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A56369	A sermon preached at Christ-Church, Dublin, before both Houses of Parliament, May the 29th, 1661 being the anniversary of His Majesty King Charles the Second, his most memorable and happy restauration / by the Right Reverend Father in God, John Lord Bishop of Elphin.	Parker, John, d. 1681.	1661 (1661)	Wing P434; ESTC R11730	18,948	52

the Ring that 's required of all as here done by all vvhich is the next particular the generality of the operation and effect All the men of Judah and he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah All the men of Judah Iudah of all the Tribes vvas the last that paid the tender of their duty and obedience but being vvrought upon by those kinde messages and endearing svveetnelfes of the Ring their conversion becomes more full more universall than the rest of the Tribes 't is of all the men of Iudah Nullus mansit qui non inclinaretur not one dissenting Brother among them Sheba the Son of Bichri may blovv a trumpet of sedition and being angry at the departure of the Scepter from the house of Saul and Tribe of Benjamin may to gratify his ovvn spleen engage the People in a nevv Rebellion though it cost him his head but the men of Iudah cleave unto their King 2. Sam. 20.2 So that me thinks this Tribe is like that Son in the Parable Mat. 21.28 vvho being commanded by his Father to go and work in the Vineyard said he would not but afterwards repented and went Those whom the spirit of God and the prudence and mildeness of reprovers have wrought to a true sight of their sins commonly prove most zealous and constant in the exercise of the contrary graces a converted siner is usually most punctual and intense in the acts of devotion and a reclaimed Subject in the acts of loyalty and obedience and good reason for such must make amends as I may say for their former deviations and justifie to the world the sincerity of their conversion by future acts of severe obedience to those Laws to which they had been formerly rebellious See what restitution is proffer'd by Zacheus Luke 19.8 Behold Lord the half of my goods I give to the poor and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation I restore him four fold What love manifested by Mary Magdalen Mark 16.1 she who had sinned by unlawful embraces you may find kissing the feet of our Saviour washing them with her tears Luke 23.56 and wiping them with the hairs of her head her love is stronger than death and follows Christ to the grave with prepared spices and oyntments John 20.1 her love prevents the day and is more early than it at the Sepulchre Oh let us not then despise those that have sinned but if they repent forgive them God does so and the King does so neither let us unworthily cast any man's former sin in his teeth or revile him for doing ill heretofore when as he does well now but rather by all acts of kindeness and sweetness encourage his present obedience without any unhandsome reflections upon his former disloyalty To this purpose let us lay aside all markes and names of difference and distinction this his sacred Majesty was pleased as well to desire as command in his gracious Declaration Dated from Breda Aprill 14. 1660. Alas we have enemies enough both to our Religion interest at home and abroad let us not then by weakening our selves give the enemy an advantage against us which certainly we shall doe if we splitt again into factions and revive any thing of our old animosities but let us all endeavour to walk by one and the same Rule to minde the same things the glory of God the peace and settlement of the Church the honour of his Majesty the interest of the true Protestant Religion and the right of every honest and innocent person in the Land and let us doe this not in word and in tongue onely but in deed and in truth in this let us cry One and All be as unanimous in this as Iudah for David's return let our hearts be as the heart of one man which is the next particular the consent unity and harmony which appears in this generality of operation and effect quasi viri unius as the heart of one man When the spirit of God descended upon the Multitude of believers Acts 4.32 't is said they vvere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of one heart and of one soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as some Copies adde and there was no difference among them the holy spirit of unity knit their hearts in the unity of faith and affections and vvhen the pacifick message of the King as the spirit of an earthly and delegated Deity was sent to his rebellious Subjects the sweet influence thereof fell upon their hearts not onely as the small rain upon the tender hearb but as the showers upon the grass Deut. 32.2 and not onely softned the hard and reduced the obstinate but allso joyned the heterogeneall and united disunited hearts in the one point of love and obedience and that tanquam viri unius as the heart of one man Whil'st the People continued in their Rebellion they could not but suffer under many a sharp throw and pang of conscience which oftentimes like that hand writing upon the wall before Belshazzar Dan. 5.5 changed their very countenances and loosened their joynts their midnight-thoughts startling their black souls with the frightfull remembrance of their guilt and the operation of their sin like Hector unto Aeneas In somnis ecce ante oculos moestissimus Hector visus adesse mihi left such a damp and horror upon their spirits as was equal to that of those visions of the night recorded Iob. 4.13.14 Stung with these sharp apprehensions both of sin and punishment they were many times ready to have cryed out with that Jaylor Acts 16.30 VVhat must we doe to be saved but those better motions were suddainly expell'd in some by desperate thoughts like those of Cain that their sin was greater than could be forgiven in others by pleasing reflections upon their nevv purchased vvealth they had bought much Land no matter though it vvere vvith the price of blood and therefore they cannot they vvill not come but vvhen God interposes his povver and brings home the Ring 's gracious message and proffer of peace unto their hearts they melt like ice before the Noon-day Sun and smoothly glide into the ancient Channell of their vvonted Loyalty and obedience And as the King invited them to the performance of their dutie so they invite him to the repossession of his Royall Crovvn and Dignity they sent this word unto the King which is the next thing considerable the happy consequent of this bovving of their hearts vvhich is the calling of the King home to the exercise of his Regall povver and authority vvhich is the very summe of this Text and the great business of this day return thou The People vvearyed vvith oppression and confusion vvhich are the undoubted consequents of Rebellion and convinced of their sin by their happy unhappy success and the no common death of the Usurper call back their King they sent this word unto the King return thou And sure I am this was an happy