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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39269	A sermon preached on the 29th of May 1661 the day of His Majestie's birth and happy restauration, after a long exile, to his crown and kingdome : before His Excellency William Ld Marquis of Newcastle, at his house of Welbeck / by Clement Ellis.	Ellis, Clement, 1630-1700.	1661 (1661)	Wing E573; ESTC R24953	16,827	54

Summons unto all Israel in the second verse particularly to the house of Aaron verse the third and in short to all that feare the LORD at the fourth verse and all the reason in the world they should comply with his will who would share in his happinesse And yet behold a greater authority then David's is here for Secondly 'T is the Day which the LORD hath made He that made every Day is pleased to make some dayes over againe and againe and so hath he new-made by some extraordinary mercy or other all those dayes which Holy Church has commanded us in commemoration of the same to keep Holy such was this Day made againe by a new Sun shine of his Speciall favour overthe Land a Day by a most glorious mercy so guilded and dignified that it were a profanenesse to fully it with the low drudgeryes of our common employments Graced it must be with hearts and countenances as glad and cheerfull as the day it self is bright and glorious There must be gladnesse in the heart not only in the mouth and in the cloathes such new-made dayes are to be celebrated with all inward cheerfulnesse and alacrity of soul proceeding from a sweet and pleasing sense of his favour who made them for us away wich that grudging and Irksomenesse of spirit we meet with Amos 8. 5. which is ever crying out when will the Sabboth be gone that we may set● forth wheat except wee please our selves in the observation of these Daies we cannot please the LORD that made them And as Gladnesse is required so is 2. Rejoycing a signification of that gladnesse to the world an externall expression and profession ought always to be the inseparable attendant of that internall affection which GOD delights in thus were the feasts of old celebrated with shoutings and soundings of trumpetts and distributing gifts c all sober manifestations of Joy become that day whereon GOD vouchsafes to manifest his Favour Onely men are to take heed how instead of be glad and rejoyce they read be drunk and Prophane that were not to sanctifie but pollute the Day David and his Subjects expresse their joy by entring into the Gates of Righteousnesse into the Courts of GOD's house provoking mutually each other cheerfully to acknowledg and heartily to sing aloud to his Honour and Glory who had done such great things for them whereof they are glad with an O give thanks unto the GOD of all GOD's for his mercy endureth forever We have heard of the Day which the LORD once made for Israel let us now descend to consider the Day the LORD hath lately made for England where it would be very easie would it not be too tedious almost in every particular to shew you how King David and his Day is paralell'd by King CHARLES the Second to whom God make many long and happy Dayes and his Day How much of England's happinesse is bound up in the Prudence and Fortune of England's Kings How long this famous Nation may possibly continue one Body without one Head How long those two great sides of this glorious Fabrick the Church and State may stand firme and unshaken as they ought to be the beauty the strength and support of each other if not well knit together by these Corner-stones Our ancient flourishing and out late miserable and never sufficiently deplored condition when compared together will too manifestly evidence We have known what it is to have Kings our Nursing Fathers and Queenes our nursing Mothers and how happily those two Twins the Church and Commonwealth did thrive and grow and flourish when fed and cherished at such brests and alas we have to our sorrow found what sad Daies those were wherein there was no King in our Israel dayes full of nothing but black clouds raging winds and fat all stormes in which both God's house and Cesar's were blowne downe to the ground all honest and Loyall men driven out of the Land or dispersed and scatter'd and hurled into the little narrow Corners of the earth making privacy and poverty their sanctuary nothing appear'd for many yeares together but the horrid face of Rebellion and confusion no Religion no Law no Justice no Charity no Order nay nothing but the bare name of that a meer pretence wherof was craftily imposed upon a deluded multitude as a sufficient warrant for their disobedience a sure basis for Anarchy or what 's neerest of Kin to it a Democracy indeed nothing but the bare name of Liberty Was it ever thus so long as England willingly embraced the Corner-stones which GOD proffer'd her and did she ever want such praecious stones till her State-Architects became altogether as wise as the foolish builders in the text refusing the stone which GOD had prepared They rejected a stone such as England never saw before and therefore could never know how to prize sufficiently and I would to GOD that it might truly be said in diminution of their guilt that through Ignorance they did it The singular worth and use of that Head-stone they first rejected alas so altogether brutish were we nothing could teach us to understand but the succeeding ruine of three most flourishing Kingdomes A stone indeed he was so truly precious in himselfe and for those many signall excellencies which never shone brightes to the eye of the Christian world then as such true starres and Diamonds use to do in the darkest night of his persecution that he vvas highly and deservedly valued of all that knew him is still cabinetted up in the hearts and affections of those that loved him and shall I doubt not be found in the first row in that great day when GOD shall make up his Iewells And as our Corner-stone he was so exactly squared so solidly laid by the great author of all piety and Justice that nothing but Sathan and Envy could find a fault His Pious reign had left us nothing but a superfluity of happinesse to be sick of and his exemplarȳ Clemency nothing but too much mercy to coplain of the noted softnesse and freedome of his nature gave those rude flints that came against him too great an advantage over him so good a man and so gracious a King that his most inveterate enemies had nothing else to fear hardly to pretend but that God's house vvould by the help of such a stone in a very short time become more strong glorious then their own Late Posterity may indeed very well believe that God removed this stone so early as too rich a Pearl to be thrown away upō such unworthy svvine but what faith will be so daring as to believe that the very Master builders did reject this stone as uselesse and cumbersome Oh! that it might be however forgotten in Gath silently bury'd in the streets of Askalon how that a Christian Nation an English Subject rejected a King that vvas as a Saint such a Saint as CHARLES the First Oh the desperate tementy of a blinded

zeale The infatiable fury of a cove●ous Sanctity The horrible attempts of a malicious Hypocricy What execrable villanies barbarisme may execute when is walke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the vizard of purity and Reformation for The LORD ' s Anointed was murther'd And can it be so much as thought that those very Builders who were call'd together to make up the breaches and repair the decayes in the walls of Sion should thus rashly pull out and dash in pieces in the open street the Corner-stone thereof and afterwards contrive and labour to fill up it's room with such Rubbish as a Common-wealth or such a rough and unhewen Flint as that late prodigious Tyrant which whilest with all their Art and skill they strove to fit and pollish they could never hope to produce anything but a fire to consume at once both the builders and the building But will it not yet seem more strange and incredble that even our Spirituall builders too those that pretended to be joynt labourers with Christ for the aedification of his heavenly kingdome upon earth should make it their Pulpit and their Lecture trade to mete out to their auditors such large measure of factions and seditious doctrine each Market day and like the Jewish High-priests move and incense the People to run raging up and down the streets with a Crucifie him Crucifie him and never cease watching at the doors with their trayterous Petitions in their hands till they had obtain'd their request the Murder of their King and the ruine of his Kingdom And yet such unskilfull builders had unfortunate England on all sides set on work who had a farre greater longing to grow rich upon the ruines then famous by the repairs of Hierusalem Yet as if this had amounted but to some light matter and were a thing excusable or as they would have it very commendable Observe how bravely and resolutely they go on It had pleas'd our Indulgent GOD to hew us out a Second most excellent stone out of the same Royall rock exactly squared and fitted for the same place and dignity too and this again the Builders reject and throw as farre out of their sight as out of their affections saying within themselves as those honest servants we know where This is the Heir come let us kill him and the Inheritance shall be ours thus stoutly resolve they that neither they themselves who had been so long sools would ever again grow wise nor that Church which they had so Sacrilegiously ruined glorious But there is no fighting against Heaven the same wise hand which fitted this Second stone is an Omnipotent hand too and hath fixed it Even that same Royall stone which with shame we may speak it for so many years together had layen in the dust neglected by the People Hated by the Builders beat upon by stormes and Tempests and hath felt the heavy hammers of his implacable Enemies is now sent home again more solid and firme for all that Hammering more sound and undecayed by reason of that long obscurity more welcome and acceptable after so long an absence With whom is restored a lost Justice a long time smoother'd amongst numberlesse Interests and Factions a lost Liberty so long shackled by a most intollerable Tyranny and Usurpation a lost Religion so long buried in grossest Atheisme onely with a fair flourish of Hypocricy and an inscription of Holinesse over her grave This stone the Basis of our Laws the Pillar of our Church the Bulwork of our Peace and I may truly adde the Landmark of our Estates for whilest he was removed no man knew what to call his own even this stone uncrack'd by the blows of his Enemies unmollified by the flatteries of his false friends which the builders for so many years have shamefully refused is now become Blessed be our good GOD the Head-stone of the Corner And now Whose doing is this Whos 's but his who is the great King of Kings Protector of the Fatherlesse Wise Mighty and lust who putteth down one and lifteth up another and makes the most prosperous sinners to know themselves to be but men He alone it is that could do these mighty things for us whereof we are Glad he that hath so strangly turned againe the Captivity of Sion that we seem yet like men that dream Novv vve see vvhat that is whereof our adversaries so boasted themselves Divine Providence and in whose power it is to still the raging of the waves and in whose hands are the Hearts of the Mighty and by whom it is that Kings do reign This is a work which the LORD hath all this while reserved to make his own Doing that all the Earth might see and be afraid because there is a reward for the Righteous there is a GOD that judgeth in the Earth This cannot be the work of any hand but GOD's for 1. If we cast an eye back upon our gracious David whilest under the cloud an Exile what can we see but the LORD alone he had to confide in How was he round about begirt with miseries It is hard to say in which he was most unfortunate his many inhumane Enemies or his more cowardly friends They of his own Religion If they vvere of any thought it more prudence to comply with a prosperous Tyrant then to succour a banish'd Prince The sons of Rome grudged him their friendship who was afraid to share in their slavery Nay such is the naturall sweetnesse wherewith GOD hath blest our Prince and such a gracious Prince hath GOD designed for us that he was afraid to become a King by Conquest and chose rather to wait for the Affections then to triumph over the Lives of his rebellious Subjects 2. Again amongst his enemies here at home we saw nothing could befriend him A Power seemingly invincible a malice utterly implacable a Confidence built upon a long and wonderfull successe and yet certainly a conscience full of guilt and consequently full of jealousies and therefore most vigilant Interests espoused in Rebellion and therefore onely to be maintained by Injustice and Cruelty Besides all these a Confederacy of Oaches Covenants and Engagements though these 't is true made little opposition to any thing but honesty and Loyalty being onely set up as meer engines of Policy which might easily be scrued into all postures to serve the Swearer's Interest Adde now unto all this on the one hand that grand and Master-craft of Hypocricy whereby their enemies did their best endeavours to cozen even God himselfe as well as men into a false beliofe of their integrity and Innocence and on the other hand the Irreligion profanenesse of pretended friends whereby too many were throughly perswaded that a King could have no favourite but wickednesse no friend but the profane considering this lewd temper of spirit in too many and a coldnesse an indifferency a cowardise in more we must needs confesse it was the LORD's doing And certainly a very wonderfull Doing in our eyes Hopes and expectations