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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

away the dross of their iniq●●●y 〈◊〉 are prepared and fitted for it I will purely purge away thy dross and take away thy tin and then I will restore thy Judges as at the first I shall not further insist upon this but ●hut up all with a few words of Application of these things 1. Oh! bless then the Lord for the hopes of such a 〈◊〉 restored to us this day as was that of Moses I Iosh●● 〈◊〉 and David Authority vested and re-estated in ●he hands of its rightful Subject Usurpation which for these twelve year● past without dispute hath invaded the Throne broken and ●hiver'd into pieces in a moment and the 〈◊〉 head of him l●●●●d up by God whose known ●eportment under his de●pest ●●yals and whose 〈…〉 report and fa●● 〈◊〉 him to us as another Titus d●●icia humani generi● another C●sar of whom Cicero said Oblivis●i nihil solet nisi injur● and as another 〈◊〉 whose zeal for the truth and strenuous interposings of his Authority for the peace and settlement of the discompo●●d Church ma●e 〈◊〉 the Mir●our of Monarch● the Pat●●n 〈…〉 the glory of Christian Princes to this day Such ●n one report and relation tells us he is Religion teacheth us to believe and pray that he may be to this people however 〈…〉 those pregnant presages of future good to all that are de●●●●●le enough from divers things 〈◊〉 not now enumerate yet we have the unquestionable ●oundation of his rightful title to these Dominions that may raise up our triumphings to the greatest pitch and wind up our hearts i● thanksgivings to the highest elevation Bless thou the Lord Oh! my soul and all that is within ●hee bl●●● his holy Name I ●● not unsensible how many 〈…〉 others whose lot it was in 〈…〉 of the●● distr●ctions to judge it their duty to 〈…〉 Parliament as if this desired blessed day were the 〈…〉 hearts and 〈…〉 with their principles 〈…〉 The Lord comes with ●en thousand of ●is 〈…〉 judgment upon them that are ungodly But if the constant profession of their judgment in point of allegiance even in the saddest times their Sufferings and Sequestrations for non-compliance with those Anti-monarchical Engagements which overspread so great a part of the Nation pretending to greater loyalty if their volleys of prayers and flouds of tears for the settlement of the Kingdoms upon their own Basis if their unwearied activity till the Nation were as now it is purged from the guilt and freed from the yoke of Usurpation nay if the bloud of divers of them spilt in the justification of that part of their Covenant which relates to the interest of his sacred Majesty I say If all these may evidence the reality of their joy at this deliverance I know not what can be defective and a more assured testimony of their cordial joy then all those practices of debauchery in which too many have the hard fate to be involved But I forbear to harp any more upon that string the Lord in his mercy bury those distinctions and animosities among the people which in their continuation have too ominous an aspect upon the settlement and tranquillity of the Kingdom But Christians do you bless the Lord in and for the mercy of this day Bless him that God hath restored us such a Magistracy whose endowments and qualifications for the regal Office and Imployment carry such a bright and glorious beam of hope to all such a Prince as by his publick Declaration hath held forth such unalterable resolutions of preserving and supporting the Protestant cause of burying the exorbirancies of our times in everlasting oblivion and of satisfactory care to the Consciences of good men that they be not tyrannized over by unscriptural impositions and however God shall issue the results of this mutation yet bless the Lord that Authority is returned to its natural centre the scandals upon Covenanters wiped off and the most necessary part of righteousness done to the breath of our nostrils who is worth ten thousand of us in that restauration of him which the Saints pray'd for the World expected the very Angels themselves approve and the God of Gods with many pier●ing c●ies and calls required from us I hope there is no sufficient reason to suspect any diminution to come hereby to the interest of the Protestant cause and the saving truths of the Gospel we are not without much ground to hope that the intended and Coven●nted Reformation of the Church shall hereby attain some ●●●ther advance to its full accomplishment and that so it may we shall with all subjection supplicate at his royal feet If in other things of temporal importance this mutation shall bring any impairing or loss yet I shall say as Mephibosheth when abused by Ziba No matter forasmuch as my Lord the King is returned home in peace to his own house 2. Be exhorted to pray for your Superior Powers that forasmuch as their glory lies in the grace and goodness of their people God would bless them with being effectually instrumental that this Nation may become a City of righteousness a faithful people This is the flower of their Crown and you may be useful to the adorning of the Imperial Diadem with it not only by your practice that it may be said and observed by all that since his royal Majesty sat upon his Throne iniquity and sin wither'd and perished blush'd and was ashamed in all his people and that the prophaness of your spirits could not breath and live in the purer air of his pious princely Government but also by your prayers that God would under the impressions of his Soveraignty keep his Saints from being persecuted his Sabbaths from being prophaned his Ministers from being despised or impoverished men now pretending to be Ministers but such whose right eye is utterly darkned of desperate life and despicable knowledge from being advanced his Worship from being corrupted his Ordinances from being defiled his Sacraments from being disorderly administred his Name from being blasphemed the Antichristian state and apostacy from being encouraged profession from being scorned and the liberty of communion with God and his people from being abridged or invaded and in stead thereof that God would lay up his precious truths Ordinances and People in the most intimate shades of the love and protection advancement and encouragement of his royal Majesty and so shall this and after-generations call him blessed 3. Lastly As we expect the full accumulation of these blessings upon us Oh! let your dross be purely purged cease not till the way to these royal priviledges be fully prepared by the purging away of that filth from the daughter of Zion which as hitherto it hath debarr'd us from that mercy we now enjoy so if still not purged thoroughly may render even this blessing but as the shell and shadow of a deliverance destitute of that which is the soul and marrow and fatness of it I might tell you 〈◊〉 dross is yet unpurged what rust lies upon the face of 〈◊〉 Church and Kingdom but I conclude Oh! as you have a ●●spect to the future honour and excellency of your Pri●●● and to the happinesse of this whole body purge away 〈◊〉 dross of wickedness from your lives of Atheism and Irrelig●●● from your own persons and practices purge away the dross 〈◊〉 erroniousness instability and Pyrrhenian fluctuations from yo●● heads purge away the dross of violence extortion ●apine a●● injustice from your hands purge away the dross of will worship innovations superstitions and traditions of men which 〈◊〉 not of God from your Assemblies purge away the dross 〈◊〉 your places too of blind and ignorant and prophane Administrators of holy things that they may neither creep in no● ke●● in to the defilement of the sacred Ministerial Office purg●●● way the dross and dregs of that bitter cup of animosities 〈◊〉 rences hatred of which the Nation hath drunk so deeply 〈◊〉 all your spirits expressions deportments purge away the dro●● of an empty profession of God and zeal to the trifles and fring●● of external forms and worship without the power and life 〈◊〉 godliness And lastly purge away the dross of any root of 〈◊〉 terness against or contradiction to the sacred interest of law 〈◊〉 Princes which spirit hath eaten as a Gangrene to the reproa●● of our Religion and advantage of the Popish cause in 〈◊〉 Oh! let every National Personal sin every sin and crook●● path in Church or State be discovered and discarded And 〈◊〉 when these things which are the wall of separation betwi●● people and the refreshing beneficial beams of their Supre●● Authority are withdrawn we may with confidence hope 〈◊〉 as our Judges are restored so they shall be as at the first 〈◊〉 our Counsellors as at the beginning and afterwards we shall 〈◊〉 called A City of righteousness a faithful City Which God of his dear love wherewith he hath love● 〈◊〉 out of the bowels of his mercy Grant unto this 〈◊〉 serving Generation Amen FINIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Corn●l à Lapi●● Guido Perigran in flor● Chro●●c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Facit ut moriatur v. g. Petrus impurus ●brius incestus superbus resurg at p●rus sobrius castus humilis A lap in loc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoph. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sept. Vide Abulensem Menoch 9 de rep Hebr. Menochius de rep Hebrae●rum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 70. Civita● veritatis urbs fideles Chald. Observ. 1. Vide Sixt. Senens Lib. de Poenit. Since the preaching of this he is fallen asleep in Iesus and gone to his rest a person of the sad impression upon all good men of whose loss I shall only say as August of Cyprian's Quos asflixerat sollicitudo certaminis hos consol●ta est corona victoris Mach. disput cap. 26. Claudian ad Honor. Non ante rebus suis privatis consultum eupivit quam publicarum procurationem prorsus absolisset Mas. Luc. Malorum blandientium virus est occultum arridentis nequitiae facies quidem laet● sed calamitatis abstrusae illecebrosa fallacia Cypr. Observ. 2. Exercitus ducere aliena vastare urbes delere oppida excidere liberos populos aut trucidare aut subjicere servituri Lact. lib. 1. de falsà relig Observ 3●

of all things else together with the mutation and change of Government What such powers and persons do observe may tend to gratifie and please the people or at least the most active stirring and tumultuous part of it for such usually is that part which is the most corruptly principled or may lay the greatest foundations for their own possession of their unjust Authority this is that Pole-Star by which Usurpation steers its course And therefore wo unto thee thou sacred and blessed interest of truth and true Religion when such disseisures are made of lawful Powers who need not the assistance of such cursed contrivances Machiavilian plots and debauched Consciences to support them And no marvel if usurpation be at least the fountain of a boundless toleration since erronious spirits though the most hateful enemies to a just Authority yet are the fastest friends and fittest Instruments for arbitrary Powers as being principled to own or approve any Authority only as it is fitted to countenance and support their way being not of that antient Christian spirit of which Tertullian speaks of fidelity to Princes never so opposite to Christianity Secondly Usurpation in Magistracy brings a snare upon the People as to their obedience and subjection Alas what woful troubles what scruples to Conscience what wracking and tentering of invention and understanding to finde out nice and subtle distinctions and evasions doth this produce for although the imposition and command of sinful and unlawful things be possible to the most approved and sacred powers yet it is generally an inseparable adjunct of any ones violent intrusion into Supremacy as might be proved at large both in profane and sacred story and might be demonstrated from the very interest of usurpation Upon this ground how many both Priests and People were forced either to quit their Conscience or to quit their house and home and all they had you may read in the case of Ieroboam in 2 Chron. 11. 16. And upon this ground in the imposition of Engagements Oaths Fasts and Thanksgivings some in this Congregation what they have suffered know abundantly But besides all this there lies no small difficulty upon the People of God as to obedience of unlawful Powers in even lawful things what conflicts of the soul betwixt the goodness and necessity of the action on the one hand inducing and perswading to the acting of it and betwixt the illegality of the Power that commands it on the other hand and the unwillingness of any sober spirit to do even good it self to the strengthening of the hands and claim of violence for my part I shall wish we may rather never have occasion to be put to experience and try then any more to be exercised under such temptations But such is the fate and state of usurped Powers as to the case of people Thirdly Usurpation in Magistracy deprives a people of the liberty and opportunity of discharging their real and their confessed duty to their lawful Prince and Soveraign Surely Christians this is no small affliction Princes and legal Powers when under bondage banishment or other separation from their people may look with a troubled eye upon them but alas the people themselves do feel no less affliction and smart in that divorce then they It is as irksome to a Christian people to be forced from their lawful Powers as it is for them to be forced from their people I know no interest that hath deeper impression upon the Conscience and Spirit of the People of God under and below their devotion to God himself and the happiness of their precious souls then their reverence and obedience affection and fidelity to the majesty of their Prince And however the misunderstandings or other fatal providences betwixt them and their lawful Princes may sometimes by the righteous judgment of God as it hath lately been with us produce the distance of each from other yet when the honest and rational ends of men have been abused to the injury and wrong of the Supreme Authority it is not unobserved by every common understanding how much those rapes and violences have sat upon the spirits of the godly in this Land to their deep affliction and grief and the producing of those fervent frequent Fasts and Prayers which have been answer'd from heaven as we now see Whilest a People therefore have so much of grace godliness and fidelity left as not to prostitute themselves to the lust of usurpation and not to take a present suspension of their political husbands power and presence for a dissolution of their matrimonial bond and liberty to admit Invaders into that Virgin undefiled Bed which is a more gross Adultery then that of a Wife from her Husband unless endured by force and ravishment I say whilst this is so what can we imagine of such a People in such dismal violent separations but that they sit solitary as a Widow that hath none to comfort her When it shall be Treason Death Destruction what not so much as to Preach or Pray for their natural Lords nay to mention their very Names with any mark of honour respect or reverence Fourthly Usurpation in Magistracy commonly proves the extirpation of the Ministry in Christian States and Kingdoms amongst a People that worship the true God This is visible enough under the Tyranny of Ieroboam 2 Chron. 11. 14. wherein the Levites either left their possessions or lost their integrity and flock'd in such numbers to Ierusalem from all their Cities I know it is possible for the Ministers of Christ to lie under deep affliction even under lawful Powers and although we are active and laborious to promote the resettlement of his sacred Majesty a thing of so indisputable an obligation upon us all yet we are not without the pre-conception and foresight of the evil use which evil men may make of this deliverance to vassallize and persecute the dearest of the Truths Ordinances and Interests and Ministers of Jesus Christ. Yet in usurped Powers there lies a kind of fatal necessity of persecution against such For besides that obligation which lies upon usurped Powers to serve the satisfactions of such a Clergy as have been the Stirr●p to help them to mount the Saddle of Authority the very truth of God which is and ought to be in the mouth of his faithful Prophets that be sure never speaks good of or to either wicked or usurping Princes is a continual torture and vexation to their spirits a continual dissettlement and disquiet to their Power I know the intermeddling of us with matters of State hath been mightily cried against as a thing out of the Commission of the Ministers of the Gospel as if we were not as well to Preach against the sins of great as small of Powers as of the People under them When Ieroboam had set up his Idols the Prophet and he was sent of God cried out to his face against his Idols and Idolatry Oh Altar Altar 1 King 13. Although