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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

hearts We rejoyce in the Subjects hearty subjection and in the peoples hearts to their King and here is the peoples hearts He bowed the hearts of the men of Judah We rejoyce to see Allegiance and Loyalty bound close together in Unity and here you read He bowed their hearts as one mans We rejoyce that after so long a distance there is now an intercourse here is the same they sent to the King We rejoyce that there is not only an intercourse but a fair correspondency nor that only but an humble and hearty invitation a clear and full reconciliation a ready and cheerfull subjection and submission Return thou and all thy servants with thee so it is here So that I cannot divide my Text but I must also dissect the day The distribution of the first must needs be the description of the second To me there seems in both a fourfold complication of a wonder and a blessing of something very strange and something very good 1. Misi vici as strange as vidi vici Here is a bare message conquering a blessed kind of Conquest and a strange kind of Conquest there is the complication of both together in the happy and strange operation of the Kings Message or Letter The second Complication of wonder and goodness is in the hearts bowed the hearts of all men are by nature stiff since the fall The Jewes are especially noted for hardness of heart and after Apostacy from God or Defections from a King mens hearts are still harder yet the mens hearts were bowed yea the men of Judahs hearts yea after defections from David The third strange but happy fold or complication is of diversity and unity the men of Judah were several and many and yet their heart was one their principles their apprehensions and no doubt their affections were divers and perhaps contrary but now on a suddain upon this message though perhaps some might come with clashing thoughts all are bowed all resolved one way The fourth Complication is of an humble invitation after a stubborn defection and sometime a seeming impossible reconciliation Return thou and all thy c. I may make but two general parts 1. THe peoples conversion to their King and he bowed c. 2. The Kings reversion to his people Return thou c. Both these are set out by the cause of the conversion the cause is the Kings Message to the people the cause of the reversion is the peoples message to the King And here first we see how like the Kings Method in converting his Subjects is to Gods in converting sinners I speak here of a resemblance only and that at a great distance For Creatures resemble not God to use the distinction of Petrus de Aliaco in essendo in perfectione quidditativa but in repraesentando ratione repraesentativa or as Bonaventure distinguishes it is not similitudo aequiparantiae but imitationis Lib. de Gratia lib. arbit c. 7. As therefore in divine grace Austin distinguisheth betwixt operating and co-operating grace Deus saith he co-operando perficit quod operando incipit And betwixt preventing and subsequent Grace Dei saith the same Father gratia nolentem praevenit ut velit Enchir. c. 32. volentem subsequitur ne frustra velit Prosp epugr 45. And as there is a distinction of gratia ducens concomitans gratia excitans adjuvans which makes Ber. say Conatus nostri cassi sunt si non adjuventur nulli si non excitentur In like manner we may say De gratia li● arbit but in a lower sphere King David by his preventing leading exciting operating grace for we do ascribe to Kings Grace and favour doth begin the work of political conversion and reconciliation He strikes the first stroke towards the fastning the King and people together Yet not working as God doth by any supernatural power over the will by any inward infusions but extrinsically as man works upon man by moral perswasion Only as Kings are called Gods because they are like God in Supremacy as higher than others in power as stronger than others Gods in honour as more noble than others so herein they are like God who loves us before we love him and woes us before we seek to him 1 Pet. 2.17 giving before we ask yielding to us before we seek to him Thus doth King David in the Text he first sends to them before they send to him and woes them to send to him before they send to him to come to them He is not only first in dignity but first in benignity His is not only precedency in Honour but precedency in kindness And what King David doth in the Text King Charles the Second doth in the day The first open and visible tender is his He prevents his Subjects with gracious tenders of Peace and Love He knows that Amor is magnum satellitium and that timeri oportet Caesarem sed plus diligi He that said Agree with thy enemy quickly in the gate hath taught his Majesty to begin timously the work of pacification and to be first at the gate for entrance before others could be ready to open them And as he imitates God the Father in an antecedent love so God the Son in an antecedent Call He stands at the door and knocks He must needs be a very Sot or an envious man that will not say that the Kings Wisdome Favour and Goodness is much to be honoured therefore let his Majesty have his due honour but according to his religious and self-denying desires let God be chiefly magnified in all this A magnetical touch from him is the first and principal cause of the King and the Parliaments mutual and sweet attractions of and tendency towards one another It is the God of love and peace that hath made love and peace to abound betwixt King and Subjects It is the Lords doing and is marvelous in our eyes Abigail was a very prudent woman and to be commended highly for her prudence and David wanted not for language to do it yet he chose to ascribe all principally to God 1 Sam. 25.32 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which hath sent thee this day to meet me God by an occult hand and a still voice sends us upon many errands and we perceive it not What is certainly true of all men is most signally and emphatically true of Kings Prov. 21.1 The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of waters he turneth it whither soever he will God hath a special hand on the heart of a King as he hath a special hand in the erecting a King and a special hand in saving a King which is not done by the multitude of an host Psalm 33.16 and therefore by the Lord of hostes so also in guiding of a King He turns it as the rivers of waters that is he draws a Channel for it So that it shall go such a way and

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