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A93792	Three sermons preached in the Cathedral Church of Winchester The first on Sunday, August. 19. 1660. at the first return of the Dean and Chapter to that church, after the restauration of His Majesty. The second on Jan. 30. 1661. being the anniversary of King Charles the first, of glorious memory. The third at the general assize held there, Feb. 25. 1661. By Edward Stanley, D.D. Prebendary of the church.	Stanley, Edward, 1597 or 8-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing S5233D; ESTC R229852	48,452	164

theirs That he was a Man when the Son of that Man or Monster rather should so easily quit his power to them that could not keep it but were forced to call in the old Riders again for the Commonwealth as it must be called was tyred before and yet they must again bow down their backs to them Well the wheel of Providence was now going and every Change seemed a Deliverance to us It was so as to the event for as if they had been playing a game at Chess while their design was to check him they did but take up one another to make room for the King But we for the present had little ease by it we did but change for the worse still The old flies were less to be dreaded quoniam hipleni as the Horse said in the Fable while the new ones came with sharper Appetites upon us Onely some comfort there was in the very Change Mal. 3.6 We are subject to it in our selves and all that is about us Onely God can say Ego non mutor I am not changed We are therefore we love it and make a vertue of it and are glad of Changes every hour 'T is strange none should be for the better that among so many Casts there should be none good We were used indeed as our Saviour was Luke 23. sent from Annas to Caiphas from Caiphas to Pilate from Pilate to Herod and then back again to Pilate but where was Justice all this while for the Judges we see Indeed we had too much of that sometimes and their very mercies were cruel-But here was no Deliverance but from one Tormentor to another not a good cast yet Why all were good and they did Gods work and the Kings when they were most against him We are now in this last year of Providences so many and so great that it may be much more justly called Annus mirabilis then that of 88. was Providences abroad in the general peace of Christendom that Janus his Temple might have been shut up again which I take to be not the least of Gods Providences to us for that peace conduced to ours And Providences at home even to a Miracle that the Hills should be brought low those Mountains of proud and self-interested men which were thought insuperable that the Vallies should be exalted and the way laid even as it were Luke 3.5 and prepared for him as Iohn the Baptist said of our Saviour at his coming and all rubs out of it that all flesh might see the salvation of God and the deliverance of this Nation For it is Salvation though but Temporal that which was chiefly intended in this Text and a deliverance out of Captivity Who shall give salvation unto Israel And now you are all ready to answer Cum averterit Dominus it is Gods salvation and it is he onely that hath given it and therefore we give him onely the glory of it not unto us nor unto him we most admire in it as his Instrument but unto him And let it be entred into our Records and made the Title-page of the History of our Times Hoc fecit Dominus Mat. 21.42 This hath God done and it is marvellous in our eyes And as our Saviour said of the Woman that anointed his feet Wheresoever this Gospel shall be read for it is good Tidings too there shall this also be told not which she but he himself hath done for us His Doing is much more conspicuous if we consider 2. The Manner of it in the next circumstance of the Text Cum averterit When he Turns the captivity The Turning of the Jewish Captivity was very strange and very sudden for we find it in the last of the Chronicles after he had described the destruction of Ierusalem and the Peoples carrying away immediately at the next Verse Now the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus that he made a Proclamation and said Who is there among you of his people the Lord his God be with him and let him go up to Ierusalem 2 Chron. 36.22 This was all the preparation toward it God stirred up the heart of Cyrus and the Captivity was turned upon the sudden And so was ours too God stirred up the hearts of some worthy Persons and after some Turns among our Oppressors that went off the stage as Praeludium's to it our Captivity was turned too Salust Et tandem vicit fortuna Reipublicae as the Historian said 'T was turned as a River to the Spring-head Xanthe retro propera Rivers do not use to do so but they run to the Sea And so did our Rivers the current of the Nation was so after such a tract of time the course of the stream was almost grown naturall into the Sea or into a Gulph rather like Scylla and Charybdis that swallowed and devoured every thing Here then was the Miracle that God turned the stream upon it self one Army upon another the people upon those that had mis-led them they came down like a Torrent 't was not safe for any body to stand in their way 'T was answerable to what the people prayed for Psal 126.5 Turn our Captivity O Lord as the Rivers in the South What was the naturall course of the Rivers in the South I know not But I know the Rivers in the North had a strange turn at this time when a man might see the whole stream of the Nation run a contrary way upon the suddain to what they had been used This is that that makes us yet think we are but in a Dream we cannot think we are awaked to see such a turn as this is but that we Dream of happinesse onely And yet we are awaked God be thanked for it And the Lord hath turned our Captivity Ours that 's the Captivity 3. Of his people We do not deserve that title whatever the Iews did Ps St. 12. But my people would not hear my voice and Israel would not obey me God complaines of them And certainly we have not been very forward to hear it else we had not been punished as they were But whatever their punishments were you see God owns them for his people still And God useth to punish his people more severely then he doth others Because their offence is more unpardonable as a Rebellious Childs is then a Servants Et tu Fili such an ingratitude must needs go near the Father To whom much is given Lu. 12.48 of him much shall be required and therefore if he smart for it he must thank himself And yet 't is quos diligo still he loves them whom he chastiseth and he will not renounce them for his Children for all that And yet some men have endeavoured to make us believe That those that were under the Rod were none of his Children and that Temporal Prosperity was the onely mark of Gods favour This is one of the new Doctrines indeed but the old was quite contrary And yet how often