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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42490	Megaleia theou, Gods great demonstrations and demands of iustice, mercy, and humility set forth in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at their solemn fast, before their first sitting, April 30, 1660 / by John Gauden ...	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing G364; ESTC R16267	41,750	78

ΜΕΓΑΛΕΙΑ ΘΕΟΥ Gods great DEMONSTRATIONS AND DEMANDS OF Iustice Mercy and Humility Set forth in a SERMON PREACHED Before the Honourable House of Commons at their Solemn Fast before their first sitting April 30. 1660. By JOHN GAVDEN D. D. Prov. 21.3 To do Justice and Judgement is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Clem. Alex. Apud nos quo religiosior quisque eo justior Minuts Fel. de Christ LONDON Printed by J. Best for Andrew Crook at the Green-Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. TO THE Honorable the Speaker and other Members of the House of COMMONS NO sooner had I done my duty to Gods commands and yours Honorable and worthy but blessed be God you presently applied to do your duty to God the King and your Country with such Justice Mercy and Humility that you have by an astonishing joy revived the sunk spirits of all just merciful and humble men in these three Kingdoms who had for many years been sorely depressed and almost despaired under the importune injuries of some insolent and proud Masters who with Cesar or Pompey were impatient of any superior or equal yea with Lucifer and Antichrist they exalted themselves above all that were called God in the British Honour and Authority advancing their unjust and merciless ambition so high that at last it fell not by force so much as its own weight and that just confusion which God brought upon those Babel-builders whose foolish building had indeed many pinacles of fanatick opinions and projects daily starting up yet but one great Tower or Mole whose moorish or sandy foundation was tumult and violence its line and measure fancy and providence its materials the lives and estates of its Countrymen its cement the blood both of Kings Priests and People The gracious and glorious God who alone doth wonders hath by the Justice Mercy and Humility of the two Houses of Parliament added to the most renowned Generals humble valour and loyal courage soon made Nehustan of those brazen Serpents and Idols which were made up of subtilty and hypocrisie violence and impudence 7. In a few days even before I could print what I had preached we have lived to see that holy Motto under the Kings Arms made good Exurgat Deus dissipentur inimici Let God arise and his enemies shall be scattered Psal. 68.1 The royal Dieu mon Droit God and my right hath like Moses his Serpent devoured the Serpents and rods of those Magicians who usurped all things yet nothing more falsly and unjustly than that Inscription Deus nobiscum God with us when indeed they had neither his Word nor the Laws of the land with them with the like vain and arrogant ostentation did Dionysius boast of the gods good will and approbation when after his sacrilegious pillaging one of their Temples he had a very fair gale of wind to carry him and his booty home by sea Certainly nothing is more remote from Gods gracious presence and the power of godliness than that brutal power and inordinate might which is carried on with penal prosperities and successes but without any right as to Law and Justice which are the only rules and boundaries of good conscience also the soul and life of all righteous Government void of which the other is but cadaverosa potentia a putid carkass of prevalent usurpation which stinks in the Nostrils of God and all good men But You even You are those True Worthies who by your just loyal and humble agnition of and submission to the Kings lawful Authority have made Mercy and truth meet together yea righteousness and peace kiss each other You have fulfilled in the affirmative that old and ambiguous verse which I remember to have heard many years before our sad troubles which ends with Nullus In which Negative the time-serving Astrologasters and others strongly fancied they found a fatal period of the British Monarchy at least of the Stuartian royal family O how must it make those Diviners mad to see what I long ago hoped would be the meaning of it that King who was made and esteemed as Nullus a persecuted expulsed and as much as lay in humane malice a nullified King to see him reign as surely and gloriously as any of those royal Predecessors did who under the emblems of other words made up that strange verse To which so benign an interpretation and event there wanted not some providential omens and signatures as first that star which appeared a little after noon on the day of the Kings birth of which there were many eye witnesses in London and Westminster Next were those meddals of silver which were then coyned with this Inscription Hactenus Anglorum nulli to denote that Prince to be the Nonsuch who alone had the glory to be born Heir apparent to these three British Kingdoms Nor was his signal preservation after Worster-fight a small pledge of Gods special protection whose usual methods are to build up to an unwonted height and conspicuity of glory there where he lays the deepest foundation of earthly affliction I confess I cannot sufficiently with you and all good men admire the wonderful revolutions and intricate ridles of Gods providence punishing us justly for our sins yet relieving us mercifully from our sufferings We are yet in extacies of joy and wonder as those that dream hardly believing the strange undeserved and unexpected dispensations of God toward us in which he hath made that precious stone which some builders refused to become the corner the capital and crown-stone of the building the only center and stability of that Arch in which the loyalty and love the joy and hopes of all good Subjects and true English-Protestants do meet and six May you go on prosperously and unanimously under the Banner of the most high God to compleat your religious loyal just and valiant Counsels not only to establish his Majesties Throne and our civil rights in Truth Mercy and Peace but also to cleanse and repair the Temple the Church and house of the living God whose miserable dilapidations and sordid ruines in doctrine devotion discipline order and government are such that you cannot but pity to see all things sacred covered with dust and the Ministery of the Church both Bishops and Presbyters almost buried with the rubbish of factions confusions dissentions and despiciencies I confess this Church-work ought as the Kingdom of God to be first in every good Christians intention as no doubt it was and is in yours But you are not to be blamed by any unseasonable severitie if as to point of execution you first applied your selves in the present distress of our times and affaires to settle and secure as to the main those things which belonged to your civil rights and National peace The exigents or extreamities of which not bearing any delayes do sufficiently justifie your indeavors to preserve the ship of the State in which the Church is imbarqued which