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A92958	Mercy in a miracle shewing, the deliverance, and the duty, of the king, and the people In a sermon preached at Mitcham in Surry, June 28. 1660 in a solemne congratulation for the restoration of his Majesty to his royal throne. By Anthonie Sadler, late chaplain, to the right honourable Leticia, Lady Pagett, Dowager, deceased.	Sadler, Anthony, b. 1610.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1660 (1660)	Wing S268; ESTC R230425	14,467	29

they shall hastily disquiet their Lords repose and ●hough hee be asleep they will not let him rest for they came to him and awoke him saying Lord save us we perish Thus is our Condition on this Heaven a very sad Condition because It is so Vniversally that 's a second Reason THIRDLY It is sad Continually I had no peace saith Job neither had I quietnesse neither had I rest yet trouble came Job 3. 26. it came indeed it came with a witnesse yea it came with four witnesses each after other and all upon a suddain to salute their Master with their mournful news saying The Oxen were plowing and the Asses feeding in their places and Sabeans came violently and took them yea they have slain the servants with the Edge of the Sword but I onely am escaped and come alone to tell thee And while he was yet speaking another came and said the fire of God is fallen from Heaven and hath burnt up the Sheep and the Servants and devoured them but I onely am escaped and come alone to tell thee And while he was yet speaking came another and said the Caldeans set out three Bands and fell upon the Camels and have taken them and have slain the Servants with the Edge of the sword but I only am escaped and come alone to tell thee And while he was yet speaking came another and said thy Sons and thy Daughters were eating and drinking Wine in their eldest Brothers House and behold there came a great wind from beyond the Wildernesse and smote the four corners of the House which fell upon the Children and they are dead and I only am escaped and come alone to tell thee Thus each after other and all upon a sudden salute their Master with most mournful Newes Alas poor man from the Wombe to the Grave as he is born with Cryes so he lives with Crosses Take Moses who was Gods servant take Aaron who was Gods Saint take Abraham who was Gods Friend take David who was a man after Gods own Heart yea as I said before take the only Son of God who is the Welbeloved of his Father and we shall find them all bearing the burden of continual Troubles Good Lord how short is our time here and yet oh how many are the miseries of our momentany continuance Here we live but alas God knows scarce a day without some tryal trouble some tryal or other to disquiet us or some trouble or other to discomfort us Alas the pains and patience which every one in his several calling must sadly undertake is as hard to be undergone as to be understood Oh with what care and fear do even Princes wear their Crowns when by the desperate presumption of Rebellious subjects the very Crown it self in a Cursed Ambition is taken from their Head and their Head from their Shoulders Ah in fandum renovare cogor what an Ugly and Fatall Lodging that most Royal Martyr when before his own Gate he had a Scaffold for his Bed and a Block for a Pillow to sleep his last in his own Blood Thus look every way upon every one we shall find them All bearing the burden of continual Troubles yea If we look upon our now gracious King Charles the Second for whose wonderfull Restoration we now keep Holy-day Was not his Princely Pupill-age enforcedly trained up in the dreadfull Schoole of an intestine War Hath not his whole life been from that time to this a dangerous Pilgrimage from one Kingdome to another people Oh how many Plots and Complots were there to betray his Councels to destroy his Person After his Just Coronation in his Kingdome of Scotland and his Just Advance to regain his native Kingdome and the Throne of England How tedious was his march How perillous were his Quarters How impotent was his Army How potent was his Adversary How he was besieged though he was not taken and how he was beaten though he was not Conquer'd I want words to make the Relation full Ah to what a miserable Extremity and to what an extreme Necessity was his Sacred Majesty exposed when as today he was valiantly fighting for his three Kingdomes is yet within a night or two flying for his deare life disrob'd of his Princely Habit wandring in a Wood lodged in a Tree and glad of a piece of Bread well God's providence and the King's then preservation was Mercy in a Miracle and God's Mercy and the King's now Restoration is the wonder of the world And What shall we say now since the King 's swaying of the Scepter is not more Royal then Auspicious What shall we say now since joyful England sings a Requiem in the lap of Peace What shall we say now since every one sits under his own Vine and eats the fruits of their own labour What shall we say now since the King is restored to his proper Throne The Parliament to its proper Constitution The Church to its proper Right The Law to its proper Courts And the whole Nation to its proper Freedome What shall we say now Are the troubles even of the King himself now ended Or rather are not the Thornes of continuall Care platted together in the Jewels of his Crown O Solon Solon nemo ante obitum faelix Ah my brethren what Craesus found the King feeles and all may say that our Condition in this world is to beare the burden of continuall troubles Certainly our Prayers our Pity our Lives our Fortunes All are but the due Subsidiaries to the carefull managements of our godly King His very person is Sacred so may his Troubles be even Sanctified to be undergone The Lord in mercy be gracious to his Majesty that while the government of so many Millions of people are committed to his Charge he may neither faint nor fall under the pressures of so great a charge for It cannot be avoided and it must be endured as the lot of all mankind on this side Heaven to beare the burden of Continuall Troubles So saith Job in the 14 of that book the last verse While his flesh is upon him he shall be sorrowfull and while his soul is in him it shall Mourn Let me crave your patience to instance this truth but once more in our Lord and Saviour who from the place of his Birth to the place of his Burial was born very meanly lived very poorly and dyed very sadly 1. He was born very meanly yea so very meanly born that Bethlem though St. Hierome calls it a pretty City yet Micah calls it a little City and that 's his place a common Inne in that City is his House the Stable in that Inne is his Room the Mainger in that Stable is his Cradle the Beasts at the Mainger are his Company Ah so contemptible is his Birth that he is reiected and dispised of men Esay 53. 3. 2. As Christ was born very meanly so he lived very poorly yea he so very poorly lives that even of a strange woman he begs

and begs for very water John 4. 7. He is so poor that his Disciple must fish for money to pay his Tribute He is so poor that alas poor man he hath no house nor home no he is so very poor that as if his condition did bespeak our compassion he puts the Foxes and the Birds before him The Foxes saith he have holes and the birds of the Aire have Nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his Head No He is so very poor that he is hated and scorned and blasphemed one while he is accounted a Deceiver then for a Divel one while for a Glutton and a Wine-bibber then for a friend of Publicans and Sinners one while for a mad man then for a Fool in the end he a Malefactor and so thirdly he very s●dly dyes Yea so very sadly that an Angel from Heaven strengthens him in his very Ante passion He so very sadly dies that his Agony is Horrid and his prayer importunate so importunate that he prayes a first a second and a third time he falls upon his knees he falls upon the ground he falls upon his face and prayes Father Oh my Father Abba Father If it be possible let this Cup pass from me Matth. 26. 39. Mark 14. 36. Oh! what a death did our dear Saviour dye when a Cup so fill'd and fill'd so full with the most bitter wrath of his most wrathful Father against those sinners he undertook to save even that Cup drink off he must and will yea he must drink it off and did Insomuch That his Agony is so very strange he sweats blood and that blood not in a thin distilling or forcing out its way through the Curious pores of his most tender body no but it was so much that it came forth by drops and those drops so many that each followed other trickling down to the Ground Luke 22. 44. Yea He so very sadly dyes that he was much affected though he was not disturbed though he was not disturbed in his Superiour VVill he was much affected in his Naturall VVill yea so and so much affected that he was much moved in though he was not Removed from the work of mans Redemption No but He so very sadly dyes that Pertulit dura verba duriora verbera durissima Supplicia Taking the Infirmities of our frail Nature he bore the punishment of our sinfull Nature and that such punishment as none but God the Father could Inflict and none but God the Son could Beare In a word He so very sadly dies that he dies shamefully painfully and notoriously he dies shamefully without the City painfully upon the Crosse and notoriously among Thieves among them ay and between them too as if he had conducted and led them thither Thus our blessed Lord and Saviour being Born very meanly Living very poorly and Dying very sadly Our observation is as True as Lamentable That The Condition of all mankind while they are on this side Heaven is a very sad Condition Because First it is so Naturally 2. It is so Universally 3. It is so Continually Well then is it so that Jesus Christ and his Disciples are in a great Tempest Must all Mankind per tot discrimina rerum through many Afflictions enter into Heaven And must all allwaies suffer in the world Ere they shall be glorified in the world to come This then may serve to Exhort and to Encourage us to beare Christ's Crosse with patience and to submit our Will to God's Will in whatsoever comes to passe And that for these three Reasons Because 1. Our sufferings are not things New 2. Our sufferings are not things Strange and 3. Our sufferings are not things Remedilesse 1. Our Sufferings are not things New so saith St. John 1. Epist 3. 13. Marvell not my brethren if the world hate you it 's no New thing If the world hate You ye know saith our blessed Saviour that it hated Me it hated me before it hated You John 15. 18. Ye know it it is so obvious to your observation it is not worth your wonder Marvel not for our sufferings are not things New 2. They are not things strange so saith St. Pet. 1 Epist 4. 12. Dearely beloved think it not strange concerning the Fiery Tryall which is to Try you as though some strange thing happened unto you for Your Ttroubles are but your Tryals and as they are not New to be wondred at so they are not strange to be thought on so thought on as to have your thoughts troubled when your troubles come no Come they will and come upon All and by All both Prince and people they should be borne patiently for Troubles are not such New things as to be wondred at with amazement nor are they such Strange things as to be thought on with dispaire And that because 3. And Lastly our sufferings are not things Remedilesse not Remedilesse no Blessed be God we have a better Vmbrage to save us from the Heat then the Gourd of Jonah We have a better Deity to supplicate for helpe then the Idol of Ahab Our God is in Heaven and this God is our hope and strength A present help in Trouble Psal 46. 1. He is so because his power 's Allmighty and he will be so because his Mercie 's infinite And yet God many times suffers his deare Children to be brought low yea so very low that with the Prophet Eliah they are weary to live and do desire to dye for so we read 1 Kings 19. 4. He went a daies Journey into the wildernesse and came and sate down under a Juniper Tree and desired that he might dye and said It is now enough O Lord take away my life for I am not better then my Fathers But why does the Lord deale thus hardly with his poor Servants and seeme to afflict them even unto death why doth God leave them many times so to themselves that they know not what to do nor where to go as if their misery were past all Remedy why truly The Reasons may be these three 1. To make them the more sensible of their danger and the more zealous for deliverance that they might the more consider the condition they are in how sad it is and how much it needs the help of Heaven When the Israelites in Egypt had their Task doubl'd and that they must make up their Tale and yet go find their Straw they then saith the Text saw themselves to be in an evil case a case so evil that it made them cry to Moses and Moses to cry to God and God for to save the people being sensible of their bondage and zealous for Deliverance Or 2. God may suffer his dear Children to be brought very low to make a tryal of their Graces If Satan afflict Job it shall be to try his Patience If Rabshaketh revileth Hezekiah it shall be to try his Confidence And if God himself tempt Abraham it shall be to try his Faith If the Lord