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A96450	Englands sorrows turned into joy. A sermon preached the 28th. of June, 1660. Being a publick thanksgiving, for the restauration of his Excellent Majesty, Charles II. Of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To His crownes and kingdomes, and us (His subjects) to our antient rights, liberties, and lawes. By John Whynnell, minister of the gospel at Askerswell in the county of Dorset.	Whynnell, John, b. 1603 or 4.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2073; Thomason E1033_8; ESTC R208964	24,107	42

Tongue hath not my Pen shall not have any thing to do with I cannot nor care not to please the humours of all men nor do I expect to do it Veritas odium parit I expect a multiplicity of censures But I am assured of this that Vnprejudiced persons will not censure evil of me as for others I may say Mala de me judicant sed mali I cannot see wherein I have given just occasion of offence to any Man or Party They cannot nay the most Discontented amongst us but confess that Gods works yea now let us call them Miracles wrought amongst us of late are Miracles of Mercy Is not that a mercy that bushes all wars turns our swords into plough-shares our spears into pruning-hooks Yea a Miraracle of Mercy that in a moment almost brings peace into a Land without bloodshed when we were all ready to sheath the sword in one anothers bowels That brought order out of a Chaos confusion it self that baffled all the sophistical Arguments of subtill obstinate Schismaticks and Hereticks amongst us in a moment and makes them begin to look towards Repentance that established the Magistrate on the Throne the Minister in the Pulpit freed us from Tyranny and Oppression and that by no Wisdome Strength or Valour of our own As for the manner of handling of this Subject I speak it Bona fide I do it without any prejudice to any person or party medling with no persons nor parties any farther then necessity enforced that we might see the depth of our miseries and so the greatness of Gods mercy in delivering of us But whatever others censure of me may be this is it that I passe upon my selfe that I have acted presumptuously in answering the requests of some worthy friends in reference to the publishing of this Sermon yet Christianly in giving so publick Thanks for so publick a Mercy in which I had my share And now into your hands Honoured Sir whose affectionate Loyalty to the Kings Majesty and entire love to your Country I have had assurance of some years past partly by your frequent condoling and bewailing the Afflictions of the ONE and Confusions of the OTHER And partly by your earnest and unwearied expectations to see the things that are through mercy come to passe amongst us in these dayes I do commit this ensuing Sermon Not doubting but that you do thankfully embrace and heartily acknowledge the mercy it preaches and in your dayly prayers do blesse God for it And thus hoping that you will passe an Act of Grace on my presumption to appear in publick under the shelter of your Name And praying for the continuance of the Peace and Prosperity of these Nations And for your Worship that God would make you an eminently blessed Instrument in his and your Countries service whilest you live and when you die that you may die in the Lord rest from your Labours and have your Workes to follow you I shall ever remain Right Worshipfull Your most Humble Faithfull and dutifull Servant John Whynnell ENGLANDS SORROWS Turned into JOY Psalmes 126. 3. The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are Glad THe Great God of Heaven and Earth is alwayes doing great and wonderful things upon the Earth Sometimes he doth great things against his Church and People and then they are sad Sometimes again he doth great things for his Church and People and then they are glad Thus did he act in reference to these people this Church of the Jewes 1 He did great things against them he invaded their Country spoyl'd them by War beseiged their strong holds Yea he did that which the whole world set in Battalia against them and onsetting of them with the greatest fury and violence could not have done had not he appeared an Adversary to them He broke down their Gates rifled their City put to flight their men of War Jer. ult 7. which things their enemies thought impossible to have been done Lam. 4. 12. The Kings of the Earth and all the Inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the Adversary and Enemy should have entred into the Gates of Jerusalem when Gods own people commit great sins against him he doth great things against them And when God doth so ô then then t is that their hearts are sad How doth the City sit Solitary she weepeth sore in the night her teares are on her cheekes Judah is gone into Lam. 1. 1 2 3. Captivity gone to Babylon and there they mourn too By the Rivers of Babylon there we sate down yea we wept when we remembred Sion we hanged our Harps upon the Psal 137. 1 2. Willowes in the midst thereof Ay but God will not alwayes * Miserum fuisse felicem be wrathful with his people he at last remembers mercy Therefore 2. He doth great things for his Church and People and then they are glad Then they Sing and Rejoyce Take down their harpes from the Willowes and Sing again the Song of the Lord. Such things did the Lord do for these people The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad This Psalm acquaints us with the joyful and blessed return of the Israel of God the Church of God from her long grievous and wearisome captivity in Babylon As for the Author of it t is uncertain if not unknown The occasion of it was this a Proclamation from Cyrus King of Persia throughout all his Dominions in which the captive Jewes so journed to give them Liberty to return home again to Judea and Jerusalem to build up their City and the house of God and to set up the worship of God again therein 2 Chron. 36. 22 23. Now in the first year of Cyrus King of Persia that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished the Lord stir'd up the Spirit of Cyrus King of Persia that he made a Proclamation throughout all his Kingdomes and put it also in writing saying Thus saith Cyrus King of Persia all the Kingdomes of the Earth hath the Lord God given me and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem which is in Judah who is there among you of all his people The Lord his God be with him and let him go up So in the 1. Ezra 1. 1 2 3 4 c. Now upon this the Jewes begin to withdraw from all quarters of the heathen Lands to set their faces again towards Jerusalem to return themselves to their own Country Which Decree carrying so much of Grace and Favour in it and being so Strange so New and Unlooked for a thing and the Consequences thereof being so great and so good to them as Redemption from Slavery Liberty to return and possesse their own proprieties again to leave off serving Idolls to enjoy the true Ordinances of God Oh say they we were as those that did dream Their Deliverance was so verse 1. great that they thought it was

of my people They that did feed delicately are desolate in the Streets they that were brought up in Scarlet Embrace Dunghills Lam. 4. 5. 4 Their Temple was burnt with fire their Sanctuaries turned to the Ground their Solemn Feasts and Sabbaths were forgotten in Sion their Altars cast off Vision did cease He hath violently taken away his Tabernacle Lam. 2. 6 7 9. he hath destroyed his places of Asembly the Lord hath caused the Solemn Feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion the Lord hath cast off his Altar he hath abhor'd his Sanctuary and the Law is no more her Prophets also find no Vision from the Lord. 5 All their honour was thrown down in the dust their King carried Captive their Princes slain their Elders not favoured their Priests not respected their habitation laid wast their strong holds thrown down The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob Lam. 2. 2. he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the Daughter of Judah he hath brought them down to the ground he hath polluted the Kingdomes and Princes thereof He hath swallowed up all her Pallaces he verse 5. hath destroyed his strong holds He hath destroyed and broken her Bars her King and her Princes are among the verse 9. Gentiles They respected not the persons of the Priests they favoured not the Elders Lam. 4. 16. 6 Their mighty Men of War were slain their young men and old men lay dead in the Streets Virgins fell by the sword and as for the living of them they were stil in Jeopardy of their lives He slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the Tabernacle of the Daughter of Zion Lam. 2. 4 21. The young and the old lie on the Ground in the Streets My Virgins and my young Men are fallen by the Sword They hunt our steps that we cannot go in Lam. 4. 18 19. our streets Our Persecutors are swifter than Eagles they pursued us upon the Mountains they laid wait for us in the Wilderness 7 They were under the Dominion Power and Rule of proud Servants whom to serve is the greatest Slavery in the world And I think by this time English men had no need to be told of it We have found it a truth by wofull experience Asperius nihil est humili c. Servants have ruled over us there is none that doth deliver us out of their hands Lam. 5. 8. 8 Lastly after all this the remainder of them were carried away Captive into forreign Lands and Countries there to serve the Heathen Judah is gone into Captivity because of affliction and because Lam. 1. 3. of great Servitude She dwelleth among the Heathen she findeth no rest These were the Evills that these people suffered for 70 yeares which caused and Increased in the Daughter Lam. 2. 5. of Judah Mourning and Lamentations made her Sighs to be many and her heart to faint Thus you have seen Lam. 1. 22. their Miseries and Sufferings But II. What were the great things that God did for them to glad and rejoyce their Souls Certainly it was not a small matter that would rejoyce this their misery it must needs be some great thing Ans 1 God placed such a King over those Lands and Country's in which they sojourned that gave to them their own Land again That gave them Livery and Seizin of their own Possessions again out of which Nebuchadnezzar drove them That gave them liberty to return to it without any Let or Molestation either from the Masters they served or the Tributary Princes under whose Dominion they were Gave them Liberty to go and build up the Cities of their God the House of God and their own Houses This did Cyrus of whom God said He was his Servant and should fulfill his Pleasure Now in the first year of Cyrus King of Persia Isa 44. 28. 2. Chron. 36. 22 23. the Lord stirred up the Spirit of Cyrus King of Persia that be made a Proclamation throughout all his Kingdom and put it also in writing saying Thus saith Cyrus King of Persia all the Kingdomes of the Earth hath the Lord God given me and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem which is in Judah who is there among you of all his people the Lord his God be with him and let him go up So in the 1 Ezra 1. 2 3 4. Now this was one great thing for poor Exiles to be sent home poor Captives to be set at liberty 2 He restored all the Riches and Vessells of the house of God to them that Nebuchadnezzar took away And Cyrus the King brought forth the Vessells of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth of Ezra 1. 7 8. Jerusalem and had put them in the house of his Gods even these did Cyrus King of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mituredath the Treasurer and numbered them unto Sheshbuzzar the Prince of Judah What their Enemies pillaged from them he restored The plunderd Church enjoys her own again 3 Least the Jews when they set themselves to build the house of God should be judged by their Enemies to do that which they had no warrant for He gave them a Command to build the House of God and set up his worship Who is there among you sayes he his God be with him let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and build the house of the Lord God of Israel Ezra 1. 3. 4 Not onely gave them a Command to do it but made a Decree for the building of it Which Decree might not be reversed but succeeding Kings were bound to put it in execution The Lord stirred up the heart of Cyrus that he made a Proclamation throughout all his Kingdom and put it also in writing saying thus saith Cyrus c. Which caused Darius afterwards to put it in Execution when as otherwise the building would have been left unfinished And there was found at Achmeta in the Palace that is in the Province Ezra 6. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 c. of the Medes a Roll and therein was a Record thus written In the first year of Cyrus the King the same Cyrus the King made a Decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem Let that house be builded c. and let the expences be given out of the Kings house And therefore he Commanded that the work might go on And he allowed all necessary materialls to it yea and offerings too 5 Because he knew that they had many enemies that Crimen laesae Majestatis would venture hard but they would hinder it * Darius he made it Treason for any man to oppose them Also I have made a Decree that whosoever shall alter this word Ezra 6. 11. let him be pulld down from his house and being set up let him be hanged thereon and his House be made a Dung-hill for this 6 Lastly He