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A29208	A sermon preached at Dublin upon the 23 of Aprill, 1661 being the day appointed for His Majesties coronation : with two speeches made in the House of Peers the 11th of May, 1661, when the House of Commons presented their speaker / by John Lord Archbishop of Armagh, Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4235; ESTC R25292	22,740	52

fail Shall doubtless come again with joy This wo●…d onely seemeth to me to be translated over flat and might be rendered more aptly with a shout of joy or with joyful acclamations by allusion to those harvest dames which they use in many places when they bring in the last load of their harvest with great pomp and shouts and acclamations of joy And bring his sheaves with him that is the increase of his seed the fruit of his labour the reward of his patience In the words we may observe a double qualification The former he that now goeth on his way weeping the latter and beareth forth good seed And a double prognostick the former shall doubtless come again with joy the latter and bring his sheaves with him We may observe how going forth and coming again weeping and shouting for joy seed and sheaves do ansvver one another And now that we have seen the sence let us see how fitly these words do agree to the exile and happy rest●…tution of our Soveraign King CHA●…LES the second First he went on his way more like indeed some Bode or ordinary messenger then a great Prince He went forth of England into France from France to Holland from Holland a●…ter some lesser excursions into Scotland Fishes and Guests gain little by long keeping where to speak modestly he was not entertained like the hundred and tenth Prince of that family To give a civil honour to Gods vicegerent was to idolize the creature But no honour could be too much at the same time for a consistory of their own Commissioners There was nothing to be heard but the Commissioners of Christ the Tribunal of Christ the Scepter of Christ the eternal Gospel Oh partiality how dost thou blind mens eyes Before this adventure for Scotland he had thoughts for Ireland where the greatest and best part of the Kingdom did either profess to hold for him or desire to return to him onely two Cities did hold out against him Dublin and Londonderry And if my intelligence do not fail me those expected onely his own presence to have submitted vvith more honour and advantage Hovvever it vvas I did vvish if it had been Gods vvill that he had come over that Ireland might have had a signal honour in his restitution then as it contributed largely aftervvards but God disposeth all things svveetly From Scotland he went on his way for England But the iniquity of the Amorites was not yet full God had something to do with his rod before he cast it into the fire something in Iamaica something in Ireland something in Scotland something in England it self to bring the first contrivers of our miseries to shame and condigne punishment by their own power to prepare and facilitate a way for his Majesties restitution without effusion of blood God hath more noble means and fitter opportunities to effect his own designes than man can comprehend VVe praise thee O God we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. That English voyage though otherwise unsuccessful was an happy presage of this great blessing which we now enjoy that God vvho preserved his Majesty so miraculously then had some great work to do with him From England he returned to France from France to Germany from Germany to Flanders from Flanders to France back again thence to Spain thence to Flanders thence to Holland and so for England where long and long and long may his Crown flourish Was ever Soveraign Prince so tost to and fro and bandied hither and thither by the racke●…s of a cont●…ary fortune changing his stations as of●…en as the old Patriarchs did whilest they dwelled in Tents This was no comfortable life to be always rolling up and down Which the next word in my Text implies that is weeping He that goeth on his way weeping I may say of weeping a●… our learned Countriman the Lord Uerulam●…aid ●…aid of hope that it was a good Breakfast but an ill Supper Early tears like the mist descending prognosticate a sayr serene day As April showers bring forth May flowers They who prove Benjamin's sons of the right hand are commonly first Benonies sons of sorrow Christ himself did wear a Crown of Thornes before he obteined a Crown of Glory Ioseph was first clapt up close in a dungeon where he ●…avv neither Sun nor Moon nor Starrs for a season before the Sun Moon and Starrs did fall down and worship him No man can rationally doubt whether our dread Soveraign d●…d ●…ow in tears before he reaped in joy who considers sadly what a misery it is for a great King to be banished from all his relations to be thrust out of his native Country and hereditary Kingdoms into the merciless world to live in want A French Author of good note relates with pity and commiseration the deplorable condition of the Lancastrian family being of the blood royal of England in the Court of CHARLES Duke of Burgundy That whereas God and nature had provided so bountifully for all other creatures the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field that they never feared the want of food onely men the best of creatures and Princes the best of men should sometimes not know where to find sustenance for to morrow A man may justl●…●…ear want of money or want of means or want of friends but want of sorrows and tears he need not fear Forreign kindred and allies do seldom contribute much to the wiping away of these tears Like winter brooks they ●…well with kindeness when one hath no need of them but when they should be u●…eful they are dryed up And he that trusts unto them may expect S. Peter's lot when his nets were full he needed but to beckon to his fellows and presently they were all at his elbow but when he did sing his lachrymae he had not one of them to comfort him Every one is a kinsman to him that is prosperous but a friend in need is a friend in deed And truly when I compare our necessary expences in the long time of our banishment abroad with our commings in I cannot attribute our preservation so long to anything but to a secret blessing of Almighty God He that fed the Israelites with Manna in a barren wilderness and preserved their shoes and their raiment from wearing and waxing old He that fed Eliah by Ravens He that blessed the poor widows handful of meal and her cruse of oyl vvill not suffer his Servants to die for hunger But the cares and troubles of Princes are incomparably greater and their vvants more pinching than those of private persons Their Motto may be the candle burning vvith these four letters A. S. M. C. Aliis Serviens meipsam contero In serving others I vvast avvay my self Their cares extend to all their follovvers to provide for their necessities as vvell as for their ovvn The sufferings of all their Subjects and Relations do touch them more nearly than others Thoughts troubled Nebuchadnezzars head vvhilest his Subjects slept

of all things do consist in indivisibili Faith is ad●…lterated as vvell by the addition of nevv Articles as by the substraction of old A Religion vvhich is not like to perish for vvant of fit organs like those imperfect creatures produced by the Sun upon the banks of Nilus but shaped for continuance The terrour of Rome They fear our moderation more than the violent opposition of others The vvatch tovver of the Evangelical Churches I have seen many Churches of all sorts of Communions but never any that could diminish that venerable estimation vvhich I had for my mother the Church of England From her breasts I received my first nourishment in her armes I desire to end my days Blessed be he that blesseth her This good seed that is the Religion of the Church of England King CHARLES did bear forth vvith him This he brought home vvith him vvithout turning either to the right hand or to the left And like the Laurel tree the tree of Conquerers he gathered strength and vigour even from opposition Crescit sub pondere virtus I cannot deny but that some of us have started aside like broken bovves out of despair in this their bitter trial wherein they have had their goods plundered their estates sequestred their persons imprisoned their Churches aliened wherein they have been divorced from their nearest relations and disabled to discharge the duties of their callings to God wherein ●…ome of them have been slaughtered others forced to mantain themselves by mechanick labours others thrust out of their native Countries to wan●…er like vagabonds and exiled beggars up and down the merciless world But God be praised they are not many If we compare this with any the like persecution in Europe you shall never finde that so few Apostated As if they had been inspired with the free spi●…it of S Chrysostome will they banish me the earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof If they cast me ●…nt the sea I will remember Jonas if into a fiery ●…urnace t●…e three children if among the wilde beasts Daniel If they stone me I have S. Stephen for my companion ●…f they behead me John Baptist if they plunder me naked I came out of my mothers womb and naked must I return again Or with the heroical mind of S. Ambrose Vultisne ad vincula me abripere voluptas est mihi c. Will ye hale me to prison it is a delight unto me To death I vvill not incircle my self with a guard of trusty followers nor lay hold on the altars as a supplyant to save my life but will be freel●… offered up for the altars of my God Spices being brayed in a morter smell more sweetly so these servants of Christ being beaten and bruised by persecu●…ors do yield a more fragrant odour in the noseth●…ls of God and man The ground of their constancie next to the goodness of God was the examples of our dread Soveraign his courage and perseverance The example of a great Prince is like the great wheel of a clock which sets all the lesser wheels a going This shall one day Crown his temples with a diadem more bright than the beams of the Sun as far excelling that Crown which he is to receive this day as the radiant splendour of the Sun doth exceed the dim shining of a glow-worm Then if Tully an ●…eathen could say that the Romans did owe their victories and good successes more to their religious piety than either to their numbers or strength or policy why should Christians despair or doubt that King CHARLES who vvent on his vvay vveeping and did bear forth such precious seed vvith him should come again vvith joy and bring his sheaves with him The last sort of good seed which King CHARLES did bear forth with him was the prayers and good affections of his Subjects Tyrants might deprive him of his other contributions this they could not deprive him of If S. Austine did attribute so much to the prayers and tears of his Mother Monica what might not be hoped from the prayers and tears of so many thousands powred out to God in private for their King and Country Church and Commonwealth Liberty and Religion At a German Dyet the Princes fell upon a controversy which of them had the best Country The Palati●…e commended his for the fruitful soil the S●…xon his for the silver mines the Bavarian his for stately Cities the Duke of VVittenberge in praise of his Country said onely this that he durst lay his head in the lap of any Subject throughout his Dominions either by day or by night fortunati ambo an happy Prince of an happy people where that evil spirit had not walked which set dissension between Abimelech and the men of Sichem England was not always so happy when some counterfeit Physicians like the wolf in the sable perswaded against her own sense that she was sick to death without all kind of recovery unless she vvould put her self into their hands to be cured She did so And vvhat the issue had been if God almighty had not looked dovvn upon us from heaven vvith an eye of pity vve have seen Yet this vvas but a green sickness fit When that fit vvas over she threvv avvay her chalk and coles vvhich she had eaten in corners and returned to eat more healthful food at her Fathers table Or it vvas a short fit of madness O Phocion said Demades look to thy self when the Athenians fall into their mad fits And thou Demades replyed Phocion look to thy self when they return to their right wits But God be praised even vvhilest this epidemical distemper did rage the most there vvere not onely seaven thousand in England but seaventy times seaven thousand vvho never bovved their knees to Baal Berith the God of the Covenant but continued loyal Subjects and orthodox Christians and vvere not afraid vvith the Serpent to expose their bodies to the blovvs and their estates to be a prey to their persecutors that they might save their head first their spiritual head that is Christ secondly their political head that is their Soveraign Prince and lastly their ecclesiastical head or lavvful superiours in the Church These vvere the true Israels vvho vvrestled vvith God by their prayers and prevailed I have done vvith the second qualification and beareth forth good seed I come novv to the catastrophe Shall doubtless come again with joy Every vvord in my text proclaims that there is an interchangeable vicissitude of all humane affairs Here vve have going forth and coming again weeping and acclamations of joy sovving and reaping seed and sheaves He that goeth on his way weeping and beareth forth good seed shall doubtless come again with joy and bring his sheaves with him That of Solomon There is a time for every thing a time to plant and a time to pluck up a time to build and a time to pull down holds in Cities and publick ●…ocieties as vvell as private Families and they may set