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A94151	Davids devotions upon his deliverances: set forth in a sermon at All-Saints in Derby, June 28, 1660. Being the day of publique thanksgiving for his Majesties happy restauration, by Joseph Swetnam preacher there.	Swetnam, Joseph, fl. 1617.	1660 (1660)	Wing S6254; Thomason E1037_1; ESTC R209300	5,663	13

well as to flowers I doubt not but care will in due time bee taken to crop at least if not pluck up these tares I mean not their persons but their impieties To prove my doctrine consult Isaiah 12.4 And in that day shall yee say Praise the Lord call upon his Name declare his doings among the people make mention that his name is exalted Psalm 66.2 Sing forth the honour of his name make his Praise glorious Psalm 68.4 Sing unto God sing praise to his name extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah and rejoyce before him Our David is precentor in this spiritual quire and let none with Michal jeer or with the victors after Absoloms rout slink away ashamed God is magnified 1 When wee utter the memory of his great goodness Psalm 145.7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy Great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness It s a good day as the four leapers said when the seige was raised from Samariah and if wee hold our peace evil will befall us 2 God is exalted when his actings are set forth to the life Psalme 66.2 Sing forth the honour of his Name make his Praise glorious The less shadowed the more magnificent God is never more magnified than when his work is owned as being only his with his holy arm hee hath got himself the victory 3 When wee are speedy in our praises not deferring them till a mercy grow stale or suffer an eclipse Moses and Miriam Deborah and Barach took no day but sang sweet songs whilst the deliverance was fresh 4 God is then magnified indeed when our praises are spiritual singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord Collos 3.16 when wee constantly boast of God as ver 1. not like those Israelites that sang his praise and soon forgat him turning his glory into the similitude of a Calf whence Chrysost compares them to grashoppers Subito saltantes protinus in terram cadentes If you look for reasons to enforce this duty 1 God is great and so is his name hence Jerem. 10.6 forasmuch as there is none like unto thee O Lord thou art great and thy name is great in might Hee exhorts to magnifie 2 Wee are wisdomes children and it s our duty to justifie our parent Mat. 11.19 wisdome is justified of her children wee may not then bee tongue-tided in such a day as this 3 Kindnesses are conferred upon this account Psal 50.15 Call upon mee in the day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie mee were not ten cleansed but where are the nine 4 God his goodness endures dayly in despite of all iniquity Psalm 54.6 I will freely sacrifize unto thee I will Praise thy name O Lord for it is good And shall not the redeemed of the Lord say so who were remembred by him in their low estate O magnifie the Lord with mee and let us exalt his name together Use I shall infer only an exhortation to give God the honour due to his name for the return of so gracious a King Motives 1 Many of us have the return of our prayers humbly groaned forth and not in rancor and malice bolted out though those like the fly on the wheel think they stir up all the dust 2 God is now cleared to bee the wise and only moderator ruleing yea over-ruleing all pretended providences success was their Diana and must bee the decider of that great controversie Whether regicidium by subjects was lawful or no but God almighty to the honour of his name hath confuted those blood-hounds which killed and took possession 3 Wee have now judgment running down like water King Charles the second restored and that without the loss of one drop of bloud who more injured than our gracious King and now God hath in spite of furious heathenish people set him up upon his Throne so that his enemies bow themselves hee treading upon the Asp and Adder 4 Hypocritical tyranny is exiled which Jezabel like when proclaimed a fast meant murther devotions being the harbingers to too many innocents destructions which made us in those times choose redarguing texts though wee durst do no more witness Luke the 12.1 In the mean time when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people in so much that they trod one upon another hee began to say to his disciples first of all Beware yee of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisie upon December the 6.1655 but I scorn to crouch or flatter 5 Heresie and blasphemy like Apolloes oracles at Christ his birth being silenced oracula cessant as Juvenal said A canting Augustus as Suidas hath it enquiring about his successor might if hee could return write haec est ara primogeniti dei this is hee whose right it is from God in a sound sence I may say the son of God the sonne of his care and delight witness those wonderful providences in his preservation and restauration 6 Heedfully consider seven things in our gracious King 1 Hee is no alien born but a native as Juda said of David neer a kin to us the first King that drew his first breath in England since King Edward the sixth hence that admired Sympathy and lenity towards his subjects hath much of its rise Happy art thou O land whose Prince is impatient till thy wounds bee healed 2 Ponder his prudence evidenced in the choice of men once jarring in their interests to bee imployed in greatest trusts by which hee prevents fears and jealousies once Englands false fiers so that wee may say as it was of David and Solomon our Lord the King is as an Angel of God to discern good and evil 3 Hee is no childe to bee carried to and fro by the breath of self-seeking Sycophants but at that age the Lord Christ was when hee undertook his spiritual Kingship and David his temporal thirty years old a childe is often a misery to a people which King Edward the sixt and his subjects sadly felt from his courtiers factions Eccles 10.16 Wo to thee O land when thy King is a childe and thy Princes eat in the morning And Isa 3.4 And I will give children to bee their Princes and babes shall rule over them 4 His temperance is exemplary so that debauched ones like those loose youths in Job fear and fly our great Charles being a second Charles the great cibi potusque parcissimus 5 Hee is the Son of antient Kings and our King by an indisputable descent so that none can say as those rebellious Israelites did in scorn what is David or the Son of Jesse our Chronicler Speede proving King James his title to this Crown was not from Henry the sevenths daughter only but before the conquest Now as Plato in his Alcibiades consentaneum est meliores esse naturas in nobili genere quam ignobili 6 See how none could nestle or bottome in peace upon this throne though by Sycophants fawned upon and with large promises of support addressed unto God verifying that of Ezekiel 21.27 I will overturn overturn overturn it untill hee come whose right it is and I will give it him 7 Hee is the desire of three kingdomes being a divine and reasonable donation invited home by common consent and entertained with highest expressions of joy And now what remaines but that wee should walk worthy of such a Prince lest God in anger deprive us of him as 1 Sam. 12.25 But if yee shall still do wickedly you shall bee consumed both you and your King And then wee may at our leasure with groans and sighs repeat Jeremiahs lamentations to the breaking of our hearts Think not by surfeiting and drunkenness chambering and wantonness pride and envying to cement our breaches and maintain his honour Rehoboams roysters ruined him the Persian Princes injoyned the Jews to pray for the Kings life where drinking was without compulsion healths were not heard off Damning and drinking provoked the Almighty and is not God being alwayes the same as angry with the same sin as hee was nay recoyls upon old sins will cause recalls of old Judgments you contradicting spirits who side with many you hate out of an antipathy against holiness know that our gracious King expects better things from you in that pithy passage That humble supplications bee powred out God for his continual assistance and improvement of this and all his mercies to the honour of his great name and safety peace and benefit of our Kingdomes and dominions Is God honoured by reviving old revellings and is safety secured by prophaneness spitefully committed will you thus requite the Lord yee foolish people and unwise but I direct my speech to those humble ones in the 2. verse who will rejoyce and with upright hearts pray that the Throne of our King may bee greater than his progenitors and that God would build him a sure house so that wee may never hear the sound of the trumpet as alaruming to war nor know the sad sequels of domestick broyls And now to cloze up all I say with Mephibosheth 2 Sam. 19.30 Forasmuch as my Lord the King is come again in peace unto his own house let them enjoy rewards that seek them all I desire is liberty to preach Christ Jesus the Lord. FINIS

Davids Devotions UPON HIS DELIVERANCES Set forth in a SERMON AT All-Saints in Derby June 28 1660. BEING The Day of publique Thanksgiving FOR HIS MAJESTIES Happy Restauration By JOSEPH SWETNAM PREACHER There LONDON Printed for H. M. and are to bee sold at his shop at the Phoenix in St. Pauls Church-yard neer the little North door 1660. A SERMON PREACHED At All-Saints in Derby June 28. 1660. WHen my thoughts were summoned to make provision for this day 2 Sam. 19.14 15. came to minde And hee bowed the hearts of all the men of Judah as the heart of one man so that they sent this word to the King Return thou and all thy servants so he King returned and came to Jordan and Judah came to Gilgal to go to meet the King to conduct the King over Jordan But seeing since the happy arrival of our gracious soveraign so many additaments to our praises have flowed in uppon us I judged that text too straight unless I should alogically ramble and so displease my self and you I then flitted in my fancy to verses 41.42 43. And behold all the men of Israel came to the King and said to the King Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away and have brought the King and his houshold and all Davids men with him over Jordan and all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel because the King is neer of kin to us wherefore then bee yee angry for this matter have wee eaten at all of the Kings cost or hath hee given us any gift and the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said Wee have also more right in David than you why did you despise us that our advice should not bee first had in bringing back our King and the words of the men of Judah were feircer than the words of the men of Israel This text after a short survey I passed by lest any rancor might revive old sores being too apt to bleed afresh withall considering those two first jarring interests laid by their animosities to bring our King back but above all our dread soveraign in his gracious declaration and proclamations which breathe out nothing but sweetest cementings haveing conjured all interests to preserve peace and unity and since those two sticks like them Ezekiel 37.16 are become one and own one King vers 24. I shall pray that Ephraim may not envy Judah nor Judah vex Ephraim and if old prophaneness and its abettors like that beast Reve. 13.3 12. have not their deadly wound healed I hope wee shall not hear of war any more My thoughts now began to hover disputing about texts fit for the occasion or whether I should with the antient fathers make the occasion my text but seriously pondering his Majesties gracious expressions in the proclamation That due thanks and praise bee offered up to Almighty God by us and our people with one heart that humble supplications be powred out before him for his continual assistance and improvement of this and all his mercies I then had by the conduct of a Divine finger pointed out to mee Psalme 34.3 O magnifie the Lord with mee and let us exalt his name together 1 The title tells you the author and occasion of this Psalm the author David a King by unction heir apparent to the Crown though not by descent yet by divine designation and Sauls voluntary offer upon Goliahs fall Our dread Soveraign a King by birth and by confuting transcendently signal providences was by the envious Sauls of those times forced to secure himself in forraign parts when hee was but heir apparent 2. This psalmists occasion was his straights fleeing to the Philistines and his exile thence by Abemilech a common name to all their Kings its signification excellent the King father but in order to David an Antiphrasis expelling him that fled for shelter Our dread Soveraign fleeing to a supposed father the French King from the fury of a Jesuited faction imbrewing cruel hands in his Fathers Royal blood against all Oaths Protestations and Covenants to the irreparable scandal of the real not nominal Protestant religion and many thousand souls who had never any such destructive thoughts to his Majesties person or posterity I say our gracious King flying into France was upon the matter exiled thence driven from one nation to another people yet God suffered none to do him harm preserving our David where ever hee went and for such a time as this Now blessed bee God who hath put such a thing as this into the heart of the King to walk in Davids steps who being delivered out of the hands of all his enemies doth not in person only but by his proclamation also injoyn all to bless God for Englands redemption I hope no pious spirit will quarrel with my parallel or prolix Preface since I have been all this while within the call of my text and not dis-servised the duty of the day The two first verses speak Davids resolution in his person to praise God at all times and the sequel of his praises the humble shall hear and be glad upon which my text is attendant O magnifie the Lord with mee and let us exalt his name together This psalm being one of those the first letter of every verse following the order in the hebrew Alphabet imports the writer to bee in an extraordinary rapture To baulk all curiosity consider this plain but proper doctrine Prince and people being joynt sharers in mercy should bee joynt magnifiers of God for a mercy The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rendred magnifie and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exalt will best manifest what the magnifying of Gods name is The first signifieth to multiply excelling honour and so to magnifie God properly is above creatures reach man declares what God is which is his highest pitch attainable unto for the phrase to magnifie and justifie rather declare or manifest than make hence the word Nehem. 8.4 is translated a Pulpit shewing that after signal mercies they should bee so imployed shewing it forth that God is good The latter hebrew word rendred exalt signifies vocal praise when David resolves to bless God with the best member that hee hath which hee calls his glory The word further as some Criticks say signifies to separate from a prophane to a sacred use Christians joyes must bee spiritual not in May games and Morris dances the reviving of that obsolete Roman whore Flora her festivals the promoters of which now speak out that prophaneness and debauchery they prefer before their King and their Venerean Bacchanalian joy will so provoke an holy healing God that if his mercy were not above all our praises might bee impeaded or polluted but I hope those Idolatrous popish prophane practises with their abettors and promoters will fall as Satan did before the Apostles like lightning however let no humble heart bee dumb in praises this day since a returning sun gives at the first life to weeds as