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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

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

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.