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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57328	Elias the Second his coming to restore all things, or, God's way of reforming by restoring ; and, Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of two contending brethren in two sermons : the former preacht in Warwick at the Generall Assize there held August 19, 1661 : the other in Coventry at the annuall solemnity of the maior's feast on All-Saints Day following : both publisht at the importunity of divers of the auditors being eminent persons of quality in that country / by John Riland ...	Riland, John, 1619?-1673.; Riland, John, 1619?-1673. Moses the peace-maker his offers to make one of two contending brethren.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1519; ESTC R11927	45,131	119

which of it self would be smooth and calme enough but that the boisterous winds do so enrage and discompose it and thus the minds of Christians after all these troubles sure would be of themselves Even and quiet but only the blustring breath and tempestuous tongues of some men do nothing else but ruffle and disturb them And this they will do for as he in the Hieroglyphick that had the Quiver of Arrows could say Nequicquam nisi emitterem To what purpose unlesse I spend them So those that abound in Malice Pride Self-willednesse ill Principles and the like and have their Quivers full of them alas they loose their Talent of Mischief unlesse they trade with it And hence is it that Firebrands Arrows and Death are hurl'd about with such confidence and all in sport indeed a mad-man's sport so was it formerly accounted but now adaies this more is done in good sad earnest by the sober Subverters of our Kingdome who very seriously contrive the Plat-forme of new Confusions and upon pretence of pulling down I know not what imaginary Babylon as I have seen the blackest Chimney bedeckt with the goodliest Flowers do indeed what they can lay the foundations of another Babel Is this torrid Temper any part of that Fire Luk. 12. 49 which Christ came to send upon the Earth no I cannot believe it Is this the Gospell trumpet which that Evangelicall Prophet speaks of saying Life up thy voyce like a Trumpet I can't believe Isa 58. 1. that neither 'T is confest they do lift up their voice like a Trumpet indeed but what not to tell Iacob of his Sins so much as his supposed Sufferings nor to reproove Transgressions but rather to raise and encourage Rebellion Truly one would think that English Swords had now been sufficiently made drunk with blood and long before this might all have been beaten into Plow-shares even those Qui niteant primo tantum mucrone cruenti whose points have been only dipt much more some others whose blades have been drencht in Bloud But if Swords are not become Plow-shares nor Spears Pruning-books but remain Swords and Spears still then thank the Restlesnesse of those who will not suffer it whose Tongue as'tis the most sharp-edgedsword so is it still unsheath'd and runs riot every where walking through through the World as he describes that fierce Commander in the Head of his severall Regiments Quâcunque vagatur Sanguineum veluti quatiens Bellona Flagellum i. e. Their Tongue is an over-flowing Scourge wheresoever it lights it draws blood O how contrary are these to Moses He saith here Sirs ye are Brethren no say these they are Tyrannicall Anti-christian any thing rather then Brethren He sayes Why do ye wrong one to another not then positively determining which was the wrong-doer till afterward he wrong'd him also who was the Peace-maker but these say peremptorily Sirs they are in the Wrong and doubtlesse you are in the Right O why will ye take the least wrong from any other In a word he finds men at emnity and would gladly make them friends these find men at unity and would fain make them enemies So that however they please to call others Anti christs themselves are plain Anti-Mose's yea I doubt Anti-Prophets and Anti-Apostles also and indeed like genuine Iewes according to that character of theirs they please not God and are contrary to all good men For the Word is the Gospell of Peace Christ is the Prince of Peace God is the God of Peace but these are People that do erre in their hearts the way of peace they have not known If such as these will needs be Preaching For I would not have you think I have been all this while speaking of lawfull Preachers I hope I have not O how beautifull are their feet that bring glad tidings of salvation and pitty it were any of those beautifull feet should prove bloody feet Therefore I say again if such as those I have here spoken of must needs be Preaching t were well they would think of such Subjects as these Study to be quiet Follow the things that make for Peace Obey them that have the rule over you Let nothing be done through strife c. In which kind should they make any adventures yet such Subjects as these now proposed being so much out of their way I suppose it would not be worth a Sabbath dayes journey to go out of ours to hear them So much of the 2d Conclusion And as from this Act of Moses here we have rais'd as to some contrary minded ones matter of just Reprehension so In the third place to All the chief Magistrate 3. Concl. especially here is matter of Religious imitation Reconcile persons at variance compose their differences part their Quarrels prevent their petty strifes and wranglings these little Beginnings from growing to greater Mischiefs Do as doth Moses here who was first their Peace-maker then afterward their Law-giver This is a time of uniting this dayes Solemnity calls for it the Church now comemorating that grand Vnion betwixt Heaven and Earth in the Vnity and Community of All-Saints Not that we are for his Patrocinia Dominorum One God One Lord. Dominus we own and adore but can't tell what to do with that Dominorum Angels themselves though we know not of what Original Extraction before or above us yet as the same Author elsewhere saith acknowledg themselves in respect of us Consanguineos Bern. in sanguine Redemptoris there is Consanguinity betwixt them and us And Origen affirms Hom. 5. sup Levit. Quandam esse cognationem inter visibilia et invisibilia Heaven and Earth are a Kin as it were and the Kindred this day commemorated In this Chapter where our Text is we read how the Heavens were open'd and in one of ib. 56. v. the Lessons for this day we have them open'd Rev. 19. 11 again And whereas in the Transfiguration of Christ we find three together on the Mountain Moses Elias and Christ a Congregation made up of Heaven and Earth two from Above and one yet Below so here in our Text we find the like though not just the same Congregation Moses St Stephen and St Luke one penning another pronouncing the Third we know not how dictating unto him and this Congregation so also compounded as the former one yet of the Church Militant the other two of the Church Triumphant Which severall Openings in Heaven as aforesaid to receive and take in Earth and holy combinations on Earth Earth as it were mixing with Heaven me thinks should much encourage us to the ready embracement of those uniting Motions which this Text affords us especially at such a time as this concerning which beside what hath been already spoken in that regard I shall only adde that of the Psalmist which hints both the day and its duty Sing unto the Lord all ye Saints of his and give thanks c. All Saints except some new

which St. Paul hath given us Awake to Righteousnesse and sin not 1 Cor. 15. 34. So much for the third Inference Now for the fourth and last Since good Governours Judges and Counsellors c. are here given of God as meet Instruments to make a 4. Inference good People Then sure those People must needs beexceeding bad whom such good Government and Governours as aforesaid can make no better And here because my remaining Task and what I have to do therein is you see with evill very evill Persons and since also that in Scripture Luk. 6. 35. Evill and Unthankfull are Synonymous and that Mis-thankfulnesse may I be allowed so to speak is a kind of Vnthankfulnesse what I have to say upon this last point I 'le share betwixt those two sorts of Persons the Unthankfull and the Mis-thankfull I mean such who though they have some kind of Thankfulnesse within them yet they make choice of very untoward and unlucky expressions thereof First to the Vnthankfull who albeit that Government be a mercy of God's own promising and performing I will restore to the Iews he bath restor'd to us though it be like that Vessel let down from heaven to earth as was shewn in in the first Generall that Government is from God and this Vessel also as that was full of all Variety and Satisfaction yet many like S Peter will not with thanksgiving partake of any of those Blessings therein laid before us yea notwithstanding their present necessity and hunger as I may say like his be never so instant and urgent For if as some misled Scruplers will say they are Damn'd if they Eat sure they are Starv'd if they do not eat and heartily joyn in those common causes we all have of Rejoycing Yet for all this Now the satted Calf is killed I mean Rebellion is Luk. 15. 23 slain and there be now as then there were some more then ordinary shews of Ioy the Elder Brother will not come in though never so ib. 28. much wooed and intreated by all the Importunities of a most tender Father whose meer Rogamus with good natures should be the strongest Mandamus And all because he seems to shew too much kindness as they think to this lost child the Government now established which was lost and is found was dead and now begins to live ib. 32 Besides The Gold ring and the best Robe the new Shoos they conceive at first tread awry toward Superstition As for that I could heartily wish that Learned men were fully agreed a-about the Length Breadth and other Dimensions of that which indeed is Superstition then I am verily perswaded those who do cry out of it in others would find it mostly amongst themselves But I can't stay now to Define or Dispute only I 'le tell you my fears since so many of God's houses have of late been turn'd into Stables this Age I fear may have enough to doe to farme the Churches Which work since our Royal Hercules hath begun the God of Heaven grant he may live to finish then no doubt but he will do as Moses there neither turn to the right hand nor to be left but go by the King's high-way I say since like another Num. 20. 17 Hercules his Sacred Majesty hath begun this cleansing work let not any say the Place smels of holy water because it doth not scent so rank of Horse-dung nor let any give out that Popish Altars are going up when only Racks and Mangers are taking down This is the wretched Perversenesse of some unreasonable men as indeed the world is meerly made up of strong prepossessions as to our selves and the Spirit of unkindnesse and contradiction as to others Though we have been newly drawn up out of the Dungeon as Ieremiah Jer. 38. 12. was with rags and clouts in the account of the Enemy the most unlikely means nor is it so long since our shoulder have been eas'd of our burdens but that the marks of the Iron-furnace are still upon us And yet how many are there whose Fingers itch to be making Brick and Morter again though temper'd with the blood of Christians only to build houses for a company of Egyptian Lords to dwell in Those I speak of who long to be offering up their reasonable service indeed by presenting bumane bodies and soules too if they could a living dying Scarifice upon the Sword 's point and so they may but consecrate themselves Bellona's Priests no matter though by the blood of God's own Clergy Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungred faith our Saviour And give me Mat. 12. 3. leave to aske one Question not much unlike it Have ye not read what David did when he was thirsty He longed indeed for some of the water of Bethlehem but yet when he perceiv'd 2 Sam. 23. it look'd like Blood he is content to loose his longing and will not so much as once tast of it and why because thinks he 't is the blond of these three men For my part I am not yet covinc'd best water in Bethlehem I mean the pretended clearest Reformation that would make us never so clean is sit to be bought with the blood of one man much lesse should we offer to purchase a little we know not what Puddle by the bloud of thousands Tell me Oye lowring and discontented souls is it nothing that God should please so unexpectedly to send us another Elias to restore all things Math. 17. 11. and He not by might nor by power but meerly by his long wrapt-up Mantle Prudence and 2 King 2. 8. Reservednesse to smite our angry Iordan so that the Waters thereof dividing hither and thither he and his Army marcht through on dry ground without dipping their foot in one drop of bloud And when for a time we were all quietly inclos'd clean and unclean in one Ark of Government such as it was not made of Gopher wood but Bull-rushes the best that then could be gotten where one might behold our infant Kingdome like the Babe Moses floating upon the waters what was it nothing that neither the blustring winds nor boisterous billows from without no nor all those wild unruly Creatures from within should be able to overturn that Ark of Bull-rushes wherein for a while we were contain'd Yea one thing more when either by Acts of open Hostility or close Neutrality the most among us had forfeited his Majesties protection and so made a sad Shipwrack of life and livelihood all at once What was his Majesties gracious Pardon the Act of Oblivion nothing whereby after so universall a shipwrack some on boards and planks like those with St. Paul others on broken pieces of the Ship almost all escaped Act. 27. 44. to land by the mercifull support of those Lethaean Waters And for all this should we again leave the shadow of the Royall Oke and adventure a second scratting and tearing by