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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

she in fears either to be brought forth to publick execution or to be secretly cut off One day in her prison at Wood-stock hearing a poor milk-maid singing chearfully O said she that my lot were exchanged with the condition of that poor milk-maid Yea her sufferings were such that as one sayes she well deserved the tittle of Elizabeth the confessor yet afterwards what a glorious Princesse did the Lord make her What an eminent instrument was she for the establishment propagation of the Gospel both at home and abroad with what a long and prosperous reigne did the Lord blesse her so that the event did answere to that word where with oft she propheticallie solaced her self in time of her afflictions Flebile Principium melior fortuna sequetur Reverend Mr. Clark in her life sayes of her Her very afflictions through Gods goodnes did her so much good that it is hard to say whether she wer more happy in having a Crown so soon or in having it no sooner till affliction had first laid in her a low and therfore sure foundation of humilitie for highnes to be afterwards built upon by which means she was ripned for the future rule soveraignty Let our prayers to the Lord to day be that the late sufferings of his MAJESTY who now reigns may have the like blessed issue And for a door of hope we have his constant adherence to the Protestant Religion in midst of so many temptations and that most Christian Proclamation against profannes and debauchrie emitted shortly after his solemn reception in the city which deserves to be printed in letters of gold Such gracious beginnings are very promising Doctrine second But I proceed to this second doctrine from the first branch of the text It s a good signe of a sanctified affliction when the hand of God is principallie and religiouslie eyed in the rod. David had instruments and these most wicked to have looked after as furious Saul bloody D●eg unnaturall ambitious and treacherous Absolom that fox Achitophel that barking dog Shimei c. But he looks above all these THOV saies he who hast shewed me great sore troubles What a THOU is this look to v. 22. the last of my text THOV O my God THOV O holy One of Israel he eyes God principally in all Jobs carriage is very remarkable as to this Iob. 1. 21. Job does not charge Caldeans nor Sabeans nor the Devill with his calamities though they wer most wickedly instrumentall in them He does not say the Lord gave but the Devil his instrumēts have taken away Nay as he acknowledges the Lord to be the giver so also he eyes the hand of his Soveraign providence in taking away The Lord saies he gave the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. As remarkable is that of Joseph Gen. 45. 3. 4. 5. When he had revealed himself to his brethren saying I am Joseph whom ye sold into Egypt They wer so troubled and as the margine varies it terrified at his presence through the conscience of their trespasse against him that they could not speak nor I beleeve well look to him But behold holy and precious Joseph his carriage Come neare said he my brethren be not grieved for God did send me before you to preserve life He looks more to the overuling hand of providence then to them in that wonderfull dispensation Ye know also Davids mortified heroick carriage in the matter of Shimei II. Sam. 16. 10. When Abishai would have executed justice on him the King would not suffer him For said he God hath said to Shimei curse David The religious eying of the hand of providence in the dispensation made David so moderate in executing just vengeance on such a Traitour Vse Let the use of the poynt be for tryall There have been very sad rods these late years upon this land upon our Kings upon our Nobles upon our Cities who have not had a share in the stroak Would ye know if the sanctified use be obtained either of these common national rods as each of us have been concerned in them or of particular and personall exercises look if yee have learned purely to eye the hand of divine providence in afflicting dispensations THOV hast shewed ●e great sore troubles said this Royal Psalmist When the afflicting hand of God is purelie eyed the soul will first humble it self genuinly submissivelie under his mighty hand I. Pet. 5. 6. It will secondly be very studious of a saving discovery of the sin which hath provoked him Job 34. 31. 32. The ear thirdly will be opened to disciplin Job 36. 8. 9 10. There will be a listning to the voyce of the rod the duties will be observed to which the Lord calls O that this may be BRITAINES mercie O but that is a dreadfull scripture Isai 42. 24. 25. Who gav● Jacob for a spoyle and Israel to the robbers did not the Lord against wh●●● we have sinned for they would not walk in his wayes neither were they obedient unto his law Therefore he hath poured upon him the furie of his anger and the strength of battel and it ●ath set him on fire round about yet he knew it not and it burned him yet he laid is not to heart The Lord keep these lands from such a spirituall lethargie I close the poynt with this word A sanctified remembrance of the afflictions ●nder which we have lately been eying principally in them the hand of divine Providence and and our own trespasses which have provoked the Lord against ●s were a notable ballast to our spirits in such a day of rejoicing for so fignall a delyverance The day wherin the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt was sure a joyfull day to the people of God yet the Lord in the anniversarie commemoration of it would have them to eat the passeover which as it did c●memorat their deliverance so also their bondage affliction in Egypt Hence the Jewish rituals tell us that at the distribution of the paschall bread they used these words This is the bread of affliction which our fathers suffered in Egypt A sanctified remembrance of Gods afflicting Hand is very usefull for tempering spirits in a day of delyverance Doctrine Third A Third doctrine shall be this It is but a transient view of affliction which the Lord gives to his own The word of the text is very remarkable as to this Th●● hast S●EWED me great sore troubles David had been under very sharp troubles if sense may be judge but faith corrects sense It s but a shew but a view of trouble which I have had sayes beleeving David I shall cleare the poynt by a few reasons Reason 1 As first The sting is taken out of the afflictions of beleevers hence they speak in scripture of their evils rather as seeming evils then reall II. Cor. 6. 9. 10. 11. As dying yet behold we live as chastned and not killed as sorrowfull yet

House said he hath eaten me up O what zeale witnessed he in dancing before the Ark when he brought it up to mount Zion II. Sam. 6. 14. 15. and II. Sam. 7. What said he shall I dwell in Cedar and the Ark of God abide in Courtains And thereupon resolveth to build a Temple to the Lord. Rich preparations made he for the Work as may be seen I. Chron. chapters 28. 29. Yea would also have accomplished it if the Lord had not stopt him and told him by the mouth of Nathan That he would have the Hieron in Titum c. 1. Episcopinoverint se cōsuetudine magis quam dispositionis dominica veritate Presbiteris esse majores Temple built by a Solomon The Lord was so well pleased with Davids purpose That II. Sam. 7. 11. and 16. he promises to build David an house and to establish his Throne for ever The Lord honours those who honour him I. Sam. 2. 30. The surest way Princes can take for establishment of their Throns is to be zealous for and tender of the Interests of JESUS CHRIST his Truth his Ordinances his Servants and People Wee have therefore to day earnestly to pray That OUR GRACIOUS SOVERAIGN may be a zealous Defender of the Protestant CAUSE and Ordinances of Christ in their purity That Prelacy superstition Ordinances which at not of Divine institution may not creep in into the Worship of GOD within our Church Whittak ad ratione●● 10. Campiani Si preces pro mortuis damnare Episcopo presbiterum aequare sit hareticum nihil Catholicum esse potest Cum AERIO Hieronymꝰ de presbiteris omnino senfit illos cuim jure divine Episcopis aquales esse statuit Yet am I not of the judgement That Princes rights to their Crownes depends upon their erthodoxie in judgement I cordially subscrive to the pure Primitive Loyalitie of ancient Christians See Confess of Faith c. 23 art 4. who retained their allegiance under Heathen Arrian Emperours under Infidell Heretick Princes aswell as under these who wer sound orthodox in their judgements for as AUGUST said Qui regnare dedit CONSTANTINO Christians ipse dedit Apostatae IVLIANO Hee who gave the Imperiall Crowne to CONSTANTINE a Christian gave it also to IVLIAN the Apostate But blessed be the Lord we have not an Heathen Prince wee have not an Arrian Prince we have not a Popish Prince but a PRINCE Who hath constantly adhered to the Protestant Religion in the furnace of affliction notwithstanding Defensor almae qui fidei clues Vnius idem tu fidei Dei Vnius uniusque Christi Semper er●● es eri● professor O perge pergens tu perages manu Forti secundis usque laboribus Rem Christianam promovere Romuleo gravis Antichristo Decachordon concinens liberationem Britannicam Autore T. G. he was compassed with as many temptations as ever any Prince was assaulted with We have a PRINCE Who by his Royall Authority hath confirmed to us the Protestant Religion in its purity without the mixture of these humane inventions This is a Mercy for which we ar to magnifie the Lord to day that we have such a PRINCE under whom wee may enjoy the Ordinances of Christ in their Purity And though it were otherwise which God forbid yet Loyalty is still our duty as subjects But let us be earnest with the Lord by prayer That our GRACIOVS SOVERAIGN may be kept in the way of truth that he may be a zealous Defender thereof and of the Ordinances of IESUS CHRIST in their purity according to their first Institution This will make Him an Eminent BLESSING to his people and his people truely blest in him and will give strong ground of confidence of fulfilling the Promise in my Text That God will increase his greatnesse and comfort him on every side I come to the third and last branch of the Text in vers 22. Wherein David solemnly engages to bee forthcoming to the The third branch of the Text. Lords praise I also will praise thee c. Yee have heard David expressing his sense of his afflictions yee heard how his Faith hope did prophecie of an Out-gat● Now yee have Davids heart enflamed with love to God upon the confidence of this hoped for deliverance engaging to tune up a Song of praise yea antidating a song of Thanks-giving The words are exceeding sweet but time will not permit me to insist on them I intend onely after I have runne thorow them by a few explicatory hints to propose one doctrine from them There are five observable words in the vers Which we would Five observable words in it notice THE FIRST I will also praise thee as if he had said I have prayed and poured out my soul by supplication before thee And Faith hath brought me in a gracious returne of Prayer That there shall be a comfortable Out-gat therfore I ALSO will praise thee Prayer is a very fruitfufull duty It s the womb if I may so speak wherein the Praises of God are conceived Would yee have your Praises accepted to day let them not be disjoyned from Prayer It s sweet when these two Prayer and Praise go together I ALSO will praise thee The second word is Even thy truth that is Thy true and faithfull Promise O so precious as Promises are to them who improve them and especially to those who by a beleeving improvement find them made good Such will magnifie promises indeed even thy truth But then thirdly O my GOD It s sweet when faith in a dark houre can plead its interest in God David was under great and sore trouble yet Faith pleads its interest Hee is my God I will not say but faith in an houre of temptation may be sore shaken Saves not David himself Psal 31. 22. I said in my haste I am cutt off and I. Sam. 27. 1. I shall now perish one day by the hand of SAUL But these wer onely swooning fits of faith his faith recovered strength again The fourth word is I will praise thee with the Psaltery I will sing praise to thee with the harp IT was the custome of old in the Jewish Church to make use of these and other Musicall Instruments in the Worship of God as appears almost everie-where in this book of the Psalmes Of the forme of these Instruments see Ioseph lib. 7. Antiq. IUD cap. 10. POLYD VERGIL de inventoribus rerum lib. 1. cap. 15. HOSPIN de Temlis lib. 2. cap. 23. English annot on I. Chron. 13. 8. Also the epist to Dardanus de Musicis instrumentis among Hieroms works and from I. Chron. 13. 8. Though Procopius Gazaeus cited by HOSPINIAN de templis lib. 2. cap. 23. spares not to say Cultum hunc non a Deo traditum sed a Davide excogitatum fuisse That this Worship was an humane invention of Davids not a Divine Institution Too bold an affertion and very reflexive upon so holy a Prophet as w●a

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