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A23817	The period of the grand conspiracy delivered in two sermons, The desire of nations, preached on the fast day, April 6, 1660, the second, The joy of nations, preached on the thanksgiving day, June 29, 1660 / by John Allington.	Allington, John, d. 1682.	1663 (1663)	Wing A1212; ESTC R25234	38,105	114

case of the Kings Son The abjects of our times State-lecturers News-mongers Mercenary pens and Tongues they have made it their work to tumble down and degrade this stone for as some out of superstitious fear rob Gods Saints of their honour calling Saint Paul Paul and Saint Peter Peter even so those who to the rebellious cry your Excellency your Honour your Lordship call the corner stone even below a Gentleman Charles Stuart Tarquin one of the cursed Family A stone fitter for a threshold then a Throne But what these did may seem no more then the fabulous Cocks preferring a Barly-corn to a Jewel For they were no Builders and therefore knew not when they saw a stone for building But when professed Builders when those who would behold the Council of a Nation and the Master-builders of a Kingdom when they shall disallow or refuse a stone when they shall vote the Head to the feet and the chief stone to be incapable this is a considerable reprobation and such as might seem to put a stone out either of heart or hope of getting any higher And hath not the Kings Son been thus dealt withall Have not Builders and prime Builders too even by a solemne act disallowed this stone Did not the successors to such who killed the Heir enacted a Disinherison of all the Royal Family As the Jews by a stone and a seal thought to have kept the Son of David from ever rising to sit upon the Throne of his Father even so so for ever did many Master-builders repudiate and disallow this quarry that they thought never any stone of it should become Caput or Caput Anguli the Head or Head of the corner And yet blessed be God I may now in relation to our Kings Son say The stone which the Builders refused is become the Head stone of the corner Secondly We read not of any King but onely one who is graced with this high Eulogy or Character A man after Gods own Heart Now this King this King whom God declared should act according to his own Heart God so provided that he should be humbled before he was exalted that he should be a Rejected before he was an Elected stone First a vilified and refused and then the Head stone of the corner Now as was David even so the son of our David he hath been bred up in the Schools of affliction he hath had the experience of many many various troubles He hath been rowled like a stone from City to Country and from one Kingdom to another Being then God hath so bred our King as he did the King after his own heart in trouble persecution exile Being as was David he hath been a stone refused we have very great hopes that now becoming as was David The Head of the corner we shall finde that God hath prepared him as he did David for a flourishing Kingdom Thirdly David whilst yet he was a refused stone complains They have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord saying Go serve strange gods The Builders so furiously rejected this anointed stone that they would not suffer it lye or abide in the Land of his Nativity they have driven me out saith David From abiding in the inheritance of the Lord Where the best Religion and worship of God was they would not suffer this stone to be they drive him out saying Go serve strange gods They hoped in an Idolatrous Country necessity assistance or something might turn this stone into an unholy altar so that if once they could bring him under the just infamy of serving strange gods they might then as well before God as good men make him a refused stone for ever But the stone whom wicked men refused he would never refuse his maker he was resolved to be a stone for Gods Altar in what posture so ever providence should cast him Now hath not the stone of our David our Kings Person even been just thus served we all know he hath we all know driven he hath been from abiding within the inheritance of his Fathers yea they who drove him seemed to say Go and serve strange gods Glad would some of our late Builders have been to have had him the stone of a Popish Altar But as David when God from a refused stone called him to take his place and to be Head of the corner came like gold out of the fire pure and undefiled Even so the Kings Son or Son of our David he comes with the same impress of Religion that he carried forth no more corrupred by the King of Spain then was David by the King of Gath Education like a tool in Marble it hath made a durable impression as it was with David even so we believe it is with him whether a refused stone or a corner stone whether at home or abroad he serves the same God and the same way Fourthly As David was a refused before he was an approved stone even so it is very considerable how long God did exercise the patience of his servant how long he suffered him to be a rejected before he came to be the corner stone Now 2 Sam. 5. 4. it is written David was thirty years old when he began to reign The King by whom God resolved to do great things he wonted him to troubles he experienced him with tentations till he was Thirty years of age he began not to reign he was Thirty years old before he sate upon the throne Thirty years old before he became the Head stone in the corner Now if we look upon our Kings Son and if we compute his age we shall finde just Davids year the first year of his actual reign the first year of his being in his own place the first day of his entrance into his Royal City it was the day of his Nativity and the Head of the corner just as was David the thirtieth year Lastly Being our King is not onely a King but a Kings son let us take one parallel between him and the Son of David In the Rejection Reparation Psalm 69. 8. I am become a stranger to my brethren and an alien to my mothers children The son of David complaineth he was a stone rejected by his own brethren I became a stranger to them yea his very mothers children looked strangely on him I was an alien to my mothers children And was not this the very case of the son of our David Hath not he been even from his Childhood up a stranger to his brethren and an alien to his mother-City yea when he was fain to fly out of the Land as the son of David a Babe did from him that sought his life The Lilly had no pitty the Lilly was not candid to the Rose his kindred stood a far off and he was an alien to his mothers children yea he was upon this account a stone more refused then the son of David For Cant. 1. 6. He onely

through all the tribes of Israel 3. What they strove for the restitution of their injur'd and banisht Soveraign for that 's clear in these words Therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the King back 4. The Motives and Inducements and that 's insinuated in the comparison of David with Absolon his Victories with the others Rebellion The King saved us out of the hand of the Philistines And shall we suffer him to be exiled for Absolon to be fled out of the land or kept out of the land for Absolon First Let us look upon the People as misinformed which they indeed most foully were or they would never have said what here they confess Absolon whom we anointed God who is the God of Order and who indeed by the power of order keeps all together in order to the preservation of the great Bodies of Church and State he hath placed every Man as he hath every Member in the Body Natural that is not all to the same but every one to its proper office For as he hath not made the Foot to be the Head nor the Ear to be the Eye nor the Eye to be the Hand even so in the mystical or the politick Body God hath not made every man for every imployment for he hath made some high and some low some to obey and some to rule some to be publick and some to be private persons some to be Magistrates some to be Ministers Yea of publick persons he hath so ordered it that a man may be publick to one and yet but a private person to another Function As for instance under the Law Aaron the Priest of God as to sacrifice atonements and holy Duties he was a publick person but in point of Government and secular affairs there no such nor more then a private person Uzziah because a King in order to politick and secular affairs he was a publick person but in order to Sacrifice and temple-Duties there no such man even so at this day a Magistrate as to things of secular and legal consequence he is a publick person but to Ministerial and holy Duties he is nothing so for he who may make a mittimus cannot give an● obsolution and he who may administer Justice hath no power to administer a Sacrament Now if it be so that the God of Order hath not confusedly given unto all men the power of all Actions consider then we mast to whom God gave the power of anointing princes If to the people then they might well say Absolon whom we anointed But if never so if the people had no more power to anoint then the Priest had in kingly offices or the Magistrate in the Ministry then these words Absolon whom we anointed it must needs be the voice of a deluded usurping and misinformed people Psal 82. 6. I have said ye are gods If the power of anointing Kings were in the people then it should have been said Not I But we have said ye are gods And if Kings were the extracts of the people then it could not be as in that verse it followeth And all of you are children of the most high But all of you are of our creation all of you are Filii terrae children of the earth of the vulgar and most low But God who but knoweth he is so declarative upon this account that he saith Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm Kings saith God they are mine anointed If now Kings be Gods anointed certainly then the power of anointing Kings is onely in their hands to whom God committed it and that you shall finde it hath ever been to Priests and Prophets The first King that ever God owned it was Saul and we finde Samuel the priest of the Lord took a vial of oyl and poured it upon his head and kissed him whence it appears Samuel and not the people anointed Saul The second King he was the person in my Text and of him we finde it thus written I have found David my servant with my holy oyle have I anointed him Now God we know did not pour out oyle upon him God did not come down from heaven and personally appear for to anoint him but God commanded Samuel and Samuel took the horn of oyl and anointed him in the midst of his brethren Now what Samuel did to Saul and David the like did other Prophets and Priests to succeeding Kings 1 Kings 1. 39. Zadock the priest took an horn of oyle out of the tabernacle and anointed Solomon and they blew the trumpet and all the people said God save the king 2 Kings 9. Elisha sends a yong Prophet with Commission to take a box of oyle and pour it on the head of Jehu and say Thus saith the Lord I have anointed thee king over Israel And 2 Chron. 33. when Jehoiada the high Priest had set things in order to it He and his sons anointed Josiah and said God save the king And indeed in ordinary phrase and account of Scripture Kings are called the Lords anointed but never the anointed of the people Whereas then the people in the text say Absolon whom we anointed over us is dead That the people should presume to anoint a Soveraign it was you see an invasion upon Gods Ordinance an entrenchment upon the divine Prerogative For onely Priests and Prophets were deputed to that honour onely Priests and Prophets might pour oyl out upon the Lords anointed Whereas then the great desire of our Nation is Peace and Settlement certainly there can be no one greater endeavour to ward it then a resolute confining all Men to their Proper Callings 1 Thess 4. v. 11. Study to be quiet and to do your own business Nothing makes more unquietness then medling where men have nothing to do The people hath nothing to do with the Scepter The Miter hath no dispose of the Crown The Priest hath nothing to do with the sword The Souldier hath nothing to do with Law-making Nor may any that will as in Jeroboams days take upon him a Priestly office Kings are to be reverenced and obeyed not to be made or anointed by the People For Absolon to the worlds end will stand upon Record a Rebel for all the people in my text say Absolon whom we anointed over us 2 Sam. 15. If we look upon the beginning of Absolons Rebellion we shall finde Absolon made such a religious pretence of going unto Hebron that those who attended on him they thought they had gone to have done God service For Absolon thus tells his Father Thy servant vowed a vow whilst I aboad at Geshur in Syriah saying I the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem then will I serve the Lord and pay my vowes in Hebron In Hebron as old Lyra observes Adam and Eve Abraham and Sara Isaac and Rebecca Jacob and Leah all lye inter'd And therefore in an honorable remembrance of those precious Reliques Hebron in the days of

the Ark of God might be brought home like the Ark of God with Honour and Solemnity David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel thirty thousand men A time there also was that Jerusalem had the Ark but they wanted their King for the ark was at Jerusalem even all the while that the King was fled out of the land for Absolon But the ark without the King the worship of God without the great Patron and Observer of it this could not make Jerusalem at unity within it self And so Iudah went out to Gilgal to meet the King as then it was the Kings zeal to fetch home the ark even so it was Israels loyalty to bring back their King both had been taken away that both might be better valued And so Lord grant it may be in this Land of ours restore thy worship restore thine anointed and so unite Israel and Iudah that now Absolon is dead all animosities may be buried in his grave Now Absolon is dead O let our David live and let the ark and him rest in a lasting peace which we beg of thee the God of peace even for his sake who is the Prince of peace Jesus Christ the Righteous to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory now and for ever Amen The Joy of Nations PREACHED On the Thanksgiving Day FOR THE HAPPY RETURN Of our Gracious Soveraign CHARLES II. June 29. 1660. LONDON Printed by J. Grismond 1663. Psalm 118. 22 23. The Stone which the Builders refused is become the Head stone of the Corner This is the Lords doing and it is marvelous in our eyes IN the Eighty second Psalm at the fifth Verse there is a sad complaint that All the foundations of the earth are out of course Yea there is not a complaint onely as to matter of fact that it was so but there is an assertion of the cause and reason that of necessity it must so be for the Verse thus begins They know not neither will they understand they walk on in darkness When the present Power and chief Rulers of the Commonwealth of Israel were so blinded with interest that They walked in darkness When they were so bent upon cruelties oppression and injustice that they would not understand when those who had the high and honourable appellative of gods acted rather as Ministers of Sathan accepting the persons of the ungodly and afflicting the poor and fatherless whilst it thus went in Israel all the foundations must needs be out of course Now have not we of this Nation been a very late parallel to this sad condition Have not all our foundations been out of course Have not such who were called The house of gods Such who themselves pretended as saints to judge the earth have not even they bound our Kings in chains and our Nobles in fetters have not our Fundamental Laws and our deepest bottoms been digged up The square Stone of our Law it hath been removed and a round Arbitrary pebble placed in the room of it The Marble Charte● of our Nation and the glorious Pillars of three Kingdoms they have been ground to powder and that powder laid as the Sandy Base of a Rebellious Sacrilegious and Fanatick-Commonwealth Yea whereas it is observed of Rome that beside the material foundation of seven Hills she was bottomed upon seven Governments First Kings secondly Consuls thirdly Decemviri fourthly Tribunes fifthly Dictators sixthly Emperours and lastly Popes Since our Foundations have been out of course attempt hath been made of as many if not more Foundations But as Boys oft by experience finde when the Right shell is wanting among ten thousand more one poor Cockle cannot be matched compleated or made up again even so though we have had ten thousand Builders some Hewing some Canting some Levelling some trying this stone and some that No stone could do the the work till the providence of the chief Builder so ordered it that The stone which the builders refused became the head stone of the corner These words upon their very reading appear to be an Allegory a Figurative expression in which of necessity there must be some hidden or latent meaning For the stone which the Builders refused doth not imply the act of a Mason or the rejection of a stone but the contempt of a person so that the person couched under this stone and the builders intended by this Metaphor must be our first enquiry Now by Stone in the Text there is generally meant either David or the Son of David the King or the Kings Son a person exalted above ordinary men a person exalted above all his brethren Whence my first Observation shall be The great distance between man as man and man as King upon the account of this present Metaphor When the Scripture speaks of man as man the Spirit puts a very low value and esteem upon him calling him Dust Grasse Esay 46. yea Vanity But when he speaketh of Man as a King when he speaks of a Man made the Lords anointed and exalted to regall Dignity then you shall finde the style riseth For old Iacob drawing to his Dust when in blessing his children he came to speak of a royal Emanation out of Ioseph the Spirit of God taught him thus From thence is the Shepheard the stone of Israel Under the notion Shepheard Expositors doubt not is meant the Kingly office now he who was to bear that he is not as a mortall or a man called Dust or Grass or Vanity But the stone of Israel Nor is a King decyphered at large by any sort of Stone for if Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius If every block is not fit to make a Statue every Stone is not fit to represent a King and therefore the spirit of God is choice even upon this account For the Kingly person decyphered he is set forth not simply by a stone but by a tryed stone a precious stone a corner stone yea in my Text there is yet a gradation higher for not onely a stone and a corner stone but Caput Anguli the Headstone in the corner Look then how far a stone transcendeth Dust a pretious stone excelleth grass The Head stone in the choysest structure surpasseth vanity such is the proportion such the distance between man as man and man as King As men we are but dust and grass and vanity but he who is our King he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the stone of our Israel the corner stone yea the Head stone of the corner Now truly this I had not observed but to check such if such yet there be who think themselves as good as a King and a King to be no more then one of us 1 Sam. 10. We read that men as I may phrase it upon the Coronation day even upon that day when it is written All people shouted and said God save the King even then some contemptibly said How shall this

thus complains My mothers children were angry with me But for all that they make me the keeper of the vineyards when the case was so with him that as it is in that verse Mine own vineyard have I not kept yet even then they made him the keeper of their vineyards But when it so was that our Heir could not keep his vineyard his mothers children were so angry that as a stone they threw him out of their vineyards they would neither let him keep their vineyards nor shelter him under their vines As the men of Shechem preferred a shurb a bramble a base fellow before the Olive the Fig-tree or the better family of Jerubbaal Even so his mothers children not in an heat passion or upon anger but which is a sadder rejection upon counsel deliberation treaty When this stone was in balance with the very dross of a Nation when their flesh and blood the undoubted Head of the corner was in competition with a Rebel a Traytor a man of blood yea one who had washt his hands in Royal blood even then they preferred this son of Belial as the Jews did Barabbas before their own flesh before their own blood The son of Nobles yea the son of their own Nobility was made a stranger to his brethren an alien yea an exile to his mothers children And yet for all this in his state of Reparation behold he comes as rose the Son of Righteousness with healing on his wings merciful and gracious as the son of David Our blessed Lord and Master though he was a refused and a rejected stone and that by his own too yet we finde after his resurrection he was exalted and became such a stone that it is written On whomsoever it should fall it would grind him to powder Yet even then so full was he of grace and mercy that he was content his Rebels and his refusers should become stones in his building yea living stones under the protection of him their Head onely the condition is Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ All that the stone so refused after his exaltation requireth of his rebels is that they list themselves anew that they fight under his Banner that they repent and be obedient Now the Son of our late King our long refused and despised stone he sent his Heralds and prepared his way by messengers of peace proclaims a generall pardon upon the same terms that did the son of David repentance loyalty and obedience for the future and indeed the God of peace himself will not give pardon upon other terms For Psalm 68. 21. God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his wickedness He that hath rebelled he may be pardoned but he that goeth on he that after declaration of pardon upon gracious terms will not come in see what the Saviour of the world and the once rejected stone professeth These mine enemies that would not I should reign over them bring them hither and stay them before me He who hath abundant mercy for a returning hath none for an obstinate and persisting rebel 1 Pet. 2. 7. We thus read Unto them which be disobedient the stone which the Builders disallowed the same is made the head of the corner Unto them that be disobedient unto them that would not the rejected stone is become their King unto them which be disobedient the same is made the head of the corner so that one of these two are inevitable either they must become obedient and lay hold of his pardon or this stone must fall upon them and then remember it is written On whomsoever it shall fall it shall grind to powder And therefore kisse the son lest he be angry let us revere and reverence him whom God hath exalted for every King proportionably is what the King of the Jews was Caput Anguli the head of the corner Yea that this Metaphor the Head of the corner hath a meet proportion even to all Kings Saint Peter seems to me in this Chapter to insinuate for from his discourse of the chief precious living and elect corner stone he presently falls to treat of Christians duty to their Kings saying Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord sake whether it be to the King as supream and Fear God honour the King and indeed if we observe it we shall finde their persons and their obedience are very nigh together For The son of David he who sitteth at the right hand of God and is immediately next to God he is a King the highest exaltation of humanity it is in the person of a King And as in Heaven even so in Scripture God and the King are next neighbours Honour the King stands so nigh to fear God that he cannot be a good Christian who will not be a good subject specially to such a King whose Throne is sensibly of Gods erection and whose restitution is so signal a testimony that the very enemy cannot but say This is the Lords doing and it is marvelous in our eyes And so from the matter of fact to II. The manner of doing This is the Lords doing Psalm 78. 19. They speak against God and said can God furnish a Table in the wilderness The Jews did never think it more impossible for God to send them Quails to fill them with flesh and to furnish them with a table in the wilderness then thousands in this our Nation thought it was for God to do as he hath done to bring back the banisht and to set him who was fled out of the Land upon the Throne of his Fathers But as Quails came to them even so came a King to us upon the wings of the wind yea and an East wind too onely with this great difference Quails were the fruit of their murmur but a King the return of our prayers Quails were given upon displeasure but a King in loving kindness Quails were brought in with blood but the coming in of the King was much like the Israelites going out of which it is written Not a dog moved his tongue against it yea what is written of God the great King of the earth the same is applicable to the King we joy under God is gone up with a merry noise and the Lord with the sound of the trumpet So came in our King and that he who so lately was petra scandali the rock of offence should now on a sudden become desideratus genuium the desire of Nations that he should so come in Hoc factum Domini This is the Lords doings and that it is so Behold in this doing the Goodness Wisdom Power of God First then This is the Lords doing for it was of his great Grace and Goodness that this was done For The whole Land that is all the Honourable all the Loyal and upon the account of Religion in