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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77543	Britains king revived: or, a seasonable warning to the kingdom of Scotland assembled in Parliament, upon the first of January, 1660. By Scotlands true friend.	Scotlands true friend.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4811A; ESTC R223959	9,797	17

Britains KING REVIVED Or A Seasonable Warning To the KINGDOM of SCOTLAND Assembled in PARLIAMENT Upon the first of January 1660. By SCOTLANDS true Friend Josh 22.10 c. And when they came to the borders of Jordan that are in the land of Canaan the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan a great altar to see to LONDON Printed in the year 1660. BRITAINS KING revived c. OUtward Providences and Dispensations are not the Guides and Directories of Mans actions but as in the bitter trouble of the one there may be wisdom so in the sweet peace of the other may be foolishness and evil And the time of casting off the Armour more dangerous from within then sometine the putting on of the same is hurtful from without A victorious Army may fall in themselves and their own resolutions work trouble and disquietness Laudable intentions and good actions in matter may be misconstrued and subject to blame through defect of form and prudential circumstances Coifederacies may sometimes debord beyond their limits and the lesser party unawares impose upon the greater Religion may occasion mistakes neither doth the specious lustre and beauty of it exempt from censure People without the counterance of Authority may intend well but an harmony betwixt them is the sure band of all their work All these Aphorisms of State and Experimental Observations are clear here and plainly verified upon the first view of the condition of this little Israel and review of Scotlands affairs and transactions these fatal years past Twenty and seven years war with Canaan and peace in the end through valour and wisdom turneth into a dangerous Jealousie betwixt the greater and the lesser Tribes their parting of company with joy and spoil of Enemies threatens parting of hearts to further sorrow and spilling of their own bloud the turning of their weapons homeward beyond Jordan ready to sheath their swords in their own bowels at Jordan and turn those swelling waters into bloud of swelling hearts The religious intention of the lesser Tribes to 〈…〉 to themselves the true Religion and not to be 〈…〉 the division of Jordan was commendable 〈…〉 ●…ing in it was unadvised without the priva●… 〈…〉 ●…nour Joshua or their other brethren the 〈…〉 ●…ner of it unlawful by an Altar out of Shiloh or 〈…〉 the place of it more scandalous to their Brethren then safe 〈◊〉 them selves an Altar upon their brethrens side of Jor●●● 〈…〉 significant of their right and interest in the true God as upon their own side the border beyond Jordan is their 〈…〉 into Jealousie The indiscreet extent and limits of the●● 〈…〉 true Worship unto their neighbours Land is an 〈…〉 them beyond the moderation of Fraternity and occasioneth a misunderstanding Reuben here seeth the son of 〈…〉 too hastily Gad in his purpose advanceth in troops most suriously and Manasseh in the work forgets too speedily all form●●●oyls in the defence of Religion in Aegypt and the wilderness and his fathers house in the enjoyment of it as thus by a just mistake of their brethren to expose it to danger by a Civil War and division The greatness of this Altar to see to begets no charity to their work nor can plead their integrity of heart forever Idolatry is more expensive costly and painful then true ●●re and undefiled Religion and the golden Calf in the wilderness robbeth Israel of all their jewels and golden ear-rings the sure of Gideon's Ephod at Opbrah did spoil his people of all their golden collars and ornaments of prey from the Midianites and their Kings Molech the god of Ammon and Sidon bereaveth his worshippers of their first-born and spareth them not from the cruelty of the fire Great is Diana of the Ephesians and her silver-smiths very rich And the people of Israel did dispence with their many painful long and wearisome journeys to go even to Dan to worship the golden calf of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin Yea under greatest shew of Religion and pretence of Zeal may be acted greatest Cruelty Fraud and Covetousness as witness Simeon and Levi the two sons of Jacob in their Circumcision to Hamor King of Shechem and his son and people before the marriage with Dinah their sister and Jehn his covetousness of the Kingdom of Israel from the house of Ahab by his zealous eruelty killing all the Priests of Baal was acted under his hypocrifie in the worshipping of their false God The two Tribes and an half meaned well in Religion but not prudently with the advice of Joshua their Governour before departing to their inheritance who had sufficiently directed them in the ways of God nor dutifully with his consent who was appointed by the Lord as a nursing father with Eleazar the son of Aaron in his Church neither in their enterprise did they enquire at the mouth of the Lord nor consult his wisdom in that great important case and hard matter and therefore they are in trouble Mans strength and wisdom in the matters of God is folly and when rashly handled through presumption and spiritual pride falleth to the ground When mixed with the impurity of his own thoughts and ends the building proveth but stubble and hay as daubed with untempered mortar and without the stability and indurance of gold and silver sincerity and uprightness in all self-deniedness But when the Ruler of the Lords people in his holy things or providentials is consulted with and by their prayers and petitions with tears is invited to the work then heavens influence and earths fruitfulness is joyned together for a blessed generation and production heavens mediatory blessing with the Lords soveraignty of power in his Vicegerent upon earth doth proceed And as in all Gods works which he sees to be good especially in what concerns immediately his glory upon earth there is the power of the Father by the grace of the Son for the operation of the Spirit so in all the Spirits motions upon a people in matters of Religion and actings thereupon by the grace of the Son there should be the consulting wisdom and consenting confirming Power and Authority of the King and Governour the Father's Vicegerent upon earth if intended for success and a blessing with peace profit and duration The building of the walls of Jerusalem and Reformation of the Worship of God was much intended and sought after by the people in the days of Ezra the Scribe but slowly proceeded in for the space of fifty years till the Governour Nehemiah came and then also much divided by the wicked enemy by opposition and conspiracie against him as the top-stone of that work The King is the pillar and supporter of Religion and therefore his place in the Temple was always by a pillar as the manner was 2 King 11.14 and 23.3 He is the hedge and guard of the Church of God in spirituals and temporals and therefore the Princes

unclean the good as the sinner he that feareth an Oath as he that sweareth let the vile be separated from the pretious and the wicked cut off from the Congregation of the Lord Let sentence against an evil work be speedily executed that the heart of the sons of men be not fully set in them to do evil Give them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their endeavours Let their houses be made dung-hills and their mothers childless with the perpetual note of shame and ignominy in all their remembrances by the characters of The sons of Jeroboam who made Israel to sin and of Judas Iscariot who betrayed Christ and his Anointed and of that Dathan and Abiram which were famous in the congregation and strove against Moses and Aaron in the company of Corah and against the Lord and they became a signe And by so doing God in his truth and justice shall be honoured the heart of his King shall overflow in affections and zeal to the welfare of his people through a full perswasion of their former and future Loyalty your Publike Faith to many honest-hearted men in that Cause hitherto too much slighted and neglected by former times and your selves shall be by his goodness and consent satisfied The honour of Scotland shall be vindicated from lying and scandalous reproaches of the wicked sons of Balaam yea the earth shall be at rest and quiet the Fir-trees and Cedars of Lebanon shall rejoyce and all the Tribes of Israel in his Majesties Dominions shall say and sing This day we perceive that the Lord is amongst us because by the building of that great Altar to see to of the National Covenant anno 1638. nor by the League and Covenant anno 1643 you and former Rulers have not committed this trespass against the Lord in doing wickedness under the shadow of holiness nor done Rebellion against his Anointed under the said cloak of Religion nor pillaged your Country by covetousness and ambition with briery Abimelah the son of the Concubine under colour of assertors of her Christian and just Liberty in Church and State these fatal years last And that now you have delivered your own people in Scotland and brethren in England and Ireland out of the hand of the Lord and his Anointed while those Altars of Covenants were not made by you to the change of Religion or Government by unlawful Burnt-offerings of worship to any other God or homage to any other Governour but for a witness of holy emulation between you and your Brethren for the farther propagation of the Gospel and just Reformation in the time of dangerous security and deadness or fear of backsliding from your first love to Christ your Redeemer And if in this day of your General Meeting as the Representative of your Nation you do not thus declare and judge as aforesaid and that your hearts and tongues be not valiant for truth to God and man for the honour of God and your King and Nation which was the very fundamental of all your Covenants and the Motto of your displayed Banners upon every mountain and hill and at this time of restoring of all things you be silent in your Countries behalf against those serpentine hearts of bitterness and razers swords and coals of Juniper of fiery tongues at home and abroad in those their former and present reproaches scoffings mockings and revilings of your Nation and thousands of innocent honest-hearted people there upon that their suspected account of former times disloyalty forsaking and rebelling against God and his Vicegerent your Native Prince Then what may they say but that you are wrapt up with others in the same guiltiness and that such onely as keep the law contend with the wicked His Majesties gracious Indulgence to some by Pardon in this day of the Lords deliverance to himself may exempt from the evil of punishment of men but not from the evil of sin before God or shame amongst others in the like transgression yea the Pardon presupposes their confessed Guiltiness in the Law for the sick and not the whole needeth the physician And their guilt may be thought to be of knowledge also more then of ignorance for the Rich onely and Ringleaders of former times and not the Poor are hitherto pardoned till the Kings heart as an Angel of God do forget all the conceived infirmities of his honest-hearted people in the way his Royal wisdom shall think fit In the like condition with the Pardoned are the Heirs and Children of them that are dead for albeit by death their fathers personal reproach doth cease yet in the children of those parents does their shame still remain with the rest that are living in the world till their former ways be justified by uprightness and integrity of heart whatever be the professed repentance or contrary present actings of the one or the other by the changed face of providences in times of a new heaven and a new earth and their undeserved reflections and forsakings of their first friends of whose simplicity of heart and honest meaning and weakness to their utter ruine this day they before made use and served themselves by in the time of their former deportments for these asserted publike ends What return can you make to your Country who thus have assembled you at the command of their Prince when you clear not his countenance to them in his perswasion of their former Loyalty nor vindicate by Declaration and Justice upon the wicked the honour of your Nation amongst men And who knows whether you are not met together for such a day as this and therein to restore the perished and relieve the distressed by your Publike Faith and preserve the honour of your Nation from the unjust opprobry of Fides Publica fides Punica and the credit of Gospel-Reformation from fraud deceit and oppression Else be assured if you altogether hold your peace at this time enlargement and deliverance from this unjust infamy by wicked men and sufferings of the simple in estate shall rise to Scotland from another place but you and your fathers houses may be destroyed And in the mean time the uprightness of Scotlands heart and honest loyal meaning to God and their Soveraign Lord the King in their respective bounds and relations with subordination of the one to the other notwithstanding of all obloquie contradiction calumny and detraction by Nations or single persons is and shall be sealed up firm and sure in heaven before the Lord the searcher of all hearts and his holy Angels To the praise of his truth and righteousness and the comfort and rejoycing of every good Christian and Subject there at the day of their death and particular Judgement before the Tribunal of Christ and at the Great day of the Lord when every man shall receive his reward according to his works done in the flesh And that Publike Faith to the upright-hearted people in the work albeit at this time also neglected by you shall be to their posterity the harvest of their faith upon earth Peace and inward consolations shall be sown for the righteous whatever be their outward troubles and necessities And some time or other their horn shall be exalted for the grace of their simplicity of heart all along the way for a just and discreet Reformation of Religion and sure establishment of Royal Authority in the house of David while Sun and Moon endureth upon the pillars of Truth Justice Righteousness and Mercy FINIS