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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33727	Noah's dove with her olive-branch, or, The happy tidings of the abatement of the flood of England's civil discords as it was delivered in a sermon preached at Preston in the county-palatine of Lancaster on the 24th of May, 1660, being the publick day of thanksgiving for the restoring of His Sacred and Most Excellent Majesty, Charles the Second / by William Cole ...	Cole, William.	1661 (1661)	Wing C5037; ESTC R40846	32,990	45

hower it shall be after all such passages I publish this that all men may see That it was not the confidence of conformity with our Principles that was the foundation of our asserting of the Royal Interest that we bottom not our Allegiance upon the comporting of Authority with our Iudgements that subjection is owned to be our duty although we should fall under the most diametral opposition of Civil Laws and Sanctions to our Principles in the things of God that we will give submission to lawful Powers though we should suffer the deepest affliction by lawful Powers which yet we hope we shall never see Subjection to Authority and subjection to Iesus Christ are not things of inconsistencie but where Christian profession is made up more of the dross of self-interest then of the refined Gold of the Sanctuary Sir I humbly beg your Honours Pardon for this accompt You are one of the Healers of our Breaches You are able to take off the Disguise is put upon us by your own knowledge of our Fidelity when the work of the Lord had little else to support it but prayers and tears You may stand as a Mediator in the behalf of the Church for Peace and Reformation and Moderation That God that honours them that honour him fill your heart more and more with his blessed Grace Spirit Your Soul with Peace Your Family with Prosperity Your Life with Comfort and Your Death with Blessedness Your Memorial with the richest Perfumes Your Example with a Crowd of Followers who treading in Your steps may know how to confederate those two Sacred Interests of CAESAR and GOD. Preston Octob. 31. 1660. Your HONOURS most Humble and most Affectionate SERVANT W. C. Noah's Dove WITH Her Olive-Branch ISAIAH 1. 25 26. And I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy Dross and take away all thy Tinne And I will restore thy Iudges as at the first and thy Counsellors as at the beginning Afterwards thou shalt be called The City of Righteousness The faithful City IN the midst of those Threats which are given forth from God by the Prophet against Israel for the sin thereof these Words do interweave a Promise of Mercie It 's Calvin's observation on the Text That this is a constant method of God in the Prophecies of Judgement to interlineate some comfortable Promise to give some lucida intervalla and that Ne de Ecclesi● pror sus actum esse putent ne terroribus fracti animos despondeant left his People should think he hath cast them off a thing which he so much abhors the very apprehension of Rom. 11. 1. lest their hearts should faint under the hopelesness of deliverance And indeed however both the threats against and present seizures of wrath upon a people be lightly esteemed by the Sons of ●elial the seated sinners of this generation whose Brow hath Brass and whose Heart hath Steel enough toward off and rebound from themselves any the most piercing Arrow that is shot from the Prophets if not pointed and sharpened by that penetrating Spirit of the Almighty Yet upon them who tremble at the word of the Lord it works a necessity of some intermixed Cordials And my Text is one That Mercy that signal and capital Deliverance which is promised here and promised to be as the pregnant Womb of many subordinate Blessings which were to have their birth upon the restauration of this of it the Verses I have read give us to observe 1. The manner of its Production how it is brought to pass And 1 therein is remarkable God would bring it about at such a time and that time was the worst of times a time when rational conjecture would have said Neither shall People nor Prince be any more He that shall consider the resolution of the Lord heightned with some vehemencie of passion if I may so speak of that impassible blessed Deity expressed vers 24. and part of this cannot but admire at the connexion of that with this I will ease me of my adversaries I will turn my hand upon thee and I will restore c. Yet thus it is the way of God to disappoint the fears of his People when they are fed with the deepest discouragements to bring out the greatest hopes when Good and Restoring is in the greatest hazard though we cannot make such a coherence and connexion to be sense yet God can make it to be Reason and Experience doth so in the Text and hath done it at this day At the same time when he is irat●●s peccatis he is propitius peccatoribus as á Lapide comments on the Text. When one would think they had been smitten by God with an incurable blow that they were even dropping into the pit and the grave shutting its mouth upon all their glory for ever yet then saith God even then when Hope is lost and Expectation hath groan'd out its last then I will restore thy Iudges as at the first and thy c. 2. God would bring this about by such means in such a way and by the influence of such things and this is further remarkable in the Text. These means are either 1. More remote he would do it by a sore and deep affliction God his easing of himself is the loading of the People with a burden that shall break their hearts and cause the strongest Axletrees of Government to crush in pieces under it the little finger of his displeasure is heavier then the loyns of humane revenge and yet he will lay his hand his whole hand upon them and yet he will do it again and again for so the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imports reducam reversabo manum and the whole is brought in with this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from God Ita fissores lignorum gravem daturi ictum cum gemitu suspirio eum eliciunt the blow shall be so grievous that he himself shall as it were gather up all his spirits to set it home with the greatest violence so grievous that when he doth but mention it he cries out Alas alas and wo unto the people when it falls And yet by this deadly breach the Lord would binde them up A strange course that that Providence which tends in it self to their utter subversion should be appointed to issue in their happy Establishment that God should order that to contribute to their weal which they could expect onely to contribute to their wo. But this is both usual and easie for that God who can bring from evil good from darkness light from the Eater meat and glorious Beings from nothing or from the most indisposed matter He oftentimes saves a soul through the operation of affliction and unsettlement as Petrus de Valdo from whom the Waldenses was converted by a sudden judgement upon one of his Company and therefore no wonder if by it also he can save a State And indeed where the happiness of people is wrapped up