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A34713	England's restoration parallel'd in Judah's, or, The primitive judge and counsellor in a sermon before the honourable judge at Abington assizes, for the county of Berks, Aug. 6. 1689 / by Francis Carswell ...	Carswell, Francis, d. 1709.	1689 (1689)	Wing C649; ESTC R222147	22,865	40

began to want they repined and wish'd they had died in Egypt When reliev'd and fed with Quails and Manna Angels Food they loath'd it and long'd for the Offals of Egypt When the Army of Israel was defied by Goliah they cry for help God sends them David to deliver them but they despise the Stripling Before he fought the Champion Saul will give him his Daughter or any thing if he conquer When he had destroy'd him and saved both the King and his Kingdom he throws his Javelin at him to kill him Thus when lately Rome threatned our Church with Idolatry France our Nation with Slavery A corrupt pack'd Bench ready to decree it An Army encamp'd ready to enforce it A Prince resolute enough to attempt it Then all as fill'd with Discontent and sunk in Despair murmur out their Complaints That their Religion is lost their Laws dispens'd with and gone the Government Arbitrary the Nation ruined and themselves all undone and cry out Help Lord or else we perish God heard and sent his Angel and deliver'd us and we are restor'd as at the first and in the beginning in so transcendent a manner far beyond what in Reason we could wish or hope for without Effusion of Blood or Devastation of our Cities that all must say It was the Lord's doing and it is wonderful in our Eyes And we being thus deliver'd what is the meaning of all these Lowings and Bleatings in our Ears Discontents and Murmurings as tho' we design'd to confront Heaven stubbornly to rebel against Providence charge the most High with Injustice and dare his Vengeance 'T is just as if when God sent Samuel to tell Saul that for his ill Government He had this day rent the Kingdom of Israel from him and given it to David his Son-in-law that was more righteous than himself by whose hands He was resolv'd to save his People and they had again replied We will not be saved after this manner by God's deposing the Father and setting up his Son Save us by Saul in our own way as best agrees with our Humours or save us not at all How must this have provoked the holy One of Israel to have destroy'd until he had made an end and their Land a Desolation Yet such as these may be found amongst us as Fighters against God. For 1. There are some Repiners who biass'd by a Corrupt Religion bear no good Will to our Sion For they know if the Ark of God be restor'd and set up their Dagon must be removed and thrown down 2. There are others repine because our common Restauration is not their private Interest as those that made Silver-Shrines for Diana and by that Craft get their Wealth may not be wondred at in being so zealous to support her Temple The ground of that grand Uproar at Ephesus and it may be the true Reason of our present Discontents at home Tho' 't is Conscience and Sacrifice with Saul that are the pretended Reasons of their murmuring Disobedience yet these will no more justifie their Rebellions against God's Providential Acts and Deliverances than Saul's did Nor render their Crimes better than his even as the Sin of Witchcraft because the Christian Religion being a Doctrine of Submission and Obedience to the Powers that are doth not involve the Consciences of private Christians about the Title of Princes but only assure them that the Powers that are they are of God and therefore must be obeyed Neither can their Pretensions with the Jews of being bound under an Oath to kill Paul murther their Religion Laws and Country or stand by one that will which is all one justify them in so villanous an Act or give them the least Merit or Reputation by their refusal to renounce such Obligations and to promise Faith Obedience and Assistance to that Glorious Instrument sent by God to save us And is therefore just ground to conclude what their Designs are and Reason for the Government to reject them not only as useless but pernicious and dangerous ne pars sincera trahatur But in truth I rather believe all to proceed from Caution and Interest than Conscience Things may be of doubtful Issue not being yet fully decided and by a bare Suspension they undergo no greater loss for the present than what the Hearts of some could wish for to turn their Charges into sine Cures And having yet time enough to prevent any loss by a deprivation for the future in hopes before that time all may settle and they enabled to make the wiser Choice and effectually secure their Interest let the Issue be what it will. But if there be any that can at last for sake all upon so gross a mistake I will towards such exercise the Charity due to weaker Brethren and hope the best But to lay aside the gilded Pretensions of some the blinded Passions and corrupt private Interests of others as no Guides for us to walk by it will become us in Duty with all humble and grateful Acknowledgment Hearts full of Joy and Mouths filled with Hosanna's to ascribe the Praise the Honour and Glory of all to that God by whose right Hand we have been hitherto preserv'd and restor'd both in Church and State lest that by murmuring on their Doom become ours who after all their miraculous Deliverances out of the Hands of their Enemies were sentenc'd at last to die in the Wilderness there to perish and never enter into his Rest I come now to apply the whole and conclude Having hitherto endeavour'd to parallel our present Restauration and to shew the Influence Primitive Judges and Counsellours may have on it As also to characterise limn and present you with their Pictures Now Sir 't is your part if as I hope you are such a one to shew us the Substance of this Shadow the very Life it self You are come forth in this the time of our universal Restauration the Eyes of the People are upon You they hope for and expect better and greater things Disappoint them not so as that when they look for Judgment behold Iniquity for Righteousness but behold Oppression Let it be no longer proverbially said Visim● C●l●stum terra● Astrea reliquit That Justice is fallen asleep or hath forsaken our Country Jericho was a pleasant Scituation but the Waters we read were naught and bitter England is such another Scituation let every one of you be as another Elishah to sweeten and meliorate our Waters so that our Rivers may be as Streams of Righteousness and Judgment running down You have heard the dismal fatal Consequences of but one Act of Injustice in a Judg's Life Be then universally Righteous lest you provoke a greater than He who swore by the Rivers and said Qui Fulm●n Qui vos habeóque reg●qu● Perdendum est mortale Genus I will rend the World in sunder and ruine Mortals Wherefore put on Zeal as a Cloak and Righteousness as a Breast-plate quit your selves like more than Men like Gods whose Name you bear and whom you personate Be holy as he is holy be just as he is just Loose the bonds of Wickedness undo the heavy Burthens let the Oppressed go free Hold not the Sword in vain Be a Terrour to evil repining invidious Murmurers at our Prosperity Such as could say Aha so would we have it when our Jerusalem was like to have lain in the Dust that at length all the Wicked may be asham'd and confounded but the Righteous may lift up their Heads and rejoice Surgat Gens Aurca Begin the Golden Age again Thus shall you build up the old waste places for the present and raise them for many Generations to come Thus shall you make an Atonement for our Land the Inheritance of the Lord that his Wrath may be turned away Thus if your Righteousness go before you the Glory of the Lord shall be your Rearward Thus if you come up to the Primitive Patern set before you your selves will become as Originals to all who in After-Ages shall survive you Thus you will make our Cities not only be called but really become Cities of Righteousness Faithful Cities Thus you will be the happy Instruments to redeem our Sion our Church of England with Judgment and all her Converts with Righteousness Since ye know these things happy shall ye be if ye do them FINIS 2 Chron. 24. 17 18 Jos lib. ● c. 8. 2 Chron. 25. 2 3. 2 Chron. 25. 14. Jos lib. 9. c. 10. 2 Chron. 25. 27. All●n pag. 163. Brough Chron. Hen. Clap. pag. 84. 2 Chron. 25. 4 5. 2 Chron. 26. 18. 19. Jo 〈…〉 2 Kings 14. 5. Jos lib. 9. c. 11. Allen. pag. 117. Lib 9. cap. 11. 2 Chron. 27. 5 6. Luke 4. 19. Dan. 4. 32. Psal 127. 1 2. Prov. 19. 21. Isaiah 44. 28. Dan. 5. 25 26 27. Jer. 18. 6 7 8. Luk. 18. 2. Seld. dejur li. 7. c. 6. de Syned lib. 1. c. 15. Dr. Iones de Jud. p. 27. Seld de Syned lib. 1. c. 15. Exod. 13. 7. Exod. 18. 19. Judg. 2. 16 Exod. 18. 13. Exod. 18. 25 26. Psal 2 Chron. 19. 5. Exod. 23. 2 3. 5 6. 7. Exod. 18. 19. 2 Sam. 17. 14. 1 Kings 1. 12. 1 Kings 12. 6. Exod. 18. 25 26. Alliborn at Reading foretold that in a short time they would hear their Minister preaching up the King's Right to dispence with Laws For. pag. 129. Gen. 14. 39. 2 Chron. 24. 1. 17. Jos lib. 9. cap. 8. 2 Chron. 22. 3 4. 1 Kings 12. 1 1. 1 Kings 12. 16. 1 Kings 12. 18 19. Rev. 7. 5. 8. 2. Isai 1. 10. 1 Kings 21 19. Numb 25 8 14 15. 1 Sam. 3. 13. 11. 12. Apoc. Cal. Pa●●p Prov. 14. 24. 1 Kings 18. 28. Pot. Ma● pag. 97. Sir Sam. Mor. Embass Psal 72. 2 3 4. Luke 2. 9. Chi. Hist P. 253. Hebrai●● puer injungit Divum do minatur ergo tacens c.