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A55727	Tandem bona causa triumphet, or, Scotlands late misery bewailed, and the honour and loyalty of this ancient kingdom, asserted in a sermon preached before His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Honourable Parliament of the kingdom of Scotland, at Edinburgh the 17 day of February, 1661 / by Mr. John Paterson, Minister of the Gospel at Aberdene.	Paterson, John, 1604?-1679.; Paradise, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing P328; ESTC R17861	15,450	27

years before this blessed Revolution because we were under many sad and insupportable Burthens Who can tell since the righteous Government of this Land began to be shaken and the KING' 's just Power and Authority was most unjustly and rebelliously wreasted out of his Royal Hands and since that Antient and Equal Government was razed by Traitors Vsurpers and Tyrants what a vast incredible Treasure of Money hath been drained from this poor Nation Have we not found that our late Rulers and that fancied Commonwealth our late pretended Parliaments and these Traitorous Bloody Vsurpers their little finger heavier than many of our KINGS Loyns were for many Ages and Generations And any Burthen which the Land lyeth yet under was occasioned and brought in by Rebels Vsurpers and Tyrants and let them be blamed for it so long as it shall continue Fifthly We were in a chain because these that kept us in Bondage had a purpose that we should never escape and therefore they made our chain heavy and strong What were our Citadels but as so many chains of Iron to have kept this Land in a perpetual Slavery But I proceed 2. The second thing in the Application is Who was it that made this chain I cannot in this condescend on Particulars although something might be said to this Purpose which it may be a little piece of time will discover I shall hold out some Generals and as I said of the Jews chain and captivity so do I say of Scotlands late chain and Bondage First GOD made this chain for us as a Just Judge to punish us for playing Jeshurun's part in kicking off our Just Master and most Gracious KING of eternal memory Secondly It is not improbable that several Vnnatural Treacherous and Perfidious Monsters amongst our selves of each Rank have had a hand in making the chain of our Bondage and in helping to wreath it about our Necks about the Necks of all Estates of the Land about the Necks of our Nobles Barons Burrows Ministry Commons that so they might rule all and carry all at their pleasure like petty Princes and petty Popes Thirdly That strong chain of bondage was made and wreathed fast about our Necks by a rebellious Faction of Sectaries for it is far from our thoughts to impute that Invasion to the Kingdom of England but to a Bloody and Traiterous Faction of Fanaticks and Sectaries which kept these own Nation and Ours both in a chain of bondage In a word the spirit that moved most strongly and powerfully in making our chain and putting it about our Necks was a spirit of Error Rebellion Sectarism a spirit of Madnesse of Delusion Treachery and Hypocrisic 3. The third thing in the Application was the Causes wherefore the LORD suffered this sad chain of our bondage to be wreathed about our Necks In a word beside these common Sins which reigneth through all Christendom such as Atheism Swearing Profanity Drunkennesse Vncleannesse Barrenesse under the Gospel c. This Land was defiled with these particular Sins contained in the Text that is with Bloody Crimes and Violence and that in all these Respects whereof I did speak in the Explication of the Text. First This Land was defiled with much Innocent Blood by an unjust War by rising up against the KING a practice inconsistant with sound Divinity against all Orthodox Doctrine a practice contrary to Scripture contrary to the Doctrine of the Antient Church and their practice contrary to the Confession of Faith No King upon the account of his Intellectuals Morals or Religion being to be suspended from the exercise of his Government or denied submission too by his Subjects How many mournful Widows and Fatherlesse Orphans have our late civil or rather incivil VVars made in Scotland How many poor creatures have been snatched away perforce from their weeping VVives and poor Babies and sent out to be Souldiers that knew not how to handle a Sword nor Arms what could these do but be cut down like Beasts And doth not the Blood of these poor creatures cry to GOD for Vengeance against Rebels Vsurpers and Tyrants Is not the Land defiled with much lunocent Blood by most unjust and cruel Sentences on Benches Is not the Land defiled with much Innocent Blood upon Scaffolds How many in Britain have been forced to lay down their Heads to the Block within these few years of Vsurpation and Tyrannie and that for their Loyalty and Fidelity to their Just and Native KING Hath not as Noble yea the most Noble Blood in England and Scotland been shed on Scaffolds And which no Story can parallel and which none that feareth GOD indeed or any faithful Subject can speak of but with Horror sad hearts and Tears in their Eyes was not the Royal Blood of that Blessed Martyr KING CHARLES the 1 of Eternal Memory Spilt on a Scaffold in the Famous City of London in the view of many Thousands of his Dear Loyal Weeping Subjects who had no Power for the time to deliver that Innocent Lamb from the teeth of these Bloody Cannibals Dogs yea Devils Incarnat Thus was the Land defiled with bloody crimes And was it not full of Violence also full of Vnrighteousness Falshood Deceit Cheating Vnjustice Oppression and Robery defiled with Violence of all sorts What Oppression Injustice and Violence was there by Blind bands Loan Money or rather taking mens Means and Imprisoning their Persons Forcing of Consciences and severall things of that nature 4. The fourth thing in the Application was To Exhort all Estates in the Land both Church and State to repent and mourn before GOD for our Accession to the making of that Chain of Bondage and Slavery wherewith this poor Land hath been fettered these many years by gone It will never be well with Scotland neither will GOD be fully pacified with us and turn away his Anger wholly from us till all Ranks of people in Scotland Nobles Gentry Burrows And in particular til we of the Ministery come to an ingenious confession of our Accession to the making of the Chain Shall we charge this on others and wipe our own mouth like the Whore No we are us Guilty as any and GOD will extort a Confession from us whether we will or no. 5. Let us bless GOD who hath broken that Chain of Tyranny Vsurpation and Bondage wherewith this poor Land was so long and fast tyed by reducing and restoring our Native KING to his just Rights and Prerogatives and by restoring to us the Liberty Freedom and Authority of Parliaments Let us admire and adore the Wisdom of GOD who upon a sudden befooled the Princes of Zoan the great Wits the cunning Achitophels and Matchavels of Brittain Let us admire the LORDS Out-witting Over-topping and Over-turning all the Cabinet Councels of that Perfidious and Treacherous Cabal I say again it is a duty well be-coming this High and Honorable Court of PARLIAMENT to bless GOD from your hearts for breaking the chain of our bondage by reducing and

restoring Our Native KING to his just Rights Royal Dignity and Power after such a sad and long Exile by a pack of false greedy ambitious hypocritical cruel Bloody Murtherers and Traitors who called themselves Saints and that in despight of all the Enemies of the Royal Family and Interest who were not few And if any have yet a Bone in their Stomack against the KING His Family and Authority time will try for it is not all Gold that Glisters Mal-contents will discover themselves one way or another For fairded Loyalty will soon be rubbed off when occasion offereth But let Honor and Happiness attend all that are cordially Loyal 6. To close Let it not seem Presumption nor Vanity in such a poor weak man as I am to say that in my humble opinion GOD is calling upon KING and PARLIAMENT to do two things First To break off all unjust illegall and Tyrannical chains which wicked and evil men have made and fastened about the Neck of this poor Kingdom and in this his MAJESTIES Commissioner and this Honorable Court of PARLIAMENT have made a very considerable and noble Progress to their eternal memory Secondly I humbly conceive that GOD calleth to KING and PARLIAMENT to make a Chain First A Chain of Justice for all such who upon clear evidences shall be found guilty of the Plotting Contriving or Acting in that Vnparalelled Murther of the late KING the betraying or selling his MAJESTY and the Ancient Honor and Liberty of this Nation Secondly A Chain of new Laws or the reviving of Ancient Laws if they can be by more severe and terrible Sanctions for preventing the like Treachery Disloyalty and Vsurpation in time coming Ex malis moribus oriuntur bonae leges Thirdly A chain of Regulation in reference to Church-Government Remember my words it is the regulation of Church-Government by Civil Authority I speak of I mean that Church-Government be not suffered by the Civil Power the KING and PARLIAMENT to run without its own Channel nor to be excentrick to Church Matters but that it may be kepet within its own Banks I shall not use that Argument which some calls a Fallacy that is to reason from the faults of Governours against the Government from the outstretching of a Government to the overturning of a Government and yet that Argument was made use of in Anno 1638. But I may very lawfully and justly without Fallacy in all equity Argue from the outstretching of a Government or from the abuse of it to the Regulation of it and putting of it within its own Channel I think that all Church-Government should be so Regulated by the KING and PARLIAMENT that it be not suffered to cope with the Supream Authority of a Nation much less to counteract thereto least of all to overtop the Supream Authority that is Popish I think that Church-Government should be so regulated that there be not in one Kingdom two Supream Coordinat Powers to clash one upon another and to distract and rent the Spirits of the Subjects so that they know not whom to obey Whether the KING and the Supream Civil Power or the Supream Church Power Did not the Business of 1648. speak out this too clearly when the PARLIAMENT ordered one thing and the Church the contrary This should be remeaded by the KING and PARLIAMENT I am no Stats-man yet I take it to be beyond an Ordinary Wit to make two Coordinat Supream Powers in one Land consisting with the Safety and Peace thereof especially a Nation that is Monarchicall I conceive that too many lay a wrong Foundation in reference to this matter whereupon they build wrong Superstructures for they look upon the State Civil and Ecclesiastick as upon two severall distinct independent Bodies while as they are not two Bodies but two parts of one and the same Politick Body under one Chief and Supream Civil Governour And although the Supream Civil Authority ought not to meddle immediatly with Things meerly Spiritual Such as the Preaching of the Word Administration of the Sacraments the exercise of the Keys these things being committed by CHRIST to the Minister of the Gospel yet it is proper for the Supream Civil Magistrate to meddle with Things that are Ecclesiastick to see the Church in His Dominions rightly Constituted and rightly Governed For in reference to the external Regiment of the Church the Supream Gubernative Power is in the Supream Magistrate And therefore the Reformation of Religion without the consent much less contrary to the Will of a Supream Christian Magistrate hath no warrantable Precedent in GODS Word but the very contrary is holden out there See Deuter. chap. 29. vers 10 11 12. Josh chap. 24. vers 25. 2 King chap. 23. 2 Chron. chap. 15. vers 8.12 2 Chron. chap. 29. vers 3.10 2 Chron. chap. 34. vers 31.32 Ezra chap. 10. vers 3.5 compared with chap. 2. vers 7. And severall other places of Scripture wherein the Chief Magistrate conourreth or rather according to his Place and Power goeth before the people But we find no where in Scripture the people reforming without the conourrence of the Supream Magistrate even in the times of their worst Kings And any who will deny that it so in the beginning of Christian Magistracy will shew themselves ignorants in Antiquity And is it not more suitable and agreeable to Reason more for the Honor Safety and Stability of a Church and the Government thereof and for the advancement of Religion and piety in a Land that the Church depend rather upon the KING and Supream Magistrate than upon popularity the natural product whereof is coufusion and tumult as the breathing and wind of factions and schismaticall Spirits bloweth upon these waters It is my humble opinion that there ought to be such a chain of Regulation put about Church-Government as it shall not be lawfull for the Church to prescribe restrictions and limitations to the KING before his admission to the Exercise of his Royal Power such a chain of Regulation as it may not be lawfull to the Church to declare against the KING to state Quarrels in matters of War to purge Armies and least of all to exclude the KINGS Interest out of the state of the Quarrel to force the KING to subscribe Papers and Declarations contrary to his will such a chain of Regulation that it shall not be lawfull for Ministers to protest against the Magistrates Lawfull Power in raising all fensible Parsons in the Kingdom for the just and necessary Defence thereof and calling that necessary Duty a Sin and a conjunction with the Malignant Party a Principle and Practice inconsistant with the Safety of any Nation a Protestation and Practice to be abhorred by all Modest and Loyal-men Clearly contrary to the Law of GOD of Nature of Nations A Principle and Practice never heard of since the beginning of the VVorld in any Story Sacred or Profane● A Principle which ought to be well adverted that the like may be preveened in time coming A Principle and Practice to be Stigmatized as well as the Remonstrauce Such a chain of Regulation as may lay a Restraint upon Ministers from starting or venting Questions Principles or Tenets destructive to the Supream Civil Authority or which may have any tendency to unsettle Authority and to shake the Peace of a Nation such as the Doctrine of opposing and resisting of KINGS by their own Subjects through Force of Arms the crying down the Authority and Actings of a Free PARLIAMENT Popular Reformation the laying too much Stresse upon any Humane Draught whatsoever as if it were the Basis and Foundation of Religion or making any thing the rule of Faith VVorship and Religious Practice but the VVord of GOD. All which may and ought to be done with due respect and tendernesse too and preservation of the Just Power Liberty and Authority of the Church according to the Holy Scripture taken in its Native and Genuine Sense and according to the Antient Primitive and Apostolick Practice and for the advancement of Godlinesse and Peace both in Church and State Lastly I humbly conceive GOD calleth KING and PARLIAMENT to make a chain of Power which may gird the Laws about and make them effectuall by a vigorous Execution for a Law without Execution is but a Bee without a Sting And there can be no Law really executed without Power And therefore these who did wrest the Militia out of the Late Martyred KING'S hands did in effect destroy all Law and Justice by robbing the KING of the Sword the choisest Flowre and Strength of the Crown Necessity Duty Safety the Peace and Quiet of the Land the putting Law and Justice to a lively Execution calleth for Power that so Popery and Profanity Violence Robbery and Oppression in the Land Schism in the Church Ruptures in the State Mutinies Insurrections Plottings and Contrivances to involve the Nation in new Troubles by Mal-contents may be timely preveened and kept under for though the face of the VVaters appear smooth for the present there is some stirrngs at the Bottom by these who have put on a present Mask of Loyalty but are ready to pull off when they can see their Opportunity I crave Pardon for my boldnesse in offering my rash Thoughts to His MAJESTIES Commissioners GRACE and to his High and Honourable Court in matters of so great Concernment but I may say I do it in all humility and from a principle of Loyalty and Love to my SOVERAIGN the KING to the Country and to my Mother Church let Men construct it as they list and so I end Giving Glory to the FATHER SON and HOLY GHOST Amen GOD SAVE THE KING FINIS

Tandem bona causa Triumphat OR SCOTLANDS Late misery bewailed and the Honour and Loyalty of this Antient KINGDOM Asserted in a SERMON Preached before His Majesties High Commissioner and the Honourable Parliament of the Kingdom of Scotland At Edinburgh the 17. day of February 1661. By Mr. JOHN PATERSON Minister of the Gospel at ABERDENE Ezekiel 7.23 Make a Chain for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence Printed at Edinburgh and Reprinted at London for James Thrale 1661. TO THE TRUELY NOBLE Valorous and Famous LORD The Earl of MIDLETON Lord Clairmont and Fettercairn His Majesties High Commissioner for SCOTLAND May it please your GRACE THe simple strain of the following Discourse being adorned with no Flowers of Rhetorick no entisements of humane Eloquence nor swelled with Citations of Humane Writers Antient or Modern speaketh it out sufficiently to all men of Spirit or Candor that it is not Pride or Vanity that hath put it to the Presse but the true reason wherefore it appeareth to the World so publickely is to prevent and obstruct the Misrepresentations of other who having taken it by swift writing when it was delivered may perchance wrong the Authour either from mistake or prejudice When it cometh abroad I know it will meet with such entertainment as Papers of a more Elaborate and Judicious composure have done before Who knoweth not Envy and Malice to be a restlesse Wretch like a filthy Flie which seeketh all the body over for a Soar and when she cannot find one she maketh one I should wish to be free of such Wasps but since it is not probable that it can be so in this Conjuncture of Affairs and blessed Revolution when mens spirits are not to be seen in their Faces nor their Loyalty to be known by their Rhetorick I have adventured upon those mens Criticisms to whom I neither stand nor fall Let none think that I presume in such a plain Discourse to teach the Learned who are more knowing nor myself yet the Ignorant and such as have fleeted hither till upon the surface of Businesses may be brought to some serious consideration how deeply the Stability and Peace of a Nation which is truely MONARCHICAL is founded and if I shall meet with a cloud of Obloquie Malice and Prejudice for speaking the truth in freedom and sobernesse Who shall shelter me but your GRACE and the High Court of PARLIAMENT at whose command I did preach Therefore let it not offend your GRACE that I have presumed to affix your Name to such a worthlesse Piece and offered it to your Judicious View and Censure I have no excuse but my reall Respects and Affection to your GRACE to whom I am so much engaged for your so many undeserved Civilities which have imboldened me to lay it down at your feet and to let the World see it under your GRACES Patrociny If I know my self well I account Flattery below me but I know it is Justice to speak the truth of all men and especially of those whom God hath made the Shields of the Earth Yet your GRACES innate Modesty maketh me sparing and therefore I shall onely say this that the LORD hath made your GRACE a polished shaft in his own hand under the KING' 's MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY to raise up a poor sinking Land from the deep waters of Tyranny Confusion Trouble and Anarchy to vindicate the Honor of this Ancient NATION over which some Unnaturall men had stretched a black Cloud of Disloyalty and Reproach to Assart and Restore His MAJESTIES just Power and Prerogative to sweep down mdny Spiders Webs which the Iniquity of the late Times had woven to the great offence of GOD Scandall of the Protestant Religion to the sad Affliction and bearing down of His MAJESTIES most Loyal and Faithfull Subjects The LORD hath made your GRACE and this Noble Court of PARLIAMENT eminently Instrumental to settle this long tossed NATION upon a solid Basis of Religion and Righteousness to break Yokes and undo Heavy Burthens and is shall be your Honor and the Honor of this Noble and Loyal PARLIAMENT in all Generations to come to be called under GOD and the KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY The Reparers of SCOTLANDS wofull Breach and Physicians of our sad Distempers Go on as you have begun to act valiantly and prudently for GOD for RELIGION KING CHURCH and COUNTREY and the Lord shall be with you This shall be the daily Prayer of My Lord Your GRACES most humble and affectionate Servant Mr. JOHN PATERSON TANDEM BONA CAUSA TRIUMPHAT Ezek. 7.23 Make a chain for the land is full of Bloody crimes and the City is full of violence I Mind Godwilling to speak on this Text. First by way of Explication as it relateth to the Jews and to their condition when the Prophet Ezekiel pend it Secondly By way of Application to the State and Condition of this Kingdom both as it was of late as it is at present and as I humbly conceive it ought to be for the time coming You may be pleased to take up the words into two main Points First We have the Jews condition when Ezekiel delivered this speech to them and that is holden forth under the Emblem of a Chain not a Chain of Gold nor a Chain of Honor but a Chain of Bondage and Captivity Seconly We have the cause wherefore a Chain was their lot or wherefore they were given over to Bondage and Captivity and that is their sins their overspreading iniquity the Epidemical wickedness which had overflowed both Country and City For the land is full of bloody crimes and the City is full of violence Point I. We have the State and Condition of the Jews at this time and that was wofull miserable and slavish this is holden out under the Emblem of a Chain The Septuagints in their Translation of the Old Testament render the word Trouble the Vulgar Latin renders it Conclusion or an end make an end But the Hebrew Word carrieth properly a Chain it is that same word that is used 1 King 6.21 where there is mention made of Chains of Gold before the Oracle and so do the Jewish Rabbies read it Anent this Point of the Text I mind Godwilling to hint at three particulars 1. What likeness or resemblance there is betwixt a Chain and the bondage and Captivity of a Land 2. I shall God-willing speak of the makers of this Chain Make a chain c. 3. Give you some Doctrines and Vses from this first branch of the Text and proceed First The Bondage and Captivity of a Nation is compared to a Chain because as a chain of Iron as an engine that restraineth a man from his naturall Liberty and Freedome so Bondage and Captivity depriveth a Nation of their Civil and Ecclesiastick Liberty A people that are under Bondage Captivity and Slavery may walk up and down the streets by a natural and animal motion but as to any Civil or Publick