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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35179	An humble plea for the quiet rest of God's ark in a sermon preached before the right honourable Sr. John Moore, Lord Mayor of the city of London, at St Mildred's church, Feb. 5. 1681/2. / by Samuel Crossman ...	Crossman, Samuel, 1624?-1684.	1682 (1682)	Wing C7268A; ESTC R18008	19,832	46

said Hezekiah the King and the Princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David and Asaph the Seer And they sang praises with gladness and they bowed their Heads and worshipped We read not here of any Dissenters we meet with none complaining of the Mischief of this Imposition We hear of none refusing their presence or reverend comportment with these solemn assemblies The King commands and all Israel obeys They praised God with the words of David and Asaph the Seer And the people bowed their heads and worshipped Liturgy and Decency were then no crimes The Text with the two following Verses contains an humble address tendered to the King of Kings for the support of Church and State Arise O Lord into thy rest thou and the Ark of thy strength Let thy Priests be cloathed with righteousness and let thy Saints shout for joy For thy Servant Davids sake turn not away the face of thine anointed He that loves Gods Church truly is likewise most highly concerned for Gods anointed He prays not for the one without the most affectionate remembrances of the other For thy Servant Davids sake turn not away the face of thine anointed That is remember O Lord the rare pieties of the Father and be thou pleased to be for ever propitious to the Son Such an Orator at the Throne of Grace says not as some in our late wretched Wars who insolently boasted That God had cast the King out of the Hearts and Prayers of his Saints So blasphemously would some men force Almighty God to patronize their highest affronts to his Vice-gerent So easily can they canonize their own Partizans And by a new kind of Popery play over the old game of treading upon the necks of Princes and deposing Majesty at their pleasure We will chuse rather to sigh and mourn than further aggravate what so openly proclaims its own shame 'T is too much that the whole Land saw what our Dread Soveraign at so dear a rate personally felt and with a bleeding Pen too truly recorded to all future ages that The Devil of Rebellion doth commonly transform himself into an Angel of Reformation But we will pass by and go on The Address of the Text is now safely presented and soon after as graciously answer'd The piousness of the matter had made it dearly welcome It pleased the Lord that they had asked this thing And he replies Vultu quo coelum tempestate sque serenat as once to Solomon Be of good comfort I have heard the Prayer and Supplication which you have made unto me for the welfare of Church and State Mine eyes and my heart shall be on both for good The Lord hath chosen Sion He hath desired it for his habitation This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it I will cloath her Priests with Salvation and her Saints shall shout aloud for joy There will I make the horn of David to bud I have ordained a Lamp for mine anointed His Enemies will I cloath with shame but upon himself shall the Crown flourish Amen Should our Lips be silent our very hearts would become vocal and readily Echo Amen Amen Such Prayers on Earth such Answers from Heaven such Zeal in Christians toward Gods House such Loyalty in Subjects toward their Prince and all this crown'd with such a benign aspect such sacred influences of tenderest love and mercy from Almighty God upon the whole Lo here enough to render both Throne and Ark for ever happy Lo here a salve sufficient for all our sores Heal us O Lord and we shall be healed The affairs of Israel from their first coming up out of Egypt had been both in Religion and Civil Government much unsetled Long had they desired some quieter state of life but in part their continual travels in the Wilderness in part their frequent oppressions under Eglon Jabin and others as the Annals of those times attest obstructed their arrival at so comfortable a condition of Repose and Peace In Davids and far more in Solomons time God gives them rest from all their Enemies round about And now Solomon having these noble advantages before him successfully effects what his Royal Father so earnestly desir'd the fuller settlement of Religion* A work meet for the care of Princes a Province reserv'd for their peculiar honour In pursuance hereof he fixeth the Officers and Offices the Rites and Ordinances of Divine Service He raiseth that holy and beautiful house as the Prophet delighted to call it wherein the Fathers praised God Thither he bringeth up the Ark with as high solemnities of joy and devotion as any History hath ever yet related And having humbly tendered his Dedication Prayer closeth with these very words Arise O Lord into thy rest thou and the Ark of thy strength As if he had said Thou O Lord hast given us thy holy Ark the pledge of thy favour the sign of thy presence with us Long has it wandred to and fro in the Wilderness long has it dwelt between Curtains in a mean obscure condition such as our present circumstances were then able to bear I have now by thy express order built this house hither have I brought up thy Ark as to its resting place And now I do most humbly beseech thee that this Sacred Ark may be toss'd up and down no more O let Church and State Religion and Government remain at rest in that happy fixation to which thou hast in so rare a conduct of Divine Providence at length brought them Such was Solomons Prayer then and such should be every good mans Prayer now In the sequel of our discourse I shall take leave to remove the scene from Jerusalem to England and so come nearer home Wherein we shall consider 1. How far the Ark hath already advanced toward its resting place amongst us 2. I shall entreat that we would suffer it now to rest As to the former 'T is sufficiently known how early the Gospel arriv'd here in England Scarce was our Saviour arisen from the dead but presently all the glad tydings of this great Salvation were brought hither 'T was with a most amazing success that the Apostolical Fishers became Fishers of men in this Island Then was it Britannia Felix and the whole Land as the Prophets Beulah a people married to the Lord. But this Golden Age too soon decayed our Silver by degrees became dross and the whole face of these Western Churches as the Field of the sluggard overgrown with weeds and corruptions So far that an eminent Writer amongst the Papists freely acknowledgeth There was scarce any sin that could be devis'd or thought on wherewith the See of Rome was not filthily defiled These pollutions were now so open they could be no longer concealed so odious that they could not with any face of modesty be further excused Whereupon Pope Adrian the Sixth instructed his Legate