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The voice of King Charls the father to Charls the son, and the bride say come being an invitation of King Charls to come in peaceably and be reconciled to his father's minde and shewing the integrity of His Highness Oliver Cromwel ... / by Arise Evans.
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Evans, Arise, b. 1607.
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Ezra 5. 1 2. Consider Beloved God did let none of my words fall hitherto 1 Sam. 3. 19. but all that I declared is come to pass as I shewed above and if you had sought the Lord and forsaken your sins as I did exhort you to do in all my Books the King had been on his Throne afore now for men must look upon God's Commandments and keep them if they look to have his promises of mercy fulfilled to them for his mercy is to them that love him and keep his Commandments Exod. 2. 6. Israel in their captivity sate down and wept and threw away their Harps Psal. 137. 1 2. so should you leave your pleasure and mourn for your sins by fasting and praying in private and publikely associate your selves together to seek the Lord that he may be merciful to you And above all things keep the Sabbath-day he that keepeth the Sabbath-day of the Lord holy and wholly as the Prophet saith Isaiah 58. 13 14. he shall never do amiss for the Lord Jesus will bless him prosper him and make him honourable so that he shall ride upon the high places of the earth and the seed of God shall be in him to preserve and protect him all the weeks of his life from Sabbath to Sabbath until at last he come to glory in Heaven with Christ at the right hand of God for if you will remember to keep holy the Sabbath-day God will not suffer you to forget any of his Commandments but your delight will be in them to keep them and do his will but if you forget to keep the Sabbath holy by praying reading hearing speaking God's words meditating in it doing deeds of charity for bearing all works or words touching worldly affairs then God will not bless you and you shall fall from one misery to another and never have rest to your souls The Lord will reign and execute judgement for the Sabbath therefore he is called the Lord of the Sabbath and judgement will come upon the world chiefly for their not sanctifying the Sabbath and if you take notice of Psal. 92. intituled A Psalm or Song for the Sabbath-day which Psalm continueth until you come to Psalm 98. so that Psalm 92 93 94 95 96 97. is but one Psalm by the Author's account for you have no title until you come to Psalm 98. I say if you take notice of Psalm 92 93 94 95 96 97. you shall finde how God will come to judgement and to reign and of his triumphing over his enemies which enemies are similated by a flood of waters Psal. 93. 2 3 4. Pfal 96. 10 13. Psal. 97. 1. and the contention must needs be about the Sabbath for this Psalm is for the Sabbath-day and hath begun with us already King James destroyed his Throne by making a Law to profane the Sabbath truely there was no need of such a Law to give liberty for outward sports on the Sabbath-day the people were too forward in profaning it so that if he had made a severe Law to restrain them yet would they have taken too much liberty to break the Sabbath and I wonder that the King and his Counsel were so blinde as to countenance the Sabbath-breakers since the Prophet sheweth it clear that the promise to Rule is founded upon the exact keeping holy of the Sabbath-day of Christ Isa. 58. 13 14. so that he that keepeth the Sabbath shall ride upon the high places of the earth and what is meant by riding upon the high places of the earth but to have the rule and power over it and govern it Deut. 32. 12 13. Judg. 5. 9 10. compared with Isa. 58. 13 14. will shew it And when the masking-bouse in 1638. was erected at White-Hall purposely to profane the Sabbath then sin went in the Court with an open face though in a mask yet so without a mask that he which had but half an eye might easily have seen it and say God will not suffer this Court to stand long Whosoever advised the late King to set up that house he was his greatest enemy He that envieth a King or Prince need no other way to overthrow him then to perswade him to profane the Sabbath neither can a man shew his love to his King by any means more then by advising him to keep holy the Sabbath-day of the Lord Jesus And believe it God will speedily have a quarrel with the Kings and Princes of the earth for breaking his Sabbath The long Parliament got much footing against the late King upon that score for reforming what he suffered to be deformed by restaining the profanation of the Sabbath they went up and he went down but when they likewise began to take the liberty to profane it so that when no Boat on the Thames durst stir on the Sabbath the Lord Bradshaw's Boat may and when other men must go afoot on the Sabbath a Parliament-man sends his ticket for a Coach and will have it then God brings them down also I do not speak this of the Parliament-men without ground for being in 1650. at a Parliament-man's house in White-hall who pretended to be one of the most religious of them there was some Friends of his there that were to come home to London Said his Wife When my Husband comes in we will have a Coach for you to go home How said the Man we cannot have a Coach to day Yes said she a Parliament-man may send his Ticket and have a Coach at any time none dare deny him Another Sabbath a while after I was at a Sermon in White-hall and in the middle of the Sermon I was forced to go to the stairs when I came there I beheld a Boat coming up from the bridge What said I to one that stood there do the Boats go abroad again on the Sabbath-day No said he Why said I what is yonder Said he That is my Lord Bradshaw's Boat coming from Greenwich What said I then he takes upon him to be Lord of the Sabbath Yes said the man he may do what he please now But consider how soon God rooted the Parliament out for such presumption and now the Boats and Coaches go abroad on the Sabbath again without any molestation judge you what will be the issue of it Therefore let none presume to break the Sabbath be he never so high I dare say God will bring him low enough that doth it pick what you can for that out of Heb. 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 10 11. And the Prophet tells the King and people of Judah that though their sin was written with a pen of Iron and with the point of a Diamond and doth say that they should go into captivity yet a little after that he tells them also That if now they would turn and keep holy the Sabbath they and their city should remain for ever Jer. 17. 1 2 3 4 14 15. Therefore you see that the keeping holy of the Sabbath will turn