It s but a transient view shew of trouble which I have had Thou who hast shewed me great sore trouble The words of this branch are so plain that they need not further explication then what hath been insinuated in the division Therefore I proceed to some doctrines Doct. 1 Doct. 1. Great ones and good ones may be exercised with great and sore troubles David was both a great Prince and a good man yet was he exercised with great and sore troubles Ye will finde the truth of this if ye reade the History of Sa●ls persecution and of Absolems usurpation i● the books of Samuell Was not Joseph an eminent Worthy yet was he also exercised with great and sore troubles The archers sorely grieved him shot at him and wounded him GEN. 49. 23. He was thrown into a pit sold to Ishmaelits after cast into a dungeon and laid in the irons in a strange Land But what speak I of David or of Joseph Was there ever so great an One as our LORD CHRIST the Son of the Highest or so good an One The holy and just One. Yet behold and see● if ever there was any sorrow like to His sorrow The 1. reason of the Doctrine A first reason of the point may be this Great and haynous ●ins bring on great and sore afflictions I never knew any rationall creature afflicted but were sinners either formally or by imputation I add this caution because of Our Lord Jesus who never knew sin II. Cor. 5. 21. as to His own Person He was conscious to himself of no wickednesse nor ever was guile found in his mouth I. Pet. 2. 22. yet one spared not to say I pray mistake not the word that He was the greatest of sinners namely by imputation because all the sins of the Elect were imputed to Him and charged on Him Isai 53. 6. He laid on him the iniquities of us all Dominus fecit occurrere in ●um ARR. MONT. he

made all our iniquities to meete on Him as so many violent streames of water meeting in one channell and this imputed guiltinesse of the Elect was the ground of His unspeakable sufferings But alas All the ●est of Mankinde beside our LORD are inherently sinfull even this holy Prince David so much renowned for his holines had his owne spots and these very foule Indeed if I should say that the greatest sufferers are alwayes the greatest sinners I should sin against the generation of the righteous for the Lord somtimes afflicts his owne more for the tryall of their graces then for the punishment of their transgressions as is clear in the case of Job Yet it is sin which renders us subjects capable of affliction So that Eliphaz word holds true IOB 5. 6. Affliction springs not out of the dust Sin is the bitter root on which affliction grows Reason se ∣ cond of the Doctrine A second reason The Lord exercises some of the sons of men with great and sore troubles to fi● and prepare them for eminent trust and services This was the designe of God in exercising Joseph with these many and bitter afflictions even to prepare him for the great trust he was to put upon him for He had appointed him to be a Prince and Governour next to Pharaoch in that mighty kingdom of Egypt Wherfore GEN. 50. 20. As for you said he to his brethren yee thought evill against me but God meant it unto good Before the LORD set David upon the Throne He would have him schooled by the crosse hunted like a Partridge and chased from Nation to Nation Thus the LORD fitted him for the trust to which hee was designed Hence ye● finde him resolving in Psal 101. when he comes to his Government to cloath himself with the z●ale of God for cleansing both Court and Nation of evill doers A sweet fruit of a sanctified affliction I desire confidently to beleeve that this hath been the designs of God in these great and sore troubles wherewith Hee hath been pleased to exercise our GRACIOUS SOVERAIGN to fit him for the Government and to prepare him to be an eminent instrument of His Glory in advancing the Reformed and Protestant Religion both at home and abroad And surlie a sanctified affliction is a speciall meane of God to fit men either for Civill or Ecclesiastick capacities Schola crucis sch●la lucis The schoole of the crosse is a school of light instruction Yea is it not said of our LORD 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 5. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He learned by what he suffered Reasō third of the Doct. Take onely a hint of a third reason If great ones good ones were exempted frō crosses alas would they not be ready to say It s good being here But our Lord lookes upon an Imperiall Crown on earth as too low a Portion for a Saint Therefore the Lord is pleased to mixe water among their wyne that they may look pant after that Crown of righteousnes and Glory that fadeth not away The Lord had provided a better portiō for David then the Crown of Israel I trust also for our LATE SOVERAIGN of ever blessed Memory though bloudy hands did rob him of his life of an earthly Crown yet could they not rob him of that incorruptible Crown of Glory Nay by that horrid inhumane parricide they did hasten him to the possessiō therof I verily beleeve It was the lively expectation of and earnest breathings of his most precious soul after that Crown of Righteousnesse which did so strengthen him to possesse his soul with such admirable heroick and invincible patience under so long 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 supra mo●● in sublimitate vulg lat Secundū excellentiam in excellentiam ARR. MONT. mire supra modum Eras In incredibilem modum Aug. in Psalm 93. per supergressū insuper Tertull. in Scorp cap. 13. Glori● excellenter excellentis Beza a tract of such barbarous and unheard of cruelties According to that II. Cor. 4. 17. 18. Our light affliction so faith cals sharpest afflictions when it eyes that hoped for Glory which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternall weight of glory While wee looke not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporall but the things which are not seen are eternall Whom would not the lively hope of this glory animat to undergoe any trials with patience Use first of Doct. I onely point at two words of vse and the first is Dear People take heed yee provoke not the Lord. If He spare neither the greatest nor the best of men when they sin against him how shall we escape If He smite Cedars like David with great and sore troubles shall shrubs like us expect impunitie The Lord by the rodes wherwith he exercises great Ones and good ones demonstrates how hatfull sin is to him in all persons Yea let Christ the Son of his love charge himself but with the trespasses of other men He shall not escape the Crosse Rom 8. 32. He spared not his owne Son Were this considered and seriously beleeved would wee da●e to offend this sin-revenging Majesty of God Surely when the Iudgements of God are on the land especially when he smyts great Ones good ones The inhabitants ought to learne righteousnes Is 26. 8. Use second of doctrin But my second word of use is judge not hardly I intreate you of afflicted ones The Lord may exercise a David who was a darling with great and sore troubles yet the Lord had a designe of love in all Davids afflictions and made it out so convincingly to Davids spirit that he professes to the praise of the Lords goodnesse Psalm 119. 71. It was good for him he was afflicted and v. 57. That the Lord in faithfulnes had afflicted him Luther was wont to say Ecclesia est haeres crucis and again Omnis Christianus est crucianus and againe I have not said he a greater argument against the Popes kingdom Quam quod sine cruce regnat then that he reigns without a crosse The holy man was so far from looking upon outward prosperitie as a Marke of the Church that he rather looked on it as a badge of Antichrist It hath pleased the Lord so to order that our SOVERAIGN is come to his Crown by the crosse This should be so far from stumbling us that it ought rather to raise both our prayers to God for him and our expectations of him the higher Our earnest desire to the Lord ought to be that it may more and more appeare that the Lord had a speciall designe of love to him in all his sufferings to make him the more instrumentall for his own glory for the good of these Nations What an hard beginning had illustrious QUEEN ELIZABETH clapt up in the tower of London carried frō prison to prison how oft was