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A29136	Anastasis Britannica & Hibernica Great Brittain and Irelands resurrection. Or the happy turn upon his Majesties happy message and happy return. The first part upon occasion of the thanksgiving, May 24. 1660. which was for his Majesties gracious message from beyond seas to the two houses, delivered upon 2 Sam.19.14. And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, ... The second part upon occasion of the thanksgiving, June 28. 1660. for His Majesties safe return to His kingdomes, ... By John Bradshaw pastor of Etchingham in Sussex.	Bradshaw, John, 17th cent.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4151B; ESTC R224001	29,369	53

one likely on the like occasion to be as impudent and insulting as ever nor did David order Solomon directly to put him to death for that offence for then Solomon had done it without any further delay but Solomon did not only confined him to the line granting him a tether long enough This leads me to the fifth meeting of Mercy and Truth which were here met together that is mercy and faithfulness For as Gods mercies to David were sure and therefore are called the sure Mercies of David and in that sense Mercy and Truth now met so Davids mercies to his people and his enemies were sure mercies and so they met again 6. Righteousness and Peace met in this great meeting for as in Warrs civil especially all unrighteousness cruelty outrages do prevail so that we may say war and unrighteousness meet together so Peace and Righteousness meet together For inter arma non solum silent leges sed virtutes but in peace vigent leges vigent virtutes and we know that moral Vertues are concatenated as Pindar in Olymp. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As there is not only peace but a League amongst the Vertues so this peace is confirmed by peace Oh blessed is that meeting when King and people meet together in peace especially after a time of distance and a time of broi●es Therefore in the seventh and last place there was in this meeting a congress of rejoycing and praising God and this I conjecture though I find it not written by what our eyes have lately seen in which there was as much joy and praising God by sober and religious persons as ever was seen upon any occasion We read 1 Chron. 12.40 there was joy in Israel when David was inaugurated King and why not when he was restored There was occasion there was place for joy any blessing God The end of this meering is our Text to conduct the King over Jordan that is to bring him with honour into his native Kingdom No doubt it was a welcome conduct to him to be brought in by them whom he styles his Brethren his bones and his flesh If he had had the conduct of all the valiantest men and most honourable personages of all the Nations round about it could not have pleased the soul of David so well as to have the men of Judah to fetch him home Obser 1 If a mans wayes please the Lord he will make his enemies to be at peace with him and not that only but will teach both friends and enemies to serve and honour him Prov. 11.27 He that diligently seeks good procures favour yea and procures honour and service and attendance if God see it meet for him Proverbs 14.28 In the multitude of people is the Kings honour how much more when they shall meet together purposely in multitudes to present honour to him Prov. 21.21 He that followeth after Righteousness and mercy findeth Life Righteousness and Honour David no doubt did set his heart to do works of remarkable righteousness and remarkable mercy and he finds life God preserves him in the midst of most urgent and imminent dangers when his life was hunted and sought for and when they laid snares privily saying who shall see us Secondly He finds Righteousness which is Suum cuique tribuere he hath his Own given him again of which he was unrighteously deprived Thirdly He finds honour to have as much given him as possibly could be given at so short warning Righteousness found seems to be the suitable reward of Righteousness done and honour conferred seems to be the reward of Alliance to mercy bestowed and life seems to be the common reward of both He follows righteousness and finds life and he follows mercy and finds life for life is defended by Justice and saved by Mercy Obser 2 How ready good subjects should be to make a fitting compensation to their Kings and Princes for their injuries that have been offered to them David was basely and unworthily forced to fly out of the land now therefore they bring him back with honour He was forced to slip away privately over Jordan now they make for him an honourable conduct at his return Nil ●am nisi vota supersunt My Application of the Premises shall be supplication with Thanksgiving The Kings glory is great in thy salvation O Lord Majesty and Honour hast thou laid upon him Thou hast given him safety after danger boldness after fear joy after grief gain after loss establishment after exile restitution after persecution honour after dejection test after perturbation a Throne after a thorn a Crown after a cross He fled away over this Jordan with little more than his staff and now he is become according to thy grant and his Right the King in actual possession of more than two great Kingdoms What shall we render unto thee for what thou hast done for him Praise is comely but it is too little we can give nothing to thee but what is thine own but alas what can such poor beggars as we are give thee Blessed Lord thou givest us the grace to beg that thou mayest give us the grace we do beg Now for Jesus his sake grant to our gracious King increase of all Grace perseverance in all good Wisdome in all difficulties Courage in all his noble enterprizes Moderation in all prosperity Patience in all adversity Success in his undertakings Honour in his atchievements Joy in his Crown and dignity Bless him O Lord with an obedient people a learned pious and painfull Clergy a religious and loving Gentry a loyal and gracious Nobility a just and couragious Magistracy a wise and faithfull Counsel Bless the two royal Brethren through thy Mercy here with us and the two royal Sisters beyond the water Let thy blessing rest upon this honourable and happy Parliament and upon those wise Commanders and loyal Subjects that have been instrumental in this great work Finally O Lord Bless his Majesty with a long life and an happy Reign and when he must no longer reign over us let him for ever reign with Christ Amen and Amen FINIS

innocent Prince must needs carry a great stroke but much more if under affliction We often read of the best Princes that they have been some part of their reign either in the beginning o● in the end thereof much afflicted And besides Princes many other renowned persons Cosmo de Medicis who next after his father Johannes was the foundation of a great and renowned family was the most honourable and famous Common-wealths man that ever had been in any memory before his time for Authority Wisdome Justice Riches Liberality and Magnificence the first part of his life was full of troubles he was exiled and frequently in danger of death but after lived and governed most happily He was happy in his son Petrus de Medicis and in his Grand-child Laurentius de Medicis And I hope a branch of that family will flourish for ever The greater the person the greater the affliction and the greater that is the more should their words move affection 8. Their injured King injured by Absalom his natural son injured by the men of Judah his Political sons injured by his chief Councellour Achitophel basely used by Shimei yea injured after many acts of Grace and favour after great deliverances wrought for the people Ver. 9. And all the people were at strife throughout all the Tribes of Israel saying the King saved us out of the hand of our enemies and he delivored us out of the hand of the Philistins and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom c. These eight ingredients mixt together in the Kings message the body of the people being before well prepared by consideration wrought very effectually to the removing of any Scirrhus from the hearts of the men of Judah and to make them so soft and tender as to bow and yield to this healing touch of the Kings hand in his message Application And have I not all this while been speaking of things pertaining to our King and Countrey I shall only crave this clemency of you that whilst I make up the parallel which I shall do as briefly as I can you would not either imagine that I disparage you as if your minds were so dull as that you had not done it already or that I flatter the King in whose presence as I do not now speak so neither do I speak besides Truth or beyond sobriety nor would I have you to imagine that I detract from or neglect in my speech the Worthies assembled in this most honourable free and happy Parliament which shall be as famous to posterity for this wise just pious loyal work of inviting home the King with so much love and duty as the Bran of another Parliament hath been and will be to all ages infamous for destroying the gracious Father and expulsing the hopefull Son I call them Bran because they had been often sifted and the worst was still left in the sive I pray you also let us bless God as we go along for that it is the work of the day as the parallel is work for the day Verbum sapientibus a little to the intelligent is enough And blessed be God for the Kings Message that it was no worse than a Message Had the Kings heart been set upon revenge he would have sent in another strein Let us not flatter our selves or undervalew this favour The peace of those two great Nations full South of us might have begotten War against us nor would the Sword-men of two such rich and populous Nations have been willing to receive a Quietus est or to sit down as Reformadoes when so just a cause and such good booties and so well beloved a pay-master had given incouragement 2. A gracious message Blessed be our gracious God and blessed of God be our gracious King For he declares he neither desires the blood nor dammage of his people that he is ready to pardon nay to remove the reproaches of them that have been reproachers 3. Which sufficiently makes good the third thing that it is message of love and comfort declaring a readiness not only to pardon but to bestow not only to forgive but to give 4. It was a Kings message and whatever of late years hath been acted or spoken in a tendency to eclipse the dignity of that high office yet the Scriptures the Lawes and customes of all Nations have ever been to honour it with the highest degree of humane honour To speak of regall dignity deserves a day and a Text by it self This is enough to shew why this message should be so soveraign in operation they are next to God and I will only mention that of Tertullian Reges in solius Dei potestate sunt a quo sunt secundi post quem Primi ante omnes super omnes Deos homines 5. Our own Kings message True indeed driven out by meanes of a subtile traiterous Absalom a politicall son yet a politick rebell and so forced to be as a stranger to his own people and to go over Jordan for succour and safety 6. Our blamelesse King and yet to take in the two last our afflicted injured King I would speake much upon this part and my heart would indite with more life and affection then yet it hath done and oh that I had leave from his Majesty to limb out his and His Fathers sufferings But his very goodnesse seems to take me off who in his letter to the noble Generall wishes that the memory of what is passed may be buried in the world and who heartily seeks the reconciliation of all PART II. I Therefore come in a few words to the second Complication Here are hearts bowed and the hearts of such as had been if not active against David yet not active for him and however the hearts of the latter sort might be and were flexible yet no doubt the other were more stubborne Observ 1 Obser That even stubborn hearts when before prepared and wakened by consideration may at last be bowed v. 9. they were startled and began to consider what they had done in setting up Absalom and now when the message comes it setts them right this warme message proceeding from an heart in which was kindled love and piety thawed their hearts and made them begin to be more gentle Application Appli And here perhaps is not so full or cleare a compliance betwixt the history of the Text and the history of the day For as for the worthies of this Parliament I look on them as such whose hearts before the message were internally bowed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not in outward expression and declarative till the message came At least there were hearty good wishes this I believe no man can doubt of well this day is by their order And blessed be the Lord for their choyce to that great work and their meeting upon their choice their good enacting upon their assembling and their loyall reception of the Kings message and their dutifull

which when we considered the strength of the enemy and the successe of their Forces and the continual blasts of all undertakings for the King we thought in the sight of flesh and blood to be impossible at least improbable but when we considered the Piety Charity Humility Meeknesse Clemency and the frequent Prayers Teares of the late good King and how many ungratefull injuries base affronts and cruel usages were offerd to him we hoped then that so many prayers and teares would not be unheard and so may injuries would not be past by and the rather because his Son our gracious King was esteemed of sober intelligent men as a Son treading his Fathers steps Only here was the mistake in the manner we thought God would cut the way of the Kings Return by the sword but our gracious God hath done it in a farre more happy glorious way than we did imagine and could conceive The King is sent for and all his servants a true signe of their love who sent to the King to Return that they loved his servants For if I love the King I cannot hate persecute or seek the destruction of such as I believe have been true and faithfull servants to him Yea God hath granted the King his own in his own way and according to his own and his Fathers desires that is with love and without blood-shed And though I never yet was at his Majesties Closet-door nor ever saw his Royal Face yet I do verily believe and am fully perswaded it hath been his constant and ardent prayer for many yeares together that God would restore him to his own again without the shedding of blood and that God would bow the hearts of his Subjects to him And we may now say with joyfull hearts as it is Psalm 21.1 7. The King shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoyce Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not withholden the requests of his lips c. Yea it now appeares that God did file up the prayers and bottle up the teares shed in Carisbrook-Castle and in other places by that King of Martyrs and most precious of Saints whom my tongue could hardly ever mention without teares and who is he that will not now give thanks Surely an evil spirit from the Lord hath their hearts in Fee-simple that will not be removed by the sweet Musick of this Day For it may be said of almost the whole body of the Nation as it is Esay 9.3 4. They joy before thee according to the joy in harvest and as men rejoyce when they divide the spoil For thou hast broken the yoak of his burden and the staffe of his shoulder the Rod of his oppressour as in the day of Midian The joy of harvest is for what labour hath brought in the joy of dividing the spoil i● for what hazard and victory hath brought in But our joy is for a strange Providence and an incomparable blessing obtained without paines or hazard A blessing dropt down from Heaven into our lapps and bosomes And now what shall we render to the Lord for all his benefits Salvation belongeth to the Lord Psam 3.8 and his blessing is upon his people The King cryed to the Lord with his voyce verse 4. and he heard him out of his holy Hill and thou onely makest him and us to dwell in safety Do thou O Lord Psalm 4.8 blesse the righteous with favour do thou compass him as with a friest O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end 〈…〉 but establish the just Thou hast maintained the Kings right and his cause thou satest in the Throne judging right verse 9. Thou hast been a Refuge for the oppressed a Refuge in times of trouble he that knows thy name will put his trust in thee verse 10. Psalm 144.9 for thou Lord hast not forsaken him that sought thee And for this new mercy will we sing a new song to thee yea to thee will we sing prayses Thou alone givest salvation to Kings Thou didst deliver Charles the second thy servant from the hurtfull sword Thou didst preserve him here at home all along those sharp Warres against his Royal Father and when he was forced to flye into forraign parts for safety Psalm 11.1 as a bird flees to the Mountaines the wicked bending their bow and making ready their arrow on the string thou hast kept him safe in a strange land Blessed be thy holy Name that when he was called home unto his Northern Kingdom that neither the malice or filthy lucre of any evil persons made a prey of him Psalm 21.3 but that thou didst prevent him with the blessings of goodnesse thou didst set a Crown of pure Gold upon his head And when his straights forced him into his Native Kingdom thou didst preserve him in those sharp and dangerous encounters at Worcester and when after that he was hunted as a Partridge in the Mountaines Psalm 27.5 and was forced into the Woods and Wilderness in the time of trouble thou didst hide him in thy Pavillion in the secret of thy Tabernacle didst thou hide him and didst set him up upon a Rock And now is his head lifted up above his enemies round about him therefore will we offer up in thy Tabernacles sacrifices of joy The Lord was the Kings strength and his shield Psalm 28. his heart trusted in him and he is helped Therefore his heart greatly rejoyceth and with his song will he praise thee the saving strength of his anoynted For thine anger endureth but a moment Psalm 30. in thy favour is life sorrow hath endured for a night but joy is now come in the morning and thou hast turned his mourning into dancing thou hast put off his sackcloath and girded him with gladness Great were his dangers and straits indeed Psalm 31. Psalm 31.13 but thou hast not shut him up in the hand of the enemy but hast set his feet in a large room We have heard the slander of many fear was on every side whilst they took counsel together against him they devised to take away his life But he trusted in the Lord and said my times are in thy hand Psalm 55.18 Psalm 64.1 c. He hath delivered his soul in peace from the Battel that was against him The Lord hid him from the secret Counsel of the wicked and from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity Thou O Lord which didst shew him great and sore troubles Psalm 71.20 hast quickned him again thou hast increased his greatness and comsorted him on every side Thou didst seem indeed to cast off and to abhor Psalm 89.38 and to be wroth with thine anoynted thou didst profane his Crown by casting it to the ground thou hast broken down all his hedges thou didst bring his strong Holds to ruine But thou hast given him the shield of thy salvation Psalm