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A58858	Mirabilia dei, or, Britannia gaudio exultans Opened in a congratulatory sermon for the safe return of our Gracious Soveraign, and happy restitution to the full and free exercise of His royall authoritie. Preached on the 14th. of June, [16]60. which was the day set apart for the members, master, and students of the Kings Colledge, in the town and parish of Old Aberdeen, to commemorat and solemnly praise the Lord for the rich mercies above mentioned: by Alexander Scrougie preacher of the Gospel, and minister at Old Aberdeen.	Scrogie, Alexander, d. 1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing S2127; ESTC R218663	34,871	47

Lord that I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works and Psal 71. 17. he professeth that he hath performed his engagement Hitherto I have declared thy wondrous works The Lord doth great things for this end That we shew forth all his praise in the gates Psal 9. 13 14. Vse 1. Talk then of his great doings for us publickly with all solemn commemorations and confessions Let Parents declare it to their children If thy Son ask thee saying What is this and what meaneth these things thou shalt declare it fully unto him as ye have the like commanded Exod. 13. 14. and Josh 4. 5 6 7. the Psalmist promised to make known Gods works to the generations to come 78 4. 6 8. hide not then these things from others but say as the Lepers 2 King 7. 9. This day is a day of good tidings we do not well to hold our peace write them in your memories and open them in your communications he is a son of Belial that doth it not Take these motives to enforce the Duty 1. Thereby we advance Gods glory the work-man is exalted when the work is commended 2. Thereby we testifie our own thankfulnesse to God and gives the glory of all to him 3. We provock and encourage others to the like performance I will make thy name to be remembred saith the Psalmist in all generations therefore shall the people praise thee Psal 45. 17. Moses told Jethro all that the Lord had done for his people and Jethro thereupon blessed and magnified the Lord Exod. 8 9 10 11. 4. Thereby we engage our selves and encourage others to a right Improvement of Gods works that we neither contemn nor abuse them but take them with all dutifull respect and submissive reverence out of Gods own hand and entertain them as his gifts and doings Vse 2. Blame worthy then are they First who by their sinfull silence conceales these great doings Conscience of former guiltinesse choaks and shuts the mouths of some they are confounded and lay their hand upon their mouth But secondly Much more guilty and blame worthy are others who like the dog in the manger will neither commemorate Gods doings themselves nor suffer others to do it Or thirdly Who stands fretting within and gnashing the teeth while they behold others about it but these as it was told before shall be ashamed and confounded for their envie Isa 26. 11. Obs 5. Gods people should not only notice and declare Gods great doings but also apply them so did the Jews here and therein lay the difference betwixt the heathen and them for the Heathen could lay no claim to them nor had interest in them they could not appropriate because they were not done for them but for the Jews they were done they therefore had interest in them and rightly laid claim to them Thankfull ones are still applying and takes Gods doings as his gifts given to them and done for them And it is to be marked that their application was universall they did it as one man with one mouth and heart and as all concerned in it Search the Scriptures and ye will find the Lords people upon the receipt of common favours done to the body each of them laying claim to the same as a sharer therein and counting it done as for all in common so for himself in particular When they were delivered out of Egypt and possessed in Canaan or freed from their enemies or blessed with a good King they accounted these done to all in common and to every one in particular and if any one did otherwise he is branded as a son of Belial 1 Sam. 10. 27. and looked upon as unworthy of fellowship or protection but worthy of death 1 Sam. 11. 12. Vse 1. Look then upon these late Transactions and Revolutions as Gods doings done for us and not against us they are of common concernment and great mercies and should accordingly be entertained by all and every one of us will ye but reveiw the great things formerly mentioned and pause a little in your meditations and consider the great evils we are delivered from Church evils and State evils and the great blessings bestowed upon both Church and State and ye will find that every true Protestant and honest Patriot is so great a sharer therein that he may truly say The Lord hath done great things for us take but one under your cognisance to wit the restitution of our King to us a King the rightfull Heir of these Kingdoms indued with so many gifts and graces owned by the Lord perfected by sufferings and made glorious by so many wonderfull deliverances A King whom the Scripture calls our Father for His Fatherly love and care 1 Sam. 24. 11. and our Head for His beneficial Influences Deut. 28. 44. Our shepherd to lead and defend us Isa 44. 28. Our Nursing Father Isa 49. 23. The breath of our nostrils Lam. 4. 20. The great tree under whose shadow we dwell Dan. 4. 12. Our light 2 Sam. 21. 17. The Minister of God for our good Rom 13. 4. and doth not these work so strongly upon us to cry out and say The Lord hath done this great work for us whereof we are glade Are we not his Children and he our Father we his members and he our Head we the sheep of his pasture and he our shepherd Have we not seen already the first fruits of his restauration Let us therefore as one man say and sing it over again The Lord hath done many great things for us and this in particular in restoring to us our King whereof we are glad Vse 2. Far be it then from any I hope there is none here to forbear to make application of Gods great doings of late as done for us And if there be any such I must tell them that it proceeds either 1. From ignorance of the blessings bestowed and of the miseries from which we are freed Or 2. From beastly stupidity being insensible of good or evil Or 3. From prejudice Or 4. The want of Grace Or 5. Needlesse fears Or 6. Malice and desperate opposition to the work of God Or 7. Envie and such like There is none in whom there is any spark of Grace or affection to his Countrey and love to the Church of God and his Soveraign that can forbear to say it over and again The Lord hath done great things for us c. Obs 6. Great and real favours and deliverances should work a great and real joy The word rendred glad Imports so much They wrought so upon the Jews here their hearts were glade their mouths were filled with laughter and their tongue with singing Our joy should in some measure be answerable to the ground of it the receipt of a man-child brings great joy to the Mother Joh. 16. 21. A clear and calm morning after a dark and stormy night brings joy to the birds of the air that they creep and sing the Child

and by his great doing hath made us live and stand up in his fight both our King and us his People and delivered Him and us from the hand of our enemies and blessed us as in the dayes of old Secondly Consider the manner it was without blood or sore labour Jud●h was not so delivered but God hath magnified his doing toward us for our enemies melted away as a snail which melteth Psal 58. 8. As smoak is driven away so were they as wax melteth before the fire so did they perish at the presence of God Psal 68. 2. Thirdly Consider by whom and in this also God hath magnified his great doing it was not the Babylonians but Cyrus that set the Jews at liberty but here many of these who were instrumentall against the King are now under God the means of His restitution The great God who changed Labans heart to enter in Covenant with Jacob Gen. 31. 34. and made these who joyned with Absolon in his rebellion against David their King prove afterwards most forward to call him home 2 Sam. 19. 9. he bowed also their hearts to show all forwardnesse for our Kings reduction and kisse Him with the kisses of subjection and reverence and will we hope ere long secure them to Him by the Oath of Allegiance As the hearts of Kings are in the hand of the Lord and he turneth them whether soever he will Prov. 21. 1. so are the hearts of Armies and Subjects in his hands and he hath turned them by his mighty influence to run in the ancient and right channell as we see this day Vse 1. Let us improve the Doctrine And first let no proud oppressing Tyrant glory in his might and boast like Pharaoh Exod. 5. 2. Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go or as Senacherib Can God deliver out of my hand 2 Chron 32. 14 15. presumptuous fools the foolishnesse of God is wiser then men and the weaknesse of God is stronger then men 1 Cor. 1. 25. He bindeth the arms of the strongest and taketh the prey from the mighty he catcheth the wisest in their own wiles He breaketh the bow and cutteth the spear in sunder Psal 46. 9. He bringeth out those which are bound with chains Psal 68. 6. He woundeth the head of his enemies verse 21. and brings his people from the depths of the sea verse 22. No might nor policie can withstand Him Mountains melt at his presence When he writes Mene Tekel on the wall the spirit of the mighty fails their thoughts are troubled their countenance changed their joynts loosed their knees smite one against another and the Tyrant is forced to cry out Do victas in tua vincla manus and with Julian Vicisti tandem Galilaee Vse 2. Secondly Fear the great Lord greatly who can do great things both for us and against us this use the Psalmist maketh of it Psal 89. 6. Who in heaven saith he can be compared to the Lord Who among the sons of the mighty can be likned unto to Lord and then from this he in●erreth verse 7. God is greatly to be feared in the Assembly of the Saints and Exod. 14. 31. Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians and the people feared the Lord. Vse 3. Thirdly Expect great things from him who can do them we dishonour him when we expect only little and but small things as he requireth our greatest services because he is a great Father and a great Master even the Lord of hosts Mal. 1. 6. so it becomes us to expect from him great things because he is a great King that worketh wonders how unbeseeming is a pettie fidian and a great God a little saith and a great Lord doing great things Vse 4 Fourthly Let none in the deepest distresse dispaire of his own or of the deliverance of Gods people although it seem incredible and above the reach of mans reason and power although thy condition seem desperate in the eyes of the enemie that he say God hath forsaken thee there is none to deliver thee Psal 71. 11. although it seem so unto thy neighbours and acquaintance that they look upon thee as a dead man out of mind and like a broken vessel Psal 31. 12. and although it seem so in thine own eyes that thou say as it is in Ezek. 37. 12. Our bones are dried and our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts yet remember The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the day of Judgement to be punished 2 Pet. 2. 9. Fear ye not as Moses said to the people Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will shew you Exod. 14. 13. Believe in God who quickneth the dead and calleth these things which be not as though they were Rom. 4. 17. Consider that unto God belongeth the issues from death Psal 68. 20. and that to him all things are possible Matth. 19. 26. and improve the former experiments of Gods great doings in behalf of his people or of thy self to the strengthning of thy faith in after times Conclude from former experience to future so did David 1 Sam. 17. 31. and so did Paul 2 Cor. 1. 10. as former Victories encourage Conquerors to a new Conquest so old deliverances and favours should help us still to trust in God and stand nudaunted in all our troubles Let us therefore register Gods former favours and the great things he hath done for us and make them as many Arguments to build upon God for time to come for God is alwayes where he was the same without any shaddow of change Vse 5. Fifthty Give God great praise for his great doings he will accept no lean or starved sacrifices Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised Psal 48. 1. and Psal 145. 3. When the Lord did a great work for Paul in delivering him from the Lions mouth he breaketh forth into great praise to him be glory for ever and ever amen 2 Tim. 4. 18. when the Lord turned again the captivity of his people their tongue was filled with singing the songs of praise as it is verse 2. God hath turned again our Kings and our captivity for ours was bound up in His Let us for this great work render unto God great and ample praise this is the end of all Gods doings for he doth all for his own glory and let this be our end to give the praise of all to him even praise in some measure answerable to his doing Obs 2. Secondly we observe Gods prerogative what ever great things are done for his people he is the doer of them he is the sole Author of his peoples good whether of their deliverance or their enjoyment of good things or the overthrow of their enemies He is the Author also of their misery Amos 3. 6. and Isa 45. 7.

God fits not as an idle spectator and leaves fortune to tumble things up and down but he is otherwayes the Author of good then of evil he is provocked by man to afflict For he doth it not willingly Lam. 3. 33. He is in a manner inforced to it by mans sins and therefore Isa 28. it is called his Work but his strange work his Act but his strange Act but of his peoples good He is causa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is the Author and occasion it comes of himself he moved only by his goodnesse doth great things for them this same work of the peoples deliverance is thrise ascribed to God in this Psal verse 1 2 3. and God himself told his people that he would be the doer of it Jer. 30. 8 9 10. Though he made use of Cyrus yet God was the principle and Cyrus but his Instrument He stirred up his spirit and held his right hand to subdue nations before him Isa 45. 1. and therefore he subjoyns there verse 5. I am the Lord and there is none else I girded thee though thou hast not known me He is the Lord and beside him there is no Saviour Isa 43. 11. He alone doth great wonders Psal 136. 4. Salvation is of the Lord alone Jonah 2. 9. Applic. To make Application Though the Army was Instrumentall in His Majesties restauration and though the Lord Generall did his utmost to perswade them to that great undertaking yet if the Lord had not moved their hearts they had not moved their hearts they had not moved nor promoved the Work There went with King Saul a band of men but God first touched their hearts 1 Sam. 10. 26. else they had proved as ill as others children of Belial and despised him as it is there verse 27. King Saul sent a severe Edict requiring the Subjects to give their assistance for the relief of Jabes-gilead but it was not the ●everity of the Proclamation that brought them to obedience but when the fear of the Lord fell on them Then they came with one consent 1 Sam. 11. 7. There is no Saviour beside him Josh 13. 4. It was the Lord who did begin and carried on this work which we commemorate this day Its beginning progresse and accomplishment is all of him Vse 1. Then first Let no Instrument mistake himself for the authour nor advance himself above his sphear nor appropriate to himself the Lords prerogative It was the folly of the proud Babylonians to do so Hab. 1. 16. They sacrificed to their own net and burned incense unto their drag The Assyrians also was deeply guilty of this as you have it Isa 10. 13. What God had done by him as an Instrument he arrogates to himself and ascribes to his own power and policie Instruments are sometimes ready with Israel to glory in their strength and successe which is but a thing of nought and say That they have taken horns to themself by their own strength Amos 6. 13. but Instruments should not ●acrilegiously robe God of his honour nor Dèifie themselves Let them beware lest their hearts be lifted up and forget the Lord who hath done great things by them and say in their heart their power and might of their hand their policie and industry hath done these things see Deut. 8. 14. 17. Vse 2. Secondly Let Instruments then be exhorted in a self-denying way to say Not unto us not unto us O Lord but unto thy Name give glory Psal 115. 1. and with Paul in an other case 1 Cor. 15. 10. By the grace of God I am what I am and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain I laboured abundantly yet not I but the grace of God which was with me for they prevailed not by their sword nor did their right arm save them but the right hand of the Lord and his arm and the light of his countenance because he favoured them Psal 44. 3. Vse 3. Thirdly My exhortation from this is to others First that they Idolize no Instrument When the people upon the hearing of Herods Oration gave a shout And cried it is the voice of a God and not of a man this puft him so up with pride that he gave not glory to God and therefore it turned to his ruine Act. 12. 21. 22 23. Two extreams there would be shunned The first is not to Deiefie Instruments although never so great set them not up in Gods room for God will not give his glory to another Isa 42. 8. and as salvation is in vain expected from them truly saith the Prophet In vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitude of mountains truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel Jer. 3. 23. so it is impiously ascribed to them for what could they have done without God without whom they can do nothing Joh. 15. 6. God it is who worketh by them what he pleaseth God said of Cyrus his Instrument Thou art my shepherd and shall perform all my pleasure Isa 44. 28. The other extream to be avoided is the neglect of Instruments Idolize them we may not forget them we should not remember them with civill honour and praise we ought are not Moses Joshua the several Judges Deborah David Cyrus and other Instruments of the Lord for his peoples good recorded in Scripture with honour in the 5 of Judges Deborah remembereth with honourable respect these who helped against the enemy others are branded with a note of Infamy for withholding their assistance and Meroz is cursed with a grievous curse because being neer and called to give their assistance they refused to do it and 23. let us then remember the Instruments before named with civil respect and praise Should we not honour them whom the Lord hath honoured let them be Chronicled to succeeding Generations my heart is towards them To use Deborah her wor●● Judg. 5. 9. That offered themselves willingly blesse the Lord. Vse 4. Fourthly Give all the Divine praise to God praise him in and for himself he is the principall and author of these great works For of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory for ever Amen Rom. 11. 36. When Jehoshaphat was delivered from his enemies he gave the praise of all to the Lord 2 Chron. 27 28. so did Theodosius being certified of the overthrow of John the Usurper Socrat. lib. 7. cap. 23. so did the people of Israel when David their King was advanced to his Throne see Psal 118. It is true we cannot sufficiently utter the mighty acts of the Lord nor shew forth all his praise Psal 106. 2. yet according to our capacity let us sing with Moses The Lord is my strength and song he is become my salvation The Lord is a man of war Thy right hand O Lord is become glorious in power who is like unto thee O Lord among the gods Who is like thee glorious in

27. Matth. 22. 21. 7. To obey them for conscience sake 1 Pet. 2. 13. 8. To be thankfull unto God for a good KING 1 King 1. 40. 2 King 11. 12. and Psal 118. which was Penned to teach the Subject how to entertain with joy and thankfulnesse Davids advancement to the Throne of Israel How greatly stand we of these Nations engaged to God for re-establishing among us the best of Governments and setling it upon the right shoulders and restoring to us our King It was our sins which deprived us of Him because we feared not the Lord Hos 10. 13. and did not thankfully and reverently entertian Him when He was with us as became dutifull Subjects The more tyes lyes upon us to blesse the Lord that notwithstanding of our unworthinesse yet he hath restored Him and set Him upon His Throne with Glory and Honour and so much the rather in that His Majesty is no stranger by Birth but our rightfull King no stranger by Religion not a Jeroboam to make the Land sin but of that same Orthodox Profession with us and Fidei defensor Not a Rehoboam not able to advise Himself but a Solomon a David wise as an Angel of God to discern between good and evil not a Zedekiah but a Josiah fearing the Lord not a Manasseh but gentle and mercifull as David not a covetous Ahab but willing rather to dispense with part of His own Revenues God hath not delt so with every Nation and in this he hath magnified His mercy toward us in giving us such a King a King Primae intentionis of special favour God hath been Schooling us under the rod of Oppressors to know the worth of our King and teach us better principles how to entertain Him with more sincere chearfull and constant Loyaltie and I wish all may learn their Lesson well My Lord To testifie our thankfulnesse in this place with publick Narrations Confessions and Praises for so great and rich a mercy It was resolved upon by the Masters and Members of the Kings Colledge here and Me to set apart a solemn day for that gratfull imployment which was solemnly gone about by all here and many others both Ministers and Professors from several places of this Countrey and among others the Magistrates and many Inhabitants of the Honourable and Loyal City of Aberdeen And in this we had the precedencie before many of this Nation that we celebrate here the fourteenth day of June whereas others followed after upon the ninteenth day This Sermon was a part of the work of that day which when ended I laid it by not intending to have sent it abroad to publick view But the Masters of His Majesties Colledge by their often and earnest entreaties fo far prevailed with me as to send it to the Presse Vpon which when I had resolved then immediately some magnetick vertue from your Lorddship drew my thoughts towards you and sweetly yet powerfully engaged me to transmit it under your Lordships Protection The Sermon it self is plain in which is nothing but the words of truth and sobriety I speak most in the words of God for in preaching Gods Word should have the preheminence and therefore I purposely forbear to garnish it with Testimonies of humane Writers My Lord When mean men speaks to the King they do it by the means of some Courtiour and when Scholers speaketh to the Kingdom they do it under the Protection of some worthy Patern I have made bold to transfer this Sermon to the Nation under your Lordships Name and Protection Reasons moving me were these First The subject of the Sermon is concerning the King and who should more own and countenance it then your Lordship beloved of the King and advanced by Him to the highest place in this Kingdom Secondly The eminencie and concatenation of Gods Graces and Heroick resplendent Vertues in you as they have drawn the eyes and hearts of all good and Loyall Subjects so mine too towards your Lordship and in this I am happy Wisdom leadeth men to shelter themselves and their Labours under the wings of the most eminent for Piety Learning and Vertue and such is your Lordship by the harmonious testimony of truly good men Thirdly Your Lordships good affection manifested to honest Loyal Ministers countenancing and incouraging them receiving them when they came with chearfulnesse intertaining them courteously and dismissing them with contentment Fourthly Your Lordships zeal for His Majesties restauration testified by your valorous undertaking When others would not ye went with a handfull of Loyal Subjects and jeoparded your self in the high places of the Field and so wisely and valorously acquit your self that ye became a terrour to the Enemy But when the Lord was not pleased to carry on his work by that mean then your Lordship testified your Loyalty by suffering for your Prince To you it was given not only to act but to suffer for Him Fifthly Tour Lordships activity and wisdom in advancing the work of His Majesties restauration when God offered the opportunity by dealing with the Lord General Monck now Duke of Albemarlie and others of his Army as I am credibly informed When open acting would have exasperated enemies and retarded the Designe ye acted secretly and successively for which your praise is through the Churches of God in these Lands to the perpetuating your Name to future Ages Sixthly Your several testimonies of love and respect which your Lordship was pleased to extend to my Reverend Brother Master William Scrougie Minister at Rathven and on singular among others which your Lordship procured to him from the Kings Majesty Be pleased therefore most Noble Lord graciously to accept of this my humble addresse and grant me and this Sermon your favourable Protection for the dayes are evil I have one word more and so I have done it is my hearts prayer to God that he will blesse His Majesties Person and Government and make the Crown to flourish on His head for many years and on the heads of His Posterity till there be no more time That He will blesse His People with Loyalty Vnity and Obedience The Ministers of the Gospel with zeal for God and the King The Church of God in this Land with the continuance both of His precious Truth in Power and Purity and of the Priviledges and Government thereof and that He will grant to continue your Lordship long in the high Charge His Majesty hath laid most worthily upon you to the Honour of the King the good of the Commonwealth the comfort of the Church the Glory of God and your own comfort in Him and that He will perfect His Graces in you and after many prosperous years on earth will minister an entrance to you into His everlasting Kingdom And I humbly beseech your Lordship to conceave of me as I am and shall be Your Lordships humbly devoted Servant in all dutifull submission ALEXANDER SCROVGIE MIRABILIA DEI. Psal CXXVI 3. The Lord hath done great things for