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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46638	Rebellio debellata et Scotia rediviva, or, The downfall of rebellion and Scotlands resurrection, as it was represented in two sermons the one at Eccles last of May, the other preached at Jedburgh June 27, 1660, being both dayes set apart for solemn rejoycing and publike thanksgiving for the happy restauration of the king's most excellent Majesty to the exereise [sic] of his royall power / by Jo. Jameson minister at Eccles.	Jameson, John, minister of Eccles.	1661 (1661)	Wing J442; ESTC R31158	40,896	102

and attaine unto Vse 2. It is al 's little wonder to see them fall trimbling down like Phaeton in the fable kicked out of the Chair of that Chariot they were driving and made a ludibry and mocking-stock to all the world about For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee and thou shalt be cut off for ever Obad. 10. Vse 3. Beware of medling with things too high for thee Solomons counsel is good medle not with these that are given to change These will be Gods on earth and while they are climbing to taste of this forbidden fruit they are falling down to the society of the devils in hell they are externally ascending but spiritually descending they must have esteem among men and in the mean while they losse their esteem with God This climbing to their small satisfaction maketh them climb another ladder where they reap neither the fruit of honour nor profit Prop. 2. Invaders and Usurpers of Magistracy are unprofitable for the Commonwealth no better then drosse and time to the Goldsmith of which he can make no Jewel nor precious Vessel whither these be both without Title and Parts or have Parts and want Title a Gold-ring can never be made of tinne more nor of drosse What profit had Shechem by Abimelech Judg. 9.57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal no they are so far from being profitable that they are a very burden proving like an unfaithful steward to his master squizing his tennants without pity or compassion or like to Pharaohs Task-masters whose oppression imbittered the lives of the children of Israel yea more they are a very plague and one of these terrible plagues the Lord smote Egypt with Psal 105.34 He sent locusts and caterpillers that destroyed all the hearbs and eat up all the fruits of the land Indeed such are locusts to that Kingdom they bring under their power they and their supporters destroying all the fruits of the land their purses being as empty of Money as their persons are of worth the people to make them up must pull themselves down and is not this to be unprofitable in a singular manner The reasons of this are First These are men utterly void of a publike spirit having their own greatnesse not the peoples good before their eyes and it is impossible that it can be otherwise when this is made the mark at which all their endeavours are levelled Secondly Such are without all sympathic and fellow-feeling of peoples distresse and miseries not being the kindly parent Pater Patriae but like the unnatural Mother in Solomons time cruel as Tigars and so their administrations cannot not but be very far from bringing in any profit to a Kingdom Thirdly It cometh to passe on this account because they are void of conscience for they resolve to throw this aside as the main remora to great atchievments and least their impiety should become palpable they do it neatly even under the pretence of a most tender conscience Fourthly They are thus unprofitable because they are men void of all honour he that maketh proprium commodum supremam legem his own advantage the Supream Law can never be a man of honourable principles and one that acts not from such will never be instrumental to do good to a Kingdom Lastly All their supporters are of the same stamp for it may be said of them as God said of the makers and worshippers of Idols That they who make them be like unto them and so are all they that trust in them Hence both great and small of them become birds of prey Vse 1. Here is a true character of these that ravish Magistracy and as by a glasse their complexion is represented however they promise great things to the deluded people and flatters them with a hope of heaven upon earth under the shaddow of their power yet they are like Joah to Amasa kissing and imbracing that they may the more covertly cut them off doing as those who mannage young horses soberly and wisely handle them till once they be in the sadle and then they ride them as they please and make them give obedience to their cruel commands or else to resolve to be overwhelmed in utter ruine Vse 2. How good reason have we to blesse God Psal 14. ver last who hath freed us of this woful generation that as we read of some Cats who have been found standing over children with their mouths to theirs souking thence their breath were standing over all degrees of people in this Land and if God had not in time prevented them they had made us a most miserable people no they had cut us off from having a Name among the Nations and so much the higher should our rejoyceing arise that we see in their filthy advantage and unjust gain they have met with signal disappointment it proving as the airly dew and the sweetnes and contentment which they found in our ruines nothing but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a false sweetnesse many of them vomiting up their morsels which cruelly and greedily they had devoured 3. Let us pray to God to blesse him and them who were the instruments in Gods hand of this happy Revolution that man of Valour who lately commanded in this Land and those of our Nobles Gentry and Pastors that animated and encouraged him unto the work being unto him under many sad discouragements he met with as Aaron and Hur to Moses holding up his heart as those did Moses his hands The good will of him that dwelt in the Bush be toward them all for they have sweeped to the door of these Kingdomes the drosse and tinne of Usurpers it was God that guided them in every step for they walked in the midst of hazards The Jewish Rabbins have a fancy that the misreading one letter in the words Ein Kadosh Caihovah Beth to wit for Caph in JEHOVAH destroyeth the world Truely the misplacing one step of him and them had destroyed the whole world of our comfort that Lord who guided them then guide them all still till as they have brought these Lands to the enjoying of peace and prosperity they themselves may be brought to the enjoying of eternal felicity The second thing in the words is The remover He who purgeth out the drosse and the tinne from among them Its I that is God it is He that layeth the Axe of Judgement to the root of the Bramble no lesse 〈…〉 Omnipotency and there is no let to the doing thereof when Omnipotency is streached out The third thing is The manner how this is done that is expressed in the words purely purge and because the word Tsarash translated to purge signifieth to melt or burn out I encline to think that the Allusion here is made to the purging by fire it being a word proper to Goldsmiths and that the Nown is included in the

holinesse so Herod must take Johns life because of his oath an oath being an act of Religion he wrappeth up this his cruelty in the specious pretention of piety Vse 1. Is hypocrisie so deceiving a sin The counterfeit of Vertue The Ape of Religion Then hypocrits they must be counterfeit Saints the Apes of Holy-men yet they do not resemble them so much but a discerning eye may rid the marches betwixt them by these following marks First The hypocrite mustereth out all his good deeds to vain ostentation Matth. 6.1 like the Ape ever carrying her young in her armes to make the world believe he is near to the border of perfection when indeed his life is a Folio Book of Errataes or Errours but the Godly man walketh humbly and modestly all his dayes thinking with Paul he is to be reckoned among the least of Saints Secondly The hypocrite is alwayes prying into the faults and escapes of his neighbour and as Vlisses lifted up the Plough over the childe thrown in before him they make their observation passe their own follies and failings Matths 7.3 Luk. 18.11 but the Godly mans discoveries are most at home he knoweth there is within himself a terra incognita an unknown land and thither he taketh frequent voyages that he may not alwayes be unacquainted with himself Thirdly His conscience is very touchy and tender as to the mint and anise of some civil questions although the word of God doth most clearly determine them but as to harder mettalled matters his conscience is nothing inferiour to the stomack of the Ostrich he can swallow rebellion without any scruple so being this piece of iron be guilded whereas the Godly and orderly Christian starts not debates in civil concernments nor can he endure but his conscience should be in an exact parallel to the Scriptures and so classeth rebellion with the sin of witchcraft Fourthly The hypocrite though he pretends he valueth not the world but that Christ is all in all to him yet he is so great an Idolizer thereof that he seemeth to be of the opinion of old Hermes that the visible world is the Image of the invisible and it is upon this account he payeth his adoration thereto but the Godly man is like the Church in the Revel with the Moon the Embleme of the world under his feet trading on it as the most unconstant of vanities Lastly Hypocrites are cruel Psal 35.16 both in their judgment and in their practice as they condemn all that are not of their judgement so if it lay in their power with one stroak they would cut off the heads of them all and yet though they be Nero's they must be called Cato's Falsis veri imaginibus cuncta evertere moliuntur but the Godly is merciful and lendeth measuring his affairs with justice and is far from their blasphemy to think Christ was in a mistake when he prohibited us to judge according to the outward appearance Vse 2. Blesse God who in his just Providence is apulling off the vizard of hypocrisie from mens faces and all these disguises of Religion In which the rough horns of their private designs was wrapped up Men of late were only valued to be of worth and parts according to their dissimulation or hypocrisie had a man any favour to the Usurpers and therewith a show of Godlinesse according to his profession Civil Sacred or Military he was fit for any Trust these two would have qualified him sufficiently Learning Judgement Ingenuity Loyal-courage were esteemed scandalous If any flash of wit had escaped a man he had been in hazard of loosing his reputation Have we not reason then to blesse God for freeing us from such a miserable thraldom Having spoke to the thing purged out sin and hypocrisie We shall next enter upon the manner how it is done First In regard of God and these two things will fall to be examined 1. By what he doth it Next In what extent he doth it By what It is by fire for as I have said the word Tsaraph is a word proper to Gold-smiths signifying melting and this cannot be without fire and so the Nown is included in the Verb. Now fire here as it relateth to sin and hypocrisie can be no other but the energie and efficacious working of Gods own Spirit He will baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire Matth. 3.11 His Spirit is called the spirit of burning Isa 4.4 The Spirit of God working in us hath a great resemblance with the operation of fire and therefore it discovereth the various and manifold effects of His Spirit in our Renovation which is the Christians spiritual refining from his drosse and tinne Secondly In what extent doth he it He doth it in a full extent All thy tinne Which All supposeth another All for if all our tinne be to be purged then all our drosse also Gods Spirit will not be pleased though all our hypocrisie be removed if grosse and palpable sins be permitted to remain unmortified and this is done in the progresse of our Sanctification 2. The manner in regard of man is couched in the word purge or melt and that hint●●h at its difficulty as to him that it is not easily performed but as hard as to have drosse separate by fire from the mettal And here I present you these three Observations First There is an universal removing of sin in our Renovation and Sanctification Secondly There be various and manifold effects shown by Gods Spirit in his removal of sin Thirdly This removing of sin in our Renovation and Sanctification is not an easie but a difficult work 1. There is an universal removing of sin in our Sanctification and Renovation not only of the grosser sins but of our most spiritual sins not only of sins in our life but sins in our heart not only of prophanity but hypocrisie and not only one branch but every branch both of profanity and hypocrisie are removed First As to there blot and stain Ezek. 36.25 1 Cor. 6.11 Secondly As to our delight unto them Psal 1.2 Thirdly As to their dominion over us Psal 19. ver last and Rom. 6.12 Yet this removal is not so universal as to remove sin according to its being that remaineth and will so long as we are upon earth Vse Let us follow this way for our personal reformation labouring to be renued in the spirit of the mind and to become holy as our Lord is holy in all manner of conversation for there is no pesonal Reformation acceptable without personal Renovation this is only true and sincere And it is such a Reformation that these happy times calleth for at our hands Is God reforming all outwardly that hath been out of order in these Kingdoms Let us Answer this by setting a work Spiritual Reformation in our selves who offereth a false personal reformation to God understandeth not the nature of that benefit God actually bestoweth on us These many years by gone we have had a false Head of