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A50026	Sionis reductio, & exultatio. Or, Sions return out of captivity with Sions reioycing for her return. A discourse, intended for the solemn festivity of the English nation, at Livorno in Italy, upon the happy news of King Charles the Second his return into England, which was there celebrated with munificent feasting, and magnificent shows, fire-works, and other signs of triumph, three days together, in the month of July anno Dom. 1660. Since occasionally preached in part, at St. Margarets in Westminster, the Sonday [sic] after the solemnization of the Kings birth-day, and entry into London; and now presented to publick view, as to correct the mis-apprehension, and mis-interpretation of some that were present; so to prevent the mis-information, and depravation of others that were absent. By Ro. le Grosse, cleric. An orthodox priest of the Church of England; and D. Oecumenical, then residing in Livorno, at his return from grand Cairo in Egypt.	Le Grosse, Robert.	1662 (1662)	Wing L961; ESTC R222044	50,728	74

Oh si quis efficiat ut fruamur bono Who will shew us any good Psal 4.7 Psal 4.7 And Oh si quis daret mihi aquam Oh that one would give me to drink of the water of the Well of Bethlehem which is by the gate 2 Sam. 23.15 Qui patheticè rogat 2 Sam. 23.15 ardenter postulat He that asks pathetically and with affection to a thing desireth ardently 3. Certa determinatio Thirdly There is a certain determination or a most assured and infallible conclusion Reducente Jehovah reducem populi sui turmam When the Lord turneth the captivity of his people that is assuredly the Lord will turn the captivity of his people Which is a gracious answer to the Quis dabit or Oh si quis det Who will give or Tremellius Oh that Salvation were given For as sure as Gods people are in captivity so sure the Lord will turn their captivity and deliver them out of captivity Yet if you will not believe this exposition because you may think it to be mine own take Gods own Word for it who is truth it self Joh. 14.6 and cannot lye or deny his own Word which he hath spoken 2 Tim. 2.13 2 Tim. 2.13 And this you shall find in the Prophecy of Jeremiah Thus saith the Lord Behold I will bring again the captivity of Jacobs Tents and have mercy on his dwelling places Jer. 30.18 and so forward as you may see in that Jer. 30.18 and 31. and in the following Chapter where God promiseth the restauration of Israel Now you must know that Dei dicere est Dei facere Gods Word is his Deed. What God speaks if it be not yet it is as if it were done Ipse dixit facta sunt omnia Gen. 1. He spake the word Gen. 1. and all things were created and what he speaks now cannot likewise but be performed 4. Grata Exultatio Lastly There is a grateful exultation or a joyful congratulation for so great a mercy as the turning the captivity of Gods people Exultabit Jacob laetabitur Israel Then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel shall be right glad It is but prophecied in my Text but we have heard it to be fulfilled in all places yea and we see it verified every where by experience Solutâ captivitate laeti sunt captivi When men are in Prison they are heavy and sad But when they are free they are merry and glad So then as from Eden of which you may read in the Book of Genesis Gen. 2.10 there went a River to water the Garden which God had planted and from thence it was parted and became into four heads Gen 2.10 In like manner from this Text 4 Conclusions thus as you see I have Analysed it there flow four Rivolets of Corollaries or Doctrinal conclusions to water the Gardens of our hearts that like Eden they may be fruitful both in instruction and action according to godliness that the man of God which is content to be governed by the Word of God may be fruitful and made perfect unto all good works 1 Tim. 3.16 as the Apostle speaks to the same purpose in his Epistle to his adopted Son Timothy nay his own Son in the faith 1 Tim. 1.2 for so he stiles him 1 Tim. 1.2 The first Corollary 1. Conclusion or Doctrinal conclusion which presents it self from the words of the Text is this That God doth sometimes suffer his Israel his own people to go into captivity God doth suffer his Israel to go into captivity For here by Israel is meant the people of God which is made manifest by the words next following or understood Oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of captivity and when the Lord turneth the captivity of his people Now if Israel Gods people were not in captivity why do they so ardently wish and pray to be delivered out of it Their desire to be delivered out doth imply that they were in captivity That 's the first conclusion God doth suffer his Israel sometimes to go into captivity Secondly 2. Conclusion another Corollary that arises from the Text exhibits it self thus That it is the duty of Israel of Gods people when they are in captivity Israel in captivity must pray for deliverance to pray for deliverance out of captivity Oh si reducat Dominus Oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of captivity And for my part they that are in Prison and in Captivity and will not pray or desire to come out of it let them stay there still We have an old Proverb frequent amongst us He that is in a Ditch and will not use the means to come out let him lye there still And I make this application of it If a man be in Prison Captivity or any other affliction or sorrow and doth not desire to come out of it if he will not pray to God for deliverance let him still continue in it Volenti non fit injuria God send them sorrow that love it 3. Conclusion Upon Israels Prayer God doth turn their captivity Thirdly The Corollary or Conclusion which arises from the determination is an irrefragable position which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without all controversy seconded by the testimonies and made good by the examples of Scripture and so beyond all contradiction That upon the prayers of Israel of Gods People when they are in affliction and in captivity the Lord will undoubtedly deliver his people and turn their captivity The Participle is of the Present Tense Reducente Jehovah reducem populi sui turmam The Lord turning the captivity of his people which presents unto us the certainity of it as if it were already present 4. Conclusion Israel delivered out of captivity ought to rejoyce and be glad for it Then in the last place the fourth Corollary doth conclude the necessity of Praise as the second did infer the necessity of Prayer That when God upon the Prayers of Israel his People shall have turned their captivity and delivered them from the hands of their enemies under whom they were captives they ought by way of gratitude to return their thankfulness for such a mercy and to congratulate their deliverance by being joyful and glad These are as it were the four Wheels of our Topical Charriot by which as formerly I hinted unto you Biga in Hosannch we shall drive on our future discourse Two whereof belong to the Hosannah in Sions Humiliation the other two Biga in Hallelujah to the Hallelujah in Sions Exaltation The two former set forth unto us Sions Humiliation Her being in Captivity Sions Humiliation which enforce Her to pray unto God for her Deliverance The two latter do shaddow out her Exaltation Sions Exaltation her being delivered out of captivity which obligeth her to praise God for being delivered But they do all concenter together and meet in one

enemies of God in their song of thanksgiving after their victory over Sisera and his Host Jud. 5.31 Confundantur Let them be confounded and turned back as many have evil will unto Sion So prayeth David against the enemies of Gods Church Psal 129.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let them be ashamed or confounded that transgress without a cause So wisheth the same Prophet again against Rebells that are the enemies of both Psal 25.3 And for us that are Ministers because some are so nice and make it such a hainous crime for us to make or use such Imprecations I say being seconded with the Authority of as able Divines as shall contradict it that it is more lawful for us yea we ought rather than others to use such an Imprecation and to wish such a Wish For we that are Priests who are in St. Pauls language 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 set apart and separated unto the Gospel of God Ro. 1.1 And to minister about holy things See the general Absolution in the Book of Common Prayer Whose Office it is as is suggested to pray for the people and to bless them and not to curse I say we must not only pronounce the blessing of Absolution to the people upon their true repentance as is enjoyned us in our Office but we must also it is our duty to denounce the sentence of Excommunication against all such as are obstinate and impenitent Offendors And those whom our Mother the Church will not receive into her bosome here God our Father we may assure our selves will not receive into his Kingdom hereafter Whose sins soever ye remit saith our Saviour to his Apostles they are remitted and whose sins soever ye retain they are retained Joh. 20.23 So that what Gods Ministers in their sacred Office do upon Earth God himself according to his promise will ratify in Heaven And we that are Priests his Ministers must not only give the Benediction or Blessing to the people but we must also sometimes go into the Pulpit See the Commination against Sinners as you may see in the Rubrick and there read the Commination We must not only go into Mount Gerizzim to pronounce the blessing but we must sometimes go into Mount Ebal to denounce a curse to such as deserve it Deut. 27.12 Now St. Peter tells us that there are some who are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cursed Children 2 Pet. 2.14 Children to whom the curse doth of right belong as well as the blessing doth to others and from these we are not to withhold but we must denounce the curse unto them There is an Esau to be hated as well as a Jacob to be loved Ro. 9.13 And there are some ex semine Serpentis as well as others ex semine Mulieris some that are of the Serpents brood as well as of the Womans seed the one to be accursed the other to be blessed And therefore to such as are Esaus we may shew our hatred as well as our love to those that are Jacobs And to those of the Serpents brood as all Rebells are we may not only after Gods own example Gen. 3.15 Our Saviours pattern Mat. 23.13.14 And the Apostels doctrine and practice Act. 8.20 13.10 Pronounce a Malediction but we must also we are bound to it it is part of our Office to denounce a Curse to such sort of men and I see no reason but we may as others so the curse of hanging on the Tree Gal. 3.13 And therefore good Reader to draw to a conclusion that the Gates like those of Myndas be not bigger than the City and the Preface longer than the Sermon I must tell thee he that will not say God save the King or Amen to it be he what he will and pretend never so much is a Rebell in his heart though he dares not express so much in words and doth tacitely wish the Kings confusion He that will not pray for him prays against him and that is Treason adjudged by our Laws He that denies to say Amen to the Kings safety and preservation brings himself into a Premunirie of wishing the Kings ruine destruction It was the case of Bigthan Teresh the 2. Chamberlains of King Ahasuerus they did not lay hands on the King but as St. Hierom renders it Voluerunt insurgere they had a mind or a will to kill the King and for it they were both hanged on a Tree as you may read Est 2.21.22 And whosoever they be that shall make themselves guilty of Treason by gain-saying God save the King or denying an Amen to the Kings safety and prosperity if they be once brought to the Bar and arraigned and convicted of Treason for being Rebells and denying an Amen to His Majesties safety and prosperity the Judge as they will find by sad experience as their brethren have done before them will pronounce from the Bench that which I did then denounce from the Pulpit Suspendantur Let them be hang'd And so I shall leave them there to go with their doom from thence to the place from whence they came and from thence to the place of Execution to receive the reward of their Rebellion and Treason and the Lord have mercy upon their Souls Yet Candid Reader For my Brethren and Companions sake next to the King the Queen the Queen-Mother the Royal Progeny and those that have been true and loyal Subjects and Sufferers in and for the Royal Cause I wish thee prosperity Yea because of the House of the Lord our God I will seek to do thee good Psal 122.8.9 And so good Reader farewel and take this Epiphonema along with thee Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti Si non his utere mecum Thine in Christ Jesus R. G. PSAL. 14.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. When the Lord turneth the Captivity of his People then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel shall be right glad ALthough the title of this Psalm be various according to the various interpretations of Expositors yet the Argument is the same according to the judgement of the best Commentators And if you please to advance your eye and look further to the 53 d. Psalm Psal 53. you shall there perceive the Contents of this to be the same with the Argument of that Psalm and both of them to insinuate and confirm this truth unto us That though the Children of God be afflicted and persecuted not only by the Heathen and Infidels which have no knowlege of God Psal 79.6 and call not upon his Name Psal 79.6 being the wild Boars of the Wood and in the Forrest without Psal 80.13 Psal 80.13 but also by the wicked and ungodly who profess to know God though they deny him in their works being the crafty Foxes within and in the Pale of the Church Cant. 2.15 Cant. 2.15 yet their Salvation will undoubtedly come from God who is thei Saviour and Redeemer Psal 19.14 Psal 19.14 And this our

give credit to either Yet had they not been so stupid in judgement 2 Kings 20.17.18 23.27 24.1.2 and excoecated and blinded in their understanding having eys to see 2 Chron. 36.6 but as the Prophet speaks of them would not see and ears to hear but would not hear and hearts to understand but would not understand Isa 6.9.10 They might as well have believed their return from captivity Isa 6.9.10 as being under the yoak in Babylon they were sensible of it both being alike fore-told by the Prophets However that the Word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah the Prophet might be accomplished 2 Chron. 36.22 the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus King of Persia Ezra 1.1 4.4.5 5.3 to make a Proclamation throughout all his Kingdom and caused it to be put in writing for their return out of Babylon to Jerusalem which accordingly came to pass notwithstanding all the opposition of their enemies For as you may read in the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah they came again to Jerusalem and Judah every one to his own City Ezra 4.4 5.3 I shall not need to tell you how joyful these people were when God had turned their captivity from them If you please to turn to that Psalm which from their return is intituled In Convertendo Psal 126.1.2 you may sufficiently satisfie your selves in it for the Kingly Prophet begins that Psalm with In Convertendo Dominus Captivitatem Sion When the Lord turned the captivity of Sion we were like unto them that dream Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with joy Psal 126.1.2 That is they were like men in a dream that felt ineffable joy and incredible comfort and yet they doubted whether it were true or but a dream Acts 12.4.5 6. Even as we read of St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles when he was imprisoned by Herod and destined to be brought forth to the people and to be put to death upon the prayers of the Church interceding with God for him the Angel of the Lord came into the Prison to him whiles he was fast asleep and dream'd not of it and smiteing him on the side he raised him up causing his Chains to fall from his hands and being awaked the Angel bid him arise and to gird himself and to bind on his Sandales and to cast his Garment about him and to follow him Now when Peter had thus done and followed the Angel out of Prison and was come abroad the Text faith that he wist not that it was true which was done by the Angel that delivered him Acts 12.7.8 9. but thought he had seen a Vision Acts 12.7.8.9 In like manner was it with the Jews that were captived in Babylon after their captivity was turned and they returned to Jerusalem they felt such joy and rejoycing such gladness and comfort as was as much incredible as inutterable But leaving the captivity of Sion and the People of God in former times and in forraign parts with the returning of it let us return to our selves and take notice of the captivity and slavery which God of his unspeakable mercy of later days hath freed us from and turned away from us here at home in our own Country And here not to tarry or make a Mansion on but only to touch and make mention of those two remarkable and famous deliverances from captivity both Corporal and Spiritual which God was pleased of his meer grace and goodness to vouchsafe to us his People of England How can we forget those two memorable years of One thousand five hundred Anno 1588. eighty and eight and of One thousand six hundred and five the one in the last Century the other in this Century Anno 1605. In the former of which God did mightily deliver us his People from an open Invasion by the Spaniards from abroad and in the latter did most miraculously free us from a secret undermining at home Both plotted by Jesuits and acted by Papists The one by Strand the other by Land The one by Strangers and Foraigners at Sea the other by home-born Subjects ashoar The one upon our Coasts the other near and under our Courts The one by Shipping with Swords Powder Match and Bullets the other in a Vault or Cellar with Croues of Iron Barrels of Powder and Matchless Billets Both which egregious and famous deliverances from the enemies of our English Sion are not to be buried in oblivion as they have been too much forgotten by some that would have seemed to be the greatest professors of Religion amongst us but ought to be remembred by all true Englishmen and to be perpetuated by them with red letters in Fames Calendar to all generations Yet because these two great deliverances are past the memory of most men now living and most of us here present know nothing of them save only by reading tradition and common hear-say I shall pass them over with the bare remembrance and naming of them And so leaving them to be solemnized in their proper times I shall address my self to speak of that latest deliverance out of captivity and thraldom which not above two years since God was pleased to vouchsafe unto us and is still fresh in every mans and almost in every childs memory and is most proper to be treated of at this time Know then that we may come to be more sensible of it when by reason of our sins and high ingratitude towards God for our long continued peace and prosperity above all the Nations and Kingdoms round about us God had most justly suffered us to be infested with intestine Arms and a civil War which of all others is most dangerous and pernicious our fellow-Subjects rising up in rebellion against their Prince and had permitted those Rebels to be succesful in Arms against their Liege Lord and Soveraign His late Majesty of ever blessed memory by reason whereof we came to lose not only our Religion Laws Liberties and Proprieties the only things which the Rebels pretended they took up Arms to defend and preserve from violation but also our most gracious King King Charles the first 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Infandum immane nefas A crime not to be spoken or thought of without horrour and amazement whose Honour and Person they had taken so many Oaths of Allegiance Protestations Covenants and Vows and these in a Sacramental manner to defend and maintain save and keep secure from all violence all which notwithstanding they did under a colour of justice to justifie their proceedings which were no ways justifiable bvt unparalleld by all former presidents since the Creation most inhumanely unchristianly and butcherly murther him because he would not in the least give way to violate either our Religion Laws Liberties and Proprieties but did most Christianly Manly and Kingly maintain them even with the loss of his life dying both the Churches and Kingdoms Martyr that