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A sermon preached at Whitehal upon the 29th day of May, 1670 being the day of His Majesties birth and happy restoration / by John Lake ...
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Lake, John, 1624-1689.
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proud Rebellious Enemies had fortify'd themselves with the Wealth and Strength of three Kingdoms and had now begun to Sing soft Requiems as if the bitterness of death had been past when that Old Usurper with such mischievous Policy backed with Tyrannical Power had endeavoured to confirm the Kingdom to his posterity and such an Army of Criminal valours was engaged in their defence when all the People by a Cursed Engagement had been made to cry out 2 Sam. xx 2. We have no part in David neither have we inheritance in the son of Jess when many Attempts some hopeful and probable enough had miscarried already and the whole Nation in one great Gasp not long before seemed to have given up the Ghost when there were Men Moneys and all Means on the one hand and the want of all on the other that a Banish'd Prince I say under these Circumstances should be brought back to His Kingdoms again and with such Peace Honour and Safety set and setled there this might well puzzle the Faith of a Solifidian It was beyond expectation beyond imagination strange to a miracle Strange for the matter that ever such a thing should be brought about at all He that had seen our Dread Sovereign look through the Royal Oak that had seen him again in his strange disguise when like his Saviour he put on the form of a servant that had seen the eager pursuits after him that had seen Sea and Land laid for him that had heard the price which was set upon his head and therewithal the Privy Contracts which that lump of Clay mingled with Blood made with his Assassinates that had thenceforth followed him through his Royal Pilgrimage and seen the necessities and dangers which he conflicted with there His panting Zeal would have susspected some other event then to have seen him set up as King Yet thus God hath set him and our eyes have seen it and our hearts rejoyce in it this day crying to the praise of the glory of his Grace The right hand of the Lord hath done marvellously the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass Strange again for the manner that it should be brought about in such a way It might have been expected that if ever he came to his Kingdoms at all he must swim to them in Blood and be set upon Mount Sinai rather then Mount Sion That we must have bought so rich a Mercy with the Miseries of a new War and it had been a good purchase after all Yet lo God taketh his King and with the turning of an hand sets him where he would have him and none to say unto him what doest thou In all this there was no breaking out no breaking in no complaining in our streets No spoils of War no Trophies of Victory to adorn or rather to sully his Triumphs The Hill whereon God set his King was a Mount of Olives nothing but Peace and all possible expressions of joy upon it Strange once more for the Means and this above all that it should be brought about by those men and their means who had engaged Bodies and Souls to oppose it One part of them he maketh to cast young Ishbosheth down another part to set his King up and carrieth him into his Throne upon their shoulders That renowned Person never to be mentioned without glory to God and honor to himself who through the conducts of a secret but wise Providence had long served as Captain General to Saul the Father and Ishbosheth the Son is Abner-like though upon a better principle that of his former loyalty which he still kept alive in him the very man to make our David King over his English Israel Thus strange for the Matter strange for the Manner strange above all for the Means this transaction was Yet for all this God hath set his King upon his holy Hill of Sion And now what remaineth but that the Kings loyal Friends rejoyce in the mercy of this day and his disloyal Enemies tremble to oppose it Somewhat must be said to either of them and I have done First To the Kings loyal Friends Do you with joy and praise to God admire and adore that unconceivable Power and Providence which hath set his and your King upon his holy Hill of Sion Let not such a miracle of Mercy be lost upon you Think what you would have done what you would have suffered to have seen such a day as this How unlikely it was that ever you should have seen it How many sad days you had seen before Seen the Father barbarously murthered the Son defeated in danger to be destroyed your lawful Sovereign wandering as an exile in Foreign Countreys and Bloody Tyrants domineering in his own Seen the Church become a Babel of Confusion the Land an Accldama or Field of Blood the Lusts of lawless men set up for Laws your Lives Liberties Proprieties meerly precarious and at the pleasure of Usurpers one puff of loyal breath as much as they were all worth And in all this no hopes or means of better to be seen Your present evils seemed impossible to expire but by dying into greater And there was nothing now left but Prayers and Tears and sad expectations of worse This was your Case and State when the sons of Belial had cast Gods King down Now therefore that God hath set him up again and set him upon his holy Hill of Sion and by this means we see both Crown and Miter shining with their wonted beauty and glory see Religion setled Liberty secured Propriety restored and the Laws by which we hold them all maintained O come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvation Rejoyce after an hearty but withal an holy manner For such the holy Hill whereupon God hath set his King calleth for at your hands See that you celebrate not Tert. Apol. cap. 35. Publicum gaudium per publicum dedecus publick joy by publick disgrace Let not disloyal spight say to your reproach Majestas violatur Divinitas constupratur laudantibus vobis That whilest you pretend to honor God and the King you dishonor both When you should contend in loyal service and duty to God and the King play not prizes in wickedness and seek who shall outvie and vaunt of most supererogatory merits for Hell as if you were delivered to do all these abominations Let not this celestial Mannah breed Worms nor because God hath been more gracious be you less Affect not such a perverse emulation of your Maker as to bring Darkness out of Light and to curse your Blessings To make your Returns as unparallel'd as Gods Mercies and this your onely use of them to pervert their nature and defeat their design Let not this holy Hill bring forth such wilde Grapes and so rich a Soyl minister onely to corruption Let not that of the ungrateful Israelites Exod. xv 24. What shall we drink be the product of your