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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29208	A sermon preached at Dublin upon the 23 of Aprill, 1661 being the day appointed for His Majesties coronation : with two speeches made in the House of Peers the 11th of May, 1661, when the House of Commons presented their speaker / by John Lord Archbishop of Armagh, Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4235; ESTC R25292	22,740	52

A SERMON Preached at DUBLIN upon the 23. of Aprill 1661 being the day appointed for his Majesties CORONATION With two SPEECHES made in the House of Peers the 12th of May 1661 when the House of Commons presented their SPEAKER By the most Reverend Father in God JOHN Lord Archbishop of Armagh Primate and Metropolitan of all IRELAND DVBLIN Printed by William Bladen Anno Domini 1661. PSALME 126. V. He that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth good seed shall doubtless come again with joy and bring his sheaves with him IN the saddest afflictions and blackest storms that can befall a man in this world give me leave to make this thankful acknowledgment there is no companion or comforter like the Psalmes of David He that speaketh experimentally is the best Physician both for soul and body Being to speak unto this auditory upon his Majesties happy restitution I fitted and fixed my thoughts to the first Verse of this Psalm when the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion then were we like to them that dream When the Lord not the Lord Cyrus in relation to the Jews though the edict for their restitution came out from him but the Lord of Cyrus nor the Lords of Parliament in relation to us though they helped to lay the foundation of our present happiness but the Lord Paramount of Heaven and Earth VVhen the Lord turned In God there is no shadow of turning by change But vvith us there is nothing but turning and returning we are all turning shadows upon the old exchange of this world VVhen the Lord turned again the captivity that is the Babilonish Captives by an ordinary hebraism So it is said of Christ he led captivity captive that is those who were captives to Sin and Satan he reconquered them and made them to become his own servants And what were we better then Babilonish captives while we sojourned in idolatrous and superstitious Countries There are two sorts of captivity corporal and spiritual both are bad but the latter ten times worse In a corporal captivity the Tyrants are external but in spiritual captivity they are internal in our bosomes and bowels There the stings are sharp but nothing so sharp as the stings of a guilty conscience corporeal Tyrants may dispossess us of our wealth our life our liberty but spiritual deprive us of our Souls of Gods image of eternal blessedness There one or two members do sinful and slavish offices but here all our members are weapons of unrighteousness Corporeal captives have but one Master but spiritual captives have many Masters Pride commands to spend and covetuousness to spare Nay the same vice distracts them with contrary commands as vain-glory forceth them at the same time to soar aloft in the air and yet to creep beneath upon the earth to swell inwardly with pride to crouch to the meanest persons to obtain popular applause Corporal s●…aves have hope to escape by flight but in spiritual captivity no flight can help us unless we could flie away from our selves Lastly corporal captivity doth end with life Death is a perfect cure of all humane miseries But in spiritual captivity death is but a beginning of slavery and a shutting of the door of liberty with the key of eternity But can Mountains be led away captives otherwise what signifieth captivity of Sion I ansvver that as vve say there is more of Mon Martyr at Paris then there is of Mon Martyr at Mon Martyr So it might be truly said there vvas more of Sion carried to Babylon than vvas left at Sion First the Temple vvhich vvas the glory of Sion vvas demolished then the Ceremonies and Sacrifices and Ordinances of Sion vvere abolished Thirdly the holy vessels and garments and other utensiles and sacred ornaments vvere exported Lastly the P●…iests and Levites and people of God vvere all carried avvay captive These vvere the living Sion vvithout these Sion vvas but a dead carkass of it self Justly therefore is the captivity of the people of God called the captivity of Sion Then were we that is by vvay of Historical narration or then we shall be by vvay of prophetical prediction Either sense may be admitted Like them that dream that is like those vvho are betvveen sleeping and vvaking the events vvere so strange so unexpected so incredible that we doubted whether they vvere real events or vain fancies and drowsie imaginations Others translate it like those that are comforted or like those that are recovered from some languishing sickness and restored to their former strength and vigour But vvhilest I vvas making a paralel betvveen the Jevvish captivity and our English captivity and of our deliverance and restitution vvith theirs I see the flovver vvhich I had designed for the subject of my discourse cropt avvay before my face this necessitated me to alter my meditations from the first Verse to the last Verse of this Psalme The former vvas more emphatical for the Jevvish captivity But the later suites altogether as vvell vvith our present condition He that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth forth good seed shall doubtless come again with joy and bring his sheaves with him It is not my manner to amuse my hearers much vvith various lections or translations Every language hath its proper idiotis●…nes or peculiar forms of expression vvhich differ more in sound than in sense The vvorst reading or translation is commonly not so ill as those clashings and uncharitable altercations vvhich are about them Various lections may sometimes bring some light to the understanding but they shake that Christian faith which is radicated in the heart Break ice in one place and it vvill crack in more Suffer the truth of sacred vvrit to be questioned in a vvord or a syllable and you vveaken the authority and lessen the venerable estimation of the vvhole text That vvhich satisfyeth me and may satisfy any good christian is this that God who hath given the holy Scriptures to his Church to be the key of his revealed counsels the anchor of their hope the evidence of their blessedness will not suffer those Scriptures to be so far corrupted in any thing that is fundamental and necessary that it can hinder the salvation of his servants Take this Text for an instance that there is no such danger in various lections or translations if they be expounded according to the analogy of faith and that sence of the Scriptures which the Holy-Ghost did give to the Church together with the Scriptures He that going goeth saith the original He that goeth on his way saith our translation or he that goeth forth that is forth of his house to sow or forth of his Countrey into exile weeping or pensive or sorrowing And beareth forth good seed vvhether we read beareth or draweth good seed or precious seed or the sowing seed or the hopper or seed-basket is not material Shall doubtless come again with joy The original is in coming shall come that is shall come vvithout