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A35558	A King and his subjects unhappily fallen out, and happily reconciled being the substance of a sermon with very little alteration fitted for the present time : preached in the sermon-house belonging to the cathedral of Christ-Church Canterbury Jan. 15, 1643, upon Hos. 3,4,5 / by Meric Casaubon ...	Casaubon, Meric, 1599-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing C804; ESTC R9398	12,046	21

joy he sets out by the joy of a King and People who after many dayes so he saith many dayes divorce are again re-united Behold how good and how pleasant it is saith the Psalmist for Brethren to dwell together in Unity Unity indeed should alwaies be our wish and our aim and they that are the causes of division deserve the curse both of God and man It is not allwaies true that Amantium irae amoris redintegratio est Sometimes a little sparkle doth kindle a great fire not to be quenched untill it hath made an end of all But where God is so mercifull as after a long breach and gasping condition to grant a perfect Re-union and reconciliation a man had need of the tongue of Angels to express the greatness of that joy not here in earth and among men only but I am confident even in Heaven in the presence of the Angels of God and all the hoast of Heaven Hear I pray how pathetically the words of my Text doe run Afterwards after that sad Desolation or separation of many dayes shall the Children of Israel returne and seek the Lord their God and David their King and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter dayes And here offers it self our last observation upon the words viz. the method of this Returne or Reconciliation First they seek the Lord their God and after their King There may be a returne or reconciliation for meer politick ends on both sides It may be they finde they cannot subsist asunder and that the continuance of their division will be the ruine of both Such an occasion will cause a returne if they be not infatuated to their own destruction And God doth use sometimes such outward means and inducement to bring us to Himself and to work us by degrees to a perfect conversion or reconciliation However the truest and surest foundation is to begin with God acording to the method of my Text It is God that maketh men to be of one mind in a House Ps. 68. 16. according to some translations in a house much more in a Kingdom I form the light and create darkness I make peace and create evil So God of himself Esay 45. 7. God then is first to be sought according to the right method upon a sure foundation But what if Men will pretend to seek God and to return unto God but resolve to go no further It is very ordinary for worldly politick Men to put that cheat upon themselves or rather upon others credulous ignorant People They will affoord us fasting and praying enough in their kind and God shall be in their mouths and Christ Jesus nothing more By these fair pretences they drive on their designes and thrive by the miseries and sufferings of the publick To these men or to them rather that are gulled by them I shall commend the advice of an interpreter of great fame John Calvin is the Man Non frustra saith he Hoseas in resipiscentia populi c. in English thus It is not without great cause that the Prophet in setting out the repentance of the People doth also particularly remember or relate their return to David their King For otherwise the People could not truely and really seek God except at the same time it did submit to the lawfull government to which it was obliged or subjected not by Man or by chance but by the appointment of God himself The last words require a candide interpretation lest he should be thought to say that ordinary Kings that have not such immediate calling as David had are by chance or by Men only which is so contrary to Scripture and to sound doctrine that the very Jesuits would exclaim as much wronged if laid to their charge though many of them say little less in effect and act accordingly as it is well known But the Counsel well understood is very good I need not to add any thing to it So we have done with the Text the exposition of it and such Observations as I apprehended not impertinent to it These times and the common talk of all People might seem to prompt some application But this is lubricus locus such a subject wherein a man that will be meddling may soon go beyond his bounds and sooner do hurt then good Though Kings are by God and we warranted nay obliged by Scripture to preach subjection for conscience sake to declare against rebellion in generall much more against all killing or murthering of Kings O horrible under pretence of law yet since the power and praerogative of particular Kings is limited and constituted by the fundamentall laws of every Kingdome approved and confirmed by the assent and consent of successive Kings in this case what a King may do lawfully what he may not according to law what opposition in case he attempt or do any thing against the fundamentall law may be made according to the same law by whom and how farr these things as they are out of our spheare and scanning as we are preachers of the Gospel so must it be high presumption in any of our profession to pass judgments or indeed to intermeddle So if the business of union or reconciliation be in hand after many dayes separation and division I know 〈◊〉 what a loyall Israelite is bound to wish what to pray in generall but many cautions and considerations of State may belong to such a business to bring it to a good and well grounded issue They that can judge what is most agreeable to the proper constitution and fundamentalls of a Realm Lawyers and Sages of the land as I take it They that know what the present condition inclination ability necessities of the people of the land is what may be done what must be borne to prevent further evils and effusion of blood a Parliament as I take it I think it belongs unto them and is their proper work Let them look to it as they are accountable to God and their Country If they to whom it belongs shall enact any thing to which I cannot yield obedience with a good conscience that is without disobeying God I may resolve with Gods assistance to suffer I may not to oppose Yea though it were in my power to do some what and to disturbe yet my conscience tells me it is not lawfull This is all the application I shall make God give us all grace to apply our selves unto him in simplicity and syncerity of heart to depend of him in all things to seek his glory and his favour above all things to whom all honour glory power and majesty FINIS

A KING AND HIS SUBJECTS Unhappily fallen out AND Happily reconciled Being the Substance of a SERMON With very little alteration Fitted for the Present Time PREACHED In the Sermon-House belonging to the Cathedral of Christ-Church CANTERBURY Jan. 15. 1643. Upon Hos. 3. 4 5. By Meric Casaubon D. D. and one of the then Prebends of the said Church London Printed in the Year 1660. HOSEA 3. 4 5. For the Children of Israel shall abide many dayes without a King and without a Prince and without a Sacrifice and without an Image and without an Ephod and without a Teraphim Afterwards shall the Children of Israel returne and seek the Lord their God and David their King and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter dayes I Shall make no other division of the words then such as I finde made to my hand and any body that hears may anticipate In the first Verse a Sad Desolation or Subversion both of Church and State threatned in the second a blessed Restitution or Restoration of both promised For the Children of Israel c. a sad Desolation Afterwards shall the Children of Israel returne c. a blessed and glorious Restitution The Words immediately were spoken of and to the Children of Israel that is the Ten Tribes of Israel separated from the two Tribes the Tribe of Judah and Benjamin which adhered unto the posterity of David The Children of Israel a glorious title for such Rebels and Idolators who at one time had shaken off the yoake both of their God and of their King But Titles and Things do not alwayes agree we know that by the experience of all ages So we may call them Catholicks who damn all men that are not of their Communion not for any want of Charity either in their judgments or to their persons that they can justly charge them with but because they think themselves bound to professe against and their Conscience will not give them leave to joyn with them in their errours So may we call them Saints but I will forbear further censure it is but upon the by a touch is enough Well but how doth it appear that by that goodly title or denomination those Rebellious Idolatrous Tribes are immediately spoken of or to First because most part of this Prophesie doth belong unto them Ephraim often here in most Chapters repeated and that is as much as The Children of Israel or ten Tribes But more especially because those words of the Text David their King manifestly allude or relate to that breach or division of Davids Kingdom under the reign of Roboam Salomons Son when the ten Tribes fell off and constituted another Kingdome under the Government of Jeroboam the son of Nebat an Ephrathite of Zereda Salomons servant 1 Kings 11. 26. These be the chiefest reasons that are given by Interpreters Though somewhat might be objected yet I am content it should be so I will not contend about the Word immediately so it be granted that the substance of the Prophesie doth extend to all Jewes in Generall Some talk of the Gentiles too but we need not stretch it so farr But in very truth it being very uncertain what became of those ten Tribes after their Captivity and whether any part of the Jewes in Christs time or even at this day we should be very much put to it when we come to the accomplishment of the Prophesie here promised in the latter dayes if we do not extend those words the house of Israel as frequently in the Scripture to the Jewes in generall To this purpose you may observe that in the first Chapter of this Prophesie though the tenth verse mention only the house of Israel yet in the eleventh verse wheer the same matter is prosecuted both the House of Judah and the House of Israel are distinctly named Then shall the Children of Judah and the Children of Israel be gathered together and appoint themselves one head and they shall come out of the land for great shall be the day of Jezreel The next thing we will take into consideration which will give more light to the whole Prophesie and main drift of it is the Time either of the desolation threatned or restitution promised In the latter dayes saith my Text in the last words It is the opinion of many that this Desolation begun from the captivity of each people by the Assyrians of the ten Tribes under Hosea or Hoshea as some write it the son of Ela the last King of Israel of the two Tribes under Zedekia the last of Juda and that their Restitution the beginning of it is to be accounted from their returne of the said Captivity by the ordinance and appointment of Cyrus King of Persia as is more particularly related in Esrah and Nehemiah It cannot be denyed indeed that at the return of the Jewes from the Babylonish Captivity they were restored to a government of their own under some Princes first and then Priests enjoyed their first Fundamentall Lawes And that at the same time the worship of God also was restored But here is a great difficulty a main circumstance of the Text or Prophesie wanting a King and that King David by name Somewhat is said of Zerobabel he was of the Royal Seed that is somewhat but not enough to verifie the accomplishment of this glorious promise of a King of the best and best beloved of Kings King David Yet I do not deny but that the words of this prophesie might have some reference to that returne and restoration also It is the nature of prophesies sometimes to comprehend different times and events some more immediately some more remotely if they agree in some one or two main circumstances though they do not in all it may become a prophesie well enough All things well weighed and considerd not to trouble you with many doubts and variety of opinions we must conclude that both in regard of the Desolation threatned and the restitution promised being taken together as they are here joyned together the most genuine full and satisfactory sence will be to begin the threatned Desolation or subversion of State both Civil and Ecclesiastical from the last great Calamities of the Jews by Vespasian the Roman Emperor when the City was taken and destroyed the Temple burnt Millions of Jews perished now full 1500. Years ago So that the most warrantable exposition and which we shall pitch upon of the words will be this The Children of Israel that is the Jews in generall according to the ordinarie Scripture phrase not of the Old but New Testament also as Luke 1. 16. Acts 5. 21. and elsewhere Shall abide many dayes many dayes God knowes they have now continued a distinct people from all other Nations though dispersed among almost all Nations of the World Without a King and without a Prince a thing not little to be wondred at that being so many and so potent in some places as they are reported to be they should in so