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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56576	Post nubila Phoebus, or, A sermon of thanksgiving for the safe and happy returne of our gracious soveraign ... preached in the city of Aberden at the desire of the lord provest, bailies and councell thereof, upon the XIX [19] day of Iune / by Iohn Patersone ...	Paterson, John, 1604?-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing P687; ESTC R1742	16,018	27

tempestuous Night Surely this is a matter of exceeding great Praise to GOD and of wonderfull Rejoycing to all the truely Godly and Loyall in the three KINGDOMS But as for Mal-contents let them gnaw their Tongues for sorrow feed on their own Bowels lyke young Vipers The third point in the Text is the JEWS Deliverer Who brought back their captivity IT was not Themselves it was not their own Wisdom Policy nor Strength nor Power but the LORD JEHOVAH When the Lord The LORD had a very immediate and visible hand in their deliverance as may be read at length in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah And may not SCOTLAND ENGLAND and IRELAND say That the LORD JEHOVAH hath brought back our Captivity Hath not the LORD made His Arme bare and His steps manifest and His Hand visible in our DELIVERANCE Who is so blinde but sees the very FINGER of GOD and a wonderfull PROVIDENCE in this Worke to be delivered at such a nick of time when few or none were expecting any deliverance but all things looking worse and worse when that Fanatique Party had forced that pretended Parliament of ENGLAND and had brought all to a meere Anarchy and intended to rule not by the SPIRIT but by the sword and that none should have RVLE or POWER but these Fift Monarchy men Quakers such like deluded giddy spirits Yet at that very point of time GOD divided the Army and did spirit animat the honest and Loyall Party of it under the Command of that Noble and Valorous GENERALL MONCK to stand up for lawfull Authority and to call for a free and well-constituted PARLIAMENT which could not be in ENGLAND without a KING and house of LORDS And although there were many Plottings and Contrivings Stirrings and Risings to hinder the electing and sitting of a free PARLIAMENT and many illegall Qualifications intended to be put upon Elections and persons elected yet then did the LORD aryse and befoole these Firebrands of Sedition and Confusion and took them in their own Snares when as they had not so much confidence as to draw a Sword in their own defence Guiltines within often makes feeble hands and did not the LORD send the Ring-leaders of that Fanatique party prisoners to LONDON the very day before that the PARLIAMENT sat down a very Presage from HEAVEN of better dayes and was it not GOD who did put it so unanimously into the hearts of both houses of PARLIAMENT of the ARMY and body of the people of the three KINGDOMES of all Ranks to erect MONARCHIE the only Ancient and Lawfull government of these NATIONS and to send for the KING and to bring him home with great HONOUR and STATE with the universall acclamations of his People Yea and all that so great a Worke to be brought to passe without one drop of bloud Who ever dreamed of such a peaceable sweet and unanimous REDUCTION of our native KING and is not this the very immediat hand of GOD Yes indeed it is The LORD hath brought back our captivity and to his NAME be the Glory of that MERCY The Fourth Point is in these words Then wee were lyke them that dreame Now in this Expression take notice of two Things 1. That these who ar under Captivity Bondage are lyke to men in a Dream 2. When these who have been in Bondage Captivity are delivered they ar not at first sufficiently awakened out of their Dream that is they cannot get their Deliverance fully beleeved These who are under Bondage and Captivity are lyke these in a Dream or Captivity is a Dream or it is as a dreaming Time and that in these Considerations These that Dreame dreame in the Night the night is a time of Dreaming even so is Captivity a dreaming Time it is a Night a civill Night it is a time of Darknesse Clouds upon a Land And what have these late yeares of our Bondage been but a Night a night of Confusion of Usurpation of Tyranny a night of Blacknesse of Darknesse upon the three NATIONS a night which did overcloud all these Ancient lights which sometimes shined cleare in Britaine and Ireland a black night which overshaddowed KING PARLIAMENT STATE CHURCH NOBILITY GENTRY BURROUGHES MINISTRY and body of the People Captivity Bondage is like a dreame in this respect These that dreame are sleeping so a Land under Captivity and Bondage is sleeping ordinarly it is so I meane not sleeping in respect of externall peace and rest ease and plenty but they are sleeping in a sense Morall and Spirituall thus did the IEWS I beleeve dreame in their Captivity they were sleeping in sin and security under the LORDS Wrath and Anger and in this sense our bondage was like a dream for although GOD hath been persuing these Lands these severall years bygone for many abominations and particularly for the cry of bloud and above all for that Royall and innocent Bloud of our Late SOVERAIGN yet we have sleeped on in our sinnes and security Wee have keeped fast deceit and have hid our sins like Adam wee have been as one that sleepes on the top-mast These that sleepe have their senses bound up Their Eyes are shute they see not their Eares are shut they heare not so it fareth ordinatly with a People that are in Bondage and Captivity a people lying under sin and wrath Their Eyes are shut their Vnderstanding and mindes are darkned they do not take to heart their own sinfull and slavish Condition they do not see nor consider these things which may conduce for their reliefe and deliverance This was the Iewish people their Condition under the Romanes as yee may reade Matth. 22. O if thou hadst knowen in this thy day these things which belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes How so They were sleeping and dreaming in their sins I am sure that was our Condition during our late Captivity and bondage our eyes were shute wee were dreaming we did neither see nor consider rightly how to win out of our Thraldome and slavery Wisdome Counsell Resolution Courage all our politique Senses for the most part at least were gone We were become lyke EPHRAIM A silly doue without an heart Captivity and Bondage is lyke a Dreame because as they who dreame know not when they shall awake So a land in Captivity knowes not when their Captivity shall be loosed and the Yoke broken In this consideration also Britain and Ireland were dreaming Captivity is lyke a Dreame because as they who dreame know not that they are Dreaming till they awake so a people under Slavery are oftentimes so stupified benummed and do sit down lyke Issachar under the burden that for the time scarce are they sensible of their Condition they do not take to heart that they are in Bondage like Galley-slaves who can be merry under their Guardians lash but when a Captive people are restored to their wounted freedome and Liberty and Lawes and King