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A92958	Mercy in a miracle shewing, the deliverance, and the duty, of the king, and the people In a sermon preached at Mitcham in Surry, June 28. 1660 in a solemne congratulation for the restoration of his Majesty to his royal throne. By Anthonie Sadler, late chaplain, to the right honourable Leticia, Lady Pagett, Dowager, deceased.	Sadler, Anthony, b. 1610.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1660 (1660)	Wing S268; ESTC R230425	14,467	29

suffer an open Enemy to Assault us or a private Enemy to Abuse us if the Lord suffer our Wife and Children our Liberty and Livelihood and all we have to be taken from us if the Lord suffer the Ship of all our dear Enjoyments to be Gravel'd in the Sands of Obloquie or to be split against the Rocks of Tyranny the Reason of all may be but our tryal only and that either of our Patience as in the case of Job or of our Considence as in the case of Hezekiah or of our Faith as in the case of Abraham Or 3. And lastly God may suffer his dear Children to be brought very low to make them the more thankful when Comfort is given and Help is had When the Israelites had a Raging Sea before them and a Barren Wildernesse besides them and an Armed Enemy behind them then saith the Text they were sore affraid so affraid that they cryed out unto the Lord. And what then Stand still saith Moses and see the Salvation of the Lord which he will shew to you to day Exod. 14. 13. Stand still i. e. be not affraid but hope stand still and see i. e. be not Faithlesse but believe the Salvation of the Lord i. e. his Power as being most able to save which he will shew to you i. e. his mercy as being most willing to save You and that even now to day i. e. his wisdome as having his set time to save God hath his set time indeed and here he shew'd it so shew'd it that Moses and the Children of Israel Sang a Song unto the Lord Exod. 15. 1. Thus when Comfort is given and Help is had it makes Gods Children to be the more thankful This made the Israelites to keep their Paschal Feast to praise the Lord for their Freedom from Pharaoh Exod. 12. This made Deborah to sing her Trinmphal Song to praise the Lord for the Victory over Sisera Judg. 5. This made David to indite his grateful Psalme to praise the Lord for his Deliverance from Saul Psal 18. Yea and This makes England to keep this Holy even a Feast of Congratulation to praise the Lord for the Restoration of our Soveraign and the Freedom Victory and Deliverance of our Religion Laws and Liberty from Pharaoh Sisera and Saul i. e. all the Enemies of God and the King And thus for these three Reasons doth God many times suffer his Saints and Servants to be brought very low As 1. To make them the more Zealous 2. To make them the more Famous and 3. To make them the more Thankful Or if you please why God suffers his Saints and Servants to be so much in and so often under Affliction The Reasons may be these Four Because 1. There is Help for it 2. There is Honour with it 3. There is Comfort in it and 4. There is Profit by it By Affliction there is Profit For by the misery and the Affliction which the Children of God are brought unto they are brought the sooner Home like the Prodigal to his Father to know God and themselves God's Justice and their own Deservings Yea by the smart of Affliction they do happily feele God's Anger to the bewailing of their sins they do bewaile their Sins to the amending of their Lives they do amend their Lives to the gaining of God's Favour and they gaine his Favour to the obtaining of his Glory And thus By Affliction there is Profit SECONDLY With Affliction there is Honour For Affliction makes the Servant like his Lord and Christians like their Saviour who dispising the shame endured the Crosse We read 2. Sam. 15. 30. that David went up the Mount of Olives and Wept as he went up and had his Head covered and went bare footed and all the people that were with him had every man his Head covered and as they went up they Wept They did so it was their Piety to Weepe for the King but their Honour to Weepe with him If the suffrings of the King affect the Subjects with Sympathy and Zeale it is magnum indeed but not mirum because it 's the Subjects Honour as well as Duty to be as their Soveraigne in the worst of Dangers The Marquesse of Ormond The Lord Willmot And the rest of the Royal Worthies they could not chuse but Grieve to suffer with the King in that the King himself did suffer and yet they could not chuse but Rejoyce too to suffer for the King in that the Kings Cause was God's and God's Cause and the King 's was Theirs Theirs Renowned Nobles it was their Duty to suffer with it but their Honour to suffer for it for With Affliction there is Honour THIRDLY In Affliction there is Comfort Comfort indeed such as made the Disciples to rejoyce when they were Beaten and to sing Psalms when they were in Prison And well they might for the Author of all their Sufferings is most Gracious the inflicting of them is Just the measure of them is Moderate the time of them is Short and the end of them is Blessed for In Affliction there is Comfort LASTLY For Affliction there is Hope There is so for Gods Cause found a Constantine its Defender in dispite of the Arrian Heresy and God's Prophets found an Obadiah their Preserver in dispite of Jezebel's Cruelty and God's King found a Jehoiada his Restorer in dispite of Athaliahs Treachery Yea and so hath our now dread Soveraign Charles the Second he hath in dispite of the Treachery the Cruelty and Heresy of all his Enemies found the King of Kings his Helper to defend him and his Defender to Preserve him and his Preserver to Restore him and his Restorer to Establish him in the Throne of his Kingdome and the Hearts of his People Oh! what cannot the Lord doe above means against means without means and with any means when By means of that most trusty Lord the Lord Wilmot God did defend the King by means of that most Elect Lady the Lady Lane God did preserve the King and by means of that most Auspicious Generall the Lord Monck God did Restore the King Oh! what will not the Lord do for those that serve him Because the King putteth his Trust in the Lord in the Mercy of the the most High he shall not miscarry He shall not no he did not for by a few single singular persons such a King is so Restor'd that all Christendome admires and such a Restoration is so establisht that all the world 's amaz'd Oh how should this encourage us never to fall back never to fall off and never to fall away from God both to owne his Cause to espouse his Quarrel and to suffer for his sake because When all is done that evil men can do and when all is done that evil Angels can suggest Vndone we shall not be No so saith the holy Apostle 2. Cor. 4. 8. 9. We are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are perplexed but not in dispaire Persecuted but not

they shall hastily disquiet their Lords repose and ●hough hee be asleep they will not let him rest for they came to him and awoke him saying Lord save us we perish Thus is our Condition on this Heaven a very sad Condition because It is so Vniversally that 's a second Reason THIRDLY It is sad Continually I had no peace saith Job neither had I quietnesse neither had I rest yet trouble came Job 3. 26. it came indeed it came with a witnesse yea it came with four witnesses each after other and all upon a suddain to salute their Master with their mournful news saying The Oxen were plowing and the Asses feeding in their places and Sabeans came violently and took them yea they have slain the servants with the Edge of the Sword but I onely am escaped and come alone to tell thee And while he was yet speaking another came and said the fire of God is fallen from Heaven and hath burnt up the Sheep and the Servants and devoured them but I onely am escaped and come alone to tell thee And while he was yet speaking came another and said the Caldeans set out three Bands and fell upon the Camels and have taken them and have slain the Servants with the Edge of the sword but I only am escaped and come alone to tell thee And while he was yet speaking came another and said thy Sons and thy Daughters were eating and drinking Wine in their eldest Brothers House and behold there came a great wind from beyond the Wildernesse and smote the four corners of the House which fell upon the Children and they are dead and I only am escaped and come alone to tell thee Thus each after other and all upon a sudden salute their Master with most mournful Newes Alas poor man from the Wombe to the Grave as he is born with Cryes so he lives with Crosses Take Moses who was Gods servant take Aaron who was Gods Saint take Abraham who was Gods Friend take David who was a man after Gods own Heart yea as I said before take the only Son of God who is the Welbeloved of his Father and we shall find them all bearing the burden of continual Troubles Good Lord how short is our time here and yet oh how many are the miseries of our momentany continuance Here we live but alas God knows scarce a day without some tryal trouble some tryal or other to disquiet us or some trouble or other to discomfort us Alas the pains and patience which every one in his several calling must sadly undertake is as hard to be undergone as to be understood Oh with what care and fear do even Princes wear their Crowns when by the desperate presumption of Rebellious subjects the very Crown it self in a Cursed Ambition is taken from their Head and their Head from their Shoulders Ah in fandum renovare cogor what an Ugly and Fatall Lodging that most Royal Martyr when before his own Gate he had a Scaffold for his Bed and a Block for a Pillow to sleep his last in his own Blood Thus look every way upon every one we shall find them All bearing the burden of continual Troubles yea If we look upon our now gracious King Charles the Second for whose wonderfull Restoration we now keep Holy-day Was not his Princely Pupill-age enforcedly trained up in the dreadfull Schoole of an intestine War Hath not his whole life been from that time to this a dangerous Pilgrimage from one Kingdome to another people Oh how many Plots and Complots were there to betray his Councels to destroy his Person After his Just Coronation in his Kingdome of Scotland and his Just Advance to regain his native Kingdome and the Throne of England How tedious was his march How perillous were his Quarters How impotent was his Army How potent was his Adversary How he was besieged though he was not taken and how he was beaten though he was not Conquer'd I want words to make the Relation full Ah to what a miserable Extremity and to what an extreme Necessity was his Sacred Majesty exposed when as today he was valiantly fighting for his three Kingdomes is yet within a night or two flying for his deare life disrob'd of his Princely Habit wandring in a Wood lodged in a Tree and glad of a piece of Bread well God's providence and the King's then preservation was Mercy in a Miracle and God's Mercy and the King's now Restoration is the wonder of the world And What shall we say now since the King 's swaying of the Scepter is not more Royal then Auspicious What shall we say now since joyful England sings a Requiem in the lap of Peace What shall we say now since every one sits under his own Vine and eats the fruits of their own labour What shall we say now since the King is restored to his proper Throne The Parliament to its proper Constitution The Church to its proper Right The Law to its proper Courts And the whole Nation to its proper Freedome What shall we say now Are the troubles even of the King himself now ended Or rather are not the Thornes of continuall Care platted together in the Jewels of his Crown O Solon Solon nemo ante obitum faelix Ah my brethren what Craesus found the King feeles and all may say that our Condition in this world is to beare the burden of continuall troubles Certainly our Prayers our Pity our Lives our Fortunes All are but the due Subsidiaries to the carefull managements of our godly King His very person is Sacred so may his Troubles be even Sanctified to be undergone The Lord in mercy be gracious to his Majesty that while the government of so many Millions of people are committed to his Charge he may neither faint nor fall under the pressures of so great a charge for It cannot be avoided and it must be endured as the lot of all mankind on this side Heaven to beare the burden of Continuall Troubles So saith Job in the 14 of that book the last verse While his flesh is upon him he shall be sorrowfull and while his soul is in him it shall Mourn Let me crave your patience to instance this truth but once more in our Lord and Saviour who from the place of his Birth to the place of his Burial was born very meanly lived very poorly and dyed very sadly 1. He was born very meanly yea so very meanly born that Bethlem though St. Hierome calls it a pretty City yet Micah calls it a little City and that 's his place a common Inne in that City is his House the Stable in that Inne is his Room the Mainger in that Stable is his Cradle the Beasts at the Mainger are his Company Ah so contemptible is his Birth that he is reiected and dispised of men Esay 53. 3. 2. As Christ was born very meanly so he lived very poorly yea he so very poorly lives that even of a strange woman he begs

forsaken cast down but not destroyed Why the Psalmist tells you Psal 37. 23 24. The Lord ordereth the good mans goings and makes his way acceptable to himself Though he fall he shall not be cast away for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand And therefore our greatest Misery is not past a Remedy Oh no Blessed be God there is Helpe for it Honour with it Comfort in it and Profit by it Now to beare up thy poor Soul against the most boisterous winds and the raging Sea of the most tempestuous Troubles remember these Four things 1. That come what will the Disciples of Jesus Christ cannot but do well God's followers are under God's Providence and his Providence is no lesse allsufficient then Misterious For remember 2. That Condition is the best which the Lord sends come a Calme or a Tempest Prosperity or Adversity Health or Sicknesse Life or Death that Condition is the best which the Lord sends because every Condition to a Child of God is a sanctified Condition The Lord will sanctifie our Sorrows by giving us comfort and I blessed be God have found it so The Lord will sanctifie our Poverty by giving us Contentment and I blessed be God have found it so The Lord will sanctifie our Troubles by giving of us Patience and I blessed be God have found it so The Lord will sanctifie our Patience by giving us Deliverance and you and I and All blessed be God have found it so as at this day Therefore remember 3. that thou hast Jesus Christ with thee in the ship If at any time a Tempest shall Arise upon thy Goods by way of plunder or if a Tempest shall Arise upon thy good Name by way of Slander or if a Tempest shall Arise upon thy Liberty by way of Imprisonment or if a Tempest shall arise upon any thing thou hast by way of Oppression then remember I say that thou hast Jesus Christ with thee in the ship though he be but in the hinder part yet there he is absent himself he will not and want for help thou canst not so long as he is there for 4. And lastly remember that as the Glory of Jesus Christ shall one day be Thine so for the present thy sufferings shall be his His Glory shall be thine for the Glory that thou gavest Me I have given Them saith Christ that they may be one as we are one Father I will that they which thou hast given me be with me even where I am that they may behold my Glory John 17. 22. 24. and till then Thy sufferings shall be his Saul Saul saith Christ Why persecutest thou me Me the Lord is wounded through his servants sides and the wrongs done them are as done unto himself Acts. 9. 4. Come then Oh come poor soul acheer let not thy Heart be over sad nor thy Spirit disquieted The Deluge did but mount the Arke the nearer unto Heaven and the Tempest here did but make the Disciples to know the Lord the more No Winds nor Weather nor Waves nor Rocks can Wrack the Vessel in which Christ sailes no nor Words nor Actions nor Men nor Divels can Assinate the King whom the Lord preserves for The Lord will hide him and that privily he will hide him privily and that by his own presence from the provoking of all men ye a and he will keep him too and that secretly he will keep him secretly and that in his own Tabernacle from the strife of Tongues Psal 31. 22. and now Oh miranda loquor what a providence have we seen made happily obvious to the glory of our good God the settlement of this disturbed Nation and the wonder of all the World Oh how may our Mouthes be filled with Laughter and our Tongues with Joy since the Lord in mercy hath so strangely and so truly made our Bondage to cease and our Freedome to return Oh that our Lawful king our Native Prince so long a time by so strong a hand Banisht from his Rightful Throne should now return return in peace without any blood spilt or any person hurt in so wonderful a Tryumph that his Majesty should be brought Home with prayers of affection and teares of joy flying as it were upon the Wings of the love and loyalty of all faithfull Subjects certainly 't is a providence never to be forgotten 't is a mercy to be acknowledged this day henceforth and for ever Oh let us so Honour the King as to serve God and so serve God as to love our Neighbour that so being alway Holy towards God and Loyal to our Soveraign and loving to each other we may keepe and alwaies keepe the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace Which that we may let us so live as becomes the Gospel let us now so rejoyce as becomes good Subjects and Oh remember I beseech you that it is not the owning of the King's Cause nor the Honouring of the King's Person nor the Drinking of the King's Health but it is our fearing of God and amending our lives which will make the King Happy and our selves blessed To conclude Let us remember when any Affliction doth befall either our Prince or the Church or the State or our selves then not to think it either Strange or New or Remedilesse Not Strange because t is Natural Not New because t is Common Not Remedilesse because t is Curable For we have a Lord to save us in the most perishing Condition This day we have knowingly found it and we do this day thankfully acknowledge it in the present Restoration of our Soveraigne King Charles And therefore that the Lord our God may blesse our King and blesse VS All let us ever Pray Lord Save us or we Perish FINIS