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A50026	Sionis reductio, & exultatio. Or, Sions return out of captivity with Sions reioycing for her return. A discourse, intended for the solemn festivity of the English nation, at Livorno in Italy, upon the happy news of King Charles the Second his return into England, which was there celebrated with munificent feasting, and magnificent shows, fire-works, and other signs of triumph, three days together, in the month of July anno Dom. 1660. Since occasionally preached in part, at St. Margarets in Westminster, the Sonday [sic] after the solemnization of the Kings birth-day, and entry into London; and now presented to publick view, as to correct the mis-apprehension, and mis-interpretation of some that were present; so to prevent the mis-information, and depravation of others that were absent. By Ro. le Grosse, cleric. An orthodox priest of the Church of England; and D. Oecumenical, then residing in Livorno, at his return from grand Cairo in Egypt.	Le Grosse, Robert.	1662 (1662)	Wing L961; ESTC R222044	50,728	74

Oh si quis efficiat ut fruamur bono Who will shew us any good Psal 4.7 Psal 4.7 And Oh si quis daret mihi aquam Oh that one would give me to drink of the water of the Well of Bethlehem which is by the gate 2 Sam. 23.15 Qui patheticè rogat 2 Sam. 23.15 ardenter postulat He that asks pathetically and with affection to a thing desireth ardently 3. Certa determinatio Thirdly There is a certain determination or a most assured and infallible conclusion Reducente Jehovah reducem populi sui turmam When the Lord turneth the captivity of his people that is assuredly the Lord will turn the captivity of his people Which is a gracious answer to the Quis dabit or Oh si quis det Who will give or Tremellius Oh that Salvation were given For as sure as Gods people are in captivity so sure the Lord will turn their captivity and deliver them out of captivity Yet if you will not believe this exposition because you may think it to be mine own take Gods own Word for it who is truth it self Joh. 14.6 and cannot lye or deny his own Word which he hath spoken 2 Tim. 2.13 2 Tim. 2.13 And this you shall find in the Prophecy of Jeremiah Thus saith the Lord Behold I will bring again the captivity of Jacobs Tents and have mercy on his dwelling places Jer. 30.18 and so forward as you may see in that Jer. 30.18 and 31. and in the following Chapter where God promiseth the restauration of Israel Now you must know that Dei dicere est Dei facere Gods Word is his Deed. What God speaks if it be not yet it is as if it were done Ipse dixit facta sunt omnia Gen. 1. He spake the word Gen. 1. and all things were created and what he speaks now cannot likewise but be performed 4. Grata Exultatio Lastly There is a grateful exultation or a joyful congratulation for so great a mercy as the turning the captivity of Gods people Exultabit Jacob laetabitur Israel Then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel shall be right glad It is but prophecied in my Text but we have heard it to be fulfilled in all places yea and we see it verified every where by experience Solutâ captivitate laeti sunt captivi When men are in Prison they are heavy and sad But when they are free they are merry and glad So then as from Eden of which you may read in the Book of Genesis Gen. 2.10 there went a River to water the Garden which God had planted and from thence it was parted and became into four heads Gen 2.10 In like manner from this Text 4 Conclusions thus as you see I have Analysed it there flow four Rivolets of Corollaries or Doctrinal conclusions to water the Gardens of our hearts that like Eden they may be fruitful both in instruction and action according to godliness that the man of God which is content to be governed by the Word of God may be fruitful and made perfect unto all good works 1 Tim. 3.16 as the Apostle speaks to the same purpose in his Epistle to his adopted Son Timothy nay his own Son in the faith 1 Tim. 1.2 for so he stiles him 1 Tim. 1.2 The first Corollary 1. Conclusion or Doctrinal conclusion which presents it self from the words of the Text is this That God doth sometimes suffer his Israel his own people to go into captivity God doth suffer his Israel to go into captivity For here by Israel is meant the people of God which is made manifest by the words next following or understood Oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of captivity and when the Lord turneth the captivity of his people Now if Israel Gods people were not in captivity why do they so ardently wish and pray to be delivered out of it Their desire to be delivered out doth imply that they were in captivity That 's the first conclusion God doth suffer his Israel sometimes to go into captivity Secondly 2. Conclusion another Corollary that arises from the Text exhibits it self thus That it is the duty of Israel of Gods people when they are in captivity Israel in captivity must pray for deliverance to pray for deliverance out of captivity Oh si reducat Dominus Oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of captivity And for my part they that are in Prison and in Captivity and will not pray or desire to come out of it let them stay there still We have an old Proverb frequent amongst us He that is in a Ditch and will not use the means to come out let him lye there still And I make this application of it If a man be in Prison Captivity or any other affliction or sorrow and doth not desire to come out of it if he will not pray to God for deliverance let him still continue in it Volenti non fit injuria God send them sorrow that love it 3. Conclusion Upon Israels Prayer God doth turn their captivity Thirdly The Corollary or Conclusion which arises from the determination is an irrefragable position which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without all controversy seconded by the testimonies and made good by the examples of Scripture and so beyond all contradiction That upon the prayers of Israel of Gods People when they are in affliction and in captivity the Lord will undoubtedly deliver his people and turn their captivity The Participle is of the Present Tense Reducente Jehovah reducem populi sui turmam The Lord turning the captivity of his people which presents unto us the certainity of it as if it were already present 4. Conclusion Israel delivered out of captivity ought to rejoyce and be glad for it Then in the last place the fourth Corollary doth conclude the necessity of Praise as the second did infer the necessity of Prayer That when God upon the Prayers of Israel his People shall have turned their captivity and delivered them from the hands of their enemies under whom they were captives they ought by way of gratitude to return their thankfulness for such a mercy and to congratulate their deliverance by being joyful and glad These are as it were the four Wheels of our Topical Charriot by which as formerly I hinted unto you Biga in Hosannch we shall drive on our future discourse Two whereof belong to the Hosannah in Sions Humiliation the other two Biga in Hallelujah to the Hallelujah in Sions Exaltation The two former set forth unto us Sions Humiliation Her being in Captivity Sions Humiliation which enforce Her to pray unto God for her Deliverance The two latter do shaddow out her Exaltation Sions Exaltation her being delivered out of captivity which obligeth her to praise God for being delivered But they do all concenter together and meet in one

the day of his Nativity But as St. Paul answered Festus I am not mad O noble Festus but speak the words of truth and soberness Act. 26.25 So shall I reply upon those grunting Cavillers not Cavaliers that I was not mad through too much Learning though I may safely say there was more Learning in the Sermon than they that spake against it did understand but I did speak the words of truth and soberness Yet I must confess not without some zeal to the Cause I had in hand and fervency in the delivery of it But if I were mad or besides my self as St. Paul speaks in another case to the Corinthians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whether we be besides our selves it is to God Or whether we be sober it is for your Cause 2 Cor. 5.13 It was for God and the King to inculcate Thankfulness to God and to enforce Loyalty to the King for the happy return of our unhappy Captivity As for untruths I know none in it if thou good Reader or any other can detect or discover any which as yet are hidden to me I shall readily undergo the penalty to be inflicted upon false Prophets or Preachers and thank thee or them for better information But it may be thou wilt say as is reported I wish'd them all hang'd and that is to curse a thing unfitting for a Minister and both unchristian and unlawful Fair and softly good Reader not too much of that I said then and so thou shalt find in the Catastrophe and close of the Sermon that I would conclude all for that time with a Votive Acclamation for the King King Charles the 2d by whose return into his Kingdoms God was pleased to turn our Captivity And it was the same with some alteration and addition which was sometimes ascribed by the Germanes to Charles the 5th then the Emperour of Germany and in brief is this I wished to the King His Majesty A long Life a happy Raign and continual Victory over all his Enemies And I hoped then and so do still that all good Subjects would say Amen But for those that were Rebells and would not say Amen I wish'd they were hang'd and for Verse sake I said Agen Agen which then I repeated for the greater emphasis and confirmation of what I had said Now good Reader understand me aright I wished the wish and said Amen to it But to whom did I wish it It was not to all in general as is falsly reported but it was to Rebells that would not say Amen to my good wish for the King and not to good Subjects that will concurr with me in my wish and Amen it And I think till I shall be better informed I might and yet may safely use this wish It is not unknown to those that have been conversant in the Histories of former times that we may not rely upon the judgement or fancy of those that are experienced only in the sullen and self-willed manners of latter dayes that this and the like phrases have been and still are Proverbial Imprecations which in all Countries upon sudden occasions have been frequenntly used to express mens abhorrency and dislike to those that have spoken or done any thing contrary to the Law of Nature and good manners So you may read in Aristophanes that when the Greeks of old would wish ill to any man they used this Proverbial Imprecation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Away with him to the Crows Which was a place of punishment among the Thessalians where men being put to death were left as meat for the Crows to devour And from hence arose that adagious saying of Antisthenes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 'T is better to fall into the hands of Crows if it be not a bull to say so than the hands of Rooks He meant Flatterers and I agree with him for the Crows devour those only that are dead but Flatterers and Rooks consume even those that are alive Among the Romans when they would express their hatred or anger unto any they were wont to use these and the like phrases Ad Furcam Or in Crucem Or in rem malam abeat Which in plain English have no other signification than Let him be hang'd And the Italians still to this day not to mention the usance of the Grave Spaniard Sé● Ahorcádo Or the custom of the Light French whom yet we imitate in all other fashions Que y soit Pandue because I will not stand long in enumerating the several expressions of other Nations upon the like occasions are wont to say Via alle furchè à Capestro à malo●a Or à malviaggio to whatsoever or whomsoever doth cross their humors But not to be such Humorists altogether to follow the Eccentrick manners of the Heathen who yet may rise up in judgement and condemn the manners of some Christians or imitate the Exotick customs of other Nations that are Forraigners and Strangers to us as well as to our Religion for the Vindication of this imprecation let us make our address to and search the holy Scriptures as our Saviour commands us Joh. 5.39 And see if we cannot warrant and justifie from those sacred Records which are the Fountaine of Life this our wish to all Rebells and Imprecation of death And so in turning over those holy pages we shall find without much difficulty of search expressions tending to the same sense though not in the same terms Doth not St. Paul and I believe you will say if not he saith it himself 1. Cor. 7.40 he had the Spirit of God in a manner use the like Imprecation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha that is let him be accursed 1 Cor. 16.22 Which Imprecation of the Apostle is a great deal more and of a higher nature than I did wish to all Rebells that love not the King and will not say Amen to his safety For I wish'd them only to be hang'd a corporal punishment that so upon their repentance if God shall be pleased to give them the grace for very few of the Rebells who have been Executed as it hath been observed with Christian sorrow and hearty grief have had so much remorse and sense of that horrid sin but have died impenitent Their Souls may be saved to make use of St. Pauls phrase in the day of the Lord Jesus But St. Pauls Imprecation goes further even to the destruction both of body and soul which I wished not And this Imprecation of the Apostle you shall find that he doth not only use it once but he doth iterate it again and again as I did mine in his Epistle to the Galatians against the false Prophets that troubled the Church and endeavoured to overthrow the Gospel of Christ If an Angel from Heaven saith he preach otherwise unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed As we said before so say I now again if any man

Salvation were given unto Israel out of Sion Where in the Original as the learned in that language observe the expression is set down Salvations in the Plural Number to intimate unto us full Salvation Health or Deliverance even the perfection of Salvation which cometh only by Christ who was to come out of Sion according to the praediction of the Prophet Isaiah Isa 59.20 c. 59.20 The Redeemer shall come out of Sion and shall turn away iniquity from Jacob. and at whom the form of the Hebrews wishing here doth look as to the person which should then and shall still give perfect Salvation and Deliverance to all Israel Gal. 6.16 even the Israel of God Gal. 6.16 Thirdly 3. Analogically we may read the words Analogically and relatively according to the use we may make of them in respect of the Churches of God which now are larely have been and hereafter may be in Persecution and Captivity by the enemies of God and his Truth In which relation this option or wish here in my Text hath its place and there is no good Christian but in such a case will with the Prophet David and the Church of God here in my Text wish sigh breath out and ingeminate an Oh si quis det Oh that Salvation were given to Israel out of Sion Oh that the Lord would turn the captivity of his people When the Lord turneth the Captivity of his people then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel shall be right glad I shall not insist on the words litterally the History was fulfilled when after Sauls death David that had been appointed and annointed by God was now constituted and annointed by all the Elders of Israel in Hebron King over Israel 2 Sam. 5.3 2 Sam. 5.3 and did deliver the Children of Israel from the hands of all their enemies that did vex and afflict them Nor shall I presume to treat of them Mystically whether this bringing back the captivity of Gods people the Jews here prophesied to be under the Gospel shall be by loosing their captivity corporally as well as spiritually or whether the Jews shall return again to their own Land or no These are too deep mysteries for my shallow capacity to diue into although since our late distracted times many more curious than wise and more wise than sobriety would permit them Mar●…al Ep. according to that Proverbial quippe of the Epigrammatist Et qui plus justo non sapit ille sapit have gone so far in their speculations as to fore-see and determine the time when and the persons by whom and yet I must tell you they have grosly erred in their calculation and expectation because we have visibly seen the contrary by experience the Jews which are now so rife amongst us shall be restored to their pristine estate and to the Land of their Nativity from whence for putting to death the Messiah and Redeemer of Israel they have been justly scattered and dispersed Therefore I shall more modestly and safely speak of them in the third acception of the words Analogically as they may be understood in relation to the Churches of God which have been now are or hereafter may be under persecution and in captivity by the enemies of God and his Truth And in this consideration if we apprehend the words we shall find in the Verse two generals The Churches 1. Hosannah 2. Hallelujah Or The Churches 1. Prayer 2. Praise First There is the Churches Hosannah 1. Hosannah or Prayer to God for her deliverance being in captivity And here we cannot but take notice of Sions humiliation Secondly There is the Churches Hallelujah 2. Hallelujah or Praise to God for being delivered out of captivity And here we must take notice likewise of Sions exaltation The Church begins with Hosannah and she ends with Hallelujah and so must we if we will approve our selves to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the true and genuine Sons of the Church We must begin with Hosannah and we must end with Hallelujah as in this so in all other actions and undertakings We must pray unto God for deliverance when we are in trouble and for other blessings to be obtained and we must give praise unto God for deliverance out of trouble and for other blessings when obtained or but promised So the Church doth here She prays unto God being in persecution and in captivity to turn her captivity and to give deliverance to his people out of captivity And she gives praise unto God being delivered out of persecution and for turning the captivity of his people although but promised The Churches Hosannah or Prayer to God for deliverance out of captivity we have in these words Quis dabit or Oh si quis det Who will give or Oh that Salvation were given to Israel out of Sion Oh that the Lord would turn the captivity of his people The Churches Hallelujah or praise unto God for her deliverance out of captivity we have in the words following Cùm averterit Dominus captivitatem plebis suae When the Lord turneth the captivity of his people then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel shall be right glad But if you please that we should descend into a more particular Analysis or resolution of the words we may observe in them Quadriga copicorum Quadrigam Topicorum A four-wheeled Charriot of Topicks by which we shall drive on our future exercitation for the better performance of our ensuing solemnity There is 1. Curiosa interrogatio Quis dabit who will give 2. Pathetica postulatio Oh si quis det Oh that Salvation were given 3. Certa determinatio Reducente Jehovah c. When the Lord turneth the captivity of his people 4. Grata exultatio Exultabit Jacob c. Then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel shall be right glad 1. Curiosa Interrogatio First There is a curious interrogation Quis dabit Who will give or who shall give Salvation unto Israel out of Sion Qui curiose interrogat perplexus nimis est He that is curious in his interrogations is very dubious and so the more desirous of satisfaction Interrogatio est quasi iterogatio saith the Etymologist quasi iterum rogatio as it were an asking the second time again and again And so it teacheth us when we are in captivity or any other Affliction or trouble iterare preces to iterate our prayers to ingeminate our requests not only ingemiscere to groan and sigh forth our desires and petitions but also ingeminare to double our prayers to iterate our desires again and again till we be delivered 2. Pathetica postulatio Secondly There is a Pathetical postulation or a most affectionate wish or ardent desire Oh si quis det Oh that Salvation were given to Israel out of Sion Oh that it were Would to God it were Quis tribuat Oh that some good body would give it Such like pathetical expressions of the Prophet we meet with also in other places as