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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. 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